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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19
BIRMINGHAM ANNExEs WARRIOR

From the Brooklyn Standard Union. Cities have many times been put on the map and rivers have contributed to | their growth and prosperity. But they | were in the first place founded in prox- imity to the waters which have ben of aid to them in attaining importance It has remained for the United States gov ernment to bring a river to city, or
 rather to make it of value as a waterway for a large and thriving municipality. One of the needs of the great and grow ing city of Birmingham, "The Pittsburg of the South" has been water transpor- tation to compete with railroads in carry ing away the products of it's mines and
 furnaces. There are great quantities of iron, coal and limestone in quarries so situated that gravity carries the products into the city.
 Twelve miles from the city center is the Black Warrior river, which leads to the Gulf of Mexico and has Mobile at it's mouth. But before the scheme of inn provement was put under way the stream was navigable only half of the distance from salt water to the nearest point to Birmingham, being only a broad and shallow mountain stream. so low at times that it could be easily waded.
 In the past dozen years the work of damming the waters has been going for ward, and at cost of $17,000,000 there have been r dams and locks constructed so that a broad stream with six feet of navigable water is now secured. The city is also planning a municipal connection between the business center and the waterway. This will take the form of a strip of land 600 feet wide for the entire distance to be annexed to the city and converted into an automobile highway and to have tracks for trolley line on one side to carry passengers and freight By this means a close connection will be effected with the new route of transporta- tion.
 Already the widened and deepened river is being used by coal barges running the
 425 miles to Mobile, and other freight is to be conveyed to that port and to New Orleans for shipment, sea going barges
 being used on the gulf the trips of which
 may be extended to Cuba, Galveston, and
 perhaps Mexico if peaceful conditions re-
 vive prosperity there. Return cargoes of
 supplies for use in Birmingham are ex
 pected to make the new shipping scheme
 by the created waterway contribute more
 and more to the welfare of the Alabama rindustrial center bearing the name of one
 much older in England.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

the wall at the same time; and in that way get an idea of what was straight, or, in other words. how crooked l was becoming by dropping"
 Both to young and old MT. M'I- doon's "hold your head up" suggestion is inspiring. Try it. The effect phys ically and mentally is immediate. When the head goes higher the impulse is to deeper breathing. A man finds more elasticity in his limbs. He steps out with more ease. There is more spring t. his gait. He isn't numbering, shambling creature, but a man alive With the elevation of the crown of the ing, more buoyant feeling and a brighter outlook.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19
From the Kansas City Star.
 "7 HILE the eyes of the world have A/ been fixed on the absorbing Vs events at Verdun there has

From the Kansas City Star.
 N7HILE the eyes of the world have
 NA/ been fixed on the absorbing
 W events at Verdun there has been enacted, unnoticed and in far theatre of the war scarcely laid down in maps, a drama of arms almost un- rivaled in the romance of Jules Verne. A British expedition, consisting of only 27 officers and men, after journey Of a year, penetrated to the heart or Africa and brought to successful con clusion operations that transferred from German to British control a region inn measurably greater than the entire ter ritory for which vast armies are now battling on the western European front.
 The goal of the expedition was Lake Taganyika, on the flank of the German East African colony. To reach it the expedition, which in numbers and in the almost fantastic nature of its design re- sembles the band of adventurers which Give led into India, undertook rail- way journey from Capetown to Funguru- mee. which lies north of Rhodesia, from which point it had to literally hew its way through the bush for 166 miles to the Lulaba river, which flows into Lake Tanganyika $50 miles further on. Over this entire distance the expedition trans ported two armed motorboats. the Mimi and the Tou-Tou, dragging them through the bush by OK team and traction en- zines, hewing roads, bridging gullies and streams and overcoming difficulties that streams seem almost insuperable in a country of civilization where every aid o1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

Y ..7:. t's July American Magazine "'''"
 "A cube one seven-t -thousandths of an inch in diameter is 8 pretty small ob- ject. It would not choke a mosquito. You could not see it unless you used a microscopic. Possibly if it were made of the right kind of stuff, and if it flew into your eye, you might feel it. But even that is doubtful.
 Yet Uncle John Brashear, in his de- lightful article shows that little cube just that big floating around in Lake Erie takes up exactly as much room in the lake, by comparison, as our earth fills in the space around us, known and measured by astronomers, the boundaries of which are only as far away as the nearest star
 This recalls Mark Twain's great story, Captain Stormfeld's Visit to Heaven' wherein are recorded the difficulties which the captain confronted in the next world when he tried to explain where he came from. He said that San Francisco was his native place. Nobody in heaven had heard of San Francisco. Then he named California, and, meeting with no response, he went on with considerabl irritation to mention the United States and America. Nobody had heard of them Finally he claimed the earth as his fcrmer home, and at last after a long search through the records of heaven, it was discovered that among the billions upon billions of stars, worlds consultations and planets there was, in the dusty tonnes, a slight reference to an insignificant speck known in heaven as The Wart, and recognized by Stormfield as our good old Mother Earth.
 Tn this connection it is also we'll to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19
Cleaning Up" Mexico

President Wilson has called out the militia of the various states of the union for service on the Mexican bor- der. it is step which has been ex- pected in view of the daily increasing seriousness of the situation.
 The guardsmen are not called upon for intervention, but are to be mobil- ized and placed at the disposal of
 General Funston on the border. The American troops, both those in Mexico and others distributed along the border, will not be caught nap ping. Thanks to the nation wide agi- tation for preparedness, this country is now in better position to "clean up" Mexico than it has ever been be- fore.
 With Mexico badly disorganized and no one in sight who can assume a masterful leadership of the various factions, which will probably unite against the Americans, it should not take very long to dispose of whatever resistance may be made. There is, of course, the likelihood of guerilla war fare to be considered, and this phase of possible intervention will doubt less be the most difficult of all to cope with, but the poorly equipped and nondescript soldiers of Mexico cannot stand against comparatively small army of Americans. While the proud boast that an American soldier could whip two or three Eu- ropean soldiers is all stuff and non- sense, discarded even by the most rampant "spread-eagle" orators, the superiority of the American troops over the Mexicans has been demon- strated time and again since Villas raid on Columbus, N. M.
 It might possibly require the ser vices of 50O,000 men to completely tranquilize Mexico and free that dis tracted country entirely from the anarchy which has continued practi- cally ever since Porfirio Diaz resigned the presidency. Half a million men seems liberal estimate and the cam paign should not last over twelve months. Even if the Mexicans rally as one man to repel the Americans, their economic condition is deplorable and they cannot carry on a pro- longed war.
 With intervention under way, there should be no dallying. Sharp and decisive blows should be struck and the campaign should be pushed to a speedy conclusion, but the work must be done so thoroughly that for all time Mexico will cease to be a blot on the western hemisphere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19
HOTEL HOBBIES
Football Team

The prospect for the football team al the University of Alabaam this fall is the best in many years, said B. L. Noojin, director of athletics, and mem Der of the faculty, who was in Birming- ham yesterday.
 We will have every man who was on the team last year back again with the exception of Harsh and Bully Vande- Graaf. Of course, these men were towers of strength, but some of the men who were on the team last year will be much stronger during the coming sea- son. and with the wealth of new ma terial we should be able to turn out a strong team. There will be no lack of material from which to select the team this fall"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19
Convicts Well Treated

"The convicts of Alabama are well cared for and l do not think anyone would find any fault with the way the men are treated" said J. M. Kyser of Albertville, member of the state convict board who was at the Morris yesterday. Tt keeps the members of the board busy all the time looking after the various camps and farms where the state con victs are stationed. The men are well housed. well fed and are given the very best of medical attention when they are sick. Their tasks are not too hard, being arranged according to the amount of work the convicts can do without being overworked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19
Equalization of Taxes

My visit to Birmingham at this time has no connection with the hearing on tax matters, which comes up tomorrow, said Thomas w. Sims, president of the state board of equalization, who was at the Trtwiler yesterday. "The state board and county board are not out try ing to get revenue, as some have charged, but we are simply trying to carry out the spirit and the letter of the law which provides for the equalization of all taxes. If there are good and sound reasons why any of the proposed as sessments should be changed, the law provides for the adjustment of those matters"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

Belgium has recently acquired a fine colony in German East Africa, but that doesn't compensate her for the large ahlcunt of Belgian territory now being inoculated with 'kultur.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19
Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.
 Tanning of the Shrew.
BEGINNING THE pAy-1 thank

BEGINNING THE DAY-I thank Thee, my God, for the quiet places in which Thou speakest to men and preparest them for the terrible times of noise and struggle. Lead me oft apart and have Thy say with me. And later when the battle is on Thy voice still ring clear and close. In Christ's name. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

According to Charley Chaplin's more or less veracious press agent, he has taste for light fiction. To those who have fol- lowed MT. Chaplins work in the movies
 in the element of surprise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19
WHERE NEEDLES AND PINS GO

From the Brooklyn Eagle
 Forty-nine factories in the United States making needles and pins report a vast increase in business. The old ques- ton where all the pins go is answered now. They are used in the marking of our war maps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

A magazine writer says America has a shortage of aeroplanes. There is apt to be a pressing need of wings" to operate in Mexico
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

If the bull moose leaders decide to support Hughes, certain distinguished Louisiana bull moose nominated for Vice President, will carry a grievance to his grave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

The stage celebrity who acted as meal ticket for Tod Sloan during some of that gentlenan's lean years, has lately married a man who promises to be a
 good provider.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

It is said there is uearth of good war Hope, the Sing Sing prison magazine, contained one. written by a man with a number.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

The man who burns up about s worth Of fireworks on the Fourth of July is not necessarily a patriot, but is more than
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

Those who didn't think "Keynoter"
 Clynn had it in him were swamped by a flood of oratory which proved that he not only had it in him, but knew how to get it out of his system.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

Slippery elm bark is still being used for medicinal purposes, but sassafras tea, except i'll old-fa shioned families is be- lieved to have lost it's primitive punch"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

Dr. Waite in prison has acquired a fa- miliarity with the Ten Commandments he never had before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

As much as $50 has been paid by wealthy Germans for ham. Presum- ably "ham and'' is by no means a plebe-
 ian dish in Germany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

Thomas A. Edison says there will be no poverty 100 years from now. Another one Of those predictions too good to come true.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

A Chicago newspaper man said the delegates to the St. Louis convention had about as much personality~as gold fish. Still, that didn't prevent them from thinking they were strictly in the swim.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

If necessary, the Mexican navy now being repaired at New Orleans could easily be bottled up.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19

fund don't seem to consider Hughes a sphinx.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19
HAVE so LOVED THE DAY

 Dana Burnet, "Poems." (Harper's) I have so loved the glory of the day From surging dawn to wondrous
 setting sun, l think some light must finger on my
 eyes When life is done. think some glow of sunset or ol
 dawn Mush touch the sleeping altars ol
 my soul. So they who look upon my face al Shall wonder of my goal So they who come at twilight with we,
 eyes Shall look upon my stiffness. smii,
 and go A little surer of their Paradise Because loved Life SD
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19
acoNsENrANEoUs. TO STAY

St. Louis Dispatch in New York Herald.
 President Wilson is about to present a word which is likely to take rank with Colonel Roosevelts .'Byzantine logothete." The word will be found in the democratic platform and clearly shows the designating mark of the ex- ecutive typewriter.
 The word is "consentaneous" Noah Webster defines it's meaning as "agree- ing, consistent, agreeable, suitable, ac- cordant, unanimous, concurrent"
 "A good law and consentaneous to req son. says Howell. The "consentaneous'' duty of the nation in the existing cir cumstances is the manner in which the President introduces the word into poli' tics.
 Let the paragrapners go to it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-27

its oonsuls ana other ofnoiais IN South
America That IL where failure or sue.
cess viii be met. not here. Moreover,
the President has been armed with
extraordinary and almost dictatoriai
powers with which TO protect the coun.
try against the aggression OF the Ship
ping Trust. We trust that he will take
measures TO secure full information as
to the activities OF that trust in South
America In order that he may know what
ought to be done and how TO do II, II
occasion arises. For in this era Of ex-
pansion. this period Of a new American
ism in trade. when the shipping industry
Is again in full bloom and national en-.
terprise is directed toward a recovery
Of our position on the high seas, II is
imperative and vital that maximum
protection be afforded any shipping en-.
terprises In which Philadelphia or other
merchants may engage
But ultimately the fate Of the new line
will depend on the energy displayed by
Philadelphia. The test of our capacity
for expansion. greatness. bigness and
achievement is tied up in the fortunes of
this Argonautic expedition.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-27

In the column that Tom DAILY, the poet,
writes daily for the Philadelphia EVENING
I.EponR we find this;
II the hotel loses its license there will
ha-on~ more less hotel In western Chester
County. several having dropped out of busl-
ness In the past few years.-West Chester
(Pa.) contemp.
The rhetoric is muddy, possibly because
there are still several hotels In Chester
county which haven't yet lost their licenses:
but the meaning here Is peilueid. When
after a peculiarly revolving lynching the
town Of coatesyilie. In western Chester
county" was deprived Of all lis licenses
altogether, bank deposits went up. credit
nourlshed, shol,kecpers found money flow
ing in as never before, and the police.
charity and poor-farm people Just stood
around with nothing much on their hands
10 DO AS time goes on. this business Of
zone more les1" saloon spreads like some
thing catching. and good business Is in line
with ihe movement--whether IN Pennsyl.
yania or IN the state Of washlnston.--col
.ilers Weekly:
The frss effect Of prohibition may be
~ stimulating ~ cocktail. but il has
~ 'nofnins after too
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-27

An interesting sidelight on ths t,,
land naval battle comes through a..
official reports on file at Washington n.
the best authority II is learned that ,h...
reports, not yet published. tell Of the fac,
that when the German feet came on,
there was reason 20 believe a runr.r,.
naval engagement was imminent Ths,
the gods stepped in and changed N.
plans. Night came on. Low vIsib,ltv
gave the Germans a certain adyantass
but the sun was behind the British fee,
and silhouetted the ships against the skv
making fairer mark. Yet with tha,
the reports show an excellence Of sea.
manship which viii make the names ~
Jellicoe. Beatty and the rest take thar
place alongside those Of Drake and Havks
and Nelson and Crowninshield. Ono with
imagination might weave a story from tn
silhouetting OF the ships, and the mama
OF Jellicoe should spell inspiration 10 =
man like Stevenson, who wrote Of English
admirals and their great mouth-nllinr
names"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-27
THE MAN WHO LOST HIMSELF

A man loses his way in desert, and
we say he has lost himself IL you
will reflect for a moment, that Is the
only thing he has not lost. He is
there: but he has lost all the rest OF
the worid.---woodrow Wilson.
uow accurately this describes the
IL state OF the man who has lost him.
self in the forest of great problems
through which he has been cropping for
the last three and n half yearsl Yet
he is telling us that the man who knows
the trail and could find his way out would
bump his head against every tree and
bring ruin upon every one who trusted
his guidance -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-27
OCTOBER

Why are you not black, Q leaves7
Why do you sing no dirses~o wind I'm the
woocsf
But bark, what clarionsg What trumpets?
What rumor OF grape-stained faces,
What dancing Of dripping feet7
Can II be. my heart. can II be,
That hugged In the arms OF unconquer-
able Death
Golden October glories7
She glories she goes out In shouts OF color !:
Woodland with woodland take hands,
Dancing mad bacchanals
The plum ~ squeexed; and the ample IA
pressed.
The grapes are trampled.
Wine Wine the west wind sings. ninRinr
long sarlands Of leaves.
And the year that has greatly lived goes
laughing 70 death.
She slsys herself with the bright blade OF
the west wind
And with glittering shrapnel OF the frost.
She decks herself for the burial in no
funereal black,
But IN royal crimson and sold,
Her leaves fall with a VIII
The air is-winy and brilliant
Oh. sinks not the sun In splendor,
His down-soins the glory Of the dayf
So sinks the year. with sunset colors. into
the evening Of winter
triumphant m defeat.
Victorious IL death.
flames opp<nheim y October Century
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-27

Glanclng through a time-stained copy
of Harper's Magazine for the month of
November, 1852, we find this in the Ed
tors Drawer:
Who is the author Of these Reflections
of a Tailor" 1t is one Of the best things
of the kind we ever saw. Nothing can be
more happy than the manner in which all
the chief implements and materials of ''the
craft" are introduced:
Day hath put on his Jacket. and around
Here Will lay me tho velvet moss.
@s nRss me-
Ar ho me- how Lovely r, is 81 tne g9den braid roho
The twin-leaves. auivering on their silken
Do make music like the rustlins satin
the Eht tS 6TceTes i smooth s n thSir dSwny lap
So IKE a cushion, Can q be 2 Sab6age7
WHEN BOYS % % S' Ss Ssfpz WITH ngTfd SG ys 0T' love thee
paSE in Ssn II blush s5ess %
AS these thy % pgny SrethTea; and Thy breSth
sweetened the fraErancs &C., OF the spicy air;
StTPt nn OF his FSgaE lt 11eS ~ S and & o,s
Is that q swan tina, rides upon the wuter'
w%hS9 % Is tnT patron & Of our SnoS noble calling
When these young hands first closed upon
! have a scar upon my thimblo-nnGer
Which ,Sd chronicles the hour Of yoqng ambition
And % my great gfanGsre; p ali IL OF "tRReT them were
tailors.
They had an ancient goose; Il was an heirloom
From some remoter tailor of race.
i not certain. but | think twas he
Who through misfortune was unfortunate.
No matter It's JOY TO straghten out
ones limbs. and leap elastic from the counter.
Leaving the petty grievances of earth,
The breaking thread. the din OF clashing
And all the needles that do wound the spirit I"
In our Household Edition of Oliver
Wendell Holiness poems we nnd that
these verses. under the title Evening:
By a Tailor" were printed as long ago
as 1880 in the Collegian. And this ver-
sion given by Harper's is considerably
garbled. Why was this knocking around
for twenty-five years, from 1880 to 1862
without it's fathers name upon IL?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-27
Mr. Wnlcox,s estImate OF q

Mr.. Willcox's estimate OF s6s for
Hughes to IT'S for Wilson In the Electoral
College is balanced by a sweeping claim
OF victory by Mr.. Mccormick. quite In
nocent of figures or analysis. The Presi.
dents popular majority will "astonish'
us--that Is the nearest the Democratic
chairman comes TO being definite. It is a
flexible word. II will be astonishing.
indeed. II Mr.. Wilson has popular ma
jority. But Tilden and Cleveland were
both defeated on occasions when their
popular vote exceeded that Of their op-
ponents. II the Democratic party is to
forget the boundaries OF sovereign States
who will remember them7
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-27
FootbaIl sxperts ave INFORMING

Football experts are informing us
that "for the FIRST time In years the teams
have been re,egated 70 the background"
The battle between Penn aud Pitt tomor.
row VIII be between the brains OF Coach
Folwell and Coach Warner. according TO
the sporting editors. II would be
preferable to have the brains more
closely connected with the Drawn. There
have besn great neld steatesists. like DAILY
Of Harvard. quertefbacis who took daring
chances In the heat Of the fray. Are they
disappearing. or Is the game becoming
too complex In any case, the. game has
become more beautiful a. Aspectacls.
The long forward passes certainly require
great skill and judgment. born 10 man
and not taught By coach. ana the
blestkies= moments they bring. With al
1ependIns On whether the baE faIis into
The arms q sne r|G1f man. are worth Al
,''t rr'r may he<e o>t.