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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
"A Sweet Little Attention,

"Reminisclng with some old friends few days ago an amusing story was recalled concerning the Hon. Brecken ridge Musgrove of Walker county. candidate for the United States Senate" said Ross c. Smith. "The story savers or the vintage of the early nineties when the Hon. Breckenridge was a great beau and ladies' man and if had to do with very intense love affair in which the gentleman from Walker was involved. It seems that the Hon Breck was very much smitten with a young lady from Georgia-from Col umbus to be eXact-and in those days bicycles were quite much in vogue pre- ceding by many years the new popular automobile. Hon Breck wanted to make his lady love present, and so he told her that as soon as she returned to her home (she was a visitor here at the time) he would send her the finest bi cycle that could be bought The young lady arriving home announced the hap py news to friends and family, and awaited the suspicious time when she would be the proud owner of a splen did bicycle
 one day her waiting was repaid for as she glanced out of her window she saw the express wagon stopping in front of her house; presently an enor- nous box-a gigantic box-was lifted out, and in her glee the young lady ex- claimed; Is the bicycle from MT Mus grove. The entire family soon assem- bled at the 'unpacking, but also when the box was opened instead of d bi- cycle there was a life sized oil painting of the Hon. Breck arrayed in gorgeous attire-the kind that the agent offers to furnish the gilt frame with, if you'n buy the picture. A sweet delicate lit tie attention, wasn't it from MT. Mus grove?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29

1 From the New York World N LTHOUGH prohibition has been i N\ sad for some people, including hotel restaurant and saloon proprietors, and those drinkers who neglected to stock up their cellars, there have been some humorous inci- dents connected with life in New York under Anti-Saloon League rule. A few of them follow.
 Tn a downtown bar it was demon- strated that sofne bartcnders must have magical ginger ale bottles, which, when gently touched by a magical wand, will spout forth all kinds of rare liquids. At this bar was found young man in the depressed state Of intoxication, leaning Imply over the bar and toying with glass of 2.75 per cent beer.
 "How did you acquire that jag on beer?" he was asked.
 "Partner,' he replied, with a smile and a wink, q didn't get 1t on beer. I've had eighteen glasses of ginger ale, and this beer is just a chaser
 IneTe were many OlneT DOLLieS, Ia = beled as if they contained wine or soft drinks, which gave veU to liquors that looked, tasted and acted like whisky during the first few days of prohibition. As time has passed, and the arrests of saloon men by agents of the department of justice have become known, there has been decreasing amount of this For few days there was much con fusion as to what light" wines were It was hard to tell whether the confu- sion was real or assumed A patron en- tered an uptown restaurant and asked what they had to drink
 Beer and light wine" said the waiter.
 What do you mean by light wine?" asked the patron.
 "Oh, sherry and port"
 Sherry contains about 20 per cent alcohol and q glass of it contains about the same amount of kick as Scotch highball.
 At another place, where the sale of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Proposed Tax on Coal md Iron

It Is difficult for me to understand how any legislative representation of this state can consistently vote to impose an extra special tax on our coal and iron production said T. c. Mcdonald.
 Business is business. and it is quite clear to my mind that if the proposed tax on coal be imposed the mine opera tor will necessarily add 10 the price of the commodity, not only the cents per ton proposed, but at least 50 cents more which must be paid by the Alabama con- sumers, in order to cover the tax cost Of the tonnage shipped to states where competition with untaxed coal is met This would be natural
 It looks to me that the proposed tax on iron ore would hamper our state man. ufacturers in competition with those Of other states, and thus discourage Ala bama capital and enterprise which have proven so potent in the upbullding ot our state. To me the policy proposed seems suicidal; and I an not directly interested in coal and iron productions. l am, however, a taxpayer of Jeffer- son county and the state of Alabama. It is plain to me that such tax imposi- tion will have the effect of depriving Alabama of the benefits of her boasted mineral wealth. her lavish beds of coa. and iron in close proximity to each oth- er It ought not to be done
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29

It Is believed that the bartender,s 'usely famed personality will make him success in other lines of busi- ness. heh an author reaches the point where he is paid 10 cents word ho receives few rejection slips in his mail uncle Sam's day" boats will be able to compete with transatlantic dirigibles for a while. at anv r.+o
 + < # The south tries not to look self righteous when Chicago and washing ton have race riots.
 ,s # Health laws are proposed for Ala. Dama so drastic that it win he a1n,os4 crime to get sick
 # x < Old Ed Howe says labor is running
 must pc nara on the dukes and duchesses. < x # milwaukee is trying to supply the missing link by sending quantities of sausages to Germany. # x !.
 Extinction of the elephant is threat ened' The future also looks dark for rum hounds"
 <: x x MT. Taft is looming up as a nres- ioeh''al candidate like the proverb- ial blimp.
 q: # #
 Beware an ice faminer' "Beware a coal famine" 70. Death. where is thy sting?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
"cusTER's LAST STAND.

From the Boston Transcript.
 dispatch from Missoula, Mont, states that Edgar s Paxson, "one of Ameri- ea's best known historical painters" IS considering an offer of $l5,0G0 for his large mural painting entitled Custer s Last stand" which is now hung in the main hall of the Montana State Univer- sity The offer was made, it is under stood. by R. H. Adams, curator of the Walker Art Gallery at Minneapolis. The picture measures 1lz by feet. ]. is de- clared to be the most accurate as to massacre"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
Men Living Beyond A Hundred Years

0AMES M. JOHNSON, native of 0 Jackson City, Tenn, but a resi- dent of Cincinnati in recent years, who died there Saturday at the age of 102, was a veteran of the Indian, Mexican and civil wars.
 Centenarians arg scarce, but in a vast population such as that of the United States not a few are found on the pension list of the bureau at Washington.
 Medical men who have specialized in the longevity of the race and the affect of right modes of living be- lieve the time will come when the average length of life will be much higher than it is today. But if longevity is promoted to any appre- ciatable extent people must avoid nerve-racking habits and eat in mod eration. More men have died from gluttony than one not student of hygiene would imagine.
 In ancient days-in the days of the Old Testament patriarchs-it was not uncommon for men to live to be we'll up into the hundreds. Methuse- lah, according to the Book of Genesis, was 969 years of age, but Hebrew chronology reduces his span of fife to 720 years. He was noted, however, as the oldest man, but there were others almost as old.
 In the time of the Psalmist the age limit had fallen to what it has been in modern cycles. At threescore and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

A whole lot of fellows seem to have the Idea that you have to strangle the world to make it cough up.
 The reason why most girls get but one proposal of marriage is because they are so afraid that they might not get another one
 The fact that man led his victor ious college debating team doesn't do him a bit of good when he gets into an argument with the girl he married
 Billboards are not the most artistic things in the world But a bill board is usually big improvement on what it conceals
 Every time we hear of gambler re- forming we are willing to bet that he was an unsuccessful gambler.
 After man has been married ten years it isn't love that makes him wors ten hours day to get money enough to pay the food bius his wife runs up It is half habit and, half fear.
 A wife is a person who will go around bragg.n3g about her hus band s ability even if she doesn't believe he nas any.
 If the wife next door makes the hus- band next door tidy up the lawn, 1t is sign that your wife is going to give you all the worst of the comparison when she speaks of the man next door.
 The difference between Lots wife and a lot of other wives is that the other wives turn peppery.
 IL doesn't do a bit of good to name a boy William His mother is going to call him Willie and his father is going to call him Bill.
 Seeing now a girl likes to hide her ears under her hair it is lucky for her that she is chicken and not rabbit.
 woman will buy anything from an agent if he talks long enough That 8 the reason you find So many cookess cookers and nopiess mops and wash less washers in the cellar.
 Anyway. when things so wrong after the women get the ballot we can blame them for what happens
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
TOO NARROWING.

Mrs. Jassby has for years had a cur iosity to see the inside of MT. Jagsbys s favorite saloon, where he used to pur chase most of his packages
 quite natural.
 Yes. and it was gratifed the other day. Mrs. Jagsby dropped in with two or three other ladies and had ice cream soda"
 "I don't suppose she could induce Mir. Jagsby to go along?" No. He was afraid he might break down"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
Pan German Papers Say
 Wilhelm Did Not Abdicate

TN an alleged expose of events con- O nected with the German revolution last November, Pan-German newspa- pers at Berlin declare that former Emperor Wilhelm has never renounced his throne. Prince Macmillan of Baden, at that time imperial chancel- Tor, so the story goes, gave an off cial statement to the Wolff news bu- reau that Wilhelm had abdicated as German emperor and king of Prussia. Prompted by misguided patriotism, ' Prince Maximilian hoped his an- nouncement would restore order. His action forced the emperor's advisers to hurry him away to Holland"
 If this report is true, it throws some light on events immediately pre- ceding the former emperor's flight to Amerongen and makes Wilhelm ap- pear less cowardly than he was be- lieved to have been. It is also an in- dication that the plan to restore the Hohenzollerns has not been aban- doned, for the Pan-Germans now charge Maximilian with treachery.
 
 It isn't particularly important whether Wilhelm made a formal ab- dication or not, although the new German government issued what pur ported to be the former emperor's re- nunciation, signed and executed by him at Amerongen, November 2S. To all intents and purposes, he is no longer emperor of Germany and king of Prussia. If the allies so desire he can never again set foot on German soil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
A CASE FOR ALIBI EXPERTS

frCnl the New York Herald.
 Wilhelm Hohenzolern, according tn cable dispatches, has stopped giving ad- vice to the Almighty and has taken to praying. This has given rise to fears in some quarters that the mentaiity-so- ealled-of the recent all.highe4t is giving way. and that he is in danger of be- coming maniac. It is known, of course that he always was a paranoiac. The difference between a maniac and a na ranoiac will be for the alibi experts to decide at the much. advertised but. so far. very nebulous trial.
 This praying device. however shows the utter hypocrisy of the man. It's the old. old story of the devil and the monk. With no desire to be sacriligious one still can not avoid the suggestion that the AL mighty. even if He does not smile, surely must see the sad humor of the situation w herein His late self declared partner and general adviser has turned into a whining supplicant for the help he not lonr since so splendidly scorned
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
Johnson Did Much Flying

"A telegram received here on Mon day afternoon bringing the sad intel ligence that Lieutenant S. B. Johnson was killed at Mineola, l.. L in an ac- cldent, said w. K. Terry. He was the son of Rev. $. E. Johnson, now presfd : ing elder living at Lockhart, Texas. but for many years a pastor in the Bir- mingham district. Lieutenant Johnson who was Tn the aviation service had done great deal of flying in France. The telegram gave no particulars about his death further than that he was killed in a flight"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
Arkansas Building Roads

Arkansas is waking up and setting an example in the matter of road building thai it would pay a great number of he , sister states to observe. said w. J. farkes of the Parkes Construction com pany, while he was vhsting relatives n this city few days ago. She is putin. in approximately siO.0oo,oOo worth of gooc roads something too that is going to be- substantial aand not wash away when q few good rains hit them.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
REFoRMERs STILL BUSY.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Catalogu;ng it as an instrument of the devil. Youngs stown has Jumped the coffee house with the near-beer saloon, and has applied to both the old police code that once regulated the hell holes where strong waters were sold. Soda water or nothing,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
SOUTHERN PRESS

Tampa Tribune: Congressman Rose of Pennsylvania urges. the coinage of six cent peee. There is no sGrer way to keep in exile the five-cent trolley fare, cigar and certain other war time lax uies than to coin a six-cent piece.
 Nashville Banner: One of the inter rretated reservations might be that nothing in the treaty shall operate to the political disadvantage of any republican senator who has heretofore opposed it.
 Atlanta Constitution: "Rumania and Ukraine have buried the hatchet.'' Which will be all right, if they will for set where.
 Montgomery Advertiser: Washington wept, cursed and prayed during the prog ress of the revolution but this country as it turned out, was worth weeping, cursing and praying for.
 Houston Post. Mir. Ford has revealed himself about as ignorant of book larnin' " as any celebrity who has come down the pike in many a day, but not withstanding such neglect of his early education the shrewd Henry succeeded in mastering the science of easy and frequent contact with porterhouse steaks about as well as any hishbrow who has lived in our time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
Dr. Barrett Back Home

| called on pr. Barrett at his home yesterday morning." said pr. R. L. Walston, the pastor of the East Lake Methodist church, "and was glad to find him able 10 be back in the bosom of his own family and among the people who love him so well after his long stay at one of the local ifffirmaries. He has had hard pull of it, but has borne ms sickness with patience and courage am greatly in hope that he is now on the way to a permanent recovery as such men are needed in places of power in these trying times"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
NE1GHBoRLY AMENITIES.

"Mr. Gribbling wants to borrow your lawn mower"
 He does. eh?" said Mir. Shortsworthy. Well, you tell him the only tool I pos sess that looks like a lawn mower is it to man with his growth of whiskers."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
INTRODUCING HI JOKxsoN

From the Louisville Courier-Jo ournal.
 Mr. Hiram Johnson of California ladies and gentlemen. will he glad to serve you as President from 1920 until relieved by death. Mir. Johnson's record, is an open mouth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
A GRASS MATERIALIST.

4A CIs-Nt5s I11sT .1 ''This celebrated author says he some times sits for hours coaxing ms type writer.'
 "Umph." replied the man with pudgy hands and cabaret taste. "Why doesn't he fire her and get another who's willing to be a good fellow once in while?
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
THE FINANCIAL END.

"Was your vaotion trip a successT' T suppose so. although it gave me no pleasure"
 Then. why do you say it was sue cess?"
 "It cost me only $50 more than thought it would
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lord, I follow, lest I lose my way in the dark. I keep my eyes on Thee, lest the siren voices lead me astray. hold fast, lest the flesh bid me loiter and die. For my soul sinks at the thought of not keeping my appoint mcnt with my Lord.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29

luto every industry ana every { ten man was considered old and at }fourscore, just as now, man was supposed to have reached an excep- tional age.
 MT. Johnson had doubtless come of a long-lived family and had led care- fully ordered life.
 People little past middle life le- member when Mexican war veterans were numerous enough in large cities to form societies and hold reunions. The late Senator Pettus of blessed memory had a good record in the Mexican war and great record in the Confederate army.
 Old citizens of the present time have seen veterans of the revolution ary war; but the most remarkable man for length of years was one who died in Michigan about fifty years ago, aged 40. He fought in the revo- llution, had a personal acquaintance with General Washington and had taken an active interest in every pres idential campaign down to and in cluding that of General Grant, for whom he voted in 1868. A sketch of the Michigander was widely published. He was very old man, but many persons were skeptical regarding his claim of being 140
 MT. Johnson had no difficulty ;n es- tablishing the truth of his age-102. In this era of science applied to the progress of social and commercial ac- tivity, it stirs the imagination to think of a man in our day who re- membered when there were no rail- roads and no telegraph. sF # It is said that London man became so exasperated at the lack of telephone service be backed across his office and shot his telephone to pieces, wounding himself and having to wait three months before he could get another telephone installed. In the land of the free we merely clap our hands over the transmitter and swear blue steak. | # x # The fact that Atlanta newspapers did not publish the news of lynching in Telfair county, Ga. until about two ] months after it happened is no reflec- tion on Georgia journalism, but it indi cates that there are some officials 1 of Telfair county who ought to lose l their jobs.
 Now comes a report that Welham didn't abdicate, after all. Nevertheless, he is separated from his throne by a considerable distance and it isn't al- together matter of miles.
 + .S F
 quiet society" game was raided on Long Island, and chips were found marked as high as 5000. At times the pot must have reached quite respectable proportions.
 # # *
 Why should women bathers wear stockings?" asks a contemporary. Per haps the authorities wish to make a distinction between women bathers and chorus girls.
 Dr. Otto Bauer says Austria faces thirty years of slavery to the allies. In the long run the allies will prove , better taskmasters than the Germans were. A New York cartoonist puts a dress on Senator Lodge and labels him a common scold." This is unkind to a statesman who glories in his whiskers.
 S. * x If he has not aFeady done so, we re- spectfully suggest that the Prince of Wales learn to play poker before visit ing America # <
 It is now possible to get a pass port if you can show that you have good reasons for going abroad. There's the rub.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
TURN ON ThE LIGHT

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger There is nothing that better deserves investigating than the charges Of cruelty to American soldier prisoners by Ameri-
 can soldiers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
PRO AND CON.

PRO AND CON. They tell me women have no strength of character" "Nonsensel'
 That's what I say. Did you ever hear Of an aviatrix stopping in mid to powder her nose?'
 ''No, sir. never did But do you sup pose she is going to meet anybody in mid air who can see whether or not her nose is shiny?'
 GRANTED.
 ''The flat suits me very well,'' said the prospective tenant, but the kitchen won't do.''
 What's wrong with it?" asked the agent.
 Tt seems to have been cut to fit woman who weighed about 90 pounds. My wife weights 200 pounds. She's got to have a kitchen she can hustle around in without getting damned between the sink and the gas stove"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
ADRIF7T WITH THE TIMES

THE OLD ORDER CHANGES. Here of late we're growing meeker,, For we toss cooling beaker Of buttermilk down a scorching
 throat. And we even try to chatter Over grape juice, or such matter, That little stimulation doth denote. Men who used to amble gaily Into gin mills almost daily Now stand anound and quaff the softer
 stuff: But, somehow. the conversation Seems to drag-there's no elation, And you'll notice that one round' is
 quite enough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29

RemIttances can be maoe at curreAt rate ot eAcnAnge. 1ne Ase-t1eralu Wll4 not Ds IsspOnsIDlv LOI money ssns lurousn Iue LIaI4s. Address
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
sUBsCKIPTION RATES

No communication will be published without It's autnur naIne. hsJectsu nIanuscript wIII not De returned unless stamps ate encIoseu Tor mat purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
SMALL PART.

q understand you are in the movies" Not enough to notice" Flows that?''
 When a street scene Is shown I'm one of the pedestrians"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29

Entered al the BIrmlngn~ n~..., Ala, postoffice as second-class matter, un- der act of Congress. March <. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29

In my desperation, with only five min utes in which to work l asked the dis patcher who was on the trick" to help me out l stated that I had been left on account of mistake of a hotel clerk who had assigned me to room 21s, buI who had marked up a 4:30 call for As, and that l would not ask him to stop the fast train but for the fact that 1 was due to preach at Springville at the morn ing service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29

l told him that l would go on to the station and see if my catching the fast train leaving for Cincinnati at o'clock and going to Attalla would be possible to double back to Springvil1e on the local and arrive by church time but on inves- tigation I learned that it was scheduled to be there a 11:2s.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-08
RALTic

The Miilane tree experts of Middle town will play the. fast Jolly Five of Baltic Thursday night in the B. s. A. c. sym, This. promises to be one of the fastest games of basketball in the his tory of Baltic. The game is public. There will be dancing in the B. s. A. C. hall after the game. -...s
 A nnn Der of local people were disap- pointed Sunday after going to Put nam and not seeing either a ball game or Babe Ruth.
 Charles Kelly of Middletowp. has re- turned 10 Baltic after spending two month at Palm Beach, Fla.
 Louis Judd Sf HaY5ver was q Baltic visitor Moiday
 lAdelard P. Simoneau- has resigned at the Baltic mills and has entered the employ Of NJ. H. Donahue.
 James Cronin is employed in the ShetucKet worsted mills 4 sEtienne Riel of WTllimantisc was . Baltic visitor Sunday.
 Henry Parker of Plain Hill was Baltic caller Monday.
 George Moran has purchased a new touring ear and is contem plating hunting trip through Ma inc.
 Fred Eadie and Henry Hagen of