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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11
SWEARING IN GOTHAM

New York Dispatch in the Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 There is more swearing being done here than has been heard in a long time It isn't genuine cussing, remember, although some of the men are mad enough to let loose blue streak; it is because of the guess work of the personal tax collectors. The swearing is being done in the tax commi ssioner's office by millionaires in embryo, who are suffering the penalty of greatness imposed upon them when the personal tax list was published. When these men arrived before the commits sioner one and all asked him to please tell them how they suddenly acquired such great wealth. One man found himself on the books as possessing $5,0oOOOO worth of personal property. His only associates in this exclusive class are Andrew Car negie and John D. Rockefeller. "I really feel all swelled up," this man told the commissioner, 'at finding my name in such excellent company. If I am worth s5,000,000 please tell me where it is con- cealed so that l may get it at once. I don't know where 1t came from. Just as soon as you find the money I will make you present of s4,000,OOO of it, and will be satisfied with $1,O00,0O0 for myself. I guess one of your assessors must have seen me sitting in a theatre near MT. Carnegie It was discovered later, how ever. that this man was telling the truth. In making up the lists one of the clerks must have had a spasm, for he added an extra row of ciphers to the name of the man who made the kick. The tidal wave of protest from the "millionaires for a day had a sting to it Some of them accused the tax commissioner of guess work right to his face. and others hinted that the assessors must have secured their names from the telephone directory. Sev- eral hundred of these ''millionaires'' were permitted to swear off when they admit ted that they practically owned nothing So general was the swearing off that only four men admitted having any personality whatever. And when it was counted Up it only amounted to $7,OO0. or $500 each Al this rate the city administration stands a swell chance of collecting enough to meet the increased expenditures of Father Knickerbocker
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11
From Pass Christian

MT. and Mrs. F. I. Monks formerly of Birmingham, but now of the gulf coast, weathered the recent hurricane, but not without facing grave dangers In post card message to a friend here MT Monks writes from Pass Christian as follows:
 This is the first opportunity I've had since the storm tto send you a line telling you we are safe and well, al- though we had a very thrilling exper- fence. We had moments when I felt sure the house would be swept away. Big, white-crested waves rolled over the whole country and every time a particularly big one struck the house it would lift and shake. Mrs. Monks stood 1t out like hero as she waded around over knee deep in water in the bedroom. However, all's we'll now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11
Crowds Are Attending

am greatly gratified at the in- terest the people of Alabama are taking in the fair said President R. A. Brown last night
 The attendance up to this time has met expectations and compares well with the best records of opening weeks in former years.
 There is no question about the su- periority of this years exhibits. and never were visitors to the fair so en- thusiastic in their expressions of com menda tion.
 T feel sure that, with a col huance Of good weather. the attendance this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11
Disguised Blessings

Last spring Mount Lassen emitted . flood of volcanic mud which sped down the mountain side and oozed out over Hat Creek valley. The fields high up on the mountain side were sim- ply smothered in the volcanic flow, while the mud, cooling and travelling more slowly, covered the valley with . thin layer.
 A vail of despair went up from the farmers in the stricken district. Not only was the seasons crops de- stroyed, they asserted, but the future productiveness of the soil was irre- parably damaged by the catastrophe. And it seemed that the plaint was well founded. The farmers in the shadow of the mountain had lost heavily and there seemed small en- couragement for the optimist.
 But now, only few months after tlS AASt ulIc pIculCLlOIlS, lL ndS De- come apparent that the eruption of Mount Lassan was not at all misfor- tune. The alfalfa on the lower fields, although covered with the mud, strug- gled through this crust, and has pro- duced the largest crop that the Hat Creek valley dwellers have ever har- vested-running away ahead of any former hay crop. The mud belcheo forth by the angry mountain has acted as wonderful fertilizer, restoring the valley to it's virgin fertility.
 Thus has many calamity proved tc bs blessing in disguise. After the first sharp blow has fallen, the victims begin to recover their courage anc self possession. They begin to build anew. And it not infrequently hap. pens that they build better, finding thst the thing which seemed so great
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

Fro mthe New York Times.
 6NHE King of the Hellenes is bold. He has gone to the very verge of A royal indscretion, but he is doubt less safe, although constitutional gov ernment is on trial in Athens. It Is clear that the Greeks as a people stand firmly behind venizelos-they would sup port him in any measure necessary to keep the faith of their treaty with Ser via- In London there is, talk that there will be a revolt in Athens Probably King Constantine knows his people better than the English know them. There is no Harmonious, no Aristogeiton, in modern Athens, the race of tyrannicides died out years ago.
 Still, the King has put himself in the attitude of the Medizing Greeks of the old days, who were ready to give all aid and comfort to the Persian enemies of their country. He is the brother-in- law of the Kaiser and it is plain that he puts his German interests, his friendly feeling for Germany, above the patriotic ideals of his people. Venizelos has told him so in language somewhat indirect but perfectly plain. When the premier accused the opposition press of "sell- ing its honor to the German propagan- dists," and when he said, speaking of the treaty with Servia, that "only if we are rogues may we find excuses to avoid our obligations the King must have felt that this was a pretty accu- rate description of his own conduct. Venizelos has resigned, but the Chamber may give him a fresh vote of confidence, or if the King fails to form new cabi- net there may be a fresh appeal to the people. So it Is possible that the King will again have Venizelos on his hands,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11
sPARERTBs

From the Ohio State Journal
 In the domestic department of a news paper we find a recipe for stuffed spare- ribs. We didn't read It. Anybody who thinks he can improve spareribs by stuff ing them is mentally deranged. Spare ribs are perfect in their own right. The idea of putting anything in them to im- prove their taste is on level with paint ing the lily. In every really great food there is 8 far-away. indefinite taste az dreamful and divine as the nectar oi heaven that the soul sips at. The spare rib has it. and the man or woman whc monkeys with that ineffable savor should be sentenced to diet of hash. A spare- rib is in class by itself. and is en- dowed by nature with a delight of it's own. It cannot be improved, It was cre- ated perfect. It is sacrilege to doubt its excellence or to question its confluence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger | .Oh. let's go avisiting back to GriSsby Station,
 Back where we used to be so happy and so porei"
 "HIS purely American note is struck in the poem about the man who, A Ford-like had the patent right and made his million, but whose family still felt the glamour of the old simplicities of the "early days and had a poig- nant longing for the old farm It is typical of the poetry of the man who will be given home tribute and g. national
 tribute of regard and affection today uf- like anything that has ever happened
 before in the history of American letters
 Mistral in his old age receiving the hom-
 age of Provence and of France, as pie |turesque as the celebration was. represents a very pallid thing compared with the
 honors Indiana and Indianapolis are
 showering on the writer who, however
 '.Hoosier he may be in the accidents of
 local inspiration. belongs to the whcle
 country.
 Indeed when the University of Pennsyl-
 vania just Il years ago bestowed upon the
 author of Little Orphan Annie and
 .'The Old Swimmn' Hole" the degree of
 doctor of letters, it was viewed as de-
 served recognition of one who, in the
 judgment of his critical contemporaries
 was the real American poet; who more
 than even Lowell, Holmes, Pope, or his
 bosom friend, Gene Field. had the real spirit of the soil. If Jingle Man." but not in the invidious sense that Emerson intended it when he so siightingly re- ferred to Poe in those terms, Riley repre- sented in his art as high an achievement in the inevitable form as any master of the sounding rhyme could wish. while at the same time revealing in the simple and moving sentiment of his verse the true heart and aspirations of tho country he knows SO well.
 If the view of the poet himself as to the subject matter of verse turned to those things that had the fragrance of an eternal youth. the memoried days of happy care-free childhood. wondering and
 innocent, with its golden after-memories of the Land of the Used To Be-" it is a fortunate thing for American letters
 Theocritus, who wrote with great ac- curacy of the pastoral country life of the Sicily of his day. thousands of years ago.
 would quite agree with his American brother idyllist that what we want in
 verse is
 What we want, as sense it. in the line O. poetry is somepin' yours and mine Somepin' with live stock in 1t and outdoors
 And old crick bottoms. snags and syca- mores:
 Put weeds in--pixen vines and under bresh
 As well as Johnnyjumpups, all so fresh
 And sassylike-and groun squir'ls. yes
 and "we,"
 As sayin' Is we. us and Company" And when the eve. Us and Company" is made up of "The Gobbelins Will Git You" or "Waitin' fer the Old Cat To Die." or for the three incomparable Rag tgedy Man. poems. ''rhe Raddegy Manl He Works for Pa." "Ths Man in the Moon' and ''Grandfather Squeers." or "our Hired iGrl." or "Old Glory" or any other one of the whimsically humorous or tenderly pathetic jingles. which sing th mselves, the indebtedness of the coun- try to the homespun of James Whitcomb Riley is only half made clear. In many
 ways himself. sign-painter. drummer boy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11
GREECE AND HER KING

and with no constitutional way to ge| rid of him. It is believed in Athena however, that the formation of a coali tion cabinet Is more probable.
 The political situation is curiouslJ complicated by the landing of Frenct troops on Greek soil, and the declara| tion by France and England of purI pose to send further troops by thai route to the aid of Servia. Venizelo| made, pro forma, a protest, which hI was bound to do. But the foreign troopI were very well received by the people| England and France, of course, counted on the execution of the venizelos policyj on the participation of Greece in the warI They have been disappointed in that and in landing troops they have violated the neutrality of Greece The parallel o| Belgium is a little too near for comfort but there is a vast difference, sincd Greece protests only in a perfunctorJ way. The hearts of the people are really with the French and English troops with the cause they have set out to serveI
 The experience of Greece and Bulgaria and the position in which Roumanid found itself few months ago suggest that if the moldering institution of royI alty is to be preserved nations that del sire to be really independent must impos( upon their Kings as an indispensabl} qualification not only native birth but marriage only with women who are oI native birth. The immemorial custom of royal intermarriages, of sending abroad for princes and princesses. had been looked on with much disfavor bJ modern peoples. Even England and Gerl many have their experience of that. Now| the Greeks find themselves baffled ilI their national desire by King whd sought his consort in Berlin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11
ALABAMA PRESS

| Mobile Item: Astronomers. the men who scan the skies for the ethereal
 events to come, report a comet coming
 this way very rapidly. Perhaps it is en
 route to make big war loan. Who knows?
 Montgomery Advertiser: What is the significance of the coincidence wherein Woodrow Wilson announces his marriage and his pro-suffrage views on the same day7
 Fort Payne Journal: At least Gover-
 nor Henderson ought not to be criticised for vetoing the recircuiting bill. That veto was in the direction of economy and retrenchment
 Selma Journal: The onward March of Prosperity" Is the name of an editorial in The Age-Herald. Let it march, we
 are ready to meet it face to face Troy Messenger: Birmingham is exul-
 tant right now over her fair. She de- | clares 1t the greatest ever. Andalusia Star: Three Alabama gov
 ernors are resting in unmarked graves
 So much time Is given to politics they don't have time to build monuments. Marion Standard: The old slogan was We can be incorporate in more ways than drinking liquor," (and the Lord knows that is bad enough). As evidence, that s15o,o00 legislature and some 500 new offices they created. Talladega Home: From present indica- tions the Germans will not celebrate
 Christmas in Petrograd.-The Age-Her-
 aid. But maybe in warmer place, Con- stantinople
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune
 In an interurban station at Morris, H.: Any person signing their name or signing any one else's name or writing any unquestionable poetry on the walls of this building will be subject to the full penalty of the law" In a theatre in AL pena, Mich: Pass away one quiet even ing here In Japan: Milk without adul- tery.' Near Glencoe: For Sale-4O0 feet shore line. Perfect bluff"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11
Good Crops in Limestone

The farmers in my own neighborhood are in excellent spirits over this years harvests, and so far as I am informed prosperity prevails throughout northern Alabama" said A. J. Eaton of Belle sMina, in Limestone county.
 My father planted about 100 acres in cotton, and whil eour crop was short, the high price will more than make up the difference between this years yield and normal production. All the other crops are large"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11
A LIFE LESSON

 By James Whitcomb Riley. Therel little girl, don't cry! They have broken your doll, know; And your tea-set blue, And your playhouse, 100, Are things of the long ago; But childish troubles will soon pass by. There' little girl. don't cry! They have broken your slate. know, And the glad, wild ways Of your schoolgirl days Are things of the long ago; But life and love will soon como by. There! little girl, don't cry! There! little girl. don't cry! They have broken your heart, know; And the rainbow gleams Of your youthful dreams Are things of the long ago; But Heaven holds all for which vol sigh. There! little girl, don't eryl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11
VALUABLE FEATURE

From the Albertville Banner.
 The Banner has withheld its opinion of The Age-Herald's rotogravure supplement until we had received and looked over a few copies of this remarkable specimen of
 modern photography and printing. It is indeed good to look upon and adds much to the value of the Sunday Age-Herald
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11
HOTEL LOBRIES
State Normal School

We have had a large enrolment at the State Normal school at Jacksonville larger than 1t was during the entire fall Of last year. said Principal C. w.. Daugette, who spent Saturday in Bir- mingham.
 The institution is in fine condition, and 1t was never so much appreciated by educators, perhaps. as 1t is now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

A single order for s15.0O0000 worth of in this country by the allies. At this rate, what are we going to do for rail- road ties and toothpicks?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

As President Wilson and his fiancee both
 ably be able to spend some of their aft
 ernoons together during the baseball sea- son
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

Since the latest war same has dem-
 tile force' in this country, the peace-at-
 any-price fellows should pursue and do some good. solid thinking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11
WE'LL. SHE DID

From the Philadelphia Ledger. IT King Ferdinand enters the war Henry Watterson will be his first victim. No blood vessel could stand the strain of writing daily: "To Hell With the Habs- burgs. Hohenxollerns and Saxe-Coburg- Gcthaa."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

It is reported that Boston fan got so excited over the world series that he split
 ar iIfnitive. This. however. is not gen. orally believed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

September Morn," booked at a local theatre this week. approximates. but does not equal. the famouns painting of the same name
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11
BEGINNING THE DAY-"Lord

bEVINNIN0 H1D DN 1"' God of Hosts, be with us yet, lest we forget''-lest we forget the mer- cies of other days, the tenderness with which Thou has led us and lifted us; lest we forget the destiny which Thou has prepared for us, lest we forget that we must stay close if we would live. In Christ's name. Amen.-H. M E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

General Villa says the war has jus begun. Peace, just now, Is not in hi! vocabulary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

The old-fashioned man who drinks his coffee out of the saucer occasionally wanders into dining car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

Chicago has machine that turns out something like 2o.Ooo pies a day. The road to indigestion and death is paved with machine made pies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

A "thnking' horse at the San Fran cisco fair is credited with more "book larnin " than the average Jockey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

Raltimore's new city song has been com it is enjoying the usufruct of his labors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

Detecting 8 Zeppelin by sound would be much less hazardous than waiting for it to announce its presence by dropping a bomb
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

"Servian luck" is synonymous with that well-known phrase, getting it in the neck"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

Chicago's first dry" Sunday was pre- ceded by an unusually wet Saturday night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

So little is heard from the Italians these
 days that they must be waging war with the muffler on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11
HAPPY DAYS

From the Pittsburg Dispatch Frosty mornings! Sausages! Buckwhea cakesl Maple syrups Yum yum!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

disaster has also been a revivifying process.
 Sometimes the cloud almost ob- scures it's silver lining-but almost always it is there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11
JOHN BRIGHT

The die Is cast so far as Bulgaria is concerned. The reckoning will come later
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

Troy Messenger: Birmingham is exul- tant right now over her fair. She de- clares 1t the greatest ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second class matter un- der act of Congress March 8, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

Selma Journal: The onward March of Prosperity" Is the name of an editorial in The Age-Herald. Let it march, We are ready to meet it face to face.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

o. E. Young. L. D. Griffis and w. D. Brumbeloe are the only authorized trav- cling representatives of The Age-Herald in it's circulation department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

Andalusia Star: Three Alabama gov ernors are resting in unmarked graves. So much time Is given to politics they don't have time to build monuments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-11

Daily and Sunday Age-Herald, year $500 Daily without Sunday. 400 Daily and Sunday, per month. .oo Daily and Sunday, three months. 1.oo Weekly Age-Herald. per annum.. .eo Sunday Age-Herald. per annum.. 2.oo
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
HOLLAND YET HAS
 MARL IKE ASPECT

The Hague. Feb. 1o-MartiaI scenes without the horrors of war are still as frequent in Holland as in any of the belIigerent countries, notwithstanding that the Neither
 lands are absolutely. neutral hTe Dutch army, was. in fact. the first
 to mobilize and since the beginning of European hostilities the streets of its cities and it's country roads have swarmed with armed men proceeding to or from their. barracks and their
 maneuVering grounds. The cafes, the restaurants, the theatres the clubs and other public gathering places are crowded every day with men in uniform
 The cost of all these preparations
 for the defense of the country
 against possible attempt to com
 init breach of it's determined neu- 1 trality is borne almost with equan- inity by the people, as was evidene- ed sbyS the over-subscription of the
 recent AGovernment loan. Diminu- 5tion of trade has followed in the
 wake of the war outside Dutch
 boundaries. This has been due prtn- cipally to the embargo placed on. the exportation of various articles and to the difficulty of obtaining coal, much of which was imported from Germany the figures showing that only 264,91e freight cars crossed the Dutch-Ger1nan frontier last year as compared with 337. .263 in 1913. Goal imports were reduced from 125,z66 ear loads in 1918 to 98,278 car loads 1 last year
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
GERMAN SOCIETIES IN FIGHT AGAINST
 HIGH FOOD PRICES

Berlin, Feb. 10-Co-operative so-
 cieties in Germany have done ex- eellent work among their members and their dependents during the six months Of the war. Over five and
 a half million people, mostly of the
 working classes. belong to these so-
 cietfes, which possess 8 total capi-
 tai of $1,500, 0,eO0,0OO. and cover a large field Of operations, the chief
 of which is the running of supply stores.
 The endeavor of these supply stores has been directed toward keep ing down prices of food stuffs and this has been Of great assistance to 1.-the families of those members who
 have been called to the co1ors. The stores, in consequence of the Aencour- agement they have given to thrifty people to save in time of peace, have found that in most ceases they have not had to break their rule calling for ready money settlement for pur- chases. Other cooperative Organi- "a tions, such as cooperative build ing societies, have experienced more
 trouble int collecting the installments ] towards paying off the cost of con I struction of workmen's houses, but this difficulty has generally been overcome by the aid of the cooper ] atfves banks, which grant. loans at
 small interest. The cooperative
 WoEkshops have found 1t difficult to I l.qbtain raw materials, but those
 sYhich have undertaken military con t tracts have been exceedingly pros tDGrOgIS. 'sss. ta5
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
LYRIC

s-The Run of the Cards at the Ly- ric theatre continues to play to crowded houses at matinee and even ing performances, the people of Bridgeport taking advantage of the Opportunity to see a play fresh from the playwrights pen and never before seen on any stage
 That Charles F Nirdlinger, the author of the play, is delighted with the way it has been received at the Lyric goes without saying and he is Optimistic of the productions success when 1t plays the big city
 s7 Next week Manager Frank L. Gala han has announced that the great New york success, ssThe Only Son. will be the offering. This is the play in which Wallace Eddinger starred at the Re public theatre. It is a powerful play, has great deal of comedy. and in fact all the qualities that go to make up a successful and truly delightful entire company will be seen in the drama Lowell Sherman will play stthe only son.