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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28

only few of the oldest parts stand ing in the valley of the Aizette and the Petrusse were allowed to remain. The site of the Qualifications has been converted into public park.
 Two gigantic viaducts carry the rail- way and the approach from the railway station to the town. The population has more than doubled since the time tho town ceased to be fortified, The bank of the Aizette is crowded by tanneriesI breweries and distilIeries.
 The life of the place centers in the Place D'Armes, where band concerts ard given on summer evenings. The mu- nicipal banqueting hall is located on this parade platz. Among the notable archi4 tectural features in the Gothic Cathe1 dral of Notre Dame, as we'll as the Palaia Grand Ducal, Renaissance building built in 1880 and rebuilt in 1890. Ind Church of St. Michael, which in part dates from 1920, contains tho tomb of Blind John of Luxemburg, King of Bo- hemia, slain at Crecy.
 Among the places of interest to sight, seers is the public park with it's bronze statue of the Duchess Amelie of Saxe- Wemar, by Petre, and the view terrace above the Eich road. Excursionists neverI have failed to go to- the Bouc or Book, a precipitous rock, connected with the| upper town by the Pont Du Chateau. It has the remains of the old ducal palace| and is honeycombed by curious unders| ground Qualifications. On the Piateau Du Rham, across the valley, are som{| Qualifications known as the "Spanisf Towers The old vauban barracks con tains the National Museum with col 5 lections of antiquities.
 The town has two annual fete daysi One is in honor of Our Lady of Luxem- burg. patroRass of the city. and the oth- \ CT is the annual tent fair which Is heldI or August 24 This fair. known as the| ''Schobermesse,' was instituted in 134D.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
THE PEEvIsH PUBLIC

From the Houston Post.
 Personally, we never expect to see a street car service that the public will praise; telephone service it will not abuse; a gas service it will not accuse railroad service it will not criticize. But nevertheless, you can't get along without public
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
Glad to Co to Florence

Tt seems a bit hard to pull up and leave Birmingham, but being Meth odist preacher, 1 am used to the Hin- eracy," "~said Dr. John Cumming, who for several years past was the finan- cial agent of the Birmingham college, and who had so much to do with rais-. ing the money to meet the terms of it's consolidation with the Southern Uni- versity of Greensboro,
 T am glad that I am going to a hustling industrial section for I am sure that as the presiding elder with. headquarters at Florence I will find enough in my district to keep me busy. It is great opportunity as I see it, and re-enter the pastorate gladly, for I have always had the shepherds heartn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
TOO LATE.

TOO LATE. ''why don't you go to work and try to make yourself useful?' I'm a victim of the war, sir" said the seedy individual.
 'Howss that?p 'I spent every dollar I had to lay in a stock of Can the Kaiser buttons to peddle on the streets. By the time the sf1ipment-arrived the Kaiser had already been canned"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
ENGLISH CHANNEL TUNNEL

From the Mobile Register.
 Eminent engineers again pronounced the tunneling of the English channel feasible. The project has been talked oil for 40 years. and it's feasibility admitted. but for political reasons the tunnel was not permitted to be built. Also, for the same number of years people have had to make the passage between Englandl and France in boats. and suffer the great anguish of sea sickness. under conditions of peculiar severity. Now that war con dutions may be regula ted. however, the| political obstacle is removed, and theI project has come once more under dis cussion. We should not be surprised fl our MT. McAdoo. the builder of the Hud- son river tunnel. were asked to take the| work in hand It is job about his size: :| and he would make a success of 1t as| quickly as any other man alive
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28

BEGINNING THE DAY.--Turn back the years, Q Lord, and make me n little child today. Help me tO laugh again. Roll off the burden of my days. Realize the tension of my life. Make me willing to learn, ready to change, able to trust. May I take Thy hand and go singing through nll these golden hours. For Chrs=s's sake, Amen.--H. NJ. F.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
ADRIFI WITH THE TIMES
AMONG THE MINORS.

AMONG THE MINORS. I Peru and Chile
 Are smiling again; They are not going To fight, 1t is plain. Had they decided
 A war to declare, 'Twould have been only A bush league" affair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
CALL FOR PoTsDAM.

CALL FOR PoTsDAM. 'fIs it true that Wilhelm is waiting to hear from Berlin?" Waiting to hear what?' "An invitation to return7" Maybe so and maybe not, but just at present the line Is busy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
GRATITUDE.


 Ten years ago I was on the point O; proposing to that fussy, fat woman whe was in here few minutes ago" What deterred your"
 Her pestiferous little brother" "Ahen1!" q thought him pestiferous then. I'd like to sSt that boy up in business now
 THE MONTHLY MACS.
 He's kept t>home While others roam On foot or in machines,
 Who tries to read
 With lightning speed The latest magazines.
 Before he's done
 With everyone That tumbles from a press.
 With smarting eyes And heavy sighs And symptoms of distress. Alas, once more Upon his floor Is piled another lot; Some good, some bad, But most, egad, The sheerest tommyrot
 SUFFICIENT EXCUSE. Why did you hit this man?'' Your honor. he was telling me about| a friend of his who is an expert pistol shot'' sswell?" When I asked him what his friend practiced on he said, Tuesdays and Fri.| dayss"
 LAST CHAPTER. Yes. Now it's overripe. They're inI the divorce court.'' PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
1.-THE DAY

The London Daily Express, which printed this poem, said of it: "The au- thor is MT. Henry Chappell. railway porter of Bath. Mir. Chappell is known to his comrades as the Bath Railway Poet. A poem such as thds lifts him to the rank of a. national poet You boasted the Day, and you toasted
 the Day.
 And now the Day has come. Blasphemer, braggart and coward all. Little you reck of the numbng ball. The blasting shell or the white arm s'' As they speed poor humans home You spied for the Day, you lied for the
 Day.
 And woke the Days red spleen. Monster, who asked Gods aid divine Then strewed His seas with the ghastly
 mine:
 Not all the waters of the Rhine /Can wash your foul hands clean. You dreamed of the Day, you schemedl
 for the Day;
 . Watch how the day will go. Slayer of age and youth and prime, tDefenseless slain for never a crime). You are steeped in blood as hog in| False friend and cowardly foe You have ssown for the Day. you have|
 grown for the Day; Yours is the harvest red. Can you hear the groans and the awful
 cries? Can you see the heap of slain that lies. And sightless turns to the flame-splitI
 skies, The glassy eyes of the dead?
 
 You have wronred for the Day. you have|
 longed for the Day That lit the awful flame. Iris nothing to you that hill and plain Yield sheaves of dead men amid the|
 grain. That widows mourn ,for their loved ones And mothers curse your name. But after the Day there's price to pay For the sleepers under the sod. And He you have mocked for many a|
 day SHS ' Listen and hear what He has to say: evenFeance is mine; will repay.v What can you. say. to God?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
THE "HERoa OF NBREsT-LITovsK.

l From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 General Hoffman, a very Prussian per
 son, has been interned by the bolsheviki
 at the fortress of Kavno in Volhynia. 1 This word comes from Berne, and may
 corded that the bolsheviki in the midst , Of their usually> malevoIent routine have : paused to do a sane and sentible thing. 1 Probably no one more richly deserves a
 prolonged prison diet than this same 1 Prussian Hoffmann, the "hero'' of Bresxe
 Litovsk.
 l The German commissioners came to
 Brest-Litovsk prating of an "honorable" peace on the basis of mo annexations and no indemnities.1 Trotzky talked and
 talked Most of the Germans were suave enough, and let Trotzky gabbe on and on, for they knew that Trotzky was bought and paid for, and that his spout 1 ing was no more than harmless ora torical display.
 But after some days of Trotzkys rant ing General Hoffman, who was the
 military member of the German com
 mission, got sick of 1t. He banged
 heavy fist on the table, right in front of
 Trotzky's nose, and rang down the cur tain on the solemn<fa farce. He brutally
 announced that he and his fellow com missioners had come to receive Russia s
 surrender and not to listen to endless miles of bolshevik oratory. No anneNa- tions and no indemnities" he classified as foolishness and humbug
 sign here!' shouted, Hoffman. and
 Trotzky signed.
 | Whereupon Hoffmann, feeling that Ger
 many had not actually grabbed enough Russian territory, continued the war TOT several weeks. pushing on almost % ret- rograd and killing such misinfcrmed Rus- sians as got in his way. Trotzky de- Imobilized the Russian army. declared the war off. and went about sduealing Tn simulated rage, but Hoffmann did not
 notice him at all.
 Of all the acts of Prussan brazenness
 and brutality that of Hoffmann at brest-
 Litovsk was the continuation. He spilled
 the beans of the diplomats from Berlin and the scoundrels from Petrograd ,.who were bent on staging fine little drama. but he did bit of Prussian work in a thoroughly Prussian way. and he was not censured by his masters
 Then he needlessly tortured Russia, that he took by force what the bolshevilxi were ready to hand to him on a platter. lthat he killed thousands of Russians who tbought that peace was really peace. ak facts probably now remembered by tHei bolsheviki who have grabbed him before he could get out of Russia and have put him in a kovno prison. If tie ,bolshevii let him live Hoffmann mlsht profitably utilize his now exren-. site leisure in penning his memoirs of
 Rrest-Lstovsk and the subsequent Htri-
 uiapEai'' march to Narsa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
SMALL WAGES.

SMALL WAGES. ordinarily, if you happened to hear an employer say, The job is yours and will give you twice the pay you've been receiving you would be impressed, wouldn't you?"
 "of course"
 "But if he were talking to a man who had just been mustered out of the army. you wouldn't think so much of that em- ployer."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
E * * Bavaria Throws Light On Plots of the Huns

~ ERMANY'S guilt in starting the
 NJ world war has already been es- tablished, but revelations made by the Bavarian government, itself a partic- ipant in the Kaiser's plotting, should convince the most skeptical.
 Official telegrams which passed be- tween Munich and Berlin just before the war began in August, 1914, have 2 been published. The Bavarian gov ernment makes clean breast of the matter, and this was to have been ex- petcted, since the Bavarians have long been esteeemed for qualities which the average Prusvsian does not possess. In the course ofNtime, the new German government may also arsslse disclosures of official correspondence between Vii enna and Berlin which ba}thed the world in blood.
 Naturally, the British n9,wspapers are not misled by the specitous pleas of Dr. Solf and others in { Germany for . modification of the armistice terms. The London Morning. Post says that Dr. Solf's represent htions of starving conditions in Gerlmany are y
 false," while conceding that the Ger man people are suffering Shardships.
 There is still the livelyf fear, par ticularly in Great Britain ;And France, of German treachery. To this sad pass the German nation has ,been brought by the acts of an unG5rincipled gov ernment. For years to come the Ger man people will rest under cloud of suspicion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
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 Eastern business office, w or q building, New York city; western busi- ness office, Tribune building, Chicago The $. c. Beckwith Special Agency, agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
TANKS IN QUAINT LUXEMBURG
l the New York Evening Sun.

From the New York Evening Sun.
 6T1HE city of Luxemburg, through
 which the American troops passed
 = after General Pershing had been received in special audience by the Grand Duchess, is the capital of the grand duchy of the same name.
 It is romanticaily situated upon the steep cliffs hanging over the winding river. The main portion of the city with the palace and public buildings covers a central plateau. The newer portion has sprung up on the south side of the plateau above the valley of tain and valley, gardens and rocks, groups of trees and huge viaducts, it is one of the most picturesque towns of the continent.
 The history of the town even Jas re- vealed in a bare outline of dates is as ance. It has been in the hands of the Germans, Burgundians, Spaniards and the French.
 Fortified in the tenth century with works hewn partly out of solid rock, the town was strengthened for resist ance by each succeeding ruler, from Henry ", Count of Luxemburg, after ward German Emperor as Henry VII, and his son John, the blind King of Bohemia, through the period of it's pos session by the Burgundians. Spaniards and French. Under the French the cele- brated engineer Vauban restored a great part of the fortress.
 By the peace of Ryswyck in 1897 Lux emburg came into the hands of the Spaniards again. It passed to the Aus trians in TIA. Marshal Bender surren- dered it to the French republicans in 1795. From 1915 to 1866 Luxemburg was a fortress of the German confederation. The treaty of London condemned the fortification to demolition in 1867, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
Thanksgiving Day As An Institution

17THANKSGIVING DAY as an
 H American festival in acknowl- edgement of the mercies bestowed by Almighty God upon the nation during the year, is now we'll observed in every state of the union, but for many years New England was the only section where it was celebrated with peculiar zest.
 The first Thanksgiving was 6b- served by the Pilgrim fathers at Ply mouth in 1921. It was feast of har- vests and was chiefly religious in character. It was not an annual event at the start, but was observed fre- quently in the seventeenth and eight eenth centuries.
 During the war of the revolution Congress appointed Thanksgiving days, and in 1784 general Thanks giving for peace was ordered. Wash ington issued a proclamation in l7S9, setting apart day of thanksgiving for the ratification of the constitu- tion. President Madison proclaimed a Thanksgiving Day in 1915 for the eel ebration of peace.
 Thanksgiving has been observed an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
Encouraged by Nesroe.

T had rather an unusual honor con- ferred on me on Sunday afternoon said Dr. James E. billiard, pastor Of the Southside. Baptist church. q was invited to preach at the Sixteenth Street Baptist church to a large audi ence of my colored brethren, and at the conclusion of the sermon, Pastor Goodgame moved that be elected an honorary member and pastor of the church and congregation. If my white brethren gave me as much encourage brethren, I feel sure that I would give them better sermons"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 D'ELSEWHERE
Chaplain at Camp Dodge

''We have about 20 chapiains at Camp Dodge, Iowa writes Rev. John w. lnzer, formerly pastor of the Avon dale Baptist church. "and I feel the honor and the responsibility of being chaplain. for it gives me the oversight of all the religious work. The conn., nranding general has just asked me to plan for Thanksgiving services in q way so as to reach every single one of the men in camp, as well as in tho hospitals. cite this to show the splcn- did cooperation the chaplains are re- ceiving from those in military author ity There are about so,ooO men here"
 Met Three Bis Men
 q am in my eightieth year. said Q. S. Higgins. of Springyille, but who lived here for 30 years, and like all old men live in the past great deal.
 T just got to thinking about Jeff ferson Davis. and recalled that back in the early seventies, when he was to make,an address in Atlanta, I was one of ai committee headed by the mayor of Barneswlle, Ga. to invite him to stop by and make an address as the guest of the city. We went and the lamented Henry Grady took us in carriage around to Ben Hilrs where we met Mir Davis. He invited us to return with him on the private car which had been placed at his disposal and we did so. l got to meet Winnie Davis. the beloved Daughter of the Confederacy, and to this hour I can I met about three of the south's big gest men in that one day-Jefferson Davis, Ben Hill and Henry Grady" {
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28

The occasion was honored by the presence of the commander-in-c chief of the army and navy. and graced by the presence of the first lady in the land, who said: Nc mere incident in a na- tion's shipbuilding programme that brought President and Mrs. Wilson to the scene of the achievement. It was the beginning of an epoch in the na- tion's history"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

was sitting in moving picture house awhile back watching the world events as flashed on the screen. and saw the Quistconck as she slipped gracefullyfinto the Delaware. A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-28

x Charley Schwab got people every where talking ships, in stores, in shops, in offices, on street corners. When he looked on the great crowd at the launching of the Quistconck his heart was full to overflowing, and he testi- fed that it was the most wonderful and inspiring sight that he had ever seen in his eventful life No wonder that he was filled with pride then, and that now his joy is great, for. the German navy is no longer menace.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-05-17
SHERIFF'S SALES FOR JUNE,
GEORGIA, COBB COUNTY.

Will be sold before the court house
door in Marietta, Cobb County, Geor-
gia, between the legal hours of sale,
on the first Tuesday in June, 1913,
to-wit: June 4th, 1918, the following
described property, to-Wit: Lying
and being in the city of Marietta,
Cobb Cornty, Georgia, and fromting
on north side of Roswell street one
hundred feet. Beginning at the
Sohhwest corner of tract on Ros-
well street at intersection of an al
ley one hundred and thirty nine yards
to line of Covington property: thence
East along said CoviAgton property
line one hundred feet; thence south to
Roswell street, of uniform width;
thence West along Roswell street, or
road, one hundred feet to beginning
point. Levied ON as the property of
S. r. Burton, the defendant in a;
certain execution issued from the
Justice Court of the S9Sth District
VI. W Salu SOCAAI3 III AaNoI VI olO4le
Barnes & Company, successors to
Northcatt-S Stone & Barnes, by J. A.
Adams, Lawful Constable of the
89Sth District G. NJ. said county, and
said execution and levy tarned over
to w. E. SwaAson of said county.
Said levy and sale for the purpose of
satisfying said execution.
Written notice given the tenant in
possession.
This bhe 8+h day fMay, 1918.
w. E. SWANSON,
Sheriff Cobb County Georgia.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-05-17
IF YOU WANT TO BUY OR SELL
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE.

Mrs. Bonnie Mae Davis, VS.. James
Homer Davis, Libel for Divorce, Cobb
Superior Court, November Term,
1877. Verdict for total divorce
granted 10Th day of November 1917.
Notice is hereby given to all con-
cerned that on the 7th day of May
1918, 1 filed with the Clerk of the
Superior Court of said County, my
petition, addressed to said Court, re-
tuTnable to the July term thereof,
to be held on 5th day of July 1918,
asking for the removal of the dis
abilities resting upon me by virtue of
the verdict had and obtained in said
court in the suit of Mrs. Bonnie Mae
Davis VS.. James Homer Davis, being
No. 2429, November term, 1915,
and by reason of my internarriage
with said Mrs. Bonnie Mae Davis.
Said application will be heard at the
July term, of said Court 1918, to be
held at the time above stated.
May 10-t7-June ia.
JAMES HOMER DAVIS.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-05-17
IEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.
STATE OF GEORGIA, Cobb County

STATE OF GEORGIA, Cobb County.
By virtue of an order of the Court
of Ordinary in and for said County,
granted at the August Term, 1914
thereof, authorizing the sale of the
property hereinafter described and
other properties belonging to the es-
tate of E. B. Freyer, late of said
County, deceased, there will be sold
before the Court house door in Ma
rietta, within the legal hours of sale,
on the first Tuesday in June, next,
to the highest bidder, for cash, va
cant lot in the City of Marietta, ex-
tending from Church street on the
west to Cherokee street on the east,
and located Immediately north OF
the residence of Mrs. Jennie H. Tate,
and south of the vacant lot belong
ing to Frank B. Freyer, the said lot
having a frontal on Church street OF
1875 feet and extending east a uni
form width of 126 feet to a point
half way between Church and Chero-
kee streets; thence east to Cherokee
street a uniform width of 116 feet
and fronting on Cherokee Street 116
feet. The terms of sale are cash
and said sale is made for the pur-
pose of division among the heirs of
the deceased E. B. Freyer, and sold
as part of his estate.
This May 7th, 1918.
MRS. ARNOLDINA FREYER,
Administrative of estate of E. B.
Freyer