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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08
Lack of Wharf Facilities Did It

The Mobile Register and the Mont
gomery Advertiser are still discussing
the causes of the failure of the Mont
gomery barge line. The Advertiser de-
pends to a great extent upon state
ment made by Richard Hobbie, Mo-
bile merchant, who says that law
water, stranding of barges on sand
bars, the loss of barge and cargo
uninsured, and inefficient manage
ment, entered into the case. But Mr..
Hobbie adds this to his statement:
"When the barge line was first in
augurated at Mobile it was given
wharf facilities by both the Mobile
and Ohio railroad and the Mallory line
of steamers. This privilege was later
withdrawn. We had the use of the city
wharf at Mobile, but the change made
necessary heavy drayage charges that
embarrassed the business of the line
in Mobile
The Register says this was the
straw that broke the camel's back. The
Register is on the spot and it certain
ly knows as much about the failure of
the line as wayfarer at the other
end of it knows.
Mr.. Hobbies statement really con-
firms Mr.. Kealhofer's assertion, and
the evidence to date tends to convict
the combination of railroads and
steamships at Mobile of the crime of
strangling to death Montgomery's un-
fortunate barge line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08
Union and Southern Pacific

The Union Pacific secures through
line across the divide to the Pacific
coast by purchasing the Central Pa
cific, which had belonged to the South
ern Pacific. The price paid for it is
to be S104, 1854. This is very
considerable sum to raise in jiffy, but
the Union Pacific is equal to it, for it
sells its holdings of Southern Pacific
at 9S5s. This will bring in $S4, ,675, 800,
to which is to be added $5,449,000 in
Southern Pacific bonds held by the
Union Pacific, and $14, ,065, AL in cash.
The Southern Pacific comes out of
the deal well loaded up with cold cash,
and much of it is to be expended for
extension, equipment and betterments.
1t is indeed a rich company.
The Union Pacific and the Central
Pacific will not be actually merged,
the Union Pacific being content with a
controlling interest in the stock of the
Central Pacific. 1t was not difficult to
adjust affairs to meet the decision of
the United States supreme court be-
cause the proprietor of all these roads,
a widow, was willing and that rem
dered negotiations easy and definite
and satisfactory from her point of
view. How much competition will
spring up between the two transconti-
mental companies remains to be seen.
1t will probably not be very acute or
slashing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08
Utah's Sacred Cows

The fifteenth amendment was added
to the federal constitution AZ years
ago. Such matters moved slowly a
generation ago, but these are revolu-
tionary days and the pace has been
remarkably quickened. The sixteenth
amendment has just been ratified, al
though the official PRONUNCIATION has
not been issued. The seventeenth
amendment will follow closely on the
heels of the sixteenth.
The seventeenth amendment pro-
vides for the direct election by the
people of United States senator's. 1t
was originated because of the need of
Senate free from corporation con-
troll, and thus far not single state
has said "No" TO it, Utah alone ex-
cepted. Utah is the one state that is
boss-controlled and that also has a
hierarchy working hand in hand with
Aso pohtiSoi poSSco. lHcy dIc Tedliy
one and the same. Although both par
ties in Utah had indorsed the seven
teenth amendment, yet the republi-
cans in the Utah senate had the au-
dacity to reject it.
This was done in Salt Lake under
the shadow of the Mormon temple.
The Salt Lake City Progressive thus
describes a feature of that city: "Salt
Lake is filled with sacred cows. In
newspaper parlance, sacred COW is
sn institution of person concerning
whom nothing but good must be
printed and concerning whose affairs
.I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08
The pre.ident-elect,. Secretary

That was a timely courtesy of Presi-
dent Tafts secretary, Mr.. Hilles, In show
ing Joseph P. Tumulty through the White
House." said a former citizen of Wash
ington.
'Mr. Tumulty is now the private sec
retary to the governor of New JERSEY
and he has been chosen by Woodrow
Wilson as secretary TO the President on
and after March T. Mr.. Hilles introduced
him to the Presidents staff and explained
routine matters in the executive office.
The first Presidents secretary that L
knew was Dan Lamont, who came from
Albany, n. Y, to the White House with
Mr.. Cleveland in 1885. Neither Mr.. Cleve-
land nor Mr.. Lamont had ever been in
side of the White House until after the
Inauguration. It occurred to me that It
would have been the proper thing for
President Arthur's secretary to initiate
Mr.. Lamont, so to speak, but 1t had not
been the custom. 1 think Mr. Hilles is
the first to start it. In other admins
trations the secretary as well as the
President had to pick up the routine as
best they could. An assistant secretary
was always a 'holdover' and, of course.
he explained White House routine to the
new secretary But Mr.. Hiles has set
good precedent, which is apt to be fol-
lowed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08
SOME TAR HEEL AMENITIES


We gather from brother Josephus Dan
iers paper. the Raleigh News and OBJ
server, that there is some feeling between
the Hennessees and the Pittses, two prom
trent families of Glen Alpine. in brother
Josephus' state. 1t appears that certain
representatives of the two families had
a little controversy recently, with the fol-
lowing net results:
DR.. Tennessee has about a dozen scalp
wounds, his ear is mashed, his nose
bruised, his jaw broken, and a bone in
his right hand broken. He has bullet
in his left shoulder. one in the left side
of his chest, another in the left thigh,
another in the right leg, and a slash
across the back of his left hand His
forehead was creased by bullet early in
the fight and his face is beaten to pulp.
German Pitts has a cut on the left wrist,
a stab in the right leg, and a serious
Lnife wound IN the left chest, leading
down into the abdomen over the liver
about the fifth intercostal space.
Erwin Pitts mas a stab wound in the left
chest. penetrating the lung, a cut in the
left arm below the shoulder, and bullet
in his right leg.
Abe Pitts has a stab wound in the left
shoulder and cut flesh wound under
his left arm. He is able to get around.
Nash Tennessee has the mold of brick
on his face below his left eye
These were the only gentlemen who par
ticipated in the exercises. but it is added
Sam Bennett. the peacemaker. had a
part of his left side removed by a load
of buckshot.
According to local public opinion as duly
reported by brother Josephus' representa-
tive, there will probably be another meet
ing when these various parties get ou
of the hospitals. We venture the predic'
ton, however. that peacemaker Bennett
will not again optrude his service on the
gathering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08

From Harpers Weekly.
At least one investigator has been at
the pains to discover whether the legend
of Orpheus the wondrous music of whose
Tyre enthraled the wild beast of the for
ests, rests upon a fact. Cornish, at the
London 200" endeavored to ascertain
by experiment what effect music would
have upon the creatures there in captiv-
ity. With him went a musical friend, who
played on the violin to insects, reptiles,
birds and beasts.
fThe tarantulas listened or did not lis
ten, unmoved and sull<y. They whose bite
is said in fable to cause others to dance
refused to dance themselves. Not SO the
scorpions. After few notes had been
played, they became agitated and writhed
and danced tumultuously, their exclte-
nent Increasing with every crescendo and
decreasing with each diininnendo.
In the reptiles cages more marked ef-
fects were seen. The monitor lizard lis
tened and swayed Black snakes were
attentive and started up and Kissed. A
boa crept as close as possible to the in
strument and seemed enraptured.
But of all the snakes the cobra is re-
ruted to be most susceptible to music,
and the one Experimental on at the ZOO
did not belle it's fame. On hearing the
violin. it raised itself in the traditional
attitude on its tail, spread it's hood, and
gently swayed to and fro.
The first quadrupeds to which the vio-
lin was played manifested much pleasure
and stood up at the front Of the cage to
listen.
The wolves snarled ana covered in abb
ject fear at the sound of the violin, with
tails between their legs hair bristling
and bodies quivering in spasms of fright.
The same results were noted in the case
of jackals and foxes. The sheep, natur-
ally enough, found pleasure in that which
frightened the wolves. So did the wild
hogs, the bisons and the zebra.
The elephant did not care for the music,
hut snorted and whistled with rage. The
monkeys displayed a critical diversity
of sentiment. Some listened eagerly with
mods and gestures OF appreciation, while
others seowled and turned away in dis
gust The only animals that We're en-
tirely indifferent were the seals,
Further experiments were made on the
various animals with other instruments
especially with the piccolo and the flute
As rule, the shrill notes of the piccoic
annoyed, frightened or enraged the ami
mails, while the softer tones of the flute
soothed and pleased them. On the whole
however, the violin suited them best OF
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08
One Months Business of Parcel Post

One Months Business of Parcel Post
Forty million packages were carried
by parcel post in January, and some
estimate the first years total at one
billion packages. This total seems i'm
mense, but it is only II packages per
capita, and when the eggs, butter and
other lesser farm products are carried
by parcel post 10 packages per capita
is not high estimate.
The popularity Of the new system
is unmistakable. Everybody praises
it, and yet it is considered in tentative
form in this country. No other count
try has adopted the zone plan. All
other countries have flat rates good
from one end of country to the
other. Uncle Sam is testing the
plan, and it is too early to say what
the judgment of the country will be
upon it. Many other things are to be
tested.
As it stands every one should strive
to make it useful. If it brings the
consumer and the producer together
even to the extent of 10 per cent it
will have accomplished great deal.
It will have put untold millions in the
pockets of consumers and producers,
thus compelling the middlemen to look
elsewhere for profits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08
CALIFORNIA; DRAMATIC ADVENT

FROM Leslie S.
When, on January 4, 1S4S James W. Mar
shall found the particles of yellow dust in
the tail race of Suffers mill, on the
South Fork of the American river. forty
miles northeast of the present city of
Sacramento, he gave a turning point to
American history, and he altered the
current of the worlds story. At that
moment, down at Guadalupe Hidalgo, a
suburb of the City of Mexico, $500 miles
away. the American and Mexican COM
missioners were arranging the terms
which ended the war between their re-
spective countries. In that pact, signd
nine days later, Mexico ceded California
and New Mexico, including the present
Nevada, Utah, Arizona and parts of Col
orado and Wyoming to the United States.
But neither they nor anybody else IN
either nation dreamed of the treasure
house thus transferred, or of the signfi-
canoe of that find" near the foothills of
the Sierra
Although Sutter Marshall and their
workingmen attempted to keep the dis
covery a secret, 1t gradually penetrated
to other settlements on the Pacific coast,
and made its way by ship to Hawaii,
Australia, China, Mexico South America,
the United States and Europe. From the
four corners of the globe wild stampede
started for the valley of the Sacramento,
with the result that nearly 100000 people
were there and in regions Immediately
surrounding by 1850, and California
knocked for admission as state before
the Congress at Washington had time to
organize it as n territory. It's admission,
as part of the compromise of 1850, broke
the balance between the slave and the free
states by giving the latter the preponder-
ance. gave a new impetus to immigration
from Europe Ind the eastern and south
ern states to the west and northwest,
started the chain of events which precipi-
ia ted the conflict between the north and
the south which abolished slavery. killed
the doctrine of secession, transformed
our country from league into nation,
and made the United States an indestruc-
tible union of indestructible states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08

nothing adverse may be said. To
please sacred cows the news of the
day is suppressed, editorial opinions
are warped, the people are kept in
ignorance Of the truth. Utah is the
most throttled and plunder-bound-
ravished state in the Union. The Pro-
gressive urgently recommends that
every family in Utah make it prac-
tice to take some fair-minded outside
paper or magazine"
The sacred cows pay small attention
to platform pledges. The hierarchy is
the machine, and it no doubt had de-
creed the defeat of the seventeenth
amendment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08
Pale primrOses,
The Dairy Industry

There is a steadily increasing inter-
est in dairying in the south and each
wear adds to butter production IN Ala
bama. Still the progress in this I'M
portant work might be faster.
The Southern Railway company is
doing much to promote dairying by
sending its "Dairy Instruction Car
through a number of southern states.
The car has been in Alabama for two
weeks or more. It's present itinerary
started at Alfalfa and made stops for
n day at Gadsden, Leesburg, Cedar
Bluff, Tecumseh, Piedmont, Jackson
vile, Fruithurst, Heflin, Choccolocco,
McFall, Pell City, Leeds, Oakman,
Berry, Fayette and Millport and today
1t will be in Jasper. Nauvoo will be the
stopping place on Monday, Haleyville
on Tuesday, Spruce Pine Wednesday,
Russellville Thursday, Sheffield Fri
day and Florence Saturday. From
Florence it will proceed to Tennessee
but will return to Alabama the latter
part of this month and will stop a day
each at Riverton, Cherokee, Tuscum-
bia, Courtland, Hillsboro, Decatur,
Madison, Huntsville, Gurley, Paint
Rock, Scottsboro and Stevenson.
The dairy car is equipped with pic
lures of the best animals, charts
telling how to feed, how to handle
milk and how to make larger profits
by use of materials and methods in
reach of the average dairyman." This
dairy car will do for the dairying in
terests what the farm demonstration
car sent out by the United States gov
ernment and by states and railroads
has done to promote intensive farm
ing
IL dairy profits are large in north
ern states they should be even larger
in Alabama. Our milder climate means
a great deal in the economy of the
dairy for it takes much less to main-
tain COW.
Alabama's butter production last
year was 30,1O3,0O0 pounds, but this
was not enough to supply the demand,
for the butter shipped into the state
amounted to 7,395,944, making the
total consumption for Alabama ST.
498,944 pounds.
The dairy industry in the south can
be developed rapidly by the spread of
education and by practical demonstra-
ton. No branch of farm life can add
more appreciably to the wealth of a
state than the modern dairy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08

be read, but to be heard. The touch OF
personality and intimacy which may give
sermon its immediate authority is pre-
cisely what the reader. beyond the reach
os eye or voice. may not be able to feel.
No literature is likely to become more
desiccated than the volumes of sermons,
whose publications grateful parishoners
promote. leaving to their children the
pious duty of transferring to the nearest
theological library their uncut and dusty
copies
"The writer of the article then goes
on to answer the question, Has the fate
OF temperatures overtaken even the
preaching of Phillips Brooks? by telling
of the extraordinary welcome given to
Brooks sermons In a German translation.
1t is pointed out that it is a suggestive
incident in literary history that while
the tide of appreciation has gradually
ebbed in England and America, it has
risen with suddenness and volume where
his name and fame have been quite un-
known
Peabody, as he reaches the summing UP
point, aptly says that there yet remains
in art a classic style, a best, way. a
permanent supremacy. Changes of taste
or circumstance do not displace Titan or
Shakespeare or Beethoven
DIR. Peabody closes eloquently: To pass
from this region of bustling sensational
ism into the atmosphere of Brooks
preaching is as when the disciples went
up from tho gossip of Galilee into high
mountain apart, where the great prophets
OF the past greeted the new preacher of
the kingdom. On the serene summit of
Christian experience the masters of
preaching met; Chrysostom and Angus
tine, Tauler and Eckart, Robertson and
Newman. Schleiermacher and Caird, the
gcodly-company of the prophets who have
escaped the fate of temperatures and
preach timeless message; and in this
lofty companionship, of different CEN
turies and creeds, there is a place for the
generous and guileless genius of Phillips
Brooks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08
Rack from Panana

w. Barnes Morgan, who was one of
the party of Birmingham citizens who
have Just returned from a trip to the
West Indies and Panama, is enthusiastic
in his account of the jaunt. He said:
"The Panama canal itself is a gigantic
undertaking that, in general way, re-
sembles great railroad cut with tracks
running into it to complete il. OF course,
the entertainments, such as the Culebra
cut are several hundred feet deep. The
gates of the dams are in position and 1
understand that in few months the wa
ter will be let in to test their workings
and to prepare for the official opening.
Panama City is interesting, but outside
of the sight of the great engineering feat,
as shown in the canal, our trip was made
more enjoyable by the stop at jamaica
and Cuba. We visited the interior on
both of these islands. Jamaica has q
large negro population, but | saw no
evidences of the race in other than a
servile sense, except a few policemen.
1--WE had most delightful visit to Cuba
We arrived i'm Havana just in time for
the carnival season. which is the time of
all others to enjoy the Pearl of the An
TILES Pretty women? Well, there are
bevies of Castilian beauties in Havana,
and during the carnival they are seen at
their best, in their very best
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08
Regarding Mems Dress

'I frequently hear the matter of mems
dress discussed, especially regulation
dress for informal dinners," said a cluL
man. According to the Mems Dress
Chart for 1913 prepared by a New York
haberdasher and printed in The World
Almanac, this is the correct style:
g Jacket black or Oxford, Chesterfield
overcoat; waisteoat, black or black and
white silk or linen, single breasted,
trousers. same material as jacket; shirts
and cuffs, pleated white linen or pique
with cuffs attached; collar, fold or wing
cravat, black or black and white silk
tie: boots, patent leather, buttoned cloth
or kid tops, patent leather pumps; jew
elry, gold or jewelled links and studs, gold
tar chain
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08
THE vAGABOND

Robert Louis Stevenson.
Give to me the life | love,
Let the lave go by me,
Give the Jolly heaven above
And the byway nigh me.
Bed in the bush with stars to see,
Bread l dip in the river
There's the life for man like me.
There's the life forever.
Let the blow falLsoon or late,
Let what will be DER me;
Give the face of earth around
And the road before me.
Wealth l seek not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All | seek, the heaven above
And the road below me.
Or let autumn fall on me
Where afield | llnger,
Silencing the bird on tree,
Biting the blue finger.
White as meal the frosty field
Warm the fireside haven
Not to autumn will l yield,
Not to winter, even,
Let the blow fall soon or late,
Let what will beiall me;
Give the face of earth around,
And the road before me.
Wealth l ask not. nope. nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask. the heaven above
And the road below me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08
HIP, HIP
A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER

top saw the gathering storm, and how
they were like the sands of the sea for
number and he besought his friend to
sound his ivory horn. that Charlemagne
and his men might return. Thus says
the song of Roland:
20 Roland. sound on your ivory horn,
To the ear of Karl shall the blast be
borne:
He will bid his legions backward bend,
And all his barons their aid will lend.
Now God forbid it, for very shame.
That for me my kindred were stained
with blame,
IOr that gentle France to such vileness
This good sword that hath served me
well,
My Durindana such strokes shall deal
That with blood encrimsoned shall be
the steel"
And the first day the Franks repulsed
the Saracens, despite their numbers and
Roland wrought nightly, and Olivier.
and Bishop Turpin, who blessed the
men. and then fought side by side with
them. But on the morrow came more
Saracens, fresh for the fight, and the
Franks were weary and heavy for sleep.
and the battle went against them,
though Roland and Olivier fought side
by side like very demons. cleavins
helmets and skulls with their swords.
their armor red wit hthe blood of the
slain. Yet ever the Saracens pressed
lcloser, wave on wave. five men, ten. a
dozen to each Frank their eyes ablaze,
hot with the. lust of killing. forcins
the little band of Roland back and
farther back
And when Roland saw that the battl,
was lost beyond regaining and death
was very near for all of them, he lifted
the ivory horn.
With deadly travail. in stress and pain.
Count Roland sounded the mighty
strain.
Forth from his mouth the bright blood
sprang,
And his temples burst for the very pang.
Even the Saracens drew back a space.
and 1t was as IL they had heard a voice
from another world; birds dropped life
less from the heavens at that direful
sound; and loud and deep and full of
Idread foreboding echoed the blast across
the. mountain tops, as If it had been the
death cry of Roland. Charlemagne heard
and turned his men again, horses thun-
dering along the mountain roads but
they came too late.
For ere those passes could be thread
led through. Sir Olivier was dead; dead
was brave Bishop Turpin. wallowing III
his blood. and dead was maich1ess Ro-
land, clenched in his hand the good
sword Durindana, dark with blood up
to the very hilt; and as he lay lifeless
upon terrace where marble steps once
led to a fair villa. his dead face, that
had been the fear of Spain. fronted the
enemy.
Small need to tell how Charlemagne.
summoned too tardily. put the foul in
fidels to flight and took all Spain; how
Ganelon the traitor died a traitors
death; little joy was there in the tents
of the Franks. and when they turned
| their horses heads once more to France.
their hearts were heavy. since Roland.
bravest of them all, was slain. and VIC
tory was swallowed up in death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08
pREHIsToRIc REMAINS

From the London Chronicle.
If Sussex stands first among English
counties as treasury of ancient human
remains, Essex can make out good
claim to first place when it comes 10
other animals. Ilford Is famous in the
annals of geological research, discovere
there giving US an idea OF the dangerous
state of the Thames valley at an earls'
date in its history. The elephant, tae
rhinoceros. and the bear roamed wild.
and the prehistoric traveller who dodse-i
them still ran the risk of encounterih1
the tiger or the bison, both also natives
of this part. The number of teeth dis
covered at llford shows the elephant 70
have been particularly common.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-08
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR

From the New York Press
woman can learn most anything un-
less she studies it.
When a woman can be fooled by her
husband. it's because she wants to be.
The way girls, hair gets tangled on
a mans coat buttons is for the light to
SC out.
A man will bet money recklessly, but
when it's a box of cigars he's very eau
tious about it.
The reason a man gets home from a
public dinner about o'clock in the morn
ing is 1t was over about II.