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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-09
SUNDAY CONCERT
 AND PICTURES AT
 TIE BIJOU TODAY
Vaudeville's Best Attrac- tions Booked for Week Include Paul Decker
 and Jimmy Britt

Loew's Bijou theatre inaugurates d special Sunday programme today, pre- senting selected hign-class nrst-run mo- tion pictures, together with concert mu- sic by Loew's Bijou orchestra, continu- ous entertainment 1 to Il o'clock, at pop ular prices. The regular policy of vaude- vile and pictures will continue to at tract the usual great gatherings during the week from l to Il o'clock, with an entire change of programme every Mon day and Thursday.
 The picture for today is one that has attracted>a great attendance where it has been exhibited since it's release little while ago. Henry Carey in Shooting Straight has never been exhibited in Birmingham, hence there is a great in terest here in seeing this wonderfully clever young actor in one of the best western plays ever screened. The story deals with the old west and has love story that will appeal.
 The show for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday is headed by the well known musical comedy star, Paul Decker, who with his own company of clever players, will be seen in the delightful piaylet, "The Twister,'% a novelty that will be the talk of Birmingham. Misses Watson and Mortimer Sisters, very pretty girls are classed with the best singing and dancing artists in vaudevilles and Chase and LaTour, who are very clever enter tainers and popular over the entire cir cult Pepino and Perry. the master mu- sicians, in an instrumental musical act, will be favorites, and McLinn and Sut- ton Trio will show some stunts that promise to be interestin5
 The picture feature for Monday, Tues day and Wednesday will be Frankiyn Farnum, the clever screen comedian, in his new hit, "A Stormy Knight" Loew's current events with the newest camera happenings will be of lively interest.
 Jimmy Britt, one of the grandest little fighters who ever drew on a glove, for mer lightweight champion of the world, will head the bill Thursday Friday and Saturday. Britt is of the old school of fighters, rated as an old man as things go pugilsticaily. yet still possesses virile youth and ability. For his engagement here he will tell several stories about big ring heroes which will be entirely new. Britt has just come back from tour of the world, which took him to England, South Africa, India and Aus tralia. Whiie in Australia he was em- ployed by the government to teach sol diers how to box and train, and will prob ably do something of that sort here.
 Another headlner on this bill will be the clever comedy stars, Charles and Sa- die Mcdonald, in their funny sketch. The. New Chief Of Police''
 Luciano Lucca will offer an interesting revue of classics of opera and popular hits. Eary and Eary inarveIs on the flying rings, in q thrilling series of cir clls stunts in miGair, and Lannigan and Iucker, very clever act complete the b1il. Alice Brady in Betsy Ross, will be the picture feature
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-09
WINTER SESSION OF
 VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
 OPENS AT Y. M. c. A.

Announcement is made that the Y M. C. A. night school will open its 1917-1S session on Monday. October 8. The ses- sion will last six months.
 This school has been operating sue cessfully for number of years and has met a real need in the city. 1t is planned for those who have had to leave school and go to work and those who cannot go to college and who need special training for their vocation. It is operated for the benefit of the hundreds of young men working in the shops and business of fees that they may fit themselves more fully for their occupations and increase their earning capacity. A year ago the work of the school, in the technical de- partment, received Auburn's recognition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-09

An English inventor has patented a process for so treating the edges of paper money that, when placed in a phonograph of his invention, they produce words at testing their genuneness.
 A Swiss farmer who now makes his home in California, applying his knowl- edge of making a living in mountainous country, settled on what was thought by others to be hopeless piece of land. This ground sioped at an angle of 45 de- grees, and to make anything thrive on 1t, it had to be terraced in steps. Here chickens, fruit, and vegetables are help ing to make the little hillside farm pay it's way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-09
FINE ATTRACTIONS
 AT THE ODEON TWO

An exceptional list of screen attrac tions is offered by the Odeon Two, for merly the Triangle, today and all week.
 J. Warren Kerrigan Is the offering de luxe tomorrow, appearing in Hands in the Dark" one of the very best things he ever did.
 Wednesday and Thursday are all : star days. Clara Eimball Young, Flora Finch and William Shea appearing in When Women Go On the Warpath 7 As an extra attraction on these days Fred Burns. Anne Schaefer and Robert Thomby will be seen in How States Are Made"
 The odeon Two still maintains it's scent admission price and the high class of picture entertainments they are offering is making this little pic ture house one of the most popular in the city.
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recall the fact that during our block ade of Vera Cruz by presidential or der, the military rigidity was tempo rariiy suspended to allow the ex- portation from Mexico to the United States Of approximately $45O,00o,O00 of harvester twine made from this plant, without which the garnering of the wheat crop of the northwest and mid d1e west would have been almost i'm possible.
 One of the effects of the war in re- lation to sisal, henequen and other hard fibers has been an abnormal In crease in price. In 1914 growers were glad to obtain approximate $100 per ton but today they can sell their product for S350. Many elements enter into this rise in price, the principal ones being the high ocean freights, greater demand, decreased production and scarcity of labor. There are many indications that after the war the re quirements for fibers such as the above named plants produce will be materially augmented, and that the flu : ture of this trade holds the most in : yiting prospects for those content to live in warm lands and devote the1r energies to the cultivation and manu : fracture of these necessities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-09

Two hundred carloads of farm ma- cninery have arrived at Savannah. Ga from the works of the International liar, NeSter company, and will be sent bv steamer to Norway and thence overland 70 Russ a. The value is placed closed to sl,ooo0c0. The shipment includes req binders, tractors and motor blows This Is the second shipment of this kind bv the company via Savannah, the last go ing to Liverpool
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-09

No chestnut tree in all Switzerland may be cut down without a special permit and such permits are not easily obtained reports the Berner Bund. The federal council Issued this order effective on March l, in connection with it's campaign for the development of every possible na- tive source of food supply in view of the desperate situation due to the limita tions of imports by the German submarine warfare and other causes connected with the world war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-09

Declaring that he was going back to the trenches to rest an American who had been wounded three times while serv- ing In Europe with the Canadian forces and who had been decorated for gailan- try in action, left the reserve officers training camp at Plattsburg the other day. after looking at the training sched- ule.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-09
once more a comnlaint that is bea rd

Once more a complaint that is heard frequently against American exporters has cropped up, coming this time from British East Africa. In reporting on trade opportunities there the United States consul at Mombasa writes Some exporters apparently think that all export trade must be conducted in the Spanish language, and their cata- logues and correspondence coming to this market are printed and written in that language. Many languages are spoken in this territory, but Spanish is one that is never heard"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-11


So many things have happened
since I last talked to you, little book,
that 1 don't know where to begin.
I've joy for you've sorrow for you
I've surprise for you, and most Of
all, l have a real confession for you.
Long years ago, little book, neither
you nor I thought our intimate
friendship would endure all these
galloping years. Why, it seems but
yesterday that penned the exultant
words, after tomorrow Pm going
to belong"
Well, little book, 1 did belong, body
and soul, and then I felt forsaken,
and I brought pride to help me bear
and said I will belong to myself.
Then Fate showed me ! could not
even do that, and now again am l
back just where 1 was at first.
1t almost seems as though l had
learned nothing from all my expert
ences. This morning when awoke
1 looked out of my window and found
the Saliva lying at anchor like a
great white bird that had settled
down on the blue waters fora mo-
ment's rest.
I instinctiveIy knew Malcolm Stu
art had anchored his boat out there
under my window almost so that my
waking eyes would open first upon
it. I was surprised to see it there,
for I was sure MaIcolm's conference
with DR.. Virot would take longer.
However, before it was hardly light I
was out on the board walk.
like to walk up the sands at this
time it always seems that lean
think clearer, and then 1 like the iso-
Iation, the aIoneness, of it all. This
morning 1 had walked only a little
way when I saw a launch put out
from the Saliva, and in a few min
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-11

OF A WIFE
7 ALWAYS WIN
blushed a little. The question
seemed so intimate.
"a sailor usually rises early" he
said with a smile, "but l confess 1
hoped 1 would find you out here
alone, with Aurora marshaling all
her glorious pageant of color to pay
court to you"
your conference with DR.. Virot
must have been short"
CT did not see him" he answered.
But 1 thought you sailed pur-
posely to see him"
81 did, but after I had started just
put into port and sent him a wire to
do everything as he thought best and
let it go at that"
why did you change your mind?"
Sometimes, my dear Lady Saliva,
I hate myself and the world so much
that I have to get away from it all.
These paroXysms come upon me
suddenly without notice and then l
am not fit company for man or beast.
One of these moods came upon me
just after 1 had left here to go to
DR.. Virot and I simply told the mate
to turn the nose of the Saliva out to
sea and there, as 1 have for years, I
fought out my battle on the deck of
my yacht"
''You look as though the battle
was over"
cit is or 1 should not have re-
turned"
"And did you VIM"
'I don't know. Not always to the
victor is the battle given, and not al
ways to the vanquished is, taken the
reward. Only time can honestly
place the honors of war"
There was a queer little smile on
the lips of Malcolm Stuart as he said
this. And 1 was a bit afraid of him
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secretary were authorized and
instructed to pay the claim for
putting down we'll at Fairfield
school house, when the account
will have been rendered and APP
proved for payment by the local
school board of the said school
relative to the work and water.
A number of claim were care
fully examined by the board, and
the president and secretary were
authorized and instructed to
draw checks against the proper
funds and pay the said
claims.
No further business before the
board. it adjourned to meet on
Friday, July 6. 1917.
J. H. MCEEELY,
j. N. WARNER, President. I
Secretary.
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COLFAx. PARISH SATURDAY, APRIL 1917

board was accepted, and the
president and secretary of the
board were authorized to enter
into a contract with the said
banks to conform to the PROPOSE
ton made by them to this school
board.
On motion of N. S. Roberts,
seconded by B. d. Fletcher and
carried, the president of the
board was authorized and in
structed to execute a note in
favor of the said banks for six
thousand CSC. 100000 dollars. or
as much thereof as may be nee
cessary, to meet the needs of the
school board.
Mr.. N. S. Roberts offered the
school board twenty-five ($25. O0)
dollars for the Willow Grove
school building, and Mr.. K. w.
Richardson offered the board
forty $4,000 dollars for the
Summerfield school building.
Mr.. Fletcher moved that the
offers made by Roberts and Rich
ardson for the school buildings
be accepted, and that the presi-
dent be and he is hereby author
lied to transfer all titles and
rights that this school board may
have in these two school build
ings to the said Roberts and
Richardson when they will have
paid the sums above mentioned
to the school treasurer.
His motion was duly seconded
by R. w. Rambo, and being
placed before the body by the
president, it carried unanimous
ly, all members voting in the
affirmative.
On motion of Fletcher. duly
seconded by Stewart and carried,
the president and secretary of
the board were authorized and
instructed to pay the taxes on
the Barfeld property, the owner
ship of which having passed
from the Barfields to Grant par
ish school board.
On motion the president and
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Nobody Spared.
Kidney Trouble Attacked COlfax Men
and Women, Old and Young.

Kidney Trouble Attacked COlfax Men
and Women, Old and Young.
Kidney ills seize young and old.
Often come with little warning.
Children suffer in their early years
Cant control the kidney secretions.
Girls are languid. nervous. suffer
pain.
Women worry. can't do daily work.
Men have lame and aching backs.
If you have any form of kidney ills
You must reach the cause.-the kid
neys.
Doan's Kidneys Pills are for weak
Kidneys
Have brought relief to Colfax people.
Colfax testimony proves it.
Mrs. E. C. Hicks, Box 275, Colfax,
says: "Doan's Kidneys Pills are q
good medicine for kidney trouble. ]
gave them to my little boy, who had
no control over the kidney secretions.
One box cured him and his health is
now good. 1t is pleaure to recon-
mend remedy of such merit
Price soc at all dealers. Don't simp-
ly ask for kidney remedy-get Doan's
Kidney Pills-the same Mrs. Hicks
recommends. Foster Milburn Compa-
ny, Props, Buffalo. N. Y.
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Colfax, La, April z, 1917.

Colfax, La, April z, 1917.
The Board of School Directors
of the parish of Grant, La, met
in regular session and was called
to order by the president, j. H.
McNeely, and on roll call, j. H.
McNeely, A. w. Stewart, C. F.
Blackwell, E. A. Wall, R. w.
Rambo, N. S. Roberts and B. D.
Fletcher were present. Absent,
none. Whereupon the president
announced a full representation
of the board present and they
proceeded to transact the follow
ing business:
The proceedings or minutes of
the board for the meetings held
January 6 and Is. 1917, and the
minutes for meetings held March
|2 and Ia, 1917, were read and
adopted as read.
The action of the building COM
mittee relative topurchasing light
plant for the Montgomery school
building was ratified, and the Sec
rotary and president. were author
lied to draw check against the
Montgomery school district and
pay for same in January, 1918.
Mr.. Rambo moved that the for
mer action of the board relative
to employing special counsel in
defending suits filed against it be
rescinded, and it being duly Sec
onded by N. S. Roberts and plac-
ed before the board by the presi-
dent, it carried unanimously.
Mr.. Stewart offered the follow
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Official Proceedings of the Grant
Parish School Board.

Colfax, La: March IA, 1917.
The board of school directors
of the parish of Grant. Louisiana,
met in adjourned session and
was called to order by the presi-
dent, j. H. McNeely, and upon
roll call the following members
were present, to-wit: j. H. Nc
Nicely, C. F. Blackwell, E. A.
Wall, r, w. Rambo, N. S. Rob-
and B. d. Fletcher. Absent, A.
w. Stewart.
The main object of the meeting
being to discuss ways and means
by which we could have our US
ual length of school term, eight
months for the elementary
schools and nine for the high
schools. After considerable dis
custom, Mr.. Wall offered the fol-
lowing resolution and moved its
adoption, and, it being duly sec
onded by Mr.. Fletcher and
placed before the board for a
vote, all members of the board
present voted for its adoption,
and the chair announced the res
olution adopted unanimously, to-
wit:
Whereas, it has been customary for
some years to have an average term
for all white schools of the parish of
eight months, and whereas, desiring to
do so this season, ana not having funds
in the treasury sufficient, owing to the
heavy draft made on the school treas
ury for building and equipping school
houses; therefore be it
Resolved, That, the Board of school
Directors of the Parish of Grant, Lou
isiana, in adjourned session convened,
authorize the president, j. H. McNeely,
of this board and he is hereby author
lied and instructed to arrange with the
fiscal agents of the school board for
funds with which to continue to run
the schools the usual length of time.
On motion of Mr.. Rambo, duly
seconded by Mr.. Wall and car
ried, C. H. Mccain and R. E.
Mcknight were appointed local
board members of the Colfax
high school to act with present
local board.
No other business to come be-
fore the board it adjourned.
j. H. MCNEELY,
j. N. WARNER, President.
Secretary.
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sought alliance with the follow
ers of Mahomed, and even went
so far as to express brotherhood
with Turkish Delivers in order
to enlist their aid in subjecting
christian nations to a state of
vassalage, will forever damn his
memory in the hearts and minds
of the christian world.
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Vatican. All the trammels that
surround and harass him in his
daily life must be removed, so
that he will then be at liberty to
fight the common enemies, So
cialism and irreligion. And he
will be in a position to make his
voice heard in the interests of
peace, when nations go to war
without just motive, and in the
interest of humanity, when acts
of cruelty or injustice are being
anywhere committed.
Il have meditated long and
deeply on this subject. The fact
that it preoccupies me so much
convinces me that 1 am inspired
to take action IN the matter. 1t
is like one of the voices that So
crates had about with him which
whispers in my ears that this al
so is my mission to remedy the
Pope's position and open up the
field for his range of well-doing.
1t daily urges me to act. Whether
l shall succeed or not is beyond
my power to foretell. Judging
from the circumstances there is
every evidence that success
should not be outside the bounds
of possibility. am going to do
my utmost, and more than this
no man can do.
II feel for the moment that 1
haze no other concredte and prdc-
teal mission before me. To sue
coed in such an undertaking
would be a climax and a crown
ing worthy of any mans life.
AS l say, 1 aciH energetically at
tempt ii. The small preternatu-
raj roice Enthusiastically spurs me
on, and l think than this is no
better augury of success could be
desired.
For this moment / can say
no more, and it does not behoove
me to be too explicit about my
plans. They are already laid.
and my immediate actions will
be a development of them. Their
result will be their justification.
and it will also be the justifica-
ton of many acts in the past,
which may have seemed strange
and unoccountable to- my good
Protestant subjects, but which
had their motive and their origin
in a desire to accomplish great
and enduring events.
Il shall not de until my ends
in this regard are attained.
Death otherwise would find a
void in my existence; and 1 feel
,cithin me that l have not been
born in vain."
In reference to. the foregoing,
the editor of the Colfax Chronicle
has this to remark:
Whether the Kaiser was moved
by any loyal spirit to the Pope,
or real love for the Catholic re.
ligion, in view of late develop
ments, is extremely questionable,
We incline to the belief that he
deliberately sought the aid Of
the Pope to forward his own am
bition, for world conquest, anG
this fact must have been known
to and repudiated by the Pope
who died. and the position of the
Pope who succeeded to the Vati
can was undoubtedly so deter
mined.
Be this as it may, the fact tina
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world. Editor Colfax (La.) Chronicle.
The Watch Tower, after COM
menting on the great significance
of the Kaiser's words, says:
The Emperor's ambition is to re-
store to religion some of its former
power by which it co-operated
with the civil rulers in the con-
troll of the world. Not that he
would desire to reproduce the
dark ages" of priestcraft and
superstition, and of inquisition,
the stake and the rack; but that
he considers those evils. not in
the light of the Scripture, but in
the light of to-day's world-wis-
dom, attributing those evils to
the ignorance of the times and
to the false teachings of Anti
Christ.
He reasons that Romanism is
rejuvenating and adapting itself
to twentieth century conditions
and can be trusted as much as
Professionalism, so far as the
maintenance Of present govern
ments is concerned; and that
after all, is to him the all-import-
ant matter. Indeed. he seems
to feel that the revival of Papal
influence is a necessity anyway
on the ground that of two evils
the less should be chosen to avert
the greater.
From the Emperor's own state
ment of his ambitious designs
published in the public prints)
as related to General Hoffman
Scholz, and doubtless designed
for publication, we furnish the
following extract:
''At the present day two great
evils threaten humanity. They
are Socialism and Atheism.
Against each of these the Pope
is a bulwark. In fighting inf
deity no aid should be neglected.
Socialism is infdelity to the mon
arch or the State, and Atheism
is infdelity to God.
1.-The Pope is the spiritual ruler
: of the largest communion on
earth, and he is by far<the most
powerful and authoritative OF
spiritual rulers. His word is
promptly and willingly obeyed
by hundreds of millions of people
spread throughout the globe.
He can order and direct the con.
sciences ofthese multitudes. He
can say: These are your relig.
;ous tenets; those must be your
social sentiments; and suddenly
he is obeyed. His power there
fore for good is immeasurable.
Kings and emperors are the
divinely ordained guardians OF
social order and directors OF So
cial well-being. just as the lead
ers of religious bodies are the
Djyinely ordained moderators Of
conscience. But just IS kings
and emperors can have their
beneficent influence in the relig'
ious order, so can spiritual guides
help and promote the socia
veal. :.
..The Pope's range of power il
the vastest of all, and conse
ouently the possibilities of the
good he may do are the mos
far reaching. 1 think 1t fmpeFd
fsre hergore that he Be put ~ {
posi. ion % tree.y accomplish al
tie GOOD of phish tse's coFao'e
Ne ~. It be lteutod FROM Ia
self imposed Imprisonment !" tn
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The Kaiser Sought World Power
By Enlisting the Roman PontH
His Remarkable Bid to the Catholic World for Support
of Universal Empire in 1898 is Followed in 1914
by Bid for MahOmedans to Aid His Plans.

CNorEThe following William of
many published watch Tower Pastor Russels
October ubhd by the again Sepem
Der 1914 when The
Verda La for of the Watch Tower
which publish
civilized
t.; .CaIfax GalC hncl
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For Sale.
Velvet beans at 81. per bushel. H.
G. Pinkley, Paramount, La. mr3l-St