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St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1915-10-15

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02
WARTIME IN JERUSALEM

From the Christian Herald.
 The Mohammedan women, as you know. are ignorant and helpless. and absolutely
 dependent upon the men of the family
 So now they sit behind their barred win dows. hungry, and thelr little ones cry
 ing for bread Today poor woman was
 crying aloud in the streets for bread; she
 had not had a mouthful for four days.
 Outside of our window there were hun
 dreds begging for bead at one time.
 As soon as they would see anyone appear
 they would all drop to their knees and lift up their hands in supplication. The locusts. are nowfso thick that they obscure the sun. Soon there will not be a leaf left in the countryl It is now re- ported that they nave destroyed all gar dens and are eating the bark off the fruit trees. The locusts are coming by the millions, and if the fiShi against them is not successful it meaes a dreadful famine in the land. The Turkish soldiers are working for this purpose from Tiberias to Hebron, a distance of 90 miles. This requires much money, both for feeding the men and for the means of exterminat- iag the insects.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02
New High Records Made

"The Standard Portland Cement com pany continues to break records on ship ments from the big plant at Leeds" said J. l. McCants. manager of sales "Eacn month this year has shown an increase over the corresponding period last year or from 25 to 55 per cent. Shipments In June were 50 per cent ahead of last June.
 For the six months ending June 30 ship ments were 35 per cent ahead of any like corresponding period. This is rather remarkable showing considering the fact that there are no large projects under way this season. Practically all of this material is shipped out on miscellaneous orders. As a matter of fact, the south is fast becoming to realize the advantages of permanent construction. Southern farm CTS are using more cement in building silos. dipping vats, fence posts and for farm buildings generally. Large quanti- ties of cement is being used in construc- tiof of concrete highways.
 Our company has recently secured sew eral large contracts, shipments on which have just started. Contracts for 5000 bar rels have been closed for the s2.ooo,00o cot ton warehouse at New Orleans, 10000 bar rels for the new armory building at Jack sonville. Fla. 15,000 barrels for a concrete highway at Nashville. together with sew eral similar contracts in Alabama, Geor- gia, Mississippi and Louisiana. At Bir- mingham the company Is furnishing at present its product for the new refriger- ator plant. which is being constructed by the Herndon- Hettrick Engineering company"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02
THE WATERS OF MEXICO

From the New York Telegram. Mexico is divided hydrographically into three systems: The Atlantic or Gulf of the Photographic entities of the great pla- teau.
 In the first of these is the vast region of the northern part of Mexico, which, with Texas and New Mexico, drains into the Rio Grande and thence into the gulf the long littoral of the gulf coast, whose divorta aquarium, water parting, is the peninsula of Yucatan. l In the second is the vast stretch of the Pacific slope whose divortia aquarium is
 the western Sierra Madre, the peninsula of Lower California and the southern side of the region south of the isthmus of Tehuan- tepec.
 In the third are the intra-montane DOT tions of the great plateau, whose waters have no outlet or natural source of ex- haustion except that by evaporation, such
 as the great plains known as the Bolson of Mapimi and the Valley of Mexico. Geographically, however-apart from
 the three climatic zones of hot, temperate graphically into two portions by the isth-
 mus of Tehuantepec, the former, consist ing of the characteristic mountain chains and great plateau, and the latter of the immense plains of Yucatan, with low elevation of not more than 300 feet above sea level
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02
Plight of Lithuania

While large sums of money and enormous supplies of food have been donated to the Belgians, and substan- tial aid has been given to other suf- ferers Tn the war zone of Europe, Lithuania has been overlooked. This IS due in part to the singular predica- ment in which the Lithuanians find themselves. They are deprived of the aid of Polish and Russian war funds because they are not Slavs and cut off from their Teuton and Baltic neigh bors because they are subjects of Rus sia. The result is that four million inhabitants of this unfortunate coun- try are in Want and without prospects of early relief.
 A Lithuanian who has been work ing among the 54,O00 Lithuanians in Chicago declares that "every nation ality except ours seems to have had its hour of publicity and it's conse- quent balm of American dollars, but to us no attention has been given, be- cause we are so small in numbers and so crowded into back corner, as one might say, of the war zone."
 When chaos rules it is not surpris- ing that the starving Lithuanians, stripped of their possessions by the war, have been neglected. The greater surprise is that so much work has been done in Europe for the allevia- ton of suffering However, Lithuania is entitled to assistance and conditions there seem to justify an active cam paign in America for relief.
 The Lithuanian representative de- cfares that at the beginning of the war all Lithuanians of Lutheran faith were driven from their homes into Siberia, because it was assumed that they would be German sympathizers. He alleges that when the Germans in- vaded the country they quartered their troops on the Lithuanians who had been let unmolested by the Rus sians, or confiscated their goods and allowed them to go as refugees to Vilno where they receive from 21s to cents day to live on. And there is little hope for Lithuania after the war is over, as it is predicted that both Germany and Russia will colonize land taken from the Lithuanians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02
Celebrating Sanely

Speaking of sane celebration of the Fourth of July, Clay Center, Kan, is planning celebration which promises to be safe, sane and highly satisfac- tory.
 Clay Center is about to pay off the last installment on $25, 1000 cleo tric light bonds, and it is planned that the city shall have a municipal bonfire at which the cancelled bonds will be burned in sight of the whole population of Clay Center.
 This is a fitting event to be cele- brated on the birth anniversary of the country. The successful discharging of municipal obligation is in keeping with the principles the republic was founded upon, and there is quite as much patriotism in paying taxes in time of peace as in defending the country in time of war.
 If the money spent in purchase of fireworks were to be devoted to pay ing up delinquent taxes, many . city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02
ALABAMA PRESS

Guntersville Democrat: It appears tlia. Slackman of The Age Herald is worrying over the same problem that has kept 's thinking His Mondays cartoon shows the average citizen trying to harmonize the scarcity of money with the enormous balance of trade in our favor. Like the average citizen. we are still guessing.
 Sylacauga Advance: The fact that the farmers of this district are taking great interest in the digging of dipping vat5 for the cattle infested with ticks is | good sign that they are fast turning their attention to live stock raising.
 Greenville Advocate: Home grown watermelons by the wagon load were on the streets several days of the past week, and from this time on both watermelons and cantaloupes will be had at a price that will be in the reach of lovers of the luscious fruits.
 Montgomery Daily Times: Governor Henderson while in Atlanta talked en- Enthusiastically of Alabama good roads. He has been a constant friend of good roads and seems to know their true value.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02
Russian Defeats overe.tImated

"The stand the Russians are now making along the lines where General Dankl and General Auffenburg were fall may mean much" said G. R. Eel ton
 Tn estimating the effect of the Aus tro- German drive through Galicia it should be remembered that while the Slavs have been driven back the army of Grand Duke Nicholas Is still intact and still formidable.
 Tt should be remembered that the Austrians were drawn on from their base by a seemingly defeated Russian army last fall and at the same line cn which the Russians are making their present stand were cut to pieces. Should Grand Duke Nicholas achieve a second triumph of the kind it would go far toward ending the war
 Those German sympathizers who regard Russia as wholly crushed and out of the struggle will find them selves vastly and disagreebly sur prised as July turns into August. The residence of Russia in the present war has amazed the world and while the Galician army has been badly mauled it has inflicted as severe punishment as 1t suffered.
 "It may or may not be significant that the Russian reverses came on the heels of an announcement of the at tempted assassination of Grand Duke Nicholas and the retirement of Ruszky on account of health"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02
THE HANDS OF THE CLOCK

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 The hour hand of the clocks seems ponderous, deliberate fellow compared with his swift going colleague who sweeps clear round the circuit while he makes hs way painfully over five of the minute spaces from one hour point to the next. Yet though one goes ever so much farther and faster, again and again the the minute hand, for all his speed, is merely overtaking the patient plodder who, with his stubby finger, is the real time giver You cannot tell from this gyrating minute-man alone what time it is. But from the position of the hour hand in solitude you would very nearly know. Moreover. except. tor two times in the whole round of the 24 hours--;at noon and at midnight-the minute hand, though he races all the way round the or bit, finds to his dismay that ne starts in creasingly in arrears behind the otler hand, and must overcome an always lengthening handicap. And what is the use of proudly passing and getting to the goal first, 22 times out of the "A. when the victory is only apparent and not real. since both hands tell the same time after all? And the minute hand the racer, is the useless one. Just so one sees strong. silent men who plod their way, undramatic, serious, while others brandish and flourish like nervous senlaphores all round them. The V orld is depending on those who seem mo pain fu inch to gain" The useful ones are apparently making no headway at all. The brilliant and superficial run after, overtake and outstrip them easily, again and again. It is the old fable Of the hare and the tortoise repeated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02
Business Courtesy

Many fling has been cast at the manners of Americans by nationalities that pride themselves upon their suavity.
 There may occasionally be some grounds for this criticism, for the people of the United States have never stood in awe of royalty or ancient traditions. Also they are possessed of a sense of humor, which although warm and wholesome, may sometimes betray them into lese majeste.
 But, according to Dr. Henry J. Wa ters of the Kansas State Agricultural college, ill manners of Americans are scastipg them much in trade in the orientvi>g. Waters says:
 "In the far east the least cultured and rudest person to be found is the American. The natives, courteous to an astonishing degree, are offended by the brusqueness of the American.
  We would do we'll to cultivate cour- tesy."
 The American may not talk like an oriental book of etiquette and he may not adopt the lingo of the far east, somewhat to this effect:
 While have the great honor of ad- dressing my humble salf (deep bowl to you, most honorable sir (another bowl, may I beg that you will give your distinguished attention to the Miserable wares which have un- VorthiIy brought into this beautiful d to sell?" (more bows, etc.)
 11y one could not imagine virile
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02
THE WISDOM OF ANIMALS

trying to hold down high grade job. This by no means complex problem
 proved too much for his mentality.
 A second test provided a long. light lever with the food at one end, too far.
 off to be reached, but the nearer end
 within range. Here again the creatures
 promptly met the test, all except one of the three who had had trouble with the other problem.
 Still a third test involved bit of food yard off from the cage tied to one end of a string. while the other end was within easy reach. Here again, this
 time unanimously, the monkeys acted
 precisely as men would have done. Their grasp of the situation was instantane- ous. Thereupon the same tests were ap. piled to dogs, modified only by meat for banana and by bringing sticks and cords inside the cage where the dog could take hold with his teeth Not one dog got near his solution! They ran around the cage, parked and whned and paved, and bit the bars.
 But not one. even after six separate trials. lasting minute each had head enough to act as all the monkeys had
 done. Not onefshoMed the least idea of what the situation called for.
 group of cats, tried in the same way failed exactly like the dogs. In
 six trials, of two minutes each. not one
 bit into either the problem to be solved
 nor the reward of its solution.
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 and monkey are about equally clever in thinking of the if at first you don't sue. ceed, try, try again level, when it
 comes to the higher level of think ii out in advance and get it right the
 iirst time, the two four- footed beasts are quite outclassed by the four r-hand ed one The stupidist of the monkeys
 did vastly better than any cat or dog. On the whole, then, all this testing goes to- show that the monkey if not more intelligent than other beasts, has at least intelligence more nearly of the
 human type. He may not think better,
 but he thinks more like man.
 Evidently, however, none of the creatures reasoned. A man in like sit
 nation would certainly not have req
 soned- He would simply have reached out his hand and grabbed. Naturally a
 monkey will not be more reasonable
 than human.
 If the monkeys did not. then the dogs and cats could not. The animal that
 cannot see the connection between
 cord under his nose and chunk of
 meat tied to its other end certainly cannot see the connection between
 ideas. The monkeys took the first step toward reasoning when they picked out m advance without trying. the one
 essential point in situation. But the other animals failed to take even this short first step.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02
IN THE TRENCHES

By Frank Stevens. There are graves that are dug for living
 men,
 Graves into which the corpses walk, And there. until hell be loosed again,
 The unburjed dead lounge round and
 talk. A little of time to eat and drink,
 Of the little of time before they die, A little to yawn and smoke and think, And the rest Of the time to wonder why. Why were they brought from the open
 fields,
 Wide sea border and hillside high, From all the life that the broad earth
 yields,
 Just to be trapped in a ditch to die? A little of time for sickening fear, Of the little that swiftly passes by, little to boast or curse or jeer, And the rest of the time to wonder why A flash of flame in the deathly mist, Where those others watch from their narrow tomb, And murder and hate have met and
 kissed. As the little guns bark and the big guna boom. A little of pang and mortal pain, "A little writhing-and still they lie-- And those who are praying at homo iu vain
 AFe left to themselves to wonder why.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02

American business man performing like this. Yet business men demand utmost courtesy toward patrons here from their employees, and it is hardly probable they would send to foreign countries representative lacking in our idea of this characteristic.
 Maybe the American business man is rude according to some stand ards, but there is undeniably as much or more honest sincerity in his ab- ruptness than in the paiaver of for eigners. And in the truest courtesy helpfulness--he is there with the goods" whenever needed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02

It is reported that Japanese ethnologists
 nave discovered some curious and ancient people in mountain fastnesses of the
 island of Kyushu. They have been called
 the Rip Van Wrinkles of Japan. Another
 similar group has been found in the noun
 tains of Hida province It is believed r..t
 both tribes belong to the Heiki family
 descendants of a Mikado of the ninth
 century, who were very powerful in the
 twelfth century but were defeated in the Japanese War of the Roses" According
 from battle were drowned in flight but i.
 Is now thought that many survived and l settled in remote mountain districts These quaint people live an old-wcrld life, as they must have done centuries ago. They are quite different from ihe
 modern Japanese, both in language and in
 customs. Families often number from 20
 to 30 persons. The head of the family has absolute authority. He is exempted from all manual labor and spends most of his time in receiving visitors and attending to social matters. The heir of the family enjoys all honors, while the other children
 are treated as servants. He is the only
 one permitted to have a legitimate wife. Close intermarriages are common. but family life is said to be of a high order Families live in houses 90 feet long and 50 feet wide, which are like hotels. The clansmen wear strip of bearskin for clothes. They have no lamps A wood fire in the middle of their floors provides illumination at night. Their food consists chiefly of pumpkins, yams and other veg etables.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Returns from st. ro.,.

Thomas I- Cannon of Birmingham has returned from a visit to St. Louis, where he formerly lived
 T found some branches of business Tn St Louis extremely active-notahly She shoe business" said MT Cannon. All the shoe factories are crowded with orders. some of them from Europe. l heard that one concern controlling many factories had recently closed s sS0,o0O,O0O contract. In other lines there was a fair degree of activity in June. The country merchants have bought quite liberally and all in all general trade in St. Louis is in a much more satisfactory condition than it has been for sometime past
 The crop reports from the sections tributary to St. Louis are favorable and the outlook fer fall business is very fright"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02
LIKE M,LuKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer. The trouble with a loser is that he all ways goes and loses more in effort to get even. A fat woman will go hungry in order to lose some of her fat But when fat man learns that he has to go without beer if he wants to lose flesh, he remains fat,
 The easiest way to get a man mad is to tell him that he hasn't any right to get mad
 The reason why mother knows that daughter does not flirt is because mother always firted when she was daughter s age.
 An hour is a whole lot longer to loaf than it is to work Every now and then you meet man who has bad habit of bragging that he hasn't any bad habits. What has become of the old-fa shioned carpet tack that the old-fashioned man who used to walk the old-fashioned baby at night used to step on? One good thing about peace is that it
 gives us time to prepare for war. Any old kind of man will do for a husband. But woman is hard to please
 when she is selecting the wall paper for the house after she is married. The old-fashioned man who spent all his time trying to invent nonrefillable bottle now has q son who spends all his time
 emptying nonrefllable bottle. Once upon time married man offered 1 his wife s10 without even being asked I for it. And. the coroner said that her
 death was caused by some mysterious shock. woman would rather have a man who
 can make love than have a man who can | love.
 The man who doesn't get into the argu-
 ment Is always suspected of knowing gued
 No matter what the loss Hqs, and no matter how much the insurante was no man will ever admit after . fire that his
 loss was fully covered by ingurence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02
Missing the Park Concerts

The people who have enjoyed the park concerts every summer for sew eral years past miss them this sea sen, but 1t is hoped that the city com mission will be able to make such a liberal appropriation to the band fund of the open air music,' said J. H. Hard
 Tn nearly all the large cities the municipal government provides all the money for the band concerts. In Bir- riingham the greater part has been contributed by few corporations and Individuals It should not be many years before the city of Birmingham will be able to foot the entire summer music biIln
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-02
NO DIVISION POSSIBLE

The "hyphenated citizen
 Does not exist at all. But let me just explain myself
 Before you start to call My statement into question, since
 The term Is often used And in a lot of peoples minds
 Is hopelessly confused. The fortune-seeking immigrant
 From Germany or France, Or any other foreign land
 From whence he comes, perchance, Is either an American
 Or what he was before, And men of sense admit 1t when
 They think the matter OCT.