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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25
A Modern Heroine

Something of the spirit that made Joan of Arc immortal actuates g young English woman named Mary Davis, working in the pathological laboratories of the American ambu- lance in Paris, who faced death by gangrene in order to give the world a cure. She had been employed to ex- anime bacteria from the wounded ar irving at the hospital and to assist in experiments with animals to deter mine their virulence. She devoted special attention to gaseous gangrene, which is quite common in the war zone, and had become convinced that injections of quinine and hydro chloride were efficacious. However, highly satisfactory experiments on guinea pigs were not the conclusive proof needed. Injections must be made in normal, human body.
 Miss Davis made. her preparations deliberately and waiting until she was about to leave for a holiday, she in- oculated herself in the manner that is most certain to produce gangrene in animals, injecting fifty times the amount necessary to kill guinea pig. Two hours afterwards she quietly walked into the laboratory, told what she had done and asked for treat ment.
 Injections of a quinine solution were promptly made and while a slight degree, of infection resulted, this soon subsided and she is now said to be fully recovered. The impor- tance of the test is somewhat lessened by the unknown factors which are concerned in any infection, according to pathologists, but that does not de- tract from the superb heroism of this young woman who risked her life fol the sake of humanity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25
Inquiry for Alabama Farms

"There is steadily increasing de- mand on the part of northern home- seekers for Alabama farms" said B. F. Eborn.
 "The wonderful resources of this state are much better understood by people in northern states than was so a few years ago. The United States department of agricultures recent bull letin published in The Age Herald on the advantages of Alabama as a cheese making state will result in building up new and valuable industry in our northern Alabama counties, point ed out by the government expert as especially we'll adapted to this enter prise.
 Uncle Sam has done great work in advertising to the world the na- tional resources of each state of the union. The government has certainly done a good thing for Alabama. It has come to be now that northern homeseekers appreciate what we have here more than we ourselves do. In a few years we will see scores of new settlers in Alabama profitably engaged in the making of cheese
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25
INDIANAPOLIS NOW THE HU.

up in the one brief sentence, ''He al What more could be said, even tho more might be desired?. Some one de that this was an Indiana product: we Hoosiers know that it must since we know that all the best tn in literature come from Indiana
 Say not that the words of the u are ungrammatical. We Hoosiers rise beyond the requirements of etymology syntax. We do not evolve our maj pieces with the deliberation of Malhs who once composed an ode to conso friend for his wife's death and perfe it so carefully that, before he was d the widower was not only consoled bu married.
 Our works bear no traces of such wholesome ripeness. We remember sthe great masterpieces like Macbeth the first oration Of Cicero against c line were dashed off at white heat, we are resolved to initiate the master this respect, even though the incol crate can find no other similarity.
 With grim determination on the pal our people to set forth our achievem in their true light. is it too muci hope that the rest of the world will be brought around to our point of , and will at last come to regard Hoosler state as the one undefiled perennial source of all genuine Amer literature?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25
JOHN b., JR., AND THE MULE

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 When 'Mother" Jones invited John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to go out to his Cobra do mines and see conditions for himself there were skeptics who doubted if he ever would go or If he did that his visit would help. For two days young MT. Rockefeller has been inspecting the prop erty, including the houses and food of the miners, eating meals at boarding houses incognito donning overalls and descend ing into the mines where he tried his amateur hand picking coal. discussing the high cost of living with the house. wives and elementary political economy with his employees. Yet there was one in- cident that sticks out above all others. his introduction to a mine mule.
 Talking to the mule driver he stopped suddenly and, pointing. said: Look here, why Is that mule chafed and bleeding He carefully circumnavigated the beast pointing out excitedly bleeding places under the harness. It took the combined eloquence of all the mine officials pres- ent, the chronicler says, to explain that 1t was a natural effect in a green mule, that It's skin should be abraded by the harness until calloused. MT. Rockefeller left, only half convinced.
 If the heir to the Rockefeller millions will use his eyes as keenly in investigat- ing the conditions of the men and women on the company's property and hear the eloquence of the mine officials on the hap piness and comfort of the human workers with the same openness of mind his visit may prove worth while His interest ir the welfare of the mule cannot be less than in the welfare of the men, women and children. Much of the trouble in such enterprises arises from absentee owner ship and the anxiety of officials to make showing. The men who dig and the men who furnish the capital may be part ners. as MT. Rockefeller said. but there may be between them agencies that for get this. Much of the industrial abuses of the day. much of the class antagonisml that result, might be removed if there was the same interest personally taken in the condition of labor Mr. Rockefeller dis played in that abraded mule. Happily. the trend of the times is toward that enlight- ened self interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25

est demand and the available supply of basic and Bessemer Is very short One good sign is the coming into the market of several of the large stove concerns. It has been reported that the stove business has been slack--not fol- lowing the expansion in other lines of trade. But from the inquiries now put out by stove manufacturers 1t is evi- dent that these reports lack foundation. There has been better railroad buying. Machine shops are all full. Agricultural implement makers are much brisker. Steel in nearly all shapes is at prem ium,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25

children living within a radius of fifty miles will gather here on that occasion. There will be a school day as usual, and other special days, but if the weather is favorable every day will witness a great attendance of Birmingham people. There can be no better way for them to celebrate the return of prosperity than by go- ing to the fair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25
Special Days for State Fair

The State Fair, which opens on Thursday, October z, will, it is be- lieved by those connected with the management, surpass in general in terest any fair yet held here, and that is saying much, for the exhibi- tions of recent years have been ex- ceptionally attractive and have easily outclassed those in most of the states south of the Mason and Dixon line.
 Seldom have farmers been so we'll off at this season of the year as they are now. Those who have cotton to sell will get price which will re- turn fine profit on their labors, and those who have practiced crop diversi- fication have reason to be more than satisfied with results. Alabama as a whole is in splendid condition and this will be reflected at the fair, both in exhibits and in the generous attend ance of our country cousins.
 
 Last years fair was a success de- spite the depression caused by the outbreak of the European war, but the gate receipts were not equal to those of the previous fall. This year, according to all indications, they will run far above the best previous rec ord. The out-of town attendance promises to be considerably greater than in the most bountiful of former years, and the people of Birmingham should make high record showing The local crowds have always been large, but next month they should be even larger.
 In order to stimulate home pride il might be well to set apart each of the nine days of the fair as special day. Saturday, October 9, is already announced as Miners Field Day. Ii will be a holiday in all the mining towns throughout the district, and the thousands of men. women and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25

Thousands of horses have been trans
 the armies of Europe. Sometimes as many as seven or eight hundred are slowed away in one ship and the problem
 of caring for them is not as difficult as
 one might think. Each horse is placed
 in narrow stall ? feet inches wide and
 separated from the animals on either side
 by two narrow top and bottom slip rails
 The horse cannot lie down during the
 voyage and Is prevented from moving
 backward by the back of the stall, while
 piece of timber breast high, on which
 his portable manager is hooked, prevents him from moving forward. The horses
 stand on a movable wooden floor, placed above the iron deck. This floor can be lifted out for cleaning. They are watered four times day and fed three times. The meal hour is announced by blast on a bugle The animals soon get to know this call and show great excitement when they hear it. Whenever possible ten min- utes walking exercise Is given each horse every day. One of the greatest difficult ties in transporting the animals is get ting them loaded. They are very unwill- ing to mount the gangway and have to be
 led. coaxed and pushed by main force. The more refractory ones are blind folded, forced into a wooden cage and hoisted on board by steam winch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25
WHEN MEN FORGET

From the Nashville Banner.
 If men would but be honest if for no other reason than because honesty is the best policy;' if they would but cease from shining if for not reason other than the certainty that they may ''be sure your sins will find you out,
 A few weeks ago the papers of the coun-
 try were filled with accounts of the dis covery of a man who had swindled banks in every section of the United States; he had operated on every scale, from the highest to the lowest. His victims were banks, men of wealth, widows and any person who had money from which they were willing to be separated.
 Finally he was traced to the little town of Forest City. Ark. where he lived the life of a model citizen husband and busi- ness man. His business associates could not believe the charges They volun- teered assistance of every possible char acter, for they had dealt with him in his home town and found him honest, charitable and kindly disposed. They saw the normal side of his life; but he had been careful that not even his wife should become acquainted with his flyers into crooked finance.
 l He fell into the hands of the United States court. where only the mercy of a judge could shorten his sentence, where influence, delays and wealth could not thwart the ends of justice. The people of this country have good deal of re- spect for the courts of the United States, and it may be said that they get nearly all the respect that many people have Ito bestow on the courts, just because they
 are rarely influenced by anything but the
 law and the facts.
 l In the little city of Greenwood, Miss,
 there is a family grief-stricken and
 stunned beyond comprehension. In an un- l der taking esta ablishment in Memphis the Jealousy of another man.
 The victim was esteemed as a splendid citizen. He was one of the foremost
 business men of his section.
 1 The man stood high in public opinion. 1 He paid his debts. He was scrupulously 1 honest. He gave liberally to charity and every worthy cause. He cherished his
 reputation for honesty and sustained the opinion of his neighbors by living before
 them in a way that brought no criticism
 and provoked no gossip.
 1 There was one thing he failed to take
 into account. He forgot the warning ''be sure your sins will find you out It may have been his only fault but it
 was a grievous one. An assumed name, a
 strange community and aruring environ
 ments lulled him into sense of security
 and quieted his fears and the natural apprehension he had for his good name. But the hour came when all was laid
 be.re, when the name he had made, the
 reputation he had established and all
 save the forbidding story of an infatua- l tion that lured him to death were forgot ten. Remembering all other obligations to
 society and to home he forgot the warn l ing of the ages, "be sure your sins will l find you out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25
No I.ull tn Irop Duying

After the eager iron buying of the past two months it would be natural to have lull But it has not yet come says the Matthew Addy company s weekly market report.
 Prices have been forced up on Ala bama spot iron from $9 to SIP; and on Ohio spot iron from $12.50 to $14.50. Successive advances from the very low quotations that ruled July have been asked by the ironmasters with fear and trembling. They had so long been accustomed to play the celebrated role of pauper that they were very humble in regard to trying to get more money.
 There are two notable things about this market: CD Had there been any such wholesale buying as we have just had. and are still having. prior to the 1907 panic. the market would have gone up not $2 or s3 but such movement would have sent 1t up S5 or $6. (2) The papers are full of exaggerated accounts of the prosperity of the iron masters. True, they are having aSfiood of orders and they are resuming operations on a large scale. but present prices are still not only comparatively but actually low. There is nothing phenomenal about them-they are not prices that have tremendous margin of pro1t in them. In the 10 years preceding 1907 No. at Birmingham averaged better than $14.37; and its present price is more than $2 below that average. An those years Ohio irons averaged better than s16. So there is stiH much room for improvement. And there Is no denying that nearly all furnace companies not only need long season of good prices but they expect 1t. The feeling of the trade is optimistic.
 This week has seen continuance oi good inquiry. and thern has been eteeds buying. Steel irons have been In greet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25
ALABAMA PRESS

Montgomery Daily Times: There are four candidates for city commissioner of Birmingham. Judge Lane is a candidate to succeed himself. and Arlie Barber. c. P. Beddow and H. S. Ryall will contest the place with him. It promises to be a hot fight Judge Lane has made a good commissioner and will be exceedingly dif- f1cult to defeat
 Shelby County Sun: William Jennings Bryan falling to create the sympathy he anticipated by retiring from President Wilson's cabinet about European peace proposition, Is thinking of going to Ger many. where he knows he will be en- joyed. Let him go and let him stay.
 Albertville Banner: The legislators are coming home in a few days. This Is not being looked forward to with any great degree of pleasure by some of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25

southward by the way of Birmingham Montgomery and Mobile as had never been dreamed of before.
 The time will come when Birming ham will have in addition to the ele- gant hotels now here, it's country-club. like hotels, especially built for winter touring parties.
 In the meantime every southern city should take advantage of the fact that as long as the European war lasts American tourists will do most of their touring in the United States; in the south during the winter season.
 The Baltimore Manufacturers Rec ord of this week, in a timely article under the caption of "The Psycholog- ical Moment for Turning Tourist Travel 10 the South,' says it would like to see "every railroad, every tour ist hotel and every town having facil- ities for developing tourist business arrange by the broadest possible cam paign to turn the thoughts of the peo- pie of the north and the west to the south, so that in advance of the coming of the winter thousands who have not heretofore spent their winters in the south will make their plans to do so." The Manufacturers Record then goes on to say:
 We believe that the railroads and hotels of the south ought to advertise far more broadly in the foremost pub- lications of the country than they have ever done, in order to quicken tho interest in the tourist business and to start the movement southward.
 No niggardly campaign is worthy of the occasion. This is a time when the south, and the railroads, and the hotels of the south ought to match by their broad and liberal work the wonderful advertising which for years has been done by the Pacific coast and the railroads of that section.
 The department of the interior has issued bulletin pointing out the enor- nous saving to this country during the present war by reason of the inability of Americans to visit Eu- rope. Attention Is called to the esti- mate of the Wall Street Journal to the effect that in ordinary times about 600,000 Americans go abroad each year. and for passage money alone pay nearly $87.000,00o. It is esti- mated that counting from the small expenditures made by people of very moderate means who go to Europe for brief stay. all the way up to the extravagant expenditures of multi millionairNs and their heavy purchases abroad, 1t Is within bounds to figure up that the total amount thus spent abroad by American tourists may run up to $500. 900 year.
 Few things the civic bodies in south ern cities could do in the line of pro- motion work would be better worth while than to cooperate with the hotels, the railroads and the managers of motor excursions than to act on the Manufacturers Record suggestions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
 PA KNOWS.

PA KNOWS. "Pa, what is meant by 'emolument office ?''
 That's a high-sounding word used quently by politicians to denote their my son. and it's like charity.' "How's that, pap Tt covers multitude of sins" A PAINFUL CONTRAST.
 ."who is that fellow illuminating aga American bankers for being willing lend Great Britain and France app, mately $1,ooo, ,ooo. .ooo?'' That's Jibway. No wonder he's ter.
 Why so?" He's been going around town for weeks trying to borrow $50." r UNCHANGED. s.f ''-
 Money makes big difference in ple." remarked the near philosopher
 T don't agree with you" answered friend
 "No?' s9 tsss I've known money to alter the out, appearance of people considerably make radical changes in their mod living, but their grammar remains II the same.''
 4ss EVER NOTICE, 7 The chaps who preach contentment And freedom from all care,
 But seldom show tendency
 For getting anywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25
NO DANGER OF FORGETrIN
THE TEST

From the Detroit Free Press. The test of the man is the fight he ma k The grit that he sdaily shows; The way that he stands on his feet takes X Fate'ss numerous bumps and blowi "A coward cun smile when there's mai to- fear;
 When nothing his progress bars, But 1t takes man to stand up and c While some other fellow stars. It isn't victory after ali But fight that a brother makes; The man who is driven against the VI, Who stands erect and takes X The blows of. fate with his head { Bleeding And bruised and pale, D Is the man who'll win the by and by; For he isn't afraid to fall. Y It's the bumps you get and the jolts, get,
 And the shocks that your coz The hours of sorrow and vain regret, The prize that escapes your hand That test your mcttle and prove ! worth. It iAnt the blows you deal. ;: But the blows you take on tho l
 old earth '.., !:
 show Y your stuff ia reel szs ''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25
RAPID RISE.

"He started as a bellnop and now he owns a big hotel.''
 "Ah! He learned the business quickly. That shows he has a receptive mind"
 T don't know about his mind, but 1t indicates pretty clearly that he has a receptive palm"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25
William Dudley Foulke in the Knicker booker Press

William Dudley Foulke in the Knicker- booker Press.
 TT HERE is a movement among pa triotic Hoosiers to commemorate \ the achievements of their state in literature. Of one thing every loyal Hoo sier is convinced; and that is the hub of the literary universe is no longer Bos- ton but Indianapolis.
 How could it be otherwise? The hub cannot possibly occupy place on the tire; the center cannot be on the peril phery. Our center of population is here ir Indiana, few miles to the south of our state capital. Naturally the center of light and leading must be just above. We are the sun of the literary solar system. Those who are fortunate enough to live in Ohio or Kentucky or Illinois or Michigan are like inhabitants of the inferior planets, Vulcan, Mercury, Venus or perhaps the earth, and can receive a reasonable proportion of rays from the great orb of light. Those who live fur
 ther away-in Wisconsin, Iowa, Minne- sota or Pennsylvania-are like the plan cts that revolve in eternal twilight. like Jupiter and Saturn; while those who come from section so remote as New York or Massachusetts are relegated to po- sition little better than that of Uranus or Neptune, to which the suns rays must appear hardly brighter than those of the fixed stars. The Hoosier farmer was quite right when he said: New York can't be any great shakes anyway; it's too fur from Indianapolis The very name Hoosier is indicative of our supremacy. It is not. as some assert. a corruption of Who's hyar." the greeting which the dwellers in our early cabins extended to the belated trav- elers who knocked at their doors for hos p:tality; nor is it, as Riley suggests, a corruption of the enquiry which followed the arguments in our early barrooms when the ears and noses of the participants
 were sacrificed to the stern logic of their
 adversaries and when a newcomer. pick 1 ing up one of these upon the floor, cried | out "Whose ear?'-a question which by
 some Grimm law was contracted into
 .'Hoosier.'' No such apocryphal explana-
 tion can now be accepted .4. <. The real origin of the word is found | in the contests of the lumbermen upon
 the Ohio and Mississippi where theN In- diana man. by his skill and prowess, be-
 came a "husher'' of all claims of his com petitors. And it is most appropriate that
 the Indiana author of the present time
 should be regarded as the "husher'' of
 all unworthy competition from outlying districts such as New York, Boston. Chi
 cago or the rest of the universe.
 i Naturally, we contemplate with much complacency the unapproachable excel | lence of Indiana literature and are stirred by the inspiration of it's masterly quail 1 ties Take. for instance, It's marvellous power of condensation. as illustrated by tho celebrated poem on the antiquity of microbes in the following lines:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25

Now it is claimed that the Eastland was tipped over by projecting piles in the Chicago river, left there through the negligence of Chicago authorities. Sec retary Redfield's 'facetious" way of con- ducting an investigation may have been justified, after-all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25
CALLED OFF.

CALLED OFF. "An aviator invited me to go up with him yesterday and loop the loop in his machine" said the timorous person well, did you take him up?' "No." replied the timorous person, with a shudder. And he didn't take me up, either"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25
A BACK NUMBER.

A BACK NUMBER. T though you were going to learn a few dance steps?"
 That was my intention" replied the man who is ambitious to shine socially, but I soon discovered that the person who knows only few dance steps is out of place in a modern ballroom"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25

Capt. Won Papen calls Americans these idiotic Yankees" but he didn't know at the time that his compliments would be printed in English and American news- papers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-25

A woman critic of Rudyard Kipling, in- censed by his war articles. says he writes nasty books Still, Rudyard Weeks or '"rhe YolSe,'' and it's dollars to doughnuts the wrathy person has read both of them.