The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-05
THE SEASONS STORIES

From the New York Sun
 THE stories that come with the sum
 mer belong to the season and to the
 year: they are as varied as the tenn perature and no more like last summer s stories than an elephant is like a mega therium.
 One summer we were surfeted with ma. ture stories. That was the year when such things came under official notice at the White House and it was almost lese majesty to publish an incident of field or forest life that was not properly cen sored Now while there is more freedom there are fewer nature stories and most of these have a bearing upon war.
 Out in Oregon "a careful and critical observer" examined some 1900 locusts and on every wing he saw clearly the letter "P" Thus peace is to be our lot. A minister of a German Lutheran church in Indiana while hunting killed three squirrels; "one was a large albion, an other bright red squirrel with white tail, and the third a black squirrel Dropping them on the ground he was struck with the fact that they formed the black, white and red of the fatherland Had the black been blue the coincidence might not have made material for prophets.
 Still, from some parts of the country come stories that are not so weighty with prophecy or moral. An honest Quaker" Joseph Setterthwaite, says that during the recent high water in Kansas frogs ate all the cherries off his neigh bors' trees" In the lightning belt of In- diana, just south of the literary belt, a farmer is protecting his hogs by equipping each one with "a copper cable rod Near Bernyille, Pa. a fisherman was astounded to see a pair of eyeglasses moving around in the water. Investigating he found that they were worn by "a common water ...................'....'
 SHOULD JOIN DERNBURG
 From the Providence Journal.
 The Journal is able to print the follow ing statement made last Monday night in New York city by Captain Boy-Ed, naval attache of the German embassy in Wash ington:
 The United States government must first show that 1t is just as sincere in It's protest against breaches of neutrality made by the allies as 1t is against al- legged violations by German before my government will cease to carry on it's submarine warfare in it's own way, or before 1t will condescend to reply to the last American note.
 'The German government has made pro- tests of various kinds to the United States government and the United States gov ernm ent has virtually ignored these pro- tests. When my government protested against the manufacture of submarines in this country for use in Great Britain. the fedora, authorities at Washington brought forward mass of technicalities in order to evade their responsibility en this mat ter I believe had the situation been re- versed. and had England protested against the making of submarines for Germany in the United States, these technicalities would never have been brought forward. My government knows its rights and is prepared to stand by them. President Will sor and Secretary Lansing must show. not by covert opinions. privately ex- pressed, but by a direct official statement in a note to England, equally as strong and vigorous in language as the last note to Germany, that she is prepared to go to the same limit with England as she has announced she is prepared to so with us.
 Unless the United States sends to Great Britain such a protest. in language as virulent as that used against us and in dicating to all Germans in the United States. my government will not abbreviate it's submarine warfare. nor under any cir cumstonces will it make any reply what ever to the last note to Berlin."