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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24

.W1AsHINGToN. November %.
NN/ Especial )-President Wilson
" has nothing on Huerta when
it, comes to reading his message to
Congress. In fact the American exec
utive might get few pointers from
his Mexican contemporary. Huerta
calmly points out to the patriots des-
ignated by, the ''people"-the same be-
ing Huerta himself-to represent them
in the. Congress, that other distin-
guished gentlemen had occupied the
to peeve him by their unwillingness to
carry out his policies and now tehold'
their plight Some of them had depart-
ed to the unknown whence where they
would remain permanently and free
from worry concerning revolutions and
plots and the others were languishing
in the penitentiary. and owing to the
high cost of living it was great bur
den to the government to be compelled
to put too many congressman in the
penitentiary. Therefore, he sincerely,
trusted that the present Congress
would be open to reason. % 8
the total wreck that an irresponsible,
Senate seems inclined to make of his
currency bill. and the leisurely manncf
In which they proceed to not proceed
on that measure in spite OF his urgent
demands-there are moments---no
doubt that ne longs to be able to fol-
low the example of the noted Mexican
statesman, and put them in Jail. In
some respects we are compelled to ac-
knowledge that We have something to
learn from Mexico they've certainly
got 1t on us when 1t comes to dealing
IN frank and exceedingly abrupt
manner with their Congress.
We are not strong for Huerta, but
sometimes We believe that after all he
VIII come about as near ruling Mex
leo as any Mexican. A peacefully in
clined President of Mexico, of a mild
and gentle nature, would not last any
longer than 1t took to light the fuse
or the bomb some enterprising revolu-
ZIONIST would slip under him. Prest-
dents of Mexico do not, as a rule. lead
an easy life. In fact, a real live Pres
ldent in the republic is some curios-
lty. Odd man Diaz remained President
Tor several terms by being constantly
on the job and on every election day
seeing to 1t that the opposing candi-
dates were locked in the bastfle where
they could not monkey with the ballot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24

e New York Is now reveling in grand
opera. II used to be that no real big,
troupe was possible outside of the
Metropolitan opera house But now
there are others. BY the way, New
Orleans has excellent French opera
every season. and it is said that the
French troupe there now is better than
usual. A few years ago the New Or
leans French opera came to Birming-
ham and gave one performance. Would
1T not be possible for some of our mu-
steal enthusiasts to bring this seasons
company here this winter?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
An ideal husband usually belongs to
some Other woman.
girls idea of an affinity is the first
man who proposes.
And many a powerful piano mover IL
unable to carry a tune.
The chap with rowboat taste and a
steam yacht income Is rich.
Many man is SO impolite that he won't
bow to the inevitable.
The girl who, knows she has shapely
ankles thinks she has some figure.
When little man stands on his dignity
he feels tall as a two-story house.
The man who thinks that he KNOWS 1t
all never tires of trying to put others
wise.
During the honeymoon the husband is a
stimulant-but forever after a sedative.
A(tightwad husband is one who expects
his wife to save more out of her allow
ance than 1t amounts to.
If couple are walking along the sire
and she stops TO look in a shol. wind
while he keeps right OF, they are mi
ried.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24
POLITICAL GOSSIP

L j
Huntsville Mercury Banner: The plain
country man who said, after hearing
Hobson's speech, Il could think a blamed
sight more of Hobson IL he did not think
so much of himself" hit the nail squarey
on the head. If the young man was not
so chuck full of egotism he would have
lots more friends. But .he disgusts people
and drives them away from him.
Shelby County Review: That man best
deserves promotion whose past life has
been clean and whose endeavors have
been used for the betterment of all the
people. The man who can serve his peo-
pie for 10 years without one single mis-
step and who has untiringy fought for
the party veal deserves promotion at the
hands of the party. If>there is man
who has better met the requirements of
his people and his party, and who has
a cleaner record than Oscar w. Under
wood, then he Is an undiscovered guam
tity.
Then, again, after all the applause and
praise that has been heaped upon him, he
is the same pleasant, unassuming gentle
man he was when first elected member Of
Congress. Success and APPLAUSE has not
changed him. and while the press and
people have been saying nice things about
him he has remained at his post of duty
attending to the business he was elected
for.
Shelby County Review: When Hobson
beats Underwood for anything in this
state they will be holding skating car
nivals on his Internal majesty's brin-
stone lake.
Colbert County Reporter: Captain Hob
son sank the Merriniac. and Underwood
will sink Captain Hobson under an ocean
of ballots.
Scottsboro Citizen: Hobson, wonderful,
wonderful Hobson, how would this old
world wag without thee?
Macon Telegraph: Hobson says they
are spending 100000 in Alabama to beat
him. But Hobson always. did have an ex-
aggerated idea of his Importance,
Tuscumbla Alabaniap- Dispatch: Wilson.
Bryan and Underwood are all the same
on prohibition, and should be good
enough to satisfy the best prohibitionists.
We like people who have done something.
Underwood stayed on his job, and no good
citizen can fail to give him credit for do
ing something in Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24
Indebted to Bows, Corn Clubs

The entire state of Alabama should
feel indebted to the boys who have or
ganized corn club who have been max
ing phenomenal records in corn pro-
duction on small areas. On one acre
of land in Alabama 2s7 bushels of
corn were produced this year, and a
boy in Tallapoosa county, Walker Lee
Brunson, IA years of age, has just an
nounced this his one-acre crop was
232 bushels and 80 pounds. This
youth said that he first turned his
ground 10 or II inches deep. He
then double cut it with harrow. laid
off rows three feet apart, bedded with
a one-horse turner, then planted his
corn in the water-furrow. In order to
! get large results he fed" 10 sacks
of 1914 guano to the growing stalks
and one sack of 10 A top dressing
and 70 pounds of nitrate of sulphur.
This was intensive farming, of course; +;
but think of it, 232 bushelsl
The emulation in the boys corn
clubs within the past two years has
had fine effect on farming on a
large scale throughout Alabama. The
time was when the farmer thought he
was doing fairly well if he raised Is
or 20 bushels of corn to the acre, but
now that the boys have shown what
can be done by intelligent effort and
intensive methods the average of the
crop was much larger last yeal
than the year before, and it is
believed that the crop of this year
. will outstrip that of last. Alabama
has made probably a $4,000, 900
bushel crop. A few years ago the
crop amounted only to about 30,0O0,.
900 or 35,OOO,OOO bushels. In other
words, the corn production in Ala
hama has doubled, and the farmers
e just getting good start along
modern lines.
There is good reason to believe that
next years crop in this state will &c
above the 1O0,000,OOO mark. Many
farmers on large acreage now aver
BE go bushels to the acre, and some
Eerage better still. A hundred
shels to the acre was not uncom-
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fruit is shown, several hundred thou
sand dollars will be raised for its
maintenance and expansion.

When the supply ship Culgoa sails
for Vera Cruz from the New York navy
yard she will carry the first cargo of
foreign beef ever bought for the navy,
says the Philadelphia Public Ledger's
Washington correspondent. This is con-
sidered the first tangible result of
democratic tariff revision. While the
administration would prefer to patron
ize home products, the fact that for
eign meat was bought at a lower fig
urcf than the large American packers
would quote is taken as proof that the
democratic tariff is already reducing the
ccst Of living. The bureau of supplies
and accounts advertised two weeks ago
for 2S5,000 pounds of fresh beef. Five
Chicago firms offered bids, the lowest
being that of Sulzberger & Son, 11.9
cents pound. for Australian refrig-
Grated beef due on two steamships
coming into New York this week. This
figure was one cent below the lowest
bid for american beef The deliveries
are to be made at the New York navy
yard, where the carcasses VIII be
transhipped on the Culgoa direct from
the cold storage houses. Secretary Dan
ieis at first had many apprehensions
that there would be some failure in
quality In the Australian beef. Quar-
termaster officers of the army, who
have had experience with the Aus
tralian beef contracts in the Philip
pines, told him, the, beef in all probabil-
ity would prove to be up to the Amer
ican standard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24
As TO EGGS

From the Progressive Farmer.
We printed last week a note from State
Food and Drug Commissioners Brown Of
Tennessee, in which he stated that from
rs to 40 per cent Of the ss,0O0.0OO worth of
eggs annually produced in Tennessee are
lost because of improper methods of
handling. Along the same line is an item
in the Birmingham Age-Herald telling
of the poor quality of Alabama eggs, A
wholesale dealer is quoted as saying:
Just now eggs are worth more to the
farmer than they ever were. We pay 50
a case for them and If they are Alabama
eggs in nine cases out of 10 there are at
least four dozen in one case that cannot
be used The reason probably is that the
Ala bama farmers do not take sufficient
precautions or else do not market the
eggs within two or three days after they
are laid. But even that can hardly be
an excuse at this time of the year. Why,
an egg would hardly spoil if 1t were out
in the open in weather such as we have
had for the past three days. Yet the eggs
we receive are just as stale as were
those of the summer"
We are just waiting and waiting to
hear of the organization of the first CO.
operative egg marketing associations SO
much needed all over the south. They
could help make ana save every farmer
joining them many dollars a year, and an
organization could be effected in any
aggressive community. Why not join with
your neighbors, Mr.. Reader, to raise more
and better poultry, and to get more for 1t
by proper marketing? Or IL you are
still too unsociable for that, why not
handle your eggs so as to get them to
market in first class condition? You'll
get better price for them II you do
not for the first lot taken in. perhaps. but
surely just as soqni as you convince the
dealers that you1 eggs are always fresh
and clean and Uniform in size and color.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24

President Tafts trust busting did
not hurt the dividend side of Standard
OIL According to the New York Sun
the South Penn Oil company. a for
mer subsidiary of the Standard Oil
company, has declared an extra divi-
dendi of per cent in addition to It's
regular quarterly dividend of per
cent. So far this year former Standard
OIL subsidiaries have declared divi-
dends amounting to 116 per cent In
May, 1913, the capitalization of the
South Penn company was increased
from $4,000, 900, to s12,5OO.OOO and ST.
100000 of the new stock was distrib-
uted among the shareholders as 800
per cent stock dividend. the remainder
being offered to shareholders at par
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24
AN UNSELFISH HUSBAND

1t all. David Grayson would like to know
him.
He has pity for mankind, as they know
not how to live, for the good in life Pity
Tor the downtrodden and criminals, and
looks forward to the time when the old
world will be better through evolution
and education.
1t Is test of character-when one has
to watch money SO as to make every dol
iar count to best advantage-to remain
generous still and keep from becoming
stlngy. pardon me, for 1 know. (
have tried to stand shoulder to shoulder
with this man. and for me 1t was a fght,
to keep generously
I'VE both wanted to do great deeds.
big, wonderful things in this life, but ha We
learned to give ones SELF in the thou
sand and one little deeds of every day
that count for comfort and happiness to
others
For instance: Business takes this hus-
band of mine many miles away to a coun-
try where in the spring he can gather
large baskets of trailing arbutus. Wei
give this to the sick and aged We es-
pecially try to find people that knew and
loved this dainty blossom In their child
hood. Later the field daisies come, and
we use them; but. best of ALL for friends
and neighbors this man brings fresh eggs.
butter and fruit. No charge is made for|
time or trouble. but there is deep satis-
faction in being able to help others, event
ever so little.
Lately ! read of a man who said he|
had lived Is years of happy married life.
He instantly received an offer to appear
in vaudeville. So 1t is possible that famel
and fortune may yet be ours. What ami
most thankful for is expressed in my
first sentences: Twenty years of married.
life with an unselfsh man."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24
pouuIntion Of cities

~s "One of the most interesting fea-
lures of the New York World AL
manac is that which gives the sta
tistics of cities, including estimated
population" said Charles 0. Lowry of
Louisville.
louisville has been growing stead
lily ever since the war, but we did net
come out in the last census as well
as we had specialization. l believe.
In the table of estimated population
Louisville was set down in the last
World Almanac with p population of
255,00 This was quite moderate es-
Innate. I think We have a population
now OF fully 2s0,Oo0. We should have
$4,000 by 1920.
zone of the coming big cities of the
south is, I am told, Chattanooga. Il
appeared In the last census with a
population of only 1850. But the es-
innate given by the World Almanac
year ago was $4,000. Those figures
may be excessive, but Chattanooga is
ia strong manufacturing center anG
will doubtless be credited in tho next
federal census with upward of 100000
when I was in Birmingham seven
or eight years ago, the city was thriv
ing. But its growth since then has been
simply prodigious. Birmingham will
probably have population of close
onto 100000 in 1920"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
The Auditorium

Il do not know when the city COM
mission VIII be able to start work on
the auditorium building, but l hope 1t
will be early in the new year." said
P. G. Shook. chairman of the Chamber
of Commerce auditorium committee.
} Offers are standing for the audi
torium bond issue of 100000 at par
IL the ground is broken, say in jan
uary, the building might be ready for
use some time during the summer"
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to which theatrical men point when SEEK
ing basis of comparison for big busi
ness Henry b. Harris produced that plan
when he had "a bank balance of exactlI
$3.50. and from it he made a clear 81, 900 D0j
for himself and 100000 for Charles Klein.
Klein's royalties for one week reached
the high water mark of 5000, a record thai
never has been topped in the history OF
the theatre. This included his receipts
from five '1fon and the Mouse COM
panies and such of his other plays as
were returning profits the same season. !
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mon this year. But the boys clubs,
if they did not actually lead the way,
have done untold good in stimulat-
ing ambitious farmers. All this
means added wealth to the state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24
Florida Travel

The Florida travel from the west
and from the northwest Is now in fun
swing said J. P. Thomas, Jr., city
passenger and ticket agent of the
Southern railway.
Many Alabama people have already
gone to Florida, but the rush from this
section Will not be in evidence per-
maps until the next cold snap. Our road
is operating fine service and our
patrons are being well cared for"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24

If the locomotives of a certain railroad
are to be equipped with automobile horns,
as reported, 1t will be necessary to spray
the sleepers and dining cars with gasoline
wealthy patrons are concerned
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24
NEW JOB EoR JOHN.

From the Andalusia Star.
Brminghams new elephant is named
Fancy" Fancy, Fancy, I've been think
ing, what a great stunt 1t would be, If
John Henry Wallace, warden, could pa
ra de around with thee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24

The mayor of Atlantic City advises
everybody to quit eating eggs until the
price drops. If the average quick luncher
tried to follow that sort of advice he
would be sadly handicapped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24
THEY HAVE MADE MONEY


In the November American Magazine a
article in which he gives many interest
ing financial details of the theatrical busi-
ness. Following is an extract giving the
names of number of theatrical managers
who have made money out Of the busi-
ness:
James Forbes, among the younger
playM rights prefers to gamble with his
plays, retaining for himself an interest
in them as we'll as a hand in their man.
600 with The Chorus Lady, The Com
muters.' and The Travelling Salesman
He lost bit of 1t last year with "A
Rich Mans SOM but not much.
George Broadhurst is said to have
netted $4,000 With The Man of the
Hour and Arizona which was Thomas
firmest stepping stone to fortune, has
probably paid him $4,000. Margaret
Mayo. with flock of companies playing
Polly of the Circus. netted s15O,00O. No
one is just now prepared to say how much
Within the Law has made for the syn
dicate controlling 1t. In one year in New
York 1t probably has cleared 100000 for
its owners. and another 100000 for the
theatre (the Eltinge). in which it still is
playing. Next season it is to be play
by five or six companies, covering prac-
tiea.ly every established circuit Of theatres
in tie country. Unquestionably this play
will clean up' more effectively than did
either The Lion and the Mouse or
Madame Sherry the sensational winners
of the last decade.
"It usually Is The Lion and the Mouse
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24

New York man went to moving pic
ture show and saw his wife pictured in
another mans arms. Not believing in art
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24

TNHE American Magazine has been Of
,fering prizes for the best letters
= entitled What Am Most Thank
full For" The following contribution from
woman who is thankful for 20 years
spent with an unselflsh husband won
third prize. and appears with the other
prize winning letters in the November is
sue:
What I am most thankful for, unques-
tionably, is for 20 years of married life
with an Gnselfish man; a quiet. studious.
witty man that children and dogs love
and understand.
"A man that gave up his college career
his young brother chance.
"A ran who today supports his old
mother in her own home so that she can
sti'l feel ndependent-instead of in his
home, where the expense would be less
"A man who has honor and duty writ
ten in his soul. where they always remain
so that he does not need to carry "a
rabbits foot for luck
"A man who twice has had money that
represented years of saving swept away
in few weeks-swept away through a
supposed friend; but honor called for him
to stand to the guns, and he did not
finch.
1t is easy enough to be pleasant
When Life flows along like song,
But the man worth while is the one who
can smile
When4everything goes dead wrong
This man has worked much harder
than many men. He has not complained
has kept cheerful, brave, noble through
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24

An Ohio farmer has succeeded in rais-
ing an eight-pound turnip, and has been
duly decorated. The turnip is not an
aristocratic vegetable but has its uses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24

The gubernatorial race in Alabama mas
been overshadowed somewhat blythe SEN
atorial campaign but the gumshoe style
of politician won't object to that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24

The bridegroom of the next White House
wedding is not handsome young man,
but the chances are that he will hardly
be noticed anyhow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24
May Days in November

Sunday was more like May day than
November bleak and drear,' " said Percy
Clark, but let no one think that there
will not be AN even up by nature, for
twill surely come.
"By the way, 1t is remarkable what
long, dry, rainless spells we have had.
Business is much affected by it, in some
instances / know large undertakings
that are completely at a standstill for
the lack of water. In one instance. the
drilling of an oil well has been suspended
for months because of the lack of rain
falls to supply water for the engine boil
ers.
''I have been out hunting some, and
the dogs suffer for water Many small
springs and branches made by them are
dry in the territory where I've hunted
one season after another. -
Take 1t from me, there will be much
rain before Christmas, and as for Janu-
airy, February and March, lookout for
snow, rain and much ice. heavier than
for several years.
Verify, these past weeks have brought
a glorious Indian summer, but again,
say, lookout for Boreas and his side part
ner, Jack Frost from Christmas on"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24

A girl pigeon fancier who produced a
squab weighing two pounds is apt to
be referred to by slangy individuals as
some chicken" herself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24

Yes, Alabama is political state.
Can any other commonwealth in this
country outstrip it in the length and
intensity of election campaigns?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24

A reduction has been made in the tariff
on Bibles and stained glass. but the itin-
Grant evangelist shows no Indication ot
reducing his price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24

The G. O. p. is still lifeless, but
there be a few earnest ones who real.
ly hope to see it come to'1ife in time
for 1916.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24

Murphy says, The old place is there
STILL" Quite so, but trifle battered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-24

Whole as the marble, found as the
r9tk,
As broad and general as the casing air.
Macbeth.
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