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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-08
Pascual Orozco Again

The coming campaign in the north
of Mexico between the rebel general,
Villa, and Pascual Orozco, probably
the most picturesque figure which has
loomed across the Mexican sky in the
past three years, will be watched with
interest by those who have followed
the fighting in the revolution-torn
republic.
Probably no man in Mexico is better
known or more notorious than Pas
cual Orozco. The various revolutions
have made him. He has balanced him.
self on the crest of every wave, has
changed colors with the facility of a
chameleon and is at present command
ing 1900 federals for General Huerta.
1t is singular coincidence which
brings these two men into close re-
| lations. 1t was in the campaign
against Orozco last year that Huerta
first attracted the notice of the out
side world. By series of brilliant
moves the present provisional presi-
dent crushed the forces of Orozco,
who was then in rebellion against Ma
dero, although the latter occupied
supposedly impregnable positions.
Orozco, when Madero raised the
standard of revolt against Porfirio
Diaz, was doing menial work in Chi
huahua. He took up arms and at the
close of the victorious campaign was
chief of staff to the slain president.
Madero assumed the presidency.
Orozco went to Mexico City and de-
manded that he and his father be al
lowed to loot the federal treasury Of
two million pesos. Madero refused
and his former lieutenant returning to
the north forsool his allegiance to his
chief and opened hostilities.
For time Orozco seemed danger
Gus. Several of the federal generals
4
! sent against him were defeated. HUI
erta, then chief of the war college
at Mexico City, was sent to the front.
Within two weeks Orozco's army was
scattered, thousands slain and him.
self fugitive.
That "birds of feather flock to-
gether" is aptly illustrated in the
case of Orozeo and Huerta. They have
many traits in common. Both are
cruel unscrupulous, bloodthirsty, and
true neither to God nor man. Orozco is
weak copy of Huerta with all his de-
fects and few of his strong charac-
teristics.
1t will be interesting to note what
success Orozco will have in his at
tempt to entrap General Villa, consid-
cred by many the best soldier in Mex
leo today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-08
Birmingham's Fire Chief

The announcement that Fire Chief
Bennett may not resign after all will
be received with qualification by those
who admire the man and appreciate
the efficiency of the department.
Chief Bennett is too good a man for
the city to lose.
The organization of the fire fight
ing forces of Birmingham should
serve as a model for other municipal
departments. And it is to Chief Ben
nett that such efficiency is largely at
tributed. To his ability to handle men,
70 his executive capacity and above
all to his infinite capacity for work
are largely due the fact that the Bir-
mingham department is regarded as a
standard for the fire fighters of all
cities in this country.
When it became known that Chief
Bennett contemplated resigning there
was loud and immediate protest from
all quarters. The chief was beseiged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-08
Concerning Auditorium Site

1t is hoped that the law firm in
New York that makes a speciality of
passing on municipal bond issues, and
which has been for several weeks
considering the legal side of the Bir-
mingham auditorium bonds to be is
sued, will complete its report soon.
When the auditorium question was
first taken up in the Chamber of
Commerce it was thought that $780,
900 would build a convention hall
ample for accommodating nine or ten
thousand people; but it was after
ward decided that at least 100000
would be necessary if Birmingham
was to have something larger and
something better than Atlanta's.
Atlanta's auditorium cost less than
100000, but it has a seating ca
pacity of only seven thousand peo-
pie and it is not fireproof. Birming-
ham should have, by all means, a
fireproof auditorium. A structure
covering an area of thirty thou
sand square feet would have a seat
ing capacity of something like ten
thousand. If it were of fireproof con-
struction the cost would be about
100000.
1t had been thought all along that
the city would find a site in one of
the centrally situated parks; but ac-
cording to newspaper interviews some
opposition has developed to the park
idea. When the time comes to call
upon architects for plans the city
commission may be induced to have
the auditorium built in the center
of one of the downtown" parks. Cap
itol park affords a highly desirable
site; perhaps the best site, all things
considered, in Birmingham.
1t will be too bad if site has to
be purchased out of the 100000
The bonds are to be sold for not less
than par and they may bring a slight
premium; but the premium would not
go very far in the purchase of site
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-08
THREE VACANCIES

From the New York Journal of Com
merce.
Upon President Wilson has fallen the
unexpected duty of practically remodeling
the interstate commerce commission at a
juncture when that body is about to de-
eide one of the most important cases that
has come before it for years past. Death
has removed one member of the commits
sion, transfer to other work will shift
second and a third is about to retire
at the end of long seryice. The curious
feature of the case is that it practically
parallels the conditions which existed
when the advanced rate cases were be-
fore the commission four years ago. At
that time, owing to the organization of
the commerce court, transfers from the
commission were thought needful. while
extraneous and unexpected circumstances
caused vacancies just as they have today
So President Wilson has the same oppor-
tunity that was opened to his predecessor
of determining the outcome in the ad-
vanced rate cases and Herewith the rail-
road history to be made during the next
few years. Some very undesirable candi-
dates are now in sight and pressing their
claims.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-08
MARvELS OF SURGERY.
From the Philadelphia Press

from the Philadelphia Press.
| The clinic congress at Chicago seems
the climax of modern surgery and Is sure
ly a triumph of which the medical world
every where may be justly proud. Before
100 experts in surgical technic there have
been during the last week performed op-
erations which for their marvellous daring
match the age of miracles in almost every
particular save raising the dead.
| To adduce a few instances. At the
clinics here conducted portions of the in
| testines have been removed A piece of
| bone has been taken from the leg of a
! patient and used to mend diseased spine
| Split arm bones that would not knit have
been pinned together by silver nails and
screws. The entire lung of dog has
been removed and replaced as hint of
what may be the future treatment of
| tuberculosis The calloused skin on the
eyes of a child thus blinded from birth
has been pierced. By brain operations
| upon prisoners the savants demonstrated
the surgical cure of criminals Spectators
have watched the effects of radium min
eral upon malignant growths such as
| tumor and cancer. And patients under a
new anesthetic method have actually
watched an operation performed upon
| themselves. In short, the whole clinical
! exhibit at this congress has been one
startling feat of professional practice fol-
lowing close upon the heels OF another.
| A generation ago many of these oper-
atoms which have come into actual and
assured practice would have been deemed
chimerical and impossible of achieve
ment. Thanks to the assiduous study
and persistent experiment of medical en-
| thusiasts surgical science has reached a
level where none dare dogmatize upon
| its limits. 1t has next to the laboratory
made a new era exalting medical lore
and research among the mightiest excel
lencies of a marvellous age. Sufferers
| whose desperate plight was once judged
hopeless have the greatest reason to re-
joice over the victories of surgical re-
| search and experiment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-08

with appeals to reconsider his decis-
ion, and chief among the suppliants
We're the members of the department.
Chief Bennett has the confidence of
his superiors, and what is more indica-
tive of the true worth of the man, the
implicit confidence of his men. 1t is
sincerely hoped that he will conclude
to remain at the head of the depart
ment, for to lose him would be very
seriously felt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-08
Cotton Exchange Notifications.

"The notifications of the New York
Cotton exchange rules as to spot cotton
as printed in the daily press do not ma
terially affect the cotton future sales as
to the gambling feature said former
cotton man, ''and the grade question is
one for the spot market of New York
which is quite limited.
1.-THE crying need is the standardizing of
all cotton by class, weights and warrant
warehouse receipts. Then, the sale of
either these receipts the cotton ex-
change, or tax on all transactions, where
they are not delivered with the sale.
Stocks are thus sold and transferred on
margins.
1.-The purchases of wheat or corn are
upon specific standards, and the buyer
may demand his purchase of the same
by numbers say No. l or No. 2, and re-
ceive the actual grain.
''It may be that the agitation for legis-
ation by Congress will revive the all inn
portant question of warrant warehouses
throughout the south. These, with reg
ional banks, would make the cotton grow
ing states bound forward on the road
of prosperity at a quickened pace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-08

Southern men have distinguished
themselves greatly in the work of
building the Panama canal. Colonel
Gorgas of Alabama, rs a sanitary ex-
pert, made the canal possible. Lieu
tenant Colonel Sibert of Alabama, has
been one of the able engineers upon
whom Colonel Goethals has depended
and Colonel Gaillard of South Caro-
lima, who died in Baltimore last week,
directed some of the most difficult en-
gineering feats in Panama. A bill was
introduced in Congress recently pro
noting him out of rotation from
the rank of lieutenant colonel to col.
onel, as a signal honor for his achieve
ments. Colonel Gaillard was born in
Sumter county S. c., September 4, 1859.
He gradual from West Point in 1891.
Like most engineers of his army rank
he has had wide experience in con-
structive work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-08
Great Turkey Dinners.

We know how to cook turkey line
used to promote interest and faith in a
recent dinner for charity, is applicable
to the ladies of st. Agnes guild, who will
serve dinners beginning Tuesday and con-
tinuing wednesday and Thursday at the
parish house of the Church of the Ad-
vent'' said a business man yesterday.
Turkey in all styles will be served,
while the alluring cranberry sauce will
decorate the side of all plates. Accom-
panying the meat will be all those side
delicacies that enter into turkey dinner
"Inasmuch as the ladies of the church
exercise a powerful influence over the
business men of this community, by rea-
son of their past reputation of providing
dinners worth while. their promise of fair
maids to serve as mattresses and other
attractive features of the affair, it is ex-
pected that the limited capacity of the
parish house will be taxed during the
affair.
"The dinners will begin at noon and
will last until about 8 o'clock p. M"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-08
Sideboard Signs On Cnrs.

THE Tidewater street car line has
wisely placed the sideboard signs on its
cars, so that passengers will not take a
Pratt City car when intending to go
directly into Ensley,' said Percy Clark
Il have suggested several times to the
management of the Birmingham Railway.
Light and Power company the necessity
of placing such signs on their cars. Often
the front glass signs are so blurred with
dust as to be almost undecipherable.
Then, too, often a car front has passed
passenger, if he has not noted and
made out the route sign, he must ask the
conductor In rainy weather, when one
has taken shelter in a doorway or under
an awning, 1t is provoking to find some
times, that one has mistaken the car that
has arrived, and starts for it. The side
board signs remedy this.
II was the originator Of the corner bull
letin boards with the car routes on them.
1t was during the last Confederate re-
union that the idea occurred to me. Nov
there Is one change necessary with them
The car routes should be on paddles to
be withdrawn or added as the changes
temporary or permanent. occur. They
could be fastened with screws"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-08

! ace of the liquor evil can be removed by
Legislative resolutions, are going to
spend their good money and time In an
earnest effort to convince their represen-
tatives in Congress that this is true in a
great public hearing at the capital this
week
None knows better than Captain Hob
SON. that it cannot be done, unless in
deed it is that this gentleman believes IN
anomalies, for he made the statement in
his fervid address for a big naval pro-
gramme, that-"peaee could not be maia-
tanned by resolutions passed by Congress-
and yet he is trying to accomplish, or is
making the pretention, a far greater task
by this method.
Every sane person knows that Congress
is not going to submit a constitutional
amendment to the states prohibiting the
liquor traffic, and every one knows that
If it were done that it would not stand
the ghost of show to be adopted.
This fact does not prevent Captain Hob
son from employing this agency-not en-
ploying, for that word implies remunera-
tion-but drafting this agency, AMI
adroitly attempting to make it applicable
to his campaign in Alabama. To the gopd
people who blindly follow his banner in
Alabama. and who do not stop to pene-
trate the thin veneer of this bogus scheme
of advertisement it will make a strong
appeal, but to the thinking citizen--who
believes in temperance in all things. and
for a prohibition that will accomplish
something-it will appear to be, as Il
really is, a psychological political farce
staged for the benefit of the sucker.
1t is amusing to observe at first hand
the captains strenuous attempts to di-
vert the attention of the electorate OF
Alabama from the real issues in the cant
paign-the records of the respective can
didates. and their ability to serve the
people, as evidenced by what they have
already done to the issues of which he
processes to be the champion. and for
which he has omplished-nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-08
Frirhtful Homicide Record

jefferson county has a frightfu
homicide record. Judge A. o. Lane
Of the city commission, has been Civ
ing much attention to mortuary stati1-
tics and, according to his analysis
the number of homicides in Birming-
ham from December /, 1912, to De-
cember /, 1918, was 70, and the num-
Der outside of Greater Birmingham s
boundary lines was 81, making a
total in the county of 1874.
While this number is less by more
than half Of Coroner Spain's esti-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-08
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
NTANDING amid aisles of splendidly
uniformed toy soldiers and gaily
~ eaparisoned rocking horses and look
ing around over his brilliant toy bat
tlefeld with the eye of proud and
satisfied general, a quaint old man was
celebrating his eghtieth birthday over
in Brooklyn some days ago and telling
how for almost all of those so years he
has spent his life as a toymaker and a
joymaker for little children.
The old man was Jesse A. Crandall, and
the place was his toy laboratory a snug
room full of miniature shapes and myriad
colors that looked like Nuremberg, al
though it was only Brooklyn. And there
the charming old father of playthings,
gray haired, with old fashioned cut whis-
kers and keen brown eyes, philosophical
with quaint speech about life and toys.
I've been carving animals and figures
ever since I was years DID," he said.
nearly cutting off my finger when /
first began, but thinking better of it after
a while, and now l intend to go right
on carving till | die. My first patent
was taken out in 1852 1t was a spring
horse, and the Prince of Wales rode on
one of its kind when he was child. He
developed into an excellent horsefnan
thereafter.
"The shoofiy is mine," said the old man
proudly, "the nested blocks, automatic
targets, score of puzzles and automatic
toys too numerous to mention, all are
mine. Most of my ideas come to me of
nights. You see, l don't think SO much
of my sleep as some men. Suddenly while
I'm. sleeping l think of something, or it
comes to me without thinking, maybe.
Anyway the alarm of the future rings
me up, and I'm on the carpet in minute
with pad on my knee.
when l was young I served under a
blacksmith for while, and that has come
in useful ever since in the making of iron
toys And put this down: What Amer
lea has seen in the line of invention since
| was boy is only the beginning. oh,
we artists, inventors, master mechanics
are the people, but with only kinder
garten conception of achievement at pres
ent, from Edison down.
Put it down that /, Crandall, the toy
maker, predict two new arrivals: The
electric stroke for setting off powder
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-08
LATE COTTON AND BOIL wEEvIL
I'M the Jackson CMissl News.

From the Jackson (Miss.) News.
Occasionally the theory is announced
that the boil weevil can be controlled
by late planting better than by early
planting of the crop. The bureau of en-
tomology has conducted many expert
ments to determine whether late
planted cotton will produce satifac-
tory crop. The results have all been
negative. The advocates of late plant
ing. however, have contended that the
experiments of the department have not
been conducted on sufficiently large
scale. On this account an unusually
large experiment which was provided by
natural conditions in Louisiana Is of
interest.
In the spring of 1913 there was an
overflow by Bayou de Glaize in Avoy-
elles parish, occurring in May and con-
tinuing until early in June. on one side
of the bayou a strip of land one mile
long and from eight to ten miles wide
was flooded. The levee on the opposite
side of the bayou retained the water.
Cotton was planted early on the one
side and late on the other. 1t has fur
nished large scale contrast between
the two methods of planting in the
same locality on identical soil forma
ton.
Examinations which have just been
made by the bureau of entomology show
that crop of half a bale was made on
the side that was not overfiowed where
the planting was early. while the oppo-
site side which was late planted yielded
much less. A few Illustrations out of
many that were obtained will be given
o. Fl. Joffrion obtained a yield of 1925
pounds of seed cotton from a crop
planted on April 10, while the crop
planted across the bayou on May 20
yielded $50 pounds of seed. cotton per
acre. Mr.. o. P. Couvillion planted on
May 22 and obtained one-fourth of a
bale per acre. In 1911 on the same field
he produced a half-bale per acre.
The illustrations that have been given
show the general difference between the
early and late planted cotton. The OBJ
servations, therefore, prove in very
definite way that late planted crops
are sure to be injured more severely
than when planted early
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-08
LARGE COLLECTION OF EGGS

From the New York Sun.
In dingy attic at Nazareth, Pa, in
glass covered cases coated with dust and
fallen mortar and in old boxes packed
away in every available nook and Granny
was uncovered recently by relic hunters
one of the largest collections of bird eggs
in the world. 1t is reputed to be the sec
ond largest in the United States.
The collection, owned by Frank Christ
of Nazareth, has lain almost forgotten for
years, yet its owner will not take $4,000
for it, He was offered 5000 for 1t several
years ago. The majority of the speci-
mems were inherited by Mr.. Christ from
his father, the late Richard Christ, who
died IA years ago at the age of So and
who gathered most of them himself. The
son has taken up the work where the
father left off.
The securing of various kinds of hawks
eggs involved thrilling experiences. AS
hawks make their nests in the highest
trees it takes man of unusual skill
and daring to obtain them. After the
eggs are taken out of the nest they are
placed in a bag packed with straw or
grass and the bag is carefully lowered
to the ground by means of rope in or
der to avoid any possibility of the eggs
breaking.
Securing eagles eggs. too, meant work
and danger. In some cases nests built on
lodges on the mountains were accessible
only from above, and to secure the eggs
Mr.. Christ lowered younger and lighter
man, by ropes from above. At one time
while securing eggs in this way the
mother eagle returned to the nest, and
flying at the intruder. tried to peck out
his eyes. She did manage to tear piece
OF flesh from his face.
The collection as it STANDS today In
cludes between 400 and 500 different varie-
ties of eggs. but there are thousands OF
duplicates. They. range from the tiny
eggs of humming birds to the monster At
rican ostrich eggs. There are eggs from
every continent. large and small of all
hues and colors, and many of them OF
species now extinct. Some of the eggs
are said to be the only specimens of their
kind in existence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-08
Pleased with the Festival lden.

"I am glad to learn that there is a
prospect of having a music festival
next spring with large chorus said
Elias Gusfield, who was one of Mr.
Guckenbergs d-bys In festivals OF
former years.
THE Music Study club which is well
organized for managing festivals, viii
be ready, I am told, to get up a grand
festival when the big auditorium is
built, but as the auditorium will not
be ready for use in the coming spring
it is hoped festival will be given next
year in one of the theatres. Mr.. Rienzi
Thomas, director of the Music Study
club chorus recently organized, and
also of the Treble Clef club and of the
Arion club, should have no difficulty
in giving Birmingham thoroughly
trained chorus of 100 or more voices
within the next few months"