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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
Misleading Cotton Quotations.

For several years there have been so-called cotton market quotations of local spots in several interior mar kets that were absolutely misleadirs and untrue said former cotton man. T notice local quotations here of 91sc Tor good middling, when the fact is not as much as 100 bales could be pur- chased at 912c and better And there Is considerable stored cotton here in Pir- r.ineham awaiting better prices. About 10 days ago, a Cullman merchant sol II 1900 bales of average good middling for SAC round. This cotton was stored here in Birmingham
 Again We have come to a condition when future quotations do not repi e. sent actual values as to spot trans- actions. The reason is the same old game with the dice on the cotton fu- tues boards. today up; down 20 points tomorrow, but real cotton steady at advancing prices. where there are any lots worth while, marketed. The own CTS of real cotton can sit steady in the boat and let the cotton gamblers play at their dice games. Presently mills will have to nave actual cotton, and will pay for it. for cotton goods and yarns are strong with advancing prices, we read fin the press dispatches. And it's some months to another crop $ mark eting"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
NulIifying Labor Laws

~'The new child labor raw age will be avoided and defeated by many parents of young cotton mill opera tions," said Dr. John Rowan of Anr,is- tons who spent Saturday in BirrninS- ham. For sometime l was the phy- sician for the cotton mills at Jack sonville, and had occasion to examine many children for hookworm and other ailments. The age limit, then 12 years. was frequently evaded by parents wtio I have reason to believe were pushing children 10 years of age possibly younger, into the mills to work. Even with the age limit at IA years, there will be many under this age put in mills by false swearing on the part of parents or guardians
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
Heavy Expense of Picture shows

'Ihere is a very erroneous idea of the cost of operating and the profits Of the picture show business here in Birmingham" said a leading mana ger in that line of public entertainment,
 Tn the first place, how does this strike you? In Buffalo, there is some agitation Tn regard to increasing the license for picture shows from $50 now charged, to $75. Here In Birmingham The license charges, including S9 to the federal treasury amounts to sl35i
 "The cost of operating a first class show in Birmingham is about si5 per day; it requires 15o0 admissions at 2 cents to cover these fixed charges. Sundays we do not make expenses, and Cf course, must even up, or lose o t.
 Three per day, first run pictures cost about s165 per week from six days service; of course, with several days, twould be higher. A single day is approximately S100 for the three reel service.
 "Speaking of Sunday benefits; on one Sunday I lost $23.5O, and rather than put up poor mouth failure l gave s5 to the charity, making my actual loss s2S.5O. So you see, the picture show business is not all velvet and cream, by any means
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
The Car and His People

A prominent American living in Russia, who enjoys personal ac- quaintanceship with Czar Nicholas, declares that the present war has done more to bring the Russian ruler into contact with his people than a thou sand years of peace would have done, had he lived that long, The impress sion generally prevailing in this coun- try as to the Czar and his way of life is quite wrong, according to this au- thority, who says that Nicholas is the most democratic monarch in the world Instead of living hunted life, trem- bling in fear of anarchists and dis contented subjects, he moves about with the utmost freedom, travelling from one end of the empire to the other, visiting camps, reviewing troops, bestowing decorations on the worthy and endearing himself to his men.
 
 The Czar's gentleness, his frank bearing and unassuming ways have, it is said, proved revelation to Americans who have met him. Except on formal occasions where the tradi- tions of royalty are maintained, the Czar is the most human of persons, a man of wide sympathies and profound knowledge, who has not permitted his zeal as aS1tudent to lessen his in terest in the lighter things of life.
 Perhaps it is quite true that Nicho- las is now the most beloved ruler Russia has ever had, yet, but short while ago, he was viewed in another light by world that did not under stand his true character, or else was misinformed. The enthusiasm aroused hy the Czar's appearance among his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
cooa Roads Enthusiasm

"The efforts of the people of Tusca- loosa should be commended for the splendid success that they made of the special Good Roads Day. which they observed on April 19,' said an active good roads advocate. "The county turned out en masse and worked four of the principal roads entering the city. Every owner of an automobile in Tus- caloosa county furnished a hand or volunteered himself The possessors of automobiles sent their cars out to car ry the volunteer workers to various points on the roads to help make the day great success. The example which Tuscaloosa county automobilists and good roads advocates have set should be followed by the same class in Jef- ferson and other counties in the state on August IA, which will be Good Roads Day in every county in the state and which has been observed for the past
 three years so successfully and advo- cated so strenuously by the Alabama l Good Roads association"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
VERY MUCH AT HOME

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 If high authority is to be trusted, Gen. victoriano Huerta. late of Mexico, Is an exceedingly undesirable immigrant. For a number of months all the energies of the White House were devoted to the pur- pose of exiling him from his native land. The United States would not recognize his blood stained government and the pol icy of the state department consistently sought his elimination from diplomatic in- tercourse. The report of his coming hither even as visitor fluttered the dove- cotes of Ellis Island and led to predictions of his exclusion Yet he came and saw. and. if he has not conquered. he is about The bold. bad Huerta has actually leased
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE LUSITANIA
 DISASTER AND ITS EFFECT UPON US

or unlike the Titanic disaster was IN the sinking of the Lp-''a"'- in
 that it carried down with it the richest young man in America-the heir to the Vanderbilt millions. as well as some leading playwrsghts and literary men.
 The Titanic carried down John Jacob Astor, the heir to the Astor estate. Now goes Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt the heir to the Vanderbilt estate. At the last moment his wife who was Miss Margaret Elmer son, of Baltimore refused to go with him and take her two children. because of the warning from the German em- bassy.
 William T. Stead. of Worlds Work. went down with the Titanic and Ebert Hubbard with the Lusitana.
 Just three weeks ago in New York I heard Hubbard lecture. Then he paid the most glowing tribute to the heroes who went down with the Titanic-especally to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Straus and Capt Archie Butt and John Jacob Astor. What glorious death it was, he said. He had sent a telegram to the son of MT. and Mrs. Straus, not of sympathy but of congratulation upon their herosm and the glory of their taking off.
 In sailing last Saturday from New York when he and his wife were warned not to go Ebert Hubbard laughingly said:
 Speaking from a strictly personal view point, I would not mind if they did sink the ship. It might be a good thing for me. I would drown with her. That's about the only way I could succeed in my ambition to get into the Hall of Fame. I'd be a real hero and go right to the bottom"
 After MT. Hubbard's lecture in New
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
ALABAMA PRESS

Anniston Evening Star: Since the war has cut. down the supply of rouge, many of our girl artists are now going to have to resort to local color.
 Dothan Eagle: It will not be many mornings before we will make up with the sweet girl graduates in our midst
 Selma Times: Sir John French says as- phyxiating gas is an illegal weapon Just what relation the law has to a battlefield does not appear.
 Prattviils Progress: Governor Tender son has about two dozen appointmenta to make and about four times that many disappoIntments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
AMERICAS OPPORTUNITY
By ELBE,,r HUBBARD

South Americans to buy our automo- tiles pianos and, other manufactured articles unless we take their products.
 The traders in the early days of our own country set us an example.
 The trading posts were established to buy; to sell was secondary. They could not sell goods to the Indians and early pioneers until they had taken what the Indians and pioneers produced.
 You cannot sell a farmers boy a gramophone until you have secured a market for his skunk skins. But take the farmers s produce and give him in return cash or credit. and the mSrt- ter of educating him to the good things of life is not difficult.
 The trade of South America is our great est national opportunity It deserves the attention and cooperation of the govern ment of the United States and the bus- ness men and manufacturers of America. The genius of America can find solu- | tion for the promotion of American trade with South America but only big business can turn the trick.
 And the first requisite is that our gov ernment shall cooperate with our in- dustrial leaders, and not block, thwart and oppose them, setting the mafloat on sea of difficulties without sail or com pass. looked after by frowning, un- friendly dreadnaught known as the sher- man act
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
SPEAK OUT

w. s. Godfrey in the London Globe. Speak out, and let us know the best or
 worst;
 Are we but children whom ye dread to
 scare
 or simpletons who no success can bearf Must we for tidings of the war athirst Witb aching ignorance be doubly cursed ?t Speak out, in Heavens name. of what ia
 done. Give us full tale of actions lost or won. To hear the news let England be the first.
 whether of victory or of defeat; Tn Sither case we can possess our souls. We are not weak poltroons or saneuino fools; We can confront our fate with temper meet. But censored news in these diluted dolen etiro our mtegivinss and our ardor coolos
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
ILLUSIONS.

Treading the valleys of sorrow. Scaling the mountains of joy, Dreaming of glory tomorrow And pleasures that never will cloy. Evermore fretting and toiling, Though scarcely we know where we
 tend And rarely we find time for coiling Our heartstrings round comrade or
 friend At last we grow old and rheumatic, And the blood in our veins runneth
 chill, And we've likes and dislkes more em-
 phatic,
 But the future years beckon us still.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
LATER DEVELOPMENT.

"One sees a great many freakish and f1ashy automobiles these days" Quite so.''
 "How do you account for such a fad?'
 T dare say it's the outcropping in motordom of the desire for the sensa- tional that in other days made some peo- pie want to drive a team of zebras.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

Some fool lawnaker up In Wiscon- sin has introduced bill In the legis- lature whereasing, since germs are transmitted in kissing that hereafte, all kisses must be delivered through a screen. He can have all the screens he wants, but for our part-well, it takes more than an ordinary flock oi bacteria to bluff us
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

when she reached the war zone. Ger many fulfilled her word to the letter. It is horrible. but it is war. General sherman's statement that War Is Hell" is only too true.
 * * #
 This horrible evidence of war will doubly present to England her addi tional needs It means redoubling Of her energies. It means purchases in great volumes of war materials in tfis eountry-of pig iron and steel and war and naval equipment of every kind.
 In the three weeks I have been in New York have heard of innumerable orders for war material. The Birming- ham district has gotten its share If inc rough material orders It will get more now.
 While the Washington government will not be drawn into this war the protests of Germany will no longer avail in war material sales to Eng land. The feeling is so strong agairst Germany now that the sale and ship ment of war implements to England will be overlooked and there will be hummng of industries in this coun. try, and in the Birmingham district
 The panic in the stock market of Friday and Saturday shook out the speculator but that has merely bean u punishment of the gamblers. The crop shook them out. Now the indus trial stocks will be gobbled up by real investors; the prices will go up and che humming of industry in this copn- try. will be as we have not known in this generation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

Kansas farm products amounts to more than $500, 900, 900 a year and the Kansas farmer who doesn't chug to town in his motor car is the exception. rather than the rule
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
In the Market for Farm Land.

syndicate in New York has writer me me department of agricultures and in oustry that IL IS m the market for -5O- ooo acres of agricultural land in Ala oana, said. Emmet A. Jones. chief cf me immigration and markets bureau or the department, who was in Bir- iningham yesterday.
 The department will be glad to give owners of land information as to tEis inquiry. In writing to the department land owners should state the numoe. or acres they have for sale, with such other informa ton as a prospective pur- chaser usually reduires"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

The editor of the Century Magazine feels as if swarm of angry hornets were buzzing about his ears. An ar ticle in the Century reflecting on the inmates of the Chicago Y. M. c. A. has caused a peck trouble
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

Geraldine Farrar is to pose for rlo- ton pictures. It has been figured out that her salary will be equivalent te s2 a minute during the time she poses. She might well sing Golden Moments, Swiftly Fly''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

In recent speech Mir Taft said he feared Colonel Roosevelt was inclin
 .ng toward the Tammany code. A libel suit between two former President would be worth going miles to hear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

"HE European war has placed before
 us our greatest commercial oppor- No American had anything to do with bringing about tffs fearful scourge of war Nevertheless this is our chance
 Germany and Great Britain are just now unable to take care of this trade as they have in the past.
 We know that we want South Amer ica's trade but we have waited for it to come to us.
 But we are at JOSS as to just what to do.
 When we conform to the conditions of South American trade, as did Ger many and England. we will be able to get it.
 But advertising the beauty and worth of our products will not sell them. Some thing else is required. South America produces cattle, grain minerals South America is farming and mining country. not manufactur- ing country. Before the South American countries can buy they must sell or exchange their products for the goods of other coun' l tries.
 l South America does not have large manufacturing communities to feed oil of the farming communities and thereby make their own interchange of wealth South America has to export her goods and receive in return case or credit. l It is absurd for us to try to educate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

The tramp who is arrested by city olicemen for sleeping outdoors fails to get any sympathy by saying he was acting on the advice of his medical ad- visor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

Huerta has been investing his money in Harlem flats. Tenants had better take out life insurance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

British and French merchants gre get the trade that formerly went to Germany. Uncle Sam would do we'll to follow suit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

Fighting with gas is not great sue cess because man, with all his in- genuity, is not able to make the wind How the way he wants 1t to.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

Mme Sarah Bernhardt has made sr- arrangements for another visit to Amer ca. thus postponing the time when she will occupy the tomb.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

Another echo of the "J. W. Osborne case was the conviction of an aged hotel clerk for perjury. It is to be foped this is the last
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

Hon. Jess Willard, having made . failure of his theatrical tour. has Joined a wild west" show. which Is, after all his true metier.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
A PRACTICAL THOUGHT,

A PKACIIOAL IfiOUtIffI. "Is there any particular reason why human beings should be more inclined toward matrimony in the spring than at any other time of the year?" rates for the summer in hotels and board ing houses"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

"a desirable residence on Long Island,
 and the skies have not fallen, nor have
 the thunderbolts of Washington been
 launched upon his defenseless head.
 Are. then, all our previous conceptions
 of the one-time Mexican dictator wrong?
 Is he a welcome guest. wearing the white
 flower of a blameless life? Our old-time
 antagonist Castro was not thus kindly en-
 treated Mrs. Pankhurst, harmless per- son morally, whatever the militant nature of her views on the suffrage question, nar-
 rowly escaped exclusion. Maxim Gorky.
 man of genius, was deported for do- nestle irregularity which could hardly be considered inimical to the public welfare. A writer who had libeled King George of England was shut out, >and vaudeville performer who was taxed with immortality was admitted on bond. All this was very admirable. no doubt. But why should the |touching solicitude exhibited in these and other cases fail to note the dreadful men ace of Huerta? Can one unfit to stay in Mexico be a proper resident of Lone Island? The administration should look into this.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
RESTRAINT NEEDED.

What have you to say for yourself9, asked the judge of the prisoner at the bar.
 Just this. your honor: I'm afflicted with dual personality Good and evil arc constantly at war within me and the crime of which I am accused was committed when my better self had been overthrown.''
 Tn that case, the best place for you IS prison cell. where even if your evil sde does triumph occasionally, it will rules two years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

We've been waiting for "The Young Lady Across the Way" to say that it Was a pity to torpedo the Gulflght, because it has such a pretty name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

Bethlehem isn't very warlike name, but it's there with the goods when the market calls for fighting implements
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
TRADITION UPSET

From the Kansas City Star.
 Something new under the sun: Charles Stroud, a Kansas City negro, captured . white chicken thief in his hen roost Sum day night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

aso had prlef chat with him and had made arrangements with the Hearst newspapers for the simul- taneous publication of his editorial articles in The Age Herald
 We are publishing on this page today the first of them to reach us. There are several more of them, prepared before he sailed.
 s-ted Press, a bright young magazine man, and Charles Frohman, the the etrical man, and Charles Klein. the playwright. and others went down, none of whom believed in the warn ing. MT. and Mrs. Shearson, of New York, largely interested in the Ten nessee company here and intimate friends of Gordon Crawford and others here in Birmingham wouldn't heed inc warning and We're lost.
 One of the saddest cases of my own acquaintances aboard was Miss Hick- son, the New York dressmaker Oniy 2 lew days before sailing she had told me of the difficulties of her trip 10 Paris last September. There is no don ger now she said, "and I am going again. l must have the latest things. I have just begun making money after q hard year, and I must keep ahead of the others And I will have a jolly good time, too,'' she added with a smile.
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 With all the scare in Wall street and financial circles I cannot see how this l,usitania disaster can involve us in war. The German embassy gave formal rotice in print to all Americans not to sail upon her. that she was an enemy ship and was scheduled to be destroy ed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
STIRRING AGAIN.

"Oh look! Oh, look. Old Doctor Cook A Himalayan peak doth pick The which he'll climb In proper time And doubtless prove he's no 'goid
 brick
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

as he fshed a roll of paper from his pocket.
 No" replied the office boy. "he has just gone out.'
 This is the third time have called to see him." growled the caller "and each time yov have told me that he has just gone out What's the explanation?'
 ''i don't know" answered the onice boy. but I guess he must have been born under a lucky star"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

The bawls of China are heard round the world. She could not have found a worse time to cry for help.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

BEGINNING THE DAY-Help me this day, 0 Lord. to think rather of what I owe the world than of what the world owes me. May be among the blessed company wh" take low seats and are called to higher. May I find the Joy of the Lord in serying. Make me more like Christi Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

nerve specialist says the dulles kour in school comes just before lunch He might also add that it's the longest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

The extensive advertising of summer union suits for men Is making Dill boards more unpopular than ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
A,es)d3,oeo
ADRIFT WITH THE TIr1ES
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1 stuff pillow by meerly sleeping on them,
 would gladly avail myself of the op- portunity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

William Watson warns Great Britain that the allies may be defeated. Still we'd rather walt and hear from Kitch- ener
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
MERCENARY

Did you ever stop to consider how many germs accumulate on a dollar bill?' asked the cautious man.
 "In the hour of my need I never did answered his friend. If I could become the possessor of enough dollar bills to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
sAYETH THE CYNIC

oA1 r LII IIfE1. Nl l4NiC' Full many honey Who married for money
 Would sigh with contentment pro- found. If she could discover How long her old lover Is destined to totter around.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
A GOOD GUMss

From Lippincott's Megasine.
 ssls tho editor tn?'' aslked the man with the unbarbered hair and the shiny coat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
THE BR1GHTER SIDE.

s'The European war affords me one source of consolation, anyway" said Mir. Jabbins.
 'I'd like to know what it s, said Mir. Snoozedorf.
 'It is impossible for some of my weathier neighbors to go gadding about Europe this year and then return home and make me feel as if I hadn't been anywhere because I merely went to Colo rado''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
BY-PRoDUCTs OF WAR.

BY-PRODUCTs OF WAR. T understand the Russians have an inexhsustible supply of men, ble supply of cannon" Put the Germans have an inexhausti- "Then what's the result?' Cannon fodder I guess
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, fostofflce as second class matter un- der act of Congress March B. lSi9.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

HENRY M. EDMONDS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

Daily and Sunday Age Herald. .SS.L0 Daily and Sunday, per month";. 10 Daily and Sunday, three months. 2.O0 Weekly Age-Herald. per annum.. .o0 Sunday Age Herald . 2 DO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

George McMasters, O. E. Young ard w. D. Brumbeloe are the only author ized travelling representatives of The Age Herald in its circulation depart