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Aa broad and general as the easing nlr.
Macbeth.
Festival and the Auditorium
At one time it was thought that
ground might be broken for Birming
ham’s auditorium before the end of
the year, but unavoidable delays in
the issuance of the $200,000 of city
bonds, the proceeds of vhich must, it
is understood, pay for a site as well
as the building itself, makes it prob
able now that the work of construc
tion will be commenced not earlier
than January 1. It had been hoped
that the auditorium would be near
enough completed to make it available
for a festival by the middle of*May,
but that is too much to expect.
If, however, work is started early in
the new year it might be ready for a
great festival by the latter part of
June; and June is usually a delightful
month in Birmingham. The fact is
that June is more apt to be free from
long rainy spells than the merry
month of May. June invites the gala
spirit, and a music festival in that
joyous month would bring great
crowds of visitors to Birmingham.
It is most gratifying to know that
the Music Study club, which has been
successful in the management of
high class concerts, has signified its
intention to arrange for the audito
rium festival. Hundreds of local
voices will be trained for the occasion,
and every city that has a chorus or
that can organize a chorus capable of
singing oratorio music will be in
vited to unite and form a band of
singers numbering probably 1000 or
more. Just as soon as ground is
broken for the auditorium the musical
forces should begin preparation, even
if the festival has to be deferred until
fall. Many creditable festivals have
been held in the south, including the
festivals in Birmingham, but the
forthcoming affair in the great audi
torium should surpass anything of the
kind ever undertaken outside pi Cin
cinnati or Worcester.
Indebted to Boys’ Corn Clubs
The entire state of Alabama should
feel indebted to the boys who have or
ganized corn club who have been mak
ing phenomenal records in corn pro
duction on small areas. On one acre
of land in Alabama 287 bushels of
corn were produced this year, and a
boy in Tallapoosa county, Walker Lee
Brunson, 14 years of age, has just an
nounced this his one-acre crop was
232 bushels and 39 pounds. This
youth said that he first turned his
. ground 10 or 12 inches deep, fie
then double cut it with a harrow, laid
off rows three feet apart, bedded with
a one-horse turner, then planted his
corn in the water-furrow. In order to
, get large results he "fed" 10 sacks
of 10-4 guano to the growing stalks
and one sack of 10 4-4 top dressing
and 70 pounds of nitrate of sulphur.
This was intensive farming, of course;
but think of it, 232 bushels!
The emulation in the boys’ corn
clubs within the past two years has
had a fine effect on farming on a
large scale throughout Alabama. The
time was when the farmer thought he
was doing fairly well if he raised 15
or 20 bushels of corn to the acre, but
now that the boys have shown what
can be done by intelligent effort and
intensive methods the average of the
crop was much larger last year
than the year before, and it is
believed that the crop of this year
k^will outstrip that of last. Alabama
U has made probably a 75,000,000
bushel crop. A few years ago the
|H crop amounted only to about 30,000,
§■ 000 or 35,000,000 bushels. In other
^B words, the corn production in Ala
^Lama hfcs doubled, and the farmers
Br^we just getting a good start along
[ " modern lines.
There is good reason to believe that
next year’s crop in this state will go
above the 100,000,000 mark. Many
■farmers on large acreage now aver
Le 60 bushels to the acre, and some
Berage better still. A hundred
Libels to the acre uas nut uncom
mon this year. But the boys’ clubs,
if they did not actually lead the way,
have done untold good in stimulat
ing ambitious farmers. All this
means added wealth ,to the statc
Organizing for Sweeping Majority
In Jefferson county it will be only
a question 6f the overwhelming size
of Mr. Underwood’s majority.
Every voter hereabouts conversant
with political sentiment knows that
Alabama’s great democratic states
man will beat his opponent for the
United States Senate, Congressman
Hobson, by an unprecedented major
ity. The splendid ovation which Mr.
Underwood received in Birmingham
Saturday night clearly indicates the
record-breaking vote that will be
polled for the man who has achieved
great things for the state and for the
nation. No such immense gathering
as that in the Gipsy Smith auditorium
was ever seen here on any previous
political occasion. x Mr. Underwood
was greeted by a “capacity house,”
and the auditorium has a capacity esti
mated at from 7000 to 8000. It was
“packed and jammed,” as the saying
goes; -and conservative men used to
observing big crowds put the figures
fully as-high as 8000.
Before the senatorial campaign
opened, it was generally remarked
that Underwood would be elected by a
safe majority; would carry his own
district by a sweeping majority; but
how would he run throughout the
state? Mr. Underwood has now de
livered addresses in various sections
of Alabama, and he has been received
by enormous crowds, full of enthu
siasm and determination to assist in
rolling up a majority for the state’s
favorite son that will be memorable
in the history of the democratic party.
Mr. Underwood’s campaign commit
tee is composed of ardent democrats
of a great deal of practical experience.
The democracy in every county and
every beat is already aroused in Un
derwood’s behalf. Mr. Underwood has
still responsible duties to perform as
the House leader, and he will have to
be in Washington the greater part of
the winter; but his friends will see
to it that his organization is perfected
and maintained. Nothing in the way
of organization should be left undone.
Dull Stock Market
The New York stock market, some
times a barometer of financial and
commercial conditions, has been ex
tremely *lull for several weeks past.
It has boen a waiting market, and has
been quite featureless. But while the
stock market is sometimes a barome
ter, it frequently Happens that it is
without significance so far as effect
ing general business conditions goes.
Now that the holiday season is
near, substantial activity need not be
expected in stock trading until the
new year. And even then the market
often has a way of dragging along
until January has passed.
It may be just as well that quiet
prevails for short periods in the stock
market. The spurts early in the fall
kept “room traders” and a few out
siders in practice.
If the Mexican situation clears up
by the time the holidays are over and
a currency bill to be enacted is rea
sonably satisfactory to financial inter
ests, there will be a very decided re
vival of prosperity. The stock market
will then become bullish, and Wall
street will be happy once more.
In the meantime the large crops in
this country have put the farmers and
country merchants in good humor, and
when the agricultural sections are
thriving business in the great centers
is never stagnant.
The year 1913 has been on the
'whole a very prosperous year. There
have been comparatively few failures
in the business world, and the people
generally will have much to be thank
ful for from a material point of view
on next Thursday, Thanksgiving Day.
A National Theological Seminary
As may be recalled, the Southern
Baptist convention, representing the
white membership of the Baptist
church in the south, has pledged its
aid to the National Baptist conven
■ tiop, colored, for the purpose of “in
j suring the successful launching of a
] national theological seminary to en
! gage in the work of furnishing a
J better prepared ministry to lead the
j negro people.” Representatives of the
convention have recommended that the
Southern Baptist association donate
$50,000 as the initial contribution to
ward the founding and equipping of
the proposed school.
It is the purpose of those authorized
to act in the matter to locate the in
stitution in one of these five cities:
J Memphis, Birmingham, Atlanta, Nash
vilU\ or Louisville. It is understood
that Memphis is making a well or
ganized effort to secure the award.
Such a seminary as that projected
should accomplish work of far-reach
ing good, and it is hoped that the
Baptists and other public-spirited and
philanthropic citizens of Birmingham
will take up the proposition, with a
view (jf having the institution estab
lished Uiere. The $50,000 which the
white Baptists of the south are to con
tribute Njill be only the beginning of
large coiwibutions to follow. As the
sejninary ork developes and good
fruit is shown, several hundred thou
sand dollars will be raised for its
maintenance and expansion.
When the supply ship Culgoa sails
for Vera Cruz from the New York navy
yard she will carry the firfct cargo of
foreign beef ever bought for the navy,
says the Philadelphia Public ledger’s
Washington correspondent. This la con
sidered the first tangible result of
democratic tariff revision. While the
administration would prefer to patron
ize home products, the fact that for
eign meat was bought at a lower fig
ure than the large American packers
would quote is taken as proof that the
democratic tariff is already reducing the
cc£t of living. The bureau of supplies
and accounts advertised two weeks ago
for 285,000, pounds of fresh beef. Five
Chicago firms offered bids, the lowest
being that of Sulzberger & Son, 11.9
cents a pound, for Australian refrig
erated beef due on two steamships
coming Into New York this week. This
figure was one cent below the lowest
bid for American beef. The deliveries
are to he made at the New York navy
yard, where the carcasses w*ll be
transhipped on the Culgoa direct from
th£ cold Btorage houses. Secretary Dan
iels at. first had many apprehensions
that there would be some failure in
quality in the Australian beef. Quar
termaster officers of the army, who
have had experience with the Aus
tralian beef contracts in the Philip
pines, told him the, beef In all probabil
ity would prove to be up to the Amer
ican standard.
President Taft's trust-busting dll
not hurt the dividend side pf Standard
oil. According to the New York Sun
the South Peifn Oil company, a for
mer subsillary of the Standard Oil
company, has declared an extra divi
dend of 2 per cent in addition to its
regular quarterly dividend of 3 per
cent. So far this year former Standard
Oil subsidiaries have declared divi
dends amounting to 116 per cent. In
May, 1913, the capitalization of the
South Penn company was increased
from *2,600,000 to *12,500,000 and *7,
5(TO,000 of the new stock was distrib
uted among the shareholders as a 300
per cent *stock dividend, the remainder
being offered to shareholders at par.
New York is now reveling In grand
opera. It used to be that no real big.
troupe was possible outside of the
Metropolitan ^pera house. But now
there are others. By the way, New
Orleans has excellent French opera
every season, and it is said that the
French troupe there now Is better than
usual. A few years ago the New Or
leans French opera came to Birming
ham and gave one performance. Would
it not be possible for some of our mu
sical enthusiasts to bring this season's
company here this winter?
If the locomotives ef a certain railroad
are to be equipped with automobile horns,
as reported, it will be necessary to spray
the sleepers and dining cars with gasoline
in order to carry out the illusion so far as
wealthy patrons are concerned.
The mayor of Atlantic City advises
everybody to quit eating eggs until the
price drops. If the average quick luncher
tried to follow that sort of advice he
would be sadly handicapped.
An Ohio farmer has succeeded in rais
ing an eight-pound turnip, and has been
duly decorated. The turnip is not an
aristocratic vegetable, but has its uses.
A New YoRk man went to a moving pic
ture show and saw his wife pictured in
another man's arms. Not believing in art
for art's sake, he sued for divorce.
The gubernatorial race in Alabama’has
been overshadowed somewhat by the sen
atorial campaign, but the gurnshoe style
of politician won’t object to that.
Yes, Alabama Is a political state.
Can any other commonwealth In this
country outstrip it in ^the length and
Intensity of election campaigns?
A girl pigeon fancier who produced a
squah weighing two pounds is apt to
be referred to by slangy individuals as
"some chicken" herself.
The bridegroom 4>t the next White House
wedding Is not a handsome young man,
but the chances are that he will hardly
be noticed anyhow-.
A reduction-has been'made in the tariff
on Bibles and stained glass, but tho itin
erant evangelist shows no Indication of
reducing his price.
The G. O. P. is still lifeless, but
there be a few earnest ones who real
ly hope to see it come to*life in time
foj 1916.
Murphy says, "The old place is there
still.” Quite so, but a trifle battered.
NEW JOB I-'OR JOHN'
From the Andalusia Star.
Birmingham's new elephant is named
"Fancy." Fancy, Fancy, I’ve been think
ing, what a great stunt it would be, if
John Henry Wallace, warden, could pa
rade around with thee.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the Chicago News.
An ideal husband usually belongs to
some oth&r woman.
A girl’s idea of an affnity is the first
man who proposes.
And many a powerful piaup mover Is
uuable to carry a tune.
The ctiap with a rowboat taste and a
steam yacht Income Is rich.
Marty a man is so impolite that he won’t
j bow to the inevitable. '•
i The girl who knows she has shapely
ankles thinks she has some figure.
When a little man stands on his dignity
he feels as tall as a two-story house.
The man w’ho thinks that he Vknows it
all never tires of trying to put others
wise.
During the honeymoon the husband is a
stimulant—but forever after a sedative.
A/tightwad husband is one who expects
his wife to save more out of her allow
ance than it amounts to.
If a couple are walking ak*?ig t
and she stops'T«y jook in a shO*
while he keeps right oja, they
ried.
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Auditorium
"I do not know when the city com
mission will be able to start work on
the auditorium building, but I hope it
will be early In the new year," said
P. G. Shook, chairman of the Chamber
of Commerce auditorium committee.
) "Offers are standing for the audi
torium bond issue of $200,000 at par.
If the ground is broken, say in Jan
uary, the building might be ready for
use some time during the summer."
Florida Travel
"The Florida travel from the west
and from the northwest is now in full
s wing," said J. P. Thomas, Jr., city
passenger and ticket agent of the
Southern railway.
"Many Alabama people have already
gone to Florida, but the rush from this
section will not he in evidence per-%
habs until the next cold snap. Our road
is operating a fine service and our
patrons are being well cared for."
Thanksgiving Observance
“Thanksgiving is a very general hol
iday, as everyone knows, and turkey
for dinner is one of the old established
laws that will be adhered to this year
as usual," said L. T. Coseen of Buf
falo, N. Y. v
“I can relnember when most genteel
folks attended Thanksgiving service lit
some church^A great many people still
So to church on Thanksgiving Day,
bnt the custom is not as general as it
used to be. The majority of people
Beem to look ujAjn it as a holiday for
football and field sports. I believe in
tho good old rule of attending church,
and seldom fail to do sb myself; but
I am told that the venerable Puritan
stock of New England has come to bo
indifferent to the ‘orthodoxy’ which
was so much insisted upon in early
times. There are more descendants of
the Puritans who keep away from
church than those who attend. To me
this is not as it should be and it is
rather sad."
Patting m Stop to Sign Tacking
i he city commissioners’ ordering the
enforcement of the ordinance against the
defacing of trees and telegraph poles with
tacked-up signs is very pleasing to many
of the citizens of Birmingham,” said an
observant man, “and I note that the
Boy Scouts are to be used to see that tfie
order is obeyed, »
“The order of the commission putting a
stop to the indiscriminate scattering of
hand bills and cards upon the streets is
another very timely move, for, not only
were the streets being littered with waste
paper, but the audacity of some dis
tributors was, in some cases, equivalent
to a technical assault when they forced
their paper slips upon the persons of
those unwilling to accept them.
“1 think the order, restricting the mer
chants to two garbage cans unfair and
unjust. The city already has the teams
and force, but my argument is that the
merchants of Birmingham are paying the
heaviest of license taxes, out of propor
tion, in fact, to the real estate owner's
taxes—and they are entitled to not only
the most liberal treatment in the gar
bage can matter, but they should receive
better police protection.” #
May I>a>N In November
“Sunday was more like a May day than
‘November bleak and drear,’ ” said Percy
Clark, “but let no one think that there
will not be ‘an even up’ by nature, for
’twill surely come.
“By the way, it is remarkable what
long, dry, rainless spells we have had.
Business is much affected by it, in some
instances. I know large undertakings
that are completely at a standstill for
the lack of water. In one instance, the
drilling of an oil well has been suspended
for months because of the lack of rain
falls to supply water for the engine boil
ers.
“I have been out hunting some, and
the dogs suffer for water. Many small
springs and branches made by them are
dry in the territory where I’ve hunted
one season after another.
“Take it from me, there will be much
rain before Christmas, and as for Janu
ary, February and March, lookout for
snow, rain and much ice, heavier than
for several years. m
“Verily, these past weeks have brought
a glorious Indian summer, but again, I
say, lookout for Boreas and his side part
ner, Jack Frost,’ from Christmas on.”
Population of Cities
“One of tho most Interesting1 fea
tures of the New York World Al
manac is tjiat which gives the sta
tistics of cities, Including estimated
population,” said Charles O. Lowry of
Louisville.
“Louisville has boon gTowiqg stead
ily ever since the war, but we did not
come out in the last census as well
as we had expected*—228,000, I believe.
In tho table of estimated population
Louisvlllb was set down in the last
World Almanac with a population of
265,000. This was quite a moderate es
timate. I think we have a population
now of fully 280,000. We should have
350,000 by 1920.
“One of the coming big cities of the
south is, I am told, Chattanooga. It
appeared In the last census with a
population of only #45,660. But the es
timate given by the World Almanac a
year ago was 95,000. Those figures
may be excessive^ but Chattanooga is
a strong manufacturing center and
will doutbless be credited In tho next
federal census with upward of 100,000.
“When I was in Birmingham seven
or eight years ago, the city was thriv
ing. But its growth since then has been
simply prodigious. Birmingham will
probably have a population of closi
onto 300,000 in 1920."
CINDERS
From the Journal of tha- American Med
ical Association.
"I’ve got a cinder in my eye!” IIow
frequently we hear this expression in the
street, especially when the air Is filled
with dust and smoke, or anywhere be
neath the network of elevated tracks.
While this may seem a trivial mishap,
and often is if tha foreign substance is
immediately removed from the eye, yet it
is often a most serious thing and the pub
lic at large little realizes that a seemingly
unimportant accident of this sort may re
sult in serious and permanent impairment
of vision. The membrane covering the
eyeball is a very delicate structure, and
when even a tiny speck of any foreign
matter lodges on it it quickly becomes
imbedded. The irritation thus set up
causes the person to wink ther"teye fre
quently, and each time the lid closes,
rubbing against the particle, it tends to
.imbed it still farther into the membrane.
The efforts of sympathizing friends to
remove the offending ppeck with a hand
kerchief or a wooden toothpick, instead
of helping tke situation, usually results
in making a bad matter worse, from the
damage thMs done to the tissue. Infection
cess reaches this stage, even if the cause
should be completely removed, It woold
perhaps be too late to prevent a scar after
the ulcer heals. It might be so faint
as to be hardly distinguishable, yet If
it is situated Just in front of the pupil,
as very-frequently happens, the vision of
that eye would be seriously and perhaps
permanently Impaired.
The public should understand the seri
ousness of such occurrences, and public
spirit should be aroused to the point of
insisting on municipal regulation, elimi
nating smoke and dust as far as possible
from city streets. Having the fctreets
washed every night, as Is done in many of
the European cities, instead of having
them swept during the day, and prohibit
ing the burning of soft coal within the
City limits, would go a Jong w'ay toward
remedying this evil.
PET WITH SILVER JOINT
From the Strand.
With an elbow joint of sliver and chilled
steel, a little pet monkey in San Fran
cisco Is proving by his ability that the
artificial union Is a success. He is dem
onstrating what is likely to prove a tre
mendous discovery in surgery—that anky
losed Joints (hardened and stiffened by
disease) can be replaced by an operation
that is not necessarily costly or danger
ous. The same sort of operation has been
performed with equal success upon a pet
dog, and in this case the hind leg of the
animal was provided w ith a joint of metal
which appears to be as satisfactory for
the possessor as the one provided by na
ture. In the near future it is planned to
provide a human being with this style of
steel and silver Joint, and the perfecting
of this device will restore to usefulness
many people who have become absolutely
helpless by reason of accident or disease.
There are various causes for this com
plete or partial rigidity of the joints,
such as rheumatism, gout and tubercu
losis; and in extreme cases It has been
necessary to break a joint about which
osseous material hrfd deposited. Of course,
it is only in extreme cases, and after
other methods fail, that it should be
necessary to perform this ^peration of re
moving the natural Joint1 and replacing
it wdth metal. In the operation upon
animals it was found that when the ten
dons were extended properly the muscles
did their work as perfectly as in a nor
mal limb, and the joints responded with
the readiness of natural ones. The bones
are capped with • sockets, w hich are of
silver, and these are joined to a joint of
steel. The inventor of this remarkable
joint is a leading San Francisco sur
geon, Dr. Milton Francis Clark, whose
experience among crippled workmen In a
railroad hospital led him to search for
this method of relief.
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Huntsville Mercury-Banner: The plain
country man who said, after hearing
Hobson’s speech, i could think a blamed
sight more of Hobson if he did not think
so much of himself,” hit the nail squarely
on the head. If the young man was not
so chuck full of egotism he would have
lots more friends. But,he disgusts people
and drives them away from him.
Shelby County Review: That man best
deserves promotion whose past life has
been clean and whose endeavors have
been used for the betterment of all the
people. The man who can serve his peo
ple for 19 years without on% single mis
step and who has untiringly fought for
the party weal deserves promotion at the
hands of the party. lf*there is a man
who has better met the requirements of
Ills people and his party, and who has
a cleaner record than Oscar \V. Under
wood, then he Is an undiscovered quan
tity.
Then, again, after all the applause and
praise that has been heaped upon him, he
is the same pleasant, unassuming gentle
man he was when first elected member of
Congress. Success and ai^lause has not
changed 1dm, and while the press and
people have been saying nice things about
him he has remained at his post of duty
attending to the business he was elected
for.
Shelby County Review: When Hobson
beats Underwood for anything in this
state they will be holding skating car
nivals on his Infernal majesty’s brim,
stone lake. ,
Colbert County Reporter: Captain Hob
son sank the Merrlmac. and Underwood
will sink Captain Hobson under an ocean
of ballots.
Scottsboro Citizen: Hobson, wonderful,
wonderful Hobson, how would this old
world wag without thee?
Macon TelegTaph: Hobson says they
are spending S5,<J00,000 in Alabama to beat
him. But Hobson always.did have an ex
aggerated idea of his Importance,
Tuseumbla Alahamiajt-Dispatch: Wilson,
Bryan and Underwood are all the same
on prohibition, and should be good
enough to satisfy the best prohibitionists.
We like people who have done something.
Underwod stayed on his job, and no good
citizen can fail to give him credit for do
ing something in Congress.
AS TO EGGS
From the Progressive Farmer.
We printed last week a note from Slate
Food and Drug Commissioner Brown of
Tennessee, in which he stated that from
25 to 40 per cent of the SS,(100,000 worth of
eggs annually produced In Tennessee are
lost because of Improper methods of
handling. Along the same line is an Item
In the Birmingham Age-Herald telling
of the poor quality of Alabama eggs, A
wholesale dealer is quoted as saying:
“Just now eggs are worth more to the
farmer than they ever were. We pay J9
a case for them, and If they are Alabama
eggs, in nine cases out of 10 there are at
least four dozen in one case that cannot
be used. The reason probably Is that the
Alabama farmers do not take sufficient
precautions or else do not market the
eggs within two or tljree days after they
are-laid. But even that can liardly be
an excuse at this time of the year. Why,
an egg would hardly spoil if it were out
In the open in weather such as we have
had for the past three days. Yet the eggs
we receive are just as stale as were
those of the summer.”
We are Just waiting and watting to
hear of the organization of the first co
operative egg marketing associations so
much needed all fiver the south. They
could help make and save every farmer
Joining them many dollars a year, and an
organization could be effected In any
.aggressive community. Why not Join with
your neighbors, Mr. Reader, to raise more
and better poultry, and tq get more for It
by proper marketing? Or, If you are
still too unsociable for that, why not
handle your eggs so as to get them to
market in first class condition? You’ll
get a better price for them if you do—
not for the first lot Jtaken in, perhaps, but
surely just as soon as you convince the
dealers that youij eggs are always fresh
and clean and uiform in size and color.
VIEW OF MEXIC SITUATION
! ■ . '-1 .
By BILL n IS,
• I
WASHINGTON, November 23.
(Special.)—President Wilson
has nothing on Iluerta when
it* comes to reading his message to
Congress. In fact the American exec
utive might get a few pointers from
his Mexican contemporry. Huerta
calmly point* out to the patriots des
ignated by.the "people"—the same be
ing Huerta himself—to represent them
in the Congress, that other distim
guishea gentlemen had occupied the
places they now fill and had seen fit
to peeve him by their unwillingness to
carry out his policies and now Vehojd'i
their plight. Some of them had depart
ed to the unknown whence where ttypjy
would remain permanently and frea
from worry concerning revolutions a iff
plots and the others were languishing
in the penitentiary, and owing to -the
high cost of living it was a great fur
den to the government to be compelled
to put too many congressmen in
penitentiary. Therefore, he slncordty
trusted that the present Congress
would be open to reason.
When President Wilson contemplate*
the total wreck that an irresponsible.
Senate seems inclined to make of hi*
currency bill, and the leisurely manned*
in Which they proceed to not proceed
on that measure In spite of his urgent
demands—there are moments—no
doubt that he longs to be able to fol
low the example of the noted Mexican
statesman, and put them in jail. In
some respects we ar* compelled to ac
knowledge that we have something to
learn from Mexico; they’ve certainly
got it on us when it comes to dealing
in a frank and exceedingly abrupt
manner with their Congress.
W'e are not strong for Huerta, but
sometimes we believe that after all he
will come about as near ruling Mex
ico as any Mexican. A peacefully in
clined President of Mexico, of a mild
and gentle nature, would hot last any
longer than it took to light the fuse
of the bomb some enterprising revolu
tionist would slip under him. Presi
dents of Mexico do not, as a rule, lead
an easy life. In fact, a real live Pres
ident in the republic is some curios
ity. Oid man Diaz remained President
for several terms by being constantly
on the job and on every election day
seeing to it that the opposing candi
dates were locked in the bastUe where
they could not monkey with the ballot
I'lpXeS; fhen 1£ there was any question*
*s "To. the returns—said returns beings
eodntjiii by Diaz himself—said candi
jlatesi.Abere conducted out and given a
nt<<$ \deav of an early morning sunrise
and promptly shot full of holes. This
syMcii( of disposing uf the opposition
party proved very effective In Mexico,
and fieat anything that Joe Cannon
ever was able to pi^l off In the Hcu.se
of Representatives.
IS the meantime we continue—ac
cording to the newspapers—to have a
iMexican crisis every day. The crisis wo
“will have tomorrow will be number
•TX*,456. Just what It will consist of
We tannot say, but we aro right there
opr tlie number.
There are said to exist 14 factions In
Mexjco, nil contending for the control
^pf the government In some way. DachJ
'faction has several hundred gcnoralsT
n corresponding number of colonels,
majors, captains and a lieutenant or
fwo and an army. To lose a general
o«» two Is nothing—but if anything
should happen that the army gets Ill
disposed and It begins to look like he
might pass In his checks, there Is
great consternation for an army catt
'bot he had at a moment's notlco. Re
cently William Bayard Hale, special en
voy of President Wilson, was in con
ference with Carranza, the rebel chief
In Sonora. Carranza had a glittering
array of staff officers of high rank
and much swagger, who probably kno,v
about as much ab#ut military tactis as
& centipede knows about the turkey
trot; while the conference was going
on Carranza’s army did sentry duly
on the outside—inarching up and down
in solitude and intense gloom.
The best thing to do with Mexico Is
to let them continue to fight. It’s true,
It will take a long time to materiallv I
reduce tile population at the rate they
are going, but every little fresh insur
reetton helps some. If we could induce
them to take to flying machines ulul
football they would get along faster,
but if they keep on they will get up tj
a point where there are a greater
number killed in buttle than the birlU’
rate, then there will be a taint glim
mer of hope that they might be will
ing to listen td reason and the poorer
class,, who aro the unwilling victims
of those who are creating all the dis
turbance—may profit thereby.
At any rate, it will bo a nasty Job,
for Uncle Sam to have to put his hand A
to and the President ought to have the
bucking of the country in Ills “hands
off” policy as long as he can keep it
up ^without loss of our national honor.
AN UNSELFISH HUSBAND
THE American Magazine has been of
fering prizes for the best letters
entitled, “What I Am Most Thank
ful For.” The following contribution from
a woman who is thankful for 20 years
spent with an unselfish husband won
third prize, and appears with the other
prize winning letters in the November is
sue:
"What I am most thankful for, unques
tionably, is for 20 years of married life
with an unselfish man; a quiet, studious,
witty man that children and dogs love
and understand.
' A man that gave up his college career
that he might help his parents and give
his young brother a chance.
“A rran who today supports his old
mother in her own home, so that she can
still feci Independent—instead of in his
home, where the expense would be less.
“A man who has honor and'duty writ
ten in his soul, where they always remain,
so that he does not need to carry 'a
rabbit’s foot for luck.’
“A man who twice has had money that
represented years of saving swept away
in a fewr weeks—swept away through a
supposed friend; but honor called for him
'to eland to the guns,’ and he did not
flinch.
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When I>ife flows along like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who
can smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
“This man has worked much harder
than many men. He haB not complained,
has kept cheerful, brave, noble through
It all. David Grayson would like to know
him.
"He has pity for mankind, as they know'i
not how to live, for the good in life. Pity
for the downtrodden and criminals, and
looks forward to the time when the ‘old
world’ will be better through evolution
and education.
"It Is a test of character—when one has
to watch money so as to muke every dol
lar count to best advantage—to rcmairi
generous still and keep Ifrom becomimjE
stingy. (Pardon me, for I know. i;
have tried to stand shoulder to shouldeif
with this man. and for me It was a tight'
to keep generous.)
"We both wanted to do great deeds,
big, wonderful things in this life, but. hs'’a
learned to give one's self, in the thou
sand and one little deeds of every day
that count for comfort and happiness to
others.
“For instance: Business takes this hu%
band of mine many miles away to a coun
try where in the spring he can gather
large baskets of trailing arbutus. We
give this to the sick and aged. We es
pecially try to lind people that knew and
loved this dainty blossom In their child
hood. Later the field daisies come, and
we use them; but, best of all. for friends
and neighbors this man brings fresh eggs,
butter and fruit. No charge 1b made lor
time or trouble, but there is a deep satis
faction in being able to help others, even
ever so little.
"Lately I read of a man who said he
had lived 18 years of happy married life.
He Instantly received an offer to appear
in vaudeville. So it is possible that fame
and fortune may yet be ours. What I am
most thankful for is expressed in my
lirst sentence: Twenty years of married
life with an unselfish man.'* j|
THEY HAVE MADE MONEY
In the November American Magazine a
prominent theatrical manager writes an
article in which he gives many* Interest
ing financial details of the theatrical busi
ness. Following is an extract giving the
names of a number of theatrical managers
vho have made money out of the busi
ness: ,
“James. Forbes, among the younger
playwlights^ prefers to gamble with his
plays, retaining for Himself an interest
in them as well as a hand in their man
agement. As a result he has made $300,
000 with ‘The Chorus Lady/ ‘The Com
muters/ and ‘The Traveling Salesman.'
He lost a bit of it last year with “A
Rich Man’s Sonff but not much. ,
‘George Broad hurst is said to have
netted $120,000 . with ‘The Man of the
Hour/ and ‘Arizona,’ which was Thomas’
firmest stepping stone to fortune, has
probably paid him $175,000. Margaret
Mayo, with a flock of companies playing
‘Polly of the Circus/ netted $150,000. No
one is Just now prepaid to say how much
‘Within the Law’ has made for the syn
dicate con^-olling it. In'one year in New
York it probably has cleared $100,000 for
its owners, and another $100,000 for the
theatre (the Eltinge), in which it still is
playing. Next season it is to be played
by five or six companies, covering prac
tically every established, circuit of theatres
In tr.o country. Unquestionably this play
will ‘clean up’ more effectively than did
either ‘The Lion and the Mouse’ or
‘Madame Sherry/ the sensational winners
of the last decade.
“It usually Is ‘The Lion and the Mouse’
to which theatrical men point when seen
ing a basis of comparison for big busi
ness. Henry 13. Harris produced that plnj
" hen he had a bank balance of exactlj
ftso. and from It he made a clear $l,o00,l«ii
for himself and *300,000 for Charles Klein.
Klein's royalties for one week reached
the high water mark of $5000, a record thal
never has been topped in the history of
the theatre. This Included his receipts
from five 'Hlon and the Mouse* com*
panles and such of his othor plays ai
were returning profits the same season,’
LARGEST MOVING PICTURE THE.*,
TRE
A moving picture theatre with a seating
capacity of 3000 has recently been openeo
in Salt Lake City, containing all the ad
juncts and conveniences of a* properl;,
equipped amusement house for a metro
polis. Built of reinforced concrete, the
building Is absolutely fireproof, and cost
over $150,000. Ventilation is taken can
of by a complete plant. In which tin
outside air Is washed, dried and heated of
cooled to the requisite temperature, and
then Introduced through ventilators, whili
the vitiated air is withdrawn through op
enings near the roof. A complete light
Ing system has been installed, a plp<
organ, cost $30,000, built In, and the op
erating room, constructed of metal, as
bestos and reinforced concrete, has beer
given special attention. In case of ac
cident or fire, the operating room is shui
off absolutely from the rest of the house
Two machines are, provided with ful
equipment so that there need be no waits
In this new playhouse. The manager’s
office is equipped with a small projecting
machine, so that the main room need noi
be used when testing films. Several views
of this theatre appear in the Decembes
Popular Mechanics' Magazine.
THE WOMAN IN SORROW
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By Tagore, the ^>et of India, this year's winner of the Nobel prize.
AH, who Is she who dwells In my heart, the woman sorrowing ever?
t wooed her and I railed.
I decked her with wreaths and sang songs In her praise.
A smile shone In her face for a moment, then It faded.
"I have no Joy In thee," she crlbd, the woman In sorrow.
I bought Jeweled anklets for her feet and fanned her with a fan gem
studded;
I made for her a bed on a golden couch.
There flickered a gleam of gladness In her eyes, then It died.
"I have no Joy In them," she orlpd, the woman In sorrow. n^
I seated her upon a car of victory! and drove her from end to end of thlH
earth. \
Conquered hearts bowed down at h(er feet, and Bhouts of applause rang In
the sky. \ ,
Pride shone In her eyes for a moment, then It was dimmed In tears.
‘I have no Joy In conquests," she cried, the woman In sorrow.
I asked her, "Tell me, whom Is It thou seekest?"
She only said, "I do not know his nikme."
Days pass by and she weeps. T
“When will my beloved come whom! I know not, and be known to me
forever7" she cries, the woman tr} sorrow.