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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
The Twentieth Anniversary

INN Sunday August 1870 years ago-he first issue of
~ The Age Herald appeared under the controlling
ship and personal auspices of its present editor
Rod of growth and development during the past 20 years than
has Birmingham and The Age Herald that small but
gessve and newsv issue of Sunday in the late nnetie
kept pace with this wonderful city 1t occupies the place
among southern newspapers does Birmingham among south
ern cities
mngham from the chaos Of early industrial struggle into the
full glory of commercial emnence which makes her
o the nations greatest assets in meeting wars responsible
ties.
The Herald is proud of the part has played during
those 20 coordnang community effort preaching the
gospel Of upbudng applaung every worthy enterprise lead
ing in constructive work and presenting the world the Of
Bming activities and to the people Of Birmingham the
news of world events
Twenty years Birmingham had less than 10000 nhab
ants Today there 100000 Twenty years there
not steel office building in Birmingham.
Within the past two decades Birmingham has developed from
the crude pig iron stage fabricated steel aure Good roads
good Streets good schools and good churches conspicuous
examples of the city's progress
Every day Of the 20 years there has been wonderful story
to tell and every day The Age Herald has told it.
Viewed in retrospecon The AgeHerad history during this
cates itself to still greater usefulness and still greater endeavo
fostering and promoting the growth and development of this
city and state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
THE SONG OF THE CAMP

By Bayard Taylor.
"Glve us a song!" the soldiers cried,
The outer trenches guNroing,
When the heated guns of the camps
Grew weary of bombarding.
The dark Redan, in silent scott
Lay grim and threatening, under;
And the tawny mound of the Malakoff
No longer belched it's thunder.
There was pause. A guardsman said,
I'VE storm the forts tomorrow;
Sing while We may-another day
Will bring enough of sorrow"
They lay along the battery's side,
Below the smoking cannon;
Brave hearts, from Severn and from
Clyde,
And from the banks of Shannon.
They sang of love, and not Of fame;
Forgot was Britatns glory;
Each heart recalled different name,
But all sang annie Laurie"
Voice after voice caught up the song.
Until it's tender passion
Rose like an anthem, rich and strong
Their battle-eve confession.
Dear girl. her name he dared not speak
But as tina song grew louder,
Something upon the soldiers cheek
Washed off the stains of powder.
Beyond the darkening ocean burned
The bloody sunsets embers,
While the Crimean valleys learned
How English love remembers
And once again fire of hell
Rained on the Russian quarters.
With nf shot and hurst nf shall
And believing of the mortars.
An Irish Nora's eyes are dim
For a singer, dumb and CORY;
And English Mary mourns for him.
Who sang of Annie Laurie.
Sleep, soldiers! Still in honored rest
Your truth and valor wearing
The bravest are the tenderest-
The loving are the daring.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29

Indicted on nine counts of felony, Gov
ernor Ferguson of Texas announces his
candidacy for another term. He is either
innocent or capable of putting up CO.
lossal bluff.
Canadians Are Busy" reads a head
line. That's nothing new. The Cana
dams are always busy. That's why the
.Boche" suffers from nerves."
For his patriotic conduct in not playing
partisan politics during a national crisis,
Uncle joe Cannon deserves box of
the best stogies on the market.
Il y Il
A woman writer says the geyser girl,
with slender ankles, pep and patience is
the type men like. Have you geyser
girl on your calling list?
The German government is now de-
manding gold from the German people.
That's much worse than conflscatlng
ones copper kettle.
Speaking of typographical errors, the
Talladega Reporter had this one the
other day: .'All is hot gold that glut-
ters."
II II II
ment. Having been found out. it's a
wonder his head wasn't chopped off long
ago.
During the fiscal year just closed 1876
vessels passed through the Panama canal
and not one was attacked by U-boat.
r ~
Wonder how King George takes the re-
peated assertions Of British statesmen
that he is only figurehead?
General Goethals has been vindicated
but there is probably sore spot where
the vindication took effect.
You never can tell The man who wears
loud silk shirt may be doing his Bit
with the rest of us.
To ambitious airmen who plan to bomt
Berlin: Potsdam is II miles southwest
of the city proper.
Add horrors of war" There may be
no worlds series baseball games this
year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
The LIGHT of the World

Symbols
remarkable selection each
the
the ultimate thing the the
the of fe"
81 am the light of the world"
n astI the light of the world"
mysteries world which
define.
continued
adds that the
before
Throne
God light Him ALL"
We do this light mystical
heat makes modifes reveals the world.
Light the life the solution which life is held
the call which life the which
conagon
invoked
finds his birthright
Light modifies
toughens pleasure writes will
glowing presence
There color form perspective without
square, ugne
mods
there
t Light maker Of e
o
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
Was Famous Correspondent

Il just happened to think of the
New York Tribune's London CORE
spondent. George w. smalley, who be-
came famous by his letters beginning
over score of years ago." said w.
P; Thompson Of Clanton, VINO for
years was connected with the Tribune.
II used to have to handle his copy.
1t always came on French folio paper,
and | had task 70 rub out his rs,
and thereby wounded his sensibilities.
The Tribune was paying him $4,000
year, and finally the matter got to
Whitelaw Reid, the editor and owner.
He wanted to fire Smalley but did not
know where to get another such bril-
liant writer and so unwillingly let
him continue to use as many rs as
he pleased. Smalley's letters were later
reproduced in book form and had a
big sale"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
LUKE NI'LUKE SAYS

When you are engaged to her she
| thinks a great deal of you. And when
| you are married to her she thinks a
great deal for you.
| An old-fa shioned mans idea or a dude
| is a fellow who refers to his necktie as
| his cravat.
Of course, it is none of our business.
| But too many marHied men wait until
| Friend Wife issues an ultimatum before
| they will wash their feet.
People forget other things. But they
always remember money that is owed
them and women who go wrong.
Many a woman who marries for a
home spends lot of her time complain
ing because her husband doesn't take her
out for her meals.
| AS far as We are concerned, woman
ish man makes us sicker than does a
mannish woman.
Another reason why it Is hard to get a
man to church on Sunday is because he
likes to smoke when he is loafing.
Every man is hero to his wife-dur-
ing the first 10 days of their married
life.
ers in the world. Maybe you will recall
the fact that most of the singers of the
Declaration Of independence were mar
ried men.
You can't make most men understand
that it is just as unkind to say mean
things about the living as about the
de I'd.
There are all sorts of men in the world,
including the fellow who is so proud OF
the hair on his chest that he leaves his
shirt open SO you can see it.
| A small boy won't keep his ears clean
And any barber can tell you that a lot
of them never outgrow the habit even
when they have to get shaved every
! day.
| You imagine that you have a pretty
good memory So does every man. But
Wen bet you an American golden eagle
against a plugged German pfennig that
you can't remember what you said as
| your part of the marriage ceremony
when you faced the preacher.
Every boy wants to be a pirate when
he grows up, but only a few realize
their ambition. They turn out to be
plumbers and ice men.
| The things that a father should tell
his son are usually old stuff to son by
the time father gets around to telling
them.
| The old-fashioned boy who doubted
| that women had legs because he never
saw any feminine ankles now has son
who gets tired of seeing feminine knees
| Preachers are only human and we dc
| not blame them for being deaf enough
not to hear CALI to smaller salary
| Most OF the time the man who talks
about them" things has a bigger bank
roll than the lad who knows how to say
those things.
The only woman haters we ever knew
were married men who confined their
hating to one woman.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
Lumber From the
SouGh's Big Forests

C1NHE Southern railway systems
i latest bulletin gives much in
formation in small space. 1t tells of
the rapid shipment of lumber from
southern forests to the army can
torment sites and the shipbuilding
yards.
Lumber for the environments is be-
ing supplied from the Carolinas,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi-
ana and Arkansas. The bulk of the
lumber to be used in the new wooden
ships is to be drawn from Alabama
and Mississippi.
The bulletin calls attention to the
fact that by a systematic plan of re-
distribution of cars, regardless of
ownership, the railroad war board
has adopted a policy new to Ameri-
can railroad usage and hopes there
by to solve the problem of rapidly
mobilizing in different sections of the
country the freight cars necessary to
handle the abnormal government and
commercial traffic that war condi-
tions have produced. The south, in
dustrially and agriculturally and in
q transportation way, is doing it's
"bit," and the railroads are proving
themselves to be great leaders in all
the war activities.
Marse Henry's ITO hell with the Ho-
henzollerns and Hapsburgsr has gotten
him into a lawsuit with the business
management of the Louisville Courier
Journal Still. there isn't better slogan
extant
The crown prince is getting to be al
most as reckless with his soldiers as the
Gear threatened to become when he
boasted that he would capture Berlin
Lloyd George calls Russia the land OF
the Unexpected" But 1T was the ex-
pected that happened and that is what is
keeping allied leaders awake O. nights.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
Bieeer Pill For
Fritz to Swallow

~ NE of the minor causes of COM
W plant against German "kultur"
Us its attitude toward women. In the
Germanic scheme of things woman
has her place-trust notorious "ef-
Efficiency" to recognize that she has
some value to the state-but her
place is distinctly a subservient one,
sharply defined from the Kaiser's
family down to the humblest home in
the empire. The German male con-
siders himself essentially superior
being. He must needs have woman
to preside over his home and bear his
children, but she must never forget
the Difference due her lord and mas
ter.
In view of his training and habits
of mind, imagine the deep chagrin,
the profound disgust of German
soldier when he discovers that he has
been captured by one of the Russian
women soldiers, who have tried, with
splendid heroism, to inspire the de-
moralized troops in Galicia!
Those women, battalion of them,
have recently fought with conspicuous
gallantry, firing like veterans and
using the bayonet. Their inspiring ex-
ample has apparently failed to arouse
the Russian troops to a renewed of
fensive, but their prowess in captur-
ing number of Germans has doubt
less made many an unhappy Fritz the
laughing stock of his comrades in
misery.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
Enjoys Life on Farm

Il have had good time down on
my little place, which I call Magnolia
in the lumber business in Birmingham
1T had been years since I had
lived on farm, but felt that I could
make living and really enjoy the
quiet of country life, and so I bought
me a place just above Pelham on the
pike to Montgomery from Birming
ham. have a fine crop of corn, plenty
of vegetables and fruit. and feel indie
pendent, for 1 can make a living at
home"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
Mobile Shocked br Crime

GAS a Mobilian / have been shamed
and Inundated at the awful Hess
murder" said ]. E. Barnes, formerly
of Pratt City but now a resident of
the beautiful city by the gulf.
"'Of course it was one of those
tragedies which might have happened
anywhere, but it shocked and
aroused Mobile to high pitch of in
dignation. I sincerely hope that every
one connected with it in any way will
be punished to the fullest extent We
must make our cities safe for women
to travel alone at night"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
victory Looks Far orr

TT looks like it is hard to hold the
Germans" said c. p. Beddow, the well
known advocate, "and the war may
be long drawn out, as we will have
to get our boys across the sea before
we can get at them. 1 believe the
American soldier will at last swing
the line of battle closer and closer to
Berlin, but 1t looks at present with
the Russian generalization like it's
going to take years to win decisive
victory"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
ADRlFT WITH THE TIMES
HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL
Are the Jipsons still making Mans for

HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL
Are the Jipsons still making plans for
the summer
"Oh, yes"
III they don't hurry summer will be
over before they go anywhere"
"That won't discourage the Jipsons.
They will Immediately begin making
plans for next summer
GETTING DESPERATE
sold your car YETI"
NO." replied the melancholy motorist.
II passed that stage long ago."
"Indeed!"
Eyes. I'm trying to give 1t away now
SANGUINE TEMPERAMENT
II never saw Dubson's equal for en-
couraging bill collectors"
How does he do it?"
"He infects them with his own opti-
mistic belief that he is going to have
some money some day"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
HOTEL LOBBIES
Pays visit to Docenn

L have just been over to see my
son. Dr.. D. H. Thweatt, at Docena,"
said w. M. Thweatt, the merchant
farmer of McFall. and it sure is a
model camp. I had heard a great deal
about it but was really surprised to
find everything in such fine shape.
II am sorry to state that the boil
weevil has at last reached the north
ern part of Talladega county He did
much harm in the southern part last
year but spared u.s.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
Bottom Lands in Danger

when I left Decatur Tuesday,"
said Jesse Cook, 1.-THE river was at the
16-foot stage and rising, and it was
feared that it would go to the 20-foot
stage which meant ruin to many
thousands of acres of beautiful corn
fields. If the Tennessee does not over
flow the river bottom lands there will
be an abundance of corn in north Ala
hor
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
Plans to visit OgIethorpe

Il am thinking of running up to
Fort oglethorpe and seeing my
nephew, Capt. Burr Ferguson said
Judge Charles Ferguson, "as I am
both anxious to see him and to see
the men in camp life. l understand
that Burr is instructfng some of the
cavalry in horsemanship. He is fine
horseman and ought to make a good
instructor"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29

"A man asked me if could tell him
where the Farmers union was meet
ing," said District Attorney Robert N.
Bell. Il told him, but added l did not
think they would let him in as the
doorkeeper had just shut me out, and
that 1 thought 1 was some farmer and
stock raiser. understood it when I
learned they were in executive ses-
sion :"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
MEXICO REJnICEs

From the New York Herald.
"All Mexico rejoices over the removal
of the embargo on arms from the United
States" says a dispatch. The Carranza-
Villa championship games will now be
resumed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
JUST POSING
2,eJd3,ueo

JUST POSING
is the seashore belle
Unconscious quite
That she's a vision
OF delight?
We don't think So
such airs and graces
She'd not assume
In desert places
Where there were no
Menfolk t admire
Her lovely curves
And chic attire.
AN EXCEPTION
Women in all walks of life are taxi
ing part in the food conservation cam
paign.'
Not quite all walks Of life are rep
resented in this movement
mop
Il have yet to hear of a movie vam-.,
pre being elected president of can
ming club"
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
IDLE CURIOSITY

I've never met mermaid,
The kind the artists draw;
If ever / encounter one
I'll gaze at her in awe.
And maybe I will ask her
If she has ever seen
Her picture on the cover OF
A summer magazine.
PROBABLY WHERE 1T STARTED
s'The cave man seized the woman he
wanted and dragged her off TO his lair. =
..Rather primitive method, eh?"
Eyes, but in those days ! guess
woman spoke the truth when she said:
This is so sudden!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
OLD STUFF

OLD STUFF WV
Miss sereleaf came very near giving
her age away the other night"
"How did that happen?
.'She was telling about having once
seen a melodrama in which the hero
saved the heroine from being decapitated
by buzz saw
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29

Entered at the birmingham, Ala ,
postoffice as second-class matter I'M
der act of Congress- March s, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29

Add horrors of war" There may be
no worlds series baseball games this
year,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-08-02

well until needed when the summer
drought comes.
Silage furnishes a green, succulent,
appetizing feed through the winter,
the same as grass through the sum-
mer. 1t keeps the animals system in
as good condition as when the stock
is on good pasture, and feeds given 1t
are better digested.
Corn makes the best silage. Green
pea vines, husks and cObs from the
canning factories make good material
to put in the silO. In continuous rainy
weather alfalfa, clover and other hay
crops may be saved in the silo.
Every live stock growing district in
the United States needs the SilO. The
general use of the silO will make the
high-priced small farms of the corn
belt profitable growers, as we'll as fin
ishers Of cattle and sheep.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-08-02
SUGAR BEET TOPS
AND SHOCK CORN
MAKE GOOD SlLAGE

Sugar beet tops and shock corn were
successfully cut up together into Stage
at the university farm last fall. The
silage had a slightly stronger odor
than the ordinary corn silage, but was
not offensive. Cows relished it and
did as we'll on it as they did on regular
corn silage. Chemical analysis showed
that this silage had practically the
same feeding value as clear corn
silage.
Professor Henry states that the
leaves of sugar beets have about half
ing into consideration the fact that
the annual yield Of sugar beets in
Wisconsin sometimes exceeds 100000
tons, one is impressed with the inn
portance of utilizing the beet tops for
feed to get the most out Of them. Max
ing them into silage with corn fodder
proved so satisfactory that it will be
repeated and it seems worth while to
publish the fact as suggestion to the
many farmers of the state who grow
large crops of sugar beets and who
are undoubtedly facing the problem Of
how best to utilize the tops for feed
ing purposes.
After the beets were removed from
the field, the tops which had been left
in small piles were hauled and run
through an ensilage cutter into the
silo with about an equal quantity Of
corn fodder taken from the shock.
By throwing beet tops onto a large
layer of corn and running both through
the cutter together, no difficulty was
experienced in. getting the beet tops
out.
Enough water was added to the cut
material to give it proper moisture
and make it pack we'll when two men
tramped it during the time Of filing
It is hoped that this use Of beet tops
will be as successful throughout the
state as it was at the university farm
last fall.-G. C. Humphrey, Wiscon-
sin College of Agriculture.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-08-02
By II. M. COTTRELL

The greatest waste in any single in
dustry in this country is made with
the corn crop.
The grain OF the annual corn crop
of the United States is worth on the
farms one and a half billion dollars.
In a ripe corn plant 60 per cent Of the
feed value is contained in the kernels
and 40 per cent in the stalk and leaves.
With the grain worth one and half
billion dollars, the feed value Of the
rest of the crop is a billion dollars.
At least 80 per cent of the feed val
ue of the stalk is lost under the pres
ent system Of farm management-a
waste with this crop alone Of almost
billion dollars yearly. No other
business but farming could stand such
an enormous loss.
Corn Belt Needs More Silos.
In the New England and the middle
states most of the stalks are saved
as fodder, and there are many siloS,
but with the damage from weatherinS
the waste in handling and the loss in
digeStibility from drying, the farmers
are very far from utilizing the full
feed value of the corn stalk.
In the corn belt, where the bulk Of
the crop is raised, comparatively few
corn growers harvest the stalks, and
the only returns most of them secure
from the forage is by pasturing the
dead stalks in the cold and storms of
winter.
Make Profits From By-Products.
Contrast this waste by the corn
grower with the practices of large
business organizations. For years the
great packing houses have reported
the sale of dressed meat for less than
they have paid for the live weight of
animals.
Yet every year these packing houses
return millions of dollars profit be-
cause they utilize to the fullest extent
the value of their by-productS. Oil
companies take crude oil into their
refining plants, put it through costly
processes, using apparatus that re-
QuireS an outlay of millions, pay the
freight and deliver the kerosene and
SuSOIllt NIlEeCI 10 COuSullISIS tlI d Ioh-
err rate than is asked for mineral Wa
ter, where the only expense is TO run
the water through a pipe from the
spring into a bottle.
AT the same time the corn growers
are wasting most of 40 per cent Of the
feed value of over one hundred mil
lion acres of corn.
SiIaae Resembles June Pastures.
The siio provides the corn grower
with the means for utilizing the larg
est proportion of the feed value of his
entire crop, grain and forage. The ST.
lage can be kept for days, months or
Years, or feeding may begin as soon
as filing the silo is completed.
The silo can be filled in good wealth
er. when it is raining, or in times of
extreme drought and hot winds. ST.
lage is good, fed daily, both in winter
and summer. When grass is ready in
the spring, the feed that remains in
the silo can be covered and will keep
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-08-02
The THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION OF
THE NEW YORK WORLD
in 1917
Practically a Daily at the Price
of a Weekly. No other News
paper in the world gives so
much at so low a price.

The value and need of newspaper in the
household was never greater than at the present
time. The great war in Europe is now half way
into it's third year, and, whether peace be at
hand or yet be far off, it and the events to fol-
low it are sure to be of absorbing interest for
many month to come.
These are world shaking affairs, in which the
United States, willing or unwilling, is compel
ed to take part. No intelligent person can ig-
more such issues.
THE THRICE-A WEEK WORLDS regular
subscription price is only s1.OO per year, and
this pays for 156 papers. We offer this un-
equa1led newspaper and The Iowa County
Democrat together for one year for $2OO.
The regular subscription price of the two
papers Is S2.25.