The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-11

even though they may be guesses on his part. If true the cost of war will be an enormous burden our home peo- pie will have to bear for the refugee born in Monterey and whose third cousin to his mother-in-law lives in Texas"
 It is said that 1t will require 25o- 0Oo men to subdue the country and over a year to do it. The estimated cost per day per man is 80, so we can |see that million and quarter dol lars per day win be required.
 In addition to the cost of soldiers upkeep there must be added the cost of rebuilding railways, bridges, etc, which will run away up in the mil lions again. Then, too, the mules and subsistence must all come into the figures so that the total must run around s2,000000 per day. Conserva- tive estimates figure the loss of life at 10 per cent or 25.000 men, which seems to me trifle low when one considers the tropical climate. Added to this must be the enormous burdens on that line and out of 1t all there will figure around s10 war tax for each man, woman and child in the country for each year that the war goes on if the figures given be right.
 General Funston has done some very fine things since he came here. The meat market has been screened and the bug yards no longer congregate around the market place, but now spend the most of their time perched on a cathedral in the city where one may see them quite frequently. Another order of the gen. erals has upset the people good deal which is that all saloons must close up at 10 D. m. This is the best thing of numerous good things that has been
 done here. The curse of Mexico Is It's cantinas, saloons, which run night and day. Sunday the biggest day of all until General Funston got here.
 l The city is kept perfectly clean and | Major Woolf Is doing some splendid work | in repairing roads with the prisoners who have heretofore been kept in San Juan de Ola filthy and loathsome. prison | here. The office of public hearh Is also very efficiently managed and has made wonderful showing in the improvement of health conditions
 I met Dr. Von Ezdorf today and told him that I thought the next move to make would be to require the eating places to be screened so that I would not have a fly in my food so often. It seems that they have this under advisemcnt, and that it may be done.
 Careless Electric Wiring
 | It would greatly upset an inspector for the Southeastern Underwriters associa- | ton to come down here and see how the wiring is done They do not run No. 10 or | IA wire and then tap their incandescents | on as we do in the states, but they will run piece of lamp cord for 50 feet along | the wall or ceiling and then let 1t drop down where they want 1t. They use cleo | trcity great deal. Last week l had | occasion to enter a shop to get man | to file some locks off of boxes that were | hard to open. When l entered the shop | 1 found a motor merrily turning the wheels They go the Birmingham Rail-
 way. Light and Power company one bet | ter here, where they rent a car for ad- vertising purposes and have great stream 1 CTS on each side announcing what they | are advertising. It is a great scheme and I hope that my Birminghahm broker | friend may see 1t some day, for he may conclude that realty values here have | not gone to the demnition bow VOWS. 1 I met Frederick Palmer the other day, AS he was returning from Tampico, and | he reported everything there as quiet and that the oil wells only shut down one hour while the battle was on. These bat | ties are mostly battles on typewriters, as Bill Vines well says, anyhow. Once l in a while Villa gives them a touch of
 
 | in the Mexican army who seem to feel | that he who fights and runs away, will | live to fight another day. l ran across | Jack London and his Jap the other day and we passed Mexican on little burrc with about dozen sacks of charcoal. Ii seemed to me that it was too much load | and the Jap spoke up and said that Ii twas cruelty to animals and that the | Mexican ought to walk and lead tht
 burro" It is astonishing how much these 1 little things can carry and what enormous
 loads they pull.
 | Hard Work for Movies
 1 Bill Vines was not far wrong on thu
 movies. One of the bunch told me toda,
 that they had a pretty good place opened l up now and that they could make fln' | pictures. They are hard working buncf | and always on the job. One of them wal | down this morning when we unloadet | the Ossabaw. getting pictures of the mai | and the mules which came in By ths | way the mule is most important par l of the war game, and Is given good at tentlon. They have learned to march liks
 soldiers. and when they are carried tt water one soldier rides in front and thu others trail along and march just as | they had riders on them.
 | We have had very Neavy rains for thu past three days. But with all the water you cannot get anything that looks lik' milk And butter is thing they nevel l seem to have heard of. I have had but ter once during the time have beer here. Walter Harper or some good dairy man could get rich down here durint the occupation running good dairy witl
 sure enough milk that had cream on 1t.
 L. P.