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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-12
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GIL BIAS (ALAIN RENE LE SAGE)

Sabbath stuff' he told himself; T think I'd better see the world before barking about the next.
 A second gift of a thousand ducats from the grateful Dona decided him to hire servant and two mules, and start in style for Madrih His serY- ant did q little hiring also He got q girl named Camilla to pose as a relative of the Dona Mencia's and invite Gil to her house. Time he came in she potted the ring. Whats a rich man like you wearing that peb- ble?" she wanted to know. As a mark of my esteem I'll let you swap 1t to me for a'twinkIer 1 have here that is So brilliant you'll have to wear sun glasses to keep from scorching your eyeballs.'
 Gil Bias swappcd. The next morn ing he woke up minus Camilla, mules. servant and glory. The stone Camilla had given him was glass.
 So then he became servant to an old clergyman, but the old man died, and Gil got a job as assistant to the famous doctor, Sangrado. Quickly mastering the blood-letting and water -drenching methods so popular with the Seventeenth Century M.p.'s. he began a regular practice of mak- ing widows and orphans. For each victim lost he carved wound stripe on the top of his desk. till he had il looking like 9 Stone Age Chinese Bi- hle. But he slipped up on a double dose sluice treatment and his victim happened to be the betrothed of a giant Biscayan. The latter threatened
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Gil Bias was the son of an old sol- dier. His uncle, the village priest had tried to pump a few thinks into the boys transpm. and when he had reached f7 this worthy man mounted him on a mule and 40 ducats, and told him to go to Salamanca and study divinity.
 The mule wasn't much to look at being almost bent double in tle Aw-gawn sector, But somebody crayed him. At the first stop, the back caravan. Others gleaned from the straggly youth his filthy lucre, and at last he fell in the hands of bandits, who made him don their re- galia and bandit with them.
 In one of their raids, the bandits Captured Dona Mencia, wife of mo- bleman, but Gil Bias thwarted their fowl schemes and saved the chicken. Later. since his pockets were full of money and he wore q bandits cos tune he was arrested, but at last proved his innocence, just after the jailor had robbed him of all his wealth.
 Farewell to Thoughts of the
 Ministry
 He went to Burgos and looked up Dona Mencia, and she gave him a hundred ducats and costly sparhler set in a ring. Gil Bias grabbed his Stetson and departed for the Cut-to- Fit Emporium. Nix on this Indigo
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to tack CHS hido on barn door, so Gll hurriedly decided to continue his trip to Madrid.
 X Change of JobS With Every Shave
 In the gay capital, our hero brushed clothes for a mysterious don, worked for hilarious hidalgo, served an in- trigning actress, an aged libertine. an old chicken fancier and an antique Marquesa who vas thought brilliant because she never spoke. Again he got into trouble over a skirt and had to fly the village.
 On the way to Toledo, he met young nobiemsn. Don Alfonso, whom he saved from arrest, Don Alfonso got him job as secretary to the Archbishop of Granada, whose ser mons he praised as being tho most restful he'd ever slept under. But when the old man went nuts, and asked Gil Bias to tell him when he fell short on his sermons. Gil was too quick about answering, You're short" The parson fired him for numbskulI.
 At length he grafted a job as un- der-secretary to the Duke of Lerma, hired to do all the dukes dirty work. The duke was prime minister to the king. and Gil soon rose to high in- fluence. His past adventures had taught him to be crafty and avari- cious, and he lost his easy-come. easy go. jovial disposition. He became on gagged to rich jewellers daughter, but his job and his chances were soon blighted. He was hired to smuggle in an off-c color sweetie for the heir-ap- parent and the king found out about
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MONTEvALLO COLLEGE
 STUDENTS ENTERTAINED

Montevallo, June 11.--(Special.) = The summer school faculty of Ala bama Technical Institute and College for Women entertained the entire stu- dent body with a reception in the dormitory assembly hall and parlors Saturday night.
 All the faculty members were in the receiving line. Following the re- ception a programme of musical numbers and reading was enjoyed after which refreshments were served.
 A number by five-piece orches- tra opened the programme. Tn the orchestra were Miss Nina Lyman, vioioncello; Mrs. J. H. Middleton. violin; Miss Elizabeth Young, piano; Charles R. Calkins. clarinet.
 Miss Irene Virginia Ulmer. teach CT of expression, read the second act from "Ingomar."
 Miss Martha Gusman, teacher of voice, sang a group. The Four Lear Clover" (Browneli). and "Mammys Song" (Harriet Ware).
 Miss Gall Mcdonald. Red Cross nurse and teacher of home care or the sick, gave child impersona- tion, The Moo Cow. Moo"
 The orchestra played closing se- lection. #
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BODIES OF PULLMAN
 HEROES ARE RETURNED l HOME FOR LAST REST.

Cullman, June 11.--tSpecia1.)- )--This week three flag -draped caskets. con tein:ng the remains of three of Gull mars heroic sons, arrived here from France. where these brave lads died over three years ago. One of the boys was. Clyde Braswcll. who Is ren. em bered by the people of this county as a fine. strong young man, who was studying for the ministry when he entered the army.
 William B. Oden, son of Mir. and Mrs. T. w. Oden of Vinemont, was another of the boys whose body ar rived this week. He was a member of the Three Hundred and Sixteenth Battery. A. c. M. c. The funeral and burial took place at the Flint Creek Baptist church.
 The third boys body to arrive was Rudolphus Mccain of machine-gun , company. His widowed mother. Mrs. Ella Mccain, and other relatives came in to receive the body and take | 1t to Fairview for burial.
 The body of Fritz Galin, who will be rem em bered as the first boy from this county to lose his life in action in France. will arrive in few days. He was the son of MT. Fritz Galin of near Hanceville. Terrel Sparks and Private John Parks are two more Cullman boys whose bodies will arr rive this week.
 There were II boys from this coun- | ty who died in France. Six of them have already been received here, and the remaining ones will arrive dur ing the next week or two.
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it and had him banished from the two castles.
 A Reception in the old Home Town
 His friend Don Alfonso. whom he had had appointed governor of Val encia, gave him a small estate near by. On his way thither he stopped at his birthplace. He found his un- cle gone .balmy, and his mother all begged out from carrying for his dy- ing father. Gil planted the old man in state, and gave his mother some mon ey. but the townspeople almost mob bed him for having so neglected his parents.
 wearied with his rapid-fire ca reer. and glad to have got off with A whole skin. Gil Bias decided to live quietly and frugally on his estate. He married Antonia- daughter of his overseer but she didn't live long, eith- CT. and another chance for Gils hap piness was busted. Not long after, the crown prince came to the throne, and offered Gil a high place of re- sponsibility.
 That's just what I'm lodging from now on" said Gil. shaking his head sagely. q wouldn't mind something simple. like keeper of the royal pups, but nix on the court intrigue
 So he was made eonfidapt to the prime minister. and entrusted with the education of the latter's son, which brought him q title. Then Gil mar ried again, this time permanently and his children were reared in awe of their staid and stately father~--and wondered if he's never had q wild thought in his youth!
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Society m Washington

friends down to Mt Vernon. aboard the Sylph, following an informal luncheon at the White House. l un- derstand there was some excitement in connection with the trip-a launca Belonging to the Mayflower. which accompanied the Sylph. caught on fire and burned to the waters edge. the sailors on 1t jumping overheard and being rescued. A government vessel passing by-just like movie, don't you know.
 Later in the week-Friday--Mrs Edwin Denby. wife Of Secretary of the Navy, gave a party on the Sylph in compliment to Mrs. Harding. The other guests were the wives of the cabinet officers just a small party, but a pleasant one.
 Too Interesting to Leave ' Washington is too interesting to leave yet. That is what mos, all of the members of Washington society say when asked If they have made their plans for the summer. Sou.o have not made any at all; others are planning to go somewhere but muc l later in the season, while many think they may not go at all. Though this week was the second in June there were a number of formal par ties, not to mention the many enter tainments, mostly informal. at the country clubs. The vice president anu Mrs. Coolidge and the secretary of state and Mrs. Hughes, the two most feted couple Of the administ-i- ton circles, were lunched and dined and number. of diplomats gave par ties too.
 Out-of-town visitors came In for quite number of parties and gave ones or two themselves Mrs J. Hamilton Lewis, wife of the former senator from Illinois. and a woman who was extraordinarily popular when residing here, was extensively entertained and gave party or two was also the case of Mrs. Ira Nell son Norris, wife. of the minister to Sweden
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ufNElN hiiNS WHCId tdIlLl di4 has stirred pub licity.
 But so far all this only reflects more. sharply another picture, an- other matter of personalities, and that is what has happened in the Senate. where a lone dozen or half dozen solons lately have constituted the usual audience sitting in kind of legislative gloom. The Senate is not a happy place today. To one looking down from the galleries watching the by-play, the upper House appears to be saddled with three personalities all working out the Senate's salvation from differ ent angles, all in the guise of lead ers-Lodge, Penrose and Borah. The Senate atmosphere is cold.
 Self-Consciousness Evident
 There seems first. to be group self consciousness, down there in the pit of the upper House, of Senator sorah and the headway which he has
 ade with his proposition for a
 brld disarmament conference.
 ich, although not at all out of lAsp woods, has made progress semed impossible and utterly at variance with the senatorial tenn per. There is, too, a conscious ness of the heavy hand of Senator Penrose, now that his hearings on taxation are over and his methods and administration attitude known.
 A study of this Senate triumvirate brings to mind at once the fact that politicians, too, are born and not made There is Senator Lodge, proud descendant of the Massachu- setts forefathers, New England in outlook, perfect in type. Back or him is Senator Borah, a great -1um- bering westerner, with lazy body and powerful head, who looks obliv- ious to amenities, whose personality pounds the air, in contrast to the fine, parliamentary cunning and de- votion to traditions of Lodge. And Senator Penrose stalks in, showing
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WANT TO LIVE 100 YEARS?
 HERE'S HOW IT IS DONE
Bx AssocIated Pre.s

Los Angeles, Cal, June ll.-Dr. James Martin Peebles, physician and author, who not long ago celebrated his ninety ninth birthday anniver- sary and who wrote book on How to Live Century and Grow Old Gracefully" ascribes his long life in large measure to abstinance from eating animal flesh. Dr.. Peebles stopped eating meat when he was 39 years old. He wrote his book on the rules of living when he was 62.
 Asked what he considered the greatest contributory cause to his long life he instantly replied:
 One cannot strengthen life by living on death. I can not bear the idea of eating dead cows and dead hogs; and 1t Is not necessary. See how strong are horses and oxen; they do not live on dead flesh" Other rules he made for himself and which he said he believed had helped him to reach his advanced years in- cluded:
 "Go to bed every night at s:so. Out of bed every morning at 6. Never use tobacco: Never use inc toxicating liquors. Never com- plain.
 Avoid all worry. and keep an har- monious mind. Worry is among the worst things in the world. Have a strong will power. Always look for the new. Keep calm"
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reversed as a result Of the invasion of Siiesia by the German irregular troops under General Hoefer.
 Watching Harvey
 There Is good reason to believe that both the British and French govern ments are making frantic efforts through diplomatic channels to dis cover what attitude Ambassador liar vey will be directed to take at Bou- logne. As this is the first council meeting since last November at which the United States has been repre- sented, there is naturally the great est curiosity concerning the exact policy of the new American govern ment.
 The decisions of the council must be unanimous. Therefore, in view Of the fact that neither France nor Great Britain is disposed to yield, a com promise seems inevitable. The dis tinct impression here is that Ameri- can influence will be thrown in that direction.
 Such a compromise can hardly take the form of a division of the dis puted territory since this industrial area essentially Is a unit. The sug-
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CHAMBER
 IS VERY ACTIVE BODY

Huntsville, June 11.-(special.)-- The executive board of the Hunts ville Chamber of Commerce held a conference with their newly elected president, A. M. Booth. last night and went into the question of. adopt ing some means of building up the membership and putting the organ ization solidly on its feet. Not since before America entered the war has there been campaign for members and during the war period the or ganization performed many tasks assigned by war work committees.
 Now 1t is engaged in directing all arrangements for a great celebra- ton of Independence Day, and it IS expected that after this is past there will be a membership drive with the objective of securing enough. mem bers and enough income to permit. an extension of its peace-time activ- ities.
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George veigl Dies-Was
 Resident CuIIman A Years

Cullman. June 1l.-tSpecial.)-Th funeral of George Veigl took place at the Sacred Heart church here. Rev. Father Ignatius having charge of the services. His death took place at the residence, out three miles on the Dripping Springs road. Wednesday night.
 Mir Veigl was born in Beiran, Germany, 69 years ago. He came to America 46 years ago. and. wi-h the exception of two years spent in Cin- cinnati. he had made his home con- tinuously In Cullman county.
 He is survived by his wife and the following children: Mrs Mike Pes to, Mrs. John Dumler, Misses Mag gie and Julia Veigl, Adolph, John, George. Joe, Will and Emil veigl.
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CIVIC CLUB FOR GOOD ROADS

Lowndes County Civic club has a con mittee hard at work this week getting subscriptions towards the good roads fund. Considering the fi- nancial conditions of the county the responses seem fairly generous. It is hoped to have subscriptions suffi- ciently large to meet the require ments of the. state before the end of another week. A delegation of citI- zens went over earlier in the week to meet the Chamber of Commerce at Albany and report hearty recep- ton from that body of business men. who favor the good roads project between Moulton and Albany-Deca- tur. and will cooperate with the club in the work.
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FIVE

gestion put out with the greatest con- fidence and seeming to meet the least opposition from both sides is that the whole of Upper Silesia be neu- tnalized for period of five years-and placed under the administration or some impartial body.
 The only body thus far suggested seriously for the task is the League of Nations and this raises a question which is provoking lively interest. among European political observers.
 What WnI America Dof
 VIII the Anti-League American government recognize the existence and authority of the league by pro- posing or acquescing in such dele gation of power? If so, will 1t tben insist upon representation Tn the leagues deliberations?
 This one particular way in which the Harding administration may be dragged wilIy-nilly into more or less complete acceptance of the Yer sailles programme. only emphasizes what many authoritative Europeans believe is bound to happen. ~-
 Certain English critics in analyz- ing this tendency belIeveit to be de- liberate policy on the part of Secr6- tary of State Hughes. Their impress sion is that he proposes to let the events demonstrate his known con- viction that American aioofnecs from the peace settlements and their exec utive machinery is impossible. By refraining from any comprehensive declaration of policy, say these writ CTS, he avoids antagonizing the United States Senate "irreconcilables but will go the whole distance by taking each step only when American Inter ests appear imperatively to demand it.
 Ambassador Harvey's well known opposition to the league, recently em- phasized in his London speech, seems to these same critics, help rather than a hindrance to such d policy,
 The above analysis represents an impression rapidly growing among practised political observers and the writer has thought 1t worth while 10 report 1t since Americans are vitally interested in the impression the acts of their government is making abroad.
 European opinion and analyses may all be upset by the declination or 1 Mir. Harvey to express any views whatever at tho meeting in Boulogne.
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himself at the other end of this gamut of contrasts, a shrewd eagle eyed machine-like master of political machinations, dealing in politics as form, as manipulation, something upon which neither erudition, aes- theticism, nor the pounding of prin- ciples and law need be wasted If the power to feel and know all the un- dercurrents of political psychology is possessed. So there is the Senate triumvirate, as characteristically op- posed as they could be-Senator Bo- rah a leader by virtue of open prin- ciples and the force with which he fights for them; Senator Penrose, the acme of subtle and silent power: Senator Lodge, the statesman and titular position and environment-aii as they are because they were born so. and. born leaders.
 Jealous of Senate's Powers
 Senator Lodge, at his desk, ap- pears to be jealous of the powers and authority of the Senate in it's relations with the other branches of the government, almost to point of obsession. He is constantly watch full that no move be made, or inter pretation given, which shall diminish the illumination of the Senate. and it's control and check over other branches. which the constitution be- slowed. This technicality is his hobby.
 Senator Penrose, with his hands full of the taxation problem, is just as jealous of power, but for the sake of party rather than Senate tra- dition. He appears to want party bossed Senate, taking orders with pf emptiness and efficiency, and one that occasionally gives orders in the name of the party, even to Pres idents.. His Methods are phenome- nally cryptic. The writer watched him Hay one witness after another during his short taxations, which one or two words of sharp, stinging sarcasm, ridicule or intolerance, sometimes of time wasting witnesses unversed in the general subject. No other chairman conducts hearings as does Senator Penrose.
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AMERICAN POLICY
 TOWARD LEAGUE IS
 WATCHED CLOSELY
May Recognize Body by Par ticipating in Dispute and Settlement of Upper
 SiIeSian Question
By WILLIAM BIRD peciaI Cable to The AReaAHerald

Copyright, 1921. by The Age-HeralD
 (WiII the United States government recognize the League of Nations by participating in the deliberations of the nIiied supreme council at which 1t is believed the silesian dispute, nicnmeing the pence of Europe, may be settled by R plan for neutrniiHins the territory, with nn administration conducted by the Ienguef Europe looks to the council meeting for an expression of American policy, but may be dfsnppointedo
 Paris, June 11.-(Special.)- certainty as to the American atti- tude on the Upper Silesian questiop is the principal reason for delaying the meeting of the allied supreme council, which Ambassador George Harvey has been directed to attend. It is announced the meeting may be held later this month.
 A few weeks ago the British were anxious that the meeting should be
 al at
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HARVESTER ARRESTED

Meridian, Miss, June 11.-(Special.) Winfield Harvester, young white man of Meridian has been arrested charged with being implicated in the burglary of the large suburban gem sral merchandise store of Mrs. Ida Edwards, from which mucl goo .s were stolen, including costly silks and wearing apparel The store was entered through the rear deor, the burglars first boring holes through the frame work and then with a key hole saw cut an ntrance large enough to answer their purposes.
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SUNDAY SING PtoemA MME

Anniston, June 1t:-(Special,)-- Miss Elizabeth Roberts will be the soloist at the Sunday afternoon sing
 ing programme at tho Lyric theatre, Mrs. Sam Pelham will give a violin number. Miss Nellie Galliher will be the reader and tho junior depart ment of tho Parker Memorial Bsp- tist Sunday school will render sev- eral numbers The concert singing by the audience will be led by Capt. Ben R. Sawyer, and T five-minuts address will be made by w. w. Stringfellow. The programme for the Sunday event has been arranged by Miss Iva Cook and other mem bers of the Wednesday Study club.
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Summer Trips to the East

Via Savannah and Ship-Centrai of Georgia Railway to Savannah, thence via ship to Baltimore. Boston, New York and Philadelphia, is delight full way to make your trip to the East.
 reservations, rates, etc.. call on or address J. o. LINTON. District Pas senger Agent. 200s First Avenue. Birmingham, Ala.-Adv.
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BIRMINGHAM MAN FINED

Anniston, June 11.--(SpecIal. )-R. A. Cumby, truck driver for Hood and Wheeler in Birmingham, was ar rested under four charges here Fri- day night. three of them resulting in convictions Saturday in the po- lice court. Cumby was fined sl0 ant costs under a charge of driving while intoxicated, the same amount on drunk charge, and $50 and costs under charge of violating the pro- hibition law, charge of larceny of gas being settled without a fine. The Birmingham man testified that he intended to go from Ragland 10 Birmingham. missed his road and came to Annlston.
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SENATE APPEARS
 GLOOMY BESIDE
 HUSTLE IN HOUSE
Upper House, SaddIed With Trio of Personalities, All Working Out Salvation
 From Different Angles
By ELIZABETH KING STOKES Special Correspondent of The Age-Herald (Cepyright, 1921, by The Age-Herald)

Copyright, 1921, by The Age-Herald)
 Washington, June 11.-(Special.) The House of Representatives for the last few years, unsung and pretty much left to it's own devices 50 far as publicity was concerned, today presents a new picture. Visit ors are in the galleries. Correspon- dents, like weather-vanes of the days news, are appearing in gerater numbers and variety in the press box, and attendance on the floor, al- though always in contrast to the Senate in numbers and sensitiveness to roll calls, is full to overflowing.
 Personalities in the House arc emerging in prominence. Members
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LEWIS IS REELECTED

Montgomery, June 11.-(Special.)- Lawrence c. Lewis of Tuscaloosa was reelected president of the Ala the closing session of the annual convention here, while J. A. Edwards of Anniston was named first vice president and T. R. Frazier of Opeii- ka second vice president. All mem bers of the executive committee were reelected for the next year, they be- ing J. D. Humphrey of Huntsville. Carl Wharton of Gadsden and D. $. Bower of Mobile.