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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

oped softness both of these specialties
hardened from the inside range and i'm
parted an appearance of Improvement
to the general list. 1t was noticed,
however, that many of the usually slow
stocks moved ierkily and with entire
independence of other specialtes Texas
Oil, as an illustration. swung , to
points in single session and usually
displayed a rising tendency. Cana
dian Pacific was volatile and travelled
nervously within a point range. F1nan-
cial reports from that system were re-
markably bullish yet there arc many
who stand earnestly for the theory that
150 is rightful bedrock. all things con-
sidered Those who take this darl<some
view of Canadian Pacific contend that
they are not insane-not yet.
New Haven's Break
New Havens break to below 92 on the
publication of the first true official figures
of the disastrous record of the year, was
not altogether a surprise. The price
shrinkage covering a period of two years
approximated so points. The publication
of the inside facts as to net earnings was
construed by New Haven bears as fore
shadowing another cut in dividends. Opin-
ion was at variance as to whether the
prophesied cut would be to 4 per cent
or 8. 1t is barely possible that there may
be no further reduction in the rate but
this better view is not popularity enter
tanned. The influence of the New Haven
report and also of the extinction of the
Big -Four dividend was decidedly depress-
ing.
The sale of seat of the New York
Stock Exchange this week for $50, 900 was
an event of Importance in that it records
strikingly the progress that has been
made on the return road to revived conf
dence and prosperity. Only few weeks
ago seats We're a drug on the NlarSet at
$4,000 and one transfer was made at
$4,000 the lowest quotation since 1899
Membership privileges were worth $9J 00O
in 1905 and 1906 and in 1909 and 1910 there
were held at $4,000 The market for seats
has been discouragingly Weak for two
years (until the $4,000 culmination), but
the recovery of $4,000 in a few weeks war;
rants the inference that the worst is over.
Opportunity for Investment
Opportunity for safe investment has
rarely been better all things considered
than right now is the burden of tons of
written and printed advice sent by bank
ers and brokers to their list of customers
and near-customers. Thousands of lists
go through the mails specifically pointing
out stocks and bonds in the 'ssafe" class
that yield to 81 per cept on the invest
ment The advice to buy is being gem
orally followed. especially of seasoned
shares that can be bought between 90
and 109; this list including Atchison. Bal
tinlore and Ohio. Southern Pacific, Ameri-
can preferred, Illinois Central. New York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

bows for them and thatll balance
things"
OF course you don't believe itthat
idea-"that'll balance things"
is there a well-dressed woman OF your
entire acquaintance who believes that
near -aigrette" on hat, or big bows
ON your shoes, will keep anybody from
seeing the dilapidated condition of your
footwear?
Do you happen to recall that delicious
ly foolish rhyme of Gelett Burgess about
"feet?"
'My feet haul me around the house
They hoist me up the stairs
I only have to guide them, and
They take me eyerywhere!'
So
Since our feet are our best friends. isn't
il only fair that we treat them right?
1t will be a very agreeable and pleas
ing announcement to the women of Bir-
mingham to know that in accordance
with the progressive" policy maintained
by the Porter Clothing company they are
opening on next Wednesday a ladies'
shoe department in their handsome shop.
Distinct and separate from the mems
shoe department on the first floor. the
ladies shoe department is located on the
second floor in spacious and commodious
quarters
A glimpse behind the scenes" as it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

Central and Norfolk and Western. The
speculative investment list that is in
favor includes Smelters, Amalgamated.
Steel, Brooklyn Rapid Transit and Chesa-
peake and Ohio. The buying of the sea-
soned dividend payers is not quite ac-
tive as when prices dragged at or near
the bottom On the 5 to s point recovery
the ''job lot investor was busy but near
the top he slowed down. On the halt
and moderate reaction, investment for
account of the little fellow slowed down.
There was only fragmentary liquidstion
by small investors. however, and the pre-
vailing habit at this writing is to stand
pat
Quite a. chunk of money will be distrib-
uted during the coming week in October
dividends and interest something like
SIP, 100000. This is over $5. O0o 900 increase
as compared with the corresponding date
a year ago. These yearly comparisons
are not exactly fair, for the reason that
the statisticians are continually adding to
the tables. The years changes would be
slight We're the list of corporations identi-
cal in number and capitalization
Among the statistics which will be sub
mitted to the Interstate commerce COM
mission by the railroads as it's freight
| rate hearings a month or six weeks
hence. will be a table showing that the
transportation companies pay S120, ,OO0, 600
year IN taxes
Attitude Toward Mexico
| The daily grind of Wall street lunch
rooms and brokerage office conversation
| is always on the current news develop
ments most likely to effect prices of Sc
curities What here follows will serve
| as representing the latest output Said
the critic to the cynic.
| "What's all this row about Mexico?
| Win or lose, where do we get on and
where do we get off? How do we come
| to be mixing in, anyway. 1t isn't our
right so far as I can see. / do not re-
member ever hearing of meddler getting
| the best of it volunteering the adjudica-
ton of neighbor's family fight
Don't get fussy,' said the cynic to the
critic. ''In the finish the states will prob
ably come out ahead. They grabbed .stf
about 100000 acres of rich land the last
| time there was a real dispute IT breaks
our heart to be forced to regulate Mexi-
can affairs. but in case of emergency we
can hold cur own. Should there be "a eli
max, we can always stand off foreign in
tervention by appeal to the Monroe dor-
trine-a most sacred weapon of offense
and defense. Getting right down /. :.
what right have we to NEEDLE with Mex
ests there are gambling interests. We
didn't have to go into the country or
put our money there. Seems to me the
family alone to settle its own quarrel.
llf we ma G spalr .l.psN, L. t4.>..,. v.-
gamble With keep 1t at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

You are not asked to take Mayrs Wonderful
Stomach Remedy for weeks and months before you
receive any benefit-one dosesi usually required to
convince the most keptical sufferer of Stomach ALI
menis that this great remedy should restore anyone
afflicted to good health. Mayr's Wonderful stom-
ach Remedy has been taken by many thousands OF
people throughout the land. 1t has brought health
and happiness sufferers who had despared OF
being restored and who now proclaim 1t Wonder
ful Remedy and are urging others who he suf-
fering with Stomach, Liver and Intestinal Ailments
try It.. Mind you Mayr's Wonderful Stomach Remedy
is so different than most medicines that are put
the market for the various stomach ailmentsit is
really In class by itself. and dose will do
to convince the skeptical sufferer than tens Of
other medicines. Results from one dose will
aud the benefits entirely natural. as 1t acts
the and foundation Of these ailments.
Ing the poisonous catarrh and bile accretions and
allaylng the underlying chronic inflammation In the
alimentary and intestinal tract, rendering the
autiseptic just try dose Of Mar's Wonderful
Stomach Remedy-put it TO test today-you will be
overjoyed with your quick recovery and will highly
praiSe It Of others constantly doing
Send for booklet Stomach Ailments Ito Geo H.
lfayr. Mfg. Chemist 154-150 Whiting ST. Chicago ILL.,
For sale In Birmingham BY Eugene Jacobs Drug
etsrs. 1904 Second avenue. and other druggists.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12
PELLAGRA BATTLES
A COMMISSION
OF Scientists After Two Years
Research.

From Spartenburg, S. c., last week
the Thompson McF'adden Pellagra
Commission after two years research
by corps of twenty scientists reports
that it is still ignorant of the cause of
the disease. This announcement was
made by DR.. W. }. Mccall of the New
York Post Graduate Hospital, a men,
Der of the commission, at a meeting
here of physicians. Nearly 200 ply
sicians, studying pellagra were here
IN convention. They came from near
ly every Southern State.
The physician summed up the COM
mission thus:
First, the supposition that the in
lection of good or spoiled maize is the
cause of pellagra is not supported by
our research.
Second, pellagra in all probability
is a specific Infectious disease COM
municable by means at present I'M
known.
Third, we have discovered no evil
dence discriminating Buffalo gnats in
the causation of pellagra. If it is
distributed by blood sucking insect,
the HIdple ny would appear to be the
most probable carrier.
Fourth, we are inclined to regard
intimate association in the household
and the contamination of food with
the eNcretions of pellagrin as possible
modes Of distribution of the disease.
Five, no specific cause of pellagra
has been recognized"
Although none of the assembled
physicians were able to suggest a spe-
cllc remedy for the disease, Dr.. C. H.
Lavender of the Public Health Service
Savannah Ga, declared:
III you remove a pelIagrin in the
carly stages of the disease from en-
tdemlc locality of the disease; put him
in better surroundings, and give him
plenty of good nourishing food. re-
CARELESS of treatment, he will get
well and stay well. In view of the
high mortality Of pellagra and the
pesslmistic feeling in regard to it this
should be a comforting thought to us
1t also should be comforting that pei
lagra is not directly transmissible
from one person to another"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12

The Orlando Sentinel believes that
under the new primary law Gov Gil
christ has an excellent chance of Win
ming the senatorship over Stockton or
Fletcher in that he will be the lead
ing second choice man. But the Sen
tinel editor fails to tell US how he ar
rives at the conclusion that the ma
jority Of voters who make Fletcher or
Stockton their first choice will select
the ex-governor for their second
choice. Is not Fletcher first choice
voter just as likely to make Stockton
his second choice? And would not a
voter for Stockton as first choice be
just as likely to name Fletcher for
second choice as he would Gilchrist?
And if not, why not?
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12

Sanford Herald: A visitor to the
city this week asked merchant about
the price Of certain commodity and
was surprised at the price. Said he
could buy it in Baltimore for so much
less.
And so he could and this is the rea-
son:
That certain commodity in Balti-
more costs 50 much wholesale. Ship
ped to Jacksonville the freight rate is
II cents per hundred. Shipped to
Sanford costs IA cents more, making
q total of 26 cents by the time the
goods get to Sanford.
Now what the people of other
states do not understand and what VIZ
do not understand is why this COM
modify should cost more to ship from
Jacksonville to Sanford than from
Baltimore to Jacksonville, when the
distance from Baltimore is ten times
greater.
They could hand the interior cities
the old gag about transportation fla.
cilities but they can't hand that to San
ford because we have the St. Johns
river and the Clyde line of steamers
and should have a much better rate
than now predominates.
viii some transportation man bet
ter versed in these matters please
take the time to explain why Jackson
vile has the rest of the state sewed
up so tight on freight rates and the
wholesale business?
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12

Col. Woods of the Eustis Lake Re
gion is giving some space each week
to eulogizing some of our State edi-
tors. A week ago he had fine
sketch of our contemporary, Hon. II.
A. B. Mckenzie, together with a
life-like picture of that gentleman.
Last week it was Harry Brown of the
st. Augustine Record who was depict
ured in words and face illumined with
his every day smile. First thing Col.
Woods knows some of these fellows
will be a boomin' of him for gov'ner,
or some other job a requirin' of
craftsmanship.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12
Charity


Though | speak with the topo,,os
OF men and of angels
And have not Charity,
| am become as sounding brass
Or tinkling cvmbal
And though | have the oft y
prophecy,
And understand all MYSTERIES
And all knowledge:
And though | have all faith
SO that | could remove Mountains
And have not Charity. I am &c 10TH
ing.
And though | bestow all NV good,
To feed the poor, and thoHgh
give my body to be burned.
And have not Charity,
1t profiteth me nothing.
S C5y Suitereth long, and is kind
ChaIity ehVleth not;
marty Vaunteth not itself,
IS noC pulled up
i'oIH IoC DenaVe itself unSeemly,
?" exc l llGV her own;
rs i iJt easily provoked,
~ 1ll!l'hetI no eEll'
ReJolctt. not IN l,hlquity,
but relolceth IN the truth;
Beareth all Things,
belleVeth all Things,
HoPeth al ,thlngs'
Ehdureth all things.
marty never talIeth;
but whether there be prophesies,
Ihey shall fail;
Whether there be tongues,
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12

The little town of Hastings, nine
miles east of Palatka on the f. E. c.
! R'y, has become famous as the center
of the potato growing industry in
Florida, but also infamous as the CEN
ter of some half-dozen saloons which
attract the vicious of both races and
others who are only pupils in the
school of viciousness.- But that Has
tings is getting weary of its overdose
of saloons is apparent from the fact
that the city council is discussing, and
will likely pass an ordinance compell-
ing the Payment of a town license of
$4,000 from each saloon. This in ad-
dition to the state and county license.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12

We offer one Hundred Dollars Pc
ward for any case Of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Hairs Catarrh Cure
w j. CHENEY & co, Toledo, @,
- we, the undersigned. have know
r. ). cheney for the last Is years and
believe him perfectly honorable in ali
business transactions and inancia Nv
by his firm iiiaue
WALDlNG, KINNAN & MARVIN
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo n
Halls CataFrh Cure is taken ipter-
naly' acting directly upon the blood
ana mucous surfaces of the system
testimonials sent free Price 75c NJ
bottle. Sold by all Druggists pei
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12

Yellow complexion, pimples and
tdlSt1gurlng blemishes on the face or
body can be gotten rid of by doctoring
the liver, which is torpid. HERBINE
Is a powerful liver correctant. 1t pu-
rifles the system, stimulates the vital
organs and puts the body in fine vigo-
rous condition. Price soc. Sold bv
A1ckerman-Stewart Drug Co., and j.
II. Haughton.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12
OCala's New High School.

Tampa Times: Ocala, not to be
surpassed in good works, has voted
$4,000 worth of bonds for the cree
ton Of improved school buildings, $50
600 Of which is to be devoted to the
construction Of a new high schoo!
building for Marion county. Perhaps
we should have attributed the credit
to Marion county instead of Ocala, but
we'll let it stand, as Ocala is almost
as much to Marion county as TAMPA
is to Hillsborough.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12

That the Marion county wet oil
dry election is being conducted without
rancor is largely due to the sweet
spirit of Frank Harris of
the Ocala Banner, who opened the
campaign with a talk on charity and
showed how good and how pleasant
it is for brethren to dwell together in
unity" of purpose, despite their per-
sonal differences of opinion.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12
Comments of the
State Press,


DclehuS due oAy LAW
Lakeland Telegram: The Palatka
News, whose editor was member of
the last Legislature, vigorously de-
tends the "blue sky" law passed by
that body against the criticism of the
Jacksonville Metropolis that it hits le-
gitimate corporations as hard as it
does the wild cat" schemes.
That law, if effective, is one of the
most important passed by the Legis-
lature fer years and will cure evils
that have bitten deep into the good
name and prosperity of Florida 1t
was designed to checkmate swindling
promoters with their worthless stocks
and bonds and fake schemes to rob
the credulous and unwary, but not to
put the slightest impeachment in the
way Of legitimte enterprise.
What the editor of the Palatka
News says about this law he helped to
make is worth consideration.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12

Eet costa Lieutenant Acosta of re
MeXicano armee hees life to cross de
bridge at midday at Ell Paso in Texas
one day last week. He was drunk
and started out to kill a "gringo."
But Texas "gringos" do not tamely
submit to such a program; they can
teach a greezer something about gun
play, though the pupil rarely lives to
profit by the lessen.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12

Over in the Second Congressional
district they have been unable to hit
upon a man who has any show of
beating Frank Clark. The candidacy
of Judge Palmer of Lake City fell
upon a pervcrse generation of demo-
cratic voters who say the Judge
amt in it,
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12

William T. Jerome the New YORK
attorney who is at Coaticook. Quebec,
for the purpose of getting Harry X.
Thaw back to the Mattawan asylum
and who was arrested by Canadian
officials last week on the charge of
gambling, has been acquitted of the
charge, which is right; jerome is not
Il gambler, he's a lawyer.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12

The Jacksonville Metropolis is au-
thority for the rumor that Gov. Parl.
TrammeIl is after Congressman
Sparkman's scalp. But Mr. Spark
man has no scalp worth while; he's
bald headed
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12
Our Duty to the Negro -

Our Duty to the Negro
Ocala Banner: Up to and dur.
ing the civil war the negro was obedi,
ent, faithful and loyal, and since
which time he has secuted labor
unions and has never hoisted the flag
that means hostility to capital and a
disturbance to labor and industrial
conditions.
Let US aid him in promoting this
record and see that he gets fair pay
for full days work.
We must do our part in making
the negro as good and useful a citizen
as possible, and to this end he should
be protected and defended in the en-
Joyment of his civil. religious, domes-
tic and property rights.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12
Her GenerositY-

He-l wish that you were poor, so
you would he willing to marry me.
She Evidently | am far more gener.
onS than yOn. wish You were rich,
so that | might be willing to marry
you Exchange.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12

Acting in an erratic manner is not
necessarily an indication that a man
is in love He may merely have been
prevented from going to the ball
game.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12

If that man Brown of Lakeland
doesn't get the United States marshal
ship p. d. g., the first thing we know
he'll be agin' Senator Bryan, too.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12

A Maryland farmer caught a black
snake in the act of swallowing a cast
iron rabbit. That explains the disap.
pearance of the cast iron dogs and
deer.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12

Another of those useless noises is
the language INDUCED in by the av-
erage baseball fan when the umpire
makes decision that doesn't please
him.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12

pttShtOH NItdI -hCducu ana IFue-
! Miami Metropolis: J. N. C. Stock
ton was a progressive when it was not
popular to be a progressive. In every
political issue he has been found on
the side OF the people fighting their
t2ttlcs against corporation money
and special interest servants and his
work in the senate of the United
States could he trusted to be that of
4 clear-heade business man with n
vision of what the rank and file of the
nation should have at the hands of
the federal government. He would
never be found entangled in obliga-
lions to Big Business and his fearless
service could ever be relied upon.
Born near Quincy, Florida, in 1857,
Mr. Stockton has lived all of his life
in this state. In the cotton and corn
fields of the fertile Quincy section. he
learned his first lesson in the art of
earning his own living until OF the
age Of twelve he moved with his
fathers family to Jacksonville
where as grocery clerk at the age of
fourteen, with a salary OF $500 a
week, he began his long and credita-
bic association with the commercial
life of that city.
During the yellow fever epidemic
in Jacksonville in 1888, he rendered
great service to the sufferers and 10
The citizens of the city in general and
IS held in grateful remembrance by
many people there--but these are only
slde lights. Mr. Stockton is essen /
tally democrat, firm in his concep-
tion of what constitutes democratic
and brave enough to live up
to them, come what may.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12
How it's Done al TT. Myers

How it's Done al TT. Myers
FIT. Myers Press: One of the most
welcome pieces of news that could
have been received was that which
stated that the citizens of Fort Myers
were overwhelmingly in favor of more
and better school facilities as shown
by their vote in the election held Tues
day to decide whether or not Fort
Myers should have new high school
building. True, the vote was light,
but glance at the results will show
where the people stand on such mat
ters. Eighty fer and only six against
We have no right of course to ques-
ton the judgment of those who voted
against the necessary improvements,
las they probbly viewed the matter
III different light-had some reason
for their action, but we are pleased
that the vote was so overwhelmingly
in favor of the issue, the only regret
being that there was not a bigger
vote polled.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12
Red Fire

III making fireworks the substance
used to produce red fire is strontium
salts. uH'
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-12
Good Advice.

Good Advice.
Amateur Camerist- Here's I'"o'o'
graph took of myself. What do you
think of Il? Miss Bright texaminlns ~
The expression is very glun'. iou
shouldn't take yourself so seriously
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