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The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1918-08-27
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The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1918-08-27
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
LEFT US HAVE THE FA(

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 @Rf1ICISM of the department oI II justice in it's dealings With en' S emy aliens has been inevitable
 Before the war broke out Americans aid not realize how far-reaching the German spy system was, how many weapons u used or wha. methods it employed. ful' thermore, our laws were ill-adapted 10 suppress the propa gandists who were equally ready to work by violence or intrigue. Even after the bad Faith D. inc German embassy had been fully aA- posed. the forces it had set in motion were but inperfectly restrained. But II Is now clea. that the way has been prepared for action which will put an end forever to the backfire from German agents, conscious or unconscious. Tho disclosures in the case of the New YorS Mail are only the first chapter in the narrative of chicanery and fraud. Ineie is every reason to believe that the de- partment has further information which if can us, to advantage in rounding up the whole crew of miscreants. Senator Kings demand for a searching investl- cation seems to have been anticipated already. It is of the utmost importance that no stone should be left unturned
 to bring tc book every guilty person
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
Heroic Death of Quentin Roosevelt

II IEUT. QUENTIN ROOSEVELT, e the former Presidents young est son, who was killed in an air flight in France, was known for his pluck and daring, and his untimely end emphasizes anew the manifold sacrifices that valorous men are mak- ing for liberty's sake.
 The sympathies of the nation will
 go out to Colonel Roosevelt. He was devoted to his youngest born, but in- lstead of vail of lament, on receiv- ling the tidings of the boys death, lissued statement inspired by lofty fortitude and patriotism of a heroic mold. It was characteristic alike of a proud father and a high spirited man.
 Our casualty list will grow rapidly and many homes will be filled with mourning; but Colonel Roosevelt's words reflect the sentiments of count less men whose sons. have fallen in action or who are lover there" ready to die for country and humanity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
Camp M Clellan's
 Sewerage System

NONSTRUCTION work on the inn W mense sewerage system at Camp Mcclellan is now we'll under way and when completed no canton ment in this country will have more modern sewerage conveniences. It will be in fact the last word in this class of engineering, and is regarded by the engineering profession as a wonderful feat.
 There are sixteen miles of main and five miles of service pipe, but the topography of the camp and vicinity is such as to obviate the necessity of a pumping station, gravity being suffi- cient to insure free movement of the sewage. There will be service con- nections with all the lavatories and mess shacks by six-inch pipe to the mains.
 The disposal plant is in the valley near the Jacksonville pike, beyond which are several miles of descending areas, and through which will flow in the bed of large creek the gush- ing stream from the plant thoroughly purified. The self qualification nature of this system is said to be the most scientific achievement in filtration.
 The engineering plan of Camp Me Clellan's great sewer was prepared by Morris Knowles of Pittsburg, who few years ago maintained an office apd residence in Birmingham. The Work is under the immediate super vision of Andrew B. Hargis, deputy chief engineer, and the army super vision of Capt. Robert E. Scott of the quartermaster corps.
 The depth of the sewerage varies AIom eiSHl Co IHiily leeI. mere are six hundred feet of tunnel through a hill in the neighborhood of the 114th infantry regimental quarters. This tunnel will be supplied with eighteen inch pipe, or will consist rather of six one hundred-feet subterranean ex- cavations, connecting with each other feet deep. An engineer, in speaking of the work, said: Mountains and streams have not stood in the way of this engineering feat. It is an under camp and securely enclosed sanitary wasteway, drawing like a suction pipe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
A QUESTION oF RAMA

From Harpers Magazine,
 A recruit sat puffing away on cigar cite as a general passed by. Turning back, the general inquired in perfect friendlinAss of the recruit: My boy do you know that you are supposed to stand at attention and salute officers who pass you?'
 Yes knew the boy replied, but l haven't seen any yet
 We'll remarked the general, T am nothing hu. mere general, my boy, but one of these days second lieutenan' is going to come along and reprimand you severely for your lack of observa- tion."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
LESSON FOR sLACkER

New York Correspondence Pittsburg
 Dispatch
 Every day in Madison Square park, in the white tent with the Red Cross on it's roof. there is an object lesson for the stacker. be he man or woman, It it there that the Madison Square auxiliary makes its home. It is there. at the noon hour, that, from blocks around come young girls and women who work in the shops offices and fac tories to pass their hour in helping Uncle Sam to make his soldier boys well and comfortable Sometimes there are as many as 300 of these noonday workers, knitting socks, good. wan, ones up to the military standard. You caunot imagine" said the young woman in charge, what it means to these girls to meet here every day. It is not only war work. Underneath it there seems to be a comm on bond which unites all these workers as sisters. Some of them have taken such a fancy to it that they have given up all idea of vacation They get all the fresh air they need right here in the open and they be- lieve they can do more god than idiine away their time in the country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

A woman says that she is keeping boarders when what she really means l is that the boarders are keeping her. man never says much about the s100 he owes some other fellow. But he makes a lot of fuss over the Sl some other fellow owes him. l Any fathead can make parrot talk i But it takes a brave man to make a 1 woman quit talking.
 1 lazy man gets lot of comfort out 1 of the adage that the race is not al ways to the swift.
 /. A poker face fools many d man. The ! fellow with the vacant. expression who looks like there was nobody home may be holding a full house
 There are times when a henpeck ed husband would almost give his right eye to be able to tell his wife just
 what he thinks of her ! Men are not very observant And if q fellow can tell you the color of a girls eyes you might as well make up your mind what you are going to buy him for wedding present.
 Preaching doesn't do any harm. The 1 trouble is that so few of us are willing
 to practice when we get through preaching.
 1 When sh begins to notice that he l has pimples on his neck and he be- begins to notice that She has fuzz on i her upper lip, the honeymoon goes out in the back alley and drinks a dollar S worth of carbolic acid. l married man might not bet that
 tomorrow will come. But he will bet i that if tomorrow does come he will find wad of his wifes hair in the comb when he starts 10 aics, in the niorn- ing.
 1 It only takes boy baby about year to learn how to put his foot in his mouth. But it takes some of them 50 years to break themselves of the habit.
 A fillum heroine announces that too many of the girls of today are flat busted. Yes dearies, and too manly of
 che modern men aie that way. too. l girl gets almost as sore if you truboer at her as she does If you do not pay any attention to her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18

Mrs Humphrey Ward. in Harpers s Magazine.
 TIT was in 1885 that l began Robert II Elsmere" The book took me three 0 years, nearly, to write. Again and again I found myself dreaming that ihc end was near and publication only q month or two away, only to sink back on the disn,a. conviction that the sec ond or the first, or the third volume or some portion of each, must be re written, if l vas to satisfy myself at all. [ actually wrote the last words of the out afterwards, from my tiny writing room at tine end of the drawing room, shaken with tears and wondering, as sat aonc oIi the floor, by the ire, n the front room, what life would be like now that the book was done. But 1t came out. year of incessant hard work, of rewriting. and much nervous eXhaus tion For all the work was saddened and made difficult by the fact that my mothers long illness was nearing it's end and that I was torn necessarily between the claim of the book and the desire to be with her whenever hcouid possibly be spared from my home and children
 The novel is the most elastic, ttfs most adptarle of forms No one has right to set limits to it's range. There is only one final test. Does it interest,"
 Does it appeal? Personally, I should add another. Does it make, in the lons run, for beauty? Beauty taken in the largest and most generous sense, anu ], especially as including discord, the harsh and tangled notes which enrich the rest but still beauty-as Tolstoi was mas ter of it.
 But al ans rate, no one will deny tna' interest is the crucial matter.
 Thers are five and twenty ways Of constructing tribal lays
 And every single one of them IS risht Always supposins that the way ehoseh ouckens the breath and stirs the near. of those who listen. But when the sub feet chosen has two aspects, the one m 1 tellectuai and logical, the other poetic , and emotional tfe difficulty of holdins | ,he balance between them so that neithe:
 overpowers the other. and interest is maintained, is admittedly great ''' 1 It was on my way home (April, isse' 1 from I.aleham. after my uncles oufiai l fMattneW Arnold, her Uncle Matt
 there, thas George Smith, my pupiisher'
 gave me fresh and astonishing news oi "Robert Elsemere' success The GIT culating libraries were being fretted to | death for ccpies, and the whirlwnd o' 1 talk was constantly rising. A little later 1 in the same month of April. if re member rishr, I was going from Water. 1 loo to Godalming and Borough farmi
 when. just as the train was starting. a
 lady rushed along the platform waviat
 book aofs and signalling to anothe'
 lady who vas evidently waiting to se* l her oft .,l've got it, I've got it.' she | said. tri.lmphantly. rGet in, ma am, Ee; 1 in.'' said the porter, bundlins her tntu
 the compartment where I sat alone Then
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
LONGER RANGE AT sTs
From the Pittsburg Dispatch

From the Pittsburg DlSpatchN
 Rumors that the German naAA} sas thorities are preparing susNiAse tcF the British and allied fleets srst&ii- ing longer range guns on waraHtps E'sss' sibly double the range Of @a@s ars being heard from Amsterdam Nsa puH' pose is said to be to maks sqrtH against Britain's grand fleet tts aaFs
 Dor at Scapa Flow in the NestH 9s Scotland. Recalling how Von n@as aus 'perior range overwhei imed sAaHltNs Craddock in Chilean waters and nov " was avenged by Admiral StuIas m shs same manner, it may be thcNSN1 tha3 German ships armed with SapsrSeaA might thereby lombard the Britlsf fleet at a distance where they wou'a os su able to reply, effectively.
 Hudson Maxim admits the faAsibistty of transferring the German 6c gais4 gun to shipboard. but doubts the aCcuVeay of its aim at sea- If such an atteasnt were made no doubt the Brlksse@ anfs allied sea commanders will b. read meet it. Their superiority il nnnsf would offset any initial gain the keei man supergun might give. lpn~-t*llt s attack on the British naval headqaAss fters would be sure to bring a~Arn5 1Rx aviators and submarines to the HsfF$Sss
 while the closing in of the maltituSsn sn ~ GUS allied sea craft would socn dtAApsf of the enen,y's advantage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
EVENING BY THE SSs..

4,v Algernon Charles SwinbuFre. It was between the night and day
 The trees looked weary--onc pN eBs Against the west they seemed s0 siFay And yet were steady. The Ssa ssiss In a sick doubt of color lay
 Across the waters belt of aun On the weak wind scarce flakes ol teasA There floated hardly borne a ( all From the rent edge of water--sor9s
 Between slack gusts the wird itt s.s The bright brine could not O. erecne
 That pale grass on the southern ss That evening one could always hear The sharp hiss of the shingle, Fans As each wave settled heavier,
 The same rough way. This noige M as
 blent As the salt sea wind came and N@uS The wind walled once and ~ss xuut-
 Then ssx
 The white sea touching its $ alt scd xs Dropt in slow low sigh aEsin
 The ripples deepened to thA isA@v. s Across the beach from marsh Nasg fcH Came faint smell of rotten s. Like hurt thing that will TO- 1tk
 The sea laY moaning: waifS nf x otts Strove thro the water painfufAY S # Or lay flat like drenched hat sstftedI Rolled over with the pel,htes. f1<d $ Low places whore the rock -tish n fde
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
Foreign Titles and
 the Constitution

j6NHE official announcement that
 4 the grand cross of the Order of the Bath had been awarded General Pershing and that the grand cross of jSt. Michael and St. George had been lawarded Gen. Tasker H. Bliss brings up the provision of the constitution of the United States which reads: "No person holding any office of profit or trust shall, without the con- sent of Congress, accept of any pres ent, emahment, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign state"
 i The British government in its de- sire to show in some signal way it's regard for the commander of the American army on the western front and of our military representative at ithe supreme war council, induced the King to proffer the titles of knight hood referred to.
 | It has long been the custom in Eng Hand for the sovereign to decorate his army and navy officers of high rank or marked achievement with an order !carrying the prefix title of Sir" lAnd in a monarchical country where titles are bestowed for merit, the cus- ltom seems fitting enough, even in this
 Twentieth century.
 But as the genius of America has
 from the beginning been away from
 titles the time will never come when lany rank or dignity other than that lcreated by Congress will set well at lhome or meet with public approval. l The war has brought the entente Iallies into such close and fraternal
 relationship that their hearts beat as lone. But in the matter of foreign
 titles the constitution must still be kept in mind
 1 If General Pershing and General Bliss are constrained to decline , knighthood there will be no cause for Irritation in the foreign office at Lon-
 don. The situation is so plainly under.
 stood, in fact, that not the least em- barrassment will result
 When King George rendered the
 order of knighthood to former Am bassador to Germany James w. Gerard, there was nothing to prevent him from accepting the honor. He ; was no longer an official of the United
 States; but being typical American
 he laid the "Sir" aside, preferring the
 plain American form of address. General Pershing and General Bliss will doubtless signify their apprecia- ton of King Georges intended com pliment in gracious manner and let . lthe matter drop before Congress has to be consulted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18

every vestige of contaminating matter from the camp"
 As stupendous as the undertaking lis, its cost is not excessive-only $625, ,O0O.
 The disposal feature of the sewer age system reaches the climax. It is the result of much constructive think ing, and when the work is completed sanitarians and municipal engineers from all parts of the United States will visit Camp Mcclellan for the pur- pose of studying the system.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
A Musical Treat

we had great day Sunday at the Woodlawn Baptist church." said Dr. c. Ross Baker, the eloquent pastor, who was granted weeks Vacation The new soooo pipe organ was brilliantly played by Professor Allen, organist of the famous Woodward Avenue Baptist church, Detroit, Mich. It was great musical treat for the congregation. My wife and I will visit the coast, taking In some of my old pastorates at Portland and Seattle. I will have the pleasure of being for a while with my son and fam fly, who live .at Boise, Idaho It will be pleasant to spend q few weeks in the great west, where l spent large part of my ministry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
ADRIFT WITH THE TINE
BANDITS PAST AND PRESENT.

BANDITS PAST AND PRESENT. The old-fashioned bandit.
 As bold as you please, Held up stage coach with
 Assurance and ease He rode like whirlwind
 And never got tired, And his gun claimed victim
 Whenever he fred Iris true that when 'liquored"
 His talk was profane; He sv2@gered unduly
 And seemed a. bit vain; Was sometimes unlettered
 And often quite rude, But that all depended,
 Of course, on his mood. Yet, we greatly prefer him
 To the latter-day sort, Known to the profession
 As a slick city sport He drives swift motor
 And wears the best clothes And is hailed by head walters Wherever he goes. Though his elegant manners, His manicured nails. Would convince you he's never Seen the inside of jails. His auto-bank robbing
 Has won him renown, And when he's not working" He's man about town.
 BRISK BUSINESS DONE. Whats tho matter with Jobson? lie looks down in the mouth.' "He is the latest victim of the Dor othy Teacher Canning club" T don't understand" ITO be more explicit, Jobson is the seventh sutor Miss Teacher has canned since the opening of the summer sea- son.
 NOT so EASY. What sort of war work is Felice do- ing?"
 "A very arduous kind" "Yes?"
 She's writing to six soldiers and ls in only one of them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18

and to make a recurre# tstsf upon our national safets 3ae The arrest of some alien ea h New York $ only the preiimi aga
 How large this German HuSa AaAe was and how it was apr ara S0es tons in which the whole esdN'r1 sS e1@ foun6Ily interested. b%haer %ao le now interncd is authority igs ne stass- ment that it reached the spspsnt f8 sai O0OO0O. This is by no me:uS ncsedA9ie The German propaganda oia net Sesp us out of the war; but ASi tact aes not made 1t futile. Indeed 'aeeA izf&ht be done under the color WY cdi4HN We know how many my E#lA AaAr pers injurious to the naeNri nlarRiH have ,oen heard, how manY fa3Ss fs- mors spread abroad how rsaay &aeese islanders of our allies Wera aNsin @Ssssi No hope of Keeping America oN eg ae war might remain; but therc was etE4ss the hope of weakening heF 'sap strength, Of exciting the ass7ss fos ( premature reace, of averNaa TE'fn 1sft many the indignation her eesssu@s Asa so richly nerited. In eakcs alsn os such scope, the Mail mus llN nsfa only an incident. It is hien siE'e essS the whole Hot was exposeo ind tiAefss should be nc faltering in A9 parpoAs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Killed. Wounded or Missing

Il shudder when I think of the cas- ualty lists that will be coming from France within the next few days sad State Mine Inspector Charles H. Nesbitt. American soldiers, according 10 reports, are in the thick of the flght, and some of the boys who went rom Birmingham, no doubt, are in it.
 The stacker or disloyalist who dares show his head after some of the cas- uaity lists are published will be in for not time unless l misread ali signs We have not yet fully realized what the war in Europe really means. It is too far away from us but when news comes that some Of your own boys boys that we knew and saw every day, are among the killed, wounded CT miss ing we will begin to understand, and then God pity the stacker or disloyaIist who persists in his course of conduct"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
Picturesqkue Personality

The reference in recent story in The Age-Herald to Col l.. T. Taliaferro, the picturesque personality who enlivened ths Birmingham bar back in the eighties and early nineties, brought back vividly to me the first time I ever saw and heard him.. said pr. w. G. Harrison. q was a student at Auburn and he came down and delivered a lecture on Dickens to the student body. His striking figure, his e!oauence and his sympathetic interpre- tation of the great novelist made q last ing impression upon me. He was truly a wonderfully gifted speaker"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
A Signal Honor

T greatly enjoyed the celebration of Chalifoux, the well known musician and music dealer. Being reared in France lit was a great thing for me to have lived long enough in my adopted country
 to see it So signally honor the great na- tional day of my native land. I under stand that more than 5000 was raised
 for the French and Belgian orphans"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
MAYOR MIrCHEL,s ESTATE,

From the Charleston News and Courier.
 Apart from his insurance policies, the entire estate of the late Mayor John | Purroy Mitehel of New York amounte to less ti,an s25,ooo He lived modcstly and devoted practically his entire lite to public service at small salaries. fe, in the last campaign the Hearst pa
 pers did mach to bring about his Ve- feat by the malicious cartoons which they drew of him as the companion and tool cf tEe r;e5s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18
Promise of the.
 . Best State Fair

|1Q IRMINGHAM has an established D record for holding the best lstate fairs in the south.
 Last years exhibition was excep- tionally attractive from several points of view. The live stock displays were distinctly educative and products of the farm in general were highly credi- table to the crop diversitication move ment.
 This years fail. promises to surpass lin agricultural value and the variety of its amusements any yet held
 The fair association has been liberal in it's expenditures for improvements on the grounds and buildings. With the steadily growing interest in ami mai husbandry in Alahama tse er*4'-