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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
LUKE M,LUkE SAYS.

Love is something that will make a girl leave a good home just to be near a male animal who chews to- bacco and eats raw onions.
 When a friend invites you to his home to take Pot Luck he means that his wife has been slaving all day to get up an elaborate dinner for you.
 Doubleyou Jay Bee isn't on the Chaw-Talky circuit this summer. Even the patient Chautauquans got weary of Peace. Piffle and Prohibition.
 A bride can spend a whole day worrying over what she will name the Baby in case they have a baby.
 Every four years we hear that the country is going straight to Hell if the other Political Party is elected. But the old country manages to keep afloat somehow or other.
 What has become of the old-fash- toned baby that used to have "spasms"
 Maybe it isn't stylish to be Corn Fed Anyway. the cuts in the White Sale advertisements always have girls with skinny legs posing in tho muslin dingbats offered for sale.
 It doesn't hurt to fess up once in a while. How many fool things would you have done in the last twelve months if it hadn't been for the fear of Friend Wife?
 A girl can take postgraduate course acquiring Culture. But that won't keep her from having as m3ny pimples as any other girl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14

From the Providence Journal
 N CCORDING to the calendar, as in-
 A\ fluenced by cosnaic conditions 0 S this is the last of the "dog days Whether in the common understanding Of them they will now subside may De doubted. though. They are apt to run much farther into August.
 The experience this year has been that the period of forty days. which begins on July s, was generally delightful up to Sunday last. Few of the days nave justified the stigma that has attached 10 dog days since the time of ancient Rome But there may be more ahead Of us that will be doggy, even if the astronomers should deny that they are dog days.
 Dogs are supposed to run mad these days; such is the modern conception or their significance Human beings in our area of humidity may also have reason -to feel irritated When majestic Sirius, the dog star, after being obscured by the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
MURDERER'S POCKET MANUAL
iI'll take two quarts"
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 6NHERE should be an etiuuet

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
 OCIHERE should be an etiquette of
 murder as of other things. The Parisian lady who shot her hus- band and packed his body in trunk set an example of perfect breeding in giving a luncheon party the next day and apol- ogizing for his absence.
 So many people who commit crimes of violence are guilty of vulgar scenes after wards. If the thing is to be done it should be done elegantly and gracefully. This was never better understood than in medieval Italy When it was expedient for obnoxious persons to disappear, their removal from the scene was accomplished with no rude outcries. One just criticism of the Borgias is that they were some times needlessly brutal. There is such a thing as refinement in taking life. Even the victim could hardly fail to be grat- flied by the assurance that he would be politely disposed of.
 De Quincey's essay on Murder Consid- cred as One of the Fine Arts is the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
THE PLEDGE

John Drinkwater in the Yale Review. When love is bright and whole again,
 I'll sing like the bees weather, I'll set my colors up again
 Like the cock -pheasant's feather. I'll find a note to make me. one With lyric birds that sing the sun. I'll fill my songs with palmer's buds
 And sprigs of thorn for Whitsunday And they shall dance as willow rods
 And shine with garlands of the may, I'll be theme that takes the spring From bushes where the blackb birds sing I'll walk among my sheep again
 And turn my steps to numbers. When love is bright and whole again
 And fear has gone to slumbers, With wings again and flowers and stars To be my cQlored calendars
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
HENRY JAMES

reflect the color and contour of his talk his grandoise courtesy. his luxuriant phraseology, his relish for some extrav- agantly colloquial turn embedded in a Ciceronian period"
 Mr. Lubbock reminds us also that Henry James knew very well that in all he most cared for, in what was to him the heart and essence of life, he remained we come upon the most general impress sion tha. the letters leave-of a great loneliness in the midst of so much af- lection received and given.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
DOG DAYS"

brightness of the sun at dawn, escapes and may be seen rising with it. we have the dog days at their peak. Old Egypt welcomed them. as they were coincident with the overflowing of the Nile on the thirsty plain. The Romans. however, had no more reason to rejoice over them than we have.
 While Sirius is responsible for the nam ing of the days it Is not for the ef- fleets, good or ill. It is not Vblameworthy for our hot and humid season. All the stars together, great suns as they are. undoubtedly contribute to the store of heat that makes life on the earth pos- sible. It has been said. indeed, that were the stars to disappear there would not be warmth enough from our sun for earthly habitation. But though the dog star is bigger than the sun it does not by itself affect us. Sweltering human should address it's complaints to the weather hureau
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
England and France
 Not Always Friendly

ZINE of the most interesting ques- W tions at the present stage of world affairs is How much real friendship exists between England and France?"
 During past centuries the two na- tions have fought many wars and hated each other roundly. It was as natural for a Frenchman to cherish animosity against an Englishman, and vice versa, as it was for them to love their native soil. Richard I, bet ter known in history as the "Lion Hearted" mighty warrior, but a brutal and unprincipled king, re- garded England as little more than an appanage of his dominions, for he ruled England from Normandy. It is said that in his whole life he spoke but one English word, which may be one of the many fictitious statements recorded in history.
 But the English frequently turned the tables on the French. They were always the better soldiers and it was the boast of an English yeoman that no Frenchman was match for an English fighter. He regarded three
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
TT x T1 Allgood Is Taking Time By the Forelock

~ OMMISSIONER OF AGRICUI- W TURF ALLGOOD has invited the commissioners of other states to meet with him at Memphis, August 20, to devise plans of offsetting what he understands to be a concerted move on the part of purchasers of peanuts and cotton seed to pay unre- munerative prices for these prod tets this fall.
 His information is that thirty dol- lars per ton for cotton seed and four cents a pound for peanuts, compared with sixty to ninety dollars for cot ton seed and twelve cents for pea nuts last season, will be offered. He claims that these prices will not pay for production.
 Mr. Allgood has taken the proper step, considering the emergency, and it is the proper step whether con- certed action to pay lower prices for these products has been decided on or not. The purchaser naturally offers las low a price as he thinks will se- cure the product. It is for the holder of the product to know. the game as well as the purchaser and to hold for a fair profit. The buyer is at one end of the pole, the producer at the other. The producers interests are in the producers hands. They are his business, not that of others.
 The producer might also keep his eye on the cotton buyer. He should remember that if some cotton mills are now curtailing production, it is the first curtailment in many months. He should not forget that the buying season is about to open with re- duced carrying and many sue cessive small crops. He should watch all the points of the game and not allow any current bear movement to disturb his understanding of the gen. eral situation.
 The situation is in the producers favor. Taking time by the forelock in organization and gradual market ing at each rise will help much.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
Co-operation Necessary.

A market for Birmingham has been practically assured" said H. l.. Brown, county demonstrator. "and I now feel that the farmers in this county will be able to dispose of their products when they bring them to the city I have known of many instances where farmers have brought vegetables and fruits thirty miles, and they were un- able to dispose of them and had to take them back home.
 "on the other hand. the market here is very uncertain, the farmers tell me. One man stated that he had brought in large number of his finest toma- toes and had sold them. and the next day when he came in with the same product there was no market for them at all. This prevails in all products, and unless tAe farmers can market their products they are not going to raise any large supply.
 Government officials have~said in- creased production was the only way the cost of food could be lowered, and it is the duty of every citizen to assist the farmers in securing public mar ket where he can sell his products"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
FAVORED MoRTALs

Why should man be down at heart, And sick and sad and steeped in woe. When he may play useful part
 In mundane matters here below? Iris true no crowds may seek him out And hail him as a leader great, Nor call on him with lusty shout To steer the storm-tossed ship of
 state.
 But there is always work to do,
 If one is strong and unafraid; And some there are, like plumbers, who For simple tasks are highly paid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
Organists and Organ
 Builders Assemble

TT HERE has been rapid progress
 0 in organ building and organ playing during the past ten. years. The thirteenth annual convention of organists held in New York city re- gently was an event of exceptional inspiration as organ builders united with the organ players in discussions from various angles that, were at once practical and Illuminating.
 Great organs have been known in Europe for five hundred years or more. The splendid organ in the ca- thedral at Berne is one hundred and five years old. It is overhauled every ten or fifteen years and is always kept in prime condition. It is one of the exceptional organs that students travel far to hear.
 III 'iio Soui1iy HaiHHiolH organs date back about sixty years, and within the past thirty years many such instruments have been installed in churches and music halls.
 At the sorganists' convention, one master performer said builders were given to introduce too many stops stops that added nothing to the value of artistic performance.
 In American cities organ playing has advanced in a marked degree Until few years ago organ virtuosos were exceedingly rare. The reason why most organists were only medi- ocre was because too little time was allowed for practice and the study of Bach and Handel of the old school and Guilmant, Batiste and others of the modern French school.
 Mrs. Bruce s. Keaton of Ashbury Park, president of the New Jersey Music Association, was one of the principal speakers in the convention. She said in part:
 For the really ambitious man or woman many opportunities are at | hand For. in addition to the di- | rect advantages to be derived from l teachers and books. there are those of many free recitals. lectures and concerts. The organist should at- tend church services other than his
 own, study the great oratorios;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
4 MORNING PRAYER.

The week is ended God. and passed forever into thy tender keep ing. Remember of it only what is good; pardon what was done amiss and when you find what men win call disaster, know God ft was good dream come to grief. Amen.
 M. s. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
Looks Ominous

paign is over." said Bob Kyle. "the people of Birmingham will become in- terested in the coming city election Interest Is even now apparent. and sew eral people of my acquaintance are be- ginning to think about announcing for some city office.
 'The present condition of the citys finanees promises to make the cam paign acute. The street situation will also develop a fight for office. believe can forecast the most inter- esting city race Birmingham has ever staeed."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
KNEW THE SYMPTOMS

For half an hour or more Mir. and ing.
 Suddenly Mrs. Clipping sighed deeply and then began to drum on the living room table with her fingers.
 Laying down his paper, MT. Clipping said, My dear, you promised me faith fully that you would read the stories in that magazine and not look at the advertising section. I've told you re- peatedly that I can't afford to buy an automobile"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
DREADFUL TO THINK ABOUT

DREADFUL TO THINK ABOUT
 T see where a party of prominent Americans were served grape juice at an official dinner in China"
 Good heavensw exclaimed MT. Bib- bles, with a look of horror Imagine going all the way to China and getting deal like thatw
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
CLEAR CONSCIENCE

How did he make all his money?' Nobody seems to know"
 But he made it honestly, didn't he?" T presume so. He doesn't give any of it to the church"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
BoTTLED COURAGE

-Is this stuff guaranteed to mako a rabbit slap bulldog in the face?''
 My dear sir" said the bootlegger. with a pained expression. This stuff will make a tenant snap his fingers under his landlords nose"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
ADRIF7T WITH THE TIMES
A LITTLE DIVERSION

A LITTLE DIVERSION 'Mr. wadleigh is not what you would call charits ble man"
 Yet I frequently see him talking to beggars." He has a weakness for delivering moral lectures. A beggar is fat game"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
SHOULD HAVE DROWNED THEM

The grandest opportunity
 Old Father Noah failed to seize, Because when he put out to sea
 He took along a pair of fleas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
CALL FEM UP IN HIATT,

From the Washington Post.
 Now that the candidates have been notified, it is time to tell it to the marines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
A PRIZE

Whats this?"
 The picture of Congo beauty" q wouldn't call her beauty" "Well, it depends on the point ot view. In the Congo she might be worth six head of cattle"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
Broken Doses

T am a perfect fiend for loafing in second hand book stores,' said Dr. James E. billiard. pastor of the South side Baptist Church, and if the truth be known. it's mighty hard for me to pass book store of any kind without at least going in and lingering a lot of them. We'll, several weeks ago was in Webbs store here and found secondhand volume of Little Journeys to Homes of We'll Known Reformers' It was Volume 1, and I bought it with directions that he make an effort to find Volume ] for me. Shortly after wards I was in Norfolk and passing along the street I stoped before the window of book store and in it was the mishsing volume. which I went in and bought. I figured it out that some officer had bought the volumes and not havig space to pack them, read the first one here and sold it, and went on to Norfolk and read the other one and got rid of it. I was mighty glad to complete the set"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
Grisly Swindlers

"Gold star parents who do not know the location of their sons graves should be careful about giving money to people or organizations pretending to assist in their location" said Major H. B. May. "A case has recently come to the attention of the war depart ment where a man approached a widow who had lost a son in France and told her that he would make efforts to To- cate the body. She gave him a sum of money to carry on his operations Later he returned and told her the body of her son would be returned. Investiga- tion proved that the man was swim dler.
 Relatives seeking information con- corning the graves of their dead should address the Quartermaster General. U. s. Army. Washington. No money should be given people who claim to locate graves or have bodies returned"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
Washington Bureau. 500 Davidson
Member of the Associated Press

mem per or the AssOciateu ifeS7 The Age Herald, is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dis patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusive4J entitled to the use for publication pr all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published therein.
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 departments) Main 490O. - For 'tis the mind that makes the body richy
 And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour pecreth in the meanest habit.
 Flaming of the Shrew.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14

beating itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-22
Boys Plan for College

Of 43o Mississippi club boys who at- tended junior farm mechanics short course last summer at the Mississippi Az ricultural and Mechanical College 4o2 of the number expect to go to college when they have finished high school
 Boys who are in the agricultural clubs organized by the state agricultural col leges and the United States department of agriculture do not belong to the class whose scheme in life is to wait for some- thing to turn up' They believe in getting the best training possible for their life work and then going ''hotfoot" after suc- cess.
 The average age of the club members who attended this short course was 15.4 years. Of the number 362 lived on a. farm. lS2 belonged to a corn club. 226 to a pig club and to a potato club. The average grade of the boys in their school work was the eighth.
 Their interest in school and their au1- biton is indicated by the fact that s29 expect to attend agricultural high schools and that 402 expect to go to college. The state agricultural college is the goal of o54. The big fact is however, that 239 of the boys expect to have to pay their own way through college and are now making plans to that end. Club work has provided the funds for many a boy and girl in the past and doubtless will
 do so for these boys.
 The great majority, of these club mem bers came from homes that possess many conveniences. Eighty-one of their homes | had water systems, 46 had electric light plants. 3S gas light plants 275 had tele- 1 phones and l59 had automobiles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-22
On the Job

Irncle Sam is not hesitating to folio" up the products of his farms even when they go down to the sea in ships re cent report of the Bureau of Markets United States Department of Agriculture says
 "A cargo of wheat was accompanled from Philadelphia to Genoa, Italy, to determine the effect of grade factors o7 the keeping qualities of different iots ol wheat during ocean transportation- m this connection two other cargoes or wheat shipped from the United States were sampled at the Italian port of arrival and information was obtained on their condition at the time of discharge The data on this work are being as sembled for study in connection with et- forts to assure the arrival of Ameri- can grain in good condition in foreign ports and to perfect the grain standards to meet the requirements of ocean trans portation. Samples have been collected from a boat loading at Astoria, Ore, to determine the carrying qualities of the western-grown wheats which will pass through the Panama Canal to Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-22
Agricultural Conference

The unsettled condition of prices of farm products, uncertainty regarding labor conditions, and the situation re- garding fertilizers and seeds of good quail ity have led the extension service to ar- range for six agricultural conferences to include the entire state of Alabama. The purpose of each meeting Is to discuss, and if possible formulate a statement of the agrleuittfAa poTias that will be most ad- vissnie Tor each rticular section of the siA1N Aqr 3 haasl meeting is to be in ne nHt1fe ~ conference with ample il oyisiot nn Cps programme for all who \ 70 eNrlxe -.he views.
 The af9 v fese meetings is for south- est Aiss1an saa will be held at An '4itsA an taF rfoFrn ng and afternoon Of Tuesday. j4Nparf l. beginning at 10 c c.ofsf Ae a9rteH tural policies dis evsYd xl be sh9s of greatest impor- 1nf to ibs conntses of Covington, Cren- ssaeA ioaecuh EaFeeur, Bullock. Butler, Jala Ike Geneva Houston. Henry and
 i sSeit Farmers, ankers and other usiEenF f1en frnr lhese counties are
 sseG tp attend tfis conference, which Nil aisc ne attended 5v tii> farm demon
 IasiUn HZengs rom he same counties. Tie sub3scts glstft aost prominence on
 ile proge rlFae ile.as}e the following:
 esnuts. Fcss soff srS cotton produc- ton and fs izs or aid other questions of civetslth sarp.ne
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-22
American Diet Changing

Whether 1t is because of the increased cost of meat or because peoples tastes have changed, the fact remains that Americans are eating per cent less meat than they were % years ago. This is dis closed in a recent dietary survey made by the United States department of agri- culture
 Tn this survey 2O00 dietary records, each covering a period of days, were cpi- lected from 14a5 families and 55 institu~ tions in 46 states Sixteen nationalities and many occupa tions and incomes were represented. as were also both urban and rural localities.
 From summary of 300 of these family records it appears that last year the aN- craze cost of food per man per day was 46 cents, with an average return Tn fooo value of 3225 calories, 96 grams protein 11s grams fat and 4o5 grams carbohy- drate. These figures are in fairly close accord with the dietary standards ordl- narily used in discussing such problems of general nutrition
 comparison of the foodstuffs pur- chased by thA 800 families with tne amounts of the same food purchased ps 40 families about 20 years ago shows that inc amount of meat in the American dlet has decreased about per cent, ana the amount of grain products about II per cent. People are eating more milk. butter and cheese than they were two decades ago. for the amount of dairy produc $ consumed has increased about per cent Four per cent vegetables and per cent more fruit is Icing eaten now.
 Some individual food habits undountea- lv need to be corrected. but judging ny these studies. it seems fair to cohelp.e that the average diet seems to De que nuate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-22
Watch Out for T. B.

Tuberculisis may be lntroducted into a healthy herd, says the United States department of agriculture, by any of the following means:
 By the addition of animal that is affected with the disease: therefore ani- n,als should be purchased only from herds known to be free from tubercu- losis, or from herds under supervision for the eradication of the disease.
 By feeding calves with milk or other dairy products from tuberculous cows: this frequently occurs where the owner purchases mixed skim milk from the creamery and feeds it to his calves with out first making it safe by boiling or pasteurization.
 By showing cattle at fairs and ex- hibitions; reports have indicated that numerous herds become infected through mingling with infested cattle at shows or by occuying infested premises.
 The shipment of animals in cars which have recently carried diseased cattle and which have not been disinfected pro perly.
 Community pastures: pastures in which tuberculous cattle are allowed to graze are a source of danger.
 In most cases the outward appearance of the animal bears no relation to the degree of infection. The disease ire ouently develops so slowly that in some cases it may be months or even longer before any symptoms are shown. there fore be on the safe side and have your herd tested.