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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
WHEAT

From the New York World
 Of our three great crops, corn. the most valuable. interests eastern mer- chants least It does not travel. but Is fed on the farm. Cotton pays our bills abroad; we exported $500, ,eo0, 900 worth of cotton and cotton goods last year. Wheat means bread for our peo- pie freight for railroads and big sums Tn foreign exchange. Hence there is the keenest interest in the possibility of a wheat crop running above 950.- 100000 bushels, exceeding last years yield by 2O0,000.000 bushels and mount ing to one-quarter of the worlds pro- duction
 Russia now holds the wheat record with an estimated 12.000,0OO bushels last year. Our crop was sligtly ahead in 1912; in these two years averaged it was twice that of rice eating British Indian or France, three and a half times that of Canada and over four times that of Argentina
 Fourteen years ago Sir William crookes gave financiers a chill by an nouncing that the time was at hand when the United States could export no more wheat, but must keep it's crop to feed its people. Facts seemed to support his statement. In 1850 we raised rather more than four bushels for each inhabitant, though the figures are untrustworthy and doubtless too low In 1880 we raised nearly 10 bushels per inhabitant. Tn 1900 we were raising less than seven bushels per in- habitant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
MexicO's Trade Unaffected

Now that little breathing spell is afforded this country in the matter of our differences with Mexico during the sessions of the "A. B. C." medi- ators we can stop to consider some interesting statistics concerning the neighboring republic recently made public by the Pan-American union.
 The details as furnished by Director General Barrett of the union show that despite disturbances in normal conditions the foreign commerce of Mexico has displayed no appreciable affect, but that on the contrary the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, en- joyed the largest business in the his- tory of the country.
 During that period the combined exports and imports represented a trade of $248,OSS,977, which was an excess of nearly $S,O0O,OOO over that of the proceeding year. Exports in- creased nearly $2,000,O0O over it's predecessor and the imports of that year also showed an increase.
 Mexico imported in the fiscal year just mentioned leather and leather goods amounting to $3,500 ,000; tex tile fabrics of cotton, wool and silk amounting to S13,0O0,OOO, and ma chinery and tools amounting to nearly the same amount.
 The United States furnished the major portion of these imports. the amount totaling $4S,00O,00O and be- ing equal to the amount combined of Great Britain, Germany, France and Spain.
 Argentina, however, is rapidly in- creasing it's trade with Mexico and in many respects bids fair soon to be- come rival in this respect of the United States.
 While the export of gold from Mex tico fell off in 1913 some $5,OO0, ,O00, it's copper exports increased nearly $2,000,000 and the diminution in coffee and rubber was fully offset by the increase of chicle (used in chew ing gum), hides, tobacco and vanilla. Of these exports the United States took nearly three quarters, or $116,- or, ,OO0 worth, with Great Britain, Germany and France following in the order named.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Failure of the Pure Food Law

Considerable complaint upon the part of the people is being echoed py the journals throughout the country as to the failure of the pure food law to effect those results which had been hoped for.
 This is found to be especially true relative to goods that were manufac- tured for shipment and sold at great distance from the locality where they were prepared. It is found that honey bottled in California and sent east IS half sugar; reputedly imported olive oil grows rancid to the taste in re- markably brief period of time; catsup put up in Kansas portrays indisputa- ble evidence of adulteration through the use of putrid vegetable substances and bea- from the west proves to have ie from other cerials than
 N
 Then mes along the department oi
 e with it's periodical bundles
 ranscripts of conviction for
 of the pure food law and
 Je transcripts attest the ac- tivity and earnestness of the officials in the matter of punishment they at the same time reveal the impotency of the department in the enforcement of the law.
 The situation seems to be that plea. of guilty is entered, fine, in many cases ridiculously inadequate, is paid and the manufacturer continues in his practice of adulteration, taking the chances of an additional detection. In it's last analysis it is system of licensed adulteration by the imposi- ton of small fines.
 It was opined that the framing of the pure food law bespoke an awaken ing of the public conscience, and prob ably such was the case, but that awak- eufhg has far from reached the com mercial or mercantile conscience, and it will doubtlessly require more than d petty fine to effect such an arous- ing. Heavier fines or prison penalties are requisite to safeguard the public health in an appreciable manner and they alone will render the pure food law effective and beneficial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

of much disease and . high death rneA The work which General 0orgas av planning there through his aids h urgently needed
 With the rainy season at hand, ma larfa is the first plague to guard against. And for its effect in taking strength and vitality cut of our army 1t ia disease vastly to be dreaded. Quinine is already a staple of diet among our Pacific invaders. The cam paisn against mosquitoes will quickly follow. Tho expense of this work is not great and the reduction in disease re- sulting from the elimination of stag- nant water and other breeding spots Is extraordinary.
 It Is . safe prediction that however great violence our occupation of Vera Cruz has done to the patriotic feelings of that city's inhabitants we shall leave 1t a safer and better place to live in than when we first rowed ashore to occupy a custom house
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

ton. Some people are crushed by trouble; they simply cave in under it.. It seems somehow te extract the bones and leave nothing but mess of yield ing flesh. And there are some who are always looking around for some thing to be resigned to- They see a grief coming down the road mile away, and run out and throw up their hands or jump under the wheels. An aimless, spineless crawling around to be walked on.
 There is the attitude of godly patience. Patience, as used frequently by biblical writers, is a strong word. It is our word fortitude. It has woven in 1t the strong threads of all these other attitudes.
 It fights as long az fighting can avail. It fights after others have surrendered. For it realizes that God may have sent the enemy or may be using it to draw out for battle all the unused powers of resource, of daring, of endurance.
 It bears when it must. But it bears. It doesn't lie down. It bears up. It doesn't give down. It doesn't let the load on to the raw bones. It gives resisting muscle and walks on.
 It inquires also. But it inouires about vital things. It says: "Oh God, ask not about any theory of evil; l ask not how these things can be; l ask not why I am afflicted and others spared. I ask only to know Thy will in all this; whether Thou didst originate it or not. know Thou art anxapus to use it for me and for others. l ask not even to know Thy plan in it all, if Thou wilt only apply it to my hearts life and enable me to wait on Thy pleasure.
 H. M. EDMONDS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
The Next Musical season

"A music festival on large scale is assured for the spring of 1915" said a business man who has been ever ready to assist in a financial way all high class musical projects, and I hope an organized effort will be made to in- duce the St. Louis orchestra or some other large orchestra to give series of symphony concerts here during the winter season. Recitals by great singers and virtuoso performers are delightful and educative, but no form of musical entertainment comes up to the sym phony as a cultural factor.
 ''It is hoped. too, that the Sunday con- certs will be revived. The series given three seasons in succession were well attended and every music lover knows that the refined recitals on Sunday afternoons did much to improve the musical taste of the community"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

and in politics. region of romance. a jungle of assumptions, a swamp of illu- sions and desert of dribble. facts have no home. It may bs true enough. as Hon. Cyrus Cornelius Adams, the Strabo of One Hundred and F1fty-sixth street. says, that there are likely to have been errors in transmitting the figures of lati- tude and longitude by cable;" but there is no limit to the latitude of statement and variation or the longitude of mes- sage permitted to the colonel. He Is a say what he wants and do what he pleases.
 When the colonel sees certain judicial decisions a scarlet wave flows over his retina and his brain. When, however, he gazes on things outdoors, a mountain. a wart hog, river. a river horse, he be- comes the god of things as they are. Out doors he is all right. if little severe on weddings, fat military men and short winded tennis cabineers. In his previous states of existence he was a guide, a trapper. a hunter, coureur de bois; he was on Columbus crew and vasco da Gamas, with De Soto and old Ponce de Leon, La Sale and c-hamplain; he was Beebe, Natty Bumppo, the cosmical Hum boldt, SnaSy Snodgrass. Gerard the lion killer. Spoke, Livingstone. yes. all of them he Is, with streaks of Cuchulain, Orlando Furioso. Tecumseh and the Poltergest added.
 We see rival explorers and closest geog- raphers raping that river from his iron grasp. We are ready to believe that it's 1000, yes, 10000 miles long. If 1t runs up- hill all the way 1t is the better progress sive symbol and stream of hope Tt might cross other streams" continues Strabo Adams, "and still be unexplored.' Natu- rally. The Roosevelt river may cross other streams on natural bridges, via ducts, aqueducts, pontoons, waterspouts. It may, 1t should. be full of chasms. ca s. cades, whirlpools. waterfalls, dragons, krakews, but if 1t contains a single oc- topus we will eat the same on the shell. The Roosevelt river carries along oceans of foam and mud. It roads like a uni verse. one stable of buds of Rashan. It's mouths are multitudlnous It's discharge Is incredible.
 We believe thoroughly in the Roosevelt. If anybody did find 1t bsfors its present
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

cipal event of the day was about to take place.
 The river packet is out of date and sadly "eut of the running" yet there are few people left who admire it's stately progress along our waterways and to whom the sight of big boat sweeping around curve in the Mis- sissippl recalls memories of departed splender that belonged to stirring period of this eeuntry's history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
The City Beautifnl

Well kept lawns and flower beds are features of the fashionable residence sections, as a matter of course, but no home Is so humble that 1t cannot be made attractive by flowers and a It. tie greensward," said @ citizen.
 Some homes In the poorer sections are remarked by an air of comfort and refinement. Back yards as well as front are kept clean and flower beds are in evidence. But a majority of yards arc grassless and howerless. The city beau tiful movement should change all this Everybody can and everybody should cultivate flowers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Rosn soNG
By Julia Neely Finch.


 Roses Roses! EverywnerA F1inging to the sum- kissed air Treasures of their hidden hearts. Tiny wee-ones, crowding, kissing, Sometimes almost hidden, missing, Huddling on their supple stalks. Old-f ashioned roses, pink and sweet As Is a maiden's tender cheek: Luscious roses, mild and mellow; Leaning from their latticed places; Peeping thro' the window spaces: Shedding petals broad and yellow On the white and winding walks. Regal roses, devoutly tended, Each e tall and stately queen Midst mass of shining green: Big, bride roses. white as moonlight, Whisp ring of a lovers VOWS; Crowning fair. unsullied brows. Pure, pale roses, softly falling Lightly from their petaled hold: Let them bloom and die above her: Tell her we remember, love her: She whose story yet untold Heard the Master calling calling. Sweetly laid her down to rest. Oh, to be rose in June. To shine and simmer meath the moon To shower sweetness on the world Morning, evening. night and noon With every petal wide unfurled, What could be sweeter thing Than all this wondrous blossomine. This sweetness flung upon the air From roees, robeo. everywhert!
 Birmtngham. May, tt1l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
The chautauaua rh,. Week

The Birmingham chautauqua opens next Thursday and will continue seven days. closing Wednesday night, May 27.
 The chautauqua last year was a grand success and this years programme Is even more attractive, if anything, than that of 1915" said professional man. "The crowds that attended the first chau- tauqua attested very plainly popular in- terest In the class of attraction pre- sented
 Variety is one of the distinct features of chautauqua week. There will be mu- sic of a high order, several lectures and a Ben Greet performance. The season ticket is only g, and as there are enter tainments forenoon. afternoon and night. the admission cost Is mere bagatelle
 "A large advance sale of seats means aid to the Jefferson County Anti-Tubercu- losis association. But the fact stressed is that no weeks series could be more alluring to people who appreciate refined diversion combined with food for thought than the coming chatauqua.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE TROUBLES
 AND PLEASURES OF COUNTRY F1O1E BUILDING

count of the lacksof,hotel facilities. They did not care to take chances again hut returned north rather than come here.
 With the Tutwiler open we shall have facilities to take care of those who would come. If we will build the auditorium Birmingham would Abeeome as great a convention city as has become Atlanta.
 People of the north and west love to visit the south. Atlanta has gotten con- wentions because upi ro the present time it has been the only city in the south with the hotel facilities to accommodate the crowds.
 Last Mondays election for governor was close. as everyone predicted. Had not tho weather bean % sood the Conner vots~would havelbeen-larger. It is elsdmed that the farmers remnined at home to work their,orops-
 However, the result has been saAisfac- tory, especially to- the busissess and manu- factur1ng interests-Eery satisfactory to the railroads while MT. Henderson ia not a scintillating star in the frmamsnt of statesmansiip. hs is a good, sound. solid business man. Es is no<htng of tho oratps. but he has made financial success ofphis. ownsaffairs and should be thoroughly 70 in handling Alshamas businesR
 Men who have sbeeu intimately asso- ciated with him, for; years bsiieve that he win mako goxsrnor under whose guidance Alabama win achieve great prospes1ty. He win protsct tho szpsndi- turss of money for dssrsaopmsne purposss and win s11s svsry hensst 1utsrsst . fair sha,rs for it's ~.wa4lts allsy5'' and. as a matter of fsct, what Alabama. needs is a thorough safe guarding and protecting of every development. stnvsstmsnt made in the state
 Men with money onlysgo to those states to invest in which they know the con- trolling powers will safeguard and pro- tect them against rabid personalities of all descriptions.
 I predict that we shah all be .eminently satisfied with the government given us by Charles Henderson
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

of Lookout Mountain. and 1t has become almost city of summer homes. Atlantans surrounding the city and spending the summers there.
 The Chamber of Commerce harps-upon the subject of trade in Birmingham. Peo- ple can't trade in Birmingham extensive ly if they spend three or four of the summer months at distant resorts.
 < * # I am sorry for one reason particularly that W. P. G. Harding is to leave Bir- mingham to serve on the federal reserve bank board. He is one of several who had contemplated building on Shades Mountain. where the climate is ideal and the soil perfect for vegetation of all kinds
 By the way, the First National Bank directors acted very wisely in promoting Vice President John H. Barr to the pres idency of the institution and making Maj. E. M. Tutwiler chairman of the board. Major Tutwiler is broad. liberal and enthusiastic citizen. Ills ideas are very spirit to the core.
 Than John Barr there is no better bank CT in this country. He knows credits and he can size up tho good men and the bad mon at a glance. It is always yes or no with him, without chickering's or discussion If he has ever made bad loan nobody has discovered it. Yet. he knows the good and is thorough in en- couraging the upbuilders. Hs fs the kind of a man who knows how to mako bank and community.
 The team of Tutwiler and Barr will be worthy successors to that Napoleon of banking. Harding.
 $ < E It is indeed a good thing for Birmfng- ham that the new Tutwiler hotel is to be opened in few weeks. Nothing has been so badly needed in Birmingham. I happened to be in Atlanta last week during the Shriners' meet where I found quite a party of wealthy and influential people, largely interested in Birming ham, who wanted to come here but were them had been here before and had been crowded in inadequate quarters on &C.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
THE coLoNni,s RIVER
From the New York Sun.

We warn the minimizing or unprinci- conspiracy against the Roosevelt river to turn from the error of their ways. The nomination for President was stolen from him in 1912; but no power on earth or in Tartarus can take the coloners river away from him the already recalled and soon to be reconstructed map of Bra gil The unspoiled child of fortune and the chartered libertine of speech. he may be or may have been it times little careless about facts. as Henry Grady would put it. Facts in poiitics. of course.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
CLEANING UP VERA CRUZ

1<tW- 1TUIGS.
 The city of Vera Cruz has a much more wholesome name than the pest holes of Panama which General Gorgas converted into happy. healthful spots. Te Mexicans, following American meth ods, have done much toward making 1t clean and healthful. Nevertheless. 1t is still inadequately equipped from a sanitary point of view. and with the ad- vent of American troops by the tens of thousahdb it holds 6ll tho bossibiilty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
DOUBTFUL.

I've found a brand new river That flows right straight up hill; It meets another river But crosses it at will. It mounts the rocky boulders, And this is it's renown-- When it has a cataract The falls are upside down. A thousand miles 1t wanders, Meanders in and out; I've named the mighty founding The big River of Doubt. As British critics quibble, And say it cannot be- I'll just pick up this river And take 1t home with me. So when I reach my country And breathe my native air, I'll have that river with me And find that Doubt is ther,
 CTo C. F. M) You seem to think that rent is on my
 mind, But I declare to you 'tis nothing of the
 kind. And 'pon my soul 1t is not in my pants. If I had diamonds there I'd pay up in
 advance. R. A. L. Our Bob must be a millionaire If diamonds in his pants he'd wear A Crocesus with golden cup And gems to hold his trousers up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
PULPIT ANNOUNCEMENT
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 In the rural districts it is often nec- essary for one to turn ones trousers up to keep them free from mud. A case of this kind resulted in the fol- lowing incident:
 One muddy morning the absent minded preacher having rolled down one trousers leg and forgotten the oth- er mounted the platform and started with his usual preliminaries. He was about to announce his text when one of the deacons handed him note from his wife, who was sitting in the au- dience. Thihl<ing it a notice of some coming event, he calmly read: Do turn down the other trouser leg"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
High Glass Hotels

The Hotel Tutwiler company was certainly fortunate in securing for It's lessee the United Hotels company" said A. L. F'ulenwider
 When l visit Albany. Utica. Syracuse and other eastern cities, where the company referred te conducts hotels. always stop at one of them because l know I shall get high class service. The gentlemen who head the United Hotels company know their business thoroughly, and Birmingham may be assured that the Tutwiler will be sec ond to no hotel In this country so far as elegant service Is concerned. This Is the only hotel which the United Hotels company will operate in the south, and shortly after 1t is opened Birming- ham will be talked about as the best hotel town south of the old Mason and Dixon line."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

uHAvE not finished that Shades Noun
 tain country bungalow yet. I have
 found It much easier to master the art of making hens lay than to complete a bungalow of logs.
 It Is lots of trouble to make logs fit to- gether and look artistic. Again. whom one starts building without plans or de- signs and tacks up things here and there to see what effect this or that will cause 1t produces extensions and elaborations not contemplated at the outset
 But it is really interesting to produce artistic effects which are thoroughly com- fortable.
 I can readily understand how a carpen- ter likes his business, because there is al ways some new effect to produce and 1t is as easy to do things well and effectively as to slap dash them together.
 It is little more expensive for a man to wear clean collars and have his shoes pol ished than 1t is to go about in a state of dirt. So 1t is in country home building. One can make a clean and. neat effect just as well as make it dowdy.
 The only thing I have not figured out is how to make a neat and artistic barbe- cue pit; because country home will be nothing unless one can occasionally invite all of his friends to a barbecue. How ever we are working that out, and when warm weather comes shall hope to have a good old-fashioned country barbecue and have my friends make a jolly day of it.
 Speaking about country homes, the time is coming when the busy men of Birming- ham will build bungalows for their fam flies on the elevations hereabouts. and especially on Shades mountain. The cli- mate is so delightful that they will spend the summer months at home rather than at uncomfortable summer resort hotels.
 Men who take their wives and children away from Birmingham for several of the summer months will eventually content themselves with a summer home on Shades mountain and a two-weel1s' sum mer trip rather than one lasting two or three months.
 Chattanooga has discovered the virtue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

urct>NINC THE DAY-O God, grant deIyerance from the wors"'p of appearances. May count my self disxraccd Because I do inc wrong, not because | nm punisne" for it. May I count myself biest pe- cause I do the right, not because nm praised for it. Help me, Q efeh. God, to he of single mind, lover oi substancc and not of shadow. !" Cbrist's name. Amen.-H. M. E'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

Edison says cigarettes are deleterious to brain development but smoking cigar cites doesn't bother ones neighbor hun dredth part as much as playing one of Brother Edisons photographs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

New Jersey mayor, who is republi- can, kicked a democratic caller out Of his office and into the street and blacked both his eyes. Party lines in New Jersey are sharply drawn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
LETTER OF THE LAW.

Wife (reading from local paper): "In furtherance of the city beautiful move ment, the civic authorities have ordered that all low hanging limbs be trimmed"
 Husband (who is a dwarf): Guess I'll have to get my corns cut right away