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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
THE sKIRTED MEN IN CHINA

Homer Croy, in Leslies.
 1 Men in China wear skirts. Their skirts are in garment that reaches from their shoulders to their shins and looks like a night gown worn by Cape Cod deacon. It has a tasty slit up each side, so that on muddy crossings the twinkle of mas- culine ankles may be seen. When they want to catch a car they have to gather up their skirts in the good old-fashioned feminine way Under their skirts they wear a pair of drawers, fastened at the ankles with a bandage, with the ends tucked in When a Chinaman has an important letter or note to carry he unites the leg of his drawers, stuffs it in and puts the bandage back. The bandage works loose, so that when he reaches his destination the note is usually gone.
 The only pockets Chinaman has are in his shirtwaist, which he wears under his skirt, so that when he wants to get a dime he has to unbutton one side and slip in hand. Even though a China man wears skirts he has not yet learned about the First National Bank"
 The Chinese are a great nation to think of the handy little things-things that no other people in the world could pos sibly think of. You can run out onto the street almost any time and buy an ear tickler. Men make a living going around selling them. An ear ticker is little puff of cotton on the end of a stick and is meant to combine both business and pleasure-the business of cleaning the ear and the pleasure of the tickling sensation.
 His is not an easy life, for the peddler has to be constantly on the watch against tricky people who come up, sample his ticklers, give their ears a couple of good tingles tell the man that they don't like his brand of tickler and go on their way. His ingenuity has developed a way of polishing up the ticker so that the next possible purchaser may not know that the tickler has been weighed and found wanting, by carrying along a little bowl of white powder. After a ticker has been sampled and declined he dabs the end into the bowl and it is bright and fresh looking as if it were new. If you went to buy one you couldn't tell for the life of you but that it was a new one-until you had used it a time or two.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

Cuba. He loves Cuba. He would be . free Cuban. He would have Cuba free. But he fears the Yankees: does not quite trust them; remembers and resents the airs they gave themselves when they were over here; and so he will not even learn to speak their language.
 To him tourism is a commodity to be saddled with all the traffic will bear. He never expects the tourist to come again. Hence the cheating and the chur Sihness. I dare say time will bring in some amendment. There will come a re- action. The Cuban will learn to shape his season for larger returns by making the Pearl of the Antilles the Riveria of the Mediterranean of the west. The fools in Florida learned that lesson quite while ago. They discovered that in the long run highway robbery is not profit able. The natives will find that out in Cuba. At length, under protest, English is being taught in the public schools. That is a step ahead. Meanwhile it is a dread of return of the Yankees that keeps the peace among the factions for the Latin-A American is by nature a reyo- lutionist.
 They hold a presidential election this year and as consequence Cuban poli- tics are in ferment 1t is dollars to doughnuts that Menocal, the President, will be reelected. He calls himself conservative, and rides high horse. Th0 army is his. Hence those who describe themselves as liberals are suggesting Yankee supervision of the voting. After the election they may try to stir up revolt among the negroes half breeds and creoles who constitute the liberal party If they do the likelihood is that they will be suppressed before Uncle Sam can get here.
 Menccal has something of the Diaz about him. He is a Cornell graduate crossed on a cold steel Castilian stock, shining and suaye of the surface. sav- age in; gristle, blood and bone. Hell have no free nigger tricks from any body said one of his friends, suges planter from Texas describing him to me the other day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
Romance on the Sea
amount.

The mysterious but nevertheless highly spectacular manner in which the British liner Appam was captured by a German commerce raider and brought into the neutral port of Nor folk under her own steam while com paratively handful of Germans dom mated shipload of prisoners, is an- other exploit which cannot but awak- en admiration for the highly efficient Teutons. It is an achievement that equals any adventure the writers of sea tales could imagine, and even the British will have to admit that their foes have shown splendid daring in successfully eluding both British and French warships while bringing theil prize into port.
 The most interesting feature of the case is the identity Of the commerce raider which captured the Appam. It is not definitely known what became of the Karlsruhe, reported number of times as either wrecked or sunk. It is now believed that the cruiser was wrecked somewhere in the West In dies and it is thought that part ol the ships armament was transferred to some other vessel, probably con verted merchantmen. which has added
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
HOW GERMAN INFANTRY ATTACKS

From the New Republic.
 The German attack goes up in three parallel and widely separated lines. These lines are deployed like sllirmishers, about five yards between each man. They all advance on the run. The second line runs faster than the first and the third line faster than the second. The effect of this is to bring these men, when almost upon the enemy, shoulder to shoulder. But mark that point, when almost upon the enemy. When crossing the zone to fire the Germans were not shoulder to shoul> der and did not afford any massed tar
 get. They were in three rushing lines,
 and units of which were widely separated,
 and by their trick of giving each line a different speed of advance, they were all
 brought together for that one terrific
 moment just before the bayonets get in their work, when it is most disconcerting for the enemy to face such mass of men. Thees charging lines are fed by reserves kept in column formation until they are deployed and sent across the zone of fire for a second triple wave of charging men.
 When the English were cut to pieces at Mons their infantry fought they did in the Boer war. They fought with the un- conditional extended order. On a thou | sand yards of front the men were about l five yards apart; that meant 200 rifles in action. Upon this came the three rushing | lines of Germans POO rifles in the first | lines, POO in the second 20 in the third. l When they were almost upon their enemy i they were 6O0 rifles bazing to the English 200, That meant fire superiority of three
 to one; that meant annihiation or re-
 treat As one Tommy has put it, q had
 a machine gun, you know. A row of German helmets comes up over the hill We was pepperlng the beggars. Up comes the second line. We peppers that when up comes the third. It got damned dis CCura ging. know. '"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
VARIABLE WEATHER

A little while soft breezes blew
 And all the world was fair, We walked the streets as strollers do, Thought spring was in the air; Laid by the heavy overcoats,
 The mufflers and the wraps, Forgot to swathe our tender throats And said, Ere long, perhaps, We'll make our glad vacation plans To frolic by the sea And trip with lovely Mary Anns,
 As lightsome as can be- Then winter roared in angry might And shook his hoary mane Came rushing back to chill and blight And dashed our hopes again
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
THE SALT OF THE EARTH

B. Algernon Charles Swinburne. If childhood were not in the world, But only men and wosncn grown; No baby locks in tendrils curled, No baby blossoms blown; Though men were stronger, women fairer. And nearer all delights in reach, And verse and music uttered rarer Tones of more godlike speech; Though the utmost life of life's best
 hours
 Found, as it cannot now find, words; Though desert sands were sweet as
 flowers,
 And flowers could sing like birds; But children never heard them never They felt child's foot leap and run This were a drearier star than ever Yet looked upon the sun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
AN AUTHORITY

Know anything about shooting stars?' asked the first traveller.
 T should say sol" answered the sec- ond traveller, who was chiefly conspicu- ous for his large diamond stickpin q managed one in vaudeville for seven years. When that little woman took her rifle and played The Star-Spangled Ban ner' on musical target it never failed to bring down the house."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
WHERE FAT ONES FLIT

From the Richmond Times-Dlspatch
 San Antonio will turn loose 1000 mos Guito-eatinG bats about the middle Of February If they can keep on the wing until they reach New Jersey, they Will never go back to Texas. They can get enough mosquitoes in Jersey the first meal to last them all of their lives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

Cuba now has monnetary system of its own for the first time in it's history. More
 than $12OO0,OOO of the new coinage is in
 circulation all of which was turned out
 in the United States, the same machines
 being used that make American coins h.
 cidentally, Uncle Sam manufacturers
 money in large quantities for republics
 of the western hemisphere, as few of them
 have hints of their own. In the case of
 Cuba, however America has for the first
 time supplied not only the coinage itself,
 but the monetary system as well. Work
 of striking off the Cuban coins was be-
 dephia mint, and has continued ever
 since. The metallic fineness of Cuban coins is identical with that of United
 States coins. The gold dollar is the unit
 and the American dollar sign has even
 been exported by Uncle Sam for Cuban use. The 1 and scent pieces and dimes in the two systems exactly correspond, but the Cubans have no quarters" or halves the places of these coins being taken by 20 and 40-cent pieces. By eX- ecutive decree the new coinage is made the only money that can be circulated in Cuba except American money. The money of France, Spain and the United States, with a sprinkling of coins from other countries, used to circulate in the island and caused endless confusion. Most of to be melted down to the standard fine !, ness and recast in the United States for i the Cuban government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
quarter.

pam was captured by Germans and brought into an American port remind one that the Teuts have furnished most of the naval color stories of the present war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
SMITHS kNOW HOW IT IFS

From the Kansas City. Star,
 All the smiths who have been through it and know the annoyance will heartily support the state department in it's pro test to Great Britain over the opening of American mails.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
ROBERTS MAKING GOOD

Washington Correspondence Andalusia
 Star.
 Hugh Roberts of the Birmingham Age Herald is making good' here. No one writer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

Birminghams commissioners should consider that the proposed measures for street tax and liquor inspection fees may prove to be the kind of laws that are loaded with dynamite.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

John Colgan, said to have been the first States, died in Louisville He did great deal to strengthen the jaws of the na- tinn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lord, let nothing come out of yesterday into this day except courage anu strength, Close mp the failure anu sin and make them as if they haa moi been. Let the stain of the old and the power of the old De deau aud forgotten. I walk today with Thee new creature. Amen'- Il. M. F..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
A FOOLISH NOTION

'"The critics say the last act of our play falls flat" remarked the manager
 "Hum,' said the "angel,' can't you put in few of those props hear you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
TIT FOR TAT

From the NashviIIe Banner.
 Villa says Carranza is conniving at the murder of Americans to put him in bad and Carranza says Villa is com niving at the murder of Americans to put him in bad. Quite likely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
IDEAL ARRANGEMENT

How is the 'uplift' working in this community asked the visitor.
 Fine" answered the old resident
 But, isn't there any friction?"
 "None to speak of The uplifters seem to get lot of satisfaction out of trying neighbors are willing to indulge them within reasonable bounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

Congratulations to Cash Register" Pat terson The government has decided to let him go about his business in peace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

Several blunders by trainmen have shown President Wilson the uncertainties of travel on American railroads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

The revival of the chemical blonde is announced. Was there any particular demand for her?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

What's the use of complaining? We can't have picnic weather the whole year around, even in Dixie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
NOT HIS FAULT

You are so jealous of our national honor said the first statesman in the heat of debates t'that am constrained to ask you where you were during the Spanish American war;"
 At the head of my regiment sir"
 'Tn Cuba?'
 "Ahem! No sir. We only got as far as Miami"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

President Wilson says he finds the cen tral west more interested in preparedness than he had been led to believe. Still, a great many people who heard his speeches were more interested in seeing the Presi- dent than in his plans for preparedness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

You have to look twice at a theatrical advertisement these days to see whether a noted star is coming to town in the flesh or in celluloid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

"Marse" Henry Watterson finds Cuba an ideal place from which to study pol itics in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

Asking a man to fight for his hearth and home is in rather poor taste when he happens to have neither.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

Persons of nervous temperament will find that a cat show is much less dis turbing than a dog show. Cats keep quiet, but dogs don't.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
JUST TO HELP OUT

well. Well!" exclaimed MT. Dubson into a railroad station carrying two large
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

At any rate, the critics are agreed on small for any except movie battles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

The Kaiser is 57 years old, but he looks considerably older War is no respecter of persons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

Selma Journal: Birmingham is talking about taxing whisky and bachelors. You may tax the booze, but you cannot tax a bachelor because he is unwed. He may not be to blame for it, even in leap year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

Dothan Eagle: It's all right for Pres ident Wilson to let cotton go down now, the farmers have about sold out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

London may as well decide to take the Zeppelins seriously. They are no longer a joke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES

suitcases. Going away on the choo-
 choo?"
 "Oh, mo-" answered the acquaintance, in sarcastic tone. My sole idea in buying a railway ticket and hastening hither with all the baggage I could stag
 ger under was merely to increase the stir and hustle of this great city,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
ALABAMA PRESS

Gadsden Journal: A Pennsylvania poli- tician died, following debate. Dreadful warning to, some Alabamians
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
SLIM PICKING

What do you gather from today war news?'
 "Oh, nothing much except three or four proper names I'll have to look up in a gazetter."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

Montgomery Advertiser Roosevelt says Wilson puts dollar above honor''- Headline. But the colonel knows that this is not so, and he is mad because it is not so. Were it so the colonel would have a real issue. The colonel grows maddest with the President when the col ore, contempates the Presidents strict construction of his ethical duty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

Huntsville Mercury: The Birmingham
 city commissioners are considering an ordinance putting a tax of s5 on all males
 of voting age who pay no other taxes. This will catch the fellow who is too stingy to pay poll tax, and serves him right
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second class matter un- der act of Congress March 5. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

L. D. Griffis and w. D. Brumbeloe are the only authorized travellng repre- sentatlves of The Age Herald h it's cir eulation department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

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Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1916-01-13
RIOTERS ATTEMPT
To BURN OHIO CITY
REIGN OF TERROR PREVAILS IN
OHIO CITY FOLLOW
STRIKE OF LABORERS.
Four Men Killed. Nineteen Wounded
and Fifteen City Blocks 5Grned
With an Estimated Less
of 100000.

Youngstown. O.-Four men were
killed. nineteen persons. including 4
woman. wounded. fifteen city blocks
were burned with a loss eStima ed At
100000 and state troops We're called
out to restore order as the result OF
rioting in East Youngstown following
4 battle between a crowd OF strike
sympathizers and armed guards AZ
the plant Of the Youngstown Sheet X
Tube company. Friday night
Two rioters were killed in saloon
fight, one was shot and killed while
attempting TO loot 4 store and an
other when he smashed a window Of
4 saloon.
The trouble was the elimination OF
A strike OF laborers which began At
The plant OF the Republic Iron X Steel
company week ago. and spread TO
the plants OF the tube company. the
Youngstown Iron x Steel company
and the Brier Hill Steel company. all
independent concerns. The men
demand % cents an hour; the COM
panies offer an increase from 1912 TO
- cents per hour.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1916-01-13
Hairs of Rock Plants.

In a certain issue of the English
publication, knowledge, there is a
short paper on the hairs of rock
plants, by X. E. Styan. The glandula,
hairs of the Saxifrage are described
The three types of hairs dealt with
are the silky or woolly hairs of the
Edelweiss and the like; the stellate
hairs which form felted covering to
many leaves. as in Aubretias and Alys.
sums, and the glandular, which may
occur alone or in conjunction with
one of the other types. The hairs are
mainly protective against atmospheric
conditions. but the glandular hairs
may in some cases serve to attract in
sects.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1916-01-13
FAVORS ANNEXATION
Of PART OF MEXICO
MOVEMENT is LAUNCHED BY
VARIOUS COMMERCIAL ORGAN
lZATlONS OF ARIZONA.
Would Straigthen the Southern
Boundary OF Arizona and Give
California Strip Of Lower
California.

Phoenix. Aria movement launch.
ed by various commercial organiza-
ions OF the state to secure the an
neXation. virtually by purchase. OF
sufficient land from Mexico to extend
the boundary of Arizona and Califor-
MIA to the Gulf OF California had been
turthereG by Governor George W. p.
Hunt. who announced Tuesday that
he had written TO Governor Hiram W.
johnson OF California. asking coop
Grafton
An offer on the part OF the United
States to cancel all indemnity claims
for loss OF life and damage TO prop.
erty during the Mexican revolution in
return for this land which would
straighten the southern boundary
line OF Arizona and give California a
strip OF Lower California. is the plan
OF leaders of the movement.
It has been pointed out by those
Interested in the plan that such an
annexation OF territory would give
Arizona port on the Gulf OF Cali
fornia and also bring under American
control the mouth OF the Colorado
river and the entire Imperial valley
irrigation system. with many thou
sands Of acres OF agricultural land in
the Mexican territory OF Lower Cali
fOrnia.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1916-01-13
WITNESS HAD GOOD MEMORY
Put One over on the Sarcastic Youo,
Lawyer.

The witness had finished his testi.
mony and had been turned OVER 10 Mn.
opposing counsel for crosscxamina.
ton
You seem to remember even the
most trihing details OF This trsu.ac.
ton pretty we'll. considering THAT il
took place six months ago remarked
the lawyer sarcastically
Yes" replied the witness 4 have
a good memory"
You say you have sad the law.
yer. but propose TO put this non.
dertul memory OF yours 20 a test Can
you tell me what you We're doing Al
i've minutes past ON the morning OF
December 3. l9l4?"
Yes, sir" was the prompt answer.
Il was running TO catch the SO7
train
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1916-01-13
PUZZLED
Hard, Sometimes, to Raise Children

Children's taste is ofttimes more
accurate, in selecting the right kind OF
food to fit the body. than that of adults.
Nature works more accurately through
the children.
A Brooklyn lady says: Our little boy
had long been troubled with weak
digestion. We could never persuade
him to take more than one taste of
any kind of cereal food. He was
weak little chap and we were puzzled
to know what to feed him on.
One lucky day we tried Grape-Nuts
Well, you never saw a child eat with
such a relish, and 1t did me good to
see him. From that day on 1t seemed
as though we could almost see him
grow. He would eat Grape-Nuts for
breakfast and supper. and / think he
would have liked the food for dinner.
The difference in his appearance
is something wonderful.
My husband had never fancied
cereal foods of any kind. but he be.
came very fond of Grape-Nuts and has
been much improved in health since
using IT,
We are now healthy family and
naturally believe in Grape-Nuts.
"A friend has two children who were
formerly afflicted with ricketts,. | was
satisfied that the disease was caused
by lack of proper nourishment. The
children showed it. So | urged her
to use Grape-Nuts as an experiment
and the result was almost magical.
They continued the food and to-
day both children are as well and
strong as any children in this city,
and, of course. my friend is firm be-
lever in Grape-Nuts, for she has the
evidence before her eyes every day."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time TO time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.