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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
Rain Causes Crop Failure

T have just come from my farm In Buckatunna, Miss.'' said W. T. Dawson of Ensley, an old Confederate veteran. T am sorry to say that my lands are in the belt where there was no rain for four months, and therefore I made a failure with the exception of peas and beans. Even the sweet potato crop is way below the average, and the cotton will make only about a half crop. Next year am thinking of moving on my farm and going into the chicken business, as am midway between Mobile and Mo- ridian v
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07

Vice-President Coapsnan, of the South ern, recently told me that the difficulty in the way of this service was the short age of coal. Now that this has been remedied, the train will probably be scheduled sometime during the next two weeks.
 This will mean tho visit of thou sand or more soldiers from the Annis- ton cantonment on Wednesdays. Satur- days and Sundays. The officers of the camp are very anxious for this train service. They desire more amusement for the volunteer soldiers than Annis- ton can furnish them.
 Tn the camp at Annfston now there are more than 5000 nlen. A great city has been builded for them on the land purchased by the government some six
 miles from Anniston proper. It is hilly and mountainous section, well drained, with great parade grounds in the valleys, artillery ranges. machine gun grounds and every facility for train ing . modern army. It Is today the largest and most completely equipped camp this country haP ever known. It is builded for bo.ooo men and in few weeks there will probably be that mum Der in tho camp.
 Many of the officers tell mo that An- niston has been unable to furnish guar ters for their families, although the town has done it's best They want train service to Birmingham in order that they may locate their families hero and visit them ones or twice . week. They nkewiss want the soldier boys | to have the benefit of the theatres and amusements of Birmingham. holding that the soldier in training stagnates unless he is given some form of amuse- ment and recreation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
THE MOON IN WAR tho Chicago Herald.

The London Sketch last year con tained cartoon showing young girl leaning from a mullioned window in the moonlight. 'To think" she says de- voutly, "the same moon looks down on me and on Gerald in the trenches!' And juxtaposed was picture of Gerald. on duty, with the full light making his position mark for German firing; and as he lies curled uncomfortably behind his insufficient rampant he, too. remarks, urprintably. upon the moon.
 The hondoners themselves have been damning 1t lately. With the harvest moon to guide them. the German flyers for almost a week have been favoring the city or its environs with nightly visit. Forty-five. 1t was estimated. came over in one night Air battles are be- coming 30 thundsrous they drown the voices of the actors in the theatres and 50 common that the plays continue with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
Interest in EonfhaII

have never such ar interest in foot ball paraphernalia as there Is this sea- son. said B. G. Alverson, manager of the sporting goods department of the Wimberly7Sc & Thomas Hardware company We have already sold out five ship ments. The boys over at Anniston in Camp Mcclellan are great football en- thusiasts, It seems also that every high school in the state IS football crazy. We had a fine season also for baseball goods The war has not hurt the sale of sport ing goods
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
CONSCIENCE IN OFFICE-By Frank Willis Barnett

These are the walls of Sparta, and every man Is 8 brick"
 Thesew ords spoken thousands of years ago have still power to mako the blood of twentieth century man jingle. and particularly so in the face of the fact that the Hun is trying to overrun the world and the alien enemy is in our midst.
 It will be remembered that they were uttered by the brave King of Sparta. when asked where the walls of his little kingdom were by means of which he could protect himself from Athens.
 
 The new day he draw his army up on the greensward, and, pointing to them in pardonable pride, said: These are the walls of Sparta. and every man is a brick" A great preacher. taking these words, says Therefore, as the Sunday school trains the child, 1t is putting q brick into the wall that shall protect the nation through the course of all he years"
 sss And shall the Cody men who are giv- ing their time As superintendents and teachers in our Sunday schools rest under tho suspicion that in 90 doing they are casting shadow upon their ability as bushes mon and forever disqualifyins themselves to be elected to public of ficef
 
 Emerson was right when he boldly do clared in the face of g materialistic age that was mad after wealth, power and place. that "The glory of a nation does not depend upon the size of It's census, or the size of its cities, or the size of its
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
Music for Services
 in the Churches

MUsIC has always formed an GV0 important part in divine wor- ship, and with the broadening of the public taste and the increasing love of the better order of sacred song, the choir in large churches in this country receives greater attention than formerly. It is noteworthy fact, too, that pipe organs of the best workmanship are now finding their way into the smaller churches and in places of worship in small towns which used to get along with cheap reed organs.
 Time was when majority of the congregation cared only for the re- iigious' exercises conducted by the pas tor, and the pastors sermon. Choir music was considered only incidental. Now ministers who are musically edu- cated are striving to educate their congregations to accept music as a handmaid of religion in the strictly devotional sense. Hence it is that the standard of church music is being gradually raised.
 Under the caption of "The Organist and His Congregation" Clifford Demarest, we'll known choirmaster, writes convincingly and with stimulat- ing appeal to all churchgoers. "The organist, in the sense that he is the musical leader" says MT. Demarest, Sis really an assistant pastor. The sooner this is recognized the better 1t will be for all concerned. It is true that in most of our churches this is not recognized" MT. Demarest thinks that, as rule, the organist for an evangelical church should be called by the congregation just as the pastor is "called." As it is now, he points out, the organist is not called; he is hired. If the organist is changed, MT. Demarest contends, from "a musician hired to please and entertain the worshippers to one of pastoral assistant, he will study the needs of the congregation from the musical point of view. He should N2ead them spiritually in music as the pastor does in prayer and preaching"
 In his advice to organists, MT. Demarest says, among other timely things: Viewer render music for mere display of technical ability. This will not debar florid and difficult pieces entirely, for if the piece contains a message, the technic will be lost sight of in the thought behind the music, providing it is well executed 7
 Working along these lines the church organist will realize that he is "destined to become great force in leading and inspiring people in their religious aspirations.
 Mr. Demarest's little brochure is rull of correct ideas and educative suggestions. It is constructive from beginning to end and should be read by everybody interested in the subject of religion and choirmasters.
 Another revolution in Mexico has been started. evidently to disprovs the report that the Mexican had decided to settle down and boost unanimously for Car ransa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
DISTINGUISHED INMATE

T have often heard about the char acteristic prison odor," remarked the visitor, ''but the air in here Is heavy with the perfume of roses"
 That's so," replied tho warden. You are close to the cell of a murderer who has just been presented with bunch of American Beauties by one of his fe- male admirers. He gets so many flow CTS he's forced to send most of them away to hospitals"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
Gunsmith kent Busy

It may or may not be the war spirit" ssid Charles Schwend the gun and lock- smith, but my business for the last few months has been mighty good. Looks like everyone owning gun, pistol or rifle wanted to have it put in order. l have gotten hold of some queer old relics. Very few people realize the care that ought to be given to firearms, and it is a shame the condition some folks let their fine guns get into.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
Interest in Better Cattle

T am glad that the people of Ala bama are getting interested in better cat tle,' said Frank L Derby of Ward, the famous breeder of shorthorns, who has sold about 1000 head this year at an average price of about $500, while the highest price paid was s12oO He Is a great believer In shorthorns. The eradication of ticks is putting the busi- ness in the state and firmer basis. The introduction of pure bred bulls has done much to improve the breed, both of beef and milk cattle"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07

BEGINNING THE DAY-The cup of sorrow and pain. at which we trembIed before, if we see how GodSs will has wrought and filled It, anu we embrace that will-the cup or sorrow will be a transfigured cup, a golden chalice of the king, all filled to the brim, and running over, with the new wine of the kingdom. Barton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
THE HUN
From the September Forum.

From the September Forum.
 We are at war; not with a mere gov- ernment. but with nation of moral per- verts. a nation which exults in torture, admires murder. and has no faintest con- ception of the meaning of the word honor. g nation whose morality is of so low an order that we can find nothing to compare with 1t unless we go back to the days of Attila, or to the time of Asshurbanipal. who proudly relates how he tore out his enemies tongues and hacked off their limbs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
TIME TO CONCENTRATE

am glad we are getting 8 higher type of men to serve in public places. The old school politician ostentatiously vulgar. glad-handing everybody, charitable to- ward the vices of others. and without assumption of virtue on his own part, is already extinct in this city. His going was without regret and no one will wear crepe if ho never returns He is | menace and a danger. and the political atmosphere we breathe is purer than when he was won't to foul it with hla cheap profanity and drivel against nor ality
 Tho low-type politician Is on the run in many cities. sometimes think that the wise old man of tho Bible, taking look down the centuries glampsed at tho av- craze political heeler and gayo bent to the indicemtn in words that must have wicked nee when no man pursueth." It Is an up-to-date addition. by some mers fun loving scribe who says, "But they make far better time when somebody is after thsm"
 We are training in tho Sunday school today . generation which applauds that noble utterancs of Kossuth when he came bsfore his constituents and said: My hands are empty. but they ars clean" says Dr. Allen. and that h the type of citixenship and leadership which am strong for here in Birmingham. In spite of the taunts against Sunday school superintendents. expect to continue to lay emphasis in this column upon typo of life which has conscience in 1t, and which doss not fear to stand for Chris- tianity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
wHnn DUTY wHIsrnns

By Emerson. In an ags of fops and toys Wanting wisdom. void of right. Who shall nerve heroic boys To hazard all in Ereedom's fight Break sharply off their jolly 9ameA Forsake their comrades gay, And quit proud homes and youthful
 dAmes
 For famine. toll and fray? Yet on the nimble aire benikn Speed nimblsr messages, That wait the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloth and ease. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is Go otd man, Whom duty whispers, low. Thou
 mutt"
 The youth replica q can"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
roo SOON FOR THAT

'T1s folly for the dove of peace
 To go upon the wing. Until the guns of battle cease
 And there's no more a King Who drives his subjects to the fray While safe behind the line, And by his every action says.
 These willing slaves are mine"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
ADRIFvT WITH THE TIMES
I,e}d31eea

NO MATTER OF CONSCIENCE I'm beginning to suspect that com scientious' Is a. much abused word," said the patriotic citizen.
 why soY'
 "T've studied . great many of these so- calleds conscientious objectors, both on soap boxes and off. and have never yet seen ono who impressed me as having any conscience whatever
 A TOMMY ATKINS SAYING Garry on'' B a dandy slogan
 For a first-class fighting man. Since it means chap Is plucky
 And will do the best he can That he'll hammer at. the Prussian I'll the last invaders gone: Though the path leads to destruction, DauntlesS still. he'll "carry on."
 TIME TO CONCENTRATE why, fell in love with first one girl and then another before I got married" saad the susceptible young man. T scattered my affections all over the map"
 That's all right, son." replied the eI- derly philosopher Nobody will object to what you did then. just so you broke yourself of the scattering habit on your wedding day.,''
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
DOING IF NOW

From the Louisville courier-Journal.
 America had better look out after this war;" once said the Kaiser to Am bassador Gerard. Thanks to her good sense America is not waiting until after the war to look out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
PROGRESS

"Tell me. in few words, the plot of this play."l
 'washtub. limousine. duke"
 That's little too brief. don't quite understand"
 well, in other words. it's the story of social climber
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07

WHEN ~CRo0lxss HonECATHER From the New York Herald.
 Bulgaria was bought with German gold to sntsr this war as 0ermany's ally. That hurried trip of the Kaiser to sona evidently was inspired by anxiety to as- certain whethsr Bulgaria h going to stay bought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
A DISAPPOINTED MAN

Time was the Kaiser figured
 That he could whip the world; AInto the shock of battle
 His mighty legions hurled. Then waited for the triumph
 That he was sure to get; Alas for Prussian glory,
 The Kaiser's waiting yet. /
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
NATURAL INFERENCE

When Mrs Dubwaite returns home after a lengthy visit to relatives she finds the house trifle dusty, but in all other respects as neat as when she left"
 ''Dubwaite must have high old time while she's away"
 What makes you think sor'
 q judge from what you just said that he never goes home"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
A VAIL

From the Washington Star. At the Century club in New York 2 number of ltterateurs were complain ing bitterly about the age of magazine editors.
 "Yes. yes, they're too old." said a critic. "A bunch of fossils. No won- der they get out such rotten maga- zines.''
 Alfred Moves, the poet looked up from rejected threnody which he was tidying with a rubber eraser previous to sending it off on its round again.
 What is the average age of these men?" he asked.
 Sixty four" the critic answered.
 That's it!' said MT. Moves. That's just it! They've all reached their de- clining years''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
SLAP AT THE HoHENzoLLERr

SLAP AT THE HOHENZOLLERNS From the Kansas City Times.
 The Hohenzollerns will think twice before they inveigle Uncle Sam into another war. A certian Topeka man who has failed in business four times is now known about town as the crown prince'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07

SUPERIORITY ''women are queer" 'Yes?'
 Mrs. Twobble has just returned from trip to New York and merely because she stayed at a hotel with more dining rooms than the hotel usually patronized by Mrs. Jibway on her eastern trips can boast of. she's inclined to look down on Mrs. Lfbway."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07

To whom God will, there be the ~,ctcrx. -Henry VI.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07

Another revolution in Mexico has been started. evidently to disprove the report that the Mexican had decided to settle down and boost unanimously for Car sAnsa
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-07
OIL USED BY RAILROADS.

\ decided increase in the use Of petroleum as locomotive fuel by the railroads Of the United States in 1916 is shown by statistics compiled under the supervision Of John D. Northrop and just published by the United States geological survey department of the interior
 Reports submitted by 5 railroad companies comprising all that operate oil-burning locomotives in the United States. show that the quantity of oil fuel so consumed last year was 42.126,417 barrels. gain of 5.477.951 barrels. or 15 per cent, over the con- sumption in 1915.
 This increase shows the steady ex- pansion in the United States of the market for low-grade petroleum from Mexico rather than any appreciable increase in the use as fuel of low gravity crude oils from domestic sources. whose value for refining is just beginning to be recognized. The total distance cnvered by oil burning engines in 1916 was 140,434,- 566 miles, and the average distancs covered per barrel of fuel consumed was S.33 miles. Oil-burning locomo- tives were operated in 1916 over 31,9S0 miles of track in 21 states.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-07
KAISER WILHELM
 OWNS MILLIONS
 U. 5. PROPERTY
German Emperor and Fam fly Have S10,000, GOO In
 vested ill America.

Washington. April 6-Ten million dollars worth of United States stocks are owned by the kaiser and mem bers of his family and may be con- l fiscated by the United States govern ment in case of war.
 1 Facts just made public indicate Nllhelms concern ovec reaffirmation of treaties guaranteeing Germans personal property against seizure may have been caused by personal l rather than national reason. The kaiser is one of the greatest of American property owners. He had fancy for railway securities. When war began he is said to have pos sessed S3.0o0,000 ill stocks and bonds of the Santa Fe, Union and Southern Pacific and other western lines. These shares were held in the names of dummies or German broker age houses in New York. The kaiserin herself holds half a million in American securities. Prince Henry. while in this country is said to have made investments for himself totalling several millions.
 There is evidence that agents Of the kaiser have made stock market cieanups on strength Of advance in formation from Berlin.
 The kaiser is said to have large land holdings in America. much more valuable now than when bought twenty years ago. He is part owner Of the North German Lloyd and Ham, l burg-American lines. which have S2o,o00,O00 in ships tied up in Ameri- can ports. Without tl.ese ships. re- establishment of German commerce after the war would be hampered.
 The kaiser is the majority owner of silk mill in Patterson. N. J., which. by the way. was shown by the commission on industrial relations to pay the lowest wages and compel the worst working conditions in that dis l trict
 As stockholder in a Chicago pack i ing house, the kaiser is reputed to 1 have piled up wealth at the expense of the allies and the American pub- lie.
 It is rumored the federal govern ment is Investigating the extent of Wilhelm's holdings. with the idea that if the government should not confiscate property of individual German citizens exception should be made i'll the kaiser's case, on the ground that his autocratic relations to the government make his holdings. in effect, the property of the German state
 This property if confiscated, would be converted into the United States federal treasury.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-07
BEVO PONIES WILL
 REMAIN TILL SUNDAY

The Bevo pony stallions will be here until Sunday evening. according to announcement made following the ex- change of telegrams yesterday be- tween local representatives and the Anheuser-Busch Brewing company ct St. Louis.
 There was great crowd of folk It Main street and Sixth avenue yester- day noon to see the pretty and valu- able animals, and it is generally ex- pected there will be even greater crowds in Main street at o'clock this afternoon, to see them They will be driven along Main street and through the business section about that time, and afterwar ds will be on exhibition, free of all charge, at Me Cammon's stable, Second avenue and State street. until 8 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-07
USE ELECTRICITY ID MAKE CROPS
 GROW FASTER

Correspondence Associated Press.)
 London, March 24 24-Experiments on large scale with the use of cleo tricity to stimulate tie growing of crops are among the governments latest efforts to increase the coun- try's home food production. The de- partment of agriculture has taken over a large area near Hereford. where installations have already been set up for the use of innized air pro- duced by an electric discharge from a system Of thin wire. A staff of agri- cultural experts under Prof. W. H. Blackman of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, will super wise the experiments.
 Proposals for the tse Of ionized air in agriculture have aroused inter- est in England for the past fifteen years. and some experiments have been conducted on a small scale bur with inconclusive results. In the Hereford experiment, high tension alternating current is to be used. Spring wheat, barley, oats and clover
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-07

will be dealt with, and fertilizers of various types will also be used.
 The method adopted is to stretch over the field to be treated a number of thin wires on poles, something like low telegraph wires, but high enough for loaded wagons to pass underneath. The wires are supported by high tension insulators on posts in long parallel spans thirty feet apart.
 The charge fizzes off from the wires" says on account. with a sound which is sometimes audible. and with glow which is visible in the dark. Anyone walking about be- low the wires can sometimes feel the effect on the hair of the head, as of a cobweb on the face. The electricity does not act as fertilizer but as sub- stitute for sunlight. The current is only used in the early morning and in cloudy weather" The initial cost of the apparatus for 24 acres is about
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-07
RISON NEWS NOTES.

Rison, April 6.-Rev. E. J. Witte ot Pine Bluff representing the Arkansas Children's Home society, was here the latter part of the week. The pur- pose of this society is to provide homes for little ones bereft of par ents and home and who are not ad- missable to the regularly established sectarian or fraternal orphans homes.
 Tuesday morning fire destroyed a lot of lumber in dry kiln at Chas. L. Walkers mill in Rison. The loss amounted to about $500.
 Miss Fora Harrison arrived here Monday from Pine Bluff, where she has been working.
 Miss Norma Mitchell has returned to her home in Pine Bluff after a visit here with relatives.
 MT. and Mrs. Oscar Wingard of Pine Bluff visited her parents, Mr.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-07
MEBANE TRIUMPH COTTON SEED

well accIlmated, carefulIy ginned, redeemed. sacked and stenciled. This is the cotton that makes the Dollars Staple l Is to 1 3-16. Early matur- ing, medium large boil, storm proof and exceedingly productive under weevil conditions. The cotton from which this seed came has for the past three years, on the same land. pro- duced as high as 1 1-2 and bales to the acre. For sale by Grassy Lake farm, Grady, Ark. growers, or Ham, melt Grocer Co. and C. H. Triplett, Pine Bluff, Ark, distributors.
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