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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
NEW EDITOR TAKES CHARGE

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Major Screws is gone-I have been
named as editor of the Advertiser, but
the vacancy has not been filled. The
work he did must go on even though
those who. take it up feel that Ulysses
has gone and there is none In Ithaca
able to bend his bow.
He could not transfuse, when he laid
his hands upon his younger associate,
his ability and his power, but he could
infuse in him purpose and spirit. This
| bring to the responsible task, now
placed upon me; to make the Adver-
tiser's editorial page as near as I can,
the page he would have it. For IL years
we were in the closest and most in
innate relation to sit by his side
through these latter years. and to fol-
low him in thought, purpose and ideals
was rare privilege. 1t has strength
ened my confidence to do the work that
he has been doing.
To those who year after year have
been reading the Advertiser, many of
whom began to read 1t before 1 was
born, 1 approach with diffidence in a
new capacity, but to assure them the
general policies of the Advertiser will
be continued so far as it is in me to do
it. The editorial work which L have
done day after day. under the direction
of Major Screws, for all these years.
has been my equipment for the new
place. 1 hardly know anything of edi-
torial work, except what he taught;
could hardly do any editorial work ex-
cept as he would have 1t done
The Advertiser Will be in the future
as it has been in the past. devoted to
the welfare of Alabama and its people
was born an Alabamian and have
never lived out of the bounds of the
state; 1t has always seemed to me
that the Advertiser was filing its true
office when it was best serving the
interests of the people of Alabama.
This now is my conviction, when facing
the new responsibilities.
The associate editor of the Adver-
tiser will be Mr. Grover c. Hall, in
whose ability and character after three
years intimate relationship, the late
editor of the Advertiser had the high
est confidence. OF him Major Screws
once said, earnestly: He was born
poor, but the Lord compensated him in
advance for his poverty when he fur
nished his head" Though done under
the anonymity of an editorial writer
the work of Mr.. Hall has already re-
ceiyed the honorable recognition which
it merits.
We Will do the best we can.
WILLIAM I. SHEEHAN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
New York's Scandal

William Sulzer may seek sanctuary
behind his wife's skirts, but he will
not find it. A plea that "the woman
did it" is no more an answer to the
charges brought against him than
were his former replies that "Charles
F. Murphy is a crook" A technical
bubble that anything wrong he may
have done was done before he took Of
flee will not suffice. The people of his
state and of the country demand that
he make an open defense. Heretofore
sympathy has been with him. 1t is yet
possible that he can rehabilitate him
self in the opinion of his former ad-
mirers.
Sulzer went into office by an enor-
nous plurality. He had been in Con-
gress a decade, representing New
York district and always processing
independence of Tammany, although
ever profiting by its support. In the
House he posed as the one true, 49,
carat, chemically clean friend of the
masses. He delighted to be told that
he resembled Henry Clay intellectu-
ally and physically, and longed to be
regarded as a popular idol. 1t now
would seem that this idol had feet of
clay, but not the head of Henry.
So far Sulzer has failed to meet
squarely the allegations that he .ap-
propriated to his personal use sums
given him to assist in his campaign
for election as governor of New York.
He has preferred to back and fill, dart
and dodge. His circuitous course has
served to ALLEVIATE support.
At the eleventh hour comes Mrs.
Sulzer with statement that she took
money intended for her husbands S
campaign fund and speculated in
Wall street. Just how she managed
to do this without her husbands S
knowledge and consent has not been
made plain, and the point is especially
an important one, as the funds came
in in the form of checks.
1t must not now be said that Sui
ger is guilty, however. The public
should bear in mind that his trial is
still to come. From the beginning he
has been in disadvantageous posi-
ton, owing to the strength of his op-
ponents in the legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
A RICH MANS srnRx

Kate Upson Clark in Leslie's.
very rich man, now dead related this
story not long ago to a friend:
You know that any body who has u
reputation for having a kind heart and
some money has a great many requests
for help of various kinds, and | think
that | am even more pestered in this way
than most others are. At any rate have
SO many begging letters that years ago
forbade my secretary to show any to me
unless they should happen to be of a very
uncommon nature.
'One day he appeared with a letter in
his hand which he said he thought ought
to see. He knows that / have a sense
of humor, and that could get a good
laugh from this epstle, even if nothing
more should come of 1t. The letter was
from a girl who said that she was 16
years old and was attending a very fine
and expensive school. Her parents, she
said, were not rich, but they wanted her
to have a good education and were strain
ms every nerve to give it to her. She
said that her mother and she made her
dresses, often sitting up far into the night
to do it, but there was one thing which
she wanted very, very much, and which
they could not afford to get for her. Every
other girl in the school but herself had a
silk petticoat. And, oh, dear Mr.. Blank,
she said, they do rustic so beautiful when
the girls go across the room, while | do
not rustic at all, and you don't know
how poor 1t makes me seem, and dread
fully conspicuous. They tell me that you
are very good, and that you are sorry
for people in trouble. Now don't you see
what terrible trouble I am having? oh,
II you would only send me the money to
buy silk petticoat, you don't know how
happy | should be-
well, 1 felt that should be less than
human If should refuse a prayer like
t4,at. so / sent her $40 and told her to
go and get herself a nice silk petticoat.
You should have seen the ecstatic letter
that l received a few days later. She had
gene out at once and had bought herself
a perfect beauty. and now she was the
happiest girl in the world. She had worn
her new acquisition to school, and now,
she said, i rustic with the restr"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
HIS TROUBLE

From the New York Globe.
Robinson, passenger to London on a
fast train from Manchester, was fasci-
mated by the demeanor of the man sit
ting facing him. Never movement
did he make; hour after hour he sat
there motionless while the train roared
along the metals, his elbows pressed
tightly to his sides, his hands stretched
out in front of him.
Poor fellow! He must be paralyzed,'
thought Robinson. And, on the strength
of this, being a sympathetic fellow, he
was only too glad, as the train neared
London, to accede to the strangers re-
quest that he should take his hat from
the rack and place 1t on his head
A minute later the collector came for
tickets. Again Robinson's services
were requested, this time to remove
the strangers ticket from his pocket
Robinson did So but restrain his curl
orsity longer he could not.
How did you become paralyzed?' he
asked, in his most gentle voice.
"Paralyzed," gasped the stranger.
"Im not paralyzed My wife sent me
up to town II fetch a piece of glass
and"-motioning to his hands-"this Is
the width"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
Hay FEvEB
RURALES OF MEXICO

carries all his own equipment and ra-
tions; no commissary wagons hinder their
movements; they scorn field hospitals. In
10 minutes a corps of rurales can be on
the march equipped with everything ex-
eept reserve ammunition, for a years
campaign.
Rurales never marry. That is another
unwritten law. Mexican regular soldiers
take their women and children wherever
they go, even on campaigns; but the
mounted policeman "kisses and rides
away like rurale, as a Mexican proverb
runs.
In military drill the rurales are not ex-
pert Usually they are trained in all that
is necessary for them to know before they
enlist. Most of the recruits come from the
hard riding, sharpshooting vaqueros of
the cattle ranges. They are skilled horse-
men before they are rurales. They are
marksmen with rifle and revolver both
afoot and from the saddle. They are
trained to hacking paths through the
mesquite and chaparal with long bladed
machetes, which training enables them TO
become proficient with the saber quickly.
few days suffices to teach a man the
simple rifle drill and mounted evolutions
they use. Then he is a rurale
In charge against infantry or artillery
the rurales probably would prove very in
efectual. 1t is doubtful If they could
clash profitably with other seasoned cav
alrymen; but in raiding. harassing and
cutting lines of communication they would
be extremely troublesome
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
Open Air Music

1 have been interested in some of the
comments my friends have made about
capitol park programmes" said a club
man. "A few have protested that the pro-
srammes were too classical They have
said that the people wanted very light
music and have suggested that the lighter
the music the better
That sort of talk would have been ex-
pected perhaps 25 years ago. but 1t is cer-
tainly out of order now. Birmingham has
come to be a large city and public taste
here has improved as it has in other
cities. What would have suited the
masses % or 80 years ago does not appeal
to them much today.
Memphis and Nashville have fine open
air concerts during the summer. In each
city large concert hand is maintained
and the programmes In those cities con-
tain high class music. They are not only
as pretentious as Memoirs, but more so.
Memoli plays much high class music but
he also plays a good deal of very light
music | am told that in Memphis scarce
ly anything below standard music is hes~d
in the park And certainly Memphis has
no claim to be distinctly a musical city
The fact IS that the people by constant
hearing come to appreciate the best 1t
is the same with music as with litera-
ture"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
Uniform State Laws

Among the many conventions
which have been and will be held this
year there is none that promises to
be attended with better results than
that of the American Bar association
which meets in Montreal on Septem-
ber /. Not only will it be important
on account of the personages who are
expected to attend and speak, but also
on account of the subjects which will
be considered and discussed.
The American Bar association will
number among its guests Viscount
Haldane, who at present holds the
distinguished office of lord chancellor
of England, one of the most, if not
the most, learned jurist in Great
Britain today. Chief Justice White of
the United States supreme court;
Monsieur Labori, a celebrated French
lawyer, and ex-President w. H. Taft
will be among those whose addresses
are certain to make an impression
long to be felt and remembered by
all who come within the scope of their
application.
The need of uniformity among the
states with regard to certain laws is
becoming an absolute necessity SO as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
The Pay of Ambassadors

James w. Gerard, new United
States ambassador to Germany, has
reached the scene of action and called
in the reporters. Justice Gerard has
ideas and canny perception of how
to get them into print. There'll be no
Jeffersonian simplicity about the
American embassy in Berlin while he
is on the job, he says. He's there to
please the Kaiser, and the Kaiser
isn't pleased by wool hats and grape
juice.
In the first place, the present en-
bassy doesn't suit the new boss. He's
got to find a house in keeping with
Americas pretentions as first class
power, he says, and to do so he finds
it necessary to dip Cor dive, as the
ambassador expresses it) into his own
pockets and pay for it. "Yes," he an
nounces, 81 shall even wear the diplo-
matte uniform. It's rule of the court,
and I'm not going to commence by
offending the prejudices of the people
l am sent to, although architectural
ly my legs are not built for knee
breeches and silk stockings. 1t is all
very well to talk about democracy at
home, but we can't impose our views
upon people who do not understand
them To try to do so simply belittles
our country and makes ourselves
ridiculous"
Just why it should please the Kai-
ser to gaze upon the gnarled and
knotted underpinning of the repre-
sentatives of other nations, Justice
Gerard does not attempt to say. 1t is
condition, not theory, that he con-
fronts.
And as to expenses, Justice Gerard
rejoices that he does not have to de-
pend upon the inadequate remunera-
tion provided for diplomats by the
laws of the United States. "Poor
man for ambassador he inquiries
disdainfully. Rubbish. Not so long
as present conditions continue. One
American ambassador told me that he
had spent $128,000 in less than the
year he had been at his post"
1t is not certain that these condi-
tions will long continue, however Am
bassador Gerard is preparing bill,
he says, that he will have introduced
lin Congress as a remedial measure.
The bill will provide that Americans
over 18 years Of age when they 60
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Colleges m. .Fnrmcrs

Last year was one of prosperity with
t4le colleges of Alabama said an edu-
Gator and the scholastic year of l913-l4
promises to be even better. The farmers
Oh Alabama are blessed with good crops
tels year. and when the farmers are well
TO DO the colleges get the benefit OF
course large percentage of the students
come from the cities. but more and more
country boys are found in the student
bodies.
1t used to be that only boys intended
Tor professional life were sent to college,
but now every bright boy who is capable
or taking an education makes an effort
to spend two or three. if not four, years
IN one of the higher institutions of learn
ing. No man can apply education to prac-
teal work to better advantage, perhaps,
than the farmer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15

Ed A. Goewey, in Leslie's.
"A funny case of interest to the fans at
lerge was decided Recently out in the mid
ole west. According to, the story, the
Terre Haute club of the Central league
protested game played late in June in
Fort Wayne with the local team, because
a Great Dane dog chased Manager An
derson as he was attempting to field a
ball, and, forced him to climb fence.
Fort Wayne won the contest, and though
the members of that ball club protested
that the canine was not on their payroll,
the protest was filed. After due delibera-
tion President Helbroner of the Central
lea que turned down the protest, ruling
that the dog did not cause the loss of the
game. II it were sure thing that this
decision would hold throughout the coun-
try 1T might furnish a new line of en-
deavor for some of our foxy, little man
ayers in the major leagues. Large, husky,
able-bodied dogs might be trained, upon
signal, to give chase to visiting players
attempting to recover the ball after long
hits and force them to seek safety in the
bleachers or over the centre field fences.
The animals could be taken upon the
fields under the plea that they were mas
cots and kept on the players benches
until such times as 1t was decided neces-
sary to call upon them for service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
TELEPHONE
Bell (private exchange connecting AL
departments), No. 1900.
A very little theft of occasion will
rob you of great deal of patience.
-COriolanus.
Death of Herr Bebel

August Ferdinand Bebel, Germanys
great socialist leader, is dead in
Zurich at the age of 79. His political
followers mourn the passing of a zeal
Gus chieftain; his political enemies
pay thribute to man pure in heart.
Herr Bebel had been a member of
the imperial Parliament almost con-
He had seen the socialist representa-
ton there grow from almost nothing
to the most powerful group in the
Reichstag. The membership of the
Reichstag is 397. The social democrats
lead with 10, and next come the
clericals with SO. A dozen parties and
factions make up the rest.
Though earnest in his advocacy of
peace and an ardent foe of militarism,
Herr Bebel and his fellow socialists
have voted in favor of Emperor Will
liam's ambitious plans for army and
navy increase. Herr Bebel explained
his vote by declaring that only by so
doing would it be possible to build up
a liberal majority.
Herr Bebel, essentially a visionary,
ever dreaming of the coming of
Utopian ideals, could play practical
politics with a skill most disconcerting
to his opponents. He recognized that
the world is not now ready to adopt
the theories in which he so devoutly
believed, and he set about to make the
best of conditions as he found them.
, Once he was sentenced to two years
Imprisonment ON a charge of high
treason, and another time to nine
months for lese majestic. But he lived
to win the esteem of the most radical
upholders of the privileges of mon
archy, and the Lokal Anzeiger pays
him this tribute: "He was an un-
selfish champion of political ideas,
and sought to further to the best of
his powers the welfare of the work
ers. His name will have permanent
place in the history of the German
empire"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
Doing things for effect Is seldom ef-
fective.
Most of us admire fool as long as
he has money.
If you would get up in the world get
down to business.
Marriage is a union that is .respon-
sible for lot of strikes.
Success at poker depends on the way
man Is raised
When man hangs on a woman's
words they are not married.
Much reading will not make full
man as quickly as much feeding.
Happy is the wife who believes that
her husband tells her all he knows.
There was once a married man whose
wife's folks didn't try to work him
through her. She had no folks.
What Is so rare as a day in June?'
asks the poet. We don't know--unless
it is praise for man who has been
dead a year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15

better Considerable new INJURY ap-
peared during the week for forward
shipment, although most Of the buying
Is for spot movement. In spite OF the
continued blowing out of furnaces, the
surplus of coke is not apparent Prices
are stronger and in the Connellsville
field some producers have withdrawn
temporarily from the market
THE labor situation at mines and
ovens is most trying. and lack of ef-
flcient labor is one of the problems with
which the producers are contending
more strongly now than for many
months. A decrease in production and
shipment is reported for the week. In
the Virginia fields the situation is but
a reflection of the Connellsville dis
trict"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
TRAVELLING BY sTAGEcoACH

From Halls Retrospect of Long Life
If mail coaching~had its drawbacks, it
had some pleasures that a railway journey
lacks. True, the inside passenger had to
pass hour after hour in miserably
cramped position. If he managed to
sleep, he was very likely to be awakened
by some Jolt that pitched HIM into an op-
posite passengers arms.
1t is an old story of the inside gentle
man who, desiring to get out from the
coach, was asked by lady why he wished
to do so, and answered, "Oh. only to
stretch my legs"
pray don't do that she said. II am
sure they are long enough already"
The outsiders were, of course, exposed
to all elemental ills. But how pleasant
were the fresh morning air, the jovial
toot-toot Of the guards horn and the ex-
hilarating gallop Of the horses. How
grateful the stoppages for meals-about
ALL for breakfast-at primitive and pic
turesQue country innsl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
DISTINGUISHING TABLETS

from the Pharmaceutical Era
"Coffin-shaped tablets to stop fatal err
rors," is the sensational heading employed
by a wide-awake newspaper man to call
attention Go an ordinance proposed 70.
passage by the common council of the city
of Chicago. This ordinance, after making
distinction between drugs for external
and internal use. aims particularly at
mercuric chloride. popularity known as
corrosive sublimate." and requires that
all tablets sold in Chicago prepared for
external use must be of distinct shape, re-
semblng a coffin. Under the present
conditions, one has only to recall the re-
ports of accidental poisonings he has
read in the newspapers of late to convince
him that the necessity for something dis
tingushing or characteristic method OF
recognizing the most common poisonous
tablets is needed. The Differentiation by
means of outward form is not new
scheme. for manufacturers have not only
adopted special forms or shapes. but they
have made use Of colors and imprint de-
vices to distinguish such tablets. each fol-
lowing a system of his own devising and
none of the systems uniform in their APP
plication and requirements.
We believe that the solution of the
problem consists in the incorporation in
the United States Pharmacopoeia and the
National Formulary, our two legal stand
ards, of specific definitions for shape and
size of poisonous tablets. Such plan
will apply alike to all manufacturers and
obviate the confusion that is bound TO
continue so long as any distinguishing fea-
t,ire or form may be used or not, as each
Individual may elect. A uniform plan of
Indicating such tablets will also serve to
educate everyone and call attention to
the toxicity of what otherwise would APP
pear to be a simple and inoffensive form
of medication.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
A Handsome Convent BuiIdinw

The convent built by the Sisters of Per-
petual Alteration in the Blessed Sacrament
parish, West End, will be open for inspec-
tion this afternoon.
Few converts in this country are hand
somer than the one just completed here, -
said a layman. Il understand that it cost
money was provided by the order Of Per-
petual Alteration from the general fund.
If the first scholastic year is as sac
cessful as it gives promise of being a
large addition will be built to the convent
next year. New Orleans is the American
headquarters of the Sisters of Perpetual
Alteration. The order is widely noted in
educational circles"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
The Long Hot speu

The weather bureau forecasts for Ala
baHa % rainy days in this month of Au-
gust said goosebone prophet, but the
month is half gone and we have had very
little or no rain hereabouts.
My prediction is that we will have rain
next week followed by a decidedly cool
spell We have had an unusually hot
Summer, but it has been. good for the
crops. We had good rains in July, and
with few exceptions there has been little
complaint of drouth in the south"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
WHERE THE PINS co

From the New Y Ork Telegram.
Notice with much satisfaction that a
Paris scientist, DR.. Xavier. has added to
the general JOY and the worlds stock of
knowledge by telling us where all the
missing pins go.
They disappear, says the progressor. into
thin air by changing into ferrous oxide, a
brown rust that is soon blown away in
dust. An ordinary hairpin took 154 days
to blow away, a steel nib lasted Is months,
a common pin took 1S months to vanish
and a polished needle two and half
years.
This is a subject that has phzzled man.
kind ever since the first paper of pins
was unfolded
The doubter, and he is ever with us, is
recommended to gaze at a common pin
stead dily for IS months and go into the
ferrous oxide business for himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
AFTER THE VERDICT
he Atlanta Journal.

From the Atlanta Journal
The prosecution had strong case
against Paddy. His hat, which all the
inhabitants could identify, had been
found on the premises. Paddy, how
eer. denied a knowledge of the head
gear. and swore that he was not with
in mile of the place at the time of
the outrage, and so well did his wit
nesses corroborate his statement that
he was able to prove an alibi.
Paddy was found mot guilty but
seemed reluctant to leave the dock.
The magistrate thinking he did not
understand the verdict. explained:
well my man, you are discharged.
you need not walt
Paddy. I'm waiting for me hat