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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-08
By Lillian Lauferty

PLAT do you do with your
" failures? Do you cast them
aside with a grim determine
tion TO forget them as fast as ever
you can? Do you shrug your Shoul-
derS and say. Better luck next
tims"7 Or do you use them as
parts Of experience and actually
build them into your structure OF
Guecess7
The study Of adversely has almost
a. many messages for the folk who
would succeed az has an examina-
tion of success. There is q trick in
turning defeat into q mass Of ma
tsrIal from which you can build
success
First of all. you have to be per-
sistent enough TO keep on trying
and trying. even after you have had
enough failures completely TO con-
quer = weakiinE. Then you must
be sufficiently alert and spry to dart
from one situation to another as
you see how q change OF tactics
might enable you to bring your
plans to q successful conclusion.
II you believe in luck or fatsi II
you fear the old fetish They say"
and 30 are terrified by custom and
prejudice, make up your mind here
and now that you won't succeed.
Doing the usual thing In the
usual way may permit you to plod
along. TO jog along fairly comfort
ably. But It will not make you a
discoverer or an inventor or a pio-
neer or a conQueror.
Most people who make things out
OF their lives have faced the world
rather dauntlessly and have made
Il give in. II you are q full-sizcd
human being, you won't be afraii
to use everything there is in yoHr-
self. TO master your habits and de-
BirsG and abilities and to refuse abb
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-08

T SAW him at the picnic, and !
couldn't believe my eyes. The
pale, handsome, romantic
chap with the violet eyes and
the clear-eut profle-he was cut
ting lemons and helping the minis
ter's wife to make the lemonade.
The minister's daughter was
stirring In the sugar, and one Of
her cousin was cutting the cake.
The minister's wife is g sweet,
confused kind Of woman, who Is
always forgetting her glasses and
leaving her address book at home
when she goes out to make calls,
and calling people by their wrong
names, and being SO anxious and
sorry about 1t.
Her daughter il a blonde, and
beauty in q wild-rose, modest,
shrinking sort Of way. And daugh-
ter's cousin is a beauty, too, with
black eyes and hair that is like
black satin. She has a very pretty
little white hand, has cousin, firm
and with = pink palm, and she uses
her hands as an actress does.
Cousin has a class in Sunday
school, and she sings contralto in
the choir.
The minister's daughter sings
soprano. Last year they sang a
duet together at the June concert.
Something about under the
greenwood tree" with fairies and
blue-bells and moonlight in it. It
was really very pretty, and the
minister's wife cried and couldn't
find her handkerchief and dropped
her eyeglasses and fumbled and
fidgeted and drew every ones at
tention TO herself, and was embar-
raised and wished we wouldn't
look.
And the minister sighed, and
looked over the heads Of the con-
gregstion and he seemed to see
something far and far away.
/ don't know why the minister's
wife should have cried-there was
nothing sad in the sonE-and yet,
somehow, I myself
They've always been great
friends, the two cousins, the dark
girl and the fair. They were fairly
brought up together, they say.
The minister's wife was show
ing me an old-fashioned quilt her
mother had been making, and there
were pieeesin it Of the christening
dresses and the first party dresses
Of the two pretty cousins.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-08
Save the Birds
By S. GiIbert Pearson.
CHead of the ABduboa Society ana
One Of the Worlds Greatest

(Hend OF the Audubon Society an
One Of the Worlds Greatest
Authorities on Bird LIfe.)
MO one could say that the Night
IN hawk attracts attention
either by the beauty Of Its
plumAge or the sweetness of It's
song. But that 1t Is one of the
most useful OF birds from it's enor-
nous appetite for insects is beyond
question.
II IL found over nearly the whole
Of the United States in Summer, but
spends Its Winters In South Amer
lea Except for the slight rsssm-
blance which II bears to a hawk
when on the wing. II 10 entirely
unlike any species OF hawk. In
deed. Il looks more like the whip
poorvill than like any other Of our
birds.
When on the wing. describing its
graceful circles in the air, It ap-
pears much larger than II really 10.
Its long pinions and loose, fluffy
feathers give It an exaggerated APP
pearance a. to Its size.
Its body Is so small and with so
little flesh on It's loose skeleton.
that II 10 about the last bird that
one would think OF killing for food.
and yet In some parts Of the coun-
try It 10 shot In great numbers for
this purpose.
Its legs are small and weak, and
the muscles that move them thin
and soft, In one particular only Is
the nIghthawk unusually devel-
opsd, and that IL in the stomach.
In that respect II is truly remark
able.
1t 10 here that the nighthawk'a
usefulness appears. This enormous
stomach must be kept filled TO sup
ply motive power for the long
wings which are kept in motion so
many hours. To help in this task
nature has given the nighthawk an
equally enormous mouth, which is
really more like that Of a frog thaa
Of bird. 1t IL equipped with many
short briStles. and Is merely tipped
with . minute beak.
Its food consists OF insects taken
on the wing. And SO greedy Is the
nighthawk that when food Is plenty
II stuffs its stomach almost 20 the g..
point OF bursting.
The United States Biological Sur
vey recently examined the contents
Of a number of nighthawks' stom-
achs with interesting results. All
sorts Of harmful insects and bugs
were found to form a part Of the
greedy nighthawk's bill of fare.
One stomach contained, among
other things, no less than 1880 ny-
ing ants.
So expert 10 the nighthawk on the
wing that no insect is safe. The
nighthawk begins his long-circllnE
flights during the late afternoon
and early evening, and continues
them throughout moonlight nights
and just before dawn.
While making these flights II
takes sudden downward plunges.
making a quick curve upward when
near the ground. All the time 1t
utters its peculiar note-k-Eere-et-
which some one has described like
the sound OF tearing calico.
The nighthawk does not attach
itself to the abodes Of man. al
though 1t is common near all critics.
When In the country It raises its
young on q nat rock or bare knoll
far from civilization.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-08
By Jane Mclean.

WYE had been talking OF wed
w dings and trouBsssux. There
IL somsthing about early
summer that IL conducive TO such
thiASs, AZ every woman knows,
Gwen Davidson had been married.
and her wedding was the topic of
conversation. particularly a. II had
been 80 very elaborate. and the
bridesmaids had been chosen from
our own little crowd.
Gwen had just come home from
her honeymoon and had invited Us
all over TO tea and to see the we'd
ding presents the day before. Now
our little crowd, Edna, and Fay and
Carol and were gathered UP in
Fays little living room where. over
tea and sandwiches and woman's
talk. the subject Of weddings had
got beautifully under way.
Fay had been married Just a year
ago, and as the rest of US were still
heart-whoie and fancy free, her
wedding and Ovens were bound TO
be compared. Fay was tall and
what men call adorable. She mar
ried an artist and was content, nay,
more than content, eager to live as
he liked best. When we went up TO
see Fay we lounged on comfortable
couches and let our eyes wander
over queer pictures. and watched
two kittens playing on a white bear
rug. and enjoyed an atmosphere Of
air and space and q life uncluttered
with trivial worldly accoutrements.
Fay had disappointed US all by
being married without the bunch"
She had slipped OF with the man she
loved and had been married in a
quaint old chapel lighted with
blurred stained glass. and that was
all there was TO 81. OF course. FAY
was just the kind OF a girl to do a
thing OF this kind. but after we had
time TO think II over. we realized
how sweet Il was, and Fay was
Ideally happy. There was a ra-
dance about her love that was most
unusual
Fay was working the samovar,
and we were all drinking Russian
tea one cup after another.
Did you ever in all your life see
such wedding gifts?" asked Edna
solemnly.
Fay looked mp. Weren't they ex-
quIsite7 All that silver and glass
were wonderful enough. but. oh. the
linensI certainly envied her those"
"Oh. nonsense. Fay; you received
plenty Of lovely things" ] main
tanned stoutly./
Yes" seconded Carol. your gifts
were gorgeous. considering the fact
that you had no wedding"
II wonder II Gwen had that large
wedding Just for gifts." suggested
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-08
By c. A, Martin.
THE verdict Of time has not
often bean Feyersed more than

THE verdict of time has not
often been reversed more than
In the case Of Comts D'Orsay,
the friend OF the gorgeous Lady
Blsssington. and the greatest dandy
Of his day.
The popular opinion of many peo-
pie who met him was that he was
an empty-headed, brainless fop. al
though even his detractors conceded
that he had a singular charm of
manner and that he possessed a GER
tain amount Of knowledge Of the
liberal arts. But above all he wac
the man Of fashion. the Beau Brum-
mel OF his time.
That he took himself with a GER
tain amount OF sincerity seems GER
tain. He had decided that the man.
ners OF the day had deterioratsd
eepiorably. and that some one
should. both by example and pre-
eept. protest against the too free
and easy. democratic ways which
were beginning to innuenea even
the weli-born and the aristiearatie.
As no one else seemed TO Incline to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-08

II II
w upon u. svsFy one feels the
need for rest and recreation.
Nature has LAID asids her wIntef
gArb and assumed Summer attire
The cold days have gone. and yet
there are housewives throughout
cur land who are going on in the
same old ruG
They argue that the meals must
be served In Summer a. we'll a. n
Winter. They tell " the waning.
the ironing. the mending, the clean
Ing. must be done Just the sams.
When the man Of the house sugs
g0sts an outing the housewife
usually refuses because she has tee
much to DO, or II she does 90. she
IL usually 30 tired that she has but
little reserve energy either to dress
herself properly or TO gain any
enjoyment from the cutting.
This indicates . bad mental con-
dillon as wen a. . bad physicai
condition. But far worse. Il indi.
Gates poor nlanagoment In the home
and Its conSe9uent train Of unnsees-
Bary evils.
You may ana Arguments to use
against what ! an going TO say. but
II you are q fair-minded woman.
you cannot but admit that very
often the over-woFked household
drudge VINO has succeeded In max
ing housswork 90 unattra ctiPe u
usually 4 very poor manager.
But just how can . woman les
sen her household tasks In Sum
mer to allow for some real enjoy
msnt during thsss beautiful monthsf
On. you who would be ENAMEL
patsd, 20 through your house ana
remove every useless thing. store
1t away from dust. or sell II Or sivo
II away.
For . woman who is q born
"hoarder" these will seem cruel
words. but the sense OF relief she
will gain will more than repay her
for her pain.
II you know Il takes twenty min
utes of your precious summer play
time to dust the intricate gold
frames that hold the family por-
traits. change the frames or store
away the portraits and replace them
with inexpensively framed prints
which will be Of general interest
and decidedly easy TO clean
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-08
Once-OUers
Be the Boss tn
Your OUR House


NsuSs Services
You have certain ohice, have q
Do yUa
and defer
said that
q pie" that ID conducive
Study the details degree pulse
those associated with
think quickly and accurately
Don't let beat around the strictly an
o you
Having studied to do Others
around you by being clean and point
are really Al head-lead.
Don't be a hgurehead.
1t
definitely and
Either leader With let some
better fitted for 1t -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-08
Sweet Content Stories

hts trophisA
Take Molly to Nancy Psnsy,s
house and be sure you hide 10th BE-
biss. Do not leave them and, abovs
ALL DO not let Priekly Burr see
them think know how to get
him home and to-morroW II win ~
too late for him 20 take them. He
has emily Snow Daisy's baby % far,
but that IL too late to be helped"
said eur fairy. turning quickly -
drive on.
She knew the only fairy people
the bramble fairies feared were the
nr6 fairies. she WAs searching Tor
Scarlet Flame. she met her Just
a. she was leaving the village aftsP
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-08
Meeting Success Half Way

solutsIy to be mastered by any Of
them.
II you are impatient, without
definite purpose. too shallow to take
ex- srienes into your nature and
rise above the past merged in its
depths. then you may expect to
make the same plumbers to-day you
made yesterday and TO be a. irri:-
stead Of forging ahead Tomorrow
as you are to-day.
There are four great needs for
your own success. They are the
needs for all success; you and your
house alike must have them. The
strength TO master yourself: thu
power to concentrate on what you
are doing to-day; the vision TO look
ahead TO what you will need to DO
Tomorrow and all the. other to-
n1orrows, and the sanensss to plug
ahead without any expectation Of
miracles, these are the necessary
equipment for either men or cor
poFAtions "nlch want 10 succeed.
Four Great Needs.
II you cannot master yourself
II every little tribe upsets your
souilibrium-hoW are you going to
bring all your powers to your work
or hold them there after you get
them there7 II you are too irrita-
Bile 10 adjust yourself to the IrrI-
tating conditions OF every day life,
how can you concentrate on big
problems1
Do you remember the old fairy
tale OF the princess who was prov
en- OF royal blood because she felt
the little round pea which was hid
den away under goodness knows
how many sheets and mAttressss7
She couldn't have succeeded at any
real Job! She just had to be a prime
ess! She was a member OF that arIs-
tocratic and useless royalty which
can't support itself and 30 Is sup
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-08
Winifred Blacks Article On
Two Girls and a Man

The Pale, Handsome, Romantic Young Man With Violet
Eyes, Who Was Making Love to the Minister'S Daughter
and Her Cousin Had Been Murder Defendant Accused
of Getting Rid of Girl He No Longer Loved
By,Winifre Black
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-08
Recognizing the Home for
The Summer Months

Getting Rid of the Useless Things In Your House Makes
1t Possible to Take Life More Easily at Time When
Everyone Feels the Need for Rest and Recreation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-08

Ported by honest workers. who call
their pity reverence
Don't feel superior and aristo-
cratic II you are a writer and must
be shut on into the peace and quiet
OF some glorious country spot in
order to produce good work. One
great editor has dictated master
pieces Of common sense when
swinging along In . JoltInE train.
II you can't teach yourself to work
anywhere and under any circum-
stances. you can't learn to work
at all!
Don't Feel Superior.
II you can't pick yourself up
after q tumble and good-natursdly
set yourself to making the self-sams
attempt in which you have just been
worstsd. you don't amount to much.
Big souls fall to rise and are worst
ed once that they may fight better
the next time. There is no such
thing as defeat for the man who
has It in him 10 succeed.
Poets are not supposed to be par
ticularly practical souls. But in
the idsalism Of Robert Browning /
find some exquisite lines which bear
a wonderful message of that quail
ity which makes Inevitably for sue
cess:
"One who never turned his back,
but marched abreast forward,
Never doubted clouds would brsakI
Never dreamed. though right were
worsted.
Wrong would triumph.
Held we fall to rise. are bafflsd to
fight better;
Sleep to wake"
How magnifIcently, how simply
and how absolutely securely the
poet has described the quality Of
invincible braveness which knows
nothing OF defeat and which uses
failure to win succsssI
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-08
By Loretto c. Lynch.

wv HEN the summer month"; are
w upon u. every one feels the
need for rest ana recreation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-08
TRUE REST.

Rest is not quitting the busy
career;
Rest is the fitting Of self to
ones sphere.
Goethe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05
TRANSFER COMPANIES

Is MilN tR4NSFER AND TRAFFIC CO. 1922 Morris ave. Main 472
 1-iS-tf -thu-su
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Russian National Debt
 Now 50 Billion RubIes

Petrograd August 4.-Russias nationa debt, which at the beginning of the wal was 9,0oQOo0,000 of rubles, is now esti- mated at 5o,O00 o90,0O9, according to a report of the Imperial bank. Its state ment shows that the money circulation is 13,646, 00,O00 rubles against l, ,63S, GOO o0O at the beginning of the war.
 Credit notes issued the first five and a half months of 1917 amount to 4,549, 900 000 against 3475,o 900 for all of 1916.
 General operations of banks have large ly increased during the war. The gold reserve in Russia has fallen from 1,6O4, : 000,000 to 1,292, ,000,000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05
LEGAL NOTICES
Bids Wanted
State Aid Road

StHte IAIU NNUAU Bids will be received by the court of county commissioners of Jackson county, Alabama, at the courthouse, Scottsboro, Ala, until Il a. m. Saturday, September 1, 1917, for surfacing with macadam part of state trunk road No 1. between Wood vile and Limrock. Expenditure approx mately St0O90. Certified check of $40O required with each bid The right is re- served to reject any or all bids.
 w. s. KELLER,
 State Highway Engineer f < 10 10 oe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05
STORES
GLEN IRIS APARTMENT

GLEN IRIS APARTMENT One of the most attractive in the city; heat and all modern conven- fences; immediate possession; S42.56 Call us.
 SMITH -MUDD THROCKMORTON
 COMPANY
 POPS 1st ave. Main 1858.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05
Trmsfee,a SnIe

The undersigned as trustee in bank ruptcy of the Birmingham Candy com pany will on Friday, Aug, IT, 1917, at 12 o'clock, noon, in front of the Second avenue door of the government build ing in Birmingham. Ala, sell at pub- lie auction to the highest and best bidder for cash all the assets of the said Birmingham Candy company in cluding machinery, office fixtures and furniture, and all other physical prop erty of said bankrupt estate. He will also soil at the same time and place all the free assets of said company consisting of accounts and bills re- ceivab1e. leasehold interest and good will of the said company and any oth- CT asset of the said company not spe- enumerated
 C. p MOORE. Trustee
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FOR SALE


 FOR SALE-The lease on one of the most modern storerooms in Annis- ton, Ala. A golden opportunity for someone; 10000 soldiers and more 10 come. Address, L-20. care Age-Her- aid. Pikers do not answer; it takes money to turn this deal. FOR SALE-Five lots miles north courthouse; big bargain. or will eX- change for nice furniture. Address, M-20 care Age Herald. REMOVAL, SALE-Rather than move my present stock of pianos, player pianos, organs and phonographs, will sell most of them at cost; used pianos as low as $50; organs, $25; phonographs for S15: new double disc records. 25 cents each new play CT pianos at S1O0 off of the factory established prices; terms to suit you. E. E. Forbes New Piano Store, 106 N. 18th at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05
FOR RENT
n11p DENTAL LIST

OUR RENTAL LIST Will be complete by August 10. Let us help you find the home or apartment you want. SMITH H-MUDD-THROC
 COMPANY POPS 1st ave, Main 1858
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05

DIAMOND TOR SALE One and three-eighths carat, light orange color, Tiffany setting, perfect in cut and flawless, at a real bargain. Address K-20, care Age Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05
FOR RENT-RnOMS

room in private family for young man or young lady Phone 3669. Modern conveniences and five blocks from business district
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05
WANTFD-MALE HELP

@~-@-~-~1~-e~~~~~~>~e~ DRENNEN HARDWARE co. requires the services of a young man be- tween the age of IS and 20 years as order filler and stock man; good chance to learn the hardware busi- ness Apply Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05
FOR RENT

FOR RENT-House with 30 rooms, most all rooms now rented; F rooms fur nished and small stock of groceries, with fixtures. for sale to parties rent ing house; cheap rent; nice garden; gas and electric lights Phone Ensley T52-T.S
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05
LAWN MOWERS GROUND

WE srind lawn mowers: we call for and deliver same. Robert Prowell Stove Go.
 sio IN. zoth st. phone 3OOO 4-17- If
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05

 Reading right row. Logan Smith Thema Gardner Dan Scales Luke McCab Clyde Yielding Middle Frank Retter Ethel Mackey Ane Ellis Jamie Tucker Bryant Sells Front J Alex Miller Tucker King Andrews Figures their show their their ages % @ n n ss ] 's % m f @ he % @ S and have studied bookkeeping We are determined false T @ @ s s m @ y than @ @ ons s @ we @ m T6a 1s s s 5 % @ Gs @ @ D That bookkeeping learned pupils G) is sudy byth thismethod We have offered three We cordially Friday August Q We especially invite
 ACHALLENGE the Colleges o h City, regard published "fake' due ignorance how splendid
 
 at the courthouse Friday 9, the ability of pupils to beside challenge third time bookkeeping appear greater en mey handling dt and credits trial balance and financial statements double subjects The said $o donated Mercy Answer Very f'ps'asnzi 4sl 4 ELLIS. Aleer R Hewitt Assistant County supentenaes of Je e1son County:
 
 agreeab marvellous showing made by number small children who studying bookkeeping method which bookkeeping plain year @ with the that system by County High Schools and other state fd % % M d % be % P e Tss r @ s, ] 1S the % s9 a snr s m school work as shown the visit mentioned above .,., !. ,,7. "F ~F & & RAEHR ahR4Rr
 Asst sups of Education Jefferson Co.,,
 SPECIAL RATES many worthy people pay tu ns R s s @ s % not 3 a % sn sgs s m s % % % made % n for Scholarship 45aoo sap cone ssoe All our aaa1hd ppa s Our pupils note only get, but the best positions
 SPENCER BUSINESS COLLEGE
 A. ELLIS President
 POS North Fist Street Main 51s7 -.,-1 ,-n,..ro,-I --=-=