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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
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COST OF "nONA LISA"

From the New York Times.
In the many interesting articles on the
great masterpiece of Leonardo ds Vinci
there "a more or less reference to its value
in dollars and ceiits The English gov
ernment, so far. has given the highest
estimate in its offer of $5,000,000 for
Mona Lisa.
While all figures on this subject are
really little more than interesting express
sions as to value of something that is not
for sale, why not compute the problem on
a basis of compound interest? We are
told that Francis l. bought Mona Lisa"
in 1904 or 1906 for 5000, Since the latter
GATE it is now 40S years. At per cent
compound interest the original investment
would double itself in a little less than
23l2 years and makes the cost in 1918
81 ,62e, ,52S, ,064 If the investment was
made early in January of 1906 more than
S45,0O0o oOo must be added in December,
1913 and a few millions more for mac
curacy in the exact time used in this cal
culation to double the principal at 3 per
cent compound interest.
But why squabble over 100000 or
more when comp9 rins these figures with
the highest value suggested nowadays Of
s5000,000 for this great art treasure? Five
millions dollars would indeed be a cheap
price, when it is considered that the sinl-
pie interest carrying charges, based on
a value of $1,629, ,52S, ,064, at 8 per cent. is
over s4,0o0o00 a MONTH $780, ,794 a day, $565s
an hour and $94.9o a minute
Thus Mona Lisa" has cost the world
an enormous sum and is still doing so,
and may be seen for nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
Attractive to HomeseeIxers

Alabama should be most attractive
state to homeseekers, said J. E. Penny,
known as one of the largest landholders
in the south, and a particularly success
full farmer.
II own about $1,000 acres in Alabama
and nearly every acre can be made Won
derfully productive | own some very fine
alfalfa land in Greene county, near Alfal-
fadale. Everybody who understands
farming and will stick to it can make
money year in and year out. Many of
the farmers of Alabama are growing
rich.
t"The most successful farmer that
happen to know is A.r. Stevens, who
owns and cultivates just 40 acres near
the city of Montgomery He raises some
thing of almost everything. In the year
1913 he sold $4,000 worth of farm prod
ucts upon which he cleared about s12.O09.
Alabama will become great truck
farming state, and the time Will come
when most farmers will do like Mr.
Stevens Of Montgomery-rais something
of everything. Intensive farming pays
handsomely, and intensive farming will be
the rule from now on. Mr.. James B.
Haggn. the millionaire breeder of
kentucky stock. did a big thing for .lim-
self and big thing for Alabama when
he bought about 5000 acres of alfalfa land
III Greene county He intends to raise )i
that farm enough hay to feed his Ken
lucky stock. Mr.. Innes Thornton is Mr.
Haggins manager, and he is pushing
large development work. road building,
ditch drainage, and so forth. l am told
that he has already expended about $1a5,-
600 on improvements on the 5000 acres
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
New stock Distributed

THE Gulf States Steel company, of
which Mr.. James Bowron is president,
is starting off in fine shape" said w. a.
Porter, president of the Merchants and
Mechanics bank last night
1T was the Standard Steel company.
and before that it was the Southern steel.
The company is now abundantly sup
piled with raw material. When it ac-
quired the 1900 acres of red ore land
in Shades valley from the Self Fluxing
Ore and Iron company it did a great
thing for itself. Work on driving the
ore slope is progressing well and in
due time the company will be using
ore from its Shades valley property.
Il was Jointly interested in the Self
Fluxing Ore and Iron company with
J. j. Shannon, r. n. McDonnough and
]. Fl. McDonough
"In addition to the cash which Mr..
Bowron's company paid us for the ore
land, it agreed to give us S450,000 of
the reorganized concerns common stock.
The new stock has just been issued and
was distributed to us today"
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The Philippine Islands

That there is more friendly feel
ing for the United States in the Philip
pines is gratifying to Americans. AS
the aims of this country become more
thoroughly understood by the citizens
of the islands, instead of the veiled
hostility which has been apparent
there will come warm admiration and
implicit confidence.
The dilemma of the United States IN
regard to the Philippine Islands has
occasioned some sarcastic comment in
the chancellories of Europe and the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
MRS. sNIMPF,s VOTE.
Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit free Press.
you see it's this way" explained
the tall woman who had rung Mrs
Pegasus Snimpfs door bell. 'Tf every
woman III the city signs this pledge
declaring that she wants to Vote
But" interrupted Mrs. Snimpf. I've
got vote"
what" exclaimed the tall woman.
You don't mean to say you disguise
yourself as a man on election day:"
Not at ALL" assured Mrs. Snimpf.
.Then would you mind signing this
paper. I promise you that IL you sign
this paper you'll have vote within
year
But" persisted Mrs. Snimpf I've
got vote
Il don't understand" said the tall
woman coldly.
well, wait here for five minutes
and you'll understand. Here he is
now
Mr.. Pegasus Snimpf measuring feet
inches in both stocking feet, was
ascending the front steps.
"Peggie," said his wife sternly,
you're two minutes late Go in and
help the cook with the supper"
"Yes'm,' said Pegasus Snimpf meekIv
and disappeared in the house.
You see. I've got Mrs.
Snimpf.
"You bet you ha se tall
woman admringly. next
door"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

ings. A reduced cotton acreage will
but raise the price of the staple and
in the end yield the PLANTER the same
income as would a dominant crop at
lower figures, and the rearing of cat
tie hand in hand with cotton produc-
tion would render us tenfold more in
dependent. What does the billion
dollar cotton crop imply or where is
its great benefit to US if three-fourths
of its proceeds must be turned over
to the north and west for provender
for stock and provisions for the
family?
Let corn and pork and cattle be
raised along with the production Of
cotton, not alone corn and pork and
cattle sufficient to supply o~~ local
needs but in quantities adequately
abundant to enable us to supply the
outside market in lieu of sending our
money to a strangers mart we will
not only keep it at home but add to
its volume by an enormous increase
from the outside.
This is the farmers c.-~' onoortu-
nifty for the south. 1t is knocking at
his door and he would do well to heed
the invitation for opportunit-- rarely
knocks more than once at the same
nortal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
THE TRIAL OF OUR SAVIOUR

" HE trial of our Saviour has been
considered reverently by scholars
i'll the science of jurisprudence
from the standpoint of -he lawyer Large
volumes>have been published about it in
this aspect. and it has proved as it should
be, topic of profound interest as treated
from the platform by several lecturers.
1t is most proper that that in beginning
a series of articles ON celebrated trials,
the most momentous of all the trials re-
corded in history should receive the first
mention. The jurists in recent years have
profited by the researches of several gen
erations of scholars in Roman and jew
ish law. These have been brought to bear
upon the procedure, the charges. the evil
dence, the condemnation and punishment
which completed the tragedy which has
transformed the world.
The trial of Jesus was twofold-ec
clesiastical and civil. The ecclesia stical
trial took place before the great San
hedrn. consisting of Il members. The
Roman or civil trial was held before Pom
hus PLATE, the Roman governor of Judea,
and afterward before Herod, Tetrarch of
Ndllltt. HtSt llldiS loOh pldCt Wltiiiii
a space of from 10 to u hours
The arrest of Jesus took place fol-
lowing the last supper as He was leav-
ing with His disciples, the house of Mark
on the outskirts of Jerusalem, to go to
the Garden of Gethsemane. This was
about midnight the evening of April
G, A. D. 80. He was taken into custody
by the band of temple officers and Rom
an soldiers, guided by Judas. He was
first taken to Annas and afterward sent to
Caiaphas, the former being the father-in
law of the latter. a private preliminary
examination of Jesus was then had before
one of these church dignitaries. Saint
John describes this examination, but does
not tell us clearly whether it was Annas
or Caiaphas who conducted 1t.
After the preliminary examination Jesus
was arraigned about 2 O'Clock in the
morning before the sanhedrin, and was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
Leaves for New Orleans

Mat S. Sloan, formerly assistant to the
president of the Birmingham Railway,
Light and Power company but now as
sstant to the chairman of the executive
committee of the American Cities Rail
way company, with headquarters in New
Orleans, will leave for his new post to-
night.
Il appreciate more than 1 can say the
tokens of friendship and good will that
have come to me on the eve of my de-
parture for a new field Of work." said
Mr.. Sloan yesterday "All my friends
have been saying Godspeed as IL they
felt it. l was especially touched by the
brotherly remembrance of the Rotary
club. The Rotarians, through Oscar c.
Turner as spokesman, presented me with
an elegant grip and an equally elegant
dress suitcase.
II hope to visit Birmingham from time
to time and when | come l shall try to
arrange my schedule to be here on
Wednesday, so as to attend the weekly
luncheon of the Rotary club"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

John ID. Shoop must feel that he has
been the goat in the agitation over the
superintendoncy OF the Chicago public
schools. He was elected to succeed Mrs.
Ella Fiagg Young, and after holding office
for short but turbulent term of less
than two 3eks wac removed. from office
in favor of Mrs. Young. Now he resigns
to accept the position os first assistant
superintendent under Mrs. Young, the po-
sition he held when she resigned. Tha
good sense OF Mrs. Young's action is
rather hard to see If she did not intend to
stay resigned All she has accomplished
is to demoralize the school affairs and to
make a lot of enemies.
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course of this nation has been watched
with great interest There was con-
siderable grumbling that the Philip
pines were not given. independence,
but there were reasons against this
step.
To declare the Philippine Islands in
dependent at the present time would
be similar to abandoning young chill |
to shift for itself. The Philippines are
infants in respect to elf-government.
The United States would be forced to
exercise more or less a protectorate
over the islands, which would be as
bad for us as it would be for them.
The experience with Cuba has
taught the government lesson. 1t is
not reflection on Cubans to say at
the end of the Spanish-American war
the island was not fitted for self-gov-
ernment and the vicissitudes of the re-
public has been ample evidence of this
fact.
AS soon as the Philippines are ready
for self-government independence viii
be granted them, but until that day
comes, and under the wise guidance
Of the United States it is rapidly ap-
preaching, it is better for the islands
to rest under the protecting wing of
the American eagle in name as well SIS
in fact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
NIyIsECTION
From the Kansas City Star.

from the KANSAS t1ty star.
Judge Bland of the South Side munl~
cipal court fined medical student who
without an instructor present practiced
vivisection on a cat.
Vivisection. when conducted by scien-
lists, is conducted as humanely as pos
sible. And no more of It is done by
scientists than is necessary fer their
necessary work.
But vivisection practiccd crudely ami
with no other result than the torture of
animals, is hateful in itself and 1t
arouses resentment against the scien-
tifc uses of vivisectiop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
FAIR WARNING.

Exercise I write Il oft,
But much to my surprise
That old linotype machine
Makes it exercise.
Again l write it potable,
Which means it may be drunk
But when same linotype machine
Says notable, what punk.
Then in despair write it verve,
In fact. I'm quite in tears;
But linotyper has it nerve
When in print it appears.
But next time it misrepresents
That which I plainly mean,
I'll hike down to the office quick
And smash that old machine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
Wireless For the Railway

Within recent years the civilized
world has been thrilled time after time
by accounts of marine disasters mar
rowly averted by means of the wire-
less. Great ocean liners and merchant
vessels are no longer completely iso-
lated when upon the oceans broad ex-
panse. The Marconi system of wire
less has proved itself indispensable
upon the high seas for both safety
and commercial purposes.
An effort is now being made to have
this great system adopted for railway
use. Recent experiments conducted on
the Lackawanna railway have shown
the wireless telegraph to be thorough.
ly practical for communication be-
tween trains in motion and the differ.
ent stations. 1t is alsc possible to SET
signals by means of wireless. 1t is
claimed that the wireless telegraph
would improve the efficiency of the
railroads as whole; for many expe,i-
sive stops would be eliminated, and
the different units of railway trans
portation would be in constant touch
even under disturbing conditions. The
safety advantages of wireless equip
ment are evident; for the fast express
hurtling over miles of deserted track
at breakneek speed is almost isolated,
and in many instances is as MUCH in
need of wireless communication as is
the sinking ocean liner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
THE DAY SEEMS NEAR

FROM IiarpefS 5 Weekly.
The freedom of women has always had
its champions. and naturally enough, it
has not been in every case the cavaliers
who have understood them. In 1857 it
was Daniel Defoe, that practical adven-
turer and brilliant journalist. He was
no courtier, but he believed it was bar
barous that women should be deprived of
the advantages of education, and he sug-
eested just 100 years before our Amer
lean Mary Lyon was born, that an acad-
emy be established differing but little
from the public schools" wherein such
women as desired should have "aIl the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

Seven years ago ST. Louis firm was
sued by a Cincinnati concern for alleged
infringement of a trade mark copyright
The other day word came from the su-
preme court at Washington that the case
would probably be decided in two more
years. Both concerns are rich and able
to fight the case, but what about the man
who has not the money to spend in such
exhaustive litigation?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
BOTH WAYS

From the Baltimore American
This is the time of year. said the
first newspaper man. meditatively.
'Yes?" asked another. expectantly as
the first speaker paused
This is the time of year" resumed
the meditative one, when father and
the Christmas tree are both regularly
trimmed"
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GRADUATED.

| formally tried and condemned to death
ON the charge of blasphemy against Je-
hovah. After temporary adjournment OF
the first session, the .anhedrin reassem-
bled at the break of day to retry Jesus.
and to determine how He should be
brought before Plate
In the early morning of April Jesus
was led before Pontius PLATE, who was
then stopping in the palace of Herod on
the hill of Zion his customary residence
when he came up from Cdesarea to Jeru-
salem to attend the Jewish national festi-
walls. A brief trial of Jesus by PLATE on
the charge of high treason against Caesar
was had in front of and within the palace
of Herod. The result was an acquittal
o. the prisoner by the Roman procurator,
who expressed his verdict in these words:
II find no fault in Him"
Instead of releasing Jesus, after having
found Him not guilty, Plate. being intini-
idated by the rabbe, sent the prisoner
away TO Herod, who was then in attend
ance upon the passover feast. and was at
that moment presiding in the ancient pail
ace of the capital of The Asmoneans in
the immediate neighborhood of the resi-
was had before Herod. who, having
Knocked the prisoner and arrayed Him in a
gorgeous robe, sent Him back to the
Roman governor.
After the return of Jesus from the
court of Herod, PLATE assembled the
priests and elders announced to them
that Herod had found no fault with tho
prisoner in their midst, reminded them
that he himself had acquitted Him, and
offered to scourge and then release Him.
This compromise and subterfuge was
scornfully rejected by the Hebrews, who
Eao( demanded the crucifxion of Jesus.
PLATE, after much vacllation, finally
yielded to the demands of the mob, and
ordered the prisoner 10 be crucified.
From this brief outline of the trial of
Jesus it will readily be seen that there
We're two distinct hearings. one by the
Hebrews and one by the Romans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

owing to rapid fall, series of ad-
Justments is necessary within the space
of a few minutes, then icebergs are
ahead.
The navigator's best plan is to return
the levers to the normal temperature
positions and defect the course of the
vessel until the alarm once more ceases.
Unless the levers of the indicator are
constantly adjusted to the segments corr
responding with the temperatures the big
alarm rings necessarily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
TRYING TO EXPLAIN

From the Washington Star
''Why do so many young men leave the
farm?"
WELL replied Farmer Corntossel. ''in
most of the cases / have observed it was
because they couldn't earn their salt as
farm hands an wasn't fixed to pay
board
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

The search for Ralph Lopez, the Mex
lean desperate supposed to be hidden in a
Utah mine will be renewed. Lopez is
even outstripping the record of the fam
Gus Harry Tracy in giving the authorities
trouble, but they will get him in the end
as they did Tracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

The New York court of appeals has up
held the action of a jury in giving Jack
Binns, wireless operator and hero of the
Republic disaster of 1909 a Judgment for
$1250o against motion picture concern
for using fake picture of him. The pic
ture was shown to the jury and from the
size of the verdict must have been awful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
ONLY ONE HE KNEW

from the Boston GIObe.
Can you give me an example of n
toothless animal Of the mammalian
group?" asked a teacher of small how
in the class of zoology.
Yes. sir" said the boy. promptly.
''Indeed What is it?"
MY grandma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

Crowd Didn't Like Hobson's Tactics"
says headline. The captain will be con-
vinced of the same fact in regard to the
people of Alabama the morning after the
primary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

In commenting on politics in West Vir.
ginia where five members of the legis-
lature have been held guilty of bribery,
critics should remember the Biblical in
junction concerning stone throwing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

The action of the doctor in experiment.
ing on himself at the meeting of the
Federation of American Societies for Ex-
perimental Biology should be pleasing to
Life, which has been frantic on the SUBJ
ject of vivisection for years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

When man sets out deliberately to get
himself sent to the electric chair it is
somewhat difficult, as witness the
Schmidt case in New York. Perhaps that
is the safest course after all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

1t is not to be wondered that inhabitants
of Palestine were amazed to see Jules
last time anything like that happened
was in the days of Elijah
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

Now Is the time of tribulation for stem
ographers. Bosses naturally will object
TO letters dated January /. 1918, and con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
LONG
,o paoorat th,,.,a

From the Chicago Record Herald
THE nights are very long now" he
said after they had been silent for
long time.
Yes she replied, ''it, seems almost
week since you came in"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
GOOD LATIN.

young man devoted to Latin and
great advocate of having the adjective
agree with the noun. wrote story of an
African hunt in which he stated that the
brave sportsman raised his rifle and with
one bullet brought down two obstreperi
hippopotami.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
Governor West of Oregon ordered h

Governor West of Oregon ordered his
so to Copperfield, a mining town, and
close the saloons and gambling houses
running there in violation of the law A
rather illuminating commentary on the
character both of the governor and the
officers of the law of Oregon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

A Chicago professor makes the an
nouncement that there is graft in China
as If it were news. VIII someone please
point out the country where there isn't
graft?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

Nothing has been heard from Bill! Sulzer
and Bill Murphy for SO long that we are
encouraged to believe that they have told
all they know about each other
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

A woman offers to sell her husband for
s100o and says she would rather have
her cat. 1t would appear that there are
two cats in the family
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
JESTER AND TROUBADOUR
ExTRAvAGANT.

Wife: HAS Mr.. Jones bought an auto
yet?"
Husband: NO. but saw him yester-
day bargaining for an egg
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

At the rate cities of the United States
are going after the regional reserve banks
it would require at least s756 to go
round
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

The Schmidt jury disagreed but not
more widely than did the aliensts who
testified as to his sanity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
UNNECESSARY.


A member of the Baltimore Chamber
of Commerce declares that to do away
with options would IN the grain business
take us back to the days of Joseph
hence
When Joseph went OF Egypt
To buy grain in the Fall
He did not have a single put"
He did not have "call.''
When Joseph left old Egypt,
Along the waters edge,
He must have been happy man,
He didn't have to hedge"
GRADUATED.
Whilom I was farmer lad,
To singing school l went,
And there 1 learned my do, ra, me
With musical intent
Sweet Dora Kemp my classmate was;
A neighbours daughter she,
And with her how l dearly loved
To sing my do, ra, me.
But since I've grown to mans estate
Our loves together twine.
Instead of singing do, ia, me,
I whisper Dora mine.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
A DISTINCTION.

7 cannot tell the b from "a"
Sobbed seven-year-old Jack.
THE "a has got his sister said
Its tummy on its back"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

Mexican federal generals are good run
ners, but they haven't thing on Ala
bama candidates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
1 BEL
- rrs-

4 BEL
By Julia Neely Fint
L believe
That in some plae
Some great, high
Where sin Is not
And sorrow forgo
We shall be let t.
BY some God-al
What most each
That sacred fires
Shall enkindling
All human dross
With no sad Sc
From each hun
And leave out
To accomplish
What 1t was m
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
JUST ONE LETTER.

JUST ONE LETTER.
Lady at card party who had exchanged
seats with her partner: What excellent
luck. Why is this thus partner?'
Partner: Because L sand have
changed places"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
IIIERoGLYPHICs.

Little Johnny had attended his mothers
reception to the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, and was told thar he must
not open his mouth while there. That
night he was telling his sister where he
had been, and she asked him what L. d.
c. meant.
4 don't know" said Johnny, unless
they stand for dassent cough"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
MEAGRE MENU.

MEAGRE MENU.
Jones; How did you like the treatment
at the northern sanitarum?"
Z Smith: Not at all; 1 had nothing but
baecili soup and vermifuge pie for two
weeks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
DECEPTIVE

DECEPTIVE.
Mary is so slyph like
In kimona or bright bib,
Methinks as she floats by me
She has a floating rib