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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
CONDITIONS IN CUBA HAVE IMPROVED

Cuba has begun to come back into the Bir mingham market for pipe, coal, wire mill goods, rail sand sugar house machinery. One production and reports the prospect for fur ther business with Cuba to be better than it has been since the slump at the close of 1920. Owing to American connections Cuba is either paying cash or buying on 30 days time, as is customary in the United States.
 The present Cuban sugar crop has exceeded all expectations, and there is very small carry-over following an excellent demand at better prices. A consular report on Cuban af- fairs says: "Next year is looked forward to as a period of real financial adjustment"
 This report also says: "Iron and steel inn ports for June were greater than those for May, and the indications sare that July will have shown an increase Barbed wire was es- pecially in demand in June. Structural steel for use in small construction has sold actively. Sales and collections have shown improvement over May There is feeling of optimism felt since the panic of 1920
 All this is good news to the Birmingham dis trict, which is literally patronized by Cuba. Coal, coke, sanitary pipe, galvanized wire and steel mill products have been going to Cuba out of Mobile with fair regularity lately, and the amount of hardware that is being nn- ported is noticeable. Indications point to a considerable rc--' of construction in Cuba.
 The greater portion of the sugar house ma chinery being purchased now is for necessary repairs and minor replacements, but the big jobs will come later
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
ROMANTIC PRAGMATISM
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune
 Kipling's Farewell, Romancep' was really demonstration of the impossibility of los ing romance. The railroad is no less romantic than the galley or the sail-driven bark, while the wonders of aviation submarine navigation and radiography keep pace with the extrav- aganzas of Aladdin and Ariosto.
 Only the other day contracts were let for harnessing the swift waters of the Jordan their debouchment into the Dead sea- Scarcely less romantic is the scene made pos sible by the munificence of an Italian resident of New York to pierce the mountain wall be- tween Pisa and Lucca, and thus to unite two of the most famous Italian cities. Ever since those cities were founded by the comratriots of Hector mountain barrier has separated them. "The Psans are unable to see Lucca' as Dante wrote.
 Who shall say that Carlo Barsotti, tho journalist, is not in his apeeal to the romantic imagination the rival of Dante Aghier?
 Lament of the decay of romance comes only from those without imagination in their souls. In other days they would have been just as dead. There is no lack of food for spirits which feed inner hunger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
THE HIcH-BRow EYEBROW

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 The cables reveal that another crisis in the crisis laden career of Isadora Duncan has been averted successfully. The crisis related to her getting into Paris. When she applied for a passport it was recalled politely that she lately had manifested distressing tendencies of sym pathy with bolshevism. She had danced the "Internatonale." She had ackuired Russian poet husband. What did she want to do in Paris? Were there likely to be any political complications about her visit? Then came the illumination which shattered the crisis. No, madame had political intentions whatever. She would not dance the "Internationale" She wanted merely to hire theatre where she might put on an entirely new dance, the "Danse Immobile,'' in which there was no movement except that of the eyebrows. After that they gave her the passport.
 We are confident that since Isadora Dun can is doing it, it will be quite esthetic. More over, it will interpret something
 After the world has noted how Miss Duncan manipuates here eyebrows it will know new meaning to something or other which it never had stopped to think of before. For her eye brow always has been recognized as the love boundary of high-brow. Vulgarians might think Isadora was contemplating putting one over on the authorities by Interpreting" bol- shevism in the terms of the dance were it not that she specifics the eyebrows, and thus seems to cut hrself off from that certain well-known gesture of the eyelds which might be deemed pertinent to the subject.
 But let us possess our burning souls in patience. Sooner or later Isadora will let us in on her revelation of the new apotheosis of the dance. Then everybody will be doing it. We advise the ambitious to start practicing. Those who think they never will be able to make their eyebrows behave might with profit turn to seeing what they can do in the way of waggng their ears. For one must be in the swim. And, by the way, won't the girls who have been plucking them be out of luck?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
NIETZSCHE AND WAGNER

Lawrence Gilman in the North American Re
 view.
 Nietzsche himself, shortly before his mental collapse in 1888, described his intercourse with Wagner as "that which, among the vivifying n~ fluences of my life, refreshed me most pro- foundly and most genuinely All the rest of my human relationships I treat quite lightly, but at no price would be willing to blot from my life the Tribschen days those days of mu- tual confidence, of sublime flashes !. the deep moments"
 Wagner at the beginning of this memorable friendship was 56 years old. He had composed, in addition to "Rienzi," "The Flying Dutch man." "Tannhauser" and 'Lohengrin," most of 'Der Ring des Nibelungen" (Rheingold, Wal kure and Siegfried), besides Tristan und Isolde" and 'Die Meistersinger" is to say, he had produced five transcendent master pieces, had revolutionized the art of music, had turned the conventions of the opera house in side out, and had set the intellectual popula- tions of Europe and America clawing at each others eyes over his theories and innovations. He was, of course, immensely famous.
 In the autumn of 1868 Nietzsche met the great little man for the first time at Leipsic Wagner had come to town to visit relatives, but was preserving strict incognito. "He inquired very minutely," wrote Nietzsche, "how came to be so familiar with his works, and inveighed roundly against the production of his operas, with the exception of the famous Munich per formances."
 Wagner and Cosima, for their part, became exceedingly fond of Nietzsche. "We regard you as one of the family" we find Cosima writ ing him in the following autumn, land this is saying good deal, in view of the material and moral seclusion of our little court" He be- came their devoted friend, apostle, propagan- dist, commissioner, messenger boy and was en- trusted with the buying of Christmas presents in Basic for the family at Tribschen-toys, g dolls theatre, Durer engravngs, books, an tiques
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
APPLE PIE ATTACKED

From the New Orleans Times Picayune.
 New England institution that long since gained favor and nationwide adoption or adep- tation was rudely and boldly attacked on it's native heath the other day. Before an audience of farm wives attending farmers convention at the Massachusetts Agricultural college, Mrs. Albert Clark urged--almost in so many words-the practical banishment of apple pie from the farm tables "Pie is hard to make" she argued in support of her anti-apple pie drive ''It takes time and energy and also it is not easy to digest I have several children, so I have gradually cut it out of my family diet. Y We who have been studying home food problems find that husbands are not unreason- able and will usually eat what is put before them"
 The Boston Globe relates that this newest abolition project was cordially applauded by the women," some of whom, it appears have been serving pie 'three times day" So the Globe reporter who covered" the farmers con- vention hastened to sound the alarm, like other Paul Revere. "New England's apple pie is in peril" he warned the startled down east erners His report indicates that the farm hus- bands attending the convention showed dis position to rally in defense of the pie of their fathers, famed in song and story and loved for its own sweet sake by tens of thousands who do not all nor always love other New England in- stitutions.
 Should the pie-abolition movement grow to menacing proportions, we trust the enbattled farmers of New England will fire in it's de- fense another "shot heard round the world" If it requires time and energy in the making, surely that time and energy are well spent and amply rewarded if the pie measures up to the standards of it's kind maintains the traditions that cluster round its very name, possesses the endearing qualities that have won for apple pie the love and confidence of millions even out side New England We trust the farm mothers of pie-eating and pie-loving America, out of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09

New York has discovered that young man who claimed to be scion of French royalty is workman from a small town. Impostors in quest of easy pickings just naturally grav- itate to New York;
 A colleague remarks that Tom Marshall didn't attract as much attention while he was abroad recently as Judge Taft. Physically and otherwise Tom is not as big man as the judge.
 Russian manufacturers, permitted to oper- ate factories under private control, who won't sell their wares to the soviet government for paper money are wise in their generation.
 
 A new hotel in Guatemala wants Mir. Hoover to find it a competent bartender. That request can be compiled with right in Washing ton.
 Didn't Mr. Debs express desire, sometime ago, to return to prison if all the other ''po- itical prisoners" were not released? China, Russia and India can afford to lose more population and do lose more, than any other countries in the world.
 OepuDllcanS may yet De dpiS to SHOW IHdt the coal and rail strikers were inherited from the Wilson regime.
 
 It is announced that MT. Arbuckle will go to the orient. The orient is not so particular about it's morals.
 Jim Reed is not the kind of man to scorn few republican votes, if they will help him to "come back"
 Machine guns speak language that the most turbulent citizen should be able to un- derstand.
 There isn't much chance for a little man to be movie star, unless he is comedian. Blessings on the candidate who crawls into a hole after his defeat and offers no alibis.
 x x
 Japan would like to see the Philippines inde- pendent There is Japanese reason. Whether she wants to or not, France has to keep an eye on Downing street.
 x x ], Clothes do not make the man, but they seem to make the flapper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
FAVoRs SHORT BALLOT

"I think the long ballot should be abolished so far as possible" said R. A. Love of the Y. M. c. A. "As I voted yesterday wondered how many voters knew every candidate they voted for. I had studied the records of the men pretty well but will have to admit that l voted for few that sounded like strangers to me.
 Because of the task of voting for so many men l am in favor of simplifying matters by cutting out few less important offices so fla ras the matte rof voting is concerned They could be appointed or elected by convention. I am democratic, but democracy can be carried so ia rthat it defeats it's own purpose"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 Vanity is the greatest handicap to greatness. "A man who never accomplshes anything looks the part.
 Don't forget that it is always the bottom dollar that counts.
 Conflicting testimony is but another name for the expert article.
 It isn't always the fighting parson who puts his congregation to sleep.
 Better go home and make . net than 70 jump into the pool after the fish.
 Don't antagonize man with cool million; he is in position to make it hot for you.
 What has become of the gay old farmer who always replied to the question concerning his rye yield that Ne opined it would Ego about four gallons to the acre"?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
LOVE OF THE REPAIR MAN

(Contributed.l Honks there 8 car with soul so dead, Who never to herself hath said, 'This is my own repair mans hand? Whose gas hath ne'er within her burned As shopward her fore wheels she turned From pumping on country road? If such there 'chugs," go mark her well, For her the junkman's callings tell High though her spotlight gay her frame, Lizzie" her alias and 'Flivver" her name. Despite those titles and gaudy attire, The wretch, all bound with rope and wire, Living, shall rattle all over town; And, doubly dying, shall go down To the tin pile from whence she sprung, Unkempt, unbolted and unstrung.
 Memo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
BEING OF THE SAME SEX

"ls this prima donna tempermental?"
 That's hard to say" replied the hotel man. ager. 'The head clerk tells me she was. as sweet as you please to him, the house detec- tive says she threw him a smile and the bell hops are delighted by the size of her tips Pm waiting to get report from the floor maids who clean her suite. If there's any meanness lurking in woman guest the maids usually bring it out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
VOICE OF THE TEMPER

'It's been 50 years since I was boy" unused Mr. Cobbes. But the instinct for mis- chief is still strong in me-
 "How's that?" asked one of the summer boarders.
 "That young chap from the city who calls himself broker puts too many airs. Every time see him prancin' around in one of them white suits he wears I want to get bucket of green paint an touch up all tn porch chairs without tellin him word about it.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
A GOOD EXCUSE

Candidates who are defeated in the pri- mary now have a good excuse" said Deputy Sheriff P. c. Cole. "They can say that the,r friends were kept away from the polls on as- count of rain The excuse may not hold water in many instances, but it will doubt less be true in a few cases I understand that the rain is pretty general over the state, and the farmer vote, if it is for any one man particularly, will be materially lessened. The vote in the city has been light, too.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
SAN CRIsToBAL.

Muna Lee, in the Double Dealer. Vivid and still is the noon,
 The almonds forget the breeze; Red flowers droop from the cactus hedge, Red leaves from the mango trees. Incredibly blue is the sea,
 Incredibly blue the sky; And above a wall four centuries old Drifts a yellow butterfly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
PROUD OF IT

sef-made mani"
 Mot being stone deaf, am.'
 "Eh?"
 "You can't converse with Mr. Grabcoin more than five minutes without being informed of the fact"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09

making speech on the horrors of drink from the rear end of Pullman named Bourbon or Gordon. In time we might have had Pullmans named in honor of the julep and the gin rickey, but the eighteenth amendment put stop to that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
HISTORICAL EVENT

What is the greatest day in the history of Chggersville?o
 June 3, 1921," replied Squire Witherbee, promptly.
 What happened then?"
 "A movie star appeared at the Palace the atre, as her press agent announced, fin the flesh.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
THE WORM TURNS

Mrs. Peckton talks of entering a larger sphere of usefulness
 "Does she contemplate a political career?"
 'Yes, and that brought forth an ultimatum from MT. Peckton. He told her he had been an obedent husband ever since the preacher spoke the fateful words that made them man and wife, but she needn't expect him to go around handing out her campaign cards He'd die first'' PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMLS
THE GAY OLD BOY

The man who's spry at eighty-four And hops around a ballroom floor,
 Methinks should have his praises sung; But some reformers voice regrets And say his flippant manner sets
 A bad example to the young.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
REFRIGERATION

"Who is the young woman with the glacial exterior?"
 "Miss Wadleigh."
 Where does she get her chill aloofness?' From her fathers cool millions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09

Having seen picture of Augustus Thomas, reclining in an easy chair, with one leg thrown over an arm of the chair, his collar unbuttoned and his manly throat exposed to view, we feel, somehow, that the stage is safe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
CHANGE NEEDED

"You ought to take more exercise. By the way, what is your business or professional" ''Im steeplejack, doctor"
 "Ahem! In that case, would prescribe walking
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09

consideration for their children and spouses, will decline the invitation to wage pie eradi- cation campaign and heroically resist the temp tation lurking in the insdous suggestion that husbands will usually eat whatever is put be- fore them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
A MORNING PRAYER

Look thou upon the children of the land, O Lord, and take them in thine arms, that they may be >worther of thy love than we have ever been. Amen.-M. s. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09

o, how wretched
 Is that poor man, that hangs on princes favors' There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to- That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin' More pangs and fears than wars and women
 have
 And when he falls he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. Henry VIII.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-21

Of the pedestrian is rapidly passing.
People ride now from office to res
taurant for lunch. They will no
longer climb stairs if an escalator is
handy. Already there are moving
sidewalks, and the time will doubt
less soon come when everybody will
ride to town in car, step out upon
an endless chain arrangement and
be "toted" int othe shop or office. Or
perhaps something like the kids
scooter will be invented which will
operate by small engine.
The person who really prefers to
walk is considered hopelessly old
fashioned. There are still some who
walk because they must, but there
seems to be no doubt that the time is
rapidly approaching when the real
pedestrian will be as extinct as the
dodo or the plesiosaurus. When
that time comes one of the worries
of Madame Grundy can be ended
Legs can be amputated and nobody
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-21
known progressive as Clifford Min

known progressive as Clifford MIN
ehot for the gubernatorial nomina-
tion. Recognizing the qualities of
Mr.. Pinchot, Mr.. Niles said:
'The election of John A. McSpar-
ran, the democratic candidate, by the
votes of the Independents and the
progressives would do more for gen.
uine and thorough reform than
would be possible through any gov
ernor elected as a republican. There
is nothing good which could be &C.
complished by Mr.. Pinchot which
would not be done more certainly
and more effectively by Governor
McSparran."
Continuing Mr.. Niles wrote: q
thoroughly sympathize with YOU
brave battle for decent politics, bu
in my view reform CT the republican
party from within is impossible. TIT
nomination of such man as Nh
Pinchot would only be a palliative
He would be the candidate of the re
publican party, which, as now con
trolled in Pennsylvania, has degen
Grated into nothing but an organiza
ton for systematic political corrup
ton" a
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-21
BEST REF "a TER
HE EVER LIAM.
DIED SAYS
DRUGGIST
Druggist Sells IL Gross (172S
Bottles) of FERRALINE in
Short Period. Only Won
derful Properties Could Sell
a Medicine So Fast.

In a recent letter received by the
Ferraline Medicine Company, the own"
err of Oftman's Drug Store, thriving
Mobile. Ala. company says Your
salesman strolled into the store and
introduced Ferraline After listening
10 what he had to say. decided to try
three dozen. CHASING il along the lines
of patent medicines In three Gays
I ordered a gross and with your line
OF advertising. IL has been one gross
after another and up to the present
time have handled twelve gross.
Going some for one kind of medicine
1t sold strictly on its merits and l
consider 1t one of the best repeaters ]
have handled. Hundreds of people
have taken from one to dozen bot
tie.
Il really did bring to those suffering
from rheumatism's aches and pains;
indigestion's pangs and the effects OF
impure blood and poor functtoning
kidneys and liver. real and satisfactory
thaf Ferraline is what we claim IL TO
be, Natures one greatest tonic
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-21

more than for display, and when the
possession of vehicle was a mark
Of distinction. People did not ride
in those days unless they were real
ly going somewhere. 1t was too
much trouble to hitch up Old Dobbin.
In those other days sidewalks were
Of some Importance, though if there
were no sidewalks it was quite pos
sible to walkgin perfect safety on the
street, as they do in Boston today
The pedestrian had some rights, Il
he chose to preempt the highway
that was his privilege, and the yehic,
ular passenger had to get along as
best he could.
The indications are that the day
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-21
With Other Editors
AN INSTANCE OF WEST FLoRI-
DA AI1DACITY

ia AUDAClTY.
A citizen of Holmes county writ
ing to The Advertiser warns the peo-
pie Of west Florida that the senti-
ment for capital removal is assum-
Ing alarming proportions, and that
unless west Florida Is awakened and
organized to fight they may soon
have the inconvenience and expense
of long trip when it is necessary to
visit the capital
There you have the attitude of the
average citizen of west Florida. That
county is credited with. 1850 popu-
lation by the last census, a gain of
l ,493 since the previous census. There
| is but one county intervening be-
tween Holmes and Leon, the county
in whichc the capital is located. And
yet this small group of people have
the presumption to set up as an ar
gument against the removal of the
capital that it would be an incon-
venience and an expense to them to
have to travel longer distance if
the capital is moved to the center of
population, .
There are number of towns in
south Florida which have larger
population than the entire county OF
Holmes. In this county there are ten
times as many people as there are
lin Holmes county, and the volume OF
, business is easily thirty or forty
times as great. Compare, the time
and expense of trip from Tampa
or any point in south Florida, to thu
state capital with the time and ex
pense of a trip from Holmes county
or any point in west Florida, ant
, bear in mind at the same time thu
> immensely larger population in soutl
Florida and the greater volume o
business. Any fair-minded man max
/. ing this comparison must at ono
t concede that the people of soutl
Florida are fully justified in thei
demands-either that the capital b
removed to the center of population
or that the state be divided.-Tamp
Times. .fa, ..-..
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-21
will need to worry about the lengtzTF 4.
of skirts.-Miami Herald
UNITED STATES MARsHAL'S
SALE.
District Of Florida.

Southern District Of Florida.
By virtue of an Order Of Sale rs
sued out of the United States district
court for the southern district Of
Florida, on the 10Th day OF April
1922, notice is hereby given that l +.
will sell by public auction, for CASH
on Tuesday, the End day of May,
1922, at IL o'clock noon, at the For
syth street door of the Postoffice,
Jacksonville, Fla, the launch "No-
made" her engine, machinery, boat,
tackle, apparel, appurtenances and
furniture, as she now lies at Clyde
Line wharf, Palatka, Fla.
B. E. DYSON,
United States Marshal
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