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The Washington times., 1913-09-26
Men Balk at Exams.

\ A number Of examinations for stenog-
raphers and typewriters for the Gov
ernment service are being held by the
Civil Service Commission to fill numer.
The Washington times., 1913-09-26

"Quo vadis," Columbia Theater .ToG
night Matinees daily including Sunday.
25c and 50c.-Adyt
The Washington times., 1913-09-26
Target Records Pleasing.

Navy Department officials are much
gratified over the showing made by the
torpedo hotilla Of the Atlantic fleet in
The Washington times., 1913-09-26
Their Hats and Cans

The New Shops methods compared with the n4herut old
Shops very evident when hats and caps The
boy finds in Mr. Bast this New Boys Shop Chief youg
young mans taste and with the training and experience
him available aid in the selection Of The
with junior boy here finds hats linking fashionable artistic
with service that makes selection pleasure rather than task
The Washington times., 1913-09-26

Miss Amelia Beall, who has been Wis
ittnt her sister, Mrs. A T. Brooke, has
returned to her home in Norfolk, Va.
The Washington times., 1913-09-26
Adults Hosiery

Ladies' silk tEiber Hose-wear bet
ter than u Spun snk Stockings
All over SIX. with DubL garter tops:
black. white. tan. gray, bronze. Sfle
navy. and purple: IN All Sizes. OV~
LAdie9 Pure SIX and SILK Fiber
Boot Hose. I'm black, white. and
colork Three (3) pairs for 9gn
$1-ee. Per peir..............--... 49,
LAdiee ~Onyxs SIX Boot Hose.
essv ess 's0cainsa lor .omoarow 1Sc
Ladies Hose: black. white. and col
orA Basement floor. 121sc o.
The Washington times., 1913-09-26

Boucle, Astrachan, Seal. Caracal.
and Novelty Cloths. Styles for
boys and girls; some with the new
low belt; some with fur collars
and cuffs. $500 values e9 90
The Washington times., 1913-09-26
Their School SUITS
$3.95 or$5.OO

The New Boys Shop opening the Autumn Winter with
School Suits $3s5 S. are creating iore among shop
keepers, not less than parents and their boys.
all comes Of the determination double disbuon Of
possible in haHns the pro6h
This means Suits $3S5 win favofsby compare win those
usually retailed s50oand $500 for Suits generally retailing
$500 and $3.50
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-10-03
DO YOU KNOW

Geo. c. Heileman does painting OF
quality? Now is the time. Call Wau-
watosa 309 l..
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-10-03

FOR SALE CHEAP-One Detroit
Jewel elvated oven gas range, practi-
eally new. 27l St. Charles Street
Phone Wan. 336 L,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-09
American Farmers in Canada

Two thousand American farmers a
week are leaving this country to go
into the wheat belt beyond Winnipeg,
where cheap Canadian lands are pro-
durable. These cheap and good lands
are offered at rates within the means
of all or nearly all. Whether those
lands can be secured by mere settle
ment as the homestead lands of this
country were is not stated, but the
chances are that lands are open to
settlement on the easiest of terms.
The northwest is troubled by this
emigration movement. That section
is accustomed to immigration and it
has had small experience with emf
grafton. The meaning of it all is that
lands in this country are becoming
less productive and yet of higher
price, and the farmer who wants a
farm that is productive and cheap
hurries off to Canada where he car
find what he needs. The climate is not
inviting but the soil is. This is why
the record of emigration from the
northwest to Canada promises to
eclipse this year all previous records
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-09
Recent "Life" Tables

A child under years old has a
hight to look forward to life of 81
years. The gain in this respect in 81
years is IL years. This is big gain.
Singularly, however, the recent ta-
bles show that a man 40 years old
may expect to live but 22 years and
one month. This is loss of five
months.
The apparent contradiction is due
In the first place to the overcoming
of children's diseases, while on the
other>hand the diseases that affect
the heart, kidneys, stomach, liver and
intestines are increasing. There are
more deaths from cancer, heart dis
ease and kidney diseases than there
were a generation ago. There is too
much drinking of strong liquors, too
much eating Of meat and too much of
the strenuous life. All this tends to
shorten the lives of those of 40 years
of age.
The gains in sanitary conditions
acrue in other words to children and
not to adults. The adult in our cities
does not practice moderation. He lives
too fast and will die prematurely. This
is the story of recent tables, and these
tables are based as rule on official
fio11res
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-09

UMBRELLAS VS.. RAINCOATS

From Mems Wear and the Chicago APP
parel Gazette.
IAN umbrella manufacturer recently
declared that the big sales of cheap
rubberized raincoats and cravenettes
this spring are seriously affecting the
mems umbrella business. but other
manufacturers deny this, several of
them claiming that their business has
been better than usual this season. 1t
is only natural however, that these
numerous sales of cheap raincoats
should have more or less influence on
the sale of umbrellas, for the man who
wears raincoat does not need an UNI
prella as much as the man who does
not wear one. prominent manufacturer
Is suggesting to retailers that they
try to create the impression among
their customers that raincoats and UNI
brellas are inseparable, and to increase
their business sell one whenever they
sell the other. quoting a price for the
two articles together. Another novelty
In folding umbrellas has Just been
placed on the market 1t folds auto
matically, the umbrella sliding up into
the handle and folding into two parts
at the same time 1t is enclosed in n
very nice leather case about IS inches
long. carried by a handle like gun
case. Still another novelty is a cane
with Prince of Wales crook handle,
the tip of which is a cigar and tlgar-
ette lighter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-09
RUNNING A MOTOR CAR

Charles b. Hayward, in Harper's Weekly.
| can recall one motorist who confided
to me that it had cost him $50 in 81 and
So instalments to learn how to adjust
vibrator coil. And it all went to one
garageman, together with numerous other
sundry sweeteners for equally simple adj
justments that made his first seasons
account figure out about in that proper
ton of So for the know-how of tinkering
to every dollar of expense that actually
represented mileage covered.
The garageman didn't always know
what the trouble was himself He usually
found it by the routine of hit-and-miss
guessing-the groping- g-about-at-random
process with which every motorist whose
experience dates back several years is
familiar. But in this particular instance
the motorist used his powers of observa-
tion and noted that while the carbureter,
the batteries, the state of the gasoline
supply and a few other odds and ends.
such as the wiring and the spark plugs,
all came in for attention. the remedy was
always found in the coils. BY trying the
same process of elimination himself he
learned how to turn a small screw up and
down without having to pay 81 or % for
the results thus obtained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-09
WHY MATHEWsON CAN PITCH

II. II. Salsinger, in Leslies
Christy Mathewson, the greatest
pitcher of the modern school, started
in at tender age. Chrlsty lacked con-
troll. He figured out that the best way
to get it was by practice. He, rugged
up a board with a hole a trife larger
than a baseball in the center. This he
set up in front of the barn back of his
home in Pennsylvania. Winter and sum-
mer Mathewson practiced throwing "a
ball the required distance and trying
to throw it through that hole. He kept
pitching at that hole until he finally
succeeded in sending the. ball through
it more times than he missed 1t.
Today Mathewson is the dean of
major league pitchers 1t is due not
much to the decebtiveness of that
fadeaway,' which breaks away from
never due to any terrific speed that his
fast ball carried, but to deep and quick
thinking. He pitches for a team that
invariably is in the pennant race Be-
ing the chief of the New York pitching
staff, most of the hard work has fallen
to the lot of Mathewson all these years
He worked harder than any team
mate or opponent in his league. sea-
son after season, outlasted the others.
He studies every batter that comes be-
fore him, finds out his weaknesses and
succeeds In outguessing him. Deter
mination, doggedness and studying have
made Mathewson the master of his art.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
It's perfectly plain that no woman ever
thinks she is
Tombstone inscriptions are generally too
good to be true,
More push than ambition Is needed to
operate a wheelbarrow.
No man can arrange the furniture in
room to suit a woman.
A mans sins find him out eventually,
but his wife usually beats them to it.
When starvation stares a woman in the
face she may start boarding house.
He is a successful business man who
can make more money than his wife can
spend.
1t takes a romantic girl to write a love
letter that means the same thing over ard
over again.
A man may be said to have horse sense
| II he declines to mortgage his home to
buy an automobile.
Sculptors are wise. Not one of them
has ever modelled statue of a great man
| with silk hat Oh.
A girl who screams when SHE'S kissed
may hold to the theory that there are
other methods of advertising besides the
use Of printers ink.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-09

lumber camps; "to take steps and
adopt methods to abolish our system
of hiring human beings to the highest
bidder for cash, and throw off our
cold-blooded commercialism."
It is an impassioned address; the
theme justifies it, and owing to the
serious nature of this subject under
discussion the call should meet with
a hearty response. The meeting here
on the 18th should be well attended
by representative citizens of Alabama.
A campaign must be organized which
will make sure of ridding the state of
the present convict system.
The convicts should be employed on
the public highways. This would
carry out the humane purpose that
should be held in view and at the same
time would result in public improve
ments of far-reaching value.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-09
WHY IS,ALOBBYIST?
By eILL VINES

their business But they are NOT Ioh-
pylsts. Not If they know it, These gem
tfemen-many of them-are Interested in
various enterprises. Some of them are
the legal representative of varjons enter-
! prises. They are out fighting this tariff
bill with brass band and an officia,
scorer; they are neither numerous nor
insidious, and they resent such an inn
putation. They never were that way in
their lives.
Of course, some one must have told the
President there was large gobs of lobby
lists in Washington doing their best to
put a crimp into the Underwood tariff
BILL and it might have been some one
who wanted to play a mean trick on the
administration and get it in bad by nag
ging the President into saying something
| peevish and annoying about this noble
little band of patriots who are here try
ing to save few crumbs from the wreck
of their business. There are gentlemen
here trying to save their business who
never had any business to save BEFORE
and don't know just how to go about it.
but they are doing their best For some
person with an ingrowing disposition to
rudely refer to them as lobbyists is in
deed tough.
There is no doubt but what some of our
business men are feeling a little down.
cast over the prospect of the passage of
the Underwood bill. In the past they
have been able to keep their business in
the most robust and vigorous health in
the dividend department because they
IA
and accumulated all their competitors
into one large family. so to speak. Their
keen business acument and foresight has
been fine for them and their immediate
relatives and has allowed them to wallow
in the lap of luxury, but it has plowed
the classic nosd of the ultimate consumer
into the gravel. After all these years of
patient toiling on the part of these busi-
ness men, just about the time they have
got their business up to the point where
1t will run itself and they will have moth
ing to do but to play golf and get OPP
Grated on for appendicitis along comes
the Underwood tariff bill with a writ of
habeas corpus for the ultimate consumer
and a steam roller for the monopoly.
Then because in moment of panic they
came to Washington to try to show the
legislators how wrong they are to throw
the hooks into the Legitimate business of
the country" they are held up as lobby
lists, 1t is enough to bring a holler from
the oppressed business man.
Perhaps when the President sees how
he has wronged them he will apologize.
Knowing him as do, am he will.
When iie sees it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-09
XU/ASH1NGTON, June s.-tSls
" When the President caae
VX fantinn tn the fact that 1t ,

WASalmaaoN wnsD TO- pra.,%sus auns
E" tention to the fact that it would
be next to impossible for a left
handed woman to fling brick. in Yyash-
ington without 1t landing on the bean or
some other part of the anatomy of a
lobbyist, and intimated that somebody
ought to get busy fiinging bricks, every
body sat right straight up in the boat
and held tight, looking to see what would
happen.
Now it is broadly and openly intimated
that the President made a faux pas"
whatever that is. There amt no lobby
lists. There amt been no lobbyists. The
esteemed and dignified United States
Senate has been on the warpath cunning
for said lobbyists. Open season has been
declared upon them and a formidable
committee is sitting as board of in
qury to ascertain the habitat habits.
disposition and appearance of lobbyist
and have summoned to appear before
them other United States Senators who
are supposed to know what lobbyist is,
and why.
Nothing doing. No one seems to know
what a lobbyist is, much less have. seen
such a creature in these parts. A real
live honest-to- goodness lobbyist cannot
be located in Washington, nor can any
person, not even the oldest inhabitant,
be found who ever saw one at large. Any
person who could capture a real 1s-horse-
power hand-cranlked or self-starting lob
byist of any old years model could make
barrel of money by placing same in
captivity and bringing it TO Washington
and putting it on exhibition at the mu-
scum, and any old price of admission
would go.
Some folks got the idea in their head
that a lobbyist was a perfect gentleman,
who for consideration, endeavored to
persuade other perfect gentlemen, who
were legislators or had influence with
legislators, to entertain certain views
upon certain subjects. The supposed
lobbyist would use various and sundry
means of argument to bring about tiis
happy end, but nothing but what would
stand the test of the pure food and drug
act or could be openly charged as being
a violation of the sixteenth amendment.
Therefore not illegal.
This may or may not be a description
of a lobbyist. No one who is available
for an interview. whose testimony would
be credited, ever saw one, so no real evil
dence as to that can be had.
There are worlds and worlds of per-
fectly legitimate business men in WASH
ington who are conducting a clean, open,
courageous fight against the tariff bill for
the protection and the very existence OF
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-09
AN EASY ROAD TO FAME
From Leslie's.

Fame, A wealthy st. Louis manufac
turer is reported to have bought a
newspaper in that great city to estab-
lish his two sons, now at Princeton, in
a congenal business, after their grad
uation. There is probably no shorter
road to fame than through the puplica-
tion business. A striking proof of this
fact can be found in the remarkable
success and powerful influence achieved
IN some of our great cities by publish
ers who were born in obscurity. Public
opinion is now largely made by the
newspapers, the weeklies and the
monthlies, and 1T is a matter of great
surprise that this field has been neg
lected by those who suffer most from
an unfair or msdirected public opinion.
1t has even been suggested that an en-
dowed newspaper might we'll be estab-
lished by men of wealth and influence
to correts the false Impressions created
by yellow journals and undertaking
magazines. Some day this suggestion
Will bear fruit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-09

end that he might find out what Mr..
Morean's view of existing financial and
business conditions in the United States
was. This conversation he reported 10
some of his friends soon after his re-
turn to this city.
lie asked Mr.. Morgan if he thought
the depressing financial situation, espe-
cially in the securities market. was
to be long continued. In reply, Mr.. Nor
gan said that it ought always to be
borne in mind that until human nature
changes men are certain to trade, 10
barter, even to speculate and to take
up very large plans for the development
of natural resources. That being the
truth, this factor must not be over
looked in considering business condi-
tions. 1t is certain. Mr.. Morgan
thought, to compel renewed business
and financial activity. Furthermore,
the harvesting of phenomenal crops
such as have been garnered for the
past six or seven years in the United
States and are likely to be garnered
even in larger amounts in the coming
years will inevitably lead to a recur-
renee of financial, commercial and bust
ness activity. Mr.. Morgan said. fur
thermore, that it seems to be forgotten
that there are always Intermittent pc
riods of great prosperity. This he
thought was very healthful
The present slackening is only
temporary, a hating to catch breath
and to regain energy so that there may
be strength to go on with renewed
vigor. Mr.. Morgan also spoke with in
tense enthusiasm. although in a few
words. of the healthful growth not only
materially, but morally and intellectu-
ally, which is to characterize the
United States.
These were probably the last words
spoken by Mr.. Morgan to any friend
in which he expressed his never chang
ing confidence in the permanence of
American institutions and the health
fuless of our material growth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-09
Commerce and the Canal

A recent Investigation shows that
while the Panama canal will be mill
tary success, yet no one as yet knows
what its value will be as a CONNER
cial investment. No one has attempted
to do for it what Manchester was
compelled to do for it's canal, and to-
day Manchester is the fourth port in
Great Britain. No doubt business will
have to be sought and organized for
the Panama canal also, and at first
there will be disappointments over re-
ceipts. The rate of $1.20 per net reg
istered ton will not at first prove sat-
isfactory.
But, still good deal of traffic will
pass through the canal from the day
of its opening. President Dearborn of
the Americana Hawaii Steamship COM
pany presents list of 67 ships whose
capacity is 5000 tons that are ready
and available for the canal trade.
There will be other ships, for the
Bethlehem company is getting ready
to carry a million tons of ore year
from the Chilian deposits to Pennsyl-
vania, and the California fruit will be
laid down in New York in 16 days as
against II days by fast trains. The
refrigerated ship is better than the
refrigerated car.
The transcontinental railroads can
not control canal rates, and they know
it. They will be content to carry more
to the seaboards, and altogether their
profits will not be seriously impaired.
Their transcontinental traffic is only
about 10 per cent of their total bust
ness. They will seek business to the
seaboard and they will perhaps sup
ply the country west of the Missis-
sippi with California fruit The
Tehuantepec route will lose business,
but the American transcontinental
routes will not be greatly injured by
the new water route.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-09

Outstarving a band of II wolves by ly-
ing in constant watch outside the en-
trance to their den for four days and
four nights. Owen Hughes finally had his
reward, when the wolves, driven by
hunger, made dash from their refuge
and were killed one by one as they
emerged. Mr.. Hughes, almost exhaust
ed. came to Lacrosse, Wis, and collect
ed bounty of 500. mo, l amt sick.
gentlemen" he said, waving away clerks
at the courthouse who offered him as
sistance, I've just been on a hunger
strike. and l want to say the strike is
called off. l don't think I'd have stood
it much longer but l was determined not
to let these wolves out alive"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-09
President Wilson's Independence

President Woodrow Wilson mas es-
tablished reputation for independence
in public life by ignoring convention
or precedent" said an old democrat.
81 was inclined to criticise the Pres
ident at first for what | thought was
grandstand playing but i am sais-
fed now that the Presidents lnno-
democracy and not all subversive Oh
presidential digniey. When the Pres
ident in person read his message 10
Congress many conservative people
thought he should have followed pre-
cedent and sent what he had to say
through the accustomed channels.
When he first occupied the onice IN
the capitol set aside for the chlet eN-
ecutive 1t was looked upon by the pup
lie as freak episode which would NOT
occur again. But the President mas Il
habit of going to his office in the cap
tol frequently and it is clear that
the public likes his ways.
Now that the President has revived
custom of the first few years of the
republic in reading his message to
Congress his successors Will likely
keep IL up. Future Presidents will also
follow President Wilson's example III
visiting his office in the capitol build
ing. Any President hereafter who fails
to go to the capitol will be accused OF
being either lazy or undemocratic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-09
Mine Inspectors Institute

The meeting of the Mine Inspectors
institute, which will convene in Bir-
mingham tomorrow and which will
continue until Friday, will be made
exceptionally interesting by the pres
ence of DR.. ]. A. Holmes, director of
the United States bureau of mines,
and DR.. Rutledge, another govern
ment expert, who are we'll known in
this district. DR.. Holmes has long
taken a deep interest in Birmingham
and it was matter of general con-
graduation when he was placed at
the head of the national bureau of
mines.
How to prevent mine explosions is
subject that has for years past re-
ceived earnest attention from both
scientific men and practical miners.
Every now and then the world is
startled by a mine disaster and the
time may never come when there will
be absolutely no hazard in coal min
ing. But with men like DIR. Holmes
and DR.. Rutledge bending their ener-
gies to minimize accidents, the danger
to human life should in time become
almost negligible as compared with
the danger in other callings where
risk is incurred.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-09
WOMAN RUNS A "DINER,

Robert ID. Heinl, in Leslie's.
The woman station agent has long
ceased to -. a novelty. She is a per-
manent and valuable fixture in many
communities. Each day, however, we
hear of some decided innovation. To
Miss Carrie Benton of Cincinnati be-
longs the unique distinction of being
the first woman placed in charge of
dining car in the United States. Miss
Benton makes round trip every day
between Cincinnati and Dayton on the
Chicago, Hamilton and Dayton railway.
She entered the employ of the dining
car service in station restaurant Aft
er gaining a knowledge of the culi5ary
art, Miss Benton made her first run.
The innovation of placing a woman on
a dining car was watched with intei>
by the leading American railways. The
success of the experiment was recog-
nzed from the outset.