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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12

lanterns, which stand also about the en- tire grounds. In times when the temples were rich these lanterns were lighted every night; now about 60 only at most temples emit their rays. The accom- panying picture Is of an iron lantern which stood until recently at the doorway of the Higashi Hongwanji (Eastern Tem- p'e), at Koto, the old seat of the Japanese government. It has just been brought to Los Angeles, Cal, for a gentleman, who will place It In his private grounds. It is 300 years old, feet 3 inches high and rests upon a base 23 inches in diameter. Halfway up the column Is latticed DOT tion. which contains door. here the candle Is admitted. It is about four inches through, made of waxed paper unrolling after the fashio. of a self sharpening American lead pencil and will burn about four days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12
BUILT A HOUSE WITH ONE HAND.

This house was built with one hand by Charles O. Blomerath, of Maiden. Mass, who Is also an inventor. He lost his right hand on WashlngtOn's Birthday, 1857.
 Since then" says he, "I have carried and sold newspapers for a living. This house was commenced In 1894. and have employed my spare time in building 1t. Not wishing to take too much praise to myself will tell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12

you what have done with one hand that others would not do with two. have skinned up the fagpoles of two school houses in Medford and rove the halyards, and I have lowered a topmast of n lArge fiagpoe in Maiden Square when no one else dared to. I also went down a well 24 feet deep and rescued a girl 10 years old when lt was pitch dark"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12

would instantly fly together like trap, squeezing the life out of the intruder.
 Early travellers declared that the tree held its victim until every particle of flesh disap- peared On this account 1t Is called the "cannibal tree"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12

A new fishing boat recently built at Bou- Iogue is provided with a 2oo-horsepower gasoline motor for propulsion and another of 25-horsepower for getting in the nets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12

This photograph was taken in the animal park of the wel-known Hagenbeck firm of dealers in wild animals, in Hamburg. Germany Here every animal has the greatest possible freedom. These tortoises
 large as they are, are small in comparison with many that were found wild century ago. Such giant tortoises are-or rather were-found chiefly In two groups of islands
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12

interesting creatures, but much more will soon be known, as some European natural lsts have been close,y studying them for some time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12
Iyy=Clad Pine.

This pine tree, which stands In the neigh borhood of Coblentz, Germany, Is 150 years old and 90 feet high. The Ivy that covers It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12

Thousands of people enjoy the pleas . of gathering mushrooms, but of this mum growth as that portrayed in tue illustrator. This curious circle of mushrooms was found about four miles from Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio. It Is twenty four feet ia diameter. A few of the mush .ooms had been tramp.e1 down by cattle that were in the wooded pasture, so that there are some gaps in the photographic reproduction. Where this strange growth was found other similar circles were observed, but none so well preserved as this one. Some of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12

Comparatively little Is known about thes,
The sun., 1903-11-14
"PLEASE APPOINT"
District Leader OF DE Ate Butts in on Mr.
jerome With Poor Result.

man whose appearance was strongly
suggestive Of the Bowery, approached
District Attorney jerome yesterday In the
corridor of the Criminal Courts Building
and handed him letter which Mr. Jerome
read.
Attorney. Then he read aloud: Being
ahomt to assume the leadership OF the Eighth
Assembly Distriot'--he demands the ap-
pv Mr. Jerome tore up the letter. $50 back
and tell him he said that wouldn't
appoint that man to my staff If I should
never have stan
The messenger went away. To re-
porter who asked about the incident. Mr..
Jerome said: -,,
hurt the lawyer and he isn't responsible.
1t was simply case of a politician butting
in"
Mr.. Jerome would not say who is the
politician, but the attorney is member
Of the best known Tammany law firm on
the East Side. Florrie Sullivan is the pres
ent leader of the Eighth Assembly district
The sun., 1903-11-14
BEDLAM IN WOMEN'S MEETING
FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS
HAS STRENUOUS DAY.

Votes to Establish . Trades School for
Girls in terdan,-Delesates to
National Federation and Members
or the Executive board Are Chosen.
UTICA, Nov. 1S.-The ninth annual con-
vention Of the New York State Federation
OF Women's Clubs, which has been in session
here since Tuesday, was concluded this
afternoon. The delegates, after motions
and amendments without number had been
made and discussed, voted to establish a
trades school for girls, and Amst erdam was
selected as the location for the proposed
institution. Mrs. William Tod Helmuth
and Mrs Cossino Of New York each pledged
$500 to the project Exclusive of these
gifts the sum on hand for the school ex-
oeeds 5000.
When the vote on the motion to establish
the school was about to be taken bedlam
reig1led in the meeting hall. Mrs. Cora
Weller Trow of New York wanted the
vote taken by acclamation, but there were
protests from several who wanted the vote
by roll call. This was carried. There
we're several on the platform instructing
the house, and Mrs. Helmuth asked:
who is presiding at this meeting?-
Miss Hay asked that the matter should
called for. She said the quest ion was called
for, and though Mrs. Trow had Informed
her that she was out OF order she would
like the chairs ruling.
Amendments, motions, protests, sugges-
tions and remarks came from all parts
the vote should be by roll call
The following we're selected as delegates
to represent the State Federation at the
biennial meeting of the General Federation
The sun., 1903-11-14
News OF Plays and Players.

Augustus Thomas is passenger on the
Kroonland, which is due to arrive on Mon
day. He is going to conduct rehearsala
of his latest play "The Parson and the
Pugilist," which Charles Frohman is going
to produce.
The Bijou Theatre will be closed next
week Willie Collier ends his season there
tonight. What's the Matter with Susan?'
will be the next attraction.
Rosario Guerrero. French dancer and
pantomimist, becomes a member Of the
aRed Feather Company on Tuesday night.
pany, but she declined to share the stellar
honors with Grace Van Studdiford. She
has changed her mind.
The matinde performance Of Major
Andre ut the Savoy Theatre next Wednes-
Of tho New York State Chapter, Daughters
Of the American Revolution. The house
will be decorated in their honor.
The sun., 1903-11-14
WILL MCCLELLAN KEEP LEWISf
Gossip at the City Hall Over an Important
EneineerinK Appointment.

Among the officials over the probability
of whose retention by the new administra-
ton there is much gossip about the City
Hall is Nelson P. Lewis engineer of the
Board Of Estimate. A majority Of the men,
bere of the board who voted for his appoint
ment early last year will continue to be
members. The point has been raised,
however. that as Mayor Low suggested the
claim the right to appoint new engineer.
especially as the potion is TO- great ex-
tent a confidential one.
In determining upon new public improve
merits the advice Of the engineer is always
sought by the board. 1t is underst ood
that Louis A. Risse, who was the engineer
to the Board of Public improvements du-
ring Van Wyck's mayoralty, u q candidate
for Mr.. Lewis's place.
The sun., 1903-11-14
MOULANS QUIT "THE SULTAN"
because Mrs. MOulan Couldn't Have Her
Choice OF Dressing Rooms.

In weeks time Frank Moulan, who
created the roe OF XII Ram in "The Sultan
OF Sulu,' will cease TO be under the man
ageral wing Of Henry w. Savage. His
wife, Maud Lillian Berri, who was the prima
donna of the. company, resigned ten days
ago.
Manager Savage discovered Moulan and
also his wife. They had been members
Of his company when he ran the American
Theatre, but neither attracted much at
tention until they appeared in "1'he Sultan
of Sulu" last season at Wallao ks. Moulan' 9
work there put him in the front OF como
opera comedians.
Mrs. Moulan fell out with Col. Savage
because she could not have the dressing
room Of her own selection while on the road.
Savage does not believe in stars and he IS
a sticker for discipline in his company.
When Mrs. Moulan complained she was
permitted to resign. Her husband reslg-
nation followed.
"The Sultan Of sulu" Is playing at the
Harlem Opera House this week.
Mr. Moulan last night denied that he had
had any row with Col. Savage.
Il am simply going to leave the show
in two weeks" he said, Il have several
business interests in New York and DOM
care to 90 on he road
Sam Collins will succeed Mr.. Moulan as
Ki Ram.
The sun., 1903-11-14

Martin w. Littleton, Borough President
elect Of Brooklyn, has resigned as Assistant
District Attorney, the resignation to take
effect on Dec 81. District Attorney Clarke
will advance Assistant District Attorney
Francis u McCaffry to the $1,000 place,
which is a raise Of 81 900 for Mr.. McCaffry
Mr.. Clarke will also appoint William H.
White of the Eleventh Assembly district
ard Peter P. Smith Of the Third Assembly
district as assistants. Their salaries will
he $1,000 each. The extra 81 600 will be
used in increasing the salaries Of the clerks
in the Office. Peter p. Smith was formerly
In the Office of the Corporation Counsel,
lieutenant of ex-Register Hugh MoLaugh-
lin. Mr. White is also a McLaughlin man.
The sun., 1903-11-14
MRS. YBANEz'S MISSING JEWELS.
Police Think She Mislaid Them-s2 900
Worth Gone.

The police are not at all certain that
Mrs. G. Ybanez, who has been living ut
the Felix Hotel at SO West Twenty-fifth
street, has been robbed az she reported
Thursday night,
They think that she has mislaid the 81 600
worth of jewels that are missing. Their
theory il based on the fact tina, $500 in cash
and a lot OF other jewelry were in the bag
in which Mrs. Ybanez thinks she put the
missing jewels and were not disturbed.
If the Jewels were tolen the police think
that the robbery was committed by some
one in the hotel. They hope that the jewels
will be found within day or two
Mrs. Ybanez comes from the City Of Mex
leo. Her husband is wealthy. She came
here three weeks ago with her three children.
The sun., 1903-11-14
BENEFIT FOR JANAUSCHEk.
English Actors Preparing 10 Raise a Fund
for the Aged Actress.

Kyrle Bellew is trying to arouse enough
interest among the English actors and
actresses in this city at present to give
benefit for Nine. Janauschek. He has
written letters to all of them explaining
how sorely in need Nine, Janauschek is
and recalling the fact that the recent sale
of her effects brought little.
Sir Henry Irving is willing to do anything
he can to help along the benefit project
and so are Charles Hawtrey, Forbes Robert
son, Jessie Millward and Vesta Tilley. go,
Il don't know what form the benefit will
take" said Mr.. Bellew last night, but
think the English members Of the profession
ought to do all they can. We English
actors have been accused Of invading the
American stage and taking home our earn
ings to spend. l think this is a chance to
show that we are not as hearless as we are
supposed to be.
II think we ought to have an. all star
production or give acts Of the Rays the
public like best to see us in.
The sun., 1903-11-14
STEEL WORKERS FAY TO BE CUT
Employees Of Sharon Concern Notified Of
Reduction OF TO Per Cent.

SHARON. Pa, Nov. l3.-The wages Of the
tonnage men, rollers. heaters and shears
men in the non-union mills Of the American
Sheet Steel Company, one Of the subsidiary
concerns of the United States Steel Corpora
ton, will be reduced 20 per cent. on Jan. l.,
1904.
The reduction at nearly all the mills has
been accepted by the men without COM
plant. Many mills that have for some
order to keep the men working. All the
mills operating under the Amalgamated
Association scale will continue to pay tho
scale now in force.
About 5000 men are affected by the re-
duction.
The sun., 1903-11-14
MICHIGAN BOODLE SCANDAL.
Confession Said to lmplicate Grand Rapids
Men May He Made Public To-day.

M6h My Be !uuue ruDr1c 1Vuy'
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Nov. ls.-Lant
K Salisbury, an attorney, convicted two
years ago Of accepting bribe in the water
works deal and just released from the
Detroit House OF Correction, where he
served two years sentence for being
party to the issuance Of fraudulent GER
tificate Of deposit, Is scheduled to appear
in the Superior Court Tomorrow to receive
sentence under q bcodling charge.
1t is believed, however, that the sentence
will be postponed. Salisbury, with his at
torney was in conference with the prosecut-
ing attorney all day to-day and 1t is said
that he has made a full confession of the
water deal, telling how the money was re-
ceived and TO whom it was disbursed to
secure consideration in the Common Council.
II he has made a confession 1t is believed
a score or more Of former city officials and
prominent citizens will be implicated.
The sun., 1903-11-14
TRrEDTO JUMP WITH HER CHILD
Mrs Kennedy Rushed Homo to Find Her
Rooms AbiaZe.

Hot GOALS from a stove set FIRE to the
carpet in the home of Patrick Kennedy,
ON the second floor of IS Vandam street,
shortly before noon yesterday. Mrs. Ken
nedy, who was across the street. rushed
to rescue her baby. which she had left play
ing on the floor.
The flames had set fire to the child's q
dress. Mrs. Kennedy grabbed the child
and started to jump with 1t from window.
Her husband came in the house at this
moment and prevented her. The child
was badly burned and was sent TO st, Vim
cents Hospital. Mrs. Kennedy was also
slightly burned, but did not 60 to the hos
pital.
The sun., 1903-11-14
PUBLIC WORKS. PUT OVER.
The Low Administration Won't Authorize
Any More Pro lects,

The Board OF Estimate put of actionyes-
terday on the proposal to widen Fifty-ninth
street for an approach'to the Blackwell s
Island Bridge. The cost Of the improve
ment has been estimated at ~, 1850 900. and
the probability is that it will be left to the
incoming administration.
The board Of Estimate also listened to
arguments in support of applications for
the opening OF no less than eighteen new
parks. In each instance Mayor Low an
nounced that the board would take Tire
matter under advisement. The present ad-
ninistration will not authorize the begin
ming Of any new public works.
The sun., 1903-11-14
NEW TRADE, MAYBE.
Bricklayers to Fight for Control OF Fire.
prOof1ng Work.

bricklayers 10 F1Rht iOr NOntrOI OF FIRE
prOofing Work.
Since the strike Of the brioklayers against
the George A. Fuller Company started.
because the National Fireproofing Com
pany began to install the fireproofing ma
terial in a building with it's own men in
stead of giving the work to brioklayers,
the local unions have been In frequent
touch with their international officers:
Tho brcklayers believe that the National
Fireprooflng Company, which has prac-
tically a monopoly in supplying the goods;
wants to make the setting OF the material
a separate trade. Any attempt to do this
will be resisted all over the country.
The fireproof material is used instead
of ordinary bricks, not only in the arched
ceilings, but in all the partition walls.
In large building 1t constitutes one-third
Of the work, and the bricklayers can do
the inside work when weather conditions
do not permit Of outside work.
The Fuller contracts were still tied up
Yesterday.
The sun., 1903-11-14
Election Expenses.

James McKeen of Brooklyn spent l,7Os
in aid of his canvass as Republican candi-
date for Supreme Court Justice.
William Temple Emmet, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Senator In Westchester,
expended 81 1886.
Ex-senator William W, Cocks of West
bury, l.. l.. spent 81 ,lO4 to be elected to the
Assembly from the Third Queens district.
The sun., 1903-11-14
BIG LOCKOUT IN PITTSDURG.
Work on All New Buildings VIII he Stopped
--IO.O(O Men Affected.

PIrrsBuRo, Pa, Nov ia lockout
involving 10000 men. members OF the
Building Trades Council, has been ordered
by the Builders Exchange League and will
be effective tomorrow. Every new build
ing of prominence In the city, with one or
two exceptions, will be tied up
The lock out is a result Of the determina-
ton of the builders to put an end to SYM
pathetic strikes. The plumbers have been
on strike for two months, and within the
asst two weeks non-union men have been
imported. As soon as they went to work
on a building the Building Trades Council
ordered a sympathetic strike.
The sun., 1903-11-14
MesleNan Wins Debate.

MIppLETowN, Conn, Nov. 1s,-Wesleyan
won the annual Wiliams-Wesleyan debate
held in Memorial Chapel this evening.
The sui ject was: Resolved. that the boy
colt is proper Solicy for organized labor
The Wesleyan debaters upheld the sffirrna-
tive side
The sun., 1903-11-14
FOOLED INTO A STRIKE.
Lot Of Housesmiths Get Tired and Go Back
TO Work.

Many housesmiths who went on strike
against the Iron League at tho orders of
Local No. on the promise that they would
get work elsewhere became tired Of the
strike yesterday and returned to work.
Among these were fifty men who struck
on the big building at SiStieth street and
Construction Company has the contract.
When they struck they we're told by the
strike committee that they would get work
from outside contractors at once, but the
s, rike committee did not even attempt to
keep its promise.
The sun., 1903-11-14
serenadc for Felix Motif.

The orchestra Of the Metropolitan Opera
House serenaded Felix Mottl. the new con-
ductor, in the courtyard Of the Majestic
Hotel last night. Four numbers were
played, the selections being from 'Rienzi, ="
aRide of the Walkuere," Kaiser marsoh'
and Herbert's American Fantasy
The sun., 1903-11-14
Mrs. Roosevelt Sees cousin Kate"

Mrs. Roosevelt ga Ethel Barrymore
play Cousin Kate" at the Hudson Theatre
last night.
The sun., 1903-11-14
Brooklyn Contributes TO Conscience Fund.

WAsH1SoroN, Nov. lathe Secretary
OF the Treasury to-day received in his mail
from an unknown sender in Brooklyn
Slo75O on account of Conscience. He
also received $50 from an anonymous
person in Trenton, n j.
The sun., 1903-11-14
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-24
WAYS OF oRscnRrrY


 People keep asking why MT. Browning was so obscure. Probably, in part, be- cause he could not help it-l1is letters among his private friends are not translucent Again, he took it for granted that the reader was familiar with many matters of which the read CT had never heard in his blameless life; that he knew what murex is, for ex- ample, namely. "a fish armed with sharp prickles and a kind of long beak, from which (the beak?) "a purple dye was obtained" Again, as MT. Chester ton justly remarks. ideas had odd associations in Mr. Browning's mind, and. these being habitual with him, he took it for granted that they were per sDicuous to others. Thus, to take MT. Chesterton's fanciful example, a poet might think that religious excitement was a kind of evil intoxication (the poet being rather an ass.) and .sthat churches were in reality taverns.'' He might also (like MT. Carlyle and others) believe in Puritanism without it's theo- logy, and might ultimately write. ..You will not get the goddess Puritan into your white taverns." This would be magnificently lucid to the poet, but taking goddess Puritan to mean a trusty Tompkins Gin "Woodstock" we readers would say that you could read fly get him into any kind of tavern. However. for all these reasons. MT. Browning was not lucid-even when he really wrote poetry-to the general Andrew Lang, in Longmans''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-24
BIRD CRIMINALS. .

The Feathered Murderers Best
 Known-P -Peculiarities of Noted Deni- zens of the Air.
 The lovable sight Of bird life writes Landon Knight in the current Era, "has been so frequently brought before the public that the layman is al- most persuaded that all birds are de- serving of our protection. This is a great mistake. There are feathered murderers, robbers and lesser criminals who do no more deserve our sympathy than do their human brothers in iniqui- ty''
 Of the feathered criminals most vide ly known, MT. Knight cites the common barn owl, who is a cruel coward. He will sit for hours and permit mocking birds and even sparrows to heap upon him every kind of resentment. Then he will go out and not only kill, but tor ture field mice and other small deer 9 He treats scores of these just as cat does a mouse, often not eating them at
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-24
IS THE HOME A PROPER PLACE
 FOR CHILDREN?

| E x .z5E . i
 As it stands at present, the home is in many respects. a most unsuitable place for children; and the mother. in many ways. is an unsuitable person to have sole charge of them. Why? Be-
 cause the home-nine homes out of ten,
 -is a workshop. and the mothers out
 of ten.-is toiling house-servants. Our ideal in the instinctive care and service is the animal mother. yet we
 forget that that perfected functionary
 has nothing else to do. She gives in stinctive care, the young ones give in stinctive obedience, and all goes well,-
 the species is repoduced with tolerable success. But our children need far more than the young of animals or than the papooses of the toiling squaw.
 They need intelligent care and an inmeasurably wider scheme of educa- tion. To meet this last need society comes forward with it's institutions.
 One of the most invaluable of all civ- ilized institutions is the school. Pri- vate or public, low or high, a school is social institution, and its use is the care and training of children. No mod ern citizen will deny the usefulness of the school. both in it's supplementary
 position to the home, and as a reactive improvement to that more primitive |tinstitution. A nation without schools is hopelessly inferior, be its 'home''
 never so active.
 yxy Sy,i,ct rnY,, ey,n ba,. ftaf 0J,;fdrny, ,f all races have homes, but only the children of civilized races have schools;
 or, to put it in due sequence, that schools make civilized races. There will be no opposition made on this line. We all know the value of education, ,-or think we do. We are used to schools and their benefits. But we still
 maintain that, although beyond certain age of the child is patiently inadequate to his needs, below that age 1t is suffi- cient; and that, although beyond a cer- tain age of the child the mother is patiently inadequate as teacher. be- low that age she is perfectly sufficient.
 For the care and education of our col
 lege' boys and girls we are glad to pay large sums, to endoW great institutions, and to secure the leaders of science for instructors; in their mental progress we take great pride and interest; and their physical exercises we follow with vast crowds of spectators thunderous ap- pIause. But the care and education of our baby boys and girls we contentedly leave in the hands of the lowest grade of unskilled labor!
 l Millions of dollars to endow the in
 stitutions for the youth and rnaidens!- !--