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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
----777"=7- LIKE M,LUKE SAYS

rrow;ne that preacher is only hu- man, we have often wondered Just Whal he exclaims when he sWats ms thuHp u-;th hammer and there is no one around to hear him.
 Aspiration will never get you any where unless you can make 1t produce precipitation.
 There is also the kind of girl who would ra ther have a man break the Ten Coin- mandments than break an engagement with her
 Marriage is something that in five years will turn perfect 36 into an iin- perfect 4S
 4 man will always put his shoulder 10 tbe wheel when the load is consigned to his address.
 And n womans heart never gets So hard that a diamond can't make an i.n- preSson on 1t.
 People expect too much from children. Mother will go around Easter Sunday morning with red finger ana Due finger and a yellow finger and purple f,rpar an each hand and then expect inc kids to believe that the Easter rabbit colored the eggs
 Some women always start just early enough to be late.
 A woman's idea of affluence is to have enough silverware to entertain company without borrowing.
 The older an unmarried girl gets. the more she can't remember things thai happened 15 years ago.
 The reason why lot of ambitious young men never get anywhere in th!. world is because they want to start or high. Any automobilist can decipher thl' one for you.
 Maybe father would be more affection ate if he didn't know that the minute he begins to act spoony mother will tel him that he has been drinking again. There are many, nRny times in lit matrimonial career when husband wonders who the Hek put that wprs obey m the female portion of tn marriage service. He may be the light of her life duriai the engagement. Rut after marriag she discovers that he goes out too ofsen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
Admires Centipede

'I have great admiration for centipede," said Col. W. J. Rushton.
 T am trying to get around on one leg and piece of another. assisted by two wooden ones making just four in all that I have to be annoyed with, while a centipede has 1000, so they say. I wonder how he manages them. have all that I can do to get away with these four. and he certainly is a wonderful little fellow to handle his thousand so we'll. I must confess that this admiration is recent and that it Is force, bu nevertheless I am a great admirer of his ingenuity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
LIP SERVICE
From the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star
 ''The Germans talk about their love of peace, but such talk is only from the lips, said Senator Lodge, at a dinner in Boston.
 his defensive war, about this war which was forced upon him, I am reminded of the married man whose wife said one evening to him, sadly:
 George, you do not speak as affec- tionately to me as you used to do. ] fear you have ceased to love me
 Ceased to love youo' growled George from behind the paper There you SC again. Ceased to love you. Why. I love you more than life itself. Now shut uI and let me read the football dope. z
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13

6NHE immense values connected with
 Il the opium traffic, which result
 = from present conditions and re- strictions in that trade, appear with great clearness in the contract for opium mo nopoly of the small Portugese colony or Macao, which was let on December Tor five years, beginning September l, 1918, re- ports Consul General Anderson from Hongkong to the department of com merce. The conditions of the monopoiy are exactly as at present, namely, the right to import 26o chests of opium for local consumption and 24o chests for ex- port. As a matter of fact, local con sumption accounts for much less than the amount imported and the opium finds an outlet in other directions
 The contract was let for the sum or s6. .676. 900 local currency (at present ex- change, s4,673,2oo gold) per year Tor I've wears, or $ss, 3So,OoO local currency G2a,-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13

1917. This year it is quoted at only 12 cents.
 While the advance in seed prices will be felt seriously by the extensive trucker, the difference between last year and this year will be almost negligible quantity to the small home gardener.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
NOT so FOOLISH

From the New York Tribune.
 The members of certain local ex- emption board shrugged their shoulders cyhically when a young man appeared before them. limping conspicuously, and asked for exemption on the ground of physical disability.
 Fell down on the ice and hurt your self. I suppose" one of them suggested.
 No said the candidate. flushing. T lost one leg at the battle of the Somme.
 Then there was large silence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13

BEGINNING THE DAY--We come in deep humility, since Thou are SD high and exalted, and because Thou bcholdest the proud afar off. We come in tender penitencc, for the contritc heart Is Thy only dwelling. We come in the name and spirit of Jesus to make our wills one with Thine. Amcn.--W. k. Orchard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
Like Camp Pictures

When Canister and started our illus trated publication, Camp Mcclellan" said John c. Henley, little did we dream that it would strike need that would spread to other camps, yet we have all ready gotten out Camp Sheridan issue and arranged to bring out issues for Camp Gordon and Camp Forest.
 The latter is now the offcal name ot the consolidated camps in and around Chattanooga. It would appear that the soldier boys like pictures of camp life.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13

should begin to life up his voice, for what is. the use of making real sacrl- fees in the name of patriotism if the nublic is to be plundered without any bodys protesting? True, l might let my beard grow, but I object to being goat just because the soap trust got Tn my way when was trying to economize py doing my own shaving.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
!. x Let's Have State Wide Interest in Highways

A MONO the authorities on good GA roads who will attend the conference of better highway advo- cates to be held in Birmingham on Thursday of next week are State En- gineer w. s. Keller and Road Engi- neer G. N. Mitcham of Auburn and it is hoped that other well-known men who have shown keen and intelligent irt4est in the road improvement aiso ement will be present.
 4ls conference should have a state wide appeal, for few subjects now claiming public attention are of more far-reaching concern than this relat- ing to road construction. Every coun- ty board of commissioners should send at least one of its members to the conference; and public-spirited citi- zens in general should consider them selves invited and many of them should be on hand.
 There is an urgent demand for the motor traffic truck as a short haul carrier, and in order to make such trucks available, suitable roads must be provided. As has been frequently pointed out, roads adequate for ordi- nary travel cannot stand the strain of heavily laden trucks. Even now, well-built macadam roads leading from large cities are "badly cut up'' by the delivery trucks that are much in use. The very highest class of road bed is needed if the new truck is to be generally utilized on large scale.
 The day of the truck as supple ment to the steam carrier should be hastened, and representative at tendance at the forthcoming confer ence will do much to hasten it in Ala bama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
Germany Will Keep
 Austria in Line

NNTITH the whole world yearning
 WV for peace, it is small wonder
 that optimistic observers see possi-
 bility of negotiations being opened between the American and Austrian governments. The Austrian foreign minister received President Wilson's Ipeace terms in conciliatory spirit, in contrast to the attitude of Count Von
 Hertling, and in his latest address to
 Congress MT. Wilson took particular pains to differentiate between the of ficial replies of Germany and Austria. Austria long since grew weary of the war. Used as a pawn in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
SIZING UP COLD FRITZ,
From the Montgomery Advertiser.

From the MUntgUfnery AuvertIsFF.
 War controversies grow warmer. Was Frederick the Great of Prussia miii- tary superman?" Carlysle pictured him as such. Was he an 'ignoble tyrant?" It is thus that Macaulay presented him. Each of these eminent authorities is ap- pealed to by writer in a Philadelphia newspaper, who would go to the bottom of the issues of today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
SLIM CHANGE

From the Kansas City Times.
 The bolsheviki are hoping revolution In the central powers will save the sit uation for them. It win about the time that somebody gives them the next s2.b1 hs finds floating down the river on shingle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
13sxNt1Nll0as.sH.

F. s.-My friend, sam Eckert, says there is no use for me to try to over turn big business and dislocate the trade of America, that he will shave me for b cents in spite of the high cost of shay ing soap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
A SONG OF THE ROAD

The life roads a hard road.
 fact there's no denying; And all the while we're trSveling
 The precious time is flying. But courage conquers weariness
 And those who cease repining Shall reach the land of promise where The hills Q light are shining! A Ions road, hard road,
 And moments that are bitter; Yet this is worth remembering:
 The good Lord hates a quitter. To wrest vict'ry from defeat Cannot be done by whining; Lift u2 your eyes, for just ahead
 The hills q light are shining.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
Leaders Among Negro Race

T have come in touch with some of the representative negroes in Birmingham since I have been on the board of edu- cation,' said Sidney J. Bowie. and I have been impressed with the fact that many of them are really fitted for lead ership.
 T have been in sympathetic relations with the work at Tuskegee for years l am always glad to see signs of improve ment among the coiored people. I think it ought to be a matter of great satisfac- ton that the negro leaders in this city are standing so solidly behind the gov ernment.
 Every right thinking white man ought to let them know that he appreciates the part they are playing in helping to win the war"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
NoTHING TO cELEBRATE

From the Chicago Herald.
 On account of the escape of so many destined Tuscania victims it is highly improbable that the German school children were given the holiday custom- ary in case of successful atrocities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
PENNsYLvANIA CHIyALRY
le Macon Telegraph.

From the Mac0n IeIegTapN.
 The fact that Pennsylvania division self Lee Division in honor of the inn mortal leader of the Confederate armies is evidence that your Pennsylvanian knows how to do graceful thing whea the notion strikes him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Interest in Appendicitis

T used to pick up the paper and rather indifferentiy read that such and such man had undergone an operation for ap- pendicitis, but never thought much about it, said pr. J. W. Johnson, the presid- ing elder Of the Birmingham district ''but, take it from me, whenever such an item meets my gaze now l stop long enough to silently wish that he will have an easy time.
 My changed viewpoint from indtHer- ence to interest was brought about by my having to lose by appendix and sperd nearly month in bed. do not mind owning up that got chance to do quite lot of meditating, which is almost a lost art in the busy twentieth cen tury
 T also had opportunity to do more daily Bible reading than was my wont in health. It's good to be up and at my workn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13

game by her more powerful neighbor, she has been kept in the conflict by force of necessity. This same force will naturally work to prevent her from making separate peace, but if the temper of the Austrian people is any criterion, they would welcome a peace on almost any terms to lift the intolerable burdens under which they are struggling.
 That any direct negotiations be- tween the President and the Austrian government will be opened is not like ly, unless Germany so wills, for the sake of making better bargain for herself. Austria's geographical loca- tion puts her at the mercy of Ger many and until the Prussian war lords are beaten she can afford to make no move that would inevitably bring down upon her the heavy hand of the Hohenzollerns.
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 ''The great offensive now can start, and then God help Albion" says General von olberg of the German general staff. That prayer may be answered.
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 Recent developments show that hazing is still being practiced at West Point. That's a form of deviltry German agents would be happy to encourage.
 4 # #
 General Korniloff might have become one of the greatest military leaders of the war if the bolshevisi hadn't turned things upside down in Russia.
 ss. # <
 It remains to be seen whether or not the burning of Birmingham Central High school building was another victory for the Kaiser.
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 There Is something inspiring In the at titude of the citizen who talks about the fall of Berlin as if it had already hap pened.
 Who said the spirit of France was broken? The French government has or dered 100000 footballs for the army
 # <. +
 Why should conspirators bother with powdered glass, when they can sell poi soned whisky to soldiers?
 F # F
 What has become of the oId-fashioned theatregoers who blushed when the dia- logue became risaue?
 # # ]:
 The allies are convinced that the Ger mans place entirely too much confidence in Won Hindenburg
 Robinson Crusoe was lonely, but he didn't feel any more isolated than Ru- l uOCS lOW. # + E Russia has surprised no one by quit ting. Russia quit long ago. but wouldn'i acknowledge it. That whale steak luncheon In New Yort was voted a success. Maybe the sauce. helped some. There is still more politics being playet in Washington than is good for thi! country.
 # # x There's one consolation. The peopl, who write free verse don't make Twin, at it.
 The passing of Abdul Hamid will no be generally lamented, even among hi wives.
 l Brest-Iitovsk will go down in histor as the place where Russia was sol out.
 x E x It begins to look as if Petrograd woul soon be changed back to St. Petersburg x s # l It takes London cockney to expres Englands opinion of Hun raider. # * E
 Ordinary terms of derogation don seem to fit the T. w. w.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
Vegetable Seeds
 Bring High Prices

~ ARDEN seeds, like all other NJ commodities, are bringing higher prices this year than last, but this need not deter any householder from planting abundantly. A table compiled from large number of re- tail mail order catalogs published by representative seedsmen shows that the increases range from about 5 per cent on celery up to 26O per cent on Swedish turnips.
 The average increase is about SO per cent. The Seed Reporter says that some seedsmen ''have endeavored to maintain prices on many items ap- ,proximately the same as last or but slightly above those, of last year, while other seedsmen have raised their prices materially on practically all of them"
 
 In the tabulated average retail price list" it is noted that cabbage seed is now selling at 45 cents ar ounce as compared with 9 cents last year; spinach seed at 19 cents ar ounce as compared with Il cents last year, carrot seed at 22 cents com pared with IA cents year ago, ant onion seed at 55 cents as compared with g cents a year ago.
 It is of grateful interest to learl that watermelon seed is offered a about the same price as that of las year. It was II cents an ounce |
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
CAUTIOUS CRITICISM

CAUTIOUS CRITICISM "I dislike the phrase. "A fine, up- standing man." said the fussy person. What's wrong with it?" 'Upstanding is unnecessary. I've never seen fine man yet who crawled around on all-fours.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
COULDN'T BE DONE

From the Baltimore American.
 Colonel Roosevelt has been operated on; but it's safe bet the surgeons didn't cut out his pugnacity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
THOUGHT THAT GIVES PAUSE

Fron, the Arkansas Gazette.
 Anna Eva Faye says the war will be oyer before June 15. In that event there is gong to be a lot of unfinished knit ting left in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
A BONANZA

A BONANZA Have you ever had dreams of great riches?' "oh. yes'' And what particular form did they take?" "rve often wished I owned a large rooming house in desirable part of Washington"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
EMorIoNALIsTs NOT WANTED

FrCm the NeW IUIh IieIdtu'
 Somebody writes from France that the American women needed lover there" are the workers. not the emotionalists. That. also, is the kind of American women we need most in America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
UP IN THE WORLD

T overheard MT. and Mrs. Grabcoin having warm argument as to whether or rot they should dress for dinner MT. Grabcoin contended that it would be all right not to put on evening clothes. as no guests were expected. Mrs. Grabcoin said the effect on the servants would be demoralizing.'
 well! Well. They are coming on. can remember the time when MT. Crab coin shed his coat, collar and shoes be- fore sitting down to the evening meal, and nothing was said about it"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
HARD TO LOCATE

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul is bad business" said MT. Dubwaite.
 "so it is." replied the impecunious citizen. Tn my case I find it exception ally bad business
 Why should it be worse for you than for anybody else?"
 "I have the dickens of a time finding Peter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
AN ALfBI

This scenario writer works for firm that floods the market with wretched photoplays. Yet he denies that he is hack"
 What does he call himself?"
 "A literary adviser"
 well, he may get away with that, on the ground that his advice is never taken"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
Many Applications


 T want to especially commend the system and pep of our local four minute men, when it comes to promul- gating any propaganda that they take in hand to get right at the common people with said H. S. Ryall, city clerk.
 They have efficiency-the old canned topic that we pay good money to hear some apostle crate on--tied hand and foot and gagged. I know, for few days ago they took up the shipbuilding pro- gramme, and began to give publicity by word of mouth#to the needs of the gov ernment in getting skilled labor z to work in the shipyards. Since they began their e6mpaign I have been the busiest man in Birmingham, taking applications for positions with the government, and it seems that we are going to have several hundred applica- tions on file here in few days now"
 Found Southern Texas Too Dry
 Ut feels good to be back in Birming- ham even though I am here on busi- ness" said Rev. ". A. Gill, who resigned the pastorate of the Vivian Baptist church about four years ago to accept call to the church at Kennedy, Tex, south of San Antonio.
 T liked it very much until 1t seemed that the rain had shut itself up for all time ill the clouds. I had heard Of dry spells and passed through some drouths in Alabama. but to live in a country where weeks months, yes even years passed without refreshing showers got on my nerves and so I moved to Mine ola, in the northeastern part of the Lone Star State.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
Member of the Associated Press

Member of the Associated Press
 The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dls- patches.
 The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited tn this paper and also the local news published herein.
 All rights of republication Of spe- cial dispatches herein are also re- served.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13

0 that n man might know
 The end of this day's business ere it fA coMe. '""s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
TELEPHONE

Bell (private. exchange connecting all departmental Main 4900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13
MANY pAccrNcxEpS

MANY PASSENGERS No more the flowing flagon Is held a theme for song; Upon the water wagon
 Behold, a mighty throng.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13

EASY TASK 'swho was Atlas. par ''TIe was giant, son, who was reputed to have held the world on his shoul- ders.p
 'TIe had his hands full didn't he, pa?" "oh, don't know. According to the legend, he merely held up the earth. He didn't have to plan some way to keep the Kaiser from getting possession of it."
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13

Washington bureau, 2o7 Hibbs build ing.
 European bureau, Henrietta street. Covent Garden, London.
 Eastern business office, Rooms 4S to 50, inclusive, Tribune building, New York city; western business office Tribune building, Chicago. The 5. '. Beckwith Special Agency, agents Tor foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-13

~N~~->> that goes under the name of baseball dope. but the variety which iliuminates. for instance. the column I write,, what is soap?' He got me, and the dreamy look faded out of his eyes as he came down to earth and said: Well. to make stand it (note the sarcasml, soaps em- brace all these compounds Hinich result from the reaction of salifiabiGbases with fats and oils.
 For fear that he had not made it quite simple enough for me to take it in, he added so that I might not go away unin-
 structed, in a manner as if talking to a child: Flats and oils consist generally Of three glyceryl esters. two solid, diff ferinE in Instability. called stearin and palmitin, and one liquid. called olein. lI do not know how much simpler he would have made it if had not walked
 up sufficiently to inform him that he had made 1t as clear as glycerin and lthat was indebted to him for his lu- cidity.
 As Tennyson took a simple flower t
 throw the thinkers in panic, so it's pos sible that master man could take sticI of shaving soap, upon which an oddet dime has been put as a war tax t squeeze profit out of the consumer, ant use 1t as a stick of dynamite to blow Iup the unholy crew which under cove of war necessities is gouging the people
 and turn such a searching governmen Inquiry into every branch of profiteerinl
 as to make the investigation of the pack
 CTS but beginning to uncover all wh'
 demand their pound of flesh from a sac
 rificing people.
 A lot of fuss to make about a dime
 Perhaps so. but 1t Is time that someon
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-02
SHE'LL SHOCK

ID BRIDGEPORT HAS received vivid descriptions of shell
ID shock it's effect upon soldiers who suffer with It,
Mrs has given very graphic examples drawn from
her personal experience with soldiers afflicted with shell snoc
The Civil produced many OF shell shock tnougn
the disturbance caogued by that In those days
these Affections thought to be due to the force OF the
poding she'll The injury assumed to be internal ana 10
consist injury the spinal cord to portions OF the bra
to other great nerve centers.
Modern gun fire is terrible than any thing known IN
Civil war days. Shell shock is ten times as common
The civil population contains at all times persons OF IN
stable organization predsposed to insanity and likely
to become any time The terror OF war pushes
such minds line of the normal 1t is estimated that OF
every million sent to the firing line 5000 per year Will be
returned insane The number suffering from shell shock Will
be four times great Most of these will under suitable
treatment, and lapse of time.
What can be distinguish the of nervous insa-
by? Investigation continuous and much has been accom-
plished.
Dozens books have been written the subject The
tendency in their incipiency They are
treated near the line and frequently yield to treatment
longer treatment delayed the dangerous the con-
dition which may boone chronic.
The whole subject of insanity will be better understood as
result the Investigations The part played by nemper
ance and socalled social maady will be realized
long period after the it will be necessary to main
special establishments for the treatment of shell shock