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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
TWO OF A KIND
l the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star
 Apropos of the dryness into which West Virginia has entered by prohi- bition majority of sO,OOo. H. l.. Kirk, the mayor of Wheeling. said
 Well for the next four years, at any rate, you'll hear no such horrible d'a- logues In our West Virginia barrooms as man heard recently in Parkersburg.
 This man saw twq thin,. pale, nervous wrecks standing side by side tossing off whislxes one after another feverish;y
 "The first wreck. in the interval be- tween his ninth and tenth whisky, Wiped his mouth on the back of his thin hand and said:
 " I'm just up out of a sickDed. I've been awful sick. Snakes and pink t9ads and green monkeys, day and night crawled all over me-
 "The second wreck started. With a frown he regarded the first wreck in tently. Then he shuddered and drew back
 "'Why. man he said, they're crawling all over you now!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
Buying Small Farms

Real estate agents in Birmingham, Montgomery, Selma, Mobile and other cities in the state doubtless have the same report to make about the in creased inquiry for small farms. Ger tain it is that such inquiry is much in evidence in Birmingham.
 Every real estate concern here that gives special attention to the sale of farm lands in this district is not only crowded with inquiries, but many good sales have been made within the last two or three months. The late fall or early winter is the time when home seekers usually settle, and hundreds of families from the north will be found in their new homes during the next few months.
 Not a few homeseekers are nego- tiating for large farms-farms of 800 to 1000 acres. To till extensive acreage profitably requires some working capital, but it has been proved that hay, corn, oats and wheat can be raised extensively in this state on a J,aying basis, to say nothing of cot ton. The largest demand, however, for farm acreage within a radius of 50 miles of Birmingham comes from the northern trucker. He can buy a farm of from 50 to 60 acres for a third or fourth less than he would have to pay for the same acreage of truck land in the north or middle west. With very little capital an experienced truck farmer can make money here- abouts the first year and after that he will accumulate rapidly.
 There are truck farmers in Cullman county who started with only few hundred dollars 15 or 20 years ago and who are now comparatively rich. In overy part of the United States there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
LUKE MLUkE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Lots of guys who can settle the war in Europe can't settle their bills at the cor ner grocery.
 Class will always tell. You can put a $l00 hat on 10-cent woman, and she will continue to look like 10-cent woman.
 A mother is a person who will Ae awake at night and worry for fear her 1-year-old son will be bald before he is 40.
 Father is always willing to take Willie to a ball game or circus But he wants to fight If mother asks him to take Will lie to Sunday school.
 Any old time father stoops and .Licks up a paper from the floor or empties the pan under the ice box without being asked to do it, he swels up and ina zines that he has frightened mothers household labors at least 90 per cent, and begins to realize that mother doesn't appreciate a good husband when she has one.
 Daughter can pound a tenis ball al a,,- ernoon. But she would call up tho Hu- mane society If mother asked her to pound steak.
 The reason why a woman likes to name the first baby after her husbands father is because boy would rather have new 'ztepmother than a new baseball uniform
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
DoPPI.EGANGER

By Madison Cawein. Oh, l went down the old creek, the cold
 creek. the creek of other days, And on the way I met a ghost, pale in
 the moonlight's rays. The ghost of one, little boy. with whom
 my heart still plays. He looked at me. he nodded me. he beck
 oned with his pole, To follow where we oft had gone to that
 old fishing hole, In checker of the shine and shade beneath
 the old beech pole. The old hole, the. the dark hole. wherein
 we marked the gleam. Of minnows streaking, silvery rose, and
 in its deep dream Of something gone forever down the glim-
 mer of the stream. The old hole. the deep hole, OCT which
 we watched the flash Of bronze and brass of dragonflies and N listened for the splash Of frogs that leaped from lilied banks
 when round them we would dash. He stood beside me there agaiA. with
 fishing pole and line, And looked into my eyes and said, Tho
 fishing will be finer And. bade me follow down the stream and
 placed his hand in mine. But, 1t was strange! could not speak.
 however I might try, While all my heart choked up with tears
 and could only sigh And whisper to myself, "Ah. God, if !
 could only diev' He laughed at me, he beckoned me, but r.
 I stood wide eyed; A spell was on my soul, knew, that kept
 me from his side, A spell that held me back from him, my boyhood that had died. Twas there beside the old creek the cold creek. the creek of long gone by, ~ stood upon It's banks awhile when stars were in the sky, And. oh. | met and talked with him, tho
 child that once was II
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF ALEXANDER HERMAN

statement was an anarchistic and inflam. matory address written in German. Berk. man continued his harangue from 1l:ai until :05 o'clock, when the court shut hirl up. The district attorney did not make an address, saying that argument was unnecessary. Judge McClung made a brief charge and the jury returned yer. dict of guilty on all indictments without leaving the box. Judge McClung pro. nounced sentence at once, aggregating 1i years to the penitentiary and one yeas 10 the workhouse.
 Tomorrow-trial in the Barracombe
 Mystery,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

CURIOUS CASES. This is an awful joke, I fear said funny Mir. Wex: It is the reckless engineer Who's always having wrecks''
 Cincinnati Enquirer. This is indeed a funny world, Enoush to make one snicker; We know man who legless is. And yet he is kicker.
 Allentown Democrat. And we do know toothless man Who scaped funeral wreath When run down by a speediac, By the skin of his teeth.
 Houston Post. One time we knew an armless man And also dumb Such woes. He could not on his fingers talk, So did it with his toes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

1 Already well liked. the King and Queen
 of Belgium have become immensely pop
 ular since the invasion of Belgium by the 1 Germans began. The brave conduct of the soldiers and the loyalty to their peo-
 pie shown by King Albert and his con- sort have aroused the greatest enfiilsi- asni. King Aiberts brilliant record as a
 soldier would have. made him idolzed,
 were he not also admired for his good qualities of mind and heart. King Albert
 does not belong to the Belgians by any
 blood kinship. He is the grandson of
 the first king of the Belgians. who was
 a German prince of e-Coburg- -Gotba and reigned over Belgium as I,eoreld
 His reign lasted s4 years and that of his son, Leopold II. lasted A years. King Albert ascended the throne in 1909. Both he and Queen Elizabeth have sacrificed the closest family ties in their devotion to Belgium during the present war. The King and Queen are descended frcn, an- cient German houses. King AIber,'s mother was Princess Marie Of Hohenzoi- Tern and belonged to the Kaiser's family. His sister is the wife of Prince Charles of Hohenzollern The King most intimate friends were the German crown prince and the others sons of the Kaiser The Queen is the daughter of Duke Carl The odore of Bavaria and until recently main- tained cordial relations with her .ircIe. Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria -tiun- gary. The palace of King Albert ard Queen Elizabeth at Laeken has been turned over to the Red Cross as a hospi- tal The Queen is herself member of the Red Cross and is a graduate nurse She also holds doctors certificate. They have three children, Prince Leopold, Prince Charles and Princess Marie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
IDLE OPINIONS.

IDLE OPINIONS.
 few old-fashioned people continue to buzz around the post card racks.
 The man who is descended from royalty z isn't doing any bragging these days.
 Every year there's one song done to | death in vaudeville and burlesque shows. This year it's song about the Panama canal. A tactful woman can always take the sting out of truth without telling a down. right lie.
 The old-fashioned orator who used to eulogze woman as clingins vine isn't heard so often since votes for women be- came live issue.
 All men don't play when wifes away. Some of them have to work harder than ever to meet the weekly requests for money F. C.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

The four Belgians who are going to pay the German war tax levied on Belgium to prevent Brussels from being destroyed deserve to have their names carved in il conspicuous place where they may be seen by all men as long as the city stands. M
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
IN CHARACTE
SERVED POTENT $

SERVED POTENT $ "Grayce yalsingham of the a coming out party last nj show in honor of her dauI on the stage at Dotty Googl Was the affair a success T presume so. A great ma were unable to come out vi ance."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

German soldiers have been told 70 take Paris or die, With the French equally determined to die rather than let Paris be taken, the prospects for an early ter- imitation of the struggle are not at all bright.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
TELEPHONE Bell (private exchange connecting aii departments), Main 4o0O.
1;frdIed with a waist of iron. And hemm'd about with grim desrr"c-
 tion. Henry VI

BEGINNING THE DAY-My Father, help me to he like light LII the yyorId--shining, hut making no noisy and ugly advertisement oi myself; driving away the darkness sweetening the damp and nofsomc places, not desiring reward, but de- sjrfpv to he like Him who IS me Light of the World. Amen.- H. M. k.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

General Villa has risen so high in the esteem of everybody by his sensible con- duct that he's apt to be the most popu- lar man in Mexico.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
NEW FACES SEEN
From the Houston Post.

From the Houston Post
 We suppose native Washington has as- certained that the large number of strang- CTS in town is due entirely to the Un- derwood resolution which docks absentee members for the time they remain away from their duties
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
EASY GOING.

illne was when soldiers marched along
 with weary feet and cursed their luck, 5u' now they warble bits of song
 And travel in u motor truck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

The Salem man who wore a belt of tacks to make his wife stay on her side of the bed seems to have had an extra ordinarily good opinion of himself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
CERTAINLY NOT.

CERTAINLY NOT. "Just think The artist spent 10 years painting this picture. How much did he sell it for?'' Fifty thousand dollars" That's 5000 year. Not bad pay when you work at home and have your own hours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

Judged by his latest effort, Rudyard Kiplins is leading the other war poets of England by at least two laps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
MADE HIM DO IT.

T proposed to Miss slathers last night. "
 That girls lucky, all right "oh. you hatter me" I'm not thinking of you. She won a bet when you proposed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
NOT LIKE OLD TIMES

From the Boston Advertiser
 Hurray. hurray. Manager Underwood demands that congressmen step up and punch the time clock
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
AN OBJECTION.

shortage, eh, of chorus girls?
 Now, what think you of that? we don't dislike their shortage, but We hate to see them fat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

Reports are being cinculated. possibly from the enemy's camp, that the bull moose party is tottering. Well. this is a lottery time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
The Iron Market

Iron sales continue to show the un- certainty of the situation. There is no speculative buying" say Matthew Addy & Co. in their Cincinnati report. "Pur- chases are strictly to cover actual needs Everyone keeps close to shore. Under these circumstances naturally most or. ders are small and for comparatively prompt shipment. Furnaces are limit Ing sales to the balance of this year. being unwilling to sell far ahead at the present unprofitable prices.
 Less iron Is now being made in Ohio and in the south than has been the case for the past IA years. Production is at minimum.
 "4s an offset to the present state ot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

Fancy Chauncey M. Depew riding through France in cattle car. This old world Is uppsy-turvy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

Kaiser Wilhelm shed tears when the war started, but since then he's been SO busy he hasn't had time to weep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

PA GETS PEEv1sH. Pa, what's gondola 2, That's Venetian boat, son. And whats eondolier?a That's a Venetian boatman.p "Is bandolier a Venetian bandman, pa?'
 Not another word Willief.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

are many prosperous farmers, large and small, but no state in the union presents such an inviting field as Ala bama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
A Clean City

While a few property owners have allowed weeds to grow in violation of an ordiance. I have never known Bir- Inirgham to look so clean or we'll kept as it does at the present time.'' said an old citizen.
 The educational campaign for the promotion of the city beautifuP idea has had excellent results, and clean premises may we'll be considered the first principle of the beautiful I live at the Ridgely, and in looking out of my window on the eighth floor on the Twenty-first street side I can see the back yards of a dozen or more resi- dences. and also several alleys. Every morning as l make an impromptu in- spection from the Ridgely l feel like congratuIating the health officers and the occupants of houses With back yards. Every back yard seems to be swept clean every day, and the small negro houses on the alleys seem to be models of cleanliness. and conditions that obtain in the Ridgely neighborhood doubtless obtain all over Birmingham. D
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

The Zeppelins will get you if you don't watch out" is a warning fraught with terror in France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

If soft drinks are to be taxed Geral- dine may be called on to pay a cent apiece for straws.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

Amid the general hubbub in Europe the protesting voice of George Fred Williams is no longer heard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

The unspeakable Turk seems to be lend ing an ear to the German lorelei.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
Metropolitan Grand Opera

Amusement goers throughout the country who visit New York every sea- son and take in the grand opera will be glad to learn that the, Metropolitan opera house will be opened on schedule time, said club man. up to ten days ago there was considerable doubt as to whether there would be any 1914-15 season in New York. The World of Thursday says there need be no further apprehension. That paper continues:
 "'Despite previous statements that the Metropolitan would give opera this year scepticism has existed in many guar ters It was felt that if Italy became involved in the war that Caruso and other stars would be compelled to serve at the front
 But the World is able to reassure the musical public of this city. The Metropolitan directors have passed the worrying stage. Even should Italy issue call for reservists the Metropoli- tans distinguished men singers will not be affected, and only few of the mas culine choristers will be kept abroad.
 "'This vital phase of the situation be- ing thoroughly cleared up, Otto H. Kahn and his associates are preparing to open on the announced dates and to carry out the plans without substantial changes of any sort.
 "'rhough Rudolf Berger, Otto Goritz and Karl Braun are fighting the French. among whom Leon Rothier is enrolled, their places may be filled without entailing serious artistic loss. Tbo anforcad ceasattdu of anoro ir, Ic,, rope will make available to the Metro politah several singers who will not be engaged in war.
 1 "'Now that the seasons of the Chicago and Boston opera companies have been abandoned. Americans who wish to hear first rate opera must Journey to New York for that purpose. With the ex- cepticn of playing in Atlanta for ons week the Metropolitan company will undertake no outside tour"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

THE CENSoRs' FAULT. Six million men are now at war In Europe, more or less, But as to who the winners are, We simply have to guess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIM
AN INANE REM,

AN INANE REMl Well. we'll l see you are Nonsense. Can't you see of the city?a
 IN CHARACTE. sThe leader of this orchest like a monkey"
 His actions are appropria they are playing is entitled gle,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
A South Carolina Visitor

T am greatly impressed with Bir- mingham.a said W. A. Ray, prospers ous citizen of spartanburg county, liv- 'hs not far from the city of Spartan burg, s. C.
 had been hearing so much about birmingham that I concluded would come and look over the situation. This city Is certainly well advertised. One hears 1t referred to everything as a place of phenomenal growth, but l had no idea of finding such a beautiful city. It really surpasses all my expec- tations"
 Mr. Ray said that in a general way south Carolina was prospecting. bu. that Just now business was dull, be- cause there was no cotton market But depression in the cotton belt he thought would be only temporary
 St. Bernard College Opening
 St Bernard college will open on Mon day. September IA. The students will gather for enrolment on that day and class work will begin Tuesday. Septem- Der ,.
 The prospects are bright for the coming college year" said the Rev. Father Stephen, o. S. B. I've will have probably the largest student body in the history of the institution. It cer- tainly looks that way now. We wish to impress upon the friends of the col- lege that September IA is the opening day. because we had advertised an earlier date. But owing to the delay in the work on the new building the reverend director found 1t necessary to announce a postment. One of the papers made a mistake in head line as to the open ing date. It is now pretty we'll un- derstood, however, that the session be- gins on next Monday week.
 First Signs of Shooting Season
 These lovely autumn days bring Q thrill of enthusiastic prospects to low CTS of the dog and gun, said Percy Clark
 The news comes from Aberdeen. all down the line, in the free-for-a!l chicken trials. 'Babblebrook Bob took first, La Besita' second, and the third was divided between Lady Mohawk Whitestone and May Blossom These last are owned in Tennessee. There were 2S starters, and birds were plen- tiful. The pointers were not in 1t, twou1d seem
 T had my first thrill a few days ago. l went for a ramble with Joe across Red mountain late one after noon. He did some fine work on q covey of full grown quail and fol- lowed up handsomely on Singles A sportsman can enter into the spirit of the dog, who for the first time since the last day of last season. makes game on beyy. and nails his singles in statuesque beauty amidst the scrub pines in deep lush grasses without fault. Say, if you've never got down and hugged your r-footed companion of days and hours ram blings, when he Is panting with pride, like a winning race horse just under the wire, you are minus the throb of one pleasure that the true sportsmen do enjoy. And the music of the wings -the whir-r-r of the first covey of the season-quickens the pulse, light ems the step home, and gives to the heart a surcease from troubling oer material things"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

Not another word. williels
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
INCREASING CATTLE SUPPLY

in the Barracombt
 Mystery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05

Entelea al the BIrml : nan. Ala, postoffice as second class matter under act Of Congress March ,. 1879.
United labor bulletin., 1914-05-30

The United States Senate, in com.
mittee OF the whole. on March e6. 1890.
while considering the Sherman bin. al
most unanimously agreed to provision
eSempting the Organizations of working
people from the proposed act.
On June ?, 1900, in the Fifty-sixth
Congress, the House of Representatives,
by vote of 260 to S, adopted similar
declaration in supplementary amend.
ment to the Sherman act.
On June 2 and June sl. 1910. the
House of Representatives again declared
that the Sherman act should not apply
to the voluntary association of working
people.
ON February 90 1918, in tho Sixty.
second Congress, the House OF Repre-
sentatives again made similar decla-
ration.
'on February ss. 1918, the Senate ac-
eepted those provisions.
On March 4, 1918, after President
Taft had vetoed the declaration. the
House of Representatives by vote OF
S6f to As, passed the bill over the veto
OF President Taft with the declarations
intact.
"on April II. 1918, in the Sixty-third
Congress. the House of Representatives,
Continued on Page Two.)
United labor bulletin., 1914-05-30
TRADE UNION EXEMPTION CLAUSE Is
NOW PUT SQUARELY UP TO CONGRESS-

Feeling that the Clayton antitrust
bill as reported by the House Judiciary
Committee, substituting the Bartlett
Bacon bill, does not give the relief nee
essary to exempt labor and farmer or
ganiEations from operation of the Sher-
man antitrust law, the Executive Coun-
ell of the American Federation of Labor.
in session at Washington, has adopted
the following declaration and presented
the same to Congress:
Whereas, The American Congress in
its wisdom enacted a law on July 2, 1890.
known as the Sherman antitrust law,
which was intended by them to apply
exclusively to large combinations of
wealth-so-called trusts of property
for the avowed and specific purpose of
preventing monopoly and exploitation of
special privileges.
1T was undoubtedly the intention of
Congress to enact = law that would be
effective in the prevention of huge com.
binstions of wealth from crushing their
competitors in the business world. 1t
was also the avowed and openly ex.
pressed opinion of the statesmen who
wrote that law that il should not apply
to farmers or laborers'. organizations es-
tablished for the betterment of produc-
ers OF wealth.