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Valdez daily prospector., 1913-10-27
GAMB0A LEADS
 fOR PRESIDENT
Gen, Felix Diaz is a Close Second --Diaz and Gamboa Control
 the Congress.

Mexico City. Oct. 21.-The elec- ton held yesterday seems 10 have been indecisivc with Ganboa in the lead at fhe head of the Cath ollie party. whil" Felix Diaz is a close second. Only one-righth r. the total vote has been received so far and it is still anybody's S race.
 The followers of Felix Diaz and Senor Gamboa control both houses of congress.
 Troops patrolled the streets of the town all day yesterday and today. But little disorder was re- ported.
Valdez daily prospector., 1913-10-27
NEW HAVEN HAS
 ANOTHER WRECK
Only Fifteen Hurt This Time-- Management and Engineers
 Are Rucking Each Other.

Westerly, R. l., Oct. 27.--Fif- teen people were seriously hurt and many others slightly injured by flying glass when the New Ha- ven express, on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad was ditched here yesterday. A bad washout caused the derail- ment and six cars left the track and were ditched.
 Trouble is brewing between the engineers union and the man. agement of the railroad because of the new and stringent rules and regulations now being en- forced on the road and it is eX- pected that a strike of the loco motive engineet s and firemen will be called in few days.
 The many wrecks of the past few months on the road has caused much comment and talk of federal receiver has been heard. The wreck of yesterday may cause the Interstate COm- merce Commission to act.
Valdez daily prospector., 1913-10-27
ENDOWMENT FOR
 JOHN HOPKINS

Baltimore, :Octs& 27.-- President Remsen, of the John Hopkins University, has just made public the information that John ID. Rockefeller has given another Si ,5G0,OOO to that institution. T,ie university is growing very fast and now has a staff of 222 instructors with nearly one thou sand students in at 'ndance.
Valdez daily prospector., 1913-10-27

Mr. and Mrs. William Furs- man, of Cordova, arrived in Val dez on the Mariposa. MT. Furs- man will leave for Naknek on the Sampson, going in to his station from Iliamna. crossing the Alas ka peninsula. Mrs. Fursman will spend the winter in the states and will join her husband next sum- nler.
Valdez daily prospector., 1913-10-27

Dr. C. A. Winans has been ap- pointed by Marshal Brenneman as jail physician, vice Dr. E. c. Dalton, who held the position ui- der the former administration.
Valdez daily prospector., 1913-10-27

Governor Strong has wired to w. H. Caswell announcing the appointment of pr. C. A. Winans as 4 member sef@ the E,territOrial board of medical examiners, to take the place of Dr. D. H. Sleem, deceased.
Valdez daily prospector., 1913-10-27
SALT LAKE EDITOR
 PASSES AWAY

Salt Lake City, Oct. 27.--Col- onel Nelson. who has been the edi- ter of the Tribune for the past thirty-fivr years, died here today al the age of 74 years. Col. Nel- son has been strong factor in city and stale politics and has made his influence felt.
Valdez daily prospector., 1913-10-27
Masonic Meeting.

The regular meeting of Val dez Lodge No. i68. F. and A. M., will be held at the Masonic 'hall on Wednesday. Work in the sec 'ond degree. Ali visiting brothers are invited. .
 C. c. REYNOLDS, Sec'y.
Valdez daily prospector., 1913-10-27

Mir. and Mrs. Ray Willard, of the Cliff mine, spent the week end in Valdez and attended the Saturday night dance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES-By George Eaves D. D.

county of Birmingham, should be accept
able to the great majority of the people,
no doubt they could get it. They have
who are the majority which holds the
balance of that power. Some day the
sleeping lion will awaken and dis.
cover his power, as he has done in older
lands. A determined popular Cry sus-
tanned and intelligent American must,
thank Heaven, accomplish it's purpose.
But it takes real unity of passion to
utter and sustain a popular cry
What interests the student of affairs is
the average attitude of the American
mind. Knowing that power rests with the
people, that initiative easily rests with tha
people, the people themselves have set
tied down to sort of sheepish bleating
against the men whom they themselves
elect No sooner is Wilson in the White
House than good democrats begin to
bewail the fact In louisiana Colorado,
Wyoming, the very men who shouted
themselves hoarse against Taft, are utter
ing imprecations against free sugar and
free wool We ourselves elect local of
ficials for the city and county, and hav-
ing dumped the whole burden of civIc
and suburban welfare on these brethren,
then We begin to curse and groan, to say
that commission government is a failure
and that there is graft at the courthouse.
If things are bad, why don't we set
to work and change them? Having chosen
these men. who are not Superhuman,
why not thank God that they are such
good fellows. and go and tell them what
we the people, want them to do? We can
if we will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

For instance: Did we want the anti
smoke ordinance? Then why did we not
strengthen the commissions hand against
the wailing pathos of smoke producers?
Did we believe in Mr.. Exums boulevard
scheme2 II so, why did we sit SO very
mum while the opponents did the talking?
Do we want the "City Beautiful?"
wonder how many of us have gone on
record to that effect? 1t is common to
berate those whom we contemporary dub
politicians" but the only known means
of eliminating the politics is for every
citizen to make his will known having
reached an intelligent conclusion as to
what his will ought to be and is My
laboring friends have incalculable powers
But what vast numbers of them sit still
and do not demand the resto. alton Of
the franchise of which they have been
despoiledl Why do they not get their
franchise? They could If they would.
Instances innumerable point in the
same direction. Why should affairs In
Alabama be less within the will of the
people of Alabama than are the affairs
in Belgium, France. England, Ireland
Wlthin the will of the people of those
lands?
H. There is a world of power. also
of still more immediate kind, in the
hands of you who read, of me who
write. | take illustration of this from
the work of the street cleaning and
sanitary departments. Granted that the
miserable convicts who WELD brooms
along our cutters cannot be expected
TO DO thorough work; granted that they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

are a very wretched substitute for the
white wings" of certain other cities,
yet could not we ourselves Indefinite
ly improve, embellish. purify this city?
1t is because we are ourselves content
to be dirty that the city is dirty. Ad-
mittedly 1t is dirty, though not so bad
as some other places. There is no ex-
cuse for the laggard methods of street
cleaning and of street paving so long
in vogue. Blame the men in charge for
that. and yet theie is still less excuse
for littering what pavement is finished
Tn every bit o. banana peel or waste
PAPER which we may happen to handle.
The city witt ne, er oe clean till 1t has
clean citizens, ahd We could be clean IL
We would. / am n"t Joking. l do not
indulge in hysteric flights of hyper
bolel Seriously and in calm prose, even
We could, IL we would. quit making our
streets like pig pens, where the pigs
nave paper va: straw for litter
There are several boxes to hold trash.
Clean citizens use these. All citizens
could use them IL they would; could
If they would, train the children to keep
the city streets as free from litter as
their mothers work basket or kitchen! !!
All, there's the rubi If we can't keep
kitchen and work basket and backyard
clean, how should we care about the
streets or the city dump? What
story that is. that dump. How 1t
awaits oil and the burning of Gehin-
nomi
We could. if we would. quit splitting
Ladies have quit several generations
back. Why not the men folkse Why is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

ally, adviser, In banishing peril from
our section of the city's area7 He
is our own servant, but If he is to
discharge the functions of a servant we
must cooperate with him, encourage
and thank him. Why not go him one
better" as the boys say? That would
mean thorough overhauling of all our
premises, indoors and out, that we
may breed no flies, no rats, no bad
drains, no unventilated, ill-lighted
rooms, where germs of disease may
grow2 why not get the utmost intel
ligence on all our sanitary responsible
tiles. inseparable from residence with
other men and women? Nay. for that
matter, why not wake up and be thor
oughly alert citizen, defending the
helpless, understanding the common
needs, creating a vast, progressive citi-
zenship spirit, which shall make itself
known as the Birmingham spirit Bir-
mingham, young and broad and splen-
did. must become the cleanest, most
sanely beautiful and progressive city
In the land.
But our sanitary standards are practl-
cally the same as four years ago. our
shootings are less frequent, but our civic
Indifference is too stolid yet. We stil
have commercialized wee, by which in
nocent persons are brought low and rich
persons grow richer. The conscience OF
America is marching onward and we
are being left behind, mumbling foolish
words. Yet I'VE can If we WIZ do
things, not dream them all day long nor
prate of them all the night. Nay, have
we not done things? I modestly record
hearty word of praise to the commission
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
PROFITING BY THE STORM
Lesson Taught by Tornado Is Houses
Must Be Better Built
From the Kansas city Star.

From the Kansas City Star
The greater part of the damage done
to frame houses in Omaha by the recent
tornado would not have occurred IL the
houses had been properly built with
wind braces was the assertion made
here by John w. Towle. head of the
relief committee I'm Omaha, which Is re-
pairing and putting back on their foun-
dations.the-hous moved by the storm.
Mr.. Towle is president of a large
structure iron works in Omaha and Is
a practical house builder. and as head
of the rebuilding end OF the relief work
has had fine opportunity to study the
effect of the wind of frame houses.
I'VE find that at least one-half of all
the frame houses wrecked by the storm
would have been saved If just little
more money had been used In buildin e
them by putting I'm cross studding," /"
Mr.. Towle said. The houses that were
wrecked We're mostly built In that or
dinary slipshod way of placing the stud
ding straight up and down without
cross braces. Such houses offered no
resistance to the wind. They went
down like so many pasteboard boxes.
But We found that where studding had
been put in at an angle of As degrees.
bracing the houses to withstand the
pushing force of the wind. the houses
were moved off their foundations-in
some cases being carried distances of
TWO and three blocks-and yet they
stood up and with a little repairing and
Draelng they are ready to be moved
back again upon their Foundations
Hundreds of houses that We're
wreck ed would have withstood the wind
If their builders had spent from S25 to
| $50 more In cross bracing the studding
/ in each one.
! Having been taught this lesson by
4 the storm the people of Omaha will
have a new building code by which
| frame houses viii be required to be
cross braced
II see YOU are agitating the same
| sort of Il building code in this city. 1t
| is good thing and 1t should meet
with no opposition. becalSe Kansas city
Is Just as likely to have tornado as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

1t not an exceedingly ungentlemanly
thing to stand on the inner side OF the
sidewalk and squirt tobacco juice with
in an inch OF passerby2 A man who
viii do that would be lynened it he
got all he deserves. But why is 1t
less ungentlemanlike. though there he
no passerby? And why should the lit
Ter from the sidewalk be swept into
the gutter? Yet saw hotel servant
doing that only yesterday. We have
the power to stop ourselves from doing
unsocial things like thesel
A Clean City guild. every member
pledged not to litter the streets or
spit upon them would be a good begin
ming Here's work for the Boy Scouts
and others. Instead of making work
for the city cleaning department why
not cooperate with that department?
III. And now about our responsibili-
ties, which are the converse OF our
powers:
Take these sanitary inspectors of
ours who are paid by us to ward off
disease: What do we care about them
and what do we do to help them? The
citizen with bad barn promptly
curses them and does his best to de-
feat them. The lady on the hill who
employs a negro cook has been known
to encourage the cook to sass" the in
spector who wants the garbage can se-
curely covered. What? Is not this man
doing the duty assigned him by our
selves? Is he not the servant of scien-
tific health defense? Is he not trying
to save our lives and to avert from us
hospital charges and Doctors bills?
Why not treat this man as a friend,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

for the tardy beginning on "the sub
merged area of the segregated district
What a cheerful thing 1t will be when
a dignihed citizen, passing to his auto
mobile or to his office. will not think it
beneath his self respect to stoop and
pick up that piece of paper which lies in
the gutter, and gravely put it in the trash
box. And how the loaf1ng lounger who
lolls against the trash box will starel Is
there no modern equivalent of the old
sacerdotal Injunction, BE ye clean that
bear the vessels of the Lord?' Clean
City Guild. pitch in. and get your neigh
bor, friend, family to do the same. Beau
tify your own back yard and your owr
front windows with flowers. Danish fies
and mosquitoes from your own tin cans
and barns. Power is yours and with 1t
the responsibility to use II well. Dor't
walt for the other man to set the pace,
but set 1t and see the contagion spread.
The only certificate of membership in the
Clean City Guild is clean, beautiful, san-
ftary premises.
| must. In conclusion, again respectfully
dissent from the view that DR.. Wilbur's
recent figures on the health of southern
cities Indicate much advance for BIT :.
mingham. In fact, we are a trifle worse
off than four years ago, supposing tic
figures trustworthy. | absolutely refuse
to believe the figures, but II the facts are
no worse than they indicate, we hnve
stood still while Pittsburg has maoi
splendid advance. We however. couli
advance and cut down our death rate If
we would. Only the way TO do II Is TO
do It all together and not resent the sug-
gestion OF the sanitary inspectors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

|NHlS is line of thought to which the
writer has been led by two different
n groups of influences. For one
|hing I have been reading Lord Rose
|ery on the powers and responsibilities
Il the press, and address delivered at
|he annual dinner of the London Press
hub For another thing | have been
listing at the city hall to talk to the
|ew society of our health departments
|anitary inspectors, and getting some of
hose good men to talk back. Incidental
y | was honored with membership in
that valuable body. By both Lord Rose
berry and Dr. Robert Nelson's men / have
been brought to contemplate the powers
|nd responsibilities, not indeed of the
press, but of the average citizen of our
lair city, or for that matter of any city.
]. Undoubtedly We have the power to
Eet anything we want, If we want it bad
y enough. Which reminds me of a
preacher who said that we could get any
hing in answer to prayer, IF we had
|aith enough The word enough" car
lies everything before it. Truly {, if we
want parks, IL we want a zoo like Cincin-
latfs zoo, IL we want a thoroughly effec-
i've tuberculosis hospital system, we can
get these things. AS L understand the
they earnestly desire to give
is what we want, only we must prove
hat we do want 1t. Probably an over
vote could be secured for pro-
yiding us with at least one of these three
If Mr.. Weatherly's suggestion, that ota
single authority controlling the city and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

sides he was OF prominence In the af-
fairs of the French government. But
he had his weaknesses. He lived high,
ions, and conceived that he must enter
tain beyond his means Upon these rocks
has many n craft struck and gone down.
Another Frenchman, one who preceded
Lamartine, was likewise an unconscion-
able spendthrft. I refer to Mirabeau,
who had the strongest intellect, though.
perhaps, the weakest morals. of any man
who figured in the Revolution of 49, He
was a mental giant. and, yet, he was
child in many things. He had a pas
sion for getting rid of his money. Neither
paternal authority, nor philosophical ar
gument had any influence with him. Fin
ally his father had him locked up in
prison to prevent his squandering his
patrimony.
In this paper I have given but few
names of famous spendthrifts [ might
continue the list. for they are many. 1
could have included poor steele, Savage,
the poet; Foote and Cibber. actors and
the greatest constitutional lawyer that
the United States ever had. Daniel Web
ster. But the list is long enough
have seen this passion for spending
fostered by number OF young men who
had modest fortunes bequeathed them,
say, fortunes from $4,000 to $4,000. The
first object with them was TO see life"
which generally meant to see the worst
side OF life; the life that a young man
does not want his sister or his mother
to see; and so, to see that kind of life
the purse must be opened wide In the
course OF year or two the purse is
gone, the bank account is gone, health
is likewise gone, and now comes the time
of regret. bitter and deep. I have seen it.
"Comely are the apples that spring
From the Dead Seas cursed shore
But the hand that plucketh them
Shall rue it,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
About Tobacco

FROM the St Louis Post-Dispatch
The London Lancet is certainly the
leading living authority on tobacco smoke.
for number of years its spare space
ana time nave been devoted to studies
ana Investigations on the poisonousness
of tobacco to the smoker During this
prolonged research pretty nearly all the
toxic substances in the pharmacopeia
from prussic acid down have been found.
The smoker has been warned time and
again that he is daily subjecting himself
to an armamentarum of deadly poisons
beside which the lethal drugs of the Med
lei and Nine Tofani were mere milk and
water potions
NOW, on the heels of this extended
campaign of destruction comes a counter
blast In favor of Nicotlana Tabacum
Inc smoke is. In fact, powerful germi-
eide. of particular value In destroying
the bacilli of cholera. says the Lancet
1t has been noted in epldemies of this
disease that smokers and workers In to-
bacco factories are comparatively i'm
mune. Tests made in the laboratory
prove that tobacco smoke rapidly kills
the cholera microbe. Probably 1t is fatal
also to many other germs Its germ
icidal effects seem TO be due to pyridin
Cor pyridine)
Pyridin, a combination OF carbon, hy-
drogen and nitrogen. is a eolorless vol
atie liquid with sharp. acrid taste and
a peculiar odor somewhat similar to that
Of meat burned in a closed vessel II
Is poison resembling conine zone of the
alkaloids of the poison hemlock), but
less powerful than the latter. It Is Off
cial in the French pharmacopeia and. is
used incidentally in the treatment OF
bronchial asthma. From which, perhaps
it doesn't follow that tobacco smoke Is
good for asthma, but this conclusion Is
at least suggested.
1t is very comforting to learn that when
tobacco tastes like burned meat In a
closed vessel II is doing so much good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

|" HRIFT is a state wherein one is
prosperous, fortunate, increas-
\ ing in worldly possessions and
generally successful A spendthrift,
however, is one who succeeds in spend
ing and parting with what has come
TO him, either by his own endeavers or
through the interest that others have
had in him. The art of economizing
is unknown to the spendthrift. and the
word frugality is not in his lexicon.
TO another word he is a stranger, also,
that Is forethought. 1t never occurs
TO him that a day of disaster and trou-
bile may come into his life wherein he
shall wish that he had been provident.
l suppose the spendthrift will abide
cmong us as long as mems wants are
so excessively beyond their actual
needs, and as long as men permit other
people to decide how they should live.
and as long as people suffer society to
dictate the style in which they should
entertain and dress.
The provident man will think for him
|self in all these matters. He knows
|exactly what ne may spend and keep
|up a speaking acquaintance with his
bank account. If he cannot afford it,
|he will not buy an automobile simply
because some of his neighbors have
'chosen Ihat manner of transit He will
mot pefmit other people to decide where
he shiuld live. He will remain in the
|old ysighborhood where living is less
pefisive, rather than move into a
|mops stylish part of the city, If he
|cavnot afford 1t. Many of his old
|frJsnds have gone, and he feels that
|"tie old neighborhood is not what 1t
|oice was" but his friends are not to
|set the standard of his method of liv-
ling. He, and not they, knows the en-
tries In his bank book. He had better
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spendthrlfts of Rome to send away an
nually about s4000,000 for foreign orna-
ments. And this sum went to hostile
nations, who used 1t in strengthening
their arms against the Romans Pliny
says that he himself saw Lolita Paulina
dressed for a betrothal feast In a robe
that was covered with pearls and en-
eralds which had cost 10000, 900 sesterees
| have just consulted the Century die
tionary to ascertain the value of these
sesterces. l find that a single sestertius
was about equal to 25 golden ducati: a
gold ducat was equal to about $225
Now, multiply for yourself, my dear
madam, aud you will learn the cost Of
this spendthrift's dress-o l beg par
don 1t was not a dress, bless your soul
1t cost enough to be called a gown"
Spending money, after the empire sue
ceeded the old republic in Rome, was a
mania of almost universal infection. Ci-
cero looked upon 1t all and said The
world has not learned the wealth of
frugality." And, though you would not
expect such an observation from him.
even Ovid said, 'Crede mihi bene qui
latuit bene vixit, It intra Fortunam de-
bet quisque manere suam."
Apicius spent 100000; and finding that
he had only about $500 900 left, he hanged
himself in order to escape the poverty
that stared him in the face. The prec-
ious spendthrift, Elagabalus, spent a
fortune at a dinner Those who attend
ed sat down to feast of partridge eggs,
pheasant brains and thrush's tongues 1t
was his custom to have his peas
sprinkled with grains of gold, pearls
scattered in his rice, and costliest amber
was used to make his beans more palat-
able. At the funeral feast of his daugh-
ter Caesar provided 22.000 tables for his
guests and each table accommodated
three of his friends. At this feast a