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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-30
DUCKS AND GEESE IN DEMAND
AT VERY REASONABLE PRICES
FOR THE NEW YEARS DINNER
Large Assortment of This Kind of Poultry Received at Centre
Market-WiId, Black, Redhead and Ruddy Ducks the
Stands-Frut from the oifc Coast Is Here.

Anticipating a big demand for
ducks and geese for the New Years
dinner, dealers in Centre Market
have secured large shipments Of this
kind Of poultry. In addition to the
Long Island ducks, which sell at
twenty-three and twenty-eight cents
a pound, there is a fine assortment
of Western ducks and game.
Fancy geese are selling from
twenty-five to twenty-five cents
pound. For those who prefer game
birds there are plenty Of wild black
ducks, redheads and ruddy ducks to
choose from. The black ducks bring
s1.75 a pair. redhead ducks $3.50 pair
and ruddy ducks 81 q pair.
Advance orders received by the
poultry dealers during the week indi-
cate that many persona who chose
turkey for their principal meat at the
Christmas meal will have ducks, geese
or other game Friday. While tho
variety of game is limited there are
plenty of the birds in season to meet
the
1t was expected that turkeys would
take drop in price after Christmas,
but the prices quoted today are the
same as last week. Twenty three to
twenty EIGHT cents a pound are the
prevailing prices. Dealers say that
the best birds on the market can bt
had at twenty-eigh cents a pound,
although extra fancy birds are bring
ing thirty cents a pound.
Tomorrow will see the close OF the
rabbit season. The small rabbits still
on the market are selling at seventy
five and eighty-flve cents a pair. The
larger animals, or jack rabbits, bring
s1.25 and s1.5O a pair.
The fruit and vegetable stands are
well stocked with all that the market
affords at this time Of the year. Some
of the apples, melons, grapes and such
fruit brought from the Pacific coast
and the South are cheaper this season
than in 1918. The winter vegetables
are selling at the usual prices.
Poultry.
Squads are higher in price today
than they were a week ago. Dealers
say the very small squads which sold
at seventy-five cents a pair cannot be
obtained and the lowest price is ninety
cents a pair The larger variety OF
this dainty morsel cost 81 a pair. The
prices follow:
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-30
The list follows:
Fish.

Scallops took a big jump in price
during the week, advancing from So
cents TO $125 quart. The dealers
claim that the weather is responsible
for the small supply. while the de-
mand was greater than ever during
the week. Crab meat and crab flake
are moro expensive, but the prices of
the other fish remain the same. Fol-
lowing is the list;
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-30
Baby Burned to Death

TRENTON, Dec. 30.-Charles Funk,
two years old, formerly of Philadel-
put a newspaper in CRATE and then
pulled il out when II blazed up
His parents were out to the grocery
store at the time and met the firs
department coming TO they haaas.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-30

No change was made In the price
Of strictly fresh eggs, which sell at
60 cents a dozen. Dealers say the
quotations depend entirely on weather
conditions, and if a rise in the tenn
perature is felt next week the prices
will drop. Butter and cheese prices
are the same as last week. The list
follows:
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-30

Caulifower is becoming very scarce
and prices are soaring. The prices
vary from 20 to 45 cents each, accord
ing to the size of each head. The
present supply comes from California
and is said to be very limited. There
are plenty of other winter vegetables
On the market to be had at the usual
prices. The list follows:
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-30
Fruits and Nuts.

Dates, figs and nuts are in great
demand during the holidays. The sup
ply of nuts especially is larger and
more varied than at any time this
season. New pecans are selling at
25 cents q pound and Philippine nuts
bring the same price. Choice import
ed figs cost 80 cents pound. New
hard dates are 90 cents q pound. The
list of other fruits, nuts and the prices
follows.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-30
Meats.

Butchers report that last week was
the dullest of the year for them. 1t
is expected that the natural demand
for poultry at this time of the year
will end tomorrow and bring a return
Of brisk trade to the meat stalls. No
change has been made in the prices.
The list follows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-15
UNIQUE WEAPONS

Charleston, w. Va, wire to the Opelika
Daily News.
A unique fight, in which a glass eye
and wooden leg were the chief weapons
used, vas fought in Charleston Saturday
Alexander James of Paint Creek, and
James Edwards, who came here a few
days ago from Kentucky, were the princi-
pals.
1t all happened over wooden leg ed
wards, who is a peg-legged man. loaded
up with liquor and lay down for nap.
A practical joker applied coat of paint
to the wooden leg and then sprinkled a
handful of horse hair over it, making it
appear hair had grown on the artificial
leg.
When Edwards awoke somebody told
him James was responsible for the trick
A few minutes later Edwards met James.
who has a glass eye, and calmly unstrap-
ping the wooden prop struck James over
the head. inf1icting severe cash.
James. knowing he had done nothing to
provoke the assault, snatched out his
glass eye and hurled it at Edwards, cut
ting a deep cash in his temple.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-15

ton in the policy of naval construc-
tion will occur with any one nation
so long as other great powers continue
in the building of men-of-war and the
only solution Of the problem is a uni
versal agreement looking to disarma-
ment at land and upon sea, unless the
people should themselves rise and de-
mand halt
Blood, however, is thicker than
water, and national pride is a power
full incentive for the submission to ma
tional burdens, so that common un-
derstanding among the powers as to
change in policy concerning navy
construction is all that we can ex-
pect to alleviate the burden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-15
WHY ARTISTS DON'T MARRY

Owen Hatteras in February Smart Set
How can true artist conform to the
requirements of responsibility? How can
he depict the great emotions OF the world
when his own principal passion is the cut
of his clothes? And does he not, once he
has entered the nuptia1 meadows, realize
the state of affairs and attempt to break
away? He senses a need for new environ
ment for new stimulation and intoxca-
tions; and with that realization begins
''incomptablity" and domestic infelicity.
This is why the artist ballls at marriage.
This is why the artists wife throws up
her hands in despair and writes her
memoirs.
In the old racy days when artists
were dissolute: when they wore their hair
long and bedecked themselves In fam
tastic clothes; when they enjoyed fighting
and knew the ecstasy of stolen kisses;
when the artists dreams took on the color
of their lives, and, bound by no fetch,
they said what they chose in the manner
they ehose-then the world had its Vllons,
its Verlaines, its Shakespeares, it's Poes
and its Christopher Marlowes Can one
ina gine Villon writing his "Ballade des
Danes due Temps Jadis' one moment,
and the next moment inspecting the gro
GERS bills, listening to his wife trucking
with hucksters and discussing inanities
with the neighbors?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-15
Silencing Army Officers

President Wilson is not the only
member of the administration to break
precedents and establish those which
will be of benefit to those effected
Secretary of War Garrison and Sec
retary of the Navy Daniels nave
manifested great common sense IN
their direction of the affairs OF the
departments of which they are the
heads. They have abolished absurd
and useless regulations and submitted
rules which are practical and which
tend to the improvement of the serv-
ice. Neither Mr. Garrison nor Mr..
Daniels is military man, but the
reforms they have wrought have been
ample proof of the wisdom of having
civilians at the head of these depart
ments instead of one who is eaten up
with the importance of small things.
Secretary Garrison's latest move,
which should receive the hearty ap-
proval of all officers who have the
good of the service at heart, is to pro-
hibit the discussion by officers of
army matters of a debatabe nature.
al feel that the best interests Of the
army and country would be served"
he says, "if officers would not indulge
in public debate or discussion, or in
any sort of a public propaganda, with
respect to army matters of debat-
able nature"
Surely this is the right move. 1t is
doubtless an indirect outgrowth of the
now famous dinner of the Carabao,
which clearly brought out the need of
such a step. Army officers should
not question the orders of their supe-
liors; that is the first thing taught
soldier. 1t is not an edifying spec
tacle to see the actions of men who
have made a life study of problems
criticised by men half their age who
have only scratched the surface of
the subject which they are discussing
Secretary Garrison's regulation will
tend to strengthen the discipline and
will do away with much hard feeling
that has in the past been generated
by magazine articles. Several times,
in fact, diplomatic incidents have been
occasioned by the scribblings of some
army officer, who has sometimes
found it necessary to apologize to the
offended country. Secretary Garri-
sons rule is wise one and should re-
ceive the heartiest support among
those to whom it is addressed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-15

upon its own responsibility under the
state law of New York. The object of
the threatened move is to display an
attitude of assertiveness in respect to
the character of the boards person
mel and to shape the preliminary work
of organization which is now COM
manding the attention of Secret los
| McAdoo and Houston.
The proposal, it is understood, was
made by an officer of leading Wall
street trust company, is merely ten
tative and has not yet been accepted
by any New York state bank, if in
deed any such institution has seriously
considered it.
The rut which retards the progress
of the project is the 10 per cent tax
which the federal statute of 1875 i'm
posed upon state bank notes, but Wall
street is astute and she is relying upon
the traditional democratic antagonism
to this tax with the hope that the
situation may yet envolve statute
looking to its abolition. 1t is a mere
pretense of hope and very thinly
veneered one at that.
The strongest assertive factor in its
policy of diplomacy upon which Wall
street is relying is the Withholding by
the banks of their applications for
membership in the new federal system
and the Influence which they may be
able to exert upon the other banks
throughout the country to follow their
example
Inactivity is the cue to the policy
and SO far the Chase National is the
banking institution that has unequivo-
cally signified its intention of enter
ing the federal system.
But all this will effect nothing per-
manently. President Wilson and his
advisers are well acquainted with the
cards that Wall street holds and rec
ognlze the poverty of its hand. The
situation can eventuate only in one di-
rection and that direction leads to
the complete triumph of the admin
istration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-15
The Worlds Naval Budgets

Probably the most potent argument
Chat can be advanced in advocacy Of
a universal peace conference is the
abolition, which would ensue, of the
enormous burden under which the ma
tions of the civilized world now rest
for the maintenance of their respec-
tive navies.
The figures involved in the naval
budgets for 1913 are most astounding
and the great wonder is how these
nations can manage to stagger along
under the taxation problem which the
navies render necessary, and at the
same time deem themselves progress
ing.
In fact, so enormous has this
weight become and such a menace to
prosperity does it present that tenn
porary, if not permanent, reduction
has become necessity.
During the year just passed the
seven naval powers Of the world ex.
pended upon their sea defense the sun
Of $500, 100000. Great Britain, as
might be expected, leads with an out
lay of nearly quarter of billior
dollars, while the United States is q
close second with $15O,O00,000 ap
preparation to her credit. Though
second in amount of expenditures fol
',:~r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-15
A MYSTERY EXPLAINED

Fro mthe New York Times.
That a pitched baseball curves in the
direction in which the nose of the ball is
moving because of the spin-upward if
the twist given by the pitcher is up
ward, toward the right if the twist is to
the right and so on-is d matter of ex-
perience that is quite comprehensive, but
how hard-pitched ball should jump side
wise in most irregular manner, although
pitched straight without spinning is GER
tsinly puzzling. In the Journal of the
Franklin Institute for January, Prof w.
S. Franklin, of Lehigh university, ex-
pounds the phenomenon as well as the
philosophy of twisted balls. Multitudes
of fang who have always supposed that
the battling qualities of straight
pitched ball were due simply TO its swift
ness never suspected this eccentricity.
Professor Franklin states the case IN
tllis way:
Consider a very smooth ball which is
moving through still water without spin
ming. There is certainly no more reason
why the ball should lump to the right
N'ih
tinue to move straight forward. That is
good logic; but such a ball is no more
subject to logic than is IA sharp stick. The
fact is that the ball does jump side
wise, and in a most irregular manner.
This may be shown by dropping a smooth
marble in a jar of still water The mar
hle goes nearly straight for several inches.
and then suddenly jumps sdewise. SINH
larily, a smooth baseball jumps sidewise
irregularly as it moves through the air,
if the ball is not spinning.
Til, explanation lies in the fact that a
rapidly moving stream of air splits when
it. flows past ball with unstable divid-
ing lines or vortex sheets; the unstable
sheet Will squirt now upward, now down
ward. The condition Is the same when
the ball splits the air and IS shunted in a
CHANGING manner past the bat The only
requisite for this battling effect is power
In the pitchers arm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-15
Playing HoOky

1T is the custom of the faculty of the
Central High school to have some speaker
address the pupils of the school each
Monday afternon in the auditorium. said
one of the teachers.
''On last Monday Mr.. w l.. Clarke of
Toronto, Canada. a noted worker among
boys, made an interesting talk to tho
boys of the high school on Right Living.
In the course of his address he quoted
the famous passage from Bulwer's play
of Richelieu ending with there is no
such word as fail, in order to emphasize
a statement he had made that boy
could accomplish anything with the proper
application. I will give any boy in this
school,, he said. a $50 gold piece il he
can point out something that boy can
not do having reference to the struggles
incident to a fight for business success.
One little fellow remarked. sotto voice,
I know one thing a hoy can't do in this
school; he can't play hockey without Mr..
Brown Che principal catching up with
HIM. / know, because l have tried it,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-15
The Federal Reserve Banks

! The new currency system for which
the banking and currency law pro-
vides is proving to be decidedly popu-
lar. Not only will all the national
banks become members of the reserve
system, but a very large number of
state banks will join. Here in Bir-
mingham the American Trust and the
Commercial Bank and Trust company
have resolved to embrace the benefits
of the system, and applications from
state banks throughout the country
will soon be pouring into Washington.
This augurs we'll, for the greater the
number of banks in the federal reserve
class the greater will be the benefit
to the banking interests and indirectly
to the business public generally.
Birmingham has a good chance to
secure one of the regional reserve
banks. Atlanta is making vigorous
fight for the prize. But bankers and
other representative citizens Of Bir-
mingham are cooperating earnestly
and confidently in behalf Of this city.
Baltimore will probably be a re-
gionar bank city-either Baltimore or
Washington. AS has been explained
before, if the Carolinas succeed in at
taching themselves to the Baltimore
region, Atlanta's prospect would prac-
tically be eliminated. Birmingham S
position would then be all the stronger
from the viewpoint of geographical
situation. A region made up of Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Ala
bama, Georgia and Florida with Bir-
mineham as the center would be ideal.
The committee in charge of Secre-
tary McAdoo and Secretary Houston
authorized to select the regional CEN
ters is having hearings in different
cities. Atlanta is to have three
days hearing. New Orleans is sched-
uled for two days. Birmingham is not
scheduled at all, but it is hoped that
Mr.. McAdoo, who really heads the re-
serve bank committee, can be pre-
vailed upon to have the committee sit
here at least one day. Unless Bir-
mingham can be included in the
itinerary, the Chamber of Commerce
committee, of which Col. w. Fl. Ket
tig is chairman, will have to go either
to Atlanta or New Orleans to be
heard. Out of compliment to Secre-
tary of State Bryan the committee is
to have a hearing in little Lincoln,
Neb Mr.. Underwood should be able
to have the committee come to Bir-
mingham. But aside from the matter
of the itinerary Birmingham's chances
are good enough to justify the Cham
ber of Commerce in redoubling its
efforts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-15

down the bow half, wh!e,l kept afloat un-
til sunk by the cannon shot of a dere-
lict destroyer.
If one freight ship ii apparently the
most modern construction can thus break
in two under the mere stress OF wave mo-
ton, why may not others, including pas
senger vessels, be exposed to- the same
denger? As a matter of fact they are,
and have in many cases succumbed to the
test.
There was the Western Reserve on the
Great Lakes, which went down with all
hands from such an accident. The Brit
ISL torpedo boat catcher Cobra broke in
two at sea some years ago and all on
board were lost. The Santa Rosa, on the
Pacific coast, was similarly broken in two
at the bulllhead amidships and lost. AS
late as August, 1912, the British Daere
Castle was lost in the same way, and IN
July of last year the japanese Manchu
Maru Undoubtedly many of the ships
which have left port and never been heard
OF afterward disappeared from the same
cause.
The Oklahoma was 4l9 feet long, or
transatlantic liner, and as length increases
the relative longitudinal strength amdI-
slips necessarily decreases. Nor is he
longest ship ahoat long enough always to
be sure of never being balanced at the
TOP of single wave or never exactly
bridging two waves. Such positions are
doubtless rare to the biggest vessels, but
skirbuilders do not appear to be as sure,
as they should be that the strain could
be withstood if it ever came.
Experts like Samuel Holmes of this city
explain the Oklahoma and other cases OF
the kind by the fact that the transverse
riveting of the sections of hull follows a
Single line around the girth of the ship
and so concentrates on that line all the
weakness resulting from the numerous
riYet holes. Bat why then should so obvi-
Gus a course of weakening be persisted
in when it might apparently be overcome
ty wider distribution of the riveting?
1t is matter which might well engage
the closer attention of ship architects and
builders
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-15
A Prosperity Year

That was a deserved rebuke which
Mr.. Underwood administered in Con-
gress Tuesday to the calamity howlers.
He said that an industrial awakening
which would put the panic preachers
to shame" was promiseh and cited
facts to show that marked improve
ment in the industrial field was al
ready in evidence.
Republicans are striving to make
capital for the remnant of their party
by stressing the recession in business
last fall and attributing it to demo-
cratic legislation. But it is a vain
attempt that the republicans are max
ing. AS Mr.. Underwood said:
"The democratic party has achieved
for the American people more than
has been accomplished heretofore in
the history of our government. We
have secured the results which the
republican party struggled Tor IN the
course of 20 years; the results which
they gave their pledges to secure, and
which for term after term of Con-
gress were left undone. / look for
ward to unusual prosperity through
out the country in the next II
MONTHS
Business conditions are not only
fundamentally sound but the outlook
for exceptional activity in the neal
future is bright indeed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-15
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF JOHN BELLINGHAM

/, a length, driven to despair by being told
at the public office that he might do his
worst. Il have obeyed tnem.' he said, Il
have done my worst. and rejoice in my
deed"
Belingham was a tall, raw-boned man,
and appeared about AZ years of age, with
a thin, long visage, aquiline nose and
short brown hair. After committing the
horrible deed his principal anxiety seemed
to be to persuade the spectators that the
act was justihable from the provocation
r-he had received.
The assassin was confined in Newgate
and ON Thursday following the murder
the grand jury found a true bill against
him. His trial took place at the Old
Bailey on Friday, May 10. Upon being
called upon to state the reason for the
murder the prisoner rose and bowed re-
spectfully to the court and jury, went into
his defense, in a firm tone of voice, and
without any appearance of embarrass-
ment or feeling for The awful situation
in which he was placed.
In part he spoke as follows II feel
great obligation to the attorney general
fer the objection which he has made TO
the plea of insanity. That 1 am, or have
been insane, is a circumstance of which
am not apprised. l beg to assure you
that the crime | have committed has
arisen from compulsion rather than from
any hostility to the man whom it has
been my fate to destroy. Considering the
afnable character and the universally
admitted virtues of Mr.. Perceval, / feel
if l could murder him in a cool and un-
jUstifiable manner, l should not deserve
to live another moment in this world.
Until this fatal catastrophe, which
no one can more heartily regret than l
do not excepting even the family of Mr..
Perceval himself, | have stood alike pure
In the minds of those who have known
ME, and in the judgment of my own heart.
For eight years, gentlemen of the jury.
[ have been exposed to all sorts of mis-
cries which it is possible for human ma
ture to endure. Driven to despair sought
redress in vain, / submit to the fiat OF
my fate, firmly anticipating an acquittal
from charge so abhorrent to every feel
ing OF my soul"
The prisoners counsel thereupon called
witnesses to prove a state of insanity.
The lord chief justice pointed out, how
ever those species of insanity which
would excuse murder Or any other crime.
but a person capable of distinguishing
right from wrong could not be excused.
| The jury brought in a verdict of guilty
after celebrating a quarter of an hour.
Bellingham was executed on Monday
morning. May IS, following the murder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-15
CuIIman and st. nernard

THE city of Cullman is prosperous
said the Rev. Father Charles, o. S. E..
of st. Bernard. situated a mile and a
half outside of Cullman. IF Cullman's
growth is not rapid, it is steady and
substantial.
I'VE are having a good year at St.
Bernard college. The student body is
large. In fact 1t is about up to our ca
pacity.
I'VE will break ground in a few days
on a unit of the new college buildings
1t will be on the north side of the pres
ent college. Mr.. Won Hubeii.s, the dis
tinguished architect of Washington, d.
c., and Birmingham, has designed a
great college group. 1t may be many
years before the entire pile is erected
but the work will progress in units. And
when all is finally built, it will be one
of the most imposing works IF architec,
ture in America"