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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28

, country roads. When you see the policeman throwing up his hand you must not drive in front Of kim. When you get ahead of the passenger on foot or the horse. you must rng the horn. When you meet the COW or the horss speed slowiy and take care to ring the horE and no. been afraid of them. Drive slowly when you meet the horse or the cattle, do not make them afraid and carefully make the sound. If they afraid the sound you must escape a little while at the side of the road till they pass away. Do net drive the motor car when you get drunk and do not smoke on the driver seat. THE LEAGUE OF LOVE IN ACTION Edwin Markham in the New York Herald: o League of Kindness. woven in all lands, You bring Loves tender mercies in your hands:
 Above all flags you lift the conquering sign And hold invincible Loves battle line o League of Kindness, in your far-flung You weave chain that reaches to God g hands;
 And where blind guns are plotting for 1 the grave
 Yours are the lips that cheer. the arms that save.
 o League of Kindness, in your flag w- A fcreg!eam of the brotherhood to be {
 In ages when the agonies are done,
 When all will love and all will lift as
 enc. s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
Demand for Gorgas
 to Be Kept at Work

SURGEON GENERAL GORGAs " will reach the age of retirement October 8, 1918, when he will be sixty-four years old. Many repre- sentative newspapers throughout the United States have commented on this fact and paying glowing tributes to General Gorgas for his work in the Panama canal zone, his subsequent labors for the vastly increased Ameri- can army and other notable achieve ments during long and distinguished career, have urged President Wilson not to part with the services of so valuable man.
 Alabama is naturally proud of Gen. cral Gorgas, whose family has played an important part in the history of this state and of the south. He has won worldwide fame and there is no one familiar with the record of his achievements who does not feel that he is entitled to all the honors which have been heaped upon him. He has been of great service not only to the American soldier and to the American
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
Hogs in North AIabama

'T have travelled over south Georgia and over south Alabama" said Pat Roberson of Cropwen, land I am con- vinced that it's the hog that we must rely on to build up the farms in the middle and northern part of the state.
 "Of course, these sections will be enabled to stock a lot of cattle and make money on them, but 1t is impossible to do so as cheaply as where they can be pastured all the year round without feeding. Our people are beginning to wake up to the possibilities of the porkers, and it won't be long before the grunt of the pig will be the sweetest sound which greets the farmers ear"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
LUFBERY, HERO OF THE AIR
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 M mAJoR RAoUL LuFBERY. who )Wl kept his rendezvous with
 SsS death,' will be the first great popular American hero of the war. His was the romance, the high adventure,
 the dazzling triumph and the flaming end which appeal to the patriotic imdgi- nation.
 Born and reared for F years on a little farm outside the village of Wallingford, Conn, he first came into notice driving his fathers truck wagon about the coun- try roads Proud villagers now strain their memories back to recall 'old man Lufbery's barefoot boy, Victor" peddling radishes and lettuce from door to door. Sixteen years later young Lufbery has
 become the American ace of aces, the shooting star of aviation. On his uni form are pinned the cross of the Legion of Honor, the British military medal, the war ribbon with it's IS stars, each of them representing a German airplane shot down and destroyed. He is the hero of scores of battles in the air, of dozen thrilling escapes Many times he
 has rushed about the clouds to the res
 cue of endangered comrades From the humble position of an aviation mechanic he has literally fought his way to the head of the famous Lafayette escadrille, in which American citizens have fought
 for France since the beginning of the war Now. when his native country en- ters the great struggle, he transfers to
 the American air service. With the com mission of major he leads the brdmen
 on the American front back to Lune- vile.
 Retween his disapnearance as a bare
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28

foot boy from the country lanes of Wax, battle lines of France lies a tale of more wild and world-wandering adventure than thousand average men would face in a hundred years of commonplace life.
 Running away from the truck wagori at F, he visited in turn almost every dist tant corner of the globe. France, All geria, Tunis, Egypt, Turkey, Germany South America, Japan, China, and India all knew the passing touch of his wanl, dering foot. He is all but forgotten by the sleeping villagers of Wallingford.
 But now come the first reports of Lul- bery's prowess in the air. Wallingford stirs in it's sleep. Lufbery becomes a French ace. The village postmaster eas- tens a slate above the mail window and draws five long marks across it. Each stands for German plane destroyed by Lufbery. Every few weeks the villagers coming for their evening mail count a new mark on the slate. Now there are IS in all
 Citations in army orders are common place to Lufbery. The marks on the vll- lage slate are true fame. The villa gers hold a town meeting and cable the com munity congratulations to their hero when he is made a major in the Ameri- can air service.
 Now at last the shooting star has fallen in flames back of the lines he defen5ed so well. Wallingford is already raising funds for monument.
 To the American expeditionary forces the deata of Lufbery will be a great loss. But 0 comrades of the air his career will be a living inspiration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
Russia's Woman Soldier
 Does Some Plain Speaking

M ME. MARIA LENA BoTCHKA- 9V0 ROVA, who is credited with having organized the only Death Bat talion" of Russian women that took part in actual battle, has arrived in this country aboard an American transport, accompanied by several other refugees from Russia, and, quite naturally, has been interviewed.
 What Mme. Botchkarova has to say of women as soldiers will gladden. the hearts of all anti-feminists. To quote her own words, spoken to a re- porter of the New York World through an interpreter:
 Met, don't want to talk about my former associates. It hurts me too much. It is hard for me to speak of those who were associat- ed with me in great undertak- ing. But women will never make
 
 lined. They cannot be organized. And they show the white feather.
 Besides mine, 14 bodies of wom- en troops were organized, but none of the others took any part in any action, and they accomplished nothing. My Battalion of Death was the only one to participate in any engagement. We fought the Germans in one battle. Even some of my soldiers turned coward For the Red Cross, women are all right but only one woman in thousand has the mettle to make soldier" Furthermore, in explaining that she had come to this country to raise money for Russian hospital, Mme. Botchkarvora said, q do not want to be associated with women, for I do not trust them"
 Evidently Russia's famous woman soldier has formed a pretty poor opin- ion of her sex. Her estimation of women as soldiers is merely what all men and most women think, anyhow. Let them be Red Cross nurses-that is what they are best fitted for and. besides, my dear, the uniform is far, far more becoming than that of a sol dier, which makes most women who wear it look either stringy or bunchy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
THE SKY-PILOT IN ALASKA ,alph Welles Keeler, in the World Out

Ralph Welles Keeler, in the World Out look.
 The sky-pilot of the dog-sled and gasoline launch has much the same problem as the home missionary in New York or Chicago who ministers to the passing throngs. Alaska is land lof transients; the lure of business op- Iportunity is in the air and men move from mining camp to boom town A town of nearly 1900 people exist ling for years without ever hearing the voice of a preacher sounds more like news from Africa than the U. s. A. A missionary proclaiming the word of God from a government sales-stand on a Sunday afternoon to great company of men in city of tents reads like a page from the diary of pioneer prairie schooner circuit rider in Montana. The population of Alaska is scanty and the towns are small. Usually one church is sufficient for the white peo- pie of a community and at most two
 And Alaska is a white mans country.
 There are many evanescent mining |camps where no religious work is be-
 ing done
 But since the Scrabble Creek days
 these men of Alaska have had univer- sity training. The slSy-pilot who reaches them must be real preacher There is hardly town in the territory where
 within an hours time a group repre- senting nearly all the big universities
 in the states cannot be gathered to- |gether.
 The minister must become a man of the north. He is obliged to be a com mittee of one on self-help. After his title of Rev. John Brown he must be able to add c. M., D. T. D., G. B. C.. c. B., G. U. M. All this dignity is con ferred upon him as rapidly as he quali- fies as camp-maker, dog-team driver, gasboat chauffeur, cabin builder and general utility man. And he must quail fly or his ministry will fail
 Money is an important factor in the success of missions under the northern lights When missionary has to finance his own much needed gasoline launch to the tune of 5000 he has to pull his purse strings clear loose and stretch his credit to the snapping point.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
MOSAIC EDICT AGAINST SWINE

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger:
 A greatly respected Philadelphia rabbi was about to take his seat in a Chestnut Street car when an agile draft age youth beat him to it'' by slipping sinuously into the vacancy.
 The rabbi must have expressed a slight annoyance in his features, for the young man added insult to injury by saying with cool effrontery: What's the mat ter with you. You look as if you wanted to eat me-
 The Jewish gentleman was equal to the occasion.
 Yes" he answered quietly, but I am forbidden
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
BOILING IT DOWN

From Air Travel
 From the whole controversy about air craft these assertions stand out as prac- tica.ly uncontradicted:
 1. The Liberty motor is good motor ?. It has suffered from exaggerated or too optimistic publicity.
 3. We are running late on our aircraft programme.
 1. There have been too many changes in specifications.
 5. No one individual can be saddled with the delay.
 G. Manufacturers are too busy to squab- ble over the past They are producing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
Meets Friend in France

T got letter last week from my son who is in France" said A. B. Herring of Springville.
 "He used to work for Hogan Brothers. He said that recently he ran across Ia negro soldier from Birmingham that he knew, and he though that the 'col- ored brother would die of pure joy just to see white friend from home. It was really pathetic how grateful he was to get to talk with some one from dear ole Burningham'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
DEMOCRACY

From the Washington Post.
 War Secretary Baker said, at lunch- con in Washington:
 Ours will be the most democratic army in the world, for ours is the most democratic country.
 "A millionaire, as he climbed into his limousine, snarled at newsboy:
 "'No, I don't want any paper! Get out
 "'Well, keep your shirt on, boss, the newshoy answered. The only difference between you and me is that you've maxim your second million, while I'm still workin' on my first !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
ADRIFvT WITH THE TIMES
CLASSIFIED.

CLASSIFIED.
 Shell the churches,
 Count the loot,
 Blackness smirches
 Every Teut.
 Murder babies,
 Shoot the danes;
 When you've rabies
 Nothing shames.
 Made by 'kultur'
 Worse than brute, ( Human vulture-
 That's the Teut.
 WORST KIND. "Wonderful woman!' why so?" I'm told she has never once addressed her husband in a high-keyed voice." ''Umph! I'll have to have further de- tails before joining you in admiring her. Some women are remarkably successful in making q mans life miserable by ad- dressing him in low, cutting tones.'
 SAVING TIME. Would you care to see the sights of our city?'' This is dry town, isn't it?'' asked the bibulous stranger. Yes" Then, if you don't mind, just hand me one of your Chamber of Commerce book lets. That will tell me all I need to know"
 SAFER. What did her father say when you told him you wanted to become his son in-law?" "He glared at me and beloved, Young man. say that to me just one more times" What did you do, then?'' T refused to accommodate him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
Red Cross Fund
 Still Growing

MlITHEN Birmingham, or more w strictly speaking, Jefferson county, reached the $300,000 mark in the Red Cross campaign, congratula- tions were in order.
 A community that has established the habit of going well lover the top" was certain to exceed by large sum the $150,O00 quota assigned to it, but not even the most ardent leaders in the Red Cross cause forecast such a splendid achievement as that which the executive committee was able to announce last night. The amount con tributed in this county had reached $35S,649, and as money is still com ling it is safe to assume that when the final report is made the total will be fully s4oo,oOO.
 Not only has Birmingham reason to
 
 feel proud of it's accomplishment in raising so large war fund for the Red Cross, but the generous spirit displayed by every class-the eager ness to do more than was asked-is a distinct inspiration to all those who |are striving to help win the war. And the state of Alabama has done Inobly in this Red Cross canvass con- Itributing, according to preliminary re- ports, $65O,000 more than it's allotment called for. We'll may the people rejoice in the wonderful suc- Icess of it all.
 Colonel Roosevelt and MT. Taft had a friendly meeting in a Chicago hotel and "engaged in animated conversation for half an hour" These are war times. when we must oppose a united nation against the Hun, and it behooves our prominent citizens to get together. x # x
 A yellow journal suggests that Anna
 Held may be suffering from rare dis ease because of tight lacing. Anna may
 never lead the merry chorus maidens again. but she became-and possessed -an internationally famous figure. * x *
 There is no equivalent in the German language for fair play" we are told.
 That probably makes 1t easier for the
 Kaiser's soldiers to use Red Cross
 stretchers for concealing machine guns as * *
 Russians in France have formed a
 militant organization. which will prob ably survive longer in France than it
 would if formed in Russia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
A WORD TO WAR BRIDES

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal:
 If you marry him on the eve of his departure it is up to you to accept the fate you chose; don't expect the whole community to sit around and nope over you as "a poor little war bride" Other people are doing real war work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28

BEGINNING THE DAY-O God, preserve me thnt the love of money, the love of praise. the love of pleas ure, may not usurp the thorn in my life. Give me grace to make them servants, not tyrants. Help me to put first things first. Give me the sense of proportion, the feel of ball. snce. In Christ's name. Amen. H. 1I. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28

TIME OF YEAR FOR CHEER. How can man Bewail his fate, Who still has time To dig some bait, And fishing go Down sunny lanes Where birds uplift Their glad refrains?
 Birmingham Age-Herald. How can a man Think life is hard When he can seek The baseball yard, And gloat upon Each two-base Whack And live on pop And crackerjack?
 Milwaukee Sentinel. How can man Say life is grim When golf is calling Unto him? So long as he Can get drive He should be glad That he's alive.
 Detroit Free Press. GOOD FOR AN EVENING. You see many fine complexion" ''You do.r But the trouble is, it isn't often the durable kind" why worry? It usually lasts till the orchestra rlays. Home, Sweet Home.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
rLIyvER RULES IN JAPAN

From the Japan Chronicle.
 You must drive your automobile at the speed of eight knots per hour on the city roads and at F knots per hour on the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
e3skk1MMtMasxlI

F. S.--Bracewood braces me up and aft CT seeing Ned Brace as a farmer in his home grounds I think more of him as man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
NOT THAT KIND

We're nation of bondholders now, A fact that should be noted; But close observers all avow
 That few of us are bloated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
Washington bureau. 2O7 Hibbs build

Washington bureau. 2o7 Hibbs build ing.
 European bureau, Henrietta street. Covent Garden, London
 Eastern business office, World build ing. New York city; western business ofrlce Tribune building, Chicago. me $. c. Beckwith Special Agency, agents tor foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
Member of tAe Associated Press

Member of the Associated Press
 The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingha carrying the Associated Press aAs- patches.
 The Associated Press is excluslVeAy entitled to the use for puollcatAoh of all news dispatches credited 10 or not otherwise credited in tnis paper and also the local news pupllsheo herein.
 All rights of republication or spe- cial dispatches herein are also re- served
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28

O cunning enemy that to cntch q saint With saints doth bait thy hook:
 Measure for Measure.
 # * x
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
What a Congressman Must Do

As l have had my eyes on seat Tn Congress as place of opportunity for service in the present emergency, when the President needs members who will stand by him." said the Rev. A. J. Dickinson, D. D., the versatile and scholarly pastor of the First Baptist church, T thought I would try and find out from one of my ex-congress- men friends something of the nature of the job, but I fear he is something of a cynic, for he said: AS near as l can size it up, it requires ability to talk with fluency on any subject without really saying anything, coupled with a gift to idle camouflage by seeming noisy activity; and the only real work that must be done without fail, is to keep constant stream of garden seeds flowing back to the home district
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
War Spirit in Meridian

T am hearing a great deal about the
 Birmingham spirit which has been born since America went into the war" said Jack Woodall, a mail clerk on the Ala bama Great Southern, 'but she hasn't got anything on Meridian.
 q went into one of the drug stores
 in Meridian the day after the order
 came out about seeing to it that men should be engaged in mans size job,
 and although it was the leading soft drink place in town, all of the old em- |ployes who were able to do a mans
 work, had been replaced by boys. The proprietor said that he wasn't going to wait for July, but meant to support everything that even Washington hinted at, if by so doing he could help
 win the war"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28
ERUpITE.

"she is one of the intellectuals?@
 'Unquestionably. Give her cigarette and a cocktail and there is no subject in literature too deep for her to dis- cuss"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28

Mir Barrett was evidently traveling the same route, for it began to creep into his Ned Brace corner on the Sunday edi- torial page that he was gardening, or setting out fruit trees, planting grape vines, putting in oceans, getting an as-
 paragus bed ready, arranging for lot Of currant bushes, and getting a garden plot in condition to raise his own vege- tables
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-28

got to see Mrs Barrett's famous as- paragus bed, and it is beauty. l walked through the vegetable garden, and in it was growing nearly every variety that can be grown in this climate. Po- tatoes, onions, beans, cabbage, peas, tur- nirs, spinach, butter beans, lettuce, car rots, heets were all doing fine. The feature of the garden, however, is the row of raspberry bushes around 1t, just laden with luscious red berries.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1918-06-15
(No. $1,000
Ol{1)ER ar DIynIJCA ALTON

In the Buchanan County Circuit
Court, May Term. 1918.
Mary ]. Hathorn and Frank
Hathorn, her husband Plaintiffs
vs.
William Dischner. Theo. Dischner.
Henry Dischner, Ed. Dischner, Caro-
line Gardner and Charles Gardner.
her husband d............. Defendants
State Of Missouri. County of Bu-
chanan, IS.
Now at this day came the plaintiffs
by their attorneys and II appearing to
the satisfaction OF the Circuit Court
that said defendants William Disch-
ner, Theo. Dischner. Caroline Gardner
and Charles Gardner. her husband,
are non-residents OF the state of Mis-
souri,. and do not reside therein, II is
ordered that said nonresident defend
ants be notified by publication. as re-
quired by law, that said plaintiffs
have commenced their suit in this
Court against said defendants by pc
tition and affidavit, the object and
general nature Of which is to procure
a decree of partition and order OF
sale of the following described real
estate situate, lying and being in tho
County OF Buchanan and State of
Missouri, to wit: Two CD acres off
the east end OF lot nine (9) in Wash
ington Heights, an Addition to the
NiNs VI ~ JOSVtiis A1uNliAiAdh NfOAillN
Missouri, according to plat thereof
duly filed in the office Of the Record
er Of Deeds for said Buchanan
County, Missouri: and also TO procure
a decree adtudRtng the amount OK
pended by plaintiff in the payment
and satisfaction Of a paramount en-
Icumbrance on said roal estate and for
contribution from each Of the defend
ants thereon; that unless the said
| William Disch1er. Theo. Dischner
Caroline Gardner and Charles Gard
ner. her husband, shall be and appear
at the next term OF this Court to be
begun and held at the Court House
in the City, OF St. Joseph, in Buchanan
County, State of Missouri, on the 7th
day OF October, 1918, on or before the
third day OF said term. TO answer
plaintiffs petition, the same will he
taken for confessed as to them and
| Judgment rendered accordingly.
II Is further ordered that q copy OF
this order be published in the st. Jo-
seph Observer, newspaper publish
ed in the County Of Buchanan. for
four weeks successfully. tho last in.
sertion OF which to be at least fifteer
days before the next October, 1918
term OF this court.
A copy. Attest:
ROSS c. cox.
(SeaD Clerk.
BY Emmett J. Grouse. Deputy Clerk
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1918-06-15
NOTICE TO CONTRATORs

Pursuant to an order OF the County
Court of Buchanan County, Missouri,
to me directed, sealed proposals will
bo received for the following work,
in the County Court room, at the Court
House. st. Joseph. Missouri, at 1900
o'clock A. NJ, Saturday. May IS, 1918:
No. 625. Treating with Tarvia r, or
its equivalent, the DeKalb Macadam
road. from the South City Limits OF
st. Joseph, Missouri. to the town OF
DeKalb, Missouri.
Spe .ifiCations will be on file in the
County Clerks and Highway Engi-
necr's Offices.
As a guarantee Of making of ae-
cepted bond and contract as required
by law, bids on above work must be
accompanied by checks to the follow
Ing amount:
No. 625. 100000.
Surety bonds only will be accepted.
The right TO reject any and all bids is
reserved.
RAY l.. CARGILL,
County Surveyor & EN-officio High
way Engineer