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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
"SAY NOT, THE STRUGGLE NAUGHY
 AVAILETH-

By Arthur Hugh Clough Say not the struggle naught availeth. The labor and the wounds are vain. The enemy faints not. nor faileth. And as things have been, things re-
 main. If hopes were dupes. fears may bs liars.
 It may be. in yon smoke conceard Your comrades chase cen now the fliern And. but for you. possess the field. For while the tired waves. vainlS
 breaking, 4 Seem here no painful inch to gain,, Far back through creeks and inlets
 making.
 Comes silent. flooding in. the main. And not by eastern windows only. When daylight comes. comes in the
 light; In front the sun climbs slow. how
 slowly.
 But westward look. the land is
 bright.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
Champ Clark Here This Week

The High school auditorium will doubtless be crowded to overfIowing next Friday night when Champ Clark the speaker of the House of Represen tatives. and one of the most popular lecturers in America, will be the sec ond attraction of the season in the Lyceum course" said Prof. Charles A. Brown, chairman of the Lyceum com mittee
 The opening lecture by Dr. Hills gave great delight, but on account of MT. Clark's greater fame he will draw even Q bigger house. The Lyceum course this year is the most expensive we have ever had, but l am glad to say that financially We are well ahead. Tickets sold already more than pay for the entire course. It should be need less to say that no one connected with the local lyceum makes dollar out of the lectures. The surplus goes over to the next season, and enables the management to secure higher priced attractions.
 United States Senator Frank &. White will introduce Champ Clark, and many other distinguished men in public life will be present and occupy seats on the stage"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
Rest in the Lord

Rest in the Lord
 Rest in the Lord" Psalm 37, 2.
 David has been troubling himself about the prosperity of the wicked. Two temptations have presented them- selves, one of practice, one of thought -one to go and do as the wicked since they seem to flourish, the other to lose confidence in God since He all lows such. But he assures himself that his only safety lies in well-doing, and that God has not forsaken His ancient justice, that law cannot be broken with impunity. There is still the fret of 1t, however, the tendency to won der and worry; and he quenches that with the text: Rest in the Lord"
 The Hebrew here is, Be silent to the Lord. Hush your blabbering, be quiet. In His own time God will tell you all you need to know, and meanwhile will take care of you and of His world.
 There are many questions with ref erence to this little matter, with ref erence to many matters, that we can not answer. But it is useless and fool ish to harry ourselves with trying. Be silent to the Lord, and wait patiently for Him. One of the marvels of His dealing with us is the way in which His answers gradually seep into our consciousness. One morning we wake to find our question not so much an- swered as dissolved. We wake to won- der that we ever asked it.
 There are answers, however, for which we shall have to wait until the snow of age is on our heads-yea, even until the snow of death is on our foreheads. But this part of wisdom and of trust is to be silent and wait patiently
 It seems to me that we need partic- ularly now, and in America and per haps in Birmingham, to be practicing silence to the Lord. Things are nov ing so rapidly, we are driving so fast and feverishly, that we are in catas- trophe before we know it. We have not been pausing every now and then for little silence before God; we have not worn deep a path to the place of silence, which our feet un- consciously fall into in the day of peril. We are suddenly ambushed by thousand worries and cares and frets and burdens and questions and dangers, and in second we are un- horsed, in the dust of defeat, even in the ashes of death. Or, through years we are pursued and worn down, until finally, in desperation, we sink. O. where are you now, strong wings grown in the silence chamber?
 Has the war broken up your little pet world of theory? Rest in the Lord. Are you at bay in business, and won- dering what tomorrow will bring [? Rest in the Lord. Are your fond hopes dead? Rest in the Lord. Is life wid- owed by some stark, black-winged grief? Rest in the Lord.
 What an ineffable sort of thing it IS to say, Well, I will go to sleep and leave it with God"
 HENRY M. EDMONDS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

-HE "BELLIAKERs" of Birming- Il D.~i
 A crude and raw headline this; yet a classic in It's expressiveness and It's adaptibility to some of the long-faced despots about this town.
 The little fellow who owes ninety dol lars and hasn't but three dollars cash with which to pay it. and Is working like the very old Devil himself to make more, is entitled to have a little fit of the blues in the evening after his hard days work is over and express himself in earnest and dramatic language. But the big fel- lows with all sorts of money and prop eIty and controlling money which they really want to lend on good security have no business going about with long faces talking about hard times and predicting that the business of Birmingham is going to the demnition bow-wows.
 These are the kind of fellows that need to be hit by the COW catcher of an old fashioned wood-burning engine and thrown off into the ditch.
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 And there are lots of them here in Bir- bingham. I heard some old money-wise soieheads who are looking for good things to pick up in these strenuous times kick ing yesterday because the ladies were
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

excellent reason for uneasiness in re- gard to our army and navy's fitness to cope with any emergency. Half the world seems to be stark mad.
 When the time comes for Uncle Sam to Hay down the law" he should be in a position to do so with dignity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
shapiro Recetved .n Ov,,,on

'The greatest ovation ever given a speaker in the 1e years of the Alabama Good Roads association conventions was accorded Isadore Shapiro for his eloquent and practical speech on the abolition of the state convict lease system at the re- cent meeting in Montgomery" remarked Jchn w. O'Neill, first vice president of the association.
 There were about 5Oo delegates in the convention hall on the completion of Mr Shap1ros oration. On motion he was given a rising vote of thanks, which vas unanimous"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
Bushes. in New orleaas Improving

J. J. Gilmore, general sales agent for the American Steel and Wire mill at Fairfield, returned from New Orleans days
 Business in New Orleans is improv- ing right along" said MT. Gilmore. When the Underwood tariff bill was passed with sugar on the free list the planters of Louisiana were very much depressed. Many of them shipped their sugar machinery to Cuba, and lands which had been worth $500 an acre were offered for sale as low as $35. But now that sugar has advanced in price the situation has changed. The planters with cane crops maturing this year are enjoying prosperity once more. The rice planters are also prospering again, and these two facts contribute materially to the business prosperity of New Or leans. The Crescent City is really in much better condition than it has been for a long time. It is in fact one of the most bustling cities in this country to- day.
 "Another thing that Is helping Louis- iana is the truck farm industry. The truckers are now learning to organ ize how to market their products to the best advantage. In former years large truck crops were raised, but good prices ere not obtained, because there was no market organization. The last spring. They are getting to the point of carrying on their industry in a strictly business-like way. Louisiana with It's natural resources will gain steadily in wealth and New Orleans will To forward by big strides"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

BEGINNING THE DAY-My Fath- CT, bless those who gather with slow, silent feet this morning around a poor, bereft table. May the sun steal in and rest In glory. May an Unseen Presence find entrance and abiding place. And may I, nt my happier board, rejoice and he glad, adding a little more of cheer to the worlds store. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

Germany's philosophers are blamed for much of the present disturbapca in Europe. but the Krupps are doing great deal to keep the situation from quieting down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

Thomas Hardy has laid himself open to the charge that he over1oolss th. good qualities of Nietzsche. How can an Englishman be expected to see any good in a German these days?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
ADRlFT WITH THE TIrlES

AN OLD PATTERN. Today is neglected some; Twas not so worse, l often wonder what's become
 dropstitch
 Will S. Adkins, in Pittsburg Post. I'm glad that you remind me- Bill; Such Is the case. Though dropstitch verse is rotten, still It
 fills Paul Cook, in Birmingham Age-Herald. When Pegasus is sick or treed We grope for rhyme, And then there comes just what we ..eed
 stitch -C. A. Leedy in Youngstown Telegram. When all the force is down and out, And we feel bum, Four verses of dropstitch, about, Does
 
 some. Judd Mortimer Lewis, in the Houseton Post. HOW ABOUT IT, CORRESPONDENTS !? "If the Germans keep on increasing the size and range1 of their big guns, there is no telling where they will stop" That's true. expect to read in the newspapers almost any day that the Krupps are building a gun to bombard Paris from Berlin.'' VEXATIOUS MATTERS. No other thing of which we know Can make us want to swear Like searching for a bit of dough- To find our pockets bare. Birmingham Age-Herald. No other thing of which I know Can make me feel so rough When to see the home team play I go And Hardy has dern little stuff" Baseball Fan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

III oehylng the use of the mails to
 The Nude" Chicagos prize painting postoffice inspector says it is purely vulgar Brother Comstoc,x uo,,, doubtless go step further and call it 'fmpurely vulgar"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

If the Turk could read all the omi- nous predictions made in regard to his future, he would throw un the sponge and never strike another blow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

It Is reported that 10000 German schoolmasters are at the front. Ger many doesn't mind putting her "kultur, on the firing line
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

uncle Sam is beginning to wake up to the fact that it wouldn't hurt to have few more submarines. The sub marine in warfare Is a humdinger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

Holland. behind her dykes. continues to keep watch and Switzerland pre- sumably has a few glaciers ready to let loose at moments notice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

An oregon woman has been elected to the legislature of that state. She's democrat, and that's one point in her favor, anyhow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
vEXATIOUs MATTERS.

group of cotton crusaders who will wear cotton dresses. One of them will be Miss Genevieve Clark. A suffrage resolution to be sent to the newly elected legisla- ture will be read by Mrs. Julie Op Faver- sham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

The up-to-them minute ambassador in Europe keeps a time table handy. so he can leave at a moments notice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

lazy oak trees. where the frogs of the swamp may croak with them.
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 Here we are In period where the real manufacturers of the Birmingham dis trict are going ahead and doing things, where the merchants are pushing and hustling and where money is easy to get. ic the right methods are pursued
 Now let us get active. Let every man who owes bill and who hasn't the ready money to pay it give note for it. The party to whom the note is given. if good. can indorse that note and take it to a bank and get the real money, because that note when given and indorsed by the man to whom given and taken to the bank becomes a commercial paper and that bank can use such paper with the local reserve bank of the territory and get the real money on it from that reserve bank.
 The government has provided in it's new currency system for just such times as these and when our good people take the lit in their teeth and act as intelligent, practical men. times will be so good that the old stick whitters will return and immediately begin to say: T told you so.v Let's get busy to welcome and to. hug close to ourselves those good times which we can easily make.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

Although Tsingtau has fallen, the small German garrison who defended it gave a good account of themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

The oldest aeronaut in the world died the other day. He lived a long time because he never tried to loop the loop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

Although 1t is true that Joseph c. Cannon has ''come back" he will never again be a "Czar."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

The election made no appreciable change in the status of the same old Bill" Sulzer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
Montevallo School Prospering

''The Montevallo Industrial School for Girls is enjoying a large degree of pros perity," said Thomas w. Palmer, who spent yesterday in Birmingham.
 Our enrolment now is about the same as this time last year-between 45O and 900. If we had the accommodations in dormitories and other buildings we could easily have 1000 students. We have an especially able faculty, and every branch of culture. including drawing and paint ing, is thoroughly taught at Montevallo, as well as the purely industrial branches.
 We are advertising for bids for the new building to be erected and used for technical training all the way from do- nestle economy to the fine arts. This eGifice is to cost $50,O00. It will be 15o feet front with depth of S4 feet. The bids will be opened early in December and we expect to break ground by the first of next year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

The oppressive silence of oyster Bay is justified by the recent election re- suits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
THE BACHELOR TAX.

THE BACHELOR TAX. I loved a girl that Time shall ne'er From my fond memory blot her; But should I pay out cash because The other fellow got her?
 New York Times. He's got the mash, you've got the cashs Kick all you like, dod rot iti They're going to make you pay the tax Because he hasn't got it.
 Cleveland News. Of all the things the Lord detests. The worst one is quitter. ~ It's up to you to pay the tax Because you let him git her. s .
 -sspringfield Union. Yes, go ahead and pay the tax, 'Tis best to be bach Than have some twelve or fourteen kids And for their living scratch.
 Florida Times-Union. Yes, be a sport and pay the tax, We hate to hear you bellow The married guys they envy you The lucky bachlor fellow.
 Allentown Democrat. With all these other cheerful chaps We heartily agree; Who would not pay most any tax To know that he was freel
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

NOTHING DOING. Let me talk to you five minutes and I'll tell you how to get rich' You need a shave and your clothes are shabby. Why don't you go and get rich yourself, instead of wasting your valu- able time on me?"
 Because I'm natural born philan- thropist.'
 Well, I'm not natural born fool. Good day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
A LIGHTWEIGHT ORATOR.

A LIGHTWEIGHT ORATOR. 'Mr. Scadson delivers himself of the most trivial opinion with a grand four ish.
 Yes. He's the sort of man who thinks a sweeping gesture makes up for a lack of gray matter and goes in more for sound than sense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
NED BRACE VARIES A BIT FROM HIS i STYLE AND WlELDS A SLEDGE HAMPER

going to have a two dollar and a half cotton charity ball for the benefit and support of several score of poor little starving tots. They thought times were too hard for men to be ''held up for two dollars and a half.
 I heard the same old fossiliferous feel CTS for enfeebled dollars kicking about having to give a dollar last week for charity and only getting in return faded flower for the buttonhole.
 Some of them are making a pretense of putting up their automobiles and dis charging their chauffeurs in order to get around in public places and below about hard times and criticize the men who are willing and nervy enough to keep things going, to take care of the people who have been faithful to them, and to hold a stiff upper lip and dare to be optimistic and predict renewal of business and pros rerity and plenty.
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 It would be good thing for the real energetic, enthusiastic men of God-given talents in Birmingham to get together and rent an unpainted store in wayback country town with lots of white pine box to sit around and whittle sticks and in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
A HERO. The deeds he did Upon the grid
 Will live for aye; His neck was broke, But that's a joke, Footballists say.
EXPLAINING THE LOOK

"Who is that man with the hunted look2'
 That's Dumworth a brokers clerk. His wife is called the best dressed woman in town"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
ANTAGoNIzEs THEM.

Has Bella many friends?"
 "Oh, yes, but she is the sort of girl who Is bound to make a few enemies among the members of her own sex.' ''Why so?"
 ''She has such good natural complex ion.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
Looking Brighter in TaIInpoosa County


 T found business improving in Dade- ville, which I visited a few days ago." said Hugh M Brown, who sells shoes in every part of the state.
 ''The merchants and farmers throughout Talapoosa county were looking cheer- ful. Many of the farmers who are hold ing some of their cotton feel confident Of getting much better price before the end of the year than is now prevail ing.
 All the merchants are praying just now for cooler weather. They say that as soon as the weather becomes reasonable again they will do a brisk business.
 Everywhere I go I find the farmers determined to diversity their crops They are certainly looking forward to 1915 with high hopes."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
FEMININE CURIOSITY.
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FEMININE CURIOSITY. Well my dear, did you hire new maid today2" asked MT. Twobble. Yes" answered Mrs. Twobbe She's but I shall keep her a week at any rate" Why not discharge her at once?" She was employed last by Mrs. Was serby, and I'm determined to find out something about that woman if I'm robbed for it'
 FEW DO.
 A plucky man
 Is he who sings,
 No matter what
 The morning brings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
optlmistic Insurnnce Manager

R. A. Brown, who represents the Royal Insurance company, was naturally feeling good over a letter received by his insur- ance firm a day or two ago from the manager of the company in which were these cheering paragraphs:
 Today three weeks before Thanks giving, I am glad to say that you have given us volume of business which has fully justified our expectations, under all the circumstances, and certainly the showing you have made for the Royal in spite of retarding influences, is such as to confirm us in the belief that the provision we have made for writing a greater volume of business was only the necessary, automatic response on our part to the increased requirements of the south, insurance-wise.
 Almost without exception, Royal agents have refused to be dismayed by business depression, and We feel that the company and it's management should be exceedingly thankful for our good for tune in being represented in the south ern department by such valiant soldiers Of the commonweal.
 As to the general outlook at the pres ent time-even the most pessimistic must admit that the atmosphere has cleared
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Business Condition. in New YorI


 The prosperity now in evidence in the grain growing west due to the high prices the farmers are receiving for their crops and the improved situation in the cotton south are beginning to be felt helpfully in New York" said William r. Griswold, who Is connected with a brokers office in the metropolis. Two months ago New York had case of the blues on account of the European war. Even month ego the situation was not cheering. but there has been vast improvement within the past two or three weeks. There Is certainly much of optimism in New York now, and as soon as the federal reserve board gets things in working order we are going to have the best of good times.
 T have talked with New York mer- chants within the past 10 days, and they are predicting a big holiday trade
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

Entered al the B1rmlng nam, Ala. postotfice as second class matter under act Of Congress March 8. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08

~HE "BELLIAKERs" of Birmlns-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-07-31
Steps Taken To Have
Dunn Factory Located
From thursdays DAILY.

From Thursdays Daily. =.
At special meeting OF the ad,
visory board or the Mankato CONNER.
cial club. held this afternoon in the
Office of E.. F. Soaring. the secretary.
Andrew C. Dunn OF the Dunn Manu-
featuring company appeared and
stated that his. company had been
unable to find q suitable location for
the factory In any building that was
obtainable II had therefore been
decided that IL would be necessary
to build a proper structure for It.
He said the North Mankato Com
mercial club had taken steps In the
direction OF obtaining q site for the
factory. ~ -.
The committee talked the matter
over and suggested several locations
to Mr.. Dunn, Mr.. Dunn agreed to
look into all the suggestions made
along that line before. he took any
further steps in the direction Of
choosing location. Some of the
members Of the committee thought 1t
would be possible to buy lot with
a building on II. suitable for a fac,
tory such as the Dunn company IN