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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27
Fourteen Year-Old Girl
of Gadsden Is Heroine

Gadsden, July 26.-(Special Mayo
W. G. Bellenger and the Chamber of
Commerce will join Gadsden newspa-
pers in asking for the 1917 meeting
of the Alabama Press association, when
it convenes in Birmingham Thursday
and Friday. The association has not
met here in 10 years
Miss Elsie Mahaffey, IA years old, of
Montevallo, proved herself heroine
today when she rescued from drown
ing Miss Rosemary Stevenson. The two
were members of a party swimming
near Noccalula Falls. Miss Stevenson
was carried into a swift part of the
current and could not regain shore She
battlcd for about 10 minutes against
tho current and went under four times.
She then grasped an overhanging limb
until Miss Mahaffey reacher her The
latter was almost drowned in her act
The river steamboat Alabama VIII
be held up for 80 or so days because
of an accident at the lock eight miles
from, Rome The big. steel lock gate
during the recent high water fell inf1
the river, and it will require sometime
to replace it,
Seventh district republicans are
elated over the prospects. they say, and
believe that Judge I. H. Davidson of
Oneonta, congressional nominee, will
make strong race.
Secretary Earl Lay of the Chamber
OF Commerce has returned from the
meeting of the Alabama jackson High
way association, where he was named
third vice president He is optimistic
over the chances for the selection OF
the Gadsden- Huntsville route from
Nashville to Birmingham.
Organization of the new country club
will be completed the latter part of the
week. Eighty-nine thus far have en-
rolled as members. Six available sites
are under discussion and the location
will be selected by majority vote of
members.
Freight car No. of the Alabama
City, Gadsden and Alfalfa Railway
company was knocked off the track
this morning at the Ninth street cross
ing of the Louisville and Nashville by
cut of cars. Traffic on the line was
blocked for sometime and passengers
on the car line were transferred.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27
HEAVY RAINS CAUSE
LIGHT TROUBLES

A great many complaints have been
received with reference to street lights
not burning. Upon inquiry at the office
of the light company, the light inspector
was informed that owing to the heavy
rains the company had experienced some
difficulty in keeping the lights burning
Sometimes the trouble was caused by
break downs at Lock u, and sometimes
caused by breakdowns at the local dis
tribution plant. The company also says
that the water on the leaves of trees
keeps the limbs hanging low, and that in
this way they come in contact with the
wires and put them out of commission
Commissioner Weatherly will be glad to
have reports of lights not burning as
promptly as possible, as the light inspec-
tor is not able to cover the whole town
every night, and the sooner reported, the
sooner the lights will be repaired If
citizens wish to report lights out at night,
they may call Commissioner Weatherly at
his residence, or at his office during the
day
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27
GOVERNOR ISSUES
PROCLAMATION TO
PEOPLE OF STATE

the state form relief COMMITTEES in their
respective counties who will call upon
the citizens to contribute to the needs
of those who have been SO heavily
stricken.
For the purpose of giving prompt
life and activity to this work, l here
by designate and appoint John w. Durr
of Montgomery as chairman of the re-
lief association, with Gen. W. c. Hooper
of Selma as treasurer, the probate
judges of the different counties should
start their work without delay and re-
port progress to the chairman, and have
their respective associations in the diff
ferent localities to make remittances
as contributions are collected direct to
the treasurer at Selma.
I'm testimony weherof, have here
unto set my hand and caused the great
seal of the state to be affixed at Mont
gomery. this the 26th day of July, in the
year of our Lord, 1916"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27
CITY ORDINANCES

curbs on both sides thereof from the
south properly line of Clairmont ave-
nue. to the end of the present brick
paving on Forty-second street, near the
north line of Eleventh avenue, south,
be, and the same are, hereby fixed and
established as shown on profile sheet
No 256 heretofore exhibited to this
board and now on file in the city hall
in the office of the city engineer.
Approved July 26. 1915.
GEORGE B. WARD.
President Board of Commissioners.
A true copy:
C. B. LLOYD. City Clerk.
Age-Herald, July 81, 1916.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27
FEW MATCHES PLAYED
in TENNIS TOURNEY

Augusta, Ca, July 26.-Few matches
were played here today in the South At
lantic tennis tournament because OF
heavy rains this morning, and in the con-
tests that did take place there were nc
upturns in FORM
p. H. Winston of Asheville N. c., con-
sidered one of the most formidable OF
the contestants, easily won. his singles
match. while j. C. Harper of Augusta
beat Kenneth Merry of Augusta. winner
Of the Georgia Tech tournament this
year. The Harper-Merr match required
three sets for decision.
Today's matches were in the second
and third rounds of singles, and the nrst
rounds Of the mems doubles. Play in
the womens singles was not started.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27

Headquarters of the German Armies on
the Somne, July 24.-(Via Berlin, July rs,
to London, July 27)-The great allied Of
fensive has not awaited to check the rich
harvest of the fertile lands in the occu-
pied French provinces. The German SOL
der has planted the fields right up to
the line of trenches, and not the least
striking impression of the long automo-
bile tour made by the Associated Press
correspondent on the front of Picardy and
Isle De France was the sight of army
soldier-h arvesters swinging cradles in
broad fields of ripened rye, loading
stacked sheaves into wagons and feeding
the threshing machines in utter disre-
gard for the great battle raging almost
within rifle shot. Sometimes within actual
range soldiers in some instances reaped
the crop under the fire of their enemy.
The crack guard regiment gathered a
crop of hay from a field so close to the
French that the grass could only be cut
at night and carried back to vacant fields
where 1t could be spread and cured.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27

great advantage in procuring federal aid
and thus further supplement the state
aid it already renders the counties, and
materially assist in bringing about a
great system of road construction in the
state
1.-The rights of the states are properly
protected and guarded, since each state
selects the roads to be improved, deter.
mines the character and extent of the
construction, and through it's own agen-
cies expends both state and federal funds
under the careful scrutiny of govern
ment engineers"
Washington, July 26.-The 10 southern
states will receive a total Of 81, 43S,059 Of
the IS, 900, 900 federal road fund made avail
able for this fiscal year under the new
federal aid road act approved this month.
The department of agriculture announce
ment today showed that Texas received
the largest allotment of any state in the
union. The appointments to the south
ern states follow: Texas, 1921, 1927; Geor-
gia, $134 329; Oklahoma, $115,139 North
Carolina, S114,3s1; Tennessee. $114,153; Ala
bama, s1O4,14S; Virginia, 500, $50; Kentucky,
s97 Al; Mississippi, sss,so5; Arkansas, $s2,-
$50; South Carolina, $71,S07; Louisiana,
SCI 474; Florida, S55,976.
These funds are made available con-
tingent upon the states spending an equal
amount on road construction, and are
apportioned on a basis of one-third in the
ratio of area, one-third in the ratio of
population and one-third in the ratio of
mileage of rural delivery routes and star
routes.
Under the federal act total of SIS, 900 900
for the improvement of state ROADS is
made available during the next five years,
the appropriat ton for 1918 being $40 900, 900;
for 1919 s15,O0O,0oO; for 1920, s2O,O0O0O0, and
for 1921, $25,000,00O AS the states must
supply an equal amount each year. a
total of $3.50, 100000 will be spent on state
roads during the five-year period. Flu
ture appointments of the federal fund
among the states will be made on the
sauna ha sis as that of this wears FIND
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27
To Discuss Irish Motion

London, July 26.-Premier Asquith an
nounced in the House of Commons to-
day that he would give over next Monday
for the discussion of the motion on Ire
land, to be moved by John Dillon, nation
alist. The motion follows: In view OF
the announcement of the government
that they do not intend to produce the
long promised bill to settle the govern
nent of Ireland it is vitality necessary
and urgent that the government should
Immediately disclose plans for the future
government of Ireland during the contin-
uance of the war"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27

Paris, July 26-President Poincare at
Elysee palace today expressed to Ameri-
can Ambassador Sharp his deep appre-
citation for the aid being extended by
the children of the United States to those
made orphans by the war in France.
While saying that the American people
had been most generous to France in
many ways during the war. the President
declared that the direction which this
particular aid took was one that strongly
appealed to him. Upward of 100000
francs have been sent from the United
States to help the orphans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27

Mobile, July 26.-The Mobile and Gulf
Navigation company will begin operation
of a line of steamers between here and
Cuba by September l. according to word
received here from p. E. Chalifoux of
Birmingham, president of the company.
Later on he said the company will OPP
crate to Central and South America and
the West Indies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27
CITY ORDINANCES
Grade Ordinance No. 241-C

An ordinance fixing and establishing
the grade of FOrty-second street,
south formerly Cliff RoasD, and the
curbs ON both sides thereof. frOis. the
south property line of Clalrnont
avenue to the end Of the present
brick paving ON F0rty-seecnd street,
near the north line of Eleventh ave-
nue., south (fbrmerly Avondale
street,.
Be it ordained by the commission OF
the city OF Birmingham that the grade
OF Forty-second street, south, and the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27
T. C. /. League Standing
MANUFACTURING DIVISION.
Played. Won
MINING DIVISION
international League

At Baltimore: Baltimore 2. New
ark IL.
At Richmond: Richmond /, Provi-
dence 8.
At Toronto: Toronto 2, Montreal 2.
IL innings; darkness).
At Rochester: Rochester sc. Buff
falo 5-3.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27
TEXAS LEAGUE

At Fort Worth Fort Worth /, San
Antonio 1.
At Shreveport: Shreveport "A. Gal
weston l3-7.
Atwaco: Waco 8, Houston 8.
| At Dallas: Dallas-Beaumont, rain.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27
CAROLINA LEAGUE

At Greensboro: Greensboro 8. Dur
ham /.
At Raleigh: Raleigh 2, Charlotte 6.
At Winston Salem: Winston-Salem-
Asheville game postponed, account of
failure of Asheville team to arrive.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

WANTED-Situation as shipping clerk
or similar employment; willing to try
any honest job, and give the best that
is in me. z-5s, care Age-Herald.
7-27-2t
as housekeeper for family of three; a
good home. Apply, Housekeeper, care
Age-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27
American Association

At Milwaukee: Milwaukee S, Mime
apolis 1.
At Louisville: Louisville g. Colum.
bus 5.
At Toledo: Toledo 4, Indianapolis IL.
At Kansas City: Kansas City z, St
Paul @.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27
South Atlantic League

At Charleston: Charleston 49, Augusta
10 M
At Columbia: Columbia s. Jackson
Vile /.
At Columbus: Columbus g. Macon 5.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27
POLICE NOTES

Claude o. Brown of North Birmingham
was lodged in the county Jail yesterday
afternoon by Deputies Smith and McDuff
on charge of incest. The charge was
preferred by the prisoners wife, Mrs. Lii
lie Brown.
The Butler Garrett Real Estate and In
surance company reported to the police
department last night the theft of five
passenger Ford automobile, which was
standing in front of the Lyric theatre,
At an early hour this morning the auto
mobile had not been recovered.
Detective Street returned to Birming-
ham last night at o'clock with Erus
Ivory, negro, who was arrested at Eutaw
Tuesday night as suspect in connection
with the criminal assault of Macy Baird
aged years. Sunday morning near the
Elmwood cemetery. This negro fills the
description of the men wanted He adj
mitted being in Birmingham Saturday
night and Sunday morning. He stated to
Detective Street that he left Birmingham
Sunday at noon. He will be carried before
the Baird child today to see if she can
identity him as her assailant.
Detective H. w. Fuller left yesterday
for Wetumpka for another negro who was
arrested there as suspect in the assault.
Mr.. Fuller will return today with his
prisoner.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27
DEUTSCHLAND READY
FOR ATTEMPT BRAVE
DASH ACROSS OCEAN
CONTINUED from Page one)

Ardgyfe, took turns at using severa
pairs of marine glasses At dark they
were still watching the submarine.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27

C. B. LLOYD, City Clerk.
'Age-Herald. July 27-August 8, 1916.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27

G. B. LLOYD, city Clerk.
Age-Herald, July 81, 1916.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-08-25
NEW YORK IN THE TROPICs7
Gulf etream Some Day May Warm
the Icy Waters of the
North.

Some day the Gulf stream may
smash back the icy waters Of the Lab
rador drift and make New York as
warm as European and Asiatic cities
of the same latitude. 1t may even
come to pass, as Father Odenbach OF
Cleveland suggests. that. these parts
will be tropical. True, the Jesuit sci
enlist reassures us by saying that a
great swerving of the Gulf stream is
improbable, but even the slim possi-
bility fills the Imagination with exotic
pictures. Orange groves in northern
New Jersey, coffee plantations in place
of Suffolk county cabbage patches,
rubber forests in Connecticut, alliga-
tors devouring canal-boat captains in
Newton creek and anacondas asleep
In Westchester jungles-it would all
be worth while living to see.
But the time is not yet. This
months heat is only natural. And in
August, when a seeming simeon comes
upon US, do not misjudge the Gull
stream. The hot air will be from the
great wind stream that rises in the
campaign textbooks and flows until 6
Monday evening in November, the New
York Sun observes.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-08-25
PLANTS THAT GROW IN SANDY
SOIL

Good plants for sandy soil are ver-
benas, asters and phlox. These are
all ANNALS, and do particularly we'll
In this soil.
Latrix, blazing star or gay feather
Is a capital plant for sandy soil, al
though 1t does well in any good soil.
1t is a hardy perennial with long
spikes Of purple and rosy purple flow
ers, blooming from July to September.
and growing from three to four feet
high.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-08-25
Too Much to Believe.

1.-THE late Bishop Hare said Sioux
Falls physician, used, very reason
ably, to impute skepticism to misun-
derstanding.
phia business man of sKeptical ten
dencies, who said to him:
"'My dear Mr.. Hare; l do not re-
fuse to believe the story of the ark.
| can accept the ark's enormous size,
it's odd shape and the vast number of
animals it contained, but when am
asked, my dear doctor, to believe that
the children of Israel carried this IN
wieldy thing for forty years in the vii.
derness-well, there I'm bound to say
my faith breaks down. Living
Church.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-08-25
Jane Settled Him,

"Jane." said her mistress, you real
ly will have to put a stop to the visits
of your follower
"Yes, l must, ma'am," replied Jane.
But you have said that BEFORE ex-
postulated her mistress, ''and there it's
ended"
Pm sure I've done my best, ma'am," !"
said Jane; sit isn't easy. But I'll try
and settle him on my next Thursday
out"
Her next Thursday out came and
went. Her follower also came and
went with Jane), and Jane eventu
ally returned in a radiant mood.
''I've settled him this time, ma'am Y
she exclaimed breathlessly.
Her mistress was delighted. But ir
the hour of victory one should be gen
erous to the fallen foes, so she eX
pressed hope that Jane had not beer
too hard on the young man.
lizard on him!" cried Jane. "No
ma am, that l wasn't. I've just mar
ried him, and leave at the end of tht
month";"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-08-25

Thousands and thousands of trees
are killed every year by planters al
lowing the roots to become dry, and the
nursery man from whom they are pur-
chased Is condemned for the careless
ness of the purchaser.
A stake should be set where each
tree or shrub is to be planted, and the
name may be written on the stake. Dig
the holes carefully and of ample size,
so the roots may assume a natural po-
sition In their new location. Put the
top soil around the roots and the bal
ance ON the surface.
Before the stock is set out prune. the
branches back from a third to a half
of last seasons growth, so the tree
will be able to thrive less the roots il
has lost through it's removal from the
spot where it originally grew. Cut off
the ends of all bruised roots, leaving q
clean, smooth cut.
Set the trees so they will be as deer
as they stood in the nursery. The
feeding roots are near the surface
therefore, too deep planting is injuri
GUS. Dwarf pears and budded rose:
should be set with the bud two inches
below the surface.
Work the soil well in around the
roots, and as soon as the roots are
covered tramp down the soil with the
feet and gently pour in pail of water
and a second and third pail if the sol
is dry, until the soil is thorough.
moistened. Wait until the water ha
soaked in and then fill up the hole.
Do not plant trees on land that ha
been cut down by grading and fillet
in with earth from a cellar and ex
pect them to grow.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-08-25
Sad-Faced Thinkers,

A patron of Mr.. Dana's library OBJ
serves that the people who browse in
the fiction department look happy and
peaceful and contented, while the peo-
pie who frequent the technical room
look miserable. The phenomenon may
be thus explained: The people in the
technical room are engsged in think
ing, and thinking is the most violent
work that the human being does. A
football player plunging through the
line doesn't look happy. A runner win
ming a race wears look of anguish
A man thinking is engaged in a more
strenuous undertaking than football ol
foot racing. OF course he looks
Wretched.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-08-25

than most OF the other aborigines of
southern India, and the skin of the
women is of a still paler brown than
that of the men.
Todas Are Interesting.
The mountains and hills of India
have been the refuge of aborigines
who fed before the advance of the
Aryans, and in the Todas, as well as
in the more northern tribes of the
Bhils, Kols, Ghonds, Santals, and Ma
gas, may be studied the descendants
of those early inhabitants of northern
India, allied to the Dravidians, but of
Scythian or Mongolian origin. Today,
the TOdas number only little over
thousand, and are said to be steadily
decreasing, which may be partly ac-
counted for by their custom Of po-
lyandry. They have preserved their
traditions to an extraordinary degree
without any written language, and it
is only to the complex ritual Of their
customs and ceremonies that they
show the least servility. With an alb
solute belief in their own superiority
over the surrounding races, it would be
difficult to find people more innately
conservative, but Mr.. w. H. Rivers,
during his mastery study of this most
interesting race, came to the conclu-
sion that they were far from lacking
in intelligence. Their life is chiefly
concerned with the keeping of their
buffalo dairies, and in his records of
their mythology Mr.. Rivers thus trans
lates their own account of Toda ori-
gin:
Behind On's buffaloes there came
out of the earth a man, holding the tail
of the last buffalo, and this was the
first Toda. On took one of the mans
ribs from the right side of his body
and made a woman, who was the first
Toda woman. The Todas then in
creased in number very rapidly, sc
that at the end of the first week there
were about a hundred"
One of the finest views in the
Nilgiris is that of the Droog from the
rocky bluff called Lady Canning's
Seat, about four miles from CoOnOOr
which is 1000 feet lower than Ootaca
mund. To this drove through the
woods, one morning just after sun
rise, along a road bordered at frs
with roses and wild heliotrope, pas
villas and tea plantations, past tai
tree ferns and tree rhododendron
crimson with blossom. Suddenly round
ing a corner of the road 1 came ol
wider landscape. Grandly from tn
plains rose the Droog, from the steel
summit Of which Tippoo Sultan is SAT-
to have thrown his captives. This
and other cIoud-girt heights beyon
were all of that deep blue color tina
gave the Nilgiris their name.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-08-25

The prince of Wales has endeared
himself to the British soldiers fighting
in the trenches.
There is story about a regiment
that the prince recently reviewed. a
soldier in this regiment was noted
equally for his bravery and his untidi-
ness. The prince talked to him for a
few minutes, and the man in his confus
sion could stammer nothing but "Youz
rile fghness," "Yes, your rile 'ighA
ness," "No, your rile ighness."
At the end of the interview the
prince said, with a good-natured glance
at the soldiers accoutrements disor-
dered as usual:
every good, my man, very good; but,
in future, please, not so much Of the
rile fghness and little more Of the
pipe clay"