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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
The Iron Market

Roger Brown e Co.'S Cincinnati re-
port just issued says in part:
Tho time was when the iron market
reached the somnolent stage evidenced
the past two weeks, everybody took a
vacation. There is every excuse for 1t
now except that in these days with so
many influences at work it would not
be safe-something is liable to happen
at any moment.
Consumption is keeping up in vol
ume and the outlook indicates a very
large amount of iron will be melted
during the next six months; large buy
ers have the strongest inclination TO
purchase well into the future, but are
not doing it; coke is being held so
siiffly by the makers that the furnace
men can see nothing ahead but man
ufacturing loss or a shutdown; and the
only place where stocks have increased
slightly is on a few furnace yards in
the southland there you are.
"A slightly improved inquiry has ap-
peared the past week, but it has been
confined to a small number of buyers.
The bulk of consumers, however, show
little inclination to buy for forward de-
livery.
Specifications and shipments on ex-
isting contracts are heavy, proving that
the IRON is going into current molt.
Prices on southern irons are of wide
range and rumors of all kinds of prices
are for the greater part without foun-
dation. The lowest confirmed furnace
quoted price on both Alabama and Ten
irnn i- In,
ity compared with the number of fur
naces quoting higher figures that it
cannot be said to represent the market
or to reflect in any way the supply
Or demand-being more the result Of
the private policies, condition of order
books or from other reasons entirely
apart from the influences of the situa-
ton generally"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30

uneducated. But the self made man, If
he is to amount to anything, gets an edu-
cation somehow or other by his own ef-
forts.
"One of the greatest men in the busi-
ness world today is the president of the
United States Steel corporation, Mr.
James A. Farrell. He started as a laborer
in a steel mill at the age of Is and worked
his way up. Mr. Farrell is what we
would call an educated man, Judging from
his clear cut English and logical mind
revealed as witness in the government
suit against the Steel corporation. But
he had to acquire his education by hard
Hicks and he deserves all the more credit
because he has risen to the top without
influence but on merit alone.
yet, we can point to hundreds of ex-
amples of rich mems sons who have also
risen because they had the mettle in them.
l am great believer in college educa-
tion for the business man as we'll as the
professional man. Right here in Birming
ham are scores and scores of college bred
follows who are making good in bus-
ness life"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
TELEPHONE
Men From Dixie in Washington

Certainly not since the war have so
many southern men been called to i'm
portant posts in the general govern
ment. Not only is the President a
southern man by birth and training,
but five of the 10 members OF the
cabinet were born in the south, name
ly, Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy; James C. McReynolds, the At
torney General; Albert S. Burleson,
the Postmaster General; William G..
McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury,
who is native of Georgia, and David
F. Houston, the Secretary of Agricul-
ture, who was born in North Caro-
lima.
It naturally follows that full fair
share of minor appointments are go
ing to southern men. And these do not
include Walter H. Page, ambassador
to the Court of st. James, who was
DOTI III INOIIl Sd1 VI In oHeti ~
Campbell, who is to be chief justice OF
the court of claims, or the director of
the census, William j. Harris, who is
a Georgian.
The supremacy of the south in Con-
gress is equally marked. Chairman
Simmons of the finance committee of
the Senate is from North Carolina,
and our own Oscar Underwood, as
floor leader and chairman of the ways
and means committee, commands the
respect and confidence of the House.
These great changes have come
about without any assertion of sec
tionalism or any friction of any sort.
Men from Dixie have simply fallen
into places they were fitted to fill,
and there is no regret anywhere that
they have at last been restored to
considerable power in all branches of
the general government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
Colonel Rooseveit's suit

'No matter what the defense may un
dertake to prove Colonel Rooseyelts rep
utat ton as a sober man has been thor
oughly established" said clubman.
'It is easy enough to call a man a
drunkard but to prove such serious
charge is another matter. NO one VINO
has read the evidence submitted to the
jury at Marquette can think for mo-
ment that Colonel Roosevelt was ever
tipsy For a man who drinks at all he
has been most careful to lmbibe but
little. He seems to have been quite in
different to drink altogether except at
meals, when he drank white wine.
81 was amused at one point that was
stressed by a witness in Colonel Roose-
vet's behalf. 1t was that he had asso-
ciated intimately with the plaintlH Tor
years past and that he had never smeiled
liquor on his breath. OF course, we old
club men know that that doesn't prove
anything. If a mans stomach is right
if his breath is sweet ordinarily-a drink
or two will not be detected by smell. 1t
is only the man with bad liver who
gives out an offensive odor after every
drink ne takes.
when / was youth the boys / asso-
ciated with sometimes ate cloves to kill
the smell of whisky; sometimes cardomom
seed. But cloves and the like were al
ways dead give-away. If boys We're
trying to conceal the fact from parents
or sweethearts that they had imbibed
liquor they should have let cloves alone.
The very fact that they smelled of cloves
was a confession of guilt.
But. coming back to Colonel Roose-
welt. I am glad he brought the suit and
[ will be glad when he gets the decision
which he is almost sure to do. This suit
must appear to foreigners as absurd and
as distinctly American as Mr.. Bryan's S
grape juice dinner in honor of the diplo-
mats
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
GIANT WATER WHEELS

From the Wide World Magazine.
Hama, in Syria, is famed for its huge
water wheels, locally known as naura.
There are four of them, and they are
driven by the River Orontes, which flows
through the town. Each of the wheels
bears a distinguished name, and the Wis
itor to the city is made aware of their
presence long before he sees them by the
creaking and groaning noise which greets
his ears. At first it suggests a pipe or
gan, and later a brass band pract,cng.
The wheels are built of a dark mahog-
any, which gives them, at distance, the
appearance of iron. The largest of them
boasts of diameter of 70 feet, and u
declared to be the biggest water wheel in
existence. The naura are erected on
what is known as the undershot prin-
ciple that is to say they are driven by
the water striking them at their base
They serve not only to supply the town
with water, but also irrigate the ada
cent gardens. The wheels never stop,
summer or winter, and day and night
their creaking is heard. In the summer
months small boys may always be seen
bathing in the river in the neighborhood
of the wheels, and for a small coin they
will get in between the spokes of the
wheels and allow themselves to be carried
around many times or hang on the out
side of the wheel and drop back into the
water when half way up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
Rich Mems Sons

In an article of appreciation on the
late j. p. Morgan, in one of the maga-
zines this month, the point was made that
Mr.. Morgan developed into a great bust
ness man Notwithstanding the fact that
he was the son of rich man-compara-
lively rich in the years past" said a sue
cessful Birmingham man. ''The writer of
the article referred to announced what he
regarded probably as philosophic truth,
that poverty was the greatest force in de-
veloping youth and in the making of rich
men. He pointed to successful New
York business man who had said that
he made it a rule never to employ the
son of a rich man; that he always picked
poor boys-very often the sons of poor
immigrants. These poor boys usually
turned out to be strong, rich men.
II do not agree with the writer of that
article in his proposition about poverty.
l was a poor boy myself, but / have edu-
Gated my sons and / think they will sue
ceed in business just as well II not better
than l have done The world admres the
man who has risen from obscurity; ad-
mires him because he has surmounted
great obstacles. No man can be at the
head of any great business who is wholly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
The Comedy of Errors

"The Shakespearean play, The Com
edy of Errors, so well presented
Wednesday night by the High School
Dramatic club will also be presented IS
part of the Chautauqua course by the
famous Ben Greet Players said the
Rev. DR.. Eaves.
"a large audience heard and enjoyed
the work by the youthful actors and
will be the more interested in follow
ing the professional men and women,
was greatly struck with the excel
lent elocutionary training OF the stu
dents, factor in classic drama of the
first Importance and so often missing
even in the great companies.
II shall watch the Ben Greet people
in the great tent next Wednesday, with
unusual attention. I hear, by the way,
that Savannah has gone wild with en-
thusiasm over their Chautauqua tent
and ITS people. 1t will be the same with
Birmingham, for the series is immense
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30

do not lack historic material. Atlanta,
Charleston and Mobile are spots that
history will not overlook.
The veterans will soon fall back
and give their sons a chance to MAIN
tain the reunions of the Confederacy
and perhaps they will take steps to
bring out from year to year subjects
of deep interest to all who cherish
the Lost Cause.
The twenty-fl 1ath reunion is to be
held in Jacksonville, city that has
never entertained the veterans, and
no doubt every possible effort will be
made to render the next reunion men,
ora hle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
Progressives in Pennsylvania

Politics is receiving no little atten-
stion in Pennsylvania. Senator Penrose
has practically announced that he will
go before the people as a candidate
for reelection, and this announcement
has aroused the progressives to action.
They have sent for Congressman Vic
tor Murdoch, the progressive leader
in the House, who vii make speech
in the western part of the state this
week. The visit of Mr.. Murdock prom
ises to be political event. Plans for
a statewide movement are being
worked out.
There is to be no contest this year.
All efforts in Pennsylvania relate to
the 1914 campaign, and both the old
guard and the third party are getting
ready for the struggle. Possibly the
services of Colonel Roosevelt will later
on be sought, and the campaign of
1912 will be fought over again in
Pennsylvania.
Let no one think at any rate that
the third party is dead in Pennsyl-
vania, for it surely is not. Every pro-
gressive congressman and member of
the legislature and county official is
ready to fight the battle over, and the
appearance of Colonel Roosevelt
would be apt to bring on warm cam
paipn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
Uncle Sam a Big Banker

Up to March 81 Uncle Sam had
secured the accounts of $4,000 de-
positors, and their aggregate deposits
were So, 100000. The amount is GO
ing up at the rate of about million
of dollars month. New York heads
the list with something over three
millions. Alabama is No. 38 in the
list, and her citizens had deposited
last November $81 1888. The amount
has probably crossed the 100000 line
by this time. Georgia had on deposit
in November but S4S, 800, and South
Carolina was taiIender with S11 ,258.
Although the deposits are large and
will soon be larger, yet the postal saw
ings system does not lessen in the
least deposits in private banks. No
one has been harmed in the least by
the postal banks which have been in
operation 27 months. Less money is
sent abroad. The foreign-born resi-
dent trusts the government banks.
1t would be difficult to show that any
money has been drawn out of private
banks to be put in the hands of the
government. More saving is going on,
and as rule every one of the 1850
postal banks is gaining deposits. The
net result is going to big figures, and
thesnet advantages to the country will
be equally gratifying. The system
already stands fully justified. 1t is
a success from every point of view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
THE QUEER THINGS WE SEE
rom the Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript.
Sign in a New York cafe: "If meals
are not satisfactory, they can be ex-
changed
In a Glasgow music hall: "Whistling
or cheering with the feet is strictly
prohibited"
A Decatur theatre ticket reads: This
ticket and one fresh egg will admit any
child under H."
Bakers advertisement: I'VE handle
hot Parker House rolls" Hands clean,
we trust.
The Wabash railroad advertises
steel sheeted sleeping cars" How
about the pillows?
From an Illinois paper: "Joe Fife
came to town yesterday and blew him
self" "a single toor remarks a fun
maker
Article in a family paper is headed
The Last Touch Before the Wedding -
Probably the touch the groom gives the
brides father.
Sign in a waiting room: Ladies hav-
ing children with lunches will not be
allowed to eat them in the parlor.'
Note: Don't order children with your
lunch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
BUYING A RUBENS
From the Strand.

From the Strand.
Frankfort Moore tells some amusing
stories In an article entitled ARTS and the
Artful' in the June Strand. : He was
friendly with certain London picture
dealer and found much entertainment lis
tening to the would-be buyers who came
to the gallery.
One day, he says, two gentlemen called
"a major in the gunpers and brother
officer.
Morning. said the former. IT hope
you got the frame in order.''
Yes, SIR replied the dealer. bustling
off to where picture was laying with
its face down on bench. He ricked it
up and bore it to an easel, on which he
placed it in a moderately good light
That's it, sir l happened to lay my
hands on a more suitable frame, 50 l
didn't trouble with The old one; it's inn
possible to put touch of gold leaf on an
old frame without making it look patcha''
II think that's a far better frame tran
the old one said the major. II brought
my friend in to look at the picture. Who
did you say it was by?"
"Rubens, sir-an early Rubens, l thin,
it is"
"Ah, yes; that was the name. Looks
well, doesn't it?" said the officer to his
friend
Very well indeed. I never saw any
thing that took my fancy better said the
other. Look at that silk-rippin', l call
it-absoutely rippin'."
II thought you'd ike it," said the
major. There's nothing rocks so well in
a room as good old picture. But. G.
course, it's easy overriding that sort Of
thing"
Nothing easier-lilke those American
Johnnies," acquiesced his friend. Yes,
a rippin' picture. I call that-good color,
you know, but all wcl toned down. DO
you know what it is? I've great mind
to have one, too"
Good" cried the major. ''Ycu really
couldn't do better, you know-six guineas.
frame Included"
Il believe you're right. Yes I'll take
one, too" said the ether, turning to The
dealer who was standing silently by.
Very good, sir said the. dealer. I'll
look one out for you by tomorrow after
noon, if that would suit you"
Suit me well. Six guineas in the
frame, 1 supose?'
Yes, sir-six guneas, unless-would
you like a pair of them. sir? l might be
able to take a little IF for a par"
The grave way in which he suggested
a pair of Rubenses as if it were CUSTOM
airy to sell Rubenses in braces like pheas-
ants was too much for my nerves. I
looked at my watch and made for the
door, and | hope that l was well round
the corner before l burst out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
AS IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS

From the Chicago Tribune.
The motorcyclist was bowling along
merrily on a smooth stretch of country
road.
He was nine miles from the nearest
repair shop.
THAT spear of something that's
standing up in the road ahead of me,
and slanting in this direction" he said
to himself, looks like straw. 1t can't
possibly be anything else. I'm going
to run over it anyway"
A second later he ran squarely
over it,
But nothing disastrous happened
1t was only straw.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
ARE WE GOING INSANE.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
A specialist attending a Washington
conference on hygiene takes a pretty
black view of the future. If things go
on as they are at present he thinks
there will be more insane than sane
persons in the world hundred years
hence He happens to be superintend-
ent of a California sanitarium and quite
normalities of various sorts. Specialists
are always liable to get submerged in
their speciality; they may make better
specialists on that account, but not al
ways better prophets
The doctors who met at the national
conference on mental hygiene last year
took a more hopeful view. They did
admit that far too many persons now
adays are afflicted with mental and
nervous disorders but they were in
clined to think that better treatment.
and especially earlier diagnosis of
nervous maladies that might touch the
brain in time If allowed to develop.
would more than hold the balance. OBJ
scure sources of trouble are more
skillfully probed than formerly and
there is much less danger that a stub
born case of nerves may be mistaken
for insanity. Happily 1t Is the testi-
mony of the experts that these early
cases are distinctly amenabe to treat
ment. But, after all, an extreme state
ment is not bad now and then, and the
specialist who warns us that our grand
children will inhabit a mad world Is
probably only taking the simplest
means of shaking us out of a costly
Indifference.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
Good Weather at Chattanooga

The reunion of the Confederate
Veterans at Chattanooga will be con-
cluded today, and the weather has
been propitious throughout. The first
reunion was held in Chattanooga. This
was in 1890, and the twenty third will
be wound up on the historic ground
today. Between the two Chattanooga
reunions other ones have been held in
Jackson, Miss, 1891; New Orleans,
1892; Birmingham, 1893; Houston,
1895; Richmond, 1896; Nashville,
1897, Atlanta, 1898; Charleston,
1890; Louisville, 1900; Memphis, 1901;
Dallas, 1902; New Orleans, 1903;
Nashville, 1904; Louisville, 1905; New
Orleans, 1906; Richmond, 1907; Biz
mingham, 1908; Memphis, 1909; Mo-
bile, 1910; Little Rock, 1911, and Ma
con 1912.
Each city does its best to make the
old soldiers comfortable and to attract
to the reunions the sons of the veter-
ans. All of them are not surrounded
by battlefields as Richmond and Chat
tanooga are, although some Of them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30

Governor SulZer has named Herman
Ridder, Ralph Pulitzer, Charles R. Mil
Ter, Albert L. Henschel, George Wilson
Smith, Augustus Thomas and Talcott
Williams, all of New York, as members
of the commission which is to arrange for
the celebration of the Tooth anniversary
of the birth of former Gov. Samuel J. Til
den next February. The commission has
$4,000 appropriated from the state treas
ury to provide for the celebration Mr..
1866 and was his private secretary until
Mr.. Tilden's death in 1886
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
LEARNING GOLF
rom June Lippincott's.

From June Lippincotts
A young woman entered sporting
clerk went forward to meet her.
II want" she said, ito see some golf
clubs"
how many do you want?"
"Well, really" she responded slowly,
IT scarcely know. You see, 1 am just
learning to play golf and do not
know much about 1t as yet. Why.
don't even know which end of the cad
die to use'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Pro.perous Conditions

II have spent some time in the south
recently" said Thomas NJ. Cornelisoh oi
Chicago, "and as far as I can see pros
perity is much in evidence in this sec
ton. Every southern city seems TO be
going ahead. There has certainly peeh
remarkable progress In the whole south
within the past few years.
II was In my home city-Chicago-apoul
two weeks ago and 1 saw no signs OIL
dullness. Chicago is always busy anu
anything like real dullness there is prac-
tically unknown"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
RAH FOR UNCLE SAM

Il see where only one American won
his match in the first round of the golf
tournament at st. Andrews, Scotland, for
the amateur golf championship of the
world
only one American, eh? What's his
name?'
Heinrich Schmidt, of Worcester,
Mass"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
Band Concerts

IT hope the ladies' of the Music STUDY
club will be successful in their eiforts
to provide open air music again THIS sum
mer," said a young man.
ut may not be possible TO raise as
large a fund as Nashville has for its
band concerts-s1O,O ,O00-but the outlook Tor
more money this year than last for BIT
mingham music is bright, II the clly
will only head the list with an appro-
priation of $1,000 the problem Will be
solved, because other generous contri-
buttons can be counted on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
VAMPIRE IN LITERATURE

of cinders mingled with few fragments
of calcined bones, among which gold
bracelets and jewelry glittered, together
with such other shapeless remains as were
found in excavating the villa of -Arriss
Diomedes, father of ARIA Marcella.
And that's what happens to a vampire
when you call the turn just in time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
KNowLEDGE AND WISDOM

By William Cowper.
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being
one,
Have ofttimes no connection Knowl-
edge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of other
men;
wisdom in minds attentive to their
own.
Knowledge-a rude, Improbable mass,
The mere materials with which Wis
dom builds,
Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted
to the place
Does but cucumber whom 1t seems to
enrich
knowledge is proud that he has learned
SO much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no
more. a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30

A small blaze in an old coal vault under
the sidewalk at Gen. Daniel E. Sickles'
a few days ago at an early hour, caused
everybody in the four story house to be
routed out except General Sickles. When
notified by the police, the general said:
Il love smoke. 1 eat it. l don't want to
be disturbed at this hour of the morning,
sir"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30

Frederick Fraley used to saw saws
"Girard' in the Philadelphia Public Led
GER that he had heard both Clay and
Webster at various times, and that CLAW
made the greater impression upon an
audience. His manner was more pleasing.
and his so-called magnetism was irresisti-
BILE. But Fraley, like others, admitted
the better lasting quality of the things
Webster said. I asked ex-senator Shelby
M. Cullom of Illinois one day in WASH
ington who was the best orator he had
ever heard, and he has listened to all of
them from Stephen A.. Douglas down to
President Wilson. His reply was Lincoln.
Charles Emory Smith told me that in the
period from General Grants adminstra-
tion to that of Theodore Roosevelt, Roscoe
ConlSling was the most effective political
speaker in America. 1t is probable how
ever, If that question were left to a vote,
William J. Bryan might get more ballots
than any other man for the most effective
oratory in four decades. He at least won
the nomination for President by single
speech"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
EXCUSARLE.

Each day she has attacks of nerves"
You ask How can she do SOP
The house caught fire. her life preserves
But lost bout half her trousseau.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
PUT ON HIS METTLE.

Il wouldn't want you to marry me
under protest, dear"
Suppose it was some other fellow who
was protesting?"
'Ha! That's different"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
STINGY THING.

Will not let him hold her hand
VIII not let him kiss her:
Bet when she goes out of town
He will hardly miss her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30
GONE WHERE THE wooDBINE
TWINETH.

TWINETH.
Whats become Of that automobile Won
bought last month?"Z
How do I know? All I remember is
that it started over a river bluff with
me in 1T and I woke up week later in
the hospital"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-30

Neither branch of the g. o. p. is willing
to give up its name or organization, or
to be merged in a new third party, ac-
cordng to the Munsey scheme. Harmony
is still a dream