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Fatal to Friendship.

"Mr. Wadleigh seems to have few
intimate friends"
'It's his own fault"
"Why so?"
"He's always been lending sums
ranging from $40 to $50 to people who
talk as if they would die of chagrin
If they owed him money longer than
"a hours, and then proceed to make
It a lifetime obligation."- n."-Birmingham
Age-Herald.
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Novel D.signs for Bird Baths.

much smaller log forming the pedestal.
The upper log section is followed out
to receive round pan which holds the
water.
The shingle-covered bath at the
right has a base made from two-inch
lumber, to which is fastened tapered
wooden frame, made of one-inch strips,
each side being two inches smaller at
the top than at the bottom. A two
inch cap, with a one-inch board sup
port for the pan, is provided-Popu-
lar Mechanics Magazine.
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experience chidless wives.
Mston W"I want to word Of wonderful
medicine We fond children and for
married feared would began taking Lydia Pink
hams Vegetable and it nice
the credit and shall always recommend
H. H. JANSEN, Mllston, Wis.
Held of Marinette Wis., adds her testimonial for Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says:
W"I condition and very irregular My
My husband brought booklets
Pkhams Vegetable
healthy
medicine
There such homes that and are now
healthy children Pnkhm Vegetable
Compound restored the strong as
natural restorative for ailments indicated by backach Teg
lariies, dsplacemens, weakness and
onestey caused dspace
apparently readily yield Lydia Pinkhams
Vegetable
with perfect safety and often prevents troubles
suffering unable
relief and regry looking forward chdess old
brought health
and dakened by illness despair
Lydia e. Pinkham's Private Textbook Ailments
free request Write
The Lydia E. Pnkham Medicine Co., Lynn MASSACHUSETTS
This book contains valuable information
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NAME "BAYER" IS ON
GENUINE ASPIRIN
Take Tablets Without Fear, it You
See the Safety "Bayer
Crosa.~

If you want the true, world-famous
Aspirin, as prescribed by physicians for
over twenty-one years, you must ask
for "Bayer Tablets Of Aspirin"
The "Bayer Cross is stamped on
each tablet and appears on each pack
age for your protection against imita-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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TWO ORIGINAL BIRD BATHS
One Is Made Entirely of Logs, tho
Other on Shingle-Covered
Pedestal.

The photograph shows two original
ideas in bird-bath construction that
can be adapted where it would not be
possible to build cement bath.
At the left is shown a bird bath
made entirely from logs, heavy cross
section being used for the base, an
other for the top. and few feet of
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WEAK WOMEN
Here is Virginia Woman's Advice

Lynohburg, Va.-I went all to
pieces with nervousness and weak
ness after motherhood, and do not
know what would have become OF
me had I not taken, DR.. Pierce's
Fav0rite Prescription. This medi-
cine completely restored me to
health and strength and l was soon
able to get around to do my own
housework. This 'Favorite Pre-
scription' Of DR.. Pierce's is a splen-
did tonic for women, and it is a real
pleasure to me to recommend it,"
Mrs. ]. R. MCGUIRE, 22O9 14th st.
Write DR.. Pierce, Pres. Invalids'
Hotel in Buffalo, N. Y, for conf
Dental medical advice, free.
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The Rioht instinct.

"Come, Dorothy" said her father
impatiently, "throw your doll on the
bed and hurry or we shall be late"
Daddy, how can you?" reproved the
child. II isn't that kind of muvver"
Boston Transcript.
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An Active Volcano.

The most active volcano in the world
is Mount Sangay. It is 1915 feet
high, and is situated on the eastern
chain of the Andes, in South America,
It has been in constant eruption since
the year 1728.
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Man is just handful of mud, but
a good woman can mold him into
something worth while.-Louisville
COurier-J Journal.
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Careful.

did you tell your wife you had a
new typewriter?"
Il did. I told her l had new type
writing machine to write-a machine,
mind you, and I made it doggone ex-
Dlicit !" Richmond Times-DiSpatch.
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An Elimination Contest.

More than 1000 novels are written
In year in America; written and
published. Ten are read. Two are
remembered for a few years. One
survives a decade-once in q decade.
Exchange.
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DARLING baby
BR|GH7ENS HOME
Children's Laughter Pleasing Sound

Altoona, Pa.-"I am writ
ing to tell you what Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound has done for me. We
had six children die almost at
birth. From one hour to nine
teen days is all they have
lived. Before my next one
was born I took q dozen bot
ties of your Veg etable Com
pound, and I can say that it is
the greatest medicine on
earth, for this baby is now
four months old, and a
healthier baby you would not
want. I am sending you q
picture Of her. Everybody
says THAT is a very healthy
looking baby You have my,
consent to show these few
lines to anybody. - Mrs.
c. w. BENZ, 131 3rd Avenue,
Altoona. Pa.
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Wealth of Fertilizer in Coal.

A four-foot seam of coal contains
enough ammonium sulphate to fertil-
ze the land above it for more than
500 years.
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ROME u !
TOWN - -
HELPSkJ ]
EVIL OF THE RENTING HABIT
Dependency on Other Hands TOR
Homes Marks Retrogression
in Spirit.

When householders become renters
by habit, that is, when they become
willing to depend on other hands than
their own to provide and maintain
their homes for them, society loses
much of that valuable individuality,
that personal independence, initiative
and self-reliance that distinguishes
great people from a mass Of people.
For three hundred years the Ameri-
can people have led the world In indi-
viduality, initiative and personal inde-
pendence. The fathers pulled out OF
the European huddle in order that they
might stand on their own feet; and
having reached America, they had to
stand alone. Most born Americans
were born of parents who owned their
own homes.
Contentment with huddle, the will
ingness to live in some one else's
warmed and cared-for loft rather than
in ones own fought-for and paid-for
home marks a retrogressiOn in spirit
from the American way to the Euro
pean way of life.
However we may excuse ourselves
for inclination toward the easy COM
fort of the choreless, commercial, rent
ed compartment, and for shrinking
from the harder demands of the de-
tached, owned and paid-for home; and
however respectable the renting habit
may have become, it must be admitted
that our inclination is phase Of So
cial degeneracy, a drift toward the
huddle, the beginning of the abandon
ment Of that vitalizing independence
of which the owned home is pre-emi-
nently the symbol and support.-Port-
land (Ore.) Telegram.
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Does one obey his own rules any
better than men obey the laws If their
country?
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"Movies" and Eye Strain.

One potent cause Of eye strain in
movie theaters, according to investi-
gators in England, is peculiar to the
front seats, especially popular with
children, where the eye must be un-
comfortably uplifted to see tho screen.
It is recommended that the visual
angle to the top Of the screen should
not be more than IS degrees, and the
angle to the screens side also should
be limIted.-Popular Mechanics Mag
azine.
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Ladies The Reason
for So Much Sickness

among you is failure to understand your
solves. We have a booklet written by an
experienced physician that will help you.
Send 10 cents for it now. Address 12048 N.
LAWN BLVD, DETROIT. MICH.
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If people would frankly admit their
ignorance a lot Of useless argument
might be avoided,
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right way every time his head is
turned.
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HOPEFUL,

Hopeful.
"Hope springs eternal" "Yes, it's
pretty hard to convince people there's
10 market for poetry"
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Some men who are short Oh hair
are long on brains.
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Use your mind or you will never be
IT much nse.
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Progression.
He-Every time I kiss you 1t tends
to make me better man.
She-Ooh, you angel!

Even the worm will turn-perhaps
into q butterfly.
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|Let Cutcura Be
Your Beauty Doctor
ISo,n 25e. Ointment Is and Soc, Talcum Csc.

ELIXIR BABEK A GOOD TONIC
And Drives Malaria Out of the System.
"YCur .BabcE' acts like magic: I have
given it to numerous people in my parish
who were suffering with chills, malaria
sufferers and in need of a good tonic"
Rev. S. Szymanowski, st. Stephens church.
Perth Amboy, N. ]. Elixir Babek, ali
druggists or by Parcel Post, prepaid, from
Kloczewski & Co., Washington, D. c.
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YOU CAN SAVE 5000

By recovering yocr old
auto top frame yourself. llE527 ENSN
We make these RECEIVERS
to fit all M axes and M
models Of ANY Or II and uY3 K4
r-rson that can drive 3O. d Parcels Pest Pad E3
put it on. We
furnish insuetions quaftsfs together
curtain fastenfs vets aes An complete Give the
catalogue with samples and quote exact price,
uBEKTV TOP TIRE CO., Dept. Z, cineInaatl, q.
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Life As | See II,

w. N. u, BALTIMORE, NO. 45--1e21.
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The worlds standard remedy for these
disorders will often ward off these dis
eases and strengthen the body against
further attacks. Three sizes, all druggists.
Look for the name Gold Medal on every boz
and accept no imitation
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VICTIMS
RESCUED

Kidney, liver, bladder and uric acid
troubles are most dangerous be-
cause of their insidious attacks.
Heed the first warning they give
the. they need attention by taking
Middletown transcript., 1921-11-05

Ready for Use-Bettel Than Traps
Directions in Is languages IN every box.
Eats, Mice Coo kfO aches, Abts and Waterbugt
Isstroy food and property and are carriers OF
lisease Stedrns Electric Paste forces these pests
b run from the building for water and fresh aiE
86c and 81 80 Money back If 1t fails"
U. IS. Government buys 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-27
roo FAT TO FICHT

From the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
 Comes the report from Melilla that Raisuli. the Moorish bandit, has of- fered to surrender, on conditions that he and his followers be guaranteed their personal safety. And why? What crushing turn of circumstances could break the proud spirit of that picturesque villain? What heavy blow of destiny has reduced the ab- ductor of Perdicaris to a Willingness to spend his remaining days on the farm in exchange for q contempuous reprieye from the scaffold? And the answer comes back: Too fat to fight!'
 Too fat to fight! What jest to wake the laughter of Olympus. The swashbuckling villain, rakish leader of goddess band that was once the terror and the soourge of a dozen oities, brought low by embonpoint. The dashing horseman unhorsed by his own bay window! It is too much! Send for masseurs, dietitians. all the thaumaturges of reduction, lest TO- nance and adventure perish from the earth!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-27
LODGE THE IMPOSSIBLE

ration but as chairman of the Senate committee on foreign relations and the republican leader of the Senate. He will speak as the man who de- feated the treaty of Versailles and boasted that the allies must take ms on their own terms or risk all tho fruits of a victorious war. He will speak likewise as the man who has denounced Japan in terms more oit- ter and vindictive than those babitual- ly employed by William Randolph Hearst and all the crew of profes- sional Japanese baiters from the far west. Yet President Harding expects all the nations that Senator Lodge has elaborately insulted to display the utmost confidence in a nego.ia- tion in which Mir. Lodge is to be the dominant American representative. The Lodge appointment is an in- diotment of Mir. Harding's own sim cerity in respect to disarmament. 1t lis an affront to the American people. who are sincere and earnest in thix matter. MT. Lodge does not rep resent what is in their minds and hearts, and no exercise of executive authority can make him their rep- resentative. He is the negation of everything that the conference was called to accomplish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-27
Building Homes in
 Birmingham Suburbs

57tIE record of Birmingham proper U for the first seven months of this year shows $50 homes built.
 But Birmingham reaches out be- yond her legal boundaries and shel- ters thriving communities in her suburbs. In one of these, a tract of 40 acres, there have been built in the past year 200 homes. There are only six lots unsold.
 In another suburban community S300,000 worth of construction is in progress. All along the highways extending out of Birmingham homes are rising.
 The building movement has crossed Red mountain. Many homes are being built in the adjacent val- leys, while the restricted residence sections along it's slope have almost filled up since the resumption of building this spring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-27
dent wanuamaker

President wanuamaker of the American Cotton association threat ems to call convention to discuss national agricultural strike. If the farmers ever do strike this country will need friends abroad.
 x # < Doughboys on the Rhine have been granted another respite. They won't be brought home until the treaty of peace with Germany has been rati- fled.
 x < < man was showed into the cleo tric chair at Sing Sing while he was trying to make a speech. Execution CTS do not encourage oratory.
 T < # The picture of MT. Ford cooling his feet in a more or less Iimpid stream will appeal to the kind of people who ride in flivvers.
 < $ # Standing around a Jail yard while hanging is going on seems to be an acceptable substitute for motion picture thriller"
 # # 5. The spectacle of MT. Hughes play ing second fiddle to Senator Lodge in the disarmament conference will be far from edifying.
 # # x Canada and the United States have remained on friendly terms, despite the perniclous activity of rum run ners.
 A Pennsylvania educator says girls do less "chinning" on the campus than boys. He'll have to prove it.
 < 4 < The New York World calls Mir. Harding wavcring President. AudptaDle ls-a klnuer Woru.
 < x # The oldest university in the world is in China, where higher education has no football complex.
 # # E Whatever may be said of the busi- ress methods of Promoter French, he was no piker.
 # # x The subsistence of anarchy is in- dicated by the large number of home brew explosions.
 * # x The so-called idle rich" are idle no longer. They are busy hunting hooch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-27
oAp4K1IaMa@ansiI
COSTLY HANDLING OF COTTON

COSTLY HANDLING OF COTTON From the Mobile Register.
 Some good truth has been given the Cotton States Merchants associa- ton in session in Memphis. For ex- ample. one speaker said that from il to { cents a pound is knocked off American cotton in British markets becauss of faulty handling In this country. Much of this blame rests upon the producer because of permit ting the staple to become dlscoiored by rain and mud and mixed with trash. All this can be avoided by keeping tho cotton clean anu under shelter. It was further stated that through the carelessness cf sinners in falling to clean out the sins after running low-grade and before run hing high-g grade staple there is g mixing of inferior quality with the high erade and the result is . general falling off in value. Since this loss totals approximately $1o bale. 1t Is readily perceived that the American producer almost cuts the value of his crop in two by failing to handle 1t in the right way. The added expense oi
 proper handling. is almost nothing In fact, in some respects proper hand. ling is actually cheaper than impropei handling. even without taking into account the greater value of clean cotton. It looks as if the plAite, would stop this bigssst Of all leak' 1t enca
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-27
Birlningham's Place on
 the Bankhead Highway

m LACING Bankhead highway l5 markers along the route in Jefferson county on Thursday, and one at the Tutwiler, designating the central point, recalls the organiza- ton q the Bankhead highway asso- citation which took place in the Tut wiler October 6, five years ago. From that small beginning, embrac- ing in its schedule a highway from Atlanta to Memphis through Bir- naineham, has evolved the Bankhead highway of today extending from Washington to San Diego.
 The following states have desig- mated it as the official state high way: Virginia, North and South
 arelina, Georgia, Alabama, Missis-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-27
C,a.. Reunion

T am planning to attend the tenth anniversary reunion of my class. which graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1911," said Dr. James R. Dsan. county bacteriolo- gist. "The reunion will be held in Philadelphia in the early part of oc- tober.
 T have not been with the boys since graduated, and I am looking forward to seeing them all again. It is rather remarkable that out of class of more than 150 only seven deaths have occurred>durins tho time since we graduated. More than half the class has expressed it's intention of returning for the reunion. and I am sure we will have great time together"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-27

A Briton, in London Daily Mall. l (N the present state of the Mosiein
 year, which depends on the rev.
 olutions not of the sun, but of the moon, 1t Is toward the end of July that tho Mohammedans of Egypt undertake the annual pilgrim age to the holy place at Mecca, bear ing at the head of their procession the valuable tissue of gold and brocade known through the world as the holy carpet.
 The term is, of course. a misnomer Tho fabric Is not a carpet at all. Ii is not even in one piece.
 It is & series of pieces of tapestry embroidered with texts of the Koran, worked in gold wire and destined 10 Kaaba, a square stone building in the center of the court of the great mosque at Mecca.
 Most resplendently embroidered of all these hangings is a series of pieces worked In green and gold. comparable to number of altar cloths, known collectively as the Kisweh, and designed to cover the tomb of Mohammed.
 Attended by a brilliant concourss of the sheiks and doctors of Islam, the learned men of the Azhar uni versity, the troops of the Egyptian army, and representatives of ths Sultan and the British government the departure of the pilgrimage and the Kishweh is celebrated by an elaborate cerenonial in the wide open square below the citadel of Cairo.
 In the centre of the square, guard- ed by troops, stands the Kishweh, draped on a species of ark modelled in shape and size on the prophets tomb.
 A string of camels, each bearing a piper playing an errlie and melan- choiy tune, marches slowly in pro- cession three times round the elabo- rate display of draperies to the thundering salute of guns.
 At the head of the line, carefully led by attendants holding brilliantly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-27
Mother and Daughter

J. Asa Rountree tells this one: "A young woman received a political card from one of the aspirants for city commission. The mother felt sighted in that she had not been complimented with one and declared she would not vote for the man who had sllghted her.
 "A day or so later the mother re- ceivcd a similar card from the same candidate. Thereupon both she and her daughter repudiated tho candi- date because neither felt that there was special compliment in having re- ceived the candidates literature, the suggestion being that it was common property for all callers.
 T do not absolutely suarantee this, but I heard it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-27
LETTERS TO EDITOR
MANY ArrpAcrrvE rEArunEs

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 There are so many attractive fca- lures in The Age Herald that hard ly know which Is the best; but am particularly interested in the no You Remember?" paragraphs which are graphs I have seen the old Relay house frequently mentioned. and would like to know. where 1t was To- cated. I passed through Birming gham when boy, think 1t must have been about 1883, and remembe- taking a meal at the above mentioned hotel, but can't recall it's exact location. and would like for soils old Timer to give me the desired information
 The trip above referred to was made before the old Georgia Pacific railroad, now part of the Southern system, was constructed, and my mother and myself, In going from Columbus, Miss, to Petersburg, Va, journeyed from Columbus to Merl- aloits 0'tisSsi oSCIl tHo hiODllt anu OnIO, thence to Chattanooga, via Birming- ham, over the Alabama Great South ern, and thence to Petersburg over the Norfolk and Western.
 Have been reading The Age-Herald for more than 30 years, having com menced about the time that Dick Hawes murdered his wife, and desire some information about this famous case, as I was boy at the time and my memory regarding certain facts is decidedly indistinct. I remember that the jail in which Hawes was confined was attacked by mob; but can't recall whether or not he was killed, and would like to ascertain what finally became of him.
 My home is in Columbus, Miss, and am proud to be native of tho same town in which Mrs. Orline Arnold shipman, who, under the pscudonym, Dolly Dalrymple," has brought fame to both herself and The Herald, was born. I also enjoy the depart- ments conducted by Paul Cook and Frank Willis Barnett, and. in fact, every department of this most excel lent paper, which Is credit to F. w. Barrett the editor; c. M. Stanley, the managing editor. and to every member of the staff.
 J. l.. CRADDOCK.
 Asheyille, N. C.. August 25. 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-27
CARDS HOLY CARPET

embroidered reins, marches a superb specimen of cream colored camel.
 bearing an embroidered palanqutn beautifully worked in red and gold. This is the Mahmat. It is empyy
 save for two copies of the Koran. and year by year such a palanqnin has marched st the head of the Egyptian pilgrimage ever since, in the thirteenth century, the beautiful Turkish slave Shagaret- -el- Durr, whc became Queen of Egypt, made tse pilgrimage to Mecca in just such an- other erection.
 Tho camel that carries this light
 but elaborate burden has been bred for this days work, and after tho pilgrimage Is completed he will never do stroke of work again, Three times round the 1Siswch
 goes the procession, and then to tie
 sound of salutes and salvos and the music of the soldiers hand it swings slowly down the road to the mosque of the Hassanen, whence the pilgrim age starts on its long journey across the desert--a journey in which. how ever, modern convenience has net disdained to invoke the secular as-
 sistance of railway and steamboat.
 What is the origin of this old time ceremonial 1t is hard to say. Its roots undoubtedly go far deeper in tiiao
 than Islam, which, after all, is comparatively modern religion.
 The Kaaba at Mecca is of course far older than Mohamned. IL was q center of idolatrous worship in his day, and we are told that the prophet purxed 1t of its idols
 It is square stone building into the wall of which Is built the black stone. the most venerated object of the Islamic worship.
 Indications are not lacking to con meet the original worship of the Kaaba with an Asiatic version of Venus. It may well be. then, that lin the annual pilgrimage of the
 Moslem world we have an echo ct something very like the processions in ancient Athens.