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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
A BAD MAN IN LONDON

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A cowboy calling himself the Ia.
coma Kid has been arrested for shoot
ing up London. We fall to recall the
young mans title in the list of mov-
ing picture performers, but he must
be the real thing because he wore the
full alfalfa regalia and fired a gun out
of car window--to the amazement
and alarm OF several women and chill
dren.
or course there was no chance for
him to fling himself across a rough
neck cayuse and clatter down Pail Mall
to Windsor Forest. No. the bob-babies
got him and hailed him before a mag
istrate where he was convicted and
fined something like s27 in the coin of
Uncle Sans realm.
The episode recalls, the remark Of the
Goldfield bartender who was asked
what he would do II a so-cailed bad
man tried to hold up the establish
ment.
why" he replied with an elaborate
sheer, III such a worm crawled in here
we'd break him in two an scatter him
along tn roadway
From which II will be inferred that
the simon-pure bad man is thing OF
tho romantic past
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
At Last an Elephant for the Children's Zoo

without something like the Hamlet
Hamlet left Birmingham park for sometime
Many interesting there of looking
at them but the boys of Birmingham have ond for the day when
elephant would be added the collection Well elephant has been
purchased for the elephant quality is of the
best trained of the the Hagenbewalace
shows.
trained elephant has vau but The Ageerad,
which started the found this propious time
greatly attraction
terday in Tuscaloosa a
Speaking elephants fact that while the monarch of
the jungle has been known civilization from tme the word
elephant the Bible Ivory which has used from
scripture;
there elephants Palestine those the Old Testament
had doubtless these wonderful Shakespeare
only refers elephants his plain
probably in a show in London.
The ancens used elephants in The Cahagenans
first attacked the Romans employed herds of them
guard These Romans
soldiers had learned that the always savage
had been thought they less pany
pushed their elephants the front The ancient Queen Semam
impressed with afhtng elephants enemy
she had sham made and lined in mighty phalanx
Theodore Roosevelt great
and especially the wild
esng
Life History of the African Elephant"
elephant Roosevelt of growing
pdy we'll weight has become the most intelligent of the
voes with emotional intellectual sufficiently complex
to make him subject Of endless interest the observer To
acute mental elephants
since they have been hunted much they drink
the place. They often 20 miles water
they know spring stream close by They used to drink the day
me but they never drink at night All this change their
daily habits has about from well thought avoiding
with the elephants
Elephants neasighd but will do for the
much this line
sight is always distinguish chew of tobacco
feredh him. elephant the
arrived yesterday
had been long before it
grownup elephant
the little that had
And "Fancyo
feeat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
sKYscRApER OF THE FUTURE

from Popular MecnanlCS.
Skyscraper building is changing and
progressing so rapidly that the tall build
ings of today are evidently in a transit
tion stage. While skyscrapers not yet 80
years old are being torn down because
they are out of date and innovations are
appearing in each new building, prophe-
cies of the future city office structure.
characteristic OF American life, are COM
ing from engineers and architects. That
it will be community building is the
common belief-and that it will be large.
1t will cover half or all of q city block,
perhaps 10000 to 10000 square feet. Its
ground floor will be a network Of corri-
doris and arcades to accommodate shops.
and it will have subway and aerial, as
well. as street entrances.
But the change that is most conf
dently expected is greater lightnass and
economy of construction. This is to be
accomplished first by change in the steel
skeleton. The use OF harder steel-nickel.
chrome nickel. or vanadium steel-will re-
duce the weight of the skeleton and prob
ably its cost.
Added to this is the abandonment of
masonry. The modern skyscraper, it is
claimed, needs only a screen to protect
1t from weather, water and fire; heavy
masonry is useless. A sheathing of from
four to eight inches of vitrified clay or
concrete will suppiant the stone walls
and the resulting lightness of the steel
framework will reduce the weight OF the
building 80 per cent. Foundations will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
ALABAMA sENArORsHIP
From the Nashville Banner.

From the NaSnViiie banner.
Gov. Emmett o'Neal of Alabama an
nounced while In Birmingham Tuesday
that he will appoint another man to fill
the place in the United States Senate
made vacant by the death of the late
Senator Joseph F. Johnston.
II will be remembered that Governor
O'Neal appointed to this place Repre-
sentative Henry D. Clayton. whom Pres
ident Wilson persuaded to remain In the
House on the score that his services will
be needed in that body at the next ses-
sion Of Congress. He is the head Of an
important committee that will handle the
trust problem.
Governor O'Neal is reported as saying
that a legal opinion given by one of his
advisers convinced him more firmly than
ever that he hassthe right to make the
appointment, and that he IL entitled to
have the question formally passed upon
by the Senate.
The amendment providing for the pop
ular election of senators says:
This amendment shall not be go con-
strued as to affect the election or term
of any senator chosen before 1t becomes
valAi as part of the constitution.
Governor O'Nears contention is that
the amendment does not affect Senator
Johnston's term. which does not expire
until March I, 1915.
The amendment makes provision that
the legislature may empower the govern
or to make temporary appointments. The
Alabama legislature. not having been in
session since Senator Johnston's death,
Governor ONeal has not been given this
power, but he contends that tho amend
ment does not control In this case.
II the man WHOM the governor appoints
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
CURIOUS TO KNOW.

'.sir, 1 aspire to do great things"
said the promoter, with a grand and
lofty air.
"rhat being the case." murmured his
latest client. "why waste time on me''
thus be relieved and become cheaper. But
a new style of architecture must be
evolved, employing smooth. as well as
thin, outer walls, for joints in the vitri-
fed sheathing are as unnecessary to the
skyscraper as masonry.
The money that will be saved In the
economy of materials will be devoted to
interior improvements. The future sky
scraper will have q climate of it's own;
its heating, lighting and ventilating ma
chinery will keep 1t at a constant tenn
perature. And since the building itself
has become freproof, wooden fnishngs
and furniture will soon disappear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the Chicago News.
Secret of happiness--Pass it alo

From the Chicago News.
Secret of happiness--Pass it along.
Give some men an inch of rope and
they'll rope you in.
Blessed Is the man who doesn't give
offense. Also unusual.
Some married men make ideal com
panions-away from home.
A low grade man Judges his friends
by what they are willing to do for
him.
a bright man can learn almost as
much by doing as he does by being
done.
When a woman asks q man if he
loves her. she always knows the an
swer in advance.
On the other hand. a lawyer is mind
ing his own business when he prizes
into that of other people.
Occasionally we meet a woman wao
actually believes her husband knows
as much as he thinks he knows.
A married woman says the way tc
be happy with husband is to learn to
be happy without him most of the
time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
The Bears and the Honey

"Just look what we did to Everett
Colby in New Jersey" shouts the re-
publican at the progressive. "just
look what we did to Gussie Gardner in
Massachusetts" shrieks the progress
sive at the republican. This recurring
but not particularly illuminating col
.acquy which daily consums space in
the newspapers makes this news
story of especial interest right now:
Sheffield, PS--W. w. Williams. a
farmer, came across two big black bears
ighting over hollow tree trunk full
of honey in a clearing in a goods near
Sugar Run yesterday. The bears were
so busy tearing eac hother that they
failed 10 notice Mr.. Williams, who got
behind a big tree wher enc could watch
the battle.
The smaller Of the two got a hold on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
UNDERWOOD WILL WIN
From the washington Post.

FROM the washington Post.
1T is useless to prophesy what Oscar
Underwood's majority will be In the SEN
atorial race in Alabama. It is enough to
know that he ts sure winner" OBJ
served e. M. TutwiIer Of Birmingham,
president of the Tutwiler Coal and Coke
company, at the Raleigh. Representa-
tive Hobson has been campaigning in
the state for long time, until the peo-
pie are beginning to suggest in no un-
certain terms that he ought to give some
attention to his congressional duties.
Hobson is an attractive talker, and he
has made his campaign largely on the
prohibition issue. Underwood undoubtedly
will get many votes from prohibitionists
who know that the leader of the majority
hibitionist. is in sympathy with the cause
of temperance.
Some folk tell US that when man
goes to the Senate that Is as far as he
will get. We haven't that idea in Ala
bama. The election of Mr.. Underwood
to the Senate will give him promotion.
He has reached the highest position in
the House. and it is due him to give him
the next highest honor, which is a seat
in the Senate. But that is not where we
are going to stop. It may not be In 1916
but we are bent upon sending Oscar Un-
derwood to the White House. and I Tor
one am confident that he will land there.
That il the goal for which we in Ala
bama are working.
There is all kinds Of praise for the adj
ministration throughout the south, and,
while In Birmingham we have looked
favorably upon protection for the iron
and steel industry, we realize that Mr..
Underwood did his duty toward his party
in guiding through Congress bill which
carries ont the pledges Of the Baltimore
platform"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
Church Unity Movement

A meeting has been called for No
vember 10, in New York, of the advisory
committee on the proposed world con-
ference to consider church unity. That
committee is made up of representatives
of various communions. Robert II. Gard
iner of Gardiner, Me, secretary, writes:
among the matters to be considered
by the advisory committee are: ID. Dis
cussion as to the expenses of the fur
ther preparations for the conference; (O.
What preliminary steps might be taken
to carry into effect the following sug
gestion made at the Hotel Astor confer
ence: That in order that the world con-
ference may have a maximum value, the
questions there to be considered shall be
formulated in advance by committees of
competent men, representative Of various
schools of thought, these committees to
be appointed at as early a date as is
consistent with assurance that their truly
representative character cannot be sue
eessfully challenged.
"The orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem
has shown marked interest in the sub
ject of unity; and among those most re-
Gently heard from is Mar Geevargfese
Dionysius, metropolitan of the Ancient
Syrian church in India, who writes ex-
pressing a cordial interest In the sugges-
ton of the world conference"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09

the others back with his teeth. The bat
tie then ended suddenly, the larger bear
gasping twice and rolling over dead.
The victor, sorely wounded, fell on his
victim, dying in q few minutes.
Mr.. williams found both bears
smeared with honey they had drawn
from the tree trunk. He got team and
help, loaded the two bears onto his
wagon. and the ntoolx 400 pounds of fine
honeycomb from the hollow trunk.
The democratic party is playing
the part of Mr.. Williams with the
greatest equanimity. Let the progress
sives and the republicans continue in
the roles of the bears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09

TsHE Boys Zoo Elephant is finally a
reality.
Several years ago, when 1 was
younger. and before little Ned Braee-now
over years of age-saw the light of
day, and when Sam Clabaugh, editor of
the Tuscaloosa News. was a school boy
reporter on The Age-Herald, and Boze-
man Bulger was the Sports reporter. we
inaugurated a movement for a Boys Zoo
in Birmingham, and the boys of Birrnng-
ham raised fund with which to buy an
elephant They then elected Joe Salis as
treasurer and Webb W. Crawford. the
popular and expert banker, as trustee and
guardian of the fund. Something like
four hundred dollars was raised and de-
posted with Mr.. Crawford, who agreed
that his bank would pay per cent inter-
est on the money.
At that time several animals were do
mated. There were some foxes and some
wolves and an eagle, and unfortunately a
rattlesnake. Some pens were built by
Leslie Fulenwider who was the president
of the Birmingham Realty company, In
what is known as Magnolia park, adjoin-
ing the engine house about Five Points.
The animals had been there q week or
two and the elephant fund was growing,
when Mr.. Thomas II. Motion and others
interested in property thereabouts made
q vigorous protest to the mayor and al
dermen and the then street commissioner,
John McCartin, to remove the animals on
the ground that they were unsanitary and
dangerous. Neither the then mayor nor
any member of the board OF aldermen
nor Mr.. McCartin.s had the nerve or the
courage to oppose the boys in their
movement under the leadership of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Pleased With His Chances

4 am much pleased with the outlook
for my candidacy" said c. II. Greer.
editor of the Marion Standard, who is
seeking the position of Secretary of State.
Il have visited different sections of
Alabama, and everywhere my friends tell
me that | have an excellent chance of
being elected. 1 feel greatly encour-
aged. 1t seemssto me indeed that will
be a sure winner.
Alabama is enjoying great prosperity
at this time. Last year and the year
before witnessed high degree OF pros
perity in the agricultural sections, but
think the cotton farmers are making
a new high record now. The high price
OF cotton is - great thing for Alabama.
Looking back few years, anyone
who travels through the country can see
what strides Alabama has made. Every
body is now in favor of good roads, and
the time will soon come when the mud
road will be u thing of the past"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
Cutting Out Criminality

A Judge at Brenton Harbor, Mich,
sent two prisoners to doctor at
Evanston, H., to be operated upon
sargically with hope that their crin:-
inal tendencies might be removed. The
knife has been used, and the prison ers
are again back in Michigan.
Each declares that he no longer
feels called upon to go out and blow
safe or climb porch. eve are men
now," they declare. mo longer are we
obsessed with an uncomfortable desire
to get drunk and do something real
had. We are confident that our cure is
final and complete"
The judge put confidence in the
knife and the testimony of the pair
upon which it had been used. The two
prisoners were paroled. The judge
has great faith-and justifiable
faith-in the wonders of modern sur
gerry. He has sought to put it to a
supreme test. And if he has been the
instrument whereby two men crimi-
nally inclined have been relieved of
their delinquencies and afforded op-
portunities to become useful members
of society, has he . not done well :?
But
With paroles dangling before their
eyes, could those two prisoners have
been expected to say anything but
what thew did
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
Larce Building Operations

Birmingham has grown SO fast in
recent years that only those who are
here frequently can keep up with it,"
said w. F. Windham of Detroit.
when l was here four years ago,
Birmingham impressed me as a wide
awake city, but it seems to have ac-
complishes more since then than in all
the previous years put together, SO far
as the business district property is con-
cerned. l am told that the suburbs and
outlying sections have developed in a
handsome way, but l have only seen the
central part. The building operations
here are on large scale. / think Bir-
mingham is going to outstrip all
southern cities in population and in
wealth."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
Free Dispensary Canvass

THE movement for the University Free
dispensary has been finely organized, and
when we begin Tuesday to canvass for the
money-S125, 000-I anticipate a generous re-
sponse on the part OF our well-to-do
citizens said a member of the execu-
tive committee.
Fifteen years ago, when Birmingham
was much smaller than 1t is now and
when business men as a rule were far
from rich, no one thought of trying to
raise large amounts for philanthropy; but
within the past five or six years great
things have been done in a public spir-
tied way. About $4,000 was raised to
aid in building the $4,000 or $4,000 wing
to st. Vincent's hospital. A total of sev-
eral hundred thousand dollars was raised
for the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton and the Young Wbmen's Christian
association, and have no doubt what
ever that we will have the free dispen-
sary fund oVer-subscribed."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
NED BRACE TELLS HOW THE CHILDREN
HAVE SECURED THEIR VERY OWN ELEPHANT

The Age-Herald, we boys of The Age
Herald subscribed five hundred dollars
additional, and Mr.. Ford of the Street
Railway company duplicated our sub
scription. So we had fifteen hundred dol
lars; and having to pay two thousand
cash for the Elephant to the circus
people in Tuscaloosa yesterday we bor
rowed FIVE hundred more from the bank.
expecting real human people interested
in children's pleasures and a ehildren's
Zoo to voluntarily come up to the counter
OF The Age-Herald or the American Trust
bank and make it good
But whether or no, we've got the EIe-
phant.
How Fancy came up from Tuscaloosa
and when she will arrive at the Zoo is
told in another column
While 1 am not an Elephant expert,
I've had my mind on getting an Elephant
for the children of Birmingham for many
years, and do believe that we now have
the best dispositioned. the. best trained,
the most gentle and the most lady-like
Elephant in all the world. She likes
children. She will ride them on her back,
and she will eat all the peanuts they
will give her. She is not as big as Jumbo.
but she is something like eight feet tall,
weighs several tons and her keeper SAYS
she was better pleased in Birmingham
than in any other town she has visited.
Fancy having come to Birmingham to
take her place in the Zoo the boys and
girls of the Schools of Birmingham will
no doubt give the Elephant coming among
us royal welcome
That we finally have a good Elephant
for the children's Zoo is indeed a pleas
ure and qualification to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
Maud PaweIl,s Treat

MAUD Powell. the great violinist. win
give recital at the Orpheum theatre
November 30,' said ]. e. Shelby, presi-
dent of the Cable Shelby Burton Plano
company.
"As all music lovers know, she is one
of the greatest violinists in the world.
noon at the Jefferson theatre season
before last and delighted a great au-
dience. She is one of the American art
lists who is in great vogue in Europe
as. we'll as this country. So Far as l
know, no other violinist Of distinction
will be here this season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
ON THE WAY

BY W. T.. Henley.
Since those We love and those we hate,
With all things mean and all things great
Pass in desperate disarray
Over the hills and far away:
IT must be, dear. that, late or soon,
Out OF the ken of the watching moon,
We shall abscond with yesterday
Over the hills and far away:
What does II matter? As deem.
We shall but follow as brave a dream
AS ever smiled wanton May
Over the hills and far away.
We shall remember, ana, in pride
Fare forth, fulfilled and satisfied.
Into the land Of Eyer-and- Aye,
Over the hills and far away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
ADRlFT WITH THE TIMES
QUESTIONABLE PROCEDURE.

QUESTIONABLE PROCEDURE.
Some men show their generosity by
giving all their property to their wives"
THAT used to be form of gener-
osity, but nowadays an act like that is
apt to make people think the hus-
wife the onerous duty of paying an in
come tax"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09

From the Montgomery Advertiser
Captain Hobson says Mr.. Underwood
is not as strong now as he was two
weeks ago. The captain is mistaken,
but even if he were correct in his OBJ
servation, we think Mr.. Underwood
would still be strong enough to poll be-
tween 70 and so per cent of the demo-
cratic votes of the state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09

is no factor in the coming senatorial con-
test before the people. in which Repre-
sentative Underwood and Hobson are
rival candidates. 1t will have no special
political significance however 1t may be
decided. The question raised is one the
Senate will probably have to settle before
all the present senatorial terms expire,
and It had Just as well be settled now as
ever. 1t will be soon over when the ap-
pointee presents himself at the bar of
the Senate asking to be sworn in as a
member of that body
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
Interest In Good Music

Maurice Lee Fulcher of Chicago, gem
eral representative of Harry culbertson,
the well-known manager of musical art
lists, has been spending a few days in
Birmingham. He talks Interestingly OF
matters musical.
81 am decidedly encouraged to find in
telligent interest in high-class music in
this as in other parts of the country"
said Mr.. Fulehef. It am yet a young
man, but IN my day there has been won
derful progress i'll musical taste. There
is scarcely a town of 5000 population in
the United States now that does not have
the opportunity of hearing celebrated art
lists and chamber quartets Nearly every
large city has a symphony orchestra,
and when these orchestras go on tour
they usually play in the smaller cities
to large and discriminating audiences"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
HORSON,S REcOnn

From the Montgomery Advertiser
Captain Hobson cannot evade the un-
pleasant fact that he does not devote
much time to his congressional duties,
and that when he is in Washington he
Is not successful as a legislator His
friends cannot evade that fact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09

All know that a greed for notoriety
is one of the represenslble failings
of the times, but few suspected that q
congressman should so far forget dig
nifty and deeency as to arise in his seat
and protest against his colleagues CIV
ing a wedding present to a daughter
of a President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
PROGRESS.

All, yes, the Filipino
Has much improved his lot;
He's bought u speedy auto
And learned the turkey trot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09

An alarmist declares that we shah
all be wearing wooden shoes before
long. In that case father Will have
more reason than ever before to re-
stairs at G. NJ.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09

A minstrel show has been substi-
tuted Tor football as means of en-
tertainment for Ohio convicts. Crack
ing jokes is tanner sport than cracking
heads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09

Governor Foss of Massachusetts has
joined the melancholy ranks of people
who ponder on what might have
beenp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09

A ST. Louis man will inherit $4,000
If he stays on the water wagon two
years. It may seem to him high price
to pay, but he can constantly contem-
plate what a joyous bun $4,000 could
buy when he gets it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09

While those behind cry forward,
and those in front cry back" the
Washington administration seems to be
the Mexican situation fairly
well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09

A missionary says 100000 would
convert Turkey to Christianity. Money
is not going to make very many devout
Mussnlmans Christians, and persuasion
won't do it either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09

Let it be understood from the start
that Tammany has no intention of put
ting sign up on Tammany Hall that
reads. For Rent"