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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
REFRIGERATION OF PoRrHos

J- M V C' III the London Chronicle
 Dumas immortal Musketeers are no creatures of hiS imagination. They exist. They have been born again.
 Once I had the good fortune to see DArtagnan in one of his reincarna- tions
 Now have seen Porthos
 It was at railway station at the ''back of the front in France. where local line leaves the main railroad It leads very close to the firing lfne
 Porthos had come down from the trenches, and stood on the platform laughing in the sunlight He was tall and burly, a good humored giant. His face was 'tanned to ruddy brown tint and he had grown a big coal black beard above which, under bushy eye broWs, his eyes shone bright, and through which his white teeth gleamed He was not bespattered with mud. He was most literally p1astered with it. Beneath the white of it his red, baggy brooches glowed duly. His rifle was slung across his back and he rolled a cigarette with skillful fingers. He was talking With southern freedom of gesture in group of soldiers. They listened intently, and presently over their faces there stole smile. The smile broadened; they grinned; then they laughed loudly, and Porthos with his cigarette cooked at an inimitable angle and glowing like a coal against his black beard, stood contemplating them with a whimsical expression on h1111o o1 of those who enjoy war
 A young woman passed along the platform. She wore red flower in her black blouse. Porthos admired her. don't know whether he spoke to her first or she to him. I suspect him. They talked, and presently she plucked the flower from her waist and gave it to him. He twisted it in his fin gers by the stem and talked laugh ing1y to her. He looked deprecatingly at his muddy clothes. Then, with an inimitable air and gesture of Gallic gallantry, he refastened it whence she had taken it.
 I do not know what he had been in civil life. He might have been a bank manager, a stock broker, a pork butcher. draper, monk, but make no doubt, he had found his real voca- tion in war.
 A strange thing, the psychology of the born soldier.
 The train moved out of the station.
 The last glimpse I had of Porthos showed him swag ggering-it is the only word-down the platform, his short ened cigarette still glowing in his coal black beard. I swear if I had been near enough to him I should have heard him humming a lively tune
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
The Ford Peace Party

The most cheering utterances that have come from the Ford peace expedi- ton were contained in Jenkin Lloyd Jones' cablegram from Stockholm, in which the distinguished preacher told of we'll attended meeting and a growing interest in the peace movement" said John F. Fairborn of Philadelphia.
 'I had looked upon the Ford project just as MT. Roosevelt and others did as ridiculous. But I happen to know Dr. Jones and if he thinks anything is to be gained in the way of ending the war by the Ford excursion, I will say I was wrong and those who accompanied MT. Ford were right
 "The war will end some day and whenever peace is declared the Ford party may, after all. claim some credit for arousing interest in the peace move ment.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
Lynchings in 1915

The division of records and re- search of Tuskegee institute, which keeps an annual record of the lynch ings in the United States, reports 69 for the year just ended-17 more than in 1914, and more than double the number in 1913. But one of the lynch ings reported in Tuskegee's 1915 list was credited to Virginia, which is now given official denial. Virginia, like other states, had a number of legal executions, but no lynching. Thus the record for the United States is re- duced to 68, but the number is 6S too many.
 In the distressful days of the recon struction period and for many years following negro outrages on white women were so frequent as to arouse the men of every rural community to summary action. The brute guilty of criminal assault was nearly always apprehended and in almost every case was either hanged or burned by a mob. Prominent citizens were often apologists for the lynch court and for the work of vigilance committees whenever woman's honor was vio- lated.
 But those days have passed. Re volting outrages are far less frequent than they were fifteen or twenty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
Roosevelt ns n Condi,Iate

I've have been hearing that the re- publicans would nominate either Hughes or Roosevelt, but there is lit tie doubt now that the ex-President will head the ticket" said M. J. Stock ton of Pitts5urg.
 The tide has turned strongly to Roosevelt within the last two or three weeks. ] was in New York just before Christmas, and nearly everybody I met was willing to bet that the Chicago convention would be stampeded for the colonel Roosevelt as the republican candidate will suit me. voted for him in 1912 and will be glad to vote for him again in November"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
Roosevelt's Candidacy

Many of the national progressives have returned to the republican party, but there are enough of them stand ing together awaiting the action of the Chicago convention to be reckoned with by the republican leaders. Progressives who speak for Colonel Roosevelt have been making it plain i that there can be no reunited party unless the organization republicans agree to nominate candidate accept able to the colonel. It had been said that Hughes would be satisfactory to Roosevelt, but no one else seemed to be in that class; and as the time for the convention approaches progress sives stress the idea that the only man who could command the full progress sive vote would be Roosevelt himself. The colonel has been in a receptive mood ever since the last presidential election, and for months past he and his intimate associates have been lay ing plans quietly to bring about re- publican harmony with the colonel as the center of unity.
 Now the time has come when the loyal supporters of the Oyster Bay 
 statesman feel free to admit that it must be Roosevelt or nobody. George w. Perkins, chairman of the national progressive executive com- mittee, will give great dinner in Chicago next week on the eve of the committees meeting, and he is get ting everything ready for a tumultu- ous Roosevelt demonstration. In order to show that sentiment is crystallizing on the colonel for the republican nomination, he has re- leased for publication in the news papers a letter written to him by Charles Sumner Bird of Massachu- setts, who was the progressive candi- date for governor of the Bay State in 1912 and again in 1913.
 "We are largely anti-democratic," writes MT. Bird, land yet many of us will vote the democret'o 4ie1-o+ ~a+her nJ' can candidate or subscribe to nar- row, standpat platform" He says the time is at hand when the responsi- ble leaders of the progressive party should declare in no uncertain words
 what they propose to do in the forth coming campaign.
 MT. Bird discusses Associate Jus tice Hughes, and gives him credit for being Independent, efficient and courageous" but he virtually dis misses him as a presidential possi-
 bility, because many people believe "a supreme court justice should not
 step from the bench to political
 fight" Moreover, Hughes views on
 certain issues are unknown and,
 therefore, real progressives could not
 be expected to favor his nomination. MT. Bird then concludes his letter
 by lauding Roosevelt and uaying an
 eloquent tribute to his Americanism
 "He can not only unite the progress
 sives and republicans" declares MT.
 Bird, "but he will get many demo-
 crats who, under no conceivable con- dition, would follow any other repub-
 lican candidate. Theodore Roosevelt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
The State Bond Issue

If the state bond amendment should be defeated at the election to be held January IS it will be because of apathy on the part of those people who admit that an issuance of $1, 100000 in bonds would be the right way of meeting the financial situa- tion.
 The opponents of the bond propo- sition are bestirring themselves and very few who, for any cause, wish to see the measure fail of ratification will be missing from the polls.
 The bond amendment should carry by an overwhelming majority, and it will if the prominent men who are heartily committed to the proposition will only put their shoulders to the wheel.
 Some very active campaign work is needed and tll:s week should be a busy week with patriotic Alabamians who are jealous for the credit of the state.
 The amendment measure is entirely nonpolitical, an1 it is gratifying to see democrats, republicans, prohibi- tionists and ti-prohibitionists stand ing side-by-side in support of it.
 Let everybody who appreciates the importance of the bond issue vote and see to it that his neighbor votes. That will assure victory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
SIGNIFICANCE OF TRENCHES

From Harpers Weekly.
 The difficulty the Italians have had n taking Gorowitz seems to be due to the nature of the soil. It is so stony that trenches cannot be dug in it. The Ital- ians, therefore, are precluded from short advances. They have to make very long charges across the open. If there had been ordinary soil the place would have fallen long ago. The military lessons of this war are so many and so important that the world will be discussing them for centuries. The trench will play a far larger part in the story than probably anybody, even in Germany, dreamed in July, 1914.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
STRENGTH OF ELEPHANTS

From Farm and Firesioe.
 A horse is about as strong as five men and an elephant is as strong as eight horses. And while we admire American ingenuity, let us not forget that for centuries the elephant has been the important draft animal in India. The elephant is really the near est approach to living one-man farm tractor So the idea of concentrating horse power as is done by tractors is not so new after all. We've simply in vented docile mechanical elephant that can stand this climate. The OK, the mule, and. the horse have been faithful iaboring friends; but some how I feel that we need a mechanical servant too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
BOSTON AGAIN
m Youths Companion.

FTOIn 1IuIh COmpanlOn
 A New Yorker who recently re- turned from a visit to Boston youches for the truth of the following: One afternoon he found the 6-year-old son of his host settled in front of the drawing room fire with a sheet of pa per before him and a pencil clasped in his chubby fist. Stealing a look over the boys shoulder, he saw that the little fellow was making pie lures.
 Well, Bobby he asked genially, "are you drawing an engine?"
 Slowly the child looked up and slow ly he spoke:
 Tt would take a very strong boy to draw an engine, but l am making a picture of locomotive"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
THE WORLD VOICE

Bliss Carman, in Harper's Weekly. l heard the summer sea
 Murmuring to the shore Some endless story of a wrong
 The whole world must deplore. I heard the mountain wind
 Conversing with the trees Of an old sorrow of the hills, Mysterious as the sea S. And all that haunted day
 It seemed that I could hear The echo of an ancient speech Ring in my listening ear. And then it came to me
 That all that had heard Was my own heart in the sea vc And the winds lonely word
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
P. T. BARNUM,s ESTATE

New York Correspondence in Cincinnati
 Times-Star
 For the first time since the death of Phineas T. Barnum, in 1891, court procedure, this week. has shown the value of the estate which that famous snowman accumulated in-this was his own frank admission-humbligg a
 willing and gratifed public. It became
 necessary for the trustees of the es- tate to file an accounting in the sur- rogate court because of the fact that an accurate appraisal had to be made of a ninth interest in a ninth share
 of the estate which interest had been
 sold by Herbert Barnum Seeley of
 "Seeley dinner" fame, to a Miss Mildred qdeathed the interest which she had
 bought from MT. Seeley to her heirs. The accounting, filed after due pro- cess of law, fixed the value of this fractional interest in the snowman S estate at $3741. Barnum's will provided that his wife should be paid an in- come of $40,00O a year for life. This was the first charge upon the estate. The widow is now the Baroness Nancy Barnum d'Alexandrey Orengian and is living in Paris She is now 70 years
 old. The total value of the estate is now $1,222, ,463. Of this amount, $1,2O4,- 900 has been segregated so that the in- come may provide for the payment of $40,000 a year to the aged baroness At her death the estate will be divided among some 90 heirs at law,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
Mississippi's Dairy Trade

According to my taste, the choicest butter that comes to the Birmingham market is from Mississippi" said Maj. Carl Seals, the produce broker.
 Il can remember when the dairy busi- ness in our sister state was practically unknown but now this industry along the Illinois Central railroad in Mississippi has been developed on a large scale. am told that it is very profitable. Ala bama should have kept up with Missis- sippi in butter making"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
AN ADDED GRIEVANCE.

within an inch of running me down.
 "Oh, we'll You must remember that miss is as good as mile."
 Not in this case The shock to my nervous system is something to com sider"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
HARD TO RELIEVE

From the Houston Post
 A chlcago paper says Pullman por- ter on the run between that town and Pittsburg refuses to accept tips Our opinion is that newspapers ought not to be so indifferent to their reputa- ton for veracity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
AN EXTREME VIEW.

"Dubwaite. the pacifist, says man never arms himself unless he wants to fight.
 ''Nonsense person may arm him self merely for self defense"
 "Dubwaite can't see it that way He contends that a pistol in the pocket means a chip on the shoulder"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
MIGHT PASS THE TIME

From tine Louisville Courier Journal
 The dispatches report that Elsa Dybwad, a Christiania opera singer, has joined the Ford aggregation. Is there any reason now why the troupe should not go ahead and actually do something in the way of comic opera :?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
DISCOURAGING.

q dare say you do your best to make other people happy" said the altruist.
 "Oh, yes" answered the man with a sloring brow. But I don't believe my efforts are appreciated"
 "Why do you think that?"
 Every time I start to tell funny story some fellow bobs up and says he's heard it before"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

Fairhope Courier: It appears that while the people of the state were be- ing appealed to to give the people of Birmingham the power to increase their general property tax, the voters of Bir- mingham themselves voted against the proposition about two to one This re- markable circumstance permits some interesting conclusions In the first place it shows how averse the people are to every proposition for increased taxation. They want all sorts of expen- dltures in their behalf, but when it comes to paying they rebel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
HOTEL LOBBIES
EnSIey's Progress

Ensley is exceptionally prosperous this winter and conditions are all favorable to a continuance of prosperity through out the year" said H. J. Kribs.
 The pay rolls have been increasing rapidly since early in the fall, and now money is circulating very freely The en- tire district is better off today than it has been in several years pastn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
A CINCH.

"So you are going to run for Con- gress?'
 SYes. have an idea that I can be elected"
 "All candidates think that"
 Perhaps so, but the idea was sug- gested to me by the political boss of my district"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
BEGINNING THE DAY-Help me,

BEGINNING THE DAY-Help me- 0 my God, to write myself in some thing more enduring than mere stone. May my life grave ifseii M the hearts of men, when Thou shait enable me to love and 10 he'P' Grant me to leave behind me monument of good deeds and gehtie thoughts. In Christs name. Ameh' III. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
A BACKWARD COMMUNITY.

Don't you hate to see your town disfgured by billboards on which are pasted all sorts of advertisements" asked the esthetic visitor.
 q don't know whether I do or not. answered the citizen "A billboard is at least more attractive than va cant lot overgrown with weeds, and nobody about here ever cuts weeds"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
Wilcox Progressive Era. ,rhn tn.

Wilcox Progressive Era: The teachers of the state are not the only ones who have failed to receive the monthly stipend from the state We happen to know of a sheriff who has looked and longed" all the year for some reward for his services, but nothing doing so far but big batch of warrants
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
OVERLOOKING A GOOD THING

From the Washington Star.
 The English workman who balks on intuition making is not satisfied with comparatively comfortable inside job while his fellow oountrymen are fighting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

Joe Murphy, the actor, who died re- gently at the age of 67 years, leaving a fortune of over S3,0OO,OOO, was a unique figure in the theatrical world When boy lie left his home in Brooklyn and ran away to join the forty miners" in their rush for gold in the far west He worked his way across the continent as a driver of caravans and later found employment as a boatman on the Sacramento river. The lure of the stage soon claimed him and after a career of more than half century on the boards he died in modest apartments in the Herald Square hotel. He was reputed to have been the richest actor in America His savings were in vested in savings banks scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. He had mania for hoarding money and never wasted a penny. His dying request was to have an inexpensive funeral. He also asked that the "bones" which he used during his first engagement with Dick Hooley's minstrels in 1S49 be placed in his coffin. Murphy played with Hooleys min- trels for 20 years. He came east and ap- peared in an Irish play called "Help," at the Bowery theatre. His first big success was in Kerry Cow" in which he ap- peared all over the United States. The next Irish play made famous by him was "Shuan Rhue,' which he acted continu ously from 1880 to about seven years ago. It is said that Murphy was more widely known, both in and out of his profession, than any other actor on the American stage. Although noted for his thrift, he was generous to his friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

However, the Greek King will not have to apologize for calling in German doctors to treat him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

'I have work to do" says MT. Bryan. who talks like the leading man in a problem play.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
MEGALOMANIA.

Senator Guffby seems to have a very good opinion of his powers as a statesman" y I've noticed that" Every time he boards the train for Washington he acts as if he were making history"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

It is gratifying to note that a few lovers of literature are not too much absorbed in following the war to wrangle over the merits of their favorite authors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

One thing is certain. As long as Henry Ford continues to put up the money, there will be some sort of peace crusade going on in Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
Business Indications

q was very much interested in the many different interviews which ap peared in Saturdays Age Herald quot ing the business men on the improved conditions during the holiday season of 1915 as against the holiday season of 1914 and predicting a still better business for 1916" said F. s. Dunlap, president of taxicab company. "Our business during the recent holidays was at least 35 per cent better than during the same season year ago."
 Present indications are that busi- ness for the year of 1916 will outstrip all previous records. The people in this city have an entirely different view of the times now as compared with year ago when they were in- clined to be pessimists. With the in dustries of the district running at full capacity and nearly everybody with good job there is no reason for any one to complain about business We are going to see more good times in this district< this year than ever be- fore in the history of Birmingham, and the merchants are ready for the rush which has already started"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
NONE WHATEVER

From the Nashville Banner.
 Because a man happens to be "hlgher up" is no sign that he isn't mighty low down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

The moralists are still shaking their heads over the New Year celebrations in New York and Chicago
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

Germany has no time to waste on the peace party. Probably because the dele gates are unable to offer terms that would
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

The experts say the war will end in the spring. That's what they said last year. They should be more explicit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

Villa may not know when he's beaten but he'll know it if he ever falls into the clutches of Carranza
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

Mobile Register: Americans at home are not going to quarrel with Germany Tor demanding to know of Americans abroad what's their business. It is the same question we are asking of Ger mans who happen to be in this coun- try.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

The Presidents sojourn at Hot Springs, Va, has doubtless improved the hotel business there considerably.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

If there were no such thing as sub- marine, Washington would have lost no sleep over the war in Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

Why should the Georgians waste time hunting possums when the more excit- ing sport of man hunting invites them to the chase?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

Being small power, Greece has per force learned the difficult lesson of pro- testing politely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

Peace in the baseball world means that there will be marked curtailment in the fancy salaries formerly paid. New price
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
ALABAMA PRESS

Decaturs Daily: Twelve arrests for drunkenness in New Decatur last year rather indicates prosperity for the wa ter wagon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

The Russians are showing a disposition to 'come back" However, they still have considerable distance to cover
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

ten their sonnets about the first bluebird of 1916.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

An Indiana man who lost his mustache is trying to collect $60O from an insurance company. It may be possible to spend $500 raising a mustache, but once grown, it isn't worth 30 cents
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

It is still possible for a pretty woman to shoot her long g-suffering husband and be acquitted by a sympathetic jury The homey husband killers have to wait longer, but in the end they are acquitted, tOo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

Demopolis Times: Some are born un- der home rule, some achieve home rule, but Birmingham had g. narrow escape from having home rule thrust upon her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

L. D. Griffis and w. D. Brumbeloe are the only authorized traVeIlng repre- sentatives of The Age. Herald III it's cir culation department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

Billy Sunday is being criticized for leasing handsome residence in Baltimore to occupy while he's cleaning up'' the city. As a matter of fact, the house was evangelist is needed in their midst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
IMMuNE.

I dote on the rules for long living
 And read every one that l see; Then lift up a song of thanksgiving
 That they are not needed by me.