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Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02

when 1t goes into the oven. giving II
more opportunity for expansion. In
making pastry use six tablespoonfuls
OF lard to a cupful and half Of flour.
half teaspoonful Of salt, and just
enough cold water to handle and roll.
II the fat Is cut in with two case
knives instead Of being rubbed In with
the fingers, the pastry will be more
6aky.
Sour Cream Pie.-Mix together one
cupful of sugar, one cupful Of chopped
raisins, one cupful of sour cream, and
one egg well beaten, one-half tea
spoonful each Of cinnamon, nutmeg,
and salt. one-fourth Of q teaspoonful
Of cloves and teaspoonful Of vine
gar. Bake this filing In two crusts.
Pecan Pie.-COok In a double boiler
one cupful of milk. and a cupful of
sugar. Thicker with one tablespoon
full Of flour and the yolks of two
eggs, add the Juice Of o lemon. Bake
crust as for lemon pie, and when
done ill with a custard, adding a half
cupful Of pecan nut meats. Cover with
meringue, using the whites Of the
eggs and brown In q moderate oven.
Apple cwstard Pis-Add q cupfuI
of sugar to Q cupful Of grated apple.
two well-beaten eggs. one cupful of
sweet cream. and the grated rind Of
q lemon. Pour into q pastry-lined tin
and bake.
Dats and Apple Pis-Line a pie
plate with pastry and ali IT with a
mixture Of chopped dates and tart
apples. Sprinkle over the fruit three
fourths Of a cupfnl Of sugar, a tea
spoonful Of grated nutmeg. dot with
bits Of butter and cover with an I'D
per crust. Bake 30 minutes and serve
cold with cream.
No.. h "A
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02

ing without breakfast
has much to recommend
1t, 1t saves trouble. saves
food. and often saves a
few more minutes In bed,
which few of US need. As
the breakfast habit Is
fairly well established in
most homes 1t behooves
us TO start the family
cheerfly on its way well
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02

lie the NdrlduouS
which may be car
ried out with 1t.
The . custom Of
packing hasty pud-
ding in granite for
molding. cutting in
slices, and frying
il. is so well known
and practiced that
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02

We spend our days and dollars on
the clothes
Our homes and bodies wear.
And then we pick UP any sort OF shah
by vulgar thing
To clothe our thoughts-althoughw we
know
That matter is inferior to mind
Although we know that peace and
Joy
Depend upon our thoughts and their
expression.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02
BREvIIIEs

BY royal decree Greece has officially
adopted 2+hour time for general use.
Three points Of suspension enable a
new hanger to support a picture from
wall without fitting.
A cabinet for monographs has been
designed into which small machines
can be set to masquerade as costlier
Instruments.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02

should often find a place
on our tables. As a con-
lection those who are
not distressed by the
seeds, they are excellent.
especially - for people
of sedentary habits.
Stuffed Fips.-Cut a
small slit in the stem
end Of each fig and work
in two or more blanched
.,t,pnpr. .,t ;~
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02

There is no earthly ailment but
somewhere God hath an herb for its
healing. says quaint writer. The
trouble is that We think the herb has
q hard. fore IN name. We seek II in
far lands. but at last. find It in our
own garden plot.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02
A Disappointment.

81 never thought a boy OF mine
would turn out that way"
whats the matter"
81 sent him to college and he'd rath-
er get his lessons than make the foot
bell team"
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02

Observation more than books. expert
ence rather than persons. are the prize
educators.-A. Bronson Alcott.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02
FIGS FOR DESSERT.

Figs are one of our most valuable
fruits and when reasonable in price
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02
WHAT SHALL WE HAVE FOR
BREAKFAST?

To most housekeepers the first meal
Ut the day presents the most perplex-
ino v,rnhtrrpG Tho w.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02
FOR THE wHEArLEss DAY.

There are many ways Of serving the
ordinary cornmeal mush. but few real
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02
PIES AND PASTRY.

Good pastry should be flaky. deli
cate and rich enough to hold its shape
L..
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02
-eakfast

omelet are popular as breakfast
dishes. are quickly prepared. and
when the price is not prohibitive, most
commonly served.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02
k! ,3 Fl!
CABINETE

Anybody can lead the simple life
II he has plenty OF money and all the
modern conveniences.-R. w. Helms
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02


an art and must
never be made
W 18th n heavy
hand. Lard or
shortening u S e d
should be cold,
-four as well as
water, so that the
crust will be cold
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06
HOTEL LOBBIES
FedernI Aid for noaas

1.-THE United States Good Roads asso-
clan has started actively campaign to
educate the people to induce the next
Congress to settle the question of appro-
priations for the building of good roads
by making an appropriation of $50, 900 900
annually for number of years." said
J. A. Rountree. the well known good
roads advocate. IF this is done, the
state and county officials can commence
to plan for taxation. bond issues, ETC., in
order to take advantage of this appropria-
ton. They will know what they can de-
pend on.
There is another argument that if such
appropriation is made the question of Sc
curing federal aid at each Congress will
not have to be fought out, but there will
be specific amount TO spend. 1t is a
most laudable undertaking and it is to be
hoped that success will crown the efforts
of this organization, which was the first
organization in the United States to start
the advocacy of the Bankhead appropria-
ton bill of $S5,0OO,o00 that was passed last
year and is to be spent during the next
five years.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06

From the Pittsburg Post
81 CORRESPONDENT who spent "A
HA\ months in Christiania and re-
q = turned lately gives vivid descrip-
ton of the abnormal conditions in the
Norwegian capital created by the war,
in the Richmond "Virginian."
1.-THE conditions in Christiania today
are very much as they were In Bucharest
before Rumania entered the war;" the
correspondent says. Gold flows in
streams and fortunes beyond the dreams
Of avarice are made in few days. Men
who six months or a year ago did not
own the clothing on their backs and
hardly knew where their next meal
would come from, now roll in wealth. All
Norway is in the midst of an insane, fan
tastic adventure and has but one thought
to make money and still more money.
1.-THE 'goulash barons.' as the specula-
tors furnishing foodstuffs and other nee
essaries to the belligerents are called.
are in evidence everywhere. Their lux
urious automobiles make the streets OF
the capital unsafe and their princely
steam and motor yachts cruise In the
fjords and bays. Palaces rdvalling those
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
0AMES j. DOUGLAS, formerly Tot
terry king" afterward a turfman'
and owner of fancy stock farm, in
his last years a member of the Presby-
terrain church, was a striking figure on
ing stature, in his bearing and personal
appearance even in his personal history
and his title were realized the Kentucky
Colonel Of the stage and of fiction. In
the matter of immaculateness, and care
for the niceties of attire he suggested the
sentiment of Bret Hartes Mr. John Oak
hurst existing in the breast of a man re-
siding amid more modish surroundings
than those in which the California gam
bier shone in contrast with "the general. :"
A state peopled chiefly by men of Col
onel Douglas mold and manner would be
more peculiar and more picturesque than
Kentucky ever has been. His was an in
dividuality in which Bret Harte would
have rejoiced, as affording the oppor-
tunity for another literary cameo to add
10 the lSI OIL Iue CHardCteT urdWiuSS
which boolxish book critics so determin-
edly put down as glaringly artificial de-
pictions. although Individually artistic and
engaging creations.
In reputation of critical SANDER of Bret
Harte by devotees Of the students lamp.
there was James J. Douglas. He was
quite as unlike the average Kentucky
colonel as Mr.. Oakhurst, the soft-spoken,
the sinister, the sometimes benevolent,
exponent of draw poker was unlike the
ordinary California gambler of the mid
die of the nineteenth century; quite as
unlike the ordinary as was Harte's senti-
mental tenor who filled the gulches with
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06
A PICTURESQUE TURFMAN

song when he rode between the scenes Of
in one respect, Dollie Higbees Bluegrass
Colonel who late Ia life sought refuge
in the bosom of the church and often in
sisted with the moisture of deep feeling
in his eyes that he expected confidently
to race his favorite Thoroughbred on the
green pastures of the hereafter"
Augustus Thomas should have intro
duced ''Col. jim in 1.-THE Witching Hour"
How this towering Kentucldan, with tho
white mustache and pointed beard, per-
fectly tailored, wearing a faultless bou-
tonniere would have adorned the stage.
as a part Of the picture of Kentucky life.
How this former lottery magnate and
racing man, an active member of a church
in an exclusive suburb, figure hardly
less aloof from the bourgeois than from
the landed gentry, asking nothing OF
either class, a devoted son, the idol Of an
aged mother, a prince in the eyes of
the sporting fraternity, from which he
was somewhat removed by financial cir
cumstances and habits-how he would
have adorned tale.
Against drab conventionality, and
against a physical background of less
snowy men, .'Col. JIM caught the rowing
eye. One turned to look at him as he
passed in the street. When he awaited
the suburban car, bound for his country.
estate, an establishment so appointed
that 1t could not be overlooked, the at
Interrogation points. Everyone who did
not know wanted to know the name and
station Of the man with the flower in his
lapel. His death robs Louisville of one OF
it's most remarked indegenes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06
A FAMOUS PRESS CENSOR

From the Manchester Guardian.
In these days of press censorship it
may be recalled that tomorrow is the
tercentenary of the birth of that re-
nowned surveyor of the imprimery,"
or printing presses, Roger L'Estrange,
who had an adventurous career in the
days of the Stuarts. Beside the powers
Of our press bureau. the latitude per-
mitted to LEstrange was colossal. All
the printing offices in England were
under his control; also publishers OF
books and papers, whose houses he
could enter at any time. AS icenser OF
the press he enjoyed the privilege OF
writing. printing and publishing any
thing in the character of a newspaper
AS a rule he did not approve of the
newspaper, believing it made the null
titude too familiar with the actions
and counsels of their superiors, toe
pragmatical and censorious, and gives
them not only wish. but kind OF
colorado right and license to the med
ding with the government"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06
Southern to Erect
More Warming Stems


N view of the fact that automobiles
Il on the country highways are
driven so swiftly the Southern is
planning to install, in addition to its
"Stop, Look and Listen!" signs, addi-
tional warnings at all approaches, 300
feet away from the tracks.
These new signs will be placed on
the right of the highway approaching
crossings Gin the hope" as the South
ern officials say, "that they will at
tract the attention of automobile
drivers while they still have ample
distance in which to STOP" The signs
will consist of the letters "R. R." and
a cross painted in black on a white
field on cast iron discs. They will be
"a inches in diameter and will be
mounted on pedestals nine feet high.
This will be In accordance with the
standard adopted by the American
Railway association.
Permission for placing these signs
will be asked of county authorities.
That it will be granted goes without
saying.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06
Sinister Charges Made i'm Washington

AS result of yesterdays developments the charge that adj
information in regard President Wilson's peace note
was used manipulate the stock market has become extremely
grave.
The of Joseph P Tumuy has been mentioned. 1t is
alleged that he conferred with New York stock market opera
tor In New York hotel several days before it announced
that the President would send note to Europe This
profited to the extent of millions 1t is said that number of
brokerage firms also had advance information of which they
took signal advantage Mrs Wilson's brother is member of
brokerage firm charged with having participated in the
9 raid" on Wall street.
If the honor Of the Presidents official family is involved
along with that of private individuals this affair will prove
of the most sensational disclosures that Washington
known.
There must be thorough airing at Congress
longer delay vigorous action IF Mr. Tumuy has been wrongly
accused he should time proving his innocence be-
yond all doubt
That there has been lea gross breach of confidence
somewhere to be deniab It is to be hoped that this
scandal will not become permanent blot the Wilson admin
sraton but regardless of the prominence of the involved
there should be immediate investigation and no one should
be spared.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06
MlILLIONANRES I'm NORWAY

of Paris. London. Berlin and Vienna are
growing out Of the earth.
''rhe cafe of the Grand hotel has be-
come kind of annex to the stock ex-
change. Day and night the place is
crowded with Norwegian, Danish and
Swedish SPECTATORS and agents of foreign
governments. Around the little tables,
loaded down with champagne bottles and
delicacies from all parts of the world,
deals amounting to hundreds of millions
are made daily Everybody talks in mil
lions.
That is one side of the medal, but
the other looks different. The cost OF
living has become so high In Christiania
that not only the poor. but also tho
middle classes suffer severely. Money is
too plentiful. and has lost it's buying
power.
1.-The result Is that the prices of all
foods and other necessaries have risen
SO enormously that only the wealthy
can pay them. Rent, food. clothing and
fuel are much cheaper In half starved
Germany than in Norway, although the
latter country is at peace with all the
world and piles gold upon gold"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

| There is a limit to patience, and we
don't blame a man. for having a crouch
when things go wrong. But, when the
average man has a crouch, he hasn't
any reason for it,
| Don't knock. Every knock is a free
advertisement for the fellow you are
knocking.
! Personal liberty is good stuff Tho
trouble is that some fellows imagine
that they have to keep soused all the
time to enjoy personal liberty.
! The average poor man is a crab. He
gets lot of pleasure out of the belief
that the rich get lot of suffering and
no pleasure out of their money. And.
| at the same time, he would almost sell
his soul to be rich himself.
| We know lots of lads who have been
ruined by wine and women. But we
never heard of one who was ruined by
song.
| A homely girl likes to hope that love
lis blind. But 1t Is different with a
pretty girl.
| When you get the better of the other
fellow, you are shrewd business man.
But when the other fellow gets the
better of you. he is low-down swim
dler.
| When you are tempted to let your
mouth run, remember that while the
trombone and the drum make q lot of
racket, the baton that leads them
doesn't make bit of noise.
Isn't it funny what handsome wives
Iugly men get and what ugly wives
good looking men get?
They all say: Money back II you
want it," But how often did you ever
get your money back?
Married women like to refer to them
lselves as slaves. But many six-foot
husband Is compelled to put on an apron
after supper and help his five-foot wife
wash the dishes.
/ Home is usually a place where man
can do his grumbling after he has used
up all his good humor on his fool
friends.
There are not 10 men in 100 who
know how to repeat the Ten Command
ments. And that Is 10 more than know
how to obey them
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06
A WRIST WATCH IN THE DESERT
Peter MacQueen. in World Outlook TO

A WRIST WATCH IN THE DESERT
Peter MacQueen. in World Outlook for
January.
One night company of Arabs attached
themselves to our party. This is GUS
tomary in these wild lands. They saw
that we were well armed and came with
us for safety. One Of them, dignified
young chief, was accompanying woman
across the desert. She was well dressed,
this Arab girl. with yellow turban and
silken robe On her wrist she wore a
Swiss gold watch, and though bare
footed, she was as dignified as the queens
of Lenox and Newport. One of my men
apparently made an insulting remark to
her, and she called him down just as an
American girl would have done. According
to the custom of the desert we had to
give him thrashing. which Mahomet did
Justify with a big stick. After that. the
Arab party always showed us white men
the deepest respect.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06

New York Correspondence Pittsburg Dis
patch.
Not to be outdone by feminine folk. men
vanity case which is particularly adapted
to golf days. The golfer may now trans
form himself from disheveled individ-
ual to one Of immaculate neatness by
the aid of this useful receptacle. It is
made Of serviceable khaki instead Of
brocsded silk and lace. but that's be-
cause men want it for utility purposes
entirely. They can hang it up in their
golf locker and not worry about dust or
depreciation. There are little compart-
ments for a mirror, comb, brush, talcum
powder, neckwear and any other little
trifles that contribute to the golf players
makeup. s
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06
THE FRENCH DO

From Everybody's Magazine
An American just returned from Eu-
rope tells this story:
While riding from London to Liverpool
in railway coach 1t happened that he
was alone in the compartment with an
Englishman, who appeared to be deeply
engrossed in the war news of one of the
papers.
Thinking to start conversation. he said
in good old American slang. Some fight,
eh?''
Eyes. and some don't!' was the reply.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06
About Cleanliness
And Good NealGh

TN these days of progress in the
il medical profession and every
thing pertaining to sanitation a great
deal of advice to the public lis prof
fered by men who fancy themselves
masters of the germ theory and the
hidden secrets of biology, but who
really have got little beyond the
primer grade. They are honest and
enthusiastic, but science, with which
they are enamored, is singularly COM
pick and the wary layman is slow in
accepting them seriously, even though
they have had laboratory as well as
classroom experience.
But today more than ever the public
esteems the bacteriologist and the
sanitarian of known achievement.
The old-time country doctor was a
treasure, and without pretension to
much 'high brow" learning, effected
cures that seemed to the family moth
ing short of marvellous.
For awhile the older generation
had way of looking askance at the
scientific physician and the bacteriol-
ogist, but it is not so now.
The more intelligent the people the
reader they are to listen to science.
A few years ago when kissing was
pronounced dangerous because Of the
insidious germ, we laughed. But nc
one who knows the rudiments Of germ
science would indulge in OSCILLATION as
practiced in other days. Kissing has
proved fatal in so many cases that
only the most foolhardy young mer
and women run the risk of osculatory
expression unless they take the pre-
caution, as DR.. r. M. Cunningham
suggested, of keeping the mouths
apart by the use Of antiseptic cotton
! Coming to the advice of an up-to
date health authority, Wallace A
Manheimer, Phi. D., of Brooklyn, time
ily and common sense rules are urged
upon people in general. "Of all the
materials inimical to the public health
through disease transmission thos,
discharged from the nose and mouth
are the most dangerous" he says.
Typhoid fever and dysentery come
in a different way, but most of thu
other diseases are transmitted through
the nose or mouth. This is notably tn.
case with tuberculosis.
J DR.. Manheimer says the telephone
transmitter has been accused Of being
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06

From the San Francisco Bulletin.
Seven dead" men-victims OF the in
satiable blood lust of certain American
ewspapers-arrived in Ell Paso from
Mexico recently. Some of them had been
killed by villa, some by Carranza, some
Of them only once, some of them more
than once. The American editors had
resorted to every conceivable cruelty in
killing them. Some they had starved
to death, some they had stood against
walls and shot, some they had tortured
to death. The truth about northern
Mexico has been bad enough and sad
enough without lies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06
coUGHL1N FAvoRs CHURCH BELL

From the Chicago News.
This is a discourse on church bells
uttered by John J. Coughlin. Chicago al
derman, better known as 'Bathhouse
john"
Church bells are a good thing and we
can't have too many of EN-.
They have been ringing in this town
for a good many years, and they haven't
disturbed any more sleep than railroad
bells, although they may disturb the
conscience of sinner.
Every bell should be kept ringing or
Sunday mornings to wake up the reform
ers and send them to church.
II wouldn't vote for an ordinance pro-
hibiting church bells; every church should
have them
The alderman was inspired on the sub
ject of Church chimes by protests made
to the health department by authorities
of st. Luke's hospital against the fire.
quent ringing of bells in a church
near by.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06
CONCERNING sPANCHo.

From the Admission Star.
After all the high crimess and misde-
meanors Villa has committed, it would be
singularly handsome in the United States
to remove him from the bandit class.
Birmingham Age Herald.
That's right. Promote him. Put him
in the Wall street gang.-Talladega Daily
Home.
Villa Is great bandit and has been
"villified" great deal, but it is a libel
on him to compare him to the Wall street
bandits.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-01-06
AsH1N1Na STONE.

From the London Chronicle.
Perhaps the most remarkable Of all
the Constantinople prophecies" recent
ly discussed, is connected with the
Shining Stone" in the Mosque of st.
Sophia. This is a slab of translucent
marble, brought from Persia, which has
been fixed in tho west side Of the gall
lery. 1t emits rays of dazzling bril-
liancy during times of national pros
perity or religious triumphs of Islam.
but becomes black and opaque, however
cloudless the skies, when disaster
threatens the Ottoman empire or the
faith. 1t so far never has been seen
darkened. though the Sultans armies
have frequently been defeated. and the
power of Islam seemed to suffer eclipse.
Thus this prophetic stone proves to be-
lieving Moslerfis that however fate may
frown in tho present war, the real VIC
tory remains with them.