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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-27
Peanuts and Hay

Peanut harvesting should begin as soon as the nuts are mature, says A. P. Spen- cer of the University of Florida exten- sion division. While the Florida Runner and the Jumbo Runner will remain solid several weeks after ripening, the tops die, however, and thus impair the quality of hay. The nuts will separate from the stems, making harvest difficult
 In harvesting peanuts. where the acre. age is large enough peanut harvester can be used to advantage. The peanut digger will be used by many farmers this year to lift the vines, leaving them ly- ing loosely on the ground, so that they can be easily thrown into punches and small shocks with a hay fork. A two horse turning blow with the moldboard removed makes an excellent peanut dig ger, as does also a potato digger.
 Peanut hay can be cured by stacking around poles three to four inches in di- ameter and feet high. set in the ground deep enough to stand. A two-by four scantling may be used in the absence of poles. Two pieces of scantling 5 feet long are nailed six inches from the ground so as to make cross then the vines are stacked around the poles. In starting the stack a few forkfuIs are laid across the scantlings and the shock built up by successive layers of vines, the pods being kept to the center. sloping the vines so as to shed the rain. When the shock is finished cap of grass and vines is placed on top of the pole. The hay should be allowed to stay in the stack until the nuts become dry and firm, which usually takes about month, then baled or stored in the usual way.
 The whole peanut plant makes an un- usually rich and palatable hay, contain ing 1S.4 per cent protein, 40 per cent car bohydrates and n per cent fat Whole peanut hay analyzes higher than alfalfa, therefore it is an excellent feed for work horses, mules, beef and dairy cattle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-27
IN THE WORLD OF SUFFRAGE

of her promotion, she said she was the only registered member of the Equal Suffrage association in the business, and she was the only one at the time who received promotion.
 There are 1500 business won Bri- mingham who need the vote. If they would enter into active suffrage work it would give the cause an irresistible im- petus and the causes for which we are working-the minimum wage, reasonable hours, equal pay and dozen other things to the interest of women-would be realized.
 school to teach women to become car conductors is to be established in New York under the auspices of the woma1's section of the Navy league.
 Miss Worthington and Mrs. Taylor and their committees of suffragists were promptly on the ground on Sunday, ac- cording to invitation from the Civic as- sociation assisting in making the fare well to the boys leaving for the camps pleasant memory.
 E Suffrage sentiment will soar higher dur ing the State Fair than it ever has in Ala bama-Ruth Law being an ardent worker in the cause.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-27
TO CLEAR LARD

When rendering lard in the farm kitchen, peel and slice raw potatoes and after the lard is put through a coarse meat grinder add the potatoes and a pinch of salt and cook slowly till the ro- tatoes rise to the top. The potatoes clar- fly the lard and absorb the water quick ly, and there is little danger of burning the lard. It Is done in less than half the time and is purer and winter than when clarified by the old method
 Also the drippings of bacon and ham can be clarified in the same way, and can be used for frying doughnuts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-07
REAL ESTATE TO EXCHANGE

WANT SMALL clear property for $4,000 equity
in 3-story, porc h front house west side OF
Germantown: steam heat and ecctrCity' will
consider seashore or small farm. NJ 55i,
Ledger Central.
100 MAIN LINE properties to exchange for
Phila. property; all prices. What have YOU?
What do you want? Harris opposite station,
Narherth. Pa.
INVESTMENT dwellings and small apartment
houses for city ground or Atlantic City cottage.
ABERNETHY. 1873 S. 18th.
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Old York Road
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!. con Fill Your Requirements

We Can Fill Your Requirements
a 49,, complete list OF residence properties
Y, nIii' ~ sections Of Germantown new houses,
adjacen. .,y attractiyc; several choice build
psrucussss. machine service for inspections.
~ NJ With US before deciding.
SMULLEN & BARRY
"A AND cIIESTNIIT SITS. Hiberty Bldg
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AN ELEGANT HOME
MERTON

ATTRACTIVE STONE AND STUCCO HOUSE
IL rooms. baths sleeping porch, hot 55xl5O
3 minutes from station.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
MALE-Continued.

YOUNG MAN. fns pianist, and thoroughly un-
derstandine the vfctrola, desires position with
frst-class music house. Address Box 252B,
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GOLD. SILVER AND DIAMONDS BOUGHT.
THE LORENZ JEWELRY CO.,
5os 9th ST. NV, Opposite Gaye.y Theater
WANTED = ALL THE OLD USELESS GOLD
and silver lying idle in your possession. Dia-
C. F. KARR. Jeweler. 814 18th St, above f,
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sHADEs-Good quality opaque shades lifted to
your windows only 45c; the best quality oil
opaque shades, 80c; hung free. We cali with
samples. KLEEBLATT'S. 11th and 81 cts. IA
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YOUNG MAN. "a years old mot subject to con-
ing and Office detail, desires position; has also
had retail merchandising experience; best ref
efences furnished. Address Box 1894, Star office.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NTED,
wANTED-1916 Maxwell, good condition. Call
North s46S.
WILL PAY $50 cash and balance SIS per montl,
for light touring car; must have starter and cleo
trio lights and in good condition. Address Box
1S,-B. Star office.
/ SELL AUTOMOBILES BY AUCTION EVERY
Saturday, IL noon. A quick and satiafnctor.
method. Inquire for special rates at .'WEScH.
LER'S." 800 Pa ave. NV.
FORD TOURING BODY-1916 or 1917 model
with or without Tenders and radiator. Address
Box 1922 Star office. 2ls
WANTED-Ford delivery body. 621 K NV
Main 5274.
TOURING CAR. small, $75 caah and so month,
Address Box 101-B, Star Office. 21s
FORDS WANTED.
VIII buy for cash used Ford cars,
UNION GARAGE.
Os-A G st. nm. 1siA sse&
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STUDEBAkER 1917. 4-cyl.. 7-pass. naval Off
Ger ordered away will sacrifice. Col. 5927. 1892
Riltmorc st. NV.
sTUDERAKER-I914: T-rassenger; 8-cylinder;
good condition; $3.50; $50 cash, balance monthly.
$500 14th. N 1852.
TOURING CAR. 7-passenger: run less than 5000
miles; cost s. 200: will sacrifice for $500. Tele-
phone Lincoln 4l43. Gibson Tire Co., % II ST.
NV.
TOURING CAR = Fivcpassenger, self-starter:
excellent condition: will sacrifice. Address Box
96B. Star office 21'
ToURIN6i-I have a dandy used touring car to
sell Address Box 217-A. Star office.
TRUCK-New. 1s-ton. panel body. delivery
truck: electric starter and lights. Se9 14th NV.
NJ. S159.
TRUCK BODIES, 30. from Adams Express Co. !:
good condition: low price. Cook, Bernheimer &
Co., 10 Patterson st. ne. 2bs
VIM u -ton truck: fine condition. guaranteed !;
Bosch magnetic; good tires: extra tire; $3.50.
Rear BOB B NV. 25'
Soc PER CYLINDER for burning carbon : no pap
IL not satisfied with my process or work: owner
aluminium ring gears and castings welded equal
TO new and absolutely guaranteed pay.
Phone Main 409s. .o7 18th st. NV.
s25 TO $3.50 EACH paid for old. useless automO-
biles. Parts OF % old cars for sale.
Edgar Baum. 101 9th NV. NJ. 1921.
1917 AUBURN, 5-passenger demonstration. 1913
1916 Auburn, 7-pRssenger; $500 miles. Don
1915 Buick, 5-passsnger ....-........... 4I5
1914 Puck, u ton truck. Observation-Disclosures. 500
1913 Cadillac, 5-pnssenger. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $50
l9l5 Ford. 9-passenger- ..-.-.-.......--.-.. 10
1914 Oakland cabriolet. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 475
1915 Mitchell. 5-passenger. $50
Stoddard- Dayton roadster .................. 175
1912 Warren. 5-passenger. ................. 100
UNION GARAGE,
cro
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YOUNG MEN-For delivery de-
.partment; also boys with bicycles.
Permanent positions. Apply ST.
perintendent, Hecht & Co., 9TH st.
near F NV.
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Steuart's Garage.
AUTHORIZED FORD AGENT
Why buy a second hand car when you
can purchase a new Ford Mt terms to
suit?
Let our salesman make an appoint
ment with you and talk 1t over.
141 10th st. ne. Line. 1908.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-01-19
i The :: Turmoil
81 BOOTH HARRINGTON
BOOTH HARRINGTON

The room to which he conducted his
tagging charge was furnished in every
particular like a room in new hotel:
and Bibbs found 1t pleasant-though.
indeed, any room with a good bed
would have seemed pleasant to him
after his journey. He stretched him
self fat Immediately, and having re-
piled "Not now" to the attendants
offer to unpack the bag, closed his eyes
YEARLY.
White-jacket, racially sympathetic,
lowered the window shades and made
an exit on tiptoe, encountering the
other white jacket-the harassed over
seer-in the hall without. Said the
emerging one:
"He mighty shaky, Mist Jackson.
Drop right down an shet his eyes.
Eyelids all black. Rich folks gotta go
same as anybody else Anybody asst
Inc If l change 18th at ole boy-No,
subj Lem keep is money; keep my
black skin an keep out the groundr'
Mr.. Jackson expressed the same
preference. "Yessuh, he look tub me
like somebody awready laid out
He fell silent at rustling of skirts
In the corridor. 1t was Mrs. Sheridan
hurrying to greet her son.
She was one of those fat, pink people
who fade and contract with age like
drying fruit; and her outside was a
true portrait of her. Her husband and
her daughter had long ago absorbed
her. Edith lived all day with her
mother, as daughters do; and Sheridan
SO held his wife to her unity with him
that she had long ago become uncon-
scious of her existence as a thing sep
arate from his.
Mrs. Sherldan's manner was hurried
and inconsequent; her clothes rustled
more than other women's clothes; she
seemed to wear too many at a time
and to be vaguely troubled by them,
and she was patting skirt down over
some unruly internal dlssension at the
moment she opened Bibbs' door.
At sight Of the recumbent figure she
began to close the door softly, with
drawing, but the young man had heard
the turning Of the knob and the rus
ting Of skirts, and he opened his eyes.
Don't go, mother" he said. I'm
not asleep" He swung his long legs
over the side of the bed to rise, but
she set hand on his shoulder. re-
straining him; and he lay fat again.
'"No," she said, bending over to kiss
his cheek, II just come for a minute,
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-01-19
CHAPTER ~.

Mr.. Vertrees, having watched their
departure with the air OF a man who
had something at hazard upon the ex-
petition, turned from the window
and began to pace the library thought
fully, pending their return. He was
about sixty; small man, withered
and dry and fine, trim little sketch
ct the elderly dandy. His lambre-
euin mustache, like his smooth hair,
was approaching an equally sheer
whiteness: and though his clothes were
old, they had shapeliness and a flavor
Of mode.
The room was cheerful and hideous.
Under mantel Of imitation black
marble merry little coal fire beamed
forth upon high and narrow "Eastlake"
bookcases with long glass doors, COM
Portable, incongruous furniture, half a
dozen Landseer engravings which Mr..
and Mrs. Vertrees sometimes men
toned to each other, after thirty years
Of possession, as very fine things"
They had been the first people in town
to possess Landseer engravings, and
there, in art, they had rested, but they
still had feeling that In all such mat
ters they were in the van.
The growth Of the city, which might
easily have made Mr.. Vertrees mil.
lionaire, had ruined him because he
had failed to understand 1t. When
towns begin to grow they have whims,
and the whims of town always ruin
somebody. The dainty little man was
one of the first to fall down and wor-
ship Bigness. He was a true prophet
Of the prodigious growth. but he had
fatal gift for selling good and buying
bad. He sold his inherited Office build
ing and house in town to buy lots;
then he sold his farm, except the house
and the ground about it, to pay taxes
on the lots. But he had to do some
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-01-19
tCopyraght 1913, By Harper = Brothees)

window and paid himself the dubious
tribute OF thorough inspection.
Throughout this cryptic seance his
manner was profoundly impersonal,
but finally he appeared to become pes
then gazed again and shook his head
again, and continued to shake it slow
ly, In complete disapproval.
You certainly are one horrible
sightr' he said, aloud.
And at that he was instantly aware
Of an observer. Turning quickly, he
was vouchsafed the picture of a charm
ing lady, framed in rustic aperture
of the summer house" and staring full
into his window-straight into his eyes,
too, for the infinitesimaI fraction OF
second before the hashingly censorious
withdrawal of her own. Composedly,
she pulled several dead twigs from a
vine, her action conveying a procla-
nation to the effect that she was in
the summer house for the sole purpose
of suchlike pruning and tending.
Having pulled enough twigs to en-
phasize her unconsciousness-a at
the same time her disapproval-of ev-
erything in the nature of a Sheridan
or belonging to Sheridan, she de-
scended the knoll with maintained
composure, and sauntered toward
side door Of the country mansion of
the Vertreeses. An elderly lady, bon
neted and cloaked, opened the door and
came to meet her.
Are you ready. Mary7 I've been
looking for you. What were you do
ing?'
Nothing Just looking into one Of
Sheridans' windows" said Mary Yer
trees. II got caught at it."
"Maryw cried her mother. "Just as
we were going to call! Good heavens!'
"We'll go, just the same" the daugh-
ter returned. Il suppose those women
would be glad to have us II we'd
burned their house to the ground"
But who saw your" insisted Mrs.
Vertrees.
"One Of the sons, l suppose he was.
l believe he's insane, or something. At
least l hear they keep him in a sani-
tarium somewhere, and never talk
about him. He was staring at himself
In mirror and talking to himself.
Then he looked out and caught me-"
How did he look?"
Like ghost In a blue suit" said
Miss vertrees. moving toward the
street and waving white-gloved hand
in farewell to her father, who was OBJ
serving them from the window of his
library. Rather tragic and altogether
impossible. Do come on, mother, and
let's get it overr
And Mrs. Vertrees, with many mis-
givings, set forth with her daughter
for the gracious assault upon the new
house next door,
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-01-19
CHAPTER ll-Continued.

"Oh. he's friend OF the whole fam
fly" she returned, with a petulance
which she made no effor TO disguise.
Roscoe and he got acquainted some
whore. and they take him to the the
ster about every night. Sibyl has him
to lunch, too, and keeps" She
broke or with an angry little jerk of
the head. 1--WE can see the new house
from the second corner ahead. Roscoe
has built straight across the street
from US, you know. Honestly, Slbyl
makes me think of a snake. sometimes
the way she pulls the wool over
peoples eyes. She honeys up to papa
and gets anything In the world she
wants ont Of him, and then makes fun
OF him behind his back-yes, and to
his face, but he can't see it! She got
him to give her a twelve thousand
dollar porch for their house after it
was"
Good heavens" said Bibbs, staring
ahead as they reached the corner and
the car swung to the right, following
n bend in the street "Is that the new
housef'
Yes. What do you think of ity'
We'll he drawled, I'm pretty sure
the sanitariums about half a size big
And a moment later as they entered
the driveway, he added, seriously:
But it's beautiful"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-01-19

but / want to see how you seem. Edith
said"
Poor Edith" he murmured. "She
couldn't look at me. She"
"Nonsense" Mrs. Sheridan, having
let in the light at a window, came back
to the bedside. you look great
deal better than what you did before
you went to the -anitarium, anyway.
It's done you good: body can see that
right away. You need fatting up, Of
course, and you haven't got much
color"
NO. he said, II haven't much
COLOR
You look a great deal better than
what l expected"
Edith must have a great vocabu-
lary!" he chuckled.
"She's too sensitive" said Mrs. Sher-
idan, "and it makes her exaggerate
little. What about your diet?"
That's all right. They told me to
eat anything"
That's good,' she said, nodding.
'1They mean for you just to build up
your strength. That's what they told
me the last time l went to see you at
the sanitarium. You look better than
what you did then. and that's only a
little time ago. How long was it?"
Eight months. I think"
mo, 1t couldn't be. l know It amt
that long, but maybe 1t was longer \
I thought And this last mouth or 90
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-01-19
CHAPTER ~.

1t was gray stone, with long roofs
of thick green slate. An architect who
loved the milder Gothic motives" had
built what he liked: II was to be seen
at once that he had been left unham-
pered, and he had wrought a picture
out of his head into noble and ex-
ultant reality. A. the same time a
landscape designer had played SO good
a second, with ready made accessories
of screen, approach and vista, that al
ready whatever look of newness re-
mained upon the place was to its ad-
vantage, as showing at least one thing
yet clean under the grimy sky.
Altogether, the new house was sue
cess. 1t was one of those architects
successes which leave the owners
yelled in privacy; it revealed nothing
of the people who lived in 1t save that
they were rich. In our swelling cities
rich families, one after another take
title and occupy such houses as for
tunes rise and fall-they mark the
high tide 1t was impossible to imag
Inc a child's toy wagon left upon a
walk or driveway of the new house,
and yet 1t was-as Bbbs rightly called
it-"beautiful."
What the architect thought of the
"Golfo di Napoli, which hung in Its
vast gold revel of rocco frame against
the gray wood Of the hall, is to be con-
Jectured-perhaps he had not seen it..
Edith, did you say only eleven
feett" Bibbs painted. staring at it, as
y,-bf ITO. il ply cd twin Of a limo ',
porter helped him to get out of his
overcoat.
Eleven without the frame she ex-
planned. IT'S splendid, don't you
think? 1t lightens things up so. The
hall was kind of gloomy before"
NO gloom nowr' said Ribbs.
This statue in the corner is pretty.
too she remarked. Mamma and l
bought that And Bibbs turned at
her direction to behold, amid a grove
of tubbed palms. "life-size," black
bearded Moor, of a plastic composition
painted with unappeasable gloss and
brilliancy. Upon his chocolate head he
wore gold turban; in his hand he
held a gold-tipped spear; and for the
rest. he was red and yellow and black
and silver.
"Hallelujah' was the sole comment
of the returned wanderer, and Edith,
saying she would find mamma" left
him blinking at the Moor. Presently.
after she had disappeared, he turned
to the coored man who stood waiting.
Bibbs' travelling bag in his hand.
What do you think Of tt?" Bibbs
asked, solemnly.
"Graa'! replied the servitor. "She
mighty hard to dus' Dus' git in all
'em wrinkles. Yessuh, she mighty hard
to dus'.'
II expect she must be-" said Bibbs,
his glance returning retiectively to the
black full beard for moment "Is
there a place anywhere l could lie
DOWN.?
"Yessuh. We got one nem spare
rooms all Ak up TO you. sub. Right
up staihs, sub. Nice ROOM
He led the way, and Bibbs followed
slowly. stopping at intervals to rest,
and noting a heavy increase in the
staff Of service since the exodus from
the old house. Maid and scrub
women were at work under the pa
tently nominal direction of another
Pullman porter, who was profoundly
enjoying his own affectation OF being
harassed with care.
"Ev'ything got look spick an span
TO- the big doin's tonight" Bibbs'
guide explained, chuckling. "Yessuh,
NJ ut W doin'a tonight! Big doin's!"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-01-19
The Story
of a Big
Man in a
Big Town

thing to keep himself and his family
up, SO In despair he sold the lots
(which went up beautifully the next
year, for Traction stock" that was
paying dividends; and disappeared al
together from the commercial surface
at about the time James Sheridan
came out securely on top.
But there came a day when three
servitors of Bigness in Philadelphia
took greedy counsel with four fellow
worshipers from New York, and not
long after that there were no more
dividends for Mr.. Vertrees. In fact,
there was nothing for Mr.. Vertrees, be-
cause the traction stock" henceforth
was no stock at all, and he had mort
gagged his house long ago to help "man-
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-01-19

age somehow" according to his concep-
ton of his position in life"-one Of his
own old-fashioned phrases. Mr.. Yer
trees had discovered, too, that there
was no salary for him in all the buz-
zing city-he could do nothing.
1t may be said that he was at the
end OF his string. Such times do come
in all their bitterness. finally, to the
man with no trade or craft, II his
feeble clutch on that slippery ghost,
Property, shall fail.
The windows grew black while he
paced the fan-shaped zone OF freight.
But as the mantel clock struck wheez-
lily six there was the rattle of an outer
door, and Mary Vertrees came rushing
into the library and threw herself into
deep chair by the hearth, laughing
so uncontrollably that tears were in
her eyes. Mrs. Vertrees followed de-
corously, no mirth about her; on the
contrary, she looked vaguely disturbed,
as II she had eaten something not quite
certain to agree with her, and regret
ted 1t.
Papa! Oh, oh.' And Miss YER
trees was fain to apply handkerchief
upon her eyes. I'm SO glad you made
US go! l wouldn't have missed it"
Mrs. Vertrees shook her head. II
suppose I'm very dull" she said,
ing. They're most ordinary, and the
house is altogether in bad taste, but we
anticipated that, and"
"Papam Mary cried, breaking in.
.'They asked us to dinner!"
"What!'
"And I'm goingw she shouted, and
was seized with fresh paroxysms.
Think Of it! Never in their house be-
fore; never met any of them but the
daughter-and just barely met her"
what about you?" interrupted Mr..
Vertrees, turning sharply upon his
wife.
She made a little face as II positive
now that what she had eaten would
not agree with her. Il couldn't" she
said. q"
"Yes, that's just-just the way she
she looked when they asked herv cried
Mary, choking. "And then she-she
EedllZcu II, auu IElGu 10 tuEu II luIO u
cough, and she didn't know how, and 1t
sounded like-like a squeal!'
Il suppose" said Mrs. Vertrees,
much injured, that Mary will have
an uproarious time at my funeral. She
makes fun Of
Mary jumped up instantly and kissed
her; then she went to the mantel and,
leaning an elbow upon It, gazed
thoughtfully at the buckle Of her shoe,
twinkling in the freight.
'They didn't notice anything" she
said. $50 far as they were concerned,
mamma, 1t was one Of the finest coughs
you ever coughed."
"Who were 'they'?" asked her father
Whom did you seer?
"Only the mother and daughter" +"
Mary answered. Mrs. Sheridan is
dumpy and RUSTY; and Miss Sheridan
is pretty and pushing-dresses by the
fashion magazines and talks about
New York people that have then pic
lures in 'em. She tutors the mother,
but net very successfully-partly b.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-01-19
svnoPsiA
GhAhdA'Q

GhsrfdeA's attempt to make a business
man of his son Bihbs by starting him in
the machine shop ends in Bibbs going to
a sanltariuu. nervous wreck On his re-
turn Bibbs is met at the station by his
lister Edlth.