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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19
BrOwn-Rogers Wall
 Paper and Paint Go.

Y Opportune and foresighted buying en- abled Brown-Rogers Wall Paper and Paint Company, 102-4 North Twenty-sec- ond street, to give their customers the advantage of low prices and a large range in patterns in their wallpaper de- partment.
 Since the company placed their orders, wallpaper has advanced more than 70 per cent in price. Their large stock, how ever, is still on sale at the prices prevail ing at the time it was secured. Mr. Brown, in charge of the paint de- partment says that business in that line 1 is better than ever before. They have several crews at work at all times filling spring orders and are in a position to | give expert and speedy service.
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Binder Elevator
 and Electric Go.

ments that appear
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Business Men Report Good
 Prospects For Spring Trade

generally exceedingly this for continued This applies to lines trade, wholesale
 With the of the the firm dealing building unusual rush of of them stocks hand to the
 dealing supplies industrial have hand the demand class tcles greater than the supply.
 the demand for almost of the advertise that atappear on
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-04-22
ROAD PROJECTS AUTHORIZED
Plans involving Improvement Of t2,159
Miles at Estimated Cost Of
s181, 1854 Ratified.

The record indicates that from July
/, 1918, TO November I. 1919 the United
States department of agriculture mp
proved 1,345 road projects, involving
the Improvement of 1850 miles, nt an
estimated cost of approximately $751;
1864. or this sum approximately
S7s.592, ,167 represents federal funds.
Since the passage Of the federal mid
road act 1927 projects have been np-
proved These call for the construc-
tion of 1886 miles OF road. Mt an es-
'imn'ed cost OF S225 267 SAT. OF which
about $95. 5.49s.140 will be horne by the
federal government. Gratifying prog
rcss also has been made In connection
with the national forest road work.
From July 1. 1918, to November 1.
1919, "a projects. involving 923 miles
of road. were approved. and plans were
completed for the Improvement Of 10
others. aggregating DAG miles.
These facts are brought out In the
annual report of the secretary OF agri.
culture.
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established here. Some one must take
charge OF 1t. We thought you might
We're going to get several candidates
and one will be selected"
"Yes, yes. that is It." Monsieur Ra-
meau took up the speech. 1--WE thought
you might like to be candidate"
Andre van Straelen, thanking them,
had assured them that he was anxious
to be considered, and they had care
fully made their way to the door. Out
In the road they stopped to talk. One
Of them Indicated the nelghboring
house. The others nodded slowly and
they went TO call on Karel Yerbeek.
1t was then that Andre realized.
Their hesitation after they had entered
his house, their stammering embar.
rassment and exchange of glances
their lndecision and their consultation
In the road after they had left--all
meant one thing. There had been no
idea of candidates; they had intended
to give him the position till they saw
how he lived. how his house was kept.
Then they had taken the klndest way
out of the situation.
He was not surprised to hear the
next day that Verbeek was appointed,
but. for long time he could not make
himself go home. When he finally did
open his door II was very late. Ma
thilda was asleep. He awakened her,
"Verbeek was elected"
"Uh-huh." She closed her eyes
again, apparently uninterested.
"Do you know why" demanded
Andre almost fiercely. "It was be-
cause" But she had gone back to
sleep-she had not cared
He stood siiffiy, staring down at her.
his fists clenched TIL the knuckles
were white, his teeth set. He hated
the injustice of circumstance: he
hated this squalid room; he hated
his Then something In him let 20
and. instead OF hate. a wave of pity
and tenderness for her as she used to
be swept through him. He relaxed
and. as he sat down at his table and
took out the clean, white sheets Of
paper. he looked over at his wife. His
dark eyes were full Of compassion.
"After ALL" he thought, "she isn't to
blame and 1t must be dreadful, terri
Bile, to have lost ones self" And hs
began to write.
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DISTILLED WATER
FOR BATTERIES
Can Be Had at Any Time by
Means of DistiIing Arrange
ment Herein Described.
KEROSENE CAN VERY HANDY
Coil OF Copper Tubing Fitted Into
Common Wooden Bucket ls Essen
tial - Prevent Contamination
by Keeping Jar corked.

To keep storage batteries in n
healthy condition for maximum serv-
ice pure water must be added ut stated
intervals, usually about once a week.
BY pure water is meant water reason
ably free from mineral impurities
which In time would accumulate in the
bottom of the cells and impair the ac-
tion of the battery. The three sources
of pure water are rain water, melted
artificial Ice water and distilled water.
The two former are In many cases
hard to procure when most needed,
but distilled water can be had at any
time by means of simple dlstilling
arrangement herein described.
Distilling is accomplished by driving
steam from body OF heated water
through u tube sufficiently chilled to
condense the steam back into fluid
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OVERHAUL YOUR CAR
BEFORE STARTING 1T
Many Things Should Be Attended
to in Early Spring.
Owner Should Go over Every Rsrt OF
Mechanism, Cleaning, oiling and
Tightening Loose Parts--Let
carburetor Alone.

If your car has been In storage
during the winter, give 1t thorough
overhauling gt this time of the year,
before starting II on the road, says
n pioneer automobile man.
Here is list of the things which
need TO be done to prepare your car
properly for good weather driving. he
said:
!. Fill the radiator with water. See
that the gasoline tank contains a suf.
ficlent quantity OF gasoline and that
there is plenty Of oil In the crank
case.
2. Take your storage batteries down
and have them tested.
3. Assuming that the tires were TAX
en- Off when the car was stored and
put in warm place, they should be
looked over for weak spots and prop.
erly inflated.
4. Scrape the rims and paint them
with shellac and fake graphite.
8. Start the motor and drain out the
crank case and run the motor so as to
pump 1t thoroughly through the oiling
system; then draw it out and fill 1t
up with fresh oil.
@. Remove the carbon from the en-
gine.
Z. Grind the valves.
s. Adjust the valves, brakes and
bearings.
o. on the gear-shlfting mechanism,
clutch and brake mechanism and all
clevls pins.
10. Inspect oil pump and fittings for
possible leak.
H. Clean out and fill all grease cups
with good grade of medium weight
grease.
u. For the next week put three ta.
blespoonfuls of kerosene in each cylin.
der to cut the carbon, and let II stand
over night.
.13. Clean differential and oil uni
versals and gear sets.
In word, go over every part Of the
mechanism, cleaning. oiling and tight
ening loose parts. Don't take any
thing for granted. Above all things,
do not meddle with the carburetor.
When II leaves the factory 1t is prop.
erly adjusted. Ninety per cent OF all
motorcar trouble Is with the ignition.
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DADDYJ EVENING
"a FAIRY IALEEl
S@NiAIY GAHAlNJNE1 \
! boSNER \ " SN|
THE THUNDER LIZARD.

"Yenrs and years ago. so many
years that | can't possibly begin to
think how many II must have been,-
commenced Daddy. there was crea-
ture named the Thunder Lizard. He
lived In Europe aud loved the waters
and the marshes. His body was 81
feet long and his tall which looked
like whip was 10 feet long. When
he stood on all fours he was II feet
In height and II he got up on his hind
legs he was 30 feet up In the air.
"ile weighed goodly number Of
tons. He ate vegetables and moved
slowly about In the marshes, keeping
safe away from dry-land animals and
all creatures who would do him harm.
"Now they have large skeleton OF
this creature who lived years and
years ago, In one of the museums Of
one OF our largest cities.
There. people can see for them
selves what creature he must have
been. how large and strange and how
unlike anything else that is about to-
day.
Now a little boy who was the son
OF one of the attendants at the mu-
scum was very much afraid of this
skeleton since he heard the creature
had once been Thunder Lizard. The
name to him sounded so horrible.
"He knew that the skeleton was
harmless and that it was kept so peo-
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well. she would just look the other
way and answer an uncomprehending
''uh.huh" that stabbed him to ST.
lence. What had happened to herf
With their money, not only her self.
respect but her whole self had gone
Why couldn't she keep their little
house tidy? Why wouldn't she keep
his children clean? Leonie was eight
and the twins six. They were old
enough TO know how to behave TO
people. Why wouldn't she teach
themf Poor little youngsters--hud-
died together In that dirty bed
He rose and went to the window.
There was light in yerbeek's cot
tage. Suddenly his mind pictured the
Interior. His home should be like
that. They had exactly the same
things but their dishes shone on the
cupboard shelves, their beds were RI.
ways made when he called. and the
children had excellent manners. They
were well washed, too. They looked
healthier and happier than his little
ones. Was the difference his fault7
Surely not-he and verbeek were In
the same positlons-they did the
same things. But Madame verbeek
did not say "why bother" 1t was
true she worked all day long to keep
things going and make ends meet.
her pride and II was the work that
kept her from losing herself. Mathil-
da-but he must not think that way.
He began to prepare for bed.
Though the lamp was burning low, he
could still see his wife as she lay
asleep. She had been pretty once, but
now somehow her face had changed,
the skin was sallow. the expression
dlfferent--that was 1.-THE expression.
She had not taken down her hair
wlsps of 1t made a ragged fringe about
her forehead and neck. Hairpins
stuck out at grotesque angles. He
wished she would brush II as she used
to do. The bed-he turned out the
lamp and finished undressing in the
dark and took his place beside her. 1t
was ~.
IL was toward dusk one evening
after he had come home from work
that Leonie answered a rap at the
door. "Yes, he's here" she said, hold
ing the door half shut.
"Who is It? Ask them In" COM
manded Andre, and hurried across the
room.
He gave the priest his chair. Ma
thilda removed some dishes from the
other one. wiped It with her apron,
and gave 1t TO Monsieur Rameau. The
third man sat gingerly upon the edge
of the bed. "We've come to ask you
to ask" his gazed roamed about
the Uttered room and he paused.
The priests kindly voice began,
"Yes-we've come-a school is to be
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ADVANTAGES or GOOD ROADS
Locality by Construction Of Sub
stantial Highways

The way to make prosperity flow into
any locality Is to build roads that
will last and not have to be done over
every few years.
With good roads farmers can deliver
all their products directly to towns
within radius OF 80 or more miles. and
by making more profit themselves they
reduce the high cost of living for other
people; for merchants are able to take
advantage of new sources of supply to
buy their stocks under favorable con
ditions, and sell them to their custom
ers Mt lower price.
Millions of dollars are lost every
year through perlshable goods spelling
on the railroads because OF freight
delays and complications, writes G. w,
Morrison in Farm Journal. Single
large firms have actually saved more
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form. The solids are left behind and
pure water is the result.
A five-gallon kerosene can makes an
admirable boiler. Punch very small
hole through the filler cap to allow for
evaporation. Some steam will esc0De
but viii not interfere with the opera
tion. Bend spiral coil out of about
ten feet of one-half-inch copper tubing
so 1t will fit easily into a common
wooden water bucket.
Bore large hole in the side of the
bucket near the bottom and fit d
wooden stopper to 1t. The lower end
of the coil passes through a snug
fitting hole in this stopper and turns
downward to discharge its contents.
by painting the part of the tubing
inclosed by the stopper and the out
side of the stopper itself with roofing
paint and then forcing both in place
Il tight joint may be made.
Connect the upper end of the coil
and the spout on the boiler with a
piece of steam hose or heavy rubber
tubing. Wire ON each end to make
steam-tight.
Provide running cold water for the
bucket and pierce the side above the
top coil for an overflow. BY regulGt-
ing the flow of water in the bucket the
level can be kept above the coils
without overlooking. But be sure to
keep enough running in so the contents
will not become warm.
FIJI the boiler three-quarters full
and boil 1t just hard enough TO throw
Off sufficient steam without creating
pressure. This will fill the coils with
steam, which will quickly condense as
1t passes down the cold coils and will
emerge as pure water In the Jar below
the discharge.
Keep the jar well corked when full,
to prevent contamination from the
air.--L. B. Robbins in Popular Science
Monthly.
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BelgiuInSketches
The
Refugee
BY Katharine Esslcston Roberts


SSopyrsnt' issv' "esterh Newspaper Union)
Mathilda van Straelen tucked the
blanket about her three sleeping chill
dren and, for a moment, regarded the
touseled little heads. Maybe II the
bedclothes had been clean, she would
have noticed how dirty the children's
faces were and washed them. But she
only pulled the soiled blanket up to
the small, grlmy chins and left dirt,
the harmonizer of all things, undis-
turbed. Across the room was another
cot, Its coverings heaped In the midst
of 1t as they had been left in the
morning. She started toward II,
stopped halfway, then pushing some
newspapers from chair, sat down
and DULY regarded her husband. He
was writing at small table, the top
OF which was clear save for pile of
neatly written pages. The Pickering
light from the lamp on the cluttered
dinner table near him emphasized the
sharpness of his ascetic features and
deepened the shadows under his eyes.
Mathilda's gaze followed the move
ment of the pen in his long slender
fingers.
IL don't see why you go on with
that writing, Andre. You'll never get
anywhere with 1t now. The war
spoiled every chance anybody had at
everything"
mo, not everything" Then as he
looked up the light in his face cloud
ed. at spoiled just about everything,
though" he admitted. "Mathilda,
can't you clean things up little
around here? Somehow 1t wouldn't
seem so crowded If everything weren't
so strewn about, and dirty"
Mathilda pushed her hair out of her
eyes. II s'pose l could, but why
bother? Cook, eat, sleep In one room
anyway. 1t just gets mussed up again.
We used to be someone when you
were lecturing in the college. Now
the college Is gone. the town is gone,
you're just refugee like a lot of
other Belgians, only you don't know
how to dig so well. We used TO have
nice house, now we have a shack.
What's the use Of trying to do any
thing, anyway? / don't care" Her
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BENEFITS OF BETTER ROADS
Release From Bondage the City Man
as Well as Farmer-Solve Living
Cost Problem.

To both city man and farmer the
good road means release from bond.
age. Counties and states where good
roads have become part Of pro
gressive program OF legislation have
seen values rise. and this aGain has
brought home the fact that good roads
pay for themselves. More important
to the city dweller, however. Is the
fact that eventually good roads will
prove the solution OF the high cost Of
living problem.
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voice dragged through the sentences
as she dragged through each day, In
differently, without any particular
feeling.
But it's our own shack--at least
we aren't living in regular refugees
home. And as soon as the town
builds up. 1t will need school, and
maybe l can get the work know how
to do. OF course, there's verbeek next
door. He used to teach, too. but the
people here know me better than they
do him." He paused.
'Uh-huh." His wife shook out the
bedclothes and crawled under them.
Andre turned back to his writing
but the clear thoughts would not
come. They were stained by the touch
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-04-22
COST OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION
Some Of Determining Factors Are
Right OF Way, Material and Gull
verts or Bridges.

Some OF the things which determine
the cost OF road construction are: Cost
of right OF way. cost of clearing and
grubbing. amount and kind OF material
to be excavated and amount OF filling
to be done. amount Of dltchlng for sur
face drainage and thing for subdraln-
age, number and slza of stream cross
ings necessltating cuiverts or bridges,
cost of securing ana placing material.
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pie would know about old-tlme ami
mails. and old-time creatures, and he
also had been told that when the LIZ
ard was alive he wasn't bad sort ut
all from all the history they could
obtain about him.
"Surely II he had done fearful deeds
they would have been noised abroad.
"But still the little boy. whose name,
by the way was Billy. didn't like the
sound Of the animals name, nor any
thing else about him.
"One afternoon In winter he was
staying long time In the museum.
His daddy had told him to leave In
time for supper, and he had said that
he would.
Ills daddy was leaving the museum
early as he was going to take a trip
with some OF the other attendants at
the museum.
BILLY stood before the skeleton OF
the Thunder Lizard. You've almost
frightened me- he said. I'm Just as
afraid of you as | can be. Oh dear,
I'll sit down and I'll look at you and
look at you until force myself to be
brave and not to mind you.
""That's what III do
$50 Billy sat down and stayed very
still. He didn't like the Thunder Liz
ards skeleton but somehow he didn't
feel quite so nervous. Maybe II was
because he felt a little bit drowsy.
after time II seemed as though
the Thunder Lizard became bigger and
bigger. And then great voice called
out to him,
"'Hello, little 'Fraid Cat Bill. Watch
me beat you with my tail which has
always been like whip.
LET me show you what I can do
to you. Yes. let me show you
"'Oh. please don't cried Billy. oh.
please don't whip me. my father is
attendant at this museum and he
won't like you at all II you hurt his
son. He won't like II. ! say
"'What do | care whether he'll like
II or notr
but you'll be put out OF the mu-
scum Billy cried. I'll see to II that
you are.'
"You'll see TO It. win your said the
monster. But suddenly the monster
didn't seem to look like the Thunder
Lizard and there were some creatures
hurrying along. one like beautiful
fairy and another like king with a
lovely crown on his head upon which
Billy saw the words Happy and Pleas
ant Dreams TO All
"Look here. Nightmare Man, what
did you mean by dong this and pre-
tending you were Thunder Lizard
t,He's always been afraid OF that
Lizard said the Nightmare Man. 'and
80 ! thought I'd have some fun with
him. II folks are going TO almost be-
lieve In ghosts and that this poor old
skeleton Thunder Lizard could do any
thing-well, I'll have some fun
"'You 90 from here at once said the
Dreamland King. I win have you
locked up good and proper this time
"'Little boy said the fairy. little
Billy boy. It was a bad dream; old
Thunder Lizard would not hurt you
for all the world
"And as Billy rubbed his eyes he
knew he had been having a bad
dream"
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DISADVANTAGE TO TRUCKERS
n Roads Are Not Improved He Is Un-
able to Compete With Farmer
Living on Good Road.

A trucker ten miles from a market
for spring crops, such as rhubarb,
peas and spinach, is at sreat dis
advantage II his market road is un-
improved, and he may be totally un-
able to compete with the trucker the
same distance from market In another
direction on a good rood.
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than 100000 yearly by using motor
trucks; and the trucks will undoubted.
ly contribute largely TO organized i'm
provement of roads.
Good roads are paying investment.
Local authorities in cities, towns and
counties should act without delay to
meet the growing national and local
demands before trade goes in other a.
rections. II is almost impossible to
get back the lost advantage after other
districts have won It.
Good roads bring trade and in
crease property values in commu-
nifty. They attract homeseekers and
industries,
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OF his surroundings. He put the pa
pers in fiat box in the drawer of his
table and sat looking into space.
No, he didn't imagine he could ever
do anything with his book. That
wasn't why he worked on 1t each eve
ming. 1t was only because there was
consolation in filling the clean white
pages with thoughts he could no long
er speak aloud. Only to Mathilda
could he ever have told them and now
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all
So eds SII7A

Car owners should check up the
alignment of the wheels three times q
year.
The radiator hose connections in
the water system OF the motor should
be frequently inspected.
Self-starters at present are very re-
liable; nevertheless this does not
mean that this device does not need
careful attention.
BY keeping the water In the battery
up TO its proper level II viii increase
the efficiency OF the battery and Inn
prove its lasting qualities.
When the spark gap of a plug Is
too great there is danger Of burning
out the secondary wire Of the coil from
the heat engendered by the excessive
resistance.
All motors win get noisy in proper
tlon to the wear on the valves. Pre-
quent and proper timing with slight
adjustment Will save considerable OF
the wear.
Owners of light cars should bear in
mind the fact that In light machine
vibration Is more effective in loosen
ing nuts, bolts snd screws than In q
heavy car.
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Reckless Driver.

When you come right down to 1t, the
reckless driver is rarely wreckless-
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Polo Bolivia,
chine manufactured
The body designed with three for the chanu
lighter
cuned.
rich paalaly
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Daily Thought.

The Present is the living sum total
OF the whole past.--scarlyie.
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Car owners should check up the
alignment of the wheels three times a
year.