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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

(Among the soldiers of France there is a widespread and touching belief that at Nancy, Soissons. Ypres and in the Argone a Form, in White has passed un- harmed through shot and shell. comfort- ing the wounded and the dying) Florence Earle Coates, in the Philadel- phia Public Ledger.
 Who is this in raiment white
 Walks across the field, Midst the terrors of the fight
 Bears nor sword nor shield. Stays the dying to defend, Where can come no other friend! Who is this of whom they tell,
 Beautiful and grave,
 As from Heaven, to this Hell
 Come the hurt to save?- Bearing them with tenderness. Where can follow no distress? Who is this that lifts them up
 As they earthward sink,
 Bids them. thirsting, from his cup
 Euthanasia drink,
 Opens to their closing eyes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
WON'T STAND THE TEST.

WON'T STAND THE TEST. Twould make your blood run cold to
 hear
 Of what he'd fain be doing To all pro-Gernans, far and near, Their wicked crimes reviewing. But when a little girl in white,
 Perchance a soldiers sister, Says to this bold, fire-eating wight. Please buy War Stamp, misterr' He shakes his head and hurries on As if he did mistrust her; And what we say is this: "Doggone That kind of Kaiser-b -busterv' tte
 READING FOR AMUSEMENT. "Ahr' said the meddlesome man. I'm bibing a little useful knowledge. I pre- sume, while waiting for your carr" ing book on street corner. This Is a sentimental novel that tells how to win capricious beauty. As the husband of a strong minded woman and the father of seven children, knowledge of that kind is no longer useful to me-
 SAID IT TO OTHERS. Life without you would be a hollow mockery."
 Pooh, pooh. I've heard that before" 'But you've never heard me say it be- fore"
 NO. That's because I'm above caves dropping"
 ANOTHER HOME WRECKED. Theirs was a happy little home" -'Yes?"
 Mot a cloud upon the horizon" Such blissi'
 But, alas, one day an automobile cat alogue found it's way into their peaceful bungalow. Now all is changed. Dis content has devoured their happiness. Life is not worth living without car"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

Maybe more women would read re- ports of ball games if the fat-headed baseball writers had sense enough to tell who were in the grandstand and what they wore.
 See if you can't be as close -mouthed about the mean things you know about others as you are about the mean things you know about yourself
 Babies and women are in class by themselves. They know how to make crying pay dividends.
 A woman likes to talk about what she would do if she were man. And a man likes to talk about what he wouldn't do if he were woman.
 And a man isn't so proud of a girls tiny foot after he marries her and she puts it down firmly on his neck.
 You may have noticed that the more close listed a man Is with his coin, the more generous he is with his advice.
 It often happens that a man gets a reputation for wisdom because he is too grouchy to do much talking.
 There never was a case of love at first sight when he is eating spaghetti the first time she sees him. It is just as well to be an illiterate cuss as 1t is to be- so tightly crammed with knowledge. that you can't get it out.
 And what. has become of the old- fashioned girl who was so bashful that she blushed when man spoke to her? Every time woman cleans up and puts her husbands things away, he believes that she hid them just for meanness.
 married man never realizes how much the wife and the kids are to him until they go away and he is left alone l in the house the first night. The man who is quick -witted enough 1 to think up thousand reasons why he should take a drink cant think of 1 a single reason why he shauld go without it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
< * * Tc Make Labor Day Memorable Occasion

HE WEEKLY CALL, represent = ing the thinking element of uniop labor in Birmingham, makes a unique suggestion regarding Labor Day. As the Call points out, the an- nual Labor Day celebration will soon come up for discussion among work ingmen throughout the country, and it suggests that instead of taking a holiday, every worker in America try to establish new producing record, whether he works with his hands of his brains.
 Says the Call in this weeks issue:
 Come fair, come foul, we must win this war Those of us not privileged to bear arms must give the best work and the most work that is in us to that end.
 Fifty million idle men, or fifty mil lion days lost in the celebration of 4<tpOI Lay, WOulu iltln d most Se- ricus inroad upon our national pro- gramme of preparedness--a backset that might be measured in the blood of our noble boys in France rather than in sordid dollars and cents
 Can we at home risk such price 10, holiday when our defenders are undergoing the agony of lifetime in tho single span that bridges dawn and twilight?
 A single battle on a singe day will end this thing. That day might be Labor Day. The added product or concerted effort on any given day might furnish the munitions to do the glorious deed.
 These patriotic words should com mend themselves to all citizens who feeI that every day and even every
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
BAIT

From Everybody's Magazine.
 When Mike Flaherty abandoned South Boston for Lynn and hired cottage with bit of back yard the first thing he did was to hurry back to the Hub of the Universe and purchase a monkey. "Divil wurrd' of his scheme would he disclose to his old cronies in Boston. But afterward he let out:
 "'Twas like this: chained the monk to a shtick in me yard. and the coal thrains do be passin' all day foreninst. and on iv'ry cairr do be a brakeman. In one walk, begorra, l had two tons ot coal in me cellar, and the monk never wanst hit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
Berries Plentiful

T have been running on the Moun- tain Terrace car line for years" said Conductor Hately, "but this season the blackberry pickers are thicker than ever before, for it seems to me that scores have put aside their business or home duties and taken to the patches with their buckets They come up Clare mont avenue and then scatter out over the territory to the east. Many come back with well-filled baskets see men, women and children in groups. both white and black, on their way berry hunting."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
Everybody for "Billy.

That was a splendid tribute the Ro- tarians paid to Judge Grubb when he appeared at the lunch on Wednesday," said Val Nesbit. "I dare say there are few men on the federal bench in the country who are as beloved by the bar as is Billy Grubb. The crowd showed it's appreciation of his presence after his confinement on account of an opera. tion for appendicitis, by cheering him lustily as he came into the dining room"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
THE AHKOOND OF SWAT

on the ankles of Indian dancing girls. As for Swat. was there ever another word as imperious,E concise? It falls like q a shot, final and terrible Our own beau tiful verb swat" of right ought to be, if it isn't, derived from this Asian fore runner.
 Mr. Lanigan knew greatness as soon as he heard it. Sitting down to his desk. probably in his shirt-sleeves, he mourned the mystic and wonderful Ahknoond of Swat as few princess or potentates were ever mourned. Here he begins, the ponp of ormus and of Ind singing and ring ing in his head: What. what, what Whats the news from Swat2
 Sad news.
 Bad news,
 Cometh by the cable led Through the Indian oceans ss bcd Through the Persian Gulf, tlle Red Sea and the Med Iterrancan-he's dead,
 The Ahknoond is dead
 Then the delicious medley lines. For the Ahkoond l mourn.
 Who wouldn't? He strove to disregard the message stern. But he Ahkoondn't.
 Dead, dead, dead.
 Sorrow, SwatsD Swats wha hae wi Ahkoond bled, Swats wham he hath often led. Onward to gory bed,
 Or to victory, As the case might be- .
 Sorrow, Swats.
 Tears shed, Shed tears like water. Your great Ahkoond is dead.
 That's Swats the matter
 And so on, on the dizziest dithyrambic -ight of genius, possessed of the god This poem is vision. a delight and desire. A masterpiece, inimitable, i'm mortal We congratulate our friend in Charlotte that the great pleasure of reading the whole of this great poem and he knows good poetry when he sees |it-yet lies before him. The rest of us can but refresh our minds with the un- equaled text
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15


 The Great Ahkoond of Swat
 Is not.
 61HIS, the final stanza of George T..
 Lanigan's noble "Threnody," quot
 S ed on this page of the Times, elicits this inquiry from the Rev. A. A Me Geachy of Charlotte, N. C.: 'The poetry where did you get it? Who is the Great Ahkoond and what is Swat?"
 The life and public services of the Great Ahkoond of Swat are sufficiently described in the poem Swat is some where in Asia" west of the upper Indus and northeast of Peshawur. MT. George T. Lanigan, Canadian by birth. one of the most brilliant members of the staff of to write it the night that the news of the death of the Ahkoond-the chief-of Swat came into the office. MT. Lanigan was not personally acquainted with the Ahkoond, and, as to MT. McGeachey and the rest of us, Swat was an unknown re- zion to him. The Ahkoond might have been the mayor for all Mr. Lanigan knew or cared. In fact, he wrote: Mourn, City of Swat, your Great An koond is not"
 Something about the name and the title, some mysterious unforgettable. blessed Mesopotamian" magic is in the sound of them. What is 8 Mikado. what even a Werowance, to the mystic and wonderful yocable "Ahkoond"? The heaven -abrading Himalayas, the Root of the World, the luxurious mountain goat, Pamir and Cashmere, bulbuls and pea cocks and Indian elephants Moguls pal aces of marble, and, most of all, the colds to be got on heaven-kissing hills, are in those strange and lovely syllables. Africa and China, as well, and all ad- miration and delight are in that first syl- lable "Ah." 'Koond" has in it the mur- mur of distant bells, bells of temples bells of legendary undersea cities, bells
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
Conner ReaIly shockcd

T would hate to have had the shock which Donald Conner got recently while using the telephone at the mill at Syla- cauga," said his neighbor, Pelham An derson, flor he was unconscious for 20 minutes. It so happened that the line he was using was struck by lightning. He had an unusual experience and came near being seriously injured. His many friends are glad to know that he escaped without serious injury"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
CAUTIOUS CRITICISM.

CAUTIOUS CRITICISM. "would you consider Twobble 100 per cent patriotic?"
 NO; only ss per cent-~ .eWhy the deduction of per centr' "Twobble never uses profanity. There fore. his references to the Kaiser ara not as vigorous as they might be"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
FEMINIsM BUMPS THE BUMPS

 From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
 Let us not be discouraged about tho feminine uplift, even though the lady street car conductors, as class, seem open to the charge that they are far from conductors and furthermore no ladies. Let us hope for the glorious emancipa- ton which is bound to come, despite dis couragements. However, let us hope also for something better in the exemplary way than is shown by Mrs. Frieda Thomas, lawyer. who chose her own method of signifying disapproval of the testimony of Detective Sergeant Brenick against one of her clients by laying for the sergeant in an alley and soak ing his with an umbrella. Think of the humiliation for the uplift leaders when the sergeant. having arrested Law yer Thomas. denounced her action in. court as ''unmanly,''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

and which came first, the bird or the egg? The Egyptians had the good sense not to meddle with cats. and our gov- ernment ought to be as wise as ancient Egypt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

BEGINNING THE DAY--God, give us to ask not how old q custom. nor how new. but how nearly in accord with God. Give to inquire not how many accept system of things, nor how few. but whether Christ would if He walked the earth again. Grant us to follow not the many, nor the few, but the One. Amen.--H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
GUNS VERSUS EGGS

From the Columbia Record.
 A well-known farmer living on the Gamers Ferry road has made discov cry. The agitation from the discharge of big guns in range practice affected the eggs in his incubator and under set ting hens so that none of them matched
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

What fatcs impose. that men must needs abide, It boots not to resist both wind and tide. -Henry W.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
COSTA RICA,s BIT

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal
 Don't laugh at Costa Rica's declaration of war on Germany; she might throw a ban mana peel where the Kaiser would step |
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
G3s,s!kzIe<X.s8as.,1fH

r. s-if Crawford will repeat the same speech, in the same way, in the cities and towns of the state. Alabama will exceed it's quota.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
CUT SHORT.

CUT SHORT. "Gadspur and Glithersby had warm argument at the club the other night as to which was the worse henpecked." And who won?'' Neither. Right in the middle of the argument both received orders to como home immediately"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
EVEN HE

From the Atlanta Journal.
 Even the baseball fan may be called a war nonessential.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
Member of the Associated Pres.

Member of the Associated Press
 The Age-HeTald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press d;s- patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in 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., 1918-06-15

hour counts in the great task we have assumed along with our war-weary allies across the Atlantic. A day of parades, picnics and frolics, however enjoyable it might be, would not leave the glowing satisfaction of a duty performed. One day that could be made extraordinarily fruitful would be lost. By just so many hours we might suppose victory postponed.
 If the laboring men of America wish to make Labor Day day of sacrifice-in foregoing their cus- tomary pleasures-and instead launch a concentrated drive against the Kaiser they will receive the enthusi- astic support of all other workers in this country who are heart and soul behind our government to win the war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
A GOOD sPENDER

The young son of millionaire,
 'Tis said he makes his presence felt, Not here and there and everywhere, But chiefly in the Tango Belt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

From the New York Times Fallen at length,
 Its tower of strength Its sun is dimmed ere it had nooned Dead lies the great Ahkoond. The Great Ahkoond of Swat Is not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

Remittances can be made at current rate of exchange. The Age-Herald will not be responsible for money sent through the mails. Address,
 THE AGE HERALD,
 Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

Washington bureau. 207 Hibbs build ing.
 European bureau. Henrietta street, Covent Garden London.
 Eastern business office, World build- ing, New York city; western businssS office, Tribune building, Chicago. The $. C. Beckwith Special Agency. agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

TELEPHONE Hell (priyate exchange connecting all departmental Mnin 490O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

GOOD SUGGESTION. Interned Teutons Should not shirk; Make them do Some garden work.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Spoil the child by Sparing rods: How about some Firing squads?
 American.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala postoffice as second class matter, un- der act of Congress. March $, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

No communication will be published without it's authors name. Rejected manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

PLENTY LIKE HIM There goes Jibway.". What about him?s' "He can't pay his grocery bill, yet he rides around in a fine automobile" Are you so far behind the times that a case like Jibway's strikes you as out of the ordinary?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

Secretary Baker says the opinion of General Foch is very much more inn portant' than the opinion of General Won Stein, statment in which practically everyone who isn't pro-German will heartily concur.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

When an army aviator, nearly two hours overdue, landed at the State Fair grounds, his wife said: Where in the world have you been all this time?" He might have answered truthfully enough: up in the air"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

T
 Let us hope that the thunderstorm which came up just before Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and Raymond T. Baker were to be married on the lawn of her country home near Lenox, Mass, does not presage domestic storms in the future
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

Daily and Sunday Age-Herald. year $500 Daily without Sunday .......-... O.2V Daily and Sunday, per month. ~ Daily and Sunday, three months.' z.Vo Sunday Age-Herald, per annum. l-1O Thursdays edition, per annum.. .z9
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15

St. Paul woman, an army officers wife, fired five shots from revolver at a negro intruder. Four bullets pierced his head and one his heart That woman has evidently done little target prac- tice.
The Washington times., 1918-05-23
4OO-POUND BABY,
JUST A YEAR OLD,
OBSERVES HOLIDAY

One year ago today a baby hippo
potamus was born into the family OF
animals at the Zoo. This morning
the baby hippo. with fuzzy hair
around his pink ears. his tail clipped
and his early morning bath out OF the
way Cbabies hate them). he was ready
to celebrate his first birthday.
Although he Is known as Hippo"
to the animals at the Zoo. his real
name is Hippopotamus amphibius
lineas, and he can trace his ancestry
back to the denizens of the African
forests and jungles, where his ances-
tors roamed supreme. The keepers
and children who visit him call him
Buster.
Buster Is the color Of mole. has
pink ears and feet. and large, poppy
brown eyes that bat at you. and he
looks like-well. like a baby hippo
potamus, that's all
When he was born. May % last year,
Buster weighed only forty pounds
Today he weighs 400 pounds, and car
ries Il almost as well as his mother
manages her 1000 pounds.
Ny poor baby! look what you're
coming to-" his mothers eyes seem to
say as she looks sympathetically a:
him.
Sharp at 10 o'clock this morning
the keeper turned the key in the iron
gate of the lion house. In one corner
OF II lay the mother hippopotamus in
the water, with the baby's head on
her shoulder. They awake every
morning at 7:3O. but this morning the
mother had turned over for a beauty
sleep.
The Washington times., 1918-05-23
FOUR ITALIAN BLOCKADE
RUNNERS ARE CAPTURED

LONDON, May 2S.-The four italian
> 'e4Hal men who ran the blockade OF
She hArbor Of PolI and sank an Aus
tre-HungArian battleship OF the Vrii-
bos UnitiG type. were captured. said
e Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
AbEne today.
An official report isued by the Ital-
teA ministry Of marine stated that
CSmmander PeIligrini and his three
companionE advanced alone into the
hArbor. There were two violent ex-
ni6siohA. then q luminous signal an
nsuneiEg that the bGttlesh!p had been
6tFPedoed.
The ,motoFboat WsI sunk to avoid
Sapture
tPolG is- the chief -HungGT-
tta naval bGse on the Adriatic Seal.
The Washington times., 1918-05-23
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SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1918-06-13
CESKOSLOVENSKA VOJENSKA MI
SIZE PRIJEDE SPOLECNE S PROF.
MASARYKEM.

Jak dnesnich zprav vysvta ceskosovenska vojenska
mse prodlevac pftomne New Yorku pfjede do naseho
mesta spoeene prof Masaryke edy niko snad dnes neb
zra jakz p1vodn byo naznacovano Pak vec COST
zmen dstonc ceskosovenske armady nadprucfk Ant Ho
B porucci Spaniel Nederle Horva pTjedou tudz do Gle
veandu sobotu rano 1885 vlakem New York Central dra
ny budou rovnez Hollenden hotelu ubytovani.
Vyjmenovanf ceskosovenstf ddstonici jsou vo
MI ktef do France pfby vpravou Ruska, kde by
rovnez ceny ceskosovenske amady Do Spojen Stat by
vysan ako misie ceem roZvnut nasi vojenske akce
Ceska obec yorska uchysaa nam hrdnm srdecn6 uv
an ddstojnci podieli New Yoru vecku ku rozou
cent pocte kapitanem E. " Voskou, nove menovanym
cenem generalnho stabu americkeho osvecenym
nfkem CNS Will tomuto vecrku mse odezd do Ceveandu
die vseho odroca taze pfiede nam soucasne prof Ma
sarykem sobotu rano to ma Union nadraz.
Jsou veskrz vece inegentn muz jake prav vojac
sovo skoup sce, lee ocf zaT Jim aska andsenf na
e vec W sou cele oddan Ma cervene jech baretu e od
znak cekeho Iva prfslusnym npisem kdezo
mali inicialky &c. S."
Ze sdeen een teo vypravy MONO soudit ze ceskoslo
venska armada Franci jest skoro z vycvena prave
to dobe odey diva pluky fontu ably pod vasnfm pra
pory vrhy prot nepfe boovay svobodu ceskoso
venskeho naroda cast byli nas ho z ronte sice
vzdy nekok dnf zkusenou Nekok hochi bylo take
zraneno. 80
Druzna ddstonfkd vykona cestu po ceskosovenske A
merice navstfv Washington vladn kruhy vojenske nen
pochyby ze Cleveland pdde ochotne il vsem vstfic.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1918-06-13
DALS OMEZOVANi SPOTREBY MASA.

Washington, r. cervna go Velka spotreba pro
madu Sp Sa spoencu akoz ciln obyvatelstvo Francie
Veke Britanie Ialie vyzaduje aby sobe aercky lid oz
umu pozvanf hovezfho sce ode dneska az do Is.
zaM letoSniho roku.
Hspodynky jsou zadany, aby zadnych okolnostf
kupovay vice jak jenu vrt bry hov9zho tyne pro
kazdou osobu jech domacnos Hoey restauranty podob
ne yzyva ably varene hovez pfedaday jen dvakrat y
dne, steaky roastbeefy jen jednou tyden.
Zada tax federanf adminsrace uvadf svrchu uvedeny
ddvod Dale vsak poznamenaya ze vepfoeho jest do
staek ze nen eba omezeni rozsiTova tento dh