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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
FAMILY LONG IN SEA SERVICE

From the London Telegraph.
A long and distinguished family asso-
cia ton with the active service of the navy
is broken by the retirement, at his own
request, of Vice Admiral Sir Colin KEEP
pei. The announcement was made ON a
recent night, this officer having been pro-
NOTED to his new rank from rear admiral
only about a week previously. Thus the
traditional connection of the Keppel fam
lily with the active sea service is severed.
One hundred and eighty y-eight years ago
Augustus Keppel, the son of William
Anne, second Earl of Albemarle to VIII IN
Queen Anne stood godmother-hence his
second Christian name-entered the navy.
His career was a remarkable one-ooth
as a sea officer and as naval admins
traitor, and from 1882 he acted for two
years first lord of the admiralty.
Sir Colin entered the sea service in July,
1875, and within "a years had risen to the
rank of captain when still only 81 years
old. His rapid promotion was the reward
for war services.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23

100000 tons in 1912, a growth of 400
per cent. During the same period of
time the production of pig iron grew
from s,500,000' tons to 3O,O0O,0 900 tons,
an increase of $50 per cent. In the
Sault canal alone the tonnage in 20
years rose from 100000 tons to
II 100000, an advance of $50 per cent.
These figures suggest that in lieu
of comprising a dimunition of our
needs we must study the problem of
increased accommodation and as a
corralary the necessity for an ex-
tended canal system to aid the rail
traffic. Locally there is comfort in
the knowledge that coal and iron, the
chief products of our district, repre-
sent such component item in the sta
tistics of production increase.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
A POOR MANS HE'LL

From THE Caribbean Tropics" by Julius
Muller in the January Century.
The Caribbean tropics are a garden OF
delight for the rich man, and an F. Dor
ado. In sugar, in cotton, in cattle pas
lures, that world holds treasure today
greater than the treasure shipped by the
Spaniard through Panama the golden.
The Caribbean tropics are good, indeed
to the man strong enough to be master.
They are good, too, to their own poor,
for they curse their natives with no cold
and rarely with famine: but for the poor
white man from the north they are hell.
1t is not due only to the risks of the
crop. 1t is due to the social conditions
that forbid the white man in the tropics
from laboring with the hands. No white
man can do it in the islands or in Central
America and keep his caste. Only in
Panama, where an entirely artificial and
unique condition has been made by the
creators of the wonder of the isthmus.
can it be done. L
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
The Coming Battle of TOrreOn

The time has now come when Vic
toriano Huerto can no longer adopt the
waiting policy which he has played so
well against the United States. 1t is
not against President Wilson, but
against "Pancho' Villa that he must
move.
General Villa has said that he will
concentrate the rebel attack on Tor
reon, strategical point in the de-
fences which Huerta is endeavoring to
stretch across the north central part
of Mexico. 1t is reported that he is
intending to abandon the northern
part of Mexico to the constitutional
lists entirely; that he will withdraw all
troops from the north and bend his eff
forts toward holding to Mexico City
and contiguous territory.
Such move would be fatal. 1t
would be an admission that the re-
bellion which he has bellttled has
grown beyond his control. If he
abandons north Mexico to the rebels
it will allow them leisure to operate
at their pleasure against his defenses
and who questions but that, led by
Villa, they will be able to penetrate
them? Once broken Huerta is
doomed.
Villa says that he will take Torreon
and it is not improbable that he will
do what he says. He has even earned
the right to exclaim vaingloriously, as
he does, ~ shall lead the assault" :"
And once Torreon is won the way to
Mexico City lies open.
To those who have followed the ca
reer of Huerta with keen interest
since he first loomed across the Mex
lean sky there seems but one hope for
him, and that remote one. This is
that he take the field himself. He is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
PANIC SIGNALS DISAPPEARING

From the Philadelphia Telegraph
Evidence accumulates that Industrial
conditions are rapidly improving in this
and other states. One item of evidence is
found in a report from Pittsburs that
following the placing of orders for 125.
eco tons of steel in that district some
$4,000 men who have been unemployed
for several weeks will be engaged At
steady work before the end of the pres
ent week.
1t is the confident prediction of reliable
observers that the advent of spring will
find business and industrial conditions
in the United States well established upon
a scale unexcelled since before the do
preston Of 1907. They are already NOV
ing swiftly toward that point. The new
tariff law is no longer a mystery TO bust
ness men, sources of credit know What
to anticipate under the provisions OF the
new currency law and the Washington
administration faces another session OF
Congress without any programme of eco
ionic legislation at which business is
likely to take fright
The nations only real danger of panic
has been found in the talk of panic in
dulged in by timid and thoughtless per-
sons. That talk has ceased. There are
no clouds on the business horizon excert
the tieecy ones of assured prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Huh nf the SOuth

'As the time approaches for choosing a
regional bank center for the south atten-
tion begin to focus on the progressive
metropolis of Alabama" said student OF
the south's progress
within the past score of years from
the rock-ribbed hills OF northern Ala
bama, almost the exact center of the
south, Birmingham has sprung into south
ern and national prominence as an in
dustrial. commercial and railroad center
and in the opinion of many the govern
ment will soon recognize this city as the
south's financial center by establishing
regional bank here.
"A glance at any parcel post map Tor
this city shows that the 3O0-mile zone line
taking Birmingham for the center includes
all OF Alabama and Mississippi; practical
ly all of Georgia, Tennessee and Ken
lucky, and portions of Florida, Louisiana,
Arkansas, Missouri and North and South
Carolina, while the 60O-mile zone line
drawn from this center takes in prac-
tically all of the states above named be-
sides all of Virginia and the most densely
populated section of Texas"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
OLD FARM "PARLOR" MUST GO

From the Kansas Industrialst.
The old fashioned farmouse "parlor"
must go. Experts in home decoration
have decided that the only place for 1t
is among the relegated things of the re-
speeted past. 1t must be converted into
living room in which the farm family
may gather every day, instead of once
week, and rugs must take the place of
the fiowered carpet on the floor This
is what the teachers of home DECORATION
at the Kansas Agricultural college say.
"There is no longer use for the old
fashioned farmhouse parlor, " said Miss
Clara Goth, an instructor in home deco
ration at the agricultural college, speak
ing to crowd of farm women from vari-
Gus parts of Kansas who came to spend
four days at the state farmers insti-
tute. 81 am glad to say that 1t aireaoy
has disappeared from many Kansas
farm houses. Women have begun to see
that such room, open to the family only
on state occasions, is not serving the
household as it should. 1t must be made
over into a living room that will be more
honey for the whole family, particu-
arly the children; room IN which the
children need not enter on tiptoe and IN
which drop of water will not be fatal.
brilliant wall paper, hanging heavy
with grapes and roses, should not have
place in any home. II is Impossible
for anyone to think seriously in room
in which such paper seems fairly to shout
at YOU. One would have to go to the
barn or to the alfalfa field to do his seri-
Gus thinking with such paper on the walls
of a living room. Choose palmer and
more restful patterns. Remember that
the wall paper is the background for the
furniture and for the people in the room;
| it should not be attractive as to seem
enter the rOom."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
HOLD FOOT OFF THE FLOOR

From the Boston Traveller
The Rev. DR.. Cortland Myers of Ire
mont temple has sleepers to distress him,
That may be because in the large con-
greeations that he attracts there are the
weary of body as well as those who seek
spiritual rest,
In the midst of a sermon the other night
he discovered that some in the congre-
CATION had fallen asleep. He broke into
his discourse to prescribe this remedy
for sleepiness: Lift your right foot from
the floor and hold it in that position
Whether the left foot might be used to
equal advantage the congregation was not
informed 1t seems as il this sremedy
would be as bad as the disease. How
could one follow the flights of the pulpit
oratort while holding his right foot aloftt
Better the tithing man and his stick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
Feature of Picture shows

zone of the most enjoyable features
of the moving picture show to me is the
various weekly events that are from
time to time shown" said patron of the
picture plays
"As a rule they show current events
and one can get far better idea of
what happens in different parts of the
country by seeing them in moving photos
than by reading the several accounts.
Then again they are of great educational
value, for not only do they depict the
different cities and localities of the Uni
ted States, but the cities of the countries
of the world. I have also been much
interested in the pictures that showed
the different manufactures of the United
States. I got a pretty fair idea of the
fruit raising, canning and fishing indus
tries from this class of pictures
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
CompIains of City Jail

probes seem popular at the present
time" said an observer of municipal
affairs yesterday" and therefore one
should be started at once into the con-
dition of the city jail.
"The present jail, located immediate
lv in the rear of the city hall, is a
disgrace to the city of Birmingham
II is neither sanitary nor safe and
presents to the investigator a re-
semblance of the old time damp, dark,
filthy dungeons of the middle ages. No
man after being incarcerated for few
hours in the present city Jail can helr
shuddering at the experience. Its dirt
| mess breeds contempt for the author
tiles and it is alleged that 1t is often
the case when a young man for a
slight misdemeanor has to spend sew
eral days in this nightmare of a prison
he comes out in the clean air with all
;hc self respect driven out of him. He
is hardened by the experience and
comes out worse enemy TO society
, than when locked up.
AT the present time whites or blacks
are thrown into a long, damp corridor
adjacent to a long row of cells. The
second floor of the Jail is for women
and here also there is no discrimin-
alton of color-the whites and the
blacks are placed together.
"The commissioners should investi-
gate these conditions. They should dc
so at once And they should spend
some money and thoroughly renovate
| the present Jail or abandon it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
Growing Interest in Parks

1.-The public is beginning to show real
interest in the ZOO" said a prominent citi-
zen yesterday, "and that is very encour-
aging to the pioneers in the movement
for municipal managerie and park in
Birmingham.
1.-The movement for parks ana pay
grounds is sweeping the country. Every
we'll ordered city now has a park de-
partment and year by year the appro-
prations for the upkeep and the building
of new parks grow larger. 1t is recog-
nized that there is a social demand for
recreation grounds. In Birmingham the
movement is young. The chase for the
dollar is still the one absorbing object.
But the seed has been planted and within
few years the city government of Bir-
mingham will be glad of the opportunity
to grant sufficient appropriations for the
maintenance of n modern social park
system"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
In Alabama Is Health

Every year we show an increase IN
our sporting proclivities and such
proclivities tend toward sport as are
more or less associated with risk and
danger. Automobile racing claims
many victims, the careless handling
of the fowling piece fills many graves
and even football helps to swell the
roster of mortalities.
Then again the claim is made that
the high cost of living forces an alb
stinance of both quantity and quality
of food to such an extent as to render
the system emaciated and acutely sus-
ceptible to diseases which result in
death. Yet despite the high cost of
living and our sporting proclivities,
the death rate in this country last vaar
was only 1879 per 1000, as compared
with 142 in the year 1911.
The United States government has
been seeking to discover the health
zone, and has about located it in the
state of Washington, where the death
rate for a number of years has aver
aged 81 per 1000.
Minnesota is next in its table of
longevity, her rate being 9.8 per 1000,
while the mortality in Maryland, New
York and Rhode Island exceeded IL
per 1000. Seattle claims the record
for healthfulness, its deaths ho'- -
81 per 1000, while Albany, N. Y,
stands very close to the bottom of the
list, with a mortality rate of 10 per
1000.
The government purposely ignored
the southern states as media for COM
parsons on account of the prevalence
of large negro population, whose
J neglectful mode of life as to hygienics
rendered such statistics of little value,
; and the great number of homicides
which obtain therein.
The object of the government was
to learn which section of the country
8 is provocative of the greatest lon
gevity as influenced by climate and
,- physical environment, eliminating
81 such deterrents as reckless diregard
for hygienics, casualties and designed
killings. 49,. ..-.- 49,.
With such factors eliminated it is
questionable if more healthy region
is to be found anywhere than the belt
embracing northern Alabama, and of
q which Birmingham is the center. Our
motto could we'll be "quisisana," here
I. is health.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
SUI GENERIs

the King never had her heart;" .arhat
she said to every one of them that she
loved them better than any person what
soever" and THAT the whole tended l.,
the slurring Of the issue begot between
the King and her."
1t was also added in the indictment that
she and her accomplices had conspired
the Kings death. When the Indictment
was read Anne pleaded not guilty. His
tory fails to give the particulars of the
trial, what questions were put IL her.
how she answered, with other circum-
stances which must accompany So signal
an event.
One thing Is exceedingly remarkable
and lays a grand slur upon the pr, ceed-
ings of the court, and that is, that Mark
Smeton, who was the only person who
confessed anything, was never confronted
by the Queen, nor was his evidence
brought into the case. The main evi-
dence that was brought, according -
Spelman's account, was the oath of n
dead woman; yet this wrought upon
their lordships to the extent that they
found the Queen and her brother guilty
judgment was pronounced to the effect
that the Queen should be burned or be-
headed at the Kings pleasure.
The poor Queen was brought L, the
seaffold, erected on Tower hill, on May
49, little before noon. After mounting
the scaffold she made short spe sch. of
the character so brave and pious a Queen
would be expected to make among
those who were present on this tatel da y
We're the Dukes of Suffolk and Rich
moEd, the Lord Chancellor Secretary
Cromwell, the lord mayor, sherins and
aldermen of London.
Anne's head was cut off by the hang
man of Calais, who was brought over On
purpose, as being more expert in the art
of decollation than any in England.
Spelman writes;
Her eyes and lips were observed to
move after her head had. been severed
Her body was thrown into a common
chest of elmtree, that was made to pi.
arrows in. Surely they might have pro-
vided a more decent coffin for her, who
had once been the light of the King S
eyes; but it was so and no otherwise, and
in that manner it was conveyed into the
Tower chapel, and there buried bef.,re Il
O clock"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
ANCIENT CANCER CURE
From the Christian Herald.


1t is evident that medical science, in
its determination to master disease, has
found in Tadium a powerful weapon
against cancer, and the call upon the
government to retain it's radum fields in
the west, and the proposition of distin-
guished physicians to aid the general
government in plan to cheaper the
substance and universalize its treatment
is beautiful in the extreme Hczekiah,
King of Judah. who lived 700 years b.
c., had growth on his body, which may
well have been cancer, called in the
record boil 1t was divine power that
wrought the cure, but a material instrui-
ment was used in the poltice, the primi-
tive remedy. And Isaiah said take a
lump of figs. And they took and laid it
on the boil, and he recovered" QI
Kings, 20:7)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
A CHAMPION GOOSE PICKER

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t may be that peace had her VIC
tories no less renowned than war" but
the poultry yard has her champions no
less doughty than those of the ba ,tlo
fields. Ohio sings the unstinted praises OF
p. A. Heinlein, whose fame in Crawford
county as a picker of geese is as mighty
as that of Napoleon at Wagram. Hero
Heinlein in the brief space OF four and
one-half hours-a poor 270 minutes-suc-
cessfully denuded 100 anserine fowls OF
their feathers, a record which local chIon-
iclers avow has never been surpassed OF
even equaled. Ordinary rivals will un-
dress from 400 to 800 chicekns at the rate
of nearly 80 an hour, but when confronted
with geese awaiting disrobing, they fai-
ter, for a gander is ever tough, no matter
where encountered, alive or dead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23

number of victims of cancer makes it I'M
perative to increase the meager available
supply, if there is any hope of using 1t.
on a large scale as a therapeutic agent.
Philadelphia death rate from this cause
is S7.2 per 100000, as compared with ILL.,
for Boston and 1928 for Albany. The
average rate for the whole country Is
rs per 100000. In other words, the deaths
due to this dread malady number about
1900 a year.
With the organization of the Sl,oo00oV
corporation by Mr.. DUPONT this region Is
becoming the center of the worlds radi-
um industry. This important develop
ment is in conformity with the tradition
which in the early days of our country
established Philadelphia pre-eminence in
medical science, maintained to the pres
ent day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
Productions Race With Population

Not few writers upon economics
and social problems have declared it
a pernicious fallacy to maintain that
it is beneficial to mankind to create a
new want and denounce luxuries as a
menace to population. 1t can hardly
be said that statistics demonstrate
the truth of this dictum, as it seems
to be the concomitant of progress that
the luxuries of yesterday must be-
come the necessities OF today, and that
at the present ratio the curve of pro-
duction will forsake the scale chart
and shoot off into infinity.
The annual increase of population in
the United States approximates lis
per cent and in comparing it with the
! increase of production we may be
guided by the figures presented in
an interesting article recently appear
ing in the Iron Age.
Between the years 1890 and 1910, OF
In just two decades, our population
jumped from 63,000,O00 to $4,000, ,OOC
or one and one-half million in each
year. During the same period the
ton milage of the railroads increased
from 65,000,00O to 225, ,O0O,0 an in.
crease of 400 per cent as compared
to the so per cent increase in popula.
tion. This means that to meet de.
mands the railroads Of the United
States moved in 1890 for each indi.
vidual in the land ton of freight
1882 miles, while in 1910 it was neces.
sary to transport the ton 2742 miles
/, Probably the products entering most
materially into this tonnage were Goa
and iron. In the two decades just
mentioned the output of coal increased
from 140,000,000 tons in 1890 to $780,.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
THE WONDER OF RADIUM
m the PhiladeIphia T.edper

| l. rum Tic IIiiduSlpiild IAcuScT.
With the radium selling at $lSOOoO a
gram. and one gram the largest quantity
for which an order can be taken, 1t will
not require many freight cars to trans
port the entire output of the plant at
Sellersville, Pa, to the market; yet it
is interesting to know that we have at
our doors an establishment which is en-
gagged in giving to the world the inscrut-
able substance that seems destined to
play an all important part in the ma
terra medica of the future.
A pound OF radium would be worth s52,-
coo. 900. DIR. Kelly has estimated that there
are now from Is to 20 grams in the en-
tire world. A thousand tons of ore in the
Paradox valley (Colorado) mines of the
new "Radium institute yield seven
grams. Though the life of radium is
! approximately 1000 years. the enormous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
Rank's Patriotic Card

patriotic card embodying the most
optimistic and hopeful sentiments has
been sent out by the Chase National
bank of New York one being received
yesterday by w. w. Crawford, pres
ident of the American Trust and Saw
ings bank
The New York bank indicates a
faith in this country of unusual
strength and hopefully suggests that
the periods termed, "Times of Bust
ness Depression" are merely periods of
preparation for greater and more pro-
nounced commercial success
The creed which was read with un-
usual qualification and interest by
many persons yesterday follows:
"a PATRIOTIC CREED.
I'VE believe in our country-the
Uaited States of America We believe
in her constitution, her laws. her in
stitutions. and the principles for which
she stands. We believe in her future
the past Is secure. We believe in her
vast resources, her great possibilities
yes more. her wonderful certainties.
I'VE believe in the American people,
their genius. their brain and their
Drawn. We believe in their honesty.
their integrity and dependability We
believe that nothing can stand in the
way of their commercial advancement
and prosperity.
I'VE believe that what are termed
times of business depression are but
periods of preparation for greater and
moro pronounced commercial success.
"And we believe that in our country
are being worked out great problems.
the solution of which will be for the
benefit Of all mankind
THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK.
- - New York "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23

the only man in the south who can
cope with Villa.
Huerta fears, and rightly, what
would happen in Mexico City were he
to resign and assume personal COM
mand of the army of the north. With
zapata in the south, Villa in the
north, tied to his capital by the fear
that once the reins of government
are relinquished they will never be
regained, nothing is |, # the grim old
dictator but to wait desperately for
more inglorious end than Madero re-
ceived at his hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-23
ToMoRRow-TRIAL OF THE TWEED RING

musician were grimy, but his finger tips
were white with powdered resin from. a
little sack on a shelf near his knees. His
hands glided rapidly to and fro as he
stroked out of the rims of the glasses a
''rastime' march, played with consider
able skill and in excellent rhythm
The "muscal glasses" as an old fash
ioned parlor entertainment is familiar
enough, but to come across it in the
streets on a wet night in winter is start
lngly incongruous. Musical chairs would
hardly have been more surprising. Evil
IDENTIFY the performer finds that his nov
ETY. has taken on" for he can afford
to keep an assistant to so round with
the hat. 5eez