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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26
Bookkeeping on the Farm

Much of the advice which orators and essayists proffer the farmer is the veriest commonplace and is, therefore, without value. It lacks the practical side and is no more than high sounding verbage. But the addresses on agri- culture delivered by men of farm ex- perience and constructive ideas al ways make an impression.
 Congressman Heflin's address be- fore the students of the Agricultural club at Auburn Wednesday was con- vincing because the speaker knew his subject and because the ideas he ad- vanced were thoroughly practical. MT. Heflin's theme was "The Man With the Hoe" The representative in Con- gress from the Fifth district of Ala bama was brought up on farm and in his youth the blow and the hoe were implements with which he was not only familiar but in the use of which he was fairly well skilled. His talk to the Auburn boys was of the heart to-heart sort, and as it was enlivened with touches of imagination and humor it was at once stimulating and entertaining.
 MT. Heflin made many suggestions that could be profitably applied, but the point he stressed was the neces- sity of bookkeeping on the farm. Lit tie attention was given to this branch of agriculture in years gone by, but now it is seen that the farmer, whether he cultivates extensive acreage o1 only truck patch, is but half way man at the business. Next to plant ing and reaping bookkeeping is most essential. This should be obvious but it has only been in recent years that farmers in the south, as rule are learning to keep books with the same systematic method and with the same economic ends in view as have always been in vogue in commercial life. The farmer who is also a busi ness man is sure to make great sue cess of his calling. And what busi ness or vocation is so independent or to one who loves nature, so alluring
 Mir. Heflin hit it right when he dis cussed the man with the hoe from tn, bookkeeping point of view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26
Should Come to Birmingham

North Alabama will entertain dis tinguished body of men early in April when the Secretary of War and mem- bers of Senate and House committees come to make an inspection of govern ment work on the Tennessee river. Improvement of this river is of vital importance and it is well for the law makers to have first hand informa- ton.
 This trip will be incomplete, how ever, without visit to Alabama's great industrial center. Why not take steps at once to bring these men to Birmingham for day? Their presen, plan is to be at Muscle Shoals May 10 Hale's Bar and dam May II, and Clancy Creek dam May 12.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26

should say not We take ham and care fully remove the outer skin. Then we gar nish it with cloves and put it into kettle and pour in plenty of brandy. After boiling it for a time we add just little wine for taste, and then dip it into a hot mixture of we
 The darlzy. who was standing nearby listening to the conversation, could bear 1t no longer. With his mouth watering copiously he gently tugged the narrator's sleeve and stammered, 'Bo-bo-ss. couldn't yer save de old nigger jest little uv dat gravy''
 Bishop J. H. Mccoy is a great friend of newsboys, and never loses an oppor- tunity to say something to them,'' said Dr. W. G. Harrison, medical examiner for the Protective Life.
 'The other day two boys who evidently did not know the bishop ran up to him with the afternoon papers. One was a biz boy and the other was so small he seemed almost like midget.
 'cuy this one,' said the big boy. No, buy this one,' said the tiny fellow, who was selling the Ledger. The competition got pretty keen and finally the little sales man, whose head scarcely reached the bishops waist line, assumed a conf- dential attitude. and said: Honest, mis- ter, just as man to man you can't afford to read that other paper.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26
NEWSPAPER CLUB STORIES

About the time my father was com pleting his service in the Senate" said Frank S. White. Jr., yesterday at the club. "an old negro who has for many years been one of the family came to town.
 Direct was his path to my office Ano there he asked with a most doleful ex- pression
 '' 'Massa, what do these papers mean by saying the old massa is about to finish his term
 T explained that the expiration of his term of office was about to arrive Much relieved the old negro exclaimed:
 Bless God, young massa, I thought the old cap'n had been Flat Top-edp"
 Dr. c. W. Shropshire was discussing the excellent table d'hote dinner now being served at the Newspaper club
 Tn these days, however, remarked MT. Shropshire, artistic printing and succu- lent sounding words make one hungry by merely reading the menu. The situation reminds me of the gluttonous darky who was listening to an Englishman tell of cooking ham,
 You American people know noth- ing of cooking declared the Englishman Take ham, for instance You throw it into a kettle and let it boil until it's stringy and tasteless and then serve it. Do we do that way in England? Well,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26
That Steel Rail Order

The fact that the Illinois Central railroad bought 35,000 tons of steel rail from a Canadian mill has stirred up tempest in a teapot here and has caused Mr. Fred Jackson to write a card regretting the incident and MT. Paschal Shook and MT. James Bowron to declare that Birmingham lost the order because of the Underwood tariff bill. MT. Bowron goes so far as to characterize the Underwood tariff bill as "rotten folly,'
 As a matter of fact, nobody is to blame for this order not coming to Birmingham except the people who own and operate the rail mill here. MT. W. L. Parks, vice president of the Illinois Central, says plainly: We offered to give the contract to the United States Steel corporations plant in Birmingham, but they de- clined the business We would, of course, other things being equal, have preferred to buy the rails here.
 So the United States Steel corpora ton turned down this order at S27 a ton when they knew the Canadian mill had offered to sell at that price. The Steel corporation didn't care to cut their price from $50, which is said to be the prevailing price, to $27 to get this order; although it is a known fact that the Birmingham plant has sold rails at something like $27 per ton, or maybe less, on export orders. In other words, to keep the mill running or get rid of a surplus the Ensley mill has cut the price on foreign orders.
 On account of the war in Europe with no chance to export rails from the Canadian mill this mill either had a surplus or wanted to keep going and cut the price of rails to the Illinois Central.
 It is absurd to put the blame on the Underwood tariff bill, when the order was offered to the plant in this dis trict and the plant declined it.
 Men who pretend to know say that rails can be made in this district for something like S19 ton. Be that true or not, it is rather a small piece of business to try to put the burden of failure to sell 35,000 tons of steel rails, when the offer was declined, on Mr. Underwood.
 If The Age-Herald is not mistaken, there was no vigorous protest on the part of the rail manufacturers of this country against the existing tariff schedule on steel rails.
 The Age-Herald don't believe in "beefing" afterwards about not taking something which was offered you and you declined.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26
TIMING MEN FOR KISSING

From the Chicago Herald.
 When man at Brinsley, England, was fined s1 the other day for kissing his wife in the street it recalled to mind the more severe punishment that would have been meted to him had he lived in the New England of the seventeenth century
 Mrs. Earle. in her book on Puritan New England, recalls the case of Captain Kemble of Boston, who in 1656 was "set for two hours in the public stocks for his 1ewd and unseemly behavior which con sisted in kissing his wife publicly on the Sabbath day, upon the doorstep of his house. when he had just returned from 'an absence of three years
 Attempts have been made in various parts of the world to prevent kissing. In Iceland the old-time laws were very se- were in this respect. Punishment was the penalty for kissing another mans wife, with or without her consent, and the same punishment followed on kissing an un- married woman against her will. Even when kissing had the recipients sanction the penalty was fine for each offense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 As soon as a woman discovers that her complexion is wearing off she goes out and buys complexion that will rub off.
 Of course it is an awful jar for a bride to wake up and realize that the para gon she married is nothing but pinhead. But that is no reason why she should look like her own mothers sister five years after the day she combed the rice out of her hair.
 The man who wouldn't lend you 10 cents when his stomach is empty will usually oheerfully part with s10 after he has had good dinner.
 When mother wants the furnace to have a good cleaning she stops father when he is on his way down the cellar steps and tells him not to bother rub berng out of the cellar wndows at the girl who lives next door, And father gets so mad that he rattles everything but the Grates and the lining out of the furnace.
 You may have noticed that Billy Sun day didn't include our old friend Ananias among those who are playing stud poker in hell. Is this slap at the Hon. Roose- welt. or merely an oversight?
 And when you come to think it over, it isn't the germs that make kissing dan- gerous.
 It is funny how scared a man can be of germs when he Is asked to use a cup attached 10 a water fountain. But he never bothers about germs when he hoists glass of beer in saloon.
 Why it is that a phianthropist always draws the inc at his poor relations?
 It would save lot of people a whole lot of trouble if we reversed the order of thinrs and fixed them so that it would cost s2oY to get married and s2 to get a divorce}
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26
Bryan on Suffrage Opponents

MT. Bryan, in an address delivered recently before and to the weekly newspaper editors of Indiana, uttered the following startling sentence:
 You can go into any state where
 woman suffrage is an issue and you
 will find that the man who profits
 by sin. who lives off of vice. and is
 an enemy to society-you will find
 that he is afraid to let the women
 vote.
 In this connection it is interesting to recall the result of the recent mu- nicipal primary campaign in the city of Chicago, and to consider the per sonnel of the only force which has actively opposed equal suffrage in Alabama. In Chicago, as is remem- bered, schiefly as a result of the bal lots of the "gentler sex," reform can didates for mayor were overwhelm- ingly defeated, and "open town" can didates of both political parties were nominated. There was an instance wherein either the women "broke from" the self-styled moral element of political society, or the self-styled moral element ''broke from" the women.
 The only active force which has op- posed equal suffrage in Alabama is that represented by the elections and privileges committee of the lower house of the legislature. This com mittee is composed of sixteen prohi- bitionists, each of whom believes that he is one of the moral element" :" Fourteen of the sixteen had promised that their action regarding equal sui
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26

frage legislation would be favorable and satisfactory to the women who sponsored that legislation. And yet, this committee when entrusted with the Greene bill, which contained pro- posed equal suffrage constitutional amendment, chloroformed and in other mischievous manner foully did that bill to death.
 MT. Bryan should hesitate before denouncing Alabama prohibitionists as of those who profit from sin, live off of vice and are enemies to moral ity and decency. He might, after all, go too far with them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26
ALABAMA PRESS

Livingston Southern Home: An ego tist is a man who insists on telling you the things about himself that you want to tell him about yourself
 West Alabama Breeze: They say that long ago the man put powder in his gun and went out after a deer and now the dear puts powder on her face and goes out after man.
 Dothan Morning News: The only man who ever got the best of an argument with his wife was the old fashioned low brow who used a club.
 Columbiana Peoples Advocate: It is an- nounced that Birmingham is going to have another big cotton mill at a cost of $l00,- GOO. Birmingham is always looking for something big, and she generally gets it.
 Shelby County Sum All indications now are conclusive that Alabama will at the gathering time of crops produce enough to feed Alabama.
 Marion County News: Peanut politics and small-bore politicians are the curse of Alabama today.
 Gadsden Evening Journal: Every farm CT should keep books. Otherwise, he does not know whether he has a profit or a loss at the end of the year. Decaturs Daily: Paris is enjoying a series of attacks by German, birdmen. The French are strong for excitement. Huntsville Times: Commercial and in- dustrial activity has held up wonderfully well here throughout the months of de- pression. Other sections of the country did not share so happily, and now that the smoke of battle is practically cleared away. the remainder of the good year should be one of prosperous business in all lines
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26
WHERE THE WEST BEGINS

Arthur Chapman, to the Denver Repub- iican. Out where the smile dwells little longer, Where friendships grasp is a trifle
 stronger,
 That's where the west beglns. Out where the sun shines little brighter Where the snows that fall as trifle
 whiter, And the bond of home ties are a wee bit
 tighter
 That's where the west begins. Out where the skies are little bluer, Where frienship ties are trifle truer, Where there's music in every streamlet
 flowing, Where there's more of reaping. less of
 sowing.
 That's where the west begins. One where the world Is still in the mak-
 ing, Where fewer hearts with despair are
 breaking Where there's more of singing, less of
 signing. Where there's more of giving, less of
 buying, Where a man makes friends without half
 trying,
 That $ where the west begins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26
GOSSIP IN LONDON

From the Philadelphia Evening Tele-
 graph:
 A French lady. young and pretty, who happened to be staying in the same hotel as the Prince of Wales when he was on a recent tour of the line of battle in east ern France, spoke in most enthusiastic terms of "notre Prince Charmant." He is a raleeng," she said, in her fascinating clipped English. 'IIe is so, what do you say, so seempe, so domeste, and so verry, verry nice and young. And, but also, he has some of the deegnity, oh yes, quite much.
 An American now in London tells of the trouble he had to leave Antwerp last week.
 While he was waiting for his passport
 young German lieutenant handed him
 copy of the Cologne Gazette, containing
 an article on the American note to Ger
 many, written in a. very offensive style. The American said he wasn't interested and hadn't time to read it. Then" said the insoent German, you won't get your passport until you do." This infuriated the American, who fiatly refused to read the article. The German persisted in questioning him, and ended up by asking Are you pro- German?" No, am not said the American. land if this war were over I'd teach you a few things you ought to know Thereupon he was taken 1 to prison and kept there for 24 hours, until the American consul went himself and had him released.
 | The boulevards in Paris are still lighted, I but elsewhere the darkness is Stygian. | In London the streets at night are still well filled with people and hurrying taxi cabs. Paris after dark is empty. At Il o'clock in the evening you may walk from the Boulevard Haussmann into the Rue Tronchet and along the Boulevard to the Place de rOpera, and meet perhaps 10
 persons This in Paris on a Sunday night! l There are no omnibuses left in the city They are fighting for France at the front. In the afternoon a decrepit charabanc plies from the Rue Royale to the Place de l la Republique. London has not yet gone
 back to the growlers of the '9Os-but who can tell?
 1 It is rather interesting to learn that the I correspondence between the Czar and the Kaiser before the war was conducted in i English fluently, although he is not fond
 of doing so; and the Czar has an English | speaking wife. and has had all his children
 brought up by English governessss. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26
I climbed into this garden, to see if I can eat grass, or pick n sallet.
 - Henry VI.

BEGINNING THE DAY-O God, heIp me to remember today that those who serve me on street cars, at telephones, in shops, are not ma chimes, but people. Give me q quick sense of Thy need of the human touch. Give me due appreciation of the abiding value and high dig nifty of their work. For Christ's sake. Amcn.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26

Grand Duchess Tatiana in particular speaks English with hardly trace or ac- cent. although her infection IS typicaliy Russian. Nearly all foreign royalties or the younger generation speak English nu- ently. it being generally recognized that tbe English nurse is at once the most
 trustworthy and the best informed Ill matters of hygiene and health generally.
 An English stable boy in the service Of a French racehorse owner at Marly has been sentenced to 10 days Imprisonment by a. Paris court martial for ''dissemina- tion of false news.'' To tell the truth, the delnuuent's crime was not very serious one. His imagination, stimulated to exceptional vivacity by many mixed drinks, had peopled the wood of Chantilly
 with Uhlan patrols. Let accused and ac-
 cuser speak.
 Accused-On January IS, being mounted
 on a cart horse, you said to farmer or Luzarches: Look out! There are uhlan patrols in the forest of Chantilly, and believe they are going to blow up the bridges The news soon spread, and thanks to your stupid invention, French patrols were sent out in all directions in
 search of purely imaginary uhlans.' Ac- cused: q was riding over to Chantilly to enlist in the English army (which is not there, by the way). I had been drinkins' and was rather lazy. It was black night when rode through the forest and I did not feel at all comfortable.
 thought there might be uhlans lurking there When found that I was not at 1 tackled I began to feel very proud anu brave and ended by believing that tnere really had been Germans in the iores''
 That is why I told the farmer about the patrols. I wanted to show how coura- geous I had been. I had really peeii l frightened. and, in the reaction, wanted
 to frighten others"
 1 mi. distinctly subtle, if somewhat 1n- tricate. defense of the imaginative staoie
 boy did not convince the court' wnicn iin- posed the penalty mentioned aooNe'
 | rha man in the trenches had been
 n,ucb worried by German sniper. "The colonel of the next regiment when he | ,aarned who we were, asked if Fultin, l tbe Kings prizeman, was With us on 1 laarninr that he was, he consulted our colonel and they asked Fulton if he would go out and have shot at the sniper, who was in farm house, about 1 700 or 800 yards away. Well, he did, &C., companied by four of us. We crept across fields. in ditches behind what hedges there were and got position | about 400 yards away from the farm house-anq waited. More than half an hour passed with no sign of life, when through the glasses I spotted the sniper at an upper window, and Fulton had one shot only The window was smashed, but. of course. we could no, see what happened to the sniper. Then
 we hurried back. Of course, Fulton was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26

Villa has apologized for the murder of an American, according to dispatches from the state department at Washington That must have brought great relief to the dead man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Data on Jitney Deyelopmept

1 The remarkable services that tht Birmingham public library system stands ready to give to any citizen whc desires them is very little appreciated by the majority of the people of this city," said man yesterday who iron time to time comes in close contract with the library.
 To-day, for instance. I had occasion to desire some information on the jitney bus and found at the library that all most every conceivable kind of informa- tion on this subject had been gathered from all parts of the country There were. newspaper clipping from practi- cally all of the we'll known papers Of the country giving comments on the Jitney question, arguments for and against it, copies of ordinances adopted in many cities and others under ad- visement
 T found that Library Director Milan had written to different cities for in- formation concerning ordinances in op- eration or contemplated in those cities, and that the subject was completely covered. It struck me that that is Q remarkable service for the people of Birmingham to have merely for the asking. And it is only one phase of the activities of the library system"
 Y. M. C. \. WhfrIwind Campaign
 "The opening gun of the whirlwind membership campaign which is to be in- augurated in Birmingham by the Young Mems Christian association will be fired tonight at a great banquet to be given m the dining room of the Tutwier," said General Secretary Stalings last night.
 The building of the central association Is now thesscene of activity, and prepara- tions have been going on vigorously for the past few weeks. By tonight every thing will be in readiness-captains and teams will have been marshaled, special literature prepared and territory will have been allotted to the well-disciplined teams, whose numbers will aggregate more than $50 men.
 These men. including many of the most public-spirited of Birmingham s progressive citizenry, will assemble as guests of the association at the banquet
 
 be the keynote of the occasion. Judge Seldom F. Spencer. who will arrive from St. Louis this afternoon, will make the opening address, and Campaign Manager Edson P. Hoclxenberry of Harrisburg, Pa, will exhort the loyal supporters of the Birmingham institution to put forth the best that is in them in behalf of this city's institution
 MT. Hoekenberry has just completed an exceedingly successful membership ca;nraign in Norfolk. Va, receiving in that city the hearty support and loyal cooperation of a great portion of the more progressive citizens. More than 17OO members were secured in the Norfolk canlI aign; and people interested in the Birmingham association expect the people of Birmingham to come forward Loyalty in support of this community's reputation as the most progressive and wide-awake of southern cities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26

Indiana has her election frauds, New York her Thaw case, Georgia her Frank trial, but here in Alabama we're getting just about as much excitement over the constant developments of the tLacy scan- oal''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26

man of Montana claims that he can make 70 varieties of candy out of alfalfa. The farmers of Marengo county can go the Montana gentleman one better, for out of alfalfa they are making very handsome living.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26

We sometimes wonder if MT. Bryan is on the one hand boosting the president and on the other playing with the suffra- gettes and prohibitonists in the hope of achieving for himself certain exalted position.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26

disappointed that we could not say definitely that we had hit the sniper. Now comes the most interesting part That night nine of us were out on patrol duty. and we got quite close to the farm house and decided to inspect it. We scattered and crept up to it-the most nerve-trying job l have yet un dertaken. Well, we entered at last, and there was no one there. Then we went upstairs and found Fulton had got the sniper all right. He was an officer, and he had stores and ammunition there to last about a month ." Full tons fine shot probably saved dozens of our mems lives.