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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15
About Persons

M. P. Engel has resigned his posi- tion as first floor manager of the Louis Pizitz store to accept a position with the Elbinger Shoe Manufacturing company of Lebanon, O., as the rep resentative of that concern in the state of Alabama and part of Georgia, with headquarters in Birmingham. He was very popular with MT. Pizitz's employ es, who in token of their esteem pre- sented him with a parting gift.
 Herbert E. Steiner, vice president of Steiner Brothers, received notification yesterday of his election as national treasurer of the college fraternity Zeta Beta Tau. As this fraternity is one of the largest of Greek letter societies his selection for a national office is regarded as quite an honor The elec- tion was held in New York tl Decem- ber
 Charles Sumner, vice president and general manager of the Finley Ridge Mining and Power company of Dahlo- mega, Ga, is in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15
ONE THING AT A TIME

From the Nashville Banner.
 A Memphis minister says the homicide record shows that the people of Memphis are not praying. But they are certainly shooting. and you can't expect a people to be proficient in all things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15
GOING THE LIMIT.

"Is Dubwaite in favor of prepared ness'?"
 You woud think so if you could hear him talk.'
 "Yes?"
 He thinks we ought to have line of dreadnaughts extending from the coast of Maine through the Panama canal to Puget sound with just enough space be- tween each one to permit them to oper- ate their guns.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15
Business and Presidential Politics

'I hear some of my acquaintanceS who are opposed to the democratic party say that when the republicans are in SQwer business prospers and that when the democrats are in the saddle business is apt to be dull or halting," said D. S. Pitcher of the borough of Brooklyn, but people who talk that way forget some facts.
 T have been old enough to vote since 1882. In that year there was great de- pression and in 1883 and 1884 it was still more acute. In March, 1885, Grover Cleveland was inaugurated and in few weeks thereafter widespread business revival set in, and we had eX- ceptional prosperity throughout 1886 and good deal of prosperity in 1887. During Harrison's administration the country was fairly prosperous, where as during Cleveland's second adminis- tration depression prevailed
 When the republicans returned to power there was another business vival, but in 1907 during Roosevelts S administration we had the disastrous money panic and while there was measure of recoveryin some sections in 1908 we had depression right along through Tafts administration, 1909 to 1913. and through the first year or two of President Wilson's term. In 1915 business improved and today this coun- try witnesses a new era of flush times. Some say the greatest era of pros perity the United States has ever known is now setting in.
 "These facts show that neither party is proof against depression and that prosperity comes to cheer a demo- cratic administration as we'll as re- publican l simply mention these things for the enlightenment of those per sons who are too young to have lived through the periods I refer to and also for the enlightenment of people who talk without thinking.
 "President Wilson will be re-elected The republicans had expected that bus mess conditions would be extremely bad this year and that they would ride into power on the slogan of Give us back the full dinner pail The pay rolls are much larger today than they were in any year of Taft's administra ton and the republicans will have to drop the bad business cry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15
HOTEL LOBBIES
Railroad Business Improving

The Southern railways traffic con- tinues to increase and all indications point to this being one of our best years," said R. L. Simpson, general freight agent of the Southern.
 Traffic in the south was very dull during the first half of 1915. as every one knows, but it began to improve in the fall and has been improving ever since"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
BY CONTRAST,

Iris a good old world, We'd have you know, In spite of the cold,
 Harsh winds that blow. For a few dark days In the winter time, And the lash of storms
 And a rugged cline Make sweeter still
 The birds spring song And Sunlit wales
 Where blossoms throng.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15
AN EXCEPTION.

q hold that mans muscles should be developed as well as his brain.
 'So do l." answered the sport enthus- iast but in the case of pugilist, if he's lucky enough to get shrewd manager it isn't necessary for him to develop his brain at all"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15
WORTH AN ENCORE
. New Orleans States.

From the New OrleanS states.
 The New York actor who retired from the cast of ".Androcles and the Lion as a protest against the wearing of whiskers is entitled to several rounds of hearty applause.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15
REST? HUH!

You'll often hear this spoken, thoug:.
 Lou must conceal your smile: 'I dropped into a picture show
 To rest a little while"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

While Queen Sophy is away at the bed side of her brother, Emperor William, King Constantine may muster up enough courage to speak for himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

Two Gentlemen of Verona when ob- served nowadays, are apt to be discussing the possibility of an aerial raid by the Austrians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15
DOGS TO FIGHT RATS

From the London Chronicle.
 Paris has shipped 2709 dogs to va rious parts of the front to combat the plague of rats that has troubled the French trenches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

Here's some good advice for adventur- ous Americans: Quit travelling on enemy ships until the war is over and stay out of war zones, no matter where they hap pen to be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

The bout between Mir Willard and Mr. Moran has been postponed A great many people conceal their impatience remarka- bly, well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

Even if he were elected President again, Colonel Roosevelt would never cease to regret the splendid opportunities he has missed for shaking the big stick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

After brief interruption by Jane try for self protection is being continued.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

Some first-class material for moving picture 'thrillers'' is now being offered by Fl Paso and adjacent territory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

Prohibition is working wonders for Ok lahoma." One whiskey dealer out there reports sales of something like sSo00 a month,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

The Czar and the Mkado felicitate each other as cordially as if the battle of Muk- den had never been fought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

Senator Lewis needn't think this coun try is going to war behind fringe oi pink whiskers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

January white sales have been pro hibited in the stores of Berlin. Votes fol hausfraus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

President Wilson sits tight in the boat although somebody or other is always try ing to rock it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

Of course, if Henry Ford wants to put up s500000 a year to pay the salaries of professional peace advocates, it's mo- bodys business but his own. However, that's lot of money to waste
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

While the Italians followed a policy of trians appear to have shattered their dream of making the Mediterranean an Italian sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

General Carranza will not consider the passing of Huerta a national calamity for Mexico.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

The grIp peri has not abated kissing 10 any noticeable extent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15
ALABAMA PRESS

Mobile Register: A man in Abilene, Kan, got 20 signatures to a petition to the governor to use his influence to short en "the long, long way to Tipperary' Most of the signers said, without reading the petition, that they were heartily in favor of better roads, and that any prop osition in that line could count on their inGorsement
 Headland Standard: There has been gl eat change in favor of bonds since the people have begun to understand the real condition of affairs. Many of our good farmers, who, even two weeks ago, were opposed to bonds, will now cast their votes for bonds since they have seen what the defeat of the bond issue would mean to them.
 Talladega Home The editorial in the Birmingham Age-Herald of Wednesday, discussing the state bond issue, was on high plane It was under the heading of Let There Be Fairness and we commend, The Age Herald for its, fairness in this instance as well as on many other occasions. A fair discussion of any question is wholesome and elevat- ing
 Guntersvlle Advertiser: EX-Gov. w. D. Jelks, who left surplus of $2,00oOO0 in the state treasury to be spent by the Conner administration, of which Senator John A. Lusk was a leading member, favors the bond issue as the best and only lawful method of relieving the states financial situation. He explained the mat ter fully in The Age Herald. MT. Jellls has no political axe to grind, and his honest, straightforward explanation or the situation cannot fail to convince all unbiased men who read it of the neces- sity of the bond issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

l Before the time of Christ. Durazzo, which is now figuring in the war news,
 was an important seaport whose mer- chants. during the Roman empire, traded 1 beyond the boundaries of the known
 world. It has lost it's former prestige l hourishing city of other days. However,
 with the landing of Italian troops there, Durazzo woke to some of it's erstwhile l activity. At one time, when known as l Dyrrachium, this Albanian port was a
 favorite starting point for expeditions l sent out by the Roman conquerors A from the city to Thessalonica, now Sa- 1 loniki, and on into the kingdoms of the north and east. Durazzo is situated on
 the Adriatic across from the Italian port
 of Bari and is 50 miles south of the AL banian capital, Scutari. It is built on the
 rocky peninsula of Pelu which divides the Bay of Durazzo from the open Adri-
 atic. The city is still surrounded by an-
 cient walls and the ruins of a Byzantine
 citadel are to be seen, overgrown with
 plane trees. There are dismal marshes
 along the coast around the town, which
 made it almost impregnable in Roman
 times. The harbor. once crowded with ships, has slowly filled with silt In it's
 infancy Durazzo was known as Epidam- nus. It was founded in the seventh cen tury B. c. and soon became a wealthy trading center with a large population. It passed into Roman hands in 229 B. C. and changed it's name. The city was given to a colony of his veterans by Augustus after the Battle of Actium, q B. c. During the next 400 years it enjoyed great pros- perity, but since the breaking up of the Roman empire the town has met with many vicissitudes as a result of the ire quent wars in the Balkans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

Let the hustling press agent restrain his ardor. The greatest 'all-star' aggrega- ton that ever toured the south was com posed of James ONeill, Louis James, Clara'Morris. Jameson Lee Finney, Isabel Irving, Sarah TruaX. Elita Proctor Otis, Mrs. LeMoyne and J. E. Dodson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

Entered al the Birmingham. Ala. postoffice as second class matter un- der act of Congress March 8. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-15

l. D. Griftis and w. D. Brumbeloe are the only authorized traVellns repre- sentanVes of The Age Herald Tn its cir cuIation department.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-05

Now comes the "BIue Bird" hat. 1t
is a smart style of dark brown panne
velvet with a guinea hen set at
jaunty angle on the crown front. The
angle is one of the important points
of the fad.
1890
Anxious to marry before their
friends could find it out, H. L. Nc
Cam of Aurora, H., and Miss Hazel
Adams of Savanna, found Judge A.
J. Gray in a drug store and the mar
riage ceremony was performed there.
An obliging clerk played the wedding
march on phOnograph.
1890
A gray squirrel skipping along the
high voltage wire which supplies
power to a rubber mill in Rockland,
Mass, connected with it's tail a sec
Ond wire, causing an explosion which
startled the residents and set fire in
the woods.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-05-25
CHILE NITRATE INDUSTRY HIT.

Many persons i'm chile have discussed
the adverse conditions threatening the
nitrate industry in the northern part of
tn" country if better means of trans
portatins the product to market are not
soon provided. owing to the demand for
nitrate from manufacturers of explo-
sives. as we'll as the general improve
ment in the market for nitrate for agri-
cultural and industrial uses. the indus
try here has for few months past
seemed To enjoy return to prosperous
conditions. Both the production and ex-
portauon have been showing great in
creascS and have about reached the fig
ures obtaining before the outbreak Of
, the war.
Most of the nitrate refining plants
have stored large quantities of finished
material which they are unable to ship
however. as vessels are not arriving in
sufficient numbers to take away the
nitrate as rapidly as it is manufactured
Either there must he sufficient tonnage
to transport the nitrate manufactured
or its production ON Il large scale must
ceaS" until conditions improve The
cessation of production will have seri-
Gus consequences for the commercial in
tercsts Of this section of Chile, most of
the inhabitants depending i'm one way
or another on the industry for their
livelihood, says Consul Thomas W. Voet-
ter, Antofagasta.
Another feature affecting those nitrate
plants which have not Yet changed to
oil fuel, in place of coal. is the high
price and great difficulty of obtaining
the latter coal now costs about SO
per ton and is exceedingly scarce
British tonnage in Australia has been
utilized for other purposes by the
British government, SO that the only
Australian coal coming is that in neu-
trail bottoms, few in number. chilean
coal is replacing it to some extent, but
there are not enough vessels on this
coast to transport it from the south Of
Chile to these ports.
on account of the scarcity of fuel and
lack of vessels one ofcina, the Ercilla.
is stoppnc work. and the employees will
be scattered to find positions wherever
they may Similar action is likely to
be taken ut other plants soon. The re-
opening of the Panama Canal should re-
live the situation by increasing the car
rying caraCity of the vessels which can
be devoted to this trade for a given
period. and might also serve to relieve
the situation by making feasible the
transportation of coal on the outward
trip. Should vessels become increasingly
scarce crisis along this coast Is not
improbable, especially as the merchants
have not fully recovered from the paraly-
sis of business which came with the
outbreak of the war. Importation of
foreign merchandise has not been on
anything like the scale it was twooyears
ago.
II is estimated that there are now
awaiting along this coast about % 90,
tons of copper ore which cannot be
transported to the United States for
lack of vessel room. As this ore can
not now be shipped the ore-buying COM
panies have stopped purchasing here,
and many mines, especially the smaller
ones, must suspend work.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-05-25
THE GARDEN GAME.

He made his mind up firm last Fall
That this year, when Spring came,
He would insistently refuse
To start the garden game.
He thought of all the varied bugs
He'd fought all Summer long,
And vowed he'd fight the bugs no more
And thought his will was strong.
But this year. when his Congressman
Sent him some garden seeds
A choice collection, classified
According to his needs
His will began to weaken as
It's always done before.
And pretty soon I've had resolved
To try the game once more.
So now he's up AT a. m,
His garden is all dug,
And he's preparc3 Tor finish fights
With any kind of bug.
He's planted peas and radshes,
And though his back is lame
His daily thoughts and talk are all
About the garden game
-Somerville Journal.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-05-25
HOW ONE WIFE COMPELLED HER
HUSBAND TO MAKE coon.

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-05-25

the old method, he would have had 233
pens to visit at each feeding.
Thus it may he that the wages of
several men are saved by this discovery
of the large laying flock principle Be
sides. the space required for each fowl
on the average is not more than one
third of what would be required under
the old system of from T. to l. hens in II
pen. 1t is true, a smaller percentage Of
eggs will be produced under the extensive
method of operation than by the inten-
sive system. But the loss sustained in
this way will he small in comparison with
the gain in the saving of labor and space
MARKETS AND HIGH PRICES.
The great cities arc constantly ncreas-
ing their population. The large towns
are rapidly growing into cities. The
consumer is multiplying in the land much
more rapidly than the producer. The rush
from the rural districts to the city is still
under fun drive--so the experts tell us
The millions of mouths IN New York,
OF her centers of population must he fed
and no article of diet is more attractive
or necessary than the product of the
poultry yard.
The Chicken Dinner" will never bc
surrendered so long as there is a supply
forthcoming However much of a luxury
an egg is, it is at the same time a neces
slty. Where is the housewife that will
cook without eggs, 1t would ne interest
ing to make an exhibit of the endless
ways in which the products of the poultry
yards are used in the thoroughly down
to-date American kitchen. Winter and
summer the demand is the same. ah-
solutely incXhaustiblc. Prices vary inn
menscy at different seasons; but the
cost Of production and the bulk produced
also vary in like proportion.
Cold storage also. while it has wrought
havoc at times in the markets. will more
and more have a steadyng influence on
the prices through the year. Looking n
the matter from any possible point of
view the prices and the markets for the
poultrymans products appear practically
certain to continue everything that is
desirable During at least half the year
strictly fresh eggs command readily from
10 to co cents a dozen. The demand even
at this price is never supplied in any por-
tion of the northern United States.
During the ten years from 1900 to 1910
the quantity of poultry in the United
States increased about II per cent. At
the same time the value per head of alt
kinds of poultry greatly increased The
number of eggs produced the first decade
of this century was ten per cent over the
preceding decade; but the value of the
eggs is said to have been doubled
Since eggs can be Matched by tens Of
thousands according to modern methods
chickens brooded in equally large mum.
bers, laying fowls handled with small
risk in flocks up to 800 or more, while
the markets are cXhaustless and prices
srill advancing, the possibility OF big
business in poultry culture is well assur-
cd-alway allowing that the right man is
at the head of things.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-05-25
"0lR IRREDI CHILE DETECTIVE
STORY"

The public of to-day urgently demands
shorter and shorter stories, SAYS stephen
LeaCoCk, the Well-known Canadian hui
mOrist and the only thing to do is to
meet this demand at the source and check
1t. Mr.. Leacock accordingly has written
number of shorter still" stories, which
he contributes to the June Century. Any
one of them, he says, if left TO soak over
night in a barrel of ran-water, will swell
to the dimensions of dollar-fifty novel
Here. for n sample, is "Our Irreducable
Detective-story Hanged by Hair; or,
a Murder Mystery MinimiZed":
THE mystery had now reached it's eli
max. First. the man had been undoubt-
edly murdered; secondly, it was absolute
~ certain that no conceivable person had
done it, II was therefore time to cali in
the great detective.
lie gave one searching glance at the
corpse In moment he whipped out a
microscope
ma! ha" he said as he picked a
mar OFT the lapel of the dead mans coat
The mystery is now solved
'iie held up the hair.
Listen" he said We hove only to
find the man who lost this hair, and the
criminal is in our hands.
THE ineXorable chain of logic was COM
plete
THE detective set himself to the search
For four days and nights he moved.
unobserved, through the streets of New
York, scanning closely every face he pass
ed, looking for man who had lost "A hair
"On the fifth day he discovered "A man
disguised as "A tourist, his head enveoped
in "A steamer cap that reached below his
ears. The man was about to go on board
the Gloritana.
THE detective followed him on board.
Arrest him" he said, and then draw
ing himself to his full height he brandish-
ed aloft the hair
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-05-25
CHINESE EXHIBITS RETURNED.

Shanghai-The last shipment of exhib-
its used at the Panama Pacific exposi-
ton, comprising 900 tons, has arrived from
san Francisco, on the United States
transport Sheridan. This completes the
work of Mr., chen Chi, Chinese commits
sioner-general at the exposition. and his
staff who have returned to this coun-
try. Mr.. Chen chi reports altogether |, no
awards including 20 grand prizes, II med
ais of honor and about 800 gold diplomas
and medals, lie reports also that ar
the Chinese pavilion to the San Francisco
authorities for the Golden Gate city park.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-05-25
THE song OF THE GREEN NOUN
TAINS,

love thee. O beautiful shore Of Cham
plain
For joys that will never enrap ture again,
And from the wild woodland how dear
to behold
Thy blue waves transAgured in evenings
last gold
Land of the wildbloom and evergreen
shade,
Youths dear emotions that never1nore
fade.
OF life's bright hereafter and memory
best
We love best!
Oh, dear old Vermont. where the luminous
day
OF childhood still CLOVIS. though receiving
always
The home mid the lacs returneth to
view,
And path through red clover in Jewels
of dew,
Tho maple grows red az September grows
And deer roam Dctobers bright forests
OF gold;
These great winding valleys have led
through the years
OF triumph and failure of mirth and Of
tears.
Here bold Ethan Allen is slumbering on
Who led us 10 glory IN days that ara
gone,
And eagles of BENNINGTON soar in the
sky
Where Stark raised the colors of freedom
on hight
Vermont. in our hearts thou wilt live
eVermore.
You met us in love on lifes earliest
shore,
And may thy Green Mountains in
grandeur sublime.
BE monuments marking our graves
through all time!
JOHN +. HOWARD.