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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07
HAVE DARK HAIR \ AND LOOK YOUNG Nobody Can Tell When You Darken Gray, Faded Hair
 With Sage Tea


 Grandmother kept her hair beau tifully darkened, glossy and attrac- tive with a brew of Sage Tea and Sulphur. Whenever her hair took on that dull, faded or streaked appear ance, this simple mixture was ap- piled with wonderful effect. By ask ing at any drug store for "Wysth's Sage and Sulphur Compound" you will get a large bottle of this old time recipe, improved by the addi- ton of other ingredients. all ready to use, at very little cost. This sIm- pie mixture can be depended upon to restore natural color and beauty to the hair.
 A weIl-known downtown druggist says everybody uses Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound now because 1t darkens So naturally and evenly that nobody can tell 1t has been ap- plied-it's so easy to use, too. You simply dampen a comb or soft brush and draw 1t through your hair. talk ing one strand at time. By morn ing the gray hair disappears: after another application or two. 1t is re- stored to it's natural color and looks glossy. soft and beautiful.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07
QUESTIONS AND ANswEns

co Please tell us how much crim- son clover to plant on three acres to be sown with rye and when should it be sown? H. A., Warrior, Ala.
 (A) The quantity should be about 15 to 20 pounds to the acre when sown with grain. If sown alone the amount should be increased to about % pounds to the acre. Anytime from now on or within a month will do
 co How much shade will English rye grass stand and when should it be sown? Mrs. c.
 (A) No one could be definite as to what amount of shade rye grass would, stand because much would de- pend on exposure or local conditions: but as a matter of fact. the plant does stand a lot of shade and is probably the safest grass to use.
 co I have saved up ashes for the past two years as I have been told they were good for my garden. When
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07
RAILROADER 64 YEARS
Conductor Began Career At IA As
 Water Boy In Coaches

Conductor Began Career At l2 AZ
 Water Boy In Coaches
 Charles A. Harris of Jersey City is about to give up railroading. He has been t"it 64 years and has voiced some vigorous objections to accept ing retirement, which he lodged sue cessfully six years, but the Pullmap company has issued an order that places of Conductor Harris on pen sion. He's physically fit and capable in every way of attending to his qu- ties though he Is 76 years old; but his employers hold that when a nInv reaches TO he should stop working.
 MT. Harris began his railroad ca reer as q water boy on the Erie when 12 years old. In those days, thePe were no ice water tanks inz the coaches.
 I'm too young to qlir," said the conductor as he left the train at the end of his run, ''but I've always obey ed the rules of the company At any rate I've a new job. I'm going to lbe night cashier of. the Jersey City Erie railroad station restaurant-the com pany arranged that for fne-and I'll be near the trains if not on them.y- Detroit News.
 Indianapolis trade unions have or- ganized a labor bank, patterned aft CT the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers bank in Cleveland,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07
LAYING SIDETRACK
Andalusia WocO-Pep Company S0oI
 to Open New Plant

tU ODNH IENW T IHMI
 ANDALUsIA, Ala, Oct. e.-(spe- cisl)--A side-track Is being laid for the Andalusia Woco-Pep company on the Central of Georgia road just east of the tracks on the Sanford road this side of the Fair grounds, and equip ment for the plant will soon begin to arrive, it Is announced by G. s. Waits, president of the new company
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07

Several hundred additional em- ployes in the open hearth department of the Republic Iron and Steel com pany, at Youngstown, Ohio, have ob- tained the eight-hour day at the same rate of pay they had been re- ceiving for the twelve-hour day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07
pHYsICTAN Is DEAD

pr. w. L. Bean, aged 49, and fol many years one of the leadingphy- sicians of Andalusia. died at his home here at o'clock this morning after protracted illness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07
FAST FLYING IN EUROPE

LONDON, oct. 6.-(By Associated Press. .)-A new record for speed be- tween London and Cologne has been made by the Instone Air liner "Clty of Washington" which completed the journey of 330 miles in 12S minutes. The boat journey for the same trip takes 19 hours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07

a crcp by fall and this is probably the best time to plant the seed. Roots or cuttings may be put out In the fall with assurance of success.
 c. Would it be too late to dust bean plants for the bean beetle? S. T., Calera, Ala.
 A. I certainly would poison the bean beetle because if season is late, you will make beans.
 Q. My Sycamore shade trees are affected with some disease that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07
NAMES OF PLANTS

The Age Herald is every day asked some question about the names of certain plants. Now the truth is. that every lover of growing things as well as commercial nurserynan. seedmen and florists, in his every day work, is confronted with an ar ray of names, formidable In number, many of wh!ch are obscure or un- certain in origin, and offering more than the usual perplexity in pronun- citation.
 There are of course some, who have enjoyed such educational ad- vantages as to enable them to under stand what is meant when a botanical term is used, but the average person when the correct name of a plant, tree. shrub or flower Is given, is utterly lost in the meaing.
 The answer to such a situation is a better knowledge of botany that ought to be more thoroughly taught in the public schools. The high school pupil may be taught mechani- cal drawing, few if any ever use it or ever have occasion to use it. but little thought is given to plant which we should know because we have to live with them during our entire life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07
PLANTING MORE LEGUMES
 WILL CUT FERTILIZER BILL
 AND GREATLY ENRICH SOIL
McVay Tells What Legumes Are And Gives Advice About Their Use-Says Money Value Is Added To Home By Proper Landscape Treatment Of Grounds Which Many Home Owners Overlook
By GEORGE B. M'vAY. sR.

The Age-Herald has had much to say fin the past year about the economical importance of improving tho soil through the use of certain fertilizins plants called legumes, yet from inquiries received 1t would seem that a lot of people don't know what is meant. Let us again define what legume or leguminous plant really is. Legumes belong to that class of plants that are indowed by the Creator with the ability to assimt- late, through certain bacteria, the free nitrogen gas that we breathe every minute of our life, wheth Ter asleep or awake.
 It must be understood. however, that to enable the leguminous plants to assimilate free nitrogen gas of the air, the necessary soil bacteria peculiar to the plant must be pres ent and if not, artificial inoculation is recommended. Fortunately in most cases the bacteria is already planted by nature. It is through the work of certain bacteria on the roots for suc- cuding crops. The more important leguminous plants are the clover family, peas, beans, vetches and pea nuts. Plant more legumes and re- duce the fertilizer bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07

Investigators of the United States public health service find that many women in industrial plants rush off to work without breakfast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07
IMPROVE THE HOME GROUNDS

In Birmingham We have lot of captains of industry and other in- dividuals who have made a lot of money and who are constantly buy ing or building expensive homes and who spend thousands on various im- provements in the house, barn, etc. When it comes to spending any money on the grounds they get cold feet. The question is, what consti- tues beautiful home? It makes no difference how much money you may spend on the houses. if you neglect certain landscape effects that is the real factor in a beautiful home, then you plainly show your provincialism and you really don't appreciate the property from a monetary standpoirt. Consider the proposition, if you want to sell the place, any sensible man that has brains enough, knows that the general aspect of any property has much to do with its sale value and will deprecate any neglect to the grounds. After all, neglect of plants that surround any premises that contribute to it's beauty, is the chief factor in decreasing value.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07

of years of training. Constant prac- tice is the price of perfection.
 My mother and I are the only people who can perform this feat. And my mother Is now retired. She was famous is Europe and lives here now. 1 grew up doing stunts. My grandparents started at 1t and I am still performing"
 Miss Leitzel is one of total of more than roo performers who will be seen here with Ringing Brothers and Barnum &c Bailey combined Wednes- day, October A.
 Other features of this great new circus of 1923 include three immense steel enclosed arenas in which scores of performing lions, tigers, leopards polar bears and jaguars will be pre- sented by their European trainers.
 These animal acts are to be brought here by the Ringling Broth CTS and Barnum x Bailey Combined Shows, not as a separate attraction but as part of the circus program.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07
CULTIyATE TuE OncHARD


 Most everyone will agree that the orchard ought to be cultivated but just what cultivation is needed seems to be misunderstood by most people making inquiries to The Age Herald for advice.
 It should be understood that weeds and grasses that are allowed to grow lin close proximity to any fruit tree will absorb moisture and plant food that the tree needs. furthermore, such weeds and grasses give refuge 70 many diseases and insects that attack the trees, consequently, clean cult.- vation is of great benefit to all trees. Where trees are not evenly. checked, it is difficult to blow both ways without injury to the trees and where blowing is only done one way, there Is left wide space around and between trees that is not broke at all. The weeds and grasses in such spaces are a big menace to the fruit trees and should be eliminated If you want the orchard to survive, cultivate cleanly and utilize the. open ground in some crop, preferably cui- tivated, or in some plant that will enrich the soil.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-24

WASHINGTON. Feb. 2s.--The propose
recently placed before Congress for an
inv estigation of the rubber producing pos
sibilties of American overseas territories
was discussed at length at today's cabi-
net meeting but it was said afterward
that no decision had been reached. Sec
rotary Wallace is understood to have sug-
gested that experiments be made to test
southern states aIao be authorized.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-24
ANNOUN CE NJ EN- T.
OF RESERVE BANK
is CAUSE OF DROP

NEW YORK, Feb 23.-Heavy prof
it-taking and bear selling founded
on the raising of federal reserve
discount rate to Al per cent I'M
parted reactionary trend to prices
in todays curb markets, professional
traders taking the initiative in fore
ing recessons throughout the list.
There was heavy trading in two
new issues. admittedly checkered
cab opening at 66A and then drop
ping to e1A, as compared with s55
the offering price. Shares of the
Independent Oil and Gas company,
one of the large products of the mid
continent field, fluctuated between
1874 and 15% as against the offering
price OF 15h.
Prairie Oil was one o. the features
of that group, dropping points to
262 and then rallying to 266. Other
Standard OIL shares yielded to profit
taking. Maraeaibo Oil dropped nearly
point following a break of 10
points to los in the per cent notes
of that company.
Durant Issues were strong, Della
ware rising is points. but most of
other popular industriais we're reac-
tionary. Speculative interest in the
mining group was again concentrated
on the Goldfield issues, copper issues
showing little reaction in advance TO
another price of the metal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-24
FOREIGN LANGUAGE LAW
ARGUED BEFORE COURT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-Nebras-
ka's foreign language law, which pro-
hibits the teaching of any language
except English in all schools below
the eighth grade, was argued in the
supreme court today in two cases,
one brought by Robert Z. Meyer
and the other by the Nebraska dis
trict evangelical synod of Missouri
and other states.
The law was attacked as invalid
that it deprived the people of GER
tain rights and liberties guaranteed
by the federal constitution and inter-
fered with religious freedom. 1t was
defended a police regulation within
the discretion or the state, it being
pointed out that many men drafted
during the war who had been born
in this country could not speak nor
understand English.
Counsel for the Appellant insisted
that the law would prohit llglfna
instruction below the Ell Efitde
except after dark or Suaea.
While admitting the sta il@G r
right to enforce compuls y edHes.-
ton and prescribe the curse II
studies in public, private and para
chial schools, they insist d That TIE
state could not legally event aa4=
ents from employing pr te teach :
ers to instruct their chill - N iQl-
eign languages, provided cls I'D aat
interfere with the presc bed eoHi -
OF study The law. it y in2i9t 2
was aimed to restrict religious IT.
struction to Sunday schools.
The counsel insisted that the state
could not compel parents to send
their children to public schools.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-24
INNOVATION PLANNED
IN OMNIBUS SYSTEM

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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-24
LARGE APPROPRIATION
FOR MARINE STATIONS
REQUESTED BY MELLON

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-Secretary
Mellon asked Congress today for an
appropriation of sS,7S650O for con-
struction and repair of marine hos
pitfalls and quarantine stations. In
cluded in the estimates were pro-
posals for new hospitals at New Or
leans. San Francisco, Seattle and at
point contiguous to Galveston and
ort Arthur, TEX
A new quarantine station to cost
100000 was recommended for Sa-
bine Pass, Tex.
The new hospitals contemplated
would call for expenditures OF sl,64b,-
600 al New Orleans; s1.100.0O0 at San
Francisco; $1O00,O 900 at Seattle, and
$4,000 for the combined Galveston
Port Arthur institution.
\ modern 350-bed hospital was
re commended for New Orleans.
Mr.. Mellon also recommended large
appropriations for existing marine
hospitals, in order to increase their
capacity, replace temporary struc-
lures and make large repairs.
Other estimates for repairs and
added facilities included: Carville,
ia, $4,000; Key West, 100000; Louis
Vile, $4,000; Memphis. $4,000; Mo-
pile $4,000, and Savannah, Ga, $780,
900.
Appropriations for quarantine sta
tons included Mobile. $4,000.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-24
4,OOO,O0O PEOPLE.
VISIT BATTLEFIELD.
DURING ONE YEAR,
Increasing Interest Shown BY
American People in View
ing Scene of Civil War
Fiqht

GETTYSBURG, Pa, Feb. 23,-In-
ereasing interest in the historic bat
tlefleld at Gettysburg. where the de-
eisive conflict of the Civil war was
fought July 1, 2 and g. 1853, has been
developing among Americans since
the World war, in the opinion of
members of the Gettysburg Battle
field commission.
Estimates compiled in the commits
sions offices here. which place the
number of visitors to the field In
1922 at more than 100000, form
the basis OF this belief. These fig
ures show an increase of approx
mately 100000 over the number
who came here in 1921.
For two years after the close of
the European war the smallest
crowds In 20 years visited the field,
and it was thought the interest of
Americans had been turned from
their own historic spots to the bat
tie grounds of Europe. The throngs
that have toured the field in the last
two years have dispelled this belief.
Not since records have been kept
by the guards here-excepting only
in 1918 when the veterans of the
north and south met together TO
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
the battle-have there been as many
visitors as last year.
The commission estates that $780,
600 automobiles toured the 20 miles
of government highways which wind
about the rolling fields, along Semi
nary Ridge and from Round Top to
Culp's Hill. Figures for 1919 and
1920 show approximately 100000
persons came here each year.
On July A. last, during the en-
campment of United States marines
and while President Harding was
here, the guards estimated there
were $4,000 persons on the field and
the average Sunday during the sum-
-ner brought 1900 sightseers. Auto
mobiles from every state in the
union were noted. among them mo-
tor buses bringing school children
and members of patriotic organiza-
tions from five adjoining states.
The year 1923 brings the sixtieth
anniversary of the battle and new
records are looked for.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-24
LONG TERMS TO
BE ASKED FOR
FAKE COIN MEN
Evidence in Big Counterfeiting
Case to Be Presented
Wednesday


NEW YORK, Feb. 3S.-Eyfdenco
against "a leaders of the interna-
tional counterfeiters plot uncovered
this week will be presented to the
federal grand jury Wednesday.
The announcement was made to-
day by Assistant United States At
torney Menin, who is directing the
prosecution. He said he expected to
clear UP the entire case within a
month.
The maximum penalty for making,
possessing or passing counterfeit
money is 10 years. Secret service
operatives said they believed they
had accumulated enough evidence in
the present case, involving from
s1.oOo,oo0 to s1o.O0O,000. to insure
conviction on three counts, imprison-
ment for 45 years.
Meanwhile. claiming they have
bagged the ringleaders, federal
agents predicted that smaller fry
would be shared in other parts of the
country
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-24
Prices of Bonds Are
Turned Reactionarv


NEW YORK, Feb. es.-Bond prices
turned reactIonary today in direct reflee-
ton of the raising of the rediscount to
"A per cent, Prices of United States gov
eminent bonds quickly began readjusting
themselves to the new money market con-
ditions. Liberty az s and the first, sec =
ond third and fourth 4 as dropping lie to
34c on 500.
Foreign securities continued to move in
dependently of domestic mortgages,
Czecho -slovakian SIS rising u points to
SIN as compared with the recent extreme
low, of 70. Seine Is advanced point and
moderate improvement was noted in most
of the other French issues, despite the
slightly reactionary tendency Of French
exchange.
Railroad mortgages proved vulnerable
to selling pressure. losses of point or
more being recorded by New Haven IS
Kansas City Southern 5s Southern Pacific
refunding As, Frisco income 6s and Union
Pacific refunding As, with Denver and Rio
Grande refunding 6s, the only popular
issue to register net gain of a point.
Sugar bonds moved to higher ground in
sympathy with higher stock and com,
modify prices, but the other industrial
liens were inclined TO yield. some of the
conspicuous heavy spots being American
Sme.ting 5s. Wickwire Spencer Steel Is
and Virginia Carolina Chemical 7hs, with
warrants Oft ] to l y points.
Total sales, par value. s14.75o,O0
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-24
.LADD SAYS FALSE
BANKING SCHEME
ROOT Of TROUBLE
North Dakota Senator Charges
Growth of Poverty Re-
suited From Fraudulent
Gold Basis

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-The peo-
pie of the world have become bank
rupt by false banking and cur
rency manufacturing scheme built
upon a fraudulent and dishonest gold
basis" Senator Ladd, non-partisan,
North Dakota. declared today in
speech against the administration
shipping bill.
Attributing the growth of poverty
in the United States to what he char
actertzed as basic faults in the Amer
lean banking system. the North
Dakota senator asserted that the
present move of international bank
ers for an economic council to ad-
just German PREPARATIONS and stabil-
lie the mark in an international sub
terfuge to entangle the United States
financially with the bankrupt coun-
tries of Europe"
THE people of the United States
should resist at any cost this at
tempt to re-establish the fraudulent
gold basis money schemes" he de-
clared "as it will inevitably rivet
the chains of industrial slavery upon
30 per cent of our people, or end IN
civil war"
He declared the genesis of the
present national debt could be found
in the activities at the first constitu-
tional convention of "a strong domi-
mating coterie of predatory privileged
interests that strenuously opposed
tie principles of republicanism and
pressed for the creation of a money
power by means of funding system
not calculated to pay the national
debt, but to make it perpetual"
This money monopoly" has been
increased and augmented, Senator
Laid declared, through various
changes in the banking laws of the
United States. wholly the work of
international bankers" until these
bankers put through Congress in
1914 their fraudulent geld basis fed
cral reserve act granting private cor
porations the power to convert debts
into money"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-24
INDICTMENT OF JOHNSON
FOR KILLING Is ABATED

Indictment returned by the Jeffer-
son county grand jury against Shell
burn Johnson, 15-year-old youth,
charging him with Staying Ed Nc
Farland, was abated in criminal
court Friday morning by Judge Will
liam e. Fort because the boys age
vests jurisdiction in the juvenile
court. johnson was tried recently
in juvenile court by Judge S, d.
Murphy and sentenced to a reform
school until he becomes 81 years old.
johnson appealed the case to chance
cry court where it will be reviewed.
Johnson mortally wounded McFar-
land on~the night of January 20
when he fired into crowd of boys,
who are alleged to have rocked him
while he was on the way to see
girl in Mill Village. Mcfarland was
a bystander and had nothing to do
with the ARRAY.
Five boys are under bond to appear
in Judge Abernethy's court to an
swer charges OF assault with intent
to murder for the alleged rocking
of Johnson. They are: Buck Felt
man, Jim Pyles. Bob Morgan, Vester
williams and Clarence Tumlin. War
rants against them were sworn to by
Johnson's father.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-24
ENGLISH TEA" SAVES
BREAK IN CONFERENCE

PARIS, Feb. 2..-So engrossed were
the delegates in the dlscussio nof va
rious plans of the reparation ques-
ton presented at the Paris confer
ence. that on the third and last day of
the meeting they nearly forgot their
o'clock tea.
Verbal exchanges between Premier
Bonar Law and Mr. Theunis, the Bel
gian premier had become somewhat
bitter marking the only strained mo-
ments of the conference. The air
was charged with suppressed emotion.
delegates were nervous, and for a
time II seemed as II the conferences,
instead of ending in n friendly dis
agreemnt," might break up In a row.
Just then the Marquis della Tor
retta proposed IN a casual way: Per
haps we might have our tea"
All concurred. The good old Eng
lish custom, proposed by an italian,
had saved the day.