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The Washington herald., 1909-06-24
MAY FLY SATURDAY.
Wright Brothers Still Put
ting Machine Together.
INTEREST NOT YET AROUSED

washingtOnians Apparently Slow to
Get Excited over Exhibit at Fort
Myer, Although Kings, Queens, and
EmperOrs Bowed Low Before The
ConquerOrs OF the Air.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

Charles Devine, a letter carrier in a Pennsylvania city, was arrested for rob ping the United States mails.
 In his career is to be found a striking parallel to Stevensons weird tale of ''Dr. JeSyll and Mr. Hyde"
 When Devine was sober he was an honest, industrious, capable worker Let him take a few drinks of liquor and his whole nature was changed. As the de- tectlves put It:
 Ills eyes would draw nearer together his mouth narrow to a thin slit. and a general air of thrifty cunning was mo- ticeable by close observer"
 It is said that no matter how much he was intoxicated Devine never showed it by a flushed face or thick utterance or staggering gait
 The cunning thief covered his tracks for several years.
 As if by the wand of a magician the invisible spirit of wine transformed this man from an honest worker to a shifty fiend.
 There are others.
 Many a man is all right when he is sober and all wrong when he drinks
 He may not be changed into cunning criminal like Deyine, but the devil that is in him, caged, will surely come out roaring, shaken with rage and lustiylg to innict pain on his fellows.
 There is little devil in every bottle of whisky.
 He who panlpers his appetite for liquor will find, like Dr. Jelxyll, that
 'The insurgent horror is knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lays caged in his flesh where he hears it mutter and feels it's struggles to be born" ,"
 So long as MT. Hyde-his other self waited for him around the corner Dr. Jekyll was never safe.
 So long as a few drinks over at the corner saloon will release the brute that is in him no man who hampers with liquor is safe.
 Moreover
 There is in each of us-whether released by liquor or something else-a Mir. Hyde. The Jekyll In us has ideals and a desire to realize them. The Hyde in us blurs the ideals and keeps us from making our dreams come true.
 The devil that was in Devine overcame the angel that was in him.
 Will the spirit of evil that is in us prove stronger than the spirit of good?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
PHYSICIANS WILL
 SUPPLY NEW BODIES

From the Technical World Magazine.
 The family physician of the near future can be pictured in the minds eye making out a work sheet for the guidance of the surgeons to accompany hypothetical patient to the hospital, which might read something like this:
 "Amputate rheumatic right leg and graft on & new one.
 "Cut out kidneys. which are develop ing Bright's disease, and transplant sound ones preferably from healthy young hog.
 Reverse circulation of the blood in the thyroid gland to produce hyperaemia and thus reduce diseased condition.
 overhaul the intestines and patch where needed. The rest of him is hardly good enough to stand the expense of a new set.
 overhaul circulatory system, replacing unserviceable veins and arteries with new ones. Put in new heart only If absolutely necessary.
 "Cut out stomach. It is completely worn out and has well developed can cer. Besides, he won't have much use for it hereafter, as 1t will take all his earnings for a long time to come to pay his hospital bill.
 Cut out left lung. It is so far gone
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
NOT A PLUMBER BORN.
The Beginner Who Was Sent to Find
 Leak and Failed.

From the New York Sun.
 Pipes & Fassitt ran a busy shop. They had men out working the eigfrt-hour day in the Washington Heights district. They had helpers out, too, at the regular rates
 Monday morning had opened up with a rush. Joints were bursting and bathtubs were flowing over.
 Fassitt generally followed up the jobs seeing that they were covered. Pipes held the desk down and made out the bills.
 Presently the door pushed open and a hardy looking young fellow came in He handed note to Mir. Pipes. Pipes read it.
 Please, sir said the young fellow
 Don't please anybody here, said Pipes. Riley says you're a good man and willing to work. Siddownr'
 The hardy looking. young fellow sat for five minutes. Then the telephone rang
 Get that off the wire" said Pipes The young man got it.
 It's MT. Silberberg that owns the big apartment house on St. Nicholas avenue. His star tenant complains of leak in the ceiling from the floor overheard"
 You take that wrench and go over"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
Thrifty France.

From the Washington Post.
 The French have subscribed the new Russian loan 40 times over, and 1t is a fact that more than $1,000, 100000 of the Russian national debt is held in France. It is possibly true that the aggregate of all the property of all de- scriptions held in the United States surpasses that of France, but the largest in the world, and due to the inveterate habit the French people of all classes have for living within their income and laying away something for rainy day.
 The climate and soil of France are the best in continental Europe, and there has ever been "a favorable bal ance of trade" for her exports. In the essentials of corn, wine and oil France has been prodigally blessed, and her peasant class is a capitalist class, in- yesting in the securities of alien peo- pies.
 From the decline of Spain until the rise of Bismarck, period of more than 250 years, France was the first power of the continent, if not of the world. The house of Bourbon and the great Bonaparte fed the French people on victory and made them drunken with glory, and they are rather sad stories the humiliation of 1915 and 1870; but if not relatively so powerful as the Ger mans, there Is no disputing that France Is relatively more opulent.
 Bismarck was the most forceful per sonality the world has seen since Ma poleon the Great, but it was a mistake to ravish France of Alsac-Lorraine. Had these been left, France long ago would have forgiven the licking of 1870-71; but she will never forget or condone the humiliation, and it is that memory of France that has cost Ger many many a billion to keep her army in the highest state of efficiency.
 Nature fixed the bounds of France. and it is a very great pity that the statesmen and soldiers of the last three centuries did not recognize it so and work together to make 1t permanent.
 That would insure the peace of con tinental Europe for a century.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
Wanted-A Husband.

Recently a popular magazine inter viewed a hundred representative women in town and country concerning hus- bands.
 What kind of man should woman marry? was the question.
 And what sort of answers do you think were made to this query? What sort of qualities did the women put above all others?
 Did they demand wealthy husbands? Or husbands handsome in person?
 Or those of engaging social qualities?
 Taking the world as you find 1t, you very first in a woman's demand of hus- bandly qualities.
 Not one of these things was so much as mentioned by a single woman!
 Waht then?
 Seventy-five of the 100 put honesty and honor first of all.
 The women, some of whom are mar ried and some single, understand that neither money nor brilliancy nor hand some features-alone or united-are suf- licient to make a desirable husband.
 Character is absolutely essential.
 A woman cannot love a man whom she does not respect, and something be- sides appearance is necessary to produce respect. Only the surface woman is caught by externals.
 The women mentioned-5S per cent of them-put love of home as the second es- sential of a good husband Evidently
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

said Pipes Locate the floor. Get around to Congdons, where where we've got a contract and lift helper Go back and find the leak. Then report to me. Done hurry too much.'
 The young man departed. returning in a couple of hours.
 Nothing doing, MT. Pipes" he said. '''rhe tenant overhead spilled some water in a corner of the kitchen. It ran under the sink and followed the pipe line to the floor below That was all."
 Then Pipes rose up sadly.
 Heres sitting time," he said Take the money; you'll need it. A tenant i'm agines a leak. The owner wants to pay for repairing the leak. You were sent to find it. You failed Some day you may be an angel but you will never be .. plumber. Good-byr'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
A Physician
 Cures His Wife
 Of Consumption
1t Costs You Nothing To Try The
 Same Treatment.

Gentlemen:
 My wife was down with Consump- tion when I ordered a bottle of Aicsol (Lloyd). She was very weak from night sweats, cough and in a feVerish condi- tfon. l noticed a change for the bet
 ter after 10 days treatment and from that time on up to three months when
 the cure was completed. Aicsol CLloyd)
 kills the Tubercle Bacillus in the blood and tissue and it is the only remedy so
 far discovered that will do this. It Is a preventative as well as a cure. It should be used by those who are run
 down or those who fear the approach of Consumption. It can be truthfully said that Aicsol (Lloyd) for the cure and prevention of Consumption is the
 most wonderful compound of the pres ent age" DIR. w. H. KNIGHT. Swampscott, Mass. Hundreds of letters similar to the above from physicians and cured pa tients are on file at our office. So confident are we that Aicsol Gloyd) actually will restore you to
 perfect health. and that you will fec. its beneficial effects within very short
 time after beginning the trea tment, that we will gladly send a full month s treatment absolutely free to any suf- ferer who will send name and address to us
 We make no conditions except that you take the treatment we send you, according to directions. Should the
 results be such as to make you abso- lutey sure that a continuance of the treatment will cure you, you are to
 remit us $5 and continue the treat
 ment. If, after taking the treatment, you are not satisfied with the results no charge whatever will be made you for the treatment sent you.
 On December 15, 1908, the London Society of Science, Letters and Art, of London, England, which was established | in 1881 for the purpose of determining.
 the highest scientific and literary achievements each year. awarded q
 diploma of merit to Judd Q. Lloyd in recognition of his valuable services to
 mankind In discovering "Aicsol," the only successful treatment for consump- tion, and was elected an honorary mem Der of that we'll known society Only
 one such diploma is issued each year in any one country.
 Aicsol (Lloyd) is a perfectly palatable I.preparation. You take absolutely no
 risk whatever, for Aicsol (Lloyd) must
 be entirely satisfactory to you before you pay us one cent. The burden of the proof is entirely on us. What we have done for others we can do for you. Send your name and address to- day and we will send you a full months treatment with full directions. Address Restorall Chemical Co.,, 591 De- Baliyiere Avenue, St. Louis. Mo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

with tuberculosis that 1t is good for nothing and only endangers the rest.
 Trim off 50 or 50 pounds of fat. With reduced stomach and lung capacity he can't carry so much ballast.
 Make all minor repairs needed to keep him going for ten or F years more"
 Nonkense. say you?
 Not a bit of it. Perhaps no one man could stand it to have quite all these things done to him at one time, but the surgeons could do their part all right. They know they could, because they have already performed all the seemingly im- possible feats and a great many more besides
 Unbelievers may find at the Recke- feller Institute for Medical Research in New York some living circumstantial ev- idence in support of these staggering as- sertions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
SEABOARD "On-Time'' Line.

Will place on sale February 2S and March 1. 2 and round trip tickets Bir- mingham to Washington, b c. Good to return leaving Washington March s. Individual rate $2250, and for parties of 26 or more SIT per capita Call at Sea board office and secure reservation. The inaugural ceremonies promise to be on the grandest scale ever Train leaves s:15 a. m., arriving Washington following morning for breakfast.
 2-A-ff
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

A Bertram-has quit professional life 4 \ and will hereafter devote herself to home duties.
 Don't talk to me of art said this woman while she was dressing for her last appearance. What is art compared to the home? I have home and a daughter
 Continuing. she said: Applause is mine today. Tomorrow it goes to some body else. But my home and daughter are mine indeed, and they are the things worth while in life.''
 Wise womani
 Every little while we read of some wife and mother giving up her home in order to make a reputation in the world-a poor exchange.
 This actress has chosen the better part, which shall not be taken from her.
 No doubt 1t Is a fine thing to be able to hold a great audience in the hollow of your hand, to be able to sway it at your will and by climax of effort win it's encores.
 But it must be finer to be thrilled when your child cuddles up in your lap and sleeps to your lullaby.
 Helen Bertram .well understands the feeting nature of the triumphs of art. Today she is favorite; tomorrow she is forgotten.
 But the joys of wifehood and mother hood abide.
 If every woman who grows tired of the common duties of domestic life, who com- plains of the drudgery of home duties and longs for the so-ca1led freedom of a career and the applause of the multi- tude-if she could only understand!
 If she could understand as the jaded, heart-sore, disillusioned woman of the stage understands, she would hug herself in gratitude and contentment.
 Woman cannot change her nature. Her heart hunger will not be satisfied with art or public career. She was made for motherhood. and if she misses that she misses all that can satisfy.
 Home and childi
 These and these alone can fill her moth- CT soul set her life in tune with the in- finite and give her abundant foretaste of the joys of paraulse.
 q have a home and daughter" says Helen Bertram.
 Having these, art is merely incidental to her life. Having a home and a daughter she has the real gold of exist ence. Why should she care aught for the tinsel of the stage?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
Diagnosis.
from Harper's Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly.
 Into a general store of town in Arkan- sas there recently came darky complain ing that ham which he had purchased there was not good
 .s1'he ham is all right, zeph,' insisted the storekeeper.
 NO. it aint boss, insisted the negro. Dat hams shore badi
 How can that be-" continued the storekeeper, '.when it was cured only Last week."
 The darky scratched his head reflective ly, and finally suggested:
 Den mebbe it's had relapse
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
Just as Good as Ever, Too.

An old physician was noted for his brusque manner and old-fashioned meth ods. A lady called him in to treat her baby, who was slightly ailing. The doc tor prescribed castor oil.
 But, doctor,' protested the young mother, castor oil is such an old-fash- toned remedy
 Madam" replied the doctor ''babies are old-fashioned things"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

Cheap round trip rates to
 Mexico and Texas from New Orleans during Mardi Gras., Tickets sold February "A, 25A and 26. Limit March 10. Ad-1 ditional information O. & C.l Office, 1925 First Avenue, Bir-' mingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

looks her duties fair in the face and, If well treated is not prone to discontent The plain wife seeks no conquests abroad but g1ories in her home and wraps her soul, like mantle, about her husband and children.
 The handsome wife may have the weakness of vanity and over that weak ness may some time stumble, even fall The homely wife grows more beautiful in mind and heart as the days go by, and the heart of her husband contdes safely in her.
 The homely girl is a fine girl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
HEART TO HEART TALKS
Fly EDWIN A. ME uoluIoossY sssld uuoLLsmK Ea .00aL 145I1Edoo

they believe the man who goes the so- cial pace is not desirable
 To the right thinking husband home Is the center of the universe. However many circles of obligation-larger or smaller circles-he may draw about him in his complex life. the center of all these circles always remains in the same plaee-the home center.
 Now. these two qualities-character and love of home-are about all the require ments made by the hundred women.
 Modest? Yes, but all-inclusive.
 A reason=>le wife does not ask special heroism of q husband but she does asz> ordinary manliness and honor. She does not crave wealth or comedy features so much as she craves the love of an or dinary man who will be true to her and her home.
 The average American woman is the most sensible woman In the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

A RIGHT woman of the stage-Helen A Bertram-has quit professional life 4 \ and will hereafter devote herself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
She Wants Free Love.v


 A Chicago publication that shall be nameless advocates the freedom of man, woman and child"
 One of the editors is woman who in signed article says:
 Love can never be what it might be till the marriage tie is broken. Down with the marriage wallsi
 Foolish Womani Does she not know that the walls of marriage are the kindest barriers ever put up by the race to keep woman from falling off the verge-from falling into the utmost depths of degradation?
 A woman, of all persons, should be the last to tear down these walls.
 Let her commit harakiri ere she let down these bars, because by doing so she will simply destroy herself and leave the protecting walls to her sisters wiser than she.
 This woman wants free love-"
 She wants to exchange the ties of wife hood for the whimsy of cratic passion. She wants to be free" so that she may love whomsoever she may and how and when she may.
 There is another word for this sort of freedom.
 It is a harsh word. This woman wants freedom in the zone of the affections. But she does not see that true freedom is liberty restrained by law.
 She really craves license not liberty.
 She ought to know that the very es- senee of love requires a bond-liberty to love under the law of love.
 For love is not-cannot be-lawless.
 Love is more than froth of sentiment or impulse of romance or stirring of pas sion.
 Love-real affection-is the outsrowth of devotion and fealty. It develops best in two persons who have common inter ests, common sacrifices. common hopes and fears, common joys and sorrows.
 No woman has really loved man until in common with him she has passed un- der the rod until, through health and sickness, loss and gain, she has been bound to him. The closer the bond is drawn the greater is the affection; the tighter the knot is tied the greater the happiness.
 And that is one, and only one, of the blessings of marriage, which this woman fancies Is a mere convention of society. l Poor, foolish, lost womanl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
pr. JekyiI and MT. Hyde.

1he homely girl is a fine girl.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-05-08
NOVEL USE FOR AUTHORS NAME
Euphonic SyIlabIes Unfortunately
 We're Badly Applied.

When Josephine Dodge Daskam, now Mrs. Bacon, met college class mate a short time ago, the classmate congratulated her on the fame she had acquired and said: T had startling proof of how well your name is known after we'd been out of college only five years. 1 was then on a trip abroad and was doing a little sketch. ing in the picturesque parts of Eng land. Several other artists were grouped near me one morning, all at tempting to sketch a delightful bit of landscape, when gust of wind blew my sketching sunshade over. A gal lant young artist tried to pick it up for me. The wind bowled it over a little farther Then he knocked over my stool in his gallant efforts, nearly upset my easel and had very clumsy time of it, and all the while he kept muttering underhis breath: Josephine Dodge Daskam, Josephine Dodge Das- kam
 Do you know her?' 1 asked finally.
 Who" he asked, surprised.
 Why, Josephine Dodge Daskam. She was a college classmate of mine.
 The young man turned a fine red and said sheepishly: No, 1 don't know her from Adam but I've read a lot of her stories, and I always say her name when I want to swear and cant. Her name Is the nearest like cussing without being cussing, of anything I know of"
The Prescott daily news., 1909-05-08

course, as well to the mothers or Confederate veterans as to the others.
 "Comrades there is no class o1 men living whose mothers were as patriotic, loyal and heroic as the mothers or 1S61-6o. No moth- CTS ever made such sacrifices ana the commander in chief requests you on the second Sunday in May to wear in the lapel of your coat a white carnation or other white flower to honor the memory ot your own mother if deceased, and in reverence to her if living.
 The Young Mems Christian As socia ton throughout the world has placed the day upon it's calen- dar and wherever there is a To- cal institution there will be spec ial observance of the day.
 Miss Anna Jarvis of Philade.- phia three years ago issued a circular calling upon all to ob- serve the second Sunday in May as Mothers Day. A newspaper to which she also wrote took the ma tier up and gave it wide pub licity, the press joining in al parts of the United States.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-05-08
DAILY HEALTH HINT

The chairman of the Way s and Means Committee of the lower House of Congress states that 70 cents out of every do,- lar of the Government revenues are expended to provide for eX- pected wars or to pay the bills for wars that have already taken place. And yet this is a so-called era of peace. Let us see: The navy will cost the people this year the tidy little sum oT S122,- 100000, the War Experiment. $95 100000 and one hundred and six ty five million dollars will be spent in payment of pensions. All this vast sum aggregating S3S2,- 100000 will be expended on ac- count of wars.
 If only the national Govern ment could see it's way clear to devote, say 10 per cent of this
 vast sum to the stamping out of tuberculosis in this country and keep it up at the same rate for the next 10 years how much might be accomplished in the saving of human life and in add ing to the sum of human heath and happiness.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-05-08
W. (. I. U.

Flower Mission Day was very fittingly observed by the Womans Christian Temperance Union on yesterday afternoon at the home of Mir. and Mrs. JnO. NJ Pittman
 Quite a number of bouquets were carried to the sick. and of course the editors of the papers who have shown us such beauti- ful courtesies al these years were not forgotten.
 This department has grown to include the Sp,endiQ charities, the setting up of drinking fountains tree planting, esta b fishing play grounds and many other things along this line for which the W. C. T. II, is famous,
 Think of the beauty of th,s work. Think of the tender emo tiOns aroused as the delft fingers of our women tie up the myriads of bouquets with Scripture texts attached and bear them to the sick, the sCrrowing, and oftimes to the gay and thoughtless. Many have been the testimonials of those receiving the flowers that these gifts have caused hope to arise where the ashes of despair he'd sway in the heart; that re- action has taken place in the fev- cred form and brought about beginning to- ward recovery and that joy has filed the life of a lonely little child for days as he or she wou d cling to a tiny blossom all it's own.
 We who have the flowers so lavish.y provided cannot begin to realize what it means to live for ever away from the sight of grow ing blossoms but we must remem- Der that there are thousands such, And we arc glad that it was the thought Of a young