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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
nv MARION HARLAND

hanging the sugar tub BY a chalked rope
after 1t had been emptied and cleaned.
cannot now remember what other ex-
periments resorted to. Everything failed.
A new cook then told me a former en-
ployer had found oil of sassafras effective.
l applied the oil with a ! cent camefs
hair brush going all around the openings
to the refrigerator, sugar tubs, cake
moxes and other receptacles for such food
as attracts ants. The insects left. Fear
ing that they might return, | repeated
the operation once during the summer
and again the following summer. have
never had any more red ants. Acting
upon my advice, several women have
used oil of sassafras as | have described
and report success. Use the oil as 1t
comes from the drug store; no mixing or
fussing. The operation is the simplest
possible and most effective. The ants are
not killed; they merely go. A. f."
I'm hanishing red ants, my method is
so simple that have wondered no one has
thought of it before. l sprinkle ordinary
aqua ammonia on the pantry shelves, door
sills, and wherever they enter the house.
Ants cannot stand the fumes of ammonia
in their eyes any better than we can,
and the beauty of ammonia is that by the
time the ants disappear the odor has
evaporated. l presume it is well to re-
move edibles from shelves, although I
have never noticed any odor of the am
monia in the food. MRS. j. Il. S."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
MRS. HANSON AT
THE COUNTRY CLUB

In compliment to a lovely guest of
honor Mrs Victor Hanson entertained
yesterday at the Country club at a charm
ing luncheon. The table occupied the
alcove, where SO many lovely luncheons
have been given this winter, none of
which have been arranged with more
carefulness or beauty of detail than the
one yesterday. The center of the table
contained a large hat basket literally
overfowing with pink roses and pink
sweet peas At each cover there was
a corsage boquet of the same lovely
flowers. The place souvenirs were tiny
.'household necessities" The guests were:
Mrs. Watkins, Mrs. George Harris. Mrs.
Tom JOY, Mrs. Felix Drennen, Mrs. George
Connors, Mrs. Charles Bowman, Jr Mrs.
Matthew Murphy, Miss Rosalind Sayre,
Mrs. w. p. Redd. Miss Ann Castor, Mrs.
Thomas Helm and Mrs. Jelks Cabaniss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
Er man kin master mod
ern tongue, Ole Miss, ceptin'
his wife's-Yassum!


point to moral-if 1T didn't fit as an
illustration to my story. Mary Adams
was a good woman, religious, we'll mean
ing and her idea of life was to keep her
small corner in this world busted. l
use the term figuratively of course. BY
dusted mean polished, oiled, sliclSed up
generally so that you actually held your
breath when you entered the house. Poor
John, All the years of his married life
he was a martyr. Maybe she really cared
for him, but man is made of dust, you
know, and Sally's life was one long war;
fare against dust. John couldn't smoke
in his own home because the ashes made
a litter. He was always made to put on
his slippers when he came in the house
for fear of the mud or dust on his shoes
getting on the carpet, rugs and floors.
house where a man could just slump down
and feel that it didn't matter how much
it mussed up things. Well, in due course
of time, Mary died, and went to her re-
ward. / couldn't help being touched by
Johns grief and his violent protestations
when it was all still freshest In his mind
that no other woman should ever come
into his house. He didn't know what he
was saying. The unconscious humor of 1t
all didn't dawn on any of his friends un-
til we went back later to visit him. The
household had settled back comfortably,
slumped down. and L can't tell you the
difference in the atmosphere about the
place. Old John smokes anywhere he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06

The Birmingham Equal Suffrage as
sociation will not hold meeting this
week, the regular meeting having
been postponed until next Saturday
afternoon.
The Ullman School Improvement as
sociation will hold it's regular meeting
Snider will address the mothers of
the school, his subject being: "The
|Child."
The Theta Alphabeta club will meet
this afternoon with Miss Lucille Nor
ris.
The Study circle will meet with Mrs.
Kenneth Charlton at 500 south Twenty
sixth street Friday afternoon.
The A. b. C. club will meet with
Anita and Ethel Latady Friday, March
II, at O'Clock, 1917 Highland avenue.
Alexander II. Stephens chapter U.
ID. c., will meet Friday, March z, at
I3 p. M, at the home of Mrs. w. S.
Malone. 74o0 Second avenue, East
Lake.
Miss Amy Evans will give an organ
recital this evening, Wesley Chapel,
M. f. church, south. The public is in
vited.
The Music Study club of West End
will meet at 1880 today with Mrs.
r. d. Coffman, 502 Princeton avenue.
The Church Home Guild will meet
today at o'clock at st. Andrews par
ish house.
PERSONALS
Mrs T. G. Bush has returned from
Atlanta.
Mrs. William Mabry of Admission, is
the guest of Mrs. S. II. Gardner.
Mrs. Jesse Stallings is visiting
friends in Opelika.
Mrs. b. F. Moore has as her guests
Mrs. H. III. Towers and Mrs. Raymond
|of Knoxville.
Miss Katheryn Gray of Louisville, is
the guest of Miss Amey Chenoweth.
Dr. and Mrs. George Morrow have
gone to Galveston to visit their son,
Lieutenant George Morrow, who is sta
|tioned there.
Miss Annie L. Williams has returned
from Little Rock ana Oklahoma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
PEACH CROP IS NOT
DAMAGED BY FROST
Believe Yield Around Chat
tanOOga This Year Will
Be Banner One

Chattanooga, March 5.--(Special.) )--Re-
ports from the territory contiguous to
Chattanooga are to the effect that the
peach crop in this section this year win
be banner one. An even larger yield
than was experienced last year is OK
pected Owners of peach orchards state
that the recent could snap did not affect
the crop in any way, as the frost was
very light and the trees We're not lar
enough advanced at the time to suffer
material injury. The growers expect no
further difficulty with frost, as it is be-
lieved that the winter is entirely broken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
Drop CoOky Recipe

Here is the drop coolxy recipe asked for
by d. d. G.: Two cups brown sugar, one
cup shortening, one cup sour milk, two
eggs beaten light, one teaspoon soda,
pinch of salt four cups of flour. Add nut
meg or any fiavoring desired cinnamon
and cloves may be added. Mix well and
drop In small spoonfuls in a creased
pan. Allow room to spread. Bake in a
quick oven. A. L."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06

sweetly pleases now, or feels disposed to
light up. and he wears his shoes boldly
right through the front door. Johns al
most made good imitation of a home out
OF what was in Marys life time only an
extraordinarily well busted house. Mary's
mistake was one that many make. She
made fetch of the dust brush, and the
dust brush triumphed in the end"
It's truei
Many women do make a fetch OF the
aust pan, and the price they pay for
carrying the worship u extremes II
out Of all proportion to the returns
from it.
what does it profit woman to keep
perfect house If she drives the gentle
spirit of home from the place?
woman told me the other day that
she had friend of whom she was very
FOND, who had invited her to make her
a visit
Il wanted to go" said she. "but when
got to thinking about her house al
ways being in such perfect order with
furniture that had not nick or a
scratch on 1t, my courage failed me.
couldn't possibly feel comfortable In
surrouhdings so remote. l like furni-
ture that looks lived with; cushions
mat have dents in them. chairs that,
nave worn places. to hold ones head
ana couches that you can just fall
doWn on and go to sleep whenever YOU
reel like. SO when L considered tho
whoie thing TO go to visit in a house
that hadn't thing out of place, nor
scratch on the furniture | decided I
couldn't stand it,"
Il was very candid the woman con-
tinued, "and told my friend about Ii.
and she took il very nicely. Said she'd
always had that feeling herself. but
she had given up under the dominion
of household things and that she'd
never dared to take liberties with
them. She said II I decided to come
| must teach her how to live with the
furniture, or IL I preferred she would
get some new furniture that she
needed, and we'd break 1t in. She said
candidly that she hadn't a bit of real
affection for any of the chairs or books
or tables about her house, and couldn't
understand how / could be so silly as to
love inanimate things like that
That's because you've never broken
or hurt any of them. Once you stretch
or nick chair or a table, or hurt
1t in any way, that minute you begin
TO feel that it's up to you to care for
IL. We always love what we hurt, you
Know You hurt persons feelings
and that moment you begin to care for
that one. You can't help it"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
PAROLED TO ATTEND,
FUNERAL OF WIFE

Opelika. March Especially Mrs. A.
H. Hearn. wife Of Jack Hearn, the
aged white man recently convicted of
violating the prohibition laws in this
county and sentenced to hard labor.
died very suddenly at her home near
Smith Station yesterday. She was walk
ing in her yard when stricken and ex-
pired two hours laar
Mr. Hearn was sransed parole to
attend hia wifee ftnefp+.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
FIVE KILLED BY
DYNAMITE EXPLOSION

Los Angeles, Cal, March 5.-The
foreman and four men of Santa Fe
railroad construction gang We're killed
and 25 others were injured, some of
them fatally today at Keen Brook by
a premature explosion of dynamite.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
Prune Cake

One cup sugar, two-thirds cup butter.
one-half cup prune juice with a tea
spoon of soda dissolved in it. one cup
chopped prunes, two cups flour with one
half teaspoon baking powder sifted with
It, three eggs, one teaspoon cinnamon,
one-half teaspoon each Of cloves, nutmeg,
and allspice, and a pinch of salt.-Kind-
ness of Mrs. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
MISS ENSLEN'S LUNCHEON
FOR MISS SLACK

One of the prettily decorated tables at
the Country club yesterday was reserved
by Miss Gladys Enslen, who had with her
a small party in compliment to Miss
Ethel Slack of Lagrange. A large bas-
ket of jonquils and hyacinths occupied
the center of the table. The party were
all guests of Mrs. r. NJ. Goodall at
the Jefferson matinee after the luncheon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
Six Months Cake

Two cups sugar. one and one-half cups
butter, four eggs, Ave cups flour, one
cup molasses, one cup sweet milk, one
teaspoon soda, one pound raisins, one
pound currants, one-fourth pound citron,
spice to taste. This cake will keep a
long time and improves with age.-Kind-
ness of Mrs. A. W. p.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
A DISTINGUISHED WOMAN TO
VISIT BIRMINGHAM

Mrs. C. NJ. Winnsboro will spend
few days in this city next week as the
guest of Mrs. James Bruce. Mrs. Winns-
boro stops here en- route to Admission from
New Orleans, where she will attend the
Presbyterial which convenes in that city
on March IA. She is superintendent of
the woman's council of the Presbyterian
church. She will probably be entertained
by local members of her church in man
ner befitting her position, one day next
week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
Banishing Red Ants

1T is quite true that by the use of oil
of sassafras I completely rid my house of
red ants. l have never since been
troubled with them. ! see that some
one wants me to give particulars. I first
tried many other remedies for the plague.
These included borax, chalk marks, setting
the legs of the refrigerator in pans of
water with kerosene on the surface and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06

Mrs. Watkins is a former Montgomery
friend of Mrs. Hansons and is recent
addition to Birmingham's young married
set. She is a charming woman and will
be gladly welcomed by Birmingham So
ciety.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
MRS. GOODALL
ENTERTAINS FOR MISS SLACK

A box party at the Jefferson to wit
ness ''The Typhoon'' yesterday afternoon
was in compliment to Miss Ruth Slack
of LAGRANGE, who is the guest of Mrs.
r. S. Warner. Mrs. r. NJ. Goodall was
the hostess and the guests were Miss
Slack, Miss Gladys Ensen, Mrs. Leo Kee-
mig. Mrs. p. $. Sheldon of Atlanta ana
Mrs. r.. S. Warner
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
LEVI p. MORTON
is DANGEROUSLY I'LL

New York, March 5.--Levi p, Morton,
vice president in the Harrison admin
istration, and former governor of New
York, is seriously i'll here. He is SO
years old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
The woman was right.

lie NOulin WAS Tight
Some one said that true freedom In
life is the destruction of things
things that depress one or that domi-
nate one.
What's the sense of living with fur
niture that you're afraid of?
A woman of my acquaintance had
decorator to do her home, and it was
pronounced a success as far as artistic
values went
But that houses usefulness as a
house was at an end.
II can't be at ease in it." the woman
declared. You see If | move a chair
or turn n sofa around, it throws the
whole composition out of plumb and
dare not disturb this table or take
liberties with the piano or foot stools or
any thing in the house. And as nor,
the portraits. Heavens! The decorator
hung my grandmother's portrait side
by side with my Aunt Sarah, and the
two didn't even speak to each other
when they were alive, and in death
know they had to be divided to keep
peace wherever they went To hang
them next to each other, suggested a
note of unrest in the drawing room that
can never get over
IF 1t were mine, L said. you could
Just sit by and see what I'd do to what
that decorator had done I'd do my
house to suit myself I'd have things
TO reflect my own personality which
in the final analysis is the real sue
cess of house. A house should be
homelike. and comfortable-as easy as
an old shoe-and the spirit OF the
place should be peace and rest. If you
get that 1t doesn't matter where the
pictures hang or II there is an occa-
sional speck of dust behind the row of
books in the top shelf of the book
case. In fact. there's much more in
life than the attitude of the woman
who makes fetch of the dustsbrush.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
Outdoor Sleeping Outfit

Tor the benefit of Fresh Air F'iend' l
should like to recommend my sleeping out
fit. An outdoor sleeping garment and
hood has feet in it, much the same as
small children wear. l never get cold.
Have slept out for four years and half
in a tent house. Newspapers under mat
tress and spread made OF them is meter
than much covering. Cold cannot get
through paper. / warm the bed with corn
bags, which are much better than irons
or hot water bag; made of colored canton
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
MISS WILLIAMS
LUNCHEON HOSTESS

Miss Annie L. Williams was one of
the hostesses at the Country club lunch
con yesterday, entertaining at a table
for six.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
HAND HINTS FOR THE HOME

flannel, preferred to muslin. A sleeping
bag wuuld be inconvenient. undress In
the house. MRS. II. I. c."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06

Miss Annie L. Williams has returned
from Little Rock and Oklahoma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06

The Birmingham Equal Suffrage as
sociation will not hold meeting this
week, the regular meeting having
been postponed until next Saturday
Afternoon.
The Dickinson press., 1913-04-19
West of kudeer

Chas. Adams and family spent Sum-
day at the home of John Lee.
Glenn Van Vleet was honored by a
birthday dinner party Wednesday.
Kowis returned this week from Bel
field, where he bought some stock.
Mr. Carr took his wife and mother to
Dickinson this week for a short stay
there.
Mrs. George Marlin is at Charlie Mar
tins caring for the new baby boy and
mother.
The dance at Andersons the 5th was
attended by q big crowd and a fine
time is reported.
John Jares and Lula Lanphear at
tended the surprise dance at Anton
Grass the 18th and report an unusually
good time.
Mr.. Lanphear and Mr.. Cummings
came out from Dickinson Wednesday.
Mr.. Lanphear is helping Mr.. Cummings
build his house on the Anderson 80.
Jacob Freed of Dickinson stayed at
S. Blanks Saturday night. file was
out for the purpose of seeing about his
witnesses for the contest he is carrying
on.
The Dickinson press., 1913-04-19

1t is just a little queer that the Trib-
une write-up nan v saw the three
story Elk building. a structure that
will cost when furnished fully $500, :
600. The order has over 800 members
in southwestern North Dakota, a large
number of whom are surely readers of
the Bismarck daily. There is the new
St. Joseph's hospital. a fire proof struc-
ture and ..oae of the best of it's kind
this side of St. Paul, and mot one
word appeared in The Tribune story.
The Masonic temple, Carnagie library,
modern high school building and two
lage brick manufacturing plants would
have been good subjects for a little
comment and would have been appre-
ciated by sensible people vastly more
than stereotype puffs, carelessly bestow-
ed. that the were given. One of the H.
Illustrations was a street scene in 1883,
showing many loads of buffalo hides
corded in the highway, and the special
p%aragrapher had this labeled a wool
scene. Correct history tells us that
about the first sheep shipped into this
country was by C. E. Dobson in 1888.
and it was not until five or ten years
later that Dickinson was recognized as
a great wool market.
The Dickinson press., 1913-04-19

all thu first choice zotes cast De u elec-
ted without further. counting. II no
candidate has a majority the candidate
with the lowest vote is eliminated, and
the second choice votes cast by his sur
porters are then distributed where thew
belong. If that gives any candidate q
majority he is elected. If not the pro-
~ of elimination and distribution Of
second choice votes is continued until
some person has a majority. The ad.
VANTAGE Of the plan is that the voter
knows that his second choice vote Will
not be counted so long as his first choice
candidate remains in the field as q DOS
sibility. 1t is easy to figure out condi /.
tions under which, even with this law.
the result actually desired by the people
would not be reached. but at any rate
the plan looks like the best that has
yet been devised. Grand Forks Herald.
The Dickinson press., 1913-04-19

which amount the board finds to he a
reasonable damage sustained BY said
Nick Obish in opening the said road.
1t appearing that the improvements
were assessed against both the neA and
the seq of section 80. twp. 139, rance
"a, q refund was authorized for the i'm
pr0vements assessed to the seq section
33-139-94 on a valuation of $3.50, &C.
count of double assessment, also a re-
bate for a road poll to the owner, John
Little.
Albert Ruechert was allowed q rebate
on a road poll being exempt.
Geo. Hettenbaugh was allowed a re-
fund of ST on account of being assessed
with school poll in district number 4,
also in district number IA thereby be-
ing a double charge.
The statement of the register of deeds
showing the amount $619. 20 turned in
to the county treasurer for the month of
March was ordered filed.
1t appearing that Emil Glass was
enormously assessed for So cattle the
treasurer was authorized to deduct the
taxes on the valuation 1912, the same
being an error. .....
A: D. Davis was appointed coroner,
his bond being approved as to form by
the states attorney and as to amount
and suficiency by the board.
The bond of the Minneapolis Bridge
Co. in the amount of So, 900 was &C.
cepted.
Frank ]. Mayer was appointed asses
s0r OF the second commissioners dis
trict, his bond being approved as to
form by the states attorney and az to
amount and suficiency by the board.
On mot ion the board adjourned to
May 5th.
j. L. HUGHES.
- g. 0n,,-As, A~-
The Dickinson press., 1913-04-19
C O CHOICE VOTING

The North Dakota law now appears to
contain no provision for second choice
voting. the original provision for that
purpose having been repealed by a re:
cent law the purpose of which is under
stood to have been to amend certain
provisions of the old law. but which
really wiped the old law out entirely,
and left nothing in its place. On the
whole it is not likely that we are
much worse off. Second choice voting
is something of an experiment and the
law under which we are working was
not likely to Give satisfaction. The
purposes of all second choice laws is to
ascertain as nearly as possible whom
the people really wish to elect when
there are three or more candidates run
ming for the same Office. At present,
without something in the nature of a
second choice law, a plurality of the
votes cast seIves to elect. This is far
from being satisfactory in many cases.
because it happens in some instances
that the friends of either of the minor
ity candidates would prefer the other
minority candidate to the one who &C.
tually leads in the vote.
To remedy this various methods of
second choice voting were devised, and
there appears to be something the mat
ter with most of them. Most of the
second choice systems are open to the
objection that when the voter votes
his second choice he may be casting a
vote which will deprive his first choice
of the office. Naturally he does not
wish to do this. So far as we have
been able to learn, the Minnesota law
avoids this difficulty better than any
other. In this state as In all others if
any candidate receives a majority of
The Dickinson press., 1913-04-19

The directors of the Beach Advance
have decided that they want C. l. Cook
back as editor and manager in place of
Pierce E9an. who has been in charge
of the paper for some time. Mi. Cook
has been farming for a year but it is
understood that he will be ready to take
his place with the Advance again in u
month. Mr.. Egan announces that he
will remain in Beach and that he may
be heard from now and then.
The Dickinson press., 1913-04-19

Gov. L. B.. Hanna has designated
Friday. May End. as Arbor Day in North
dakota. Gov. F. v. Stewart of Mon
tana has named Tuesday, May 18th, as
Arbor Day in his state. People should
set trees and shrubs in the yards if they
have not already done so. and the farm
ers who have not started groves should
not let another year 60 by without set
ting an acre or two with trees.