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Middletown transcript., 1917-04-14
Call a Veterinarian.

When anything is wrong with one
ct the horses, send for a man who
knows horses. Don't trust the judg-
ment Of Tom, Dick and Harry. Horses
Are too valuable for that.
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Possibly.

Said he: "Why do women, as rule,
talk more than men dO?"
She said: "Oh, l supp se it's be-
cause they have the n to tak
about"
Middletown transcript., 1917-04-14

Good health depends upon good diges'
ton. Safeguard your digestion and you
safeguard your health. Wright's Indian
Vegetable Pills provide the safeguard. ~
medicine as well as purgative. Adv.
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DRUGGISTS IN EVERY STATE RELY ON
THIS KIDNEY MEDICINE

One of the best preparations on the mar
ket is DR.. Kilmer's, Swamp Root; it has
ment of kidney, liver and bladder trou-
bles and its excellent reputation makes
it's value in such conditions well known:
About thirty years ago we began to sell
it and we have never received a single
complaint. Very truly yours,
A. G. CORBETT DRUG co.
Nov. 6. 1916. Clarion, Pa.
Middletown transcript., 1917-04-14

Wichita, Kan, has adopted city
manager form of government.
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If your eyes smart or feel scalded. Ko-
man Eye Balsam applied upon going to bed
10 Just the thing to relieve them. Adv.
Middletown transcript., 1917-04-14
Secure Clean Milk.

Clean milk can be had only by clean
methods III r,ilking. This requires
milking with dry, clean hands.
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Tobacco Kills Plant Lice.
Be on the lookout for green aphis
or plant louise on early cabbage plants.
Fumigation with tobacco stems or
spraying with nicotine preparations
will destroy this pest.
Middletown transcript., 1917-04-14
Air Is Overlooked,

How many farmers know that air Is
as necessary to the soil as water?
Middletown transcript., 1917-04-14
Fostering Agriculture.

Comparatively few persons realize
the Importance of fostering agriculture.
Middletown transcript., 1917-04-14
No Wonder,

"What did your husband think of
that twenty-dollar hat you bought?"
"Oh, he just raved over it."
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Don't Kill Aeifer Calves.

It never pays to kill the heifer calves
from the best cows. Raise them to
replace the coor cows.
Middletown transcript., 1917-04-14

N. sample bottle
booklet valuable information
writing mention this
Middletown transcript., 1917-04-14
Calf Weaner.

prevents side sucking. Since the de.
vice is suspended freely from the nos.
trils, grazing is not interfered with.
Middletown transcript., 1917-04-14

New York's 1916 death rate, 1899
in each 1000, is the lowest in Is years.
Middletown transcript., 1917-04-14
An Equivalent,


"What is the English equivalent Of
'raconteur?'"
Bore"
Middletown transcript., 1917-04-14

Australians tan ostrich skins.
Middletown transcript., 1917-04-14

About a quarter of q century ago We
gave our first order for DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp Root and since that time its
merit has sold it. Cases of stone in blad-
der, catarrh and liver troubles have been
very valuably benefited from it's curative
action, and we firmly believe that Swamp
Root will do all that is claimed for it.
Very truly yours,
w. D. CHANDLER & CO.,
Druggists.
Nov. II, 1916. Mount Joy, Pa.
Middletown transcript., 1917-04-14

have 6 specific effect on these organs
stimulating the bowels, gives natural actions
and imparts viaor to the whole sytsem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-05
Lookouts Ready 10 Depart
 For Orange TrQi7ing Camp

Chattanooga, March 4.-With his en- tire 1917 roster olready within the fold with the exception of Howard Merritt and Herbert Rock, the first named too well known to Southern league fans to require introduction and the latter the mainstay of the pitching staff of the Fargo, S. D., club last season, Kid Elberfeld Is now ready to begin the trek to Orange. the populous Texas town in which the Lookouts will attain condition for the coming campaign. The date of departure Is set for Sunday or Monday.
 Perusal of Elberfeld's 1917 roster in dicates that he is already well "heeled' short Exclusive of the two pitching hold-o outs and Revington Bisland, who has announced that he will not report until the middle of May. if at all, and who will be suspended before the sea- son opens, the Tabasco One now has at his disposal IS athletes from which to select his defenders for the first line trench. This roster is made up as fol lows:
 Pitchers: Marshall, Bacon, Knowlson Allen and Fluker.
 Catchers: Kitchens, Peterms, Dowie and Koehler.
 Infielders: Hyatt, Pitler, Graff, Fiber field, Watt and Montague.
 Outfielders: Allison, Harris and Bow den.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-05
BASEBALL OUTLOOK FOR ALABAMA BEST
 IN SEVERAL YEARS
Prospects Indicate Coach Lonnie Nooiin Will Put Out Team of Cham
 pionships Calibre

University, March 4--(Speclal. )-Taking advantage of the balmy springs days which have graced the Crimson campus during the past fortnight, Coach Lonnle Noojin is holding daily workouts with the most delectable looking assortment or baseball material that has been seen at the university for the past six years
 Assisting Noojin, and incidentally get ting himself into shape for the coming big league setto is Derrill Pratt, star second sacker of the St. Louis Browns, and former captain and third baseman of Alabama And next in importance comes Turkey Bowman Alabama's lsl' captain, an all-southern man for two sea- sons, and the property of the St. Lotus Cards. And there is also Charlie Cargile' last years captain, another all-southern man. and the property of the Cleveland Indians.
 In addition to Cargile and Bowman Noojin has on hand the following veter- ans: "Skeet' Hamilton, who is playing his third and last season; Graves, on the initial corner: Jap" Wilson, Shortstop oI last season; Graves, Styles, catchers' Boone, outfielder; Thompkins and Wlkle' pitchers.
 Of the new material which is showing up to a distinct advantage are Sessions Pratt. Snowden, Sewell, Dillard and ln- gram All of these youngsters are ca rcrinG around like finished college play CTS, and in handling them Coach Noolln will be relieved of the necessity ot ln- stll;ng the rudiments of the game into them. Other new men are showing gooo form, but the above mentioned stand out prominently as varsity candidates.
 The injury to Red" Brown last week was a hard blow, the red-headed Blr- ningham boy being generally considered as a strong candidate for an inflelo po- sition.
 However, the loss of Brown will nor be felt SO seriously as it might on former occasions owing to the fact that Noo3in has on hand such wealth of materiai with which to deal.
 The Crimson schedule, while not ngn.' is not of the gruelling nature which marked last years season, consisting or only IS games, all of which will be played on the campus But what is lacking In variety will more than likely, be maoe I'D for in Crimson successes, for unless fhe unforeseen shatters the present glow ing prospects Lonnie Noojin is going 10 put out one of the most consistent win ners that has represented Alabama m seys ral seasons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-05
Birmingham Designated As
 Tennis Center by Nation dl Association; Plans Made
Numerous Junior and Senior Tourney Will Be Given During Coming Season-Plans Formulated to Place Tennis
 on Higher Scale-Reguations Are Strict

The winner of a preliminary tournament shall be eligible to compete in any one
 district tennis center) championship tour
 nament.
 A boy winning both junior or inter scholastic and a boys preliminary tour nament may compete in a district cham pionship in either class but in one only. There shall be no limit as to the num- Der of preliminary tournaments a player
 may enter.
 In case the winner of a tournament is
 unable to compete in the event to which | he thus becomes eligible, the management of such tournament may nominate an- other participant.
 Winners of district (tennis center)
 championships shall be eligible to compete | in their respective classes for the na- tional junior or national boys champion ship, in tournaments to be held at the same time and place as the national sin gles championship. The following cities have been desig- mated as tennis centers: New England Portland, Me-, Boston, Providence, Hartford. Middle states: New York, Utica, Buff falo, Pittsburg, Philadelphia. Middle Atlantic: Baltimore, Washing ton, Charleston, w. Va, Richmond. Southern: Knoxville, Memphis, Birming- ham, Atlanta, New Orleans, Greenville, S. C., Charlotte, N. C., Ashville, N. C.. Chattanooga and Nashville. l Tri-State: Cleveland. Indianapolis, Cin- cinnat Louisville. Milwaukee, Grand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-05
B'SCHALLENGE . FOR SERIES IS NOT
 ACCEPTED BY "
Manager Estes Says Y. M. c. A. Has Title Without Playing the Club For
 Decision

Manager Claude Estes of the Central Y. M. C. A. announced yesterday tha' the challenge of the Birmingham Attn letic club for series of games tc determine the winner of the state championship would not be accepted Manager Estes stated that he reached the above conclusion after the " defeated the University of Alabans quintet Saturday night by the margin of one point.
 It was practically sure Saturday night that the series would not DC played. "Y' authorities made it known that they had no intention of playing the series provided they scored vic tory over the Alabama quintet. They won by the smallest margin possible
 The fact that the series will not be played leaves the state title dead locked. Each team could claim the championship and no positive proof could be introduced to show that the opposite team was the champion.
 The "Y'' probably has the best scores in games which both teams have participated but the challenge should not have been declined even though Manager Estes does think his association has clean slate in com parison to the club It would have been a series of games well worth watching
 The clubs team was disorganized and the "Y" would have probably won by a decisive score It will prob ably be the last time in number of years the "Y" will have the opportun- ity to play the club and at the same time have the strong quintet. The ~ which has never defeated the club, passed golden opportunity when the recent challenge was re- fused.
 The local basketball season is now completed with the exception of few games to be played by the Central High.
 Manager Estes letter to Manager Enneking of the club, is as follows: MT. w. l.. Enneking, Manager of Das-
 ketball, Birmingham Athletic club,
 Birmingham Ala:
 Dear Sir: Your favor of the 1st. inst. in which you question the rights of the Birmingham Y. M c. A. in their claims for series of games received.
 We wish to advise that we base our claims to the "state championship" upon having met and defeated the team of the University of Alabama twice; {; whereas the only one of these state teams you have played, the University or Alabama. defeated you by the de- cisive score of 26 to 5, in Tuscaloosa.
 Therefore. while we appreciate your offer of games. and are mindful of the strength of your teams of past years. we cannot see, in view of the above, where it is at all necessary for us to play you this season in order that the "State Championship" may be decided. We feel there can be abso- lutely no doubt as to the real cham pions.
 We shall be unable to arrange a se- rles Tor the further reason that our basketball season is now closed, and other athletic work Is being taken up by the association.
 Thanking you for your letter, we peg to remain. Very Truly Yours,
 CLAUDE H. ESTES, March 4. 1917.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-05

The statement that the roster indi-
 cates that Elberfeld Is we'll "heeled''
 for the 1917 campaign should be quail
 fled in one particular-the outfe1d is
 up to Class A standard only numerical
 ly. Tim Boden, well known Dixie col. legian and Sally leaguer, and Allison
 and Harris, fresh from the bushes, do not comprise a garden trio hich will
 successfully weather the storm in Southern league company. The Harris
 mentioned is brother of Joe Harris
 Elberfelds slugging first sacker of last season ho has departed for Cleveland via the draft route, and if the young ster can perform 75 per cent as we'll, he will stick without any trouble. The Kid is not banking upon him absolutely, however.
 The pitching, receiving and infield departments except at short, are we'll up to Class A standard. Marshall, Bacon, Knowlson and Allen appear to supply four pitching regulars while from Kitchens, Peters, Koehler and Dowie a wonderful two-ply receiving staff can be plucked. Graf at third, Pitler at second and Hyatt at first form an in- field trio that would be satisfactory to any pilot in the league.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-05
Starr Pleased With Outlook |Of TrdDelers; Says Pitching
 StdH Is Best In The League
Traveller Boss Likes Machine President Allen Has Arranged for Coming Campaign Fourteen Men Forwarded Trans
 portaton-Training to Start Soon

Little, Rock, March 4-Charlie Starr's in town
 The boss of the Travellers missed out
 on a show of preseason enthusiasm that
 was to have been let loose at the Iron Mountain station this morning, when he slipped into Little Rock unannounced and
 unexpected early last night Some of
 those preseason enthusiasts who stir from the hay early this morning just in time to get to the station to see the Hot Springs Special pull in, having been too late in getting up to take a peep at the Gazette, will have to be content with doing their welcome stunt before Presi- dent R. G. Allen when he jumps from the train that was to have brought the man. ager too -s Gee, didn't know you were that anx- ious to see me- said the Traveller boss last night when informed that he had upset the plans of the reception con- mittee.
 MAIN STREET WITH A WINNER Well, they're going to have more chance to see me this season than last, '' said Starr. You know last year I stuck pretty close to the back streets, but this summer I hope to be able to take Main street more often It looks like President Allen has lined up a mighty good bal team this winter and, take it from me I'm going to try to get baseball out ot those boys this summer. I'm going te work just a little harder than ever be- fore for a winner"
 Starr is especially well pleased with the pitching staff as it appears He fig. l ures that it is just as good now as was the staff with which he took the clut into the first division late last season He counts on Robinson, Ledbetter anG Tincup as certainties, with Hardgrove as mighty good bet. Knight is Charles own find and he looks for the Mississippi youngster to put up a mighty good race for fifth place.
 We've got pitchers this season." saii Charlie. That's where we were weak
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-05
Our Coal Resources

Prom saThe Coal Problem Emphasized
 bv George H. Cushing, in the American
 Review of Reviews.
 It is not generally known, but 1t IS none the less true that coal is our most abund- ant natural resource. Our supply Will outlive even the natural fertility or the soil. q distinguish here between nat ural fertility and a fertilized soil) Our forests even now are vanishing. Our iron ore is approaching the exhaustion point We have gone through the rich lenses and are beginning on the complex ores in the precious metal mines. But in coal we have. since 1s4o, worked out only one fourth of one per cent. That part or coal which is gone is nothing when com pared with that which remains. That is this is true if you assume that all our coal reserve, regardless of where 1t lies, can be made available by some scheme of transportation to all the people, no matter where they live.
 The United States geological survey has measured our reserve at something like 41SS, ,O00, coo tons in the United States and Alaska. This figure, of course, conveys no impression to anyone except of his inability to conceive of it. To speak of even thousand million of anything is to get beyond human com
 
 thousand million is merely to multiply an inconceivable numeral by 4000 Per haps it Is more nearly understandable to say that more than 45 per cent of all the coal upon which the world must depend forever--so far as is known now-is piled up in the United States and Alaska.
 To bring these titantic figures to plane where we can begin to comprehend them, divide our territory in two coal zones one east of and the other including and west of the Rocky mountains. The area principally under development is the east ern one and contains about half of this coal reserve. This, we will say, contains 2,O0o 900. 900 tons. From this area we produced in 1916 about 900 tons of coal If production should be held stead fly at that point in future it would take 1925 years to exhaust our eastern de- posit alone, if we should get all the coal, or 2000 years If we should continue to reclaim but 50 per cent of it. And when that was gone we would still have m equal amount in and west of the Rockies.
 Therein lies the coal mine owners prob- lem. All of that coal is potentially avail able for production within a few months With new and vigorous competition like. ly to spring from the ground anywhere at any time how is he ever to proceed In a business sense with any assurance?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-05
-----s6s---------------- Curing a Dread Disease

Burton J.. Hendrick, in Harpet,s Mara-
 zine
 One of the most desperate of human HIS IS diabetes. Like pneumonia. diabetes IS apparently increasing Science has long regarded it as a progressive degen- erative disease. The most significant aspect of the work of the Rockefeller hospital is the demonstration that this IS not necessarily the case Patients from all over the United States are now re- sorting to this hospital for treatment The first lesson they learn-and only the harassed diabetic can faintly appreciate the sudden influx of courage which it inspires-is that their chances for; con tlnued life and comparative health 0e- pend almost exclusively upon themselves.
 Diabetes is caused by a weak pam creas' precisely as dyspepsia is caused by weak stomach" This weakened pancreas cannot perform it's norman task hence the appearance of unassimilated sugar, and in the later stages, of acid The problem is to discover how much sugar this weakened pancreas can suc- cessfully cope with-to determine each dlabetic's sugar tolerance'' If a patient when this is once ascertained, conscien- tiously limits himself to the prescribed diet his disorder will not increase, Sd long as his machinery does the work which it is capable of doing and no more lire becomes a reasonably ordered pro- cess Once inflict the pancreas with more labor than it can stand, however, and trouble starts again But the dyspeptit has one great advantage over the diabetio- The stomach immediately mani. fests it's displeasure at i'll treatment-as most dyspeptics know. It sets up pains that call a temporary halt. But tho overworked pancreas suffers in silence. II does not instantaneously warn its DOS
 sessor to stop eating the things that signify destruction. Only in the reap
 pearance of sugar and acid, and then o1 coma, does it voice it's protest. Trans. lated into practical terms, this means that the diabetic must exercise ever
 greater force character than the dys peptic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-05

| last spring. With a list of good men
 like this to draw from we should enter
 one of the best pitching staffs in the
 league~
 Charlie looks to Dee Walsh to go great
 at third base, if he IS to be played there.
 Starr and Walsh were team mates on the
 Mobile club several seasons ago and
 Charlie says the club isn't taking the
 slightest chance on Dee. The St. Louis
 skating master was sigred up yesterday
 by President Allen, who went up to St
 Louis Tuesday night.
 Allen and Starr are looking for short fielder but Charlie isn't much worried because that position still is vacant. He Manning at third, and the combination ought to be good one. Starr would have welcomed the return of Walter Barba as hefgures that Walter and "BuZzy Wares were about the class of the league last season in the matter of executing
 double plays. Still he believes that Presi- dent Allen will get another shortstoppel who will learn the combination and helr Buggy on these two-timc outs. HAD BAD WINTER Starr said that he is feeling fine, and he looked it. He had hard winter, but is entirely recovered. Starr brought the
 word that he is absolutely through as a farmer having come to that decision
 early last fall when pair of country nags hitched to wagon upon which Charlie aimed to drop from one of those
 much elevated western hay stacks failed
 to stay put and walked off a minute be- fore the Traveller boss dropped from the stack. With the wagon gone, he took 2 bad spill. and resolved right there that | farming is not proper winter pastime fol ball player. Soon after he was taker | ill with fever and he was forced to dc l time in a hospital. But I'm all right now, and hereafter I stay in town.''
 Starr is ready to begin work right away and he plans to start the training next Monday, when the battery men are du, in. Fourteen have been forwarded trans portation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-05

The United States bureau of fisheries, in the course of it's work of introducing the grayfish as food, learned that a canning concern on Puget sound was put ting up 10000 cases (490.000 cans) of gray fish of it's own notion and at it's own risk and expense. using the plant and machin- cry devoted to canning salmon during the regular season. The canners have found that the mechanical apparatus of the sal mon equipment. which reduces hand labor to a minimum. is applicable to the cam ming of grayfish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-05

The Imperial Academy of Sciences of Petrograd is planning to establish bio- logical station on the shore of Lake Bai- kal This lake, which in places is more than a mile deep, has a remarkable fauna, some of it's fishes not being found anywhere else in the world Some of the species are very ancient, and are SUD- posed to be vestiges of the subtropical fauna which existed in Siberia in the up- per tertiary period.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-05
Too Scientific

From the NeW YOrk Times.
 The city-bred boys parents had just moved into the country and arrangements were being made for him to attend the public school. One day he saw elec- tricians at work there.
 What are those fellows doing?" he asked his father.
 Putting in an electric switch," was the reply.
 .'Well. am going back to town at orce," was the boys astonishing com ment T won't stand school where they do their licking by electricity.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-05
Manufactured

From the Michigan Gargoyle.
 Did you hear how Bill queered him. self last night?"
 s'No, what was it about?" ~ "Well, he was over at his girls house and he was talking to her father when it happened. You know Bill is a little ab- sent-minded at times and that caused the trouble. The old gentleman said to Bill, Are you N yet?'
 And Bill
 '"rhe darn fool blurted out, Yes; I'll take a little bourbon ]"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-05

The first opera ever performed in pub lie and incidentally the earliest whose complete manuscripts have been pre- served. is "Eurydice," founded on the story of Orpheus and Eurydice and writ ten at the end of the sixteenth century The text was Octavio Rinucinni's and the music the combined work of Jacopo Peri and Giulo Caccini.