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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-19
E:LKS' [: MINISTRIES PRESENTED TONIGHT. High School Club and Or chestra to Give Concert c H K IS TMAS TIRE E Sad Death of Little Daughter of MT. and Mrs. R. L. Daniel-Auto-
 mobile Collides With
 Street Car

Everything is ready for the eighth annual performance of the Ensley B. F. o. Elks minstrels, which will be given tonight. tomorrow and Thurs day nights at the Elks' home on Ave- nue D. grand parade in which all the performers will take part in costume will leave the Elkss home this after noon at o'clock, and headed by a brass band, will parade the principle streets of the city. Reserved seats are on sale at Ellis Jewelry company and so far everything indicates that crowded houses will witness each performance. Thomas R. Moxley, director of the show. and others who have witnessed the performance, claim that it will be the best ever given by the local lodge, Many of the stars of former years together with new faces, will make up strong cast. New scenery has been prepared by c. F. Roll The pro- ceeds are for the Christmas baskets for the needy of Ensley and district.
 The following is the programme:
 FIRST PART
 THE LAND OF THE FREE
 Opening overture, Land of Cotton" entire company.
 End song. Come Back to Alabama" Alvin Keller.
 Balland, Ireland Must Be Heaven" Harrison Shaddick.
 End song, Loading Up the Man dalay," Ben Moxley.
 Bass solo, lover the Ocean Blue" Mack M. Hughes.
 Gags, Ed Warnick
 End song, Come on to Nashville" William Scholl.
 Ballad. Turn Back the Universe, Edwin Cook.
 End song, "Pray for the Lights to Go Out" Tom Moxley.
 Ballad, "The Story of Soul" Ar thur Thomas
 End song, Are You From Dixie?" Dave Moxley.
 Grand finale, "The Land of the Free" entire company
 End men, William Haywood, Guy Freeman, Mack Mulligan. Mike Cush- Moxley, Tom MoNley. Alvin Keller, William Scholl
 Interlocutor, G. A. Bishop.
 Monologue, q Thought I Would Die,' Hugh Hill.
 Musical act, the Keller brothers.
 Ellls' quartet. Messrs. William Scoll Dave Moxley, Tom Moxley, Edwin Cook.
 Hawaiian guitar act, Mir Denslar and company.
 Afterpiece: ''The Darktown Elks Picnic" by entire company.
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Harvard and Radcliffe Honor Munsterberg Memory

Cambridge, Mass December IS. A brief funeral service for Hugo Munsterbere, professor of psychology at Harvard university who died sud- denly Saturday while lecturing at Rad- cliffe college, was held today from the Munsterberg residence here. The body was placed temporarily in a vault at Mount Auburn cemetery to be ere mated in accordance with Professor Munsterberg's wishes. and the ashes later sent to Germany for burial
 Classes at Harvard and at Radcliffe college, with both of which institu- tions Professor Munsterberg was as sociated, were suspended at the hour of the service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-19
Tennessee's Schedule
Erskine Ramsay

E<noxville December 16.-The football schedule of the University of Tennessee for 1917 is as follows:
 September 29, Tusculum at Knoxville october 6, Maryville at Knoxville. October 13, South Carolina at Colum- bia. Knoxville.
 October 27, Chattanooga at Knoxville. November 3. Vanderbilt at Nashville. November 10, University of Cincinnati at Knoxville.
 November 17, Auburn at Birmingham. Thanksgiving Day. Kentucky State at Lexington.
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AUBURN.NOTES

Auburn, December lS-(Special) ] The Christmas holidays next Thurs day will mark the close of one of the most successful fall terms in the his tory of Auburn The students are now finishing up the first term exams and are working hard to close up their work with distinctions Nearly all of them expect to spend the vacation at home.
 The student body of matriculates is the largest in the history of the coll lege and represents 13 states and three foreign countries. Every county in Alabama. with one exception, is repre- sented
 Following are some of the counties with the largest representation;
 Jefferson, 1O4; Lee. "A; Montgom- cry, 26; Walker. 21; Talladega, IT; Ge- neva, IT; Mobile. 16 Marshall, 16 Mar ion, f6; Chambers 15; Clay, .15; Cal houn, If; Macon, A. Wilcox, IA Dal- las, 1S Houston, 13; Tallapoosa, l5 Limestone. 12; Marengo. 12; Escambia II; Etowah, H. Pickens, Il; Barbour, 10; Clarke, 10; Madison. 10: Blount 9, Coosa, 9; Crenshaw, 9; Elmore, 9; Pike, g; St. Clair, g; Autauga, &: Bald win. s; Bibb. 8; Choctaw, B; Coving- ton, s: Franklin. s; Morgan. &; Ran dolph s; Shelby,S: Sumter s; Jackson ~, and Tuscaloosa, {.
 The following is the registration from out of the state:
 Georgia, 64: South Carolina, 26; Mis- sfssippi, 21; Florida, 20; Tennessee. IA. Louisiana &. North Carolina 2. Taxaa $; Kentucky II Nsv JsxnAys 1i Mioh-
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HIGH SCHOOL GLEE CLUB

The combined glee clubs and orches- tras of the Ensley High and the Gen. tral High schools will give a concert at the local high school tonight un : der the auspices of the Lyric club and will be directed by Miss Leta Kitts, assisted by Miss Evelyn Going, Miss Handley, Miss Dryer and Miss Me- Neil
 AS the first part of the concert the orchestra of 40 instruments will ren der a programme Fred Hard, Edward Roach and Miss Sarah Dryer will give Chaminade's serenade on the violin. The glee clubs consist of about 55 voices
 The programme follows:
 March from Tannhauser (Wagner).
 Tone Poem (Roberts)
 Trio-Serenade (Chaminade). Violin, Fred Hard; cello, Edward Roach; piano, Miss Sarah Dryer.
 Dorothy waltzes (Rodenbeck)
 Intermission. bined glee clubs of Ensley and Gen. tral High schools.
 sIreland Must Be Heaven,'' tenor solo. James Smiley, and double quar- tet (CentraD. ...s
 "Keep the Home Fires Burning' (Navellol. combined clubs.
 Baritone solo, "On the Road to Man dalay" (Speaks), 1arry HAMMOCK
 aMannings Lullaby" (Bacon), Ems ley club.
 The Glow Worm Liucke), com bined club.
 sMy Rose q orenz). Joe Christian and triple quartet fCentraD.
 "when You and were Young (Rutterfield), combined clubs.
 Can't You Hear Me Calling. Caro Iine?" James Armstrong and Ensley club
 Swing Along Cook. combined clubs.
 sIowa" tFriedland), William Mough- an and chorus.
 "The stars and Stripes" (sousa). combined clubs.
 News was received in Ensley today of the death of Ida Daniel the 5-vear- old daughter of MT. and Mrs R. L.
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LEGAL NOTICES

Notice
 The annual meeting of tho stock. holders of the American Trust ana Savings bank. Birmingham. Ala. viii be held at its banking rooms. corner First avenue and Twentieth street. ax 3 o'clock p. m, Tuesday. January a.s 1917. for the purpose of eleotfne al rectors for the coming year and fo> the transaction of such other busine, as may properly come before ss' meeting. ". VI CRAWFORD. 12-12-6t-f4 Presidep
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 isan, 1 Missouri l Brazil. |; China. l. Mexico. l.
 In the church statistics the Meth. odists and Baptists lead with 3SS and 2Sl, respectively. Other churches which nave more than 25 members in the student body are: Presbyterian, 95s Episcopal, AS; Catholic, 31; and Chris tian, 26.
 Of the total enrolment a1s were in college last year, while the remainina. include all matriculates who were not in Auburn last year.
 One hundred and seventy-three ma : trieulates have filed their applications $ for degrees. In the number are 90 post , graduates, 100 applying for the desrea of bachelor of science, 15 for the de- gree of graduate in pharmacy (Ph G. j and IS for the degree of doctor of veterinary medicine.
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MICHIGAN SIGNS
 TO MEET CORNELL

Ann Arbor. Mich, December 17.-It was officially announced here tonight that the University of Michigan has signed con- tracts with Cornell University for football games in 1917 and 1918. The next contest will be played here and the 1918 game will be at Ithaca.
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Tidewater street car which was in charge of Motorman w. Harris, col lided with passenger automo- bile owned by Dr. w, c. Head of Johns and driven by Will Maxwell, negro. at Avenue F and Twenty-sec- ond street at 6:30 o'clock yesterday morning. The negro was painfully in jured from flying glass. The automo- bile was badly damaged. It was stated that the accident was unavoidable and no arrest was made.
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It requires more than . <century for a. cedar tree to grow large enough to yield a 90-foot telephone pole.
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Supreme Court Announces Recess

Washington. December 1S.-The hol- idas recess of the supreme court from next Friday to January s, was an nounced today.
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Mrs Daniels mother, Mrs. Lacey, in Anniston. where Mrs. Daniel and her daughter had gone to spend the Christmas holidays. According to the message received. death was due to diphtheria. Mr Daniel left yesterday afternoon for Anniston. The arrange ments for the funeral have not been announced
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TOO LATE ID CLASS|FY '

DIAMOND FOR SAI4E-Over "a carat. with pinkish tint; an unusual ool- or and beauty, only $l25; Tiffany style. See 1t. Phone Main 3Oe3.
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Servia is said to lead in centenarians, and Ireland is a close second.
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Chicago has sos5 lawyers. a gain of 22S in a year.
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News was received in Ensley today of the death of Ida Daniel. the 5-vear- old daughter of MT. and Mrs. R. L. Daniel of this city, ae the home of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-19

Rozeal Brooks. negro, was fined S5 in police court yesterday by Judge J. T. Lowery on 8 charge of nonpaymeni of street tax. When the negro was arrested a razor was found on his person and Judge Lowery assessed an additional fine of s10 for the offense
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-19

Members of Ensley lodge No, 9S7 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. are making preparations for the an nual Elks' Christmas tree. A large quantity of provisions will be dis tributed among the poor and the needy of the Ensley district as well as toys for the poor children.
 The following committee has the matter in charge: Victor Johnson. Thomas Moxley, II. Keller. Dennis Ech- ols, Nelson Thomas F. O. Harris, H. Jones. pr. Charles F. Tetter. Thomas Deveraux. William Landrum, |. C. Graft, c H. Wood. j. Ellis Brown. l.. Meanzo. Grover Wren, O. A. Pearson
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-19

lander, daughter of Mir and Mrs. Paul Quattlander. to Robert Donovan was solemniZed at the home of the bride parents in Fairfield Saturday night, The ceremony was performed by the Rev: Mr. Chambers, pastor of the Fairfield Methodist church.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-05-24
Country Churches
Are Are 2 Discussed m w
BY Presbyterian.

Orlando, Fla, May Is. ~ Country
churches, The theme set fof four. ses-
sions in the next FIVE days Of General
Assembly of the Southern Presbyteri-
an church, was dicussed at today's
session. AS thirty.niEs and half per
cent of the Presbyterian churches siE
the south are located Id the country
districts, church leaders are of tho
opinion they should be given more
consideration than in the past This
was emphasized in the relation OF DR.
C. w. Grafton of Union church, Ais-
sisslppi, moasrator. III ;;. q !
The matter Of relationship between
the Oglethorpe University and tho
church was left to the decision Of nd
interim committed. n E 2gs. ~
!, Two reports were submitted on
woman's work in, the. church, one
saying man should continue in lead
ership and the minority fayoring CIV
ing woman. more Latitude. Deferred
until Saturday. a-..,s q 90 ,a.s.
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A GROWING EVIL.

Some years ago one of the circuit
Judges of the state sentenced man,
and then suspended sentence. An
appeal was taken and the supreme
court held that a circuit judge had no
such power. Thereupon, the legis-
lature passed an act conferring such
power. Since that time, the judges
: Of the circuit courts, or some OF them,
have exercised the power in con-
stantly growing number Of cases.
We believe that the act of the legls-
lature should be repealed. 1t is a
disagreeabIe duty and hard duty
to sentence white man to the chain
gang, and the sympathy of judges on
the bench under the influence OF
the pleading lawyers, gets the better
Of their judgment. Men who should
be punished are being convicted by
the jurors and then are escaping
their Just deserts through suspend
ed sentence.
The danger is illustrated by case
tried in Anderson county last week.
A white man was convicted of selling
liquor and sentenced to eighteen
months on the chain gang, the SEN
tence showing that his case was a
fragrant violation Of the prohibition
law. He had been convicted Of SELL
ing liquor before, and therefore had
had his warning. Notwithstanding,
his sentence was suspended. Without
knowing all the facts of his case, and
with all due respect for the judge,
We assert that he was not entitled to
this form Of clemency. A man who
is convicted of selling blind tiger
liquor for the second time, should 60
to the rock pile. 1t is hard to con-
yict a white man in the courts in
cases of this kind. They are only
convicted when the most conclusive
testimony of their guilt is offered.
Many escape who are guilty. Their
guilt being established by this degree
Of proof, they are not entitled to
either sympathy or mercy.
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GEORGIA SHERIFF KILLED.
Son Of Judge Accused Of Crime at
Elberton.. :

Anderson, May 21.-Sheriff New
ton HALEY, of Ebert County, Georgia
was shot and instantly killed today
shortly after noon by Arnold Worley,
son of Judge Worley, of the Superior
Court, according to eye-witnesses,
who have returned to Anderson.
From their testimony there was much
excitement in Elberton this afternoon
and Worley had to be rushed away to
safety. -.
Deputy Sheriffs John Sanders and
Jim Williams, of Anderson, went to
Elberton this morning to identify a
negro over there supposed to be one
that was wanted by the authorities
here. This morning about z o'clock
| the deputies from Anderson and
Sheriff HALEY went down to the Sea-
board. Railway depot and arrested
the negro which was thought to be
the one wanted. They started back
! to the Court House, where an Ander-
son negro was waiting, who had been
taken to Elberton to identify the
other negro. On the way to the
Court House the negro under arrest
is said to have passed the lie to Sher-
iff HALEY, and the officer in turn
slapped him. Worley saw this, and
it is claimed he reprimanded the
, sheriff, telling him that he had better
"cut it out" @ -. -.
The sheriff replied that he was at
tending to his business and that he
(Worley) had better 60 on about his.
According to the reports nothing
more was seen of Worley for about
half an hour. While Sheriff HALEY
and other officers were sitting in the
Court House Worley walked, in. The
sheriff told Worley that he did not
see the reason for Worley's conduct
earlier in the day. Worley, it is al
legged, then pulled his pistol, fired
twice at close range and began back
ing toward the door. He continued
to shoot, three more shots being fired,
none of these taking effect. Although
mortally wounded, Sheriff HALEY
fired at Worley three times as he was
going out of the door. None of these
shots took effect. HALEY expired
within five minutes, it is said, one of
the bullets having entered his left
side just below the heart. -r.
In very short time Worley started
back into the Court House, but was
met by Deputy Sheriff Sanders, who
told him that he must not enter. Po-
liceman Johnson came about this
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BROWNLEE.

The Abbeville Singing Convention
was held at Midway church, Sunday,
May 81. A large crowd attended,
almost the whole community, besides
visitors and delegates. Every one
enjoyed the good singing, also there
was plenty Of dinner. J. O. Cam,
Candidate for Sheriff. enjoyed the
singing especially. He sat on the
front and helped sing. Mr. Horton,
candidate for Congress, was also at
Midway, and helped to sing.
This community had quite sur.
prise in the marriage of Miss Nora
Jenkins and Mr.. julius Bardberry.
We wish them much happiness in
their married life. They will be at
the home of Mr.. J. W. Bradberry fol
short time. We give Mrs. Bradber.
ry hearty welcome. : .,..-
Mrs. Tom Baskin, two children
Lavinia and Mabel, are spending 9
while with Mrs. Edd Smith, who has
been sick, but is some better.
Mrs. NJ. H. Sexton and children,
of near Starr, spent the day Wednes.
day with her sister, Mrs. ]. H. Fer.
guson.
Mrs. Jim Ware, spent Saturday
night with her sister, Mrs. Nance, and
attended the singing at Midway Sun
day.
Messrs Vernon Bradberry and Cal.
vim Prince have returned from ar
extended trip to Birmingham, Ala.
and other points, reporting a, nice
time.
Miss Sadie Prince of Antreville
will spend a few days with her sis.
ter, Mrs. Adger Hodge this week.
Misses Bertie Caldwell and Althes
Keaton, from Antreville, were visi.
tors to the Singing Convention Sun.
day. We hope they enjoyed them.
selves enough to come again. !
Mrs. Lizzie Clark, and sons, Mar.
shall and ]. p, are visiting relatives
here.
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CARRYING THE STATE.

: Governor Manning carries the
state almost every day now in his
sace for reelection as Governor. He
got off at Spartanburg Saturday on
his way to Charlotte and carried it
again. He had the whole thing
sewed up in the Democratic Conven-
ton in Columbia, according to the
newspapers which are supporting
him. Or to express it according to
their manner of saying it, he "Scon-
trolled the convention" Very well.
We are glad he did. We are glad,
too, that the convention was kind to
Mess. Clinkscales, Pollock and Jen-
nings. When the people talk, who
cannot be controlled, Cooper will be
the Governor Of the state, and the
other boys of 1914 will have some
thing pleasant to think about.
As strange as it may seem, the
Manning people admit that Cooper
had about one hundred friends in the
convention. These voted to elect
the Manning men to the National
Convention, and along with them
they voted for Manning. The Blease
element even voted for Manning but
did you hear of Manning showing
any disposition to send a Cooper
man or Blease man to the National
Convention? Not much, they don't
do things that way. They believe in
taking the whole hog. They "con-
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OUR NOBLE CAUSE.

There is one man in South Carolina
who should not be allowed another
day of political ife-William N.
:Graydon: of Abbeville. This person
actually had the effrontery to get up
in the State convention and belittle
our noble cause! And the greater
the shame is the fact that those un-
feeling delegates and the galleries
shouted with glee. j. q ~. .
To the, political gibbet with such a
man! Off with his head! Scrap heap
him! This is dangerous person. If
we mistake not he was in at the death
of our former. "noble institution" "
the State dispensary. It is unsafe to
have such men around.
Why should a man of such cruelty
be permitted to roam at large, with
ering with his scorn the tender
flower of this. State, the cotton ware
house "system?" And right there in
the presence of the president Of the
secret, society of the warehousemen.
Such lack of veneration! And ip the
presence of the author of that = Is
ter-piece of fiction, the Laney- Odom
Act, which we all know would give
us ample protection and cheaper in
surance. It has done it-ye-es, it
has.
Give ear unto the sacrilege of this
iconoclast from Abbeville. "Out of
\ crop of fifteen million bales of cot.
tom, the. South Carolina warehouse
system took care Of only 81 900 bales
and yet they have the nerve to tell
US that this warehouse has affected
the price of cotton" 1t was unde-
|mocratic to use q pile driver in any
such fashion. To ridicule the ware
house system Of the State in any
such manner! Why one cotton mill
in Columbia will consume nearly
that much cotton, and Columbia is
not even considered seriously when
cotton manufacturing centers are
mentioned. It is a lese majeste
thus to buffet our noble cause.
But there was one defender of the
system who came Gra-a-andly to it's
rescue-Col. Dan s. Henderson of
Aiken. He foresaw just what might
happen to our glorious cause if it
got into the primary, with its leader
pilloried upon every stump in fash
ion that our modern politicians have
a way of doing; he pointed out the
danger of the shibboleth of "com-
mercial democracy" kind of q
damned spot that he seemed to think
might not out. A great service he
has done our noble cause, after the
rudeness of that man from Abbeville.
The Columbia Record.
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READ McLAUR1Ns INTERVIEW.

It is evident from reading the in
terview of Hon. John L. McLaurin,
which will be found in today's issue,
that he did, not control the Demo
cratic convention which met in Col
umbia on 18th inst. What he has to
cay is, nevertheless, interesting read
ing.
The people of the state have been
wanting to know what is being done
with the peoples money. If they will
read the list of Offices and officers
named in Mr.. McLaurin's statement
they will. find out where the, money
is going. It;would be interesting to
know Just when all these useless off,
ces were created, are they Of recent
creation, or have we had them for
some. time? Perhaps Mr.. McLaurin
will tell us. .... ....
And list of the men who fill
these offices and who are on the
"boards" would also make interesting
reading. Are they Of the same old
crowd which has been filling all the
Offices and drawing all the salaries
in the state for thirty years, first
under one political regime and then
another. We would like to see list
of the people who are on the states
payroll, in every department with a
statement of the salaries paid. Will
Mr.. McLaurin, in order to make his
arraignment complete, favor US with
this?
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time and placed Worley under arresk
He was carried to the city jail, but
SO many people began to gather and
since there was talk of. violence, he
was spirited away. It Is thought be
was taken to Athens or Atlanta.
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trol". But the people will not be
controlled" All the Office holders
in. the state, and all the machine poll
ticians in the state will not stop the
people of the state in their march to
seize the reins OF the government
again.
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HAVE A CLEAR, HEALTHY SKIN

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ZEMERINE removes all roughness
and redness, and leaves the skin in a
good healthy condition. Best remedy
for Eczema. Stops the itching and
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st Bowden-Simpson Drug store, or
from Zemerine Chemical Co., Orange
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While you are waiting and hoping
the undertaken comes along and gets
you. - .. .......
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You may have noticed that a man
who says life isn't worth living is the
first to make an effort to save him
self when danger threatens.
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A woman's head is usually strong
er than her arm.
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After putting on the boxing gloves
a man realizes why it is far more
blessed to give than to receive.
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If leap year girl has tact she can
make her victim believe he did the
proposing.
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When a bride discovers that what
she married likes corned bread and
cabbage better than angel food, an
other honeymoon bubble has explod-
ed.