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The San Francisco call., 1913-11-28
BALL MANAGERS GET
THE HOOK WHEN THEY
DON'T LAND A WINNER


they poor "B7 Dahlen of Brooklyn His
that have be winner baseball to
"Br" demonstrate this the
That the that players dodge the jobs OF
managers they If they make good
and turned there other baseball for th
rule perhaps, Most would
old club advisory capacity
While Dahen did make good in he improved the
Brooklyn club during appeared be
the of collecting the players he had punched when he got
fired The only players with the Brooklyn today who Rn
the when Dahlen took charge Humme Ruker and Wheat
Dhen made good selecting
players gathered several under his
His trouble probably doing well at the beginning OF the
last He had his club there fighting wsPhadephia for
place Brooklyn talking pennant When
fell back and passed by Boston, the Brooklyn rooters were
naturally much disappointed and started knock ooters will
strikes that Wilbert Robinson the Brooklyn
ag of with, and
would be surprised the club finish the first division
There liable be several changes the looks of the
first division the Boston under George Stang
has chance land there and these do make it.
then some the regular s & be e5Gwdd for
have habit finishing the dIst division
SELEE HELPS CHANCE ALONG
When Frank Chance hold of the Cubs he inherited
bunch ball players gathered By Frank seles his predecessor The
Chance and leader but he does deserve the credit
b6nb 5 % 5 s marvellous Cub machine that won 50 many cham
s s0f Out but Of a mot dsps0e snf the pe r5i %
a a f. s.E % @
Clarke them dssTs that possible
sss s-,s
asl 5s sss
develop players But would surprise to the
showing "Bil very little credit have
heart Dahien because he always ball player
and good
COBB IS NO MANAGER
Frequently the fast thinking ball players do make the best
ability knowledge There been talk
Ty Cobb of the St Browns Cobb
duy thinking ball player but he rapidly for the
other well rule,
trouble
which Cobb has been mixed the Detroit club
Cobb his others, and
little thinking 1t this quality
would
Hal Chase Of the failed for this His
men could follow his individual
do think there chance of Cobb for
several One that he getting salary
only there
played he plays it. If he
he would the OF team his
would doubtless hurt his playing, question
would be playing for
there players
would lock trade for Cobb and they could
anything but players The Georgia getting sal
he is worth much than the
gate knows Detroit manage
place else
in
youth of John Mitchell, the mayor Of New
of that
beginning and that he has years youth
ahead of him.
the baseball politics I am lust
his a. There
always speak Of the
Baseball is certainly business that feeds on youth.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-28
Brown Looks Like
New Boss of Reds

IINCINNATI, o., Nov. %
" While rumors have it that
Jake Stahl, Fielder Jones, Nor
decai Brown, Otto Knabe and
Richard Hoblitzel are being
considered as Joe Tinker's suc-
cessor, from an inside source
comes the news that Garry
Hermann, president of the
club, has practically closed ne
gotiations with Brown, the
former Cub pitcher, to manage
the Reds. Tinker secured
Brown from Louisville after
the Cubs dropped him and the
three fingered wonder hurled
some great ball for Garry's
organization.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-28

ately than any other city in the coun-
try. It is wonderful baseball town."
calculated Bill.
Charley Baum of the Venice club
has been spending his leisure mo-
ments around town. Charley will rest
up and get ready for the training sea-
son.
Babe Reams is unusually anxious to
break into the Coast league, and he
has gone so far as to offer to pay half
of his purchase price to secure his
release McCredie of Portland has
been after him, but Boise wants 5000
before allowing Reams to go. Reams
is willing to help McCredie out in the
deal, and 1t is possible that big Mac
will give the former Santa Clara
player q chance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07
LIBRARIES OF AUTHORS

From the Pail Mall Gazette
At the sale of Goldsmith's library
there was not single copy of his own
works except very imperfect one of
the History of the Earth and AMI
mated Nature" From the catalogue of
the sale of Fielding's library it ap-
pears that the only books of his own
writing which he possessed at his death
were two volumes of miscellanies, two
more of his unimportant dramatic
works, the second edition of Jonathan
Wild" and a pamphlet. Johnson's H.
brary sold in $50 lots and fetched lit
tie more than 1850.
Fie1ding's library was about the same
size and was valued f100 higher, so
that neither could be described val
liable when one considers that the price
of some of the lots would be enhanced
by the desire of friends to obtain me-
mentoes. As for Goldsmiths library. 1t
Is remembered that he would tear half
dozen pages out of a volume to save
the trouble of transcription and when
the auctioneer described the collection
as scarce, curious and valuable" thk
last epithet was little more than a
rhetorical flourish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07
suEEnAGETrE DoINGs

From the Woman's Home Companion.
mir. Asquith, prime minister of Eng
land, wishing to leave a political meeting
and knowing that his enemies were lined
up outside waiting for him, had himself
shot through a pneumatic tube, used for
the parcel post to the postoffice, and
escaped Another time horse blanket
served as a satisfactory disguise.
Finally the warfare waxed SO hot that
when the premier was scheduled to speak
In a certain city of England regular war
defenses were prepared for him. Landing
on a barricaded station platform, passing
through a subway to his hotel then in "a
freight elevator to his apartments, he
dined alone, and went to the hall escorted
by mounted police. Crowds collected in
the street, and only ticket holders were
allowed to pass through the tiny gates in
the four high barricades protecting the
entrance. At each of these police We're on
guard. and every would-be auditor was
subjected to the closest scrutiny.
Meanwhile, for days, while the barri-
eades were being constructed against
them, women had been hidden in the
nearby houses, ready for the fray. Mr..
Asuuith had no sooner begun his speech
than man after man stood up and asked,
When will you fulfill your pledge to the
wonien?' The crowd outside. angry at
their own seclusion, were hurting them
selves against the wooden walls and
cheering some women who were chopping
at the barricade and then getting arrested
by the police.
Suddenly a crash of breaking glass
in the hall was followed by the below
ing of an electric motor horn and the
shrill cries of Votes for women! The Sc
creted members of the Woman's So
eial and Political union had appeared at
second story window opposite. and were
hurlng missiles into the hall through the
windows"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07

plain that some bankers have con-
fidence in the republic.
When France became a republic
this country hastened to lend help
ing hand through recognition, and
China today needs like assistance.
Recognition by the United States
would be speedily followed by similar
action on the part of the other pow
ers, and this would enable the new
government to get in position to re-
sist Russian intrusion in Mongolia.
By prompt recognition and by pro-
tests against the action of Russia in
Mongolia we could indeed secure
China's friendship. The entire Knox
scheme in postponing recognition as
long as possible tends to disruption of
China and to endless troubles in that
country.
The new administration will act in
dependently no doubt and the six
powers scheme will be disregar;lci.
This was largely device of Mr..
Knox, and yet it did not prevent Rus
sia from getting a strangle-hold on
Mongolia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07
Benches Instead of Chairs

The floor of the House in Wash
ton is to undergo great change
Room is needed for 442 members, and
the clumsy desks and chairs are to be
taken out and upholstered benches
are to fill the space instead. This is
far better. Committee rooms are near
by, and office room in the big new
office building is not far away. There
is really no reason for retaining the
old reclining chairs and desks.
An effort will be made to bring
about this change before the extra
session meets. When the seven semi
circular rows of benches are installed
the appearance of the House will not
be greatly unlike the British house of
commons in which there are seats for
GOT members. The House of Repre-
sentatives will seat perhaps an equal
number in the future, for the MEM
bership is increasing as each census
comes along. At any rate the cham
Der will have room for many new
members when the proposed benches
are put in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07
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THE HUMAN EAR

From the Family Doctor.
The upper passage of the ear does not
need regular clearing by Its owner. Ma
ture undertakes the task, and in
healthy ear does it<perfectly.
Natures means for clearing the ear Is
the wax, which dries up into thin scales
and peels off and falls away impercepti-
bly, In health the passage of the ear is
never dirty, but am attempt to clean it
will infallibly make it SO. Washing the
ear out with soap and water is bad; it
keeps the wax moist when 1t ought to be-
come dry and scaly, and makes it absorb
dust.
But the most hurtful thing is the in
PRODUCTION of a corner of towel,
screwed up and twisted around. This
proceeding irritates the passage and
presses down the wax and flakes of skin
upon the membrane of the tympanum,
producing pain. Inflammation and deaf
ness. The washing should only extend
to the outer surface as far as the fingers
can reach. An old doctor used to say,
you will be on the safe side If you
don't put anything smaller than your
thumb in your ear"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07
Extension of the Waterway

The citizens of this city desire an
extension of the Warrior improve
ment. Slackwater navigation with
six feet of water the year round is
desirable and all want it. Those who
say the Warrior and 'Bigbee are mar
row and tortuous do not know the his
tory of slackwater navigation in this
and other countries. They have not
studied the story of the Monongahela,
down which great quantities of coal
are floated to Pittsburg. If long tows
are impracticable short tows may not
be, and as a last resort the self-pro-
PEELED barge carrying 1000 tons is
available.
Once the canal is completed pro-
ducers and manufacturers can be
trusted to find way to use it, for in
moving heavy products water trans
portation is easily cheaper and there
fore better than rail transportation.
The government has spent large
sum in opening the 'Bigbee and the
Warrior and its work will stand COM
plete if by canalization it is extended
to this city. This is what we need,
and this is what every citizen desires.
This was made plain at yesterdays
meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce, and Major Flagler, the gov
ernment engineer in charge of the
Warrior improvement, no doubt sees
what the people of this district de-
sire. He knows that Birmingham
wants waterway to tidewater. This
has been the dream of this city many
years, and a canal is all that now
stands in the way of that dream COM
ing true.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07
Another staunton Man

nave read with interest about some
Oh Staunton, VAS distinguished sons
said club man. Woodrow Wilson,
who was born In Staunton, has put that
thriving Virginia town well on the map.
CHARLES Catlett and John Jermain Porter,
prominent in the industrial and scientific
world, had made it a household name
among iron and steel folks, but the Presi-
dent-elect has, as a matter of course,
given 1t worldwide celebrity
In the list of civil engineers one OF
the abest is Archibald Stuart Baldwin
chief engineer of the Illinois Central He
Is another man who sheds dustre on
Staunton. He was born In Winchester,
va, but moved to Staunton early ard
was educated there, and when quite
young man married one of Stauntons
fairest daughters. He was assistant engi-
neer and roadmaster of the Louisville and
Nashville from 1887 to 1901, with office in
Birmingham
II was particularly glad to read the
tribute to Frank S. Foster, assistant
cashier of the First National bank Of
Birmingham and a Staunton boy which
appeared In the Hotel Lobby column
Sunday. Everything said about Mr.. Fos-
ter was true. There was not word
too much. 7 understand that the citizen
quoted in eulogy of this modest Staun-
tonian was former Mayor George B.
Ward
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07
THE SOLDIERS DREAM

BY Thomas Campbell.
our bugles sang truce--for the night
cloud had Toured.
And the sentinel stars set their watch
And thousands had sunk on the ground
overpowered,
The weary to sleep, and the wounded
to die.
When reposing that night on my pail
let of straw,
BY the wolf-scaring fagot that guard
At the dead of the night a sweet vision
And thrice ere the morning dreamt1
it again.
Methought from the battle fields dread
Far, far, I had roam'd on deso-
late track;
Twas autumn-and sunshine arose on
the way
To the home of my fathers, that well
coined me back.
flew to the pleasant fields traversedl
so oft
In life's morning march. when my
bosom was young;
heard my own mountain goats bleat-
ing aloft,
And knew the sweet strain that the
corn reapers sung.
Then pledged me the wine cup, and
fondly l swore
From my home and my weeping
friends never to part:
My little ones kiss'd me a thousand
times DER,
And my wife sobbd aloud in her full.
ness of heart.
and worn;
And fain was their war-broken sol-
dier to stay:
But sorrow return'd with the dawn
ing of morn.
And the voice n my dreaming car
melted away. =
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07
President Taft's Political Wake

The Presidents calm and good-na-
tured acceptance at the reorganiza-
tion dinner in New York of the result
of the election was happy indeed. The
general tone of it was admirable. He,
however, plainly made manifest
hold-back or standpat vein in his
makeup. He wants social changes
to come slowly. "It has," he said,
"been charged against me that | am
an aristocrat, and that have no SYM
pathy with the common people" He
uses this term common people" fire.
quently, and he offers no excuse or
explanation.
The existence here of a class that
Mr.. Taft calls "the common people"
implies the existence of another class
made up of uncommon people. Who,
indeed, are the uncommon people as
distinguished from the common peo-
pie?
1t is the spirit, the undertone, of
the Presidents speech that is signifi-
cant. He is not born reformer, it is
plain. He is believer in great deal
of representative government. He
wants no insurgency" He wants
constitutional representative govern
ment, with all its checks and balances.
He admits that this is "a period of
unrest and agitation for something
intangible which it is difficult to def
nitely describe. We have lived during
the last four years, and are living
now, in an atmosphere of strenuous
denunciations of certain evils and
loud aspirations for an ideal state in
which the common people are to be-
come happier, the poor and the op-
pressed are to acquire property and
cease suffering, and much or all Of
the change is to be accomplished
through the agency of government
All this seems to have been plain
to him and yet the tariff was revised
upward instead of downward, and not
single far-reaching reform was
placed on the statute book. The trusts
were subjected under an old act to
dissolutions that did not dissolve, and
monopoly continues today to crush
competition at every turn. In every
important respect the administra .ior
of Mr.. Taft has been a failure an0
"the common people" in November
last rose up against it. 4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07
Larded with several sorts of reasons
Hamlet.
Southern Commercial Congress

The fifth annual meeting of the
Southern Commercial congress will
be held at Mobile next September and
it will be an event of uncommon inter-
est, for the congress will adjourn to
Panama and proceed in body to
witness the passage of the first ship
through the canal.
Managing Director Clarence j.
Owens of Washington is in Ala
bama now for the purpose of pro-
noting publicity in connection with
the Forthcoming congress and he
should find it easy to arouse enthu-
siasm, especially in Birmingham. No
CITY in the United States is more vi
" interested in the Panama canal
than this city. As Mr.. Owens points
out, Alabama, being the host state
of the Southern Commercial congress,
Birmingham and Montgomery should
both be we'll represented at the Sep
tember meeting. Every member OF
the Birmingham Chomber of Com
merce should arrange to be in Mobile
during the session and a goodly num-
ber may be counted upon to make the
trip to the Panama zone and take
note of that first ship as it passes
through the canal.
The exact date of the opening of
the canal has not been set but the
Southern Commercial congress keeps
in close touch with the government
at Washington and will be informed
several weeks ahead of time so that
due announcement can be made.
The Southern Commercial congress
is five years old and in that time it
has accomplished a great deal. 1t
had a successful meeting at Atlanta
in 1911 and another successful meet
ing at Nashville in 1912, and this
years meeting promises to surpass
all others both in attendance and in
practical and far-reaching Importance
of the subjects discussed. The Mobile
congress will certainly attract more
visitors than any of the others and
it is none too soon for Birmingham
to look out for hotel accommodations
in the Gulf City.
Mobile is noted for its hospitality
and on this occasion it may be de-
pended upon to do irself more than
proud.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07
Inauguration Crowd Expected

I'VE expect a great crowd at the
Inauguration record breaking
crowd" said Jacob L. Phipps of Wash
ington. ID. C.
From all accounts President elect
Woodrow Wilson is inclined to sim
plicity rather than pomp and cere-
mony in public life, but if he ever had
any idea of being inaugurated with
out a great military parade he quickly
made up his mind, no doubt, to con-
form to custom. Certainly from a Wash
ington point of view an Inauguration
would not be an Inauguration without
a great turnout of brass buttons and
brass bands
Il have never had the pleasure of
meeting Mr.. Wilson but from all one
hears he Is a most genial gentleman
and his administration will be great
social success. it may be taken for
granted, no matter what may be said
of the political side of It,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07
PEN BET'RAYS HER

From the New York Mail.
A man whose fountain pen requires re-
pairs, and borrows his wife's to use in
the interval, has chance to make an
interesting study. A woman's pen, Ike
a womans watch. has a psychology OF Its
own. 1t betrays the feminine tempera-
ment in every movement.
Generally you find that. in order to get
the pen to write at all, you have to tip II
to one side, for women always write with
the side or edge of pen. II you can
get it to scratch a little as it goes over
the paper, it will write; il it can't II
leaves the paper blank. If you lay II
down fiat on the table it leaks ink. 1t be-
trays by its general conduct that 1t Is
carried wrong end up and sometimes the
other.
1t is mystery why a woman, who car
be so neat and orderly about her house
and who will not let you displace dolly
on the back of a chair, can always be re-
lied on to get a watch out of order and
demoralize pen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Much Befaer rhan a Year AGO


business conditions in Birmingham
and the Birmingham district are far bet
ter now than they were a year ago
several hundred per cent better l would
say, remarked a member of the Chamber
of Commerce. THE fact is that condi-
tons here now are exceptionally satis-
factory.
IN the industrial field this time last
year only the coal trade was really ac-
tive. general improvement in the in
dustriai situation began to manifest it
sell IN the spring and during the sum-
mer we had a healthy boom Now the
IRON and steel business is remarkably
prosperous. Alabama coal continues to
be in brisk demand, the lumber trade
was never more active and taken all in
all Birmingham has entered the new year
in high feather"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07
Factors in Education

Every young man who completes an
academic course at college would do well
to work at least one year in counting
room before taking up a professional
career" said successful man.
81 am great believer in college edu-
cation for business men as well as pro-
fessional men. l can remember when
only those boys who were to be lawyers,
doctors, preachers or engineers were sent
to college, but the old notion that college
training untitled boy for commercial
life has been exploded A mistake is Of
ten made, however, by college graduates
who go to a law school or theological
seminary and complete studies to fit
them for their special duties without
knowing anything whatever of business
or even the general principles of COM
mel cial work.
"In addition to a years service in a
counting room a young man would be all
the better equipped for a professional
career If he had year or two's expert.
ence as a newspaper reporter. A knowl-
edge of business and a practical expert
encc as writer would certainly give
a man great advantage in life no mat
ter what bis occupation might be.
"The other day I was talking to q
young man who will graduate in one OF
our Alabama colleges next June. He
said that If he developed a turn for bust.
ness he might enter permanently upon a
business career. He intended. he said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07
Recognition of China

The country will soon get rid of
Philander Knox, and when it does
steps should be taken granting recog-
milton to the republic of China. Sena-
tor Bacon of Georgia is already en-
deavoring to bring the Senate up to
recognition by the United States. As
Senator Bacon will almost surely be
the chairman of the committee on
foreign relations in the next Con-
Rress, his action becomes significant.
The Knox theory is that parlia-
1nent must first be elected and the
republic of China must first prove it
has come to stay. AS the republic has
recently borrowed $125,000,000 from
the six-power banking group it is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07
CONFIRMED ron RHEUMATISM

From Living Church.
Rev. Joshua Kimber, in his "Reminis-
cences," tells the following anecdote of
the late Bishop Horatio Potter:
He had been journeying up the east
bank of the Hudson river stopping for
confirmation each day at adjoining par
ishes. When he reached Poughkeepsie
he saw a woman at the rail waiting
for confirmation whose face he was sure
he recognized and was somewhat IA
miliar with. He was also certain that
she had been confirmed within the week
at another place. The bishop whispered
to her to remain after service, and
said:
MY dear madam what do you mean
by coming for confirmation? I am sure
[ confirmed you on Monday at such a
place. Did l not?
She said: you certainly did. I have
been following you up the river, and
have BEEN confirmed every day this
week"
He astonished, said "Why did you
do that?" Whereupon she replied:
Because l heard it was good for
rheumatism."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-07
PuNcTUATED ROMANCE.

y
They are reviving the old story of the
correspondence between Victor Hugo and
his publisher on the issue of Les Miser-
ables." Very busy but anxious to know
how the book was selling, Hugo sent the
publisher card marked simply "?" The
reply came back ~"
This recalls the Cleveland man no
longer young-who had been promised an
early answer to his proposal of marriage,
and finally. becoming impatient, wrote
as follows:
when can come up and get the aa-
swer to my ?'
The clever young woman promptly re-
piled: .. long"
Which, being decipered, meant. "com-
ma long
1t is pleasing to relate that when the
wooer had come along the young wom-
an put full stop to his anxiety.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS.
"Pa, what is meant by the entente cor
diale'?''
A reciprocal feeling of friendliness, my
son, that is rendered null and void in the
case of New York and Chicago"
PAUL COOK.