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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-01
WE INVITE
SOME COMPARISONS

The 1914 Cadillac will use no more
tires than any other good car
1t will average Is miles to a gallon
of gasoline-and more if driven by an
expert.
1t will run about 1000 miles to gal
lon of cylinder oil. Eve challenge
comparison with any automobile in the
world on this point)
1t will climb hills alongside the
highest-price cars made.
1t will outstrip most of them in
speed.
1t is as free from vibration, as
smcth-running and as easy-riding as
any car made, regardless of the num-
Der of cylinders.
1T is the only car embodying the
tremendous advantages OF the two
speed direct drive, the one great de-
veIopment of the year in motor car
construction.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-01

can't look into the future. If we
could there would be heap more Old
maids and old bachelors in the world
The reason why the women call
them Sewing Bees is because they
gather to buzz and sting females who
do not happen to be present
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-01

No matter how scarce other things
grow, you will notice that there are
always enough dogs in the world.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned man who was going to fly across
the Atlantic Ocean?
Maybe it is good thing that We
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-01

Don't wonder if She is a half hour
later than usual getting ready when
you call to take her to the theatre,
young fellow. Them there new spit
curls have got to stay put if it takes
all night.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-01

The fad for cooking in paper bags
has disappeared, but lots of married
couples are still eating out of paper
bags.
A farmers idea of Dude is a man
who wants two forks when he eats a
meal.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-01
WE CONFESS TO

SUBSTANTIAL WEIGHT
The Cadillac is heavier than many
of the ordinary medium-priced, cars.
Therein lies the reason of it's estab-
lished superiority. That is why it is
known as the most durable automobile
built, and why it's owner is not called
on in after years to pay large bills
for parts and labor.
If purchasers of automobiles would
look at the inside of some outwardly
good-looking carsetbefore buying Gas
they have, alas, so frequently to do
later on in many cases) there would
be fewer of the type of fiimsy cars
that are being sold on the strength of
talk, just talk and promises, year aft
er year, with nothing back of it to
show.
They would not buy cars so skimp
in material as to fall short of the line
of economy and safety.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-01

A girl of seventeen goes around
Dragging that she is an old maid.
But it is different when she is twenty
seven.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-01
LUKE McLUkE SAYS.
Cincinnati Enquirer.)

After a man has bucked the game
long enough he learns to go to the
Dictionary when he wants to find
Sympathy.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-01

Eggs of different species of birds
greatly differ in shape, but the yolks
are invariably spherical.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-01
WE CONTRADICT
SOME MEASUREMENTS

SOME MEASUREMENTS
There is really no such thing az
greater expense to the man who drives
a Cadillac.
Competitors, beaten at every point
of performance and durability, and
driven to their wits ends for some
feature wherein to assail the Cadillac,
preach that it's weight makes it hard
on tires" Cadillac owners who have
driven their cars for many years know
better.
Tirem akers guaranteed their tires
for the same mileage on Cadillacs as
on other cars.
IL is an ordinary matter for Cadillac
owners to get 5000 or 5000 miles SER
vice from their tires. And there are
many who get even greater miIeage.
We can prove this by letters now
on file and open to the public's inspec-
ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
A Prominent Coal operator

Alex Bonnyman of Knoxville, presi- dent of four mining companes-the Camp bell Coal company. the Westbourne Coal company the Higheliff Coal company and the Red Feather Coal eompany-spent yesterday in Birmingham. He is a brother of James Bonnyman of this city, and has many friends here who are all ways ready to greet him. He was chief engineer and manager of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad dur Ing its construction period.
 The coal business has been quiet for sometime, but I am looking for an early improvement said Mir. Bonnyman. Knoxville. where I am now living, is one Of the most prosperous cities in the south, and business conditions there. while not particularly brisk. are sound"
 MT. Bonnyman remarked that he Was greatly impressed with Birmingham s steady progress. T am here frequently" said he, but every trme l come I am struck with handsome improvements"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03
VIII Help Business

There is already a much better feeling in business circles in the east, growine out of the belief that the interstate com merce commission will authorize an ad- vance in freight rates.' said Charles T. Downing of Philadelphia.
 Business has heen very much de- pressed all through the east, and tha number of unemployed men has been in- creased. The Pennsylvania railroad, which is a pretty good business barome- ter, has laid off thousands of it's employees recently Traffic has been falling of steadily but the very day that the east ern carriers are permitted to advance rates per cent business will improve and hard times in our section will become a thing of the past. When business be- gins to pick up it picks up very fast.
 The south is known to be particularly prosperous, but 1t will be still more pros porous just as soon as the general busi- ness of the country improves"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03
HAS DUG 1000 GRAVES
the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 The cheeriest man in Topeka, and a philosopher of the soil, is Richard Fritz, an old Prussian, who has been employed in the Topeka cemetery for Is years and has dug 1000 graves
 If you visit the cemetery on March afternoon when the wind is flying over the hill and expect to see a Gabriel Grub who, MT. Wardle told the PickwiclS club, consorted with nobody but himself and old wicker bottle,' you will be disappointed. Richard Fritz, leaning on his spade, looks like Prussian peasant digging a garden.
 He greets you cheerily. He has worn out 12 shovels, he tells you, burying men when clouds of snow whistle into the grave pits and on summer nights when a white mist sails over the moon.
 ''Dere is nothing sad in dis" he de- clares, "a healthy person iss never sad We all go back to Mudder Earth Every man must earn his daily bread"-he plunges his spade in the dirt-"so I earn mine"
 He was born in Prussia in ls49 and was a frightened little chap who shivered on his fathers knee in the firelight when he heard tales of goblins and elves. Aren't you afraid of ghosts?' Richard Fritz digs deep with his shovel. His blue eyes twinkle above his cheeks bronzed by the blow of the wind. "Dere ain't such a ting like spook, he says.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03
Congratulations to Atlanta

Birmingham, like Atlanta, was a candidate for a federal reserve. bank. The Georgia city won in the contest, and Birmingham congratulates the winner.
 Atlanta and Birmingham could not both have a federal reserve bank, and during the hearings before the or ganization committee in Atlanta, w. P. c. Harding, who was the president of the Birmingham Chamber of Com merce, made an exhaustive argument in behalf of this city. His remarks made a deep impression upon those who were present, and many repre- sentative Atlanta men said at the time that if their city did not get one of the federal reserve banks it would be glad to see Birmingham success ful in it's efforts. And similar senti- ments were expressed by members of the Birmingham delegation present at the hearings in regard to Atlanta.
 The organization committee, having concluded its labors, made official announcement of the districts, with the reserve centers, late yesterday afternoon While there are some sur prises in the matter of regional lines, District No. 6, over which Atlanta will preside, and several other dis tracts, conform very nearly to those proposed by MT. Harding as shown in the map accompanying his brief prepared at the request of the organ ization committee.
 President Wilson will soon appoint the members of the federal reserve board, and as soon as they qualify the new system will be put in opera tion. It was generally agreed at the time of the passage of the measure that the banking and currency law is what the country had long needed. Under it's operations there can be no such thing as a bankers panic in the future. The act provides for reliev- ing tight money conditions arising periodically in different sections. And it further provides an easy and safe way for financial aid to the farmers.
 Of the twelve federal reserve banks to be established, the south gets three-Richmond, Atlanta and Dallas. The Virginia capital is not only wealthy community, but it leads all the other cities in the south in volume of banking business, with the exception, perhaps, of New Orleans. And Dallas is well situated to meet the requirements under the new law The south, therefore, as whole, can but be satisfied with it's treatment at the hands of the organization committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03
Stranger Than Fiction

That truth is stranger than fic- tion" has been said many times and the aphorism has become in popular parlance somewhat "bromidic." The newspapers teem with narratives full -ly as picturesque and moving as the best efforts of novelists.
 Last Monday grayhaired man knocked timidly on door in Will liamsburg, N. Y. The door was opened by woman about his age, whose hair was as gray as his own. She stood nervously wiping her hands on her apron as he struggled to speak. Then he called her name and the woman threw herself into his arms. A hus- band and wife were reunited after a separation that had lasted thirty-five years.
 Capt. Alfred Welland, well-to-do British resident of Cairo, Egypt, be- came involved in Egypto-Turkish poli- tics. He was intimate with Osman Pasha, noted Turkish general, and enlisted in the Turkish army at the outbreak of the Turko- Russian war. His young wife and their infant son hs left behind. After awhile letters
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03
MosLEM .EDUcATIoN.

From the Christian Herald.
 The education now current in Mos lem lands is scarcely worthy of the name. In the Moslem schools, children begin by learning the Koran. As it is in Arabic they understand none of it, ex- cept in countries where Arabic is the na- tive tongue. The teacher makes no ex- planation.
 The Ashar. or "Moslem university" at Cairo represents the highest reach of Mohammedan education How exalted that reach is may be judged from the fact that this school, Islams greatest institu- tion of learning, still clings to the Ptolem- aic theory of the universe, which makes the earth the center of the solar system, around which the sun and stars revolve!
 A graduate of the Azhar, who had spent 12 years within it's walls. heard a mis- sionary speak of Asia. Where is Asia ?" he asked: ''is it in Europe?" 1t was diff ficult to convince him that the earth was round. If American collage graduates are sometimes judged to be immature. what must be said of the products of Islam's greatest university?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03
GIANT DIFFERS FOR PANAMA
From the Englneering News.

From the Engineering News.
 No less than 34 men can find standing room in one of the dppers of the new Panama canal dredges that are now be- ing completed at the Staten Island Ship building company in New York harbor. The dippers of each of these mammoth dredges measures no less than 10 feet 91a inches in height from the bottom band to the upper edge of the manganese steel lips. They have a capacity of 15 cubic yards and 1t Is expected that each diedge, which has displacement of 1500 tons, will be able to excavate about 300, 900 cubic yards per month in actual opera tion on the isthmus.
 In other words, a dredge of this tre- mendous capacity could excavate the 120O acreage of Central park and Prospect park in New York on. root deep in less than ssix months working time.
 These dredges were ordered by the isth- milan canal commission as part of the permanent equipment for the maintenance of the canal and for immediate use in completing the channel through Gatun lake and the Cuebra cut
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03
English Political Eloouepce

"The passions aroused by the home rule
 debates in England are mitigated by in-
 stances of splendid oratory and chival-
 rously appreciated by friend and foe
 sae an Anglo-Alabamian.
 '1 have been reading the peroration to
 the recent great speech of MT Asuuith
 made when moving the second reading of the home rule bill. Parliamentary reporter says of the speech: The audi erce was rapt under the orators spell or absorbed in the Interest of the sub Ject Spoken with generous emotion in rich, bell-like notes, these moving pas sages produced an electrical effect The volume of cheers. agai> and again re-
 newed. sounded like the roar of mighty waters
 MT. Asquith's concluding words were: If there is one lesson more clear than
 another taught by the history of this an- cient Kingdom of ours, it is that the
 union with us of law and liberty has Its source, and in moments of supreme
 urgency has it's sanction in the corporate sense of common interests and common
 responsibilities. There are times, and I believe this Is one of them in which we ought all of us to be ready to sacri- flee much, not only of prejudice and pre- secession. but of solid and dearly cher ished aims and ideals. for the paramount
 good of the whole. $. ]" If we have been as a nation as We may claim without boasting to have been, the pioneers in the world of popular gov crnment, it is because our people, keen tenacious, cumulative, self-reliant, have learned, in the stress of controversy the most acute and apparently the most ir- reconcilable to respect one another and to renounce the falsehood of extremes This Is a testing case. The best tradi- tions of our past, no less than the un- disclosed and Hateful issues of the fu- ture, appeal to us today with imperious accents to pursue if we can the way of unity and peace.
 Sentences like these distinguish the complete eloquence of the Briton from tho simpler form that American ora tory prefers They disclose the influence of classical study on speaker and audi ence, and faintly recall the long rever-
 berating clauses of Gladstone's dignified
 speech. weighty, but not heavy, ma- ,estic but not ponderous"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03

ceased coming to the wife and in 1877 the news spread through Egypt that g great battle had been fought al Plevna and thousands had been killed and wounded. The list of dead con. tained the name of Captain Welland
 The broken hearted wife left Egypt and went to Australia. Later she came to the United States and settled in New York state.
 When the war ended and the Rus sian prisons gave up their captives Captain Welland was among those re- leased. He went back to Cairo to find his home in the hands of strangers. He was told that his wife and son had gone to Australia. He followed them there and then to this country, but his search was in vain. He was told that woman and boy answering to his description had died in fever epi- demic.
 Captain Welland started business in Montreal as a furniture manufac- turer and prospered. About ten days ago he heard from friends who said they believed that his wife had been found at last. This time the faithful husband and father was not disap- pointed. The wife he sought all over the world answered his knock at her door. The son lives in Boston. Neither Captain Welland nor his wife had married again. At 60 years of age they will resume their interrupted honeymoon.
 To seek a woman thirty-five years and find her married to another would be a grievous blow. In one particular at least Captain Welland was fortu- nate and fared better than Enoch Ar den. His own constancy was equaled by that of his wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03
An Excellent Idea

The intention of Col. T. H. Motion to plant in flowers his vacant lot at the corner of Twentieth street and Fifth avenue is a most laudable one and move ment in keeping with the spirit of civic adornment that is now awaken ing among the general public.
 The idea of transforming vacant lots from public eyesorss into spots of beauty and delectation in the com- munity has taken hold of many local ities and garden clubs are being or ganized for this purpose in many cities of the country. Such an organ ization in Louisville has gone further than the Identification programme and is advocating the converting of such lots into truck gardens for the benefit of profit, exercise and educa- tion in farming pursuits.
 Nothing so attracts the stranger as a city transformed into thing of beauty. The vision generates a spirit of pride and progressing inter- est that yearly leads to greater i'm provement and something better. Such ornamentation is the secret of the lure of foreign cities. On the continent of Europe it is the custom of the civic authorities to offer prizes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03

for the best floral decorations and flower-adorned houses of the citizens and the visitor to these communities finds not only the residences, but the business houses as well decorated in competitive displays of such char acter. Nor do the city authorities stop here. The civic buildings and public squares are mass of parti- colored growing plants. Even the electric light poles and those of the car service are enbellished with large baskets filled with brilliant growing flowers:
 The effect is well nigh entrancing and there is no reason why the Ameri can civic communities should not adopt similar policy Colonel Mol ton has done we'll in announcing his intention and he may be the pioneer of movement that will rebound to the benefit of Birmingham in meas ures of inestimable value.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03

sticks fill the air between the shouts oi the would-be buyers. i From two 10 a half dozen auctioneers have places in the pulpit, and as many more clerks are at a desk below them. Though the proceedings are the craziest sort of gibberish to the uninltiated, the regular attendants appear to know what 1t is all about. At all events, carload after carload of oranges are disposed of with out an orange in sight.
 Whats 1t all about?' asked visitor.
 Hanged if I know or can understand a thing that is going on, except that they are selling oranges and I've been around this pier for 20 years"
 What language is the auetioneer us- ing?"
 Again I give 1t up. Must be Orange ade."
 And do they use the same gibberish over at the fruit auction house?''
 Not so as you'd notice it. You see, they sell lemons over there. Reckon they must talk lemonade"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03
UNIQUE HOBBY
From the Baltimore su,

From the Baltimore Sun. Stage folks have unusual and varied hobbies, things that keep them occupied between performances, but that of Emra Carus, the renowned musical comedy star, appearing at the Maryland this papers daily for unusual divorce items and saves clippings telling of any of them that Is unusual
 This Is how she described her scrap tainod it;
 Napoleon declared that every man in the ranks carried in his knapsack a mar shal's baton. Victor Newman, the clever English artist. declared that every Ameri- can girl tucks divorce papers into her rousseau.
 Whether the charge be true or unjust, certain it is that the American woman proves almost as fertile in the matter of excuses for securing divorce as she Is marshaling wiles with which to get hus- band. For while scarcely a round dozen causes are cited by the law as grounds for divorce, even in this country of Iib- eral and varied state divorce laws. the average woman can interpret the most common cause-cruelty--in a hundred and one ways, each of which will go straight to The hearts of the judge and jury. . Here's a funny one," and Miss Carus pointed to small item from Pittsburg:
 |" Mrs. Anna NJ Hodge secured a di- l. daily fare breakfast, dinner and supper, 36j days in the year. to sausases and rice pudding. He throve on the diet, but Mrs. H odge called it cruelty and the court agreed with her
 See this one from Chicago" said Miss Carus, pointing to an item from the Windy City It was as follows:
 " Mrs. Harry Maremount's divorce from a carriage-maker was due largely to a difference of opinion over seuer- kraut. She liked sauerkraut, but her hus- land could not endure the smell of it. When she persisted in cooking 1t he struck her and fled from his home in anger
 Then notice this really funny one from Union, N. l.:
 MT and Mrs. Theron c. Knapp agreed to secure a divorce because Knapp, in a moment of extravaganza brought home whole box of prepared codfish. Mrs, Kpapp has always humored her husbands fondness for codfish cakes with the good, old-tashioned brand, which is soaked over night and picked by hand. Shocked by his extravaganza in buying the prepared kind, she pulled his hair
 "The records do not show what cen stituted cruelty" continued Miss Carus, the codfsh pui chase or the hair pull Ling"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03
"rHE ANGELES wHIspERv

Anonymous. The baby was sleeping, it's mother was
 weeping, For her husband was out on the wild rag
 ing sea;
 And the tempest was swelling Round the fishermans dwelling And she cried, 'Dermot. darling, come
 back to me Her beads while she numbered. the baby
 still slumbered, And smiled in her face as she pended her
 knee
 O blessed be that warning, My child thy sleep adorning. For I know that the Angels are whisper
 ing with thee. And whiie they are keeping bright watch
 OCT thy sleeping, o. pray to them softly, my baby, with ma. And say thou would'st rather They'd watch OCT thy father, For l know that the Angels are whisper-
 ing with thee. The dawn of the morning saw Dermot re-
 turning, And the wife wept with joy her babes
 father'to see; And closely caressng [ Her child with a blessing. Said, T knew that the Angels were whiu-
 pering with thee ? sssss..ss, < fs s IE1" A .4I41