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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10
IT'S EVER SPRING IN FRANCE.

IT'S EVER SPRING IN FRANCE.
The mellow land turns up its heart
To catch the wooing, tender glance
Of coming Spring with lips apart
In joy-But, oh, those fields Of France
The southern sun is coming home
The tree sprites start in joyous dance,
The furroW laughs in luscious loan,
Spring comes" but will it come to France?
Keep sweet, dear heart, take voice and sing,
The stars swing round the suns advance,
But freedom shouts, Its spring, glad
spring
Forever in the heart Of Francev
Charles Evans.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10
TWENTY YEARS AGO.

Orders had been sent to Captain Samp-
son, in command of the North Atlantic
squadron at Key West to send the
torpedo boat Cushing to Havana with
stores for the Maine.
An act was passed by the Usage Coun-
ell, in session at Pawhuska, requesting
the Indian agent to remove all white
people from the reservation.
A. D. johnson, member of the United
States geological surveying party, for.
merly Of Fort Smith, Ark, was in Ard.
more.
A memorial signed by more than 100
New York bankers and mercnants ask
ing the president to end the Cuban
war, was presented to the president.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

Great Britain has 100000 pensioner.
of war.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

1t may be that even Chicago will soon
be in the dry column. a petition to
put the question whether the city shall
continue to license saloons on the bal
lot April has been filed with the cleo.
ton commissioners 1t wa signed by
liS3S0 names. An estimated 1000 ad.
ditional names came in too late to file.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

Bartlesville Examiner: When it comes
to settling a strike and settling the
leaders the kaiser has an unbeaten sys.
tenn. lie sends the leaders to the
front.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

st. Joseph (MoJ News-Press: Time
was when we called Weyler the
butcher" and thought he was about
the limit. But that was before the
kaiser got into the war game.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

Sherman Texas) Courier: The Ger.
mans have nearly three million men
on the western front, but they won't
have the day after our men start on
that drive-not by several dozens Of
thousands.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

Beaumont Texas) Enterprise: Our
hope is that the kaiser has no more
chance than we have when we draw
to a three.card flush.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

Guthrie Leader: Does Investigator
Heney want us to believe he thought
the meat packers are in business to
help the little fellows?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

notwithstanding there has been much
legislation to limit political campaign
expenditures, campaign funds are
rowing larger. In the recent munici.
oal campaign in New York City the
fusion fund alone was in excess of
>2O0O000 and i'm the more recent Bos.
ton campaign the fund raised and ex.
pended by the committees and candi.
1ates was greater than ever before in
the history Of the city.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

Wilson Marchbank and n. e. Jackson
Of New York City were here investi.
eating asphalt beds in this vicinity.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

That the Kansas Republicans have
-roat confidence in winning the next
.lcction is shown by the fact that there
o. whole flock of candidates for all
the important places. There are Ave
Republican candidates for the governor
ship nomination and four candidates
Cor the senatorial place. In the con.
,ressional districts now held by the
Democrats there is every prospect OF
there being two to four candidates for
the Republican nomination.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

Denison (Texas) Herald A man thor
oughly sacred will hardly ever tell
about it afterWard.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

There is need for fifty women, each
half day, I'm the Red Cross workrooms
ut Convention Hail
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

Okmulgee Democrat: The golden sun
= always behind the clouds, shining
brightly. You don't doubt the reality
of the man you talk to by phone, even
thought you cannot see him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-23
MICHAEL By Jack London. The Macmillan Co publishers, New York


 publishers, New York
 The kind of story Jack London told best Possesses in high degree the charm of Mir. Londons best dog stories ? MT. London puts himself to the test and emerges triumphant these quota tions selected from three of the many reviews of MT. London's Jerry of the Islands" express the prevailing opinion of that novel, To write a story that compared favorably with "The Call of the Wild" was something of proposition. but MT. London did it in Jerry and he has done it again in this book. Michael, 1t will be remembered comes into the chronicle of Jerry's life. There are indications in that first volume that his career is no less appealing than was Jerry's own a fact well borne out by this accni;nt of it. It is altogether as absorbing a book as Jerry of the Islands and indeed there are those who have found it even more fascinating
 "A SHORT STORY OF ENGLAND" By Gilbert K. Chesterton. The John Lane Co, publishers. New York, MT. Chesterton's admirers will remem- Der the vivid little book which he pub lished several years ago under the title
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-23
Valuation of Alabama Real Property Increased
 by About $20,OOO,OOO

Montgomery, February 22.-(Special.) )
 An increase of approximately SEQ, ,0oo, ,O0Q
 will be made in the total assessed valua-
 ton of real property in Alabama by the order for revaluation given to boards of equalization of about 30 counties by the state board of equalization, accordins to estimates of Thomas W. Sims, chair. man of the state board.
 County boards have already started or
 the work mapped out by the state board and should complete their work by May
 Taxes on the increased assessments wil
 be collected for this year. being due Oc, tober l. The state board contends tha valuations in all counties which appear to have made reasonable assessments vii not be touched and that only those eoun. ties will be entered which do not appear to have made assessments classed q, reasonable. In some counties an in. crease of 20 per cent in the total as. sessment has been ordered. while in oth CTS the increase will be as low as 1t per cent
 The order does not mean that assess ments on all real property in the county must be increased 10 per cent. The coun, ty board has right to lower or in. crease individual asseshments. but ths total for the county must show an in crease of 10 per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-23
Hooray! Baby 10
 , Rule the House
No Longer Do Women Fear The Great
 est of All Human Blessings.

Thousands of women no longer resign themselves to the thought that sickness and distress are natural. They know better, for in Mothers Friend they have found a wonderful penetrating remedy to relieve many dreaded experiences.
 Nervousness, bearing down and heartening and distressing experiences women everywhere say they entirely escape during the period of expectancy by the use of Mothers Friend;
 Here is a remedy that softens the myriad of broad. flat abdominal mus cles just beneath the skin. enables them to expand without the usual strain upon the fragments and nerves and assists nature to make Impossible for women to go through maternity without many of the dreaded symptoms 90 familiar to host of women.
 By regular use throughout the period the muscles expand easily when baby is born. and pain and danger at the crisis Is consequently less.
 Mothers Friend Is for external use unly. is absolutely and entirely safe and has been used by thousands of women awaiting the greatest time in q, wom- ans life for over half century.
 Write the Bradfield Regulator Co.,, M-11S Lamar Bldg. Atlanta, Ga, for their Motherhood Book" so valuable to expectant mothers, and in the mean time obtain bottle of Mothers Friend from the nearest drug store. Begin it's use strictly according to directions with every, bottle. and thus fortify yourself against pain and discomfort.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-23
News of Society andl| Activities of w omen

E. Gold. Mrs. F. r. Anderson, Mrs. B. A Monohan and others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-23
l'The Job of Being Dream Man, Polyanna' Beautiful
 King or Mr. Daddy -Long-Legs is Successfully Filled By Splendid Actor Mr. George Aison,0 Says Dolly

, east. that was with Daddy -Long-Legs.' 2 I had lived great part of that time il Brooklyn and played in the Brooklya
 stock company for years, and I must tell you that when we were in Atlanta recently l received a note from Ea un-s known friend-a soldier man at Camp
 Gordon, with the 324th infantry, who had seen in the papers that I was with the .Pollyannav company, and he wrote to
 know if I was the same George Alison who used to play in Brooklyn. It seems
 that he was an ex-newspaper man and
 had written many criticisms of the plays
 I was in when there.
 T have always been more or less ot
 dreamer" MT. Alison said. T have
 always loved the stage; I hate the cons
 ditions of homelessness that surround
 it and all that sort of thing, but the
 work is intensely interesting. especially
 when one has such roles as Daddy-Long-
 Legs, that I'd never get another part |
 liked as much, but John Pendleton I con-
 slider far more interesting.''
 Maybe you'd like to know what th,s dream man" does when he isn't on the stage. Well, I'll tell you: He lives in q quaint old house, hundreds of years olcs OH tEe Massachusetts coast, near the spot where our Plymouth fathers dis ported themselves, and where Miles Standish and John Alden and lots Of other notabes found happy back-s
 ground for their historic lives,
 I found out that our dream man. al ways answers letter from matinee giris (and he gets loads and loads of them.
 He has even been generous in sending his autographed photograph to adoring
 admirers, and when he's up in old New England he's very much the type that
 John Pendleton is after he got rid of his grouch-happy, wholesome, kind, and
 dreamer.
 No wonder Polyannna calls him My Beautiful King" Who wouldn't?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-23

The Pyrenees mountains are rich in waterfalls and minerals, but their ex- ploitation is rendered difficult by lack of roads. With the water power there latent the mining possibilities could readily be developed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-23
Preventable Diseases Kept 7S,OO0 Children
 Out of School in 1917

Montgomery, February 2.-tSpecial.) Estimates of the state health department
 published Thursday were that 7s0oe chil-
 dren of school age were unable to at- tend school last year because of disease
 which could have been prevented had the
 proper attention been given at the proper time and that the state was forced to
 throw away 10 per cent of the entire public school appropriation or $4S0,0 as expenses for the teaching of those who were unable to attend.
 Total births in Alabama during Deeem-
 Der were S2S7 and total deaths were s242.
 Measles was the only epidemic during the month and r deaths resulted from this
 disease. Jefferson county had 46S deaths and AZ births, Mobile county l25 deaths deaths and 90 births, Calhoun county 6l deaths and e births and Madison county 75 deaths and 6 births.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-23
RANDOM NOTES

Friends of Mrs. W. D. Lanning will be glad to learn that she is resting com fertably at Robinson infirmary following a serious operation.
 Miss Emma Agee Madison is spending the weekend at Leeds with friends.
 Mrs. Peterson Marzoni will leave to- day for Atlanta, where she will spend the weekend with relatives. en route to Washington after visit to her parents, MT. and Mrs. Frank F. Glass.
 MT. Henry Wagstaf of Atlanta wiIl spend the weekend in the city with Mrs. Wagstaff, who is the guest of her parents, MT. and Mrs. George Blinn.
 Miss Evalina Wilkerson is spending the weekend in Annisten, where she will give reading for the soldiers at Camp Mcclellan, under the auspices of the Drama league.
 Mir and Mrs George Morris have re- turned from their wedding trip and are spending a few days with Mrs. Morris parents, MT. and Mrs. William Moughon, before going to their home in Montgom- cry.
 Charles Stillman of Chicago will arr rive today to be the guest of Mir and Mrs. E. H. Cabaniss.
 Mrs. J. A. Rountree is spending the weekend in Anniston as the guest ot Mrs. w. K. Perrow, where she will att tend the United Daughters of the Con- federacy reception given for the conn manding officers of Camp Mcclellan, She will also be among the out-of-town guests at the reception to be given by the same organization for the soldier boys this afternoon.
 Mrs. Lee Bradley, who has spent the past few months in Washington. where MT. Bradley is occupied with important government work, will arrive next week to spend sometime in the city.
 Mrs. Charles Coke and little daugh- ter, Jessie, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rembert Bayne in Selma.
 Mrs. Ottis Wragg and little son, Ottis Jr., have returned to their home m Gadsden after visiting relatives in the city.
 Miss Helen Harrison is the guest Q: Mfr. and Mrs. Walter Todd In Decatur
 MT. and Mrs. William Wyker have re- turned to their home in Decatur after spending few days in the city. Mrs. Edward Dunkerly has returned from Anniston, where she spent the past IeW uays. .f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-23

|M NcE upon time there was a lV v story that wanted to be told and sent out to the world. This was very natural, inasnnuch as 1t knew peo- pie were terribly interested in dream men" and ''make-believe' things and all that.
 Many unusual deeds and events had helped eerate it; others had added 4 straw to its completion here and thers; what 1t lacked was merely matter of being joined together so that it could travel comfortably through the country,
 The story that wanted to be told was how wonderful young actor man, Mir. George Alison by name, had successfully filled the job of being a dream man" on the stage; of how he had portrayed so charnlingly and so cleverly the roles of Pellyannna's beautiful king, MT. Daddy Lons-Legs, and the rest, so that everywhere he goes his vivid and strik- ing personality is admired and his mar vicious power of creating an atmosphere about him of the good samaritan" kinds, as it were, has enshrined him in the hearts of theatre going people So that no one else could ever take his place.
 Yesterday I went to see Mr Alison to get ''the story that wanted to be told and sent out to the world; of how and why and where he had begun his event. ful career and how it had fallen to his lot to play such appealing parts.
 In the first place let me tell you that the story is answered in the face and fea lures of this splendid young actor man, in his beautiful voice and '.kngly" manner. He's perfect dear The most adorable looking creature you ever saw. With gerat big, wonderful eyes and Wavy brown hair and We'll, no wonder Pollyanna Whittier called him My Beatiuful King" You would too, if you knew him. No wonder Polyanna Whit tier wanted to live at the magnificent castle; no wonder Pollyanna Whittier "kow-towed" and "salamamed" to His Majesty" for he looks the part or the stage as well as "on," and he's just gentle and kind and wonderful any way you take him. is this nice actor man.
 The saying goes that each man in his time plays many parts" In the case of MT, George Alison that goes double, and then some. for he frankly says that he's played everything from Romeo to Uncle Tom, or som ebody equally as we'll known. But it matters not what he has played before, nor what he will play hereafter, the two roles that interloek and dove-tail into each other like theatrical mosaics are his John Pendleton of "Pollyanna,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-23

"A BOOK or PRAYER FOR USE IN THE CHURCHES OF JESUS CHRIST" Compiled by a presbyter, Sherman, French & Co.,, publishers, Boston.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-23

On Tuesday the ladies of Areme chap tor No. IFS Order Eastern Star. spent a most delightful day with Mrs. Claude Stanfield at her home, 120 Fourteenth street north. After delightful lunch con they visited the Fountain Heights fire hall and there they received some men received their call for fires and afterwards escorted to the weather bu- reau, where we were entertained by Mir. Horton, the government weather man, with information as to the weather forecasts. Those enjoying the hospital ity of the day were: Mesdames L. Nc Coy, c. M. Dewitt, Robert Cope. George Dewitt, c. Stanfield, Mary Ammon, o. ". Cunningham, sC M. Lane, J. E. Greene, J. D. Langhor, M. w. Sander son, D. o. Watkins, w. M Ellis, Minnie Goad, Mary Dean. We are glad to have as our visitors Mesdames NJ. H. Ham, mon, Sarver, Awtrey and Whaley.
 WRITER'S CLUB MEETS
 The Writers club held a business meet ing at the Tutwiler on Thursday after noon and later visited the telephone ex- change, where they were shown through the plant and refreshments were served by the management.
 FOR MISS HUNT
 Miss Harriet Forbes will entertain at tea this afternoon at the Tutwiler honor ing Miss Frances Hunt of Indianapolis, who Is the guest of Miss Katherine Me Cormack.
 WESLEY CLASS MEETS
 The Wesley class of the woodlawn Methodist church met Thursday, with Mrs. O. P. Fontaine, Mrs. c. s. McLarn assisting as hostess. Those present were: Mrs. J. D. Robertson. George Ol- fver, T. s. Atkinson, J. E. Brazeal. J. T. McCarty, F. A. Watson, C.. E. Sharley, M. O Banks, E. J. Dawson, c. B. Will Hams, Robert Echols, J. L. Crumley, o. P. Fontaine, c. s. McLarn and Miss Ruth Crumley. The class elected the following officers; President. Mrs George Oliver; vice president. Mrs W. IT. whaley; recording secretary, Mrs. J. L. Crurnley; corresponding secretary, Mrs. ! c E Sharley; treasurer, Mrs. J. A. Driggers: publicity agent, Mrs, H. B. Mo ! IAaurine.
 FTUTWILER TEA PARTY
 Among those entertaining at tea this afternoon at the Tutwiler will be Mrs. l N. 4. Barrett, Miss Harriet Forbes, Mrs. George Hastings, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. R. w. Williams, Mrs. John C. Henley, Miss Margaret Coleman, Mrs. E J. Me 1 Crossin, Mrs. Cecil D. Walker, Mrs. V. c. Foster. Mrs. c. s. Simmons, Miss Ade- laide Ranson, Mrs. James T. Dunlap and Mrs Frank B. Clements; Captain Lean, ! Mrs. William Houseal, Mrs H. J. Porter, Mrs. Ted Brownell, Mrs. Sam Lefkovitz, Mrs. !. M Dill, Mrs. F. D. Harris. Miss L. Chandler, Mrs. w. F. Campbell, Mrs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-23

ters.l Edited by Mrs. Denis O'Sul- livan. The John Lane Co.,, publishers. New York "FRENzIED FICTION" By Stephen Leacock. The John Lane Co.,, publish CTS, New York ENGLISH B. By Agnes Porter. Sherman, French & Co, publishers, Boston.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-23

and MT. Daddy y-LongL Legs" both Of which he has made memorable successes on the stage.
 Among the reminiscent quintessences which MT. Alison recorded to me to put into that little story that wanted to be told and sent out to the world" was that his stage career came about through little incident which had to do with business as well as pleasure.
 T was working in an office in Lon don--I am an Englishman- by birth-and it was the tiresomest sort of job. l didn't like the prosaic, hum drum, ev- ery-day life of the office, and I had sad once to an actor friend of mine that 1 wanted very much to go on the stage, He told me that if the time ever came when he coudl manage something worth while for me he would do so. Finally, one day wire came to me from this actor friend of mine, saying that a va cancy had occurred in the company ne was in, and if I could come and fill it he felt that I had a spendid chance at something quite worth while. I dropped my prosaic work then and there, and accepted the offer and, to make a long story short, I have been acting ever since"
 Most of my life has been spent In stock companies MT. Alison continued "and it was only three years ago when I made my first trip away from the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-23

of The Victorian Age in Literature' ' What that book did for period of English thought, the present work achieves for the history of England as whole; and there can be no need to en- large upon the brilliant comprehensive ness of the resulting survey. Mir, Ches- terton has a genius for generalization which is surpassed by none of his con- temporaries, and the theory here ad- vaneed of English reformation, and of it's relation to our present distresses, will be found as stimulating and provocative as anything he has ever written, It is book that raises many problems. But more than that, it offers some solutions
 THE SHINING HEIGHTS" By I. A. R. Wylie. The John Lane Co, publishers, New York.
 Though not a tale of the trenches, this is none the less a story of warfare, fought with the weapon of science. It is a novel in which love and sacrifice play a tremendous part and the charac- terization is unusually excellent.
 OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED.
 (REyIEWS LATER)
 POEMS" By Carroll Atkins. Sherman, French & Co.,, publishers, Boston. HENRY BUFFERS, R. F. A." (An American Citizens Life and War Let
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-23
ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Girl Scouts council Will meet this afternoon at o'clock at the public library. All captains and lieutenants are urged to be present.
 The Woman's Missionary society oi the Walker Memorial church will hold | market this afternoon from ? to o'clock at Carson's store, A5 Tuscaloosa avenue.