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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
nusiness Excellent

There is apparently no let-up in the great volume of business in Bir- mingham this summer" remarked S. L. Short, cashier for we'll known typewriting concern here.
 Indeed, upon my return recently from a brief vacation trip through Kentucky and Tennessee I found busi- ness in my line humming and 1t seemed as though I would never be able to catch up with the regular rou- tine affairs which had accumulated in my absence. As Is generally known, there Is usually a marked falling off in business during the hot weather but from all indications this will not oc- cur this summer.
 Collections are good and heavy sales are steadily mounting for high records. New firms are going into business and old ones are expanding, and the need of more office help and new machines is felt continually.
 Industrial operations are at full tide and not even extraordinary bad weath- CT conditions are apparently able to dampen the ardor of the sales people,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
THE BRAVE AT HOME

By Thomas Buchanan Reed. The maid who binds her warriors sash With smiles that we'll her pain dissem-
 bles,
 The while beneath her dropping lash One starry teardrop hangs and trembles, Though heaven alone records the tear, And fame shall never know her story, Her heart has shed drop as dear As eer bedewed the field of glory! The wife who girds her husbands s sword Mid little ones who weep or wonder, And bravely speaks the cheering word, What though her heart be rent asundcr. Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear The bolts of death around him rattle, Hath shed as sacred blood as e'er
 Was poured upon the field of battle! The mother who conceals her grief
 While to her breast her son she presses, Then breathes few brave words and
 brief.
 Kissing the patriot brow she blesses. i With no one but her secret God
 To know the pain that weighs upon her. Sheds holy blood as e'er the sod
 Received on, Freedems field of honorl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
WHY coco WAS SOLD

Will Irwin in the Saturday Evening Post.
 The nice old lady in mourning stood just within the door of the Parisian pet rot The parrot responded to her caresses as parrots do, with rubs of his head. with awkward, uncertain biting of her fingers, and with uncouth squawks.
 You will see that he gets good home?" she said. Plenty of green feed every day.
 "I will see to it, madame" he said, and there was sense of emotion under meath his Parisian politeness.
 "Adieu. Coco" she said; and she gently transferred him from her finger to the finger of the petshop man.
 The parrot gave the preliminary squawk of his kind, and responded in excellent voice and articulation:
 "Bonjour, Maman."
 Whereupon the old lady turned and sped as fast as her feet would carry her out of the shop.
 The proprietor of the jewelry shop next door, who had dropped in to gossip with the petshop man, looked after her and asked in the argot:
 Strapped? Broker
 No, said the proprietor, gently scratching the head of Coco, who sat ruff fling his feathers; no. she told me about it when she came to make the bargain. She had one son. He and Coco-they were brought up together. He taught this bird to talk; it is famous talker, and can whistle three tunes. The son, he is dead at Verdun. And Coco talks with the voice of the dead-you see? Listen!" For Coco had started his gurgle. preliminary to speaking.
 Where are my shoes. Maman?" he said.
 How would you like it." began the petshop man. Then he stopped dead. For the jeweler had turned and was look- ing out of the window. And he wore a crepe band about his left arm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20

An Iowa man who had a tattooed fig ure removed from his right arm so he could join the army, contracted blood poison and lost his arm. He is more de- serving of a pension than great many near heroes who are now being paid a monthly stipend by the government. 4 Baltimore woman who has beaten her husband regularly for two years recently pitched in and helped another man beat him. There ought to be a place for her somewhere on the firing line
 Paterson, N. J., wants to know whether or not lobster is an animal Might put the matter up to the chorus girls. They seem to know more about Holsters of all kinds than anybody else.
 A Rhode Island doctor says the worst toothache can be relieved by pressure on certain fingers. He must refer to pressure on the fingers of the dentist who pulls the tooth.
 Chinese traders are doing a thriving business with General Pershing's soldiers A Chinaman doesn't care a boot about his environment, just so he gets the money.
 Jersey mayors protest that sharks are no more numerous this year than during any other summer. That may be true. but they are certainly more ravenous. The United States navy is now well sup piled with anti-aircraft guns. u Is ap- parently easier to get guns to shoot at aeroplanes than it is to get aeroplanes The good Dr. Aked speaks of peace ne- gotiations extensively public" Yet, it was thought that most of the pacihsts went along for the sake of publicity.
 
 A recent movie of General Funston shows him to be aging but he has reached that stage in life when something of the sort may be expected.
  just as if they belonged to him. When Papa" Joffre says my troops" the pos sessive means something.
 
 A negro rapist was hanged legally in Alabama, and the state is modestly re- ceiving congratulations from the eastern press.
 
 Rivers in the Land of the Sky have been making desperate efforts to change the scenery in that locality.
 The soda water clerk who puts on Uncle Sam's fighting togs immediately finds him. self looked up to. . Alexander wept for more worlds to conquer, but that was before the era of trench warfare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
INCAS WE'RE SUN WORSHIPERS Hiram Bingham in the National Geo

graphic Magazine.
 Tn religon the Incas were fond of wor- shiping high places. fine views. and other striking natural objects. such as irregular 'boulders. waterfalls and springs; the wonders of the air and the sky. such as rain, thunder, the starry Armament the moon, and. above all. the sun.
 In cold. mountainous region like the central Andes, 1t was but natural that the sun, so essential to the raising of crops and the comfort of shivering humanity, should have been regarded as their chief
 divinity.
 Of literature. as such they necessarily had none. Their language was probably the Quichua. MT. Hardy of our expedi- ton, who has been studying it. says that flor one who has not learned it in child hood it is difficult. because of the lack of any good grammar in either Spanish or English"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
MANS BEST FRIEND
le Youngstown Telegram.

FrUm tne 1Uungst0Wn IeIe8ran'
 There is something pathetic in the en- forced shooting of an East Youngstown dog that had apparently gone mad through mere home sickness. How many human beings would be as unfalteringly loyal to their old home as this animal that preferred even death to leaving old associations? Or how many human be- irgs would not go mad" if forced to go three days without food or drink?
 Since the dog is so loyal-and the East Youngstown instance is typical and not unusual-hs should be given a square deal in this world. In this intolerably
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
BLONDES ON THE WAIVE
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger,

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 VVYy HAT fis the significance of "the
 w recent alarming farming, decrease de sr,,,ss ii in Boston Advertiser, philosophic observer of social and ethnological phenomena, calls attention? There seem to be no au- thentic statistics on the subject. But the plain wayfaring man is not disposed to question the assertion that there has been a decrease, even if he does not think it alarming He has only to use his eyes with due discretion-to discover that the percentage of blondes among the women he sees is less than it was, say, 20 years ago. Whether the German and Scandi- navian strain in our mingled blood Is los ing it's potency, whether southern Europe Is overwhelming the type of beauty we are wont to consider typically northern, it were bootless to inquire Such gravel matters may be left to deep thinkers like Mr. Herkimer Johnson. In which volume of his monumental work will he deal with the eternal conflict between blonde and brunette? A number of years ago MT. Philip Hale contributed some valuable in- formation which should have been coi- flected into volume but was not. It was generally favorable to the brunette as the higher type. This conclusion. however, has been disputed by other experts. There are many who hold that the blonde can command the more passionate admira- tion.
 The poets may be cited on both sides Most of the heroines of balladry ara blonde; the dark sister is ominously given to treasons, stratagems and spells, yet perhaps more to be pitied than scorned.
 For her blue eyes and yellow hair
 Gard me gang maiden evermair."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
THE KIDLEss CIRCUS

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 The impossible has been achieved once more, and this time not by science, but through disease. Because of the infantile paralysis epidemic. Newark, N. J., has had kidless circus. It was as a precau- ton against the sickness which has been so prevalent in many places that the chief of police ordered that no child under 16 years of age should be allowed to enter the circus which showed in the city. The reports do not state what effect the order had on the attendance although that can be easily imagined. but 1t is known that gloom was everywhere, in the breasts ot young and old alike. And the circus men allow they might just as well take down the ''big top and all the rest of the at fractions for god if there is likelihood of such an order becoming common throughout the country. Fortunately for their peace of mind and the happiness of countless thousands. there is no such likelihood. for the disease is being con- trolled. and with the control is passing the scare.
 While recognizing the rightful applica- ton of the power of the authorities in such case. for the health of the com munity must be safeguarded above all else, there Is rather nice question whether there would not be Justification for taking a chance with sickness by going to the summer show. To deny the kids an opportunity to see the circus is the essence of defined cruelty And what Is circus without kids? How can the elders undergo the much condemned and eagerly sought suffering they experience once a year by trudging to the show grounds if they have not the youngsters to trudge along with? And. verify, where will be the excuse for going when the mandate of the law is that the excuse must stay at home? The kidless circus is an anomaly. thing with no reason for being. That it could become common is beyond all thought. Hence there is cause for countrywide rejoicing that the epi- demic has been short lived and tna, there is no probability of the Newark chief finding emulators throughout the land in every section of which one day at least each summer ninety and nine out of every hundred of the inhabitants are under IS years of age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
CORN KERNELS AN INCH BROAD

From the National Geographic Magazine
 In the middle farming zone of Peru. at an elevation between 5000 and 11.0OO feet. the Cuzco type of corn is the principal crop. It Is characterized by very large kernels. sometimes nearly an inch broad Cuzco is native of the cool tablelands of Peru rather than the tropical valleys. This fact throws new light on it's be- havior in the United States. In the hov summer climate of the eastern states It usually fails to set seed, but it may be ct use on the Pacific coast or other parts of the United States where there is too little heat for our varieties to mature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
DRIVEN TO TT

Tt only makes bad ma&ters worse to apologize when you happen to spill some- thing on the tablecloth."@
 T suppose that's trheJ on formal oc- casions," replied MT. T,wobble, thought fully. but whenever r do anything like that at home Mrs Twubble always looks as If she demanded an apology"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
rmpressed With Play

T saw the exhibition showing of Unborn at the Majestic theatre this aft ernoon, and was tremendously impressed with the import of the photoplay,'' said John w. Anderson, advertising manager of Louis Pizitz. Not only Is the sub- ject matter of this great drama wonder fully interesting and instructive. but the photography throughout showed that ex- treme care had been exercised In its pro- duction.
 T really believe that Unborn will ere ate more of sensation in Birmingham than any photoplay that has been seen here in months. It handles an unusual subject in an unusually interesting way, and should please thousands of Birming- ham people who appreciate the best ,n motion pictures
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
SffI1 n Live One

"As Mark Twain once remarked, the news of my death was greatly exag- gerated," said Nisbet Hambaugh yes- terday. My name was in the list of attorneys who had died which was pub- lished by several of the newspapers last week. Some of my friends in oth- CT places were much surprised and really thought that I had died. How ever, have suffered no i'll effects from my sudden demise and seem to be in the best of health. It does make a man feel little strange, though, to read his name among those who have died"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
LoATH ITO GO

Tt is said that when a man is drown ing he lives over hist whole life in few seconds"
 And despite the@fact that the average life is a series of failures and disappoint- ments, that doesn't prevent him from reaching any thes less eagerly for the proverbial straw"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
Many Conventions

T have just returned from trip east. |" said E. H. Colley, manager of the Prin- cess theatre, yesterday. T don't believe ever run into so many conventions on one trip in my life. In New York l struck the convention of the National Education association. The Shriners were at Buffalo, the Elks at Baltimore and the Rotarians at Cincinnati
 The Shrine convention at Buffalo was a wonderful sight The Shriners are get ting to be such a large organization that 1t has become merely question of what city can take care of their conventions. Buffalo did not have near enough accom- modations for them
 ''The people of the east appear to have plenty of money and it is being freely circulated there."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
THE PITY OF TT
From Youths Companon.

From Youth Companon
 We learn from an exchange that an Englishman and Scotsman who trav- eled to Egypt together paid visit 10 the Pyramids.
 The Esglishrnan was lost in admira- tion and asked his companion for his opinion.
 The Scotsman shook his head sorrow fully. "Ach, mon," he said with a sigh. what lot O masonwork no to be bringin ln ony rent!''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
PACIFIC POINT OF VIEW

PACIFIC POINT- OF VIEW lis wasting time to argue with pacifist wherever found. Although you know your subject well, The reasons you advance are proud, He still contends it's better far
 To take swift kick in the rear And say no word about it, than To go to war. He sheds a tear For happy homes made desolate And battle fields with blood inabrued, And rather than endure such woes, Would wear the badge of servifxde.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20

The common people swarm like sum mer flies,
 And whither fly the gnats but to the wuns Henry VI.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20

BEGINNING THE DAY-0 God, enter life in a world already halr finished. I rejoice in the tools, the processes, the facts, the achieve ments standing ready to my hand. Help me to use them humbly ana with thanksgiving, as the gifts or God. And call me to the things yet undOne, to the work of a world that is only half finished. In Chrisrs name. Amen-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
SAD CASE

"Doppel is fine illustrationS of the irony of fate"
 Tn what particular?''
 He has always aspired to "a military career"
 "Yes?'
 And the nearest he ever got to it was taking orders for 8 life ofkNapoleon in two volumes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
AMBITIOUS PLANS

Are you prepared to do anything fol the heathen?" asked the mission worker T should say we are!" answered thu capitalist, proudly. We've sent some oi our best salesmen to China, and predici that in a short while hundreds of we'll to-do Chinese will be enjoying rides 1T the best motor car made in America"
 DESERVES IT There goes pious man." Everyone says so." "A mansion is reserved for him In ths skies"
 T truly hope so. I overheard him just now in real estate office pleading with his landlord to patch his roof"
 RESTING ON ITS LAURELs You say this town has turned out two famous baseball pitchers?" Yes" replied the disgruntled citizen. I'm afraid the effort was too much for our town. IL hasn't moved peg since"
 WHY LEAVE IT?
 The summer resorter
 Is anxious to roam,
 But says solid comfort
 Is still found at home.
 WORTH TALKING ABOUT What are the wild waves saving As they splash upon the beach, Where bathing girls are straying? I'll bet it's Pipe the peachi"
 Youngstown Telegram. With bathing girls upon the beach, In one-piece suits. I trow, The wild waves won't be saying much, They're really speechiess now
 Gainesville Telegraph Republican The bathing beauty pays no heed To what the waves are saying For well she knows her lovely form Was fashioned for displaying
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20

W. H. Blauvelt and E. C.. Witherby of Syracuse, N. Y., arrive in Birmingham to superintend the opening of the big Semet-Solvay company plant at Ensley the latter part of the month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
WORTH TALKING ABOUT

This preference for light over dark beauty is often expressed by the Eliza. bethans as well; it was a compliment to tell brunette she was fair.
 "Flatter and praise, commend, extol their
 graces;
 Though ne'er so black, say they have an-
 gels faces.'
 So Shakespeare might have said to the much-discussed dark lady, of the son. nets. Modern poets have been more hos. pitable to the brunette though the prefer ence for blue eyes Is strong with them. Byron. whose taste was decidedly com- prehensive, speaks of one who walks :n beauty like the night, but hastens to s.dd, lest he should be accused of discrirsaa- tion between Trojan and Tyrian,
 And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes," thus justifying his gallantry at the ex. pense of his grammar. Does the com. plexion really matter to the eye of love! The blondes may be diminishing in num- bers, but if so. no loud outory has arisen from their partisans.
 May not the ultimate form of feminine beauty be compromise? Red hair long unpopular, is now greatly admired It is not necessary, as 1t was once, to be a blonde burlesquer," even for advertising purposes. Is 1t possible that the alarm in decrease in American blondes may be more apparent than real that the bru- nettes are now sailing under their own colors? This is perhaps cynical sus- picion. Yet there must be something more than nature in the strange ability of women to follow the fashion in beauty as in other things. The problem is full of difficulties. But that the blonde is on the way to extinction Is too much to believe.
  hot weather he needs plenty of drinking water just as man does and water should be left about handily. Otherwise there will be more mad dogs for their aI- legged madness is usually nothing moro than suffering from heat. The proposal that all dogs be muzzled is repulsive and should not be considered. It is just means of punishing the dog for the care lessness and neglect of his owner. Let the dog run loose just as the child runs loose in warm weather, but see that the dog, like the child. is not deprived of tha things necessary in helping him to with. stand the heat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
From Age-Herald Files

Wednesday. July 20, 1sss.-Birmingham delegation to the Confederate Veterans reunion in Atlanta, under Gen. Fred s. Ferguson, leave in a special train. Miss Lillian Roden is chief sponsor for Ala bama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20

German-American citizens of Birming- ham assert their allegiance to the United States in the event Kaiser Wilhelm de- clares war because of the Irene incident in Manila bay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20

the big Ensley steel mill without for mality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
RESTING ON ITS LAURELs
WHY LEAVE TT?

The summer resorter
 Is anxious to roam, But says solid comfort Is still found at home.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-12-14
OvERsTOCKGl,.

To the Public:-
 We have just finished stock talk Ing, and find that we are heavily overstocked so are making enorm- ous reductions in Hardware-as much as 50%o in certain lines. Not ,withstanding immense advances out side, especially in Hardware and Metal Goods, we are still selling on the basis of goods purchased the past two or three years.
 We will sell for cash only at these prices, and for limited time, until we bring our stock down to the re- quirements of the Camp.
 If you have an order to be filled, let us figure on it; we can save you money. We have proved it oo others, we can prove it to you.
 DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-12-14
LEAP YEAR DANCE.

Small Eagle Hall. Rebekah Lodge. Friday. December 15, Adm. Ladies 75c., Gentlemen free.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-12-14
ALASKA NEWS ITEMS
 AND TOWN TOPICS


 John Felkel will leave today for Penny river with his. own dog team He is going to do some work on mining ground in the vicinity of Penny river.
 Clothing cleaned, pressed, altered and repaired at the Nome Tailoring Co.,, Next door to Segerstrom and Hagen's.
 John Lutzinger will leave today for Sunset creek to do some mining and representation work in that sec tion.
 The wireless reported from St. Michaels that the lost man Claw rence) had not been located as yet. Three more of his dogs returned on Monday and men tracked the dogs trail back three miles over the ice and found tracks of sled and man. Half a dozen parties are now look ing for him but they were afraid to go far out on the ice until the wind changes.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-12-14
LOCAL a4o W. F. M.

The regular meeting of the Nome Eaine Workers Upion, Local No. a4O, of the w. F. of M., is held every Saturday evening at 8 p. m. at Miners Hall. Office hours l p. m. to 6 p. m., p. n. to p. m.
 PHIL CORRIGAN, President.
 JOHN A. WILSON, Sec.-Treas.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-12-14

CARPENTERS AND JOlNERS.
 Local Union I7S9, Carpenters and soinexs of America, meets every Fri day at Al Orland's shop Front St
 Carpenters Headquarters. Feder- al Labor Hall. at p. m.