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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27
KAISER HoNoRs "LE BoN DIEU.'

From an English Weekly.
 A service man on leave from the front
 tells me that the following amusing if
 slightly irreverent story is the popular
 one of the day throughout the French
 and Belgian armies as well as among
 our men:
 Bethmnnn- -Hollweg had been delegated
 by his Kaiser with special mission to heaven. He knocked at the gate, and an angel opened the door Bethmann-Holl- veg asked permission to speak to le bon Dieu.
 Impossible" said the angel. "de Is busy-very busy The ambassador of William II expressed his disappointment How unfortunate, 2 said he, flor I have an announcement of the greatest importance to communi- cate to the Almighty from my master" And what is that?'. asked the angel. Well, replied the envoy, it is this. My master, the Kaiser, has charged me to announce to the Almighty that he has just conferred noble rank upon him, and that hereafter he can call himself Won Gott!''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27
Same Curriculum

"The officials of the University of Alabama are anticipating a most suc- ,cessful session this year." said Profess sor Thomas yesterday "Of course the war will affect our attendance some- what, but this will be chiefly in the law school and the senior class The attendance at the university has been increasing very rapidly in the last few years, and the temporary setback that eral trend of progress and improve ment. We have not eliminated a sin gle course from. our curriculum and have the same faculty. School will be- gin on September 12."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27

platforms, diving places, and shoot the chute. What a good time the bathers seem to have. Old and young seem to get bushels of fun sliding down the chute, and when a fat man or woman comes down and splashes nearly all the water out on the banks the crowds on the banks yell with delight I was pleased to note a number of girls who could swim, and a lot of little boys and girls floating around on water wings was a sight to do ones heart good.
 The boats are generally well filled with jolly boating parties, the dancing pavilion always has a crowd, and i'll fact, all the attractions are well pat ronized. The bandstand ought to have band in it every afternoon and night The community singers occupied it when I was last out there. It's up to our city authorities to provide enter tainment for the people as far IS pos sible, but its up to each one of us t. help encourage them in what they are trying to do for us with a depleted treasury
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27
THE ALLIES TRICOLOR From tho Youths Companion.

Americans have no monopoly of "the red, white and blue" It is an interesting circumstance that the flags of all three of the great nations of the entente alli- ance-Great Britain, France and Russia, now our allies-conslst of combinations of red, white and blue Those who wish to make French flag should remember that the three stripes are not of equal width The blue stripe. next to the staff, Is 30 per cent of the length of the flag. the white stripe 3sxper cent, and the red stripe 37 per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27
An Experience in Germany

1 II had a funny experience when in
 Germany" said George Ward Tom
 Kilby and John Lagarde of Anniston
 and l were taking dinner in a cafe and
 all of a sudden there was great up- l roar, 1acc curtain was in flames, and
 soon the fire department was on the scene.
 | "The incfpient fire being quenched, 1 the proprietor came and requested Lagarde who was the interpreter for | us, to accompany him to a private room which he did. Time passed and we grew anxious and butted in to find that he was demanding the sum of $500, at tributing the blaze to the cigarettes we had smoked He agreed to let us off by requiring us to give bond for our ap- pearance in court the next day. I had an engagem ent to meet Wilson Brown in Lucerne, and the two toio me to make get away. which I did. About
 a. m I was pulled out of my berth at Frankfort with the information that
 Lucerne was in the opposite direction. T hit a train south but when I ar rived, both Kilby and Lagarde were there to welcome me. They had jumped the bond I suppose this will be one of the things to come up for adjustment when peace terms are made with Ger many"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27
MODERN "THRILLER,

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 The new hero of melodrama. Wood row Wilson. in the nick of time, saves the heroine who was about to give s1 a scuttle for next winters coal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27
SAFETY FIRST

From the Cleo (Okla.) Chieftain. Our esteemed friend, Wilhelm Dunk :
 hofer has made petition to the court
 to have his name changed to John Gun and to have his daughters changed
 from Wilhelmina to Epluribus Unum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27

NHoH hhey were uOlng OnCle odIh good service.
 The moral atmosphere of Anniston is exceptionally wholesome. The laws against vice are enforced to the let ter. If the soft drink stands were suspected of selling liquor to the men ] in camp then the commandant would be justified in setting his mark of dis approval upon them, but prohibition is of the bone-dry sort. General Morton, when he comes to think the matter over, will probably relent, and take a kindlier view of street fair features which naturally come in the wake of large military mobilization.
 A concentration camp should have it's brightest side as far as possible. A touch of street fair life would tend to. dispel gloom, and that point of view should be worth considering. The men in the army have strenuous duties ahead of them. They will have little time for play or sport, but when they are off on brief leave of absence, what harm will it do for them to eat a cheap sandwich or drink bottle of pop? If it puts joy in life, so much the better.
 A St. Louis man wants a divoce be- cause his bride called him fifth wheer' and bsasted how she used to throw things at her former husband. No wonder he feels unnecessary to her peace and happiness.
 Senator owen of Oklahoma says the German autocrats are coming to their senses. However there is only one cure for inilitarism and that is the elimina- ton of autocrats.
 While the German Crown Prince is a great admirer of Napoleon Bona psrte, 1t isn't likely that he will ever be able to follow in the great Corsl- cans footsteps.
 A Berlin dispatch claims that T tanks" were recently put out of com mission by German artillery. However, a tank" is not always as helpless as it looks
 A former pro-German agitator, who is now opposing the draft, says he's George Washington American. That's enough to make George turn over in his grave.
 An Oklahoma man dreamed he was in an automobile wreck and jumped out of third-noor window. The gasoline nightmare is one of the worst ever. President Wilson is not going around with big stick, yet he has more power just now than any other man OH the face of the earth.
 
 That breathing spell seems to have done the Italians a world of good, judging from the way they are now swatting the Germans.
 Crowned heads are ,a little out of fashion these days, but Boss Murphy is stin putting the Tammany tiger his paces.
 x
 Old King Winter will soon be on the job in Russia, and it won't make much difference whether the Russian troops are fighting or not.
 Uncle Sam Is the worlds greatest and he doesn't seem over particular about the kind of security offered.
 Candidates for the city commission are no longer giving their undivided at tention to the war in Europe.
 *
 It will soon be time for those sedu.- tive vacation ads to disappear from and magazines.
 N
 No longer permitted to gamble for wheat speculators are going to find life rather dull.
 < *
 Thanks to the dallying of Congress. food pirates gobbled up enough tainted profits to retire on.
 
 Every day that passes makes the world a little bit safer for democracy.
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 Hy,T TIT<Ir CAVS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27

BEGINNING THE DAY Lord, help me to forget the graves along my backward wny-the graves of dead hopes, of perished ambitions, of lost loves. Let the sun sparkle on them, the grass grow green over them; cover them up with flowers. May there come out of their depths for me only deyouter spirit, tenderer appreciation md n Eentler grace. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27
camp grounds
General Morton
 As DicipIimariam

RAT AL. GEN. CHARLES G. MOR- NVN TON, United States army, who arrived in Anniston Saturday as commandant of Camp Mcclellan, is described as gentleman of charm ing personality but an uncommonly rigid disciplinarian. Every army of ficer should be master of discipline, of course. In camp or post discipline cannot be too strict. Also the com mandant should see to it that good moral conditions in the immediate vii cinity of the government reservation prevail.
 But is not General Morton taking an exaggerated view of the effect of "cheap lunch" and soft drink stands and shooting gallaties close by the entrance to the camp? He wants nothing near his command that has the appearance of street fair.
 His announced determination to keep at a distance all schemes in tended for the recreation of the sol diers and the people who visit the camp came like bombshell to those enterplising citizens who had invested large sums of money in sites and privileges, thinking at the same time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27
Member of the Associated Pres.

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 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to 1t or not other wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein.
 All rights of republication of spe- cial dispatches herein. are also re- served.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27
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r. S.-If you haven't been out tu East Lake this season, be sure and take your wife and kiddies out for an afternoon or night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27
NEAT DISTINCTION

Fl om the Tipton (Ind.) Times
 Harry Vawter, who has been at Fort Benjamin Harrison for several weeks. is now rusticating at Connersville among the friends and his wife's peo- pie
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27
Student Officers

Get Wholesome Fare WAFFLE Uncle Sam's student of- WV ficers may grow weary of hiking in the rain, digging trenches and drilling until every bone in their bodies ache, they arc well fed and well cared for. They realize that severe physical exercise is needed to fit them for army life and teach them what it means to be a soldier, and whatever their disposition to grumble under their breaths, of course7- over the tasks, menial and otherwise, they are asked to perform, no com plaints have been made about the food or the housing accommodations.
 Visitors to the various training camps have been invited to make thorough inspections and as result many newspaper and magazine writers have paid tribute to the efficiency with which the military authorities are meeting situation never before known in America.
 The importance of good cooks is fully realized in the army. As writer in the Southern Woman's Magazine points out, "a short order or hotel cooks knows no more about army cooking than a home woman knows about hotel cooking" Every mess ser geant must be graduate of an army cooking school.
 The following menus picked out at random show that the future officers are not suffering from a lack of wholesome, satisfying food:
 Breakfast: Krumbles and cream,
 fried bacon, French fried potatoes,
 bread and butter. boiled eggs cof-
 fee and cream
 Dinner: Beef steak and onions,
 Drowned baked potatoes, stewed
 corn. bread and butter oranges,
 rice pudding, lemon ice tea
 Supper: Stewed corn beef, diced
 cheese, bread and butter, salmon
 ioa
 Breakfast; Oatmeal and cream,
 sliced oranges, fried country saul
 sage, cottage fried potatoes, fried
 hominy, syrup. bread, butter and
 coffee
 Dinner: Veal steak. mashed pota-
 toes with gravy, boiled cabbage,
 sliced tomatoes, bread, butter and
 ice tea
 Supper: Macaroni and cheese cold
 corn beef, baked potatoes, stewed
 peaches, bread, butter and ice tea.
 The menu is changed frequently, while sanitary kitchens and mess rooms insure the utmost cleanliness of service. The culinary arrangements at ali the contonments where the na- tional army will be trained are ad- mirable. The time has passed when sickness can decimate the ranks of American soldiers, for sanitation is writ large at every training camp, not only in the kitchens and mess halls, but everywhere else in and about the camp grounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27
Coal Administrator
 Has Led Active Life

M R. H. A. GARFIELD, named V coal administrator by Presi- dent Wilson, is we'll fitted for the diff ficult task he has been called upon to assume, although there was some speculation as to why MT. Wilson chose college president for the place. MT. Wilson did not pick his man in haphazard fashion and there can be TO doubt that Dr. Garfield will make an excellent administrator. As chair man of the wheat price fixing board he has has done good work.
 Although a college president, Dr.. Garfield, who is the son of the twen- tieth President of the United States, has by no means limited his activities to the profession of teaching. He is an able lawyer and has had experience as business organizer and executive. He taught Latin and Roman history in St. Paul's school, Concord, N. H., 1SS5-86. He practiced law in Cleve- land from 1888 to 1903, was profes- sor in the Western Reserve university law school from 1891 to 1897, and was elected president of Williams col- Ilege in 1908.
 pr. Garfield has been president of Fthe Cleveland Chamber of Commerce band was an organizer and president of the Municipal association of Cleve- land. He is a member of the National Municipal league, the American Politi- i cal Science association, the American ISociety of International Law, the lAmerican Bar association, National s1nstitute of Social Sciences and many other societies.
 [ It naturally follows that Dr. Gar field is deep student of economic problems and will be able to combine practice and theory in controlling Americas coal production. 8tEI@w Not to ReacJh
 a Ripe Old Age
 n F men above the age of 40 would ~ have mind to their diet-would eat less and eat only wholesome food they would Tive long and prosper" |" After 40 most persons who do not restrain their app cities grow fat, and fat people are seldom long-livers.
 Dr. Scale Harris, in his article in yesterdays Age-Herald, discussed "Diet After 40.' It was entertain ing as well as instructive, and no one approaching middle life, who values lis death, should fail to read it.
 Dr. Harris quotes Metchnikoff, the great Russian scientist, who made the statement in his book on "The Pro- longation of Life" that man should live to be 200 years old and that he
 
 should be active and efficient at the age of 150. The reason they die so early is because they absorb from the intestinal tract poisons which si cu- late in the blood and cause hardening of the arteries -the condition known as old age.
 After telling what fSods would be good for us Dr. HaEris sys the man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27
Cary Thompson Makes Decision

"The Kaiser will never know what narrow escape he made when I finally decided that it was my duty to stay at home and make a living for my wife and babies, instead of reporting Mon day morning at Fort Oglethorpe for training" said J. Cary Thompson, who was an approved candidate for the off, ficers second training camp.
 T have been virtually in the front line trenches already for nearly two weeks trying to figure out my duty to my country and to my family. wanted to be patriotic and battle for my native land, but found it impracticable to leave my wife and five children. feel greatly relieved that I have faced the question and settled 1t. I will stay at home, but I expect to still serve Uncle Sam by being a good citizen and do my bit to help those who take up arms"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27

mind. Henry VI.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27
HOTEL LOBBTES
old Days in pIrminahnm

Things look mighty different here on First avenue to me-" said W. R. Ramey, as he was standing down in front of the Chamber of Commerce talking to group of merchants.
 T came into this district in 1871 as water boy on the Louisville and Nash vile, and when I think of what Blr- mingham was then and what it Is at present, I can hardly believe my own eyes.
 "It has grown up right under my eyes, and in sense I almost feel like I am the daddy of it. could tell you fellows whole lot about early days but you wouldn't believe me, and yet the plain truth about it's growth is more marvellous than any yarn I could Invent. It is truly the Magic City"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27
Back from FarmviIIc

am just in from Farmville, one of the most prosperous communities in Alabama" said Rev D. D. Head of Carbon Hill T went down to assist
 Pastor Reib in a series of meetings which were greatly blessed. 'The crops around the country were fine in spite of the fact that the boil weevil was getting in his work on the top bolls. I am returning home much encouraged over the outlook for our new church building. The old one was destroyed in the recent cyclone. I find many friends ready to make contri- button, for it has been shown that the home people who lost their homes arc making sacrifices to rebuild their church."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second-class matter un- der act of Congress, March 8. 1872.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27

A Berlin dispatch claims that T tanks" were recently put out of com mission by German artillery. However tank" is not always as helpless as it looks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27

A former o-German agitator, who is now opposing the draft, says he's a George Washington American. That's enough to make George turn over in his grave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27

Then came the day of the summer theatre and once more society Hooked out to East Lake, and when light op eras played out. and vaudeville failed to draw, the movies were the thing, and finally the theatre on the lake was pulled down. I wonder how many re- member the old playhouse out at Lake : view. and the swimming pool beneath jt? A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27


 in the parks. He will not stand for
 the least bit of rowdyism, and he IS right.
 was out for awhile the afternoon the merchants were given the melon cutting, and 1t was 8 pleasant sight to see so many people having good time without having to spend any
 gl eat amount of mo Icy. It is true that
 kinds, yet most of them are capable of
 pleasing children and interesting the
 older people.
 The track around the lake. and the little engine is a never failing source of wonder to the little ones, and a ride
 OH the cars is to the average child an
 adventure into wonderland. It is true
 that the fathers and mothers look 9
 bit sheepish with their little ones, bu.
 every now and then some old grand : mother seems to get as much joy out of it as kid, and it is study to watch their faces.
 Then there is the roller coaster. I am sorry for anyone who cannot get a thrill in making the ascents and de- scents on the runaway tracks of rail . road that Is all the better for ups and downs and cuts spirals in the air and in many other ways seems to set at naught every good rule in railroad con- struction. The shouts of the boys and girls, the screams of the timid women, and tue nonchalance of the average male makes 1t an interesting sight. sss
 The greatest fun maker of all is the
 swimming pool in the lake. with it's
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27

While the German Crown Prince is a great admirer of Napoleon Bona psrte, 1t isn't likely that he will ever be atle to follow in the great Corsi- cans footsteps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-27

A St Louis man wants divoce be- cause his bride called him a fifth wheer and bsasted how she used to throw things at her former husband. No wonder he feels unnecessary to her peace and happiness.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-01-20
WOULD RETAIN WAREHOUSE
SYSTEM.

r. w. Dabls Points out Great Value
Of Institution to Farmers and Loss
Which Would Follow it's Abolish.
ment.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-01-20

ton that will destroy the scale and
make the bark of the trees look
slick and like it used to look before
scale appeared in this country.
If the bOrers have not been remov-
ed it is high time these were gouged
out as no tree can be healthy witt,
its trunk pierced with holes. Trees
should also be pruned, especially the
weak ones, very severely as you do
not want the trees to set more fruit
than they can mature or else all of the
fruit will be inferior.
j. Frank Williams,
County Agent.