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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-06
THE FAMILY TO WORK

fell below the limit, an she happened
to hear it, an set in to bawlin awful
so 1 told 'er, did, that eff youuns went
back on 'er, you would on the whole
shootin match. She Is as strong as
young buck, an a head higher n 'ef
nanny. She'd pass for 90 No, sir, she's
my baby, an I won't hurt er feelin's to
suit no moneyed corporation that exists
today
"Mr. Shelton will see you about that
in the morning Wynn answered,
YEARLY II have nothing to do with en-
ploying the hands,"
They were now in Avenue C, which
was a street about 30 feet in width, bor-
dered on both sides by little gardens and
attractive one-story cottages, all of
which had lights in them. Through the
open windows, men, women and children
could be seen moving about or seated
at their supper tables. From some of
the cottages came the snarling notes
made by we'll worn Photographic records
or the wheeling sound of a badly played
melodeon.
What sort of work do you do, your
self?" Wynn asked absently.
Me? Oh, nothin' much 'cept odd jobs
here an thar since l quit farmin',' the
man replied "a Teller like me can't live
in a factory settlement an farm, too.
Huh! 1t takes all me an my old woman
can do to look after the house an garden
patch an git ready for our hungry brood
when they rush in like the woods afire.'
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with Sheridan only 10 miles away.

Under his spurning feet the road,
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind;
And the steed. like a bark fed with fur
mace ire,
Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire.
But 10 he is nearing his hearts desire;
He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring
fray,
With Sheridan only five miles away.
The first that the general saw were the
OF stragglera and then the retreating
troops;
WHAT was done? What to doe glance
told him both.
Then striking his spurs with terrible
oath,
He dashed down the line, mid a storm
And the wave Of retreat checked its
course there, because
The sight of the master compelled 1t to
pause. f
With foam and with dust the black
charger was gray;
By the flash of his eye and the red nos ,
tril's play =
He seemed to the whole great army to
Il have brought you Sheridan all the
way
From Winchester down, TO save the
day. FA
Hrrrah! hurrah! for Sheridan.
Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man.
And when their statues are placed on
high,
II Ger the dome Of the union sky,
The American soldiers temple of fame.
There with the glorious generals name, !.
Be it said. in letters both bold and1
bright VI
Here is the steed that saved the day
BY carrying Sheridan into the fight,
From Winchesteg 20 miles awayr'
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From the Second Choice" by VIII N.
| Harden, CHarper's).
| TT was shutdown. The great whistle
| had blown, the machinery had
q stopped. and the weary workers..
their clothing, hair and even eyebrows
covered with fine lint, like boar frost,
had filtered away to their various cot
tages. Wynn had put his books up,
and, saying good night to the Waterman,
was about to go home when an unex-
pected duty faced him.
mountain family, consisting of a
man, his wife and six boys and girls
ranging in age from II to 20, drove UP in
a white hooded road wagon. Following
was an unsheltered wagon laden With
crude furniture, beds, chairs, tables and
boxes of dishes and cooking utensils.
The man, gaunt, tanned and coatless, was
walking ahead of the first wagon, and
he tentatively approached Wynn.
'fMr SHELTON told me that somebody
here would show me the house I am to
go to- he said in his quaint mountain
drawl, the corners of his mouth dripping
with tobacco juice. 1--WE expected to git
here before shutdown, but tire come off
of wheel and we had to wait two hours
or more for the blacksmith to take his
time an come put it on. Are you the
man in charge here?"
yes, Wynn answered. Have you
been assibned to a cottage"
YES 1 got it down on a ticket in my
pocket 1t is 2O4 Avenue c.. It's on that
hill thar, amt it?
Eyes. Come on, I'll show you"
81 hope they are comfortable shacks,"
the man continued as, after motioning
with his slim arm for the wagons to fol-
low, he trudged along by Wynn's side.
Folks say that the Hilldale Mills, down
in Alabam', have built some o the snug
gest houses for their hands that was ever
seed-runnin' water in 'em, an tight as
tool chest in the winter. They have
flower patches in front, truck gardens in
the back, good night schools an churches
of all sorts. You Farnham fellers will
have to hump yourselves to git labor eff
they keep buildin' mills all about an
addin' on fresh fandangoes.'
"Our cottages are not new" Wynn ex-
planned, but they are large and consid-
cred comfortable. How many of your
family will go to work."
,"All of em, or I won't locate" was the
answer. 1.-THE youngest, Babe, is just 10.
an would cry 'er eyes out eff she wasn't
tuck on the force. Children are funny.
Eff one is maxim money. they all want
to. Back on the road a piece a Teller
said he thought, from 'er looks, that Babe
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PRICE OF sPANGLEs SCARS


The demand for beads and spangles
this season Is the heaviest leading factor
in the trade ever seen, but goods are
about the scarcest they have ever been.
Stee; beads are particularly in demand,
and they are SO hard to get that prices
have advanced on them from cents a
small bunch to 10 cents or more. Cut
steel beads are especially scarce, being
in demand for trimmings on shoes,
dresses, hats, gowns and other wearing
apparel and on velvet and crocheted
bags.
Seed beads in all colors, some 800
shades in ALL are also much called for,
many of the colors being hard to get
now. Oriental and French pearl beads
are much wanted for use in neck laces
The spangles, jet and iridescent effects,
are in heavy demand for use on party
dresses. Prices on all kinds of beads
now average 25 to 80 per cent higher than
normal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-06
A oUIETING EFFECT

This orator made use of great many
quotations from the classics"
80 he did"
do you suppose that has any effect
on the average voter?"
81 don't know. but it may have af-
fected his hearers tonight in one way"
How was that?'
well YOU know quotations from the
classics have a soporific effect on a
great many people. Maybe those who
were here went away so tranquillized and
sleepy that they would rather go to bed
than sit up and find fault with the
sreaker's arguments"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-06
THE MEAT RATION IN GERMANY
From the Providence Journal


Following the assurance of a satisfac-
tory crop outlook in the speech of the
chancellor of he German empire, last
week, the reduced meat regulation which
goes into effect today suggests that fur
Their explanations may be demanded by
the distressed people. For meat is grain.
The new meat card limits the weekly
consumption for adults TO $50. grams
or little more than half pound
In this connection. report by staff
members of the American embassy In
London, after thorough investigation
of conditions in the camps in the British
Isles. where prisoners of war are con-
fined. is of interest. The food question
was naturally studied, and comparison
was II AIDE with the German government
ratlonlng of it's own citizens Except in
the item of vegetables, it appears that
tie German prisoners are much more
borntjfully provided than the men,
w,raen and children of a representative
city like Munich. Presumably the vege-
table allowances for the prisoners, three
and one-half pounds weekly, is ample
The excess in the German scale may be
accounted for by a relatively plentiful
81 Lply of certain vegetables, SO that they
kelp to make up for short rationing in
meat. The prisoners weekly meat ra-
ton is three pounds, eight ounces; the
Munich one, at that time was one pound,
three and one-half ounces. -
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ALABAMA PRESS

Tuscaloosa News: The reports given
out by the German and British war Of
fees as to the efficiency and the inef-
ficiency of the famous British tanks re.
\ mind us of the little boy who saw a
thousand snakes.
Selma Times: John NJ Parker of
Louisiana, the nominee without a party,
has come out for Wilson. Mr.. Parker
will never give another bear hunt on his
plantation with the oyster Bay states
man as his honored guest.
Admission Star: The latest union to Join
the ranks of the strikers is that of the
grave diggers. They want S2.75 day for
nine hours work in Calvary cemetery,
New York. Now, if New Workers will
refuse to be buried, that strike will be
broken.
Mobile Register: Count Zeppelin is an
i'll man. but hopes to live long enough
to witness the destruction of London.
The old gentleman manifests a truly
hateful spirit. There will have to be a
special place for him in heaven; or the
angels will feel uncomfortable.
Talladega Home: The Crow Indians are
selling their fine blooded horses which
have become as famous as Kentucky or
Carolina steed, to the British, and are
buying automobiles with the proceeds.
An auto full of Crow chiefs coming down
the pike with a full head of fire water
wouldn't have much trouble in getting the
right of way.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-06

BEGINNING THE DAY-Show me
Thy way out of my trouble, LORD
Help me to wait ON Thee httie
longer before choosing my own way
Teach me that this may be my test
ing time. Teach me that new re-
vealing of Thy nearness ana OF my
resourcefuIness and of Thy love
may be preparing for me. Amen
III. Nj. K.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-06
IN MOURNING

"A gentleman of the old school, evil
IDENTIFY"
quite So When the drastic prohibi-
ton law went into effect, what do you
suppose he did,"
II can't imagine"
Rather than fill his wine cellar with
grapejuice and soda pop he nailed it
up and tied piece of crepe to the
door"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-06

7HHE great reconciliation was dis
4 appointment after all. The ban
ouet at the Union League club Tues
dav night was primarily in honor OF
Candidate Hughes, but the main object
of the affair was to bring ex-Preslden1
Taft and ex-
Frost at Republican Pres e n
Love Feast Affair Roosevelt 10
gether after a
four years. estrangement.
Not only was the Ratchet to De
buried. but the two men who mad been
at "outs" were to become friends
again Just as if nothing unpleasant
had ever happened. They had been
"Dear Theodore" and "Dear Will" in
DAYS gone by and they were to be SO
again after being afforded an oppor-
tunity of falling on each others
necks in the presence of festive
throng.
Such at any rate was understood to
be the programme arranged by Elihu
Root, president of the club, and Will
liam r. Wilcox, Hughes campaign
chairman. Mr.. Taft is noted for his
amiability and the colonel is "bully
good fellow" or nothing, and greet
ing of the kind expected would have
been most heartening to the republic
an cause. The fact that it was for
NAL and frigid was altogether de-
pressing.
Will and Theodore shook hands, but
Elbow do you do, .sir?" were the only
words they addressed each to the 9TH
err. The old animosity, instead of be-
ing composed or softened, is only &C
centuated. When boon companions
turn to be enemies and later seek to
become reconciled, they must be cor
dial about it, or the sores remain.
In this particular case the frosty
effect on republican headquarters can
readily be imagined.
~ ELK M. WARBURG, chairman
= of the joint distribution COM
nittee, which represents the American
Jewish relief, the central and the peo-
Plies relief committees for aiding jew
ish war victims, has issued state
ment addressed to "The Jews of
America" in
Work Being Done for which he tells
Jewish war Sufferers what has been
done and de-
plores an effort being made to divide
this work by soliciting contributions
for individual countries, as in the case
of Rumania.
The amounts distributed by the
joint committee are as follows: Rus
STA, $1,sO0,0OO; German Poland,
$1,454, 500; Austria Hungary, includ-
ing Galicia, $1,065,000; Palestine,
$403, 1850; Greece and Turkey, other
than Palestine, $132,325; Alexandria,
$21, 900; Jewish students in Swiss
universities, $4,000; Tunis, Algiers,
Morocco, $4,000; destitute Russian
Jews in France, $4,000. In addition
100000 was sent TO Russia for the
relief of prisoners of war and refugee
women and children from Galicia.
It is obvious that all the Jews Of
America by cooperating and combin-
Ing their donations, which can be dis
tributed where most needed and when
most needed, can accomplish much
more for their suffering people
abroad than will be the case if
this work is divided among different
national societies, the Federation of
Galician Jews being one.
The generosity of American Jews
il amply proved by the large sums
already distributed. Since efficiency
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-06
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
LIES DARKER SIDE

LIES DARKER SIDE
The pleasing ads
OF overcoats
The impecunious
Toiler notes,
And taking out
The one he bought
Some years ago,
With mothballs fraught,
He sadly scans
The shining seams,
Or else, from some
PawnShop redeemS
A garment which
He hopes will do
Another year,
Though far from new.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-06
TAKE YOUR CHOICE

TAKE YOUR CHOICE
A stunning girl
Is fair Susette,
Who MARBLES in
A cabaret.
But no more fair
Than Bessie May,
Who dances In
A cabaret.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-06
MIXING WITH ONES FELLOWS

MIXING WITH ONES FELLOWS
Pretty soft for those millionaires who
travel to and from their New York
offices in private yachts"
Maybe So" replied the gregarious in
dividual, "but dare say you will find
more real sociability on the rear plat
form of a trolley car
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War Sacrifices

WAR has caused many sacrifices, "
said r. N Bell yesterday, "and some
of the most notable of these came dur
ing the beginning of the struggle. AT
tho outset, when artillery horses were
needed to haul the field pieces the
Belgians conscripted some of the finest
Belgian stations to effect this work.
The fine animals, worth as much as
thousands of dollars each. were called
into a service that meant sure destruc-
ton.
ION the Isle Of Jersey there are
found the fine Jersey cattle. Since the
outbreak of the war William Ross
Proctor of Proctor & Gambill paid
$4,000 for the bull, Golden Ferns
Noble" During the first few months
of the war the English government
conscripted a number of these mag
nificent cattle to be used for beef.
LAS the result of the war the Uni
ted States has the finest cattle in the
world"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-06
MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE

MlGiI lila V T. BEEN WOEtSE
How did you enjoy your trip through
the south?'
"Oh, we had fewer hardships than I
expected" replied the motor tourist
While there was a woeful lack OF road
houses and most of the towns were dry
1 discovered out in the rural districts
that I could get all the liquor I could
drink by laying dollar on designated
stump and hooting three times like an
owl"
SENSIBLE GIRL
What first attracted you to Miss
Flibber?"
"She seemed able to talk about NOV
ing picture actors In an ordinary tone
of voice without excessive emotion"
We'll! Wellr
80 I though a chap without curly hair
and a dimple in his chin might hope to
become popular with a girl like that. ;
STRONG PROOF
Il thought you said Glithers was not
an optimist"
so I did,"
ssNonsense He started out yesterday
to make transcontinental trip in a Sec
ond-hand automobile.
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bersome vehicle is under way, not
only has his hands full of response
bilities and arduous duties, but suf-
fers acute discomfort. The tanks
have a gait that is a cross between
that of drunken sailor and the lope
of pachyderm.
On level ground, it is not particular
pleasure to ride in a "tank," for the
dust and heat,
Running "Tank" even when the
No. Easy Task guns are silent,
are said to be
almost unbearable, but when one of
these machines goes into battle, it's
guns splitting fire in all directions and
thereby making the interior of the
heavily armored car more like fur
mace than it's engine has already
done; Laundering into shell craters
too wide to be crossed on a perpen-
dicular plane and climbing up the op-
posite slope; crashing through dug
outs and over trenches, smashing
trees, butting down stone walls and
performing the other almost incredi-
BILE feats attributed to them-it can
easily be seen that the crew is not
having any picnic, so far as personal
comfort is concerned.
The gunners on board these "land
battleships" have a better time of it,
probably, than the men who steer
them against the eneny's strong
holds, but neither gunners nor chauf-
feurs have jobs that appeal to a per-
son who likes to do his fighting where
he doesn't expect every moment to
he standing on his head, or if he
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harmony buttons, bearing the pic.
lures OF Hughes, Roosevelt and Taft
nave not been entirely suppressed. After
that frigid handshake of the colone, .,a
the professor, they ought to be SUD.
pressed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-06
STRONG PROOF

Il thought you said Glithers was not
an optimist"
so I did"
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TELEPHONE
Bell (private exchange connecting All
departments) Main 1900.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-03-31
CATERPILLAR TRAINS HAUL
CEMENT FOR HIGHWA'

Brawley News: With three caterpil-
lar engines hauling trailers, the first
shipment of cement was sent out from
Brawley to the Brawley- Mecca high
way this morning. One engine hauled
81 tons on trailers, and two smaller
engines pulled the remainder, "a tons.
Fifty-fiYe tons Of cement were re-
ceived as the first instaliment from
Riverside, and additional shipments
will follow rapidly until 1000 tons
are received at Brawley and sent out
for the highway work.
State Highway Engineer Cummings
said this morning that the concrete
work will begin as soon as sufficient
cement has been accumulated, and that
if it proceeds without interruption, as
planned, it will be completed in 81
days.
Grading has been practically COM
pleted and gravel assembled, ready to
begin work as soon as the cement ar
rives.
This section of the Brawley Mecca
highway will complete the road from
the edge of the irrigated district of
Imperial county to the San Felipe
wash, a distance Of about nine miles,
The roadway will be eight feet wide,
with turnouts at frequent intervals
The work is done under supervision of
the highway commission and not by
contract. ..
This portion of the highway will be
a joint road for The Warmers Ranch
and Brawley-M Mecca roads. Near the
San Felipe wash, the Mecca road turns
north, while the Warmers Ranch road
continues west across the desert to the
mouth of the NarroWs, where it enters
the mountains.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-03-31
NOTICE OF ELECTION.

Notice is hereby given that a mu-
nicipal election is to be held in the
City of Ell Centre, County of Impe-
rial on Monday, the 10th day of April,
1916, at which election the following
offices are to be filled, to wit:
Three members of the Board of City
Trustees.
Notice is also hereby given that al
said municipal election the polls will
be open from the hour of 6 o'clock
a. m. to the hour of o'clock p. m.
on the day thereof, and that during
said hours said election will be held
at the legally designated polling
places in each precinct in said city, as
hereinafter set forth, and that the fol-
lowing named persons have been ap-
pointed to serve as election officers
in heir respective precincts, to wit:
lVame of Precinct-No. /.
Location of Polling Place-500
Broadway.
Board of Election.
Inspector-B. H. Lien.
Inspector-D H. Johnson.
Judge-Daisy E. Mixer.
Judge-Mary A. Garren.
Clerk-E. A. Perkiss, Jr.
Clerk-Y. N. Adams.
Name of Precinct-No. 2.
Location of Polling Place-142
South Sixth street.
Board of Election.
Inspector-J. V. Wachtel, Sr.
Inspector-Allen P. Nuffer.
Judge-Violette S. Campbell.
Judge-Anna Strickler.
Clerk-David Duncan, Jr.
Clerk-Fred Nutall.
Name of Precinct-No. 3.
Location of Polling Place-112
North Sixth street.
Board of Election.
Inspector-Fred Rapson.
nspector-Sidney L. Griffin.
Judge Viola Fawcett.
Judge-Sophia P. Anderson.
Clerk-Walter |. Stone.
Clerk-W. r. Carey.
Dated this 18th day of March. 1916.
LAVINIA NORTHCOTT,
Apr2 Clerk.
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Imperial Valley press., 1916-03-31
SAN DIEGO ROAD
BOND ISSUE is UP

At meeting of the board Of Super
vlsors Of San Diego county Wednes-
day $2,096,O0O was decided upon as the
amount to be called for in the election
en- May 16, to vote bonds for road and
bridge purposes, says the San Diego
Union. The following counts are to
the placed on the ballot:
Repairing and constructing roads,
$495, 900; paved roads, $1,126,O00; COM
pletion of paved highway to Imperial
county line, $4,000; two buildings for
insane and tuber:ular patients on
county hospital grounds, 100000;
bridges, 100000. Total proposed bond
issue, $2,196,OOO.
Cuts were made in the estimates
Of week ago, but the total amount
was about the same, as it is now pro-
posed to submit to the people the pro-
posal to provide means in the bond
issue for the completion of the State
Highway TO the Imperial county line
from Flynn Springs, the road there
after to be taken over by the State
hhigway Commission to be perma-
nently kept up at the expense of the
state. The improvement was favored
by the San Diego Chamber Of Com
merce and the Cbriilo Commercial Club
and was recommended by County Sur
veyor George Butler.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-03-31
Start Campaign Against
\ Grasshoppers Monday

The Farm Bureau campaign against
grasshoppers will get under way next
Monday, when farm adviser at large
secured by the bureau to assist it will
arrive from Berkeley. Over half a ton
of white arsenic purchased by the bu-
reau at a great saving has arrived in
Ell Centre and will be mixed into the
poison formula and distributed
throughout the county to farmers who
wish it.
Walter E. Packard Of the State Ex-
perimental Farm is explaining the
plan before the farm center meetings.
When the agent from the College Of
Agriculture arrives schedule will be
mapped out and he will probably be
at stated points where the mixture
may be obtained and directions for
spreading given. Mf. Packard rec
ommends an ordinary barley seeder,
but any means may be used which will
distribute the mixture broadcast with
cut is being thrown in Jumps. The
best time to apply, he says, is after a
cutting Of alfalfa. The formula is as
follows:
1a pound white arsenic.
25 pounds bran.
quarts molasses.
lemons, ground.
Mix into q paste.
The poison is to be used where the
grasshoppers have made their appear
ance. True control of the pest, Mr..
Packard says, is in ploughing and cul-
tivating in the fail and winter, which
turns the eggs to the air and destroys
them. But determination of the grass
hoppers now will prevent the hatch
lng Of second generation in July,
he says.
The poison should not be used
along ditch banks, he says, and care
should be taken that none Of the poi
son gets in the ditches A distillate
spray ignited at the end of a hollow
rod should be used there to burn the
hoppers.