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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
Large Catch of Bass

That was a great killing Dick Eg- gleston made July 1, when he took A trout and three large sun perch with the fly" said friend of all fishermen.
 Tt was somewhere in the fastnesses of Blount county, and there were two anna tours along who bear witness that Dick is entitled to the palm for wadng, fly ing and hooking bass. And more: On Sunday everybody at the hotel in Oneonta had all the fish they could eat, besides what had been given to friends. The larger ones weighed over two pounds, and there were many of the catch one pound and over.
 Speaking of fly fishing, Eggleston is believer in the buck tail without any attachments There is fisherman in Bessemer who makes catches of large
 bass who puts a piece of meat skin, cut ! frog-leg fashion, on the buck tail.' Egg gleston says bah! to this, but l have seen
 the meat skin do the work with the larger bass.
 | 'On "Wednesday morning I found at the
 upper platform in East Lake dead bass 1 that weighed probably eight pounds, if not
 more. The turtles had partly consumed it.
 The eyes were gone. A careful examina-
 ton failed to find the slightest sign that
 this fish had ever been hooked I be- | lieve it died natural death, or was sick aud the turtles killed it, caught in the very think moss up there. It may be the
 blind bass, ons that had lost an eye
 Was captured, but got back in the waters
 last year.
 1 "I am often asked if there are any trout | in such and such waters? l say yes
 as an answer that conveys the meaning
 to the average person. but there are not
 many trout in this section. The so-called
 tro ut taken in the waters of Alabana are l the large-mouth and the smal-moutt bass. And another thing: The waters
 fish feed in have something to do with their coloring, particularly vegetation, its pie sence or absence. There are the black bass and the green striped bass. And as | to Dream, we find the blue nose,' the
 sun Dream. yellow oellied and then rock bass, these last rese nble blue nose bream
 but are gray striped like a salt water l 'sheepshead.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

lumber, sawed on the mountain. They are cretonne. The mirrors are framed in hickory. All the natural hickory was first treated with a refined colorless creosote to preserve it.
 The garage and the kitchen and ser wants houses are trimmed with creo- soted pine slabs. The children's playhouse of two twelve foot square rooms, with six foot by twenty-four verandas, front and rear, with a six by eight kitchen cut off from the rear veranda, is treated ex- formally with halved small oak timbers with the natural bark stained dull green. IS possible with the natural woodlands surrounding
 The grounds are some six hundred feet front with a stone and rustic fence All ms nner Of flowers, shrubbery and vege. tables are planted about the place, and the mountainside in the front looking to. ward Birmingham Is terraced and planted ir fruit trees, grapes, etc. There is tennis court with sho yer baths and dress. ing rooms adjoining. chicken houses and yards, stables for the horses and cows and the various other accessories which ga to make up a comfortable country place.
 It has been lots of fun in building it. al- though a few troubles have naturally been experienced.
 However, as it is. I rather like it, es- pecially as the view, both north and scrth, is as pretty as almost anything in the mountains of North Carolina The view of Shades valley. Red mountain, the furnaces at Ensley and Bessemer in the distance and the glow from the various narrfacturing pia l.s about Birmingham IT abe it ideal from Jcenic point of view And it is always cool at night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

customed to lowing down to French milliners and modistes that the habit of years is hard to overcome.
 The woman whose clothes have caused her to be talked about more than any other woman in the United States has all of them made in Muncie, Ind, under her personal direction. While the "Queen of Muncie" de- signs gowns that are perhaps too startling for the average woman's tastes, her sartorial achievements show that the women of this country would still have ultra modern gowns and hats to wear if Paris were sud- denly wiped off the map or fell into its numerous sewers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF SIR THOMAS MORE

More was allowed to be seated. Sir Thomas denied the principal charges with much dignity. He also swore that he had never opposed the marriage of the King to his second wife, Anne Boleyn.
 Rich then alleged that More had ad- vised Fisher to disobey the act of supremacy, and that also he had de- sword, approval of which ruined the soul and disapproval of which ruined the body
 Rich said More. was a prevarica tor and a perjurer and he would show it to the court. But there are none so blind as they who will not see, and More s | evidence was of no avail. After hear ing this last appeal the jury retired and were scarcely out for an hour when they returned with verdict of l guilty. The lord chief justice then
 began to give the sentence, but More | sarcastically interfered and reminded the judge that when he was upon the bench it was the custom to ask the prisoner for any reasons that he had
 as to why the sentence would not be carried out.
 ]! Checking himself, the judge "gave
 More leave" to proceed. More made a
 strong argument in his defense, but it
 was decided that he should not live
 and so the lord chief justice Sir John Fitz-James, pronounced the sentence.
 "That he should Be carried back to the tower of London, from thence drawn
 on a hurdle through the city to Tyburn
 at which place he should be hanged till
 half dead, cut down alive and his foul lquarters set over the four gates of
 the city, and his head set on London
 bridge.'
 Through the mercy of tue King
 this sentence was commuted to one U. beheading which was carried out on
 July G. Before going to the scaffold
 More gave all his fine clothes to his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THAT COUNTRY
 F1O1E HE BUILT AND PRINTS PICTURES OF TIT

1 facings, and all the ends of the project l ing logs.
 Everything in the construction of the place except nails, hardware and the red tiled floors was gathered on the noun tain about the place The red tile was made in Mobile, and might well be called tango tile, for the veranda. twenty by
 forty feet, opening by three six foot doors from the living room. eighteen by forty feet and all tiled alike makes most excellent dancing space, as smooth as hardwood floor. It being a com pressed-and not burned-tile it is sus- ceptble of waxing. It has the resiliency of wood floor
 The ten-foot chimney of the living room is of moss grown and weather beaten sand rock gathered on the mountain crest < < ]. 1ne celIlng logS are of skinned pine trees, colored to a greenish messy effect by first being painted green and then being gone over with white lead applied with sponges The walls are of rough pine boards painted canary yellow. The three inch rough strips are painted royal blue as are the windows. The window and door facings are dead black. while the two foot strip of burap bordering the liv- ing room below the ceiling is of the same blue as the stripping and frames of the doors and windows
 The electric light side fixtures are all of hickory logs and forks.
 The dining room furniture is of hickory logs with the bark on, as are some of the beds-all made on the place. The bureaus. tables, chif-robes, etc, were made on the place of rough pine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

-6N HAT Henry VIII was tickle to
 men as well as to women
 X is shown in the trial and exe- cution of Sir Thomas More. More, when quite young, was taken into the family of Cardinal Morton, then arch bishop of Canterbury. merely on ac- count of his ready wit and pleasing looks. This same cardinal sent him first to Oxford and then to the courts to study law. Later he grew in great favor with Henry VIII. and as proof of his friendship Henry showered upon him the greatest honors that were in his power among them the office of lord high chancellor, in which office it is said. none ever filled with greater conscientiousness than he"
 His troubles first began when Henry was wed to Anne Boleyn, which we'd |ding More refused to attend. and so on May 20, 1884, he thought fit to de- liver the great seal to the King, on the ground that there were several troubles and proceedings in court" of which he did not approve. Soon af- ter this some of his correspondence was seized, especially that with Eliza beth Barton. then called '"The Holy Maid of Kent" Subsequently they were hoth thrown into prison.
 Thomas was kept in the tower for little less than year and was l. It
 Eight persons were constituted to try him, every one of them being a knight The charge was very long, so long, indeed, that Sir Thomas said in re- | ply to 1t that it was so long that he could remember but one-third of it
 The main charge, however, was his re- l frsing the oath of succession
 Before the trial began he was ex- tended the leave to change his opin- 1 ion and gain favor once more in the | Kings sight. To this Thomas replied )"Most noble lords, ] have great req | son to return thanks for your honors
 for this your great civility; but I be. seech Almighty God that I continue l in the mind I am in through his de-
 fense, in which he made a long speech
 concerning as to whether 1t was crimi.
 nal to tell ones own mind when fairl,
 and straightly asked.
 l Most of the evidence that was re.
 lied upon was his correspondence witf
 a certain man named Fisher and tho alleged conversation that had taker place in the tower between one of hi.
 judges, Rich and himself Owins
 l-s
 lduring his Imprisonment in the tower
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

above calling. History is tumble un-
 less through the ages Gods increas- ing purpose runs.
 The pure intellectual enlargement that has come out of Christianity is incalculable. Man without God and Christ in his thinking lives in mar row world. He can look neither up nor down, neither backward nor forward. Motley said once that the intellectu- al supremacy of Scotland came from the study of the shorter Catechism; which was by way of saying that dwelling on the things of God enlarges and ennobles the intellect as nothing else can.
 The mental salvation of the mil lions who work at machines is that they have an upper world for their minds; continental, yea universal prob 1 lems for meditation and solution; all
 of space and time-all of spaceless-
 ness and eternity-for flying place,
 searching place, nesting place, for the free eagles of thought.
 Spirit-Love, joy, peace, long suf- fering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance-these are the gifts of Christ. And love is queen of them.
 Love opens all gates-the gates to joy, to power, to courage, to loyalty, to spirituality. You may go where you will in search of the secret. You may hit upon self-reliance, culture, ances- try, magnetism, the subconscious, new thought. But when you are tired, come back home, and learn that love is the secret.
 Love is likeness to God, for God is love. Love is entrance to the abund- ant life.
 II M EDMONnS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Frcm the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 It doesn't hurt to be honest once in a while. If it wasn't for the fear of being found out nearly every married -.man would have an affinity
 You never realize how much swearing lessens pain until you try to swear off swearing.
 After woman has been married for 10 years she spends just as much time dressing and dolling up, but she doesn't get the same results as she did before she was married.
 The reason why lot of girls pose around on dry land at the bathing bea ches is because their compilations are water proof, but their bathing suits are not A maiden who is built like a panatella thinks it is very vulgar to perspire. But q corn fed girl either has to sweat or bust
 There aint no sich animal atomic love. The man and the woman are like the seiditz powders in the blue and white wrappers. They are harmless until they mingle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
Words. Words. Words

Has anyone noticed how the applica- tions of the word virile' are changing ?'' asks student of English Two or three times lately I have seen 1t applied to the description of a woman Perhaps this also is an evidence of 'feminism,' but more likely it is the product of careless ness and literary coneeit
 Surely no woman, least of all, a man. wants to get acquainted with virile wom- en- Feminism does not aim at such a catastrophe, though superficially one might ina zine that it looks in that direc- ton. Virility is precisely the apex of the olstinetion of the masculine human, as womanliness is its necessary complement on the other side of the family. Imagine womanly woman described as 'virilel' Do the writers really mean capable?' If so Solomon's yirtuous woman should cer- tafnly be labeled virie
 "The rush for cheap magazine stories seems to- be landing us in new sort of Macchiavellianism, by which words are regarded as instruments not to hide, but to confuse our thoughts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

.CEvERAL times during the making .O of our country home on Shades
 Mountain, some twelve hundred feet up, l have referred to the pleasures and troubles of country home building.
 Now that this nest on the mountain is complete 1t will not be amiss to print some pictures of it and tell something about it.
 A friend of mine with the assistance of an old negro carpenter and negro wood chopper had started a hewn log house last year. The logs were 30 by 40 feet and were on brick pelars In this form as shown in the illustration on tne next page they had stood through the winter and were well seasoned.
 With this as a basis We started work, as will be seen in the small illustration. We knocked the pillars out and built down to a rock foundation wall. We sawed out doors and windows and used the seasoned logs in building both up and down.
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 The veranda posts, the balconies, pergolas and such things were made of heavy oak trees with the bark on, but thoroughly creosoted with a suggestion of green color mixed in to give tone to the natural bark.
 The hewn logs are stained with a dark red or brown creosote. Between the logs is cement and pebbles in the natural
 The roof is of red sanded composition roofing made at Ensley laid over three inch rounded strips nailed over the roof ing boards some thirty inches apart Over these strips the roofing is stained green, as are the exterior window and door
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
National Fertilizer Association

The National Fertilizer association which meets next week at Hot Springs, Va, will be invited to meet In Bir- mingham in 1915. William P. Redd of the Grasselli Chemical company left last night for Hot Springs to attend the meeting.
 "The National Fertilizer association brings together at it's annual meeting 400 or 800 prominent men representing the various fertilizer companies in this country" said MT. Redd. Among those who attend are chemists and chemical engineers, sales managers and multi millionaires
 q will invite the association in the name of the Chamber of Commerce to hold it's 1915 meeting in Birmingham in the month of October, and I believe the invitation will be accepted. If we do not get this association next year We can count upon having it in 1916. At our meeting in 1911 l. seconded a motion to accept an invitation from French Lick Springs, Ind. One of my friends asked why it was that I fa- vored French Lick instead of extending an invitation from Birmingham. My re- J ply was that our hotel facilities were linadequate; that we were about to build large hotel and just as soon as it was completed the association would be urged to meet in Birming ham. It has meet in Atlanta, but now that we have the hotels the association will be only too glad to come here
 Speaking of hotels, officials of the Grasselli company from headquarters in Cleveland were here few days ago They spoke in terms of highest praise of the Tutwiler They said they had nc idea of finding such splendid hotel in Birmingham-a hotel comparing fa- vorably with the finest in the United States"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

executioner and gave him a piece of gold saying: Thou wilt do me this day a favor greater than ever any mortal can do
 When the news was brought to the King he sat playing cards at table Looking at Anne, he said: "Thou are the cause of this mans death," and left the table in a melancholy state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
MEMOIR EFT FIDELIS

By A. Iatady
 Since a Howe fortune knew to bloom,
 
 I should resist oblivion Time carrieth yet wallet at his back. Wherein will besow oblivion Which mortal shou Though mine offering, whoso rawl loved thea well 'gainst o eat up all to tell What signifies it that thy singer perish If time through him. thy worth virtue chertsh Birmingham. July. 1914
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

Albert Richards. chemist who lives in the Bronx, had his features burned away by nitric acid a few months ago and was told by his physicians that he must never again appear in public without a mask. When Richards first left the hos rital everyone who saw his face was hor- rifed and the mask became a necessity. Science was unable to restore his scared face to anything like human resemblance and the unfortunate man is doomed to be frightfully disfgured for the rest of his life. Richards told his wife that she must never look on his face. She obeyed him for while and was so glad to know his life had been saved that she was con- tent for him to wear the mask. One day he fell asleep in chair and was awak- ened by shrek. Prompted by curiosity, Mrs. Richards had lifted the mask from Ter husbands face and he saw her staring at him in horror. She ran screaming from the house
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
THOSE SUDDEN CHOPPERS

'Misfortunes come not single spies-' 1 quote a famous bard; And even when a fellow tries,
 Hes certain to be jared By unexpected circumstance
 That leaves him sick and sad, Removing every sort of chance
 To win ne might have had And oftentimes fate will defeat him Just when he thinks there's naught
 can beat him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
"sTAGE-CoACH" SENATORS

From the St. Paul Dispatch.
 The fact that the United States senators cling to the old 20 cents mile rate for travelling expenses in going to and from the capital, in the face of the al- most unanimous demand of sthe House for rate more in consonance with the cheapness of modern travel, indicates that they belong intellectually to the era when the 20-cent rate was established. They are stage coach senators in an iron horse age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

Georgia man who had been dead 10 years received 2000 votes and was elected a member of the Bibb county democratic executive committee, which seems to prove that the office some times seeks the man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
TELEPHONE k
Truth loves open dealing.
 Henry VIII.

REGINNING THE DAY-My Fath- CT, I thank Thee for life! l thank Thee for the mere joy of living in the midst of so many coiors ana fra- rrances and charms. l thank Thee for the glory of Tightening few burdens, of inviting Il few smiles, Of trying to turn the old word little b,t in Thy direction. Amen.--H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

It might be well to say for the bene- fit of unsophisticated readers that the yachts taking part in international races are not the kind of yachts in which champagne is consumed to any great extent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

MT. and Mrs. Nelson O'Shaughn essy are "Newporting" in an atmosphere even more congenial than that of Mex ico City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

'Landor is perfectly preposterous absurdity. No serious scientist dreams of accepting him as anything more than buffoon as an explorer" These colonel gets the decision on points.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
The Senate and the President

"I am great admirer of President Wilson. but I think that on one or two occasions he has been a bit too auto cratic in his attitude toward the Senate, said a democrat who formerly lived in Washington, and who was active in poli- ties when Cleveland was first President.
 The President certainly has fight on his hands now. He is going to insist on the Senate confirming his friend Jones and MT. Warburg whom he ;,ad nomi- mated for the federal reesrve board War burg is generally considered an excep- tionally able financier, and it would be a pity to lose his services, but the Senate. l believe will stand by it's committee.
 "At the committees request MT. War burg wrote a letter giving some account of himself and the banking institution with which he is connected, but 1t seems that the committee wanted fuller ac- count and asked him to appear in per son and submit to questions The major ity of men will probably side with MT. Warburg in the stand that he has taken, but no one can justly criticize the Senate committee for insisting under the circum- stances on MT. Warburg complying with it's request. President Wilson is a lively fighter, and the public will watch the scrap with more than ordinary interest"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

Villa and his bathtub are not ap- preciably nearer the Mexican capital than they were last week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

The commissioner of correction in New York is woman. The first thing she did when she assumed of flee was to have a general house cleaning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

With four separate revolutions rag ing in San Domingo. the inhabitants of that little republic may be excused for not being able to keep cool
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

Sand is being recommended as a cure for indigestion in Indiana. The crops of Indiana's literati are full of sand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
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ADRIFT WITH THE TNr1ES
INCREASED THE DRouTH

lNChEASED THE DROGIH
 The state supreme court of Kansas holds that Jamaica ginger is intoxicat- ing and any druggist who sells if may be prosecuted for violating the prohibition law. The court also holds that lemon and vanilla extracts, CO., lc gne, camphor and similar tinctures. extracts and essences, if they actually make man drunk, are to be classed as intoxicating liquors" Thus one by one the ramparts of the Demon Rum are being taken by the prohibition ists. But. hist there is still hope for bibulous mortals in Kansas. Nothing is said about hair tonic. Some of it is 40 per cent alcohol. NEXT The new archduke Is tall and dark; His medals make A dandy mark. Houston Post. The anarchists No doubt will say, Another mark To put away" FREE Our G. Fred Williams can now discuss
 Most any old thing without reserve. Although at this distance it ssems to He has an oversupply of netve.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
WEEK END THRILLS

Each time l journey to the shore"
 Said William Henry Aberthrock, "I look the perfect beauties o'er
 And always get a brand new shock
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

The man who gets married on the Fourth of July seems to forget that the Fourth is the birthday of liberty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

Swat flies and mosquitoes to your hearts content, but do not swat your neighbor or your neighbor's dog
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
THE LAST STRAW

THE LAST STRAW
 i've lent Grimpus my garden hose, my lawn mower, my photograph and my safety razor, but I had to refuse his last request"
 What did he want?' "He wanted to borrow my photo graph to carry on a filtration by mail D
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
TAME STUFF

q admire the way that sodawater clerk mixes drinks"
 But think how much more pride he would take in his work if he were mixing something that had punch in it"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

WHO'LL VOLUNTEER? Tt is proposed to give the maiden aunt her due" At the altar?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

WE'LL LOADED Ofttimes gay suburbanite- Oh, let us not derde him Goes home, one package in his arms. Another one inside him.