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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
Striving To Re Neutral

AS I have striven to control partisan learings in the matter of taking sides as betw the warning nations, on account os personal friendship, I was highly amused at a two-page cartoon in Life, showing group of supposed neutrals reading newspapers, some of them en- gagged in heated argument" said a son of a Confederate veteran.
 T think the mass of American citizens deserve much credit for their demeanor in the light of the world-moving events now shaking creation We are so mingled in blood, and ties, and friendship that many of us feel like we are lodging talk ing part in deadly neighborhood fam fly feud, because we really like both parties and sincerely hope there will be an honorable peace without further blood- shed.
 Here in the south we know that thou sands of Hessians threw their weight for money against the south in the great conflict of the sixties, and yet we have many of us as a part of our very best cl;izenry Germans who marched under the Stars and Bars and made their lot with us.
 Ever and anon, some one Tn pr.nt, touches upon the tender spot of the issue now being arbitrated by fire and sword, and always there is a flash of bad blood and bitterness that follows. We may carry in our bosoms the hope for victory for one and an honorable peace for the other one of the two great battlin; phalanxes. but we should not throw oil upon tn flames. but rather upon the troubled waters, looking for peace"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS
from the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 It is easy enough for woman to make man marry her. But it isn't so easy to make him stay put.
 Some men have everything that goes with the mule and the rabbit except the long ears.
 Some of the old grouches who are strong for prohibition are going to be greatly peeved when they die and discover that people are permitted to dance and sing and have good time in heaven.
 An insurance company will tackle al- most any risk. But 1t isn't foolish enough to insure happy marriages.
 It often happens that couple that can't raise S1 a week to pay the install- ments on the furniture manage to raise S100 to get siivorce.
 Every loser loses more trying to get even.
 There never was fool motion made that didn't find an idiot ready to second it..
 A married m an can dodge whole lot of battles at ho(pe if he has sense enough to tell his wife That she knows more than he does.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
Second Quarter of the Year

Business interests will enter the second quarter of the year with more hopeful expectations than would have been justified at the beginning of the year, so far as the first quarter was concerned. There was little improve ment in business until after the mid dle of January and it was not until February that conditions were mark edly better. Since then, however, there has been substantial improve ment in every manufacturing and mer- cantile center; and in some sections the improvement has been rapid.
 While the greatest advance toward recovery has been in the steel indus try there is scarcely any branch of business that is not showing some sign of activity. Many manufactur- ing plants that had been closed are now being operated, if not at full ca pacity, very near it, And in the in dustrial field March will be as much better than February as February was better than January.
 In entering the second quarter il will require no great amount of op- timism among business men for them to feel that the new era of prosperity which had been promised for some time is manifesting itself. It is be- lieved that the second quarter will be good period for everybody, and that the last half of the year will witness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
Billy Sunday at the Bat

Although he had not been on the pro- fesiional baseball field for "A years Billy Sunday stood up to bat before Ben Shibe, ow her of the Athletics on the diamond on the Philles grounds in Philadelphia on St. Patrick's Day. knocked out a homer the first crack and circled the bases in 16 seconds" said Philadelphia fan.
 I've still got some of the old per left he said, after 1t was all over. ri I'm not as good as I used to be I'm sure could train up in a short time and rmke a living on the diamond if neces. sary.
 That certainly did me good, declared Sunday as he started home. Tt was just 24 years ago on St. Patrick's Day that I took up my work as secretary fol the Y. M. c. A. feel like a boy again. ,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

In Who's Who in America" Billy Sun days name appears with D. D. appen- dage. According to the standard author ity referred to the doctorate was con ferred by the Pennsylvania College fo. Women. But the president of that in- stitution said they never gave him D. D. or any other degree. It matters little or not whether the baseball evangelist is a doctor. His drawing power is there just the same
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
The Cooperative spirit Helps

'The Chamber of Commerce can do a great work for Birmingham by develop ing the spirit of cooperation among all classes of citizens said a prominent business man.
 Birmingham has of course many pub lic-spirited citizens, but many more are needed for the upbuilding of the city. We need now more than ever civic pride. We should cultivate more than ever the get-together habit. The get-together work has made sorle cities. We have the greatest city in the whole south, but 1t will never go forward toward it's splen- did destiny as rapidly as it might until every man, woman and child has the Greater Birmingham consciousness; or until citizens generally are eager to pull for Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
The Music Festival

"l feel sure that the festival audiences will be delighted with the two chorus works-chorus, sooist and Damrosch orchestra-which will be presented on the night of April 19," said a member of the Arion club.
 "Sullivan's Golden Legend is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. and Won F'ielitzs The God and the Maid somewhat shorter composition, Is full of beauty. These two numbers will take up only about one hours time. The rest of the programme will be devot- ed to orchestra music"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
HOLDING COTTON FOR WHAT?

1 Ing European nations buying the raw ma terial were not at all satisfactory from the standpoint of the growers, even be- fore the alarm of war. Had other fac tors remained normal, had there been no war, the pressure of the enormous crop upon the worlds markets must have in- evitably brought the price of the staple down to within perhaps s7 or ss of the present price per bale, and that would have meant gross return of $S45, ,0O0 GOO for the 1914 crop, or $42,IsJ,000 less than the returns from the 1913 crop of 14,156 600 bales. The significant fact is that quite 100000 bales of the cotton ginned up to January have been held from market, and that much larger part of the total crop has been withheld.
 Only a sudden cessation of war could possibly reduce very materially before the oncoming of the next crop the relative volume of the withheld cotton without at the same time reducing the price. With- in few weeks it will be too late for cot ton growers to regret that in their plant ing they had not acted upon the strenu- ous suggestion that anything like a nor maj crop in 1915 would be likely to nullify whatever salvage had accrued from the handling of the 1914 crcp in almost baf- fling circumstances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
From the Baltimore Manufacturers Rec

VJ 1TH it's background of the rast
 \A/ nine months, rpor cotton at S.9O
 W cents a pound at New York and S44 cents a pound at New Orleans is one of the features of this years re- markable situation in the cotton trade that is probably without parallel. In the first six months of the current cotton year, up to January 1, of the total esti- mated crop of 15966,O00 bales, HAT ,623 bales, or ST per cent, had been ginned. But up to last Friday, in period of more than eight months, only F, 442317 bales of the commercial crop had come upon the market. That was q decrease of Ter cent under the movement into sight in the same period last season. In the mean time the exports had decreased only 20.3 per cent, instead of 50 per cent, notwith- standing the European war, and the talk ings by American mills had uecreased 9.9 per cent, the actual decrease of the latter kind being 231,6 bales ty southern mills and 246990 bales by mills in the rest of the country.
 The 1914 American cotton crop was he largest In history. Conditions of the tex tile industry in two or three of the lead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
Successful Musical Comedy

We have had fine success with Lady Luxury'-a charming musical comedy which will come to the Jefferson theatre March 29 and So," said Robert Goodman, the advance man.
 "On our southern tour we have drawn capacity houses-from Richmond along down. Business conditions in the south are really much better than I expected to find them. Everybody is cheerful and talks of the good times just ahead"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
APpRECIATIvE CONTEMPORARY
From the Gadsten Times-New

The Birmingham Age-Herald is deserv- ing of the thanks of the reading pub lie for the splendid eight-page supplement it issued yesterday, which contaned ex- act text of all acts of the present legis- lature which have been approved to date The publication of this valuable supple ment entailed heavy expense. although no extra charge was made for the service by the publishers. The unselhsh enter. prise of this great paper Is fully fAppre. ciated by its thousands of readers al over the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT HE WORK
 OF THE LEGISLATIVE PROBE COMMITTEE

nhE legislative probe committee
 which has been in session in Bir-
 mingham during the past week does not seem to have unearthed any scandals.
 This committee arrived amidst the toot- rumor as to what they would unearth. They evidently were hot on the trail of Ex- Governor oNeal. But when the ex- governor took the stand he became the bear and the committee were holding to it's tail. The committee apparently desired to turn loose and escape.
 The ex-governor showed his teeth in real, war-lil1e fashion, and won much ap- plause by his conduct.
 If the committee could unearth the real facts in the Lacy defalcation case it  would likewise win applause for itself. It seems that Ex-Governor O'Neal told the members of this committee in execu- tive session of his suspicious and ideas of what became of the states money. With the ideas given them the commit tee may yet unearth the facts in the case
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 This committee and the committee in vestgating the status of legal affairs in enough information to warrant them in urging the passage of the Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
NO ROOM TO SPARE

From the Florida Times Union.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald says: An eastern contemporary thinks 1t is shock ing for Delaware to retain the whipping post Still, that sort of punishment IS at least open and above board and is less harmful than some other ways of treat ing criminals" It is unreasonable to ex- pect Delaware to hang all her criminals and the state is so small there isn't room in 1t to build q penitentiary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

and ladies take duty at the buffet in re-
 lays of six hours each. Tea and coffee. meat, pies, sandwiches, cakes. fruit and cigarettes are included in the menu. A subaltern was marching along with his company. He was very young. and his men evidently thought him inexperienced. SO they struck up "A little child shall lead them, lead them gently home" When they had finished he halted the company and said, Now we'll have that verse over again." Game, wasn't he?
 Certain manufacturing firms have been very prodigal of their gifts to English regiments and war charities but they are getting little tired of it. One well-known
 manufacturer Of typewriters lent to regi- ments, refugee committees, etc., Il new machines. Since last August the British war office has bought over 40OO typewrit- CTS, but has not given the firm in ques- tor single order. Naturally they are recalling their machines. They find that l most have been badly used.
 The war brings many new activities into operation. The latest seems to be the ! manufacture of Indian sweets for the
 Indian army. The warriors from the east
 ern empire eat an enormous amount of sweets. and catering for this foible ap- parently pays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
Season Nearly Over

"The season for planting hardy plants is very nearly past" said Hugh Scales, "and Easter is the beginning of the period to start sowing porch boxes and shading vines.
 "It would be well for all prepara- tions for potted and box plants so be made by filling the receptacles with rich loam and thoroughly rotted ma nure now.
 Rose bushes and other hardy plants should be planted in the next 10 days if they are to thrive and bear well. You may rely on it that soon after Easter we have a warm spell that is not a good planting time for such blooming plants
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

BEGINNING THE DAY-O God, thank Thee for the tenderness Of time. I thank Thee for the healing balm brought by the years. l thank Thee that my wounds are bound up, and the ugly. awful scars somehow transformed as life goes on. Help me to yield myself to the gentle ministry of time. In Chrfst's name. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

T. Cobb. "a minor league baseball player has reported to his team man. agement for the 1915 season and thereby saved the newspapers of the United States thousands of dollars in type set ting bills, for when Tyras 'baiks' it calls for as much "space' as presidential election
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

Carranza has begun to fortify Vera Cruz, but if he wants any advice we might suggest that he station fast sailing ocean liner in the harbor and instruct her crew to keep steam up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
Sign Boards for street Chr,

'i would like to see the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company place street signs in the side of their cars: that is to say, board bearing the name of tho route,'' said a Southside patron
 "On rainy days, and even after night fall, it is very difficult for some persons s to make out the lettering on the glass in the front of the roof of cars. have several times stopped South Highland cars for Fifteenth street. Also I suggest that where more than one route service goes over the same tracks in the down. town section, that they be differentiated With pennants; say a triangle for Eff teenth street cars and square pennant for the Twentieth street loop cars. This could be made to apply to LaKevsew and Highland avenue; also to Boyles and Gate City.
 'frequently passengers awaiting street car have taken shelter from the cold or rain and rush out for the wrong car. The innovation T suggest would be com paratively inexpensive, and it would be arprecited by the stret car patrons"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

That Trojan horse stunt occurred not far from the Dardanelles, where today warfare on a much different plane is in progress, but we wonder if there is any difference in the emotions of the widows
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
SOME FORMER BIRMINGHAM WOM-
 FEN THERE.

From the Houston Post
 Vic Murdock has banished adjectives from the society column of his newspaper. That is easily done fin Kansas. but our women are so glorious in Houston we find the adjectives too puny at times to paint the splendor of them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
OF you

ByAJulia Nicely Finch.
 There is within my heart little corner set apart Where only thoughts of you may dwell And all the long day through, As I am swept about
 By throngs that crowd the street, A little thought slips in and out, little, tender thought, too sweet For this poor speech to tell. Of that safe corner set apart Within the fastness of my heart Where l may think of you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
CONTENDING DOORS
From the Rochester Democrat and chrd

From the Rochester Democrat and Chr5n- icle.
 The law in Alabama forbidding the sale of magazines published outside of the
 state which contain liquor advertisements Is matched by the new law in Kansas imposing heavy fine on any person who runs an automobile who has smell of liquor on his breath. The fumes of the
 disguise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

"F'ive cent bread returns to Chicago" said news dispatch, and we suppose it was met at the depot with brass band and a marching club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

This Is funny world. Those wh, take a neutral view of life seldom ge anywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

One disadvantage about being neu-
 tral is that when the Kaiser's goose
 is cooked we won't get any of the gravy,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

The Rev Billy Sunday closes his cam paign in Philadelphia today. He will preach four sermons and not one of them will be conventional.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

Maybe those people who profess to see a silver lining in the war cloud are thinking of the cost of opera tions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

There is no last word between friends. providing one of them is not q woman
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

Wonder if the man who wrote the pop
 ] wasn't captain of a German submarine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

since the beginning of the European war The steel mills and wire mills at Ensley and the one in Gadsden are working well and the chances are that the unemployed labor in this district will soon be at work.
 The merchants are also reporting better business and conditions are be- coming stabilized.
 The only concern in the Birmingham district which seems to be suffering Is the street railway system. The iitnev boys are hauling the people. I am told that there are some two hundred or more 5-cent jitney automobiles run ming in Birmingham at the pres ent time. Naturally the street railway people don't like it, but they can do nothing. The automobile people have machines on their hands and are making them earn something. and the unemployed chauffeurs of a few months ago are making living F The people seem to like the jitney service but how long the old cars will hold up and whether or not 1t would pay to put new cars in the service is problem. In the meantime the "Five- cents-to- Five-Points, Is popular with the people and 1t must be said for the street railway people that they are apparently taking their medicine grace fully.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

anti-fee system bill at the July session of the legislature.
 As matter of fact, the Jefferson eoun- ty delegation in the legislature seems to have been slow in acting upon their in- structions from the people in regard to the fee system, which is now being worked to the limit in this county. The fee sys- terf is at present within the law, but the office holders are working the law to the limit.
 2 One good work, I am told, the probe committee will recommend to the July session of the legislature is the abolish ment of the present state convict sys- tenn. The committee proposes to enact a law which will ultimately lead to the working of all the convicts on the pub lie roads. They are not needed in the mines and the road system needs them badly.
 The experiment of road building work in Jefferson county with convicts has all ready demonstrated what can be done by the general use of them for road building throughout the state.
 This county is rapidly building the best roads in this country The good work should be continued.
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 The industrial plants in the Birming- ham district are all going now and orders are coming in rapidly. The pros- poets are brighter than they have been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

Mrs. Helen Angle in being acquitted of murder proves that she Is straight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

A. J. Eaton, Jr.. and O. E. Young are the only authorized travelling repre- sentatives of The Age-Herald in it's cir culation department.
, 1915-07-31
TO the Editor Of the Lois aud BuuetUt.

To the Editor Of the .I0iS aud BuHeii4.
Dear Slr,
l was exceedingly glad to see tho
strongly worded protest to the Finance Min
lister on the subject of drunkenness in tins
island, which appeared in yesterdays Bulle-
TIN.
] was one Of the chief movers in the War
against cheap Rum III 1899, and ut TINT time
it cannot be denied that this community
ranked high on the list Of the hard drinking
communities of the world-u IS rot true 10 SUI
tue same to day, indeed, it IS both false and
cruel to luy such Il stigma upon a community
which has strlven to rise to higher things
and has 8t,ccceded [ feel it my duty TO the
community as i whole and to my own Con-
gregation TO say this.
1t is a great mistake to iniure a good
cause by misrepresentation and there can
be no doubt that the cause of Temperance
both here mud elsewhere has been often Grip
pied by over Jealous paItisans, who fail to
play the game and hit below he belt,
, 1915-07-31
Frederiksted Kommune-
skole.

YIN Lerer med aetlig Disqualification
49, Francs 1870 100 elIer TN LRrerlnde
med aarlig BegyndeIseelou FL. 100000 soge9
iii / Oktober. For hvert Tidorum Of 3 Anfs
Tjenestetid stiger Lonnen med 300 90 Francs
indtil hpnholdvis Francs 100000 eIler
Francs 100000. Sclvskrevne Ansegninger
med veriticerede Afskrifter at T~e~timonler
og Anbefa!inger indsendes linden 10. August
d.. A. til SkoledirektOren
ST. Croix S~kolekommission den ~ JuIl
1915,
O. RCBNER-PETERSEN.
, 1915-07-31
PrOklama.

"A LIE og Enhver, SOM moatte have no.
Ia get at fordre Boet efter afg"ngne
Ugift MAGDALENE OIADELAINEl De
WINDT, hvilket 30 bchandles we'd under
tegnede Skifteret, lndkaldes heryed med 3
Nlanneders Varsel til ut anmelde og bevis-
ligeore deres Krav.
ST. Thomas og St. JAMS Skifteret, den 81
JUL 1915.
WELLEJUS.
, 1915-07-31
LEAVE SLEEPING DOGS ALONE

was an advice gwen by the Editor Of he
81. Cro'X AVIS when dealing with an impor-
taut question some yeurs ago that concerned
the mues of the pc ople, to which l ask Rev
Fnber TO take heed.
The uu question of to-day will not be
lett entirely TO Rev. Fuher and his temper
auce advocates, the communily's opinion
must ulso be- taken into cvnslderullon. Rev.
, 1915-07-31
Translation.
Frederiksted Communal
School.

"A Male Teacher with q yearly salary of
49, Francs !, 5000 Q to begin with, or n Fe-
mule Teucher with "a yearly salary of Francs
1900. 90 t. begin with, is wanted from the lst
October. For each period Of 3 years service
the salary increases with 300 Flcs. until
respectively Frc4. 100000 or Frcs. 1900 90.
Applications written by the applicants Them
selves and with verified copies of testimonials
and recommendations must be forwarded
before the 18Th August n, c. to the School
Director,
St. Croix School Board, the 10Th July
1915.
o. RUBNER-PETERSEN.