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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-18
Hubbard Broa. & Co.

Cotton Merchants Hanover Square, N. Y. Members New York Cotton Ex- change, New Orleans Cotton Exchange New York Produce Exchange. Assoc.- ated Members Liverpool Cotton Asso- citations. Orders solicited for tho pur- chase and sale of Cotton and Cotton Seel oil for future delivery. Special attention and liberal terms given for consignment of spot cotton for deliv- cry Correspondence invited
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-18
Rice Market.

By Associated Prcss New Orleans, July 17.-Rough rice, sales none; receipts. none; millers, receipts none Clean rice, sales none; receipts, 4552 pockets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-18
Produce Market

By Associated Prss,
 New York, July 17.-Butter, dull: re- ceipts. 1856; firsts, 51k @5sAc. Eggs irregular; receipts, 16.115 firsts, A O 47c. Cheese, irregular; receipts, 3623: average run, 311 a 32c. Live poultry, irregular; broilers. 4o@45c; others unchanged Dressed steady and unchanged.
 Chicago. July 17.-Butter, lower; creamery. 46@52c. Eggs, receipts, 10,995 cases, unchanged. Poultry, alive, unchanged
 Kansas City, July 17.-Butter, un- changed. Poultry, hens. up kc, 29c: springs and broflers, 1 to 4c lower, 36@S9c; potatoes. 200 to s5c lower s17o 8 bushel.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-03-05

young Sam Hold decla bred that some
guys were born lucky anyhow. And
all the time something Yin the touch
of the girl was calling To something
deep in the boy, something he had
never felt before, something\ he could
hardly understand. And Through the
rest Of that play and that rehearsal,
there seemed strange intimacy be-
tween himself and Mary Wood.
When, in the last act and just be-
fore the final curtain, he took the girl
in his arms, he hated the brazen
publicity of it all. She was soft and
delicate and fragile and sweet to his
embrace and again and again when he
had gone home to his room at night,
he lived over and over those moments.
On the last night before the play
he arrived late at his own boarding
place after seeing Mary to her gate.
He parted the curtains and stood
looking out over the soft sleeping
village swathed in romantic moon
light. A strange pain, an uneasiness
a strange wild dissatisfaction filled
him. 1t seemed as though he wanted
to walk on and on all night. Action,
motion, were the only things which
could ever end his awful nervous
ness. Over and over he saw the girl 5
face before him as he drew her to
him in the play-the brown eyes
with the lovelight in them,-and the
dare and the deviltry although good
little deviltry-and he was made
frantic with sudden hearthunger and
longing for her in some other way
than theatrical make believe.
"Mary! Maryw he cried. ave on
ly known you just little while. But
it's the truth, Mary Wood!-I love
you! And tomorrow night-to-
morrow night the play will be over
and memory of the past. After that
-! Oh Mary! I'm going to have
you! I'm going to have you-some-
how!-for my own-forever! Poor
little play! Will I ever forget Lady
Audrey's Mistaken"
1t was plain however that Georgia
Griffin held no such tempermental
sentiments about Lady Audrey's Mis-
take. On that same night that Jack
was walking home through the New
England moonlight with Mary-he
sat on a trunk back in the opera
house and pounded aimlessly and
and morosely on it's front with his
property hammer dangling between
his knees.
"Act? If this bunch was to go to
| NJ York there amt one in the whole
flock could get an engagement as
shouts outside or dead body! And
when it comes to applause, we'll be
lucky if some yellow dog will only
wander in and wag his tail"
There We're Indications it was going
to be q great return of value for
the admission money.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-03-05
Chittenden' County Furnish
ed 2,497 Men in Great
World War

BURLINGTON, Feb. 27-Chitten-
den county furnished 2,497 men in the
war, this being approximately one
third of the entire number of men in
the county whose names appeared in
the four registrations during 1917 and
1918. A total of 1890 men were reg
istered in the four registrations. One
thousand three hundred and seventy
five men were exempted from military
service of any kind because of de-
while 235 men were exc
empted because of their pursuit of
agriculture.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-03-05
Continued next week.
CUT THIS OUTFIT IS WORTH
MONEY

DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out tits
slip, enclose with Sc and mail it to
Foley & Co., 1886 Sheffield Ave-,
Chicago, ILL.,, writing your name and
address clearly. You will receive in
return a trial package containing
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound,
for coughs, colds and Group; Foley
Kidney Pills for pain in sides and
back; rheumatism, backache, kidney
and bladder ailments; and Foley
Cathartic Tablets, wholesome and
thoroughly cleansing cathartic, for
constipation, biliousness, headache,
and sluggish bowels. Sold Every
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-03-05
CHAPTER VIII
In Which Hero and Heroine In the
Role of Play-Actors Win the Viii
lage Applause and There Comes
Dance Afterward in which a
Strand of Soft Hair Brushes a
Rough-shaven Check.

The great night of the play arrived
At eight o'clock high school boys il
their old-fashioned Sunday-go-to
neetin' clothes were ushering fathers
mothers and brothers and sisters ani
aunts and uncles and spinsters anC
bachelors and the strangers withir
The gates, to their places. In the big
auditorium there was much dumping
down of seats and ladies unwindine
scarfs from the head dresses and mer
standing up here and there to pull
off overcoats and much rustling oil
programs printed that afternoon al
our little printing office and the town
crank damning the house and per-
Torrance and solar system generally
because he'd been given a seat with
a broken wire hat-rack beneath his
cosmos, to hold hat that at home
was hung up on the floor
But if there was hustle and hustle
and thrilling expectancy out in front
what was it behind on the stage?
Mrs. Christopher Stacy had been
given Lady Audrey's part because
she had the proper tragedy in hel
temperament by special endowment
from nature, and not much else, and
a willingness to stay where she was
put and not offer advice. She was
weak in the knees and ill in the
stomach because she was the first
person to go on and every line of her
part had fled from her head and
would not return regardless of how
much she applied herself to her man.
uscript.
Mrs. Whipple was moving around
among the players and stagehands in
her makeup and people who had
known her since infancy were star
ing at her and asking who the strange
woman was anyhow; for the sallow
yellow of Mrs. Whipple's counten-
ance had fled before the application
of grease-paint and penciling and
Mrs. Blake Whipple was not Mrs.
Blake Whipple at all, but a girl of
sweet sixteen whose youth had been
ACllCWCu AihC VIC ciSlcS anu SOIIlc VI
the women were asking hastily where
she had ever learned to make up like
that and she must have had past.
Chubb Barber the shoeman, who a.
greed with everybody and never run
an ad in our paper that cost more
than forty cents, and who was to
play the irate foster parent, was
monopolizing the peekhole in the cur
tain and beholding the size of the
audience ever growing greater, and
agreeing with everybody and whet-
ting his lips and wishing to Gawd he
was home. Mrs. Hoadley the BARRIERS
wife was there, sitting around on
things always needed next to dress
the stage and dwaddling on her ner-
vous knee the momentous little Roll
lin Hoadley who was the cause of it !
all and who was to be carried right |
on and right back very carefully and |
which had been loaned after much
coaxing. Most of the boys were out
on the fire-escapes smoking in the re-
viving GOODNESS of the evening and
fortifying themselves for the ordeal
ahead. Everywhere was confusion
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-03-05

I JACK VINO was Wildly looking loT Her
and who demanded the cause of the
tears in her eyes-back to the boy
whom she loved.
And after the dance they walked
homeward together.
Somehow love in a quaint old New
England town is a deeper, sweeter
gentler thing than anywhere else on
Gods green earth. 1t lacks the sem
suality CT the dreamy southland. 1t
has not the virility of the west. But
to make up for both there is an in
definable sturdiness in a setting of
soft hills and valleys and little towns
that hallows it and nurtures it, some
thing which we have come to call
, the New Englandism of New Eng
/ land.
And amid the New Englandism of
New England Jack Purse and Mary
Wood fell deeper and deeper in love,
reckoned mostly from the night of
the local talent play where he had
tasted of her lips and gone mad with
the feel of her body, when he danced
with her afterward and then walked
under the moonlight with her home
ward-with Mibb Henderson's laugh
floating backward on the singing
spring highland with sob in his
heart at his financial helplessness,
keeping him from asking her to be
his wife.
"Good night" she said softly at the
gate, as she held out her hand.
"Good night, Mary" he replied
thickly in turn. But he did not go.
The moon made mystic shadows of
the street under the sleeping naples,
of the long white fence fianked with
the fiower-beds, of the lawn and the
ghostly white Mather's house. The
telephones of the crickets sounded
from beneath the fences and the hol-
low board walks. The songs Of in
sect lovers piping out of tune, came
to them. Down the street now and
then showed flash of a muslin dress
white in the moonlight-and the
little shrek of a woman's laughter
f1oated to them carefree boys
and girls going home from dance!
And under the moonlight the girl was
twice daintier and prettier than the
boy had ever seen her before, for
that is the way of moonlight and of
Spring nights and of women in days
when we love.
Occasionally !. couple strolled past
them-Sam Hold with Alice Whiting,
Grace Rawlins with the Whitcomb
boy. Even Georgia Griffin and the
Whalen girl were out enjoying the
beautiful exquisite summer night.
Where are they all gone now, those
boys and girls of that summer night
in the long ago?
Those that are living now are
tired men and furrowed-faced wom-
en- scattered far and wide on the
earths' broad surface. But back
there on this night, in this little ..
town, it was all so different-so very
different. Life and love and the
mystery of both were deep upon
them. Every hour was golden
moment and time but thing to pass
away.
And as Jack came away finally
from the Mather's gate, the beauty
and the sadness of the night and the
heart cry of his new-found age-old O
love came to him as neither had ever;
him before And taking off
his hat beneath the stars he MUIR
INJURED: "Oh if it could always 60 on
always!" But he knew it could not.
And he was miserable and afraid.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-03-05

But he was gone amid the shrubbery
and she went slowly back to the hall,
the small-town gaiety and the music.
And so fled her chance to marry
4 wealthy man.
She went back to the hall and to
Jack who was wildly looking for her
and who demanded the cause of the
tears in her eyes-back to the boy
whom she loved
And after the dance they walked
homcward together.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-13
MRS. R. W.LEA
GIVEN DIVORCE
Cruelty Charge Preferred by Wife
Not Contested by Vice Presi-
dent Of Moline Pillow.
Especial Moline Service.)

E~E---t-- -'-I.-I1'| . u WI
Mrs. Mildred Stephens Lea was
granted a divorce from Robert w.
Lea. vice president of the Moline
Pillow company in Moline city court
Saturday afternoon.
The bill, which charged cruelty,
was not contested by Mr.. Lea. Mrs.
Lea was granted custody of their
only child, ad aughter. but Mr.. Lea
was ordered by the court to pay
for the daughters support.
Mrs. Lea is making her home
with her father, c. r. Stephens, for
mer secretary of the Moline Pillow
company.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-13
POSTMASTER GETS
NEW COMMISSION

Joseph P. Mcmahon. postmaster
at Silvis. received today his new
commission as postmaster, he hav-
ing been recently reappointed after
having completed four years in that
office. Mr.. Mcmahon was first COM
missioned as postmaster on April
Is, 1915. his reappointment for foUr
years being effective from April 10,
1919. Mr. Mcmahon has seen the
business of the Silvis Office under
go considerable growth, the re-
ceipts having more than doubled
during the four years he has been
in charge. He looks for a cOntinu
alton of the good showing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-13

Fifteenth Avenue Christfan-The
Loyal Daughters class will hold
itrmonthly meeting tomorrow ev-
fling at the home Of Mrs. Bernard
Hawkins, 1901 Thirty-fOurth street.
Thursday afternoon the ladies' aid
society will meet at the home Of
Mrs. John Carruthers. 1440 Forty
first street. at . o'clock
First Baptist The Ever Ready
circle will meet this evening with
Miss Irene Wagner, 610 Eleventh
street.
First Swedish Lutheran -T To-
night the deacons are to meet at 5
O'Clock at the parsonage. Tuesday
and Wednesday the Rock Island
district mission meeting will be
held at the Trinity Lutheran
church. Moline Thursday evening
the teachers OF the Sunday schoo!
Nre to meet at the home of Miss
Myrtle Vessel. els Fourth avenue.
There will be a congregational
meeting at the church at o'clock
Friday evening, which all the mem
bers are urged to attend. Satur-
iirmat:on class will meet in the an
mex.
Grace Extraordinarily even
ing the Forward society will NEE
at the community service league
rooms in Moline, with Miss LeOna
Nelson as hostess. There will be
n mission festival at the church
Thursday evening given by the La
dies Missionary society.
Trinity Episcopal The Girls
Friendly society will meet this ev-
ening in the parish house. Tomor-
row afternoon at o'clock the
Vestment guild will meet, and at
7:30 Scout troop No. s. Wednes-
day afternoon Trinity guild will
have a meeting. Thursday morn
ing at o'clock holy communion in
the chapel, and at 7:30 Thursday
evening the choir will meet for re-
hearsaI. Friday morning at 10
o'clock, morning prayer and litany.
Zion Lutheran - The committee
in charge of the Polish relief work
efforts will have a meeting in the
church this evening, and tomorrow
evening at Z o'clock the Boy Scouts
will meet Thursday afternoon at
2:30 the ladies' aid society will
meet with Mrs. J. Rybecke. 1922
Eighth avenue Friday etvening
the members of the church will at
tend a reception TO be given in the
College chapel for Rev. Ralph
'fIult, who is soon to leave for
Africa. the reception being given
by the Augustana Foreign Mis-
sianary society. The confirmation
class will meet at o'clock Fri
day night.
Evangelical Church of Peace
The confirmation class will meet
at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon. and at
: O'Clock Tuesday evening the
adult bible class will have a meet
ing. The choir will hold a re-
hearsaI at o'clock. Thursday aft
ernoon the ladies' society will NEE:
at the church Next Sunday Sun.
day school will start at $50. fol-
lowed by English services at 10:1S |
and German services with COM /
nunion at II O'Clock. In the even !
ing Rev. l. Suedmeyer Of st. Louis /
will show the work Of the Evan |
,yelical Church of Peace by moving |
Hctures at the church at S o'clock. !
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-13

All the news all the time-The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-13

First Baptist - The Ever Ready
circle will meet this evening with
Miss Irene Wagner, 610 Eleventh
street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-13
Uen(u1ChG|

Fifteenth Avenue Christfan-The
Loyal Daughters class will hold
itSmonthly meeting tomorrow ev-
ehing at the home Of Mrs. Bernard
Hawkins. 1901 Thirty-fourth street.
afternoon the ladies aid
society will meet at the home Of
Mrs. John Carruthers. 1440 Forty
first street. at o'clock
Evening star., 1919-11-12
MUST MARK. WEIGHT
OF FOOD ON PACKAGES
Supt George II. Roberts to Enforce
Agricultural Department
Ruling.

inspectors Of the District weights
and measures Office will notify all
grocers in the city to carry out the
ruling of the Department of Agricul-
ture to mark the weight on all ar
ticles of food put up in packages
prior to sale.
George N. Roberts, superintendent
OF weights and measures, said there
might be some local dealers failing
- mark the weight on bags through
ignorance of the Department of Agri-
cultures edict rather than to deceive
the customer.
inspectors of the weights and meas
ures Office have not found any un-
marked bags that contained short
weight since the agricultural au-
thorities announced that package
food done up by the grocer must be
marked the same as commodities
which are put up in package form at
the factory.
Evening star., 1919-11-12
FOUR F|REMEN HURT At
OLD MASONIC TEMPLE
Blaze Confined to Basement and
First Floor Does Damage
Amounting to $500.

Four firemen were hurt, three of
them also being overcome by gas, at
a fire in old Masonic Temple, sth and
F streets, early this morning. The
fire started in the basement from an
undetermined cause. The fire, which
did $1,000 damage. was confined to the
basement and the first floor of the
part of the building occupied by the
Dolly Madison Candy Company.
Capt. Ernest Howard of No. en-
gine company and Privates Millard
H. Sutton and William X. Lusby Of
No. II engine company were slightly
hurt and overcome. They returned to
quarters after receiving first aid. Prl-
vate Benjamin H. Statz of No. en-
gine company received cut across
his back from broken glass. He was
taken to Emergency Hospital.
1t was about 1880 o'clock when Po-
licemen Cheney and Russell of the
first precinct discovered smoke COM
ing from the building and sent in
call An alarm sounded from box 132
summoned additional companies, and
still more appeared in response to a
second alarm.
The fire was in the part of the
building in which fire occurred De-
cember 27 last.
Evening star., 1919-11-12
GERMANS EXPORT GRAIN
DESPITE HEAVY PENALTY
Farmers Smuggling Cereals Into
Holland to Reap High Prices.
Accused of Treason.

BERLIN. October 25 Correspond
snce of the Associated Press).-"Eco-
nomic treason" is the term applied
by German writer's to those who in
the past month. since the gathering of
the wheat harvest. have sold great
supplies of grain to Holland, obtain
ing better price than the grain sells
for in Germany and yet allowing the
Dutch buyers to make huge profit.
The smuggling of grain across the
border is fairly easy matter and
SO the German farmers in the west
have been sending tons across into
Holland.
There is a legal provision forbid
ding the expectation of wheat and
other cereals. and a punishment of
from month to a year imprison-
ment, as well as nnes up to 10000
marks, but threatened punishment Is
insufficient to stop the practice
Evening star., 1919-11-12
Favors Good Entrance Salaries.

Entrance salaries in the govern
ment service should be high enough
to make the service attractive to the
best men and women" said Chief
Clerk Ayres of the Interior Depart
ment, temporary chairman of the in
itial meeting. He complimented the
reclassification commission highly, de-
claring that II never saw a commits
sion so receptive to the viewpoint of
those concerned"
Congress will realize the need of ade-
quate salaries to protect those who give
their lives to the government service,
Mr. Ayres said. He declared that the
Interior Department, in his belief. suf-
than any other department. II think
that the government service at large
should be put on par with the Army
and Navy" Mr.. Ayres said.
Comparison of the ranking of classes
of employees within the various services
formed is one of the biggest tasks be-
fore the reclassifcation commission,
Herbert E. Fleming, director. told the
assembled administrative officials. The
Central principle of the whole reclassifi-
cation, he said. is that any given line
OF work should carry equal pay wher-
ever it is performed. Equity of pay
within classes, between positions in
classes ana finally between the various
In Charge of Meetings.
Miss Cornelia Lyme of the bureau Of
markets, chairman of the committee
on clerical groups, opened the meeting,
and is in general charge of the organ
i1ation meetings of the eighteen other
clerical services.
The filing service, bookkeeping, Sc
counting and auditing service, and the
mechanical tabulating machine service
were in process of formation today,
each service committee selected to rep
resent both the administrative end of
the service and the employees in each,
every day through next Monday, two
OF three meetings each day, until COM
mittees are selected for all the clerical
services. 1t will be the duty of each
of these committees to represent the
service at the hearin be o." =
classification commission, and to pre-
sent the ideas or oIiicIais aii.. e44..ioyes
concerning wages and classification.
Evening star., 1919-11-12
REED MEN ON OUTING.
73 in Party That Goes to Spend
Day at Plains, Va.

Sixty soldiers from Walter Reed
Hospital and thirteen others, includ-
ing aids, doctors and Y NJ. c. A. work
ers, left at $50 o'clock this morning
for Plains. Va, where they will be
entertained by the people Of the town.
They went in a special car over the
Southern railroad. They will return
to Washington this evening.
The program includes various sports
and a fox hunt The trip was ar
ranged through the Y. NJ. c. A. work
ers at Walter Reed. E. NJ. Wilson
accompanied the party. The enter.
tainment at Plains was in charge OF
Mrs w. S. Skinner.
Evening star., 1919-11-12
IDLE CONTINGENT DECREASES

BERLIN, October IS Correspond
ence of the Associated Press)-Ap-
proximateiy $50. 900 persons through
out Germany are now drawing the
unemployed beneft insurance, says an
Official labor bulletin. Since June it
ID stated, the number of workless has
gradually decreased, the largest pro.
portion of them being in the big
cities.
In Berlin they average forty-two to
1every 1000 of the population.
Evening star., 1919-11-12
Constipated i? Here's Relief

Not that often harmful, always
violent and temporary help that
comes from harsh purgatives, but
the comfortable, gratifying, cor
Reetive regulation Of stubborn
bowels SO pronounced in DR.. Kings
New Life Pills.
Tonic in action, they promote
free bile flow, stir up the lazy,
thoroughly hut gently cleanse the
system of waste matter and fer
mentin1 foods, and give you keen
kest for hard work and healthful
recreation. All dYuggists-15c.
Evening star., 1919-11-12

Illustrated is an elegant overblouse of
black chantilly lace, trimmed with jet and
sashed in two-toned ribbon. $3.50.
rare black shadow lace pattern, ar
ranged over white chiffon forms an apron
cite blouse, with grosgrain trimmed Bertha
and vestee with jet buttons. $500.
White lace of filet mesh with Venice
motifs is thrown over flesh chiffon, and
adorned with silver ribbons over the should
ers, and two-toned ribbons for the belt
$500.
Black la Tosca net over white chiffon
forms an interesting blouse with square col
lar, Y neck and inserts Of embroidered net
medallions. $12.75.
Black or cream net is used for dainty
model with shrred and ruffled Bertha, YES
tee, collar and sleeves. $10.75.