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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15
BEGINNING THE DAY-o Thou

BEGINNING THE DAY-O Thou great Husbandman of the vineyard, teach me that if I am in my ap- pointed place among the vines, my labor is a part of the great diapa- sion of the worlds order and bar- mony. May l walk in conscious step with the cbarioted sun and with the singing spheres. Give me to join the company of all the stall wart sons of toll who from the morning until now who have obeycd the universal law and done the work of the world. In the name of the Carpenter of Nazareth. Amen. III. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15
VINTAGE AND VANTAGE STORIES
 OF THE NEWSPAPER CLUB

F. W. Blackford, vice president of the William F. Dondvan Provision company tells of rn aderly farmer who visited the produce district to dispose of his wares last summer. It was just after the new traffic laws had been made effective and the city officers were alert for viola tions.
 ''The farmer drove up and hitched his horse to a telegraph pole.' said MT. Blaclxford.
 Here. shouted policeman. you can't hitch there
 Can't hitch.' yelled the farmer. Well, why have you got sign up, Fine for Hitching?" 5
 C. H. Mandy is responsible for the fol- lowing;
 T have always known that good law yer could prove most anything; some of them going so far as to convince an in telligent juryman that the proverbial black is white;' but it takes B. M. Allen to bring out the most telling points in be- half of the client. In one instance that remember Mir. Allen was conducting the case in an effort to recover damages for tpe estate of a man who he admitted had been run over by a train while sleeping under influence of liquor on the track. The lawyer for the defendant read a long and tiresome statement from a law textbook tending to show that the de- ceased had no rights under the law when tresspassing op the railroad property. MT. Allen then said, According to this state ment a COW has more rights in the state of Alabama than has man; for had the train run over a COW, whether asleep on the track or not, 1t would be made to pay full value.'"
 Charles Mandy was talking one night recently at the Newspaper club about newspaper cartoonists and their work. 'I was much impressed" he said by a cartoon by John T. McCutcheon, which was published few days ago in the Chicago Tribune. McCutcheon. by the way, is one of the highest paid cartoon ists in this og any other country. The cartoon l have in mind was satire on war as it is just now practiced in Eu- rope. It was entitled, Is Civilization Re- verting to the Code of the Cave Man?'
 Tn the foreground of the picture was a rude giant of prehistoric times, with the bone O. some extinct monster in one hand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

Although charges of gambling at Palm Beach are said to have been unfounded the chances are that it wouldn't require Che services of a German spy to locate a night at Palm Beach.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

In his sermon, ''The Second Chance which Billy Sunday preached recently in Philadelphia, the noted Baseball evangelist took census of he'll He mentioned the names of many people who have figured more or less promi- nently in sacred and profane history. Mr Sunday started the list with Pha- raoh. Next came Nebuchadnezzar, then Jezebel, in his opinion the wickedest woman who ever lived Louis XIV and Louis KY, Voltaire Rousseau, Mesdames Pompadour, Montestan and 4uaintenon, Catherine de Medici, Nero, Judas, Attila. Ivan the Terrible, John Stuart Mill, Hux- ley and Tyndall Payne and Ingersoll. The evangelist let it be understood that Ee could mention great many more names, belonging to modern as we.. as ancient times. but lack of time and breath prevented. However he later in cluded believers in new thought" He said, "They sheer at hell and that S where they are going.">
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15
Paint Jitneys One Color

Il wish the commissioners would re- quire the jitneys to paint their autos one bright color to distinguish them from prj- vate cars" saids merchant
 Sometimes my friends have hailed me to ride with them and have accepted. Now, one can't tell for sure when he is being hailed by jitney chauffeur until he gets up to the machine-that is after 1t has passed and halted for you. Then there are owners of cars who use them Tor ride downtown and put them into the public service at the rush hours. to help pay off the mortgage on their ma chine. wonder if all of them have paid a city license?
 There should be traffic officers pa- trol on Eleventh avenue and on Twen- tieth street at the rush hours on motor- cycles to arrest the speeders, as it has again become very dangerous for pedestrians, and children especially, to cross these thoroughfares in the morn- inS and twilight hours.7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

steam-driven machinery had started the epochal industrial revolution on its avalanchine career For this reason Mrs Mary Miller, aged 96, who now sleeps forever where she was born, in North Greenwich. Conn.,, bridges a much long CT period than her years alone would indicate.
 A daughter of America, married at the age of 14. who bears 13 children and never stirs further from her na- tive village than she can walk, who has never ridden in railrod train or trolley car. goes back to that remote colonial period which her great-grandmothe knew. Then, as genealogists can testify. the mothers of our vanishing race be- came wives in their early teens, as Mrs. Miller did, and bore each her bakers dozen of empire builders. As mothers, they spent such long days in nursing babies and cooking tremendous meals, in making soap and tallow, spin ing clothes and dosing patients that during all their lives they rarely got beyond walk of the spot which the stork chose for them, and in which they loved, lived, slaved and died
 Railroads and trolley cars were not yet born and stage coach rides were for the comparatively opulent only. Per haps, as Mrs. Miller did, if they lived as near by as she. they walked their 30 or more miles into New York city, for girls could walk in those days as wsll as cook and bear babies. They earned their outings.
 But Mrs. Miller before she died got lift or two in the automobiles of nelghpors. This completed the bridge of her centuries
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15
THE LAST COLONIAL DAME

When human being reaches the age of 96 today his consciousness has spanned great changes But before 1t came into being Stephenson had in- vented the locomotive and Fulton the steamboat. and power looms and other
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15
Women. Clubs and Life Insur,,ce

some women's clubs are taking up the matter of life insurance as a prac- tical question: vitally relating to the fam ily," said a prominent club woman
 My husband and I have each taken out annuity insurance fts our 12-year-orc, son. We will, with good health, be able to educate him, but if we should die then he will be able to secure a good educa- ton, and after that quarterly stipend for many years. We looked upon it in the light of savings investment and are much relieved of anxiety for our boy s future"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15
SHELLS FOR BREAKFAST

Jacques, the postman. has just been from the guns as hesreached the garden gate.'"
 'Jacques,'" said Tour postman is really fortunate enough to possess that Shakespearean surname, and audacious enough to pronounce it as if it were the plural of Jake" Jacques has brought that news a dozen times before D
 Nevertheless, I went into my worlx- room to look.'
 "A light morning mist was rising like a theatre-curtain from the long sweep of shore. The skies were still gray, but the entire southern stretch of coast all the way past Filey Brigg to the white front of F'lamborough Head, could be made out. There, in the middle distance lay Scarborough, running back from its pleas ant bays, between which rose the minia- ture Gibraltar surfnounted by the Castles ruinous keep-and there. close in to shore, lay two dark cruisers, at first apparently as harmless as any fishing craft'
 :" English boats,'' I thought. Eng lish cruisers were thick along the coast oil yesterday"
 "A little squirt of pale smoke came ort of one of them.''
 Target practice I assured myself.
 But even as I did so. I asked the question:
 Target practice toward the shore"
 ''I ran for my glasses I had scarcely got the focus before there came another squirt of smoke-now plainly touched with fire.'
 Another. Then another"
 "I followed the direction of one shot in- land It must have been an explosive shell. I saw a white puff rise. Binns was right; the always expected, yet all ways unbelievable, had happened: the Germans were bombarding Scarbor- ough"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

The daughter of Irony" Riddle in Phil adelphia is going to marry a man who is not at all like her father, a practice quite common among American daugh- ters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

English novelists who quit writing books to fight for their country deserve the fullest need of praise There are too many books in the world already
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

Count Zeppelin has not captured Eng land yet by an airship raid, but he is a proud grandfather and that is enough honor for the present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

Cleveland doctors say low-necked gowns don't cause pneumonia. Still, if men went around wearing low-necked shirts a few cases of pneumonia might develop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15
EVENTS ARE CRowDING

From the Savannah Press.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald says the world is skeptical of war news except the baldest facts. This does seem to be no time for splitting hairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

An eastern contemporary thinks it is shocking for Delaware to retain the whipping post. Still, that sort of punish ment is at least open and above board and is less harmful than some other ways of treating criminals
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

While it is true that the Czar has gone to the front again, there isn't the slight est chance of his missing meal or a full nights rest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

Some people who haven't any other fault to find with Carranza object to his Whiskers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

The dean of the Columbia law school says the sexes are not at war, thus prov ing himself to be a remarkably close observer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15
UNDERWOOD LEAVES THE HOUSE


 From the Memphis Commercial- Appeal. the end of the Sixty third Congress is the transference of Oscar Underwood from the House to the Senate, to which latter body he was elected last Novem- Der.
 As a representative in the House, where he has served from the Ninth Alabama district since 1895, he has been a power for democracy. As chairman of the ways and means committee he has and he leaves behind him much con- structive legislation directly resulting from his efforts. His two greatest tri- umphs were the revised tariff, and the levying of an income tax to force the rich of the country to make up the money deficit caused by reducing the tariff for the benefit of the masses That the war interfered with the best results of these two measures by break sitating a war emergency tax is not MT.
 Underwoods fault
 He has been a useful and competent member of the lower branch of Con gross. Indeed, with such conspicuous brilliancy has he done his work that i his transference to the Senate is scarce | ly a promotion, in that he will reach no higher place in the esteem of the country.
 He is only 53 years old, just in the prime of his powers, and whatever his
 hand finds to do in the Senate will be
 done adequately and splendidly. It -is
 we'll that the country does not lose his services, but only changes his position | in the governmental body When the next Congress convenes one of the bright lights will be Senator Oscar Un-
 derwood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

No matter how much the baker kneads the dough, it is comforting to know that he can no longer get more tan a nickel for a loaf.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

Judging from her latest yploit, the Dresden is not hiding as much as pre- viously reported.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

Eggs are being sold for less than a cent a piece in Chicago. War has no terrors for the great American hen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

The erstwhile "Terrible Turk" seems to have degenerated into the Terrified Turk" who is quite a different sort of person.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

The log of the Prinz Eitel Friedrich is
 one of the most thrilling stories of the sea ever written.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

Save some of your change for Flag Charity will sell little green flags or emblems on that day to be displayed in honor of Erin's patron saint. All the money receiveed by the ladies will be turned over to St. Vincents hospital for the benefit of the free clinic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Some Booming Cities

"The grain growing west is enjoy ing great prosperity now, and as there IS promise Of another bumper wheat crop good times will continue in that section throughout the war;" said Sam uel J. Dalton of Chicago.
 Tn February I visited St. Paul. Min neapolis, Des Moines and other cities whose grain traffic is very large, and found them booming. Never once did hear anyone refer to business de- pression. Those cities had it last fall, but in view of the prevailing prosperity it has been forgot.
 "Of course, Chicago has prospered greatly by the enormous grain trade, and activity Is now in evidence there in almost every branch of business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15
An Exasperating Experience


 'l had particularly exasperating and annoying experience while on my way to town Sunday night" said q resident of the Northside. Tt aroused my anger because it is not the first tune have had the same trouble.
 While walking along Twenty first street on my way to the city found myself held up at Ninth avenue by a dead passenger train of the Frisco railroad A live engine was attached and numerous trainmen were sitting around apparently with nothing to do until tomorrow I waited patiently enough for 10 minutes but at the end of 15 minutes I began to grow angry and attempted to cross the train. Every door on every coach was closed and was forced to walk a block into the yard to get around
 T had hardly succeeded in passing one obstacle before confronted with an- other. A freight train barred my way and again | waited 10 minutes and again was forced to walk far into the yards to get around. I believe that there were at least 200 people gathered wait ing for the trainmen to remove the cars. l don't know how long they had been there before I arrived nor do Know how long they remained after l left but as far as could see they were still standing squarely across the street.
 heard one man ask a trainman apout getting across and received a very discourteous answer interlarded with profanity. This is a condition which I thing should be called to the attention or the police. Surely there is city ordinance to prevent arbitrary trainmen from blocking streets of the city as long as they choose without re- gard to convenience of pedestrians and vehicles"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

Ashland Progress: The Hague is said to be still on the map but We have seen no statement that it is doing business at the same old stand.
 Selma Times: Senator Bonner says he has majority of the legislature pledged to the enactment of the blue laws for bidding all kinds of games and enjoyment on Sunday. He does not state whether he will require the kitchen stove to re- cool.
 Gadsden Times-News: In the election of snowden McGaughy to the presi- dency of the reorganized Jefferson Coun- ty Savings bank, Gadsden loses one of her most valuable citizens. 1h. McGau- ghy is a business man of unusual ability and during his residence in this city has taken a leading part in all matters that resulted in bettering the business condi- tions Of this community. He was one of the founders of the Chamber of Com merce and has always taken an active part ir the labors of that body. In mat ters of business, MT. McGaughy has the
  down to the bed rock of business prin- ciples, before he commences to build, and then erects structures or monuments to the industry of the community MT. McGaughy has long enjoyed the confi- dence of the business men of Gadsden and the farmers of Etowah have realized that he ever worked for their interests. In go- ing to Birmingham his field of labors will be extended, and he will prove himself as much an asset to the Magic City as he has to Gadsden. We congratulate Bir- mingham in obtaining the services of MT. McGeughy.
 Talladega Reported: Robert H. Baugh of Birmingham has been elected presi- dent of the Southern Baseball league. The Czar of Russia is not in it among the Southern lans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15
TELEPHONE Bell (prIvate exchange connecting all departmcnts) Main 49OO.

I love the name of honor more than fear death -Julius Caesar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15
ALABAMA PRESS

Ashland Progress: The Hague is said to be still on the map but We have seen no statement that it is doing business at the same old stand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-15

Talladega Reported: Robert II. Baugh of Birmingham has been elected presi- dent oi the Southern Baseball league. The Czar of Russia is not in it among the Southern lans
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-20
LET INSINUAT|OnS CEASE
and FACTS Be GIVEN IN
GAS FRANCHISE MATTER

We did not think there was any
body left in Lakeland simple minded
enough to be influenced Us the ab-
surd insinuation that there was
something wron. about the Granting
of the gas franchise, after the pub
lcity that has been given the nat
ter. Yet we find somebody still cack-
ling over this mares nest, in the
hope that some other body Viii he
deceived.
Let us HAVE light" on this sub
ject. The Evening Telegram calls
upon Mr.. j e. Bussard and Mr.
f. C. Flanagan, both commissioners
at the time, and both of whom voted
for the ordinance granting the fran
chise, to give the light" asked for
by their critics. We will cheerlully
give them all the space they need
for the purpose. If these two men, or
any of the other city commissioners
were guilty of any crooked work in
connection with III" gas plan or il
they failed properly to safeguard the
interests of the city in this matter,
we would like to know abon, i.
The Evening Telegram today, as IL
has consistently been throughout the
wears. is absolutely fair and nnpar
tisan, and if any man knows any
thing wrong or corrupt about city
matters. it will turn over the entire
paner for the purpose of eNposur
.Onlv-there must be some real Iaas'
and not baseless. contemplate in
situations
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-20
In Society
Mrs. y. M. Eaton Gives Linen Shower
And Reception For Miss Drane

festerday afternoon Mrs Oscar
M Eaton entertained at a li,c,
shower and reception in honor -
Miss Mabel Drane, whose maria :.
70 Mr. William Stephen Moore take.
piace on the morning of November .
The color scheme of pink and
whlte was carried out in the various
rooms, the Gowns of those receiv,no
and otherwise assisting the hostess
also conforming to the color note
coral vine, pink roses and pink and
white carnations were effeetive;>
used to decorate the rooms, making
a pretty setting for the beautifully
gowned women who called during
the reception hours.
AS the guests arrived they wera
received on the front porch by Mrs
George NJ Wright and Mss. NJ. r
Hetherington Delicious fruit punc,
was served by Misses Hazel Williams
ana Miss Overbay. of Barlow. Cards
were taken at the door by Maiorie
Hetherln ton and Oscar Eaton. Jr
introducing the guests to the re-
ceiving line We're Mrs A. NJ. Jack
son and Mrs. H. D Mendenhall
Those in the receiving line were the
hostess, Miss Mabel Drane. Mrs Il
j. Drane, Mrs. H. f. Memmlneer
and Mrs ]. p Murdaugh. of Far
tow
From the living room the guests
We're invited into the dining RON
by Mrs. Madden and Mrs. Hough, of
Barlow, where they were shown the
many lovely gifts by Mrs W. II.
Mum and Mrs s. f smith. The
cifts were displayed to advantage
and the many elegant pieces attest
ing to the high esteem and admira-
ton in which Miss Drane is mold
were greatly admired by all. III"
dining table was especially admired
its centerpiece being two miniature
brides. one representing Miss Dram
the other Mrs Eaton, Yesterday be-
ing Mr. and Mrs. Eaton's So ~
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-20
Juggled Figures Cannot Falsity Report:
The Truth About The City'S Finances

1,S34.67, according to the audi
on December 81, 1919 II is still Nc;
ter off at this time, because since
June 80, the floating Indebtedness
has been reduced by $4,000. ami
there has been piling up s542 every
month, which is set aside each month
since last January to take care os
the interest and sinking fund on the
100000 bonds for Improvement of
the light and water plant.
Furthermore, Mr.. Cox figures in
as liabilities S7.475.0O interest On
bonds to June 80, 1915, when he Ger
tainly knew that this interest has
! been provided for, and the cash to
cover this amount is on deposi: in
, the banks. His contention, there
|, fore, that the city is deeper in debt
than on Dec. 81, 1913. is manifest.
ly absurd and untrue, the real con-
dition being that the city's indebted
ness has been reduced several thou
sand dollars, and that. in permanent
improvements and in reduced liabili-
, ties the city is nearly $4,000 better
off than when the present admins
tration took charge
If any man took his liabilities two
years ago and added to them the
debts he has incurred since then.
and took no account of the assets &C
cumulated in the meantime, what
kind of showing would his affairs
present? Such a system of figurins
would make Rockefeller look like a
fit subject for the poorhouse. iet
that is the kind of figuring Mr.. Coy
applies to the city of Lakelani's az
counts. in his vain endeavor to sh0w
that the city's Indebtedness has in
creased during the present admin
istration. Any man who woul' re
deceived by such statements certain
ly has a head fit for nothing bur o
hat rack, and almost too pointed at
the top to make a good hatrack
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-20

Ieenth wedding anniversary.
From the dining room the guests
were invited to the pergola where
Mrs. W. d. Richey and Mrs. E. n.
Roderick received and here delicious
refreshments of pink and white
cream and cake were served by Miss
es Della May Marshall, Gladys Low
ell, Eileen Flood. Opal Lee Bulb III
and Helen Woods.
Perconi's orchestra rendered ex.
cellent music during the reception
Those who called during the after
noon were Misses Mabel Dranc,
Elizabeth Pritchett, Mary and Vera
McRae, Rachel Clonts, Elizabeth
Conner. Hazel Williams, Aileeu Nc
Rae, Meta Jewett. Emma Nelson.
Mamie Lee Turner, Lena McCrary,
Mae OVERLY, Mrs. H. J. Drane. Mrs.
George NJ. Wright, Mrs. C. A. Cole,
Mrs. NJ F. Hetherington, Mrs
VIM. Richey. Mrs. John Patterson.
Mrs. l.. 7. Bryant, Mrs. o. S.
Van fiuss, Mrs. J. l.. Tilley, Mrs. z.
l.. Cordery, Mrs. j. G.. Hole ,mbe.
Mrs. W. S, Hugenin. Mrs. II. f.
Memminger. Mrs. f y. Rode. lex.
Mrs. II. d. Mendenhall. Mrs. X s.
Madden, Mrs. W. II. Mum. Mrs
VIM Boswell. Mrs. S. F.. Smith.
Mrs {. b. Murphy, Mrs. j. II.
watkins, Mrs. G.. b. Murphy, Mis-.
Ihos. Hatcher. Mrs. C. Fl. VIII
Hams, Mrs. II. NJ. Richards, Mrs
\, J lIolworthy, Mrs. G.. d. Men
denhall, Mrs. Claire Henley, Mrs.
/. Woods. Mrs. W. S. Irwin. Mrs
T. Q. Flood, Mrs Edw. Fixter, Mrs
Is. F Hines, Mrs. W. H. Bates,
Mrs. J. NJ. HOLLAND, Mrs. VIM.
Steltz. Mrs. j s. Jewett. Mrs. A
II. DarracOtt. Mrs. l.. o. Casoa.
Mrs. J. ID. Lowell Mrs. w. r.
Sneed, Mrs. T.. " !yersen, Mrs. N.
j. Poteet, Mrs. A NJ. Jackson
Mrs John Scarr, Mrs. Barnwell Full
Ter. Mrs. j. P. Murdaugh and Mrs
llough of Barlow