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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17

O'Neal and it's reporters have been denied access to the governors office. and have been informed that there was no news there for them.
 The fact that the governor is a puphe official, and according to old time polit- ical ideas, public servant, and his of- flee part of a public building. would in dicate that any citizen would have the right to enter same in an orderly way
 However, the Journal has not seen Tt to enforce this right. as it gets the news just the same.
 The Journal moreover has no feeling against Governor O'Neal and will always be pleased to give him the same consld- eration as it gives to every one. The Journal has never sought to make any unfair attack on the governor. The news items it has published are legiti- mate ones, and the recent publication or the expenditure of the contingent fund was a legitimate news item and published as such without comment.
 As stated above, a fracas between two young men who are liable to lose their tempers is not great matter. The real question that effects the public is, shall Alabama have a free and untrammeled press?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
CAUSE OF TIE DELAY

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
 Recently a man who lives in the west was notified over the telephone that a horse belonging to him had broken from the pasture and had been killed by the cars. Calling farm hand, he told him to go to the meadow and skin the horse.
 What's that?" exclaimed the farm herd. Do you mean to say that Frank is dead?"
 What's that to your" imperiously de- manded, the grouchy boss. "Go and do as I tell you.'
 The farm hand departed and it wasn't until several hours later that he reap peared.
 'I have been skinnin' that hoss," an- swered the far mhand in response to the boss' question.
 '"Skinnin' the horse.' exclaimed the boss, heatedly.. Do you mean to say that 1t took you five hours to do it?"
 rNo. sir" was the startling rejoinder O. the farm hand. T was nearly two hours ketchin' him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
A Great Practical Charitv

''I had the pleasure of journeying from Montgomery to Birmingham Wednesday with Mrs. Elizabeth Sal ter, one of the lady directors of the Masonic home near Montgomery, who was returning from a trip of inspec- tion to that splendid charity" said Percy Clark, "and I was much inter- ested in her account of the success of this undertaking.
 Speaking of the practical details, she told me that she found everything in most excellent order. The seventy odd inmates. some 40 of them children, arc cared for in comfort in the home, which. all in all. cost some s125, 00c.
 There are 150 acres of land, most of it in cultivation under the direction of Superintendent Williams. Orchards have been planted including a pecan grove. A dairy supplies the milk and butter. The home makes almost enough meat to supply the inmates.
 "The children are being taught trades and domesticity. The girls. many of them, arrange the dining tables, or serve as walters At present the efec- tion of a s10,000 hospital Is under way. The home does not owe one dollar for the completed work or Its holdings That it Is a practical charity is very evident"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
TAKING A LETTER TO JONES


 From Truth.
 Many a man who complains of the stu- pidity and lack of interest shown by his stenographers gives his dictation about like this:
 Take letter to Jones. III give you the address later John Jones' Dear Sir: think ytu are mistaken dDout this order. As you said in your previous letter-where in thunder is that letter? It very funny r,th;ng is ever around when I want it. I can't go to the file every time I want a letter All right, I've got it-in your pre- vious letter of the 9th, you said you wanted this order hurried at any cost. Therefore we shipped as you directed. If the order did not reach in good condition mo- scratch that out. If the goods reached you as you say-scratch that out We cannot be responsible for goods scratc., that odt. What did [ say last?- Having shipped the goods as yon directed, we do not feel responsible for the condi- ton in which they reached you. Para graph. Jn a case like this. it hardly seems as if you could expect dong pause) period Read over what you have there Oh. Lor6. I can't send any such mess as that. You don't seem to get my ideas at all. Here. add this on to the next to the last paragraph-We think you will see from this that your position is unreason- able. You nave our final decision and we cannot alter it in any way Tru,.:1g that this IS ollin t. you. we are-Ma'ls two cartoons or that and send one to tie Phil adelphia oifc. and don't lna;s 1t up ary more than you can help"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
The Iron and Steel Institute

The fact that the American Iron and Steel institute is to hold it's next general meeting in Birmingham in De- tober is being favorably commented upon in industrial and financial cir cles of the north.
 Several national bodies have met here within the last five years, but the coming of the steel men will be of more far-reaching importance tba has been the case with any gathering ever assembled 1n this or any other southern city. It was seen in yesterdays Age5derald that Holland" devoted a large part of his New York letter to Birmingham and the Iron and Steel institute Referring to the three large conventions to be held in the south y,ext fall-the Amer ican Bankers aH Richmond, the Good Roads conventi on at Atlanta and the @~~- Sl lHStiIuee uSIe- HUI land" made it plain that in large business ,glrcles the institute out ranked ah other organizations.
 As lEs title indicates, the Iron and Steel ynstitute is composed of men en- gagsA in the metal industry. In its membership are capitalists, manufac- &urers, metallurgists, mineralogists chemists and engineers. Thus the tai ent and the capital of the great in. dustrial world will be fully repre-. sented here.
 The Baltimore Manufacturers Rec. ord this week devotes several pages tc short letters from leaders in the iror and steel trade, expressing keen in terest in the meeting to be held il Birmingham. The Record suggests and the suggestion is good one that Birmingham begin at once to ar range for large display of the dis trict's iron and steel products.
 The October meeting will be one o.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
Result of Progressive Farming

The boil weevil damaged last years cotton crop in Alabama to consid- erable extent, and yet the crop was next to the largest ever picked in this state.
 The weevil is destroying more cot ton now than it did year ago. In some counties it is said that the pest has ruined fully 25 per cent of the crop. Nevertheless, AlabaWa is pro- ducing bumper croE, larger even than that of last Year.
 This remarkable prospect despite the ravages. of the bon weevil is due not to increased acreage, but to the Intelligence and industry of the farmer. Intensive farming has been worth millions of dollars to this state. A great deal more cotton is being pro- duced to the acre than in former years. No ambitious farmer is sat isfied with making a third or half bale to the acre as in years past. With many of them bale to the acre is the rule.
 As bad as the boil weevil is, there fore, this modern farming not only minimizes the damage to the crop, but in many cases >makes it neg ligable quantity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
THAT MYSTERIOUS MILLION

From the Selma Journal.
 Did the governor actually borrow s1, ,OOO,- 900 ,as was reported through his friendly newspaper organs? Did he borrow it or did he make arrangements to have the states warrants kited through the New York banks in order that the holders of the warrants might be able to realize their cash"
 The state treasurer insists that the borrowed million has never reached the strong box of the state. He did not like it when the newspapers began to talk about it, to surmise on it. and predict what would be done with the money.
 If the governor really borrowed the money, somebody ought to be able to see the cash and hear the jingle of the coin. Borrowed money will spend and rattle just like any other kind. But if the cash is not in the treasury, that spot must be empty again, just about. There is more or less uncertainty and mystery connect ed with the money matters of the state now, anyway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17

! TACOB Leisler was arrested, convict
 ed and executed as one of the lead O CTS of what is known in the early history of our country as ''The Dutch Plot" He had come to this country in 1860 as a soldier in the service of the Dutch West India company. He had ac- qrired considerable wealth while engaged in the Indian trade and had been instru- mental in the organization of five com panies representing the military force to be used in the protection of New York city.
 Leisler was captain of one of these reg iments. On a report being received that the adherents of King James were about to seize the fort and massacre their Dutch fellow citizens, a mob gathered on the evening of June 2, 1889, to overthrow the existing government Leisler, as 'cap- tain of the fort" strengthened it with a battery of six guns, which was the origin of the public park which is still known as the Battery" The mayor and the council of the province attempted to pacfy the people, but without effect.
 When in December a dispatch arrived
 
 peace should be preserved and the laws properly administered, Leisler construed this as an appointment of himself as the Kings lieutenant governor and command CT -in-chief. His sway was absolute for considerable period, but in January. 1891, Major Ingoldsby arrived at the port with the news of Henry Sloughter's ap- rointment as governor and demanded pos session of the fort. which Leisler re- fused.
 On Sloughters own demand immedi- ately after his arrival two months later. Leisler likewise refused to surrender it until he was convinced of Slaughter s Identity and the latter had sworn in his council. As soon as this had been done he wrote the governor letter resigning his command. Slaughter replied by ar- resting him and nine of his friends
 The latter were subsequently, released after trial. but Leisler was imprisoned. charged with treason and murder, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF JACOB LEISLER

shortly afterward was tried and con- demned to death. The prisoners had been arraigned before court constituted for the purpose by an ordinance, and having inveterate loyalists for judges. Leisler and his son-in-law, Milburn denied to the new governor the power to institute a tribunal for judging his predecessor, and they appealed to the King. On their re- frsal to plead they were condemned for high treason and sentenced to death. Joseph Dudley of New England, then chief justice of New York; giving ths opinion that Leisler had no legal author. ity whatever
 The trials of these men were manifest ly unjust. The judges were the personal ard political enemies of the prisoners and so gross were the acts of some of the rarties that Slaughter hestated at signing the death warrants, and said that be fin- ally did so when under the influence of wine.
 The day after Leisler's execution was determined upon, amid a drenching rain he parted from his wife, Alice, and his
 umerous family. and with his son-in-law was led tot the galows Both acknowl- edged the error which they had commit ted. Through ignorance and jealous fear, through rashness and passion,v through misunderstanding and misinstruction;' in bother respects they asserted their inno- ceLce which their blameless private life confirmed.
 By the English law of treason their es- tates were forfeited to the crown, but the committee of the privy council to VI hom the matter was referred reported that. although the ,riel was in conformity to the forms of law. they nevertheless recommended the restoration of the es- tates of the culprits to their heirs. In 1895 Leislers son succeeded in securing the passage of an act of Parliament, re- versing his fathers atteinder Three years later the Earl of Bellomont, who had been one of the most influential sup porters of the efforts of Leislers son. was appointed governor of New York; and through his influence the assembly voted ar indemnity to Leisler's helrs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
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An Ancient Farm Hand

A worthy citizen living near Phila- delphia, who has just celebrated his 104th birthday, enjoys the unique dis tinction of having been a laborer on the same farm for 83 years. What IS more to be marveled at, he still holds his job and does what he considers "full days" work. Some people would look on it as nearer two days work, or even three, if they are the indolent sort, but this estimable man does not let little thing like the weight of 104 years impair his usefulness.
 Rising at 4 o'clock in the morning, a good four hours ahead of thousands of persons who think they are real hustlers, the Pennsylvania centen- arian feeds the horses and milks the cows. These light duties attended to, he has breakfast at 5:30 o'clock. Then he curries the horses, gets ready for the milk train, takes out load of hay or the blow and does chores. He takes a whole hour for dinner, not wishing to hurry himself into a pre- mature grave by rapid eating. In the afternoon he resumes his busy rounds and at 6 o'clock he gets his supper. According to his schedule at 6:30 he 'loafs around" and at 9 o'clock he re- tires to well earned rest.
 The man who thinks he's getting old and played out" at 45 or 50 should contemplate the shining exam pie of this Pennsylvania paragon. When other men half his age are cod ding themselves and taking things easy" he hops out of bed at 4 o'clock in the morning and tolls cheerfully at the same tasks he has been doing all his life. The city's lure never led him away into pitfalls of sin and dissipa- tion. He stuck to the farm. And look what it did for him! At 104 he still has good health, works hard and en- joys three Square" meals day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17

The lost statuette of Victory, which rested in the left hand of the statue of Napoleon on top of the Colonne Vcndcme has been found in England. The column wss overthrown by the communards of Paris May l6 1871. Since that time the missing statrette has been widely sought and many improbable tales have been told Of its fate. An English woman liv- ing of Edmunds says the statuette is in her possession. She declares that 1t was picked up by her father, who was in Paris when the column was pulled down, the statuette rolling to his feet. This man carried the figure away. One arm was broken in the fall, but it was mended. The statuette stands IS inches high.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
New Era of Prosperity

Tn June not few business men in the large cities predicted a mighty revival of business activity by July 1,n said M. M. Mcconnell of Chicago. while many con servative forecasters said that prosperity would not be in full swing before the fall of the year.
 Well, business is improving every day, and before the end of this month we will see greater degree of activity than has been witnessed at any time during the past lS months But what impresses me especially is the fact that nearly all rep resentatives of big business are, now agreed that the new era of prosperity due shortly will be the greatest in the history of this country. There is scarcely dis sent from this view. It may be September before all branches of business are hum ming, but that prosperity will come as scheduled should not be doubted"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
A FEW BEST SELLERS

From Books of Today and Tomorrow. The principal character in the follow ing dialogue was not engaged in irritation. but merely requisitioning a few novels: Young Lady reading from list): "En- gagged to Be Married?"
 Librarian (referring to shelD: No, madam.
 Lady: Thou Art the Man?" Librarian: Yes, madam.
 Lady Thank you. Two Kisses?" Librarian: Out, madam.
 Lady: After Dark?'
 Librarian: Yes, madam.
 Lady: Thanks. Love Me Foreyer?" Librarian: No. "Wooed and Married ?'' Lady: No, thank you Under Loves Ruler"
 Librarian: No, madam.
 Lady: "Good-by, Sweetheart?" Thank you very much.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
In Dallas and Wilcox

The prospects for crops in Dallas and in Wilcox counties are glorious," said Col. Joseph ". Moore, broker, who is also engaged in farming in Dallas county
 T have never seen a more glowing promise in all my experience, and I vis- ited generally throughout the section named. I understand that many parts of the state and portions Of the black belt have suffered for lack of timely sea son rains. yet our country was peculiarly fortunate in getting what was needed The boil weevil is In the lower section but believe the farmers have outrun him in the cultivation of the cotton crop
 Dallas county now has some of the finest roads in the state. It is hard to realize that in places where at one time it took four mules to haul two bales of cotton through the prairie mud, two mules can now haul eight bales in a trot, al- most''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Prosperity Crop. in peKaib

Up in DeKalb we have a fine crop prospect. all In all." said L. B. Lloyd, merchant and farmer, yeserday. but the dry weat ther cut the corn and the sorg- hum crop off to some extent
 This morning we had almost cloud burst rainfall at Fort Payne, and hope It was general throughout our sectlon, for we need it.
 We are to have a new bank at Fort Payne and there are many evidences of prosperity in DeKalb.
 Replying to an inquiry about the long staple cotton, we have had to abandon 1t as unsuited to our soil and climate. Yet the improved seed has helped the gen. eral crop as to length of fibre"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
TOMORRow-TRIAL OF DEFINING

less man spreads wide the loss, while everybody recoups by charging him more for his goods and for his time.
 While shiftless work may make de- mand for more work, it is at the expense of everybody else, including the worker. This is plain as practical matter, but as moral question it is easily discerni- ble. Inefficiency Is dishonest, and dis honesty is costly. If man is paid for work which he doesn't do. there is a loss that the man himself must make good ih some way, Ne may not pay back that day, but he will some day in some way, or God doesn't run this world If man wastes the time for which he is paid, and thinks he makes by it, he is a fool.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
Establish Pathological Institute

Atlanta is to have the Methodist university. Birmingham made an earnest and business-like effort to in duce the educational commission to locate it here, but failing to win the prize there will be no soreness on the part of the men who subscribed gen. erously to the university fund. In the name of Birmingham, The Age Herald congratulates the winner. A great institution under the auspices of the general conference of the Meth odist Episcopal church, south, will be founded in Atlanta, and that it will prosper goes without saying.
 President Paschal G. Shook of the Chamber of Commerce and other mem bers of the Birmingham delegation who went to Atlanta in the interest of this city did splendid work, and while disappointed, as matter of course, they return home as full of pluck and the "get together" spirit as ever. They will now direct their efforts to the building here of great technological every citizen who subscribed to the i Methodist university fund will gladly let his subscription stand and be ap piled to a handsome technological building.
 Many years ago a movement was started to establish a school of tech nology here. But Birmingham was then a small city, and leaders in the movement after considering all phases of the question concluded that the time had not come for so ann bilious an undertaking as that proposed. Birmingham has had phenomenal growth in the recent years, and it will continue to grow at rapid rate; and the time is now  propitious for undertaking and carry ing out an enterprise along the lines of the highest technological training.
 Birmingham is and will always be pre-eminent as the south's industrial center. Coal and iron ore are mined in this district on an extensive scale, and it is the only district in the south where steel and finished steel prod ucts are made. A large percentage of the young men who seek an educa- tion to fit themselves for life's work take "tech" course, and the students in the technological departments at universities are ever increasing in number.
 In this connection, it might be well for the University of Alabama to transfer its engineering department to Birmingham or establish a branch here, just as it has established a grad uate school of medicine here It has an excellent technological foundation, and as Birmingham offers exceptional advantages, the engineering depart ment would be conducted here with wonderful success.
 Let the general committee which did such tellinp work in raisinp a fund for the Methodist university keep up its enthusiasm and push the cam paign without delay for one of Bir- mingham's obvious needs-a thorough ly equipped technological school
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17

 AIfaIfa Finds Ready Market

Alfalfa grown in the black belt fields of Alabama finds ready market in Florida D said S. F. Wiibourne, president of the Black Belt Land company,
 In speaking of Alabama and especially of the black belt territory as an alfalfa growing section Mir. Wilbourne went on to say: We read the glowing reports from Oklahoma. Texas and other south western states as being particularly adapted to the growing of alfalfa, and no doubt some of these reports are true; but I want to say we have right here in Alabama the greatest, undeveloped fields and opportunities that are to be found anywhere.
 For the growing of alfalfa you will find no better soil than that of the black belt territory Alfalfa growing there is past the experimental stage. The rain- fall is sufficient and the soil has proved to be of quality that is adapted to the successful growing of this great forage and producer of fat"
 "The Alabama Mississippi Alfalfa com pany is this week shipping another cal of Alabama alfalfa to Homestead, Fla"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
Will Double His Subscription

7 'T heard a man prominent in finan- cial and industrial circles say, on learning that Atlanta had won in the contest for the Methodist university, that he would double his subscription for the building of a technological in- stitute here" said member of the Chamber of Commerce.
 "The gentleman referred to has a technical education and as a public spirited citizen made liberal sub scription to the university fund. Before he was informed that anyone in the Birmingham delegation in Atlanta had come out in favor of launching cam paign for a technological school, he remarked with enthusiasm that now was the time for such movement. He suggested the idea that the president and trustees of the University of Ala bama might be induced to transfer it's engineering department to Birmingham in connection with a great technolog- ical institution here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
FIGHT IN THE CAPITOL

From the Montgomery Journal: The difficulty in the state capitol Tuesday be- twen Kirkman O'Neal, the son and pri- vate secretary of Governor Emmet O'Neal. and Louis Sternfeld, the capitol repor CT of the Journal, is hardly worthy of editorial notice except for the under lying causes leading thereto.
 For some time the Journal has not been in the good graces of Governor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-17
Good Resort Rusiness

''rhe summer resort business is good ' said C. M Cook, manager of Cook Springs and we find that the public ap- preciate good fare and first-class atten- tion. Too long they have been buncoed by flattering promises of the good things they could enjoy at some places only to find that the rainbow touched the wrong spot.
 We have had "a good business Our good fare, fine water and cool nights have proved of much benefit to numbers who come to Cook Springs in a run down physical condition"