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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
THE BUGGY BUILDERS

From the Boston Herald.
 Every year since 1872, at time when very few trades or lines of industry had national organizations or annual conven- tions, the carriage builders of the United States have gathered in some city, alter nately in the east and west, to talk busi- ness and have a good time. The years since 1872 have brought some amazing changes in transportation, but the car riage builders are still doing business and their announcement of their forty fourth annual convention in Cincinnati next month do not indicate that they are down-hearted by the probability that an- other year will see one automobile in this country to every 25 inhabitants.
 There are fewer carriage builders than amount of business that will surprise some persons. The figures for 1914, just made public by special census bulletin, show 1,1S7,000 horse drawn vehicles of all kinds made in the country that year, of which 55S,400 were buggies. The total value was S135 792,357 and 6S20 establish ments were included in the enumeration. The automobile is coming and coming fast, as some of us may have observed, but it is not putting the horse out of business. any more than the railway or the trolley car or the bicycle did-and it is not likely to in our generation or the next. The country is big enough for mill lions of motor cars without shutting off the demand for half a million or more new buggies every year. Ohio is a fit ting place for the coming convention, for the Carriage Builders National as- sociation has fully 100 members in that state many more than in any other state. Massachusetts contributes an even dozen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
STEERING A U-BOAT

James B. Connolly in Golfers Weekly.
 To the captains left stood man whose job it was to hold the submarine to the depth of water desired. This was the diving rudder man, a most expert one' we were told, who had been known to hold a submerged submarine at full speed to within six inches of one depth for two miles at stretch.
 A thin brass scale and curved tube of colored water with an air bubble in 1t helped out the diving rudder mans cal culations. The least deviation of the submarines course from the horizontal and these two instruments, lit up by electric lamps. showed it at once. There was a big dial, with a long green hand, submarine; but that was an insensitive and rather slow acting guage-all right for the crew to look at from half the length of the submarine, but not fine or quick enough for the diving rudder man,
 He was the busy man while we were under water. The others could now and again grab moment of relaxation from their tenseness, but while the submarine was moving the diving rudder man never took his eyes off the little brass scale with the electric light playing on it. Stop and consider that our submarine had only to get a downward inclination of ever so little while running hooked up under water. and in no time she would be below her lowest safety depth of 200 feet where the pressure is seven tons to every square foot of her hull. And should she collapse there would be no preliminary small leake by way of warn ing She would go as an egg shell goes when you crush it in your palm. Plack! like that-and 1t would be all over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
"A LITTLE LATE. MADAMEn

From the New York GloDe.
 This has been a sweltering week. The thought of anything warm to eat ol drink or wear has been distasteful New ertheless the stores are showing upon the counters, devoted to the display of femi- nine millinery little but velvet hats Many of the hats are of purple velvet Now purple velvet is royal and beau tiful fabric. But on a day when the mercury is no stranger to 90 and the humidity is no stranger to anything or anybody who wants to be tricked out in purple velvet headgear?
 Were these hats only for show pur- poses there might be excuse for them. Femininity is curious and wants, early in August a true augury of what the style will be in fall and winter. But a number of women were observed in these stores asking for straw hats, and in ev- cry case the answer was the same: "No straw hats at all, madame" There was implied scorn in the tone. A woman ought to know better than to be asking for straw hats the first blazing week in August!
 The same tyranny exists in the dress department. A woman asking for a white Georgette or crepe de chine dress was told that tits little late in the sea- son for these, madame" and was offered as substitute a handsome and heavy creation of serge and satin.
 But the woman who has shopping diff faculties at the present time may be sure l; ', for a straw hat during August, such will not be the case in January. Or some blustery, blizzardy day shortly after the first of the year she will find all the straw hats that she wants-or doesn't want-and of the velvets of August she will hear: Not in stock now, madame"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
Troops for the Border

"The news of the departure of the Alabama National Guard for the border in the near future will be received with enthusiasm by the boys in camp at Montgomery said William Jemison, a member of Battery c, who was in the city yesterday.
 While there is little cause for com plaint the continual guessing on the part of the boys as to what will finally be done with the enlisted men now ready to move to the front, makes them uneasy. From newspaper reports, it appears that we will be sent to Fort Bliss, which is To- cated at Fl Paso. Upon our arrival, we will be furnished with horses for the batteries and actual training will be in order. Hitherto we have had little op- portunity to drill consistently on ac- count of the handicap of not having any horse equipment.
 When Battery B is mustered in we will have a battalion of Alabama boys. This will forego the necessity of having to take the chance of being put in an- other battalion not from Alabama. When the call comes to move to the border, all the boys will be ready and willing tn go."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light.

There will be no low visibility about feet They will be perfectly frank and apparent. Also ankles, for skirt hems will be from five to six inches from the ground, according to this falls models. It is explained that while the new skirts are not really narrow, they are straighter, and therefore must be longer in order to give good lines" The pa- nier effects fullness about the hips is to be shifted to the shoulders, although we are assured that we are safe from any, thing approaching the old leg-of-mutton sleeves
 In other words, the dressmakers' bull letins assure us that skirts are to be sensible in fullness and length, not so short as to make the wearers appear un- gainly, nor yet so long as to compete with the street cleaners brooms. Just why skirts should be longer for winters slush and mud than for summer draught is ''one of the things no fellow can find out," but then it's none of his business, anyway. Of course, dresses will cost more," and very appropriately. as hus- bands and fathers will agree, 'somber colors will be worn.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
NO USE, DOC
From the Mobile Register.

From the Mobile Register.
 If Doc Cook sails to the north pole in an aeroplane he should not fail to cake some photographs and thus avoid another Scotch verdict-'not proven" Birmingham Age-Herald. It'll not do. Remember what was said about the doc tors Mount Mckinley photographs?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14

Unto me, in darksOme prison Jesus came, and I am free!
 Naked, foolish, langufd. dying, Heavens Physician came to me! Father of all light and goodness, Thou hast loved me in His grace, For in Him Thou hast provided From the storms a hiding place.
 Thomas A. kenpis-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14

DECENTLY there appeared in The IN Age-Herald this paragraph Nashville denies with some heat that prohibition has ruined the town. Chat tanooga chuckles and continues to flourish" It was intended as pleas antry and nothing more.
 The Nashville Banner reproduced the paragraph with this comments
 "The Banner In Which the Banner six e d T h e Is Much Too Nasty Age-Herald 10
 state that the article it reproduced from the Courier Journal, falsely credited to the Banner, never appeared in this paper. A prop CT sense of journalism and decent re- gard for the truth should have made it comply with the request"
 As the article from the Courier Journal was published without com ment, The Age-Herald reproduced in the same way the Banners editorial denying authorship of the piece in question and setting forth it's side of the controversy. That was certainly fair enough and all that could reason ably be expected.
 The Age-Herald entertains as high a respect for the Courier-J ournal as it does for the Banner and does not feel called upon to discredit Editor Waiter sons paper simply because the Banner has allowed the tiresome prohibition question to impair it's own proper sense of journalism"
 THE other day Aunt Sarah" U Hewett, S3 years old, drove her S0-horsepower roadster into Danville, H., without the slightest trace of trepidation or fatigue. An imagina- tive reporter pictured "Old Dobbin" left at home in the country, munching 4O-cent oats. And that, too, is quite probable.
 Now that grandmothers dress like granddaughters and are tireless de-
 voices of the "Aunt Sarah" Scorns dance, wh y Preside Corner shouldn't octo-
 arian s smash few speed laws in high-pow- cred motor cars? The answer is that they are doing it. Aunt Sarah" Hewett is doubtless an old fashioned woman in some respects, else she wouldn't submit to being called Aunt Sarah" Otherwise she appears to be strictly modern.
 q can keep pace with the world, do my share of the work and enjoy my share of the pleasures with the rest of them," che says. The ease with which she handles her roadster proves it.
 T HE Chamber of Commerce should J be active all the year round in its efforts to attract new industries and induce prospective manufacturers to build in this district, The old Commercial club, the forerunner of the chamber, accomplished a good deal
 in promoting di- Reaching Out for versified indus Small Industries tries and it was to
 this class of manu- featuring enterprises that Birmingham owed much of it's early thrift.
 In recent years the Chamber of Commerce has put folth efforts to in- crease the number of shops and fac tories here and with some success, but there is still a great field to be de- 
 veloped.
 Small industries do not come to Bir- u1ingham or any other city, no mat ter how favorably situated, simply on . general invitation. Every man or concern considering the question of choosing locality in which to build . plant wants complete information, and very often little financial en- couragement. The Chamber of Com merce is supplied with the data that would interest inquiring manufactar- era. but the industrial committed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
SKIRTS

From the New York Sun.
 Modest persons who have been holding their breath may now let it out again. They have received the maximum shock. The momentous question whether skirt borders were to follow demurely after go still higher on the rebound, as it were, has been answered. Skirts are to be longer. Paris has said it, and when Parais says so the thing is as good as done. But even Paris does not promise that the lengthening will be sufficient to restore to present application Sir John Stockings lines:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
OTHER NEEDS

From the Talladega Mountain Home.
 The suggestion that children be al- lowed to go nude at home dur ing hot weather, if carried out. would certainly save lot of wear and tear.-Birmingham Age Herald. And would increase the demand for lye soap, corn cobbs and soft water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
rHE DEVILS WAY

From the Talladega Home.
 Nashville denies with some heat that prohibition has ruined the town. Chatta- nooga chuckles and continues to flourish Birmingham Age-Herald. And the devil always chuckles when his agents are prospering at the expense of the weak.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
THE MODERN TROPICAL

From the Houston Post
 A Butte, Mont, youth purchased an automobile in Toledo, O. He took a joy ride over that part of the world and when his round of pleasure ended he was ar rested in Chicago At last accounts the police had a list of some s50O0 in worth less checks he had passed along his route. He is the son of at wealthy father and his downfall marks the passing Of an- other result of the system. The modern man of wealth is too busy with his money making to see to the training of the son for whose morality and intellec- tuality he is responsible. He furnishes the boy with all the money he can spend and he trusts him blindly to the world. The world is kindly disposed thing, but it is too busy to take the fathers place in the training of a son. Tho wonder is that more sons of rich men do not take one last joy ride and end it in the state prison.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
RULES FOR THE UNFORTUNATE

From Life.
 Many people start out in life not know ing how unfortunate they can be if they only learn how early enough. The follow ing rules will be found of great bene- fit:
 Go with unfortunate people. They will not only carry you along in their own at- mosphere. but they will inspire you to do
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
AT THE GRAVE OF JOSEPH RODMAl
 DRAKE

DdAAE By Clinton Scollard. li Now is the flood of summer at its heighh And though the fragrant rose Crimsons within the garth, and or
 the sward . Daisies are pied, and still the kingcu
 glows, And the trush-note is divine delighA Muse, strike no golden chord! Rather be thy strain pensive I. today Have fingered where he lies Who hymned our banners stars
 century gone; s Who viewed the story of the "CulprP
 Fay" r. In measures clear as dawn. The plaintive voices of the ebbing tid, Spoke softly to the reeds Where, wrapt in dream, the marshe
 spread around; And there were stretches of fair ambe
 meads, And seen between tree arches. green an
 wide,
 The shimmer of the sound. E And there were low leaf murmurs. bt
 the sense
 That frmest held in thrall Was that of desolation, of lost year; Of time departed far beyond recall; The place was girdled with the imm
 hence
 Of pathos and of tears Tears for the poet. dead so long ags The poet dead so young!
 I saw the clutching tentacles of til
 town
 Oncreeping to the grave whereon wd
 hung l One dropping flag. dimmed by the raj
 and snow,
 As crown for his renown. One dropping flag! Gladly we garlau Heroes who led and bled
 For our beloved land, to right hl
 wrongs;
 What in the future. shall of us be sal If we forget, yea, scorn the long repod Of those who sing her songs?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
ob.tacIe. to stock Activities

"The stock market is contending with a series of perplexities such as the war, labor troubles. poor crop reports. foreign liquidation, imitation in commodities, the Mexican situation, the presidential cam paign, etc." said Henry Clews in his weekly financial review. "The volume of business has been more or less re- stricted by the large number of vaca- tion absentees, but the general under tcne has been confident and is improv- ing in spite of the conflicting tendencies referred to.
 "The crop situation is anything but satisfactory. The governments August report for wheat indicated yield of only e54.ooooo0 bushels, compared with 1,ol1,- 000,000 bushels last year, and 72S,000,0 900 bushels for the five-year average end- ing 1914. This Is a decrease of 100000, GOO bushels, compared with the July report. For corn, the outlook is simply fair, the government report indicating a crop of 2.7770O0,0o0 bushels, compared with B. 055, ,00O000 bushels last year and 2,7S2,00O, 900 bushels for the five-year average Oats figure at 1,274,OO0 900 bushels, against l. 54o.000 900 bushels a year ago. Here is a decrease of nearly 65O000.000 bushels In the three principal grain crops. So far as money value goes, the loss of quan- tity in wheat is being very largely off, set by the rise fin values The same is true of corn, but not of oats. which are lower in price than a year ago."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
COLONEL AT COWBOY SHOW

better get out there an ride one | them bulls!' lb
 Not me, Charley.'' N, Miss Lucia: Colonel, could you-a,, ride that bucking hawss, Senator Wal . ren?"
 The colonel (there being a political foe man of that name): "I'd rather see WaIn ren ride him himself!''
 When the colonel arrived, early in tn , afternoon all the cowboys and cowgirg, rode up in front of the press stanP where he sat- and yip-yip-ed and wavepl their hats. He swung his Panama alo1u and yipped right back at 'em. From then ns on, whenever he liked anything, he yellee, and waved, especially at the pull-dawit gin'.'
 wherein a rider chases longhorned steeI grabs it's horns while still in the saddla leaps from the pony's back and throw the steer by a delft twist of the arms an.. body. o
 It seems that a couple of the boys go,; into muss over this bull-dawgin' game Charley Irwin and one Ed Lindsey iron Oklahoma. They battled with fists Nor day, and there was talk of finishing th,, things with either fists or gats yeste1 day.
 But Brother Bill Thompson, the pres agent got an inspiration, and spoke u the colonel about the matter, then lei the boys to where the colonel wa% whereupon the colonel put his arm around the beligerents and
 "Now, boys, you've got to forget a this misunderstanding. If you don't you'r have to answer to me. I won't haYi anything to do with either of you unp a less you shake hands and be good friendt.. Now, does that go with you, Ed? Dod that go with you, Charley?'
 Chorus: "Yes, colonel That goes" I
 Business of shaking hands. Businea of photographers clicking cameras. Buds; mess of Bill and Phil Thompson alst i shaking hands ecstatically as they watSt. the reporters make notes. Sometimes tn press agents life is the life) e
 Last act: All are grouped ready for picture. Cowboys and cowgirls surroun the colonel. A little cowgirl whose pom has rolled on her-Prairie Lily Allen-i brought up to stand next to the centra figure.
 The colonel: "It is great show. Spler did. But don't like to see the girls rid ing the buckers. It's too dangerous. Nov a man can take any damn chance h wants'-
 Every one who heard the word-"yip yip-yow-ee! Yi!'
 Flashlights. Tips. Departure of Roose welt entourage for dinner at the Shel, burne k
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
Sunday Movies

Tt is certainty that many people of Birmingham appreciate Sunday moving pictures" said E. D. Colley, well known moving picture man. Thousands of peo- pie who do not have the time to go to the movies in the week days avail them selves of the opportunity to enjoy good picture on Sunday.
 'The motion picture business is fast becoming one of the chief diversions for those who seek amusement Instead of motion pictures being on the wane, more interest is being taken in them every day. Greater care in the production as well as the themes is evidenced by the many famous companies that are pro- ducing at the present time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
Strong for Birmingham

"A little taste of Birmingham when l was here a few weeks ago made me want more" said Edgar Lufsey, insur- ance man of Lakeland, Fla, who re- gently visited Birmingham after an ab- sence of 19 years. q had not been here in 19 years until little more than week ago. but I was so delighted with every thing that after spending several days in St. Louis, where I attended the Mis- scuri State Life Insurance convention. could not help stopping off in old Bir- mingham for day on my return.
 While I am very fond of my little Florida town, I think I am really home sick for Birmingham Personally, think it is one of the greatest towns in the south, and I have no doubt that every Brminghammer will agree with me-" MT. Lufsey spent yesterday with his old friend and neighbor. George w. Hayes, of Woodlawn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
Thinks Team Had Good Chances

According to Adrain VandeGraaff of Tuscaloosa, former football star of the university, the football outlook at the university for the coming fall is of the brighest hue.
 Football chances at the university for the coming fall," said MT. VandeGraaff, 'are of the brightest, and we will have a good team, and one that will clean up with the regular schedule. The line will be heavy, as we have six huskies coming in from Tennessee, and the team will average about 170 pounds.
 ''We have a very hard schedule, but with promising material I am under the opinion that our football star is in the ascendant, and we will put over a winner this fall At least let us hope so.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14

unfortunate things you probably woul not have thought of without them.
 Have faith in unfortunate happeningf Remember that every streak of good luct is bound to end. r
 Look downward, not upward; sideways not straight ahead. Have a grouch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14
HObs0n's Residence

Malcolm E. Kettles. prominent attor- ney of Jasper. is at the Tutwiler. MT. Kettles stated yesterday that he was sur prised and amused to see an interview fin local afternoon newspaper a few days ago in which visitor from Jasper had been quoted at length in regard to Rich mond Pearson Hobson, who was recently defeated for Congress by William B.. Bankhead. moving his home to Jasper
 q have made my home in Jasper for & number of years" said MT. Kettles, ''and so far as I know MT. Hobson never resided in Jasper or Walker county. It is well known, of course. that the cap- tain came to Jasper and took the stump as an opponent of MT. Bankhead in the recent congressional race. but he has never made our city his home
 ''Mr. Hobson has asyer resided in Jas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14

Come, civil night, Thou sober-minded matron, all in black.
 -ROmeo and Juliet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14

MIDDAY and tomorrow are good ! roads days in Alabama and it is hoped there will be large turnout of men with teams in every one of the sixty-seven counties. In some parts of the state thundershowers may
 be expected. Weather Conditions But if it rains Should Not Interfere there will be
 no such down. pours as we had in July.
 When the first good roads days were observed five or six years ago the results were most gratifying; and each year since increased interest has been manifested. Now that an act of the legislature gives permanancy to good road days as an institution and makes it the duty of the state high way commission to cooperate with the Alabama association and the peo- pie in general in improving the road beds on August IA and 15, this year should witness new high record in achievement.
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 The use of municipal bathing beaches was denied to negroes at Springfield, H., but the chances are the Chicago Tribune won't have a word to say about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14

From the New York World.
 ~ UPSIDE of one good solid damn O A couple of dozen healthy yip-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-14

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