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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
Uplift for the Grocery Clerk r1x~, Noxu Vovlr TxthseAA


 Henceforth fiction for the young, if it boy hero who comes to the great me- grocery store. sleeps under the counter to great wealth and happiness as presi- dent of a breakfast food trust. Gro cery clerks unions have put a stop to some of these favorite fictional-and fact conditions. A bill just signed by Gov ernor Whitman will stop most of the rest of them. This measure provides that no grocery clerk in a frst-cass city shah be permitted to work more than 70 hours a week. or II hours a day, save that on the last day of the week he may work 15 hours to eliminate work on the first day of the week. He shall not be required to work seven days a week. No proprietor shall permit clerk to sleep in any room or apartment connected with his store which does not comply with the sanitary regulations of the local health board.
 This by no means approximates the 54- hours-a-week law in its benefits for the overworked grocery clerks, but it does represent considerable improvement in working conditions over what many of them now have. Without depriving the youth of fictional stature of any oppOrtuni- ty to rise in the world. 1t provides a cer- tain measure of social justice for the ordi- nary individual which unfortunately has been lacking hitherto in many small stores with one or two employees. Under the new conditions the public and the employ CTS are likely to get along just as we'll as before. and the clerks and delivery men a little better
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
STEALS 13 SKUNKS;
 WORK OF NERVIEST
 THIEF ON RECORD
From the Globe-Democrat.

From the Globe-Democrat
 Leavenworth, Kan.-The nervest thief in the world has been discovered That
 is evidences of his activities have be-
 come known. The thief, however, Is still
 at large. but the chances are that he
 will soon be apprehended, provided that
 he has not taken the precaution to either bury or burn his clothing. If he does not officers will very easily follow the scent
 A skunk farm Ever hear of oneg Probably not. although they are quite common. Well. Jonah Jones, a corporal of the military prison guard. owns a skunk farm and until recently had IA big, plump, furry animals in the inclos-
 ure near the prison corral. But here comes MT. Nervy Thief. Prob ably one who was well acquainted with the habits of this specie of beast Even then it would necessarily have to be d man who possessed a big quantity of daredevil nerve and whose smelling ap- paratus was not in the best working or der.
 MT. N. T. enters the inclosure. No one seems to know just what happened when he started searching around in the close proximity of the animals He evidenaly aid not imagine himself in a bunch of
 violets. The neighborhood of a big pack ing plant would have been tame in com- parison.
 Our hero, MT. N. T.. evidently was not of the superstitious sort. It was Fri day morning, mind you, and he selected just exactly 13 of the biggest of the quadrupeds. The fourteenth was left be- hind just to give Corporal Jones a nest egg, so to speak.
 Now Corporal Jones has notified the authorities of the theft and asked as. sistance in locating the loot Corporal Jones traps and raises skunks as side line. Not a very pleasant oc. cupation, to be sure but it's a money maker The woods on the reservation
 abound in the animals and they are easily captured by means of traps. During the winter season as high as $5 can be ob- tained for an ordinary skunk hide and some of the rare colorings bring even
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS THINK
 OF LATEST NOTE TO GERMANY

don a certain method of warfare which furnishes the only possibility to force her opponent to his knees. simply because such method would endanger the lives of passengers who enter the war zone upon enemy ships. had so far not occurred to any one.
 Cincinnati Volksblatt: We believe that it would have been more conducive to friendly relations between both countries if the President had adopted the Ger man proposition of separate transporta- ton o6 passengers and ammunition
 Cincinnati Commercial Tribune: It clearly is apparent that the sophistry which would justify the violation of neu- tral rights because of Teutonic necessi- ties has made no impression upon the mind of the man who occupies the White House.
 Philadelphia Record: Our case is stated. There is nothing left to argue It is now up to the German government to hearken to the voice of reason.
 Philadelphia Public Ledger: It is an ultimatum in fact if not in form. Less than ever after the clear exposition of the American attitude which the Secretary of State has sent to the German foreign office can the administration engage in further debate or yield on any point
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
Inventor of First, Lifeboat

I From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. 1 By singular coincidence the man who
 projected and built the first lifeboat was a man who had never lived by the sea and yet understood the necessity of such a means of preservation. His name was
 Lionel LulSin, and he was native of Durnow, England, and was a prominent coach builder in London.
 Lukin appears to have been a man of scientific tastes and fertile mechan- ical genius. and he began by making certain alterations in a Norway yawl
 purchased in 17S4, the efficiency of which he tested IS far as was practical in the 1 Thames.
 l On November ?, 17S4 Lukin obtained a patent for his improved method of | construction of boats and small vessels. for either sailing or rowing, which will neither overset in violent gales or sudden
 bursts of wind, nor sink if by any acci- dent it becomes filled with water. When Lulin exhibited his boat he was
 encouraged by George ", then Prince of
 Wales, who offered to pay the costs of l all his experiments. Despite royal
 patronage. his first lifeboat attracted lit
 tie attention. Four years after the is-
 suing of his patent the adventure was
 wrecked at the mouth of the Tyne in
 ths presence of thousands of people who were unable to afford any assistance for lack of a boat that couId live on such a sea.
 l This distressing spectacle moved the people to offer premiums for the best model of lifeboat, and out of the nu- nerous designs offered in competition two were selected. that of William Wouldhave
 and H. Greathead. The committee, it
 would appear, took the best points of
 both boats and instructed Greathead to
 build it. The first lifeboat that he built was launched at South Shields in 1790.
 This boat differed from Lukin's in the
 substitution of cork for the side air cham bers, but its special point of originality
 was curved instead of a straight keel. I This important improvement Is what won l for Greathead the title of father of the 1 lifeboat. Its first important service was
 in 1791. when 1t saved the crew of a | brig at the entrance to the Tyne.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
NAPOLEON DIRECT.
 ]. DRIVEN BY GERS, SMASHES RECORD
Seasons Records Go by the Board in Yesterdays Grand Circuit Racing
 at North Randall

Cleveland, e.. July 2s.-Season rec oeds went hy the board in today's Grand Circuit racing at North Ran dall
 Driven by Pop Geers, Napoleon Di- rect, in the a:os pace. went the first heat in s:o2A and won the second heat in 9.0s flat, season pacing rec crd as well as the fastest two-heat rec ord this year for a pacer
 Margaret Druien, piloted by Walter Cox set seasons trotting record in the 2:ob trot by stepping the first mile In 2:04 IA. In the second heat she went the circuit in 2:o5h. giving her the fastest second heat and two-heat race recorded in 1915.
 Lou Jennings took tho honors in the 21s trot Rusticoat had little trouble in the Fasig 3-Near-old trot- ting sweepstakes. Celia Dillon captured the last two heat in the 2:21 trot aft CT Charley Valentine had sent Nap Lajoie to the front in the first heat.
 s;21 class trotting, purse S1200: Clenwood R. b. h. (PurcelD.. 1 Nap Lajoic tNalentine), ....., . : Helen Dorthy tMurphyl ...... 2 .
 Time. 2:1oh, s:10lh, 2:10A
 Fasig s-year-old trot sweepstakes. value S750;
 Rusticoat, oh. C. 6Andrews).. 1 Native Spirit tCoN ........... 2
 Time, e:10A, 2:10ia
 2.0S pace. purse $500: Napoleon Direct. ch h. tGeers). l Flower Direct tWhiteheadl ..... 2 Earl Jr. tCoX) ..........3 3 ,
 Time. e:O2aa, 2:03
 2;05 class trot, purse $1500; Ms rgaret Druien, b. m (Cox)... 1 Joan tMeDeVltt1 ....,...4.......,. D Star Winter tMcDonald) ... ! }
 Time, 2:04h, 2:O5h.
 2:13 trot. S1200:
 Lou Jennings, br m (Brennen) Ben Gregor tWhitehead) .... 2 . . Victor Star tNalentine) .... 2 .
 Time. 2:06s,. 2:O7. 2:O9M
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
FEDERAL LEAGUE
 MAGNATES MEET

Chicago. July 23-Federal league mag
 mates met here today and discussed plans
 for another raid on organized baseball.
 According to President James Gilmore,
 1t was decided to wait for a week or two.
 in the hope that Judge Landis' decision
 In the baseball suit would he handed
 down. Gilmore said the Federals had
 many stars of organize baseball in view and expected to get them when they bid for them.
 Persons who claimed to know those on whom the Federal magnates have de- signs mentioned Vic Safer, Ty Cobb. Ed die Collins, Home Run" Baker and Gro yer Alexander.
 Those who attended the meeting were; Ed Gwynner and c. B. Comstock. Pitts burg Phil Ball and Otto Stifel. St Louis w. F. Robertson, Buffalo; D. J. Half, Kansas City. P. T. Powers and Harry Sinclair, Newark; George $. Ward, Brook lyn; Charles Weeghman, Chicago; Henry Goodman, Baltimore
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
MoUNTAINEERs SING SONGS
Curious Survival of Old English Bal
 lads In Kentucky

Writing of the curious survival of old English ballads among the moun- taineers of Kentucky, w. A. Bradley in Harper's Magazine calls attention to the strange fact that the most persist ent of these songs are sea ballads
 "Strangest of all. perhaps. in land where most of the important water courses are navigable only on horse back. is the persistence with which a memory of the sea fingers in these transplanted ballads. There are few mountain men for whom the ocean would not be novelty. And yet al- though 1t must be difficult for most cf them even to figure to themselves what that vast. flat, trackless expanse. with an empty horizon, really looks liks, there Is. apparently, nothing that so appears to their imagination as a sea voyage or shipwreck.
 Does this suggest possible solr- tion for the vexed question of the origin of these nautically minded highlanders and of their ancestral pur- suits? Certainly their language IS any thing but nautical, as in The Salt Sea, where the deck is referred to in very lubberly fashion as the floor:
 They hadn't been sailing but three
 weeks,
 She threw herself upon the cold floor, And there she began to weep
 But even if their forefathers should prove to have been sailors or Thames watermen, it would not be eXtraordi- nary if. in the course of a century or so, they had become trifle shaky con- corning such minor points of technical seamanship.
 "A man on Beaver creek told me that his family was descended from one of Blaclxbeard's pirates who when the band was beaten and broken up in Albemarle Sound sought an asylum iq these hills Perhaps 1t was he who brought with him that capital pira tical ballad with a real lit to it, like some of Gilbert's, The Lone and the Lone some Low which is one of the many variants of The Sweet Trinity and commemorated a supposed incident in the career of Sir Walter Raleigh in the low countries-wh whence the corrupt yet musical refrain in this American version
 "'There was little ship and she sailed upon the sea. And she went by the name of the Mary Golden Tree
 And she sailed upon the lone and the lonesome low,
 And she sailed upon the lonesome sea :,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
HEAVY ARTILLERY IS NOW PLAYING
 ON WANGOROD
Austro-Germans Continue to Advance-Russian Re serves Being Placed
 in Action

Austro- Hungarian Headquarters. July 2s.-6via London. Il :55 D. m.)-The Aus tro-German mobile artillery already is playing on the Ivangorod Qualifications and from the west bank of the vistula river. below Ivangorod. is throwing shells on the Ivangorod-L -Lublin Chelm railroad
 The Austrian troops also are doing ex- cellently now. if they are not already across the railroad between Lublin and Chelm, that this line. connecting the whole southern Russian front between the yistula and the Bug rivers, is probab- ly cut in two places, which will greatly hamper the defensive problem of the mys- terious new general to whom, according to Russian reports, the cream of the Russian army has been entrusted.
 The Austro-German forces in this re- zion continue to advance. Their task is difficult because the Russians are throwing in new reserve troops. The reinforced Russians are fighting with the valor of desperation and the leu tcnic forces can make progress only foot by foot
 The Austrians are forwarding ammuni- tioH ny tiit iNuSSidlis buiit south from Lublin during their occupa- tion of Galica. The Russians partly de stroyed the railroad on their retreat. but the Austrian engineers rebuilt it rap- idly.
 While the armies of Archdu<e Joseph Ferdinand and. General von Mackenzel have been pushing the enemy before them against the main Russian position .4..1- TD..- ..s.. IL army of General Boehm- -Ermoll has forced passage of the Bug, opened a breach in the vicinity of Sokal and is ad- vancing in a northeasterly direction.
 The aim of General Boehm-E -Ermolli ap- parently is to separate the Russian forces here from the main Russian armies be- between them the broad belt of almost between the the broad belt of almost roadless forests which here adjoins the east bank of the Bug.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
Monkeys in Heraldry

From the Washington Star.
 Three monkeys figure in the coat-of- arms of the Earl of Leinster. They stand with plain collar, chained The motto IS "Crom a boo," which means ITO Vic- tory" An interesting story pertains to this device, which was adopted in the year 1916 by John Fitzthomas Fitzgerald.
 When this Earl of Leinster was an in- fant he formed one of the residents or Woodstock now belonging to the Marl- borough family. There was a fire in the castle one night and in the confusion that prevailed the child was overlooked. When he was remembered those who dashed for the nursery found it in flames. The in- fant was. however, soon found in one of the towers elapsed in the arms of big ape, which, with considerable courage. had fought it's way through the smoke and flames in order to rescue it's young friend It had carried the child to the top of one of the towers, which, its intelligence told It. was the safest place in the burning structure.
 Tn recognition of this act of devotion the earl, when he attained manhood, actually discarded the family coat-of- arms and adopted the monkeys for his crest, and the family has retained 1t to this day. This has been pointed out, is the only known instance of the admission of the monkeys into the select circle of animals in heraldry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
EVERS-QUIGLEY
 TROUBLE OVER

Boston, July 25.-The trouble between Umpire Quigley and Captain llvers of the Boston Braves, which developed yester- day when the umpire Is said to have punched Evers, claiming that the captain stepped on his foot. apparently was smoothed over today after the president of the National league had made a per- sonal investigation of the incident Be- fore todays game started Quigley and Evers shook hands, settling the quarrel
 According to James Gaffney. owner of the Braves, Teder is inclined to let charges of incompetency made against the umpire drop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
TWO SWIMMING
 RECORDS SHATTERED

San Francisco July 93.-Ludwig Gudy)
 Langer of Los Angeles shattered two
 American anna teur swimming records-the
 mile and half mile tidal water marks over 1l0-yard course at the Panama Pacific exposition today He covered the mile in 24 minutes 59 2-5 seconds. Langer's time at the half mile mark was 12 minutes and seconds. lowering the American record he made last Wednes- day of 12 0S 2-5.
 The broken mile record of % minutes 40 2-5 seconds was made by J. II. Reilly at New York in 1911.
 The champions time of is S.mnutes 33 l-5 seconds at the three-quarter mile mark and his time at 154O yards of 2i minutes, 49 2-5 seconds are said also to be new records.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
William POsey TaylOr

William Posey Taylor. one of the best known members of the Birmingham police department, died yesterday plorning at o'clock at his late residence, 44l9 Avenue B, Avondale. MT. Taylor had only been ill short time and his death will be a shock to his fellow officers with whom he was very popular MT. Taylor was T years of age and would have been married in few weeks. Funeral serv- ices will be conducted tomorrow after noon at 3:30 o'clock from the residence. The Rev. J. A Bryan will officiate, and the degree team of the Woodmen of the World will have charge at the grave. MT. Taylor is survived by four sisters Mrs. F. J. Stringfellow of Birmingham, Mrs. Lee c. Newman of Opelka, Mrs. E. NJ
 Hodge of Opelika. and Mrs. J. M. Hatcher of Birmingham. Mir. Taylor came to Bir- n1ingham nine years ago and was en- ployed by the Southern railroad. He then accepted position with the city fire department and five years ago became
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
Wind and Water
, Louisville Herald.

From the IIOuISVIIIe HUI dIu
 Tho long -winded member of the de- bate club had held forth for many minutes past his allotted time, and still showed no signs of exhaustion. Feeling thirsty, he reached out for the water carafe, but found 1t empty. Motioning to the usher to have it filled. he would have proceeded with his speech but for an Interruption
 A member in the back seat rose and waved his arms excitedly. T protest. MT Chairman he said. "I protest.'
 Protest against what?" asked the chairman.
 Running a windmill with water" vas the reply.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
Flag League Closes

Brunswick, Ga, July 23.The Florida Alabama-G Georgia leagues post-season championship series between Valdosta and Brunswick ended here today when the local players went on a strike, de- caring they would not play until they received back salary they claimed was due them. The game was forfeited to Vaidosta, g to o. The series already stood two to one in Valdosta's favor. The league Is a Class D organization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
Ban Johnson on Tour

Chicago, July 23.-B. B. Johnson, presi- dent of the American league, left for St. Louis today on tour of inspection of his staff of umpires. The umpires have been assaied recently by club owners and Johnson intends to swing about the circuit and watch their work. Before his departure Johnson reiterated his confi- dence in his staff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
Little Girl Struck by Rock

Ellie May Haygood the four-year-o daughter of Mrs. R. H. Haygood 609 Twenty-siXth street, north, was struck in the head and slightly injured yester- day afternoon at [ o'clock by a rock. Robert Puckett became involved in diff ficulty with an unknown man and after being himself struck, threw the rock at him, the stone bouncing from the sidewalk and striking the little girl. Puclxett was put under bond.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
Dundee Wins Bout

New York, July 2--Johnny Dundee out fought Joe Rivehs in their 10-round bout in Brooklyn tonight. Dundee had the better of every round excepting the tenth, which was even. In the fourth round Dundee almost knocked Rivers out with a right to the jaw
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
L,ipeyille Loses

Lineville. July Special )--Thc Chero- Cola team of Columbus won from Lineville by timely hitting and fast fielding today by il score of to 2. Score by innings K. H. G. Lineyille ....... 900 200 000--2 5 Columbus .....3l0 900 203--9 1
 Batteries: Bonner and Griffin; Rus sell and Carmack.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
Deaths and Funerals
Mrs. J. A. Harrison


 Funeral services over the remains Of Mrs. J. A. Harrison aged 5S years, who died at a local infirmary Wednesday night as a result of burns received while lighting some paper in the back yard of her home, were conducted from the family residence. Hos Twenty six tn street. north, yesterday morning at 10 o'clock. pr. H. M. Edmonds of the South Highlands Presbyterian church offi- ciated. Interment followed in Elmwood.
 The following acted as pallbeare,s. John Duncan, W. Mason, E. L. Hamil, F.. s. McGlathery, R. H. Webb. w. s. Scruggs, Jr., Frank Gafford and w c. Hernandez The deceased is survived d ty her husband, J. A. Harrison two sons, George P. and Benjamin NJ. Harri- son; one daughter, Miss Flora Milner Harrison, and four sisters, Miss Lola and Miss Lillie Milner of Barnesvillc, Ga; Miss Susie Milner of LeGrange, and Mrs. A. B. Sparks of East Point, Ga. Three brothers. B. c. Milner of Louis vile; Willie J. Milner, Sr., of Atlanta. and Robert B. Milner of Florence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24

Cincinnati Erie Prcsse The idea of a demand upon . belligerent power to aban-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
Mary Gorilla Cole

Mary Gorilla Cole. the 1S-months- old daughter of MT. and Mrs. J. M Cole died yesterday morning at o'clock at the residence of J. ]. Cahalan, Mountain Terrace. Funeral services over the re- mains of the deceased will be held from the residence tomorrow morning at i) o'clock. Interment will follow in Elm wood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24

The Macon (Ga) Telegraph: While not so denominated as the last note to Ger many, 1t Is an ultimatum in that the next submarine outrage where an American is involved will be taken by the United States as a hostile act-and war will be on The alliance with lnfamy proposed in the German note is rejected with an iron firmness and abrupt decisiveness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24

1 Boston Globe: Taken as a whole the ! note represents mature and moderate American opinion We give up no right but we can make concessions. Few can
 find fault with such course in view
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24

New York Staats Zeitung: Of quite particular significance is the emphasis of the fact that the United States and Germany are striving for the same ob- ject as far as the freedom of the seas is concerned.
 And the note makes 1t clear in frank. curt words that the government of the United States is ready at any time to play the part of the mediator with a view to finding practicable way out of the present situation.
 The diplomatic note which was sent to Berlin yesterday is meant at the sama time for London.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24

Boston Advertiser: The time has come
 to stop those attacks of submarines on American property and lives without warning. We want to end it. We shall end 1t. And the President declares . in courteous. diplomatic language, but unmistakably that repetition of these
 acts will amount to declaration Of war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24

Lynchburg (Va.) News: MT. Wilson has shown that he will cease to toler- ate quibbling and fiddling in respect to the grave questions about which Berlin and Washington have not as yet reached an agreement
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The New York Press: President Will sons forced German note gets right down to business at the very out set in it's flat declaration that the re- cent imperial answer is not satisfactory because it fails to meet the differences between the two governments. But it
 would have had a hundred times the force 1t has if 1t had been >.elammed straight back at Berlin as soon as Won Jagow's irrelevant and unresponsive re- ply was received.
 We see no war sparks from the steel of
 the Presidents pen; it rings no war-likc | note.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24

Raleigh (N. CD News and Observer: President Wilson states the position of the United States as Americans ould have him. He speaks as the red b1ooded representative of a red blooded people.