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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07
From the Scientific American.

rum the oclentfnc American
 WI HEN consideration is given tc 1 W the fact that for every 1000 cub 1 ic feet of contents of the aver.
 age building, about s2 Is spent per year
 for the coal burned in the heating ap.
 paratus. 1t is easy to realize what a large percent of the operating cost of any building goes to the coal bill
 1 It, therefore, is the best of business on the part of any owner or prospective builder of a large apartment, or other type building to study very carefully the question of coal and its relation to the boiler in which it will be used. And it has been demonstrated very conclusively that the coal cost of a building is an item l that may be reduced, in some cases as much as 40 per cent by the installation of boiler permitting the use and adapt able to the use of coal of highest value cost considered.
 Due probably to the fact that practically all cities of any size or importance are en- forcing stringent ordinances against smoke. many people have a wrong i'm pression that the use of soft coal is pro- hibited in certain cities. There is no ordi- nance. in any city, which says you must not burn soft coal. The furthest that any ordinance goes is to say that smoke will not be permitted and in such cases a type of boiler that will burn soft coal smokelessly is approved just as quickly for soft coal use as the ordinary type boiler for the use of anthracite or hard coal.
 It Is not hardship to building owners for city to enforce an ordinance pro- hibiting smoke. As a matter of real fact. legislations against smoke is an economy forced upon building owners.
 Smoke Is waste. It is sure proof that the boiler is not burning all of the fuel and any ordinance. therefore. which pro- hibits smoke merely insists that building owners stop wasting fuel
 Dollar for dollar you get more heat by purchasing soft coal than when buy ing anthracite. The average run of mine soft coal, which costs In the neighbor- hood of $4 per ton. contains about 1400O heat units per pound. In New York city (very close to hard coal mines) an an- thracte coal pea size, which contains about 120o0 heat units per pound, costs about $40. That means that for about 40 cents less per ton you can get 2OO0 heat units per pound more by buying soft coal. And in cities farther from the hard coal mines the difference is even more in favor of the purchase of soft coal.
 There are two reasons therefore, why building owner should install boiler which will burn soft coal smokelessly and these reasons apply whether his building is located in a city enforcing a smoke ordinance or not First, softcoal costs less than anthracite. A given amount of money spent for soft coal buys more heat than the same money invested In anthracite And when a boil CT Is installed that burns soft coal smoke
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07
First Peaches on Market

The first peaches of the season, nome grown. are on the market said householder, and they are fair. too.
 There are many young orchards in and about the city and county. an l sometimes the very finest of peaches and pears are offered on the mark et from them, though most of the fruit is for home use
 Capt John T. Reed formerly mem Der of the board of revenue, has a promising orchard of pears and peaches on his farm near Roebuck Springs. He tells me that one can raise $500 worth of fine strawberries on an acre of ground.
 "Dr. ]. H. Sims, who has been sue cessful with a few trees of mammoth figs in his backyard on the Highlands. has planted an extensive orchard of this variety on the southern slope of Red mountain, in the Edgewood sec ton. This fig Is as large as a goose egg. very sugary and luscious. Tfe original scions were sent here to pr. Sims from Savannah"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

that moving pictures have taken strong hold on Holland The Hague is full of movie theatres and in Amsterdam films a.e becoming popular. In a theatre at The Hague. which this traveller attended, a varied programme of pictures was pre- serted, with the usual comedy The prices of admission to the loge and the main floor were equivalent to about 20 cents and 10 cents in American money. Soldiers who are numerous in Holland now, are admitted at reduced price. They pay the equivalent of about cents in American money. A gorgeously uni formed official stands at the front of the lobby and directs patrons to the box office presided over by another function ary whose clothes rival the usher's at- tire The latter conducts those who have purchased tickets to their seats Smoking Is permitted in Dutch moving picture theatres There are few public places in Holland where it is discouraged. A man Ill iht iedi ol ttie nOuSe eNpldlnS the plot of the drama being shown on the screen. He sobs and sighs when tragic incidents are depicted and at times even walks up and down the aisle, running hs fingers through his hair in true artistic abandon He also gives the burghers the cue for laughter. An excellent orchestra furnishes music.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07
A sloo.oo GOLF GAME

Richard Spillane in Commerce and Fiji
 nance.
 Clarence K. Geist of Philadelphia has wagered s100, 900 to 5000 with Dr. Ed ward Martin of the surgical staff of the University of Pennsylvania, on a game of golf they are to play next fall. If Mr Geist loses the $100,000 Is to go toward the establishment of a clair of surgery in the university medical school If Dr. Martin loses his $1000 must be used in the purchase of 10 shares of stock in the Seaview, N. d.. Golf club. The men have all summer to train for the match
 The one best bet in connection with this affair is that the University gets the money.
 this affair Is that the the university gets the money.
 No one would begrudge victory to MT. Geist in such contest and surely he would want to crown that victory with a princely gift of the money he hazarded
 Although classes as a Philadelphian MT. Beist is more of middle west erner. He was born in La Porte, Ind, is about AS, was a real estate man in Chicago for 12 or 15 years and in 1902 embarked in the gas business in Blue Island, III. Since then his for tune has increased rapidly. He owns or controls water. gas and electric companies in Pennsylvania Delaware. Indiana, Illinois, Alabama and Mich igan and is rated as being a millionaire several times over. As a golfer he is most enthusiastic. The Seaview course, in which he takes special pride. cost $250,000 and 1t is understood he put up nearly all the money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 A WRITER in the May number of
 A Commercial America, dealing with A canalzation of the Ohio river. re- marks that "the result of this improve ment as a commercial unit is, of course problematical," and that If the canallzed stream were used to the full capacity figured by the army engineers as possible, the lockage capacity from pool to pool, about 13,000 tons per hour. gives rate or 10O, 0O00O0 tons in one direction per an- mum, even if the dams were not lowered This enormous figure. while considerably less than the tonnage of the Pittsburg district is yet far in excess of any prob able commercial use of the Ohio river for a long time to come"
 This writer has reckoned without the thought of possible connection of the Great Lakes with the Ohio river for trans portation down It's length to the Missis- sippi, and thence to the ships at New Orleans and out for the seven seas. In fact, he makes no reference whatever to that possibility. He overlooked the fact that even while he was writing for a Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) magazine the people of western Pennsylvania in great numbers were astir for permission from their legislature to tax themselves for their portion of expense of the proposed canal to connect Lake Erie with the Ohio river. The bills have passed and are now in the hands of the governor of the state for approval. While there is some opposition to the measure involved. the commercial, civic and industrial organ izations of western Pennsylvania, includ-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Much Business Prosperity

Since the first of May have visited many cities of the middle west and sew eral in the northwest, and in those sec uons l found business conditions nor maj, said B. w Conrad of Chicago.
 There has been much prosperity in certain parts of the west for several months past, and from information learned from the newspapers there is great deal of activity in the indus trial field throughout the country. The faet that the federal court in New Jersey decided the government suit against the steel corporation in favor of the defend- ants has naturally had a heartenlng eff feet on the business world
 The foreign relations of the United States which seemed recently to forebode war for this country are not so grave now. Prominent business men in Chi cago scout the idea of war. Certain 1t is 1T there was any war scare it has van ished
 T predict an unusually busy summer In general trade.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07
ABSENCE

By Matthew Arnold. In this fair strangers eyes of gray Thine eyes. my love, l see. shiver, for the passing day
 Had borne me far from thee. This is the curse of life! that not
 A noble, calmer train Of wiser thoughts and feelings blot Our passions from our brain; But each day brings it's petty dust
 Our soon choked souls to fill. And we forget because we must
 And not because we will. I struggle toward the light. and ve
 Once longed for storms of love. If with the light ye cannot be.
 I bear that ye remove. struggle toward the light-but oh.
 While yet the night is chill, Upon Times stormy barren flow
 Stay with me. Marguerite, stilll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07
INTERESTING HISTORY

From the Gadsden Times-News.
 Long trousers are 100 years old this year. It was Just a century ago that a London tailor. one bright spring morning. walked jauntily down Bond street in London clad in the odd loose brooches that hung 10 his toes. He was a great curiosity. and his freak apparel created no small stir. The wits of our day who ply their pens vigor- ously on the subject of womens dress were far outdone by the jokesmiths or A century ago when trousers were first worn. But the valiant tailor persisted, was the butt of London town, and thereby gave to modern man the clctn- ing for his neither limbs
 It is hard at this distance Of tune to realize the storm of disapprovai that attended the transition from knee brooches to trousers. The jaunty tailor was assaulted by mob and was ar rested for indecency The Duke of Vel lington, fresh from his laurels at Waterloo, was later impressed 'vitl. the greater convenience of the new garment and determined to popular ize long trousers. So he had pair made, and wore them to ball. De- spite his high standing as popular hero, he was turned away With the ultiinatum, "the guests at this ball must be dressed" But slowly and surely the fashion of long trousers dis placed that of brooches. stockings. shoes and buckles. The real reason was economy of time in. dressing. Chauncey Depew, referring to this saving. recently said "A century of 10 minutes saved each day by countless millions invents machinery. accumu- lates fortunes and fills libraries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

and the study of Spanish should be- come more popular than ever. It is believed that the efforts of the Bir- mingham civic body will meet with ready response, especially from the ambitious young men of this com munity.
 Spanish is not a difficult tongue and those men who have any aptitude for linguistic studies find it alto gether fascinating. Our well known and genial townsman, B. M. Allen, will testify to that fact.
 From a commercial point of view few studies will pay better than Span ish. Full classes should be the rule
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

A German officer who sat at dinner with an American newspaper man, and after splinters of American shell to show how America is helping the allies by shipping them ammunition, was incon- sistent. He should have added a souvenir of the British navy, which makes 1t im- possible for Germany to do business with the United States
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07
FRENCH PREsCIENCE

Richard Spillane In Commerce and Fi-
 nance.
 A New York banking firm permits us to re-publish the following extract from letter dated Paris. May 8. They call attention to the certitude with which the writer predicted Italy's en- trance into the war and the time fiyad for the participation Of Roa-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

From the Mobile Register.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald prints a well conceived cartoon upon the Mobile shipyard announcement. showing Bir- mingham and Mobile as two boys, one freighting boats down stream and the other constructing a water front indus try at Mobile. The caption is There Is good enough news in this for both boys"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

Birmingham. Evidently, the veterans ] know a good town when they see 1t. Gadsden Evening Journal: Next Mon day is Illiteracy Day in Alabama. Shoul- der your school books and see if you
 cannot dispel the darkness of ignorance
 among some of your less fortunate neigh
 bors.
 Decaturs Daily: One of the peculiar
 laws now upon the statute books of Ala
 bama requires the publication of focal laws in some newspaper of the county to
 in which they are to apply. This in Itself is very good, as it prevents the railroad ing of measures that might be odorifer-
 ous in nature. But the law makes no
 provision for the payment of the said
 publication. It evidently expects the rep
 resentatve, who receives a princely $500 for some months work, to donate the
 amount. or the newspaper to print the bill
 with it's compliments. The latter usually
 happens Why is it the state designates the newspaper as the only charitable in-
 stitution that never gets an appropria- ton?
  Warrior Progress: Luck, means rising at in the morning. mindlng your own business and letting other people mind theirs living on s1 a day if you earn s2, the trains you have not missed the
 engagements you have kept, trusting in
 God and your own resources, Talladega Daily Home; About ev- cry second exchange we pick up, we find it wrapped in part of the Con gressional Record.
 Colbert County Reporter: There
 being many new pieces of music on
 the market the musicians at the nov then.
 Anniston Evening Star: That editor
 who said Wilson would not be in the White House year before there was
 a serious split in the democratic party
 was right: about s'teen million of 'eIn
 are splittin' their throats shoutin. for him now.
 Talladega Reporter: Those South A1nerlcdn NlSllOTS seem to llhe tills country pretty well. Now, if We could
 only get them to playing poker. and baseballi
 Gadsden Evening Journal: Gadsden people are glad to notice that Gads- den Is not getting all the good things
 that are going, industrially. Birming- i ham has secured some of these re- cently, while Mobiles new shipbuild- ing plant will care for that port for a
 time. But there are enough to pass around.
 | Scale Russell Register: Hush talk I ing hard times. There Is plenty of money in the banks. Go to work and get some of 1t. We don't mean by
 using a crowbar at the window of the 1 lank.
 Florence Times: Florence has an ag- l ricultural section tributary to the city
 which alone should make 1t a city of | 25,0O0 people when the farmer comes 1 into his own by the aid of scientific
 methods. Demonstration farming and good roads, which go hand in hand, | will do the work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

BEGINNING THE DAY-O God, make the Mondays Thine as well as the Sundays. Save me from dishoh- csty during this working dny-dis- honest dealing, dishonest iabor. Save me from cruelty, rom greeu' from meanness. Same me from tor- getting my God. For Christs snNe' Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

While the situation in Europe contin- ueg to attract great deal of attention, the proximity of the mosquito and the fly is not being overlooked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07
WATER TRANSPORTATION

i, ing already g Pittsburg organizations, have memoralized him in their favor.
 In Illinois the governor has under con sderation the bill. recently passed by the legislature for issue of s5,oooooo of water way bonds to provide preliminaries for canal connection with the Mississippi. AL ready an enterprise in a small way has started one-boat line, of the Mississippi style of vessel, which was to start last Saturday from Laselle with freight fror, Chicago to steam down the Illinois river, take on more freight at Peoria and other points. and thence by the Illinois and Mississippi to New Orleans-only a little boat 275 feet long, with capacity of 1000 tons of freight and 1S5 passengers, but a hopeful beginning. To be sure, the freight from Chicago had to go down to Lasalls by rail, but at that the charge to New Orleans is only two-thirds of that by the l railroads. Soon this line may be fed from Chicago by means of barges on the old Illinois and Michigan canal and tho Chicago Sanitary channel.
 The cry for canals and canalizaton will not down. Their utility has been shown during many centuries. The world has them in the Suez and Panama. Hardly a year passes that does not witness open ing of canals like those of Cape Cod and Columbia. river, and now we have the i'm, mense improvement of those in New York. From Lake Michigan to Lake Erie through Indiana and Ohio Is one proposed; that from Lake Erie to the Ohio, in the north east of our state, must come The long ditch of the Miami and Erie, from Toledo
 to Cincinnati and the Ohio, is demandina widening and deepening.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07
HCRRAH.

From the Florence Times.
 All Alabama will rejoice with Mo bile in the prospect of having located in that city a shipbuilding plant in- yolving an expenditure of s30Oo, 900 or S4 900 OO0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

The vets would naturally prefer corpulent man like Mir Taft for their pres idential candidate He doesn't look as if he were brought up on grape juice, what ever the facts may be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

Something should be done to the June bridegroom who is so strongly in sym pathy with the allies that he balks at a German wedding march.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

Germany is reported to be completing one submarine every week. Evidently Pre- sdent Wilson's note did not delay their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

Billy Sunday has given Chicago until 1917 to reform which is equivalent to saying that he expects to have a great deal of work to do there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

The "strategist" who predicted that on- stantinople would fall in a week or two is beginning to wonder now if 1t ever will fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

That proverbial 'cold day in June" has been experienced in many parts of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

Having proved the bad boy'' of the
 American continent, Mexico is about to
 receive the sort of treatment that makes bad boys good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

l Count von Bernstorff is not in touch with the militaristic party in Germany.
 Might have guessed that from his evident desire to promote peace
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

If an army of invasion ever enters Hol- land, it will have to march on stilts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07
A coINCIDENCE

From the Decatur Daily.
 It Is probably a coincidence, but Birmingham never gets a Confederate reunion except during dry nariads
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

Judged by its price, a dish of beans in Mexico is on the same footing with a planked steak in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

A drastic critic speaks of a soubrette's 'germlike agility" He couldn't say more
 A traveller just back from Europe says
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

At any rate, MT. Bryan Is always will ing to put in word, whether it is accept ed or not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07
AnauT A CARTonN

Watchful waiting is all right until it has proved a waste of time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07
Hot-wenther coId-weather story

Speaking of paddling and fishing stories," said one sportsman to anoth- er q will tell you a cold weather story in hot weather, just as a re- hinder of some February days.
 John Mccoy. at one time assistant solicitor, is a true sportsman. And. by the way, 1t runs in the family. for his brother. Bishop Mccoy. loves the gun and dog. and Richard. his 16-year-oid son, is a chip off the same block. One very cold day in February John and Richard were shooting down around the Hulls Lake country. Wild ducks were flying about and some were upon the waters of one of the ponds. Rich ard spied flock in the water and. pursuing Indian tactics, crawled to within gunshot. John heard the 'booie' of Richards gun and then saw the slaughter it had done-three ducks floundering in the icy waters of the pond. Just then a flock passed in gum shot of John and he dropped one away out in the middle of the pond. While he was hopelessly taking survey of the situation he heard a splashing in the waters in Richards direction pres ently he saw him swimming with one hand while in the other he held two ducks and one in his mouth. After don l ming his clothing Richard same to whore Uncle John was proudly exhib-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07
ALABAMA PRESS

Andalusia Star: Next national meeting of Confederate Veterans will be hold at Birmingham. Evidently, the veterans know a good town when they see 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

Gadsden Evening Journal: Next Mon day is Illiteracy Day in Alabama. Shoul- der your school books and see if you cannot dispel the darkness of ignorance among some of your less fortunate neigh bors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07
progresS in Cuba,

The island of Cuba is now in a pros porous condition" said R. S. Whitehouse, who is stopping for a few days with his friend. A. B. Raley of Birmingham. while en route to his Kentucky home.
 T have been a resident of Havana for the past two years, and during that time have noted much progress. Amer i,an capital is rapidly developing the
 immense resources of the island. The sugar industry is being much exploited by large interests Of the United States and the yield is extremely large. Labor is cheap and the land fertile. I understand that the Cuban product is much in de- mand in Europe since the beet fields of Germany are no longer available as a source of supply. This naturally tends to greatly enhance the value of sugar produced here. There are numerous other products which contribute to the wealth of Cuba, and matters are now in splendid shape.
 "The climate of Cuba, by the way, Is not nearly so torrid as is generally sup posed. The temperature in the highlands is very mild, and in the 1owlands it is
 by no means unbearable There are great numbers of Americans residing in this country, and the English language Is growing popular. There are numerous excellent schools scattered throughout the island and in some of them English is taught. The greatest sensation that has | occurred in Cuba in a number of years was the prize fight between Willard and Johnston. The day on which the fight occurred was declared a national holiday and there was indeed enough excitement to last for d long time. Until this fight occurred the native Cubans knew hardly anything of the art of boxing, preferring to settle their differences with the more deadly sword. The boys now. ho eevor, have gone in strong for boxing. A few days after the fight occurred the stores of Havana had been stripped of their supply of gloves April 7 will long be remembered in the annals of Cuba.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala rostoffice as second class matter un- der act of Congress March 3. lSIe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07

|. b. Grltfis, O. E. Young ant W. D. Brumbeloe are the only author = ized travelling representatives or Ihe Age Herald in its circulation depart ment