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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-16
BERLIN IS GRIM BUT RESOLU UTE

entftling him to the ration fixed for each person by the government. The consump- tion of meat is regulated in the same manner, and it is only upon presentation of "Fleischkarte, or meat card that one can obtain meat in restaurant or hotel. These cards and his passport arc thus the travellers most necessary and constant companions.
 In addition to regulating the consump- ton of all the staple necessaries of. life by the card system in the manner indi- cated, the government has put upon them maximum prices, so that equal distribu- ton at approximately equal cost is as- sured to poor and rich alike. It is very largely due to this system. rigidiy en- forced and based not alone upon an exact knowledge of what is now at hand. but 8 careful and dconservative estimate of what will be available in the future that the German people will am convinced. run no risk of starvation even if the so- called iron ring" continues to eneircle their country for an indefinite time to come
 And l certainly saw no signs of starva- ton. There is, as far as I could ob- serve, and on inquiry could ascertain, quite enough to eat for all Lard. butter and other fats, milk. sugar and eggs are noticeably scarce and coffee is running Very low.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-16

WNT AsHINGToN, March 15.-(spe- w cial.)-"Bombed by airplanes
 zeppelins and shelled by de- stroyers, the English seaside resort of Broadstairs must feel that it is losing the distinction which it has always claimed for quietude and reserve, and that it is experiencing a sort of geo. graphic or historical stavism-for as early as s5S there here took place bloody battle between the Danes and the Saxons in which the invaders were successful. This repetition of history, however, does not extend to the recent bombardment of the place by the German forces, which was barren of military results" begins a bulletin just issued by the National Geographic society. It goes on to de- scribe the pleasure resort as follows:
 Situated on the southeast coast of England, along the chalk cliffs of the channel and about 80 miles from London, Broadstairs has long been favorite wa tering place in both summer and win ter. Its name is supposedly drawn from the manner in which it's roadways to the sea have been constructed, they being d series of ramps cut into the precipitous cliffs while the town itself crowns the headlands and sweeps in a semi circle of villas along the edge of the bluff.
 "Broadstairs was a favored spot with Dickens, who spent nearly every summer there from 1887 to 1851 and the houses in which Dick ems lived are pointed out and marked as numerously as those throughout this country in which Washington had slept or as those in Genoa which are claimed as the birthplace of Christopher Colum- bus Here Dickens wrote the last of the Pickwick papers and portions of Nicholas Nickleby, the Old Curiosity Shop Martin Chuzzlewit and Dombey & Son. Some of the details of Bleak House were based upon one of the houses in which Dick ems dwelt at Broadstairs, and this struc- ture, now bow widowed, castellated and modernized is known by that name.
 Betsy Trotwood, one of the characters in David Copperfield, Is claimed by Broadstairs as one of its own people, and the green upon which she would not per init her donkeys to set hoof is now shown on the fort.
 George Eliot also frequented Broad stairs but she developed no such affec- ton for the place as Dickens did and her name is given scant regard for Broad stairs continues to feel that Dickens sounded the acme of its praise when, writing from Albaro, Italy, he said:
 CT have never yet seen it so clear, for any long time of the day together, as on bright, lark-singing. coast-of- France discerning day at Broadstairs'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-16

number of submarines and air craft needed to complete our defense. The scope of avtivity of naval air craft is still largely problematicaL but we are safe in assuming that we need at least two effective machines for each scout and that probably three machines are necessary to insure that one may always be effective This would give us in all very modest air fleet of 324 machines. machines. 4
 When we come to discuss submarines we take up vast subject. Much that has to do with submarines is confiden- tial, much Is guess work and much is faith. Yet no one denies that they are a powerful and increasingly influential weapon of warfare. but chiefly in defense. Submarines should not be required or ex- pected to work continuously, and prob ably one day in three on duty Is suffi- ciently taxing.
 If one will glance at our naval frontier points of manifest strategic value, as New York harbor. Delaware bay, etc. Each of these points should, at all times. be covered by not less than three sub marines, which will make nine based on each of these strategic points. that could come out when summoned to actual at tack. Of these strategic points that really go to make up our naval frontier Qeaving out Guam and the Philippnes) there are 20, which gives us for our re- quired number of submarines, 1so
 The outline here given of what con stitutes for us an adequate navy may seem to many Americans extreme, but there is only one standard of comparison for navies and that is other navies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-16

if it does no more than teach the stu dent body to listen with understand ing and love for art, it will be well worth while. Many college professors talk eloquently of Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Weber and Verdi, but never encourage the students to attend grand opera or symphony or virtuoso. In Birming- ham high school pupils and even the little children turn out in large num- bers whenever there is anything dis tinctly attractive to hear, but the lack of patronage on the part of college students has been often remarked.
 The musical atmosphere is every where becoming inner and more brac- ing spiritually. College boys should not be allowed to get away from it's vivifying effect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-16
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

The reason why girl looks so warm in knee-length skirt and a low-cut waist on cold day Is because she would rather freeze than be out of style. In any family in which there are chill dren everybody in the house gets a rest sometime but mother. When mother gets her rest they fold her hands and say how natural she looks, and the rest is a long one. When woman makes up her mind to attend the matinee she starts getting to get to the theatre only half hour late.
 Don't cuss your poverty. Maybe it is all that keeps you from making a fool of yourself.
 The only reason why a married man does some things is because his wife says he mustn't
 l It is easy, to get reputation for being intelligent Just talk to other people
 about themselves We don't see where Job had such kick
 coming. The fellow next door to him
 had neither cheap player piano nor a cheap photograph. | And there is the kind of man who, if a
 hen laid two eggs per day for him, would
 kick because she didn't lay them already
 boiled and salted and peppered. 1 Always remember that if you didn't
 have your knocker worried he wouldn't
 spend so much time knocking you
 Marriages are proceedings that always
 have hitch in them. 1 The reason why a man is so sleepy ir
 church on Sunday morning is because hs
 Is so wide awake in movie show that evening.
 ! A woman is person who brides her
 self on her ability to understand things
 without giving them . thought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-16
To Have Many New
 School Buildimgs

1T F the building trades have been H comparatively dull within the past three years activity will soon be the rule again. Birmingham will shortly proceed to erect a million dol lars worth of public school buildings. Two of them will be high schools large and imposing. They will be handsomer than any school struc- lures in Alabama and will be the "last word' in architectural design and appointment.
 Birmingham has long needed addi tional schoolhouses, both for the ele- mentary grades and the high. The Central High school was congested three years ago and now the over- flow makes a serious situation.
 It is believed that some of the new buildings will be ready for occupancy by next fall, but the larger ones will require longer time in construction.
 The government will break ground for its $1 100000 postoffice here dur ing the spring. With the magnificent edifice which Uncle Sam will rear and the fine, modern school buildings all under way at the same time, to say nothing of other important con- struction, Birmingham will make up for the slack years in the building 1 line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-16

Carl l.. Schurz in Leslie's.
 7 EFT me say at once that what im-
 pressed me most from the moment ~ of my crossing the German frontier from Denmark to the time of my de- parture, and what was brought home to me almost every hour of my stay, was the really marvellous organization of every phase of German life which came under my observation. This organization has for its object the absolute elimination of all waste, and the fullest and most ef- fectivo use of all the resources at the government's command. It looks far into the future and conservatively reck- ons with all contingencies that may req sonably be foreseen. The German peo- pie. being of an unusually high standard of intelligence, understand and appre- ciate the value and necessity of this gov ernmental control, with the result that they are united in cheerful submission to all governmental regulations and in abso- lute confidence that their nation and they will be able to overcome even the great est difficulties and hardships that the war may nave m store TOT lncms Il .
 this wonderfully systematized and far seeing organization, quite as much as to | the achievements of the army and navy, is due the present strength of the Ger
 man nation. in spite of the fact that it
 has now been surrounded for over two 1 years by the most impenetrable circle of
 it's enemies
 | I was at once brought face to face with the manner in which the govern
 ment is coping with it's most vital eco
 homie problem on the morning after my
 arrival in Berlin. I refer to the food
 question. When I ordered my light con
 tinental breakfast, consisting of eoffec
 and rolls, the waiter asked for my bread card. and 1t was only after I had pro- cured this card from the hotel office that
 bread was served to me. This card Is a printd slip of paper, the edges of which
 are marked off into squares. each square 1 representing a certain number of grams lin weight When bread is served to you,
 you are asked whether you wish one slice | or more. and the corresponding weight is then torn from the card. The hotels in Berlin supply each guest with a. card or
 cards covering the period Of his stay and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-16
HOW TO DEFEND OUR COASTS

Lieut.. Com. l.. A. Gotten, in the North
 American Review
 6C1O defend our frontier we need three
 fleets, an Atlantic fleet, Ca
 Gs rbbean fleet, and a Pacific fleet, and the three should be approximately war in the Atlantic, the Atlantic and ca ribbean fleets would work together and the Pacific fleet would be drawn upon and handled as the Pacific problem per mitted In case of war in the Pacific, the Caribbean would pass through the canal to the Pacific, and the Atlantic fleet would be drawn upon and handled as the Atlantic problem permitted.
 The composition of each of these three fleets should be such that by junction of two of them we could hope to meet, with fair prospect of victory, any force that could, in reason, be brought to bear against our naval frontier This condi- ton would seem to be met by maln fighting strength, for each fleet, of two squadrons of dreadnaughts and one of of nine ships; one fast scout for each dreadnaught, to locate the enemy and work with destroyers, and two destroy CTS for each capital ship. When this ideal is attained (if ever) we could bring to bear in either ocean a minimum effec- tive fleet of. S6 dreadnaughts, IS cruiser battleships. s6 scouts and 1os destroyers Of course, in addition to these there should be more or less extensive fleet of auxiliaries, fuel ships, ammunition ships. food ships. repair ships. hospital ships, mine layers. transports, tugs and tenders.
 There remains to be determined the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-16

this state with 108,000 sheep. Reports from all tax assessors last year showed total of 6S,44O head of sheep actually assessed. If these figures are approximately correct the falling off has been startling, but Commis- sioner of Agriculture Wade feels req sonably sure that good many sheep in Alabama escaped the tax assessors and that the total number in the state would range between our figures and those of the federal government in 191O."
 That the number has diminished at all calls for practical consideration. How much is traceable to dogs and how much to other causes should be carefully investigated. The legisla- ture of 1915 enacted dog law seeking to protect sheep, but it was form of local option and amounted, it is con- strued, to nothing more than a dog
 aX.
 In the great movement for farm diversification now in progress atten- tion should be given to sheep hus- bandry All live stock is proving profitable in Alabama and sheep ranks high in that respect.
 The next United States census should find not only 10S,0O0 head, but many thousand more.
 Some words and phrases are used loosely. An instance: Mardi Gras means only one certain day in the year-the Tuesday next before Lent, literally Fat Tuesday, but so closely has the term be- come associated with the great pre-Len- ten carnival season that carnival com panies are using it for their shows re- gardless of the time of the year. The fact is recalled that after Birmingham's s attempt at Mardi Gras many years ago. the last was in the blizzard year. 1Sss- one of the officers of our local carnival association proposed that we change it to July, whereupoH people who under stood the significance of Fat Tuesday smiled.
 The city beautiful propaganda should include a request to pedestrians to keep off the grass in the spaces between the sidewalk and the curbing in the down. town district.
 Czar Nicholas is the first of several royal personages who are probably des- tined to spend the remainder of their days in private life.
 Alabama's finances will sooner or later have to take the course of treatment administered to those of Birmingham. If there is railroad strike the hard ship will be especially severe on tourists eager to come to the sunny south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-16
INVOCATION TO NATURE

By Percy Bysshe Shelley. #l Earth, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood! If our mother have imbued my soui With aught of natural piety to feel Your love. and recompense the boon with
 mine: If dewy morn. and odorous noon. and
 even, With sunset and its gorgeous ministers, And scleman midnight's tingling silent
 ness: If autumn's hollow sighs in the sers
 woods, And winter robins with pure snow and or starry Ice the sray grass and bare
 bo0gh1: If .pdhs : voluptpous paintings. when she
 breathee sf Her first sweet kisses. have been dear
 to me; If no bright bird, insect or gentle beast I consciously have injured. but still loved And cherished these my kindred--then
 forgive This boast. beloved brethren and with-
 draw No portionE 'ok your wonted favor uewi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-16
Changing Tinne of
 the inauguration

.-1~~ - WNT HEN the time for the Pres WV ident's quadrennial inaugu- ration is changed to April or May, as it possibly will be, the date of admin istering the oath of office to the chief magistrate-elect and his running mate may remain as it is-March 4. But to have the two events separated by month or more might minimize the ardor of the marchers and lockers on.
 England and other monarchies, however, arrange coronations that way. The King takes the oath and ascends the throne, figuratively speaking, immediately after his pre- decessor passes, but a period of months elapse before the coronation pageant takes place.
 But in this country we have been doing things differently for so long that a radical departure might not be popular.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-16
As to Decrease I'm
 Nurmber of Sheep

II N altthe states where sheep raising 4 is an important industry there has been marked decrease within recent years, attributed in many cases to the sheep-killing dog. It is so in Penn sylvania, New York, Virginia and several states of the west. Much is heard, too, of the ravages of the dog on sheep in Alabama.
 The federal census of 1910 credited
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-16

BEGINNING THE DAY--O Lord, he my pleasure today. May my laughing ring clear all the way. May there be in it no m0ckery of sacred things, no fOrgetfulness os duty, no note of cruelty. May my joy not be bIushed with excess VT pale with the dread of reckoning. May no man have bled that l might pay his price. In Christs name. Amen.--H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-16
Boy offer. Real Solution

Every little shelf has book all it's own.' was the comment of an adult vis- itor to the children's room in the cen- tral library Thursday as he looked at the empty bookcases said Miss Mary Banes, the children's librarian, Thursday.
 But a little boy was more generous. He had been to the library several times looking for book that was always out. When he came in today and once more received the answer, not in he replied from the bottom of his heart, wish had siooO,ooo; I'd buy this library some boob-'
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1917-05-19
digh School League
Athletic Games

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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1917-05-19
Columbia Stock Co.
Here Next Week

Again we will have the pleasure Of
seeing the Columbia Stock Company.
the company that made such hit here
last fall This time they are going to
give u- three new plays. and from be-
my here before they found out the kind
Of PLAYS that are best liked in Snow
Hill. so that's the kind they are going
to get. The Columbia stock Company
has repertoire of over forty plays. 90
it, just a- easy for them to give ~ the
kind oil plays we like u. those We don t
want
The Company will show here Thurs
day night. May 9th. FRIDAY night the
18th. and Saturday night 18th.
On Thursday night the till will be
HER DOUBLE LIFE This Is a
splendid play. with lots Of comedy
pretty scenery. and costumes a play
that teaches rs good moral a. a ser
mon
On Friday. Is the feature play. THE
TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE. 90
a dramatzation made from the novel
and its Il good one II has all the
prominent book characters in the play
and the part of "Old Hon. will be
Stayed by Miss Stella May, one of the
docs. and she is revelation in il The
part Of her husband. lncic Billy. will
be- played by Mr. VIM kralcc Anoth-
cr character that j. found in no other
dramatization of this great book is RED
FOX Then We shall see Loretta Tol
liver. in fact, very nearly all the char.
actcrs that are 40 we'll remembered. 4
dandy good play, even Il You haven't
read the book
on Saturday night. FROM RAGS
To RICHES" will be the Offering This
was formerly an opening bill Of the Col
umhla Stock Company. and il $ q dandy
with lots Of comedy, sensation, and
startling situations Prices will be the
same ~ always. 2jc * 35c Reserved
seats sill be on sale severa, days prior
to the performance Al the store under
opera House.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1917-05-19
500 REWARD. 500

The readers of this paper viii be
pleased to learn that there ia at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure IN all it stages. and
that is catarrh Catarrh being greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment. Hall =
Catarrh Medicine is taken internally ami
acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur
faces Of the System thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease. giving the
patient strength by building up the con
stitution and assisting nature IN doing
its work The proprietors hive 40 much
faith in the curative powers of Hall :
Catarrh Medicine that they offer one
Hundred Dollars for any case that it
fails to cure Send for list Of trsti-
monialS
Address, +. j. CIIENEY& CO.. Toledo.
Ohio Sold by all Druggists. ,ic
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1917-05-19
Several Went On
New York Excursion

the excursion to New ! ork City Iast
Saturday night and sunday was patron.
izcd by Is number Of our citizens.
Among those who went from mere were
the following Mr. lsaac " Townsend,
Henry Clayville. John Fills. | Frank
Duer. George r Taylor, and Mrs VII
liam Hudson Or 6 NJ andergrift
showed some Of the party around New
York. and instructed them how to ind
some of the sights Of the great metrop.
oils Some Of the party went to hear
Billy Sunday. and pronounced it won.
derful experience
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1917-05-19

" Bayis got the only two Dagger in
the game in the third inning. and fol
lowed this with a single in the eighth.
NJ BAY iii. was also credited with a hit.
but the other bat-men had iifcuty ID
getting the ball safe
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1917-05-19
Hot Challenge Issued
For Baseball Contest

The Nassawango Baseball Club is
open for a game with any Rural Church,
School or farmers boys baseball club
Come on now. one at a time We meet
saturday afternoon at the regular prac-
tice grounds. .. M
Clubs desiring to play. please com
muncate with + A. Warren, Jr, Route
I, Snow Hill
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1917-05-19
Rheumatism

Ii YOU are troubled with chronic OF
muscular rheumatism give Chamber
lain : Linimcnt a trial The relief from
pain which il affords i+ alone worth
many times ts cost Obtnlnablc every
where