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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-31
THE PASSING OF MALARIA


From the Journal American Medical As
sociation.
At a meeting of the Roal Colonial in
stitute in London, recently. DR.. Malcolm
Watson gave an account of his work in
the prevention of malaria in the Fed
Grated Malay States. He showed that
pool breeding mosquitoes could be abol-
ished by open drainage, that stream
breeders could not be so abolished, but
required drainage, and that countries
with no hill stream breeders had no hill
malaria. He described Investigations
which he carried out in other parts of the
world where malarious conditions more
or less prevailed, in the Duars at the
foot of the Himalayas, and in the Jey-
pore hills in Madras; in Sumaira, Pan
anna. British Guinea and Barbados. and
declared that the new knowledge had
given absolute control over the malaria
of low, fiat land. and high hopes of con-
troll over that in hill land. There was also
every hope of abolishing malaria from
rice fields. He believed that the preven-
ton of malaria, the improvement In health
of the agriculturist and the cultivation OF
the land were all intimately connected
and that what helped the one would I'M
proye the other. The enormous CONNER
cial value fthe control or prevention of
malaria in tropical Countries will be-ap-
preciated by all far''' III conditions
in these localit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-31
AN UNEXPECTED REASON

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
Congressman Edward L.. Hamilton OF
Michigan told this one at a recent dinner,
when reference was made to the bad
breaks that are occasionally made by the
little kids.
Some time ago friend of the family re-
mained for dinner at a certain happy lit
tie home The friend had an appetite
that would have made a boarding house
hustle to raise the rates, and he slowed
away the fodder in great quantities he
was interestedly watched by Edith. the
little 6-year-old daughter.
Say, Mr.. Smith," she finally remarked.
II do wish you were here to dinner every
day.
THAT is certainly very sweet of you,
little one," beamed the guest II am
afraid that you would get very tired of
me-"
''Oh, no. I wouldn't was the young
sters startling rejoinder. IF you were
here every day we wouldn't have any
scraps to eat tomorrow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-31
Alabama's Man of Mystery

The impulsiveness of Theodore Lacy
is altogether disconcerting.
In the first place, without warning,
he disappeared, permitted himself to
be transformed in a trice from the
affable young man his friends knew
and admired to an individual concern
ing whom shameful stories were
everywhere related.
And just at the time when the peo-
pie were about to recover from the
shock of Lacy's disappearance, he
turns up" He gave no warning of
his approach. He simply stood forth,
yielded himself into the hands of the
law, and gave no explanation.
The former chief clerk of the state
convict bureau has become a man of
mystery. No one yet knows why he
disappeared, why he took with him
if he did-a large sum of money be-
longing to the state, how he managed
so successfully to evade the expert
enced minions of the law, the relent-
less sleuths who love the scent of
crime and never abandon a trail until
the criminal is cornered in his lair,
and how and why he did many other
things sufficiently extraordinary to
weave about his brow halo of
romance.
And this is not all.
The people of Alabama are wonder
ing why, after an absence Of ten
months during which no detective
could strike his trail, he has turned
up" given his body into the hands of
the law, saying, "Do with me what
pleases you best"
Indeed, Mr.. Lacy is a man of mys-
terry. AT any rate, his impulsive
course is decidedly disconcerting, and
calculated to do serious injury to the
nervous system of the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-31
Banker to Speak

Mr. ]. b. Wadsworth, president Of
the Etowah Trust and Savings bank of
Gadsden, will speak at the Jefferson
Sunday afternoon" said II. r. Howell
of Birmingham.
MIR. Wadsworth until about three
years ago was a resident or Birming-
ham. While here he was connected with
the American Trust and Savings bank
of this city. The Birmingham man then
became interested In a new bank in
Blocton where he also organized n
coal company, and acquired valuable
mineral lands. Two years ago, how
ever, Mr.. Wadsworth disposed of his
interests in Blocton; the Tennessee
company, 1 believe, taking over the
coal lands. The next move made was 20
Gadsden, where he organized the Eto-
wah Trust and Savings bank, which /
think Is the largest in that city.
While Mr.. Wadsworth has been most
successful in his financial operations,
he has still found time to devote to the
welfare of fellow citizens. The Gads-
den man Is a brilliant speaker. and
likes to address large bodies of young
men in every part of the state. In
speaking before the Birmingham au-
dience Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock
Mr., Wadsworth Will take for his sub
ject, 1.-The Failure of Rich Young
Man." and his views are expected to
be illuminative. Birmingham people are
invited"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-31
Disposing of More Charges

During the senatorial campaign,
many charges have been preferred
against Oscar w. Underwood. They
have all been disproved.
AS result, the assurance of his
victory is doubly sure.
1t was said, and repeated, as is
known, that Mr.. Underwood removed
the tax off liquor and put a tax on
bagging and ties. When the tariff
bill proved that the republican tax on
liquor was not removed and that bag
ging and ties are on the free list, the
opposition did not apologize. On the
contrary, the opposition charged that
whereas in one section of the bill,
bagging and ties are on the free list,
in another section is "joker" by
which duty is collected.
C. S. Hamlin, assistant secretary of
the treasury, has laid low that charge
He has wired Forney Johnston, Mr..
Underwood's manager, that at the
present time, bagging and ties are
admitted free of all taxation. Evil
IDENTIFY, therefore, there was no ground
for the "joker" charge.
Another ridiculous charge was to
the end that Mr.. Underwood played
into the hands of Wall street when
he introduced a bill as a substitute to
a bill wiping cotton exchanges out of
existence, and that by the defeat of
the original bill, he had put premium
on gambling in futures to the perma-
nent disaster of the farmers.
The answer is that the substitute
bill was introduced by Mr.. Underwood
at the instance of President Wilson,
who, after conference with other
democratic leaders, had reached the
conclusion that the original bill would
prove disastrous in that it would de-
stroy legitimate ana necessary me-
diums of exchange.
1t is to be hoped that the series of
charges is exhausted and that the
campaign, for the remainder of it's
life, will be fought out along legiti-
mate lines.
Effort to besmirch the character of
great and good man who has re-
flected more glory on the south than
any other figure within a score and
more of years, has signally failed.
Congressman Underwood will be Sena-
tor Underwood, and his 'landslide'
majority will be humiliating to those
who have unfairly assailed him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-31
UMBRELLAS GOING OUT OF USE

From the Philadelphia Press.
A manufacturer says that fewer UNI
brellas are manufactured in this country
year after year. He gives many causes
to show why this shield against the wrath
of Jupiter Pluvius must eventually be-
come extinct.
Rain coats are helping to drive the UNI
brella to the wall. Waterproof rubber
portects the clothing from head to foot
and the wind cannot strip us of it. One
of the chief functions of an umbrella was
to keep the rain off the beaver and silk
hats of our fathers, but few, indeed, are
the men who appear on the streets now
adays in business houses under a high
hat. The Derby and a soft hat are less
in need of protection from rain and snow.
The automobile also plays it's important
part in displacing the umbrella. Thou
sands of persons who used to carry>slm-
brellas now ride directly from their homes
to their places of business, when once
they walked at least a part of the way.
The tops of the automobiles afford all
needed shelter from the elements in
stormy weather
Even a fourth cause may be noted for
the passing of the umbrella, not to men,
tion its proclivity for vanishing on ac-
count of the forgetfulness on the part
of an owner and extreme thoughtfulness
on the part of others who prosper on
the practice that borrowing is one way
of earning. This fourth reason is the i'm
proved street car service as compared
with the old time horse car service.
Electric cars are now the rule where the
horse car was not known, and they move
so frequently that people are willing to
take chance of getting wet Rather
| than incur the inconvenience of carrying
umbrellas and tn epossibilities of losing
them rhaving them stolen many per-
sons will take the risk of being caught in
! a shower, knowing that they can board
street car in an emergency
The thus the umbrellas promises to be-
come as rare as the ichthvosaurus and as
dead as the proverbial door NAIL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-31
RED SQUIRREL As A PLANTER

From "The Summit of the Years" by
John Burroughs; published by Hough-
ton, Mifflin Co.
The gray squirrel comes and goes, but
the red squirrel we have always with
us. He is a true American; he has nearly
all the national traits-nervous energy,
quiekness, resourcefulness, pertness, not
to say impudence and conceit. He is not
altogether lovely or blameless. He
makes war on the chipmunk, he is
robber of birds nests and it's destructive
of the orchard fruits. Nearly every mans
hand is against him. yet he thrives. and
long may he continue to do so!
One day I placed some overripe plums
on the wall in front of me to see what he
would do with them. At first he fell
eagerly to releasing the pit and then to
cutting his way to the kernel of the pit
After one of them had been disposed of
in this way. he proceeded to carry off
the others and place them here and there
amid the branches of a plum tree from
which he had stolen every plum long
before they were ripe. A day or two later
nOlSu lHdL lllty ildu an Dtei IeilONtu
from this tree, and l found some of them
in the forks of an apple tree not far
off
A small butternut tree stand ng near
the wall had only a score or so of but
ternuts upon it this year. the squirrels
might be seen almost any hour in the day
darting about the branches of that tree,
hunting the green nuts, and in early Sep
tember the last nut was taken. They car
ried them away and placed them, one
here and one there in the forks of the
apple trees. | noticed they did not de-
pend upon the eye to find the nuts; they
did not look the branches over from sonke
lower branch as you and L would have
done; they explored the branches one by
one, running out to the end, and if the
nut was there seized it and came swiftly
down. L think the red squirrel rarely lays
up any considerable store, but hides his
nuts here and there in the trees and
upon the ground. This habit makes him
the planter of future trees, of oaks, hick-
ores, chestnuts and butternuts. These
heavy nuts get widely scattered by this
agency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-31
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
A woman believes that if she let a man
select the wall paper for the house he
would come home with every red pattern
in the store.
One Saturday night souse will take more
starch out of a man than six days hard
work.
1t has gotten so that If you take the au-
tomoDile advertisements and the Panama
canal features out of magazine there is
nothing left to read but the covers
woman isn't afraid of burglar COM
ing in because she thinks he will kill her.
She Is afraid he might get a look at what
she has been wearing all day as 1t hangs
draped over bedroom chair.
What has become of the old-fa shioned
boy who used to read Sanford and Mer-
tCn?"
The old-fashioned girl who used to get
excited over Ouida now has a daughter
who yawns over 'rhe Passionate
Friends"
When girl has shape like a clothes
pin she gets a lot of satisfaction out of
knowing that she is slender and grace
full.
The reason a prophet hasn't any honor
in his own country is because he is al
ways saying: II told you so''
When nav and paw go out walking
and nav is dolled up in finery like a
circus horse, while paw has fringes on
his pants, you can tell who is boss in
that household.
1t isn't the most inspiring thing in the
world to a man dig down into his
pocket pull out a purse, unwrap the
blame thing fish around for nickel, look
at the coin three times and squeeze it to
make purchase. But you can bet that
when this kind of lad dies they don t
have to take up a collection to bury him.
There was a time when you could get
away with it. But nowadays il you tell
a boy he has a chance to become Presi-
dent he knows right away that your mid
die name is bugs"
Luke attended a beer dansant' the
other night. And We have hopes that
some day we may get an invite to a
"hesitation hpnkytonk."
| Cheer up. In about two more months
we'll be holding silhouet soirees on the
shady corners of the sunny streets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-31
Good Roads LEGISLATION

"The Alabama Good Roads associa-
tion has been instrumental in much
good to the state.' said well known
me member.
TT has carried its cause before the
state legislature in several instances,
and it's recommendations of ways and
means of securing better highways
have met with the hearty support of
Alabama lawmakers as well as voters.
Methods of continuing the good work
are now under consideration.
"The appropriation of $4,000 per
year, which the last legislature en-
acted into law. will be discontinued at
the end of this year unless further ac-
tion is taken by that body; but it is
generally felt that instead of being
discontinued the appropriation Will be
enlarged. The association is now maxi
ing an effort to commit candidates for
election to legislative body of the state
in favor of heavy expenditures along
this line. and success is expected in
this direction. The association is also
very much in favor of working con-
victs on the public roads. and is re-
J qGesting the men before the public to
| give their views on this subject
But in the near future national Leg
islation is expected to be even more
effective in this matter than is that
of the state. If the bill now before
Congress is passed in its present form
Alabama would receive from the gov
errment as much as s5oo.ooo for good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-31
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
THE TRIAL OF MAJOR ANDRE

ter he had assumed, and requested Jane
son to inform his commanding officer
that Anderson had been taken on re-
ceiving this Information Arnold compre-
hended at once the danger with which
he was menaced, and fed to the Nulture
and afterward proceeded to New York.
When sufficient time for Arnold to
make his escape was supposed to have
elapsed, Andre no longer affected dis
guise and acknowledged himself to be
the adjutant general of the British army.
Measures of security having been taken
for the protection of West Point, it re-
manned to determine the fate of the UNI
fortunate Andre. board of general Off
GERS, of which Major General Greene
was president, and the two foreign gem
erals, Lafayette and Steuben, we're MEM
bers, was called to report precise state
of his case, and to determine in what
character he was to be considered, and
to what punishment he was liable.
The candor. openness and magnanimity
with which Andre had conducted himself
from the first made a favorable impress
sion For this reason he experienced ev-
cry mark of indulgence and from sense
of justice, as well as of dslicacy, he was
Informed, on the first opening of the ex-
amination,s that he was at perfect liberty
not to answer any interrogation which
might embarrass his own feelings
He, however, ignored this courtesy, and
confessed everything material to his own
condemnation, while he would indulge
nothing which might involve others. The
board reported the essential facts which
had appeared with their opinion that
Major Andre was a spy, and ought to be
hanged as a spy The execution of this
sentence was ordered on the day sue
ceeding that on which it was declared
Andre requested that he be shot like
a soldier and not hanged as a criminal.
To obtain a mitigation of his sentence in
this respect he addressed letter to Gen
eral Washington. But the occasion re-
full impression and his request could not
be granted. He met his fate with COM
posure, dignity and fortitude, and such
was his whole conduct as to excite the
admiration and interest the feelings of
all who witnessed 1t.
The board that sentenced Andre was
made up of 10 officers nominated by
Washington The deliberations were seri-
Gus and absolutely without passion or
prejudice. On the site of the execution
Cyrus Field erected monument. Andre
was buried under the gallows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Makes Money on Alabama cattle


The scarcity of cattle throughout the
corn belt of the north has served to turn
the attention of the northern feeders TO
the south for supplies of stock cattle-to
finish for market" said a man familiar
with the st. Louis live stock markets.
&C. NJ. Robinson of Monroe county, MIS-
souri,, has just finished marketing
bunch of Florida steers at the st. Louis
National Stock Yards that he bought
last fall when they weighed 400 pounds
He fed them 100 days till they weighed
625 pounds and sold them on the market
at 81 per hundred He says these flor-
ida cattle made him money. Eugene NC
Alter of Glenarm, Sangamon county, IL
linois, located in the very heart of the
corn belt, was unable to buy northern
stock cattle, so recently purchased sew
eral carloads Of 440-pound Alabama stock
cattle at st. Louis. He fed them 100
days on cotton seed cake on his Illinois
farm and they gained go pounds to the
head in that time. He recently marketed
them at $3.50.
"Mr. McAter says these southern stock
cattle do exceptionally well when finished
out in the corn belt, and is so pleased
at financial returns on his venture that
he has purchased another lot which he is
now finishing for market. Conditions
have changed so since the corn belt has
run out of its surplus cattle that the north
could now readily absorb 100000 southern
stockers per annum at good prices
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-31
South Leads in Lumber Production


Owing to the time required in pre-
pairing lumber for the market the sta
tistics are always one year later than
those of other products and the lum-
Der yield of 1912 has just been made
public by Director Harris of the CEN
sus bureau. The report was prepared
under the direction of w. NJ. Steuart
and the figures are highly gratifying
to the southern states, which are far
in the van.
The report shows that in 1912 there
were 29,64S lumber mills operating
in the United States, but while this
number was in excess of that of the
previous year, it was more than 1000
less than those running in 1910. The
total amount of lumber in thousand
feet board measure produced by these
mills in 1912 was 39,15S,414. The
lake states showed that decrease
which is annually in evidence owing
to the failing of lumber material in
that region, but the cuts increased to
a remarkable extent in the southern
and Pacific states.
In the census of 1900 the southren
states produced 3S.7 per cent of the
entire cut in the United States; in
1907 they produced 45.7 per cent, and
in 1913 more than half Of the total,
or 51.4 per cent.
So far as the individual states are
concerned Washington led, contribut-
ing one-tenth of all the lumber and
thirds of the shingles Louisiana,
Mississippi and North Carolina fol-
lowed in the respective positions as
named. In soft woods the southern
states furnished SO per cent of the
total output of the country and the
Douglas fir was outranked only by
the yellow pine among the conifers.
White pine was third but is rapidly
disappearing.
In the hard woods the oak led with
maple, red gum, tulip, poplar, chest
nut, beech and birch following in the
order named.
With cotton as king, with her soft
woods equalling SO per cent of the
total output, with her coal and iron
rivaling those of the lake districts and
Pennsylvania, with her corn clubs in
the van and an unlimited opportunity
for raising beef cattle the south is
especially favored of providence and
must soon constitute the most pros
porous section of the worlds most
prosperous nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-31

N March, III, Major John Andre then
only 20 years old, came to America
= with one of the English regiments
He distinguished himself in the service
and at the time of Benedict Arnold S
treachery he was acting adjutant general
to the English commander, Sir Henry
Clinton. in New York city.
1t was Andre who was chosen by the
English to negotiate with Arnold for the
turning over of West Point, the American
stronghold. A long correspondence was
carried on between them under the
feigned names of Gustavus and Ander-
son, and at length to facilitate their COM
munications, the English sloop of war
Vulture moved up the Hudson and took
station near West Point convenient for
the purpose.
The place appointed by Andre to meet
Arnold was the house of a Mr.. Smith,
without the American posts. Both par
ties repaired thither in the night at the
hour agreed upon. Major Andre was
brought under a pass in the name of
John Anderson in a boat dispatched for
the purpose from the shore. While the
conference was yet unfinished daylight
approached, and to avoid the danger of
discovery, it was proposed that Andre
should remain concealed until the sue
ceeding night.
Owing to the fact that the Vulture had
moved down the river to escape the
American fire, the boatman refused to
return Andre to the war vessel and he
was finally compelled to make the trip
on horseback to the British lines. Ar
mold gave him a permit to pass through
the American lines, in order to reach
White Plains.
He started for New York, as he sup
posed, in perfect security, but when not
far away he was stopped by a scouting
party who seized the reins of his bride.
For some unaccountable reason he forgot
himself and declared that he was a Brit
ish officer on important business, and
begged that he might not be detained
When he discovered too late his mistake
he offered purse of gold and val
liable watch for his release, but his Of
fers were rejected and the captors pro-
ceeded to search him. They found con-
cealed in his boots the exact returns, in
Arnold's handwriting, of the state of the
forces ordnance and defenses at West
Point.
Andre was carried before Lieutenant
Colonel Jameson, and, regardless of him.
self, and only anxious for the safety of
Arnold, he nobly maintained the charac-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-31
NEW AnRopLANE BOMB
From worlds Work.

FROM World WORK.
Among the latest projectiles designed 10
be dropped from aeroplanes or dirisiblo
balloons is a bomb which, dropped at any
angle or position, and at any speed that
the aeroplane may be travelling, will al
most Immediately regain and maintain its
vertical position in descent. so that it
hit sits target perfectly plumb and nose
downward without any tendency to SOM
ersault or wobble. 1t is also SO con-
structed that it cannot explode until it
has made descent of at least 300 feet
after being dropped or fired from the
aeropiane. The reason for this is that
the taiipiece of vanes must rotate a GER
tain length of time before the bomb be-
comes armed" Should it be hit by a
projectile of the enemy while in the aero
plane no explosion of the bomb could
occur.