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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-29
ANNISTON
Birmiugham Battery Going to Camp. Says Automobiles Were Invented by the Devil

Anniston, August 2S.-(Special.) )-Battery A, organized state militia, from Birmng- ham. will arrive in this city Sunday over the Southern railway for a To-day stay at Camp Morgan for artillery practice and instruction.
 With the Birmingham troops will be Battery B of Mobile, which was recently organized and inspected by Lieut. B. M Bailey who Is the instructor-inspector at Camp Morgan.
 In a report made to the officials at Washington several days ago officers at Camp Morgan highly praised the camp here. stating that it Is an ideal place for such a camp
 The Rev. J. B. Leavell of Mississippi who Is holding a revival service at the Parker Memorial Baptist church. which is one of the largest and most influential in the city, told his audience last night that automobiles were invented with the aid of the devil. and that picture shows are lur- ing many people to hell. The Rev Mir Leavell is one of the most powerful preac chers who has ever preached here, and the church is being filled to It's ca- pacity every night.
 The Calhoun County Sunday School con- vention meets at Jacksonville next Tues day and Wednesday, and every Sunday school in the county will be represented by delegates to the convention. Jackson- vile Is preparing to entertain several hundred visitors on that occasion.
 The teacher training class at Yelling ton will hold special services Sunday, when seven members of the class will be graduated. Those to receive certfi- cates are Mrs. T. M Connally, Mrs ]. c. David, Miss Molie Dickie, Mrs. w. E. Kelly, Mrs l.. F. Kirby, Miss Leah Donia Seaman and Miss Laura Lou Usry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-29

very materially in the production of Human Hearts"
 The Orpheums mana nagement prom ises in Human Hearts the programme Tor all this week, the best production yet attempted by the Orpheum play CTS.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
PUSHING SWEET PEAS
By MRS. C.. w. JENNINGS.

During the early spring months !
emptied the wood ashes, from the
cooking stove, over the ground that
intended to use for flowers. When
the time for planting came, had a
trench dug, which l half filled with
ashes. Over the ashes / threw an
inch or two of soil, and planted sweet
peas, covering them one inch. In a
few days they were up and such vines
as | had, When they were six inches
high l laid cedar brush along one side
of them. They grew five and six feet
tall and gave quantities of lovely flow
ers all summer.
| fortified them once a week with
soap suds, and hoed them three or
four times during the season, each
time drawing the dirt about them, but
never making narrow ridge for
them to grow in. When this is done
they dry out too much, and do not
bloom we'll
Nasturtiums, also, shared the same
treatment except that l did not give
them SO many ashes. I kept the flow
ers picked from both the sweet peas
and the nasturtiums. Soap-suds is the
fertilizer / employ most for my flow.
ers and nothing is better for the rose
bushes.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
SYRUP Of figs FOR
A CH|LD'S BOWELS
1t is cruel to force nauseatinq,
harsh physic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose mother insisted
on - castor oil. calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form Of
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt is well-found-
ed. Their tender little "insides" are
injured by them.
If your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup of Figs" It's
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take it; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach, and that teaspoonful
given today saves sick child tomor-
row.
Ask at the store for 50-cent bottle
of California Syrup of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
THE GOOD OLD PE0NY
BY CHARLES A. GITCHELL.

The old-time "piny" was nasty
smelling, rank-looking plant, with large
red flowers of stiff, waxy appearance,
blooming generally in May. 1t was not
beautiful, but it was hardy and pushed
its way out of the ground in the spring
as soon as the frost would permit.
Peony is the botanical name for this
plant. Varying forms of it have been
In cultivation in the celestial and flow
cry Kingdoms of China and Japan for
long period of time
In China these forms have been
crossed and recrossed thousands of
times The hybrids that are the re-
guilt of these centuries of crossing are
the most beautiful flowers in the
world
While travelling in China several
years ago | had the rare good fortune
to be in the interior during the bloom
ing season of these Towering plants,
and | was so much impressed with
them that | purchased 1000 of the
most striking and popular colors for
home test.
These arrived in good condition and
were carefully planted on my farm in
Virginia They flourished from the
start. l readily sold blooms last year
for SO a dozen. Most of these went to
New York and Boston. At this price
for the flowers, an acre of established
plants would produce $4,000 in a single
season.
The idea underlying the growing of
these flowers is to get the blooms early
and ship them to cities North, where
the demand for flowers in May, end
ing May 80, Decoration day, is so great
as to exhaust the entire output 1t is
the one season of the year when flow
ers are scarce.
The peony is the only flower of
prominence that blooms during this
season and the one flower that defies
dollhouse culture. 1t is an outdoor
plant, and will not succeed when put
under glass, and therefore cannot
easily be forced by artificial means.
When planted on land that is quick
TO respond to the first rays of the sun
In the spring, land sloping to the south,
but made rich and powerful to produce
a strong vegetable growth, the peony
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02

will produce flowers to ship about
May IS.
At this season of the year there is
not flower of this variety to be seen
in any northern market unless it comes
from further South.
The blooming season lasts about fiji
teen days and is generally at it's height
just before Decoration day.
The plants never fail to bloom, re
quire but little care, and being legumin
Gus, enrich the soil
Once in the ground there they re-
main for five years. No other flower is
more deserving of popularity. So easy
to raise that the novice can raise it.
so permanent that a clump has been
known to bloom annually for halt a
century; so hardy that no protection is
required in the bitterest of winters.
and SO free from disease and fungus
that one is spared the labor Of fighting
disease
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
FOR THE WINDOW BOX

Nothing so softens and beauties
a stiff looking house-or any other
kind, for that master-as window
boxes.
Prepare them now. Make a box
eight inches deep and ten inches wide.
Use only rich black soil to fill it. A
bucket of fertilizer worked into the
soil will improve it.
Fill the box level full and then let
it stand for week. Then stir up the
soil to loosen it, and plant.
Keep window garden clean. Remove
dead leaves, scrub pots, shower fol-
iage. Keep window glass clean.
Ferns should be planted in the rear
of the box. Between them place gera-
NUNS, red or pink preferred
In the front OF these plant row of
purple ageratuln seed and for good
measure mix in few Of candytuft,
For a front row, plant sweet alys-
sum. The alyssum will fall over the
front of the box and form pretty
border.
Give the plants plenty of room to
grow and they will make better
appearance than many in one box.
stunted for lack of room.
For a large porch, with plenty of
room, a few dwarf nasturtiums may
take the place OF the sweet alyssum.
Other flowers suitable for boxes are
pinks, pansies and marigolds and low
growing plants.
When the plants, raised from seeds,
are an inch high, thin them out to
about two inches apart.
All the hardy Towering shrubs may
be started by roofing cuttings, and
this should be done early this month
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
MEAT CLOGS KIDNEYS
THEN YOUR BACK HURTS
Take a Glass of Salts to Flush Kid
neys If Bladder Bothers YOU
Drink Lots of Water.

a No man or woman who eats meat
Regularly can make mistake by flush
ing the kidneys occasionally, says a
well-known authority. Meat forms
uric acid which excites the kidneys,
they become overworked from the
strain, get sluggish and fail to filter
the waste and poisons from the blood,
then we get sick Nearly all rheu-
matism, headaches, liver trouble, ner-
vousness, dizziness, sleeplessness and
urinary disorders come from sluggish
kidneys.
The moment you feel dull ache In
the kidneys or your back hurts or II
the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of
sediment, irregular of passage or at
tended by a sensation of scalding, stop
eating meat and get about four ounces
of Jad Salts from any pharmacy; take
q tablespoonful in glass of water
before breakfast and in few days
nous salts Is made from the acid Of
grapes and lemon juice. combined
with lithia, and has been used for
generations to flush and stimulate the
kidneys, also to neutralize the acids
in urine so it no longer causes irrita-
ton, thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot
injure; makes a delightful efferves-
cent lithia-water drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep the
kidneys clean and active and the blood
pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney
complications.-Adv.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
Barbed Wire Workers in War.

The men who spend their nights
working on the barb wire entangle-
ments in front of the trenches have
one of the most perilous tasks of the
war. One of them, a member of the
British Royal Engineers, writes:
I'm trench one has sense of Sc
curity in being below ground level.
and there is collective courage due to
the knowledge that one has compan-
ions. In putting up barb wire one is
working perhaps 800 feet in front Of
deed, is the working party if the en-
emy's snipers do not hear the sound
of the muffled mallets driving the
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02

that the plants may be we'll estab
lished by cold weather. Such plants
started from cuttings will bloom much
more quickly than those from seeds
The box should be watered daily,
morning and evening, especially if it
is exposed to the sun all day
Shower, spray, dip, wash, scrub; do
any and all these things to keep down
the insect enemies. Don't let bugs
pasture on your plants.
Get your supply of Chinese primrose
during August, that they may become
well established before cold weather;
keep in partial shade and water moder-
ately. A dozen thrifty plants will be
a window garden of themselves Be
gonias set in rich soil in the garden
should have the morning sunshine, but
cannot stand the afternoon rays with
out damage.
For roofing oleander cuttings, split
the stem a little way and push bit
of cotton between the parts, then place
in a bottle of water, hang in warm
shady place, sheltered from the wind.
Wrap black paper or cloth about the
bottle to exclude the light, and bide
your time. Replenish the water, if
necessary Acacia lopantha is one
of the most beautiful, fern-like plants,
is easily started from seeds, and will
"show up" beautifully when only a
few months old The flowers will ap-
, pear the second or third year, under
good treatment. The plant requires
plenty of root room; will grow to be
quite a tree, and is long lived.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
Strict Neutrality of Brother Wacl

Strict Neutrality of Brother Wack.
IT'S plumb nootral bout de war, and
abomnably abuses to 'scuss it wild no.
body!" declared Brother Wack. wy,
tudder day / say to muh wife-good-
lookin' yallah lady dat powdahs her
face 'twell she 'magines she's most
white-I says, Blame if l don't b'lieve
dem Frenchmen is gwine to win,
uh-kase dey's got de Turcusses fun
Af-ica wild 'em. Dem niggers is sho'
huff fighters. and rs kindah prejudy
to'a'ads en-
'Hoh'i says she. Dem black apes!
l thinks de Germans will win. and
certingly admiahs dem big polly
gentlemen dat looks so much like
bishops. l sho'ly thinks a whole lot of
a bishop!'
'3Uh-well I'm skinny, muhse'f. and
as black as load O. coal, but / was
plumb nootral bout it, all de same.
,dess says, 'Yass'm, been nodicin' dat
fact for sometime!' an rotched out
and slapped her fat."-Kansas City
Star.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02

lery is the sand bin of shiny galvan-
lied iron which occupies a prominent
The sand is for use in case of fire. A
reminder of suffragette activity of
the days before the war is seen in
the hideous glass cases which sur
round few wall spaces in some of
the main galleries. One of the few
Rembrandts which remain in the
building is thus housed, the glass
frame extending from floor to ceiling
and preventing approach within three
or four feet of the canvas.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02

UNNECESSARILY inferior to that of six
months ago. Gone are the works Of
Raphael, Da Vinci and Holbein; only
one or two works of Rembrandt and
Reubens remain. In fact, most of the
real treasures of the magnificent col
lectiOns have been taken away for
safekeeping in underground vaults
where neither bombs nor confagra-
lions can reach them. In some cases
notably that of the priceless Ra-
phael Madonna-the empty frames re-
main in place.
Another wartime feature of the gal
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
Getting Back at Him.

There lived in a. certain county
Mr.. Crane, who had for a neighbor a
Mr.. Fuller. Crane and Fuller were not
the best Of friends, and scarcely ever
met without having a passage-at-
arms.
Meeting one day, Fuller said:
Crane. what is the difference be-
tween crane and a meadow hen?"
oh" replied Crane, there Is a
great deal of difference. The meadow
hen is fuller in the body, and fuller in
the neck, and fuller in the breast
In fact, it is fuller all over"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02

toast.
Ham in Mik.-Take a slice Of ham
cut at least two inches thick If
very salt parboil it and then place
in baking pan and cover with sweet
milk. Bake for an hour or more in
a slow oven. Thicker the milk with
butter and flour and serve it with
the sauce poured around it.
Ham SaIad.-Boi1 a slice of ham in
water for half an hour, then cut
in fine dice; mix with celery a few
chopped olives, using twice as much
ham as celery, sprinkle with celery
salt and serve with a good boiled
dressing
Ham Pie.-Cut UP ham and parboil,
then add a few potatoes, two onions
cut fine, season with pepper and salt,
add cream sauce and cover with a
crust. Serve as chicken pie.
Potted Chicken and Bacon.-Bake
one chicken, half cupful of butter,
bunch of herbs, blade of mace, six
ounces of bacon, pepper, salt and red
pepper Roast the chicken and while
hot remove all the meat from the
bones and chop>it. Put the bones we'll
broken into a saucepan, add three
cupfuls of water, the herbs, mace and
seasoning. Simmer gently for two
hours. Cook the bacon, put chicken
and bacon into a mortar and pound
until smooth, add butter and a table
spoonful Of the broth press in Jar
and cover with melted butter.
A slice of ham baked in milk, served
with a dish of water cress as a salad,
will be found a good combination.
A slice of onion added to chicken
when cooking for a pie or for a stew
will be found to improve the flavor
wonderfully.
A piece of veal cooked with chicken
absorbs the flavor and can be used as
creamed chicken or as chicken salad
to increase the bulk
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drawn butter sauce. Garnish with
parsley and serve with baked pota-
toes.
Date SaIad.-Arrange six dates from
which the stones have been removed,
star fashion on a lettuce leaf Sprinkle
with cream cheese, put through
r1cer, add strips of red pepper and
tablespoonful of boiled or mayonnaise
dressing.
Rice WaffIes.-Cook two tablespoon
fuls Of rice until soft When cool, add
the yolks of two eggs and half tea
spoonful of salt. Add a scant pint of
sweet milk and flour, which has been
sifted with a teaspoonful Of baking
powder. Lastly, add the beaten whites
OF two eggs. Cook on hot waffle
iron.
Bean SaIad.-Boil lima beans in
salted water When tender drain
and chill. Place on shredded cabbage,
cover with cooked dressing or may
onnaise, sprinkle with minced parsley,
chives or onion. Instead of the boiled
lima beans, cold string beans may be
used. Cover with spiced vinegar for
an hour. Drain, chill and cover with
French dressing, garnish with strips
of canned red pepper.
French Toast. - Cut sliced bread
about one inch thick and remove the
crust. Mix one cupful of milk, thick
ened with one or two beaten eggs, sea-
son with salt and soak the toast, a
piece at time, and fry in hot fat.
Banana Compote.-Cook together
for ten minutes two-thirds of a cup of
water and cup of sugar; pour when
cool over bananas which have been
peeled and CHARTERED. Add the juice
of half lemon and the grated rind,
sprinkle with chopped almonds and
serve with whipped cream.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
Pats Investment.

Pat bought pig in the fall, paying
$3.50 for it; during the winter he
bought $1,000 worth of feed for it, and
in the spring sold the pig for $17.5O.
A neighbor asked lin how much he
got for it, and when Pat told him, he
said: ''Well, you didn't make much on
1T, did your"
NO." said Pat, "but you see had
the use of the pig all winter. EVERY
body's Magazine.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
Professional Tip.

81 say, DOCTOR" queried the short
skate who was looking for a little
free advice, what would you advise a
man to do for dyspepsia?"
Well" answered the pill COM
FOUNDER, 'ff he wants a real bad case,
I'd advise him to hire a cheap cook
and eat irregularly."
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
ART TREASURES ARE HIDDEN
Many of the Masterpieces in Great
British Galleries Have Been Put
in Secret Places.

Visitors to the British national gal
lery In London who remember 1t as
second only to the Louvre halt with
bewilderment when they enter it now.
looking in vain for their favorite mas
terpieces, an exchange remarks. It's
walls are still plentifully hung with
paintings, but the whole collection Is
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02

posts into the ground and open fire.
Now and then a magnesium flare will
be sent up to light the landscape for
the benefit of sharpshooters. Then the
worker has to throw himself fat on
the ground and look as much like a
weed as possible"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
Ie<k@2 H~<s~eN-
Prophets Liking for Narcissus.

Prophets Liking for Narcissus.
Mohammed loved the large-f1owered
narcissus, and has sounded it's praises
in the epigrammatic saying: who
ever has two loaves of bread, let him
exchange one for the narcissus flower:
for bread is food for the body, but the
narcissus food for the soul"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
HHEMp1HHaN
(6ABLNED

With hand on the spade and heart in
the sky
Dress the ground and till it:
Turn in the seed, brown and dry,
Turn out the golden millet
Work and your house shall be duly
fed;
Work and the rest shall be won;
l hold that man had better be dead
Than alive when his work is done.
Alice Cary
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
Subject for conoratu,ation.

Maybe a man is lucky if his wife
takes an interest in politics instead
of reading best sellers and feeling
hurt because he can't act like one of
the heroes.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
Unduuy Suspicious Men.

Some men," said Uncle Eben, s'has
been forced to git so suspicious dat
if you tries to be plain honest wifi 'em,
dey thinks you has managed to hit
on some new kind of a trick
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
Worth While Quotation.

Great men had good mothers, but
there would be a surplus"
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Covered.

isn't that new door-mat you
have? Strange, l didn't notice it be-
fore"
you were standing on it before"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
SELF SHAMPOOING
With cuticura Soap is Most Comfort
Ing and Beneficial. Trial Free.

Especially if preceded by touches
OF Cuticura Ointment to spots of dam
druff and itching on the scalp Skin.
These supercreamy emollients meet
every skin want as well as every
toilet and nursery want in caring for
the skin, scalp, hair and hands.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. Ky.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
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squares; parboil for half
an hour, then put into a
rich white sauce made
by cooking together four
tablespoonful each of
butter and flour and add
ing two cupfuls of rich
milk. Serve the ham in
the sauce on buttered
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
When PLAY Is Work,

It's hard to play on some peoples
sympathies. In fact, it is all work
and no play.-Philadelph Record.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
STOP THAT
ECZEMA NOW
Instant Relief from that Awful Itching
and Burning Palm.
N0x-EMA Does II. There is No Case Of Skin
Disease, scaly Skin, Chatting, chspped Hands,
Itching Piles, Which kcx-EMA Will Not
Instantly Relieve and Quickly Heal.
Why Suffer longsr7


It's useless and foolish to stand the fortunes.
the dreadful itching, the burning pain Of Eczema
when one application Of Nox-Ema will give in
slant relief.
ulcers, old sores, burns, scalds, sunburn or any
and all skin troubles quickly yield to the use OF
Nox-eIna.
No matter how obstinate your case may be-
no matter how many remedies have failed, you
will find instant relief In the use of Nox-Ema. II
does not stain the skin soil the clothes. but it
does the business. All itching and burning stop
once.
Nox-ema Is sold at $f.00 per package by most
druggists or by mail prepaid on receipt Of price.
Wis It Is sure to give you instant relief If you
never found ii before.
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For Earache.

An onion poultice will often relieve
the worst earache.
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inexpensive. Soak
the fish or half of
one in water, rinse
and d r a n to re-
move the excess of
salt, then place on
a hot platter and
pour over it a gen.
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GOOD MEAT DISHES.

Take slice of ham cut in small
serving sized pieces or cut in inch
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SOME WHOLESOME AND ECONOM-
ICAL DISHES.

Sailed Goldfish is dish which, il
nicely prepared, is both appetizing and