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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
FOLDING POCKET DWELLINGS

From the London Daily News.
 T. II. Holding. the fully furnished man. who is 10 demonstrate at the simple life exhibition how he carries his bed in one pocket and his house in another. explained some of his contri- vances yesterday to a Daily News in- terviewer
 All that man really wants to pro- tect him from the weather and supply him with warm food and drink need, he maintains, weighs no more than six pounds 3 ounces. Mr. Holding is in his seventieth year. and that is the sort of simple life kit he still uses.
 His tent consists of II ounces of silk, with a sort of fishing rod pole and aluminium pegs. All his meals are cooked on a tiny oil stove weighing Just over a pound. but capable of deal ing efficiently with a rabbit or a beef steak.
 Then there is a quilt large enough to keep two people eozy. though it folds up into a package measuring il by inches, and water bucket hold ing two gallons that can be tucked into Q space no bigger than your fist
 MT. Holding has invented innumera- ble other dodges in the way of concern trated comfort-pillows that weight next to nothing and are blown up like cycle tire, pots and pans that vanish when they are not wanted, toilet ap- paratus weighing only a few ounces, and so on.
 By the time he is so MT. Holding will probably have discovered how to get spare suit of clothes into a watch case, and at least one quart into a pint pct.
 Weather is a matter of almost com plete indifference to man of Mir. Hold inS's stamp. In the shelter of his tiny tent he laughs at rain, has endured as much as 22 degrees of frost, and can regard snow with composure.
 As for cycling, he recently completed his S0000th miles on a daily journey between Pullman and the West End
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Will Improve Rapidly

Tt seems to be generally believed that the interstate commerce commis- sion will authorize an advance in freight rates within the next 30 days" said s. s. Hudnet of Philadelphia
 Such action will help business more than anything that has been done this year or will be done in the near future. The eastern carriers filed their peti- ton months ago asking permission to advance rates per cent, and | know not the cause of the delay Not being connected with the railroads I have not paid much attention to the matter; but now business all over the country is seriously depressed and in the east the is acute. Just as soon as the commission acts favorably there will be spontaneous upward movement in nearly all branches of industry and trade. Instead of hard times we would have comparatively good times the bal- ance of the year, and with big crops this summer a boom would come"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
The Country's Potato Crop

The United States department of agriculture has just volunteered some salient advice and a quasi-warning to the people relative to the supply and raising of potatoes. It points out that quarantine by reason of the continued prevalence of disease is reducing the imports of the potato to an amazing ly enormous degree, and says with our great resources it should be en- tirely unnecessary for us to import potatoes, but unless production IS in- creased and maintained, years of shortage may recur, and serious con- ditions may arise
 It would be a matter of little or no effort for the United States to double it's potato yield as the com- parative figures of the department demonstrate. Germany has over S,0OO,- 900 acres in potatoes, while the area in this country devoted to the same culture is but 3,500,000 acres. Again, the German average yield is 202.5 bushels per acre as compared to but 96.2 bushels per acre in the United States.
 Germany's acreage represents about 12.5 per cent of it's arable land and the agricultural department states that if Maine, New York, Michigan, Wis consin and Minnesota were to put the same amount of their tillable land into potatoes and secured an equivalent yield, the product would amount to 1,55S, ,344,00O bushels, which would be about four and one-half times the amount the entire United States is raising today. The potato consumption of this country is just three bushels per capita for every man, woman and child, and should the advice of the department be needed we would not only have sufficiency to supply our home needs but would be able to ex- port annually millions of bushels to other countries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04

more families than almost any other cause. The vegetarian or the teetotaler is, in many cases, 1t is said, a re ligious bigot on a small scale. H. makes his theories his religion and sticks to them with pugnacious ten acity. The result is that the laissez- faire crowd who constitute the great majority find him a pestiferous sort of person whose chief aim seems to be to make his fellow man uncomfor- table
 Being temperate in all things is the secret of happy life, but it is just as hard, apparently, for some teeto- talers to be temperate in their ideas as it is for and old "soakp to be tenn perate in his potations, while the caus- tic remarks a vegetarian makes about luscious steak are enough to alien ate the affections of his closest meat eating friends.
 The average man will eat and drink what is good for him and do what is right, anyway, if he is let alone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04

From the Fort Payne Journal
 The Alabama Great Southern railroad will make considerable improvements in it's freight facilities at this place The freight warehouse will be extended about 50 feet to make room for the increasing amount of freight which is being brought to this place. Agent Garrison says there are 25 or more country stores which get their goods at Fort Payne, and as the country grows and the trade of these stores increases the amount of freight re- ceived here for them is growing also and that rapidly, to such an extent that some- times the present freight rooms are crowded to the ceiling and the additiona l room is absolutely necessary to meet the increased shipments of goods. Fort Payne is distributing point for a large terri tory on both mountains and is enlarging that territory all the time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
nld EI,tnn Cemetery

In furtherance of the plans for the restoration and improvement of the old Elyton cemetery, the memorial associa- tion having this work in charge urgently requests that all persons who are inter- ested will identify and appropriately mark the graves of their departed so that such graves may more certainly retain their identity in future," said a member of the newly formed association. Tt is par ticularly enjoined that this be done with out delay and brought to completion by the 16th inst, as 1t has been arranged that a force of city laborers will be put to work on that day to remove the strag gling undergrowth and otherwise clear up the grounds.
 'The general plan of arrangement con- templates individual attention to individ- ual or family graves the care and over sight of the grounds as whole being undertaken by the association.
 ''The next meeting of the association is scheduled for D. m. Friday April 10, at the council chamber in the city hall, and at this meeting a full attendance is desired
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
Simple Life Problems

Discussing the discontent that crops out in idealistic social experiments, Gilbert K Chesterton says that the difficulties of the simple life "are in no case in the mere physical restric- tions themselves" but in the "atmos- phere of the idea" He declares that "people dislike the theory of teetotal- ism much more than the practice of it." While vegetarianism may have its good points along with teetotal- ism, the ethical atmosphere of the one and the religious atmosphere of the other are resented
 Quite as tiresome as the "atmos- pheres" mentioned 5y Mr. Cheste1ton is the habit of proselytizing that seems to be inborn in people who abstain from certain kinds of food and certain kinds of drinks. Vegetarianism would have fewer enemies if vegetarians would stick to grass and mind their business. They are not content with being vegetarians themselves but want everybody else to follow suit. The more rampant among them when in the presence of meat eater put on sucK airs of superiority that they arc unbearaDle.
 The teetotaler is much the same sort of person as the vegetarian. His example is good one, but he makes the mistake of trying to force other people to follow it. Naturally they get "riled" and balk. It is human nature to balk. That's one reason why so much good advice is given away and so little of it is used. Don't do that, Tommyw and Don't do that, Mary!" reiterated by querulous mother day after day will make a boy bad and a girl stubborn, no matter how good their intentions may be.
 Religious arguments have split up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
THE DIAMOND STAMPEDE

The Rev. T. B. Gregory, in the New York
 American.
 It was 4 years ago-March 90, 1S67- that the first diamond was discovered in West Griqualand, South Africa.
 The excitement that immediately fol- lowed the finding of the little piece of pure cargon resulted mi the craze that pure carbon resulted in the craze that into the shade. From every part of the world men began the mad rush to the Griqualand settlement. In the meantime a lucky dog of a prospector stumbled upon the Star of South Africa" a stone that was valued at something like s25o,O0o and the rush became stampede
 Well, to Kimberly there came a man who did not participate in the almost unl- verdsal insanity-a man with mighty brain, clear-headed, and quite self-pos- sessed and with purposes that were all most cosmic in their sweep-a man who cared nothing for diamonds or the wealth they represented, except as they might be utilized for the furtherance of his far reaching arms. That man, as all the world knows was Cecil Rhodes, the son of the poor English parson.
 As Napoleon strode into the midst of the mad melee of the French revolution, commanded order and transformed the wild chaos into empire. so Cecil Rhodes laid his hand upon the mighty mob Of South African diamond hunters, quieted it, took control, and turned millions upon millions into his strong box. The son of the poor English preacher became the diamond king" the richest man in South Africa, one of the wealthiest men in all the world.
 The mighty man-one of the greatest that has ever lived on earth-died in his prime, but fortunately not until he had so arranged things as to assure the con summation of his noble purpose He died but he still lives in his blessed achieve. ment-the globe-girdling influence of the Rhodes scholarships, the Cape-te- Cairo railway" which insures British empireship from Cape Town to the Med fterranean. and the increased solidarity of feeling between the men of Ang.o-Sazon stock the world over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
Mexico's Ever Shifting Status

Rarely have the shifting cubes of the kaleidoscope moved with greater rapidity or with more bizarre effect than have the features of the situa- tion in Mexico assumed their speetac- ular changes during the past fort night
 For a week the outside world has attended in breathless suspense news as to the results of Villas activities around Torreon, and every day of pro- longed silence and deferred informa- ton has but added to the ominous phase of the situation.
 Both sides of the border sensed the tenseness of the crisis and as no news of surrender reached the Mexican cap- ital the growing insolence of Huerta became daily apparent. Not only his most intimate coterie of friends noted the assumption of an air of bravado but to those removed from the self styled President was made manifest the determination of the executive to maintain his position until recognition of his government by Washington was obtained.
 But the situation has again changed and Mexico City seems to be in a very paroxyism of fear. Reports of Villas success appear to be confirmed and the mob is about ready to do it's work of frenzy and rapine. Representative 'Shaughnessy has notified the newly appointed American secretary of the embassy that it is dangerous to bring his wife to the city and warns all Americans to remain away, stating that news of Villas approach upon the capital will cause the community to be thrown into state similar to that which would obtain should New York dismiss it's police force and turn the city over to the rabble.
 There is nothing that succeeds so well as success and should the rebels make anything of showing in their on-to- Mexico City campaign it is safe to presage that Huerta's following would melt away as snow would dis solve in the rays of summer sun.
 It again looks as if the usurper's regime is approaching its end and startling developments may be con fidently expected in the near future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
VALUE OF A NAME

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 The editor of a great magazine sent for a certain author who had sub mitted an unsolicited manuscript.
 T am glad to make your acquaini- ance, sir" said the editor, enthusias- tically. The story you sent us is per fectly splendid. But why use a nom de plume? Let us publish it over your own name and it will make you famous"
 I'm not after fame, objected the author. Its money l want"
 But youll get just as much money in either case" .
 No. l won't. If l publish it over my own name my wife will get the money"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
Ray Rnshton,s Strength

T have read in The Age Herald many tributes to Capt Frank $. White, can didate for the short term in the United States Senate, and much about his strength in different parts of the state and l would like to offer a few obser- vations on Ray Rushton's candidacy said Arnold Masberg.
 T would not say aught against Cap tain White or Mir. Watt Brown. the other candidate, but being an early supporter of MT. Rushton l am natural ly interested in his behalf The popular Montgomery gentleman is one of the ablest men in the state, and his cam paign has developed wonderful strength for him. My information is that he will carry many counties and that he will Le elected"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
Farewell to the Cow

Assuredly necessity is the mother of invention and the high cost of liv- ing is fdscing science to discover cheaper foodstuffs. If the recent statement of the London Times is true, chemistry has evolved perfect milk so that the COW may be entirely eliminated as factor of our domestic economy.
 The new fluid is called synthetic milk and is based upon a discovery made many years ago by Chinaman who discerned the possibility of sub stituting the essence of the soy bean for milk. The product had a disagree able taste and the process rested un- til German chemist suggested a composite fluid which should contain the exact proportions of ingredients found in cows milk. The basis was the casein extracted from the soy bean to which fatty acids, sugars and salts were added until perfect emul- sion, which is milk, was obtained. Then the bacteria that are found in milk and the tactic acid bacilli, which Metchnikoff few years ago ren- dered famous, were added and allowed to act upon the emulsion until it reached that state of maturity which is obtained by cows milk, and the new product creamed and also produced cheese and butter.
 The product was tested and the most expert dairymen were non- plused in their efforts to distinguish the synthetic milk from the product of the COW.
 There are two great advantages to be found in the chemically prepared milk. It is free from contamination of milk born" diseases as tuberculo- sis, scarlet fever and diphtheria, and it can be manufactured in quantities of ingredients to conform to the require ments of the physicians prescription, such as casein fats, sugar or salts necessary for the respective invalid or infant.
 Finally it can be produced much more cheaply than can the ordinary milk. The soy bean is now being grown most extensively in Florida and there is no reason why it cannot be as successfully cultivated in Ala bama. Its merit as forage food has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
FOR A TOWN MusEuM

From the Isl Paso Herald.
 Every city, town and village ought to have it's museum. The first exhibits should be in explanation of the country around about, display of the different geological formations. a display of na- tive and migratory birds that are to be seen in the open country, botanical collection, and a display of economic products.
 With this nucleus the town should encourage loan collections of scientific, artistic, or curious objects. Here should be placed relics and documents, rec ords of the early days of the communi- ty-anything that marks its develop ment. Every good citizen of town who is interested in collecting anything rare or interesting or beautiful should have in mind leaving it to his town museum when he dies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
GREAT9TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF FRANCIS BACON

SIR FRANCIS BACON, the English
 philosopher and diplomat, found 1t A~ difficult matter to prevail upon his sovereigns to accept his philosophy. and he was not diplomat to sufficient extent to know just how to handle the ob- stinate rulers. While he wrote letters de- lending Elizabeth during her reign, he provoked her and her lords by his oppo- sition in Parliament to taxation meas ures in which the government was inter- ested
 When James came to the throne he fared better for time, and rose rapidly in favor at court He finally advanced to the high position of Lord Chancellor, but the enjoyment of his new honors was brief. The storm which had been gather ing against the government broke first on Bacon's head and on the assemblage of Parliament, he was charged With bribery.
 The charges against Bacon were laiG before the House of Commons in March, 1921, and on March r the Commons re- solved to send the charges laid against him before the Lords for inquiry, with- out committing themselves on one side or the other.
 Bacon's health broke down over worry caused by the charges and he begged for time to reply to the accusations. Not be- ing satisfied, his enemies brought fresh accusations. One of these was Lady Wharton. who claimed that she had given money directly to Bacon and had re-
 
 diately afterward
 On April 16, Bacon, who was sufficiently recovered to leave his house, had an inter- view with the King. He begged his sov- ereign to grant him a fair trial, but on the 2Oth he was given sufficient details of charges to be laid against him that he felt that he had a difficult task before him to ansWer them. When the full charges were disclosed to him he at once realized that a defense was impossible.
 On the 27th of April Bacon made his formal submission to the lords. hoping that they would be content with depriv- ing him of office. The lords, however, pressed for an answer to the charges. On May l the Great Seal was taken from him.
 The Lords. who were to be the judges of Bacon's guilt took the matter out of the hands of the Commons the original
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
In the Musical World

Those who made up the large audience assembled at the Jefferson theatre last Tuesday night are still talking of the artistic merits of the piano concerto re- cital in which eight soloists-all ladies' appeared assisted by local orchestra of 20 pieces under the direction of William Gussen," said an old music lover.
 Each of the piansts acquitted herself exceedingly well. The orchestra won much praise. It proved what can be done by Birminghams professional talent after careful rehearsal MT Gussen is thinking of giving a Sunday afternoon concert with an orchestra of 25 or 26 play CTS the latter part of the month. Such venture might lead to a permanent con- cert organization. with a view of giving a series of Sunday concerts next season."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04

to the recovery of the values from the ore in Georgia and Alabama. It will not be the trouble of how to save the gold in the ore; 1t is entirely matter of obtain ing quantities of ore containing values that will permit operating the mines, and sincerely believe that the ore exists in quantities and value to warrant mining on scale that will exceed the iron in dustries as carried on near Birmingham now, if developed along lines as followed in gold mining elsewhere
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
IN AN ICELESs LAND
From the New York Times.


 Two New York men were touring Ire land last summer by automobile. On d hot July afternoon they came to an inn Stopping, they went into the bar. A red checked peasant girl was the barmaid The travellers ordered Irish and soda. The girl served them and then went on with her interrupted work of wiping the bar. One of the men tasted his drink and found it tepid.
 ''I say, my girl" he said. won't you please put some ice in these drinks?"
 Her mouth went wide open and the mop ping cloth was poised in midair Amaze ment held her silent for a moment. Then she found tongue in a hurry
 Ice. is 1t? And who ever heard of ice in July?"
 Whereupon she fell to polishing again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04

long been recognized and established md now tHai4 the scarcity of cattle
 this country promises a diminution of the supply of milk and consequent rise in price the product the farm CTS of Alal a will be wise to culti- vate and exploit a legume that is not only excellent forage but will supply them with milk of quality equal to that to which they have always been accustomed and at much less cost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
FRANK $. WHITE

From the KOanOke Leader.
 The Leader believes that its readers who take part in the primaries would make no mistake in voting for Capt. Frank $. White for the short senatorial term to succeed the late Senator Johnston. Cap tain White is an able lawyer, a fine speaker, gallant Confederate soldier and consistent Christian gentleman, be- ing an active member of the Baptist church. Without disparagement to either of the other candidates we believe the honor should go this brave follower of Gen. N. B. Forrest. It may be the last chance to honor him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
THE NEWS IN MEASURE.

Do you ever in reading the journals Observe how the captions appear, As though written in metrieal measure That captivates always the ear? There's Sweet Avis Linnel of Hyannis, "Carranza has Huerta at Bay 'The Repeal of the Toll Plank Is Com
 ing
 The Giants the White sox will play" And then from the dulcet and liquid Snappy and quick is the text: Changing completely the measure To that which you find in the next.  "The Tango Tea at the Country Club,'' A Militant Suffragette;' Ulster Wrecks the Cabinet;' The Kalamazoo Gazette" "The Primary is Next Monday. Champs Hound-dog is Loose;" The Crowd Cheers Billy Sunday Rescued is Bull Moose" Temperature Stationary:"
 Bird Man Takes a Drop know you all are weary.
 So just here I'll stop.
 MAY AND DECEMBER. In the spring a young mans fancy Fiercely turns to swatting flies. But the old man to his tansy Garden turns for exercise
 THE NAKED TRUTH Miss Macy is quite proper; She also is prude. She says her bungalow caught fire Because a wire was nude.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
NOT UP TO THE N.p,x

Stand up, Julius Caesar Didn't you have f1ts?"
 Yes, your honor.'
 Weren't you baid?r
 T was. your honor
 "A dyspeptic?'
 "I was
 'Didn'A you write your commentaries for political effect?''
 T did, your honor' Thereby proving yourself without character Below normal weisht?" T was. your honor"
 Then step over there with Napoleon. Alexander, Hannibal Newton, Kant Charlemagne, Pope, William Pitt and William of Orange
 Whats the matter with them. your honor?
 Matter enough. They are all defcc- lives. They've failed to pass our tests"