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Der taÌˆgliche Demokrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 186?-1918, 1916-03-28
Davenport. Iowa. March 21, 1916.

davenport. Iowa, March Il, 1916.
Notice is hereby given to the quail
fed electors of Scott county, Iowa,
that q primary election will be held at
the regular polling places in the sew
eral election precincts of Scott Coun-
ty, Iowa, on Monday, April 10, 1916.
In the city of Davenport the polls will
be open from sever o'clock A. NJ. 10
eight o'clock P. M. and in all other
precincts from nine o'clock A. M. to
eight o'clock P. M.
This primary election will be held
sentiment of the voters in the re-
spective parties as to candidates for
president and vice president of the
United States" and for electing dele
gates and alternate delegates to the
national conventions of the Republi-
can, Democratic, Socialist and Pro-
gressiye parties, at which candidates
for president and vice-president are
to be nominated. At this primary
election there are also to be elected
for each party, a national committee
man, and delegates to the County con
vention for choosing delegates to the
state convention.
Affidavits and nominations have
been filed as follows:
Republica AN Party.
For President of the United States
| Albert B. Cummins of Des Moines,
Iowa.
For Vice President of the United
| States-Wm. Grant Webster of Chi
cago, Cook County, illinois.
Elmer J. Burkett of Lincoln, Ian
caster County, Nebraska.
For Party National Committeeman
John Olson of Forest City, Winnie
bago County.
For observation-disclosures to National
convention-Luther A. EreWer of Ce.
dar Rapids, Linn County
Howard J. Clark of Des Moines, Polk
county.
George w. French of Davenport,
Scott County.
VIM. S. Kenyon of Fort Dodge, Web
ster County.
For District Delegates to National
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES M. Curtis of Gin
ton, Clinton County.
]. Reed Lane of Davenport, Scott
county.
For Alternate Delegates-at-Large to
National Convention-John H. Darrall
of Charlton, Lucas County.
j. A. Dewitt of Oskaloosa, Mahaska
county.
]. U. sammis of LeMars, Plymouth
county.
L. B. Whitney of DEBORAH, Whine.
shiek County.
For Alternate District Delegates to
National Conventional. M. butcher
of Iowa City, Johnson County.
George NJ. Titus of Muscatine, Mus.
catine County.
Democratic Party.
For President of the United States
Woodrow Wilson of Princeton, N. j
For Delegates to tn
The several precincts of the county
of delegates for the respective parties
4 %0 I~ ~Il 49, NH---No 1n1o
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
A ROMANTIC WAITER

sarily tragic. When William of Prussia
was alive each child of the royal family
was obliged to learn a trade, to insure a
livelihood in case of an overthrow, or to
please the people by the thought that
royalty could be simple and industrious.
This poor Christich had attempted to
earn his living in a government bureau;
or the stage, where the police interfered
because he was billed as a prince-he
should have come to America-and fl
nally, not being able to do anything else
in a satisfactory manner, not having any
trade or profession, he turned to wait
ing on table,
If he has a lordly air. if he serves with
authority and grace, this Christich may
be promoted. Then as ruler of a dining
car he will be among the absolute mon
archs, among the tyrants now allowed on
earth. He wears uniform, the trap
pings and insignia Of office; his romantic
history will lend him a crown for daily
use. There was a rumor that he or his
brother, now useful as ladies' tailor
in London department store, had been
proclaimed King of Serbia by Germany
and Austria This is complimentary, but
either brother woulds be wise to retain
his present position. The tips in a din
ing car are substantial; the brother in
London is receiving about SIS a week.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
" HAT son of King Milan, though
not legitimate heir to the throne
of Serbia, is now waiter in din
ing car will please those who find in the
humiliation of royal families form of
divine justice, and quote with a peculiar
zest the line of the Magnificent: HE hath
put down the mighty from their seats"
So in old times Lucian took delight in
showing the abasement in the next world
of the great that strutted in this. So
Vcltaire brought together at a tavern
table in Venice an assortment of deposed
kings, who told Candide that they would
be happy to see the carnival
The Balkan kings have not been taken
seriously by librettists and novelists, al
though their reigns in many instances
have been spectacular and bloody. Dau-
Diet naturally looked toward the south
east of Europe for the motif of his
Kings in Exile" Librettists and dra-
matists have invented kingdoms sug-
gested by Serbia, Bulgaria, Roumania, as
in former years potentates of Peru or
millonaires of Brazil sung and danced in
opera bouffe. There was little that was
comic in the life and death of King
Milan, but the fate of his illegitimate
son, one of the Christichs, is not neces-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
THE LORDS AMOUNTED

From the New York World.
The reason why everything that Pres
ident Wilson does must be wrong Is care
fully explained by Mr.. Hughes:
You could no more build up this coun-
try by the application of democratic doc
trines than you could go flying through
chimes of 30 years ago.
Therefore President Wilson, being
democrat, is mentally, morally and ply
sically incapable of doing anything right;
but Mr.. Hughes, being republican Is
incapable of doing anything wrong.
The present chief justice of the United
States supreme court, being Louisiana
democrat, is ipso facto a fool and sec
tioralst, but a former associate justice
of the United States supreme court who
recently resigned in order to accept the
republican nomination for President is
ono of the great lawgivers of all the
ages.
People like Mr.. Hughes and Mr.. Crane
and Mr.. Penrose and Mr.. Cannon and Mr..
Mann and Mr.. Barnes are the Lord s
anointed. They were raised up by an
All-Wise Providence to be the ruling
Gle IS of the country. The Lord intended
them to govern because He gave them
republican minds. But people like Mr..
Wilson were created to be hewers of
wood and drawers Of water. If the Deity
had wished them to NEEDLE with govern
ment He would have made them repub-
licans.
"a himself the
George F. Baer Of politics. He knows ex-
actly the welfare of the working classes
and of everybody else.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
From the New York Sun.


NE of the most delightful things
T. about life in New York is the fire.
~ quent pulpit appearance of cler-
gymen from other cities who tell us how
wild pace we are living at. One from
Boston was here Sunday:
You hurry through life so fast that
yon never get acquainted with yourself.
Half of the men in New York who
are driving automobiles should be oper-
ating wheelbarrows.
you complain of the high cost of liv-
ing while you eat steak three yards long
and three inches thick"
It's the same old stuff. We are wicked,
too New York is always compared with
two ancient cities which are usually
coupled in odium. If the citizen took
the words of the supply preachers at half
their face value he would lead his family
from the city, cautioning his wife not to
look back with regret lest an historic fate
be hers
The hurry myth will never die. OF
course, persons are seen hurrying in the
streets of New York. They have been
here a short time from Ashtabula, or
Atlanta, or Altoona, or London, or Lin
erick, or Dublin, or Sicily, or Saratoga.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
NEW YORK'S HEADLONG RUSH

They have heard that New York is the
city of dreadful rush and they are trying
to catch up to something that never was.
Speaking without slang, they chase them
selves. The delusion about motors and
meat is of the same pattern. man
from Potter county, Pennsylvania, comes
here and hires motor car to take him
to place where he can pay $1.75 for
steak. Two years later, when he has
more money and is an old New Yorker
ut takes IA months to become an old
New Yorker) he walks to place where
he gets two lamb chops for 90 cents.
So far as the number of it's motor cars
is concerned New York is. away behind
certain counties of Kansas, which is the
real home of the three-foot steak and
the ceaseless speed. Why don't the
preachers go to Kansas and warn the
people to slow up? Perhaps because the
preachers are kanSans who were hurled
cess by the impetus Of Kansas life.
But let them preach if they will. The
real, mellow New Yorker, sitting at his
parlor window, now reading king Lear"
now clipping the dead leaves from his
favorite geranium, delights in being told,
ever so often, that he lives the headlong
life.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
A CENTURY OLD DIARY
m the Pensacola Journal.

From the Pensacola Journal.
Henry Crabb Robinson in his diary re-
peats many stories of the judges, Lord
Eldon and Lord Mansfield among the
rest. The latter, struggling with a con-
gested calendar, on one occasion an
nounced that he would hold court on
Good Friday. At once there was rebel
lion on the part of the barristers. Ser
geant Davey, with some warmth and
more humor, arose and said, There has
been no precedent since the days of
Pontius Plate" Nevertheless, Mansfield
held court with the attorneys. and with
out the barristers.
Another one that deserves to be resur-
rected from the diary is as follows: Zone
day when someone remarked. Christian
ity is part and parcel of the law of the
land" Rolfe said to me, Were you ever
employed to draw an indictment against
a man for not loving his neighbor as
HIMSELF"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
1T MIGHT HAVE BEEN

From the Kansas City Times.
Peter Clark of Aberdeen, Wash, has
shaved himself three times a week for
so years, and mathematician have figured
out that if he had put the money saved
by those shaves out at compound interest
he would now have LOO. But Peter
Clark is no better off financially than
the man who was shaved by the barber
for 80 years
A man who had never smoked, talking
with a friend who had smoked cigars for
40 years, made a mental calculation and,
pointing to a tall office building, said
you've wasted enough money on cigars
to have bought that office building"
Yes retorted the smoker, 'and
where are the office buildings you have
bougnt?"
All CT which points the moral that
something more than theory about saw
ing money is required to save money, and
a confirmation of the Apostle James that
faith without works is dead.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
NOT NEW TO Monsoon

From the Youths Companion.
Monson, in Maine, wonders why there
is so much ado about the daylight saw
ing" plan. About 40 years ago someone
in the town suggested that it would be
good thing for the workers in the slate
quarries to gain an hour of daylight by
going to work an hour earlier in the
morning and stopping work an hour
earlier at night. The town adopted the
suggestion, but instead of changing the
working hours it set the clocks ahead.
Through all the years since then the
clocks of Monson have been an hour
ahead of the clocks in other Maine
towns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
TRAGEDY OF CLOTHES
From the Rochester Democrat
Chronicle.

From the Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.
A young woman down in New York
city was arrested on charge of forging
the name of her landlady to check for
1925 When faced with the charge she
said: II wanted to get some good look
ing clothes like other girls wore, and
1 took the money" She was shirt
waist maker. and it is hardly likely that
she drew large sum as wages. From
immemorial times the daughters of Eve
and the sons of Adam have felt the long
ing which this girl experienced to have
good clothes like those worn by other
women, or men. In some instances COM
mon sense rules action and If it Is not
reasonable to satisfy the desire, it Is
overcome. In other cases, like that of
the New York girl. it is harbored and
brooded over until it matches crime.
The hardest lesson for many to learn
appears to be the fact that clothes do
not make the man or woman.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
FaYors Wooden Shingles

Much interest has been manifested in
the shingle ordinance agitated by a num-
Der of citizens last Tuesday" said Roy
Huffman. IT believe the commissioners
will repeal or amend the present ordi-
nance which requires all houses to be
covered with a composition roof
The majority of the people seem to
want to go back to the single roof.
Many of them realize that to cover their
houses with composition shingles or roof
ing costs great deal more money and
does not give any more satisfaction.
Wooden shingles may be made fire
proof by treating them with a paint
which possesse fire resisting qualities.
The commissioners will hear from the in
surance men on next Tuesday at 8
clock. A large crowd doubtless will be
on hand to hear what will be said.''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
A VAST SPECTACLE
From the Rochester Democr

From the Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.
Those who have in the last two years
followed out the seeing America first"
idea in their travels have discovered that
no old world nation has anything on
u.s." to use a street phrase. in the way
of scenery, and those who may look their
country over critically in the years to
come will find the same thing. AS an
example of erosion by running water, the
geological survey points out, the Grand
Canyon Of the Colorado has no equal.
So vast is the spectacle of this gigantic
trench. more than mile deep and from
eight to 10 miles in width, that 1t can
hardly be comprehended on a first view.
1t possesses the beauty of grandeur and
the beauty of color. 1t is one of the
sights that no one having the opportu-
nifty p see should miss.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
FIELD WELL COVERED
the Alfalfa Herald.

From the Alfalfa Herald.
1t is said by some who claim to have
the inside dope on the deal, that a new
morning paper is to be launched in Bir-
mingham and that it is backed by the
liquor trust. We do not vouch for the
truth of this statement and sincerely
hope that it is a mistake The morning
field in Birmingham is now we'll covered
by The Age-Herald one of the cleanest
and best edited papers in the south to-
day, and the people will not be eager
to desert it for whisky bossed. graft
ing, fly-by-night sheet. If the new paper
does come into existence it Is bound to
b. short lived, as old booze has been per-
manently outlawed in the state and the
people have become convinced that they
can get along without it and are thor
oughly satisfied with present conditions
as regard the liquor traffic. Somebody
is going to sink some good old honest
United States dollars and win nothing
but the condemnation of the people of the
state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
HEN PAYS HER FARE

From the New York World.
Even a hen may understand the high
cost Of keeping up an automobile. At
any rate, a fowl belonging to D. NJ.
Kellogg of Oak Tree, near Plainfield, N.
j., stole ride in the family car last
Sunday night and left an egg in the rear
seat to help to pay for the gasoline.
The hen flew into the car Sunday, it is
supposed, because the cushions made a
soft nest. Why she did not flutter out
when the car started that evening it not
known. Mrs. Kellogg drove to Plainfield
without looking on the back seat. Her
first stop was at Mayor Smalley's place.
She was standing talking with him when
she saw a chicken fly from her machine
and alight in the street. 1T looks like
one of my husbands game hens" said
she. man caught the hen. When they
looked into the back seat Mayor SmalIey
and Mrs. Kellogg found an egg.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
Short Street Force

Despite the fact that the city is handl-
capped by having only one man to work
each IA miles of streets, quite bit OF
good work Is being DONE" said Commits
siorer Truss yesterday. 1--WE have re-
Gently scarified and worked the Green
Springs road, and it is now In good
shape. Many miles of streets need re-
pairs at the present time, and all of them
will have attention as soon as possible
Il am a firm believer in good roads
and pavements and every effort is being
made to see that Birmingham has them
OF course, the condition of the city's fl
nances at the present time keeps the
work down to minimum, but it is being
pushed on the streets and roads of the
city as fast as possible under the present
circumstances
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
THE ROVER

BY Sir Walter Scott
A weary lot is thine, fair maid,
A weary lot is thine
To pull the thorn thy brow to braid,
And press the rue for wine.
A lightsome eye, a soldiers mein,
A feather of the blue.
A doublet of the Lincoln green
No more Of me you knew,
My Love!
No more of me you knew.
This morn is merry June, I trow,
The rose is budding fain;
But she shall bloom in winter snow
Ere we two meet again.
He turned his charger as he spake,
Upon the river shore,
He gave the bride reins a shake.
Said. "Adieu for evermore.
My Love!
And adieu for evermore.s
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18

BEGINNING THE DAY. indeed
labor In the sweat of my brow, 1 am
yexed with grief of heart, am pur-
dened with sins, I am troubled WIN
temptations, 1 am entanSled anu
oupressed with many evil pnss1ons'
and there is none to help me- none
to deliver and save, but Thou'
Lord God my SaviOr-Thomas u
KempiS
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
NOT DIFFERENT

From the Detroit Free Press
What sort of woman is Perkins
wife,
The ordinary kind. 1 guess Perkins
has as much trouble with her as the rest
Of us do with our wives"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
ADRIFTT WITH THE TIMES
A KISS ELIPTICAL

A bold bad rake reached out his arm
And strove kiss to take.
But Sue, who worked upon a farm,
Knew how to use a rake.
Tom DAILY, in Philadelphia Evening
Ledger.
I cannot say in honesty
1 blame the rural miss,
He is a jay who would reach out
His arm to take a kiss.
Judd Mortimer Lewis, in the Houston
Post.
Don't jump to rash conclusions, Judd,
But ponder this a minute:
No doubt the chap reached out his arm
To fold the maiden in it.
THERE'S MARY p. FOR INSTANCE
TN say this much for the movies
"Well?"
"A screen star doesn't necessarily have
to have a dubious past to make hit
with a movie fam"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
A BASE DECEIVER

He went to the seashore
Without his wife
And seemed to be having
The time of his life.
Then back to the city
He came one day
And speaking to neighbors,
Was heard to say
The days were lengthy,
The nights We're slow;
His WHEY was absent,
He missed her so.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18

KNOWLEDGE WORTH WHILE
That seedy old gentleman in soiled
Palm Beach suit is a geologist. He can
tell you the age of the earth"
We'll! Well!
That other shabby looking old gentle
man with him Is an astronomer. He can
tell you how much the moon weighs"
Wonderful! And who is the prosper
GUS looking person at the adjoining ia
ble?"
That's Mr.. Grabcoin, the capitalist.
He can tell you what the stock market
is going to do tomorrow"
CREATING A FALSE IMPRESSION
There are few men who don't feel i'm
portant when casting a vote''
THE candidates are to blame for that. -
How so?"
"They convince 3 citizen who is natu-
rally modest that without his distin-
guished support they are irretrievably
ruined"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
AN OPTIMIST

AN OPTIMIST
you say Gadsby is an optimist?"
"Unquestionably."
what makes you think so?'
"Gadsby has never been able to earn
more than $40 a week, yet he feels
greatly encouraged every time he hears
there is a demand for $4,000 a year
men,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
ALABAMA PRESS

! Selma Times: The Woman's party in
session at Colorado Springs declared they
would take a non-partisan stand in the
present campaign, but would vigorously
oppose the election of all democratic nom
inees. They evidently mean they would
be neutral as between Hughes and Hanly.
Talladega Home: We are proud to note
that the state harbor commission is pre-
Earring to bring about improvements at
the port of Mobile Every citizen of
every condition in our state is directly
concerned in the perfecting of Mobiles
harbor and the growth of our great gulf
port. This is an instance in which the
people would not begrudge a little taxa
ton.
Montgomery Advertiser. Birmingham
you have observed, is cleaning up. 1t
took a typhoid epidemic to bring Biz
mingham to sensible sanitation. Don't
let it take such an epidemic to bring
your town or your community to a de-
cent clean up. Maybe the laws of SAM
tation are not being observed-then the
fault is with public officials Maybe the
tation for the right sort of regulations.
Old Father Montgomery seems to lack
regulations, but some of his public spir-
tied citizens are out to see that sensible
sanitary regulations are put on the books
and also enforced. Public health is too
important thing to be slept on by clti-
zens or public officials.
Decaturs Daily: The correspondent OF
the New York Sun who declares that
Tennessee is a doubtful state and may
go for Hughes must be related to the
same correspondent in Nashville in l9lz
who consumed columns in New York pa
pers-at a substantial price per column
on the claim that Roosevelt would carry
the state, If Tennessee doesn't go Tor
Wilson by the largest majority 1t ever
gave a President we will be willing to eat
our sky piece.
If the New York man VINO seems SO
disturbed about Tennessee will look over
the 1912 figures he will find that wilson
polIed 10000 popular votes in Tennessee
while Taft got only $4,000 and Roosevelt
got $4,000. Nationally, Tennessee is one
of the safest democratic states in the
south. AS we'll talk of Hughes carrying
Texas with its normal democratic ma
jority of 10000.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18

According to l.. A Freeman. deputy
registrar at the courthouse, there are
troubled waters on the matrimonial
sea CT Birmingham, judging by the
large number of divorce cases that
are being filed this month in the
chanoery court.
There has been an extraordinary
large number of divorce suits file1 so
far this month in the chancery court"
said Mr.. Freeman yesterday. AL
ready 2E suits for the elimination Of
the arduous bonds of inatrimony have
been filed and it looks to ME that the
budding romances of early spring and
June have reached the repentant stage.
Usually 20 suits for divorce is consid-
cred large for any month, but posi-
bly, the extreme heat of August has
severely taxed the tempers of youth
tul couples which explains the unus-
ually large grist for the county divorce
mill"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-18
HOTEL LOBBIES
WOmen's Shoe styles


There is going to be decided change
IN the style of boots to be worn by the
women this winter" said Arthur Zbin-
den' manager of the Walk-Over shoe
store. Last winter the principal styles
worn by the south were. the plain, me-
alum height boots. This fall the styles
VIII be mostly in high-top colored boots.
The height of these boots will range from
seven to nine inches, and they will be in
lace. The colors will be brown, white,
gray and champagne. The bronze will
not be so popular as it was last fall, and
will give way to a chocolate brown.
we are hoping that there will be no
further advance in the price of leather.
1t is higher now than at this time last
year, and naturally the price of shoes
has gone up in accordance with the ad-
vance in leather"