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Connecticut western news., 1914-07-23
Wise Hints.

Dr. Frank H. Wright, the energetic and progressive health officer of New Haven, who has been urging a swat the-fy, cleaner-streets and more-sani- tary- ement crusade, has issued the following hints to people who live in rented houses:
 Don't misuse property because you do not own it..
 Don't throw garbage in ashes or ashes in the garbage can.
 Don't throw garbage about the yard. If a receptacle is not provided notify the board of health.
 Don't throw rubbish about the yard. Pile it up neatly in a corner.
 Don't throw your refuse into your neighbor's yard.
 Don't allow the halls to become dirty. Keep them clean and we'll aired. Don't let dirt ana refuse collect around the sink. Wash your dishes promptly.
 Don't allow foods of any kind to be unprotected.
 Don't allow flies in the house. Keep the windows open, but protected by screens.
 Don't allow the halls to become dirty. Keep them swept and dusted. Don't throw into the water closet articles that may stop the waste pipe.
 Don't splash slops around the water closets. Keep them clean and well aired
 Don't allow water closets to get dirty or smell badly. If there is not a sufficient water supply notify the board of health.
 Don't keep dogs and cats in the house unless they are house broken.
 Dr. Wright knows what he is talking about. For quarter of a century he has been health officer in New Haven and in that time has seen enough to make his advice worth a great deal. The hints the doctor publishes are wise ones and might be applied in Hartford or any other city.-Hartford Post,
 "Are you fond of Bach, MT. Dubs?" Really, Mrs. De Sousa, very seldom D.,a 1a
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-23
Thanks for the Relief.

"John" she said, as he settled down for his after dinner smoke, "I've got u lot of things I want to talk to you about"
 Good, " said her husband affably. "I'm glad to hear it. Usually you want to talk to me about lot of things you haven't got. "-Stray Stories.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-23
Auto Headlights Wrapped Tn Paper,

The effect of the wholesale arrests made Wednesday and Thursday in Hartford shown by the unusual sight, common Friday night, of automobiles driven through the streets with their headlights "mufied" in pieces of wrapping paper tied over the glass fronts.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-23

captured. At t nat time tl e. rre be. lieved not to have known that they were outside the State of New York and they made no effort by law to prevent the officers bringing them to Pough- keepsie.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-23
What He Thouphf.

Gus-The idea of his saying I had more money than brains! Quite ridic- ulous!
 Jack-That so? Gus-Of course. Why, haven't got penny.
 Jack-well?--stray Stoties.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-23

"Was her marriage happy oneY"
 "Ishould say it was. She was draw ing alimony in less than six months. !" Buffalo Express.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-23

"Are you fond of Bach, MT. Dubs?" Really, Mrs. De Sousa, very seldom drink anything. "-Buffalo Express.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-24

But it is a pleasure to live among
folks who are happy, cheerful, helpful
and useful.
It is the last word, USEFUL, that
has caused me to write these lines
in the hope of encouraging Zone
Mans Opinions" in this direction
more and more, how these ideas hap
piness, cheerfulness, helpfulness and
USEFULNESS may be elaborated up
on and brought out in your opinions.
There is another side, and that is
the one which Christian Wolf had not
known in life, and had never been
shown anything useful Yes, anything
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-24

fine him if it will stop him being made
a citizen?
And the assurance of each that
they are all good friends now and it
will never happen again, until an
other Russian Easter Sunday, and
the low bows from the waists when
the judge let's them go.
A boy caught buying rags and
weighing them on scale that could
be manipulated to register as little
as the peddler wished and the weight
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-24

be unraVeled by a very human Judge
are very human tangles.
A quarrel on the Russian Easter
Sunday when everybody drinks too
much, and general fight ensues be-
tween husband and wife and all the
''in-laws'' that is forgotten as soon
as the heads clear, but which must
be explained after the police have in
terfered and made arrests. The plea
of youth that he has taken out his
first citizen papers in this great
country, and will the judge please not
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-24
helpful, never received any REAL

helpful, never received any REAL
HELP.
And if this useful and helpful side
of life cannot be encouraged, devel-
oped and taken with us everywhere
in all walks and talks of life, then
none of us who are here now or those
who may come after us, has any aim,
mission or real hope in life. Not even
you, Mr.. Editor:
You are making an attempt. Your
crown and reward is liberty. Chris
tan Wolf is also free.
Yours very sincerely,
August Olson, 1916 osgood ST.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-24
SITTING WITH JUDGE FRY FOR MORNING IN
:. THE MAXWELL POLICE COURT


competition"
neghbors eyeght pepper
sulphur
Judge smeed of bag with
hours when the rubbed the his
kerchief.
sphinx
neigh
their $25
socally.
Maxwell street police court interesting and human story
by Dickens There
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27
TESTS FOR TEACHERS.
IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS.
MississippiP Proposes to Have
Instructors Stand Tests in
Subjects They Teach

jackson. Miss. February 26-(Special)
During the debate in the house yester-
day over the bill requiring high school
teachers to stand examination on the sub
ject they propose to teach. it was stated
by some of the enemies of the measure
that the object of the bill was to create
a teachers trust. and give fat jobs TO
some of the pets of the department of ed
uoation Dr. Powers state superintendent
of education. gives out an interview in
which he denies the existence of anything
in the nature of trust, and declares
the bill defeated by the house was for the
best interests of the children of the state.
He states that the appropriations for ed
ucational purposes during the two-year
period will be close to $4,000, ,0000, and that
money should be protected by using every
endeavor to see that it is paid to we'll quail
flied teachers.
Continuing. DR.. Powers says: with the
lowest public school curriculum of any
state in the nation, with this amount of
money being appropriated. we rank forty
fifth in point of educational efficiency
among the IS states, and "A lack of machin-
cry is largely responsible for this condi-
ton of affairs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27
SENATE HUNTING
PUBLICITY LEAK

Washington, February 26.-Publicity
given to recent executive proceedings
in the Senate it developed today, has so
aroused some members of that body that
resolution has been introduced and re-
ferred to the committee on rules, direct
ing the committee ON foreign relations
to conduct an investigation Into the
sources by which the executive informa-
ton is obtained.
Publication of incidents in the debate
on the general arbitration treaties last
week precipitated discussion which gave
rise to the resolution. which was I'M
troduced in a subsequent executive ses-
ing discussion of the resolutions sena-
tors We're accused of violating their oaths
in revealing executive affairs. and one
senator proposed that n law be enacted
which would make it a penal offense for
anyone to publish facts relating to mat
ters held secret under the Senate rules
The suggestion preciptated lively de-
bate behind closed doors, many senator's
vigorously opposing such action. One
senator declared that in this day of grow
ing public opinion against secrecy in leg
islation, a law to penalize publicity would
arouse such a wave of indignation that
IL would be impossible of enforcement
Several members asserted that they
would be willing to defend anyone ae-
cused under such a law ana would guar
antee an acquittal In every case.
The suggestion did not pass beyond
the stage of discussion The resolution
offered by Senator Kern was referred
to the rules committee, which has not
acted upon ii up to this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27
HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY TO MEET
State Convention to Convene
at Thorsby During First
Week in March

Thorsby, February 26-tSpeciaLl-Th
eleventh annual meeting of the Alabama
State Horticultural society is to be held
at Thorsby March T. 5, 6.
The following programme has been pre-
pared:
WEDNESDAY,. MARCH 4, A. NJ
Invocation by chaplain. the Rev. J. w.
Cary, New Decatur.
Address of welcome, ]. Bice. mayor of
Thorsby. and NJ. j. Sooerg, president
rhorsby Truck association.
Response, d. c. Turnipseed. Union
Springs.
Annual address of president. J. II. Nc
Cary, Birmingham.
Annual report of secretary and treas
urer Prof. J. c. c Price Auburn; annual
reports of vice presidents.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, p. NJ
Subject to be announced, Prof. j. S.
Caldwell. Auburn.
The Pecan and It's Use as Food" d.
C. Turnipseed. Union Springs.
Pecan Culture" Alex McRae, Flor
ala.
Pecan Culture ]. A. Kernodle, Camp
Hill.
Night Session: illustrated lecture. "Or-
chard and Garden Pests" DIR. W. e.
Kinds, Auburn.
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, a. NJ.
History of the Satsuma Orange" S.
Imura, Mobile
Orange Culture" T. Kiyono. Mobile.
Apple Growing in Northeast Georgia.,
L. A. Niven, Atlanta.
Peach Growing in Alabama" L. j.
Bryan, birmingham.
"Some Results with Lead Arsenate
Sprays" j. A. Dew, Mobile
THURSDAY, MARCH ). z. NJ.
strawberry Culture" NJ. J. Soberg,
Thorsby.
The Commercial Handling OF Straw
berries" Prof. Ernest Walker. Auburn.
PLANT Diseases, DIR. Frederick A.
Wolf, Auburn.
The Cooperative Production and Mar
keting of Truck Crops" j. S. Moran, field
agent United States department of agri-
culture.
1.-The Commercial Handling of Truck
Crops" p. X. Villadsen, Thorsby.
Night Session-"Sweet Potato Storage
and House Construction" IL. NJ. Conolly,
bureau of plant industry, Washington,
d. c.
FRIDAY. MARCH 6. A. NJ.
Soils and Soil Formation" DIR. ]. II.
Squires. Wilmington Del.
"Cover Crops for Orchards" Prof. j,
f. Duggar Auburn
Beneficial Insects" DIR. w. E. Kinds.
Auburn.
"Cucumbers as Commercial Crop"
b. L. Evans, Auburn.
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, . p. NJ.
''Should We Beautify the Home" l.. II.
Read, Deer Park.
Pruning" Prof. J. c. c. Price Au-
burn.
The meeting will be called to order
promptly and every fruit grower and
trucker should be present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27
PASSENGER TELLS OF
MONROE DISASTER

Philadelphia, February 26.-Clarenee
H. Davids of Yonkers, ~ Y, a pas
senger on the steamship Monroe which
was sunk in collision with the Nan
tuci1et, a witness today in the trial of
Captain Berry of the latter vessel tes-
titled that so far as ne could observe
''it was every man for himself after
the Monroe was rammed and began to
sink. He admitted, however, that he
did not know when he jumped into the
sea that lifeboats had been launched
from the Monroe and that many per-
sons were picked up by them. Davids
was saved by a boat from the Nan
tucket.
The hearing was adjourned until
March g. when counsel for both Cap
tains johnson and Berry will present
arguments to the steamboat inspectors
who heard the evidence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST
AROUND EUFAULA
District Parsonage Will Be Remodeled.
Elks Realize Nearly $400 From
Minstrel Held Recently

Eufaula, February 2e.-tspecial)-Hav
ing determined upon the remodeling of the
present district parsonage instead of the
construction of a new one, the trustees
of the Eufaula Methodist district are now
having plans prepared by a Montgomery
architect. Between $1,000 and $1,000 will be
spent in remodeling the parsonage. The
trustees propose. also, to sell the good
building lot on the western side of the
parsonage property and use the proceeds
toward the remodeling of the parsonage.
The Barbour County Sunday School as
sociation and the individual schools of
the association are planning to send a
large delegation to- the annual meeting of
the state association which will be held
at Mobile beginning April 81.
Nearly si00 was realized by the Eufaula
lodge of Ell1s at their annual minstrel
show given at the New Eufaula theatre
last night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27

its purpose the physical valuation of the
American railroads.
The stupendous nature of the work was
recently acknowledged in some comments
made by member of the Interstate COM
meree. commission. Not even the con-
struction of the Panama canal either
from the physical or the scientific point
of view. compares in magnitude with this
proposition. The building of the rail-
roads over the Rocky mountains to the
Pacific is a trivial incident in comparison
with this work. That seems to be the
common opinion of all of those who are
in public life or who are of professional
scientific experience respecting this un-
dertaking.
William J. wilgus is one of the leading
members of the American Society of
Civil Engineers, and is of international
reputation. He it was who, as vice pres
ident of the New York Central and Hud-
son River Railroad companies worked
out the extraordinarily difficult problems.
some of them original, which the electri-
fication of the Vanderbilt railroad lines
from the northern boundaries of New
York city to the Grand Central terminal
entailed. He 1t was who. as civil engi-
neer. planned the original method where
by the Detroit river was tunneled so as
to establish railroad communications be-
tween the Michigan shores and those OF
Canada. Achievements of this kind, as
we'll as the fact that Ir. Wilgus has had
considerable experience in the so-called
valuation field of the railroads, have
given to the views which he expressed to
his associates of the American Society
of Civil Engineers a great deal of au-
thority.
Mr.. Wigus intimates that after this
work is begun and the American people
begin to get some comprehension of its
of the time which must pass
before the work is completed and of the
enormous cost, considerably more than
that which the construction of even the
largest of the American railway systems
has entailed, it will attract quite as much
public attention, although from a differ
ent point of view, as did that which the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27
Ten Years Will Be Required
to Complete All the Fig
ures Involved
TWO METHODS OF
WORK SUGGESTED
Likely That Plan Will Be Adopted of
Counting All the Preliminary
Work as Part of Cost
of the Road
BY HOLLAND

New York, February 26.-(Speeiall }
Probably no one has better understanding
of the stupendous problem which the val
uation of the railroads of the United
American Society of Civil Engineers.
Some of the members of this body have
had professional part in the valuation of
several of the railway systems. At a
recent meeting of the society in New
York, there was prolonged discussion
of the work upon which the United
States is about to enter which has for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27
SCHOOL RECORD is
BROKEN IN BALDWIN

Bay Minette. February 26.-(Specal)
Prof. S. NJ Tharp. principal of the local
high school announces that the enroll
ment of the local public school has passed
the 300 mark. which was predicted at the
opening of the school last fall Professor
Tharp also reports that despite the addi-
ton of another teacher last fall, the pres
ent corps of teachers is forced to extend
themselves to the limit to care for the
properly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27
FAIL TO ABOLISH
THE SABRE RULE"

Berlin, February 26-The movement
in the Germany imperial Parliament to
abolish sabre rule" by the army today
collapsed. The dissolution was an
nounced of the committee considering
various bills for prohibiting the in
tervention, of the military without
requisition from the civil authorities,
fcrbidding the use of arms by the sol
diers except in self defense and sub
Jecting soldiers to civil jurisdiction.
A majority of the committee, COM
posed of conservatives, clericals and
liberals. voted against the proposed
measures.
The introduction of the bills was
brought about by the recent violent
encounters between the military au-
thorities In Zabern, Alsace. The gov
ern,nent however. announced a few
dnys ago that such legislation was be-
you'd the powers of the Parliament, as
lit involved a constitutional amendment
which was opposed by the government
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27
OF
BIRDS DISCUSSED

Berlin. February 26,-The budget
committee of Parliament today dis
cussed the question of the protection
of birds of paradise in German New
Guinea Members of the clerical party
pleaded for the resumption of the
hunting privilege. The socialists on the
other hand demanded its permanent
prohibition. DIR. Solf, minister for the
colonies, intimated that the present
closed season for birds of paradise
would be prolonged, although the ques-
ticn of the extinction of the birds had
not become acute. There We're still mil
lions of them, he said. in spite of the
enormous sales of their feathers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27
PLAN DETAILS OF
CLINICAL CONGRESS

New York, February 26-Details of a
clinical congress of surgeons to be held
in London July 27, were brought over
by DIR. Franklin Martin of Chicago, who
erings will be held under the auspices
of the Clinical Congress of Surgeons of
North America and among the thousand
delegates expected will be surgeons from
all the principal cities In the United
States. e'
The congress will open with greet
ing extended by the American ambassa-
dor, Walter II. Page. 4 subject for
discussion will be the cure of cancer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27
Mrs. William b. ROuntree

Selma, February 26,-(Special Mrs.
Within b. Rountree died at her home
seven miles north of Selma this afternoon
at 1880 o'clock after an illness of several
months. The interment will be made in
the family burial grounds near Selma to-
morrow. Besides her husband. she leaves
three sons, Jesse and James w. Rountree
of this city and Robert NJ. Rountree of
Philadelphia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27
Another Method Suggested

aIDlutT nletIiUu ouSSeSttu
The interstate commerce commission
may, if it chooses, undertake to ascer-
tain the physical value of American rail-
ways by finding out, if it can, what the
cost of reproduction would be. Yet that
lmethod will be found extremely diff
cult The common opinion is that the
building of railroad begins when the
worl1mAn break the ground and ends
when, with appropriate ceremony. the last
spike is driven. Yet all of those who are
of expert authority are convinced that
there are several important stages which
proceed the completion of a railroad line
One is the inception of the plan. This is
due to the minds of men who are fitted
by experience, resources and tempera-
ment to undertake work of that kind
There must be preliminary surveys and
very carefully worked out estimates of
cost, S well as of presumptive revenue
and profit. These preliminaries entail
often heavy charges. and yet it is most
that proceeds that which actual railroad
construction entails.
Very often there must be preliminary
arrangements for financing securities
There are other incidents not enumerat ted
in the estimates of actual cost of repro
duction, as. for instance, the educational
and development stage after the line is
open to traffic. This usually lasts for
several years! The mere inventorying Of
the items of a railroad parts of an in
ert whole, Mr.. Wilgus contends. will not
give due weight to the processes which ex-
perience has shown are essential de novo
to a ytalized and thoroughly equipped
system of transportation. Mr.. Wilgus
wonders what will be the attitude of the
interstate commerce commission respect
ing the interest on the money or capita |
during the time this money is being ex-
pended for construction.
These views are not set forth by Mr.
Wilgus because of any hostile feeling to-
ward the proposition that the American
railroads shall be physically valued by
the interstate commerce commission. He
is convinced that it is of the highest i'm
portance that this shall be DONE and he
is persuaded that the entire cost of re-
production of any railroad system is the
only measure of the physical values by
which all railroads are placed upon the
same plans. This method, which is the
alternative one permitted by Congress to
the interstate commerce commission, is
in all probability the one which the COM
mission will adopt. But at least 10 years
must pass before the work is completed
and the government must be prepared to
spend many millions of dollars upon this
work. Possibly when it is completed the
investigation will show what Howard Ell
lott. formerly president of the Northern
Pacific railroad, in a recent address, said
that the physical valuation by the au-
authorities of the state of Minnesota of
an important railroad system showed
that it would cost many millions more to
reproduce the railroad than the sum now
represented by its capital and fixed obliga-
tions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27
Ieopold IFS Tomb Opened

Rome. February 26-The tomb OF Leo
pold II. last Grand Duke of Tuscany. in
the church of the Holy Apostles, was
opened today. The body will be transport
ed to Vienna, and placed in the imperial
vault beneath the Church of the Capu-
cines, where members of the Austrian
imperial family are entombed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27
Alma Gluck Engaged

Kansas CITY February 26.--Alma
Gluek, the singer today announced
that she is engaged to marry Efrem
Himbalist Russian violinist and pro-
tege of the late Joseph Fels. zimbalist
is now touring Russia. Miss Gluck said
the marriage probably would be in
June at the Fels home in London.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27
Indians Visit President

Washington. February 26-sioux In
dians from the Pine Ridge reservation of
South Dakota. shook hands today with
President Wilson. They said they were
having a good time in Washington. ex-
cept that their shoes were too tight.
They also shook hands with Secretary
Bryan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-27
TO SELECT SITE FOR
FEDERAL BUILDING
Government Has Represent
ative in Decatur Looking
for Ideal Location

Decatur, February 2s-tSpecial.)-A
representative of the United States gov
ernment is here to-day looking over a
site for the erection of federal build
ing for Decatur. One site that seems to
be in favor is ON the corner of Bank and
Cherry streets. This is an ideal loca-
tion near the Hotel Lyons There are
number Of other sites offered, some be-
ing near the county courthouse.
The bill. authorizing the building of
$4,000 federal building for Decatur, was
introduced in Congress sometime ago by
Judge William Richardson, the congress-
man from this district. The bill passed
and later on sites were advertised for
The indications are now that work may
commence on the building by spring or
early summer.
Today is the first real winter day this
section of the state has had in num-
Der of years. The tlhSmometer is at
freezing, and the ground is covered with
six inches of snow. This is the first
snow the Decaturs have had for the past
eight years.
Fruit growers state the indications are
that this will be fine fruit year in
this section OF the state. The cold
weather and the snow will keep the fruit
5uds back and thus no doubt prevent
its being killed later on in the season.