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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
INVOCATION

1NVOCATlON By M. E. Buhler. Then cried l. Lord. Thou Who hast bid-
 den me pray, These many years have I by night and
 day Petitioned Thee, and yet no answer
 known! Art deaf or powerless on Thy distant
 throne?" "Sayst that thou dost pray and I not
 hear, I, Who am nearer than thy hand is nearf o thou, vociferous by night and day, Art sure thou knowest what it is to prayf q heed not windy words nor foolish And though thou seekest thus thousand
 years, A thousand years thou shalt unanswered
 be; e And yet, say, pray thou. and cease- And what thou prayest shall be given to thee. "Behold. show thee great mystery, Who looking in thy soul shall there find
 Me; Desire, with passion deeper than the sea. Believe that I. thy God, will uphold thee: And in My name command and it shall
 be! Tt shall be thine to set the captive free: And thine to cast the mountain in the sea: And thine to wreak slow vengeance day
 by day Upon earth's mightiest. till. forlorn and
 gray, On desolate thrones all hope Is washed
 away, 'The sword is thine, and thine the healins' touch o thou of strong desire. believing much! And yet, lest judgment on thine own
 head fall. Watch well thy prayer. for 10, I answer
 alIls'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

In the July number of the monthly
 some interesting information is given regarding the live stock industry of Uruguay. About 100 years ago ranch men complained to the government that 45o0O0 head of cattle were being killed every year for their hides alone The car casses were thrown to the dogs or left on the pampas for vultures to de-
 your. Beef in Uruguay was so plenti- ful then that people didn't know what
 every year about 7O0,O0O head of cat tie are converted into 11S,000.0Q0 pounds of jerked beef. most of which is sold to Brazil, Cuba, Porto Rico and other countries of the tropics. Many more thousands of cattle in Uruguay are an-
 nually converted into extract of beef.
 The first great factory for the pro- duction of beef extract In the world was established at Fray Bentos, little city on tho Uruguay river about 100 miles above Buenos Ayres. Uruguay now
 has more than s00O,OOo head of cattle and 29,OO0.OOO sheep on its fertile
 plains. During the first four months of this year the United States imported
 meat from Uruguay to the value of about S5,0OO,0O0, and the trade is still in its infancy. With 37,500,000 acres of land devoted to pasture and grazing, it is estimated that Uruguay will be able
 to supply immense quantities of meat to the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
THE HAYDEN TRIAL

girl which resembled those of the nails of the shoes that Hayden had worn, and that whilst the girl was either dying or
 dead, the prisoner kicked her on the face
 and so left the marks.
 The counsel for the defense was equally
 as emphatic in their statements that the
 marks found on Mary Stannard's cheeks were nothing like shoe nail marks, but
 were similar to the marks common in
 cases of petrefaction and resembled those
 caused by smallpox. pr. White was also
 presented on the stand on the eleventh,
 his evidence mainly relating to the iden-
 tity of the knife taken from the prisoner
 and the clothes at the time of the mur- der
 Another witness Talcott Davis told
 upon the rtand how he had visited the
 Hayden barn and found the tin box
 containing the arsenic which Hayden
 claimed to have put there for the exter-
 imitation of the rats. The state then tes- tified in reply that the barn had been searched 10 days before Davis had visited Tit and nothing had been found. They also claimed that the box had been placed there after the arrest of Hayden . by some friend of his.
 In connection with the case, the ar- senic found in the body and that found in the barn were carefully examined under microscope and compared with the ar senic in the jar from which MT. Hayden's purchase was made and also with sam ples taken from the other drug stores
 in the neghborhood. the purpose being
 eb see whether or not the poison found
 in the barn had been bought separately from that which MT. Hayden himself
 bought. But all the testimony avaled
 very little, for in nearly every piece, of
 evidence, if the state took one side, the defense took the other, and in not one
 material point could they agree. Hayden himself was on the stand for several days during the latter part of De- cember and was an excellent witness in his own behalf The trial was continued without interruption until January 19. covering a period of close to three
 months. when the jury disagreed in verdict, standing eleven for acquittal and one for murder in the second degree. Hayden was released on bail, but was
 never again brought to trial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
DIGNITY OF A GERMAN POLICEMAN

From the Boston Transcript.
 Refusal to refer to policeman as MT. Policeman was the cause of serious trouble to two farmers who recently paid visit to Berlin. Two gentlemen named kempke and Krueger had been out for an evenings entertainment with their wives, and on returning to their hotel had dispute with a taxicab driver The quarrel became serious when other driv- CTS joined in behalf of their colleagues. kempke, therefore, called out Police man. to an officer of the law standing near. That official did not take any notice and Kempke going up to him, asked why he did not respond when called upon.
 T only intervene" said the police man, when l ain referred to as MT. Po- liceman'"
 kempke replied that as a reserve officer he did not feel himself bound to call policeman MT any more than he would an inferior officer. For this remark the policeman arrested Kempke, with the aid of another guardian of the jaw.
 Krueger then came up and, touching his friend on the arm, told him to go quietly as nothing could really be brought against him. Another policeman regard ed the touch on the arm as an affort on the part of Krueger to rescue his friend, so, bringing out his handcuffs, he put them on Krueger so tightly that that gentleman cried out, You will burst my veins"
 The two men having suffered if is al- legged, good deal of ill treatment, were taken off to the police station and were released thereafter several hours on es-' tablishing their identity with the help of friends.
 The court fined Kempke s2. .50 for insult ing an officer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
RISKS IN OCCUPATIONS

CIIe CTICdBO
 The occupation of the baseball player is more dangerous than that of the chauf- feur, if we may trust standard rates ap- proved by the New York state insurance department for workmen's compensation at 4s7, commercial chauffeurs are placed at 2.E, and fiat rate of $15 for each chauffeur of private car is set. The dif- ference between the hazards of policemen and hremen is expressed by the figures 437 and 145S. respectively. The barber S calling is over twice as risky as the den tist's as his rate 10 .37. as against the den- lists 1T. The highest rate, of course. is placed on the fuse manufacturer-1944- and the rate. of 1361 Is paid by the crane and derrick fnstallers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

|n EMARKABLE in many ways was
 TX the trial of the Rev. Mir H. H.
 4 A Hayden for the murder of do-
 nestle named Mary Stannard in the fall
 of 1879. The trial took place at Hartford,
 Conn. The defendant had been, untl a
 short time before the accusation, pastor
 of the Methodist church in Madison,
 Conn.,, but at the time of the trial he had
 changed his religious occupation to that
 of farmer.
 Miss Stannard, the murdered girl, had
 been with the family for sometime-more
 as friend than as domestic-until just
 before her death, when she went to live
 with another family. On September 3,
 1877. she was found, dead at point called
 Big Rock, near a deserted highway.
 From her condition it was supposed that
 knife and stone had been used to dis patch her. and also in her body were found 90 grains of arsenic, sixty of which had remained in a solid mass in her stom- ach. Suspicious pointed to MT. Hayden as the author of the crime, the presum- able motive being to prevent the threat ened exposure of previous relations. What made that suspicion even stronger was the revelation that the unfortunate girl had told a friend when she set out for her last journey that she was to meet Mir Hayden. It appeared also that the day of the murder Mir. Hayden had purchased
 an ounce of arsenic at a drug store in
 Middletown ito kill rats in barn. When he was arrested a blood stained pocket knife was found in his clothes. The paper containing some arsenic was also found in the barn.
 The defense was that the arsenic had been placed in the body after death to di- | rect suspicion against MT. Hayden, and | to determine whether or not this was true Professor Dana of Yale college presented his services. This professor worked for nearly two years, gathering data and in- | formation as to the relation of arsenic, l crystallized or otherwise before and after | being introduced into the stomach. It was on November 4, 1879, that the first 1 pha SC of the case was heard.
 | From that date the case moved slowlys | The medical authorities were unable to agree on almost any point On November 1 ii the states experts testified that marks had been found on the face of the dead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
DENVER BOY A PRODIGY

Denver Correspondence New York Amer
 ican.
 Cleo c. Smith, Denver boy, is amazing scientists by the marvellous retention of figures in his brain. The Denver New Psychology society has just subjected him to severe test during which, for more than an hour, 100 persons bombarded him with every statistical question they could think of. He never once failed in a cor rect answer.
 They found that he could give the popu- lation of every city in the world over 90, 900. the lengths of all rivers, the heights of all the mountains. the number of miles of railroads, the number of farms and the population by nationalties in each state of the union and the population of every city in the United States over 20,0O0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
GOOD FOR THE SOUTH

Rrom the Atlanta Constitution.
 Something significant politically hap nened in Birmingham last week. when sta wide republican convention met without one negro delegate. The mandate exc;,,ding negroes had been issued by the state executive committee, and the story goes that there was not one complaint You may believe the latter statement or not as you please. The point ls' that for the first time in the history or the state the "trother in black did not figure in the deliberations and decisions or the republican party.
 What occurred in Alabama is simply prophetic of what is destined to occur ntil the national republican convention has taken anxious cognizance of the ne- gro in it's counsels, and sought effectual ways to eliminate him, or at least to ap- ply the soft pedal. Last winter the repub- lican national committee hunted ways to put a quietus to the negro without hurt inE the party in the doubtful states where his vote Is a factor, or without offending the Bourbon politician who wants to use the southern negro to manipulate repub- lican conventions. The committee failed of it's purpose. because the republican or ganizs ton is itself right now discred- tied. But the effort itself is surely scheduled 70 succeed.
 When the negro is actually eliminated from politics m the southern states. not h. pothetically but actually, the changes are apt to be profound. Since the ami IT sities inherited from the civil war have been extinguished, one of the chief, If not the chief, barrier between the south ern white man and the republican party has been the negro. The negro out of the party, 1t is largely conjecture as to what will take place. How the south will divide will depend upon what Is going forward at the time, and upon what the national parties have to offer in the way of political wares.
 There is one thing for which to be certain, and that is that the southern white man is approaching the time when lie car vote and think and speak from conviction. and not from expediency, ne- cessity or tradition. The full materializa- ton of an era of that breadth and honesty will be one of the happiest things that can happen to the south. and the nation as well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
DEMOCRAT AND CHRISTIAN
ne Mobile Register.

The fly is a democrat He has no ob- lection to associating with you, no mat ter who you are; and his affection is so great that he will climb all over youS and everything you have to eat Your fly is a true Christian. If you swat him on one side he returns to be swatted on the other; and he bears no malice nor hatred in his heart, and loves his neighbor about the same that he loves himself, perhaps more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

Recognizing the wisdom of reforesta
 ton. the Turkish govel. at has ordered that tree planting day shall be ob
 served throughout the empire and every peasant will be required to plant at least five young trees every year. These trees will be supplied wherever possible by the state forestry schools. As result of ignorance and neglect the wooded area one-third to one-twentieth of the whole area. -Ansora goats have been the worst er emies to forests in Asia Minor. In the viiayet of Angora thousands of acres have been made a desert by these vora- cieGs animals, and they have eaten up practically all the green stuff on the An atollan highlands Human beings have also been destructive and the prices of lumber have risen enormously Wood is used extensively for euel, and for char coal burning. Trees are sacrificed for these purposes in way that is almost beyond belief. One may now travel for days in the Anatolian highlands without seeing a green tree and the climate of that region has changed in a remarka ble manner. The soil in summer becomes so dry and hard that new growths cannot survive and in winter everything grow ing is washed out of the ground by tor rential rains. The population is deci- rated by malaria, cholera and other dis. eases unknown before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

the cafes a rather striking. and alto- gether tragcal, figure which disappeared from the boulevards recently. Where the derelict went-to what degree of want and wretchedness-those who had been famil- far with the spectacle of her thinly dis guised mendieaney did not know or caie. Her death sends momentary shock through the nerves of the boulevar dicrs and. re1haps, through those af younger women of the cafes. and the incident in the histor., of Montmartfc closes.
 Ten years is not long 10 those whose paths travelse the quieter scenes of hum drum life. decade in he cafes IS meis than the average af6im .1t 9f years between the novitiate and the 'atastro- phe. The two Russian boar hounds which used to sit at either side of Alice Norton's chair and make an arresting pie ture in a famous restaurant near the Madeleine where she always lunchcd, died of old age perhaps, a year or two before their mistress succumbed to poverty. The public lost sight of them before it missee the slende figure of the oisiinyuisnsi- looking American woman with gray hair at her temples who went about seeking the charity of felowAmericans she had known in her more prosperous days. A correspondent says that an effort Nas faado to send her to her relatives in America, but when the funds had been st bsoribed and the steamer :i-2et pur- chasce she declined to let those a. torne ....w the hard lin ip'p w!ich she had fall,u.
 The Seine is the sil ter cut from the li.' 'lships and n1cl'.i.ttions oi poverty Ter those whose youth has passed in the cafes. But 1t req jr.s physi'al courage, and courage is nol noasted by t.l to ws' m the Seine vn,'.. prove relief.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

spasms. The trial just ended was ex- citing enough, however, to have aroused the most phlegmatic commu- nity, and as for the European war, the English people are as easily ex- cited as the French.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
A CAMPAIGN DEDUCTION
From the Houston Post.

If we have many more campaigns like that which has just closed, the time will come when a departed broth CTS eulogy will read something like this: "He was one of the oldest and most respectable liars in the community, a noble drunkard and thief and was noted for his many acts of burglary. arson, manslaughter and train robbery. May he rest in peace"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

Bibles are displayed in the window of saloon in Passaic, N. J., and sales are reported to be lively Buying a drink and Bible at the same place and the same time Is rather unusual experience.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
THE AGE-HERALD's FUTILE HOPE From the Mobile Register.

The Birmingham Age-Herald, in commenting upon Congressman With erspoons return of unearned pay to the treasury, says: "It is to be hoped that the time has not come when the scrawny finger of scorn or ridicule will be pointed at every man who does his duty and what is right" Unhappily, the time has already come; and there are persons who make light of MT. Witherspoon's action, saying that it was 'grandstand play" which shows that there exist among us some of such low ideals as to refuse to believe that truly sincere and honest men can be found in public office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
A DERELICT

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
 Alice Norton. an American. who was known 10 or 15 years ago as the belle of the boulevards and cafes of Paris, died of starvation in garrett News of her death serves to recall to the habitues of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

BEGINNING THE DAY-I thank Thee for the cOlOrs with which ihou hast clothed the world, for the fam Ing banners to call the imagination and charm the senses; for the green carpet md tnpestry to rest eye and mind; for the blue canopy to invite the soul, Amen.-H. M. k.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

found in Kansas who has washed 50 years for the same family, maybe some statis- tical friend will tell us how far the cakes of soap she has used in that time would reach if laid erd to end.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
ToMoRRow-TRIAL OF RICHARD BAXTER
GOOD FOR PROTECTION

From the Youngstown Telegram.
 Mayme has a double sash. the bottom part of which droops in the back with a large bow.
 Ellen. aged f. displayed great admra- tion for the gown
 T wish I had one like it, she said.
 But 1t would never do for you" Mayme explained, because 1t isn't made for lit- tie girls. You would look very funny in it..
 Maybe I would" Ellen replied. but that bow would feel pretty good when l got a spanking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

The annual picnic for the benefit of the East Lake orphanage will be held at the Fair Grounds tomorrow, and if the day is clear there will be a reccrd-b break ing attendance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
Rare Alabama Jewel

Tn Lynchs window there is on exhibi- ton very rare specimen of dia- mond found some months ago near Cook Springs In St. Clair county said a man who takes much interest in curiosities
 This diamond has a value more than intrinsic because of it's color, a very pale green, very rare It is pure carbon, free from flaws. and even in It's rough state was highly polished by the action of the ages it has travelled along the bed of some stream that has long since stopped flowing. It was found by local man, and he received a very handsome price for it. It is worth more as probable jewel in some rare col lection of gems uncut than if it were prepared for the adornment of some fair female or some debonair's shirt front It is approximately two and a half carats and is valued at 5000"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

A Kansas man 120 years old says he has been temperate drinker of whisky for 100 years. If he would just mention his favorite brand it would be worth thousands of dollars to the distiller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

General Huerta says he's through with Mexico. If Mexico City should ever have all ''Old Home Week" the chances are he wouldn't be there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

The Boston woman who gave up s1, 900, . oOe to marry husband whom she is now trying to divorce has learned the mean
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

According to London dancing master. the tango died suddenly last January We seem to have overlooked 1t in the Deaths and Funerals"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

The American tourist who stole a bras har ale from the home of Robert Burns was simply carrying his admiration of the poet a little too far.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
The New Ranking System

"A new era of real prosperity will sweep the country in my estimation soon after the new currency bill and the re- gional banks get into operation" said a well known railroad official yesterday.
 The new system is going to take from New York her dominance of the money world. After this, when Birmingham business man wants money to conduct his business, he will be able to get it from his local banker and the financiers of New York won't have a word to say about it.
 Heretofore, New York would have to be asked for large loans. No matter how prosperous Alabama or Birmingham may have been, if there had been hot spell in Kansas or furry in the London stock market or the financer had stomach ache he would have told the Birmingham man to get out, that he didn't have any money to lend him. Con ditions in a financial center entirely re- moved and not effectng local conditions therefore, have been regulating the Bir- mingham money market. With the new system. conditions in district No 6 will determine how hard 1t will be for us to get money. It will put each reserve dis trict upon an independent basis, and it will be big thing for Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
MORE LIBERTY.

'Dobbs is crafty fellow
 How so?"
 He's made his wife believe it takes an hour to- get shaved in a barber shop and that gives him approximately 45 min utes every day he doesn't have to account for"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

Accused of beating her husband, a New Jersey woman told the court that she tltashed him soundly every time she oarght him drinking. Another reason why husbands leave home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

Among other facts brought out in the Caillaux trial it has been shown that M. Joseph can write a love letter warm CT ugh to burn holes in ordinary note paper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

It would be dreadful if the judges in the Gaillaux trial so far forgot themselves as to tweak each others noses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
A MORAL STANZA.

The perils of the city
 Lead young and old astray; Alas, and what pity
 That it should be that way! The g1adness and the glitter
 Are simply counterfeit And when you'd be a quitter
 You-find you cannot quit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29

Hunger strikers" who receive food on the sly are nothing more than near-mar-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

CREATES PESSIAIISM.
 The man who can
 Not slake his thirst
 Is often one
 Who fears the. worst.
 GRATITUDE FORBIDS.
 Who shows ap-
 Petite most hearty
 Should never rap
 The hostess party.
 ABOVE THE FLY BELT. A man advertised in newspaper that he would tell how to get rid of flies, so I wrote to him. Did he tell your" "Yes. He said if would ascend to a height of 5000 feet in an aeroplane wouldn't see a single fly"
 CONTRAST. How sweetly fair the verdant lawn Where morning dews are gleaming; How sad to mow the grass thereon When perspiration's streamingl IDLE OPINIONS. A kiss in time often stops a trade Most of the wild oats are harvested in penitentiaries. Sometimes the woman who is the apple of a mans eye becomes in later years a cinder.
 Ants have no judgment. They bite frecked faced boys at picnics when there are real peaches present. The man who boasts that his wife never says word to him when he gets home late forgets to add that her look speaks volumes.
 Although a woman may not believe all she hears. that doesn't keep her from repeating it. PC
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-29
TO BE SURE.

Do you think forcible feeding is eruel?"
 T should think 1t would be very cruel if the person fed were already full"