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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-01
ALABAMA PRESS

Selma Times: A Chicago meteorological earth is "drying up." This ought to be gcod news to MT. Hobson and other la borers in the vineyard.
 Montgomery Advertiser: They have beer called everything else. so Mont gorery citizen closes the discussion by alluding to the enemies in Europe as the 'Keezer" and the "Elies."
 Marion County News: There is no ne- gro problem in the south, and both of the races are living in peace. We have the criminal negro here as well as the criminal white man and both will improve with strict enforcement of the law and advancement of education. The southern people need no advice about the negro because they are competent to manage their own affairs.
 Guntersvile Democrat: It is intimated that some rule of precedence will be in- vcked to take committee appointments from Lieutenant Governor kilby. The people of the entire state have delegated to Mr. Kilby all the powers inherent in a lieutenant governor and they do not wish those powers conferred on man who rep resents only one district
 Columbiana Peoples Advocate: We be- lieve that the farmers have resolved, and will stick" to it, to reduce their cotton acreage next year, and to raise more corn and live stock.
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of this country and it's people, who were never better prepared to make prosperity a permanent condition.
 Asa foreign business man has said Go ahead and thank God that you are alive, and that your family is alive, and that you are living in a land that is at peace, at this time when nearly the whole world is at war.
 Tt very often happens, and we think it has happened in this case, that the distressing past months are only the proverbiai darkness before the day Of renewed business life, and that it marks a turning point in the policy of the whole country
 1915 starts with the confirmed desire on the part of all to make it the best year tha. this country has ever had in real, active, constructive, progressive work for each individual, for the fellows in our line of business, for the neighborhood in which we live, for the state and for our ns tional life.
 "The American iron and steel trade looks forward with renewed hope and op- timism into 19l5.'
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The Simple Heather Wonders

Most of the accounts given out re- garding the conduct of Japanese sol diers in the neutral territory of China, since Japan declared war on Germany, have been highly favorable. The German view is, naturally, not quite so much to the credit of the Japs.
 According to Swedish missionary, who makes statement in the Svenska Morgenbladet, reproduced in the Ham, burger Fremdenblatt and sent out by the German press bureau in New York, he had Japanese soldiers. with him for two months before the fall of Tsing-tao, who greatly terrified the Chinese The statement in the Ham, burger Fremdcnblatt continues: "The fears of the Chinese were not with ou1 foundation, for the author of the letker reports that the Japanese con- l< cted themselves very badly. They bed and plundered and took what nfancied, including all kinds
 Hey, grain, clothing, hay
 IS and even the rings
 ae women"
 lsing picture of the
 lho have been re-
 urces to be such
 have conducted
 most considera-
 rable Chinese,
 have been
 ecessities of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-01
A BAD EXAMPLE,.

Mother, whats bonehead' ?'' That's. vulgar word applied to stupid person. my son, but you must ] never use it Mother wants her boy to be refined and speak correctly "Al right mother. I wouldnt have asked you. what 1t meant if hadn't heard you call father :bonehead last night after left the room MAKING NO ALLOWANCES. Women are unreasonable creatures" Maybe yoa are right..',s s.yNs m convinced of it. Aywoman of my acquaintance who weighs more than 200 pounds has a husband who weighs 115. yet she. cries because he doesn't take her in his arms and soothe her injured feel ings just as he used to do when sh. was slip of a girl.a 2 smsss4r PLAYED OUT.Sa-ss s.- Tis only battered photograph That will no longer run, I Covered by layers of city dust And cracked in spots by the sun. In days gone by it gave delight To those who chanced to hear Its creaking. rasping voice that did Great damage to the ear. But now. methirks.s 'tis useless quite. Neglected and forlorn,As And one of the kind, you'll call to mind, That has crumpled horn THE FARMER sAwAY THE BETTER
 "Didnt.you tell me that Colonel Soaks- by is theoretical prohibtionist?"
 Yes"
 I'm afraid don't understand'
 "Oh. he thinks prohibition would be a good thing on Mars" a
 -aalt TOO SEVERE.
 2" Man was made to mourn.' quoted the philosopher.
 That's right snapped the Nmisogynist.. :, And woman was put on earth to see that. he does it. PAUL COOK. l
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E. w. Townsend in the Philadelphia Pub
 lie Ledger
 EFT us consider a little Richmond
 Pearson Hobson, representative in - Congress from the Sixth district of Alabama.
 The most interesting fact he mentions in the biography printed in the Congress sional Record is that he lis tenth in descent from Elder Brewster of the May flower" AS to his naval career. he mere ly recites "served in the United States navy from 1885 to 190S.'' making no men ton of the incident which brought him nationwide yes, worldwide fame-sink- ing the collier Herrimack in the harbor entrance of Santiago. Perhaps 1t would be bad form for retired naval officer to himself set down in Congressional Rec ord type a recital of an act of physical bravery; perhaps he judged, and rightly, too that the Merrimac incident needed no renewed telling to remain fresh in the minds of his countrymen, not forgetting hs countrywomen.
 Men, rather generally, possess physical ccIrage-do they not? Yet since ever this droli world began men have been heroized fo.' exhibiting that almost universal pos session under conspicuous circumstances. Any GOO men today storming trenches in. France or Flanders, in Galicia or Poland, display precisely the courage displayed by the 600 at Balaklava, but on Tenny- son will immortalize them, no govern ment will strike special medals for their survivors. There are so many 600 today charging into the jaws of death that there is nothing conspicuous about that dis agreeable performance.
 Nearly every boy will quote you certain lines of Richard III and of Henry " yet inrumerable truculent swordsmen have met their Macduffs, soldiers without num- Der have exhorted their dear friends to follow ''once more into the breach" But they had no Shakespeare to write stirring pieces about them.
 All of which is not written with pur- pose to detract from the glory of the deed performed by Mir. IIobson and the saiiormen-who knows their names?--who went with him in the Merrimac Rather. one wants to suggest that the sudden flood
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LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Inquirer
 When you say that some men are fat headed fools, every man in your audience knows that you are talking about the other fellow.
 Some men never forget to take the mak- ings with them when they go out. But they always seem to forget to take any matches.
 The girl who jars the plaster off the ceiling when she walks may not be grace ful. But you know that if you marry her she won't spend lot of your good money buying bust developer.
 T. is funny, but 1t is fact that most of the men who use perfect grammar are earning S20 per week. and most of the men who say them things and other bush league expressions own their own homes and have substantial bank ac- count
 Before marriage he ilnagines that 1t is sentiment that ss ar save his love letters. But a' ye he learns better.
 We all pay r.. experience. It is funny ..i- do not believe in fairies these da: ,i,nough the streets are filled with them.
 Any real woman will spend 25 cents to save dime.
 Any undertaken will tell you that he would starve if he had to depend on the men who are always yelping that they are working themselves to death. The brunettes are just as light-headed as the blondes.
 What has become of the old-fashioned girl who used to get bed quilts and fan mel petticoats for wedding presents? There isn't enough horse power In the world to force woman to do what she will do willingly after little jollyins.
 About the only men who are living within their incomes are the fellows who are locked in by the guards every night. Any homely girl can tell you that the prettiest apple isn't always the sweetest.
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GOT HER MONEY BACK

Girard. in the Philadelphia Public Ledger to State college got the expense money back in one year She tells me that his knowledge of cows has worked small miracle.
 He tests the milk, makes formula for tho feed each COW should have and weighs and measures results in fashion that fairly startled the neighbors.
 Oncc a COW was a COW. but now a poor COW very quickly becomes beef. It was formerly the fashion to give the entire herd the same quantity as we'll as the same kind of feed. regardless of what was best for each. Now that's changed.
 This college-educated farm hand has proved that 1t pays best to own only good cows. The neighbors soon caught that idea and that neighborhood has been rev olutionized in the milk business by this one person.
 know another woman who keeps chick ems, and she has told me that she earns 70 per cent year on her investment. But sre spent four or five years learning how to do it.
 Ever notice the green banks along the teep railroad cuts on the way to Atlantic City? They were formerly ugly clay and were washing down upon the tracks with every rain Then Engineer Nichols hap peued along with remedy He dumped good earth and fertilizer upon the steep bcnks, sowed grass seed and saved the company in repairs almost as much every year as the whole job cost
 Knowing how-that's 8 the trick. whether you raise chickens. keep dairy or are an engineer.
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The German. Net Brutal

"As am strongly pro-Gerinan in my synipathies. I greatly regret to see ac- counts of alleged German atrocities said E. Steiner.
 '"rhe German soldiers as rule have been anything but brutal. Of course. there aae individual cases of bad conduct. In all nations we find some ,ruffians but the Germans as class have conducted themselves as men and not as sayages. 1 was in Holland. not far from Antwerp when, Antwerp fell. Afterward l met many Belgians and nearly all of them spoke of the humane conduct of the Germans.
 When it comes to the French the Ger mans have a distinctly friendly feeling for them. 1t is England that the Ger mans hate For many years German of fioers at their banquets have drunk to the toast Der Tag fthe day}. meaning the day when Germany would invade and sub jugate Great Britain. In this war no matter who comes out ahead there will be no extermination: but I simply refer to the German toast to show how intense Is the feeling in German army circles"
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Earnin,; His Pay

All our ambassadors in the old world have been kept very busy ever since the war began, and Walter II. Page, who is ably representing the United States In England, is certainly earning his pay said Nj. w. Cassiday of New York city T have known MT. Page personally for several years and have known him to be a man of sterling qualities. He is virile writer and has been a good manager of periodical publications. But it never oc- cured to me that he had in him much of the diplomatic make up. He is however, successful in his very difficult post; or rateer he has been successful in the more important matters entrusted to him. MT. Page as diplomat is really an agreeable surprise to me-
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of limeight directed at Captain Hob- son spoiled an efficient naval officer and
 made by Mir. Hobson a less efficient leg islator.
 In appearance, Hobson very strongly re-
 sembles the youthful William Jennings Bryan of the cross of gold period. ex- cept that Hobson is quite bald. and in those early 16-to-1 days the present Sec retary of State had an unrent thatch. Which is to say, Hobson is distinctly a handsome man; as stalwart, upstanding, stI ong- featured a sailorman as Annapo- lis ever produced.
 But Hobson has an unfortunate man ner q. 'certain condescension." which Elder Brewster may have brought over with him on the Maydower and trans mitted undiminshed in quantity unin- paired in quality, to his tenth descendant. This, it may be. preserves him unaf- fected by the scorn of those oe lis fellow members of the House who compare his notorious record for absenteeism with his pledigal display. of .holier-than-thou- Ii surely accounts for the noticeable acer-. pity. of temper displayed by, members who, upon the rare occasions of his pres-s ence III the House, point out to MT. Hobson his delnquencies in the matter of attendance. What appears. most to in- cense his critics is the fact that Hobson attends sessions of Congress only after he has elaborately set the stage for a sen- saticnal entrance and then does turn -. which he uses to boom his lecture engage ments.
 For it is a fact that. besides being a notorious absentee Hobson, is fragrant offe nder in the matter of abuse of the frenking privilege
 II has been told, but do not recall now,'
 how many hundreds of thousands of copies of his prohibition speeches made in Congress he has franked to boom his pro- hitition lectures: how many of his speeches on the floor attacking his oppo-, nent for the. Alabama senatorship, Oscar W. Underwood, he franked to boom his own campaign for the senatorship. Under wood beat him. handiy without making any campaign simply because the voters resented Hobsons insinuation that Bnder- wood represented, in his candidacy, 'the liquor interests
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Prosperity in the west

was considerable business depression prior to December, but there has been little talk of hard times in the west" said J. F Hessberg of Chicago. ''I was on the Pocihe coast in September and all the cities v visited-five or six of them seemed to be thriving; and in the latter part Of November l made a second trip. Sal. Francisco Is wonderfully prosperous. It has had banner year indeed. Great preparations are being made for enter taining visitors to the exposition The city will be well crowded by March,
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CONAN DOYLE sUGonsrED IT

From the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
 If Germany should ask America what she would say In case German submarines should begin blowing up British merchant shirr. she might reply that Dr. Conan Doyle, British novelist, suggested 1t in recent fiction story.
 But what will Great Britain say to pr. Doylo if Germany carries out the sub- marine threat? She might ask him to be kind enough or-stop emulatlng Jules Verne in his nction antil the war V ioSeF: S nes facile pen can work incsl-
 Ichief.
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
ONE MORE.

T don't know where I'm going. friend, gay joy rider said,
 But just the same. despite the drinks, l know Pm on my way. Ere long he crashed into fence and landed on his head. Ana someone found him lying there about the break O day. His foolish heart had ceased to beat his face was icy cold And serpent-wise crimson stain had crept across his brow. He did not know where he was bound-it was the truth he told But much fear tis rather warm where he's sojourning now.
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THE COMPLETE CONQUEST.

THE COMPLETE CONQUEST.
 This is the headquarters of General Puffupsky."
 Who are those learned gentlemen who look like college profesors?'
 "oh, they are etymologists who nave been brought along to give Russian names to all the towns and cities captured by the Russian army
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BEGINNING THE DAY = Last

BEGINNING THE DAY = h"st night, my Father, the oia se"f s"f ned away. Ii took with It many chances which hut poorly improve"' many which 1 saw but did not seize' many which in my blindness ! did nor even see. And now the new yea, waits. holding all the chances 'n". can be. No, 1t waits not secona. : nm in 1t. God help me. In Shr'S's name. Amen.-H. M. E.
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In Connecticut suffrage bill has been defeated for A consecutive years. Still. the srffragists may say with Leo Frank that
 it's long lane that has no turning
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Vermont reported temperature of 32 degrees below zero last week. And we thought it was cold here at 40 above!
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Chicago will have to worry along with out grand opera for awhile but the tired business man is not losing any sleep over the situation there
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IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Un-nti.factory Farmins Condition.

The farming conditions in my section are not satisfactory said J Wesley Nor land of Havana, Hale county There is much cotton being held, and collections by merchants have been poor
 Cotton seed is selling for 30 cents per bushel, being about SIS per ton. This is an advance over the prices prevailing earlier in the season when only SIP could be obtained. Owing to the existing con ditions. and the weather, farming prepara- tiona for the next crop are dragging"
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great many people manage to get through New Years Eve without con spning any champagne.
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Local strategists should also swear off from the bad habit of fighting the Eu- ropean war on paper.
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The London Chronicle reprints from teresting account of the Kaiser at an inn provised church in the French village os Longwy, showng the German Emperor in one of his characteristic moods Prepa- rations had been made for the Kaiser's attendance by decorating the walls with lances--a form of decoration singularly assembled on one side and 1900 on the other The front seats were occupied by the suites of the Kaiser and the general An armchair in the center was reserved for the Emperor. He was dressed in a gray field uniform. with scarlet and gold embroidered collar. Over his uniform older, tho correspondent thought, and ex- ceedingly grave. His features were so mctionless and his eyes so set and stern that he looked as if he were chiseled in stcne. He rose from his seat at the pray CTS and hymns, and in singing took an ac- tive part. The hymns were apparently all familiar to him, as he seldom looked at the hymn book When at the con clusion of the service choir of singers anG trumpeters sang the choral, "Wir Treten gum Beten." it was not at first rendered with enough spirit to suit the Kaiser. He began to mark time -vigor- ously. The choir followed his lead and the music swelled to a thrilling volume.
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By carrying 10000O,o00 Christmas pack ages Uncle Sam gave Santa Claus val uable assistance
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way to the trash pile. A short life, but a strenuous one.
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pictures that no artist but a madman could paint s-' e n.
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Of course it would be possible to end the war in Europe by cutting off all guns ammunition and supplies shipped out of the United States. The big krupp fac tories would keep merrily at work and the fatherland would have what is called in the vernacular a ''walkoyer"
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If we didn't know it already. the flood of new calendars would tell us that 1915 is here.
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Iron Market Review

Rogers Brown X Co.'S review of the
 iron market in 1914 at the closing of the year has this among other things:.
 Tn retrospect the year reminds the re- vic wer of that most melancholy sight-an aba bandoned last summers hammock swing
 ing in the winter breeze. It is high at both ends and sagging low in the middle.
 1914 started out on the heels of year which was unsatisfactory in the main. but was getting stronger toward the end, with great potential possibilities. There
 had seldom been a time when stocks of raw material and of iron on furnace yards were as low as they were in January, and the same was true with iron consum- CTS yards. Almost a house-cleaning sit uation as was expressed at that time. It is confidently felt that improvement when it comes will be of size hardly yet ap-
 preciated. all provided no one untoward occs sion prevents the natural growth and expansion as indicated today As it turned l out not only the one but several other un- toward conditions presented themselves very prominently during the 12 months. The last two weeks of the year are generally the most depressed of all. This year it would be difficult to have depres- sion lower than we have had during the earlier months Consequently there is not only lack of depression toward
 the close. but marked activity which brings the final of 1914 into higher plane, both as regards inquiries. sales and all features which make for an improved business condition.
 "rrhe steel trade is the highest court of evidence in changing industrial conditions.
 and it's findings are given only after the
 most searching inquiry and are the result of every point of view. Such improve
 ment now noted begins at the bottom and l is better than any make-helieve activity 1 on the stock exchange. Throughout the commercial fabric there seems to be a new temper in affairs from the highest executive authority down."
 | Rogers Brown X Co. conclude their re- port enthusiastically. They say:
 "The era of prosperity. delayed by the
 outbreak of war for three or four months
 is about to be ushered in for the benefit
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The old water wagon is loaded to its capacity. Ware the first rut in the road,
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to lose their lives and gain five yards pro fpa tria? fsf-ts ae an
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George M. Conan is dancing In a musi- cal show again. He says it's what the public wants.
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When you stop to consider what the year 1911 brought. it isn't hard to say good-by.
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Regarding City's Financial Affairs

Regarding City's Financial Affairs
 Tn all of the data and figures that have been printed bearing upon the financial condition, remedies and faults of Bir- ningham. l have seen none which gave me exactly what I want" said a we'll known merchant yesterday. who is inter- cial difficulties.
 What l would like to see would be a statement from the commissioners as to what are the citys total revenues and what are it's operating expenses. I be-. iftvcS that if that were shown 1t would be seen that the operating expenses are not much more or less than the revenues.
 Every table of figures l see compares the total revenues with the total expenses. That's not fair This Is a young, grow ing city in the vigor of its development. The city government is being compelled every year to buy parks, schools, pave streets, build sewers. erect schoolhouses and forth, and for that money the citizens are getting value received In a comparative statement the expense should not be taken out of the govern ments revenues. We've got something left here to show for 1t; real, concrete improvements in the growth of the city that will serve us for years to come. All that should be placed in the operating expenses should be the salaries and actual cost of administering the government as 1t is, without adding what has to be paid out for improvements.
 "I heard a well-known man make this illustration. He said Birmingham was growing so fast that she was much like horse going down hill With 8 wagon behind. The horse had 10 run very fast to keep out of the way of the wagon and the government of the city has had to run mighty fast to keep out of the way of the city, and tho expenses in doing so should not be made a part of the cost of government; for it is part of the cost of the citys growth