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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
Merchants Much Pleased

The merchants of the city are very much
pleased with the success of the festival,
they state. One instance yesterday was
told the directors meeting that although
he had been out of town during the cele-
bration, he had returned after it was
over to hear his store managers tell him
they had done a greater business during
the potlatch than any other time in the
what was going on in Birmingham as an
attraction. The Chamber of Commerce Of
ficials state this is but one of the many
instances of the manner In which the
potlatch benefited Birmingham and Bir-
mingham people.
A general discussion was held on the
potlatch question by the directors yester-
day, j. Z. Shelby William Ryan, II. Nj.
Beck, Robert Ewing, w. N Malone and
others giving their Views. The beliefs ex-
pressed that the festival should be held
in the fall was based on the fact that the
farmers of the state are too busy and
have not the ready money to attend such
an event in the spring Indications are,
however, that the festival will be, con-
tinued as a spring event.
General Chairman Oscar c. Turner of
the Chamber of Commerce potlatch COM
mittee and the executive subcommittee
of this committee are receiving eongrat-
uIations from all sources on the success
of their endeavors in behalf of the pot
latch celebration. The idea of the pot
latch was conceived mainly by Mr.. Tur-
ner. and 1t was due to his work and civic
enthusiasm more than any other man,
that 1t was success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
Head of Sloss Company Re-
turns to New York This
Morning
PROBLEMS WILL BE
WORKED OUT SOON
Says Sloss Company Made Some Big
Sacrifices in Deal to Promote
Better Relations With the
People

After announcing nearly 100000 worth
OF betterments; after selling the Stag pile
and finally concluding the coke oven
treaty between the city and his company,
Col. j. G. Maben will leave this morning
on the Birmingham special for New YORK.
Last night Colonel Maben said that his
Trip back home'' had been fruitful and
entirely satisfactory. He said that local
offlcials-that is to say Vice President
Maben and Vice President Mcqueen
would keep in behind affairs and event.
ually straighten out those problems that
VIII originate with the closing up of the
sag pile, the coke ovens, and the better
ments that have been authorized.
That most antagonism toward corpora
lions was uncalled for and ,ndeserved in
birmingham. which was enjoying an era
oil prosperity, peace and plenty was an
opinion expressed by Colonel Maben last
night He requested that better friend
ship be cultivated between the people and
the corDorations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
Some Slight Observation-Disclosures


been adjusted satisfactorily to the repre-
sentatiyes of the people and ourselves
yet there is manifest some slight misun-
derstanding. To clear that up hope will
be the task of the newspapers and the
public generally. In connection with orr
sale of the Stag pile it was said that it
had been an eye sore for many years and
constant source of complaint. That is
rather misleading for the reason that the
Stag pile has not been opposed except for
very short time The only original
complaints came from sources that we
did not consider entirely unbiased until
the commission started its fight We
agreed to many things with the commits
sion. as it was evidenced that the city
badly desired the closing down of the
coke ovens and the removal Of the Stag.
I'm this connection 1 want to say that
we made a great sacrifice in connection
with that Stag pile. We absolutely gave
it away. Not one cent did the Sloss COM
pany get for that Stag. Further we de-
priyed ourselves of the revenue of $3.50
per month that we have been getting for
great many months in order to comply
Win ehe WISHES OF tne city commission.
This was done to promote better rela-
ton between the officials and our COM
pany as we'll as the people generally We
gave up the coke ovens operations on
First avenue without being requested or
forced to do so. just to better promote
the amicable settlement of the difficulties
forced upon u.s. In respect to our legal
rights l do not believe that It would have
been possible for the city to force us to
abandon the Stag pile or the ovens. How
ever, in order to satisfy all parties op-
posed to those propositions we agreed to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-03
CLOSE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE

Reporters hear many words and few
ideas.
BY this time there must be almost as
many magazines as lodges.
If you are eccentric you are crazy. Still
many people want to be eccentric.
Some men are so unrea sonable that
when they have bad colds they blame it
onto their wives.
Somehow, if a man gets in trouble with
the postal authorities it is easy to imagine
his guilt.
Il had rough experience said a man
bill collector this morning, land her name
was Maud"
Photographers could make hit and get
a natural picture of Mother by posing her
as peeling potatoes or darning socks.
You may frequently encounter a woman
without money, but she doesn't get far re-
moved from her powder puff.
Who winds the alarm clock every night
at your home? Father of course. FAITH
er viii agree with us that he has to do
everything.
Changing the subject, what has become
of the old-fashioned woman who believed
a cat would suck the breath of a child?
This is also the season when newspaper
art in the underwear ads causes modest
man to hurry in his search for the sport
ing page.
Does early to bed and early to rise mean
anything? Chickens practice it. and don't
seem to get along any better than other
creatures
A man will roar all day about expenses
and then cause a household disturbance
at home if the supper happens TO be
little light.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-03
FREEDOM FOR PROFESSORS.

During the past ten years 1 have
| talked frankly and sometimes conf
dentially with scores of able professors
concerning the university career, and
| among them all I have found few men
of real ability who have not felt more
or less dissa tisfied with the profession
of teaching, writes President E. b.
| Craighead, of the University of Mon
| tana, in Science. Il love teaching and
the work of the investigator said a
distinguished university professor only
few days ago, but 1 feel so helpless
and so dependent and so much like an
hireling in the position I now hold,
that l sometimes long to get out OF
the whole business There is some
thing wrong somewhere if conditions
such as are depicted even approximate
l. y exist. To change these conditions,
to make the university an attractive
place fer great scholars and brave
thinkers and lofty souls, and not, as it
sometimes is, stronghold for the
politician, the time-server, the coward,
the sycophant-that is a work worthy
of heroes and statesmen and educators.
Big endowments for universities are
desirable if not indeed necessary, but
big brave men in universities are
equally desirable and far more neces-
sary. Only the greatest men of the
nation are great enough to teach and
inspire the young men of the nation.
That nation is greatest which has in
proportion to its population the great
est number of real universities. and
that university is greatest which gath
ers to it the largest number of great
men. Your really big professor would
rather exist on a pittance in a univer-
sity where he feels free and independ
emf, master of his own soul. than to
live luxuriousiy in splendid
ly endowed school. dependent
upon the good will or the caprices
of politicians and ward bosses. or shiv-
ering in fear of offending some multi
millionaire upon whose bounty his uni
VerSity exists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-03
THE WAY OUT.

The only real permanent aid to low
wages is to increase the productivity
and skill of the persons at the bottom,
writes j. Laurence Laughlin, in the
October Atlantic. Instead of talking
of such injurious palliatives as mini
mum wages, create institutions at
once where those persons can be given
a trade or training for a gainful oc-
cupation. The cry for a minimum
wage is evidence of the industrial in
capacity. the lack of producing power,
in masses of our people. The con-
crete ways of increasing the produc-
tive power of each man and woman
are not unknown. Moreover, the cap
tain of industry who does not have a
right to all his rights can introduce
into his shops carefully worked out
plans for helping his operatives to rise
in life; to better conditions by welfare
work: to encourage savings and
thrift; to introduce the stimulus q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-03

ing room Nurses moved quietly about,
doctors came and went and the very air
seemed to Eleanor to be charged with an
electric current of systematic purpose.
Outside, her little world of fashion and
folly moved on with it's petty jealousies
and contentious and poor excuses for en-
tertainment. Inside that hospital calm,
resourceful men and women went about
the great task of alfeviating suffering and
wrestling human beings from disease and
death. Her heart stirred with a sudden
new hope. She would take her part in
the great scheme of things.
As they rode away she turned to the
young surgeon eagerly. Hamilton. L
want to make something WORTH while out
of my life. Won't you show me howe?
The car came to a sudden standstill I'M
der spreading oak tree. Hamilton took
one of the girls hands in his own.
Work with me-" he said, tensely, 80
that uplifted and inspired by You, L shall
indeed attain. 1 love you, Eleanor. L
think that 1 must have loved since the
day the other children ran away and you
stayed by to mother me- I'll take care of
the sick and the afflicted and you take
care of me. You will be the greater of the
two. 1t is a bargain?"
Yes" said Eleanor softly.
From somewhere up the leafy mountain
side came a mans voice, laughingly-
What did tell you about floppy hats,
Hamilton? They distinguished certain
young lady around here"
Every man has the right to hold his
own property, hasn't hep" called the sur
geon ha ppily.-(Copyright 1913, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-03
Birds Permit Us to Live.

| Birds live to eat. 1t is lucky for
men they do, for if the birds did not
breakfast man would not dine. Some
| years ago a French scientist told the
world that if all the birds should sud
| denly die man would have only a
| years life left to him. The French
man proved his point to the satisfac-
| ton of other scientists, but laymen
| laughed and the usual proportion of
| them kept on killing.
| 1t always has been my belief that
| the sin of bird persecution had it's be-
ginning with other sins in the garden.
Adam probably saw a robin picking
away at cherry and instantly said,
| likely saw a scarlet flanagan summing
itself, and straightway coveted its
| plumage. So it is that the hand of
man and the head of woman have
been raised against the bird ever
since.
Why should not a robin or cedar
bird or a catbird or any other bird
eat an occasional cherry? Their din
ners of cutworms. caterpillars and
other things noxious make cherry des
sert their due.
How much does a bird eat? Take
the robin as an example. 1t eats at
certain sea sons of the year about dOu-
BILE it's weight in insects and worms
every day. A man in order to satisfy
an equally well-developed appetite
would have to eat about 800 pounds
of food all tOld at MS Inree da1ly
meals To do this he would need
to be 80 feet tall ten feet thick from
front to back and about five feet
across the shoulders.
The birds dinner hour begins at
sunrise and ends hour after sun
set Any legislation looking to the
shortening of it's hours of labor, which
are coincident with it's hours of eating,
would bring famine. All the song
birds and all the silent birds give their
service to man and they ask no pay
for it except to be let alone.
And the farmer who is wise will let
the old shotgun rust out before he
turns it on his best friends-the birds.
Edward B. Clark, in Country Cen
tlen1an-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-03
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
fFrom the Philadelphia Recordl

From the Philadelphia Record.1
Love in cottage and castles in the air
are not so far apart as they sound
Its hard TO teach man anything when
he doesn t even know when he is licked
Even when they try to rest on their
laurels some people are troubled with IN
Somnia.
Many man is so exclusive that he isn't
even on speaking terms with his con-
science.
Make hay while the sun shines and YOU
won be so tempted to make trouble when
it rains
HoaX-"Success means hard work -
JoaN-1 Yes. It never even comes to the
actor by easy stages"
No two things in the world seem farther
apart than an artistic temperament and a
bank account.
Some people are so constituted that they
would rather be on the wrong side of the
fence than be right.
Blobbs-. Harduppe says he seldom Dor
rows trouble" Slobbs-''No. not so long
as he can borrow anything else
Wigwag-"After all. experience is the
best teacher" Henpekke-'"Tell that to
the man who commits bigamy."
Virtue is its own reward" quoted the
Wise Guy But even an angel may blow
his own horn" added the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-03
.AXHAWKER .JOTS

Team work in Germantown, as re-
ported by the Horton News cores
pondent there: Most of the farmers
in this community are busy getting the
ground ready for wheat, while most
of their families are putting up
peaches.
How would you like to be the post
master at Assaria, this state? asks
the Edmond New Leaf. He has eigh-
teen patrons at his office by the name
of Charles johnson, nine by the name
of John Smith and nine by the name
of Nels Nelson.
The Toronto Republican family
must have had chicken and dump
kin pie for dinner the Sunday
when Mrs. Kelley began one of her
fine weekly pieces for the paper with
To-day Sunday is like a pearl set
in amber, a cameo on a gold neck
lace, diamonds amid rubies.'
Related by the Edmond New Leaf:
teacher had been telling her class
that recently worms had become so
numerous they destroyed the crops
and 1t was necessary to import the
that the sparrows multiplied very fast
and were gradually driving away ma
tive birds. Johnny was apparently
very inattentive, and the teacher,
thinking to catch him mapping, said:
Johnny, which is the worse worms
or sparrows?" Johnny hesitated a
moment and then made answer:
please teacher, L never had the
sparrows.'
While coming from Wichita Friday
We rode on the train with Hon. Click
Fockele, editor of the Leroy Report
er, writes E. E. Kelley in his Toronto
Republican. The fat editor of the Re-
porter had been to the state fair at
Hutchinson and was surrounded with
packages. He had five pounds of
spareribs, hes explained, and an arm
load of summer sausage tied up in
baby blue ribbon. Hon Fockele eX-
planned that summer sausage is spec
tally prepared and costs more but is
worth the price. Hon. Fockele was
enthusiastic over a new recipe he is
working out for his household depart
ment. When my father recently re-
turned from Germany said he, che
brought with him some Neiheim
cheese and some pumpernickel, which
is made of rye bran. The cheese is
ripened in a manure pile and has a
delightful tang. l am now working
out a new dish for my household de-
partment which 1 think will be great
success. [ take a slice of pumper-
nickel, spread it with a little butter,
carefully CRATE over it some of the
cheese to the depth of one inch, put
on this layer of sliced onions, on
this handful of salt and then a lay
er of garlic and another layer of
cheese, put on slice of pumpernicke1
for a lid, and you have one of the most
delicious tit-bits for a lunch you ever
stuck a tooth into
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-03

We hear that when the late Henri
Rochefort was in England Through no
wish of his OWN he refused to learn
English for Victor Hugo had said: Il
avoid English. I never read or speak
a word of it. I must protect my style
We think, however, that Victor was
not in particularly good voice that day.
He displayed what, to our taste, was a
far more endearing egotism when he
entertained a group of celebrities at
dinner one evening during the siege OF
Paris. What they ate deponent saith
not-roast cab horse, no doubt, or pos
sibly a snake or two from the Jardin
des PIantes-but the conversation was
delicious
Listen, messieurs" said Hugo. al
have a plan to save Paris I, Victor
Hugo, will put on my uniform and go
out alone against the enemy. L shall
be shot. But when the Germans see
that they have killed Victor Hugo it
will be the end of the SIEGE
Then it was the ever-tactful Prof
Languedepoivre cut in with For
you!''-New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-03
EVENING CHAT
Afraid of Doing Too Much.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

At five minutes of nine the other
morning 1 met little stenographer
lady whom L know just leaving the
shopping district, about half mile
away from her office.
Wont you be late?" I asked.
"Oh, yes, suppose I WILL" she said,
cheerfully. Il stopped to do little
shopping. 1 often do. You see," she
added, falling into step beside me
with no appearance of haste what
ever, II don't get paid half what 1
ought and SO I'm not going to work
my head off. If 1 were paid properly
I'd try to be prompt, but as it is L
take my own time
You can imagine, can't you, just
how likely that little stenographer is
to ever get paid properly"
And yet her attitude toward bust
ness is extremely common.
The fear of doing too much work is
not confined to foolish, little rattle
Drained stenographers. 1t is TO De
found everywhere-that is, every
where in the ranks of the failures.
The successful man is too busy and
too fond of work for accomplishment
sake, and not merely for the sake OF
the money it brings, to be always
weighing and balancing lest he give
his employer overweight.
A man who is close to the top of
the business ladder said to me the
other day, II never worked any hard
er in my life than I did when L was
getting SO a week. L often stay eu dl
that office until 10 or IL at night. The
other boys would kick. They'd say
they weren't going to work themselves
to death for Sc a week. But 1 didn't
work myself to death, and L didn't
have to do it very long for Sc week.
Everywhere I've been I've done my
best work, no matter what was paid.
If 1 found I wasn't getting ahead, [
got out and went where l could make
more progress, but so long rs stayed
in any place l did my best work"
No man with that spirit and any
brains at all could fail.
OF course it is not right for any
man to continually give the full force
of his brains and energy to an unap-
preciative and stingy employer. But
the solution is not for the worker to
become slack in his methods and do
an inferior grade of work; that
hurts him as much as it does his en-
ployer.
He should make himself valuable,
give his employers a chance to recoS-
nize and appreciate that value, and il
they do not find someone who will.
There are always enough openings for
a man who is willing to put the whole
of himself into his work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-03

profit-sharing; and, above ALL ,estab-
lish civil service methods devised to
pick out and promote the promising
youth so that the path from the hot
tom to the top is open to every en-
ployee. Under restricted competition,
there will be seen the inevitable re-
suits of natural monopoly" by which
superiority comes to its own, and
wages are in some proportion to pro-
ductiye power. Thus organization
may be used to forward merit; and
our individualistic democracy may
found its material development on the
satisfactory basis Of correct economic
principles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-03
HUAOR or THE Day

Mrs. Jones-''Why you setting the
alarm for half-past two? You surely don I
want to get up at that timer Jones
NO; I'd like to go to sleep at that time
When the baby hears that, he may think
it's time for him to turn in."-Puck.
ANY insanity in your famiIy?" asked
the life insurance man. NO" replied
Farmer Corntossel. 81 couldn't afford TO
hire any alienist. If our boy Josh gets
into any trouble We'll jes have to admit
that he's plain OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Star.
My poor man, you are the picture of
detection" sympathetically declared the
prison visitor. "And framed picture a :
that" added the convict.-BuffaIo E%e
press.
II am the captain of my soul" a.
Ell? Well, have wife and a motba,'
in-law- I'm only corporal.
ton Herald.
My plea, said the proud young Ia u,,-or
seemed TO deeply affect the jury, w. ef +;
replied the Judge, Il was afraid ~ e.
u ,i that you would bring about the con-
1ction OF your client in spite of his a.
nocence-"-Judge- - Ais m
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-03
: ROB- OTHER PENS
FROM BAD TO WORSE.

The report that Porfirio Diaz is on
his way back to Mexico is arousing in
creased interest. Diplomats agree that
his arrival will be the precursor of
important developments, and there is
nothing to justify the hope that his
presence would have a pacifying eff
feet. Those in arms against the pro-
Visional government would not well
come him, and the inference is that
the appearance of the old dictator
would act as oil on the flame. stirring
the revolutionists to greater fury. In
stead of simplifying the election, a
free and fair expression would be less
likely than under existing conditions.
AS Huerta is no longer a factor in the
presidential race, owing to his self
elimination, the return of the old lead
er is looked upon as a move to aid the
candidacy of his nephew, for it is i'm
probable that he would harbor utter
ior motives. Conservative judgment
however, will regard the movement as
a mistake, because of the aggravating
influence it will have on the situation.
Diaz, the disturber, not Diaz, the paci-
ficator, would set foot upon the soil
of Mexico, thus adding impetus to the
turmoil. When the old Iron Man"
left the country he declared he would
not return unless the people should
call him. That call has not been ut
tered. The United States has had
trouble enough with Mexico, and the
indications are that the end is not yet.
However, by making matters worse,
the return of Diaz may hasten the day
when Mexico will, a result of ex
haustion, be compelled to patch up
peace.-Pittsburg Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News

7 IOIn lIle chicago NEWS.
Anyway, the fool is always liberal with
his folly
that pinches.
But woman who makes a goose or
herself is no spring chicken.
And many man iindulges in horse play
who doesn't play the races
1t is natural for woman to talk but
silence must be acquired
A poor husband is more to be desired by
some women than unlimited freedom
A woman may have more love than re-
spect for her husband If he helps her
wash the dishes.
1t takes girl to marry man because
he is good dancer and then blame him
because is a poor provider-
She is a. wise bride who insists that the
culinary. handiwo-k of her husbands
mother is far superior to her own.
Marriage is always failure when the
woman in the case is unable to diStin-
guish between her husbands peace of
mind and a piece of her own.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-03
PEACE.


There was no shout of legions in array,
No sound of drum or tramping of doomed
feet
That pass forever up the crowded street
To meet with death along the lonely way.
Out of the quiet of the perfect day
There came no cry of panic and retreat,
No faces aged and pallid with defeat
Fled from the field where dead and dying
lay.
But in a garden where the roses bloom,
With Sympathizing touch and clad In
white,
A woman stopped to kiss crippled child
A stranger passed into a darkened room
To keep his vigil through fevered night,
Whereat tired face looked up and
smiled.
III. Perceval Allen. in the Outlook.