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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-20
EMPLOYMENT
AGENTS WANTED

AGENTS wanted to sell and demonstrate
our perfect darner and fancy work
stockings lace curtains and clothing
fits any sewing machine; sample SOC
every woman a prospect; 200 per cent
profit. Perfect Darner. Box 1877, Mem.
phis. Tenn.
AGENTs-Make $72 a week by selling 4
average Cresco raincoats day; outfit
free, no delivering. Improved Mfg. Co.,
Dept. 1871, Ashland, o.
THE LARGEST 7-piece 81 combination
ever offered agents for 3Oc. United
SOAP Works % Park Place. New York.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-20
AUTOMOBILES
AUTOMOBILES FoK SALE

AUTOMOBILES B
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE
1T is NO LONGER
A QUESTION
Can | afford to own a car?
But
Can l afford not to own
one?
1T IS NO LONGER
A QUESTION
Where shall l buy my car?
But
Can | afford not to go
first to the auto depart
ment of Edwards-Hanna
Motor Co.?
1920 FORD CoUPE-In extra
good condition all around; self
starter. Price ...............$4O0
1921 FORD TOURING-Just over
hauled completely. equipped with
Apco shock absorbers and self
starter .....r....... ......... tSbO
TON FORD PANEL BODY
DELIVERY TRUCK-Body good
as new; motor just overhauled;
price ..'.............t... $500
h-ToN FORD DELIVERY
TRUCK-Equipped with cord
tires, Decker lock steering wheel
and seif-starter; in good mechani-
cal condition -......-+t.... 1870
Equipped with self-starter; has
not been run over 5000 miles;
has small tobacco box on rear Of
car ...,...r..........' .sSoo
1919 1-ToN TRUcK-with brand
new stake body; chassis Just
X. Price .S42F
1918 FORD ROADS TER
Equipped with Hassler shock
absorbers; has cream colored
wheels; good buy for .......s2Oo
1918 FORD ROADS Eh-W ltn
Hassler shock absorbers, price
only .........,..... 'slzo
1918 FORD ToURING-Good con.
dillon. price ......,....... .>lbV
1890 FORD TOURING Just
painted and has National wood
demountable wheels self starter;
chassis and body o X. Price $500
1918 DODGE ROADSTER-In
good condition all over 1915
1918 HuPMoBILE ROADSTER
New tires, good condition all over;
Price ........''.' N0"V
All of these cars have
been cut to the bone in
prices. We feel sure you
will be pleased, as you
have to see the cars to APP
preciate them.
EDWARDS-HANNA
MOTOR co.
s134 AVENUE c. MAIN 500
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-20
STOCK PROMOTER

Experienced stock promoter and
salesman to take high-clas propo-
sition to Chicago and put 1t
across. Address D-54. care Age
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27
LITTLE BENHY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE

1 was late for suppir agen today.
making the 3rd time this week al
reddy, and 1 looked in the frunt door
and saw them all in the dining room
looking as if they had bin there a long
vile, me thinking, G, I know wat. Ill
run GROUND and go in the back way
and sneek throo the kitchin and get
under the dining room table without
anybody seeing me, and all of sud-
din Ill bob out and everybody will
think was there all the time jest for
a joak.
WITCH I started to do, running err
round and going in the back way, and
our cook Nora was jest taking some
thing off of the stove and dident see
me go throo the kitchin and 1 got
down on my hands and neez and
started to crawl across the dining
room floor to get nder the table,
thinking, Herray, this is easy as pie.
WITCH jest then Nora came out of
the kitchin carrying a. dish full of peez
in one hand and a dish full of carritS
in the other hand, beeing pops ia
vorite vegetables, and she dident see
me the floor and tripped rite over me
and the carrits dish went one way and
the peez dish went the other way and
the carrits and the peez went every
way and Nora banged into the table
making 2 glasses of waiter upset, me
thinking, Heck
And 1 started to crawl out agen
hoping nobody wouldent notice me.
Hoping rong, on account of pop seeing
me and saying, Benny, stand up. Wich
did, and pop sed, What were you
doing on the floor? and sed, Sir? I
was jest trying to see something, l
meen I was jest trying to try some
thing, meen, nuthing special.
Well meen something special
bleeve me, sed pop. I Suppose if you
lived to be 100 yeers old it would never
occur to you to trip Nora wen she was
carrying something I don't like, sutch
as onions and colliflower, o no. you jest
half to wait till she's carrying peez
and carrits. well now you'll pick up
every single peece. and for every par
tickle you overlook Ill give you an
exter crack after suppir.
WITCH I 6ident overlook eny, being
a good thing I dident because I got
enuff cracks without eny exter.
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a;nner and listen with baited breath
~ his recital of how things went IN
the store. She may see the Whole
world now, but nothing IN VII.
quicken her pulse as did the sight OF
tbe savings bank book with the pitt
Eli, small entry of their first deposit.
.sYet these very people would deny
THAR children these experiences pc
cause they are hard. ana might NUT
them AS well might you keep chiio
from learning to walk because II ,, ~ ~
II. myself have been young ana am
now old. In my long life ] have
known almost every vicissitude OF Tor
tune. I have been rich. ana oesper-
ately poor. I have had love. ana seen
it prove unfafthful- l nave uorne
children. and wept above their graves
1 have mad success. and known laii-
ure. have had my hour OF rapture.
and my night in Gethsemane, anu
now. looking back over my expert
ences, would not have them changed,
am glad that the way has been hard
instead of smooth, for by SO much as
have had the strength to endure
by SO much am I a bigger and a bet
ter woman, and a wiser one
"Among my friends are a few wo-
men who have lived in cotton wool all
their lives. They went from ricn ana
induIgent fathers to rich and indul-
gent husbands. and even fate mas kept
from them the ordinary sorro"s OF
humanity. When / look at them Il Is
with pity. not envy. -.
"'Ah. my dear say to myself
YOU have missed the best. thing IN
the world. You have had no expert
ences. You have never really lived.
but 1 who have been thru the muck or
the battle. who have known strug-
Gle, and anguish. and anxiety. ana
hunger, and want. as well as JOY. ana
peace. and comfort, have touched
life at every angle. have lived
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27

The proposed tariff is guaranteed
by it's author. Congressman Fordney.
to bring uniform and universal pros
perity. Democrats describe it as I'M
adulterated robbery. That many of
the schedules will be eliminated Or
drastically changed is probable. That
they ought to be is equally certain.
The drafters of this voluminous bill.
says Forbes Magazine, have failed to
grasp the elementary fact that the
Transformation of our country from
a debtor to the principal creditor ma
tiol in the world renders imperative q
change in our whole tariff policy.
They have also apparently neglected
to realize that protection by a coun-
try fosters protection against that
country. And the United States just
now needs greater export markets
than any other country in the world
THE whole tariff" continues Forbes
Conveys the impression of having
been compiled in the interest of vari-
Gus industries and groups rather thar
in the interest of the American people
as a whole" And it might be added
that this has been true OF every tariff
bill ever enacted into law in this coun.
try.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27
George MdttheDAddn1s
Daily Talk
SHOPPERS.

One of the important requirements,
as we'll as natural instincts, of the wo-
mans makeup is the art of shopping.
She takes to it as an alert dog does to
a freed coon.
And may she ever continue adept
at it,
It was in thinking of this that said
to myself this shopping thing is not
confined to the lady side at all. We
are ali shoppers. It's a natural bust
mesa human affair We shop for
knowledge. We shop for place in the
world. We shop for the thing that
may most fit our abilities. We shop
for lovel
We are shoppers-al. Yes. indeed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27

Among other things I am a book
shopper. 1 thrill at bargain in
book as a woman does to a bargain
in lace.
We shop for friends, too. And every
once in while we pull one close to us
and whisper into it's soul that We want
it to stay close by US for long time
maybe forever.
Ideas have to be shopped after, also.
Even success has to be angled for and
coaxed.
Life is shopping tour! Along road
sides, up in the mountains, beside
quiet. ripping waters. in offices, in
termixed with crowded street throngs.
no matter where, there are displayed
virtues and vices alike in people. And
it is from them that we must do our
shopping-take that which is able to
make us more able. stronger, and fully
fit for a happy sojourn.
Man has what the animal lacks most
the power of choice, moral choice.
And it is this which will make Man
immortal if anything can.
But being born shoppers, there is
no one who may be left stranded,
things that lie closest-be they ever so
simple and humble. The trouble lies
in people going to sleep and closing
their eyes to bargains in happin ess.
Hunt around. When least you ex-
pect, you are most apt to find. That
is the way with this strange world.
Be a game shopper. Don't be afraid
to get sore feet and a lame back and
tired eyes. The thing you most de-
sire is probably just as anxious to meet
you as you are to meet it.
And if you don't find it today, get
up bright and early tomorrow-and go
shopping all over again!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27

'''E did that. SIR" she replied, with
emphasis Dashed me over the 'ead
wiz a motter, did"
with a what?" queried the mag
istrate.
"A motter, yer worship. One of
them fings what you 'angs on the
wall wiz a frame rahnd it and Bless
Our Apply One in the middle"
when was a boy" said the
gray-haircd physician. who happened
to be in a reminiscent mood, Il
wanted to be soldier, but my
parents persuaded me to study medt-
cine"
"Oh. we'll" rejoined the sympa-
thetic druggist, such is life. Many
a man with wholesale aspirations has
to content himself with a retail bust
ness"
teacher was reading to her class,
when she came across the word "un-
aware" She asked if any one knew
the meaning.
One little girl timidly raised her
hand and gave the following defini-
ton:
Unaware is what you put on first
and take off last.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

President Harding's message to
congress. in which he suggests a pos
sible solution of some of the difficult
ties besetting the railroads. indicates
that we have what long has been
needed in this country: that is, bust
ness man in the White House.
His proposal may not be the best
solution that could be offered but ut
least It affords a remedy for a con-
dition which long has existed without
any apparent effort on the part OF
anybody to remove or ameliorate It.
Under the presidents plan $780,
100000 is to become available to the
railroads and he says without an ap-
preparation or additional taxes. If
this can be done there should be no
objection on the part of anybody.
The outstanding merit of the pres
ident's proposal is that 1t means ac-
ton where previously there apparent
ly has been unending delay. He
points out that the roads owe the gov
eminent and the government owes the
roads. If there have been any at
tempts to reach a settlement they
have been without result. Mean
while, the business of the country suf-
fers because the roads have neither
cash nor available credit with which
to make extensions and betterments.
The president seems certain that he
has found a way out. If he can con-
vince congress the way should speed
lily be opened for the coming of that
progress for which the country is ripe
and the prosperity which is its due.
When the railroads prosper every
body prospers. When they are buying
the wheels of industry hum and the
idle find work. If all this can be
brought about by a sleight-of-hand
performance with $500. 900 900 which
costs nobody a cent, let It be done at
once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27
Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the Columns Of
TEE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
Chapter 81.

July 27, 1896.
At the next meeting of the city council
the ordinance which provides for the dis
position Of the hremen's relief fund VIII
be passed. The ordinance provides that the
fund shall be held by the city treasurer,
but subject to orders drawn by the presi-
dent and secretary of the Ftremen's Relief
association. The fire marshal is to be
president of the association. The fund is
to be used in carrying $500 insurance ON
the life of each fireman. Provisions are
also made for the payment of a weekly
indemnity OF IS in case of injury or sick
ness.
Miss Louise McAahan, Miss Lola Nc
Mahan, Miss Pauline Myers and Miss Min
ME Carr win spend tomorrow at Silver
Lake.
Mrs. George Seward, Miss Nora Nc
Carthy Miss Edna Crane, Miss Myrtle
Davis and Miss Libbie Hazlett will GO to
Lake View tomorrow afternoon TO remain
until wednesday at Mrs. -SeK2rdss cot
tage.
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observation-disclosures

@ What was the t Isst, Of tn; tn .s Ming e
A. 1t is believed that true porcelain. as
we know it today, appeared first during
in in0 the - fourteenth century. but porcelainss
with authentic history probably do not
antedate the fifteenth century, mar.
of the District of Columbia ID 2
A. Alexandria. originally called Belle,
to tbs nted P States 81 in f7s It was
troeeded in 1916 and again became a part
OF Virginia in 1877
A. The department of Agriculture de-
fines plank as a board 6 inches wide or
q. What does the expression ring the
bells backward" mean? D. L. S.
A. This refers to an old custom OF
striking chimes in reverse order as signal
of alarm.
Q. Can porcupines throw their quilts and
A. The quilts are loosely inserted In the
skin of porcupine and may upon being
q. What was the name of the armed
sailing vessels used by the Malay piratesf
A. These large rowboats, carrying two
masts with high triangular sails, armed
with few small swivel guns, are called
o. what is citronella and from what is
oil imported from Ceylon, the Malay
Peninsula. and Java. A group of closely
allied grasses produce this OIL: The name
of the grass Is AudropoEen Nardus. The
most important ingredients IN this oil are
geranioI and citronella, which together
ma Ike up as much % per cent OF the oil.
+ O. What was the highest temperature
! in the United States last summer? L. j.
/ A. The Weather Bureau says that rs
degrees registered at Greenland Ranch,
1 Death Valley. California, on July 31st, was
| the highest authentic reading for the year.
Q. How should American flag be dis
I posed of when 1t is worn outf f. !. B.
/ A. The state department says that the
most satisfactory way to dispose OF an
American Flag which has become too old
| for service is to burn it
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Journal Information Bureau, Frederic J.
! Haskin, Director, Washington, DC. This
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27

Germany was disarmed by the Yer
sailles treaty. Since, therefore, there
no longer exists a nation that any,
program of general disarmament
should have smooth sailing. But will
it? Governmental expenditures for
1920 by the United States exceeded
those from 1871 to 1855, inclusive, 4
period of seventy-two years. and the
financial problem confronting the
treasury-which means the taxpayers
in the immediate future is serious.
1t is imperative for the taxpayers of
this country seriously to consider the
fact that obligations arising out of the
recent and earlier wars, together with
the current expenses of the war and
navy departments. constituted 92.S
per cent of the total appropriations
for 1920. Congress has appropriated
for the military and naval establish
ments for the fiscal year 1922 the
sum of sS35.s37,939. If we take
these appropriations as fairly repre-
sentative of our annual military and
naval expenditure in the future 1t will
be seen that while Germany is paying
$4,000, 100000 as interest and amor
tization of her present reparations OBJ
legation. the United States will have ex-
pended in the same period $30,OOO,.
100000 for military ana naval pur-
poses. And all this would be done
with little If any chance of having
anybody to fight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27
JUST FOLKS
LIFE.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

LIFE.
Life is not strife for gold
Nor medalled fame,
Its years in Joys are told
( The hearth fires flame,
The roses nodding in the sun,
The chi1dren's happy feet,
Some little duty done,
A pleasure fleet.
Life is the Joy of friends
And birds and trees.
The notes the lover sends,
Old memories.
Neighbors and sunny skies,
And little trips to make.
Tears when loved one dies
And hearts that ache
Life is sum of things,
Laughter and CHEEKY days,
Hope with the morning brings,
The futures roster ways,
Faith when the clouds are gray,
Grief when the shadows fall;
So we must go our way
Knowing them all.
Life is no narrow span
Flung twixt q goal,
It is a mighty plan
Shaping the soul;
All that the eye can see,
All that the heart can feel,
All that can ever be,
Turns on ufe's wheel.
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27

For many years. the hot weather.
story has made its appearance regu-
larry every summer in the press of
the country. The sea serpent was an
old time favorite in the east. Now
when about every form of dull time
reading has been worked out, along
comes somebody with the story of the
Ku Klux Khan. which scores an i'm
mediate success. It is satisfying TO
both makers and readers of newspa-
pers and should survive well into the
autumn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27

1t has been suggested that an op-
portunity for making millions lies in
inventing white waist that will al
ways look as tho it had just come from
the laundry. This can only be done,
says the st. Louis Times, by artifi-
cially giving it a newly torn appear
ance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27

use. including the indirect firing guns,
or mortars The charge which pro-
pels the projectiIe is measured al
most to the last grain of powder. So
well is this science perfected that in
target practice at sea, when two big
guns are fired, sometimes only one
splash will result when the two pro-
jectiles hit the sea at exactly the
same point and at precisely the same
fraction of a second.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27

Great rivalry has developed between
the association of horse breeders AMI
the makers of automobiles, each
claiming that it's source of power is
more economical. Each side is carry
ing on a publicity campaign. Mean
while the public pays its money and
takes its choice,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27

One of the latest jokes is the an
nouncement made by organizers of
the Ku Klux Khan that its purpose is
to repress lawlessness. Possibly. how
ever, they are operating on the theory
that like cures like"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27

To ship cattle from South Dakota 20
Chicago costs more than double what
it did a few years ago. The greatest
need of this country seems to be that
Henry Ford go into the railroad busi-
ness more extensively than he has
done
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Dinner Stories

do I understand your husband as
saulted your" asked the London mag
istrate of the much damaged lady who
made application for a summons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27

Copyright. 1920. by. tbe wheeler Eyndicats.
Incl
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-29

that during his convalescence.
My first impulse was TO telephone
for DR. Harris. Thank the Lord,
the telephone was working again.
While l was trying to get the mum.
Der. Edith was attempting to make
Bobbie more comfortable and TO take
his temperature.
As luck would have it. the doctor
was out--at theatre! | called up the
playhouse where I was told he had
gone, but he had omitted TO leave
his number at the box office, and
there was no way TO reach him until
he returned home.
went back to Bobbe. Edith told
me that the Thermometer showed a
fraction over 102 degrees. ! was not
surprised.
The child was cross and fretful.
II was absolutely impossible to think
OF anything else. Every other mo.
ment he called for water.
Edith wrapped him i'm a blanket
and held him In her arms; Bobbie
chung TO her, tho he kept calling for
mamma"
Now I tried TO get another doctor
fearing that IL might be too late
when our own physician reached the
house. II seemed that everyone !
called was out,
Finally ! succeeded in locating
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-29
Confessions of a Husband
10. A STRANGE, UNHAPPY NIGHT

"What can that be-" Edith asked
in alarm.
1T must be Bobhic"'
I Jumped TO my feet. There was
some good reason for him crying
like that. "I-l'll go with you" said
Edith when | had my hand on the
door. Her eyes that had shone so
brightly a moment before held no
challenge now. Her voice quavered.
For my own part, my hand trem.
bled, my steps were unsteady
had been shaken in my innermost
being.
| knew now that our ultra-modern
idea of exchanging better halves for
one evening might have had almost
tragic consequences.
81 hope the little fellow hasn't had
u relapse" I said slowly. in meas
ured tones. as we went back To his
room. only by an effort could
speak calmly.
We found the child sitting up in
bed. There was no need of Their.
momcter to tell that he had fever
His flushed checks, his wild eyes
spoke for themselves. When he saw
fus he was silent
How do you foel?" l asked stu.
pidly.
Fine he replied mechanically.
He had gotten used TO telling US