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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Choosing a Vocation

At this season of school and college
commencements the question of voca-
ttion naturally receives the attention of
\ graduates and of parents or guardians
who have at heart the welfare of those
in their charge.
In this modern so-called progressive
,age girls as well as boys begin to
think of self supporting callings be-
fore graduation time arrives. But it is
the young men who should be most
concerned about this matter of voca-
-tion. 1t is well, of course, for young
: ladies to be able to earn livelihood.
"A very large percentage of them are
forced to work for a living and many
who do not from necessity become
wage-earners support themselves
merely for the sake of being inde-
pendent. But the majority of young
women workers get married and, in
the nature of things, the vocation Of
the married woman is at home.
Every man, however, who has to
support himself must be busy in the
workaday world throughout life, mat
rimony or no matrimony. A CONNER
cial vocation is, therefore, especially
Important for the young man, but in
choosing a vocation many mistakes
are made simlpy because father in
sists on his boy being this or that
when the boy has absolutely no turn
for the trade, business or profession
which pater familias has elected for
: him.
A boy cannot be an engineer un-
less he has a turn for mathematics.
He cannot be a machinist unless he
has liking for tools. He cannot be a
lawyer-certainly not good lawyer
unless he has a mind at once keen,
orderly and analytical. He cannot be
. successful physician unless he loves
science, for the modern physician is
scientific as well as empirical. He
cannot be preacher-the right sort Of
Z preacher-unless he has in addition
to the student habit genuine piety. And
no one can become a successful busi-
ness man unless he reveals some apti-
tude for trading. Many Of the failures
In life result from the boy not know
ing his own mind or being forced by
q father into some line of endeavoi
for which he is altogether untitled.
I. ~ vel feg = boy when he comes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
pu~ine.. district Expanding

''As one of the many evidences of the
expansion of Birmingham's business dis
trict, the proprietor of pharmacy on
Fifth avenue told me the other day that
his sales during the first 20 days of May
were something like $40 more than they
were during like period of last year..
said an observer.
He had kept close record and said
that weather conditions, which affect the
soft drink business, were about the same
last year as this The increase was due
entirely he thought, to the business drift.
Ii is plain to see that both wholesale and
retail business is spreading out in this
rapidly growing city,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Rack IN Birmin CHAM

81 am glad to note the return of w
e. Urquhart to Birmingham" said an ole
citizen with the failure of his healtf
some time ago Mr.. urquhart went tt
Florida, but the spell of the Magic CITY
was too strong, and he has come pacR
TO the city where he is so widely ane
favorably known.
Il understand that Mr.. urquhart VII
not practice his profession, that OF Ia"
but will engage in another business OF al
important nature. Having thus PROVED
his loyalty to Birmingham, Mr.. ur
quhart's praises Of Pensacola, which, NJ
believes, will become one of the creates
ports of this country, are heard appre
clatively by his numerous friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Judge Wood of Evansville

Judge w. j. Wood Of Evansville, Ind.
is in Birmingham visiting relatives. He
will appear before the committee on ex-
press rates of the board of trade on Mon
day afternoon and 90 to Washington next
Wednesday on business before the in
terstate commerce commission.
Judge Wood was president of the IN
diana railroad commission for eight years
and will be remembered here as the first
state tax commissioner of this state. He
is considered an expert on freight and ex-
press rates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

The Rev. DIR. Andrew Burns Chalmers.
pastor of Plymouth congregational
church in Worcester. Mass, and Mrs.
Chalmers have sailed from Boston on the
Cymric for Liverpool to carry out an ar
rangement for an exchange of pulpits.
DR.. Chalmers goes to supply the pulpit
of the Soho Hill Congregational church
in Birmingham, England. during the
summer. about the same hour that Dr..
Chalmers sailed the Rev DR.. James
Wylie, pastor of the Soho Hill church,
sailed from Liverpool on the Arabic 10
supply the pulpit of Plymouth church.
The two ministers expect to pass each
other in mid-ocean, and plans are be-
ing made to have a joint service by
wireless as the steamers pass each
other. Neither minister has seen the
other and neither expects to see the
other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
SPRING.

| want to go out in the woods for awhile,
And stretch in the restful shade;
I want to get rid of myself fer a while,
And roll in grassy glade
/ want to lie fiat on my back for a while,
A thousand miles from steam,
/ want to look UP at the sky tor while,
And dream and dream, and dream
Cincinnati Enquirer.
| want to go out In the woods for while
And list to the wind in the trees,
| want to sit high a hill fer a while
Where the landscape is fashioned to
please.
want to look round at the skies for
while,
And the plain where the toilers grub;
want to be away from the crowd for
a while,
But not too far from a club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Order Must Be Preserved

The strike of the building trades in
Birmingham has lasted a week and
while labor organizations have passed
resolutions urging the strikers to re-
frain from violence not few reaches
of the peace have been committed. One
of the regrettable features of nearly
all strikes is the tendency of some of
the hot-headed men to use violence
in order to intimidate those who see
fit to work. 1t is reasonable to
assert that the great majority of
strikers deprecate anything like the
mob spirit, but for their own good
they should be ever ready to assist the
police in maintaining order.
As The Age-Herald said the other
day, the public generally is not in
sympathy with this strike. If SYM
pathetic strikes were ever defensible
it is not so in the case here When
wage workers are underpaid and
when they have any real grievance
a large part of the public quickly
sympathizes with them, and the judg-
ment of the public is usually right.
At any rate, the present strike lacks
the moral support of the community,
and it is hoped and believed that the
carpenters, who started it, will soon
see their way clear to call the strike
off In the meantime, law and order
must prevail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
THE FAR TRAVELLERS

By Frank l.. Stanton.
on the road to Happiness we're faring
day by day,
And still ii seems a dream to u.s. and ever
far away:
On the valleys violets Life turns its
wistfu eyes.
But Happiness is where the hills are
climbing to the Skies
$50 the voices whisper,
Sweet toned and low,
over lives that kiss and cling
And graves beneath the snow)
On the road to Happiness, where shall
we rest?
Is 1t an Elusive star that shines on
heavens breast?
is 1t where no discord this earthly music
mars
A memory of violet-a dying dream of
stars?
(Still the voices whisper,
Sweet toned and low,
20 for lips that kiss and cling.
And graves beneath the snowl2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
A Rusy Place

Fairfield will be a busy place this
summer" said member of the Chamber
of Commerce.
I'VE used to hear good deal of the
model town of Corey, and it was; and with
its new name of Fairfield it will continue
to be a model town. Not only So, 1t Will
take a fresh start With the completion of
the great wire mill and more houses Will
be built there during the next six months
than in any like era in the SOUTH
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
A Grcat Musical Event


''The Bach Beethoven Brahms festival
honor of the twenty-ffth anniversary of
Emperor Williams accession to the
throne, was one of the notable events of
the year" said a music lover. Never
was there a greater outpouIlng of cul-
tured people living in or visiting the
Prussian metropolis.
Bach, Beethoven and Erahms are
known as the three Bs in music stand
ing out as masters whose compositions
will never lose freshness or interest. Some
savant has remarked that if all the COM
positions by other great musicians were
burned the world would still be rich in
musical art.
''In the Berlin festival Siegfried Ochs
conducted the Bach music, Arthur Nikich
the Beethoven and Max Fielder the
Brahms. The festival opened with the
Bach B minor mass Among rhe Beetho-
ven works presented was the Ninth SYM
phony and Brahms First symphony was
the erowning event of one of the even
ing concerts.
Berlin critics say that the Ninth sym
biAoii9 ItN Nti fldu a liner performance. Al
for the Bach mass it was a revelation
of beauty even to cid musicians and con-
cert goers. This is work tAat the late
Theodore Thomas was especially fond of
giving at the Cincinnati festival. 1t has
been said that the average layman who
likes music considers this greatest of all
Bachs works rather dry but my friends
who have the least bit of musical culti-
vation and who listen seriously think il
about as heavenly as anything ever writ
ten.
The Berlin correspondent of The Mu-
sica Courier writes eloquenty of it as
follows: When Siegfried Ochs raised his
baton and gave the signal to begin and
the first complaining notes OF the intro
ductory adaIgio of the "Kyrie" resounded.
a hush fell upon the vast audience, deep
ening into awe as the chorGs, part by
part, took up the development of the
theme with ever Increasing energy and
volume of tone. The perfect control
mechanism at his dispostal cannot be too
highly praised. As the subdued murmur
of the sea in the distance grows ever
louder and more insistent It's one ap-
proaches the shore, or as the rising wind
in a forest gathers strength in d grow
ing storm until it sweis inso a mighty
volume of sound, so the crescendos which
this inmitable leader produces are grad
ed with marvellous unity of development
until finally the entire strength of the
great choir is revealed in a srand fortis-
simo. And the diminuendos die away with
the same eyenness of repression of tone
volume and are lest to the ear as II
withdrawn into the distance ,ather than
actually to have ceased. On through the
Gloria "Credo' and ''Sanctus" the per-
feet contact between the conductor and
choir was everywhere felt, and the sen
sitive response to his demands was like
that of violin to the touch of a master
hand -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

deck to bid his friends adieu and OBJ
serve the sights of the getaway. As
We pulled out into the stream good
looking well dressed woman and her
escort were making a scene on deck.
They had failed to get off in time. The
steamships whistle blew for tug to
come out and woman and man climbed
down ladder to its deck and were
taken back.
The ships deck is seven hundred feet
long or equal in distance from the
Florence hotel corner to the Hillman
corner. Along this are ranged three
hundred or more steamer chairs for the
first class passengers. The five hun
dred steerage passengers are on low
er deck lolling about on the floor or
benches. All have woolen steamer rugs
or blankets of fancy colors. either
brought aboard by the individuals or
rented from the deck steward for the
trip. the rental price being one dollar.
One takes to his chair well covered
with his rug, reads or talks to his
neighbor; or else he walks about the
deck for exercise or INDUCES in one of
the many deck games. all of which
require skill and some of them strength
Foot races are indulged in. hurdle
jumping, potato races, egg and spoon
races and all manner of sports which
one could enjoy ashore. There is some-
thing to do or observe every minute of
the fifteen day trip to Naples.
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After nine day sail we landed at
the Madeira Islands-the town of Fun
cheel--a picturesque city of thirty
thousand people built upon the shore
line and the mountain side, with a
background of mountains more than a
thousand feet high. All the houses are
OF stone and concrete with roofs of
red tile. The streets are Immediately
clean, paved with tiny rounded cobble-
stones set in concrete and so smooth
and with such a polish that the main
means of movement is in canopied sleds
holding four, resting upon steel tired
runners like the ordinary sleigh and
drawn by two small oxen. These are
led by boy and Urged on by a driver
walking beside them and making ex-
pert use of a long bull whip.
There are also many automobiles for
those of more expensive tastes and
eagerness for swift move. Also horse
cars with canvass canopies, drawn by
three horses abreast and running upon
tracks but two feet wide; and fun
icular railroad running to the winter
resort hotel and the great sanitorium,
both built by the English on the top
of the mountain. The trains run on
regular tracks with a cog track in the
center upon which the big cog wheel
of the engine grips and pulls 1t along.
One comes down from the mountain top
either upon the train or a toboggan
sled. which slides easily over the pol
ished surface of the cobbles.
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About Madeira are scattered pic
turesque winter resort hotels on the
mountain sides and overlooking the
harbor. The town is Portuguese, but
muchly inhabited by English and Amer
leans. Everything Is terraced with stone
walls and the houses seem almost to
be built on the tops of one another.
The streets are no wider than alleys
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
med BRACE WRITES ABOUT PASTIMES ON
ONE OF GREATEST TRANSATLANTIC LINERS

| and in many of them two automobilas
cannot pass. They run in all sorts af
Irregular directions. Sometimes. on ono
side you. look down upon the roof of
mouse, and ON the other at house
rising far above you and reached hv
winding stone or concrete steps Ev-
erywhere you are greeted by nrofn-
sions of gay coIored flowers Evor,.
foot of earth grows flowers, fruits or
vegetables Triangular plots of thirty
ioot sldes are often protected by fifteen
feet high stone walls. and between the
perpendicular rock wall of the noun
tain side and the terrace walls vege-
tables are maturing and ripening ev-
cry month of the year. Strawberries as
large and sweet as those of Cullmen
are ripening every month of the vaor
The mountain sides are dotted here.
there and everywhere with VINEYARDS
producing grapes from which the de-
licious and expensive Madeira wine is
made
A day at Madeira is an oasis of de-
light to the ocean traveller
Another two days sail and another day
ashore at Gibraltar, the great English
fortress commanding the entrance to the
Mediterranean sea, and in sight of the
African shore. Gibraltar is an immense
rock rising more than a thousand feet
above the sea almost perpendicular on
one side and on others sloping down to
the water line. Here, in the town OF
thirty or forty thousand, are English,
Moors. Spaniards and indeed representa-
tives of all nations. It is. however, strict
y English. spaniards are required to
cross over the Spanish line to their own
country each night.
The great mountain of rock at Gibral-
tar is tunneled in all directions. hidden
within which are hundreds of powerful
defense guns of the largest calibre. 1t
is supposed to be the most impregnaBle
fortress in the world and to have guns
sufficient to sink the navies of the world
at fifteen miles distance. How true this
be no one outside of the English war Of
flee and the officers of the fort know.
Visitors are not permitted to see except
from the outer view.
In the town there are dock yards and
ship building and repair plants, shell fac
tories and powder mills and everything
that goes to make up war world of its
own. Fourteen years supply OF pro-
visions, including all manner of canned
and other eatables are said to be kept in
storage to provide against a seige. and
there is plant to distill salt water in the
event of a shortage of rainfall. On the
mountain sides are great concrete reser-
voirs, likewise rooted in concrete in
which the rains are collected to supply
the city and fortress.
Here the horse and mule are used, and
the traction engine for hauling heavy
ordnance.
Gibraltar is not pf the picturesque color
ing and vegetation of Madeira. but is i'm
pressive in its business and warlike ap-
pearance. 1t is serious, massive and
mammoth in its conception and complete-
ness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

-y HIS is the simple story OF TIP
across the Atlantic ocean. 1t Is
not intended for pompous nor
plutocratic personalities. 1t is not
even intended for the fancy of my
friends. Major Tutwller. Henry Gray
nor Bob Jemison, sr., who have pirated
much upon the worlds seas and know
all the ms and outs of travel.
The good Mrs. Brace and 1 were ac-
cused of display of nerve in bringing
along three children ranging in age
from three months to three times three
years Not so. After IA days of friv-
oling on sunny decks of the 14,000-ton
steamship Saxonia they are rudy
checked. laughing and romping little
ones, having the time of their young
lives. There are games galore for
them and as much deck playroom as
is to be found in the average High
| land avenue yard. Indeed they can
run and walk miles a day and are
as comfortably quartered as at home
each with his or her own bed, conven-
that one can find on shore. and in
deed more, for there are eatables on
this ship gathered from all quarters of
the globe
Now, about a trip across the ocean
from New York to Naples, of southern
Italy.
Before one goes to the dock in New
York he puts a tag on each piece Of
his baggage This tag has his name,
the name\of the ship and the number
of the stateroom on 1T. At the dock
porters relieve him of all the hand
baggage. He goes aboard the ship
across one gangplank-the porters with
his baggage across another. They meet
in the stateroom, check up the hand
pieces and each porter serving you is
supposed to get quarter. Thus COM
mences the tipping There should be
no more of 1t until you get off the
ship when each full grown passenger
is supposed to parcel out tips as fol-
lows, in English money-a shilling be-
ing the equal of quarter in our money:
To the second steward in charge of
the-dining room, if you have required
of him special dishes prepared for your
own tastes, twenty shillings or five dol
| lars You pay no extra for any food
and by asking the second steward a
few hours in advance can have any
thing you want from lobster newburg
to cabbage and bacon. Then to your
table steward or waiter you give ten
shillings for each person in your party;
to your stateroom steward ten shillings
to the stewardess who attends to the
Madam's wants she pays ten shillings;
to the bath room steward four shill-
ings; to "boots" two to three shill-
ings; to the deck steward five shill-
ings, and to the smoking room steward
five shillings. SO your tips cost you
from ten to fifteen dollars each. I'm
less you do this you are considered be-
low par. Yet the attention you get is
worth every cent of it; and it only
amounts to about ten per cent of your
passage money.
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Boarding the ship one places his
grips and steamer trunk conveniently
in his cabin dons a cap and rubber
soled steamer shoes and repairs to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Every County Has HOOkwOrms


Let no county assume that it con-
tains no hookworms, for the pest eX-
lists in every county in this state and
in all other southern states. 1t breads
and avoids high temperatures, and on
this account the northern states have
comparatively few of the parasites.
And if the truth were known the
difference in the number of hook
worms is a measure in difference in
energy in the two sections OF the
country. This statement may need
modification, but the statement that
no more important work is going on
in this state than fookworm eradica-
ton. does not. This state and the
Rockefeller commission are instruct
ing the people and assailing this
enemy of the race in one county after
another. In Chiffon 1000 cases were
treated in four weeks, and so many
cases remain to be treated that DR..
Grote has decided to stay in Chiffon
another week.
The legislature has never fully ap-
nreciated the value of the crusade
against the pest. A good start, espe-
cially in instruction is being made, and
every physician will soon be equipped
to detect the disease and fight it out.
1t is readily eradicated if taken in
good season while the patient has
some vigor remaining in his body.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

the West indies. Work on the canal
is being rushed as never before. Unless
slides interfere to greater extent than
is expected the canal will surely be
finished by October l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

TOOK HIS WORD.
whats the trouble now?"
THAT girl OF mine.'
What Again?"
yes When I said l wasn't good
enough for her she didn't seem disposed
to argue the matter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

Fully 1000 banks have applied for a
share of the $4,000, 900 that the gov
ernment will loan at 2 per Cent on June
1. Some of the applications will be re-
average deposit to about $4,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
TWO LAUGH PRoyOKERs

From the New York Telegraph.
Paprika Jones says the funniest
phrase In the language Is driven 70
drink" Next in line Is he forced him
to take the money!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

The relations between Toxic and
Washington are not nearly so strained
as they were between Washington and
Sacramento.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

The suffragettes who throw fire
brands in London are now called arson
cites
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

The Koreans and Manchurians fortu-
nately have no anti-alien law and the
Japs are hurrying TO both.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

Walter Johnson is holding up the
fame of the Johnsons of all sorts de-
spite the untoward acts of Hiram and
Jack.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

American women now cast votes for
81 Presidential electors, and the number
will soon cross the 100 line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
DIDN'T TOUCH HER.

II understand young Dobble asked for
the hand of Munibags' daughter"
ANY results?"
None, so far as Miss Munibags is con-
cerned."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

Dr. Friedman now has to pay for
all the publicity he gets at so much
per line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

Flannels and derbies are having their
fnal inning today of the season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

The war lord of Germany is growing
old and yet he has never heard hos
tile shot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

Secretary Bryan says bossism is dead
So it is outside of New York and it
may be decapitated there on June 16
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
FRIGHT FUTURE REFoRE HIM.

BRIGHT FUTURE BEFORE HIM.
According to the Kansas City Times,
a young man in a Missouri town was
called on to make speech at ban
quet He rose and said,f Ladies and
Gentlemen, / am here to eat. Let's eat"
We have an idea that young man Is going
to sit in private office some day and
tell whole lot of other people how to do
things PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

This country wants neither Canada
no Mexico. 1t has troubles enough of
its own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

The rank and file want plum juice
ra ther than grape-juice Just at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

Secretary McAdoo's money laundries
are the biggest in the whole weeks
wash.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
ADRHFT WITH THE TIMES
SUMMONED.

The road calls,
The river CLEANS
The meadows fecked
With morning beams
4 bloom sways,
A sweet thing
The world-heart
is beating.
4 bird sings,
A breeze drifts bv;
I don't want to work.
And now you know why.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
SPEAKING OF suFFRAGErTE,
VERY SUSCEPTIBLE.

'Dd you hear about poor Chollv San
pington ?"
mo. What happened to hin,?''
"In fit of Observation-Disclosures yester-
day he put on tie that didn't match his
shirt and in a short while these Earring
notes in his attire made him violently
ILL.,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

Perfect babies are now more fash
youable taan perfect doga