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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-16
MIR. AND MRS. s. A. FOWLKES


 l desire to return my deep thanks to all the citizens of Selma for a week of great pleasure, yet I feel that it is due to myself to acknowledge that I am the more deeply indebted to Hon. S. A. Fowlkes and his most estimable wife, for the greater part of the happiness and pleasure that I enjoyed while attending the reunion. It is ''the truth and nothing but the truth" when I say that their hearty welcome and careful attention to my every want while I was guest at their palatial home was all that the ! heart could desire.
 MT. FowlSes was a member of the leg islature of 1911 from Dallas county. If his father was not old enough to enlist in the Confederate army, it goes with out saving that my friend was not, until years after the close of the war, known to the commercial or political world. He is one of the rising young business men of Selma, and one of her most esteemed and popular citizens.
 While he was not Confederate sol- dier, he has a devoted attachment for the cause, and a sincere veneration and love for the heroes who fought under the flax of Dixie. While his wife, being a daughter of Col. Tom Carter of Merid- ian, Miss, loves the cause and the sol- diers with the same true southern de- votion.
 His uncle, A. M. Fowlkes, was a gal lant soldier, and brave officer, being the major of the Fourth Alabama regiment. Another uncle, F. T. Fowlkes, equally bray eand valiant was a corporal in the same regiment. Another relative, Dr. B.. E. Cobb, was distinguished surgeon and heroic officer of Forests cavalry com mand
 I shall ever retain a warm place in my heart for them and their dear chill dren. The great kindness that I re- ceived from them cannot be erased from the memory. but on the contrary, the remembrance of it will grow brighter and fonder as the years roll on down the stream of time to mingle in the ocean of enternity. May God bless them and their children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-16

her situation. Their answer to everything ds, Look at our fleet England, with it's myriads of small shopkeepers, has not been touched as vet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-16
FEEDING A CRIPPLE

We leave here tomorrow night for Marseilles, taking the Memphis there. With boat of that name, I feel as if we are going on the Mississippi. It is a rough, long tri and I dread it. MT. Ban nard says goodbye to us there, and mine will be the responsibility of getting our seven trunks and nine hand packages to Servia. We've had with us today for luncheon and dinner a Servian officer and hero. His right hand is gone and his left arm is paralyzed. I've cut up all his food for him, and Madame Gronitch and 1 have fed him. He is so brave and so dignified. They are, indeed, a remark able people.
 We've been through the American am- bulance hospital and it is wonderful. They are doing magnificent clinical work and some marvellous experiments are sue cessfully attempted by surgeons and dent ists collaborating. Faces with jaws blown away are completely made over, and are not too repulsive to be borne
 This letter is hurried, and incoherent l have been compelled to snatch my mo- ments for writing. In leaving France, 1 feel like we are going into utter dark ness. But after we are started I will be all right"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-16
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 MEMPHIS, TENN.
A Private Sanatorium for the Treat ment of Drug AddictfOns, AlcO- hOlism, Nervous Diseases. To-
 bacco and Cigarettes

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 Address Chas. R. James SanatOrium Co.,, 935 s. Bellevue, Memphis, Tenn. Long Distance Telephone Cumberland
 Hemlock 1345.
 Home Treatments
 For Alcoholism, Tobacco Habits and Ner- vousness Are Furnished by JAMES HOME REMEDY COMPANY, Memphis. Tenn. Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-16

hero of the war. He enjoys the full con fidence, and great love of all Alabama Confederates and it was with much sadness that they learned from him that he would not be a candidatt to succeed himself.
 We were grieved because he could not serve us as commander of state camps, but we will be satisfied if our comrades of other states will join with us, when We meet in Birmingham next year and crown him as commander-in-ch chief of all l.. c. V. camps. Will you do it?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-16
THE "TEA DRINKERS

'In France. there is decidedly feel ing against the English. One hears that they must have their tea whether bat tie is on or not. Of course, this IS an exaeseratioi,, but when one considers that the country is at war. it does seem strange that all England should have week end holiday-such as that observed last week-a bank holiday All factories and shops in England were closed and every body rested from Saturday to Tuesday. There are said to be 36,0O0 men in Eng land ready to fight. but who on account of having no rifles, cannot fight. And yet all England took weekend holi- day.
 Here one can get only the long, rough bread A roll is not to be had-for all the bakers are at war. l couldn't get my purse mended because there are no 'ouvriers Nothing is as it was. The Ger mans are only 80 kilometres away, but be- tween them and Paris there are trenches upon trenches, invisible and difficult to take. France is ready for them, but I doubt if England is. Not until the Ger mans are on her shores will she realize
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-16
OPINION IN PARIS

'Here I hear that it is to be long war. and it appears that even the most sanguine accept that fact. Women ev- anywhere are doing mans work-on the trains, in ticket offices and as mes sengers. One wonders what has become of that huge class of wretched women who once lived on mems vanity and emotions. There is no evidence of them now Perhaps more good will come from all this wretched misery than we think.
 One thing that made my face flush and blood boil were the posters in London urging men to enlist. posters which declared that no other avenue is open if you would preserve your patriotism and your honor.' You are urged with the silliest sort of invita- tions to come and fight for your coun- try or else be considered a slacker Anything with a spark of manhood would resent such urging. Here. of course, there is none of that. Conscrip- tion is dignified in comparison with such methods.
 "When T realize that just 40 miles away there is fighting I feel that aft CT so long we are getting close to it all In London one realizes in a way there is war; or rather the unusual hustle and the sight of many men in uniform eXcites one-but there Is not that deep sense of horror and sadness that one experiences here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-16
For Tailored Suits That Were S2O, S25 &
 S2S.5O. A Group of

This Seasons Best Models and Good ColorS
 Saks S2O to S285O Suits-and now when we tell you to take them for S1250 for pick of any that remain on our racks, it's bargain treat that is seldom given. In the group are sufficient sizes and models to choose from. That makes it well worth your coming here tomorrow to buy. They can be worn well into the spring, so you can count on great service in any suit from this line
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-16
IN THE ACROPOLIS

"T was taken to the Acropolis by a young archaeologist from the Amer ican School of Archaeology. Will you tell Helen for me that unless she wishes to spend all her mature years blushing with shame at the mention of a classical reference she must study now. Tell her, after a morning spent in Acropolis, steeped in the beauty of it's lines and contours, but sadly ig- norant of its splendid part, that I beg her on pended knee to drink deep of knowledge and culture-the only things that last! Beauty fades, charm withers, and youth flies, but mind well stored and disciplined is joy for ever Tell her that's a message her Aunt Betsy sends her straight from the Acropolis where the beauty of the an- cient Creeks building filled me with infinite sadness and regret at my ig- norance of their life and art. I won't try to describe it. The color the state ly beauty of its columns, the majestic grandeur of this Grecian ruin, the silence of the ages about it, stirs and prompts something nobler than speech A great we'll of longing for knowledge and culture rose up in me and I could have wept aloud over the wasted years which stared me in the face
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-16
POLITICS OF GREECE


 "We take a boat Monday to Salonique In "A hours after we arrive, we will be in Trieste. We've been quite gay here and we were gay in Paris. It Is perhaps a bad preparative for the work which lies ahead of me, but Ma dame Gronitch says thaot I might as well enjoy this period, for it is to be the last of my 'playtime.' We were gay in Paris in our own little party, as Paris itself, was too sad for words Because it is neutral country, Greece is different. However, politics here are dreadfully exciting.
 "Venizelos has been asked to take charge again and one does not know what will happen. The King and Queen are pro-German, but the people are back of Venizelos. Many Greeks be- lieve that Germany will win. and feel strongly that Englands policy in the Dardanelles has been stupid and slow. Certainly things there are not as they should be. How interesting is Balkan politics!
 THE GUARDS DRESS
 You would adore the Kings guard. The soldiers wear uniform like the kilt of the highlander, only it is pure white and as full as the skirt of a ballet dancer. Beneath this are legs encased in flesh colored tights and the most impudent scarlet shoes turned up at the toes lik )those of the Turks. There is a shoff blue Zouave jacket marvelously embroidered in silver, and a scarlet cap fitting close to the head with huge, black tassel falling like plume to the shoulder.
 "We dined last night with a Greek family, intimate friends of Madame Gronitch. There were 15 at table. The women were so lovely and the men so distinguished, and they were so cour- teous and sweet to me, that it was a joy. Their hospitality, their manners, everything reminded me so forcibly of the south. The women here are all very smart and pretty and are more like Americans than any other for eigners are."
 Miss Shelly concludes in the conven- tional American manner and prepares to go into the blood of Servia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-16
WRITES LETTER FROM ATHENS

To think that I'm actually on the sacred soil of Greece! That I, who played in the hills of Alabama and adored Shelby with the beauty of ages"
 With that sentence, Miss Shelly the gallant nurse which Alabama has con- tributed to Servia, and who suffered ter rlble experiences at Rolya, five kilome- ters to the rear of where the German guns thundered begins letter dated Ho- tel Grande- -Bretagne. Athens, August 19 to friend in Washington.
 From Athens she wrote more of the grandeur that was Greece than of the war into which she was about to plunge. But her descriptions of the people, her critical references to the stupidity of the English" and her manner in touching on the differences Which existed between the Greek King and his minister, are highly interest ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-16

it.
 lover everything lies the white
 misty dust and the only shade is the
 feathery pepper tree and the stately
 cypress. There are pillars and beautiful
 houses and quaint people in the streets crying, 'Sica, sica (which in our lam Guage is figs, figs) and driving their fruit-laden donkeys; and over every
 thing mingling with the misty dust, is the fragrance of flowers-jasmines and all the other flowers of our be- loved south. One pictures the ancient 1 Creek in all the beauty of this environ l ment, with his superb manhood and | physical strength and one longs to live | and love in Greece.
 eve lunched with a prince, dned with British minister, gone to i Greek garden party, listened to the thrilling story of local politics and | lost my heart. I met a real prince and
 he placed me on his right at table, and
 I don't know whether it was the beau l ty of his eyes or the golden service
 that dazzled me the more. At any rate, l came away quite befudd1ed and l filled with definite resentment be-
 cause I had not your lovely face on
 my wretched shoulders. I was present.
 ed to Prince Nicholas, one of the King S ] sons, but he looked so much like an 1 Englishman or a Dane that I, failing 1 to realize who he was, did not cour- l tesy-for which I was corrected.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-30
Some Newcomers.

Sponsors Of several newcomers to
the Stock Exchange trading list chose
an suspicious occasion yesterday for
introducing their favorites to the big
board. They were much more fortu-
nate than some others have been in
the recent past IN that they picked
q rising market on which TO launch the
new stocks. Cuba Cane Sugar issues
made an early debut on the board, 300
shares Of common opening at 604,
against a close on the curb the day
before Of 50. The preferred started
100 shares at %, unchanged. The
ticker abbrcviation is CHS. Another
graduate from the outside market was
Ajax Rubber common--ticker abbrevia-
ton JX-of which 100 shares went at
64l4. against a curb closing of CAS-.
Acme Tea preferred certificates sold
100 shares at 971s and the common 100
at 81. ACT is the ticker name OF the
new tea issues. Other new issues
listed. but in which there have as yet
been no dealings, are briggs Seabury,
Atlantic Gulf and West Indies, the Bar
rett Company, American Bank Note
and Worthington Pump and Machinery.
The transfer Of these issues from the
outside 20 inside market takes some
big actors from the curb.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-30
The Labor Problem.

This weeks issue Of "The Manufact-
urers' Record" contains an interesting
symposium Of the views of leading con-
tractors in the South and Southwest
in reply TO the question: as the supply
of labor ample for all contract work
in sight. or is II possible that there
will be a shortage of labor, with
probability of higher wages. as now
seen in the North" Letters received
bring out clearly that contract work
all over the South, out TO Texas and
Oklahoma is much more active han
for several years; that there Is a
tendency to a higher rate OF wages, and
mere and there is an indication Il a
scarcity Of labor. So great is the de-
mand for labor, skilled and unskilled,
throughout the North Atlantic and
Middle States and in the Lake region
that efforts are being made in many
cases to draw labor from the So -.
One New England concern having a
branch in North Carolina has been
sending a large number of negroes to
its New England plant to help meet
the demand.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-30
1O-POint Rise in Mexican
Petroleum SqueezeS
the Shorts.
THE MARKET TURNS
ON MEXICAN NEWS
Car and Foundry Report Dis
closes Improvement-Rail-
roads Economizing.
Most Of the excitement in Yesterdays

Most Of the excitement in yesterdays
stock market came at the opening
Nearly one-half of the days turnover
Of around $4,000 shares was done IN
the first hour. The sudden turn for the
better in the Mexican situation gave
the market its initial impetus, and the
shares most directly affected, the Next
can issues, led the way upward. Shorts
in Mexican Petroleum there seemed
to be quite few of them, too STAN
peded in a veritable bear panic. Two
groups of traders rushed and surged
around the Mexican "Pete" post on the
exchange floor those who waited 70
see how the stock would open and
those who couldn't wait. The ones who
couldn't wait and acted accordingly
were badly punished. One trader VINO
was in the scramble said that for fully
three or four minutes there was actu-
ally no Mexican Petroleum for sale,
while the air was full Of buying orders.
Finally some of the more courageous
traders got back nerve enough to sell
sufficient quantity of stock to satisfy
the demand Of the shorts. 1t was
fifteen minutes before the committee
called in to decide the opening an
nounced its findings 5000 shares at
100 to 1O1, up to 10 points-snd by
the time the transactions came out on
the ticker commission house traders
who were long of the stock tried TO
take quick profits, and pushed the stock
down to 95%i. Later in the day it raj
lied, to close at 977s, up SIS points.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-30
Lehigh Valley system is the latest to

recognize the need Of strict economy
in its fight against the ever climbing
cost of railroading and has sent a
letter to its employees showing plainly
the rise in railroad materials during
the past oar. Forty-one of the prln.
cipal articles have practically doubled
in price. Bitumnous coal is up 20
per cent from it's price OF last year,
packing waste up 1873 per cent, bar iron
1O4 per cent, boiler steel 16l per cent,
bar copper rs per cent, battery zinc
1O2 per cent, tie plates 100 per cent
and track spikes 100 per cent. The
letter says the road has not the power
TO increase the cost OF its service TO
insure the maintenance of fair profit
and the men are urged to eliminate
wastes and economic in the use of ma
terials by the practice Of efficiency
methods.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-30
Larger Cotton Acreage.

According to the final estimate OF
the Watkins bureau the country's acre
age PLANTED in cotton is 34,991,0OO
compared with 32,lO7 900 acres
last year, an increase OF per cent:
Condition of the crop as OF June -
is placed at 79.l per cent OF norma
compared with 7s.5 two weeks ago and
77.4 per cent last month. This COM
mares with 1914 at this date last year,
III in 1914, $50 in 1918, S2.5 in 1912
and the ten year average OF eo'z per
cent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-30
Guaranty Trust Wins First Prize

First prize has been awarded TO the
advertising exhibit OF the Guaranty
Trust Company at the meeting OF the
Financial Advertisers Association, IN
connection with the convention of the
Associated Advertising Clubs OF the
World. at Philadelphia. About forty
five institutions competed, and the
Judges were Arthur B. Sulli'an and
Thomas II. Warren, of y. W. Aver &
Son. advertising agents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-30
The Car and Foundry Report.

II the American Car and Foundry
Company's report for the year ended
April 30 last, issued yesterday, was
really the disappointment that many
followers of the stock market made IL
out to be, the reason was probably due
to the fact that the concerns war bust
ness had been grossly exaggerated IN
rumor, and that few persons had taken
the time or opportunity TO find out for
themselves just what the company had
beer doing The report showed profits
Of 81 $50, compared with S5,6l5,-
O54 in 1918, and balance available for
the common stock dividends of S7l6,-
0lS. against S230,93 the preceding
year, or 239 per cent on the S30,OOO,-
coo common, compared with or per
cent in 1915. A striking feature of the
balance sheet was the material on
hand" item, which stood at Sl4,947,-
700. against S4,974,0 900 in 1914. Car
and Foundry never did take on the big
war orders credited TO it in the un-
official news last fall. At one time Vt
was said 10 have S90,000,000 in orders
on its books. Actually. as President
Eaton said in October, the war orders
booked were less than $4,000 900, and d
rather modest estimate put out as re-
Gently as May set the figure at $1,000
GOO. This same estimate had earnings
for the year Of slightly more than 2
per cent, or just about what the report
itself disclosed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-30
Still Chance of Trouble.

After the first wild rush to buy
stocks the Street arrived at CO liner
and more reasonable view Of the Mexi-
can situation. The fact that Carranza
had acceded to the demands Of the
United States and had released the
troopers captured at Carrizal did not
mean that the difficulty had been en-
tirely settled, il was argued, and, look,
ing al it from this angle, the general
consensus of the conservative element
seemed 10 be that the speculative
traders had overdone things In their
scramble to cover. This was borne out
by the subsequent reaction after the
early upturn, although the rally late in
the afternoon suggested that the street
felt hopeful the danger Of war had
been removed for the time being at
least. United States Steel acted ex-
tremely we'll in the late dealings. II
had opened $4,000 shares At a spread Of
s5i5 to Sc, falling back around midday
to 50. In the last hour Steel rose
sharply, closing at S5s4, up ., and but
a under its early high.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-30
Can. North. Notes Sold Here.

william A. Read & Co.. il WAS
learned yesterday. have purchased an
issue Of 100000 Canadian Northern
Railway per cent notes, s3,OO0,00o OF
which will mature in one year and the
rest in three years from July 10. The
notes will be secured BY S9,000,000 first
mortgage bonds Of the company, Sc
cured botn as to principal and interest
b. the Dominion Of Canada or its
IroyIlclA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-30
GOVERNMENT BONDS.
ON THE CONSOLIDATED.

A rush to buy stocks at the opening
jumped prices on the Consolidated Ex-
change. Mexican Petroleum opened Mt
943s. and did not go above 90. Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining opened at 94@s
and its best was 94l2. United States
Steels initial common opening price
was $50. II reacted 20 s4A and later
to s57s. Mercantile Marine preferred
low was S9Iz
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-30

Roston Correspondent
Harris, Forbes g. Co.
First CContinuedD
Huntington, w. Va, 6s
Hyattsville. Md, Sewerage IS
Idaho Falls. Idaho, SIS
Interurban Railway Co. Deoen-
ture (Des Moines, la os
Iowa Falls, Iowa. Refundlng IS
Knoxville, Iowa, Judgment
Funding @1ss
Knoxville, Tenn, ST. 1mpvt. IS
Kossuth County. Iowa, Bridge
Lincoln County, Mont, Funding
5ias
Lincoln Tel. & Tel. Co. First
Mortgage SIS
Louisville Gas & Electric Co. os
Lynn Telephone & Telegraph
Co. First Mortgage IS
Manson, Iowa, 6s
Marshalltown. Iowa, Refdg. IS
Monmouth, H., Water Wks. SIS
Montreal Tramways Co. First &
Refunding IS
Morristown, Tenn, Water Wks.
Improvement IS
Mount Airy. N. C., Water Sup
ply, Electric Light & Power
Plant SIS
Moweaqua, H., School Building
Muskegon, Mich, Gen. Street
Improvement As
Muskegon, Mich. Refundg. AVS
Muskegon, Mich, Refunding SIS
Muskegon, Mich, Lake Michi-
gan Water Works as
Oklahoma Ry. First Mortgage SIS
Olympia, Wash. Water Wks. SIS
Owosso. Mich, Water Works SIS
Pendleton, Ore, Water Wks. SIS
Pierson, Iowa, School Dist. S.
Plum Bayou, Ark. Levee Dis. IS
Pontiac Township, Ill, School
District, High School Building
Portland Gen. Electric Co., Port
land, Ore. lst Mort. Gold SIS
Redwood Falls, Mimi, Refdg. SIS
Riverside, H., School Dist. No.
s, 4ias
Riverside, Ill, Water Wks. 4iss
Rochester, NH, State Highway
Is
Rosebud County, Mont, Bridge
4iss
St. Joseph, Mich, Bridge AIS
Scranton Elcc. Co., Scranton,
Pa. lst & Refdg. Mtg. Gold SIS
Sedalia, Mo, Sciool District,
School Building As
Sheridan County, Mont, Fund
ing s1as
Southern California Edison Co.
Refunding IS
Sparta, Ga, School Building IS
Spartansburg County, S. C.,
County Refunding AIS
Sumter, S. c., Sewerage SIS
Tacoma Eastern Railroad Co.
(Wash.) First Mort. Gold IS
Taylorville, ILL.,. Township High
School District AIS
Upton County, Tenn, School IS
Tullahoma, Tenn. FL. Lgt. 4ias
Tullshoma, Tenn. Wat. & Lgt SIS
Tullahoma, Tenn. Wa. Wks. AIS
Valley County, Mont. AS
Watchcmocket, R. l., Fire Dept.
Weldon. N. C..Water & Sewer 6s
West Hoboken, ~ J.. Fdg. SIS
West Hoboken. Nj, School ASS
White Plains, N. Y, School Dis
trict No. !. 5ias
Winnetka. H.. Park District IS
Woodlawn. Ala, Refunding IS
Y.M.CA. College LIST Mortgage
6s
Armour, South Oak. Independ-
ent School District. School
Building SIS
Florence, Col, Water Works Re
funding IS
Garrard County, KY, Turnpike
Road IS
Lewistown. Mont. Water SIS
Temple, Tex, Public Independ-
ent School Series No. 4, IS
Fifteenth
Jackson, Mich, Paving, Water 4
Sewer 412s
Mount Pleasant, Mich, Water
Refunding 4las
Redheld, South Oak, School
Building IS
Sedalia, Mo, School Dist. Fdg.4s