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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-14
Business Chances.

Business Chances.
FOR >ALE-Grocerv fixtures Phone 1880
GOOD house for auto repair shop or res-
tauraur Phone 111eT-
REMEMBER THE BOYS II the front;
Safety razors- cigarette cases. wrist
watches. ETC.
BARNETT-eI9 SAN ANTONIO IT.
CIGAR AND MAGAZINE STAND
one OF the best paying lola-
tons IN the city ASK f1r
WHEEL.DEk wiki
ANDERSON-FILLER
300 Mesa ave Phone 1901.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
Grand Jwry Fails i'm Dwty

The report of grand jury Tuesdays sensational jail delivery aront to the intelligence of the people of Alabama.
 It declares the sheriff to have been honest but careless in appointing deputies; that there collision between the sheriff and the prisoners that he has discharged three inside wardens therefore the members of the grand jury cannot that the sheriff is not intelligent enough to remedy such evils as they have found to exist.
 Judge Fort not satisfied with the report Neither will the public be satisfied It is entirely partisan There is too much evidence of politics in it. The report be roughly divided into four parts
 First of the details of the jail delivery which have already been published in every newspaper in the state
 Second list of recommendations in reference to jail dons made by former grand re and given direct to the present sheriff from the hench
 Third An apology for the sheriff the ground that he had
 Inherited from former sheris the system of caring for prisoners.
 Fourh The statement that the sheriff is honest and Eve have believe change from the choice the people would improve conditions at this tme if could possibly be done'
 Fortunately the grand jury is still in session. yet late to take steps looking the punishment of those respon sble for Tuesdays dsgraceu affair The people of Alabama expect and the people of Jefferson county demand it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

A poor man may not know much. But he can always tell you what a rich man should do with his money.
 Every now and then you will run into a fellow who thinks that he is making a great concession when he admits that there are a few good men in the other political party.
 Don't worry, girls None of these old crabs who knock the styles feel nearly as bad about the low-necked waists as they pretend they do
 Any old maid can tell you how to bring
 up children in the way that they should go
 Men are such fools that when you can't
 reason one into doing a thing. and can't
 hire him to do it, and can't bribe him to do it. you can always get him to do 1t by daring him to do it. One reason why we have so many di- vorces is because too many men treat tEeir wives like poor relations. A woman will spend six hours cleaning up the house because she expects a caller and when the caller arrives the woman will say: This house is sight but ] have been too busy to tidy 1t up.'' We are glad to hear that the spring skirts are to be full The more filling ir a skirt the better say we. Nature may be wise in her provisions But what point is she trying to make when she puts a pair of bowlegs on g girl?
 | Don't holler that you are not getting 1 justice Maybe if you were sure of get 1 ting justice, you would be afraid to leave the house.
 | Sometimes man can't decide whether | the sermons he gets in church or thu sermons he gets at home are longest. | More of us get our exercise batting oul , own backs than we get 1t kicking our | selves.
 | And the more you roam around ths world the more you discover the peopl,
 are being humored when they should b' 1 clubbed.
 | Don't judge by appearances. The maf l who is wearing the Decent cotton sockl may have a bigger bank account thai ] the man who is wearing the one-dollal
 silk socks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
MANZAENIlLLO, MEXICO

from the political disturbances which have so enfeebled Mexico during the past five years, but the port, and the province of Colina have fared less severely than the neighboring states and territories. The British consul in the district pos- sesses a keen appreciation of possibili- ties for Great Britain in that quarter. and has recently earnestly advised Brit ish merchants to famliarize themselves with the rates and facilities of the new trade route via the canal,' with view to extending their trade in that part of Mexico.
 When Mexico finally recovers from it's political indisposition and gets down to business, the port of Manzanillo will play leading role in her industrial develop ment, and the manufacture of vital, rather than of lethal, commodities will occupy the larger share of the attention of her people,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23

when the matter was first discussed, we would today be able to mobilize a great army on any battle front.
 Universal training would be ad- nlirable for manly discipline; admira- ble for the morale of young men. The propaganda for short term of mil itary service with the colors is not of militaristic tendency. It is simply patriotic and spells only preparedness.
 When a nation needs an army of defense it is economy to have mil lion or more men trained by intensive drilling ready to respond to a call to arms.
 The Sixty-fifth Congress, to con- vene in extra session on April 2, will have many grave measures to consid- CT. One of them will be a universal training bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
OPPORTUNITY

By Walter Malone They do me wrong who say I come no
 more
 When once knock and fail to find
 you in; For every day I stand outside your door, And bid you wake and rise to fighk
 and via. Vail not for precious chances passed ,g away,
 Weep not for golden ages on the wane; Each night burn the records of the day. sunrise every soul is born again. Laugh like boy at splendors that have To vanished joys be blind and deaf and dumb; My Judgments seal the dead past with its
 dead
 But never bind moment yet to come Though deep in mire. wiring not your
 hands and weep, I lend my arms to all who say: T
 can.' No shamefaced outcast ever sank so But he might rise again and be man. Dost thou behold thy youth all aghast? Dost reel from righteous retribution's
 blow? Then turn from plotted archives of the
 past
 And find futures pages white as snow. Art thou mourner? Rouse thee from
 thy spell.
 Art thou a sinner? Sins may be for
 given Each morning gives thee wings to flee from hell Each night a star to guide thy feet to
 heaven.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
HE MADE cooD WAGONS

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 While Andrew Jackson was President
 of this United States there was a family
 of 13 children living at Gettysburg which
 later was to be the scene of the crucial conflict of the civil war Most of the
 sons went west to grow up with the
 country. Some were blackmiths and
 wheelwrights and they made up their
 minds that the great need of the section
 was good and strong wagons to haul
 farm produce over the horrible clay and muck roads of the period. They re- solved to make the best possible wagon
 regarless of cost. The Studebaker farm wagon in time came to be the standard of
 excellence. Its originator is just dead Not far from this primitive wagon shop
 another band of brothers made up their
 mlnd that the country needed better
 blows to till the soil and especially blows which would stand the constant securing 1 and the ravages of rust The Oliver chilled steel blow was the result-also
 based on the principal of quality re- gardless of cost
 It WOuiu pe ulIIlcult to say Tn terms
 how much the development of the west depended on these two implements, de-
 velopment very soon to be greatly aided
 by the moving and reaping machines which also were evolved near where they were needed most. All of these imple- ments were exploited by hard-headed me- ohanics without education or special training other than what they got from hard work and observation.
 During the civil war 10000 young men
 left the farms to fight for the union. but the agricultural implements made 1t possible for those who remained be- hind to actually increase the supply of food for the northern states. The day o2 the small manufacturer is gone Great corporations now manufacture by
 wholesale at low cost, but they got their inspiration from young men of vision and of character, men who would be satisfied with nothing but the best.
 The names of Studebaker, Oliver and Mccormick will one day be held in higher esteem than now because in a real sense
 they were builders of the nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
As to Preparedmess
For ehe War Ahead

For the War Ahead
 M1 OW that war between the United IN States and Germany is inevita- ble the question is, How nearly pre- pared is this country? The navy is stronger in battleships and cruisers than it has ever been and is steadily growing stronger. In men it is we'll equipped. No navy in the world has a finer personnel In naval strength, therefore, the United States is we'll prepared to cope with Germany.
 The war department is ready for rapid mobilization should land forces be needed. But we still have only a small army, as modern armies go. The regulars available for field duty in continental America are consider ably less than 100000. With the Na- tional Guard, now thoroughly drilled after Mexican border duty, added, the United States can count upon sonething like 175. .0oO men for first line of defense.
 If the European war lasts much longer we will possibly need an army cf 1, ,00O, 900. That would mean busy lime in drill camps during the next few months. When Congress meets the question of how much of an army this country shall raise will be deter mined. In the meantime the war de- < partment is losing no time in prepara- tion.
 The critical situation which the { United States is now facing should Empress upon the American people the importance of universal military &raining and service. If Congress had < nassed compulsory service measure
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
* * *
What Is Meant By
Retreat of Germans

o6l( FAVE it to Won Hondenburg, "
 l9 the German people are told. . The withdrawal of German troops along the western front is merely an- other strategic move by the great leader who means to turn an appar- ent retreat into crushing victory, as he did in Poland.
 Whether the Teuton armies are be- ing grouped for a new offensive or they are retiring because of the pres sure that is being exerted by British and French troops, the fact remains that they have evacuated large area in France, which they fought for with superb tenacity, with no regard for the cost in money and human life.
 Possibly the withdrawal now under way is, as the German strategists de- clare, being made to straighten the lines and prepare for more effective warfare against their enemies, but what becomes of the enormous expen- allure of money and resources made in the unsuccessful "drive" on Paris Thousands of Germans have been killed and captured, elaborate trenches, dugouts and other defensive works were constructed with almost superhuman energy. Shells literally by the million have been fired and enormous quantities of smaller am munition used in holding territory which has been given up practically without struggle. All of this expen- diture of time, resources and human life seems to have been a total loss.
 According to the latest figures, the Germans have been driven out of 853 square miles of French territory and 366 towns have been recaptured But the Germans still hold little more than seven thousand square miles of France. From this it may be seen that the allies have the hardest part of their task before them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
JUST ABOUT NOW

JUST ABOUT NOW vernal songs are freely heard, Every bough awaits it's bird. Shoots of green will soon be springing, Climbing vines to stout oaks clinging, Sweetest blooms their heads uprearing, Natures charms the sad heart cheering. These are signs well worth the knowing Proof we're done with blizzards blowing.
 TOO INVITING "The Gadspurs have bought country home"
 Have they found a name for it yet?" At first they thought of calling the place Bide-a-While, but they were afraid the name might be misnterpreted by their poor relations"
 ONE WAY
 Do you suppose 1t Is possible Tor per son to get away from this Hawaiian music that is now heard everywhere?" "oh, yes If you know how to operate an aeroplane, all you have to do is to a ascend about 10000 feet in the air. At that height the loudest ukulele cannot be heard"
 THE BETTER PLAN Authors have different ways of work ing"
 That's true. Some will write a story in an hour that it takes them six months to sell. Others take six months to write story and sell 1t in an hour"
 'TWOULD SEEM so Life's a game of give and take
 No one will deny.
 When you cannot give or take,
 That's the time to buy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
DRIED coDFIsH SINK A SCHOONER

From the Popular Science Monthly.
 Goldfish Sank Big Schooner was the
 title of a news item of recent date,
 which besides being most unusual seems
 to open up a new method of sinking
 wooden ships of the nations at war at a
 trifling cost compared with the present
 s50OO to s10,000 torpedoes used by subma- rines and destroyers
 The schooner Ponhook, under cap tain and crew of seven men, left St.. John, N. B., for the Azores, with car- go of dried codfsh. Soon afterward she
 ran into a heavy sea and shipped consid- erable water. The dry codfsh absorbed this like a sponge. and it was but cou- pie of days before the expansive pressure of the sweled codish had forced open
 the seams of the vessels planlzing so that the water began to seep in. little by lit l tie, until the ship was beyond saving and had to be abandoned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
Will Await Crop
 Reports Eagerly

M S all wealth comes primarily out A of the ground in one form or another, crop reports in the United States are always awaited eagerly by the business world, and in these troublous times, with devastating war and hunger abroad and high cost of living and hunger riots in this coun- try, the condition of the agricultural districts will be of the utmost inter- est from now until the harvest season.
 In the west the outlook for winter wheat is usually forecast with some degree of certainty about this time of the year, but the department of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
THE MATTER WITH KANSAS

From the Topeka Capital.
 They buried Funston yesterday. He was the last of the Kansas heroes. Ex- cept for the old boys who went to war in the sixties, the breed seems to have run out. It is the era of the man who wants to regulate the universe by statute
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
Views Expressed By
 the W0mam's Protest

&A4AOIO4
 THE more or less militant suf-
 0 fragists of America seem to have foewomen worthy of their steel in the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, of which Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge is president. In a battle of wits Mrs. Dodge has proved equal to the ablest suffrage orators.
 The Woman's Protest, a magazine published monthly in opposition to the 'votes-for- women" propaganda, is one of the best edited periodicals of it's kind in the country and seems to take subtle, feminine delight in flay- ing the suffragettes.
 The latest number of the Protest devotes a little more than one page to a caustic resume of the Suffrage Siege of the White House," recently brought to conclusion under circum- stances somewhat injurious to the "cause." The Protest states that it was impossible to keep six sentinels on duty during the full six weeks of the "siege" because of shortage of volunteers. In the "demonstration" of March 4 it was announced that ten thousand suffragettes would march around the White House seven times, even as Joshua led his followers around the walls of Jericho.
 A total of 33S women, says the Protest, carrying that number of 1 Pankhurst banners and one American flag, circled the White House grounds four times in drenching rain. One man protected the plumes on his wifes hat with an umbrella-an un- sung hero. Large and phlegmatic policemen kept the women from en- l tering the White House grounds and to cap the climax, President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson passed out in an au- tomobile, Ignoring the suffragists and their dripping banners utterly"
 All this, of course, is "ancient his tory" It is interesting to note, how ever, that the National Association 1 Opposed to Woman Suffrage consid- CTS the failure of the "siege" to, offer additional proof that women are tenn peramentally unfitted to vote. With Solidarity of Sex" as creed and "Pester the President as a policy the suffragists, according to the Pro- test, are not getting anywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
CAN'T BE DONE

'wiu you explain this war situation in two words?" asked the puzzled citizen.
 I'm sorry, but can't accommodate you" answered the student of interna- tional politics. "The vocabulary of person with average intelligence is about 2ooo words, but when he tries to explain the war he usually ends by getting black in the face and merely spluttering."
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
wur See Lees statue Unveiled

When Robert E. Lees statue at Gettys- burg is unveiled, there will be a large number of Birmingham veterans and others present
 Frank L. Jenkins. division passenger agent of the Southern railway, announced yesterday that the Southern had ar- ranged to operate a special train from Washington to Gettysburg on June 8.
 There have been so many veterans to inquire about the unveiling of the monument to Robert E. Lee at Gettys- burg that the Southern railway has ar- ranged to run a special train on June &, at the close of the reunion there
 Tt will be a Pennsylvania railroad special, and will accommodate all those from Birmingham who wish to go there. From present indications Birmingham will forward a large number to Wash tngton."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
HOTEL LOBBIEs
The Call of the Rod

Well, I've been feeling the call for weeks now and last Wednesday, I just had to break away" said Bert Throck- morton yesterday. And, believe me, we had some good luck. We went down on the Warrior river and caught over 60 trout. No, I haven't got picture of them, but it's a fact. And take tip from me, whenever everything seems to hs going wrong, if you'll just take a day off and spend it fishing. you'll come back home feeling like q different man, especially if you have the luck that l hadv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
STRANGE

The man who talks upon his feet With readiness and ease, Will go a damsePs hand to seek With sadly qual1ing knees.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. The man who loudly boasts uptown That he's the household boss, At home yields to his better half And meekly comes across.
 Memphis Commercial-Appeal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23

BEGINNING THE DAY-o God, may my thoughts of heaven be con strained to do my labor on earth. May every loved contemplation of the bIissful future be made subject to my daily living. Help me to send my dreams back again if they are not able to contribute to my com tentment, to my fidelity. to my sweetness. and my strength. In Christ's name. Amen.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
Mardi Gras and "I<ing Rex"

Speaking of Mardi Gras reminds me of when Birmingham used to celebrate this festival" remarked Dr. Howell T. lief lin last night.
 Tt has been F or IS years ago, I be- lieve, and I was not a resident then But I read the papers and have heard friends spak of it quite often. The fea- ture of the affair in my opinion was King Rex as H. Key Milner. wno was sovereign on that occasion, was dubbed by one of the newspaper reporters of the city, who had forgotten his Latin alto gether, if indeed he had ever taken up this branch when at school. Rex was certainly king all right when Mardi Gras came to Birmingham the last time.
 Mobile seems now to have monopo- lized both Rex and the Mardi Gras fes- tival; and it would seem as though it were about time for Birmingham to pull off another affair of this kind, leaving out the King Rex expression, however"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
PROBABLY AN IDLE RUMoR

What effect will this shortage of dyes have?"
 T don't know"
 "But what do you hear?' Some say it's going to throw lot of brunettes back on the matrimonial mar ket."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
Raise Fine Live Stock

Dallas county and the rest of the black belt suffered severely last year from the excessive rains and the flooding of the Alabama and Cahaba rivers in July, but the outlook for the coming sea- son is very encouraging said Lucien P. Burns of Selma, a prominent business man and planter who is at the Tutwiler. ''The experience the farmers have had with the boil weevil has caused a great
 increase in cattle and hog raising and some of the finest live stock in the United States can now be found in our section.
 ''On account of the fact that money
 is tide up in stock raising for sometime, all the people have not yet been able to stock up their places. But as they see the success which others are having and realize the money making possibilities in stock raising. it is not improbable that the black belt will become one of the greatest producers in this line in the country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
LIGHT RESPONSIBILITY

q thought you said Dubson could be depended on in an emergency. Yester- day his house caught fire and he got so excited he couldn't turn in an alarm"
 1T failed to explain the kind of emer- gency I meant If you should ever want to stoop over and tie your shoe lace, Dub son could be depended on to hold your hat"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
cAwInzlnxN14@au1lH

P. S: If you don't want to grow old. be boy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23

What's more miserable than discOn- tentf Henry VI.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23

NN WASHINGTON, March %,-(spe- MW cial)-Manzanillo has been se- v V lected by the Mexican govern
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23

The big steel ball weighing 16 tons used to break up the siag gave him as much pleasure as it would have given any nor
 nal boy. He kept talking, about the pow- erful magnet. I believe he would have been willing to put in day watching it drop.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10

After ordering and receiving
the plates for the serial numbers
we found that we we're short on
bases, and in the second place
by their very nature we saw that
their publication could be of no
service to anybody and conse-
quently passed them up. Else
where you will tiud a list of
names of those who have been
drawn on the first draft. and lat
er we shall give the list Of
those drawn who have success
fully passed the examination and
been accepted into the service.
AS always, where there is any,
thing of real news value to the
people you may count on the
Herald giving it.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Two Ways of Fighting.
BY Otto H. Rowland
The Uncle Walt Mason Of Baca County

The Uncle Walt Macon Of Baca County
The war trumpets are sound
ing over all this broad land, I'D
like to 20 and join the crowd, but
1 haven't got the sand; I'd like
to tote a gun and sword and
make the Germans fee, I'd like
to fight beneath the flag across
the deap blue sea.> I'd like to
win a medal and stripe upon
my arm, but / kinder think tine
place for me is here upon the
farm. know that I'd do lots o.
good behind a patent gun, I'd sit
and turn the handle, and watch
the Germans run. But 1 guess
I'll still continue. to wear my old
blue jeans, and help to lick the
llie.helms by raising pork and
beans.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
R|CHLAND

Nixon Rich and his daughter
Rachel lockwood with her
daughter Anna May went to
Stevens county to hold a few
days meetings.
A nice time was spent at Har.
ry Wilkins last Thursday night.
it being Mrs. wilkins birthday.
Quite number of neighbors and
friends were present and by the
number OF cakes brought it did
not look like starvation quite yet.
Lewis Eaton and family took
dinner at Rich's Saturday and
attended monthly meeting in the
afternoon.
Quite a few folks are talking
OF going fishing again this week.
Some new songs were practice
ed at the church last Sunday
night.
In spite of dry weather crops
still. stay alive. Quite a number
are using the hoe to clean up the
weeds.