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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25
Commencement Season

This is the glad time of the year fol high school, seminary and college | graduates. It is commencement sea- son. Some of the finals have taken place already but many of them are set for this week.
 The old time bacealaureate sermon was profound and sometimes dry, but the modern baccalaureate preacher IS chosen for his peculiar gifts, notably the gift of holding the attention of old and young He is a man with message, and with few exceptions, what he has to say is clean cut and animating.
 The schools, institutes and colleges of Alabama are prospering, and the commencement exercises this week will be full of interest. This state is fortunate in having in her college faculties men of exalted character and fine pedagogical equipment. The in structors are earnest and conscien- tious. Their zeal has had a direct eff feet upon the student bodies, and the enthusiasm which is so much in evi- dence in the class room comes in a large measure from the enthusiasm of those whose business and privilege it is to impart knowledge to the young.
 Among the commencements of the week will be Towards and that at Auburn. This has been a banner year for the Alabama Polytechnic institute. According to President Thach, Auburn; has had the most successful Yp ;a its history It's graduatR.r,Sr diass .e is inc largest in many "e ,r, .'SSs .,.s 's ..e o'0' ' .,s,s, about S2O. The institute
 T. technic in fact as well as in :f .ane, and in each department instruc- tion is thorough. Auburn has done great work for Alabama, and It IS believed that next year the enrolment of students will reach nearly, if not quite, 1000.
 The commencement at the Univer- sity of Alamaba begins next Sunday
 May 31, and will continue through Wednesday, June 8. On Thursday June 2, Congressman A. Mitchell Pal mer of Pennsylvania will deliver tho alumni address. Under the presidency of Dr. George H. Denny the university has grown strong, and it's influence is now felt throughout the south as never before.
 Alabama is to be congratulated in deed upon the achievements of it's in stitutions of higher learning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25
LAUDERDALE CROPS

From the Florence Times.
 Lauderdale farmers are just beginning to discover the wonderful capacity of their soil. It has not been long ago when the man who made a bale of cotton to the acre was regarded as having accomplished a wonderful job. Now bale to the acre is common thing-one planter having made 30 bales on 30 acres The same can be said of corn. A few years ago the idea that we could make 100 bushels Of corn on one acre was declared prepos- terous. Now several of our farmers have shown that more than that much can be
 made on an acre. Over 1SO bushels have been made one one acre. The above dem- onstrations have opened the eyes of our people, and the effect has been remark able. Hundreds of farmers are striving for better results, and today over 200 boys are manfully struggling for prizes for big crops, which already they have shown can be grown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25
Dreadnaughts as Life Conservator


 It has been the custom to regard our warships and dreadnaughts only as instruments of death and destruc- tion, but in view of recent events they may become to be looked upon as engines of preservation and media of mercy. In fact, almost daily has the American navy been offering sig nificant illustrations of the fact that the intimate purpose of our men of war and companioning craft is to con- serve life instead of destroying it, to further peace rather than prose- cutting war.
 Current advices are to the effect that the Norwegian steamship At lantis, after running aground hund- red miles from Tampico and being al- most in sinking condition, was res cued by the American man-of war Connecticut and her entire crew saved Only few days ago another war boat picked up five survivors of the steamship Columbian which was de- stroyed by fire in mid-Atlantic, and the revenue cutters Apache and Onon- daga went toI the rescue of an un-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25
PROGRESSIVE PARTY RETURNS
By BILL VINES

{, but he has quick appreciation of what is 8 good idea, and when some other fellow originates it the colonel promptly grabs 1t. adopts it, calls 1t his very own, proves that 1t is. copyrights it, and gets away with it. He has faculty of making the staunchest friends and the bitterest ene- mics. When his famous case of libel against the editor out west, for charging him with being in the Huerta class, was on, there were hundreds of men in Wash ington ready to swear that he never drank a drop; also hundreds that declared most alphabetically that he did.
 He is the absolutely only truthful max of his personal Knowledge. There arc others whom the colonel believes in, but ir they should happen to peeve him as others that he believed in. in the past have done trey instantly become the most abom- instbe and debased creatures allowed to roam at large. There is but one way to win his favor and keep 1t, and that is to agree entirely with what he says all the time, and reiterate daily that he Is the freatest President, the greatest scientist the grestest exempar of progress, the grea test so.1ier, the greatest dissemina tor
 
 of truth, justice, freedom and everything that tends to uplift, financially, commer- cially, morally and every other way. that the country has ever known; moreover will ever know. So long as you subscribe | to these opinions. and state them fear lessly uIon any and all occa sions, you are ;ices UT. with the colonel, and when you fail to subscribe to them or waver in the slightest degree, you are a fat head. In the eyes of the colonel, Penrose and Rot are reactionares, while Finn and George W. prilins are prog ,ss;ves; lan non and Barnes are pirates, while Pinchot and Murdoch are philanthropists. While as q matter of fact old man Joe Cannon ha. n.ore patriotism and more brains thar all the rest put together, ri:l the colonel thft wn in for good measure.
 .tut se gets hv with it. He will , oHiiI.e to g.. by With it. His subli,le cyoi sn al, cunfd :,cr is a dangerous tis'san., al'i If he can I ull the rank ans fife ne tie republican party into camps he will defy the leaders, and will grab the nomination. and it will take the hand of providence to keep him from being elected President of the United States for the third time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25

Presbyterian church and when I was a boy, Sunday was strictly observed iri our home and among Presbyterians generally In my youth I had an idea that It was sinful to read anything on Sunday but religious literature. I was taught that it was wrong to ride on a street car on Sunday. There was no Sunday morning paper. After was grown I still kept up my church going habit, but my views about Sunday changed. The daily paper began to issue Sunday as we'll as Monday morning edition, and 1 felt no sting of conscience in looking over the secu- lar press on the Lords day.
 'T have no criticism to make, of the general assembly in it's action regard ing Sunday observance. People who conscientiously hold to the ol6-time ideas should be consistent and keen Sunday just as their forefathers did. But I look on the Sunday paper as necessity and on the operation of street cars as a necessity. 1 believe In Sunday afternoon concerts, moving picture shows and other forms of hu- manizing diversions. The trouble with some good people is that they would If they could through legislation, re- quire the general public to conform to their notions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25
Was St, Paul a Myth?

Surely these are the days of the iconoclast and so-called higher crit icism is moving down the characters of history as the reaper cuts the grain. It is not unfamiliar to modern ears to hear the existence of Christ denied, but now comes one Samuel Lublinski, German, who refutes the historicity of St. Paul and asserts that the great Damascene was but a sun-god.
 He advances as the proof of his argument, if argument it may be called, that St. Paul was said to have been imprisoned at Philippi and Phil ippi is symbol for the land of the dead. The disciples journey from Asia to Rome is said to typify the passing of the sun from east to west. Peter was a doube and Lydia, the "seller of purple" was double of the mythi- cal female Mary-Isis.
 No one can think of treating Lub- linski seriously and it may be set down as certain that centuries hence there will be found men of his ilk who will declare that Napoleon was a sun- god, double of Apollo. They will ar que in this fashion: Napoleon is an anagram for Apolyon and NApolyon means the sun. Napoleon was born of Letitia and Apollo's mother was named Latona, slight variant. Bona part had four brothers upon thrones and they signify the four cardinal points of the compass, north, west, south and east. The Russian campaign was but symbol for the journey of | the sun to the north. For a while the snows melt before him but about the time that Moscow was said to have been reached, the sun began to re- cede. All symbol of the sun-god, a type of Apollo.
 Nothing is better established his torically than the identity of St. Paul and one is sure that he is a real per. sonage. The conceit of this Lub- linski must be accredited to menta vagary or an abnormal craving fol notoriety in the securing of which his sun-god theory is an absurd eff fort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25
The Business Situstion

Henry Clews in his Saturday review says. in part:
 The stock exchange appears to be anxious to assume a more cheerful mood. Perhaps the most direct cause of this change is the greatly improved Mexican outlook President Wilson has, it is to be hoped, succeeded in avoiding intervention by the United States; thus saving the country from wholesale loss of life and property.
 So far as the railroad situation is concerned. it would seem as if the worst had been well discounted The traffic losses of last winter are now matter of history. During the bal ahce of the year, transportation Is more likely to increase than decrease, and moderate gain in tonnage would be in hnitely more advantageous to the roads than any gain which they are inxeiv to secure through favorahle concessions in rates ,.ls
 " INpln "a -'comparatively few week & T.ne new banking law will gradually go into effect. It's influence upon the monetary situation will, of course. be beneficial inasmuch as 1t will facili- tate credit operations and thus stimu- late activity in various directions. In- trinsic business conditions from the economic standpoint are sound
 The preponderating influences favor a better market. Some disturbing in huences have been thoroughly dis counted. and in many cases there is an amelioration of conditions which justifies more hopeful views regarding the future. Cheap money and good crops are almost irresistible creators of optimism. Their principal offsets are the Mexican troubles and a con- fused political outlook. It is difficult to predict which set of influences will gain control. Should the latter dim inish in intensity, we are sure to wit ness revival in confidence and with 1t more activity in business and a better tone in the investment mar kets The Mexican outlook and the foreign situation, however, require close watching.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF NJ. ZoLA

"/HAT monstrous injustice was
 ~ the trial of M. zola, the emil
 nent French writer, who was arrested charged with libeling the French army. The charge against him was preferred by the same set of nocent Alfred Dreyfus to a sentence worse than death.
 M. Delegorgue was the president of the court of assizes of the Seine, who tried Zola, The hearing consumed 15 days in February. 1899. Hundreds of spec tators were present during its continu- ation, and on the most part their con- anti-Dreyfus demonstrations were en- couraged rather than otherwise by those in charge of the trial. This rabble was allowed to accentuate the pro- ceedings by clamor of assent or dis sent as the evidence suited or dis pleased them
 Zola, early in January of 1899, pub "LAurore," a letter addressed to Presi- dent Faure, in which he charged in no uncertain or mealy terms, an ac- cusation against military tribunals which. within the few. preceding months had acquitted an alleged traitor and which, in 1894, had condemned another army officer-Dreyfus--t banishment for life in penal settlement after his conviction upon the charge of reveal ing army secrets to a foreign govern ment.
 It was just after the acquital of Esterhazy for his part in the Dreyfus degradation and as the author of the Bordereau. that Zola wrote the letter to the President of France, accusing both councils of war of having know ingly screened the real culprit in pun. ishing. Dreyfus and acquitting Ester hay.
 The letter consumed several columns of the 'LAurore." Thereupon the min ister of war under article 30 and 31 of the correctional press law of July 2s. 1881. which punishes defamation preferred charges against zoIa, which charges ignored all the other libelous criticisms in the letter of what Zola called "the infamies of the Dreyfus trial mainly behind closed doors and with secret testimony" and confined the prosecutioneto the charge that the council of war which acquitted Ester hazy, acted not on evidence but on gov ernment orders to acquit lest convic. ton should free Dreyfus and convict the prior council of error.
 Nearly all the Paris papers declared that the honor of the French army hat been assailed by zola and so initiated a patriotic cry against him. The com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25
BANK OF LIVINGSTON

From the Florence Times.
 The people of Lexington intend to es- tablish bank at that thriving town and have already made up very nearly the amount of capital necessary. The capital stock will be $1OOOO paid in. This is going some, and it indicates the progressive spirit of our people, With three banks in Florence, and one in Rogersville, Water loo and Lexington each, we will have am- pie banking facilities sure. Lauderdale is on the rising ground, and our progress from now on will be steady and sure and rapid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25

plaint against the prisoner was SUD-
 mitted by General Billet, minister of
 war, and after it was read by the coun- ty clerk, the attorney general, M. Van Casoe1, opened for the prosecution. Aft CT he concluded with a speech consum- ing half an hour, M. Labot, the advocate of Zola, opened his defence In spech that occupied more than three hours. It is said to have been most eloquently delivered
 The trial, as it advanced, disclosed great personal feeling between the counsel and strong unconcealed judicial bias against zola. On the second day of the trial Zola asked permission to
 be heard, which was granted. Of course he admitted writing the letter, but de-
 tended his doing so in a brilliant speech.
 Among the other witnesses called were Patty du Clam, who declined to answer questions on the ground of military privileges, and Colonel Picquart. whose
 testimony bore greatly in Zola's favor.
 Then the counsel on both sides began summing up. Labori's oration occupied
 two days. and during its presentation so
 boisterous became the spectators in the court room at times that he stopped
 upon one occasion and said Alas, Monsieur le Judge, I am obliged to be
 my own policeman"
 Labori made sublime panegyric of his client as author, patriot and friend were finally ended and the jury retired for deliberation. After 35 minutes it re- turned with verdict of guilty. Then the air was filled with cries of Long live the army! Long live France! Down
 with insulters; Death to zola!" Amid all the confusion Zola cried: These people are cannibals."
 The court then adjourned to de- termine upon the sentence They re- turned few minutes later and con demned the prisoner to the maximum penalty of one years Imprisonment and fine of 5000 francs.
 A few days after adjournment the accused appealed from the verdict of the lower court and the appeal being heard by the court of cessation on
 March s1, the finding of the jury was sustaiHeu, put IL dppueu to Ioid Wiiat was called the Berenger law, remitting
 sentence imposed upon first offenders and consequently the sentence was set
 aside.
 | A second trial was held on the fol-
 lowing July IS. but without awaiting the result Zola, by the advice of his
 counsel and friends. and for reasons of 1oQa1 atratoCv ahruptIv left Erauce nd
 turn to France until the Dreyfus trial was reversed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Alabama Crops

I have not taken trip through tn, state recently but I get reports from every section and am glad to be able to say that the crop situation is all that could be desired,' said D. M. Dickson. the well-known fertilizer salesman.
 Cotton is in fine condition. The little cool spell did not hurt, and now that we are having hot weather again all the crops will grow at great clip All in all, we have had highly favorable sea- son. The old saying that dry May means big cotton crop never fails to come true. I would not be surprised to see a record-breaking crop this summer.
 Alabama will produce more corn and hay than usual. We had a large corn crop last year, but as a larger acreage was planted this spring the yield will doubtless make a new high record this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25
LUKE M,LJTKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 The old-fashioned man who wanted to fight when you called him liar now has a son who is a member of the Ananias club.
 When you see two white shoes drying on d window sill and a girl hanging out of the same window drying her hair you can bet that she isn't going to eat any raw onions for supper.
 No, Myrtle. Great heavens, no! Cyril Maude is not a chorus lady. He is an actor.
 You may have noticed that the easy going. man is usually a kind of human door mat.
 A woman is always tickled to death to see a paperhanger when he comes, and tickled to death to see him go when he goes.
 The only time I ever envy deaf man is when he is going home to his wife about a. m. after having a large evening.
 Before marriage the only thing she won't believe about him is that he is unworthy of her. After marriage it is the only thing she does believe about him.
 A woman is smarter than man. She can make him think he understands her wien he knows he doesn't. k There is nothing wonderful in the fact that horse does not run away when he sees an automobile. But horse is en- titled to some credit for not running away when he sees girl wearing purple hat with a four-foot cerise bow, yellow waist with blue trimmings, and red skirt with two green potato sacks hang ing on her hips.
 The girl who accepts the first boob who comes along may be playing safe, but she | | ence.
 The only way to account for some of the husbands women marry is the fact that most women are confirmed bargain fiends | And the Lord isn't alone in loving . cheerful giver.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25

VVY1 AsHINGTON, May 24.-(Special) ) | M/ The progressive party is again
 W in our midst Back from long
 he discovered river, which had care
 fully refrained from being discovered in
 order that it might cut figure in the
 next political campaign in the United
 States, the progressive party announces
 that after a few weeks rest, and abso-
 lute quiet he will have something to say
 upon the political situation. Outside of
 msl<hg speech in Washington going to
 Madrid to the wedding of his son, and within the brief period of 10 days, the colonel is going to lead & perfectly quiet and retiring life until he gets rested up. | Of course, he will throw in a few inter views bawling out the administration, call | ing upon all men to witness what monu- mental liars those European scientists are who presume to question the discov- cry of his river. and carefully explaining the gigantic blunders the democrats and
 President Wilson are making of things, but he will not become really active until he has fully recovered his old time health and vigor.
 We've got to hand it to the colonel. It's a sI eat thing to have been assistant sec re.ary of the navy. colonel of the Rough Riders. President of the United States, or 9anizer of the Ananias club, discoverer of river, smasher of the republican party,
 the whole cheese of brand new political party and father-in-law of Nick Long,
 worth, all in a lifetime, and with untold possibilities for the future. The colonel can boast of longer list of actual achievements than any other citizen of the republic, and he Is still in the achieving
 business With what is left of the old time republican bosses--ttlat is, those who stiil finger round edges of politics eat ing od. 3s< his hand, or not eating at all, 'ne colonel bids fair to cop the nomina- tion of both the progressives and the re-
 publicans in 1916 or fix 1t so that the fellow wllo gets the republican nomination will have a lemon wished on him. He is the one big cloud on the horizon to the denu cratic party.
 Roosevelt is a great big man. So far
 as is known he never originated an idea,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25

w. c. Phalen of the United States geo.
 logical survey says the year 1913 was
 the most prosperous In the history of the
 bauxite and aluminium industries of this
 country. The production of bauxite in
 1913 was 21O,2n long tons valued at s9s7,-
 69S It is chiefly used as raw material in
 ufacture of aluminium salts. bauxite bricks
 and alundium, which is used as an
 abrasive. The aluminium consumed in this
 country last year amounted to 72,379, O90
 pounds, nearly 10,0e0,O00 pounds more than was consumed in the United States in 1912. Of the s77.oOooOO pounds of aluminium
 produced in the last 20 years more than s29. coo 600 pounds have been consumed in the last 10 years, showing the re- industry. In 1884 the total produc- ton was only 150OOo pounds Alum mum is used to q great extent in making cooking utensils but it is employed on a larger scale in the construction of welded tanks, cooking vats and vessels used by brewers, manufacturers of preserves and fat renovators and in those industries which require metal that will not con duet heat, will not corrode and is not poisonous. Experiments have shown that only oranges, lemons, Brussels sprouts and tomatoes affect this metal, but the aluminium dissolved by these agencies is so small that no harm is done. The use Of aluminium wire in long distance power transmission is also increasing An alumi- mum powder known as aluminium bronze Is used as paint pigment, in making ex- piosives and in lithographing and printing Aluminium foiliis used for wrapping com mercial articles such as cheese, ehoeo- late candies and tobacco, while aluminium soles in shoes protect the foot from all dampness and last much longer than leather soles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25
APPLIES TO rsunRrA

From the Kansas City Star.
 Huerta. in parleying for return sa- lute of gun for gun" and trying to get something extra in his order, reminds William Allen White of the story of the gay drummer who. when the hatchet- faced dining-room girl sailed up to him with ''beef steak pork chops-cornbcse- hash broiled ham, baeon-and-e -eges.' re- piled. twirling his mustache and looking up into her milk-blue eyes:
 Sadie, will you kindly tell the cook to take two nice. fresh cggs-feal nice. fresh eggs, Sadie, and pour some boiling water in a hot crock--heat the crock before hand, Sadie-and then drop those two nice. fresh eggs in the boiling water m the hot crock and wrap up the crock in clean. white towel. Sadie. and let i' stand eight minutes; know you'll dc that, Sadie. for your old friend-ef' Sadie?'
 Again he looked up with the eyes o' dying calf into the orbs of skimmet milk blue and heard this reply: "Kui git reRlar eess.'' HuertaIl "git resla' eggs"