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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
THE ETERNAL TOMBOY

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 ZINE good custom may corrupt the II world, and evil, itself is sometimes
 good carried to excess. The young woman in California who interpreted the call of the wild as a summons to lead the life of a bandit doubtless deserves the restraint which it is sought to impose upon her. She suffers under strange de- 1usiohs, we are told, is open to every evil influence and is thus a danger to herself and the public. But is the fact that she cut her hair short and insisted upon wandering away from home to be counted against her? Many a perfectly sane girl has been moved by similar impulse, though circumstances have pre- vented her yielding to it. Girls are re- stricted within narrower limits than boys, but they have many of the same de- sires; and though we may advise them, in Sir Roger de Coverley's words, Be a good child, and mind your book" we can not prevent their thoughts from straying
 Both in history and romance many deeds of derring-do are credited to what is is many distinguished woman. from Boadicea to Annie Oakley who would have done credit as leader to any trooA of bandits whose bold achievements are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

You can make a woman believe almost everything but the fact that drug store complexion won't fool any one
 It is good thing that we are not all taken at our own valuation. If we were, St. Peter would soon have the IS. R. O. sign outside the pearly gates.
 One reason why a slim princess is glad that she isn't a corn fed is because her ankles do not look as if they had the humps when she is wearing low-cut shoes.
 Our idea of safety first would be to get our life insured for about 900 before We were operated on for appendicitis and then have a surgeon representing the insurance company perform the opera ton.
 There are several ways of telling when a small boy is i'll. One of them is when he comes home from school with his face clean.
 Any man of your acquaintance can tell you that he would like to see how it feels to have more money than brains. When a man sees a department store advertising waists "A OH. he knows
 that the half that is of is the top half. What doth it profit a man to remain a bachelor for 40 years and then get snared ? The longer he waits, the harder he falls. No matter how wise Q man may be. he never has sense enough to connect his
 bad luck with his bad habits. Experience is costly investment and | it is up to you to see that It pays divi- dend
 l Strange as it may seem, red -headed
 girl hasn't any more fire in her disposi- tion than has a brunette. 1 Some men seem to imagine that the way to do good is to make other men as
 miserable as possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18

on record. To ride hard, to shoot straight, to be calm in the face of danger, to be unmoved by any moral scruples-these are not the exclusive privileges of mere man.
 No, the eternal tomboy resides in the heart of every woman who is not shrinking Fanny Price, who finds 1t re- freshing to sit in the shade and gaze upon 'verdue. She is bound by heavy laws as she grows older, to be sure, and has to wear face of joy because she has been glad before. But it is not the sum of real girlhood to play with dolls and learn to embroider nicely. A girl wants to climb the apple tree and slide down the cellar door just as badly as any boy She revolts against the long hair that is the glory of woman, and sometimes cuts it short on the sly. It is impossible, of course, to encourage her in her wilder dreams; no mother would raise her girl to be bandit. Yet there is healthy human instinct in the long ing to be free from the trammels of too monotonous civilization. In the case of the California offender against the proprieties the instinct was not suffi- ciently subdued to reason. But inde- 'pendence carried to excess does not jus tify stern repression. Given the eternal tomboy her chance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
THE WINDS OF LEBANON

By Clinton Scollard. The winds blow out Of Lebanon adown the slopes and valleys, The golden winds of Lebanon. the blue day long; And over olden Lebanon above the cedar alleys
 The mighty sun goes marching to the echo of their song! The winds blow out of Lebanon from vine and myrtle closes, The silver winds of Lebanon, the blue night long; J They bear the scent of cinnamon, they bear the scent of roses And the host of stars goes marching to the echo of their song! The winds blow out of Lebanon with tne'er a sound of chiding, The wooing winds of Lebanon, the whole year long; The winds blow out of Lebanon, where love has it's abiding, And my heart is ever marching to the echo of their song!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
BasebalI Strike in Doubt

'Should the baseball players strike as they propose if the magnates. do not meet their demands. the national pastime will suffer great injury" said pr. James E. Dedman yesterday. Baseball in the past years has proven to be one of the greatest sports and a strike would do more to hurt the standard of the game than anything else.
 "The players seem determined to fight the issue out. l understand that between TOO and 800 players belong to the fraternity. Provided all of these remain loyal and the sympathy of the fans can be enlisted, the players will win the strike
 The magnates seem equally deter mined to fight the issue out Should a majority of the players sign and de- sert the fraternity, then in my opin- ion. the strike would be lost. The major league players must stick 1t out or the fraternity will lose. The minors will play only a small hand in the doings The interest of the baseball world is attracted to the issue, how ever. and the final outcome will be anxiously awaited"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
------------->o-- ->o----------------- HE LOVED MARIE

New York Correspondence in Pittsburg
 Dispatch
 A sailor at the Seaman's Church in- stitute, just in from Cuba, came rat tling down the stairs yesterday with heavy scowl on his face. He ap- preached the institute interpreter and threw down this letter addressed to young woman he had met during the trip: Dear Marie-The more I think of you the worse love you. I seen my sister and she says she will teach you English in two weeks if you cum here. Marie, love you awful and send you $50 for you to cum here. I seen your brother and he is wrighting to you this minute. When I send a girl $50 for anything I'm crazy. As ever, Oscar" ''Well?" said the interpreter. Make that just like 1t is, only in Spanish, explained Oscar, land charge every thing to me. I'll be right up stairs until I get married"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
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HUSBAND WRITES HER PLAYS

Laurette Taylor, the well known ac- tress, says in the January American Mag azine, about discussion she had with a dramatic critic:
 MT. Manners and I some day are going to have a theatre in New York, said I. am looking forward to being an institution. like the Singer building or the woolworth building, or something like that
 What are you going to do when you get your theatre?' said he. Play said T.
 "'Who is going to write your plays?' said he.
 My husband said I.
 "'All of them?' said he. "'Why not?' said I. Actresses come into New York and play Shakespeare, why can't play Manners? When the interview was printed, MT. Darnton said in it, From the noise is- suing from the back of the house, I im- agine that MT. Manners is now at work on his wifes plays!' Hartley and I are peculiar combina- tion, actress and a playwright. Such a combination is good, If successful. The combination of actor and playwright gen. orally fails because of one being too weak to support the other. In our case, one does support or supplement the other Ordinarily when the playwright's work goes into the actress hands. it is out ot his hands. But when MT. Manners writes 1 it is not out of his hands, because it goes
 into my hands. Naturally, he influences you know, like glass of beer If it is poured too fast. I must be regulated He does just that He makes me check UT my vitality and keeps me from running
 over"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
THE ISLAND OF LESBOS

ventor of the Alcaic stanza, much used by Horace, and Theophrastus, the famous philosopher and pupil of Aristotle whom the latter named as guardian of his chill dren and to whom he bequeathed the Aristotelean library and original works. After Aristotles death Theophrastus presided over the Peripatetic school for 8 years, up to the time of his death in 2SJ B. C., when he was given a public funeral in Athens and mourned by the entire populace. Lesches, author of The Little Iliad,' continuance of the Homer ic epic from the death of Hector through incidents relating to the contest of Ulysses and Ajax over the armor of Achilles, WAS also native of Lesbos, having been born in Pyrrha, one of the
 five towns which gave the island the name of Pentapolis in the early days Of it's colonization by the Aeolians from Boeo tia.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
JAcKsoN's BIBLE IS SOLD
From the New York World.

From the New York World
 'Stonewall" Jackson's pocket Bible, which he carried in the Civil war. was sold for $21. 50 in the Anderson galleries to O. Haywood recently.
 On the fyleaf was the inscription, From my dear friend, Dr. R. H. Mor- rison. T. J. Jackson, Lexington, Va, Dec. 2o 1s6o." The same hand wrote on the leafs preceding the title DO your duty and dleave the rest to God" On the blank page opposite the New Testamen, title the same hand had written: Tho the clouds are lowering. I pray that God be with us today. Charlottesville. May ?, 1863. T. J. Jackson"
 Accompanying the book was an affidavit by Thomas Chancellor certifying that the volume was the property of his grand father to whose house Jackson was taker dangerously wounded the night of ths first days light at chancellorsville
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
Lost, But Not stolen

Any one handed person who needs pair of gloves could certainly satisfy his wants following any performance at the Jefferson theatre" said Brown Parks. Honestly, if women didn't think any more of other thiRgs than they do of their gloves we'll I pity the poor hus- bands who have to puy them. After every performance we pick up any number of gloves, quite seldom whole pair. And handkerchiefs! Ye godsl Honestly we get almost barrel full after every show. And another thing, the losers very seldom call for their missing gloves and handkerchiefs. So we give the handker chiefs to the Salvation Army, and the handed gloves just accumulate. And there's another thing, too. People aren't as particular with their umbrellas as they might be. There's always a bunch of umbrellas on hand, too."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
Daring Exploits of
a Gernnam Raider

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 ID EGARDLESS of whether ones IN sympathies rest with the en- tente. or the central powers, 1t must he confessed that the Germans have nrovided most of the big thrills since the war in Europe started. They have spread more big. black headlines across the front pages of American newspapers than all their adversarles put together.
 Another mysterious German raider has played havoc with shipping in south Atlantic waters. Eight British and two French vessels are reported to have been sunk and two British steamships captured. The German warship came apparently from mo- where and after completing her work, escaped.
 The British admiralty confirms the success of the raider, which is thought to have slipped through the allies patrol and bided her time somewhere along the South American coast until the hour came to strike.
 The long list of spectacular feats credited to the German commerce raiders has been added to by the dar- ing of this unknown vessel, whose identity remains secret, although there have been rumors for more than a month that German ship had by clever ruse escaped into the Atlantic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
East Lake Library

"The public library at East Lake Is de- eidedly attractive now" said Carl Milan, director of the Birmingham library sys- tenn, yesterday. "The quarters at East Lake have been doubled in size and have perhaps 50 per cent more space on the shelves. The library is very neat and is doing a greater service now.
 we are getting more money from the city than ever before. but there is a great work to be done in the future. It is grat- flying to see the cooperation that I am getting in this work. Birmingham has certainly evinced splendid spirit since I have been engaged in the work here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
Must Have Good
 Market Conditions

|NROP diversification is fetching S phrase in Alabama these days, but in order to make business sue cess of the new departure modern marketing conditions must be well in evidence. Until the boil weevil made it's appearance cotton was the one crop that the Alabama farmer depended upon for his cash. No matter what happened there was always market for cotton. Buyers were never lack ing.
 But in the uncertainty of crop con- ditions-such uncertainty as we have had recently and as we will have in the next few years-it is a poor farmer who will not have various products to sell.
 Live stock is easily marketed, but in order for the various products of | the soil to be disposed of for profit there should be marketing associa- tion in every county. Cullman county
 has had such an association for many years past, and that, in a measure,
 accounts for Cullman's exceptional
 prosperity. What has been done in
 Cullman can be done in every county. In addition to shipping and market
 facilities the farmers should have
 nearby buyers. Every county should
 have a cannery. In many counties
 there is room for several canneries
 and pickle factories should spring up
 by the score.
 Alabama's new slogan is Buy Home
 Products" and when it takes firm
 hold the marketing problem will be
 much easier of solution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18

W ;.;aaS 1s@1arg sa l7ssps 1seBos
 whose inhabitants were not far behind the Cretans in expressing in rev olutionary outbursts their dissatisfaction with the failure to throw the weight or Greek arms into the scales of war on the side of the entente allies, is the subject of a timely war geography bulletin issued by the National Geographic society from it's headquarters in Washington, which says:
 Lesbos, often called Mytilene, after the islands famous capital and chief city, lies on the eastern edge of the Aegean sea, separated from the shores of Asia minor by channel which at its narrow est point is not more than seven miles across. That part of the mainland op- posite the island was known in ancient times as Troad (the land of Troy) and in Homeric legend Lesbos was given as one of the bounds of the region ruled by King Priam. It lies almost midway be- tween Smyrna and the Dardanelles.
 '.rhe area of Lesbos is about 675 square miles GO square miles larger than the Isle of Pines, off the coast of Cuba), and it's surface is a succession of well wooded mountains and fertile valleys. The shal- low Gulf of Kalloni. entering from the southwest, almost cuts the island in two. Mount Olympus, on the southern promon- tory, reaches an elevation of more than 5000 feet.
 Tn ancient days Lesbos was famous for it's wines, it's oil and its grain, but the vineyards are no longer especially productive. The olive is now the chief product of the island, and much of the oil of this fruit is converted into soap and exported. Figs, almonds, cattle and hides are other articles of commerce. also the acorns of the valonia oak, exten- sively used in tanning and in. the prep aration of vegetable dyestuffs population of 130,0OO is Greek, the terri- tory was under Turkish rule until three years ago, when Greece assumed control following the second Balkan war. The Turk came into possession of the island in the middle of the fifteenth century. when Mohammed II wrested 1t from the descendants of the Genoese noble, Fran cesco Gattilusis. who had received it from the Byzantine emperors in 1854.
 Besides the famous struggles over the city of Mytilene, recited in previous bulletin of the National Geographic so- ciety, several important marine engage ments have been fought in the waters ad- jacent to Lesbos. notably those in which the venetians defeated the Turks in 16o0- sS. and the Greeks bested the same power in 1921.
 "In addition to Pittacus. one of the Seven Stages of Greece. and Sappho. the greatest woman poet of the ancients. Lesbos hall of fame boasts of Terpander, 1.-the founder of Greek classical music and Iof lyric poetry and famous composer of drinking songs; Alcaeus. poet and in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
WIFE MADE HIM MAKE GOOD

In the January American Magazine a writer who believes that married men are more successful than bachelors says;
 Tt was a big and quick rise for Billy Matthews. Yet is w4s not until he mar ried the up-river girl that his real suc- cess came. He had been holding down the city editorship for five years then and had just passed his thirtieth birth day But after that he began to climb. And he never stopped until he was head and front of all the works. His salary was only drop in the bucket so far as income was concerned. Opportunity after opportunity came to him for profit in side lines. He became a rich man. And then he did something which gave him the supreme satisfaction of his career. He re- tuned to the city that had witnessed his youthful failure, and he bought the newspaper on which he started, and from which, for alleged incompetency he had been discharged"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
ARMY "SAUSAGEso

Jeanne Saurin Watkins, in Leslie's.
 One of the most interesting scenes on the French front is the maneuvers of the captive balloons, called "sausages," by the soldiers, account of their shape. The French sausage is of a dark color, which even seems black as it slowly rises while the German is white and glitters brilliantly in the sunlight These captive balloons are a very important factor Tn reconnoitering duty; are, in fact, the eyes of the army and of course become immediately the targets of enemy guns. as soon as they audaciously rise above the hills.
 The balloon is raised and lowered by an autotruck that pulls it back and forth along the line. The operator is connected by telephone with the batteries, and di- rects the fire of the guns as he spies out the enemy positions. He realizes the precariousness of his position, his first act being to attach himself to his para chute, to be prepared for drop should his balloon be destroyed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
Only For
 Last Campaign

57H HE wrangle which George w.
 J Perkins, official head of the progressive party, and the reaction aries of the G. O. P. are having over the reorganization proposition is of interest to Colonel Roosevelt, peren- nial aspirant for a third term in the presidential office, but of little in trest to MT. Hughes, the defeated can didate. The factions were reunited only for the last campaign. It affords amusement, of course, for those of the public who look upon politics as comedy.
 When Associate Justice Hughes was lured from the supreme bench of the United States to accept the re- publican nomination his best friends thought he had made a mistake. Now he himself sees it in that light; but he is philosophic and has gone back with good grace to the practice of his profession. It is not likely that he will ever be drafted" again by the
 republican party. If he should be
 urged to run he would decline the
 honor.
 Mir. Perkins may think it "good business" to start his political maneu- vers now for 1920. But people grow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
Dewey's Death Is
 Mourmed by Nation

~ FORGE DEWEY'S death is N mourned by the entire Ameri- can nation. The brave old admiral had served his country faithfully and well in various grades of the navy. When he found himself at the age of 61 commodore commanding a squad ron in Asiatic waters on April 27, 1898, with orders from Washington to capture or destroy the Spanish squadron in Manila bay, he sank, burned or captured all the "enemy" ships and obtained complete control of the approach to the Philippines. The shot he fired in front of Manila sounded around the world and at once affected the status of the United States as an international power.
 Of Spanish-American war heroes this country had not few. The south furnished it's full share of valiant of ficers, but Dewey stood out as the hero of heroes. Congress was not slow in honoring him. He was pre- scented with costly sword, and in May, 1898, was promoted to the rank of rear admiral; and by special act of Congress in 1899 the grade of ad- miral of the navy on the active list for life was created for him.
 Like most war heroes Dewey was as modest as he was distinguished < Adulation was not to his liking. He preferred to be regarded as a patri- otic American citizen rather than a man of dash and daring. Nothing could turn his head. When his ad- mirers proposed him for the presi- dency he made it plain that he much preferred to remain where he vas at the head of the general board of the navy.
 Admiral Dewey was not only a a'lr.. believer in big navy, as all
 are, but he worked earn
 n.. stly, to promote President
 OlJUureparedness programme
 " dies of the democratic party
 Rsvo undermine the administration
 disparaging Josephus Daniels Dewey was one of the Secretary's ntanehsst defendere.
 No one knows the navy from top to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE CABARET HABIT.

THE CABARET HABIT, To take in all the cabarets E Requires a lot of cash et Particularly when a chap
 Aspires to cut dash. He must placate the walters and The managers as well, And though they rob him shamefully,
 'Tis useless to rebel.
 OUT OF TRAINING. This dance is supposed to represent dryads welcoming the spring" Just so. I presume the fat dryad in the rear, who is breathing hard, is an example of what happens to wood nymphs who don't take enough exercise during the winter months"
 COLD COMFORT. T was arguing with fellow about politics the other day and I'm blest if he QlQnL auVlSe me LO consult an allenlSC! exclaimed the contentious man. Well! wellr'
 q suppose he thought that fine piece of sarcasm?'
 "oh, I don't know Maybe he meant it."
 MONEY THROWN AWAY Curses and then again curses!' why do you anathematize so reck- lessly?"
 Yesterday I handed a waiter dollar, hoping to profit from my generosity in the future "Yes?'' To-day I discover that he is foreign hobleman and has been arrested for bigamy. Now I'll never get any return for my dollar"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-18
OLD FEATHERS

From the New York Telegram.
 On August 28, 1736. according to story handed down in England. a man passing a bridge near Preston, Lancashire. saw two large flocks of birds meet so rap idly that 1SO fell to the ground. He picked them up and sold them in Preston market the same day!