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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31

of them got into deep water the con struction was so faulty that they pulled apart. amidship. There was to be a carpenter could build them" By hard ex- perience we know those qualified car penters., They were common in all trades during the labor famine and are now getting back to shoveling snow.
 The attempt to divert attention from the obvious graft and robbery which must have taken place, by unfounded charges against Charles M. Schwab or suggestions of lack of patriotism In the relations between the International Mer- cantile Marine and the British govern ment, seems devised for no other purpose but to cover up the criminality staring us in the face.
 Sixteen months ago the Wall Street Journals special correspondent in Lon don interviewed Lord Pirrie, the great est shipbuilder alive He said: Your workmen made some astonishing records driving rivets in steel vessels. Were those rivets driven home?" The taxpayer fears that many were not driven home. He fears that ships are laid up because their plates would pull open if they put to sea He feels, as Charles M. Schwab told the committee, that the entire fleet of wooden ships should be broken up to save further expense.
 Who got the moneyA In the old days 1t was said, not untruly, that Tammany Hall wasted $50 of the New York city taxpayers money to steal $. What was the ratio in the operations of the United States shipping board?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31
PORTIA,s HOUsEKEEPING

 A Pendant to "The Merchant of VenicAs John Drinkwater in the Dial. We are thrifty of joy in this our moA-
 ern house; We probe the springs of joy with un-
 easy rods And shadow the worm in every thril1-
 ing bud. Virtue we know wkll walk in sesdy Of knavery when the better hwnsor
 falls; And we know the good mans shsdo~
 of desire. It was not so with Portia- She was
 simple, Plain for clear yes or no and good or
 bad. Bassanio at Belmont in the evening. Walking the terrace with Antonio Was good man with his friend. and
 that was all, Save that his lips were young and mas
 terful She had no fine philosophy of sin: You lied. and that was bad. You gave
 your word. N And, when time came. redeemed 1t. A
 treasure kept At another's cost was ashes in youf
 hand. She liked her roses red. her lilies whita. ~AAA0 SONAecN FNAA~ea@< AASA@ = AAA 6>>~~~e -
 virtue. Sometimes she thought of a Jew and
 young doctor Standing before the majesty of Venice. And smiled, without approval, then
 again To sow the asters or feed guinea-fowL Gratiano. finding ever new Nerissas Among her maids, she told not to be
 tedious, And Cratiano said she was prnuxfno
 dull, She liked the verse Lorenzo took to
 writing And made some tunes herself upon tho
 lute saA44S To fit little moonlight seq ca Launcelot Gobbo stole . Tocss ai
 Christmas, She did n not say he was an haasst fsl. But rated him and almost senthi1n uffS < He didn't brag about it to his feilo A's < She had two children, and sale tvEa
 were enough; And loved them. She believed tAeSaf
 was God With an impatient ear for casuistsy " Bassanio had no regrets but some Agreed with Gratiano. do not isnow,S In Belmont was . lady richly lefts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31
TRANsCONTINENTAL FARE s1

James A. B. scherer in the Worlds
 Work
 The founding of Los Angeles really dates from that November day in 1885 when the Santa Fe road drove it's last spike in the Cajon Pass. establishing direct and competing rail connection with the east. A rate war with the Southern Pacific followed almost im- mediately. As Charles F. Lummis says this rate war lasted less than two years. but "it precipitated an intermin- able avalanche" At this time the fare from the Missouri river to Los Angeles was about $l00. The new railroad made war to the knife. and the knife to the hilt. In a little while fares were down to s25. For short time. they were as low as s5 for s.oop miles--and one day transcontinental tickets were sold in Los Angeles for q!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31
DANTE ON THE FILM

Rome Correspondence in the London
 Times.
 It is reported that 8 new cinemaAs- graph company has been formed in Italy for the express purpose .of pro ducing a notable film of Dante. The actors have already been engaged at cost of some s,0o0,00o lire (about fS0,o00 at the present rate of ex- changel, and the work will begin im- mediately. The film, which will por-s tray the life of the author of the Di- Divine Comedy itself, will be shown a great deal abroad. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31
Robert Lansing's Book
 Will Appear in March

Will Appear in March
 17HERE is no longer any doubt u about the publication of a book by Robert Lansing, former Secretary of State, ~telling of his break with President Wilson and his connection with the Versailles conference. The Houghton Mifflin company announces that it will be issued March 25, un- der the title, "The Peace Negotia- tions; a Personal Narrative"
 The appearance of MT: Lansing $ book will be awaited with a great deal of interest, particularly by off, ficial Washington, as it is hinted that he frankly discusses the Wilson poli- cies and gives information about the conference which has not yet reached the public. It will show that the differences between the President and his secretary of state developed in Paris long before the actual break occurred.
 The narrative is based son a day. by-day diary kept by the former sec retary and will, therefore, be depend able and accurate. It covers the en- tire peace conference and gives the inside story of the League of Ma tions, the Shantung affair, mandates, the treaty with, France, the Bullitt affair and many other events which were widely discussed when they were reported in the newspapers.
 MT. Lansing showed due consider ation for MT. Wilson by withholding his book until the President becomes a private citizen, but this will give him the advantage of being able to criticize freely without having his motives questioned. Such an au- thentic and authoritative work, com piled by man who, next to the Pres ident, knows more than any other American about what actually hap pened at Paris, will be an important contribution to the history of those clouded days when the allied pre- miers put their heads together and left the world guessing.
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 Gulf-Atlantic Survey
 10 Favorably Reported
 r5fzHERE have been seven hundred U salvage cases tried in Key West admiralty courts in one year. This reflects the hazards attendant on rounding the Florida capes on the voyage between the gulf and At lantic.
 This is one of the reasons why the House committee on railways and canals has reported favorably a bill ordering 2 survey of the canal across the states of Georgia and Florida that would connect the waters of the Atlantic and the gulf by shorter and safer route. The favorable re- port is also due to the tremendous backing given the project by the Mis- sippi vallsy association and other in land waterways associations, includ- ing that of Alabama, which sees the benefit accruing to it's inland water way system through such develop ment.
 In addition to dredging the canal across the isthmus of Florida, issu- ing on the gulf at St. Georges, south of Tallahassee, the project contem- plates dredging and strengthening the coastal route as far as New Orleans, thus making a chain of waterways ex- tending from Boston harbor to New Orleans. It would save 497 miles be- tween New York and New Orleans, and 412 miles between New Orleans and Liverpool.
 The survey will determine the cost
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31
Up-to-Dateness in Rural
 Sections in Alabama

M7O matter what the cause, the fact IN is boldly outstanding: Ala bama farming interests in one sec tion and the other are evincing a greater amount of what might be termed up-to- -dateness than usual this spring. It is so marked and widespread as to enforce serious at tention and compel commendation of the methods that are being pursued.
 A great deal of terracing has been done in Covington, raising lands from $5 to $70 per acre. Butler county is going into the business and has employed terrace demonstration to show how the work is scientifically done. The people of Marion have gone over to Selma to study the op- eration of the sweet potato curing house there with view to building one of their own. Terracing levels have been procured for Jefferson county.
 Atmore, in Escambia, is already busy with her early potato, straw berry and peach crop preparations. That little place expects to ship 35 carloads of strawberries alone. Be- ing on the main line of the Louis vile and Nashville, it has no diff culty in quickly reaching the desir1- ble markets.
 A news item from Atmore says:
 Great care is being exercised for prevention of insects and fruit pests, and it is expected that the coming season will see further improvement in peach and citrus production, both as to quality and quantity"
 There are hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of finely-flavored fruit raised in Alabama that never sees the market because no one has warred on the insects that mar it's beauty and symmetry, while more beautiful and better-packed fruit, but less palatable, coming from Oregon, California and Washington monopo- lize the markets because the insects has been attended to.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31

A MORNING PRAYER
 thank, thee. Lord, for the huH- bie lives lived in faithfulness with out hope of earthly reward. for in the multitude of their small virtues lies the hope of the world. Amen M. $. n.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31

i Payment of poll tax may seem small now, but non-payment will seem bis when you wish to vote your choice for public office and find that you cannot do so.
 The table manners of the modern pugii- ist are an improvement on the manners of the old-fashioned pugtlist, who shov- eled his food in with his knife, but that gentleman could and would fight.
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 The Panama canal will be too small for the next dreadnaughts. The esteemed taxpayer is invited to consider the pos- sibillty of our having to build another canal.
 Another week and the nasty newspaper reader will have forgotten whether Mat tice is on the American continent or in France.
 Judging from the Autographs of an ap- preaching girl show. the girls came south where the weathers warm because the poor things have nothing to wear
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 The French President has a hard time making both ends meet on his salary which is the penalty of holding job that is chiefly ornamental.
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 The lord mayor of Cork has been rold the date of his departure. However. he stayed long enough to write book about us.
 General Pershing says America is not an aggressive country. but don't get the idea that he thinks we are too proud to fight.
 Brother Ford says the styles in hats are changed to make people buy more hats. That's good business. and besides the hatmakers have to live.
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 If half the time devoted to complaint about the tax rates was given to earn ing a livelihood the rates would not be found so high. We would rather have fewer settlers on our vacant lands speaking Enghsn than colonies who do not and do not care to learn it.
 schumann- Heink is at her best when she Is singing for the starving children of Europe.
 There is no reYormer more militant than the one who keeps in close touch with pay ron. Among the cabinet possibilities MT Will Hays looms up with the fxity or Gibraltar.
 A naval halliday. as some young per- sons seem to think. wouldn't mean nign inks on tattleships.
 E Y Y Now that we have received the 1921 ,edi- ton of the Hicks Almanac, we defy any tornado to sneak up on us.
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 The announcement that the "shimmy is on it's last legs should be modified to shoulders.
 Josephus Daniels should be in frame of mind to write some corking good edi- torials when he quits the nautical nIe.
 E * g Federal aid for road building is stake. How they are going to miss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31
OLDEST ENGLISH COMEDY

From the Continental Edition of the
 London Mail
 The dust of five centuries has been shaken from Ralph Bolster Doister," for a performance in the historic ab- bots dining haM. Westminster abbey.
 It is the oldest English comedy. and the last time it was presented, it is believed, was about 1858, when party of Eton boys appeared before Queen Mary.
 Miss Kitty Ashton and c. Hussy. helped by past and present members of the Oxford University Dramatic so- ciey, are to produce the play in aid of the Westminster abbey restoration fund. The abbots hall is now used as dining room by the Westminster school boys, who sit at heavy chestnut wood tables believed to have been made from the wrecks of the Spanish Armada,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31
aTEI.EGRAPHING, HIMSELF TO
 SAFETY


 SAFETY
 From the Augusta Chronicle.
 Quite an unique story has come out of Philadelphia during the past few days. Arthur Brenner Is assistant city treasurer of Philadelphia. He has req : Son to enter the dramatically sealed vault the other day, just about closing time. Just as he had gotten inside the great doors closed, catching him on the inside. The vault is room l5 feet square and 20 feet high.
 Brenner shouted for help. but no one heard him. The lights went out auto matically as the doors shut. The man was thoroughly alarmed for himself. He knew that in the regular order of things it would be hours and hours be- fore he would be liberated. He got his face as near to the floor as possible, on the idea that whatever air might get into the place would come in at that point.
 The man was in the vault for six hours. Groping about. his hand came
  flashed to his mind a conversation he had few days prior with the night watchman, Charles Hockwald. in which talk it became known each to the other of the men that they both understood the Morse telegraph code.
 Brenner against. the vault door pounded out the message, Caught in vault. Am locked i'm Promptly there came the reply. "Git you. Will get help" The watchman telephoned an employe who knew the combination of the vault He hurried to the building and liberated the anxious assistant treasurer.
 As he emerged from his imprison- ment. Brenner dragged with him the lifeless body of a mouse. He picked up the little animal, and remarked that he had seen it run into the vault as he entered it. The mouse had died from suffocation. Brenner could have last ed but short while longer He says that but for the "telegraphing" he would have lost his life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31
Optimism of Realtors

T am glad to see the optimism of tn realtors as expressed in this morn ing's paper" said Henry Page Burruss yesterday. Good real estate business is the best sign in the world of trend back to regular conditions. When peo- pie begin to buy homes again, it means that real American progress has again stepped into the stride of normalcy."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Indicate. Growth

'In spite of the fact that for years l have kept in touch with the Baptist Theological seminary at Louisville, Ky. and heard it said on many public occa- sions that it had more students than any other seminary in the country" says Dr. c. B. Williams, T was really surprised at the statement, which do not question. of pr. w. O. Carver. pro- lessor of comparative religions and missions, that in it's s1 years of his- tory it has enrolled in it's classes 1000 men.
 Taking this in connection with his further statement that in the strict sense American Baptists had no de- nominational life before 1914 it is all the more wonderful record. Of course, not all these men graduated, but the fact that this number entered is in dicative of the rapid growth of the de- nominati in the south"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31
Effect. of Entironmcnt

Environment is a great factor in the human life, and for that reason I suppose that I would hardly be called eccentric because of the care that de- vote even to the selection Of hotel" said E. A. Henry. T do not think that the matter of economy should be all lowed to play too prominent part even in affairs of so trivial nature as this.
 The average man, if his surround ings please, if there is light and sanita- tion and congenial society at the place he for the moment might call home, will go to his work with elastic step and a cheerful mind. He can perform the tasks of the day better and will, besides, have that inward feeling of satisfaction and contentment that no doubt ge further toward success than the average mortal thinks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31
Tribute to Press

"A big tribute ought to be paid to the newspapers for the manner in which their columns are giving support to this starvation relief drive" said Will bur Robinson. There are mighty few cities where the daily press has taken the cause so much to heart as is evil denced by the splendid manner in which the papers are helping.
 "The conditions are really extreme and every one ought to be glad to give something even if it is only a dollar or so. Those in charge contemplate on putting the drive over in Birmingham in three days, but it will probably take less time than that"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31
LOew's Donation

The management of Loew's Bijou theatre announces that the building and services of the theatre employees were donated free of charge for the Schumann-Heink concert yesterday aft ernoon. aas4f
 The management was desirous of making a donation to the cause and gave the services and the theatre as part of their obligation" said T. D. James. ''The entire proceeds from the concert, therefore, will be given over to the European relief fund.-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31
Interesting Legal Point

The contention of the defense in the trials to be held at Hamilton this week that aspecial grand jury must be drawn by both judges in circuits where there are two judges, with equal juris- diction, is novel one" said Fleetwood Rice of Tuscaloosa. q think I am cor rect in stating that although the new jury code was adopted by the legisla- ture of 1909, this point has never been raised before in a case, and has not been ruled upon by any state court.
 Hamilton is in the Fourteenth cir cult. which was created in 1915. al- though prior to that time 1t was in the Eleventh circuit and the late Judge D. w. Speake of Decatur often held court there. When the state was redistricted, Marion county was transferred from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth circuit. and most of the circuits of the state were provided with two judges instead of one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31
Birmingham Makes the Usual
 Best Showing of All

6NHE monthly business review of
 ll the federal reserve bank of Att lanta shows Birmingham to have made altogether the best record in the reports received from a group of southern cities with regard to busi- ness done in December, 1920, com pared with business done in Decem- Der, 1919.
 Small increases were shown at Bir- mingham, New Orleans and Jackson vile, Atlanta and Nashville show ing a decrease" says the report. Bir- mingham wholesale grocers did a business in December 4.5 per cent greater than in November. Hardware sales were less at all points com- pared except at Birmingham, which showed an increase of 27.5O per cent. In December Birmingham wholesale dry goods houses increased their busi- ness B per cent over December, 1919, and the wholesale shoe men did a business 22 per cent better than in December, 1919.
 This is purely statistical, and dry reading superficially, but mighty good reading when the enforced conclusion is that Birmingham entered the year in splendid condition with new high records made. And, while Birming- ham regrets that not all southern cities have done as well as she in 1920 and until the very close of that prosperous year, she cannot but feel measurable pride in the distinc- tion which her record establishes.
 More remarkable than the record establishes.
 More remarkable than the record of 1920, when one looks back little later on over. the first few months of this year, will appear that being made now in the preservation of . business stability and steadiness sec- ond to none anywhere in the country and better than in most places.
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 Alfalfa hay used to come from Ns~ Mexico at slO ton freight charge. then it advanced tc sl4 per ton. then the rate last Ausus. went to SIS ton. Net result: No more of this high-grade hay is seen in this unsraot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31

Alfalfa hay used to come from Nsa Mexico at slO ton freight charge. then it advanced to si4 per ton. then the rate last Ausus. went to SIS ton. Net result: No more of this high-grade hay is seen in this market.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-31

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New Ulm review., 1921-11-16
FIRES IN SEPTEMBER,
u MORE THAN YEAR AGO
Total in Minnesota Was 16s, Com
pared TO 15s in September,
1920. Less Insurance.

The number Of fires in Minnesota
increased by 10 in September Of this
year, as compared with the same.
month Of the previous year, while the
insurance carried on the buildings and
contents that were destroyed OF dam
aged decreased from $2,3l4,0 ,04O in
September, 1920, to s1,4l8,560 IN
;September, 1921. There ,is also con-5
siderable difference il the value Of the;
buildings and contents, The September
1921 FIRE loss representing 2,675, ,040,
as against $3. .169,g60 for September,
1920, although the actual losses sus-
tanned on buildings and contents are
not so far apart, being $428,851 in
September, 1921, and $448,768 in
September, 1920.
!, There were fewer fires in the three
large cities. st. Paul. Minneapolis and
Duluth, than il the balance Of the
state, during September, 1921, while.
the opposite was true for September
1920, While Minneapolis heads the
list in the number Of fires occurring in
September, 1921, with 38, as against
;34 for st. Paul and eight for Duluth,
st. Pauls losses on buildings and con
tents far exceeded those of the two
other cities, being $3.50, ,9e5, as com
pared with $47, ,435 for Minneapolis
= ~ ae1 o1E fnlrs n,,l,,+ I On u Z ,3sI,n,,
New Ulm review., 1921-11-16
He came to America :. with his par

He came to America :. with his. par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Fischer:
ST., in 1864. The family came direct
to this city where they mades their
home. After reaching maturity, he
engaged in farming in various parts
of tNicollet county for several years.
Twenty-Five years ago, he purchased
a farm in Transit township, Sibley
county, where he made his home unri
til he retired year ago, when he!
came to this city to live.
He was married on March "a, 1887,
to Miss Bertha Meisner. Of this coun-
ity. She died four years later, leav-.
ing two children Mrs. Harry Hess
Iof Bird Island, and Mrs. R. B. Lorenzy
of st. Paul, On July 18th, 1890, he
was married to Louise Kruger Of
Winthrop. She, with ten children,
survives, him. The children are:
Mrs. Henry Witt, Winthrop; Mrs. j !.
Wachtel, Mankato; Albert, Martin,
Sophia, Augusta, Louisa, Minnie,
Esther and Irene, at home. He also
leaves one brother, Henry Fischer Of
New Ulm,. and seven grandchild
The funeral took place yesterday
afternoon at ! o'clock from the home
on Third North street and at 1:30 o. :
clockt from the German Lutheran
church,. Rev. T. Albrechti of6cia-
ted. Interment was made in Wood
lawn cemetery.
During his residence in this city,
Mr.. Fischer has made large number
of friends who join with the Herald in
extending sympathy to the bereaved
family. st. Peter Herald.
New Ulm review., 1921-11-16

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Mrs. M. .E. Payne arrived Tuesday
from Minneapolis for q short visit. with
her daughter, Mrs. Albert Steinhauser.,
A 'hasenpfeffer' dance will be held
at Turner Hall, Saturday evening Of
this week. The committee on arrange
meents is making special efforts to ac-I
odate a large attendance.
At the 1900" card party, given by
the Degree Of Honor on. Wednesday
evening, Mrs. Albert Nenno, Miss
Grace Rinke, +. W. Peuser and Miss
Lucy Bierbaum we're awarded prizes.
Cards were played at % tables.
District 81 Of Lafayette township
installed new desks in the school house.
last week. Miss Anna Michels Of
Nicollet is instructor. The class con
sists Of so pupils, and more desks and
seats had to be added in order to ac-
commodate. material increase in the
number of scholars.
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