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(department"). Main 41IOO.
Her nanny lock.
Unng on her temples like golden fleece.
—Tempest.
BEGINNING THE DAY—My Fath
er. I am glad Thou hast promised
not to give me more than I can
hear. I am glad Thou watches! me.
to lift the burden or give more
atrength ns my need requires. I am
glad Thou hast miracles of grace
j awaiting my demand. 1 rest in Thee.
I Amen—H. M. E.
If Hypnotic Street Lights
In a report recently prepared by him
for the committee on accident preven
tion of the National Electric Light as
sociation Prof. Hugo Munsterberg of
Harvard says: “The mere possibility
of visual discrimination does not in
sure comfort and still less safety on j
the street. The most essential point i
is to have an illumination by which
the attention is kept vivid and all the j
mental functions active. Fair chances j
to see are of small use if the pedes
trian or the driver come into a be-j
numbed state in which his attention is
dulled and in which reaction is slow, j
Off-hand, and without having carried
on any experiments, I should be in
clined to say that a uniform illumina
tion like that of Detroit would be un
favorable for the attention. It would
produce a liypnoid state.”
After having digested the profes
sor’s learned observations, the aver
age person of unscientific mind will
agree with him that the incessant
glare of street lights in American
cities is a source of annoyance and
danger. Trolley car companies are
forbidden to use strong headlights in
side the city limits of some cities, but
automobile lights are almost as blind
ing and are seldom regulated. The
hapless pedestrian, suddenly con
fronted by the glare of two, and some
times four, big automobile lights, is
apt to become so confused that in try
ing to avoid that particular automo
bile he is apt to be run down by an
other.
Anybody knows that eyes accus
tomed to darkness are extraordinarily
sharp and it is reasonable to suppose
that eyes subjected to excessive light
are apt to become dull. Not only does
too much light produce the “hypnoid
state,” which Professor Munsterberg
describes, and with which city people
are familiar, but it has a directly in
jurious effect on the eyes. The mo
notonous glare of our city streets at
night presents a marked contrast to
the restful illumination of the streets
in many foreign cities.
\l Reclaiming the Great Sahara
Within the last decade the railroad
conquest of Africa has been pushed
forward rapidly by European inter
L tests; England, Germany, France and
.?■; (Belgium being especially active in de
veloping this vast territory to the
'south, which is sometimes called an
('‘annex of Europe.” That portion of
(the eastern hemisphere is now tra
versed by several transcontinental
'lines, one of which extends down the
(rich valley of the Nile, while another
^crosses the Great Sahara desert near
.the center.
When the Moroccan protectorate
iwas esablished France caine into abso
'lute control of 45 per cent of tht
'world’s greatest expanse of dry, sun
baked territory, which is half again a;
large as the United States, and whirl
it is declared lacks only proper irri
gation to parallel the valley of th<
Nile in productiveness. The Frencl
government is very optimistic in re
gard to its ability to reclaim this vas
(waste which has come into its hands
> Scientists have outlined numerou
plans for reclaiming this barren terri
tpry, a part of which lies below th
»- sea level. One scheme involved th
' digging of a canal connecting the se;
! * (with the lower portion of the deser
. and thus allowing the salt water t
rush in and form an inland sea. Man
objections, however, were offered t
; this plan, and it seems to have bee
abandoned. The most practical metho
. of securing water in the Sahara i
Mid to be by means of artesian well;
Mil*.
Water is thus readily obtained, and
new oases are quickly formed wher
ever moisture rises to the surface.
The French intend to link these re
claimed areas by means of railways;
and plans are now being perfected
whereby two or more trans-Saharan
lines will bring the colonies of the
Sudan and the Niger basin in connec
tion with Mediterranean ports to the
north. The French hope to eventually
reclaim a large portion of the terri
tory which will be traversed by these
railways penetrating the desert of the
Great Sahara.
Splendid Work for University
It is now certain that Birmingham
will raise more money for the univer
sity than Atlanta or any other city
that may be in the contest.
The contest is supposed to be be
tweeti Atlanta and Birmingham. The
Georgia city does not seem to be doing
anything in the way of organized ef
fort, and as the educational commis
sion of the Methodist Episcopal
church, south, is to make its decision
on or about July 45, whatever is to
be done must be done with dispatch.
The Birmingham organization is
thorough. The preliminary work is
over and now is the time for actual
achievement. The business men of
Birmingham seem fully aroused to the
far-reaching value of a great univer
sity. The citizens’ committee hopes
to be able to offer the educational
commission $1,000,000 as an induce
ment to have the university estab
lished here on the site of Birmingham
college.
Whatever amount is offered will in
clude the college and all its property
with a campus of nearly seventy
acres and considerable money pledged
some months ago. That offer is now
estimated at $350,000. At a general
meeting of the citizens held last night
it was announced that pledges to the
university fund thus far reported
totaled $73,350; and several important
committees had not been heard from.
There will be a whirlwind canvass
this week, and if necessary right up
to the 15th. It should be comparative
ly easy to raise $500,000 in Birming
ham and $100,000 in Jefferson county
outside of the city. If this be done,
the college values would bring the
amount up near enough to the $1,000,
000 mark to satisfy the Methodist
commission.
It is whispered around that certain
prominent citizens who have signified
their intention of subscribing to the
fund, will write their names opposite
figures surprisingly large. However
this may be, hundreds of well to
do men will give something, and
with the many aiding in this uni
versity movement the prize can be
easily won.
Result of Rigid Inspection
Birmingham has as pure a milk
supply as most of the larger class of
cities. As shown by the report of Dr.
Duncan, city bacteriologist, there has
been a marked improvement in, the
dairy situation during the last two
months; and he will continue the pure
milk campaign until all the daries are
in prime condition.
Dr. Duncan and Dr. Cunningham,
the city health officer, are co-operat
ing earnestly to raise the standard of
all fresh meats as well as dairy prod
ucts, and it is believed that before the
end of the present summer all the li
censed dairies and venders of meat
will score high. By rigid inspection
typhoid has been minimized, and the
time should soon come when fever
germs will rarely ever be traceable to
milk.
Dr. Cunningham in reporting to the
city commission the facts submitted
by the bacteriologist said that of the
68 cases of typhoid fever which he
had analynzed during the last six
months he found that 23 persons had
obtained their milk and butter from
a private cow. This, he said, was
rather remarkable. He advises peo
ple not to purchase dairy products
from the owner of a private cow, be
cause the health department has no
information about conditions under
which such dairy products are man-1
aged. He gives it as his opinion that
the private cow is partly responsible
for the presence of typhoid in Bir
mingham.
Birmingham has not only a health
officer and a bacteriologist of known
ability, but both these men are en
thusisasts when it comes to the work
I of advancing health conditions. It is
for the people to read Dr. Cunning
ham’s reports and bulletins and to act
as far as possible upon his recom
mendations.
Secretary Bryan delivered four Chau
tauqua lectures in North Carolina on the
Fourth of July, which netted him approx
imately $250 per lecture. Not a bad show
ing for u week end’s work.
Tamdon women arc going to prize fights.
Berts witnessed on the streets between
i militants and policemen have probably
, awakened In them a desire to see nme
thtng scientific.
1 An Ohio gourmand who won a bet by
i eating three gallons of cherries tried tc
■ take medicine In the same reckless fash
, ion and the fool killer won't have to at
I tend to him.
1 The smull boys who spent the Fourtl
; in swimming still has his full quota o;
, ey es, ears and fingers.
Statistics compiled by a German pub
lication show the mileage of the world’s
railroads, owned by states and privately
controlled, during the year 1912. More
than two-thirds of the total mileage is
under private control. Europe has 98.952
miles of ra lire ad under private ownership
and 313,699 miles of state railways. Amer
ica has 321,106 miles of privately owned
roads and 88,287 miles of railways owned
by states. The state roads credited to
America are mostly In Canada, Mexico,
Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Not a mile
is given to the United States, although this
government owns the Panama railroad.
In Europe, outside of Great Britain. Spain
and France, state ownership of railroads
is preferred. All the railroads of Great
Britain, Spain and China are controlled
by private companies and most of those
in Canada. Tllree-fotirths of the railway
mileage of France is privately owned and
about two-thirds of the mileage in Swe
den. State ownership prevails in Japan.
While the railroads of India are owned
by the government, they are leased to
rrlvate companies for operation. There
are no railroads in Mexico operated by the
government.
C*ut your weeds, or you will be ar
rested. If any lot owner of Birmingham
has been thinking that the city commis
sion was joking when it issued its weed
cutting proclamation he will have a rude
ew'akening if he does not proceed at
once to chop or hire some one to do the
chopping for him.
Women should not prepare food while
their hands are dirty, says a government
food expert. Another on* of those origi
nal observations by a "man who knows.”
Dogfish is said to be palatable and
wholesome, but the name is too strongly
reminiscent of man’s best friend to make
it look appetizing on the bill of fare.
Teachers of domestic economy in Ohio
Softools resign their jobs to get married.
It seems that there are a few old-fash
ioned men left in the country.
The suffragettes tried to heckle Presi
dent Wilson, but “Big Business’’ is anx
ious to soothe him.
Outside preparations to relieve the
drouth in West Virginia are being made.
The anvil chorus devotes a great deal
of attention to the plucking board.
The last word seems to have been said
in rcgaid to eugenics. What next
Thirst 4n the navy is already acute.
i'uiiri i liHnun^ ur »TA l I.STIcS
Prom the Washington Herald.
This is a statistical age and no argu
ment or presentation of a cause is com
plete without the figures for proof. We
revel in figures and no man need be at a
loss to find figures to support any fad or
fancy, for added to tlie regular reports
of the decennial census, we have special
reports o-n many important subjects, the
reports of the self-constituted efficiency
experts, the newspaper almanacs, the
statistics compiled by this, that and the
other uplift society, and bargain-counter
cyclopedias of figures. Statistics are val
uable, but they are also variable, accord
ing to the statisticians and their employ
ment. Figures won't lie. but there are
false statistics.
A distinguished member of Congress re
cently delivered a temperance address In
which lie applied the "rules of exact sci-;
ence" to every statement and quoted stat- j
ietics to show that more men are killed
by Demon Rum in the United States
every year than have been killed in ali
the wars of the world from the Mace
donian wars, 300 years before the Chris
tian era began, down to the present time.
The victims of Demon Rum were, there
fore, 2,300,000 every year. These were the
statistics presented under the rule of ex
act scientific investigation, and the audi*
ence, composed of intelligent men and
women, accepted the statement in help
Icfh and hopeless horror over the rav
ages of the Demon Rum.
1 he census statistics do not profess to
be In the line of exact science, but they
are official and supposed to be as reliable
as any figures that can be collected by
thousands of agents in every township,
town and village in the United States,
and compiled by adding mac hines which
do not appear to make mistakes. The
mortality statistics gathered by the cen
sus office for the year 1912, made the
deaths from all causes. In the registered
area of the United States. 838,251. This
i egistered area included that in which
two-thirds of the population is found, and
if the same ratio held good for the other
third, tiie total number of deaths from
all causes were 1,257,375, or about one-half
the victims of Demon Rum. Then, there
are a mass of figures to show that more
than 200,000 of these deaths were of chil
dren under five years old, and 142,000 of
men and women who had passed the age
of 65; that more than 90,000 were from
tuberculosis, 46.000 fioni cancer, 86,000 from,
heart disease, 50,000 from accidents, and
31,883 from alcohol.
This does not, of course, fully disprove
the statistics of Captain Hobson, as to
the ravages of Demon Rum. for by the
exact science of his investigation, we do
not know but the demon dragged millions
to Ms dungeon and devoured them with
out permitting the census taker to even
count the bones.
The contrast between the statistics of
exact sri< nee and those of the, census
office shows our fascination for statistics,
and the ability of clever marshals of fig
ures to build romances as delightful as
that of Jack, the (diant Killer, and as ju
venile. Captain Hobson is not the only
statistician who is delighting and horri
fying intelligent people by hurling at
them battalions, divisions and whole army
corps ut figures, and hypnotizing them
with the spectacle of goblins and giants
devouring humanity.
Dealing in statistics and manufacturing
than! is a trad* and the latest aid to ro
mance. It touches every part of govern
ment and every fad and fancy of the peo
ple. Every efficiency expert and every
preacher of reform, from the revision ot
church creeds to the reform of the law*
( of nature, lias his especial set of rstatls
tics, and they are all presented as the Iasi
werd in exact science but made to fit
the demand.
LUKE M’LUKK S\\H
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Any old time a fellow calls on a girl
and she remarks that she expects to di
al) old maid, he might as well hold uj
his hands and take his medicine.
The old-fashioned w'oman who wa
named Mary Jane now has a daoghtei
who has a front name like a I’ullmar
' car.
» There are all sorts of women In thi
world including the one who has to carrj
a gun to protect her honor.
Ever notice that nobody seems to be lr
a hurry when you are waiting.
A woman may be compelled to wear th(
i Fame dress she bought four years ago
f But that doesn’t keep her from putting lr
four hours a day reading the fashior
dope.
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Activity In Real f&ntalr
"There has been a very decided im
provement in the real estate market
within the past few weeks,’ said S. E.
Thompson.
"A number of important *ales have
been made, and many deals are pend
ing. | have just sold to Mr. Munger at
n good price a lot adjoining his beau
tiful borne at Klyton. This parcel of
ground which Mr. Munger lias acquired
belonged to a prominent Elston estate.
It measures 200 by 200 feet and fits in
well with Mr. Munger’s acreage.
"I believe that activity will prevail
in the Birmingham realty market from
now on. Investors are making much
inquiry, and certain it ig that values
are steadily reaching f<*r higher
levels.”
Improvements In Five Years
"When I formerly lived in Birming
ham I was a booster, but am more so
today.” said W. F. Greaves, the well
known and popular traffic officer, who
lias returned to make his headquarters
here after an absence of five years.
"Of course, I had been keeping up
with Birmingham fairly well, but -with
in the last few days, in looking around, j
1 have been struck with the splendid j
Improvements. The Tutwiler hotel is j
what Birmingham has needed for sev- j
cral years. It is magnificent, and al
though it has been open less than a
month, it has already advertised tills
city well. Another great improvement
is the Jefferson County Bank building
of 25 stories—the tallest building in
the south. I think it safe to say that
Birmingham has made more progress
in five years than it had made »in any !
former period of 10 or 15 years.”
Rnek from Detroit
"I spent several days last week in
Detroit, and found the weather there
cold enough for an overcoat," said J. M.
Levine, bond salesman for Steiner
Brothers, who reached home yesterday.
"During my absence from Birming
ham besides visiting Detroit, 1 stopped
over in several cities, including Cin
cinnati, where I spent a day. Business
conditions in the north seem to be
very good. I heard no talk of hard
times; but on the other hand, I heard
a good deal of optimistic talk. As for
the bond market, there is a brisk de
mand for municipal and county issues,
and there is no trouble whatever in
selling bonds issued by counties and
cities in Alabama.”
'l’he Park Concert Tonight
Memoll’s band will give the second
free concert of the summer in Capitol
park tonight. A fine programme will be
heard.
“In view of the eager interest In the
park concerts many voluntary sub
scriptions should be fourthcoming.'
said a citizen who made a substantial
contribution to tlie band fund.
“Money enough should be pledged
this w'eek to assure open air music
throughout the summer. As it is the
Music Study club committee managing
tlie concerts see their way clear to
give only three a week for about five
weeks. I hope to see a generous popu
lar response to the appeal for funds.”
H. M. Allen’s Vacation
B. M. Allen leaves tonight for Denver,
where he will attend the annual meeting
of the supreme lodge of Elks, of which
lie is past supreme exalted ruler. He will
be absent from Birmingham about a
month. One of his friends who had Just
wished him a pleasant vacation, remarked
to an Age-Herald representative;
“One of the first persons I met in
Birmingham was B. M. Allen—everybody
»ailed him Judge Allen from the fact that
he had filled the position of justice of
the peace. He was known throughout
this part of the country as a wit and
wag and he had not attended many meet
ings of the supreme body of Elks be
fore he had a national reputation as a
humorist. It has been some years now
since Mr. Allen was honored with the
highest office in the gift of the Elks. On
ills return home from the supreme meet
ing he was greeted by the blowing of
whistles and other marks of Jubilation.
The local Elks met him at the Douts
vllle and Nashville station with a brass
band which played. ‘Hail to The Chief.’
It was a gala day for Birmingham, the
entire citizenry feeling proud of the fact
that one of its number had been signally
honored.
“I have known grand masters and the
heads of fraternal orders to become more
or less lukewarm after they had become
past.’ But Mr. Allen has always kept
up his enthusiastic interest In the order
and has never missed a meeting of the
supreme lodge, so far as I can recall.
By the way, I hope Mr. Allen will make
an effort to have the supreme meeting
held in Birmingham in the not very far
distant future. I know that if any one
man could influence the body. Mr. Allen
is that man.”
About Persons'”"*
J. W. Randall, former secretary of
the Southern club but now an attache
of the Gkdsden National bank, spent
Sunday and Monday here and was cor
dially greeted by his old friends.
• * •
Judge J. H. Miller left yesterday for
Montreat, N. C\, where he will spend
a two weeks’ vacation.
A CAM- FOR A GREAT ARTIST
From the New York Times.
There is to he a statue of the pioneer
mother at the Pana.Tia-Pacific exposition
in San Francisco if an artist can be
found who can depict an ideal of this
symbolical personas? sufficiently poetical,
\igcrows and Inspiring to satisfy the
grandchildren of th • pioneer women. This
Is going to be a difficult Job. A model
of a statue by an «a»t *rn artist lately ex
' hlbtted in San Francisco has aroused a
i stor wot protest oemuse the figure is
5 draped in an Indian blanket and resem
bles a Comanche© aquaw. That surely
■ does not typify the plunder mother of
. Pacific civilization. We can imagine a
■ modern realistic treatment of the sub
r§ Ject which might not be ineffective. The
** plainly dressed* woman,* her smibonnet
falling backward upon her shoulders, or
t bi-nging by the strings from one of her
* arms, standing by a tree stump and gaz
ing into the future wit.i a vision half pro
phetic, half foreboding, might charm by
its humanity and its pathos.
But probably the v ymen of California
* demand a more heroic treatment of the
> in* a of the pioneer mother. The combina
tion of classic dignity with the romantic
* spirnt may he essential. A classical
J sculptor would not have bothered himself
about i he drapery with so large and *ym
n bollcal a subject to treat. But a nude or
y even a partly nude pioneer mother will
neter suit western America. Th© print
1 cloths and homespun* of our ancestor!
no not lend th©m»«l/e* to graceful drap
H irgs. Th© touch of savagery Imparted b>
^ using a squaw's blanket la utterly out ol
ri place. In 1 act, the pioneer xnothar Ideal
U out* to be taken up by a sculptor ol
unmistakable genius, who can feel its
force and appreciate ts inherent beauty,
or abandoned altojpthor. There is a call
for a great artist. Will It be answered?
kt tl% brute
From the New York Times .
Now the republicans are taking a hand
in the disfranchisement of the southern
negro, in Alabama tlie republican state
executive committee has excluded all the
"black belt" counties from participation!
in party affairs, including representation j
in all state conventions. The resolution
passed was to the effect that no county
In which fewer than 100 votes were cast
for Taft and Roosevelt combined in 1912
should he allowed representation on the
committee or in convention. Seventeen
counties in all wrere thus disfranchised in
the republican party, including some very
important ones. White men as well as
black were thus excluded from repub
lican councils, but that was unavoidable;
besides, the white leaders in the ‘ black
belt" are of the old "black and tan" stripe,
and little less objectionable to the whites
than their negro followers.
Naturally, there is a mighty howl of
protest, and the republican party in the
state is split wide open. The disfran
chised intend to appeal to the national
committee. Of late years, however, there
have been signs In that body of a willing
ness to consider some action to reduce
negro representation In the party’s na
tional councils, and it may turn a deaf ear
to the appeal. It is curious, in view of the
way in which southern republicans have
been declaiming against the disfranchise
ment of the negro, to see them now do
ing what they can to help It along. It is
evident, however, that if a real republican
party is ever to be built up in the south
it will have to begin by putting an end
to the scandal whereby republican na
tional conventions have been filled with
negro delegates from regions which cast
virtually no republican votes, whose pur
pose was only to be bought.
PENSIONS MAY GO DOWN
From the Pittsburg Post.
The cost of military pensions to the
government of the United States, which
reached its summit in the fiscal year now
ending, is expected to begin to go down,
and will undoubtedly go down rapidly
unless the amounts paid to individual
pensioners are again increased by Con
gress.
During the first 10 months of the present
fiscal year the number of Civil war vet
erans on the pension list decreased from
462.000 to 435.000 and 5000 additional names
will be dropped by the time the year ends.
The pension estimates for the next fiscal
year are, therefore, fixed at $169,000,000, as
against $180,000,000 for the present fiscal
year. Eleven millions of dollars does not
seem very much wrhen compared with
$169,000,000, but it is a considerable sum,
and adding It to the reduction anticipated
in the next 12 months, the decrease In
this branch of governmental expense
should equal the sums raised by the in
come corporation tax.
It is interesting to note in connection
with this expense of $180,000,000 for mili
tary pensions in the present fiscal year
the sums paid out by other warlike na
tions for the same purposes. Germany
paid out only $110,000 in the past year;
Great Britain $117,843.
HANKS IN SMITH AMERICA
From the Chicago Herald.
The action of the National City Bank
of New York In deciding to enter the
South American field in accordance with
the terms of the federal reserve act is op
portune and significant. South America,
reassured and pleased by the partial suc
cess of the mediation conference at Nlag- :
ara Falls, will welcome American hanks, \
while every exporter and manufacturer
who does business In that expanding field,
and hopes to Increase his market, will
rejoice In the move.
For years It has been recognized by
students of foreign commerce that the
lack of American banking facilities In
South America Is one of the major and
serious obstacles to advance at the rate
our exporters have the right to expect.
considering the quality of their commod
ities.
It Is natural for hanks and credit agen
cies to suport the commerce of tlie coun
try they represent. At present every bit
of business transacted by Americans in
South America is done by British or Ger
man agencies. Incidentally this means
that our exporters do not directly adapt
themselves to South American ways and
methods in the matter of credits.
CONSOLATION FOR OLD FASHIONED
From the New York Bun.
At Its closing session in Atlantic City
the Catholic Educational society passed
a resolution condemning the teaching of
sex hygiene In the schools on the ground
that it tends to degrade rather than to
improve morals.
Against this opinion one, a final and
fatal, objection lies. It Is hopelessly old
fashioned. It belongs to the ancient and
unregulated world when people were al
lowed to mind their own business to some
extent asni uplifting had not begun to
poke Its interrogative nose into every
thing. Love, home, the family: old fash
ioned prate. Besides, If the schools are
not permitted to teach everything that
the r.ew wisdom dictates, they might be
forced back to that pernicious, obsolete
syitem of the three R's.
Yes, the Catholic Educational society la
old fashioned in its notions. But, alasl
eugenics, now tiie delirious passion of a
multitude of sociologists, must tread the
same downward, backward puth. It will
Boon 1)0 crowded out by fresher ics and
isms. It will be old fashioned while the
i p-to-the-moment sages preach nepiolo
gy, morogenics, onology and comparative
Hubdubery.
JAIL guard an author
Joliet Special to New York Sun.
Max Erxlehen, a guard in the Illinois
state penitentiary here, making *70 a
month as an overseer on the "pen" farm,
asserted recently that he is "Larry
Evans," the mysterious author of “Once
to Every Man," a best, seller, and scores
of short stories which have been pub
lished In almost every big magazine In
the country.
Erxleben said he is making mors than
*3000 a year by ills writing. He Is uned
urated. He was an attendant at the Kan
kakee State Hospital for the Insane. Hs
said he worked there and in the Jollei
prison merely for Information to embody
In his writings.
OCR “NEAR” MILITANTS
From the Mobile Register.
What difference is there between Amer.
lean niffraglsts camping all day In thi
room of the House committee on rule!
and British suffragists laying siege t<
the door of the house of Parliament? Only
a difference of degree. The performanci
In Washington shows the strong Incllna
tWu of tiie suffragists to become militants
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A PLEASING PROSPECT.
Vacation songs are sweet to hear
When poets gaily sing them;
Their dulcet notes bewitch the ear,
Like bells when breezes ring them.
The mountain’s crest, the ocean s foam
Are wondrously Inviting
And doubtless everyone would roam,
His secret soul delighting.
If landlords never penned a bill
And no one had to settle;
I'm very sure I d loaf my fill
And be in finest fettle.
A CHARACTER PART.
"You say he used to be an actor?"
"Yes."
"What's he doing now?"
"He's secretary to an uplift league."
"UmphJ I dare say he’s still acting."
HARDLY NECESSARY.
"Have you called on Mrs. Waggles?"
ask#d Mrs. Twobble.
Dear, no," answered Mrs. Blascomb,
'blit they do say"-here follows 30 min
utes of animated gossip, concluding with,
T really must call to find out something
about her."
THE CARPENTER.
My, but the carpenter is slow',
With him my patience fails;
He even stops his w'ork to go
And manicure his nails.
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
For getting things done in a rush
He does not care a straw;
He’ll lay his work aside to brush
His teeth upon his saw.
—Boston Transcript.
For laziness there cannot be
The equal of that lad's;
His work's neglected now', while he
Sits there and reads his adz.
—Columbia State.
Such laziness in one man stored
Is trying. I’ll admit;
If there’s a hole already bored,
Hr will not work a bit.
••••ItMMMHHtHMMHItHIIHHIlHIMMIIIIMMtl
MAY BE SURFEITED.
“I believe Gladys has a dual porsol^^B
allty.”
“Why do you think so, Bella?" ■
"Some day* she devours chocolates by V
the pound and other days she doesn't
care for them.”
PERSUASIVE.
"You've heard the old saying that Sa
tan finds work for idle hands to do.”
"Oh, yes. And not only that, but he
often induces busy hands to made a rad
ical change in the kind of work they do.”
EXHAUSTED HIS CREDIT.
“I'm afraid Blobson did not receive^
much benefit at the health resort he vis- i
ited."
"Was the altitude too high?" 1
“No; the stakes were.”
A DISTURBING FACTOR.
The dictagraph is now being used by
married women to keep tab on their
husbands. From the very day it was
perfected the dictagraph has been a
trouble maker.
ALE WATCHED.
“I understand the new arrival, Mrs.
Blowster, expects to do a great deal of
entertaining."
“The neighbors were entertained when
she moved in.”
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FREAKISH.
I went to buy a new straw hat,
The salesman was polite, (
But when I issued from the store
The world erstwhile so bright
Did wear a sombre hue that left »,
Me little chance to smile. •
The lid I bought looks like the deuce,
And yet, it's right in style. 1
P. C, J
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF ROGER LOWEN
WHO can tell how many cases of
crime and murder have been
caused by jealousy? Since the
time the first page of history was writ
ten one constantly comes upon stories
of murders, some deserved and others
the reverse, but most all of them have
been caused by the "little green-eyed
monster." Whether the following case
is one of those deserved or vice versa,
we cannot tell, but the following Is ^he
account of the trial.
Roger Lowen was born in Hanover,
In the year 1667. He was educated In
France, and when about 25 years of
age went to England and was married
to a young English woman, with whom
he lived in an affectionate manner for
a number of years without a suspicion
of waning love. However, in 1667, ho
went abroad to attend King William at
the treaty of Ryswlck, and left his
wife with her cousin, who was the wife
of Richard Lloyd of Turnham Green.
Upon Lowen's return from Holland
he suddenly became surprisingly Jeal
ous without any seeming reason, and
accused his wife of becoming too famil
iar with her cousin’s husband. Rich
ard Lloyd. Tills led to the fatal catas
trophe for which Roger Lowen was
finally arraigned at the Old Bailey, on
September 20, 1706, for the murder of
Richard Lloyd of Acton. To this charge
he pleaded not guilty, and applied for
the privilege of having an Interpreter
to speak for him to the jury, and the
jury to be composed of half foreigners
and half Englishmen.
The first witness called was the wife
of the deceased, Mrs. Lloyd. She stated
that the night of tlie murder her cousin,
Mrs. Lowen, asked her to come over to
tile house as she wanted to Bpeak to
her. Wlille she was there her husband
called, and spoke to both herself and
Mr. Lowen, upon which both the gentle
men walked around together and were
to all appearance seemingly friendly.
Mr. Lowen then invited Mr. Lloyd to
dinner, which he refused, saying that he
had to go to Acton on business and
leave his horse there. The prisoner had
then said to the deceased that he should
come to dinner after be had got through
his business, and accordingly dinner
was kept waiting for tllnj, While the de
ceased was away Mrs. Lloyd stated
that several times the prisoner ex
pressed a fear that her husband would
not come, to which she replied tHat he
surely would come If he so promised
unless it rained very hard. She was
right, as It seems, for shortly after 12
o’clock he came and was brought into
the parlor by the prisoner, both seem
ing as friendly as ever.
Mrs. Lloyd then told how In the par
lor Mr. Lowen. the prisoner, drew her
husband's sword from the scabbard,
asking him the place where It was
made, every one present thinking that
he was admiring it, but all were mis
taken, for suddenly Lowen drew back
the sword, and, stamping his foot, ran
her husband through the body. She Im
mediately tried to draw the sword from
his body, the prisoner also struggling to
regain It, In which struggle all her fing
ers on one hand were cut to the bone.
Her husband had then died after a
couple of groans, and, seeing Justice
Hawlly accidentally coming by, she
called him in, saying a vlllan bad mur
dered her husband.
Justice Hawlly, upon being exam
ined, said that when he asked the
prlsonej his reason for the crime he
had answered that the deceased had
Tfecome too friendly with his wife and
that many times he had "trod on Ills
corns.”
The prisoner was then put on his de
fense and said that many times since
his marriage he had asked his wife to
go with him upon his trips abroad, at
which she had always refused, until the
last time he had become suspicious, and
that many times Mr. Lloyd had called
him several "names," all of which he
had forgotten.
The jury then retired and came back
, wdth a verdict of guilty of wilful mur
der, and he received the sentence ol
death. After Ills conviction Lowen con
fessed his crime In a document deliv
ered to a friend and written in Ger
man. He also wrote a letter to the
widow of the deceased, which he gave
• to a minister, Mr. Rup, who delivered
1 it, In which he asked her pardon, or
1 as he puts it, "and I publfckly ask the
> pardon of the widow, hoping she will
’ as a Christian, forgive me, as we all
• hope for mercy and forgiveness from
' God, through the blood of Jesus Christ.'
. Lowen was executed as his sentenc*
caled for. But one bright spot in* th®
sordid tragedy is to know that before
his execution he received a letter from
Mrs. Lloyd saying “that she forgave
him, and prayed that God would for- J
give him also and have mercy on liis\ ’
soul.” '
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Tomorrow—Trial of Major Campbell. I
SALVATION ARMY’S BIRTHDAY
From the New' York Evening Post.
Forty-nine years ago the world’s first
meeting of the Salvation Army took place
in an old patched tent erected in an an
cient burial ground in the Whitechapel
district of London. The first preacher was
William Booth, a clergyman at that time
without a church. He had been called
upon to take the place of the regular
minister, w'ho was lying ill at his home.
The flr3t congregation was made up of &
“mass of poor people, many of them evl-^|
dentlv without God or hope in the world.
After the meeting Booth hurried to liis^B
home and exclaimed to his wife: “Kate, *
I have found my destiny! As I passed by
the doors of the flaming gin palaces to
night, I seemed to hear a voice sounding
in my ears: ‘Where can you find such
heathens as these, and where is there
so great need for your labors? And there
and then in my soul I offered myself and
you and our children up to this great
work.”
From that day meetings were held reg
ularly. On the third Sunday the tent blew
down and wras wrecked beyond repair.
Having no money for* another and with
out funds to rent a building, Booth ’
preached in the open air. Finally, he se
cured the use of an old dance hall that ^
.was not in use on Sundays. Week-day4H
meetings were held in a dilapidated shed.^B
formerly a storehouse for old rags. As V
the army grew it was forced into the 1
streets; narrow alleys, abandoned sa- '
loons, or unoccupied theatres became Sal
vation Army chapels.
Today the Salvation Army Is the great
est evangelistic organization in the world.
Tlie poke-bonneted army lassie Is a fa- j
miliar sight in every country on earth,
with the single exception of Russia. They
are in Iceland, and it. is reported that I
Russia is on the point of capitulation. :
More than 10,000.000 Americans gather dur- j
ing a year’s time to listen to the exhorta- \
tions of nearly 7«H*> office^ of both sexes. J
The charity of the organization includes, B
in the United States, nearly 100 working- 1
men’s hotels, which accommodate annual- i
ly more than 2,000,000 persons; over 120 In- I
dustrial homes, w'here about 3,000,000 meals
liave been served in a year, and about 3®
rescue and maternity homes, where 6000
girls and children find shelter.
LOC ATING HER “FEEONSHAY”
From the South Bend News-Times.
Two Mishawaka girls were talking the
other day about their sister’s engagement,
as girls usually do on such an important
occasion, when the chief maid of work,
Angeline, came in.
‘‘Angie,’’ asked one in raptures bold, <M|
“have you seen Ada’s new fiance?” t
Angeline thought for a moment, then <
shook her head in a puzzled sort of way.
“No'm, I done seen a, lot of purty new
things Wld frills and ruffes on, but Ah de
clare to goodness Ah kaint reecolect dat
er feeinshay. Dat mus’ still be in d®
wash.
THE VANISHED COI NTBV
Grantland Rice in N«w York Mail
Back in the Vanished Country
There’s a cabin in a lane.
Across the yellow sunshine
And the silver of the rain;
A cabin, summer-shaded, ^
Where the maples whispered low
Dream stories of the wrorld winds
That a fellow used to know;
And it’s queer that, turning gray.
Still a fellow' looks away
To a land he knows has vanished
Down the Path of Yesterday.
Back in the Vanished Country
•Sbere’s an old-time swinging gate
Through the early dusk of summer
Where a girl has come to wait;
And her hair is like the sundrlft
From the heart of summer skies.
While the blue of God’s wide heaven
Crowms the splendor of her eyes;
And it's queer that, turning gray.
Still a fellow looks away
To a girl he knowa has vanished
Down the Path of Yesterday.
Back In the Vanished Country
There’s a dream that use to be
Of Fame within the city s
And a name beyond* the sea; *-»/
A dream of laurel WTeathings
That came singing through the light
The story of the glory
Of the victor in the fight;
And It’s queer that, worn and gray.
Still a fellow looks awray
To a dream he knows has vanish®#
Down the Path of Yesterday.
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