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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-12

Cole Blease is the boss pardoner of the
United States. He ought to have a fairly
well organized Political machine by this
time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-12

Your true "Spug" will not buv loud
neckties and "stinkerino'' cigars for
Christmas presents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-12

The mother of young woman who has
just had her first love affair is suing the
man in the case for 100000. She doesn't
stop to consider that the experience is
worth something to the girl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-12

Life convicts in Nebraska are given a
high school course, but on graduation day
they don't go out to battle with the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-12

New Years Day will be day of rest
for President Wilson. There is nothing
like knowing how to shatter precedent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-12
A SHORT-CHANGE MAN

The high cost of living is sometimes
traceable to "high living"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-12

While 1913 has not been bad year
for business, it is generally thought
that 1914 will be good times record
breaker. Some people inclined to be
superstitious predict that we are en-
tering on a hundred years stretch of
prosperity for the year "13" will nor
occur again during that period.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-12
SURE THING

From Judge.
What are union rates, pa?"
Wedding fees, my SON."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-12

special type of globe on street arc
lamps inscribed with the words fire
alarm in red, soon will be installed
throughout Philadelphia to indicate the
location of fire alarm boxes. The plan
has been evolved by the chief of the
electric bureau. Such indicators will be
so conspicuous that any citizen seeing
evidence of fire will be able to To-
cate the nearest fire alarm box at once
and turn in an alarm. This cooperation
on the part of citizens will be well
coined by Philadelphia's fire bureau.
And to complete such services Chief
Pike is installing on all of the fire
alarm boxes a small glass door behind
which to turn in the alarm. Danger OF
miscreants wantonly turning in false
alarms, Chief Pike says, is so remote as
to be negligible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-12
Birmingham College

Good progress is being made in the
canvass for money for Birmingham col
lege, a part of which is to be used In
the other half to be invested as an en-
dowment fund" said public spirited cit
izen not of the Methodist household.
During the fall the agent of the college,
the Rev. J. B. Cummings, has been pre-
senting the matter to a number Of
churches in various sections-Gadsden
Talladega, Admission and other cities, and
with good results. His purpose is to con-
tinue this plan until the Methodists of the
conference have contributed a total Of
s250Oo0, sum equal to two-thirds OF
which, or $166,000, has been subscribed al
ready. Then it will be the purpose of the
agent and the frienos of the college to
ask the citizens of Birmingham, regard
less of denominational affiliations to aid.
'The college has right to call upon
the city, because it is the purpose of those
in control to make the institution one OF
which the entire city will be proud. The
college with modern buildings and equip
ment will certainly benefit this city as
whole. Meanwhile, r. S. Munger, F. NJ
Jackson and the Rev. DIR. ]. B. Simpson
have been appointed a committee with
full power to act. They have been au-.
thorized to employ a landscape architect
and have the college grounds artistically
laid off. The same gentlemen are to em-
ploy an architect to redesgn plans for a
main building to cost 100000. Just how
soon work will begin on this building will
depend largely on how rapidly the sub
scriptions are collected, but it Is hoped to
lay the foundations before the close of the
present school year. To show how loyal
the authorities of the college are to Bir-
mingham at a recent meeting of the exec
utive committee, in planning for the i'm
provements, it was unanimously agreed to
give preference to home architects, build
ers and materials when this could be done
without serious injury to the institution"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Iron Market


While the iron market is still quiet
there has been a notable Improvement re-
Gently for the price is firm now at s11
on No. basis,' said a well known
broker
Some sales had been made at less then
$3.50, but the sl1 quotation is well MAIN
tained at the present time. Inquiries are
more pressing, and the tendency of the
market is therefore UPWARD. We have
reason to expect a good buying move
ment IN the near future, and | believe
that with the new year we will see iron
selling in large tonnage at S11-50. if not
higher. The railroads have kept out of
the market for needed material about
as long as they can, and as soon as they
increase their orders the iron and steel
trade will be directly benefited
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-12
A Commodity Always In Demand

1.-THE shoe business has been highly sat
isfactory this year, so far as l know"
said Hugh Nj. Brown, the well known
manufactures agent
''The shoe trade has been brisk, indeed,
in Alabama. The farmers were never so
well off, perhaps, as they are this year.
Prosperity is particularly noticeable in the
small towns situated in the cotton belt.
"As shoes come under the head of me-
cessities, they are always in demand even
when people complain of hard times, but
when pay rolls are big in the Industrial
centers and the farmers are in fine shape,
we are able, as matter of course, to sell
more of the high grade Stock
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-12

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala,
postoffice as second class matter uhoer
act of Congress Marcn 3. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-12

A. ]. Eaton, Jr., and o. e. Young are
the only authorized travelling repre-
sentatives of The Age-Herald in its cir
culation department.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17

Late spring frosts cause immense
losses of fruit in Iowa and help to
discourage growers until many of
them neglect, destroy or dispose Of
their orchards.
For this reason the Iowa agricul-
tural experiment station has sought to
determine the value and efficiency Of
some Of the orchard heating devices
now on the market. During the sea
son Of 1911, tests were conducted in
three different orchards and in addi-
ton several individual growers in
various sections of the state tried out
heating as a means of frost protec-
ton.
These first tests demonstrated these
facts:
That the temperature in an orchard
can be raised several degrees in time
of frost.
That orchard heating as a method
OF insurance against frost is practical
BILE under Iowa conditions during most
seasons.
The most important of these tests
was carried on at the stations or
chard at Council Bluffs, comprising a
23'acre tract. The other two tests
were conducted on home orchards.
one near the Council Bluffs orchard.
the other at Ames.
On the night of May / the orchard
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17
SILAGE FOR
DAIRY CATTLE
BY PROF. H. H. kILDEE, Iowa State
College.

BY PROF. II. II. kiL0EE, Iowa State
College.
The value of silage was first real
lied by dairy farmers for nowhere is
the silo so much necessity as upon
the dairy farm. And no dairy farm is
complete in its equipment that does
not have at least one silo for winter
feeding and one with a smaller diam
eter for summer feeding.
The characteristics Of good corn
silage make 1t prominently a feed
for dairy cattle. 1t Is palatable, sue
culent, bulky, beneficial to the diges-
tive tract, and economical. These are
among the leading characteristics Of
the ration which is essential to the
largest and most economical flow Of
milk.
In fact, most dairy farmers in the
corn belt realize that to secure the
largest possible, profits from a. herd OF
cows they must feed corn silage. In
regions where corn cannot be grown
successfully for silage, many dairy
men have silos in which they cure
other crops,
Experiments carried on at the diff
ferent experiment stations show con.
clusively that silage is far superior to
shock corn or hay in milk production.
Silage fed cows produced from eleven
to thirteen per cent. more milk than
cows fed fodder from the same acre
age.
Contrary to the opinion formerly
held the milk from silage fed cows is
not inferior in flavor or odor to the
milk from cows fed dry feed The
condensed milk companies which for
merly did not favor milk from silage
fed cows, are now advising their
patrons to put up silos.
Great care should be taken, how
ever, to prevent the odor Of silase
from communicating the freshly drawn
milk which takes up odors very quick
ly. II Is best to feed the silage after
milking and just what will be eaten
up clean at that feed. The silos
should be shut of from the barn prop
er. The idea still held by some, that
corn silage will destroy the teeth and
digestive tract OF the COW and induce
such diseases as tuberculosis, is er-
roneous.
During the latter part Of July and
the month Of August, the pastures are
usually very short, due to hot weather
and lack OF rainfall. II We are to
keep up the flow Of milk at this crit
ical time We must supply additional
feed.
Therefore, a silo small in diameter
filed for summer use is the most sat
isfactory and economical solution Of
this problem. on the average farm.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17
All Fools Day.

When freakish April lifts the latch
all wits and wags consider themselves
free to vent their nonsense upon the
victims whom they would fool by their
tricks. The gay Partisan calls such
April fish; in bonnie Scotland on
this day they make merry hunting
the gowk," whilst in England and this
country a man keeps q sharp lookout
lest he be caught at a disadvantage by
the joker who glories In his smartness
II he only can make some one look
ridiculous. But it is just as well not
to be too smart. The boomerang has
wicked habit of coming back. Silly
as All Fools day custom may seem to
the solemn, it has an ancient ancestry.
Its origin is obscure, but somewhere
from the far-off times when those old
Romans felt the Tilt Of the vernal equi-
nox, and went on the spree accord
ingly, comes this rollick which still
trills forth its merry ditty in our
streets. Deeper still. the calm. con-
templative Hindu, for some reason or
other, from time immemorial has gone
a-fooling on the first Of April. 1t was
probably from France, whence all
things vivacious come, that Europe got
the unruly itch for turning this day
into a comedy Of errors.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17
Woman S Beauty is
Based ON Health
To Have Health, Bowel
Movement is Absolutely
NeCeSSary-HOW Best
TO Obtain it

II woman's beauty depended upon
cosmetics every woman would be a
picture of loveliness. But beauty lies
deeper than that. 1t lies in health.
In the majority of cases the basis of
health and the cause of sickness, can
be traced to the action of the bowels.
The headaches, the lassitude, the
sallow skin and the lusterless eyes are
usually due to constipation. So many
things that women do habitually con-
duce to this trouble They do not
eat carefully, they eat indigestibIe
foods because the foods are served
daintily and they do not exercise
enough. But whatever the particular
condition should be corrected.
An ideal remedy for women, and one
especially suited to their delicate re-
quirements, is DR.. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin, which thousands of women en-
dorse highly. Mrs. Jennie Snedeker,
1041 West Monroe St., Chicago, testi-
fies that she is cured of grave stom-
aCh and bowel troubles by using Syrup
Pepsin and without the aid of doc
tor or any other medicine" All the
family can use Syrup Pepsin, for thou
sands of mothers give it to babies and
children. II is also admirably suited
to the requirements Of elderly people,
in fact to all who by reason of age or
infirmity cannot stand harsh salts, ca
thartics, pills or purgatives. These
should always be avoided for at best
their effect is only for that day, while
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17
Costs Less Than a TWo-cent
POSTAGE Stamp

An average of less than a cent and
a third a pair is paid for the use of all
our machines in making two-thirds Of
the shoes produced in the United
understanding that all our ma
chimes are used. The most that can
be paid for the use Of all our ma
chimes In making the highest-priced
shoes is less than 5% cents a pair.
The average royalty on all kinds OF
shoes Is less than 2 2-3 cents a pair.
From this we get our sole return for
the manufacture and use of the ma
chimes. for setting them up in facto-
ries and keeping them in order. You
pay two cents for a postage stamp or
a yeast-cake and FIVE cents for a car
fare and don't miss it. Where do you
get more for your money than in buy
ing a machine.made shoe?
Write US and we will tell you all
about 1t. The United Shoe Machinery
Company, Boston, Mass.-Adv.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17

| heating pots were burned about three
hours. That the temperature was ma
terially raised in the heated area was
shown by the fact that outside the
heated area the ground and the trees
were thoroughly covered with snow,
while inside the heated area, except
where the snow blew in on the north
side, the ground was bare, as we're
the trees also.
In this test the heaters were lighted
at 2:30 a. m. At this time the tenn
perature had dropped to 20 degrees.
The temperature of the outside I'M
heated area kept falling until It
reached 26 degrees at six o'clock,
when it rose rapidly. But in the heat
ed area, by three o'clock. or in half
hour, the temperature had been raised
above the freezing mark, and by six
o'clock the temperature Of the heated
trees was above "a degrees.
II is roughly estimated that after
the first years cost of installation the
cost of protecting home orchard will
amount to between 81 and So per acre
per hour When the fruit is highly
priced, this expense will not be pro-
hibitive, and under ordinary condi-
tons the fruit can be saved on small
areas.
Windbreaks will be found especially
valuable in protecting small areas
during high winds.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17
PIMPLES COVERED FACE

1913 Dayton St., Chicago, nl-"My
face was very red and irritated and
was covered with pimples. The PIN
pies festered and came to a head.
They itched and burned and when
scratched them became sore. tried
soaps and they weuld not stop the
itching and burning of the skin. This
lasted for month or more. At last
tried Cuticura Ointment and Soap.
They took out the burning and itching
Of the skin. soothing it very much and
giving the relief that the others failed
to give me. used the Cuticura Soap
and Ointment about three weeks and
was completely cured" (Signed) Miss
Clara Mueller, Mar. 16, 1919.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample OF each
free. with S2-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept. L. Boston"
Adv
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17
FEED The SOIL
PROPER FOOD
BY s. D. SNYDER, Iowa State
College.

Under ordinary conditions, with
proper management in this country"
says Prof. W. H. Stevenson OF Iowa
State college, I'VE should be able to
grow so bushels Of wheat, 100 bushels
Of corn, so to 100 bushels of oats,
and four tons Of clover hay per acre"
He also claims that the amount of
plant food in the soil does not indi-
cate the size Of the crop grown on
that soil. 1t only shows the ability
OF that soil to produce maximum
crops.
The size of the crop produced de-
ponds directly upon the rate at which
the plant food ia the soil Is set free.
This liberation can be controlled by
the farmer by means Of three factors,
namely, by use of limestone, organic
matter and by tillage. Limestone is
very important factor in the lib
Grating of plant food. 1t not only lib
crates plant food. but 1t also encour-
ages growth of bacteria on legumes
which take nitrogen from the air.
Burned limestone can be applied to
the soil with very satisfying results
for a few years. After the first few
years 1t leaves the soil in a worn out
condition. and in worse physical con-
dition than 1t was at the beginning.
The most desirable property of lime
stone is that It neutralizes the acids
formed in the soil.
Organic matter is supplied to the
soil from three sources. First, old
crops residues; second, from green
cover crops; third, barnyard manures.
1t is known from experiment that the
decay Of organic matter encourages
the liberation Of plant food in the
soil. Experimentalists have found that
Of the three kinds of above named Or
ganic matter, the green cover crop is
the most active. Two tons OF green
clover, for instance, will take the
place Of 20 tons Of old crop residue,
and four tons of barnyard manure will
encourage liberation Of plant food as
fast as 20 tons Of the old residue.
Therefore the farmer has the reins
with which he can guide the manage.
ment OF his farm to success or failure.
The tillage will be governed In
amount by the season. BY proper tall
age, the ground will be properly Gre
ated and the moisture will be con-
served. Many times fields Of corn have
yielded poorly simply because the
ground has not been worked to con-
serve the moisture and keep out the
weeds.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17
A BOY INTERPRETER
A Young Massachusetts, Swede in Can
ada Twenty Years Ago Wants
to Return.

Twenty years ago, a blond-haired
young Swede, boy of about 10 years
of age, accompanied a party of his
ellow-countrymen on the then long
trip to Western Canada as an inter-
prefer. The party he accompanied To-
Gated at Wetaskiwin, Alberta, now one
of the most thriving and best settled
districts in Western Canada. For
three years he remained in the dis
trict. Homesickness took him back
to his home at Fitchburg, Mass, and
he has remained there for II years.
He has heard frequently from his
friends in the West. He has followed
their movements and watched their
progress. He has heard how the town
he helped to establish has risen from
a shack to a growing. thriving, brisk
business center, with the surrounding
country peopled now by thousands
who are occupying the territory in
which he was one of the first to help
plant the colony Of twenty or twenty
five. In his letter to an official Of the
Department of the Interior, he says:
when I was up in Canada, Calgary
was a small town and so was Edmon-
ton, but understand they have grown
wonderfully since"
The young man when he went last
learned machine trade, he has pat
ents and inventions but he wants to
go to Canada again. And he likely
will. but when he does he will find
greater change than he may expect.
Calgary and Edmonton are large
cities, showing marvellous and wonder
full growth. Where but one line of
railway made a somewhat tortuous
to its mountain pass, there are three
lines Of railway dividing the trade OF
hundreds of thousands of farmers,
carrying freight to the hundreds
Of towns and cities crossing and
criss-crossing the prairies in all
directions, reaching out into new
settlements. and preceding districts to
be newly opened for incoming settlers.
He will not be able to secure q home
stead unless at a considerable distance
from the town, the three dollar an
acre land is selling at from $15 to $S5
an acre. He will find now what was
but theory then, that this land that
was then SO an acre is worth the $50
or $35 that may be asked for it, and
good deal more. But he will find that
he can secure a homestead Just as
good as any that were taken In his
day, and today worth $S5 an acre, but
at some distance from a line Of rail-
way, yet with a certainty Of railway
in the near future, and he will find tco
that he can still get land at SIS to $18
an acre that will in a year or two be
worth $50 or s35 an acre. Mr.. Nose
son is talking to his countrymen about
Canada Advertisement
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17
FRIENDS HELP.
St. Paul Park Incident.

after drinking coffee for breakfast
l always felt languid and dull, having
no ambition to get to my morning
duties. Then in about an hour or SO
weak. nervous arrangement Of the
heart and stomach would come over
me with such force would frequently
have to lie down"
Tea is just as harmful, because II
contains caffeine, the same drug found
in coffee.
AT other times I had severe head
aches; stomach finally became affect
ed and digestion SO impaired that
had serious chronic dyspepsia and
constipation. A lady, for many years
State President OF the w. G. T. u.
told me she had been greatly ben
Gifted by quitting coffee and using
Postum; she was troubled for years
with asthma. She said 1t was nc
cross to quit coffee when she found
she could have as delicious an
article as Postum.
Another lady who had been trou'
bled with chronic dyspepsia for years
found Immediate relief on ceasing cot
fee and using Postum. Still another
friend told me that Postum was q
Godsend, her heart trouble having
been relieved after leaving or coffee
and taking IN -'ostum.
$50 many such cases came to my
notice that concluded coffee was the
cause OF my trouble and quit and
took up Postum. am more than
pleased to say that my days OF trou
bic have disappeared. I am well and
happy"
Look in pkgs, for the famous little
book, THE Road to MELVILLE"
Ever read the above letterf A new
one appears from time 20 time. They
are genuine, true, and full OF humar
infeFest
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17
Ear5y Rhubsrb-

Early rhubarb can be grown in any
ordinary cellar thus: When a thaw
comes up dig up one or more rhubarb
clump from the garden. with consid-
cradle soil clinging to the roots. and
put them on the cellar floor; the
warmer the cellar. the sooner growth
will begin. Cite them a little water
occasionally. and await results.
Light does not seem to be necessary.
for the stalks grow all right even
In dark place.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17
Effects Of sIIaae on MIX.

Contrary to the opinion formerly
held. the milk from silage fed cows ia
not inferior In flavor or odor to the
milk from cows fed dry feed. The
condensed milk companies which for
merly did not favor milk from silage
fed cows. are now advising their
patrons to put mp silos.
Great care should be taken. how
ever. TO prevent the odor OF silage
from communicating the freshly drawn
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17

milk. which takes up odors very quick
ly. 1t is best to feed the silage after
milking and just what will be eaten
up clean At that feed. The silos should
be shut of from the barn proper. The
idea still held by some. that Sorn
silage will destroy the teeth and d.
gestive tract of the COW and induce
such diseases as tuberculosis, is err.
roneous.-Prof. II. H. Kildee, Iowa
State College.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17
Bio Returns From Sealing

With a catch of $4,000 seals, the
steamer Stephano is the first Of the
sealing feet operators in Newfound.
land waters to report.
She brought news that the Nasco-
pie had $4,000 fish, the Florizel $4,000,
the Sagona $4,000, the Eagle 10000,
the Ballaventure 10000, the Bonaveu.
ture 5000 and the Adventure 1000.
Others OF the feet had poor luck.
Advices from the four ships sealing
in the Gulf of St. Lawrence indicate
that the prospects for a good season
are excellent.-St. Johns IN. F. Dis.
patch to New York World.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17
FARM NOTES

A ration for milk production con
sists of two parts, food for the main
tenance of the animals body and food
for the production of milk. Why "cuss
the COW when you are feeding a bare
maintenance ration!
A SOW eats her young because her
system Graves protein. Feed her tank.
age and prevent such accidents.
Corn fodder or silage with corn
alone do not make balanced rations.
An addition of two-thirds pound cot
ton seed meal to the daily ration pro
duces more economical and faster
gains.