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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 If man has a shabby spot on his coat he dodges people because he knows they will notice 1t. But if girl knows that she IS wearing pair of silk stockings she can looked the world straight in the eye and dare it to criticize her clothes.
 There never was any villain in any book or play who wasn't Hew-born babe compared with what Friend Wife thinks Friend Husband is when she finds a hair pin in his vest pocket
 When he is counting her he loves to kiss her hair and he thinks if is tha finest thing in the world when a strand happens to cling to his lips. And, after he gets her, if he finds one of her hairs in the comb he slams the comb on the floor and wants a divorce.
 A woman won't let you abuse her hus- band when she is around. She regards that as her special privilege.
 It does make difference. A man could dow for year, and nobody would pause to glance at him. But if girl did the demonstrati ting for a minute, traffic would be blocked for eight hours.
 About 40 of the girls who entered Luke's guessing contest held that Luke was woman because he knew 90 much about women's clothes. Shux! What is mere to Know about womens clothes to- day? There was time in Luke's knowl- edge when a girl wore a dingus and q whatchacollem and a wha ssisit and 6 rinkadorus and a red flannel petticoRt trimmed with wool lace and a black sateen petdcoat and a white cotton petit coat with rick rack on the bottom and a-but space is limited. But nowadays c girl wears 50 little that she could carry change of underwear In vanity box. If some other woman is wearing string of pearls. the other women know that tho pearls came from the 10-cent store. The girls are using 50 much paint and powder that, after a man gets married and the bride washes her face. the groom is surprised to discover that her map 1. covered with freckles.
 No, Rollo. When corn-fed looks dowr at her feet and gathers up her skirti with both hands. she isn't going wadine in a creek. She is going to board a street gar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25
THE LAwLEss HEART

By Berton Braley. Dull trade hath bound me in it's grip, And never shall be free, Yet dream of the decks of pirate ship In the roll of the open sea; I dream of the pennant dread and black That flies at the mast alway, As we swoop along on a merchants track In the sting of the flying spray! Oh, am law-abiding chap.
 Yet deep in my heart I'd be A buccaneer with a scarlet cap And a Terror of the Sea; As lawless and ruthless bandit brute As history ever knew. Roaming the seas in search of loot At the head of an evil crew! Oh, here at home am meek and mild, A man with a family. Yet dream of deeds that are dark and
 wild
 And of red, rcd lights at sea; And under my breath softly hum A stavs from . pirate song. And my throat grows parched for pirat4 For have been dry 70 long! Nv fife ia ordered and shaped and bound And kept to its rule and line, But my thoughts can wander the who'll
 world round
 And my dreams-rny dreams are mine! And I hungrily long to be pirate chief on low. black ship Tn the roll of tho open sea!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25

ests, is distinct center of optimism; and the boards president, Robert w.. Ewing, is a very prince of optimists.
 In response to requests to discuss the present status of business MT. Ewing delivered a prepared address, which he styled Heart to Heart Talk" at the regular monthly meet ing yesterday. It was an address H. luminated by statistics and animating by reason of it's buoyant spirit. MT. Ewing stressed the value of the Made in the United States of America" movement. He called attention to the fact that magazines and newspapers in various sections of the country were advocating the use of all "U. S. A." manufactured products.
 Heretofore" said MT. Ewing, 'there seems to have been some fetish about imported goods, and the public has been willing to pay premium for imported foods and wines pro- duced in England and France; for manufactured products made in Ger many and Japan; for dresses and fashions produced in Paris. Now we are of necessity creating demand for and dignifying our slogan, Made in U. S. A. and we can make it com mand premium"
 MT. Ewing drew logical conclu- sion that if the slogan, "Made in the U. s. A." was good thing the same principle in practice could be brought closer home by using the terms, Made in Alabama" and Trade in Birmingham"
 The retail merchants of this city who are prominent in the Board of Trade enjoy a reputation for enter prise and public spirit. They carry rich and varied stocks and have con- tributed largely to the upbuilding of Birmingham by making this great shopping center. Those who attended yesterdays meeting naturally re- sponded with an amen to President Ewing's sentiments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25
Donation Day at St. yincent's

Tomorrow is Donation Day" at St. Vincent's hospital. On every Thanks giving Day the friends of this ad- mirably conducted institution, and all generously disposed persons are it's friends, are expected, if their circum- stances will allow, to make contribu- tions either in money or in food or clothing.
 The Sisters of Charity, who conduct the hospital, have issued in pamphlet form their annual report and appeal. It is shown that during the year they do a great deal of charity work and that the scope of the hospital is all the while widening.
 The appeal will doubtless meet with liberal response.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25

regulars and volunteers rendezvoused
 in tropical and semi-tropical territory.
 But conditions have been vastly im- proved since then. At Vera Cruz Brig adler General Funston commanded 6000 United States troops for many months, and the good health of hls men was generally remarked. When the troops landed sanitary work came first. Throughout the American occu- patton of Vera Cruz there was very little sickness among the soldiers, and the death rate was remarkably low.
 Too much credit cannot be given the medical department of the army for improved sanitary conditions. In oth- CT countries much attention is paid to hygiene and sanitation, but with the splendid record made by Dr. w. c. Gorgas of the regular army when he undertook the sanitary work of Pan anna WHICH fnduo Ine DuiiuihB oA eiiS canal possible, the United States IS now looked to for the latest advance in the conservation of health. Dr. Gorgas is now the surgeon general of the army and his directions carried out by subordinate medical officers, at Vera Cruz, and by General Funston commanding, easily ac- counted for the splendid results from a health point of view. It IS hoped that United States troops Will not again have to be sent into MeXico' but it is consoling to think that should the occasion arise our soldiers will be as free from disease as if they were quartered in the northern section or this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25
NEPTUNE NOT sUBDUED

H. H. windsor. in the December Popular
 Mechanics Magazine.
 The year now drawing to a close was full of promise of many things which have been laid aside or hidden beneath the black cloud of war. Among them all none was more attractive than the plan to cross the Atlantic ocean in an airship. On both sides of the Atlantic large sums of money were spent. and many trained minds were working on the problem. That the crossing will be made some day there is little doubt: that ultimately the jour- ney will be accomplished with the same precision as by our present ocean liners is also probable. However. the prediction made in these pages sarly In the year that 1914 would not be the historical year oI ocean mastery has como true, and there are some who will view the first crossing with less enthusiasm and satiafaction now than six months ago. The air is 50 much vaster than the ocean and corresponding ly harder to patrol. that our feeling of security will in no measure be increased when fleet of airships can leave the other side and hover overhead between two sunsets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25
WAR ECHOES

Petrograd Correspondent of the London News: The conference of representatives of the Balkan states here has demon- strated that they are much more favor ably inclined toward giving their active support to the triple entente since the entrance of Turkey into the war.
 Reports have reached Bucharest that many arrests are made daily at Constan- tinople in consequence of an attempt on the life of the Sultan. One group which was arrested belonged to an association organized by Burhan Eddine, son of the deposed Sultan Abdul Hamid It is sus- pected that the present Sultan's heir, Yussuf Iseddine, participated in the plot.
 A dispatch received from a Bulgarian news agency at Sofia and telegraphed to London. says the advance of the Austro- Hungarian troops into Servia has greatly impressed political and parliamentary circles in Bulgaria, where the conviction exists that the defeat of servia might profoundly change the situation in the Balkans.
 The Sobranje Bulgarian Parliament) is now in session, and it's members are much impressed by the defeat of the Servians at Valjevo. There is great exasperation in Bulgaria because of the recent attitude of the Servian press toward Bulgaria.
 New York World The war power of the British purse was impressively ex- hibited when men stood in line in Lon don to take up the unprecedented new loan of s1, 1,750, GOO, GOO; when one house sub scribed s500.000,000 and when the entire sum was subscribed without waiting for the 'provinces'-which are, however, to have their allotment. This recital will be scanned with especial interest in Ber- lin, where smaller loan at higher in- terest was taken promptly, but at the expense of savings bank hoards and for eign mercantile accounts.
 Willingly borne as it is, the new war burden is heavy. Consols once bore in terest at 211a per cent, subject to income tax The new bonds, with 6iscount and maturity percentages, yield per cent
 For the last full financial year Great Britain set aside s4,72o,0o0 for debt inter est and s37,7SO.OOO for principal, total ca.'- rying cost of s122 ,OOo. To interest alone the new bonds add ss5. .25o,0oo. Not less tidi thc SalHo SulIl luuSt De lSSueu Hcxt year if the war continues. Probably the government would not meet the entire is- sue at maturity, but if the sinking fund were increased only to s50,000, 900 the end of an S-months war might lind the country saddled with a debt-carrying charge of $265 000,000 a year, almost S30 for every family.
 Neither in Great Britain nor in France or Germany is it possible to curtail do- mestic public expenditure greatly. There is but one cost item that can be cut to tighten taxation. The military budget of Great Britain before the war was close to 6o.000, ,000-$1. 100000 a day. Only by sharp decrease of war expenditure can the new burdens of debt rest endurably upon industry. This is why the war must be fought to finish. No belligerent na- tion cares to face it's new debt in addi- tion to the ever mounting present cost of competitive miitarism. Without partial disarmament, peace will not be peace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25
EXTERNAL WISDOM.
LIKES AND DIsLIKEs.

According to Kansas editor the paw paw is "a cluster of seeds surrounded by decayed banana and the natural in ference is that he dsilxes the pawpaw. The ''favorite aversion of some people is grapefruit, without which breakfast is a hollow mockery. Others can't eat pork who dote on sausage. It is almost inn possible to find two people whose ideas of good things to eat are identical. We once knew a man who couldn't abide chicken, no matter how it was served. As such cases are rare. particularly in the south, he became an object of suspicion at the table. In the course of time this craven wretch was forced to make pre- tense of eating chicken simply to keep people from thinking that there was some thing radically wrong with his digestive apparatus, if not with his mind.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25
Examples of Efficiency

A great deal has been done in recent years to increase efficiency in the commercial and industrial world and in the work of education. Efficiency, indeed, has been the note heard in all departments of human tendeavor. It has been harped on until one almost wearies of the word itself and not long since one of the leading iron and steel journals of the country, in de- scribing a great machinery exhibit in Chicago, substituted the good old fash toned word practical for efficiency, which it suggested might be refresh ing to it's readers.
 But whether we become tired of it or not, efficiency is comprehensive word-a word that means much. In the government service efficiency has been striven for in all branches, civil and military, and it is noted with sat isfaction that the regular army, small in comparison with military establish. ments in other nations, is highly eff. ficient now. Aside from thorough dis cipline and skill in craftsmanship g striking proof of efficiency is the ex' cellent sanitary condition found ir barracks and wherever large bodies oi troops are massed.
 In the Spanish-Ame war there was frightful mortality among both
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25
SAVES HOUSE FROM FIRE

From POuular Mechanics.
 In case of fire in stable where there Is a large number of horses, 1t Is usually a difficult as we'll as pre- carious matter to release and drive the animals from the burning building. In many instances they gre burned to death because of the inability of their keepers to drag them from their stalls.
 In an attempt to overcome this trou- ble a releasing devise which also frightens an animal from the stable has been invented. It consists of a water pipe which extends along the side of tho building and has nozzle connec- tion in each stall. A ring fastened to the halter drops over the inverted noz- 7le and holds the horst fast. When there is fire the pipe may be turned by a lever from a position outside of the building, bringing the nozzles to a horizontal position, and sen ling streams of water into the faces of the animals.
 The same action allows the rings to fall from their fastenings. freeing the horses. Besides having the effect or driving the animals int" the gahsway' the sprays of water assist in extin- gushing the fire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25
THE COOKS BASKET

ment for labor. It Is encouraged by the non-paying employers failure to exact of his acknowledged interiors the honesty he expects of his equals. For many years after the war in Kentucky the survival of the old-fashioned relationship, especial ly where former slaves were employed by their white folks" permitted the serv- ant a good deal of latitude in the mat ter of deciding where his rights stopped and his employers began. We must ex- pect the negroes to live off of us,' was @ familiar expression which proclaimed the former slave owner, and sometimes revealed the fatuous who liked to have it understood that they were of the slave holding aristocracy before the war Now adays the relationship of employer and employe is reduced to business basis. Speaking generally, employers of domes- tic servants do not tolerate disappear ance of supplies which indicates their di- version to another table, and domestic servants do not expect pilfering to be con nived at The change has been wrough. not only by the increase of the. cost of commodities, but also by the increase of self-respect and independence which re- fleets half-century of freedom. Nova days neither employer nor employe makes moral distinction between footing the pantry and footing the corn crib. There are, of course, thieves in all walks of life, and shiftless. thfftless persons who permit thieving. But the domestic serv- ant who makes inroads upon family sup plies to support idlers is nowadays, in Kentucky, the exception rather than the rule whereas the reverse was true when some of the customs of slavery still ob- tained.
 When the question of wages and waste are considered it is no more defensible for a housekeeper to permit a domestic employe to steal than it would be for the head of mercantile establishment to al- low clerks to help themselves from stock" If there is still wide tolerance of the cooks basket in the cotton belt those who continue to tolerate the basket are as blameworthy as those who con tinue to carry it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. THE Augusta Chronicle introduces a
 subject which. it asserts, has been
 taken up for discussion all over the country, by quoting a widely known plan- tation song which is in part:
 "'Taint no use to work so hard;
 I got gal in de white folks yard
 symposium gleaned from newspapers in various parts of the country, but chief ly of the south, is presented by the Chron- icle to show that critical opinion Is strong ly against the cooks basket as an insti- tution tolerated by easy-going employers. The Florida Times Union asserts that if cooks knew what they were about they would stop carrying baskets of food from kitchens and give up providing for hus- bands and sons too indolent to work as long as so good a source of supply ex- ists. Break up the unauthorized 'toting' of supplies from the kitchen" says an other authority upon southern customs, sand you will go far toward solving the problem of the unemployed. In a week you will flush enough cotton pickers to get all of the cotton to the gins before another rain.''
 The cooks basket was more generally recognized, and more generally carried, in Kentucky generation ago than it is now adays. Prices of commodities have ad- vanced so greatly that only thriftless household could look tolerantly upon the old-fashioned custom of winking at the cooks removal of quantities of supplies But it is because the pay of domestic servants has advanced, and because the relations of employer and employe are no longer those of servant and master in the ante-belum. or early post-bellum period that stealing is far less common than it formerly was.
 African slavery was in some respects patriarchal. Petty pilfering Is a natural result of the lack of sense of dignity upon the part of the servant that Is a part of servitude, voluntary or involun- tary. where the patriarchal relationship Is recognized and there is no cash pay
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25
PROHIBITION ITEMS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 A fodr-headed rabbit with green eyes whipped hunter and killed two dogs ir West Virginia
 A red. white and blue coyote walked into Kansas drug store and bit the bar tender on the leg.
 purple snolligoster with long, pink hair wandered into Maine lumber camr and ate the cook.
 A scarlet giraffe, with cerise wings chased an Arkansas man and stole q pint of wood alcohol from him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25

Anniston Star: Mexico evidently be- lieyes that there's glory enough to go round and is passing it.
 Huntsville Mercury Banner: The Bir- mingham Age-Herald says now is the time to build, as materials are cheap and so much labor out of employment. That is what we are doing here in Huntsville building. We are not only building new public and quasi public buildings but new residences, and more and better good roads and building up our farm lands, and school interests and church extension, and, best of all, building character
 Scottsboro Age: Why not call the Press association to meet in Montgomery dur ing the session of the legislature, and ask the lawmakers to give us the right to exchange advertising space with the railroads for mileage, the same as we do for bacon or any other commodity?
 Gadsden Journal: The United States is going in for military dirigibles This probably will put some of the peace lov- ing brethren ''up in the air.'
 Montgomery Journal: If we could only move Belgians into Mexico and move the Mexicans over into Belgians, wouldn't the United States~Aave something to be really thankful for?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25
The War


 the Kaiser's forces have not made the use of the Belgian city that was ex- pected and predicted.
 When Antwerp fell, it was said that it would make an admirable base for air raids against London. The city was taken six weeks ago and no hos tile air craft has yet lowered over the largest city ia the world. On the contrary, the tables have been turned and British aviators have made daring raids far into the interior of Germany.
 The exploit of three flyers in at tacking the Zeppelin factory at Fred erickshafen and previously the sheds at Dusseldorff has not been answered. The only accomplishment in the way of bomb throwing yet displayed by the Germans is above Paris, which has not suffered to any appreciable extent. The general situation is slowly but steadily growing worse for the Ger mans. Magnificent as the German army is, as near perfection as is hu- manly possible to make it, it has been met at every hand with an impregna- ble wall of flesh and blood through which it has been unable to cut it's way.
 In Flanders the most superhuman effort to reach the coast was frus- trated. Along the entire battle front from the sea to the Swiss border the | invaders have been unable to locate a weak spot. The force of the German offensive is gradually spending itself and when it is sufficiently worn down the allied commanders will launch their own supreme offensive and Ger many will begin to know what war really means, as they have made the north of France know it--as Belgium knows it.
 In the eastern theatre of war the outlook is even less favorable than in France. General Von Hindenburg, re- garded as unbeatable, has met his match in Grand Duke Nicholas. When the history of the war comes to be written it will be found that by far the more brilliant strategy was displayed in the east than in the west. Grand Duke Nicholas is the wizard of the war.
 A survey of his campaigns in East Prussia, Russian Poland and Galicia reveals a master mind. But once have his forces been decisively beaten and that was in the early days of the war. It was deliberate sacri- flee and accomplished its purpose in drawing from the German forces in vading France.
 Grand Duke Nicholas has adopted the method of forcing the Germans to fight on ground of his own choosing, tremendous advantage. In this man. ner were the Austrians crushed. And in this way has he twice defeated the Germans.
 As yet the Russian army has not seriously undertaken the invasion of Germany. The forces which so far have invaded East Prussia have been little more than reconnoissances in force designed to draw the Germans from their position by seemingly precipitate retreat. Profiting by the experience of General Rennekampf, whom he threw forward in the early days of the war, Grand Duke Nicholas has chosen to first destroy the Ger man field army in East Prussia, if not in single fight then in series of battles, before beginning the seri- ous advance on Berlin, which, when once under way, will be well nigh irresistible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25
Optimism in Board of Trade

The Birmingham Board of Trade, which, for several years past, has con- stituted a section of the Chamber of Commerce while retaining it's dis tinctive character as representative of a certain line of mercantile inter-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25

Carranza is said to be displeased at the way in which Vera Cruz was turned over to the Mexicans by General Funston. He should remember that Americans as a rule have a profound dislike of red tape.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25
WHAT CnIrNTs

From the Florida Times Union.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald says: Germany was probably not expecting the Emden to be put out of business by an Australian warship any more than she expected Belgium to check her advance to Paris. But It's the size of the battleship and the guns on it-not the population of the country 1t comes from. that counts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25

The Turks made handsome explana- tion and now everybody knows the mod ern definition of a Friendly shot.' Here- tofore it has been the kind that is fired by a poor marksman.