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The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1917-05-31

Conscience is too often cnly fear Ct
cons q 'encts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

It is a mighty successful day in which you accomplish even half as much as you thought you would do. The man who has to work out of doors is always wishing he had desk job. And the man with desk job is always wish ing he had employment out Of doors.
 When woman gets so she has plenty of money with which to buy new fur niture she gets yen for the wormeaten antique kind.
 A woman isn't afraid that burglar will do her any harm. She Is afraid that he will see her raggedy union suit and dirty house petticoat hanging over the bedroom chair.
 Any time 17-year-old youth doesn't imagine that he knows more than his father you had better take him to a specialist. There is something wrong with him.
 Some people hunt trouble so eagerly that they will dodge pleasure to find it:
 Every day you see a lot of people whc look funny to you. But don't forge that you look thRt way to many others Young women are always adopting new wrinkles. Older woman are trying to ge rid of them. Always remember that it is what { man has been that makes him wha he is If you would use your head more vol wouldn't have to use your feet so much Every girl believes that she is not lik other girls And she isn't, bless he heart.
 If some fellows accepted your offer O penny for their thoughts, you woul, get the worst of the transaction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
Marketing Crops

While the crop diversification movement is one of the best things that has been agitated in many years and is bound to result in great good to the farmer, there Is another matter in this connection of vital importance and that Is, the marketing of the crops when they are raised" said William M Lindsay yesterday.
 Ut matters not how much the farmer may diversity, what will it profit him unless he can find ready and equi- table market for his crops? Notwith- standing the progress that has been made to better marketing conditions, there is still too vast a difference be- tween the prices paid by the consumer and the profit to the producer There are either too many middlemen or the marketing facilities are entirely insult ficlent. Keep up the movement for crop diversification by all means, bur it seems to me to be opportune also to take such steps as will insure the farmer that his diversified crops will find market that will give him a fair profit for his product"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
AS COMPARED WITH GERMANY

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
 "A well known naval expert presents on the editorial page of the New York Tribune a disconcerting parallel between our naval efficacy and that of the Ger mans. Reduced to its briefest terms the statement shows that we have in commis- sion 12 battieships to Germany's 25: we
 have no battle cruisers and Germany has five; we have about 50 destroyers and Germany has probably 200. though the | number is not precisely known. We have three scout crusers-the Chester, the Salem, the Birmingham-but at 23 knots they are negligible compared with Ger many's conjectural dozen having speed | Of 2S to S2 knots. Tn our second line of defense we surpass the Germans because of the losses the latter have sustained | in armored and unarmored cruisers dur ing the war. In the matter of subma-
 rine fleet we are immeasurably inferior l to Germany. The inadequacy of the navy is due to the studious complacency with
 which we have regarded the disparity for
 nearly three years and done nothing to | anticipate the condition that confronts us
 now. Our immunity is due. to no prow-
 ess or prestige of our own upon the
 waters. but solely to the fact that the
 great bulk of the German fleet is bot
 tied up" in ports of the North sea by the
 navy of England.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
THE FORT RTRESS OF HAM

, nance that caused the downfall of the Orleans throne; and one of them, the
 Comte de Peyronnet, has gone on record
 in a complaint, which was published in the newspapers of the time, against the conditions which he found there. The prison of Ham is very badly situated, he wrote, and, moreover, unhealthy. It is enveloped in fogs half@ the day. The promenade covers a space of about 150 feet at the end of a rampant where not more than two persons can walk abreast "These prisoners were released in 1896 by the terms of the amnesty then pro
 claimed; and four years later Ham opened it's doors to the most adventurous
 of all it's captives. Louis Napoleon. This imitator of his great uncle, hav- ing failed in his Boulogne filibustering ex- petition of August s1s40, was temporarily ! held at Ham for few days following his capture and until he could be taken to
 Paris for his trial before the Chamber of Peers. After his condemnation to per petual imprisonment, he was returned to
 Ham in october of that year; and there he remained until May, 1S46, when be ef- fected his escape. From Ham, Louis Ma poleon made his way to Belgium and thence to England. From London he was recalled to Paris, at the overthrow of the Bourbons, to become member of the new Chamber of Deputies; and within less than three years from the day of his escape he had made himself Prince
 President of the republic of France. and 1 in little more than five years had en- compassed the coup-d'etat which gave
 him the imperial crown.
 Tn his contest for the French presi-
 dency Louis Napoleon was opposed by General Cavaignac. The vanquished
 Cavaignac never relinquished his hostil- ity to his successful rival, however. and at the time of the coup-d'etat he was one of the sturdiest opponents of the plot
 and was joined in his opposition by Gen eral Lamorciere, who had been minister of war under him. Louis Napoleon, as emperor, could not forgive these men and it was with grim humor, no doubt that he caused them to be imprisoned at Ham, where he himself had passed six weary years.
 That portion or the Q1sLrlCC or the Somme where Ham stands is marshy. though rich, in soil and long has been a center of the understanding of which the thrifty French are such mas ters. The town numbered between 5000 and 4oOO people, and like all the ancient
 seats of power had it's cathedral. which
 boasted eight centuries of history, though
 the present-day structure in it's entirety dates only from 176O when 1t was large ly destroyed by fire, and since has had restoration.
 "In the Franco Prussion war of 1870.
 Ham was the scene of many engagements between French and German troops and
 the place was taken and retal1en many
 times in that campaign. It fell in the present war in that victorious first
 months march of the Germans upon
 Paris and as the pursuing French
 hastened past the ruined but still historic
 walls of its castle there must have been
 more than one to whom the citadel spoke in terms which stirred emotion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
HOTEL LOBBEEs
will Rank With Lincoln

Suspense is ended and the United States has definitely entered the war on behalf of democracy and political freedom said Henry Clews of New York
 That is the one issue which unites all nations against the German gov ernment; for, as has already been said, it is not the German people against whom we are waging war, but it's cruel submarine and militaristic methods. President Wilson, however patient he may have been in taking decisive ac- tion, has at last met the situation in bold and patriotic fashion. His address to Congress will go down into history as one of the strongest. ablest and loftiest political documents on record, and will rank with some of Lincoln's most revered addresses on great occa- sions. The whole country is earnestly and enthusiastically behind the Pres ident, and this war will undoubtedly be pushed with unrelenting vigor.
 Our joining the allies will surely hasten the end There are some opti- mists who expect that hostilities will end this summer, and not a few are confident that the struggle will no. last through another winter. Yet 1t would be a grave mistake to act upon any such assumptions. We must pre- pare for the worst. Germany's ability to withstand siege has by no means reached the limit. She may be feeling the intense strain upon her economic, financial and political system, but na- tions have often shown ability to wield the sword long after the utmost pres sure had been applied As long as Germany can sustain her armies and preserve their morale, it may be pos sible for her to be able to hold off her enemies both within and without, and in any event a decisive result seems impossible until settled by conclusive victory. If such an assumption is cor rect, our government must take up tho war in earnest and prepare to send Tn ample contingent across the Atlantic if necessary to fight with the allies. Our fleet must cooperate and we can render further aid by supplying muni- tions and by helping finance the allies, whose resources are undergoing a ter rifle strain''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
Crops Are Backward

The continuous rains are playing havoc with the farmers of the state and the prospect for this years crops are far from promising," said Col T. T. Ashford. T have recently returned from Madison county and the farmers there are absolutely at a standstill as weather conditions have been such that neither planting or blowing could be done. The crops in that section of the state are at least five or six weeks behind at this time and while it might not materially affect the size of the corn and cotton crops should the weather moderate soon, it will make them late and prevent the farmer iron, turning his attention to other farm work and consequently tend to cause an advance of all farm products I never was a pessimist and always try to look on the bright stde of things, but the present situation is very try ing to those who have large agricultu- ral interests at stake"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09

| lMN HASHINGTON, April S.-(Special9 | wv Retiring from Noyon. where, as Clemenceau was so fond ot
 taunting Briand, the Germans law so ! long ensconced, the Teuton invader and his pursuers swept by the ruins of the | town and fortress of Ham when they had encompassed about two-thirds of the dis tance to the so-called Won Hindenberg | line, which runs from St. Quentin on the south to Cambrai on the north.
 l Here, in the department of the Somme and on the river of that name stood the town, dating from the earliest period CT l French history and counting no less thaa 1 half dozen successive ecclesiastic and feudal lordships until it finally was united with the French crown in the reign of Henry w. says a war geog-
 raphy bulletin just prepared and issued 1 by the National Geographic society which goes on to tell something of the history of this famous old center. Great names appear in the list of Hams chief tains-Enghien, Rohan, Vendoms and Ma varre-and greater names still are found | in the roster of state prisoners who have found incarceration in its mighty fort ress.
 This structure dated from the eighth century, and in form 1t was a huge square, f1anked by four round towers l united by three ramparts. It had but one entrance, on the side next the town. to which access was had by 8 drawbridge spanning a dry moat. On two sides the
 waters of the St. Quentin canal bathed the walls of the ancient citadel. Its dungeon was built by Louis of Luxembourg, whose house at one time held the lief of Ham. He at the time- ble of St. Pol; and the greater of the two towers which defended the curtains of the fortress was known as the Constable s Tower. It was hundred feet high, it's walls having thickness of 36 feet, and three hexagonal chambers filled it's in terior.
 "The basis of the entire works is the
 old structure, founded before the tenth century, and enlarged and strengthened in the centuries since, notably in the fifteenth, when the great constable not only provided the outworks but also inn measurably strengthened the main walls so effectively that Viollet-le-Duc is said to have considered them capable of re- sisting the cannon of the nineteenth century; though they could not withstand the ruinous explosives of the retreating Teuton.
 "Six years prior to the beginning of this
 work, which covered the period from
 1436 to 1470-Joan of Arc was imprisoned at Ham, whence, after some months, she
 was sold by John of Luxembourg into
 the hands of the English, who, in turn,
 delivered her over for trial.
 Much later, in the midst of the en-
 closure within the huge walls, brick bar
 ack- -guardhouses were built, in architec-
 tural form following the style of the old
 Notifications of Paris; and one of these
 has served as a place of detention for
 prisoners of state. Here it was that the
 ministers of Charles X were brought to
 expiate their offence of signing the ordi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
: TO THE FRiNGED GENT1AN

By William Cullen Bryant. Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heavens own bluc That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean Ger wandering brooks and springs un-
 seen,
 Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod OCT the ground birds S hidden nest. Thou watest late and com st alone. When woods are bare and birds arc
 flown,
 And frost and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its flfnges to the sky Blue-blue-as if that sky let fall A flower from it's cerulean wall. I would that thus. when shall zee The hour of death draw near to mo. Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to Heaven as depart.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
ONLY HAIR NOT CoNTRABAND


 Sidney Brooks, in the National Service Magazine.
 have been told that & commission was appointed not long ago by a neutral gov errment to draw up list of articles that could by no possibility whatever be of military use. The commission reported that there was just one substance for which 1t could not discover a definite military value-and that was human hair! Only eight years ago all the chief pow CTS of the world put their heads together on the same problem. They advised that cotton, wool, rubber, and metallic ores should be placed on the noncontraband list on the ground that none of these arr ticles was susceptible of use in war. That was in 1909, and today we arc waging 2 war in which cotton. wool, rubber and metallic ores are daily and hourly found to be military indispensables. So much for the foresight of the expert. So much also for those who imagine-theyi can set any limits whatever upon the demands that war makes upon the resources U nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
DECATUR AND BARRON

at the height of his fame. He had been a member of the courtmartial that had relieved Barron of his command for five wears, during which time he lived abroad.
 Upon his return he applied for reinstate
 ment, and while disclaiming any preiu- dice against Barron, Decatur opposed the reinstatement. Bitterly resenting this at titude, Barron began a correspondence
 with Decatur, nearly a year before the
 duel, demanding retraction of damagine
 statements which he claimed Decatur had made against him. Decatur was buried
 with honors in Philadelphia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
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SOUTH BETTER FOR NEGRO

From the Rochester Democrat and Chron-
 icle.
 It will be remembered that last sum- mer and fall what appeared almost like an exodus of negroes from the south was reported. Attracted by stories of high wages. they left the south by tens of thousands. During the fall and winter a total of about 2o.0oo located in Phila- delphia. Recently physicians appointed by the city to look into the matter re- ported that fully 2oOo. that is 10 per cent, of the number were dying from pneu- monia and consumption. Such negroes as came north a few at time and under more favorable circumstances became ac- climated, have managed to do fairly well in the more rugged atmosphere. But close observers, among them Booker T. Washington, have long realized that the south is the place where the negro can work out his destiny under the most favorable conditions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
DOUBLE TRAGEDY
he Chicago Herald

From the Chicago Herald.
 A Washington man tells of a dinner at a hotel in that city at which were . number of gentlemen interested in va rious reforms. About the most conspicu- ous of these was man who talked loudly against both vivisection and the eating of meat. He afforded great inter est to a certain obscure physician.
 Toward the end of the dinner the latter leaned forward and said to the man first mentioned:
 Pardon me, but am I not to under stand that you are both an anti-vivisec- tionist and a vegetarian?'' Your understanding is correct" Then" continued the doctor, you will probably be greAtly shocked to learn that you have just eaten live caterpillar with your lettuce salad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
SUSPENSE OVER AT LAST

From tho Boston Transcript
 There is a stammering physician out in one of our suburbs. A short time ago, while on a case involving a new arrival, his infirmity led to rather funny mis- apprehension.
 The husband and prospective father, who, by the way, had set his heart on a son and heir, was nervously pacing the library when the physician entered.
 Well. doctor" said the husband, fore ing smile, lis 1t twins?''
 Tr-tr-tr-' began the doctor.
 'Triplets! Great Laesar!''
 ."Qu-yu-qu-" stammered the doctor
 "Quadruplets! Holy smoke!''
 "N-n-no." cried the doctor, "Qu-qu- quite the contrary. Tr-tr-try to take it ph-philosophically, my friend. It's just a girl"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
Enthusiasm Over
 BamkIaead Highway

1T IVELY interest is being mani G fested in the Bankhead highway and the first annual meeting, which will be held here next week in con- junction with the United States Good Roads convention, will bring enthu- siastic delegates from many states.
 Starting at Washington, D. C., the line will traverse Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, small section of Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma. Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, terminating at Los Angeles. The en- tire distance of the proposed highway is 5000 miles, and a large part of it is already improved. The route will be through a score of important cities, including Atlanta, Birmingham and Memphis.
 Senator Bankhead being one of the greatest good roads enthusiasts in this country and being the author of the bill now enacted into law appro- priating 5000, ,OOO to aid road work in the various states, is regarded with something akin to reverence wherever first-class highways exist or are projected. Therefore, it is that the great route bearing his name is ex- ceptionally popular; and as a good roads proposition for the benefit of farmers and automobilists it appeals to the imagination as few lines do.
 The officers of the Bankhead High way association are urging as many delegates as can possibly do so to bring their auto-cars and participate in the Bankhead parade on the morn ing of April 19.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
Association Planned
To Combat T'ippimg

70 @WIG1OdsN AlOLOABA5
 A BULLETIN preliminary to the HA organizing of the American Anti Tipping association" has been is- sued from Paducah, Ky, bearing the name of William R. Scott. Plans for incorporating the association, MT. Scott states, have been practically completed" The purpose of the bull letin is to show the opposition that has developed in the United States against tipping.
 Attention is called to various rul- ings made by federal and state au- thorities. Six states have anti-tipping laws-Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and South Carolina. Bills providing for similar laws have been introduced this year in the legislatures of West Virginia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Colorado and California. The Society for the Pro- motion of Useful Giving, an organiza- tion of New York city, known to the paragraphers as the "Spugs;" the Boy Scouts and the travelling mems organizations are working to abolish the time-honored tip.
 Naturally, no comment on tipping would be complete without the Pull man car porter, who is said to be it's chief beneficiary, along with the Pull man company, which is thus enabled to pay it's porters small salary. According to the bulletin, the ma jority of Pullman porters are paid $27.50 a month, "but tips bring their incomes in many instances to $100, $50 and $200 a month." It is esti- mated that there are 5,O00,00O per sons in the United States who receive gratuities regularly. If they re- ceived by 10 cents each day. which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09

BEGINNING THE DAY Lord, make my home Thine. May I hear Thy word of peace as Thou enterest and feel Thy presence of peace as Thou abidest. May all the work of my home be thorough. happy and beautiful. May the meals be sacra- ments. May prayer lock the night and open the day. May obedience and kindness and love he in all the halls and chambers of my home. In Christ's name. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
of onaal Beauty

MM USIC lovers express unbounded NVU delight at the biennial pro- grammes, published in full in yester- days Age-Herald. A great deal was promised by the national board when details were being worked out, but now that the musical end of the con
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09

Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, More quick than words do move a woman's mind.
 -TroiIus and Cressida.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
Billy Sumday To
 Arouse New York

0N HE REV. BILLY SUNDAY has
 N made an suspicious start in his New York revival campaign. People have ceased to express surprise at the evangelist's phenomenal success in attracting and holding rapt mighty crowds.
 The greatest test of his ability to move uppertendom as well as the masses was in Boston. The New Eng land metropolis has always been noted for it's conservatism and it's culture. It is stronghold of Unitarianism and the men and women of that denomi- nation seldom yield to emotionalism. They are benevolent and even-tem- pered, but Mr. Sundays preaching and his eccentricities-his pungent wit and his mimicry-took Boston's fancy and won the applause of even the highest of the highbrows.
 No one questions Sundays power to sway New York from now until the close of his three months campaign, but there is some doubt as to whether he can get the people to turn out as early as 7:30 o'clock. That is the tlr,e his evening services have begun in all the other cities he has visited; but the tabernacle in New York is a little out of the way and transportation facili- ties are inadequate for handling a vast multitude with dispatch. Moreover, New York is a Hate show town" Amusement goers are doing well if they are in their seats at the theatre by 8:30 o'clock and the more fashion able never arrive before g.
 The late-going habit is growing in Birmingham and other cities with large suburban sections and when Mr. Sunday comes here next year, he will have to insist upon the importance of being on time if he tries the 7:3C schedule.
 But MT. Sunday accomplishes won- ders in getting the people to do his way and the chances are he will change New York's Hate show habit and make 7:30 the regulation hour fol attending places of entertainment. He says, however, that if New York vii not come to his services at the houl now appointed he will give in and if, the time at 8 o'clock. But it is saft to assume that those who are eager to take part in the revival will exer themselves to be in their places a 7:30.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-09
UNPRECEDENTED

From the Greencastle. Ind, Banner.
 We had the hardest storm Friday that ever lias been here. It blew down trees that were never blown down before.