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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-25

ton at an early date, it is stated In 1918,
just prior to the signing of the armistice,
there we're 81 furnaces in blast in the
state, and it was said then that this was
the maximum number.
Consumers in the west and south are
said to be running low in pig iron stocks
and they are now trying to make sure
of sufficient metal to keep them going
through the next year. Most of them
held off from buying during the spring
and summer, it is said, fearing to stock
up on what was then considered high
priced iron They expected cheaper iron
by fall, and when the market took a turn
upward they continued to wait But they
have now come to the conclusion that
cheaper price sare not probable for long
time and they are coming into the mar
ket
When the war ended last November the
bottom dropped out of the iron market,
prices slumped TO figure below the cost
of production in this district. and more
than half of the active furnaces became
inactive within 3. period of two or three
months. In February there were only IS
furnaces in blast and the number did
not increase fcI several weeks 1t was
not until late summer that there was
any material increase in the number OF
furnaces, or production, but conditions
have now changed and several additional
furnaces would be required to supply the
demand for Birmingham iron at the pres
ent time
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-25
IF You Suffer the Tor
lures of Burning Itch
ing Skin Diseases
It's Possible You Can Secure
Permanent Relief by the
Use of This Prescrip-
ton Treatment

When your skin itches you just must
scratch and rub, although you well know
that the irritation caused will itch all the
more and burn like Goals of fire. In addi-
ton to the suffering and torture the glands
Of the inflamed skin will throw off wat
cry pus that makes the trouble all the more
unbearable.
MISSY and greasy external applications
may stop the itching for while but as
this diseased condition of the skin is usu-
ally caused by impure state of your blood.
lief can be expected until the blood is thor
oughly purified-the poisons. that caus-
ing the unbearable skin disease, eliminated
entirely.
AS red blood purifier Plough's Prescrp-
ton C-2223 has been used for years and
years with great success in the treatment of
those conditions of the skin due to impure
state of the blood. This concentrated liquid
treatment contains certain medicinal ingre-
dents we'll known to the medical profess
sion. which eliminate the poisons causing
the trouble purify the blood and make the
skin clear and healthy.
In taking Plough's Prescription C-2223, it
IS very necessary that the liver be active
very mild cathartic and liver stimulant
is prepared especially for in connectio
Liver Pills Three pills a week all that
will be found necessary to keep the liver
and bowels in healthy condition. thereby
assisting the treatment in throwing off the
poisons.
Ploughs Prescription C-2223 can be found
at all good drug stores at $3.50 bottle
the Pills, 25c package, or the 1928 Lab
oratory, Memphis, Tenn, will send both
postpaid on receipt Of SITS.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-25
HEAVY DEMAND FOR
PIG IRON EXCEEDS
FURNACES OUTPUT
Ever Increasing Volume of
Business Offered Would
Overtax the Stacks in
Operation

Birmingham pis' iron makers are re-
ceiving inquiries for iron from all sections
Of the south and the west in ever in
creasfne volume, it was stated yesterday.
The actual business offered local COM
panies, it is stated, would overtax the fur
naces now in operation, or which could
be put in operation at an early date be-
yond their capacity
Practically all CT the furnace comps MES
are sold out Tor the first quarter of 1920
and some of them have booked little
business for the second quarter, though
they are not anxious to take on very
large tonnage for delivery very far in
the future.
One local interest yesterday received
inquiries for q considerable tonnage for
immediate delivery, but had to advise
the inquirer that they were unable to
accept the order. Replying to the inquiry
the makers stated that they could not
promise delivery before January /, and
probably not for some weeks later than
that
Fonr or five furnaces we're banked at
the beginning Of the coal miners strike
as conservation measure, and in an
ticipation of IL long period of idleness, at
some of the mines at least. The quick
ending of the strike and the present APP
proximate normal production of coal, it
is stated will enable these furnaces to
again start up.
Before the strike q furnaces were in
operation in the Birmingham district
There are not more than half dozen
other furnaces that could be put in opera
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-25
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM STATE CAPITAL
By WILLIAM L. GoRMLEY


Montgomery. November 4.-(Special)
suga rprices in Montgomery range from
1lh cents to 25c, ana retailers are wor-
riod because of large stock of the
higher priced sugar being on hand.
Several days ago a big shipment of
sugar. ranging in price from IS to %
cents came in. On Monday so tone of
Cuban sugar arrived and was placed
on sale from 111s to z cents before
the 25-cent grade was disposed of. The
last shipment was released by the Unit
ed States equalization board
All restaurants. because of the high
sugar prices, raised coffee to 10 cents
Lengthy resolutions on the death Of
Judge H. A. Sharpe, member of the JEFF
ferson county circuit court, the Jeffer-
son county Bar association and former
member of the supreme court of Ala
bama. were presented to the supreme
court Monday afternoon on behalf of
the Jefferson association by Nathan l.
Miller, lieutenant governor. Governor
Miller was delegated by the delegation
to present the resolutions to circuit and
also to the high court. They were
spread on the minutes of the supreme
court Brief remarks were made to the
full bench of the court by the lieuten-
ant governor and J. @. Smith, attor-
ney general Chief Justice c. p Ander-
son responded for the court. The reso-
lutions were turned over to Gen. R. F.
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Prescription -
C';>:2,i|;,22<s33
Eczema
DON'T OVER DO
OR 0VER-EAT
But If You Do, a Few Doses
of -Draught May
Prevent Serious
Trouble

Nowata. Okla.-Mr. W. B. Dawson.
Of this place says: Il have known of
Rlack-Draught ever since I can remem :
her. and of all the liver medicines / ever
used Black Draught is without doubt
The best We would not be without it in
the house
used to take pills and different
things, but after taking course of
strong medicine l would be left in a
constipated condition, and would need
then to use a laxative But after l be.
gan to take Black-Draught l did not
have any trouble of this kind.
take big dose at night and follow
q few nights with lighter doses. and |
am like a new man until l overdo or
overeat, and neglect to take care of my
self until the liver gets out of fix. when
have to go to Black-Draught again.
Black -Draught l have found is all
in the stomach. sour stomach or bad
taste In the mouth so common in spring
in the swampy country"
Try Thsdfords Black -Draught At all
druggists.-Adv
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-25
TO ATTACK BLUE SKY LAW

Montgomery November 24-tSpecal)
Information reached the capital Satur-
day that legal attack will be made on
the blue sky law passed at the recent
session of the legislature on the ground
that the capitol is not sufficient to cover
the ground of the bill.
The caption merely says an act to pre-
vent frauds and impositions on the people
of the state and to protect investors. The
body of the bill creates a state securities
commission, composed of the state super
intendent of banks. state aaditor and at
torney general. and provides machinery
for the investigation of all,issues of stocks
and ponds before they are placed on the
market in Alabama.
The purpose of the law is to proven. the
wild eating Of doubtful and speculative
stock which promise big returns, put
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-25
POST OFFERED DAVIS

Montgomery, November 24.-(SpecialD
Harwell G. Davis assistant attorney gem
eral until the war began has been offered
the appointment as assistant attorney
general as the successor of Judge Richard
V. Evans OF. birmingham, who was APP
pointed judge OF the circuit court of JEFF
ferson county Saturday. The appointment
was rendered by j. Q. Smith, attorney
general, on the long distance telephone
Saturday, and MI. Davis promised to ac-
cept on decline Monday.
Mr. Davis has practlced law at Gadsden
since ne was discharged from the army
early in the year He was named assist
ant attorney general by William L. Mar
TIM out resigned and entered the first
officers training camp at Fort McPher-
son lie was wounded and invaded home
early in the year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-25
TO PROBE FIRES

montgomery, November 24-(SpeciaID
mysterious fires in Alfalfa and Gads-
den will be thoroughly Investigated by
William j. Williams, state fire marshal.
FOLLOWING the receipt or official reports
at the capitol, Marshal Williams left
Montgomery Friday night for the two
cities.
1t is estimated there has been a total
loss of 100000 by fire in the city of At
talla the past IS days, while residences
have been burned at Gadsden Mr.. Will
iams will nvestigte each fire, the cir
cumstances, etc, the amount of loss and
the amount of insurance.
In Alfalfa fire destroyed an oil mill,
with loss of approximately $4,000 A
cooperage plant also was destroyed with
"a loss of $4,000 or more, Mr.. Williams
said.
The fire marshal is given broad pow
ers in Investigations of fires, This is the
first one. however, to get his attention
since he took charge of the office sew
eral days ago.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-25
COAL COMPANIES ORCANIzE

Montgomery, November M.-(Special)-
Two coal companies with mines in Walker
county filed articles of incorporation with
ene secretary OF state on Monday The
companies are the Victory, Coal Mining
company, with authorized stock of 5000.
ana SloOt paid ill.,, and the Terrier Coal
company, with $1,000 authorized and paid
IN oftices will be in Dora. ]. B. Baird
ana others are the incorporators of the
victory Coal Mining company. ]. L. Fer
company
otner companies to file papers with the
secretary of state follow:
Parrish Social club, with nothing paid
IN or authorized, to operate a social club
with pool tables and other games at Par
IRISH, Walker county.
Inc Public Service Motor company OF
Montgomery, with $4,000 authorized and
5000 paid in: B. Fl. Cooper. Atticus Null
len and j. B. Cooper, incorporators.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-25
GAME LAW ENFORCED

Montgomery, November 24-(Special) D.
oulct ehtorcemert of all game laws was
asked of the county game wardens on
Monday in letters from John II Wallace
Jr', commissioner of conservation The
wardens are urged to be on the alert in
the enforcement of the new laws. but at
the same time they are cautioned mo. to
harass hunters who comply with the law,
put 20 aid them in every possible man
ner m taking game and fish as prescribe
by statutes
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-25
INSURANCE MEN MEET

Montgomery, November 4-(Special)-
insurance men of Alabama conferro d
with insurance Commissioner A. w. Bris-
coe at the state house Monday and dis
cussed the mining risk feature of the
Workmens compensation act, which be-
comes effective in Alabama in a short
time. A miner s risk department of the
rating and inspection bureau was per-
fected. Those insurance men who contem-
pate the writing of miners risks were in
the conference
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Lyon, supreme court clerk. and will be
MED with the records of the court.
The supreme court of Alabama on
Monday began consideration of APP
pealed cases of the Sixth divisnon, com
posed OF jefferson, Blount, Cullnan
Fayette, Lamar, Marion. Piekens. Tus.
ealoosa, Walker and Winston counties
birmlngham attorneys in the city for
the court hearing Monday were Lieut..
GOV. Nathan l.. Miller j. A. Jenkins. w
3 WEIGH, w A. benson A. C. Birch
mad r. b. Kelly.
Flremen of Montgomery fought for
Two hours Monday morning about 4
o CLOCK in extinguishing a blaze in the
basement of the state capitol Dust
coal caught fire in the basement near
tne furnace and burned for quite a
while before watchmen discovered =
The loss was small.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-25
10, 100000 Able-Bodied Men
Ready to Fight if Need Be

Washington, November PA final
study of the selective draft records
strength of the United States" at 49,
100000 in potential military man power.
almost so per cent of whom were listed
ages of IS and As. totaled 23,90S,575.
Registrations for the draft. between the
as physically fit for military service
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Loss of 100000
s,

Laredo Texas, November 24-An ex-
plosion aboard a gasoline loaded launch
at Tampico Thursday, caused a fire that
destroyed the wharves and terminal
station of the Huasteen company on
the Panuco river, entailing a 100000
loss, advices received here today stated
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-25
National Steel Committee
to Meet in Pittsburg

Pittsburg, November 24.-The beginning
of the tenth week of the strike of steel
workers of the Pittsburg district today i,
was marked By activity of union leader !
who were formulating plans for the NEE e.
ing here tomorrow of the national co hy'
roitt 40 in CHARGE of the strike ur-
Representatives of steel companies sa e,
today they were well pleased with pres r
ent conditions and that mill operations
were steadily increasing.
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Miners Refuse Offer
Of New Wage Scale


Knoxville, Tenn, November 24.-An Of
fer Of increases in wages on the part OF
operators in an effort to settle strike of
coal Giggers in District 10, Tennessee and
kentucky, was today turned down by the
miners, and as d result the production OF
coal in this field remains far below nor
NAL. Reports today indicated that only
about % per cent of the normal supply
was mined during the day.
Hoping to settle the strike, operators Of
fered the day men 30 per cent increase.
They offered the diggers of coal Is cents
increase per ton on the screened basis
and cents increase per ton CO. the run
of mine basis. These offers were turned
down, according to E. l.. Reed, secretary
of the union, who announced that the
miners of the district were awaiting the
results of the Washington conference.
Boys Life.
Scout-What instruments make foot
notes?
scoutmaster-why the shoe horns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-25
TO NAME DELEGATES

MPltsomery, Nov. @.-(Special. )-Gov-
ernor kilby some time next week VIII
name delegates to the annual meeting
OF the southern commercial congress at
savannah on December Z. The delegates
Will be selected from among all lines of
business, there being many farmers. The
governor received letter from Gov
Hugh Dorsey of Georgia on SATURDAY,
in which it was stated an army aviation
lieutenant had been instructed by the
war department to fly to the Georgia
city for the congress meeting. Governor
Kilby has not decided whether or not he
will attend the Savannah meeting.
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which turn out to be Of no value to the
purchasers. The law is being enforced by
the state banking department and WI
liam Coates of Montgomery has been APP
pointed commissioner to make investiga-
tons of stocks and bonds j. Q. Smith, at
torney general Saturday declared that
the law will De enforced to the letter and
that all laws are constitutional until they
are declared not so by the supreme court
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EVANS NAMEn mrnrE

montgomery, November 24-(Special)
Judge Richard V. Evans, former asso-
eiate Judge of the court of appeals OF
Alabama and for several months an as
slstant attorney general, was named as
soclate judge Of the Jefferson circuit court
on SATURDAY by Governor Kilby. He will
succeed Judge c. w. Ferguson deceased
Judge Evans will take up his new duties
at once, leaving for the Magic City late
Saturday
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-25
New Schools in Korea

Seoul. Korea October 1.-The gov
eminent has declared its intention to
establish a hundred new schools an
nually during the next four years for
Korean children
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DAVIS ACCEPTS

montgomery, November 24-(Special. J.
MAJOR Harwel G.. Davis of Gadsden on
Monday wired Attorney General ]. O.
smith Oh his acceptance of the appoin,-
ment as assistant attorney general ct
Alabama, to succeed Judge Richard v.
fNlls, resigned. Judge Evins was named
on Saturday as an associate Judge of the
Jefferson county circuit court. to take the
pIace CT Judge C. w. Ferguson, deceased
Major Davis viii assume his new duties
on December l.
major Davis resigned as assistant at
torney general under Attorney General
William l.. Martin at the beginning et
the war. He went to the first officers.
training camp at Mcpherson, Ca, and
soon went overseas. He was wounded in
action and was sent home at the begin
ming OF 1919
He was candidate for the seat in Con-
gress held by Congressman John l.. Bur
nett, deceased, and was defeated bv ia
votes in the district
Montgomery, November 24-(Special1
The proposed soldiers poll tax amend
ment, which will be voted on December
~, viii not grant exemptions to soldiers
VINO owed taxes before enlisting in the
service. according to. a legal opinion
given Judge j. p. Stiles, probate Judge
of jefferson county, by Attorney Cen
eral }. Q. Smith on Saturday. Judge
stiles asked the secretary of state for
Information on the amendment and it
was referred to the legal department.
1 do not construe this amendment as
exempting soldiers from payment of polI
taxes due prior to the date of their en-,
Try INTO the military service" saws the
opinion The proposed amendment re-
cites that the payment of poll taxes
snail not be required of any person who
served. etc. 1t is further provided tina;
the ballot shall read amendment exempt
ing certain soldiers, etc. | think it clear
that II was the purpose and intention of
the legislature TO exempt soldiers-and
they We're not soldiers prior to entry into
the serVice-from this tax i'm considera-
tion of their service and because of the
fact that they were away from home
and some of them had become disaual-
lfied to vote because their poll taxes had
not been paid.
Il think the reason last suggested was
the idea that was uppermoSt in the
minds of the legislators, as they felt
that 1t would be an injustice to DENY to
soldiers the right to vote when many of
them had been away from home so they
could not keep their poll taxes paid up
Il think all soldiers should be required
to pay poll taxes up to the date of their
entry into. the service"
The sun., 1919-02-16

Horace NJ KaIlen, author of The League
Of Nattons To-day and Tomorrow MAR
shall Jones Company, Boston,, had the
courage to present draft OF constitu-
ton for such league. Few of the authors
of league books were willing to take so
exposed position. Kallen's book is not
a plea, but a plan.
The sun., 1919-02-16

essential to the KIND of literary work l
wanted TO do had all to- be relearned be-
fore they could be of any real use to me. y
1t is gratifying, however, to read Mrs.
Wards emphatic praise of the schools for
girls in England and America at the
present day. The English girls schools,
she declares, are now worthily representa-
tive of the astonishing. rise in the INTEL
lectual standards of women which has
taken place in the last half century.
"They are almost entirely taught by
women, and women with whom, in many
cases, education-the shaping of the I'M
mature human creature to noble ends-is
the sincerest of passions; who find, in
deed, in the task that same creative Joy
which belongs to literature or art or
phllanthropic experiment
1t is rather amusing to find this edu-
cational reform attributed largely to the
influence of the advent of rail,raus!
with railways and cheap press in the
second third of the nineteenth century,"
says Mrs. Ward, there came in, as we all
know, the breakup of a thousand mental
stagnations, answering to the old physical
disabilities and Inconvenience. And the
breakup has nowhere had more startling
results than in the world of women and
the training of women for life"
Years at Oxford.
After Mary Arnold was married to
Humphry Ward in 1872 they lived for
nine years in Oxford, and these reminis-
eences tell us much about the many men
of light and leadr g whom they met dur
ing this period OF incessant activity and
great happiness. There were Walter
Pater, the Neo- Pagan so-called. and Ben
Jamln Jowett, the famous Master of Bal
hol. and Mandell Creighton, the future
Bishop of London, and John Richard
Green, whose Short History Of the Eng
lash People made him famous in a dav,
and Freeman and Stubs and many
others.
Nobody under the rank of head of a
college, except very few privileged pro-
fessors, possessed as much as a thousand
year. The average income of the new
race of married tutors was not much more
than half that sum. Yet we all gave
dinner parties" says Mrs. Ward, "and
furnished our hOrs with Morris papers,
old chests and cabinets md blue pots.7
Walter Pater.
Walter Pater and his sisters were near
neighbors of the Wards at Oxford, where
"the exquisiteness of their small house"
was fitting frame for the charming peo-
pie who inhabited it. Pater's first notable
book, Studies tn the Renaissance, had
stirred and scandalized Oxford on account
of its glorifcation of aesthetic pleasure
to the detriment of the Christian doctrine
of self-denial and remuneration; and Mrs.
Ward recalls dinner party at his house
which broke up in agitation because the
host had somewhat rashly declared that
no reasonable person could govern his life
by the opinions or actions of man who
died eighteen centuries ago!
The Master of Balliol was an even more
strenuous friend. with him there were
The sun., 1919-02-16
NIHEN Mrs. Humphrey Ward be-

WIEN Mrs. Hanphry Ward be-
w gan to write books the eontem-
porary human interest in her work was
based on her heredity. Great expeeta-
tons we're naturally entertained concern
ing an author who was q niece Of
Matthew Arnold and a granddaughter Of
the famous Arnold Of Rugby. To-day the
author of A Writer'S Recollections need
no longer appeal to hereditary considera-
lions to excite interest in what she writes.
She is always sure of large audience
for her own sake.
Mary Augusta Arnold was born in 1851
at Hobart Town in Tasmania, where her
father, Thomas Arnold. the second son
of Arnold of Rugby, was then in the SER
vice of the Government engaged in or
ganizing primary education in the colony.
He had to relinquish his Office three or
four years later because he had become a
Roman Catholic and the anti Catholic
feeling IN Van Diemen's Land, as Tas-
mania was then called, was at that time
very strong; and he returned to England
to life which his daughter describes as
one of struggle, privation and constant
anxiety. The family, however, were
warmly welcomed at Fox How, the lovely
Westmoreland home which the great
doctor" had built in 1888 as holiday
paradise for himself and his children, and
where his widow, our authors grand
mother, still presided over the household.
Here Mary Arnold lived until she was
sent to school at Oxford, where, on April
6, 1872, she was married to Thomas
Humphrey Ward, then a fellow and tutor
of Brasenosc College. In 1888, she pub
lished her first successful novel, Robert
ELsmere; and the principal facts Of her
subsequent career are well known. She
has continued TO grow in popularity and
In the merit of her work