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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
Blankenburg Retires

Philadelphia, January 3.-Four years of reform administration in Philadelphia came to an end today with the retire ment as mayor of Rudolph Blankenburg and the inauguration of Thomas B. Smith, thus giving the regular republi- cans control again of all municipal of ficeS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
SAXON-LOCKRIDGE
 ENC ANNOUNCED

MT. and Mrs w. E. Lockridge announce the engagement of their daughter, Mar garet, to Mir w. D. Saxon. The wedding is to take place February 20 at the home of the brides parents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
DIR. AND MRS. FUCKER
 TO HONOR NTE

Dr. and Mrs. Edmund w. Fucker, Jr will be hosts at a dinner party at the Country club Saturday evening complimentary to Miss Dorothy Davis debutante of the season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
QUINN-GARRETT
 MARRIAGE ANNOUNCED

MT. and Mrs Silas Coma Garrett announce the marriage of their daugh- ter Vera to MT. Irwin Patton Quinn, on Wednesday, December P, 1915, Grove Hill, Ala"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
MISS JONES TO COMPLIMENT TWO POPULAR VISITORS

Miss Amelie Hill of Montgomery and Miss Ella Packer Blackshear of Mobile will be honor guests at an informal tea, which Miss Alice Jones is planning for Friday afternoon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
MISS WEAKLY TO HONOR MISS LONGS GUEST

Miss Eula Weakley will be hostess at bridge party Wednesday evening at her Ridge Park avenue home, to compliment Miss Catherine Moss of St. Joseph Mo-, who is the lovely guest of Miss Louise Long.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
FOR A BAD COUCH

Here is fine fashioned recipe for coughs, colds or catarrh trouble that has been used for many years with great success. Get from your druggist 1 oz. of Parmint Double Strength) and add to it A pint of hot water and oz. of granulated sugar. Take one tablespoonful 4 times a day.
 No more racking your whole body with a cough. Clogged nos trils should open, air passages of your head clear up so you can breathe freely. It is easy to pre- pare. costs little and is pleasant to take. Anyone who has stub born cough, or hard cold or ca tarrh in any form should give this prescription a trial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
MRS. CROUCH HOSTESS
 AT INFORMAL AFFAIR

Mrs. John Cowles Crouch will be among the hostesses of this afternoon entertaining her bridge club at her home on Highland avenue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
Peter to Visit Greek King

Athens. January 1.-(Via Paris, January 3.)-King Peter of Servia will go to Ath- ems to visit King Constantine after an inspection of the Servian troops at Saloniki. it is generally believed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
MISS HOFFMAN POSTPONES HER DANCE

Miss Hannah Klotzman has indefi- nitely postponed the dance which was to have taken place at her home on South Sixteenth avenue last evening.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

The Birmingham Graded union will hold meeting Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock at the First Methodist church
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

the firm of Gaines & Ross. Robert Young, a brilliant young attorney, died just a few weeks ago.
 The Dallas County Bar association has appointed committee to draft proper resolutions on the deaths of Judge Part ridge, Judge Mabry Major Compton and Robert Young These resolutions will be read on a day appointed by the court within the next month.
 Mrs. J. B. Parke of Selma will be one of the candidates for the presidency of the Alabama Equal Suffrage association. if plans of the Selma association carry through. Mrs Parke last year secretary of the state organization, and president of the local branch, has been urged by members to make the race, and has the matter under advisement. The election will be made at the state convention in Gadsden in February.
 The Alabama river reached the highest mark of the year Sunday morning when the Selma gauge showed 46 feet. Farmers in the sections below Selma have been ad- vised that there is no danger of an over- flow.
 Work began this morning in the cam pa1gn to roll up heavy vote in favor of the state bond issue in the election CT the 18th, and committees started sys- tenatic sounding of voters. All political authorities say that Dallas will go solid for the issue but the committee appointed by Governor Henderson is taking no chances on a Slip-up
 Ed Keeble of the firm of Keeble-Mc- Daniel Clothing company announced Sunday morning that his firm would move February 1, giving their building to the Charles Gallis company of Mont gOmery, which plans to Oupn a modern cafe here. It was stated that the Mont gomery company would spend $5000 in making over the Keeb le- McDaniel store, while the clothing company will spend about $4o00 in remodeling and changing the front of their new home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

and pictures and posters of preventive work, a loaned exhibit from the na- tional association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

An important meeting of the Be- nevolent society of Temple Emanu- Fl will be held this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the vestry room.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

 IpHILOSOPr1E|

New Year recalls de fact, Ole Miss, dat CT Pawnbroker is erbout de onliest man dat is expected to keep his Pledges fer de whole year. Yessum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
Mrs. J. w. Shook Plans Informal Affair for
 Mrs. LeSOurd
HRS. HARVEY LIE SOURD of New
 MI York is the charming and attrac-

Morrow at their home in Glen Iris and will be the recipient of number Of de- Iightful social courtesies during her stay in Birmingham.
 One of the most interesting of this series of entertainments is an informal tea at which Mrs. J. Warner Shook will honor Mrs. Le Sourd The event will take place at the beautiful home of the hostess on Niazuma street Wednesday afternoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

There will be no meeting of the Lakeview School Improvement asso- citation today, but the organization will meet next Tuesday afternoon at 2:15 at the school.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
Chatter and Gossip of Smart Circles

Compliment GrgKimes Miss Pendleon t HonorD
 ndom Notes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04
ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Northside chapter of the Boys club will meet this morning at Il o'clock at the home of Mrs. H. H. Hamilton
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

~ HE is a woman upon whom the
 fairies bestowed at birth the inesti- A< mable gift of finding joy in little
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-04

Miss Gussie Groover will leave to- day for her home in Memphis after having enjoyed the holiday season in Birmingham as the guest of Miss Se lima Perry and Miss Susie Perry.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08
Mayor, Sheriff, Frank Cole and Two Judges
Were Spanked In Youth, But Not Col. Joab

when his platform consisted
chiefly of early-to-bed and early
to-rise policy, punctuated by
planks of hickory switches when
he went back on his constituency,
which consisted of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fawcett, ST.
Il was seven summers on this
earth when the punishment hap
pened to me that stands out
most wildly" raid he.
I'VE were living in Illinois and
my father sent me and my cousin
to a neighbours to borrow a
Ratchet. On our way home we
laid the Ratchet down to throw
clods at crows. After the crows
had been routed, the Ratchet
could not be found. CO..
My cousin, an older boy. sug-
gested the excuse that the neigh
Dor did not have a Ratchet. The
incident was forgotten for a year
when my father unearthed the
lost tool while blowing. That
night he tied me to tree and
left me in the pitch dark until
2 o'clock in the morning. / can
see the darkness yet"
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(Continued From Page One.)
career the exact reverse of Col.
Joab.
my dad was grand old man,
but he had terrible temper. II
had had some method OF record
ing the bowls which issued from
my young person during the in
Vulnerable processes of strap
pings, ! would never run out OF
amusement in my old age. They
are SO many l can't recall any
specific occasion where was
punished for erring. If ! wanted
war ! generally got it. He GER
tainly was Grand old dad"
reminisced Cole.
After scratching his head for
one particular licking that stood
out in his memory as an extreme
ly violent one, Cole was forced to
give up, but substituted the in
formation that he was not born
with silver spoon in his mouth,
but slept through his infancy in
q champagne basket.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08

weight seldom attains old age.
He usually succumbs tc some dis
ease Of the heart, brain or stom-
ach, or to diabetes.
The accepted standard of
weight of a man at 40 is $50
pounds, and his height is five
feet six inches. For every inch
above this height add three per
cent of the weight.
Drink enough water between
meals to keep clear of eye and
pink of skin.
Fresh pure water, two or three
quarts day, will make that
brave little machine, your heart,
rejoice in having good, clean fluid
to work upon.
he sure to exercise,
Exercise makes it possible for
muscle to throw off its waste.
Exercising in bed, if practiced ev-
cry day, is better than Sc holes
of golf on a Saturday and
swivel chair the rest of the week.
More energy is stored up in
sleep than in any ether way. The
conditions of sleep have inn
proved. 1t is customary now to
sleep with fresh air. whereas
century ago only supposed freaks
rlsked exposing themselves to
night air"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08
ARMIES BATTLE
IN SEA OF MUD

LONDON, July 8.-The second
week of the allies offensive found
the allies everywhere attacking
and maintaining their earlier
gains practically everywhere, de-
spite counter attacks.
A heavy downpour of rain has
converted the battle-ground into IL
great sea of mud. Despite this
handicap the French today claim
ed slight further progress south
of the Somme, taking 400 prison.
ers.
The British troops north of the
Somme improved the positions
taken yesterday.
Fighting in the village of Con-
talmaison is deadlocked. Paris
reported 5000 of the kaiser's ia
nous Prussian guardsmen have
been killed there.
Petrograd today reported The
capture of three villages in the
region OF Kolki in bayonet fight
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08

autOcratic Taft administra-
ton for which he was SO
solely responsible? Surely
not!
Oh, If he were only here
now! He would be a tower
of strength for that decency
and righteousness of which
he was always talking. He
was so needed that even as
the heart panteth Off the wa
TEXTBOOKS, so painted the
hearts of most of those pres
ent for the return of ROOse-
welt.
La Toilette listened to these
generous rhapsodies, saying moth
ing, until the question as to his
views on the return of the colonel
was pumped directly at him.
III think" said he, that
every true friend of the pro-
gressive movement ought to
wish that Col. Roosevelt
might stay just where he is
i'm Africa"
There were gasps of astonish-
ment.
When Roosevelt returns"
Fighting Bob went on, 1.-The first
great peril of our movement will
be upon it. He will either fight
us, or he will thrust himself in as
the creator and leader of the
movement which, for seven years
as president, he tried to ham,
string by the power of his great
office.
I'VE are happy family of
fighters. He will smear over and
obscure the issues. He will make
principles hazy and eXalt per-
sonalities! He is not a progress.
sive, except with his tongue, and
never was.
Hopes for Open Fight.
Gle talks for progressivism.
but he has put on guard against
us who were making the fight in
the states, his judges, his district
attorneys, his postmasters and
United States officials generally,
over whose PROSTATE forms we
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08

consequence happened at the
ripe old age of four years.
1T was a lesson, and as l went
down the roadway of youth the
spankings that l acquired along
the route so impressed me that
as | looked back from this ad-
vanced age of life l am forced to
admit they are proper.
Law and order must be ad-
ministered in the home. If 1t is
not, the child is very apt to suf-
fer this education later in life
when the consequences are disa-
greeable. Children spanked into
mature youth always respect
their families. Yes indeed, | en-
joyed chaffed parts when young"
philosophical the reminiscent
Justice Graham.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08

small boy that none of them
stands out in particular.
MY father used to administer
the punishment In our family"
he said with a merry twinkle of
his eyes.
When questioned as to the i'm
plement, the judge said feelingly
that his pa used a substantial
hickory switch, so popular in
those days as barrel hoops, be-
cause of the durability of hick-
DRY.
my father never licked me,
though, unless needed a
switching. He always explained
before hand exactly what he was
whipping me for. He never
struck me in anger" said Judge
yesterday defendingly.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08

among the greatest of American
statesmen.
An Inspiring Time.
Dolliver, who had so long trod
with Aldrich and his group the
downward road of political iniqui-
ty, had felt his great soul in re-
volt, and in three days on
slaught in the senate had driven
the big burglars before him, cow
ed and trembling. Insurgency
everywhere was setting the Aid
riches, Cannons, Ballingers, Tafts,
Hitchcocks. Penroses, Cranes,
Buffers, Lodges. Lippitts, Shoots
and their ilk into tremors of fear
and rage.
1t was great, an inspiring
time. 1t looked as if the repub-
lican party would soon be cap
tured by the insurgents and re-
turned to the democracy of Lin
coin.
When did Roosevelt return
from Africa? l can date the oc-
currence by that. By reference
to the books | find he reached
the United States in June, 1910.
That being the case, some of the
things mentioned above had not
yet taken place; but let it go.
They were all foreshadowed by
what had occurred; they were all
already conceived in the womb of
Time.
Clasps of Astonishment.
At La Follette's home, which
had become a sort of shrine to
which the insurgents went for in
spiration, there was about the
usual Sunday group on that
sunny May Sunday in 1910.
Talk ran on Roosevelt,
then surrounded with news
paper men on his homeward
trip from Africa, all eager
to know what he was going
to do politically. Our CONF
pany wondered about this,
too. Would he take sides
with righteousness? Would
he support the horrible,
clumsy. senseless. sordid,
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and the ball sailed away and
apparently disappeared in
the sky.
How far did that go?" /
asked.
Maybe 200 yards" he re-
piled, indifferently. Now
you try"
! tried.
| missed the ball, OF
course. and revolved rapidly
several times upon my axis.
/ expected to miss it the first
time; but | didn't expect to
miss it the second time, nor
the third. The fourth time
scooped a piece out OF the
doormat, and the fifth time
| hit the ball. 1t went a short
distance in an oblique direc-
ton.
That was the beginning.
The rest was like unto it, ex-
cept that | dug up the turf
instead of the doormat, and
there were long interludes of
hunting for the ball when l
sent it into the long grass
where the dried dandelion
heads all looked just like 1t.
Jim" Runchey is a pa
tient instructor.
lie said was "dOing
fine" every time I drove the
ball more than 20 feet.
He refrained from COM
ment when 1 putted il over
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08
HETTY GREEN'S WAY
TO LONG LIFE GIVEN
JUST BEFORE SHE DIED

A nice baked onion is the
finest thing in the world for
ones health, and my fond
ness for onions. | believe,
has enabled me to live so
long.
From break fast until the
end of the day | chew a piece
of baked onion. I think it
kills any germs which may
have been in my food. and it
keeps the digestion fine.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08
Girl Fails
I'm Plan 10
Trap Orpet

WAUKEGAN, H., July 8. - A
trap set by States Attorney Dady
and his associate, David r. JOS
Ign, for William Orpet, college
student charged with numbering
Marian Lambert, high school girl,
failed, according to testimony
given by the sister-in-law of &C.
lestia Youker, to whom Orpet
was engaged.
Mrs. Youker admitted that At
torney Joslyn drafted a letter to
Orpet, which Celestia copied with
little change and signed, sending
1t by Mrs. Youlter to Orpet at the
Waukegan jail.
The letter urged him, II he
were guilty, to confess.
Orpet replied:
Dear Celestial: Your letter Is
all bunk. Whatever Joslyn says
is a = - lie am awfully
sorry you fell for it,. Even IL your
faith is not enough to conteract
the states attorneys story, can
|still fight 1t out alone.
Goodbye. then. l am sorry
for the trouble this has caused
you, and am glad you have
showed me this now. Don't come
near here. I've got enough to
stand without having you drag
ged into the papers. | have told
the truth"
Prosecutors fought hard to-
day as the case neared its close,
to break down by rebuttal testi-
money the wall OF evidence build
ed by Orpet's defense about the
theory that Marion Lambert KILL
ed herself.
With the testimony due to end
before night, and closing state
ments to the jury expected early
next week, States Attorney badly
battled to discredit the testimony
of the defense's poison experts
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08
BY Herbert Quick

beautiful Evelyn Hope
Is dead''-anG So is the pro-
gressive party, the beautiful
Evelyn Hope of American
history.
1t was scarcely out of its
swaddling clothes, and it lies here
on its little white cot, with some
devoted souls standing by, still
insisting that 1t lives-but the
sounds which issue from its lips
are not breathing. They are the
cath rattle in its throat.
Who killed IL? History
will say, and In saying will
cover some GREAT NAMES
WITH ETERNAL SHAME.
AS my influencing contribution
to the verdict of history, let me
tell of what took place at the Ma
pie Bluff Farm, the home of Sen
ator Bob La Toilette, at Madison,
Wis, some five or six years ago.
Movement Growing.
Then there was no progressive
party, but powerful progressive
movement in the republican party,
which commanded the sympathy
and aid of many progressive DEM
ocrats. The movement was strong
est In the Middle West and on the
Pacific coast; but it was not
without its witnesses for truth in
every state in the Union.
La Toilette had spent a decade
putting Wisconsin at the head of
the movement by his sturdy rad
icalism, and his sane, sound, dem
ocratic program of legislation. He
had already accomplished SO
much that his Wisconsin achieve
ments alone will give him place
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08
Game of Golf Makes
Worries Disappear

and around the hole eight
times.
He didn't laugh when l
hunted in the bag for the
'stymie" ] thought he was
telling me 10 use.
1 know now that the
"stymie" was a clump of
trees that had somehow got
between me and the flag;
but I'll leave II to any nom
golfer IL ii doesn't sound like
a club.
The only time he even
looked surprised was when
my last shot before the 18th
green went off at n right
angle and hit him on the leg.
] came back to the office,
tired, yet queerly rested too.
] didn't know what had hap
pened to me till | heard the
newsbOys calling, Times!
All About the Terrible
Slaughter at the Sonnet"
and then l realized that I
had forgotten there was war
anywhere in the world, that
/ felt hopeful of a prompt
and permanent settlement of
all labor troubles, and that
earning a living looked like
fun, instead of work.
Last night ], too, dreamed
of golf.
/ dreamed was walking
over a tawny meadow in the
sun and wind, and every
dandeliOn was a golf ball and
i drove every one of them
200 yards.
And one of these days I'm
going to see il / cant sneak
away from the office early
and try IL again.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08

However that may be, the best
thing we can hope for is that
when he returns he will fight us
openly; for II he associates HIM
self with us openly or covertly, he
will either rule us or ruin us
and If he rules us he will surely
ruins"
l cannot tell this story,
even sketchetlly, today. I will
go on with il tomorrow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08
Graham Won't Tell

Despite the most insistent urg-
ings, cajolery and flattery. con-
genial Frank Graham, justice
court judge, refused to divulge
the secrets of either his first
whipping or his worst.
Other than admitting that he
was frequently tanned by both his
mother and his father, Justice
Graham declined to give any en-
tightening details as to the
cause of action.
He did say that his first of anY
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08

for worry, the reserve force of
the body has all been used up.
We hear much of diet these
days. The chief thing to remem-
Der is this:
DO not acquire overweight il
you would acquire length of
years.
Underweights live longer than
overweights. Escaping consump-
tion in early life, the underweight
is fairly safe, while the over
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08
TODAY'S CLEARINGS
MEX Battle RAGING
CONTINUED From Page One. J

Continued From Page One.)
The Villistas left Palomir yes
terday. Smaller groups are Join
ing the band everywhere. They
are reported well armed and well
with plenty of ammuni-
ton.
Army officials believe villa
may succeed In shattering
the attempts to adjust the
differences between the
United States and Mexico.
1t is reported that a bullet
through the back muscles of both
thighs caused Villas wounds, but
that he has now recovered suf-
ficiently to walk with limp.
War department fficials do
not place faith in the reports that
Villa is still alive, but the state
department is less skeptical.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08

Today John d. Rockefeller, the
worlds richest man, is II years
of age.
DIR. II. +. Biggar, ST., of Cleve-
land, who has been ROckefeller's
physician for 25 years, says the
famous oil magnate will live to
be 100 years of age.
Rockefeller is following the
rules of living laid down by DR..
Biggar and the physician gives
these rules in the following arti-
Gle:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08

have had to march to every vic
tory we have won in the past nine
years.
"He has tried to strangle, at
its birth, every progressive move
ment which he could not control.
Why does he want to control
them? Has he any sinister mo-
tive? / will not say, but in all
history there is no instance of a
policy except for sinister
motives,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08
Death List
Nay Be 100

BILOXI, Miss, July S.-Tne
loss of life in the hurricane that
swept the Gulf coast Wednesday
and Thursday is expected to reach
more than 100, according to re-
ports reaching here today.
Scores of schooners carrying
more than 100 persons are still
for.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08

official advices report Villa lead
ing 1900 men and advancing on
Parral. 1t is reported that villa
evacuated Jiminez, which was
captured two days ago, and cut
the communication lines north of
Parral.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08

Don't understand that our
family drank champagne. A
friend of the family gave US the
basket. My father put couple
of rockers under 1t and there ]
slept until that time arrived when
l was able to stand the many
spankings which because of their
frequency appear to me now as
a blur" he concluded,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-07-08
The Assassination of the
Progressive Party, Age 4

The first of four articles in
which Herbert Quick, who knows
politics from A to u, tells one
version of the inside story of the
death of the progressive party,
born four years ago and just laid
TO rest.-EDITOR.