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Evening journal., 1915-05-07
HEADACHES

Thousands of men and women suffer from
headaches every day. other thousands have
headaches every week or every month. and etili
others have headaches occasionally. but not al
regular intervals The best Doctor ls often unable
10 find the cause OF many of these headaches.
and In most other cases, knowing the cause. ho
does not know what VIII remove IT, 50 as to give
n permanent cure. All he can do ia to prescrlbe
relief but the headache returns as usual. and
treatment Is again necessary. II you suffer from
headaches, no mntter what their nature, take
Antl-kamnia Tablets and the results will be sets.
factory IN the highest degree. You can Obtain
them az all druggists in any quantity 10c worth,
Q5c worth or more. Ask for AK Tablets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-24
Under the Sea

The present war is full of sudden shifts of interest and so wide is the area of fighting and so varied the in- struments of warfare that it is diff ficult to keep in touch with all branches.
 At present the eyes of the world are on the submarine and the "wasp of modern warfare" to use the apt de- scription of a London dispatch, occu- pies the center of the stage. England as yet has not seriously felt the Ger man blockade, and it is probable that the Teutons are waiting until the keen vigilance of the British is some what relaxed before attempting to draw the lines taut.
 Submarines so far have not demon strated ability to attack any ships but those of slow speed or at anchor Swift liners and merchantmen have been able to evade the deadly sting and in this lies for the time the most substantial defense against the tor pedo.
 It would not be surprising if the German activity did not develop an effective defense against the subma. rine by the allies, Great Britain has
 been feeling the sting of the subma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-24
Tourist Money for America

America will benefit to the extent of millions of dollars this year by the interruption to foreign travel. Money heretofore spent in Europe by tour ists-estimated by some authorities at nearly $200, 100000 per year-will re- main in the United States, and most of it will be distributed in various parts of the country.
 People accustomed to travel in Flu rope are the ones least affected by industrial depression and they will continue to take their vacations as heretofore, except that this year they will join the See America first" ranks.
 The expositons at San Francisco and San Diego will profit enormously by this fact, but the expositions them 3slQes will be merely incidental to the armies of tourists that will pour into every portion of the western country.
 America indeed offers wonderful appeals to the patriotism of her tour ist class. The Florida and coast resorts are said to be crowded as never be- fore this winter New Orleans and Mobile have had remarkable seasons. The "Land of the Sky" grows in popu- larity. Southern battlefields and mili- tary parks are of never-ending inter est. Later in the season the Adiron- dacks and New England resorts will sound their siren call. The great lakes country, Yellowstone and Glacier na- tional parks, the colossal Rockies, the Atlantic, Pacific and gulf coasts all will offer opportunity for those ac- customed to go abroad to get ac- quainted with the beauties and won- ders of their own glorious country.
 Birmingham is in better position than ever before to bid for her share of tourists, and events of the past few weeks justify the expectation that these visitors are to increase constant ly from this time forward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-24

rine since the sinking of the Hogue, Aboukir and Crecy and the greatest marine engineers in the United King dom are laboring to evolve a defense against the undersea boat The fact that two of the largest German sub marines are missing may be signifi- cant.
 Again there are rumors of peace. It is reported that Francis Joseph and the Kaiser are to confer in regard to the pope's proposal. Efforts for peace at present will be fruitless. The price de- manded of Germany will be greater than she will pay, perhaps purposely so, and the fighting will go on until it sees an end on German soil.
 England, France and Russia have poured out treasure and blood in rivers and are not to be baked in the very beginning of their fight A character istic anecdote of Lord Kitchener is somewhat as follows: A young lady asked him when the war would end. q do not know, madam" replied he of Kartoum, "but I can tell you when it will begin-in May"
 And Kitchener knows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-24
Judge kavanaugh and Baseball

The funeral of Judge William H. Kavanaugh, president of the Southern Baseball association and former United States senator-from Arkansas, will be held today in Little Rock, and with the passing away of Judge Kavanaugh baseball and clean, healthy sports in general lose one of their most ardent and effective champions. His influence on the great national game in the south will be felt for years to come, for he probably did more than any other one man to raise the standard to such point that baseball is now almost as popular with women as with men.
 The old days of rowdyism, fights, unfair tactics and unsportsmanlike conduct are happily past, the game has come to be a credit to the men who play it and no man has done more to bring about this condition than President Kavanaugh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-24

twenty years old. We were aIl--if you will allow me to include myself-on the road to distinction, all clever, all ambitious, and all with a perfect con- ceit of ourselves. Yet if on leaving the table we had been severally taken aside and asked which was the clev- crest of the party, we should have been obliged to say, the man in the green velvet trousers
 At the age of 21 Disraeli wrote "Vivian Grey" a novel described as ''insolently clever" which resulted in the immediate introduction of the au- thor to the "haute monde" His eccen- tricities of dress, demeanor and opin- ion soon made him the most talked about man of his day. He wrote to his father at the age of 26, q like a sail or's life much, though it spells the toilette" In a letter from Gibraltar to his father he announced that he had two canes, "a morning and an even ing cane," changed as the gun fires. He also declared in the same corre- spondence that "Ralph's handkerchief, which he brought me from Paris, is the most successful thing I ever wore"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-24

Kid Carsey, who used to be a noted baseball pitcher, has opened a school of baseball in New York. Carsey has advertised that he will give embryonic Ty Cobbs and Hans Wagners the sort of coaching that will fit them for last company at the earliest possible mo- ment and it is said that he has been swamped by youthful applicants who want to learn baseball as scientifically taught. The course mapped out by Car sey, based on his former experiences as a big league twirler comprises three months and the tuition fee is 1925, pre- sumably paid in advance. It matters not to Prof Carsey what position a boy aspires to fill when he becomes a major league star. All positions are taught for the same price. The Carsey School for Ballplayers does not guaran- tee berth in major league during the first year, but if a youngster shows promise, he will be given a chance to prove his mettle with some minor team and after that, with his previous train ing to help him, his prospects for be- coming famous are, in the opinion of his teacher, extremely bright
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-24

to return to her home in the hills, disil- lusioned by her experience, but unre- pertant and untamed after having felt the weight Of the laws hand, are true, sympathy in America must rest with her, and not with the Italian husband, who was clawed and bitten and beaten until he sought relief in court
 Sinking the stiletto in the breast of the other woman is the Italian method. Making the husband rue the day he tried to put oyer' the deception is more in the mode in the Cumberlands when a husband IS found to be a bigamist, or suspected of such duplicity.
 Mrs. Ardela Hall Deiilao, victim of an international match resulting from the presence of a mining camp in her neigh bo,hood returns to her roof-tree sadder, wiser, fcrcer than she was when she yielded to the persuasions of an Italian lover, ard much more nearly even with the author of her unhappines than the returning American heiress usually is.
 The Italian husband has learned, of course that the light that lies in woman's eyes lies close to fire and is ready toj flame, in the Kentucky highlands, ana that daliance and deception are safer in Naples or Palermo than in Pike county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-24
Disraeli

The excellent character study of Disraeli recently presented here by George Arhss has revived interest in man whose life story was unique. Louis N. Parker, who wrote the play in which MT. Arliss appeared, realized, as everyone must realize, that it would be impossible to tell the whole story of Disraeli's life in a play. Disraeli was many-sided man. He was a writer, traveller, politician and a far-sighted statesman who became one of the most famous prime minis ters England ever had
 In MT. Arliss' portrayal there is some attempt made to picture Dizzy" as he appeared in life, not overlooking his bizarre ideas of dress and person. al adornment. Sir Edward Bulwer- Lytton was one of Disraeli's earliest friends in the world of fashion and genius. Sir Edwards friends heard much of the brilliancy of his new ac- quaintance and finally Sir Henry Bulwer arranged a dinner party to convince the doubters that "Dizzy's' powers had not been overrated.
 The dinner was given at the conven- tional hour of those days, which was earlier than now, and at one of the Picadilly hotels. "There was my brother" Sir Henry writes, "Alexan- der Cockburn, myself and q think Mines; but fof a considerable time no Disraeli. Waiting for MT. Disraeh did not enhance the pleause of meeting him, nor when he did arrive did his ap- pearance predispose us in his favor He wore green velvet trousers, ca. nary-colored waistcoat, low shoes silver buckles, lace at his wrists, anc his hair in ringlets." A description oi his coat is omitted. i've sat down Not one of us was moi {e than five-and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-24
ROMANCE OF CUMBERLANDS
From the Louisville courier-Journal.

From the Louisville Courier-Jou Journal <<nEDELIA, Oh Bedelia, I'd Like
 To Steal Yer" was the refrain
 - of a popular love song 15 or 20 years ago, which expressed the yearnings of an Afro-An1erican. With slight adap- tation it might have been sung by Arturo Delilao, an Italian in Pike county, who wooed and won Miss Ardelia Hall, native and Anglo-Saxon.
 That he caught Tartar when he won Ardelia is the contention of Deliao. who alleges, in asking for warrant for breach of the peace. that his bride beat him and bit him and otherwise maltreated him. The reply of the young woman is that shc discovered that the man had a wife ard children in Italy.
 Marital obligations are, to some tenn ornaments, hard to remember when an ocean and year or two separate the man and wife. In Italy women are fairly submissive to their lords and masters, al though very much inclined to make the stiletto the arbiter between enemies when the familiar domestic triangle, two wom- en and one man, develops.
 If the allegations of the young Ken lucky woman, who was released from jail
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-24
A GOOD DOG STORY

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
 Many good stories. humorous and se- rious, have been written about dogs. Bret Harte's "Boonder.'' Richard Harding Dsvis The Bar Sinister Qpida's "A Dog of Flanders" are among those the average reader of fiction recalls dogs as we'll as fiction there is often dis cussion of the relative merits of popular dog stories
 Tucked away in a corner where greater space is given to more important news of the war was a recent dispatch from Dunkirk which was, for its brevity and lack of the elaboration of detail by which g. fictionist could make 1t into long short story or small book, one of the best of dog stories. Here 1t is
 At this action it became necessary for an officer to send report immediately to his superior, but at the time the Ger man fire was too intense to allow a man to cross the fire zone, and Marquis was charged with the mission
 on he ran, across the f1re-swept zone, and arrived nearly at the objective point when German ball struck him in the right side and brought him down. He struggled to his feet, though losing . great deal of blood, and dragging himself up to the position where the officer was directing section of machine guns. He let fall the order reddened by his blood, and breathed his last.
 His soldier comrades are raising a fund for monument, on which is to be in- scribed. .Marquis-Killed on the Field of Honor "
 And after the rearing of the monument -or before-there will be needed but . few bold strokes of sympathetic story writer's pen to give Marquis fame far wider and more enduring than can be conferred by monument. Here's a hero for the dog story that should lead all the rest. As it stands 1t will call forth "cer- tain drops of salt' in many quarters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-24
Reducing "Bird" season

"The open season for quail, which is about to come to an end" said W. G. Hunt of Sumter county, visitor yes terday, has given sportsmen fine op- portunity to enjoy themselves. It is true, however, that despite restrictions against shooting quail, the covies today are unusually small. Next season, I pre- dict, will seee more birds than have been seen in Alabama in many years.
 "On account of the low price which cotton has brought this season, and the fact that the boil weevil is playing havoc in certain sections, Alabama farmers are going to plant more grain this year than ever before. Birds, there tore, will have more to eat than for merly, and for this reason, they will come in droves to our sections from those sections in which cotton will still be the principal crop.
 And the legislature, in my opinion, will cut down the hunting season from it's present length by one month. There is a bill pending now which will start the season November Is and end it February 15, thus cutting the present season IS days in November and Feb ruary. Sportsmen can have sufficient sport within the period provided by the new bill and it should become law"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-24

dination, these do not in the least pre- vent a consciousness of community and a feeling of comradeship. This war has shown splendidly how the great com mon cause has leveled all class distinc- tions; how princes and their sons fight side by side with the men in the ranks, and fall; and how all classes of society share equally in the nursing of the wounded.
 From such communion in deeds and suffering emanate ethical forces which could not perhaps, originate from any other source-and all this notwithstand- ing, our enemies, and many of the neuS trals, speak to us of crushing mili- tarisn. Let them know that, even if they sometimes may have a good word to say for us, they have entirely mis- Judged us, and will forever remain strangers to us
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-24
GERMAN MILITARISM

By Prof. Rudolph Euken, Noble prize
 winner in literaturs, 1918. Translated
 for Cartoons Magazine.
 TT is wonderful and deplorable how an
 unmeaning byword can confuse req = son and muddle the judgment and how all sound arguments are helpless against it. So we Germans find it with the word militarism
 We are trying to show the world good proof that our cause Is just but from everywhere thunders the reply: "Yes but you fight for militarism, and that will never warm our sympathies."
 Such a statement can have an ap- pearance of right only through the lack of insight into the true meaning of the word, or rather a mixing together of various meanings.
 What then is understood by the word militarism.
 so, it is easily shown that this is a necessity for Germany; but if it means preponderance of military interests over cultural aims, 1t is as easily shown that this does not apply to Germany. What military weakness means to a state situated as Germany in the cen- ter of Europe. history has repeatedly shown with infallible clearness. The same country which, at least technically, continues the Roman empire, became for centures through internal discord and consequent military weakness, the bat tleground of foreign peoples, and was condemned to political inertia Nor must it be forgotten that the in- crease in our army has not kept pace with that of Russia or France, SO there | is as good a reason to speak of French or Russian militarism, if a strong army and militarism were identical. But strong army does not in the least mean a conflict between military l interests and peaceful ones. At least, no | such conflict exists in Germany. Nobody can deny that Germany today is the leader in science and manufactures, and that commerce and industry are in Q | state of colossal growth; and this-they would have us believe would be pos sible under a crushing militarism. And how does it come about that our | vently assert the justice of this war? Why is it that all the different parties which fought one another so bitterly before, now act in perfect accord, in- cluding the socialists, whom no one
 can accuse of leaning toward mili- tarism?
 l But we must 90 farther still. The German military institution. far from being in conflict with our "Kultur," if an essential part of this "Kultur;" one
 of the main forces for tho intellectual and moral uplift of the people. Every where in this army that includes the
 whole people. certain degree of edu-
 cation is demanded, and no advancement
 can be won except by showing in
 creased knowledge; the commanders oi cur armies are as much intellectua leaders as arc our scientists.
 But still more is the army service q moral education for the whole people Every individual is there inculcatet
 with dutifulness. obedience. order. and | punctuality, and even though army ser.
 vice means class division and subor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-24
The Griddling of Denson

As chairman of the temperance con- mittee of the Alabama senate, MT. Denson of Greene county, must have qualified prior to his selection as a godly individual And yet the readers of The Age-Herald have been in- formed that since the adjournment of the legislature, Senator Denson has been subjected to a public rebuke at the hands of the pastor of a church of Eutaw, of which church he is a member
 The minister, apparently, is not cha grined in that Mr. Denson dis charged we'll his duty as chairman of the temperance committee, or that he permitted his name to appear as the author of one of the drastic pro- hibition bills drawn by Judge Weak ley and fostered by the prohibition lobbyists. The minister is not hostile on account of the fact that MT. Den son religiously supported each of the several measures entitled-correctly or not-"A bill further to promote temperance in Alabama" He brings no charge against the personal be- havior of the senator while he tenn porarily resided in "a horrid center in which liquor is sold" He does not even refer to the fact that during the session the senator withdrew from solemn and smileless pale and in high festive humor visited New Or leans and there aided in the ceebra- tion of Mardi Gras and the approach of the Lenten season.
 To make a long story short, the chairman of the temperance commit tee aroused the anger of the pastor when he failed to rush-irrespective of what his conviction might have been-to the support of an anti-Sun- day baseball, tennis, golf and football bill. The bill, as matter of fact, had absolutely no chance of passing both houses even had Mir. Denson given it support. In many parts and for many good reasons, the measure was defective. In the opinion of the ma jority of people of Alabama, it is be- llieved, Mr. Denson acted wisely when by his position, he argued that the people of the various communities should settle their little differences among themselves.
 It unfortunately happens that many men are swayed from or into a course which they think wise or unwise, as the case might be, for fear of min isterial criticism "back home." While those ready to criticize believe that in thus holding the whip handle they are laboring for the good of the peo- pie and the state, it is quite possible, neVeTCneleSS, IndC u the wise men we send and expect to send to Montgom- cry would vote in accordance with their own ideas of right and wrong, and without regard to those prepared to castigate, conditions would soon show marked improvement.
 In the meanwhile, The Age-Herald hopes that Senator Denson will escape personal injury, and that when July rolls around he will be again Ion the job" none the worse for his present "griddling."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-24
ALABAMA PRESS

Taila oega Home: In leaving Montgom- cry fo; the walls at Wetumpka to begin his sentence Theodore Lacy declared, T am sustained by an unalterable convic- tion that my absolute innocence of any criminal intention will finally be estab- lished in the minds of the people of Ala bama |" He probably knows what he is talking about, but to establish his 'abso- lute innocence of criminal intention" he will have to take the public into his con- fdence In the absence of evidence to the contrary, Lacy is the guilty man. While 1t is an admirable trait to stand by one s friends, in this instance, Lacy, a public servant. owes the state something, as well as his innocent friends who may be un- der suspicion, and for that reason should tell the story of the little pine box
 Mobile Register: Considerable congratu- lation has been indulged in over the fact that the state has now business gover- nor; yet when that governor makes what he believes is a business proposal and the legislature by good majority wants to indorse 1t, there are members who cobspire together and talk 1t to death! Soper-minded men are disappointed.
 Montgomery Times: The sober-minded
 citizens of Alabama are quite willing for the state legislature to so home and stay there.-Rirmingham Herald
 And there's the rub-they have gone home, but they are not not going to stay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-24

By Christina Rosetti
 When am dead. my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree. Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt remember, And if thou wilt, forget. l shall not see the shAdows.
 I shall not feel the rains: shall not hear the nightinoDle Sing on. as if in pain; And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember.
 And haply may forget