davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-02-24
INVEST WHERE YOUR MER.
CHANT WILL CARRY YOU FOR
IL MONTHS AND TAKE
Al RIcK
AL RISK

Why worry about a location? In
vest in the recognized rich produc.
tive soils of Pasco County where
your merchant will take ALL RISK
and carry you at the rate of $40 90
per month for twelve months for
crop.
Inspect these farms immediately.
Prices ranging from 100000 up.
Good homes exceptionally well loca.
ted
Apply r. Fortescue. 1S5. Dade City,
Fla. 62S2
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-02-24

Potash is shown in the third act
Seats on sale at the City Drug
Store Monday the 26th.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-02-24

! believe a road over this route would
make il less than 220 miles from
Tampa to Jacksonville. "-Iiowey
Tribune
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12

have been fine needlework, for the women went into ecstases over the manner in which some clever girl had made a hole whole.'
 Have they a COW? No. Have they any pigs? No. Have they dog? No. Have they a cat? No. Have they any chick ems? Yes To be accurate, 62, and they have been on the job furnishing eggs for the girls breakfast every Sunday morn ing during the winter.
 Have they a good place in which to play? No. Remember the average age is around 12 years. The yard is slant ing and rocky. No place for basketball croquet or tennis Four tennis racquets harging on the wall looked nightly out of place.
 When the officers brought little Lucy, the bright-eyed pet of the school, she was wee bit of girl, only eight years old It was too much for the mother Mrs Amigh, who, with fine, but unap- preciated sarcasm, said: 'Why did you leave her cradle at home?"
 Having met Lucy and heard her sing, recite and boast that she was now Il years old I'm going to stand by Charley and so will you if you pay the home a visit and see it's needs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Mother hopes that the baby will be
 President some day But father hopes
 that the kid will be able to support him.
 self when he grows up.
 It makes a married woman mad to get
 to the end of a novel and discover that
 the fool heroine turns down the rich vil-
 lain and marries the poverty stricken hero.
 Even if man has to pay out a nice
 sum to settle a breach of promise suit he
 should get some consolation out of the re- flection that 1t is worth it not to be mar
 red to that kind of a girl.
 Don't cuss your luck. The fact of the
 matter is that most of your mistakes are sefmade
 Cold cash will sometimes melt girls heart when warm love can't. A man often puts his foot in it when he asks a girl for her hand. During courtship she has to listen att tentively to an extended recital of his
 artobiography. But during marriage he
 has to listen to an extended recital of her autobiography. A girl may display poor taste in wear ing low-necked waists and high-necked skirts. But certainly displays good form A man isn't as young as he used to be
 when he gets more comfort out of his house slippers than he does out of his
 dancing pumps. The letters you forget to mail never get you into half as much trouble as the let ters you forget to burn. Men are so greedy that you don't have to waste money fixing up the bait. The thinner the veneer on the gold brick, the brighter it glitters. Another thing that vOu may have nO- fced is that reform takes a vacation when the gate receipts begin to run low. Theories are beautiful things, no doubt. But it takes groceries to fill your stom- afh.
 Any blame fool can get married But 1t takes brains and money to get loose again.
 Love is fool thing that induces a woman to be unhappy with the wrong
 man rather than be happy with the right man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12
cAmNzMzN119auoseH
THE MARsEILLAIsE HYMN

By Rouget de Lisle. Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark, hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives and grandsres
 hoary;
 Behold their tears and hear theier cries, Beold their tears and hear their cries Shall hateful tyrants, mischief breeding, With hireling hosts, a ruffian band, Alright and desolate the land, While peace and liberty lie bleeding? To arms, to arms, ye brave The aveng-
 ing sword unsheathedi
 March on, march, all hearts resolved on
 Victory or death, o, liberty. can man resign thee, Once having felt thy generous flame? Can dungeons bolts> and bars confine thee? Or whips thy noble spirit tame? Too long the world has wept bewailing That falsehood's dagger tyrants wield But freedom Is our sword and shield, And all their arts are unavailing. To armsJ to arms, ye brave! The averaging sword unsheathed;
 March on. march on. all hearts resolved
 On hictory or death!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12
BRAZIL $ ARMY AND NAVY

appreciable strength. The personnel, off, cers and men, of Brazil is equal to the
 combined strength of Chile and Argen- tina. The pride of the Brazilian navy is | her two modern dreadnoughts of 19,O0O l tons displacement and with an armament l of 12 12-inch guns each Contracts were
 under consideration for the building of a super dreadnought with 15-inch guns at the time the European war began and the naval construction yards of all the bellig- l erent powers found their hands full sup plying the needs of their own govern
 ments. Two old battleships. laid down in 1898, and two protected cruisers of 350o l tons displacement each, comprise the re- mainder of Brazil's major fighting ships, supplemented by five torpedo gunboats, | 10 Narrow destroyers, four first-class tor pedo boats four destroyers, a mine ship, and three submarines.
 ''The country has three naval arsenas
 at Rio de Janeiro, Para, and Ladario de senal.
 "The infantry Is equipped with Mauser rifles while the field and horse artillery use a Krupp gun. The military budget 1 for 1915 amounted to s36,oOO,00o
 Brazil being drawn into the war vortex marks the entry into the lists against autocracy of the third largest republic in the world, for in extent of territory the South American nation is exceeded only [ by Russia and the United States. already l engaged in the conflict. The republic of China, which Is fourth in area (Mongolia
 and Tibet not included), has already sev- 1 cred diplomatic relations with the im- perial German government.
 | "In studying the trend of events in Bra i gil 1t is interesting to note that one of
 the most significant movement during 191o was the organization of the League in 1 Favor of the Allies formed by many of
 the leading men of the nation to express sympathy with France and her allies. At | the close of the year there was agitation | for the taking over of all the German 1 shipping in Brazilian ports.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12

orchestral experience is the service that they will be enabled to do nation ally for Americans in music. In the last few years young American trained players have been taking their places at symphony orchestra desks beside the musicians of foreign birth and schooling"
 Time was when few boys "took" music lessons. Piano playing or singing was an accomplishment for young ladies, although few of them studied music seriously. It is differ ent today. The intellectual side of musical art is now appreciated by educators, as evidenced by the fact that nearly all the colleges include music in their curricula. The time is certainly past when boys with a taste for good music are thought to be wasting their time when they study the violin or any other orchestral in strument
 Here in Birmingham the orchestras of the Central and Ensley High schools have been popular features of those institutions and when they unite for a concert performance never fail to win applause. The local play CTS, about fifty in number, will have a prominent place on the educational day programme at the biennial next week as a demonstration of Birming- hams progressive spirit, esthetically considered.
 This city is one of the few that has a concert orchestra trained in the public schools, but if the advice of the school supervisors in their conference at Grand Rapids is needed school or chestras will be the rule instead of the exception.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12
Spring Poetry Crop
 Was Never Like This

W HEN war is declared some n1 pe0-
 WV pie rush to arms. Others rush to the nearest writing table and compose poem, breathing patriotism and defiance. That is why every newspaper office in the country is be- ing swamped by effusions which are good. bad and indifferent. That is why editors groan in their sanctums and hurry orders have been issued for larger waste baskets. And like many of the soldiers who have returned from the trenches, most of these verses have a decided limp" Their poetic feet cannot carry them into print.
 While sympathizing with the spirit which prompts the bards to dash off reams of war poetry, the prodigious labor of revision is more than the av- craze editor, who is always busy man, can perform. Ten thousand blue pencils, working night and day, would not avail to make the bulk of the new crop of war verse fit for publication.
 The Cincinnati Times-Star voices the woes of an army of hapless editors in the following paragraph: We humbly beg for help. By no possible means, working eight hours per day, can we per form the necessary surgical opera tions which would make these verses worthy of place in the sun We understand and share the fervent emotions which inspire these poets to burst into patriotic flame. Their impulses are as true as steel. But as for us we cannot hold out much longer.
 Let the poets heed this cry of dis tress, which will be echoed wherever there are newspaper offices. Let the female of the species, more disposed to call in person than the diffident
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12

IM1{ 7 ASIINGTON, April 11.-(spe- WW cial)-The fact that Brazil has followed the example of the United States and severed diplomatic re- lations with Germany gives timely in terest to the following war geography bulletin issued by the National Geographic society from it's headquarters in Wash ington
 Should Brazil like the United States, be forced into war with Germany her peace times nucleus of an army (25,000 mem, will be supplemented by well or ganized and thoroughly trained police force of 10000 men equipped for military service. The strength of the South
 American republics reserve army is in
 excess of half million men, while the total available unorganized strength of the nation is 4,3000oO from a population slightly less than one-fourth as large as that of the United States.
 For nine years Brazil has had in force a universal military service law, every
 Brazilian between the ages of 21 and 45
 being affected. The terms of service unuer InlS law require two years III l1le ranks, followed by seven years in the
 army reserve, seven years in the terri torial army, and eight years in the na- tional guard Reservists are called up
 for four weeks training annually and are
 given rifle practice once a month. The territorial army's training from two to four weeks year.
 '"The total available unorganized mill tary strength of Brazil exceeds by half a million men the total organized mili- tary strength of Italy at the time the lat ter country entered the world war. The war strength of the country is twice as great as that of Portugal, five times greater than that of Norway, exceeds that of Greece, of Servia, and of Bulgaria. Its reserves and regular army constitute a fighting force half as large as the total war strength of all the other countries of South America combined.
 "Of the South American republics only
 the three A B c powers have navies of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12
A USEFUL rRIsE
From the Youths Companion.

From the Youths Companion.
 In report for the government, United States Consul Yerby, stationed at Dakar, Senegal. describes a wonderful tree, known as the shea, or butter tree. It sup plies the natives not only with nuts, which they highly prize. but with but ter that may become an article of com mercial importance. It is already ex- ported to Europe, where makers of arti- flcial butter find use for it.
 On the nuts that this tree produces there is a soft covering of pulp which in turn is covered with smooth skin that comes off easily when the nut rpens. This pulp is sweet and whole some. Almost two-thirds of. the nut is vegetable butter. The tree begins to bear when it is 15 years old and reaches it's prime in 25 years. Chocolate manufacture CTS could easily utilize the product. Ii might also be of use in making candles and soap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A SONG OF YEsrERYEAR.

A SONG OF YEsTERYEAR. fear he's much ayerse to change His habits seldom vary, For when he passed me by just now He whistled "Tipperary." A modern Rip Van Wrinkle he, Or stubborn and contrary, Who obstinately clings to songs As old as "Tipperary" The world speeds on it's dizzy way, In showing favors ehary; The limbo of forgotten things Has swallowed "Tipperary." ARCHITECTURALLY CONSIDERED. T understand your boy is now at col lege"
 "Yes, replied MT. Cobbles "sams do. in mighty well, all things considered" "Is the curriculum there very high?" Well, I don't know jest how high tn curriculum Is, but Sam says Juniper hall is the tallest buildin' on tn campus"
 READY TO REST. Shall I put something on the phono- graph for your"
 Pray do?"
 What would you like?" "A quietus."
 USING THE vERNACULAR. ''Its all very well for spring vegetables to be green and fresh" True" But that kind of office boy makes life a burden to me-
 A SCRAP OF CLOTH Perdita bought some costly stuff A bathing suit to make, But used it for handkerchief To give her brother Jake.
 Birmingham Age-H Herald. The which, of course is fair enough, But think of the commotion Perdita. now is bound to cause When she goes in the ocean.
 Macon Telegraph.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12
* * *
Crack of the Bat
Is Heard Once More

H0 4VS&s4 AVUU@S AVIO4 S
 MNT AR and rumors of war have WV not lessened the interest the American people take in baseball. Today will be great day at Rick wood park. The opening of the 1917 baseball season is in every way auspi- cious and fraught with promise of many happy afternoons for Birming- ham baseball fans, whose apprecia- tion of the sport is as keen as it is anywhere in the country. Birming- ham has always been known as good baseball town. With one of the finest parks in the United States, strictly modern in every feature, during the summer months innocent and health ful amusement is afforded there to young and old.
 It will devolve upon the sporting editor to discuss the merits of this years team and the prospects of win ming the pennant. Hope beats high in the breasts of all loyal fans when the season Is just beginning and everyone in fancy sees the coveted banner fly ing over the home lot. Under the ex- perienced guidance of the veteran Carlton Molesworth, there is every reason to anticipate good sport and a standing in the league that will not be anywhere near the bottom.
 Baseball comments itself to every one because it is clean. Crooked deal ing which has discredited horse rae ing, prize fighting, wrestling and other athletic contests, has never touched baseball. As long as it stays clean it will take first rank in the affections of the American public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12
 HIS PROUD SPIRIT REyOLTS
From the Pittsburg Post

From the Pittsburg Post.
 From a paper in Richmond, Mo, this posy was picked:
 I was raised on the farm. There l went to work before the meadow lark turned its bosom to the sun soaring aloft. and continued until the whipperwils began their sad refrain. and long after the low hanging sun had ceased to gild with gold the vasrant clouds of the west. This life taught me independence. This taught me to rely upon myself. Wherefore, refuse to join the trust; wherefore I re- fuse to enter into any unlawful combi- nations with the 15-cent barbers of this place, all of whom have just recently blown into Richmond.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12
OrcEaessras I'm the
Public Schools


 11 OR many years past music in U chorus form has been heard in the public schools in many cities, Bir- mingham included, and now orches- tras are being added as part of so- cial activities. Both boys and girls take lively interest in the study of orchestral instruments and it is be- lieved that in the near future the public schools throughout the United States will become workshops for in- strumentalists.
 At recent conference of music su- pervisors, held at Grand Rapids, it was urged that free training in or chestral instruments be given in all advanced public schools. The super visors argued that all instruments, as we'll as instruction, be provided for pupils free, on the ground that the training referred to lis the child's right as much as geography or arith-, metic."
 Vocational training has been ac- cepted in most cities as a well estab- lished part of the educational system. In fact it is generally recognized as . matter of prime importance. Musi- cal America asks how it is that so many schools have overlooked the training of young orchestral players? ? "While the soloist--vocal or instru- mental-often has great difficulty in earning bread and butter" says America, "the orchestral musician of ability can always find market for his wares. The instrumental training <, and. orchestral practice will also re- net advantageously upon the schools m the breeding of community spirit of cooperation among the students as result of playing together in the schools orchestra. This organization will also become valued factor in the institutions social life.
 Probably the chief reason, how ever. why the schools should offer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12
West Virgimia to
 Get Arma0r Plant


 ~ HARLESTON, not Charlestown, S W. Va, as the types first had it, has been awarded the govern ment's projected armor plate plant. Of the large number of cities asking
 for this industry Huntington, W. Va, seemed to have an exceptionally strong claim. According to gossip in industrial circles three weeks ago
 the choice of the naval board, charged with the duty of selecting the site, had been narrowed down to two cities Huntington and Birmingham-all which shows how undependable
 gossip is. Charleston, the winner, was little mentioned, and seems never
 to have been in the mind of the gen.
 eral public.
 l Huntington and Charleston are less
 than sixty miles apart. The former is on the Ohio river and is only a
 short distance from Ashland, Ky, and
 Ironton, O., important furnace towns
 within sight of each.
 Charleston is on the Kanawha
 river and is about equal distance be- tween the iron district of Virginia and the furnaces on the Ohio river, 1 but having river transportation all | the way from Ironton, the govern
 ment can have pig metal delivered to
 it's steel works at a comparatively
 low rate; not as low, however, as it
 could have been delivered had the
 plant been located in the Birmingham district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12
A MATTER OF SPECULATION

A Scottish doctor who was attending a house in the art of taking and recording his masters temperature with a ther- mometer On paying his usual morning call he was met by the butler, to whom he said: "Well, John, hope the laird's temperature is not any higher today?'
 The man looked puzzled for minute and then replied: "Weel, was just won- derin' that mysel Ye see, he deed at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12
should Keep in Closer Touch

Do you know I feel almost like a
 stranger in Birmingham" said pr. Wood
 Price of Bessemer who is attending the
 convention of the Alabama Dental asso- citation.
 Tt does seem that we Bessemer peo- pie living so close to Birmingham would get here quite frequently. But I am kept so busy in my own home town that I don't have time to run around very much, and it's usually business that brings me to the big city The dentists conven- ton has certainly been big success. It is the largest convention from point of
 attendance, that We have ever known, and the programmes have been most in teresting. l am sure that each and every
 one of us has learned lot during the convention" M2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12
War Argument

War was the discussion in a Norwood grocery store. The conversation vas get ting rapid. That patriotic fervor that usually crowds the auditors for breath ing space was reaching a near "call tc arms" The proprietor, T. M. Lane, is a man who talks little His sense of hu- nor cooled those who would fight-thougl, the recruiting stations are open for their enlistment.
 Well, when they land me in camp there will be two of the best men in Alabama in the United States army" said Mir. Lane, vender of green groceries at present high prices.
 Flows that?' said the leader of the argument.
 q mean myself and the man who is man enough to take me to camp, drawled the high cost of living merchant. But of course' he added, If it comes to show down I will go and I believe that every other man in the city will do the same thing, but I would like to dc my fighting in my own back yard, for l am frank to say that I think l could put up better scrap where my wife and two children could be near enough for me to feel that they were roofing for me, and not have an ocean between us, as it looks like such condition is liable to develop for those who enlist.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12
HeIn Men tn Enlist

Louis Pitzitz is going to do his full part in aiding men to enlist said John Anderson yesterday. MT. Pizitz an nounced today that he would hold open the position of any young man employed in his store who desired to serve the country He also agreed to support the wife and family of any married man in his employ who desired to enlist. Fur thermore, he announced that no man who owed him money need hesitate to enlist in the services of the government on that account as he would not press any of his creditors who were serving their country.
 q think that this will be a fine move for the business firms of the city and the district to adopt as it will enable many men to enlist who otherwise might not be able to do so. There are many men who are in debt who feel that they can't afford to go to the front as the small sum paid soldier is not enough to enable them to meet the obligations. If they are relieved of the necessity of meeting these payments immediately they can offer their services to their country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12

BEGINNING THE DAY - Great God, help me to bow before Thine authority. Teach me that some things are settled and settled for ever, because Thou art what Thou art. May I not trifle with Thee. May I hold no barley with sin. May my fear be hidden deep in my love, but may fear remain. In Christs name. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12
Civic Unity Strong

"Civic patriotism has been greatly quickened in Tuscaloosa within the past few weeks, said Dr. R. P. Deason who was in the city yesterday. "The effort of the people of Tuscaloosa to get the armor plate plant and the nitrate plant have served to cause everyone to lay aside all personal matters and work for the good of the town. There is nothing like a contest to make the people 'present uni ted front,
 Tuscaloosa is one of the best little cities in the country and the civic unity is decidedly stronger there now than it has ever been before. Everyone seems to be united for anything that looks like 1t might be for the betterment of the city or the district. Our city is giving the entire state a demonstration of what civic pride and unity should be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-12

male, beware of crowding the santa riums of the country with editors who may be needed later on the firing line.