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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-18

ing opinion seems to be that at first it will not be a very popular loan We arc not accustomed to investments of this kind What is meant by this statement is that it is not likely that any rush to subscribe to the loan will be made by the people or that there is any likelihood that it will be oversubscribed-that is, more offerings made for the loan than the ag- gregate amount of 1t. Very likely the American bankers. acting in cooperation, may find it necessary to carry a consid- erable part of the loan for sometime But if the interest rates are what the Amer ican bankers believe they will be, then it should be a reasonable investment for the bankers.
 Of the ability of the American people or the American banks to handle this propo- sition there is not any doubt All seor tions of the country may not take pro- portionate part in the transaction, but ali sections will take some part, if the opinion of the financial leaders be correct. This is more likely to be in view of the fac. that it is the understanding that the funds which will be obtained by this trans action are not to be employed in pur- chasing munitions of war.
 The impression grows that England and France will make use of gold for this pur- pose. But the funds or the credit are to be employed in buying wheat, cotton and
 
 opinion in the financial district that if those who are in sympathy with Germany are convinced that the purchases of mu- nitions of war will be paid for by exports of gold from England and France. while the funds or credit which will be created by means of the negotiations now in pro- gress are to be practically exclusively used in paying for farm products or for manufactured articles that are not all warlike, then the objections on the part of the friends of Germany to perfecting a transaction of this kind vii be without reason. For, as MT. Hill intimated and others have said, unless European coun- tries can obtain the funds in the United States with which to pay the farmers for wheat and other food products, then the farmers may well dump one-quarter of the entire wheat production of this year, or 0.00o000 bushels of wheat, inso the great lakes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-18
EMPHASIZING FACT THAT B|G LOAN IS HELP PAY FARMERS Gold to be Used Chiefly in Paying for Other Muni-
 tions of War HILL DOES SERVICE
 BY HIS INTERVIEWS Japan Floated Similar Loan During War With Russia and Used the Money to Meet Her Obliga-
 tions Here
By HOLLAND

New York, September 17.-(Special)-A
 remark was made this morning by the
 president of one of the larger New York banks which very likely reflects an opinion commonly held by those who are sharing
 in the negotiations between the Anglo
 French commissioners and the bankers
 of the United States. The bank president
 said that James J. Hill in the interview with him that was reported by the Wal. Street Journal, had done a great service, and chiefly to Americans who have sold or who are about to sell foodstuffs and other commodities, not warlike, to the allies For MT. Hill made it clear that the chief benefciaries of credit or loan in favor of England and France are to be American exporters not of war muni- tions. but of food products.
 This is fact reports from other parts of the country that have been received in this city intimate, with which many of the people are unfamiliar. Some of the reports received in this city hint that the people. and particularly those who are of foreign birth or of immediate foreign de- scent, are of the opinion that Great Britain and France want to borrow large Ol nOney, HuHuTeuS LII iiiiliioiiS, with intent to take as much as possible of it out of the country, and also to use Ia considerable portion of 1t in paying for munitions for war bought in the United States But when, after reading Mir Hills statement, the people, and especially the farmers, realize that much the greater )part of the funds which will be created Through the negotiations between Amer ican bankers and European representa- tives will be used in paying for American peaceful commodities. much the greater lpart of them agricultural, then in all prob la ability serious objection on the part of 1.-the people to a loan or credit will be tended.
 One banker pointed out this morning |that the proposition now under consider |ation does not differ fundamentally from |the one which American bankers had |under consideration when Japan sought Ito obtain a large loan in the United |States. The government of Japan ap-
 preached American bankers at the time of the war between Japan and Russia for the purpose of securing in the United
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-18
GREENVILLE

Greenville. September 17.-(Special. )-The First District Sunday School convention will meet Sunday September 19, at Spring Hill.
 This Is the first convention held since the Butler County Baptist Sunday Schoo convention was organiz2d.
 Joseph Jernigan, president of the dis trict, is expecting a very large delega- tion from the 10 Sunday schools that com pose the district.
 A splendid programme has been ar ranged, and some of the countys best Sunday school workers will address the convention.
 Many of the schools of the county have opened, and within few weeks all of the schools will be al work During the summer months many of the rural schools have been improved and facilities for teaching have been greatly betteCed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-18
SYLACAUGA

Sylacauga, September 17-(Special )-The eighty-second annual meeting of the Coosa River Baptist association was held with Mt sharon Baptist church. near Fayetteville. this week. Nearly every church in the association was represented either by letter or messengers. Good financial reports were shown. The follow ing officers were elected for the year: J. w. Langley. Sylacauga, moderator: J. w. Batson, Sylacauga. clerk; J. F. Pope, Wisonville, treasurer. The next meeting will be held at Alpine In 1916.
 The Talladega County Fair association has begun to arrange for the holding of the county fair at Sylacauga, which be- gins October 10. This promises to be the best in the history of the organization should conditions continue favorable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-18
Murphy Given Ten Years

Decatur, September 17.-(Special Late this afternoon jury in the law and equity court granted a verdict oi murder in the second degree against Jim Murphy. fixing his punishment at 10 years in state penitentiary. Two years ago in dispute over some cat tie Murphy shot A.lA. Skidmore, death resulting from the wound a few weeks later. Murphy is a well known young planter and comes from an old Nor gan county family. Skidmore was also a well known farmer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-18

publication of the Rotary Club: Philip | Melody Memoli, Sousa of the South, was born under the sunny skies of Italy. He early gave promise of exceptional musical ability. He began the study of music at the age of 9 and a s a young man con- posed several creditable works for chorus and orchestra
 This precocious follower of Orpheus came to America and to Birmingham with his parents when he was 13 He continued the study of music under the best teach CTS to be found. In 1909 he returned to Naples and completed the stringent re- quirements of the theoretical course at the Royal conservatory, receiving his de- gree from that famous institution.
 Phil Memoli is director of theory and instrumentation at the Southern School of Musical Art and holds a like position at Howard college. He is teacher of or chestral instruments at the High school "As a composer MT. Memoli has a na- tional reputation. He devotes his leisure moments to the composition of special church music, marches, etc. The fact that nearly all his compositions are eagerly sought and published attests to their high merit. One of his latest achievements was the writing of re Deum which was produced at the Church of the Advent last Easter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-18

The Alabama State Fair, an institution or and for Birmingham and the state of Alabama, has secured Philip Memoli and his band of 35 pieces to provide contin. uous band concerts during the fai. Oc- tober to 16. President R. A. Brown has been congratulated upon his action in this matter In securing Birmingham direc- tor with band composed largely of Birmingham musicians for this most i'm portant part of the fair entertainment. The reputation of MT. Memoli, known as
 The Sousa of the South" assures visit ors to the fair of plenty of music of the variety that will appeal to them, rendered by an exceptionally capable band.
 MT. Memoli is already at work upon his programme for the 10 days and nights Of the fair, and he expects his concerts to surpass any ever given by him be- fore. A number of exceptionally able musicians have been added to the band and his programme will include selections from the most difficult operas to the lighter and more popular compositions
 The following concerning Mr Memoli and his band is from 'Rotarygrams,' the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-18

States large loan, based upon an issue was that much the greater part of this money would remain in the United States for representatives of Japan to draw against for the purpose of paying for food, hay and other agricultural prod ucts which Japan wanted to buy in the United States. Our people lent the money to Japan upon the best of security, for the credit of Japan was very high. and with the money thus borrowed Japan paid for all of her purchases in the United States.
 Confession and Secrecy
 Attention has for day or two been called to the fact that the Anglo French commissioners and the financiers of the United States are not disposed to maintain secrecy with respect to the fundamental purpose of these negotiations. Lord Reading, who appears to have been made the spokesman for the commission of which he is member. has been frank to say that the sole purpose behind these negotiations is the perfecting of ways and means by which the demoralizaton in foreign exchange can be corrected.
 It must be corrected if the Americans are to be able to export their great sur plus of foodstuffs. It must be protected If England and France, both anxious to buy these foodstuffs, are to be in a posi- tion to secure them. This is a frank ad- mission that credit or loan negotiations are undertaken for the purpose of stabiliz- ing the foreign exchange market and that this must be accomplished if Ameri- can farmers are to be aided in exporting and marketing their products, and if England and France are to be aided in buying these products.
 With a good understanding of what the fundamental purpose which is behind the meeting of the commissioners from Eng land and France and American bankers really is then it is made clear that the only questions are. as one banker said this morning, technical and banking ques- tions. These relate to the particular form the loan will take the time which it will have to run and the interest which is to be paid for this accommodat ation, and of course while under consideration, secrecy must be ma aintained
 There appears to be two views, one a majority and the other that of small minority. respecting the ability of the ba nkers who underwrite this loan or credit, if any be made, to persuade the people to absorb the evidences of the loan in the form of negotiable paper which England and France will give. Prevail
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-18
Engineering Conventions

San Francisco. September 17.-Six ma. tional engineering associations and so- cieties opened their conventions here today. Prof. Charles B. Marx of Stan ford university, president of the Amer ican Society of Civil Engineers, de- livered the annual address of the forty-seventh convention of that body The American Institute of Mining En- ginners began sessions with a series of technical papers and several sub- sidiary societies also convened.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-18

Inauguratng a rail and water route be- tween Dothan and New Orleans, the steamship Brunswick of the Mallory line sailed for Panama City from New Or leans today with a cargo, which included
 1900 bales of cotton shipped from Do than For the present there will be only one trip a week, the Brunswick making
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-18
LOTHIAN

Seventy-five Thousand to be spent on Good Roads-New Rail and Water Route to New Orleans Means Great Things for DOthan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-18

Dothan, September 17-(Special.)-S enty-five thousand dollars will be expend- ed by Houston county's board of reve- nue In completing present trunk lines of good roads. in building additional trunk lines and constructing short lines into other sections of the county. The pres- ent road building outfit of the county will be doubled in men and equipment and put to work repairing and completing present trunk lines and building the short lines. The proposed new trunk lines will be built by contract. several well-known road contractors having come to Dothan to figure on the work.
 Funds for this work will be raised by issuing interest-bearing warrants instead of bonds and the work will be com menced as soon as arrangements for mar keting the warrants can be completed Houston countys new board of revenue which is a. consolidation of the old high way commission and the board of county commissioners. has adopted a comprehen- sive system of good roads for the county which will be built as rapidly as pos sible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-18

ROTOGRAVURE! ROTOGRAVUIlE! PHOTOGRAPHERS!
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-23
METHOD OF TICKLING ONIONS
Writer Makes Some Suggestions Which Seem to Be Worthy of
 Consideration.

Feeling the onions is decidedly pain ful task. but it Is made less so if they are done in cold water Some people even put them in boiling water and allow them to come to the boil before peeling them. I prefer the former plan. With small silver pickling onions to each quart of vinegar allow two tablespoonfuls of black peppercorns, two teaspoonfuls of allspice, two level teaspoonfuls of salt, two bay leaves Remove the outer skin with a silver knife: if a steel one is used the onions Twill turn black. If liked, peel them in l basin of cold water. for. besides making the operation less painful, it
 elps to whiten them by removing l ome of the essential oil Dry them
 ghtly in a cloth. Put the vinegar
 oices and bay leaves in a saucepan
 bil them until the vinegar is well
 tvored, and let it get cold Put the
 oions in jars or wide-necked bottle,
 fl them up with the vinegar, adding
 little spice to each bottle. Cork
 dWn tightly. They will be ready for
 us tn about a month.-Boston Globe
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-23

other edge of the ribbon and run A gathering thread along it's outer edge. Pull the thread up tightly and fasteu It securely to form the center of the cap crown. Place a little ribbon flow CT here to finish it.
 Cut length of elastic cord just long enough to extend about the head. and run in the casing formed of the lace. Jolnlng the ends. The small ribbon flowers are made of five petals each. either cut from the ribbon and made separately or formed by gathering tbe ribbon to simulate petals. Millinery stamens are used for tie centers.
 A very wide ribbon is used for tba cap at the right. It is shaped to tbe head by means of narrow tucks into which small cords are run. A bow of narrower ribbon trims the front and hanging loops and ends of very narrow ribbon are placed at the Back. all Of the same color as the ca Four buckles, made of tiny chiffon roses in blue, yellow, pink and layen. der or pale green require patient and eHlclent work in making. A frill of cream-colored lace falls under the rih- bon frill about the face.
 JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-23

Ribbons and faces continue to set off the faces of maids and matrons during many hours of the day at home.
 A cap is shown at the left of the picture given here which sells for fifty cents. It may be had in any of the lovely colors into which ribbons are dyed Jonquil yellow, rose color, and blue are great favorites just now. It takes a yard of ribbon about five inches wide to make it, and yard of narrow ribbon, one inch or little less in width, to make the three small ribbon flowers and the short loops that decorate it. A yard of shadow lace edges tho wide ribbon for frill about the cap. This lace is bought in five-inch width and split length wise to form two strips, one three inches wide and one two inches wide. The wider strip is used for the frill about the face. and the narrower is gathered along one edge with plaque to form the center of the crown.
 To make the cap sew the lace edge to the ribbon with two rows of stitching to form casing for an elastic band that is to be run in it. Sew the narrower lace strip to the
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-23
LEGUME TO FERTILIZE SOIL
There |, No Excuse fo' Man Who Gull tivates Poor Land in South-Yields
 Can Be Doubled.

It will pay to grow some legume after oats or wheat, or in the corn, or during the winter between crops of cotton and corn to blow under to fertilize the soil
 It will pay better to feed legumes to good live stock and return the ma nure to the soil than to blow the crops under direct for fertilizer. but on soils that will not now produce a profitable crop it may be the best thing to blow under at least one or two crops. It does not pay to cuiti- vate poor soil, and it only costs the seed and labor of seeding to grow a crop that will more than pay for this cost when plowed under in the in creased yield the first year and then repea. the increase the year follow ing. There is no excuse for the man who cultivates poor soils in the South. He can grow the same one crop a year he is now trying to grow and be- tween these at practically no extra cost grow crop that will quickly double his ds.-Progressive Farm CT,
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-23
A Good silo Adds Beauty to ths Farm Yard.

then both an economic and compact
 method of storing feed
 Much damage has bel done to the cause of silage by u extravagant claims of it's overenthuastic friends.
 Although corn silage is )t a complete
 and balanced ration in self, it is so
 well relished that large uantities are
 consumed. Being a suc,lent feed. 1t tends to heavy milk prluction, and should be given an impoant place in the ration of dairy cGs. It has proved an important fa,or in steer feeding as we'll as in mil production, but steer cannot be finisbd on silage alone, any more than a CIV cat pro- duee her best yields of nlk on such ration. To obtain the mst ecoaomi- cal returns. some dry roug age slould be fed in connection withsilage, and a legume hay, as alfalfa, clover. or cowpeas, is the best for ths purEose. particularly for young stocl and csws. Economical milk can b, prodlced from these feeds without be addition of grain, if the cows are not giving more than two gallons of nilk oy, providing the corn was yell eaed and both the silage and ne legune hay are of excellent qualty. Cows giving a larger yield must lave grain added to their ration.
 A pasture will carry mich moe stock during spring, early summe. and fall, than it will througi the he, dry weather of midsummer By hel- ing the pasture out at this seSon wit partial soiling, the cattle not ,nly hay better feed during this eritiea perioe but more stock can be carred on i; given area than by pasturing alone As land increases in value and farm ing becomes more intensive, there is greater need for soiling, and the most satisfactory method of providing a substitute is by means of the silo It requires too much labor to cut green crops every day and haul them to the cows, and besides there is necessarily great loss in being obliged to feed the crops before they are fully mature and after they are over-ripe.
 No crop furnishes more feed to the acre than corn, and with the silo il can be utilized for soiling, thus per mitting the whole crop to be harvest ed when at the right stage of matur ity and fed when needed, saving both feed and labor.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-23
STIMULATE A SLUGGISH JACK
Veterinarian of Oklahoma Experiment Station Gives Direction for
 Handling Breeding Animal.

A breeder writes to Oklahoma A. and M college that he has jack that is apparently in good health. but re- fuses to work. Dr. w. P. Shuler of the department of veterinary medicine of Oklahoma A. and NJ. college gives the following directions for handling a breeding animal of this kind:
 Provide sufficient vetol tablets for a ten-day course of treatment These tablets contain yohimbine. recently discovered drug having powerful stimulating action on the sexual or gans.
 Secure tablets which contain one grain each of this drug. This is a dose. It should be administered three times daily in the food, or dissolved in a half-pint of water as drench.
 This is a much safer drug to use than cantharides or Spanish fy.' and is surer in action.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-23

CBy ". J. FRASER. Tllinois)
 The digestive organs of animals that chew the cud are so formed as
 to require comparatively juicy and
 bulky food. The COW cannot, there
 fore, thrive on excusiyely dry food
 so well as can the horse The nearest an ideal food that can be obtained for the dairy COW is good pasture; but, in many sections, for more than six months in the year green pasture is not available. The best substitutes to use during this period are corn silage and such roots as mangels and turnips. Corn yields an average of twice as much dry matter per acre as do root crops, and since the latter require much more labor, which in this coun- try is relatively expensive, silage is far more economical.
 Making corn into silage is a means of preserving the grain as well as the stalk in the best possible condition for feeding and without the expense of shelling and grinding. In feeding whole corn, either in the ear or shelled, many of the kernels are not digested. With silage, the grain being eaten with the roughage, nearly all the kernels are broken during mastica- tion, and, since they are somewhat soft. are practically all digested.
 By the use of the sifo the corn Is removed from the field at time when no injury is done the land by cutting it up while soft. As the corn is cut before the blades are dry enough to shatter there is no waste from weathering and both stock and grain being in good condition, the whole crop is consumed by the stock, while with dry shock corn a large of the leaves and butts of the stalk is wasted.
 It has been determined that one cubic foot of hay in the mow contains about 4.3 pounds of dry matter and that a cubic foot of silage in a thirty six foot silo contains about S.9 pounds of dry matter From this it is evi- dent that cubic foot of space in a silo of proper depth will hold more than twice as much dry matter as the space in a now It is also true that on the average a larger amount of digestible feed can be ob- tained from an acre in the form of silage than in any other way at like expense. Making corn into silage is
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-23

The difficult part of making ready the winter wardrobe now, lies in de. eiding upon just what one wants.
 If it is question of the street suit that is to be decided, a safe answer lies in two directions at least. The severely plain tailored suit, with plain skirt, cut shoe-top length and moder- ately wide, or a plaited skirt, may be chosen, to be worn with a semifftted coat having a faring skirt portion, long, plain, rather close-fitting coat sleeves and a finish of bone buttons and inconspicuons stitching. The plain, tailored suit does not come back" each season, for the simple req son that it never goes out. It is al ways with us. With some variation of lines or length or fullness it brings it's own style into line with the pass ing modes.
 Then there are suits on decidedly new lines. Among them those that show the influence of the redngote which has inspired the designers of so many and such varied models. A