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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-01

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11
SYMPATHETIC STRIKE
 IN NEW ORLEANS IS TO BE DISCUSSED TODAY
By Associated Press

New orleans July 10-Following day of quiet in the strike of the street ctt
 men here, a call was issued during ths day by the Central Trades and Labot Council for the officers of the Metal Trades Council, the Dock and Cotton
 Council. the Allied Printing Trades Council to meet tomorrow morning tq discuss the question of sympathetia strike.
 A telegram was received during tha day from Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor pledg- ing the support of the federation to the carmen in their strike.
 The Central Trades and Labor Conn+ cil is made up of sixty-four locals, anf
 the others have many men in their at- filiation, especially the Dock and Cotton Council, which has at least 10000 mem
 bers It was stated tonight that f
 unions call strike. more than lDus
 men will be affected in this city. M arrests were made today, following taa attack of a street car last night bnt United states Judge Jack sentenced thrsa men to serve ninety days in the parish
 jail for attempting to intimidate one pt the superintendents of the street railwas company.
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ANNISTON SPORTS
DEMETRAL RETURNS HOME

Annston, July Especial )-Fol lowing the return of Jimmie Demetral who met and defeated Jack Ross of Jacksonville before a large audience of Selma fans Friday night. the an nouncement was made that everything was in readiness for the meeting be- tween the local Greek and Con AL bright of Greenvile at the Lyric thea tre Monday evening.
 Several interesting preliminaries have been arranged for the next event among them being a five-round exhibi- ton between two middIeweiSht negro boxers. one of them a local man. and the other a fast fighter from Atlanta
 Two or three battle royals with rive small negroes flaming the air will also be part of the preliminary offering of the evening and big crowd is ex- pected when the two champions meet here for the third time.
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hussy, hang your husband be dutiful,' is her mothers last word. When they have gone Polly introduced the captain, who had intended to lie concealed in her room till the dusk of the evening. He at once expresses his sentiments in this lyric: My heart was so free It roved like the bee, Till Polly my passion requited; I sp't each flower, I chang'd every hour. But here every flower is united.
 Then comes one of the best known and most popular lyrics of the piece, F'"Over the Hiils and Far Away" sung as a duet
 Were I laid on Greenland's Coast, And in my Arms embraced the Lass; Warm amidst eternal frost. Too soon the Half Years Night would
 pass. Were I sold on Indian soil, Soon as the burning Day was clos'd, I could mock the sultry Foil When on my Charmer's breast reposed. And I would love you all the Day.
 And every night would Kiss and Play. If with me you'd fondly stray over the Hll1S ana Tar away. She warns him of the plot that is be- ing prepared against him. and after two Nmore lyrics and many kisses they part vowing unchanging faithfulness unti she can safely join him l A tavern near Newgate is the next scene, where the gang, waiting for their captain, are drinking and singing this l chorus;
 Fill ev'ry Glass, for Wine inspires us
 And fires us l With Courage Love and Joy, Women and Wine should Life employ; | Is there ought else on Earth desirous 2
 Macheath comes in and explains tc l them that for once he will not be witt them in the merry work; he must at al costs pacify Peachum or else the gang Is ruined. He sits down melancholy a | the table while the gang gather thei arms and march out with a rollickinl | chorus:
 Let us take the Road. | Hark, I hear the sound of Coaches The Hour of Attack approaches, To yoJr Arms, Brave Boys, and lead. See the ball I hold! Let the CnymiStS tOll Ike Asses,
 Our Fire their Fire surpasses, And turns all our Lead to Gold!.
 Macheath then shows himself tru protagonist of musical comedy. Lei alone. he indulgfes in this sentimenta ditty
 If the heart of Man is deprest witt
 Cares
 The mist is disperd when Woman ap | pears;
 Like the notes of Fiddle, she sweetly
 sweetly, Raises the Spirits and charms our ears
 Roses and Lilies her Cheeks disclose
 But her ripe Lips are more sweet tha'
 those;
 Press Her,
 Caress her,
 With Blisses,
 Her Kisses
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, or of Centralia. Mo. are today. They had a weakness for clubs and culture and poetry, so Sappho had it adver- tised abroad that she was going to open Sapphos Select School for Sap heads tfree translation). Rich ladies. weary with endowing asylums for homeless dromedaries. and such charities, flocked to Sappho's school to learn how to write iambic pentameters. Young men who had neuralgia of the soul and sighed so much that they seemed to have chronic | hiccups also attended her poetry | clinics And every spring, when the | love fever was at it's height. she had
 to have night classes to accommodate | the crowds.
 | The we'll known blank verse contrac- | tor. Alcaeus. became envious of his fe- l male rivals growing fame. He came to Sappho's school, disguised as free verse peddler. and immediately became | a slave to her charms. He scratched | this burning couplet on a desk 1 70 wondrous wise and luscious teacher. | | wonder can I ever reach herp' l Sappho rapped him over the knuckles for defacing her furniture and he went off to bout. During vacation time Sappho grew | tired of being a bachelor girl. One
 night. while suffering under the influ-
 ence of memory and moonlight she met a lad named Cercolas of Andros. She sang this touching apostrophe to
 him
 E"You have beauteous name. think
 It sounds to me like soft drink!
 This was too much for him, and he
 asked her to become Mrs. Sappho
 Cercolas. Thus began an apple cider
 existence that soured all too soon into
 | vinegar.
 I heavy weight of hours-fS to 20 a
 day--bore too heavily upon one of
 Sappho's sensibilities. She wrote the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11
CONCENTRATION MONDAY

Anniston, July ll-Tie- organization of the City League by the promoters. adoption of schedule for the last half of the season and the ad mission of one or more teams in place of those which have been withdrawn during the last week will be some of the features of the meeting to be held next Monday evening.
 Withdrawal of the Union Foundry team makes an uneven number in the league and the franchise formerly held by the retiring team is being sought by several other organizations now be- ing perfected for the second half of the season.
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lace and she will have men beside And when she's drest with care and cost,
 all tempting fine and gay. As men should serve a cowcumber, she
 filings herself away.
 At first Polly will admit nothing; "Tell me. hussy, are you ruined or no?' roars Peachum At last Polly modestly replies in this lyric:
 Can love be controi'd by advise?
 Will cupid Or mothers obey? Though my heart were as frozen as ice,
 At his flame twould have melted
 away
 When he kist me so closely he prest, Twas so sweet that l must have
 comply'd;
 So thought it both safest and best
 To marry for fear you should chide.
 ''Then all the hopes of our family are gone forever and ever,' cries her moth- CT Polly tries to excuse herself. T did not marry him (as 'tis the Nfashion) coolIy and deliberately for honor or money I love him." Love him' Worse and worse I thought the girl had been better bred.'' cries Ms. Peachum, fall ing in a faint. When she comes out of it she and Polly have a charming duet of which the text is:
 Oh, Polly, you might have toyed and kist,
 By keeping men off, you keep them on.
 But he so teaz d me, And he so pleass me, What I did you must have done. | Peachum is resourceful, however, and | he is inclined to forgive. lis no new | thing for a wench to-take manswith- out the consent of parents" he says You know, 'tis the frailty of women my dear" Mrs. Peachum agrees. But the first time a woman is frail she must be somewhat nice, me thinks. U But they forgive her.
 Then says Polly, ''all my sorrows are at an end" | "A mighty likely speech in troth fol wench who has just married ex' | claims her mother. But Polly sings: | | like ship in storms, was tost; Yet afraid to put into land. i For seized in the port the vessels lost Whose treasure is contraband.
 The waves are laid,
 My duty's paid. 1 Oh, joy beyond expressions
 Thus safe ashore,
 l dSk uC My all is in my possession. Peachum S, plan is simply to peach or | the captain and make Polly widow 1 He asks Polly what provision the cap | tain has made for her in that case. Sh' | had not thought of that, she says. Sh' l loves him. How could she think O widowhood? But, her father protests the comfortable state of widowhood il l the only hope that keeps up a wife | spirits. Wehe is the woman who woult scruple to be wife if she had it in he power to be a widow whenever sh pleased. What. murder the man Hover she protests. What hath murde ! to do with the affair." asks Peachum 1 Since the thing sooner or later mus happen I daresay the captain hfmsel would like that we should get the re ward for his death sooner than stran ger Pollys pleas are in vain. Away
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11
TROOPS BEING SPREAD OUT ALL OVER NORTH
 SECTION OF IRELAND

Dublin. July 10.-Troops being sent tc the north of Ireland are not eonhninS their activities to Belfast alone, put arc being distributed in all districts ir which it had been announced demonstra~ tions in celebration of the battle of the Boyne will be held.
 The explanation current here of the eX' ceptonal military activity is that tns government had reason to believe irlst volunteers contemplated descents in for0 on various districts, on the plea tha'
 their presence was necessary ,o DEC tect Catholics. and that the government
 believes the military forces are the
 proper guardians of the peace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11
GAME RAINED OUT

Anniston, July 0.-(Special) 1.-The game scheduled for Saturday afternoon between the railroaders and Aniston Manufacturing Company teams of the City Ledgue was rained out. and will probably be played off one day during the next week.
 A great deal of interest is felt in the outcome of the game because of the close race between the Manufac- turers and the Printers. Loss of the next game with the railroads will tie the Anniston Manufacturing Company and the Anniston Star aggregation for first place, and the rain of Saturday brought severe disappointment to hun dreds of local fans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11

threnody of her domestic woes in these
 immortal words:
 All gone to soap, my youths fair
 wishes.
 In washing these darn greasy dishes!' It may readily be seen that there were extenuating circumstances con nected with Sappho's divorce from Papa Cercolas, though the eminent archa eologist. Prof Hazbean claims to
 have found evidence that Sappho az gravated her husband by striking him repeatedly with skillet From this the professor infers that the custody or their child Cleis. undoubtedly should have been awarded to the father. Of this I am in doubt but I am inclined 1 to be lenient with Sappho in this write | up, because the poor girl was poet | and that was punishment enough. SAPPHO HITS THE HARP AGAIN Sappho, deliriouslv happy in her re- gained freedom, lived for space on ] toasted moonbeams and humming bird notes. When she discovered that she was growing thin on this diet, she | ran a new ad, and opened school again with new energy. Cercolas, who had l hoped to be supported by his wife In spite Of the divorce. found a sign, Room to Rent on his bungalow and 1 caught a banana galley for the con | tinent.
 | Back at school. Sappho realized that she was again in her element. She | found a spray of fresh mignonette on ] Ter desk each morning. and, beaming l at her from the front row, handsome young face. It was the face. Dear | Reader, of none other than Phaon. l. l wasn't long before Sappho was keep ing him after school for flirting with i the other girls-slim as was the pre- text.
 Phaon wrote heart melting lyrics to l the teacher, and she complimented him
 both professionally and personally. She decided to quit teaching women, and run a strictly male class of poetry. Bu'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11
ReclaiminR Garden of Eden

From The First Mohammedian Republic
 by Boris l.. T. Roustam Eek, in Asa
 Turkestan is, of course primarily agri- cultural country, and cotton, the major crop The other industries still await development. There Is tremendous field for the cultivation of vineyards and rice and other cereals. At the same time. the development of agriculture will greatly stimulate the sheep-raising in- dustry, which is now In the hands of primitive natives. uninsfructed in modern methods. The fruit industry awaits the guiding hand of modern science Win the help of Californian specialists
 Turkestan could be trsnsformed into m enormous fruit garden. There is at pres snt ouiy one factpry for fruit-preservins '
 Similarly. the nsh teeEning in the la and rivsrs nsed only the introduction O. n oAeea industry to placs them upon the sccd markets of the world. The siis industry. if properly orsanised. would
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which has served as model Tor many a musical comedy lyric:

which has served as a model for many a musical comedy lyric:
 I am bubbledl I'm bubbled. Oh how l am troubledl
 Bambouzed and bit! My distresses are
 doubled.
 When you come to the tree should the
 hangman refuse,
 These fingers, with pleasure, could fasten
 the moose.
 Lucy becomes affectionate, but Polly has the last word before her father comes to take her away. "Decency, madam" she says to Lucy, "methinks might teach you to behave with some reserve with the husband, while his wife is present." Then she lyrcally repr- mands Lucy thus: Cease your funning, Force or cunning. Never shall my heart trapan All these sallies Are but malice To seduce my constant man. Iris most certain, By their flirting Women oft have envy shown Pleasd to ruin Others wooing, Never happy in their own. And as she is dragged away, she still sings sweetly: | No power on earth can ere divide The knot that sacred love hath ty'd; When parents draw against our mind RThe true loves knot they faster bind. Quitting number of other incidents | and their lyrics. let's us hasten toward the inevitable end of this delectable tras- i edy. Macheath is again betrayed, thls itime by one Diana Trapos, to whom age has not brought saitety. "f take as large drafts of liquor as did of love-" she ex- plains q hate a flincher in either. As she sings:
 In the days of my youth could bill like dove. Like sparrow at all times was ready for love. The life of all mortals in kissing should Lip to lip, while we're young--then lip to the glass. Passing over a delicious scene in which Lucy becomes reconciled with Polly-in order to poison her--pause at the dra-
 
 of drinking the fatal draught, and is only saved by seeing Macheath brought in once more in chains. He is to be hung forth with There are cancellations Here ends all disputes the rest of our
 lives,
 For this way at once please all my
 wives.
 Polly and Lucy hang first-on his neck and in the midst of such sweet sorrow his resolution is on the point of falling. Eut the jailor comes in. -Four women more. captain" he announces, with child apiece" ''What-four more. Thls is too muchr' cries the condemned man. ..Tell the sheriffs officers l am ready
 .What-a tragic ending?" protests the player. But this will never do, that our hero shall be hanged. The beggar was for doing strict poetical justice-"Mac heath is to be hanged and,s for the other personages of the drama. the audience must have supposed they were all either hanged or transported But that would be a downright deep tragedy
 Your objection. sir. is very just, the Reagan admits, ''and is easily removed For YOU must allow that in this kind os drama. 'tis no matter how absurdly things are brought about So you ran- ble there-run and cry. A reprieve-and let the prisoner be brought back to his wives in triumph"
 Tableau-chorus (sssisted bv the child "a piece quartet)-dance- e-curtainl And more iunatic raving of delight In a de- pa arting audience I never did hear, nor more whistilnG of tunes.
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ARMY WORM RUININGJ STATES CORN CROP
ev Assooiated Pres,

Montgomery, July 10.--Thousands Of bushels of corn ade being destroyed daily in Alabama. while several hum dred acres of the crop in widely sep arated sections of the state have been plowed up and replanted, due to the ravages of the army Cor grass) worm. which has attacked growing crops, especially in the river bottoms. inun- dated during the spring by flooded rivers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11
USES NEEDLE TO
 ESCAPE FROM JAIL
ax A,.nclatsd Pres.

Rawlins. Wyo., May With needle obtained in the prison shirt factory as hls only tool Bert Loften has escaped irows inc state prison here William smith. his companion. was captured while tryin to scale the prison wall.
 Lotion and Smith were confined to t9 death house cell because of their known desperate character. Lotion found that a soft niece of steel covered a drala- With his great patience and skill he slow ly cut hole through the steel with ths needle After removing pipe and plate they crawled through the hole, pick-1 the lock of steel door connecting wa'N the main corridor of the prison. scSiv's the tiers of cells. cut holes through the slate roof and dropped to the ground ID the prison yard. they found a steel oar' which the prisoners bent into a hook 'o fasten an improvised rope on the prisoh wall
 Lotion escaped. but smith was caushs by guard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11
 PHAON WAS JUST LIKE ALL
 OTHER MEN

Phaon growing fat on his lady love remunerative calling. found himself cut off from the Primrose Path and fast
 losing his youthful shape. He sneakcA over the back fence. and left with Sapphos family silver.
 Sappho burned incense to Aphrodits and begged her to send back the silver, if not Phaon. But the giggly goddess. always favoring men. stuffed cotton in her ear nearest sappho and told Phaon to go to it.
 Disgusted with the world in gem eral, Sappho decided to give her daugh- ter Cleis a chance to collect her l.fs insurance.
 Attired in a richly brocaded counter- pane trapped Greecefully about her classic figure, she went down to the spot where the Leucadian breezes sweep OCT Sappho's memory haunted pillow" Taking her faithful lute in hand, Sappho gulped her last sad war ble There were eleven reels, all ads dressed to the tickle Phaon, and her secretary copied them carefully and
 Then, powderng her nose like trus l fatalst. Sappho dived remorsefully oft 1 the cliff. Her last words floated up to 1 the vigilant secretary:
 "Our life is but sorry joke ] O False Phaon, I hope you chokeN
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easily become one of the most importahS in the world. The mountains of Turk etan are rich in unexploited minerals Gold. iron. copper. coal. and many rara and precious stones and metals await ths pioneer.
 There is an old legend in Turwestan that the Eden of the first man wal placed in the valley of Ferghana and that for his sin Allah laid a curse upon the country and transformed it into deserS The quickentng touch of water restores the desert to richness and fertility sur passing all legends Who will build Eden anew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11

Marty Burke is another youngster who seems to have a bright future be- fore him. Marty is a young heavy weight fighter, who. with about three more years of experience and develop ment. should hold the worlds cham pionship. All fight authorities admit that Burke is the coming champion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11

Bobby Jones annexed another golf crown yesterday when he won the finals of the southern tourna- ment at ChnttanooSn. Jones is n mighty young chap to hold so many laurels for golfinG ndeptness. He Is still in hls teens. When he Is little older, with the added years of experience, he should become aI- most unbeatable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11
PIEDMONT LEAGUE

At fGreensbc-o II. High Point .. At Durham ,. Danviils !.
 At Winston Salem Raleigh, rain.
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It Is proposed to introduce the com. murity laundry In the rural sections c& Ontario as one means of Tightening tho work of the farmers wives.
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| Burke will fight here Tuesday before the Rainbow veterans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11

Clyde Barnhart seems to have gotten out of his batting slump at last. He made three hits out of seven times nt bat. not n bad record nt all. Friday he sIashed out n wicked triple. Birmingham fans nre looking for great things from Barney this year.
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as soon as she had a real target fol
 her verses, she found her pupils drop
 ping off Those who remained wefe
 jealous of her star student. and shot pop-guns at his back until he began
 to dread going to school
 Little by little he eased off, and
 Sapphos verses too ka mournful turn that made them really celebrated. Her fame crossed the Mediterranean and even the Papyrus Publishing Company of Alexandria begged her for contracts. She wrote so constantly that she ruined her eyesight dabbling with
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Georges Carpentier sailed for Eu- rope yesterday, carrying with him a load of American dollars. leaving be- hind nothing but fallen prestige. Since his arrival in America, his refusal to sign for bouts and his departure. Georges has lost many a friend from the flock of fight fans in America.
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Everybody thinks of Sappho as a lady who was carried upstairs once in a play. but that was just a make-be- lieve Sappho invented by French fic- tionist The real, original Sappho never had anybdoy to carry her upstairs, and had no stairs to be carried up. anyway. She was poet. and lived in a self-as- sertive little isle called Mitylene some where around 500 B. C.
 She was a promising lass from the ground up. At the age of f4 she was so intelligent that she would never accept a spoonful of paregoric unless the bottle bore the signature of the author. She early developed fatal tendency to versfication, and became known as the Tenth Muse even before
 70 Olive Oil Hypothenusel
 am Muse, am a Muse~
 Her father heard her reciting this, and looked at her indulgently over his stein of imitation ambrosia.
 What are you amused over, ,daugh- terg'
 Sappho swept his countenance with her wistful eyes and went off to the Leucadian cliffs to brood.
 What an ignorant old dumb bell my father is.' she moaned. us geniuses have terrible time trying to be un- derstood"
 Sappho rambled around the seashore with her pet dithyrambics and yearned for somebody to come into her life, so she could write odes to something be- sides the moon. her soul, life, death and trailing arbutus. Circumstances forced her to become a school teacher. She couldn't sell her poetry. and her father had to have d new pair of sandals. so she had to get job.
 CULTURE WAS FASHIONABLE Women of Lespos in the B. C. day, nf Nan YnrlS
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Coffindaffers foot has not healed yet He was greatly handicapped by the in- jured trilby yesterday.
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kl:.t|fSIE[ [EI&(za!R9eSi' !!5 e 5

Meeker will more than likely pitch
 the opening game in Atlanta Monday. Morrison and Glazper will most likely
 be given the second and third assign
 ments, with Gallagher and Coffindaffer finishing out the stay in the Windy City.
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The Barons absolutely must win three of those five games to keep their position. The Crackers are two games behind Birmingham. If we lose the series to Atlanta, Franks men will slide ahend of us in the league standing. Once those Crackers get to the top. they're going to be hard to pull down again.