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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
The Steel Corporation

Hearings in the governments suit
for the dissolution of the United
States Steel corporation have brought
out a great mass of testimony, which
when reviewed will show a large pre-
ponderance in favor of the corporation.
The witnesses introduced by the de-
fendant have included many men Of
wide reputation and high standing in
the industrial world. Such witnesses
were heard here in Birmingham.
The entrance of the Steel corpora
ton into the Birmingham district in
1907 was hailed as Of far-reaching
benefit to this section. The Tennes-
see company's plants were being re-
built and extended by the syndicate
that preceded the Steel corporations
ownership; but with the advent of the
corporation practically unlimited CAPT
tai was available for Improvements
and extensions. The expenditures on
the Tennessee company's coal and ore
mines and blast furnaces and steel
furnaces have been enormous. Since
1907 they have totaled upwards of
$40 ,000, 900. In addition to the Ten
nessee company's development the
American Steel and Wire company,
another subsidiary of the Steel cor
poration, has completed a wire mill
here at cost of $4,0O0,000.
Some trusts have stifled competition;
but the Steel corporation, according to
the testimony of men in position to
know, has not interfered or hurt in
any way Independent concerns. The
management's policy has been at all
times broad. The corporation has
taken the public into its confidence
more than any other large industrial
concern in this country; and if all
great corporations were like the So
called steel trust, little would have
been heard of "trust busting"
The hearings in the governments
dissolution suit will soon be con-
cluded, and the Birmingham district
will naturally await the final outcome
with keen interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
MIST AND MOONLIGHT

From the New York Evening Sun
A telegram from Paris betrays the care
fully guarded secret that the dress fabrics
for next summer are now in process of
designing. Why not let the world know
the whole truth at once?
Sweet pea tints are to have a great pop
ularity. A refinement on these shades is
new color known as nacrne, into which
suggestion of silvery white has been
introduced, giving a mother-of-p pearl c.
feet The fabric itself is like very light
velvet corduroy with fine gauze back.
Chutedo, a name derived from the
French for waterfall, is a pale blue fabric
with a silvery white tint which has about
it when moved suggestion of falling
water.
"A very light velvet corduroy with a
fine gauze back, into whose color a sug-
gestion of silvery white has been so in
troduced as to give a mother -of-pearl ef-
fect.'' must be fabric fit for Titania. A
miraculous fabric in which contradictory
ideas are harmonized, opposite concep-
tions reconciled; it shows how completely
woman has commandeered the world and
its landmarks, while man may wait and
watch lOi SuCU ufftSdIutu tIbittpS dS
may fall to his own lot. A ''moonlighted
corduroy with a fine gauze back" with
shiftirg glints of mother-of-pearl. Time
was when corduroy was corduroy, and a
mans corduroy coat and trousers were
as garments of woven Steel impenetrable
everlasting, peculiar to the woodsman,
the hero of out of doors.
Let the fancy of the poet be moved to
such height of vision as to behold a
man clothed with a suit of nacrine light
velvet corduroy with a fine gauze back,
glinting with silvery white, the whole
color scheme derived from a sublimation
of sweet pea tints. When such concep-
ton shall be realized and man shall re-
assume his ideal of masculine garments
glorifed by the possibilities of what wom-
an can do for his old corduroy suit, who
will deny that mans efforts in the elabor-
alton of clothes for women are worth all
they cost? And the woman would scarce
ly understand mans reluctance to appear
in such misty, moonlightly garments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
SAW ,-osT RING IN A DREAM

From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
j. e. Crane of Murphysboro, a paving
contractor has been taugh- the efficacy
os a dream as the means of finding a
valuable diamond ring lost 10 years ago.
The ring suddenly disappeared at that
time and all efforts to find 1t were un-
availng-
William Reynolds, former employe OF
craine now living ut Carbondale, had a
dream in which he saw the ring hidden
under a plank in a chicken yard at the
Craine home. He took the next traiD for
Mu1 physboro, and in company with one
of Craines relatives went to the spot as
it had appeared to him in his vision and
there found the diamond.
]. f. Craine is now engaged in con-
struction work near Stuttgart, Ark, and
has been apprised of his good fortune.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13

amount was expended for seed and
fertilizers and what amount he re-
ceived for such of his crop as he sold.
He should practice itemizing, eharg-
ing himself with whatever went into
consumption by his family, the value
of food eaten by his stock and all SIM
liar outgo, whether in cash or in
kind.
This is Intelligent farming and if
bookkeeping is essential to the manu-
facturer and merchant it is just as es-
setial to the farmer. In fact he cannot
afford to do without it, if he would
make a success of his farm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
Poetic Queen Reveals a Secret


Queen Carmen Sylvia of Roumania is
not only monarch but poetess as
well. She has devoted much of her life
to literature and has written several
books. Carmen Sylvia is pseudonym,
which may be interpreted as "wood-
land song"
She has recently given to the press
a publication half mythical, half his
torical, from the reading between the
lines of which it may be seen that her
husband was instrumental in elevating
the Prince of Wied to the throne of
Albania. l
In her peculiar style the Queen
says in part: "Fairyland called for a
king but the world gave no answer
until the King on the mighty throne
stood forth, calm and serious, and
spoke with the same clear voice which
had dictated peace to the turbulent
Balkans. 'On the Rhine, he said,
deep in the forest stands tree from
which | once plucked my wife. 1t has
many strong branches. will send you
one of them to be your leader
The Prince of Wied is not only an
athlete but book worm as we'll. In
his childhood he was never seen with
out book in his hand and yet at the
Jena high school he was champion
gymnast. He would often lift with one
hand a comrade from off the ground
with the greatest ease. When he later
entered the war academy he was one
of $50 out of 600 applicants who were
accepted.
He is tall, slender and magnificent
horseman. In Roumania his white
steed, which he always rode, and his
white uniform with helment sur
mounted by silver eagle, won for him
the title of "Lohengrin." His wife
Sophia, in addition to being superb
equestrienne, plays upon half a dozer
musical instruments, accompanying
her own compositions, paints with nc
mediocre brush and writes poetry.
The couple bid fair to ensure Al
bania happy, peaceful and pros
porous regime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH

@ IR WALTER RALEIGH. the emil
- nent English explorer and author,
was several times imprisoned, the
first time being when he was accused and
found guilty of conspiring to raise Lady
Arabella Stuart to the throne. The trial
upon this charge took place in 1903 and
ended in his being condemned to death at
Winchester. November II, 1903. Following
| this trial he was kept for 13 years con-
| fined in the tower. but finally recovered
his liberty, but not his pardon, through
the influence of Villiers. James l, who
hao been responsible for his imprison-
ment, gave him an admirars commission
. and he sailed with his feet for the dis
covery of his promised El Dorado. in
Guinea but as his expedition was fail
ure, and the English government being
OH friendly terms with Spain and Raleigh
having offended that nation by his con-
duct in Guinea, it was decided by the
judges, that the sentence of death pro-
nounced in 1908 was still valid, he was
executed in the palace yard at Westmin-
ster on October 20. 1918.
When Raleigh was arraigned for trial
in 1908, the indictment read against him
was that ''he did conspire and go about
to deprive the king of his government;
to raise up sedition within the realm; to
| alter religion, to bring III the Roman su-
perstition, and to procure foreign enemies
to invade the kingdom.
To this indictment Raleigh pleaded not
guilty The trial was long drawn out,
ard fortunate for histody it has been
preserved almost in its entirety. Raleigh
had been committed to the tower on July
| 10. 1908, and it was not until November,
before the indictments We're all ready for
his prosecution. From the very start the
| trial at Winchester was conducted with
| such outrageous unfairness as to shock
even the opinion of the time, and his GAL
liant bearing, even in face of the brutal
ity of the attorney general, Sir Edward
Coke, turned public opinion in his favor.
That Raleigh was cognizant of the con-
sriracies against the government appears
probably by the testimony, though the
evidence produced against him was m
sufficient to prove mis- guilt Much was
kept back by the council, and the jury
was Influenced by knowing that the coun-
| Gil thought him guilty.
| The jury, that sat in judgment at the
trial. was only out a quarter of an hour
| before they returned verdict of guilty
TLereupon the Lord Chief Justice read
the following Judgment
'.But, since you have been found guilty
| Of these horrible treasons, the judgment
| of this court is that you shall be taken
| from hence to the place from whence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
The south,s prn-ress

"one who visits the south frequently
or Keeps in close touch with il does not
have to consult statistics to know that
this section is making substantial prog
ress,' said D. F. Sanderson of st. Louis.
Most OF the cotton states have made
real strides within the past four or five
years, and one of the notable facts in
connection with southern agriculture is
the increased production of corn and hay.
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
other cotton states are varying theif
crops more and more, and this departure
is proving to be highly successful. So
long as the south makes variety of
crops and gets good prices. there can
be no such thing as hard times in this
part of the country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13

| you came, there to remain until the day
of. execution, and from thence you shall
be drawn upon a hurdle, through the open
streets, to the place of execution there
to be hanged and cut down alive, and
| ycul body shall be opened, your heart and
bowels plucked out; then your head shall
be struck off your body, and your body
shall be divided into four quarters, to be
disposed of at the Kings pleasure. And
Gol have mercy upon your SOUL
Sir Walter Raleigh pesought the Earl
| OF Devonshre and the lords to seek out
the King in his behalf, and point out to
| him the place he bore in his majesty
time. and thereby to request him that
the rgor of his judgment might be quail
feo and his death honorable and not
| ignominious.
They promised that this would be done,
and Raleigh was carried again to the
castle When Sir Waiter was left to his
maiestys mercy he thought him too great
nalcontent to have his freedom, and
probably too innocent TO lose his life. He
was, therefore, confined to the tower and
was permitted to enjoy the liberty of
custody, and he employed his time in
obtaining learning and science of various
/ KINDS. 1t was while thus confined that
Ne produced his remarkable History of
the World"
| As the Spanish demanded his punish
ment, following his fortunate Guinea ven-
tlre, already referred to, King James
was willing to sacrifice Raleigh to the
advs ncement of peace with Spain. When
he arrived at Plymouth Sir Lewis Stukely,
viee-admiral of the county of Devon,
seized him and brought him to London.
| He was first placed in Westminster Hall
and from thence was carried to the Gate
| house and the next morning to the par
| lament yard, "where he mac the favor OF
the AK granted him."
| All persons wondered how that old sem
tonce, that had lain dormant for 16 years.
could have been made use of to take of
Sir Walter Raleigh's head afterward.
Raleigh's first appearance on the scaffold
on the day of his execution, October -,
1918, was with smiling eountenance,
lutlng the lords, knights and gentlemen,
with others of his acquaintance who We're
present He made a long speech before he
was executed. After having examined tie
| AK with which he was to have his head
severed he said 'This is a sharp medi-
cine. but it is a physician for all dis
eases" and when ne was asked which
way he would lay his head he replied:
| 80 the heart be right. it is no matter
which way the head lieth. Thus died
Queen Elizabeth's favorite and the
soourge and terror of Spain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
FRANCES TOBACCO MONOPOLY

From the Indianapolis Slaf
According to statistics from France,
the tobacco monopoly of the French
government netted the state $105,OOO,OOo
last year, the largest return since the
foundation of the monopoly, 1O2 years
ago. The original capital out of which
this vast profit was made was $3O,0o0,-
900, or about one third of the capital
ization of the lately dissolved American
Tobacco company. The French govern
ment supervises the growing of all to-
bacco and the planters are compelled
to sell their entire crops to the state
at fair appraisement.
Twenty factories are permitted to
work up this tobacco, and cigars are
sold at uniform PRICE throughout the
entire country. Quantity makes no dif-
ference, cigars costing just as much
when purchased by the thousand as
when bought singly. The hotels and
restaurants buy their cigars at the
same prices for which they are fur
nished to the general public, but they
add from so to 100 per cent as their
own profit. The rights to retail tobacco
are jealously guarded by the govern
ment, and it is necessary TO secure
state permit before opening any kind
of retail store.
There is not much chance for an ordi-
nary individual to get rich selling to-
bacco in France, for these permits are
usually granted to the widows of army
and navy officers or to employees OF
the government. The widows, however
are permitted to lease their permits to
other persons in consideration of fixed
annual payments That the government
conducts its business with view &c
the greatest profit Is attested by for
eign visitors to France who find the to-
bacco of an inferior quality to what
they are accustomed at home. But the
Frenchmen, not being familiar with for
eign tobacco, do not know the differ
ence and go on smoking the home prod.
uct with as much gusto as If it was
the finest Havana stock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Business Activity in Edl,ence

There is considerable business activi-
ty in evidence now. but naturally th"fe
viii be more as spring approaches said
George L. Teller of New York.
by the first of February business
conditions, it is believed by many prom
inent merchants and manufacturers
will be better than they have been IN
the past six months. There is quite 4
pronounced feeling that the spring will
witness a great degree Of prosperity.
The year 1914 is certainly most prom
ising from a business point OF view. II
we have good crops again next summer,
do not see what can prevent a mighty
boom from one end of the country to
the other"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
A NEWSPAPER AT $75 A YEAR

From the Boston Transcript.
A newspaper at $15 year! Such Is
tile record for the high cost of reading
to be established by u publishing house
in Berlin. The new journal will take
some title which will Indicate at once
its aristocratic supremacy. Paris suggests
that its German owners call it simply
the Daily Newspaper, somewhat after the
Roman fashion of calling Rome just plain
"Urbs.'
Tie supreme newspaper will be a daily
Journal of economics and politics., say
the founders, begging pardon for using
any form of the word ''economicar' to
describe the newspaper at s75 per annum.
The founders furthey say that their OBJ
ject will be to defend Germany's political
and commercial interests in foreign conn-
tries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
EATING STONES CAUSED DEATH

From the Kansas City star.
A diet of bits of stone taken to satisfy
a peculiar craving caused the death of
Mrs. Grace Smock Alibno. "a years old at
her home, 1915 MCGEE street, recently.
Mrs. Albino was a victim of the habit
12 or 13 years. When child she formed
the habit by nibbling at bits of rock. and
later stone-eating became a mania with
her. She frequently went out at night to
search for a bit of the rock that seemed
to satisfy the craving.
Frequently when she had indulged in
the habit more excessively than usual
Mrs. Albino would become i'll. and after
her sick spells the craving would leave
her. 1t always came back, however, and
doctors who attended her in her last ILL
ness said death was directly due to the
habit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
WHY WILLIE WAS LEFT

From the Washington Star.
Mayor Hunt of Cincinnati said of dis
grunted politician:
His hands are tied. He can do noth-
ing. He is like Willie IL the Christmas
game of snapdragon
willie, at a Christmas party given by
his sister, was allowed to participate in
the snapdragon game. and sat amid a
band of beautiful girls of 10 or so.
'The lights went out, the usual grab
bnr for favors began, and then, when
the lights went up again, Willie was to
be seen crying bitterly.
".WhatA the matter. Willie? Didn't
you get anything? a lady asked.
NO sobbed Willie, sp:tefully. AS
soon as it got dark that consarned man
with the brown whskers--boo, hoo!-he
grabbed my hands and didn't stop--boo,
hoo, hoo!-he didn't stop kissing them TIL
the lights Went up again."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
DICKENS CHARACTERS

from the Manchester Guardian
The visit from Miss Betsy Trotwood
described in Miscellany" the other day
reminds me, writes a correspondent that
not long ago I paid a visit to Mrs Lupin.
OF the Blue Dragon. From early child
hood | had suspected ner existence in the
neighborhood of a swinging sign at a.
crossroad some four miles out of Sails
bury. on the way to Romsey. Certainly
ii was the sign of green dragon and
not of a blue, but that made no difference.
The house itself l had never seen. 1t
days l was not considered a fit person to
rest there on my way to Salisbury from
a remote village on the hills. But / never
passed the signboard without peopling the
roadway near with Tom Pinch. PeclSsniff
and all the others.
My chance came short while back.
was revisiting old haunts and found my
self at the corner of the sign of the Green
Dragon. A sharp turn and walk of
tavern with gables and an air of invita-
tiol. Entering, L 1Ound Mrs. Lupln there
in the flesh 1t was no other than she
"Good morning. Mrs. Lupin," L said
May / have some beer, please?" For a
moment she was staggered, but quickly
re covered and laughed. Good sracioiIsl'
she said, 'how did you know it was me
thought only the Americans out of Sal
ishury knew that "Oh. | knew you AT
sicbt and how's Ma ri, TEplev ?'' He wa g
i'll upstairs with rheumatics. she said.
was sorry, although he used to bore me
a little in old days. But Mrs. Lupin and
1 had "a delightful talk about the Peck
sriffs and the Spottletoes before left
for Salisbury. l do not know her rea
name to this day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
FraternaI Order Statistics

THE New York World almanacs 1911
edition gives the latest official stats
tics of secret orders and fraterna1 or
ganizations," said "a man belonging to a
number of brotherhoods.
THE membership totals in America
embrace the United States and Canada
The Masons and the Odd Fellows ha "a.
for several years been running neck and
neck. According to the latest returns,
the Masons had 1867, 7s9, and the Odd
Fellows, 1851 ,045. The Modern Woodmeu
of America come next, with 96O,oo0 mern-
bers, and the Knights of Pythias next.
with 715,654. The Order of the Eastern
Star, woman's auxiliary of the Masonic
fraternity, is credited with 100000.
"Other organizations above the 10000
mark are Woodmen of the World, 642. 800 ;
the Independent Order of Good Templars.
"A total abstenance organization, 620,00e;
Loyal Order of Moose 100000, improved
Order of Red Men. 1896; Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, 400, PSI; Oh :
der of Eagles, 347.560; knights of Colum-
bus. 2S7.S13: Knights of Maccaboes of the
World. 2S3,901: Order of Owls, 26S, 74s; An
cient Order of Hibernans, $50, ZOO; RoyCl
Arcanum, 24SS6S Independent order of
Foresters of America, 241, 439; Junior Or
der of United American Mechanics, 200-
600; b Rith Abraham Order, 1870, 900; No
bles of the Mystic Shrine, 1856, ,446; LADIES'
of the Maccabees of the World, 100, ,92s;
Brotherhood of American Yeomen, 167,-
419; Ladies' Catholic Benevolent associa-
| ton, l,42O Knights and Ladies of Sc
curity, 10000; Tribe of Ben-Hur, 1885;
Ancient Order of United American Wood
men, 110,OS6.
| England has a number of secret Or
| ders. but America leads the world"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
Federal Militia Pay

Secretary of War Garrison is in
favor of the general principal of fed
eral militia pay bill. Such measure
has had supporters for sometime
past, and bill is now being drafted
embodying the iedas of Secretary Gar
rison and his army advisers. But the
secretary is determined, it is said, that
the government shall not be put in the
position of spending the millions of
dollars contemplated and receive moth
ing in return. The bill will provide,
therefore, authority for the govern
ment to use the military for any pur-
pose, including service outside of the
United States in case of war.
The state organizations must con-
| form strictly to the requirements
which are to be laid down by the war
department. According to the bill,
provision will be made for frequent in
spection of the state troops by officers
Of the regular army.
| In former times volunteers were en-
rolled in large numbers when a war
call was made, but many months were
required in training raw recruits. A
Large military force on pay basis
lequipped ard drilled like regulars
would, in the nature Of things, greatly
strengthen the military arm of the
government in the event of war. Sec
retary Garrison points out that pay
| militia under strict rules and regula-
ton would be economy in the end.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER
4 PRAYER.

| see the golden sunshine fall,
| hear the glad birds singing;
Yet, deep enchambered in my soul,
Her name alone is ringing.
AYenging spirits, harm her not.
Save that she me remember
When she is weary with the strife
And tired of lifes December.
Though mem'ry prove a bitter thorn.
My soul cannot regret her:
/ only ask a single boon;
God help me to forget her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
A Political Ycar

"As a new House of Representative
is to be elected this year, to say MOTH
ing of other important offices to be
filled, there is naturally considerable
interest in aspirants, but in our part of
the country campaigns do not start un-
til the summer or early fall said S.
NJ McNally of Buffalo, n. Y. "a
"In the south political contests seem
TO be in the nature of continuous per-
formance; that is to say, some sort OF
a campaign is always on. The southern
people evidently take lively interest
in politics
Il am not politician, but my friends
who know the game tell me that the
democrats will cary the House by big
ma jority."