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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
THE FR1AR,s SONG
nomas Love Peacock.

By Thomas Love Peacock. Though be now a gray, gray friar, Yet I was once hale young knight; The cry of my dogs was the only choir In which my spirit did take delight. Little I rocked of matin bell
 And drowned its toll with myoclangins
 horn;
 And the only beads I loved to tell Were the beads of dew on the spangled
 thorn.
 An archer keen was withaf,
 As ever did lean on greenwood tree; And could make the fieetest roebuck fall, good three hundred yards from me. Though ohangeful time. with hand severe Has made me now these joys forego Yet my heart bounds whene CT hear s Yofckxl hark away! andstnliyz hod
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
WE'RE A "FAMILY, PAPER

From the Albertville Banner
 The Birmingham Age-Herald is to erect a wireless station on top of its building and announces that, as the station will be able to speak all languages, The Age Herald may print some of the compli- ments the Britishers and Germans of this time are so fond of paying each" Note the limiting adjective "some" which Tho Age-Herald most wisely makes use of. Some of those compliments would not look good in print in any language
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

huge fortress, all but inaccessible and of incredible natural strength.i The valley of the Adige divides Botzen from Verona; other wel-known valleys do a like service. -Valtellina, Val di Zoldo, Val di Pri1n- iero. And so we come to the Dolomites. likewise traversed by depressions, of which Belluno and Feltre are the better known.
 It's a terrain peculiarly unfriendly to the invader subject to fierce storms and torrential rains, Switzerland on a scale not so very miniature. Only a very sick and sorry army of defense could fail to give an excellent account of itself where nature has done so much.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
ALABAMA PRESS

Decaturs Daily: Winter Wheat Is Lit tie Hurt by Freezing Weather" says an Age-Herald headline "We should worry" so long as the peach crop is up to re- quirements.
 Centreville Press: They say that a sucker is born every minute, and from the number of times that we have taken the hook, bait, sinker and all, we are satisfied that the saying is true.
 El terprise Peoples Ledger: "A rolling stone gathers no moss" should be in delibly impressed upon. the minds of some
 people; especially to those young men who think that the good place is little further on. Stick to your bush, there is where the true success lies.
 Anniston Evening Star: Have you sas- safrassed yet?" asks the Toledo Blade.
 Nope have you ses-and-syruped?- ?- Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Not yet, but we're going to cornbread. Albertville Banner: Birmingham wom- en had their first chance to vote for a public official last week, when they elect ed one from their sex to a place on the board of education. One of the other applicants was also a woman and the campaign was a spirited one. One of the new school laws enacted by the legislature at it's recent session provides that women may be elected to places on school boards, and the ladies are losing no time in ap- propriating the privilege.
 Moundsvile News: An exchange says that a man hasn't much respect for a paper that does not print all the news
 until he happens to be caught in craps game or hits his wife over the head with a skillet; then he suddenly believes he doesn't want it all printed. Gadsden Times-News Billy Sunday says kiss the modern girls and you get painters coic." He ought to take some lessons. A fellow don't really have to swallow the kisses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS ADVICE

Senator Oscar w. Underwood of Alabama
 in Leslie's.
 Let us inspire courage and give aid to those leaders who, not by chance, but through merit direct our industry, control our trade, and manage our finance. It is not enough for our government to permit them to rise from the prostration that has overtaken them and their affairs; it must occasionally assist them. We have. reached the point where sound progress sivism must recognize that the proper regulation of business requires that it must be sometimes helped and not always hindered, that we must occasionally say, You may and not always You shall not"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
GOOD ADVICE

From the Talladega Daily Home
 When you come to town again bring that money along you have in an old sock and put it in bank where it will be safe from fire and burglars. The bankers will not object to you putting the sock on deposit if you wish to keep it for the love of ''auld aequaintanceship"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

BEGINNING THE DAN-Heip me, 0 Lord. to desire the things pray for. May the prayer De porn In my soul and speak itself unhih- dered at the lips. While my mouth tells my petition grant that my hcart he not silent. May my whole life bc uttered in my prayer. May ,be words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart he one. Amen.-H. M. F..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

Obregon is chasing Villa, and the great Mexican battle which had been rumored is thereby turned into a foot race. The happiness of life in Mexico, it seems, de- bends on your ability to shoot and run.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

A Missouri mathematical genius has just With all his arithmetical skill, it seems he was unable to figure out way of mak- ing his own living.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

Sometimes it Is a good thing that jus tice is blind. For instance police judge ed by a prisoner who refused to wear elothing. And the prisoner was woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

A gang of boys yelled. There goes mouse in a Milwaukee picture theatre. It was at a matinee largely attended by wom- en. and the name movie" was literally correct that day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

Texas doctor says too much talking causes cancer on the tongue, but it's diff fieult for some men to make their wives realize the danger, especially if the man stays out late
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

Pittsburg and other industrial cities have long been wrestling with the smoke nuisarce problem. Why don't they send for Jess Willard. He chased the smoke" out of Havana, Cuba, easily
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

whole lot of men roast Bryan because he delivers lectures at s25O each, but it S safe bet that not one of his critics would decline to take the job at that price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

There's always something for a real or timist to be thankful for. If that big stove factory had burned in the fall, with cold weather coming on, instead of the spring
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

It s good that the Kaiser has assured the American ambassador that he will pay for the Frye, for if he hadn't some body might have been in a stew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

It is quite clear that the chief of police of Portland, Ore can't see anything good iE daphanous skirts. Otherwise, he wouldn't have issued an order barring them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES !.
Ieacher.. Convention profItnbIe

"The most profitable convention for merchants is that of the teachers state gatherings" said a leading merchant This year they gathered in Montgomery: but I hope the 1916 convention will be held in Birmingham.
 The next best out-of-town season in trade is during fair week. When times are prosperous with the farmers fair week is a season of profit to the merchants"
 Judge Heflin's Experience Valuable
 The years of experience of Judge Har- rington P. Hef1in as solicitor were years of valuable training, in fitting him for the discharge of the duties of a judge of the criminal court" said prominent member of the bar. Tt enables him to expedite the trial of cases. for hardly a legal proposition pro or con is advanced that he is not familiar with. He has calm, judicial temperament-in fact, he and Judge Fort both are happily consti- tuted in this respect; they temper justice with mercy. and are firm in administering the duties of their high offices.
 When Judge Heflin was solicitor, his critics were often unfair ins laying at his door miscarriages of justice, when criminals escaped the meshes of the law, but through no fault of his, but rather through the findings of juries; for be itl known the findings of petit juries are often as variable as the way the wind bloweth; and no man knoweth what may have swayed them, as to their verdicts. Now Judge Heflin's friends may point with pride to his record already made on the bench, as vindication of their loyalty to him when he was solicitor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
Population of Cities

'Ir looking over the Travellers Hotel Guide-an interesting and artistically de- signed pamphlet-I was struck with the fact that Birmingham's population ap- peared much larger than Atlanta's," said a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
 Birmingham is credited with 197 900 and Atlanta with but IT, 900. In the cen sus of 1910 Atlanta was credited with 154,- OOO which looked to me somewhat padded although it may not have been. Of course, there has been growth within the five years and Atlantas population today is probably 175,0O0 to 1sO000--not 225,o00 as I have heard it stated. Birmingham's pop ulation is about 175,OO0 to 1s0.ooo. The last directory indicated 197,000, but I always discount the directory census on general principles: and this is no criticism of the directory methods of getting peoples names. Most directory makers are pains taking. but they usually use a multi plier too large a figure by which to as- certain approximately the total popula- tion.
 "Other prominent southern cities in The Travellers Hotel Guide are Richmond with 144000 population: Charlotte, with 4000O; Chattanooga, with 49000; Augusta, with 41,0Oo; Savannah, with 6S,o00; Mont gomery, with 4o,ooO; Mobile. with 55,OO0; New Orleans, with 351 ,000; Nashville, with 11S,OO0; Memphis, with 13S,000, and Dallas, with 1l3,00o.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

Philadelphia has passed curfew law, requiring youths to go to bed not later than o'clock each night. Philadelphia always did banker for sleep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
Improvement in Iron Trade

"The encouraging feature of the iron market is the faith that exists in better times near at hand" say Matthew Eddy & Co. in their Cincinnati report.
 This faith is apparently not mere hope. As our representatives visit the trade they find everywhere that this con cern and that concern is gradually in- creasing it's output, and that it sees more work ahead It is true that things are coming slowly. There is no grand revival of business over night-orders are not coming to ironmasters in the multtudi- nous way in which republican ballots were deposited in Chicago last Tuesday, but there Is an improvement And the pres ent prices are so low that they admit of no argument.
 Taking labor costs into consideration, and iron is nearly all labor, iron today is cheaper than it has ever been in America It is so cheap that in most parts of the country an overwhelming majority of the merchant furnaces are out of blast, being unable to run without heavy losses. The great reduction in the output of pig iron has worked back disastrously to the coke ovens. Today the production of coke in this country is at it's lowest ebb. And should there come a sudden revival in the iron business, 1t is likely that it would be held back by a shortage of coke. The price of coke. too, Is so low that a coke purchase these days is like getting some- thing for nothing. Under the circum- stances it looks as if the price of coke might go up much faster than the price of pig iron. tt.ss This week there has been a general ] buying of small lots, southern iron taking the lead. At the present time there are fair inquiries in the market, and 1t is probable that the northern furnaces will let the south have most of the tonnage ''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

Obviously that Texas man who shot and killed judge because he disliked the de- cision in a civil suit, was a strong be- liever in judicial recall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

A Connecticut man who dug his own grave made it foot too short and the gravity of the error was not discovered until the undertaken attempted to lower the effin. Then the mourners had to grave longer, all because the dead man had made it shorter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
LEFT LIP 0N n0rY

From the Clanton Press.
 These be days when Ed Doty of the Andalusia Star should forget that he ever possessed an overcoat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
OUCH:

From the Dothan Eagle.
 Fashions for skirts already show sharp divergence" says fashion note. And not few sharp-angled ankles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

If the Rev. Billy Sunday can whip Satan in Paterson, there's no doubt that he should be entitled to all of the gate re- ceipts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

Earl Grey's notes, always dry enough, will now be more dry it is reasonable to assume, since England has put the ban on the drink habit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

Governor Conner and Emmet ONeal are almost as friendly as James Weatherly and Tom Mcdonald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
A Big City Now

"The bond issue should carry, and 1t will, I think, by a decisive majority" said Sol Caheen. Those citizens who are always shy of bond issues, forget that Birmingham is no longer a small town. This is a big city and the muni- cipal policy should be large according ly. I would like to see Birmin gham's s bonded indebtedness twice as large as it is. A city cannot make handsome inn provements-cannot erect handsome public buildings-without spending big money But expenditures, such as I have suggested, pay in the end. They make city attractive and enhanced realty values naturally follow. Richmond, Va, now growing rapidly, but with a smaller population today than Birmingham, Is famed for it's elegant boulevards and it's imposing public buildings. Rich monds bonded debt is little more than double that of Birmingham. See"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

The rattle of the water wagon will soon drown the noise of war if things keep on going as they've started
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

The average man can be interested in a husbands discussion of his wife, but he don't care a rap for a wife's discussion of her husband.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

This is the kind of weather that makes us think of the sweet girl graduate and the June bride
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
HE'S SEEN THE AGE-HERAID

From the Troy Messenger.
 The biggest nickel's worth that we have ever seen is modern Sunday newspaper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

What Birmingham doesn't get one time
 she gets another. so we hold no i'll will toward Gadsden for beating us to- the
 Sunday school convention If the big towns didn't have little things like this to keep up their mettle they'd soon get slow and sleepy. Three cheers for Gads- den-we'll get that convention next time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

compared to the ''smoke' that fell in Ha- Yana Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
Coal and Iron Business Improving


 "For the past month or so there have been reliable indications of general inn provement in the business conditions in this section" said J. w. Porter, sales manager of the Alabama company.
 My company produces large quanti- ties of coal, coke and pig iron, and our sales have recently shown a good i'm crease. Shipments aresnow being routed to manufacturing points scattered through the east, west and south, and the demand right here in the Birming ham district increases.
 q have just returned from sales trip through the middle west. While away I visited Louisville and St. Louis. and found business in these centers quite good.
 But an interesting situation is fast developing right here at home. The last of the locks on the Warrior river is practically complete, and it now seems certain that barge lines will trans port this districts products to the gulf at reduced rates. An all water trans portation route between Birming gham and New Orleans will tend to greatly stimulate the demand in that section, and is naturally of great interest to the coal and iron men"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

Gadsden Times-News: Billy Sunday says kiss the modern girls and you get painters colic." He ought to take some lessons A fellow don't really have to swallow the kisses,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

Anniston Evening Star Have you sas- Nope; have you molasses-and-syruped? ?- Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Not yet. but we're going to cornbread.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-13
BOOK COMMISSION NAMED.

Jackson, Miss, May 13.-Governo
Brewer has named the followino tox
book commission TO select the hook
used in the public schools durino +b.
next four wears.
First DISTRICT. w D Friorson =.
Columbus
Second T,is4r;ot-coorso r u,s.
Oxford
Third District TT D t1oido,horo
CIarksda1a
Fourth Distr;ct. Clo,do 1ou
Grenada
Fifth District-Tbos Sv1,os No
ridian
Siytb nietrict Pm vr,o4,.;
reI
cou4h n;a.,;
,1s,,;,,o
Eigbth Distr;ot D r. H.
Floronoo
Tho comn,;ssio, no. loo, Ill,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-13
RAILROAD EXPENDITURES.

Jackson. Miss. May 13-While hot
Y the Mobile e Ohio and the Gulf 1
Ship Island railroads report ne
earnings for the quarterly period end
ing march 81, last, the Mobile & Ohio
| show an increase over the same quar-
| ter in 1914 of more than $250,000. The
Gulf and Ship Island report shows
slight decrease.
These interesting figures are con
tanned in reports submitted by the
two roads to the railroad commits
sion this week. The figures are as
|follows:
Mobile G Ohio - Total operating
revenue, for period ending March 81,
1915, $2576,7 1923; total operating ex-
penses and taxes, $1,S94,5521S; net
operating revenue, $685., 2O6O5. This
is an increase of 251,11S.91 in net
earnings over the first three months
of 1914, when the total receipts were
$3,064, 0S4.16, expenses and taxes, ST.
632,997.02, and net operating revenue,
$431, 087.14.
Gulf & Ship Island-Total operating
revenue, $3S5,353.21; total operating
expenses and taxes, $29S,64453; net
operating revenue, $86,7O8.6S, a de-
crease of $5,SS4.64 in net earnings
when compared with figures for the
first three months in last year, when
the receipts totaled $471, 641.01; ex-
penses and taxes, $379,04769; net OPP.
Grating revenue, $92,59332.
The report of receipts and expenses
of the American Express company for
the quarterly period ending March 81,
last, is as follows:
Receipts, $25,67116; expenses, $24,-
$3.50; net revenue, $1,2S3.56: a de-
crease in net revenue of $4S9.67 com
pared with that for the same period
in 1914, when receipts were $685.
1920; expenses $33,6S9.97; net reve.
nue., $1,773.33.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-13
ANXIOUS FOR WAR.

Biloxi Miss, May 13.-News from
Beauvoir is to the effect that all oil
the old veterans without regard to
genealogy are anxious for the United
States to declare war on Germany
for the sinking of the Lusitania. The
Confederate veterans are devouring
every bit of war news that is possible
according to Capt j. X. Mosby, super
intendent of the Jefferson Davis Con.
federate Home, who was in Biloxi
this week.
81 don't think that many of our
boys will have the opportunity of go
ing to war;" said Capt Mosby dryly.
"In fact, it is my opinion that we had
better keep out of the European war,
as it is a conhagration that is danger
Gus. In my opinion the war will last
for years, five or six probably, and no
man can foresee the end. Indeed |
believe that before this war ends
there will be many a nation wiped off
the map and new and strange events
will take place.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-13
BARRED FROM ISLAND.

Biloxi Miss, May 13.-Notice has
been received by Lewis E. Curtis
United States Deputy Collector OF
Customs, from the light inspector OF
this district to the effect that no more
permits will be issued to land on
Chandelier Islands. Numerous com
plants have been filed with the in
spector that certain parties to whom
permits were issued have failed to
properly observe conditions under
which they were permitted to land.
The order is, therefore, in conse-
quence and suspends the issuance of
permits with a view to protecting
bird life on the islands. The suspen-
sion of the permits, it is stated in the
order, will continue until the people
show a greater degree of appreciation
of the privilege conferred by the per
mitS
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-13
NEWTON FACULTY CHOSEN.

Newton, Miss, May 13.-The follow.
ing faculty has been selected for the
session of 1915-16:
Rev. r. A. VenabIe, B. A., d. d.,
president and instructor of Bible and
philosophy.
Prof w. p. Still, b. s., vice presi.
dent and general manager, and in.
structor in French, German and his
tory
Prof. j. F. Parkinson, B. A., Greek
and Latin.
Prof. W. c. Bennett, B A., mathe-
mates.
Prof. P. I. Lipsey, B. A., English.
Miss Luella Gibson Joiner, piano
and voice
Miss Edna Buchanan, expression.
Miss Annie Pearl Walton, art.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-13

i by the tournament committee of the
/ association, composed of r. B. Spen
Ger, chairman; r. D. Crenshaw, OF
Aberdeen, and J. E. Motlow, of Tupe
10, and the local golfers. including
members of the Country Club of Jack
son, hosts for the occasion 1t is ex
pected that many players will come
the Saturday night or Sunday Prev.
Gus to Tuesday, June s, so they can
become familiar with the courses by
Tuesday morning, and to attend the
smoker on Monday night, June Z.
All members of the clubs in the as
ociation will be eligible to participate
I the big championship tournament.
he following clubs are members of
he association: Country Club of Jack
on; Tupelo Golf Club, of Tupelo;
uif Coast Country Club, of Gulfport;
icksburg Country Club, of Vicks.
'urg; Aberdeen Gulf Club, of Aber.
cen; Bailey Avenue Golf Club. of
ackson; University Golf Club, of Mis-.
issippi University at Oxford, and the
.amb-Fish association, of Charleston.
each club will send from four to fiji,
cen players, the more the merrier.
md suitable prizes and cups will be
awarded successful contestants. Geo.
4. Enghlnger, golf expert at the coun
Try club, will personally supervise the
tournament play.
The full program is as follows:
Monday, June Z, p. m.-Smoker in
the city.
Tuesday, June 8, 8 a. m.-Oualifv-
ing rounds, IS holes. Receipts at
Country Club; also a dance in the
evening.
Wednesday, June 9, 9 a. m.-Match
play, IS holes.
Thursday, June 1O.-Match play |
continued in morning. ard then semi |
inals begin. Finals, So holes, in after
loon. Awarding of prizes in club
'ooms at night, when a dance will be
given to the visiting golfers.
me business meeting, and election
If officers will be held at noon on
Nednesday at the Country Club.
The program as to play is subject
0 change, as it is impossible to know
he exact number Of players who will
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-13
SUPREME COURT DOCKET.

Jackson, Miss, May 13.-Following
is a list of cases that will be called
in the supreme court next Monday
May II:
r. J. Daknell VS.. j. c. Johnson, state
revenue agent.
First National Bank of Canton VS.
lsadore Hesdorffer.
State ex rel attorney general gen.
eral VS.. F. NJ Meak, two cases.
State and Lincoln county vs.. ]. F.
Greer and United States Fidelity and
Trust company.
]. w. Kelly, county treasurer, VS..
Covington county, ct al.
Louis COIN and brothers VS.. NJ. l..
Sullivan, ct al.
]. w. Maechmeyer VS.. Aletha Shep-
pard, ct al.
Mississippi Central Railroad COM
pany VS. II. L. Cox.
r. J. Spraggins and Son VS.. George
W. Koents, ct al.