The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-26

to six or eight acres to the pillow. by
cultivating thoroughly a small acreage
more cotton will be produced and at
less cost than when one pillow was
made to work fifteen or twenty acres.
Whatever Mr.. Wade says about cot
ton culture should be needed, for he is
one of the most successful farmers in
Alabama. No man knows more about
how to increase production per acre
or more about how to fight the DOLL
weevil than he. A few years ago he
was the prize winner for cotton grow
ing on a given area. And what he has
been able to do can be done by all the
farmers of the state if they will only
put forth the same amount of energy
and apply science to their practice.
TTHE New York stock market had
u the greatest day in the past ten
years yesterday when 2,250,0O0 shares
of stocks changed hands. Early in
the morning prices were going like
skyrockets, but dur
Sensational Day ing the last hour
in Stock Market there was a sensa-
tional drop and the
last fifteen minutes saw most of the
earlier gains wiped out.
1t was whispered that the conserva-
tive financial leaders sounded q note
of caution against the recent era of
extravagant trading which has caused
prices to soar.
All the days news was still bullish.
71THE republican love feast staged
u for the Union League club of
New York October 9, the chief fea-
ture of which is to be the making up
of Mr.. Taft and Colonel Roosevelt,
is intended to be
Burial of the spectacular, but the
Coloneps Hatchet effect of this po-
itico-dramatic af-
fair might have been heightened had
not so much publicity been given to
details of the plans. Cartoonists and
pert photographers are having their
fun in advance and when the time
comes for the colonel and his one-time
Dear Bill' to speak their parts the
snap of the play will be lacking.
Campaign Chairman Wilcox and
Mr.. Root, the president of the Union
League club, worked together for sew
eral weeks to bring about meeting
between ex-President Taft and ex-
President Roosevelt around the festive
board, and when they announced the
they felt as if they had
achieved something worth while for
Mr.. Hughes candidacy.
After a four years estrangement
and after Roosevelt's vicious remarks
about his former associate, Mr.. Taft
may feel some embarrassment. But
Roosevelt isn't built that way. The
Ratchet will be buried without blush.
X
7NHE latest addition to death-dealing
u instruments is the spitball bomb,
the invention of United States army
officer. 1t has the shape and size of
baseball and is propelled in the same
way. There is a
Spitball Bomb Has hook on its sur
Great Possibilities face which is
pulled out when
the bomb is thrown and starts the ex-
ploding mechanism inside to working.
AS" Americans are a nation of base
ball players, the spitball bomb should,
if adopted by the government, prove
highly efficacious. There may be a
few adults of the male persuasion in
this country who can't throw a base
ball, but they won't admit it, and when
called upon will make the attempt,
even if they smash every window in
The neighborhood Young and old,
white and black, take pride in their
ability to throw, and until recent years
brought down more contumely
on the heads of the so-called weaker
Sc. than a certain indirectness of aim
which characterized their perform
ances whenever they tried to hurl any
sort of missile by hand.
The spitball bomb, because of it's
name, bringing up pleasant associa-
lions of the diamond and the bleachers,
and it's resemblance to baseball,
should prove extraordinarily fatal if
ever used by American soldiers in war
fare. Facility in hurting would not
have to be acquired, and woe to the
proud and naughty foe from Europe or
Asia who ever set foot on these shores
and stepped beneath shower of spit
ball bombs, propelled with the accu-