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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24
HOT WATER ON SNOW STREETS
New Apparatus Suggested for Winter
 Use in Cities

Snow removal from our city streets is one of the important municipal problems that has not yet been satisfactorily solved, though it has attracted much attention and has been the subject of little uninteligent inventive skill, says hn- giEeering News.
 A project is now suggested for melting snow by the application of water, taken from the fire hydrants, heated to tenn perature just below the boiling point in an ordinary steam boiler, and applied to hose and nozzle.
 Recent experience in New York city seems to favor the method of disposing of snow by collecting and forcing it into the sewer inlets and manholes by the use of a jet of cold hydrant water. By the hot water method, no handling of tho snow would be necessary. It would be melted it lies on the street and the resulting water would flow into the sewer, inlets There would probably be no question of the capacity of the sewers to handle all the water produced.
 Now water is a good absorbent and conveyor of heat, and by it's rapid pene- tration into the snow should transmit its heat to the snow with comparatively lit- tie loss.
 At first thought it would seem that a project for the application of the heat from the coal directly to the snow would be mode economical and less complicated but as this seems to involve the applica- tion of the heat to the surface only of the snow the heat losses would be much greater than from the penetrating hot water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24
A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THE
 COUNTRY-TIIE MOVABLE SCHOOL
By MRS. j. B. REID

were 20 farmers present, and at night the audience consisted of 350 men and women.
 Dr. Wilson lectured on hog cholera
 causes, effects and preventives-demon-
 strating by inoculating a pig weighing about 50 pounds.
 On Wednesday the lecture on farm con veniences, including modern home appa- ratus, were demonstrated by stereoptieal views. Mr Duncan spoke-on rotation and diversity of crops. and Nr. Worthy, Mc- Neal and Irving each pledged their hearty cooperation.
 Miss Tappan, while connected with the branch of home economies at Montevallo, is an attaohe of the home extension work of the college at Auburn, and is giving valuable assistanc to the rural schools Of the state. She taught D mothers to cook meats vegetables and breads car rying with her necessary utensils, which were a lesson by themselves, and two oil stoves, she actually had miniature kitchen in chest that were a part of her school work. She told of economy, of health. and system. taught gardening, and the nutrative value of foods. and i taught so definitely she could not be mis- understood. After the lessons housekeep- CTS entered their breads and fruits in a contest. and thus a standard was proven to the competitors.
 These people were earnest, they are in- i1iGsieu III lnelF GpilHS ana lpNe lHtH Oc- cupa tions. They take the papers and know what is going on in the outside world, even talk politics, but are not can didates, or bothering about the problems; they are meeting the demands of their re- responsibilities happily at home and plenti- fully, and are anxious to grow and help their neighbors to do likewise. It is a great, big family. As an evidence stand ing near is q covered ambulance. Daily 1t makes the rounds. gathers up the school children and carries them to and fro-an original, inprovised street car sys- tenn, giving the children a free ride to and from school
 While the men were filling the demon- stration hall. Miss Tappan entertained and instructed the women assisted by Miss Rosser.
 m every neighborhood there is one wom- an who takes the initiative in all things; We wanted to meet her, and thus have a most pleasant interview with Mrs. J. Il. Schley. We found from her that new orchards were being planted on the farms, and much attention was being given to strawberries. There are between 400 and 300 farmers within the radius of a mile extending north and south, east and west. That the average amount of land cultivated well by as many farmers was 20 acres. That Empire furnished a ready
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24
Society
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school auditorium. Quite nice pro ficers elected are: Miss Nora Brown, president: MT. Rector kirkland. Nce president; Miss Ruby Barton, secretary and treasurer.
 The little Tom Thumb wedding which was given under the auspices of the Boyles School Improvement assCcia- ton at the Methodist church last even ing was a success in every way. No bride ever looked loyelier than did lit tie Margery Pearce in her white satin wedding dress with a veil, carrying a huge bouquet of brides roses and val ley lilies. The groom, l.. Billinssley, was very handsome. Forty little peo- pie took part.
 The Boyles Methodist Ladies' Aid so- ciety will meet with Mrs L. B. Me Callum Monday afternoon.
 Miss Ida Hargrove of Falkville was the guest of Mrs. o. N. Pyeon this week.
 One of the enjoyable events of the week was the reception given last evening by the Camp Fire Girls to a number of friends at the home of Mrs. throughout the evening. In a unique contest, prizes were awarded Miss Clersy Keith. MT. Horace Waide and MT. Alton Rockett. Those who assisted the hostess was Miss Rebecca .Baze- more, Miss Eunice Westbrook. Miss Ma bel Barton, Miss Mildred Cunningham and Miss Lorietta Bailey. At late hour refreshments were served to 60 guests
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24
TO RENEW COMPLEXION
 WITHOUT COSMETICS

If the excessive user of cosmetics only knew the impression her artificial fty really makes upon others, she would quickly seek means of gaining a nat ural complexion. Let her acquire the mercolized wax habit. discarding make ups entirely, and she will soon have the kind of complexion that women envy and men admire. It's so easy to get an ounce of mereolized wax at any drug store, use nightly like cold cream and wash it off mornings. And the results are so remarkable. Gradually the life less cuticle peels off, in almost invisible flaky particles In a week or so there's q brand new complexion, clear, velvety soft. of girlish color and texture. The treatment is so simple. harmless and marvelously effective, the wonder is that every woman whose skin is with ered. discolored, rough. chapped. freck- elea or pimpled, has not already adopt ed if.
 Let wrinlsled women quit pastes and massage creams, which mar the skin still more, and try this more sensible treatment: Dissolve l oz, powdered saxolite in F pt. witch hazel; use as a face bath, Every line will quickly dis appear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24
A Little Folding of fhe Hands to Rest
By DOLLY DALRYMPLn

There comes to my mind today the lines of Leigh Hunts beautiful story of "Abou Ben Adhem," the humble-hearted, who, in the Angels Book of Love- asked only that his name be writ as
 "One who loves his fellow men"
 The concluding sentiment has to do with the second coming of the angel who ap- peared with "a great awakening light" And showed the names whom love of
 God had blessed, And lo Ben Athens name led all the
 rest!
 The thought has a peculiar and tender significance just at the present moment, when the sweet spirit of Mahelle Sloss Taylor, beloved and revered by each and all who knew her, has passed through nature, to eternity to join the mute majority,
 Somehow the lines so exactly fit her case. disclaiming as she always did any credit or honor to the name philanthro- pist, saying always in her gentle wom- anly way if not by voice, certainly by at tude:
 Write me as one who loves his fellow men,"
 It was her rare and unusual genius of love toward all the children of God that distinguished this lovely young woman from other people and lifted her in spirit SC high above the average man or woman that her life stood out like beacon light to the weary heart, and the friendless and the uncared for
 She never came in touch with any life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24

without manifesting an impulse to benefit and bless, and so tender were her sym pathies, so poetic her imagination, that by thousand delicate means she found her way into the hearts and lives of others, and became a beautiful factor in the great lifeworll of this community. With manifold and bounteous benefits ] she succored the poor, with lavish hand she poured out from her simple worldly l store that the sick might be made com fortable, with the tenderness of beautiful motherhood she remembered little chil- 1 dren, but in addition to all this, she reached out with loving hand-clasp, and proffered the cup of cold water to the parched and burning lips of those who were neither rich nor poor, to the restrict ed lives, to the busy lives. to the tired lives, and by thousand loving acts and thoughts and words drew them to her and held their affections close and fast.
 1 Not benefits forgot, but acts of love re- membered, follow this beautiful Christian woman to her last resting place, and If l every one for whom she had done kind ness had lain single blossom upon her grave, she would sleep today beneath an 1 avalanche of flowers
 If all we may hold in the cold, dead l hands is what we have given. then Ma belle Sloss Taylor enters heavens DOT tals which beyond the dreams of avarice, l Borne upward by the love and tender affection of those whom she has loved and blessed, she has risen to the great White City which is her home, and l there at last she knows the ''peace that passeth understanding" and the sweet ness and the joy that comes of "a little l folding of tho hands to rest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24
' mystery. It is true they. are compose

mystery. It is true they are compose of moisture floating in the air, but ho, did the moisture get there?
 It is held that particles of moistu1 are evaporated from the earth's surfac by the heat of the sun. This moistuf does not form into clouds immediate Indeed. the passage of the moisture fr the earth to the upper air is quite visible. It was formedly supposed t this moisture was condensed by the d of the upper air into rain dropets, wli formed the clouds.
 But scientists hold that the tiny ticles must have something to condo upon. They used to tell us that the md ture collected upon dust particles to fol into raindrops. Now they are practical agreed that 1t is something else, but tn : don't know what.
 Anyway. when these drops get larg enough they accumulate into vapo forming clouds. When the droplets gs too large and heavy to float in the al they fall to the earth in the form { rain. and this is about all we actual know about clouds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24

market for their products of all varieties MT. Schlev cleared s350 last season from his orchard alone. Peaches. strawberries and Baton plu1ls were the chief exports. CIV cows are kept after the fence law came into existence, as there was much inconvenience in pasturing them Mir REeinhart of Birmingham told them, fol- lowing their lecture on dairying and milk tests, that he would guarantee To take ] all of their cream at standard prices. This is splendid movement-this school ing of our people. especially teaching the boys of the country the privileges and in dependence of a farm life, with applied energy and intelligence.
 As an evidence of the success of expert supervision with revised methods, the following extract is taken from MT. ker- lins report to the government with com parative figures on cost and profits. This is calculating on corn only. The same les sons can be applied to diversified efforts
 During the year 1914 we had well organ ized corn clubs in all the G counties of the state, with a total of 3559 active mem bers The average yield of the boys re- porting was 4s.39 bushels. This average is not as high as in some former years, but the season for growing corn was not as good The average yield of corn for the entire state for 1914 was only F bush els per acre. It will be observed there
 
 average of 31 % bushels more than the average yield in the state. The average cost of raising corn, in the case of the boys, was fl cents per bushel. Applying 1 the same rules, when r bushels to the acre is the yield, we find that it cost the average farmer in 1914 75 cents per bushel to produce his corn. or 26 cents per bushel more than it cost the average corn club boy. Estimating corn at s1 per bushel which Is about the present mar ket price, we find that the average corn club boy made profit of s27. 10 per acre, while the average farmer made a profit of only 5.10, or the average corn club boy made a profit of S22 more than the average farmer"
 The next school will be at Gayoso, in Walker county, and then the programme arranged this far includes in all 15 coun- ties. Followed by the close attention of 67 corn club agents in Alabama to agitate this progress, the state should bloom with prosperity and plenty and the cry of hard times forever hushed. The following report has been submitted to the depart ment by Mir. e. B. kerlin and the com parative figures indicates the value of higher cultivation and an intelligent farm ing system in the southern states, where the haphazzard methods in farming has given the dread to the farm life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24
OPEN NOSTRILS! END A COLD OR CATARRH
 How To Get Relief When Head and Nose are Stuffed Up.

Count Fifty, Your cold in head or ca tarrh disappears. Your clogged nostrils will open, the air passages of your heat will clear and you can breathe freely. No more snuffling, hawking, mucous dis charge, dryness or headache; no strugl gling for breath at night.
 Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm from your druggist and apply little ol this fragrant antiseptic cream in you nostrils. It penetrates through every ai passage of the head, soothing and healing the swollen or inflamed mucous mem brane, giving you instant relief. Head colds and catarrh yield like magic. Don stay stuffed up and miserable Relief i. sure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24

ly cared for; and when a giant sea boards a little schooner and roars down her length broken bone or two is very likely to be included in the wreckage."
 Deep sea fishermen have been exposed year after year to these risks with the added danger which arises from long de- lay in obtaining medical or surgical re- lief. Yet, until the provision of the An droscoggin for this purpose, the only means by which sick or injured fishermen could obtain treatment in an emergency was through the services of the French hospital ship, St. Francois d'Assise, which crossed the Atlantic each summer from France and gave aid to all who needed it under whatever flag they sailed. In Dr. Salmons words: The American fish erman's only chance to obtain medical aid on Banquereau, St Pierre Bank, and the Grand Banks, is when this hospital ship. maintained by charity and by small grant from the French government, | makes her summer visit to the fishing ! grounds. At other times on these banks l and at all times the banks which lie l nearer home no medical all whatever is | available in time of need. The injured l man must grit his teeth and bear it, with the chance of being permanently crippled 1 increasing every minute, and the man | stricken with sudden illness must console himself with the reflection that perhaps
 he has one of those diseases which doe | tors cannot cure any way
 War Prevents French Aid
 This year the European war will pre- vent the St. Francois dAssise from making her usual trip and there will be
 an opportunity for the Androscoggin to
 perform for the French fishermen on
 the Grand Banks the services which were given so freely to Americans in former
 summers.
 The Androscoggin in her revenue cut
 ter days figured in many thrilling rescues at sea. She will be remembered best for
 the dash made in company with the
 Gresham in 1911 to rescue the fishermen
 imprisoned in Newfoundland ice. She
 has been completely refitted for her new
 duty and she is provided with every es-
 sential for giving efficient medical and surgical treatment at sea A male grad
 uate nurse will assist Dr. Cox A com
 lortapie SICK bay, and isolation room with two hunks for cases of contagious disease, tiny operating room and well
 equipped dispensary have been provided T Wherever the fishermen go the Andro-
 scoggin is to follow. In winter they are
 to be found on the banks as far north
 as Sable Island; in summer they go as
 lar as the Grand Banks or even to the
 coast of Greenland. The cruising grounds have been determined by a committee
 of owners and shippers of the fishing
 fleet who will advise with her commander
 from time to time Patients requiring : continued treatment will be taken to
 Halifax, Portland, Gloucester or Boston
 and for the present Boston will consti-
 tute the home port.
 Since the urgent need for such a sea- going hospital was pointed out more than
 seven years ago by the surgeons on duty , at the United States Marine hospital at ) Boston, the plan has received the sup , port of many bodies representing mari time, commercial and humanitarian in- terests and finally. through the aid of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24
Hospital Ship For Fishermen
By GERTRUDE SEYMOUR

QGxclusive Service the Survey Press Bu-
 reau9
 The Androscoggin, the first, American ship especially equipped to carry medical aid to the deep sea fishermen of the north Atlantic, sailed from the Boston navy yard on January G.
 It is estimated that there are not less than 600O of these fishermen on the vessels engaged in our deep-sea fisheries along the Atlantic coast The mortality among them from the extraordinary hazards of their calling is higher than among those working in the most dangerous trades ashore.
 What this means has been graphically pointed out by Dr. Thomas w. salmon of the federal public health service, who was the first to propose the hospital ship.
 Gloucester's Sea Victims
 Writing in The Survey he said:
 "lvery August d little company of sad faced men and women and curious sum mer boarders gathers in Gloucester to take part in d ceremony such as can be witnessed nowhere else in the United States. Only in the fishing villages oi St. Pierre or northern France or New foundland do people come together fol the same purpose, for it is the annua memorial service for the deep-sea fisher men who have perished at sea during the year. After children have strewed flow. CTS upon the receding tide, young widows return home with the dread which dwell' always in the hearts of wives of fisher men, come to full realization.' During the last 10 years the names of more thai GOO Gloucester fishermen have been reat at these services.
 "This." continued Dr. Samon, lis tn, toll which the deep sea takes from thos, who gather her harvest. It Is not all how eyer for other brave men were lost whos' names were not read at the services b, Blynman Bridge, and for whom no flow CTS were strewn upon the water. These fishermen died in bed in marine hospitals attended by nurses, and provided WILL many comforts; yet they lost their live' through the dangerous nature of theil calling just as certainly as thelr com rades in the dories which went astray ol in the schooners which foundered on tht | banks.
 Timely Care to Save Suffering "Some of them had survived the hard ships of terrible days and nights adrif in dories only to sustain injury whicl made the end just as certain, although little more remote. Many of them diet from illness which the resources of mod ern medicine, if they can be applied il 1 time, are quite sufficient to cure. Besides those who die, many fishermen are badly maimed through infected wounds. which could be treated so sue cessfully were they received ashore, tha only the slightest permanent defects would follow them. Fractures which hay, to be neglected for days and even week. until port is reached have a very differ ent outcome from those which are prompt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24

Hon. A. P Gardner, Congress was in duced to act. The present detail of the Androscoggin was authorized by an act passed last July Assistant Surgeon O H. Cox of the United States public health service will be responsible for ths efficiency of the relief work undertaken and capjt w. r. W. Hall of the rev enue cutter service will command tn, vessel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24
MEN AVAILABLE
 FOR GERMAN ARMY
Without Making Allowance for Losses Total About
 Twelve Million

Basle. January -lspeeial3 There has been much speculation as to the number af the men available for service in Ger many. 4 German officer puts the num- Ter Of available men. without making al- louanee for losses. at the enormous total of I2n1.ood distlhuted as follows: Field army active, reserve and
 landWehrl ..........-...-...- .4s2s eeo New formations already at the
 front s....-...+. s.--s.-...-.. bfp,uuo formation.... ...................... 13os.ooo New formation now being pre-
 pared -....-..-.........t... 9V59i01N Untrained landsturm .............. 25oo,ooo
 11e75.ooo Going more into detail the German of heer shows how he gets these figures: Total effective without new formations: T army corps of active at 4o.ooo.. lieSo,poo = army corps of the reserve at
 .6 oea .s................. 1.oso.ono lnS landwehr divisions at l6oo0.... 1,f2s,a5 Field artillery of the landwehr.. 100000 Cavalry of the lnndwehr .......... 100000 g regiments of foot artillery tae-
 tiVo) ........s.............t.... 4o,ooo sergep ........................... 4s.ooo reserveo ...................... 1S.ooo Railway battalions active and
 reserVe1 ..-..........|......t.. 54Vo0 Aeronauts and aviators ..........,. le,90 Train battalion .................... 25oo0o
 4.4s2.ooo New trained formations which have been or can be sent to the front: Recruits of the 1894 class and vol-
 unteers ...-.........,t..+.--....+.. hn'Vo Regiments furnished by the Frs
 tag reserve -....-....-.....-...... l,eSo,VVn I.andwehr reserve bastalions 250,0ao
 1890 o.o00 Other men liable 10 be incorporated in the new formations:
 Volunteers .+..+..---.....-...-..-.. l,V0V0po Recruits of the 1895 elass.-..t..... 50o,0o Remainder of the "Erstaz" re-
 serve ...........+. ..........-.---... ioVV9U Trained landsturm (men between
 3s and 45) ,.....-.........-......... S40@o Tntrained landsturm (men be-
 tween 20 and 45) ..............., 2,ooO0oO
 5.590 o00 From them must be subtraeted the losses which must be about 100000 men,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24
Birds Climb Trees

From the Buffalo Express.
 A species of bird found in Britis Guinea is provided with claws at the ent of the wings to aid in climbing trel while young, but which drop off when bird becomes old enough to fly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24
Cloud for Nations

From the War Cry
 Many scientists have told us how clouds are made. Most of the textbooks on physical geography tell all about them, but it is all guesswork. Clouds are a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24
AvOndale

Miss Kathleen Faulkner entertained a number of friends at her home in Avon- dale Friday night. Games and music were enjoyed. Refreshments were served 10 Miss Hattie Tranerthern, Miss Burns Waldman, Miss Lola McCoo, Miss Thelma Moore, MT. Porter Williams, MT. Arthur
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24
Williams. Mir. Malcom IIanlSins, MT. Ora

" IIIIuIfIS' MI -HeIOUIiI IIf'IfNf'Is' NH i " Hood.
 Miss Ida Killian gave a fortytwo party Saturday afternoon. A salad course was served. Those invited were Misses Mabel Garrett, Louise Farr, Bema Allgood, Ha- gel Stone, Valla McSool.
 MT. ]. D. Dickinson has returned from Montgomery