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The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
Now the TWo-Bit Fine.

New York.-Hereafter Police Court fines in the east side are to be meas ured by pocket books, according to Magistrate Fuchs of the Essex Mar ket court, who will impose fines of 25 and 50 cents for petty offenses real ity.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
SeIf-Denial.

Are you setting an example of he- roism and seif-denial, such as the coun- try now demands?"
 T haven't done anything exactly in the line of heroisn," admitted Senator Sorghum. But I've scored on self denial. I haven't made a long speech in six weeks"
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
Grain Crop Is Burned.

Olive, Okla.-While the owner was away from home before daylight g. 900 bushels of newly cut wheat and oats belonging to Samuel Daily, Q farmer, was destroyed by fire. There was no insurance, and the loss was estimated at $2,000
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
AVOID MALARIA, CHlLLS,
 FEVERS AND AGUE

by taking one BONDS LIVER PILL occasionally. They keep the Liver and Bowels active and drive off the poison ous matter. 25c at ALL DRUGGISTS. Do not accept ubstitutes.=Adv.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
 All the Same to Him.

Going down to hear that virtuoso at the opera house tonight?" asked the suburbanite of neighbor.
 "Whats that?" replied the old man. Why, celebrated violinist is to play tonight"
 Nav, I'm not going. My boy plays one of them.'
 "Yes but this man is celebrated" ''Oh. well, what's the difference? Fiddlin' is fiddlin'. ain't it?''
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
Porto Rico Votes Dry.

San Juan, P. R.-Porto Rico voted for prohibition by big majority. VI kh four unimportant towns missing. u ReturIs showed 99.775 votes for prohibition and 61.296 against.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
Unusual Renuest.

Mrs. Bunny-Oh, Mr. Turtle won't you come down to our laundry and let us use your back for washboard?'
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
 One EmerqencY.

'I'll never say die"
 Wait until your hair begins to turn gray"
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
Proof to the Contrary.

There is no patent, they say, or folly"
 How about patent absurdities?"
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
WoMAN,s BROWNING GLORY

is her hair. If yours is streaked with ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use La Gre ole" Hair Dressing and change it in the natural way. Price S1.00.-Adv.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
Cynical.

"Jones tells me he bought horse of spirit yesterday"
 m bet it was pony of brandy"
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
To Drive Out Malaria
 And Build Up The System

Take the Old Standard GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what you are taking. as the formula is printed on every label. showing it is Quinine and Iron in tasteless form. The Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron builds up the system. 50 cents.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26

STOP THOSE SHARP SHOOTING PAINS "Femenina" is the wonder worker for all female disorders. Price 5I .oo and soc. Adv.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26

The man who looks out for difficult ties will find two where he expected
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26

Always sure to please, Red Cross Ball Blue. All grocers sell it. Adv.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26

Pittsburgh employers pay opt s1, ,5o0,- GOO day in wages.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
Useless Lonqinu.

That singer is just murdering time T wish I was judge; I'd make him do it.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26

Long Beach, Cal, is to have tuna fish cannery.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
And she aeeepted him ?"

And she accepted him?a
 ..Yes, but she's insisting on an imme- diate marriage. Profting by the expe- rience of the other girls she isn't going to take any chance on his breaking an other engagement
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26

Millions of particular women now us, and recommend Red Cross Ball Blue. Al grocers. Adv.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
Goino to Land Him.

He was engaged three times before he proposed to her
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26

DEATH LURkS IN A WEAK HEART, so on first symptoms use "Renovine" and be cured. Delay and pay the awful penalty. "Renovine" is the hearts remedy. Price S1.00 and 50c.-Ady.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
Disappointed.

Disappointed. He-I only know that I love you. She-Oh, dear I thought you knew how to make money. too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-27
Elldn1's Luck Won Rag for
 Vols, Says Fuzzy WoodruH

Our little friend, Roy Ellam, who sur prised the Southern league and himself by winning the pennant for Nashville his first year out as manager, seems to coincide with the opinion entertained by the majority of fans of Dixie that his ball club of last season had no more right to capture a championship than Jimmy Pappas had to beat Jess Willard, says Fuzzy Woodruff.
 And thereby he is giving himself and his managerial ability as subtle a pat on the back as could be imagined. His very actions betoken the thought that he is now convinced that it wasn't the baseball strength of his followers that won the rag, but the baseball luck that was his clubs, and his own, managerial ability.
 Now, Roy isn't the kind of a fellow that swells up and gets chesty because suc- cess comes to him. Throughout the fight for the 1916 pennant he was glorifyins in the loyalty of his players, which made his success possible, but right now when the heat of battle has cooled, he has no wish nor desire to base his chances on another pennant on that same ball club
 He's too wise a baseball man for any thing like that.
 Ellam is proving his wisdom in more
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-27
Can We Get Russia's Trade?

Iucian Swift Kirtland in Leslie S.
 It may be supposed that there are business men in America. who wish to become serious students of the Rus sian situation, who desire to look be- fore they leap, who prefer to leave mere gambling experiments to others, but who are prepared to act with as much energy and consistency in the Russian field as at home if they can be convinced that the profits of the market are worth the effort. What, then, is the truth about Russian con- oitions of trade9 And Is there likely field for successful American expan- sion?
 Tables of trade statistic figures have their value to show the needs Of Rus sia's 1S0000000 people, but a long walk through the streets of any Rus sian city drives home the lesson. start, as a sample, in Petrograd at St. Isaac s cathedral and walk down the Nor skaya, then turn into the famous Nevsky Prospect and follow that long, broad artery to the Litanni, and later zigzag back through the many bazars of the street called Sadoyana- If you have look ed carefully into every shop window you will return to your hotel with your thought activity quickened to wonderment From straw hats to childrens toys, from jam to furniture,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-27
Man in the Department Store

Simeon Strunsky in Harper's Magazine.
 When a man wanders into the de- partment store the rigid rules of war fare do not apply. man in the rush hour at the counter will be waited on out of his turn without protest from the women shoppers. He is like babe who has strayed into No Mans Land between the hostile trenches. There may be a smile on either side of the counter, but in his helpless state he appeals to the innate chivalry in wom : an When a man shops for himself he is satisfied with the first approxima : tion to what he wants. When he IS shopping for his wife he does not even know what he wants. He reads some thing from list and asks for six yards of it. and only wants assurance that he is getting what he asks for His ignorance of the distinction be- tween poplin and crepe de chine is .l claim on the maternal instinct in the heart of the saleswoman. And he does not waste time. When a man buys halt a dozen pairs of silk socks. he is shown pair and assumes that the other five pairs out of the same box will be the same. A woman usually examines every pair of the half dozen A man in department store is lik= Sir Galahad. He brings out what is best in everybody. Saleswomen arc patient with him. Floorwallxers give him explicit directions to the shoe de partment. Elevator boys call out the floors for him distinctly. The girl al the transfer desk guarantees delivery of the goods that same afternoon. The laws of war are not for him. He is not of the enemy. He belongs to the Red Cross
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-27

Birmingham very rarely has real big league player stopping in the city for a few days, but when the incident does occur, everybody knows about it. Yes terday Rube Marquard, the star southpaw of the Brooklyn Superbas and formerly of the New York Giants, was in the city with his wife, Blossom Seeley, who is a headliner at the Lyric.
 Rube dropped around to the different places of interest in the city, including the baseball headquarters Yesterday afternoon President Baugh of the South ern league escorted Rube to the Roebuck club where the league proxy and the star hurler enjoyed an afternoon of golf.
 Birmingham is fine city, said Mar quard. q have been here before, but the city shows more improvement than ever. Right now, I'm thinking about baseball. expect to have a great season with Brooklyn this year. We won the rag last year and everybody on the club Will strive hard to repeat.
 ''Wilbur Robinson is fine manager
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-27

ways than one. Though he is firing bah on to the services of Gabby Street. the veteran catcher whose years of usefulness were thought over more than two years ago.
 Last season Elam worked some sort of rabbit-foot game on Gabby that made him not only the best catcher in the cir cult, but the hardest worker for his teams success. And it was Gabby's work, more than any other one factor, that brought the title to the Volunteers.
 Street took a fair to middling pitching staff and made it the hardest sort of a thing to beat. He developed a real star
 in Tom Rogers who previously had shown nothing except good fast ball. Working right along with Ellam, he helped inspire a fighting spirit that made the Vols the hardest team in the league to beat, and team that never remained beaten for any length of time.
 Ellam might consider amputating his right arm, but it's dead cinch that he isn't going to consider losing the serv- ices of Walter Johnson's former battery mate.
 If he should go crazy and do it, l know one place where Gabby could find a warm welcome, and that place is right here in Atlanta Had Street been on the Cracker pay roll last year, Franks followers would have won the pennant with all the ease exhibited by Ed Danforth in raw ing over his latest movie queen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-27
HEINE GROH WAS BEST 4WA|TER" IN
 NATIONAL LEAGUE
Third Sacker of Reds Was Passed S4 Times in 149 Games-Secret in Old
 Batting Form

| Heine Groh, Cincinnati infielder, was the best waiter in the National league
 last season, official averages showing he
 received S4 passes in 149 games And the figures for the last two sea- sons show Hene has been getting on base oftener than he did before that l time.
 The secret seems to be in an odd bat | ting style the little Cincinnatian is using, style revived from the days of old Pop | Anson.
 While the average player hugs the plate with the front of his body toward I first base and only his head turned to- ward the pitcher, Groh stands back ot the plate squarely facing the pitcher He steps up to the plate as the ball is de- | livered if he intends to swing As result the pitcher has nothing ex- cept the plate to shoot at, while ordi- narily he has the batter's body as a guide.
 l The odd style is made more discon- certing to the pitcher because Groh IS the only ballplayer today who uses this ! style in batting and the pitcher doesn't 1 get a chance at him often enough to learn | his style.
 1 Groh, being harder to pitch to- natur- l ally draws more passes. His unique bat 1 ting position causes him to hit usually | to right field, although he bats right 1 handed.
 Only few great hitters have used this l batting style.
 l Cap Anson, a free, hard hitter, used | it for years while he was piling up his record of 5000 hits. Ping Bodie used it with telling effect in the American league and Jimmie Callahan also batted from l that position.
 Billy" Elwert, who pastimed at Mont gomery before Little Rock bought the 1 Biliken franchise, was another diamond athlete who copied Anson's position at 1 the plate. He was not as successful as
 Groh, however, in securing passes to the initial sack.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-27
MAGEE ACCEPTS B|G SALARY DECREASE Outfielder of Braves Signs at S4200-Maranville
 Holds Out

Boston, February 26.--Sherwood R. Ma gee, outfielder of the Boston Nationals, has accepted the clubs terms, it was announced tonight. Reduced from $650( year for the last three seasons, to s4200 for the coming season, Magee had announced that he would not sign. Fred Allen. pitcher, also sent in his signed contract for lower figures. Walter Ma ranville, the clubs shortstop, is the prin- cipal remaining holdout.
 May 14, the date of the first meeting in this city of Chicago and Boston Ma tional league clubs, will be named in honor of Fred Mitchell, new manager ol the Chicago team, and former coach and scout of the Braves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-27
CLUB PREPARED ID
 MEET ILLINOIS FIVE
 IN FINAL CONTEST
Mobile Will Play Local "Y". Games Will Bring the Local Season to
 Close

The closing games of the present basketball season in Birmingham will be played tomorrow night when the Birmingham Athletic club quintet clashes with the strong team of tine Illinois Athletic club while the Gen. tral Y NJ c. A. meets the team from the Mobile Y. M c. A. It will be the last game of the season for the club crew while the ''Y" has several games on the road which must be played
 The games however, will bring the local high class bask etball offerings to an end. The season thus far has not been very successful for either team and both are determined to make an excellent showing in tomorrow nights contests.
 The game between the club five and the Illinois quintet promises to be one of the best played in the city this season. The Illinois crew comes to Bir mingham with reputation which no other team has in the past few years. Four world championships have been won by the Illinois team in addition to numerous other smaller titles.
 Coaches have been working hard for the past few days in a supreme eff fort to whip the five into it's real mid season form. The club has not played but few swell games this season and members are expecting their players to ''cut loose" Coaches have drilled the team in everything connected with basketball and there's no reason why the club should not make a credit able showing provided they do not score a victory.
 The Mobile team is in fine shape for the game with the locals and will un- doubtedly make the locals hustle to score a win. Coach Mitchell says his boys are playing in wonderful form and will win in walk.
 The fact that Mobile was only one of the two teams in the south to de- feat the L. S. U. quintet causes some fans to believe that the local warriors will receive a good licking. Coach Mitchell however, says he is prepared and an interesting battle should be the result.
 It is thought that the game at the sY' will start at o'clock while the game at the club will start as soon as it is completed, or about 9 o'clock. T. c. Young will referee the game at the club, while Coach Charlie Brown of Birmingha college will officiate in the Mobile contest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-27

and I believe one of the chief reasons why we won the pennant last year was because of his great ability Boston beat us in the worlds series because they had the best team. The Red SoX played the game well and aside from that don't overlook Bill Carrigan, their pilot, who was on the bench every minute with his eyes keyed on the field
 T pitched the first game and got beat. The Sox's pitching staff was great. Jack
 Barry will make them a good manager but I don't predict they will repeat" When asked about Jimmy Johnston, the former Baron who played for the Su- perbas last season, Marquard said he was one of the best liked men on the club. And Jimmy is a good little player, Marquard said. ''He will make Brooklyn
 an even better man this season" The Superbas will train at Hot Springs again this season. Marquard has not been ordered exactly what time to report, but it will be within the next few days. He expects to receive orders before leaving Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-27
Movies Are Getting Better
he moving picture department

The moving picture department of the Womans Home Companion says:
 There has been a distinctly new tone of the feature films produced in the last few months, a perceptible eff fort to make the stories more like gIimpses of life as it is lived by flesh and blood people, not by puppets in the hands of a director who has never been a student of humanity. The time has passed when a successful picture can be made up of certain conventional motion picture ingredients hastily thrown together-a leering villain, a curly-haired doll heroine, a handsome lover. struggle in locked room, a sensational rescue, and a close em- brace
 ''So long as features were what the name implied, they held hopes of de- veloping the new art into something substantial. They were a step beyond the one, two-, three-reel programme of mediocre stuff mechanically devel- oped in plot, acting and settings. But when they became programme features they too frequently lose their right to be called features, and become pro grammes,' like their predecessors.
 For a time a noted dramatic star could carry a picture to financial suc- cess because of the cumulative pub licity back of her. But publicity can not popularize a face that does not screen well, or a story with no real intent, or mechanical workmanship. Even favorite heroines like Mary Pick ford of Marguerite Clark cannot al- ways carry to success spinelss story The public is weary of the 6-year-old curly haired heroine who marries in the last reel; besides, it has a bad effect upon the real 16-year- -olds. Not the hair, but the ability to stir the emo tons has helped these successful screen actresses to attract the public to many mediocre story. And that is the only reason such productions have been listed as better films.
 Tt is not the newness of the plot which makes a good story. There are few new plots. Most of the stories have been told countless times in lit erature. the drama, and now the mo- ton picture. It is the way the plot is dressed by author and director which makes it's freshness, it's human appeal and its final successes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-27

|, almost everything that you have seen
 has been imported. The streets of grim Petrograd are touched with the color of Cossack uniforms and the flaming cloaks of the drivers of the carriages of the nobility. There is the pie trresque quality of the peasants jolt ing over the rough cobbles in them moujik carts. But the display windows of even the most fashionable streets have little of the allurement to be ex- pected in a great capital city. Except for the peasant handicraft shops, the tobacconists, the florists, and the de- pots for Ural semi precious stones. the i interest aroused is not from things Russian but from the overwhelming g evidence of the eyes that every rouble l spent pays a toll to some foreign fac l tOry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-27
GIANTS CONCEDED FLAG IN NATIONAL
 LEAGUE BY OWNERS
John McGraw's Team Will Be Hard to Beat in Com ing Campaign, Is the
 Common Belief

New York, February 26.-"How We Arr Going to Stop the Giants"
 Set to doleful music. this is the latest unpopular song being rehearsed by seven National league managers And, to say the least, the rivals of John J. McGraw have something to worry about.
 Of course, this is no time to do any thing in the line of picking winners, but when sentiment to the effect that the Giants should have walkaway with the National league flag next summer IS openly expressed by pilots in the old league, there must be more than a good chance for the Polo Grounds gang to grab the gonfalon next fall.
 The makeup of the Giants as they closed the season of 1916 will need few if any alterations. McGraw saw that he needed some new material last Au- gust, and he stepped right out and got it. When the National league held it's an- nual meeting here McGraw was seen sit ting about the Waldorf lobby with a satisfied smile on his countenance, and he did little or no bockerlng for players
 "All l want at the present moment" ," said lawn, ifs a little stronger pitching staff"
 And lawn expects to secure the talent necessary to make his wiggling corps d winner.
 Four of McGraw's rival managers ex- pressed the opinion during the meeting here that the National league might just as well save itself time by voting the Giants $100 for next years pennant and have 1t over with. These four are Will bert Robinson, Pat Moran, George Stall- ings and Jimmy Callahan.
 Fred Mitchell the new manager of the Cubs, did not express himself quite so strongly but he admitted that the Giants are the lads to watch. Mitchell hopes to have the Cubs in the race, and he says he expects to see all of the west ern clubs in the National league show to better advantage in 1917 than they did this year.
 The sensational winning streak with which the Giants brought their season to close has put fear into the bosoms of other clubs, and when the season opens the Giants will have seven clubs fighting tooth and nail to stop them Rival managers will go through at least the first six or eight weeks of the season using their best pitchers against the Giants, They will save their most de- pendable slabbers for McGraw's boys but it appears now that if the McGraw clan hits its old stride it will be as hard to stop as the Twentieth Century Linn ited."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-27
Worrying the Coyote

From the Popular ScIence MonthIy.
 A novel gas limp known as ''coyote'' gun is being used extensively by western ranchmen to protect their flocks from the ravages of coyotes. The device con sists of three chambers and lamp box. In the upper chamber is water which drips into the larger chamber below, filled with calcium carbide. The greater part of the gas feeds through a tube to the blaze but a quantity, is forced into the third chamber on the left side, and from there at about one minute intervals it feeds through to the lamb box, and causes an explosion similar to pistol shot The device is attached to a spring and suspended four or five feet above the ground The explosions keep the gun revolving and throwing the light in every direction
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-27
BUSH AND STRUNK AGREE ID TERMS Athletics Best Men Sign Contracts -Whitted
 Balks

Philadelphia. February 26.-Joe Bush star pitcher, and Amos Strunk, outfieldei of the Philadelphia Americans, both oi whom had been holdouts, today signed contracts, Manager Mack announced to- night The terms were not made public
 George Whitted outfielder of the Phil
 adelphia Nationals. today refused an of fer of $400O a year and announced that unless he was given a contract for $550f he would not report at the training camI at St Petersburg, Fla, next week. Will liam F. Baker, president of the club, said that Whitted's demand would not be con Sidered.