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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
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A SPLENDID COMPANY

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
 A story was printed in Memphis re- flecting on the conduct of Company D, Second Alabama infantry, while that company was in Memphis doing guard duty on She bridges. There has been an official inquiry which was asked for by the compander of the company, and the same shows that all the work here was done in a soldier-like manner. Members of the company were attentive to tieir duties. Many oe the people of Memphis became acquainted with the va yious officers and soldiers and had great respect for them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
Germaray That Was

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 TN lecture delivered at Chautau- J qua, N. r., Professor Tillie, for merlYSrof the lille institute, Berlin, and fSy thirty years student and professor in German universities, said: If anyone tells you that the Russians mobilized before the Ger mans, it is false. And if they tell you that England arrested enemy subjects before Germany did, it is false" These facts have already been fairly well established.
 Further along in his remarks Pro- fessor Tile said that the Germany he loved twas not the Germany of Prussia, of Treitschke, and of Niet- sche. My love was for the Germany of before the Franco Prussian war, the Germany of Goethe, Kant, Mo- zart and Beethoven" Unfortunately for the world and for Germany her self, the leaven which was to produce Prusssanism YVES working before tho France Pruss.an war. It was just three years ago, and little over,  when Germany felt strong enough to p.A.er theories to the test and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
ALL IN THE DAYS WORK

ALI IN THE DAVIS WORK Will Irwin in the Saturday Evening
 Post.
 We strolled, we talked, into long shed, with board table along it's center, many maps on the plain board walls the regulation appearance of a head quarters. bench ran down one side of the room, and on 1t sat seven or eight lean, blond, clean cut British youths in khaki. It was the watch, waiting on call against emergencies of the air
 Phil Simms, being an American and therefore of witty imagination, smiled, sBellhops, waiting for call to z 26," he whispered. The row of aviators, being Britons and shy. shifted their legs and looked embarrassed. But one rose from the bench and approached the captain, saluting He was breathing heavily and his eyes were bloodshot
 .Oh-you've just landedH' said the cap tain easily. Had a fight, didn't your?
 "Yes, sir" said the boy all in breath. Squad of four German planes attacked me and Brown-Jones. (This name of course, is disguised.) My gun Jammed after three shots, and I had to hurry | back Brown-Jones brought one down, I think. At least he appeared to be out of control when he dropped into the cloud below"
 "Oh--er-- Brown Jones back?" No, sir. But I saw him crossing our lines behind me"
 Engine trouble, I suppose. Doubtless we'n hear from his later. What about l the other three Huns?"
 "They showed evidences of extreme terror, sr!''
 Very well"
 I The boy settled back onto the bench where he nonchalantly borrowed a c1ga rette from his neighbor
 Just let your imagination play on this as mine did, Back from a fight 15.000 , 1s,00o feet in the air, a thing merely dreamed of three years ago realized only a year ago-an adventure beyond precedent. And here 1t was, treated a part of the days work!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
ADRIFTT WITH THE TIMES
HOW IF HAPPENED.

Ten years ago. when you proposed to me, major" said the blooming matron you swore you couldn't live without me-"
 "Quite so, madam, quite so," replied the major, with bow. In moment of depression I simply underestimated my vitality"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
rI1RNEp DOWN.

eT have nere poem on orgntea io'v'-> said the fair poetess. T do hope you win be able to find a place for it.
 NO trouble at all about that" said thd editor. In fact. have my eyes fixeF on place for it right now"
 Seeing that the cruel man was gazinG fixedly at waste paper basket the fait poetess seized her manuscript and swept out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23

BEGINNING THE DAY-O God, help me to tell my friend what he means to me. Tomorrow he may be gone. And today he may stand in sore need of my single word. For Thou knowest how my life has often been dry and barren and then has bIossomed under the chance con- fession of my friend. Amen-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23

GLAD TO GET BACK. Been camping out?' Yes" Enjoy yourself?" Not particularly, but the experience was valuable NO doubt" Yes can now appreciate all the comforts of civilization"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
Probleum That's Worrying

Consumers of Beer
 TN view of the fact that St. Louis l shares with Milwaukee fame as a beer center, it isn't surprising that the St. Louis Republic has one or two pertinent questions to ask regard ing the governments plan to save thirty-five million bushels of grain a wear by reducing the amount of alco- hol in beer.
 If a bibulous person has to drink twice as much beer containing Z per cent of alcohol to get the same de- gree of stimulation he gets from 4 per cent beer, anyone at all familiar win his habits knows he's going to do it. The result will be double con sumption and no saving of grain, while brewers will be selling half treneth beer at the same old price.
 The consumer will not only be forceed to drink early and late of an inferior brew, in order to satisfy his craving, but his health viii suffer along with his purse.
 'Are we coming to peer cards asks the Republic. Who can say? We who dwell in this part of the country which is now a Sahara to the thirsty no longer feel personal interest 1T the matter.
 Patriotic hotelkeepers who are reduc ing the portions served in their dinini rooms should permit the equally pa tiictic consumer to pay less.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
Pioneer of Annlaecn

T was greatly interested in your An niston supplement yesterday morning, said William M. Lindsay, clerk of the solicitors office.
 T was one of the pioneer citizens of the city. having moved there in August lSSs I was the first one to open store there Besides the commissary of the woodstock Iron company, my furniture store was absolutely the first business of any kind to locate there. Annston was then known as Anne's Town, being named in honor of Miss Anne Tyler. still look back with great pleasure to the days l spent in Annison, and am always glad to hear of anything good for the place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23

King Alfonso is suffering from lame knee. If the average monarch in Flu rope had nothing worse than lame knee to worry about these days, he would consider himself fortunate.
 Paragraphers used to lambast Will liam Jennings Bryan for being unpa- triotic, but that was before LaFollette, Gronna and few other pro-Germans showed what they could do. Montgomery Advertiser and the Tusca- loosa News to toss a few bouquets in Rirmingham's direction. instead of so many brickbats.
 Bibulcus residents on the "bone-dry" states take their lives in their hands when they drink some of the stuff sold for liquor, but they seem to be ut ter,y fearless.
 * *
 A fair reader of these paragraphs says Mary Pickford has given $1o.00O to the Red Cross and bought $1oOOoo worth of liberty bonds. Mary is every inch a bmovie queen.
 Mrs. De Saulles is reported to be talk ing setting-up exercises Another report states that she has an almost imper- ceptble pulse. Must be a discrepancy some where.
 There was much secrecy in the de- portation of the Romanoff family, yet the fact that they were exiled to si- beria Is pretty generally known.
 The food survey will cover first IS of the principal articles of food and we are going to find out at last what is the exact status of the prune British "TommleS' have many quaint thames for the tanks" It would be in teresting to know what they are called by the Teutons. * Don't let foolish pride get the better of you and tell a food investigator that your larder is chock full when it isn't. * * Boston writer says kissing Is a relic of prehistoric times. Maybe so, hu. it's a relic well worth preserving. x 1 Uncle Sam is going to find out wha, you have in your pantry. And it won't be a case of idle curiosity. either * * X Surely the inventors of America are not going to acknowledge that they are baffled by the U-boats? * !. * Germany has failed ignominously in ! ruling subject nations. yet she wants to boss the universe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
NO u-BoATs THEN.

NO U-BOATS THEN. How pleasant it was to cross the At lantic in the old days!'
 What do you call the old days?" "A few years ago, when the only danger a transatlantic traveller ever thought about was the remote possibility of bump ing into an iceberg"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
Who Has Best shows

So may people have asked me about therace for the chairman of the city commission, that I have gotten 8 stereo- typed but noncommittal reply" said Sol Caheen, who loves joke. "Now, when any one asks me, Sol, who do you think has the best show? I just answer, Bar mum and Bailey, and let 1t go at that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
Prosperity of the
 Southern Cities

Mh ERCHANTs of Alabama, now 9VU gathered in Birmingham for their annual convention, always count upon a cordial greeting when they visit this city, and they are never dis appointed. They have been received with open arms this week. They will carry back home with them the kind Hest recollections of Birmingham, and will look forward, it is believed, with keen interest to next years event.
 The Alabama Merchants associa- tion is a very representative body of men. In intelligence, character and public spirit these citizens rank at the forefront. Some of them come from the larger cities of the state, but the majority represent towns of the small CT class. And the town of from 500 | to LULU pOpuldlloH 10 oAW"JS ANA
 oned one of the mainstays of the com l munity.
 | There are only about 15 ineorpor- ated places in Alabama of 5000 or more population, but there are 30 or
 40 to 5000 class; and 75 or more
 of the 1000 class. As. this is year of unusual prosperity in the rural districts" all the towns are growing 1 fast. And certain that it is that the census of 1880 will show large gain in Alabamas urban population. Most Alabama merchants are up- builders and those who live in small towns today will find themselves in the midst of larger population when the next census is taken. With scarce ly an exception Alabama cities are
 prospcring greatly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
Crops Around Livingston

''T went down to my old home at Liv- ingston, recently" said Darby Brown, "and I greatly enjoyed seeing my friends. Yes, went dove hunting, and also got a bit of my old boyhood sport, for squir- rels were plentiful.
 Tn my hunting rounds I got to see the crops and, believe me, the section around Livingston is going to make lot of cot ton and more corn than ever before in the history of the oldest inhabitant."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23

Member of the Associated Press
 The Age-Herald Is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dis patches.
 The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it 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., 1917-08-23
Los Angeles Realty Troubles

T spent about month out at Los Angeles, said Judge A. c. Howze, and while it is big and beautiful cily. It is now going through what Birmingham went through after the boom days.
 Tt is very hard to sell real estate A man with money can buy residence or city property at pickup prices. It seems to be case of real estate promoters over doing it, for they sold city lots too far away from the business center and when the slump came no one could get from under the loads they had assumed to carry, for most of the trades were made on small first payments with long term of years to run.
 It's bound to come some day, but it Is hard on those who can't hold on for bet ter times"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
THE NEXT STEP.

Since Chinas plunged into the fray, To Germany's great sorrow, She should speak up at once and say How much she wants to borrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23

TELEPHONE Bell (pr1vate exchange connecting all departmental Main 40O0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
'.The organ with the organ-man Is sNging in the rain.

And Lloyd George says of Servia in
 her valley of the shadow:
 T believe in the nation which can sing about it's defeats. 'Servia has sung right through the centuries, not of victory. but of defeat that submerged her in the flood of barbarism. Servia always has hoped, and now her day of reckon ing comes. The nation that sings of her defeats is immortal"
 There was bloody victory of the Turks over the Serbs on the plain of Kosscvo in the fourteenth century But
 Serbia still observes "Ilcssovo Day. not as an anniversary of mourning and hu- initiation, but as a festival of faith and hope and courage unshaken Servia's 5 whole militant history is set to music She has been ever "baffled to fight bet ter'' The Tower of Skulls at Nish, erected by the Turks to commemorate another victory in 1869, is a wreath hung shrine of patriotic pilgrimage bu, | not a temple of horror and despair. The soldiers move into battle athrill with | the old ballads of Marko, their hero, and Sharatz. his magic horse. The sot of
 Servia lives in her song.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
HOTEL LOBBIEs
Leeds Plants Are Rnar

We had big time down at Leeds V hen the good roads party stopped by for dinner and speaking" said Dr. H. T. Caffey. Leeds is busy place. The ce- ment plants run night and day and never even stop on Sunday It is a 2-hour proposition seven days in the week and F months in the year."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
Txrants, fears

Tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster with their years.
 -Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
Better Than Ever

T have been taking the paper since 1Ss7," said W. P. Wyatt, "and I do not be- lieve have ever missed seeing a copy since that date. and I think it Is better now than it ever was. You can put me down as an Age-Herald booster"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23

Washington Bureau. POT Hibbs Build ing.
 European bureau. Henrietta street, Covent Garden. London.
 Eastern business office. Rooms AS to 50, inclusive. Tribune Building, New York city; western business office, Tribune Building. Chicago. The s. c. Beckwith Special Agency. agents for fol eign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
THE FOOD PIRATE.

He leads a life of gilded ease,
 Has nothing much to worry him; Can travel where the prospects please,
 For there's no task to hurry him. He's piled his millions up and so
 Cares not for people hating him, Nor recks of hardship and of woe
 He brought on those berating him. He found food piracy would pay
 And prices sent slIyrocketing; While others suffered, day by day,
 Enormous profits pocketing. Doubtless enjoys the sordid gains
 His crafty dealing got for him, But that same mob he now disdains
 May some day make it hot for him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
THE MUsIC-MAKERs

THE MUSIC-MAkERS By Arthur O'Shaughnessy. We are the music-makers,
 And we are the dreamers of dreams Wandering by lone sea breakers,
 And sitting by desolate streams, World losers and world forsakers On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world forever, 1t seems. With wonderful deathless dittes We build up the worlds great cities, And out of fabulous story
 We fashion an empires glory; One man with a dream, at pleasure And three with a new songs measure Can trample an empire down. We, in the ages lying
 In the buried past of the earth. Built Nineveh with our signing,
 And Babel itself with our mirth: And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new worlds worth; For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
A SINGING SERVIA

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Stevenson, the optimist of "A Child Garden of Verses" notes with approval that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
EQUITY

By Cervantes
 Let the tears of the poor man find in thee more compassion, but not more justice, than the pleadings of the rich.
 Try and discover the truth, as well. among the promises and presents of tho rich man as among tie failings and inn portunities of the poor.
 Where equity can and should have place charge not the rigor of the law npon the delinquent. for the fame of the righteous judge stands not greater than that of the merciful
 If nerchance you should bend the. rod of justice, let it not be with the weight of bribe, but with that of mercy,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23
SAFETY FIRST.

sET T. Did you have an experienced guide on your hunting trip?"
 He acted like one" How was that?" "He insisted on walking behind me"
 NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT Automobile tires are high in Mexico, but food is now comparatively cheap" "Umphr' said the pedestrian. T don't see anything alarming in a situation like that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23

sit and look at Jim with amazement for anyone who knows the labor re- quired to dig coal would excuse Jim from making a garden. yet he has one of the best in the county, and does his own work, and proudly boasted that every inch of it had been put in culti- vation, and that he had gotten two crops and was putting In his fall garden. Now it seems this would have satisfied an ordinary mans appetite for work, but he rented a half-acre and put it in sweet potatoes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23

I know something of the school situa- ton in number of mining towns, and I know what some of the larger corpo rations are doing to better the condi tions, and I welcome every improvement made by them, but in the last analysis shoulders of the people themselves is educating not only the pupils but their parents. Jim Prather is bigger and broader man for being on the board than he would be without such respon sibility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23

I said: Mrs. Prather, Jim Is raising a lot of vegetables and fruits are you putting up any this season? She knew I was just leading her on, so she said: Well, not very much, as I am so busy with the children and the work about the house is heavy, but I have put up a little, about 150 jars. ]" Her kitchen closet looks like a grocery store with it's jellies, preserves, tomatoes. beans, corn and other summer garden truck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-23

will we whip the Germans? You bet we will if other families will work and save like the Prathers. It heartened me to see how bravely they were facing life. wish could get a whole lot of tired, ennuied lazy city people to spend day in such a home. It might get through their indoience, and selfishness and shame them into doing something to help win the war.
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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-10-27

r. j. VOORHEES, of the Billeaud
Sugar Factory paid us a welcome
call Saturday afternoon. He says
the Factory will begin operations
the latter part of the week. The
cane crop, he says, is Short will not
run over 9 to 10 tons to the acre,
and owing to uncertainty as to
what action the government will
take, no guess can be made as to
the price the cane will bring. The
Lafayette Advertiser.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-10-27
SCARE.

The sugar planters were given a
big scare Monday when they re-
ceived news from the weather bu-
reau to hurry windrow seed cane
as a big freeze was coming Wed
nesday. Tuesday every planter
was busy with all available hands
putting down seed cane, in the
morning a strong north wind came
upon us that made all believe that
a real cold snap was coming, but
during the day the wind calmed
and the temperature went up, and
Wednesday morning, all were
pleased to see it, there was little ice
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-10-27
Chavez A Lawyer

On October Sth Mr.. T. O. Cha
vez appeared before the State Su-
preme Court for examination and
admission to the legal profession
and successfully passed his exa-
and this week received
his commission. Mr.. Chavez will
not enter the practice of law as
long as he will hold his present
position of superintendent of st.
Martin parish public schools.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-10-27
The Human Body
Hollands Magazine.


Mans Most Sacred Material
Possession is his body. God made
and gave it to him, to be his and
used by him alone. The earth,
the sea. the air, and all that in
them is. God gave him to share
with his fellows - his body is his
own.
The human body is the most
wonderful bit of mechanism ever
made-the most perfect, the most
beautiful Unmarried by disease,
deformity or accident. and develo-
ped by reasonable care and usage,
there is nothing else in the uni
verse SO pleasing to the eye or so
perfectly adapted to every indus
trial or other mechanical use.
The creature and gift of God,
and mechanically perfect and sub
timely beautiful, can the human
body, in any way and OF itself, be
vulgar? And is it something al
ways to be hid--to be tabooed in
art, in literature, and in conversa-
tion =?
What of it's sacredness, its won-
derful functions and uses, its hea-
venly beauty-are our children to
be sanely and lovingly taught of
these things. or are they to be
taught in whispers that the body
is vulgar and the less seen and said
of it the better?
Nothing that is sacred, or per-
feet, or beautiful can be vulgar.
No child is harmed, but he is in
finitely enriched, by being given
all possible knowledge of and by
having inspired in him wondrous
love for all that is sacred, perfect
and beautiful.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-10-27
State Of Ohio. City of Toledo.

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uf Toledo. County and State afol esaid,
and that said firm will pay the sum Of
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every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the Use Ut HALLS CATARRH
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a. ID. 1856. A. W. GLEASON.
(SpaD Notary Public.
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the Mucous Surfaces Of the System.
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