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The Washington times., 1915-07-13
American Association.

Milwaukee s; Columbus. !.
Louisville, /; Minneapolis, 0 90 innings.
St. Paul 8: Indianapolis. 2.
Cleveland, 3; Kansas City ..
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Southern LeaRue.

Atlanta, q Memphis, l first game).
Memphis, 4; Atlanta, . (second game),
Chattanooga, 5; Birmingham, 0.
Mobile. 8; Nashville, 2.
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Have Heavy Schedule 7oda Twenty One Player Limit Enforced
MINCE PIE
"LITTLE OF EVERYTHING"
By BUGS" BAER.

At the present rate of decomposi-
tion, the International League clubs
will be forced to pool together in
order to reach the twenty-one-play-
er limit.
The attendance in Cleveland Is inn
proving. and may recover IL he stays
out Of the hot sun.
Not Raving their dnti-skid chains on
yesterday, the Nationals skiddod to ric-
tory.
II the Maps are on the outlook for a good,
brainy minor league manager, how about
Jack Dunn? Anybody who leaves Balti.
more must have brains.
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pow!

Larry Mclean was released from
a bramble leaguebeca use he couldn't
hit. Boy, page Muggsy McGraw's
iawi
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International League.

Harrisburg, 8; Buffalo, (first gamel.
Buffalo, 6; Harrisburg, (second game.
Providence. 2; Rochester. l.
Richmond, I: Montreal, T.
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FEDERAL LEAGUE.
Standing of Clubs.

Tomorrow's Games.
Newark at Buffalo e sames).
Brooklyn at Baltimore Il sames)
Kansas City at Pittsburgh.
Chicago at St. Louis
Today's Games.
Brooklyn at Baltimore.
Newark at Buffalo.
Kansas City at Pittsburgh.
Chicago at St. Louis.
Yesterdays Results.
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South Atlantic League.

Columbia, 3: Savannah. 2.
Charleston, 8; Augusta, o.
Columbus. 3; Albany, 0.
Macon. I; Jackson, 3 "a innings).
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As the Gndshiondls Uon yesterday.
eVen their worse detrdctors have gotta
admit they are trndinG up the season
strong.
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Western League.

Lincoln, 2; Omaha. 3.
Denver, 8; Sioux City, S.
Des Moines, I; Wichita, 2
Topeka, s; St. Joseph. I (nrrst game.
Topeka, /; St. Joseph. 0 (second gameJ.
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Among the Minors
New York State League,

Elmira. 8; Troy. l.
Binghamton. 8: Albany. ].
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., rain.
Scranton Utica. rain.
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Virginia League
New England League.

Suffolk, I; Norfolk. L
Rocky Mount. 7: Nswvsrt News, 9.
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Yesterdays Results.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Standing Of the Clubs.

Tomorrow's Games.
Chicago at New York.
Cincinnati at brooklyn.
Pittsburgh at Boston.
St. Louis at Philadelphia
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RARD RUUOLpH
"Most of the
Nationals batting
bees haven't got
any singers"

II there Das the slightest doubt about
his theory, the Cincinnati Reds tcould
be the best friend Sir Isaac NeUton
ever had.
Having been released from a Class
league, Larry Mclean will have to
desert the alphabet and study liquid
measure.
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North Carolina Leayue.

Greensboro, I; Asheville, 1.
Durham, ?; Charleston. O.
Raleigh, I; Winston Salem, 8.
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Yesterdays Results.

Yesterdays Results.
Pittsburgh, q; Philadelphia, 1.
Pittsburgh. a. Philadelphia, ..
Cincinnati, 6; New York. o.
Brooklyn, 3; Chicago. O.
st. Louis 2; Boston, 1.
st. Louis, 1; Boston, 8.
I'll innings)
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Texas League.

Fort Worth, 6: Dallas, 2.
Shreveport. 6; Waco. s.
Beaumont, ?; Houston. l.
San Antonio. 2: Galveston, /.
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Today's Games.

Today's Games.
Chicago at Brooklyn.
Cincinnati at New York.
St. Louis at Boston.
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia.
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The Ankle Deep III lies in fifty
feet OF water. which Is slightly
more than ankle deep too.
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Yesterdays Results.
Brooklyn, 8; Buffalo. I.
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Central Just could not get ahead Of
Emmanuel in the Northwest Sunday
School League. dropping an to bat
tie. The Central players made thirteen
hits off Gessford.
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Downey. of Treasury, had a grand
day with the stick yesterday, but could
not pull his team ahead OF the Aggies
The Treasury rightfielder made iv,
hits In five times at the bat. "Hobe'
Derrick the Maryland Aggies star
played left field for Aggies and mad,
two doubles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-28
The Atr0ciOus Turks

The Turks are evidently taking ad- vantage of the unsettled condition of affairs in Europe to vent their spite on the hapless Armenians. The proof against them is complete and convinc- ing. Nothing could justify their treat ment of the Armenians, who have been tortured and slaughtered by thousands. Not only have the lower classes suffered, but there are many teachers and professional men among the victims, showing that the Turks are determined to spare none. It is estimated that five hundred thousand Armenians have already been mur- dered or forced into the desert, where death is certain to overtake them un- less speedy relief is obtained.
 America has been appealed to, but this government can only protest to Germany, who may be held indirectly responsible as the ally of Turkey. If Germany wishes to mitigate the very unfavorable impression she has cre- ated by her military tactics, she could not find better way of doing it than by curbing the murderous tendencies of the Turks.
 However, with America, the only country that might be in a position to give help, prevented for diplomatic reasons from interfering, there is lit tie hope for the Armenians unless Germany comes to their rescue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-28

When Billy Sunday was conducting his revival In Philadelphia familiar fig-
 ure in the tabernacle was wiry little Japanese named Kiyomatsu Kimura. Q
 successful revivalist in his own country, who had come all the way from Japan to study the methods of the baseball evangelist" The Rev Kimura, like most of his countrymen, proved an apt pupil.
 He returned to Tokio and built a great tabernacle similar to the structure MT. Sunday uses in all his campaigns. Then the Japanese preacher started to f1ayfng sinners. Huge crowds attended his serv- ices They cheered applauded, laughed
 and cried as the crowds do when Sunday is preaching. When the call came to Init
 the trail it is said that scores of Japa-
 nese p'odded down the sawdust aisles,
 shook the preachers hand and promised to lead Christian lives. Come along now! Slide your feet into your wooden 1, shoes and clack up the aisle. Now's | the time to come to Christ. Hit the trail!
 Hit the trail!" Thus exhorting his hear
 CTS, the Japanese evangelist made thou
 sands of converts. Nothing like his re-
 vival had ever been seen before in Japan.
 An effort is being made to send Kimura
 to all parts of Japan for evangelistic
 meetings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-28
Millions Lost in Mud

Farmers of the United States are bearing preyentable loss of $25O,- GOO, ,O0O year, according to a report issued by the department of Agricul- ture.
 No, they have not formed national syndicate for the purchase of gold bricks, neither are they financing the chief corner of the European war. The loss is incurred right at home and is distributed to greater or less extent in almost every farming community.
 Bad roads are the secret of this great waste. Farmers haul their crops to market at considerable expense Were the roads uniformly smooth anc hard fewer horses would have to bt kept and fed, and larger loads could be hauled, thus reducing the amount of ''help"- employed. Another feature
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-28
SOME BROTHER BIRDS

From the Boston Herald.
 Heard in an English village: There's a stranger; shy brick at him. Heard in an American village: See the English sparrow; stone him. Or it might be.
 'Shoot him." But not entirely because of his being stranger. Indeed, he is now anything but that Since in the course of generations he became a native-born American he has kept in the public eye and made himself very much at home. The public eye had rather he kept out of it, having marked him as little fellow
 who has acquired bad habits-which may mean that he has pluckily adapted himself to his environment He was adrift to shift for himself, and instead of lying down and dying, he has deeply inhaled American air and hustled and ma de living. Being saucy and sturdy enough to tackle birds size larger than himself. he Is accused or driving indig- enous birds away. and ne has developed a liking for peas that stamps him a rogue in the kitchen garden.
 Now comes the English starling to be
 
 Is larger and stronger, handsomes and bolder, and he also has established his right to live in spite of forced immi- grafton, and is accused of molesting gentle aborigines and damaging crops. But may we not protest too much regarding the gentleness of our native feathered tribes Simple Isaac Watts, writing in England said that birds sin their little nests | ours is the statement strictly true. The l very youngest of our migratory birds now preparing for southward flight, may
 be seen daily engaged in their puny quar. | rels and battles.
 1 We have winged warriors, quite apart | from birds of prey. The most peace.
 able crow will not escape persecution by the kingbird. Observe how the flicker bull.
 lies the robin if they meet at the same
 pool or basin for a drink or bath. As fol orchard depredations. the foreigners ars
 nowhere. Those who condemn the spar
 row should not hastily condemn the star
 ling. For in England wherever the star | ling comes in, the sparrow goes out. | may be so also in America. But onl, time will tell as both furred and feath
 cred denizens of one country often chang,
 their habits when removed to another Perhaps the unchangeable element. tn, same everywhere. is the pinch of pug naclty in nature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-28
THANKS TO BIRMINGHAM

From the Decaturs Daily.
 The Decaturs, Cullman, Athens. Hart selle and other north Alabama towns situated upon the ''bee-line' route of the Ja ckson highway are under obligations tc the Birmingham delegates to the Nashville meeting. who discarded any pretended neutrality which they saw fit tu claim at the start, and came out openly and strongly for an all-Alabama highway Just as soon as it became evident that the real fight was between the 'bee-line'' route and the Mississippi route, the Birmingham delegation, led by Senator Underwood and other dis tinguished sons of the state. took off their coats and went to work. They did valiant service; a service which the De- caturs will not be quick to forget. The Alabama Good Roads association. too stood for the Nashville Deca tur- Mobile highway, giving it the full support oi that remarkably efficient organization
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-28
Kansas Honors Carrie

Mrs. Carrie Nations portrait and her celebrated hatchet will be placed in the memorial hall of the State His torical society at Topeka. For years the photograph and the hatchet hung on the walls of the police station of Wichita, the town Mrs. Nation made famous. Wichita business men, who doubtless profited to some extent by the publicity she gave their town, will pay to have the photograph enlarged.
 If the strenuous Carrie were alive today, there would be great matters to engage her attention. She would still be on the trail of the Demon Rum, but how could person of her pronounced humanitarian views re- frain from plucking few hairs from the beard of Mars? And her remarks about Americans who are making mil lions out of the war would no doubt be the bistering sort. Although a fighter herself, she might be in favor of peace at any price, and then again she might not.
 At any rate, the recognition to be shown Mrs. Nation by Kansas is fit ting and proper. She was the imbodi- ment of Kansas cyclone and in her capacity as a temperance reformer did more for while to keep the state in the limelight than it's literary folk and its bumper crops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-28
ILLUSTRIOUS PIRATES

of today are called Buccaneers" aj
 pirates ,ss
 Where, one may rightly ask, Is the Il
 nominy of such an entitlement? We ha1 wronged the reputation of many an es}
 mable gentleman, including Captain Kid
 Up speaks MT. Ralph D. Paine to set tj
 matter right for the much-maligned oal
 tain.
 Doomed to an infamy undeserved. h
 name reddened with crimes he never cod
 mitted. and made wildly romantic by tall
 of treasure which he did not bury. Cal
 William Kidd is fairly entitled to the syrI
 pathy of posterity and the apologies
 all the ballad. makers and alleged hi
 torians who have obscured the facts
 cloud of fable" Read further: "Fa
 has played the strangest tricks ina gin ble with the memory of this seventeent century seafarer who never cut throl
 or made victim walk the plank. wi was no more than third or fourth-ra pirate in the era when this interestis profession was in it's heyday. and WI
 was hanged at Execution Dock for tl
 excessively unromantic crime of crackir
 the skull of his gunner with q wood< bucket.''
 Ncthing more than a vlndication of Cal tain Kidd Is needed to remove the sta from the fair name of piracy. Ever profession has It's black sheep. of cours and the story of Blackbeards a swearin swaggsrIng, throat-cutting pirate. if tho ever was one. only shows the possibiliti of excess.
 The inevitable conclusion of the matt Is that piracy Is mostly fiction. And ev, SC. when you come to think of 1t, the Ii erature which the subject has product deals mostly with treasure-hunting rath, than piracy itself. stevenson's class story of Long John Silver and the rest a case in point. ''The Gold Bug" ar "Wolfert Webber' are other example Farther reaching yet is the influence piracy on literature (to omit any mentit of literary piracy). Do you really want know why the writings of Henry Jam are SO deadly dull It is because. as boy, he never went on quest for buril treasure. Stevenson did. So did Maj Twain. You know that. you who ha, read the chronicle of the great adventur, of Tom Sawyer.
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of loss is the inability of farmers tc get their crops to market at the time when prices are often highest, owing to the same bad roads condition.
 What the merchants lose as re- suit of this condition could hardly be estimated, and it is matter of great importance to business men and city dwellers that the roads leading into the city are kept in first class condi- tion
 There has been great develop ment of "good roads, spirit during the last few years, but there is still much to be accomplished The Pacific northwest states suffer least from this form of loss, according to the government report, owing to an ex- cellent system of cooperation, liberal appropriations for maintenance of roads, etc.
 A great deal of money that has been spent on road building has been wasted, owing to poor methods of road building. The work should be in charge of experts who thoroughly understand soil and climatic condi- tions, and are therefore able to de- termine the best type of road for each particular locality.
 Alabama is fortunate in having an able and progressive highway en- gineer who is ready and willing to cooperate at all times with county authorities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-28
Al CONFEDERATN nTT.I.

 By Maj. s. A. Jonas. Stan Gen. s. D.. Lee, c. S. A. Representing nothing on Gods green earth now,
 And naught in the water below it: As the pledge of a nation that is dead
 and gone,
 Keep it. dear friend. and show It. Show it to those who will lend an ear To the tale this paper can tell Of liberty. born of the patriots dream, Of the storm-cradled nation that fell. Too poor to possess the precious ones, And too much stranger to borrow. We issued today our promise to pay And hoped to redeem 1t on the morrow. The days rolled on and weeks became
 years,
 But our coffers were empty still: Coin was so rare that the treasury Quaked If dollar should drop in the till. But the faith that was in us was strong
 indeed,
 And our poverty well we deserved. And these little checks represented the That our suffering volunteers earned. We knew it had hardly the value of
 gold,
 Yet as gold our soldiers received 1t; It gazed in our eyes with promise to
 pay
 And each patriot soldier believed it. But our boys thought little of the price
 or pay,
 Or the bills that were overdue. We knew if 1t brought us our bread to-
 day,
 It was the best our poor country
 could do. Keep 1t. It tells our history all over, From the birth of it's dream to the last; Modest, and born of the angel. Hope. Like the hope of success 1t passed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-28
HOTEL LOBRIES
Large Deals Pending

Certain large deals in timber and min- era, lands in Alabama that have been pending for sometime will be consum- mated shortly,' said Charles H. Scott.
 There has been a most wonderful im- provement in business throughout the country, and capital is now ready to turn itself loose whenever good values are presented for investment. This year will end with prosperity colors flying and by next spring this district will witness un- usually flush times.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-28
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. <x~ IRATEs!" shout the meat pack.
 CTS to the British. And "Pi-

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 <xD IRATES!" shout the meat pack "P CT. ss the British; .... And .s,-
 rstes;" shout the Teutophobes.
 It is an old name. older than ''freebooter"
 or "filibuster" or ''buccaneer" Piracy has been known since the days of Homer.
 The word, indeed, is Greek via the Latin. An attempt, unconscious, perhaps has lately been made to limit the term to in- ternational law and to leave to the other words the highly important function of
 suggesting the romance in the splendid sounding exploits of Captain Kidd and
 Morgan and Drake and Hawkins and Bonnet and Jean Lafitte. That's quite wrong. but. after all there's definite historical distinction which sets the buc- cancers in a class by themselves.
 It is pleasant to think that the first of the pirates of the new world was no less a parsonage than Christopher Columbus His motives and actions on his famous voyage of 1492 were innocent enough, verify they were highly praiseworthy, but how much moro laudable-according
 
 the plundering expeditions on which. he
 robbed the simple. inoffensive natives of America of their gold and other possess sions and followed that up by a policy of enslaving and exterminating the people themselves How weak-minded and soft hearted must have been poor Queen Isa- bella, who charged the great discoverer with committing terrible atrocities and had him sent back to Spain in chains as a picked pirate! But 50 many other great men of the worlds history. have lost their paragonic regulations that we need not now waste time trying to prove that Columbus was the victim of dread ful error of judgment on the part of poor Isabella.
 Then there was Francis Drake! He was . pirate pure and simple. Queen Elizabeth knighted him for piracy. Mon- archs were no pumpkins even at that early date. He pillaged the rich Spanish possessions in America, came back to England loaded with booty. capturing a Spanish treasure ship on the way home. then started of again for America. at- tackled towns, carried of treasure and captured merchant vessels. until he was afraid to return to England the way he came That was how he happened to sail around the world, gathering the spells of piracy as he went. And when he did reach London. the Queen. tho ministers, the courtiers. the citizens and Drake and all his crew shared in the plunder taken from the spaniards- .0oo,ooo worth of it. King Philip protested against the out rages that Drake had committed. So l good Queen Boss knighted the freebooter and Drake thereafter was Sir Francis. l It would be easy to go on and mention many other names that have shed lustre on the practice of piracy-that of Peter the Great. for instance. It can be easily , shown. moreover. that piracy began in llesitima@t trade and commerce. Perhaps ] that is the reason why some of our prom
 inent capfains of industry and commerce
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-28
Hotels Filling Up

As one of the many evidences of pros- perity, all the hotels and apartment houses here are filling up. At the Ridgely the few rooms unoccupied will be filled shortly.
 c. H. Nabb, proprietor of the Hotel Hill man, in speaking yesterday of improved conditions, said: ''The country has entered upon new period of good times and Birmingham will have it's full share of it. Prosperity is now being reflected in the hotel business. I am much gratified with the business at the Hillman. We had more people in the house Sunday night, with the exception of convention times. than for a year past.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-28

Spectacular Advance in Cotton Prices
 The cotton market had another large advance yesterday. The jump was spectacular. But based upon the statis- tical position of the trade eleven and a half-cent cotton today may be consid- cred within conservative bounds.
 This years crop will hardly total more than 11,0O0,0 ,0O0 bales. The cen sus bureau report showed that of last years 16,75O, ,000-bale crop 2,842.21O bales were in spinners' warehouses and in public places of storage in the United States as of August 31. Est- mating the 1915 crop at 100000, this country started the new cotton year with 13,S42,210 bales for consumption between August 31, 1915, and August 31, 1916 The estimated consumption of American cotton for that period, according to Neill Brothers, statisti- clans for the English market, is 15,- 000, ,00O bales.
 In analyzing those figures William P Redd, an esteemed local authority on the crop situation, says that in stead of surplus of 2,S42,O00 bales on August 31, 1916, "a deficit of more than 1000 ,O0O bales is imminent"
 AS for October prices it need not be surprising to see the market reach still higher levels. But the farmer will do well to market gradually and not send the market down by trying to sell all his bales at once.
 Any price around 12 cents in Octo- Der will be of far-reaching benefit to the whole cotton south; but if the producer holds back portion of his crop until spring he will get 15 cents for it; and it may go to that price by January.
 Of the south's total production of Il, 100000 bales Alabama will have fully tenth of it. Three months age pessimists predicted that cotton would be selling for not more than 6 1-1 cents in October. The most optimistic farmer thought he would be doing wei to get 1-2 cents.
 If it averages the producer 12 cents and it will, the difference in the Ala bama crop in money value will be more than $20,OOO.OO0 compared witt what had been hoped for until recent ly. In other words, Alabama's HOO, 900 bales should bring, counting seed not less than $S2,OO0,O00.
 So profitable has crop diversified tion been that this years agriculture values in Alabama will total close to $200,00O, O,O00-a new high record No wonder then that husbandman ant merchant alike are in high spirits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-28
MEN AND WOMEN
om the Chattanooga Times.

from the CnattanoOga I1meS.
 woman writer in the Philadelphia Public Ledger declares that the very strongest reason that can be offered against votes for woclen'' Is that women are not men, and cannot by any stretch of the imagination do the thinga that men can and are doing.'' Thinking it over seriously. there are a good many things men can do and are doing that women cannot do and perhaps would ncl do if they could
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-28
m Is TO LAUGH

From the New .Orledhs StHtes.
 Herr George Viereck. editor of the Fath- erland. explains that in all probability the Arabic and the Hesperian were sunk by British submarines acting for the purpose of embruiling Germany with the United States. It seems that there are times when even the horrors of war can pre- vent Herr George from beitg real funny.