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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18

sIowness," said he, when in reality the speed has been marvellous, taking into consideration that men, equipment and guns have had to climb up the sides of preciptous mountain sides
 He had hoped to have seen MT. Edison before coming south but for four days he had been i'll while in New York, but said he, q expect to visit him when l return east" This was as near as he got to discussing the war situation, with the exception that he was confident that the allies would win.
 As he was my table companion he no- ticed that I was not eating any meat and turning to me, said: "I eat very little meat, but I like sweets He was pleased that the salad and the ices were served in the Italian colors. He was greatly pleased with the speech of George Ward, and spoke several times about the fine one made by Judge Allen.
 Nearly everyone I met the next day asked me if Marconi told me how he was eonig to put the submarines out of busi- ness. and all seemed disgusted with me when said I hadn't even asked him anything about them. I simply talked to him about homely things and l think 1t was rather a relief to him to have me do so.
 I count it privilege to have spent sev- eral hours so pleasantly and so intimate ,v with one of the worlds greatest bene- factors and here is hoping that the mod est. unassuming man who came to see us will find way to shorten the war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18

Olga's walls or stealing kiss from Tinka or whispering in Blagoya's ear?
 Not unseldom the party Is broken up by the sudden rush of one of the young men, who, seizing a girl in his arms. car ries her off to his home Ordinarily the girl is entirely satsed with the proceed ing; indeed openly indirectly she may have excited it by her fascinations The Bulgarian girl knows. well the art of flirting and pleasing, although she f5 frank and friendly, lacking the mysteri- ous charm lent by veil and seclusion. This marriage by cai..ure, such as was practiced by our tribal ancestors. is con- secrated the next day by the orthodox religious service, when the tall-hatted, long-robed village priest unites the two lovers in legal wedlock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
Broken Arm a Nuisance

"A broken arm is great nuisance" said the Rev. w. J. Ray, the big jolly pastor of Park Avenue Baptist church, North Birmingham. T am constantly finding just how much use 1t when I get up to preach and want to gestculate. reckon, however, that I ought to be contented, for I do not gesticulate very much I was just thinking what handi- cap it would be for one of the Italian orators to have to carry an arm in a sling while he spoke, for, after watching one of them deliver an address, I con- cluded the handwork was about as im- portant as the head and mouthwork.
 Tt was sure sight to watch him in action as he swung his arms about and manipulated his hands. It beat any sight-of-hand performance I ever wit messed, The speech must have been fine from the fuss the Italians made over it.. If it hadn't been for the facial express sons and the gestures I would have soon lost interest in the flow of words that sounded like music for it wac all Dutch to me or rather Italian.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
Make This Great Day for Red Cross

That Birmingham will do its part well in the Red Cross raising campaign which starts today without saying.
 The people of this city have failed to respond erously to any appeal for humanity
 No stronger claim the sympathe of Americans has been years this which the National Red Cross society urging One hundred million dollars all told must be raised in the United States.
 Next to the prowess soldiers who forth fight in the trenches France and shed their blood for freedoms cause come the Red This noble phanthropc organization should all hearts Especially strong should the appeal for financa! aid be at this time.
 Birmingham expected contribute less than $50000 Why not heghen this ciys already good record by drive that will raise most the money asked of the first day?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
TERESA CARRENO

might Her passion for achievement the world to achieve with her, and was sometimes impatient with the worlds dragging steps. The distinc- tive charm of her playing lay in it's human quality, and in this she was not outranked. perhaps not equaled, by any living artist, not even Paderew- ski. whose name is the only contem- porary one to place beside that of Carr reno.
 The pianists death Is almost as di- rectly attributable to the war as that of Edouard de Reszke, who died re- gently in Poland. With characteristic energy, she carried to completion after the war commenced a concert tour ar ranged beforehand, giving TO concerts under conditions that taxed her se- verely. But 1t was grief over the fighting between countries she loved with almost equal devotion that un- nerved her after her return to Amer ica-this, and anxiety for the safety of her daughter, Teresita, who was unable to leave Switzerland.
 Mme Carreno will be deeply mourncd in Kansas City where she leaves at least one distinguished pupil and where she was loved with a devotion that transcended that accorded any other pianist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
Regarding Russia's
 Marketable Grain

1G XPERT agriculturists and dis ~ tinguished economists have been busy for many months past with the food problem Even with a shortage of grain crops this coun- try has usually been able not only to feed itself but spare substantial surplus for export. The present war conditions have changed the situation and brought an overshadowing men ace of famine. But with strong personality like H. c. Hoover in charge of the food supply of the United States the danger of starva- tion now threatening may be greatly minimized, if it does not entirely dis appear A great deal depends upon Russia.
 In response to the appeals of the United States government the farm CTS have increased the acreage of food and feedstuff crops. In some states the acreage has been doubled Where weather conditions have been favor able the outlook is promising; but drought is now in evidence in not a few sections ard the corn crop. in- stead of being larger than ever be- fore, will be below the three billion bushel record.
 It is too late to plant certain of the crops that had been counted on to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

When a woman treats her husband like a dog she can't complain if he growls all the time.
 A woman hates to have her husband come home late at night, because if she doesn't get early start she cant tell gets sleepy.
 great things to keep man from worry ing over whether his socks wrinkle around his ankles or not.
 It is good sthing to be cautious. But some folks are so cautious that they wear their winter underwear in July. A confirmed bargain hunter will make daily round of the department stores and then wonder why she looks so shop worn herself.
 We can't all live where we can see the watermelon smiling on the vine. But 1t isn't so awful tough to have to live where you can see it grinning in the ice box.
 A smart man will never act as a judge al a baby show and Will never try to set tie an argument between two women. 1t was quite fashionable 10 years ago for a married woman to save the bother of getting a divorce by using gun on Friend Husband, but we rarely hear of case these days. What's the matter? Are the juries getting hard d-hearted or are the wives getting soft-hearted?
 A bachelor may have his troubles. But he doesn't have to sit up half the night explaining to the frau that the blonde hair on his coat came off friend s skye terrier
 This is a contrary old world in which the way is usually in the direction the will isn't.
 What has become of the old fellow who used to study his Bible so he would he able to argue with the preacher? A young girl often gets chance to marry an old man for his money. But you never heard of an old man getting chance to marry young girl for her money, did you?
 If young man doesn't inherit any thing else from his father when the old man dies he Is almost certain to inherit the old mans political prejudiceh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18

definition; but it isn't true It serves well enough to distinguish, say, the verse of Tennyson from the prose of Colonel Roosevelt; but it does not begin to ac. count for the difference between the verse of Miss Lowell herself. for instance, and the prose of William Butler Yeats Miss Lowells sense of poetic style is acute and often exquisite, but her sense of prose style is curiousy rudlmentary. Yet in the councils of the new poetry she speaks upon these troubling questions of esthetid philosophy with delphic impressiveness.
 Perhaps it is in the mind of Miss Low ell and in the minds of those for whom she Is the consecrated prophecies, that prose can be elaborately rhythmed-can- not, in her own words, have qualities of marked rhythm and balance"-and remain artisticaly, self-respecting. And certainly prose is villainous thing when it is elf-consciously and ornately rhythmical and balanced-as in that in- comparably atrocious passage of Oscar Wilde's on the death of his mother: Never in the most perfect days of my development as an artist could I have had words fit to bear so august a bur- den, or to move with sufficient stateli- ness of music through the purple pageant of my incommunicable woe ." Miss Lowell seems to have forgotten (she can hardly be unaware) that the finest prose may be as richly, subtly, and completely rhythmic, as exquisitely balanced, as fine verse-as even the best of Miss Lowelrs own artful and fascinating vers fibre. It would be hard to exhibit any verse. classic or contemporary, as intricate in rhythmic organization as the prose of MT. Yeats, or of MT. George Moore at his best. No-the difference between fine prose and fine verse Is not a difference in the measure of their dependence upon rhythm; it is a difference that gets it. self stated in verbal character rather than in rhythmic effect. In poetry you do not say:
 The next annual meeting |.
 or, if you do, you cease to write poetry. In prose you do not say if you have a sensitive instinct in this matter:
 The snow whispers about me
 or, if you do, you will almost certainly be perpetrating that once fashionable but now abandoned hybrid, "prose-poem."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
IN YUNG-YANG

By Pc Chu-i A. D. 772-s46 was a child in Yung-yang, A little child I waved farewell After long years again l dwell In world forgotten Yung-yang. Yet I recall my playtime, And in my dreams l see The little ghosts of Maytime Waving farewell to me
 My fathers house in Yung-yanC Has fallen upon evil days. No kinsmen OCT the crooked ways Hail me as once in Yung-yang. No longer stands the old Moot-haI Gone is the market from the town: The very hills have tumbled down And Stoned the valleys in their fall Only the waters of the Chin and Wei Roll green and changeless as in day
 gone by.
 Yet I recall my playtime And in my dreams I see The little ghosts of Maytime Waving farewell to me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
Tribute to Miss Armes Work

The Story of Coal and Iron in Ala bama, by Miss Ethel Armes, the talented author, being brought to the attention of MT. Henry c. Prick, was the cause of his buying five copies as he was so pleased with it that he wanted to present each member of the finance committee of the United States Steel corporation with a copy, said Ross C. Smith. who thought it was one of the highest compliments the book had vet had.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
Military Periodical. at Library

There have been some complaints in the past because the public library did not receive military periodicals said Miss Emily Van Dorn Miller, reference librarian.
 T am now glad to announce, how ever, that we are getting several of the best published in this country. Two weekly periodicals received are The Army an Navy Journal and The Army and Navy Register. The monthly periodicals are Army List and Directory National Service, and International Military Di- Sest.' We have also added recently the International Marine Engineering, a technical periodical of interest to many men"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
Avoids the Frivolous

Julian Caheen, one of the active young men in -Caheen Bros, that I am glad when the closing bell rings, for it means can go home and get magazine or an interesting book and spend a pleasant evening. I find as I grow older that lit erature. makes a stronger appeal than the frivolous affairs which used to claim my time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
Austen Likes New stand

Tt does seem little bit queer for me to be off busy thoroughfare doing busi- ness said E, K. Austin, who Is now operating the Ridgely Pharmacy com pany While I may miss the rush and confusion I also miss the high rents, and therefore, l am well pleased with my new stand"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
Happy are they that hear their de- fractions, and put them to mendinS. Much Ado About Nothing.
 *

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lord, Thou art not bundle of denials, a system of restraints. Thou dealest in affirmations and in liberties. Thou invitest not to weakness and poverty but to power and abun- dance. When Thou seemest to re- strain, it is only that Thou mayest give the fuller freedom; when Thou seemest to take away, it is only that Thou mayest the more richly bless. Amen.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
WHY DOES JAPAN HOLD BACK.

Charlton Bates Strayer. in Leslie's.
 If it be true, as rumored, that Japan is dspatching troops to Russia to stiffen the latters war programme, the whole outlook would be changed. It would be comparatively easy for Japan to come to the rescue of her allies in this way, pour ing troops into Russia over the Trans supplying Russia with munitions. Will she do it? Should Russia become a neutral it will be too late We have sent our warships across the Atlantic to cooperate with the British and French fleets, and our troops are soon going to France. Why shouldn't Japan lend similar aid to her allies? Thus far Japan has lived up to the letter of her treaty obligations with Britain, but has gone no further The United States has entered the war with no hope of acquiring territory or reap ing any sort of material profit. Why does Japan hold back? Is she more than will ing that the United States should ex- haust herself in common with the Euro pean powers while her own army and navy remain intact? If this be so Japan will have the whip hand when the war is over. Japanese statesmen earnestly re- pudiated the Zimmerman suggestion of a com mbination of Germany. Russia and Ja- pan, but it Is well to realize that such a combination is still conceivable, and that in 1t lies q portentous threat to the future peace of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
Likes the Change

q put in 141a years on Nineteenth street. said James N. Rose president of the Jobe-Rose Jewelry company, which has recently moved into it's handsome new quarters on Second avenue. "I feel just the least bit out of place, but the way business has opened up I am greatly pleased with the change"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
Credit Where Credit is Due

Credit must be given where credit IS due, said Al c. Garber, secretary of the Members of all committees worked hard in selling the bonds. They are all due much credit, but possibly no other person did more for the committee than John Sparrow of the Sparrow Advertising agen- cy. We made a record in selling bonds and also a record in the unique adver- tisements which have been running in the papers since the campaign started. These ads were drawn up by MT. Sparrow, who devoted much time to the work"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
Whole Family Interested

The liberty loan has been the chief topic of my conversation for sometime" '" said Mrs. H. o. Moore. chairman of the woman's liberty loan committee. Even the youngest member of our family was familiar with the subject. for our little 6-year-old daughter announced that she had decided to call her new kitten Iib- erty Loan,' and to further carry out her patriotic idea she had tied the white satin ribbon badge which members of the committee wore, around the kittens neck"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
ENGLISH SHOE STORE HUMon

ENGLISH SHOE STORE HUMOR From the Pittsburg Post.
 A writer of humorous notoriety in Eng land, F. W. Thomas chirps
 There are some salesgirls that ono feels moved to chuck under the chin; others that one would like to chuck un- der the counter
 A dashing young damsel well under military age, with pink hair and far away look in her eye. was sitting on a s6fa at the other end of the long boot shop reading a book
 I coughed. made noise like hos pital.
 I said "shop!' I made a noise like a shopbell: "Tinkle-tinkle' I picked up a boot and I slung it at the cash till. Biff! It fell on the keys and scored s4S5 Enter person somewhat over military age, stern and eagle-eyed. She eagle eyed me. Then, in voice about four feet deep, she spoke Young man. she said, q want a pair of shoes. Black Sevensl Quickv'
 
 customer she knelt, and unpacked a cardboard box. Then removed the per- sons boot. And got the shoehorn And showed the shoe.
 The other continued to push. Nothing happened, except that they both got red in the face
 Did you say sevens?" asked the assist ant.
 "Sevens Black" snapped the cus- toner. So they tried another pair. At last one went on. 'Wow!" said the person. That's too tight" "Oh mo-" said the assistant
 Tt is too tight!' said the other. But you said sevens," protested the assistant. And this is an eight. Shall try nine?"
 Send that grinning idiot away!" said the customer.
 Madam I answered. "I am here try ing to buy bootlace. I shall not go without it. Try a nine. Try 10. Try jack or a king"
 The assistant brought down a nine and said it was a seven And 10 and said it was a seven. And an Il and said it was a seven.
 She was fitted at last. with a lovely pair of monitors that stretched from here to here, and she departed, dragging the box behind her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
HOTEL LOBBIES
Exper,.pc. as Registrar

T had some funny experiences ss registrar" said John W. Brazeal "The word dependent seemed to get the col ored brethren tangled up. When the question was put to a bis husky negro, Have you anyone dependent on your he replied, cant say as I Is. I got brother, but he been dead gwine on two years, and not knowing exactly where he Is just at present I dunno whether he's depending on me much or not "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18

Cockneys on an outing are reported to be eating fewer bananas than formerly Maybe those blarsted U-boats are to blame
 While the new King of Greece is fine looking chap. the fact that he resembles movie idol should not be held against him.
 The American people are so welded to- gether now that you cant locate we'll developed hyphen in a days journey.
 * * This is the situation in Germany: If the Prussian war lords cant deliver the goods they'll have to get out.
 * * A pacifst may not favor war, but he can help to mitigate it's horrors by con tributing to the Red Cross
 x * When the bands begin to play Dixie" in France, the Germans might as well beat it back to the Rhine
 * The success of the liberty loan shows that the American people want liberty, no matter what it costs.
 k The Steel corporation shook a tree in it's orchard and a s11,OOO, 600 plum fell off into Birmingham's lap.
 * Might as well drop the Paris date line now, Pershing is merely somewhere in France"
 A pistol toter in jail is worth two on the street
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18

The career of Marconi had always filled me with wonder. Why he has made the Arabian Nights tales seem tame The things he has done put fairy tales into the shade. His performances outdo all the worlds magic workers. Truly, he is a wizard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18

I couldn't help throwing the bulr' little and so I pointed out the Jefferson County Bank building as the home of Birmingham Newspaper Club. It hit the great inventor all in heap and he and his companions were astonished that the newspaper men were so prosperous as to be able to be housed in such magnificent quarters. I was told to try and impress them and so I wasn't going to lay down on the job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18

absolutely impossible for him to conceive that anyone would care to do him bodily harm.
 He told me how he had given the se- cret service men the slip in Washing ton and had jumped into friends au- tomobile and gone out and had a good time without feeling that his every move | ment was watched. He seemed to enjoy | it as much as boy does who plays | hockey. T am not used to any such at | tenton and it gets on my nerves said he, l I laughingly said that if they made 1t l intolerable and curtailed his liberty too
 much. just to give them the slip at some station and send me a Marcongram and
 I would come and get him. It seemed
 to amuse him very much. "Good!" said
 he, T believe I'll do it."
 l He came to American when he was l9 years old and this last trip made his
 seventy ninth voyage across the Atlantic.
 He told me he had been in England a number of times since the war began and
 had visited the front both in Belgium and in France.
 Tt is hard" said he, for Americans
 who have never visited the mountainous countries over which the Italian soldiers
 have been forced to go to get at Austria
 to understand the truly remarkable feats
 that they have performed" know this
 to be true because have been over some of the ground. "some wonder at the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second-class matter un- der act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-06-02
MASTER
SALE
MASON CIRCUIT COURT

MASON CIRCUIT COURT
Carl Wards Admir-, Etc.. Plaintiffs,
vs.. Judgment and Order of Sale
Limestone Building Association,
Etc, northumberland Defendants.
In obedience to Judgment and Or
der of Sale in the above-styled action,
| will, as Master Commissioner, on
MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1917,
At II o'clock a. M, proceed at the
Court House Door in Maysville, Ken
lucky, to sell, at public cutlery, and to
the highest and best bidder, so much
Of the hereinafter-describe real es-
tate as will be necessary to satisfy the
judgment debt of the Limestone Build
ing Association, amounting to $25350,
with interest thereon at the rate of SO
per annum from March 18th, 1916, and
the judgment debt Of the defendant,
Charles Ward, amounting to $50, with
interest thereon at the rate of 6fo per
annum from April 18th, 1914, together
with all State, county and city taxes
and assessments due, and all the costs
of this action, amounting, as whole,
to approximately $475.
Said real estate is that certain tract
of land, having a frame cottage and
other improvements thereon, situate,
lying and being in the Sixth Ward of
the City of Maysville, Kentucky, which
fronts on the South side of Williams
Street rs feet, and extends back, South,
108 feet, more or less, to the center of
a private alley in the rear Of same;
said property is bounded on the East
by Chambers, on the West by the prop
erty formerly owned by Oldham, and is
a part of Lot No. 1856 on the plat Of
Chester, recorded in Deed Book "A,
Page So, Mason County Court Clerks
office; and being, in all respects, the
same property conveyed to Clarissa
Moore by S. B. Oldham, by deed re-
corded in Deed Book So, Page 1888, Ma
son County Court Clerks Office.
TERMS OF SALE-Sald real estate
will be sold upon credit of six (6)
md twaIua 1ol nnntho In nay,nauto