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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23

herself after defying the police for an hour. was still in a hospital tonight. but was growing stronger and physicians declared she would live to be prosecuted.
 Dr. A. P. Lusk, father of the accused slayer, visited her in the hospital this afternoon. It was short meeting and both were weeping
 Dr. Lusk asked: You poor girl, why did you do it?"
 If you only knew, father, the life I have lived. It was terrible, and know God will forgive me- she replied.
 A letter that Miss Lusk dictated to Dr. R. E. Davis while she held him and others at bay at the foot of the stairway in the Mills home was made public to- day.
 It was addressed to Miss Winifred Frye, 26 East Arrillago street. Santa Bar bara, Cal, and reads;
 He loved me dearly, but it all came
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23

Buehler's prices keep Buehler crowded. Saturday is a great day at this upper Second avenue establishment. It made this part of town famous with cut prices when the meat market was opened sev- eral years ago, and has held it's prestage ever since by good treatment. Harry Rich, the young manager. seems to enjoy marking down prices so his neigh boring competitors will worry. And he has the goods in stock to back up any low prices he advertises on this page If you doubt it, buy your rest-day supplies there today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23

his place up to the dictionary meaning of the word sanitary. He evidently has suc- ceeded, Judging from the large patronage he enjoys each week. His place is painted white, and the inside appearance cannot but tempt the Saturday traders to step in as the big-hearted Harry proclaims now and then, Let us prepare your Sunday dinner.' And he means its Let him pre- pare yours today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23

out just as you said it would. I want all my bills paid and expenses incurred in danages to the house taken care of.
 0"Nad hin just before Mrs. Rob erts came here He said that he had t..u Aer that he loved me. When Mrs. Roberts arrived she told me he said l was ehaffing me
 "The night before I was on my way to the Roberts home and he headed me off and brought me back home through the park
 He then told me over and over he loved me and cared for me only"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23

Their first advertisement on this page last Saturday morning, started them right, so they have come back" this morning, and the prices they offer are right also. refer to the Rite Stores. Get acqaaint- ed with these stores. It means money in your pocket. Your money will last long CT if you buy your groceries from the Rite Stores" says the ad writer. And he evidently knows his business, or he would not be buying space on this Market Page each week. It evidently pays to adver- tise with the Rite Stores. Get in touch with this new firm. It is growing. and it takes cheap prices to build up any busi- ness during these strenuous times Get the Rite habit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23
Kansas City Wins 1918
 ROtarian Convention

Atlanta, June 22-Kansas City won the 1918 convention of the International As- sociation of Rotary Clubs. The decision was made late today by the board of directors of the association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23

The readers of this Market Page all read about Hans and Fritz every Sun day in the comic supplement Well, the Catanzano Bros. are as full of good cheer and business as the above-named kids are seem to enjoy life just about as much as Hans and Fritz It is pleasure for these boys to sell you tirst-cIass stuff. And they have it. too. If you want deli cacies and can't find them any other place
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23
BRAZIL FORMALLY NOTIFIES AMERICA
 OF STAND TAKEN

Washington, June 22.-Diplomatic ex- changes by which Brazil notified the Uni ted States of the revocation of her decree of neutrality and the United States ac- knowledged Brazils action in the interest of Pan-American solidarity, were estab- lished today by the state department.
 Ambassador Da Cana explained that he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23
God Will Forgive Me-
 Says School Teacher
 Held on Murder Charge

Waukesha, Wis, June 22-Miss Grace Lusk high school teacher who shot and killed Mrs. David Roberts, wife of former state veterinarian, and then shot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23

James A. Norriss, the man with a mack for doing things. is telling the women readers of this Saturday Market Page this morning what he is doing to cut the cost of living. He's doing his bit in this his stuff direct, and gives the public the benefit of the middleman's profit. When new fruit or vegetable is about due. it's 10 to that my friend Norris has it first on his stand. That's why he has the Saturday crowd with him. If it's fish, vegetables or fruit you are after this morning, try a trade with him on my say so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23

Sanitary! This word speaks volume dur ing the summer weather. It means much. to the buyers of Sunday dinners. This is why the Sanitary Market chose it for a business name. The readers of this page readily see t'::--s in order to draw and hold business Harry Norriss must keep
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23

also set new high marks, however, in- .creasing in similar period from S653, ,oo0 to $S79, ,693HlD.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23
ty, is highly appreciated by the United States"

San Jose. Costa Rica, June 22.-Repiying to the Brazilian note announcing revoca- tion of the decree of neutrality in the war between the United States and Ger many. Costa Rica gives assurances that its attitude conforms with that of Brazil. particularly in respect of tue policy of
 an solidarity. the defense of small nations, vindication of international law and true interpretation of the Mon roe doctrine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23
To Ship Horses and Mules
 From Newport News

Washington. June 22-Army orders today show that an embarkation estab- lishment for the shipment of army horses and mules to Europe probably will be established at Newport News. Captain John s. Fair, quartermaster corps. has been ordered to that point ito confer with the board officers on the selection of a site for embarka- tion depot for shipment of animals oversea."
 It is said that the Tyrian purple of old may have been a deep crim- son
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23

That little store around the corner'' is with us again-the Pure Food Grocery Co. It's small in size but large in the vertising and honest methods has built this business up to where the entire stock is turned over every week, and Saturday finds everything fresh and in- viting, And the prices offered here is keeping some of the larger competitors busy trying to meet them, Take it from me. this place will save you money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23

Mackin Bros. are after the ladies They want to sell them all the accessories that go to make canning easy. They tell the goods will be high next winter, and that they had better go around and let them help solve the canning problem. They also want to fill orders for first-class meats and fancy groceries. had a talk with one of the brothers recently. and their way of building up and holding trade for the past 25 years was an interesting story store building. Here's hoping they will always be as happy as the day l visited the store.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23

call up Catanzano Bros and tell them to send it around They have it. Look at the good things they offer in today's ad.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26
Summer Reading
Russian performance.

Are we not getting away from the old
psychological fallacy that book to be
suitable for summer reading should be @
sort Of literary ice cream soda? Any one
who has followed the publishers notices
during this summer of 1917 must have de-
tected slight variation from the usual
habit of making hot weather an excuse
for frivolous and second rate reading mat
ter. 1t is not that this habit has been
greatly modified, but there have been fewer
vacation numbers" devoted wholly to
lighter fiction, fewer books advertised as
distinctly seasonal publications, slight
lessening in the deluge Of idyllic tales,
recommended as "cool," breezy" "just
simple love Stories" filled with humor
beauty and gladness, ""out-of-door- books, >
quite the thing for the shady nook, the
hammock and idle hour.
To be sure, there is no general absence
OF the best seller; only there seems to be
less disposition to plead vacation time )
its justification. Possibly we are becom-
ing a little clearer in our distinction be-
tween vacation and intellectual vacuity,
Doubtless the grim business Of war has
made vacations Of all sorts a little unfash-
ionable. Democracy, in the midst of its
present world task. would seem to have
little time for vacations, intellectual vaca,
tions least of all There is an increase this
summer i'm the number Of war books which
are offered the public. Even in the case
of books which do not treat of the war.
the serious human interest--if such there
be-is not disguised. One publisher brings
out, as serious and interesting summer
reading" list of works containing an
exposition of the philosophy Of Herbert
/ Spencer review Of Europe in the nine
! teenth century, a study Of the French Rev
( olution and discussion OF state social
ism. Another publisher reminds us that
! Summer is the time TO catch up with the
really good books you have wanted to read
! lut have not found time for"
I Evidently we are making the discovery
| that intellectual interest, literary appre-
citation and the critical faculties are but
little affected by the seasons. The infer
once is that ones literary preferences are
more or less perennial The mind does not
necessarily change it's habits when we don
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26

e Palm Beach suit. II is not necessary to
bring ideas out in B. V. DIS in order to
have them seasonably dressed.
In fact, it would seem that summer ought
to be the best time for serious reading and
thinking. There are fewer distractions;
social affairs and entertainments are less
numerous; business is less strenuous; there
Is less physical exertion, and for many
people little more leisure and solitude.
The idea that warm weather is not con-
ducive to mental exercise is probably d
survival from our early school days, with
their long summer vacation from study.
1t is doubtful if such a notion could be
justified by psychological study of the
facts. Publishers agents, like the haber-
Gashers, have taken advantage Of our
physical longing for something light and
cool in advertising their summer wares as
different from those Of other seasons. If
you can't read book in the summer time
you can never read book at all
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26
They Are to Wear Them Shorter

fFrop, The Philadelphia Public Ledger
Skirts are to be shorter and scanter. Such
is the prophecy Of that mysterious srbitress
Fashion, whose decrees like those of Fate,
none may resist The question has already
been raised by masculine censores morum,
who naturally know nothing OF the matter,
how a restricting process can 20 on with due
regard to that modesty which. as the Gaelic
proverb has H. is the beauty Of women. The
obvious answer is that modesty is hard to
define. IL resides rather in the wearer than
in the gown. The standard OF one age is not
the standard OF another. Have not those
who made the oudest outcry against the
short skirt already learned to appreciate its
fitness? II abbreviation is TO be carried still
further. woman may be trusted to make il
alike pleasing to the eye and satisfying to
the moral sense.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26
French as She Is Spoke
lFrom III. Chicooo T'rLeunel

(Fron The Chicopo TrlbaHe)
Baron Albert du Nivier will teach the lst
Regiment, Illinois Artillery, to "parlez vous." ;"
Bien, Tres bien, Yet, ah, messieurs, how
il is difficult! Don't imagine that the French
you learned in high school or college will
profit you in France or that you can make
yourself understood by merely talking
English with French words. To illustrate: !:
If you say More of the coal" you don't
get any. A negative is implied. To get it
you must say again OF the coal" II you
halt Frenchman and say, where is the
Place de Ia Concorde?" he looks puzzled.
You must say, where finds itself the Place
de la Concorde?" or better yet, "For to 60
Place de la Concorde." And it is tough
lob understanding the real French of real
France. Here comes wagon labelled Con
fections." That means resdy-msde clothes,
but would you have guessed? Tonder q
notice proclaims, "For sale: 20 reformed
horses" o cryptic To Frenchman, how
ever. it i. wonderfully clesr--twenty-five
condemned army horses formed again into
the civil estate. At subway entrance you
read: Because Of the grand affiuence, mes
sieurs the voyagers are prayed TO make
taiL" Queer notice! Think it over!
The English for "qucue" is tail" But
the French call line Of people outside a
ticket Office queue" and so do we. This
unlocks the mystery. Because Of the great
crowd. passengers will please stand in line"
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26
At the Somme
The Song of the Mud
From Th. Eno!ish Rerieir)

fFroT Tfc Lhp'ts" Hs''e"'
This is the song of the mud,
The pale yellow glistening mud that covers
the naked hills like satin.
The gray cleaning silvery mud that is spread
like enamel over the valleys,
The frothng. squirting. squirting liquid mud
that gurgles along the roadbeds,
The thick elastic mud that is knesded and
pounded ana squeezed under the hoofs
of horses,
The nyincible, inexhaustible mud Of the War
Zone
This is the song of the mud. the uniform OF
the poiu.
His coat is OF mud. his poor great Tapping
coat tha. is too big for him and too heavy,
His coat that once was blue, and now is gray
and stiff with the mud that cakes it.
This is the mud that clothes him
His trousers and boots are of mud
And his skin is of mud
And there is mud in his beard.
His head is crowned with a helmet of mud,
And lie wears it oh. he wears it well!
He wears il as a king wears the erminc that
bores him
He has set a new style in clothing,
He has introduced the chic Of mud.
This is the song of the mud that wriggles its
way into battle,
The impertinent, the intrusive, the ubiquitous,
the unwecome,
The shiny, inyeterate nuisance,
That fills the trenches,
That mixes in with the food OF the soldiers,
That spols the working of motors and crawls
into their secret parts,
That spreads itself over the guns,
l1ll sEanN
fast in its shiny, volumnous lips,
That has no respect for destruction and muz-
zles the bursting of shells,
Ard slowly. softly, easily,
Soaks up the fire. the noise, soaks up the en-
ergy and the courage,
Soaks up the power Of armies,
Soaks up the battle
Just soaks it up and thus stops it,
This is the song Of the mud, the obscene, the
filthy. the putrid,
The vast liquid grave of our Armies
II has drowned our men
Its monstrous distended belly reek5 with the
undigested dead
Our men have gone down into it, sinking
slowly, and struggling and slowly disap-
pearing.
Our fine men, our brave, strong young men,
Our glowing, red, shouting, brawny men,
Slowly. inch by inch, they have gone down
into it. ...
Into its darkness. its thickness, its silence,
Relentlessly IT drew them down, sucking them
down,
They have been drowned there in thick, Bit
ter, heaving mud
II hides them-oh, SO many of them!
Under its smooth glstening surface it is
hiding them blandly.
There is not trace Of them
There is no mark where they went down.
The mute, enormous mouth of the mud has
closed over them,
This is the song of the mud,
The beautiful, glistening. golden mud that
covers the hills like satin;
The mysterious, cleaning, slvery mud that is
spread like enamel over the valleys.
Mud the fantastic disguise Of the War Zone;
Mud the extingushng mantle of battles:
Mud, the smooth, fluid grave of our soldiers.
This is the song OF the mud.
MARY BORDEN-TURNER.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26
Warfare, Sex and Other

A very comprehensive and fair state
ment of women's position in England to-
day, with the dangers and possibilities OF
the future, was recently made by Mrs.
Creighton, and reported at length in 1.-The
London Daily Telegraph She frankly
conceded that the new industrial position
Of women had produced new kind of
competition with men which had to be Sc
riously considered. She had found any
thing but a cordial reception when ad
dressing large industrial gatherings OF
men if she suggested that men would be
generous in their treatment of women
The success Of the taxicab drivers in pre-
venting women from driving cabs was a
species of sex warfare.
What Mrs. Creighton urged upon the
women she was addressing was. first, that
they should be very careful not TO under
sell the men, and especially that women Of
the middle class should not undertake
work at pocket money wages. Second,
they must organize and endeavor, so far
as possible, to organize with men, by per-
suading them to allow them to enter their
unions. Third came the social question,
the problem OF creating a safe and righ.
status for the working girl now practically
Independent Of home control. She was
certain not TO go back to the old strict
life after the war, yet her new found atti-
tude involved revolutionary change in
the relationship of the sexes. Continued
Mrs. Creighton:
We were bound to recognize that these girls
had not always shown themselves fit for
freedom and that some men had not treated
them with that respect which the free
woman worker had a right to demand All
must learn what true comradeship between
the sexes meant. and that would solve many
difficulties. But men we're yet far from &C
cepting women workers as comrades. Men
and women should take the new situation
simply and naturally. Women workers
must not ape the ways Of men, or be afraid
to be themselves. II was a pity so many
women and girl workers had taken to ex-
cessive smoking. They should not try 10
be sham men; neither should they try to
be what they thought men wished them
to be.
The problem is plainly an unsolved
cne as yet, as might be expected 1t at
tacks too deeply rooted customs and view
Joints to be quickly settled. Mrs. Creigh-
ton felt that the giving of the vote to
women would help materially toward the
establishment of women upon better and
more respected plane. We can express
the hope that in America we enter such
portion of the sex revolution as the war
is bringing to our shores with one consid
cradle advantage, and that is a distinctly
franker and more comradely feeling be-
tween men and women. This feeling is
largely the product of co-education. it is
the consequence Of national difference in
point of view touching the whole position
of women in society. If, as Mrs. Creigh
ton surmises, comradeship must be the
fundamental groundwork for successful
co-working by men and women, this
country surely starts with a considerable
advantage over England.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26
In Future
6Frol The Sornet)

IFro1l 1he Sorntt)
Mayhap when I am one with winds that blow
From nowhere, men will say OF me- He knew
The need OF skies that never could be blue,
And Of the trees that had no green to show.
lie heard the stir Of birdlings in the snow,
And caught the sound Of sleet in Summers
ears;
lie followed for the rocks their long careers
And wrought the Dawn's biography. Below,
He straight disdained the disl-stones OF men !:
The lawless clocks and orreries OF God
Would group for him Inhnity; s-nod.
lie found the flowers dreaming now and then.
Now moved was he OF humors strangely
sane.
And now by such as crowd a erazed mans
brain.
MAHLON LEONARD FISHER.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26
COMPENSATION

I shall not grieve that you are dead.
sing TO you when the stars hang low;
And though | sang till dawn were red,
You still must hear, you could not go.
You are contented, being dead
You who were used to wander far.
Now ! plant flowers at your head,
And steal out nightly where you are.
All. once you wandered far and long.
And left me waiting hopeless here.
Though | sent you my breaking heart in
song,
You were too far-you could not hear.
Now it is ! could 90 oversee.
And though ! stayed till years were sped,
You would lie peaceful, waiting me.
shall not grieve that you are dead.
MUNA LEE.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26
Songs of Many Moods

From Poctrv)
A SONG OF HAPPINESS
So many folk are happy folk ......
The fea,hered folk and furred!
And many kindly glance I've had
And many brisk bright word
From squirrel and from gray feldmouse,
From cardinal and blackbird.
It's only folk within the wood
Can know my happiness.
did net tell my secret, but
I heard the robins guess;
The golden minnow knows it
Beneath the watereress.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26

Germany and to Austria because OF the
moral effect il had first upon their own
people and then upon the people Of the
Allied nations.
Now, there is nothing in the present
situation to suggest separate peace.
There is a very real possibility that Riga
will fall. 1t is quite conceivable that the
Rumanian troops will be driven out Of the
last portion of their fatherland which re-
mains to them. 1t is quite likely that
Germany. as she suffers one heavy blow
after another on the Western front and
loses one point after another, will seek to
balance her losses both for her people and
Tor the world by easy and relatively mex
pensive gains ON the Eastern front. Thus,
Piga may bring a counterpoise in the Ger
nan public's mind for the recent defeat
at Verdun or the prospective loss of Lens,
and the conquest of the remainder Of
Rumania might be set against any prog
-ess of the British army in Flanders or
Artois. But this is only window dress
ing, and it has no military Importance
unless the Allied press and the Allied peO-
pie attach an exaggerated value to it.
This war has only one decisive field, and
this is the West Since the Allies opened
their offensive in July Of last year they
have taken over 1876 900 German prisoners
in battle; they have captured more than
enc thousand guns, heavy and field; they
have won more than one thousand square
miles of French territory, and they have
teen and are advancing all the time,
steadily and unmistakably. And under
this pounding the German defence is
slowly but steadily breaking down. German
numbers are wearing out, and the hour is
already at hand when Germany will lack
the numbers to man her present Western
line, and the arrival of that hour will also
see American troops taking their place in
the firing line and hundreds of thousands
of American soldiers added to the reserve
Of the Allies.
Germany will use Russian events to
camouhage her own Western defeats for
many months 10 come. Every time there
is German defeat in the West we may
expect the industrious German agents all
ever the world to point to Russian dis
asters, to point to Russian failures, to
point to ground gained between the Baltic
and the Black Sea as proof that Germany
is invincible and victorious.
Washington should compose itself and
not fall so readily the victim of temporary
emotions. 1t was only yesterday that the
return of few American officers from
Lasty run down the Western front was
celebrated in Washington by the most
alarming crops of rumors that have yet
come from the capital. Hardly had these
rumors been disseminated when the French
and British took the offensive and won sue
cesses which are notable, retaking in a
few days ground which the Germans had
been months in capturing. All this was a
thing Of joy for German agents and Ger
ran sympathizers in this country. So is
the present Russian scare. Mr.. Lansing
has done we'll to destroy the impression.
and the Administration in Washington
will be we'll advised to avoid repetition
Of such attacks of NERVES" as the recent
Russian performance.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26
SHADOWS

My dreams OF you are sombre in the twilight
As hedge of branble growing intcrlaced-
struggling little hedge with scarlet berries,
Sharp 20 the touch and bitter 20 the taste.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26

You can purchase merchandise advertised 10 Inh n
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