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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-10
Deaths and Funerals
Paul Vestein

The body of Faul Nestein, who died in Elba yesterday will be received in Birmingham by Johns today at noon. Funeral services over the remains of the deceased will be conducted from the Knesseth Israel cemetery tomorrow morn- ing at 1O:30 o'clock
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-10
Henderson Makes Appointments

Montgomery July 9.-tSpeclaLp Governor Henderson tonight announced the following appointments: J. P. Hall, warden at Banner mines; w. T. Clem- ents, warden at Aldrich; Ralph Irwin, warden at McPhaul and J. NJ. Machen. deputy warden at No. 1 farm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-10
Noted Painter Dead

Philadelphia, July 9.-Stephen G. Fer ris, widely known portrait painter. died here today in his S1st year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-10
SUBMARINE SINKS
 RUSSIAN BARK

London, July 9.-(4:42 D. m.)-The Rus sian bark Marion Lghtbody was sunk off Queenstown today by a German sub marine. The crew was saved The bark, which was of 2176 tons gross, left valpa- raiso March 23 for an English port
 London, July 9.-(6:15 D. n.)--The Rus- sian steamer Anna, from Archangel for Hull, was shelled by a German subnla- rine in the North sea. The crew aban- doned the ship and landed at Peterhead. Scotland today. The Anna is reported to be still af1oat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-10
Blach's Unbeaten

Blach's baseball team maintained the lead of the Commercial league by bat ting out IS safeties Thursday afternoon and winning from Strickland Greene by the score of 8 to 2
 Ed Mackin for Blach's was strong in the pinches and was given excellent sup- port by his teammates
 The feature of the game was the all- round playing of Blach's boys. RHE Blach's .................. 1s i Strlckland's ......................... ? 13 5
 Batteries Mackin and Alexander: Strickland and Palmer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-10
Everybody Should Read DICKENS

You should read these books, your wife should read them, your children should read them. Their reading does good. They are cleanly, full of wisdom-not trashy Get them NOW by clipping FREE Library Cou- pon from another page of
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GRANDMA USED SAGE TEA
 TO DARKEN HER GRAY HAIR
She Made Up a Mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur to Bring Back Color,
 Glass. Thickness.

Almost everyone knows that Sage Tea and Sulphur. properly compound ed, brings back the natural color and lustre to the hair when faded. streaked or gray: also ends dandruff. itching scalp and stops falling hair. Years ago the only way to get this mixture was to make it at home, which is mussy and troublesome. Nowadays. by asking at any store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy" you will get large bottle of the famous old recipe for about 50 cents.
 Don't stay gray, Try it. No one can possibly tell that you darkened your hair. as it does it so naturally and evenly. You dampen a sponge or soft brush with 1t and draw this through your hair. taking one small strand at time, by morning the gray hair disappears, and after another ap- plication or two, your hair becomes beautifully dark. thick and glossy Adv
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INDIGESTION, GAS
 0R SICK STOMACH
Time it! Pape's Diapepsin ends all Stomach misery in five
 minutes.

Do some foods you eat hit back taste good, but work badly; ferment into stubborn Jumps and cause sick. sour. gassy stomach? Now, Mir. or Mrs. Dyspeptic. jot this down: Pape's Diapepsin digests everything, leaving nothing to sour and upset you. There never was anything so safely quick, so certainly effective. No difference hcs badly your stomach is disordered yor will get happy relief in five minutes. but what pleases you most is that it strengthens and regulates your stom- ach so you can eat your fayorite foods without fear.
 You feel different as soon as Tapes Diapepsin" comes in contact with the stomach-distress just vanishes-your stomach gets sweet, no gases, no belch- ing, no eructatioEs of undigested food.
 Co now, make the best investment you ever made by getting large fifty cent case of Pape's Diapepsin from any store. You realize in five minutes how needless it is to suffer from indiges- tion. dyspepsia or bad stomach. Adv.
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said 70 be our greatest American fail ing in dietetics.
 Water should not be iced. but cool enough to be palatable, either sum- mer or winter. and the amount each individual should take depends large ly on the food eaten. Ii one eats large ly of fruit. less water is needed, and if one drinks much milk. less is required. but even the very young baby should be given frequent drinks of cold water.
 As children must suffer with their teeth, when the little gums are in famed and swollen. a drink of cool water will give much relief.
 The acids in fruits play an impor- tant office in destroying those germs which create gases and cause autoin- toxication. Fruit juices act on the kidneys and Quench thirst At the same time they are a natural laXa- tive.
 ter than medicine. and should be eat en many times day. ScraPed apple may be given to young children.
 The reason that fruit is pest eaten either early or late in the day is that the stomach is empty and thus the digestive juices have free access to the fruit juices, stimulating them to action
 To keep in good condition, drink freely of water before retiring. as this fiushes the system. The first thing in the morning rinse the stomach with a good tonic of cold fresh water half hour at least before eating.
 Though fruit contains little nutri- ton, 1t has a large amount of eel lulose which adds bulk to the food and stimulates the activity of the juices on the digestive tract, thus aiding di- gestion.
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MEAT CLOGS KIDNEYS
 THEN YOUR BACK HURTS
Take Glass of Salts to Flush Kid neys If Bladder Bothers You
 Drink Lots of Water.

No man or woman who eats meat regularly can make mistake by flush ing the kidneys occasionally, says well-known authority. Meat forms uric acid which excites the kidneys, they become overworked from the strain, get sluggish and fail to filter the waste and poisons from the blood, then we get sick. Nearly all rheu- matism, headaches, liver trouble, uer- vousness. dizziness, sleeplessness and urinary disorders come from sluggish kidneys.
 The moment you feel a dull ache in the kidneys or your back hurts or if the urine Is cloudy, offensive, full Of sediment, irregular of passage or at tended by sensation Of scalding, stop eating meat and get about four ounces of lad Salts from any pharmacy; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast and in a few days your kidneys will act fine. This fla nous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate the kidneys, also to neutralize tho acids in urine so it no longer causes irrita- ton, thus ending bladder weakness.
 lad Salts is inexpensive and cannot injure; makes a delightful efferves- cent Whitewater drink which everyone should take now and then to keep the kidneys clean and active and the blood pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney complications.-Adv.
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ECONOMICAL USE OF WATER
Dry Farmer Should Carefully Select Drou9ht-Resistsnt Plants for For
 age and Grain Crops.

To use as economically as possible the water stored in soils one must needs make up list of crops from those known to be drought-resistant. Among those plants of known ability to resist drought to great degree are alfalfa. kaoliang. milo. sudan grass and other grain sorghums, common sorghum to a lesser degree, and corn, though heavy feeder on soil moist ure, is yet able to live through all but extreme conditions of drought be- cause of the fact that it is inter titled.
 Some of the varieties of the small grains are notably superior as drought resisters. such as Gatami and Swan Neck barley and Kubanka wheat From the list of drought-resisting for age and feed and grain crops the dry farmer will do we'll to select carefully and wisely. The experimental data on this point is readily available
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. O)lpGIha0d]o R[ll{Sglrllllalt(lQ[n
TAKES NERVE TO THIN FRUIT
Practice Has Become Quite Popular With Some Orehardists-Expens
 of Time Is Small Item.
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 One of the most noted peach grow. CTS in this country tells how his neigh bors wondered when tAey saw him picking on the major portion of his first peach crop.
 They shook their heads and won dered at the absurd proceeding Of the man who had peculiar views about peach growing. But that season when his peaches proved bumper crop they changed their minds. Since that time the thinning of peaches has been popu- lar with the more progressive neigh bors.
 The thinning of peaches or any fruit must be conducted with iudg- ment. It is not by any means advis- able to thin every tree regardless of how much fruit it carries. Some trees set so little frui; that all can be ripened without overtaXing the tree or without producing undersized fruit
 Some charge up the cost of thinning as an extra expense on the orchard But anyone who has gathered fruit knows that fruit gathering is a slow task, especially with fruit that has to be handled as carefully as does the peach.
 The picking of the small green peaches at thinning time removes the necessity of picking of maGy of these same peaches later on.
 When they are thinned they are sim. ply pinchei of and allowed to fall on the ground, while later if allowed to ripen they must be put carefully in baskets.
 The expense of time in pinching of a small fruit is only a fraction of that required in gathering the same peach when it is ripe enough to market
 Of course. there is an offset in the fact that some of the young peaches would be switched of by the wind later, but in the main it may be stated that no more labor is required to thin peaches and gather the remainder when ripe than to gather the harvest that results without thinning.
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HAUL MANURE FOR
 VEGETABLE GARDEN
Fertilizer Should Be Piled During Winter So It Will Be Ready
 for Spring.

Manure should be hauled and piled during winteI so it can rot and be in good condition 10 spread broadcast or in the drills for the early vegetables. Two leads of coarse. strawy manure, when rotted, will make one load of rotted manure
 If manure is ts be broadcasted it will take fully twenty loads of coarse manure when rotted to cover one acre.
 Truckers and farm gardeners spread the manure in the drill or put it in the hill. When used this way six two horse carloads of rotted manure will be enough for one acre.
 Owing to the scarcity of manure in the city, rye and sand yetch. cow peas and buckwheat are largely sown for green manure. These crops are plowed down when in bloom, ground rolled after blowing and the top sur. face kept mellow with the slanting. tooth harrow.
 Animal bone fertilizers drilled in at the rate of 800 to 1000 pounds to the acre in connection with a green ma nure crop piowed down will bring as good a crop of roots. tomatoes. cab bage. or sweet corn as a heavy dress ing of stable manure. This method of fertilizing land is found to give very satisfactory returns; there are few weeds and if the green mass is plowed under several weeks before the vegetable crop is planted so as to be well rotted, there will be a mellow seed bed. well filled with humus. capable of holding the rainfall needed for plant growth.
 The manure for vegetables should be made up in compact heaps. the horse manure should be covered with a load of cattle manure and each lead given a half bushel of plaster. Make large. compact heaps close to where it is to be used. This saves extra work in the busy season If the hear is covered with a six-inch layer there will be no loss of ammonia. as the earth will absorb it
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rinse !n cold water. drain the liquid from the oysters and strain it, adding tt to the oysters. Make a ricn white sauce of three tablespoonfuls each of flour and butter cooked together when the butter is bubbling hot, then add one and half cupfuls of rich milk. a half teaspOOnful of salt and a few dashes of celery salt and red pepper. Cook pint of oysters in boiling wa ter and the liquor until plump and the edges curl. pour into the white sauce and serve hot with buttered toast
 Fish Hash.-Take equal parts of cold fiaked fish and cold boiled potatoes, chopped fine. Season with salt and pepper. Put butter in a saucepan, and when melted add the fish and pota, toes. stir until well warmed. then let brown underneath Turn as an ome- let
 Apple and Banana SaIad-ScooE out two apple balls from peeled ap. pies, using a French vegetable cutter, and prepare banana balls in the same wiy cover both with generous sprinkling of lemon juice to keep them from discoloring. and serve on lettuce leaves with French dressing.
 Asparagus Salad.-Place a cupful of canned asparagus tips on lettuce leaves. Cover with thin slices of red and green peppers and serve with well chilled French dressing
 Macaroons.-Beat the whites Of four eggs until stiff. add a cupful of sugar, one cupful of cocoanut and one of nut meats, then three cupfuls of corn flakes, stir until well mixed and drop by spoonfuls on a buttered sheet. Bake in a moderate oven.
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in good condition on less feed than one of the opposite type.
 The average brood mare on the farm will do better and raise better, healthier colt if worked moderately nearly up 10 .he time of foaling than if pampered and kept in idleness.
 Start 10 educate the colt while he is quite young. Give him a little of his way. but little more Of yours, gradually bringing him to your way Of thinking.
 Sundays and holidays or days when horses are standing in the stable. the grain ration should be reduced one half.
 Gentle colts mean easily handled valuable horses.
 Using the whip only puts more fear into a skittish horse
 A kicky horse is q bother and a hui sance. besides being a constant danger to every member of the farm family.
 You may just depend upon it that the colt will not possess any mora virility than his sire-and he may not possess even that amount.
 The quickest and most effective way for you to learn the difference between scrub and well-bred horse is to offer one Of each kind for sale on the market
 If you do not speak to the horse every time you pass behind his heels you may wake up some morning with skinned head or broken bone When a horse hears a racket behind him, sometimes he does not wait to see what it is, but whacks away at 1t with both feet.
 The farmer cannot well keep the work horses in poor condition through the whole winter. then shape them up and go right into the heavy field work next spring with them looking well and ready 10 do maximum work.
 Keep the horses in prime condition during the entire winter. It will not only mean saving of feed. but it will insure the animals being ready 10 go right to work when needed
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Of soda, and when it is dissolved beat in one or two cups of flour. enough to make thin batter. add salt and pour over the apples. Bake until brown Ii the apples are not tart enough add a squeeze of lemon juice and serve with sugar and cream or with a hard sauce
 Apple and AImonds.-Core then pare nice, well-favored apples. which will cook well without losing their shape. Cook in a thin sirup until nearly tender and fill with almonds which have been blanched and cut in quarters. Put the almonds sharp end first into the apples until they look like little poTcupines. Dust with pow dered sugar and place them in the sirup in baking pan in the oven to brown. When the almonds are brown and the apples we'll cooked remove. cool and serve with whipped cream and sugar. The attractiveness Of this method must be tried to be appreci- ated.
 Apple GeIatin.-Pare, core and quar- l'T SiA tart dpplts. duu lUt AellOW Eilu of half lemon, cover with a pint of cider, boil and press through a sieve. Cover a half-boX of gelatin with half Slpful of cold water and when soft ened add the juice of one lemon and mix all together. When nodded serve with cider sauce or cream and sugar. Grape juice may be used in place of cider when it is not obtain able or any canned fruit juice may be used.
 Apple Filling for cake.-Grate one or two good, juicy. well-fiavored ap- ples, add a cupful of sugar and the whites of one or two eggs, depending upon the amount of apple pulp. Beat Intil light and firm, then put between layers of cake and on top. This filling may be favored with a drop of almond and two or three of lemon extract. Cake filled with this mixture keeps moist for days and is good to the last piece.
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PRESERVATION OF
 POULTRY DROPPINGS
Farmer Can Materially Add to His Earnings by Caring
 for Hen Manure.

\ recent bulletin of the Maine az ricultural experiment station shows that the poultry man or farmer can materially add to the profits of his business by properly caring for the droppings of his fowls. For example, it is shown that the droppings from 1000 fowls, if preserved without need less loss. are worth at least $500 per annum, and this estimate is based OH the assumption that less than half of the droppings, or only 90 pounds per hen per year, can be collected.
 According to the Maine station. the droppings should be collected daily and mixed with substances which will CD prevent loss of nitrogen, @ add sufficient potash and phosphoric acid to make better balanced fertilizer, and (3D to improve the mechanical condition of the manure so that it can he applied to the land with manure spreader.
 This can be done as follows: To each % pounds of the manure add 10 pounds of sawdust. good dried loan, or peat, 16 pounds Of acid phosphate and pounds of kainit. Such a mixture will contain about l.25 per cent of nitrogen, 45 per cent Of phos phoric acid and 2 per cent of potash, which, used at the rate of two tons per acre would furnish 50 pounds of nitrogen. 1S5 pounds of phosphorS acid and so pounds of potash, and at the present price of fertilizing ingredi- ents is worth about s10 per ton. The mixture would furnish well-balanced stable fertilizer. which. although not fine enough to work well in drills. can he successfully applied with a manure spreader. The treated manure should he well sheltered until time to apply ,o the land-that is. shortly before blowing
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ignorance Was Bliss.

A raid had been made on a negro gambling house and a dozen inmates arrested. In police court the next morning each of the accused was heard in turn. The last in the row was a large, scared-looking negro.
 Well" asked the judge. what do you know about this case?"
 Who? Me?" asked the negro
 Yes, yOu.'
 Well, l just tell yo' All I knows about dis case is dat I was dart"- Green Bag.
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Heavy farm horses help to solve the labor problem.
 Promiscuous experimental breeding has been the baue of the horse-hreed- Ing business.
 A weli-conditiOned draft colt with is early education largely completed. .s one of the most valuable finished products of the farm. The farm mare fills a most impor. gant place in production.
 Oats and bran in equal bulk. with one-fourth corn added, make a good ration for a mare giving milk.
 Foal shows should be made a great gactor in encouraging the improvement of farm work horses.
 As long as inferior horses are so nigh in price there is no inducemeut sor the penurious breeder to patronize she grade stallion.
 If breeder desires to maintain size n his horses he must feed them liber- ally.
 Growing good horses to sell among she better class of farmers is the saf- est pranch or the business for most farmers to practice
 Grooming instills yisor into the horse, and the removal of dirt and the stimulation of the skin go far toward preventiDI, harness sores.
 Soundness should be the basis in the selection of a draft stallion.
 t takes two or more crops of colts fo establish a stallion in any locality
 The man who uses draft mares to perform his farm work cannot afford to put them in the hands of an incom- petent hired man.
 Many men have obtained profits from moderate beginning iu breed ing draft horses.
 The deceit and trickery practiced by slick salesTnen in selling draft stall iions on the company plan has done great injury to the cause of horse breeding in many sections.
 A horse with a good disposition, built on good, clean legs, with ample depth of chest and middle, will keep
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PRUNING FOR PEAR BLIGHT
Diseased Wood-Do the Work While Trees Are Dormant.

To control pear blight cut out and burn every particle of blighted wood while the trees are dormant. Do the work thoroughly. A few branches overlooked Inay cause all the trouble again Text year The work may be done any time during winter or spring up to the time growth begins, bIt the best time is in fall while the foliage is stil on the trees and the contrast strongest between blighted and healtl.y branches.
 Make | weekly inspection of each
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Cream of Eeets.-To q

quart Of milk add one onion, a sprig Of celery Iboth cut up). and heat strain over two tables poonfuls each of flour and butter which has been cooked together Cook until smooth. Beat until thick and add one cupful of cooked beets cut in small cubes.
 Celery mixed with potato when creaming potato adds to the dish Both should be cooked until tender.
 Chocolate Nut Cake-Soften a half cupful of butter, add two cupfuls of sugar. yolks of four eggs. one cupful of milk alternately with IS cupfuls of flour that has been sifted with four teaspoOnfuls of baking powder. Fold in the whites Of the eggs and add two squares of melted chocolate and a half teaspoonful of vanilla.
 Frostins.-Take two cupfuls of su- gar. one-half cupful of water, cook until it threads, pour over beaten whites Of two eggs, add a fourth of a teaspoonful of cream of tartar and nine marshmallows.
 Rhubarb shorteake-Chop fine one cupful Of mixed dates and raisins. Add to two cupfuls of rich, thick stewed rhubarb cook five minutes. Split shortcake and spread generously with butter, then cover with the rhubarb mixture. Cover with whipped cream.
 Lettuce. Pepper and Egg Salad Wash the tender leaves of lettuce and arrange on fiat dish; chop fine two green peppers and sprinkle over this. then add two hard cooked eggs. also chopped, cover with French dressing and serve well chilleJ
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Here's the Worst SpeiIer.

One Of the dealers in honey at the Portland tOre.) public market is en- titled to the championship booby prize of the world in spelling. Here are re. productions of placards which the mer- chant has tackled up before his prod ucts:
 'The Bees sukk thiss of hunny with tLair bills rite outt off swete cloovr blossumms inn Eastern Or gon."
 "Puure Hunny. Stikk a teeth pikk rite inn an hilp yureself, kno exxtra charges if yue bic jarr"
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Why Cover Crop Is Bad

Grass has no place in a western or chard whether the trees be large or small. The destruction of prairie or chards is lack of moisture and any crop grown in the orchard that takes up moisture. especially in late sum- mer, is hastening the day when the trees will begin to die. If crops must be grown in the orchard let them be cultivated crops which are to be re- moved early
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Light household duties. ever nore in- wrought With placid fauCies of one trusting heart That hves but in her smile. anA turns From life's cold seeming and the busy mart With tenderness. that heavenwdrd ever yearns To be refreshed where one pur> altar burns. shut out from hence the mockery of life: Thus EVeti she content. the meek, the fond trusting wife.
 Elizabeth O. Smith.
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A Natural Fear.

Old Hound-Come, come. What are you shivering about?
 The Pup-Why, l just heard the master say he'd have to put me through the mill.
 Old Hound-Yes: he's going to train you for the hunting
 The Pup-Oh. I thought he meant the sausage mill - Pittsburgh Dis patch