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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-28
By DoLLY pALRYMPLE

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 Petunia Angelface as the colonel chatted with her over the eot- fee as the fashionable dinner party was about to end. 'fWhy do they, Colo- mel? You ought to know.
 "Eh! What@" asked the Colonel, talk en quite by surprise, and besides a man whose mind is divided these days be- tween the question of our boys lover there" whipping the Huns and how ke is going to be able to conserve and at the same time subscribe to every Lib- erty Loan and w. S. S. and Y. NJ. c. A. and Y. W. c. A. campaign, hasn't much time to waste these days over the eternal question, why do they marry or whether they marry at all?"
 "There's Bob Merritt, for instance . Miss Petunia Angeiface went on, dis regarding the Coloners insistent si- lence He's good looking, well bred, charming and yet he's tied up with that plain looking, overdressed little wife of his; she is no more suited to Ha Bob's wife than a Chinaman is suited 10 be a king. and because I dearly love Bob Merritt and all the fine things ne stands for I resent his messy little wife and I don't see why in the name ot common sense he didn't marry Betty Glider sleeve. She"
 "But Betty Gildersleeve." the Colonel interrupted "is married to-er-er- Jimmy Danfield."
 "Wen, did you ever see worse mismated couple than they?" asked Miss Petunia savagely How could you, my dear Colonel, help noticing this evening at dinner that out of the 12 guests at my dinner party only two of
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woman when he sees and hears sher nagging her husband, as you heard and saw Susie Merritt nagging Bob to- night--every time there was a chance or when there wasn't. Why, she tries to make you feel that she made the greatest sort of sacrifice to marry Bob Merritt. And all the time there sat my beautiful, sweet to-the- manner born Betty Gildersleeve, married to that horrid, vulgar, nouveau. rich Jfm- my Danfield The boor. Bob and Bet ty should have been taken in hand by their friends and made to marry each other; we knew what was best for them, if they didn't"
 What's that colonel?" she repeated. "A woman's judgment in such matters can't be relied on. We are prejudiced
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-28
Mother! If your Child's
 Tongue IS Coated.
If Cross. Feverish. Constipated. Bilious. and the Stomach out of Order. give California Syrup of Figs"

tion- poison, sour bile and fermenting waste matter will gently move out of the bowels, and you will have a healthy. playful child again A thor ough inside cleansing" is outlines all that is necessary. It should be the first treatment given in any sick ness.
 Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask your druggist for bottle of genuine California Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna," made by the Califor- mia Fig Syrup Co, which has full di- rections for babies, children of all ages and for grownups plainly printed on the bottle.--Adv.
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Baroness Huard. an American girl who married Frenchman. says in an article in the American Magazine:
 Compared with what happened else where. the story of our little village is actually a bright one. The evacuation was so hurried at that point that the Germans did not have time for their usual systmatic and atrocous work of destruction. However. the nine days thev spent there were black enough
 The officers and the soldiers made vic- tins of every woman in the village-from little girls of only 10 years. to old women who were SO afflicted physically that any mar should have pitied them. even if he did not feel repulsion toward them. This say out of my own knowiedge, for it happened in my village and these women and little girls were personally known to me Mine was only one of hundreds of towns to which the Germans came: and as I said before. it's story is one Of the least horrible. But bring it home to your selves, if you want to know the kind of enemies we are fighting. How would you like them to come to your town?
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What Are Luxuries?

TTCm I eSIleS.
 LuNuries! President Wilson, Tn urging a new tax bill upon Congress, named lux uries, along with excess profits and in- comes, as the sources from which the government should derive additional rev enue. The main difficulty In dealing with a luxury tax is in the definition of what constitutes luxuries. It is easy to classify diamonds as a luxury, but what about automobiles? When used for pro- fessional purposes, as by physIcia n
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\ laxative today saves 8 bilious child tomorrow. Children simply will not take the time from play to empty their bowels. which become clogged up with waste; then the liver grows slug gish, and the stomach is disordered.
 Look at the tongue, mother? If coated or your child is listless. cross, feverish, with tainted breath, restless, doesn't eat heartily, or has a cold, sore throat. or any other children's ailment, give a teaspoonful of "California Syrup of Figs" then don't worry, be- cause it is a perfectly harmless dose, and in a few hours all this constipa-
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THE BOOK SHELF
By THE BIBLIOPHILE

evening, and then I was captured my self. I may have spent more eventful days in my life, but I can't recall them"
 "Outwitting the Hun" is a fascinating story, one which would hold the at tention even if it were romance, and as truth it reveals those qualities in an individual which we believe will make our soldiers more than equal to whatever situations they may find themselves in.
 THE LITTLT RED HOUSE IN THE
 HOLLOW"
 By Amanda Benjamin Hall. George w. Jacobs Co, publishers, Philadelphia.
 This story of an Irish-American family by the name of Haggin is as tonic and refreshing to the reader as a salt sea breeze in July. Shutdown Peter, Iowa ble but wholly irresponsible; Daphne Haggin, the dreamer, whose little bark of idealism is almost wrecked; Andrew Pritchard, strong and resourceful, even if a little crude compared to the white suited, artistic Win" Bridget Harrigan, with a heart as big as her body, who lords it over the Haggin youngsters with an iron hand-all enter into this clean, sweet and wholesome story and it is with iedl eHJoS iiiSil tidL plS Whhucio thlOuSH the fields of clover and purple asters to
 "ZULEIKA DOBSON' By Max Beerbohm. "The Modern Li-
 brary" edition Bone & Liveright,
 Inc, publishers, New York. No. 1o5
 East Fortieth street, New York
 city.
 Very few books written within the past few years are more delightfully."- exotic than Max Beerbohm's "Zuleika Dobson."
 It is sparkling, bright, insouciant and written in the most charming style. and one of the most interesting criti-
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 Good Lady at

over again they'd do the selfsame thing make the selfsame choice
 "Oh, colonei,' exclaimed Miss Petunia Angelface. How can you say such things?"
 Because I believe them," said this proud old bachelor who had lived to the age of 55 and was still unattached, all because Miss Petunia Angelface hadn't said "YesH
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new telegraph and telephone line IS being constructed to connect Colon, Pan- anna, with the small town of Porto Bello, situated about 1 miles east of the city at one of the best harbors on the Caribbean coast of Central America Be- foro the completion of the Panama rail- rfoad, in 1855. Porto Bello was the At lantic port for the overland traffic across the lsthmus of Panama.
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visiting his patients or clergyman wis., iting his parishioners, an automobile
 could not be taxed as a luxury. But sup pose the doctor or the minister took an occasional ride for pleasure, what aUout the tax then? Are there not many times in the average family when the so-caIled pleasure car might be classed as an es- sential@ Baseball, bats and other ath~ letic material would naturally be count ed pure luxury, yet Mir. Herbert l.. Pratt returns from Y. NJ. C. X. service in France and says that one of the worst catastrophes' suffered by the Y. M C. A. there ware the loss of s30010 worth of such equipment through submarine war fare. The National Music exposition has devoted the proceeds of it's convention to the purchase of phonograph and piano player records for soldiers in our canton- ments Athletic equipment and musica records may be luxuries in one sense, but in another they are among the first essentials in keeping up the morale or soldiers In more limited sense may not this be true of all those at home who also need something to keep up their morale under the strain of war? The habits of the American people have so greatly changed in recent years that the luxuries of a few years ago are now looked upon as essentials, and many things which in other countries are still looked upon as nonessentials are by us considered every day necessities.
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"BATTER1NG THE BocHEe

or all history.
 "BATTERING THE ROCHE" By Preston Gibson dllustrated): the Century Company, publisher. 35S Fourth
 avenue. New York city.
 A brilliant. dramatic. thrilling account of fighting on the west front by young American dramatist who was in the midst of it, and who was decorated by the French government for his fear lessness and devotion on many occa- sions before St Quentin and the Aisne D
 MT. Gibson is a Yale man. journal ist and the author of "The Vacuum" and ''The Turning Point" both plays, the latter of which ran for an entire winter at the Hackett theatre in New York city He was one of the first men to at tend the Plattsburg training camp and when war was declared by the Unite 1 States on Germany he sailed for France where he joined a French ambulance corps, with which he remained until it was replaced by an American ambulance corps. For a time he served the allies in unique capacity: he volunteer with attached to and paid by the French army, at the same time being a volun- teer wi,s and fed by the United States army
 The book describes the emotions of man arriving for the first time at the front: describes the effects of the vari- ous gases used by the Germans, the con- ditions of the roads. camouflage, ob- servation posts, dugouts trenches, etc; tells about the movement of troops the morale ofsthe French army, the value of artillery, the preparation for an offen- sive. the expenditure of billion dollars worth of ammunition in 10 days and presents the greatest and most success full offensive the French have made Moreover. there are numerous little sketches poignant with emotion that burn pictures in the imagination.
 The book, however is not merely an exposition of tremendous facts; it is the reaction of kesnl. sersitized man to the most colossal event of modern times, told with the beauty, power and sim plicity of A literary artist
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years of war, invites tourists, ana through advertisements paid for by a railroad company, at that.
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Automobile bodies made experiment. lally of concrete reinforced with steel
 wire are said to be stronger and lighter
 than wooden ones.
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which this militaristic monarch has be- gotten and which is today the Thing" as President Wilson calls it. which has brought the American people face to face with kaiserism in the greatest conflict of all history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-28
THE MARITAL ADVENTURES Ol
 HENRY AND ME-

HENRY AND ME"
 By William Allen White illustrated by Tony Sarg): the Macmillan company, publisher, New York city.
 TO use the words of the author, this volume is a humorous account Of the experiences of two middle-aged old coots who go out to a ruthless war without their wives" They have com missions in their pockets from the American Red Cross. and they are go- ing to the front in the interests of that organization. Their story Is distin- guished by an abundance of good spirits It is typically American, ex- emplifying the buoyant, whole hearted fashion with which thousands of Amer jeans have entered upon a great task, confident that thcre is much that is unpleasant before them, but resolved to make the best Of things. With it's humor and it's general tone of whole someness 1t is 8 valuable antidote to the numerous publicans which have overemphasized the grimness and hor- TOT of the war.
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"srDEIIGHTs ON GERMANY"

By Michael A. Morrison. George IT
 Doran company. publishers, New
 York city.
 In this volume have been brouGh. together selections from articles which have as their object the portrayal of German life and character as these have been affected or modified under war conditions. Tn nearly every case the source has been the German news paper press or well known and widely circulated German periodicals.
 The articles have been sifted win great care. and only those have been used which throw needed light on the conceptions entertained by the German nation of their duty and world mission, on their attitude towards their ene- mics on their ambitions.
 Another important object which this book has in view is to illustrate the gradual change of German war senti- ment from the period of easy contempt of their enemies. from the period of frenzied jubilation and confidencel in victory which characterized the nation in the early months of the war. to the dawning sense that all was not well, and that Germany was being con- fronted with the hostility of the civ ilized world.
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How Germans Treat French Homes

other books received (reviews later.
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HnS7 " 71Y do the wrong people OO Nh\H always marry and wish
 WW they hadn't?" asked Miss
 Petunia Angelface as the
Arizona republican., 1918-03-28
IN THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN.

is being cultivated by gravity system from Gila flow waters, and there is much hope throughout the valley of permanent storage and diversion dams on the Gila to eventually insure con- tinuous supply for certain acreage.
 Pumping Chances Notable.
 The large developments at the pres ent time, and expected in the future, are through pumped water. The geo. graphical and geological investigations have determined that there is an in- exhaustible supply of underground wa ter. Large pumping plants in many parts of the valley that have been run ming full capacity continuously do not lower in the slightest the water level in the wells.
 It is conservatively estimated that there are at the present time 800 pumping plants completed or being completed in all parts of the district. The population exceeds 2500. The prin- cipal farming is grain and alfalfa, and the present ranches already contain many thousand head of hogs and cattle.
 Long Staple by Thousands
 Casa Grande valley will this year con- tain approximately 12,000 acres of long staple cotton. This one item alone, as it is developed and picking season comes, illustrates the coming importance of the valley.
 Casa Grande valley is located ap- proximately in the central part of all the development work. It is thriving little town that has it's own water plant, and its own electric plant. It is ably officered by it's mayor and alder men, who are bent upon boosting, and giving every service possible to the de- velopment of the town at the smallest possible expense. The spirit of the town is one of optimism and is a good example of a community that boosts not only for itself but for every other budding town within the valley as well as for all the state. It is doing its share of patriotic and war work, is well fortified with public schools and churches.
Arizona republican., 1918-03-28
CHURCH OF GOLD IS
 FAMOUS ST. MARKS

There is no structure just like St Marks's, in Venice, in the world. It's bulb shaped domes and minaret-like belfries remind the visitor of the Orient. It seems more like a Moham- medan than Christian temple. In the facade are scores of variously col ored marble columns, each one a mo- nolite and all possessing an eventful history. Some are from Ephesus, oth- CTS from Smyrna, others from Constan- tinople and more than one even from Jerusalem. St. Marks is the treasure house of Venice, a place of pride as well as prayer The work of beautify- ing this old church was carried on for five centuries, and each generation tried to outdo all that had preceded it. The walls and roof are so profusely covered with mosaics and precious marbles that it is easy to understand why St. Marks has been called the Church of Gold.''
Arizona republican., 1918-03-28
GERMAN SOIL THIEVES
(Youth's Companion)

It is generally known that our allies have asked Holland to stop the ship ment of sand and gravel by the Ger mans into Belgium and northern France to be used for sandbags and trench defenses and for other mili- tary purposes. But it is not so widely known that it has been the practice of the Germans to load up the trains for the return trip to Germany with loam and other top- soil, that when the expatriated farm CTS return to their devastated homes they will find nothing except the barren sub-soil The disciples of kultur must consider the stealing of the rich topsoil as a particularly clever way to combine destruction and profit.
Arizona republican., 1918-03-28
WHO ADVERTISED
 FUR HOUSEKEEPER?

Secretary Harry Welch of the Phoe- nix Chamber of Commerce is in receipt of a letter from a woman in California She writes as follows:
 Tn copy of The Arizona Republi- can which you sent to me, I found an advertisement where a Widower wants lady to take charge of his house and children. I think I could take the place and can give good letters of recom- mendation. I have never worked out, always having had a home of my own till now. 1 am 50 years of age"
 As 1t would be something of task to go over the files to find the advertise ment to which she refers, Secretary Welch says that if the widower who advertised is still in need of a house. keeper, he will be glad to furnish him with the address of the woman from California.
Arizona republican., 1918-03-28
Il ERHARDT LOSES HIS WATCH AND PEN

Believing that Al Erhardt had no use for a gold watch and a fountain pen while in the service, an unknown stole the same from Erhardt when he dropped into the Y. M. c. A. to bid farewell to his host of friends.
 Erhardt, who left last evening for Kelly Field where he will be connected with the quartermasters department of the aviation section, expressed his de- light that the thief did not take his wrist watch, a parting gift from the at taches of the county assessors office where he has been employed for the past three years.
Arizona republican., 1918-03-28

Do not wait till tomorrow-phone that WANT AID. to The Republican and dispose of. or get what VOL want
Arizona republican., 1918-03-28
GREAT CASA CYANIDE VALLEY UNDERGOING
 B|G DEVELOPMENT

Neither the average man in Phoenix, nor the average man in Arizona, has a fair idea of the tremendous amount of development work that is being done in the agricultural resources of what is known as the Casa Grande valley, ly- ing but few hours ride southeast of Phoenix. This vast area of level ir- rigable land stretches from Florence, 3l miles south and west to Casa Gran de, and on beyond for many miles; and on south and west of Casa Grande through Toltec, Eloy, 25 miles to Pi- cacho. The great amount of land that is being cultivated or prepared for cul- tivation is not noticeable in any other place because the areas being devel- oped are scattered and are many in each of the 16 or 20 townships of this wide valley.
 Development on Every Hand
 A few indications showing exactly what is being done in this big new valley follow: During the month of February there were received 75 car loads of machinery equipment and merchandise at the town of Casa Grande, the metropolous and hub of this big new district. The same month for the year 1917 there were less than 40 cars. Of this material shipped in to Casa Grande during the short month of February there were six carloads of farming machinery. In addition to this many of the mixed cars contained farm machinery in addition to dozens of tractors, hundreds upon hundreds of engines, and many well drilling outfits and well equipments. A large acreage
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Reserve Battalion

One Company of the Arizona Reserve Battalion in Phoenix immediately This company will off and hundred and fifty enlisted they be petey equipped by Regulation U s. Army equipment and club be furn ished Men thoroughly familiar with the U S. ton will be charge all drills, nothing will be over looked effort to furnish high class pro- This company is for state pro- rnr++ p17
 lection only and subject ~ A
 Federal Call. Age
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1918-10-24
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CURE FOR DYsINTERY.

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speaking OF Chamberlain's Collie
and Diarrhoea Remedy" writes
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Iowa. He told me in detail of
what 1t had done for his family,
but more especially his daughter
who was lying at the point of
death with a violent attack OF
dvsintery, and had BEEN given
up by her family physician. Some
OF the neighbors advised him to
give Chamberlain's Collie and Dl.
arrhoea Remedy, which he did,
and fully believes that by doing
30 saved the lif. OF hi. child. He
stated that he had also used this
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flying results"