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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03

spent sometime during the last month buying cattle in this county and who secured a carload of fine stock and gave drafts on a company in Georgia for the money to pay for them, which drafts proved worthless, has been captured and is now in jail at this place waiting trial for securing money under false pretense. Bell purported to be the purchasing agent for a large packing house in Georgia and when his drafts were refused payment because the company did not know him. the men who had sold the cattle im- mediately began search. Bell was cap- tured on the train near Pensacola by William Powell, deputy for local off, cialS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
New Coinage Delayed

Washington, December 2-Issuance of the new half dollar coin, designed by Adolph A. Weinman, designer of the new dime; and the new quarter dollar, de- signed by Herman A. MacNeil, was or dered deferred today by the treasury de- p..rtment until the beginning of 1917. The extraordinary demand for small coins is overtaxing the facilities of the hints, and officials believed calls for the new quar- ter and half dollar coins would swamp the hints if they were issued at this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
FIRM ON MORRIS AVENUE Business Good With Supply Ample in All
 Lines

Quotations on Morris avenue remained firm Saturday. Practically no changes were noted during the day. Business was good with well stocked markets in all lines
 Creamery butter is now selling at 421a cents, and process butter at 40 cents, while country butter is quoted at 35 cents.
 Quotations in the poultry market have seen no change since Friday morning. Eggs are still quoted at 47 cents, but an advance in price during the early part of the week is not unexpected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
ALL PIANO PRICES HAVE s JUNE ID SMASH TELLS E AN INTERESTING STORY When One of the Oldest and Most Reliable Piano Houses in the United States Tells You That You Can Buy Good Pianos
 and Organs at Half Price or Less It's Time
 to Sit Up and Take Notice Slaughter Of Piano Prices Now Going On Every Piano Player and Organ Must Go at Some Price It Is Not Question of Prices and Terms With Us,
 Sell Off Everything Quickly"-In Two Weeks Our Anniversary Sale Will Last Short Time Judging by the Way Pianos Yesterday
 the "God Dust Twins" Are Doing Open Until 8.30O'Clock 2017 First Ave. | Good Second Hand Pianos S57 S68, $76, $92. | New Pianos About Any Price You Want to Paw
Open Until S.3OO'Clock 2Ol7 First Ave.
Good Second Hand Pianos S57, S68, $76, S92. New Pianos About Any Price You Want to Pay

II you were visitor at 2017 First Ave yesterday you will agree with us that Thirty fourth Anniversary Piano Sale is attracting the people, if of eager buyers is any ndca tcn We know piano buyers would come but we did not so many ~ntil the week of December f.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03

A lion cub born at the zoo in Cincin- natl was not treated we'll by it's mother, so the keeper gave it to a dog to raise. The cub has become greatly attached to its foster mother
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03

NOTE:-The duty the Turkish tobacco that goes into Sc package of so-called blended cigarettes is greater than the cost of the tobacco itself! But Pedmonts, made of highest grade Virginia Carolina tobacco, ha1s aH as qalHe n Ms eigarsaes-because there is no dar virginia-C Carolina tobacco--no ocean freighf-no marine insErGnes, 4uan.fal Aandling
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
Slaughter Of Piano Prices Now C
Our Anniversary Sale Will Last Short Ii

Judging by the Way Pianos Yesterday Like All Will Be Sold Within and
 the Gold Dust Twins,' Are Doing All York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03

A man giving his name as Bell, who
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1916-08-24

Week end fares from above polnI'
m New Orleans and return, goint
:: satnrdsv or Sunday returning Mon
day.
For further particulars call on agent
or write. n, j. McHahon, 6. :. A.,
oF "'''' New Orleans
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1916-08-24
Sheriff Sale.-No. 2137.
J. Oscar Magee.
VS..
Isaac Brumfeld.

Notice is hereby given that by vir:
tue of order of seizure and sale, issued
ont of the 26th Judicial District Court
of Louisiana, in and for Washington
parish, in the above entitled cause
and to me directed. will proceed to
sell at public auction to the last ana
highest bidder, on
Saturday, September 233, 1916
at the principal front door of the court
house at Franklinton, La, betw'' u
the legal sale hours for judicial sacs,
the following described property, TO-
wit:
12O acres of land situated in parish
of Washington, state of Louisiana
the same being part of the W. D.
Smith mr., Sec. 40, TIP. /, s., Range g.
east, st. Helena meridian, bounded on
the east by lands of Mrs. Lena Stokes
south by lands of B. M. Booty, west
by lands of Mrs. Lena Stokes and
Ollie Brumaeld, north by lands o
Chas. B. Hughes; said land acquire
by Mortgagor from a man by Tx
name of Chillott about 40 years ago
Terms of Sale. Cash with benefit o
appraisement.
This 10Th day of August, 1915.
]. E. lIatv man, Sheriff.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1916-08-24
Roseland Mayor Held With
ont Bail.

Amite City, La, Aug. H.,
Judge Ellis today rendered a 0s. >.
eision in the preliminary trial %
e. Brown, Mayor of Roselano ;
A. C. Germany, the Roselano
Marshal, and Murray Sharkey'
who are charged jointly with the
murder of Alphonse Watson IN
Rogeland last Thursday nlgn''
Bond was refused either OF the
prisoners on trail. He gave the
sheriff permission to convey the
prisoners to the parish prison IN
New Orleans to await the ac'lol
of the grand jury which Will no.
meet until the second Monday II
October.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1916-08-24
Sheriff Sale. No. 2Sl3.

Washington Bank & Trust Co.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1916-08-24
FARMER LEARNED TO KEEP
BOOKS; NOW HAS BANK
ACCOUNT.
Record Should Be Kept Of Each CROP
--Means Greater Prof't

A farmer who kept an account OF an
Irish potato crop was so pleased Win
what he learned that he decided te
keen accounts of all his crops the next
wear. He soon had a bank account
and farming daily grew more Interest
ing to him.
Every farmer should keep books SC
that he may have accurate 1nforma
ton about his business and may kno"
the cost of labor, machinery and "a"
material. 1t is important to know the
cost Of producing each pound OF cot
ton or hay and each bushel of corn or
bats. Do not figure on the basis that
It will cost so much to prepare the
land SO much for planting and SO
much for cultivatlng. That Is like
Aruring In the air. What you want tc
! know Is not what 1t costs anybody, bu
what did It cost you on your farm
as you raised It. Keep the recor(
once and learn something new.
A farmer should be a better corr
raiser next year than be is this year
keeping an accurate account OF tn
cost OF producing his crop will hel
him to improve. Bookkeeping is
method of accurate and painstakln
thinking abut ones business. That
reason enough why farmer Shout
keep books. ~ l.. Times,
Louisiana State Universit,
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1916-08-24
John L. Magee.

Notice is hereby given that by virtue
Of an order of seizure and sale issued
ont of the 18th Judicial District Court
of La, in and for Washington Par ISM
in the above entitled cause, ana
to me directed, l will proceed to sen
at public auction to the last and high'
est bidder, on
Saturday, September 10, 1910
at the principalfront door of the court
house at Franklinton, La, between
the legal sale hours for judicial. safes es
The following described property TO-
wit:
Lot No. seven ~, square three w.
of the Town of Franklinton, La.
Terms of sale-Cash without beneh'
OF appraisement'
This the 9th day of August, 1876
J.E. Bateman, Sheriff.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1916-08-24
Sheriff Sale.-No. 1863.
r. B. Erwin 4 Son
Va.
Nathan Tullos.

Nattldn IultOS.
Notice Is hereby given that by virtue
of a writ of tieri facias, issued out
of the 26th Judicial District Court CT
Louisiana, in and for Washington
Parish. in the above entitled cause,
and to me directed. will proceed to
sell at public auction to the last ana
highest bidder, on
Saturday, September 2, 1916
at the principal front door of the court
house at Franklinton, La, between
legal sale hours for judicial sales, the
following described property to'wlt'
An undivided one-half interest IN
and to the net of the set, and the SEA
of the set, section 9, township 8, south,
range II, east, St. Helena meridian,
except all that part of the sci Of the
sci, said section, township and range
lying west of the public road, and
about five acres east Of said road in
the sw corner of the nel of the sch,
and the nv corner of the sci OF the
sci, said section, township and range.
Terms of sale: Cash with benefit
of sppraisement.
This the 9th day Of July, 1915.
J,E, sa!eman. she7!a'
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1916-08-24
I,ESPEDEZA EASILY HAIR.
VESTED.
Hay Is Rich In Protein-Rellshed BY
i've Stock-No Waste in Feeding.

No other hay crop allows such
wide period Of time in which harvest
ing may be done as lespedeza. The
harvest season may extend from late
August to late October, including the
hay and seed crop. In fact. new les
pedeza begins to come into local mar
kets in late July. Such early cutting.
however, will not yield a large CROP
although the quality is excellent, as
there are no leafiess stems. While,
under favorable conditions, a second
cutting may be secured, it will be
short, either for seed or for hay. and
should continued dry weather follow
such early cutting, the stand may pc
seriously damaged. 1t Is not improba'
BILE that with a better understanding
Of the plant we will make two cut
tings per season. when the most ia
yorable conditions Of growth prevail
Lespedeza natures for harvest m
sentember and October, when the
weather for hay.making is usually
fine.
| Lespedeza hay is rich in protein
and Is relished by all live stock, ane
there is no waste in feeding 1t. Lespe
deza enriches the soil.
w. r. Dodson,
Dean and Director, Louisiana Stat
University.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1916-08-24
Sheriff Sale. NO. 1909.
Union Bank in Liquidation
VS.
Edwin P. Brady.

Notice is hereby given that by vir
tue of an order of seizure and SAFE
issued out of the 26th judicial
District Court of La, in and TOR WASH
inpton Parish, in above entitled cause,
and to me directed, will proceed to
sell at public auction to the last ana
highest bidder, on
Saturday, September %, 1916
at the principal front door of the court
house at Franklinton, La, between
the legal sale hours for judicial sales,
the following described property to-
wit:
Block or square No. 10, except lots
Nos. 10. IA and Is. Blocks or squares
Nos. 20, 81, %, 90, rs, 26, 20. Block
or square No. 80, except lots Nos g.,
s, 9, 10, II, 70, 10, IA, Is, Is and IT,
Block or square No. 80, except lots
Nos. |, 2 and "a. Blocks or squares
Nos. 35, 81, 3S, 80. 40, AZ and 43, and
block or square No. 81, except two
acres off the south end. The whole
containing $3.50 acres; all in L. B.
Pierce addition to the City of Boga'
lusa. Washington Parish, Louisiana
and being same property acquired o.
the Union Bank in Liquidation by Ac'
passed before M. W. ut, Notary Pub
lie, on October 10th, 1915.
Terms of sale-Cash without benefi
Of appraisement.
This the 10th day of August, 1916.
: ). E. Bateman, Sheriff.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1916-08-24
Sheriff Sale.--No. 2752.
Jos. Cangelosi Company, Ltd.
Joseph D'AntOniO.

Notice ishereby given that by vir-
tue OF a writ of tieri facias ISSUED
out of the 26th Judicial District Court
of Louisiana, in and for Washington
parish, in the above entitled cause
and to me directed, will proceed to
sell at public auction to the last and
highest bidder, on
Saturday, September 9, 1916
at the principal front door of the court
house at Frankiinton, La, between
the legal sale hours for judicial sales,
the. following described property, to-
wit:
Lot "a in block 1872, Northwest Bog.
alusa, in the City of Bogalusa, Wash
ington Parish, Louisiana.
Terms of sale-Cash with benefit
Of appraisement.
This 31st day Of July, 1916.
J. E. Bateman, Sheriff.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-08-11
SPY GALLERIES
In P0STOFFLCES
New Post Office Buildings to Be
Built With Secret Places
for Spies

With the toilers in the local post
office department already badly over
worked the new postoffice is being
equipped with a speedup and spy
system. This action is being taken
under the provision of the sundry
civil appropriations bill in congress,
which specifically provides for look
outs" in twenty-one postoffice build
ings.
Under the legislation now pending
these look-outs will become a perma-
nent feature of the governments
labor policy. The workers thought
they had achieved somewhat of a
victory when they succeeded in put
ting a stop to the practice of con-
structing these spy galleries without
specific authorization through a lib
eral Interpretation of the word ire
pairs" in the postoffice appropriations
bills.
Recently the controller of the
treasury ruled that look-outs come
under the head of improvements, not
repairs, and must be specifically leg
islated for.
Soon thereafter, however, the pres
ent bill was pending in congress,
which provides $67,7OO for twenty-one
look-outs in as many postoffices
throughout the country.
A postoffice lookout most com
monty is a secret gallery in which in
spectors hide and make "unobserved
tests" of the quantity of work done by
employees. This spying usually sue
ceeds in speeding the workers up to
the pointof exhaustion throughout the
day.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-08-11
STRIKE THUGS OUsTED

Menominee, Mich.-The city coun-
Gil has ordered the chief of police to
order from this city gunner and
strikebreakers who have been en-
ployed by the Manufacturers Asso-
citation, and to appoint such extra
police as is necessary to protect life
and property.
In its resolution the council says it
has good reason to believe these men,
commonly known as strikebreakers
or gunmen," have ben imported into
the city to act in concert by use of
force and violence in the exercise of
their plans to break a strike now pre-
vailing here, which is conducted in an
orderly manner and within the law.
The city lawmakers declare they
are apprehensive that unless the
police power of Menominee is invoked,
riots and turbulence, with all their
fearful consequences, will be the in
evitable result of the visit of these
thugs.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-08-11
TEACHERS PAY PENALTY

Writing in the Chicago Herald on
the action of the Board of Education
in dismissing IS school teachers, in
GLIDING all the officers of the Teach
ers' Federation, Stoughton Cooley
says:
There is a worldwide struggle for
REIMBURSEMENT of economic condi-
tons The most effective, and there
fore the most threatening, forces
making toward that end is doing so
through the means of taxation. The
leading spirits of the federation un:
derstand this and have thrown the
weight of their organization upon
tht side Fifteen years ago they won
a suit in the courts against Chicago
traction and other corporations that
increased the tax fund over half
million dollars year. They are
backing a suit now pending that, if
won, will enrich the city Golfers many
millions more. If men will buy votes
to elect a United States senator, and
falsify the senate journal to foist
upon us the Baldwin commission for
the deliberate purpose of discrediting
the federation, is it unreasonable to
suppose that the business interests
that are Systematically evading the
state tax laws would use the Board of
Education to destroy the organization
that's bringing them to book?
Since none of the discharged fed
Grafton members was marked inef-
ficient, and as their success in round
ing up the tax-dodgers does not show
mental incompetence, it is only fair
to assume that their INSTRUMENTATION
consists in exercising their right as
citizens joined in voluntary associa-
ton to 90 their part in securing the
enforcement of the laws of the state"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-08-11
WANT RIGHT OF PUBLICITY

Olympia, Wash.-Trade unionists in
this state are endeavoring to secure
through the referendum the repeal OF
a so-called -picketing" law, passed
by the last legislature.
Legislative Agent Hughes Of the
State Federation of Labor says the
law prohibits the use of newspapers
by strikers, and that "the very things
that this bill says working men can
not do, the national law says the
workers may do under the labor
sections Of the Clayton law.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-08-11
CHAMPS BATTLE
HERE LABOR DAY
Chas. Manning, Acting for Or
ganized Labor, May Match
Coulon and Hall

Another meeting of the Labor Day
committee was held this week to dis
cuss plans now unfolding for the
largest and most interesting celebra-
ton organized workmen and women
have ever arranged in Everett.
One of the big features Of septem-
Der will be big boxing card pulled
off in an open-air arena in Robbins
Park, the scene of the highly success
full bouts on July 4 Charley Man
ming, in charge of this celebration
feature, has sent a tentative offer to
Johnny Coulon, late bantamweight
champion of the world, who may be
matched to meet Lawrence Hall, ban
tam champion of the Middle West, if
satisfactory arrangements can be
made with the two boys. This would
make a fast bout, worth gonig miles
to witness, aud in addition the card
will contain the names of other fast
youngsters. Manning knows the box
ing game from start to finish and he
is getting a line on the best available
talent.
President J. G. Brown, of the In
ternational Single Weavers' Union,
and James Duncan, of the Seattle
labor party, will deliver speeches.
Carnival stunts will be an added at
traction, and then the laborites intend
producing something elaborate in the
way of street pageant Dancing in
the evening is scheduled as a closing
pleasure of Labor Day.
Several Seattle unions will take part
in the mammoth parade, it is reported.
The carnival, which will be held
on Virginia street between Everett
and Hewitt avenues, will be one of
the best ever brought to Everett. 1t
is now playing in Vancouver at the
Annual Exhibition and carries ten
shows and a twelve-piece band.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-08-11
CARPENTERS MAKE
SUBSTANTIAL GAINS

Indianapolis - General Secretary
Frank Duffy of the Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners reports the
following recent wage increases by
locals of this craft:
Meadville, Pa-From 371a to As
cents an hour.
Springfield, Mass-From so to So
cents an hour.
Cliffside and oFrt Lee, n. From
$3.50 to $3.50 day.
Poatello. Idaho-From S. to $3.50
day and the Saturday half-holday.
During June the following new To-
Gals were organized: San Pedro, Cal.
(millmen); Minonk, H.; Kaukauna,
Wis; Billings, Mont. (millmen) Hull,
Quebec, Canada; Montgomery, Ala. !;
Menominee, Mich. (boxmakers) !;
Canon City, Colo; Enid, Okla. bridge
and railroad carpenters): Jasonville,
Ind.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-08-11

Concentration is the sun-glass that
Brings all rays of effort to the point
Of success. 1t travels on a single
track, but is made up of train that
came from many tracks. Concentra-
ton is like the gold in the ore that
might be passed unnoticed until it
has been smelted and refined. 1t
takes all the powers of the mind and
puts them on the long end OF the
lever Of effort, assemblies all facilities
and shapes reason to serve it singly.
1t is the main street of the thought
city-and it finds the bull's-eye every
time
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-08-11

Man must work-that is inevitable.
He may work grudgingly, or he may
work gratefully; he may work as a
man or he may work as a slave. He
cannot always choose his work, but
he can go about it in a cheerful, gen
erous temper and with an unlocking
heart. There is no work so rude that
he may not exalt it; there is no work
SO dull that he may not enliven it..
But-he must work.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-08-11
WHY NOT A LITTLE
COMMON SENSE AND
FEWER LAWS?

One of the ablest, richest, most sue
cessful lawyers in New York made the
statement recently to the New York
World that "our present legal system
is rotten" giving as his reason for
such a judgment that we have "a body
of law which is ill-arranged, incon-
sistent and incomprehensible" and of
such enormous bulk" that it's just
administration is impossible. Another
prominent New York lawyer, one who
has occupied official positions of
greateminence under the national gov
eminent, made the statement, after
careful investigation, that in the five
years prior to 1914 $4,000 new
statutes were passed by state legis-
latures and congress and $4,000 de-
cisions made by courts of last resort.
All this recalls Balzac's trenchant
epigram that the nation which has
10000 laws has no law. If Balzac
was right, the American people today
are living in state worse than
anarchy. Making full allowance for
the rhetorical qualities of such a
dictum as the great Frenchman's, we
cannot help seeing the profound truth
behind it. Where alws are so multi
piled that even lawyers and courts
are hard put to tell just what the law
in given matter is, how easy it is
| for the honest man, unlearned in the
statutes, to become a law-breaker in
nocently. 1t is not against necessary
laws that there need be a public pro-
test, but against the big mass of
trivial, foolish, unnecessary ones that
are proposed at every session of every
state legislature.
If good government were possible
through the medium of law, the
United States, individually and col.
lectively, would have reached the mil.
been passing laws to fit every kind
and sort of condition. Good govern
ment does not come that way. Every
reform in history has come up from
the people, not down through law.
making power to the people. The flu
ture of this country rests with the
great common people-theevery-d
man who never gets into the naws.
papers but who does his days work
and raises his family and lives his
life. He is the man who is the court
OF last resort. His ideals are growing
higher every year. And as he raises
his standard SO the standards of the
state are raised, for he is the state.
Where the legislators and judges
become law-mad, the people follow and
become litigation-mad. 1t is all a
waste of the most expensive kind and
an embargo upon our real progress as
nation. Surely, if experience has
demonstrated that with all the laws
and decisions, all the reform waves
and all the crusades, the morals of
the nation are not improving, the time
has come when we may we'll question
the wisdom of continuing indefinitely
the activity Of the statute mills.
What we need today is less law and
more wisdom Even a little common
sense might help us amazingly
Bricklayers' Journal.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-08-11

Every man of US may rightly con-
slider himself under the head of "un.
finished business" One of the most
encouraging discoveries of recent
science is that the defects of heredity
and environment can be overcome,
by applying brains and effort to the
task
If you are less successful than your
neighbor, the answer lies within you
It is not that he is a born success
nor that you are a born failure Sue
cess is not born" it's won. You are
still unfinished business"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-08-11

TIE individual needs continually
to tear down, to pemodel and change
himself and his ideas 10 fit the de-
mands of the new day. The man who
sits back among the ideas of yester-
day is soon walled in. Imagination is
stunted, courage is undeveloped,
nerve relaxes and optimism ceases to
exist.
Let the mind be open. The Gus.
tom which has endured for years may
be relegated to oblivion tomorrow.