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Evening journal., 1917-10-20
pocket lamp and trIed 10 Are her re-

pocket lamp and tried TO nre her re-
volver at him. II refused TO explode.
Tip-tocing from the room, she went
some distance from the house. learned
the trouble with the weapon, fixed II,
and returned to her fathers room.
She fred Ave shots. only one taking
effect. She then ran downstairs, fol-
lowed by her father. She reloaded the
weapon ard shot again, striking her
father in the temple He died instantly.
Dragging the body into the next
room, Alice made her mother and
brothers comfortable and asked
neighbor 20 send for the sheriff.
Asked how her mother and brothers
felt about the tragedy, Alice replied:
They are not sorry, only for me.
Even my little brother OF 10 rushed
up TO me when my father lay on the
floor and asked gleefully, oh Alice,
did you get a permit 10 do lt9'"
Miss Karlson is only 2i. She declares
she will not have an attorney, as her
brothers have enough financial burdens.
Evening journal., 1917-10-20
IT'S THE STORY OF THE GIRL WHO HATED Her
FATHER SO MUCH SHE KILLED HIM and IS NOT SORRY

KALAMAZOO. Mich, oct. 2O.-"I am
happier now than l have ever been in
my life, because know my mother is
not being cursed and abused ami my
little brothers are not being beaten. l
have peace Of mind for the frst time
since can remember anything"
This Is what Alice Karlson said sbout
the murder Of her father, Werner Karl
son, whom she shot In their dismal
farm home near SCOTS.
Lying on a cot In the county Jail
here, she told Of the cruelty Of her
father, who she claims made her life
and that Of her mother and four broth
ers nightmare.
Il have nothing 10 say in my own
defense" she said. Il don't expect SYM
pathy. I killed my father because
meant TO kin him. expect 10 pay the
penalty. But that will be nothing 10
the misery ! have endured through see
ing my mother suffer years OF abuse
from an inhuman tyrant.
NO matter what anyone says, / know
It was right. II had to be done. Will
take my chances on making Il right
with God
MY father never walked into the
house that he didn't strike one OF us.
never heard him utter a decent word
in all my life. lie never opened the door
that he didn't complain about something
and call us vile names. When he sat
down 10 the table he would grab a dish
OF vegetables In the middle Of the table
and eat right out OF the dish. He was
just like an animal. II sickened me to
watch him.
For years feared him. Then /
stopped being afraid and I Just hated
him. Ard hated him worse and worse
until / knew I had TO kill him."
Five years ago Alice was driven from
home by her father. She obtained en-
ployment at the home OF a prominent
family in Dewitt, III. Recently she
visited her home and found her father
nghtlng with her brother. Paul, aged
%.
Il planned then to kill him." Alice
said. knew Paul would leave home
Evening journal., 1917-10-20
Police Will round
UP The Gun TOTERS
Armed Imported Workmen
Found Outside of H. & H.
Plant Will be Arrested
LABOR TROUBLE
AGAIN DISCUSSED

The Board Of Police Commissioners
and TIE members Of the police COM
n.~'e Of City Council held a con-
ference yesterday afternoon relative
70 The situation at the plant OF the
Harlan and Hollingsworth Corpor-
alton, where. Il has been alleged, A
number of workers have been i'm
ported and that most OF them are
armed. It was TO consider ways and
means of putting a stop to the prac-
uce OF carrying concealed weapons
on the streets Of this city that the
conference was held.
AS a result of the meeting the DO
lice officers on duty at the local ship
yards have been given orders 10 stop
and search every man com ng from
the plant, II there is any reason to
believe that he is armed. This. It
is believed, will break up tho gun
toting practice and avert further
trouble between the strikers and the
imported workers.
The conference was attended By
George T. Lyon, president OF Cis'
Council, During the meeting Mayor
lawson appeared in the room. but
took no part In the discussion.
The police commissioner made u
clear to the Councilmen that they
are doing all in their power, with
the men and money placed a. their
disposal by Council. to carry out the
law and to protect the lives and prop
erty Of all residents. They said the
policemen on duty at the Harlan
plant have been searching men there
who are suspected Of carrying con-
cealed deadly weapons.
The commissioners explained that
hey have commissioned some OF the
men brought here as special officers,
and as such they have a right 10
carry revolver while on the COM
pany's property. They also stated that
any OF these men, even though they
have such a commission, when found
of the property Of the Harlan COM
pany with a revolver OF other deadly
weapon In their possession, will be
arrested and have been arrested and
punished in the CITY Court.
Samuel X. Smith, a member Of the
police board, also an official Of the
Harlan and IiollingswOrth Corpora
ton, said his company had directed
that the strike-br reakers found with
firearms be dismissed, and that all Of
them known 10 be carrying weapons
should be sent back to the places from
which they came lie said the police
board has already revoked the COM
missions Of those men who had them
and who were found of the company's
property with revolvers In their
rockets that the police board has no
authority and never presumed to
have. TO give them any right to carry
n revolver beyond the limits OF the
company's property.
After much discussion the confer
ence resolved itself into an agreement
which seemed 20 be mutual-that tn
police board is doing all II can t.
n~ose~vo ordar about the Harlan com.
yards and elsewhere.
Evening journal., 1917-10-20
COPS WOULDN'T LET MAN
Kill HIMSELF IN Cell

Andrew Kovitch, who was fined $40
and costs in Municipal Court yesterday
morning for being drink, attempted
suicide IN his cell in the police n,ation
while he was being detained prepara-
tory to his removal to the workhouse
m default Of his fine and costs. lie
tried 70 hang himself with his belt,
which he had fastened 10 the cell door
lie had been under surveillance by the
police. however. and he was cut down
hfore he sustained any serious injury.
later he refused 10 walk to the car
which oarrim the prisoners 10 the work.
house. so he was loaded into the patrol,
hauled 10 the car. and then lifted into
It, the same a' a sack Of -four would
have been hauled in.
Evening journal., 1917-10-20

and / had TO be away and couldn't
leave my mother and my three young
ef brothers 0t-his mercy"
Alice told her mother and brothers
OF her plans 90 kill Der father. They
pleaded with her and finally she said
she would return TO Dewitt. She
boarded train. got of at Pavilion.
took another train for Battle Crock,
changed there for Galesburg. which
Drought her within nine miles Of her
home.
Walking along a lonely road, she
reached home about midnight. sh,
entered her fathers room, flashed
Evening journal., 1917-10-20

BE a bondholder in the United
States Government.
Evening journal., 1917-10-20
CAMPH0ROLE Gives
Immediate RELIEF
Opens Up Clogged NoStrils Vanlshes
Cold In Head and Catarrh
Like Magic.

Camphorole soothes and relieves ca
tarrhal deafness. and head noises.
II drives out congestion without ap-
paratus, inhalers, lotions, harmful
drugs, smoke or electricity. Do not
treat your cold lightly; this Is pneu-
monia season. II you have cold IN head.
pain In chest, or sore throat, send 10
nearest drug store and get a Jar OF
Camphorole, and watch how quickly Il
will relieve you.
Physicians recommend Camphorole
for colds and catarrhal affections OF
the nose and throat. bronchitis, croup,
asthma, stlff neck, sore muscles. lum-
bago, stiff joints. headache. frosted feet.
rheumatism, cold In muscles, neurltls,
hay fever. Applied 10 chest 10 viii
check development OF cold and often
prevent pneumonia
AZ 800 "-rcgis'-, 25c and SOC iars.
Evening journal., 1917-10-20
TRINITY LUTHERAN NOTES.

The services at Trinity Lutheran
Church, the Rev. Milton II. Stine, d. d..
pastor. Will consist. OF sermon on
the theme, whom Christ Called a
Fool at n o'clock, and stereoptlcon
views Of ancient and modern Egypt,
the conclusion OF a series Of sermons
on Life and Times Of Joseph" In the
evening at 7.i5 o'clock. All other SER
Vices as usual
Evening journal., 1917-10-20
70 MILLION PEOPLE
USE CASCARETS--WHY?!

going 10 bed and in the morning your
head Is clear. tongue is clean, stomach
sweet, breath right. and cold gone and
you feel grand.
Get a 70 or 25-cent box at any druf
store and enjoy tho incest, gentles,
liver and bowel cleansing YOU ever ex.
perienced Stop sick headaches. billou
spells, Indigestion. furred tongue. OF
fenslve breath and constipation. Moth
ers should give cross. peevish, feverlsh.
bilious children a whole Cascaret any
time.
Evening journal., 1917-10-20
no CHURCH AT NEW cnrncn.

There Will be no services In the
Church OF the New Jerusalem tomor-
row owing 10 the absence Of the pastor
the Rev. G. II. Dole, who Is attending
the Maryland Association In Washing
ton, Ser vices Will be resumed the fol-
lowing Sunday as usual
Evening journal., 1917-10-20
Only True Tonic for Liver
and Bowels Costs
l0CentS a Box.

Cascarets are treatl They livcn your
liver, clean your thirty feet OF bowels
and sweeten your stomach You eat
one or two Cascarets like candy before
Evening journal., 1917-10-20

Be a Partner OF Uncle sam. Buy his
Bonds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-12
Warrior River for Nitarte Plant

M little disappointment to the advocates of Muscle Shoals for the government nitrate plant caused by the nouncement that the nerdparmenta board composed of three cabinet officers recommended the Warrior river the most desirable site Eleven sites given favorable
 on preference being given first to the Warrior river and ond to Muscle Shoals
 While the recommendation is in victory for the public spirited citizens of Alabama who have worked hard to before the the advantages offered by this stae Muscle Shoals believed be the most advantageous oca
 on and capable of producing far greater horse when developed than the Warrior The decision not only prse but not understood at first by Birmingham citizens who have devoted great deal of time and thought to the ect and felt that Muscle Shoals would be chosen
 Government engineers who had the aborous task of inspect 20 proffeed sites throughout the country evidently based their conclusions steam plant which would have the ad vantage of being much less expensive install and could be put into operation in comparatively short time The War ror river se under the proposed plans would be by far the cheapest and the desirable of the II sites recommended the nitrate board maximum of 100000 horse power could be generated with auxiliary steam plant at cost of 79 horse powe compared $6 per horse for Muscle Shoals With three dams built Muscle Shoals would produce approximately 60 horse power would require at least
 five years the necessary improvements and this work would probably call for the expenditure of the entire $OO0O appropriated by Congress- The Warrior location ra lies government coal lands and has to commend it further ideal climatic and labor conditions
 It doubt these considerations which had weight with the governments engineers Economy of installation and the avoidance of construction work vast scae would be required Muscle Shoals pointed the Warrior the og lcal place
 However it isn't likely that the nitrate plant contem- plated by Congress when the necessary legislation enacted will be built any time The board advises that expert in chemical be conducted either New Virginia, the Hoton river, Knoxville, at cost of 00000 These experiments will several years and they successful the project for hydroeecrc plant may be abandoned
 But the public spirited citizens in this part of the country who worked faithfully for the nitrate plant wno give up the fight The situation is somewhat muddled When the matter threshed out the claims of the Warrior well Muscle Shoals, must and will be heard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-12
HOTEL LOBBTEs
What Are ~wittyn reeth .


 When I picked up The Age-Herald Wednesday morning and ran over the story l had written about Ala Axiom the Hindu seer and mindreader" said Dolly Dalrymple, T was amazed to see that I had said that he had the wittiest' teeth I had ever seen. I im- mediately began to rack my brain as to the meaning of witty teeth; have seen pretty teeth and ugly teeth, yellow teeth and white teeth-and there l stopped. My friend, the printer, had decided that he didn't like my description of the whitest' teeth I'd ever seen, so he de- cided to use a different adjective and the result was the 'wttiest It only goes on to prove that you never can tell what the printer and the prooEreader will make you out as saying. My favorite story along that line is about the cub reporter on the big eastern paper who was sent to report a fashionable society event one evening, and seeing his chance to give his best girl fine write-up, saved the description of her costume un- til the very last. He wrote: Miss Dor othy Angelface wore a shimmering pink satin gown and her dainty feet were en- cased in shoes that looked like fairy boots.' Imagine his consternation when he read the next morning that Miss Dorothy Angelface wore shimmering pink gown and her dirty feet were en- caised in shoes that looked like ferry boatsl' Almost as bad as the 'wittiest' teeth-isn't it?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-12
LIKE M,LUKE SAYS

If some of us were not second fiddlers there would be no harmony in this world. Our idea of a mannish woman would be one who carried matches in her pocket.
 Even the man who peddles gold bricks Will assert that the world owes him a living.
 When a woman has credit at a store she will buy things that she wouldnt t think of purchasing if she had to pay cash for them.
 This would be busier world if men thought as much about earning their sal aries as they do of getting them
 You can't convince an old timer that anything modern is as good as the things of long ago. He will even argue that the moon doesn't shine as brightly as it did in the old days.
 A man can always see pretty decent kind of a fellow when he looks into a mirror.
 A bachelor may be able to find what he is looking for just where he left it. But it is different with married man.
 If people could see themselves as others see them whole lot of photographers would starve to death.
 The female elephant doesn't require a larger trunk than the male. But 1t is different with the female of the human species
 Away down in her heart every married woman knows that if she let her husband have his own way he would go and make fool of himself.
 A mans idea of fool law is the one he is most anxious to violate
 It is remarkable how big a woman's 8 waist can get when she begins to lose interest in her personal appearance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-12
THE TOY SHOP OF ARRAs

w. G. Shepherd, in Harper's Magazine
 for July.
 The merchant in the town which Is be- set by war has a very definite last mo- ment of peace There comes a time when he has made his last sale, when his cus- toners flee, and when, even were he to remain, he would find little benefit in do-- ing so Into the toy-shop. into the sweet shops the children will come no more for their little feet are struggling miles away over these uncomfortably rounded cobblestones that seem to them like slippery little mountains over which they must make giant strides He might as quickly as possible; put up the shutters, lock the doors, and depart. And little good his shutters and locks will do if the big shells come his way. The toy shop keeper at Arras, who returned to his shop when the shelling had slackened, found it open to the skies, so that he had no need to seek for his door key. Who would ever have thought-least of all he that he would one day sell out almost his entire stock, despite the shelling that had ruined his place? And yet his toy shop, after he returned. became the vogue among British officers who came to Arras. It was their kindly joke, and it pleased their sense of gentle humor, to go to the ruins where the old man held forth and purchase toys which he selected from among the debris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-12
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THOMAS HARDY IS -
n the London Glob,

From the London Globe.
 Thomas Hardy completed his seventy seventh year recently While his pictures of English peasant life are unsurpassa- ble, his outlook on life Is curiously un- English. The full blooded geniality which marks such men as Fielding, Thackeray. and Dickens is absent from his acid phi losophy, and his humor is sngularly sap less. In his sense of the futi.ity which attends mans effort to fight against Fate, he is purely Greek.
 MT. Hardy began his literary career with verse. and took to novel writing later His first fiction, Desperate Reme- dies appeared as serial in an old established magazine, and was publishe in book form as long ago as 1871. Far From the Madding Crowd and Under the Greenwood Tree gave MT. Hardy his position as the novelist of the countryside and peasant life; and Tess of the D'Ur- bervilles" revealed him as great tragic writer. But to very many people The Trumpet Major will remain their favor ite Hardy book.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-12
THE NEW SOUTH

From Leslie's. Full fifty years ago-and yet 2. It seems but yesterday At Appomattox face to face
 They stood the blue and gray. Beneath the apple trees that bloomed Above them pink and white, They furled the flags, and sheathed the
 swords
 Still crimson from the fight Since then the south from spring to
 spring
 Has built it's homes anew, Replanted all the fields that once
 Were bright with ruddy dew. Above the rusty cannon spread
 The cottons snowy fleece, And cultivated everywhere
 The kindly arts of peace. Her sons have scaled the starry heights To sit at Flames right hand; They help to steer the ship of state, They counsel and command. The victories of peace that crown
 The resurrected South Outshine her ancient glory won
 Before the cannon's mouth. New patriotism like thread
 Of living scarlet runs From Maine to Georgia, binding dose The nations bravest sons, New labor speeds the flying loonfa And grinds the golden meal, New pride in civic honor drives
 The hammer and the wheel. From Mississippis mighty flood
 To far Penobscot's flow. From Mami's magnolia bowers
 To Dawsons drifted snow, Prom Ormond's beach of silver sand To Shasta's highest crag Srtx. rfftr -w = -~.,+r --1 -->~ sF' 'A-f- sss N
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-12
AUX IE1WAILIIDES

, British defeat that ended in the trium-
 phant establishment of the American re- public"
 But to behold the most inspiring sight
 of all, to feel it, we must cross the chan nel; we must press foot upon the soil of
 the Celt and the Frank, the Norman and
 the Breton; passing through thy corn fields green and meadows fair. o, sunny land of France" we must tread the as- phalt Of Paris, not as
 ''The pretty minx who vainly thinks that nothing can improve her, Unless she sees the Tuilleries and trips along the Louvre,
 taking by a single bound the distance between the Fifth avenue and the Rue de la Paix, but as the Paladins of old, who rode with Roland at Roncesvaux, the gay notes of Malbroock in their ears; in point of fact, as,these boys of ours, mak- ing their tour de gloire, finger about the Arch of Stars and while a moment by the tomb of Napoleon.
 Be sure the soul of the troubadour is not dead yet, nor dying. There is balm in Gilead, corn in Egypt chivalry in
 France. Within the golden bowl they said was broken, at the fountain flows still the wine, milk and honey of a peo- pie and a land which, though bled white" knows what sacrifice and daring are, and in hut of chateau has for the stranger hospitality. wherever he wan ders through the regions of the Loire and the Garonne as Sterne puts it, "a gener- ous flagon, grace after meat and dance on the green, under the approving can opy of heaven
 What wonder that their welcome is unrestrained and resonant? We have 1 come to have them. Nor did we come an hour too soon. Though but battalion, it is the earnest of an army. Presently the army will take it's place at the front smiting the Kaiser hosts as Saul smote the Philistines, shouting the battle cry of freedom and flying battle flag, which, wherever it goes, shall flash death and damnation to the Hohenzollern and the Hapsburg.
 Aux InvaIides. That is the way the
 ParisIans phrase it. A great old pile
 situate in the Field of Mars and dedicated
 to the God of War. Fools, traitors and
 Kaiser spies may cry peace" But there
 is no peace, nor shall there be, until
 lads at his heels, having fingered mo-
 ment by the tomb of Napoleon, swoops
 across the Rhine to the heart of the
 Kaiserland thence to pitch their tents
 under the walls of the Schloss in Berlin
 in the very courtyard-if need be, to
 hang Bill Hohenzollern on sour apple
 tree. or any old shrub that may chance
 about and come handy! It Is war, not
 peace. It is war--let no man suffer It 10
 escape his memoory-war that means
 fighting, and fighting that means kill
 ing and damnd be he that first cries,
 "Hold--enough!''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-12
Henry Watterson in the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 -"Bronze cannon roared; France with redoubled might Felt her heart swell

ANARCHISTS and poets may write, IN and orators declaim, but it will be = a long time before the world gives up the soldier as it's hero. It will never accept the civilian. "The Capting with his whiskers took a sly glance at me-" and the poor costermonger had to slink away outshown and inglorious; for,
 there's no resisting the buttons" as the
 song says, and tis-"the girl l left be- hind me-" that starts the dreams and sets the pace of romance.
 The rockets red glare and bombs burst ing in air,
 Gave proof through the night that our
 flag was still there
 Hurrah There is a thrill in every line. Yea, in every word. Three-times-three- and-a-tiger for the Star Spangled Ban ner," and then three-times- -three-and-a- and Blue-of France!
 The Champ de Mars stretches south ward over the river from the Champ Elysees. And across the southern bor- der of the Champ de Mars stands the Hopital des Invalides. And, within the Hopital des Invalides beneath a golden
 dome is the Tomb of Napoleon There he l rests forever on the banks of the Seine. the choir chanting:
 He sleeps his last sleep-he has fought his last battle
 No sound can awake him to glory again. v Not even the lusty cheering of those l lads in khaki come at last to pay the debt we owe the French people; whom he loved so we'll" the, generous and brave French people, who can never for get the glory of Austerlitz and Marengo. | nor yet the tragedy of St. Helena. We may as well come to it early as late; if strife be not the natural state of man, it is for the time the dominating note of the universe.
 These two decades we have had the ditties of peace dinned into us by a po- tentially organized and richly endowed propaganda. The argument was unan- swerable-the refrain resistless Lo, but the overture to the most momentous war the world in arms-not merely democ racy fighting for it's life. but civilization --all the ancient enmities buried that the right divine of the people may res cue liberty from the claim Satanic of Kings and Kaisers Waterloo is no longer bitterly remembered The Thames flows into the Seine. Yorktown?-New Orleans?-the Stars and Stripes are fly ing over St. Pauls cathedral and the houses of Parliament. London blazes with Yankee bunting. T do not grudge the glories of Washington and his sol- diers," says Balfour. T have no tears for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-12
NO ORDINARY HOBO.

From the Kansas City Times.
 hobo extraordinary visited Moberly the other day and looked so pitifully poor the police judge was inclined to be lenient when the traveller was arraigned on a minor charge, Two dollars and costs was the fine assessed when guilt was proved and a stay in the holdover loomed large, apparently, until the visi- tor produced his box of smoking tobacco, empted it of the weed, drawing from the bottom of the box substantial roll of hills. Got any change judse?" asked the hobo as he sorted out $2o bill ten- dering it in payment. You see. 1 ain't an ordinary hobo"