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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
LUXE M,LUKE SAYS

The average employe seems to imagine
 that 1t is his duty to watch the clock.
 in spite of the fact that the boss hires
 a timekeeper for that purpose.
 A well built girl who is wearing knee.
 length skirts may claim that she is
 standing on her limbs and not on her
 legs, but anyone can see that she isn't
 standing on her dignity. Men are only human. after all. That's why even preacher can't keep from laughing when a stuttering man starts to swear.
 Some people are as stingy with fresh necessities of life.
 A barber knows enough not to eai onions. But he doesn't seem to know enough not to scald all the hide off your map with a hot lowell. Life is so monotonous with some old
 men that they get up at daybreak tc study the thermometer. Once in awhile doctor will come across a woman who has undermined her health by reading too many health articles.
 When a man gets the idea that he is better and purer than other men, il doesn't take other men long to discover that he isn't fit associate for them Women are supposed 10 be tender hearted. And they are until they pas: | judgment on one of themselves. What has become of the old-fashonet man who when asked how everything | was, would reply: "All Is quiet along I the PotomacT'
 | Any boy can tell you that most any dummy could be 8 school principal, but that it takes brains to work out tn, | problems in the arithmetic. The fellow who gets peeved when othel | men ask him foolish questions will gt
 and get married and have to listen tt
 foolish questions the rest of his life. l Leave it to any doctor and he'll tel you that the old-fashioned simple hom,
 remedies are all poppycock and foolish
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
From the Christian Science Monitor.

From the Christian Science Monitor.
 OT7HE early spaniards in the Amer
 icas introduced. among other cus-
 S toms. since borrowed by their Anglo Saxon successors in the northern continent, that of calling such places as they did not name for saints, after the first object, or condition, or circum- stance that happened to strike their fancy. Mexico and the Central and South American countries abound in in- stances illustrative of this fact. So also do those parts of the United States that were once in Spanish possession. The Spaniards found some silver in a stream, River of Silver, and the country through which 1t flowed they named Argentine, from argentum. They found a camp site in which the air was congenial, and they named 1t Buenos Aires. They had found some huge human footprints on the mainland to the extreme south, and they immediately called it Patagonia, from patagon, & large foot, and by this name even the territory from which Argentina was, at later date, carved was origin ally known.
 Patagonia is, or has been, one of those parts of the earth that seem remote, even to their nearest neighbors People round ing the horn, and catching a glimpse Of the coast line, or finding themselves in the Strait of Magellan, between T1erra del Fuego and the mainland, or out among the Falklands, regard Patagonia as a country very far away At least, this is the inference which one draws from the diaries of most travellers and the accounts of most explorers. Darwin, in his voyages of a Naturalist" Lady Florence Dixie, in her Across Patago- nia," and Hudson, in his ''Idle Days in Patagonia" succeeded in everything save the one point of bringing the land within some reasonable distance of the reader. Tho last named writer, being 13 years later than Lady Florence Dixie with his first edition, in 1893. was able to bring Patagonia closer to the rest of the world than did any of his predecessors.
 After lapse of nearly a quarter of century. MT. Hudson's collection of ra mbles has been reissued. His Idle Days in Patagonia" has never quite given
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
THOMAS ARTHUR DE LALLY

beaten only once, that he had distin-
 guished himself at Fontenoy, etc., etc. Wornout with having spoken so much,
 he flung himself on the bed without
 dressing and only slept for about an hour. When he awoke his alarm returned and at 8 o'clock they asked him to take something to eat, so that he could speak
 to his judges with greater calmness,
 but he refused. At noon hour he was
 taken to the chapel. where he shud-
 dered when the usher told him that he
 must get down on his knees to hear his
 sentence. He showed signs of impa-
 tience, more than once during the read
 ing, he arose and recoiled with horror.
 when the usher came to his condemna-
 moment and he went and sat in 3. cor-%
 ner of the chapel, covering his face with his hands. He drew out a compass which
 was concealed in the sleeve of his coat,
 and smote himself on the side, an inch
 below the heart Those who were pres
 ent rushed over and prevented him from
 repeating the blow.
 The first president being notified of what had occurred, ordered the execution
 to be advanced. but, instead of a hired carriage accorded on the demand of the family of the criminal. it was decided that the execution should take places as usual Lally tried strangling himsef by swallowing his tongue, but was pre- vented by the executioner. who seized hold of his arm. It was decided that bit should be placed in his mouth. After showing considerable weakness at first, once on the scaffold, he behavea with heroic firmness. He went on his knees and stretched out his neck, but the executioner missed his aim and cut off
 merely portion of the pericranium. His father pushed him aside, seized the sword and with a single blow severed the head from the body.
 It is said that the popularity of the French Parliament was greatly damaged in the eyes of the people by the con demnation of Lally, and this disgraceful act still fills every honest mind with
 horror and indignation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
SOUL WITH SOUL

By Robert Browning. Round us the wild creatures. overhead
 the trees, Underfoot the moss tracks. life and love
 with these! to wear a fawn skin. thou to dress
 in flowers All the long lone summer day, that
 greenwood life of ours Rich pavilioned rather-stili the world
 without Inside-gold- -ruffed, silk-wove silence
 round about, Quaint those on purple-I at watch and
 ward Couched beneath the columns gaze, thy N, slave, loves guard! So. for us no world? Let throngs press
 thee to me! Up and down amid men, heart by heart
 fare we! Welcome saualid vesture. harsh voice.
 hateful face! God is soul. souls and thou; with
 souls should souls have place!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
Submarines Menace
 the Worlds Safety

THE submarine situation Is again U causing alarm. German U- boats sank more than a million tons of merchant ships in April. Following that disastrous month there was a sharp reduction in the tonnage lost, but the total for June has already reached proportions which may ap- proximate if not exceed the losses in April.
 The Cincinnati Times-Star, discuss ing the submarine menace, issues a warning to the American people:
 That a vigorous offensive is the
 best form of defense has never been
 more clearly shown than in the
 present submarine crisis. If 4 the
 U-boat is conquered we can go
 ahead and win the war. If the
 U-boat is not conquered, the fu-
 ture of our whole civilization Is
 in jeopardy. For let no American
 think that 1t Is only England that
 is threatened by the undersea
 menace. The individual American, who still looks dispassionately on
 the war is in almost as much per
 sonal danger as the individual
 Englishman or the individual Frenchman!
 Merely trying to build ships faster than the U-boats can sink them is a roundabout way of defecting the Germans and most expensive way. Instead of spending millions of dol lars for vessels to serve as targets, the more logical plan would be to strike directly at the U-boats. Thou sands of inventions have been offered to the government, but the U-boats continue their deadly work and have lately shown an increased efficiency
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
From the Pttsbl

From the Pittsburg Post
 1 @ N November 1. in 1762, Thomas lV Arthur de Lally. denounced to S the government as the sole cause of the loss of the French possessions in l India, was thrown into the bastile by ! an order of the King. There can be 1 little doubt about Lally having been to a great extent an innocent victim, whose ruin was caused by the violent
 temper, general unpopularity, and jeal- ousy on the part of the naval comman- der Conte dAche. The harshness with which he was treated in the bastile ex- cited the greatest indignation in England. Admiral Byng. said the English, was tried by courtmartial and executed at once, whereas Lally was kept for years pining in prison. while Parliament de- liberated on his fate, and the manner in which he was executed Is a disgrace to a civilized nation.
 When Pondicherry surrendered, I.ally became a prisoner of war. and was sent to England. There he asked and ob- tained a permission to return to France to stand trial. He wrote letter to Choiseul stating: T bring you my head and my innocence" Choiseul. yielding to the clamor of Paris. ordered Lally to be thrown into the bastile where he lan- guished for 16 months before being ex- amined.
 | By the Parliament of Paris. on May | 6, 17e6, Lally was sentenced to die, and after three days the sentence was car ried out. He was condemned to have his head cut off and the execution took place May 3.
 The previous evening at 10 o'clock, he
 was transferred from the bastile to the Conciergerie, to hear his sentence. The prison was we'll guarded by detachment of infantry at the gates and at the
 corners of the streets. He showed great
 uneasiness when he arrived. because the
 mayor of the bastile left him without
 bidding him adieu. He passed the night
 between fear and hope. He related that
 he had fought nine battles, and had been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
Demand For Mas0ms
 And Carpenters

NNTHEN industrial depression in WV this country set in with the beginning of the European war it was followed in this section two years later by crop disaster. In Birming- ham the building trades were extreme ly dull. Masons and carpenters by thousands were unemployed and many of them left for other cities, only to find conditions everywhere about the same. It was not until boom in iron and steel, and then coal had got in full swing that times in general im- proved.
 Building contractors still found new construction work dragging. It is only now that the situation has changed for the better. This is going to be busy summer with building. To begin with, the expansion of the Tennessee company's plants will call for large number of draftsmen and bricklayers. For the first time in three years there is going to be a rush of building in many lines-fac- tories, stores and residences. Not a few mansions will be erected and be- fore winter Birmingham will probably witness the most stirring period in its entire history.
 Will the real estate market resume it's old time activity? Every sign points to such a result.
 
 It will be sad day for the movie front as a Red Cross nurse However, the hour for her departure has not yet been announced. X Uncle Sam can get more officers than ! he needs, but Uncle Sams army is not the Central American kind,
 
 German newspapers are going to have a hard time making 1t appear that the liberty loan was a failure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
HOW ARTISTS FOOL ENEMY

From Special Service for Artists in War
 Time" by Ernest Peixotto, in the
 July Scribner.
 N FRIEND writes me from Paris
 N\ that one day. while driving through the forest of Saint Ger main, he came upon convoy going to the front-six big 155-mm. guns dragged by motors and all the personnel and ann munition tractioned by motor also, but automobiles of such very strange aspect. They were painted in chromes and greens and blue and purples to represent rocks and trees and leaves and shrubs, like scenery, so as to be completely dissimu- lated from the enemy. My companion said, 'Regardez comme ills sontf bien camoufles,' and I said. Well. I am glad that at last they are making use of the talent of the painters in a practical way"
 Last summer. just after the battle or the Somme. this same friend met man he knew, the head of one of tho great designing houses of Paris, wearing his uniform and proudly displaying on his breast his croix de guerre avec 'palmes, the highest military honor You are back on leave?" he asked. "Yes and mo-" was the reply 1T am at present on post near Paris. I am camoufleur. Then he told some stories of the camou- flage, among them this one:
 Just before the attack on the Somme the German aviators were very active and made it difficult, except at night, to move large bodies of troops to the front. One road especially. leading from small forest but lying straight and l white over the fields. was closely | watched It became most important to get some big guns and many men over 1 this road and into position by the first | of July. So the camoufleurs got very busy and painted three kilometres of white roadway bordered with green, and when the enemy aviators arose to rec onnoitre they reported nothing moving on the road from Amiens,' while all day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25

Of one thing we may be reasonably sure. In years to come no travellers from America will place wreath on the tomb of General Won Hindenburg. It was too bad. but Birmingham sim ply had to show up Atlanta in register ing young men for military service and and subscribing to the liberty loan.
 * *
 Adventures In Lobsteria make spicy reading for dwellers in the rural dis tricts who have an idea that there are no decent people in New York
 k F
 Washington Irving poked good-natured fun at the ability of Frenchmen to dance. In these latter days they are showing the world how to fight. The voice of the dietician telling us what not to eat may soon be drowned out by the clamor for any kind of food that will fill an aching void.
 k *
 A large number of Cincinnatrs recruits for the regular army have names of German origin. Hyphenism is thing of the past in this country
 
 That women who tore down "suf'' ban- ners in Washington says she is from Missouri Evidently from one of Mis- souri's fighting precincts
 Sarah Bernhardt is making preparations for another tour next season. Sarah has no idea of quitting this life until the Kaiser gets his.
 The Port of Missing Men" was the rather felicitous title of a novel New York seems to be the port of missing girls.
 Birmingham's street tax will be re- pealed. That will give a large number of indignant citizens a chance to cool off.
 Advance bulletins i1dicate that the watermelon crop will help to make life worth living during July and August.
 
 War has so obsessed the poets that there has been a considerable reduction in the output of June sonnets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
Y t %
Increasing Strength
 of War Russia

or w ar tNNSSIal
 IE7 VERY day of Russia's recent free A dom has been fitted with hope of a permanent democracy throughout the the land once dominated by autoc- racy. What seemed like chaos is now crystallizing into stability.
 The Russian commissions presence in Washington Is most reassurlng. The speech delivered Saturday by the head of the delegation had the true ring. If there had been any sign of wavering on the part of the provisional government it was great ly dispelled when the representatives of the new regime was heard from.
 Added to the declaration of the gpokesmen in this country are the assurances of statesmen in Petrograd that free Russia has come to stay. The people of that now progressive realm have no idea of returning to monarchical form of government. Czarism has gone forever and even constitutional monarchy has few ad- vocates among political leaders.
 The Russians have shown that they appreciate the interest the Washing ton government is taking in their vel fare. That Russia will work out it's destiny along lines of true democracy is the desire of every lover of liberty the world over. And the first earnest of such an attitude will be the nations readiness to take up with it's old time energy the shield and buckler in be- half of principles all humanity is struggling for.
 New Russia, backed and applauded by the United States, as well as the other allies, will scarcely be found wanting. Its strength, at any rate, seems to be steadily increasing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
CONRAD AND KrpLING

From the Chicago Herald.
 Today they stand as they have stood for years, Kipling supreme in words, Conrad in understanding. The English language never knew a firmer master than the heart of the sailor more deli cate interpreter than the other. Each has many other gifts than that which is his greatest. Kipling sees more of the world at a glance than most men in 8 in language not his own has probably never been equaled. Kipling is, or was, the story teller unexcelled; every trick of the trade was in his bag, even the best trick of all, laconism. Some have dropped out, apparently, in the last few years, or perhaps are only mslaid; cer- tainly Puck was a little inferior to Mowgli. and we have had nothing in the last three volumes to equal the Brush wood Boy" or "The Man Who Would Be King But, even so, whom shall we compare with him?
 Conrad as 8 story teller has one de- feet. His events move in mist & kind of luminous fog, marvellous as an achievement in atmosphere but some times not quite transparent. Ills dark. spotlighted stage tries the ordinary eye a little. Kipling has had therefore. and always will have, much the wider appeal. Boys and soldiers will continue to be attracted by him. as Sir Walter Scott humbly remarked of his own poetry; whereas Conrad demands from his read CTS something of his own passionate in terest in emotional psychology. Never theless, there remaineth a rest for the people of God;" in Conrad's sympathetic, almost divine comprehension many a reader finds relief from tho well nigh savage assertiveness of Kipling.
 Both have come anew before the pub lie in the last month. Kipling in a series of stories, "The Eyes of Asia" and Con- rad in 'TThe Shadow Line" This Is not review. Most of the responsibilities of a critic we would not venture tc usury Nevertheless, one such responsi- bility, that of recommendation, we boldly undertake. The reader who wishes to find himself in the best company the world today affords in fiction will do vel to give hand to these two. so very different, so alike in supremacy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
HOTEL LOBBIES
LearnIng to swim

T overheard 8 funny conversation on the elevator" said Berney Loveman, who is here recovering from an operation be- fore returning to his regiment at Mont Gomery. "One lady was telling an- other about taking swimming lessons, and how perfectly lovely 1t was. And have you learned to swim?' asked her companion. oh, no, she answered, so far have only tried on my bathing suit, and 1t is a perfect fit "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
Drives Over From Gadsden

T do not usually brag," said W. J. Wilcox, the jolly superintendent of the big water plant of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad company, "but while l had charge of the construction of the big dam I happened to be over in 8 nearby camp and saw a man working in cement and casually looked on. He ob- served me and remarked that he knew all about cement work because he used at least s5000 worth year.
 He then asked me if I knew any thing about 1t. I replied not much That is because you have never used enough to get your hand in' said he It was more than I could stand. so ] fired back, That maybe so but I sold tho empty sacks used the year before for $40, 000,' and walked away, leaving him thinking I was either the biggest liar in the state or just out of Tusca- loosa.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
VIII Miss MT. Crocknrd

'I certainly will miss Mir Crockard, |" said accommodating Tom Lyle assistant superin tendent of the Birmingham Southern. He knew his business and he knew men. He goes with the well wishes of thousands of his employees. We hope and believe he Is going to make he is not only capable, but is an untir- ing worker"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
HIS GRIEVANCE

From Punch.
 What makes your husband so cross these times?''
 He keeps fretting dreadful because he's over the age. and so he can't be a conscientious objector"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
WAR CONSERVATION

Isaac F. Marcosson in Everybody's Mag
 azine.
 Tn the midst of monster destruction an enormous conservation Is achieved. Only the dead are laid away. Nothing is 'scraped" They make laces out of east off shoes, redeem shattered guns, convert refuse fat into glycerin. replenish the flickering fires of life itself War Is not all waste.
 And when this moving picture. more animated than any imaginative play ever thrown upon cinema screen, has passed before you, you realize. even before g single shot is fired. that energy and or ganization of the highest order have been tested to well-nigh incredible extent.
 Itedawns on you that war Is work!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25

BEGINNING THE DAY - My Father, teach me that, when I go to the east to give, the east has n gift for me. Show me the wealth of what I call the poor, the wisdom oK what call the ignorant. the strength of what I call the weak. But assure my cause by giving me a mind to serve. In Christ's name. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
Red Crnss Costume

T certainly think the. Red Cross cos tune is becoming" said John Hines. They make even a homely woman look like a Madonna. I wonder if the cap and veils, or whatever you call that stuff tha. falls down on their shoulders, is hot?"
 "of course not" said bystander who overheard the remark It's cheese cloth and full of air holes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25

long, for five long days, continuou0 line of artillery and thousands of troops passed under the painted roadway to take their assigned places for the great attack So you see that we painters are worth something after all and thai this canvas was the result of genie as well as genius!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25

which means that something drastic must soon be done, or it may be too late to use the ships which America is now building.
 Once the U-boat problem is solved, the war will be brought to a speedy ending. The submarines are today the strongest weapons in the hands of the Germans and they are being used as last resort to win a victory for Germany. American genius should be able to cope with the submarine, but there is no time to lose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
Origin of sheboyEan

T live in Wisconsin and at home l can only wear 8 summer suit about a month during the summer, and at night a top coat is comfortable the year round" said J. c. Tragnitz, a visiting Rotarian from Sheboygan.
 He explained that the name was given to the town to chronicle the disappoint- ment an old Indian chief felt because his wife always presented him with man child when he craved at least one squaw In trying to tell a neighbor in broken English his sorrow. he said on the birth of his latest son. 'She-boy-again,' which was contracted into Sheboygan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25
Great Civic Association Campaign

~-SSo~A~NNAOAA
 That membership campaign of ours Is going to be a great success" said c. L. Harold, field marshal of the Civic association campaign. Everyone of the workers has determined to get his share of the new men, and there will not be spot in Birmingham that might hide good men that will not be thor oughly searched over by the commit teemen.
 "Over 1000 men must be obtained at any cost. and the. workers expect to have this number signed up by the third day. The campaign will continue the full five days. however, and the more men that are gotten the better pleased the workers will be. At the close of this campaign, Birmingham can probably number the Civic nsso- citation among the things she has that are the biggest of their kind in the south"