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The day book., 1915-08-24

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27

with discretion to exclude aliens under such circumstances, the law is not as comprehensive as it should be and much less potent to protect the people of this country than the bureau had always sup posed it to be-
 The commissioner calls attention to va rious schemes resorted to in smuggling Chinese and other immigrants from the east into the country and suggests that if there is any doubt about the letter of the law relating to persons admitted as natives, sons of natives, etc, proper amendments should be enacted. An ap- propriation is asked to provide automo- piles for patrol work along the Canadian border decision of the comptroller of the currency having obliged the bureau to discontinue the expenditure of money for this purpose
 Plans for further development of the bureaus employment bureau work are outlined, one of the new phases of the programme being an effort to induce many incoming aliens who have been tillers of the soil in their own country to go to farms instead of to congested industrial centers.
 An urgent plea for the enactment of general immigration law, similar to the Burnett bill vetoed by President Wilson at the last session of Congress on ac- count of it's literacy test provision, con- ciudes the commissioners recommends tions for legislation. The proposed law,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27
CHAPMAN WILL bE WITH CRACKERS IN NEXT TENANT RACE Catcher With Atlanta ill 1913 Will Help Frank.
 Has Been With the
 Federals

Atlanta Decembe ber 26.-Harry Chapman. champions, will be back again in 1916 to help Charley Frank win his first pennant for the Crackers.
 This announcement is based on an au- thoritative statement by one that is in the know and it is believed that official announcement of the return of Chapman will be made in the near future.
 Substantiation of the semi-offcial an- nouncement can be found in the peace agreement as signed by the Federals anal organized ball. In this agreement it was stated that mlnor league clubs, whoseI players jumped would be given the firstI choice at purchasing these players back, even before the major league clubs did.
 Inasmuch as the Crackers still hold| Chapman on their reserve list, suspended and ineligible, and Charley Frank isl searching for high-class catcher, it isl an even money bet that the willy Dutch i nan puts in a bid for Harry. Chapman si return would be welcomed by Atlanta fandom. No man in the 1913 machine did more| towards bringing the penant to AtlantaI than Chapman did. He caught beautiful ball and hit in timely fashion, He has not been hitting much for the Federals ] but his work behind the bat and his throwing to the bases has been of such al calibre that he has worked more regular-| ly than catchers on the team that hit better than he did.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27
Gives $5 for Subway Seat

FTOm the New 4Ofk f1era Id.
 handsome young woman with glossy, fair hair, garbed in velvet pleated suit and a fur coat ran out of the Vanderbilt hotel at the height of the storm Friday. Her umbrella was swept from her tiny hands and a young man got hold of it for her. She was very wet when she got into a subway train. Some men were busy reading newspapers and so forth when she took hold of a strap. She hardly had srasped it when a man in a shabby suit said:
 Take this seat, please, madam"
 The pretty young woman accepted the offer. She afterward appeared to be in terested in the man. He too, was wet through, but he appeared to be contented. At Fourteenth street the young woman got out to change for an express train, and as she passed the gallant man in the doorway she said:
 Would you please accept this from a stranger?"
 The piece of paper fell on the floor, and enough of it was visible to see that it was 8 $5 bill. Four men eagerly stopped to pick it up
 No, thank you,' said the man in the sha*lsx clothes. ''All need Is time to get a haircut when the barber shop is open"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27
THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT WAS
 RAILROAD SHARES SHOW AN ADVANCE UPPERMOST IN WALL STREET

New York, December 26.-The holi- day spirit was uppermost in Wall street last week, causing a partial diminu- tion in trading. Operations were main ly of professional character. There was some demand for high grade shares in anticipation of the new years interest and dividend disbursements.
 Railroad shares advanced the latter part of the week in consequence of the ruling of the interstate commerce commission favoring the western and southern roads in the matter of in- creased freight rates and of the No vember statements of earnings, which pointed to enormous gains in gross and net returns by all the leading sys- tems.
 Copper shares were more active. than any ther group as the result of the enormous ,apmestic and foreign demand for the metal at highest prices for several years. Certain specialties, par
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27
THE COTTON MARKET
 CALM IN HOLIDAYS
Liverpool Exchange Not to Open Until Tomorrow.
 Good Profit

New Orleans, December 26.-The cotton tend with holidays. since Liverpool does not open until Tuesday morning and all markets will close Friday evening" There is some promise of activity, however. be- cause of the fact that Monday is first mo- tice day for January. Large tenders seem to be expected in both the New York and this market, where the combined stocks of the actual staple are in excess of three- quarters of million bales. Bears appar- ently expect notices to depress prices, but bulls claim notices will be stopped quickly. They point out that differences are such that deliveries may be accepted on January contracts and retendered against March at good profit.
 The trade will watch closely the spot situation in the south and the ocean freight market, for in both quarters de- velopments may arise at any time which will determine the course of values in cotton futures. Weakness among south ern spot holders would stimulate short courage buyers. Possibly the most bullish development which could arise at the present time would be improvement in shipping conditions between this country and Europe. Bulls eagerly look for this. but bears think 1t impossible for long time to come, owing to the transport needs of the allies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27

New York, December 26.--Beginning to- morrow and continuing throughout the week several important meetings having bearing on the future conduct of all branches of amateur athletics, national and collegiate, will be held in this city. At least 15 organizations governing anna teur sports in the United tSates and Canada have delegated representatives to attend the conference called for tomor- row, at which an effort will be made to adopt a universal definition of what con- stitute an amateur athlete.
 On the suggestion of the committe of intercollegiate athletics the status of an amateur, acts which debar him from the privileeg of competing as such the pen alties for infringing the rules and the possibilities of partial or full restoration to his amateur standing of any one whose status as an amateur is affected, were carefully prepared and embodied in a statement formulated at a special meeting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27
Tiny Worm Defeats State

From the Morning Oregonian.
 San Francisco.-Oregons Garden of Eden has been invaded by a descendant of the original serpent, who has left the Oregon family bowed with humilia- tion.
 The grand apple prize was coveted and expected.
 The jury began it's work early last week. Box after box was carried up- stairs from every state, and there the arduous work of comparison went on. Every famous apple center in America was represented. Gradually state after state was eliminated until the contest lay between Oregon and Washington. Friday it was tie; Saturday Oregon was in the lead, with rating of 99 per cent perfect Saturday afternoon a box was taken at random from each of the two states and the apples were examined and compared apple for apple.
 Oregon had all but won when the judge picked up the last Oregon apple, turned it carefully over and discovered that the bloom end was shade dark. He adjusted his magnifying glass, then slowly halved the apple, and up perked the head of tiny worm.
 This threw Oregon out and Washington was proclaimed the grand prize winner on perfect winesaps from Okanogan. This one worm lost Oregon the grand prize.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27
IMMIGRATION BUREAU COMMISSIONER MAKES HIS ANNUAL REPORT
 FACES GREAT PROBL LEM

Washington, December 26.-Unprece- dented problems with which the federal bureau of immigration has had to deal as the result of the war in Europe are pictured in the annual report of Com missioner General Anthony Caminetti, made public today by the Secretary of Labor.
 Particular attention is directed to diff culties encountered in enforcing the de- portation of undesirable aliens because of the prospect. in many cases, of plac- ing them in extreme hazard either on the high seas or after being landed in foreign port Although in the main the policy of protecting aliens proved to be correct and ~was successful, the commissioner general says, one of it's results has been to leave in the United States at the clcse of the year 1928 for eigners with no right to be here and destined ultimately to deportation.
 'It would be impossible the report continues, adequately to describe the problems which have confronted the bu- reau as the result of the unique situa- ton produced by the existence of the Eu-
 
 phase of the enforcement of the regu- lations which it has not been necessary to modify, suspend or remodel in it's ap- plications. Such propositions, as the con- trol of land boundaries, particularly the Canadian border (Canada being involved in the war); the handling of alien sea- men, especially those employed on ves- sels of bellgerent nations interned in United States ports; and the handling of aliens of an extremely undesirable type impelled to come to the United States from belligerent countries because of the very situation arising from the status of their native land, are but few of the larger problems with which the bureau has been confronted. Successfully to meet this situation has oeen no easy task
 Urging the necessity for excluding aliens on economic grounds. the report tells of the rejection of many Hindu and East Indian laborers who attempted to land at Pacific slope ports, on the ground that they were likely to become public charges. It refers, too, to ca SC now pending in the supreme court in- volving the right of the government to exclude certain Russians on the ground that they were bound for locality in the west where it was known that there was not sufficient demand for laborers to justify the belief that they would be able to maintain themselves Express ing the hope that the court will sustain the administrative officers, the report de- clares that if the officers are n0t vested
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27
GRIDIRON RULES DO NOT NEED REVISION.
 SAYS PARKE DA WIS
Expert Gridiron Authority Reviews Situation Usual Cry of Criticism Is Heard From Parts of Country-Wants of Each Section Discussed Predicts No Changes

Criticism of the football rules, a cus- tomary feature following the close of each football seasons in recent years. again is with us, says Park Ii. Davis, Princeton, '93, member of the intercol- 1egiate rules committee, and expert au- thority on the game.
 From the east arises cry that to se- cure a touchdown the ball should be actually touched behind the goal line. From the west comes a suggestion that the try for goal following a touchdown should be abolished. From various sec tions of the country a demand Is voiced that the rule requiring players on the line of scrimmage to have either both hands or both feet, or one hand and foot upon the line, should be repealed.
 The movement to require the ball actually to be touched down behind the line to constitute a touchdown arises from the disputes of spectators follow ing two instances in the major games of the east in which some of the lat ter believed that the ball in each in stance actually crossed the line, al though the officials in these games ruled otherwise
 Years ago the rules required the ball to be actually touched down. This rule lasted until March 30, 1889, when the method was changed by new rule as follows: "A touchdown is made when the ball is carried, kicked or passed across the goal line, and either held in goal or in touch in goal The effect of this altercation was to create a touchdown the moment player crossed the goal line with the ball, or when onside recovered kicked ball behind his opponents goal line.
 This arrangement lasted until March 4, 1893, when new generation of foot ball rulemakers returned to the orig inal rule marking the touchdown at the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27
James Visits the Country

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 A 1O-year-old lad by the name of James Something had his first glimpse or coun- try life last summer. He learned lot of new things about what COW or sheep or colt will do or will not do under a given set of circumstances, but he got the greatest surprise of his rural soJourn when he walked by swamp place one morning and saw bunch of cattails growing.
 He took one more look to make sure ne saw right, and then he broke into lope for the farmhouse.
 Say" he yelled out excitedly at his farm host, q never knowed them things growed on long stems like that. I've ct a lot of 'em, but l never seen 'em grow ing before. Do they all grow that away
 The farmer asked him what he was talking about.
 Why them sausages," he replied. ''Ain't you noticed 'em?"
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point where the ball actually was touched down, but made a new rule to the effect that if the ball was not ac- tually touched down the touchdown should be deemed to be made at the point where the player with the ball was held.
 It is one of the interesting features of the evolution of the intercollegiate rules that many of these rules have been repealed, re-enacted and so on, time and again, with each new college generation. Therefore, it is natural that the latest generation should again wish to experiment with the touchdown. not withstanding the fact that both meth ods have been thoroughly tried out in actual play over a long period of years and the result of that experience has been to demonstrate the soundness of the present rule.
 The movement to abolish the goal following a touchdown has always had it's advocates, and has been strong ly advanced many times before the rules committee. The goal after touch down, however has been and should be retained in the game because of it's great historical interest, because it is an attractive feature of the play, and because no sound argument has been or can be advanced for it's elimination. Those who advocate it usually are prompted by some actual instance In which the team they supported lost a game by failure to kick a goal. Such an occurrence, however. is an argu- ment in favor of the retention of a goal following a touchdown, because 1t frequently is play which decides game which otherwise would have been tie
 feature of the play that really calls for action is the practice which ap- peared here and there during the fall among players on defense of ignoring the flight of the ball on forward pass and deliberately putting the player trying to recover the ball out of the game by violent body kicking"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27
AMATEUR ATHLETIC
 MEET TODAY IN NEW YORK
Fifteen Organizations Governing Amateur Sports Send Delegates to Meeting Amateur" Will Be Discussed-Taft to Address Meetings. Football Rules to Be Considered

of the intercollegiate committee last week, and mailed to all the delegates for
 their consideration at tomorrow's ses-
 sion. This meeting, after discussing the
 matter, will adjourn until the latter part
 of the week, when it is expected final
 action will be taken on all these important
 suggestions.
 In the interim the National Collegiate
 Athletic association, comprised of more
 than 130 universities, colleges and schools in the United States, will hold it's tenth
 annual convention beginning on Tuesday. College athletic stands will be discussed
 and an address on College Athletics by William H. Taft will be one of the feat ures of the session.
 Or the same day the intercollegiate foot ball rules committee will meet to con- sider minor changes in the rules and definitions of unusual plays which have occurred during the past season. An amendment, the most important of the session, will be proposed with the pur- pose of making it compulsory for the players of all teams to wear numbers during the game and this promises to bring about some lively discussion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27
Scared Wife Exposes Still


 Wassili Bendenski, who came iron Austria several years ago, decided ther, was money in making and selling whisky So about year ago according to United States revenue officers, he set up !; still in his home 91S North Orianna street, and started to make liquor out o banana, orange, potato, apple, pear am other mash. Bendenski worked on thI theory that what Uncle Sam didn't know would not hurt him. and he never gavI the revenue men a thought.
 Everything went well until Bendensk quarreled with his wife. Planning ven geance, she went to the postoffice ani tipped" the revenue agents to Ben denskis business. She explained that sh was becoming afraid of her husband and asked the government agents ti protect her.
 The revenue men acted immediately and at dawn Deputy Revenue Agent Glover and iMcDevitt, reinforced bf Detective Barnett, forced an entrano| to the Orianna street house. They cap tured BendenslSi and confiscated eiSh barrels of mash and still with cal pacity of four to five gallons of whislS a day. Two or three quarts of the firj ished product, with proof of 43. wal also taken
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27
WILLARD WILL MEET FULTON REGARDLESS 0F THE PROMOTERS Conference Held and All Agree That Fulton Will
 Be Willard's First
 Opponent

Chicago, December 26.-Tom Jones, man. ager of Jess Willard, tonight assured Mike Collins, manager of Fred Fulton, that regardless of what the New Orleans pro- motors do. Willard will take on no other opponent until he has boxed FultoS. Ac- cording to Jones and Collins, it is now up to Tommy Burns and Dominick Tor torich, who originally scheduled the bout for New Orleans. to say whether they are prepared to go through with 1t ol not.
 'If they are not said Jones. bids from other promoters will be in order They will accept Fulton or no one. for Williard's first fight After that battle no matter where decided. Willard vii be open to other challengers.
 Jones, Collins, Fulton and Willard me in conference tonight and shook hands on the agreement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27

ticularly automobile and oil stocks, suffered slight setback.
 United States Steel and other in- dustrial stocks were strong. Steel ris- ing to S7s4, less than a point under its maximum of the last five years. Rumor is busy with estimates respect ing this months tonnage statement of the. Steel corporation and the action of the directors regarding the common dividend at the quarterly meeting in January.
 One of the negative developments of the week was the heavy trading in Anglo French bonds, that issue com pletely overshadowing all other fea- lures of the bond list. The bonds fell to 94as, only one-quarter of point above their minimum and 17s~ below the price at which they were taken by the syndicate.
 Foreign selling of American bonds and stocks which was believed to fore- stall Britain's mobilization plan, gave a partial halt to the movement in in vestment issues.
 Domestic trade was reported to De at it's flood, a condition confirmed by the stupendous bank clearings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27
Profitable Sport

Frm the Philadelphia Bulletin.
 Representative Bartholdt of Missouri tells the story of an old man with a soft, daft look, who sat on park bench in the sun, with rod and line. as if he were fish, ing, but the line, with a worm on the hook, dangled over bed of bright prim- roses.
 "Daftr' said passer-by to himself. Daft! Bughouse! Nice looking old fell low, too. It's pity.''
 Then, with a gentle smile the passer-by approached the old man and said:
 What are you doing. uncle?"
 Fishing, sir answered the old man solemnly.
 Fishing, eh? Well. uncle, come and have drink"
 The old man shouldered his rod and folI lowed the kindly stranger to the cornel saloon. There he regaled himself witl a large glass of dark beer and a good 5-cent cigar. His host, contemplating him in a friendly, protecting way, as he slipped and smoked, said:
 ''So you were fishing, uncle? And how many have you caught this morning?"
 The old man blew a smoke-cloud toward the ceiling. Then, after a pause, he saidl
 You are the seventh, sir.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27

ties have been found in the fact that these structures are shut in by cuticle and that they are absent in some in- sects. Spiders, in fact, have no antennae at all, though they can smell. ENperi- ments have shown that the sense of smell cannot be possibly located In the antennae of ants. bees and wasps though this may not be true or all in- sects), and that most insects breathe by pores discovered by Hicks more than half century ago on the wings and the legs. Each pore has the form Of an inverted flask, with a nerve-ending ex- posed to the air. When the pores are covered with vaseline reaction to odors is retarded and the responses are quick est in insects having the greatest num- Der of pores. For example drone hive bee, with 2600 pores, responds in 2.9 seconds, while a queen, with lSot nores takes AZ seconds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27
 SambO's Sad Mistake

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
 Recently colored party living in ti suburbs of big city married lara brunette named Lucinda. Three week later he appeared at the office of law yer looking as if he might have bee dented with fiatirons and bumped int by road roller.
 Cant stand it no longer, boss" Il sadly remarked to the legal one. T want a divawce from dat Lucinda. Las tin she chucked at me was de stove. Tomol row it will be de chimbley."
 That's all right, Sam,' soothingly r. turned the lawyer seeking to effect reconciliation. Everything will come ot all right. Besides, you know you top Lucinda for better or for worse." f
 Yes, sah,' admitted Sambo. "So did. sah; but she is a whole lot wus dan l took her for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27
The Seat of Smell in Insects

[
 The seat of smell in insects has been singularly elusive, and in the prolonged and unsystematic search for it, 1t has been referred to at least dozen differ ent parts of the body. The recent tend ency has been to regard the antennae as olfactory organs. Various structures on these have been chosen, but difficult
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-27
Getting Around It

From TIt-Blts. f7T
 A Scotchman visiting in America stood gazing at a fine statue of George Wash ington, when an American approached
 That was a great and good man, Sandy" said the American; "a lie never passed l&s lips
 We'll said the Scot "I praysume he talked through his nose like the rest of ye."