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The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-05
NEW SHIPS FOR TRADE
 TO HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov 5.-A new S1,000,oOO steamship to fly the Ameri' can flag has been contracted for by the Matson Navigation Company to run between San Francisco and Hon olulu The company alreadys oWns and operates six vessels between the two ports
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-05
MANY MOTOR TRUCKS
 MADE IN LAST YEAR

DETROIT. Mich, Nov 5.-lt is es. timated that 3TO0O motor trucks were manufactured during the past year.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-05
DU POINT POWDER WoRKs
 puT 1000 MEN Al WORK

NEW YORK. Nov. 5.-The DuPont Powder Works Company will addlo0O men to lis plant at Haskell. ". J. The company has sufficient war or ders on hand to keep three eighthcur shifts busy for two years.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-05
aowsoAr BEATS LAUNCH

9 Starting from the same q
 g point at noon yesterday. Lyle p Davis. propelling an ordinary q
 9 skin with a pair of oars. beat q D the launch Murrelet in race 6 , from Rake to Juneau, by six q p hours. The Murreiet reached q ', Juneau at 8 o'clock this morn ; D irg. while Davis rowed into D port at a. m. The race was q 9 made to decide a wager be- q Q tween Davis and pr. D. q. t Kaser. who was aboard the q
 D Murreiiel p Davis chose the famous "Ca- p noe Pass route which divides p Admiralty Island and the dis p tance from Rake by that way { p is 27 miles. The Murrellet was D forced to come 102 miles. She p Is vessel capable Ol seven knots speed per hour. Q The Murreilet's party, con {
 9 slsting Of Kaser. c. ". Hatch
 Q and Arthur Nordiey brought Q in several deer and about 300
 Q ducks.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-05
COLTS ARE BUSY

NEW YORK, Nov 5.--It is said that the Colts Repeating Arms Company has S8O0O00OO Of war orders ahead of them
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-05
SIX NEW SHIPS FOR
 ATLANTIC COAST TRADE

NEW YORK. Nov. 5.-six addition al ships, two steamers and four large .schooners. have been contracted for for tho Atlantic coast service.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-05
-o .oNoa MIes clVELL.

OTTAWA - Mount Robson she highest peak in Che Canadian Rockies, will be renamed Mount Cayeil in hon. or of tho Ensiisa nurse executed by the Germans.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-05
SOUTH IS PRESSING
 iTs LUMBER TRADE

NEW YORK. Nov 5.-Represenia- lives of eleven southern lumber ex- porting firms have organized the Lum- Der Exporters Line. with Q capital stock of SloOooo which will charter steamships to carry enc soushsln harwoods to the principal ports Of Europe The firms represented have an aggregate capital of S5'ooQio0o
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-05
RoMANs HOMELESS
AS THEIR -t-

ROME, Nov 5.-Thousands of resi- dents of the low-iying sections of Roms have been driven from their homes by the rise of the river Tiber, due to heavy rains.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-05
BRlTAlN's WAR COST.

LONDON. Nov. 5. - According to The Chronicle. the war Is costing Great Britain S2I5Ooooo daily.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-05
eoLp FRoM cueA

NEW YORK. Nov 5.-The national Bank of Cuba received S1oOO,ooo in Cuban gold coin.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-05
1oMa pLoT 0IeCoVEFED.

Cl.EvELAND-A dynamite bomb with fuse attached was found in one of the big auto concerns here today
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-05
LAIE ByLLETLNS

WILSON AUTO HITS BOY
 NEW Cpeeding to catch Q train to Washington today the Presi- dents auto struck and slightly lniur- ed small boy
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-05
nEsIaNATIoN nENIEn-

HE9IeNNIIO ION DENIED. LONDON-lt was officially denied today that Lord Kitchener had re. signed
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-05
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IN ERusrIoN

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-16

There is a strip of land in the Trans vaal six miles wide and 50 miles long, that produces one-third of the world 8 annual supply of gold. There are 8 mines in this district, three of which, the Crown, the East Rand Proprietary and the Randfontein Central, furnished gold in 1912 valued at "A, 403, 750. This vas about one-tenth of all the gold mined in the world during that year. In 1912 262 tube mills and 10000 stamps were operated. There are employed in the mines 24394 whites and 205, ,4sS natives. In the Rand district a billion dollars worth Of gold have been taken out of the ground during the past quarter of a century. Mines are worked here to depth of 1000 feet. It is predicted that the levels will be extended to five or even six thousand feet, as the result of the use of electricity. Many obstacles in deep gold mining have been overcome by electric power. It is said that the introduction of electricity has lessened tuberculosis among miners and has made their work safer, while reducing the cost of power 40 per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-16
Now and Sixteen Years Ago

This is carnival time in the south. Shrovetide began Sunday and in Mo bile and New Orleans, where the car nival spirit especially prevails, the weather has been balmy and spring like. Here in Birmingham yesterday brought us ideal temperature for Shrovetide.
 Today will be Mardi Gras, or Shrove Tuesday, and the weather man forecasts fair weather for Jones valley. We usually have mild weather conditions in February, but sixteen years ago Mardi Gras was accom- panied by blizzard. New Orleans and Mobile were frozen tight. In the Crescent City the streets were like sheets of glass. It was the 14th of February-Mardi Gras of 1899. In Birmingham there was splendid sleighing. On Sunday, the 18th of February, the temperature here, ac- cording to the official records in the local weather bureau, was five degrees above zero and on Monday following, February 13, it fell to ten degrees below. That was the coldest snap that Jefferson county had ever known; so said the oldest inhabitant. And there has been no such record since. On Tuesday, Mardi Gras, 1899, the mercury in Birmingham at it's lowest was three degrees above zero. It will be a long time perhaps before we have another carnival time such as that. All but the plumber will hope so at least.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-16
A LITTLE WAR STORY

Ruth Kaufman Tn LeSlle s.
 The Begian families had been scat tered and separated with more ruth lessness than was that little Already in Canada, made famous to every Ameri- can schoolboy and girl in America. by I,onRfellow-thatp place whence men and women and children were torn from one another's very arms and packed into ships, and sent to the various ports of our 13 colonies. Someone again had brilliant Idea. Ten Boy Scouts were re- ouested from London.
 Two of these were stationed at tho door of each hostel in which Belgian refugees were sheltered. They wepe given no instructions except that they must keep intruders away They were strangers to the town. and their task was not light, for not only was 1t their duty to fulfill the comamnd and see that the Belgians were left undisturbed, but they were under vow to their order to act always with intelligence and polite ness.
 The trouble ceased. A few days later, one of the leaders of the community was curious enough to ask one of the two stolid guardians of one of the hostels how he managed things so well. He touched his cap.
 "If they're not the people that come | to work" he answered, "I ask them the name of the person they want to see
 If they can't tell me. and say anyone will do. don't let them In; if they name
 some one that Is out. tell them wher he'll be back; but if they say somebod,
 else will do. don't lot them in..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-16
Bright Outlook in Business World

Bright Outlook in Business World The business depression in this country last fall, as a result of the European war, was very acute, and but for the energetic and constructive action of the large banking interests and the inauguration of the federal reserve system conditions would have been more distressing than they were. Now that the worst is behind us, mer- chants, manufacturers and business leaders generally are looking forward with confidence to an early return of genuine prosperity.
 Since January 1 there has been very decided improvement in the busl- ness situation, and while in some cen ters recovery has been slow it has been steady and substantial. There is good promise now that the first quarter of the year will end with increasing activity in all lines of trade.
 The high prices which the western | farmers have received for their grain and live stock and the enormous trade balance in favor of the United States account in great measure for the wide spread improvement. One of the best business barometers is the iron and steel trade. There is healthy inquiry for various steel products, and al- though prices are not yet satisfactory to the steel makers there has been considerable buying in the last three or four weeks, and the prospects for larger business are bright.
 Another good barometer is the vol ume of railroad traffic. While most of the roads are much below normal in their earnings there is gradual increase in both freight and passen- ger business. Still another barometer | is found in the hotel business. In all parts of the country-in the small cities as well as the large-the hotels have experienced extreme dullness. But their business is increasing and many of the best hostelries are filling up rapidly.
 With bumper food crops again this
 
 year prosperity will be abounding when harvest time comes. The south will enjoy it's full share of thrift. The crop diversification movement has taken firm hold in the cotton states, and this new departure will be worth billions of dollars to the south. On the whole the year 1915 will be very good year unless all signs fail. Next year will probably witness the great est boom in the history of America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-16
SOLDIER, SOLDIER

By Rudyard Kipling. Soldier, soldier, come from the wars. Why don't you march with my true
 love?"
 We're fresh from off the ship an 'e's
 maybe give the slip
 An you'd best go look for new love" New love! True love!
 Best go look for a new love: The dead they cannot rise, an you'd bet
 ter dry your eyes,
 An you'd best go look for a new love- Soldier soldier, come from the wars, What did you see O my true love?' 1T seed i'm serve the queeen in a suit O
 rifle green,
 An you'd best go look for a new love.'' Soldier, soldier, come from the wars, Did ye see no more O my true lover" "I seed i'm runnin' by when the shots
 began to fly
 But you'd best go look for a new love" Soldier, soldier, come from the wars. Did aught take arm to my true love?' "1 couldn't see the fight, for the smoke
 it lay so white
 An you'd best go look for new love" Soldier, soldier, come from the wars, I'll up an tend to my true love!' "'Es lying on the dead with a bullet
 through is cad,
 An you'd best go look for new love" "Soldiers soldier, come from the wars I'll down an die with my true lovev' "The pit we dug'll ide i'm an the twenty
 men beside i'm An you'd best go look for a new love-" Soldier, soldier. come from the wars, Do yon bring no sign from my true
 love?"
 'T bring a look of air that e allus used
 to wear,
 An you'd best go look for new love" Soldier, soldier, come from the wars. O then know it's true I've lost my true love!' "An' tell you truth again-when you've
 lost the feel O. pain You'd best take me for your true love" True love! New love! Best take i'm for a new love. The dead they cannot rise. an you'd bet ter dry your eyes. An you'd best take i'm for your true
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-16
In Pressing Need

In every city in this country wage workers out of employment this win ter have exceeded in number those of any previous winter, and hence the greater volume of destitution. Blr- mingham has had, perhaps, smaller percentage of idle men than many other industrial centers; yet the num- Der depending for food, clothing and shelter upon charity has been very large.
 How best to provide for the desti- tute has been difficult problem, but up to this time the needy poor have been reasonably well cared for by one or the other of the charity organ izations. The largest work has been done by the Associated Charities with it's various departments of service The official reports of this organlza- ton have been published from time to time and have shown high records, both in relief work and in economy of administration.
 The income of the Associated Charl- ties through voluntary contributions has been large enough to have given ample relief to the destitute in ordi- nary times, but in view of the excess sive number of poor people out of em- ployment the revenues have not been sufficient to meet the demand. As a result the Associated Charities is con- siderably in debt, and although the business situation is improving stead ily and the number of men out of em- ployment will soon decrease several thousand dollars will be needed to re- imburse the offices and to carry on the relief work during the spring.
 So desperate has become the finan- cial condition of the Associated Chari- ties that an energetic canvass for funds will be made tomorrow. AS one hundred prominent business men have agreed to serve on the canvassing committee, it is hoped that enough money will be raised before the day is ended to continue the good work of this institution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-16
Advance i'm CrystnI GIa.,

"The jobbing houses have sent out ad- vance notices of an increase of 20 to 60 per cent in crystal blanks from which the lenses of eyeglasses are made,' said J. H. Finder. optician.
 This necessarily means an increase price by opticians when the present sup ply has been exhausted.
 Most of the crystal blocks. from which the blanks are cut for lenses have here tofore been made in Germany and France. The manufacture of this glass is by an exact index of mathematical propor- tion of ingredients.
 Here in the United States there is being manufactured some crystals, but not enough to supply the demand The European war has stimulated an increase production and some factories are making enlargements to take care of a major portion of the demand. Ultimately this country will manufacture enough for the home demand.
 Tn lense grinding the United States ranks the world, and all the mountings used by opticians are made in this coun- t,.xr'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-16

that "Uncle Sam" might conceivably operate in this country.
 The fact that the freight rates on the Panama railroad are so high that they have already turned the bulk of the coast to coast traffic to the canal, would seem to indicate that there is no intention to make the line a com petitive factor in transportation across the isthmus. If it suited the purposes of the government to do so it could doubtless put in force tariff that would be cheaper than any in this country.
 However, as government owner ship of railroads is at best remote possibility, there is no need to be- come alarmed over the fact that Uncle Sam chooses to charge 3.48 cents per ton-mile on his Panama railroad, even if he does lose business by it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-16

chief reason why certifcated stocks in New York are so small, and why hedge selling has been on such a limited scale It is not expected. however. that this re- straining influence will be protracted, and when the governments policies become clearly defined through practical appli- cation the trade will have little trouble in adjusting itself to the new system One thing seems assured, however, and that is until hedge selling becomes heav- fer in volume the situation favors the buyer rather than the seller.
 ''There is no falling off in the heavy ex- port movement nor as far as can be as- certained is there any letting up in for eign buying"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-16
BIRMINGHAM AND TUSCALOOSA

From the Tuscaloosa News
 Is Birmingham going to read the bene- fits of the open Warrior while Tusca- loosa calmly stands by and does noth- ing?
 It is really beginning to look that way. Thursday a barge load of Birmingham pig iron went down the Warrior. It was shipped down the Louisville and Nash vile to Holt and there loaded on the barge. And there is a probability that Birmingham will continue to use the Warrior in this way until she builds a short railroad line or canal to much nearer point when the traffic will be greatly increased.
 What has Tuscaloosa done to profit by the open Warrior and the barge line? !? Practically nothing. For while a little freight was shipped by the river and unloaded at the city waterworks planb But such shipments have long been dis continued The transfer charges were too heavy. and after due notice from the Alabama and New Orleans Transporta- ton company, this service was discon- tinued Since that time, Tuscaloosa has | seen the barges go by day after day without bringing any freight to the city l or carrying any away. except the coal shipped from the mines up the river | We have no objection to Birmingham $
 using the open Warrior. On the other l hand, we want to see them gain any ad-
 vantage from it that it may. But in the
 meanwhile, it is disappointing to say the i least, to see Tuscaloosa with it's dream of an open river at last realized taking
 no active steps to reap the advantages | that it's situation gives it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
'om the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 A woman is never too good to be true.
 Chronic complaining makes tough luck all the tougher.
 It takes a spinster to give motherly ad- vice to a young mother.
 And sometimes a little learning saves ( man from jury duty
 People will have good opinion of you if you agree with them.
 To err is human-and the divine part is to keep from being found out
 Never tell a middle aged woman that she reminds you of an old friend.
 Many man hasn't enough sense to be- come successful wheelbarrow chauf- feur.
 Some women who wear golden slippers on earth may find it difficult to climb the golden stairs.
 A bachelor says the simplest kind of simple addition is the adding of one and one to make one.
 The woman who says she wouldn't mar ry the best man on earth usually weeds one that is no good. It Is more satisfactory to go and turn something up than it is to sit down and wait for 1t to turn up of its own accord
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-16
The Panama Railroad

Writing for Leslie's Weekly, w. E. Aughinbaugh points out that the freight rate on the Panama railroad is 3.48 cents per ton-mile, while the freight rate in the United States is ,726S of a cent for all the railways of this country. The Panama rate is, he declares, nearly five times as great as that made by private enterprises in the United States. ''If the Panama rate were established in the United States" says this writer, ''it would wreck the country, for there is not enough money in it to pay such enor- nous amounts" And the high tariff on the Panama railway is, as he points out, not due to any extra expense in operation, the isthmian line, with the exception of the cost of coal, pre- senting no great difficulties that are not common to all railroads in the United States.
 This view is one that would be taken by the corporations which operate the railroads of the country. The Panama canal Is a bete noir to transconti- mental railway companies and natural ly they can see little good in the ca nal and none whatever in the govern ment owned Panama railroad. Without impugning the writer's motives in the least, his article is not very cogent argument against government owner ship of railroads. As matter of fact, government ownership of public utili- ties is not democratic and will proba- ply never be attempted in this coun- try on an extensive scale, but the Panama railroad is exceptional. It is by no means typical of the railroads
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-16
SEX AND MEDICAL PRACTICE

From the New York Worio.
 According to pr. Hugh Cabot, Boston surgeon, women doctors are "all right in certain cases" but they can never make as good doctors as men. who nat urally and by circumstances are apt to have the easier faculty as physicians"
 Are sex qualifications necessary for medical practice any more than for the practice of law. architecture or paint ing? About all that can be said of the general run of men doctors Is that they arc "all right In certain cases," but that limitation has 50 far not operated to dis courage their choice of medicine as profession.
 Dr, Cabot is further quoted in his ad- dress at the Massachusetts General hos pital:
 Tt seeN1s to have been mistake to be- lieve that the woman medical student no matter how capable and earnest she was 1 in her medical studies, could afterward | in all cases take the same position rela-
 lively in the medical world that the man doctor would
 | Does not this criticism apply with equal
 force to % per cent of men doctors aa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-16
Prominent Virginiaps Die

"It was remarked as coincidence in Richmond that three aged, wealthy and prominent citizens died within a short time of each-John P. Branch, bank CT; Alexander Cameron, retired tobac- conist, and John l.. Williams senior member of the banking house of John L. Williams & Sons," said member of Birmingham's Virginia colony. MT. Branch was in his eighty-fifth year He was the richest man in the south, perhaps; supposed to be worth about eight or nine million dollars. He was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church. south.
 "Mr Cameron was native of Scot mond since his youth He was mem- Der of the Presbyterian church.
 MT. Williams was. as The Age Her ald said ripe scholar and a devout member of the Episcopal church. The Richmond Dispatch in an edi- torial tribute to this widely esteemed and distinguished gentleman said:
 "It is rather out of fashion now adays for a highly successful business IHdn tO pe dlSO O SShOAdiiy SeuNOht oA dead tongues and classic lore, but MT. Williams was both. Profoundly relig- ious, deeply and convincedly charitable fin thought and action, lover of the humanities and of humanity. he was of the best type of the old southern stock There are few left to fill the place he occupied in the communitys affection and esteem.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-16
Exnerience of Credit Man

T had rather peculiar experience cn collecting trip a few days ago." said a credit man. '1 was sent out to collect a portion of near $300 claim and get a note for the balance. I made a demand upon the debtor who doubt fully suggested he probably had a bale of cotton over at the gin that he could let me have, but was not sure. I told him that if he did not pay me something on account l would he forced to bring suit against him.
 'He left the small store to see about the bale of cotton Immediately his wife appeared upon the scene and pro
 ceeded to give me a piece of her mind She indignantly declared that she had money enough in the rear room to pay every cent they owed anybody. I bowed my most gracious bow and congrat- ulated her. When the husband returnea I told him I had changed my ideas and that, as his wife had declared they had the money. I must insist upon pay ment of the whole amount. l got the money. When I left I heard echoes of another tongue flashing but twas a man talking to a woman this time"