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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-01

two of the boys, charged with the crime. offered to reimburse the jitney driver for injuries received in the affray
 During the hearing, the courtroom was damned with friends of the complainant and defendants. and inn mediately after Judge Abernathy had announced his decision, one of the defendants friends, evidently, yelled out appeal it," using pro fanity for emphasis. Judge Abernathy ordered the disturber to be brought into court Saturday morning. Judge Abernathy stated that he would send officers after the boy if he failed to answer the summons. If contempt charges are not placed against the boy, he will in all probability be severely reprimanded for his action.
 European calendar was introduced into Japan in 1873.
 Whales once had legs.
 Giraffes sell for S12,000 apiece. ~
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CURRENT EVENTS

Baseball at Redwood Park at 3.30 o'clock; Birmingham New Orleans. Travellers club luncheon at the St. Andrews lunch room at o'clock. No WSY program.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-01
NEGRO ESCAPES MOOSE
White Plague Brings End Friday TO
 Man Condemned To Die

Man Condemned To Die
 Julius Keith negro, sentenced to be hanged for an attack on a white woman July 15, 1922, died in the Jefferson county jail Friday from an acute case of tuberculosis. Keith was convicted last December before Judse H. P. Heflin, and sentenced to hang January 25, 1923, but entered an appeal. The appeal is still pend- ing in the supreme court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-01
COUNTY WILL PUSH. SCHOOL PROGRAM
Complete Vote On Mill Taxes
 Shows 9,233 For And > 3,376 Against

The complete vote Tuesday on the three mill education tax was 9,233 for the continuation of the levy, with S,376 against. The vote on the one mill tax was 10,186 for, and 3,142 against, according to figures com piled Friday by the county board of election commi ssioners. The only opposition to the continuation of the levies was found in country com .munities, put, according to the fig ures. no box went against the pro- posal It is estimated by the county board of education that approximate ly $1,00000o is derived yearly from the three and one mill taxes. More than half of that amount goes to- wards the support of Birmingham city schools.
 At the next meeting of the board of education, 1t was Indicated Fri day, plans for new structures, which had been held up on account of the election, will be considered, with the probability that bids will be aske on five or six new builings. Dr. N. R. Baker, superintendent of county schools, said that the county rural and consolidated school system was in good shape. With>the assured rev. enue they will be able to carry on the nine-months school year and make the necessary supply purchases for the ensuing year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-01
AT THU MOVTES

AT THE MOVIES ICapitol-Betty Compson in "The Law and the Woman" Galax-Allstar cast in Masters of Men"
 Odeon-"In the Days of Daniel Boone"
 Princess-Jack Hoxie in "Hells of Hate."
 Rialto-Gloria Swanson in My American Wife"
 Royal-Franklyn Farnum in Gun Shy"
 Strand-Fifty well-known stars in Hollywood"
 Triancn-Dorothy Phillips in Sian der The Woman"
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LOCAL DATA
 For the 24 hours ending at D. m., August S1, 1923:
 Highest temperature ............... s9 Lowest temperature ................ 67 Mean temperature ................. IS Normal temperature ....,.........S IT Deficiency in temperature since Jan
 uary .................. 139 Rainfall ,........ .................. % Total rainfall since January 1......45. Il Excess in rainfall since January l.. 9.46 Relative humidity. q. m. -....... 79
 12 noon .................... 50 p. rl.. .................,. 62 Dry thermometer, 2 a. m. ........ 70
 12 noon ................... S4 s D. m. .-.......,......... 79 Wet thermometer, a. m. ......... 66
 IF noon ~.................... 70
 D. m. ................... 70 Summary of observations made at sta tons of the United States Weather Bureau during the 24 hours ending at T D. m., 90th meridian. time, August 31. 1923:
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AT THE THEATRES Lyric--Dark. Loew's Bijou-Shelly and Heit Revue of 1923; picture, The Fog"
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Whales once had legs.
 Giraffes sell for S12,000 apiece.
Evening star., 1923-11-25

let them hear. Ah-ah-more sof,
more still! So"
The suppliant whisper drew him.
like a tautened thread. He stumbled
over something-in the flare OF a
match. she stood out sharply as an
etching. her eyes two black pools OF
panic in the white terror of her face.
Then darkness held them once more
"Honable Tonee-lissen-eef one OF
those matches they should see, we
die. You mus hide me. Honable To-
nee, you mus hide me far away be-
fore he come to keel us BOTH"
Hide your" The Honorable Tony
yielded to mirth. MY dear Potts. you
might precisely as we'll ask thin Bile
to hide q perfume factory! 1t fairly
bowled me Off my feet"
"Hush-oh, hush-eet ees my pair
fume? You could know eet from that
door,"
Il could know 1t from the far edge
Of the kampong."
Then. oh, they fin me-"
At the sick terror of that small
! vail, the Honorable Tony stirred
But why in the name of grief didn',
you go to the boat?"
"Honable Tonee. eet was gone, ee,
was gone"
"Oh. rot! The boat was here until
a few minutes ago. Look here, my
dear child. this whole performance
looks most frishtfully dodgy. From
| brother Manuelo on"
The limp bundle beneath his finger.
! shivered more deeply and sighed
About Manuelo, eet was a lie that
Manuelo he was my brothair. Man.
Evening star., 1923-11-25

against 1t with a comforted little
moan. "Of course, there's not half a
chance that the little beggar won't
grovel all over the place: I'll tell him
that IL he lays one finger on British
subject, England-'
ooh. for Englan' he does no care
When I say to heem that great Eng
lam will protec' me. he Ian right out
an say. Englan', bah!"
"Oh, he said that. did he?" inquired
the Hon. Tony. We'll, that's not a
pretty thing for any fat little sultan
to say" He grinned suddenly and i'm
pishly into the darkness.
There's a nice cluster of lights
bearing down from the palace at a
good fast clip, and I'm rather inclined
to think that it's time for little girls
that have hearts beloveds in the
mines to be trotting off to more Sc
cluded spot. How about it?"
Yes, yes, CO." There was a touch
Ing docility in the small voice. "Wair
now do go. Hon. Tonee?"
Here. Where's your hand? Quiet
now. Here's the door. Wait, you can
curl up on the bed. That's comforta-
BILE"
"Oh. that-that is mos comforta-
ble."
Good. Now for PHYS sake emulate
the well known mouse. The revolver's
on the table. No-no-don't touch 4,
now. oh. Lucifer. that perfume! Here
let's have your handkerchief-quick
We're about to receive callers, Daisy"
THERE was the sound of light
feet on the rickety steps; the
sound of light hands at the outer
door.
Evening star., 1923-11-25
German Toys in England.
ew York Herald.

From the New YORK Herald
The mark Made in Germany" is
beginning to reappear in English
shops. Conspicuous among the Christ
mas wares displayed are dolls, minia-
ture musical instruments, tin soldiers
and other types of present tin from
Germany. Forty per cent of the toys
being sold in England. according to
q statement by a Hull department
store manager, come from Germany, a
statement which is supported by OIL
cial figures of $750,000 worth OF Ger
man toys imported through the port
of Hull alone.
The German tin soldiers are not un
contested masters Of the field: toys
from the United States are b,ing dis
played prominently in the Christmas
windows, the most interesting to the
average boy being sets for the con-
struction OF models of machinery.
ships, locomotives. bridges. etc, and
much interest is also being shown in
American toys Of an educational IA
ture. Model wagons. vslocipedes,
scooters and other small vehicles Pro-
pel1ed by children are hading great
favor in England. and so are al sorts
Of electrical toys. such as railways.
Evening star., 1923-11-25

The Hon. Tony bent down swiftly;
kicked off one shoe-the other
ripped off the white linen coat and
the blue scarf. and strobe leisurely
across the threshold of his bedroom
door with his head on one side and
his hands in his pockets.
what in the deuce?" he inquired
amiably Of the bronze statue stand
ing In the pool of light at the head
Of the stairs. The statue stirred.
"Oh-it's you. Ghundi! What's the
row?"
Master. the Great One bids that
you bring the woman and come swift
ly to the palace"
Bring what woman" inquired the
Hon. Tony. lazily diverted. II say.
| Ghundi, the Great One hasn't been
having a go at that brandy again, has
he?"
The statue did not move, but in the
pool Of light its eyes shone, eloquent
and imploring.
Master, she was seen to enter here
by the little son of the head beater.
The Great One says to make all
haste"
"Ghundi, it's never Mrs. Potts
| Not the ravishing Mrs. Potts? Now
| suppose you totter back to the Great
One and inform him that the bile
| Potts has gone down the waters that
she came up, reluctantly escorted by
Mr.. Billee Ledyar'. She just caught
! the boat by the skin OF her little
| white teeth. I agree with the Great
One that it's a. thousand pities that
| she caught it at ALL
Master, am your servant. I have
| served you well-I have loved you
| better. II I return without you they
! slay me-if I remain with you they
| siay met is all one. But you-you
| are my master-you are my son-you
| are my father. Delay no longer; the
| woman was seen to enter here-she
[ has not come out"
The Honorable Tony did not stir
from his careless station before the
bedroom door. but something leaped
| across the guarded space to that dark
/! and lonely figure-something more
warm, more friendly, more reassuring
than any touch OF hands.
"Ghundi, there are two fellows this
| side Of heaven that II give good
| bit to take there with me when go.
That sandy-haired young lunatic who
came up the waters is one Of them
| and you're the other. Now cut along
back to the Great One, like good
| fellow. and tell him that I was as
| good as tucked In for the night when
| you found me, with a nice little hick-
or Of fever. Goodnight, old chap;
| wish the Great One happy dreams"
Ghundrs grave voice was heavy
| with despair.
! Master, she is here. The air about
/ us cries It to all who breathe"
Absolutely sickening, what!'
agreed the Honorable Tony. Il
picked up her beastIy little handler
!, chief on the beach path. coming back
Evening star., 1923-11-25

"Oh, prettier than that, young Bill.
She's the prettiest thing that ever
lived--or ever died. And she was
such a lovely little lunatio herself
that we get on famously. We know
what a joke it all is. don't We. Biddy?
We even know when it's on US.
There now, back YOU go, mavourneen.
while Mr.. Billee LedyaT and I start
cut hunting for another lady. Bill.
take look across the kampong at
the sun while l hunt up my helmet
If it's lower than Bhakdi's roof you'd
better be off. 1t goes down like a
rocket in these parts, once it gets
started"
Young Ledyard flung open the
great wooden door that had barred
out the heat.
The suns set" he said. There's
Evening star., 1923-11-25

uelo he ees the believe of my heart"
The deuce he Isl" The Honorable
Tony's voice was edged with mild
interest.
"Honable Tonee. that mos ac-
curse black devil to whom l pray to
save my Manuelo-he keel you-that
he tell to me-he keel you. I tell to
heem that II once more he lay on
me hees black an dirty hans 1 go to
you for help
"Daisy-Daisy, this is all simply
too good to be true. But why?"
"Becaus' ovair me he ees gone
crezzy mad. He tell to me that he
marry with me-that the jewels from
hees las two wive he give to me for
prezzens."
THE Honorable Tony yielded to an
other gale of delighted mirth.
We'll. upon my word, you couldn't
ask for anything fairer than that!
Why not accept?"
"Hush-hush-more still! You have
forgot Manuelo."
| ITO be entirely candid, my child.
|
lightful to know that you haven't,
! however! Well. but then how in the
world did you get here?"
II have jump out from a window"
| From a-Daisy, you're making
this up"
mo. For why should make thees
up? He have lock- me up in a great
ogly room, until / come back into my
sense, he say. So then I jump from
out that window. Lissen, am mos
bad GIRL bring to you danger an
worry. but my haid eet hurt. and do
not know wair-"
| my dear Daisy, you knew exactly.
This is Liberty Hall, child: you should
feel entirely at home. D'you think
that Bhakdfs liable to dash over be-
fore 1 could hunt up Ghundi and a
| sampan and head you down stream? p
! mo, no-no, no, no-do not leave
me! No. I die when you shall leave
mew
The Hon. Tony shrugged his should
! ers.
"Oh, it's quite all right with me, you
know! + simply thought II the little
beggar was rowing about it might
be simpler to get you out Of the way.
| We could do something nice with a
screen-or there's the other room
that has more possibilities. I've an
automatic in there. In the remote
event that am dragged from the
I scene of action you could pot our i'm
perial friend. Are you good shot,
Daisy?''
mo, no-what you say now? Do
| not let heem come; do not let heem-
no thing could I shoot-no thing"
well. there's one thing that any
duffer in the world can shoot" said
the Hon. Tony soothingly. There's
absolutely no use shaking like that;
not AZ long as any stupid little girl
In the world can shoot herself! It's 9
,simply ripping pistol, Daisy" He put
= one arm about hsr.SAnd she relaxed
Evening star., 1923-11-25

one else in the London music halls
than the minor matter Of bearing the
title Of Duchess Of Bolingham and
having forty-two servants call her
Your Grace"
You mean he was married to her?"
"Rather-rather. my young sleuth.
He not only married her, but he was
most frightfully set up about it. So
ciety and the court and the whole
blooming family cut her and insulted
her and disowned her-and she
laughed in their faces and danced on
their toes. She thought that the whole
thing was stupendous joke; Bunny
says that there never were five min
utes after she came to Gray Court
that you couldn't hear her laughing
or singing somewhere about the
place"
Who's Bunny?"
Evening star., 1923-11-25

! Bunny was her maid-afterward
she was my own private slave until
the magnificent Noll showed her the
gates of the ancestral home when I'd
reached the mature age of six and a
half"
But your mother and father?" de-
manded Ledyard, still family incredu-
lous.
The Honorable Tony. explained af-
fably. Exit Biddy, Duchess of Boil
ingham. laughing on the day that
ham Calvert makes his firm bow to a
ravished family. And once she was
gone the Black Duke skunk around
the empty corridors for bit, hunting
for the echo Of her laughter. and died
,, of pneumonia and boredom without
making any particular fuss"
Calvert. are you making this up?'
The Honorable Tony turned his
head toward the interlocutor, his
ewes narrowed to Sits. After mo-
ment's cold scrutiny of the honest,
troubled countenance, he shrugged his
shoulders.
INV dear kid, even the clown in the
circus Is apt to draw the line at play
ing the eiddy fool over his mother.
might add, moreover, that my highly
fertile Imagination would balk at in
venting any one as delightful as the
lady who did me the honor to be
| mine"
IT beg your pardon" Ledyard said
promptly. LAS you imply. I'm
tasteless fool"
| "And so you're in excellent COM
pany." his host assured him, the blue
| eves once more wide and gay and
friendly. "If you'll wait just half a
shake I'll present you to Biddy
Duchess Of Bolingham."
lHE vanished into the bedroom and
IL was back with shabby black
case in his hands. He put it carefully
on the table between them, touched
q spring and stepped with a low bow
"There! he announced. Nine
Biddy, the American kid with the
freckles-you know the one. Mr.
Bill Ledyard from Ohio. the Duchess
of Bolingham-from Ireland"
Out Of the black frame there smiled
a tiny vision Of gold and ivory and
sapphire. The head. with its frotf
Of bright curls. lightly tilted. there
she sat. laughing down the years
gay as a flower. lovely as a dream.
The Honorable Tony spoke softly
She's a bit incredible, after all, you
know! They were going to crush all
that life and laughter clear dowr
into the earth and away she went
dancing through their fingers into
the dust that was just a flower gar,
den to her. She's more alive thi.
minute than they'll ever be in al
their everlasting stale lives"
Ledyard stared. ,awed and tongue.
tied. 49,
) "She's--she's. the prettiest .thin1
that ! ever saw" Ia
Evening star., 1923-11-25

| some one coming across from that
shack you call a palace"
The Honorable Tony strolled leis-
urely out of his bedroom. "Ghundi"
he commented. THE Incompatible
| Ghundiv
who the deuce is Ghundi?"
MY head boy. What tidings,
| Ghurdi?" The bronze statue saluted.
| Master. the Great One says that
the white woman stays Let your
friend return down the waters with
out her"
The Honorable Tony lifted his
brows
She's with the Great One. Ghundi?"
with the Great One. Master"
| $50 much for that" the Honorable
Tony murmured gently. rs all in
readiness at the beach,
| "The raft waits, master. Go swift
ly, or your friend will stumble in the
night"
Latch the door after you, Will
liam; I'll come as far as the beach.
No. this way. Smell that breeze-it'a
straight down from the jungle
ct smells Of poison" cried young
Ledyard f1ercely. "Calvert-Calvert
! come back with mel"
"And here we are. In you go, my
lad. and OFF you go. Heaven love
you for coming"
| Calvert, I won't-Fm not going
The Honorable Tony laid his hands
lightly and strongly on the boys
shoulders, pushing him relentlessly
toward the water.
my dearest kid. II you stayed one
minute longer you'd ruin the bes,
memory OF my life. I mean 1t. on
with you.'
HE stood until the bamboo raft
vanished around the dim curve
of the river. The night was falling
with the velvet precipitation Of the
tropics. While he stood its dark
mantle was about him. He swung
leisurely OFF through the blackness
toward the shadow deeper than the
surrounding shadows that was home
felt for the latch-and drew back his
| ldHQ SHdTpIy. 1 ne IdtCnSQ QOOr was
lopen.
"Ghundi!" His voice cut into the
dark space. "Ghundi!"
Silence. The Honorable Tony ad.
dressed the shadows.
"Of course, this Is most frightfully
jolly! Mrs. Potts! say, I hope you
have made yourself quite at home p
i
small, frantic commotion.
"Ah. be qui-yet! Be qui-yet, I dc
implore!'
"Oh. my dear girl como now! Just
/ precisely what in the deuce are you
doing here instead of on Ledyard',
| boat?' s4 ~
"Meestaire Honable Tony, on my
knees I pray to you. be more oui.
yet! Uissen. lissen,- come more close
Do not let them see-do not. do not
Evening star., 1923-11-25

~ YOU actually mean to tell me
- ~ that you don't want to get
out of this dripping hole:'
L my dear old ass. why on
Evening star., 1923-11-25

"What do you
think those July
evenings on your
veranda meant to
a God -forsaken fly
Ing chap back from
the Wars?"
Evening star., 1923-11-25

WITH a last touch on her hair, he
w was gone. He pulled the door to
behind him noiselessly, and stood
leaning against it for a moment with
bowed head. Silence faint patter
of feet-the heavy grating of the bolt
driven home. He raised his head.
= Good girl!" said the Honorable
Tony.
He swung across to the table. felt
for the matches, and lit the lamp. A
little wind passed through the quiet
room, bringing a distant murmur of
voices, and far of footsteps coming
nearer. The flame In the lamp flick
cred and burned brighter. and the
flame that danced in the eyes of the
gentleman reclining in the long chair
fiickered and burned brighter, too,
though they were discreetly lowered
over a two-month paper from
Singapore. Even when the footsteps
were on the ricketty stairs he con-
tinued to read-even when the knocks
rang out, he did not lift those dancing
ewes. He dipped over the first page
of the Singapore paper. and lifted his
voice in welcome leavened with sur
prise.
Come in" called the Honorable
Tony to those who stood in darkness
And they came in. First there came
q small plump. swarthy gentleman in
immaculate white linen. He had
small, fat hands adorned with three
superb emeralds. About his head
was q turban Of fine red silk, pierced
by q brooch in which crouched an
other emerald large as a pigeon egg
In one fat little hand he held a pail
of white kid gloves and small
handkerchief badly crumpled; In the
other = swaggsr stick Of ebony band
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-03
DAILY BUSINESS EDITORIAL
The Underplaying of One's Own Community
By RICHARD F. JOHNSTON

business expaiating to
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 This tearing glowing fact through and city This often done point Why this bent pedal Brminghams howngs? Why
 understates and underpays breath everyday and overstae what other ces do
 First as to the facts The has been operation reported during these several have invariably federal bank The totals for the first
 months of this precisely the banks and the of altogether honest ana bona de
 The harm always the malicious In fact the who easily attended to- He is spotted He wears his by the wemeanng ignorant oppy the time measure what they say preciation of its spreading outlines
 visitor to Birmingham yesterday been here in 20 people who have been inside the appreciate how as grow" dusng two place Birmingham of 70 aonexde of Birmingham today revelation It is the strides made plainly because there are o the photographs before me-
 When the completed and Lake Bankhad was then Reded standing the locks father of the Waro said: rms IS pr mnghams gateway peoples of the earth man With no and regarding the Tor US mpe wor' s" " Aabama's opportunity conquest world wde trade
 Not long after this during period of the public mind the Waor publc oc1ai "hcse interest m M Warrior solicited remaked Oh yes am of the m & opno mon he viewpoint of man this district and who had known Warrior from childhood
 The man from afar The home the which place fish trap or % saa De who knew him his boyhood days IL wears bgness build self home John T. Mo did
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