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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
my son will be credit to himself and

my son will be credit to himself and us.
 His sullen face frightened at her words. At all events mother believed in him. That was something. On the firing line when he went back to .he city he re- membered. The memory helped him in the fight.
 The womans husband struggled into competence and security.
 The minds of her ehildren triumphed over the material lures of the city. Her daughter came home and married the mayor. The son beeafue the leading banker.
 Just now her family is anxious about her health. They fear that her other battles won. she may slip away from them soon to that state where is no war fare and where peace forever reigns. But despite what the family thinks and what a pessimistic family physician says. I believe she will remain long on life's battle line. For the martial spirit ia undimmed in her eyes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
GALLANT FEMALE SOLDIER
By ADA PATTERSON

This morning | saw gallant soldier
 In uniform and in line of batteP Yes She was sitting on the broad piazza of her comfortable home. ner fine, sweet face framed in autumn tinted IVY leaves that yelled her retreat her thick curl ing hair white as the snows of Christ mas. her sturdy figure wrapped round with a purple frock and a shawl of soft white wool She yoolsed comfortable and prosperous and at peace, but there was that in her blue eyes turned frankly upor. me that reminded me of s war dispatch and all the rest of the world had read that day.
 There is no doubt in the minds of the ministry of our financial success. Every engagement in which the enemy suffers losses only weakens him the more. The enemy are far from thcir main base. We have been brought closer to ours by falling back on our own soi We are content. We remain on the defensive for the present. but our time Is coming. 2
 What had tho little woman with the snow-colored hair to do with this war disna trh? Everything. You see I know her life.
 Like the minister of var who issued
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
BELGIAN BOYS WEEP WHEN NOT ALLOWED :. ID ENTER THE ARMY
Letter From Scotch Nun Gives Intimate Picture of Conditions in Valiant
 Little Country a

London September 1s-tSpecial) The following letter written by a scotch nun residing in Belgian town, was just received by her father in Eng land
 Tn the colleges the boys had stirr- Ing speeches from their masters. In consequence hundreds of. volunteers left on Tuesday. boys of Is shouting with rage because they were refused. The limit for enrolment Is fixed at le years of age. Our girls send off their brothers without a tear. telling them to fight till they die. Since yea terday morning our schoolrooms are hcleared of desks and benches. 50 sew Hug machines. bales of cotton for mat tresses, sheets. etc., are piled in the corridors
 For two days we nuns on our side nave been rolling bandages, tearing flinen Into squares. triangles, bandages TOT the head etc, In our schools alono the committee of the ladies of the town have to provide 15o beds, sheet ing, blankets, etc. and there are at least six other centers of the same commite' in this town. We (the cor- vent) gave 25 beds. all ready and com fplete from the retreat house. and offered our big classrooms to the town Tor any use they desired. The big Jes- uit college has done the same and, as you know. last week, if you got my letter, the troops were quartered in the Jesuit college on their way to the Frontier.
 Every day our nuns hear from their thomes that their brothers are leaving as volunteers On Tuesday six brothers left their home with their bicycles to jcin the bicycle corps. They are a very old family of Bruges, the de la Ks. nf ic full of joy and 1t Is the same with all F classes. the poor and the rich all think only of the liberty of their country.
 Poor little Belgium, it Is pitiful to think of it's resistance against the Ger man troops. If God does not come to its aid, how long can it hold out? But they brave people, and upright, too. I wish with all my heart that England could see their courage. I am sure no nation could refuse them any help 1t could spare.
 ~ q am glad En ngland is aroused, and that the British lion is out with all his teeth showing. Here these little lions of Be1gians are raging and doing glorious things.
 Tell father I am cheery. and feel, sometimes. far too warlike for a nun. That's my Scottish blood. I hope to goodness the Highlanders if they come, will march down another street on their way to the caserne or I shall shout and yell and cheer them, and forget l mustn't look out of the win dow
 Now, good by, dear folks. Don't be anxious; don't believe we are all a fer est au sang, for I for one am not going to let myself be killed like a chicken. In future I am going to try and get through postcards, as I stlink letters will be stopped if the rcw is thicker"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20

rom that used on the magneto. This sys- tenn Is used on the Haynes Light Six with admirable results. Current is sup piled from the storaee battery at con stant strength at all times regardless Of the degree of the spark advance The spark is just as intense and as hot at the low speeds as 1t is at the high speeds and starting in cold weather is made easy
 Not only is the desired spark obtained but the system has proved to be entirely reliable, together with extreme simplicity. The battery is kept charged by the gen orator used in the starting and light ing system. and a set of dry cells is provided flor any emergency, the same s in the magneto system of ignition With the starting and lighting system. the storage battery is regular equipment, so that this new system has eliminated one part, the magneto, instead of adding any additional parts.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20

the bulletin to his nation, the keynote ol her character has always been hope There is no doubt in our minds of fina success. said the war minister an perfectly sure that everything will come out right in the end, the little woman had been saying every day of her talking life. So she went spendidiyson, her un- daunted spirit shining in her eyes, whil. she and her husband fought poverty while they wrestled with the forces thal were seeking to destroy the young man who was their son; while their daughter manifested the same wildness that was near to placing the son in the tanning institution, a penitentiarv There were years of war with allied enemies of pow erty and disgrace The engagements were often losing ones for them, but they kept on fighting
 Like the minister of war who has been quoted, she was d philosopher She found refuge from heart break in reason- ing. Sooner. or later my husband < business talents and his hard work will win" she reasoned No oae ever starved who kept on working and no ono finally failed who persevered." And of the chil dren she would say: 'They have fine minds. Their minds will tell them d, the folly of the frivolous life. They vii.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20

run of boys. and after a little con sideration he climbed into the tree and got the apple and ate it. At first he liked 1t, though it puckered his mouth up some. After awhile something be- gan to happen inside of him. He didn't know what 1t was, but he was sure that he was going to die. He thought that nothing in the world was quite as loathsome as an apple of any de- scription. and he wished he had been born without any stomach, or at least without any opening into 1t. He re- solved that the next green apple he ate would have to be fired into him With a shotgun.
 After while he felt better and climbed up into the tree and ate three more green apples that he had over col<ed before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
GREEN APPLE SEASON
 AND THE SMALL, ROY

From the San Francisco Bulletin.
 once there was a boy One day he went out and saw a tree with a green apple hanging on 1t. The apple seemed to say Eat me! Dare you tol" though it manifestly had no right to say that at that stage of the game. If the boy had been wise boy he would have gone away and come back when he was sure the apple was ripe. but he was only about as wise as the general
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
IGNITION SYSTEMS
 HAVE VASTLY IMPROVED

Ignition systems for automobile mos tors have been improved, notwithstand- ing the popular faith in the magneto,' said Charles w. Tray, distributor in this territory for the Haynes '-The magneto has been the standard source of ignition current for the past few years. but the engineers have been continually design ing and experimenting in an endeavor to substitute better system. and the results have been highly successful.
 "The modern ignition system that has gained much prominence this year Is the combination of the distributor. the trans former coil and the storage battery cur ront. The distributor varies but little
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
Practical Tommy
the New York Mail.

From the New York Mail
 Run upstairs, Tommy. and bring baby S mghtgown.' said rommys mother.
 Don't want to-" said Tommy.
 "Oh, Tommy If you are not kind to your new little sister she'll put on her wings and fly back to heaven"
 Tommy's reply came:
 Well let her put on her wings and dy upstairs for her nlghtgown."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
Enthusiastic Praise

From tho Louisville Courler-Journal.
 'T think I'll swipe this for the de- scription of the heroine in my pro- posed novel;"
 What Is it?" .I pinched it from the society edi- tor lady sent 1t in telling how she looked at her garden party"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
The Returned Tnurist

From the Washington Star
 What were the most beautiful things you saw In Europe?"
 "A ham sandwich and a steamboat tick ~ts
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-13
] herd like the eternal
SlEes1l1.l1s of the sea

] herd like the eternal
Sussurus of the sea,
& / sed to Pa, What is a sussurus.
/ doant know until you tell me how
it is used, sed Pa, & the way it is
spelled. Then I spelled sussurus for
Pa & sed Sussurus of the sea.
Oh, l see, sed Pa, of the sea, or in
other words, of the oshun What was
the naim of the man wich rote the
lines? sed Pa
His naim was Bliss Carman, I toad
Pa Now what does Sussurus Of the
Sea mean?
1 take it that is sum kind Of fish.
Pa sed, like a sucker or a shark.
Is a fish down IN the South Sea Is
lands witch is called sussurus. It lie
good to eat & has a savage nature,
You doant say so, sed Ma.
Oh, yes, sed Pa, | remember in the
old days we used to catch quite
lot of them. They bit on a spoon,
the saim as a mackrel The plurel is
sussuri, Pa sed.
You doant know what you are say
ing, sed Ma How often have I toald
you not to fill up httel Boobies he'd
with a lot of nonsense like that
think from looking at the poem that
sussurus must mean something like
the word murmuring or sobbing of
the sea, or sumthing like that II
cuddent mean fish anyway, Ma sed,
bee6aus, it says The Eternal Sussu-
rus & FISH can't be eternal.
I doant see why not, sed Pa. Suck
ers are eternal & suckers are fish.
Wen one sucker dies another is born,
wich is the saim as eternal, & l sup
poas that when one sussurus breathes
its last thru its worn old gills an
other sussurus is born or maybe two
sussuri, Pa sed.
You are foolish tonite, sed Ma. Why
Go you try to explain big words that
you DO not know?
Why does a poet dare to use a word
that littel Bobbie doesn't know the
meening Of? sed Pa. If Bliss Carman
ihent murmur why dident he say
murmur? Mister Shakespeer newer
used the word sussurus, Pa sed
Neether did Lord Byron or George
Conan They used words that eeveu
littel Bobbie cud understand, & thar
is the true test Of ritter.
l think it is butifui poem, sed Ma.
1t meens so much that the common
mind can not understand it. 1t isent
yure fault. dear husband, sed Ma, if
you have a common mind. 1t sounds
like a butiful line to me.
You are jest like the rest of the
wimmen that reads potrey, sed Pa.
Do you remember the other mite yure
friend Miss Berenice Burlington red
them lines of her poem
The room swan with a strange per
fume
& then | knew the Swoon OF Doom
Dident you all say that Swoon of
Doom was a butiful fraze? sed Pa.
1t is, sed Ma.
All rite sed Pa, then I throw UP my
hands. 1t is.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-13

TT HE universal longing Tor love is
responsible for more misfit mat
rimoniaI mates than anything
else in this lit old world.
A man loves Love. A woman is
the embodiment OF that sentiment to
him, and, loving Love and wanting it,
he thinks he loves the first woman
who attracts him.
A woman knows that when Love
comes to her some man Will bring
the message. and she mistakes every
advance courier on the road for her
prince, often, in the exuberance of
her longing and the natural eXag-
geration Of youth giving that long
ing for Love to two men at once.
When the confusion is confined to
one object, tragedy threatens, but
when a man or woman loves" two at
the same time, it is Cupid's comedy.
No one can marry two persons at
once, but one may marry one, and
find out too late that love for Love
and love for individual are as far
apart as the east and west coasts Of
the sea.
If one were to tell the writer of the
following letter that she is playing
the star part in Cupid's Comedy she
would grow Indignant. She has given
that which she mistakes for love to
two men at once. Those who have
known this divine passion know that
she doesn't know what love means.
Love is never Invisible.
Rose writes: Il am a young girl
Of seventeen and deeply in love with
two young men One IS q sailor, and
the other lives in Brooklyn. | think
a great deal OF the Brooklyn man, but
| love thu sailor, too Both of them
care for me. What shall | dor
Mac, a grown man, and who should
have learned better is in the same
predicament.
81 am in love with two girls" he
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-13
The Longing for Love
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

writes. and they love me dearly
They do not know each other, and |
don't know what to do ] can't Keep
It up any longer ] love both, and 1t
win be as hard to part from one as
from the other. What am l to do?
They love me so wildly 1t would hurt
them for me to leave them
And that is the unfortunate fea-
ture. Wherever there Is a Rose or a
Mac loving" two at once there Is
someone giving a whole heart and
receiving a half heart in exchange
It is the suggestion of tragedy neces-
sary to make the comedy.
There is one test when one Is not
sure of ones own heart Elizabeth
Barrett Brown gives it to all uncer-
tain lovers:
Unless you can think. when the song
is done,
No other is soft in the rhythm
Unless YOU can feel, when left by one,
That all me nelse go with him;
Unless you can know, when appraised
by his breath,
That your beauty itselfwants prov
Unless You can swear, For life, for
death,
oh, fear to call it loving"
That is Loving love for the in
dividual that will survive sorrow, and
suffering, and penury, and abuse, and
indifference, and pain, and even time.
1t is not love for Love, a sentiment
that is satisfied with every new OBJ
ject upon which It can fasten. II is
not feeling that knows moments
hesitation or doubt.
One never LOVES two. 1t is too
engrossing, too painful, too joyous, too
all satisfying and too complete to
love more than one. There never was,
there never is, there never will be
love for two.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-13
o Up-to-the-Minute Jokes o

the town. A very pretty maiden was
sure she had brought him almost to
the point Of proposal.
What was the happiest moment of
your life ?" she asked, while they were
taking a stroll one evening
"The happiest moment of my life"
answered the bachelor with a remi-
nlscent smile, was when the ieweler
took back an engagement ring and
gave me some cuff links I'm exchange"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-13
Cup Not Yet Full.

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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-13

color Wig a visit it
L nd o al
in al bihanc
N thee hair
a
The
to in
artists outfit injured
eandal eya e eoOe wig be
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-13
Seventy eighth Chapter.

I r was dark. No more than three
or four lamps on the pier were
burning but nevertheless l was
afraid that the pier master would
recognize me.
y thought lie did SO as approached
Tire gangway to the saloon, for he
said,
Private cabin on main deck aft"
Nervous as / was, | had Just enough
presence Of mind to say "Steera &c,
please, which threw him Off the scent
entirely so that he cried, in quite a
different voice
"Steerage passengers forward"
! found my way to the steerage end
of the steamer; and in order TO escape
observation from the few persons on
the pier. ! went down to the steerage
cabin, which was a little triangular
place in the bow. with an open stove
in the middle OF the floor and a bleary
oil lamp swinging from a rafler over
head
The porter found me there, and IN
my foolish ignorance Of the value Of
money | gave him half a crown for
his trouble He first looked at The
coin. then tested it between his teeth,
then Spat on 1t. and finally went off
ChuCkHng.
The FIRST and second bells rang
grudged every moment Of delay be-
fore the steamer sailed for I still felt
like "a prisoner who was running away
and might even yet be brought back
Seating myself in the darkest cor
ucr of the cabin. ] waited and
watched There were only two other
Storage passengers, and they We're
women. Judging by their converse
lion, ! concluded that they were cooks
from lodging houses on "the front -
returning after long season TO
their homes in Liverpool Both were
very tired, and they were spreading
their blankets on the bare hunks so
as to settle themselves for the night
AT last the third bell rang heard
the engine whistle the funnel belch
out its smoke, the hawsers being
thrown Off, the gangways being taken
in. and then, looking through the
portfolio, saw the gray pier gliding
hpuiu1 MS
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-13

ould Tom Dug would live to see We
LAYING home like this. But
wait, Only wait till himself is after
coming back, and ri go bail it'll be
the divil sit up for some Of them.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-13

Here is a beVy
Of pretty girls all
wearing q differ
ent colorsI wig.
The article be
low, by Olivet+e,
describes the
various color
schemes, and tells
you which will
suit your com
pleNion the best.
It is also we'll to
know Just what
dress to wear with
the wig you
select, so as to
have the whole
color scheme
harmonize.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-13
TheWomanThou
GaveSt Ne
BY HALL GAME.

Copyrf ght. 1912. By Hearsts Magazine,
CopyriCht. 1918. by HearsJ Magazine.
Copyright in Grent Britain. Copyright.
1913 rs j. 3 Lipp'ncott Company.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-13

She was very literary and he was
not He had spent narrowing even
ing discussing authors Of whom he
knew nothing. and their books, OF
which he knew less.
Presently the maiden asked, archly;
"of course. you've read Romeo and
Juliet?'"
He flouudered helplessly for mo-
ment. and then, having a brilliant
thought. blurted out, happily:
Owe read 'Rome0tr"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-13
Or, How to Adopt the Seasons Fad


So far the ''rage''
has only reached
the BIG cities, but
it is predicted
that it viii not be
long before the
wigs will be seen
everywhere, even
at country
dances.
Although first
looked upon as
freaks, they are
becoming so
popular that at
the cabsrets and
big functions they
now attract hard
Iy more than
passing notice.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-13

Te Be Continued TO morrow.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-03
'OrOille Virgin
Robs Agitation
OF Its Terrors
WITH AUTOMATIC srAB1I1zER
ONE CAN LEARN TO FLY
IN 20 MINUTES.
AFTER DEMONSTRATION NvEN-
TOR is AWARDED THE COL. .
L1ER's TROPHY.
WITH AUTOMATIC srABIL1zER
IN 20 NUT
AFTER DEMONSTRATION MvEN-
TOR IS AWARDED THE COL.
L1ER's TROPHY.

DAYTON. Ohio, Jan. 3.LWith the
automatic stabilizer, invented by
oryille Wright, it is possible to learn
to fly in 20 minutes with almost per-
feet safety. the invention robbing
the air of many of its terrors to the
aviator.
Experts from this and other coun-
tries today in this city watched the
inventors demonstrations made be-
fore a special ommittee of the Aero
Club Of America. which awarded
Wright the Collier trophy.
Seven flights were made with the
hands entirely off the "automatic
stablizer," and the turns were made
with a precision that was marvel
Gus, and marked a new epoch in the
history of aviation.
I'VE have not developed the stabi-
lizcr to as satisfactory n degree as
we expect to within the next week
or twoe,GGo said Wright today. :while
1t is but n small device, It bears a
vital f9PtI0n 60 ne maflaaery."
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-03
FRoGRESSTvES JUMP
FOR THE WATER WAGON

COLUMBUS. Ohio, Jan. S.-ProhI
hilton adm woman's suffrage werc
two of the most important subjects
considered at the conference of mem.
bers Of the Progressive party held
here today. 1t was the plan of soiun
of the party leaders to take the ini'
tiative on the prohibition question
and urge the Progressive party IN
other states to follow the course.
This movement Was given impetus
Of an informal conference which last:
cd until the early hours of today anil
resulted in Endorsement of u motion
declaring in favor Of submission o.
an amendment to- the Federal Cop
stitution for prohibition of tho liquor
traffic, as demanded by the Anti-Sa
feon League.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-03

r;aints regarding the situation.
President Wilson added that he had
no special occasion for Mr.. Lind's
visit. no advices. excitement, or new
question. The President said that
his conversation with Mr.. Lind had
covered the whole field of Mexican
condition but that no particular
name or plan had been dwelt on.
When asked il he were more hope
full for a speedy settlement OF the
trouble. Mr.. Wilson made 1t clear
that his personal view of the situa-
tion had not changed. The Prcsi-
dent had held that the Huerta gov
eminent is slowly being crushed
not only by the Constitutionalist
forces hut through incessant isola-
tion and that in Gvitably It must
fall.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-03
PEARYs' SNOW BABY"
MAKES DEBUT AT TEA

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Miss
Marie Peary. ''tle snow baby" who
was born in the Arctic circle, was
presented to society here today by
Admiral and Mrs. Peary.
The famous explorer, who seldom
attends a social function. broke his
rule to assist Mrs. Peary in pre-
senting their daughter. Miss Pcary
who is a beautiful blonde, out OF
compliment to her interesting nick
name, was dressed entirely in white
and all the decorations were white.
Among those in the receiving par.
~ were Mrs. Gilbert H. Grosvenor.
Mrs. Alexander P. Stewart and Mrs
Emil Diebtsch OF New York. the
dcbutantels aunt, who presided a,
tho tea table.