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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
Musicians nt the Front

Birmingham music lovers will perhaps be interested to learn that Willie Lamp ing, the cello player on the Minneapolis orchestra when it visited this city last is, according to latest accounts from the front fighting in Belgium" said John Wiegand, director of the orchestra at the Tutwiler.
 MT. Lamping is highly talented, and his performances as cello player on or ehestras in this country have won for him an enviable reputation in America. He played on one of my orchestras several years ago and his efforts were highly ap- rreciated. It chanced that he was In Germany when the war broke out and he immediately enlisted in the army, and was rushed to the front. l sincerely trust that he will come through the war unscathed.
 As is generally known, there are many musicians of note of several nationalities who have taken their places at the fl 1ont. Among those best known in this country is Kreisler, the Austrian violinist. Mir. Kreisler is one of the best violin
 soloists that has visited this country. After serving for few months on the Austrian front he has been granted a release by that government. At con 1 cert in Berlin recently he was wildly ap- plauded I understand that Kreisler will soon visit this country and will be able to fill his regular contract here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
Japan's Ambition

Just what the subtle Japanese are planning while Europe is too busy to pay much attention to what is going on in their part of the world is the subject of much speculation. That they have vaulting ambition, greater even than that of the Germans, seems quite likely. Just how far they would go to gratify that ambition is some thing that no member of an alien race can say. It doesn't require much per spicacity to see that Japan's treat ment of China was prompted by self ish motives and will prove basis for much greater aggrandizement in the future, unless England, Russia and the United States take hand in the proceedings.
 Oscar King Davis, a noted corre- spondent, writes from Picking most significant article on Japan's dream of becoming world power. While his views are largely speculative, they are most interesting and doubtless strike near the truth. He says that Japan is preparing for the day when a great world war will be fought be- tween the white and yellow races. The Japanese hope by that time to have reorganized the Chinese as a vast, highly trained army and by their aid sweep all before them. Japan dreams, according to Mir. King, of an initial army of ten million men and a re- serve approximating forty million more.
 But to become an independent na- tion Japan must have unlimited money, and she is now impoverished. She must also have iron in order to equip her armies and her warships. There is no iron in Japan. In China there are vast deposits of iron and on these Japan is casting longing eyes. In China also lies the unde- veloped wealth which the Japanese are capable of utilizing in such way as to make it enormously profitable China also has coal, which is neces. sary to Japan.
 At present the Japanese are able tc do little or nothing toward increasing their power, but if they get absolute control of China and carry out the dream of welding the yellow races into mighty fighting force the "yel low peril" will be something more than fancy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
Secret Well Kept

"I was surprised that the Washing ton correspondents-the brightest bunch of newspaper men l know of did not hear about MT. Bryans purpose to resign from the cabinet until the day his letter went to the President, said a prominent citizen of the District of Columbia.
 Tuesdays New York papers had no intimation that Mir. Bryan was leaving the administration. It turns out that the resignation was decided upon last Saturday; that Ms. Bryan and Presi- dent Wilson had talked it over then Several of the cabinet officials knew of MT. Bryan's determination, but they did not let it leak. This, to me, Is a remarkable instance of men in politl- cal life being able to keep secret from the newspaper correspondents on so important a matter as the break in the cabinet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
Strategy Wins Results

Many contest has been won by strategy, when victory could have been gained by no other means.
 w. F. Guthrie, a Kansas City attor- ney, fully realizes this fact, and to it can credit success in a law suit, says a Kansas City paper. Guthrie's client was being sued by an employe who alleged that personal injuries had been received through defect in wagon he was using. The whole case rested upon the condition of the wagon Guthrie asked that the jury be taken to see the wagon in question. This was denied, so he hired ten or fifteer husky men to tote the wagon up to thu courtroom, which was located on tn, second floor
 The jury there examined the wagon found no defect, and returned verdic favorable to the Guthrie client.
 me wagon stOOu III tHe cOuTtTooH several days, marked Exhibit D" ant is said to be the largest exhibit eve presented in that court.
 This bit of strategy comes like 2 refreshing breeze, depicting, as il does, the resourcefulness which has formerly characterized the American lawyer.
 Of late years if has seemed tha1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
Auburn Graduates

T have read with great interest the account of the commencement, and was especially gratifed to see that Auburn graduating class was a record breaker, said professional man,
 One hundred and forty-seYen consn' tute large number of graduates Tor the Alabama Polytechnic institute in one year. l have no doubt but that most of these young men will make good iT whatever field of endeavor they choose But the technically educated must bear in mind that of which their teachers have often reminded them, they cannot attain high degree of success In the industrial world without an apprentice ship. short though it be, in actual shor work or mine work or farm work, as the case may be. Auburn boys appreciate this fact and will hew to the line.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
The Bryan Episode

MT. Bryan's statement to the public, issued yesterday, giving his reasons for resigning from the cabinet is but an amplification of what he said in his cordial letter to the President.
 MT. Bryan is peace man, and so is President Wilson. Both abhor war. They differ radically, however, in one very important respect. MT. Wilson is for peace with honor, and only such peace. He has been so patient in dealing with international troubles of a warlike nature as to provoke criti- cism on the part of those who urged a very strenuous foreign policy. But the great mass of the people of this country feel that the President s course has been not only wise, but thoroughly courageous and thoroughly American. They have trusted him to meet with patriotic firmness all the difficulties involved in this country s relations with Germany growing out of the Lusitania horror, and they will have no reason to change their mind,
 A few of the points raised in the exchange of diplomatic notes between Washington and Germany are legal questions that will require time for adjudication, but the warning that neutral vessels with Americans aboard and carrying no armament must be protected against submarine attacks calls for a prompt and conclusive response from the German foreign of flee. Germany's reply to President Wilson's note of May 13 was in friend ly tone, but evasive. The note that will reach Berlin this week must be answered without quibbling.
 President Wilson and his cabinet have taken a resolute stand. The ad- ministration can be relied upon to do everything possible to avert a rup- ture of diplomatic relations, not to say war. But there is something even more precious than peace, and that is a nations honor
 If MT. Bryan is not an advocate of peace at any price he is so close to it that the effect is the same. Civ ing the retiring Secretary full credit for the sincerity of his convictions and the frankness of his course, the President and not Mr. Bryan represents the enlightened and patriotic public sentiment of the Uni ted States at this crisis. But demo- crats of all shades of opinion will not fail to applaud MT. Bryan for his as- surances of continued political sup port to his former chief. He has made that pledge in good faith and it will be carried out
 MT. Bryan's resignation will pass into history as a sensational episode; but nothing more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
DOG-GONE TT
From the Pittsburg Sun.

From the PlttSburg Sun
 The action of Governor Brumbaugh in signing the bill that makes it unlawful for foreigner to own a dog places on the statute books another of those funny measures. One doesn't know whether to smile, frown or jusr shrng his shoulders in the most approved for eign style and dismiss the subject. The eigners as a rule have no regard for our game laws or any conception of the sentiment that makes the American peo- pie object to the killing of song birds and animals at all seasons of the year. In their native countries they do not know what such regulations mean. One can go into a market in France or Italy and find on sale the larger field song birds just as we have quail and pheasa in season. Therefore, these foreigners wonder why it is, in free country like America, they cannot go forth and shoot anything that is wild al any season.
 But this dog law is drastic in so far that if carried out to the strict letter no foreign family can possess pet ;,og, big or little, Each one must get rid of it's canine pets at once or else the state off cials will see to 1t that the beasts are killed and the costs collected from the whilom owners. The law specifics that a stay of 10 days in any community makes the foreigner a resident If that section and thereupon he comes under the terms of the law Now there are laws that make 1t unlawful for foreigners to possess guns, revolvers or dogs, the pr- mary purpose being to conserve the game of the state. The interesting part of this latest measure will be it's enforcerrent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
In the Event of War

Some persons are rather inclined to overestimate the importance of this country as a factor in the European situation' remarked a German -Ameri- can.
 "Of course, war between the United States and Germany is not thought to be very probable: but still 1t is a pos sibility In the event of war between this country and Germany the com- merce of the United States would nat urally be greatly affected, as 1t could then be attacked with impunty by the submarines of Germany. On the other hand, German supplies would be in no way affected Naturally the United States is hardly in position to land a large number of troops in Europe, and as the German fleets are not accessi- ble to the English and French squad l. rons the battleships of the American nation could hardly be brought into play with any degree of success. should war be declared between this country and Germany American coii- merce would naturally suffer greatly and supplies bound for the camps oi the allies would not come quite SC freely. As Germany. Austria and Fur
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10

lawyers have largely depended upon technicalities of the law rather than the justice of their contention. They, seemingly, are given too much to examinine the law with high-power magnifying glass to pick up some flaw, some loop hole through which the client can crawl.
 Let us have more of the manly, re- sourceful legal practice by lawyers who do not hestitate to take off their coats and haul a wagon up the back stairs, if the ends of justice will be furthered thereby.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
\ HINT TO GOLFERS

From Outing.
 If there is one part of the game more than another that is likely to try the golfers patience to the utmost it is putting. When we consider that half of the game of golf is on the putting green is not this a good reason why we should be proficient at it? But how are we to overcome this weakness on the greens?
 The only real sound theory that is known for putting is to swing your butter on dead straight line through the ball toward the hole. You can practice this method by putting the end of the butter head close up to T wall and practice swinging your butter back and forth; pendulum moven ent is best. keeping the end of the butter close to the wall Try and see if il does not help your holing out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
FLAGsrAFF PIG FEET LONG

From the New York Times.
 The longest flagstaff produced in Brit ish Columbia will be forwarded soon to
 Great Britain as a present from the prov
 incial government, and will be placed in the Kew Botanical gardens, a few miles out of London. according to R. K. Mans
 field. the United States consul general at Vancouver. The tree from which 1t wa made was a perfect specimen of fir pine. and the staff, which is 216 feet long, is without flaw or defect.
 In it's original state the stick was five feet in diameter at the butt and 14 inches 1 in diameter at the top, and perfectly straight. Dressed into shape, the staff | has a diameter of 32 inches square at the l butt for distance of Is feet. For the next 1 100 feet it is octagonal in shape and for l the last 100 feet it is round. The upper
 POO feet is a gentle taper from 32 inches to F inches in diameter.
 The staff is now in the yards at False
 creek, Vancouver. awaiting shipment It will be forwarded as a deck load on one
 of the big liners running out of this port.
 The flagstaff at the courthouse in Van | couver which is 204 feet long. came from | the same timber limits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
EUROPEAN sTLYE
Friend Villa whipped?9 It cannot be. Perhaps his flight Was strategy.
A USEFUL WOMAN.

There was time when Mrs. Pankhurst was probably the most detested woman in England. Certain it is that her mili- tant activities for suffrage made her d target for much ribald abuse. Came war, and Mrs. Pankhurst dropped the brick which she was supposed to carry about for the purpose of breaking heads, as well as windows. She dropped, too, her suffrage campaign and has ever since been working periodically for that Eng land and those Englishmen she was for merly accustomed to anathematize on all occa sions. Not only nas Mrs. ss proved her mettle in more worthy way than she did as a suffragette, but her colleagues have followed her example in putting aside their own affairs to assist their country in it's hour of need. The English suffragettes have won more pop ularity in the comparatively short time that the war has been going on than they ever would have gained by pester- ing poor King George and Mir. Asquith
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
From the New York Sun

From the New York Sun.
 | A LTHOUGH scientists have proved | A absolutely that it is impossible to 4 X remove the bone from a left ! handed pitchers head without blasting. Ia,kindred surgical problem was grappled 1 successfully yesterday afternoon when NJ sieu Louis Brac, chef from that dear Majestic before an elbow touching clinic i that it is possible to remove a shad from
 his entire bony structure.
 Removing all the bones from shad has a tendency, from the shad's view point. however, to ruin the shad utterly. l But from the point of view of the house. wife and her shad hungry husband M sieu 1 Louis delft methods of unboning shad l has its merits.
 | Besides Louis was swaggerly dolled up 1 in a spotless white apron and white cap
 spotless even after he had removed the
 cssahoosis, or shad bone No. 1,sei.sae, s2o,-
 671. counting back from the shads cars and the clinic was crowded to the S. k. o' point by housewives from the interna : 1 tional Residence association ana tneif
 guests. As tea and dancing follow even major operations nowadays there were | tea and dancing at the conclusion or the boneless shad clinic.
 l Here's NJ sieu Louis plan of operating on a shad so that the shad will assay two pounds of bones to every pound of shac without injury to anything except ths
 shad:
 Frist one catches a shad. When it is certain that the shad has departed this |, life the fresh fish is next laid on 2
 wooden board with three sharp knives ', within reaching distance. Now M Msie, Louis cuts curved line around hi l head-the shad' sand removes 1t. Another curlycue cut astern, and zip goes tn,
 shads tail into the discard.
 yl Next with a big knife NJ sieu Loui. sits the shad from where it's head onc' !, was to the point recently occupied by it
 late tail. Then with the second sizet | knife he tM seu Louis) makes an in y cision from where its (the shad's) heas
 was to the tail within an inch of it's spine T The shad surgeon follows this up b. making two fiourishes with his knife
 the ncisions curving outward, amidshil of the shad.
 . And now the shad surgeon gets down t h the finer mashie and butter strokes wit e his smallest stabber, shaving thinly wha
 is left between the two amidship incisions ' Then when everybody holds his breath U her breath at yesterdays clinic-M sic . Louis makes a few quick moves whic
 prove that the prestidsitators (suppoain
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
LIKE M,LukE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 When vegetarian tells a girl that she is nice enough to eat it is not always a compliment. Maybe he thinks she is green.
 It makes girl mad to have a pimple on her face because she can't go ahead and prove that she hasn't any where you couldn't see them.
 After you have rummed around the world for awhile you discover that people who are really smart never act that way.
 When girl is learning to smoke cig- arettes she makes herself sick. And after she has learned to smoke them she makes you sick
 Cheer up. girls. Marriage isn't any more of a failure than remaining single The old fashioned man who believed that the cigarette habit would make q man set fire to an orphan asylum. now has a son who has his cigarettes made to order with his monogram on the paper The pretty men are the best dancers But the homely guys are the best mea tickets.
 Father can't see anything to worr, about when mother can't find the car opener. But if the beer opener CT tn, corkscrew are missing father wants z divorce.
 | A married woman usually imagines tha ] she knows more about men than the. know about themselves. | Any woman will gladly pay 10 cents ca | fare to go downtown and buy an articl, for cents less than she would have t pay for it near her home. l It is hard to catch two-spot whel you are trying to i'll straight in an all night poker game. But it is easy to catcl the deuce when you get home in tn
 morning.
 When a man gets too old to have an. | fun he spends a lot of his money ol societies for the prevention of things.
 A thin girl is always glad that so littl
 of 1t has to show on the outside.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
TEMPERAMENT

From the Kansas City Times.
 A good many persons treat their tenn perament as if it were wart CT a tnmor over which they had no control.
 T simply can't do that a man will say; T guess it's matter of tempera- ment" Or man who is a "welcher on the trar-who takes a wife as "pard- ner' and then quits her on the trail excuses himself on the score of temper ament
 There is temperament, of course. And it is a good thing. It is chiefly that which keeps us from all being alike. Life would be dreadfully equable and boresome if it were not for tempera- ment.
 But to mistake "eold feet for tempera- ment; or to let the real thing in the way of temperament master you instead of be- ing mastered by you-that's bad It's worse than bad, it's stupid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Excellent Trade Conditions

Business is picking up bris;lly in south ern territory remarked C. W. White ol Danville, Va, who travels for Robert Harris X Bros. tobacco manufacturers oi Redsville, N. c.
 cover practically the entire south and sales this trip have been excellent Business in Birmingham seems to be espe- cially good on this visit. and there IS much industrial activity in evidence. other southern cities are also reported in good shape in a business way, and l see no reason why I should not clean up this month. Much of my success is due or course, to the attractive line which car ", but 1 attribute the major portion of my sales to excellent trade conditions which now exist"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10

key are now hghting practically the entire civilized world with the exeep- ton of the United States the addition of this country would hardly make any appreciable difference in the outcome of the struggle; although it would prove most expensive for America to become involved in a foreign war Let Us hope, however, that no such state of affairs will be brought about"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
"TELEFUNkE

By John Finley in Scribners Magazine.
 tSayville, l.. L) What wondrous crop has grown upon this
 shorei
 A tendril of the earth has felt its way Far skyward from the barren sand and
 clay, Rising q half thousand feet or more Above the scrub oaks of the island floor, Without leaf or bough. except a spray Of radiate, vibrant threads-a thing of gray That sprang from some night-sown. wnd- carried spore. More sensitive than that rare plant which shrinks If one but touch leaf this sentient tree Knows what Is said in distan. Ger many.
 And cen could whisper what war lord thinks GAS once the oak revealed deity) But stands there, listening. silert e q
 sphinx.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
VALUABLE HELPMEET.

Do you admire the clinging, vine type of woman, or the self-reliant kind." answered MT. Blobbins. "It is pleasant sometimes to play the role of protector to helpless feminity, but when I see the businesslike manner in which my wife takes off punctured tire and puts on a new one, scorning all assistance from without her"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
BONING SHAD

, that's the way to spell ip were. right: The hand is quicker than the eye. Anyway, with a final flip M Msieu Louis separates the shad from it's last bone.
 If no housewife grasps from this de- scription just how the eminent shad surgeon shows his scientific shad sur gerry she may at least find some comfort
 in the statement that even the attentive clinic yesterday could no more have per-
 formed the operation with M sieu Louis deftness than they could repeat "shad surgeon shows his scientific shad sur gerry deftly at first attempt and get away with it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10

raise another quarter of million dollars should be undertaken. The college should have all told, before the close of the present decade, an endowment of $250,O00 and new build ings and ground improvements repre- senting an expenditure of $250, ,000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10

BEGINNING THE DAY-Guide me, q Thou great Jehovah. I feel myself unable to choose my path. Wrong motives may he present with mc, doubts and fears may urge me against the right. I need my God. l trust myself to Thee. l wait upon Thy moving. And when Thou movest help me to follow. For Christs sake. Amen.-H. M. E.