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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26

important to break before the trees are set out, and when should it be done? F'. E., Salem, Ala.
 A. It is important to break the soil thoroughly before setting out any fruits. the better the soil conditions, the bet ter results will obtain. It is not abso- lutely necessary that the blowing be done at once, but it should be done be- fore the trees are set out. Thorough cultivation of young orchards is posi- lively necessary.
 A. l try to save my own seed and have done so for over 50 years, but fol the past few years, no matter how l manage, the insects nearly always ruin them. Is there any simple remedy that can be used to preserve the seed? Mrs. S., Albertsvillc, Ala.
 A. While insect pests are much worse than they used to be and getting worse every year, there is a way. Fumigation is the modern method of keeping seed. If seed be inclosed in an air-tight container and little camphor, gasoline or kerosene be dropped in, all insect life will be quickly destroyed. For large quantities of seed, different methods are practiced, but the prin- ciple is the same.
 o. When is the proper time to root the hardy pirks and carnations! Miss. T., York, Ala.
 A. Such plants being perfectly hardy may be rooted at any time from October on to next April. Variety and pur- pose of culture would be important to indicate a definite answer.
 Q. have planted cabbage, kale, col lards and rape repeatedly, but some thing eats them up as fast as they come up. Could you suggest remedy to get the plants going? Mrs. O., Auburn, Ala.
 A. The trouble is undoubtedly due to a small worm that consumes the fol1- age as fast as made. Some poisonous i1secticide should be dusted on the plants by the time they are up and re- peated at week intervals until the plants get some headway.
 @. Is there any rule to go by in determining the amount of water a plant should have? Is it better to set a potted plant in tub of water to in troduce moisture or apply the water on the soil surface? l.. T., Sheffield, Ala.
 A. There can be no such rule and too much depends on soil conditions and temperature. In more than half the cases, potted plants receive too much water. A vigorous growing specimen requires more water than a puny one. There is no objection to watering plants by setting in tubs of water but it is inn portant to remove them as quickly as the moisture has gained the surface. Natures way, surface application, is generally preferred.
 O. Do you think that oats grown in my county would be as good to plant for a crop of threshed oats as those might order from other sections? A. T.. Talladega, Ala.
 A. I certainly do. Native grown oats quality and variety considered, are sure to be as good or better than seed from any other section.
 o. Is there great deal of difference in the various varieties of seed rye ad- vertised? Will it pay to plant only the Abruzzi variety in my section? D. s., Camp Hill, Ala.
 A. The main advantage of the true Abruzzi rye is it's earliness and tall erect growth. The variety known as Rosen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26
b DARKEN HAIR
 APPLY SAGE TEA
Look Young! Bring Back Its Natural Color, Gloss and
 Atsractiveness

Common garden sage brewed into a heavy tea with sulphur added, will turn 'yray, streaked and faded hair beauti- Fully dark and luxuriant. Just few Implications will prove revelation if your hair is fading, streaked or gray. Mixing the Sage Tea and Sulphur rec tpe at home, though, is troublesome: |An easier way is to get a bottle of IWyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound ht any drug store all ready for use. This is the old-time recipe improved by
 the addition of other ingredients.
 While wispy, gray, faded hair is not
 sinful, we all desire to retain our youthful appearance and attractive hess. By darkening your hair with |Wyethss Sage and Sulphur Compound, ho one can tell, because it does it so
 .aturally, so evenly. You just dampen sponge or soft brush with it and siraw this through your hair, taking bne small strand at a times by morn ng all gray haiIs have disappeared, hnd, after another application or two, your hair becomes beautifully dark,
 glossy, soft and luxuriant.-Adv. ..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26
AGAIN SEEING OLD ROMANCE IN
 WHALE HUNTING
Square Rigger From New Bedford To Sail Soon
 On Years Quest

Blowsi
 Ttat cry, music to the ears of every khaleman, will ring for another year rom the mastheads of the bark Wan erer, says New Bedford correspond nce in the Christian Science Monitor.
 She will sail before the end of the honth for the Cape Verde islands and he deep sea whaling grounds of the $outh Atlantic, And when she again, omeward bound, sets the salt spray ancing under her eagled prov in all Probability the curtain will fall on 150 fears of the whaling industry from New Bedford harber-150 years which Fave made the name "New Bedford
 byword in every port in the world..
 The Wanderer is one of a venerable Griumvirate of New Bedford whaling essels, the last of a mighty fleet. Dean #f them all is the Charles W. Morgan, fhich stands heavily listed and rotting *t her Fairhaven dock. She may be #iven to the city of New Bedford and #ept as whaling memorial, or be 'Haken to other United States ports for xhibition purposes.
 ; The third of the triumvirate is the <chooner Margaret, a more recent ves- #el. She is commanded by Captain oseph Edwards, brother of Antone Edwards, the 32-year veteran of the khaling industry, who will captain the 5vanderer on what he believes will be Ter last trip. The Margaret is ex- ected to dock at New Bedford late this Hummer after a whaling trip into the Eorth and South Atlantic. She prob Holy never will make another voyage Is whaling vessel, Captain Edwards Bays.
 A Spiders Webb Above the Deck
 Both the Morgan and the Wanderer re ''square riggers," their hosts of |uuare sails hung against the masts and t right angles to the keel of the ship. |t was this type of rigging which was ksed on the majority of whalers when khaling was at it's peak, but it is sell on. seen on modern vessels. They are 8torybook ships with whole forests of ope, and arm and sail looming in a liant spiders web above the deck.
 The packet and freight trade have laimed some of New Bedford's more ecent fleet of whaling schooners. A ew giant masts, like faithful cOurtiers, *e0ch up DeSl0e lt.e IuFee CTOSScu Spakc f the Morgan from schooners which nee were whalers. The. John R. Ianta, a procincetown boat, lies at CT dock across the harbor and might e fitted out as whaler again should eep sea whaling from sailing ships be ome profitable. But the WandereT nd the Morgan are the lost of New sedford's. valiant 'squareSiggers.' Iany of their fellows lie today at the ottom of the sea, and the Margaret is he only schooner to be actively en- ' aged in the whaling industry.
 Nearly Ready To Go The bark Wanderer is almost ready or the final command, Cast off. .'' Standing at the foot of Pier No. 3 in he position in which she has been ocked dozens of times before her masts nd yardarms, with myriad lines and vires towering above the black, grace ul hulk, she offers a striking contrast 0 the squatty, bleching smOkestack' nd Uttered decks of the steamers.
 TORE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26
AMERICAS GRAND OLD MAN"
Cornelius Cole, 1O2 Years Old, ArgO'
 naut And Ex-U. s. Senator


 naut And Ex-U. s. Senator
 After a term in the house during the Civil war Cornelius Cole of California served in the United States senate from 1867 to 1873, through the Fortieth, Forty-first and Forty-second congresses.
 Among his senate contemporaries were Lyman Trumbull, Thomas A. Hen- dricks, Oliver P. Morton, Charles Sum- ner, Zach" Chandled, Roscoe Conkling, Simon Cameron, Carl Schurz, John Sherman. John A. Logan. "Parson" Brownlow and others of note in the public life of the country, long since passed into history. ~
 Fifty-one years after his retirement from the senate, Mr. Cole celebrated re- gently his 102d birthday. It is only a year since he abandoned almost daily trips to his law office. At the age of 100 he undertook a transcontinental trip and revisited Washington. New York and other places in the East familiar to his youth and his ripe man. hood.
 A native of New York state, MT. Cole, a practicing lawyer, at 27 years old, joined the Forty-Niners who went to the California Eldorado. There are presumably some survivors of that great trek who joined the westbOund cara vans in boyish years, but none who had attained the maturity of Cornelius Cole He is thus the last survivor not only of his day in politics but of the genera. tion of grown men already established in trade or profession in the East who joined the Argonauts of '49.
 Other men have lived to round a cen tury but with few exceptions they have been persons whose dull, uneventful lives made little drain on vital force and energy. Mir. Cole has fully lived his life in pioneering in his profession and in politics. He has lived to criti' cize Hiram Johnson with the same keen interest in the public life around him as he felt in Andrew Johnson in his day To the native sons of California to- day be bodies forth the type and man. ner of man they were who spread the l virility and vigor of the Amreican race from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the formative period of the United States He is Americas Grand Old Man. Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26

Quantity and quality-these are the magic words to describe the evtra spe- ciaI program which will be offered pa irons of the Lyric for the first half of this week. Not satisfied with five acts of the best of big-time Keith vaude- vile, the management has boke doin q sixth act to make bill that will rank with the best ever offered at the play house.
 The headliner is one of the biggest acts that 1924 has produced for the vaudeville stage. It is Classics of 192z." hhe revue beautiful, offering music, songs and dances of the ultra
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26
Special Sia-Act Program
 Opens Monday at Lyric
Elaborate Six People Revue Classics of 1924
 Head New Vaudeville Program

sort with a group of real artists. This group is a sextet, three men and three women, who are singers, dancers and musicians and theyl offer the best that is to be seen in any of the lines. The act as a whole is beautifully staged.
 There is an extra added attraction provided by Lorraine Howard and Flo Lind under the title of Wedding Belles." This is a harmonious songon- logue, and Misses Howard and Lind are said to be performers out of the Ordi- nary, both melodiOus and merry. Re 5ports say that they keep audiences in a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26

continual uproar throughout their act.
 The added attraction is a novelty number, a collection of songs and com elly offered by Herebert Ashley and compuany under the title of 'Memo- ries." Mir. Ashley is an old-time vaude- vile favorite, and his supporting com pany in this number is said to be un- usually good.
 Usually there are only two more acts on the Lyric program, but this week there are three, and everyone of senting a comedy singing skit, Leland Clifford and Betty Stafford in Bits of Art" novelty number, ana Teddy and Shep Waldman in "Ten Keys to Sink O-Pate." @s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26

is very satisfactory. There is no great difference.
 o. have made failure in growing the fancy leaved caladums. Do you know the essentials for success? Mrs. O., Albany, Ala.
 A. Fancy leaved caladiums require n warm moist atmosphere and very little direct sunlight, yet they must have light to bring out the color pigments in their splendid foliage. Environment or the proper location of such plants is the main factor in success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26
Beauty And The Beast" Or A Study In Contrasts
 All Coming To Town With Ringling- -Barnum Circus

4 remarkable facial study of John Daniel. End, star of the circus zoo and only living go- rilla in captivity. Jennie Rooney, the Cinderella of the circus, appears interested in a trio of clowns. They will be in Birmingham Thursday. October 30, when the Big Show pitches its tents for two per formances at Smith Park; Miss Rooney is rated as one of the prettiest girls among the hun- dreds with the circus which this year assumes the nature of a beauty show"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26
Plants Are Not Injurious To
 Mans Health, Says McVay
Small Amount Of Carboric Acid Gas Given Off
 Involves No Danger
By GEO. B. M'vAY. SIR.

E.. MVAY , yNyAE AGE-HERALD has recently received number of
 ques wanting know it is really dangerous to sleep in perhaps recent article widely read publication which would any reader believe that The theory based the fact that growing plants give out carbonic acid at night which poisonous all e and if sleeps with plants, sickness and perhaps death will follow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26
WHY GROW MORE LEGUMEs

The south is the natural habitat of many of the worlds most valuable plants, chief of which are the cowpea, produce the worlds supply of seed. The velvet bean being a subtropical plant does not ordinarily mature seed very much above the latitude of Birmingham, but it's only a question of time when new early varities will be evolved that will remove the commercial production to the northern states where the bulk of the cOwpeas and saybeaps are now produced.
 Its only few years ago when the northern farmers were unacquainted with the COW pea. They used them, to be sure, for fertilizing purposes, for hay and the renovating of their worn out lands but no efforts was made at seed production. Its different now. There are but few northern states that don't produce from one to five times as many COW peas as the state of Alabama does. The present extremely dry season ought to teach the southern farmers an object lesson. In vast sec. tions of Alabama and Mississippi, re. gently visited by the writer, the velvet bean, soybean and COW pea have stood m exceptional hot dry season, have produced profitable crops in spite of the weather and where everything else has literally burned up. Why not grow more of such plants, both as q sale crop and for the permanent improvement of the soil?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26
MATTER OF COMMISSION

fee, doctor, for attending that Smiths boy? His fathers rich you know"
 Well, yes. Why?"
 "Well, hope you won't forget that my little Ted threw the brick at him" London Weekly Telegraph.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26

The idea like many others, seems sound but like a whole lot of other visionary ideas and inventions don't work out to an affirmative conclusion. That growing plants throw off car bonic acid, that it is poisonous, is not denied. but that the quantity is suf- ficent to affect the health of man, in- sects or animals, is pure nonsense. How does the leashed doctor figure out the vigor of the wild beasts whose home is in the remotest thick jungles or the verious other insects and living crea- lures who seem to thrive on the amount of carbonic acid gas, daily consumed again, what about the husky green house help whose home is the damp humid atmosphere of the hot house and whose nightly bed is very often the walkways of the glass houses? There is nothing to it. Don't let such bunk cause you to consign your plants to the cellar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26

EXCWSE YET PLLAESE
 Telephone subscribers in Wales are said to be relatively few. No wonder. Imagine calling Llanrhaiadr O0S6 only to be given Mowddwy 4977 Life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26
HIS IMPULSE

~- HIS IMPULSE
 Accused, you are sentenced to two ears Imprisonment. Have you any hing to add?" ,.,
 'No-but should very much like .o deduct."-Pele Mele, Paris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26
What A Music
 Study Club Ticket Comprises

Comprises Five Major Concerts Albert Spalding, Americas fore most violinist, Nov. 6. Claire Dux, Chcago Opera Prma Donna, Nov. 24. Josef Hofmann, World Renowneni Pianist, Dec. 5. Reinald Werren- wrath, Metropolitan Opera Bari tone, Jan. 15. St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, March q. One Morning Recital Each
 Month ] (Presented by Birmingham's Best
 Artists) One Study Meeting Each
 Month ] Conducted by Competent Instructors) Prices: $500, $7.OO, $6.O0f For Children Over Fourteen
 Years of Age < Five Major Concerts Same as Seniors) z Three Young Artists Matinee
 Concerts
 Two Study Meetings Each
 Month
 Evening Musicals
 Prices: $500 For Juveniles Under Fourteen
 Years of Age
 Three Matinees St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Min neapolis Symphony and third to be announced later.
 Two Study Meetings Each
 Month q (Conducted in the Various
 Residential Districts)
 Prices: $1.1O
 Select Your Seat for the Season Seats Now on Sale at Cable Piano
 Company
New Britain herald., 1924-05-05
rince oscar and Prince August Will

Prince Oscar and Prince August Will helm.
 Two friends of the family, Count August Eulenburg, former master of ceremonies at the imperial court and Dr. yon Dryander. the son of the late court preacher, will be among the newcomers in the reichstag, both hay ing been returned on the nationalist ticket.
 Professor Waiter Schuecking, demo- crat, who was among the earliest op- ponents of the Hohenzollern policy, was reelected. Professor Schuecking. a world known pacifist, authority on international law and member of the Hague court of arbitration, was per secuted during the war because of his pacifist views, but became one of the five German plenipotentiaries of Yer sailles.
 The exploits of the German cruiser Emden are recalled by the election of Captain HeIlmuth von Muecke, com mander of the vessel during part of the war period, on the ultra-national- ist ticket.
 Among the socialists returned are Frau Tony Sender, reputed the most beautiful woman in the last reichstag and a remarkable linguist, and Her man Silberschmidt, who led the Fran CO., German workers negotiations in 1920 for the rebuilding of northern France on a cooperative basis.
 Among the outstanding nationalists reelected is Professor Otto Hoetzch, expert on Russian affairs and author of a work on the United States.
New Britain herald., 1924-05-05
England Not Worried by
 Fear of Excess Autos

London, May 5.-The British gov ernment does not share the fear of a questioner in the house of commons today that surplus stocks of motor cars abroad will be dumped in this country as soon as the McKenna du- ties expire and that this will cause the closing of automobile manufactur- ing works here. William Graham. financial secretary to the treasury. said in reply to the questioner that there was no evidence of glut of motor cars in the United States and no in dication of preparations for dump ing" here. The best answer. added the treasury spokesman. was the ex- perience of 1928 when America pro- duccd 100000 cars and absorbed ee per cent of them herself. sending only four per cent to the entire remainder of the world.
New Britain herald., 1924-05-05
City Items

A daughter was born yesterday to MT. and Mrs. William Anderson of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Anderson was formerly Miss Ethel Rollins of this city.
 victrolas and Pianos. Henry Morans -advt
 Alexandra Lodge, No. A, A. I. O., Daughters of St. George, will hold a meeting Wednesday evening in Vega Hall.
 Hallinans Lunch from S:3o a. m. to 1850 p. m.-adxt.
 Clara Camp, R. N. of A, will hold its regular meeting tomorrow evening at Jr. o. U. A. Nj. hall. Refreshments will be served following the meeting.
 Lefty Erlles va Soccoli at Rogers Recreation .tonight.-adyt.
 The sewing circle of Laurel Court, o. of A. will meet at the home of Mrs. Alice Glazier, 50 South Burritt street, tomorrow from 10 to o'clock.
 Smart Spring Millinery, French Hat Hhoppe, S7 w. Main St.. Prof. Bldg. -adt.
 vicenty cunhoski has sold to Michael and Mary Marro three fami- ly house on Day street through the Harry R. Holland and H. J. Foiren agency.
 Kacey's fair closes tonight at Jcs- ter's Hall. Arch St.-advt.
 Winthrop Council, Sons and Daughters of Liberty, will hold regu- lar meeting Wednesday evening at s o'clock in o. U. A. NJ. hall. All repre- sentatiyes and their alternates will be present at the meeting. the last to be held before the convention at Bridge port on May 20.
 Home cooked lunches al Crowell's.
 -advt reported to the police yesterday that his bicycle had been stolen from the cellar of his home.
 Don't forget to attend the K. of c. fair tonight, testers Hall, Arch St. advt.
 The case of the Quality Brands Go. against Maria Wisk is scheduled to come for trial in city court tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock before Judge b. w. Alllng. NiorTls b. SdAt VIII dp- pear for the plaintiff and NJ. A. Sexton for the defendant.
 kacey's fair closes tonight at Jes- ter's Hall, Arch St.-advt.
 A surprise party in honor of the birthday of Harold Roberts was held at the home of Miss Beatrice Peter son of East street on Saturday eve- ming. Miss Ilga G. Harvey, we'll known teacher at the New Britain high school. was one of the guests of honsr and in the course of the evening she rendered several delightful piano selections. Games were enjoyed and refreshments served.
 Kacey's fair closes tonight at Jes- ter's Hall. Arch St.-adyt.
 Announcement has been made Of the birth of e daughter on May to Mir. and Mrs. Charles MeSirath of Tower avenue. Hartford. Mrs. Me- Grath was formerly Miss Doris Dewey, well known dancing teacher. who con- dueted classes In this city.
 Don't forget 10 attend the K, Of c. fair tonight, Jester's Hall. Arch st.-- adyt.
New Britain herald., 1924-05-05
Father Clabby to Speak
 At Nathan Hale School

The annual meeting Of the Nathan Hale school Parents and Teachers association will be held tomorrow evening at s o'clock in the school auditorium. The parents will meet the teachers from s to 2 o'clock and the annual election of officers Will be held at z o'clock. Rev. Raymond Clabby, principal of st. Mary's paro- cbiai school, will address the meeting and musical selections will be ren- dered by the Misses Ruth Curtiss and Anna vnioski.
New Britain herald., 1924-05-05
Penn. Bonus Plan Must
 Go 10 People This Year

Harrisburg, Pa, May b.-The Dau- phin county court today ruled that a proposed amendment to the state constitution permitting the borrowing of sSs,ooo, 900 for soldiers bonus must be submitted to the people this year for approval or disapproval. The amendment passed the legislature and proceedings were brought against the secretary of the commonwealth 10 re- strain him from advertising and cer- tifying it this year.
New Britain herald., 1924-05-05
WAGES ARE sLAsHED

Thompsonville, May b.-Resdjust- ment Of wages affecting all depart ments of the Bieelow-Hartford Car pet Co, involving q reduction in apy varying from 10 10 20 per cent be- came effective today. This is the first general reduction in years and affects approximately 1000 persons. No explanatory statement has been made by the company.
New Britain herald., 1924-05-05
Man Is Shot in Argument
 Over Child's Baptism

Fitchburg, Mass, May 5.--Andrew spyropoulos. charged with the murder of Daniel Kouiis here yesterday, waived examination in the district court today and held without ball for a hearing on May IS. spyropoulos, proprietor of a coffee house and bar Der shop, is accused of having shtt Koulis, a trustee Of the Greek Ortho- dox church, after a dispute over the delay in arrangements for the bap- tism of spyropoulos' child.
New Britain herald., 1924-05-05
FUNERAL FOR 22 MEN
Services Today For Victims of Mine Disaster as Rescue Parties Seek For More Bodies.

Wheeling, W. Va, May ,5.-Rescue crews went into the Benwood Mill mine of the Wheeling Steel corpora ton today to search for the bodies of five men, listed as missing since last Mondays explosion in which more than 100 miners met death. One hundred and fifteen bodies have been recovered prom the wrecked workings
 George Holiday, Sr., the mine fore man, was among those unaccounted for. The rescue men were instructed to explore the main entry in the hope that the bodies would be found there.
 Funeral services were held today for 22 of the victims Burial was in the Mount Calvary cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1924-05-05
Special Notice

Alexandra Lodge, No. s4, A. l. Q. Daughters of St. George will hold & special meeting this evening at 7;so o'clock in Vega Hall 10 take action on the death Of Mrs. Agnes Colby sdvt.