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war machine it will be driven home to the German people that common honesty is the best policy even for a great em- pire and that wars of conquest will DO longer be permitted in the twentieth cen- tury.
 Germany talked peace and prepared for war. She tried to disarm her neighboEs while secretly arming herself awaiting "the day. which was to be the starting point in carving out for herself greater empire in "Mitteleuropa." It was the greatest dream of military conquest ever matched out by any set of militarists, and for a while it looked as if it would be realized.
 After the nightmare through which we have passed with a world wet with blood and burdened with debt and borne down with sorrow it seems incredible that the responsible statesmen in Europe could have been caught so off guard when they knew that the ruling class in Prus- sia was predominantly feudal. and that  was inflated with pan-German mill tary megalomania.
 Frederick the Great has obsessed the Hohenzollerns down through generations He was the hero of old Emperor Will liam, the grandfather of the Kaiser Fredericb's (the father of William ID ad- miration for "Old Fritz," as the Berlin CTS ever. called him, was for the founder of the dynasty, while that of the late Kaiser was for the military despot-for the soldier who ground his heel remorse- lessly upon whatever came in his path,
 Bear in mind that into the early youth of Prince William, the Kaiser who is now in exile, there fell the three mighty wars which made Prussia strong and Germany a nation-yes, an ernpire-the
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Danish, the Austrian and the French. They inflamed the imagination of the boy with a love for military glory, of which it has been sagely remarked that he. saw only 'the pomp and tn-trumpet splendor," whereas his father, Frederick, as the crown prince, had beheld it's ter TOTS and horrors too close to love them
 His noble father, whose death robbed Germany of its chance to really find a place in the sun, was one of the heroes of the Franco-Prussian war. It's little wonder then that after the peace of Versailles, when the old Emperor Will liam, his grandfather, was crowned in the famous palace of the French as Emperor stirred, and that at the age of F hs could not be held back from going in person to the railway station to meet the triumphal homecoming of the heroes.
 Now to me the best thing about the defeat of Prussia is the humiliation of the Kaiser, and the fact that now Will liam of Hohenzollern in Holland will have. an opportunity to realize that at last the dynasty which grew strong out of feuds and enriched itself fin wars of aggression, will go down in history as the great robber family which fell be- cause it sought to enrich itself at the expense of it's weaker neighbors.
 
 I have no tears to shed over the pass ing of the Hohenzollerns. confess that I look upon his ignominious end with holy, joy, for he. as a Caesar in the twentieth century without a throne, in- carnates the fact that War, Prussia's National Industry" is busted beyond tho hope of resumption and that the mere words Made in Germany will for years be sign of infamy because her trade supremacy was blood-tainted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17
PADEREWskI AND POLAND

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 The war upset old notions regarding the eminently peaceful tendencies of poets. and 1t is quite evident we havs heen wrong about musicians. too. Joyce Kilmer and Rupert Brooke and Alan
 Seeger, and score or more of other poet-heroes, have proved that they could fight for righteous cause as well as glorify it in enduring verse, The painters, as well. have shown their manly mettle. and so have the sculptors, two of the latter, both Frenchmen, have fallen where peoples bloom.
 Now comes that eminent pianist and
 patriot, aderewskf. who, despite his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17
LUKE pLUKE SAYS

The reason why woman hates to let her husband buy stockings Tor her ls because she believes that he'd buy her a pair of red ones if there was pair of red ones in the store.
 Many a woman imagines that she Is raising pet when the neighbors could tell her that she is raising a pest.
 A martinet is in position where it comes mighty easy for him to make other people uneasy.
 A girl of IS likes to go around admit ting that she is an old maid. But she sure changes her tune when she gets to be 2S.
 Molasses is funny stuff. A man won't eat 1t before it is distilled. But how he loves to drink it after it has been dis tiled!
 A man doesn't want to do a thing until he is told that he must not do it. Thef efore, it was too bad that the health officers didn't prohibit men from kissing their wives during the 'flu'' epidemic. Some wives would have got, ten their first kiss in years. Father likes to spend an evening at home because mother will get into 2 reminiscent mood and begin telling the children how many handsome and intelligent beaus she had before she met the mutt she married. You can tell a newly married man l by the way he dodges when his wife throws things at him. An old-timel 1 doesn't move He has had experienced and knows that she will miss him. 7! Why is it that the weaker butter and eggs are in price the stronger they are otherwise?
 l You are supposed to have faith il the medicine you are taking. But 70. may have noticed that a man alway'
 looks up to heaven just before he swal lows pill.
 Of course we understand that tn
 peepul demand prohibition and won
 be happy until they get 1t. But, at tn
 same time, the betting is that the cit waterworks could shut down for
 whole afternoon and two-thirds of tn
 male citizens would never know 1t. The only time a man hates to D
 over-rated is when the tax assesso
 calls.
 Every woman likes to have a lot e 'women friends who can't afford
 dress as well as she can.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17
Fabulous Wages
 Soon to Vanish

7HHE post-bellum reconstruction sssa period will present problems more or less complex, but return to normal conditions will come sooner probably than many economists were inclined to predict. The slowing down. of war industries and the ces- sation of everything like rush orders will have direct effect on wages.
 At Hopewell, Va, where the Du- Pcnts. are making guncotton for the government, announcement has been made that the force of workmen en- ployed there, numbering now fourteen thousand, would be gradually reduced until the end, of the year, when only two units would be operated, employ ing about two thousand men. Thus twelve thousand men, drawing iabu- lous wages, will soon be released for  peaceful occupations. Similar action will be. taken at many other great war-working industries during the present month. Wage rates that have been paid under the stress of emer- gency will soon vanish.
 Never was there such 8 demand for public edifices and for houses, large and; small, as there is today-held in absyance until the cost of material and construction came down. The new era, of prosperity will begin just as soon as wages settle on a reasonable level.
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From the Chicago Herald and Examiner.
 N REGENT dispatch from London LA\ stated that Lieut.. Krupp Won z S Bohlen und Halpach. the head of the Krupp works and his wife, (Bertha Krupp), have been arrested.
 Bertha Krupp von Bohlen- -Halbach controlling owner and virtual head of the great Krupp mills in Germany. rep resents the fourth generation of the Krupps in the steel and iron manufac- turning industry. The Krupp works were founded in 1911 by ner great-grandfather, Friedrick Krupp, who was trying to work out process for casting steel
 Like many other inventors, Friedrick Krupp was ahead of his time. When he died, in 1928. he left a widow. a small foundry and many debts His son. AL fred, with three workmen, took over the business. He proved to be the genius of the family in so far as organization and financing were concerned. In 1851 he exhibited in England a block of steel casting weighing 45O0 pounds and a can non of cast steel.
 From that time on the success of Krupp was meteoric. He assembled the great est scientists from all parts of Germany and his plants grew until he was worth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17
Game and Fish Report of Unusual Interest

nF John H. Wallace, IT,, failed to
 ll develop large degree of political strength in his race for governor, he lis easily past master in administer ing Alabama's game and fish depart Iment. His sixth biennial report just issued is of distinct and far-reaching value from every point of view natural history, woodcraft, field sport, food and literary charm. It is safe to assume that no other specialist in the United States could write a report on fish or game with more convincing authority or more lconstructive grasp as MT. Wallace has Tpresented. He loves forest and Estream. Only lover of nature could get into such intimate touch with his Isubject and that is why MT. Wallace Iexcels in telling the story of birds ! and fishes and explaining the economic possibilities and esthetic influence of his feathered and finny friends.
 The report, bound in paper cover, embraces 115 pages, and is artistically illustrated. Since the department over
 which MT. Wallace presides was ere
 ated there has been an enormous in
 crease in song and insectiverous birds lin Alabama. Birds are doing valua-
 ble york;" says the commissioner, "ir laiding to control the ravages of the |boll weevil, of the Texas tick, o1
 moths that destroy orchards and ol mosquitoes that spread fever germs
 MT. Wallace makes many recon
 lamentations for the consideration oi lthe legislature of them practical
 and worth while. Among the more
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17
Germany Follows
 i'm Russia',s Footsteps

NNTHEN Bulgaria, Turkey and
 wv Austria were eliminated from the war and the sledge-hammer blows of the allies were meeting with success all along the western front it was. generally recognized that Ger many could not prolong the struggle without inviting utter ruin.
 1he end of the war came with un- expected suddenness, but greater surprise was the complete demoraliza- ton which followed in the German empire. It is true that the most powerful autocracy of modern times went to pieces in amazing fashion in Russia, but the Ieaven had been work ing for many years. Russia had been fruitful field for the anarchist, who is none other than the modern bol- shevik. The downfall of the Czar and the heaurocracy which had ruled Rus sia with an iron will gave the oppor- tunity for which the bolshevists hac 1ong been waiting. How they took ad vantage of the situation is now 2 part of the history of that unfortan' ate country.
 But the Germans are different sort of people. The ignorance of Rus.
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free. Very soon he set about raising an army, and on October issued a call to arms in which he asked his couns. trymen to aid in the protection - threatened humanity.
 Among his fellow countrymen the peerless pianist ranks beside Kosci- usko and other hero-patriots of the op ! pressed but never crushed little na-i tion. There may have been a dispo- sition. because of his profession. to, say amusing things about the great musician's work, but the edge of tha. humor seems to be seriously dulled by the fact that at Cracow last week Ignace J. Paderewski was acclaimed, first President of the new republic of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17
BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC
By Julia Ward Howe.

Julia
 the glory of tn coming 9s the fatefu lightning of His terrible swift
 His truth s on. bulded Him
 S marc on. 4s haver g AS ye Lett hero,b of the shee-
 s
 he $ the of men y. be my ysoult to oanswer be myf
 i on. In of the was the a me en While marching
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ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
EErD HUN.

THE HUN. Now that we are done with war's alarms
 Shall we rush post-haste and open our arms
 To a cruel and relentless foe Who cries, "comrade.T with, friendly
 show.
 FOrgetting tho savage, blood-stained past When '1sulturss. bsneful light was
 cast On smiling lands, by g. brutal will, Intent to conduer and to Kill? Even they who plead for aid Rejoiced when Belgian towns were laid Beneath the Prussian's iron heel And northern France was made to feel A hate that knew no stint or bound Wherever thoughtful men are found Such deeds can not be. soon put by; The blood of slaughtered innocents
 doth cry For justice. Let the victims say What price that Germany must pay.
 CONSULT THE RECORDS.
 'T fear the American people are given to boasting," remarked the foreign vis- itor.
 'But it isn't idle boasting,' replied the patriotic citizen, quietly.
 "No?'
 "They are usually prepared to make it good"
 NATURAL MISTAKE.
 "Is this a jungle scene?" asked the
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
stfn More Namc. for Twins

''Dr. Stuart and pr. Barnwell certainly started something when they began tell ing about those names for twins" said Murray Brown, which. reminds me Of the couple who took their little twin girls to be baptized.
 "The mother of the twins was very fiery while the father was, one of those easy-going but observant persons. When the preacher asked the names of the babies the father said:
 One of the little girls is named "Dinah May for her maternal grand mother, and the other one is named "Dinah Night for her mother That settled the question:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17

BEGINNING THE DAY-Great God, in the light of Thy face I know the depths of self-reproach. Grant me over and over again that, vision of Thyself, which. must shame IEe. into penetence and deep humili- ty. ann not worthy, I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell among people of unclean lips. Cleanse me, 0 gracious One; renew me, o God of, might. In Christ's name. Amen. II. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17

 , slightly intoxicated gentleman in a. movie show.
 'sNo." replied his friend, ''You are lock- ing at the picture through the foliage on woman's hat"
 A GREATER PERIL. .'what shall we do with the ex-Kai- Fserg'
 I'm not worrying about that particu- .larly."
 Why not?"
 "The main question before the world just now is What shall we do with the 1bolshevilsi?' <"
 SHOWING HER AGE.
 Ever have any trouble with your ingenue?".
 "We used to have some trouble with her." replied the manager, 'but her press agent solved the problem"
 'How?"
 Whenever she has tantrum he gets the newspapers to publish the pictures of her two sons who are now holding commissions under Pershing in France"
 SLIGHT MIsUNDERsTANDIN Some of the back districts hereabouts were little slow to understand what was meant by the recent peace celebra- tions."
 "Yes?" s'An old gentleman came hurrying in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17
\ PACK OF LIARs

From the Kansas City Times
 Them people over at Tumlinville are a pack of dad-burned liars" declared old Wash Gulliger of Rumpus Ridge, Ark, upon his return from a nights s stay in the county seat. 'I driv' into town just after dusk, and a couple of miles before I got there could hear g hooraw going on. When arrived bells were changing. whistles blowing, gents rambling around with torches, guns and such as that. It 'peared to be g right lively function, but I missed something. Pleasant time.' says I to feller, but whur is he at?'
 "'Whur is who at?' says he.
 "'The nigger.' says, I. ".Aw. this hain't lynching,' says he, Tho allies have signed an Armenian with the Dutch"
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NOT THE OLD GAG

Brom the Boston Transcript.
 What! Didn't you catch anything at all?"
 "Yes, l caught a dozen big ones, but they were stolen from me on the carr
 well, never mind, old man; you've brought home new story. at any rate.'
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modesty. finds himself new center of

mOdeSty. flndS h1mSeIf a new center or
 admiring attention. Paderewski has
 not served at the fighting front, but
 home. It was Paderewski who con. ceived the idea of Polish army fight, ing on the side of democracy for a new freedom. Under his direction tho
 Poles were recruited here in America,
 and over there in France, under Gen. eral Gouraud, they gave a brave ac-
 count of themselves.
 When America entered the war Fade
 rewski banged down the cover of ms piano and declared that he never would to,,ch a kax aeain until Poland was
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| Iopen season on migratory birds and lwater fowl so as to conform with the negotiations prescribed under the fed eTal migratory bird treaty act; pro- viding that the open season on squir- re4s shall begin on October 1 instead of August 1; providing a comprehen- sive system for the protection of the forests; making it unlawful to pollute streams by placing or throwing saw dust or other deleterious substances therein; prescribing the size of mesh of all nets legally operated in the fresh waters of the state; imposing license tax on all nets and fish traps operated in fresh waters; providing that fish can only be taken in fresh water emptying into salt water, the same as is now prescribed for taking ifish In fresh waters; providing for a closed season on fur-bearing animals, and the licensing of trappers. | All the recommendations should be, and doubtless will be, enacted into law.
 1 ReDlElpg to tho iGarp,a0 ,1ro+..+ it was 'inadmissable" that the German Effect be given up without having been beaten. Admiral Wemyss neatly ex- pressed the situation by saying. Ut had only to come out 1 The Germans will be permitted to eet food, of course, but it will be sometims before they get back to their former practice of eating at all hours of the day and might.
 The captured German soldier who said I he had grudge against Christopher Coiumnus would be wiser to direct his hatred against the men who discovered 'kultur'' 1 Queen Wilhelmna of Holland if is re- ported, wanted to extend hospitality to the former Kaiser Another case in which second thought proved best. 1 j. # :. l coJ1 about the poppy fields of Flanders he little dreamed that he was sowing tbe seeds for sad crop of imitators. ] # * a; ], With so many college professors direct. ing national affairs, it was about time for famous pianist to be proclaimed president of something or other. l x < * 1 Although the war is over. the bogus hero continues to scatter bad checks around and tamper with the affections of trustful young women. | * #
 The sdiscovery of 1S-foot lizard in Borneo will give the scientists something to wrangle about for the next six months.
 Members of Wilhelms reduced suite may we'll shed tears. Their chance for a place in the sun has also gone glim- mering.
 I .i. xV.
 America won in the war the worlds tgratitude, for one thing. and that's bette, than dominion over palm and pine' | # < # l It is not bad idea to lift your hat to every soldier you meet who is minus ar arm or hobbling along on crutch. # * * It is proposed to make Fourth of Jul, a world holiday. That would be bitter pill for the Junkers to swallow.
 x ss *
 King Albert of Belgium is one of tn, few monarchs who emerged from thu war with flying colors
 # * *
 Another sign of the times is the return of white bread. Might keep on callin, it "victory" bread * $ ;s
 Shows for the tired business man vii
 also be literally patronized by the tire soldier
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AN AID ro CONSERVATION.

'Do you suppose Mir. Hoover will evei be forgotten?"
 Not so long as MT. Dubwaite lives said Mrs. Dubwaite. ss
 He's great admirer of the food ad- ministrator, presume?"
 "Yes, MT. Dubwaite has learned that MT. Hoover has a name to conjure with when the children want second helping at the table" Els
 PAIIIl Ct '
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from the Possum hollow neighborhoeA and craved the honor of furnishing the rope" What did he think was going on9- "A lynching.'
 CORRECT. Se Said old Mir Black, -7fd.. As he buttered his bread; -i-- "A bone in your back
 Is worth two in your head.''
 Luke McLuke Said young MT. Brand, es In a confidential tone: "A king in your hand
 Is worth two on throne' Greensboro, Ga, Herald-Journal. You have heard, I am sure, Said GamEer Jack, nj. That three kings in your hand a s Were worth one in the pack q Memphis Commercial-Appeal Said old MT. Rapp, With look that was sly "A chicken on your lap s9'f Is worth two in pie" f
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My heart 1aments. that virtue canno live Out of the teeth of emulation.
 Julius Caesar.
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"PIain Rilp Brandon Hero

Tt cannot be said of Bill Brandon that he was conference attendant only before his candidacy said Dr. Lovelady, flor he was on hand all this session.
 The truth of the business is he was just brought up in conference atmos- phere and he has been in touch with what the Methodists have done since his early childhood. The Brandon family have played large part in Alabama Methodism."
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An old gentleman came hurrying in
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CTS this jungle scene?" asked the
The Tomahawk., 1918-08-22
Autocratic Rulers Of Germany Proven Most
lnhuman and I yrannical Enemies
By BARLOW A. UlRlCH
Axehos q "Aheaham Lincoln and "Consona Covesnmeat

king of Prussia, and the constitutional president OF the
German empire nominal title of "empeor proved at first to
peace and popular ruler the commences
pcpaed with haste, after long Premedla
preparation His entire deceptive and
hypotical rulers of the twenty-five states OF
Germany meeting secretly bundesra behind locked DOORS DELHI
planned the heh scheme of dugng Europe blood fire and
They the most devices OF Mac
chave depicted his celebrated brutal book The Prince
the German states headed by the emperorkng William ILL.,
destructive human rannical and reacherou
enemies which the world has ever known
Emperor William H. under the German constitution possesses the
power control these forces continue the and to
enforce civilized He has msud and still is mis-
his hands, without effort his part
through previous bors and devices of Bismarck and the former
kings rod the continent of Europe like mp
San archdemon of destruction ampng women
the boodaked ire beneath his cloven hoof
The great conflict Europe between the central powers
and the United its allies of democracy against d
poic military autocracy which fights to rule the world
This enpte including the United States not only lighting
battles but is also indirectly fighting the Of democracy
including Germany heretofore dominated by the Hohenzoen dynasty
has gradually absorbed the greater part of the German empire
In book entitled "The Psychology Of the Kaiser by Morton Prince
stated of the kaiser there nothing
that than his increasing and violent anpahy the
great body citizens constituting less than onerd Of the empire
namely the social democrats.
empire Germany ruled by the representatives of the old
Hohenzoern family with Of aggressive to its credit
dc through Prussia which they control and which comprises
Germany The question arises Prussia and the
the rising tide of democracy which sweeping
it? the people the central OF the rule
and oppression Of kings emperors and cars? .4