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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
From the Montgomery Advertiser.

From the Montgomery Advertiser. "A N article, with a special appeal to ! AA the large and growing class of
 Alabamians who are keenly in terested in the history of their state,
 written by David Holt and published
 in the American Citizen, is well calcu-
 lated to increase general interest in the pioneer history of Alabama, all
 though it contains one grave error in
 recording the result of a Post Nor
 tenn Over Cahaba." The writer. hav- | ing taken a trip to the site of the old
 Cahaba, once the capital of Alabama,
 returned as does every Alabamian who
 visits the site and the relics of the one i time seat of state government with a
 keen concern in the story of the old
 town.
 Writing of Cahaba MT. Holt says: "Cahaba might have been saved. Any commercial secretary can tell how this
 could have been accomplished,
 Transportation was needed. Nearly l all the dead and dying towns failed | for want of transportation. The health | of the people of Cahaba became very bad. This could have been remedied l by the simplest rules of sanition. It l was not high water nor high living that killed Cahaba"
 But recorded facts and existing con- i ditions are aginst the positive assertion l that high water did not kill Cahaba- | of Selma in Dallas county, is on low l plateau at the confluence of the Cahaba with the Alabama river It is on over flow land. The water of the Alabama and the Cahaba covered that plateau in 1921, when Cahaba was formerly estab | lished; the waters of those rivers over
 flow it a hundred years after the city was established. The old colonial home of the Barker family stands today on l the highest point of the old town, and is occupied by MT. Clifton Kirkpatrick.
 In the parlors of this old home, which
 is said to have cost 5000 when it was
 built the year before the outbreak of the war between the states, there is
 mark well above the mantle piece to iHulCdle the AelGnl or the 1885 flood. In
 that same big parlor a huge cat fish
 was caught, when the waters of that
 flood receded
 The remainder of the town, especially the old two-story capitol the one time
 famous Saltmarsh brick building and the law offices of Edmund w. Peters
 and John T. Morgan, stood on much lower ground, which was covered with
 water at each succeeding flood stage
 of the Alabama river After Cahaba
 had been selected as the site on which
 the state of Alabama had decided to erect its capital city, it's fate was sealed
 when. according to traditions the jus
 tices and the clerks of the small Alaba- ma supreme court had to go to second story windows in boats to open court while the offices of the state officials down stairs were all under water.
 If the state of Alabama today should for any reason, decide to build modern
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
WHAT ENGLAND DID

From the Outlook, London
 One of the most monstrous but per sistent items of anti-British propa- ganda in allied and neutral countries has been the suggestion that in the bloody fighting of the great war Eng lishmen have displayed selfish. if not cowardly economy of their own lives while 1avishly sacrificing those of Can adians Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans. Scotsmen. Welshmen (and, of course, above all Irishmen). hardly any Englishmen ever went lover the top" It is characteristic of our people that, so far they have treated this calumny with indifference and contempt, but reticence can be carried too far. and it is necessary that the facts should be plainly stated.
 The official statistics are now all available, and show that out of every hundred white British subjects, throughout the empire, who laid down their lives in the war, no less than S2 were English, and the remaining E 10 Sohli 4rutOu py oSOtldiiu, iIeidH u, Wales and the overseas dominions. Or. if the losses of the United States are included. over 75 per cent of the total of English speaking men who made the supreme sacrifice came from little England alone. England is sell dom articulate about her own achisve- ments. but it is time that we found voice with which to pay the debt. Of boundless love and reverence ard regret.
 kept her ours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
Dress Up Birmingha am

The fact that Birmingham is grow ing in so many ways and that every body seems prosperous is one reason why we should dress up our city with new schools, an auditorium, new city hall and library building and make other civic Improvements" said Mrs. Robert c. Hewes. There are many good people here who would not mtnd doubling the small taxes they pay in order to get these Improvements tha !. their children will enjoy To keep ID with the other growths of the city we Birmingham needs them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
Demonstration Course At
 Auburn for Housewives

THE Alabama extension service is O all the while enlarging its scope and it's value to the state cannot be overestimated. A great feature this year will be the short course at Auburn for housewives and it is sure to prove popular and helpful. The course is planned for the week of August 4-9. It will come at the same time as the farmers summer school. It will, in fact, be a part of that school
 Dr. J. F. Duggar, director of the extension, says that while the pro- gramme for the housewives is espe- cially designed for the farm women of Alabama, yet it's features have been so arranged as to be of equal interest to city housewives as we'll
 An earnest appeal will be made to the women to meet the problems of the day. Not only are there to be daily lectures and demonstrations re- garding the different phases of rural life, but in other lines, particularly hygiene, the discussions will be of vital concern.
 Several speakers of wide reputation have been secured. Mrs. Grace R. Wilmot of New York city, distin- guished consulting decorator, will give two lectures on home furnishing and decoration. Miss Kinda William son, graduate nurse of the American Red Cross at New Orleans, will give a practical demonstration on the bath ling and dressing of infants She will also discuss the care of typhoid pa tients. Dr. Harris P. Dawson, special ist of Montgomery, will be heard on the feeding of infants.
 Other noted persons will lecture and give demonstrations. An attractive and entertaining programme will be prepared and altogether the week will be one of rare pleasure and profit. A very large attendance will be cx- pected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
BRIDES CHEAP IN RUSSIA

From tbe Stars and Stripes.
 The Tanks who have courted the vii vac:ous French mademoiselle in Paris and elsewhere, and who have been com peled ito touch the skipper for an oc- casional loan in order to shower libatons of champagne and nougatines at the feet of the sweetest girl in the world, and all that, will turn pink with envy when they learn what some of the other mem bers of the A. E. F. are getting away with.
 of us ever hope to be again, detach- ment of vauks is getting away with mur- der and winning brides for themselves at reduced rate.
 To date 12 eoughboys on the Murman coast in far-off Russia. near Archangel, have been married, and as far as can be proved, tLey did it by satisfying their lady loves's sweet tooth with candies and blubber oil. The Q.M. complained that tkey couldn't keep enough guards in the tallow section. but what's a candle or two when a mans future is at stake ! And where is the present-day economy expert who will not admit that we'd ding breakfast of blubber oil and whale steak is the acme of food conservation?
 IL ias been reported that the latest girl to promise to love. honor and obey is Mariesky Krazxkyloffnpk, who will shortly be known as Mrs. John Smith of Toledo, O.
 m --. has by this time found many investors among the Tanks of France, Germany, Italy. Luxembourg and Russia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
FRED RUIN' IN A PRIZE FIGHT

eyebrow and made a red ruin of that side of his face. The Gas-man went down.
 There, that will do. The fight went on to the eighteenth round, and the big man finally won over his confident and more experienced antagonist. But we have proved our point. Red ruin was the term we wanted. Dempsey made red ruin of one side of Willard's face, but nobody saidit was red ruin.
 This phrase is not overworked, like the Hast leg' of an ocean flight, for ex- ample. (Some of those ocean flights must be centipedes, anyway But the chance to use 'red ruin" is past It may be- another hundred years before it comes again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
TWENTY YEARS AGO
 IN THE AGE-HERALD
Events recorded July 21, 1899.

There was only one magical word at
 the Chicago meeting of the democratic
 national committee yesterday and tha,
 was Bryan. It was a silver, antitrust, anti expansion meeting. The national democratic cimetallic committee also
 had a meeting yesterday. Thirty states were represented. John w. Tomlinson of Birmingham was unanimously elect ed chairman to succeed the late Senator Harris of Tennessee
 Secretary of War Alger, who has re- signed his portfolio. will leave Wash ington Monday. Assistant Secretary Meiklejo'ln will take charge of the of flee until a successor is named
 Admiral Dewey arrives at Trieste or Hero of Manila Bay" was given flat tering reception by the Austrians Thirty-four articles of the proposed arbitration scheme at The Hague have
 been adopted. with the exception of the five clauses relating to international courts of inquiry. which were held in abeyance pending receipt of instruc- tions from the Rumanian and Serbian governments to their delegates. The dispatch printed in yesterdays Age Herald of the incorporation : al Newark, N. J of the Alabama Consol- dated Coal and Iron company referred i to the Ironaton- w Woodstock -Gadsder ombination recently perfected in this state, with Col. T. G. Bush of Annis- | ton as president and Fred M Jackson general manager.
 The Third regiment, Alabama Nation | al Guard. election which was held Mon. day. T. O. Smith was elected colone | and O. Kyle of Decatur, lieutenant colo. mel. w. J. Parke of Woodlawn, T. T Huey of Bessemer and H. H. Mcconnell of Decatur were elected majors. At meeting of the white barbers O. Birmingham held last night at New berrys shop, on Twentieth street. il was decided to raise the price of shave: to Is cents and of haircuts to 35 cents
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

During the honeymoon he thinks that
 she will always wait on him the way
 she does now, and she thinks that he will always wait on her the way he does
 now. But both have another think com
 ing. A woman would rather spend s patch ing up worn-out N1 hat than wear any thing as cheap as a new s hat Leave it to any onery husband and he'll tell you that model husband is one
 who is so henpecked that he hasn't the
 nerve to be anything else. We have often wondered just how long Methuselah would have lived if the drug stores sold denatured zinc and sublimat- ed brass when he was on earth Poor old Methuselah sure was out of luck. Any time an old pink kimono shrinks
 a woman can dye it blue, cut six moro
 inches off the bottom and call it neg ligee."
 And many married woman would go
 on strike if she wasn't afraid of bust
 ing up the union
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

When was down in Montgomery at the meeting of the Alabama Highway cViniilssion,' said Clarence Lloyd Tt was awfully hot weather and I saw many of the Montgomerians going around in seersucker suits. They looked so coo. and comfortable that l went into cloth ing store and bought me a suit. I came home and wore it about a week and got 1t soiled. I should have bought a couple of suits. I was so stuck on the one l had that I just didn't feel like putting on any other. I told my wife l believe l would wash it and hang it up to dry and iron it out the next morning and wear it to the office. She thought l was joking, but I went to work, and very much to my surprise I made a good job of it. I learned one thing and that is in pinch a fellow can do lot of things he never had any idea of ever be- ing able to do. feel so proud of myself that if I should happen to lose my job, I am sure could make good as a cleaner and presser."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
Census Supervisors to
 Appoint Enumerators

M IL of the census supervisors for GA Alabama having been appointed they will soon begin to select the |enumerators, of which there are to be about ten thousand for the state. George M. Cruikshank, the supervisor for this district, will have the ap- |pointment of something like fifteen hundred enumerators.
 Besides counting the population the |enumerators will gather much infor- nation of interest to publicists and educators, including the facts regard ling illiteracy. It is believed that fewer illiterates will be found in Ala bama next year than was enumerated li in 1910; but the number will still make a bad showing.
 Any person who can read and write will escape the table of ilfiteracy, but the time should come when only those who can understand what they read should be considered literate. Ability Ito read the primer amounts to little. A fair measure of education should be the test.
 When repeated calls were sent to
 police headquarters in Munice. Ind, for a squad of police to sally forth and arrest an alligator that was crawling down the principal street, it was sup
 pected that somebody had been indulg- | ing in hard cider. AS matter of fact. the alligator escaped from carnival. l The Manchester Guardians London correspondent says Jimmy" Wilde, the
 pugilist, will accept a seat in parlia-
 ment from a Welsh constituency. The
 Welsh rank Jimmy" next to Lloyd George. Both are fighters.
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 For the first time in it's history. Ala
 bama has convicted white men who took part in a lynching. We may eventually reach the high stage of civilization
 where murderers of that sort are hung. 1 < * *
 | A report comes from London that the
 silk tile, or plug hat" is being revived 1 This ought to be good news to young sters who are looking forward to a
 heavy fall of snow next winter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
HAVE MADE SONGS

By David Morton. in the Canadian Mag azine Though have made you many golden
 song,
 Hymning your loveliness in artful
 rhyme, No one of these but does your beauty
 wrong, And stands libel for all listening
 time. Dusks, have said. are clouding through
 your hair, And earth's old twilights finger where
 you are, Dreams. have said. have made your
 eyes a lair For largess brought from some old
 ruined star. Yet, all of this is but faltering art Of futile words that strain beyond their
 reach; And still about your image in my heart, Trembles the cloistered silence closed
 to speech A templed shrine, dim and holy placel Where no least word p-ofanes your lift1|
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
French Craved Souvenirs

1T never realized where the word souvenir originated until l went to France" said Lieutenant Bob Smith yesterday. Tt was one or the 1list French words the Americans could understand and one of the most fre- quent on the lips of the Frenchman when conversing with an American We heard it from daylight until dark. Children only a few years old ran be- side our column in every place we marched through, crying, Souvenir; give us a souvenir They wanted any, thing, button, cigarette, or sou.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21

From the Kansas City Star. )M)( OW that echoes of the big fight lN at Toledo are displaying their heels over the remote horizon | and sufficient time has elapsed to cool l the blazing reports that came direct 1 from the scene, it is proper that some estimate of the literary value of those reports be made.
 There have been prize fights since | the time when mans mind ran not to the contrary, and there have come down to us many accounts of these fights There are also many famous accounts | of fights in fiction, those of Thackeray , in the first part of Vanity Fair" and of Meredith near the beginning of "The | Ordeal of Richard Feverel," for example These could be used to great advantage to the literati of the present day sport world we shall leave them aside. l We select just one account of great i fight nearly one hundred years ago, the | fight between Bill Neate and Tom Hick | man, better known as the Gas -man," at l December day in 1S21 The account that has survived was written by Will 1 liam Hazlitt, who was not a profess sional sport writer, but who managed | to turn out a good many volumes on various subjects.
 l This fight was similar in many ways l to the recent contest at Toledo There | was a big man and little man, for example. Here's what Hazlitt says of | them as they enter the arena: A hustle. a bug ran through the crowd and from the opposite side en- | tered Neate between his second and
 bottle holder, He rolled along, swathed
 in his loose. great coat, his knock-knees bending under his hugs bulk, and with a modest, cheerful air, threw his hat
 fnto the ring. From the other side was a similar rush and an opening made, and the Gas-man came forward with a
 conscious air of anticipated triumph, I too much like the cock the walk.
 He strutted about more than became a hero, sucked oranges with a supercil-
 lious air, threw away the skin with a
 toss of his head. and went up and look
 ed at Neate.
 Shortly the men strip for action. and
 then Hazlitt compares them: If Neate was like Ajax with shoul- ders fit to bear" the pugilistic reputa- ton of all Bristol, Hickman might be compared to Diomed, light, vigorous, | elastic. and his back glistened in the
 sun, as he moved about like panther's
 hide.
 We do not recall any references to ! Ajax or Diomed in accounts of the re-
 cent fight, but the David and Goliath {, idea was played up rather strongly.
 It is to be hoped this implies that the children of this generation are more 1 familiar with the scriptures than those
 of a century ago with the classics. In the first round the Gas-man seem ed to be an earlier Dempsey.
 After making play a short time. he flew at his adversary like a tiger, struck five blows in as many seconds. three first. and then followed his anta- gonist as he staggered back, two more,
 right and left. and down he fell. a mighty ruin.
 But Neate was not done for. He came back in the next round.
 The Gas-man aimed mortal blow at his adversary's neck, with his right hand. and failing from the length he
 had to reach, the other returned it with
 his left at full swing. planted a tre-
 mendous blow on his cheekho~A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
Coast Planters Prosper

T am just back from Gulfport, Miss, and have never seen things looking better in that section,'' said Edgar Hardness, who has an orange grove on the coast. is spending a couple of months there. He told me that many of his friends were taking advantage of his invitation to go down and see the country as his guest. We are situated in the midst of the truck body seems to be making money this year. Some truckmen now have their fourth crop on the same piece of land for this season. with one more to go. This last crop will be harvested in Sep tember. Surf bathing is at it's best"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21

The report that the former Crown princes wife win visit him in Holland seems to discredit the previous rumor that they declined to communicate ex- cept through their lawyers.
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 Lloyd George shows few effects of the strain he underwent at the peace conference. Which may be due to the fact that Great Britain fared well at the peace table.
 While they are about 1t Alabama's solons ought to pass law prohibiting hardworked trolley car conductors from giving patrons change in pennies.
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 Now that we have that wonder of the Twentieth century. the "boozeless bar, we may expect some day to see wire less politician Amusing" styles are now sought by fashion designers There was always more or less unconscious humor in wo- mems wear.
 Many a harrassed city dweller, with no place to lay his head. envies the serene tortoise. who carries his house with him.
 A strict adherence to lone half of 1 per cent may convert the American people into a nation of expert chemists.
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 Bulgaria's haughtiness is somewhat surprising when we consider that Bull garia quit while the quitting was good.
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 It is said to be easy to get a drink in Chicago. where 'loophounds' are nothing if not enterprising.
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 Senator Borah is trying to act like a man who doesn't care if he's never in- vited to the White House
 At the hour of going to press Haiti was not claiming that it won the war
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
Remembers Gas Alarms

T just can't get used to these Klaxon horns on some of these cars since l have got back" said James s. Drake, who has only recently returned from overseas. having put 20 months in France with the Rainbow division. "They are the signal that we used while in the lines for gas attacks, and I sometimes wake up now when l hear one blow in the night, thinking that 1t is another gas alarm"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
GOOD FORM

From the New York Herald
 If the Queen of the Belgians came over here in an aircraft accompanied by her worthy husband she would do much in the way of taking flying out of the realm of the heroic and into that of fashion. There are many persons who would be quite prepared to risk their necks over the Atlantic if convinced that it was the right thing to do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
The Bond Issue Election

We will shortly start campaign ot education for the Birmingham bond is sues for high schools, elementary schools, city hall, library, auditorium and fire department said City Commissioner John R. Hornady.
 The fire department needs equipment right now that will cost s350,o00. The re- mainder of the proposed $50o,00o will not be issued until some time later when the need may erise.
 The other bond propositions should prove popular Here is a strong demand for an auditorium, as every one knows The same is true in schools. I believe when the proposed bond issues are ex- plained to the people, all the propositions will be carried at in polls by large ma jorities. The election will be held on August 18"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
TURKISH SUBSTITUTES

From the Kansas City Times.
 A Turkish court-martia1 is said to have condemned Enver Pasha and Talaat Bey to death for landing Turkey in the war on the German side And anyway the Turkish government feels that if it is to be deprived of Armenians unpopular and unsuccessful officials come in very handy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21
Number of Circuit Judges
 Should Not Be Reduced

THE proposed bill to reduce the H number of circuit judges in lief ferson county is a short-sighted piece of legislation. Instead of handicap ping the courts of this county pro- vision should be made to care for our rapidly increasing population.
 The lawyers of Birmingham, who