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plus of rye over the amount which would
normally be distributed to the trade.
This situation is due very largely to the
fact that many of the orders of rye m ade
by wholesalers were not delivered with
out serious delay in transportation. This
situation must be relieved Immediately
or serious losses of valuable food prod
uct will be experienced.
''rhe people of this State are urged to
use rye flour in the home in making bread
and quick breads and are urged to buy
rye bread from the bakers.
Retailers and consumers should be
reminded of the fact that rye may be pur-
hased without substitutes and with the
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-05-09

existing conditions consu m ers may exer-
else patriotic duty by purchasing rye
and using it in every way possible. In
their consumption it shou d be remem-
bered that rye products are not as dura-
bic as wheat flour and con umers should
purchase supplies in small quantities.
Retailers who of necessity will have
larger stocks on hand shou Id be especial
ly careful to see that the rye is stored in
dry, cool place and it shou Id be remem-
bered that patent rye flour is more dura-
BILE thar meal.
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>periaI Notice

| pay the highest prices possible Tor OLD
iron, metals, rubbers and rags and quote
the following prices: Old rags, cents
I. und; iron, $40 a ton; short bags III
cents; rubbers, cents a pound. Drop me
a postal or telephone and | will cali at
once. Special pay the freight charges
for every 100 bags shipped to me,
3ml6 SAM FREEDMAN,
Tel. 1O7-1I 10 Cross St, Belfast
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MOTHERS PROMISE
TO HER SON
Hv KATHLEEN NORRIS

One-I III writing this very,
and on the thinnest OF pa
tightly folded it may slip
the olive drab pockets OF
Inform without encroachlng
ST part of an inch upon all
.ngs that you must nave
passports and identiflca-
and photograph, the knife
nd writing pad, the lists
ers and names and clphers,
- book and the thin manual
been studying so hard and
ME Bible, for this letter is
YOUR equipment, too, or at
. TO think that II is.
~ 10 tell you in it just one
lie things we We been try
-aVin these last days. You've
oIrSelf, haven't you, that
possibilities that |, thank
.t seemed to think of.
urNclled gratefully, haven't
I could say eoOdby with
ahd ialk about what we
hen the war is over. My
* nothing- nothing-that
" 10 YOU thar | haven't fore
,ft detail since May. since
ginning uf II all. | know
E our men are not going 10
! know a. ! write this
YOU loVe thai your fin
uhle for this little piece
some dreadful hour a
Hu months or six months
Iusi To- read II over once
last time. just TO feel
-rrs out there in a shell
rheld something that |
for goodbye.
M Of all this for almost
lie you've been getting
I've been getting ready 20
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-05-09
Mail to Soldiers in France.

Mail addressed to members of the
expeditionary force in France
should have the word "American' writ
ten or spelled i'll full so that in the ad-
dress the designation will read "Ameri-
can E. F." according to request made
by the post office authorities. The new
order is deemed necessary in order to
distinguish American mail from that ad-
dressed to the expeditionary forces of
other countries.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-05-09

The Red Cross has added a new and
picturesque branch to it's many activities
in Italy by sending two rolling canteens'
to the front
The object of these canteens which
are really kitchens on wheels, is to fur
nish hot food to soldiers in first line
trenches.
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twitchine evelids, itching Of the nose,
itching of the rectum, short dry cough,
grinding of the teeth, little red points
Sticking out on tongue, starting during
sleep, slow fever =,
DR.. True's Elixir the Family Laxative
and Worm Expeller, will surely and quick
Iv expel worms, correct upset stomach
and constipat ton. Adults are also bene-
flied. and write us letters like this: CDR.
True's Elixir has done me a world of
good John Glass, Houston, Texas" At
all dealers, 40c.,
6Oc. and 81 90. Or. J. F. TRUE & Co.
Write us. Auburn, h aine.
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CONSUMERS TO PURCHASE
MORE RYE FLOUR.

ln.o' April 20. Because of a ma
>, @ Plus supply of rye flour in this
ips, me present time, Federal Food
y fldtoF urges consumers to in
d % o purchases and consumption
4 Commodity.
SSts expected situation has arisen in
NesI IN connection with a supply of
Ad M and rye flour" says Federal
lon illustrator Merrill, "and a COM
h w. VI reports from wholesalers
'' there is a very material sur
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-05-09
Catarrh of Stomach
Did Not Know Il

Mrs. Selena Tanner, Athens, Ohio,
writes: 81 cannot find words to ex-
press my thanks for your kind ad-
vice. l never once thought had ca
tarrh of the stomach. l commenced
taking Peruna, as you directed. My
stomach continued to hurt, me for
about two weeks after I began the
medicine, and then it stopped. l now
have a good appetite, while before
/ was nearly starved
Those who object to liquid medi-
cines can procure Peruna. Tablets.
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Signs of worms are: De-
ranged stomach, swollen up
per lip, sour stomach, often
sive br ath, hard and full
belly with occasional grip
pings and pains about the
navel, pale face of leaden
tint, eyes heavy and dull,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-09

From the New Republic.
G. Bernard Shaw in an article in the
New Republic ridicules the penguin
uniform worn by Elton schoolboys. Yet
he comedies certain points as when he
declares:
not great convenience in a uniform. One
of the enormous advantages of being
man instead of a woman is that when
you are going out in the evening you
never have to think of what you will
wear. You have no choice: it is the
regulation evening dress or nothing; II
you have pawned it you must just stay
at home. This saves a lot of thinking
and choosing. But the same thing may
be said for the dress of convict. The
same thing may be said for the life of
a slave. He, too, never has to think or
choose; he just does what he is told;
and there is an end of it. II slave
Is not too hard worked and has enough
to eat, and clothes enough to keep him
self warm, he has what many people
consider very easy life. He escapes
what the poet Cowper called the intol-
cradle fatigue of thought There is moth
ing so lazy and popular as comfort
able slavery: that is why Shelley who
had a mania for liberty. and was an in
corrigible thinker, was not popular at
Eton.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-09
POETRY AS HAzLITT DEFINED 1T

From the Cincinnati Times-Star
There is researching these days OF
the question, What is poetry? There has
been some excellent prose written on the
subject and some very poor prose offered
as poetry to the world. But there is a
passage in one Of Hazltts lectures that
perhaps comes nearest to catching the
essence of poetry and convincing us that
poetry is not thing of limitations OF
rhyme and meter. Says Hazltt:
Many people suppose that poetry is
something to be found only in books,
contained in lines OF 10 syllables. with
like endings but wherever there is =
sense of beauty, or power or harmony.
as in the motion of wave of the sea.
in the growth of flower, that spreads
its sweet leaves through the air, and
dedicates its beauty to the SUM-, there
is poetry.
1.-THE child is poet in fact when ne
first plays at hide-and-seek or repeats
the story of Jack, the Giant Killer; the
shepherd boy is poet when he first
crowns his mistress with garland OF
flowers; the countryman when he stops
to look at the rainbow; the city apprsn-
tice when he gazes after the lord mayors
show: the miser when he hugs his gold;
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-09
From the Atlanta Constitution.

From the Atlanta Constitution
N ENIUS is a capricious thing. For
III n illustration, William Cullen Bry-
~ ant wrote his lfe's masterpiece,
"Thanatopsis," before he was 20; Lord
Byron died in his thirties, while Hubert
Howe Bancroft world-famous historian,
who died in California at the advar ced
age Of Sc, never wrote a line-did not
suspect even, that he could write-until
after ne had passed 40
There is something remarkable about
the life and literary legacy of Bancroft,
fully as much so as about the lives Of
Bryant, Byron or the many other lu-
mnaries in literature whose claim to I'M
dying fame rests upon more or less pre-
cocious achievements; and his career goes
to show that the lugubrious old wall of
disconsolation and encouragement, 40
and a failure is, after all, nothing more
than an alliterative, meaningless, I'M
justified and unjustifiable, confession of
weakness.
No man nor woman, having strength of
body and normal mind, can be a failure
at 49, True, thousands upon thousands
at reaching 40 are not able to give a
good account of their talents. So far as
visible results show, a man may have
wasted the first 40 years of his life: but
if he had the proper ingredients in his
makeup originally he has plenty of time
in which to retrieve lost ground, make
amends for past mistakes and achieve
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-09
War Gardeners and
the Ground Hog

I7T1 HE war garden campaign, which
u was organized early in the
year, has resulted in an appreciable
increase in area set apart for vege-
table production, and the outlook for
a new high record in home grown
food is most promising.
Spring weather came earlier this
year than usual and the enterprising
gardener, taking the ground hog at
his word, not only began planting
early, but many of the gardens in and
around Birmingham, with peas, spin
ZACH and asparagus well above
ground, remind one of April.
Heavy frosts and light freezes may
come, but if all the growing truck
should be killed the gardener must
not feel discouraged, for there will
be time enough to replant
AS to the ground hog, he has not
been a dependable prophet, taken year
in and year out, as shown by the Of
ficial records of the weather bureau,
but his judgment is being indicated
this year. He came out Off his hole
five weeks ago today. His forecast
was for six weeks of good weather,
and if the coming week is as spring
like as February, his mistakes of
past years will be forgiven and for
gotten.
On with the garden work. Let there
be no lessening of enthusiasm. Every
pound of food that can be produced
will be needed The family must be
fed and if the garden is as intensive
lily cultivated as the exigencies of
war demand large quantities of fruit
and vegetables can be dried or canned
and be shipped to our allies across
the Atlantic.
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is left of a ruined farmhouse, "some-
where in France" 1t is so battered by
shellfire it scarcely bears any resem
blance to human dwelling. A dead
COW, with hoofs in air, occupies a
prominent place. Dead fowls are seen
here and there, and other evidences
of wars devastation. You may ask,
"What is amusing in these things ?"
A humorous drawing cannot be de-
scribed. 1t must be seen to be appre-
ciated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-09
REAL ATHLETIClsM
rom the Christian Herald.

From the Christian Herald
An athletic authossrS says that IS is
the maximum age for good athlete
Perhaps most people have noticed that
professional athletes wear themselves
out young. Prize fighters, sprinters and
circus performers quit in early prime.
But are these the real athletes
How much more true an athlete is the
ell-preserved farmer who. at 65, can
pitch as much hay as his son or grand :
son?
The best athleticism is that which
holds through the ripper years and en-
ables man to sit on his horse as erectly
at 60 as at 90
The kind OF athleticism that fails at
IS is the wrong kind of athleticism It
is the tense, violent, virtuoso sort OF
skill in mere spectacular accomplish
ment.
The proof Of real athlsticism is health
| and activity in old age. Happy and
healthfu old age is the final proof OF
right living.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-09
A FIEND IN HUMAN FORM

oHi Tie DUNG hey 81 o.
Claude Callan. who now and then h
somewhere In this paper column e
titled. Fakes and Fobbles," or solr
thing of the sort, is an enemy to sociei
We have silk shirted brother-in 4;
living on us. About a year ago he t
in love- He saw everything through re
hued glasses, heard the birds singing
the dead of winter, and maunder
around about two being able to live
cheaply as one. We had high hopes
marrying him off and letting him a
the bride starve together. Then II
here Callan person came to bat with
internninable tales of a loquacious w
and nine children, named Bryan, Woo
row, Bender, Quantrill, Jesse James a
so on, all yelling. world without er
for food. raiment and one thing and a
other. Roy read, and his face gr
longer day by day. Finally he sho
the girl, and we have him on our haE
yet Hence our antipathy for Cla,l
Callan and all his works.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-09
THE OLD FISHERMAN'S PRAYER

II have no boat; | am too old, too old
My lads are drowned; I buried my pc
wife:
MY little lasses died so long ago
That mostly forget what they we
like
Thou knowest, Lord; they were su
little ones;
| know they went to Thee, but / fors
Their faces. though missed them 30
o Lord,
! was strong man; l have drawn &c
And made good money out Of thy grt
sea;
But yet cried for them at nights; a
now,
Although I be so old, l miss my lads,
And there be many folk this stormy mis-
Heavy with fear for theirs Merc
Lord,
Comfort them; save their honest bo
their pride.
And let. them hear next ebb the bic
edest
Best sound-the boat keels grating \
the sand.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-09
Much Progress In
Savings Campaign

ID EPORTS from various sections
Nv of the United States indicate
a marked speeding up of the war
stamp savings campaign. In many
states the organization is complete and
lit is virtually so in Alabama.
The thrift idea, combined with The
spirit of patriotism, took root in the
Birmingham district from the start,
and as spring approached the work
was taken up with a vim in every
part of the state. Teachers and school
children can accomplish wonders and
they may be counted upon to meet
the highest expectations.
But in addition to the schools every
man and woman must do his or her
part not only in investing as literally
as possible in baby bonds, but in help
Ing 10 CTSdLG community tuCIluSldSIU.
Even if one has to make sacrifices
and who is not ready to deny himself
for the good of his country ALA
bama must reach its saving stamp
quota, large though it be.
The third liberty loan will go over
the top. With its high interest rate,
it appeals especially to corporations
and individuals of large means. But
the complete success of the thrift
campaign depends upon compact or
ganization and patriotic ardor.
Under the energetic and able lead
ership of State Director Crawford
johnson, nothing will be left undone
in the way of putting "pep" into the
cause.
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Soldiers Available
for Farm Labor

m ONGRESS has done well in pass
" ing the bill authorizing the Sec
rotary of War to furlough soldiers
of farm experience and others needed
in nonmilitary pursuits. The measure
was strongly recommended by the
war department at the request of the
department of agriculture.
The farmers are increasing their
food crop acreage-in some cases
doubling it-but shortage of labor has
been serious problem. Boys and
men over draft age were expected to
do their best in tilling the land, but
with all working industriously, thou
sands of men serving with the colors
will be needed if bumper crops are
to be cultivated and harvested. With
cut sufficient farm labor large per-
centage Of the crops grown would rot
| in the fields.
Care should be taken, of course, to
prevent any abuse of the furlough act,
| but there will be work enough for
every farm laborer in khaki. And the
very fact that soldiers are to be re-
leased temporarily when they are
needed at the pillow should have an i'm
mediate heartening effect in every
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-09
LUKE M.LUKE SAYS

Isn't it strange how willing man Is
to admit weakness when the weakness
belongs to some other man?
The average man. wouldn't have so
many axes to grind If he had to turn the
grindstone himself
The trouble about meeting a man half
way is that he is certain to want yoa to
come little further.
When they wore hoopskirts they needed
a piano box to hold what a woman wore
from the waist down. But nowadays
all that she wears from the waist down
could be packed into a music-roll box.
Babies have more sense than grown
ups. Babies always fuss when they have
to stay up late at night.
After a man RECEIVERS from a serious
illness he is certain to lie about how
high his fever went.
The difference between brute and a
model husband Is that the brute viii
hand his wife a dime for expense money
when he leaves the house in the morn
ing, and the model husband will ask his
wife for dime for expense money when
he leaves the house in the morning.
A man will marry something that shines
in society and then get mad because IT
won't shine in the kitchen.
1t often happens that when a man
asks to be presented to "a girl he Is ready
to give himself away.
A fool man imagines that all women
are built alike. But corset maker
knows that nature has SO arranged mat
tiers that he has to make different mod
els for the low-busted, the medium
busted and the high busted.
The three rarest things in the world
are radium, common sense and original
jokes.
Don't sit around and worry about
death. Worry about something that ism I
so certain to land you.
1t would make a woman who has. been
married two years mad II she knew that
her husband refers to her as the old
lady" when he Is away f~o~, horNc.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-09
JOINT DEBATES UNTIMELY

From the Colbert County Reporter.
The suggestion of The Age-Herald that
the proposed joint debates during the
prohibition amendment fight be aban-
doned is a good one. We can't see that
any good would come to either side to
engage in a bitter political wrangle when
we have the Germans to whip and need
all of our energy and resources in order
to accomplish the overthrow Of the baby
killing Kaiser. In debate of this kind
there would be no other result than a
most bitter and unfortunate personal
element to enter into it. Cut out the
joint debates and let's center our best
efforts to winning the war, and buying
thrift stamps.
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Grocers' Action
Helps Consumer

I'm response to an appeal from the
y United States food administra-
ton the retail grocers and butchers
throughout the country will make only
one delivery day-over each route
beginning March 20. 1t is pointed out
that more than one delivery is an ex-
travagance and an unnecessary use
of man-power.
The local grocers and butchers in
their action conforming to the gov
ernment's request will, it may be as
sumed, receive the cordial support of
all housewives in the Birmingham
district. The consumer will share in
the economic. benefit resulting from
the one-delivery system, for the elimi-
nation of all unnecessary expense in
the conduct of the business of grocer
and butcher will minimize the cost of
food and keep down further advance
in prices.
While the new rule is war meas
ure in its origin, its operation will,
it is believed, prove so satisfactory
as to insure its continuance under
normal conditions. In other words,
the one delivery day will be here
to stay. The wonder will be why this
economic reform was not brought
about for the good of all concerned
years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-09

BY Jean Ingelow
Ay. l was strong
And able bodied--loved my workout now
I am a useless hulk tbs time l sank;
am in all mems way; 1 trouble them;
am a trouble to myself; but yet
feel for mariners of stormy nights.
And feel for wives that watch ashore.
Ay. ay!
If l had learning / would pray the Lord,
To bring them; but I'm no scholar. no;
Book learning Is as world too hard for
me:
But / make bold to say. Q Lord, good
Lord.
I am broken down poor man. fool
To speak to Thee; but in the Book tbs
writ,
AS /, hear say from others that can read,
How, when thou earnest, thou didst love
the sea,
And live with fishcrfolk. whereby tbs
Thou knowest all the peril they so
through.
And all their trouble.
Al for me. good Lord.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-09
POSSIBILITIES AT 40

more during the time yet to be his ths
many do in an entire lifetime
Bancroft was man of little schoolin
his attendance at public schools, accor
ing to the sketch accompanying the a.
nouncement of his death, being vel
seller in San Francisco. he did not kno
"how to write even the simplest man
script" Yet he left behind him "a We
| umes of history, beside several bool
will live always.
His achievements simply show the pc
sibilities in lifes afternoon. The care
of Bancroft, the distinction he attaine
the good he did for the world while
lived and the heritage he left behil
when he died, all go to show what pc
sibiiities are before any normal m;
az 40
A few years-say s., 40 or even So,
not, after all, count for much and if
man makes good use of his remainii
time as it passes, the years that O.
gone may prove to have been the fee
! ersv OF reservoir, which, filled wi
accumulated ideas and impounded exp
rience, can be made to furnish materi
and substance upon which to draw f
the materials entering into life wo
really worth while
Bancroft is only one OF multitude
celebrities, each of whom lived his Ii
with the sun behind him, and not o.
of whom ever would have been heard
by the world had he admitted that :
and failure was even a possibility.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-09
Bairnsfather Shows
Humorous Side of War

7HHE Bairnsfather sketches are es-
= sentially English in conception
and execution, but their humor is so
infectious, SO broad in it's appeal,
that the work of the soldier-artist is
now being freely reproduced in
American newspapers.
Perhaps no other caricaturist-
certainly no one known in America
has been SO successful in showing the
humorous side of war. Bairnsfather
found his inspiration among the men
in the trenches-those irrepressible
"Tommies," whose witty sayings have
been quoted around the world. Moth
ing daunts their spirits, it seems,
and face to face with death, the
comic side of their characters is re-
vealed in many amusing stories. "Old
Tom," the leading figure in the
Bairnsfather drawings, may be
slightly exaggerated, but he appears
to western eyes speaking likeness
of the kihd of "'Tommy" we've read
about in newspapers, books and mag
azines.
The humor of Bairnsfather differs
from that Of "Bud" Fisher, creator of
s'Mutt and jeff" who, by the way,
will see service as a captain in the
British army and will take his two
friends with him. Bairnsfather rep
resents the English school, the sort
of cockney humor which Punch has
immortalized, and there are times
when it's subtleties are not apparent
to the American brought up on SLAP
stick" comedy and the humor that is
obvious.
For instance, one of the funniest
and most widely circulated drawings
of Bairnsfather represents British
"Tommy" as writing home, eve are
staying at farm" His companion
Tolls in nonchalant attitude by what