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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-18
But these infreouent

or four weeks. But these infrequent meals usually consist of a large pig or even small deer or antelope, which is crushed to death in the coils of the snake and then swallowed whole and digested while the snake passes the time lying partly submerged in cool water until it's next meal time arrives.
 If this great regal python were a star attraction in a circus 1t would probably be ballyhooed as "boa constructor that eats 'em alive" Ac- cording to Dr: N: HolHster. superin- tendent of the National Geological park, who was chairman of the new python's reception committee, most of the snakes that are shown in the greatest shows on earth,'' and ad- vertised as boa constructors are pyth- ons. The circus variety of python is usually of the rock or black species, which grows 12 or 15 feet long and is found in South America These do not compare in size with the larger regal species that are found in the Malay regions, parts of Asia and the Philippines. The Washington Zoo has three speciments of the smaller pythons.
 The new snake has been obtained as part payment for a baby hippopot- park raised last year. Most of the additions to the Zoo are obtained by exchange in this way. The new python arrived in New York from the Orient through the regular com- mercial channels of caged animal trading. The snake cost S2 per pound. Its exchange value was $500, and it is estimated to weigh close to 250 pounds.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-18

and possibly some fruit covered with sugar. This entire meal is made up of starches and sugar. which adds flesh and very often as an added of fense it is washed down with tea, cof- fee, or cocoa saturated with sugar.
 Dr. Copeland lets his squad eat fruit for breakfast, except bananas. He bars sugar, prohibits white bread, and opposes the drinking of water with meals because that makes the room and inclination for more food. Ger calls are all right, he says, if a. table spoon of bran is added instead of su- gar.
 He recommends Swedish exercises But if the ambitious heavy insists on his calisthenics being 100 per cent. American, the United States army setting up exercises are just as good as any other. These can be practic- ed within the privacy of the home provided the home is of sound con- struction and the neighbors pleasant One of Dr, Copeland's squad confided that every time she began bending and jumping there came complaints from the occupant of the apartment below.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-18
WORLDS LARGEST SNAKE?
Now on Exhibition at National Zoo-
 logical Park.

What is said to be the worlds 1arg- est captive snake is now at the Ma tional Geological Park in Washington. It is a large regal or reticulated py- thon that once slithered through the Malay forests. From tip to tip it is about twenty-five feet long. While a specimen that measured a little less than thirty feet long was once killed it is believed that the snake now in Washington is the largest on exhibi- ton.
 A special cage of extra thick glass was built to house the new python, which came from New York in a heavy wooden box perforated with small holes to allow circulation of air. The python did not eat on it's jour ney; 1t only takes food once In three
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-18

Miss Ethel Hull was elected pres fdent of new athletic club at the Glty t1y NormaI school at a meeting of ball teams are already being formed by the Junior and Senior girls and a game wz11 be arranged in the near future. Theer will be much interest in these games as @ number of for mer High school stars are playing.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-18
ARBUCKLE JURY COMPLETE.

san Franc1ScO, Nov. l8-COmp ple- ton of the jury, selection of one or more alternate jurors and the begin ming of opening arguments formed to- days program in the case of Roscoe c. (Fatty) Arbuck1e, charged with manslaughter.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-18

VETS ATTEND FUNERAL.

A large delegation of former mem- bers of the 56th Regiment and V. of F. W. attended the funral of Calvin Brodie, of Battery 'B' 56th Regi- ment, which was held this afternoon at o'clock, from the home of his
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-18

brother, CEifford Brodie, 3633 Main street. Comrades of the deceased were paHbearers and members or the regiment formed the firing squad.
 Burial was in the American Legion plot in Mountain Grove cemetery
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-18

Advertise In The Times
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
ENGRAVING or MAsToDoN.

By Science Service.
 Pineville, Mo,-Ancient bones, en- graved with figures that resemble prehistoric animals. have been dis covered In Jacobs Cavern, a prehis- toric rock shelter. located near hero, by Jay L. B. Taylor and Vance Ram dolph
 One of these bones is ornamented with what appears to be mann moth or mastodon. Another Is be- Iieved to represent some member of the deer family.
 Bone and horn awls. flint impla- ments of stone. engraved and pol lshed implements of stone, and shaft straighteners and smoothers also wore found in this cave as were DOT ticns of an adult human skeleton, ac- companied by an engraved sandstone pipe.
 The ornamented bones. when first exhumed. seemed to be perfectly firm and sound. but shortly after they be- gan to dlsintegrate. Before this oc- cured, however, it was possible to make pen drawings of the designs and some of the most important of the bones were treated with a pre- serVatiVe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
SEVEN
DIR. ELIOT SLIPPED A COG

From Everybodys for November.
 William Lawrence. bishop of Mas sachusetts. told this story at re- cent reunion of the class of ,7i. at Harvard college.
 "once when there was a vacancy In the Massachusetts bishopric. Phillips Brooks was the most likely candi- date. was walking with President Eliot one day and. in the course of conversation, I said to him. Do you think Brooks will be -elected?'
 Well, no. said Doctor Eliot a second or third rate man would do as we'll
 Phillips Brooks was elected and a short time aftarward Doctor Eliot and I were walking again. Glad Brooks was elected, aren't your asked
 TT suppose so,' returned Doctor Eliot, but to tell the truth, William. you were my man."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06

Douglas. dwelling. 1719 Fourteenth avenue, south
 S2.000-George B Harris to Bryce IT Strelt, lot on whitaker street, south
 Equitable Mortgame com pany to W. G. Spence. cottage. 143o Fifteenth avenue. north.
 st,500-Paul E. Green to T.. P. Bow man. two lots In Earle Place
 st.750-M. F. Peiree 10 C. l.. Cox. two lots in Waverly Terrace
 S6000-w. H. Hurry to W B. Purdy, house and two lots. 5504 Fifth ave- nue, south.
 sS,000-W. T. Fox to Mrs. Bessie " Leeper. lot on Caldwell avenue, south. on which s150,000 apartment is now being erected,
 s3,600-AIrs NJ. b. King to Nellie Madonia. dwelling, 1116 Twenty third street north.
 sS,150--W, T. McCarty to Mrs, l.. cumbee Johnson, lot on Hanover Cir ole
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06

faces the light of a new era"
 Something like new era for Rus
 sian sovietism has indeed come, but 1t does not at all correspond with
 this belligerent picture of It. In stead of recording the triumph of communism on its postage stamps,
 the bolshevist government should be making admission of it's defeat. Since the beginning of the year Mos COW has been avowing in edict after edict that the country is not yet ripe for the Marxian millennium that was promised. Freedom of trade, at first confined to the aged and invalid, IS new extended to all classes of the population. Conhscated houses have been restored to their owners. The principle of payment for work is re- established: no longer are the serv- ices of nationalized institutions and factories, of railways, telegraphs, water works, gas works and tram ways given free gratis for nothing. In August, the order went out that the factories could be rented to pri- vate enterprise. and two days ago news came that henceforth the CO., operative societies, long under the ban, are to be permitted to buy ma chinery and raw materials abroad. Meanwhile the moneyed men of all countries are being invited to com bine with Lenine in his new drive for productivity" And the red ter TOT" has been found to work 80 bad ly that Moscow now finds 1t desirable to restrict the powers of the revolu- tfonary tribunals"
 Communism, when put into prac- tice, Is a great teacher. Famine, when inflicted on the scale of it from which Russia Is now suffering, IS a great disciplinarian. But too much importance must not be attached to the appearances of house cleaning at Moscow. The soviet government has undergone a change of face, but not A. change of heart
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06

sheaves of corn and tools of hus- bandry. farm produce and agricul- turaI implements. But the most striking of them, intended to repre- sent the discontinue of the owners of the means of production and the employers of labor, shows one of the Russian toilers "kneeling on the carcass of the hydra headed mon- ster. the bourgeoisie, across which he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
MUCH PROPERTY
 CHANGES HANDS
Local Real Estate Men Are Pleased With Business.
 Demand Continuing

Indication of tho increased activity in the sale of lots and houses in Bir- mingham is shown by the report yes- terday of the Jemison Real Estate and Insurance company, and the Messer- Johnson Realty company.
 Local real estate men have been pleased with the sales of much prop erty during the past few weeks, and say that the demand is continuing.
 The 1emison Real Estate and In suranee company has just closed the sale of Westleigh park to the city of Birmingham
 The property was negotiated for the following owners: Central Park Land company. city of Birmingham, Blocks 54 and 65 and Lots 1, 4, 5. G., iG. r. IS, 19, 20. 21, 2s, 23, 24; Block 42.
 J. C. Heath. city of Birmingham. Lot B. Block 42.
 II. L. Davis. city of Birmingham, Lot ', Block 42
 J. l.. Andrews, city of Birmingham, Lots and 9, Block 42.
 W. B. Hurley, city of Birmingham. Lots 10 and II, Block 42.
 Mrs Jeanie Parnell, city of Bir- mingham, Lot 12, Block 42.
 D. IT. Segrest, city of Birmingham, Lots 1s, 14 and IS, Block 42.
 Among the sales during the past few days made by this company was the sale of Lot 55, Glenwood, front ing 125 feet on Cllff road,
 NJ. P. Messer of the Messer-John- son Realty company says that as soon as money gets cheap real estate be- gins to move. His company reports the following sales
 S16,000-W. H. Bum to Birmingham News company, 2212 Fourth avenue.
 $27 27,500-Whitlock estate to J. l.. Yancey Real Estate and Insurance company, building at 116 Twenty first street, north.
 35.ooo-Messer- Massey to Henry Upton Sims, buildings 220s-1o Third avenue, north
 Whitlock estate to the Third Ave- nue Improvement company, southwest corner of Third avenue and Twenty third street.
 S3 S3,000--Alvin Douglas to Mrs o. D.. Atkins farm on Shades mountain
 s3.00o-M. P, Hollingsworth to Sudduth Brothers. dwelling. 5632 First avenue.
 $1,650-w. G. Spence to J. w. Mall lory 421 Church street l s5.0oo--Mrs. o. D. Atkins to A. M.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
sTAMP POLITICs IN RUssIA

STAMP POLITICS IN RUSSIA From the Boston Herald
 A flood of new stamps just is- sued from bolshevist presses in Moscow reaffirms pictorially "a dictatorship of the 1918 soviet constitution abolishing classes and establishing "a dictatorship" of the urban and rural proletariat and of the poorest peasantry' The designs include a hammer and sickle crossed,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
Notice to ContrmctOrs
Notice

Notice is hereby given that the Ala bama state Board of Public Accountaney will meet on November Is and 16, at Montgomery. Ala, for the purpose of con duetlng examinations for the degree of certified public accountant.
 NJ. W. ALDRIDGE. Chairman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06

Our New Home
 Occupied Exclusively by HENSON AND COMPANY. INo. JEMISoN-SEIBELS INSURANCE
 AGENCY
 CORNER Sd AVENUE AND FIST
 STREET.
 It may interest the reading public to know that this com pany, as exclusive agents in Alabama for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, will have placed approximately two million dollars in loans on farm lands by the end of the year now drawing to a close. We have also placed, as representatives of the same company, approximately half million dollars in loans on improved business property, residences and apartments in Birmingham and other cities of the state.
 Acting for the progressive Metropolitan, we have ire quently been the only channel in some portions of the farm ing districts of Alabama through which farm loans could be secured during cer- tain seasons of the current year.
 We, therefore, feel par donable pride in having been able to assist the farmers of Alabama at time when as- sistance was most needed.
 We are unquestlonably fac ing better conditions here in Birmingham and over the state. Let us make the best of them.
 Jemison and
 Company,
 Inc.
 z2I North 2lst Street
 Phone Main 52so
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
The Boulevard and
 Birmingham

Norwood Boulevard, which has been. char acterzed as the most unaffectedly beautiful residential section of Birmingham will soon have the last touch added to it's attractiveness. With the early completion of the electric street railway residents on the Boulevard will have service which will earn their apprecia- tion, while adding to the value of their property. Birmingham is to be congratulated, rather than NorWood Boulevard, on this new trans portation facility, for her residential potential ity will be enhanced thereby.
 Birmingham Realty Co.
 2118 First Avenue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
EstraY Notice

never notice it's of Canadian persua- sion. Anyway, somebody passed 1t on me,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06

Estray Notice
 The State of Alabama, Jefferson County: Probate Court.
 Taken up by Robert Gardiner on the l7th day of October 1891. and estrayed before ". g. Crocker, Justice of the peace for Precinct No. 19. a certain horse and mule, described as follows One black horse. with flea bites on both sides, few white hairs at root of tail. barefooted, wire cut on heel of right front foot, about 10 years old, 13 hands high, weight about 1,1o0 pounds. value s75. one dark bay mare mule, with white saddle marks. Q hands high weight about TOO pounds, about t5 years old, gray headed. left eye moon eye, barefooted. value sl5.
 Witness my hand this 24th day of Octo- ber, 1921. J. P. STILES. Judge of Probate for Jefferson County.
 Notice to Contractors
 Until 2 o'clock noon, Friday, Nov. IS, 1921, bids will be received at the state department of education for the cree ton of dormltory at tho state Normal School for Negroes at Montgomery. Plans. specifications and other information may be obtained at tho state department of education on deposit of s10
 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF ALABAMA,
 By John w. Abercrombie. Executive
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
DOBIE PROMISED TO
COACH AT w. AND J.
Wanted to Break Contract
With Cornell.

Special Despatch to THE Erw YosK HERALD.
WAsHINGToT. Pas Feb. 17.--That Gil
I-our Dobie tried In every way possible
20 obtain his release from Cornell TO
emo TO Washington and Jefferson be-
same known here to-day following the
receipt of news that Dobie had signed a
new contract extending his football SER
vices at the ithaca institution until 1926.
Dobie, II was learned, conferred with
the w. and J. authorities In Washington
shortly after Thanksgiving and agreed
10 terms provided he could obtain his
release from the contract which bound
him TO Cornell for two years, He stated.
however, that proceedings could not be
rushed. but that no believed he could
get away.
Later came an offer from Oregon for
$500. Following this Doble had an
other conference with the W. and ],
authorities. who agreed 20 pay him
$4,000. which Is what he asked. In adj
dition 10 an assistant whom he was to
name. At that time Dobie asked that
contracts be mailed him. This was done.
II IL presumed here that Cornell boosted
his salary considerably, as he was get
ting only $1,000 under the three year
contract he signed In 1920
That W. and J. was rather confident
of securing the former Navy coach Is
indicated by the announcement to-day
by Manager n. NJ. Murphy that he had
no man definitely in view, although
several men we're applicants
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
FOUR COLLEGE TEAMS
IN POLO TOURNAMENT

After q lot OF correspondence and tur-
moil the intercollegiate indoor polo
championship tournament will begin on
Tuesday next. February %. at the Rid
ing and Driving Club. -Four teams viii
compete-Yale. Princeton. Pennsylvania
and West Point. II viii be the first at
tempt OF the collegians TO hold an indoor
tourney. and a host Of people will be
disappointed to learn that only very
few spectators win be allowed TO see the
game. II was thought that the majority
OF the games might be played at Dur
lands or at tho old armory Of the Twen-
ty-second Regiment, Broadway and Six
ty-eighth street, but there was no such
luck in store for the college men.
The method OF determining the winner
will be on the round robin plan. the team
scoring tho most goals 10 be declared the
winner. The finals will be played Febru-
ary 25. The Il. w. Hopping Cup goes TO
the winning team.
The jupior and senior Journeys under
the auspices OF the Indoor Polo Associa-
ton begins tonight at the Riding and
Driving Club. when the Riding and Driv-
ing Club juniors will meet the Riding
and Driving Club OF Brooklyn. The
senior teams of the clubs will also play
In the same ring. The Durland's Rovers
viii meet the Squadron a juniors and
seniors OF these teams will also meet.
The Durland seniors have been named
the "Tllackbirdg
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
GUILLEMOT TAKES REST.

Josef Guillemot gave further indica-
tions that he was not in the best OF con-
dition yesterday when he again failed
to report at Columbia Tor MS usual
workout II now appears that the In
yading Frenchman will 20 into Satur-
days race with only two trial spins in
this country. and event If he should don
the spiked shoes this afternoon ne WI.
do little more than jog around the turf
bordering the Blue and White board
track.
o;uillenot spent all day yesterday In
hi 3 room and said that unless MS
sprained instep felt greatly improved ne
would not take a chance on the boards
again until the race. The wcarer OF the
tricolor put too much in his first spins
around the boards and he first suffered
n sore toe and later a sprained instep'
There is little chance OF HIS being IN
perfect condition By Saturday. and odds
all point 70 a comparatively easy victory
for Jois Ray. the Illinois A. g. flyer.
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
HAVANA ENTRIES.

First Race-Five and a half furlongs; three
year-oids and upward; claimlng purse
500; sIullaby. 90; Marjorie Mignon, Q2.
sLyric. "a 'fIosier. 10s; sGoiden Reb. t05
Brifida, 10s; Al Porter. 10; Sayeth, f1O:
riNts Flyer, iiO. Homes, George, il0; STAR
keader, ito: Prince Of Como, fi5.
Second Receive and a half furiongs.
three -ycar-oids and upward; claiming: pUse
sT00. sOrleans Girl, i03 Terrible Susan.
iO3: ~Rybli. iOJ; sPrinco Bonero, iO7; sFait
Accompi los Frank Burke, 10: VIII John
son. iio; Eddie Mcbride, fiO: Sureget, fiO;
The Masquernder. i12; Sentry, 1f3.
Third Rsce--Slx furlonRs; four-year-oids
and upward ciaiming purse 300: 'Juanita
H., 100. sPunctual. fOt 'Sppery Silver,
i0l.: "view, los; 'Kewessa. 1908; 'Loyailst.
1903.
Fourth Racc--Ex furlongs three-y ycar-oids I.
claiming; purse $500: aunt peda. 30 'Nos-
rim, 100; .Disturoance, iO2 sRoseate. 102 .
Mavehona. 1l3. sRarnn, 100.
Fifth Race-Six furionsa: tlree-year-olds
and upward claiming: purse sTo0 'ISing's
Belle. 20; BRIG of War. 9s; Armistice, i03 .
Discussion. 1Os: Runnyven, 100, 'Salvo. 10.
sixth Rnce--One mile and fifty yards; four
year-ods and upward; claiming purse tI00 .
Norfolk Belle, VI; .Doublst H.. Ca 'Elmont
90: sRey Ennis, 100: eDuke Ruff i0i ;
.fariat, iosi Litholick. 100; Hocnir. ioc
Jack Hill, 100.
Apprentice sicvsnos
The New York herald., 1921-02-18

establishments will show the spring
styles. and after the meeting there Will
be dancing.
"In addition to the match between
'Spengler and Chandler there win be q
series of contests between the cham
pions of the Eastern Division of khe
Army and the Navy. Men selected from
the Second and Third Army Corps. will
meet others chosen from the Newport
and Hampton Roads naval stations.
"One of the matches arranged will be
a return engagement between Sergt
Dan Toomey Of Camp Dix. champion
lightweight OF the army, and Jimmy
Brown of the naval base at Hampton
Roads
This pair put UP q slashing battle
at, our last entertainment. On that oc-
casion II was necessary for them to box
extra periods. the judges being unable
to decide which was tho winner. After
the extra session the referee decided in
favor of Brown. Not only did Toomey
beg for return match. but we have
received numerous requests from our
members asking If it were not possible
TO put this pair on for q return match
According to an Associated Press
despatch received from Albany yester-
day Coy. Miller has no intention of
bringing about the repeal of the Walker
law. The Governor, It was stated. has
become satisfied with the commission's
work in regulating the sport and is
understood TO feel that there is no good
reason for abolishing t. There has been
a proposal put forward to reorganize the
commission and the Racing Commission
under q single headed department which
also would assume control over profess
sicral baseball.
In this connection Il was recalled that
GOV. Miller has repeatedly stated in re-
ply to questions that other matters more
important than sport are commanding
his attention.
The tax on boxing shows since the
Walker law became effective has netted
the State more than $4,000 in taxes.
Johnny Kilbane. featherweight cham
pion. has been offered s25,000 by Jack
Callahan. Tulsa, Okla. promoter. 10 de-
fend his title against Andy Clancy at
Tulsa July f. Eddie Meade, Chaney's
manager. said he had closed with Gala
han for the bout