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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-09-08
Financial Statement Made

This week the mayor and board of alder
men held their regular meeting at the
city hall and heard the report of the aud
iting committee read, which were appoint
ed to audit the books and accounts of
the town for the past II months ending
August 81. The committee reported as fol-
lows Total receipts, $2776. A.; disburse-
ments. S2553 "a; leaving a balance on hand
of 1920 so The streets were in such ex-
cellent condition that only S362.92 was
necessary to be expended on them to place
them in fine condition.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-09-08
Back From Fishing Trip

c. b. Alverson, together with several
of his friends, returned this morning from
the Broken Arrow Hunting and Fishing
clubs clubhouse, where they have been
on a fishing expedition for several days
this week. Mr.. Alverson has the honor of
catching the largest fresh water trout that
has ever been pulled from the waters of
the Broken Arrow creek" the trout
weighing nine and one-half pounds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-09-08
working for Military COMPANY

WUfhIHg tut MILITARY Company
Dallas Il. Smith. Jr., who Is working
to get the required number of names
for applications to organize a military
company here, states that only a few
more names are needed to make the
required list for petition to the adju-
tant general
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-09-08

word two about the big new stocks that we
You know Porter reputation IN the boys cloth
ing line Well we've gathered stock for the pretty new surroundings
that is positively without equal in the entire south
Suits of chevo worseds and compound mixtures IN the
breasted Nooks
the big byand the aun little Russian and sailor blouse styles
smaller rancoa rubber coats shirts blouse
underwear knee trousereveng the boy needs
IL
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r Tow the calm-eyed man in the little
n cage who gently reaches for your
handbook. takes it, hands it back
and mods politely, ever managed to find
his equilibrium Is one of the many mys-
teries which civilization has not unrav-
eled The bank clerk is distinct in spe-
cies He never is rumpled. He is a
calm and calculating figure. AS you see
him behind his little cage, shoveling in
money or handing it out. as the case may
be- you can never by any stretch of the
ina gination draw a picture of yourself
slapping him on the back.
Maybe it is the immense amount of life
he sees each day-the grasping, the gen.
erous, the brave, the cowardly. the good
and the bad-maybe it is this that brings
about in the bank clerk the state of tor
pid repose that never changes. There is
one bank clerk in the financial district-a
young man, by the way, as are most bank
clerks-who recently committed the un-
usual indiscretion of talking about the
human side Of his profession.
'Its funny" he said, how people seem
to imagine that because We handle money
for living we are automatons, without
the power to discern what goes on in
front of us. | suppose they figure that a
man who can handle thousands of dollars
with utter indifference must be more OF
less than human. Maybe they're right.
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New Place Cards.

DLACE cards always play a prominent
part at indoor festivities and very
pretty way to make them is to draw the
outlines of a butterfly on cardboard, and
below it miniature square for the card
on which the name should be printed
Cut the card out and with the aid Of a
pair of buttonhole or manicure scissors
and a round punch one can make the but
terfy almost lacelike. Ii flower is
made, such as the chrysanthernum
daisy. one may tint the leaves with water
colors A stem can be made to extend
below the card, and thus make ii seem
to rest upon the flower branch. but this
is tedious, and the small flowers are pref
tier. girls head at the top of the card
is pretty, and if one is able 10 use water
colors the cards can be MADE attractive
i'm color a. well as design.
If unable to draw pictures, then get
small picture Of a turkey, or whatever
used. paste it to waxed paper, and care
fully cut out certain lines which will give
good stencil. The extreme outlines
must be shown, including slope of wings
and legs Use this as a stencil. few
retouching lines Will result IN coliectioh
of dainty cards.
Clever little pictures from magazines
NAV be cut out pasted on cardboard and
tinted to resemble water coiorS. water
color paints serve nicely for tfnting. Use
camel hair brushes. and absorb excess
moisture with blotter.
4 tiny silk bag in which are tucked
few SPRAYS of artificial flowers. such as
lilies of the valley or small roSebudS, and
a small name card is a delightful COM
bination of place card and favor.
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THE MAN i'm THE CAGE AND HIS EXPERlENC

and-so. and I carry an account here.
Don't get around often. Want to deposit
my check
II would politely murmur that 1 re-
membered him perfectly. as / certainly
ought to. for he had been calling for
years.
but he never believed me. After smil-
ing at what he termed my fallacious po-
liteness', he would bow and warn me not
to forget him next time. Then he would
go out and come back next month and
repeat the whole thing over again
Somebody suggested that bank clerk $
attitude was not sufficiently inspiring to
convince the average depositor OF his un-
dying affection.
That's an attitude we have to pre-
serve" retorted the bank clerk indig-
nantly Suppose we met the first de-
positor who came in the morning with Il
slap on the shoulder and showed dol
lar bill at him. saying, Here, old scout,
this is on me,' What do you think he'd
do? Why. he'd probably go through the
first window handy and run down the
street yelling for the police. You've got
TO be calm in a bank.
Somebody then mildly asked If bank
cashiers all got their hair brushed and
their clothes made at a single establish
ment The bank clerk blushed red.
I'VE try to look neat in a bank he
said coldly, so that some OF the de-
positors who have money will take the
hint and use theirs sensibly.
But the inquisitor, after coughing
hoarsely. had walked away.
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than two years. Only once do I remem-
ber her forgetting to have her book bal
anced and that was when she drew out
money to pay, as she told the cashier,
with tears in her eyes, fur the funeral OF
me man..
81 don't know anything about her ex-
cept her idiosyncrasy with regard to her
handbook. And I'll probably never learn
anything more
Musing on his inability to ever learn
more of the curious little woman. the
bank clerk suddenly wandered on into
speculation as to the curious bar between
the bank employe and deposltor.
TT is remarkable" he said, that so
many people don't seem to think that we
ever recognize them. OF course. this
isn't the rule. It's rather the exception
But there are those who seem to feel that
they need a complete introduction to us
every time they call. There was one old
man | recall who used TO visit our bank
about once q month to deposit a check.
probably an income of some sort. We
never heard Of him during the month.
He would stay away and we would get
his checks as they passed through other
banks and finally came to us. About the
fifth OF each month he would come into
the place. smile around vaguely and head
Tor the paying teller. He never came to
me, though l was the man he wanted to
see.
He would introduce himself to the pay
ing teller and carefully explain his busi-
ness and the paying teller would then
indicate my window and he would hurry
over to me-"
"'Of course. you don't remember me.
he would begin. Ny name 10 Mr.. So
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But when they think we don't notice
them, they're wrong
He fell to musing about the business In
which he is engaged.
You wouldn't believe it." he resumed
after a time. but nearly every woman
who banks with US has a particular char
acteristic by which she could be remeln-
bered even if she hid her face and re-
fused to sign her name. The individual
trait is less marked in men, possibly De-
cause most OF them are more used to
handling money.
II remember one woman who still VS.
it's our bank. She is little Irish woman
who came to us first about three years
ago The first day she entered the bank
building she walked over to the cashier
and spread out before him a small sum
sixty dollars perhaps-in silver and dol
lar bills.
.Oru lave this said she. If yen
promise to always tell me how much VI
have in bank.
The cashier agreed solemnly and soon
she became a regular visitor ! was az
the receiving cage. Each week she wouio
come to me with her little handful OF SAL
yer and crumpled bills-sOmetimes not
more than two or three dollars and never
more than ten-and would hand 1t TO me
with her book.
...Now tell me how much OF have she
would say. She would wait until her book
was balanced. and then, with a smile OF
happiness on her face, would trot away
with the newly deposited account added
to her store. She kept this up Tor more
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county is paying as high as $1,000 year
for such an expert.
X
In some states the counties are author
lied to appropriate such money out OF
the general funds, and these expenses are
being met in this way. In other instances
the money is being raised by the chamber
of commerce and in other cases by the
local grange The federal government
leaves this detail to the county. There
will be a score of states, however, that
will this winter ask their legislatures to
authorize the counties to appropriate
funds direct.
True there is worked out plan in
which both the county and the national
government provide a portion of the
funds. This is the benefit of a local in
terest and participation in the scheme
secured At the same time the national
government is interested and all those
stores of information that have been
massed through the efforts OF o,uuo
scientists working year after year are
to be drawn upon The department. mas
collected the agricultural lore of the
ages, and this is to be put in the hands
of these experts to be taken directly TO
the farmer.
Last year the Department of Agriculture
asked Congress to appropriate an addl-
tional $4,000 to be used by it's division or
farm management in initiating this work
The House, of its own accord, raised that
appropriation to 100000. There was no
objection. When it went to the Senate
it was again raised to S3JO,Ooo, ana sun
no voice was raised against it. In con-
ference the amount was fixed at s1oo,0o
for beginning the work. with the under
standing that this amount should be IN
creased as rapidly as the work developed
A condition of this sort in the midst of a
Congress that was attempting to make
record for itself along the lines of econo-
my is regarded as being most unusual
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are many men who declare they can see
no sense in paying more than 80 cents for
a tie arguing that even in an article sold
at this price there is huge profit Ac-
cording to the dealers, they are only part
ly correct. There is a profit, and good
one of course, or there would be no such
article sold. But the profit is due to the
fact that the ties are made in huge guam
titles. If one were to buy the material
of which a fifty-cent tie is made and have
a single tie made up at home he would
probably find that it would cost him not
only half dollar. but mayhap consider
ably more. And while to the laymans
eye there may be no appreciable differ
ence between the tie at 80 cents and the
one sold for ST. that difference exists just
the same. Since in most cases neither
ever gets pressed, the latter will last
three or four times as long as the for
mer And it is decidedly inadvisable to
pay less than 90 cents for a tie. barring.
of course. special sales. True enough, it
is possible to get a very fairish looking
article of neekwear for % cents. or some-
times even for 10 cents, when it Is new.
Looked at casually such a tie seems just
about as good as the higher priced ones
The silky gloss is all there. and patterns,
of course, can even be duplicated on COM
mon wrapping paper.
But after one has worn a cheap tie
only three or four times he soon notices
the difference.
The silky gloss begins to fade and dis
appear for the very good reason that it
was produced, not by the material of
which the tie was made but by chem
icals. The colors. too, begin to fade. and
this is due to the fact that they are
merely stamped on instead OF being wo-
ven into the material. In the end. after
the first wearing, the cheap tie somehow.
cannot but show it's cheapness. There are
exceptions, of course, but this is the gen.
eral rule.
It is advisable. therefore. to buy good
tie, not only for appearance sake. but also
for reasons of economy. The selection
must be entirely individual, and in this
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stripes are about one-fourth of an inch
wide. and may be of two or three colors.
or may all be of different shades. one
fashionable haberdasher who has several
of them in his show window picked Tor
his display a gray tie with stripes of
purple. dark green and maroon; blue
tie with stripes of white, gray and RED,
an olive green tie with blending strlpes
of dark red and rich brown. and brown
tie with alternating stripes of gray,
cream white and black. And these ties.
the very latest thing in neckWear. are
essentially reasonable in price. A very
good pattern and very fair material may
be had at most of the stores for % cents
each. There is one mems outhtter too
who is making a temporary. speciality OF
them at % cents each. OF course. II
one desires to pay more. one will have no
trouble doing SO. 1t all depends on the
quality of the material used. IL one
desires. one may buy his ties at the rate
of 81 each. for which price he will get
tie of heaviest. corded Persian SILK,
a tie that will wear, figuratively speak
ing. like iron, and which the dealer Will
guarantee to hold its shape.
This last is an important feature, too.
Not one man in twenty ever actually
wears out his ties. Instead, after being
worn few times, the tie begins to look
musSy-and so is cast aside. Ihere is
peculiar bit of psychology in this. Trous-
ers after being worn a few times begin to
look .'mussy," too, but no man ever
thinks of casting them aside for that
Instead he has them pressed. He rarely
thinks of having his tie pressed, yet
pressing would have the same revivifying
effect on tie that 1T has on trousers,
and the work is about fifty times as sim
pie. Given hot iron, any man can press
a tie in one minute, and by so doing, II
the tie is of even fairish material, it will
be made to look like new. IF men used
a pressing iron on their ties like they do
on their trousers" said prominent +
street haberdasher, the trade in neck
wear would decrease 80 per cent"
To get back to material, though. there
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county agents business is To get them
adopted.
In this connection the scientists have
had one or two of their theories pune
tured by practical farmers and have
readily given way TO the latter. There
was the theory. for instance, that the
same crops could not be grown con-
tinuously on the same land because GER
tain elements were always being taken
out and the soil must some time find
itself exhausted. An old negro in Ala
bama has disproved this learned scien-
tihc theory.
Sam Mccall was a slave who gained his
freedom at the close of the civil war. he
acquired 16O acres of the poorest hill
side land in Alabama because nobody
else wanted it, and began farming. First
he cultivated twenty acres and barely
made a living Then he cultivated five
acres and did better. Then he reduced
his farm to two acres. and for the past
forty years has cultivated that same two
acres in the same crops. He has regularly
prospered.
Mccall planted oats in rows. When the
oats We're well along he planted corn
between the rows. He harvested the oats
and got eighty bushels to the acre after
the fertility OF the land was restored.
Then, as the corn developed. he planted
cotton where the oats had grown. He
harvested eighty bushels of corn to the
acre. Eventually the cotton came to
maturity and he picked four bales to the
acre. Every straw OF the oats. every
stalk of cotton and corn. every biz OF
manure from his one horse. was put back
on the land. Not one particle of outside
manure. however, was ever put on the
land. He put back only what the land
had grown, and not all OF that. Yet the
land has continued to get better. The
theories of the scientists are upset by this
old negro in actual practice. 1t is coming
to be recognized that growing croI
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s@0@ CO, aa@a@9@s0@0@G0
Sam TO INSTRUCT Farmer F and Thereby Reduce Cost of Living


absorbs much sunshine and atmospAeiS
and water salts that may be put back in
the soil and that IL need not get poor
even IL no outside material Is added Ia
il. Sam Mccall has been worth millions
10 the country.
So practical scientists have come to
learn from the mere farmer who has hap
pened to make great success. The di-
vision OF farm management tries to uti-
liZe all il is able TO pick up from the
men on the land. This sort of Information
is not only surer Of working. but Is more
readily accepted. When the county agent
goes into a district his first business is 10
gain the confidence of the farmers and
to get them to working with him. Wer"
he to thrust his science upon them h"
would arouse antagonism. lie must not
only know science and farming, but men.
This agent looks over his field and fnda
that Farmer Jones is growing fifty bush
els of corn to the acre. while Farmer
Smith Is getting only twenty he gets
into conversation with Farmer Smith and
they talk corn. The agent mentions Jones.
The farmer knows him. and the agent
mentions Jones' corn and tells just how
il was produced. with possibly few ad-
ditional hints. Smith takes the hint and
adopts the better methods.
soon the agent gets eStdbusneu. Tor the
non-beiiever sees the results obtained by
some fellow who takes the advice. Soon
all the farmers in the district are ask
ing the advice and the agent is runntne
all the farms. The result in Yields i
marvellous. Then the agent organizes the
farmers into selling organizations and
lot OF the middlemen are cut out. Prices
received are much better and still the
produce reaches the consumer at a less
price When this is being done in all the
counties in the country there should BE-
plenty to eat at reasonable price. The
enthusiasts believe it to be the most
practical thing the government has ever
done
Copyright 1872 by W. A. Du PuyD
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The closest link that the Department of
Agriculture has had with the farmer has
been its division of farm management. 1t
has been the object of that division to get
the lessons of right farming home. 1t
has striven to arouse the farmers of the
nation to the practical value of right
farming. 1t has worked industriously to
overcome the rural prejudice against
.book farming
The division of farm management has
for instance, mapped out the best syS-
tenn of carrying on various types Of
farms. 1t would take a typical grower
of potatoes on a hve-acre farm and tell
him every step in the right manage
ment OF that farm from blowing to
marketing his potatoes. 1t would take
a typical dairy farm and carry 1t
through all the phases Of its correct
administration. 1t would do the same
with a hay farm. wheat farm and all
the rest of the typical farms. In each
case the advice would be the result of
study of all the information extant
upon the subject and this would be
supplemented by the practical expert
ences of successful farmers in all the
ried on.
In each case the information com
piled was of inestimable value. If
properly applied it might have doubled
the productiveness of almost any
county of such farms in the United
states The great difficulty here. as in
most of the work of the Department
of Agriculture has been in getting
the information direct to the farmer.
The present campaign is intended TO
fill in just this link. and it is generally
recognized as being the vital link in
the whole chain. All the lore of the
world is not going to help the farmer
as long as it is stored up in libraries.
1t will perform its service only when
it is brought to application to the
land.
So Congress has decided that the dlvi-
sion of farm management shall be
given the chance to actually take
science home to the farm In every
county in the nation is to be placed a
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The One Essential.

WILL IRWIN. the author was holding
w forth upon the superiority of Cali
fornia over Florida as IA winter resort.
Florida he said. lis too relaxing.
This is due to the fetid air of the
swamps
There's story about a young man
who was being examined for admission
to the Florida bar. The examination ran
thuss
Young man, are you malaria proofr
Yes, sir
''Can you ride?
Yes, sir.
.'Do you own a horse?
Yes, sir
=. rs he a good swamp swimmer?
- Yes, sir.
.'Then. -cung man. I welcome you tn
the practice of the law in this district
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fact is a delight to the man who is care
full of his dress. AT this season of the
year. however, the really well dressed
man will pass colored hosiery. II looks
well with low shoes, but not with high
ones AS a material. silk, of course, is
most desirable, and nowadays one can get
a fairly serviceable silk hose for as low
as 35 cents. Fifty cents buys very
ties much more expensive. There are
men. however, who do not pin much faith
in thirty-five-cent pair of silk hose. and
yet who do not want to pay more than
that amount For these there are lisle
hose which are just as proper. and prob
ably considerably more serviceable. But
whatever the material, the color should
be plain black.
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there are a score of things to be consld-
cred. First of all. man in buying tie
should consider how it matches his SUIT
and his shirt. 1t would be obviously Dad
taste. for instance. for q man anec.ins e,.
green, wearing a greenish colored suit,
green striped shirt and green SOCKS, 70
wear a tie of bright purple. Or it would
look almost equally bad for man with a
rather loud checked suit to wear tie OF
sober black 1t would seem that the so
her tie would tone down the suit, but
such Is not the case Instead. 1t makes
the attire nonGescript and incongruous.
1t Is better for man with the green suit
to get a tie of green, or at least tie IN
which green predominates. me man WIN In
the checked suit in turn should get a tie
that is bright in color and usually IN de-
sign
Outside the consideration of matching
the rest of ones attire, however, the man
in selecting tie must consider MS own
type and his complexion. Without gong
into too great detail, the whole thing may
he summed up by the apt statement OF
local haberdasher, who remarks: some
men can dress up to their faces and COM
plexions. Others have to dress down 10
them" In other words, man with pal
lid complexion needs bright colored tie.
possessed of enough red to 1mpart tne
suggestion of glow, exercising care not
to have SO much red that it might serve
to make his pallidness more accentuated.
Obyersely, a man with a fiorid complex
ion needs q tie the effect of which Will
be toning down.
The tie is the main article of mans at
tire in which he may at once yield to his
Unborn desire for brilliancy of hue and
also relieve the effect Of too great So
briefly Of dress. Just as important as the
only comparatively recently that coll
ored shirts have been permitted. For