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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-15

While the governor stated that he pre- ferred not to discuss his message be- he indicated very clearly certain needed constitutional changes to which he pro- poses to call attention.
 Local taxation for support Of public schools will be one of the most important subjects treated by the governor in his message. He will urge constitutional provision for local county and school dis trict taxation to take the place of the general appropriation of s6oo,0oo that is paid out of the treasury every year for public schools.
 He will urge the necessity of a different
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-15
WHEAT PRICES
 RISE UPWARD

Chicago, January 14.-Generally accepted assertions that unless the European de- mand soon diminished the United States would have no wheat to ship abroad after March. lifted the price of that ce- real here today to s1 .43ss the highest in many years. Retail flour prices rose simultaneously. sacks which recently sold for 70 cents going to 90 cents.
 Five European governments were re- ported today to be actively in the wheat market on this side of the Atlantic in addition to individual buyers from for eign fields. The result was figured to be exportation at the rate of S.000,000 to 10.000.000 bushels week.
 The governments which are direct pur- chasers in the United States are the Swiss, Greek, Italian, Dutch and French. So far the British government has done nothing as a government. but Great Brit aims food supply is said here to be down to a 60-day basis and if Great Britain as government should enter the mar ket the result, in the opinion of Chi cago experts. would be hard to foresee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-15
TODAY'S AGE-HERALD

1-Governor to urge constitutional con
 vention,
 Extent of earthquake disaster larger
 than thought. Prohibition bills passed by both
 houses.
 Says Bryan lent ear to money inter-
 ests. 2-Kilby names senate committees. 3-Wheat monopoly now regarded as i'm possibility 4-Editorial comment. 5--Money comes easy for crop campaign B. R., l.. X F. Co. directors meet. Burger heads Business Mems league Enormous loss as result of prohibition 6--Society. 7--Sports. 9-Markets. 10-Iturbide tells of his escape from deatA
 in Mexico.
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retary of state It was written by hand and in red ink. Both the governor and his friends refused to add anything to the brief statement The message to the gen. eral assembly was equally terse, saying Hereby tender my resignation to you as governor of the state of South Caro- lina."
 Governor Richard I. Manning will be inaugurated next Tuesday He has been d political opponent of MT Blease and defeated Lieutenant Governor Smith, indorsed by Governor Blease, for the dem- ocratic nomination last August. Mr. Blease. at the time, was defeated for the democratic nomination for United States senator by Ellis D. Smith. the incumbent
 Governor Blease, sometimes called "the stormy petrel of South Carolina" was accounted one of the most picturesque figures in American public life. Original
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-15
PROHIBITION BILL
 GOES INTO EFFECT

Phoenix. Ariz., January 14-A bill to carry out provisions of the prohibition amendment which went into effect Jan uary 1, was introduced in the legisla- ture today. It defines liquor as liquids containing more than one-half of one per cent alcohol and would empower the governor to call out the state mil itia to enforce the law. Importation of wine for religious purposes would be per mitted.
 The selling or giving away of liquor would be classed as a misdemeanor for a first offense. but a second offense would be felony, punishable by Imprisonment from one to five years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-15

system of taxation, a system looking to equalization.
 Another subject to which he will call attention in his message on a constitu- tional convention, will be that of feed ing convicts. He will urge the need of a constitutional provision placing this cost upon the counties rather than upon the state.
 Law reform will be treated at length and he will recommend many needed constitutional changes for the purpose of securing reforms in that direction.
 The message of the governor on the need of calling a constitutional conven- tion will be one of the most important matters, he thinks, which will be con sidered by the legislature at this ses- sion. The message is brief
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-15
THE WAR SITUATION

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-15
To Discuss Alabama
 Committee Assignments
to Call Meeting of Congressmen of This State Decide on Fights for Committee Places Representation IS Likely to Be Reduced

Washington. January 14.-(Special. ,
 As dean of the delegation, Reprcsen- tstive Burnett today said that he pro-
 posed to call meeting of. the Ala |,ama members of the next House at Birmingham in the spring to discuss fomnittec assignments for the Sixty Fourth Congress. Mir. Burnett discussed The plan with Representative Cl,der-
 hood who approved it heartily.
 It is understood here that Messrs. Almon, Oliver and Gray would lilS. to kerve on the committee on rivers and harbors, while also it is known that tdr. Burnett would prefer that assign
 uent if the immigration bill with the
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first half of the session, provided that there be split session.
 They have interviewed a considerable number of members.
 They have found to their own satisfac- tion at least that they have strength which is surprising
 The Birmingham ladies will reappear on the scene next week and resume their campaign. There is no gainsayine the fact that in R personal way at least they have impressed the legislators with certain favor.
 Nevertheless, 1t is believed that they are rushing rapidly toward defeat. for even should they manage to get their bill
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iiteracy test becomes a law. Mr ..ber- crombie is looking toward ways and means and one or two other prefer ences also have been formed These and any other conflicts of ambitions are to be straightened out at the meet ing proposed by MT. Burnett.
 Tn view of the fact that the. dcmo- crats will lose heavily Tn mei,rbersh., i, in the next House. 1t is understood that their share of representation or, committees will be reduced proportion ateiy and there may he. for instance cnly one vacancy on rivers and llar- bors. in which event, it is feared. Ala bama will have small chance of re- tanning It's representation in that body,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-15
Farmer Found Dead

Clayton, January 14.--(Spccial ] Ben s. Cans, white farmer living about six miles from this place. was found dead from gunshot wound in his field some distance from his house this Afternoon. It is not known wheth- CT his death was the result of an ac : eidept or whether he committed sui eide He was about so years of age. wcll thought of and leaves q wife and several children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-15
NEW CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION WILL BE
 URGED BY GOVERNOR
O'Neal to Send Strong Message to Legislature To- day Asking That Convention Be Called-Im- portant Constitutional Changes Advocated
By l.. s. BETTY

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-15
ORATORY FLOWS
 ASPROH|b|T|ON|ST
 PLANS MATER|AL|zE
Local Optionists Offer Little Opposition and Situation Is Devoid of the
 Dramatic
By HUGH W. ROBERTS


 Montgomery. January I4.-(Special.) | HiIIs putting again into effect the Car michael and Fuller prohibition laws asd revealing the Smith nnd IsarI<s local option laws were jammed through both branches of the legislature this morning.
 The vote in the lower house was 70 to P; in the upper, 26 to 9.
 There was no contest worthy of the name. The Iocnl optionists. having been made aware of what to expect, simply stood by their guns and when the charge of the militant majority came, permitted themselves. after their lim- tied power of resistance had been ex- hausted. to be moved down ns the wheat is moved by the reaper.
 It is true that local optionists made an effort to effect change in the pro- gramme of the prohibition forces. Rep- resentative men from Mobile and Mont gomery appeared before the temperance committed, as has been recorded, and there spoke philosophy, psychology ethics and economy. And in the house and senate today strong argument was presented in an effort to stem the tide But the prohibitionists were as indif- ferent or at least as unaffected as were those stoical women of Paris who in the midst of the bloody work of the guillotine, knitted in silence knitted as matter of fact, with a curious smile playing about their faces The prohi- bitioDists. patient and polite, listened to the argument of the opposition listened indeed but drumming at the same time on the tables before them, or in gazing through historic easements. considered the prospects of the weatl- er
 Situation Not Pathetic The situation was not pathetic. It was not even dramatic. There was indeed an element of melodrama as when certain senator imbued with moral ambition. knocked. while in making by a gesture a certain rhetorical phrase emphatic, an ini<stand from his desk. But the day. as a matter of fact, was when carefully an alyzed, one in which comedy prevailed There is no gainsaying the fact that amid the slaughter, certain of those who suffered from the steam roller smiled, even laughed. Seldom has there been a more interesting situation.
 To appreciate this fact. it is only nec- essary to reiterate the statement that there never has been reason for the I slightest doubt but that the prohibit tionists would be able to force through (Continued on Page Ten)
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Was One of the Most Pic turesque Figures in Pulp lie Life in the United States

in conception and daring in execution, his administration has been marked by many unusual actions. Numerous grants of clemency to state prisoners, public state ments which were construed to mean that he was opposed to using state troops to prevent the lynching of negroes when they attacked white women, and the recent dis banding of the South Carolina National Guard helped make his official career notable.
 ''i love the pardoning power" he once said. ''l want to give the poor devils an other chance. hope 10 make the num- Der an even 1000 before I go out of of flee"
 Many Pardoned Records show that the governor sur passed even his expectations. Just before retiring today he issued 2 clemency grants Four men sentenced to life i'm prisonment for murder were paroled and four others received communications Most of the remaining number were given com mutations. roday's action made a total of l70S prisoners granted cemency dur ing the governors four years adminis- tration.
 Full pardons were recently granted ap- proxifnately 1000 prisoners who previously had been paroled this action restoring their citizenship Superintendent D. J.. Griffith of the state penitentlary said to- night that less than 100 prisoners are now held there.
 Governor Blease Is the first south Caro- lima chief executive who has resigned to enter private life. Other governors have resigned, but only for the purpose of ac- cepting some other office. Mir. Blease has made no announcement as to his future plans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-15

through the legislature which seems il probable, the people must be reckon with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-15

London, January l5.--(3:22 d. mo According to the Rome Tribuna it is estimated that the victims from the earthquake number between 23,O0O and 35,000.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-04-23

stables are built for the purpose ol
keeping cows comfortable in cold
weather, so they can benefit by the
feeding of carefully compounded ra
tions, worked out under the most ap
proved feeding systems.
This plan provides foul-air shafts tC
take the devitalized air from near the
floor behind the cows and to carry II
up to be disposed of by the metal ven
tilators on the roof. Fresh air from
outdoors is supplied to the cows by in
take shafts that enter the building just
above the concrete wall. From here
the fresh air is carried to the ceiling
and let out over the cows In such q
way as to prevent a draft, so the fresh
air from outdoors mixes with the
stable air, which becomes heavier az
It loads up with impurities, so that II
settles to the floor and is carried of
as above mentioned.
In the horse stable there are two
ventilating flues TO carry of the foul
air, but fresh air is admitted into this
end of the barn through various doors
and windows.
The general plan of both stables is
the same. The center feed alley and
the two manure alleys extend clear
through the building and have outlet
doors at the four cornegs. There is a
partition to divide the horse depart.
ment from the COW stable, and there
are sliding doors in the partitions
which are closed or left open as
needed.
The construction of the foundation
wall OF this stable is little different
from the ordinary, because II is car
ried up four feet above grade. With
this construction the windows are
placed directly on the wooden sill OF
the building. This is a compromise
between wooden side to a stable and
a wall that extends clear to the cell
ing, The amount of wall around
COW stable varies usually with local
conditions. IT materials to make con,
crete are comparatively cheap it is
to build a concrete wall
eight feet high above grade and to
start the wooden framework at the
ceiling of the COW stable. This is a
detail of construction that must be
known before hand.
Dairy stables are finished carefully
on the inside to make them as smooth
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-04-23

as possible for easy cleaning. Every
year dairymen are raising the stand
ard until competition is becoming very
keen in the furnishing of high grade
milk, to get higher prices. A stable
constructed on this plan has every ad
vantage, provided the work is care
fully and thoroughly well done AL
inside surfaces, including side walls
ceiling posts, girders, windows stall
partitions, etc, are required to be
made smooth. In a well-kept stable
all these inside surfaces are gone over
with cleaning mops or brushes at fire.
quent intervals, to remove all dust
and dirt.
The cutters are made with slight
grade, to drain at the most convenient
end of the building After the stables
are cleaned the cutters are washed
with water from the hose. The cows
are kept clean and the mixers wear
linen duck uniforms and are required
to keep themselves particularly clean
The COWS in well-kept dairy are cur
ried and are otherwise as carefully
cared for as high-priced horse.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-04-23
Eating ANYTHING.

DR.. Lucy Barney Hall, in a letter to
the women of the Boston Business
league. said: You can eat anything
you are inclined to without injurious
effects" That is not true, unless one
is hale, hearty robustious or has
stomach inherited from a grandfather
who fought Indians back in the corn
bread and venison days. But most
stomachs are not of this kind. We
took lunch with gentleman the other
day who seems as rugged and healthy
as big boy, and yet he took only hard
rolls, tea and custard pie, and then
scraped the custard out of the shell.
Another gentleman said he ate pie
every lunch for four days last week,
and on the fifth day he was laid up
for repairs, and then had to sober off
on crackers and tea. Doctor Hall is
wrong. A person must be careful of
his eating. We are all constituted diff
ferently, each one as different in his
stomach as in his clothes. If there is
any rule that applies to all, and which
is Of itself the best guaranty against
sickness, it is not to eat so much.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-04-23

and pile up the straw at threshing
time under cover, without the aid Of
human stackers.
Many details of construction in con-
nection with this barn are well worth
careful consideration. In the first
place the framework is built of two
inch stuff Plank frame construction
is the term applied by carpenters TO
this style of building. The first adyan-
tage is that the material may be
bought at any lumber yard, because
only stock lengths are called for In
the second place, the cost is less
than when the dimension timbeTs are
ordered, and there is a saving in the
delay caused by ordering timbers Of
special lengths or sizes. The only
heavy timbers in the barn are the
girders, which are supported by col
umns over the COW hangers, and these
girders are built by bolting together
two-inch planks, enough of them to
make the desired size and length.
Sixteen.foot plank works in well for
this purpose. The planks are cut in
such a way as to bring the abutting
joists four feet apart, so that always
a girder is three planks thick for a
length of four feet without a joint,
and it makes a continuous girder the
whole length Of the barn.
The sills and plates are light, but
they are built up in the same manner
otherwise the framework is construct
ed on the truss principle, each pair of
rafters forming a truss. This brings
the trusses three feet apart, which in
the average makes a very strong roof
The building is tied together cross
wise by the floor joists. These floor
joists are u feet in length, butted to-
gether on the girders and the joists
spliced by short extra lengths and well
spiked. The joists also are spiked into
the studding at the sides of the build
ing, which makes very substantial
tie to receive the end thrust of the
first set of roof braces
The lower rafters are 18 feet in
length and the upper rafters are IL
feet, which gives natural easy angles
to both the upper and lower pitches
Of the roof.
The COW stable part of the base
ment is very carefully constructed to
make stable that is warm in win
ter, cool in summer and well ventilat-
ed at all seasons. The concrete floor
includes both cutters and both man
gers in one solid monolith concrete
slab which reaches across the stable
from one concrete foundation side
wall to the other Also there are
heavy concrete supporting piers at in
tervals under the managers to form
bases for the columns which support
the girders. Considerable weight
comes on these posts and for this rea-
son the piers should have ample bases
and be set down well In the ground to
prevent settling.
A NOW as big as this, when filed,
settled and refilled, contains a heavy
weight OF fodder, the main part of
which rests on these center supports.
The COW stable is made alright ex-
,Cpt at the doors, and these are fitted |
as close as possible. An airtight sta
Bile Is an uncomfortable place unless |
I Is thoroughly well ventilated by q
system that works under
III conditions Of weather Alright |
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-04-23
In Gorgeous Raiment.

A love of gorgeous raiment, such as
characterized NJ Emile Verhaeren ir
his youth, has been common to many
famous writer's. Disraeli as a young
man startled the town by an evening
dress comprising green velvet trousers
a canary-colored waistcoat, and a coal
with lace cuffs. Dickens, likewise, was
fond of a certain bright green waist
coat which he wore in accompanl
ment with vivid scarlet tie, and he
turned up at Friths studio one day il
a sky-blue overcoat with red cuffs
Even more fearful and wonderful was
Dumas appearance at an ambassa
doris reception in "a shirt on which
we're depicted a number of little red
demons disporting themselves amid
flames of yellow fire" my costume
was a great success" he wrote;
everyone thronged round and made
much of me. e."-London Chronicle.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-04-23

A dairy barn to stable % cows and
six to eight horses is shown in the
accompanying perspective and detail
floor plan. The barn is SO feet in
width by "A feet in length, which
makes a convenient-sized barn for a
farm of from forty to eighty acres.
The size of the barn is better appreci-
ated when the elevation is studied.
This plan gives a distance of about
forty feet between the concrete stable
floor and. the peak of the roof, or more
than thirty feet from the threshing
floor to the peak This space is used
almost exclusively for the storage of
alfalfa, clover hay and straw, and it
makes a roomy NOV, free from beams,
posts or distractions of any kind.
Such a NOV usually is filed with hay
by means OF a horse fork, and It is a
pleasure to turn the muzzle of the
separator straw blower into one end
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-04-23
A Familiar caek,s.

Fine music and fine poultry werN
two things Of which little Elias father
was very fond. Recently he bought .
talking machine, and among other
records was one OF a very brilliant
aria by a great coloratura soprano.
The baby listened closely to the runs
Of the bewildering music until the
singer struck some high ar2eggios
and trills at the close when shS en-
claimed:
Daddy, listen! She's laid an eggi"
Ladies' Home Journal.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-04-23

Extraordinary interest in wheat cul-
tivation has been aroused in Queens
land, Australia, according to a com
merce report, especially in some new
districts, A Sydney paper says that
the Burnett, for instance, win lay
down over 5000 acres. as compared
with 1000 acres last season. In other
districts, areas of from 500 to 1900
acres are promised under the scheme
Of government assistance for new
ground worked for wheat
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-04-23

den there a long time, Frank hurried
to the white light district of Main
street and began to buy drinks for
everyone he could find A bonus went
to the bartender with every purchase.
He paid $40 for fifteen pounds of por-
terhouse steak; another 500 for sup
per and $40 for a carriage ride from
one gilded drinking palace to another.
However, when he paid $40 for a bot
tie of castor oil the druggist called the
police. The druggist is a member Of
the Citizens Reform union.
The police found 1902 in Cunning
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-04-23
OLD BOOT A TREASURE BOX
So Says Merrymaker, Who Tries to
Spend $1,000 He Alleges He
Found in Toe.

This was a busy day in the life of
Frank Cunningham An old house was
left to his grandmother for kindness
she did many years ago. She told him
be could have a pair Of rubber boots
there.
In one of the boots Cunningham
found $1,000 in twenty-dollar bills, hid
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-04-23
No Trained Nurse.

Mrs. Finnicki (entering kitchen with
newspaper)-"Norah, celebrated doc.
tor says that brooms are full OF mi,
crobes, so hereafter you'll have to give
yor broom an antiseptic bath every
day" Norah-"S "Shure Oill not! Next
thing yen be askin' me to give it mas.
sage thratements and hippydermic in.
jictions, an ye may as well under
stand right now that 0i'm no thrained
nurse"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-04-23

home for a nickel" His idea was to
earn enough with which to get some
thing to eat and then 90 his way look
ing for something better. Business
overwhelmed him. When competition
grew too strong, he jumped from Los
Angeles to El Paso. He found nickels
plentiful When others jumped into
the game, the founder of the jitney
service jumped to Houston. Now the
jitney has invaded Fort Worth and
Dallas.
1t was born in hungry mans mind,
but 1t is revolution just the same.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-04-23
In a Braid.

youthful bride had undertaken to
keep house She went to the munich,
pal markets, of course. One day the
man at the vegetable stall displayed,
for her admiration, a bunch of fine as,
paragus, picked not three hours ago"
he said. The new housekeeper gazed
upon the asparagus with unaffected
amazement, Does it grow like that?"
she asked Il always supposed the
cook braided the ends of it."