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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22

One thing is certain Santa Claus isn't going to distribute any cases of wet goods this year. surreptitiousiy or otherwise.
 Thus far the celebration of Alabama's centennial year seems to be limited to the historians and few editorial writers
 The Fifth congressional district of wisconsin should have a wire fence around it, heavily charged with cleo tricity.
 If one could only step out into his backyard and shoot deer, he wouldn't have to bother about that Christmas spread.
 % # E In spite of the fact that he calls "gas'' -petrol" and movie show ~ci- nema" the Eng1ishman Is not bad sort
 F F < The person who substitutes a 'possum for a high-priced Christmas turkey is not going to fare so badly after all.
 # x % Republicans are predicting a split in the democratic party. the wish, of course, being father to the thought
 + # < AS a matter of fact 1t isn't coffin that John Barleycorn has been put in, but steamer trunk.
 # # * The mercury goes up and down, but the high cost of living goes only in one direction-upl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
IMPORTANCE OF BEING GuLLrBLr

From the New York World
 What gale of laughter will How in the direction of the Ohio farmer who paid $15 for a reserved seat to see the world come to an end! All the sophisticated city folk who pay double
 and treble prices of New Years eve
 performances, the millions who have fake oil and mining stocks tucked
 away in their desks, all vko have a
 keen eye for the bunco game of which somebody else is the victim will be
 moved to hilarity by the incident.
 Here is a man. indeed, whose gullibil- ity beats that of the innocents on whom the greengoods and wiretapping fraternity prey.
 Truly a sucker is born every min-
 ute. But is it not something to be- come a national celebrity for the price of few bushels of wheat? Let us laugh our fill at the credulous Ohio farmer but recognize the place he and his type occupy in the social scheme. They help to keep alert the national sense of humor and they help also to preserve the balance between folly
 and sagacity of the rest of their fell
 lowmen. They serve as the awful ex-
 ample to multitudes whose own imbe- cilities are less only in degree and not much different in kind
 Somebody has to play the fool for
 the admonition of the others, and the
 role, if not to the taste of most of us,
 has its undoubted Importance What. indeed. should be do without the gull
 lible on whose dull surface the edge tools of any amount of Yankee cute ness are whetted?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
THE TWO D'ARTAGNANS
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 i N the preface to ''The Three Musket-
 eers." Alexander the Great Dumas
 assures his readers that despite their names in 'os' and fs' there is nothing mythologicaI about the heroes of the story we are to have the honor to tell" In the Royal Library he ran across the Memoirs of M. d'Artagnan. p These memoirs were translated into English a few years ago. The d'Artag- nan of them Is well known. He was much employed by Mazarin and Louis XIV. His birth name was Charles de Batz. He was one of eight children of the Lord of Castlemore in Bearn. He derived the name of d'Artagnan from an estate of his mother. Francoise de Montesquiou. an estate not far from Vic-en7 7Bigorre. north of Tarbes, and still owned by the Montesquiou family
 In the Fortnightly Review MT. Briggs Davenport writing of "The d'Artagnan Legend in Normandy" reminds us that Charles de Batz d'Artagnon had an cider brother, also, curiously enough named Charles, and a brother Paul, who "served in the Kings Mousuuetaires" long before Dumas hero had left Cas- tlemore for Paris. It was a common custom for number of sons of a noble family to serve at the same time in the Kings Mousquetaires. So Porthos Athos and Aramis actual persons who used those names, whether they were their own names or not, were brothers as the d'Artagnan Memoirs" shows Charles de Batz, the older, Joined the Mousqu etaires in 16S3 and died in 1639 The younger Charles de Batz d'Artag- nan left Bearn in 1640. It was in April, 1925, as we all remember, that Dumas d. Artagnan, the Don Quixote of IS, made so much disturbance, mounted on that extraordinary yellow-haired Bearn nag, in the village of Meung.
 Charles de Batz, the younger, mar ried the Baronne de Sainte-Croix, a widow, who made life miserable for him by her jealousy, was separated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
BONE-DRY PUNCHES

try our Navigation Cup, which for thl time being will be called the Yuletid| Special. This is a punch that has all the earmarks of a Christmas punch and if one has strength of characte enough, or perhaps you might call Il imagination, one may easily realfzI that it is the real thing in punches, il you can stand for that kind of drinsl
 Here it is for the merry Yuletide| One-third white grape juice. thirl ginger ale, a third cider. Of coursl you add cherries, pineapple, sliceI oranges and other fruit as you woulI in regular punch. When it is all in bowl with large piece of ice the fea tivities may begin.
 Then of course we have that jollj champblanc cup which we are espel cially preparing for the festal seasod This can be made with champblanl straight and the usual fruits or vol can add percentage of loganberrj juice for purposes of variety without taking away in the least from it's kickl less qualities.
 Tn order to be especially prepfred for the rush of soft drink celebratorI we have also0our Aurora punch, whicl is brewed only on drinkless holidays It contains one-third champrougd sugar, mint, cherries and any other ap1 propriate fruits that happen to b| l,a h 41I
 'Then, of course, festive Yuletid| dinner parties will be wanting cocA tail to open up on. Nothing easiel Here is one we have invented especiallj for the Merry Yuletide season. It called the Holliberry: One-half mill one-half cider, sugar to suit and dad of Worcestershire. It should be druH quickly-and then let joy be uncoi fined"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22

From the New York Evening Sun 4' I1H XCUSE me-" said Handsome Her lTJ man Holdfast, the last surviv- ing barkeep of the old Broad way school, who still has the nerve to grin over the former cocktail counter of the Hotel McAlpin. Excuse me while put this quarter in the till. It is so seldom we get hold of quarter in here nowadays that we take extra special care of such rare coins. This makes the second one today and if we keep going we may bust Fridays rec ord of six"
 Knowing Herman to be progress sive man and the acknowledged dry martini champoin Of the white light belt and holder of the Browne's chop house highbaIl record for many years, it was regarded as logical that he as to the proper way under the present circumstances to make Christmas punch.
 What are to be the mysterious ingre- dients the merry hotel man will put in his Yuletide brew this glad season in offer to make his patrons feel as if they were getting salubrious without real kick in the whole jolly outfit? Handsome Herman proved to be a man of resource and ideas in this line, as usual. Standing there in the grand old McAlpin bar, beneath the crests and quarterings of various retired kings and kaisers, and several dukes, to say nothing of a lot of earls, the last sur vivor said there was plenty of hope for a kickless Yuletide punch, as he had several recipes ready for the big parties sure to develop at Christmas time.
 Parties here for dinner or a dance during the holidays" lie said might
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
Birds of Prey Fight For
 Dominion of the Skies

l M CURIOUS story came from z S Burma the other day. Lieu tenant Poulet, a French aviator, was attacked by a vulture while flying at height of one thousand feet and forced to land after his feathered as- sailant had broken one of the pro- pellers of his plane.
 According to Lieutenant Poulet, who recently withdrew from the Paris Australia air force in favor of Capt. Ross Smith, the huge bird, the largest and fiercest species that now survives in Europe, circled over his machine which was moving at slow speed because of weather conditions, and then diyed straight down with such force that the plane was crippled and it's pilot forced to land on a plateau. Luckily, he was able to re- 
 main in the air long enough to find a safe landing place in the rugged country over which he was flying.
 Newspaper readers will recall that some days ago the dispatches told of an encounter between an eagle and a British officer flying over the Pyren- ees. In this case the eagle rose to attack the manbird who dared to in- wade. his airy realm, but after cir cling around the machine at about ninety miles an hour, was quickly left behind when the amused aviator in ereased his speed. He stated that the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
FINISHING SCHOOL.

From the Louisville Courier-JournaL
 The American Hotel association. whicl suggests national institute for train may wish to teach walters how to ge the maximum tip with the minimum wear upon the nerves of the guest wh( realizes that he must fork over oT bI kicked out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
THE DOLLAR ATSFAULT

From the Montgomery Times.
 Tn the old days when a dweller in dollar on a certain stump. take a lit- tie walk and return to find a jug of ''moonshine," it was also possible to buy 20 pounds of sugar for a dollar Birmingham Afie- Herald. And a Thanksgiving turkey for six bits.-, for a dime. But all this in the days when the dollar was at it's face value.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
VOLUNTARY SERVICE

By Milton. Our voluntary service He requires. Not our Iecessitated. Such with Him Finds no acceptance. nor find; for how Can hearts not free be tried whether tlSa
 serve. Willing or no, who will but what the
 must
 By destiny, and can no other choose?
 freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22

BEGINNING THE DAY-Tench me, 0 my God, that about some things there is no doubt. Show me that some things are established. I would feel the iron in the eternal standards of right living. Thou hast fixed Thy laws. Who shall unfix them: Who shall doubt them away: Who shall put fluid in the place of iron .--H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
Beer Top. Rutned Bu.Ine..

Recently I saw where the question of who first used talking machines was raised in the columns of The Age Her ald," writes W. H. Owings of Carroll ton. From B. Taylor. with the Jobe- Rose Jewelry company, was the first man to introduce them. for I worked under him, and it used to fall to me to go around to rob the ones placed in public places. They were the nickel in-the-slot variety and for awhile he mopped up on them. But alas! some brewery introduced a beer bottle with a tin top which busted up my em- rloyer's business, for they were just the thing to substitute for a jitney. got tired making the rounds to col- feet hat full of tin tops and so MT Taylor quit. William M. Lindsay and used the first commercial machines in Birmingham. He would go to the courthouse and take down notes. come back to the office on Twenty first street and I would ,transcribe the dic- tation."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
INHUMAN z

From the Los Angeles Times.
 The use of bath tub and the serv- ices of a left-handed barber would be just the thing for the local I. W. w. But that would be cruel and unusual punishment. prohibited by the law of nations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
sCoRE ONE rOR .ewETs.

From the Atlanta Constitution
 The supreme court of California hal upheld the ordinance requiring tn. street railway in Sacramento to sprin kle its tracks. This is the first req victory the vets have won.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
BURNING A Goop MAN

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal
 pr. Garfield for vice president? What 10 they want to bury a good man like that for? Leave him on the outside so he can look out for the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
RIGHT IN THE CEMETERY,

From the New York Telegram
 That's nice picture. Senators Un derwood and Hitchcock having dis agreement at the open grave of tn, League and Senator Lodge, the old sex ton. leaning on his spade laughing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
pogs May pecome Expen.lve


 There are only about 10 more days in which to register dogs, as far as the county is concerned" stated Sam Blake. land the owner will then have to pay penalty on the license or see his pet shot by the police The owner, however, before such drastic action as shooting the animal is taken. will be notified by an officer to get.a license and put tag on the dog, but if he does not do 1t immediately the re- course of shooting the animal will then be resorted to. -ns
 'Furthermore. if the owner has to be notified by the back tax collector that he is delinquent in the payment he will have to pay the costs of this procedure besides the regular delin- quent fine, which in the long run will make 1t pretty expensive to own a dog.
 About 1900 dogs have been regis tered up to the present date. which leaves, I am sure. large number of the animals still unaccounted fort
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22

E E & Sir, these cold ways, That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous Where the disease is violent.
 -COIIoIanus.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22

uAscOLulCeu ana exnauSVeo DIrd sank to the earth, with what bitterness of spirit it were easy to imagine. For the first time in it's fierce existence it had met its master, a strange crea- ture that disdained battle and calmly flew away without trace of fearl For thousands of years man stood on earth, or rode the waves of the sea, and watched birds flying through the air. He envied their freedom of move air with a sense of helplessness. He envied their freedom of move iment, their swiftness and their ability to navigate an element which seemed forever denied to him, but after watching the birds his irni- tative faculty gathered momentum and the Wright brothers, Americans, finally made the age-1ong dream of flight in a heavier-than-air machine come true.
 It is mans turn to laugh now, as
 the eagle sinks disconsolate to his
 eyrie and wonders what has gone
 wrong with the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
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New-York tribune., 1919-03-04
Colors
Dye Making Concerns Are
Relieved by Signing of
var Contract Bill

Signing of the bill validating war
contracts brought feeling of relief
IN dye manufacturing circles. Sew
eral concerns which have suffered
financially on account Of the delay in
government payments are said to be
preparing to readjust themselves as
soon as funds are received and CON
tlnue operations on sounder basis.
The passage of the bin and its
signing by the President are said bv
some of the leading dye makers to
have been accomplished just in the
nick of time. Some of the color man
ufactuters were III Il precarious CON
ditlon because they had gone heavily
INTO producing on government ac-
count at the verbal or written order
of department. heads aud had found
1t impossible TO collect Several Of
the dye makers 40 involved were con
ftohted with the probability Of hay
ing 10 suspend operations. This sit
uatloh wns aggravated IN the last
lew weeha because Of the absence Of
quantity buying hy the teXlie in
duRt'ieH, who are at present only taxi
lns eVlofH enough for hnmpla pur=
poses, IT Is expected that when tho
demand for dyes does not in orders
Tor staple coors Will be heavy,
New-York tribune., 1919-03-04
Silks
NeW Buyers Of Silk Goods
Appedr in Large
Force

The week opened with considerable ls
heiiViY - The alk goods market. Buy
ets Nho had not hetuintete heen ia tbs
iHnthet This season appeared al the
shlesfuomH Of lending manufacturers
ana placed gnud ssed ordefa ilrofief ~
nlHo wore numerous. Nearly all uf the
leading ennre,na reported that the
nigh priced fabries ia fancy shades re
ceiyol tho most attention. Western
merchants bought in better volume
than New York city dealers
Some of the selling agents for man
uinetuters declare that trade in fash
ionahe goods has been 30 good that
they have IN some instances been com
PEELED 60 90 out and buy fabrics from
competitors To ieplenish stoeks Wis
lung buyers declare that retail dealers
hrVur had better volume Of busfiess
lhnh a. present, Manufacturers. there
foie, look for activity to continue
throughout the month Of March
Japanese raw silk has advanced
ahout s cents pound IN New York
Importers located here and also man
'lhciurers ~ state that buying is CON
lined to near future requirements.
Northern Chinese raw silk IS reported
to he lower in price. Manufacturers
say mat the cost of the Chinese prod
uct ls too far above the Japanese ma
terlal to warrant them in buying from
China.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-04
Furs
Shortage of Muskrat Is
One Reason Why Furs
Are High

Fur manufacturers report that there
is noticeabl shortage Of skunk
muskrat and mink in the market BY
some the supply is estimated at only
10 per cent of normal. The demand
for these three furs is reported to
be three times greater than the pres
ent supply, and this shortage is given
as one explanation of the high price
of fur garments.
Hudson seal coats have been par
ticularly popular during the past
year and as Hudson Seal" is only
the trade name for seal dyed musk
rat, the shortage of this FUR has
directly effected the market as a
whole
Explaining the present market sit
uation in regard to muskrat. one
manufacturer stated that previous to
1914 seasons catch in the United
States and Canada, the only countries a
in which the muskrat thrives, ran
between 100000 and 4,5O0.OO0 skins.
During the last two seasons or 80 the
catch has only amounted to from g.
100000 to 5000 900 skins. This fall
ing off is held to have been caused
in part by scarcity of trappefs. come
Of whom were drafted into military
service, while cthers entered more
profitable fields Of employment.
with the smaller catch and tho un-
usually large demand for fura. prices
have reached new tevels. Muekrat
skins In tho raw state are now sailine
at from El7b TO 81, while normally n
good skin would cost from 10 eantH
To al
New-York tribune., 1919-03-04
Strikes Cause Retailers LIS
Argentina la IosN irndc

The Nueuos ASrea representative Of
a leading New York export selling
agency reported under date of January
90 that business in Argentina has been
greatly hampered by numerous strikes
OF laborers. Most of the participates
in the disturbances seem to have been
foreigners. In December it was
thought that business WAS on the up
grade and some cotton goods we're sold
at satisfactory prices. Retail dealers,
with whom trade had been poor dur
ing the months OF October and Novem-
Der, did an unusually good business in
December. Confidence had been in
creasing, thanks to the harvesting of
the wheat crop with minimum OF
loss. The strikes, however, upset the
favorable tendencies that had been de
veloping and made it difficult to fore
cast tho future OF business conditions.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-04
Cotton Goods Trade
In Local Market
Continues Light

Trade in cotton goods here was dull
yesterday. Prices for finished products
were reported to be weak, and on that
account there was q general disposi-
tion to withhold buying orders. Mill
agents frankly say that jobbers are con-
fining their buving to case at time,
and the jobbers in turn assert that re-
tail dealers are content to buy in piece
lots. Commission merchants who q
month ago expressed the conviction
that March | would see change for
the better in the situation feel no Ger
tainty now that their predictions will
be fulfilled
Some mill agents emphatcally declare
that the only way to produce q scarcity
of goods is by enforcing drastic cur
tailment. Outputs are being restricted
TO some extent. but the reductions have
not been marked enough to relieve
the market of supplies that must be
turned into money either by jobbers
or manufacturers Agents say that the
mills are not keen about making fur
ther cuts In production, because they
recognize that stoppage Of work will
tend to eliminate just so many from
the list of potential customers.
The mills are holding to the quota
tion Of ga. cents q yard for the stand
ard make OF gray goods, the unfinished
product. They are refusing TO accept
offers of business that are based upon
lower price.
Inquiries for rtieeH. Hamples nnd
credit terms have been received from
Italy MEXICAN hhd nlao Central
American metchanta have placed ANAL
orders