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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-13
 LOSE
 EDDIE AINSMITH

Washington, July 12.-Edward Aim smith. catcher of the Washington American league club, has been or dered to enga,~ .n some useful oc- cupation or be placed in Class IA of the draft by his local draft board, it became known today. Joe Judge, first baseman of the club, has been served with a similar notice.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-13
SOLDIERS COUGH IS CURED.

Private Harold Hamel. 66th regi- ment. Fort Adams. R. l.. writes: "I was troubled with bad cough for three months. tried Foley's Honey and Tar and felt greatly relieved I recommend Foley's Honey and Tar and will keep 1t on hand" Gives re- lief from hay fever. astmah and bron- chial colds. Mann's Pharmacy.
 Advt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-13
FROM A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

w. H. Hill. T. P.. Detroit. Tex. writes: ''I used Foley Kidney Pills and, say unhesitatingly that of all have used they are the best and have done the work where the rest failed" Backache. rheumatic pains. sore muscles. stiff joints and too ire quent bladder action are symptoms of kidney trouble. Mann's Pharmsev.
 Advt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-13
Tires That Stand U,

The average car is called upon this year to do more work and harder work than ever before.
 Loads are bigger. Trips more frequent.
 More constant service is de. handed. Time must be saved.
 Now if ever, the car owner must select tire equipment wisely to get the greatest use of his car. United States Tires are built up to the job.
 They have the stuff and work manship in them to stand up long
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-13

It begins to look as if the Pirates had seen their best days, at leas: so far as this years campaign isN con- cerned.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-13

From the way the Senato"s have been going of late there doesn': seem to be much the matter with Clark Griffith's pastimers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-13

Nearly all of the members of the New Orleans team have landed ber'bs in the big yard since the closing the Southern league.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-13

Rube Marquard. Brooklyn's flossy twirler. certainly has the number 5f his old teammates. the Giants. this season.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-13

Ladies grey and tan kid oxfords, military heel. $500 values. $3.4S. Leavitt's Cut Price store.-Advt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
For Our Boys in France

7E attention of AgeHerad readers this morning is called to the two letters page five from Captain John G.
 Rankin 52d squadron, and Private Eugene c. Sul- van of the 18th railway engineers both of whom are in acknowledge receipt of kits purchased with The Age Herald tobacco fund.
 Their gratitude srs deepest emotions The thoughtful of those home the sending of the thing which they need moswha who fail to be moved by the appeal? We who sit by the fire enjoying evening smoke who feel that cannot best work until have had few fragrant puffsdont know how that boy feels there the fields and trenches of France who can't get anything to smoke?
 More than 1000 of the kits have been by AgeHerad readers and the quarters contributed thousands of diff ferent people, The appeal met with wonderful response
 But where is of such merit why should there not be more $00 contributors like Rick Woodward $100 gift will make 400 happy There of in Birming ham who will be glad to do this when it is called their tenton.
 And then there many can give $50 or s2o.
 The tobacco all through the hands of the ladies of the Red Cross, God bless hem Every 25 hits the Every kit of smokes srs American boy with of home and tells him that thinking of him. gives him new life and determination It makes him know that home with him heart and soul makes him his with energy and determination.
 And it is easy for to help in this way blaming because cannot get much coal usual must lose the profits of business for two result of wars necessities should reflect what those boys are doing for It fight just much theirs and anything do to tighten their task should 1ege to not duty.
 When step to the counter to buy box of cigars smokes let's remember that boys there who making possible for to do these things member them accordingly.
 If have cut out of the little uxuries and ndul- to which accustomed something our fighters let's do it.
 Just read those letters Captain Rankin and Private Sullivan How you then hesitate about giving some other boy similar pleasure?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
TOM LEES LAST JOURNEY

been read over the coffin on Friday night and yesterday the Chinese band played
 the devil frightening cacophonous strains
 which pass in the Celestial Republic as
 music. Tom Lee was getting his last
 scndoff from both religions
 In the coffin with him was bottle of
 fine wine, with which he was to treat
 his ancestors when he met them on the
 long journey. and scattered over his chest
 were many Chinese playing cards, so that they would be handy if his ancestors eternity. 1t is needless to say that these
 things were not put in the coffin by Tom Lees Christian advisers.
 ] Before the coffin was carried from the
 house all the pallbearers drew up in double lines in the middle of Mott street "a full hundred of them, all Chinese, all well dressed, all bareheaded and all wear l ing white gloves Charley Boston and Soo Soon, both old and close friends of , the mayor ofa Chinatown" were with the chief mourneA. Others of the pallbear- CTS had come from far cities just for ! the funeral. They ware a fine, intelli- gent looking lot of men, all seemingly ! lined oyercoats.
 When the funeral procession started it
 moved up Mott street to Pe1l street, up
 Pell street to Canal, then to the Bow cry, then south to Chatham square and into Doyers street; then to Pell street oosiy, rH o1y +a Tott +alr ing in all of Chinatown, and then to East Broadway and the Williamsburg bridge and to Cypress Hills cemetery, Brooklyn.
 Now, very strange thing happened when the funeral passed for the second time through Mott street and past the joss house and the home of Tom Lee, next door. Up to that time it had moved with stately solemnity, the bands playing the dead march and the hundred pail bearers walking slowly after the hearse. First came the seven flower filled open 1 carriages then the hearse, then band, | then the pallbearers, then 60 closed car- riages and the Chinese band in the omni- bus, and last another band and some mounted policemen. It was all orderly and going along without hitch until the hearse started by the Joss house. Then 1 the hearse stopped. The near leader Of the six-horse team refused to budge an- other step.
 1 The band in front of the hearse had ] stopped playing, but presently it began again with Nearer, My God, to Thee" and just then that horse concluded he had delayed the funeral long enough and 1 so started on again as though nothing had happened. Nothing more did happen all the way to the Cypress Hills cen,e- tery, in Brooklyn, but many persons stopped to view the strange procession as it wound slowly through the streets of the Eastern district, and they listened to the Chinese musicians in the omnibus, who were doing their best to frighten off the devils as the cemetery was ap- preached. Very quietly the coffin was carried there to receiving vault, while several hundred sorrowful Chinese looked on. Then the vault was closed and they returned to Manhattan, all with the
 knowledge that they had done their best to give Tom Lee a good sendoff on his journey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
oLD-rAsHroNnD WIFE BEST

From the New York Mail.
 The business of being a woman would be very simple. Nat Goodwin believes. if we took tip from Mrs. Antediluvain Ancestor. That lady made the family cave a magnet. Within its walls her master never knew boredom. Few neighbors could coax him forth. even for a game of skullbones. His mate served him with beauty, wit, wis., dom, comfort and what not. Every replica of his image was trained to add to the household interest. In short, Mir. Ancestor had a home"
 That is all man wants today" Mr. Goodwin says That is what he means when he cIamors for "the old-fash- toned woman"
 "It bores me to tears to talk of matrimony," MT. Goodwin added.
 My attitude is that of a confirmed optimist. My own record proves that hope conquers experience.
 q am very old-fashioned in my ideas. if have any. I think a woman ought to do everything she can to make her. self beautiful and intelligent, useful and interesting, and then make herself subservient to her home. That is what my mother did. get both my ideal and my optimism from her"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
JUST BOYS
From the Montgomery Advertiser.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 ONHREE Birmingham boys. aged 14, 12
 and 10 years, respectively, ran
 S away from home to see the world, and landed in Jail in Montgomery. The reporters say the boys were heavily and fearfully armed.
 We'll, why shouldn't we be forearmed? A guy wot wants to come through un- scathed has gotta be ready for emergen- cies. A guy can't never tell wot'll hap pen. They's bears at every corner be- tween Birmingham and Montgomery. The whole outlyn' districts are covered with skulking Injuns, with streakedty red paint on their faces and tomahawks in their hands The Injuns are schemin' to waylay every overland wagon that passes through. A feller has to be armed to the teeth to protect hisself against such prowlin' hostiles. Then, they's white desperadoes lurkin' in the dark on the broad plains of Alabama, concealin' them selves under the wavin' prairie grass and dugouts, such as Buffalo Bill hid in to escape from Ole Chief Rain-in-the-F Face.
 Besides, the time fur the annual round- up wus long since at hand. The cattle ought to be herded and drove home to git outta the freezin' weather that whips acrost tn plains. It will take weeks to finish tn roundup. It will make 1t nec- essary to camp out in the snow an wind. 1z -...t -t@ -t~.e ok ~t-% with our heads on the saddles and our saddles on the six-shooters.
 Armed to the teeth! Huh! Didn't Davy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
FRENCH RIVERS BALLAD

From Songs for a Little House." by Christopher Morley. Of stream that men take honor In
 The Frenchman looks to three, And each one' has for origin
 The hills of Burgundy. And each has known the quivers
 Of blood and tears and pain o gallant bleeding rivers.
 The Marne. the Mouse, the Aisne. Says Marne: My poplar fringes
 Have felt the Prussian tread. The blood of brave men tinges
 My banks with lasting red; Let others ask due credit.
 But France has me to thank; Won Kluck himself has said it:
 I turned the Boche's flank" Says Mouse: 1T claim no winning.
 No glory on the stage; Save that. in the beginning
 I strove to save Liege. Alas, that Frankish rivers
 Should share such shame as mine Tn spite of all endeavors
 I flow to join the Rhine!" Says Aisne: My silver shadows
 Are saltier than the sea, Tho woe of Rheims still hallows
 My endless tragedy. Of rivers rich In story
 That run through green Champagne. In agony and glory
 The chief am I. the Aisner' Now there arc greater waters
 That Trenchmen all hold dear Tre Rhone. with many daughters
 That runs so icy clear: There's Moselle. deep and why.
 There's Loire. Garonne and Seine. Hut o the valiant tiny
 The Marne. the Mouse. the Aisne!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
How Best to Utilize
 Our Cut Over Lands.

01F HE coastal plains section of the 4 south comprises approximately 75, ,OO0 acres of cut-over land suitable for agriculture, and how best to util- iza these extensive stretches of farm acreage is problem which is receiv- ing the attention of the Southern Set clement and Development Organiza- ton of Baltimore.
 Vice President Clement s. ticker, in a communication to the cut-over land department of the Southern Pine association, says that already the Bxitish government is preparing to proyids . vast sum of money to fi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21

Crockett an Danl Boone carry rifle, two pistols an dagger, not countin' dog and things? Didn't Kit Carson, Wild Bill, Texas Jack, Billy Comstock, Buff falo Bill an them carry rifles. six shooters an the like wot they could kill Injun or a buffalo with while ridin' at full speed? An ain't it tn truth that Jesse James had four pistols an a rifle wot he could shoot better with than anybody else? An besides, ain't it so that Jesse and Frank James never killed anybody an never robbed anybody, when they knowed it, that wusn't a Yankee?
 Not only that, don't feller when he's on his skill with tn rifle to kill wot he eats? He has to shoot jack-rabbits. wot we'll find when tn roundup takes us plum to Texas, he has to kill his own bears and deers an sage hens? He has to fight off wolves at night, an shoot coyotes an also rattlesnakes whut bur row in tn groun' with prairie dogs, don't he?
 And-uh-rr, s'pose we decide to explore cave to hunt hidden treasure like Tom Sawyer and Huci Finn done, an we found robbers down there wot wanted to keep us from gitin' it-won't we need our hardware to perfect oursels?
 That's wot we want to know. We ast you that as a fair question.
 (P. S.-we hope the boys don't get licking when they get home. Was there ever a boy in this world that didn't want to run away from home at some time or other?l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
FROM CANNON TO BELL

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Here is a queer return to first prin- ciples:
 when Alsace- Lorraine went from French to German ownership, the Germans took
 the guns captured from the French, and by way of expressing their exultation over their enemy had them melted and
 cast into big bell to ring their triumph
 After the olden fashion the bell was
 christened, the name bestowed on it be-
 ing Maria Gloriosa." Then it was hung
 in the splendid cathedral of Cologne, one
 of the famed structures'o Germany and
 of Europe. For about half a century it hung there, sounding out the calls to re- |ligious services. The battle roar Of the
 metal was forgotten, and the song it sang was of gentler things.
 But in this fierce world war Germany has forgotten the tender things. renem- bering only that she is seeking world domination, and all things. civil and sacred, must bow to or be utilized in the struggle. The demand of her gener- there being no other metal in sight, the bells have disappeared, one by one. from the towers of public buildings, and the church steeples of the country are silent. And now comes the turn of Maria | Gloriosa-" It has been taken from the cathedral and sent to the foundry to be jremelted and recast into gun. Tho cathedral tower has lost it's beautiful
 voice, and the defense line has won an Instrument of death and destruction It's history has swung from cannon te !bell and back again to cannon; a strange ''comeback'' after many years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
sOB STUFF

From the Pittsburg Post.
 A Chicago writer about the theatre talked with Will Rogers while that roping comic was coaxing a lariat to give an imitation of 8 doughnut waltz ing with a pretzel. These remarks are blamed on the roper:
 T saw a teargetter act once," said the cowboy who loops lariat around editorial paragraphs as he made Beat rice, the new rope, coil and twist. 'T was a-going down to the showhouse a year or two ago with & new rope that had been trainin' all the afternoon and I slid into the-ater for a haf minute, and darned if Jane Cowl didn't have me a-cryin' in just two shakes of a lambs tall, and I heard funny lit- tie moaning sound down to my side and I looked, an what do you think, that new lasso was jest a-cryin' away like everything"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21

1et rld or Garffeld, says the New York World. There was a time when many of the eastern papers were saying, Get rid of Daniels Yet, the navy has made a better showing since war was de- clared on Germany than any other de- partment of the American government.
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 The follow who uses the uniform of his country to swindle people out of money is about as low down as a man ever gets to be, but for every soldier who does that there are thousands who wouldn't think of such thing.
 <. # *
 A wine agent, being sued for alien ating the affections of a movie queen. contends that the lady's affections were transferred before he came on the scene. There may be something in that.
 * # * a s The American public will not have to suffer the Psychological effect of hay ing theatres closed on Monday. Play houses will be closed on Tuesday, and we are saved from rapid disintegration.
 ,s H T Wrap up in old newspapers and keep warm, advises a contemporary That sort of advice is wasted on the young won,ap ,pbo ovno.or h1u .l.A A.. 4. blast in zero weather.
 * # * The obliging Cincinnati Times Star, which gave the equivalents for snow in several foreign languages. might have gone bit further and defined slush.
 # # * The advice to keep a pig about the premises is good, but the occupant of a flat has no place to keep a pig except on his sleeping porch. and that's occupied.
 # # * T. F. is now seven times a grand father. It must be highly gratifying to have one's theories work out with what amounts to mathematical precision.
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 Although Birmingham is constructively as dry as bone. deeds of violence are recorded with alarming frequency here of late.
 a * + Mir. Henry Ford already knows thing or two about Birmingham. That's why he's coming back for another visit.
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 There is disposition among old-line democrats to throw up their hands in despair and murmur. "What next?"
 as # X. The bolsheviki, like a great many other agitators believe in personal liberty only as applied to themselves.
 X * T When you come to think of it seriously, a man is lucky nowadays to have an in- come that can be taxed
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 It is easy to guess what the Kaiser would do with the socialists in Germany If he only dared.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
WANTS HIS MONEY

From the Louisville ull.) Republican.
 Notice.-I want you to pay me what you owe me- Yes. I mean you. You probably thought I had forgotten it., but I haven't. have always helped you, and now I need your help, but all ask Is that you pay me what you owe me. Some of you owe me for borrowed money, some for money had to dig up to pay your note off with, some for ab-
 stract work, some for the grub you ate several years ago; and for various things that cost me lots of work and
 money. Some of you live in Louisville. some in the country, some in other states, and some. in all probability. have already gone to hell. l want you to pay me before you go, for need the money, and you can never tell how soon you'll go. You have ignored all the notices sent you. but l insist that l you pay me. 5. C. ERWIN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
Patriotism and War
 Savings are Combined

1NHE government, in seeking to
 J raise two billion dollars by the sale of war savings stamps and baby bonds, stirs the spirit of patriotism among all classes and conditions of people, and at the same time sde- velops the habit of thrift. Both are |far-reaching for good. When a na- |tion is at war patriotism must be keyed up to the highest pitch, and as for small savings, they will, in the volume, help to victory.
 That this savings stamp campaign will be successful should go without saying, but in order to make "assur- ance double sure" men, women and children must be aroused. To the children especially attention is being paid. Properly directed the young folks, when organized in good cause, 
 work like beavers.
 Every county campaign chairman will have the hearty cooperation of teachers and the boys and girls in
 the public schools, and they should
 have the active support of parents as
 well. Alabama can be counted upon
 to do it's part.
 Let all try for high achievement
 Alabama's quota is forty eight million dollars. If the sale of savings securi lties totals fifty million dollars st
 much the better, for it is possible tha the allotment in a few of the stateI Twill not be fully realized.
 * < x
 Dr. Garfield's fuel order showed tha Birmingham was almost 100 per cent. pc
 triotic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

A lot of processes have been invented whereby gold and silver are extracted from mining properties. But what ie needed is process whereby gold and silver can be extracted from mining stocks.
 When you meet a man who agrees with you on everything, you are tempted to admit that he is almost as intelligent as yourself.
 Some folks never feel like they are do- ing their best unless they are doing some other man.
 It is hard to guess what the women folk will do. Thirty years ago they wore bus ties because they needed them. And five years ago they wore umbrella covers for skirts to prove that they didn't need bustles. And 30 years ago they wore skirts that touched the ground. to prove that they had no such things as legs. And today they wear skirts that stop at the knee, to prove that they are there with bells on which it comes to legs
 When woman isn't regretting the marriage opportunity she didn't take, she is regretting the one she did take.
 When you hear man whining that he the betting is that he Is also giving the worst of 1t.
 Have you ever noticed that it is the old looking danes who are anxious to be known as new women? So have we, Oswald, so have we.
 When you hear a man bragging about how broad-minded and charitable he is we hate to let him get out of our sight. because we know he is going to pan us to the first man he meets.
 Anyway, we prefer the man who never saves up anything for a rainy day to the follow who lives as though he believed | was going to rain every day for the next 50 years.
 A woman expects something to eat al party. But mans idea of elaborate refreshments is keg of beer. A farmers idea of the difference be- tween an old-fashioned horse doctor ant I a modern veterinary surgeon is about { collar and half per visit. We all know how we hate other people who talk about themselves. But tha | isn't why we all talk so much about our selves.
 The man who yelps that the world ha giver him a bum deal is usually the sam fellow who was too lazy to cut the cardl