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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

THE LIGHT FROM ABOVE. ull many wayward brother Has striven hard to gain Ihe mastery of self and fought Against great odds in vain. And gladly would we raise him up, Ills thorny path to ease, When we behold him sick at heart And beaten to his knees. For there still burns within his soul A pure, exalted flame hleh proves that mans kinship with Is more than just a name.
 PAINFUL PROSPECT. How do you feel. Pumperleigh? "oh. as if I were going to be shot at sunrise
 For heavens sake, don't feel that way"
 Why not?7
 You owe me $2o and the thought of anything serious happening to you makes me nervous"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
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LOOKING BACKWARD. T do not mind the filings of fate.'' Said one whose crown was bare; But, sooth, twas hard at twenty-ei ight To part with all my hair"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12

He gave us first-hand information of the way the Young Mems Christian as sociation worked in Paris at the ssY,' hotels and other central points. It was pathetic to hear how one of our boys was sent back to a base hospital and then sent back to the front line to find that lis regiment had been moved. Be- ing tnabie to speak Bremen he had walked, weary miles and at last hungry and foo'sore. and dirty. and sdiscour- aged had gotten back to the capitol, where he found him and ministered to
 his wanta anc had the military authori- ties to put him in touch with his com pany.
 l He told us how that an Army Young
 Mems Christian association man. when
 he got to France. was a part of the
 American expeditionary forces and un- /, der military discipline having to salute
 officers and wear the same uniform of
 his rank which corresponded to the reg
 ulars. with the exception that on his
 sleeve was red triangle. which had become badge of honor on account of
 the splendid way in which those who
 wore it had conducted themselves. not
 only in Paris. and in the first line
 huts, but in the face of the fire of the
 enemy.
 1 It was pitiful to hear him tell of how
 France was put to it to grow a wheat
 crop. The 1,5o0,OoO dead men had made 1t almost impossible to utilize the farms above 10 acres, as there was no one Ito plant the ground. The smaller hold jings of five acres werv being tended by
 old men and children. He says France
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12

Aemittances can be maue at current rate ot exchange. The ABs-Heralo VII not be responsible tor money sent lnrough the malls Address,
 IhE AL h. HERALD,
 Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12

No communication will be published without it's authors naine. ReJeeteu manuscript will not be returned uhAess stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-03-07
HIS PRESCRIPTION.

"May see you for a minute, doc
tor?' said the sweet young thing.
"Why, certainly, miss replied the
man Of pills and plasters.
"They say I'm not looking well"
as that all Go straight home and
put on your furs. Every girl looks
well in furs. Two dollars, please"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-03-07
TOO MUCH TO ASK.

1--WE must make sacrifices for the
children"
yes" replied the man with the
cloth-top overshoes, "but l can't see
giving three cheers for a hard win
ter simply because Willie and Jane
are enjoying the sled and skates they
got for Christmas"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-03-07
Plant Food In Soil.

A chemical analysis cannot show the
amount Of available plant food in n
soil. A chemist could, without diff
Guilty. make an artificial soil contain
ing every element of plant food In
abundance, and yet be perfectly ster-
lie. Peat, for example. is usually very
rich in nitrogen, but II is locked or
To pulverize II and mix
II with lime is TO change It into n high
ly nutritious soil.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-03-07
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
- q 9 Q RIA
Birds Nest Soup.

The birds nests from which the far
famed Chinese soup Is made are built
by n species Of swallow that abounds
on the coasts Of Java. Ceylon and Bor-
neo, and consists of gelatlnous sub
stance obtained from marine plants.
The nests are boiled either In chicken
broth or In milk Of almonds. and the
result very much resembles vermicelll
soup. except that II is far more costly.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-03-07
WOMAN MAKES
|. FALSE FACEsFOR
' THE DIsFIGuRED
MASKS ARE PAINTED IN OILS

Sculptures Models Fac, ss II Was Orig
InsiIy, Working From photographs
and From the Patient Then Copper
Mask Light a. Paper IL msde-mors
MAR 1000 PoIIus pIshsured Too
Terribly 10 be Seen
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-03-07
coeonuts All Year Round.

Across Lake Worth. from West
Palm Beach, Fla, Is Palm Beach, stu
ated on a strip which extends along
the Atlantic ocean for many miles. The
world famous Royal Polnclana, one Of
the worlds largest hotels, and the
Palm Beach hotel, both face Lake
Worth. The shores of the lake for
miles are fringed with stately coconut
trees, always In bearing.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-03-07
Center Of Jute Industry.

Dundee practically owes its exis-
tence to its textile industry. II was
the pioneer In the adoption Of jute as
fiber for making cloth Of a cheap
quality. and its hold upon the trade
has been SO firmly maintained and de-
veloped that Dundee is recognized as
the principal center OF the jute indus
try In Great Britain.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-03-07
Cause Of Rainfall.

Rainfalls are governed by the law Of
repartlton Of the temperatures in the
atmosphere, and 10 break the equili-
brum and bring about rain requires
So great IN energy as cannot be at-
trlbuted 10 such feeble cause as that
determined by the local vibrations pro-
duced even by the most lhtenye firing
OF cannon.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-03-07
PRACTICALLY USELESS.

"This expert advises us to burn
wood instead Of coal"
"That's fine advice" sneered the
city man.
"Well?"
"About the only wood l ever see
that's available for fuel is in the form
Of toothpicks and matches"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-03-07


Inns that tie uafealily of their coun-
tcnancss became apparent
zvsn 70 Compilations.
"But by studying the matter closely
ana experimenting continually, Capt.
Derwent Wood has reproduced com
plaxions entirely, getting the dark.
swnrthy tint In the faces Of the men
with heavy boards and reproducing
moles and lines on the skin.
, 1T must be understood that we do
not make artificial faces for mutilated
soldiers, but that we sculpt masks alb
solutely reproducing the countenances
Of these dIshgured men as they were
before being wounded.
"No American soldiers have YET
been terribly wounded like that. so
nothing OF the kind has been started
In the United States. But I am con-
nected with the department for the
mutilnted OF the American Red Cross,
and eventually, when our men 20 into
the trenches, I shall be ready TO do
what I can for any Of the poor fellows
who may be wounded IN the face.
"rhe masks may be rsed Temporal
rily or permanently. There are many
patients waiting 10 receive the atten-
lions Of Doctor Morestin. the great
French surgeon. and Of Doctor Cou-
lomb, the wonderful French oculist,
who have done 30 much In restoring
countenances. Or. Joseph Blake
earned q wonderful reputation in fn-
ciai reconstruction during the early
part Of the war. but he has been 90
busy on other forms of surgery recent
iy that he has been unable to give
much time TO IL.
Too Terrible 20 BE Seen.
"Some Of the French 'mutiles' may
have to wait two or three years before
they can begin their treatment unSer
Doctor MorestIn. and without one Of
these artificial faces they can only go
out at night. MS their wounds are too
terrible for them TO appear In public
places-on the streets, in the under
ground railways. in motion picture the
aters and In cafes. And, Of course,
they cannot find employment because
OF their CHASTITY appearance. Many Of
these cases cannot be treated success
fully by surgery, and they will use the
artificial faces permanently"
Mrs. Maynard Ladd arrived In Paris
from America only a few weeks ago,
and lost no time In getting 10 work on
her new plan. She lived in Rome for
some time before the war, and has
been In Paris several times since hos
tillties broke out. She has done many
heads and busts for well-known people
In Italy, France and the United States
In 1907 she did a bronze entitled '"The
Soldier" OF which General Pershing
was the model. II depicted United
States army officer standing at rest
She has also done some Tanagra fig
ures which have been favorably com
mented upon by leading critics.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-03-07
SERVE HIM RIGHT.

81 am in favor of peace at any
price"
Yes" replied the pessimist; "but
suppose you wake up one morning
and find you haven't got the price ?"
-CasselPs Saturday Journal.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-03-07
Paraguay Cattle Lands.

Paraguay contains some Of the best
cattle lands In the world. although
these resources have not yet been adj
equately developed. The republic now
contains about 100000 head Of cattle.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-03-07
Circle Of uIloa-

The circle Of Ulloa Is a white rain
bow or luminous ring sometimes seen
In Alpine regions opposite the sun In
foscy weather. It's an odd sight.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-03-07

Filling out a QUESTIONABLE with the
aid Of lawyers because he could not
read or write, Wheeling mill worker
was asked how much money he was
MATING.
.A-.s do.iags day" Was ths 10.
ply.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-09-06
SOUTH PORTSMOUTH, Ky.

Several OF the boys from here have
gone to the training camps and some
OF them have arrived safely in France
We wish them good luck and a safe
return,
A Red Cross unit has been organic
ed at South Portsmouth with Mrs. b
Saunders president, Miss Ethel Ste
venson, secretary and Miss Cora Davis
treasurer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray McKinster are
visiting friends at Columbus.
Miss Mary Moore has returned to her
home in Portsmouth from Kansas City
Mo-, where she has been in the Dea-
coness School for several years.
Mr.. S. p. Smith is very low at this
writing with Flights disease. His
death is expected at any hour.
Miss Carrie Borders was calling on
Miss Cally Berry Sunday.
Troop trains pass through here ev-
cry day and the boys are always
cheerful and smiling and they all say
they are going to get the kaiser. We
wish them a victorious trip and a
safe return.
Two Lawrence Co. Girls.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-09-06
JEAN.

A very interesting sermon was
preached at the Dry Fork school house
Sunday night by Rev. NJ. V, Berry
G.. w. Kitchen, Rev. Cecil Daniels
andRev. Grant Bently visited the home
OF Cecil Lining Sunday evening.
A large crowd from Dry Fork at
tended churchat Providence Sunday.
Mary Lining visited Clara and Ro-
berta Stafford, OF Cherokee few days
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Morton Young passed
up our creek recently.
Mr. Hugh Shepherd was calling on
Miss Marie Boggs "Wednesday night.
Mr.. Willie Hicks has returned home
from Ashland where he has been en-
ployed and will remain with his friends
for awhile.
Mary Lining and Lizzie Kelly atten-
ded church at Providence Sunday.
Willie, Leanord and Melvin Kitchen
have returned home from Huntington
w. va. where they have had employ
ment.
Mr. Jay Hicks has returned to Ash
land after two weeks visit to his rela-
tives and freincs.
Miss Mae Perkins of Portsmouth
Ohio is now visiting relatives OF Dry
Fork
VIII some one make consolation
visit to the friends of the bright young
lawyer OF Orr. as he has entirely
vacated Dry Fork
Blue Eyes.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-09-06
DENNIS

Several from this place attended the
Ice cream festoval at Pollys Saturday
night and all reported nice time.
Sam Carter and wife were on our
our creek Sunday.
little daughter, Ella, are visiting the
formers parents at this place.
Martha Kitchen was the pleasant
guest of Hazel Adkins last Sunday.
Warren Robinson was here one day
last week.
Ada Cooksey is in Louisa.
We are sorry to say that we are hav-
ing no school at Compton on account
of having no teacher.
Sophia Pennington visited home-
folks Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. s. Pennington and
daughter Mecca attended church at
Twin Branch Sunday.
Mrs, Della Webb was the guest OF
her father at this place Sunday.
Dewey Kitchen has returned home
from West Virginia.
Several of our neighbor boys will
leave Saturday for Camp Taylor
Sam Cordell, John Moore, Jim Berry
and Milton Moore of Cordell attended
the Ice creamfestival at Pollys Chapel
Saturday night.
Prof Dennis Kitchen attended
churc at Jattie Sunday.
Arlena Racie and Estill Leadingham
of Carter Co, were the guests OF their
grandparents at this place last week.
Success to the good old News.
Tom and Jim.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-09-06
Oslo.

Quite number from this place at
tended the annual conference at Nor
gan Creek the past week
We are very sorry to see some of
the schools in this part of the county
vacant on account of teachers resign
Eng for better salaries. We should
think of the development of education
in our countrys crisis and not so
much of the former.
The farmers are preparing for corn
cutting and the crops are very good
here though the drought did much
damage in some places.
Clyde lobe has returned home after
q Two weeks stay at Columbus bar
racks. He enlisted but was rejected.
being too young for the serviceI.
Whine and Beckham Hughes left
Ter employment at Chattaroy, w. Va.
Misses Birdie and Hattie lobe at
tended the meeting at Morgan Sunday.
We are informed that Henry lobe
hears from his two sons in France,
Vessie and Elisha They enjoyed the
celebration of the 4th of July in that
beautiful country. He has third son
IN service in New Jersey.
We are very much grieveG to hear
of the death of Noah Chaffins daugh-
ter.
There will be an ice cream supper at
the Upper Twins school house Satur-
day night. September IA for the Red
Gross Everybody come and let's help
Our boys over there.
Pansy.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-09-06
Facts About Siberia.
j. W. HAMMOND

The conquest of Siberia was begun
by the Cossacks in 1880.
About 80 per cent of the population
of Siberia is OF Russian origin.
Nine-tenths of the Inhabitants OF
Western Siberia are engaged in agri-
culture.
The entire population of Siberia is
estimated at little more than 1000 900
The Siberian winters are long and
exceedingly severe, the summers short
and hot.
Siberia has been the greatest source
of supply of fur trade of the world.
While Siberia has many schools II
has but one university, which is located
atTomsk.
Siberia has an area more than one
and one half times as great as that OF
the United States
Vladivostok the great Siberian port
on the Pacific, was founded by Rus
STA in the year 1860
Siberia contains rich deposits of
graphite, used chiefly in the manu-
facture of lead pencils.
Virtually all of the crops common to
the temperate zone can be produced in
abundance in the vast agricultural
regions of Southern Siberia.
The Trans Siberian railway repre-
sents the greatest railway undertaking
in the world. 1t cost nearly SITS, 600, 900
and took eleven years tobuild.
The city of Tomsk is the largest
manufacturing center of Siberia, hav-
ing flour mills, potterfes, iron foundries
sugar refineries and variety of other
factories.
A uniform system of justice in ST.
IBERIA was Instituted by the Car in
1897 in place of the existing arbitrary
system of administration by autocrat-
ic officials.
Peter the Great began to send pris
oners to Siberia in 1710. The system
was continued for 200 years, until abol-
fshed in 1910, except in the case of po-
litical offenders.
Irkutsk. the seat of the administra-
ton of Government in Siberia, is city
of more than 125,0O0 inhabitants and
contains many handsome buildings and
modern improvements.
OF recent years thousands of Russian
peasants have settled in Siberia to
carry on agriculture, and nearly all the
fertile soil free of forest and outside
the steppes has been occupied.
One of principal Siberian cities is
Tobolsk, the commercial center of the
vast Province OF Tobolsk, which ex-
tends over an area of 100000 square
miles, a large portion of which however
is practically inhabited. The most
prominent building in the city is the
Kremlin, built in imitation of the great
citadel in Moscow. This structure was
erected by Swedish prisoners of war
captured by Peter the Great at the bat
tie of Poltava in 1903.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-09-06
YATEsvILLE

on last Sunday morning the an
nouncements came through the Yates
vile switchboard of deaths that had
occurred at different points Saturday
night or early Sunday morning. One
was that OF Miss Jessie Chaffln, OF
the mouth OF Twin Branch, another
was brother-in -law of Sam Swinney
who lives here, by the name of Jack
Marcum. who had lived in Hunting
ton. w. Va. and the other was a Mrs.
Anderson and lived somewhere in the
Newcomb neighborhood
sS1ql sIsq uoIJ lIod9I lsBI Ino eouIS
good oil wells have been struck as fol.
lows:
One on the land OF James Clark,
One on the land OF a. Collinsworth.
One on the land OF Mrs. Hannah
Lackey.
The three above wells are right un
with the best in the field. The next
drilling to be done is No, ~ on the land
OF VIM. Savage and No. on the land
or Miss Mary Kelly.
The coal supply is to be very short
for drilling and other purposes as two
OF our regular miners are In the army
and two others have gone into some
thing else that pays better, which
leaves here at our mines only one min
err and he is very badly crippled up
from blood poison.
Our corn crops through here are al
most total failE.e and there was
comparatively no wheat sown in our
neighborhood, but back OF us toward
East Fork there has been the greatest
80 lsv,n 10, 10
country. One man on East Fork in
forms us that from seven bushels SOW
ing he threshed 107 bushels of wheat.
Alonzo Belcher threshed 1877 bushels
from five bushels sowing. II all the
farmers would do business compare
tive to the above next year our boys
at the front would have plenty of bis
cults to eat while they are licking the
kaiser and his hosts.
James Woods, William Taylor and
Wesley Jordan passed through here
with fine drove of cattle to be ship
ped to the Cincinnati markets during
the present week.
James Elkins and ELAN Short both
had the misfortune to receive very Sc
we're burns while at work in the oil
fields, but both have so improved that
they are able to be about.
Grammar Isaac Cunningham passed
here enroute to Louisa Sat
urday where he met his daughter who
came up from Cincinnati to visit, and
who is Mrs. Stella Ratcliff.
The recent showers are greatly i'm
proving our fall pastures.
Covington Diamond, who has been
lnc, tod in California In the aarvira NJ
Uncle Sam, is home on a 30 days fur
Iough.
Born, on the LIST inst. to Mr.. and
Mrs. Bascom Thacker, a young Ameri-
can soldier, but he Is most too young |
Tor the next registration.
Milt l., Carter and Grover Bradley |
nave the contract of furnishing the coal |
'or the drilling Of the wells on the
Savage and Mary Kelly tracts.
Country Greenhorn.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-09-06

After the kaiser has wiped out all
international laws by violating every
1ane OF them that has been in the way
of his bar'barous methods, he whines
TO his own people about the Allies
bombing the town of Frankfort, in
Germany. saying it is in violation of
international law. And this after he
has sent his air forces over England
and France for four years. killed
Thousands of innocent women and
children by bombing. The dirty beast
can only be touched by giving him his
own medicine. When taken prisoner,
ns he must and shall be, wouldn't it
be interesting and charming to hear
him howl and cry and plead interna-
tionai law and the laws of humanity il
a party of Belgians Were detailed to
nail him to barn door like he had
como OF them crucified?
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-09-06
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Pa SOLDIER WRITES FROM =
IA CAMP SHERIDAN, ALA. r;
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Friends and relatives in Lawrence
and johnson counties:--We got down
here safely and are getting along nice
ly.
we drill about eigh; hours day,
except Saturday and Sunday. We don't
drill very much on Saturday AID rome
on Sunday. We are In n strange place
AID WITH new faces, ne y f-ltuios snd
practically everything is new to us
down here. They have church and
Sunday school on Sunday and ball
games, and we are enjoying army life
fine. We wish to thank the Rec Cross
very much for the dinner we received
at Ashland, KY. and for their refresh
ments at Birmingham, Ala. We are
getting very anxious to cross over the
big pond to do our little bit in getting
the kaiser. but we are afraid we win
be too late to get there in time to do
our bit.
: We certainly admire and appreciate
your sympathy for US, while we were
leaving you. Never can our souls for
get the friends we had found so kind
while at home. They shall bear with
us memories of pleasurable hours, rich
in social days, jeweled with pure de-
lights, that will blow with charmed
air, as soft as midsummer nights Mo-
ments like them may be as flower
that fades, but memories of them is a
lasting perfume.
From five chums,
SHERMAN LYONS, n
HUBERT CAUDILL,
ARLIE BORDERS,
HUBERT SMITH,
GILBERT CAUDILL.
Camp Sheridan. Ala. Co. u. G7 INIT.
September 2, 1918.