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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-01

condition of the road at tns place o,
meeting and also takes into consid-
erations the weights which the dir
ferent vehicles carry.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-01

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09
WHAT POLITICS is LIKE

Addressing a meeting of his constitu-
ents IN Wales recently, Mr.. Lloyd-George
said:
DO you know what a minister's life
is like? Tradesmen have their worries
and anxieties, but supposing, if, in addi-
tion to their ordinary troubles, they
found constant mob OF dictators stand
ing outside their doors-some of 1t for
hate, and some for i1ire-yelling into
every customers ears as he entered their
shop, Don't go there, whatever you do.
Y on will be robbed, cheated and at every
time, If you do business with those fel
lows. They are all thieves, rogues and
liars If every time any of them got
glimpse of you behind the counter, they
shrek at you opprobrioIs epithets; when
they see you weigh pound of sugar they
call out that three-fourths of it is sand.
lf when you measure cloth they swear
that it is rotten shoddy If you have,
moreover, the whole time while you are
attending to your customers to dodge
bricks, clods and worse, hurled at your
head, most of you would, l think, rather
give up business, even if you had to
Break stones for a livelihood. That is
what politics is like, and l can assure
yor that we need not have done it for
living. There is no politician who is
worth his salt who would not make an in
fnitely better living at suitable trade
or profession than ne is ever likely to
mike in politics. l am not speaking of
those who have attained a high position
through family or other influence, but
OF those who have attained it by their
own exertion and strength. l am told that
in America these methods of attack are
keeping sensitive men out of political
life, although their services would have
been invaluable to the state. know many
bright-minded men in this country who
have shrunk from such an ordeal. But
somebody must face it. Nay more, if it
is the obvious path of duty for any man,
1t is not right to shut it, and there is
always comfort in this, that if you do
your duty according to your knowledge
and strength the public understands and
pays little heed to this systematic rail-
Ing I"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09
LOCUST LAW ONCE MORE

From the New York sun.
Whether the number of rowdes in the
streets is now abnormally large is a
question on which statistics are lacking.
There has never been a time when the
roughs were not too numerous, and
some persons believe that Mayor Gay
nors policy restricting the use of the
peliceman's locust resulted in increasing
their boldness. The police themselves de-
clared that offenders OF this class are
not punished with sufficient severity
by the courts. Certainly this was no.
toriously true few years ago when the
most absurd lenity was shown to young
men guilty of misbehavior in public con-
veyances. In any event, there will be
no sympathy with the blackguards and
petty thieves for whose suppression a
special squad of patrol,nen has been
organized. They constitute an unmiti-
gated nuisance, and from their gangs
are recruited dangerous malefactors in all
the various subdivisions of crime. They
belong to that fraction of the popula-
ton which respects the law cnly as it ex-
presses itself in the end of a nightstick
and nobody will be overcome with grief if
a few of them feel it more frequently in
the year 1914 than they have lately.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09
BRITAIN AND PANAMA FAIR

From the London Chronicle.
An extremely bad impression has been
created in the United States by the Brit
pate officially in the San Francisco ex-
position of 1915. The American journals
express disappointment and bewilder-
ment Some of them attribute the de-
csion of our cabinet to German influences
others to British resentment that Amer
ica's attitude on the Panama canal tolls
question. We can assure our transat-
lantio confreres that these explanations
are very wide of the mark. The real ex-
planat ton is much simpler. IT lies in lack
men, and especially in statesmen. That
lack of imagination is aggravated at the
moment by lack of pence. Concern about
the growth of national expenditure be-
comes the cabinet; but it is not economy,
IL is short-sghted parsimony that re-
fuses to spend e100,000 on an official
British exhibit at San Francisco. We
sauander money by the million on arm
aments; we grudge G100,00o to promote
the arts of peace and celebrate the con-
quests of industrial enterprise. There has
never been in power in this country a
braver or more capable administration
than that over which Mr.. Asquith pre-
sides with SO much ability. The cabinet
abounds with able, farslghted men. 1t is
that which makes its adverse decision in
this case so utterly nexplicable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09
Iron and Steel

The trade journals which are ac-
cepted authorities on the iron and
steel business show that inquiries are
increasing and that the volume of ac-
tual sales has been larger within the
past few days than in any week dur
ing the holiday season. In other words,
business is improving substantially.
The Iron Trade Review says. Anew
business far above expectations" has
developed during the first week of the
new year.
Pig iron prices are still low; but if
the strong inquiry continues the mar
ket will quickly take an upward turn.
When the pig metal market gets a
good start prices cannot be kept
down.
The railroads are beginning to buy
iron and steel material on a consid-
cradle scale. The heavy tonnage of
pig iron contracted for this week may
be traced directly to the railroad buy
ing. The Iron Age, which is noted for
it's conservatism, is very optimistic
now over the "better sentiment in the
iron and steel trades"
If the interstate commerce commits
sion authorizes carriers to advance
freight rates 5 per cent, then great
er degree of prosperity will be in evi-
dence than has been known for sew
eral years past. In Birmingham and
every other iron center business would
boom and every branch of trade would
be stimulated to the top notch. If the
railroads are in a position to make
needed extensions, the year 1914 will
witness without a doubt new high
records in all branches of industry
and commerce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09
The Regional Reserve Banks

Atlanta and Birmingham seem to be
the only southern cities making an eff
fort to secure one of the federal re-
serve banks," said John c. Beasley Of
Philadelphia.
Il was in Atlanta few days ago,
and found the people there counting on
that city being selected as the reserve
miliar with the situation as to the dis,
tribution of theIreserve banks; but Bir-
mingham is well located geographically,
and should have careful consideration
make the selections.
ATLANTA has a great habit of going
after everything. 1t has been that way
ever since l can remember. l visited
Atlanta for the first time about Is years
ago; and the same year l first saw Bir-
mingham. This city has been the marvel
in the way of growth. According to the
census bureau, Birmingham had the
most phenomenal growth in the last
decade of any city that got into the
100000 class There is no doubt in my
mind but that Birmingham will out
strip all southern cities In the census
of 1920, unless it be New Orleans. But
Atlanta having age and experience IN
organized public sentiment and civic
energy, Is always on the job when it
comes to getting government patron
age"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09
Hats Off to the Hen

The public must take off its hat
to the American hen, but in>its doffing
one cannot refrain from suppressing
sigh at the vast fortune of which
some of the middemen get from the
farmer in his product of this useful
fowl.
The egg product of the United
States for 1913 represents a value
sufficient to discharge the combined
national debt of this country, Spain
and Japan. In round figures it totals
$545, ,2S9, 900, the increment from
1851, ,311 900 dozen eggs.
Of this great sum, however, the
farmer received but $306,683, 800,
while the remaining $238, SOS, 900 went
into the pocket of the middleman.
The demand in the market for eggs
during the respective months of the
year is interesting and the table for
1913 is worth perusing. January, A.
739, 900 dozen; February, 63,652,000
dozen; March, 65, 100000 dozen; April,
3O2, ,349, 900 dozen; May, 31S,262,000
dozen; June, 27O, ,432, 900 dozen; July,
70 ,565, 900 dozen; August, 143, ,218,-
900 dozen; September, 1,311, 900
dozen; October, 1865, 900 dozen; No
vember, AZ, ,739 900 dozen; December,
Ga 4,152 900 dozen.
The average price which the farm
er received was 20 cents per dozen,
while the average price received by
the merchant was 35 cents per dozen.
While the highest retail figures
reached in some localities during the
year was rs cents, the lowest was 20
cents, or just the amount the farmer
averaged for his product.
These figures demonstrate beyond
cavil that the high cost of living has
not benefited the farmer so far at
least as eggs are concerned, and in
vestigation will in all probability show
that the same conditions obtain rela-
tive to other farm products.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09

ward tendency in prices. Rogers, Brown
& Co.'S Cincinnati report. just issued.
says in part:
The railroads have placed rail or
ders which have been Godsend to the
steel plants. This business alone would
make the week interesting. The actiy
ity in the finished steel end has main
ly resulted in purchases of basic pig
iron which have dominated the market,
by far the largest tonnage placed be-
ing in the steel making irons. The
railroad equipment bought during 1913
was the smallest in years and included
100000 tons of rails, 125,O00 cars and
5000 locomotives, against three times
the amount of rails, twice the amount
of cars and locomotives bought during
previous years, and the result of this
eurtailment has been most strongly
felt during the last six months in the
iron and allied trades. Activity among
railroads at the present time is most
welcome
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09
j. II. NunnalIy In City

J. n. Nunnally of Atlanta is in Bir-
mngham for a few days. He is presi-
dent of the Nunnally company of At
lanta, director of several of the Atlanta
banks. and is also president of the Pied
social club.
81 don't believe you Birmingham
people fully realize how rapidly your
city is growing" said Mr. Nunnally
yesterday. 1T has been a year since
I was here and | notice a remarkable
growth in that time. The business sec
tion is spreading out and the new
buildings are handsome and subs tan
tial. ] am decidedly elated over the
business outlook for 1914 Both of my
stores here are doing an excellent busi-
ness. and l am very grateful to the
Birmingham people for the generous
patronage given 'Nunnally's' since the
first day the Florence store was
opened.
ATLANTA is growing at great rate
and the growth is of a most substantial
nature. | spent quite a good deal of
time in New York the past year and
a. number of my friends among the
bankers and business men there were
rather pessimistic over duh business
[ told them to come to Atlanta and
Birmingham. in the heart of the south,
where business was good and the out
look roseate.
1--WE built a Nunnally factory in New
York last year and Nunnally candy is
sold in over 400 stores throughout
Greater New York"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09
Back from Mississippi

Il was in Meridian a few days ago to
attend the opening of the new Chamber
of Commerce building there" said Oscar
c. Turner, vice president of the Birming-
ham Chamber of Commerce.
Meridian is a splendid city, and is go
ing ahead all the time. Mississippi friends
expressed great surprise that there should
be anybody in the race for the United
States Senate in Alabama except Mr..
Underwood, the brilliant and successful
party leader in the House of Representa-
tives.
On the train | met Mr.. William g.
Armbrecht of Mobile. From that gentle
mans talk l gathered that he was in SYM
pathy with Mr.. Hobson. but it must be
remembered that the Mobile man is a re-
publican. From my observation and from
what [ hear, many republicans are for
Hobson. Their votes will be challenged
in the democratic primary. l am in
formed, however, that many republicans
Throughout the state are talking Hobson
with the intention of disconcerting demo-
Gratis who are naturally supporting Under
wood l told the Mississippians that we
would not only elect Mr.. Underwood but
we would give him an overwhelming ma
iOrity''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
NirginIn and AInhaIna

Birmingham, like all other large cities
has a strong Virginia colony said
Frank Jones, the we'll known lumber man
of Birmingham and Roanoke, Va.
II frequently visit the principal cities
of Virginia and everywhere l go In the
Old Dominion | meet prominent men who
have either invested money in the Bir-
mingham district or who have close rela-
tlves living here. Birmingham Is better
advertised now than ever. one hears 1t
spoken of dozen times to one of any
other southern town.
I was in Richmond recently, and was
glad to see that the old Confederate cap
ital was growing rapidly and improving in
every way. 1t is one of the handsomest
and one of the richest cities in the coun-
try. Prosperity has been the rule in Viz
ginia for the past II months but as a
state Alabama is ahead of all of them. 1t
had great crop production, and the
crops brought high prices. 1t is natural,
therefore, to find the country merchants
of this state enjoying a high degree of
prosperity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09

E1IiE trial in which an attempt was
made to impeaeh the seventeenth
l President of the United States, An
drew johnson, was the elimination of a
struggle between the executive and legis-
lt.tive branches of the government of the
United States over the problem of what
came to be called reconstruction.
Al an early period of he civil war, in
portions of certain insurgent states, which
were swept clear of the enemy and con-
tained an appreciable number of adher-
ents to the cause of the union, Frame
works of government were set up and
We're recognized az such by the authori-
ties at Washington.
On May ., 1865 President Johnson is
sued a proclamation giving the terms
whereby the people of the southern states
could be restored to their civil rights as
citizens of the United States. 1t was soon
seen that the President was disposed to
be exceedingly lenient and liberal to-
ward the states and citizens who had
been in rebellion.
Much dissatisfaction was found with
the President during the summer of that
year and when Congress reassembled in
December he was asked by the Senate
to furnish information as to what he had
beer doing toward reconstruction. His
Information was unsatisfactory and things
drifted on until the spring of 1866, a
year after Johnson became President,
when a bitter controversy arose between
tho President and Congress. Members
of his cabinet began TO resign because
they could not sustain the President
Ir this crisis of his political life Mr.
Johnson exhibited a want of spirit and
decision which astonished those who were
familiar with his antecedents. Finally
charges were brought against him, the
gist of which was that he had violated
a law of Congress by removing Secre-
tary of War Stanton, or issuing an order
for his removal after the Senate had re-
fused to sanction his suspension.
In the articles of impeachment there
were. other charges against the President,
the most serious of which We're that he
had delivered incorporate, inhammatory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09

oned, no one will be found with the
foolhardiness to predict that the i'm
possible can never happen.
So throw aside Verne, Mark Twain,
Mother Shipton, Baron Munchaussen
and Maundeville with an expression of
contempt and if food for the imagina-
tion is desired its surfeiting will be
found, not in the book case or the
library, but in the laboratory and the
closets that good old Mother Earth is
slowly but surely exposing to our as
founded vision.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09
British Ingenuity

Great Britain is accredited with be-
ing slow but even in her imitation of
the sloth she sometimes manifests an
ingenuity that is remarkable and
unique.
In Lancashire there runs between
Worsley and st. Helena canal that
threads its course for sixteen miles un-
derground and in it's entire length is
completely hidden from view Coal
mines are very numerous and quite
extensive in that locality and they
are owned by the Duke of Bridgewa-
ter The dukes managers were trou-
bled with the problem of drainage and
in its solving they conceived the idea
that money could be saved by trans
porting coal underground.
Such a canal was constructed, and
in connecting the mines it at the same
time effected their drainage.
Ordinary canal boats are furnished
to transport the coal, but they are op-
Grated by man power alone and in a
very original manner. Cross pieces of
wood are attached to the roof of the
tunnel arch and the men who do the
propelling lie flat upon their backs
and push the boat and its cargo along
by placing their feet upon the cross
pieces. No rudder is employed or
needed as the men easily do the steer
ing with their legs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
A man can't fool his wife but once, and
that is when he marries her.
The old-fashioned woman who used 10
have a good bawl every day now has a
daughter who doesn't dare shed tear be-
cause her cheeks are powdered up like a
marshmallow.
Some men remind you of dogs They
loaf around and store up energy to chase
things they don't want to CATCH
1t is too bad that the Fool Killer isn't
a society man. He could make an awful
cleanup at some these Tango affairs
There is lot OF Tomnyrot about dis
nifty. When you see big. pompous man
who is so stiff and important that you
curl up and crawl away, you wouldn't inn
agine that he had to sit on the side of
bed ard trim his toe nails with a pair Of
scissors, just like the rest of us.
There are other causes, but the main
reason for divorces is that too. many sl5
per week men marry $50 per week women.
A man would rather feel well than look
well. but it is the other way with
woman.
There are whole lot or barroom passos
who are timid tenors when they get home.
A woman can take plume and wear 1t
on one side of her hat one day, on the
other side another day, on the front OF
her hat another day and on the back an
other day. She can wear 1t curlcd round
the rim. under the rim, across the crown
or straight up in the air. But If man
happens to put his hat on with the rear
end in front he looks like durn fool.
The best way for fellow to queer him
self with girl is to have her parents M
dorse him.
1t is funny how diet of liver and on
ions and ham and cabbage and fried spare
ribs will produce liver spots and pinples
on a mans map and make a girls cheeks
bic ON with roses and cream.
If it is showing and blowing a man
turns up his coat collar and buttons it
before he goes out But girl turns down
her collar and unbuttons her waist
Any time you see a man shoveling in
his eats with his knife you can bet that
his wife doesn't tell him where to get oft
when he Is at home.
A girl gets married because she is afraid
she won't and then she is sorry because
she did.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL OF ANDREW JOHNSON

, speeches, which were intended to bring
into contempt the Congress of the United
States and duly enacted laws. His private
conduct in Washington was carefully
serutinized. Men We're employed to in
vestigate his public ana private charac-
ter in Tennessee, but nothing was found
to his discredit
The formal presentment by the House
of Representatives of it's impeachment
against the President, at the bar of the
Senate, sitting as a court of impeach-
ment, was made on May 5, 1868. The an
swer of the President was presented on
the 23d, the trial opened on Monday,
March 80, and closed on May &c follow
ing.
The trial was a very interesting one,
not only to the people of the United
States but to the people of other coun-
tries. II was the first instance in the
history of nations of the trial of a head
of the government before one of the
branches of the law-making power, sitting
as G judicial tribunal ON charges preferred
by another.
The presiding officer was the chief JUS
tice of the supreme court Salmon P.
Chase, The counsel for the President con-
sisted of Henry Stanberry, Benjamin r.
Curtis William S. GroesbeclS, William M.
Evarts and Thomas A. r. Nelson. The
senators of the various states We're the
jury. The managers to conduct the, im-
peachment for the House We're John A.
Bingham, George 5. Boutwell, James L.
Wilson, Benjamin +. Butler. Thomas
Williams Thaddeus Stevens and John A.
Logan.
The result of the trial was a failure of
tic impeachment. The senator's who
voted guilty We're 35 in number-being
less than two-thrds of the whole
against 19. OF those who voted against
impeachment, seven were republicans. The
opinion of James G. Blaine, III his
Twenty Years in Congress is that the
sGher reflection of later years has per-
suaded many who favored impeachment
that it not justifiable or the charges
made, and that "the President was i'm
peached for one series of misdemeanors
and tried for another"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09
PLEASANTLY SLOW
From the London Mail.

From the London Nail
There have been older smokers than
Granny Scott, the Ghertsey hawker,
who enjoyed a pipe in her one hundred
and fourth year. Jane Garbutt, who died
at Darlington in 1856 at the age of 40,
smoked a pipe almost to her dying day.
W hen asked some time before her death
how Ions she had been a smoker, the ola
lady replied: Very nigh 100 years Even
this record was beaten by an American
negro. Abraham Elmer, who died 10 years
ago in his one hundred and nipeteensh
year, and claimed to have smoked for a
century, If tobacco be d poison, as it,
enemies declare, it is pleasantly slow
one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-09
ROmancing Outdistanced

It is useless to attempt to outvie fic-
Zion. This old world is pretty solemn
hooking so far as her countenance is
concerned but she has a keen sense
of the romantic hidden away in her
makeup that puts to shame the Wild
est flight of the author in his moments
of greatest exhileration.
When Jules Verne was in his hey
day mankind held its breath as it
smiled; quaint old Mother Shipton
kept the world guessing as people
stood upon tiptoe of expectancy;
Flammarion had the temerity to suG-
gest in all seriousness a future COM
munication with the inhabitants of
Mars and Edison converted the earth
into one huge whispering gallery.
Edison and Marconi made good their
predictions but whether we are to see
. realization of the dreams of the
others is a question that time alone
can answer
In the meantime Mother Earth is
keeping pace with the romancer and
such a wide swath is she cutting that
their vagaries may soon appear as
scarcely worth the while of mention.
But fortnight ago the public was
advised of the theft of a piece of
radium in Chicago which was no
larger than pinhead, in fact SO small
that it was found necessary to pre-
serve it in capsule and yet that lit
tie mite which tested the eyesight is
worth $45O0. This is marvel in the
diminutive.
Now comes the marvel in the su-
perlative, for a South African miner
reports the finding by him of dia-
mond so large, and consequently SO
valuable, that no one will purchase it.
A jewel SO large that no one will
look at it and another mineral SO
small that no one can scarcely see it
are the wonders that Mother Earth
has now to offer and at such display
q humor, if humor it may be reck-