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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-21
SULPHUR INDUSTRY 1, IN LOUISIANA IS { MARVEL OF NATION Stock In Company Is Paying
 Over 1000 Per Cent Annually
ANOTHER DEPOSIT
 FOUND IN SOUTH
Panama Canal Promises to Stimulate Every Sort of Industry In South, Thus Adding to Ma
 tiOn's Wealth
By HOLLAND.

New York, May 20-(Special.)-In an ad- |dress which was recently delivered at the |annual banquet of the Richmond, Va, chapter of the American Institute or Banking, Richard H. Edmonds of Balti- |more stated that the corporation which controls the great sulphur mines of Louis |tana is understood to be paying dividends |pf little over 1000 per cent upon the par |value of the stock. No one can tell what |the market value of this stock really is, (NIr. Edmonds asserted, since none of it's |stock ever comes upon the market except ling when it is necessary to make sale or securities owned by an estate. There was recently one case of this kind which es-
 tablished an appraisal value of s5000 a |share of the sulphur company's stock, the bar value being $1oo.
 l In this city 1t has been the understand ling in financial circles that the dividends |paid upon the stock of the sulphur com Epany which is in the ownership of the es- hate of the late H. Mex. Twombley, ap- |proximates $SO0000. This investment is )regarded as on the whole the most val liable of any made by MT. Twombley in his tifctime. Yet it was almost by accident
 hat he was persuaded to put compara-
 lively small amount of money into the
 promotion of the sulphur property.
 | If MT. Edmonds statement be accepted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-21
The Greater Consideration

Interesting as is the disclosure that an American mining industry is so profitable that it can pay dividends at 1000 per cent and that its stock has been officially ap- praised for the purpose of closing out an estate at 5000 a share, nevertheless this is the least of the considerations which the business of this corporation offers. A few years ago the United States was compelled to depend upon Italy for its sul- phur. Today this country is controlling the sulphur industry of the world, and there is understanding in financial circles that trade arrangements have been made with great sulphur industry of Italy which will prevent serious losses to the owners of the Italy deposits. This Amer ican sulphur, according to MT. .Edmonds, meets two-thirds of the sulphur needs of the entire world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-21
MORE CHEERFUL
 SENTIMENT IN IRON
80,O00-Ton Pig Iron Order
 in East Significant
CAR ORDERS RECEIVED
Structural Situation Trifle Better as to V0lume-Sheet Market Shows Some Improvement at
 Pittsburg

Cleveland, May 20.-(Special 1.-The Iron Trade Review tomorrow will say: More cheerful sentiment continues to assert it. self in the iron market. This is due to external conditions which promises to affect all business favorably.
 The prospects of splendid crops and the promise that there will be no rad ical legislation In Washington this sum- mer. are among the encouraging condi- tions of a general character within itself, also the market has better tone The buying Of 5000 tons of basic pig iron in the east and additional purchases by Can ton, O., and St. Louis melters have given reason for hoping that more general buy ing will soon be started
 Tt is true. however. that the price at which basic has recently been pur- chased are believed to be low, but price concessions are common In period of increasing activity following profound dulness, and such concessions are usuai- ly followed by stronger market The purchases of the United Steel company, Canton. recently made now amount to 40,000 tons. Lukens Iron and Steel com pany was the heaviest buyer In the east. as 1t took about 5000 tons from five diff ferent makers. The Central Iron and Steel company, Harrisburg. purchased 5000 tons while the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending company. Harrisburg, pur- chased 12OO0 tons for third quarter and will probably take 120O0 tons additional. Most. if not all of the iron bought by Pennsylvania melters was at S14 delivered. The awarding of S0,0O0 tons of iron seg- ments for East river tunnel of which bids will be received Friday is of con- siderable interest to foundries in the east -rn territory.
 ''The American Sheet and Tin Plate company has been awarded 6O0.000 boves of tin for the Standard oil company in competition with Welsh mills.
 '.The sheet market shows some im- provement at Pittsburg, but prices arc sagging at Chicago. Chicago prices with freight from Pttsburg deducted do not, however, represent Pittsburg prices, as they usually do in times of great pros perity Some Ohio sheet mills are selling as low as 1.S0c at their plants for No. 2S black.
 'Rumors continue to be circulated that the decision of interstate commerce com mission on the railroad rate advance will be announced within few days and tho prospects of ar early decision has caused more optimistic feeling in some quar- ters, but no official announcement has been made to justify any expectation of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-21

the decision being announced until short ly before the commission adjourns for the summer vocation. but Judge Harlan's an nouncement some weeks ago clearly indi- oated that the commission would not ad- journ for vacation without making de- cision
 'The St. Paul and Burlington railroads are understood to be in the market Tor bridge material, but very little actual railroad business has developed
 "Connellsvile furnace coke Is being sold for prompt delivery at $l75 ovens and some eastern furnaces are buying. At Chicago and Cincinnati offices inquiries for large tonnages of furnace coke for last half delivery are pending. On con tract s2 seems to be the minimum quota ton for high grade Connelsville coke"
 New York. May Especial. )-The Iron Age will say tomorrow: Buying of about 75.000 tons of ba- sic pig iron by three companies In eastern Pennsylvania Tn the most sig nlfieant news of the week m that department of the ma sket The price was close to $14 delivered or nearly 25 cents less than the basis of ,h@ eastern purchases of basic early in tho year This buying Is significant as showing the judgment of some buyers that they have caught he market ai lew point.
 Inc general expr sssiol In tle stcs ! tradc is that order :oks have not vet realized upon the feeling that change for the better Is at hand. Y st improved sentiment is everywhere admitted. car orders of the week amount to HOO besides 800 cars tine St. Paul will build for Itself. The Seaboard Air Line is inquiring for i45 cars.
 "The structural situation is trifle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-21

as fairly accurate. that the stock has been paying dividends at the rate of 1ooe per cent a year, then this corporation must be regarded as the most profitably con ducted one in the United States. There Is one bank in New York city whose stock holders expect that it will pay at least loo per cent dividends, and are not at all surprised if there are extra dividends quite as large as this. The market value of the stock of this bank is less than the appraised value of each share in the stock of the sulphur company. There is one American manufacturing industry whose affairs are quite as closely guarded as are those of this sulphur company. It's stock is never upon the market, and it is impossible to ascertain what its market value really is. Enforced sales to close out an estate have resulted in an offering of as much as $500 share for this stock par value being S100
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-21
A Southern Industry

There recently died the practical chem fst and master of physics who made avail able for commercial uses this Louisiana sulphur mine. He is understood to have been of the opinion that other very large sulphur deposits would be discovered in the south. Whether he learned before his death that this view was correct or not Is not known, but MT. Edmonds states to the Richmond chapter of the American Institute of Banking that another very large deposit of sulphur has been discov- cred and is now being developed in the south, and that in the company which is undertaking the development there is a great deal of Richmond capital.
 MT. Edmonds address was highly on- timistic and was deemed very timely in view of the practical completion of the Panama canal This artificial waterway and the commerce which it will make pos stble will inevitably serve greatly to stim- u1ate not only established industries, but the development of the natural resources of the south. Upon this development no small part of the expected increase of material prosperity in the United States is to be based. For instance, just at this time the Mexican complications are calling attention to the vast oil interests which are at Tampico. Great as these are, they are far surpassed by the oil deposits of the south. Few people real ize that the southern oil fields. including
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-21
M MNzzg5ROKEYN N
 ZlEABERNACLE
lANpIBLE.sTU0Y.oN ~
We Are Unprofitable Servants

LO M lt .i-iV- n 1f
 He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.''-1 Corinthians :31.
 Today's lesson is in four sections, each apparently distinct and separate. Never theless, they manifest the wisdom from above. We shall consider them in their order.
 Our Influence Upon Others
 Tt Is impossible but that offenses will come" The word offenses signifies stum- hlings, or ensnarement. Jesus ccnse- crated followers are called little ones, be- cause they are new creatures, started in the way of full conservation to God s will However, there should be growth in grace knowledge, love. Strength of character should be attained, which would be not only wise, strong and difficult to ensnare, but able also to assist and pro- tect others less developed
 The dangers of ensnarement exist be- cause Satan, the prince of this age, has the majority of mankind more or less un- der his infiuence-blinded by error, super stition. sin, etc "The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them who be- lieve not" @ Corinthians 4:4) That Jesus did not refer to infants is man. ifest from the words, One of these little ones which believe in Me"
 We may not suppose that Jesus would unjustly condemn anybody for ignorantly or unintentionaly offending His follow CTS. We must suppose that He meant to caution those who would deliberately attempt to deceive, entrap. discourage. His little ones. We all have heard of in- stances of deliberate. intelligent plotting against the Lords followers: and to whatever extent this may prevail it has indicated the satanic spirit
 A person drowned in the sea would lose merely his present life. During the Millennium, after he had been awakened from the sleep of death, he would have full opportunity for recovery from sin and death. But those who intelligently persecute the followers of Jesus and seek to turn them aside from the way of righteousness, pervert their own con science, and so degrade themselves that 1t will be. much more difficult for them to come into accord with the new dispensa- ton. Whoever sins against light and knowledge endangers his own opportuni- ties for everlasting. life.
 A Forgiving Spirit Necessary
 Verses and are apparently part of the same discourse recorded In Matthew lS:15-22 The lesson Is addressed to the followers of Jesus. not to the world. It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-21
REV. M. 5. FAREWELL ID DELIVER ADDRESS
Rector Church of the Advent to Deliver Commencement
 Sermon in Huntsville

huntsville May 20-tspecial. 1.-The neV' Middleton & Barnwel of Birming- nam will deliver the commencement ser mon Tor the students of the Goodrich school sunday morning in the Church ol the Nativity. The exercises will con uiue ourlng several nights of next week The music class will give a recital on Monday and on Tuesday evening there will be debate between teams represent Ing the Goodrich school and Bradon school of Shelbyville Tenn. on the oues- uon, Resolved, That the Judiciary shouid Be Subject to Recall' The young ladies literary societies will have .heir exercises on Wednesday evening ana Thursday the young men's societies Will have debate on the question. Re solVed' That Foreign Immigration Should Be Prohibited. The annual address to tne graduating class will be delivered Fri oay evening by the Rev. l W Cherry of Fayetteville, Tenn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-21

those of Texas and Louisiana, are now furnishing about 10o.o0o.oo0 barrels of oil year. As recently as the year 1880. the entire output for the United States was only 25,00o.0o0 barrels.
 When the late Lord Kelvin visited Nj agara Falls, in the autumn of 1S97 he became interested in the corundum in dustry and in the information he there obtained that the United States was cer- tain greatly to increase and therefore greatly to cheapen the marketing of all minimum.
 In this industry the state of North Car oiina IS to participate greatly and no small part of the commerce which will float through the Panama canal will be furnished by aluminium Few persons realize that France. represented by some of her great capitalists. is spending a. large amount of money, somewhat in ex- cess of Sl2o0o,0oo dollars, in North Caro- lima for the purpose of establishing pos sibly the worlds greatest aluminium plant. The plant is to be established there because in North Carolina abundant sup plies of bauxite. which is the basis of aluminium are found
 Men of large capital who are citizens of Pittsburg are perfecting plans for the establishment of a very large aluminium plant in east Tennessee Possibly as much as 900 will be invested in this proposition The plant Is to be estab- lfshed there because in that vicinity. as in North Carolina. the Appalachian range of mountains contains vast deposits of baux- To
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-21
A Forgiving Spirit Necessary

Verses 8 and are apparently part of the same discourse recorded In Matthew
 ls:l5-22 The lesson Is addressed to the
 followers of Jesus. not to the world IL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-21
Kay Re- Elected Principal

Carrolltop. May 2o.-(Speeial.)-At n meetin gof the board of trustees of the Carrollton public school held In the of- fees of the Bank of Carroliton. Prof. J. A. Kay was reelected as principal of the school for another term. together with the assistants who were members of the faculty last session. Another teacher was elected. making five in number. the at tendance the past session demanding the increase in teachers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-21

Clarence Jones and Miss Euinta Os- borne, daughter of w. w. Osborne, eloped 10 Fayetteville yesterday with a party or friends and were married in that town The bride was formerly a student at Athens college.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-21

Cards have been received here announce ing the marriage of Richard Riddle and Miss Gladys Schoenbeck at Houston, Tex MT. Riddle was a young lawyer of this city and moved to Houston. Tex, about a year ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-21
BUILDINGS GOING
 UP IN MERIDIAN
S1, 100000 to Be Spent for
 Public Improvements
ROADS BUILD vIADUCT
Dirt Broken for Pythian Hall-Masons to Build SS0,OOO Cathedral-City Hall to Cost S1O0, ,000-Meth-
 Odists to Build

Meridian. Miss. May @.-(special) story Pythian castle hall Monday after noon has reminded the people that there is today more public and private inn provement going on in this city than in any other place in Mississippi Work is progressing nicely on the Scottish Rite cathedral, building that will cost sso,- GOO
 Plans have been adopted for the build- ing of a viaduct to the Southside that will cost not less than slooOOo. This is to be built entirely by the railroads, and the city is only to provide for damages that may result to abutting property. Work on the new city hall, to cost not less than slO0.000. is expected to begin within two months. The money is in the banks to build this hall. new build- ing for the Central Methodist church con- gregation, to take the place of the one that was destroyed by fire, and which will cost S75,OO0 is an assured fact The property where the old church stood has been sold for s2o.ooo, and several business houses will be erected on it.
 A large amount or money is peiii6 spent for sewerage and concrete bridges and sl00,000 is being spent to make ex- tensions of the novaculite roads in Beat l. Besides this. new residences are going up in different parts of the city.
 It is stated on reliable authority that not less than s1,0o0,oo0 will be spent in Meridian this year for public and private Improvements. which Is a record that no other city In the state can equal, and which is great blessing to the large number of carpenters and builders here. many of whom have been attracted by the fact that there were so many im- provements being made.
 The Epworth league conference of the Mississippi conference of the Methodist church will be in session in Meridian from June IF to 21, inclusive. The annual sermon will be preached by Dr. A. F.. Watkins, president of Millsaps college
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-21
The South and the Canal

If the wheat farms of the United States should produce 1000, GOO bushels of
 wheat. of which there Is bare promise and should this wheat command dollar bushel. .the s1 900, Ooo GOO thus obtained
 would be equal to the annual value of the
 cotton crop of the south. For the esti-
 mate has been for some years that the
 money value of the cotton crop is about
 sl ,000. 900, 000 But as population is grow
 ing the world over and as in many parts
 of the world the demand for cotton goods
 is rapidly increasing. the time is not dis
 tant when the yearly demand the world
 over for cotton will bring something like
 s2 ot0 100000 in money each year to the
 south.
 Europe. principally England, makes a demand upon the south for cotton each year of the money value of approximately efNo hne O00. It was said by an interna- tional banker of very high authority a few years ago that our marketing of cotton abroad that year would be of the money value of about $5o000onOo And he predicted that sum would represent the visible international trade balance in our favor for that year. The trade balance
 was tha tyear a little over $500. .000 0O0 and the European markets in which American cotton was sold took little over $500 GOO, : GOO worth of our cotton
 | MT. Edmonds told the Richmond bank CTS that even if the south's rate of progress for the next third of cen tury should be no greater than the rate of growth in the United States for the last third of a century, the south would be found to be producing, by 1940 agri- ] cultural products each year of the money value of s14.00000O 1t will hrave $26. 100000, GOO invested in manufacturing industries l and it's national banks will have resources 1 of $11 ,000, 100000. The stimulus created | by the Panama canal is likely consider ably to increase the rate of growth.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-01
Mrs. Whitman Dsikng Notorety Has Cheer{uly Accepted
Responsibilities Her Husbands Prominence
District Attorney Has Thrust Upon
Her-Experiences in Hydroplane

want your kid slashed To pieces. tell that
BANKED husband of yours to so SLOW
Mrs. Whitman bravely said;
MY philosophy is that for anything
that is good one must pay price. The
price of my husbands energy and de-
votlon to duty is the hatred these let
tiers manifest. must face 1t and b.
brave. I don't let my husband know
how such things terrify me. Ills nature
is such that his spirits are either up or
down; he must have light spirits arc
cheerfulness about him or his own
would sink"
Last spring Mrs. Whitman INDUCED
her desire to go up in hydroplane ana
clrcled over the Palisades for about
twelve minutes. She was enthusiastic
over the experience and wanted to make
more flights, but her judicial husband
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-01

Albany FINEST HiOH), his editorials
his magazine writings, his busnt IS VEN
lures and political undertakings. She is
fond of society and is IA favorte in Al
hany However, she finds plenty Of
time for charitable work and for in
dulging her favorite fads-drVing auto
mobiles and raising flowers, At the
Glynns' splendid farm at Cedar Hill,
n. " she revels in the pastime of per-
sonally tending her flower garden and
her ducks and Plymouth Rocks.
With all this Mrs, Glynn never neg
lects her natural taste for books and is
an accomplished linguist, The bass of
her intellectual training was laid in New
England, where shr was born and reared
and married to Coy. Glynn; and since
then she has read all the books her
husband has read history politics, art,
drama and verse. This is large order,
when 1t is learned the Governor has
big collection of books at his city house,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-01
Mrs. Gynn, Since Her Marriage to the Governor Fourteen
Years Ago, Has Been His Constant Companion
and Confdante-Does Not Believe i'm
the Ballot for Women
Mrs.
MAR TIN n
CLYN N
S"ofo CoOy~fSHfs6
by N7eIer1ooe/C Nalle~G/ooA

another at his country place and yet
another at the office of the FINEST HioH.
Despite her multiplicity of varied ac-
complishm nts Mrs Glynn has a re-
firing disposition and would rather Jude
the llmelight which is necessarily flashed
upon her husband.
Mrs, Glynn is inclined to be an anti
suffragist. She recently said; Il don't
want to vote, bu, | want to have as de-
lghtful an environment for my voter
as possible, In fact, my voter believes
more in the women Note than do
feel that we are already too complex in
our lives to further complicate matters
with the ballot.
II say these things despite the fact
that two of my own sisters marched in
the big suffrage parade at Washington
and one Of them left two small chill
dren at home to do So
MIS-. Gynn has had one child, who
d.cd in infancy,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-01

IRIS. WHITMAN is devoted
Nj wife to her busy husband ami
mother to her four-year-o!d
daughter and though she dislikes motor
iety has Cheerfully assumed the re-
sponslblities her husbands prominenc"
has thrust upon her, Before her mar
rage to Mr.. Whitman, six years ago
she was Miss olive Hitchcock, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs, Oliver Nelson Hitchcock
of this city.
Mrs. Whitman has had to endure un-
usual nervous anxiety through the dan
gers involved by her husbands work as
District Attorney during the trial OF
the Rosenthal case-thr ats not only
against the life of her husband, but OF
her infant daughter as we'll
A year and half ago, when she was
r, ceiving such letters as; IF you don't
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-01

sat in judgment and ruled in favor Of
HIS own objections. Mrs Whitman did
not regret this one experience, however,
rs It taught her she had overcome her
ar OF water.
in an accident of Long Island Sev-
eral years ago" she explained, 81 was
thrown from a boat into the water and
couldn't swim, 1t seemed a long time
before was rescued and for long time
afterward I had dread of the water.
liut | was determined to overcome that
fear and now have done So
Recently the Whitmans became pos
SCISSORS of summer home on Ocean
avenue in Newport 1t is IA small stone
house resembling an English castle and
las been extensively remodelled and i'm
proved. The District Attorney and his
family spent the hot weather months in
their new summer home.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-01

M Tr" "a's n irish 's ,, "s1a.a%s
hair, blue eyes and brilliant
4 loring and fond of outdoor life. As
m stress of the~I,NeCutive Mansion she
would fit charmingly- were not the
Executive Mansion IA hidcous monstros-
ity in fact, instead of the stately and
beautiful building we imagine such an
editice should he, Indeed, the Glynns
have stated that, were It permissible,
they would rather live in their own
house,
Before her marriage, fourteen years
ago, Mrs. Glynn was Mss Mary c. Il.
Magrane of Lynn, Mass, she met her
husband when he was paying a visit to
that city to deliver IA lecture. Since her
r..irr.age she has been her husbands
constant companion and confldante in
his business, literary and political af-
fairs, interests hers II in everything
that interests him-his newspaper (the