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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-10-29
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TWO KINDS OF ADVENTURE
New Yorker Who Offered to Sell His
Life's Services Already Has
Had Takers.
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Jack Hardy, a former sailor, living
In New York, who advertised that he
was ready to sell his services for the
rest of his life to the highest bidder
who had Il career of useful adventure
to offer. has received two bids.
A woman offered him S 5000 to be
her bodyguard Oh n trip to Egypt
providing the trip vas successful"
Jack doesn't think he'll take this. not
being certain what the woman regards
as a successful trip to Egypt. The
other offer was from a man and his
wife who described themselves as the
Weaithiest couple in Scranton. Pa,
wanted Jack to help hunt for their hf-
te~en-year-old sol with $1,000 and
adoption as the reward.
That is more promising. the young
nan thinks, but he has reached no de-
cision yet. He is twenty-five years
Did. I'm not looking for a soft BERTH"
ne said. 1.-The harder the job, the bet
ter | like It."
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-10-29
PAID HIM TO KEEP QUIET
Incident Of Wall Street That W. Pub.
iish Without Any Affidavit as
to Its Truth.

There was n man in Wall street, en-
ployad as t~hirty-second assistant cash
Ter in a bank. 1t took the bank d.
rectors Immediately advanced him to
cashier, on the theory that his new
responsibilities would preclude his
~conyersing with outsiders on impOv-
tant matters. But it didn't work.
The cashier was in Il more favorable
position to relay important things to
the financial scribes. He was pro-
NOTED to a vice presidency. He talked
louder and more frequently.
In desperation the bank directors
made him president Of the instity ti0sa.
Ii worked wonders. He stopped talk
ing. Thereafter he spoke only through
prepared statements, and while they
were long and windy they revealed
nothing disturbing.-FrOm Life.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-10-29
KILL OWN CHILDREN AT BIRTH
Arioi Of Tahiti Look Upon Attempt of
One Of Their Order to Raise
Child as Sin.

Lovers of laughter, song. music.
flowers and birds, the .Arioi Of Tahiti
killed their own children at birth. and
looked upon the attempt Of Il member
of their order to ear Il child as a
sin. While religious causes were
given for this by the leaders and. no
doubt, believed In. the real cause,
Frederick O'Rrien tells in the Century,
was a natural one whereby the species.
TO prevent Oyer-populatiOn Of the
South sea island, destroyed its own.
With perfect health and no enemies,
the island would soon have had a hard
time finding food.
The Arioi were wandering Ministries,
actors, priests and wonder workers to
which belonged both men and women.
The natives Of Tahiti who have es-
capped the blight OF civilization are
living proofs that at one time the race
was one of the most beautiful iE the
worlds history. while Investigators
declare that arts and civilization \ a ere
brought to q high plane hundreds Of
years ago.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-10-29

Sorrier Than He.
Wife-Richard. do YOU know that
you are in the habit Of snoring?
Hub-Am l? l am sorry to hear il.
Wife (dryly)-So am L.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-10-29
AT LEAST IT'S NOT PROBABLE
Judge Was Likely Dead Right Wher
He Told the Elderly Lady About
His Gown.

The judges of the Marion county
courts recently adopted and published
rules relating to formal openings of
court sessions, requiring all persons
in the courtroom at the time to stand
This and the other requirements are
designed to insure dignity and deco
rum.
All elderly woman employed at the
courthouse accosted one Of the judges
IN the corridors Of the building and
on limented tire bench on its atti-
tude in conducting court.
in fact. judge" she added, Il think
all Of you judges ought 10 do like
some of the big Eastern courts and
Wear gowns"
Without batting an eye the judge
replied: II do wear a gown about ne.
third Of the time"
"Why. | never saw you in one" the
woman said.
And you never WILL" gravely an
Swered his honor as he proceeded to
his courtroom. c%huckling to himself
Indianapolis News.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-10-29
Naturally,

"Flow did You enjoy the exhibition
at the 1902" Il thought it was .
beastly affair"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-10-29

Make yourself necessary to the
world and the world will give you
sread.-EnersOn.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-10-29

Deceit is in haste, but honesty can
wait Il fair leisure.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-10-29

Misery loves the kind of company
that will listen to a hard-luck story.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-10-29

Love is stronger than hate and an
onion is stronger than either.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-10-29
Noncommittal

Noncommittal.
Bachelor Friend-Can your wife
cook?
Young Husband (evasively)--Well.
she can make a good family stew.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-10-29

Altman Lived on JAG, Rabbits.
Stranded in "A Nevada desert. Earl
Ailor, FORMER army AVIATOR, lived for
six weeks on jack rabbits. while re.
pairing a defect in is plane.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-10-29

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tion eau. With nearly twice as much reading
matter as the ordinary magazine II maintains the
highest quality throughout and affords entertain
ment and heart interest in every page. 1t 10 .
permanent fa~vorite with all who read it. Nearly
SO per cent (think OF it, 9 out Of 10y Of our
subscribers renew from year to year. Ask your
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

And why not an amendment prohib- iting he'd haired girls from wearing green.
 A lot of men would be happily single if lot of women didn't insist on mar rying them to keep other women from marrying them.
 A woman can make a man think he understands her when he knows that he doesn't.
 Few men have nerve enough to stare at a woman when she is standing in a street car and he is sitting,
 A lot of the Devoted husbands are that way with some other married woman.
 If the truth were only known, a lot of people have to soak things in order to be in The Swim.
 And you may have noticed that the man who is afraid that he might do toe much is never paid too much.
 Good winners and bad losers are sure to get a mans goat in a poker game.
 We knew a man who while he was busy cnssing the postal service, hap pered to put his hand in his inside pocket and discovered letter his wife save him to mail last March,
 When some of the Holier- Than Thou guys get to Heaven they will demand that a Spite Fence be erected between .r--., ans the Common Ordinary Rabhle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
PASSING OF THE BUCKO MATE

ever, in the days of the writing of the Sea Wolf,' when the Barbary coast was byword and Shanghai Brown" grew rich in Frisco from the operations that earned his nickname. As to the chief character in the Sea Wolf"-"Wolf Lar. sen''--he not only existed in fact, but his counterparts were legion, so far as the wolfish side of his character went
 The writer can bear personal witness to the fact that the rule Of the bucko mate obtained in all it's fury not so very many years ago. For example, after one trip of seventy-two days on a three- masted barkentine sailing from Boston in 1914, three men went to the British hos. pital in Lisbon, Portugal, and the remain der of the 'fore-the-mast deck force de serted the ship leaving their clothing and personal belongings, as well as theif wages, behind them. The injured men were in the hospital for periods from three to seven weeks. Their injuries were the work of bucko mates, one of whose objects in such conduct was to see tc it that the sailors would desert when the ship reached port, thus leaving the cap tain in possession of their. wages. Some. times the spells were divided.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
DICKENS BURIAL

cross station and the procession wa sI driven at once to Westminster abbey. where the remains were received byl Dean Stanley and other officials and paced in the poets corner at the foot of Handel and at the head of Sheridan With Macaulay and Cumberland onI either side. The usual flowers wereI strewn upon the bier. Dean StanleyI read the burial service, and the coffin was deposited in it's final resting place, ana the funeral of Charles Dickens was ended. Upon the coffin plate were in- scribed the words, Charles Dickens Born February 7. 1872 Died June 9. 1S7O.'
 Tt was stated that thousands of cit. izens crowded the abbey during ths cay to look upon the spot where the gl eat novelist sleeps, and we may add that Of all the tombs of England's great men, none will be visited oftener or gazed upon with more tender reverence during this generation at least-than that of Charles Dickens"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
While many politicians held califor-

Thomas F. Barry. Jr., in the New forA
 Evening Post.
 N THROUGH the war had dotted the
 N\ seas again with sailing vessels S S there is at least one markeo change from the days before steam. Inis difference is the slow passing of the American bucko mates. Whatsoever may be said to the contrary. such mates as spread terror in the heart of hapiess ana helpless crews in former years. can no longer rule the deck with belaying pin and marlin spike alone.
 Of course, there may still be Isolated instances of abuse and brutality prac- ticed by deep-water mates on denizens of the focastle, but they are few anu far between. Legislation has, so to speak, disarmed the mates and vested in the sea man certain rights and privileges whicn permit him to lodge specific complaints against his officers with full assurance that such complaints will be thorousnis investigated.
 Further, should complaint prove U he well founded, the seaman's assaiiant not only risks the possibility Of naVihs his license revoked, but he may also 1ace a lengthy jail sentence in federal pris- on. At sea the bucko mate of the present may resort to harsh words alone, ana even there he must guard his tongue Tor the Jurisdiction of consular officials ana inc shadow of the federal court hang over him like the sword of damocles.
 And your forecastle hand today Is a truly temperamental person, who not only demands good wages, but good food Truly the old type of mate is passing. leaving a new type of officer who deals with a new sailor. The officer now found on American sailing ships may not be the all around rough and ready sailor that his grand-daddy was, but he Is more of a student; knows his navigation bet fer and certainly is not given to the Berserk rages which sent his belligerent ancestor to the lee rail for a handy billy.
 The landsman may conclude. after read ing such books as Jack London's Sea Wolf that the pictures painted therein of brutal treatment accorded seamen are hghly imaginative. They were not, how
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Chance to Train


 Many high school boys are taking advantage of the offer of the navy de- partment and are making application for entrance to the summer camp, which will be held at Hampton Roads and Great Lakes for boys between the ages of 16 and 20 years" says Lieuten- ant Commander George H. Emmerson, recruiting officer for Alabama
 Although this state is only allowed to send thirty-four boys, we expect to have many more apply for admittance. This course will last for six weeks and N l., be great advantage to boys talk ing it. Twelve boys have been accept ed up to the present time, and all of these are either freshmen in collge Of k.gh school boys.
 During the course they will be in structed in physical development, dis cipline, education of character and the cultivation of naval traditions, while recreation and religious instructions will not be neglected. Only 2,o00 boys will be admitted to these training camps and each district has an allotted quota"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
Many Questions

"The census department has asked I.e several unique questions recently says C. M Cruikshank, Birmingham census supervisor.
 '.For instance, they inquired why l had failed to enumerate the population of Cambridge and Yale streets out be- yond East Lake. The reason is simple: Those streets were laid out by land company years ago, but no one resides CD them The settlement proposition dld not go through
 T was also asked why I had failed to give the population residing along a strip of land from Spring street, Avon dale. to Woodlawn. I failed to emu nierate this population because it IS an i1.animate one, consisting of car tracks box cars and gondolas, railroad yards
 Tt is a lot of such questions that has delayed the final announcement or tlle enumeration" aA0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
Taking Time by Forelock

o. l.. Bum, general manager or the Chamber of Commerce, is strong Tor a leeislative committee of the chamber. He says;
 q believe our legislative committee should be one of our ablest and .buslest Such committee should take time py the forelock and ascertain betore the 1epis1ature meets both what we want as a community and what some one may be wishing to place on us' put which as a community we do not wlsh'
 This committee would save Blrmlng- ham a lot of worry and lost motion oy tavine o,,r schedule outlined ahead of time and also having spokes ready TOT the wheels of legislative surprises.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
He Got There

Tn speaking about resourcefuiness, I saw an incident in Mobile this past week that puts the travelling salesman in the front rank" says G. M. Plais- ance.
 T was near the scene when the $. eamer Apollo left her wharf loaded with the members of the State Drug gists Association, their ladies and friends, and a band of musicians.
 "When the boat was some distance out on her way to Battles" resort, across the bay, one belated member Of the party, popular drug salesman m king Birmingham his headquarters, came briskly out on the wharf. When he saw the departing boat and the crowd of his friends aboard he did not C ,op back and mourn. Not he. That chap hustled around and found gaso- line launch and in a little while had caught up with the big boat, Jolnlng his friends amid a big cheer of all on board He will be guest of the Ala bama Travellers at their banquet next IT iday night"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
Fight Over Prohibition
 Expected at San Francisco

ID RoHIBITIoN was a negligible S factor in the republican na- tional convention at Chicago. It promises to provide more fireworks in the democratic convention at San Francisco than the League of Ma tions itself.
 With MT. Bryan throwing all the weight of his influence and his oraL tory for bone-dry plank and lead CTS who are in favor of modifying the Volstead act. opposing him, scenes may be witnessed on the floor of the convention hall which will make the Chicago convention appear even duller than it actually was.
 It would be interesting to know if those democrats who hold with Gov ernor Edwards of New Jersey that beer and light wines should be per mitted to slake the nations acute thirst are acting from altruistic mo- tives or trying to win votes. It is impossible to gauge the sentiment in
 America toward a modification of the Volstead act, but the "wet" ele- ment of the democratic party may feel that this sentiment is strong enough to make democratic success at the polls in November reasonably sure, if the "wet" vote can be won.
 A little thing like wrecking his party doesn't bother MT. Bryan and he will be found an uncompromising foe to any plan to ameliorate bone dry conditions. It would be some thing of a paradox if the League of Nations, which is certainly the para mount issue before the American peo- pie, were to be forgotten while the
 'wets" and "drys" staged a battle royal at San Francisco.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
From the Washington Post.

From the washington HOSl.
 @ HIO has long been one of the hot V y ly contested battlefields in W presidential elections, and it will be one of the vital centers of the contest this year, with Senator Harding as the republican candidate and possi- bly Governor Cox as his democratic opponent. While considered nominally a republican state, Ohio has been more uncertain than Indiana in recent years, casting her electoral vote for Cleve-' land in 1892 and for Wilson in 1912 and 1916.
 The unfortunate division in the re- publican ranks between Taft and Roosevelt was responsible for the transfer of the electoral vote to Wilson in 1912. but after Harding had been elected senator in 1914 by large pop ular vote, President Wilson in 1916 had a popular majority over Hughes Of n.ore than 9O,OO0 in the Buckeye State. IT. was clear-cut democratic victory. The contest between Governor Willis and former Governor Cox had a con- siderable influence in the decision Ccx was overwhelmingly elected and the democratic ticket-national, sena- torial and state-won by large maJort- ties.
 vxyh;Io n,,r, po,iticians held Califor-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
From the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star.
 0NlHE funeral of Charles Dickens in
 London is described in a state-
 ment printed in the Star of June 15. 1870, as follows:
 "We learn by the cable that at o'clock yesterday morning the remains oe Charles Dickens were conveyed from his late residence at Gada Hill by train t, Charing Cross station, where they were met by plain hearsA without the usual English trappings. and three pain coaches. In the first coach were placed the children of the deceased, Charles and Harry Dickens, Miss Dick CTS and Mrs. Charles Collins. In the second was Miss >Hogarth, sister-in- Jaw, and Mrs. Austen, sister of MT. Dick e1s; MT. Charles Dickens, Jr., and John Forster. In the third coach were Frank Beard, Charles Collins, MT Owery, Will kie Collins and Edmund Dickens. The CT tire party were attired in deep but simple mourning, without bands or scarfs.
 There was no crowd at Charing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
Tennessee Valley to
 Expand Neighborliness

M IL hail to the folk of Albany GA and Decatur and Athens and the other good people of the Tennes- see Valley, who on Tuesday began their drive to raise $250,O00 with which to bridge the Tennessee river!
 All Alabama wishes them we'll in their efforts and will look anxiously forward to that day when the bridge spans the stream and that splendid section of the state becomes more neighborly both within it's own bound aries and with reference to the rest of us.
 The plans have been made, the site agreed on and the benefits are recog- nized. The Tennessee Valley towns are afire with enthusiasm. The mag nificent returns, which have come from their superbly operated farms  the past few years, will be subscribed to carry through this scheme for the common good.
 Highways and bridges spell civiliza- tion. They stand for the difference between stagnation and progress. No man can live by and through himself alone. To get all the good things of life he must step across the way and exchange with his neighbor that which he has for that which his neigh bor has to offer.
 Man, to rise from savagery, must communicate with his fellow. Com munication is impossible without highways and bridges over streams. A bridge over the river at Albany Decatur is the link between the Ten nessee and all other Alabama socially, commercially, financially and indus trially.
 The money is going to be raised and in hurry, because the Tennes- see Valley is prosperous, up-todate and keen for the common good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
Club Is Proposed for
 Soldiers Officially Dead

wv HEN Mark Twain said the re w port of his death was greatly exaggerated he gave new impetus to
 joke of long standing, a weather beaten jest that was current on the
 streets of Babylon, not to speak of 1 Nineveh and Thebes
 William Wirt, a former service
 man of Akron, O., has caught the
 spirit of MT. Clemens and suggests
 the organization of "dead mans
 club" composed of soldiers now alive who have been declared officially dead by the war department. The Akron man, it seems, has been hay ] ing a hard time to convince the gov
 ernment that he is not occupying a
 grave somewhere in France" His
 name has been chiseled from a bronze
 tablet placed in a memorial building in Akron.
 Wirt estimates that nearly 2,000 former soldiers have been declared killed and buried abroad who are still alive and about 900 others listed of ficially as dead are still fighting the high cost of living. He proposes as
 motto for, the "dead mans club" :" We may be dead but we won't lie
 down."
 French soldiers whose faces were horribly disfigured in battle, forcing them to wear masks, were reported
 some time ago to have organized a club which held merry reunion in
 Paris. There is something both pa
 thetic and grimly humorous in this
 club whose members are doomed to living death. That these maimed
 French soldiers found something to laugh at in their condition is evidence
 of sublime courage and fortitude.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
Roehuck Meeting reaay

We all hope there will be 2 fAti ar tendance at the meeting oE she Hoebuek Club" said Secretary E 4 oSonncr. ..The meeting will be held at the Cha4n- Der of Commerce auditorium Thursday morning at 11.45 o'clock. Matters of the utmost importance 10 .he memhers in connection with reorgani 1atior md other features will come np and We hope that every member el the club will make it point ts be present
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
UNFAIR ADVANTAGE

I'm not going to like that new fam fly next door," said Mrs. Jibway.
 Why not. my dear?" asked MT. Jib- way
 They showed no consideration, for their future neighbors by moving in at night. Now I won't know what kind of furniture they have until call. and even then the chances are I won't see but one room.v
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
A BATTLE GROUND

nj. responsible for the defeat of Hughe four years ago, Ohio had larger par in that decision, for Ohio left no uncer. tainty about her place in theedemocratic column, with 9o,000 plurality for Wilson and the election of democratic sena- tor and democratic governor whereas California gave Wilson less than 4,OO0, plurality and elected a republican sen- ator and state ticket
 If Governor Cox should be chosen to head the democratic ticket or be given second place by the San Francisco con vention, the republicans will have a real contest in Ohio, even with Senator Harding as the leader. The republican lenders at Chicago no doubt looked ths situation fairly in the face when they decided that Harding should be ths nominee, because the electoral vote of Ohio will be essential to republican success in November.
 Ohio will continue to be a battle ground from now until November There necessarily will be much guess. tug as to where the great Buckeye State stands on the political issues of the day. Democratic field marshals will lcck the situation squarely in the face because they know that after the shouting is over it is the count of the ballots that decides the contest