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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-09

tobacco and time to think His educa-
ton consisted In Tearing to read the Ko-
ran and in discussing philosophical ques-
tions AS a governor of the conquered he
failed because he had no executive abil-
ity, no foresight no common sense. His
only idea was to get all he could out
of the taxpayers now and let the future
take care of itself. He built no roads.
he developed no mines, he invented no
process or machine
He merely enjoyed the life that was
before him. considered all other people
beneath his notice and rested assured
that in the sweet bye and bye he would
be in heaven with ilouris to comfort him
in the million of years to come. If he
lost fight-it did not matter, it was only
fate. If Bulgaria won her Independence
fate. If Italy took Tripoli-fate He
fought to the finish, but did not worry
about his losses and right now when his
country is apparently going to smash and
the high cost of living has reduced the
ordinary Turk to small victuals and only
one wife, he calmly puts all the respon-
sibility on his god and sits and meditates
as he did when everything was coming
his way. Like the Christian, he believes
that God moves in mysterious way his
wonders to- PERFORM" but unlike the
Christian he accepts what happens as be-
ing the will OF God and therefore to be
accepted by his people.
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Fair Opens Today

Birmingham State Fair opens to-
day and will continue until the end
of next week. 1t will be an excep-
tionally attractive event. The exhibits
are more extensive than usual and
the amusement features are of high
class.
We are having ideal weather at the
start and fair weather is expected
next week. Visitors from all over
Alabama are coming by thousands
and every one will be heartily vel
coined. Birmingham people will be in
strong evidence at the fair and there
is every reason to believe that the
gate receipts will total the largest
amount in the history of the State
Fair association.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-09
The Passing of Sulzer

"Tell your father l am the same
aid Bill, the son of Thomas F. Ryan
swore Governor Sulzer said to MIN
over the telephone. Sulzer had asked
Allan Ryan to see Senator Root and
Boss Barnes and endeavor to enlist
their aid in having the republican
members of the New York legislature
vote that the assembly had no right
to try him on impeachment proceed
ings.
It is true he is the same old Bill.
But, unfortunately, when he was a
candidate for the governorshIp OF
New York, the people didn't know
lust what kind of Bill he was.
So far the Sulzer defense has been
worse than no defense at all. The
governor appears to have lost every
vestige of self-respect, if he ever had
any. From the beginning his sole
hone has been the technicality. When
If became assured that he would have
to 90 to trial, a course of procedure
was adopted that is amazing to most
persons.
Sulzer has not attempted to prove
that he was not the recipient OF thou
sands and thousands of dollars that
were unaccounted for in his sworn
statement of campaign receipts and
expenditures. He has, however, sought
to show that these thousands were
given to him without restriction, and
that he felt justified in taking money
to buy new suit of clothes or specu-
late in Wall street, just as he saw fit.
1t is a disgusting spectacle. The
governor of the nations greatest state
putting in his pocket money given
him to advance his claims to the PEG
pies suffrage, and then when found
out going on his knees to Boss Muir
phv, democrat, and Boss Barnes, re-
publican, by turns, to escape through
subterfuge the penalty for his crooked
course.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Under.vood's Fame

L have been a voter since 1880 and
until last fall I voted the republican,,
said +. W. Wade of Philadelphia.
Il was one of the voters who cast my
ballot for the progressive candidate, Col
onel Roosevelt. Now I found that 1 was
having leaning to the democratic party
and had it not been for my admiration
for ex-President Roosevelt personally,
would have voted for Woodrow Wilson.
am not politician. but as an Anieri-
can citizen, / take an interest In all pub
lie matters. l wish to say now that IL
Mr.. Underwood is ever again a presiden-
tial candidate. | will feel very much like
supporting him. I have stopped being a
protectionist, and Mr.. Underwood's course
and his great work as a tariff reformer
appeal to me. / see that ne is o candi-
date for the United States Senate, and
If the democrats of Alabama 10 rot elect
him, I will be very much surprised. II
will be a bad day for Alabama when
they turn down a man of such national
distinction as Mr.. Underwood: just as 1t
would have been had they failed tc keep
the late John 7. Morgan in the United
States Senate"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-09
Putting on the Screws

Three democrats of the Senate COM
mittee on banking and currency do not
like the currency bill as passed by the
House. This trio, Reed of Missouri,
Hitchcock of Nebraska and O'Gorman
of New York, have co-operated with
the republicans to continue. the hear
ings before the committee and in this
manner delay indefinitely considera-
ton Of the bill by the Senate as a
whole.
President Wilson is convinced that
n large majority Of the democrats of
the Senate are in favor of early ac-
ton for currency reform. He is con-
WINGED that the time is rapidly APP
preaching when delay should no long
the Senate democrats he is now con-
sidering ways and means for forcing
the bill out of the committee and be-
, fore the Senate. The most feasible
plan seems to have caucus declare
the Glass-Owen bill party measure.
\ To kill bills by having them pigeon
Aoled in committee was one of the
favorite pastimes of Cannon and AL
drich in the heyday of their power. 1t
will not be countenanced by the pres
ent administration. Why should three
men be permitted to block the work
of the two houses of Congress? At
present the senators and representa-
tives are marking time awaiting the
august pleasure of Messrs. Reed,
Hitchcock and O'Gorman. President
Wilson and the other leaders of the
democrats propose to put little fire
on the backs Of these tortoises.
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carried before the cannibal king, and
much to his surprise and relief was
Immediately released.
A condition of his freedom, how
ever, was that he carry small packet
to neighboring chief. He was on his
way when he fell in with a detach-
ment of English marines. The officer
in charge opened the packet borne by
the missionary. In it were a number
of pungent little onions and note
reading, "He will be delicious with
these"
A very clever little story it is. And
it goes to show that however much
Mr.. London may be concerned with
present day problems, he has not for
gotten his classics. 1t has been a long
time since Proetus sent Bellerophon to
Iobates, but an account of it may
still be found in Bullfinch.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-09
PASSING OF BASEMENT HOME

From the Journal of the American Med
ical Association.
This month the basement as living
room will, officially, pass out of exis-
tence in Missouri. The movement is sig
nificant as the beginning of a realization
by the legislative bodies of the country
that the conservation OF public health is
the most important factor in political
economy. The basement living room,
coupled with the daily toll Of children in
factories and sweatshops, has enormously
increased the death rate among the chill
dren of the lowly. Particularly related to
a dark, damp basement home is lowered
condition of vitality. which predisposes to
infection by tuberculosis and aids the
vicious spreading of all the acute exam
thems. If, in Missouri, where conditions
of population are at most not crowded,
such step has seemed necessary, how
much more must such law be needed in
the densely packed tenements of New
York. Chicago and other metropolitan
cities? Missouri, in the past has insisted
that she must 'be shown here, indeed,
she has pointed the way for her sister
states.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
Nearly every man is true to his first
love--himself.
Occasionally widower's heart Is
warmed over by an old flame.
An optimist is man who lays up q
little sunshine for a rainy day.
Some women are self made. but most
of them are remodeled by dressmalSers
When a man calls his wife dear" in
public ii sounds Ike an insinuation.
1t is better for girl to be given in
marriage than it is for man to be sold
Some women are SO self-conscious thu,
they tremble every time anybody hap
pens to mention art
Many a tinid girl courts death by max
ing love to rich cid codger who has one
foot already in the grave.
A man will remember to his dying day
the things he learned at college--unles
he happened TO learn them from books.
It's difficult for newly married man
to generate much enthusiasm over his
brides beautiful hair after he has seen
Der pile it on the bureau for the night
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Learning Mr.. Mann

1t is the fate of many men to be
misjudged. There is, for instance, the
case of Mr. Mann, republican floor
leader of the House of Representa-
tives.
In the minds of many, this be-
whiskered minion of moneyed mo-
nopoly is especially favored by the
modern practice of wearing shoes-it
conceals the fact that he has cloven
feet. But we are learning better. 1t is
very probable that Mr.. Mann hasn't
cloven feet at all.
During the watermelon season, Mr..
Mann one day was seen to grasp a
segment of luscious Alabama speci-
men, hold each end firmly with hi
fingers, and dive into the red and sue
culent meat, whiskers and all, just
like human being.
And Tuesday Mr.. Mann again DEM
onstrated that if he is actually bond
friend of Mephisto, he has means OF
descending that are admirable ano
efficacious. While the House frettel
and fumed as it waited for quorum
Mr.. Mann arose and blandly inquired
if a parliamentary inquiry would be
in order.
estate it." said the solemn Sherley,
presiding, to whom even peccadillo
of punctilious parliamentary pro-
cedure is an abomination.
would it," asked Mr.. Mann, "be
proper to announce that the score now
is to l in the favor of Philadel-
phia in the fourth inning?"
What though the glum and dour
Sherley frowned upon this unseemly
levity? If Mr.. Mann is really endowed
with the attributes of the rest of his
fellow creatures, the country is glad
to know it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-09
THE TuRk,s WAY

NY. Morgan in the Hutchinson News.
Consta ntinople-Th Turk is the only
real gentleman in Europe. measured by
the standard that a gentleman is man
who WON'T work and doesn't work. The
turk will fight, he will endure. he will
fast, lie will die. but he VIII not work.
He does not get the idea at all For gem
erations back he has been a soldier and
governor of conquered people who pro-
vided him with means of support or he
killed them or they killed MIN. There
was no word in the dictionary of his life
which meant hard labor or wise manage
ment. His wants were simple, wife or
two. more if he could afford them. bread.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-09
As to Aged Men

A writer in the New York Sun makes
these timely observations:
'To Julian French aged are men past
60. 1t Is a fact that age does not mean
SO many years lived. The really young
and virile are those who come from
healthy stock, and they are ever young
il they also have conserved their vigor
by living moral and abstemious lives.
Physicians do try to prolong life,
because they recognize the pity of it
all, that a man should greatly equip
himself for the race of life and just
as he is attaining his goal drop from
exhaustion which he should not have
felt had he preserved his health by
rational living.
Mr. French would make one almost
wish for woman suffrage, for | believe
women are too -shrewd to deliver our
destinies into the hands of young men,
who freed from the balance that older
men give to the council would fly off
at tangent and throw US all to the
devil or the deep sea-
mo. our sages shall never be dis
franchised; but we may consider the
advisability of making the age for cast :
ing the first ballot ,25 instead of 81.
I'VE will let the boys sit back. on
the bleachers' bit longer; but for our
men, who are fighting and have fought
a good fight, we shall sit at their feet
and learn something we have not yet
attained in this our beloved America,
and that is reverence"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-09
THE FIRST 'LEVIATHAN'

af1oat and on her road to Bombay or Mel
bourne. The first idea which strikes as
is the multitude of faces on board. II
viii be. in fact, whole town afloat
What new shape of human societyl
Take the 500 first class passengers by
themselves and what room does even
this number afford for the formation of
all kinds of different circles and sets
one man only just knowing another by
sight and hardly that. What nirtations
will there not be behind boats. what ri,-
Aries, and. if many Americans vovaps.
by the Great Eastern what Dwellings, ma '
we not expect on that ample deck.
Ihe result of this great experiment In
shipbuilding, If it answers of which
there is little or no doubt, will be a con-
solidation of the British empire such as
we have not yet seen. Half of the space
which separates the various sections ~
1t from the mother country and from
each other will be annihilated.'
For little while the Great Eastern
continued in transatlantic service. and
1t was in this period that it met The
storm in which the ship came so near.
going down. During the gale the steering
gear was rendered useless and for hours
the Great Eastehrn wallowed in the
trough of the waves, and every passen-
ger gave up hope of ever seeing land
again. When the big liner finally reached
America, battered and shaken, the pas
sengers found that every trunk in the
hold had been pounded to pieces by the
rolling of the sea. and their belongings,
were shredded to pieces and ground into
one hopeless mass of rubbish by the splir-
tered trunks. But the passengers on the
Great Eastern We're glad enough to
escape with their lives
After the monster vessel had proved
failure in transatlantic passenger
service it was used for several years in
laying the Atlantic cable, a work which
1T performed very satisfactorily.
1T had been acquired by the govern
ment, but the only time it was ever used
as troop ship was when it took o125
British soldiers to Canada at the time Of
the Trent affair. When the laying of the
Atlantic cable was completed the Great
Eastern was used for number of years
at Gibraltar as a coal hulk. Then it was
towed to London, where it was bought
in 1884 by an enterprising dry goods and
sea merchant for sl3lOOo. This man used
the old ship as a show place for his goods
and plastered the outside of it with adj
vertising posters. In 1890 the ship was
sold again and broken up as junk And
so the Great Eastern, the first monster
ocean liner, came to a melancholy end.
For years 1t remained the last word in
shipbuilding as far as size was concerned
men spoke of steamers as "the biggest
ever built, except the Great Eastern
Not until 1899 was an ocean liner built
which surpassed this Jonah vessel in
length.
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THE WHITE HOUSE BRIDE
vpa,,, o~lias-


While ordinary citizens have been max
ing the best of the fall housekeeping
season, President Wilson. has found it
necessary TO thread his way among a
small army of workmen who have been at
work for file past two months getting
the White House ready for the wedding
of his daughter. MI Wilson has taken
q keen personal interest in the prepara-
lions. The improvements include a rem
ovation of the east room where the cere-
>nlony will take place. the building of
guest rooms in the attic and the placing
of new roofs on the terraces and main
building. The President has cheerfully
given way to the carpenter, the brick
layer, the plumber and the decorator. 1t
is said that large reception will follow
the wedding and many of our readers
may be among the number invited.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-09
Dressed for the Occasion

We read the modern joke and smile.
We like both the point and its fur
bishings. We know that the germ is
from antiquity, but we admire the
manner in which the author has taken
an old idea, clothed it in new garb,
twisted it around little and applied
it to something under immediate dis
cussion.
Jack London has told another at
least, he is so credited by the st. Louis
Globe Democrat. Here it is con-
densed: Jack met missionary in
Samoa who had been preaching on
one Of the islands where cannibalism
is still practiced. He was captured,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-09
UNCLE SANS 1o-cENT MEALS

Robert d. Heinl in Leslie's.
A striking illustration of how the army
copes with the ever increasing price of
commodities was shown in the economical
feeding of the Civil war soldiers at the
Gettysburg reunion. Major Normoyle ex-
pected 5000 guests the first night and
1900 poured in. He prepared for 10000
the next night and nearly double that
number of hungry visitors appeared.
Presently he was feeding, including his
own camp force, an army of nearly 6O,000
people. On the Fourth Of July an elab-
crate repast of ice cream, fricasseed
chicken and assorted vegetables was
served. Some idea of the quantities of
food purchased for the Gettysburg re-
union may be gained when it Is told that
bid for eggs included 1900 dozen. The
army as has been said, always stipu-
lates the best and let not the fact that
the provisions for these meals cost Uncle
Sam only little less than 10 cents per
man give an impression that the food
was not excellent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-09

From the Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association
Many people believe that it is Injurious
TO the eyes to read on train. but few
seem to know why. The reason is the
added strain on the delicate muscles of
the eyes. The motion of the train shakes
the paper or book constantly, thus con-
tinually changing it's position and it's dis
lance from the eyes, keeping the delicate
muscles OF the eyes in constant action to
readjust the focus. Extra work is thus
thrown on these tiny muscles, as the
changing of focus occurs sometimes 100
times a minute.
Another cause of eye strain is reading
on trains is the poor lighting usually ell
countered. Often people try to read their
evening papers on a train or street car
when the daylight is fading and before
the car lights are turned on. Even with
the lights on, the sitaution is not greatly
improved. The cars are frequently crowd
ed and strap hangers sway back and
forth between the paper and the source
of light. Usually the light is high up in
the center of the car ceiling and is badly
placed for reading, the light being too far
from the paper and the light rays being
reflected into the eyes from the book or
magazine.
Some trains now carry library cars
which have the source of light behind
and at one side of the reader.
The best and newest Pullmans have side
lights for reading. The usual railroad
car lighting equipment, however, is an
tiquated. Public opinion will do much to
remedy these defective lighting methods.
Illuminating engineers can be secured by
| railroads and other public carriers to de-
wise proper methods of illumination, so
that no excuse can be offered for inn
proper lighting conditions
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-09
uNDERwooD,s POLITIcAL FUTURE

| From the Savannah News.
Representative Underwood of Alabama
has announced that he will not be can
will seek to be elected to the Senate.
His friends for some time had been urg-
ing him to go after the higher office,
but he withheld his announcement until
the tariff bill was out Of the way. His
place in the House is going to be hard
to fill. His qualities of leadership are
unusual. His conduct of the tariff bill in
the ways and means committee and later
on the floor of the House was, in word,
mastery.
There has been much speculation as to
what the political future of Mr.. Under
wood will be. The Senate has often been
referred to as the graveyard of presiden-
tial hopes. The step from the Senate 20
the presidency has long been looked upon
as almost too great for anybody to take,
1t has been considered easier to go from
the House, or from private life, or from
a governorship, than from the Senate. To
the White House..
But this is day when precedents count
what the people want. So it does not fol-
low that If Mr.. Underwood should be
elected to the Senate he would have less
chance of winning the presidency later
on than if he had remained in the lower
House. If Alabama sends him to the SEN
ate she will have in him a senator who
will serve her and the country with great
ability.
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I'VE have many humane institutions
here, but we are without the well
known Little Sisters of the Poor" said
a Catholic clergyman. But the Little
Sisters have house in Mobile and do
untold good there. Two of the members
of this worthy organization are now in
Birmingham soliciting aid for their in
stitution in Mobile. The Little Sisters
of the Poor receive aged and infirm
men and care tenderly for them. While
it is a Catholic institution, -Catho-
lies as well as Catholics are found in
large numbers in all of these houses"
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EARLY RaiIrOasiinr

I'm 1850 Willis j. Miner, father of Maj
Willis J. Miner of Birmingham and OF
the late John T. Miner, bought from
the government about 10000 acres of fine
timber land situated in Baldwin county
Alabama. and Escambia county, Flor
ida, on the Perdido river 20 or 30 miles
from the gulf" remarked an old citizen
''On the land he built a splendid saw
mill and from the mill constructed a rail.
road to the nearest point on the Alabama
and Florida railroad of Florida. which
had just been completed from Pensacola
to the state line. The branch road ro
the mill was we'll equipped witch flnt
Baldwin locomotive, and a sufficient nurn-
Der of cars, and a 15-year contract was
made with the railroad company, per-
hitting the mill company to send its
trains over the formers track into Pensa-
cola.
1.-The locomotive, rails and f.iill- machin-
cry were bought at the north and shipped
by water to Pensacola, not long betorS
the port was closed by the blockade al
the beginning of the Civil war. BY the
time the mill and railroad were com.
pleted the blockade had been put into
effect and not cargo Of lumber from
the mill could be shipped.
In the meantime the notes given by
the mill company for the locomotive and
other machinery had been collected by
the Confederate government under law
which confiscated all debts cue by SOUTH
erners to parties living in the ncrth
I'm 1862 Pensacola and the adjacent
territory We're evacuated by the Con-
federates The machinery and the much
needed rails, locomotive and CATS, belong
ing to the mill were now taken posses
sion of by the government and brought
up to Calera dhen called Lime kim to
be used in the extension OF the Soutl
and North Alabama railroad to the Goa
and iron fields of Jefferson and Shelby
counties to get iron and coal for the
use of a cannon foundry located ct Sci
ma. 1t is now the custom 70 number
the locomotives on a railroad; IN those
days they were named after prorninen
individuals. The locomotive was accord
ingly named the Willis ]. Miner" ana
it thus became the first locomotive eve
used on the South and North Alabami
railroad.
There is a tragic aftermath TIC tn
above bit of history, but the p,i9iic youl,
probably not be interested in ii.