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The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-03-24

walter Lee Sessions died at st.
Vincent's hospital shortly before Is
O'Clock yesterday afternoon after an
illness of one week Mr. Sessions
underwent an operation last Sunday
for gall stones and was reported as
doing we'll until late Friday night
when he developed acute pneumonia,
His condition rapidly became more
serious during yesterday and his rel
atives were summoned to his bedside.
An attack of hiccoughs, which could
not be checked probably FASTENED
the end.
THE funeral will be conducted
from the family residence, 1880
Fairyiew avenue, this afternoon at
s. $50 o'clock. Interment will be in
Elmwood cemetery. The pallbearers
will be:
Honorary, Col. T. o. Smith, T. Fl
Motion, l.. b. Musgrove, f. M. Jack
son, r. NJ. Goodall, J. II. Barr, N
w. Scott, M e. Morris, James ]
Smith, Senator Frank S. White, Gen
Bibb Graves, Donald Conner, b. A
lnglis C. J. Palmer, Charles e. Rice
and John b. Weakley.
Active: Borden Burr, George II
Estes, George b. Tarrant, Henry
Fits, l. c.. Beatty, John 7. Yetman
Dr. Felix L. Tarrant, c. T. Randall
J. viii Moore and r. w Ewing.
Mr. Sessions was one of the hes
known men in Alabama and hat
been prominent in business, religion
and political affairs for the past de
cade He was the state agent of tn
Prudential Life Insurance compan.
and was connected with other bust
ness enterprises. He was an activ
member of the Methodist church, hat
been steward in the church 70
many years and was superintendent
of the Sunday school of st. John
church, of which he was member
Mr.. Sessions was one of the orig
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-03-24
Saturday, April 1st.
Mutual Film Corporation presents.
WILLIAM S. HART
The Darkening Trair'
A Mntnal Mastar pin4,

VIM. ). Hart has great chance to dis
play has talents as the rough diamond Of
tne Alaskan gold fields in this picture
himself In love with the belle of the Yn-
kon district he compels the young East
erner who has won her heart to MARI
her when she has become infatuated with
his city manners.
Inc husband later forsakes his bride
ana spends his time in riotous dissipation.
me story Is full of action and will tho.
roughly entertain the patrons of the
Strand next Saturday.
ALSO
A Good Comedy.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-03-24
ST. JAMES CHURCH NEWS.

The services will continue at the
hours published heretofore They
are daily at p. m, except on Wed
nesdays and Thursdays. We call
special attention to the Wednesday
night service as being convenient for
men who are attending to their own
business during the day. This will
also be of use to teachers and stu
dents in the Church School
On Sunday the services will be at
II a m. and 1880 p. IN.
The Bishop comes on April End at
| l o'clock. That provides an oppor-
tunity for those to confess Christ |
publicly who have never done SO. |
This Laying-on-of-H Hands is of such
ancient usage, and of such Scriptu-
raj authority that it might be of in
terest to some to refer to some pass
ages bearing upon it. 1t will be of
use to do so in this order: Reading
Hebrews, Chap. 6, VS.. to 4. Acts
/ VS. to 8. Acts 8, VS.. II to II.
Acts 10, VS.. l to 7.
The Confirmation service will be
found on page 273 of the Book of
Common Prayer. 1t is really for the
renewal and confirming of the VOWS
made in Baptism by ones parents
and sponsors, when he received that
sacrament. He has come of an age
to take these vows upon himself and
of his own volition to declare that
he is a Christian.
The regular meeting Of the Trail
breakers will be Monday next.
the conduct of campaigns in other
states
cone of Mr.. Sessions most intimate
+ and devoted friends was F. NJ. Jack
son, who was deeply affected by his
| friends sudden death. 1T was a
| shock to me when he had to undergo
an operation last Sunday" said Mr..
! Jackson last night. Then we were
! all 50 pleased when he stood it 50
we'll and were elated later in the
week when he seemed to improve so
rapidly. Now comes the greatest
shock of all | simply cannot realize
that Walter Sessions is dead 1t is a
terrible blow Birmingham Age
Herald.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-03-24
REVIEW

nv IISIltI NS'lu : dlI-
deur of Alpine surround
ings form the background
for Marguerite Clarke $
appearance in a notable
Famous Players Para
mount Picture, "Out Of
the Drifts, tale of the
eternal SHOWS, Of avalan-
ches, dizzy heights and
yaWning chasms. But the
battle against the ele-
ments is not the only one
in which the adorable Fd-
nous Players star is pit
ted against a powerful adj
versary. She is a simple,
umsophisticated little
Shepherdess whose inno-
cence and beauty arouse
in Il dissolute visitor at
the village which is her
home, the lowest impulse
of his nature. But the
very righteousness which
leads her into this trap
proves her salvation, for
it in turn awakens a sense
of shame and repentance
in the man, who, as a
result thoroughly changes
his mode of life and makes
himself worthy of her
truest love. Although the
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-03-24
Wednesday, March 18th
Jesse L. Lasky Presents
FANNIE WARD.
In perturbation of
"TenneSSee's Pdrdner"

Produced by Lasky Feature Play Co.
Released on the Paramount Program.
The glamor of the day that belonged on
Iy to Forty miners is strongly in evi-
dence in this Paramount production.
The characters might have stepped bod
lily out of the pages Of Bret Harte and the
story that they unfold is one that YOU Will
enjoy to the utmost
Fannie Ward appears in an entirely DIFF
fercnt role from what you have hereto
fore seen her in, but her reputation as an
actress does not suffer from the compari
son.
Many exciting Incidents attend the for
tunes and misfortmes of this waif of the
plains, and you will follow her viscissi
tudeS with interest and pleasure.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
THE SANDWICH

From the Boston Transcript.
Lord Sandwich, who died, and the ham
sandwich and the sandwich men of the
street, and Sandwich, Barnstable county,
Mass, are all bound up together. Queer
how it should be So The papers already
have told how the sandwich, an article of
food got it's name from the fourth Earl
Sandwich, because he was such an invet-
crate card player that he could not take
time to eat his meals, and had bread
brought to him with meat between the
slices at the card table. But Lord Sand
which was called Lord Sandwich because
the first Earl Sandwich, back in 1860
chose to take his title from the ancient
town of Sandwich, in Kent. Fine old
place-greatest place for golf in England
When some people came to New England
in 1889 and started a village down on the
cape near the sea, they bethought them
selves of Sandwich in old England, which
lay just that way, and called their village
Sandwich. That accounts for Sandwich,
and Lord Sandwich, and the sandwiches
And the sandwich man is just a poor
wretch with an advertising board hung
on each side of him, the human meat
Cor bone in the middle, just as it was
in Lord SANDWICHES hasty meal at the
card table. So all the sandwiches are
present and accounted for.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
ABOLISH "vICEs SQUAD"
the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
AS usual, New York's present police
scandal starts with the ''vice squad"
And the conjunction of the two last words
suggests the real cause Of the trouble
with many other police departments.
There should be no such thing in any
police force as a permanent vice squad"
Men assigned to this duty are necessarily
thrown in contact with the most degraded
class in every community, and, no mat
ter how earnestly they strive to hold
themselves aloof, the effect of long con-
tinued association must, in many cases,
seep through to their evil.
They are charged with a duty filled
with stronger and fercer temptations
than any other to which mere human
men are ever called, and these tempta-
tons continue day after day, night after
night To their hands, in every large
city, are held out innumerable possibili-
ties, begging to be taken. And long tried
humanity, at it's best, is weak and sub
iect to fall While their fellows direct
traffic. patrol the streets. conserve the
peace and track thieves, they must spend
their lives amid hideous influences and
in a blaze of temptation.
The system Is bad for the community.
harmful to the force and unfair to the
men thus set apart.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
LIFE IN THE HAREM

tails hide and maintain their many wives.
The children born in harems are kept
there and carefully nursed by their
mothers. Therefore the death rate in
these refugees is very small.
Conversation in the harems are car
ried on SO that the children do not I'M
derstand what is said in their presence,
and as the children are always under spe-
cial care of their mothers, servants have
no opportunity to teach such children
things they should not know"
There is nothing in this that is not
known by everyone who is even slightly
acquainted with eastern customs But
the mob in every country is almost wholly
ignorant of the customs of every other
country. For that reason it is easy for
company of professional dancers to per-
suade some quantity of barren specta-
tors" that depletion of revery conceived
in Petrograd, Paris, London or New
York by dancers who know nothing of
the east is art as we'll as amusement
for the public.
The police are not always wrong in con-
demning as indecency, and as bunk"
exhibitions that depend for popularity
upon their salaciousness, and defend their
moral tone by insisting that they are
highly artistic studies of life.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
Centralize the Fight on Disease

For the general public the most important lesson be drawn
from the health recommendations of DR. Carol Fox the federal
health expert is the Importance of cooperation If Brng
ham and Jefferson county be made healthy places live
Birmingham, Jefferson county and Bessemer must work to-
gether
One citizen may keep his premises perfect from sanitary
standpoint but careless neghbor make his useless
To make Birmingham thoroughly sanitary Jefferson county
must be sanitary and vice Public health essentially
community problem Every citizen has duty perform and
when either in county city declines to do his part there
be such Capitalization of authority that he be
PEELED for his safety and that of his neghbos
The expense involved in Dr. Foxs plans bagatele com
pared to the good to be accomplished.
The main thing is that there be cooperation between county
and cty-a shoulder effort which will rid forever
the stigma of annually recurring outbreaks of preventabe
diseases.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
HOTEL LOBBIES
War Predictions

There have been so many predictions
made as to the time the European war
vii! end that it is absurd for one to prog
nosticate at this time" said Tom Burks
of the Motion hotel. For my part l am
willing to be content to believe in the pre-
diction made by the late Earl Kitchener.
AT the beginning of the war Lord
Kitchener was quick to warn the allied
forces that the war would not be fought
in short while. He stated that in his
opinion it would last three years, and
that all the resourcefulness of the allied
troops and commanders would be neces-
sary to defeat the central powers. Since
the recent victories of the allies we hear
daily prediction that the war will end
within given period. The defeat of
Germany, if she is defeated, will be a
matter of many more months. The slow
strangulation of that nation and the
vigilant blockade which will force her
to privation, 1 believe will be the means
employed by the allies to accomplish
their purpose"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
MEN AND FASHIONS

IOLl tlo lcleSIdH
Our sartorial friends of the Information
al Custom Cutters association have met
this week and fashioned mems clothes for
1917. If you are concerned in mems dress
it will interest you to know that the
popular color for next year will be pur-
plish green. Also it will be of a pinkish
hue. Likewise it will be white and cream
color and blue and gray. The prediction
of the president of the association that
the we'll dressed man of next year may
be mistaken for an over-grown chame-
leon" appears reasonable.
There Is, of course, the comforting
thought remaining that while fashioning
mems clothes may be a delightful prac-
tice in theory it causes no fluttering of
the average victim. He knows that a
small minority Of his fellow men will
adopt fashions decree and accep. what
ever is just right in color or cut. These
are the well dressed" men whom he
knows but does not envy. He realizes
that he may make some slight concession
in his next years suit because his tailor
tells him he should, but in general his
suit will be blue or black or gray or
striped or checked just as it is this year
and was last year and year and year be-
fore and will not be essentially differ
ent in cut from the suit he wore the
first year Bryan ran for President. If he
departs from the routine and invests in
white suit it'll be because the suit is
comfortable and not because it is more
stylish.
One of the big mysteries in life is
whether woman envies or merely feels
sorry for the average man in his hope
less disregard of fashions decree.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09

Philadelphia, August 7.-(Special)-Can
a citizen volunteer for training in the
duties of the United States marine corps
holding himself in readiness to take the
place of regular marine killed in war
be properly termed a submarine?
That is what the rockies" now at the
marine corps training camp in Lansdowne
Pa, would like to know
Friends Of the citizen sea soldiers
are telling them that marine. not
regularly marine, although coached In
the signals and likely to be called upon
to pinch hit" for regular marine
must necessarily be a submarine.
The rockies themselves say that
Noah Webster overlooked this knotty
problem when he wrote his best seller
and they are calling on sport editors
to decide the question.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
DEATHS TOO STRICTLY CENSORED

Cora Harris in the New York lndepen-
dent.
The valley, Georgia-If ever have time
to relax from the hard labor of living
and come down upon my bed to die in
this valley, I ask nothing better of my
neighbors than that they will care enough
for me to watch the night through with
me before the gates. ! prefer it to the
conventional passing now in vogue where
a pussyfooting trained nurse runs every
body out of the house.
I would not be deprived of those last
hours of companionship with my own
kind I should have more courage with
which to face the uncertainties of my
Immortality escorted by my familiar NOR
tai kind. l might have something to say,
and if I did, I'd wish to say it to real
folk, not to doctor and a trained nurse,
who would be sure to think 1 did not
know what l was saying, because they
are accustomed to deal with the flesh,
not the spirit.
Death in my opinion is altogether too
strictly censored in polite society. Both
the passing and the living should be
given more freedom of expression.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09

KA/ city last year ''Idded fea-
w ture of stage dancing pro-
gramme called "a Night in a Harem"
there was much wrathful criticism Of in
reference with art. 1t came chiefly from
those who were expecting box office re-
ceipts. A critic representing a newspaper
and not concerned with the venture as a
business enterprise, dropped the observa-
ton that the occurrences depicted on the
stage We're not, perhaps, in any degree
like the occurrences in the home of a
gentleman in the Orient.
Dorothea Schumacher, writing for Uebef
Land Und Mase, predicts that the Turks
never will give up the harem and it's Gus
toms and conventions. "It would be the
end of the culture of the Orient
The following description of the harem
is given
1.-THE harem is home for women men,
bers of the family, widowed mothers, old
maids, aunts and others of the family
branch. Even old servants unfit for
further service, are taken into the harem
THE word harem means holy place,
a protected home, and not what is false
ly understood, place where rich Orien-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
A RIG FERRY

From the New York Telegram.
Railway car ferry service Is now run
ming between Key West and Havana OPP
Grated by the Peninsular and Occidental
Steamship line. This car ferry has IA
cilitates for carrying 80 standard size
American freight cars and furnishes
daily service between the ports. Freight
in full carload lots Is handled expe-
ditiously and safely. Sugar and molasses
cars are loaded at the Cuban mills and
forwarded through to destination, while
heavy machinery from the United States
is loaded at the place of manufacture and
shipped through to its Cuban destina-
ton without transfer. The handling OF
fruit and vegetables for the northern
markets has also been greatly facilitated
by this service
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
LOVE IN "ZEPPELIN"

George Sylvester Viereek, Songs of Ar
mageddon." (Mitchell- Kennerley)
Below us rolled the earth. We were
Like clouds above the dust and din.
We heard ST. Peters violin,
For Heavens gate drew near us there:
We rode upon the Zeppelin,
The strong-ribbed dolphin of the air.
A magic carpet was the plain,
Men crawled like ants that seemed to
doze.
A thousand poplars stood in rows,
Like soldiers marching in lane.
Your mouth, the envy of the rose,
Drank In the sunshine like champagne.
And then the glass grew bright for us
With wine. Like happy boy and maid
We drank to all hearts unafraid
Who bravely walk the perilous
Ways of the air to shame the shade
OF Phaethon and Icarus.
Leander for his Loves sake hurled
Himself into the deep. but
More blest than Hero's lover, fly
Above green meads dew-bepearled,
While at my side | clasp on high
The fairest lady in the world.
Gods lifted finger looms a spire.
And now the citys windows CLEAN.
Our shadow races with the stream
And still the ship climbs high and higher
But not SO high as scars my dream,
But not so swift as my desire.
My lady laughs. o Cruel One:
All ships pay toll unto the sea,
But I can build craft for thee,
That earth itself shall not outrun,
And lift on wings of melody
My hearts desire to the sun.
All ships pay toll unto the sea,
Death sounds the last bell Of delight;
Like the earth earthly and the night.
Loves pleasant face at last shall be:
But she who shares a poets flight
May share his Immortality.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
From the Boston Herald.

TOM the Boston I1eTdlu
A the count of deaths in the wild
~ fire that has blackened northern
\ Ontario increases day by day-its
total has already reached 425-many are
asking under what extraordinary circum-
stances so large number of persons, IA
niiliar with the region and with the ways
of fire in grass, brush and forest, could
have met the tortures of their sudden
death. The answer is not hard to find,
now that the few survivors have told
their stories.
Picture a wide sweep of country, as
large as Massachusetts east of Worces-
ter, not crowded with cities and netted
close with every means of communiea-
tion but still in the days of it's first
settlement, dotted with scattered clear
ings, lonely camps, little villages; and
for the rest either covered with forests
or choked with a tindery overgrowth of
weeds and grass, drying among stumps
and slash or the fallen trees killed in
older fires, like the Porcupine burn that
killed SO persons five years ago last
month. Picture a single railroad, with a
single branch, cutting this territory from
corner to corner, ties and trestles ready
to burn. Note an occasional stream or
muddy bottomed lake. Notice the narrow
trails and woodroads, with hardly any
where a well travelled highway. Now let
the sun, over all the region. redden with
with the drifting smoke from trivial
brushfires, harmlessly eating at the un-
dergrowth here and there. unfeared-and
you have the quiet scene of the impend-
ing tragedy.
Down on these listless fires and their
endless fuel. suddenly there swept gale,
without warning from weather map or
look Of the sky. In a moment, every
where, the wind was driving flame
through grass and brush, across clearings
and waste land, into village and camp
and tall timber, by leap and leap; in
catching ahead and yet ahead, the fire
continually multiplied its fury, until from
hundreds of square miles, all blazing to-
gether, the gale drove the smoke and
burning gases across the country as if
turned itself to fire. AS one woman de-
scribed it, the air itself seemed to burn.
This onrush the gale swept against woods
and farms and settlements as cane
weaver's blowtorch drives its flame
against the vanishing fuzz Of his weav-
ing.
According to those who saved them
selves in lake and mudhole, or who owe
their lives to some freak of the flames,
whole villages seemed to kindle at the
same instant. OF 300 inhabitants at Nush-
ka, only four are known to be alive.
Flai.As reached across 300 feet of water
without noticing the gap; they twisted
forward 900 feet high above the treetops;
pools and smaller streams Of water they
sucked bare. Swinging free from their
fuel, the flaming gases burned flocks and
herds and people budding in the center
OF open fields they suffocated the refu.
gees in roothouses underground. Between
the clay sides of one railroad cut lay 81
men. women and children. singed and
cbarred.
When fire comes in such a whirlwind
it's cruelty in detail Is hard to believe
A mother snatches up in her arms hel
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
An Optimistic View

1.-THE people of Perry county were nit
hard by the floods, but they are looking
forward to the future with optimism, and
believe that there is yet chance to
make fairly good crops" said G. H.
Greer, editor of the Marion Standard,
who left Birmingham yesterday after
few days visit here
''Of course, the boil weevil had prac-
tically destroyed the cotton, and the
heavy rains made it even worse, and we
were not seriously concerned by the loss
of cotton planted. However, along the
river and creek bottoms much corn and
other food crops had been planted and
are a total loss. The sediment from tAe
flood waters Is about eight inches IN
depth, am told, and will make an ex-
cellent place for the planting of a new
crop. We believe that everything Is not
dark, Notwithstanding the loss of our
crops, and intend to come back strong
and raise more than ever.
Perry county is out of quarantine on
the cattle tick and one of our cattle
breeders last week sold one bull for $7Oo.
The farmers are devoting more and more
attention to cattle raising and this will
be a great source Of revenue in a very
short time
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
A CRUDE IMITATION

"A OROOE lll IAl1ON
II thought I saw you playing golf yes
terday."
Il judge you observed me from a dis
tance," replied the amateur.
Yes. I passed the links on a neighbour
ing highway"
Just as I surmised. Nobody within 300
feet Of me thought I was playing golf.