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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
Loss of Life In Fires

Birmingham has the reputation of having a highly efficient fire depart ment, but there seems to be some thing wrong with inspection service. The loss of life in the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company fire and the Windsor hotel fire should impress this fact so strikingly upon the authorities that something will be done to minimize the possibility of such tragedies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
LOVE THY MOTHER

By Thomas Hood.
 Love thy mother, little one.
 Kiss and clasp her neck again Hereafter she may have son
 WI, kiss and clasp her neck in vain.
 Love thy mother, little one! Gaze upon her living eyes,
 And mirror back her love for thee Hereafter thou may'st shudder sighs
 To meet them when they cannot see
 Gaze upon her living eyes! Press her lips the while they glow
 With love that they have often tolt Hereafter thoy may'st press in woe. And kiss them till thine own are cold
 Presss her lips the while they glow! Oh, revere her raven hair! Although 1t De not silver gray. Too early death, led on by care, May snatch save one dear LOCK away Oh. revere her raven hair! Pray for her at eve and morn, That Heaven may long tho stroke aef9 | For thou may'st live the hour forio
 When thou wilt ask to de with hoI
 Pray for her at eve and morns
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
MORE FROM LACY

the state know no more than they have someone or some people other than the convicted ex-clerk of the convict depart ment shared in the loot from the depart ment Therefore Lacys statement seems somewhat superhuous
 What the people of Alabama want is not plea for sympathy from Lacy They want and are entitled to know the facts. If Lacy does not choose to give them. preferring to suffer unjustly himself and to bring suffering on his family rather than turn over to justice those whom he leads us to believe obtained the funds of the convict department and then be trayed solemn and binding agreements" 7" then it is his part to take his medicine. He was an employe, and trusted one. of the state, and as such it was and still thinks that loyalty to the unloyal is su- perior to loyalty to the state and to the people, then his sense of loyalty is per- verted, and any appeal for sympathy, in whatever words it may be couched, is nauseating.
 On the other hand, were Lacy to cause those who are reconciling their ''immun- ity with their conscience" to be brought to justice and should show that he was innocent of criminal wrong doing. he would no doubt be accorded the full meas ure of sympathy and clemency due him
 in the premises.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
BEST LIKENESS OF NAPOLEON

From Harper's Magazine for March.
 Everybody knows the fine sepia by Isa- bey representing Napoleon at Malmaison. It was first publicly exhibited at the Salon of 1892 "The artist caught the like ness" says the Journal des Debats of the time, while the first consul was walking in the gardens of Malmaison. The picture is being engraved under Isa- bey's supervision, and the public will soon be able to enjoy a sight of it."
 Here is the way it is spoken of by the composer Reichardt, in his book, 'Un Hiver a Paris sous le Consulat," pub- lished at the ume "It is the only known true portrait of Bonaparte, though Isa- bey has made him too tall.' One of the earliest printed notices of the picture ap- peared in the official Moniteurfn Its issue of August IA. 1901: Citizen Isabey has just made a drawing of the first consul walking alone at Malmaison. The like ness io striking. He is wearing the uni form of the Corps des Guides, and has on a plumeless hat The deep interest which the subject of the drawing awak'
 ems and the very simple arrangement contrast whose charm it Is difficult tt describe" Isabey thus speaks of 1t:
 "At Malmaison I executed the first full length portrait of General Bonaparte tha was ever made. From morning till nigh I could follow him with my eyes as h' promenaded alone in the grounds. buriet in thought, his hands behind his back I coulc thus easily seize his pensive ex pression and mark the outlines of hi body. When the canvas was finished gave 1t to the general. who was please' with the likeness and congratulated m especially on having been able to do tn
 work. without his having had to pose"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

From the Chicago News.
 Even prepaid telegram goes on tick. A man with horse sense is the hardest to drive
 Good resolutions are inexpensive, but they are hard to keep.
 Everything comes more quickly to those who refuse to wait.
 Too many people are like cider-they be- come sour with age.
 He who is able to hold his tongue can sidetrack a lot of trouble.
 Praise men and fiatter wI-..en, and you will have many fair weather friends.
 The man who is away from homo most of the time dodges lot of domestic trouble.
 Even though a woman considers man bore. she always believes that he con- siders her interesting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

came to visit us, each of whom wore mas
 sive bangles and bracelets of beaten
 brass or copper, and from d cord 'roun1
 their necks dangled live white chicken,
 feebly fluttering against the bare. brown
 breast of it's wearer In. the Efik cere-
 mony on the death of great chief each
 of the women is said to wear a similar decoration.
 "The second time spent in the fatting, house is the period in the lives of Ibibio women during which they may be looked
 upon as indulged and spoiled to the top of their bent. This second seclusion is fixed aN the point where brook and river meet For a period varying, according to the wealth of the family. from few weeks to two years, girls to repay the expenditure, are sent once more into the fatting house. Again they do no
 work, but are kept In one room and fed up and indulged without limit. The re- | suit is that they emerge, to the admi- | ration of their adoring relatives and of the townsfolk at large, perfect noun tains of flesh, wearings strings of beads and bells, or else decked out with an extravagant array of native ornaments.
 but always with an air at once arrogan. , and querulous.
 1 "A day is set apart for the first ap- l pearance of the girls of each town who are ready to emerge from the fatting l house. On several occasions we have | been present when these swollen speci7
 mems of femininity strutted through the
 market place, enjoying their brief hour of importance, while the fnen, who at every other period of a woman's exist | ence are regarded as of superior race, oraw back admiringly to give them pa g. | sc oe'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
SEARCHING COTTON BALES rom the March Popular Mechanics Mag

azine.
 Following the discovery at New Or leans of plot to destroy British null transport, which was sailing for France by placing an automatically timed in fernal machine in its hold, extreme pre- frustrate any similar attempt which ma be made by aliens in this country. Il carrying out this work, every bale q cotton contained in shipments billed fc ports in belligerent countries is being irI spected by means of x-rays before it allowed to be placed aboard a vessd The bales are carried on trucks befoH these instruments and examined car1 SpectOrS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
LOWEST CIVILIZATION

In writing of her visit to southern Mi geria, Dorothy Talbot, in Harpers Maga- zine for March. tells of the strange native inhabitants who. though ranked as the lowest order of civilization, are prob culture.
 Though during the 10 months of our sojourn among the Ibibios of southern Nigeria my sister and I were able to pick up the merest fragments of the language, yet careful inquiry brought out the fact that some few native women were capable of speaking quite intelligi- tle English These were pleased, for a certain compensation, to act as inter preters.
 '"This strange race, comprising some three-quarters of a. million souls. inhabits the southeastern part of southern Mi geria Before our arrival in the Eket dis trict, which forms the soGthernmost stretch of Ibibio country, we had been informed that the natives of these regions were of the lowest type, entirely without ethnological interest, and indeed little better than mud fish" Saving the more civilized Efiks, it is indisputable that Ibibios occupy low rung on the ladder of culture, and are perhaps as brutal ano blood thirsty as any people throughout the dark continent. Yet to our minds at least. it would appear that their pres cnt condition is due to gradual descent from very different state of things Fragments of legend and half forgotrer ritual still survive to tell of times shrouded in the mists of antiquity, wher the despsed Ibibio of today was a diff ferent being. dwelling not amid the foi and swamp of fetishism, but upon thu sunAt heights of a religious culture per | haps hardly less highly evolved thai l that of ancient Egypt"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
ALABAMA PRESS

Troy Herald: And now England is band list. That would be too much mud dying of the waters. John Bull!
 Dothar Eagle: great burden has been lifted from the people. The legislature has gone home broke. but sober
 Huntsville Mercury Banner: In the ap- pointment of the recess committees Lusk was scheduled as chairman of the judi ciary committee, >but when the com- mittee met another member was elected as chairman. The members of the con- mittee evidently think that a man who has so little control of himself would not be fit person for so responsible a posi- ton. The old Conner leader showed up in his true colors the last day and many who had forgotten his unpleasant charac- teristics were forcibly reminded of then In this disgusting scene.
 Gadsden Journal: Some Alabama news papers seem to be violating the Bonner "bull bill.'
 Alabama Courier: Congress has only 6 few more days to be bored with Hobson's war talk, and then he will retire to tht shades of private life where he can dwel on the inquity of the egg flip and other destructive measures such as the littl, brown man and the little brown jug. Anriston Star: The 'open door, polio. won't become Closed incident
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
SQuARiNG HIMSELF

SQuARiNG HIMSELF.
 How did I know that you would scream if I tried to kiss youP7
 You didn't know it. but you might have guessed it. Perhaps, but I wanted to make sure and trying to kiss you was the only way could find out ANOTHER ECHO OF THAT SONG.
 An old negro who had his savings in Birmingham bank that recently sus- pended was telling his troubles to a bus mess man.
 Don't worry, said the business man. T understand the suspension is only tenn porary."
 'But boss" said the old negro. still perturbed, de white folks say it's CT long, long way ter temporary NOT VERY DESIRABLE
 His favorite pastime is shaking hands with the great and the near-great."
 What is his object in doing that?' .I don't know, unless by shaking hanGs with people of that sort he lopes to &C., quire a superior collection of germs.'
 OH, MERCY! A fascinating widow Can do lot of harm, But then, it's fun to lxido- She has so blamed much charm HE MIGHT You never can tell. If war were declared by this country the man who takes his l wifes poodle out for an airing every day might go to the front and die a hero. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
roo REALISTIC.

TOO REALISTIC. |. Naval warfare in our neighborhood is getting to be exceedingly dangerous Did you Say naval warfare "Yes. A youngster playing submarin torpedoes a baby carriage -battleship and spilled an infant out on the pavement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

theatre where her name was blazoned in electric lights as Mrs. Harry Thaw" until the sign was changed. Evelyn mas had some hard knocks. She deserves soost for this.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
q. pInce and greatness! Millions o1 false eyes are stuck upon thee'
 -Measure for Measure.

BEGINNING THE DAY-I reloice' n God. my Father. that Thou un- derstandest me. I am glad Thou dost mt mistake timidity and awkwaro- ness for indifference and roup hness' that Thou makest allowance Tor iS- norance, that Thou knowest my mo lives. Help me, then, to Judee gently as Thou dost. For Chris's sake. Amen.-H. M. 10.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

in the history of the world was recently fought in the Mazurian lakes country, but the chances are that we'll never know as much about it as we do about the battle of Waterloo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
IT COULD BE WORSE

r ull many man whose heart is vexed. Who cannot pay his monthly bills Ano signs for joys he might have had, Precluded by these present ills, Should stop awhile and mediate
 Upon the Belgian's hap1ess plight, His country fair a shambles made.
 Himself thrall in rags bedight Should turn his eyes where Poland lies All trampled in the bloody snow, And pray God that his own loved ones
 Such agony may never know.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

There isn't too much interest being taken in the war to prevent thousands of people from extending their sympathy and good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

The captain of a cross-channel steamer who slowed up his vessel just in time to avoid a torpedo probably earned more gratitude from his passengers than the ing clear of icebergs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

Uncle Sam can take great deal of punishment but it isn't agreeable, even to a great lover of peace, to lose a mer- chant vessel every day or two in the death zone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

Still, the situation might be worse. It is possible for American milionares to cruise in their private yachts around Cuba without being torpedoed or blown up by floating mine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

If the Russian bear doesn't keep out of General Won Hindenburg's way, or else put up better fight against him, it won't have a patch of fur left on it's hide
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
CAUSES SUCH PAIN.

CAUSES SUCH PAIN. "Doppel hates to spend money?" '1'll tell you how much. If it were possi- ble to take gas every time he parts with a dollar he'd take it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

A Texas legislator has proposed law to prohibit the carrying of firearms to church. There must be a few bad men, left in Texas after all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

Straps for the jitney bus have already been suggested That merely goes to show that the millennium in street traffic hasn't been reached yet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

Congressman Bartholdt says the Ger man. Americans are for America against all other nations. That's the way he should have talked at first.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

''There Is plenty of food in this coun- try declares the government. Why should the price of bread go up if that s the case?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

Buckingham palace is being made bomb- proof with heavy wire netting. Safety first applies to royalty much more than to commoners these days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

The Age-Herald has inaugurated a .swappers' column" Maybe 1t will .lelp some people to get rid of their grouchy dispositions by trading with people who have an excess of cheer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

The German crown prince, from all re- ports, is an estimable man, but his face is not his fortune.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

NOT STRICTLY TRUE. "Pa, mother told Mrs. Gablet today that she never raked you over the coals. What did she mean by that, pa?" "She meant by that to fool Mrs. --ylet sop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
Praises Baltimore Institution

Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore is undoubtedly one of the greatest institu- tons of its kind in the world" said T H. Motion. who recently returned from there
 While l was there I saw people from all parts of the world, including several from Birmingham. The institution is not able not only because of its able physi- clans and surgeons. but for the advertise ment that it gives Baltimore Every per- son who goes there and undergoes suc- cessful treatment is bound to have a kind. ly feeling for the city as we'll as the in- stiution"
 While MT. Motion was in the hospital he lost the flowing beard which is so well known wherever he is known, and which he has worn for so many years that his friends scarcely recognize him without it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

A MAN OF PARTS He quotes from the classics And does 1t quite well, Although in 'jackassicss Is found to excel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
Kavanaugh An Alabamian

Tt is not generally known" said Leon C. Bradley of Tuscaloosa, who was in Birmingham yesterday, that Judge Will liam M Kavanaugh. late president of the Southern league, was native of Ala bama.
 Judge kavanaugh was born in Greene county, and like many other young men of years agone, turned his face west ward in search of fortune. He stopped in Little Rock and made good with a rush. He became head of a bank, head of street railway company, president Of the Southern league of baseball clubs and United States senator In other words, like many others who left Alabama and went west, his talents soon asserted themselves and the people promoted him rapidly.
 During the many years in which Judge kavanaugh served the league as presi- dent. l do not recall having ever see7 ar Alabama newspaper refer to the fact that he was born in Alabama. However he was, and thus Alabama can justl, lay claim to having produced still another illustrous son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
Value of Alfalfa On Farm

'The value of alfalfa on the farm can hardly be over-estmated," states w. R. Baughman, campaign manager of the Alabama crop diversifcation campaign. Eventually every farm will have alfalfa from one acre to 100 acres. Alfalfa is queen of legumes. With proper prepara- tion of the soil and care of the grow ing crop, alfalfa will flourish in almost every section of the country. It survives the winters of the northwestern plains; 1t withstands the drouths that sometimes blast grain crops in the central west: and it grows luxuriantly under the warm sun and plenteous rains of the southern states.
 Tt is through alfalfa that many worn- out farms are being redeemed for further usefulness. Alfalfa is greatly increasing the value of thousands of farms in all parts of the country. No farmer can af- ford to be without alfalfa. Whenever suc- cessfully grown it means a new era of farming for that farm. Its growth is so abundant that more live stock is neces- sary to consume the alfalfa hay. Many farmers sell their alfalfa hay-and for a high price-but those who feed it to theii live stock get far greater returns for it.
 Ninety per cent of the plant food ele- ments in alfalfa is saved when the alfalfa hay is fed to stock and the manure put back on the land''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
No Longer "save old Rags,

Whenever you talk to a foreigner who
 has made economy a study he will tell
 you that the American nation is the most
 extravagant in the world" remarked L.
 l.. Thompson assistant manager of one of
 the large manufactures in East Walpole,
 Mass, who is at the Empire hotel.
 We are extravagant in everything it appears. Forty years ago, for instance, it was a common thing to find in the city and country a peddler with load of tim ware travelling the roads and lanes, trad ing the tinware for old rags. pones bot ties, or iron. Those enterprising merchants have vanished. The farm boy no longer saves the bones and bottles an dthe old iron, nor does his sister maintain a rag bag. During the administration of Pres ident Arthur there was much alarm over the danger of importation of foreign
 disease germs in the rags imported from the Mediterranean countries. Later the rag business was transferred from Egypt and the south shores of the Mediterran-
 can to continental Europe. and tor the lss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
"Puck" Gives Trouble

"Oh, we are still clipping the whisky ads from newspapers and magazines" said John Williams of Parker's drug stcre. "and under the embarrassing cir cumstances are doing fairly we'll Of course, we occasionally hear kicks espe- cially from eastern visitors who, desir- ing to purchase papers printed in their home towns, are shocked to find tha. they cannot do so in Alabama without accepting value only in part
 However, our small boy whose job it is to do the clipping, was up against a stiff proposition yesterday when Puck came to town. The front pageecontained the drawing of a beautiful woman in shocking garb reclining in the shell of an oyster. Naturally, the drawing was styled, The Pearl in the Oyster We anticipated large sale because beauti- ful pictures of beautiful girls shockingl,, garbed go well in Birmingham-and else Where perhaps. But imagine our horror when the page to the rear of the drawing containing nothing save a whisky ad- vertisement. Had we clipped the -ad' We would have clipped the drawing, and without that front page we could not hav., sold copy of Puck But the small boy was struck with a happy idea and he pasted newspapers across that liouor 'ad, and in that way, we have sold a few copies It would be awful if our legislature should enact a law next July depriving us of the pleasure of clipping 'ad and pasting other matter over them And 1t is reasonable to suppose the leg isiature might do so. It is quite probable that that body will go further than legis- lating bulls out of business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

A QUIPSTER'S TARGET. There's nothing now Worth shooting at, Except, of course,
 The Easter hat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

Gadsden Journal: Some Alabama news papers seem to be violating the Bonner "bull bill.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Anriston Star: The "open door" polio! won't become closed incident.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-25

DothaT Eagle: A great burden has been lifted from the people. The legislature has gone home broke, but sober.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-06-23
FRECKLES
Don't Hide Them With a Veil; Re-
move Them with the 0thine
Prescription.

This prescription for the removal
Of freckles was written by a prom
inent physician and is usually so
successful in removing freckles and
giving a clear, beautiful complexion
that it is sold by Bassett Drug Co.,
under guarantee to refund the
money if it fails.
Don't hide your freckles under q
veil; get an ounce Of othine and re-
move them. Even the first few ap-
plications should show wonderful
Improvement, some of the lighter
freckles vanishing entirely.
Be sure and ask the druggist 70,
the double strength othine; it is this
that is sold on the money-back
guarantee. AZ
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-06-23
NOW HER FRIENDS
HARDLY KNOW her
But This Does Not Bother Mrs.
Burton, Under the
Circumstances.

Houston, Texas.-In an interesting
letter from this city, Mrs. S. c. Burton
writes as follows: 81 think il is my duty
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was down sick with womanly trouble,
and my mother advised several different
treatments, but they didn't seem to do
me any good. fingered along for three
or four months, and for three weeks,
was In bed, so sick couldn't bear for
any one to walk across the floor.
My husband advised me to try Cardui,
the woman's tonic. ] have taken two
bottles Of Cardui, am feeling fine, gained
Is pounds and do all of my housework.
Friends hardly know me, am SO well. "
II you suffer from any of the ailments
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