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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
LIKE M,LUKE SAYS

A married woman's idea of economy in most cases is to save the pennies and spend the dollars.
 What has become of the old-fashioned stork that put the ma in Madrid by call ing on Queen Victoria every year?
 Most men are ashamed of their middle names. George Stalling's middle name is Tweety. Whats yours?
 writer announces that "current styles make some curious disclosures of fem mine ideas" We have heard legs called props and limbs, but we never before heard them called ideas"
 They claim that beer drinking makes for inefficiency. But you can't prove it by the way the German soldiers have been fighting. dramas and read all of the sex novels, we imagine it will be hard for her to find anything to blush about when she becomes bride. You can't make some men believe that success comes from knowing more about your own business than you do about other mems. We are all inclined to be lenient with the faults of those who are bigger than we are.
 A woman is always trying to trade some old thing she needs for some new thing she doesn't need. once in awhile girl marries to get a home and then has to get job so she
 can pay the rent
 strong word now and then is neces- sary to emphasize statement. But most Of is Americans do not seem to know the difference between discussing and cuss. ing
 an idiot. brainy man agrees witf YOU when you get him into an argu- ment.
 The Webb Kenyon law has been de clared constitutional. But this will no affect the demand for pocket knives witt corkscrew attachments in the prohibi ton states Blessed is the man who is in hurry
 He hasn't time to tell us his troubles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
BEGINNING AT SIXTY

ner, his love of Aggression, his handli3 of character. might lark back geneI ton or more; but in purpose and meth he was distinctly modern. He showed familiarity with every class of socie which even Trollope did not surpa
 acting upon the other, as it could n have done in an age less devoted thu this to the uplift. His constructive sk was less than his analytical; his pld too heavily upon the long arm of coil cidence But he had gift for natuiI dialog and a remarkable mastery off tit point of view both of high life andfsae Thus his novels were human docun
 of ,1nioue value. "a sh
 It would be idle to say that the m artistic achievement he equaled gre
 ters. His defects in technique vt n vious. There were longueurs in his sf rative which drew heavily upon thekpa tience even of his most ardent admire} In An Affair of Dishonor," where < attempted to vie with the facile concoE ters of pseudo-historical romance, came as close to complete failure as of of his ability could come. Nor was
 Never Can Happen Again" quite worta of his highest gifts; here his manner tl frequently became mere mannerism VI it would be ungracious to harp upon tl defects of his virtues. He was viril picturesque, sincere writer, and his il fluence will not cease with his desR' There is more than one living novS
 who is palpably to be numbered ar < his disciples. ..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
Peace Is Remote

'The business community has all ready settled down to the conclusion that peace. though within sight. is somewhat remote, and that the weari- some struggle must continue for months more, and possibly another year, unless Germany makes unex- pected concessions" says Henry Clews in the Financial Review.
 "Our security markets, are now ad- jnsting themselves to a new situa- tion The strictly war industrials have partially but not entirely re- covered from the reaction precipitated in December by the opening of peace negotiations. These shares are now being handled with caution by spec ulators and investors alike, since 1t is recognized that the furore therein was overcome, as was freely predicted in my previous advices.
 Another class of industrials, which benefited from but was not dependent upon war orders, has enjoyed more marked recovery. This was especially true of some of the steel shares. For these it was well understood that peace will not mean cessation of pros perity On the contrary, what is lost in abnormal war orders will probably be largely offset by peace orders for reconstruction work abroad, it being fully realized that under the most favorable circumstan Europe will bc unable fer several years to come to meet the demands for rebuilding cities, railroads, bridges, cars and steamers etc"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
Harry ILauder Gives
 All to His Country

MN1ANY fathers are mourning for
 AVO sons lost in the European war, but perhaps none has received more universal sympathy in his of fliction than the Scotch comedian, Harry Lauder. The man who has made the whole world laugh, has for sometime been heavy of heart. In giv- ing his son to the cause of the allies he truly said that he gave his all, for the bond between the two was singu- larly close and affectionate.
 Brave plans were shaping for the young mans future. The elder Lauder, who has made fortune on the stage, bought large estate in Scotland, consisting of fourteen thousand acres on Loch Fyne, where he hoped to see his son established as a Scotch laird, growing the nations meat and, as the years go by, growing the nations men,"
 Young Lauder was carefully edu- cated, having attended the City of London school and later, Oxford. Lau- der and his son were in Australia when the war started, but they hast ened home. The young man enlisted in Scotch regiment and the comedian did what he could to cheer British soldiers in camp.
 The gallantry of young Lauder un- der fire soon won him promotion, and when he was killed at the front in France he was a captain. When the elder Lauder went back to the stage he said: q am pleased to give my son to my country, though he is the only one l have. If he cannot come back he will at least always be with me in brightest memory. In giving him I have given everything"
 When the news of Captain Lauder's death was received the comedian was playing at the Shaftesbury theatre in London. He was prostrated and the immediately closed the theatre. Of the thousands who have sat beneath the spell of Harry Lau- der's personality there is no one who will not sympathize with him in his loss. Yet, he is only one of many, many fathers who have made the same sacrifice with equal nobility and courage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
PEOPLE OF WEST INDIES

From Where the Steady Trade Winds Blow" by Theodore Roosevelt, in the
 February Scribner.
 WS( Y HEN the ship was coaled the
 wv workers were sometimes men.
 " sometimes strapping women as strong as the men, who chattered and sang as they toiled, while their white teeth flashed in yheir dark faces Queer fishing craft, sometimes with russet sails, danced over the foaming combers which broke the azure of the deep. Rows of tall. slender stemmed palms stood back of the shining beaches, their fronded tops threshing endlessly in the trade wind On the edge of the blue ocean, at the foot of brilliant green mountains, half hidden in the tropic vegetation, stood little towns. clusters of low white or red houses. After nightfall the town gallants sat at small tables on the side walks outside the taverns or under the trees in the open squares. Powerful, finely built black women and 1.-the, comedy brown women strode along the paths and highroads. erect and supple,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
Three More Years of War

Those who have returned from Eu- rope recently and who have been given opportunities of ascertaining the true con ditions in that section of the world are of the firm conviction that the war will last for at least three years more" says the weekly market report of Rogers, Brown & Co Whether or not this pre- diction is fulfilled, it is noted that peace talk is dying out, and that purchases and inquiry for pig iron to be shipped abroad are going ahead at a rapid rate.
 There continues to be healthy de- mand for iron for domestic use. The railroads are more active than ever in their little game of embargo, which, without doubt, will bring about more ac- tive spot market, for those depending upon operations unable to make ship ments because of these embargoes will be forced to buy tonnages sufficient to tide them over the embargo period from others who can make shipment.
 ''The downward progress of the spot coke market has suddenly been checked and the price is again stiffening, as $6. .5O seems to be the general price asked for Connellsvlle foundry coke on contracts running for a year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22

put the state abreast of the most enlightened in the union.
 So let's have big vote on January 30. The bigger the vote the greater will be the majority for better schools, and the greater the majority the more far-reaching will be the moral eff feet on other communities. Every cit izen in Jefferson county should be a worker for the cause of free educa tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
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Another Tennessee
To-Ghe-Gulf Route

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 THE projected Tennessee-to-the
 H gulf highway which was much discussed by prominent automobllists of Birmingham few years ago, IS to be revived at meeting here today The new movement is to be much more comprehensive than the or1g1- nal plan, including as it will line from Chicago to New Orleans. While the proposed route will pass through several cities which are on the Jack son highway, it will "take in" many that are not on the thoroughfare.
 At today's meeting it is proposed to organize an association for pro noting highway from the lakes via Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville, Columbia, Athens, Decatur, Hartselle, Cullman, Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile, on to the Crescent City. Delegates from 40 or 50 towns are expected to attend the meeting here, and many of them are known for their enthusiasm over the new movement.
 Many great highways in the south have been advanced almost to the stage of completion. Others are ten tative but promising. We cannot have too many of them. Few factors in modern civilizatoin have been of such large value as good roads. And what has been accomplished already is small compared with what will be done within the next 10 years. The smooth macadam road will soon be as com mon as the improved dirt road is to- day.
 All success to the Lakes-to-the Gulf highway movement!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22

all their burdens, great or small, | kisf on their heads. Sometimes these b~ dens were extraordinary because of the
 bulk or weight, at other times tht were comic because 1t seemed incredibs that such small or peculiar objects shout not be carried in the hand: once. fH instance, we saw woman carrying q her head a solitary white shoe, and as other time, of all things. single egs
 In all the islands legal and politicg discriminations based on colore have beS done away. In some the social discrim nations are giving way In others &haS social lines are drawn not only betwet white and colored--as all shades of cro
 blood are called-but between colort and black. The whites everywhere cor posed most of the upper class, although l also includ any of the colored; Il colored folk | 'de up most of the mdidI class, and just as they extended inf the class above them so their classs WI entered by the blacks below them ;f ai' the bulk of the laborers. in the towI and especially in the country, we blacks, although many were browns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
Active Campaign
 For 3-Mill Tax

1.-THE campaign for the 3-mill q school tax election in Jefferson county, January 30, is being pushed as actively as weather conditions per init, and it is hoped that in the whirl- wind finish this week the electorate will be thoroughly aroused. Meetings will be held in many precincts, the teachers of the county will conduct a house-to-house canvass. In the mean time the committee of one thousand citizens has been doing quiet but ef- fective work.
 What is especially desired is full vote. The amendment campaign last fall was educational in high degree and the large majority y-nearly seven thousand-by which the proposed change in the organic law was carried in Jefferson made it plain that the people of the county were heartily in favor of the 3-mill levy for school im- provement. Not in a long while have the voters been so enthusiastic over any issue as they were in November over the amendment.
 Every rapidly growing community needs many things, but that for which need is most pressing in the rural dis tricts of Jefferson county is a nine month school term instead of a seven-month term. A 3-mill tax will yield the revenue for a full school year, and not only so, but we will have better schools in every respect and better school buildings.
 Defeat of the 3-mill tax would be a calamity indeed. In view of the great increase in school enrolment that may be expected next fall as re- suit of the compulsory education law that becomes effective there must be buildings. Without improved facilities the compulsory attendance statute would become a dead letter. And tha, of course would negative the vita movement that has been in progress for several years to reduce the per centage of illiteracy in Alabama anc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
AUTUMN

AUTUMN By Thomas Hood. The autumn is old;
 The sere leaves are flying; He hath gathered up gold, And now he is dying: The vint: ge Is ripe; The le est is heaping; But so Says. wss.s 4 S'''S Poor Poor the quality of our The y.4r's on sesily see the su- There is nothil x -- sS The night has no we.
 And the day has no morning: Cold winter gives warning The rivers run chill;
 The re6 sun is sinking; And 4m grown old, And life is fast sinking: Heres 8 enow for sad thinking!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
Former Birmingham Man Dies

Birmingham friends of Charles c. Green will be grieved to learn of his death at his home in Louisville last Fri day night said Frank V. Evans. MT. Green was in business here for several years, but went to Louisville last sum mer to live.
 Though he had been in bad health for long time, one would never have guessed it to look at him and even after the doctors had decided that the vital life spark was slowly flckering he ap- peared the picture of health. He had an exceptionally fine disposition which accounts for the hundreds of friends who were so warmly attached to him.
 He is survived by his widow and two sens just budding into manhood"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
HOTEL LoBBIES
Pleased w,tb tbe King


 The past summer has been profitaply and happily spent by Serge de Diag- hileff's Ballet Russo which visits here February 1, by arrangement with the Metropolitan Opera company of New York" said William Gussen. "The Bal lat Russo has spent the summer in the various cities of Spain. At Madrid King Alphonse and his court were interested spectators, and by the Kings express re- quest the company gave some subsequent performances at San Sebastian and Bill boa.
 The Kings favorite ballet was Lee Sylphides,' and he constantly called for it's repetition. Although the trip was in every way business success, the ballet was without the services of the premier dancer, Waslav Nijinsky, who was com pelled to remain in this country, under agreement with the Austrian government. Nijinsky, who will be artistic director of the present tour through 50 cities in America, spent his summer quietly at Bar Harbor, Me, where he was the popu- lai favorite and vied with the seasons debutante as society's pet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
Cost of Living
 In the Year lSA9

| lOEOPLE who complain about the 0 high cost of living nowadays should study some of the prices charged for food in 1849, during the gold rush to California. A physician of New York comments on the bill of fare at the "Rest for the Weary'' hotel, resort of those times. A copy of the menu and prices fol- lows:
 Soup-Bean. $1 oxtail, short, 1 $1.5O. Roast beef-Mexican, prime, | $1; with potato, fair size, $125; 1 beer, tame, from the states, s1.5o. Baked beans, plain, | 50 cents; baked beans, greased, | $1; two potatoes, medium size, 50 l cents; two potatoes. peeled, 75 | cents.
 1 Entrees-Sauerkraut, S1; bacon, I fried, $1; bacon. stuffed. s1.50; | hash, low grade, 75 cents; hash, IS
 carats, $1.
 | Game-Codfish balls per pair, 75
 cents; grizzly, roast, $1; grizzly.
 fried, 75 cents; jack rabbit whole, l 75 cents.
 1 Pastry-Rice pudding, plain, 75
 cents; with molasses, s1; with
 brandy peaches. $2. | Square meal, with dessert, 3s, payable in advance. Gold scales at
 the end of the bar. ] It is still possible to buy small dish of baked beans in lunchroom for 10 cents-or has the price gone up to 15 cents ?--but the gold seekers probably did not protest when charged 50 cents. Creased" beans, it is noted, cost twice as much. A nice distinction is also made between ''hash, low grade" and "hash, Is carats," but the difference in price was only 25 cents. Prehaps the low grade variety was less appetising to | a person of squeamish taste. How ever, it was probably just as filling as the "18 carat" kind.
 Whole jack rabbits went for a song comparatively, and now that an at. tempt is being made to popularize Jack rabbit steak, as soon as the de.
 mand becomes sufficiently strong te Justify the food barons, they may
 boost the price even higher than il
 was in the days of '49.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
Business is Good

T have just returned from trip over the state" said C. Peecher. And I must say that everything is looking fine. Busi- ness seems to be good in all the towns, and the farmers seem to be very opti- mistic. Of course, the weather we have been having during the past week hasn't been conducive to optimism. The roads through the country are naturally in pretty bad shape. I am spending much of my time on the road now, and while I enjoy my trips, I am always glad to get back to Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22

but Mackensen, in these three great can
 paigns during single season. becanl recognized by most authorities as Gel manys greatest military leader. To h| army was given the honor of takrl Bucharest the Rumanian capital, on Dl cember 6 (Mackensen's sixtieth birthday although other armies had made the mol spectacular advance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22

BEGINNING THE DAY As sinks the moaning river in the sea, In silent peace, so sings my soul Tn
 Stowe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
CriticisiHag Recent
 Census Statistics

1T N every decade the United States U census bureau has extended it's
 scope and usefulness and it is now one of the most popular institutions of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22

Madness in great ones must not un- watch'd go. -h"Ae''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala. postoffice as second class matter un- der act of Congress. March 8, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22

Of course if James B. McNamara, serving life sentence for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building, would rather stay in a dungeon than work in a jute mill, that's his own aaffir, but there is no accounting for tastes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22

No communication will be published
 without it's authors name. ReJected manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed tor that purpose.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-16

Here is the ideal costume the real
outdoor girl of winter has yserned
for. 1t has warmth. suitability, and
provides for the freedom Of every
movement. Moreover. 1t has a fetch
ing military air Of extreme timeli-
ness. The breeches are Of wool khaki,
with high laced boots that look like
puttees The short, belted Jacket is
OF chamois skin lined with wool. A
clipped beaver hat, small, close and
untrimmed and a pair Of leather
gauntlets completes the costume
whose design may come In handy
when the war sends us looking for
lady lumberjacks.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-16
FUN AT THE FRONT.
By MAJOR DONALD GUTHRIE
Chaplain, Canadian Volunteer Troops.

were to play IN. capable Of holding go
men. standing, About o'clock the
rest OF US set out for our inlprovised
theater. The last mile OF our journey
was along q screened road; that is.
the side towards the German lines was
hung twelve feet high with huge cur
tains of a coarse long grasA These
curtains were meant 70 hide any We
hicles passing along this much-shelled.
dangerous road. Soldiers In steel he'll
NETS and with gas masks slung on
their shoulders ready for instant use
were sauntering about everywhere,
and a bronzed, hardy lot they looked.
When We reached the hut we had 20
elbow our way through the waiting
crowds.
I shall never forget the scene upon
which looked out from ''behind'
later in the evening. There were our
boys packed like sardines. The air
was thick with tobacco smoke. The
hut was vibrating with rosrs and
laughter. Incoming shells were Shrek
ing and breaking outside, and our
guns, not far away. were growing ana
booming out their reply. mo attention
was paid to outside noises; eyes ana
ears were fixed on our stage; war and
its horrors were forgotten for two
quick hours and for q time each boy's
life was hlled with LAUGHTER.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-16
BY ARTHUR JOYCE.

Someone asked me the other day IL
/ thought Washington would stand for
Billy Sundays slang"
Why notf
Billy talks the talk Of the average
person, whether they reside in Wash
ington. or puristic Boston, or sensitive
Philadelphia.
OF course he uses slang. His vocabu-
larry carries slathers Of It. 1t IL the
most viriIe way OF getting the noted
evangelist's message across" and II
carries the punch that makes Billy's
hearers sit up and take notice.
To Billy, children are kids" liquor
Is booze" a human face is a mus" "
a dandy is a duck" loaflng Chris
tan is a lobster and one who de-
nies salvation is either ''nutty" or
"bughouse."
In BilIy's language. PLATE was
'tin-horn, gambling. free-lunch, pie
counter, whiskey-eoaked. nckspittle,
ward-heeIing politician" The saloon
represents to Billy ''the dirtiest. most
low-down. damnable business that
ever crawled out Of the pit OF hell"
To Billy hell is HELL-not hsdes-
H.E-double L,-with fire and brim-
stone and not furnished with modern
conyeniences, and they don't serve
booze on a tray"
In Billy's opinion. IF you don't set
tie yourself with God before the un'
dertaker pumps you full Of embalm-
ing fiuid, you're all in." Billy says
'it gets my goat to see people going
to church and dead-beating their
way"
Devil Never Had Disease.
Billy declares q preacher who won't
try to save people is a mutt" He
said nothing doing" when the
movie people offered him 100000 to
pose for q series of films. And he
added: '"You fellows can't CONNER
cialize my mug for s1o,ooo,oOo"
Again, Billy declares IF you're q
/ dirty, low-down, filthy, drunket
whiskey-soaked bum, you'n influence
all with whom you come in con-
| tact" He says he's going to hgh