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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
THE YELLOW PERIL BUBBLE

From the New York Globe.
 Alas for the enjoyment of the good souls who find the height of excitement in concocting lurid fiction disguised as fact concerning the yellow peril An other of these E. Phillips Oppenheim visions has been dispelled-the usual dream of the Japanese naval base on the Mexican west coast.
 Admiral Winslow, hard-hearted, relent- less with no appreciation for the lurid, and only cold, rigorous mania for facts, has made a complete survey of the Mex ican west coast. It is hardly necessary to add that he found no more Japanese naval bases there than he found icebergs.
 The hectic anti-Japanese agitators will now have to fall back upon another Op- penheim yarn-you all remember the nice little story about the thousands of Nippo- nese soldiers, perfectly organized and dis guised as students, walters, etc., with con- cealed stores of guns and ammunition. They are ready at given signal to jump to arms and mobilize on American soil, to capture the Presidio, to loot Dave Grif- fiths moving picture studio at Holly wood, to capture and ensave the Key stone comedy, to loot Nat Goodwin's cafe at Santa Monica. The awe-inspiring part of the situation is that Douglas Fair banks is in New York. Without him on the spot to defeat the invaders single handed, how are the N. S. G. w. to cope with this infamous conspiracy?
 If these rumors were not inexhaustible life would be the sadder for their ab- sence. They belong in the same category with the good old A. P. A. fiction, for the time being quiescent if not defunct, of the Catholic plot to seize the United States ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
WHERE HIS FAITH BROKE DOW.

From the Living Church.
 "The late Bishop Hare" said a phyl elan. used, very reasonably, to impt skepticism to misunderstanding. business man of skeptical tendencies, VI said to him:
 My dear MT. Hare, I do not refuse believe in the story of the ark. can a cept the arks enormous size, it's o shape and the vast number of anim it contained, but when l am asked, I dear doctor, to believe that the childiI of Israel carried this unwieldly thing :' 40 years in the wilderness-well, there Il bound to say, my faith breaks down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
WAR AND PULLMAN COMFORTS

From the New York World
 The grumbling of a few of the young guardsmen on their way to Texas has familiar ring. They would not be Amer ican boys if they did not find fault with beans and cramped sleeping quarters in day coaches. Box cars were good enough for their grandfathers in the civil war, but a generation used to Pull man comforts resents their absence.
 Still, as the rigors of war go, there are worse things than sleeping doubled-up or car seat. If these restless young soldiers ever get into the trenches they will look back on their long train ride to camp as a lark. And certainly that is what it is, with the comradeship of thS regiment en route, the enthusiastic re- ception by townspeople at every stopping place and the constant change of scene. No one will take the grumbling very se- riously In the circumstances, dispo- sition to "knock'' is a better guarantee of fighting quality than a stolid accept ance of the situation.
 To those who are not on the troop trains but only remain as lookers-on while the boys" speed across the coun- try, they present an inspiring mental pie ture. Was the response to Lincoln's first call for volunteers as impressive a spec tacle as that of these scores of long trains laden with trained guardsmen from every part of the country, all con- verging toward a military base in Texas?
 They carry the flower of American youth into new and hazardous fields of adventure and represent the greatest feat of mobilization ever seen in America, at least.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
WAR TIMES OF IS YEARS AGO

Representative Underwood will tome row ask unanimous consent for tI House to consider the resolutions passl by the Senate transfer.1ng Hobson to ti line and rendering him a vote of thank The Alabama delegation was exceeding anxious for this to be done before Ho son was exchanged, but they fear it now impossible, as Shafter's dispatch il dicated that the exchange would be pe fected today.
 Tn Gods own light, in open fight, VI will remember the Maine."
 This was the striking motto whi decked the sides of the cars which bol 100 recruits for Roosevelt's famous rouis riders through Birmingham yesterdss We are following our brothers wi another one of their notices.
 These men came in over the Kanss City, Memphis and Birmingham TO about 4:30 o'clock and left soon theI after via the Central of Georgia for S vannah. From there they will be trar ported as soon as possible to their nous regiment at Santiago. They we under the command of Captain Condit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
HOTEL LOBBIES
Crops Looking Fine

am just in from trip through some of the best farming section of the seate' said w. R. HiIliard yesterday. believe crops are. or were before this rain, in a better condition than I have ever seen them at this time of the year. The weed is not large, out it is well formed and looks healthy.
 do not think south Alabama will sufIer from the boil weevil as much as It old last year, although there is just about as much cotton acreage as there was last year. l believe there are fewer Doll weevils in evidence now than there Were in May last year."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A DEUCE.

Rain, rain, rain,
 It flooded all the town, And night and day, to our dismay,
 It kept on pouring down. Umbrellas borrowed right and left
 And rain coats hustled out, While unafraid the youngsters wade
 The gutters with a shout. Rain, rain, rain,
 We wondered when 'twould stop. But still it fell and none could tell
 Just why. With broom and mop An army stood meath leaking roofs
 And toiled with might and main. Though hard they tried to stem the tide, They labored quite in vain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08

heart out alone; who turns courageously to take up the work he left and does it in his absence, who watches in an agony of suspense and fear the coming of each mail for a letter she knows may come but dreads to even think about it; she is a heroine, too.
 Nearly every northern town has a sol diers' monument. All right, that's good. But why not have some war monuments to wives and mothers?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08

BEGINNING THE DAY--Gracious Father, give me brOtherly sympathy with the weaker travellers in this pilgrimage of life. Teach me to en- courage, not to criticize. Make me te know that I in nay own way am also full of faults and that in their circumstances I might be 1ar worse than they. For Christs sake' Amens--H, M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
IN OLD PERU

From the New York Telegram.
 According to Fl Bien Agricola of Chic layo. recent explorations made at place called Huaca Pintada, situated between the districts of Tucume and Illimo, re- suited in the discovery of Inca ruins< Of great importance which the authorities have ordered to be preserved as carefully as possible in their original state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
'TwAsN'T A QUART"

screw a moment said Mrs. Dubwaite.
 ''Ill take 1t over to him." answered MT. Dubwaite, with alacrity.
 ''He wants to open a bottle of catsup."
 ''Umph! Let him send for it, then. He beats anybody ever saw for borrow ing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
POPULAR FORM.

What is Slutterby's favorite outdoor exercise?"
 Standing on street corner and wav- ing his arms.'
 What sort of calisthenics do you call that?'
 "Curbstone oratory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
JUST THE THING.

'tNow that young Grabcoir has finished college, old MT. Grabcoin has made him a member of the firm.
 How does young Gragcoin feel about it?"
 "Oh, he's delighted. He says there's nothing like having place downtown where the fellows can look him up during business hours"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
BEATING BACK.

"Jibway seems to be losing interest ir the club"
 True But he'll regain it." Are you sure?"
 Positive. He's to be married soon."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
PAINFULLY EXACT

From the Chicago Tribune.
 MT. Sullivan, who himself is an Iri man.. '-Dispatch from London.
 The A. P. never leaves anything to imagination.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
SUPERIOR PERSON
FIRST AID.

What are you doing there?" asked thl inquisitive pedestrian. Cant you see?' growled the man unde, the motor car. I'm taking a course i' applied mechanics" |,
 Anything I can do to help?' ''Yes. If you are any good at swearing cut loose, I'm out of breath.' <
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
OLD ONES STILL GOOD

From the New York Herald.
 It is reported that the war has fl the price of Bibles. Luckily, fashyc Bibles do not change very muchl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
THE MINIMUM WAGE.

The man who works for Henry Ford Has reason to be gay, For if he only sweeps the floor,
 He gets five plunks a day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08

O virtuOus fight, When right with right "ars' """ shall be most right.
 --TroiIus and Cressida.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
NO HOPE.

My neighbor wakes me up every morn ing singing patriotic songs. Can't you do anything to stop him?' I'm afraid not He'd rather stay hom and sing than go to the front and fight
 SUPERIOR PERSON.
 A worth while man
 Is Hiram Bell,
 Who knows more than
 He'll ever tell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08

The suffra gist leaders called on MT. Hughes and issued forth with smiling faces. Anti-suffra gists called and if any, thing their smiles were broader. That S what tact and diplomacy will do.
 The war in Europe presents no more thrilling spectacle than troop of half savage Cossack cavalry charging a trench, incredible as it may seem to mill itary experts"
The Cordova daily times., 1916-05-22
NEVER LOOKED BETTER.


 From all indications Alaska in general and particularly
 southeastern part is lighted with brilliant prospect this thar While there may be people making for the west yerd than elsewhere they going there speculation In was part the difference marked Everything in readiness thr newcomers. Our mines that heretofore have been foned ncdenta ony coming to the front where they houd be Our greatest opportunity is at hand Mining shong experience with practically unlimited amount of o rkng capital coming to inspect prospects, It is up that they not msed, and all have do is toy facts without eXaggeraon As matter of fact don t ged to enlarge the value here and all have meow it.
 sh The Progressive in receipt of three letters from
 bh mentioned above who anxious to visit mines sud- who propose coming Let be enough to these of that which have and the rest will be m4y.
 Along that line suggest that before the is over hundreds of settlers locate in Ketc They shall Ina te ocatons and if have desire to bSld up in portion to the location and opportunities should the settlers by offering them advantage the of building lots, To demand exOrb price for lot iduah to say that desire to he left aloneKechkan Miner
The Cordova daily times., 1916-05-22
HE MusHEs 500 MILES
 TO ENLIST WITH ALLIES.

VICTORIA, R. C., May 20 - Walk ing more than 500 miles on snowshoes in the dead of winter. and then travel ing all the way from Yukon to Van couver to do his bit" for king and country. William Forbes has arrived here and enlisted in the Sixty-second Artillery Brigade, stationed at Vic toria.
 Bill" Forbes. as he is known to old time "mushers" on the trail in the Yukon country, was prospecting away to the north of Leigh, when, just a few months ago, he learned that his country was at war. He had been away from civilization for more than a year. Packing his food on his dog sled, he started on his long "mush" to Whitehorse. Obtaining passage to Vancouver, he arrived here few days ago. Learning that some of his old pals" were in the Sixty-second Artil- lery Battery, he went to Victoria to join them there.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-05-22
CoRDovA THE PROSPEROUS.

COrdOva today more prosperous than since the boom days when thousands of building the Copper River road from this port the copper the interior.
 There greater activity in all industries More people the streets and money expended for legitimate expenses than ever before.
 While things not booming like in construction days, business feeling better and of security and future prosperity pervades the city, which missing when the only of the city drawn from working the railroad.
 job This does not there is work for many the market is well supplied but it does that prosperity is here.
 It is fortunate for Corova that the government build ing railroad from Seward to the interior this Otherwise the many persons going that place would flock here and the result would have been guttng of the labor market and the consequent suffering of those out of employment.
 There are many reasons for the good times in dova The principal reason, however that pros perty any place earth That is diversified industries
 At time CordOva dependent entirely upon the payroll of the railroad Those boom mcs but in the nature of affairs could be but transient The laying off of few hundreds of meant depression business circles which could be except by the reinstatement of the at the same work
 Today it is different. Cordova has the greatest copper the world her back door, she has the only railroad worthy the operating Alaska she has clam canneres salmon and other allied industries within her mts and has producing placer camps which draw her for their supplies
 Where else in Alaska the conditions be found?
 And yet COrdova is only in her infancy If the government off the United States be persuaded open the Boring h fields to COrdova, this city will go ahead by leaps and
 nds and immediately become not only the leading city of aska, but of the prominent ports ofthe Pacific coast
The Cordova daily times., 1916-05-22
FAIRBANKS MINING MAN
 IS CITED FOR CONTEMPT.

SEATTLE, May IS. Thomas Lloyd. a mining man of Fairbanks, and an alternate to the Republican national convention at Chicago June ', was cited this morning by Presiding Judge J. T. Ronald in the superior court to show cause Friday why he should not be punished for contempt for non-payment of a judgment for $50.0O0 entered four years ago by Su- perior Judge A. w. Frater at the con clusion of Mrs. Hulda Amelia Lloyd's action for divorce. Judge Frater granted the decree on the ground of non-support.
 Judge Ronald this morning fixed Lloyds bond at 5000, which was given this afternoon. The Lloyds were married in San Francisco in 1901, and separated in 1906. They hive one minor daughter. Mrs. Lloyd, since the decree, has remarked. The
The Cordova daily times., 1916-05-22
FRANK H. WASkEY
 RESIGNS HIS JOB.

According to advices received from Nome, United States Commissioner Frank H. Waskey, of the Wade Hamp- ton (Marshall City precinct in the Second division. has rendered his re- signation to Judge Tucker, to become effective immediately. The name of his successor has not been announced. The same source reveals the fact that Commissioner Southworth, of Kiana, in the Kobuk country, has also re- signed.
 Mir. Waskey was at one time dele gate to congress from Alaska.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-05-22
COPPER AS AN EXAMPLE.

In April after shipments of copper to Flu rope during the past year, the British purchased 2000000 pounds of copper from three American inter
 esshe largest single sale of copper made in the United States The Great Britain it is said not for from $7OOOOOOO With the cost of producing the mines varying between and 10 cents pound and with the price the metal before the around l2 cents consumers now eagerly buying for the rest of the at P 2 to 30 cents. |
The Cordova daily times., 1916-05-22

all new rates so established shall al low the Cordova Power Company, it's successors and assigns, the cost of operating and maintaining a telephone plant sufficient to furnish the service then being rendered. and 8 per cent upon sum equivalent to the cost of such plant, such cost of plant and cost of operating and maintaining the same to be fixed by said board of arbitra- tion.
 Section g. That the rights and privileges in this Ordinance granted are not exclusive rights and privileges, and the Town of Cordova reserves the right to grant franchises for the any other person or corporation; pro vided, that if such other franchises are granted on more favorable terms to the grantee in respect to the per centages to be paid the Town of Cor dova under Section 7 of this Ordin- ance, then the percentages herein pro vided for under said Section [ shall be changed to the same level as in said other franchises, said change to become effective at once upon the filing of written notice thereof by the Cordova Power Company, it's success ors and assigns, with the Common Council of the Town of Cordova.
 It being understood that the Cor dova Power Company in accepting this franchise valves the right to ex elusive use of the street for telephone wires, conduits and poles, conferred upon it by a franchise given by George c. Hazelet as trustee of the Cordova Townste. and the Town of Cordova releases all claim for and valves all right to any percentages due or to be- come due upon gross earnings of the Cordova Power Company conferred upon it by said Hazelet franchise.
 Section 10. It is further agreed that if the said Cordova Power Company, it's successors or assigns, shall fail to keep and perform any of the GOV. enants and conditions by it to be kept and performed, and upon notice there-| of being given, shall continue to so fail in it's performance of conditions beyond reasonable time, then this said franchise may be forfeited by a decree of court of competent juris- diction.
 Section II. Said Cordova Power Company may indicate it's acceptance of this franchise in writing within thirty (30) days of the passage and approval of this Ordinance. and if not so accepted said franchise so granted small cedSe anu tcTiliudtc.
 Section 12. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after it's passage and approval by the Common Council of the Town of Cor dova. and shall be published once in the Cordova Daily Times.
 Passed and approved this 18th day of May, 1916.
 H. A. SLATER, President of the Common Council of
 the Town of Cordoya, and ex-
 Officio Mayor Thereof.
 Attest;
 Edward F. Medley.
 Town Clerk of the Town of
 Cordoya. (Town Seall F
The Cordova daily times., 1916-05-22

The Kaiser has asked citizens i'll the United States o observe the laws this country That real kind of Will hem and we wonder if powder factories will blow with less regularity.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-05-22

fortune Lloyd had at the time of the divorce Is said to have been lost in mining ventures.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-05-22

Chtna has gone dry not because maorty of the resi- dents objected to the sale of uor but because five refused to voice an opinion. Let the minority rule!
The Cordova daily times., 1916-05-22

Premier Asquith has joined the Irish pnvy eonne The first thing we know he will wearing on March r and smoking clay pipe
The Cordova daily times., 1916-05-22

Yuan sh Kai having failed to be Napoleon may now try to be Lincoln and eneavor to keep the Chinese repuDhc to- gether.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-26

tribunal. for 1t really was a tribunal,
picked me up and the chairman said:
Here's a measure seems pretty good in
purport. but it is decidedly bad in con-
text That did not make me feel very
good. but, to make a long story short,
those members of the House set about
hammer and tongs, discussing me. and
each seemed to be striving to append
something or take out something from
my very being. This must have con-
tinued for eight or ten days. High gov
eminent officials and distinguished
citizens even were called in to discuss
my merits. Finally, it was announced
by the majority of the committee that
was worth while in my altered form
But even then two or three members
simply refused to have anything to do
with me. The chairman laboriously
drafted a report as to what my con-
tents was all about. what the amend
ments suggested were to carry out,
and. though I was much battle SCARED.
was gratified when he said in that re-
mort that ! should be passed by the
.. This was a compliment, in
deed"
The Life Story of Bill" will be con-
tnued in the next installment of the
Uncle Sam, Esq, series.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-26
Do Insects Migrate Like Birds I!

From Harpers Magazine.
1t is strange, indeed. that insect mi
erations and the laws which govern
them have been so neglected. for many
are considered rather anomalous, al
most haphazard manifestations. To
be sure many insects do not migrate,
Just as some birds live in an approx
mately fixed habitat But, whereas
such birds live as active adults the
migrating insects either hibernate
in the mature. winged form. or pass
the cold months in the egg or chrysalis
stage And. also. some butterfly
swarmings may resemble the aimless,
unproductive outbursts of the cotton
moths. Nevertheless. deeper sig
nificance is given to many reports
scattered throughout scientific litera-
ture by reason of this theory concern
ing laws of time, direction and route
which govern the movements OF an
unknown number of the smaller winged
creatures. Eagle Clarke's observations.
while studying bird movements from
the Kentish Knock lightship. that the
thistle butterfly. Nanessa cardui. flew
toward England from the continent
against head wind at night, opens
interesting possibilities of further dis
covery, for this butterfly is believed by
many entomologists to migrate from
the mainland to the British Isles every
year. Along the California coast. too,
this same butterfly. the most widely
distributed of all such insects, some
times moves northward in great
swarms that may come from Mexico.
The green clouded swallow tail. too
Papilio troilus, and the giant swallow
tail. Papilio cresphontes, were seen by
SaVerner flying in company with the
''monarchs" and going south along the
bird route which extends across west
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-26

ern Lake Erie: SO all these species
with an unknown number of others)
are certainly partial. or perhaps even
true. migrants in some parts of this
country.
Tropical observations also give evil
dence that the movements are more
than accidental Vast coastwise
swarms annually traverse the shores
of British India; small yellow butter
flies also undertake great journeys
there. while another species. related to
our swallow-tails. Is believed to travel
from that country to the Island of
Ceylon every year. Others make period
icals journeys along the Venezuelan
coast and in the Amazon valley: SO
there. TOO, the recurring activities
seem to be quite different from aimless
wanderings. and more in the nature of
racial functions intimately bound up
with the creatures life history.
Indeed. accommodating evidences show
that the principles and laws govern
ing the better-known bird misrations
have a remarkable parallel In the an
nual movements of certain members
of the insect world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-26

Bundled up with many other meas
ures I was transported to the govern
ment printing Of
Rill Receiues fee, where ! was
ted. and
LID c1st OieSs. mptly at
o'clock the next morning copies Of me
were hustled back to the document
rooms Of Congress, to the desks OF
members most interested in my con-
tents, while members of the committee
to which I was referred all received
copies that their elaboration might be
facilitated. My original self was re-
tanned in the clerks office. I was just
two days old, as Congress reckons time,
but was feeling important. I guess ]
rested in committee for two or three
days. when the members of the august