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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03
rHE BLACk RoREEN

Nora Chessom. in the Irish World, New
York
There's lane beyant the village that
they call the Black Boreen,
There come the earliest cowslips, and
grass is soonest green;
And if you're there at noontide when
shadows shortest fall.
You'll maybe hear fairy voice out
of the hedgerow cali
So they say!
II you should go at twilight into the
Black Boreen,
Shut fast the lids upon your eyes lest
fairy hands be seen
Stretched from the hedge to hold you,
to stop you as you pass.
To draw you to their dancing upon the
hungry grass
Och. you may!
If you should go by moonlight into the
Black Boreen.
You never will come out again a.
lightheart as you've been;
You will have looked on beauty too
much for earth to bear
Och, 1 was in the Black Boreen and
saw the fairies there
Yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

A man doesn't expect a woman to
be as smart as he is. But he expects
her to be smart enough to realize how
smart he is.
When woman with horse face
gets her photo taken she wonders why
the fool photographer doesn't put 1t in
his show window.
Other mothers may have had ugly
children. But your mother never had
one.
You can argue with a woman. but
YOU can't convince her. And this goes
for men. too.
We have only one kick to make on
the stork He won't call on the PEG
pie who haven't ANY babies and want
them but he never misses calling on
people who have too many babies and
do not want any more.
ANY old maid Of IS can tell you that
any girl who marries when she il un-
der that age Is being robbed Of her
girlhood.
1t is hard to please a wife. If her
husband doesn't do a thing she bawls
| him out. and IL he does do 1t she bawla
| him out.
| II most people only knew how liz
tie they know the betting IL that tn y
wouldn't talk SO much.
| There was a time when q man sa-
We'd woman because she didn't hsS
| to shave every day or two. But Il q
different nowadays
! a nan'5 iae If having a good tnAs
is to -.o oet asa do something he csn'.
aft u 20.
arnsss haai't any use for icgel
VIII gaeaim t and doesn't rsy 81
She rfefafE af.e who says = lot AMI
doe ~ m s@N =
mas thea more Of the dollar ~
lospa a,ft o. ~ pocket than be ASH
of w. sai h ends foolishly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03
N HOTEL HOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE



For the past few years have been
F. e. Perkins who returned during the
past few days from a two months visit
out west, and have seen crowds be-
fore but never anything like this sea-
son there were seventy-five thousand
visitors at Manitou alone. One day
twelve hundred people came in. They
paid as high as sixteen dollars a week
just for a small nall bed room to sleep
in. The landladies went up from ten
dollars a week to sixteen dollars a
week. One man told me he paid two
dollars and a half for cot in a kitchen
for one night.
The food problem was something
awful-the high cost Of living being
almost as great there, as here. OF
course l have my own cottage Eagles
Nest and raise much of my own food
and then 1 buy from the wagon vendors
who pass, so save a great deal in this
way
There are so many wonderful places
around Manitou for the tourist to enjoy
Inc south Cnenne canyon, inc Trip
to Cripple creek; the Garden of the
Gods and many other beautiful noun
tain drives. A great many people make
the Pixies Peak climb-ten miles in a
day-on foot coming back the next day,
which usually makes them sleep for the
next week because they are so tired and
worn out"
The climate at Manitou is the most
marvellous 1 have ever seen, in June
there was a freeze during the time was
there, July and August, the weather
was perfect. 1t grows warm in the
middle of the day but very cool and
pleasant in the evening. And children?
never have seen as many children
any where in my life. Thousands of
them every where. 1t is a marvellous
climate for children. They grow and
thrive on it as they do nowhere else in
the world"
This summer was banner year with
Colorado Springs, Colorado City, which
is now part of Colorado Springs, and
Manitou, as the thousands of visitors
who went there can testify.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03
independence of America
Not Menaced by League.
I'M R. ALEXANDER GRAHAM

I'm r. ALEXANDER GRAHAM
~ BELL was invited to become
a member of the League for the
Preservation of American Independ-
ence. In stating his reasons for de-
clining to join this organization, DR..
Bell showed the inconsistency of try
ing to make a treaty of peace with
Germany "unless guarantee is pro-
vided to assure the carrying out of
the peace terms" this guarantee be-
ing provided by the league of ma
tons.
AS DR.. Bell points out, the cove
nant is a compromise, "and, like all
compromises, cannot be entirely sat
isfactory to all of the parties in
volved, but the covenant itself pro-
vides means for amendment after the
league has been formed" This is the
attitude taken by advocates of rati-
fication without amendment. Mr.
Wilson is firmly opposed to amend
ments and most of the leagues sup
porters share this view.
Senators who are vigorously oppos-
ling the treaty of peace and the league
covenant in their present form are
delaying ratification and placing the
treaty in jeopardy. If all the numer-
Gus changes suggested were to be
adopted the treaty would have to be
resubmitted to the signatory nations.
DR.. Bell does not believe that the
"basic liberties won by the Revolu-
tionary war, or subsequently &C
,quired," are in any way menaced by
the constitution of the league Of ma
tions. Despite efforts made to read
into the various clauses meanings
that were never intended by the
Trainers of the covenant, the Amer
lean people are not yet convinced
that they will be enslaving them
selves and FORGETTING the rights fol
which they fought in every wal
waged by this country, simply by full
filling the great obligations to hui
mainly imposed on us by the struggle
lin Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03
TWENTY YEARS AGO
IN THE AGE-HERALD
Events recorded September 3, 1899.

Evidence submitted at tho trial Of
Capt. Dreyfus at Rennes is expected To
cause the acquital of the famous pris-
oner. The testimony of tho entire ses-
sion was most favorable to DreyfuA
The first Of the trial races between
the Columbia and the Defender, to select
a yacht to sail against the Shamrock In
defense Of the American cup, was such
a decisive victory for the Columbia yes
terday off Newport that she viii be PITT
Every precaution is being taken to
prevent the spread of yellow fever in
New Orleans. The city authorities now
believe there is no danger of an cpl
demic. Te
The tables have been turned in Brit.
ish negotiations with the Beers and
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain has
proposed further conference. A Lon
don dispatch indicates that the British
government has adopted a more pacific
attitude.
The city council met in extra session
last night and declared the seat of AL
derman George B. Ward, of the second
ward, vacant. Mr.. Ward recently moved
from Birmingham to Sheffield to engage
in the banking business.
The Herren brothers of Dadeville re-
Gently paid SITS front foot for plot
of ground. fronting so feet on Second
avenue between Seventeenth and Eigh-
teenth streets, an illustration of the
rapid rise in the value OF Birmingham
real estate.
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"Aren,t Men HerrfA 2,

I've declared war on rats said Miss
Edna Hicks, stenographer Of the coron-
er's office "and men are so mean. Yes
terday afternoon l was walking alons
the street when a great big old rat came
bounding out of an alley and made
straight way for me. OF course I ran
until 1 came to some stairs a short dis
lance away and proceeded to 60 up
When 1 reached the top of the stair5
there were women congregated on every
step below me and Of course others were
running in all directions In the mean
time some men had caught the rat
alive and they started right up those
same steps. We proceeded to scream for
help The man with the rat then left
Just a second before policeman arrived
and do you know that policeman did
not do anything but laugh"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03
Just Like the Movies

II have seen lots Of moving pictures
where letters were blown out of win
dows but such thing never happened
to me until yesterday" said Nat Barker.
"A message came to our office in the
jefferson County Bank building for Clar-
ence Palmer and l called him at the
Southern club and was reading it t.
him over the phone. which is very near
the window when gust Of wind came
along and out it went. stood there
and watched 1t sailing away for severa!
minutes and then came down and walk
ed around the block and up the alley
looking for it but couldn's find it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
DOOMED TO FAIL.

DOOMED TO FAIL.
Pa fingers in the kitchen now,
Quite busy with a STILL
Though mother worries night and day,
He labors with will.
He calls his friends UP now and then,
Their fainting hearts to cheer.
I'm six or seven weeks" he says,
I'm have the finest beer
And whisky. too, your ever saw
Drop in and drink your fill;
I've bought a little brewery,
Also little STILL"
And thus he speaks and shakes his fist
At the prohibition clan,
But father'l be. for all his boasts,
A disappointed man.
The secret sorrows of this life
Are very far from few;
His little "still' will not distill,
His brewery will not brew.
A WORSE EVIL.
80 the soothsayer told you she couldn't
read the future until you gave her $1,000
to put under her pillow and sleep on'?''
YES"
'T hope you didn't let her have the
money!"
Certainly not. / said that while she
was sleeping on my $1,000 would be wide
awake and I'd rather not know about the
future than suffer from insomnia"
A GOOD SHOWING.
Are the Flibbits well to DOR
mo. They are in moderate circum-
stances. but they're progressing"
How so?''
Their automobile is more than half
paid for and if they cared to 1 dare
say they could meet the installments on
a player-piano.'
ALAS, HOW TRUE!
The time draws near when no one will
Be thought an ignoramus
Because he doesn't know what twas
That made Milwaukee famous
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03
Clever Human Nature story

eff you are not reading The Love
Affairs of a Lonely Woman. INSTALL
ments of which are printed in Tho
Age-Herald every day, you are miss
ing the cleverest human nature story
of the PERIOD" said Mrs. Scudder Ryall
yesterday.
There is a climax in it every day.
1t is wonderfully exciting. 1t is just
what might occur to any girl coming
from the country to the great city as
a stenographer I can hardly wait for
the arrival OF The Age-Herald every
morning to read it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03

BEGINNING THE DAY-LOrd,
Thou hast shaping and polishing
process for the pebbles and the
stones. And Thou hast for man.
L must not rebel. Roll me, grind
me, hammer me. wear with
waters--havc Thy way with me.
Only give me patience and strength.
And in the day of the great reveal
ing make acceptable to Thine
eyes. In Christ's name. Amen.-H.
VI. e.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03
Activity Mt Greensboro

"Six months ago Greensboro had 20
vacant residences and IL vacant store
rooms, due to the war conditions aud
the removal of the Southern univer-
sity." said G. w. Field of that city.
Now there is not a vacant resi-
dence and only one unoccupied store
room. Several families are awaiting 4
chance to find house.
"A ld-a-house campaign is being
seriously considered by the leading
citizens. This increased activity is
due to the establishment OF the South
ern Military academy that now occu-
pies the plant of the Southern univer-
sity'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03
Mobile Registers
Great Trade Edition

.0NE of the largest, most inform
W ing and most handsomely il
Illustrated special numbers of any jour
nal ever published in the south, and
one of the most attractive ever issued
in this country, was the Mobile Reg
ister's seventy-ninth annual trade edi-
ton of last Sunday.
1t consisted, all told, of eight sec
lions, with total of 124 pages. If
this made a bulky newspaper there
was not a page in it that was dry.
Mobile is now going forward, COM
|mercially and industrially, at Won
derfully rapid rate. Edwin Craig
heads signed contribution that made
up the first page survey of the indus
trial section is stimulating and
optimistic in the highest degree, yet
there is not statement or prediction
that is overdrawn. Only facts are set
forth in succinct style and with an
illuminating forecast that is readily
convincing.
! Great stress is laid, Of course, upon
Mobiles new shipbuilding industry,
its harbor improvements and the
progress of it's shipping.
From Colonel Craighead's article
are these enlivening excerpts:
The building of ships goes on apace.
and it is noteworthy that in construc-
ton work here the wooden composite
vessel have given place to all-steel
vessels; and also that the construction
of concrete ships has been pushed to
the point where two immense ships
have been launched and a third is
now on the ways. we have built and
are building here the improved steel
barges for the navigation of the War
rior and Tomblgbee rivers, supplying
/ everything needed. Meanwhile, the
repair plants have greatly increased
in size and variety of work. especial
~ in docking operations, Mobile be-
ing equipped with 10000 ton dry
dock, and in this respect her position
is superior to that of any other Gulf
or South Atlantic port.
There have been launched here in
the past fifteen months 20 ocean-go-
ing vessels, ranging in size from the
125-foot submarine chasers to 5.0O0-ton
steel and 5000 ton concrete steamers:
j. and there are now in construction here
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03
HOMES WHERE HER POODLE Is

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
New York's striking actors are hav-
ing some difficulty in maintaining =
full force of feminine pickets An ac-
tress doesn't mind giving up her job.
but she hates to be separated from her
doc
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03
KEEPING UP APPEARANCES

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
Demand for pergolas instead of grape
arbors seems to be one of the causes
of the high cost of living.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03
Not All the Heroes Are
On the Battle Field

TN thinking of deeds of valor the
= mind of people in general usually
reverts to the field of war, but there
are noble types of the hero in the less
romantic OF valiant spheres of life.
Every locomotive engineer is more
or less of hero. His calling is full
of hazard and examples are numer-
Gus of personal sacrifice on his part
to save the lives of others.
One of the most heroic instances
of this kind was that on the New
York Twentieth Century Limited, near
Cleveland Sunday night, when Engi-
neer Thomas J. Sankey sacrificed his
life in saving the passengers on his
train. He saw freight train moving
eastward on a parallel track buckle
"The freight cars" says the thrilling
narrative, were flung across the
path of the oncoming express. Engi-
neer Sankey, in a flash, realized the
situation and, applying the emer-
gency brakes, appreciably lessened
the speed of the flying train. There
was not time to make complete
stop, but sticking to his post, the
engineer brought the long train of
Pullmans to a stand just as the
engine nosed into the scattered
. wreckage." He had indeed made the
supreme sacrifice. In losing his own
life Sankey had saved the lives of
several hundred souls.
Such a man deserves to be remem-
bered by the whole country and have
a monument erected to him in one of
the parks of Cleveland and a memo
rial tablet in the hall of fame.
y 4 4
Birmingham Is Free
From Racial Disturbances.
WHILE many southern cities
Wv particularly Atlanta, have
been the scenes of bloody clashes be-
tween whites and blacks, Birming-
ham, in the 48 years of it's existence,
has never had serious race riot
This is a remarkable showing when il
is considered that for many years
Birmingham was considered one o.
the most lawless towns in the country
and had, and still has, for that mat
ter, q murder record which is not t.
Be Nenvied.
It is curious fact that some O
the worst race riots and most of tn
lynchings occur in old and settled
communities. where the negroes ant
the whites have lived together sine
the Civil war. One would natural,
suppose that there would be NOR
friendly relations between the race
in such localities than are to be foun
in the newer communities, but the evi
dence points the other way. Eithe
because the laws are more strictly en-
I fo.oaI IN tho yo,Ippar citieS mr. he
cause their cosmopolitan population
minimizes friction between any tw
races, there seems to be more bloc
guilt on the "old south" than on tn
s.new SOUTH" SO far as racial disturb
ances are concerned.
Birmingham has large industris
population in which practically ever
nationality on the globe is repre-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03
THRUST ASIDE.

THRUST ASIDE.
Clipping has his good points, but
too fond OF occupying the center OF
stage
His home life, IL you but knew
would excuse that weakness"
How so?"
His place there is usually in corr
along with a plaster cast of Venus \
Milo, a fern on 2 mahogany stand
bowl of goldfish"
A BIASED HISTORIAN.
rs Gadspur a truthful man.
He was before the war"
What changed him?"
"TIe had son who went to France
a second lieutenant and now it seems
hard matter for Gadspur to give Pershi
any credit for helping to break the H
denburg line"
QUITE MAD.
What kind of motorist is Chu
forth? -
ct wouldn't can him a motorist. d
a motor-maniac.-
"Yes?"
CAN he sees OF a scenic route Is
roadbed, and he traves. so fast he does
see much of that" PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03
Member of the Associated Press

That we shall die we know; it's but
the time,
And drawing days out. that men stand
upon. Julius Caesar.
y. * *
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03
BRAINS VERSUS Drawn

BRAINS VERSUS BRAWN.
IF a window cleaner is paid 81
what does it profit a man to be
professor
well, it's true that the college
lessor has to exist on a pittance, b
has the satisfaction of knowing tn
he and the window cleaner ever m
a social gathering he could make
window cleaner look foolish by dis
ing the influence of the Victorian
on contemporary literature"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03

Remittances can be made at current
rate of exchange. The Ag-Heraid VIII
not be responsible for money seut
through the mails Address
THE AGE-HERALD,
Birming ham, Ala
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03

No communication VIII be pubhshea
without its authors name. KeJectco
manuscript will not be returned uh'ess
stamps are inclosed for that purpose.
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0R II AsHINGTON, D. c., Sept. z.
WY tsDeoialo-.sOms snakes !. ~ may IA;
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-11-17
.lAhi,D.. Jill. Ii
: aere Was Nothing So c
for Congestion and Colds
as Mustard

But the old-fashi i mustar5.
plaster burned and b. ed while
acted. Get the relief a. help I'll
mustard plasaers gave. without &
plaster ana without the blister.
Mustsroie does it. Il is ! cIee-
white ointment, made vit!roi Of IN
tard. It is scientifically prepared, s.
that it works wonders. and yet Go-.
ret blister the tecda-est skin.
Gently Massage Mu5.Sgo.o IN With tn
fnger-tips. See how o8iekIyi brings re-
Eef-how speedily the pain disappear
Use Mustsrole for sore throat br11.
ehitis, ronsilitis. Group, stiff neeE
asthma, Neuralgia, heaeecAe, congo.
ion, pleuTisy rhelrsat. m. lanbage
PANS and aches Of the back or joint
sgrains sore muscles. bruises, Gin
hams, frosted fset, colds Of the ches
ct often prevents pneuuoniaI.
SOC and 60c jars, hospital size $3.50
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-11-17
A merry Us
BREAKDr YIN
Miss Kelly Tells How Lydia {.
Pnki12m'S Vegetable Com
pound Restored Her
Health.

Newark. n For about three
years Suffered from nervous
The St. Johns herald., 1919-08-14
Fisk Tire Man Here.

MT. F. F. Metten, represent ing the Fisk Rubber Company, made quite an impression on the local consumers of tires through out the northern part of the state. The tires that MT. Metten has on his car now have run approxi- mately 5000 miles over the rough est roads in the state and show but very little wear. Many com pliments are being paid him on the Fisk castings and the local dealers fully realize the populari- ty of the Fisk Tire.
The St. Johns herald., 1919-08-14
Trappers Must Have License.

In addition to state hunting and fishing licenses heretofore sold by representatives of the state game warden's office, license will now be sold to trappers.
 The trappers' licenses will cost S2, 50 apiece, and are for men who desire to ensnare the small game and fur bearing animals. It will not operate as a bar to trapping or otherwise destroying rodent pests on farms and cattle ranges, it is said, but the regulation will add somewhat to the fees of the game warden's office, all of which go to the expense fund of that official The Messenger.
The St. Johns herald., 1919-08-14
State Pioneer Home Now Full

The State IS without accommo- dations to care for it's aged and indigent pioneers. This was re- vealed when the board of direc- tors was forced to turn back the application of Carl Berkenfelt, pioneer constable of Tucson, for admission to the State Pioneers home at Prescott. Berkenfelt
 appeared with duly signed ere dentials from Judge Pattee, but the only satisfaction he gained was that all berths at the institu- ton were filled and that he had better go home and wait until there was a vacancy. Messenger
The St. Johns herald., 1919-08-14

Since Edison first electrified" the world by his invention of the principle of electric illumination, the use of the electric light has gone forward by leaps and bounds.
 Yet nowhere has development been more manifest than in the increasing number of electric signs reared out ward and upward from the buildings along the main stem of every city and town. It is matter of fact that trav- cling men have become accustomed to making their first judgment of the size and prosperity of a city by observing the number of electric signs displayed.
 Broadway, New York, of course, is the most brilliant electric thoroughfare in the world, and on it may be seen electric superlatives of every variety. There are moving pictures in electric lights, moving words that travel across the sky in a never-ending chain, and other signs in every color and every shape and size.
 The largest electric sign in the world is located on this famous thoroughfare. The largest single electric word is there near 54th Street in the sign advertising Fisk Tires. This mammoth word of four letters FISK" measures 128 feet in width and each letter S8 feet high. The letter 'I'' for instance is more than eight feet in width.
 This sign, too, besides being the larg- est single electric word in the world is perhaps the most popular of all that light the great White Way, incorporat- ing as it does that much talked of Time to-Retire Boy which the manufacturers of that tire have used so extensively in all their advertising. This electric boy on Broadway rears himself sixty-eight feet high above the roof of 2 story office building. Regularly every minute throughout the night he goes through the motions of good old fashioned yawn and stretches himself, much to the delight of his fcl1le audierce below.