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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-08
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WHY THE ~ 2.
By Daniel Henderson.
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 "Y9"
 A ho>>-roof under foreign sky, A httie house by the side of the road Where brother eases his pressing load. Where still the Good Samaritan May come and be a friend to man, Where lonesome lad. in a woman's
 eyes,
 Can see his mothers face arise, Where chap can write what he longs to
 say
 To true-hlue girl in the t. S. A.. Where there are a hundred brands of joy To welcome and cheer a home sick boy. Where caste is banished, and sect is
 gone
 But the Fen Commandments thunder on, Where Youth gains manhood to deny The ceaselesS lure of the Loreleii Where America spans the seas to dwell With her lTssAtly men on the rim of
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SINKING OF THE LEON GAMBETTl

SINhANG OF THE hHAON N+A'ApA- s~
 From 'eThe French Navy in the Adri- l atfc." by Lieut. Robert w. Neeser, in | the November Scribner.
 About midnight on the night of April 26-27, 1915, the lookout on the Leon Gam betta reported q sailing vessel approach ing the cruiser. She was evidently bound for the Adriatic and this called for an examination of her papers by boarding officer. boat was lowered for this pur- pose and Captain Andre of the Gambetta was awaiting the return of his officer, when. at 20 minutes after midnight, the warship was struck by q torpedo. which penetrated the dynamo room and instant E plunged the vessel into darkness A few seconds later a second torpedo ex- ploded in one of the boiler compartments. The engines stopped and the cruiser be- gan to settle. On the bridge Captain Andre gave the orders to assure the safety or his men, while he himself quietly awaited death at his post Of command. For the majority of the ships company there was little hope of rescue, the ex- plosion of the first torpedo having dis abled the wireless, thus preventing the
 sending out of the $ o s call Only a
 few of the boats could be lowered, owing
 to the heavy keel of the cruiser, and
 these were soon filled with men, Be
 steady. my ehiIdrenl" called out the cap
 tain "The boats are for you! We off,
 cers will rernain!' Perfect discipline
 reigned to the last moment. The men
 quietly obeyed the orders of their off
 cers, who seemed to be everywhere, en- couraging and assisting the sailors. Slow ly the great cruiser began to heel. Rafts
 spars and other floating material were
 thrown overheard, and those who. could not find places In the boats were ordered
 to save themselves on them if they could.
 Courage, We die together! rose the
 cry from the bridge. where Admiral
 Sones Captain Andre. and their officers
 were still clinging to the bridge-rail. Then the Leon Gambetta turned and dis
 appeared beneath the waves amid cries
 of "vive Ia France!" from those on
 board
 Not an officer survived the disaster.
 Out of total complement of S2l souls. 6S4 brave officers and men were lost.
 The conduct of every man of the lost cruiser had been heroic. that of their officers magnificent Nous autres, nous resterons"' will forever remain the watch
 word of the French navy
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THE INFERIOR MALE

Hello. pubwaite. What are you do- ing slipping out your back gate?''
 Just beating strategic retreat | gave friendly huckster at the front door the high sign to keep Mrs Dub waite engaged until I put few blocks between myself and home"
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had mastered the difficult art of learn ing how to watt with dignity and pa tience.
 It Is also true that beaten after bal tie, flung out of kingdom after kingdom. tricked successfully by French, Italian
 the present war his vast army stood Toy ally and confidently behind him-and the
 strange thing is that defeats against which few dynastie regulations could
 have stood, had been powerless to change the feelings of his people toward him.
 and he was not only venerated, but be- loved
 Let's sum up some of his handicaps. lie began a callow youth of IS in 1sis, with half his dominion in insurrection, yet in 1850, as pointed out above, by the help of Metternich, the great reactionary, he Twas their absolute and rather cruel lord.
 Beaten in 1860 by France; beaten in 1sGt by Prussia; driven in the former year
 out of Lombardy. and in the latter out of Germany; obliged in 1867 to yield to
 the Magyars. he vet was classed as a great monarch ruling over a congerie of
 nations stronger in every way as the years were passing
 It has been charged and truthfully, that he. never won great battle, but yet he was able to throw great army into the world conflict But he is dead and so is the dual empire--but if he were alive I would fear that his proverbial l luck would follow him, for he failed re- I peatedly in warfare. bungled often in diplomacy. and yet attained. somehow grand provinces without firing shot
 Some claim. with truth. that the Kaiser
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 The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication ot all news dispatches credited to It CT not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news puDIlsAeo herein.
 AAll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved.
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In her days, every man shall eat in safety, Under his own vine, what he plants; and sing The merry songs of peace to all his Deighbors.
 -Henry VIII.
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A TRANSFER.

What became of the viAase bells whose face was her fortune "she cashed -in."
 "Yes2'
 .fNfa, ,.,;a,i a n, ili,,,,, fro
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What It Costs to Feed
 An American Soldier

IT II NCLE SAM feels the high cost of " living in providing for the wants of several million "nephews," :" ho are either in American training camps or in France. It costs him 50 cents day to feed a soldier and
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to the wall and he has done his damnd- est, but he mentions nothing but the splendid support the United States has brought into it and the splendid courage and determination of President Wilson.
 These people of Great Britain have taken exceeding pains to show us news paper people what they have done. They have shown us the tremendous sRipbuild- ing on the Clyde. at Glasgow, where bat tleships, cruisers, destroyers and subna- rines are being launched every day. We saw more than 10 miles Of ships under construction on the ways. We have seen airplane factories with thousands of men making them We have seen tanks turned out in numbers. We have ridden in them over fields of mud and ditches.
 But the greatest sight of all was the Grand Fleet. We were made to promise not to tell of details couldn't if I tried. But there are 70 or 50 miles of ships ready for action on a moments notice. So many dreadnaughts and bat tleships and cruisers and airplane carry ing monsters there are not to speak of the little fellows, that one could not count them. They are everywhere one can see in steaming for hours under na- val escort. We lunched on a monster battleship with the admiral in charge and were shown turrets and guns of such proportions that the landsman could not take it in. We went about on destroyers and stepped on and over depth bombs that would blow to atoms any submarine. We were shown how bombs and guns worked and wondered how any nations could have builded and manned so many hundreds of ships made for destructive purposes.
 No wonder the Hun fleet has not shown itself. No wonder 1t has only sent forth recently it's submarines to blow up mere ly unarmed passenger boats plying from Dublin to England and small unescorted ships
 And right here the British naval of ficer is the most gallant of living crea- lures A lieutenant in command of a destroyer in q sea of mountainous waves rescued over 300 American sol diers from the Otranto when she went upon the rocks of Ireland. His ship was stove in on one side by the con tact. but he continued to dare the storm and run beside the wrecked ship until he got so many aboard his de- stroyer that his chief engineer told him she could not stand the strain and all aboard would so down unless :ie quickly made for port. Our ship ana other ships of the convoy had to pe- come every ship for itself and leave the poor fellows of the otranto to their fate. But this little shell full of ma
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was his nemesis, bu; others say that even the willy William never Inesmer.zad him until he was in his dotage. and that had he been younger he would not have been so pliant or willing to play ths second fiddle to make music for Ger
 many. And, so remark again that the career of Francis Joseph, from the stand point Of an Emperor King, for he was Emperor of Austria and King Of Hum gary, is one of the most remarkable in the annals of the rulers of the past og present
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His qualities of statesmanship He thought beyond ali price; He tried his luck in politics.
 But could not break the ice.
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Washington bureau. POT Hibbs build Ing.
 European bureau, Henrietta stres'' Eovent Garden, London. ..,
 Eastern business office, World pul4"- fiig. New York city; western business Office. Tribune building, Chicago Ihe $. c. Beckwtth Special Agency, aseAsS for foreign advertising,
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PICKUps.

X pretty maid tripped down l,. A dream from dainty head to ir, some military men she spied,
 Her satisfaction could not hide And ere another block she wendeG By six ieutenants was attended.
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MIGHT BE SINCERE.

 "Who is this person?" He claims to be reformed bc. vik." Do you believe that? Well. there are none but surface as- pearances to go on. He has ha,i lii- as4. cut, shaved off his whiskers on clean linen'
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had mastered the difficult art of learn ing how to watt with dignity end pa tience.
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HOPELESS.

The extreme hauteur ot this hotel clerk annoss me. Why don't you complain to the man ager?" T understand he apes the manager
 PAUL COOK.
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R5mittances can be made at current if&ife ot eAcnange. The Age-HeTala W444 sdo tsnpe responsible for money sent 1safeugh the maIls. Address
 THE AGE-HERALD, Birmins nam, Ala haIa
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STILL AT HOME

"Marpied a millionaire,
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 In4apuscript will not be returned uhleo9 uhle
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Entered at the Birmingham, AIsa.' Tastoffice as second-class matter, un- desh Act of Congress, March s, 1879.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-22
Get Your Allotment Now

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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-22
Building Up Our Lines

Entrenching our lines is like
guarding our health-we must en-
courage the care Of our bodies
train our organs for bodily endur.
ance, efficiency and full achieve
ment We must take advantage Of
all the known means 10 conserve
our health. II is interesting 10
know that DR.. Pierce, Of the
Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y
has discovered 4 new kidney and
backa ,hc remedy which il having
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since the discovery Of uric acid in
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scientists and physicians have
strivcn 10 rid the tissues and the
blood Of this poison. Because OF
its over abundance in the system
it causes backache, pain here and
there, rheumatism, gout, gravel,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-22

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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-22

Construction Already Begun on Massive Mill


Here the boiled or
andev Tbese foo
holes
Mnles
thick the
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-22
An Ancient Legend.

There is an inn in a New England
town that is popularity supposed to have
been established during the time Of the
revolution and the present proprietor rs
very proud OF is reputation
This inn must be very Old said a
westcmer, who had not as YET been
made acquainted with iu history,
VERY old slr," said the proprietor
with the utmost solemnily. Would you
like 10 hear some Of the stories con.
necled with the plrr"
Il would. indeed" replied the tourist
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-22

GA LSO, in some occult way tha,
hls beyond all human isthoming
being a widow throws a mystic charm
about a woman that never encircles the
'plnl,tct and that makes her more
sought after socially than the old maid
is. Now IT ! were somebody's relict in
stead Of being my own possession, !
would not be 4 whit better looking than
! am | would not be more adaptable,
or carry more entertaining line Of
conversation. or play a better game Of
bridge. or have any graces and ac-
compliShments that do not now pos
scSs
But hostesses would invite me
oftcner because they have to explain or
apologize for an old maid guest, no mat
ter how attractive she may be, while a
good looking lively young widow is
presumed TO infuse pep into any party,
and to be an addition to il
Also a man, even IT he is doddering
on the verge OF the grave, feels that he
has been hoodoed II he draws an old
maid for a dinner partner, whereas he
bleSSeS his luck II he gets a widow, no
matter how stupid she may be.
"Oi course ! know that this attitude
towards the spinster is the result OF
ancient preiudices founded on the days
when women made profession OF mar
riagc, and none but the freaks and the
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-22

time alter yuu have done It once even
marrying
'Now" said the bachelor girl, u
don't really want 10 marry ! wouldn't
exchange NV freedom for husband,
bat what ! would like 10 have is lhr
perQuI'ilr, u the widow crave the
glamor sould change me from a
nice, well oil old maid into a hand
some rich young widow
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-22

A fine Of 5000 would be hard 10
pay How about your income state
ment2
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-22

is sob stuff over which they drop a
sympathetiG tear
you don't believe that the widow 4,
better off than the old maid? Listen.
Lets begin to cite the advantages
that the widow has over the old maid
with the most important thing Of all to
womln-agc. Being a widow Is a SORT
Of fountain Of perpetual youth I'm
jB Tor instance, and Tor several years
my friends have been looking at me
,laniwlse and saying was an old maid
When they talk about me to other peo.
pie I'm perfectly aware that they des-
tribe me In that way
They say that she, nice, and intelli
gent, and well oil but shes an old
maid. But II were widow they
would call me a rich young widow. In
some mysterious way that ! don't pre-
tend 10 explain the mere fact Of having
had a husband would take the curse OF
age of Of me. and lop about Ten birth.
days m the public estimation,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-22

0THEN, too, in catching a husband
the widow has the advantage
over the old maid that the profession
does over the amateur. She's had ex-
pcrience. She knows the game and that's
where she wins out She has not put
up with the peculiarities of the late
lamented and learned how to play upon
his little weaknesses as upon harp
with a thousand strings without finding
out the secret OF how to work man.
And that's why the woman who has had
six husbands has the seventh added
unto her, while the poor spinster has
even the one chance of a husband that
she had, taken away from her. It's so
much easier to do a thing the second
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-22

Tell me the legend Of that curious old
mincc pie The walter Just brought In"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-22
It's Better To Be a Widow
Than An Old Maid These DAYS:
Writer Draws Some Conclusions

Cupid Works in d MySted
Gus Way His Wonders 10
Perform" Woman Writer
Declares After Putting
Money on One Who Has
Loved and Lost
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-22

,hrcWs. aud the idiots failed TO land
some sort Of a husband But what
am getting o., Is that thl, prejudice
against splu,lefs exists IN The back OF
mrr, minds, and thar II make, the
social gong hard shedding Tor those
" u, who have lndulged oupclyc, IN
me luxury OF single blevcdnes,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-22

FAH." replied the bachelor maid
IA that is because YOU have never
operly considered this subject An
d maid occupies a distinctly inferior
lsltion in the world 10 a widow. The
d maid doesn't cut as much ice so
ally as the widow does. and te
ksn,t half the chance to get on either
boSineS or TO marry as the widow
ks. The old maid is a standing Joke
which all people laugh. The widow
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-22

0WHtN 1t comes ro marrying a
w widow has ten chance, against
one Tor the old maid A woman who
has reached the aye OF (ory.ilye with.
out marrying can bid farewell 10 hope
unless she is rich enough to buy a
husband, or fool enough to pick up a
crooked stick but a woman who is left
a widow at forly-iive enters the list OF
eligibles aud may keep on committing
matrimony until she Is seventy II IL
pleases Heaven to remove her in
cumbrances
cupid works in mysterious way
his wonders TO perform, and nobody
knows why this is thus. 1t simply is.
Perhaps one explanation Is that so
far as women are concerned men are
like sheep and have to follow a leader.
You will often notice that girl either
has many beaux or no beaux and ils
the same way about marriage II one
man proposes to a girl other men fol-
low his example and pop the question
too. A man seems to have no conf.
dence in his own individual judgment
OF woman. He must have il brayed
up by the approval OF his fellows That's
what makes certain girls bellies, and
widows able to femary as often a.
they like.
The unmarried woman is always un-
der suspicion OF being an old maid he.
cause she couldn't help itAoi having
been left on the bargain counter be
couse no man found her attractive
enough to carry home. On the other
hand the mere fact OF a woman being a
widow IS a perpetual guarantee OF her
fascination Her wedding certificate is
some mans O. X. that other men feel
1t safe to follow
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-22
By DOROTHY DIX.
he Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer.

81 wish" ,aid lbe bachelor maid.
that had been horn a widow
with two curly haired little dlrl.
igs"
81 can understand about lhe kiddles. "
|splied her friend dream children are
, much more agreeable 10 have around
,s premises than real children are. but
by the warming 10 be a widow
1T seems To me that you bachelor
iris have all the pleasures and profits
iat apperialn ~ widowhood without
aving TO go through the divorce court
+ the cemetery 10 get them
Both Of you have your own latch key
I'D YOU both have your own pocket
ooks. You have control Of your own
oney II you've got any and II YOU
|ayent you have the same right to go
ut and rustic a living for yourself as
le widow has And you've got the
'me liberty, for nobody is silly enough
ow to hold TO the theory that an un-
arried woman remains a perpetual de.
ltsnte, and has to he shocked at every
ing and ehaperoned TO the end Of her
fe. Seems to me a bachelor girl has
lie cause to envy any bereayed fluffy
rifles her crepe"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-04
LITTLE GIRL LEAVES
HOME AND NO TRACE
OF HER IS FOU Nd

Little Mary Monies from New Or
leans, who came over few DAYS
since, and who was with her relatives
at Ill West Zarra gossa street, has
been missing since about O'clock
Thursday afternoon, and despite all
efforts on the part of the police de-
partment, to whom the father has
appealed, no trace of the child has
| been found. Yesterday afternoon a
report was telephoned to the police
station stating that a strange child
was then at No. 414 East Wright
street. and this report was turned over
to the child's father. who. a stranger
in the city. has been haunting the
police station since the little girl has
been lost. He was there when the
message was received, and was a will
ing companion to Lieutenant Harper
to investigate the rumor. They lost
no time in hunting up the reported
source of the report. but upon ar
irving there, residents had no knowI-
edge of any strange child having been
picked UP there, and whoever tele-
phoned gave the wrong street.
Mr.. Monies. the child's father,
reached the city yesterday and at once
interested himself in the search for
the girl. He stated that he was unabie
to account for the child's action. Any
Information regarding the girl would
naturally be very highly appreciated.
ANOTHER CHILD STRAYS
FROM HER PARENTS HOME.
7. T. Brewton, residing at 21s
Church street, reported to the police
station yesterday that his little girl
had left home and could not be found
After worrying about for several
hours. the child was found playing
with a number of other children. near
the corner of Main and Alcaniz
streets.