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Evening journal., 1917-06-29
ToNEs-wALLs.

Mrs. Dora Stroud Jones, widow OF
Bavard G. Jones, and formerly Miss
Dora Stroud. sister Of DR.. James ID,
STROUD. and G.. Elmer Walls, of this city
were married on Wednesday afternoon
bv the Rev. W. A. Hcarn assistant pas.
tor Of Grace Church The couple left for
Atlantic City. whore they win 'usnair
for some time. and after their return
they will live in the Alhambra Apart
menls.
Evening journal., 1917-06-29
Y w. G. 4. OUTING.

Local Y. w. c. A. members will hold
q picnic tomorrow on the lawn OF the
n ID. Brown home, at Claymont, leav-
ing the association building on a spe-
clal car at $3.50 o'clock in the after
noon.
Evening journal., 1917-06-29

The Polyanna Club met az the home
OF the president. Miss Ethel Engle No.
1913 Pennsylvania avenue. on We'd
nesday evening and filled fifteon
comfort bags for the soldiers. which
we're delivered to Miss Emily r. Bis
sell The members OF the club are:
Ethel Engle. Blanche Gebhart, Mary
Hughes. Miriam Braddock. Miriam
Reagen. May Whitaker, Helen Brown,
Hilda Sinclair. Sara Smith, Leona
Tammany. Eva Mailman. Carolyn
Comfy. Charlotte Parks. Emma Rid
lngs, Mildred Geiger
Evening journal., 1917-06-29
TIRED NERVES NEED

Horsford's Acid Phosphate.
Beneficial 20 the nerves and brain. Relieves
the strain Of over-work and mental worry
Evening journal., 1917-06-29
LEGAL SECURITIES MARKET

Laird and Company, DUPONT Building.
furnish the following quotations ON local
securities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04
WAR PRICES IN PARIS

To the Editor of the New York Times.
A few days ago my wife received
letter from a friend, Partisan, who Is
now keeping house in Paris. This let
ter. which Is dated June %, contains
among other things some interesting
information about retail prices of
the most important foodstuffs. These
data / send you, thinking that com
parison of recent Paris prices with
American prices in this vicinity might
perhaps interest some Of your readers.
Good beef costs ST for 1-5 pounds.
III kilo). At the present rate of ex-
change, which is about $.0177 to a
franc. that would be about 80 cents a
kilo. Mutton costs SO cents pound.
The best butter is from 60 to 10 cents
a pound Flour is II cents pound. I
paid $1.10 for 12h -pound bag two
DAYS ago A loaf of bread weighing a
kilo costs cents. A very good quality
Of coffee costs So cents a pound. Sugar
lis very dear, costing 81 cents kilo.
milk is from to IL cents liter (about
the same as a quartz.
Last winter 1900 pounds Of coal cost
|s5f, or about s15.o5. G. q.
Orange N. j.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04

From the Portland Telegram.
NN II THIN the week a new moving
MW picture theater was opened In
Portland-not a little concern,
but an amusement enterprise that in
volved large expenditure and needed big
patronage to keep it going. In order to
make it's launching a success, the astute
manager chose as the opening play
lurid melodrama, full of red-blooded ac-
ton. People came in large numbers, and
recommended the show to their friends.
Human nature hasn't changed great
deal in the last 1900 years. About $40
A. D., the ablest of the early Christian
fathers familiarized himself with the
Carthagenian melodrama and set down
his impressions which, together with
other of his thoughts, are read to this
day. Thus does st. Augustine speak
of the melodrama in his Confessions
stage plays also carried me away,
full of images Of my miseries and OF
fuel to my fire. Why is it that man
desires to be made sad, beholding dole
full and tragical things. which yet him
self would by no means suffer? Yet he
desires as a spectator to feel sorrow at
them. and this sorrow is his pleasure
What is this but a miserable mad
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04
LUKE sI,LUKE SAYS

You can't always tell. Many a mar
row-minded man wears a No. 5 size in
hats.
Lives of successful men have demon
strated the fact that the man who never
takes chance never gets anywhere.
The prohibitionsts are yelping for tenn
perance in drink and yet If a lot Of them
do not get meat three times a day they
imagine that they are on diet.
Some women are SO unreasonable that
they expect man to praise them as
much after they marry him as he did
before they married him.
one reason why we know that the re-
porter in the movie fillum never, covered
a story is because he carries large note
book. In real life no reporter carries
notebook He carries wad of copy
paper.
If girl happens to have good shape.
she ilnagines that it is up to her to dress
SO that she can prove it. And there are
so many girls who are not built that way
that we do not blame her.
we are not going to take Congress-
women seriously until one Of them has a
cigar named after her.
After a man has been egged on to
count his chickens before they are
Matched he discovers that he is the vic
tim Of a shell game
What has become of the old-fashioned
woman who had Sunday bonnet with
| black ribbons that tied in bow under
| her chin and who never knew what a
| hatpin was? And what has become of
| the oid-fashioned girl who wore black
| ostrich feathers in her hat?
| The only difference between the man
{! who was married on Friday and the
+, man who was married on some other day
\ Is that the man who was married on
/ Friday has something to blame his
| troubles on.
| Once in a while a child has a mother
| who gets married so often that the poor
\ kid wonders what its last name will be
| this time next year
The trouble with the mutt who is al
| ways trying to kill time is that he wont
| confine himself to his own time.
This would be a nicer world If 1t was
as easy to make a red nose white as 1t
Is to make white nose red.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04

From the Pittsburg Post.
TN the peaceful little cemetery Dor
dered by the Aurelian wall of Rome,
< lies the grave of the beloved Engllsh
poet. Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was
drowned in the Gulf of Spezzia in July,
1922 The poet was the son of baronet,
but from his youth he was out of SYM
pathy with much of the established or
der of things in England, and his father
never understood him.
Shelleys life of revolt was a part OF
the working of his peculiar genius. HIS
nature was sweet and lovable and no
man ever attracted to himself more de-
voted friends than this poet, SO restless
in seeking for truth and in expressing
the fancies that thronged in his mind.
Shelley's father had little regard for
education, and always felt that this
had ruined Bysshe. He decided that his
second son should have no education, but
he did not dare carry out his PLAN How
ever, when he finally let him go to
school, he said to him; Look here,
young man, don't you be like your
brother Take care you don't learn too
much"
Shelley's father had such a hatred for
books that he would not employ a stew
ard who could read or write. The story
is told that, while at oxford, Shelley one
day stopped poor woman in the street
and asked her If the baby she carried
in her arms could tell him anything
about pre-existence. my baby cannot
speak," was the reply. How strange"
said Shelley. ct Is only few weeks
old and it cannot have forgotten every
thing in so short time How pro-
vokingly close these new born babies
are"
Shelleys first marriage ended in dis
aster for he and his wife separated by
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

mutual consent. They were both very
young and eloped to Gretna Green when
they were married. Three years after
the separation Harriet Shelley drowned
herself and the poet nearly lost his rea-
son through fear that the fault was
his.
But even his enemies knew that Har-
riet cared nothing for him. They had
two children who had remained with
her and the courts would not allow
Shelley to take them, as it was decided
that his aesthetic ideas rendered him I'M
fit to bring up children.
Shelley had come to hate the marriage
bond. He met and fell in love with
Mary Goodwin, the daughter OF political
writer The Godwins did not believe in
marriage, so Mary and Shelley lived to-
gether for a time without going through
the wedding ceremony. When Harriet
was no longer living, however, they were
married, and the one son they had even
tually succeeded to his fathers title and
became Sir Percy Shelley.
Bysshe took Mary and went to Italy.
living a Lerici, on the Gulf of Spezzia.
Byron was living there at the time
They were constant companions. On
July g. 1922, Shelley was sailing on the
gulf from Berici to Leghorn. accom-
panied by friend, Edward Elliker Will
liams A squall overturned the little
boat and 1t was not until some months
afterwards that she was dredged up
from the bottom of the gulf, and the
body of Shelley was discovered.
Shelleys body was recognized by the
volumes of Sophocles and Keats in the
pockets Of his coat. After 1T was buried
for sometime III the sand it was finally
cremated and the ashes were inferred
in the little Protestant cemetery at
Rome.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04
Price of Food
i'm The EahharI@nd

m ERMANY may not be facing &C
VI tuaI starvation, but there are
any number of persons in the father
land who have almost forgotten what
an old-fashioned square meal looks
like. Being in past years devoted to
the gentle art of gastronomy, it no
doubt calls for great fortitude to
maintain a cheerful air when the lar
der is lean and prices altitudinous.
Information received by the food
administration at Washington indi-
Gates that many articles of food, par
ticularly those containing fats, are
now selling at prohibitive prices in
Germany. Fat for frying costs more
than 81 a pound and goose fat
thanks to an overindulgence in the
goose step"-is now selling for $5.36
a pound.
Most fowls are high. Fresh fowls
are being sold for $1.01 a pound.
Larded goose breast is $2.o8, sailed
goose legs are 81 cents, and young
laying hens from the country are
1882 each. Geese range from 81 to
$40 each. Horse meat is in demand,
the Germans evidently having learned
a lesson they forced the hungry
French to learn during the Franco
Prussian war, when not only horse
meat. but rodents and other unappe-
tizing food was consumed by the
starving Parisians. Horse meat
brings from So to Sc cents a pound.
Rabbits are So each. Cheese sells at
from SO to 80 cents a pound.
Our old friend Count Won Berns-
torff. who had the pleasure Of
breaking bread with Chancellor
Michaels few days ago, and other
well-to-do Germans are probably get
ting along without having to tighten
their belts, but it is easy to see that
a poor German is in no danger of
eating more than he can easily digest.
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MEL ODJRAMIA THEN AND NOW

ness? For man is the more affected
with these actions the less free he is
from such affections. Howsoever. when
he suffers in his own person. it used
to be styled misery; when he compass
sionates others, then it is mercy But
what sort of compassion is this for
feigned and scenical passions? For the
auditor is not called on to relieve. but
only to grieve; and as he applauds the
actor of these fictions the more, the
more he grieves And II the calamities
of those persons whether of old times or
mere fiction) be SO acted that the spec
tator is not moved to tears he goes
away disguised and criticizing; but il he
be moved to passion, he stays intent and
weeps for joy"
Are we of the twentieth century any
wiser than the people of st. Augustine's
day? Do we take our pleasures more
nationally? The Carthagenians at least
saw flesh and blood actors. BY little
exercise of the imagination. they could
believe that the men and women on the
stage actually suffered. We of the pres
emit day find quite as much pleasure In
grieying over the realistic photographs
of suffering. Are we moving dramati-
caily backward or forward?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04
"old Top No Way
to Hail a Colonel

THHE other day when Col. Milton j.
u Foreman approached the camp
of the Second Illinois artillery, states
a Chicago dispatch, soldier waved
his hand and shouted, Hello, Colonel,
old top!" Another soldier waved his
hand in which he held cigarette.
The outraged colonel leaped from
his automobile and started after the
two familiar privates, but to COM
plete his humiliation, he fell over a
tent peg and the offenders escaped
AS he limped away to his tent, he said,
@No man leaves this camp for any
reason until those men are found
Seventeen hundred soldiers began a
search that lasted about twenty
four hours. The facetious soldiers
were found, but the nature of the
punishment melted out to them has
been strictly censored.
No doubt some Of the prejudice
shown in the past by regular army
men toward state militia was due to
the guardsman who couldn't get over
the idea that being the social equal OF
his superior officers, he didn't owe
them any particular Difference when
on military duty. The irresponsible
attitude of national guardsmen has
largely disappeared. They are begin
ming to realize what discipline means
and to appreciate the fact that a
mans social position in civilian life
doesn't amount to a hill of beans IN
the army.
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ture voted to make the nation abso-
lutely dry.
There are states that would
probably vote in the negative: Massa-
chusetts, Vermont, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary
land, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisi-
ana, Texas, Missouri, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico,
Utah and CALIFORNIA; total Of
twenty. Thirteen states voting mo"
would defeat the amendment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04
Learning TO Read
and Write French

mi ANY bright, ambitious young
NVU fellow, in anticipation of
military service in France, has been
studying the French language. Near
w all would-be officers have taken
few lessons in French, and some have
learned enough to write it fairly well.
Those who have been too busy with
other things will "pick up" French
rapidly after they land on French soil.
But they must know something of the
grammar, else their spoken French
would betray their deficiency in lin
guistic education.
1t is not too late now for the "boys"
about to be CHARTERED in concentration
camps or environments to take up
French under competent teacher.
Intensive drilling will be required of
the raw soldiers and the rank and
file will have little time for literary
pursuits, but every wide-awake young
fellow should be able to find time
to devote at least half an hour a day
to French.
The question is, would there be
teachers enough to go round? 1t
10000 of the 10000 or $4,000 SOL
diers to be in training at Admission
desired to have instruction in French
| fully 100 instructors would be re-
quired. And to supply all the camps
the number needed would reach we'll
into the thousands. Will the govern
ment find these teachers? 1t would
be worth while.
But if there is as much eagerness
on the part of the soldiers to learn
French, and learn it correctly, as
there should be, the demand for pro-
Efessional teachers would probably far
exceed the supply. In that event
many an amateur linguist might be
found among the men in camp who
would be glad to tender his services
The government is doing all in its
power to promote the welfare of the
troops. Let it not overlook the matte,
of organizing French classes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04

BEGINNING THE DAY-TO run,
to jump, to ride, to swim, to skate
to sit in the shade of trees by now
ing water, to watch reapers at their
work, to look on orchards blossom
Ing, to dream in the silence thar lies
amid the hills, to feel the soieinh
loneliness of deep woods, to follow
cattle as they crop the sweet scented
clover-to learn to know, as one
knows a mothers face, every change
that comes over the heavens from
the dewy freshness of early dawn
to the restfuI calm of evening, from
the overpowering mystery of the
starlit sky to the tender human
look with which the moon smiles
upon the earth-alI this is educa-
ton of a higher and altogether more
real kind than 1T is possible to re-
ceive within the walls of a school
Spalding.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04
Nation Wide Dry
Campaign Postpomed


I'D ROHIBITION leaders in Con-
u gress, on discovering what they
took to be '.joker" in the resolu-
ton submitting a nationwide dry
measure to the states, caused action
in the House to be postponed until the
regular session, which begins in De-
cember. The Sheppard resolution,
seeking an amendment to the consti-
tuition, had passed the Senate by the
necessary two-thirds vote with several
votes to spare, and it would have
been rushed through the House but
for the discovery" Of the alleged
Joker, which, it was pointed out,
would have imperiled its operation in
the end.
Many ardent prohibitionists
throughout the country were sorely
disappointed, as a matter of course.
A victory had been won in the first
important stage Of the contest for
national prohibition and the honest
supporters of the cause were feeling
hopeful of ratification by three
fourths of the states.
But in these troublous times when
the United States is straining every
nerve in preparing for war against
Germany, the general public has rea-
son to feel relieved that bitter cam
paign has been averted. While the
people do not vote directly on amend
ments to the constitution, there would
have been vigorous canvass in every
state to make sure that the legisla-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04
Modelcd Alter Cantonment

after five years in one of the big
downtown office buildings / am moving
back out to the warehouse" said W. D.
Nesbitt. It am building new office
which L am going to call my war office
because it will follow out the line of the
environments that are being built all
over the country, and when 1t is COM
pleted | expect to put up sign stating
that since Birmingham was unable to
get an army camp to snow 1orth the
style of edifice used for housing the SOL
der boys, the Warrant Warehouse com
pany, for reasons of economy, and to
show forth it's civic loyalty and to let the
people see what they had missed, was
erecting this office and hoped thereby
to save the citizens from having to take
a railroad trip to see cantonment."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04
HOTTEST sPoT IN AMERICA

From the Kansas City Times.
Death Valley, in the desert of south
ern California, near the Nevada line,
Is said to be the hottest place in the
United States. The only inhabited place
there is Furnace Creek, where the gov
eminent established a weather bureau
a few years ago. At that, the place Is
the home of only two or three white
men, and a few Indians who keep a
ranch there. For more than 500 days
between 1910 and 1915, the thermome-
ter registered 100 degrees and one day
in 1913 it reached 1873 degrees, hitting
the top of the tube.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04
ADRlFT WITH. THE TIMES
PROBABLY A TAME YoUNGsrER

PROBABLY TAME YoUNGsTER
What do you know about the early
life of this pacifist?'
Nothing much, but have an idea
that he never robbed an orchard when he
was boy, never got thrashing for
playing hooky from school and never
went in swimming when his mother told
him not to-"
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Like Old Times

at seems like old times to be back in
Birmingham" said ]. l.. Cawthorn of
Mobile. II know a lot of the old citi-
zens, but it's a new city and largely a
new people to me, for more than quar-
ter of a century ago 1 was in the shoe
business here and had a store on First
avenue, where the old postooffice used
to be before it moved to the old Wright
building, and then to it's present site.
from which it is soon to move again.
It's easy to check up on me by keeping
track of the peregrinations of Uncle
Sam"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04
Building Crowded

IT think we will be in our new
building by Christmas OF next year.
said r. B. Smyer, postmaster OF BIZ
mingham "The postoffice is always
badly crowded during Christmas week
and we usually have to hire several
buildings around in different parts OF
the town to accommodate the rush.
Since the parcel post system has peen
in effect, it has even been worse than
formerly. Here in the old building we
are always crowded and every man
on the force is praying for the speedy
completion Of the new building, so
we can move in and have enough
space to do our business in without
the jam that we now have"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04
EXPRESSES APPRECIATION
rom the Birmingham News:

From the birmingham news.
This being Friday. and assuming that
the distinguished editor of The Age
Herald has returned from success
full hunting expedition, the editor OF
the News takes the opportunity TO
express his appreciation of The Age
Heralds kindly article of Tuesday and
of its reproduction of the News edi-
torial. There is abundant room for
the two papers here and the desire
of the News is that they shall culti-
vate the pleasantest relations.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04
MADE TO MEASURE

From London Tit Bits.
A man who was much bandy-legged
entered local tailor's the other day and
asked to be measured for new suit.
The assistant informed him the boss
wasn't in.
Never mind; tho'll do as weel." an
swered the man, and the assistant began
to measure him. When he had taken the
measurements for the coat and vest he
stood up. scratched his head and looked
down at the mans legs.
"Wod arta looking at?' asked the
man.
ssWhy, Aw'm lookin' at tina legs.
Awe never measured onybody like thee
afoar."
"Oh, never mind my legs" said the
man. Thee measure UNI straight, ovid
lad. Aw'll bend UNI misel.' -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04
A READY-wITTED pARsoN

From the Boston Transcript.
The evening lesson was from the
Book Of Job and the minister had just
read, YEA. the light of the wicked
shall be put out" when Immediately
the church was in total darkness.
Brethren" said the minister with
scarcely a moments pause, lin view of
the sudden and startling fulf1lment of
this prophecy, we will spend a few
minutes in silent prayer for the electric
lighting company.
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Came to Birmingham in 1888

Speaking about old times said DR..
j. H Phillips, who was talking to j. l..
Cawthorn of Mobile II came to Bir-
mingham in 1883 and organized the first
graded school in it's history. ] came
here from Galliopolis, o. I was a close
friend of Superintendent Harris of the
public schools of st. Louis, who later
became United States commissioner OF
education and from him got vision OF
what a public school could become If the
powers that controlled them could pc
shown their opportunity for service
Fired with this knowledge, I came here
and during these years I have tried to
realize my hopes"
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Heat Prostrati0ns
I'm the South Rare

r7HHE excessive heat which was felt
u in every part of the United
States this week has been followed by
lower temperature and in many states
by refreshing showers. This country
has rarely experienced hotter spell;
but now that it is ended normal sum-
mer temperature will likely prevail
throughout August. There will be
some hot days, no doubt, but not such
as we have been having, and in Au-
gust the nights are nearly always
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-04
LATER ENLIGHTENMENT

"a title is not worth as much in the
matrimonial market now as it used to
be-"
"oh, yes. it is replied the plain
spoken man. "our young women are
simply beginning to realize that title
never was worth much"