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The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-30

being utterly ruined. That's it-you
hold them tight until I remove them,
one by one."-
Il declared muttered the professor,
and not displeased. Never had bonny
female face been so close to his. Their
hands touched at times and It gave
him Jingle and thrill.
Finally the lady had the clothes in
her arms, tightly held. Her animated
face regarded him over the top of the
white fluttering barrier.
Are they all safe?" he asked in an
embarrassed. hesitating way.
"All but one Sheet" was the reply.
Il saw that 60 over the tops of those
trees yonder toward the woods"
Il will look for it," began the pro.
fessor.
mo, no." objected the lady. 1T was
old. 1t may have been caught way up
in some branches. 1t has probably
been riddled by this time
But, consciously flustered by the
bright, smiling eyes of the woman, the
professor damned his hat down over
his head and started on his self-ap-
pointed quest.
He kept looking aloft as he went
down the road, but there was no sign
Of the missing sheet. Before be real
lied it he was in the woods. 1t began
to rain, but the professor was a per-
severing man.
Aha! I've found It."
He had come to fringe Of bushes
beyond which lay a mucky stretch
Twenty feet out, caught on clump OF
reeds and trailing in the muddy slime
was a sheet-the sheet, Of course!
The professor had low shoes. He
thought of the lady in whose behalf he
was laboring and became reckless, ex'
periencing a keen sense of chivalric
devotion He waded and sank in the
Doggy soil, but he got the sheet. II
was not torn, but the mud had stained
! & and all he could do was to wad II
up in sort of disreputable roll.
Il won't take it back to Mrs. Briggs
In this condition" he decided. There's
the town laundry. Ill have 1t done uE
nicely and send ter, no, I'll take II
back myself. It may entertain her tc
know how far the wind carried it."
Several people stared broadly at the
wet, muddy and disordered professor
He reached the laundry. The sheet
would be all ready for him that eve
ming, he was informed. ri.
twas q few minutes after eight that
evening when the professor cached
the Briggs cottage. II had warmed his
/ heart every time that day he had
thought Of the wins0nie lad His
sardor cooled % he nesred the, house i
III front Wa shaded and sdark = liss..Asst
shaved II the I'll inG room: He stolsS
around tn sids AZ IN aouep and
pSero6 ~ sss.ss s ssa III
3 I s. |, II.I|
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empty phrase in the minds OF the
signers, but a clear, definite ideal. 1t
was the eighteenth century conception
of the twentieth century slogan OF
making a country or city "a good
place to live in" They had no
thought of simply exchanging one
species of formal authority for an
other, of setting up a governmental
machinery for the collection OF taxes
and the protection Of the community
Their vision went much further than
that-to the pursuit 81 happiness. 1t
IA almost as II those young republic
ans Of 40 years ago had foreseen tho
modern use of government for the
amelioration Of social conditions. the
extension Of the function Of public
action to do those things for the
people that can best be done by united
effort. yss,,
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Portrait Of the Slgner4~

While the painting by Trumbull
1.-THE Declaration of independence"
shows forty.four actual life portraits.
it is to be regretted that more were
not secured, as the major portion were
still living when the material for the
capitol rotunda pictures was gath
cred.
In the Smithsonian collection at
Washington there are f1fty-three por-
traits of the signers, which will be
used in due time by the government
in a Room of the Declaration Sign
ers" in new building already
planned.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-30
HAD TO WAIT
FORTY DAYS
Long Time Before
England Got News
|. of the Battle of
Lexington
7 T SEEMS strange in these days
when news Of the battles In far
away Europe is cabled to America

VT SEEMS strange in these days
when news Of the battles in far
away Europe is cabled to America
L within few minutes after they 90
cur-when flying machines equipped
with machine guns are fighting each
other IN the clouds-when advocates
OF preparedness are arguing that the
ocean is no barrier to foreign foe
because of the swiftness of their
steam cruisers-to bark back to the
battle of Lexington, April 10, ITS,
and try to realize the length OF time 1t
required for the news of that conflict
to reach England.
There were no telegraph wires, no
telephone, no dispatch boats or "spe-
cial correspondents" with each regi-
ment. A steam vessel had not then
been dreamed of. There were no
cables, no flying machines, no machine
guns Only sailing vessels, of small
size. we're available to cross the ocean,
and as a consequence it took q long,
long time for the shot to be heard
around the world"
Dependent on Sailing Ships.
Journalism in America was then
In its swaddling clothes. The race of
the enterprising journalist to outfoot
deet-footed Time had not then begun.
There was not the intense rivalry of
today between metropolitan papers,
with their specials and war extras-to
say nothing Of baseball extras. There
was, too, similar lack of activity on,
the part of editors in London.
The newspapers in Boston and 9TH
er nearby towns at that time were
published weekly, usually on Monday.
News Of sanguinary events, If they
occurred during the week, was neces-
sarily held for publication until the
following Monday. 1t was not sur
prising, therefore, that the news of
the battles of Lexington and Concord
was not printed in Boston until April
25-for the idea Of issuing an extra"
In such emergencies was not then in
vogue.
In the Essex Gazette.
The Essex Gazette, published at
Salem, had by far the best report Of
the events of the day, with an almost
complete list of the killed and wound
ed. The news of this first encounter
between the provincials and his majes-
tvs troops was many hours in reach
Ing the other colonies, although post
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riders and expresses were started i'm
mediately for Hartford, New York.
Philadelphia and the South.
In two days nearly all the scattered
peoples Of the young nation had been
informed of the result, and the spirit
Of the hour had inspired the raising
of troops.
To the king, the parliament and the
people of Great Britain the days had
been filled with anxiety. The main
question discM.4ed was How far
dare the colonists carry their resist
ance?" will the provincials stand
before the British regulars?" was also
mooted question.
Didn't Anticipate War.
In the face of the steady inpouring
of grenadiers, dragons and infantry
from the mother country, and the rap
idly increasing fleet of vessels Of war,
all heavily manned, it was believed
that the Americans would be cowed
and the whole attention of Great Brit.
ain was centered upon her rebellipus
children across the seas.
Day succeeded day. March became
April, and April in turn was left be-
hind in the rush Of time. May grew
old, with no word Of decisive action
from the colonists.
Not single word from the conflict
of April 10, Its, had reached Eng
land until the bright, clean page,
labeled June" was about to be
brought into view and king and sub.
jects were leaving London to escape
the summer heat.
Forty Days to Reach England.
It was on May 20, 1775, when the
first sailing vessel to arrive from the
colonies after the skirmish at Licking
ton reached Bristol, England. Even
at this early day journalism had
shown it's superiority over govern
ment methods, for the vessel brought
copies of the Essex Gazette of April
25, containing the brief account of the
engagement.
Post haste, they were carried to
London, and on the following day the
news was printed in the London
Chronicle. Thus, Al days after the
shot was fired, it's revert erations
were heard in distant Britain.
With but a simple headline
"LONDON"-the Chronicle printed
the important news, prefacing it with
the statement:
TUESDAY, May 80, ITS.
Yesterday morning some dispatches
arrived at Lord Dartmouths office
from General Gage, at Boston, brought
by ship arrived at Bistol, from that
Province. They were forwarded by q
messenger to his majesty at Kew"
These dispatches contained no news
of the skirmish, being dated several
days before it occurred.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-30
OUTPUT OF PAPER IS LARGE
Production In United States In 1914
Valued at $2s4,355,875, Increase
Of Is Per Cent.

Tho United States produced 1884,.
1856, S75 worth Of paper in 1914. accord
Ing to statistics OF the census bureau.
which have Just been made public
This represented an increase Of PSI
per cent in q period Of i've years. The
production Of news print paper alone
IN 1914 amounted to 1.31s.2S4 tons. val
ued ct $50 IA. There were manu-,
featured IL the same year % ,979 tons
81 book paper valued Of t373. j 99,614. An
increase Of 1l.6 psr cent II quantity
ovsri tho production = 1901. s
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corners of the earth, great people
united in a common purpose, leading
the world toward realization of the
brotherhood Of mankind and pointing
out to all nations that mans real and
enduring aim should be the conquest
Of himself and of the vast forces Of
nature, to the end that all may get
the best out of life and ever advance
In the pursuit Of happiness.
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Much still to Be Done.

The thinking American is daily con.
fronted with the fact that greater
problems remain to be solved than
those which the founders faced. They
gave US independence. The work Of
establishing social and political Jus
tice, for which independence was de.
creed, remains to be done. lr......,
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-30
Now Somebody'Il Tell.

First Fratter-"Why are you so anx-
ious to kiss Tessie?" Second Fratter
well, everyone else in our set has
and don't want to appear snobbisl4.
Dartmouth Jack-o'.Lantern.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-30
su lure Thlnn.

Money doaant bring happiness
Maybe not. But 1t will help you
greatly n going sitter It,"
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.sHs lce a. 4 - ted IL vain for
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-07
HOW PEDDLERS
 SPREAD DISEASE

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Various reasons have been suggested for the present epidemic of typhoid fe- yer, especially among children. In Sun days Age-Herald our friend, Dr. Low cry, suggested to make the screening of all stores, residences, etc., compulsory a wise suggestion. Yet pray tell me what good does it do and allow peddling wag- ons with meat, fruits and vegetables to operate where flies, dust and germs swarm, unscreened? For instance, a wagon stops at MT. LIS house, half his family down with fever. Some of the we'll ones come out, handle the fruits, meats, etc., after handling a fever pa- tient, bringing out few infected flies as well as their clothes having germs on them. Then he stops his wagon next in front of MT. Us house. His little bright tot" follows the cook or mamma out to the wagon and is handed little nice fruit with a big disease germ on it.
 I claim one of those wagons seatters mere disease than all the merchants com bined. I was told by a reliable friend that carload of watermelons was sold here last week not fit to fed hogs on. much less humans. Let the city investi- gate the peddlers Yours truly.
 WILLIAM c. MINTH.A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-07
w. s. LOWELL GIVES HIS
 VIEWS SONWHATI IS MATTER
 WITH THE COAL BUSINESS

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 In the Mississippi delta practically all the lands are worked by negro tenants. The owners of these. the richest lands in the world, have kept themselves poor for half a century by a practice almost universally employed among them, viz, at Christmas time just prior to the re- newal of the annual rental contracts for the coming year the planter, in his anxiety to rent all of his land, offers inducements to the tenant of his neigh DOT to move on his place, he generally agrees to pay the negro's debt to his landlord for him and to lend him Christmas money" and he gets his negro.
 The neighbor, however does the same thing to him. The net result of the transaction Is that neither one has any more labor or any more land rented than he had originally, and has furnished the negro Christmas money and swapped a known tenant for an unknown one and is the loser thereby.
 This fairly represents the present coal situation in Alabama. The coal operator spends a large part of his time endeaxoring to find out what his competitor is getting for his coal and cutting this price in order to take the business from him. To illustrate, the Blank Coal company takes a customer from the Black Coal company by cut ting the price 5c a ton. The Black Coal company, rather than shut down, takes 9 customer for about an equal ton- mage from the Blank Coal company at 5c less than the price formerly paid the net result is that each coal mine is doing the same amount of business as before, but at reduction of 5c per ton. Next year this operation is again repeated. both are spending valuable time trying to take business from the other instead of trying to build up a profitable business on the merits of their own product.
 Beyond question hydro-electric pow CT is, and will continue to, make seri- ous inroads into the coal consumption of this territory, larger locomotives and easier grades are reducing the amount of coal required per ton mile on the railroads, these two are in the line of modern progress and nothing that the coal operator can do can stay their further encroachment on his busi- ness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-07

Now there is use complaining about them, as they are not only here to stay but to further encroach, the remedy must be sought elsewhere. Tho coal business is just like every other business, in a measure it is a case of "the survival of the fttest," the mine whose costs are too high or whose coal is inferior cannot long compete with those more favored. Most of the trou- ble with the Alabama operators is, not competition from some other coal field, but insane, cut-throat competition among the operators in his own field.
 The question of freight rates does not materially concern the coal operator so long as his competitor has the same rate. What does very much concern him, however, is an ample supply of railroad cars in which to ship his prod uct and adequate service on the part of the railroad where his mine is To- cated. Many of the mines in Alabama are right now unable to fill their or ders on account of an unprecedented car shortage. The company with which am connected is more than 40 days behind with it's shipments on account of the railroad serving it, not being able to supply coal cars. If rates coal were reduced the earnings of the roads from coal would certainly be re- duced and the money they would in- vest in coal cars would hardly help out the present inadequate car supply, to say nothing of the service given the mines.
 What the coal business wants is sane competition among the Alabama oper- ators, and a railroad service with cars sufficient to move it's product
 Let's stop fighting among ourselves.
 Let's stop complaining about hydro electric power and the more economi- cal coal consumption of locomotives, which we cannot prevent or check.
 Let's stop trying to reduce freight rates, which will have no other effect than to impair railroad service and decrease our car supply, but
 Let's know our exact cost and put our mines in such shape and prepare our product so well that we can com- pete in cost and quality with anyone in our own field. If with a full knowledge of what we can do we find that we can- not make profit, let's go into some other business where we may have chance to succeed. Respectfully,
 w. S. LOWELL.
 Birmingham, July 6, 1916,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-07
TWO BATTERIES IN DANGER OF LOSING
 ARM0RY QUARTERS
Captain Nolan Comes Up From Montgomery to In- vestigate Report That Ap-
 propriation Is Stopped

Capt. c. P. Nolan of Battery c came up from Montgomery yesterday to in- vestgate reports that the Birmingham artillery companies are about to be thrown out of a home while they are away at the front.
 Batteries A and have been occupying an armory jointly and the county board of revenue has been paying the rent on the quarters.
 "We were notified in Montgomery" said Captain Nolan, that the board of revenue would not pay rent on our quar- ters longer than July l. This was, of course, quite a blow to us, particularly at this time when we were all out of town. We have spent considerable money on the armory equipping it with properly arranged lights, lockers and such things, and it will be a great hardship if we are deprived of the quarters just at this time.
 No one knows how long we will be in service. It may be but few weeks, and it may be many months. The artillery companies have a great deal more equip ment than the infantry companies, and the government Is very particular that proper care shall be taken of this equip ment, and that it have suitable storage to prevent loss. If the quarters are not entirely satisfactory the government takes it away.
 "The board of revenue since the first of the year has been allowing us $15O a month as it's part of the guarantee that the batteries would always be ready for service if needed. One hundred of this has been used for the rent of the armory and the other $50 has been applied on the expense we incurred in eQuipping the building for our purposes.
 Every man of the artillery companies hopes that this contribution will not be cut off because when they come back they want to have a home to which they can come The amount is not large to the county, but to us it Is a very m- portant thing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-07
JERSEY |CE CREAM PRODUCTS ARE PURE
 -YARBROUGH
Declares That Every Ingre- dient Is PasteuriZed Be-
 fore Being Used

'The Jersey Ice Cream company started in business in Birmingham about three years ago and the first product of our factory was pasteurized from start to fin ish as has been every particle of ice cream we have manufactured since" de- clared D. w. C. Yarbrough, secretary and treasurer of that concern, yesterday. We installed a pasteurizing machine when we opened up and that machine still is in operation, pasteur:zing not only the milk used in making ice cream, but every ingredient used in it's manufacture.
 Therefore we did not change our methods when it became known there was an epidemic of typhoid fever in the city. We always have steri!ized all ves- sells used in making ice cream. and all containers are made germ-free with live steam. A jet of live steam is forced into the containers until they become su- per-heated and all germ life is destroyed. The same is true of our mixture This is treated with live steam until it reaches temperature of ,150 degrees, which is maintained until all possible germs are removed. The mixture then is treated with brine until it is sufficiently cooled for the freezers.
 ITO doubly assure ourselves that there was no danger to our patrons from our ice cream, we have had expert analytical chemists investigate our plant and they report that there is possibility of in- lection from our product.
 "There is no one in Birmingham more anxious to prevent disease than our company and we always have been care- full and will continue that practice"
 MT. Yarbrough is a member of the pub lie health committee of the Rotary club and is working with the committee in the fight being made against typhoid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-07
JOHN B0MAR, SON 0E. HUDSON PRESIDENT, SOME EWHERE ON GULF Dr. BOmar Fears Son Is in Midst of StOrm-Left
 New Orleans Last
 Saturday

John l.. Bomar, son of pr. P. V. Be- mar, president of Judson college, is somewhere on the Gulf of Mexico be- tween New Orleans and Panama, in g. United Fruit company steamer. ac- cording to information given The Age Herald last night by Dr. Bomar. who is stopping at the Tutwiler Dr. Bomar stated that he feared his son was in the midst of the terrific storm, which has destroyed the docks at Pensacola, cut Mobile off from communication with the outside world, and practically stopped traffic between Montgomery and points south.
 pr. Bomar stated that his son, a 1918 graduate of the University of Virginia. left New Orleans July 1 for Rancuague, Chile, where he goes to accept posi- tion in the engineering department of the Braten Copper company, one of the Guggenheim interests in Chile. My son left New Orleans for Pana- ma, where he intended remaining a short while before shipping for Chi1e." stated pr. Bomar last night, and I fear that the vessel he shipped on is yet on the sea, and, in all probability. is strug- gling in the storm now sweeping over the gulf I hope the United Fruit com- pany will be able to get in touch with |. the vessel by wireless, if 1t already has not reached Panama"
 Dr. Bomar stopped over in Birming- ham en route from Florence. where he delivered a sermon last Sunday He is very enthusiastic over the prospects for a good year at Judson the coming term and says the outlook is very bright
 we are renovating all the dormi-f tories and they will be in a thoroughly modern condition in time for the be- rrtv, s,, NF f@lY Bomar. Architect W. E. Benz arranged the plans and the work is in the hands of Knight Brothers of Bessemer In addition to this, we have recently put $10,000 into the purchase of new pianos, this giving us practically new equipment Tn our conservatory of music. The conservatory of music is under the direction of Prof. E. L. Powers ono of the best in the south, who has been with Judson for 20 years or more
 Every member of the faculty will be retained next year, for the first time since I assumed the presidency of Judson.
 Another improvement which we hope to have completed before the opening of school is a swimming pool. We have just completed digging well which has a depth of 400 feet. and which will be used to supply the pool We hope to get the pool in shape for use next year.
 "The general outlook for a success full term at Judson is extremely bright"