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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12
FOR SALE

l so h. p. butt strapped triple riveted boiler. 125 h. p. butt strapped triple riveted
 boiler. 100 h. p. boilers. good for 115 lbs. work ing pressure. 100 h. p. boilers, good for 100 lbs. work ing pressure. 1 60-inchx14-foot boiler, good for 100 lbs,
 working pressure. 1 54-inchx14-foot boiler good for 100 lbs.
 working pressure. 1 42-inchx12-foot boiler, good for 100 lbs. working pressure.
 F vertical boilers ranging from h. p.
 to IS h. D., good for 100 pounds work
 ing pressure. 30 h. D. portable boiler skids. good
 for 100 lbs. working pressure. 1Sx20-nch engine. 12x1S-inch self-contained side-crank en-
 zine. new 20-inch drill presses 1 second hand 20-inch drill press. 1 26-inch shaper. 7ayard Milwaukee concrete mixer. h. p. gasoline engines (new). l new power hacksaw. l No. Il Cameron pump. l No. Il Cameron long stroke pump. 1 single surfacer. 1 self-feed ripsaw. 1 Latta Martin air pump, 21k-inch dis
 charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12
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FOR SALE

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12
WANTED-FEMALE HELP
LAND WANTED
WANTED-TEACHERS

 WANTED--At once, high school princl- pal; salary sl200: primary teacher, $50, register al once; fee. Sl. The University Teachers Agency. Gainesville, Ga
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12
WHOSE FARM

w I1OOE I AICM Will this be tomorrow? It will be yours if you see it first; 40 acres. 15 acres cleared and fenced; 4-room house. well on porch, stable. 20 mixed bearing fruit trees; 20 acres level, balance rolling and in tim Der; II miles from Birmingham; price only $500; can make terms, See or write at once to Thos. R.. McCarty, Mgr
 McCarty Realty Go, Inc. 232 BrownM Marx Bldg, Birmingham,
 Ala 5-29- tf- tu- tn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12

zeoeSo~c~-iI.SO,!NN- ON 9ALE 1Erl,9-~-o-@.o4yo-o FOR SALE = Ninety-day Early Velvet Beans, good quality, S1.90 per bushel, f. o. b. Mobile. Van Ant Werp's Seed Store. 6-12-7t 15l5 Tuscaloosa ave, West End. Phone West End 1SO. 6-10-3t FOR SALE-Household furniture, bed- room, dining room, parlor set; owner leaving city Apply 50S N 23d st.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-03
Keep Ticks Out of Coumty

If the members of the board of wish to the will of the people of Jefferson county they will hasten to scnd the resolution of Tuesday the effect of which would stop the dipping of cattle in the county and bring back the tick
 By overwhelming the citizens of Jefferson county declared that they wanted the county free of cattle ticks More than $20000 has been spent in the work the county virtually free of ticks The markets of the world to cattle from Jefferson The time just ripe for de veopment of the cattle industry the county great
 The boards action backward step The board has hear ened to the protests of few lazy but noisy farmers who unwilling to drive their cattle mile two to the dipping
 The real farmers the intelligent lers of the so the who have the county future at heart all in sympathy and ac cord with the desire to be rid of ticks forever
 The board of will make greater mistake-coud deliver serious bowto their comty-than bringing back the detesed and disease breeding cattle tick
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-03
State of War Is Brimgimg a Boom

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-03
THE EUROPEAN SOL WENT

This doubtless means that, in effect, it is Prussia are to be allowed freely to use their mother tongue. This is almost revolution in itself The whole stupid and brutal attempt to force the Poles to give up their national spirit-long proved failure-is to be dropped. Such Is Warsaw are to have self government, the Poles in Posen can no longer be ground under the heel of Prussian autocracy.
 It has long been commonplace to pre- dict that the war would bring great po- lit:cal changes in Europe. But they are now in sight upon vaster scale than anybody dared to prophecy. The old or der is breaking up under our eyes. More and more openly are men saying that kingcraft, with the statesmanship which served it. has written It's own doom. What answer can there be to Bernstein when he rises in the Reichstag to affirm that "distrust of the government was strengthened by the blundering which now threatened to add the United States to the long list of Germanys enemies? The indictment of the old regime is crushing-it is written in flood and tears and the misery of millions. The Kaiser
 'did not will this war" No; he merely wiled a localized war which would add prestige to his policy and aggrandize his royal house. But the flame and the fury spread beyond his control, till now the whole world is involved, and the makers of the war stand aghast at their own folly Meanwhile, the decree of death to the old system is visible on the sky in letters of fire. However the war ends, the people will never again put their heads in the former moose. If Germany loses the war; the fate of those who dragged her into it cannot be in doubt. It were better for them that millstones were hung about their necks and that they were drowned in the depths of the sea Even if Germany wins, or accepts a disappointing peace, the old govern ment cannot survive. There will at least be a ministry responsible to the peo- ple's representatives, not merely to the Kaiser's whim. Everywhere the Europe of 1914 is in solution. Men have tasted of liberty and seen that it Is good. This revolution, at least, will not go back ward. Heaven send that it go forward soon so far as to put an end to what the Russian workingmen, in their mani- festo, call this awful murder
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-03
STAGE DOING ITS BIT

From the New York Telegram
 Known of all men Is the great heart of those of the stage in the matter of charity, and they are not behind when it comes to patriotism.
 Two examples have come to light illus trating this. Sidney Drew, after ad- dressing the meeting of the midday re- cruiting committee, inquired if there was anyone present who would enlist If he had no one dependent upon him.
 One young man responding, Dr. Drew obligated himself to pay $10 week to the volunteers mother during the duration of the war; commencing as soon as he had been accepted.
 Ten days before MT. Thomas A. Wise wrote the Evening Telegram that, being too old and too fat for service himself, he would pay to the mothers of any two actors prevented from volunteering owing to financial difficulties the sum of slO g. week each for the duration of the war If they were accepted
 When all the returns are in the stage will be found to have done it's bit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-03

disappointed, almost, at this stage. over the disappearance of the magnificent car riages, band wagons. and Roman char iots, as they would be If the calico ponies, the zebras, the sacred cows, the drome- daries and the elephants were omitted. So the gorgeous things on wheels must be hoisted into motor trucks, for the present, when the show moves from town to town.
 There are. there must be. splendid mo- tor cars. of course, for the street pa- rades: and it is not surprising to learn that as a novelty they are taking very well with the populace. Liberally sprin- kled with richly caparlsoned steeds, with trick donkeys, with spangled ladies and gentlemen in tableau. with clowna chained tigers and lions on motor driven van proofs, the grand entrance IS still one of the pricipal joys of spring, ara one of the most alluring promises of sum- mer to the small town and the large.
 But, nevertheless, when one gets away a certain distance from the mooring place of the elephants, and the spot where the camels look sad-eyed at the self-sacrific- ing parents who feel that they must take the children to the circus, no matter how much 1t always bores them; when one turns away from the menageries and en- ters the main pavilions, and takes seat beneath the canvased dome, and glances over the great amphitheatre under the big top, one is constrained to notice. and to remark, that the whilom scent of hay and sawdust is absorbed, to a great ex- tent, in the odor of gasoline.
 For the trick "flivver," in which, and with which, the inimitable clown does extraordinary and indescribably clever "stunts,' is not the only motor-driven vehicle that finds entrance into the rings this year. Nor is the use of motor power wholly confined to things on wheels. Nor gether on the inside. It steals into ones consciousness little by little that the mo- tor has been employed where man power formerly was used all the way from the lifting of the great canvases. which con- stitute the big top or canvased dome or main pavilion, to the moving of platforms and the distribution of sawdust.
 It would be exaggeration to say that the circus of 1917 Is wholly motorized. for the bareback riding. the hoop jump ing, the trapeze performing the globe tossing, the lemonade selling, and the peanut peddling are all done by man power. or lung power, as of yore.
 AS for the clowns latest jokes, there is no prospect that modern invention will ever reach them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-03

From the Nation
 ONHERE is a new spirit astir in Eu-
 rope and the German people are
 S responsive to it. To say that the Russian revolution has not had con tinued reverberations in Germany Is to bo blind to multiplying evidence. The chancellor himself could not keep away from the theme in all minds. He de- nied that the Hohenzollern dynasty would lift a finger to help restore au- tocracy in Russia. Let the Russians or der their own home" as they pleased. The inference that Germans have the right to do the same he did not draw, but many of his hearers and multitudes in Germany will do so. The direct ap- peal of Russian worlingmen to German workingmen may not be allowed open circulation in Germany, but 1t will be known; 1t will pass from hand to hand; it will be eagerly debated in private even if no public mention of it Is permitted. Against these infections of liberty no cor den can be established. Already the so- cialist party In Germany-the great party of protest-is acquiring fresh courage and speaking in a bolder voice. Daily we read of utterances which even month ago would have been denounceo as reasonable Take the recent extraor- dinary declaration by the socialist leader, |Scheidemann: Tt does not require many words to explain why almost the whole world is arrayed against us. The answer is given quickly. The whole world sees among our enemies more or less devel- oped forms of democracy, and in us it sees only Prussians.' The inspiration and the daring of that must have come straight from the events in Petrograd.
 While the chancellor is still unwilling to concede democratic reforms in Prussia unti. after the war, the socialist demand that he do so at once is becoming stiffer. The social democratic party is rapidly getting into a position where 1t can force the government to bid for further sup port by offering terms. Already IL IS offering terms to the Polish mempers. III behalf of the chancellor. the statement was made in the Prussian upper mouse that the government is soon to announce great reforms for Prussian Poland Tne oppressive-and futile-expropriation law which aimed to take all land holdings iron, Poles and to enforce Wnlcn the government had exerted all its strengtn for years, is to be thoroughly revised
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-03
THE MOTORIZED CIRCUS

From the Christian Science Monitor. G7C1HE circus of 1917 has appeared in certain parts of the United States,
 in one instance under the roof or a famous structure strangely named a garden; in some instances, under what the average snowman calls the "big top" meaning what the press agent designates as the "canvased dome" and what all the ring masters ever known have per- sisted in describing as the main pa- vlion.' The thing that most forcibly strikes the reader of the circus write ups" which have so far appeared, is the tendency to overdo the attempt to prove that the horse has not been superseded by the motor. The friends of the noblest of domestic animals, engaged in the laud- able task of impressing the public with the intimate relationship existing be- tween the circus of 1917 as it is, and the circus of 1917 as the Autographs vouch for 1t, not content with saying 1t once, repeat and reiterate the statement that the horse is as much 8 part of the mar velous spectacle as he ever was They protest too much; to a degree, indeed that tempts investigation and analysis.
 They are forced to admit that the cara vans of the great "aggregations" are no longer horse-drawn, especially in that part of the nation lying east of the Mis- souri river. On the contrary, the motor truck is now largely utilized in hauling the paraphernalia, animals, canvas, sup plies and so on; while the troupes and hands" ride in automobiles. The new method of travelling has advantage, not orly in the fact that towns and dis tricts remote from railroad lines can now be reached, but also In the fact that there is less transferring of the stuff to in the matter of finding suitable Ioca- tions for the pitching of the tents. Un- der the old system, circus of the larger class was compelled to select site for exhibitions close to railway sldings The motor car brings 1t back. in this respect to where it was when all circuses were moved from point to point in horse-drawn wagons.
 It Is obvious that the ''royal' coaches. carved and gilded, and drawn by six, eight or ten pure white or jet black Arabian steeds, would either have to be dropped out of the procession, under the new arrangement, or become burden to the circus in transit. The time has not val q arrived when tha Y,oI1is XIV eoa Ches can be entirely dispensed with. The chil- dren, small and grown. who form the mainstay of circus support, would be as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-03
CLEAN MOVIES IN DEMAND

From May Film Fun.
 Speaking of ambitions, there is direc- tor in New York who is also president and owner and general manager of his company. He has an ambition to produce the worst films in the business, and up to date he has been doing very we'll at it. One of the worst of them and the pride of his heart was shown before a censor board recently. The G. M. walked ner- vously back and forth in an anteroom. awaiting the verdict of the board. Some of the scenes, to put it mildly. were raw no less Comstock would have turned in his grace at the mere mention of them. The women members of the board spoke right out in meeting as the picture un- rolled it's filthy stretch of erotic thought
 What did you think of it?" begged the G. M as the lights were flashed on after the picture.
 q think you should be arrested for thinking of such a picture, let alone pro ducing it." flashed the answer.
 The C. NJ. grinned happily and rubbed his hands with satisfaction as the cen sors left.
 "It'l go big he announced That's the stuff! When it makes them women mad, the public wants it'' The public did not want it, and 1t is still on the shelf.
 The public wants clean pictures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-03
How Perry County Suffered

c. B. Carter. who has come to Bir- mingham from Marion to make his home, said yesterday that there was little com prehension in this section of the state of what the people of Perry county have been going through during the past three years.
 They had two years of the boil wee vil,'' said MT Carter. Of course, that was an awful lesson, and it took two years to convince the farmers that they would have to raise something else They got badly behind during those two years and last year they began raising corn.
 "On July there was the finest stand of corn in Perry county I have ever seen, The river valleys were full of it and it gave promise of abundant harvest Then came the floods You know some thing about those floods in a general way, but I want to tell you that you have no conception of what they did for that section of the state Many man was completely wiped out. If the government had not stepped in and fed 5000 people during the fall I don't know what would have happened to them. Then the able-boded began to leave and during the winter the government con- tinued to feed 150O old people and chil- dren. If this had not been done they certainly must have starved to death.
 Perry county in normal times has a negro population of 23,O0o. I doubt 1T there are now TOGO negroes in the county. county are deserted. Hundreds of the negroes have come to the Birmingham district and are taking the place of those who have left here for the north. I meet Perry county negroes everywhere I go in Birmingham, Ensley and Bessemer.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-03

After the Chamber of Commerce's gar den campaign, President DeBardeeben was in good training yesterday to throw the first shovelful of dirt from the new postoffice site.
 * X !: Sheriff Batson probably believes that the evil men do lives after them. D. D. Overton's evil deeds are causing the sheriff lot of trouble and worry. Germany and the allies can agree on one thing at last. The submarine cam paign exhibits certain clements of suc- cess.
 * * * Virginians are already blushing over the revelations being made in a criminal trial now under way in the Old Dominion.
 * * < Men between the ages of q and 35 are reading the papers these days with all the earnestness they can command.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-03
LIKE nI,LuKE SAYS

We know one liar who will get to heaven. He is the fellow who tells you how fine you are looking when your case is hopeless.
 When you apologize for taking dp a. busy mans time you are merely Nkirg' Up more of his time.
 There would not be many divolfcRif men were as patient about other }tRogs as they are about fishing cen
 A graceful dancer seldom n a graceful cook. But a man Aeverg tssssss Of that until it is too late. &B Y
 The reason why we need vice ftommis- sions to keep our minds pure isS because people won't buy book until they lesfn that it has been barred from the li- braries.
 White shoes are all right if they are kept that way. But girl shouldn't wear a pair so long that they look like a woman who has been talked about.
 When man manages to beat the other fellow to a thing he is willing to admit tAt the right is sure to triumph.
 It is hard to make a princess believe that a man who can merely write com monplace checks will make as good a husband as man who can write poetry and love letters.
 When the engagement is announced she thinks that she has landed whale. But later on she discovers that her catch wa s nothing but a sun perch.
 It is one way or the other in the aver age home. The husband is imposing on the wife or the wife is imposing on the husband.
 The difference between fortune and trouble is that trouble never waits for an introduction and is apt to grow unduly fe, 1ior
 A male newspaper sob sister blandly states that "a woman should tell her hus- band everything If the boob was a married man he would know that this advice is superfluous. Any time she doesn't 1t is because she has bad mem ory and has forgotten one or two of his shortcomings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-03
HOTEL LOBBIEs
Submarine. Effective

While this opinion seems not to be generally shared. I am inclined to think that but for the entrance of the United States into the war. the allies would never have been able to defeat Ger many, declared Judge L. H. Reynolds or Clanton. probate judge of Chiffon county. who was in Birmingham last night. The submarine campaign of the Germans is very effective, and is taking heavy toll of British ships each week.
 Tn our county we recently arrested German who was making maps of roads and gathering other information about Lock 12 and the power plant there He claims to have been in the United States for six years, yet could give us no infor-- nation as to where he had been nor as to whom he knew in this country. He was taken in charge by the federal of ficials who are making an investigation. These Germans are very efficient, and it behooves us all to be on our guard to prevent any kind of damage being wrought at public works and industries
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-03
FROM EXILE

Robert Emmet Ward. in the May scxib- ner
 Oh, I want to be in Devon when the hedges are a-blush
 With the joy of early April and the sap's young rush When the May is budding. budding. and the cuckoo wakes the wood. And there cannot be a question in your ' soul that God is good.
 For God made spring in Devon,
 And l want no better heaven:
 So thought when was seven,
 And I think so yet
 Oh. I want to be in Devon when thaT winds are blowing free. % %@ And it's winter in the high combes, butt summer on the sea: 4x When spring has kissed the ash-buds thatz tell she's come to stay, Y And the lanes are white and rosy apd. delicious with the May X For God made spring in Devon
 And I want no better heaven V So I thought when I was seven,f} K
 And I can't forget z Oh, want to be in Devon when the sum. $. mer sun is high. . When the bees are at their labor and thaT larlSs. are in the sky, z And it's Ssha}y under hedge while Lucyes nlakess a uqWslip ball, 'ss. .ss.-v-s. And I'm falf aslesa with. sy.atc tching her. and hearing iRpches call. ,S| .'-sf sTss = Is it childhood, then. 6r Devon. .s That dream about as heaven? N It is long since was seven,
 But can't forget! M
 2. It is long since I was seven, in th4s combes and by the sec. And the years have taken moro than they; have given back to me. It's the old days cling the closest: Ives no dearer dream today z. Than cottage door fin Devon and as bIossomed branch of May. \ If God let's me die in Devon 2 I shall want no better heaven: Y Y So I thought when was seven, zx zx
 And I think SO yet! N
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-03
A GREAT DISCOVERY

From the Youths Companion.
 Little Doris is very polite. The other day she offered her aunt share of her candy.
 twill you have a sugared almond, Aunt Nary" she asked sweetly, at the same time rendering the paper bag.
 Thank you I wil,'' replied her aunt. And as she was particular what she ate, she selected white one.
 'Auntie,' said little Doris, do you know the difference between the pink and the white almonds?"
 No, dear,' said auntie with kindly smile. Well, I'll tell you" explained Doris. They were all pink once, and I sucked all the pink off the white ones. Didn't l do it nitely?" .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-03
The City of Oaks

F. P. Merritt. local Premier automo- bile dealer, had his eyes opened Sunday. when he made a visit to Tuscaloosa, the City of Oaks
 T never dreamed of all the things that are in Tuscaloosa being there, nor did I ever think that they would ever have the city that they have. I was most agree ably surprised. I first met MT Edmund son, secretary of the local Commercial club. and he was mine host to a finish He took me over to see Sam r. Austin, one of Tuscaloosa s leading bankers. MT Austin immediately chased me aboard his launch, and up and down the river we journeyed until was enraptured with the beauties of the Warrior, the wonders of it's commerce and the unlimited possi- bilities of development that will come to Tuscaloosa from this asset" said Mir Merritt.
 I don't mind saying that am a Tus- caloosa booster, and if I didn't live in Birmingham, I would be looking for home in Tuscaloosa. It is one of the most refined, delightful cities that I have ever visited, and meeting men in Tusca- loosa is just like meeting old college chums They take you right in and show you the time of your life before you can think of saying no, just the ire sistible kind of fellows that you delight in meeting.
 That superb college spirit from the University of Alabama campus seems to have permeated the city, and every busi- ness man has the habit of pressing palms with you in a way that makes you feel like you have seen him somewhere before back home.'