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Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-08
Who is Thirty?

Who is thirty? Where is thirty?
What is the mystery that somehow
surrounds this age? asks the Wash
ington Star.
Wanted, a woman under thirty !"
That is form of want ad often in
serted in the columns advertising for
cloak models, social secretaries or
general housework servant of the
type that are in search of a good
home and plenty of work rather than
lavish wages.
Napoleon, just before he married
Josephine-and he was twenty-six or
seven at that time-proposed to a
woman who acknowledged herself old
enough to be his mother. Therefore,
she must have ben nearer forty than
thirty.
"A woman's age doesn's interest
me-" said Napoleon, "if she doesn's
look over thirty"
"A woman is never dangerous un-
til she is thirty said sophisticated
Judge of the fair sex. He does not
exjlain just what he means. But many
woman of twenty-nine has stepped
gaily into thirty with his verdict in
view 1t was we'll worth losing an
other year of youth in order to see
what it felt like to be dangerous.
In the old days an unmarried wo-
man was called an old maid by the
time she was twenty-three or four.
Today thirty seems to be the boundary
between young womanhood and maid
hood.
The boundary of each decade is
marked with importance. The octo-
genarian is reversed. Three-score-
and-ten is mans tabled age. The child
longs to be ten years old and the
jumping off place. But thirty is
marked with even greater importance
than the others.
The age that vaguely marks off
spinsterhood, the age beyond which a
woman is dangerous, the age under
which a woman is still pliable and
adaptable enough to be modelled into
the shape designated in the want ads,
the age beyond which woman may
safely go if she takes her youthful
looks with her-that is thirty.
As a matter of fact, most women
are more attractive at thirty than
they ever have been before There is
certain type of beauty which de-
velops to the full when a woman is
eighteen or twenty and is faded al
most past recognition by the time she
IS thirty. But most women are i'm
proved in looks by years-up to GER
tain point.
Intellectually, surely, a woman is
far more interesting at thirty than at
twenty. Unless she has been over
worked or overbnrdened, her mind has
had a chance to develop and expand,
her point of view has had chance to
grow and become stable and her
philosophy of life, whatever it may be,
has had chance to formulate into
something tangible.
So, if you are nearing this interest
ing age, take the bull by the horns.
Rush gaily into the decade between
thirty and forty. Do not waste time
lamenting the fight of the years.
Remember that thirty is a more in
terestnig age than twenty, and that
Napoleon, the connoisseur, objected
not to the years-unless woman
looked them.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-08
Pioneer Dies

(By United Press Associations
San Luic Obispo, New. 8-John H.
Hollister, pioneer sheriff, county as
SCISSOR and state asembyman, fell dead
of heart disease last night at the Col
ONE ranch.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-08
Intense Cold

(By United Press Associations
Calumet, Mich, Nov. 8-This sec
tion is in the grip of intense cold. A
blizzard with seventy mile wind is
raging. Ten inches of snow fell be-
fore noon. Striking copper miners,
with their wives and children, paraded
this afternoon. Eighty miners were
arrested for picketing.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-08
Women To Practice in Federal Courts

San Francisco, Nov. 8-Miss Mar
guerite Ogden, daughter of Judge
Ogden of the superior court of Ala
media county, and her partner, Mrs.
Anette Adams, were admitted today to
practice law in the federal courts.
Only one other woman has ben ad-
mitted to federal practice in Califor-
MIA.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-08
Run for Championship

tny United P,cSs Assoc iations)
New York. Nov. S-Crack distance
runners of the east toe the mark this
afternoon at Van Cortlandt Park,
where the junior cross country cham
-pionship is to be run over the nation
al course.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-08
II BOthers Her

CBy United Press Associations)
New York, Nov. S-Miss Genevieve
Clark, the speakers daughter, admit
ted today that she is nonplussed in her
efforts to select the houses wedding
present for Miss Wilson She said
she will send photographs of silver
and other articles to Washington and
let the house itself decide
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-08
(By United Press Associations)
W. .A>s1k AYo.x lGCl...

(By United Press Associations)
Washington, Nov. 8-"Show Amer
lea your potent fighting FORCE" was
the message flashed throughout Mex
leo today to leaders of the rebels by
the Constitutionalist Junta. The rebel
agents here plan to demonstrate their
strength, believing if they show suf-
ficient the president will raise the
arms embargo, rather than choose in
tervention when the final break with
Huerta comes.
As a result, furious fighting in
various sections is expected before to-
morrow. 1t is believed the rebels will
move first on Chihuahua City. No
confirmation came today to the re-
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-08
CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
st. Paul's Episcopal Church

5th and Orange streets. Rev. VIM.
Cochran, rector. Sunday, II a. m,
morning service by Prof. C. P. Nee
of Calexico. Evening service at 7:30
p. m. by the rector. Sunday school at
$50 a. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-08
PRESBYTERIAN Church

DR.. Cook of Los Angeles, will hold
preaching services in the Presbyterian
church Sunday, November 9, both
morning and evening. Hours, II a. m.
and 1880 p, m. Cordial invitation to
all.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-08
We move pianos and houses Ed
Royce Transfer. Phone 123W.-Adv.
Change of Office

| have moved my office from the
First National Bank building and am
located temporarily at my residence,
SIC Brighton. Insurance of all kinds.
G. S. Helms, Phone 177.-Adv. 166
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-08

which is considered the greatest col
lection of objects relating to Napol
con and the French revolution in the
Urited States if not in the world, will
be put up at auction on November Z.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-08

song service and brief Gospel mes
sage. Special music at these services
A cordial invitation is extended Ia
strangers and all to attend. A. Z.
Baker, pastor
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-08

Making all due allowances for the
countless rumors that arise from time
to time of prospective trouble across
the border from this valley and which
prove to have no foundation in fact,
there appears now to be no doubt
that conditions are leading up to a
struggle between the Constitutional
lists and Federals for possession of
Mexacili, though it is not believed the
conflict is imminent.
1t is known definitely thattseveral
days since Rudolpho Gallego, well
known in Mexicali, left a point in the
deserts of Sonora with about eighty
men, and it is believed that his OBJ
jective point is Mexicah, though he
will hardly appear there unless he Sc
cures reinforcements, and he probably
win not make an important move un-
til he ascertains whether the United
States will permit him to import
arms.
That the federalists expect trouble
is shown by the arrival yesterday Of
20 more soldiers from Ensenada,
bringing the force there to 600 men,
and making rather formidable de-
fense of the town.
On this side of the line the United
States has troop Of cavalry, and
it looks as though there might soon
be need for them in actively patroll-
ing the border.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-08
(By United Press Associations

(By United Press Associations)
Mexico City, Nov. 8-The report
spreads that Huerta has summoned
his entire cabinet to meet tonight to
divulge his future plans. Another re-
port is that Huerta has engaged pas
sage on a steamer sailing for Europe
within few days
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-08

port that Huerta had resigned, al
though the report that his cabinet has
decreed his retirement is persisted in.
Washington, Nov. S-Under orders
from Rear Admiral Fletcher, COM
manding the squadron in the Gulf Of
Mexico, the battleship New Hamp-
shire is steaming to Vera Cruz from
Tampico. With her arrival eight
men-of war will be assembled off Vera
Cruz.
Officials here gave no reason for
sending the New Hampshire. Ad-
miral Fletcher gave the order with
out instructions from the navy de-
partment.
The gunboat Annapolis arrived to-
day at Santa Rosalia, Lower Califor-
MIA, where she is guarding, at the re-
quest of the French foreign office, a
band Of French colonists.
Berlin, Nov. S-The correspond
ent of the Frankfort Gazette in Mex
leo City telegraphs today that Gen.
eral Huerta may perhaps retire from
office as provisional president if the
great powers support the action
of the United States, "as by so do
ing he will avoid the appearance Of
yielding to American pressure alone"
The correspondent mentions plan
of the provisional president to recall
the Mexican minister from st. Peters
burg to assume the provisional presi-
dency.
The journey from Mexico City to
Vera Cruz recently undertaken by
the German minister, Paul Won
Hintze, was simply to reassure the
members of the German colony there,
according to the correspondent.
By United Press Associations
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-08
Force at Mexicali Gets
200 Reinforcements From
Ensenada; Rebels Coming

port that Huerta had resigned, al
though the report that his cabinet has
decreed his retirement is persisted in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03

zen and 81 on suburbanite Is IL strange
that this gross discrimination is arousing
deep-seated and bitter hostility
None of the foregoing is germane to
the proposition, but I wanted to get a
little of it out Of my system and think
that the public's attention should be
sharply drawn to it.
Even at the risk of again becoming the
target of distinguished afternoon paper.
which descended TO personal journalism
because | was the only man who dared
tell the truth about the late bond issue,
| will tell you the only way | see to
make revenue and expense balance, pro-
vided the people will stand it. and con-
ceding that 1t takes 100000 to run the
city:
The Plan Outlined
Under the state law, all property in
the state is presumed to be assessed at
60 per cent of its cash value. The present
law has been the unwrtten law for many
years, the strict letter being only used
as club for fees for tax commissioners.
Let the legislature pass a bill assess
ing property at its actual cash value this
automatically and arbitrarily adding 66 Pa
per cent to the aggregate assessment.
Accompanying this let a bill be passed
fixing the rate of state taxation at IS
cents instead of 65 cents
authorizing counties to assess rate OF
not more than 80 cents, or where special
taxes are levied at not more than 60 per
cent of the rate assessed i'm 1913
3fhis would keep county and state tax
alton where it is now, but would add
66 2-3 per cent to the personal and real
estate tax income Of all the cities The
governing bodies of the cities could re-
duce their rate if the public demanded it,
This plan alone would add 100000 to
the revenue of Birmingham every year.
An objection might be raised that the
people of the state would not consent to
increase the aggregate assessment But
eliminate the 60 per cent clause in the
revenue bill and the state tax commission
could arbitrarily add 66 2-s per cent to
every assessment In the state
Another chance for more money might
be found in the public utilities, always
bearing in mind that the consumer must
pay in the end, by making contracts for
a limited time for gas, electricity and
water, certain per cent of the receipts
to be covered into the city treasury for
the public use. AS / understand ii, there
is no contract for these necessities, ex-
cepting possibly gas Had l become q
candidate for commissioner, and been
elected, l would have submitted these
plans to the people of the city and be-
lieve that either or all of them could
be moulded into valuable policies.
From the reports of your committee
either increased taxation, or, politely
revenue. must be had or bankruptcy will
be faced, and since hope of amending
the constitution Is very much of dream,
the foregoing might prove of some benefit
to you in your labors Very truly yours,
IN. II. MCDOWELL"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
Conner WILL PUT IN
BUSY WEEK ON The
HUST|NGS IN STATE
Says He Will Reply to Gov
O'Neal's Statement at
C0lumbiana Tomorrow.
Returns Home Sunday

In his usual manner former Gov. B. B..
Conner will call to task Governor O'Neal
tomorrow in his speech at Columbiana.
The governor issued last Monday a
statement answering criticism made of
the administration by the former governor
In the late battle at Gaines Chapel. In
that speech Governor Conner read from a
report of the secretary of the state and
of a special senate committee facts as to
the financial condition of the state treas
ury when Governor ONeal went into Of
flee. Governor ONeal took issue sharply
with some of the former governors state
ments.
AT hisresidence last night Governor Co
mer was questioned about the statement
of Governor O'Neal. He said that he
would reply to the governor in his speech
tomorrow at Columbiana, which has been
scheduled for some days. Governor
Conner was not inclined to say last night
what he would say about Governor O'Eeal
at the meeting tomorrow.
Governor Conner will perhaps go to
Columbiana in his automobile. although
nc Is undecided about that yet. He will
speak at Brent Wednesday at the meet
ing to be ended by all candidates for gov
erhor' and VIII rest at Centreville Thurs
day. Friday he will spend in Tuscaloosa
Where he Will probably discuss with Wal
ter ID. Seed, candidate for governor, some
or the issues of the campaign. There is
salu TO be some uncertainty about that
propositlon yet. Saturday will be spent
by Governor Conner in meeting the voters
at Bladen Springs and Martensville in
tuscaloosa county. He returns home next
Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
WALMORE MINES
MAKE FINE RECORD
FOR Develop
Walter MOOre's Work in
Building Up Coal Co.'S
Properties
HEALTH EXCELLENT
IN VARIOUS CAMPS
First Coal Shipped From Walmore on
December /, 1918, and Demand
Has Been Ahead of Supply
Since That Time

Walmore Mines, August 2.-(Speeial)-
Though not old in years, his looks only
tinted with a touch of gray, Walter
Moore may fairly be counted among the
pioneers of this industrial district. Nearly
a third of a century has gone by since his
observant eye and engineering skill first
penetrated the undeveloped and dormant
hills and valleys Of hereabouts yet he
looks ahead today, ard with elastic step
arc active mind, and determined force,
he is still developing.
''EIdorado" is a fit name Of the coal
mining company headed by Walter Moore.
The golden lard of imagination of Span
ish explorers was unlike this field OF
black diamonds" in that here imagina-
ton is transformed 10 reality. More in
strumental than ina gination was soientl-
ficallv demonstrated certainty that made
success of this coal company.
Construction of Praco Branch
One of the many wise steps of the
management of the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad was the construction of its
Praco branch. That line touched as If by
magic a section rich in coal deposits,
which had lain there dormant for CEN
turies until the iron house of civliza-
ton, enlightenment and general develop
ment aroused it from as sleep. Mines
galore lave been opened in the section
penetrated; among them Walmore mines,
Nos ] and ,. operated by this Eldorado
Coal company. Walter MOORE c. S. Sim
mons and associates are among those who
r. responded to the invitation for develop
ment extended by the Louisville and
Nashville railroad and quickly acquired
two land sections of that rough, rugged
and yet picturesque wilderness so richly
endowed with Pratt coal. They dug deep
and found wealth. Then they procured
the construction of an extension of the
Praco branch to make possible the de-
Velofment now in evidence.
First Coal in 1912
eWalmore mines shipped the first car Of
coal I'ecember |, 1912 and without ces-
iation of day. have since that date
been shipping steam coal to the markets
of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and
Louisiana-a product that is SO satisfac-
tory to the consumers as to cause demand
for it always ahead of supply.
The direct management of No mine
is under Superintendent T. ]. Payne,
and no . under Superintendtne G. J.
Grant. The slSllful and consistent treat
mcnt accorded the force of 100 mon at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
THREE VACANCIES
ON LIBRARY BOARD

Commissioner James Weatherly is hay
ing some trouble In shaping up the libray
board. There are now three vacancies and
one or two of the original appointees are
out of the city and have not been heari
from. Mrs Alex London Is the last of
the original appointees to decline to serve,
having submitted her resignation yester-
day.
The board. as the acceptances have
come in, now stands with the following
members: Dr. T. D. Parke, Mrs. r. Du-
Pont Thompson, Professor Smith of the
Martin school, ID. NJ Lewis, Miss Lily
Lykes and Mrs. J. NJ. Hankins. 1t is to
consist of nine members.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
LIES BESIr Track
FOR HOUR #I14H'S
RIGHT ARR SEVERED
Charles John Of Knox.
vile Run 8sWn By
Southef Near
Trio

Decatur, August specia. s-httIaa
Johnston of Knoxville, wniie walking -
Memphis. was run down by a Southern
train last night at 10 o'clock near Trim
ity, and was found today by a train crew,
who brought him to Decatur. His right
arm was cut off clean at the shoulder,
and the fact that he did not bleed TO death
is regarded remarkable. The shock seemed
to haves paralyzed his legs, and he could
not walk and he was forced to lie by the
railroad track for number of hours until
found by a train crew.
Pete Henson was shot <his afternoon at
Belle Nina, four miles north of here,
by man named Hawkes., who escaped.
One OF Henson's lower jaws was shot
off. He was brought to Decatur in an
ambulance, and is in a local hospital.
What the trouble was about cannot be
learned at this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
TO MEET WEDNESDAY
WIZ DISCUSS Arrangements for Mer.
chants Convention

The special committee Of the Chamber
OF commerce that has arrangements for
the North Alabama Retail Merchants
convention in charge report that all the
Birmingham jobbers are willing to Coop
crate with the committee In making the
convention a success. A meeting of the
committee has been called for Wedncs-
gay next at IL o'clock. when all the de-
tails and plans of the conventions will be
fulIy discussed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
MCDOWELL OFFERS
PLAN TO INCREASE
REVENUE OF CITY

CONTINUED from Page Five)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
JUDGE VERT HOLDS
INJUNCTION VALID
Express Co. Will Carry Case
to Supreme Court
ZIMMERMAN KILLED
A. G. Widner Badly Hurt by Falling
Timber at Ship Yards-Rev. II.
T. Walden of Eutaw in
New Decatur

Decatur, August Especial Judge
Thomas W. Vert has Just held that the
injunction against the Southern Ex-
press company here is good. The case
will now go to the supreme court for
final hearing.
The injunction restrains the South
ern Express company from delivering
intoxicants to any one. Under the de-
eision of Judge Vert the injunction
will hold good until the supreme court
can pass on it, at least.
While cutting timber for the II. H.
Hit Lumber company at Morgan's
landing yesterday tree fell on r.
Haggard, injuring him seriously inter-
na1ly He was brought to Decatur,
where he died of his injuries today He
leaves a wife and several children
A. G. Widner was badly injured to-
day while working at the New Deca-
tur ship yards by a large piece of
timber falling on him,
The Rev. Harry T. Walden. rector of
ST. Stephens Episcopal church at Eu-
taw, is here on a visit to his parents,
Capt. and Mrs. Dan Walden, in West
New Decatur. Mr.. Walden says that
his church was destroyed by fire last
February. This was one of the most
historical church edifices in the state.
A new brick church is now being built
on the site of the old building.
On the orders of the court 120 bot
ties of beer, which We're captured few
days ago by Sheriff r. n McCullocn,
were turned over to the owner. Mai.
w. II. Long, Jr.. yesterday. 1t was
shown that the beer was for private
use.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
SLIGHT RIPPIES IN
SENATORIAL FIGHT
H0bsOn After Veterans and
Rural Mail Carriers
RESPONSE IS COLD
Campaign Within Few Days Is Ex-
pected to Settle Down Again to
State of the Utmost
Placidity
Nv HUGH W. ROBERTS

The senatorial campaign Is live again.
Congressman Richmond Pearson Hob
son has made two unusual movements
and as a result, Alabamians are again
considering the fight which that repre-
sentative is waging against Senator John
ston.
The first of Hotson's moves was the
preparation of bill providing rlae the
federal government supplement the PEN
sions of southern soldiers by contrhat-
ing an amount equal TO that which they
receive from the state governments at
the present time He has sent copy Of
the bill to local camps OF Confederate
veterans asking them to indorse his ae-
tivity.
Carriers Not Perturbed
His second move was to issue a state
ment to the press and write letters to
rural free delivery carriers to the effect
that insidlous methods were being en-
ployed to make them (the carriers) vote
for his opponent. He refers to Senator
Johnston by indirection using the noun,
politician
There is no question but that the cam
paign will return to its erstwhile state
of inactivity before the passage of many
more days. Officials of the carriers
union have testified in formal cards
through The Age-Herald that no such
methods as Hobson describes have been
attempted, and that the carriers union is
not engaged in politics. The charge, in
cidentally did not cause any remark
able demonstration of statewide indigna-
ton Senator Johnston, as was expected.
ignored the charge.
Veterans Very Calm
The old soldiers, who have inAprsed
the candidacy Of Senator Johnston, are,
from indications, not preparing to rush
to tho Iobson standard because he has
prepared a bill TO supplement their pen
sions. Yesterday afternoon, as told in
another column Of today's Age-Herald, a
local camp considered the bill, and al
though final action was postponed there
seems TO be no question but that it will
never receive the Endorsement which Hob
son requested
One Of the cid veterans-and he was a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03

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hogs its forcible citizens. To be plain,
the city on more than half of it's citizens
living in the suburbs, scattered over As
square miles of territory, spends $4,000
more than 1t receives, and on less than
half its citizens congested within FIVE
square miles. it spends ss43,0O0 more than
it receives, or s4 on a Birmingham citi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
Gnthrie rriyes in Tokin

Toxic August 2.--The new American
ambassador to Japan. George W. Guth-
rie of Pittsburg, arrived here today
He was met at Yokohama by a COM
mittee of the American -Asiatic asso-
citation who escorted him to Toxic.
D~~~~~-~-~~---e~>~-~--
gallant soldier under Lee and Jackson
in the office of The Age-Herald yester-
day afternoon, stated that as far as he
knew, no single member of his camp
favored the bill.
The Argument Used
I'VE know. in the first place. he said,
that the federal government will never,
never, never pension Confederate soldiers
In the second place. we know that it
would be beneath our dignity to ask the
federal government. against which we
leveled our guns so years ago, to gi<e
us money for what we did and attempted
to do. In the third place, we know that
the democratic party. even If it would
for the sake Of sentiment. vote us a PEN
sion, could rot afford to do so from
the standpoint OF sxpediency. And in the
fourth place. we know that 1t would
not be right for the federal government TO
give us pensions"
The old gentleman desired that his
name be withheld as he did not desire it
to be thought that his camp was in poll
tics. He made it very plain, however,
that in his opinion the bill of Hobson was
full of politics.
1t is, therefore. very evident that the
senatorial campaign before the ink is
dry" will have resumed the "even tenor
of it's way"