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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11

1 did him great injustice, and those who NEew him best naturally resent it. It is true, nevertheless. that he was Imany-s'ded character. Au fond he had a profound religious. even spiritual. na- ture. The Puritan strain of his ancestry frequently cropped out in his daily life. He had ( secret fondness for Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards and all the other sturdy captains of the church militant. Yet over all there spread the warn. mellow rays of a human sympathy which prompted some of the sweetest and most pathetic verses of our language. He sounded all the depths of tender emotion and voiced the agoaized cry of bereaved motherhood and sisterhood and childhood
 master.
 What grief-strieken maternal heart is there that has not wept itself to consoia- ton with reading Little Boy Blue?'' What aching bosom has not found com fort and relief in The Singing in Gods Acre?" What unruffled hero ''grun,ing and swearing under deary life," who has nor felt his burden lifted on reading
 "Tather's Tay?" Would one stand in that field where both eyes weep. the one for joy, tine other~for grief. then let him read 'Caseys Table q Hote' or Two Opinions.t Or would one laugh and laugh alone, then let him read Cafe Molf- neaux,p or "Mynheer of Kalyerstraat." Either for tragedy, comedy. history or pastoral, as old Polonus said, his muse attunad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
Parlous Times Ahead
 for Ousted Royalty

11T1 HE eighty members of the Haps- 1 J burg family reported in finan- tcial straits constitute but a small part of Europe's royalty and nobility who are now wondering how to make both ends meet.
 The war played a cruel jest on i hundreds of blue -blooded parasites who toiled not, neither did they spin.
 Cast out on cold world-their lot
 is hard one. When a person has drawn a handsome income all his life without working, and his ancestors have done the same thing for cen- turies, the prospect of having to earn ones bread must be appalling In these unsettled times, who wants to hire an archduke or an arch duchess? What assurance is there that tney Will Keep aloof from plots and do a days work for a days wages? Furthermore, un killed la Dor, even though the laborcr have a line of forebears, reaching back into remote antiquity, cannot nlpete with workmen who know a. east the fun. damentals of some useful trade. It is rather sad commentary on royalty in general and Austrian arch dukes and archduchesses in pa. lieu lar that the former are now glad to get positions as clerks and the lat ter are serving as maids and govern esses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11

war and knows how to use firearms. IF the articles with MT Dempsey will permit Carpenter to enter the ring with a two- fcot knife. automatic. handful of grep- ades, gas mask, etc, equipped for mop ping up trenches. we have no objection to the fight Otherwise it Is not to be thought of.
 Our relations with France are important and we prefer to have the French remen- Der that Lafayette and not Carpenter fought here. Mir. Dempsey classifies with earthquakes, typhoons, tidal waves and other natural catastrophes
 If the French have trained typha-r we do not object to it's meeting Dempsey, but we object to hav.n: the French Americas entente knocked ,pyo the middle of the Atlantic. Dempsey IS too rough. He doesn't even shave. He Is a hard- boiled thunderbolt and if he ever hit Car pentier in the stomach the whole French nation would be doubled up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
;. < * Land Reclamation and the League of Nations

~ ANDIDATE COX declares that N one hundred and fifty thousand square miles of arid land in the west could be reclaimed with the money made available by disarmament. Dis armament, he claims, will follow the entrance of the United States into the League of Nations.
 He asks if it would not be better to have a million Americans employed in producing the necessities of life rather than armament; which, he holds, will be incumbent on this na- ton if disarmament does not take place.
 The money placed in one battle ship would reclaim a million acres of land. Multiply this by forty,eight, the number of states, and the amount would be sufficient, says Governor
 
 Cox, "to build ten permanently paved arteries entirely across the United States at the present high cost of con- struction."
 Would the country have land recla- nation, soldier settlement of the va  cant lands in the south and interna- tional paved highways, or would it have large armament to meet the menace of other nations? The sound sense of the American people needs not have the question put. Its answer is already evident in the frantic ef- forts of the republicans to frame a league without the Wilson label.
 A separate peace with our former foes is disposed of by Governor Cox in this language:
 A separate peace bringing us
 into association with Turkey. Rus
 sia. Germany and Mexico is incon- ceivable. but we should join the
 thirty-seven nations already in
 the league so that with all the
 nations of the earth we may re-es-
 tablish social, huma nitarian and
 business relations with the world.
 This is the enunciation of practi- cal statesmanship and the nation will understand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
NON, NON, GEORGES!

From the Chicago Tribune.
 SE1OR the benefit of such readers as lT1 may rely entirely upon this depart ment for their sporting intelligence we should report that Monday in Benton Harbor our primordial fellow country man. MT. Dempsey, fought MT. William Miske, the first challenger against MT. Dempsey for the heavyweight champion ship of this and other worlds.
 Mir Dempsey in the second round. with cut visible effort. hit MT. Miske sorne- where approximately in the mid-section and MT Miske's toes hit his forehead and he sailed backward as if he were a comic character in the newspapers hit in the stomach by projectils There after he did not knns< whether he was in Benton Harbor or Bar Harbor, and did no. care, but with rare courage but not rare good judgment continued the com bat until the third round, when, being hit three times in less than second, he passed away indefinitely and citizens who | had picked the third for the knockout col- lectcd their money
 Mr Miske is whale of man. In a Hong and interesting ring experience he never before had been knocked off his feet We mention what happened to him because we believe that MT. Dempsey
 may become an international danger. There is in prospect match between the French champion of England and France, Carpenter, and Dempsey, and we protest against it.
 MT. Carpenter is a rare artist. plays the piano. is Greek athlete. and is the
 idol of France. He was herp in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
THE REAL EUGENE FIELD

Melville E. Stone. in Golfers Weekly. 1 If the. opening lines of his admirab ble little book, The Eugene Field I Knew" Francis Wilson says: There
 were many Eugene Fields. Like the apostle, he was all things to all men and much to many"
 I think I may add in justice that very many people do not know, nor ever have known, what the real Eugene Field was and that to this too widespread miscon- ception of his character Field himself was unconscious. yet very largely, responsi- ble. In certain sense he was his own worst enemy. He so enjoyed a good story that he quite frequently invented one not to give offense to others-at his own expense
 He never took any pains to deny story concerning himself. although the |story may have done him a rude inius- tice. provided only that the story was Sood enc and had a point. I know that people imagine from stories they have heard that he was a high liver if not. in- dosd. addicted to stimulants. As matter of fact, he was man of most simple and exemplary habits, and during my en- tire and very intimate acquaintance with him was, in fact, although not by pro- fessicn, teetotaler nor did he smoke 1 have never seen him drink so much as glass of claret.
 If is also true that great many verses of an unpublishable character have been given currency by crediting them to Eu- gene Field. All of this, as I have said,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
OUR NEW DAILY RECKONING
Arthur H. Folwen. in Leslie,sl

AEtnuT T OlWcli, III LCoilO
 ''No." declared the. yoang husband fervently. T can never forget my wife's birthday. It falls on the day that Babe Ruth made his twenty eighth home run"
 .Sure,r said the shipping clerk Sure I had vacation. l was-lemme sce--I was away from Babe Ruths eighteenth to his twenty four-n eour- bagger.'
 Given under my hand and seal.'' read the lawyer ponderously. on this day of Babe Ruths thirty-firs. nome run in the year of our Lord. Nineteen Hundred and Twenty"
 "Detectives aie Investigating the odd disappearance of William Wog3les. thus police report. Mir. Wogglcs was last seen on the day of Babe Ruta's twenty-ninth home-run, or. acco sding to the old form of reckoning. on July 15."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
Discussing Increase in
 Governmental Pay

N N informal discussion has been A startel among members of the House of Representatives to increase the pay of congressman to $10,O0O a year. The salary is now $7,50O.
 Some persons are of the opinion that senators receive more pay than members of the House, but-as they form a part of Congress, their con- pensation is the same.
 Just before the Civil war congress men drew only $3,60O, but when the Salary was raised to $5,0oO, it re- mained at that figure for long years. In the seventies members of the House were allowed $1,000 month for pri- vate secretaries; senators $500 2 year for secretaries and 5000 wear for messengers. Later on secretaries to members of the lower house were put on par with the secretaries to ine members of the upper house.
 Congress has always been chary of paying high government officials large salaries. Department clerks are we'll paid compared with the com- pensation received by men perform Ing like service in civil life, but it was long time before Congress could be induced to raise the pay of cabinet officers from sS,O00 to S12,o0o.
 Aside from the high cost of l;v. ing, members of the cabinet should receive $15,ooO, and the President, who now receives $75,00o, should be advanced to s1oo,ooo, in addition to the travelling expense allowance of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
T Y T Maintenance Big Item in Hospital Schemes

6N HE allocation committee author J ized to select a site for the Ala bama Baptist hospital is about to render decision. It is of extreme importance that this decision be a right one. It can be a right one only if the paramount consideration is the good to be accomplished by the institution.
 Hospitals are for the sick. There are more sick where there are the most people. There are more acci- dents requiring surgical aid in centers of large than in centers of small population. There is more need per capita of hospital treatment in an in- dustrial community than in a con- mercial one.
 Hospitals require support. State and city hospitals are maintained by public funds. Institutional hospitals must be maintained either by tax on the members or by pay patients. The Baptist hospital cannot expect to live by tax on the memership.. To be a success it must have pay pa tients.
 . The locating board has a business proposition to decide and the biggest item in that proposition is not the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11

largest consideration offered for its location in the way of land and money, but the prospect of main tenance through the years after it is built.
 Birmingham and Jefferson coun- ty were most generous in subscrip- tions to the general fund, of which the hospital is one of the projects, This locality offers the greatest sure ty of support.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
IN HOTEL LCBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Greatly Loved Star

Movie lovers of Birmingham are cer- tainly grieved over t he death of that greatly loved star, Olive Thomas" said John E. Williams. Her death is one of the saddest that has occurred in the film world She played in youthful pictures, always being the irrepressible child, ruled by youthful impulses. She had twined herself about our hearts by her wonderful acting. /
 Her death also brings to mind the youthfulness of the profession Of movie acting. Only two stars of the first magnitude have yet died. and both of these came to an untimely end while still young. They were Olive Thomas and Harold Lockwood"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
Losing Home Life

Just to illustrate the fact that the people of this country are losing to a certain extent their home life, 1 heard the following story said J. M. P. Otis, of the Jemison Real Estate Company:
 "A married lady who is now visiting Birmingham said she felt as if she had been can on pantry shelf and had been taken down for the first time in many years. Asking her to explain. she said Well, I have been staying in ho- tels and apartment houses for several years, and since l have come here to sit on the front porch and enjoy the free feeling of home life feel like the can that has been taken from the shelf. Every one should have their own home and garden"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
Ready to Build

At last the dream of the Norwood Methodists is beginning to come true said Ed Rowe, for the money is in sight and most of it in the bank for the new hundred thousand dollar church building. The foundation has been dug and I hope before many months the edifice will begin to assume shape. The congregation did not begin any too soon, as for some years the old church was wholly inadequate for the demands put upon it. think the members are going to be proud of their new home and I am also sure that it will be an ornament to Norwood."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
Field. Glasses Handy

The next best thing to being on the beach at the seashore is the use of field glasses" said Judge Horace C. Wilkinson When I was at Camp Walton, Florida several weeks ago ] was ill for several days and confined to my bed. Being fortunate enough to have room at the hotel facing the beach had my bed pulled up by the window and, having had forethought enough to take along my field glasses which used in the army, I could watch the bathers.
 Tt was almost as good as being there in person, and 1 don't know how l would have managed to remain in bed if it had not been for them and the amusement they gave me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
New Church Chorus

The new chorus of the First Meth odist Church was organized Thursday night with an enrolment of seventy members" said J. D. McGill, the di rector, who expressed himself as well quality of the voices.
 There will be rehearsal every Thursday night at 8 o'clock and be- ginning on October the chorus will be heard every Sunday night. The sing ing will be great feature of the evening service"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
RATHER sKEPTIcAL.

Pa. what is an ethnographic toun- dary9'
 Its an imaginary line, my son. that exists largely in the minds of idealistic statesmen, but will never figure to any great extent in either history or geog- raphv."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
EpOch Making Eeat

The theatre car which was put on the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic epoch making feat said Ed Simpson
 That was the first car ever built specially for the exhibition of motion pictures to travellers while on trains in the country, and that means, in the world.
 The Literary Digest. Popular Science weeklies and monthlies have secured an account of the feat and it will appear in subsequent issues. Birmingham should be proud of having been the starting point in the famous trip"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11

NO IMPROVEMENT. l The old-style diplomat was sly. A very secret elf; So deep his craftiness did lie It ne'er betrayed itself. He spoke in smooth, engaging style. Used many a well-turned phrase: And yet, so steeped was he in guile. He auibbled all his days Grave crises found him still alert The upper hand to get; It mattered not who might be hurt That caused him no regret. All nations were but pawns to him With which to play the game; Humanity might sink or swim. Hetplotted just the same. And 1atter-day diplomacy. Alas, we must admit Is just as full of trickery- It hasn't changed bit
 LOST MOTION. .
 Did Mrs. Calder do much travelling during the summer?'
 "Well, going back and forth, should say she travelled hundreds of miles"
 What do you mean by back and forth'?"
 She put in seven hours day In rocking chair on the veranda of sum- mer hotel" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11

one of your club meetings when you read paper. If they have the slightest rel gard for my reputation they'll deny that wrote word of it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
THE RUsTLING oFt

By Alfred Moves, in the l.-in Araai l cannot tell why,
 But the rustling of grasa As the summer winds pass Through the field whers l lie, Brings to life a lost day. Long ago. far away, When in childhood lay
 And the white clouds tn II pass Trailing isles of gray shadow Across the gold grass A' 0. the dreams that drht by With the slow flowing ygsr$~ Hopes. memories. tears M In the rustling of g-as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
Through tatter'd clothes small vices d
 appear king Lear.

My Heavenly Father, give me neace. hut not the peace of acquies- cercc of ;GnobIe surrender. Thy heavenly quiet awaits me on the other side of struggle. Bring me nt N.he last to the enduring peace of victory. Ameh.--M' D. D'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
AN UNKIND sJGcEsr1oN

AN UNKIND SUGGESTION.
 Oh, dearp' exclaimed the professor s wife. NO matter how good a paper I read before my club. nobody gives me credit for it. All the ladies say you wrote it for me-
 "Tll tell you how you can prove your authorship" said the professor. How"
 Ask some of my collea euas to ,4+s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
CoNsIDERATE.

CoNSIDERATE Do you ever visit the little town where you were porn7"
 No" said Mir. Grabcoin. There isn't a particle of resentment in my makeup" ;" What do you mean?" T don't want to go back there and em- 0arrass all the old fogies who said | would never amount to anything"
 IN REDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES.
 You were too lenient with the chant feur Of that motor truck" said a fussv pedestrian. m
 know he violated the law said the traffic policeman, but didn't have the heart to arrest him. He used to pc a grand duke and everybody got out of the way of his car.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

MIGHT OBTAIN HIM AN HOUR.
 "Is Mir Bibbles at homer" asked a voice over the telephone
 Nc" replied Mrs Bibbles. but he tele- phcned few minutes ago that he was on his way home" poser
 Oh. yes. unless somebody stops him on the street and asks him what he thinks Of the eighteenth amendment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11

Rem4ttances can be made at current rate of exchange. The Age-Herald will Eot be responsible for money sent lhrorgh the mails. Address
 THE AGE-HERALD,
 Birmingh ham, Ala.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-07-28
TOWNSPEOPIE BUY
QUANTITIES SUGAR

Citizens of this city have begun
to realize on the shipment of $4,000
pounds of sugar. which was receiv-
ed in Aledo a few days ago by the
Mercer County Farm bureau. After
the Farm bureau members had got
ten all the sugar they desired, the
car was opened to the public and
Aledo people have been buying
sugar in 100 pound lots for $24.75
per sack. 1t was reported this
morning that one local store has re-
duced the price of sugar from 30c
TO 241sc since the shipment by the
Farm bureau. was received. Farm
bureau officials stated this morn
ing that ii. was not their intention
to enter into competition with any
groceries and that they had taken
up the question with the groceries
before contracting for the shipment.
The sugar was brought to this
county in an endeavor to relieve
the situation, which was declared
to be existing. For some time the
groceries In Aledo have had diffi-
Guilty In obtaining a supply except
at an exhofbitant price. II is ex-
pected that the $4,000 pounds dis
tributed in this county will aid ma
tsfially In relieving the shortage.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-07-28
ALEDO PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Smith and
daughter Flossie of Kiethsburg
stopped in Aledo Monday after at
tending the funeral of Eugene Rob
bins in Viola.
W. T. Church left Monday night
for Omaha to buy cattle for the
Church Bros farm near Aledo.
Mrs. W. r.. Valentine of New
Boston returned home Monday
evening after visiting with Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Valentine in this city.
Mrs. A. H. Lehman and daugh-
ter of Burlington, Iowa, returned
home Monday night after spending
several days with Mr.. and Mrs.
James Scannell in this city.
v. NJ. Tyler of this city left Mon
day for Burlington and New Lon
don, Iowa, for a short visit.
H. F. Lawrence, former employee
of the Zales S. McGinnis Coal & Ice
company and later Of the Beatrice
cream station in this city, went to
Geneseo Tuesday, where he expects
to open a shoe repair shop in the
near future.
The Misses Eva Ramsey, Martha
Pollock and Mr.. and Mrs. R. B.
Winger, all OF Aledo. left Tuesday
morning for Pittsburgh, Pa, where
they will attend the national con-
vention of the Young Peoples and
Christian Union societies of the
United Presbyterian church from
July % to Aug. 1. Miss Pollock
will stay several weeks visiting
friends and relatives.
Mrs. Maggie Ryner of Aledo
went to Galesburg Tuesday for a
two weeks visit with her son, Glen
Ryner.
Mrs. Earl Dawson and daughter
Mildred Of this city went to New
Windsor Tuesday morning where
Mildred will spend several weeks
with her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. W. Dawson.
Mrs. Susan Clark and daughter
Miss May Of Monmouth, are visit
ing this week with Rev. and Mrs
o. NJ. Dunlevy and other friends in
this city.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-07-28
LESS SELLING
TENDS TO HELP
WHEAT QUOTES

Chicago. July zs.-Absence Of
selling pressure allowed the. wheat
market to rally. somewhat tay
from the severe breaks Of yesUer-
day and the day before. Demand.
however, appeared to be confined
mostly to scattered shorts. The vol
ume Of trade was 50 light on the
whole as nearly to rob the market
OF interest. Opening prices. which
ranged from 21zc to &C higher, with
December 1898 to $2.41, and March
$40 to $2.42, were followed by Z
moderate general reaction.
Subsequently. the bearish infiu-
ence of increasing receipts counter
balanced word Of liberal export
business under way at the sea
board. The close was unsettled, II
net lower to kc advance. with De-
cember 2.34h and March 2.371h.
Liquidation in corn as well as in
wheat seemed today to have reached
an end for the time being. Com.
mission house buying was fairly
active. After opening at 13sc of tt
2Ac advance, including September
at $1.39z, to s1.41, and December
$1.24k to Sissy, the market as
cended all around and then stead.
! led at about 1c over yesterday!
! finish.
Oats sympathized with thu
strength of other grain. The mar
ket opened Nc to 2Ac higher, 69A
to zoe for September, hardened {
little more and then tended to sag
Provisions reflected an upturn il
the value of hogs.