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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07
RECOGNIZED THE NOTES

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 It takes a good deal to stump an Irish man. John P. Mckinley, counsel for the Consumers company, is proud of his owr Hibernian ancestry and never overlooks an opportunity to tell a story refectine on the resourcefulness of Pat. He el.- tertained the Mems league of the Church of the Epiphany recently with this one:
 An Irishman who had come to New York was met at Ellis Island sby his brother Mike. The latter undertook tc show Pat the sights of the big city pointing out the City hall, Wall street Trinity church and the tall buildings Al length they came to Chinatown.
 Pointing to a Chinese laundry, Mike exclaimed, Look at that sign, Pat Sure, an ye never saw the like O that in Ireland, Can you read it?,
 "No,' replied Pat; "but, begorra, if had me flute here I could play it''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07
GO-tO-Church Sunday

On every Sunday of the year many of Birmingham's churches are filled, and in many of those that arc not filled the congregations are of fair size. But tomorrow is to be known especially as "Go-to- Church Sunday"
 Relatively speaking Birmingham is church-going city. While statistics are not at hand it is safe to assume that the percentage of churchgoers 1 here is above that in some of the large cities in other parts of the country. But those who are not in the habit of going to church are as numerous per haps as those found regularly in their pews, and the concerted effort which the pastors of the city are making to get everybody to attend church to- morrow, at one or both services, will, it is hoped, meet with abundant sue cess. There is scarcely church mem- DSl Wiio Sdiliiol iuulec oOiHS HUT churchgoer to accompany him or her to services. The "Go-to- Church movement has been decidedly success ful in New York, Chicago and other cities of the north.
 The Birmingham churches that arc comfortably filled Sunday after Sun- day, as a rule, will doubtless be over crowded, and the empty-bench churches should be filled. With some men churchgoing is a habit. They would feel uncomfortable if they staid away. With other men the matter of not going to church is simply the re- suit of long habit. These men are not infidels. Many of them, no doubt, have as much faith in church religion as the average churchgoer. If the men who stay away from church year ir and year out will only attend some place of worship tomorrow the non. attendance habit will be broken and old absentees and sinners will be found in the pews frequently, if not regularly, hereafter.
 May Birmingham's "Go-to- Church Sunday" be all that the pastors hope for. It should become notable in Bir. mingham's annals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07
It Is Gods Acre


 lt seems strange that there can be found persons who so soon cast oil the memory of their loved ones who have passed to the beyond or have SC little regard for their ancestors as to allow their last resting places and localities of sepulchre to go to decay and ruin by reason of abandoned neg feet.
 Such is the present lamentable con- dition of some of the old cemeteries in Alabama. One of these is in Great CT Birmingham.
 Nearly all nations, be they civilized or savage, except possibly the canni- bal, display reverence for their dead. Even before the advent of Christianl- ty, pagans supposed that the spirits of their departed onces inhabited the domicile and images of such ancestors adorned the pagan home. In all civi- lized lands the burying grounds has been regarded as sacred, and it is oft en called Gods Acre."
 When one reflects that here repose the ashes of those who gave us eX- istence; that here rest the stilled hands that once labored for our sus- tenance, and here lie the mute lips that once crooned to us our cradle songs or bedtime lullaby; that here halted forever the parental footstep that once companioned us down the pathway of life; that here remain all that was nearest and dearest to us, all that made life worth the living, j strange indeed is the spirit, and cold the sentiment, that can abandon these fond relicts to cruel neglect.
 Even though it chance that many or all of these tenants of the grave were personally unknown to the pres ent generation, they were, neverthe- less, our ancestors, and lineage and  family pride or moral obligation, should impel descendants to respect their remains and honor their tombs. This has not been the case with those ancestors resting in Elyton cemetery. Here are some who bore the most exalted names in Jefferson county; some of the most illustrious pedi- grees in the state of Alabama, leading citizens in the community, moulders of thought, honored heads of honored families, and men who helped to fash ion the fabric of American civiliza- tion, yet today their tombstones are prone upon the ground, green with the mould of many years and broken by the wantonness of the trespasser.
 For the sake of those who rest there and in consideration of the spirit of the age this venerable spot should be improved and adorned. It should be regarded now as in other days, Gods Acre."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07

he named, as No. 3; the state of New York, western Pennsylvania and the southern peninsula of Michigan as
 No. 1; Indiana, Illinois and Iowa as
 No. 5; Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Nevada and Colorado as No. 6; north Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Mon tana, Wyoming and Idaho as No. T; Washington, Oregon, California, Ne vada, Arizona and Utah as No. g.; New Mexico, Texas Oklahoma and western Louisiana as No. 9; that part of Louisiana east of the Mississippi, the states of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia and Florida as No. 10, and the Carolinas, Virginia, West Virginia, the District of Columbia and Maryland as No. Il. The request made of MT. Harding was very marked compliment, and as the time approaches for the or ganization committee to make it's awards it seems more probable than ever that Birmingham will have one of the federal reserve banks. This is the center of the region proposed by MT. Harding. It will fill all the re- ouirements. It is railroad center and financial center, and has a greater future than any other southern city, unless New Orleans be excepted. Louisville bankers had proposed the same identical district for this sec tion as MT. Harding. Representative Louisville financiers have made 1t plain that if they could not get fed eral reserve bank Birmingham was their second choice. They would be satisfied with having branch bank, known as the Branch of the Birming- ham Reserve Bank" New Orleans would have branch. Atlanta would be entitled to such branch, but being within a few hours ride of Birming- ham the bankers in Georgia who would have business with the federal reserve institution would doubtless prefer coming here than to have branch.
 One of the Atlanta papers published a report the other day that the Geor- gia city had been selected, and that nouncement in due time. But when the committee is ready to act Bir- mingham and not Atlanta will be seen to be the winner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07
Insanitary Houses

'It seems to me there should be some law compelling the owners to burn or pull down everyone of these cheap rooming houses," said Miss Es- telle Manning, visitor for the Asso- ciated Charities. "rhey are incubators of all kinds of disease and an enemy to the very people who most need protection from disease-the poor wom- en and children who are trying to hon estly keep body and soul together.
 "There are many of these cheap houses and few, if any of them, were built with a view to sanitary condi- tions. The poor people who must live on very little are attracted to them by their cheap rents but instead of helping their condition thereby they make themselves liable to disease of all kinds which drives them further and furth er toward the abyss they are try ing to escape.
 Poverty is bad enough, but worse enemy of the charity worker is the unventilated, filthy, poorly lighted old tenement room, which causes disease and death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07
POLAR RESEARCH

By Charles F'itzhugh Talman, in the
 American Review of Reviews.
 In 1909 General Greedy wrote: Few as are the years of the twentieth century, they have witnessed polar discoveries which in extent and interest far surpass those of any earlier complete century" " At that time Amundsen and Scott had not reached the south pole; Mawson and Wild had not explored some 1200 miles of the Antarctic coast, and. de Querviain, Koch and Rasmussen had not made their splendid marches across the Greenland ice cap; to say nothing of such minor achievements as Pitchers discovery of Prince Regent Luitpold Land and Villlit- slzi's or Nicholas II Land.
 The era of pole hunting is now happily over, and the best result of Peary's and Amundsens athletic feats in the north and south is that the really important problems of the circumpolar regions can henceforth be attacked with single mind From a scientific standpoint, enough work remains to be done in these regions to last for several generations. The Antarctic has only been scratched, so to speak. owing to the diverse scales used in the school geographies the aver age man goes through life with bady warped ideas concerning the relative sizes of various parts of the earth's surface; and so probably few people realize that the Antarctic continent is very much larger than Europe-in fact, about as large as Europe and Australia combined. Of this huge continent we do not know even the shape and location of the coast line, except for one long stretch south of Australia and few widely scattered points elsewhere; while the whole in terior, apart from a narrow wedge be- tween Ross Sea and the Pole, is virtually blank on our maps. In the Arctic patch of million square miles is still abso- lutely untouched. So much for mere sur face geography; but of course modern polar research includes a wide range of typographical problems pertaining to such diverse subjects as geology, gla- ciology, meteorology, zoology, botany, physiology, ethnology, and archaeology.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07
Saving Fruit By Artificial Heat

While the south has rarely, if ever, had occasion to become interested from a personal point of view in the method recently adopted for saving of fruit crops by artificial means dur ing a very severe season of cold weather, yet much that is worth while knowing is to be found in the figures just compiled by J. Warren Smith, professor of meterology, who has charge of the United States de- partment of agriculture weather bu- reau of Columbus, o., which shows most satisfactory results from or chard heating.
 Notwithstanding the fact that a few failures are recorded in the pro- fessor's report, it will be noted that in every instance the failure was due to unpreparedness or postponing the effort until it was too late. This un- preparedness consisted in a shortage of fuel supply, insufficient number of firepots or lack of men to care kfpr the trees at the opportune time,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS
om the Cincinnati Inouirer

From the Cincinnati Inquirer.
 The girl of the period looks more like an exclamation point.
 Women love one another so much that when they have furnished rooms to rent they always add: For men only"
 For the first few months of married life woman tries to show her love for her husband by waiting on him. But she soon gets over it.
 A man is always hollering because he doesn't get what he wants, when he should be thankful that he isn't getting what he doesn't want.
 Lots of men who have big bank ..c- counts couldn't possibly tell you the diff terence between a split infinitive and a hiatus.
 Lots of women think they are raising pets when they are merely raising pests.
 A girls idea of a waste of time is to wear a diaphanous skirt on cloudy day.
 There,is always something to be thank ful for Parrots are not nearly as plen- tiful as sisparrows. and they do not roost on telegraph wires and fire escapes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07
SWALLOWING NICKELS

From the New York Evening Telegram.
 St. Louis.-Two railroad employees of Columbia, Ill.,. engaged in nickel swal- lowing match following an argument over the capacity and powers of resistance or their respective stomachs. The contest was witnessed by large crowd of their fellow workmen.
 John Galvani and Louis Campani were the contestants. The prize was to be the total amount of nickels swallowed by both. Campani won with ease, swallow ing s7 coins. Galvani was forced to quit after the seventh nickel.
 "The human cash register" as Campani was called by hls admirers, found himself ''in $5.20 at the end, although there was only $4.s5. in him. Galvani, on the other hand. with S5 cents in him, was "out" $5. 20,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF CULPEPPER AND DEREHAM

him that she loved him better than the King and all others. Similarly Culpep- per melted the Queen and they had re- tained Lady Rockford as their go-be- tween, she having treacherously aided and abetted them.
 The liason with Dereham before the nor were the meetings with Culpepper after the marriage. After pleading not guilty, the two men, in face of the evidence and their own discriminating admissions, changed their plea to guilty and they were promptly condemned to be drawn through London to Tyburn, 'and there hanged, cut down alive. and the bodies to be beheaded and quar- tered" a brutal sentence that was car ried out to the letter in Dereham's case only; on December 10, Culpepper being simply beheaded.
 Nor were they alone-to suffer. The poor old Duchess of Norfolk and her son and daughter were tried and condemned of treason and sentenced to perpetual Imprisonment, and on January 21. 1542. a bill of attainder against Catherine and three lady accomplices was pre- scented to the lords. Catherine and Lady Rockford were condemned to death for treason. After the bill had passed it's third reading Catherine was conveyed to the Tower. att-
 On the way to the prison it lis said that she proudly and calmly glorified in her love for her betrothed Culpepper, whom she knew she soon would join in death. On Sunday evening, February 12, she was told that she must prepare for death on the morrow, and she asked that the block should be brought 70 her room that she might learn how to repose her head upon it. This was done and she calmly and smilingly rehearsed her part in the tragedy of the morrow.
 On the scaffold on the morrow Cath erine was calro, but the wretched Lady Rockford was half crazy with fear. Catherine spoke briefly, and concluded with, T die queen, but I would rather had died the wife of Culpepper," and then kneeling in prayer her head was struck off whilst she was unaware. Catherine Howard had erred much for love; had erred more for ambition, but taking the human view of the whole circumstances of her life, and of the personality of the man she married, she is surely more worthy of pity than Of condemnation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07

The claim is being made that cotton Arizona, and a cotton exchange has been organized at Tempe, in that state Over 5000 acres have been planted in Egyptian tion of previously arid land, coupled with the genial climate obtaining throughout the entire year. renders Arizona an ideal zone for the raising of the staple Ad- mittedly climatic conditions in that state more closely approach those of Egypt than any other section of this country, and it is not at all improbable that the pre- dctions of the cotton men there may be fully realized.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07
POOR MAN

From the New York Times.
 President Elliott of the New Haven rail- road, condemning socialism, said:
 Man is an acquisitive animal, and socialism can't come until he loses his acquisitiveness. That will be never.
 'The seven ages of man havesbeen well tabulated by somebody or other on an &C., quisitive basis. Thus:
 First age-Sees the earth,
 Second age-Wants it.
 Third age-Hustles to get it. Fourth ave-Decides to be satisfied with only about half of it.
 Fifth age-Becomes still more mod crate.
 Sixth age-Now content to possess a six-by-two strip of it.
 Seventh age-Gets the strip"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07
A MENI

R. c. McElravy, in the Century. An evening at any New York restau rant, now that the rage for music wit dinner has reached it's height:
 Cream of Tomato Soup with
 Gounod's Meditation
 Celery with the Trail
 Of the Lonesome Pine
 Broiled Bluefish with Somebody's Coming to Our House Pommes Franchise with Apple Blossom Time in Normandy Spring Lamb and Mint Sauce with o Pop o Pop! o Pop! Larded Beef Tenderloin with the Curse
 Of an Aching Heart Roquefort, American and Swiss Cheese With the International Rag
 Butter with Silver
 Threads Among the Gold
 Assorted Cakes with Why Do You Keep Hangin' Around? Coffee with Tostis Good-by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07

while the too late feature was repre- sented in want of judgment as to a
 sudden turn in the weather or an ig-
 noring of the department warnings
 as to the sudden precipitation of cold weather upon the community. Thus among the figures contained in the report it is found that one farmer saved 400 bushels of fruit during four cold nights, but lost 1900 bushels for reason of his fuel running short. Another farmer saved 99 tons of cherries, but through lack of men lost $7000 worth of the fruit as he had only six men at his command and it required two hours for them to light 2200 firepots or stoves
 But it is not alone fruit that has been saved by the new method for artificial heating has rescued a vast valuation of vegetables from the eff fleets of the frost. Thus one truck farmer raised the temperature of his fields from 26 degrees to 3S degrees and saved all his crops, and it was done with but 25 oil heaters burning When the oil was not available in sufficient quantities many of the or chardists resorted successfully to such fuel as stovewood, coal slack, logs, brush, sawdust, coal and even corncobs.
 Where the orchards are not too large blankets are used to enclose them, at least upon the windward side, while the stoves and firepots are in operation, but even without these,
 the temperature in the open has often
 been raised from 10 degrees below the freezing point to as many degrees
 above. Such signal success is glow
 ing tribute to the ingenuity and re- sourcefulness of man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07
DUMAS ON FLYING THE ATLANTIC

From the New York Sun.
 Alexander Dumas, engineer, has the fac ulty of imagination usually associated with distinguished name. Talking on Thursday to the Society of Aerial Naviga- tion about flying the Atlantic, he admit ted that it could not be accomplished with any machine now in existence, but de- clared that one could be built to make the voyage It must be a leviathan of an aeroplane equipped with four 2oO-horse power motors working in pairs alternately and fed by four and a half tons of petrol It must be capable of carrying 10 men and 5000 pounds of food for flight of 100 hours Alexander Dumas, engineer. would be regarded as dreamer by MT. Orville Wright who says:
 "You do not increase your lifting power with the size of your plane surface. Aero planes are not like steamships and rail- road locomotives. You lose efficiency instead of gaining it with an increase in size.''
 The triumph of Russian inventor who has carried 17 passengers in his ''aerobus" bears MT. Wright out; it was a wonderful performance, but the big machine, driven by 1OO-horse power motors, could not keep the air for more than IS minutes. A light aeroplane with a moderate spread of canvas will go faster and further than a heavy machine equipped with powerful motors, and MT. Wright declares that the greater the horse power the less re- liable the motor is. Neither vedrines nor Garos uses big aeropiane, nor did the German aviator who was credited with . flight of 1000 miles,
 It is singular that the transatlantic en- thusiasts are overlooking the shortest stretch of ocean, that between St. Vim cent in the Cape Verde Islands and Per nambuso, in Brazil, which is 1919 miles as the crow flies; some 50 miles could be cut off by landing north of Pernambuco.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07


 w tired of Catherine Howard and " wanted to divorce her he found | it no easy task. He tried to trump up all sorts of charges against her, as he had done against the four of his wives
 who had preceded her. It was necessary for him to produce a sort, of ruse, and he fixed on the unfaithfulness of Cath erine.
 | First Henry discovered that Catherine had exchanged love tokens with Francis Dereham, who was in some way or other @ kinsman of hers Then it came | to his ears that previous to their mar riage Catherine had been engaged to marry her cousin, Thomas Culpepper. l Henry had married Catherine on July ! 2S, 1540. Whether true or not, when Henry became tired of his new Queen he made the discovery that after they had been married Catherine had had secret meetings with her former lovers It was the Archbishop Hertford who had given the King this information. | Henry at first was unable to believe 1 the news, and he ordered a strict in- vestigation. It is said that the result was most painfully convincing. The King commissioned Archbishop Cran
 mer. Lord Chancellor Audley, the Duke
 of Norfolk and the Bishop of Winches-
 ter to wait upon the Queen and inter-
 rogate her upon the matter. It is said
 that she disclosed everything, and thereupon Dereham and Culpepper were
 arrested. In fact, everybody implicated
 in the scandals was imprisoned, mostly | in the Tower Several members of the
 house of Howard were put under guard,
 and Norfolk trembled for his own posi- | tion.
 | On December l. 1541, Culpepper and
 Dereham were arraigned before a spe-
 cial commission in Guild hall and were
 accused of treason. The indictment set forth that before her marriage Gather
 inc had lied an abominable, base and
 vicious life. That she led the King to
 love her, believing her to be chaste." It
 was brought out in the trial that after Catherine had married the King, she had renewed her former attachment to ! Dereham, and had secured him into her
 service as her secretary and entrusted secret affairs to him.
 Against Culpepper it was alleged that
 he had held secret and illicit meetings with the Queen, who had insinuated to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-07
Southern Settlement Organization

"The coming into Alabama of the Southern Settlement and Developing or ganzation of Baltimore means much to this state," said a well known citizen. This organization has the backing of not only the principal railroads of the south, but it is likewise aided and sustained by the leading steamship lines of the north as it has begun to dawn on these transportation companies that new terri tory will have to be found to meet the de- mand for cheap farming lands for immi- grants, and the supply of these lands is largely in the south.
 But the Southern Settlement and De- velopment organization is in the hands the character of settlers who will be sent into the south. The organization is under the direct management of $. Davies War field, former governor of Maryland, with corps of experts under himself, each with wide experience in their respective
 lines. George Gordon Crawford, presi- dent of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail- road company, is the member of the ex- ecutive committee of this organization for Alabama and w. F. G. Harding, president of the First National bank, is member of the finance committee. I understand that it is the purpose of the organization
 to take up the matter of sending settlers into Alabama as soon as the state can be gotten ready for this work.
 T know of no movement since the civil
 war that holds more of importance to Ala
 bama than this one, for with the farmers of the state raising crops to buy food products out of the state it is evident to any thoughtful citizen that it can never progress as 1t should but with the set ting of the idle lands Alabama can hope to change this policy and in doing so en- rich all classes