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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26

legged pleasure is taken away from them. Faces are either hidden by collars up- turned or umbrellas held low in front of them. The few that look straight ahead flash by so quickly that one cannot study nonentites.
 The metallic clans of the motorman' 8 bell is harder than ever and as you glance at his crowded car-crowded with wet and dripping passengers. each of whom seems, for some unknown reason, to hate the other-you feel glad that you are on the street. even though soaking wet, Instead of in that moving den of da an1pness' and treacherous temrprs.
 After a few blocks of walking, you grow tired of struggling to keep your umbrella out of other peoples eyes-no one seems making special effort to keep his um- brella out of yours-and you push angrily on. regardless of whom you may punc- ture Ahead of you is a sea of black silk and cotton cloth, ribbed and curv- ing downward-nothing interesting about that Above you Is murky sky which you dare not look at and below you is a wet and slippery sidewalk whose dangers you must share with thousands, no one of whom seems to have a thought for any other.
 And now you must cross the thorough fare.i This is dangerous upon the clearest of days, but upon a rainy day one would stand as good a chance to be free from in- jury upon the European battle front as he would crossing Broadway at any of the bus: corners. Up goes your umbrella. and from behind you comes a threatening growl from the man whose hat Sou have almost knocked off. Down comes your umbrella again. and next you hear roar from truck driver who wants to know if you are trying to commit suicide by running in front of bis juggernaut
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1t would be an easy matter to drive the stock across country to the market. From Sac Paulo to Santos the beef will be shipped to the United States.
 I asked MT Mackenzie as to the char acter of the lands in Matto Crosse and as to whether they were yet doing any thing upon the big ranch. He replied:
 We have now 15O,00O head of cattle feeding upon our pastures on the Bra gillian highlands. We are raising them for dried beef, but we will eventually ship them across country to the mar kets. The land there Is excellent. The country Is well watered. The Paraguay river runs through 1t and part of 1t is inundated during much of the year. The water is not deep and the grass rises aboye the surface so that the stock feed and grow fat upon it." 5
 What kind of cattle have you there?"
 ''The most of our stock is still of the native breeds, but we are bringing in fine blooded breeding animals from the United States and are improving it. We expect to cross the native cattle with the Herefords. as we think that makes the best animal for this country. As it is, our cattle are better than the old Texas stock and fully equal to the grass fed animals of some parts of the United States. Take the cattle which are now being shipped from North Dakota to Chicago. and if they can dress up to 6s per cent of their live weight, after having been brought from that distance, it is considered fairly good. The other day I brought in a steer from our ranch and had him killed and weighed. He dressed up to 261a per cent of his live weight, and that is better than some of the Texas cattle have done in the past" Here MT. Mackenzie showed me a photo- graph of the steer.
 Tell me what you are doing on your ranch south og Sac Paulo. I mean the one that President Roosevelt visited?"
 'The ranch is much smaller than the one in Matto Crosse. The numper of cattle upon 1t is only about 6000. We are using them for breeding purposes to supply stock for other ranches. We have there hundreds of Herefords, which we have imported from Texas, and also large number of shortnorns l have no doubt that we can raise the standard of our stock so that it will be equal to any bred in North America
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one than that of the United States. Tho cattle here feed out of doors all the year round and they have good grass from one years end to the other The climate is mild and you do not have to feed to keep out the cold"
 How long does it take to mature . steer for the market7' I asked
 Just about as long as in the states. but we do it on the native grass We are planting other grasses and expect to inn prove the feed. As to alfalfa, 1t has not succeeded well in the places where 1t has been planted. I am told it does better in other localities. I do not know There is no limit to the possibilities of corn. There are millions of acres here that will grow as good corn as Illinois, and we will eventually fatten our pigs upon corn. Indeed. we can grow almost corn belt of the United States or in any part of our south.''
 Would you advise Americans to some to Brazil?'
 ''I should hesitate to do that" replied MT. Mackenzie. 1T can only say thu climate Is excellent, the soil good and the country Is not unlike that WnlCn we have at home. Lands are cheap and they can be bought all thesway from 15 cents an acre upward They are sure to in crease in value. On the other hand, this is country where the people have their own language, and the American would likely feel lonesome and his family might not appreciate the advantages. I do not want to give advice of that kind.'
 In speaking further concerning tho meat possibilities of Brasih MT. Mac- kenzie said:
 'I believe that this part of the world has a great future as a hog country. This seems to be the natural home of the pig. We have many that breed and run wild in the woods. They live on grass all the year round and when they are taken up 1t takes less grain to fatten them than is required for our, hogs at home. The animals breed we'll The aver ago SOW will produce one-third more than her North American sister. She will give five filters of pigs every two years. Our average Is less than six pigs to the litter. Here the average Is eight or nine. This means that one SOW will have 40 pigs in two years. and not only that, but the first litter will be producing pigs before the end of that time. Indeed, the breed- ing proposition Is something like that Of the Australian rabbit. We are trying to improve the pigs of Brazil. We are in- troducing new stock. We want stock
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UP AND DOWN BROADWAY--By Allen Griffin Johnson

the annual championship tournament oi the New York Newspaper Golf club
 Everybody in Sunland knows Grant He led that day by 12 strokes. The tour nament will end Monday.
 New York city has new war play which opened this week under the title, ''Moloch." It is by Beulah M. Dix, and the European pastime. It paints war as all that is horrible and without one re- deeming feature.
 It's characters have no surnames. but are called, for instance, "A Man--Robert. etc. There are no nations mentioned but just "our side and the enemy" Yet, the play is cleverly constructed and is strong and compelling throughout in spite of It's impersonal quality.
 The same author wrote. Across the Border which is another war play. In fact, war plays seem in demand all right If they are all right, but in order to get by on Broadway any play must have a real punch in it. The trouble with SC many plays Is that they try for a punch 50 hard that they develop ludicrous Judy. However, "Moloch' bids fair to have quite run, especially since this cut rate ticket business Is in operation.
 Why cut rate tickets in New York Well. don't know exactly what reason the arrangements would give out, but the real thing seems to be this: At the old prices plays were not having such runs as they could have at cheaper rate, and with cheaper rate and a longer run, there is more money to be made Is not that reason enough7
 Why Is 1t that feminine costumes which excite practically no comment in New York city would. block traffic and cause all sorts of stir In any other munich pality in America. including Chicago! Why 10 tt-that's al want to know!
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Tho native cattle of Brazil are better than the native cattle of the Argen- tine. and in time we shall have a better breed of stock than they are now rais- ing.
 'Can men make as much money on cattle here as they can in the Argen- tine7" asked.
 T believe they can make more," said MT. Mackenzie Tn Argentina the prices have 50 risen that the best grasing coun- try brings as much as 315o an acre. Of an animal for year, and that means an investment of $450 per acre for the land alone The expenses of caring for the stock there arc greater than here, and. therefore. the cattle sold arc higher priced. They get on the average about s65 in gold for . stesr,- and out of that must como the interest on their invest ment and their running expenses. Land enough to raise a steer at the present valuation of Brazil can be bought for from SIS to $ao at the outside and the steer can be sold for $4B. So you see the difference in the investment.
 beslQeS, there ls local demand TOT meat in Brazil. This country has more than 21.OOoooo people, and 1t has, all told. only 22,Ooo.ooo cattle. It buys meat from the Argentine and Uruguay and 1t pays high prices for its local supplies There are . number of large cities and towns that furnish a steady demand. and 1t will be . long time before we can furnish all that is required. Indeed. I should like to see from 50 to 100 good cat tlemen come down here from the states. There is plenty of land which they can buy at such a price that they can af- ford to do business upon 1t. We have bought some, but there Is plenty more quite as good. The lands are sure to rise in value. and it seems to me that 1t Is a live business proposition with excellent prospects of a big profit. That is what we are banking on and we expect to succeed"
 But what are the disadvantagesr' I asked.
 We have plenty" replied MT. Mac kenzie ''but they are not insurmountable. We have ticks of various kinds and the Texas fever. The fever is not exactly the same as in the states, but 1t Is quite as bad. It can easily be controlled. how ever, by dipping. and the man who takes care of his stock need not fear 1t. In other respects the proposition is . better
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these vary In amount according to tho To- cality from where thestock comes and its character. Full blooded bulls of hirh grade. brought from Europe. get prizes as nigh as S160: from the United States sioo, and from the Rio de la Plata basin. from $S0 to $120. stallions receive higher premiums, while hogs bring from s25 to $50 per animal. depending upon the source of origin. In 1910 the number Of cattle imported was about 75,0oo and their yalue was almost H,oooooo.
 A great deal of this stock came from Argentina and Uruguay, but about one hfth or S200000 worth. came from East India. Some of the Indian bulls bring very high prices On the fazenda Cass,1 tho xebu bull Lontra sold for $i40O0, and he was 3-year-old at the time. On the fazenda Cascata Is tho bull Cacique. That bull cost over 5000 and was the winner of the gold medal at the cattle show of Ubernba.
 The East Indian cattle are valuable be- cause the cross between them and the native stock makes the lean animal so much prized for the jerked beef market. Brazil is said to use about 80 per cent of all the meat of this kind made and there are many large factories devoted to tho industry. Rio Grande do Sul has 31 and there are large numbers in Matto Crosse. In making this meat the animals are lassoed. drawn to post and killed by driving a knife into the back of the head. They arc then skinned and cleaned. Tho bone and fat Is taken out and the meat is cut Into thin layers. It Is then put in- to a strong brine and further salted and hung over wooden rails to dry in the sun. It becomes as hard as stone. when 1t is sewn up into packages of about 800 pounds each and shipped to the markets. The fat is boiled down and refined The tongues are canned and the bones, horns and dried blood are shipped off to Eu- rope.
 Within the last few years Brazil has been paying a great deal of attention to dairying, although there are states in which milk Is luxury. and butter out side tins Is practically unknown. The gov ernment keeps dairy bulls on some of It's experimental farms and the state of Minas Geraes is offering premiums to CO., operative dairies. That state has now more than 100 butter and cheese factories, which produce almost 900 worth of dairy products per annum. They also ex- port milk and cream to Rio de Janeiro The latter are delivered to the people from house to house and they are also sold in daIries where one may sit as in a cafe and drink his hot or cold milk at about cents glass.
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And here and there stood one who idly dreamed
 While others passed them by in swift
 advance, Yet, on each dreamer's face there seemed
 to be placid smile of sweet tranquility. There strutted Pride--how self-important, With selnshness swift-tagging at his heels; No thought had they of others pain or
 rue,
 But walked as one who love nor pity
 feels; At last they stumbled-who thus proud The throng surged on--the fallen were
 forgot. There stalked one with grim. forbid E ding face.
 Twas Hate with giarins Anger by his
 side;
 Their path by blood drops one might quickly trace Back to the spot where Gentleness had
 died; ARR And there alone wept Love. in trembling
 fear, With Sympathy and Pity standing near. "Oh, stars" I cried, fare you unfeeling quite; Does not so much of sin and wrong ap-
 pail? Have you no tears to shed at such a
 sight, s.@ That God should let such wickedness
 befall? Is there no right, nor justice? Answer
 me- The stars gleamed down and twinkled
 silently.
 Some newspaper men can practice what they preach" says . local daily. "Grantland Rice of the Tribune can play golf as well as write it. He was the Travsrs of the field which drove on ia
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Then don't, if you can avoid
 1t. Upon such occasions 1t seems |the very epitoms of cheerlessness, in- Inference and hopelessness. Even when |ehe day is dark enough to cause the fash hng on of some of the far-famed white nights these illuminations spread but a |sickly. pallor over the scene and drive home the impression thar an who have en- bored here have left hope behind.
 .oomewhers back ih faBt-haxing past e hsye sat Sat window during rain |stornn~ ,anf fhave sazed out upon green |tbines and open stretcIies. have seen |the raindfops turn to sparkling jewels |upon the grass blades; have watched lit |tle. short-lived rivulets run down the footpath upontth hillside as gaily as if |joy instead of carly oblivion awaited them lot the end thereof; have seen the |branches quiver with the ecstacy of the wind and rain kisses while the thought ful visaged heifers huddled beneath them. land horses, prouder. frisked and ran as |the playful raindrops peIted them. Then. at least. I saw picture that held. and fascinated me. and my deepest |regret lay fin the fact that was not per mitted to so out and join in the rain 'play. Nature vas spread out before me, and when has the work of man, with all 'his skill and cunning. rivaled that of na- .ture, In either rain or shine?
 But Broadway on rainy day! It is hot even a pleasant thought, but has it mot somehow become my duty to show it Ito you from all sides and under all con |ditions?
 There arc those--and they are bro- mjdic legion-who gay that they enjoy tho study 0f faces in the throng. But when t rains on Broadway. even that al-
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By FRANK c. CARPENTER

By FRANK c. CARPENTER
 fCopyright, 1915, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
 Sac Paulo.
 NURING my stay in Sac Paulo I n met Mr. Murdo Mackenzie. the
 manager of the Brazil Cattle,
 Land and Packing company.
 who had just come in from his treat ranch in southern Brazil. MT. Mac kenzie is we'll known to the cattle men pf the United States. Born in Scotland, he came to Texas as young man and grew up with our cattle interests He has seen the evolution of American beef from the Texas grass-fed steer to the fine corn-fed Shorthorn of today. He was ht one time the owner of ranch in the United States which had 7o,0o0 fine Here fords upon it, and he is now introducing FIsrefords and Shorthorns into this coun- try, forming the beginning of a cattle [industry which, in it's fine stock. may Bome day compete with that of the Ar gentine.
 MT. Mackenzie's operations in this part of the world are upon a large scale. He Ia connected with the Farquahar syndf- rate. which owns millions of acres of land, which Is building thousands of miles of railway and which I might almost say is opening up continent and an empire. Here in Brazil the cattle company of which Mir Mackenzie is head owns nine or 10 million acres of pastures and 1t has over A000 GOO acres in one block. The latter tract is just across the border from Bolivia and north of Para guay. It Is in the great state of Matto |0ro0so, which is more than twice the g4lo of Texas, and which. MT. Mackenzie |1ells me. promises to become one of the reatest meat baskets on earth.
 Inc Brazil Railway company is now .xtending its lines, which already cover b largo part of southern Sac Paulo. Pa- bana, Santa Cathrf1a aud Rio Grande 70 Soul, the whlte man country of ppukhern Brazil, into 1fatto Crosse. They .hsve projected line which win run |xsum eao Paulo and the Bay of San |2faneinoo clear across this great ranch |Dk lyeoo.0Oo acres This will -0pen up an |inormouo area of pastures and win carry .1he cattle direct to the sea.
 When the road ts completed these lands |Wfl bo within GO miles of Sac Paulo |and the cattle can be shipped by rail .to mest-paclring houses which will soon |be ereotd here Mr. Mackenzie tells me 'khax he hAs drivon cattle much farther |than this In the United States and that
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Are we right. or are we wrong? Nobody ever criticized Eyes fig leaf in her day what is wrong. anyhow, and when some thing is why is it?
 Now that straw hats. hot weather and the Mardi Gras are but memories, coney Island has gone virtually dead. Deader, I am told, than 1t has ever been before. Bet even Broadway doesn't know that. THE STUFF THAT LIFE IS MADE OF. A little joy. a little woe.
 laughs glad ripple teardrop's flow. A bit of pleasure and of pain A sunbeam cleaning through the rain A little faith in one held true, A little disappointment, too.
 A little struggle filled with zest A little weariness and rest. False pride little. one false start "A humble and a contrite heart" A little anger finds release, A little longing. then, for peace. A little love. little hate.
 The old and futile war with fate. A gasp-a final prayer to God Oblivion. and six foot of sod.
 Read book recently calNd Every Man a King" Sort of new thought stuff. believe. All you have to do. according to the book. Is to think it and be 1t. It caused me to do little serious thinking and I've been waiting for the coronation ever since. but thus far there seems to be nothing doing. How on earth Is a man, and especially woman. to think serious ly within the glare of the white lights and within the sound of the music along Broadway?
 Suicide in Woolworth building the other
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0ISTUR EDDITUR: man or woman who M has newer indulged in the gay and festive
 .l ~ game of golf is persun to pass judge
 ment upon it. Golf is peculiar institu- sion. One look at the game played
 md immagne that it is pretty soft he will also be- hesve that theere is no grate amount of amusemint m it and that 1t is game for old and fat womn. |Ehs 1dear of taking heavy club and hooking
 nnu white ball around the scenery does not bit him being especially amusing or inturresting. ThaH is tho way that golf had always impressed mo. ht was form of sport which appeered to to have hun of tho fascinating symptums of draw poker or |he ezsiting sitnasons of crokay couldn't golf khruugh Lick tellescope to me, and it newer occurred to me that would evver take up the game
 md take an active inturrest in itthat is such in tusssst aswould induse me to put in evvery momint oouA command in perspirng ruff hills and Bc9sy bottums trying to obdurate and in- hnn1mAte eomposision ball to behave with commun depensy I newer doubted for an instint that if | did take up the game that 1t would be cinch for o nook that ball far that 1t would take two weeks o send 1t back by parsel post naturally knew that
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Before you can apologize to him for nearly having lost your life, another driver is upon you, and the traffic police man ise scowling and growing at you in all endeavor to make you move in either the one direction or the other. Finally. when you have reached the opposite side walk, you discover that. though you have escaped with your life, you have not missed a mud hole, or a puddle, and be assured that there are lots of such things all along Broadway.
 There Is something ominous and forbid ding about the roar of the ''L' trains overhead. the normally angry honk of the automobile horns becomes almost curse and there is no friendship anywhere-all is dismal.
 where along Alba Via. you don't even care to gaze out of your window. but care only to light up your lights and your pipe and dream of other days far. far from Broadway and It's rainy days.
 The next day when the sun shines once again. all Is forgotten for the time be- ing. but on rainy day Broadway is less cheerful than desert upon which an oasis is unknown-and have never yet seen such a desert-or any other kind.
 'TWIxT EARTH AND SKY. Upon dizzy height stood alone:
 The g.eaming stars seemed whispering to me. s i ,s 4. it Focus thy vision now as we our own
 Behold thy fellow mortals as do we'- And, bending OCT the surging throng be-
 low,
 We watched earth's little beings como
 and go
 Hither and yon they rushed. pell meil it
 seemed.
 With lsss of systsn thsa % many ants.
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day. Wife said, We were too happy" Anc yet some people think other people should marry. Not in New York. at any rate-this is no place to enjoy mar rled life with ones own wife,
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uw YORK. September S.-(spe-
 cial.) )--Did you ever see Broad way on a dark and rainy day?
 Then don't. if you can avoid
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suIcIde h woolworth buIldIng the other
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Washington, D. c.
The Harrison times., 1915-08-28
i. s. TO CONTINUE
SELLING SUPPLIES
AUSTRlA'S NOTE ANSWERED =
REFUSE TO STOP EXPORT
ING OF MUNITIONS.

Washington-The State Depart.
ment made public the reply of the
United States rejecting views set
forth by the Austro-Hungarian gov
ernment in recent note contending
that expectation of war munitions
from America to Austria's enemies
was conducted on such scale as to
be mot in consonance with the def
milton Of neutrality"
Though friendly in language and
tone, the note fatty denies the Austro-
Hungarian contentious, and recalls
that that country and Germany fur.
nisheG munitions Of war to Great
Britain during the Boer war when
England's enemies could net import
such supplies. 1t insists the Ameri.
can government is pursuing a strict
ly neutral course in adhering to a
principle upon which it would depend
for munitions in the markets of the
world in case it should be attacked by
a foreign power.
THE principles of international
law" the communication concludes,
"the practice Of nations, the national
safety Of the United States and other
nations without great military and ma
val establishments, the prevention Of
increased armies and navies, the adop-
tion of the peaceful methods OF the
settlement of international differences
ard finally neutrality itself, are 6p-
posed to the prohibition by neutral
nation of the expectation of arms, am
munition or other munitions of war
to belligerent powers during the
progress Of the war"