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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 A woman wouldn't want her own

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
 A woman wouldn't want her own way if she could have it.
 The modern girls idea of love in cot tage Is to have a s6o00 bungalow.
 The average woman would rather have a family tree than a business plant.
 The ld-fa shioned woman who could op- crate an 1875 model washboard now has daughter who can operate 1914 model auto and who imagines that clothes wringers are equipped with self-starters-
 When you are thanking the Lord for your friends. add few words of grati- tude for your enemies. One enemy in gooG working order makes you behave yourself and gives you more free adyer- tising than all of your friends put to- gether.
 This may sound queer But if you pat a man on the back too often you will cause his head to enlarge.
 A Texas man says he has produced a deodorized onion. This Is real progress It will make the onion as popular during courtship as 1t is after marriage.
 The average wife seems to have the idea that the way to preserve a husband is to keep him in hot water all the time.
 All men are liars. But the 1914 June crop of brides is just beginning to realize the fact.
 When a widow marries the second time she isn't entitled to divorce. She knew just exactly what she was going uE against.
 The high cost of living wasn't mucf of an item in the old days when dime package of cornstarch was used to pow der the baby after his bath. make moth er's face beautiful and produce bow of blanc niange for dessert.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12
The Democratic Victory

As was published by The Age Her aid yesterday in it's Associated Press news the latest compilation of con- pressional district returns gives the democrats a majority of 31 in the House of Representatives
 Sydney J. Bowie in an interview which will be found on another page, points out an interesting phase of the situation. He says that 31 in the House over all does not measure the real majority, for on probably 90 per cent of the questions which arise the progressives will vote in the future as they have voted in the past, with the democrats. MT. Bowie, who served three terms in Congress, and who is still an active worker in the democratic party, figures out that the democrats will command, to all intents and pur- poses, a majority of approximately 50 in the House, which is "as large and half again" as the republicans have had in Congress, as rule, since 1898.
 The democrats gained three sen ators from the republicans which will give the party in power a majority of Is over all. President Wilson and the party leaders may well feel jubi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12
Mir. Hewitt's Prophecy

Everyone who is interested in the iron and steel trade or in the progress of the Birmingham district has read the prophecy of the late Abram s. Hewitt relating to the iron centers that would dominate the world.
 MT. Hewitt was well referred to as business statesman by pre-eminence. He had large investment in the iron industry and no one had broader view of this country's future. He pre- dicted that within a few years the commanding centers of iron and steel would be one in the extreme northern section of the United States and the other within few hours of the south eln gulf ports. MT. Hewitt's prophecy as printed at the time-about fourteen years ago. has been reproduced time and again in The Age-Herald and in other southern papers, to say nothing of leading trade journals.
 In the Birmingham district the world sees today fulfillment of the Hewitt prophecy. The industrial cap tains who attended the meeting of the American Iron and Steel institute here recalled the words of MT. Hewitt, and President James A. Farrell of the Uni ted States Steel corporation spoke along the lines so clearly presented by the lamented capitalist, economist and ardent democrat.
 Various industrial and financial writers are having a good deal to say now about the Birmingham district, and not few of them have coupled the words contained in Mir. Hewitt S
 provision and the practical views ex-
 pressed by members of the Iron and Steel institute in connection there
 with. "Holland," in his letter appear ing in today's Age-Herald, discusses this subject and with clear insight into the industrial situation connects Mir. Hewitt's prophecy and MT. Far rell's Birmingham speech.
 The benefit which this district de rived from the meeting of the insti. ute cannot be overestimated. Not only have the papers been full of it but it will be discussed by industria I journals for long time to come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12
Cheerful Tommy Atkins

Tha London correspondent of the Independent-and, by the way, our weekly periodicals are better able to nresent accurate war news to their readers than the daily papers, which are unable to wait for dispatch to be proved false or true-contriputes to that excellent publication an h- teresting account of Tommy Atkins Tn the trenches.
 Kipling has done more than any other man to popularize the britisn soldier. He has written of him with rare sympathy and insight, but the newspaper correspondents and maga- zine writers occasionally give us side lights on the character of MT. Atkins which enhance his reputation for un- failing good humor and the utmost courage under fire. He goes about his fighting in business like way, yet contrives to enjoy himself as much as circumstances will permit. In his colonial experiences he has given a fine account of himself and in France and Belgium has admirably main tained his prestige as first class fighting man.
 The most veXatious phase, to the British soldier, of the fighting in Flu rope is the endless artillery fire which keeps an infantryman burrowing in the earth. Many quaint observations have come from the men in the trenches who tax their ingenuity to devise ways of spending the time as pleasantly as possible, while shells scream overhead and the incessant roar of guns keeps them from sleep ing. Rain also adds to their discom- fort. The satisfaction of "potting an enemy" is seldom permitted them, be- acuse the enemy is as much hidden as they are.
 But no amount of hardship and dis comfort seems to impair the cheerful ness of MT. Atkins. His humor never deserts him and his indifference to danger has become second nature with him uot rea1izad b1, bimso1f and scarcely noticed by his comrades. The first British soldier to receive the Victoria cross has just been given that coveted trophy It is surprising that the British officers have not re- ported a great many cases of heroism worthy of reward. The Kaiser dis tributes iron crosses with generous hand. Perhaps this will result in cheapening the iron cross in Germany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12
HELPING BUSINESS

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 In view of the statement that London
 landlords are experiencing difficulty in filling the upper floors of their hotels be- cause of the general fear of Zeppelin
 bomb troopers, 1t is suggested that the
 hotel circulars should be enlarged after this fashions:
 "The Hotel Cicely. Every convenience. Smoking rooms, dining rooms. bedrooms.
 Fine view of the Thames only six blocks away Cab stand round the corner. Bomb proof roof covered with resilient eight inch armor plate. Heavy steel nettings supported on wrought iron supporters Bombs striking netting are retarded in descent Should they strike armored roof they rebound into the street or onto other
 roofs. Street porte-cocheres have bomb proof conical roofs with skidding sides | No bombs will be tolerated on the prem ises. The patronage of timid families IS | solicited. Absolute safety guaranteed i All of which, probably, isn't any more grotesque and unreliable than the orig
 inal story of the deserted upper floors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12
In Several southern sta,es

One of the visitors to Birmingham mond, purchasing agent of the Vir- ginia Carolina Chemical company Ac- companied by Culpepper Exum, he was guest at the Rotary club luncheon at the Tutwiler.
 q had not been to Birmingham for city has grown so large and is sc changed I could scarcely recognize it.
 My old home is Charleston, S. C., but my headquarters being at Richmond now, I have taken up my residence there. Virginia is a very prosperous and progressive city Another southern state with which I am familiar is North Carolina. I was there recently and was glad to find prosperity pre- vailing. North Carolina is well off. Il produces variety of crops and has 8 variety of business interests. ''In South Carolina the low price of cotton has caused business to bt somewhat quiet, but as cotton is ad- vancing the farmers who have the sta pie for sale are naturally feeling more buoyant. The south as a great sectior | the bad cotton situation month ago The farmers will get better prices thar | it was generally thought they would and business will be benefited accord ingly"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12
1.-THE GALLANT GORDONS From the Dundee Advertiser.

Rising, rising, rushing like the tide,
 Gay goes the Gordon to fight
 Sings the poet of the Gordon Highland ers who have suffered severely in the fighting in France. To the credit of the regiment stand the capture of the Dargai Heights. in the Tirah campaign of 1s97 and the rush through the sheet of lead which helped to sweep the Boers off the ridge of Elandslaagte in 1899. In the desperate 26-hour struggle of Wagon Hill the following January when the fate of Ladysmith hung in the balance, the Gordons had their full share of the fight ing under the stalwart Miller Walnut "a man cast in the mold of Berserk viking" says Sir A. Conan Doyle. Another Wagon Hill on small scale there was toward the end of the war, when at Reitz they put up a magnificent and success ful defense under terrible punishment against 300 Boers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12
City Needs New Postoffice

i City Needs New P0stoftlce
 Birmingham needs a new postof- flee. The need was considered ur- gent several years ago, when the gov ernment began acquiring property for the site. With the growth of Birming- ham the demand for new postoffice naturally becomes more pressing.
 The government has expended on the old postoffice now in use good deal of money for improvements and expansion, but today the building is altogether inadequate. It is over crowded and is insanitary Nearly two years ago Congress appropriated l $1 100000 for the projected post office, $200,000 of which, or so much as might be needed, was to be applied to the payment for additional real es- tate purchased for the site. The sum of S800,000, or perhaps $825,000, for the last piece of realty acquired cost only about $175,000, should be avail able for the building this winter, but owing to the congested condition of the work in the architects division of the treasury department the Birming- ham postoffice will not be reached, it is said, before 1916, unless the mat ter is taken up out of it's regular course.
 In order to expedite this important enterprise an extraordinary effort on the part of Alabama's senators, backed by the civic organizations of Birmingham, will be required. Sen ator Frank s. White is deeply inter- ested in the question. A recent in- spection of the old postoffice quar- ters impressed him with the fact that new building is badly needed. He will proceed without de- lay to induce. the supervising archi- tect's office at Washington to employ an outside architect if necessary to draw design for the new edifice. A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce has been called for next Tuesday to take the proper action for co-operat- ing with Senator White.
 The government has an excellent site for the postoffice-an entire block front on the north side of Fifth ave- nue from Eighteenth street to Nine teenth street--a frontage of 400 feet with a depth of 190 feet. Now let the business men and property owners of Birmingham make united, earnest effort and ground will be broken for the postoffice within the next year.
 In its large and costly buildings the government has an eye to beauty and strength as well as mind to the lutiitarian side. And that being so, the work of construction is carried on without rush. After the excavation is made and the corner stone laid fully two years will be required in bringing the edifice to completion. Eight hun dred thousand dollars will be ample to start with, but before the building is completed and furnished another ap- propriation on the part of Congress will be in order. In view of Birming- hams great future, while the gov ernment is at it, we should have a $1, 800, ,000 postoffice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12

Judd Mortimer Lewis, in the Houston
 Post
 Gro George Lazenby.) Holding tight hold of your two hands walked back into Chidhood's Lands. When you looked up and l looked down noticed that your lips were wreathed With smiles and noticed that there
 breathed
 A sweet perfume from everywhere, And that light breezes stirred your hair, And that your brown eyes were alight With all there was. of joy that night. l noticed tiers above hign tiers Of, other faces, and my ears Were caught by murmurs and by songs; And wreaths of roses, and the throps Were like a dream before my eyes; But only just your low replies And only just the. light that shon~ From your two eyes into my own Were for me-made me understand That we two walked in Fairy Land. For us the king in jeweled crown Marched to the throne and sat him down. For us the heralds trumpets blew, For us the fool cut capers, too; For us, for only you and me Were all that wondrous ministress The chancellor. the glowing lights For us that wondrous night of nights. The roses festooned, till 1t seemed A scene some fairy must have dreamed! l saw the Duchesses appear, Each with her prideful cavalier Bow to the throne and turn to 70 To help to make beauty row; With dazzling gowns and beauty rare' With jewels shining in their hair They slowly trod to take their stano' To make 1t more a Fairy Land Than it before had seemed to pe- And all for you and all for me. Then waved again the fairy wand, One last quick clasp gave your hand One good-by kiss, then turned to go From all the gladness and the glow Into the night. But l shall see As long as have memory Your curvingl lips, your eyes alight As I saw them on that glad night, When tightly holding your small hand I'walked with you in Fairy Land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12
UNDERWOOD

From the Washington star
 MT Underwood in the Senate will be watched with much interest. Ordinarily 4 new senator must wait for hls beard to grow. The oldsters are sensitive apout ,rominence for a youngster. But the new sono+or from Alabama will come into the o,,an,her with A national reputation as legislator, and therefore not to De 'rea'eu on the ordinary score. He IS aireaas eoninped like veteran and, in the con eressional sense, is veteran.
 Will he like the change? The ques- ton is already under discussion' ana oninion is divided. Those who predict ,,e will. point to his temperament whicn' tbev think. is better suited to the Senate tban to the House. He has had markeo success in the House, and mas iea IL uh- der difficulties, but by methods not as- sociable with so large and at times so turbulent body.
 Those wto will not be surprised II ne shows disappointment suggest tna' there is a second Wilson administration be may become connected with It as ,,,a,nber of the cabinet. His talents and ovnsr;ence would fit him for any one of several portfolios.
 If the temptation is presented MT Underwood would do well to mediate ou a choice that John G. Carlis6e made. The Kentuckian-the states most intel ,ectual contribution to political life since the days of Henry Clay-had only few years before entered the Senate after making a brilliant record in the House l when Mr. Cleveland invited him into his cabinet, and MT. Carlisle accepted, to the regret of many of his admirers, and, as l they afterward contended. to his own and
 the party's loss.
 l The reasoning ran like this: MT. Car lisle was the master of the subject which
 was coming up in the Senate-the tariff and had he remained there would have
 been the leading figure onfthe democratic side. He would have been matched against MT. German when the latter un.
 dertook the revision of the Wilson House 1 bill. and stronger in the contest thar
 those who entered it in support of the
 strictly anti protection party policy. | But when the fight came up MT. Car. lisle was in the treasury department as sociated with the unpopularity of the ad ministration which .was rising rapidly and in the end he went down with hi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12
Public Service Corporations

If the United States courts decision to the effect that public service corpora tlons have no right in law to demand d deposit before turning on lights, gas or water or for other public service, means anything, it should, in my judgment, re- lease from s1,0oO,o0O to sl.500000 here in
 Birmingham" said ". O. Lanning.
 This would greatly relieve the financial situation, for that amount of money put into circulation-money now tied up would help to hasten the coming of abun- dant prosperity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12
Let's Have Christmas

From the Huntsville Times.
 The suggestion has come from some ness conditions that there be no Christ mas trees or exercises of that kind this year. Silly idea. The Daily Times pro- tests against any such suggestion and favors every good boy and Siri having visit from Santa Claus this coming Christmas just as heretofore. The churches should go right ahead with their Christ mas tree preparations, the able homes should see to 1t that Santa Claus makes his presence and then proper effort should begin early to see that the worthy poor children are not forgotten.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12

Although nominally q tributary state Of the Turkish empire, Egypt has been controlled by Great Britain for more than 40 years. In 1s6s Ismail Pacha obtained from Turkey. by heavy bribes. the Per sian title 'I<hedive.9 which means Ling In 1870 Ismail Paeha asked the help of the European powers in conquerirg Central Africa. In the wars with the tribes of the interior Great Britain took a promi- nent part. and when peace was assured she was equally prominent in shaping the future policies of Egypt Since the re- bellion of Arabi in 1882 no important de- cree has been promulgated in Egypt with out the approval of Great Britain. France lost her hold on Egypt where she had dual control with Great Britain. follow ins the revolt of Arabi. The administra- tive government is in the hands of min One acts as prime minister. There is also a legislative assembly and provin- cial councils. The heads of the various departments formulate such decrees as they deem necessary. These are consd- cred in the ministerial council, and if approved are sent to the Khedive for his signature. British financial adviser is an ex-officio member of the council, but has no vote. He passes on all appropria- tions and payments of money. = The or ganization of the army is also in charge of British officers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12
ROBERT J. BgRpETTE.

Next tesJaifes Whitcomb Riley, Robert J. Burdette. reported critically ill at his home in Los Angeles, is perhaps the most famous member of the American Press Humorsts' association, He Is noted both as preacher and a humor ist, having conducted at one time a wide ly quoted column" in the Burlington. Iowa, HawlSeye. The cheery optimism Of many people and the sympathies of thou sands who admire him without ever hay ing seen him. attend him in his hour of suffering The world can i'll afford ,o lose the author of Keep Sweet and Keep Moving PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12
AFTER TSING-TAO

accepted now there will be no doubt of il
 then. and the destiny of the Pacific, at
 least upon it's eastern shores, will be
 shaped in the next period by her. With Great Britain deeply indebted to her and
 Russia compaisant, for the time be- ing, at any rate, through the relief of
 her situation in the near east, and Japan's strength advertised throughout Asia, the
 island empire of the east will tower over
 the orient.
 If this be ordained by fate, what will be it's effect upon Asia and upon the
 world? The expansion of Japanese in- fluepce and the recession of European im-
 perialist enterprise in China means a dis tinct progress toward fulfillnent of the
 doctrine of Asia for the Asatics." But
 whether it is part of or consistent with
 the movement which in Europe has been
 the most significant development of re-
 cent years, the self-realization of nation- alities, may be doubted. If Japan pro-
 ceeds to develop the imperial idea on the
 most aggressive lines, to Japanese Asia, she will encounter the nationalist tenden-
 cies which her own spectacular rise to
 world power has stimulated and will con tinue to encourage. On the threshold of
 such an imperialist adventure she will ind the Chinese, who already has dis
 posed of the Manchu. Indifferent as are
 now the masses of this people it is not
 unlikely that they would interpose for mdable resistance to Japanese domina- tions. Nationalist ambition in India cer- tainly would not accept it willingly. 1 But if Japanese statecraft continues to be as wise and farsghted as it has been | during the last generation it will move on sounder lines, consolidating Japans power without premature experiments in militant imperialism, which would awak- 1 en her in her critical present without ade- 1 quate compensation in the future.
 ] But speculation upon the course of events in Asia is confronted by possi- 1 bilities so vast as to stagger the imagi- ation. What may be clearly seen, how ever. is a decisive advance of Japanese in- 1 f1uence. and this at a moment in the his l tory of China and the Pacific which may largely determine their fate for centuries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12

, chief And thus were lost to the public the services of a man then in his intel lectual prime, and power in all debate AIarked by research and Illuminating statement rather than by stump fury and tawdry ornamentaton.
 The tariff is coming up in the new Congress, and MT. Underwood should be there to bear a hand. Should he ever change his seat in the Senate for one at the cabinet table he might live to re- cret
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12
From the Chicago Tribune.
 1. Port Arthur. January l, 1905. ?. Tsing-tao, November z, 1914.

WV the taking over 1 of fo1s R"s.,a A'hns tns
 W utmost mark of the advance of Europe on the far east? Post Arthur was China's. Japan captured it. Russia took it away from the victor Port Arthur be- came Russian, Russianized, the Gibraltar of Russia's empire in the orient. Mean while at Tsing-Tao Germany was building another Gibraltar Kiauchau was Ger fore them at Hongkong, and she took an- other foothold at Wei-hai-Wei
 These were outposts of Europe farthest advance upon Asia. Then Port Arthur fell before Nogi. Was that the turn of the tide? After seven years the Germans lose Tsing-Tao What will go next? Are the Asatics taking back Asia?
 History will have an interesting tale 10 tell of the invasion of the east by the west, and it would be a confident ob- server who would say at this moment what the course of events is now to be. If Germany triumphs and her great dream of a new Rome becomes a reality the loss of today may be canceled. But if she fail. what then? Will Japan go unpaid Tor her service? She has paid blood for Tsing-Tao. She has done more. Her power has been recognized; her aid has been eagerly sought by the great powers of the west When the European conflict is over her place will be higher than ever, her prestige greater, her power in every sense augmented. In the readjustment of imperial politics which will follow peace her voice will be well nigh decisive as to the situation in the far east If in the course of this war she is called upon as she may well be, to take an even more costly and important role in events than she has thus far, for example, Tn the case of serious internal disturbances Tn India or Egypt, her pay will be the high- CT when the accounting is reached. Il her hegemony in the far east is implicitly