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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-13
THE COUNTRY EDITOR

From the Raleigh News and Observer
 The average country editor keeps up his preachment day after day year after year. helping his fell ows. sometimes not helping himself as much as he might. for about the time he gets his community to point where he might prosper fnan- cially, another paper is encouraged and the rewards that the Knight should be enjoying are cut in two to divide with newcomer, and the victor must put on his armor and sally forth to continued vigorous warfare.
 And that calls to mind the develop ment of assets. 1 would rather have one good country paper, encouraged and de- veloped, than dozen struggling to live The ordinary country town that has one paper has wonderful factor for good. Two papers in a small town have no ad- vsntase over one. A village newspaper is public utility like postoffice, and I could never un1ers stand that a town is any the better for two postoffices. Op- position in newspapers and opposition in rostoffices may sound good theorctical- ly, but that is all. One paper can get a better circulation, and have more viz o'ous growth and command the services of . better editor than two papers can in the same field. And as the business oi . paper is to tell the news. just as that of the postoffice is to carry it. cannot see that either can do much by having op- position.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-13
YANKEE THRIFT

From the Wall Street Journal
 Conditions can never be so hard that a man cannot make money is the argument of Samuel Newhouse, one of the great developers of mines in the west Dur ing times of war, or when a panic has the country in it's grasp or when the ele- ments devastate the crops, MT. New are making more than their necessities require. He usually supplements it with story like this:
 At one time MT. Newhouse had a man Salt Lake. Block had chum who was unfortunate enough during the civil war to wake up one day with Libby prison as his home. Slowed away in his pockets he had some 30 good American dollars which had passed detection. In spite of the intense suffering around him this thrifty Yankee commenced trading. By the judicious use of his money the guards were induced to become friendly. They were willing, for a consideration, to slip tobacco and other things through the lines. He used his influence to have letters smuggled through. By judicious dickering and trading his capital and in- huence increased. When, at the end of nine months in the slovenly pen he was exchanged, it was probable that he left some regret at giving up his business, for he went out with 500 good American dol lars from his original capital of 30.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-13
FAT FOLKS ARE DOOMED
By BILL VINES

1 ing. In one or two cas- ss the patients pro-
 ceeded to get I little fatter and to all
 appearances were thriving immensely. One subject did get a reduction after.
 six months of IS pounds of flesh, but this
 the experimenters attribute to the fact that the subject. carrying out directions.
 ate no bread, butter. pastry, sugar candy hesh of any animal, bird or politician, or
 in fact any other form of food whatso- ever, which was, we submit rather dras- tic treatment calculated to be more or less
 fatal In the long run to any person not actually engaged in the suffragette busi-
 ness in Grea, Britain. The very first
 month after quitting the treatment, de- elares the department, the patient prac- l tically starved out, started in to pick up
 lost time, and the price of foodstuffs all over the country advanced 10 per cent | much to the dismay of the administra-
 tion, and the patient gained five or six pounds a day in consequence.
 The department of agriculture ooldly
 and we may say unfeelingly, informs the
 public that the only way to reduce flesh ! is dieting, and strenuous exercise. More
 over, they get forth that in order for this | to be effective 1t must be kept up, which
 is most discourag ging. They do not come right out and say so, but they hint that | lard work will reduce ones flesh If it is I inoulged in with vigor and zeal. The pleasing pastime of digging ditches, cut | ting cordwoo1 or following a mouse-col- cred rair of 2-year-old mules over and rBdulating and irritable landscape if per- sisted in, will bring a fat person down | to such size that he or she can ride in street, car without the necessity If all
 the other passengers sitting on the other | side to prevent a wreck.
 | We knew that this information will fall with dull thud in the midst of the fat colony In every neighporhood. But we
 are not responsible. The agricultural de- partment is the cul ort who has taken | away your hope, and sentenced you to re- | main fat, or go to work. Realizing that | most fat folks are like ourselves so bit | tcrly opposed to the fundamental principle | of hard labor, that thera is no chance for l them to get on intimate terms with it, we | reiterate our original statement-th is no hope. We must remain--fat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-13
WHAT A HORSE MIGHT SAY

From Our Dump Animals.
 If a horse could talk he would have
 many things to say when summer comes.
 He would tell his driver that he feels
 the heat on very warm day quite as
 much as if he could read thermometer.
 He would say: "Give me a little water
 many times day, when the heat is in- tense, but not much at time, if I am
 warm; if you want me to keep well don't t
 give me any grain when you bring me
 warm into the stable, just half dozen swallows of water, and some hay to eat
 until I am cool
 Don't water me too soon after I have
 eaten my grcin wait an hour. Especially do l need watering between and 10 at
 night I am thirstier then than at al-
 most any other time of day" He would say: When the sun is hot and I am working let me breathe once in while in the shade of some house or tree; If you have to leave me on the street leave me in the shade if possible Anything upon my head, between my ears, to keep off the sun, is bad for me if the air cannot circulate freely under neoth it, unless it is a sponge kept cool and wet If you treat me as you would yourself, and do not clip off my foretop, you need not have much fear of losing me by sunstroke.
 If on an extremely warm day I give evidence by panting and signs of ex- haustion that l am being overcome with the heat, unharness me, take me into the shade end apply cold water or even broken ice, wrapped up in 6 cloth or put in bag, to my head. sponge out my
 mouth and go over my legs with a cool wet sponge"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-13
Home Products Show
treated.

Under the auspices of the Birming- ham Ad club a Home Products expo sition will be held in East park Au- gust 24-30 that will surpass any enter prise of the kind ever seen in the south.
 There was a Home Products expo sition last year, and considering the fact that it was got up in a hurry, 1t was quite creditable. The only crit | icism of it was that the percentage of local manufacturers represented was too small. Moreover, it was the first attempt to assemble and display home made products in distinct exposition form.
 There will be very large display at this second annual event. In the Birmingham district we have now a great variety of manufactured prod ucts. The local public knows in gen. eral way that this is an industrial cen- ter but comparatively few have any idea of the varied extent of the prod ucts made here. The forthcoming ex- position will be a revelation to the people who attend it. Every manufac- turer should be eager to be repre- sented at this show. Not a single concern should be excused.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-13

Washington Correspondence in the New York American
 Senator Hitchcock has made this state-
 ment to the press:
 T regret MT. Warburgs refusal to ap- I ear before the committee on banking and currency in response to its invitation. The committee was unanimously of the opin- ion that it was desirable to meet MT Warburg to get further information about
 him. The Senate shares with the Presi- dent the responsibility of this appoint- L.ent, and after the President has satis- fled himself the Senate is entitled to be fully informed. The committee js the proper means of securing the information Sope criticism has been made be- cause the committee did not invite others nominated for membership on the board by the President to come before it. This, however, is not true. Before reporting to confirm John Slxeton Williams as Comp troler of the Currency and ex-officio
 member of the board, it invited him to
 meet the committee. He did so, and an- swered full4 and frankly all questions Tt invited MT. Jones of Chicago. He responded promptly and answered all questions fully and frankly. It secured written statement from Mr. Harding of Alabama, which was deemed ample and satisfactory It had equally complete in- formation concerning MT. Miller. assist ant to the Secretary of the Interior, and
 Mir Hamin, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
 Both of these men have been in public | life and were known to members of the | committee; yet they were Invited b and did supply the committee with all infor- l nation desired, some of 1t being called | for over the telephone while the commit | tee was in session.
 MT. Warburg, therefore, has not been discriminated against in being asked l to meet the committee and give 1t infor-
 nation. The committee desired to act in- I telligently and felt that it's duties were not merely perfunctory"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-13
RATTLEsNAKEs ON PAROLE

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 The custom is to kill the rattlesnake He might be tanned, of course but th' roison would be in his fangs and his temperament might assert itself at any time, with results disastrous to the vel meaning friend. The custom nowadays is to use little moral suasion upon the nan who is of the rattlesnalse tempera- il tact.
 The Fourth of July news from Whites burg tells of several homieides, and Is in part as follows:
 About the same time in Jenkins James Turner. colorad a Mississippi pa. roled convict killed Anna May Warner.
 'Following an effort to arrest the mur- derer William Carter, night watchman- of Olive Hill Ky, summoned by the of ficers' posse, was killed by Turner" (.
 Here we have a bad nigger' iron the black belt at large in Kentucky be- cause of the failure of the state of Mis- sissippi to look after her rattlesnakes ir the interest of ner neighbors. There are now at large in the United States thousands of similarly inclined criminals A great deal of fright is caused when 8 harmless lunatic walks way from Q res ervation surrounding an asylum for the insane. But thousands of much more dangerous individuals, many of them witt such pronounced tendencies to get into trouble, that any skllful attorney coult prove them honticidal maniacs, are drift ing over the country free to follow theil natural bent.
 One days work of the bad nigger from Mississippi in Kentucky is sugges tive. Many criminals equally neligibl' to freedom and the rights of citizenship under ordinary rules of common sens, have been turned loose in Kentucky, ana will be, under law which provides tha good behavior in pris on means early lib erty.
 Perhaps time will demonstrate, even tf the satisfaction of maudlin reformers wht regard all crime as the fault of any on, but the criminal, that it is impractical however well meaning, to turn rattle snakes loose in ones own front yart and endanger the neghbors as well al the occupants of the iot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-13
Misguided Females

The suffragettes who planned to de- etroy the birthplace of Robert Burns not only brought down flood of cen sure upon their foolish heads and made themselves more unpopular than ever, but they showed either woeful Ignorance of. the poets work for hu- manity, or chose to ignore it for the mere sake of striking at shrine sacred to all who speak the English nDnGue. Fortunately this wild attempt was frustrated by watchman's vigi- lance.
 It is interesting to speculate on the subsequent results if the suffragettes had succeeded in their attempt to burn the Burns memorial. In the minds of the poets admirers such an act of vandalism would have been even hard CT to condone than the distraction of q cathedral or some other historic edifice lacking the personal interest which attaches to the birthplace of Burns.
 If the suffragettes were desirous ot committing an outrage that would ex. nsperate the whole English-speakine world, they could not have chosen g literary shrine" more suitable tc their purpose. That such was their in tention there can be little doubt, when we stop to consider their past of Fences. It is dearer to "wild wom- ans" heart to destroy something priceless that can never be rcstor ad than 1t l. to pelt royal heads with suf-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-13
The Park Concerts

The large attendance at the band concerts in Capitol park makes it plain that the people appreciate good music, for while most of the compost tions on the programmes are in the lighter vein, no "rag time" or trivial stuff is heard.
 These concerts are made possible by the public spirited efforts of the open air music committee of the Music Study club, as the ladies forming the committee solicit the funds and pro- vide the concerts. Subscriptions to the fund have been fewer and smaller this summer than last, consequently the concerts are fewer in number each week. But it is hoped the fund will be increased between now and Au- gust, so that at least one more concert week can be added.
 When next year rolls round it will be well to make an early start on raising the concert fund, and begin the open air music diversion not later than the middle of June. Nashville, Memphis and perhaps other southern cities employ large bands to play daily throughout summer season of twelve weeks.
 If the Birmingham city commission can see its way clear in 1915 to ap- propriate $4000, corporations and in- dividuals together will subscribe like amount. With $7500 or $SOO0 the Music Study club could arrange for a twelve-week season, with eight con certs a week. With that number of concerts several sections of the city could be treated to free music. There should be one concert a week in North Birmingham, one at Ayondale park one at Behren's park, one at Ensley and one at Fairfield. This would leave three week for Capitol park.
 AS it is now with only three con- certs week for the whole city it will be best to have them all, or most o1 them, in Capitol park, on account ot its central location.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-13

XUJ ASHINGTCN, July 2.-(Special) ) Af Attention, fat folksl We have a
 " message for your ears only. Moreover, it is official and Is not of our own making. We are merely the medium through which these sad tidings-or per- haps it would be better to say this knell of doom is conveyed to you. There is no hope. None whatever-if you are fat you are doomed to remain fat unless the hand of providence interyenes. fer after an official investigation the depart ment of agriculture announces that all the so-called fat reducing remedies are worthless. If you have a figure like an inflated Zeppelin airship we are sorry for you, for the chances are that you will continue to look like a covered tent for the rest of your days
 It is cruel to take away this last hope, but'it must be done. The lady who views with growing alarm her disappearing waist line, an1 who, in the terror of los ing her slender and loathsome figure, &C., coIding to the agricultural department, falls an easy victim to the alluring offers of some profess pr" who for reason able consideration will check this tendency to obesity, and guarantee that said fig ure will retain all it's beautiful lines and curves. It can't be done. Fat folks nt st remain fat and continue to grow more so. and make the best of it.
 To prove how ut erly out of the ques- tion the highly advertised propositions to make fat folks lean are, the agricultural department has gone to the trouble of procuring all the remedies on the market and trying them out on fat officeholders in the employ of the government. There may be, of course some difference be- tween a fat officeholder and the ordinary fat person of commerce. but it can't be fundamental. -
 So the drug specialists of the bureau of chemistry have been conducting a series of experiments on the employees of the office, who realized that their figures would not qualify tn em for the tango, or for anything else in our modern so- ciety circles, with the possible exception of the star soprano part in grand opera They tried them out on the moderately fat, the extremely fat and the highly ul- tra fat with equal results. Nothing do-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-13

A MOTHER of the great trials "A which was the>outcome of a re- A ligious controversy, was that of Henry " of France was on his way in a carriage to visit the Duke of Sully. Evidently there were no traffic regula- tions at that time, for even the King s carriage was forced to wait in the
 street called Feronnerie; where wagon bearing hay and another one laden with wine, obstructed the free passage of the royal carriage. All the footmen but two had walked by a shorter way so that they may come up with the coach
 at the end of the lane. Of these two,
 one walked along the street to try to clear way for the coach, and the other
 took that precise moment to tie his l shoe-lace.
 Revaillac, who had been following
 the coach ever since it had passed the Louvre, perceiving that no person was
 near 1t, barring the occupants, ad- vanced to the side at which he observed the King. Silently stepping on the spokes of the carriage, he drew a knife from his coat which was wrapped
 around his arm, and he stabbed at the King, who was leaning over and show l ing a letter to the Duke of Epernon. The King immediately shouted, q am wounded" and the assassin, seeing that he had struck rib, with a blow like I IirI, Int tx 1 right to the heart near the auricle, so that the blood gushed in a stream out
 of the unfortunate monarchs mouth. He expired aImosN instantly.
 Amid the tumult of the rushing peo- pie in the street, who discerned that something unusual was happening,
 Revaillac was captured and held On May IF, 1910, he was indicted for the
 murder of Henry " of France, at the instigation of the attorney general, by Achilles de Harlay, first president Nich- olas Potter president; John Courtin and Prosper Bavin, being commissioners ap-
 pointed by the court for that purpose The Emperor, the King of Spain, the Queen of France. the Duke Epernon ] and the jesuits were all in turn sus- pected of having tpstigated the crime, because they all profitcd by it; but the
 assassin declared that he had no ac- complices.
 l At the beginning of the trial he was severely cross s-examined, and among other questions he was asked his mo- tive.
 He answered that amongst other req uros bot as he was able to do, brought back
 the followers of the pretended refor-
 nation to the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman church" The murder was clear | ly premeditated for Revaillac confessed that he had for some little time con- | templated the death of the King. As
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The copiou. Showers

While the Alabama corn crop was hurt by the drouth iE June, the recent copious showers will help late corn, and from what l hear the crop will be comparatively large after all,' said J. W. Thornley of St. Louis.
 T have been in Alabama 10 days, and have travelled around some in the cotton belt. There Is no reason why Alabama she uld not be good corn producing state. Had 1t not been for the drouth a 100000 -bushel crop would have been raised this year no doubt. But with nor nal weather conditioN 100000 oo0 bushels will be easy. The day will come when Alabama will make 9O0Ooo.Ooo bushels.
 "The boil weevii las -uined a good deal of cotton, but there will be a bumper crop nevertheless
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-13
The Methodist Univer.ity

T think Birmingham has done remark ably well in the university campaign, T said an old citizen.
 The Birming ham college, with money subscriptions pledged to it, is an asset equalling. fully S350000. In addition to this citizens have subscribed nearly s2o0,OO0. l believe that by Monday the total will be brought Up to s6o0,000. Later on an addi- tional canvass might be made if necessary which would result in a s1,00o,oo0 total; but S6Oc,O00 will be ample to start the uni- yersiiy here. As was pointed out by The Ase-Herald the other day, Vanderbilt was started with only $500,O00.
 T have been rather surprised to see Atlanta showing so little interest in the projected university. No money has been raised there-publicly at lesst-and of course no one would expect the educa- tional commission of the Methodist church to establish the university in any city that did not contribute generously to it's building"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-13
LUKE M,LUkE sAYs

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
 There are lots of married men who
 are not bigamists who have one wife
 too many.
 what he likes to do and prohibits what
 other people like to do.
 Prize fighters are not the only people
 who shake hands before they start in to
 hammer the stuffing out of each other
 The old fasioned man who used to
 believea the wrestling game. was a fake
 now has son who does the catch as
 catch-can tango every night in the year.
 Courtship makes them lovesick. Mar rige makes them sick of love. When your sweetheart says No" fl may mean anything. But when friend
 wife says mo- it means NO" Don't be a knocker The reason you are so quick to recognize the faults o1 others is because they are exactly like your own.
 The reason why women haven't any pockets is because if they had any place to keep their money they might not spend 1t for clothes. It always looks queer to see a man with gray whiskers smoking cigar cites.
 Even when she wants him to kiss her. 1t makes a girl mad to imagine that young man thinks he could kiss her if he wanted to. married woman's life becomes sc monotonous that family moving in or out on the same street is a big event Success in. life and at poker often depends upon the way man Is raised What has become of the old-fashione6 man who used to make his children speak pieces for company? | Cheer up. even if you are poor. Yor can write a love letter and not have tc stay awake nights knowing that it will cost you $50,000 to get it back. Everything but wedding rings are being wo.n tighter this summer.