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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-11-09

Wilhelm says he acants to lead the Fader
peace, as WeH as IN aar. But Bill aiH probab
mother guess coming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
Taft and Roosevelt
 Once More Friendly

T1 X-PRESIDENT TAFT is even- AA tempered and is proverbially well disposed toward his fellow man. Ex-President Roosevelt has engaging manners when he feels in the humor, and especially when in the company of his political partisans or those whose political friendship he seeks. With those who have opposed him politically his usual feeling is cold. not to say vengeful.
 The republican party would have been in better shape than it was 1T 1916 had the two ex-Presidents sup porting Judge Hughes been cordial In their relations. They spoke and shook hands, but the colonel was far rom suave.
 These two eminent citizens might have added enthusiasm to the repub- lican cause had Roosevelt displayed anything like the amicable disposition that Taft invariably manifested.
 But now the colonels attitude to- ward his former rival and erstwhile dear friend has changed. In Chicago, the ether day, when MT. Taft ad- vanced to shake hands with the col onel, the latter dropped his distant manner and the two engaged in what appeared to bystanders to be heart to-heart talk. Nothing like that had occurred since the colonel's violent break with "Dear Will" in 1912.
 What is the significance of it? Roosevelt is perpetual seeker for the presidency. Taft has no such in- clination. Roosevelt is by nature a fighter and man looking for trouble. But can it be that he is sobering down with his advancing years and is bury ing the hatchet for good and all?
 In these war times little thought is given to party politics. Even Roose- velt's cowboy antics cease to interest the public; but that the colonel has his mind on 1920 and that he has his eye to windward and hope of gain. ing MT. Taft's support, there can be no doubt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
ANNA HELD SMILES AT DEATH

1 France to victoryl Joan Of Arc we are
 calling your
 Music-particularly French music-is
 helping tremendously to keep up the spir-
 it's of the woman who has been given
 and has accepted the verdict that there
 i; no hope of recovery from the rare
 disease which is disintegrating her frame; ;l
 that peculiar myeloma for which medi-l
 cine has no cure.
 :! She heard "Alsace-Lorraine," anotherl new war song, and then that smashing| 1 French march to the notes of which shel has often watched the poilus swing'
 along the Bois-"Le Regiment du Sam-|
 bre ct Mouse" This particularly cheer-|
 ed and frightened her l 'I will live" she went on with herl prophecy "unHl there is no Kaiser on| i a throne in Germany-until our greatl Gen. Foch has received from Hinden-I
 burg his sword in surrender-until France l is wholly victorious.
 Those in the room told her they hoped
 and prayed she might live to see those l things come true.
 | l of France she said Gall this with a i smile and with that dainty French act centuation, full of Zs), where the brave
 ones rest who fell at the Marne and the| Somme and Verdun.' 1 How long Anna Held may survive, noj one can tell Dr. Donald McCaskey, herj chief physician, said the end might corne1 at any hour, and yet again, with her| lindouoiDtahle will and her cheerV cOtlr- V l age, life might possibly be prolonged for weeks, or even months There is nots much that can be done for her. Al gallant gentleman from Gascony,'' as she] described him, visited the hotel yesterday and offered his blood for transfusion intoa her veins But it was decided that thisj emergency measure already once tried| would now be of no avail She is simply living, with her strength growing less and less daily, but herl courage as strong as ever and her smilel never failing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Tribute to nr. Lnmrex

AO APHs No other reason for pr. Lowrey's sud den decision to leave the department of health is known other than that given in his letter of resignation and the state ment to the press" said Dr. J. D. Dow ling.
 The resignation of pr. Lowrey Is to become effective June l and the duties heretofore performed by him will on that date be assumed by myself until sue eessor is appointed.
 Dr. Lowrey has done excellent work and has rendered invaluable service to the city of Birmingham and had possi- biiities for even greater usefulness in the future, and it is. therefore, natural that we should regret his leaving and antici- pate some difficulty in finding a suitable man to fill his place. The activities and efficiency of the department have in creased tremendously during the past year and the prospect for constructive work in the future has never seemed brighter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 N 7ANY yarns have been told of Ger lW nan submarines in these waters. 0VSrhe British skipper who thought he saw one off the Virginia capes may easily have been mistaken. A periscope is small object. log adrift may at a little distance take on the semblance of armor plate.
 Tn the night, imagining some fear, :. How easy is a bush supposed bear
 Yet in this case there is something hKe confirmatory evidence in the three derei- icts which have been sighted In the neiphborhood. The crews were missing. so that the cause of the disasters must remain for the present a matterof spec ulation. Two of the vessels nave not been identified or picked up; the tniro is the schooner Edna, bound for this port from Havana. She was found "itn her spanker and mainsail still set-an III dication that she was abandoned hastiiy. She was listed heavily to port, ana amid ships on her starboard side, below the water line, was large jagged hole. This might have been the result Of collision, of course; but the suggesuon that a torpedo damaged her is at least plausible.
 There is natural disinclination to be- ,ava that enemy submarines are operat- inp on this side of the Atlantic. though writers of fiction have on several recent occa sions assumed that they might De. After the voyage of the Deutschland none
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01

From the New York World.
 OT1E great dark eyes of Anna Held still smile bravely, though she has
 been told by her doctors that soon they must close forever. And there is still that bewitching sidewise roll to them when she speaks-just as there used to be when she sang about not being able to make them behave. It is easy for those near to her to believe that when death comes-as it inevitably must be- fore long-she will meet it with that al turing flirty glance that every one whe has ever seen her must remember.
 "But not yet will l die!' said the suf- ferer yesterday. turning away from her window in the Hotel Savoy, where she sat looking down upon Fifth avenue s traffic. There is something that must live for. I cannot grow better than l ammo My good doctors say it. It is true-yes. Anna sings and dances no more. But for while she lives For a while until certain things happen-about France"
 In a corner of the big apartment a
 
 black disc was spinning on phonograph and there sounded the notes of Joan of Arc'-"Do you see the dropping fleur- de-lis? Do you hear the tears of Nor mandy?"
 q will live," Anna Held said, until my dear France is free again. You shall see. I will make myself live until the Huns are driven back across the Rhine and my country is herself. Once more to go to the hospitals of Paris and sing for those blesses-that l would much like to do. But I shall not; not again shall I see Paris. I shall die here. But before I die-you shall behoid-F'rance again will be altogether France" =
 Her fingers tapped gently to the rhythm of the popular song-that part Of it which uses the tune of the 'Marseii- laise" and says: Come, lead your
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
WHY THERE ARE ToRNADoEs

From the Peoples Home Journal.
 Why do some portions of the United States suffer from tornadoes, or cyclones, as they are generally but erroneously called, while others do not? The ques- tion is answered by scientists of the United States weather bureau, who point to the topography of our country in ex planation. Tornadoes occur in the Mis- sissippi valley, anywhere from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian line. No portion of this area is more apt to suf- fer than another. the experts assert. This valley opens to the warm waters of the gulf on the south and is closed in on the west by the high wall of the Rocky mountains. Warm, moisture laden winds from the gulf move northward in the spring and early summer and ecoun- ter the cold north and northwest winds that sweep down the east wall of the Rockies When the opposing currents meet there is sometimes formed one of those rapidly revolving, funne- shaped clouds so destructive of life and prop- erty.
 Tornadoes travel southwest to north east, and, in addition 10 their terrific whirling movement. which is too great to be measured. have a forward velocity of from 50 to 60 miles an hour. Their path may be from few hundred yards to mile in width
 The word tornado" at first spelled tornado" probably was derived iron, the Spanish tronada. which means thun- derstorm ''Tornado' may have grown out of an attempt to combine this word with the Spanish word tornar, meaning
 ito turn.' thus making it descriptive of storm that turned or twisted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
JONES, PREFERENCE

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
 The conversation in the lobby or Washington hotel turned to the suoJecs of edible delights, when the following m cident was contributed by Congressman Claude Kitchin of North Carolina.
 One afternoon Jones and smith en- tered q restaurant and. comfortably seat ing themselves at table, took up the menu card.
 T wanted some soup. remarked Jones, his eye still on the card. but these do not exactly appeal to me.
 .I had some of this tomato soup here the other day" returned Smith, and it was all right"
 ..It is question of color. not aual- ity," smilingly responded Jones. II pre- fer some kind that matches the vest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
Huckleberries as
 a Food Product

6THISl is huckleberry season and
 4 the market will soon be we'll supplied with the wholesome little fruit that grows wild on vast stretches of Alabama's swampy land.
 The fresh huckleberry has always been esteemed as breakfast dish, served with cream or milk. But it is equally palatable in hot weather, served with a small sprinkling of sugar and iced water. In culinary art the huckleberry pie is a great favorite and almost as popular is the huckleberry dumpling.
 But as much in demand as the delicious berry is, it could be further popularized as food factor if the Wholesale Grocers' association would inaugurate the same kind of educa- tional propaganda for it that it has conducted in behalf of the black-eyed pea. Time was when the field pea was almost negligible quantity in crop reporting, but consumers have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
LIKE M,LUKE SAYS

Don't be too hard on the chap who happens to make fool of himself If you haven't made a fool of yourself yet, you soon will.
 When you agree with a man he has nothing left to argue about. But when you agree with a woman she keeps right on arguing.
 The trouble with owning good foun- tain pen is that 1t tempts you to write too many letters.
 Some mems minds are so small that they regard "a nickel in much the same way as an elephant regards peanut.
 Why does a 2oO-pound teamster always sit on one end of the wagon seat and force it out of plumb when he could just as we'll sit in the middle of it?
 The more questions you ask the more you will find out that isn't so.
 And dentist is about the only man on earth who could kill the nerve of some people.
 There is some class to a small boy. He despises sofa pillow poodle as much as he loves common cur who is just plain dog.
 When a man spends s10 in a raffle and wins something worth about dollar. his friends never get done talking about what lucky cuss he is
 A horse can swear with his ears. But a man, being an intelligent animal, has to use his mouth.
 A husband can be so homely that his face hurts him. And he can be so hard Up that a dime looks like $10. But he dassent come home after midnight with out being accused of leading double life.
 A wife has sneaking suspicion that her husband could thread needle easily enough if he had to do some mending and she wasn't around. And she is right.
 The reason a woman insists that 1t is gout that makes her walk that way is because any one can see that it is her bunions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
A SMALL TOWN SPORT

By Damon Runyon.
 Son O or Mig McAulifre. the widder O. Box Car Jack
 An ol' time shack on the Santa Flo.
 who run to Dodge and back. He was killed in wreck at La Junta.
 and he left the wife and boy A kid knec-high to a hop-toad, and
 tagged by the name O Roy.  This Roy was sort O. ornery, and he
 never would go to school. He spent the most O childhood days in
 learnin' the game Q pool. His shoulders grew somewhat rounded
 and his chest it grew rather thin But, gosh he grew to a marvel at knock
 in them pool balls i'm Pool -Shootin' Roy we called him. and
 many a night I've set Watchin. him clean the table. and puffin'
 his cigaret
 Sleeves rolled up to the elbow. and play-
 in So am and cool If ever q lad was born for thing. he
 was born for playin this pool! Fifteen balls was a cinch for hinl-fifteen
 balls from the break; One ball loose from the bunch a bit, and
 the whole alarmed rack he'd take. He was great on a combination. and
 great on cut-shot too He'd make those pool balls talk to him when he started handlin' a cue. And somc of US, thought he'd be cham peen, but every one didn't agree, For Doctor Wilcox wanted to bet he'd die of the old T. B. But tine war it settled the question, for the first of our kids to so Was Pool-Shootir.' Roy McAuliffe-our pool rooms suffered blow. What i1 that thing the Frenchmen sive to good. game fightin' boy? Say 1t again-the Croix de Guerre? We'll that's what they give to Roy. | It seems fifteen Germans were on ht and handlin' him rather mean. When he got a machine gun to workiA
 and pocketed the hull ftfteen:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
STRANGE SIGHTS OFF THE CAFES

will deny the feasibility of sending them hither But the cruising radius even of the largest underwater craft Is limited If the U-boat menace is really at our doors, there must be bases somewhere. Is Mexico likely place? Or the remote and deserted coves and harbors in the Bahamas, used by the pirates of one generation and by the blockade runners of another? It is rather futile to seek an answer to these questions, yet they have at least certain interest. There is no doubt that Germany has the desire to attack shipping in this part of the world. as elsewhere. Nor are her sub7 marine commanders lacking in skill and venturesomeness. But the yarn of the British skipper remains to be con firmed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
The Same old Thing

q find that one of the pleasantest ways to spend a weekend in Birming- ham is to make the trip in my car,' said Mason Dillard. T left Florence Fri tored down to Courtland, Decatur, Hart selle Cullman. Garden City, Blounts- vile and Oneonta, and arrived at ( p. m. The drive of about 8 miles along the old roadbed of the Louisville and Nashville is very beautiful and it's a pleasure to ride over it. If the state high way all along the route was as good as it is, it would soon get a reputation throughout the country as a happy hunt ing ground for motorists"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
Flowers for .Billyv Grubb

T was glad that vote of sympathy to Judge Grubb was extended by the Bir- mingham Bar association at it's regular meeting at the Civic association on Thursday" said President Henry R. structed to send some choice flowers to brighten his room while recovering from the operation for appendicitis. Billy Grubb, as he is called by all of the older practitioners of the local bar, has al- ways been a great favorite among the lawyers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
She May Have Been Right

I got jolt the other day which al- most put me to bed.p said L. P. Hill, editor of the Ensley Enterprise. T was sitting in the lobby of the Tutwiler when a charming lassie in the becoming Red Cross garb came up and with sweet smile said, Won't you please give me a contribution for the Red Cross work? I answered that I had already given ev- erything l had except my shoes, my hat and the clothes had on my back, but if she wanted them I was willing to go to bed and let them be sold for the fund She took me in critically from head to foot. and with upturned nose, replied: No, thanks, the whole layout wouldn't bring 90 cents and haven't the heart to take them" and off she went. leaving me a nervous wreck
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
ADRIFvT WITH THE TIMES
AcurE SUFFERING.

<(O h 0Of Y fEhlNJ.
 Whats the matter with old MT. Grasperly? He's roaring like wounded bull"
 "oh, he's just giving till It hurts "Yes?"
 "A persistent young woman is sepa- rating him from s for Armenian relief. 7
 USELESS ACCOMPLISHMENT. Daughter. are you learning any of the new dance steps?'
 <"No, father. I'm too busy with my war work
 And besides, none of the officers l dance with know any new steps,
 MISSING THE FINE POINTS. r flattered myself that this French officer vas enjoying the baseball game" But you were disillusioned?'' Sadly so. The game was nearly ever before it occurred to him to ask me what the umpire was for" IMAGINEs HE'S A cENTENARIAN. 'Is man truly as old as he feels?'' Not always"
 "Nog
 For instance. he's seldom as old as he feels when he sees young woman he once dandled on his knee out giving her twins an airing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
May Be Disappointed

T have just gotten me new seven stated Packard said Mercer Barnett, and as I am eager to give it a try out I am leaving for Eufaula. my old hPme town. with my wife and sisters. and my uncle, Paul Barnett. It is about 175 miles. will spend Saturday and Sunday with my uncle, Charles G. Mer- cer. I expect to find the roads in fair condition.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01

BEGINNING THE DAY My Father, I desire at Thy hands no less a boon than vfctOry-victory over nay sins, my evil habits, my weakness. And I know that Thou didst not create me for failure. know, too, that have not sinned away my chance, for there is no limit to Thy goodness and power. Amen.--H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
PH1LADELPHIANs sHAMED

From the Macon Telegraph.
 That sheepish look Philadelphians are wearing just now is due to the fact that British officer looking over the his- toric sights of the city found made in Germany stamped on the thermometer in Independence hall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
Bright Future for the Larger College

lTTHE consolidation of the two 0 Methodist institutions - Bir-
 mingham college and the Southern Iuniversity-is now an accomplished lfact. A new name-Birmingha Southern college - was fittingly chosen, and the people of Alabama will soon get used to it. The future of the college is bright indeed. All colleges and universities lin the United States have suffered in Iconsequence of the war. Business of |all kinds has been dislocated. Young men ready to start out for college education are either of draft age or soon will be. The number of gradu- ates in southern institutions have shown large falling off this year.
 There will be even fewer graduates in 1919. But the lower classes should be well filled up and on the whole fairly active year may be expected on Owenton hill. Needed improve ments will be made and especial at tention will be given to technological training. It should not be long before Birmingham Southern has great laboratory and one of the strongest !technological schools in all the south.
 The war will be over some day, and then Birmingham Southern will go forward by real strides. Farmerettes of Mount Holyoke college are enthusiastic about their farm work, but they protest vigorously against tho
 use of odoriferous fertilizer. Cannot gas
 masks be provided to protect the delicate
 nostrils of the farmerettes? x E x "of course, there might be German sub
 marines in American waters." said con 1 temporary. "'Tisn't improbable, but we
 don't think they would be as open and
 above-board as the Deutchsland l as * *
 l According to a Denver glassblower, there are only three men in the United States who can make glass eyes. One of
 the few professions. apparently, that is
 no. overerowded
 l With the thermometer making sporadic attempts to reach 90 in the shade, the
 average citizen finds 1t hard to realize
 the necessity of laying in next winters
 coal supply,
 The Sultan of Turkey probably isn't
 worrying himself sick because the war l is going to be settled on the western
 front at considerable distance from his capital.
 l A little Italian girl in New York, who ] is getting pay allotments from twelve
 army sweethearts, probably isn't dis
 tressed because the war may last long
 time.
 London. papers may not understand
 the exact meaning of "Attabey!" but
 that's what they are trying to say to
 \.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
CROWDED BYwAYs.

Now doth the motorist set forth To spend the day mid rural scenes, And meets a mob of city folk Who chug along in their machines, Upon the seif-same mission bent, To have a little holiday, And get a breath of country air And after wildwood blossoms stray. And every time he thinks he's found A cozy and secluded spot, That's just what he's been looking for With anxious eyes. as like as not He runs into family group Who stare at him in cold disdain, And so the luckless motorist Must start rpon his quest again.
 GETTING RID OF HER. Would you object to your wife malkinl speeches from the rear end of train 9 Why, no," replied the husband of rampant suffragette. T presume tn train would eventually pull out" THE SECRET OF SUCCESS. Seeking riches,
 Seeking fame,
 Men grow weary
 Just the same.
 But the quitters
 Do not know
 That the workers
 Here below
 Soon forget
 Their weariness,
 Rise again
 And onward press
 Till the goal,
 At last in sight.
 10th for years
 Of toll requite
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01

Increased rapidly and this once neg llected edible has risen to important commercial value.
 The huckleberry is beginning to be cultivated in Alabama, and with in- Icreasing demand it should be widely cultivated. As it is now thousands upon thousands of gallons of huckle- berries are left unpicked and go to waste.
 The food conservers should begin this summer to preserve the huckle- berry on a large scale. We have the canneries and every gallon that does not find ready sale at the green gro- cery should find purchaser in one of the canning establishments.
 The huckleberry has a decided ad- vantage over other canning fruit. It can be preserved without the use of sugar. It makes it's own juice.
 The wholesale grocers could per- form valuable service by pushing the huckleberry. They could add greatly to the wealth of Alabama while contributing at the same time to the dietetic variety of the table.