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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-07

'You are entirely too serious. my dear" is what she said, and the words kept recurring until they became a perfect obsession, and 1t drove her to the other extreme, and there she found the rainbow.
 Being too serious Is great deal worse than not being serious at all when one Is excessively happy they make other folks glad. just unaccount- ably so, and that Is the greatest kino of service in the whole world.
 To be sure person must be reas- onably serious at times, that is, they musn't be silly, they should be consid- crate and helpful and think about these things. but not be forever harp ing on the "bitter ballad of the s1ums." To be sure it's right to hear the cry and heed 1t, but by forever dwelling in the depths you won't be able to inter- est people.
 People know what you say Is worth while, so they read the headlines and take the rest for granted" is another truism she spoke, In other words. be- ing eternally serious is an awful bore.
 So today when the world Is so love- ly with a flood of sunshine after the food of rain. and autumn Is here with promise of gold and brown, we are going to stop talking of the awful life tragedies going on around us, and just be glad"
 Another one of the wonderful things this wonderful dear lady said was, You need to read novels, soft, velvety love stories"
 Did 1t ever occur to you, you need to read nlobels? Not problem novels that again is serious thinking, but the sweet. lovely kind that Just give you pure glow all over as the blessed hero akes the lady in his arms (And if you confess to not liking that sort. you also confess to being really old) Not slushy love stories either-how we hate that sckning kind of sentimental ity-but rational, live people whose love makes the sunshine brighter and tho rainbow more real.
 What kind of books arc people reading?" Is the question asked of the librarian of the public library, and the answer was Books that deal with the social problems and love stories. There you have iti It's the reaction from the deep human interest story to the sweet reality of life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-07

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-07
NEWS OF ENSLEY

City Commissioner George Ward named M. H. Mcdowell and c. c. Burke as delegates from Ensley to Good Roads association, which will be held in Birmingham on October 12 and 13 This will be the nineteenth annual of the association which will meet Tuesday morning at o'clock at the Chamber of Commerce. Dr. George w. Brown and Dr. Cleveland Seay were the two delegates named to represent Pratt City.
 The Ensley High school football team will play the Bessemer High school football team Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at Underwood field at Bessemer. The two teams are about evenly matched. and a hard fought bat tie is predicted. Ensley will face the Bessemer team in a crippled condi- ton with Smithson out of the game with broken cheek bone and Lewis and Miller both unable to play. A number of local rooters will accompany the team to Bessemer
 The Past Matrons' club of the East ern Star will be entertained this aft ernoon at the home of Mrs. D. A. Ech- ols on Avenue c at 2:30 o'clock. All members are invited to attend.
 Yesterday morning in the Ensley po- lice court Eva Jackson, a negro girl, was fined $50 and 30 days at hard labor by Judge J. T. Lowry, on a charge of theft of several sheets, cen- terpieces and boudoir caps from Mrs. McElheney, for whom she had been working. N. F. Kelley was fined $2o on two charges.
 The ladies of the Ensley Methodist church have booths 31, s2 and 33 at the State Fairgrounds, where they will be pleased to serve their friends A cordial invitations Is extended for all x,;e;ko~o to tho fair to dino tbara
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-07
TWO CHILDREN HAD GROUP

The two children of J. w. Nix. mer- chant. Cleveland. Ga had croup last winter. One was a boy of 6, the other a girl of years MT. Nix writes: Both got so choked up they could hardly breathe and couldn't talk. l gave them Foley's Honey and Tar and nothing else and 1t entirely cured them." This relia- ble medicine should be in every home for 1t gives immediate relief from colds, coughs and croup, heals raw infiamed throat and loosens phleEm. Sold every where.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-07

At g o'clock today the greatest fair in the history of the state will open its doors to the public. Everything is in readiness. Everybody will be in his place. every exhibit installed and every feature completed. The fair opens under the most favorable aus pices. The weather conditions are good, and general interest is the great
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-07
With Ideal Weather Conditions Promised, More ments Officials Expect Record Breaking At tendance-Races to Be Especial Feature 200 Horses Here

est in years. The management and the exhibitors are pulling together har- moniously and without a doubt the greatest number of exhibits, the great est number of free attractions and the greatest number of special features ever seen in the history of the state have been assembled.
 There will be no opening exercises or speechmaking this morning, and the gates will be thrown open, and the fair will commence without formslities.
 President R. A. Brown, Secretary Sam Fowlkes and other members Of the fair association will be on hand, however, and will be glad to have all those interested in the fair come out this morning and help launch the biggest fair in the south. This morn ing Memolis band and the scotch Highlanders will parade the principal streets of the city and give concerts on prominent corners.
 Woman's Department Full
 Last night Mrs Reid of the woman's denartment announced that every booth In the woman's building had been taken. and that every exhibit was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-07
FAIR PROGRAMME TO-DAY
g. a. m.-Gates open.

g. a. m.-Gates open.
 1l:eo a. m.-Midway opens. 30 D. m.-Horse racing, POT trot and three-year-old pace.
 2:30 D. ,p.-Free acts begin. 400 D. Motorcycle races. 500 D. m.-Evening performance and free acts.
 Band concerts and music during the afternoon and evening by Memoli's band and the Scotch Highlanders.
 Fireworks will not be shown un- til Saturday night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-07
Local Data tours ending at ' n m Oc
Weather Conditions

Weather Conditions
 Summary of observations made at United States weather bureau stations during the 24 hours ending D. m., 75th meridian time, October 6, 1915:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20
PORTUGAL HAS FAMINE
Troops Called Out to Suppress Daily
Food Riots.

Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2o-Portu-
gal is more remote from the seat of
war than any other country in Eu-
rope, but it is suffering a scarcity
of food that is as serious as that in
some of the belligerent countries
Provision stores and depots are the
scenes of almost daily riots in pro-
test against the conditions On the
night of October 81, for instance,
mob of 1000 men, some of them
armed with pick axes and other i'm
plements, stormed the provision store
of an important English dealer in
the Armada district and plundered the
place The Republican Guard, which
crossed the river to restore order, was
received by the mob by shots and
bombs. The guard fired several vol.
leys and numerous persons on both
sides were wounded.
The scarcity of food is due in part
to the fact that successive govern
ments of Portugal have bound them
selves to supply Great Britain with
certain quantities of provisions sent
to Gibraltar. Under this agreement
large numbers of cattle and miscel-
laneous provisions are sent out of the
country every week with the result
that there has been almost no meat
in the markets of Lisbon. The egg
supply is also less than half of what it
is in ordinary times, the shortage be-
ing partly due to the fact that a good
many eggs are sent Surreptitiously
over the border into Spain, where
they may be sold for double the price
fixed officially by the government in
the food markets here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20
STAMP FOR CHANGE
Scarcity of Coppers in France Results
in Rigid Rule.

Paris, Nov. 20.-Notices have been
posted in many of the Partisan cafes
that patrons who do not have the
right change to pay for refreshments
will have to accept postage stamps or
checks for change for any sum less
than ten sous. This is another indica-
ton of the scarcity of coppers, which
numerous collections for charitable
purposes have withdrawn temporarily
from circulation, and the fact that
since small money became scarce
there has been a tendency on the part
of the people to cling to what they
have. Some people are said to be
boarding coppers because they are
afraid they will get entirely out of
them, and others, it is charged, are COL
lecting them with the less worthy mo-
tive of making five francs premium on
every hundred francs in copper coins
delivered at certain confidential
points. 1t is the old story of the Ger
mans trying to drain France of its
copper The real reason is thought in
official circles to be simply that the
absence Of gold overworks all the
minor denominations. copper and
nickel. as well as silver.
The mint is handicapped by the
mobilizing of some of it's machines
for other urgent work for the national
defense and the copper coinage fell
last month to 100000 francs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20
EVERY ONE A READER
Campaign Planned to Danish IlIiteracy
From Kansas.

Emporia, Kan, Nov. 20.-Each of
the 49, illiterateS IN Kansas will be
able to read and write within a few
years, if plans announced today by
Thomas w. Butcher, president of the
Kansas State Normal school here, are
successful. 1t is planned, he said, to
organize, within the next three
fifty speakers who will carry the fight
into every town and county in the
state.
The cooperation of w. D. Ross,
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton, and of the various county super
intendents of education, has been OBJ
tanned and one of the first steps in the
movement will be the working out of
a census and survey of Kansas litter
ates.
In a general way the Kansas cam
paign, it is pointed out, will be mod
elled after that of Kentucky where,
been reduced to low percentage and
efforts are being made to entirely
abolish it from the state by 1920.
81 believe that we can place workers
in every town, village and hamlet in
Kansas" said President Butcher. I'VE
expect to offer prizes, or at least pub
lie recognition, to the cities and towns
standing highest in literacy in their
class.
1.-The urban poulation contains most
of our illiterates. Adult negroes and
foreign-born whites compose most of
them. These people on the average
can learn to read in from three to fiji
teen days. Shall we let them go for
the lack of fifteen days to spare, espe-
pecially when these days will be dis
tributed through several years?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20
join A MEAT CLUB
Animal Husbandry Expert Fa-
vors Home Butchering.
Get Best Meats, Says Pater-
son, at Less Cost.

Manhattan, Kan, Nov. 20.-That
the restoration of the old-fashioned
butchering bee would mean money in
the pockets of Kansas farmers be-
cause of the present tendency to buy
foods already prepared for the table,
is the contention of A. M. Paterson,
assistant in animal husbandry in the
Kansas State Agricultural college.
Meat clubs are urged as a means of
reducing the cost of living
There are many reasons why every
farmer should kill and cure his own
meat" says Mr.. Paterson. First, it
is cheaper. If we should take a
dressed animal and figure all the cuts
at the local butchers retail prices we
should be surprised to see how quick
ly the cost would run up to more than
the market price of the live animal.
"One of the best arguments for
home butchering is the fact that one
knows what kind of meat one is eat
ing when one has killed it oneself.
1t cannot be denied that farmers sell
their best stock on the market, and
the local butchers usually get the left
overs. Furthermore, If packing house
meat is bought at the stores, it is
not the best, for the choicest prod
uct is sent to the best hotels or is
shipped for export trade.
1.-The new methods of curing meat
have been so perfected that there
need be no fear of having any spoil.
Anyone with average intelligence can
handle the curing of meat with 100
per cent efficiency.
Another advantage is that the meat
is always at hand when needed. The
housewife has only to go to the meat
chest to get just what she wants
Many farms are necessarily at a dis
lance from town and during busy
seasons time is an important factor
with the farmer and trips to town are
infrequent.
In some communities meat clubs
are being operated successfully. These
are usually composed of eight mem
berS, and one animal is killed each
week, each member receiving an
equal share"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20
FROMSANQ QUENTIN
Defense in Schmidt Case Wants
Mcnamara Brothers
Produced in Court Room for
Murder Trial.

Los Angels, Nov. 20.-Judge Frank
R. Willis, presiding in the trial of
Mathew A. Schmidt, charged with the
murder of the victims of the Los An
geles Times explosion five years ago,
ruled today that the prosecution
could not introduce evidence concern
ing the Mcnamara dynamiting con-
spiracy which related to events that
occurred after the blowing up of the
Times building. The ruling, however,
did not exclude books and papers and
hotel registers by which the prosecu-
cution expects to connect Schmidt
with the Mcnamara brothers and Or
tie E. Mechanical in their dynamiting
operations prior to October 1. 1910.
The defense opposed today the in
PRODUCTION of photographs of James
B. Mcnamara and his brother, John
J., former secretary of the Interna-
tionaI Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, by which
the district attorney hoped to have
witnesses identify the two men.
Counsel for Schmidt insisted that the
proper way to procure identification
was to bring the two confessed dyna-
miters from San Quentin prison and
have them presented in court. Judge
Willis reserved decision.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20
constituents to try this one on thei
victrolas.
This Time 1t Is Sunshine.

constituents to try this one on their
victrolaS.
This Time 1t Is Sunshine.
In September, Doolittle made a
speech at a fall festival in Miller,
Lyon county. Rain had fallen dur
ing the greater portion of the sum-
mer. The farmers wanted some sun
shine, and wanted it badly. They told
their troubles to Doolittle- although
telling weather troubles to a congress
man is usually as gratifying as tell
ing family troubles to a lamp post.
But Doolittle listened attentively. He
really showed concern, although con-
Germ does not always bring rain or
sunshine.
That afternoon Doolittle told his
crowd about the Lebo experience.
You people want some dry wealth
er and sunshine he said. You will
get it. You will get six weeks of
good, clear, dry weather when you
can do your fall work"
There was an almost deriSive laugh
in the crowd. But in that imme-
date community it hasn't rained
since. And now Doolittle ranks among
his people as a weather prophet of
the first water. He has batted thou
sand in the pincheS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20
MISTAKEN FOR CONVICT.
Hunters, Taking Laborer for La.
TrasSe, Shoot Him in Head.

Leavenworth, Kan, Nov. 2O.-An
austrian railroad laborer named
WertZ who was walking from Kansas
City to Topeka was shot through the
head in the southwestern part of
Leavenworth county by hunters who
believed him to be william LaTrasse
alleged ringleader of the five convicts
who made their escape last Friday
night from the state prison at Lansing
When shot, Wertz was sleeping in a
haystack a short distance from one of
the principal roads in that section of
the county. He was taken in an au-
tomobile to Kansas City where it was
learned that the sight of his left eye
was destroyed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20
WANT REWARDS BADLY.
Three Different Pairs Held at Wichita
for Same Crimes.

Wichita, Kan, Nov. 20.-A unique
situation has arisen through the Gag
erness of city and county officers and
private detectives to win the $3.50
reward offered for the capture of two
men who robbed and murdered Will
liam Sutton in his grocery store Octo-
Der g.
Three different groups of officers
and detectives are working in three
diametrlcal directions to earn the re-
ward and each group has two men I'M
der arrest on the charge of murder.
Furthermore, positive proof is being
secured by each individual officer and
detective to convict his man.
The first arrests in the murder were
made by Detectives w. A. McWain
and j. w. Miller of the McWain-M Mil
Ter Detective agency. At Hutchinson
three slcuths captured Ross Mcintyre
and Kelly Ivey. Two women, one in
Wichita and the other in Hutchinson,
have told these detectives that Nc
Intyre and Ivey confessed the killing
of Sutton to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20

Enjoy life! Your system is filed
with an accumulation of bile and
bowel poison which keeps you bill
ious, headachy, dizzy, tongue coated,
breath bad and stomach sour. Why
don't you get a 10-cent box of Cas-
carets at the drug store and feel bully?
Take Cascarets tonight and enjoy the
incest, gentlest liver and bowel
cleansing you ever experienced. You'll
wake up with a clear head, clean
tongue, lively step. rosy skin and
looking and feeling fit. Mothers can
give a whole Cascaret to a sick, cross,
bilious, feverish child any time-they
are harmless-neVer grippe or sicken.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20
PREACHER A CORN HUsKER.
Methodist Minister Shucks 100 Bush.
els a Day for Fun.

Chapman, Kan, Nov. 2O.-The Rev.
w. G. Green, a Methodist minister
living in the Wesleyan community
the best corn shuckers in the COM
nunity sit up and take notice. For
recreation and diversion from his
studies Mr.. Green has been helping
Earl Norman get his corn in the crib,
and to the surprise of Mr.. Norman
and his neighbors, their minister
husked one hundred bushels in a day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20
The Colds of Mankind
Cured by Pines.

Have you ever gone through a typical
pine Iorest W snlE you naG n+ eold mar mar
opened wide your lungs to take in those
Inyigorating and mysterious qualities.
Yes, DR.. Bells Pine-Tar-H Honey Possesses
those stimulating qualities and overcomes
hacking coughs. The inner lining of the
throat is strengthened in its attack against
cold germs Every family needs bottle
constantly at hand. 25c-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20
CHILD DIES OF BURNS.
Small Girl Fatally Hurt Playing Nea
Trash Pile Fire

BelleviIIe, Kan, Nov. 2O.-Marian
Myers, the 7-year-old daughter of
Railway Mail Clerk Myers of this city,
is dead here, result of burns re-
ceived while playing about a fire in
the yard. The little girls dress caught
fire and her spine was affected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20

Bath Room Heaters at Forbes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20
BELL is IN ILLINOIS
Great Crowds Turn Out to See Fa-
nous Relic.

Cairo. ILL.,. Nov 20-The Liberty
Bell was taken through southern ILL
nois today. Great crowds viewed the
relic at every town.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1915-06-24
Messrs. PhanOr Breazeale and M
H. Carver.

The announcements OF Messrs.
Phanor Breazeale and ". H. Car
yer as members of the Constltu-
tional Convention that has been
called to meet in New Orleans in
September to revise the laws OF
the State of Louisiana, appear III
this issue and that their candidacy
will meet with the general salts
faction and approval of the cleo
torate, goes without saying.
These gentleman who have been
more or less associated together in
public life since their. boyhood are
too we'll known not only locally
but throughout the State, to need
any special commentator at our
hands,. As members of the Con-
stitutional Convention in 1898,
they satisfactorily proved their
fitness for the important work and
made record not only for them
selves but for the parish of Nat
chitoches that honored it by send
ing such worthy representatives.
Again in 1918, Mr.. Carver
served in the same capacity as a
member of the limited convention
and both he and Mr.. Breazeale
have filled positions on a number
of important public bodies. and are
thoroughly familiar with the needs
of the State laws.
They rank among the most pro-
minent men in their profession in
Louisiana and are gentlemen of
honor, integrity, learning and cul-
ture and Natchitoches could not
send finer or more capable repre-
sentatiyes than MesSrs. Breazeale
and Carver.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1915-06-24
Proclamation.

Pursuant to resolution passed by
the Parish Board of School Directors
of the Parish of Natchitoches, La, at
the recess session of the regular meet
ing held on the Oath day of may, 1915,
l, Edgar Levy, President of said Par
ish Board of School Directors, hereby
give notice that, in compliance with
said resolution, special election will
be held in Clarence School District,
Parish of Natchitoches, La, on the End
day of July, 1915, for the purpose of
submitting to the property taxpayers
laws of the State of Louisiana to vote
at said election, the following PROPOSE
ton, to-wit:
To levy special tax of five mills on
the dollar on all the property in
Clarence School District, Parish of
Natchitoches, La, subject to State
taxation, annually, for period of five
years, for the purpose of giving ad-
dltional aid to the public schools.
For the purpose of said special cleo
La, and the following commissioners
and clerks of election have been ap-
pointed: Arnold Sompayrac, B. F.
Land, G. B. Davis, and N. M. Brian.
At said special election the polls will
open at seven O'Clock a. m. and close
at five o'clock p. M, and the election
will be conducted in accordance with
the laws of Louisiana applicable there
to.
Notice is also given that at ten
o'clock a. m. on the 5tb day of July,
1915. the said Parish Board of School
Directors of the Parish of Natchito-
ches, La, will meet at Natchitoches,
La, and in open session proceed to
open the ballot boxes, examine and
count the ballots in number and
amount, examine and canvass the re-
turns and declare the result of said
special election.
This the oath day of May, 1916.
Edgar Levy,
President of Parish Board of
5-28-6t' School Directors.