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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
METHODIST REUNION
By REV. 10. NJ. GLENN

In the issue of December 30 The Age-Herald carries editorial remark concerning the meeting in Baltimore of representatives of Methodism, north and south, seeking to construct sound basis and devise safe methods for or- ganic union of these bodies. The edl- 'torial was pertinent and fair, and Methodist people appreciate 1t.
 Serious exception may not be taken to the statement that "a split took place over the slavery question" The slavery question surely was there in 1S44 and the split took place. The Missouri compromise" in the polit- ical history of the United States, has it's parallel in the annals of American Methodism: the one coming to its cli- max in 1S60-1, as the other had come in 1S44.
 As to Methodism; Statutes were car- ried, designed to guarantee, safeguard and secure to members in the slave holding states full and equal rights. These statutes provided that, in slave states, connection with slavery, slave holding itself should be no barrier to any dignity. honor, emolument, office or order relating to church member ship or arising therefrom. Faithful ad hesion to such statutes insured peace in the communion, as 1t had brought large prosperity.
 But they suffered breach: The Rev Francis A. Harding, member of the Baltimore conference, married 8 Mary land lady possessed of five slaves and thereby himself became connected with slavery. At that time the laws of Maryland provided that no slave might be freed to remain in the state; and provided, further. that upon marriage a woman's property should be protect ed from the power of her husband Thus was MT. Harding hedged about as touching his wifes slave property but the Baltimore conference suspend ed him. law or no law, statute or nc statute, Harding appealed to the gen. eral conference, basing his appeal or plain law. He lost.
 The issues joined In the case of Mir Harding were intensified in that o1 Bishop James O. Andrew, who by marriage had become connected with slavery. After wide and able discus. sion the general conference took ac- ton which the south construed as vir-
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WILSON'S ''PEACE" NOTE SAID ID BE
 GERMAN WARNING
Situation With Reference to Teutonic Violation of Pledges Was Growing
 Too Critical
By HUGH W. ROBERTS

Washington, December 3O.-(Specal.) That Germany was not sincere in it's suggestion of a peace conference, and that President Wilson's most recent note was, rather than a movement to termi- nate the wal, warning against plans contemplated by the Teutons, is learned by The Age-Herald bureau.
 It may also be stated that in adminls- tration circles, pessimsm reigns abso- lute, the fear being general that within a time limit of three months, diplomatic el-tions between the United States and Germany will be severed. In that event, the President will exert himself to the utmost in that it might not be necessary for this country actually to become en- gagged in the war.
 President Wilson, it is also learned from an authoritative source, will write no more notes to Germany. It is his present determination to break with that nation immediately following it's next violation of its oft-repeated promises.
 GAME OF POLITICS
 That which has engaged the attention of the American public since early Tn December when Germany offered to dis cuss peace has been thinly yelled game of politics.
 Toward the conclusion of November, the cabinet became aware of imminent danger that the long and desultory quar- rel between Germany and the United States could not be composed. Rumor, substantiated by more or less official in formation, impressed this government with an idea that Germany was about to resume it's peculiar mode of subma- rine warfare. It was learned that Ger many was building 80 new submersibles of the most formidable type And Ger many declined to state to the United
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the three eclipses of the moon will be completely visible to us and will furnish most interesting phenomena for observa- tion. Each of these occurs after mid- night; the first during the early morn- ing hours of January 8 and the second before sunrise on December 2S. Their ob. servation will thus call for some reso- lution on the part of the amateur as- tronomer. The third lunar eclipse will occur during the afternoon of Indepen- dence Day Guly 4, and will be invisible to us because the moon will at that time not have risen.
 LUNAR ECLIPSE OF JAN. 8
 In figure the shaded circle represents section of the great shadow of the
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and Hyades indicated in the figure. This little region will then indeed be a most beautiful and interesting one.
 Saturn is now high above the ground in the northeast, almost in line with the Twin Stars, Castor and Poilux. Dur ing 1917 this planet will move only across Cancer in it's slow, 29-year journey around the Celestial Sphere. The sun. steadily pursuing it's course along the path A B. will overtake and pass Jupiter on May g. and will similarly pass to the east of Saturn on July 27. On these dates the planets will change from even ing to morning stars.
 Mars, which is now too low in the southwest for observation, will not enter the borders of our evening maps during
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the present year. It will be passed by the sun and thus become a morning star on February 2S; by August 1 it will rise three hours before sunrise and this time will be increased to five hours by No vember 1, and to seven hours by the end of the year. But the Red Planet will not attain its most favorable position for ob- servation during the year 1917.
 The very brilliant Venus now rises far in the southeast about two hours before sunrise, but this interval is rapidly les- sening and becomes only one hour by the end of the month. The planet will, however. not enter the evening sky until April 2e, after which date 1t will stead fly climb upward in the western heavens,
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and toward the close of the year will become the most conspicuous object in the sky. It will attain it's greatest dis tance east of the sun on November 30. Thus from January until the middle of April both Jupiter and Saturn will shine
 in our evening sky. On this date Jupiter
 will be lost in the sun's rays, but Saturn
 will remain until toward the end of July;
 before the Ringed Planet withdraws the beautiful Venus will have become con spicuous in the west. Jupiter will again appear in the east toward the end of October and Saturn toward the close of November. During these months also Venus will be growing nightly more con spicuous and mounting ever higher in the heavens.
 Mercury reaches it's greatest distance east of the sun on the evening of January 2 and may then be detected shining low in the twilight, almost directly above the west point of the horizon, until about one and one-half hours after sunset. Similar east elong ations will occur in April, August and December; in February, June and Oc- tober the planet will reach it's great est elohgation in the morning sky. On January at a. m. the earth will attain its least distance from the sun of the present year; it will reach the point of its yearly path which is most remote from the sun at D. m on July 3. The distance which sepa- rates the two bodies on the former date will be 91.344,0o0 miles. On the latter date this distance will be 3.10S,- 900 miles greater.
 THE JANUARY STARS The beautiful Capella is now almost
 directly overhead, the brilliant groups of Taurus and Orion are near the
 meridian in the south, while the two Dog Stars, Sirius and Procyon, have mounted high in the heavens The observer also notices that the beauti- full Leo, the last of the bright winter groups, has now well entered our even ing heavens. The bright star Regu- lus of this constellation, with it's in- tenssly blue companion three minutes away, is beautiful object in mod erately large telescope
 The praesepe, at E, Figure 1, and the wonderful spiral Nebula of An- dromeda, at r, are both in excellent position for observation. Nor should the observer fail to note from time to time the variable star, Mira, at M, whose brightness during the pres ent month should begin very rapidly to decrease.
 For one who is familiar with the brighter consultations this will be found an excellent time to trace out the faint groups of the Cameleopard the Lynx. the. Lesser Lion. the Uni- corn, the Hare and the Dove. The entirely Milky Way, from the North
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earth; a shadow which always stretches out into space in direction directly op- posite to that of the sun. During the early morning of January the center Of the moon will be seen to move eastward along the path A B D l., and thus our satellite will plunge completely into tho shadow.
 The center of the moon will reach the point A and the eclipse begin at hours 50.4 minutes (eastern standard tin1e); 1t will reach and the eclipse become total at hours 0.4 minutes, and it will reach c and the moon be completely immersed in the shadow at 2 hours 44.6 minutes. The total eclipse will end at hours 2S.S minutes, the center of the moon then being at D, and the entire phenomenon will terminate, and the moon leave the shadow at F at hours SS.6 minutes. Thus the entire eclipse will occupy 3 hours 4S2 minutes, while the moon will remain completely immersed in the sha dow for 1 hour 2S.4 minutes.
 The solar eclipse of January 23 will be visible throughout Western Asia north ern Africa and eastern Europe, but from no region will more than three-fourths of the suns diameter be seen covered by the moon.
 THE PLANETS IN 1917
 Jupiter now shines very brightly in the southwest in excellent position for ob- servation. It will be very readily found from the position indicated in Figure l., for it is by far the brightest object in this part of the heavens. As this planet occupies nearly F years in moving once around the heavens among the stars, it will be found by the end of 1917 in the position directly between the Pleiades
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
Chicago City Employes Fired

Chicago December 3O.-Hundreds of em- ployes of the city of Chicago today re- ceived New Years greetings in the form of blue envelopes, informing them that owing to the necessity of cutting ex- penses their present jobs will be vacant after January 1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
President Slightly Injured

Washington, December 3o.-President Wilson fell on a slipping hillside while playing golf today and wrenched his ankle. He was able to continue the game. but walked with a decided limp the rest of the day.
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THE STARRY SKIES IN JANUARY

The year upon which we are just en- tering will be one of great interest to the student of the skies. Tn the first place, there will be no time of the en- tire year at which one or more of the brightest planets may not be seen shin ing in the evening heavens, md during the four or six weeks of It's close Venus, Jupiter and Saturn are all presented to our view together Toward the middle of December even the little Mercury will run far eastward from the sun, thus :n- ereasing to four the number of she bright planets which are wis ble 70 the naked eye. In every year the slow progression of the seasons brings us the successive consultations, each with it's wealth of interesting objects for study but in years less favored than the present it is not unusual for all of the planets, or wan dering stars" to completely desert cur evening heavens for a greater or less length of time
 But the most remarkable feature of the present year is the very large number of eclipses which will occur within its limits. There will be no less than seven, of which four are of the sun and three are of the moon. It is not possible un- der any circumstances for more than seven eclipses to occur in any one year.
 THE ECLIPSES OF 1917
 The four eclipses of the sun will, re- spectively, occur on the morning of Jan- uarqy 23, during the forenoon of June 1s, during the late evening of July IS and in the early morning of December 14 The first three are only partial eclipses, so that from no station on the earth will the sun be seen to be completely hidden by the moon, while the fourth is so-called "annular eclipse" in which the round. intensely black, ball of the moon will be seen to move completely onto the bright disc Of the sun. At this time. however, the apparent size of the moon will be slightly less than that of the sun; the disc of the latter will, therefore, at no time be completely hid- sden, but it's edges will be visible as an intensely bright ring of light. The path of this annual eclipse will pass exactly across the south pole of the earth
 Unfortunately none of the four solar ecllpses will be visible from any station within the United States But two of
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ern Cross. now half disappeared in the west. to the summit of Argo in the south, will also well repay prolonged exploration and study.
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States the degree of punishment which had been meted out to the commander of the submarine which destroyed the 3ussex-a commander who. incidentally, was decorated for that destruction with the order, pour le merite, it was learned unofficially
 In view of that situation, the United States prepared to deal summarily with Germany. Count von Bernstorff notified Germany of the contemplated movement by this country. Germany immediately issued it's communque offering to dis cuss peace. In that emergency, the United States could not carry out its plans. And Germany. for the moment. won a diplomatic victory.
 The Age-Herald learns that the Pres ident's note was not conceived with the idea that it might lead to peace in Eu- rope Secretary Lansing was right when he issued his now famous expla- nation-that the note was written be- cause the continuation of the European war daily endangered to a more intense degree, the peace and welfare of the United States because, in view of the
 
 to know just what each belligerent and neutral had 10 say"
 Germany's reply was almost contemp- tuous, administration circles readily ad- init, in it's entire disregard of the Pres- ident's inquiry. Germany almost directly stated that neutrals were not concerned. with the kind of peace warning nations might see proper to make. Germany was satrical when it declared that before the great work of establishing permanent peace be undertaken, the present strug- gle must be brought to conclusion.
 Germanys reply, as a matter of fact, is taken as proof positive that it's original offer to discuss peace was not sincere, but was a movement calculated to estop American plans of procedure, and effect its own civil population.
 NO MORE NOTES
 The President and his advisers are em- barrassed First, there is the critical situation respecting American relations with Germany; second, there is the fact that at home and abroad, the peace" note was improperly interpreted; third, there is the fact that the Teak" regard ing the peace" note wiped out thou- sands of small fortunes on the stock ex- change.
 So the President, it is learned, has de- termined to sit very quietly 'in the boat" until time for real action arrives. The Age-Herald learns that he will not write another note to Germany. On the con- trary, it is his present purpose to sever relations when Germany again violates it's promises regarding its conduct of submarine warfare.
 It is the general conception that within the next three months, this country will face one of the gravest situations in all it's history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
Sr1lttng president Let's make the New Year a Happy Rough Dry" Year
 ---Joir1 the A. [. K. D.. club tornorroU
c TART the year right O call the AMERICAN and get acquainted with their rough dry laundry service.

-Every garm e n t is washed CLEAN, sterilized and starched, ready for the electric iron, and the price is only 6 cents pound.
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R o u g h dry all the clothes you've formerly given the washerwoman and SEE how much clean CT, cheaper and'more sat- isfactory this service is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
WANT MUNICIPAL WHARF

Some action is wanted by the board of directors of the Board of Trade on the municipal wharf and on the mo- tion of Judge Henry B. Foster it was decided that the full board of di- rectors would go before the meeting of the city commissioners and ask that an election be called for a bond is- sue for the erection of a municipal wharf. Judge Foster told at the meet ing of the directors of the work Of the committee on the armor plant and told of the voluminous work that had accumulated on him as the chair man. On motion he was granted a secretary and Clifton Penicle was ap- pointed to the place. Judge Foster ex- poets to have a meeting of the gem eral committee in the near future. when the plan of entertainment will be arranged. He expects to have the re- ports of the subcommittee in a short time and will then arrange the brief for the presentation to the visiting board.
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WILL MAKE FIGHT
 ON TUBERCULOSIS
The Tuscaloosa Board of Trade Favors Municipal
 Slaughter Plant

Tuscaloosa, December s0.-(SpecialO The board of directors of the Board of Trade of Tuscaloosa has gone on record as favoring a municipal siaugh- ter pen and pasteurizing plant in Tuscaloosa as steps needed to secure the cooperation of the United States government in the effort to rid Tus- caIoosa and Tuscaloosa county of tu- berculosis. The directors met at the call of President Frank G. Blair and eight were present. Dr. George Searcy, pr. Battle Searcy, Dr. D. W. Ward and Dr. J. J. Durrett of the city and coun- ty health department. with Mir. Allen. hia assistant were present. Dr. Dur rett addressed the board and told of his recent trip to Washington and Of what the government would do if the Board of Trade and the city and coun- ty officials co-operated in an effort to rid this section of tuberculosis. 9th CTS present made talks along the same line and Judge Foster introduced 4 resolution which was seconded by Judge Harwood, and it was adopted unanimously
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
GALLSTOr1ES

olL)-Resus Tear this out. mail it to me with your address for health and happiness.
 L. E. Bowers. Dept. D-i 2I9 S. Dearborn St.. Chicago
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-21
IN AND OUT OF TOWN.

Misses Isabel and Elisabeth Scott left
yesterday for Gainesville. Md. where
khey Will attend school this session.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Pinder spent
the weekend ut Inverness" the beau
kiful country place OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Barton II. Cameron, near GordonsvilIe.
Mrs. William Patterson, Of JVayncs-
boro. Is visiting her sister. Mrs. ]. r.
Nickel, at Ginter Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Trevillian and
|,heir daughter. Frances. of Ashland.
spent n short time this week with Mrs.
walter Andrews. In Richmond.
Mrs. J. E. Barrett and her grandson,
of Portsmouth, are spending two weeks
I'm. this city.
Mrs. c. L. Boudar and Miss Ethel
Boudar. OF Richmond. have returned
from a visit to Mrs. l.. T.. Hartsook, OF
Ashland.
Misses Alice and Emma Nether1and
are leaving to-day for Old Point.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-21
COULD SCARCELY
walk AT ALL
For One and One-Half Years
Confined to Bed Most of
This Unrestricted
Intense Pain.

Sheffield. Ala.-"About four years
ago." says Mrs. J. T. Stonecipher, OF
this town. Il got in very bad
health became irregular.
and was pretty bad off for year
and a half J. had difficulty
and pain in walking-could scarcely
walk ut all. l got, awfully thin and
was confined to my bed most Of the
time for 1 " years--could scarcely
ever do any work. l suffered dread
fully, and ! suffered intense pain in
the right side.
We had in attendance first DR..
-, of -, who pronounced my
trouble :, and no wanted me
to have an operation performed, but
| could not bear the thought Of sub
hitting to such thing. He
gave me medicine, which did me no
good. then had DR.. -, Of ,
who gave me medicine, which gave
me no permanent relief.
My neighbors said how bad off
was and advised me to take Cardui.
My husband was so worried
about me that he went and called in
DR.. -, of -, On his
second call l told him had
taken about q bottle OF Cardui,
which had been improving me
great deal. He said: Well,
leave off my medicine and take the
Cardui. It's good medicine After
the use Of the second bottle I was
cured and the cure was permanent"
Cardui should help you, too. Try
it.-Adyertisemcnt.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-21
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
OF RAILROADS A TRAGEDY
Nnnderiip Declares Exclusive Federal
Control Would Not Solve
Difficulties.
fRy AssncIni.lprn..1

fBy Associated Prcssl
WASHINGTON, October 2O.--Govern-
mcnt ownership Of railroads would be
IL tragedy. Frank a. Vanderlip, presi-
dent OF the National City Bank, OF
New York. told tho Society OF Railway
Financial Officers here to-day. He said
exclusive Federal control would not
solve railway difficulties, and that sell
hshncss of the public, stockholders.
wage carncrs and politicians is tho
chief trouble with the railroads.
I'VE have put on the railroads such
restrictions that investors arc no
longer giving the railroads the where
withal for capital to meet the demands
OK business said Mr.. Vanderlip. "If
we ever get into Il struggle in such u
condition we Will go under.
Hlcn have said to me since I came
into this room that we are tending
toward government ownership. If we
are. We are tending toward u national
tragedy do not know where we arc
going. but we arc going somewhere
that Is sure. because rail development
cannot stand still without u crash.
We heard something the other day
In Washington about the possibility of
enforced arbitration" he added, "and
1t was also said that a man cannot
.be subjected to involuntary scrvitude.
You cannot subject Il dollar to in
voluntary servitude either. There are
$1,000 miles of railroads now in the
hands of receivers. We ought to be
building 100000 freight cars II year.
but last year we only built $4,000"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-21

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