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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20
RETAILERS AT LAWRENCE.
Trading Stamps and Legislation Chief
Topics of Discussion.

Lawrence, Kan, July 2o.-The sew
eEth annual convention of the Kansas
Retailers association will close here
tonight after a two days session. Elec-
ton of officers and naming the con-
vention city for next year were to be
the last part of the program.
Trading stamps, mail order houses
and legislation affecting the retailer
were the principal topics of discussion
during the first day Of the session.
The association expects to work for
better laws for business men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20

20 and as full of vigor, vim and vi
tality as young man; in fact
young man he really was notwith
standing his age. The secret he said
was taking iron-nuxated iron had
filled him with renewed life At 30
he was in bad health; at 46 he was
careworn and nearly all in. Now at
SO miracle of vitality and his face
beaming with the buoyancy of youth.
AS have said a hundred times over
iron is the greatest of all strength
builders. If people would only throw
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20

The ElLxf,,
taken INFO the
stomach. has a
direct influence
lsborT The s71H-
cons membranes
Of the body and
cures the dis
ease BY 1ensoV-
ing the cdNse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20
AT THE THEATERS

Wallace Reid and Cleo Ridgley ap-
pear today at the Iris in 1.-THE Selfish
Woman" a Paramount picture direct
ed by Jesse L. Lasky. Paramount
Photographs finish the bill Much has
been said in motion picture pubIica-
tons and theater columns regarding
the new Fox picture and his famous
beauty June Caprice in Caprice of the
Mountains" This production comes
as the feature at the Iris tomorrow and
Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20
LAWRENCE PIONEERS DEAD.

Mrs. Pearce and Joseph Sullivan Were
in Quantren Raid.
Lawrence, Kan, July 20.-Two of
Lawrence's pioneer inhabitants are
dead. They are Mrs. Lydia Pearce, SO
years old, and Joseph Sullivan. So
years old. Mrs. Pearce had lived here
for sixty-one years. Both were sur
vivors of the Quantrell raid in 1868.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20

cite from my own personal exper-
fence, which proves conclusively the
astonishing power of nuxated iron
to restore strength and vitality even
in most complicated chronic condi-
tons"
Not long ago a man came to me
who was nearly half a century old
and asked me to give him a pre-
hninary examination for life insur-
ance. I was astonished to find him
with the blood pressure of boy OF
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
Road Houses

In life coaches and from not from end to end but from stopping little from where the only little farther to where spend the night acquantances freshmen awaits the maybe the stage itself and the driver The attracted trad ton association with Perhaps the fame of its it, 1t the end of the journey being. Perhaps after shifted fed settle selves comfortably the twilight The world the skes all there is the strange exh aration of the
 along invites and immediately while the distance be- mile ancient and
 
 definite journey at the youth where manhood be- that old actually the of the
 divided is to Surely shall not tired between We continue kind and
  hat tevilp fol
  at there little places the end of each day.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
THE CRICKET AND THE ANT

From the Providence Journal.
 How the world has changed since we were young We have in mind the mortal lesson taught in our school book Of long ago by one of La Fontaine's Tables, the story of the cricket and the ant. The cricket sang all summer long while the ant worked industriously preparing its home and storing up supplies for the coming winter, and when the winter ar rived the poor cricket came around half starved and frozen begging of the ant food and shelter, but the wise old ant said: Don't worry! Sing and dance the win ter through or words to that effect
 Hut now comes the national pubic health service of Washinrton. and bids us all to be like the cricket, and not to worry. In a choice bit of philosophizing it says
 "So far as is known, no bird ever tried to build more nests than it's neighbor. No fox ever fretted because he had onlys-One hole in which to hide. No squirrel ever died of anxiety lest he should not lay by enough nuts for two winters instead of for one, and no dog ever lost any sleep over the fact that he did not have enough bones laid aside for his declining years ''
 Indeed, the world has changed, or at least some parts of it, since we were young! We are admonished not to lay UT our store for the inevitable rainy day but to take life easy like the four-footed improvidents. What cheerful advice! | is all right up to a certain point, yet after all La Fontaine is not quite out o1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31

It gives me pleasure to announce that tomorrow Frank Willis Barnett becomes a member of The Age-Herald organization. He will be associate editor
 MT. Barnett is native Alabamian; while educated aboard he knows the state as few men in it know it. He came into public notice in Birmlng- ham as one of the attorneys in the famous Hawes case. As a lawyer, he was counsel for and director in some of the banks, railroads and manufacturing enterprises. He will also be remembered by the old-timers as a great athlete and as reporter.
 For the past 15 years as an editor he has been in the forefront of every fight for civic righteousness. MT. Barnett is a we'll read man; a man of wide travel and man of bread culture. He is big, joyous, broad-minded, red blooded, likable fellow. I feel that his connection with The Age-Herald will be a strength to its staff and benefit to Birmingham. E. w. BARRETT.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
HARVARD HABITS

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Reports of somewhat vague and in conclusive nature come from Harvard university to the effect that there is less smoking and pool playing, and less pur- chasing of reading matter as well. The returns are from the Harvard Union, and they may simply be taken to indicate d decline in the patronage of that large ana democratic social organization. But the union is representative of the undergrad nate microcosm. Life in the larger world is more serious than it was before Au- gust, 1914. "The cigarette wrote George Frederick Watts, lis the handmaid or idleness," and the diminishing consump- tion of cigarettes may mean that liar ward less faithfully answers the often quoted definition of the visiting Chinese sayant who wrote: "They have large athletic club here named Harvard. on davs when it rains the students read hooks.', or the famous description of Ar temus Ward that Harvard college was pleasantly located in the barroom or Parker's" Life in time may become as rigorous as it was when the snow filtered through the roof of Massachusetts hall' ica was cracked for matutinal ablutions, and beer and soggy biscuits were the breakfast food The declining use or pur- chased literature perhaps means increas- ing dependence on the wonderful coiiec- tion of books the university has made, ona general inclination to select the courses that are of a manual as well as mental nature, realizing the ideal Of pr.
 Eliot. who said that he would not rest content till most of the studies called on
 the student to use his hands as well as
 his head.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
Crop Diversification

Texas has fared splendidly during the past year in every respect, said Col. Floyd B. Powell of Montgomery who passed through Birmingham yesterday, after an extended visit to the Lone Star state Tn the matter of crops that state made bumper ones in all lines. They have learned how to get ahead of the boil weevil to large extent in raising cotton, and with the very high prices commanded by the staple this year, due to the short crops of other states, Texas. cotton farmers are in clover.
 "The same is true with the cattle busi- ness Record prices have been paid for every pound of meat produced in that state Then Texas is so large and the variety of climates and soils so diverse that almost every kind of food crop ca be raised. There is no talk of hard times in the Texas cities and none among the farmers and cattle raisers. The situa- ton during my visit there served to con vince me stronger than ever of the very great need for increased raising of cat tie in Alabama and for the still further diversified ton of crops"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
A GRANDMOTHER'S RIGHTS

From the New York World.
 Morally and theoretically the elderly woman who was released from Black wells Island on Christmas eve should have done everything in her power to provide for her grandchildren. Thou sands of such persons are carrying simi- lar burdens uncomplainingly, even proudly.
 In her case there had been a long and unavailihg struggle with a. son who failed to provide for his family When he fi- nally took to flight, disagreement be- tween the wife and grandmother resulted in the arrest of the latter for non- support On her repeated refusal in court to do anything further, a magistrate sen Her release was gained on an order from a supreme court justice, who held that the magistrate had acted without juris- diction.
 This settles the stubborn grandmoth- er's difficulties for the moment. but it does not clear up the law or afford as surance that other grandmothers, uncles, aunts and cousins may not on occasion
 have experiences quite as painful. The abandonment law is aimed chiefly al husbands and fathers, who in most in- stances escape it's penalties by travel ir the far west. Since their apprehension is unusual, it would seem that if theil sins are to be visited upon their rela- lives the processes of justice should not be lodged solely in a magistrate exer- cising summary power.
 Some grandmothers have so many re responsibilities at home that they canno accept new ones. They. too. suffer by abandonment. The son who deserted wifi, and children was equally reckless of hi. mothers welfare. In her own defense sh says that to do more than she has don, i would have been to expose herself anS l invalid members of her household ts want, if not dependence. Here was ; case for domestic relations court. no
 for magistrate and Blackwell's Island
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
CHANGE OF PLAN.

granite glitters like gold in the sun, where the storm clouds brood and the thunders crash; and away, far out on the wide sea, where the hurricanes howl music and the big waves roll the chorus heralding the march of God-there He brews it. that beverage of life, health giving water. And everywhere 1t is a thing of beauty, gleaming in the dewdrop, singing in the summer rain, shining in the ice gem, till the trees all seem turned into loving. jewels. spreading a golden veil over the setting sun or white gauge in the cataract, sleeping in the glacier, dancing in the hail shower, fold ing it's bright curtain softly about the wintry world and weaving the merry col ored iris, that seraph's zone of the skies, whose warp is the rain of earth, whose wool is the sunbeam of heaven, all check cred OCT with celestial flowers by the mystic hand of rarefaction-still always it is beautiful. that blessed life water! No poison bubbles on the brink, its foam brings no sadness or murder. no blood stains in it's limpid glass. Broken hearted wives, pale widows and starving orphans shed no tears in its depths. No drunk ards shrieking ghost from the grave curses it in words of eternal despair. Beautiful, pure, blessed and glorious. Give me forever the sparkling, pure cold water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
LIKE MLuKE SAYS

If things keep on the way they are go-
 ing it won't be long until our national cap-
 itol will be occupied by congresswomen
 and statesladies and the figure of Liberty on the dome will be wearing an ultra
 decollete creation in pink chiffon and will
 have her face rouged each morning.
 These long-faced, whining saints who go around telling you that we shall know
 each other in heaven, won't be any more
 surprised to see us there than we will be
 to see them there.
 What doth it profit a married man to
 have five pay days in a month? It merely means five pay-out days to him.
 A California scientist announces that If
 he had $l0,0OO,000 he could talk with Mars.
 Huhl If we had $10O00,o00 we could make
 Venus talk to us
 Of course we might fail. But if we
 were a preacher we would try to make our sermons as broad as they are long. Every now and then you will run into
 married man who is willing to bet that
 Sherman was talking about matrimony and not about war when he made his ia
 nous comparison.
 Some girls may not be physically fit when they show up on the job in the
 morning. But the artists model is al- ways in good shape for work. There is going to be a great scarcity of
 men in the world after the war in Europe ends, and it may be that some of the fashionable danes will have to economxe and make one man do for both husband and lover.
 It often happens that the man who is legally attached to one woman is sim cerely attached to another woman. A clock will stop working when it is all run down. But a man hasn't that much sense.
 | About the only room sweeping some lprincesses do is when they sweep a room with a gesture.
 There may be no fool like an old fool. But our observation has been that the young fool runs him pretty close second. And maybe the reason why women talk so much is because they have So little to say. sasss fs..ss.,.-. , s 5ssses We are all ready to do as we are done by when we see that the other fellow is trying to do us.
 When a corn fed goes out on cold day her cheeks get rosy. But when thin girl goes out on cold day her nose gets rosy A man wants to be paid back when anything else is borrowed from him. But | it is different when some one has bor- rowed his wife from him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
The Allies Refuse Germany's Offer


  one of semioficial
  of considered offer of would willing herte sconfid is ignored not entirely sustain then the nsncere
  fighting concessions being made by Ger liberties small she cannot convince the allies or he sincerity and only will ample repaon be mace assured there will be peace con  The war must complete victory on the one oe or the other
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
FAMOUS aArosrRopHn TO WATER"

From Ln6 NULL 5OiAASAJ
 words with which John B. Cough, old time lecturer always closed his oration, arc discovered by l.. J. O'Donnen pr Joliet, and sent to Nelson Thomasson or Chicago. They were written in 1856 by the late Judge A. w. Arlington. Cough used to pour out glass of water, apos- trophize 1t and then dismiss his audience with a wave of his hand.
 Look at that. ye thirsty ones of earth! Behold it! See It's purity! How 1t gilt ters. as if mess of liquid gemN It is a beverage that was brewed by the hand of the Almighty Himself. Not in the simmering still of smoking fires. choked with poisonous gases and surrounded by the stench of sickening odors and rank corruption, doth our, Father in heaven prepare the precious essence of life. the pure, cold water; but in the green glade and grassy dell where the red deer wan ders and the child loves to play-there God brews it. And down, down in the deepest valleys. where the fountains mur- mur and the rils sing; and high upon the
 tall mountain tops. where the native
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
Orders Booked Ahead

we have not struck any oil gushers around Gadsden yet, but that is no indi- cation that our city and district are not going forward almost at boom pace" ," said AdoIph Reich, proprietor Of the Printup hotel at Gadsden, who was here yesterday. "Our city has advanced very rapidly within the past few years as an ideal site for small manufacturing plants and with the tremendous impetus given by the steel mill and other large indus tries there within the past year or.two, we have advanced into the class of big manufacturing centers Everything in our district is running full time and most of the industries have orders booked very far ahead. The outlook could not be better than at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31

herds of mythical steeds which could be snapped up at bargain and sold again at increased prices doubtless appealed strongly to gullible persons with money to invest. They are sadder and wiser now. They would have fared better had they wooed the "war brides"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
HOTEL LOBBHES
Book on OH wells

"The Birmingham public library has just received The American Petroleum Industry, by Baker & Hamor," said Carl H. Milan, director of the Birmingham public library. This work is in two large volumes and is up-to-date, having been published within the last month or two. It Is a comprehensive survey of this in- dustry, up-to-date in every respect, and suitable as a general reference work Tor those interested in this subject. It in- cludes chapters on geology, distribution and history of petroleum in America; chapters on oil we'll technology, refinery technology, refinery engineering, etc. These books may be borrowed by any res ident of Birmingham for a few days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
MEMORABILIA
By Robert Browning.

By Robert Browning.
 I. M An, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak*to you? And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems, and new!
 II. But you were living before that, And also you are living after; And the memory started att My starting moves your laughter!
 III. crossed moor, with name of it's own
 And a certain use in the world, no doubt Yet a hands breadth of it shines alone Mid the blank miles round about.
 ". For there picked up on the heather And there I put inside my breast A moulted feather, an eagle feather! We'll. l forget the rest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
ALAS!

Still to be merry,
 Day after day,
 Spite of the troubles
 Strewing lifes way,
 Calls for the courage
 Nothing can daunt.
 Yet 'tis the kind that
 Most people want.
 THE PRINCIPAL SUFFERER. "One sees some sad sights in court of domestic relations" 'rYes, indeed I know judge who pre- He's the saddest sight I ever saw"
 POPULAR CONVEYANCE. DO you use a closed car in winter?" "Oh, yes. And in summer. too" "Is it a self-starter?' "No. A colored boy starts It. Part of the time he says Going up and the other part he says, Going down." MAKING ROOM FOR OTHERS. "But our candidate is well qualified to hold office" s'That ain't the point, my friend" an- swered the professional politician. What we want for this job is a man who won't feel that he ought to hold 1t for life"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
Armor Plate Plant

we people in Tuscaloosa are greatly encouraged over the information we are receiving regarding the armor plate plant" said Lester J. Snow. a prominent yesterday. That the plant is to be To- cated somewhere on the Warrior river, not far from our city, seems highly prob able now. I believe that even the peo- pie of Birmingham expect the plant to be located on the banks of the river, al- though those to whom I have spoken about the matter hope 1t will be very close to the Magic City.
 The most encouraging feature in con- nection with the effort being made by Tuscaloosa, Birmingham. Gadsden and some of the other Alab anna cities to get this great government plant is that the contestants have all worked for Alab anna first. The chief thing to do is to impress the commission which will locate the plant that Alabama is the place for it and then we can all show the relative advantages of each of the several con- tending localities"
 Other prominent Tuscaloosa men in Bir- mingham yesterday who spoke hopefully regarding Alabama's S chances for the ar nor plate plant were Judge H. B. Fos- ter and Edgar L. Clarkson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
RESOLUTIONS.

Resolved: To save my money
 And lead a frugal life. Resolved To do my duty
 And still abstain from strife. Resolved: To give up smoking And never touch a drop. Resolved: To heed the speed laws And ne'er offend a cop. Resolved To quit complaining And smile whene'er I can. Resolved: To cease from knuocking And praise my fellow man. Resolved-but what's the use ct My plunging in so deep? I've made more resolutions
 Than any man could keep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
The Reorgamized
 Board of Trade

IF the merchants of Birmingham J want Board of Trade represent ing the mercantile interests of this community there is no reason why they should not have one.
 Organizations of business men are always well for community.
 There has been some complaint that the Chamber of Commerce rep resented too much the corporation and the railroad interests-that the officers and the attaches of corpora tions had more time to attend meet ings than the men who of necessity have to remain in their stores to sell their goods.
 And, therefore, the corporation in terests could outvote the mercantile interests.
 The Age-Herald knows not whether there be justice in this claim. But certainly there is no reason why the mercantile interests should not have Board of Trade within which they can confer and act for themselves and the community.
 
 The Chamber of Commerce can do good work for Birmingham and so can the Board of Trade. Let us have both of them and frequent conferences between the two.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31

BEGINNING THE DAY--o great God. for this new year l crave new life. May the tides be deeper, strong CT. May the winds come as It young from their caves. May the dews ne fresh upon n new earth. May God De abroad in new presence. May the ugly and the uncIean be sunsen m the floods of His grace and power In Christ's name. Amen.-H' M' He