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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-06

Detroit at Washington. Ghira e'e al Prilad dalnhia. St. Louis at New York. Cleveland at Boston.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-06
AMERICAN LEAGuE
RESULTS YESTERDAY
GAMES TOnAY

Boston :. Cleveland ,. Detroit 3. Washington l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-06

The Barons are only four and one half games behin Mobile, which club is in fourth place Keep plugging,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-06

Picinichs performance in allowing a
The Press., 1919-07-17
SOME COMFORT FOR "sMoKE''
ties, Though He Wasn't Equal to Fighting Monkeys.

Three companies of cOlOred engi neers at big medical supply depot somewhere in southern France have three mascots of which they think the world. One is Bobo, the batoon. One is Smoke, little black French dog One is Peoria, a III yaller dcg-a real O. D. brindle.
 Bobo is no respecter of persons. He will climb all over his tOr sergeant with the unholy glee of fussy in specting officer and rough Tim to a fare-you-well. But his main penchant seems to be for pulling little dogs ears, trait bitterly resented by the guardians of Smoke and Peoria, bu filling with delight his own adherents
 ''Dey can't fahnd a dawg in all dis yefe camp wotll stain up agin him, they chuckle, when BObo swings his long arms and lopes after some mon grel that has strayed in.
 Not so long ago pathetic scene might have been witnessed on one of the company streets. Smoke was being carried along, in a covering, timid state bordering on shell shock or men, t.l collapse, by great hulking steve dore, who was attempting to soothe him.
 "Doan' yo' keer, Smoke" he crooned. 'Dcan' yo' bother a bit if folks laughs at yo'. Even if yo' cain't fight no B ccmp'ny monkeys, you's do best li'l blaick dawg as ever wuz borned cen Fraince, so yo' isl"
 And Smoke nodded and sniffed a rather fearful apprecis cistion.-Stars and Stripes.
The Press., 1919-07-17
WILL NEVER PLAY BASEBALL
Christy Mathewson Gives Reasons Why the French Are Not Likely to
 Take Up Game.

France, the country that went through the fighting of the biggest war in history without batting an eye, will never adopt baseball as a national pastime because the game is "too rough" This was learned from no less an authority than Capt. Christo- pher Mathewson, who arrived at New York recently.
 Although the POilus have bravely at tempted a few games under American tutelage, "they're more afraid of a hard-hit liner or grounder than they are of a German IT," according to Mathewson. ''Their infield work is rotten," said Christy. "They can run bases all right, but they get little op- portunity, because they can't bat. And I don't believe you could pick up a first-class catcher in all of France. Every time a Frenchman gets behind bat he wants to retreat about ten paces, erect a barbed-wire entangle- ment. dig himself a dugout and crawl into 1t.
 "No, the Frenchman will never take to baseball in a big way. He prefers something gentle, such as football and dueling."
The Press., 1919-07-17

Daisy is a living example of what can be achieved by the law of kind
 ness. Nine years ago nobody wanted her and she was condemned to be shot. Then John J. Bergh came along. For $50 and an old horse he secured possession, and you should see her now, and the medals-some of them gold-that have been awarded her in the annual workhorse parade!
 Daisy dotes on her master and will do anything he tells her to- If he asks her how old she is she never hesitates. but unbrushingly paws it on on the pavement. She shakes hands CD with every one of her four feet, and if he puts a lump of sugar between his teeth and tells Daisy just to suck it she will lap it carefully and does not think of trying for the whole lump until he gives the word. She picks her bit up from the ground and does other remarkable things, and she did them all for the War
The Press., 1919-07-17
The Retor,

He was regaling a breathless crowd with a veracious story of a ship wreck, and how he and his mates had escaped on raft, and after many ex. citing adventures had landed on a desert island.
 And the beach of that there is- land," he said impressively, twas red with lobsters."
 'But," interposed the objectionable person who gloHes in spelling a good story, "that won't do, Jack. Lobsters ain't red before they're boiled"
 Jack was silent for a moment; it seemed that he had at last met his Waterloo. But soon a smile lit up his face.
 "But who didn't know that?" he asked, scathingly of his persecutor. This ere was volcanic island, and, O course, the waters was all billing 'Ot !'-London Mail.
The Press., 1919-07-17
[ NEW RAILROADS IN EUROPE
French Engineers, 1t Is Said, Are Thinking of Tunneling Straits
 of Gibraltar.

The French genius is never idle, whether in art, literature, trade or transportation.
 French engineers announce four pos sible new direct and through transpor- tation routes starting from Paris, says the Outlook. One Is called "The Acrop- oils Express" The present Paris-Ath- ems route runs across France and Italy to the port of Brindisi, thence by wa ter to the port of Patras in Greece, and thence by rail to Athens. The new route would save little in actual rum ming time, but would eliminate the de- lays in trans-shipments. It would fol- low the present route to Italy, whence it would veer due east to Trieste, and thence east and south through Croatia and Serbia.
 The second route is between Paris and ConstantinOple, following the first to Belgrade, and thence over the old Berlin-Bagdad route to Constantinople.
 Another new through route is to Odessa, the great Black sea port. This would start from Paris and Bordeaux and cross Italy, the Balkan states and southwestern Russia. This route would demand new trackage from Bel grade along the Danube about 13O miles.
 But on the fourth proposition such an immense amount of railway con- structiOn, as we'll as of underSea tun- neling, would be required as to make one query whether for very many years the scheme could ever become profita- ble. The plan is to save time between London and Paris on the one hand and Rio de Janeiro and BuenOs Aires on the other. As the distance from the French port of Dakar in Senegal, on the West African coast, to the north Brazilian ports involves the shortest transatlantic span, French engineers propose to link Paris and Dakar by rail- tunneling the Straits of Gibraltar and building line down the coasts of Morocco, Rio de Orc and Senegal; Spain's consent being assumed. If the English channel is ever tunneled, this route would thus save a considerable number of days Out would add to the cOst) in the transit of passengers and goods from London and Paris to Rio de Janeiro and BuenOs Aires.
The Press., 1919-07-17
CITY NOW BUT A MEMORY
Ur, Birthplace of Abraham, Once In. portant, Today Consists Only of
 Vast Group of Mounds.

The British, on their recent advance in MesOpOtamia, passed over or at least near the ancient city of UT, where Abraham was born and grew up; and thence that he departed with his fam fly and relations on Journey to Pal estine that was destined to be so pro- ductive of important events for the Hebrews.
 We are accustomed to think of the days of the early Pharaohs as almost lost in antiquity, but UT was prehis- ago that great Chaldean city was a seaport on the shore Cor near it) of the Persian gulf. It traded with India and all the then known parts of the world.
 Today Ur Cor what remains of 1t; is 12O miles as the crow flies from the head of the Persian gulf. Surely it has not moved; but the alluvial deposits carried down by rivers, have built out the land, so that the head of the gulf is no longer where it used to be. The pushing southward of the shore line is known to have averaged about cer- tain distance yearly since the time of Alexander the Great, so that the period when Ur was a seaport can be reck- oned with fair accuracy.
 Ur today is about halfway between the head of the gulf and the ruins of ancient Babylon. It is near the Flu phrates-across the river from the modern town of Nazareth-and is rep resented by vast group of mounds that conceal remains of extraordinary interest. Undoubtedly it was war that destroyed this ancient metropolis-as it seems to destroy everything that is worth while, sooner or later.
 Out of one huge mound has been dug the remains of pyramidal tower which is regarded by Assyriologists as the most perfect specimen of Baby lonian architecture known. It Is built in a series of stages, like the tower of Babel, with a continuous flight of broad steps running up the outside. It originally supported a temple-the great Temple of the Moon.
The Press., 1919-07-17
USING THE TELESCOPE
Present Desires vs. Future Oppor-
 tunitieS.

Spring is in the air and we are all looking ahead, using the tele- scope" to borrow the title of a recent address by a Greater Boston clergy man. Victory gardens are being made and in perspective are bountiful har- vests and beautiful flowers. Summer Wardrobes are in preparation, "spring cleaning" is in progress, and vaca tions are being planned.
 We are wonderfully president when immediate comforts and pleasures are concerned, but do we always ex- tend the telescope far enough to look well into the future? There will be other years, and with them will come greater opportunities. Shall we be ready to improve them? Are we practising the thrift which is good business, distinct from hoarding, but paving the way for future success?
 A little restriction of present wants; a few more vegetables from the garden; limiting replenishment of the wardrobe to essentials and buying good materials, always cheap est in the end and more satisfactory: less vacation expense, which need not mean less pleasure,-these and other bits of carefulness, keeping in mind the margin of savings, will clear the way for wonderful things. perhaps home, higher education, travel, business of ones own-there is no limit to what the telescope may reveal.
 As safe investment is as important as saving, why not put the mites saved into Thrift Stamps, and when practicable convert those into War Savings Stamps, which will work for you night and day. This done the telescope will reveal a substantial accumulation for future needs.
The Press., 1919-07-17
Mummies Show ArterioscIerosis,

Egyptian mummies show that ar- terio-sclerosis afflicted the ancient Egyptians, and it has been established that tuberculosis is at least 2,OOO years old, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.
 "Mummies have revealed that hu- manity has not changed in its patho- logic reactions in fifty centuries at least.
 Tt is Illuminating to realize that in spite of the fact that the ancient Egyp- tians led lives of ease, had no tobacco, and did not overindulge in meat eat ing, their arteries degenerated practi- cally in the same way as our own"
The Press., 1919-07-17
Mine Tungsten in Australia.

Australia is second in importance among British territories producing tungsten ores. In Queensland many of the principal mines have quite recently been acquired by one of the largest of the concerns which have established tungsten reduction plants in Great Britain since the war, and the event appears to promise new era of prog ress for this branch of mining in Queensland. Wolfram is mined in New South Wales and Victoria, while impor- tant quantities of scheelite another ore of tungsten, are obtained in New Zealand and iD Tasmania.
The Press., 1919-07-17

Savings Organization, just to show what she could do and what she was glad to do to help the good work along.
 Daisy is now a regularly accepted member of the Savings Division and, whether you recognize her or not as she goes about. frequently carrying great boxes of literature for the War Savings Committee, you may be sure that she is on the job and doing everything she knows how to promote the sale of Thrift and War Savings Stamps among the people.
The Press., 1919-07-17
$1OO Reward, $1OO

The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all it's stages and that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly influenced by constitutional conditions requires constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur faces of the System thereby destroying the foundation of the disease. giving the patient strength by building up the con Stitution and assisting nature in doing its work The proprietors have so much faith in the curative powers of Halls Catarrh Medicine that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
 Address r. ]. CHENEY E, e.. Toledo Ohio Sold hr rI Drn~"t~' T"'
The Press., 1919-07-17
A WAR SAVINGS HORSE
How Kindness Developed an Almost
 Worthless Animal.

Daisy stopped in her rounds of the Boston business district where she hauls packages from one place to another, to make a call at the head quarters of the War Savings Organi- zation, 95 Milk street. She came to enlist in the work of spreading a knowledge of the advantage of in vesting in Thrift and War Savings Stamps among the people.
The Press., 1919-07-17
At Eighty One Takes Up Desert Land.

At the age of eighty-one years, Mrs. Cornelia Cooke has proved up on section of land under the Desert Land Act, and is now the owner of the prop erty, located eight miles east of Mo- jave, says Los Angeles Dispatch.
 The government demands much de- velopment work on these desert lands, and Mrs. Cooke showed that in the four years she resided on the "claim" she did much of the necessary work herself. In addition to winning home the aged homesteader declares that she has improved her health by life on the desert.
The Press., 1919-07-17

work is pleasure. tell all my friends who have any trouble of this kind what Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound has done for me. "-NELLIE B. BRITTINGHAM, 609 Calverton Rd., Balti- more, Md.
 dresd s hs SX Xoues naa a fD opsrsn any health by this famous remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, after an operation has been advised that it will pay any woman who suffers from such ailments to consider trying it be- fore submitting to such trying ordeal.
The Press., 1919-07-17
Be CiT q.

If you see d man or woman sue. cessful, be glad of it. Don't waste time beIittling his success. Use your force trying to equal it.
The Press., 1919-07-17
Down to Brass acks.

This is a printers slang phrase. When a compositor cNhauStS the type in his lease" and "getS down to brass tacks." it means that he i> dn"n to rock b0ttOW, or gone the limit.
The Press., 1919-07-17

NOuSIAcSS dIlOl I1Cdu~ aches and every month would have to stay in bed most of the time. Treat ments would relieve me for a time but my doctor was al- ways urging me to have an operation.
 My sister asked me >to try Lydia E. Pink h a ms Vegetable
 Compound b e f pr @ consenting % a n I took
 five bottles of it and
 it has completely cured me and my
The Press., 1919-07-17
THE MOST
DANGEROUS DISEASE

No organs sf the human body arc - imp rta mt to health and long life as the kidneys. When they slow up and com nance to lag in their duties. look out!
 Find out what the trouble is-without d>3ay. Whenever you feel nervous. weak. dizzy. suffer from siceplcssness, or have pains in the back-tooke ID dt enoe. Your kidneys need help. These are signs to warn you that your kid nsys are not performing their func- tions properly. They are only half doing their work and are allowing i'm purities to accumulate and bo convert ed into uric acid and other poisons, which are causing you distress and will destroy you unless they are driven from your system.
The Press., 1919-07-17

Get some ooG1D MEDAL HsArlsm oil Capsules at once. They are an old, tried preparation used all over the world for centuries. They contain only old fash toned, soothing oils combined with strength-Biving and system -cleansinp herbs, well known and used by physl- clans in their daily practice. GOLD MEDAL Haarlem oil Capsules are ims ported direct from the laboratories In Holland. They are convenient 10 take, and will either give prompt relief or your money will be refunded. Ask 1oI them at any drug store, but be sure to get the original imported GOLD MEDAL brand. Accept no substitutes. In sealed packages. Three sizes.
The Press., 1919-07-17
DOCTOR URGED
 AN OPERATION
Instead ! took Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound
 and Was Cured.

Baltimore, Md" Nearly four years l suffered from organic troubles, ner-
The sun., 1919-03-09
MARY GARDEN FESTIVAL
FOR DEVASTATED FRANCE

Devastated France has Il new cham
pion and a great musical enterta IN
ment at the Metropolitan Opera House
has been planned by her, The new
champion is Mary Garden Assembling
to her aid the Secours Franco Ameri-
CAIN which is represented In this city
by many prominent New York women
she is announcing this affair for the
evening of Tuesday March 20. Official
France in this country and official
America have promised to take an ac-
tive part in aiding Miss Garden in her
great new charity enterprise. She her
self, with special company, will sing
an act from 'Thals." Debussy's ballet,
"L'Apres-midi dune faune" is to be
danced by Monsieur Pavley and Oukra-
lnsky and company, and Debussy's
images ct fetes," by Pavley. There
will he other brilliant numbers on the
programme. she promised, by Miss Gar
den. Elsa Maxwell Is aiding her IN ar
ranging the entertainment.
The proceeds OF this Mary Garden
festival for devastated France Is to
be divided between the Departments of
the Ardennes and the Somme. ON
Thursday of next week at the Ritz
Carlton, at 80 o'clock In the after
noon. Miss Garden will be feted by the
Secours Franco American. VI. Guy of
the French High Commission will in
troduce her. She will speak upon de-
vastated France, and the committee
welcoming her will be Mrs. James Low
ell Putnam, Mrs Oliver Hartman, Mrs.
o. II. =. Belmont. Mrs Adolf Laden
burg, Mrs. ~ milton Wilkes Cary, Mis-.
c. Oliver Iselin. Mrs Alexander ID. 3.
Pratt. Mrs. Newbold lie Roy Edgar, the
Duchesse de Chaulnes and Mrs, Roche.
The sun., 1919-03-09
Golfing at White Sui phur

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w. Va,
March S.-Even the latest of Easter
seasons does not keep visitors from seek
ing the Allegheny resorts at an early
date. Already the Greenbrier at White
sulphur Springs is beginning to I'LL with
parties who will remain through March,
Balmy weather has ushered In the month
and golfers are enjoying ideal opportuni-
ties.
Daniel c. Reid of New York is at the
Greenbrer. He is devoting his time to
outdoor activities
Others here from New York are Mrs.
Henry Ittleson, Miss Minnie Stroock,
Miss Louise Wicke. Mrs, Ehler Oster-
bolt, H. A. Taylor aud John Drohan, MIR,
and Mrs. A, Hartman, Mrs. G. W. Grif-
nth. Mr. and Mrs, Robert Wolfer and Mr..
and Mrs. Jay Rathbun.
Arriving here with Daniel @. Reid,
who came on his private ear. were Col.
Thompson Starr, +. S. stokes. II. /. MIL
Ter and W. T. Graham.
Mrs. Sinclair Graham has Joined the
New York contingent, Mr.. and Mrs
Louis Ettlinger are registered from there
and also RichaN Hoffman.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. +. I.aighton OF New
York are here.
Arriving last week for an indefinite
stay were Mrs, ". n'Mcaro, Master
The sun., 1919-03-09
She Learns That When He Sings Nonsense 1t Is Not No
sense Because 1t Is Art, and 1t Is Art Because He
Gets $500 Performance-So There

Charles w. Cadman's "Shanewis," Gen.
eral Manager Gatu-Casazza has an
nounced the other operas at the Metro
politan for this week as follows:
al Barblere de Sviglia" tomorrow
evening, with Mines. Barrientos and
hatfield and Messrs Hackett, De Luca
Rothler (for the first time here as Don
BdStiio), Malatcsta, Reschiglian and
Audislo. Mr. Papi will conduct.
la Refine Fiammette." on Thursday
evening, with Mines Farrar, Howard,
Arden. Melish. TIFFANY. Sparkes. Ellis,
Beale, Perrin and hatfield, and Messrs.
Lazaro, Rothier, Dldur. Ananian, Lau-
remit, Bada, Paltrinieri, Audislo and
Reiss Mr.. Monteux will conduct.
Marta" on Friday evening. with
Mines. Barrientos and Perrin and Messrs.
Caruso, Didur, laurent. Malatesta and
Reschiglian. Mr.. Bodanzky will conduct.
''Rigoletto" will be this weeks Satur-
day matinee opera sung by Mines. Gar
rison, Braslau, Egener and hatfield and
Messrs Hackett. De Luca. Mardones.
Rossi. Bada and Reschiglian. Mr.. Nor
anzoni will conduct.
This weeks Saturday evening popular
price opera will be "Madama BUTTERFLY"
sung by Nine. Farrar and Messrs. La
FARO and Montesanto. Mr.. MorganEoni
will conduct.
At to-nights opera concert Mile Mad
cline Brad. pianist, will play. The Misses
Curtis. Beale and Marsh and Messrs.
The sun., 1919-03-09

when it does not listen it is not an
audience. When n violinist plays
nonsense an audience ceases to be
an audience"
"Oh. now 1 understand" declared
Gladys with a sigh OF relief.
"U'm," grunted the fat man. Per
haps. Now when sing nonsense the
audience Is enraptured. Therefore II
does not sound like nonsense. There
fore ii Is not really nonsense at all, but
the audience is really an audience"
1T sounds very confusing" MUIR
INJURED Gladys.
That is because you do not under
stand ART"
Gould | not learn to understand it?'
NO, that is out of the question. Nc
one understands art except artists
and even some OF them do not. For
understand the only true art. which is
MY art"
All" cried Gladys Now ! know
why the audience when YOU sing /.
always an audience. 1t is because you
always sing the nonsense SO beauti-
fully"
Nothing OF the sort" exclaimed
the fat man angrily. lit makes nc
difference how l sing so long as
sing"
Then why does the audience
idiot" shrieked the fat man
Have l not told you that I am the
greatest living tenor? You are the
only human being who does not know
1t. The audience always knows it
Therefore It makes no difference how
sing so long as it is singing. You
are"
Gladys wasC frlgfrrened that she
ran back through the door OF the room
fell down in her haste. got up agar
and found herself sitting on bench or
the Mall in Central Park looking at the
bust of Beethoven. on whose nose a
sparrow sat chipping.
The sun., 1919-03-09
AIKEN, S. C.

AIKEN. S. c. March S.--With few
people leaving and each day bringing
in new visitors. hunting a keen rival of
polo and the warm days bringing out the
golfers, Aiken has come into it's own as
days before the war.
The Highland Park management has
found 1t necessary to open Pebble Ledge
Cottage to take care of the overflow.
Among the recent arrivals are Mr.
and Mrs. ). F. Galloway. New York
Mr., and Mrs II. +. Griggs and r. F,
GriggS, Jr,, Waterbury, Conn; Mr.. and
Mrs =, w. Evans. Toronto; Mrs. T., T.,
Sanfo@i. j. w. Wright, Baltimore; Mr.,
and Mrs, W. &. Garrison Mrs CHARLES
4. MacCall, Miss \. T.. Garrison. New
ark, y. j., and Mr.. and Mrs. +. Y. Root,
Detroit.