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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
Gridiron Prospects

''The announcement of the first gridiron
 practice for the 1916 season carries a large amount of interest to lovers of foot
 ball." said Dr. James E. Dedman yester-
 day. "The coming football season prom
 ses to equal any of former years, and the
 people in the south will be provided with
 some real gridiron battles during the
 coming months.
 Harvard was the first college to begin
 football practice the initial workout be- Ing held recently. We have a camp in our midst, however, as the Birmingham college football squad is already in train- ing.
 Birmingham will have several fine games this year. For the first time in a number of years real game Is scheduled in Birmingham for Thanksgiving Day. The University of Alabama will meet the University of Georgia here on that day in what promises to be one of the best games of the entire eason. Alabama will have an exceedingly strong team this year and I am looking for the Crimson and White to be up in the running before l the season closes.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
HOTEL LOBBIES
Increase fin Receipts

An increase of s3s1s52 was shown Tn Birminghams postal receipts for August over the same month in 1915" said Postmaster R. B. Smyer yester- day While this Is a considerable gain still we are somewhat disappointed that it is not more. The recent heavy rains, floods, storms and strike rumors have tended to throw business off to large extent.
 "A steady increase in these postal receipts has been shown throughout the year and goes to prove that Bir- mingham Is enjoying a fair amount of prosperity. Despite the drawbacks we hope to get into the s6O0.00o class of postoffices before the next year, all though 1t will take hard work"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
Favors Stevens. Bill

T am very much interested in the Stevens bill now pending before Con gress," said A. R. Boone of the Talking Machine company yesterday. This meaure provides that no concern can publish in newspaper with circulation in more than one state an advertisement which is untrue. In other words. the ar ticle must be exactly as stated. or the company inserting the advertisement is guilty of an offense.
 "The bill also provides that manu- facturer making an article which Is ad- yertised to sell at uniform price has the right to see that that price Is charged. This bill has been indorsed by the labor unions and public opinion has been decidedly favorable. the people feel ing that they should have this protection 1 from the fraudulent and unscrupulus ad- vertisers. Sales organizations through- out the country and most of the high class merchants are also decidedly favor able.
 From present indications. there seems ! to be no reason to doubt that tho bill
 will be enacted"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
A MIDsUMMER GARDEN

Clinton Scollard in the New York Inde. pendent.
 There is a little garden-close,
 Girdled by golden apple trsAa That through the long sweet suroraes
 hours
 Is haunted by the hum Of buss The poppy losses here it's torcn. And the tall bee-balm flaunts it's nrc. And regally the larkspur lifts The slender azure of it's spirc And from the phlox and mfgnonc--.
 Rich attars drift on every hand: And when star-vestured twilight comes
 The pale moths ~ weave saraband. And crickets in the aisless sof grass
 With their clear filing pierce the hush. And somewhere you may hear anear
 The passion of the hermit thrush. Tt is a place where dreams convene.
 Dreams of the dead years gone as,ray Of love and loveiness borne back From some forgotten yesterday. It is memory -hallowed spot
 Where joy assumes it's vernal guise. And two walk silent side by side, Youths glory shining ill their eysA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
ONE WHO LOST
From the Youngstown Telegram.

From the Youngstown Telegram.
 Patrick Calhoun, grandson of a rreat statesman who became vice-president of the United States. was born to opulence as the son of wealthy and artistocratic slave owner. At 10 years he was the son of family driven into poverty by the war; At 50 he was a multi-million- aire At 60 he has completed the fourth cycle of his life and is again a pauper.
 In the height of his power he became business "boss" of California. To reach this splace it was necessary to traffic with political "bosses' of California. Ambition crushed out scruples. When the bosses" went down he went down with them. He escaped the penitentiary, but his grip was gone. Things turned to dross instead of gold in his hand. In 10 \ years his wealth has dwindled from $15.O00,00O to $5
 It wasn't worth while to take the chance. All that a man could ask or use would have been his without besmirching proud name. Yet Patrick Calhoun's S life story really teaches nothing. There are too many like him who remain prcs- porous and respected to the end to deter those who are willing to gamble with all that should be worth while.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
WY AsHINGTON, August 31.--(spe- Af cia.)l-The suddenly developed
 w Bulgarian counter offensive in

vU1 ASHINGTON, August 31.-(Spe- \A{ cia.)l-The suddenly developed w Bulgarian counter offensive in
 northeastern Macedonia brings the inn portant town of Seres once more This ancient city, situated on the navi- gable Lake Takhino, 40 miles west of the Aegean port of Kavala, and 43 miles by rail northeast of Saloniki, is the sub- ject of todays war geography bulletin, issued by the National Geographic society from it's Washington headquarters, whic4 says:
 With history dating back to the days of Xerxes' memorable retreat from Greece after the disastrou battle of Sal.
 amis, the town of Seres was until the re. cent partitioning of Ottoman possessions in the Balkan peninsula, the chief city Of
 the Turkish district of Saloniki and was
 noted as the center of the Turkish wool
 en industry as well as an important cot
 ton, tobacco. hides and carpet trade post. According to the latest available statistics it is place of 30,00O inhabitants and is situated in the midst of one of the most , fertile regions in the world. In fact, Col
 den Plain (Altin OvassD is the name given the district by the Turks. For many
 miles in every direction from the shores
 of Lake Takhino there is a succession of prosperous, gleaming white hamlets in settings of luxuriant green. Z H f "Seres commands splendid strategic passa geway up the valley of the Struma river to the environs of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which lies a hundred miles to the north.
 Tn ancient times the town was known to the Athenians as Seris os Sirrhae. It is mentioned by Herodotus as one of the places in the line of march of Xerxes' army in the fifth century before the Christian era. It will live in the history of Rome's glory as the camp where the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
From the Nashville Banner.

From the Nashville Banner.
 llN OWN THE RIVER" is the title
 of a good story in the Sep
 0 tember Scribners by James B. Connolly made more attractive by some striking illustrations by F. c. Yohn. Any one who has ever made the voyage down the Mississippi in the cotton carrying season, will be impressed with the faith fitness of the scenes depicted. The writer and illustrator are both good artists.
 The theme of tho story is a little inn probable and not new. but there would be no stories if they were all barred for faults of that character. This story IS impressive in it's possibilities and the theme is not sufficiently overworked to be at all trite.
 But the story has the common fault of all stories written about the south by the northern writers, the dialect is some what grotesque It was evidently stud jed with some care, but with precon- derstanding that it seems impossible to any but natives to acquire. Here is ! specimen-one negro roustabout is repre- sented as saying to another:
 "Ah beat yo' up dis fo'noon once. an ah gwine beat you'all up again. an two an tree an fo' times again. if yo' don quit bodderin' dat yaller gal"
 There never was a rouster anywhere from Memphis to New Orleans who said ''fo'noon"-none hardly who knew the meaning of the word noon. The southern negro and many whites. divide the day .k terms forenoon and afternoon are rarely heard among rural people in this section. The rouster in this instance would have said 'dis mawnin' Southern negroes refer to the midday hour either as IF o'clock or dinner time" The dialet writers from the section where all rs' have rotary motion and are sometimes supplied where none exist would put it "dinnah time"
 The "ah" and "yo" for and you lack naturalness to southern ears. but the worst is, "yoall." with a singular appli- cation: that mistaken solecism o& eouth- ern speech that the northern dialect writers stubbornly refuse to allow south erners to correct.
 If any rouster used ''yo'a 'all' as repre- sented in the sentence quoted, he meant all the other rocsters aboard the boat, and not the one addressed alone. as the writer seems to imply.
 Northern writers are supercilious in their attitude toward the south, and they suppose the assurance that comes from the south that the expression is not used in the singular number, comes of sensi- tiveness.
 You all" Is quite common provinc- ialism in the south. heard constantly among whites, even some educated whites. as well as negroes. but with all clas sses it always implies to plural. It never designates a single person. It's use | in the singular heard on the vaudeville stage from the impossible negro imper- senators seen there, perplexes south ern audience, and has the same effect | in print when read by southern reader ' If the authors mistaken idea is not dl- vined.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
Child Drivers Barred

''The city ordinance which prohibits a child under Is years of age to drive a motor vehicle will be enforced" said James Doneson, desk sergeant at police headquarters, yesterday.
 'The police department has received several complaints of automobile acci- dents of late where children under le years of age were the drivers of the ma chimes which caused the accidents. We are going to do everything possible to stop this nuisance. The parents of the child caught driving automobiles will be keld responsible for damages done"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02

known in the case of woman--walks abroad with shining pate, or sits Tn theatre. he is marked for ridicule and contumely.
 Behold the comedian who, blest with hair in private life, clamps wig on his head with a large bare spot on top in the hope of making the groundlings nowadays the gallery gods-laugh, On a hot day a thoughtful man of family who has led guiltless life whips off his hat to mop his streaming bald head and the crowd chortles.
 Wigs have fallen from their high estate. They still lend dignity to Eng fish judges, but they are no longer decreed by fashion and are used solely to deceive the casual observer as to the true state of ones dome. Says "Gumshoe Bill" pointing to the EenIlSSiNdHid poSS, Ieiii oSC-eAAo OoSs supreme" Says Penrose, T remember reading something in a magazine about the Missouri senator and the baking pow der trust" "Honors" even!
 N < <
 Senator Gallinger says the President has been playing to the grandstand." " However. the "grandstand" was filled with the American people, and they seem to be well pleased with the style of his playing.
 While the spirit of Birmingham, Mobile and Montgomery, in regard to the fed eral land bank, is not exactly that of After you, Alphonse," they are compet- ing for the prize in a most genteel man. ner.
 There will be plenty of trouble when the dancing men strike for an eight-hour day.
 You never can tell. There is many a CHely I1ldI hnO was q llttlC 1oIo 1T obaA- tleroy when he was young.
 
 Some of these days a term will be found to take the place of the smart set" In the meantime it is being badly over- worked in newspapers
 A number of the August plays are all ready in storage, but it wasn't the heat that finished them
 With the Ford company making a net profit of more than s1,0O0o00 a week, it is easy to understand why every other car you see is a Ford
 
 If cruelties have been practiced on convicts at Flat Top an investigation sEould be made and the guilty persons se- verey punished. Brutality of this sort will no longer be tolerated.
 N
 Now that President Wilson has averted as we'll come on home and rest. The Presidents reelection is even more cer- tain than it was before.
 There is enough territory in Florida to make two good sized states, but if the state is ever divided some way should be found to distribute the tourist business ev ellly.
  "Old Bill" White says Kansas is solid for Hughes, but Bill doesn't" know as much about politics as he does about running a newspaper
 Once there was Birmingham debu- tante who went shopping and did not visit Movie Row." but nobody knows how that happened.
 It begins to look as if South Carolina were incurabe The sisterhood of states will, extend condolences and let 1t go at that
 Offering odds of two to one that Greece will join hands with tho allies before al. other month looks like a safe proposi- ton.
 It is said that King Ferdinand of Bull garia is afraid to go home-in the dark or the daytime, either
 
 Life may still be worth living. even if
  kle trot,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
A SAD AWAKENING.

Full many an airy castle
 An idle dreamer builds; Upraised on mighty columns
 Fair domes the sunshine gilds. Girt round with lovely gardens
 Where cooling fountains play And happy hearts might wander Forever and day. But here his dream is ended,
 The last high tower reared, His reveries are shattered,
 Their glow has disappeared Before the humble dwelling
 Where all his life is spent, There stands a bold collector,
 Who clamors for the rent:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A SHARP CONTRAST.

Tt is said that a ball player seldom stays in a major league longer than i've years.'
 ~That shows what exercise in the open air will do."
 ''No doubt" 4 "The average chorus girl beauty ss Broadway lasts about two years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
A DIALECT STORY

Further on in this same story this same rouster Is made to say:
 Nah soul, niggars, look at dem piles Io' seed and den tell me, somebuddy, why all was we all ebber abawned."
 Substitute My Lawd'' for ''mah soul" and write it why all we all was ever bawn," and it will sound somewhat natu- ral. "All we all'' and "all you alr' arc frequently heard. but "why-all'' never. A little study of these phrases will serve to show how the writer's ear. in this instance, misled him. Transpose the verb
 was and it will be readily seen where his error lay.
 It is the same way in respect to tho use of you all," with a singular applica- tion. But it doesn't do any good to cor rect 1t. Southerners make the correction in spirit of friendly kindness, but what they say is taken to be resentment of criticism, and the writers continue to rely on their own supposed superior knowl. edge
 Eow was the Anglo-Saxon dative plural of thou. The language in time lost in. flections. Eow. changed into you. was substituted for thou, and also for ye and used indiscriminately without regard to number. But in popular speech in va rious parts of the English speaking world there are efforts to form a plural for this pronoun of the second person, and hence the ''yo'uns" of the southern mountain eers and the ''youse" of the uncultured class in northern cities. You all' is of the same sort
 If the northern dialect writers would study Joel Chandler Harris and Thomas Nelson Page they would find the speech of the southern negro pretty accurately produced-much more so than they can produce it from the meager observation afforded by a trip down the river.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
OLD FRIEND MAY GO

From the Spokane Spokesman-Review.,
 The 5-cent cigar is a notable American institution and is by many authorities considered as powerful bulwark against cigarettes. If. as cigar dealers assert. the 5-cent cigar must either be increased in of the citizenship of the United States will have to take either to cigarettes, which, as every schoolboy knows, are just so many nails in ones coffin. or to plug tobacco. which Is bad for the carpet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
LITTLE MORE LEFT

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 A Cincinnati man had $S0o.ooo when he was first married He has been mar |ried six times and has &Oooo left, he tells the courts. Just one more wife will do it--who's the lucky little lady7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lord God of life, may I bless Thee in my partaking of the full cup. I praise Thee for the deep infinity of things. | thank Thee for Thy rich abundant life OverfiOwing all worlds. Grant me to breathe deep of Thee. Grant me to meet Thee along the heavenly road and to drink my soul full or Thy presence. Amen.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
A SYMPATHETIC SON.

When I was your age," remarked MT. Grabcoin. T never had as much as dol lar at one time for spending money"
 Poor old dad replied young Reginald Grabcoin. When I hear you make re- mark like that feel as if 1t were my duty to take you out to cabaret with me some night and make you enjoy your self''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02

Anniston Star: If Memphis has the At lanta spirit she will go into mourning for her cruiser namesake.
 Talladega Home: Birminghams city commission has been invited to attend a revival. Maybe that is what it needs.
 Ashville Southern Aegis: The toughest place on the Forest highway between Gadsden and Birmingham is in Jefferson county and 1t is hoped that the officials of that county will repair same before the Jackson highway officials make their in- spection tour in October.
 Athens Courier: Senator Underwood is fighting the assaults of the republicans made on his tariff bill and he is driving them to the corner on every proposition. There is no bigger man in the Senate than our Oscar, and when they tackle him they had better be qualified with the facts they will meet howitzer that they can't batter down.
 Livingston Southern Home: Neither Mobile nor Montgomery has any chance to get the farm loan bank, as neither city is centrally located in the territory to be served. Both of these cities should unite and help Birmingham to secure the bank as the latter city is situated near the center of the territory, and has better chance in other respects.
 Montgomery Journal: In his speech on his western tour Hughes charged the democrats with responsibility for the high cost of living, and it logically follows the democrats are responsible for the high cost of wheat for which the farmers in the west are receiving the benefits, and will no doubt give credit to where Hughes says it is due, and vote accordingly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
QUITE A HARDSl

QUITE A HARDSHIP. Did you hear what happened to young Dowder Simpkins?"
 "No. What was it?"
 'He hurt his right arm in motor &C., cident and now he's compelled to hoist highballs with his left It's deuced awk- ward, too.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
A DEPRIVED APPETITE.

Whats tn excitement down tn road. Hiram?"
 ''Or man Biggers is on bayrum jag" "Drat tn cuss! If he'd stick ter lemon extract fur drinkin' purposes. he wouldn't stir up tn neighbors SOL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02

Now, travel in an aeroplane Is something I shall never try; Though walking gives me quite pain, I simply do not wish to fly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
Sardines on Toast
 Stuffed Celery Consomme Vermicelli

Stuffed Celery Consomme Vermicelli Steak a la McAllen Sliced Tomatoes Julienne Potatoes Berliner Pancake With Vanilla Sauce Strawberry Ice Cream Turkish Coffee Fruit Lemonade thus describing how well the officers are faring, the information does not come as news. In New York here we never thought there was any food shortage in camp as far as the officers were con cerned. The only alarmist reports re- ceived here had to do with the quality and quantity of food furnished to rank and file And in spite of the viz orous denials of the well-fed Generals Funston and ORyan that anything has been wrong, evidence has been ample that there has been plenty of bungling l Officers are not on rations.-they buy their own food.
 | It is good perhaps for us to know that General Dyer has sardines on toast stuffed celery, Berliner pancake and strawberry ice cream. But we would much prefer to hear that the men are getting their share. It was fine news in the Globe the other day that members of Battery E. First Field Artillery. had compelled their officers to give them bet
 ter food by refusing to eat the ''souI stuff prepared for them. It was well worth the two weeks confinement tc quarters their so-called mutiny cost them.
 We are not worrying about the officers They can take care of themselves even if they can't take care of their men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
HARBINGER OF AUTUMN.

HARBINGER OF AUTUMN. ? You are as merry as a cricket this morning."
 "Yes," replied the cheerful suburban. ite. When issued forth from my dwell. ing I saw something on vacant lot that convinced me this terrible summer is about ended.''
 What did you see?''
 "A billboard carrying an advertisement of fall ovcrcoats'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
-- - s'------' SARDINES ON TOAST

From the New York Globe.
 ITO those in New York who have read camp here" telegraphs the Herald's cor respondent in McAllen, "the following bill General George R. Dyer on Sunday even- ing might present something more than a gloomy view" The correspondent adds that the table was decorated with flow CTS, and then proceeds to give this menu;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
IN AND OUT.

T hear you came into fortune"
 50 I did, but some lawyers started tampering with my deceased uncle's will and the first thing knew, one of them was saying to me, This way out !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
ALABAMA PRESS

Anniston Star: If Memphis has the At lanta spirit, she will go into mourning for her cruiser namesake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02

Talladega Home: Birmingham's city commission has been invited to attend a revival Maybe that is what it needs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
INVERSE TO IT.

Broadway lasts about two years"
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1916-12-30
MN /. ~

Why Is It that when there are two
swinging doors 20 per cent OF the peo-
pie open the left hand door? Why don't
they open the right hand onei
Why IS II that go per cent Of the PEG.
pie walk on the wrong side or in the
middle OF the sidewalk? Why don't
they walk on the right Side?
Why Is il that - per cent Of the PEG
ple don't know how TO turn corner or
enter q store? Why Is Il that they
keep close 70 the building when they
ought 10 he on tile outside edge Of the
sidewalk to cutter rs they sh0uld?
Why Is it thut people win stand Ike
this on the sidewalk and talk WHY
IL Il they viii not stand like this 7
Thereby taking up one-half rs much
space Why IS ~ Boston Post
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1916-12-30

The food OF soldiers IN the feld va
rles according 10 their nationnlitics.
The principal meal OF the russian sob
der consists OF stchee, something be-
tween Cruel and soup. the chief H.
gradients Of which are cabbage. pote-
toes. oatmeal and FAT meat. preferably
pork. These arn boiled together. with
salt ard other seasoning. the result be-
ing thick. n0urishiug and by no
means unpalatablo dish.
The italian soldiers. who are splen-
did marchers. live largely on farina-
ceous diet-macaroni. spaghetti and 50
on. They are also very partial 10 fruit,
which Is issued, together with wine
and cigars. as part Of their rations
whenever possible.
No German soldier considers hts DAT
ly menu complete without sausage OF
some kind or other. and the stronger"
its favor the better. A nutritious pea
soup is also a staple Of the army ration.
The mainstay OF the French soldier
consists OF his beloved SOUP" as he
calls IT, IL IL really a thick, nourish-
ing stew, made OF meat. potatoes and
various other vegetables.
The English Tommy Is omniyor-
ous, but the things he loves above all
else are bacon and jam Youths Com
panion.