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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
The Late A. B. Andrews

Col. A. B. Andrews, who was lalo to rest in Raleigh, N. C., Monday, was the last of the railroad officials who formed a link between the old Richmond and Danville and its success sor. the Southern railway. During the receivership of the Richmond and Dan vile Colonel Andrews was general agent of the road, and when the line was reorganized he was one ot sev- eral high officials who had been lden- tified with the system from an early period.
 Colonel Andrews had an excellent record in the Confederate army. He was twice wounded-very badly wounded at one of the battles in Vir- ginia in 1863. He was thorough railroad man, and while yet quite young was a division superintendent
 In 1881 he was president of the Western North Carolina railroad. At the reorganization of the Richmond and Danville in the early nineties Colonel Andrews was elected second vice president of the Southern, and soon thereafter first vice president, which position he held up to the time of his death.
 He took an active interest in poli- tics, and was one of the most popular men in railroad life. He had close friends in every southern state traversed by the railway which he served, and his death was widely la mented.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
Rigid Investigation Demanded

| The catastrophe on Second avenue yesterday afternoon resulting in sev-
 eral deaths and involving serious in jury to many persons throws a gloom
 over Birmingham. The wall of a
 burned building collapsed and, falling on adjoining structures, men and women employed in those buildings were trapped. Among the dead is A. E. Mcleod, manager of the Ham shoe store, one of the best known and most esteemed citizens of Birming- ham.
 High walls of burned buildings should never be allowed to stand for any length of time. They should>be |razed speedily. The officials of Bir- mingham, from President Ward of the city commission down, were promptly on the scene of the disaster, and the rescue work was prosecuted
 with energy, intelligence and all pos sible dispatch.
 What The Age-Herald demands
 and what the public will demand is a rigid and fearless Investigation
 Some disasters are to be accounted for only by the acts of Providence
 Some horrors are entirely accidental,
 but where walls of wrecked buildings
 are left standing in a great city and fatalities result from the collapse of such walls it should be possible to fix the blame somewhere. The city com- mission must lose no time in starting an investigation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
THE FAMILY BULLY

From sNeighbors, by Herbert Kaufman.
 When your family is afraid of you, it's time to be afraid for your family.
 Fears breeds deceit, not respect
 The household bully soon turns his wife into a hypocrite and his children into sneaks and liars.
 Affection is a better monitor than harsh- ness.
 Iltclerance always incites revolt.
 The only family ties that hold are heart strings
 When a father is not ''the best friend'' of his children, it is because he is their worst enemy.
 The sums of the world are packed with women exiled to degradation by the false pride and relentlessness of men such as you.
 The prisons of the land are choked by felons whose criminal careers began in tn. evasions and defaults of a brow bea ten boyhood.
 You forget that you are an adult, and demand an equal intelligence and realiza- tion of right and wrong from those who have neither the reasoning faculty nor the experience to see life as plainly as you behold it.
 Punishment without sympathetic ex- planation is not correction, but revenge.
 Girls do not prefer the hardships and unha ppiness they leave behind them is more definite than that which lies ahead.
 Boys do not betray fathers who have taught them loyalty and self respect.
 The sins of your children be on your stubborn, unyielding head!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
The Next Presidential Campaign

In 1912 intense interest centered in the national conventions of both democrats and republicans.
 Not many democratic conventions since the civil war had been so ex- citing as that held at Baltimore which nominated Woodrow Wilson. The split in the republican party, resulting in the candidacy of both Taft and
 Roosevelt, made it easy for the demo-
 crats to win.
 In 1916 President Wilson will be
 renominated by exclamation, anc there will be less general interest ir the convention, therefore, than k usually the case when great party is about to select it's standard bearer
 It will be something like the demo cratic convention in 1888 which re nominated Grover Cleveland fol
 President by exclamation
 But the eyes of the whole countr, will be fixed intently upon the repub lican convention. The reactionary ele ment in the old republican organiza tion, led by ex-Senator Elihu Root is trying to mould public sentimen in favor of reactionary candidate. Senator Borah and other repub licans of progressive tendencies art protesting against a reactionar!
 movement. There will probably b
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
Active Iron and Steel Trade

Marked business improvement is reflected by the activity in the iron and steel trade as well as the strength and activity in the stock market.
 The railroads are now buying more freely than at any time recently. The Pennsylvania is spending millions of dollars for new cars and new equip ment generally, and will soon be in the market for large rail tonnage. There is every indication of not only a very brisk iron market in the immediate future, but of better prices. Local furnace companies report eager inquiry this week, and it is reason able to think that when the new buy ing movement is in progress the price level will be well above $10
 There is decided improvement in the coal trade, and all in all the Bir- mingham district will enjoy a greater degree of prosperity within the next two months than in any similar period of last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
 A single man has to have a conscience
 to tell him when he has done wrong. A
 married man doesn't need one. He has a
 wife.
 Everybody seems to like dandelion
 greens but the men who have lawns.
 Loves young dreams ends when lovey's
 snoring wakes dovey up.
 It takes mighty good liar to sit dowr
 beside a pretty girl and talk to her foi an hour and say nothing. About one man in 100000 can carry a little cane around with him and not look
 like a sissy. never hear of a man working himself tc man. A millionaire is the only man who doesn't need to keep up appearances. The difference between smallpox ana marriage is that you don't get smallpo, the second time. Some people so around acting as though the world owed them a debt of gratitude for consenting to live in it. Habit is a great thing. The girls ar' wearing wide skirts, but they still US, th.s little strides forced on them by tn, narrow hobble. A man may be six-footer when he fl in the street. But he never looks that bil ] when his wife makes him go into de partment store and buy some things fo her. A whole lot of bowlegged girls get a 10 of COT solation out of the fact that the,
 are not fat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
To Have Hardware Convention

The Southern Hardware association, now in session at New Orleans, will hold its 1916 convention in Birmingham. T have just received a letter from my father. Mr Henry P. Chenoweth. who is sergeant-at-arms of the Southern Hard ware association, and has been for sev- eral years, in which he states that next years convention will be held in Bir- mingham,'' said Buford D. Chenoweth last night. "The meeting place for 1916 was virtually decided upon at the first days session. It will be formally an nounced at Thursdays session. Ex-Fres- ident ]. D. Moore and my father have worked hard to get the convention for this city.
 The National Association of Hardware Manufacturers always meets with the Southern Hardware association, and that means that we will have at the conven- tion here about 600 visitors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
NELSON AND KANSAS CITY

, but, drawing from his pocket some type- written sheets, proceeded to read from them a sentence condemning the colonel to one day in jail. This sentence he then ordered the sheriff to execute.
 'Howver, before the sheriff could do SO lawyer, representing the colonel. ran upstairs and secured from the court or appeals, in the same building writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the de- cision of the lower judge had been pre- pared before he heard the evidence. This the latter admitted. Thus the colonel was saved from somewhat, it is rumored. to his regret Later the case was dis missed by the supreme court of Missouri
 Ap attorney representing the gas com pany, against which the. Star had been Waging war, called on the colonel one day to complain of injustiees. which he claimed the company was suffering at the hands of the paper.
 Colonel Nelson, he said, your young men are not fair to the gas company
 Let me tell you, said the colonel. that If they were I'd fire them.
 Why. Colonel Nelson. said the dis mayed attorney. Do you mean to say that you do not want to be far?' Yes, sir, said the colonel. When has your company been fair to Kansas City? When you are fair my young men will be fair
 If there is one thing about the Star more amazing than another, it is per- haps the effect it can produce by mere negative action-that is, by ignoring it's eitemies instead of attacking them. In one case, man who had made most ob- jectionabl attacks on Colonel Nelson per- sonally, was treated to such course of discipline, with the result, 1 was in- formed, that he was utterly ruined.
 The Star did not assail him. It sim ply refused to accept advertising from him and declined to mention his name or to refer to his enterprises
 When the victim of this singular re- prisal was writhing under it, a prominent citizen called at Colonel NelsNn's office to plead with the colonel to let up'
 Colonel he protested you ought not to keep after this man. It is ruining his bLsiness
 Keep after him?' repeated the colonel. I m not keeping after him. For me he doesn't exist
 That's just the trouble urged the mediator. Now, colonel, you're getting to be an old man. Wouldn't you be happier when you lay down at night if you could think to yourself that there wasn't a single man in Kansas City who was worse off because of any action on your part? 1-- At that occurred sudden eruption of tho old volcano.
 By Godv cried the colonel. I couldn't sleep
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
American Neutrality

If 1t be permissible to make a sugges- tion," said F. I Monks, "I would respect fully suggest that President Wilson's ad- dress to the members of the Associated Press be printed in circular form and dis tributed all over. the United States and most of the European countries.
 T have just returned from England and l found that nothing was more misunder- stood than Americas attitude toward the belligerent nations, but the President s speech sets the whole question so clearly and simply before the world it will serve not only to clear away all doubt upon the ma atter, but will show the world the high and patriotic motive which prevents this country from taking sides.
 The United States, as President Wilson says, is the one great power in posi- tion to make it's weight and influence felt when the time comes to draw the lines which will make the new map of Europe, but that weight and influence will depend solely upon the confidence that each na- ton will have in the disinterested and impartial advice given. Everyone who reads the Presidents address will be inn pressed with it's wisdom and truly Amer ican patriotic spirit. and upon that ac- count I venture to invite the attention of the world to his worlds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
Birmingham Loves cheese

Birmingham consumes approximately 1O0O boxes of cheese per week. and each box contains 20 pounds, said Adam M. Myatt. who is one of the principal repre- sentatives in the district of the American cheese manufacturers.
 "Wednesday is always cheese day. This is because the cheese exchanges in Wis consin and Michigan make their sales on Tuesday and the prices governing these sales are used as basis for distributors on Wednesday. Birmingham is probably the chief cheese market in the south be- cs use of the large foreign population in the district and people are more and more coming to appreciate the nutritive value of cheese.
 An immense quantity of American cheese is now being exported for feeding the European armies. Sixty-seven thou- sand boxes went from Canada last week alcnc. This export business has sent the price up, and cheese is now about cents a pound higher than it was three weeks ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
several candidates in the field for the

several candidates in the field for the nomination, but the regular and the progressive organizations will get together, and the chances are that Associate Justice Hughes will be the nominee. He is conservative and has not incurred the enmity of any par ticular faction.
 It may be that before the time comes Hughes will be as good as nominated by common consent, but no matter how the national conventions 1 turn out the campaign will be spir- ited, and it is safe to assume that both parties will appeal to the larger busi- ness interests of the country for sup port.
 Prior to the last campaign many republican politicians were batting the railroads and clamoring for "trust busting.' Many democratic politicians were acting likewise.
 The country is thoroughly tired of radical tendencies, and next year the campaign will not be on reactionary lines, but it will be less disquieting from the viewpoint of business in- terests than have been most of the campaigns in the past. In the mean time, business conditions are growing better, and it is believed that before midsummer the industrial situation will be normal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
A GARDEN COMEDY.

Wisconsin man complained thGt the predatory fowls of a neighbor scratched up his garden seed as fast as they were planted. The neighbor did not seem mucn impressed. Then the man who wanted 2. garden scattered corn about his ground but first ran a thread through each ker- mel and tied to the other end of the thread little cards bearing such inscriptions as. T have just been scratching in MT. cack. etts yard T am a naughty chicken. T have been trespassing." When the er- rant chickens returned home with the tel tale cards dangling from their bills their owner had to acknowledge that he had been shown"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
Harvard Graduate a Police Chief

Over at Fort Worth, Tex, they've discovered new use for the college graduate. His name is Cullen Bailey and they've just appointed him chief of police. He is Harvard man, an athlete, and lawyer.
 When Chief Bailey goes to the next annual convention of police chiefs he probably will be the only one "among those present" who can lay claim to a diploma from such a college as Harvard.
 While Chief Bailey doubtless quail fled as linguist during his Harvard days. it is hardly probable that his course in English included the Ian guage which has come to be gener- ally used by policemen in all the larger cities of this country. In fact, metropolitan policemen have vo- cabulary of their own. It therefore requires no great stretch of imagina- tion to fancy the puzzled frown that is apt to settle over the erudite chiefs usually beatific countenance when one of his men reports that he has just "nabbed prowler, found bot. tie of soup in his kick, that the prowler got gay and that he (the DO liceman) had to crack him over the cocoa with his timber-that tho prowler is now in the jug and that several dicks are going over to. lamI him."
 While the chief, fresh from tonnes of Harvard wisdom, may not be abl' to understand what the policeman i. talking about, others versed in police station lingo will readily understand that the ''harnessed bull" is trying tt tell "the big fellow" that he has jus arrested a burglary suspect, that ht found bottle of nitroglycerin in tn, prisoners hip pocket, that the pris oner resisted arrest, that the officer subdued him ty striking him over the head with his club, that the suspect is now in jail, and that several detec tivcs wearing citizens clothes are nov going to look at him and see if they can identify him.
 Now unless you are ''hep" to thu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

w. c. T. U. women of Tennessee pre- scnted Governor Rye with a diamond studded fountain pen with which to sign the anti-locher bill, designed to prevent club members from keeping their own whisky. Two thoughts arise in this con nection First, isn't it paradoxcal for w C. T. U. women to be friendly with Rye? Second, isn't it possible that the Tennessee club members would rather drink their whisky than keep 1t?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
Doctors Add to Life of City

The coming of the doctors to Birming- ham has added to the life of the streets and the hotels" said W. 0. Lanning, pre- prietor of the Metropolitan hotel,
 We have our share of the medicos, and they are fine body of men. It is 2 pleasure to entertain them, for they are very appreciative of every courtesy or at . tenton shown them; then, too, the life of q doctor is not one of every day pionics and outings. l know they are enjoying their visit to Birmingham and Bir1ning- ham heartily welcomes them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
AS TO MORALS

By Lord TennysOn. So, Lady Flora, take my lay,
 And if you find no moral there, Go, look in any glass and say,
 What moral is in being fair? O. to what uses shall we put
 The wildweed flower that simply blows2 And is there any moral shut
 Within the bosom of the rose? But any man that walks the mead,
 In bud or blade or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead,
 A meaning suited to his mind. And liberal applications lie
 In art like nature, dearest friend So 'twere to cramp it's use if
 ShoulC hook 1t to some uSeful end.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

Much ado has been made about McAdoo when he went to a hospital to have his appendix removed. Only rich men or fam poor man gets it, it is merely stoma ell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
AN INTERESTED OBSERVER.

AN INTERESTED OBSERVER. Now doth the gay suburban wight A little garden make, Nor seems to care, e'en though at night
 His back doth sorely ache. He hopes ere long 10 show with pride The fruitage of his toll, Green shoots solicitously eyed
 Upcropping from the soil And then tomatoes royal red
 And lettuce for a king, And doubtless, too, a radish bed That's truly f1ourishing. His heart will swell, his fond eyes beam On every inch of ground, And maybe if I cordial seem
 He'll send some truck around.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

Cats and dogs playing together-what do you think of that? The cats in this instance are Maltese and the dogs are the dogs of war, fighting men on a German vessel, the captain of which, it is related, has such fondness for cats that he car ries a score of them on board.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

If MT Roosevelt wins his suit over MT. Barnes the return of Mir. Roosevelt to the republican party Is predicted One or the other stands chance to lose a great deal of political prestige
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

Forecast from the United States agri- wheat crop this year. Now, since the bis- cults are in sight, will someone please pass the butter?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
Business Improving Steadily

Prosperity is coming on with steady march," said s. D. Forstman of New York city. "There are many evidences of 1t, but notwithstanding that fact l meet some people who are skeptical.
 Tn the east where depression has been acutely felt, people in touch with large business affairs are not only optimistic, but they talk of boom as if it were virtually here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
 Bloggs-From what you've told me of your mother-in-law I should think you hear enough from her in person, without having cared to induce her to talk into your photograph.
 Moggs-Oh, you can't imagine the pleasure 1t gives me to start the ma : chine going and then shut it off right in the middle of sentsncel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

"The Kaiser Wants Turkey" says a headline in the Kansas City Star. Verify, there is no accounting for taste. Here in the United States most men seem to pre- fer chicken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

Bringing home the bacon comes very nearly being literally true in the case of the sea raider capturing the merchant vessels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

Reports of the Turks departure from Europe seem to have been somewhat pre- ma ture. The Dardanelles, using mixed metaphor, are a hard nut to crack
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

Oh horrors! Meat will be dearer than ever now since they are about to bring reindeer into the United States to be used a a food product.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

The men conducting the proposed Lon don Zeppelin attack must all be consid- erably up in the air. Anyway they seem
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

The Italian government evidently be- lieves that all will not fight that glitters. Anyhow, all brass buttons and shining see bbards have been ordered to be dulled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

A man named Claypool edits a paper called "The Padded Hammer" devoted to sersationalism. Somebody must have hit him with one that wasn't padded, Anyway, according to press reports, the editor showed up a few days ago with a racked head.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

Among the conspicuous optimists of the day is Count Julius Andrassy, former pre- mier of Hungary, who thinks that the present war in Europe will be the last.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
ALL THE WOMEN KNOW.

q can't understand why women want to pay so much money for hats. can't tell the difference between one that costs $50 and one that costs $150''
 That's why you don't understand"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

Reports show that the San Diego fair yielded profit of $4O,OO0 for the first three months That's fair enough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

It took 20 New Workers to hold up one train while in Oklahoma or Texas one man often holds up 20 trains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

John D. Rockefeller has just given a baseball park to the Pocantico Hills Attn letic club There must have been flaw somewhere in the diamond.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

From the Louisville Herald Lady-rm afraid you don't like work. my good man. Tramp-How kin I. mum7 work's
 what killed by poor wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

Fire. Here is burning question. Eng fish college girls insist that equal rights for women give them the privilege of smoking cigarettes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22

pr. Lyman Abbott says it is harder for man to get rid of his cook than his wife ir some states. It also requires much less physical courage.