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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-07-03

down to the village and meet her"
There's no need OF it, I said, for
here she comes now"
Mrs Hampton had Just turned IN at
the gate and was walking slowly I'D
Lle slight incline 70 our front door
she looked warm and tired. Her son
ran down to meet her, and gave her
his arm.
did not hear what he said 20 her
as they came up the drive but saw
her shake her head as If denying some
statement he was making.
Louise viii back me up IN this.
won't you dear2" he appealed to me as
ne and his mother mounted the steps.
are we not ashamed OF not having
oftered TO drive mother to church,
we certainly would have driven
you there II you had told US you
wanted to go I assured her. why
dla you take that Ions. hot walk
because" she said gently, 7 al
ways 90 10 church on Sunday morn
.n5 when I am able TO do so. And /
was able TODAY"
CTO BE COntlnued.l
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-07-03

Buy your winter requirements Of
fuel now. Prices increase each month.
SANTA Re Fuel COmpanys-Adv-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-07-03
THIS WOMAN
KNOWS
She Proved that Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Does Help
Suffering Women.

Watertown, n. Y-"Last fall
when I vas expecting to become a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22
Small World After All

I met MT. Robert Jemison, Sr., short ly after my arrival in your city," said William G. Hurlbert of the Bostick Steel Lath company of Niles, O., z. member of the Cleveland booster bunch who were guests of Birmingham business men yes terday, and I learned that he had a niece who is my daughters roommate in college.
 T had heard so much about Miss Billy Jemison from my daughter until when met MT. Jemison I asked him if he knew her, and to my surprise he stated that she was his niece, which gave me a foothold in Birmingham right away. for felt like I knew MT. Jemison al ready.
 This goes to show what very small world we are living in, after all, and further proves the value of these trips that our manufacturers and wholesale merchants board conducts annually. Why, I have even started smoking a certain well known brand of cigarettes since visiting New Orleans
 You have wonderful city, and I am certainly proud of the acquaintances that I have made here. I like Birming- ham better than any city have seen in the south"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22
CARTOON POINTS A MORAL

degeneracy practiced under orders or the high command. Such practices have been drowned upon always in the name of military discipline.
 Schrecklichkeit, as applied in Bell gium, Poland, Serbia, Rumania and northern France, finds it's key in the writings of Won Tannenberg and other militarists and philosophers of modern Germany. Gross ss-deutschland," quoted in explanation of The Age Herald car toon, summarizes the German unmor- ality: "A policy of sentiment is folly. Enthusiasm for humanity is idiocy. Right and wrong are notions needed in civil He only. The German people is always right"
 If Germany never had sunk a single American ship or killed a single Amer ican By way of provocation, it would have been Americas moral duty to en- ter this war on the side of civilization and justice as we know those concep- tions.
 Let us remember the face of the fearful mother whose baby's hand clutches at her breast. Let us remenl- Der the crimes of the arrogant Prus sian beast against all the ideals that we have learned to cherish, and let us fisht on with the conviction of havins; entered the war with a great and righteous object that must be attained before peace can be considered accep- n blp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22
RUMANIA A LATIN NATION

tance, and the common people, it is said, have retained the essentials of the language of Caesar.
 Educated Rumania has for a genera tion spoken French; the closest ties of the leaders of the nations life are with France. To have fought on the oppo- site side from France would have been like severing of heart strings. It is noteworthy that the 400 French off, ficers who have been training the Rumanian army always say i've"
 Again and potently, there was the influence of the talented and beautiful Queen, who is beloved by the people and who, even in her devotion to the country over which her husband reigns, is British to the core.
 Underlying all these reasons for Rumania's unity with the allies is the presence of strong, widespread and increasing spirit of democracy among the Rumainian people. It is not bol- shevism, but real democracy. When agitators from the Russian army tried to win over the Rumanian soldiers to their way of thinking, the latter, de- spite their historic courtesy, treated the orators to most improper language and even to shoe leather-which was surely extravaganza, considering how important it is to conserve the shoes of the soldiers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22
JOHN W. DUBosE

From the Mobile Register
 Probably the most industrious penman of our time was John W. DuBose of Bir- mingham, whose Life of Yancey" is re- garded as a model of Biographical writ ing. Afflicted with deafness, Mir DuBose was driven to books fer companionship, and he absorbed them as if they were food and drink. His whole time was given to study and special reading. and pen in hand. Some of his test work was in compiling and editing.
 As writer he gave forth more than he received not in quantity but in quality, for his style was Illuminating. His work on the Life and Times of William L. Yancey" embraced the history of political parties in this country from 1884 10 1864 and was a compendium of the rise of the secession movement, and of the his tory of the Confectionery. His General Joe Wheeler and the Army of the Tennessee" was likewise a very full history of the period in which Wheeler lived Mr. Du- Bose prepared two other historical works, with Alabama as the scene and Ala bamians as the actors, but these never emerged in print. He contributed fre- erently to magazines and newspapers. Historian DuBose lived retired and livery quiet life. He was said to be little known even in the city where for 30 years he was resident. His name. however, will be remembered. being recorded as among the foremost among the names of those who have added distinction to Ala banla.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22
SHEEP FOR THE SOUTH

Frcm the Columbia Record.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald is as much in earnest as we are in this mat ter of getting a sheep growing industry started in the south The great Alabama paper says in recent editorial:
 There has been much discussion of late among members of the Southern Pine association, agricuturists and represen- ta tives of the department of agriculture touching possible experiments for a lution of the forage problem In the south, and definite steps are being urged to bring sheep from the west and place them on cut-over lands.
 Tt is felt certain that sheep can be sat- isfactorily sustained on these lands The department is ready to lay the basis for the establishment of an extensive sheep raising industry in the south.
 While there may be some sheep grow CTS who will express skeptical views, it is believed the majority of them will agree heartily that the proposed experi- ment is worth trying. If it is a success it will add millions of dollars to the wealth of the south, and will relieve the wool shortage situation in the United States.
 Alabama is one of the best of sheep states. If there is not as much sheep grazing as we had years ago, the sheep killing dog may be partly responsible. Let's get rid of the dogs. We have vast areas of cut-over land and agriculturists should be glad to see western sheep transferred here"
 We read recently where someone was proposing to send to Australia for car goes of wool, offering in exchange there fon cargoes of player pianos from this country. That shows the demand for wool in America. The south is adapted by nature to the growing of sheep and South Carolina would be better off to the extent of millions of dollars if we had fewer dogs and more sheep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22

William T. Ellis, in the Saturday
 Evening Post.
 N one young Rumainian officer
 N\ said to me, himself a large c landowner and a member of the aristocracy: We had resolved that be- turned over to Germany by the King we would take our revolvers and go down into the streets and start a revo- lution. I did not care about my estates my name, my life or anything else. The only thing was to save our country from making any such horrible mis- take"
 There are several reasons for Ru- mania's affinity with the allies. She is a Latin nation and not Slavic or Teutonic Her particular pride and boast is that she is more truly Roman than the Italians, being the remnant of the eastern Roman, or Byzantine. empire, and having kept her stock and lineage pure amid her mountain fast nesses. Hence the Rum" or Rome" in her name; and her scholars do not favor the present tendency of the Eng fish speaking world to spell Ruman- ian without the "o;' they would prefer to drop the Gu" Having resisted the racial tides of. Slav and Teuton and Turk, the little country clings tena- ciously to her ancient Roman inheri-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22

Alabama and neighboring states is on a more business-like basis today than ever and the United States depart ment of agriculture has led the way. The Alabama Polytechnic institute has co-operated ably, and the states commissioner of agriculture with timely advice has likewise aided the diversification movement.
 In addition to increased production in all the food crops great progress is being made in live stock husbandry. State Agent Watt will present inn portant statistical information per- taining to cattle and hogs; and what he will say about dairying should lead to large development along this line.
 Aside from the regular demonstra- tions in crops and live stock here are some of the things done by the county agents: Thirty-one fairs held with their assistance; six hundred and ninety-e eight exhibits made by demon strators, co-operators and club mem- bers, winning three hundred and sixty-nine prizes; four hundred and twenty demonstrations conducted in truck work and crops; seven thou sand two hundred and eight farmers induced to do fall blowing; four hun dred and fifty-niae plans furnished for farm buildings; one hundred and thirty-five systems of waterworks in- stalled in farm homes. and scores of other improvements. all conducting to better living conditions and more profitable production.
 The forthcoming. report, in detail, with helpful suggestions, will be awaited with me. e than ordinary in- terest by every farmer in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22
German Airmen Supreme
 Over American Sector

TIT is folly for the American people O to discount the resourcefulness of the Germans. While, with char acteristic fanfare of trumpets our aviation plans were being announced, the German government was applying itself energetically to the task of re- taining supremacy in the air, no mat ter how many battleplanes might be sent to France from America.
 As result of this activity, which has not been advertised, we are now informed that German aviators fly over the American sector at will, calmly ignoring the fire of anti aircraft guns, dropping bombs on troops billeted behind the lines and, recent exploit, attacking American troops in the trenches with battle plane armed with a machine gun.
 We may rest assured that the Ger mans will not be caught mapping in the air or anywhere else. Even though, as MT. Baker has promised, we send over the first Americana built planes five months ahead of time, we shall discover that their arrival has been anticipated.
 The vital importance of aircraft in the war has been so often explained that it should be clear to everyone. We have made a good beginning in our programme for building airplanes, but the work is still in it's initial stages. If Germany is ever swept from the skies, America will have to provide the planes and the aviators for that purpose. We now have the facilities. We still lack the men needed, not only to build machines, but to man them and keep them in re- pair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22
British Noblenlan Gets
 Six Months in Jail

17T7HERE is much to admire in the
 0 smooth working of British courts and the strict impartiality with which justice is dealt out to high and low. This fact has been often commented on in America and con- trast drawn that is by no means flat .tering to us between the fate of the average murderer in this country and in England.
 As an indication that the way of the transgressor is still hard in Eng land-perhaps more so than formerly, now that the British people are fight ing a great war-a member of Parlia- ment was fined s2175 for hoarding food in his residence. To the average American, that is cause enough for , arnazement, but later dispatches state that this highborn offender, none oth- CT than the Hon. Bertrand Arthur Russell, one-time lecturer and fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, and !. heir presumptive to the second Earl Russell, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for making statements prejudicial to the relations fM
 of Great Britain and America.
 Can we imagine a member of Con- sgress being punished for talking too much? We cannot. But even if we could, there is the case of one LaFol- lette to shatter our fond delusion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22
LINCOLN IN THE HOME

From Lincoln as a Neighbour by Philip
 w. Ayres, in the American Review of Reviews.
 In the numerous political gatherings at Mir. Lincoln's house, Mrs. Lincoln was a very great help to her husband lady of refined tastes, with large so- ciai experience, and with considerable political insight, she carried the social end of the campaign admirably. She used frequently to ask my mother to assist in passing the refreshments, service gladly rendered. On Mir. Lincoln's re- turn at the end of the Douglas debate a few friends. including MT. Hatch, sec cred to get the latest word MT. Lincoln was convinced that he would not be elected With his chair leaning back against the wall. his long legs reaching tho floor in front an ungainly figure, his pale face showing the fatigue of travel, he ran his hand up through his long hair and said: 'Boys, you can put in your best licis, but I am not going to be elected' There was a general pro- test Mir Lincoln repeated empha tically: "Boya, I am not going to be elected" No one agreed, but. as everybody knows. he was defeated for the office of United States senator.
 At the time of the presidential election great excitement prevailed in the town, with flag raisings and processions. This campaign appears to have marked the beginning of torchlight processions. and al! the men turned out in the evenings. torches to march for Mir. Lincoln. When the news finally came assuring the cleo tion Mir. Lincoln remarked: There is Ia little woman up the street that will be much interested in this," and walked home to tell his wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22

From the Birming gham Ledger.
 6T1HERE was cartoon in The Age
 Herald Tuesday that touches the
 S spring of pity in ones conscious ness and then awakens wrath. It ex- presses in a graphic way the manhood and womanhood of this land and all the other fair lands from the blight of the gray beast.
 The cartoonist drew the picture of mother, weeping, with babe in her arm, whose tiny hand clutches at her breast. He sketehed in the back ground a bare wall bearing a piacard: By order of the Kaiser. Gott init uns." That was all. With fine repression, with technique worthy of a Macauley the cartoonist told the story of out ragged Belgium, of ravaged France, of Rumania violated, of Serbia raped.
 It is not the individual brutality of Germany's soldiers that has set all de- cent men against that black thing called "kultur,' and all the civilized world against the Pan-German monsters. Soldiers never have been gentle crea- lures in any wars; but in the history of modern warfare there is no previous in- stance of systematic lust and wanton
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

When man learns to swim he stays learned But girl has to learn all over again every summer.
 A mans case has to be hopeless when he hasn't credit enough to enable him to get into debt.
 There is usually more satisfaction in seeing one church pillar go wrong than in seeing dozen heathens go right.
 A romantic young thing may not be- leve it. But an ad writer can earn more than poet.
 What has become of the old-fashioned man who used to carry gold-headed cane?
 It is easy to be good neighbor. All you have to do is to keep your sidewalk clean and mind your own business.
 A boy will cheerfully carry trunk for a strange woman for nothing. But he has to be brfbed to carry bar of soap home for his own mother. When you call on a girl who can't sing, why does she always insist on demon stratings the tact Just as though you needed proof? We have often wondered how grandma managed to raise family without the ass stance of food inspection bureau. The pin-headed reformers may not be- lieve it. But we know lots of men who smoke cigarettes and who are neither headed for the penitentiary or the bad place.
 Every man who is out of work wants money. But not every man who is out of money wants work. A man may be so shiftless that he never gets ahead. But he is greatly dis appointed if his son doesn't do better l than his sons father did. ' Some folks are so busy looking for
 errors that they never enjoy antthing
 they read.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22

The Rumanians, we are told by magazine writer. prefer to have the name of their country spelled without the 'o." We are willing to oblige. That means one stroke less on the typewriter keyboard
 <* * # A campaign will be launched to in crease the consumption of coffee. It's easy to feel kindly toward the coffee dealers. That's one commodity that hasn't climbed skyward since the war started.
 After thinking the matter over, it does seem foolish to make a great uproar over the loss of two or three American sol ders when the British and French are dying by thousands
 Before the whale is passed around wouldn't it be a good idea for some of our foremost chefs to collaborate in per- feoting a new sauce that is also a disin. fectant?
 Paris is still Paris, we are informed, but is not as gay as it used to be. Some of it's former gaiety struck the expe- rienced traveller as a bit forced, any. how.
 The fact that Mrs. Cornelius Vander- bilt has 10 worry along without her pri. vate car isn't causing the s12-a-weeR man to shed any tears. The Germans are gathering in a lot of loot in Russia. Looting becomes a posi- tive pleasure when there is no danger attached to it,
 'Tis bitter blow to fashionable dame to come down with an old-fashioned com plaint that bothered her grandmother.
 4 # a' "A bank book is better reading than novel" says Harry Lauder. Not when it shows a balance of 7s cents.
 <. < :s Every now and then somebody speaks a good word for the bolsheviki. but it doesn't evoke loud cheers.
 j: | # Potatoes can be prepared in more than 20 ways. Still, a spud is spud, no mat ter how it's dressed up.
 <: ;. :; The Prince of Wales took his seat in the House of Lords without upsettng the British government
 < j. ;; The nonsinkable ship is to be given a rigid test. Three or four rigid tests would not be too many.
 # E # The Germans will use tanks in the next offensive. Watch out for the announce ment of supertanks.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22
Third Liberty
 Loan In April

ACCOMPLISHMENTS the billions 4 N raised for the government by the first and second liberty loans the third liberty loan of s3,666, 1000, ,000, about to be floated, should prove pop ular with financial institutions and in dividual investors, for the bonds will bear an interest rate of 41s per cent.
 The first liberty loan of two billion dollars, bearing only 31a per cent interest, was eagerly sought. Capi- talists with a surplus of money acted from a patriotic impulse, although the interest rate made the bonds at tractive even from an investment point of view. But thousands of peo- pie of moderate means bought the bonds solely from a sense of patri- otic duty with the result that the loan Mas largely oversubscribed.
 The second liberty loan of five bill |lion dollars, at 1 per cent interest, was in the same brisk demand that marked the first loan; and with a well organized campaign the new loan will be quickly subscribed. If the war lasts year longer ad- ditional bond issues will be authorized, and there will be no lack of investors. We must win the war, no matter how much money it may take to do it.
 But the third loan, now announced, should be speedily absorbed. The greater the enthusiasm in any patri- otic campaign the stronger the effect on the morale of our soldiers and the public.
 The seed catalog has lately become as fascinating to some people as French novel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
A TALE OF BROADWAY

TALE OF BROADWA1 His uniform doth greatly. take
 The foolish maidens eye, And doth a deep impression make Or all the passersby. Observe him well, the smart salute. The military air An officer, none would dispute
 His high rank anywhere. In restaurants and cabarets
 He spends with lavish hand, And while he very seldom pays
 His bills, we understand 'Tis but a trifling matter which
 Proprietors ignore; Of course they can't afford to pitch A hero out the door. Through joyous weeks, or months, may His giddy race is run; polished, most engaging chap
 Who's having lots of fun. Then one sad day the truth comes out, The dashing cavalier, So much admired, is just about To crown his bright career By marrying $ movie queen
 And setting up in style, When sleuths appear upon the scene Whom nothing can beguile. They strip his gorgeous raiment off,
 His medals laugh to scorn, And at his bold pretenses scoff
 Until at last, forlorn, The erstwhile walters clapped in jail And there is like to stay, Though for awhile he blazed a trail Along the Great White Way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22
THE NEW DEATH

By Edith M. Thomas.
 Greater than thou art dead; fear not. But die thou, too,' Greater than thou art dead; fear not, But die thou, too" I can die, They die, who have a record got That Homer's heroes never knew. am of those so very i'll
 Who touch no more the solid day, Nor know what time I have to fill II soon to go-or longer stay So, my free thoughts can wing afar; And turn they will--and turn again. Where the red fields of battle are And Glory cannot count her men! In daily and in nightly death l die with those who greatly die. As though 'twere naught to yield th,s
 breath,
 And turn their faces from the sky. With most high passion, passing love, They rush into the Terrors arms As though around, beneath, above, Immortal proof met mortal harms. And, sometimes. they to me draw near Bright shades of youth for country
 slain
 l cry. How went ye without fear. As though great joy excluded pain?" They look at each other-and
 At me they lock, and smile beside: ''It was-if thou couldst understand Because in the New Death We dled:" What New Death in the world can
 be?" cry-They answer not my call. (But some one soothly says to mo, You have been dreaming that is
 alb
 Greater than thou are dead fear not. But die thou. too" Then. shall ls
 too, ~ Though humblest sharer in their lot. Know what was that New Death they
 knew1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-22
LOCATING THE FAMILY
Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 In recent trial in the Shawnee county Rag. 1t was necessary for the jury to know the whereabouts of all of the mem- bers of negro family at certain time. So the witness was asked:
 Where was Nary" ''In de back yahd.
 Where was Jane?"
 Upstairs in de front room
 Where was Ann?"
 She was on de front pohch.
 And where was Elizabeth?"
 She was in de pantry takn' a bath.