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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
TO RAZE BELL SYKES, HOUSE.

From the Detroit News.
 The house from whose roof Bill Sikes tried to lower himself by d rope tc escape the mob that had tracked him to Jacobs Island is to be torn down Bill, you remember, made mistep as he tried to swing clear of the roof. ano the moose at the end of the rope caughl him and hanged him, whereat his dog trying to leap from the roof to hi; shoulders, missed his aim and fell int the ditch at the base of the house dashing out his brains on stone. l
 Jacobs Island is in Bedmondsey neal St. Saviour's docks The ditches ol canals which separated it from thI mainland, and which carried watel from the Thames to the mills and tau neries in the distEict. long since disI appeared. Bill Sikes' house was identil fled some time ago by the discovery Q, an old map of the district on whic1 it's location was plainly indicated. It q in the rear of house in Eckett streeb and is used as a stable. The Londos county council plans to improve tt3 entire district so the region made nd >torious by oliver Twist" must gn The name of the sixteenth centul2 Jacob, who had large house and ga X den on the island, before il became a4 industrial district, is still preserv4 in the nearby Jacob street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

ing, at genuine Capt. Jack Phillips bar becued dinner, with many of his older friends who are only fit for golf and bridge now.
 Wit and humor. however, improves with ham is blessed with cosmopolitan popu- lation, and on some occasions it would appear that all good worlds stories naturally flow Birminghamward and bear the best telling in this atmosphere.
 Clean stories. well told. develop the mind as exercise, in reason, develops the body. Chauncey Depew. many years ago when he was president of tho New York Central Railway. said he would rather a fellow brought him a new. story than q carload of freight. He was one of those responsible for making ~the New York Central one of the two greatest and most profitable railroads in the world And today. though more than four score years of age, he is as spry as youngster, and chock full of good stories which he tells to perfection. ~
 No one ever heard him smut his stories up to make them go. If there be risque atmosphere about them it is so delicate. and the coloring so artistic, that the hurner blends like the sun going tenn porarily behind a cloud. to blaze forth in a second in superb splendor and laugh ing joy.
 And when we speak about happiness it has been about here during the past ,yeak among the-women1 folks. Last Mon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT BIRTHDAYS
 AND WISHES MANY TO THE WOMEN VOTERS

day somebody told them they could regis ter to vote and become of the same stamp and in like category with the men folks. They have overrun the courthouse, and full 5000 of them have registered to be- come qualified citizens. Had there been room, and clerks to handle them, there would today be more qualified women voters in the county than men voters. Ths men have had fifty years to register here. and only bit more than 2o,oo0 of them voted In the May senatorial election-the most intensely political heated contest over had here.
 Look out for the women in the No- vomber election and hereafter. They Are laughing about it now, and happy in the knowledge of real recognition. But when they vote they are going out for the clean fellows with clean minds and clean hands and clean etorles They will stand no moro of the old political buncombe. The snolygeaters and the dump-heap boys will be relegated
 There's evidently going to be some thing doing horeahouts when some rwen- ty-fve or thirty thousand women in this Jefferson county go to the polls here after on election day. Tobacco juice and galluses and rotten stories will only play their parts behind the high back fences.
 The women promise to do much of U. real political work in future and ssN their part of the responsibilities.
 Many birthdays to them.
 21e6 61zueQy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

Birmingham is also aid for the port of Mobile.
 Alabama will vote both amend ments in November, because both count for the same aim and purpose, placing Alabama on the map of the nations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
JOHN BARLEfCoRN,s AIM

From the Chicago News.
 Somebody should write monograp ph on the relation of inebrety to marks manship Apparently the drunken gun wielders always manage to kill some body, even if not the person they in- tend to shoot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
Sees Good Year

Things are going to hum in the next two weeks in an educational way, said Dr. c. F. Glenn, assistant super intendept of education. The institute begins September E and lasts one week. Immediately following, on Sep tember 20, all schools of the city open.
 Already d number of principals and teachers are returning from their va Tea tions. Some of them have attended summer schools and others have spent the time at their homes. l feel confi- dent that we are going to have sue cessful school year, The census gave us a substantial increase in the school population. No doubt a majority of the schools will be crowded to ca pacity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
IN HOTFJ LCBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Neither kicks Nor Brngs

Maj. J. Felix Mclaughlin, former tax assessor and Confederate soldier, was viewing the suffrage celebration pa ] rade. What do you think of equal suf- frage?' he was asked We'll he re- piled, it is this way. l am not kick ing about it, neither am I doing any bragging. When it comes to the wom- 1 en folks, have always had but one philosophy. That consists of not re- fusing them anything which they have set their hearts on and say they wish,
 for what they desire they wind up by
 getting.
 1 have never seen any sense in try
 ing to stop q woman from acquiring
 what she is determined on having. And,
 another thing, young man; they are
 entitled to what they want. So, you see, l have not gotten excited about
 this suffrage matter one way the other, and that is why l say I am
 neither worried over it nor am l mak-
 ing any brag about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

revised Harvard photometry, its ilgh1 being 324 times as great as that of d star of the sixth magnitude. It has thirteen times the suns magnitude I am featuring Sirius in spite of the fact that some consider Procyon to
 have been the dog star; for that hound rises, like the other dogs, far behind the dog days. in place of ushering them in 1t was venerated by the Egyptians as the star of Isis. <The rising ef Sirius in ancient times coincided with the summer solsyice and the overfloWing or the Nile, and as the latter was the source of the fertility of Egypt, the period was regarded as sacred and the influence of the dog star was deemed peculiarly suspicious.
 But while the rising of the dog star was the hamburger of plenty and pros : perity to the Egyptians, it was just the reverse to ,the Romans, who looked upon the dog days as unfortunate ana even prejudicial to>life, coming as they | did in the most unhealthy part of the year The pestilences which then pre- vailed occasioned the offering Of sac | rifices to placate Sirius, the inimlcai 1 star. Festus narrates in this connec- | tion,S the sacrificing of red dogs at the l feast of Floralila, and Ovid of dog on i the Robigalia. There was a supersti- tion prevalent for years that the ris- 1 ing of the dog star with the sun would produce presidential. heat. Hesiod tells Nus that Sirius parches heads and i knees."A Homer called it the evil star 1 The Euphratean myth of the Dogs i of Orion has it's parallel in Greece, Sirius being the hound of the hunter Orioh, and as recorded by Aratus twas this the poet quoted by Paul in his speech on Mars Hill?) always chasing Ithe hare. Pindar refers to the chase i of Peone. the mother of the Pleiades, by Orion and his dogs. Similarly 1 Procyon became Maera, the Icarus and 1 Virgo his daughter Erigone. The Ro- mans adopted the Greek ideas ano ] from them we get from Dies canicu-
 lares. the modern expression. dog days"
 | The dog days are still talked about
 in familiar conversation both in Amer
 ica and Europe; but it will not require | more than the grave argument o1 1 Gassendi to convince some people liv- | ing in the Twentieth century that the 1 dog star cannot possibly exercise any good or bad influence upon the earth
 lit is claimed that popular prejidice
 fingers long after science punctures
 many myth, but it's useless task te
 talk to some folks about the weather
 being unaffected by the moon, or up
 root the belief that eQuinoctial storms
 attend the suns imaginary passage
 across an imaginary line.
 ' But having said this much, we are
 | taught that the fixed stars do affect
 the earth. They are original source:
 of light and heat; their force is identi.
 cal with that of the sun, and, the,
 idaguerrotype themselves. Without tht
 additional heat furnfshef by the fixet
 tstars the sun would not render the
 Hearth habitable. So in these days ol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
A CASUALTY.
SAFE TOPICS.

"A newspaper reporter wants to see YOU. sir said Senator Snortsworthy s secretary. eA
 What does he want to see me about?' asked that statesman, dubiously. He says he'd like to get your views on the amount of money that will be needed to elect the next President.
 .Tell him cant discuss matter that is-ahem-now in state of Aux, but if he wishes me to talk about the wheat
 crop, the housing shortage 'or the nation 5 un derpaid 'school teachers. am at his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
CossACKs AND BoLsHE,ikI

From the Chicago News
 Russia's Cossacks stand for the fam lily unit and the firmest of discipline administered by the family patriarch. This sort of thing does not match with bolshevism, and the fact accounts for the continual uprising of Cossacks against the reds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
PREFERABLY IN MILES

From the Toledo Blade./
 Germany is said to be writing an official history of the world war from the German standpoint. No doubt. having a leaning for thoroughness, she will. state exactly how near the crown prince came to battlefield, while the battle was on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

1 planned and constructed the line of the South Carolina Canal and Rail-
 road Company, would be astonished were he alive to board Southern Rail- way train No. 37 at Washington and ride over modern double track to Atlanta, and then to New Orleans all in thirtysix hours. ] The picture makes an educational contrast, and the enterprise, of the little paper Ill producing it will be thoroughly appreciated. # :. x New York man drank a bottle of l instant home brew" and three rninutes later fell flat on his back. In compari- son with such stuff, white mlle, is as mild as milk. Iennessees S runaway legislators have been presented with gold pens by anti suffragsts Nevertheless, the impres. sion prevails that they did not return home witb bells on < ;. # Considering the enthusiasm he puts into celebration of St. Patrick's Day, it is not surprising that Mayor Hylan ap- pealed to Lloyd George for the release OF Terence McSweney. # < x It cost New York youth SS to climb on the stage and kiss a prima donna who sang Come to My Arms and KISS Me" We have d sneaking suspicion that he is acquainted with the press agent. T < i;
 Ex-Governor Cox keeps up the good fight the republican money diggers,; may never get around to the skinned milk"
 < # Senator Reed may have been persona non grata at San Francisco, but when it comes to cross-examining a republican, lc d lU per cent democrat. l # # # Ambassador Duffy of the Irish re public stayed in Paris just long enough to discover that the latch-string was not hanging out
 Mustapha Kennel Pasha is--reported So low-spirited he doesn't even believe he can hold out until the November rains come to his assistance x # x A Birmingham woman who went to register declined to admit that. she was beyond the poll tax age. Let the right, prevail.
 Merely talking point" should be enough to land Cox in the White House, when we consider that Harding talks in circle.
 If The Hague tribunal has bats in the belfry and -~spiaerwebs everywhere" it is evidently place to lodge the peace dove. . # # * Despite the pitiless glare of publicity. those republican money diggers" may still be going lover the top" It's hard to stop such gentry in mid-career. < j, # 1 The front porch is not only the throne | of American sovereignty" It's also the most acceptable place for daughter to entertain her beau. 1 "Field Marshaf' Trotzlly has not yet achieved victory that could be called i 'Napoleonic 1 A "still was located in a well in | Conecuh county. That's where the philosophers say we must look for Truth l. # * 4:
 heeled" but not in the usual acceptation of the term.
 1 Photographic boundaries may be eall risht in theory, but they don't mean any 1 thing in the strategy of war.
 * F < l Judging from German cartoons, France has d strangely unforglving nature
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
LAUNCHING A DRIVE"

Pm making q final effort to get farm, hands, said the wealthy agriculturist
 What are your methods?'
 .Ive opened a recruiting office in town with a brass band, d man with mefi phone and six musical comedy milk maids. to sing songs about the glad bu co,ic life. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
STORMBOUND

William \, Bates. in the Weekly R
 view.
 Beyond my ken the winds their cor
 bat wage, The flashing waves roll in on every sid And we, the victims of the surging tid Lie impotent their fury to assuage It's black sides strainng with the ter
 pests rage. Our ship is borne along without
 guide,
 The tattered sails are rent and cd aside
 The hold is flooded. and no anchd
 age" -So wrote Alcaeus in the distant past When civil strife in Lesbos held fl And petty tyrants sought to rule | land. Ar We. too, sail on by wind and sea hd 4 < A9zse .e;s sls K ,;. ; x. ,,, our way. God grant we find a pilot to comma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
MAY HAVE SAID IF

From -the Des Moines Register
 Perhaps the most remarkable fea- ture of the soviet drive on Warsaw is the absence of any report that Lenine has vowed to eat his dinner ia the Polish capital.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
Back From England

W. R. Fairley is just back from England, where he has been on visit of several months. MT. Fairley said:
 "Of course, I enjoyed the trip back to the old country, but there is always more or less of the sad in these re- turns to the scene of ones boyhood days, because so many of the fond landmarks have changed and so many old friends have passed away. Indeed, when a man has been in another coun- try as long as l have been in the United States there is mighty little left in him of the tendrils that once bound him So strongly to his native heath."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
Harvey Branscomb

Its a pleasure to have Harvey Branscomb,. the talented son of pr K. c. Branscomb, come to Birmingham on visit, even though it be for q short one,' said Russell Hunt. Harvey is a great student and made wonder ful record at Oxford University, Eng land He keeps up his studious habits, for he has just put in two months in special work at Columbia along the lines of his teaching at the Southern Methodist University, at Dallas, where he fills the chair in New Testament history. He is naturally proud of a bronze medal sent him by King Albert of Belgium, and for q decoration from the Belgian government for work done in 1914 under Herbert Hoover"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
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FRIVOLOUS PERSONALITY. T wonder if Mrs. Calder knows any thing about Fiume?" % You'd better not mention the subjectl to her" Why not?"
 She may think you are talking about something that can be made in chafing dish"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

{ pIDN'T~~REALLY MEAN IT. q passed motorist the other day ana he swore he would make me present of lis 5,o0o car
 Did you accept his generous offer?'
 NO, he was struggling with tire at the timeg'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
CEASE FIRING.

o little captain, put away
 Your soldiers till another day, For guns and grim artillery
 Apart from happy dreams should be- A dozen battles, more or less, Where serried ranks did bravely press, Were fought along the polished floor, With waving standards horne before. Now come the shadows falling fast, The bloodless strife is done at last So let them sleep, in dauntless pride. Victor and vanquished, side by side.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
CONTEMPT

CONTEMPT What are the ingredients of this drink?"
 The what?" asked MT. Jagsby. "The ingredients?" There are no ingredients. This stuff IS made with fruit juice, a little sugar and some carbonated water"
 A CASUALTY. Mary had roadster swift. She drove it like a streak: An ambulance gave her lift. And she'll be out next week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

WORD FOR THE OTHER SIDE. May I ask what you are reading?' "A disinterested observers impressions of Russia
 How do you know he's disinterested?' 'He says he found one bolshevik who was a scholar. and a gentleman"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
A MICH NEEDED REST.

"A MUCH NEEDED rRES T. Well, was your vacation a success 7? "One of the most enjoyable l ever had,'' said MI. Gawping Where did you go?''
 Nowhere. The family will be home tomorrow"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

And when we speak about happiness. it has been about here during the past week among the-women folks Last Mon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

For he is gracious if he he obserVd; He hath a tear for pity, and hand Open as day for melting charity
 Henry NV. .a * x #
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

A MORNING PRAYER
 My God, I do not ask Tor inc s'' of my hearts desire. only pray that I may rejoice in whatever 'no" dOst send me. Amen'--M' S' p'
The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30
CANADIANS GET DIVIDEND
 FROM WHEAT

WINNIPEG, Man., Nov. 30 (by As sociated Press).-A final dividend of IS cents a bushel will be paid to farmers by the Canadian wheat board, according to an announce ment made after a recent audit of the books of the board. The pay ment will be made on "participa- tion certificates" the method used by the Canadian government to re- turn to farmers profit made by the government on their 1919 wheat above the guaranteed price.
 This payment will bring the 1919 price, based on northern wheat in storage at Fort William, to $2.63 a bushel or an average price through out the year of $2.5O at points of shipment in Manitoba, Saskatche- wan and Alberta.
 The board has already distributed $38,OOO,OOO on interim dividends and payments of the remainder of $2S,- 000000, it is expected, will be con- pleted before the first of the year, More than $6O,0O0,O0 represents the share of farmers in the prairie provinces. The other S6,000,000 will go to eastern Canada and British Columbia
The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30
THINGS WE THINK
Things Others Think and What We Think of the Things Others Think.

To child you are only as big as your gifts.
 Better be a sentimental fool than a sentimental sage.
 Of all motives for committing an act, revenge is the worst.
 You wouldn't be often disappointed if you didn't expect much.
 Wine improves with age and yet it kicks" more with age.
 Even modest men hesitate to hide their past if it's going to get them anything in the present.
 Who remembers when most any group of men discussed horse trades instead of engine troubles?
 What man says he does "as a matter of principle" often is really done as matter of prejudice.
 People will be sympathetic if you make an occasional mistake, provid- ed you don't make that an excuse for more of them
 All men may be created equal but there's a difference in them when they're a day old and it keeps on getting greater.
 A good many bachelors love chil- dren just like good many men like automobiles - because they don't have to take care of them.
 The truth probably is that not many women are jealous of their husbands, but a good many wise ones pretend to be in order to flatter 'em
 The world may roughly be divid- ed into two classes-those who know great deal and don't know that they do, and those who know practi- cally nothing and are always men, tioning it.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30
HOME FOR MOTHERS
 STARTED IN FRANCE

BORDEAUX, Nov. 30 (by Associat- ed Press). - A Mothers Home," where women may have the neces sary care that they themselves could not afford, is to be established by the city with funds given by Madame Deutsch de la Meurthe. It will be open only to married women. Build ings, a park of S2 acres and 100000 francs were given for the work by Mime de la Meurthe.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30
MUST BRITISH SEA SUPREMACY
 BE PERPETUAL?

Perhaps the most important of the
 many objectives of British propa- ganda is to instill deeply into the
 minds of people everywhere that she possesses an inherent, an indis- putable, right to sea supremacy On account of the insularity of her posi- tion, the ''far flung" remoteness of her possessions with which she must at all times keep the most open con- munication, her need of raw mate rials and food stuffs from every part of the world to keep her popula- tion profitably employed, and the
The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30
COLONEL ORDERED TO
 REPORT AT WASHINGTON

Col. James G. Steese, president of the Alaska road commission will go to Washington, D. C., via San Fran cisco, according to a telegram of advice received by him at Juneau from the war department. At San Francisco he will report for further orders to General Liggett, command CT general of the ninth corps area with headquarters at Presidio. Col.