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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
Keeping Young

"The New York sun has printed a
series of letters in which the philoso-
ply or rationale of the cane carrying
habit has been entertainingly dis
cussed," said a club man, "and in Mon
days issue New Yorker writes in
favor of the cane and incidentally
about the way for men and women
to keep young. He claims to be neith-
er old nor young. L always believe in
following the customs of the young
folks he says, and 1 attribute my
young looks, also my cheerful disposi-
ton, to this fact. Our life, no matter
how long, is short indeed, and / can
assure every one that If he will fol-
low my ideas he will enjoy lift to a
greater degree and likewise be a
source of delight to those with whom
he may come in contact
Garry cane, dance the turkey
trot. keep in the company of the young
folks These things will help to keep
you young. Do not be a crouch and
oppose on general principles anything
and everything that helps to keep us
young in our IDEAS"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
Gror,b Of scored socIetie.

According to the World Almanac
just issued Free Masonry and Odd Fell
lowship in this country have about the
same numerical strength said well
known fraternal order man. "The total
membership of Masonic lodges in North
America is 1.522.47s and the total mem
bership of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows in North America is 1,562.-
S29. These figures are obtained from
the 1912 reports of grand lodges The
number of Masons reported in 1903 was
1,493.5s0.
Ranking next to the Masonic fra
ternity in numbers is the order of
Modern Workmen of America-1, 219, 800.
The knights of Pythias come next with
710,6s7.
Some of us dan remember when
there were only four or five secret or
ders in the United States. Now the
number is legion and all of them, so
far as / know, are doing good benevo-
lent work"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Delighted With BIrmIngham

Il have been delighted with Birming-
ham, said Sidney Story Of New Orleans.
II had desired for some time to visit this
much talked of city. but had never found
1t convenient until this week to stop
ever here.
The business district is handsomely
built up and as for the residence sections
they are surprisingly beautiful. Few
cities on this continent can boast of such
enchanting landscape effects. had the
pleasure of riding along Altamont road on
the top Of Red mountain and the scenic
prospect was grand, indeed. The rugged
scenery here would have reminded me of
Rio Janerio il there had been a largo
body of water In sight. Birminghams
fine landscapes and beautiful drives form
great asset for this busy bustling in
dustrial CENTER
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
Extension of the Commerce Court

The Senate, by a vote of 33 to 20,
has amended the legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bill so that
the life of the commerce court would
be extended to June 30 next. The bill
will now go to a conference committee,
and the commerce court extension has
yet to face a committee of the two
houses.
The commerce court has few sup
porters, but as Congress has not made
any disposition of the cases pending
in it, it is thought in the Senate that
the life of the court should be ex-
tended to June 80 instead of March a.
"The quicker it is abolished" said one
senator, "the happier the people of
the country will be-"
The court has spent its time in pick
ing flaws in the decision of the inter-
state commerce commissions COM
mission that has earned and holds to-
day the confidence of the people. This
is why the people want the commerce
court abolished, and it doubtless will
be abolished as soon as Congress as
signs its cases to some other tribunal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER

From the New York Press.
William Rockefeller is intensely shy.
He has a horror of courts and of pub
licity He never has had a lawsuit as a
private individual. One may judge his
feelings, then, when the Pujo committee
was after him.
Personally William Rockefeller is one of
the kindliest of men-and one of the most
polite He smokes great deal. His
cigars are the sort that royal connoisseurs
affect. If he is debating to his stenog-
rapher and a puff of smoke drifts the
stenographer's way he has been known to
apologize and TO get UP and open a Win
dow so that his tobacco may give no of
ferse.
Usually William Rockefeller goes up
town on the elevated. If one of his en-
ployes happens TO sit beside him Mr.
Rockefeller will refrain from reading his
evening paper If the employee shows a
desire to talk. If one of Mr.. Rockefellers s
clerks meets him on the street the clerk is
likely to lift his hat politely. Mr.. Rock
efeller raises his hat also. He likes fiat
crowned derby of the pattern OF the time
when Harrison was running for Presi-
dent.
Tor the past % years William Rookie
feller's hands have been shaky. When he
picks up bit of paper his hand shakes
so that one wonders how he can hold it
steady enough to read. 1t is believed oy
his associates that this sort of palsy was
induced by overstrain in the days when
Mr.. Rockefeller used to drive fast, high
strung trotters that kept him tugging
ar the reins to control them. He is one
of the greatest lovers of the standard
bred horse in America. Trotters are his
blind side"
a man who could Swing William
Reekefeller's account could get almost any
salary he named in Wall street William
Rockefeller is probably the biggest spec
ulator in stocks in America If he guessed
right every time naturally he would have
had all the money in the United States
by this time. But he gets bumped" now
and then, despite his sources of informa-
tlon and his wealth.
Mr.. Rockefeller's voice is husky. II has
been so for many years. He is a tee
totaler. Aside from his smoking he leads
the simple life. When he is downtown
he lunches in the standard oil lunch room
with the other executives. Bread and milk
ase his favorite MONDAY nourishment
Every winter he goes to Jekyl island
The clubhouse at Jelzyl island is a palatial
affair. The bread and spilk are excellent
The place is as closelJ guarded from in
quisitive visitors as the palace of the
Car. Mr.. Rockefeller Is one of the old
est members.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

there are open fields on either side Tor
distance of about three blocks.
I got off subway train at this station.
As walked down the left hand stairway
to the street below 1 saw two men in front
OF me. had gold watch and my week
salary in my pocket, and because | did not
wish TO part with either l determined TO
exercise a little caution.
We all started up Two Hundred ana
Thirty-eighth street at the same time' l
on the right hand side, the two strangers
on the left, several yards ahead OF me.
We had gone scarcely block when one
of the men turned around. Seeing tnat
man was following him, he crossed over
TO my side of the street.
Immediately became suspicious. This
fellow intends TO stop me- thought.
He's probably the other mans partner
Accordingly, I crossed over to the LETT
side of the street The man in front of
me then looked behind him. Observing
ms~ he crossed the street and walked
along behind the man on that side.
| was now thoroughly convinced that
these men were in league with each other
and intended to 'hold me up. So
quickly crossed over TO the right side
and walked behind them. The man in the
middle looked back at me, then at the
man in front of him. Evidently he was
suspicious of us both, for he crossed
over to the opposite side of the street
The man in front of me now began eye
iug me suspiciously. He seemed to think
that was following him for no good pur-
nose So he foo crossed over and walked
behind the other man. My first suspicion
was confirmed. l determined to cross the
street, walk in front of the men, stop un-
til they caught up with me. and then ask
them their business.
/ nc sooner did this, however, than they
both crossed over to the right side of the
street. Could they both suspect me? Hap
ply at that moment reached and entered
the apartment house to which had lately
moved. This apartment house has three
floors. 1 live on the third The two men
whom I had suspected, and who in turn
had suspected me. turned in at the first
and second floors respectively.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
THE CUB DESCRIBED IN FICTION
Russell E. Smith in the Editor and Pub

Russell E. Smith in the Editor and Pub
Usher.
TIME average writer of fiction,
when he sits down to his type
! writer to grind out story
dealing with the newspaper reporters
and editors, Immediately conjures up
a picture of slender, sharp featured
man with notebook in each hand and
a thick layer of dandruff on his coat
collar. He is depicted as employing
most of his time rolling hand made
cigarettes and resting his feet on the
keys of his typewriter while he talks
of the scoops he has made and the ut
ter worthlessness of the life he is
leading in the newspaper office. He is
shown with large rolls of copy paper
sticking out of every pocket, while his
eyes denote the keenness and perspicac-
ity which every reporter is known to
possess in great plentitude-in fiction!
His city editor is described as a
sharp -tongued, grabbed crank with a
vocabulary of cuss words that would
turn the air blue, and which do, on
occasions when the staff does not turn
up a good story or allows some other
paper to score a beat. lie bullies the
staff right and left and never by any
chance shows a kindly feeling for any
body except himself.
He is always shown with a rank butt
of poor cigar in the corner of his
mouth, which he chews incessantly,
only pausing in his attacks on some
poor, luclxless reporter to emit a spurt
of tobacco juice at the spittoon, which
IL never reaches, or else with an old
corncob pipe, putting huge clouds of
smoke.
Why is this so? Why do the fiction
writer's insist on putting into their
yarns such matters which they should
know never exist? Why do they run a
long series of cuff about a cub" re-
porter who always makes good with
his city editor and gets raise mad
good assignments?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
Disseminating Information

"a recent number of the Christian
Science Monitor published in Boston
Tuesday, January 14-has a very at
tractive illustrated Birmingham story"
said a prominent citizen. "one of the
pictures Is a birds eye view of the city
and another is the home of the Cham
Der of Commerce.
The story presenting facts about
Birmingham is brilliantly written and
as the Christian Monitor has an enor-
nous circulation and reaches every part
of the United States there is now a
fresh and general enlightenment touch
ing the Pittsburg of the South.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

wears hence and as for mineral prop
erty prices quoted recently will seem
ridiculously low a year or two from
now.
With an opportunity looming up Tor
a large export coal trade new capitai
will be invested here in development
and before the middle of the present
decade, there is hardly an acre OF good
coal land that will net be in demand at
$3.50 an acre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
Something of Industries

For many years past the United States
census bureau has ascertained and tabu-
lated periodically the number of manu-
of products in cities of 10000 and up
wards but recently for the first time
the industrial activities of the Birmng-
ham district proper as a district have
been published by the bureau as set forth
in a Washington special, which appeared
in The Age-Herald November 26," said a
member of the Chamber of Commerce
Government experts made an indus
trial canvass of the entire Birmingham
mineral district embracing a radius of
about 60 miles. The data obtained by
these officials has not yet been bulle-
tined but will be, perhaps. a little later
The difference between the number OF
industries in the city and those in this
industrial district, embracing a large part
of Jefferson county, as of the year 1909
is considerable, as can be readily un-
derstood, for the Tennessee company alone
has its largest plants just outside the
city limits.
Inside the city the number of estab-
lishments was stated at 24s. In the indus
trial district the number was stated at
326 The city of Atlanta has a larger
number of small industries than Birming
ham, but the number of salaried employees
and the number of wage earners and
the value of our products make, of course.
much larger showings than Atlanta's. Ac-
cording to the census bureau Atlanta s
industries in 1909 employed 12,402 wage
earners whereas our industrial district in
jefferson county employed 15,6S6 wage
earners and carried on its payrolls sal
aried officials and clerks totalling the
number of 2245. making grand total
of 1881. The value of Atlanta's man
ufactured products was stated at S3S.
oss, 600. The Birmingham districts man
ufactured products totaled in value $780,
44S, ,06s
"Richmond. Va, makes a large in
dustrial showing. Inside the city in 1909
it had $50 manufacturing establishments
employing 14.s4S wage earners and turn
ing out products valued at s47. ,Ooo."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
MINIoNs OF THE Law.

M1NIONS OF THE LAW.
There was man in Higginsville,
With whiskers like a goat:
He wore the badge of constable,
As everyone could note.
He didn't live on Easy street,
Nor have just what he'd like,
Till county conviets by their toll
Had built splendid pike,
Which wound its way through Higgins
vile
And then proceeded on,
Across the hills and far away
Where many a road has gone.
Forth came the speeding autoists,
As joyous as could be;
They posted down that new-made pike,
y fearsome sight to see
Loud honked their horns, the dust flew up,
The while they whirled along,
Anc some who'd quaffed a glass or two
Were melted into song.
Their rose the doughty constable
Such recllessness must cease,
Offenders all were hailed before
A justice of the peace.
A lucky day for Hfgginsville
When motorists appeared,
To be held up and quickly fined
While all the village cheered.
Hard luck has left the constable,
W hos fat ana pursy now;
Tho J. p. also seems to wear
Contentment on his brow.
When either hears an auto 1lonk
He straight begins to smile
And says, "Therell be some grist to grind
In just a little while"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
REFLECTIONS of A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
You can jolly more out of people than
you can club out of them.
All a girl cares about, when she falls
down skating, IL IL there are no holes in
her stockings.
Sometimes nan can get his salary
raised without his family taking more Of
1t than it amounts to.
Having a husband is great help to a
woman for the way 1t teaches her she
must do things for herself.
lust because there are as good fish in
the sea as have been caught is no sign
you have a chance on eartfN to eaten
them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
SHADE OF BARON MUNCHAUsEN:
From the St paul Pioneer Press.

Duluth-With only four cigars as
weapons. John bergman of Palmer Mimi.
held a wolf pack at bay the other hight
until assistance came from the camp
where he is employed.
Bergman was walking to the camp near
Palmer in the dusk when he saw wolves
across 1.-The road in front of him. The
pack began to close in.
Lighting all four cigars Bergman jabbed
the lighted ends at the wolves, only STOP
ping long enough to puff the cigars to
within hailing distance of the camp he
keep them glowing. When he came
within haihng distance of the camp he
was exhausted. Men ran out with guns,
and the wolves fed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
THE DEADLY WEAPON

From the Popular Magazine.
Dr. Eliot. formerly president of Harvard
university, tells the story of a duel be-
tween an author and publisher. The
publisher in declining to Print the writer s
book. criticised it in language so harsh
that the proud author became greatly in
cersed and challenged the printer to a
due
To this the publisher replied:
Your challenge is as badly written as
yorr book. AS you. have called me out, |
name the weapons. They shall be lram-
mars. You are dead mani
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

The city commission of Montgomery IS
endeavoring to teach Montgomerians how
to walk. IF we coudl teach our people
Mcintyre yesterday, Il think we would
do an excellent work. If we could teach
them not to walk in the centre of the
sidewalk, but walk to the edge of the
curbing, we would have done better one
"Of course, this matter cannot be taken
up strictly from a police viewpoint, but
l am considering instructing the down.
town officers TO aid as much as possible
in the cause of keeping the sidewalks
free for passage at all times"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
STATE PRESS
AIabama Biscuits

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Alabama will never become so effete
that our hot biscuit production Will de-
crease to any alarming extent. The hot
test, lightest biscuits in the world are
cooked in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

Mrs. Champ Clark, wife of the speaker
of the House, at reception, congratu-
lated Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland on
her coming marriage to Prof. T. j. Pres
ton. Mrs. Cleveland, do you know 1
have fallen in love with Professor Pres
ton," exclaimed the speakers wife. Real
Typ" said Mrs. Cleveland with much de-
light Now. don't you tell anybody. but,
do you know. so have II
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
He an IIIuniinator

From the Talladega Home
There is so much sunshine in life it is
pity that a single soul should be
denied the blessing. Let those who enjoy
it join the light brigade to illuminate the
dark places.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
And Nearly Everywhere

From the Admission Star and Hot Blast.
Up at Washington, they are investigat-
ing almost every department of the ma
tiopal government. In various states
probes are under way, and now they are
to probe the president of Mercer univer-
sity. a Baptist institution. Everybody's $
dOin' it,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
MY MOTOR GIRL

Horacc Dodd Gastit, in Harpers Weekly.
My motor girl, my motor girl, how she
doth set my heart awhirl as, with rush.
she madly hikes along the overcrowded
pixies. Her silvery laughter is the horn
che sounds pedestrians to warn that she
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
DARKEY PREACHERS VERSION.

DARKEY PREACHER'S VERSION.
Il don't know where this story origi-
ma ted said the Colonel, but it has been
saddled on an old darlSey preacher, who
gave this version of Adam and Eve and
the apple tree:
Wen Adam an Eve had done get der
instructions bout de one tree in de fyar-
den witch dey wuzn't ter fool with. Eve
said ter Adam:
des' 'bleege ter have some er de
fruit off dat tree. Climb up dar whilst
de Lawd amt lookin' an shake de tree,
an I'll keep watch. an eff l see 4Iim
comm I'll whistle an you kin slide down.
= fo' He sees YOU
Adam sorter study bout it, but Eve,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
AVOIDING A HoLDUP MAN
1m Youth's Companion.

FTOm YOUTH s companions.
The subway station at Two Hundred
and Thirty-eighth. street and Broadway is
in a very thinly settled part of New
York. On both sides of Broadway at this
point stretch vacant lots. Eastward along
Two Hundred and Thirty eighth treet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
Un IN Noptromery

From the Huntsville Mercury Banner.
Montgomery is to have new morning
paper, The News. IL Montgomery can
support four daily papers it will do better
than any other city of its population In
the south
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17
A Tick-Iish Proposal

From the Mobile Register.
The Waltham Watch company is now
to be probed by the government. Why not
let the department of agriculture have it
dipped for the ticks?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

Death halted wedding at Riverton
W. Va. While Mis- Nette Lambert
Pretty bride-to-be the minister and guests
awaited the coming of John Compton,
who was to fill the role OF bridegroom, the
immense snowdrft on the top of Spruce
Mountain, in Pendleton county, one CT
the coolest spots in West Virginia. The
mystery of Comptcn's disappearance was
not solved until yesterday morning. when
searching party, after an all-night hunt
found his lifeiess body in the big drift
lost faith in Compton, and declared: 81
know If he is living he will come to me-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

When Mr.. Underwood removes the duty
on lumber he will knock on wood to tie
great satisfaction of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

Even oil has been struck in England in
Nottingham, the county of Robin Hood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

The verdict In Judge Archbald's case
would have been impossible even ten
years ago, certainly, 20 years ago. The
conscience of the nation is aroused.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

Miss Angenette Perry warned all bach
elors who have incomes less than $4,000
not to marry the modern girl. In an aJ-
dress before the New York City Mothers
club she said she had been collecting
statements from representative young
girls, many of whom were just Qua OF
college, on the cost of living. ''Many
of these girls, she said, told me that
after carefully estimating the cost of
maintaining home they had arrived at
the conclusion that less than $4,000 would
mean living without some of the comforts
so essential TO their happiness. "These
girls were not the daughters of million
aires, but belonged to well to do farni-
lies. They had been moderately well ed
ucated and well brought up"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

Few generous men get rich, and Sill
fewer rich men get generous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

One paper after another Is printing the
names of farmers who have farm prod
ucts for sale that can be sent by parcel
post
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

The republicans are anticipating no lil-
tie winter about March 4.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

is coming at snll speed and that they'd
better give her heed.
The wheels that whirl her on her way
are made of human hearts, they say. She
runs along right gracefully. no matter
what the traffic be; and every heart along
the road takes gladly on the loving road,
and with whiz and rveiy whir obeys
the slightest whim of her.
Her clutch is light, but oh, how firm!
Away from it no wight could squirm,
however hard ned strain or scrape in the
mad effort to escape. Her gear is high,
and ne'er cop along the line would dare
to stop her in the pace that she doth
choose on lanes and streets and avenues.
Her moter lights are deeply blue as are
the heavens fairest hue, and danger flash
TO all who dare to brave their self-reliant
stare. Her hood, ah, what thing of
grace, of feathers made and filmy lace,
from whose depths the light flash forth
like the Aurora Of the Northi
All, motor girl thou vert mine,
day with thee would be divine-a life
with thee could only be one mad joy ride
of ecstasy But sad my fate-and hence
my groan-she never can be quite my
own. for though my heart doth call her
queen, she'd bust me guying gasoline.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

It is generally agreed that the only way
to make the republican party good was
to kill it. The method was first applied
to the Indians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

over half of the wintry month is end
ed and spring begins to peer over tht
horizon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

There are no board fences along the At
lantic steamship lanes to keep intrudng
cebergs out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

Tourists are pouring into California ex
pecting to find oranges, and they have te
accept prunes instead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

The successor of big TimY<Sullivan. in
Congress will probably be julius Hartur-
ger, at present sheriff of New York coun-
ty. He is of Jewish extraction, and so
are majority of the people in the con-
gressional district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

Kermit Roosevelt wooed a girl, but at
other fellow won her. I'll luck seems to
be increasing in the Roosevelt family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

Mayor Gaynor suggests that a large
revenue could be obtained from a hypoc-
risy tax in New York. And there are
other cities, he might have added.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

France will elect a President today.
Premier Poincaire is the favorite, but
many predict the prize will go to dark
horse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-17

The robins and the amateur gardeners
are beginning TO feel the spring sap ris'
ing.