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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06
Naughty Nell, and How Her Pets Were Taken From Her.

frightened at the strange things that had happened. Why did you change nay pretty clothes into these old thingsY"
 "I'm a fairy, and l want to let you taste the punishment you in1ict on other creatures" explained the fairy. "And now I'm going to run back and forth OH this icy pond, leading you by string till I have caused you 10 suffer as you have been making your pretty and help less pets to suffer-
 But you won't dare, declared Nell stoutly. "I1l call to my papa and man. ma to come and beat you and to drive you off
 "Ah, you naughty child; didn't you hear me say I'm a fairy? And If l wished to do so I could turn you into stump, or q rock, and make you lie on the bank of this pond forever So, don't be too impudent, or l may make your sentence the harder for you to bear. Now, come on, follow me and run lively, too"
 So saying the fairy tossed a long, looped string oyer Nell's head, drew 1t up snngly about her neck, still holding tightly to the other end. Then she flew up and down the frozen pond, dragging poor. aalf- frozen and suffering Nell after her. In vain Nell pleaded and begged. the tireless fairy kept her running up and down.
 At last naughty Nell fell to the ice ex- hausted and began to weep and to call to her papa and mamma. Then the fairy came to where she lay and said: Do you realize now, child, how much you have made your pets suffer this cold day on the ice? Do you think you can feel kindly for living creatures in distress in the future if l let you return to your home once more?"
 "Oh yes, good fairy, oh, yes. see now hnv 4rhf horr hut fPu fn be better in the future. And now, if you change1ny garments back to the pret- ty warm ones they were and give me the ribbons that are tied to my pets, I'll go home"
 "No I shall take these pets with me and give them to some kind-hearted children who have never tortured helpless erea-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06

lures. And for one year you shall have no pets of any kind-that is a part of your punishment. But If at the expiration of that time you have become penitent little girl and ceased to be naughty. yon shall again have pets As for your gar ments, go home In the rags you are now wearing and show them to your foolishly fond parents, and tell to them the cause of your being so dressed. The lesson may he q good ode to them for their thought lessness in the matter of training you. And, now, farewell for one year"
 And with the pretty Rex and the cun- ming Maybelle tucked under her long cape the little fairy flew away. and naughty Nell looking after her as she disappeared began to understand the lesson she had had. "Ah. I must be q better little girl in future' she sighed. And then she hur- ried home. almost frozen, to tell her mother and father of her strange expert ence. And 1t Is hoped they proited by the lesson also.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06

yours-and all polar bearkind-will from this night be safe from the cruel hunter. Stand up, my dear Mrs. Bear
 The mother bear arose, standing upright on her hind legs and the fairy stepped In front of her. holding aloft tiny wand. Assemble about your mother, little ones," the fairy commanded the cubs. They quickly did her bidding and with wave of her wand the fairy caused them all to turn as white as the driven snow.
 They were much surprised when they looked at each other, and then at them selyes but they understood the wisdom of the good fairy. Now they could go about by day and not be seen by anyone. Oh, what delightful thing to feel safe from the cruel hunters weaponsl
 Then the orphan cubs were called to their foster mother and their brown coats were changed by the fairy to snow white ones. And that night all over the frozen Arctic circle, and as far southward as the polar bear lived the good fairies went changing coats of brown and black to white, and thereby making the polar bear safe in his own land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06

stubborn one. Had a touch of fever last night. And it's worse to be sick this sort of weather, particularly when folks are not able to have all the comforts of living. Now, if had place like this,'' and Archie knew from the mans man. ner of speech that he was alluding to his present surroundings, ..the little chap could soon be well. But our house is as cold as a barn, and can't be heated by a little coal stove My, this is fine place. Look at the rich furniture, rugs, pictures and the comfort of the warm rooms."
 "Yes, but 1t wasn't made by mu- sician," said the first speaker. Ut Is a pity that so glorious calling is so poorly paid. Why, l don't get enough extra money in a year to cover the outlay of this boys party tonight. My children never have parties. can't afford to give them such luxuries."
 Then the conversation stopped and the musicians continued to tune their in- struments. Archie walked slowly up the stairs, entering his own comfortable room. He went to the clothes closet to get out his suit, preparatory to dressing for the party. But the words of the mu-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06

Dear chum Billy, here am l
 Far from home, you see, Going to a city school;
 And 'tis fine; but-gee! How I'd love to be back home With my folks-and boys! There's the place, yes. on the square, That is full of joys Anything that recalls home
 Is to me most dear: And l stop to think it o'er-
 Say, Bill, ain't it queer How fellow doesn't know
 What a home does mean, Till some several hundred miles Lie him and home between. But of course, I've simply got To grin and bear it out; But when holidays do come
 I'll rush home with a shout
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he would be able to distinguish 1t on ac- count of the color.
 What was his surprise on returning to the spot to find no bear there. He knew he had wounded the animal to her death, had seen the death glare in her eyes be- fore leaving her, and to return half an hour later to find nothing but whiteness over the ground, amazed him very much. He looked about for a few minutes, then a sort of fear came over him, for so un- natural q thing as a dead bear getting up and going away caused him to feel that something supernatural had happened. Could 1t be an evil spirit?' he questioned himself. He was, like all primitive men, very superstitious, and hurriedly making some signs, muttering some incantation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06

to ward off the evil spirits which might be near him, he called to his dogs to get up, and with a swing of his lash over their backs, went of over the frozen snow.
 As soon as he was gone there was movement in the snow just where the dead body of the mother bear had lain, and gradually coverlet of snow was thrown away and the dark body could be plainly seen outlined against the white ground. Then a white figure, gauzy and winged, lifted itself from near the head of the dead animal, and with a silvery voice called to the cubs to come from the cave.
 Pretty soon the little motherless things came hurrying in response to the voice which they seemed to understand, and, to their grief and heart-rending sorrow, aw
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shall confine this narrative to the bears and their change of color. and how it all came about.
 One day a dear old mother bear went out to find some food for her little ones, and hardly had she gone a hundred steps from her icebound cave when the Es- quimo hunter wounded her to her death. As she lay there on the ground, her life blood reddening the whiteness of the snow, the Esquimo went down the icy slope to fetch his dog and sled, that he might carry to his hut the fine prize he had just captured.
 It was towards the evening, at a time of the year when the days were but an hour or two long, and before the hunter could return to the spot to get the body of the dead bear the darkness had fallen. But he had no fear about finding it. for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06

to fetch another guest to my party, and for her to make arrangements according ly. Tell her l may be little late, and to make some excuse for me to the guests when they arrive I'm off in minute. and shall not dress till I return.'
 Maggie looked at Archie in some sur prise, but only said: All right, Master Archibald. 1 will go and give your mes sage to your mother. She is dressing for the evening"
 Archie ran to his room. got his over coat and hat and flew down the stairs,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06
LETTER ENIGMA.

My first Is in sin, but not in repent:S My second is in holy, but not in lent: My third is in smelt, but not in fish: My fourth is in platter, but not in dish: My fifth is in pigeon, but not in fowl: My sixth is In wisdom, but not in owl: My seventh is in arrow, but not In shoot:
 My eighth Is in piano, but not in flute:
 My whole of 10 letters
 mans name does spell:
 He was a great general,
 And you all know him well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06
BY WILLIAM WALLACE. IR.

HN long, long time ago-so long ago that there has been no history con- EM taining the date, and the story Is legendary there dwelt in the Arctic Cir cle a group of bears. And they were nlI brown or black. And the hunters found them easy prey, owing to their dark color, for, as all children know, the Arctic country is perpetually covered with snow, and any dark object upon it can be more easily seen than could white object
 So it was that these poor bears were ever in danger of the hunters weapons, which at that day were very different to the hunters weapons of modern times. But that would be another story, So I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06
q OrPuZZle Corner R
HIDDEN pRovERB PUZZLE.

A well-known Spanish proyerb is hidden in the following seven sentences, each sentence containing but one word of the proverb, and the words appearing in their regular orders
 Never trust stranger till you know him.
 It is good to be wise, but better to be Just.
 Every wife should keep her own door steps clean.
 There is no knowledge without wisdom. girl should not waste too much time over her image in the mirror.
 The husbands first duty,is to his family. Many man has a fortune without knowing It.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06
BEHEADINGs.

Q) Behead a heavenly body and leave a substance much used in cough remedies. @ Behead something used by an artist In making pictures and leave swamp grass. (8 Behead very pungent spice and leave deen affection
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06
CURTAILINGs.

Q) Curtai to wash one's body and leave small flying mammal. @ Doubly cur tail the present time and leave the pre- vailng style. (9 Doubly curtai that which Is necessary to elect man to office and leave social function.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06
CONUNDRUMS.

What is the difference between a soldier and a woodman?
 The one supports his arms and tho others arms support him.
 What does Washington, D. C., stand for? Washington, Daddy of his Country Why can negroes be trusted with se- crets2
 Because they are sure to keep dark
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06
ANSWERS TO PUZZLE CORNER.

Hidden Name Pussle-Lincoln. Letter EniOmd-SnotobdH
 Beheadings-G) Strdp-trap. t2) Speak. pedk. (3) Floo-loo.
 Curtdilings-t1) BeHop-ben 't2l Pn. loic-pW (3) Corcr-coue.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-05
GRATED BY USE ur TOBACCO.

One large wad of chewing tobacco inserted in the hollow of a tooth help ed to send Mary Lewis to the psyeho- pathc ward of Bellevue last week and to bring her before city magistrate yesterday on the technical charge of in- sanity. The case is said to be without precedent .-E
 The patient apparently 3s years old never had been addicted to the use of tobacco until two weeks ago, when one of the teeth in her lower left jaw be- gan to ache and she was advised by an old man to buy a plug of tobacco bite off generous portion and hold lt In her mouth She did so, and within three days she had acquired the habit
 The ache disappeared. but as 1t went away Mary heard strange voices. \ grephophone with a strident voice call. ed upon her to be good. and d troupe of children, all in white and numbering millions sang songs and reeted verses until she became unable to sleep. She kept on chewing the tobacco, and the more she chewed the louder became the tones of the graphophone.
 Into such condition did she drif, that it was deemed adviSa ble to have her undergo an examination In the physchopathic ward of Bellevue, where her case was diagnosed as one of acute mania, with the use of tobacco as the exciting and the principal contributlne cause. New York World
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-05
RoosEyEnr's SIGNATURE GOOD

According to pr e, C. Young. whose ranch in Arizona adioins inc presi- dents. new form of signature has been adopted by President Roosevelt, after the English royal fashion
 Armed with a card of introduction signed simply Roosevelt the doctor says he has made a most delightful trip through Europe, heen received by kings. emperors. ambassadors, and high society folk and had bully time" generally,
 Dr, Young arrived here today and registered at the Hotel Schiller He brought with him a gift for the presi- dent, and hopes to purchase a farm site adjoining Sagamore Hill
 My home is in Wichita Falls, kas,. .' said he. but my ranch adjoIns the presidents in Arizona. We are great friends.
 'I had delightful trip abroad When went the president gave me 2 card signed Roosevelt and found 1t a passport everywhere
 "The card was addressed to Ambas- sador John w Riddle, in Russia. but it worked everywhere. could attend all the court functions upon 1t. Presi. dent Roosevelt is a big man in Europe Some time later this week l hope tc visit him at his home "--New York American.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-05
HORSE LOVES A COCKFIGHT.
Spills His Oats fo Provoke Boosters ,o
 Battle Over Them.

Tom a horse owned by Jared Finlay, 2 contractor, of Great Notch. N. |, is 9 good old sport Literally. the horse would rather see a cockhght than eat Dan Edwards, who raised game fowl and for years supplied the cockfigbters of North Jersey with birds, used to own Tom, and the horse saw many a bird tried out at Edwards place When Edwards died Tom was sold. He has never been the same horse since. but lacked his accustomed spirit and speed. II is plain now that he missed seeing cockhghts,
 Finlay Is building house at Singac, N !, and drove Tom there Friday, At noon Finlsy went to dinner at the ho- tel while Tom stood outside with a feed bag slung oyer his head Some of the oats fell out and q swarm of chickens ran to the grain. tumhline oyer each other in their greed
 Two young roosters got mad and fought Tom pricked up his ears. back. cd away 2 few feet and watched the fight SD intently that he forgot 10 eat FinlaN, coming from dinner found the horse's bag half full of oats and said 10 Jack Baird. the stahleman;
 "Tom is away off hs feed. I'll have to take him to g vet
 Fnlay drove to sine9c yesterday When noon came and Tom found he was going to the same hotel he got as
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-05
PRAGMAHlSM HERE
This New Movement Is in the Air, But It Is Not Easy
 to Define.
PROF. JAMES DEFINITION
Your True Praalnatlst Is m Indif,er- cnt Latltudinarian In His
 Views.

Pragmatlsm is in the air The mag azines give the new movement a prom lnent place. It Is discussed on noun tain and at the seashore as if 1t were some portentous event like the arrival within our atmosphere of a threaten ing comet or freshly matched re- llglon, says the New York Sun. Per- haps some day 1t may become re- lglon. The attractive lectures of Prof. William James, the growing in- terest in the writings of Nietzschc, the books of Dewey and Schiller particu- larly the latter thinkers "Humansm" all point to states of feeling on the part of our reading public which be- token the advent of something novel and of genuine import, And 1t is true that pragmatlsm offers to the specu- latiye mind plenty of problems. It's ug- ly title, with its eonnotations of self coneeit, meddlesomeness and bump tlousness, Is misleading
 Prof James wlttily calls it an old thing with a new name. in phrase, new wine fin old bottles But your true pragmatist is the reverse of the die tionary definition, He Is as indifferent as the ocean in his views of the uni verse; a latitudinarian, compared with whom that rapidly vanishing indivd- ual, the agnostic Is mugwump The agnostIc hopelessly dropped his hands before the riddles of life, but the prag- matist does not indulge in such use. less gesture. Like Peer Gynt. he "goes around. evades the real hard and fast issues, He knows his theory 10 be good waiting ground. and from it he proeras, tinatinglv surveys the cosmos with gentle curiosity He Is nothing if mol tolerant, all things to all men and al
 faiths. He Is too sweet to ne true Tr the anxious lnterrogator of spiritua
 uncertainties he says; Wait We are on the wide stream of consciousness 1 What may now seem 10 you nexpllc.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-05

able may be clear when we drift fur ther down. They do drift The land scape on either bank of the river changes continually See, says the pragmatist such ia truth X chamc- leon Ever changing. My truth may not be your truth, As there are so many humans on the globe 90 are there as many truths" Comforted, the anxious one may go on dry land to rob, kill or outrage If his conscience says him yea, But he Is then an extreme case, He has criminal instincts, With such rude souls Prof. James does not deal, Why should he But-it may be pragmatlsm In the end "The true, to put IL very briefly James says in his first lec- ture, lis only the expedient in our way of thinking, just as the right is only having"
 That is. truth Is justified if Its consequences are useful to you. In a certain sense we are all pragmatlsts, just as M, Jourdain spoke prose for q long time without knowing 1t, The nov city of the idea dates back to tho hills, before Protagoras had discovered that man Is the measure of all things, Prof James mentions Aristotle as an early pragmatist. but does not speak ol Thomas of Aquinas. though the angeli- cal doctor "humanzed" Aristotle for 1 the Christian World Old Terence has been pressed into service with hls Homo sum. humani nihll me alum puto" Wasn't St. Paul pragmatic when he spoke of faith and good works Pragmatic Is to be practical--its Greek root so signifies. What of Goethe anc his question: What is the value ol this to mo now?" Pure pragmatism And Renan with his fascinating PVT rhonism, with his theory of worlt ever in process of creation, or re-cre ation--fieri is his precise world Ant our egotistic friend, Max Stirner. af extreme Hegelan. whose motto is My truth is the truth Are not al political opportunists pragmatists Pope Piux XX was pragmatist wher he denounced modernism" and Prof James would be the first to acknowl edge him as such, for modern thought modern science, are repugnant to thu Holy Father: they are not practical truths for him knowing IS he does tn ever changing truths of science compare for example the evolution O Lamarck and Darwin with the evolu tionarv theories. the Transformism Q | Qulnten. todayA Prof James declare that God Is not q gentleman" Villiar de rIsle Adam proves him a prasmatis in his lronical "Trihulat Bonhomet
 God asks of Bonhomet; "Quand jetter ezvous le masque?" "Mais spres vouf Slgnenrl" responds Bonhomet
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-05
WEALTHY ACTORS.
Good Sized Fortunes Earned Especial
 ly by the American stars.

An English publication recently compiled table showing the cash values of recently dead stage celehri- tics. The name of Sir Henry Irving was the most notable in the list. He was credited as possessing Al the time of his death properties representing cash value of s7i000. vet Richard similar to that of Irving abroad, died worth s2b0, GOO. Sir Augustus Harris died ali the age of forty-four, worth a tri1e over s100.000 At the present day Reginald DeKoven owns real es- tate in New York to the value of S200.00o, and that represents but a portion of his wealth Mention is all SO made of the fortunes of actors now prominent on the London stage Sir Charles Wyndham. F s Willard, Beerbohm Tree and Sir John Hare rank forfemost in the grouping The highest amount supposed to he posses sed by any one of these actors is s25o,0oo There arc at least score of well known American actors, among whom are William Gillette. William II Crane Frank Daniels, Henry Miller Lew Fields, Joe Weber and others. who are each worth over a quarter of a million dollars Lew Fields has that much money invested in Harlem alone
 Tn the same article mention is made of Mrs L1ngtry and Mrs Patrick Campbell, Sarah Bernhardt Lena Ashwell and Ellen Terry az the wealthest of women stars They are supposed 10 possess sums varying from sSb.000 to s10o.oo0. The largest saving Is credited to Mrs Langtry. who scarcely can he termed an Eng lishwoman The American stage with Maxine Elliott and Mande Adams. has two, actresses who are worth double the latter amount May Irwin has over a million. Ida Conquest has in vestments in mining shares and Lone Island real estate amounting to over S75 o00 kvrle Rellew. oscar Asche | Fl B Irving and Louis Calvert are considered wealthy by their Englis, admirers but John Drew. for in- ] stance, probably has at his command | twice as much money as any of the four leading men mentioned in the English journal H. B. Irving is es. pecialy commended for the posses sion of s25,0o0 Walter Hale. 8 Chi, cago boy. already has invested thai sum in suburban property, Dozens ot other well known artists who have sums ranging from s25.O00 to $1oo. .0oC could be mentioned. and the fact tha
 so many of the theatrical profession are well endowed with this world
 riches goes a long way toward refut. ing the oft-heard assertion that thf people of the stage are improviden
 and lacking in thrift