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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-15
AT ONCE! STOPS STOMACH MISERY
 AND INDIGESTION
Tapes Diapepsin" makes sick, sour, gassy Stomachs
 feel fine.

Do some foods you eat hit back taste good, but work badly; ferment into acids and cause a sick, sour, gassy stomach? Now, MT. or Mrs. Dyspeptic. iot this down: Pape's Diapepsin helps neutyalize the excessive acids in the stomach so your food won't sour and upset you. There never was anything so safely quick, so certainly effective. No difference how badly your stomach is upset you usually get happy relief in five minutes, but what pleases you most is that it helps to regulate your stomach so you can eat your favorlto foods without fear.
 Most remedies give you relief some- times-they are slow, but not sure. "Pape's Diapepsin" is positive in neu- tralizing the acidity, so the misery won't come back very quickly.
 You feel different as soon as "Pape's Diapepsin" comes in contact with the stomach--distress just vanishes-your stomach gets sweet, no gases, no belch- ing, no quotations of undigested food, your head clears and you feel fine.
 Go now, make the best investment you ever made, by getting a large 50- cent case of Papes Diapepsin from any drug store. You realize in five min utes how needless it is to suffer from indigestion, dyspepsia or any stomach disorder due to acid fermentation.- Adv.
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resources are beyond estimation. lt is the field which the Guggenheims were populariy supposed to be gob- bling when the great excitement about in Alaska began, and 1t is, to a certain extent, accessible to Cor dova and the Copper River railroad. The road now under construction VIII be about 15 miles long and the work of grading has been completed. The company which owns it is developing coal mine in the Bering river Held, and it expects to have coal ready Tor shipment when the road is finished This will be early in the coming sum- mer. and shiploads can then be sent to the mining regions and ports along the coast.
 Copyright. 1917, by Frank c. Carpenter)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-15

It is expected that the building of the near future. large part of the money already spent has been in getting ready to build. There was no equipment for railway construction in Alaska, and all the materials and machinery so far used nave had to be carried in at great ex- pense Roads have been built, harbors dredged and the land cleared along parts of the right of way. It is not falr to estimate the money so yar spent in connection with the line already con structed The equipment on hand will suffice for much of the future building and the overheard charge will have to be averaged upon the whole 41 mics.
 So far, about 30 miles of the Alaska. Northern have yet to be put into workable shape. The trains now go past Kenai lake ana skirt the Spencer glacier, which is about mile long and in places almost as high as the dome of the capitol. From there on to Anchorage the scenery is as beautiful as the best parts of Switzer- land, and from Anchorage northward there is rugged country, which finds it's high est point at Broad pass, where the road crosses the Alaskan coast range. It is not far from there that the station for -hOoht NuCiNilley pdTiA WILL De TedcHeC One corner of the park is within 10 miles of the right of way, and it is expected that there will be a stage route from the railway to high up the slopes of the greatest mountain on the continent | am told that the maximum grade of the road will be only 2 per cent, and that in the long stretch from Seward to Fair banks the grades will be short and the longest tunnel required only few hun dred feet.
 A great deal of apprehension has been felt by many who do not understand Alaskan conditions over the difficulty of keeping the road open in winter The commission expects to have but little trouble as to the cold or the snowfall. The heaviest snowfalls are near the coast, and snow sheds will be established there and in the region about ,strna gain Arm. There is much less snow in the interior The maximum fall at the summit of the main mountain range is only about seven feet. and this can easily be controlled by rotary snow blows attached to the engine. At Anchorage the snow seldom falls to a depth of more than two feet and the deepest snowfall is not over three feet. As one goes to the interior, the country becomes drier and the snow and rain rapidly decrease
 In the meantime the country through which the railroad is to go is steadily improving with view to the facili- ties that will be offered upon its com pletion. The Nenana coal fields will probably be opened up next year and the mining camps about Fairbanks will have five -six-dollar-a-to coal in stead of paying SIG a cord for wood The route has been surveyed right through these coal fields. which run from the railroad eastward for a dis tance of about 100 miles. Some of the coal veins are 40 feet thick and the coal is practically inexhaustible. The Matanuslla coal fields as I have said are already supplying Anchorage and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-15
Middle Age


 From 'The Point of View" in the Scrib-
 ner.
 If one stops to think of it, just when does the gallantness of youth change into the heaviness of middle age? Why do all the engaging. entrancing boys and girls become dull, uninspired men and womenY Why do we submit to the change? We bring joy with us when we come into the world and we expect to find joy wait ing for us again when we go back to heaven, but in the meantime we walk with downcast eyes and hanging arms, crushed by the heaviness of mortal exist ence, when, if we stopped to think, we would know that the spiritual things make life; that without love and joy and unselfishness and courage we could not long endure the daily mortal round of dressing and eating and sleeping. If there is any such thing as eternal life this present life is part of it. and why not go lightly through the hours-even when we stop being 20-instead of wearily plodding through them? We may, if we refuse to allow the laws and demands of mortal existence to superimpose them selves on the laws of eternal life and crush out all spiritual eagerness.
 It is a matter, not of the events of life, but of our acceptance of life Could the terr1Dle events or the frenCn reEOiullOn crush the spirit of the French noblesse? There were no middle aged among them in those prison days when they danced and sang with gay insouciance while each waited for his turn at the gullotine. They lost their heads but they never dropped them, for they knew the secret of spiritual youth.
 The society women of today maintain that same gallantness of youth. Perhaps not every one of them feels the pulse of spiritual life. but they refuse middle age and are willing to pay the price of their refusal. To hold their prestige they must be slim and charming and gay, and gay and charming and slim they are, even though in extreme cases they gain thcir smness by rolling on the floor and the charm from the hands of their maids, and their gayety lies no deeper than the tips of their tongues. Still. in their cour- age and confidence they never strike their colors to middle age. However they feel inwardly. outward.~ they never Haunt dropping mouth or sagging fig ure
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be done over the snow and the ice Enor-
 nous quantities of railway materials are now being carried into the places most
 difficult to reach. and a great deal of
 hauling is being done to save the expense of building wagon roads next summer.
 During the past year the work of con-
 struction has gone on at both ends of the line. They have been working along
 the Alaska Northern from Seward to An chorage. They have been building a new
 road from Anchorage northward, and have been grading and preparing the route from Fairbanks and Panama, work
 ing toward the south. In addition parties of survivors have been preparing the road through the mountains.
 Cars have been running on the Alaska Northern and the trains can now take one across the greater part of the Kenai peninsula, This section is producing a revenue of something like $500 per month. Further north, about 50 miles of track have been in operation from Anchorage. and E miles of additional track are ready for the steel rails. The branch to the Matanuska coal fields is within p miles of being completed. It already reaches the coal-bearing area, and the govern ment has opened mine at Moose creek and is now shipping coal into Anchorage. All of the coal used on that part of the railroad now comes from Moose creek, and Anchorage has g plentiful supply. The coal is not as good as the Chickaloon coal. farther inland, but it serves the purpose and will be of great value in future railway construction.
 Tho first depot on the road has been built at Anchorage. It Is a one-story log cabin, and tackled upon it's walls are the first railway time tables. These give the arrivals and departures on the main line and the Matanuska branch. On each division there are trains on three days of the week only and the time made is Is miles or less per hour.
 The commission is now publishing railroad paper known as the Alaska Rail- road Record. This will appear weekly and it will give all information concern ing the branches of railway construction in Alaska It will be much like the government record published at Panama, although by no means so large or pre- tentious, single copies cost cents and the subscription price per year is hsl.
 The last issue lies before me. It gives the coal tariff and the baggage regula- tions. The latter are about the same as those of the states. One hundred and fifty pounds are carried free on each full fare and all pieces of over 250 pounds have to be sent by freight. Trainmen are warned that passengers must not carry their baggage into the coaches, and charge of 50 cents is made for lost bag gage checks. ~
 & The paper gives facsimiles of the meal tickets and commissary tickets issued by the commission. All employees can get their meals at the government restau- rant, and commissary books, issued in coupons, can be used at the government stores. This makes the living of the em- ployes along the line comparatively cheap. It is after the same plan pur- sued at Panama.
 The Alaska Railroad Record shows that the conditions along the line of the road are somewhat the same as those, along the line of the canal. Every copy has a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-15

they will soon be sending coal to that section of the road which is building north up the susitna valley. They will eventually furnish fuel to a large low grade mining district west of Broad pass. The gold there is quartz and fuel is needed to run the machinery. There are other mining districts along the line of the railroad, which are already being exploited. and the coal of Matanuska will greatly benefit the mining camps on the Renal peninsula.
 In addition to the cheap coal sup
 plies to be furnished by the govern ment railroad, Alaska is much inter ested in a road which is being built from a point on Controller bay to the Bering river coal fields. This coal is equal to the Matanuska coal and its
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-15
The Poet
From the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star.
 An English poet told in New York why he had abandoned poetry for war work.
 Even IT. he said "can't make poetry pay nowadays. In fact. as far as poetry goes, I'm a good deal like the young Washington Square chap who recently got married.
 When this chap took his bride home to his tiny flat she burst into tears and cried:
 Darling. I've dreadful confession to make to you. I can't cook
 That's all right. he said. And I've confession to make in my turn. I'm a poet. and you'll have nothing to cook :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-15
Washington. D. c.

" aSHlUE lOllt L. Nss
 0NJHE Alaska railway is steadily pro-
 gressing. over 100 miles of track lS are now ready for the rails, B
 miles of the line are in operation, and by the summer of 1919 Pullman oars will be running from Seward to Fair banks At least, this is what I am told by MT. w. c. Edes, the chairman of the railway commission, who has been here in Washington making preparations for an active campaign next summer. Just now we are at the beginning of spring, but Alaska is still in the throes of its winter The thermometer all along the line of the road is bobbing up and down around zero, and a thick coat of snow covers most of the right-of-way. The smaller streams are still frozen the ice going down to seven or eight feet from the surface and penetrating the beds un- derneath. The rivers have a coating of ice several feet thick, and sledding can
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-15
Lawson as Usual
From the Washi

tHe W HETIIfBtUH
 Thomas w. Lawson disclosed nothing very valuable perhaps. during the Teak" but at least he lost no op- portunity to let loose an epigram or pun.
 MT. Lawson' a committeeman said one afternoon, separately you should do as you want to be done by"
 'But, my dear sir the Bostonian an- swered T don't want to be done by any body
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-15

Goodbye sore feet, burning feet, swo1- len feet tender feet, tired feet.
 Goodbye corns, calluses, bunions and raw spots. No more shoe tightness, no more limping with pain or drawing up your face in agony. "Tiz'' is magical, acts right off "Tiz' draws out all the poisonous exudations which puff up the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-15
Colored Wash Goods

25c Fancy Printed Voes 19c Yard
 
 Printed Madras, Yard 25c of patterns figures Fine Zephyr Dress Ginghams 121ac Yard checks pad
 Lucerne Light Percales 15c Yard inches wide, shirts 
 Riddle Cloth at 19c Yard shrngs also in solid coors (s Floo)
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-04-05
|C. G. N. Will MAKE
NECESSARY REPAIRS
Court Allows Certificates to Take
Care of Damage by
Floods.

Permission to issue certificates ag-
gregating $11,700 was granted John
w. Fristoe, the receiver of the c. G.
n. Railroad, in the Common Pleas
Court yesterday by Judge John A
Snider, for the purpose of reconstruc-
ing sections of the railroad. Mr.. FRS
toe was also authorized to sell two
locomotives of the railroad. They are
worth $4,000.
The partial destruction by fire of
the trestle over the Du Bots Creek
near Perryville, and the damage done
to the road by the recent heavy floods
make the repairs necessary. The work
will be started as soon as the plans
have been completed and the contracts
for the work have been let. The
trestle over the Du Bots Greek was
damaged by fire last week and made
it necessary to transfer passengers
from one train to another. The trains
meet at hte trestle. But the trestle
has been repaired and traffic is now
maintained in the usual manner.
The divorce case of James Edgar
Miller against Mrs. Ladyse Miller was
referred to the Circuit Court in Jack
son by Judge Snider, who disqualified
himself because of his Relationship
to the plaintiff. The case was taken
up during the regular February term
but the decision was deferred. The
case will be tried during the next term
of the Circuit Court.
A number of probation cases were
passed on by the Judge after he made
his decision in the Miller case. Mrs.
Amelia Seehausen was allowed S157C
of the estate of her late brother-in-
law, Frederick Seehausen, who drop
ped dead on the corner of Frederick
and Independence streets several
months ago. Mr.. Seehausen had made
his home with the family of his sister
in-law for number of years, and Mrs.
Seehausen was allowed the amount for
caring for her brother-in-law while
he lived with her.
The estate of A. R. Oller, who died
two months ago from an injury which
he received in a fall was settled. Mrs.
Oller was made Administrative of the
estate. She was allowed the sum of
$500 for the first year to take care of
her family.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-04-05
CHAMP CLARK ONCE
MORE MADE SPEAKER
Missourian Defeats Mann by
Vote of 217 to
EOS.
By international News Service.

By International News Service.
Washington, April Champ Clark
of Missouri was elected Speaker of the
House of Representatives of the Six
ty-ffth Congress in session of the
House that was marked with sensa-
tons almost from the outset.
The Speaker defeated James R.
Mann of Illinois, choice of the Repub-
lican caucus, after Representative Len
root of Wisconsin, himself the candi-
date Of minority of the Republicans,
had challenged the suggestion made by
Representative Schall of Minnesota,
Progressive Republican, who is blind,
IN placing Clark in nomination, that
the existing international situation de-
manded that President Wilson be Civ
en- Democratic House organization as
well as Senate to assume responsible
ties for his policies. Lenroot then had
seconded the Mann nomination.
The vote in the House resulted:
Speaker Clark, 2l7; Representative
Mann, 205; Representative Lenroot
2; Representative Gillette, 2. Two
members were recorded present but
not voting.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-04-05
ALDRIDCE BOY IS
Held AS BURGLAR
Youth Weeps as He Tells Court
He Didn't Enter
Mill.

Following a preliminary hearing
yesterday before Justice of the Peace
Orren Wilson, Warren w. Aldridge, ID
years old, was bound over to the grand
jury on a charge of being implicated
in a burglary committed last week at
the Leming sawmill in South Cape.
The boy was unable to furnish bond
and was committed to the city jail un-
til he can be taken to Jackson to be
held pending the outcome of the ac-
ton of the grand jury.
The lad wept throughout the trial
while relating the details of the rob-
berry, and while being questioned by
the prosecuting attorney. He named
another boy as the principal and in
sisted that he did not know that his
companion had committed the burg
larry until he returned from the mill
with a sack filled with pieces of lead
and tools. He remained on the rail-
road tracks, but did not go near the
mill, he said. He denied emphatically
when questioned by the prosecuting at
torney that he stood outside watching
while the other boy broke into the
mill. He repeated his statement CIV
en- the police Saturday evening after
his arrest regarding the sale of the
loot.
During the evening the mother and
the sister of the youth visited him in
Jail. The mother being financially I'M
able could not furnish the bond for his
release. Both she and the daughter
have just recently recovered from an
illness of several weeks. The boy was
employed at the tobacco factory. He
applied at the shoe factory for a po-
sition, but owing to his age he could
not work the number of hours requir-
ed of the employees of the factory.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-04-05
OLD SIXTH BEING
ORGANIZED AGAIN
War Spirit Sweeps Over South.
east MissOuri-To Have
Cape Company.

Reports from Southeast Missouri in
dictate that the old members of the
Sixth Missouri regiment are being re-
organized to answer the call of the
President in the event war is declared
on Germany. The members of the
Charlottesville and Sikeston companies
have received applications which they
are requested to fill out and forward
to A. l.. Oliver of st. Louis, who was
colonel of the regiment.
Attorney w. C. Wilks of Caruthers-
vile has devoted considerable time to
the reorganization of the company
which was composed of the residents
of that city. He recently received a
number of application blanks from
Lieutenant Colonel Warren Mabrey
which he has had filled.
d. According to the reports received
from Charlottesville, Attorney Wilks
has found great number of the old
members of the Missouri regiment who
have declared their willingness to be
re-enlisted. He has sent a number
Of applications to Colonel Oliver in
st. Louis.
Lyle Malone, captain of the Skies
ton company, has enrolled a number
of the old members of this regiment.
He received the blank applications
from Colonel Mabrey.
Capt. Wilson Balm, of the Cape COM
pany, has been requested by a num-
Der of the members of the local COM
pany to reorganize it. Should the ma
tional crisis grow more serious than
at present, call for Cape men will
be issued.
The regiment was composed of ten
companies from the cities of Southeast
Missouri. They were Cape Girardeau,
Charleston, Sikeston, Jackson, Lutes-
vile, West Plains, Ste. Genevieve,
Mountain Grove, Perryville and Poplar
Bluff.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-04-05
RAILROAD TRESTLE
DAMAGED BY FIRE
Bridge ofC. G. N. Leading Across
Dubois Creek Partly'Destroy.
ed-Traffic Hampered.

The trestle of the c. G. N. Rail-
road leading over the Dubois Creek,
about three miles south of Perryville,
was partly destroyed by fire late We'd
nesday night and caused the traffic
on the road to be hampered to great
extent. Transportation of the passen-
gers is being kept up by transferring
them from one train to another ct the
bridge.
The amount of the damage done has
not been estimated by the officials of
the railroad. 1t is believed that it
will amount to several thousand dol
lars, as more than IS feet of the
trestle was consumed by the blaze be-
fore it could be extinguished.
1t is believed that the fire was
caused by sparks falling from the
stack of an engine. The ties being
dry and saturated with oil, burned like
straw. The fire was discovered by a
farmer living near the bridge, and he
aroused number of neighbors, who,
aided by several employees of the rail-
road, began fighting the flames. Aft
err several hours hard work they sue
ceeded in getting the fire under con-
troll.
Passengers now travelling on the
road are transferred from one train
to the other. Two trains are main
tanned separately on the road. One
running from the Perryville Junction
to the bridge, takes on the passengers
who come from the Cape. In that way
the service on the road has not been
effected in the least.
According to employees Of the rail-
road it will require at least a week
before the damage can be repaired.
About one-third of the bridge will have
10 be rebuilt. The rails which were
bent by the intense heat and dropped
into the creek will have to be replaced
before the bridge can be opened again
for traffic.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-04-05
SENATE P. N. FREED
ON A $4,000 BOND
Letters to His Wife Caused Ar.
rest-Embezzled $500
Officials Say.

Alvin Chapman, former postmaster
of Senath, was brought to the Cape
yesterday morning and taken before
United States Commissioner F. A
Rage on a charge of embezzling &c.
349.06 from the postal funds in Sen.
ath. He was released on a bond OF
$4,000, which was furnished by VIM
G. Bray of Senath, and DR.. C. b
Ruff of the Cape.
Chapman disappeared from Senath
several weeks ago while the books of
the postoffice were being examined. He
was arrested few days ago in Mem
phis. His whereabouts were traced
through letter which he wrote his
wife. The arrest was made by w. L.
Kleinwachter, who has been in charge
of the investigation into the embezzle-
ment charge brought against Chap
man.
Chapman will be tried during the
next term of the Federal Court which
convenes here next week.