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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
WOOD ADVISES THAT.
 ALL DEBTS BE PAID.
Says Short Settlements Will Make Long Friends, While
 Cash Is the Best

N. D. Wood of the w D. Wood Lum- Der company believes that business would be greatly improved if every one of us would strain to the last notch in an endeavor to pay old debts. AS Mir. Wood points out if debts were paid it would help all along the line.
 Aside from anything else, it cannot be too strongly emphasized that the most needed thing in business now is for each and everyone to strain to the last notch in paying up,' said MT. Wood. "Especially should past due accounts be paid, for collections keep business con- eerns in operation.
 of each one paid his debt it means prosperity. If no one pays it means failure for not only the merchant, but for everyone. We are all concerned. There are just three classes of people one that can and does pay one that can and won't pay. and a third that can pay. The first two classes would prae- tically relieve the third by paying up to the minute. Short settlements make long friends. Cash is always safer and better and has much greater purchasing power than credit, hence it has always been the policy of my company to buy in large quantities for cash. Thus we are enable to buy at the lowest prices and discounts and carry very large stock of everything necessary to build a house. We are enabled to save money for our customers as well as time. They can purchase all that is needed here and it is delivered quickly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
Ky ELLIS C. HOLLUMs
SANb0RN COMPANY GETS MANY ORDERS Business Conditions Show lmprOvement-Keep Full
 Force on the Job

An official of w T. Sanborn & Co.,, engineers and machinists, says business conditions recently have shown de- cided improvement over the three months preceding. Many orders for repair work and other miscellaneous jobs have been received and the prospects are indeed bright.
 This official, who forbids the use of his name, believes that the build now movement started by the Builders' Ex- charge, will prove of great benefit not only to working people of the city, but to dealers in building material, machin- ists, etc.
 The w. T. Sanborn company has kept its machine shop force intact since the beginning of the business depression and will continue to do so. At times the shop was not very busy, but more often it was running full time, so excellent Its reputation has become within the past few years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
WEBER GETS MANY
 INQUIRIES FOR BIDS

r. s. Webber of thew Webber Iron Works said last week that business in his line was fairly good. NIT. Webber's con cern does much repair work in addi- ton to manufacturing machinery of va- rious sorts and specifications. He says the sentiment is becoming better and expects to see a steady improvement.
 Inquiries are coming in steadily said MT. Webber, and that is a good indi- cation of better sentiment. Inquiries mean business and we intend to get the business"
 MT. Webbers concern gets orders from many points in the state and not a few cities outside Alabama. Atlantans have given him orders in the recent weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
NEWS OF ENSLEY

Much interest is being manifested In the mass meeting that will be held tonight at the Ensley city hall in the interest of the passage of the proposed bond issue. Among the speakers will be Commissioner James Weatherly, Senator Frank & White, and Sidney J. Bowie. The purpose of the meeting Is to have the citizens of Ensley and vicinity indorse the bond issue and rom the amount of interest that has been displayed, the meeting promises to be a large one
 The Birmingham Baptist Bible class federation will meet tonight at s o'clock in regular monthly session at the Ensley Bpatist church. The fea- ture of the meeting will be an ad- dress by Harvey Beauchamps. field secretary of the Baptist Sunday school board with headquarters at Dallas, Texas
 The officers elect of the Ensiey Be- nevolent Protective Order of Elks, will be installed tonight at the Elks' home, Avenue E, by State Deputy Guy White. Lawrence Pennington will be installed as exalted ruler. The reports of the several officers will be read and other matters of interest brought before the lodge. Following the installation, Dutch supper will be served.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05

It seems that the complaint of the local merchants, the names of whom it was impossible to learn, is based on and works a hardship upon them. Com missioner of Agriculture James A. Wade sent the following letter to Elm met 4. Jones, chief of the immigration and markets bureau, who has direct charge of the work made necessary by the law.
 Since hearing the complaints against the produce law, beg to advise that have read and carefully noted the pro- visions of this act. I am unable to see that this is an unfair law as interpreted by the subjects rendering the complaints. am desirous of seeing this law enforced and after due trial, and I am convinced that it is legal imposition upon the sub jects coming under it's provisions, I shall be glad to recommend such changes to the legislature as will make a just and equitable regulation.
 Tt is my duty to enforce this law so long as it remains in force, and it will be my greatest desire to administer this law without prejudice or partality be- tween the producer and wholesale dealer, and to devote the proceeds of this act to the educational feature of graded mar keting of farm products, and to cultivate a closer business relation between pro- duotion and marketing. I regard this act as a nucleus around which well regu- lated system of graded marketing will be built. Therefore. I advise you to pro-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
WLLA-zAPAT|STAS WILL NOT EVACUATE
 MEXICAN CAPITAL
Say City Is We'll GarrisOned and In No Danger of an Attack, According
 to Reports

Washington, April 4.-Ismael Palafox, in charge of the foreign office of the Villa-Zapata government in Mexico City, Washington representative. that there was no intention of evacuating Mexico City, as reported in diplomatic dispatches sev- eral days ago.
 The text of the message follows:
 You can deny the rumored evacuation of Mexico City, as there is absolutely no ground for it. The capital is suf- ficiently well garrisoned. We have 6O0O troops in the city besides 10000 in the suburbs. There is absolutely no danger of an attack by the enemy as Obregon general Gonzales there. General situa- tion good. Commerce, industry and banks are opened and all administration work ing harmonlously. The spread of the rumor of the evacuation caused a little alarm, but as soon as denied by the gov ernment, calm was restored"
 The Carranza agency gave out the fol- lowing statement:
 "The constitutionalist agency has re- ceived advices from Agua Prieta via Douglas, Ariz., that Colonel Samaniego returned to Agua Prieta yesterday with his command of 1900 men after a most successful campaign against the May toremistas in northeastern Sonora. He re- ports that region as now cleared of the enemy and the Maytorenistas as demoral- ized by continuous defeats. They have evacuated all northeastern Sonora and concentrated at Cananea. The arrival of Colonel Samaniego's force brings the gar rison at Agua Prieta to 5000 men,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
Constdntinople-Srdteeic Center

But when Constantine had carried his battle standard, emblazoned with the Christian cross, to victory, he moved eastward and planted the same cross where today floats the star and cres- cent-emblem of the "sick man of Eu- rope.'
 Constantine called into requisition the artistic and material resources of the Greco-Ronian world to make a city wor- thy of it's predestined fortunes. Multi tudes crowded in, drawn by imperial in- vitation and the attractions of court so that almost in day old Byzantium grew into a great metropolis-'The City of Constantine"
 From the seventh to the fourteenth century tho Mohammedan Turk made re- peated desperate efforts to take the city. Finally, in 1453, he succeeded. The star and crescent was hoisted over the his toric temples, and the classic palaces were converted into cigaretted harems.
 Today the prices of cotton and wheat vary in proportion as the fleets of the allies approach Constantinople through the Dardenelles-not now so innocent.
 Romantic and remarkable indeed is the story of strategic constantinople, toe long to tell. Today Constantinople is a city of 1.Soo,0oO people,
 Unless the signs of the times, the laws of nature, and the power of bombshells fails, the recovery of that mystic city by Christian civilization will make the year 1915 one of the large type dates in history books, to be studied in the early future by the school boys and school girls of seven or eight nations oi the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
AL WHOLESALERS MAKE COMPLAINT AGAINST PRODUCE
IN T. P. A. CIRCLES

Joe Calvin at Decatur wants it under stood that he is out after membership prize, says Mir. Mabry. MT. Calvin al- ready has got his "one mark" and he has it in him to get another.
 According to the dope, the boys at De- catur are going after a membership of 100 for 1915.
 MT. Mabry says that, judging from the appearance of drug and seed stores in Athens, the farmers are going in for diversified farming this year. He says 1t looks as though grasses and small grains would be planted largely.
 Huntsville, MT. Mabry says, is looking and feeling good with her new hotel He says there is some complaint from trav- cling men about the train service out of Huntsville. He says there is no train between 10 a. m. and 10 D. m. However, the motto of the T. P. As is there is two sides to every question-sometimes- and they are taking it philosophically.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05

ceed to enforce this law with courteous treatment and fair consideration. All ob- jections to this act will be cited to the courts for redress and 1t is hoped that this law will be given a chance to prove it's merits or demerits."
 The produce law of Alabama requires all wholesale dealers in products of the soil to have on display in their place of business on and after today a license to carry on such business. In order to get such a license they must execute bend in the sum of s100, payable to the commis- sioner of agriculture and pay the required fee.
 Emmet A. Jones, chief of the bureau of immigration and markets, states that he will enforce the law. The intention of merchants from defrauding farmers. He says the honest merchant will not be imposed upon by its provisions, but that the dishonest dealer will find it hard.
 One of the latest rulings from MT. Jones' office is that the use of farm products in the act means products of the soil in their natural state. This takes from the original list of banned articles such dealers as handle four mixed feed, canned goods, molasses, etc., this class of goods being termed manufactured products.
 As to the complaint made in Mont gomery, the local merchants side of the story was not obtainable last night. They may have good case and this writer is neutral.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
Training for Nurse

Can you answer the following ques- tions through the Corner without break ing any of the rules? shall watch for an answer. How can young woman of 20 years get information and application papers to enter a hospital to train for the profession of nurse? Is there any hos pital in Milwaukee, Chicago or New York where one could earn salary while learning? If you know the names of any will you kindly name them through the Corner. A READER"
 There are training schools for nurses in each of the cities you name where you can get all the information you require The city directory will guide you to them. We have an able corps of trained nurses among our regular co-workers. Will one of them send to us for the address of the young woman who would enter their honorable profession? We have had too many proofs of their large hearted gene rosity to doubt their willingness to be of service to her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
METCALF ID HANDLE. .P|CN|CK|NG PARTIES Manager of Kentucky Liv- cry Company Expects
 Good Business

Walter |. Metcalf, manager of inc Ken lucky Livery company, says business "ith him Is not at all bad. Mr Melcalf says the picnic season is beginning to open up, and he expects to do much busi- ness. carrying parties to picnic grounds In and about Birmingham. He says there Is always much business to be had from moonlight parties, too
 MT. Metcalf is making a feature of carrying picnic parties anywhere they want to go in his huge trucks, tally noes and wagons He is kept busy in his regular line of caring for horses and mules of concerns that have no private stables. But he says he will handle all tho picnic parties in Birmingham this summer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05

Ty HE eyes of the world are at this
 hour centered upon Constantinople.
 For anxious days and weeks this famed city and it's fated gateway have been the focus of the attention of na- tions.
 The moving of heaven and earth in general and the seining of German mines and torpedoes, and the levelling of Turk ish forts ill particular, are incidents of one Herculean effort to reach Constan tinople but not the first, nor the second, nor even the third effort to accomplish the same result.
 The life course and career of this city has been checkered indeed. Time after time it has been the exposure of the eyes of nations and world powers, the objective point of armies and navies Constantinople has been the center from which boundary lines of kingdoms and empires have been marked out. It has been the rlace from which crusades have started, and where dogmas, creeds and religious have waned and died. It has been the place where kings, popes and potentates have been made and unmade. Twenty-Five hundred years ago, 65S B. C., a Greek colony padded through l the then innocent waters of the Dar- l denelles in their cypress wood May 1 flower' with the breath of Zeus in their l sails. and landed upon one of the most l magnificent. sites in the world-the pres
 ent site of Constantinople. They had
 consulted the Delphian oracle and the
 voice of Apollo directed them to this 1 destination. They called their camp
 city Bysantium.
 ], One thousand years later, 33o A. D., 1 Constantine selected the then old and l fabled ByZantium as the new capital of
 the Roman empire. Julius Caesar wished, 1 400 years before, to make ancient Troy, | just across the Hellespont, on the Asiatic l side, the capital of the Roman world. ] but public sentiment and the mutterings 1 of would-be conspirators stayed his hand. | After his death Mark Antony planned l to transfer the capital from the old | seven-hilled city upon the Fiber to Alex
 andria, in Egypt, for reasons best known | to himself and Cleopatra. The battle of 1 Actium decided the question otherwise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
Woman Attempts Suicide

A young woman going under tae name of Mrs. West" between IS and 20 years old, attempted suicide at the Colonial hotel yesterday morning about Il o'clock by taking carbolic acid. According to witnesses who saw the young woman come into the hotel, she registered under the name of Mrs. Vest and gave her address as Montgomery.
 Johns ambulance hurried the girl to the Hillman hospital. The hospital au- thorities believe, provided no complica- tions set in, she will recover.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
PROWELL FINDS
 BUSINESS IS GOOD

Robert Prowell of the Robert Prowell Stove company says conditions are 1m- proving. MT. Prowell is in position to know, for his company is one of the oldest in it's line in the state and does business throughout Alabama and adjoin- ing states Repair work, nickle and brass plating are only a few of the activities of the company.
 Any old stove, no matter what make or what year it was made, can be repaired in MT. Prowells shop. He employs men who know the business of stove mak- ing from the ground up and, therefore, knows how properly to repair any make of stove. His business of repair work is probably the largest in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
BERNSTEIN GIVES
 REASON FOR VOTE

London. April 4.-(3:15 p. m.)-Eduard Bernstein, socialist member of the Reichstag, who refused to vote for the budget, although he did not vote against it, has written to the Leipzig volks Zei- tung an explanation of his attitude A Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph says that Herr Bernstein re- fused to approve the budget, because if was necessary that a voice be heard cry ing for c. common sense peace''
 ''If Germany made beginning" Herr Bernstein wrote, followers of the move ment in other countries would soon be heard"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
Easter Comparatively Quiet

Brownsville, Tex, April 4.-Easter Sun day passed with only occasional exchanges of rifle fire between the Villa forces in- vesting Matamoros and the Carranza troops defending the town.
 Five hundred Villa troops with one can non were reported to have reached Key nosa, about 60 miles west of Matamoros today. An express car which some Car ranza supporters said contained an aero- plane for use at Matamoros and others declared was loaded with ammunition arrived here late today. It was not un- loaded today.
 There were special Easter services for the 1S0 Villa wounded in the Red Cross hospital here, first a Catholic mass and then Presbyterian services. After the services, H. c. Harrison, business man. ager for the Red Cross, discovered some Mexicans who after entering the hospital under the guise of friends of convales- cents had started a gambling game be- side the beds and were winning the sol- diers' money. There was about s25 at stake when Harrison put an end to the game.
 Juan Perales 12-year-old Villa cav alryman, was among those operated on in the hospital here today. The child's knee was shattered in the fighting at Mata- moros. He submitted to the operation and promised not to cry if given a candy Easter rabbit. He kept his promise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
Reichsbank Statement

Berlin, April 4.--(via London, 10:15 D. m.)-The March 9l statement of the Reichsbanl1 shows increases of metal stocks. treasury certificates and notes of other banks of $99, 3t7, ,75O; gold, $1, ,91o,- GOO; discounts, s496, IF, 900; notes in circu- lation, $17O, ,239, ,759 deposits, $414 164, 800. The statement shows decrease in loans of $4759,500 and in treasury bills of s2,- 4SO,25o.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
Wilson's Invitation Accented

Washington, April 4.-President Will sons invitation to the countries of Gen. tral and South America to participate in the Pan-American financial conference here, beginning May 24 was formally accepted today by Argentina, Chile, Sal vador and Uruguay already have made known their acceptances
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
HELPING HAND HINTS
By MARION KIRKLAND Herrick and Solomon

You are so obliging in locating the origin of proverbs and familiar quota tions that l am referring one to you. Somebody quoted in my hearing the other day Let us crown ourselves with rose buds before they are withered. I said at once: You mean, gather rosebuds While you may He insisted that his quotation was correct, but could not give the author. Which was right?
 JANET B. Robert Herrick wrote: Gather ye rose buds while ye may" King Solomon-if the book, Wisdom of Solomon" in the Apocrypha be really his work-ante- dated Herrick's utterance by some thou sands of years in saying, "Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered" Solomon was right in declar- ing also that there is nothing new under the sun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
Seeks Missing Friends

Having heard and read much of the good work your Corner does, I venture to ask you to help locate some friends through it's medium. The family I desire to locate consists of Mir and Mrs, Thomas McGregor and two daughters. They lived at Kingsbury, Ind, in 1902, ana in 1905 they moved to Acl<ley, Ia. and from there to Springfield, Ill.,, in 1904. In nov ing from that town I lost all trace of them. Any friend or relative who can inform me as to their whereabouts would confer great favor on grateful per- son by communicating with me
 MRS. H. w. B. From the name of the family you would locate, I surmise that it is of Scotch birth or extraction. Scots are proverbially 'clannish" the world over, and 10th to lose sight of one another. Witness the Scottish ''cliques" in the church and community. A McGregor should be hard to lose. I register your request and ad- dress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
Humane Society Meeting

The Birmingham Humane society will hold its regular meeting on Tuesday, hnril at the humane headquarters on the second floor of the city hall. Mrs.
 i'ests a good attendance as important business will come before the meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
Value of Old Book

Kindly inform me if .Mltons Para disc Lost illustrated by John Martin, printed in 1S46 is of value as a relic?
 MRS. M. F." Referred to lovers and collectors of old books. Yours is comparatively modern, but the illustrations may lend value to the book.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
No Second Veto

Will you please tell me through your Helping Hand Corner has the President Of the United States a second veto or not? CHARLES IT.,
 He has not a second veto. If the con- gressional vote should override his veto, the matter rests there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
PRODUCE LAW WILL BE ENFORCED, SAYS WADE
Local Merchants Complain That Law Is Legal Im- position Commissioner of Agriculture Sends Letter to Jones In Regard to Matter

letter from
  law enacted
The Washington times., 1915-06-16
|. s. {. UNION FAVORS
DISTRICT SUFFRAGE
Stereotypers and EIectrotypers
Adopt Resolution-To Dine
at Great Falls.

Unanimous approval was today given
a resolution for suffrage in the District
Of Columbia. offered before the con-
vention of the International Stereo-
typers' and Electrotypers' Union at the
Raleigh.
Another resolution urging that Con-
gress take steps to purchase Mt. Vern-
on and throw 1t open to the public free
Of charge, also was adopted. The frst
ses g. sTgssp
typers' Local. No. II. of Washington.
and the second by Delegate Elmer E.
Young, of Stereotypers No: ,19. also Of
this city. Mr.. Briggs resolution reads
as follows
Whereas. the residents Of the Dis
trict of Columbia and City Of Wash
frage because Of Federal law; and
whereas such curtailment Of human
rights Is a reflection upon American
freedom; and whereas the right 10
vote is the most priceless heritage
from the founders of this republic:
therefore be 1t resolved, that this
union. in convention assembled, fav-
ors the repeal Of all laws Interfering
the residents of the District Of Co.
lumbia and the City Of Washington.
and urges every local union in the
United States to petition the Senator'S
and Representatives Of their respec-
tive districts to this effect"
The committee on resolutions,
on motion of Delegate Frank
Steward. of Denver. was instructed
to submit one condemning the
officials of Colorado for their at
titude during the recent strike and
pledging the unions support to John
r. Lawson, president Of the United
Mine Workers Of America, who was
active in the Colorado strike, result
ing in his prosecution in the courts.
BRIEF talks were made to the dele
dent of the International Typographi-
cal Union; Charles Smith, third vice
president of the ]. T. u, and repre-
senting the union mailers. and ]. Nc
Ardle.
Late today the delegates will go to
Great Falls for dinner.