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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06

that I'd started with one color oc wool and couldn't finish them because l couldn't match the wool, and they wouldn't sell me enough at tho be- ginning. and you stated you knew the colors were at least standardized
 Whats that? Who started the dis cussion? You did. as usual. sir. Don't say you didn't. Don't contradict me. Mir. Caudle. You came in and asked me If I had heard that four German spies had been arrested right within the city limits. Hows that? 1 started 1t because I told you that the Tat1e- tales German cook they have had for ages was going back to the father land as soon as she could get there, and that the Tattletales' had her un- der suspicion because they found a peculiar looking map and blue prints of things in her trunk. Oh. MT. Caudle how can you be so foolish? I'm the one who is foolish, you say? What's that? With American determination at the highest pitch. it is in the worst sort of taste to speak flfppantly of any subject so tremendously important as the war. MT. Caudle, every subject, no matter how serious, has flippant side ever the grim one of war, and my flippancy Is only intended to shut you off and hear something besides war, war, var"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06

What's that? You are afraid I'm not very patriotic? Just because A take things according to Hoyle, sir: Is that why you say so? Indeed I'm pa- triotic to a degree. I'm right with MT. Hoover in the kitchen. I'm right with the HghtIess nights, meatless days, wheatless days, eggless cakes and sugarless coffeel am truly patriotic American citizen, but I do once in a while like to talk about the weather or the neighbors' Christmas gifts, and how many New Years resolutions you have broken and how much the Gott- FOX paid for their new automobile. think that's only natural and human. Whats that? I'm not as keen on war news and the war situation as should be? Well, I'm alert enough, Mir. Caudle, to know that to have to live in the house with man like you who never speaks of anything or thinks of anything but the war-is a verification of Sherman's famous def milton of it."
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time about the war being so serious
 and then I make flippant remark S
 about titles of books and fly all to
 pieces? Not at all. Now, let me tell
 you something, MT. Caudle It was in August, 1914, when I first began to
 be conscious of an upheaval of an in
 ternational character. Before the head. lines in the papers could be read com fortably I went shopping one day and was told that the French milliner at my favorite millinery shop had given up her job because the floor walker was German. The next time it came home to me very closely was when a friend of mine who was travelling ill Europe arrived and declared that she had been weeks and weeks trying to get home and that she had no money, no Influence, and no friends, and all but lost her mind trying to get checks cashed so she could make the trip home and of course didn't bring me the Swiss embroideries I had asked her to.
 3 Next thing I knew you came home one evening and at dinner mussed up the table and pushed everything aside to illustrate the maneuvers of the armies over there.' You appropri- ated the salt cellars and pepper shakers for heavy machine guns; you took the flat silver and built up the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06
Hole in Germany's Pocket

From the Washington Star.
 "Germany's claim that she import. nothing, buys only of herself. and SC Is growing rich from the war. is a dread full taila.y'
 The speaker was Herbert C. Hoover chairman O. the American food board.
 Germany" he went on. lis like the young man who wisely thought he'd grow his own garden stuff. This young man had been digging for about an hour, when his spade turned up quarter. Ten minutes later he found another quarter. Then he found a dime Then he found a quarter again.
 By gosh, he said. I've struck . sil- yer mine and, strengthening up, he felt something cold slide down his leg. An other quarter lay at his feet. He graspsd the truth; there was hole In his pock- ct~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06
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 MT. Caudle, the time has come foi me to take the subject of the war In hand. Thus far I have had little to say to you. sir. about blaming ev- erything on the face of the earth want to do on the war as 8 req son for not doing it, and I'm sick and tired of 1t all. Of course, we peo- people are more interested in the war than anything else. Naturally they want to talk about it, but I think you can run that subject in the ground Just like you can run any other sub 'ect in the ground, and you've done 1t good and proper.
 Whats that? You've never been an Gtremist on any subject? Certainly ,St, on any that was worth a penny, |out on those that don't amount to d hill of beans, yes. Why, MT. Caudle, just look at our library, for instance You've bought all sorts of war books books with the most outlandish titles; books with the most outlandish contents; books, books. books-just so they've got a cover on them that says 'War'-thats all you want to know about them. Why, what good is there Tn books with titles like that last bunch you brought in. What were they? Let me see. Yes, there was What War Has Done to a Woman on 8 Diet;' Bridge Whist and Belliger- ency;' The Knitting Needle vs. ths Mitrolouse;' War Brides and the We'd ding Guest or Lessons in Economics;' 'Cest la Guerre, or a French Maids Only Excuse: The Diary of Diner Out or What MT. Hoover Hoozerizes;' What Suffrage Owes to Schrecklicheit' and the Lord knows what else. It's awful
 Whats that? I complaNs all tho
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06

says that women must be forced to
 vote because in states which have been
 foolish enough to give them tRe iran
 ehise they have practically annulled 1t by not voting at all According to
 Chancellor Ailisons own statement
 however, this conclusion does not
 seem quite valid since he says that in nonsuffrage states in the south about per cent of the population vote, in the north and west about 20
 per cent making an average in non-
 suffrage states of 16 per cent In suf-
 frage states, however, 3S per cent of
 the population vote. This mysterious
 increase of over 20 per cent in the
 states where women have the right to
 vote would lead the average mind to
 conclude that women exercise that
 right. If the women do not vote. who
 doubles the voter Perhaps the chan cellor would do well to study his own figures.
 THE GOLDEN RULE IrNAPPLIED
 The southern women are called upon to relinquish all claim to the justice of equal suffrage lest when they gain the vote tho negro woman might be en- franchised, too The women of the south in declining do ncN wish to appear sell fish or unpatriotc to the states which need them so, but they merely wish to understand this proposition of the mem bers of the Mems Anti-Suffrage society The southern white man was ready to give his very life to gain the vote lest he should be dominated by the ignorant negro vote, too fresh from slavery to ac- cept the full rights of citizenship Does he offer now to give up his hard won right of suffrage lest a negro man qual- fly, as a voter? Surely not. Yet is he willing to ask the women of his state to do that which he would not do unto him. self? The negro scare of the anti-suf- frage party in the south Is an insult to the intelllgence of the people. To be fooled by it would be to deprive not only tae women of the rights and duties of but also to deprive the men of the south of the strongest and most efficient assistance in building up a com munity that shall not leave the golden
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06

1 the Franco-Prussian war arc examples of comparative simplicity, because In each case there were but two parties to tho quarrel. On the other hand, ws have as examples of complexity the Thirty Years war and the Napoleonio wars. The former was prolonged struggle, Involving religious and polit- lcal issues, of many small powers, loosely held together, and was ended as various powers made separate peace. In the Napoleonic wars. France en- 1oyed the advantage of unity under Ma poleon. while the enemy was the rest of Europe unified only in the desire to bring about Napoleon's defeat. If in this present war any single bel1igerent Is detached it will carry with it a train of circumstances that will affect all the rest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06
BRIGHT FUTURE w STORE FOR THE AMERICAN HEN
Wholesale. Slaughter of Fowls Must Result in Op- p0rtunities for Those Who Stick" Cold Storage Houses, Hatcheries and Other Factors Will Help Boost Prices

There will be shortage of poultry and eggs throughout the world for many years as the result of wholesale saugh- ter or fowls in this country and in Eu- rope. It will b. years before the poultry industry regains its normal status. AS consequence, the future outlook for the industry points toward profitable opportunities for those who retain their flocks.
 In most cases where the poultrymen lave disposed of their flocks, they have &sed their establishments only tempor- . $iily. They are still retaining their en- fire equipment, so that at a later period, when favorable opportunity presents itself they may secure new stock and resume business. These temporary lapses may be caused by call to the colors, lack of help. high cost of feed, stress of other business, or it may be due to the embargo on shipping which is having its Influence on the welfare of the poultry industry.
 Any of these reasons contributes its share to the reduction in poultry cul- ture and as a result the shortage in this country Is growing at an alarming pace with very little relief in sight. The |, high prices paid for all kinds of meats
 
 and this has induced the wholesale slaughter of fowls. Coincident to the extra demands for poultry meats there is the unusual rise in price of all kinds of grain which reduces the profits of the poultry producer, many of whom have sold their flocks to keep from going into debt. On the other hand, some who re- tained their flocks have found the price of grain so high that they have been forced to oreduce the grain ration at the expense of egg production. Besides, a reduction in egg production, this has entailed loss in proper development. with the result that large number of fowls are going into winter quarters in poor condition, and 1t will require many weeks in the spring to put them in proper shape to prove profitable. All of these factors must add to the shortage next season. Cold storage establishments have all out exhausted their supplies, and as a result the demands for fresh eggs and l poultry must increase from this time on. | During the coming season the packers |
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06

will find that the shortage is continually growing, and they will endeavor to put aside larger quantities of eggs and poul- try than usual. This will be one of the influences in sending the prices fol spring production higher than ever.
 There is every reason to expect higher prices next season, besides the influence of cold storage demands. The business of the baby chick hatcheries will have considerable effect this spring.
 TROUBLE FOR HATCHERIES
 Tho demand for baby chicks will be abnormally large, but owing to present shipping conditions, there is small hope that the express companies will contract to deliver live chicks in good condition, especially while they are congested with o.her non- perishable goods, as at pres ent. This feature will be far-reaching in it's influence upon the growth of the industry. as well as it's influence on the current prices of eggs, because there will be millions of chicks die during trans portation. and millions more will be so weakened in vitality that they will prove practically worthless as future breeders. The leading hatcheres have been in the habit of guaranteeing safe delivery of chicks. and it is to be presumed that they will continue this practice, and this Will demand millions of eggs to replace the lost chicks. Transporfarion condi- tfons will also have its influence upon the breeders supplying matching eggs, and as result there will be losses in this branch of the industry.
 At present there seems to be little re- lief in the transportation congestion, and the only hope for the poultryman is to Improve the local trade, and make ship
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06

us q II q s Ol do not know it. aiAo
 IT you are not strong or well. won owe 1t to yourself to make the Hollow. Ing test: See how long you can worA ci or nov far you can walk without be. coming tired. Next take two fiye-rrn;n tablets of Nuxated Iron three times nl1 ,a, day after meals for two weeks. Thar test your strength again and see hn,s much you have gained. no"
 NorE-Nuxated Iron which has been used hv forrr. united States Senator Towne with such s,rprisin. = suits and which is prescribed and reconmended shc. ny physicians in such great variety of cases i. not patent medicine secret remedy bn on. which Is well known to druggists everywhere Tn. iae the older inorganic iron products 1t la sssii, assimated. does not injure the teeth mshs ,h.s black nor upset the aomach; on the contrary it most potent rcmedy in nearly all forms of ndt. gesfion as well as for nervous run down con5t tons Tho manufacturer have such areat cor idence In Nuxated Iron that they offer to fors.r sloo0o to any charitable institution if tbsv csnr1 take any man or woman under sixty who lschs trc. and increase their srsngth 100 per cent or over i Tour weeks time provided they have no ssrfo,u organic trouble They slso offer to refund you, money II It does not at least double your strenstl and endurance in ten days tims is dispenss1 ey all good drugglsts-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06

politicians, athletes--a great array.
 Dr. E. Sauer. a Boston Physician. who has studied both in this country and great European Medical Institu-
 tions, said: "Nuxated Iron is a won- dc derful remedy. Not long ago man century old. and asked me to give him a preliminary examination for life insurance. I was astonished to find him with the blood pressure of a boy of twenty, and as full of vigor, vim and vitality as young man: in fact. a young man he really was. not withstanding his age. The secret. he said, said .,y,s was ss ssaking, iron-Nuxated iron 30 he was in bad health; at 4s he was care~orn and nearly all in-.now at miracle of .S vitality and his face beam. people would only take Nuxated Iron when they feel weak and run down in stead of dosing themselves with hshis- h,aaso5;a forming drugs. stimulants. and that in this way they could ward off disease. preventing 1t becoming or ganic in thousands of cases and thereby the lives of thousands might
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06

anybody enjoy meal with such fear full topics of conversation always on the tip of ones tongue?
 T joined the optimists in the early part of the game-the optimists who believed the men would be out of the trenches by Christmas. I've gone through all the stages of learning the new pronunciation of geographical names. I have learned many of the new war words, 'camouflage,' 'sabot- age,' 'cantonments' 'questionnaire, prophetaire'-and heaven knows what else. Then came the tales of German
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06

1 ments ether than by the large express companies who use the railroads exclu-
 sively. It is paying proposition to
 hatch baby chicks, providing the hatch
 cries are reasonably sure of making
 pro mpt deliveries.
 PRICES MUST ADVANCE From the foregoing it will be seen | that the outlook is unusually bright for | those who have retained their flocks, and who have kept them in perfect condition. The prices of eggs and poultry must increase, the supply Is diminishing, cold storage operators must put away large
 numbers of eggs and poultry to supply the demands later on These operators
 must make profit and the consequence is that tho public must depend upon the local supply until next fall The f1ocks have been culled down to the best speci- mems. and these are now on the we're of laying. Their production at this time will
 mere than pay for their food, and if the cost of producing the fowls is not
 taken into consideration, there may be
 a handsome profit made for the next six
 months.
 Poultrymen have learned many lessons
 the past year. They are perrecting sys-
 tems of management along lines of mod
 ern tusness Flocks that have been cut
 down to the minimum are being housed
 In such manner that 1t requires much
 less labor for their attention. Automatic
 appliances are being used in greater
 numbers Labor saving devices are pre- dominant Poultrymen are eliminating
 waste as never before: they are reduc- Ing the cost of production by cutting or many of the supposedly time-worn necessities.
 VALUABLE LESSONS LEARNED
 Feeding Is being reduced to a war basis. Rations are being used which are producing excellent results at consider ably lower cost
 One of the greatest lessons learned is in the selection of stock. It has been found that by eliminating the drones and weddings the percentage of returns equals that of former years. when larger flocks were maintained without especial attention to individual mem bers. This condition will be far-reach- ing In its influence. Flocks will be built up from parentaGe of known productive qualities and they will be based upon vitality and stamina
 Poultrymen who survive these strin- gent times will be looked upon to fur 'iish the stock and blood for new flocks iney Will be the only producers at a .iIne , when there will be even greater 'emanus TOT breeding stock than at the l present. Not only will the poultrymen | "hc temporarily closed out their pens oe in the market for now supplies. but | me whole world will be in a similar po- | sitich, and the demands will far exceed l me supply From experiences this past | season there are many other timid poul- | try Keepers who will close out their fioclxs because or financial or other reasons.
 rices or eggs and poultry are already 1 rcreasing. and profits at this season.. "nich "nch are gett ng tnore near normal. give every indication of contin,,inr the summer.
 The season is at hand when p1ans ara aid for the production Of next years law srs Are you going to use an tncubator 'r depend upon sitting hens? Better con ,lder the machine. and reserve the hens 'or eggs. Read next weeks article nn his subject. oA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06
What Senator TOwne Says:

As n member of Congress from New York. as q member of Congress and Senator from Minnesota, as participant in political campaigns md candi- date fof Vice-Presi- dent, my nervous energy and reserve force were tremend- Ously drawn upon. That I survived these trials and came into advanced middle life with the elasticity and strength of u boy is unquestionabiy due to the rigorous attention l have paid to the pro-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06

l Probably no remedy has ever met with
 such phenomenal success as has Nux-
 ated Iron-Over three million people an-
 nually are taking 1t in this country
 alone. to say nothing of the vast num-
 bers who are using it in France, Eng
 land. South America and other coun- tries. It has been highly indorsed and | used by former United States Senators and members of Congress; physicians who have been connected with swell-
 known hospitals have prescribed and recommended it. Monseigneur Nannini. a prominent Catholic Clergyman. recom-
 mends it to all members of the Catho-
 lie Church. Former Health Commis-
 sioner wm. R. Kerr Of Chicago. says
 1t ought to be used fin every hospital
 and prescribed by every physician: pr.
 H. B. Vail, formerly Physician In the
 Baltimore Hospital and Medical Ex
 aminer, says that time and again he
 has prescribed Nuxated Iron and sur
 prised patients at the rapidity with
 which the weakness and general de-
 blity were replaced by renewed
 feeling of strength and vitality; For mer First Assistant Postmaster General of the United States, c. r. Grandfield, strongly endorses and recommends 1t to the tens of thousands of civil service employees who know his name and signature. Sarah Bernhardt the Divine" Sarah" the worlds most noted actress. has ordered large quan- tity sent to the French soldiers to help give them strength, power and endur- ance.
 The famous Cyclone" Davis member of the 64th United States Congress, says the effect of Nuxated Iron on him was almost magical, that after taking it. nothing seemed to tire him out no mat ter how strenuous 1t might be. Dr. A. J. Newman. late Police Surgeon of the City of Chicago and former House Sur geon Jefferson Park Hospital, Chicago says Nuxated Iron has proven through his own tests of 1t to excel any prepar- ation he has ever used for creating red blood, building up the nerves, strength ening the muscles and correcting dixes- tive disorders.
 pr. Schuyler c. Jaques, Visiting Sur yeon St. Elizabeth's Hospital, New York. says he has never before recommended any remedy to the public. but that in he case of Nuxated Iron he would feel 10 were remiss in his duty not to men, ion 1t. Dr. Ferdinand King, New York Physician and Medical Author, says that Il his recent talks to physicians on the ,rave and serious consequences of iron deficiency in tho blood of American women he has strongly emphasized the act that doctors should prescribe more organic fron-Nuxated Iron-for their weak. rundown. nervous. haggard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06
Did His Best

From the Chicago Herald.
 The difference, not merely of degree but of kind. which is supposed to sepa- rnte the English rector from the inferioy order of curates Is amusingly exemplisied In tlIe following:
 Returning to his parish after his au- tnmn holiday. dignified country clergy man. noticing a woman at her cottage door with a baby in her arms, asked: Has that baby been baptized?
 Well. sir" replied the curtsying mother. T shouldn't like to say as much as that, but your young man came and did what he couyd.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06

Mrs. Bonelli the new publicity chair-
 man of the Birmingham Equal Suffrage
 association, is fresh from the New York campaign. Exceptional things may be expected of her. Mrs Bonelli will have office hours from 10 to at headquarters every Monday and Thursday. All notices Of suffrage activity in the city and county may be brought to Mrs Bonelli at this time and any precinct chairman who is interested in planning propaganda to wake up her precinct is urged to come up to talk to the publicity chairman for Inspiration and practical assistance.
 Mrs Clyde Richardson, who has charge of the trench candle making of the suf- frage unit. will hold classes every Tues day afternoon this month. The trench candles are easily made and require so little time and material outlay that every family should constitute itself a small factory for this unique soldier comfort Father and the children can spend a few moments every evening turning the pa pefs into trench candles while mother knits. Come up to suffrage headquarters on Tuesday and learn how.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06

The jaboncello, or soap berry tree grows in the humid parts of western h'cuador. It attains a height of 50 feet ana has wide-spreading branches and immense quantities of fruit of the size ana shape of cherries The nearby transparent yellowish skin and puln surrounding the round black seeds are so saponaceous as to be used instead or soap, being equivalent to more than eo times their weight of that material.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06
CAN FIGURES LIE,

What even the weak. illogical mind of woman can find flaws in the argu- ment of the noted CD chancellor from Tennessee, who promises disaster to the world if women vote. there must be something wrong with his state ment In the first place. he begs us to study his eloquent figures, then gives his own more than elocuent conclusions based, we will suppose. on facts too sacred for the public ken since they in nowise correspond to the figures he published For instance, he