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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-31
r.orr,ittAfl Suicide,

TOLEDO.-Carroll Hills. 20. a mem
Der OF the senior class OF Scott hlsh
school. shot himself in the temple To-
day while other members or the la,n4Ls
we're at breakfast. Death was insta3-
taneous. The coroners verdict was
SIiicide.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-31
CO, mad. rather Killed.

White his son. Frank Z: Smlth. ago.
50. lay dead at sisters home last
struck and killed by an electric car. Ills
body was removed To tho morSue where
/, was Identified carly this morning. A
double funeral will be held.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-31

IRONTON.-J. B. Corns. a widely
known newspaper editor and late Re-
publican candidate for the nomination
for congress- is i'll with pneumonia
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-31

MASSIILON.-Fran Markham. aged
As. an engineer. suffered a broken hip
and shoulder when he jumped from his
cab when an engine ahead Of him struck
dcrailer.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-31

KENT-John d. etenson. a railroad
machinist. drank poison and died in n
hospital He loft a note saying he lid
it because he had lost tho love IF an old
sweetheart and that he knew He'll would
be his reward.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-31
Tho Quinine That Does Not Affect The

Because Of It's tonic and laxative effect.
Laxative Bromo Qulninc can he taken by
anyone without causing NERVOUSNESS or
ringing in the head There is only one
Promo Quininc" E. w. GROVES sig
noture on box Csc.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-31

CANTOE.-Eeulah Baker. aged On.
while trying to draw a bucket from Il
cistern. fell into the clsteTn and was
drowned.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-31

after dinner program by an address OF
welcome and.the reading Of the Rotary
club code OF principles for the benefit
of several new members present.
The other speakers and their sub
jects were:
Judge James ". Ewtng:-""Pro-
posal That the Rotary Club Nominate
a Hospital Director"
DR.. Frank Lem. Hnpp:-"Federal
Interest in the Health OF the People
DR.. C. H. Clovis, resident Roentgen::
ologist:-"The N-Ray;" exhibition OF
X-Ray plates.
Miss Harriet Phalen, principal or
the hospital school for ses:-"The
School for Nurses and Its Work"
Evhihitinn NJ slides on public health.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-31
The Bright Sid

ON--''rt"rc'S bright side
to every disaster" says ". /. StusScr'
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-31

\ firm in England is in thu mark;
for lUU.0gH.HnU paper fasteners.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-31

Cholera kills about s5o.0o0.ooo worth
Of hogs year in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26
ON WOMEN SMOKING CIGARS

From the New York Sun.
 L7f>IE cigar has been a useful bit of
 theatre property for years. Mir.
 S Gillette took advantage of it's pe- culiar Vaccinations in several plays and in Sherlock Holmes" it was a part of the plot, for how, without cigar could the detective have escaped from the Stepney gas chamber? That particular stage trick was not new, of course, for the hero of "Raglan's Way long be- fore Sherlock's time, fought duel in the dark, the antagonists determining each others positions by the glow of the burning weed
 Mrs. Fiske is the first woman of dra- matic consequence in these attitudes to smoke a cigar in full sight of the audience We have had in New York an English comedienne who smoked ci- gars, but only off stage and not for art but because she liked 'em. Mrs. Fiske, we take it, smokes for the sake of dra- matic, not nicotic, atmosphere. MT. Gil- lette was said to despse tobacco eX- cept as a tool of his trade.
 Many ladies smoke. Those who use
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
 11 6NDER the voluntary censorship
 Il which the press of the nation
 has placed upon itself many news articles which might be dctrimen- tai to the conduct of the war are sup pressed. But few editors have yet thought of expressing the correspon- dents who are cabling daily, and at great length the efforts of the hand full of United States soldiers now in the front trenches. Their dispatches should be suppressed, not because they contain any facts of value to the enemy but because they are both trivial and in very bad taste More copy is being cabled describing the few Americans at the front than is being written about the combined French and British ar mics. We are all vitally and intensely interested in the American troops. But, in our interest, 1t is best not to forget that the French people were led to ex- pect that a large American army would be in the trenches by this time, and that the emotions of a Frenchman would be a trifIe mixed if he should happen upon dispatches like the follow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26
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SOLDIERS WASTE THEIR PAY

SOLDIERS WASTE THEIR PAY George Pattullo. in the Saturday Eve
 ming Post.
 The Canadian command recognizes that a considerable proportion of it's men who succumb to dissipation on leave do so for lack of other diversions. Harpies and the temptations booze offers waylay them from the moment they step off the train in town. Ten per cent of those who get Paris leave pay for it bitterly afterward.
 Efforts are being made to organize counter attractions. They will have ad- equate clubrooms and amusements. and there will be officials always on hand to steer them toward healthier pursuits, And such close restrictions will be placed upon preying women that their activities will be greatly curtailed. It will be impossible for them to grab a man as soon as he steps off train, for instance. The Americans are all ready organizing on a oig scale to cope with this problem as 1t will apply to our army.
 1 Usually the soldier comes well pro- vided with money for a To-day jaunt 1 The Canadian system is to hold back
 the bulk of his pay and encourage him to save, but he draws 500 francs ($i2o)
 to go to town. Many have more than
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26
CALL OFF THE PRESS AGENTS

ing, which appeared under headline two inches high: AMERICAN FRONT UNDER CON-
 TTNUOUS GUNFIRE
 "Fighting activity along the Americah front is now reaching a hot stage. EV- ery sort of war activity short of gen eral assault is being experienced by the Sammies in the front-line trenches TO- day the guns on both sides were boom inG away in a rapid succession of roars. Patrol encounters are now becoming regular every-night occurrence. In the clashes of the last few days there nave been no American casualties. Whether the Germans have been as lucky as tne American riflemen is not known. Dawn's light over no mans land fails to reveal any bodies.
 There will be plenty of time before this war is over for the press ot the United States to publish long and gra aphic accounts of the battles in which American troops are engaged. At pres ent we are simply advertising how little we are engaged. The correspondents at the American field headquarters are writing, not in the manner of reporters but in the manner of press agents There are few of them who could not be better occupied working on stories of life in France as our soldiers find it. The government cannot, of course, censor dispatches of the sort quoted above. But the editors can call off their correspondents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26

sense for some men wear their re- iy;on as a. cloak, while many have not wei arrived at the pajamas stage. This recalls a story he. told to the colored neon1e Said he: "A man in Texas known as an old skin flint, but quite wealthy. was asked to give $10,000 to tba Red Cross He frankly told the committee that he was already a SICK man. but that if he did it, it would kill him Somehow they got him to give 1t, and he got so spry that he got out of bed and made every old close-fisted rascal in the town cough up his share. Pajamas suggested mother hubbards, which brought to mind the old yarn or a man who, in speaking of his neigh bor. said to a preacher, He is as tight as the bark on a tree" to be told that that was nothing, for, said he, T once had a deacon in my church that the bark on a tree would fit him like a mother hubbard when he thought of uniting anything into the collection plate"
 Birmingham has at last got the givI ing habit, and am glad that MT. Davi- son took the trouble to come into our midst and show us just how he is ad- ministering the Red Cross funds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26
Universal Service
 Advocates Insistent

A S The Age-Herald's Washington GN correspondent correctly as- sumes the universal training measure will be one of the chief issues in the regular session of Congress this win ter. Senator Chamberlain's bill, intro- duced in the Sixty-fourth Congress, providing for compulsory training of all boys of military age was heartily approved by army officers and by many broad-visioned civilians, but public opinion was not strong enough in it's favor to bring about its pas sage.
 As originally drawn the bill called for intensive training for a period of twelve months, but Senator Chamber lain was induced to amend it by in- serting six months. The principle was recognized by all but pacifists as right, but some of the leaders in Con- gress thought the application of it could wait.
 Postponement was a mistake. Had the bill been passed along with the administration preparedness pro- yramme this country would have had an army of something like million linen ready for the firing line wher war was declared against Germany. The old idea that the United States should depend upon volunteers hae Imany advocates as late as six month:
 ago, but it is plain now, as Proves
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26

the cigarette are not likely to arrive at the pipe Of all the ladies we have observed smoking pipes, none admitted having ever smoked cigarette The pipe usually comes to the fair sex after 70, when there are no beau1 around. But the cigar. It has it's place in fic- tion as woman's solace, but usually in the Spanish lands. o. Henry let some of his female characters smoke cigars, but they were on the comedy side of the page. Behind the mantillas of his heroine red roses, not Colorado claros, touched the lips. Yet. in the case of George Sand, who shall cavil at the smoking of cigars? From all we read she could have flicked the hot. ashes
 into the ears of her gallants without driving them away.
 We admit, however, an old fashioned hope that Mime. Dudevant's habit will not be aped. Even in city where the Chinese restaurants are practically alone among the gilded eating places in their objection to cigarette smoking by women, the cigar seems still to be- long in the comparatively mute lips of man. Let it stay there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26
Boosts Butler County

T have been at Greenvilie for eight years,' said Rev. L. l.. Gwaltney, former ly associate editor of the Alabama Bap- tist, and one of the most scholarly preachers in the state, "and Butler coun- ty, and the little city which is the county site is more prosperous than I have ever known it to be.
 Farmers have learned the wisdom of diyersifying. Great food crops were planted and the yield was abundant. Cattle are fast becoming one of the 1ead- ing industries, and hogs are being shipped by the car load. One of the biggest vel vet bean plants in Alabama failed to care for the business, and they are now build ing another. Peanuts are coming into their own. I ran up to supply at the West End Baptist church. I find Bir- mingham to be a hustling city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26
A REPENTANT EDITOR

From the Enterprise (Ala.) Ledger
 p. H. Moseley, editor of the Ledger, fell from the water wagon just as the old vehicle was ascending the hill of prosperity and fame, unjointing his manly career in this town and causing his ascetic partner to. speak harshly and picture to him the tortures of satanic destiny.
 Had any other man in Enterprise com mitted the unpardonable and disgraceful act it would have been this papers de- light to have given the idiot all the noto- riety through it's columns possible, and if any man in this town is ever guilty of the same offense as that of the Ledger editor, nothing will spare the brute from our condemnation in terms that will lin- ger long in the memory of the bone-dry element.
 brains have been in a state of aggra- vated fermentation the past gve days; no living mortal can realize the agony which have undergone, and neither will I ever attempt to apologize for falling off the old wagon that I have been riding for the past 10 months; the fifth wheel did not work right and the &C., cident occurred which was unavoidable on my part, but please allow me to state for the. benefit of those contemplating using too much skimmings that it is dangerous and dsgraceful route to travel. It will be q long time berore Moseley repeats the dose that he tried one week ago. Never again!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26
Ruth Law Interviewed

q was down in New Orleans about 10 days ago and had a talk with Ruth Law said B. B. Burton, who has all ways been a fair booster here in Bir- mingham, and who had heard all of the reports about the famous aviatrix which were in circulation shortly after she left the city, land she told me she expected to go to Washington and see Secretary Baker and President Wilson and try and get a commission.
 T see the Associated Press carried a story about her visit at the White House in the military uniform in which she made her flights in Birmingham. hope she gets a commission, as she is anxious to serve the government and is certainly one of the greatest flyers in the world"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26
Campaign That Is
 Sure to Be Popular

r1THE American Red Cross cam
 U paign for membership will be one of the most popular ever under taken. This noble organization has five million members now, but the number should be and will be greatly increased during the Christmas drive"
 Those in charge of the campaign have set the goal at fifteen millions, but these figures probably will be ex- ceeded.
 The gulf division, comprising Ala bama, Mississippi and Louisiana IS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26
LIJKE M,LUKE SAYS

Another way in which a wife shows her consistency is by abusing her hus- band in private and bragging about him in public.
 Another thing we can't understand Is why the wind is always blowing in your direction when garbage wagon passes you.
 We haven't much use for the safety razor. But we won't knock anything that prevents the growth of whiskers.
 A lot of men make the mistake of im- agining that their excuses seem as log ical to others as they do to them- selves.
 | You hear "cruelty" and "incompati- bility'' blamed for most of the divorces.
 But the truth of the matter is that sell fishness causes more divorces than all other causes put together. The perfect woman Is the one you are going to marry until you marry her, ] and then the perfect woman is the one some other, man married. | Every now and then some man allows I himself to be thrown on his own re- 1 sources, and then discovers that they 1 are not there.
 It might help some if the prevailing l style in ma trimony was switched from llons engagements and short marriages | to short engagements and long mar riages
 l Now that we are conserving. why not abolish the perfectly useless buttons on 1 the coats sleeve and the perfectly use- 1 less pocket inside of a vest? What has become of the fashioned man who used to talk about widow woman?
 | After a princess has waited too long 1 for a prince who will put her in a pal ace. she begins to hope that she can grab a man who can afford to get her
 a house that has plenty of closets in it.
 The trouble with sending girl away to a fashionable school is that it is SC hard for her friends to get acquainted with her when she graduates. When man insists that he is a gen tleman and woman insists that she is lady the chances are that they
 are both wrong.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26
U. $. Officers Taboo Boone

"I do not know why, but I watched any number of American army officers in Washington and in New York, at the clubs in Washington and New York; said Webb Crawford, and not one drank a cocktail or any intoxi- eating drink. Some foreign officers did, but Uncle Sans officers took vichy or some other mineral water or soft drink. I am merely stating fact without meaning or attempting to open the prohibition question. Times have changed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
French officers Create stir


 T was tamused at the attention couple of gallant captains in the French army, in their striking military costumes, attracted in the store 4asl week." said Mortimer Simpson or Loveman Joseph 6, Loeb. Crowds fol- lowed them as they shopped from de- partment to department. The sales force was somewhat demoralized as well as the shoppers. Both men and women stopped to get glance at their dashing manner. They seemed as oo. livious to the staring as if they had been opera singers or royalty itself. They did add bit of color to the store, as their uniforms were much gayer than the khaki of the American soldier"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26
Railroads Spurred
 to Greater Efforts

F1H HE transportation companes, 4 acting under the American Railways associations special com- mittee on national defense, have made exceptionally good records in et- ficiency, but they are now being urged to redouble their efforts Ill or der to ssmeet the extraordinary de- mands during the winter.
 Specific instructions regarding ad- ditional methods for increasing the capacity of railroad equipment have been issued. Wherever possible, car riers are directed to arrange for common use of terminals and facill- ties to tide over threatening emer- gencies."
 The use of unreasonably circuitous routes are to be avoided, and passen- ger and freight train schedules are to be heightened to promote punctuality and avoid demoralization of traffic that invariably follows failure of regular trains to make their sched- ules."
 The railroads are to encourage the use of motor trucks and cooperation with trolley lines for handling short haul freight"
 The transportation lines are urged to increase the loads per car of bulk grain and other commodities, to ex- pedite car movement through yards and terminals, and to enforce denur- rage rules rigidly. Chairman Fairfax Harrison, in statement explaining the necessity for greater efforts, says in part:
 ssThe railroads generally are very short handed, some of our constltu- ents reporting a net shortage of 121a per cent in the number and much larger percentage of loss in the eff ciency of its employees because of the necessity of filling vacancies with un- skilled and inexperienced men.
 "We recognize that everyone is dc. ing his best in trying conditions te help his country win the war, but Ii insuperable difficulties should arise tf prevent us from giving the public as rood service as we desire, we asl every railroad executive to make I clear why we failed and to rcques the public to continue to exercise thu n4.:ence and tolerance that they have heretofore shown
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26
Heard Billy Sunday

q had a great trip over to the North Georgia conference, which met at La Grange" said pr. J. w. Johnson. pre- siding elder of the Birmingham dis trict.
 Bishop Candler is fine presiding off, cer. He knows Southern Methodists mighty well, but he is real authority on Georgia Methodists, and they are a fine type, as might be expected with the memory of Wesley's work in pioneer days. I was accompanied by Drs Chac- wick, Faust and Tyler, and when pass ing through Atlanta took advantage of the opportunity and heard Billy Sunday preach. We need him in Birmingham and we are going to get him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26
GOLD

By Thomas Hood Gold! gold! gold gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold: Molten, graven, hammered and rolled; Heavy to get and light to hold; Hoarded, bartered, bought and sold, Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled; Spurned by the young, but hugged by
 the old To the very verge of the churchyard
 mold; Price of many a crime untold: Gold! gold! gold! gold! Good or bad a thousand fold
 How widely it's agencies vary To save--to ruin-to curse-to bless As even it's minted coins express, Now stamped with the image of good
 Queen Bess,
 And now a Bloody Mary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26
vARDAMAN
From the Savannah Press.

James K. Vardaman is delivering speeches in Mississippi that are even more disloyal than the utterances of are safest under lock and key.-Bir- mingham Age-Herald. If Vardaman continues his vaporings we trust it will not be long before he is arrested. We do not believe in free license for sena- tors to decry their country whether they are long haired or short cropped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26

BEGINNING THE DAf-Aora, may I ask nothing of the soioier the front that l do not aenaaAo
 myself. May I keep myseiL ht. I be alert. May I be ready 10 e"ase or to wait. May I be obedient' a"are of the larger plan and or my pa's in it. May I know why | nsnt. ""' I fear not. May wounds anu sicNhe's and privation, If they come, oe part of the game. Amen.---ka' nh' H'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26

that, being in receipt of money from home sources. I met a private in Paris who had spent $4oo in four days. Another had arrived with $500 couple of days previously and was sadly employed in counting what was left while awaiting his turn in barber shop.
 "Gosh"' he said. I've spent s155 al- ready Talk about the high cost of liv- ing!
 If they want to turn loose money at that rate it is their own affair." for men never earned it harder. But they could have any sort of time they desired on a mere fraction of what they spend.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-26
A PLEASURE CAR
"a Tuscaloosa News.

From the Tuscaloosa News.
 Paragrapher on The Birmingham Age Herald wishes some one to tell him what is pleasure car?' That's easy a new car-one that has never been in for repairs.