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BEGINNING THE DAY—My
Father, help me to do m> duty to
day, and trii.t Thee with the re
aulta. May I n»k not Mliut .Till eome
out of It, but whether It l» Thy will!
not whether It 1* the eimtom of men
hut whether It lx the command of
God. Grant It for .Inno.' Hake. Amen.
—H. M. K.
Tendency of Some Editors
Some days ago the Opelika News,
due to its stupidity in jumping at the
conclusion that an Age-Herald head
line over a telegraphic story referred
to conditions in Birmingham, reported,
with its righteous palms uplifted in
horror, that in this city on the Fourth
of July 13 men had encountered death
and 243 sustained more or less seri
ous injuries. The impulse which
prompted The Age-Herald to make
answer and seriously to explain the
error was not obeyed because of firm
belief that the announcement would
he received with a sympathetic smile
of incredulity.
While this belief was based on a
firm foundation, which subsequent de
velopments proved, it does happen that
there is a tendency on the part of
some of the astute editors of rural
papers in Alabama to treat Birming
ham’s misfortunes in a light and friv
olous vein. These editors are laboring
under the hallucination that their
most humorous thrusts are contained
in rank exaggeration.
For instance, the indescribably
funny man of the Huntersville Demo
crat makes this remarkable observa
tion—an observation which is typical
and characteristic of a peculiar school
of journalism:
Birmingham made a record on Sun
day that sounds like a Mexican bat
tle-four killed and 20 wounded.
While it is true that four people
were killed in and around Birmingham
last Sunday, it is untrue that the
list of casualties contained a score of
injured. Without serious financial
loss due to consumption of printers'
ink and white paper it might have
been said by the editor of the Hunters
ville Democrat that of those killed,
the majority was made up of negroes,
and negroes of a very unsavory repu
tation.
However, The Age-Herald is not
compelled seriously to handle this
matter of distorted comment, because
it fortunately happens that in this
day of the tango, the split skirt, the
Palm Beach suit, the River of Doubt
and the militant‘suffragette, at least
one editor in Alabama has managed
to retain his mental equilibrium. L.
H. Nunnellee in the Centreville Pres
writes as follows:
Birmingham has a population of
something like 150,000, made up of all
nationalities, trades and occupations,
and one can expect crime among that
many people. The papers never speak
of the hundreds of charitable deeds
done by her good citizens, but the bad
is given wide publicity. The good
people arc* largely in the majority and
it Is Just a question of choosing your
class.
The Skyscraper of the Future
C. A. Patterson, secretary of the
National Association of Building Own
ers and Managers, predicts that the
large office buildings of the future
will contain many novel features,
■ome of which have already been part
ly realized. “It will be a matter of a
V very short time,” says Mr. Patterson,
“when big office buildings will have
‘elevators’ running horizontally or
different floors. Furthermore, patrons
will pay fares to ride on these cages
•nd get transfers from the vertical
lifts to the horizontal, just as ye get
them on street cars now. They will
pump pure air into the big city build
ings just as they pipe water, and bun
galows built on top of tall buildings
will house the owners in summer. A
building permit for such a bungalow
-eady has been taken out in Chi
“ ti
.we modern office building is even
now a marvel of utility and practical
— convenience, but the fact tjjat nearly
•very new skyscraper put p offers
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some advantages over its predecesso
of last year to the prospective tenan
indicates the number of improve
ments being made in these structures
The skyscraper has come to stay am
it is being made more and more de
sirable by American ingenuity. Th<
elevator made skyscrapers possibh
and interior “trolley cars” will stil
further expedite business in thes<
huge buildings, many of which have
a population equal to that of a smal
city.
Not only will the skyscraper of th<
future be equipped with an insidf
trolley system, but it will probably
have quicker means of communicatior
between the inmates of the various
offices and scores of devices not ye1
invented will make the life of a sky
scraper tenant one to be envied.
Alabama's Great University
The people of this state have al
ways felt a pride in the university al
Tuscaloosa, and they have reason tc
feel prouder of it today than ever.
It has grown and broadened within
the last few years, and under the
presidency of Dr. George H. Denny
it has become notably progressive—
progressive in the best sense of the
term. As an educational institution
no university in the country is more
thorough in what it teaches, and no
institution of learning has ever had
more loyal alumni. Most college-bred
boys cherish their alma mater for a
time and then allow their ardor to
chill; but the gray-haired alumnus of
the University of Alabama manifests
in most cases the same unfeigned af
fection for the institution as the young
man who has been only a few years
outside of the university walls. This
is as it should be.
There is a sentiment in favor of the
state’s university that is far-reaching
and accounts for its ever widening
influence. The student body increases
year by year, and the large enrollment
in this year’s summer school is one
of a number of evidences of the uni
versity’s popularity.
All through the south there is a
growing appreciation of higher educa
tion, and numerically the university’s
student body will probably reach 1500
in the scholastic year of 1914-15. All
citizens of Alabama who desire to have
a part in the upbuilding of the state
will give to the university their moral
support with enthusiasm and join in
any movement seeking to enhance its
efficiency.
One of the university’s most im
portant departments is that of medi
cine. The graduate school of medi
cine was established here a year ago
The university free dispensary is being
enlarged, and within the next two 01
three years will be recognized as one
of the greatest humane institutions in
the south. It is only a question of
time when the university’s medical
college will be removed from Mobile
to Birmingham. Owing to the es
pecially large and varied clinical work
here Birmingham is the natural field
for the medical department. Likewise
Birmingham is a singularly inviting
field for the university's tecbnologica'
department. The money subscribe I
here in the Methodist university cam
paign if applied now to technical edu
cation would serve a noble purpose
It could be used to fine advantage in
erecting spacious buildings in which
to house the university’s engineering
equipment.
Tuscaloosa is in the Birmingham
mineral district, and fast train service
has greatly minimized the distance a
measured by time. Birmingham send:
to the university a large number o1
students every year, and the mstitu
tion is more and more regarded a'
being almost at our doors. With the
university’s technological school here
the nearness of Birmingham and Tus
caloosa would be all the m’ore re
marked.
But whatever may be done in the
way of establishing a university tech
l noiogical branch in Birmingham,
everybody here as well as everybody
throughout Alabama can but rejoice
to see the state’s great institution
prospering and developing potentiali
ties hardly dreamed of in the years
gone by.
The Railroads and Prosperity
It has come to be recognized thal
agricultural, industrial and transpor
tation interests are mutually depend
ent in any effort to attain a high de
gree of thrift. When crops are bac
this condition reacts on railroad anc
industrial activity, and when the rail
roads, for lack of sufficient operating
funds with which to provide adequate
equipment, are unable to render first
rate transportation service farming
and commercial operations are badly
handicapped. The number of idle rail
way cars in evidence at any time may
be taken therefore as a fair indicatior
of the degree of general industrial ac
tivity of any given period.
In times of great commercial de
■ pression huge numbers of railway
cars remain idle; but when trade is
extremely brisk railroad traffic swells
in volume and all rolling stock avail
able m placed in commission as soon
as possible. But during the long period
of depression beginning in 1907 a
'great proportion of the freight can
j in this country were unused. Accord
ing to estimates made by the New
* York World, on April 29, 1908, 413,
■ 338 cars were idle; and on January
6, 1909, near the close of the Roose
velt administration, 332,613 idle cars
' were reported. Since then transporta
tion conditions have improved ma
terially; and within the last few
j months railroad interests have made
heavy outlays of capital for new
equipment.
The great crops forecast, with at
tending betterment of industrial con
ditions, seemed to make the prepara
I tion on the part of the railway com
| panies necessary. The bumper crops
predicted are beginning to be har
vested, and industrial plants and roll
* ing stock distributed throughout the
country are now swinging into action.
On May 31, of the present year, the
estimated number of idle cars in this
country was placed at 241,802, and on
July 1 the number had been reduced
to 219,642—22,260 cars less than the
preceding month. In making these
comparisons it must of course be horn
in mind that the total number of rail
way cars in the United States has
been greatly increased since 1908-9.
Kapok, or tree cotton, is being grown
with much success in the Philippine Is
lands. It is in great demand for uphol
stering and many plantations are now de
voted entirely to its cultivation. For a
number of years kapok has been produced
in Java and Sumatra and to a limited ex
tent in India. The kapok grown in the
Philippine Islands is used chiefly in local
manufacture, although it has been re
cently exported for this purpose. It is
very useful for making mattresses and
pillows and for carriage and automobile
upholstering. It Is said to be better than
cork for making life preservers. In the
Philippines the tree bears pods two or
three years after planting. When grown
from cuttings some pods will be produced
In two years, but three years are re
quired to produce pods when the plant is
grown from seed. The kapok tree is as
large as the ordinary tree of a forest, and
it will produce cotton for an indefinite
time. There are kapok trees in the Phil
ippines that have been productive for
nearly a century. Each tree produces
from three to nine pods. The price of the
lint ranges from 5 to 23 cents a pound.
The demand greatly exceeds the supply.
When Mr. Comer pledged $5000 to the
Methodist university fund, he furnished
his friends of the rural press an oppor
tunity—of which they took instant ad
vantage—of saying, “I told you so.” The
fact that other men offered to give as
much was overlooked when praise was
disseminated.
If the “patriots” abolish all the offices
they now threaten to abolish, Mr. Hen
derson will have a difficult time in re
warding the faithful. In this connection,
it should be remembered that it was for
the purpose of returning favors that many
offices were created.
The only objection we have to the re
cent fight in the state capitol is that the
reporter for the Montgomery Journal Is
so lacking in abysmal brutishness as to
make the victory of the governor’s son
of little consequence.
A wealthy expatriated American has
»
been trying for many years to buy a
dukedom in England, but without success.
However, habit is strong and he will
probably keep on licking boots until he
dies.
According to all reports, the Houth
American suffragette is a tame creature
who would hesitate to fire a “national
shrine” and would never dream of kick
ing a policeman on the shins..
There is serious dispute Anong certain
reputable journals as to whether the split
or the diaphanous skirt is more in favor.
It all depends, it is probable, on the point
of view.
Cincinnati voters turned down a “re
formed” city government by at least 7000
majority. The Cincinnati voter seems able
to see both sides of an “uplift.”
The New Yorie*police are said to be “on
the heels of a kidnaping trust.” What
they ought to do is to get a good grip on
its throat.
Mr. Bryan will live forever if ‘ Allah
does not hold against his allotted time”
the days he has spent and will spend in
the chase.
London streets were blocked by admir
ing crowds when Georges Carpentier ar
rived. And he's only the champion of
France!
Having acquired a bathtub, Villa is now
in a position to learn something about
the dilatory methods of plumbers.
Boiled down, it amounts to this: The
party that’s out views with alarm and
the party that’s in doesn't.
We take little stock in the “uplift”
movement when the case in instance is the
abbreviated bathing suit.
That the love of life surpasses the love
of power is exemplified in Huerta’s “vol
untary” abdication.
It is only when he gets stubborn that
President Wilson reverts to the manner
of a schoolmaster.
A moment’s carelessness resulted in the
sinking of the Empress of Ireland. A
fatal moment.
Bobby Walthour is still winning bi
cycle races. According to precedent, he
should have been superannuated years
ago.
A 1.0ACS LOOK AHEAD
From the Houston Post.
T'ne Birmingham Age-Herald says the
next census will show Birmingham to
have a population of 300,000. We confess
that Houston will not show quite so well,
but in 1950, Houston will be the first city
to rea« h the seven-figger mark the popu
* la tion in that year being Litiu,ott.
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Prosperity Talk General
‘ While business conditions showec
marked improvement a month or more
ago prosperity talk has become gen
eral only very recently," said David S
Barnwell of Chicago.
“A new era of prosperity Is In sight
The enormous crops will bring a wavi
of widespread activity In the bsulnesi
world, and the best of It Is that peo
ple are now optimistic enough—many ol
them used to be pessimistic—to fore
cast a period of long continued thrift
lit may be October before the coming
proseperity reaches a high level. Bui
the fact that everybody says we art
going to have many consecutive years
of good times is wonderfully encourag
ing.”
Of Historical Interest
J. W. DuBose requests The Age-Her
ald to say that where the type made
him say, "Mr. Bryan was elected foi
a third term" in 1894 to Congress from
Nebraska, ills manuscript correctly de
clared that Mr. Bryan was defeated al
that election for a third term. Also
that it was not Colonel Samford, later
goVerner, who debated on the stump
for free sliver with ex-Governor Jones
for the gold standard, but Col. John W.
A. Sanford, one of the famous orators
of the south.
These corrections apply to the historical
narrative, "Eight Governors of Alabama,"
published by The Age-Herald on Thurs
day, July 36, of which Mr. Dubose Is
author.
A Former Birmingham Pastor
The Rev. Dr. John Barbour, who was
pastor of the South Highland Presby
terian church some years ago, but who
is now pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of his home town, Maysvllle,
Ky-, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Cald
well Bradshaw on Highland avenue. He
arrived here from Atlanta Thursday
night, where he had been to perform
the marriage ceremony for his son,
Phillips Tyler Barbour, and Mrs. Ella
Wright Wilcox at the North Avenue
Presbyterian church In that city. Dr.
Barbour was greeted yesterday by
many of his old friends. He will re
main here over Sunday.
The Conference iluartette
“On the fourth Sunday In July the
conference quartette will sing at me
Highlands Methodls tchurch at Five
Points," said a layman. "This excellent
quartette Is composed of the following
ladies; Miss F'annie Taylor, first so
prano; Miss Roberta Moore, first alto;
and Miss Ruby Heaton, second alto.
Mrs. J, N. Klllough of Woodiawn is
director of music of the Women's Mis
sionary society of the north Alabama
conference of the M. E. church, south.
She organized and has charge of this
conference choir. The ladies named
have done excellent work having sung
at meetings In Bessemer and at the
conference of the women In Talladega.
Th.lr singing always gives a great
deal of pleasure."
Memoll at Avondale Park
"I am glad to know that*Memoll ant',
his band will give a concert next Sun
day afternoon at Avondale park," said a
resident of that section.
"While many citizens of my neigh
borhood frequently attend the concerts
at Capitol park, hundreds of music
lovers who do not find it convenient to
go 'into town' will enjoy Sunday's pro
gramme. I hope the concert fund will
be large enough next year to pay for
music every day of the summer. Should
it be so, Avondale would have reason
to expect a concert once a week.”
The Iron and Steel Institute
"Tile Baltimore Manufacturers’ Rec
ord of this week features the Ameri
can Iron and Steel institute In con
nection with its forthcoming meeting
to be held in Birmingham in October,"
said a member of the Chamber of Com
merce. "The Record devotes three and
a half pages to the subject and prints
scores of short letters from iron and
steel men in which appreciation of the
importance of the meeting is indicated.
Editor Edmonds makes this sugges
tion:
" As a large number of these visi
tors Have never before been in the
south, or. at least, into the central dis
trict, the feasibility might be consid
ered of setting apart a large room in
tlie hotel at which most of them will
stop, or in some nearby building, giving
sufficient space to enable the companies
which desire to do so to exhibit at
tractively displayed samples of their
ores, their coals and their cokes. A
very interesting exhibit could be pre
pared which would throw light upon
many phases of the iron und steel in
terests of this section, the cost to be
borne by the individual concerns inter
ested in making these displays. Samples
could be had of many vartties of ores,
of coal and of coke, which would make
an interesting study to many of these
people.' ”
The Iron Market
These days the Interstate com
merce commission offers the main fea
tures in the Iron market," according
to Matthew Addy & Co. of Cincinnati.
"I>ast week It reduced Iron rates from
Alabuma and Tennessee. This week It
foliowb with a reduction in the rates
from the Virginia furnaces and the
furnaces In eastern Pennsylvania and
northern New York have been occupy
ing, as far as competitive rates arc
concerned, a coign of unjust advant
age and everyone In the iron trade feels
that now the commission has made
these reductions it would crown its
work by granting the railroads a gen
eral advance.
"Something is needed to start thing!
and this is the last hope. Just now the
market is quiet; it has not for some
time changed much one way or an
other—we seemed lodged in a Sara
gossa sea. Prices are so low that sell
ers are thoroughly dissatisfied but ever
these low and unprofitable prices havt
not induced extensive buying. Appar
ently all the orders that are being
placed are to cover absolute needs, bui
buyers are holding back—they seen
to have no confidence or courage. It ii
evident that the melt of iron is fai
In excess of the volume of iron that h
being bought, for shipments are mucl
larger than sales.”
WORK OF DAYTON'S MANAGER
From the Review of Reviews.
Since January 1 of this year the govern
n.ent of Dayton, O.. a city of over 135,00
people, has been administered by a citj
manager, an innovation inspired partly bj
tlie experiences following the Dayton flooc
of a year ago. Though In operation onlj
feur months, the advantages of unifylni
authority and responsibility in one mat
tire manifesting themselves, througl
prompt, decisive and direct action, a qual
, ity usually conspicuously absent in publlt
1 affairs. A "go and tie goeth" spirit hat
Itupeitetlml the "checks and balances" ant
culled initiative of at more complicated
government. Two days after taking office
the city manager instituted the practice
of periodically flushing streets which
(during previous administrations) had be
come filthy because the fire, water and
public works departments did not co-op
erate. This co-ordination of the city's
needs lias been notable in large as well
as small matters. At the end of 1913 the
ccrtracts for the disposal of garbage w’ere
to expire, yet, under the old administra
tion, failure on the part of the mayor and
the city council to co-operate with the,
local departments had nullified any efforts
to provide a solution of this always vexing
pioblem. One of the first acts of the
newly elected commission, at the sug
gestion of the city manager, was the ap
propriation of several thousand dollars to
be spent at his discretion in a study of
this and similar conditions. Within a
menth competent engineers had been se
cured to report upon feasible plans for
refuse disposal
The water problem was handled in a
similar way. Under the present adminis
tration a new water supply has been se
cured. and steps have been taken which
will Ultimately provide for all the city’s
needs. The public w>rks department has
resumed the collection of ashes and rub
bish after a lapse of a year, inaugurated
a city-wide clean-up, placed rubbish re
ceptacles in the business section, cleaned
all residence streets and authorized a
commission on renaming and renumber
ing.
BOOSTING BIRMINGHAM
Anniston Star: Speaking of that uni
versity, it was a tug of wrar among to
bacco, coca-cola and steel. Atlanta had
the "dope” and won.
Greene County Democrat: Birmingham
wants to rase her present jail and then
raise another.
Centreville Press: Thirty-five negro
women confined in the Jefferson county
jail complained that they are fed on
worms and bugs and need fresh air. We
have no doubt that these women suffer
for fresh air, but as a rule prisoners of
this class are hard to satisfy, and no
doubt their fare is far better than a
great many of them get when free. Pris
oners are naturally discontented with
their lot, and have nothing to think pf
but their troubles and supposed oppres
sions.
Franklin County Times: Query—If Bir
mingham can raise half a million flr>r a
university in 15 days, how long will it
take to remove an old jail building in
the heart of the city? For heaven’s sake,
Dorothy, don’t send me bug house with
such questions.
Huntsville Mercury-Banner: The Bir
mingham papers mention that Governor
Hooper of Tennessee is in that city.
The governor had to forego a promised
visit to the Horseshoe Bend celebration
last week on account of a press of busi
ness. We hope that the political signifi
cance of recent events in Alabama are
not responsible for his presence just now,
The less Hooperlsm we have in Alabama
the better off we will be.
Southern Democrat: Another wave of
crime is sweeping over Jefferson county.
Some one is, murdered in that county
nearly every day and a half dozen is the
usual record for Saturday night and
Sunday.
Montgomery Times: With only 13 killed
and 243 wounded in Jefferson county on
July 4, the Birmingham papers announce
it the quietest Fourth of July the county
ever had.—Opelika News.
Merciful heavens, what a record for
crime! And yet those people in Jones
valley claim to be civilized. That law
and order league needs to be organized
without any further delay.
I
Montgomery Advertiser- We are sorry
Birmingham lost the university. That
town needed the tone and dignity such
an institution would give it.
SIGNS OF TRADE REVIVAL
From the New' York Times:
Signs of the early revival of good busi
ness. which were abundant in the reports
from authoritative sources all over the
country published in yesterday's Times,
are multiplied in today’s news. There
are more buyers from every part of the
United States in town today than ever be
fore at Jthis time of the year, and the
list of them fills two column^ and a half
of print. The beginning of the receivers’
sale of the H. B. Clafltn company’s stock
yesterday was attended by 1200 buyers,
and the sales were enormous, much of the
old stock which, under other circum
stances, might have lain dormant a long
while being disposed of. Goods were sold
to merchants from all points, including
Honolulu. The .American Woolen com
pany announces higher prices for the
better grades of woolens and lower prices
for the ordinary cloths, an encouraging
indication of wholesome trade conditions
and tolerably clear proof that the woolen
trade is not to be blighted by the cus
toms tariff changes.
From many points come reports of
mills reopening and men returning to
w'ork. A manufactory in this neighbor
hood with a weekly wage budget of $75,
000 has resumed operations. At the West
inghouse works in Pittsburg the strike
is over and 8000 men have returned to
their employment. The letter to Presi
dent Wilson from a western manufacturer
printed elsewhere, stating his new found
faith in a business revival, the reasons
for it, and his practical expression of it,
tells a story which will be repeated many
times in the near future. It is not a time
to crow or to boast, but all reasonable
hopes are in the way of being justified.
THAT COMER DONATION
From the Huntsville Mercury-Banner.
The papers that were shouting to the
voters that Comer was a steward in the
Methodist church during the campaign are
now dancing with glee because he prom
ised a $5000 donation to secure the Metho
dist college for Birmingham.
There are other gentlemen who have,
big Interests in Birmingham and who are
under no obligation to the Methodist
voters of the state who have donated
more liberally than Comer, yet no great
fuss Is raised over their liberality. Is
this political fetisch worship to be lugged
into every public and private interest con
tinually?
HINTS FOR HOT DAYS
From the Kansas Industrialist.
Don’t cat anything.
Chew It thoroughly.
Don’t drink ice water.
> Boil it.
Let your wife have her way.
Give your thermometer to your enemy.
Avoid excursions, vacations, chautau
quas.
Avoid strange dogs and your wife’s
lelatlves.
Don’t discuss the following: Heat rec
ords, immigration, tariff reduction, social
ism, minimum wage, gas hills, franchises,
graft, tire triable, new thought, cubist
poetry, creditors and debtors.
ADRIFT WITH THE TIM I
HIS EXCI SE.
The man who never earns his salt
For something to turn up will wait,
And though his failure’s all his fault,
He says it s due to frowning fate.
THE NATURE OF THE BEAST.
"Well, uncle, that mule of yours seems
determined to stay where he is all day."
"Yessuh, boss. I’se been lammin' 'im
fur mos’ an hour an’ he ain’t budge yit."
"Sheer perversity, I dare say."
"Maybe so. boss, but I calls hit jes'
mule. Das all—jes' mule!"
A LOVER OF STRIFE.
Old I understand you to say that Top
ley is a great believer in reform move
ments?’’
Only as a means of creating discord,
lopley enjoys nothing more than seeing
lifelong friends turn against each other
and families split asunder."
A LA MODE.
Patricia dons a skimpy skirt
And hat thaCs jerked up on one side,
And as she trips along the flirt
Appears to be brimful of pride.
HOME-MADE.
"What mdke is Dobson’s motor car?"
"The Haphazard."
"I never heard of that make."
"He bought the parts and assembled
them himself."
AN EASY LIFE.
I’ve often thought I’d like to be
Stockholder of some vast concern,
With money pouring »n on me
That other people have to earn.
A MOTOR MATE.
"No wonder they get along so well to
gether. She's a true helpmeet*’’
"In what respect?’
“She knows ns much about mending
punctured tire.s as he does and her pro
ficiency with a monkey wrench is mar
\ elous."
NEEDED DOWN THERE.
'A Pennsylvania man lost a pet biillheadr^H
snake eight feet long, who answers to I
the name of Pete and Is a famous rat jjl
catcher. Pete may have started toward fl
New Orleans. fl
BUMPING THE BUMPS. |§
The youngsters who U
Were wed In June fl
Have finished up fl
Their honeymoon: fl
This married life fl
Is not all bliss— j|
She’s had to ask V B
For cash ere th a. fl
—Houston Post. fl
The youngsters who fl
Were wed in June . :S
No longer have B
Much time to spoon , ‘ “
And married life
Seems rather tough;
He doesn't earn
> But half enough.
A RARE ARMFUL.
"How would you like to be able to draw
a Garrison Swisher girl?"
"I wouldn't mind being able to draw J
one to me.”
"FANCY THAT, HEDDA."
A prison is a dreadful place,
Chock full of devastating fears,
Where everyone is m disgrace
And all the Inmates are in tiers. f
IDLE OPINIONS.
Any man who laughs at his own wit
may have an opportunity to laugh last.
After you have once learned how to
take care of the pennies it hurts to spend
a dollar.
Nine out of 10 people never reach the
age of discretion.
Women take pride in a hundred little
things a man doesn't even know about.
The man who doesn't believe in any
thing else will have perfect confidence
in his watch. |
People who "see through a glass darkly"/
are always the greatest fault finders.
A groat deal of rubbish is written about
being "cleaned in the fire.” After they ’
have had a good scorching people never ,
lock the same. PC \
.......
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY I
TRIAL OF DEEMING I
UiNti. or tne most sensational mur
der trials of recent years was
that of Frederick Bailey Deem
ing, which was concluded in Melbourne,
[Australia, on May 2, 1892. It re
quired a long light to convict him
against his counsel’s plea of insanity.
Those who heard this plea and the evi
dence produced at the trial were will
ing to admit one of two things—that
he was either the greatest fiend that
ever lived, or he was insane. However,
the jury judged him the former.
In order to carry out his supposed
insanity Deeming confessed to all sorts
of crimes, even to the statement that
he had committed the majority of the
"Jack the Kipper" murders in London.
But as he was not in England at the
time that mosvt of these murders oc
curred and was in jail when the latter
ones w'ere committed, it is very evident
that his statements were false.
Deeming was no doubt guilty of
many murders. The murder for which
he was tried and convicted was that
of his second wife, Mrs. Williams, who
was killed while he masquerated under
that assumed name. He was married to
his third w'ife when he was arrested,
hut they were just spending their
honeymoon, and there is no doubt that
her life was saved through his arrest.
When early in the nineties Deeming
arrived at Kainhill, Eng., he vented, In
that pretty village on the outskirts of
Liverpool, a handsome collage. Shortly
afterwards he brought to this home a
wife and four children. He had resided
there hut a short time when the woman
and children disappeared, and by way of
explanation he told them it was a sister
and her children who had been visiting
him.
Nothing further was thought of the
incident, but every one was surprised
to find that Deeming had suddenly
taken his departue. He sailed for Aus
tralia. When he started away he
changed his name to Williams and car
ried with him wife number two. who
was known as Mrs. Williams. They be
gan homekeeping at Windsor, a suburb
of Melbourne, Australia. They had lived
there until Christmas time, when he
mysteriously disappeared and assumed
tiie name of Swanston. (
The house where the Williamses had
lived at Windsor remained unoccupied
TOMORROW—TRIAL O
THE HEM. GATE RR1DGE
From the Engineering Rlcord.
The most important structure of the
New York Connecting Railroad is the Hell
Gate bridge now under construction. It
will be the largest span of its type in the
world—1017 feet—and will be of imposing
appearance and monumental character,
designed with regard to architectural and
artistic effect and efficiency of construc
tion
The span will have a total weight of
over 26,000 tons, equal to 53,000 pounds per
linear foot, including about 19,000 tons of
high carbon structural steel, equivalent to
38,000 pounds per linear foot. The great
weight Is flue to the heavy loading speci
fied.
On May 1 about 10,000 tons of structural
steel for the main span had been fabri
cated and It Is expected that the erection
will be begun In July. Both ends of tin
span will be erected simultaneously and
each of them will be assembled by a steel
traveler moving on th# roadway platform
and another on the to^ chords. It is esti
mated that the erection will be completed
In 1915. The heaviest pieces to be handled
In the field will weigh about 200 tons,
and there will be about 1,000,000 IVi-incI
field driven rivets, some of them over 11
Inches long, all driven by pneumatlo ham
mers.
FIGHT IN THE CAPITOL.
From the Gadsden Journal.
The publication by the Montgomirj
Journal of the manner in which the peo
ple’s money is spent by the governor Is
not relished by the executive nor his em
ployes. Recently the Montgomery papei
gave an Remixed statement of expensei
from the contingent fund. A few days age
the governor’s son and secretary upbraid
ed a Journal reporter for the story, anc
a fight followed In the capltol.
Klrkman O’Neal, son and private secre
tary to Governor O’Neal, and Reportei
Bternfeld of the Montgomery Journal, iia<
a flit fight on the second floor of th<
8
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ior two months and when it was rented / ■
on March 1, 1892, the family, in movingil fl
in, detected a peculiar and unpleasant^-! fl
odor about the fireplace, which showed \ fl
evidence of It having recently been 1 fl
cemertrd over. This cement covering ' I
was removed, and the body of Mrs. Wil- fl
liamfi was discovered underneath. De- fl
tectives at once set to work to find | fl
Williams, and they located him In Mel- fl
bourne living under the name'of Swan- J ||
ston with a woman he had just married \ 11
as his third wife. He was carted oft io J i
prison, and along with him a new bar- 1 I
rel of cement which he had Just pur- \ fl
chased, evidently with the Idea of wall- \fl
Ing up Mrs. Swanston after he had mur- flfl
dered her.
At the trial it was discovered that ^flf
wife number two hart been murdered on ^^fl
Christmas eve. 1891. Tlie detective force
who liad identified Swanston as Wil
liams began an investigafion of the ca- ^fl
reer of the man. Tile account of the ^fl
cement-bidden murder at Windsor was J
telegraphed to England, and with the fl
meager information of the past life of j
the man it was thought that he was I
probably Deeming, and an investigation 1
was staj-ted to see If some light could fl
not be thrown on the disappearance at I
Kalnhlll of Mrs. Deeming and her four J If
children. This was started principally i I
through evidence given by the mother 1 fl
of Mrs. Deeming. \fl
The house in which tlie Deemings ■
had lived in England was thoroughly fl
overhauled, and when the floor of the
kitchen was torn up. it was found that
Mrs. Deeming number one and her four ^fl
children had been murdered and ce- ifl
men ted under the floor of the fireplace.
A full investigation disclosed how the ^fl
murders bad taken place. |fip
Tlie trial of this murderer excited
a great amount of attention in all parts fl
of the vsirrld. Tlie announcement of the
verdict at Melbourne was greeted with yH
cheers and general expressions of satis 'ffl
faction. Deeming was executed at Mel- ^fl
he declared, lost his self-control in 1
denying to the last tliat he was guilty
of the Ralnliill murder. **ye had never." ^fl
he declared, "lost his self-control In ^
England, as lie had since his arrival in -
Australia. He made no statement and p 1
left no confession. The execution was VL
witnessed by a large gathering. Includ
Ing government and civil officials and fl
magistrates. M
F THOMAS CROMWELL 1
capitol. The Journal reporters were barred -■
from the governor’s office sometime ago. I
Recently tlie Journal published an article I
about Some of the expense accounts of M
the governor. Ixlrkman O'Neal said it , fl
was a spite article arid upon meeting the ^ 1
reporter said some things that the latter fl> *
did not like. The reporter hit O'Neal, andflk
several blows followed. Neither was bail-VI
ly hurt. ■ .
IN BACKWARD IKIISTOV II
From the Houston Post. I I
Birmingham is trying to raise a million I fl,
dollars to get a sectarian university. W# 1 B
would as soon undertake to Induce a ,B
thousand men to pay their poll tax as to ’fll
attempt to raise that much money by fl
public subscriptions during the psycholog- |
leal spell. !|
WHERE THE WEST BEGINS Jf
Arthur Chapman in Denver Republican. JB
Out where the hand clasp's a little ’ V
stronger, fli
Out where a smile dwells a little longer.
That’s where the west begins. 1.
Out w here the sun Is a little brighter, ’
V\ here the snows that fall are a trifle
whiter,
Where the bonds of home are a wee bit
tighter—
That’s where the weet begins.
Out where the skies ire a trifle bluer,
Out whete friendship's a little truer,
That's where the weet begin*. j
Out where n fresher breeze la blowing, >
Where there's laughter In every streamlet |
flowing,
Where there’s more of reaping and less \
of sowing— y
That’s where the west begins.
Out where the world Is In the making.
Where fewer hearts with despair a
aching—
That's where the west begins.
Where there's more of singing and lass
of sighing.
Where there’s more of giving snd less a
of buying, (1
And n man makes friends without half ) I
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