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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-11-26
QUESTIONS IN SIMPLE ARITH-
METIC

From Life.
A. 3 and c are to do piece OF
work. can work twice as fast as
B. and b twice as fast as c. Work
ing together, haw long will 1t take
them If D, the walking delegate
stops around at the job and tells
and the union will fine them II they
work faster than G?
A golfer takes the following shots:
One drive, Whit, a brassie, two
midirons, two mashies and three
puts. What score does he put down
II three goes into thirty ten lines,
how many times does a man go into
details about the mass he caught at
Lake Wantagoanst?
A commuter has kept his watch at
railroad time. If the $40 eastern
standard, is due to leave 4:10, day
light saving, how much time has he
to catch the train If his watch has
stopped2
A man makes $4,000 In a year
How much income tax does he pay!
If subway car has capacity
of ninety, how many can get into it?
Nine divided by two Is an operation
in short division. -Four Is the quo
tent and one the remainder. What
kind OF division is a surgical opera
ton? Identify the patient and re-
mainedr. II any.
What is an improper fraction
Why doesn't the Society for the Sup
preston of Vice do something about
II?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-11-26
ny RICHARD r. JOHNSTON

Indications point to continuance of
the present high mark OF production
through the remainder OF the year
with substantial untitled tonnage
to be produced next year. This years
holidays viii be short and machinery
viii not grow cold as the old year
meets the new.
The Tennessee companys new high
point of production Issues out of the
country's general prosperity and the
special requirements of the south and
export trade. with the blowing in
OF No. stack at Ensley this week
following brief Ydleness for repairs.
the company will be making more
iron than in its history and this iron
is required in the steel mills for
the making of steel for the companys
finishing mills, the American Steel
and Wire and the independent steel
fabricators OF the southern states.
Il. e. 1. Schedule
The Tennessee company schedule
this week includes following opera
tons; Double turn at Bessemer
guide and bar mill; double turn at
Ensley rail and blooming mill, 10000
ton production of rails, maximum
production of steel ingots: double
turn at blooming, plate. structural and
tie-plate mills at Fairfield; capacity
operations at the plant of the iChicka-
saw Shipbuilding and Car conpany's
plant, which is turning out about %
new steel cars and as many repairs
weekly.
Iron Buying Imminent
II l..
is imminent. Fencing as to prices Is
about over with. Large buyers are
sounding the market Pipe plants
wish $4,000 tons apiece and other
large consumers are seeking similar
tonnage. Iron for 1928 will be or
dered in quantity in the very near
future, it is believed. Buyers and
sellers seem to have about decided
that a reduction from $3.50 to $23
or pig iron establishes trading
basis.
Independents Busy
Independent steel mills have all
.hey can care for Deliveries have
improved. One wire drawing mill is
10 weeks behind in nails and another
Is eight weeks behind on deliveries
of nails and other products. One
wire mill salesman says December
business has been the best ever
known in that month. Gulf tates
steel and American Steel and Wire
are both at a high point of produce
lion.
The Corners Steel company is busy
In both mills at Woodlawn on steel
hoops and bands. There is not great
deal of export at this time, but the
omestic demand is very good. indeed
and mill operations are on perhaps
the best scale of the year.
Pipe il Quiet
Soil pipe remains dull but makers
worry not over that. The building
trades must have pipe for the big
1923 building business and large
pipe shop operations are assured as
soon as jobbers and makers whip out
a differences of opinion as to the
price base. which now Is $50 to $50.
Pressure pipe is not gathering new
BUSINESS rapidly, but the shops have
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-11-26
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Seabrook- AWtrey Coal
Co. Make Promptness in
Delivery a Specially

The SeabrookAwtrey Coal COM
pany, coal brokers and mine agents.
offices in the Brown Marx building,
is comparatively new firm, hav-
ing established itself here only six
months ago, but 1t has already as
sumed an important place I'M the
Wholesale coal trade of the Birming
lam district. The firm handles many
kinds of coal, but makes a speciality
of Cahaba, one of the superior brands.
Their main distributing points are in
Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama.
Mr. Seabrook, president of the COM
pany, spends much of his time on the
road. keeping in touch with the trade,
and Mr.. Awtrey manages the office.
Mr.. Seabrook believes In the personal
touch and attributes much of the
rapid growth of the firms business
to that fact. Deliveries are given
special attention. The slogan is 10
start the coal to destination the day
/ is ordered.
MIR. Seabrook said that his firm
lad placed contracts for coal at the
same price approximately as before
the strike, having been very for
tunate in selecting mines on the At
lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic
where there was no strike. Mr.. Sea-
brook looks for continuously larger
supply of cars in this field and de-
liveries will be more and more
prompt, he says.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-11-26
Banking by Mail
Feature of North
Birmingham Trust

The North Birmingham Trust and
Savings bank does a large business
by mail The first thing at the
bank in the morning is the opening
OF the morning mails, bringing these
deposits from Birmingham concerns
whose offices are in the heart of the
city There are several dozen OF
them in the Brown Marx building.
The deposits cdme from Five Points,
frcm East Lake. from dairymen, from
every point in the district. Many
Birmingham concerns use this banls
exclusively and make daily deposits
there. There is not an office build
ing in the city which does not have
customers banking by mail with tho
North Birmingham Trust Robert
Wharton, president OF the bank, has
made the building up of this bank
ing by mail system speciality and
has been very successful in il. II
has become big asset to the bank.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-11-26

The carpet baggers" were a set
of northern political adventurers who
invaded the southern rtates soon
after the Civil war, and for 10 years
(S66-1S76), by the aid of the negro
vote. got themselves elected to the
chief offices, plundered the people.
piled up huge debts. and stole the
proceeds. When, in 1877. President
Hayes refused federal protection to
the carpet baggers" heir system
fell to pieces, and the white peo-
ple Of the outh regained control
the government. The term carpet
Dagger" implied a person whose in
terest in the region visited was linn
tied to the contents of his own car
aetbag.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-11-26
High Point of Production
To Continue to Year End
And Lap Ouer Into 1923
Finishing Mills Have Heavy Tonnage of Untitled Or
ders-Heating and Cooking Apparatus Plants
at 100 Per Cent in All Departments

plenty to so on through the remain
der Of the year. The base is s4S. In
dianapolis placed 500 tons with the
United States Pipe.
Gas for Factories
Prominent industrial feature Of the
week was granting of permit for the
gas main to be laid by the Alabama
By-produets company from its Tar
rant City plant into the nest of man
ufacturing plants in East Birming
ham to supply them with gas. The
Stockham Pape and Fittings com
pany is to be one of the first tax
ers. The pipe line will be completed
in about 80 days. The company will
fire its 20 new Koppers ovens next
week, thus increasing plant capacity
30 per cent. This work was begun
in July and dispatch Of construction
Is regarded as establishing a new
speed record.
Three Busy Plants
Three plants engaged In the con-
version Of Birmingham iron into
heating and cooking apparatus made
the following reports Saturday:
Unit Stove and Furnace company
At work six days week, 10 hours
a day. Turning out 80 hot air fur
naces day, in addition to stoves
and other heating appliances. Car
service splendid. Shipping furnaces
as fast as made into east and north
and into southern states. At 100 per
cent and business is still picking up.
Birmingham Steve and Range
company--On full time in every de-
partment six days in the week. Ex-
panding by building a new warehouse
and foundry. The foundry is for in
creasing present production and will
also be equipped with machinery for
making gas ranges. which win be
turned out by spring. Have been
forced to call some travelling sales
men off the road on account of too
much business already placed. Ship
ping all over the south. carloads TO
Texas and Mobile. for instance.
American Radiator company
Still at 100 per cent plus. Has been
that way for is months in the Bir-
mlngham plant. Cannot keep up with
orders. Far In arrears on deliveries
There is nc let up in demand TO
output.
Items of Interest
Lumber trade journals say: y
strong demand continues to feature
the lumber market. Prices are very
firm and in some instances have a
distinct upward tendency.
Cotton receded little during the
week but the statistical position Is
as strong as ever and cooperative
marketing is preventing any ap.
proach to sacrifice If holdings ina
are under Its protecting wing.
Colder weather has stimulated re.
tail business.
Bank elearlngs continue making
new high record.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-11-26

Several passengers who were I'M
able TO make their way 10 the !
O'Clock express at the central sta
ton, Ottawa, owing to the number
of harvesters in the station blocking
their way, appealed to the station
agent for help. a signal was flashed
to the nearest yard office. quarter
of mile away and the express re-
turned to the station for the passen-
gers left behind. 1t was the first
time In the history of Ottawa rail-
reading that an express train turned
back to oblige passengers.
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Unknown soldiers have been hon
rded by five allied nations--the
United States, Great Britain. France
italy and Portugal.
Evening star., 1922-12-19
CHAPTER VIII.

| In a select French boarding school
girl sat reading letter. She was
| about fifteen years old. a slender.
a cascade of golden curls reaching
to her waist. and wide, pv-ple eyes.
Her complexion was perfect She
! had a vivid little red mouth, impulsive
and generous, and a pink rose on each
cheek.
On reading the letter, sorrow cloud
| ed her face. For it ran:
| my Dear Little Pansy:
when you get this letter I shall be
with your mother. I am leaving you
| the money she would not have. And
| it was worth having, you will agree,
for 1t will bring you in about 100000
a year. The only condition make is
that you take the name your mother
refused. your own second name. And
my one hope is that you will be more
successful In love than I was.
''Your affectionate 'grand-godfather.'
"HENRY LIIANGHAM"
For some minutes Pansy sat brood
ing on her godfather's end. The poor
old boy had been awfully III Tor a
long time and now he was dead.
She blinked back a couple OF tears
Then her thoughts went to the for
tune she had inherited.
Presently she crossed to the mirror
and looked at herself.
dection, your head isn't turned.
Then she slipped the letter into her
pocket and made straight for her
great friend and confidante.
To the average eve there was
nothing about Miss Grainger to at
would be now. Miss Granger was
middle-a -aged, gray-haired, thin and
depressed the downtrodden
English mistress, with no qualifica-
tions except good breeding: a,eo
had gone hard with her, but these
facts were sufficient to fill Pansy's
heart with a warmth of generous at
fection and sympathy.
The girls principal thought as sne
went along was not SO much Of the
millions she had Just inherited. but
that she had always wanted to do
something for Miss Granger, and
now she saw a way of doing 1t.
She entered the room that served
study and sitting room. disturbing
the latter in the midst of correcting
an accumulated pile of exercise books.
what is it. Pansy2" she asked,
smiling at her favorita!::
Miss Granger; you'll be pleased
The English mistress put down her
pen carefully. and then sat staring at
the child. -
Really. my dear" she said in a
bewildered tone. you have a way OF
saying the most surprising things in
the most matter fact manner. But.
since you're saying it. it must be
true"
"Thats a character in itself" Pansy
remarked, smiling. a smile that
dimples.
She produced the letter and handed
it to her friend
The English mistress read it
through.
sixty thousand pounds a year" she
exclaimed. 'It makes my head reel"
Then yours can't be so firmly
screwed on as mine. Mihe isn't
Evening star., 1922-12-19
n, y. e., TUESDAY. DECEMBER 49, 1922.

when he was setting out for an even-
ings amusement in company with DR..
Edouard. The letter was brought to
him as he stood in dress suit, opera
hat In hand, in his own private sit
ting room At the palatial hotel he
always patronized when in Paris.
On perusing 1t he turned to his
companion. and said. with an air Of
savage triumph:
We'll. Edouard. rye managed to
trace my man at last"
The doctor knew who the man in
question was, for he, Edouard, was
the Sultan casim's one conidant
Rather uneasily he glanced at his
patron. He wished the young man
would be content with money and
the many Joys and pleasures 1t could
buy-.for Casim Ammeh was no longer
a strict Mohammedan would not
be always hankering after vengeance.
vengeance that might embroil him
with England and bring his wild and
brilliant career to an abrupt close.
Where is George Barclay 2"
Edouard asked uneasily
In the Straits Settlements"
The doctor experienced a feeling of
intense pleasure on hearing Barclay
was in 50 remote a spot
"It'll be difficult for you to get hold
of him there" he remarked, trying to
Evening star., 1922-12-19

cept old Sara. and she had plenty of
tales to tell about its magnificence. It
was a big gilded chamber, with "A ceiling
like the sky on a desert night. and
great golden, jeweled LAMPS. There was
a wonderful bathroom, fretted gallery
that gave a wide view of the desert, a
walled garden full Of roses. and. above
all, q door that led into the sultan's pri-
vate suite. The room had had no occu-
pant since the days of the sultan's
mother. the Lady Annette, the first wife
and favorite of his father. And Sara
had been her special slave and attend
ant.
It could be reached from the harem.
II one point behind the silken curtains
a narrow stairway led upward, and
ended in a scented. sanda'wood door.
But the door was always locked. and
only the sultan had the key. II was
common harem gossip that in that room
he would place the one among his
slaves whom he deigned to make his
first wife.
Although the law allowed him four,
and as many slaves as he fancied. so
far he had no legal wife. 1t was
strange. considering he was nearly thir- :
ty But, in many ways. he differed
from all the previous sultans. According
to old Sara, 1t was because his mother
belonged to quite another race. and had
come from a land az remote from FL
1Ammeh as Paradise. where the women
Evening star., 1922-12-19

"If give you these, Marie. will you
teach me to become a Frenchman!'
he asked.
"Won't I just" she cried enthusi-
astfcally, and without hesitation con-
tinued: ''First Of all we must get an
must cut your hair short
The youth wore his hair long. Knot
ted under his hood in the Arab fash
ion.
1t was three months before Casim
Ammeh left Paris. And he left it In
a correctly cut English suit and with
his smooth. black hair brushed back
over his head. In the spick- k-and-span
young man 1t would have been diff
| cult to recognize the barbaric youth
Of civilized life except what his
mother had told him and what he had
seen in ST. Louis; and. what was more,
| he felt at ease in his new garments,
in spite of having worn burnoose and
| hood all his life.
| with him in the salon of the pretty
| nat they had occupied since the day
| they struck their bargain. And she
looked very different. too.
Her evening frock was no longer OF
| shabby black. 1t was one of the sew
| eral elaborate gowns she now pos
! sessed. thanks to the young man
And she no longer wore a string of
coral beads about her pretty throat,
but the pearl necklace.
Although Marie had taken on the
youth as a business speculation. with
4 in few days she loved him passion
| ately. She was loath to let her benc-
| factor go, but all her wiles failed TO
| keep him.
when you're back in Africa you
won't quite forget your little Marie
| who taught you to be man. Will
your" she whispered tearfully.
Her remarks made him laugh.
'Tve had women of my own for at
least year before 1 met you" he
replied.
1t seemed to Marie she had never
really known the youth who had come
to her a savage and was leaving her
looking a finished man of the world.
He never talked to her of himself or
his affairs. Although kind and gem
erous. he demanded swift obedience,
thing infinitely inferior to himself.
Say you love me-" she pleaded:
That you'll think of me sometimes.
Love" he said contemptuously. Il
don't love women. I have them for
my pleasure. I'm not one of your
whining at some one woman's feet.
pleading for favors Women to me
are only toys. Good to look upon, If
beautiful. but not so good as horses.
oh, you are cruel. She SAID, weep
ing. And l thought you loved me-"
''It is the woman's place to love.
There are other things in a mans
life.
Marie realized she had never had
any hold on her protege. She had
been of use to him. and he had paid
her we'll for it. and there. as far as
he was concerned. the matter ended.
Being sensible, she sat up and dried
her tears, gathering consolation from
tho fact that he had been a good
speculation. There would be no i'm
mediate need to return to the florists
shop when he had gone. In fact. if
she liked to sell the necklace. she
could buy a business Of her own.
shall you come to Paris again.
Casim?" she asked.
"Oh yes. often. It's good city. full
of beautiful women who are easy to
buy"
But he made a reservation to HIM
self
When he came again he would come
under the name his mother used to
call him-Raoul LIE Breton, and he
would come in European clothes. Then
the English he hated would not be
able to hurl that detestable word
"nigger" at him.
Evening star., 1922-12-19
were all white. a land that the sultsr

were all white. land that the sultan
now visited yearly.
For that land he was starting to-
morrow
He had just been TO the harem to SAY
farewell To the half dozen girls ther".
departing with promises Of new jewel
and novelties to please and amuse thes'
toys of his on his return. And now h'
fingered with his newest slave and ia
vorite. Rayma. the Arab girl he hf'i
bought but six weeks ago.
. Envious glances were cast toward
the door behind which the Sultan Casnl
Ammeh and his new slave. Rayma, took
farewell Of one another.
One girl more than the other
watched the door with hurt angr,
jealous eyes.
She was about twenty three. with
full figure. creamy skin. a profusion
of long black curls. and great soft. Ian.
guid eyes-a half-breed Spanish Moci,
ish girl of the true odalesque type.
Her attire was scanty. A red silk slit
draped her from shoulder to knee, hflt
on by ribbon straps; and on her handt
and wrists and neck a quantity Of bars
barrie jewelry flashed.
II pray to Allah that on his trav.li
our sultan will find some woman h,
loves better than Rayma,' she SAID
spite and jealousy in her soft voice.
tCoufinu,l IN TcmorroW'S starr
Evening star., 1922-12-19
? PART II.
CHAPTER l.

IdlAT I'm ].
The harem in the palace Of El-Am-
meh led into IA large hall with carved
doors and tiny arabesque windows,
fretted and scrolled, with no one spot
big enough to squeeze more than a
hand throubh.
Generally speaking. the women Of the
harem preferred the large hall, where
they could gossip among themselves and
with their ATTENDANT women. to the
little rooms that were their own private
quarters.
But there was one special apartment
that they all in turn had striven after
and, in turn. had failed to attain. No
one in the, harem had seen the room ex-
Evening star., 1922-12-19
a Son of the Sahara
A Modern Story of the Desert
Copyright. 1872 BY the Maeauiay O
By Louise Gerard ~


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wild hoem
chic Of lie son.
companion
Who'll
defeated
the approach the
repeated vensu " inc
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OF the threat deahS sue announces
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Evening star., 1922-12-19
keep out of his voice the relief he

keep out of his voice the relief he
was feeling
He won't stay there forever. I've
waited eleven years for my vengeance.
I can go on waiting little longer.
until fate thinks well I'd place him in
q more accessible position"
With a savage expression LIE Breton
turned to a desk. Sitting down, he
wrote to his agents telling them to
keep him Informed Of George Bar
clay's moTpents'
Evening star., 1922-12-19
Velour hats
sale, $2.95

First quality ye-
lour fuzzy and
furry. as a kitten's
ear. Satin lining:
leather sweatband
silk trim m in E.
Black and colors.
Evening star., 1922-12-19

COmtinurd N TomorrOw's Star)
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-07

A generation ago in Wisconsin n
teacher with a chemist s inquiring
mind made in his laboratory and gave
TO the public discovery that has per
haps benefited the dairymen of the
world more than any other single ad
vancement in practice that has ever
been made. Before the time of DR..
Babcock, the determination of butter
fat in milk and other dairy products
was slow and inaccurate procedure.
so cumbersome that it could not be
brought to practical use. Today the
Babcock method, with the improved
and standardized machinery for con
ducting the test, provides the one con-
venient and accurate way of discrimin-
ating between the COW that pays us for
her keep and the COW we pay for her
company. Thanks to the test. the lab
oratory and the trained operator may
be brought to every dairvman s door,
and list is left in the producer s
hand, telling him which members of his
herd are his friends, and which are his
financial enemies.
The average dairy COW in the United
States does not produce enough fat to
pay TOT ner 1eed under present cohul-
tions. The average COW in California
is slightly better in this regard, but still
does not repay her owner for his labor.
And if the dairyman cannot make a
profit, he will naturally be forced to
invest his capital and his effort in
other lines. With record of actual
milk and fat production, he has the
key to improvement through the three
principles of successful dairying: weed
ing, which is removing the Improbable
low producing COW as soon as she is
identified; feeding, which means Civ