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Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-01-06

knife and fork trained on opposite
corners of the ceiling, Strengthened
himself somewhat and remarked:
ALLAN an mes goin' to town to-
night; anything you want from Semp-
ter's store, Mary?"
''That lets me in for the cows" said
Beulah. you were in town night be-
l got through milking"
"Oh, well, Jim was away that
night" said Allan.
Jim has enough to do, without milk
ing cows after hours" returned the
girl. what do you want to go to
town for again tonight, anyway"
"Got to get more COAL" said Harris.
''Well take two teams, an it'll be late
when we get back"
II think it's all nonsense, this day
an-night work." persisted Beulah. SIS
there never going to be any let-up on
it?"
'Beulah, you forget YOURSELF" said
her father. 'If you'd more to do you'd
have less time to fret about it. Your
mother did more work In one summer
than you have in all your life, an she's
dom more YETI"
"Oh, Beulah's good help" inter-
posed Mary. 81 hope she never has to
work like l did,"
81 guess the work never hurt u.s."
said Harris, helping himself to pre-
served Strawberries. Just the same,
I'm glad to see you gettin' it a bit
easier. But this younger generation
it beats me what we're comm to.
Thinkin' about nothin' but fun and
gaddin' to town every night or two.
And clo'es-Beulah there's got more
clo'es than there were in the whole
Plainville settlement the first two or
three years."
II got more neighbors, too" inter-
jected the girl. Then springing up,
she stood behind her fathers chair
and put her arm around his neck.
Don't be cross. Dad" she wis
pered. "Your hearts in the right
place-but long way in"
He disengaged her, gently enough.
AS Beulah said, his heart was all right,
bul long way in. Twenty-Five years
of pitched battle with circumstances
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-01-06

"having one of those horrid fits, when
he doesn't know who he is and what
he is doing" Indeed, he thought he
was a department store detective.
She begged that poor hubby be taken
inside and kept safe until the ATTACK"
was over
Out rushed two of the huskiest at
PENDANTS of the sanitarium. The store
sleuth tried to explain. The next mo-
ment the detective was carried inside,
battling in vain.
No sooner had the trio disappeared
behind the sanitarium door than the
heroine slipped into the limousine and
that was the last seen of her, and
of the finery. The detective became
so violent that they had to put him il
padded cell. He was finally released
at midnight.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-01-06
BEULAH AND jim.

Synopsis. -Dissatisfied because of
the seemingly barren outlook of his
position as a school teacher in a
Canadian town, John Harris deter
mines to leave it. take up land in
Manitoba and become a home
steader." Mary, the girl whom he
loves. declares she will accompany
him. They are married and set
out for the unknown country. Alec
McCrae, pioneer settler and adj
wiser of newcomers, proves an in
valuable friend. Leaving his wife
with the family of fellow settler,
Fred Arthurs. Harris and McCrae
journey over the prairie and select
homestead. Mary insists on ac-
campaigning him when he takes
possession, and they begin their
life work of making the prairie fer
tile farm land. Returning from
selling his first crop. Harris finds
his wife respondent almost to in
sanity from loneliness, and with
the immediate expectation of be-
coming a mother. A son is born to
them, to whom they give the name
of Allan.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-01-06

other woman. just had to leave and
fight for my SON."
The young husband stood beside his
wife as she spoke and made no de
NAL. Recorder Weber directed that
the baby be returned to its mother
and that Neun make sufficient allow
anco to provide for both. Neun re-
turned to his mothers home. Mrs.
Neun looked after him, weeping. She
said:
"When I find an apartment I will
live with my baby. If my husband
wishes to come with us, we will be
glad to have him; but baby and 1 will
not be separated any longer, no mat
ter what happens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
BUILDERS WITH GOD

ROM point of view this life through which passing 0 staggering thing It began, where, that and van Its endng ending bes off somewhere Tn Gods hidden future live through midway between two eenies overlapping becomes the closer grappe greater mystery It is really but many ing and afraid
 The so serious contemplation of life one of utter heplessn The vision beautiful hopeessly moment for blessedness which shall until shall be and the temptation strongly perhaps thoughtful and conempave their visionary and impractical The human action futile and history filled story to God with their faces aflame with the their vision but who left this struggling old world along than they found it. These ife's
 And other have faced the thought of life totally different and less of the future Today shall not look behind mystery take shall work thought york; but to for there far-o goal compsment toward whose attainment their These men had no starting pont they have goal They sink shafts anu towering buildings aloft They extend the that they should have deand These drifters.
 two ernite He looks back the centuries and there where life began he He looks ahead and with the threatening danger which distant coming finds God waiting him. passes him bv He knows that the past existed but that this day exists but to bring him God that planned fe that God waiting that he must build on what has before and upward what S yet to be.
 And while others working or work without da ing this Builder does both With and God at the finish his life and direction dreamer dreams and of which the dreamess God will conquer and claim and make his very own.
 MIDDLETON S. BARNWELI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
As To Women Jurors

When men make fun of the idea of having women jurors l am often reminded of the way certain jury Is reported to have decided 8 civil case here several years ago." said Miss Emma Mahoney. The federal government allows fund for sery- ing lunches to jurors on criminal cases, but does not do so for those on civil cases
 This particular jury is said to have. gotten hungry about lunch time, and without deliberating upon the case, they decided 1t by Tipping a coin. Of course 1t will be sug- gested immediately the women jurors would have drawn straws for the de- cision, but admitting that they would have reached an agreement that way, it would certainly he no worse"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Helping One Another

"A friend of mine travelling for . house in quite another line sold a bill of goods for an electrical house while over in Mississippi the other day" said F. W. Blackford, of the Birmingham Macaroni company. He also placed an order for a wall paper firm.
 That's the kind of spirit that will build town. This man got nothing for taking these orders for other houses or for securing the business for them, but he helped Birmingham and, in the end, he helped himself, also.
 We want more of that. With the wholesalers and jobbers of this city pulling together we will soon arrive at the limit of our attainment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
BIRDS AND BEES COLoR-BLIND

By Science Service.
 Some curious experiments on the color vision of animals are reported black cloth, and was then illum- mated with colored light. Chickens and pigeons pecked up the grains in red, yellow or green light, but seemed quite unconscious of their pr essence in blue and in violet light. This gives new complexion to the supposed function of bright plum age, as an attraction for the mate. Where the ordor is a beautiful fri descent blue, In our estimate, one IS now led to suspect that to the bird 1t appears an uninteresting black. But conclusion must be made with reserve in such matters A curious observation which is also reported in thls connection is that yellow birds, and in particular the yellow crested parrot (cockatoo), display violent dislike for persons dressed in blue.
 Experiments have also been made on bees. They were fed with sugar ir a bowl of selected color until they were thoroughly accustomed to it.. They were then given the choice of a blue or a black bowl. They picked our the blue to which they were ac- customed. A similar experiment. made with green and red bowls proved a failure, seemingly because the insects were unable to recognize these coiors as distinguished from black bowl.
 In the case of birds color blindness is perhaps accounted for by the fact that their retina contains yellow and red oily drops, which absorb blue and violet light, and transmit only the yellow and red. This reminds one somewhat of the method employed in photography. for sensitising plates and films for different colors by giv- ing them a bath in certain coal tar dyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
BABY BANK ACCOUNTS

From the Thrift Magazine.
 What are you doing for your babs's future happiness?
 These are questions, that should be given thought by every parent,
 Many newly born babies are pre- sented with gifts in the form of money Why not start an account for the baby with this money and watch it grow by making regular weekly contributions, instead of us- ing the money to buy clothes or some other articles?
 The weekly deposit of sl at per cent interest for 10 years will amount to $eSS.04; in Is years. $l.075.75; ard in 20 years, s1.601.S6. If deposit of s is made regularly every week for 10 years the child will have Tn it's favor the sum of s1,914.00; in Is years the amount will be $S,227.25 and in 20 years $5.a7S.75.
 Of course, as the child grows older he or she will save the pennies, pickels and dimes. and help towards the regular weekly deposit. which will lessen the drain on the parents nocketbook In time to come tEe child will be the sole depositor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
The Davis Monument

From the New York Tribune.
 in memory of Jefferson Davis tC mark his birthplace attracts little at- tention. Not long ago protests would have been voluminous and forceful Great has been the change. Multi tudes who once would have frowned upon the shaft, will now regard it with a degree of appreciation, as de- noting not so much glorification of an attempted secession, as confirma- tion of a perpetual and indissolubie union.
 Jefferson Davis was for many years an eminent and respected puo- lie servant of the United States, gall lant in war. wise in council capa- ble in administration and | pure in character, and for four years was tne head of government of great people-a government which, no matter how much or how justly we may condemn it as unlawful, did OK ist de facto, exercised all the func- tions of government and command ed our own recognition as a bellig- erent power. Such a career bulks large in American history. and is not unworthy of commemoratfon
 Years ago, largely by the votes of New England and the old free states, the name of Robert E. Lee was in- scribed by the side of that of Ulysses S. Grant in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. When that was done. the last barrier of partition between what were once the discord- ant sections of our common country was. broken down.
 Now. after two- thirds of a century, 1t is profitable to recall that the two great civilian protagonists of our domestic conflict both sprang from the dark and bloody ground Of Kentucky, only a few miles apart in space and less than a year apart in time. To the one the whole nation has paid such memorial tributes as not more than one other III dii Us history has known, To the other, the nation will not begrudge such monu- mental -honors as his native state may bestow. When Horace Greely signed the bail bond of Jefferson Da- wis, great was the burst of wrath against him. He happened to be in spirit something more than half a century ahead of his time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
Attendance Record

This is a day in which records in every line are being broken" said Herbert Stamps. Tt was only re- gently the First Baptist church here made a wonderful showing in rhe way of Sunday school attendance but along comes Texas, which always claim that the largest Sunday school in the world is that of the First Ban- tist church, Fort Worth, of which Dr. J. Frank Norris is pastor.
 Recently it broke it's own atten- dance record, having 4,295 persona present at session. It's best previ- ous record was a little better than $500"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
Wire Mills Respond to
 Horticultural Conditions

m ESSIMISM has been routed. l Not all things are going we'll and they never will.
 The south is in the van of the re- covering advance. A half billion dollars has been added to the value of her cotton held over and that coming to the market in 10 days. The trend is toward higher values, The heart of Dixie swells with hope and confidence. Dixie sees her self getting out of debt.
 The Gulf States Steel company entered September on 45 per cent active production base following six months of an average of 20 per cent, and gradual marking up in July. August was a 40 per cent better month than July and September shows 100 per cent improvement over the prior average.
 This improvement, came from the soil. Wire drawing mills deal in wire and fencing, nails and imple- ment steel. They are as closely re- lated to the soil as beans, corn, oats, and sheep. When the farms lang gnish they languish. The Amer ican Steel and Wire company maintains large force of crop re- porting experts in the field to keep informed of agricultural conditions and crop prospects.
 The greater pace of production at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
REFORM A SLOW GROWTH-By Frank Willis Barnett

some men of high culture, deep conse- cration and a love for their fellow man; the thing they gave their lives for being quite different thing from what is being fought for in this day and time by the leaders who seek to overturn the present pillars of society.
 But because I have said this much is no reason for my being classed as an apostle ,of the status quo; it only sets me down against those who be- lieve that the world can be reformed in day. Reform. however, is a hate full term to the class of agitators of whom am speaking. In the first place they are an impatient race. and then it smacks of timidity. Their cry is Away with reform! Give us revolu- tionr' They have logic on their side in so doing, for their hope of success is bound up in getting rid of the square dear' by having new deal' all around.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
WyIam Citizens Pleased

Citizens of Vivian are certainly pleased at the announcement that plans are nearly ready for the ad- vertising of bids on the new Vivian elementary school" declared pr. Walter S. Rountree.
 We have dreamed of a grammar school large and commodious enough to fill our needs for some time. With construction of the $125,000 structure which has been planned by the board of education and Mir. Hornady,s our visions will have taken concrete form. Truly, the building of the new school on the crest of the hill over Joking our playground will mean the uawning of new day in Wylam educational and civic life" r{N
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
DARK AND FAIR

DARK AND FAIR. It must be the way we look at the
 world, IT It seems to be dark or fair, place where wrathful bolts are
 hurled
 Gainst millions in despair, or wonderful realm of mirth and song
 And hearts that know content, Where thes right shall conquer the
 greatest wrong And love with daughters blent. It must be the way that we look at
 life
 That makes it good or i'll, A ceaseless struggle where pain and =is strife The aching hours fill, Or brave adventure the sun makes bright And the stars Hume with their
 gleams, While hope burns clear, like a bea-
 con light, In the sorrows of men and their
 dreams.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
Nearly 1000 New Home
 Built In Birmingham

MM OST gratifying of all records AWU of progress this year has been the building of home. of far more importance than the total of $444,o0O represente1 iu building permits during August is inc s235,- 900 that went into i25 more homes. This was in the city roper and takes no account of the raadreds of modest homes that are Sing up in the suburbs and along the county highways.
 Birmingham has bUilt or started the building of nc ar'g i,00o homes in the eight monfhs of this year. Up to August 1 tn record yss $50. The August quot raises thst to 975.
 The total number of homes quilt in Birmingham in 1920 was 476. In eight months we have doubled that record. The probability is that the home building record of this year will be between three and four times that of 1920.
 Birmingham has built and is building large stores and industrial establishments, schools and churches. Her church and school building rec ords show the kind of city we have. Homes naturally cluster about schools and churches. There is nothing uneven about Birmingham's building programme.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
Disarmament Conference
 ' Means Much to Humanity

F7HHE Harding administration is sll evidently fearful that the dis armament conference in Washing ton may prove a disappointment and is preparing the public mind not to expect too much. If there 3s any considerable body of the
 merican people who think that Armies and navies will soon be reIe- gated to the scrap heap, they are Sadly mistaken.
 z Until humanity reaches that stage of development where the absurdity < and folly of war outweigh all other Considerations, there will be battle Ahips on the seas and soldiers on land. The most we can hope for :n the present generation is to make Home progress toward reducing 6,nlaments, removing as far as pos Bible the incentives to war and lift 7ng the intolerable tax burdens (Which oppress the nations who are maintaining large military estab- fshments.
 x The disarmament conference may Accomplish great deal, Or it may not, but nevertheless it has great Possibilities. It is step in the right 4irection and it's failure would be a xalamity to the world. We have It least progressed to the point &hore the demand for a new order & International relations is insist
 Sx and universal. The diplomats Nho gather around the conference fable in Washington can ill afford fo ignore that sentiment.
 ~ The attitude of all the principal bowers is favorable to reduction 6farmaments consistent with safety. 1Nffh that baeis to work on we may
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
A,A)53,ueo

SUN-BURNED BEAUTIES There was girl in our town, And, she was wondrous wise, When she became all tanned and
 brown,
 r. And freckled to the eyes, She did exactly as she ought, When friends began to scoff, She hurried to the store and bought Some dope that wore 'em off
 San Francisco Chronicle. There was girl in our town Who wished coat of tan. But to the beach could not run down, So poor was her old man. She sat around in the sun all day In very scant attire And the, neighbors wondered at the way
 She kept on yelling Fire" BUSINESS BEFORE PLEASURE. "rll give you note of introduce ton to my favorite bootlegger," Thanks. Will anything else be necessary?
 You might dangle a $2o bill non chalantly in your left hand to show him that you haven't dropped in merely to pass, the time of day"
 AN UNSoCIABLE LOT. "This welfare worker says a mans education is not complete until he rides in a patrol wagon"
 Maybe so, but judging from the glum looks of-the people you see in patrol wagon, it's poor place to start conversation"
 PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04

hope for tangible results. If the conference is a success it will rank as the greatest achievement of the Harding administration, and one of. the greatest America will ever have to her credit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
Final Chapter in
 A Burglars Life

M ILL REAGIN, with a string of l2 aliases, has been sentenced to Serve five years in federal peni- tentiary for. robbing a postoffice. When the prison gates close on Bill he will probably never come out again alive, for he is an old, white headed man, in the last Res of tuberculosis.
 Bills career of crime extends over . long period of years and now he is nearing the end of his Journey, a pitiful human wreck, with nothing to look forward to but death and nothing to look back on but a wasted life. It is the old story, repeated over and over again among the derelicts who figure in tilc. udlly LII alias Ol SOul tIOOIuo, where the dapper young gunman or motor bandit and such characters as Bill Reagin stand before the bar of Justice.
 z Crime never does pay and never will .pay, as long as society is or ganized to punish law breakers. Like many another veteran in crime, Bill Reagin has intelligence. He might have earned livelihood and died somewhere else than in prison, with friends perhaps to mourn his passing, or a wife and children at His bedside as he set forth on the sGreat Adventure"
 N Yet Bill, as thousands of other Criminals have done, chose what seemed to be the easiest way. He knows now that it was the hardest Nay, but it is too late.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
. oNALD COMER says the south J will be s4sO,Ooo,OOo, in cash.
 richer this year by virtue of

SN oNALD COMER says the south II will be s4s0, 100000, in cash.
 richer this year by virtue of the increase in the selling price of the cotton crop.
 This means that Alabama will be $17,500,000 richer. It means addi- tional cash in this state of more than $10 for each man, woman and child white and black. When we consider that the total circulation of money in this country is only about $50 per capita, this is a great thing for the south. N.
 That Donald Conner has so figured this out means that it is a fact. Don aid is a Conner, and everyone in Ala bama knows that when Conner says anything it is true. He is the oldest son of B. B.; and all of us who have butted up against the old gentleman in politics, or have been with him in any movement, know that he is a veritable stone wall of sturdy worth-truthful, honest, generous and a tiger when aroused. It don't matter whether you have favored him or fought him, you had to respect
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
HER BIG MISTAKE.

Sometimes" said MT. Peckton, plaintively. T believe you wish had never been born"
 "No," said Mrs; Peckton. coldly. "I don't wish that, but I made the big gest mistake of my life when I thought that a man who could lead a german well would necessarily be a good provider.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
Real Holiday

Labor Day will be a real holiday and will be celebrated by almost everyone" said J. H. Shutt. Many people are planning on going to the country for a picnic, some have all ready gone to the river fishing and numerous others will visit the various summer resorts in this dis trict, each seeking his or her favorite pastime.
 This Is really one of the few days in the year when man can take his family to the woods on picn6c and l believe a large number will avail themselves of this opportunity to do so."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
THE OLD STONE WALL

By Clinton Scollard. heye you not seen, by moss
 o'ergrown,
 A long and lichened wall of stone Firm fashioned h the elder years By hardy handed pioneers Through labor honored though un-
 known?
 The cattle nigh it browse and gaze Across the peaceful pasture ways,
 And round the neighboring farm
 stead caves
 The swallows gossip and the leaves Whisper their low and loving lays. It sees along the roadside pass The eager lad, the modest lass;
 Ht lists the rapture of the birds,
 The crickets sharp staccato words, The shy, sweet murmurs of the grass. The boughs above it bend and brood, And shelter it in tender mood
 Springs glamour girdles it, and when Dies the last lyric of the wren Comes autumns gold beatitude. Time touches 1t with soft increase Of beauty, bringing 1t release
 From fading mortal sfate. and so
 It stands amid life's ebb and flow Type of the infinitpde of peace!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
TALE OF A TRAVELLER.

TALE OF A TRAVELLER. truth and veracity?"
 Your honor, I always thought him a truthful man until about two months ago"
 What happened then?"
 He claimed to have made a trip across the continent in his fliyver