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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
No Prospect of Early Peace

Those observers of the European
 war who had been expecting the con-
 flict to end in February or March will
 be disappointed.
 1 The allies have no idea of quitting
 soon. Not only is Great Britain's navy
 intact, but Russias fresh, powerful
 army has started on an offensive that
 may have some very decisive results. 1 England's recruiting has been pro gressing rapidly of late and with the passage of MT. Asquith's compulsion
 bill Great Britain will soon have 2 300 900 to 3,O0O,O0O more additional men in training.
 The English people were slow in re- spending to the patriotic appeals of government leaders but they seem to be thoroughly aroused now and great army corps will be sent to the front 1 by spring.
 | France has made a fine record in | this war and that record will be main tained. Italy, being late entrant, has not yet achieved notable distinction, but the entente powers are heartened at the apparent unity of sentiment that prevails among leaders and people within their lines.
 Thus far the Teutons have won many signal victories. AS fighting machine Germany is the marvel of the world Her land forces have not been equalled by those of any other nation, but to what extent the Teutonic allies are affected by exhaustion remains to be seen when the entente powers have their new offensive we'll under way.
 The Kaiser would be glad to enter
 into peace negotiations immediately. For sometime Germany has shown an eagerness flor the ending of hostilities. But the terms that Berlin might con- sider would not be thought of for moment by England at this juncture.
 The hardest fighting is yet to come. In the meantime German exchange in New York is declining. Yesterday it was at it's lowest record a barometer of more than ordi- nary significance. Has Germany seen her last triumph in this titanic struggle?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
THE WORLDS WORKERS

By Lowell New times demand new measures and
 new men; The world advances. and in time out
 grown The laws that in our fathers days were
 best; And. doubtless, after us, some purer
 scheme Will be shaped out by wiser men than
 we, Made wiser by the steady growth of
 truth. We cannot hale Utopia on by force; But better, almost, be at work in sin. Than in brute inaction browse and
 sleep. No man is born into the world whose
 work Is not born with him; there is always
 work And tools to work withal for those who
 will; And blessed are the horny hands of toill The busy world shoves angrily aside The man who stands with arms akimbo
 set f Until occasion tells him what to do; And he who waits to have his task
 marked out Shall die and leave his errand nnf,st.
 filled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
GRAMMATICAL DECAY

ing, and only the verbalist is vexed, The distinction of "who" from that" for all the good examples irr the talk of street ana shop and in the common version of the Bible, is as good as gone from our modern books. In "a running fight" 'by running a race" T saw John running" T saw Johns running,' how many of us can tell apart, as adjective, infinitive, part1clple and verbal noun, those four ''runners?" Is it any wonder that we are letting slip the good distinction between He didn't like Tom interrupting" and He didn't like Toms interrupting? A graver loss has come of our laziness with subjunctive forms. Our school children think us quaint when we say, "If he were or Wherever it be-" Shades of Demosthenes and Cicero! What could even the orators have done had Rome and Athens dulled their stiletto-like subjunc tive into blunt indicatives?
 Language is the worlds oldest wonder No one really knows how it began or how it attained it's structural perfection. The Greek grammar was finer than tha Roman; the Sanskrit finer than tha Greek. Language is the one taking areu- ment Tor prehistoric golden age. It's laws have been studied and named and marvelled at by men like Grimm and Mueller and our own Whitney as if hu- man speech had some mysterious life of
 it's own. The least the rest of Us can do is to pass it to the next generation with the least possible damage from our own using.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
WORKING ON DOGS TEETH

From the Boston Transcript
 The new dental engine given to the Angel Memorial Hospital for Animals by Edmund T. Pratt was used recently on MT, Pratt's Scotch collie dog, Memo, and the operators, Hugh F. Daley and F. J. Flanagan, were so gentle that Memo scarcely stopped wagging his tail. Once or twice he tried to duck" as the burr as we'll behaved certainly as the majori- ty of humans in the dentists chair. It was simply teeth cleaning job, and when Memo left the table his were as clean as a whistle. He is big fellow and wore bright ribbon all through the operation" The doctors at the Angell hospital do not fill animals teeth, for it is believed that
 if animals teeth are kept clean and de- cayed teeth extracted, filling will not be necessary.
 On the operating table ahead of Memo was a big gray cat. His teeth were very dirty, but he underwent the cleaning pro- cess without much complaint. It is worthy of note that much of the dental work on animals is done without anest Itics, and that in case of small animals it is not necessary to use straps or slings
 Dr. Francis H. Rowley, president of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, says that many animals, big and little, which go to the hospital for treatment, remind him strongly of human beings. Some are ner- vous and frightened and others undergo treatment calmly, realizing apparently that the work is for the best and that the operators as careful as possible.
 The number of animals treated at the hospital continues to increase, and the in- stitution has an average of 15 out pa tients daily, besides 40 to 50 regular pa tients. Many of the dogs taken to the hospital with broken legs nowadays are the victims of speeding motor cars
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06

The international butter market,
 comparatively recent development, has
 been disorganized by the war in Europe
 Improved methods of refrigeration
 brough butter and other pershable food
 stuffs into international trade, and when
 the war started it had become one of
 the most important commodities in world commerce. Europe consumed the prod
 ucts of Siberia, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand in enormous quantities It
 is estimated that more than 60o0Oo,oOO pounds of butter were sold annually in international trade, according to infor- ! nation derived from recent bulletin of 1 the National Geographic society. At pres
 ent there is a serious shortage of fats and oils in the central powers America, Siberia and western Russia supplied the Germans with butter in normal times. Germany itself produced a large part of it's total consumption of butter and since l the war has endeavored to increase this
 production. Last year Germany pro- duced about 96O,0CO,O0O pounds of butter and imported about 100000 pounds. Denmark is the leading exporter of but ter in the world. It exports annally more than 1SO,O0OOO0 pounds Its fancy buffers are the finest made. Denmark also deals in great quantities of Finnish and Russian butter. Russia is the sec end greatest butter dealer, selling pre- vious to the war 16O,0OO,OO0 pounds an- nually, of which Germany took 6o'0O0,OOo pounds It is reported shat Russias but tetr has since been consumed almost en- tirely by it's armies. Australia is the third greatest dealer and has the largest per capita consumption. Australia for merly sold 94,0000O0 pounds annually, most of which was disposed of in London. Eng
 land was the greatest purchaser, consum-
 ing two-thrds of all the butter sold in the international market.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
Continued Improvement

The last monthly reports from the 12 federal reserve districts, as sum- marized by the reserve board at Washington, reflect continued busi- ness improvement throughout the country.
 Last fall several of the districts re- ported marked prosperity, while in others business recovery was slow or only partial But now prosperity is nationwide. In New York the holi- day trade was unusually brisk, and the banks showed large increases in both deposits and loans. Three months ago the report from the reserve bank in Philadelphia was not altogether encouraging, but now conditions in that section indicate general improve ment and in all industrial lines high record activity.
 In Cleveland the requirements of steel buyers are large enough to in sure orders for the entire years out put. Chicago, where business was halting two months ago, is now boom- ing. Every branch of business in the 1 St. Louis district is prospering greatly, and in Kansas City the wholesale trade never was so active as it is at present.
 Buoyant reports come from all the southern districts, and the outlook for the new year is exceptionally bright.
 Not since the record breaking pros perity of 1906, and the summer of 1907, just before the panic, has the country witnessed, as a whole, so many mills and factories operating at full capacity. Since early autumn, when pay rolls in iron and steel cen- ters began to swell, and when the price of cotton advanced rapidly, progress toward normal conditions has been steady. There has been no retrogression anywhere.
 There is a lull in general business just now. There always is during the | first week or two of January, but there is no Tagging in the iron trade now. The demand for the pig metal was insistent right through the holi- days, and there will be no dull days in the trade for 12 months to come. Judge E. H. Gary, chairman of the
 United States Steel corporation, is usually optimistic. He is noted for looking at the bright side, but in his statement issued yesterday he sounds a note of warning against overproduc- tion and imitation and discussed condi- tions relating to the war in depress- ing vein. But as prosperous as the country seems now thrift may be in even greater evidence with +'-~ coming of spring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
From the Boston Herald.


 WV HETHER our speech is to serve serve \A/ us as a mitten or as a glove W depends on the pains we are willing to take with distinctions like those in should and 'would,' 'who" and that" 'the boys" and "of the boy" and in mulling them over, is far subtler and more finely shaded than the corre- spending string of words that we address to our friends; in such expression as we can reach, we depend on the trim dis functions of our grammar as directly as the typist on the distinctions of her key board or the wood carver on the differ usage even one well based grammatical distinction is to lessen by just that amount our means of matching our thoughts with our words.
 Unhappily our careless use of the mother tongue is confusing forms and dropping distinctions that even colloquial wording can i'll spare. Our enormous vo- cabulary grows faster than the diction- ary makers can issue appendix and new edition; but our grammar, like an aging tree is decaying at the tips Take for instance, would and "should,' Here in New England, the distinction fingers In the middle west and beyond would" has hopelessly merged with its own ser vice that of should" The smoother phrases "I would like'' and q would be grateful already appear in formal writ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
"Ragtime PlutOcrats"

The dazzling success of Irving Der lin, formerly an entertainer in cheap cafe-and, according to some stories, a waiter there-is familiar to the average newspaper reader and patrons of vaudeville theatres.
 Whatever the critics may say, his music is infectious and it's popularity among the masses is easy to under stand. r
 However, MT. Berlin is not the only ragtime composer who has risen to fame and fortune in a remarkably short time. His confreres-if the term is permissible-are numerous and all initiate the habits of millionaires in manner that is only possible to the owner of a plethoric bank roll. MT fed Synder, who requires no introduc- tion to the tango fiends and the young women who sing for the entertain ment of visitors and the home circle, being blessed with a more or less ar tistic temperament, has been sued for divorce by his wife and it was alleged that he enjoys an income of more than $4O,000 year from his songs. MT. Snyder has the distinction of being IL. MI h CT gentleman in the song publishing business.
 No doubt Mr. Synder's income is matched by those of several other sue cessful ragtime composers, notably MT. Berlin, who took up the good work where George M. Conan left off and has since enjoyed great affluence, along with prodigious popularity.
 We'll may the poet and the artist grieve at the spectacle thus presented, but what are they going to do about it? There is a great demand for the kind of music MT. Synder and MT. Berlin "dash off, on the spur of the moment, so to speak, and surely no one could blame them for coining money by their facility in writing the sort of music the people want. It's true that they have been accused of "prostituting the public taste" and other high crimes and misdemeanors, but they may answer that they did not create the public taste. They merely cater to 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
DEFENDING SPARROW
rom the Montgomery Times.

From the Montgomery Times.
 The Gadsden Journal has it in for John Sparrow, Birmingham ad writer for producing a prize winning ad in which many of the best towns of Ala bama were mentioned, but failed to mention the Queen City of the Coosa The Journal ought not to be mad with MT. Sparrow. He had so many good towns to mention that he forgot one of the best in the state and if his attention had been called to it before he finished his prize winning ad he would have taken pleasure in twisting it's name into the ad that he wrote. There is nothing small or mean about John Sparrow He is an artist in the use of words and he would not stoop to do so progressive a town as Gadsden an injustice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
The Tick Eradication Fight

Sam H. Fowlkes, secreary of the Busi- ness Mems league, and Dr. Frank Heck Ter. representative of the federal govern ment in the tick eradication fight in Jeff ferson county, visited Adamsville and Huffman yesterday, circulating petitions favoring an election to eradicate the cat tie ticks in this county. Petitions are now being circulated in various parts or the county and reports are that they are heinz freely signed. Under the law at least 9 per cent of the qualified electors will have to sign the petitions to the pro- bate judge before the election can be called.
 We met with much success" said MT. Fowlkes upon his return last night we found that a great majority Of the peo- ple favored an election to eradicate the tick, and when the election is called, with an organized campaign for eradication, Jefferson county will be placed in the progressive counties of the state and the nation where cattle ticks are under the ban. The work of Dr. Tait Butler, who has for a number of years been active in the fight for tick eradication, has had fine effect in this county, as in other parts of the south, and we found today that many men had been educated to the inn portance of the work through his efforts .'
 The tick eradication movement is united, the board of revenue and the farm move- ment committee of the Chamber of Com merce, as well as the other civic organiza- tions, having done fine work in this mat ter. Dr. J. T. Doster is chairman of the Chamber of Commerce committee. The board of revenue has aided materially in the building of about 100 dipping vats and the splendid results shown by this start has resulted in wide interest in the movement throughout the county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
Bond Issue Sentiment Growing

Enlightened sentiment is strongly on the side of the state bond amend ment, upon which the people will vote Tuesday, January 18-a week from next Tuesday.
 The men of high itanding in the business world, the men of recognized ability in various callings, have, as a rule, declared themselves in favor of the amendment. A few prominent citizens are using their influence in opposition to the measure, but if the masses would only read Governor Henderson's circular address setting forth the states financial condition and the reason why an issuance of 100000 short-time bonds is the only business-like way of meeting the situation, and divest themselves of all prejudice. the negative vote would be so small as to be almost negligible.
 Many discussions of convincing character other than the governors have been published to show how i'm portant the amendment is from the viewpoint of Alabama's credit and from a common-sense point of view as well. But his address presented the matter in such concrete form and with such honest appeal as to make clear the duty of the people in the premises.
 Emphasis is laid on the fact that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06

the proposed bond issue will not in crease the amount of the state debt. There is now floating debt of about $2,30O,OOO. The proceeds of the $1,50O,000 bonds would be applied to the liquidation of that debt, leaving the remaining $SOO,OOO to be absorbed by current revenues.
 It is hoped there will be large vote, for the larger the vote the bet ter the prospects for a decisive ma jority.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
TRUTH IN ARKANSAS POETRY

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 Lazy lawyers make our laws,
 Mules and niggers raises cotton,
 The cotton sells for ready cash,
 Our laws are bad, yea rotten.
 For every tear the lawyer spills
 He charges four of five bills.
 The farmer raises grain in stacks,
 Then gives it up to pay the tax.
 John Hall in Salem (Ark.) Sun. No apology is ever offered for quoting Solomon or the Psalmist however fre- quently and we feel no compuncton about offering Brother Hall in their combined character to our readers. The bedrock and brass-tack qualities of his wisdom and the great truths uttered in simple and beautiful lyrics carry universal ap- neal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
THE PYRAMIDS

From the Nashville Tennessean.
 Twenty centuries look down upon you"
 Thus Napoleon addressed his weary legions which he had halted before those great Egyptian tombs-the pyramids. The sweaty, sand-covered grenadiers paused and gazed with wonder upon those relics of hoary history, and let their Gaelic inn aginations run riot-back, back to the very birth of man, when, who knows what gods and heroes dwelt there along the Nile and lived and loved with the newborn race.
 We think Napoleon spoke with one eye on the pyramids and the other on the dis tant tents of the Mamelukes, and his vii brant words-"Twenty centuries look down upon you'-went home to the hearts of his Frenchmen, and when night came there were no Mamelukes.
 That was over 100 years ago. Before ments of a distant past; before Caesar. Alexander the Great and Chambyses, and still history repeats"
 Today-January 8, 1916. A. D.-a handful of French and English are encamped be- fore the pyramids, and daily war aero planes buzz lazily above the Sphinx, for Egypt and the canal are threatened When the shock of battle comes to the band before these Historic stones as come it will, their khANi-cqt leader can truthfully shout dSmN tna trenches: Men, all history looss down upon you"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lord, it seems that Thou hast put me in this place and given me this par ticuIar work to do. Grant me to stay until I hear another c0mmand' May I cultivate the place until 1t shall yield good; may I strive at the work until it shall soar anu sing. For Christ's sake. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
BOOKS NOT DISEASE CARRIERS
From the Farming Business

From the Farming Business.
 Old superstitions that books are car riers of diseases seem to have been dis pelled for once and all by experiments recently made in London. We all know the familiar argument that Mrs. So-and- So caught this or that by reading an old book that old MT. Such-an-Such read a few months before he died with the same disease. Now we are told that germs cannot live in such surroundings as are offered by the dry pages of books, and that sneezing, coughing and talking while reading a book do not make that book a carrier of the disease the reader may have Washings from books read by tubercular patients were fed to guinea pigs but none developed the disease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
START THE YEAR RIGHT
From the Houston Post.

From the Houston Post.
 Beware of the grippe, keep sober. work hard ssve your money don't try to operate a pOrterhouse appetite with a bull-neck income, get your poll tax receipt in your possession without de- the hot days of June when January will do just as we'll and remember that shoe leather locomotion is pretty well suited to men who get less than 5000 . year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
Good Trade Conditions

q have not made a business trip through the state since last fall, but 1 hear that conditions in my trade terri tory are ~ery good indeed" said Hugh M. Brown, the well known shoe sales man.
 T was in Wylam a few days ago and found the merchants there prosperous l will visit southern Alabama in February and expect to find trade brisk''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
HOTEL LOBBIES
Christmas Club at Jefferson

bank is starting off with splendid prom ise," said w. A. Porter, chairman of the board of directors
 q felt sure that the Christmas club would be a success, but it is far ahead of anything I had hoped for-the first year. It is wonderfully popular and it means much in educating people to save"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
STRICTLY PERSONAL

From the New York World.
 Colonel House, as President Wilson's ''personal representative,' is off for Berlin to carry "a correct atmosphere" Who said this was republic and not a "personal" government?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06

More than 200O,O 900 men in Great Britain of military age have not offered their services to the government. Evidently the sort of men who prefer local obloquy to fighting in the trenches
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06

The old-time gentleman who never sees anything on the stage comparable to what he saw in his youth, might devote his at tention with pleasure and profit to some of the musical "revues."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06

General Huerta prefers the attentions of his wife to those of a trained nurse and considering the beauty Of some trained nurses, Mrs Huerta should feel herself highly complimented
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06

No open minded person believes that the munitions makers are back of the movement for preparedness, but even If they were, that would not alter the fact that it is step in the right direction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06

You'd never guess it from the attitude far more importance to this community than a Puritan observance of the Sab bath
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06
ON HOW FAR TO GO.

"It takes pluck and energy to become an American millionaire"
 Quite so, but you have left out one of the most important requirements" And what is that?"
 Expert legal advice.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06

Opelka News: It is getting time Geor- gia was letting up on lynchings They are having entirely too many oyer there. Some strong man should come to the front in that state, and save the common wealth before it is too late. At the rate they are going over there it will not be many years until it will simply be ques- tion of the survival of the handiest with the gun Dueling received it's death blow at the hands of great Georgian. Is it possible that our sister state has not within it's borders a man who can call a halt on lynchings?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-06

Having arranged matters to suit them- selves, the Bulgarians are reported averse to doing any more for Germany. The crafty Ferdinand is at work again.