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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
A FAMOUS RESTAURANT

members of the family would sit at a
 large table in the center of the main din-s ing room. At the stroke of midnight al waiter would place a bottle of wine att each guests table, with the compliments of MT. Faust"
 Adjoining the restaurant was Faust'si
 Fulton Market, where many of the deli- cacies to be found on the restaurant ta-l
 bles were sold to the general public. One
 of the stories told about Faust has to do with basket of live crabs and a check certain visitor to the restaurant wast in the habit of borrowing money fro Faust and forgetting to pay uas Oned day he entered the market rco51 tlth aE
 check and asked Faust to ca it. caustt was doubtful as to the vus el ttMs check. ~
 If the crabs will take it .lake it"S
 Tony said. - He thrust the check into 5asket oil live crabs. Ordinarily crap will closet it's claws on anything that comes in con- tact with them, but in this case not all claw snapped.
 That settles it." said Tony. ''Thel crabs won't take it. I won't take it." andA he refused to cash the check. This gaves rise to a story that Faust always testeds check by submitting it to the judgmentI of the crabs before cashing it.
 Faust and his high class chefs devisedH many toothsome dishes and others were- suggested to them by their customers. Itt was their boast that no order went un-t filed Joseph Jefferson was the originator of an old combination which came to be-
 a famous Faust dish. After appearing att the Olympic one night Jefferson went tos Fausts for his midnight supper. He. thumbed at the card while the waiter. stood patiently by. His appetite wasI l jaded and he yearned for something new and unheard of. After much thought he said: 1 Bring me quail on sauer kraut.' Its wasn't on the bill, but that didn't matter. The waiter took the order out to the,
 kitchen and it did not creae ripple of excitement there. Anything that wasp asked for was to be furnished. | Fifteen or twenty minutes later a quail, beautifully Drowned, was set before Jeff 1 ferson. It nestled in a couch of sauer- hTduI JSllSlooii, PioioCu AI Ai6ihS oAiN others heard of the queer dish and tried 1 it. The result was gastronomic discov- | cry that made quail and sauerkraut oneg of the favorite Faust dishes. l The Cabin. long and beautifully de- signed room to the northeast of the main l floor restaurant, was once favorite place for club and stag dinners and con | vention banquets
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
> E. V. D. COCKTAIL

New York Correspondence Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 Broadway has new cocktail. It was invented by Harry O'Bren, the famous
 mixerologist who is always concoctine
 these things. It is called a "B. V. D.
 Here is the ingredients: A pony of grena- dine, pony of dry gin, the juice of a half of lime, spoonful of powdered sugar. Trapped well and served in Del monico glass. This is only a half bracel and is recommended to those who need a stimulant yet are afarid of wifey getting next to the aroma of their breath. MT O'Brien says grenadine kills the flavor of booze, and in reality the cocktail is only half shock. That Is why he named it the "B. V. D."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
BEHIND THE MONA LISA SMILE

From Walter Pater's Renaissance"
 The presence that rose thus so strangely beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years, men had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all the ends of the world are come" and the eyelids are little weary It Is beauty wrought out from within upon theflesh, the deposits, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set il for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women o1 antiquity and how would they be trou- bled by this beauty, into which the soul with all it's maladies has passed! All the thoughts and experience of the world have etched and molded there in that which they have of power to refine and make expressive the outward form, the animalism of Greece, the lust of Rome, the mysticism of the middle age with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias.
 She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times. and learned the
 
 secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with eastern merchants; and. as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary and all this had been to her but as the sound of Tyres and flutes and lives only in the delicacy with which it has molded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and hands. The fancy of a per petual life, sweeping together ten thou. sand experiences, is an old one; and mod. ern philosophy has conceived the afsa of humanity as wrought upon by, ant summing up in itselt all modes oi thought and life Certainly Lady Lisa might stand as the embodiment of tho old fancy-the symbol of the modern idea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
BRINGING HOME INVENTIONS

From the Chicago Journal
 One of the chief military tasks before the United States is to bring home and mobilize it's own inventions.
 The war in Europe is being fought largely with American tools. Aeroplanes submarines, machine guns, repeating rifles, rapid fire cannon-all were first made in America;'' yet the United States has not a sufficient supply of any of them.
 "A shoemaker's children and black smiths horse are always barefoot" says an old proverb. But nation which in- vents the devices that have changed the face of warfare must care for it's own safety, even at the cost of discreditine proverbial wisdom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS
,m the Memphis News-scimitar.

From the Memphis NeWs-Scimitar
 We go some in this country when it comes to municipal indebtedness. The debt of Detroit is s2o per capita. Cleve- land, O., $66, and New York leads with per capita municipal indebtedness of s1s7 It is not pleasing to contemplate the fact that every child born in New York is saddled with a debt of $137 as soon as it crosses the threshold of ies nativity, but the Canadians go us one better. The municipal Indebtedness of the city of Montreal amounts to $15S per capita, but in spite of it all the city grows and prospers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
wOMAN'S VIEW OF THE SOUTH

From the Manufacturers Record. Mrs. G. H. Mathis of Alabama has be- come one of the noted women of Amer ica, recognized in all financial circles for the enthusiastic work that she has been doing through the cooperation of Ala bama bankers in developing diversified agriculture in that state. Her address before bankers associations in the south and in the west have commanded wide attention everywhere.
 Mrs Mathis, while an enthusia stic southerner, like the Manufacturers Rec ord, sometimes has to make plain state ments about some of the shortcomings of the south. In an interview in The Age Herald of Birmingham in regard to Mus Gle Shoals as the site of the proposed government nitrate plant, for which Mrs. Mathis is now working, she said:
 'Our southern people never stand to- gether long enough to do anything. It is ssid of us, we are the solid south We may be solid on politics, but we are as hollow as a gourd on everything else. This nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals de- bends upon unity of the southern states. We should have it. We should have the assistance of other states, and have got the bankers of Michigan, Individually, to help us. The bankers of South Carolina or some of them-will help us all they can.
 "If Muscle Shoals were located in any other state and offered the same ad- vantages, would be just as enthusiast for it's development It is not because it is located in Alabama that I want to see the government decide to improve it.''
 Mrs. Mathis has started an unfortunate fact. Our southern people do not stana together for industrial development If the south was as solid in working for it's material advancement as it is solid politically, it would accomplish great marvels. There is too many cases where one clique pulls against another; too many evidences of the lack of co-ordina- tion in the whole south in working for the interest of the whole south.
 Mrs. Mathis, in her picturesque way, may have overestimated the ease: but there is enough of truth in what she has said to merit the serious thought of the serious people of the south.
 In this proposed nitrate plant, as well as in many other things, there will be found opportunities for the south c prove that it is united and solid for in- duStrial development
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
STRONG FOR PEACE

What view do you take of the Euro pean war?"
 'Everybodys answered the man who hates an argument. T have discovered that by saying yes at the psychological of trouble"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
HARD TO BELIEVE

From the Nashville Banner.
 A dispatch from Harlan, Ky, says an attorneys life was saved by suspender buckle. There was once story, of a newspaper mans life being saved by the presence of coin in his vest pocket, but it was never authenticated as the presence of the coin could not be ex- plained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
THE TRUE BEAUTY By Thomas Carew.

He that loves rosy cheek
 Or coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek
 Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. But smooth and steadfast mind,
 Gentle thoughts, and calm desires Hearts with equal love combined,
 Kindle never-dying fres:-- Where these are not, I despise Lovely cheeks or lips or eyeA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
SLUMBER AS A VICE

From the Chicago News.
 Modern life having succeeded in elimi- mating economy from the list of virtues, is now, apparently, conducting drive
 against sleep, which the older authorities numbered among mankind's blessings.
 People, city people in particular, seem to be ashamed of the fact that they must sleep. Tired natures sweet restorer sore labor's bath, that which knits up the travelled sleave of care-thr ventor' of
 which was so praised by { ucho Panza, prince of squires-is in disrepute.
 This tendency to conceal the fact tbat sleep still falls upon mankind is strik- irgly illustrated by modern furniture. The bed that was frankly a bed is being thrust into the background as something to be ashamed of. Its place is taken by various kinds of monstrosities that mas querade as other articles of furniture ir the day time, and indeed, far into the right, confessing that they can be made to serve as beds only when frivolity can no longer stand or sit, but must per force become gecumbent.
 The bookcase, the piano, the bathtub
 the mirror, the closet door, the Morris chair-these may at any moment, by the pulling of strap or the pressing of a spring, be revealed as sleeping utensils
 beds in a different, half-hearted way. as if ashamed of the office. Jacks of many trades, they are masters of none.
 Until sleep itself becomes obsolete the | human race must have beds of some sort and the more comfortable they are the better. No sleeping implement, disguised as a phonograph. bird cage, or a cook stove. can take the place of the old-fash | toned piece of furniture that was a bed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15


 A well as seamen, the shark is the most undesirable citizen" of the deep. He is a creature of bad habits and voracious appetite, and he strikes with deadly swiftness. The octopus,
 or "devil fish, " Eastern Resorts n m e applied Visited by Sharks indiscriminately
 to the same spe- cies of marine monster, is bad enough to look at and worse to tackle, but even he inspires less terror than the shark, fiercest of his kind.
 The prevalence of sharks at eastern seashore resorts, where they have at tackled bathers in waters heretofore thought quite safe from them, is keep ing thousands of people on shore at a time when the weather is swelterlng and a salt water bath is real luxury. Nets and motorboat patrols are be- ing employed as protection from sharks. believed to be driven toward the shore by hunger and possibly by recent storms, but timid bathers can not be reassured by any such means, and for this summer at any rate, there will be a marked decrease of bathers at resorts where these savage fish have been seen. The belief that there are no man-eating sharks has been disproved.
 IEORGE H. BELL, commissioner M of the department of licenses, NsU York, is reformer worth while. He has announced that every hand or gan maestro who applies for license will have to give a rehearsal to sho " that his instrument For Harmony is in tune. If there in Hand Organs is one "sour" note,
 there will be no license. The antiquity of the tunes will not matter. Hand organs usually keep about ten years behind the popular music, anyhow, but there must be something like harmony.
 In the large cities, particularly Throughout the east and middle west, hand organs of various shapes and sizes make life a burden in summer, morning, noon and night. It isn't ask ing much of the foreign gentlemen, and their fat womenfolk who usually accompany the kind or organ drawn by sad looking horse, to keep their instruments in tune.
 It's bad enough to hear the old songs that nobody wants to sing, but to have them literally sprinkled with sssour'' notes is adding insult to in- jury.
 SrN the words of the poet Lovelace,
 "Stone walls do not prison make, nor iron bars a cage" John Ojinski, confined in the county jail at Crown Point, Ind, must have had the same
 t h u g h t., al Attractions of though he prob the Modern Prison ably never heard
 of the Cavalier < poet, He was to have been released X next week, after serving term of eight months, but he was so cast down by the thought of leaving, as he told | guard, that he cut his throat.
 His act is, in way, a compliment 6 the Crown Point jail. Reformers have made prison life so agreeable with athletic sports, literary societies, dramatic clubs, moving picture shows and what not that some of the in mates enjoy more comforts and ad- vantages than they ever had before iii their lives. Naturally they quit the X, portals of such institutions with ex- treme reluctance.
 z nc average country jail does not offer many attractions to sojourner within IT walls. and perhaps the one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
HOTEL LOBBIES
Says Soldiers Are We'll Fed

capt. Bob Hawkins of the police de- partment' whose son. Robert, enlisted III the National Guard. received a let ter from his boy yesterday in which ieeulhg conditions at the state mobil- lzation camp were praised
 My boy wrote" said Captain flaw kins' that he had gained 10 pounds In weight and was being fed in good style. Of course he has few courses rom which to select. but Bob insists 'nat meals provided by the army are sufficient for any man. He also wrote that the boys are all being treated well at the mobilization camp anc he has no kick to offer at anvthine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
NOT vINDICTIvE

Doing anything to your car these days?' asked the man who was giving his "flivver' a rub-down.
 No" answered the amateur motorist with pained look. My nature is no vindictive. If it were I certainly would try to letaliote for some of the things my car has done to me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
MUCH MORE SERIOUS

That waiter was very attentive to you.''
 Yes, but his face fell when he saw the size of my tip."
 You shouldn't let that bother you" q didn't. I was afraid he was going to drop my hat"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
Hotel Men Appreciate Invitation

The hotel men of Alabama appre- ciate the invitation which the Bir- mingham Hotel Mems association ex- tended them to hold their meeting here after the storm had made the gather ing at Mobile and Coden impossible D said Adolph Reich of Gadsden, presi- dent of the state association, who was here yesterday. >7-
 We have met in Birmingham several times in the past few years and you may rest assured that the splendid en- tertainment and the courtesies shown the visitors by the local hotel men will tend to make the attendance at the meeting here on July 25 and 26 very large"
 MT. Reich reported that Gadsden and the other cities ip that vicinity were enjoying prosperity and that the large industries there were making business conditions very satisfactory. How ever. we have suffered very heavy dam age recently on account of the floods, M he said. Much of the best land in our section has been under water for some days and the crops on the lowlands are totally destroyed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
A RECORD BREAKER

T had the honor of giving breakfast to track athlete this morning." What do you mean?"
 "A tramp who swore he'd counted 2 million crossties."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
MARY's FLIvvER

MARY'S FLIVVER Mary had little car And hated walking so, Most everywhere that Mary went The car was sure to go.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Mary had a little gum Ard she loved chewing so, That everywhere that Mary went Her jaws were on the go.
 Newark (Ohio) Advocate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
HURTS BUSINESS

Oh, the movie magnate grumbles And complains When aloft the thunder rumbles And it rains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15

BEGINNING THE DAYs O Lord God, hear the silence of each soul, Its cry unutterabie or rutn anu shame, It's voicelessness of self-cOntempt and blame; Nor suffer harp and palm and aureole Of multitudes who praise Thee at the goal, To set aside Thy poor and blind and Iame--Rosettt.
 HI. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
ALABAMA PRESS

Anniston Star Some ancients worshipped the golden calf, but half or the moderns pay attention to the silk-clad ankle.
 Gadsden Journal: Henry Ford may be the prohibition nominee for President. Bet he doesn't get the German-Ameri- can support on that platform. 
 Selma Times: Britannia may rule the waves but hers is only a surface sov- erelgnty. Germany has appropriated the bottom and all the intermediate snaces
 Alexander City Outlook: If it ever becomes necessary for Uncle Sam's armies to start on to Mexico City they may not stop until they reach the Panama canal.
 Troy Herald: Some of the bows who were so anxious to get out of the militia passed the examination easily. while others who seemed anxious to stick" were knocked out on account of minor disqualifcations Twas ever thus!
 Guntersville Advertiser: Instead of changing the name of New Decatur to Canton, why do not the people of the two Decaturs get together and call the two places Decatur or New De- cature? There Is a movement on foot now to call New Decatur Canton, or some other name, in the hopes that it will help the two towns to con- solidate. To an outsider it looks like the proper thing to do would be to consolidate and call the town Decatur, it being the eldest of the two.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
THE oPTIMIsT

What are you doing there?'
 Picking out the best route for a mo- tor trip across the continent"
 q didn't know you had a car."
 T haven't one now, but by practicing rigid economy for the next five years I'll have enough money to buy one."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
THE RUSS

IfiE hUSS The way the Austrians rush to The Russian lines, pell-mell, To give up, makes us think the Russ Has rung a dinner-bell.
 Houston Post. The Russ has rung the bell, alright, And this is not trifle; For what he rang it with. dear Mike, Was military rifle.
 Savannah Press. The Russ deserves the unstinted praise So give him what you please; But all his shells, Dame Rumor says, Are made by Japanese.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
A LA MODE

From the way they dress their hair, One is tempted to declare That these ultra modern dears Are ashamed to show their ears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
THROWING LANGUAGE AROUND

Scribner's.
 "oh. damn control. dearie" he threw at Armstrong.
 Sand, yes" Armstrong threw back. "England's got us, you young Yankee" he threw at her.
 No credit to me-" he threw at one. q know all about that, too," he flung at his stately audience.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15
IN DESPAIR

'Is there such thing as model cook?"
 There may be wax ones," answered the melancholy subordinate, "but I've never seen one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15

There lives within the very flame Of love
 kind of wick, or snuff, that will nbate it. -Hamiet'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15

Anniston Star Some ancients worshipped the golden calf, but half Of the moderns pay attention to the silk-clad ankle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15

Gadsden Journal: Henry Ford may be the prohibition nominee for President. Bet he doesn't get the German-Ameri- can support on that platform.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15

Selma Times: Britannia may rule the waves but hers is only a surface sov- erelgnty. Germany has appropriated the bottom and all the intermediate spaces.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15

' UsN J j. tie army men" and little navy men" were familiar in congressional circles. Not a few esteemed states men were so classed until President Wilson's administration launched it's national defense programme and made preparedness an issue of vital and inn
 mediate concern. Nation to Have Every broad-mind- a Great Navy ed man in public life who has given the question of defense any attention whatever is now convinced of the im- portance of increasing the army and building up the navy. And this is be- ing done.
 An adequate measure for reorgan- izing the army was adopted by large majority in both houses of Congress, and the naval appropriation bill calling for $315, 100000, the largest amount by many millions ever before asked for, now being discussed in the Sen ate, will meet popular expectation. The fact that the Senate bill in- creases the appropriation proposed in the House bill by $50,000,00O indi- cates the growth of preparedness sentiment throughout the country, for this sentiment has been clearly re- flected in the changed attitude of many members of Congress.
 Preparedness costs the taxpayers, but no better investment. can be made
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-07-25
PROGRAM
TO Be EXTENSIVE
Synopsis Of Daily Events Ar.
ranged TO Date Issued
by Management.

Saturday. September y State school
day 900 a m, Judging Of departments /.
200 p m, football game. Oklahoma
university vs. Central State normal
SUNDAY, September 40 O0 a m,
sacred concert, 0n = m. hlppodrome
show 800 p m. fireworks spectacle.
Last DAYS ~ rompeu" "
Monday September lS Old Soldiers
day and Indiana day 900 q m ludV
lur ~ departments. 1nO F. m har
ur,, and running races 500 p M.
Last Oay, of powpcli
lucslat. September 20 Kentucky
Day Governors Diy pOO a. M,
judging at departments > 90 p m,
harness and running races 500 p m,
Last DAYS oi pompeii" "
Wednesday, September H-Oklaho.
ma City Day Grange Day 900 m,
Judging ni departments. 200 p. m.
automobile races 800 p m, Last
DAYS oi pompeii"
Ihursday, September ~ Tulsa Dav
Derby Day Women oi ~ 900 m
Judging oi departments 2nl y m.
harness and running race, 500 p m
las, Days oi pompcii' %
FRIDAY September - Mis,ouf
Dav Press nav Farm Women's Day
Rows and Girls Club Day Oklahoma
City School Dav-90a m, Judging oN
departments 2O0 p m. grand live
stock parade , W p m harness and
running racea 800 p m, Last Day,
Of rompci"
Saturday, September M-Au,omobil,
DAY no y m, automobile races.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-07-25
COURT CENSURES
FAILURE TO TRY

When Jurors appeared in county
court this morning iof special term.
requested hy the county attorney 4, tty
r NJ Hatgrovc for alleged unlawful
possession oi li1uor the count, al,nt
ucy announced h,, evidence was nn'
Nui'icicnl 60 go in trial
This "pceved' Judge 2wi,k. who a,
oatcd he was unal,enhly opposed tu
calling lutieS 10 try cases before m,
county attorney had thoroughly ,n,e,t.
gated The case was dismissed and ,hr
Jurors excused until August : John
DuMats, assistant county attorney said
witnesses IN the llatgtovs case "dnu.
hlc.crns,ed" him