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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17
 VIGOROUS EFFORTS TOCOPE WTHFOOD PRICE SITUATION Federal Government Takes Hand to Remedy Condi- ti0ns-Att0rneys Are
 Probing Case

Washington, January 16.--,rhe United States government today began vigorous efforts to cope with the food price sit uation.
 The department of justice. under i'm structions from President Wilson was seeking to determine whether any illegal examinations are back of the sudden rise in prices and the departments of com merce and agriculture were compiling fig- ures showing the amount of foodstuffs in the Unitcd States and recent increases in prices
 Legislation giving the President power to. stop the exportation of foodstuffs whenever necessary and other bills de- formally at the capitol, but there were no .ndications that anything along this line would be done during the present session of Congress.
 No information leading to the belief that illegal combinations had forced up the price of wheat and flour had yet been received. officials said. but United States district attorneys everywhere are under orders to follow up every clew
 A marked increase in exports of food stuffs recently is shown in commerce de- partment reports. Exports of wheat in- creased from 9.4os,S53 bushels in July. 1913, to 26,357,254 bushels in July, 1914. The total value of all foodstuffs exports during the eight months ending with August, 1912. was $69. .4s7. which figure increa sed to s14S. .957 fin 1913 and dropped to s12s,- 4O1 .070 in 1914
 During September 1913 11.971.1S3 bush- els of foodstuffs were exported and in September. 1914 25,S6s, 100 bushels The price increased materially.
 In November, 1913. wheat valued at s, 4S0.319. was exported and in Novem- her, 1914. $22,s20,097 The total value of foodstuffs exported during the II months ending with November, 1912. was $140,- 53l.790. which increased to $191, ,6O6,s1O in 1913. and to $253,073. A last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17
Many Are Dead and Dying Because Proper Care and Treatment Is Impossible Under Conditions
PITIFUL SCENES ARE
 ENACTED AS VICTIMS
 ARRIVE IN ROME
Children Beside Themselves With Fear-COnditiOns in the Stricken Districts Are Still Dangerous

Rome. January 16.-(1O:2S a. m) pftiful scenes are enacted nt the sta- tions as trsinlosds of injured arrive from the devastated districts of the Abrussi. Children seem beside them selves with terror.
 Advices from Frosinone, 20 miles from Sora, say the walls of the houses are so badly cracked the occupants fear to remain indoors and spend the nights in the open. A general of en- kiBecrs who inspected the town pro- nounced conditions extremely danger ous and ordered that the inmates of . large state prison there he sent to Rome.
 The Messaggero voices complaints be- cause lack of medicine and tents for the survivors in Hamlets in the earthquake zone The paper says that at Magliano Di Marsi, where there are 1900 dead out Of 4225 inhabitan nts, the first succor arrived 4S hours after the disaster. The loca, doctor who escaped was almost distracted because of lack of medicine.
 "It would be better if had died my self the physician exclaimed to a cor respondent. "I cannot bear 1t to see peo- pie expire simply because have no means of he,ring them. My mother and my sis ter died only becarse had no medicine with which to treat them" He added that he had been compelled to carry the bodies of his mother and his sister on his shoulders to cemetery and bury them himself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17
Loveless Marriages Are No Longer Necessary, Says Taft
Former President Addresses Girl Studentsa New YoSays Thousands of Women Have Made the World Pufer
 and Winter and Lived Single Lives

New York, January 16.-Practical training gives girls independence and precludes necessity for loveless mar riags. said William Howard Taft today in an address at the annual meeting of the Hebrew Technical School for Girls.
 According to your report 27oo girls have been graduated from this school. I am glad to see that only 2so got mar ried," said the former President Nov I am not oppossd to matrimony. but I believe thsrs are thousands of wom- on who have made the world swestsr. purer and better and who did not mar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17
THE PROHIBITION SITUATION

statutory passed desk of the governor.
 governor araigning prohibition majority he will leave People through Alabama signing petition urging that body to gnbmtt question prohibition. Representative Merritt prohibition AgeIerald prohibitonis seeking tutonal prohibition legislative constitutional
 
 prohibition the constitution which considered highly significant and important
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17

ry. The trouble is that many women have to marry, not for love but because 1t is a custom. The only way to void that condition is for . girl to beco ns Independent. Then when man who is . scrub asks her to marry she can gay; I can do better as am independent.''' 2
 The speaker expressed disapprovAl Of the literacy test h the immigration btll. wits, and that men who oame horo with that purpose were not dostrahlo addo> tionu to the population. The unlettSRod alien. he stated, usually tried Go g1ve his children an education and tho ehil- dren made loyal citisens of thu 9DUn. try.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17

|If the statement of Mir. Merritt Is true Ind that 1t is no one doubts), is 1t pos |bIe that the state was mistaken when bne weeks ago it reached the conclusion hat statutory prohibition could not be ecured; that there were in reality among
 ke prohibitionists, certain influential con brvatives7
 Opinion Accurate
 Political analysists have reached a con- fusion that at that time, the opinion of he state was accurate. The prohibition It's were in the majority. But the pro tbitionists were willing and anxious to brce statewide prohibition down the hroats of the people were in the minority. leaders in the senate who supported the kgislation presented this week, believed their hearts sometime ago that the purse then contemplated by some was
 hwlse. Thomas E. Kilby. lieutenant
 bvernor. believed that prohibition should E submitted to the people. Senator Lusk | Marshall. according to those who know lm best. once thought that the proposi- lon, for the sake of the proposition,
 nould be submitted to the people. sena- br Lee Of Etowah, one of the sincere tohibitionists of the state. was once of he opinion that it would be the wiser Ian to submit the proposed legislation.
 enator Greene of Morgan Is another who light be mentioned as comprising a part the conservative element among the Fohibit1onists. Another is Senator Bull
 er. And there are others.
 lit is very probable that had these in- |uential gentiemen carried out their own heas, they would have been able to per |1ade others, and achieved the submis-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17

sion. of prohibition to the people of the state.
 Henderson's Action
 Then why. .t will be asked was she plan abandoned? This question has been asked by your correspondent. The reply was that when Governor-elect Henderson issued his card in the interest of the can didacy of Ed Johnston of Madison, who desired to be speaker, ne gave the pow erful prohibition lobbyists an opportunity to weld the prohibition strength into q phalanx determined to go to the end in the struggle for political existence. Pro- hibition leaders knew at that time that no compromise was possible. They real ized that if they granted an inch, the opposition would take an ell For that reason, the animated" conservatives were pushed into line with the radicals. The result was that the combination be- came so powerful that nothing could of fer it even momentary resistence.
 The prohibitionists in the senate who thought in the beginning that prohibit ton should be submitted to the people, were sincere. They had concluded that for the sake of prohibition 1t should be submitted, that were it to be showed down the throats of the people the people would eventually rebel and undo all that at the present moment Is to all practical purposes accomplished. It naturally fol- lows, therefore, that in the opinion of these gentlemen an hnwise-though per haps in their opinion a necessary-course has been pursued. And 1t happens that if the local optionists by insisting that MT. Henderson take a hand in the or ganization of the house, committed tact ieal blunder the prohibitionists are now blunderlng.
 Have Gone Too Far
 There seems to be no doubt but that
 (Continued on Page Ten)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17
Judge Brickell to Preside

Decatur. January 16--(SpociaI.) Judge Robert c. Brickell, recently ap- pointed circuit judge of this judicial circuit to succeed Judge D. W. Speake, deceased. will hold term of the cir cuit court in Decatur the first week in February, this being his firyt rerm of court held in Decatur.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17
EVERYTHING READY
 FOR INAUGURATION
Charles Henderson Takes Oath of Of-
 flee As Governor Monday
By L. 5. DEITY

16(specaEvery arrangement has been made Alabama The with bunting and other dscora decorated enus the "Pennsyvans
  suofco
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17

Montgomery January 16-(Specal -Three weeks prior convenng of the lawmakers the indications that the ohbitonists would be unable during the entire session re the passage of wide prohibition legislation. And yet the conclusion of the first weeks work the state that the desk of the governor reposes the Merritt b hch in another form the Carmichael and the Fuller b otorious in the political history of Alabama
 
  m they of Henry Merritt leader of the pohbonsts stated today bat achieved. a 
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17
Wilson Sends Sympathy

Washington, January 16.-President Will son sent the following message of sym pathy today to King Emmanuel of Italy:
 T am greatly shocked at the news of the terrible calamity which has fallen on Italy and her people. I beg to assure your majesty of my sincere sympathy and that of the government and people of the United States in this moment of vide spread suffering and national grief"
 Gen. George w. Davis. chairman of the central committee. American Red Cross. discussed with the President today the situation In Italy. and plans for ex- tending relief. Ambassador Thomas Nelson Page at Rome cabled the state department, however, that the Italian government would accept no aid from foreign governments. and it was decided to postpone for the time a proclamation by the President calling on Americans for aid.
 General Davis suggested that aid might be extended through the Italian Red Cross since the Italian government did not wish to receive it and Ambassador Page was asked by the state department to as- certain if this course would meet with any objection.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17
Rescue Work Not Organized

Rome, January 16.--Rome newspapers complain of the lack of organization in relief work, which Is said to have led to delay In rescuing earthquake victims. There also is an insuffciency of supplies. particularly in the remote districts.
 The King has expressed his sorrowful surprise that persons who might have been saved by prompt work have perished in the ruins, while many who were res- cued have been suffering for 72 hours from cold hunger and thirst
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17
Send ConslOlence

Paris. January 16.-(9:15 D. m.)-A mes sage of coincidence on the earth disaster has been sent by King Albert of Belgium to King Victor Emanuel of Italy
 By the uncalled-for suffering of my own people," King Albert telegraphed. "I understand so much more how great must be the sorrow of your majesty and the Queen in view of the terrible catastrophe your country has suffered. It is with arr dent emotion I think of the numerous victims and I express to your ma1esties sentiments of profound sympathy. ItaIy's
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17
ARE
 THROUGH; NOW TURN TO NEEDS OF STATE
Purpose of Party Has Been Achie0ed, Says Merritt-Alreddy Have Gone Farther Than Was
 At First Proposed
EIENDERSONS ATTITUDE GAVE CF1ANCETOR RADICAL FL LEMENT

mpetuous Leaders Have Overshot the Mark and Hurt Own Cause-Carmichael Intimation That People Are Purchasable Causes Resent ment-Bills Sent to Governor
 Dy w.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-09
TEACH COLTS FAST WALKING
Best Results Are Secured With Ami
mails Full ct Spirit That Want to
Get Along Rapidly.

A slow moving colt can be taught
to walk fast by hitching it beside a
fast walker and urging it to keep up,
although it requires good handling 10
obtain full success with this method.
The best results are secured with
animals full of spirit that want 20
move rapidly. At the same time a
young horse that Is full OF spirit. If it
is allowed to work too hard, viii be-
come too tired, lose It's ambition cAd
develop into slow walker. The best
training is to use the young stock at
such light work that they can move
along rapidly without feeling II, let
ting them have only enough OF II so
that they win get into the habit OF
moving rapidly and keep up the trait
after they are older.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-09
SHEEP DURING WARM SEASON
Particular Attention Should Be Paid
to Water Supply-Place the Flock
Near a Running Stream.

Particular attention should be CIV
en- the sheep in warm weather rela-
tive to their supply of water. You
know, many old fogy farmers still
contend that sheep can get all the
water they require from the dews.
This is certainly mistaken idea, and
one that is absolutely cruel, for sheep
need water as much as any of the
other farm animals, though they do
not drink as much as some others.
suppose it is a fact that sheep can
subsist On the dews as their means
of water, but they never do so well
as those that have all they can drink,
says a writer in Farm Progress.
When an animal is forced to live on
less than the normal water supply, it
is sure to be very uncomfortable. To
do well and put on flesh, they should
have a running stream OF water where
they can reach it.
Many sheep raisers have a tendency
to let the sheep take care of them
selves, after shearing time has passed,
anu thSiS are % many OlhSA la ~
duties demanding attention. Where
there are young lambs, they should be
well cared for in order TO make the
best growth possible before market
ing in the fall, They are hard TO get
in shape to sell when they have been
forced to look out for themselves.
If one happens to have a running
stream of water in the sheep pasture,
he may consider himself fortunate. A
pond is next best, and often one is
obliged to put up few rods of fenc-
ing to inclose pond, spring, or part
of a creek.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-09
planlty Of Manual Labor.

The trouble with most young men
is that they do not understand the
dignity Of manual labor. They do not
realize that honors and fortune may
be more readily gained outside of the
so-called learned professions than in
them; and that it is just as honorable
to swing a hammer or 20 hold a plow
as it is to make a speech in court or
to amputate a limb. The lesson young
men should be taught as early as pos.
sible is that it is not so much what
man does for living as how he
does it, and that manual labor is as
honorable as any other-Lubbock Az
alanche.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-09
sows NEED GOOD ATTENTION
Neglect at FarrowIns Time VIII Eat
Up All Profits Made In Year
Feed Is Important Problem.
fBy II. NJ. corrRELLl

a
Give the SOW all the water she
wants for the first "a hours after the
pigs are born, but no grain. Take the
chill off the water in cold weather.
For three or four days after the first
"a hours, give plenty of water, bat
feed grain and milk sparingly. Then
slowly increase until, when the pigs
are three weeks old. the SOW Is having
all the feed she will consume. Give
the pigs exercise and sunshine from
birth, but do not allow them to get
damp nor to be exposed to the wind.
When the SOW is given a warm, rich
slop, or other milk-producing feeds
just after her pigs are born, a strong
milk flow is forced. The newborn
pigs get too much and have diarrhea,
which often kills them. They cannot
take all the milk, and the sow's udder
becomes inflamed and caked. When
the pigs suckle the pain becomes so
intense that in desperation she jumps
up, kills and eats them.
The profits for a whole year can be
thrown away in few hours by little'
neglect at narrowing time. An inves-
tigation in one of the chief hog-pro-
ducing sections showed that the farm
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-09
Dumb Chills and Fever.

Deoelasvile. Tex. Five years
ago was caught in the rain ct the
wrong time" writes Miss Edna
Rutherford. Of DoueIasville. "and
from that time was taken with dumb
chiIls snd fevers. ard suffered more
than I can tel. tried eve ytbing
that thought would help. and had
four different doctors. but got no
relief, 50 | began to take Csrdui.
N4w | feel better than in many
m6hths" Cardui does one thing.
and does it we'll That's the secret Of
iis50 years Of success. As a tonic
there is nothing 10 the drug store
like it. As remedy for women's
ills. it mas no equal. Try it. Price
81 .00-Advertissment.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-09
HELP The KIDNEYS
HopkinSville People are Learn
ing The Way.
Is the little kidneDy ills

It's the little kidneny ills
The lame. weak or aching back
The unDoticed urinary disorders
That may lead to dropsy and
Bright's disease.
When the kidneys are weak,
Help them with Doan's Kidney
Pills,
A remedy especially for weak kid
neys.
Doan's have been used in kidney
troubles for so years.
Endorsed by 10000 people-en-
dorsed at home.
Proof in a Hopkinsvile citizens
statement.
j. H. Hayes. N. Clay ST., Hopkins
vile. Gays: 81 had kidney trouble
which caused my back to ache.
used box of Doan's Kidney Pills as
directed, and they soon cured me"
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same
that Mr.. Hayes had. Foster Milburn
Co., Props, Buffalo. N. Y.-Adver-
tisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-09

tions have made large and profitable
productions of milk and butterfat.
Breed heifers at the age of sixteen
to twenty months.
Feed heifers literally and milk regu-
larly.
Do not try to save feed by turning
to pasture too early.
Provide plenty of pure, fresh water,
shade and protection against flies dur
ing hot weather.
Supplement poor pastures with corn
silage or green soiling crops like rye,
peas, oats, green corn fodder, cabbage
and other available feed.
Feed cows daily one pound of grain
in winter for every three pounds of
milk produced, rs to 40 pounds of
corn silage, and what clover or alfalfa
hay they will eat.
Do not turn cows out to remain and
suffer in cold. stormy weather.
Allow them to have water which is
not colder than that from a deep well
twice or three times daily.
Brush cows daily if you can possibly
find the time, for it pays better than
does grooming of horses, which as
rule is not neglected.
Keep cows in clean, well-lighted,
properly-ventilated stables.
Treat COWS gently and avoid excite
ment.
Weigh the milk CT each COW at milk
ing time.
Get your neighbors TO share with
you in owning a Babcock milk tester
and test the milk of each COW.
Discard the COW which has failed
at the end of the year to pay market
price for all the feed she has con
sumed.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-09
Mexican Mountains.

The Mexican mountains are mainly
OF underlying granite formation. The
Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary
ages rocks are much in evidence
throughout the country, while the
highest ranges. as we have seen, are
OF volcanic origin. The singular
plains Of Yucatan are largely of cal.
careous formation. probably a Terti-
airy limestone. One of the most plen.
tiful rocks over vast areas of Mexico,
and that which forms the striking va
Ration Of scenery, is the mountain
limestone, the excessively hard STRAIT
flied crystalline rock Of the Lower
Cretaceous period.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-09
ESTABLISH THE MILK FLOW
5est Time 10 When Cow Is Fresh and
Should Take From Three 70 Four
Weeks-Feed Literally.

The time 10 establish the milk flow
OF the cow is when she is fresh. Il
should take three TO four weeks to
bring her TO a full flow of milk and 70
eating full ration. There is no other
time in the period of lactation when
care and judicious feeding have a more
important bearing upon her years rec
ord.
The dairy COW should be fed liber-
ally, but care should be taken not to
overfeed her and carry her beyond her
capacity. This works injury ret
only to her milk function, but to her
breeding powers.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-09
Health and Happiness Depend
Upon Your Liver.

~ That sluggish liver with its slug.
gjsh flow of bile is what makes the
world look so dark at times. DR..
Kings New Life Pills go straight to
the root of the difficulty by waking
up the action of the liver and in
creasing the bile. DR.. Kings New
Life Pills cause the bowels to act
more freely and DIVE away those
"moody csvs." 25c, DO tie. -Ad-
vertisemeLt.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-09
BABC0CK TEST AND SCALES
Instruments for Ascertaining Correct
Value Of Dairy Cow-outlay Is
Net at All Large.

The Babcock test and scales are in
struments for ascertaining the correct
value of the dairy COW with reference
to her milk and butterfat production,
The test is simple, accurate and easily
mastered by anyone who will give the
matter careful study and attention,
taking the necessary time for the
work. Those who prefer not to de-
vote the time should join a cow-test-
ing association. for it does not pay to
keep Improbable cows.
A small four-bottle tester with glass
ware and full directions can be Sc
cured for about s. Of any creamery
supply company.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-09
Every Home Needs A Faithful
Cough And Cold Remedy.

When seasons change and colds ap-
pesr-when you first detect a cold
after sitting next to one who has
sneezed. then it IL that a tried and
tested remedy should be faithfully
used IL never wro e testimonial
before, but, | know positively thet
for myself and family, DR. Kings
New Discovery is the b:st coup h
1sdy We ever used and we have
fritd them all f" SOC, and $l.O0.
Advertisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-09
RIGHT RULES FOR DAIRYMEN
Wisconsin Agricultural College Gives
Out Some Good Advice That Ev-
cry Former Should Follow.

The dairy department Of the Wis
consin college of agriculture is urg
ing that the following be pasted up
in every dairy barn in the state:
Practice the following advice and
you will make more dollars in dairy
ing. Others have done IL. Why can't
you?
Use purebred dairy sires from cows
having large and profitable produc-
tons of milk and butterfat
Raise well the heifer calves from
cows which for one or more genera
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-09
SELLING to Private customsrs.

Selling butter to private customers
is almost a business by itself. You
must have the market close TO hand
and you must be able to manufacture
si't'edged butter and give proper ae-
livery and be a salesman besides.
Really, furnishing butter 10 private
customers might be separated from
lairy farming. II is a separate busi-
asss. but one man can handle both.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-09
Who Spells the chiIdren2

There was a discussion held recent
ly among a crowd of men about the
spelling of children. Some OF the men
said it was the fathers fault: They
give the boys about the same amount
of time every day that it takes them
to shave. II they took the job of
father seriously and really put some
time and thought on it, there would be
a different story" But most of the
fellows seemed to blame the mothers.