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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

A CHEERFUL EXILE A man of mighty enterprise Was Ebepezer Pink. "no went across the stormy sea To get himself drink. He took a dozen more. Upon that foreign shore For after he had taken one lie toQ ka dozen more. And when the twelfth had trickled
 down
 He lifted up his hand Ana swore he never would return Unto his native land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02
READY TO MARCH

READY TO MARCH
 suppose our candidate is defea ted ?' Don't speak of such thing
 You would take it hard, I dare say?, 2 "Oh, yes, but most of my sympathy would go to his home town band They've bought new uniforms for the inauguration parade"
 THOUGHT IT WAS A 'CHASERp This railway claims to have the smoothest roadbed in the country" Whats that to me?" asked the grouchy traveller
 Stand a glass of water on the win dow-sill and not drop will spill out 70 "Umph! tried that and an inquisi- tive stranger watched me for half an hour to see if I was going to violate the prohibition law"
 POPULAR DIVERSION
 Why is it," asked the seeker after useless information, that the man whose wife conducts prosperous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02
Optimism

"The American people are long on patience" said J. D. Moore. Take, for example, how long the residents of East Lake put up with the delays and near Sloss furnace. Now that the weatherly viaduct is built and used so much, it seems almost impossible that the old conditions should have endured so long. Then a elamor came for the Rainbow viaduct, and it carries a tre- mendous traffic. l merely mention these two things to show that in few years after, the auditorium is built, we look back with amazement on the way we did without it so long"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02
Birmingham District ~ Is We'll Advertised

r7HERE is something about the
 Birmingham district that has kept it well to the fore from an ad- vertising standpoint. It has been so from the time it was called the Magic City until today.
 / Tn the recent issue of the Com pressed Air Magazine there IS splendidly illustrated article by Kop- ert H. Cunningham dealing with "Compressed Air Usage In the Blr- mingham Mineral District" The H. lustrations show the working of com pressed air apparatus in such plants as the plate mills of the Chickasaw Company at Fairfield, the structural mill at Fairfield, ore mines of the Republic Company, the Shannon mines of the Gulf States Steel Com pany and the new by-product plant of the Sloss-S Sheffield Company. There are also photographic reproduc- tions of some of the districts modern mill villages and of residential sec tions in and about Birmingham.
 The leading trade publications ire quently print exhaustive articles about the districts larger industries. The waterpower development on the Coosa and the shipbuilding industry at Mo- bile have been described scientifically and accurately. Altogether the out side world has manifested distinct friendliness to Alabama and to Bin mingham. We have no cause to com plain of the neighborliness of the rest of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02
A DEED AND A WORD

By Charles Mackay. A little stream had lost it's way
 Amid the grass and fern; A passing stranger scoopod well
 Where weary men might turn: He walled it in, and hung with care
 A ladle at the brink; He thought not of the deed he did.
 But judged that all might drink He passed again, and To! the well,
 By summer never dried, Had cooled ten thousand parchins
 tongues,
 And saved life beside A nameless man, amid a crowd
 That thronged the daily mart, Let fall word of hope and love- unstudied. from the heart; A whisper on the tumult thrown, A transitory breath It raised a brother from the dust, It saved a soul from death. O germ! o fount! o word of love! 'heneht at random cast!
 9s pu sssssx ~ hz fxrSt,
 As fussiksy al the 1&@E3 A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02
LIKED HER MOTHER

From the Galveston News. Six-year-old Margaret often played with Nellie. neighbours little girl. One rainy day the two were just starting across the clean kitchen floor at Mar saret's house when the latter's mother, seeing their muddy shoes, hc-aed them off and sent them out to play on the
 porch. After moment Nellie re- marked:
 My mother don't care how much ] run over the kitchen floor" There was quite long interval ot silence. Then Margaret said;
 q wish I had nice. dirty mother like you've got. Nellie.-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02
THE WRONG HOUSE
From the Boston Transcript. 7

From the Boston Transcript. The book agent rang the bell.
 Have you Charles Dickens in your house?"
 NO, we haven't" said the woman who answered the ring.
 "Or Nathaniel Hawthorne?"
 No. I guess, mister, you got our house mixed up with the boardin' house two doors further along. Try e."
 And she shr. the door,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02

the Canal Zone, and four Tasmanian devils apparently decided all hands and feet might like to bound ashore. They got loose and opened the cages of several other animals, but were de- tccted before they had gone far aud put in solitary confinement Josephs, who acted as ships sur geon on the trip, said the kaola eats only the leaves of the eucalyptus tree and ton of the leaves was brought along to feed the one kaola
 bound for the zoo. The kaola is the I first one brought here and looks like
 a teddy bear. It had first cabin ac- commodations.
 The belle of the hubbub was ., spotted female dasarus another
 newcomer. She was very gentle and liked betting. Some said she was q real vamp. The monkeys summed her.
 One of them discovered she carried nine children about in a pouch. Oscar Moore assistant to JosepaS could stand everything but the kuks buarras which are familiarly known as laughing jackasseS although vul- lures.
 It was quite problem to arrange the menu for the. trip. but $s.o0o worth of hay, grain, worms and in- sects sufficed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02
THE ETHICs OF WET YACHTING

From the New Yorok Herald.
 A man invited three friends to spend a week on his yacht. Tho boat caught fire and, although all hands escaped, their valuables were lost. The three guests are now suing their host for amounts aggregating more than $5o,- 900 to recompense them for the loss of clothing, pet dogs, gold cigarette cases and the like. It is charged in the com 1plaint that the. host, in violation of the law, had intoxicating beverages aboard the yacht and that, partaking thereof. he neglected precSutions against fire
 So what was once the embodiment of hospitality now becomes the basis of gravamen. But the question which will be asked by many who are interested in yachts, bottles and gold cigarette cases is this: Is it chubby to complain under such circumstances? Are there not thousands of persons who would will |ingly risk all their clothing. Pomeran- ians and gold cigarette cases for trip on a yacht wetly provisioned? We fear so
 If the bountiful yachtsman has to nay. what of the future? If John Doe fall downstairs after sampling Rich ard Roe's home brew, does an action lie? If | guest burn his fingers while |investigating his hosts private still. is he to collect damages? :
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02
 Fall Flowing in Alabama in Order

7rHE farmers of Alabama have too l often neglected fall blowing. Up to Christmas in 1919 few fields had felt the blow. As a result the ground was not in the best condition for spring activities.
 Now is the time for preparing the soil for the winter frosts and freezes. Flowing in November makes the earth mellow. It pays well and should not be overlooked.
 Intensive agriculture has come to be the rule in all progressive com munities and fall blowing in season / is more than ever in this day of labor scarcity necessary.
 The farmer can no longer count upon the negro to do the bulk of the work. High wages paid in the cities for common labor has attracted the negroes by thousands and not until depression in industrial centers be- comes acute will they return to the cabins.
 In the meanwhile farm owners are getting used to cultivating their crops without the assistance of cheap labor Moreover, labor-saving machinery is coming steadily into evidence. The tractor blow is causing revolution and the more in use the gerater will be the harvest.
 Flow this month and increase the acreage for food crops in the coming year and Alabama can hardly fail tc make a new high record in corn pro duction. Hogs will always be in de mand and the best way to make swine and corn most profitable is to feed large percentage of corn to the hogs
 Alabama will not come fully into its own, agriculturally speaking, until its corn crop reaches the 100000, ,0O0 bpshel mark. Sixty-five million
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02

ment over the harvests of other years. But with intensive farming, why not increase it in large measure! Wholesalers to Start Fare Refund System 67HIS week the Chamber of Com J merce will inaugurate the sys- tenn of refunding out-of-town mer chants their railroad fare, according to the amount of purchasing which they may do in the city. This will be done through the Job bers and Manufacturers Association of the chamber, whose membership | already comprises about hundred of the leading wholesalers and manu- | lecturers.
 l The names of the members will Dc on card and each, in turn, will cer tify the amount purchased from him. When the visiting merchant has com- pleted his purchases, the secretary of the chamber will make the refund according to the amount of business transacted. It is the right thing to do. It has been done most successfully in Mem phis for years and Birmingham is go- ing to copy that process. Birming- ham wishes the trade of the mer- chants, who naturally should trade here. Why not go out for it? | Wholesalers employ travelling men at great expense to go to the out-of- town merchant and sell him bills of goods. Why not also ask this mer- chant to come to town and get in personal touch with the folk with whom he deals? Why not throw out some form of special inducement to do that? It is eminently practical and consistent with all principles of good business.
 Birmingham wants the trade and friendship of other Alabama commu- mites and will make every legiti mate endeavor to secure both. It proposes to make good on it's every proposition. In the end we are po- ing to be homogeneous people in this favored district and it's contipu- ous territory.
 The ribald New York Herald, with :, touch of the old New York Suns as- perity. calls him Joseph Pathos Tn multy." Still. we'll have to concede that Joseph manages the tremolo with skill and dexterity.
 * * *
 A drop in the price of Christmas candy is predicted. On the other hand corn juice may go up q quart. be- cause of the increased, not to say in- Isistent. demand.
 Today a visitor from Mars might la Tor under the impression that the American people take their politics se- riously
 * E * Herb Hoover is back on the old job of feeding starving babies. He's far. better at that than he is in play lins politics. Charges that a few Haitian ban dits" have been killed without due process of law are viewed by the re- publican press with the utmost horror
 A recent photograph of Theda Bara shows her wearing more clothes than she was permitted to put on in the heyday of her "vamping."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02
A CHANGE OF CALLING

A CHANGE OF CALLING You are going to have some sad dis illusionments," said the mysterious Egyptian. i've already had one" said the client How is that?
 When this carnival company came through here last year you were sell ing not dogs and pink lemonade"
 PAULsCOOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02

, smashed the teapot. torn her dress and
 kicked the cat. But little girls of 8 must not do these things. Her mother marched her upstairs with the object of giving her a sound. good hiding. Matters were at their most exciting point when little Bill. attracted by the yells, opened the door and peeped in. on the chance of seeing some sport. But this was too much for Elsie. In her prone position across mas knee shs managed to Twist round her head and cry: Bill, go avayr Can't you see we're busy?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02
. MORNING PRAYER

A MORNING PHAf fHN
 Open my heart, o God, to the sor rows of the world. Let not my com fort blind me to the need or thne unfortunate children. Give me !" give of myself and my possessio"" that, together thsy and may "e bIest, Amen.-M. $. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02
WHoLLY OCCUPIED

From Answers, London.
 Elsie had been . very bad girl.
 In 2 violent temper she had srfc an inkpot at her little brother i
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02

boarding house usually devotes most of . his time to politics?"
 Probably" replied MT. Grumpson, because that's the easiest way in the world to keep busy all the time without doing any productive labor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02
A BASE DECEPTION

A BASE DECEPTION
 That pretty waitress is about to run her feet off for you. How did you arouse her interest%
 Why" replied the unprincipled patron 'I told her I was a motion pic-~ ture scout before I ordered my ham and eggs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02

Has Gupping ever paid you that $50 he borrowed?"
 No" said MT. Gadspur, he hasn't done so. but cherish fo ill will toward Gupping on that account. Anybody who can register as much gratitude as Gupping did when loaned him that $50 is welcome to keep it six months longer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02
RIVAL OF NOAH'S ARK

From the New York World. A CARGO almost rivaling Noah's 5 A\ arrived here yesterday on the
 American freighter Bellbuckle A.1O0 specimens of animals. birds and reptiles, all consigned the Bronx Zoo.
 1 According to Capt N. A. Swanson, lily good weather, and when his ship tied up at Fifty seventh street, Brook lyn, he was glad to get away from the
 din under the decks lasting fifty-five days and to enjoy the boiler making quiet of the water front. There was some confusion over the ships manifest, as when the journey started there were only $500 speci- mems on board Family increase ran far ahead of demises. It was some |joh to keep the ceneus. all hands de- clared
 All the animals were captured by
 Ellis S. Josephs, an Austrian bush man. He had many of them subdued, rut three emus ate up their cage and a quantity of galley cutlery and glassware before their apretites were appeased' sufficiently to enable the seamen to shoo them back to guar ters.
 The Bellbuckle stopped at Colon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02

bushels this year is a great improve ment over the harvests of other years. But with intensive farming, why not increase it in large measure?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02

Both have achieved . wonderful thing. in that they have been able to dc it and give to it an air of truth fulress ard naturainess
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02
A MOVING APPEAL

doing any productive labor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02

-Just stand aside and watch yourself go by; Think of yourself as He and instead of T."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02

I picked up AIS book and expected to find that like so many men who have fought their way up and grad uated out of the college of hard knocks. he would essay to copy after the coliegians and lose out by attempting tc be trained in the art of writing. His book runs true because he had the good sense to be himself and not an other and get his effects not by literary effort but through setting down things as he had lived them or seen them in the environment in which he wrought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02

The strangest part of the contrast is found in the fact that the over-cul- tured New Englander and the self made man of the west in telling their story should have been able to do so In the same way. For each has been able to take the cue of Gilliland, in urnvrarhv'a Engineer~ to.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-04-29
Here Are Final Instructions for Star
League Junior Squads That Play Sunday
BIG PENN RELAYS OPEN
IN PHILADELPHIA TODAY

most beyond count. from almost a.
many schools here for the scholastic
eyents were being walked upon as
they Ear~d IN awe upon eighteen
national intercollegiate and foreign
champions and record holders
The spotlight 81 interest focused
on the quintet % nrirahcr. brought
over BY Col A. ~ 4 Jackson. war
hero. olympic hero and hero Of a
raoe on Franklin field back In 1914,
when. by a superhumsn squirt. he
snstched n victory In tho twomiie
relay from tho famous Penn team
q that day.
itudt. the British half mile cham
pion. latham. Jeppe. stailard. Mill.
gan and Montague. the British three.
mile champion. the beur talent OF on.
ford and Cambridge. comprisc the
team that Will strive 10 repcat the
memorable feat against tho besr
biood % the American track
Seven major events and a flock OF
scholastic numbers are on the open.
ing days program for this afternoon.
Feature event OF the program II the
special internAuo intercollegiate
three mile run, placed upon the card
Tor tho principal purroe- OF giving T..
a Montague. Tho oxford star and
British champion, a chance 10 show
himself. lie will b. opposed by
flock OF tho best distance runners In
America Tho thrce-mile event Il
new 20 American athletes.
The ro~t Of the program Includes
The American Plantation champion,
ship. tho ts0.yard low hurdles. the
American onemlle relay champion
ship. the two and one quarter mediey
relay. throwing IN. be.pound weight
and tho running hop. skip and jump,
Surprises are looked for from the
West ArneA. Illinois and Metre
Dame ars expected 20 spring them.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-04-29

Omitted Press starr .ponseusi
PHILADELPHIA. April 10
frankiin field ioukea iike the show
room 81 a wholesale dealer In ath
ieteu today
Nore than 800 athletes. FROM more
esan 100 univeraities we're entered In
the Penn relays. and youngsters 81
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-04-29
Sixteen Teams Swing Into
Action; Two May Be
Dropped

Baseball managers OF star league
Junior squads which get under way
sunday should watch saturdays
star for tho announcement Of the
time tina games will be called. These
announcements will he published
then. Sixteen squads are plnyinE
Sunday In the nrHt games OF tho sea.
son. the opening days schedule call.
ing for the following games;
city Duh. Va south seattle Merchants
at south seattle
shamrock Athietis club va Mr. baker
Juniors At Columbia field.
Loyal Heights padser- W. oresnwood
Juniors at Woodland Park.
Rainier Valley Juniors IL. ballard Ma
teatiea at Adams field.
Columbia hlissers Va Tstor~d READY
ct fAneoin field
walla wAiia juniors y. Aiki Juniors
al HiaWatha field.
Madison Park Juniors va Diamond
Aces a. waiia Waiis field,
spartan Athlete club Va rsiis eiss at
waiis Msiia neld.
The city Cubs and the Loyal
Heights Juniors were given until
noon today 10 turn In their resistra-
ton list OF players. In case they do
not turn them In they will be
dropped from tho league and their
sames VIII be cancelled. their sched.
ulsd opponents having open dates on
those days
Managers OF teams should remsm.
Der that both the home team and the
visitors must furnish two basebaiia
for play. Tho visiting team In the
first team mentioned In the lineup OF
each game In the schedule.
Ana managers should also rcmem-
Der that II they plan 10 play any men
other than those rexistsrcd this week
they must get In touch with tho
sporting editor OF The Star today DO
fore playing hsm sunday. M all
teams playing unregistered men for.
felt their games. watch The Star for
further announcements
s~~~~c~~~~~c>~~>~>>~ ~>~>>~>>~~~>~s~-~-~
parently was penaiix~d for hLs hold
inH tactics.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-04-29
cRIrTTTus DRAWS SAN CARLO

SAN FIRAScIsco. Apui 10
Johnny drlffiths. ~ Akron. o.
showed more elass than San Carlo
asst night. Al tho Coliseum. but the
best the ohio scrapper could get was
draw lie oushosed Carlo. hut ap.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-04-29

The nro~-s Eav. the Tigers their see.
end consecutive sfutout ard their iith
straight defeat aeofs Q 10 o
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-04-29

To dealers: II you want to
know where to get Blue
Buckles. write TO Blue
Buckle OversIis. Lynch
burg. Va. and we viii give
you the name Of your near
est jobber.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-10

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Christmas gift ............ 1915
Women's Bathrobes in many STYLES. fea-.
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Boys Blanket Robes, of good. heavy ma
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$1.65 to S5.95
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-10
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-10

Women's $3.50 Skirts, at generous saw
ings. Navy, serge and checked wool
velour Skirts that any woman or miss
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-10

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