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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-16
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

class with the man who is so lonely for somebody to talk to that he goes home and starts political argument with his wife"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-16
ALABAMA PRESS

Gadsden Journal: Even if legislation is adopted to prevent supreme court jus tice from becoming President. it will not affect nay present candidates. The voters will tend to that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-16

Defamers of MT. Hughes character are already at work. It is reported that he likes to operate pianola.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-16
LOOKING AHEAD

Kitchener thought we'll of our West Point. And so do we, for that matter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-16
BLESS FEM.

BLESS FEM. l doff my hat To my friend Brewster, Whose auto killed My neighbours rooster.
 Cincinnati Enquirer. We tip our tile To Colonel Huppy, Whose flivver slew, Our neighbours puppy
 Macon Telegraph. Our chapeau's off To Ezra Pratt, Whose twin-six mashed Our neighbours cat.
 Columbia State. Here's a brick to throw At William Streep, Whose open exhaust Just killed our sleep.
 Savannah Press And here's a brick For Speeder Hodge, Who laughs each time He makes me dodge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-16
LOOKING AHEAD.

You say these two political rivals have buried the hatchet?"
 "Yes, but each has an accurate memory of how, when and where the hatchet was buried, so he won't have any difficulty in locating the place if he ever wants to dig it up again."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-16

Roanoke Leader: We imagine that Great Britain does not care to win many such "victories'' as that one recently in the North sea-nor Germany either, as to that matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-16
MENTAL TELEPATHY.

MENTAL I. Does your wife ever ask you what's on your mind when you are at home in the evening and feel depressed?" Never" answered MT. Jagsby. She seems to know what's on my mind and forbids me to leave the house."
 CORRECT. "when a crowd of men get together and whoop for 30 minutes at time we speak of that as party enthusiasm" True
 But let the same number of women meet and cheer a. female Napoleon. What do we call that?'
 "Hysteria."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-16

Tuscaloosa News: The speed with which Judge Hughes resigned from the bench and sent a telegram accepting the republican nomination, indicates that though he was not candidate he was strong enough believer in preparedness to have both documents written out and ready for emergency use
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-16
HOW TT HAPPENED.

HOW TT HAPPENED. 'You say your cook has been with you 20 years?"
 Let me see. Yes, just about 20 years" How did you happen to get herr" "A friend introduced me. I got busy and a rpeacher did the rest"
 A LAST RESORT. "In my opinion, man must be hard up for some way to spend his idle mo- ments when he sits down and plays soli- taire."
 T agree with you. He's in the same
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-16

Decaturs Daily: J. o. Thompson, Ala bama referee during the Roosevelt regime, has given out an interview declaring that the progresSives will make it hot for Will son. He means the Rooseveltians. The real progressives will vote for Wilson, the only presidential candidate who stands for either 'Americanism" or prog reSS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-16

Troy Herald: It is said that in the big whisky raids at Girard whisky was found in every home, with the exception of the home of the editor of the local paper. This may be easily accounted for, as generally when an editor comes in possession of a package it is his earnest desire to make way with it at the earliest possible moment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-16

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala. post office as second class matter under act of Congress March 5. 1879.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-09
WHEN A WHALE BLOWS.
Il 10 Steam, Not Water. the cstacean
Spouts Into the Air.

Il 10 Steam, Not Water, the cetacean
Spouts Into the Air.
Since whale breathes air when II Is
below the surface the breath must be
held. for II water should be taken into
the lungs the animal would drown
Thus as soon as a cetacean comes to
the surface its breath Is expelled and
a fresh supply inhaled before 1t again
goes down.
The breath which has been held In
the lungs for considerable time under
pressure IL highly heated, and as II is
forcibly expelled into the colder outer
air 1t condenses, forming a column OF
steam. A similar effect may be pro.
duced by any person II on a frosty
morning the breath Is suddenly blown
from the mouth.
That whales spout out OF the blow.
holes water which has been taken In
through the mouth Is probably more
widely believed than any other popular
misconception. AS matter of fact
such performance would be impossi
BILE. because a whales nostrils do moi
open into the back of the mouth, as dc
those Of man. and the animal is moi
able to breathe through its mouth" as
can ordinary land mammals. = Roy
Chapman Andrews in New York indie
pendent
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-09

NV Associated Press.)
SEWARD, Alaska, Nov 9.-Wm. G.
Midas chairman of the Alaskan en-
cheering commission, who recently
returned from Anchorage, reports ex'
oo,,ent progress on the construction
os the United States railroad.
rifty.nine miles of track have been
laid from Anchorage. With the II
miles of the old Alaska Northern rail
way that are now In operation to
xearn Creek, there nave been COM
,leted 1870 miles of the 470 that will
connect Seward and Fairbanks. The
,rack so far laid from Anchorage
consists of six miles south toward
seward; 3S miles of main line north
ward to Fairbanks, and Is miles on
the Matanuska branch into the Mata-
nuska coal fields.
The right of way has been cleared
from Potter Creek, on Turnagain
Arm, to Kings River, in the Mata-
nuska coal field, a distance of n
miles, and on the main line from
Matanuska to the Little Susitna river
Rail will be laid this fall as far as
Kings River, on the Matanuska
branch. distance of 81 miles from
Anchorage, and to Wassilla on the
main line, approximately Is miles
from Matanuska. On the main line
in the Susitna valley, between Mon
tana creek and Indian river, dis
lance Of SIS miles, the right of way
is 70 per cent cleared and number
OF grading contracts have been let
Grading of the right of way will pro
coed In this section from Talkeetns
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-09
PIONEER WOMAN PASSES ON

Mrs. Mary Edgecomb, one of the
early pioneers of Carson. died yester-
day at her home in Carson. The de-
ceased had been in III health for
some time and her death was not UNI
expected. She was born In Burling-
ton, VT, and was about 80 years of
age, and leaves to mourn her demise
son, Ezekiel, of San Diego, and a
sister, Mrs. j. @. Adams of Genoa.
The funeral will take place Thursday
morning from the Catholic church,
following high requiem mass. Inter
ment will take place in the Catholic
cemetery beside her husband. who
died in this city many years ago.
Appeal.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-09
EXCELLENT PROGRESS IN ALASKA ROAD

to Willow Greek, and north to Broad
pass. At Willow Creek it will CON
meet with the work under the Mata-
nska district, and at Broad pass with
the work from the Nenana division
Rail will be laid in the near future
as far as Potter Creek, which is 10
miles southeast of Anchorage on
Turnagain Arm, and from which point
the rock work on Turnagain Arm will
be attacked during the winter
For the week ending September 8.
1868 men we're employed on the An
chorage division, which includes COM
mission employees, stationmen and
laborers, the August payroll being
$25s,SSO,O 900.
The population of Anchorage, which
is the main construction base on the
railroad, is between 1000 and 5000.
At Matanuska, the junction of the
Matanuska branch with the main line,
townsite was recently surveyed by
the government, and town is now
in course of development. There is
also a small town at Moose Creek,
about SO miles from Anchorage, where
the first mine on the railroad is in
operation. At Wassilla, the name OF
the town where the railroad crosses
the Knik-Willow creek wagon road
several people are gathering. Was
silla will be the distributing point fol
freight and supplies for the Willow
Creek mining district. The govern
ment is taking immediate steps t
survey small townsites at thes'
places.
The railroad north and south from
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-09
FRANCE INTERESTED
IN OUR ELECTION

ny Associated Press.)
PARIS, Nov. 9.--American elections
are being followed with the deepest
interest, the news having the place of
honor in most of the morning papers.
Commentators are mindful of the
dramatic surprises yesterday when
the supposedly certain Hughes vic
tory was turned into possible de-
feat They are all reluctant to COM
NIT themselves. A majority of the
comment is similar to that of the
Petit Journal. expressing belief that
the victory of either candidate will
have little effect in the American
policy regarding the questions inter
esting France.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-09

tram IRON Joplin ana MarceiIa. James
was bit confused In time and was
not at the station. Marcella, wearing
pink carnation by prearrangement,
went to the waiting room and sat
down to await the arrival of her hus-
band to be.
Now enter the other side Of the tri-
angle, whose name for the present Ia
unknown, as he absolutely refused to
divulge his identity. His name will be
John Doe for this occasion. John en-.
tered the station and gazed over the
crowds. Marcella saw him, and after
giving him time to discover. her trip
ped across the room and stood enrap-
tured before the astonished man.
well, here | am, James," she said
demurely, waiting for her fiance to
take her in his arms, ETC., etc.
John gasped. hut made no move to-
ward her.
"Why, you bashful thing" the girl
exclaimed, and with that bounded over
to the man. threw her arms about him
and planted d kiss upon his lips.
John extricated himself as best be
could--or would, and was mumbling
some incoherent words Of inquiry
when in came a breathless vandyke
who had come. up just in time to be-
hold the performance, and, convinced
that some one was making away with
his bride to be, rushed up to thwart
him.
AS he approached misgiving spread
over Marcella's face. She had faint
suspicion that she had kissed the wrong
man. and this suspicion grew with
each step Of the excited vandyke. HI
stood before her She looked at Dot
and then at yandyke. Yes, the las
man was certainly the one she hat
come to meet. How could she hav,
mistaken the other fellow for him, al
though their resemblance was quit,
marked?
Then apologies, explanations, assur
ances by Doe to vandyke that he wa
an innocent party and had no intention
10 cop Marcella, and then MARCEL,
kissed the right man, right there In tn
station, with a score OF people watch
ing her.
The couple decided to take the 80
train back to Joplin and be marie
there. They hurried to a telephon,
made an appointment with a ministe
there and left.
Try small adlet in the Bonanz,
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-09
Orjuin Of the Gas Jet,

william Murdoch. the inventor of
the gas Jet. first burned the gas simply
as fame from the end OF pipe One
day in an, emergency he wished to stop
the illumination. Hurriedly looking
around for something. Murdoch seized
his wife's thimble and thrust 1t over
the light. which was Immediately ex
tinguisbed.
There was a strong odor of gas. how.
ever. says the Popular Science Month
ly. and the experimenter applied a
light to the thimble, discovering that 1t
was full Of holes. through which tiny
Jets Of fame appeared The impor-
lance Of the result was that the illumi.
nation from those two or three tiny
| Jets was much brighter than had been
| given by the great fare from the end
of the pipe. Acting On the principle
which this chance discovery revealed
be constructed what was known as the
Cockspur burner.
Try a small adlet in the Bonanza
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-09
STARTLED BY KISS
Long Distance Courtship Rounds
Up With a Mishap.
WRONG FELLOW is HUGGED.
Victim uttsrs lnoohsrsnt Words Of In
quiry When Prospective Husband
Comes Along, and After Apologies
He Hurries Her OF to Minister.

ZONES Along, ana After Apologies
He Hurries Her OF to Minister.
Parsons, Kan.-Marcella Rowland
kissed the wrong man. And inasmuch
as Marcella at the time Of her oscula-
tory performance was engaged to be
married and the man she kissed was
not her prospective husband, she found
herself In an embarrassing situation
when the real groom hove to and made
anxious inquiry as to her affection for
another man. IL 1t had been In the
good old days Of rapiers and swords
perhaps there would have been duel.
with much blood. but there was none
of that. and only few people at the
Katy station were aware of the near
tragedy.
The story of the kissing and Marcella
and the man she kissed and the man
she should have kissed adds another
chapter to the volumes that have been
written about long distance love max
ing This episode might have been
labeled "Courtship by Mail, or Wooing
by Correspondence" The story is this,
duly attested and sworn to by at least
one Of the parties concerned:
Marcella lives near Joplin and is
helper In grocery store. year ago
she found the name Of James vandyke
In case OF eggs, the said James not
being barber. as his name might In
dictate. but raiser Of chickens and
corn near Anadarko. Okla. Marcella
wrote to James. and James replied.
Then followed correspondence with
each succeeding letter rpened into
love. month ago 1t was decided to
meet In Parsons and have a minister
here perform the ceremony, an elope-
ment being considered the proper
thing to do.
James arrived and spent restless
afternoon waiting for his bride, who
was to come from Joplin on the even
ing train.
Came 1:45 o'clock. and with 1t the
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Anchorage passes through and de
velops large agricultural country
There are now between 500 and
1000 homesteaders along the line Of
the railroad in this section, and the
! agricultural land is being rapid,
developed. The homesteaders are
\ supplying a considerable portion o
R the foodstuffs for the railroad EN-
v ployes and other people in that sec
Y ton of the country. Recently tn
y Alaskan engineering commission cor
n tracted for 400 tons. or over 1900
X bushels, of potatoes with the Mat;
n nuska farmers. Products are bein
y hauled by the farmers to Matanusk
and shipped over the railroad to Al
, chorage and other points along tn
line. There is still room for larg
number of homesteaders in the viciI
ity of the railroad, and the govern
ment hopes to encourage farmer
from the states to come to Alask
y and take up homesteads in the terri
3 tory tributary to the railroad in orde
. to develop the agricultural lands s
that the country may some day in tn
3 near future be self supporting.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-09

The Germans are adroit at passing
the buck, but the Rumanians will tes-
tify that they are also there when
it comes to bucking the pass.-Chi-
cago Post.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To R. l.. H. Marshall, Hilda Marshall,
 Charles D. Haven, F. G. Miller, Riley E. Dill, John Irvine, L. H..
 Herndon and George Rabehl, de- ceased's heirs, executors, admins trators or assigns:
 You and each of you are hereby notified that the undersigned Co., owner has expended the sum of One hundred dollars ($lOOOO) in labor and improvements upon the Blank AssOci- atiOn group of placer mining claims, consisting of 16O acres, located on the Right Limit of Nugget Gulch, a tri- butary of Cache Creek, in the Cook Inlet Precinct, Third Division, Terri tory of Alaska, in order to hold said placer mining claim, for the year ending December 81st, A. D., 1915, and if within Ninety (9O) days from the service of this notice upon you, or the complete publication thereof, you fail or refuse to contribute your pro- portion of said expenditure as Co., Owners, your interests will become the property Of the undersigned, under and pursuant to the Revised Statutes of the United States.
 Dated at Susitna, Alaska, this 2Oth, day of March, A. D., 1916.
 AL. STINSON. First publication March 2,7 1916. Last publication July 12, 1916.
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KAISER AWARDED FEWER THAN 100 HIGHEST DECORATION

Special to Gateway by United Press)
 BERLIN, April 1. - The order "Pour le Merite," the highest military decoration in Germany, has been awarded to only 72 persons since the beginning of the war. The VOs- sische Zeitung announced today that these seventy-two decorations by the Kaiser have been distributed as fol- lows:
 4 to Field Marshals;
 T to Commanding Generals;
 22 to Generals;
 8 to Lieut-Generals;
 1 to a Field Marshal Lieutenant;
 6 to Major-Generals;
 1 to a Grand Admiral;
 to an Aomiral and
 8 to Lieutenants.
 Among the Field Marshals are von Hindenburg and von Mackensen. The GranC Admiral is von Tirpitz, vOn Kluck is among the commanding generals and the young lieutenants are the two flying officers who each destroyed seven aeroplanes and the lieutenant who with fifteen men cap tured one of the forts of Namur at the beginning of the war.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To j. H. STEVENS and VIM. II. l CUMMING; your heirs or assigns or whom it may concern. You are here by notified that the undersigned has expended the sum of Six Hundred Dollars ($6OO) in labor and improve ments on the following named min ing claims for the years ending Dec. 3lst, 1914 and Dec. 31st, 1915, the above sum being the amount required to complete the anual labor during years mentioned above, and proof of labor being recorded with the United States Commissioner in the Recording precinct of Iiamna, Territory of AL aska. To wit: Reward, Reward No. 1, Reward No. 2 and Reward No. 8. Said claims being situated about 16 miles westerly from the S. West arm of Kamishak Bay, and in'the Iliamna Recording precinct, Territory of AL aska. The amounts claimed and due the undersigned from the parties above mentioned are as follows: J. H. Stevens One hundred and twenty two dollars and twenty-five cents, and Wm. H. Cumming the sum of seventy two dollars and twenty-five cents. And if within ninety days after the serving of this notice by publication, you fail or refuse to contribute your proportion of such expenditure as CO owners your interest in said claims will become the property of the undersigned as specified in Sec. 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States and amendment thereto con corning annual labor on mining claims. All amounts due to be de- posted with Dexter Horton National Bank of Seattle, Wash, to the credit of the undersigned.
 CHAS. H. MCNEIL.
 Dated and signed at Ridgway, Colo. Feb. T, 1916.
 First publication Feb. 29, 1916.
 Last publication June IA, 1916.
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The Seward
 General Hospital

desires to acquaint the general hospi- tai interests of this country with the facilities of this institution for giving the latest devised methods of nursing, care to persons requiring medical or surgical treatment. Special attention given to patients requiring gyne- cological treatment. Hydrotherapeu- tic treatments carefully followed. This building, just complete, electric lighted, steam heated, hot and cold water. Physicians placing patients in our care will receive every ethical att tention. Prompt readiness for acci- dents, obstretrics and emergencies, day or night. For further particulars address,
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Delegates to the Republican national convention in Chicago were elected by the Third congressional district of Mis- souri, While not Instructed the dele gates are committed Co the candidacy Of Senator John w Weeks of Massachu setts for president F. To- Morse Of Ex- celsior Springs and F. IT FrIsby of liar rlson county were unanimously elected delegates Mir. Morse has been ln charge of the Weeks campaign in MlssourLl
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TO KEEP THE EYEBROW
 FROM SLIPPING DOWN

Especial to Gateway by United Press)
 ST. PAUL, April 5.-"Get 'Em" is the name of a club organized in the sophomore class of the University of Minnesota today to discourage chfc mustaches, drowned upon by coeds in a recent edict. The stated object of the club is ito keep the eyebrows Of the members from slipping down upon the lip"
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MEXICAN ARISTOCRATS
 BEGGING FOR WORK
Special to Gateway by United PressJ

Special to Gateway by United Press)
 SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April A. Hundreds of once wealthy Mexican aristocrats walk the streets of San Antonio today, pitifuly eager for any kind of work, at any wage they can get.
 These men, women and children are divided into two classes: the shabby gcnteeI and the ragged. All of them were driven from broad acres and lives of luxury by sentences of death that today still await their return to seething Mexico. They prefer to stay here and be poor.
 Other hundreds-there are about G. 900 Mexican refugees here-were for tunate enough to bring gold with them when they fled from lhe land of too much trouble. They live in great style; and there are fashionable shops and exclusive places to live here, that are supported largely by them.
 Most of these refugees, proud of their pure Castilian blood, new to poverty and it's humiliations, sensitive to charity, will accept any employ ment to keep from becoming public or private charges.
 A copy boy on one of the local American newspapers here, earning $6.OO per week, was, until the fall of Huerta, the petted son of a Mexican family of Tamaulipas whose boast was that their ranch was a days horseback ride in length and breadth.
 Among this number are several hundred Catholic priests and other dignitares of the church. Many of these exiles have been deprived of their estates through some whirI or the other of the rapidly revolving wheel of Mexican fortune.
 Residents tell of highly educated graduates of Chapultepec Military Academy, the West Point of Mexico, former captains, majors and even colonels in the army of old PorfHo Diaz, who fled the country with him at his fall and who have refused to ally themselves with either Carranza or Villa, working as saloon porters dish washers and irrigation ditch hands for a livelihood.
 These are the so called "rcactinary' Mexicans, the tattered remnants of the once naughty and wealthy Cieni- fco class, whose control over Mexico was as absolute as was that of Louis Sixteenth before the fall of the Bastile The BastiIe fell for Louis and Diaz died in a foreign land.
 In San Antonio today the refugees of the old regime have only the un- certain fortunes of Felix Diaz to pm their hopes of return" upon.
 What London was to the aristo- cratic emigre of the French RevOIu- ton, San Antonio is to the banished aristocrat of Mexico. Today the best blood of the old regime is making San Antonio its home.
 Here the best of Mexican doctors, lawyers, professional men, former cabinet officers, ex-goyemOrs of Mexican states, one time ministers to foreign courts, landed proprietors of vast estates, are living. There are about 12,OOO Mexican refugees in
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EGGS FOR SETTING

Eggs for setting at $1O per hundred lots. $15O per setting of IA. Single comb White Leghorns and Rhode Island Reds. M. D. Snodgrass, Kodiak, Alaska.
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CHAS. H. MCNEIL.

WANTED-Hustler in every town in Alaska to sell our 15 up-to-the- minute household articles. Women delighted, eager to buy. Experience not needed. Sell like hot cakes. Samples furnished active workers. Write Agents Speciality Co.,, Box Al Juneau, Alaska.
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WAR ODDITIES

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 LONDON.-After the war, the bodies of many British soldiers, principally officers, will be removed from their temporary burial ground in France and Flanders to private cemeteries in Britain.
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We are now baking 400 loayes of fine bread every morning. Don't for get it is 4 loaves for 25 cents.
 COOPER'S CAFE.