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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-06-20
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
AVIATION OF BRuTEs

From the New York Herald
 If MT IT P. O'Connor's countrymen hold the same view as he does with re- tallty, the torpedoing of the Leinster, there should be an end once and for all to any sympathy of any section of the Irish people with the Germans. Pol- tics, like adversity, makes strange bed- fellows and thus it was that before the war the unionists and anti-home rulers of Ireland, headed by Sir Edward Car son, purchased arms from Germany for use against the constituted authorities of Great Britain, should they attempt to set up home rule in Ireland On the other hand, after Great Britain entered the war against Germany few Irish ene- mics of that country who favored not merely self government for Ireland, but complete separation from the United Kingdom, entered into a very deplorable conspiracy which led to a widening of the breach between England and Ire land.
 Neither side has any reason for satis- faction, still less pride, for it's commerce with the country which MT. Balfour, speaking for him with unusual warmth, has rightly designated as a nation of brutes. Let us hope that both are heart ily sick and ashamed of the connection the sinking of the Leinster in the Irish channel and the deliberate and cold blooded murder of 300 Irish as well as English and American men, women ana children, they will make common cause against the world foe. and that out or it will come permanent agreement ana mutual understanding.
 The Leinster incident is equaled if not excelled. in atrocity by the sinking of the steamship Ticonderoga, 17oo miles off the Atlantic coast, according to the tale of twenty survivors out of 25O aboard. In this case the commander Of the U-boat made deliberate attempt to slaughter every survivor who had taken to lifeboats and rafts. and very nearly succeeded in carrying out the spurlos versenkt idea. These things are being done at the same time that Germany, through her statesmen and diplomatists,
 is seeking to arrive at peace with those she has already immeasurably wronged and she is. moreover. still scheming to sit at table and confer as to terms Of armistice, evacuation and compensation with entente representatives. It cannot be believed that there is a single entente statesman who would be willing to meet and confer on these or kindred subjects with representative of the present criminal and blood stained German gov ernment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19

that there shall be no peace until the wrong done Alsace-Lorraine is righted. These provinces must be given back ito France. For nearly fifty years, as the President pointed out, they have unsettled the peace of the world. :" Until quite recently German leaders insisted that Alsace-Lorraine could not be ceded to France, but disasters along the western front and internal disturbances have shown conclusive ly that Germany will not be able to dictate the terms of peace. She will have to take what the allies offer.
 Alsace Lorraine will not be stumb- ling bleek to peace. They would have been had the allies in the moment of victory agreed to a compromise. For tunately for France and her provinces and for the whole world, the diplo- macy of President Wilson was more than equal to the arts of the Huns. German attempts to start prolonged negotiations were nipped in the bud, So far as the allies are concerned, the fate of Alsace Lorraine is already set tied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
LIKE M,LUKE SAYS

It makes a woman mad all over when she discovers that just because her papy hasn't got four legs and a wooly hlde and tail and bark she can't rent flat in the average flat building
 What has become of the old fashioned dude who had hyphen in his name?
 It doesn't hurt to tell the truth once in a while. For every husband who is too good for his wife there are nine wives who are too good for their hus- bands.
 Funny about mans hearing. He can hear pleasure whispering half mile Iaway when he can't hear duty shouting into his ear.
 A man won't admit that he is a cow ard But he will take lot more back talk from big man than he will from Ia little man.
 And there is the kind of man who, when he buys Liberty Bond, thinks la column of space . his loyalty and generosity.
 There is a hek of lot of difference between having fortune smile upon you and having fortune laugh at you.
 This is great world. We put in our days trying to find some way to save time and put in our nights trying to find some way to kill time.
 Any wife knows that her husband is sound asleep when she can hear the sound for two squares It takes a married man about year to learn that husbands should be seen and not heard. Woman has been riddle to man for thousands of years But she is the one riddle that he has always refused to give up
 There is always about 10 years diff ference between what a woman says her age is and what her women friends say lit is.
 When the average husband gets home late his slogan is: If at first she won't believe. lie. lie. lie again"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
Highly Satisfactory
 Are Hog Sales Days

THE Alabama extension service x at Auburn reports that the hog sales days during the past few weeks were highly satisfactory. Among the points where hogs were sold are Pitts view, Headland and Abbeville, prices ranging from $1650 to $16.75 per hundred for those of class one, one cent less for number twos and two icents less for number thIees
 The hogs are classified by weight. A number one weighs 165 pounds or more and must be in good condition; number two, 135 to 165 pounds, and number three from 90 to 135 pounds. The difference in price is considered Legitimate on account of weight. The extension service says: At these sales the hogs are carefully graded, and while hog does not have to be
 
 }pure bred in order to be classed as number one, yet a razorback, pine hill rooter cannot find it's way into this class, but that kind of hog is be- coming conspicuous in Alabama by it's absence. Any hog weighing enough to fall in class one, but being off in quality, is, automatically placed in class two"
 Since the farmers have learned the importance of improved breeding few products of husbandry pay better than hogs. The more hogs the greater the value of the farmers corn crop. If corn rays as a market commodity it pays far more when fed to swine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
HUNS FEAR AMERICANS

From Stars and Stripes.
 Somewhere, rumbling about in the Ger man soldiers think box is the idea that the American soldiers are a species of wild Indian fighter that kills, tortures, or at least abuses his prisoners. Some times it amounts to belief and some times it is only a suspicion, but there can be no doubt that the notion has been more or less systematically passed out through the German army
 It was only coincident that 50 cap- tured boches, before being taken further on their journey to the o s, were lined up recently in front of some newly dug graves, but the boches didn't know it. They though they were going to be shot and showed in the holes, and the Kaiser, if he could have witnessed it.. would undoubtedly have been deeply pained at the pasty expression which came over the countenances of this bunch of his would be world beaters Tn the face of their imagined end.
 One German soldier, quaking in terror, held out an iron cross and a pocket book full of pfennig as the price of hls life and made an impassioned, if some what excited, plea on behalf of his wire and family.
 On another occasion a couple of dozen prisoners were quartered for the nlgnt in a cave used as an American F. C. AS they were out of the gas danger zone, their masks were taken from them.
 The next morning dozen American soldiers missed their gas masks on aWak- ing, and these were later found in pos session of q dozen Germans. Evidently, the Germans suspected they were put in the cave and relieved of their masks to be gassed and, in some unexplained man ner, annexed the American masks to pc on the safe side.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
Alsace-L Lorraine Will
 Be Given to France

A USAGE and Lorraine symbolize R the objects for which America and her allies are fighting. Frances lost provinces were taken from her at the point of the sword. Ever since the -Prussian war they have been held in subjection to the Hohen- zollern dynasty That their population is now largely German is due to the fact that they have been systemati- cally exploited and many of the form CT inhabitants who were French have been driven out. Those who remained have been given liberal doses of kul- tur. They have experienced to limit ed degree what the Belgians have undergone since Germany's armies in vaded Belgium and began the terror ization of it's civil population.
 President Wilson has made it clear
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
Influenza Lessens
 Coal Production

NNTERE it not for the influenza wv Alabama's weekly coal pro-
 duction would be much greater than lit is.
 The miners have manifested a dis position to respond periodically to the urgent appeals of the fuel admins tration for a maximum of effort, and
 many who have escaped the influenza
 arc putting in full time
 But considerable percentage of
 the mine workers are on the sick list
 and as consequence the output last week was below 100000 tons again. The epidemic has been less serious in the Birmingham district than in many other sections and there is ground for hope that it will soon reach the vanishing point. The government
 may then look for new high records lin coal production in Alabama-some- thing like 450,00O to 5OO,O0O tons a week. Every ton is needed for the
 winning of the war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
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Jefferson County
 Raises Its Quota

1 1T F all the subscriptions to the fourth l ll Liberty Loan rendered by busi- ness concerns and individuals in Jeff ferson county are completed by mak- ing the initial payments Chairman Murray Brown will be able to report a substantial oversubscription. This is the last day that pledges can be validated, and every subscriber who has failed to give this matter at- tention is urged to act before it is too late.
 l On the home-stretch the various armies will push the canvass with ltheir accustomed energy and it is eX- lpected that hundreds of citizens who have not subscribed, but who are well able to do so, will respond today to the governments appeal. Subscrip- tions for the smaller denominations of Bonds make big total.
 To reach the goal is noteworthy achievement. But with a.liyely drive this morning Jefferson county will go well over the top
 The countys quota was $9,289,0 ,000. The total will probably be rounded out to ten million dollars. But such a splendid record will depend upon all the subscriptions being made good before the campaign closes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19

 thusiasm when he Addressed a hall full of Germans in New York. by lambast- ready to kick the Kaiser downhill.
 !. x % Scientists say the influenza germ is so small it cannot be seen with a micro scope. That may be another reason why the influenza germ is preferable to a cootie for close companionship.
 < * # Captured German soldiers can't under- stand why the war is going on. They probably haven't had chance to read President Wilson's latest peace notes.
 x T * In the nature of things it is more pa triotic to buy a Liberty Bond from a young woman with freckles and a pug nose than from a golden-haired fairy.
 # * $ There's going to be some excitement in 'Possum Hollow when Private Bill Smith comes home from France wearing the Croix de Guerre.
 * < x Washington's apartment house prof iteers should respectfully uncover in the presence of their superiors, the coffin profiteers.
 The hands of the clock will be turned back one hour October 27. Think of it! Sixty minutes added to that early-morn- ing nap.
 During the years left to them, Won Hindenburg and Won Ludendorff are ex- pected to indulge in mutual lamenta' tions Those Germans who die at their ma chine guns at least won't have to bother their heads about the fatherlands fu- ture.
 At any rate Emperor Charles doesn't have to consult a weather sharp to find out which way the winds blowing.
 < T: # It's lucky thing for influenza victims that doctors nowadays drive speedy flivvers instead of old gray nags
 x # 4 a st can for the Fourth Liberty Loan Mir. McAdoo has told you what to do Go and do it.
 + T # It might be a good idea to dust off the island of Elba in preparation for\ the kaisers coming.
 < When the word of dheeler is the law in Berlin we shall know that de- mocracy has arrived.
 i. a, There is tremendous amount of fall housecleaning going on in Germany and Austria Hungary.
 # # # When Longfellow wrote his poem about Bruges the Hun was an unknown quan- tity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
X KING WORTH WHILE

From the Nashville Banner.
 Albert, as princely a figure as ever adorned throne, will soon take charge of his ravaged country and find an en- thusiastic welcome in the hearts of all his countrymen, to whom his bravery has been an inspiration through the dark hours and who. with all the ruins that war inflicted upon them. have laid honor above all else
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19

reason of my fearlessness. The finest end
 wish for is to die for my country "D'Annunzio will surely find that he has message for his countrymen after
 the war as well worth saying and hear ing as when Italy's decision still hung in the balance It is probably true to say that the burning words which he addressed to his countrymen and coun- trywomen during those critical days wielded far more profound influence in Italy than the words of any of her statesmen. A poet in Italy may still be a true maker There must be many in this country who remember the lyrical ! frenzy with which he denounced the historic crimes of Austria against Italy at the Garibaldi celebrations at Genoa and the wild excitement which they cre- ated throughout the length and breadth of the peninsula.
 And ever since that hour it has been D'Annunzio's high mission to be an ex- ample of daring and contempt of death' to keep bright the vision of the Greater Italy in the eyes of those of his country men who may have Sbeen tempted to des- pondency by hope long deferred and by unlooked-for msfortunes. To the ltahan nation throughout the war D DAnnunzio has been a perpetual inspiration. true, he is still looked askance at in certain quarters. Some of his novels figure, we believe, on the Index'-hut there IS brave company even there. Moralists used to shake their heads over much of his work, and, to be quite frank, they could often make out a>good case for some of their objections.
 "D'Annunzio was once classed among the decadents! At least he has outlived that temporary phase. There is nothing suggestive of decadence in flight to and from Vienna through 700 miles of air. The critics have said of him that he is supreme fin his art, but along the lower levels; that his genius does not carry him to the holy places and to the sanctuaries of life; that he is an idealisr only of what is seen and heard. But they grant him a a>magical style, an irre- sistible eloquence. wondrous color. and flaming passion, and since Italy en- tered the war he has placed all these gifts unreservedly at the service of the land which is still a great mother of mon. What our stolid British authorities would have done with D'Annunzio, if one had happened to be born among us, we do not know. Nor will we speculate. But happy Italy! whose supreme liv- ing master of the spoken word is per mittsd to live poetry as D'Annunzio has
 been living it, and to thrill with glorious
 bursts of patriotic song other nations than his own
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 GERMfN GRAVEYARD
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
THE LADY WITH THE WHITE FAN

| By Anatole Franco
 6ICHOUANG-T of the rand ot l Soung, was a learned mandarin S Serenely happy in the thought
 that he had escaped the universal folly
 of man-the pursuit of useless riches and I vain honors-the sage spent his days
 wandering over the flowery slopes of the
 hills about his home While walking | aimlessly one morning he found himself 1 in the midst of vast cemetery where
 the dead lay buried beneath mounds of | turned soil The sight of the number | less graves turned his thoughts to the | fate of man.
 Alas" he unused. this is the final resting place. Once in the grave, the l light of day is lost forever. | Deep in thought, he suddenly noticed a l young woman dressed in the long, white,
 seamless garb of mourning, seated near
 freshly made grave, over which she was waving large white fan.
 Tchouang -Tsen, curious to learn the req
 son for such strange behavior, bowed
 politely to her and said: | May I be so bold, madame, as to ask | who lies buried here, and why you trou- ble yourself to fan the soil which covers | him?" | The lady, never pausing for moment lin her singular task, blushed, lowered
 her head, and murmured few inaudi-
 ble words Although TchouangT Tsen re- peated his question several times, she 1 took no further notice of him, but con- l tinued to play her fan with renewed l vigor.
 1 The mandarin had no choice but to so on his way; but turning back as he
 walked. he saw the fan still beating the
 air like the wing of a huge white but terfly.
 Suddenly an old woman whom he had
 not seen before, signaled him to follow her. and when she had led hiW'to a spot
 hidden from view, she said: q will answer the questions you asked of my mistress, and hope that in return you will give me the means to buy from
 the priests magic scroll to prolong my life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
THE ARMY, OF THE DEAD

Barry Pain in the Westminster Gazett l dreamed that overhead
 l saw in the twilight gray, The Army of the Dead
 Marching upon it's way So still and passionless.
 With faces so serene, That scarcely could one guess Such men in war had been. No mark of hurt they bore, Nor smoke. nor battle stain; Nor suffered any more
 Famine, fatigue or pain; Nor any lust or hate
 Now fingered in their eyes Who have fulfilled their fate Have lost all enmities. A ne@ and greater pride
 So Guenched the pride of race That foes marched side by side Who once fought face to face. That ehostly army's plan
 Knows but one race, one rod All nations there are Men
 And the one King is God. No longer on their ears z
 The bugle's summons falls: Beyond these tangled spheres The archangel's trumpet calls; And by that trumpet led
 Far up the exalted sky The Arm, of the Dead
 Gees - nd still goes by SLoolxi' ard, standing mute:
 ute!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
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Crowds In Berlin Shout
 Down With Hohenlollerns

M LTHOUGH little Holland has had EA her hands full trying to keep her neutrality on straight, she has found tine to tyAnsmit q great deal of war news from Germany to entente countries, some of It authentic and all of it interesting. The indefatigabe newspaper men of Holland and Swift zerland have been able to give the world a fairly comprehensive idea of what has been going on in Germany for the past four years,
 A delayed dispatch of the London Times Philadelphia Public Ledger service from Amsterdam comments on "violent anti-dynastic manifestations in Berlin Thursday" October 10. At that time Berlin was reported in a ferment. Huge crowds gathered all along Inter den Linden, Berlin's fa- nous thoroughfare, and in front of the imperial palace and the Bulgarian le- gation shouting, "We want peace! Stop the war! Down with the Hohen- zollerns!' They even smashed some of the Kaiser's sacred statues erected to his Prussian forebears. There were strikes at Essen and it is highly sig nificant that the soldiers there Ire fused to fire on the mobs, with whom they sympathize.' The police were powerless to quell the disturbance.
 There was time when such reports emanating from Germany might have been regarded with suspicion, as be- ing German propaganda circulated to mislead the allies. This is no longer the case. Germany and Austria -Hun- gary seethe with unrest. Democracy is marching on. Already it has set it's foot firmly on lands formerly given over to the absolute rule of Hohen- zollerns and Hapsburgs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
AN ARMY DEFINITION

From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph The sergeant was asking a few raw recruits general knowledge questions
 'Frvate Pigtails, what is hill?' he asked suddenly.
 "Oh-er----" stammered Pigtails.
 Come on--quick!' rapped out the ser geant.
 "Oh.'' said Pigtails, il should say it was a field with it's back up."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19

marching by a certain crossing place of the Marne. east of Chateau Thierry, there is somebody who points a hand toward the water and says:
 "The river bottom there Is a German graveyard. Hundreds of German soldiers marched up to that farthest bank and were shattered by Yankee md Achine guns and rifles firing from the top of this emba nkment here.
 German engineers, in the face of that fire, threw down 60-foot pontoon bridge. bur their infantrymen were swept from the blanks before they reached mid stream.
 Yankee engineers higher up the stream launched a barge-a flat, raft-like baat with a deck about 20 feet square. Under that deck were packed hundreds of pounds of T. N. T The deck was cov- cred with straw and heavy tar. The straw and tar were set afire. The barge, flaming and almost hidden by thick, black smoke went drifting down toward the German bridge The Germans board ed the barge as it neared the bridge and began stamping the burning tarred straw,
 Almost at the side of the bridge the barge blew up with the effect of a tor pedo or mine, and through the column of water smoke. fire and planking Ger man arms and legs could be seen hurtling 10 splash in the river and strew the banks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
IT'S A FINE OLD TOWN

From the Robinson GID Argus
 Under the open sky, the dripping light of stars, the fire e-streaked skies, and lulled by the booming of distant cannon and the wall of screaming shells, nearly two million men asleep tonight on the old camp ground in LaBelle France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
cAmInunMdAaaxfH

F. S.-I am writing this in the pasto- rum. Pastor Rucker has just stuck his head in and said. What do you reck- on?' T dunno" l answered. Well" he replied, "a Methodist neighbor has just sent me fine pig Then" said l, church union is nearer than thought. if Methodist layman is going to fur nish 'rooter' for Baptist parson."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19

BEGINNING THE DAY-Oh, my God, I stand abashed in the pres- cnce of Thy great ones. They are athletes beside whom l am soft and weak; they are saints with God in their eyes, while l am poor lag gard by the way. But Lord, there is One who lifts me and promises to make me like Himself. I follow Him with new hope. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
AN AFFLUENT CITIZEN.

My boy, I'm afraid you'n never make an automobile salesman said the man. ager.
 Why, sir?"
 You showed that fellow in overalls s7oOO limousine. Men in overalls don't buy that kind of car.''
 This one did. He's a ship riveter."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
D'ANNUNzIO

From the London Telegraph
 They tell stories in Italy of Capt. Gab- riele D'Annunzio's exploits in the field at the beginning of the war, when he sought death and found it not as jun for officer with his regiment Infantry men. motorboat passenger, indomitable flier-there is a superb record for lux ury ,loving poet, who, when the war broke out. had passed his lfiftieth birth day. D'Annunzio is now 54 years of age, and he said to a friend the other day: "Every time l go off on an expedition I hope it will be my last. That is the