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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11
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Make a plain syrup by mixing one pint of granulated sugar and 1a pint of warm water and stir for two m T. utes. Put 2H ounces of pure Pinex (flfty cents worth) in a. pint bottle, md fill it up with the Sugar Syrup. This gives you family supply of the best cough syrup at saving of $2: ft never spells. Take teaspoonful every one, two or three hours.
 The effectiveness of this simple rem edy is surprising. It seems to take hold instantly, and will usually stop ehe most obstinate cough in "A hours. if tones up the jaded appetite and Is 3ust laxative enough to be helpful in a eourh. and has a pleasing taste. Also <-.eilent for bronchial trouble, throat Iclle sore lungs and asthma, and an Sneauaied remedy for whooping cough.
 This recipe for making cough rem >dv with Pinex and Sugar Syrup Cor 3n thousands of homes in the United Hates and Canada. The plan has 6een initiated, though never success SniIv. If you try 1t, use only genuine finss., as; which is the most ysluabIs nieA White pine extract and is rich Ii, Guiaico1 and all the natural heannf Dine clements. Other preparations VIII hot work in this recipe.
 A guaranty of absolute satisIactio1ni. or money promptly refunded, goes With this recipe. Your druggist has Plnex Sr will get it for you. If not, send to The Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne. Ind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11

on his nose, tho it be on hard stones or dith or dale or valley or hill or what soever place it be he careth not so he have him downe? And he that can serve the most in this fashion, he is counted the only fellow and who but he? ' so that by this means sometimes their necks are broken, sometimes their backs, sometimes their legs, sometimes their arms.
 Sometimes their noses gush with tlood, sometimes their eyes start out and sometimes hurt in one place and some times in another, but whosoever scapeth away the best goeth not scot free, but is either sore wounded craised or bruised so as he dieth of it or else scapeth very hardie; and no mervalle, for they have sleights to meet one betwixt two, to dash him against the heart with their elbowes, to butt him under the short sribbes with their gripped fists and with their knees to catch him on the legs and pitche him on the necke, with hundred such mur- thering devices
 And hereof groweth envy, rancour and malice, and sometimes brawling murther, homicide and great effusion of blood as daily experience teacheth."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11
Staging . Dny-dream

David Belasco in Strand Magazine
 ''The Darling of the Gods" was a mar vel in stage production. yet as pie tcrial producer, and the greatest Bel asco never came nearer to defeat than when he attempted to stage "The River of Souls scene in this piece And yet, in it's final accomplishment, this scene was the most artistic thing he ever achieved.
 In his own mind the scene was child s play--it seemed so simple; but when it came to the stress and practical details of the last dress-rehearsals in Washing ton. D. C., which had become the pro- ddcing place of the Belasco dramas after the success of "Zaza," he realized fer the first time the almost insurmountable difficulties of trying to stage a day dream. This is the scene in which the Princess. Yo-San, after serving her thou sand years in the Japanese purgatory goes to her tryst with her lover. Prince Kara, and cries, while groping through the waters of the Japanese Styx, with the hells blazing in the background (Which Is the way to heaven?'
 Thousands of dollars had been spen, in devising harnesses and swinging ef- fects for the supernumeraries who were to represent the hundreds of lost souls but when 1t came to rehearsing the scene the effect was so conventional that Belasco threw up his hands in disgust.
 Go on with the final scene!' he shout ed. eve will have to cut this out until we get to New York. It's rotten"
 Just at that moment a carpenter ir search of hammer happened to ster across the stage between two of the gauges with which the stage was entire ly hung. The lights from the rear ot the stage suddenly threw shadows of the most ghostly effect, which seemed tc multiply the man tenfold. There seemed to be ten carpenters instead of one
 walk across the stage again." called out Belasco, and then, as he realized what it meant, he exclaimed: Good Lordl Here I've spent 5000 trying to get an effect which ought not to have cost me cents"
 The girls were taken out of their har- ness and after few instructions Belas- co.'s day-dream became a living night. mare. This scene-"The River of Souls was the "spookiest" ever given. T was the most artistic scenic achievement the stage has ever known.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11
THE OBBAC GO. 210 Obbnc Bldg, Chicago, Illinois.
Reflections of a Spark Plug

 From Judge.
 A chauffeur, in the abstract. is any chap that drives an automobile. In the concrete he is the person whom you pay to let you ride in the tonneau. The word chauffeur comes from the French, and means something warm, like hot air The chauffeur is commonly supposed to be human, be not necessarily humane. With him the killing of chickens Is g. pastime, and the maiming of pedestrians is fine art. He has no speed limit, and leads a fast life with little to chau-fer 1t. He has more brass than his machine, and a double molar has less nerve. The average chauffeur is unbearable but when driving a Fiat six, he is insuf- ferable. Never careless about his ap- pearance, except at court, he dresses like his employer and looks like 30 cents. He is usually in bad odor, and smells like numerous scents.
 One chauffeur can bankrupt two bank CTS, and sometimes earns more than his employer ever did.
 He has three lives: the life he lives, the life he takes in his hands, and the life he ought to serve in jail
 He has a set of rules which he new breaks, except when he is in the hospi- tai such as:
 Never go slow under any circum- stances.
 Never blow horn except E front of a church.
 Never be on time.
 Never show intelligence or look pleas ant.
 Never take curve on more than two wheels-it is unprofessional.
 Never slow down in time-it looks tim i'd; while stripping the gears is spectac- ular and gives the impression of presence of mind.
 Never take another mans dust unless it's in the pocketbook variety.
 Never learn road rules.
 Never appreciate a good job
 Never mend a tire; there is no conl- mission on if.
 Never be satisfied with your employ CTS machine.
 good chauffeur will always smoke cigarettes while filling the gasoline tank Although never much of a sport, he will give you a run for your money, if you happen to have enough
 rich man has no more show with a chauffeur than a camel has with the eye Of a needle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11
Why Kiplins Succeed.
m the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 When some one asked Kipling how he came to have such exhaustive informa- tion of arctic life as he displayed in one of his short stories, he Is said to have taken from a shelf one of our govern rnent reports on Alaska and handed it to his questioner. There, in the matter-of- fact language of the ethnologist and the naturalist, was contained all that he knew of the subject. He had absorbed from those pages not only all the facts. but he had also imbibed the very spirit of life beyond the arctic circle, quite as much as though he had lived in an Aleut but all the long northern winter. hshed through the ice holes with a spear, or killed the seal or walrus for clothing and food. Hundreds of these government re- ports stood in public and private libra ries, but the only one who perceived the pathos and romance of that life was the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11
Football in 1883

Letter to New York sum-
 Some of those controversialists who are opposed to the game of football will be interested to know the views of MT. Philip Stubbs. MT. Stubbs was an Englishman who wrote a book entitled 'Anatomie of Abuses Current In Ye Realm of England" The book was published in 1883, and MT. Stubbs devoted one whole chapter to the game of football. What he said over 300 years ago is practically almost word for word what the opponents of the game are saying today. Listen to MT. stubbs as he tells of football in the. sixteenth cen- tury:
 Now who is so grossly blinde that seeth not that these aforesaid exercises not onely withdrawe us from godliness and virtue but also harie and allure us to wickedness and sins. For as concerning football playing, I protest until, you that 1t may be rather called q friendly kinde of fyghte than a play or frecreation. bloodie and murthering practice than a felowlie sport or pastime. Dooth not everyone lye in waighte for his adver- sarie, seeking to overthrow and pIche him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11
A Timely Lesson

From the Chicago Journal.
 During recent years the growing ten dercy toward surgical interference to cure disease has been subject or un- favorable comment both in and out or the medical profession. It has become the general belief that many practition- CTS are too ready to resort to the knife.
 For this reason opinions of prominent surgeons, as expressed at the congress now in session in Chicago, commend themselves as evidence of saner profess sional view.
 These surgeons announce that the re- action has set in, and that the drift is away from operations and toward great CT dependence upon medicine. As the ideas acquired at this congress will be impressed on the profession all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11
,,tle Englishman, who sees things as

little Englishman, who secs tHinss as trey are"
 II, his latest book, although 1t IS de- signed for younger readers, he agaln gives us peep into his workshop. Here we have Philadelphia during washing tons presidency. The Quaker City or 17s4 with it's political parties or the formative period, it's French emigres, us ca als, it's petty intrignes ana conspira- c:es. stands revealed as few American writers have ever pictured it for us. Only few words and we have sketched foi us Big Hand" as his Seneca friends called Washington Genet, Tallyrand selling buttons, Red Jacket, and Corn planter and--when the scene changes to aris-Bonaparte.
 Hard work, much reading, ana the care of' detaiI-these make a good aid, if not a foundation, to literary genius.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11
Which Is Which.

FfOm Juuge.
 Above a certain cafe there are two roc ms, the one being occupied by a wo- mems Sewing circle" the other being the dining room of the cafe. Outside the cafe hangs the sign. Grill Room Up stairs.
 The German proprietor of the cafe is still wondering why the president of the sewing circle denounces the sign as libel- ous and demands it's removal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11

over the country, the effect of the dis cussions should be generally apparent.
 Let us hope that visiting surgeons will bear in mind the advice of men eminent in their profession, who protest: against or erations that are not absolutely nec- essary.
 While the splendid achievements of modern surgery inspire admiration it should not be forgotten that it's resources are designed to be used only when less radical treatment proves unavailing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11
Land of "Babes in woods.

Westminstef Gazette.
 The old story of the Babes in the Wood has generally been considered as folklore. This apparently is a mistake. The Rev. Charles Kent, rector of Merton. Thetford, Norfolk, informs us in an ap- peal which he is making on behalf of the fine old collegiate church of Thompson,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11
selecting Chief Justices

From Law Notes.
 President Taft seems to be having diff cuIty in making up his mind regarding a suitable successor to the late Chief Jus tice Fuller. First we hear that the new est associate justice will succeed tosths
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11

Blood Poison can never be cured with mercury or potash. You might as well know this first as last. Medical au- th critics say so. The most these drugs can do is to drive the blood poison back Into the system and smother 1t for several years. Then when you think you are cured. pitiful mercury synp.
 toms will break out. and you find that vour bones have been rotting all the while. Your teeth will begin to loosen and your tissues. glands. brain and vital organs will show the terrible de- structiye power of the mercury and no+ash. Locomotor AtaSia, Paralysis. fmbeciltty and Premature Death are then almost inevitable. Any medical authority will corroborate these state
 nants The remarkable vegetable nhhnc Treatment does not drive in th
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11

The erection of a marble cross to mark the spot on which mass was celebrated in the open air in penal times is an event of some little importance. It is the first of it's kind yet erected in this country The spot is 9 rath three miles from Kill larney, named Liss-an-A Affrion, or the Hiss of the mass. It Is marble cross of Gel tic shape, resting on limestone pedestal, on which there is an inscription in Irish. The inscription literally translated fol- lows: For the greater glory of God and in honor Of St. Cummian this cross was erected to mark the spot on which mass was said, when there was neither thatch nor slate over the altar of God, and when the soldiers of the King per- secuted his people. This cross was erected by priests, all natives of Kilcum- min parish Praised be Jesus Christ for ever and ever more."
 The cross recalls a time when priests were hanged for holding divine services in Ireland.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11

The result of the inquiry held at Kill laloo and Scariff into allegations of brib- cry in connection with the election of a medical officer for Scariff, has been re- ceived. The local government board state that they decline to sanction Dr. Holmes appointment, being of opinion that brib- cry was practiced at the election. ana they will not approve of his employment until after a lapse of five years A new election is ordered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11

The merits and demerits of a family dis pute was heard here one day last week when a letter extending to fl pages was the subject of libel action. The plaint- if was William Jenkinson, the defendant, his brother-in-law, Andrew Oswald The letter was written to a Mrs. Wilson, who lives in New York and who is their sis ter-in-laW.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11

There is said to have been custom frauds at Belfast. The allegation is that owing to an ingenious use of lead in weighing tobacco every turn of the scale has meant a loss to the revenue, and that these losses, which have been going on for two years, amount to a large sum. detailed description of tho method by which the revenue was cheat ed has been published, but the names of the criminals have been suppressed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11

The news that the negotiations for the purchase of Castlerea by the congested districts board has been brought about has been received with jubilation. The Wills Sandford estate, on which the town is situated, was the first sold under the land act of 1903, with the exception of the town and demesne. Now the bal anee of the estate, including the town and the demesne, containing 750 acres, and the beautiful mansion of MT. Sand ford have been purchased by the board. The estate commissioners propose to ac- quire compulsorily lands in Ards. The area proposed to be acquired is 9S acres, the rated occupier Mrs. Caroline Darley.
 The tenants on the Major Dawson es- tate, an extensive property in West meath and Longford. have signed pur- chase agreements Other land monopo- lists will be forced to sell or suffer boy cottS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11
BLOOD POISON

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11
GREAT REJOICING
 IN IRELAND
Over Breaking Up Big Land
 Estates
TENANTS BUY HOMES
Spot on Which Mass Was CeIe-
 brated in Open Air in Penal Times

Dublin, December 1o.-(Speclal) )-There is general rejoicing throughout the coun- try over the breaking up of the various big estates and the purchase of them by the tenants who live on them. The landlords are apparently satisfied, as they get their money in a lump sum. The estates commissioners met at Ballintrilliok and proceeded with the distribution of the Gurraghamore ranch containing 300 acres, and formerly held by Sir Joselyn Gore Booth Lissadell, Sligo. All the ten- ants were duly considered and additions Of land in some cases up to Is acres were made. Booth is the son of an Irish no- bleman who would never wear collar and made it a practice to curse England every time 1t was mentioned
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1910-04-09
QuEeaOF THeYAlLeYLODGe NO. 70. 100
For sale
Notice

Mrs, Legg will lie in Neringtot March
Nth with an up to-date stock of Spring
goods, Soliciting share OF the pat
ronaee, aud thanking You for past iavors
beg 10 remain
Yours Respectfully,
MHa q " II,.n
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1910-04-09
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In thu district Court of the First Judicial dis
trici at the state OF Nevada. III and Tor the
County of Lvon.
deceased.
Notice il hereby given by the undersigned.
that he was duly appointed administrator Ut the
estate of Jesse /. Nogier. deVeased, by the SAID
District Court. sitting al DAYTON. I.vou county.
Nevada, on the second dog o. March, loio. AID
the creditors OF, and all persons having claims
against the SAID deceased are hereby directed
and required IN tile the with proper NouCh-
crs and statutory affidavitS attached With the
CLERK OF the SAID court st Davtou. Lyon county.
state OF Nevada. within three months from the
date of the first piIhlicsti''i o. this notice.
Dated this 9Th day 81 March 1910
PRANK " NoGI.ER
Administrator OF the estate OF Jesse
/. Nogicr. deceased
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-25
TTPPER,s PREsENT.

upper arose Christmas morning pre-
pared for the inevitable. He smiled 10
himself cynically as he inserted himself
into his other trousers. and thought
Of how he would go in TO unWrap the
things done up in tissue paper and Ia
beled For George. He knew that he
would find a good many old friends
among the packages
There would be the usual wildly en-
broidered slippers. an impossible necktie
or SO. two or three pairs OF suspenders.
because he always wears belt: a box of
cheap cigars with a nifty Spanish senorita
sitting on the lid, the same as a reform
mayor; another match box TO add to his
collection a fun dress shirt shield to re-
mind him OF the old days when he used
to wear his dress suit occasionally-ah
they'd all he there. He just knew it. But
he was used 10 II. SO what matter?
why can't the women folks around A
house forget few of these things a man
gets each year, and let him take the
money and get himself something that
he really wants." he thought to him
self. "A fur-Iined overcoat, for instance.
But. aw, no, They wouldn't stand for
anything like that He had mentioned
wanting a new overcoat early in ne fan.
but the missus had ridieuled the idea,
And when he brought homo that set Of
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-25
STORIES OF THE TOWN.
By FRED c. KELLY.

DOCKS ne d been wanting, the whole fam
ily jumped on him and abused him as il
he were G crook.
He started in to unite his packages.
In few minutes he found himself IN
wrapping an extremely large bundle This
was something out of the ordinary. Oh.
it must be silk dressing gown. How he
hated such things
But 1t wasn't.
IL vas his fur-Iined overcoat,
Maybe he didn't feekchesp or anything.
then What a cad-what crab ne had
been He'd even thought Of overlooking
thai jewelry tho wife wanted just because
she had made such a fuss when he spoke
Of buying q new oyercoat. And here il
was all because she wanted to surprise
HIM Wasn't WHEY the albright girl
though? she'd probably saved up the
money out Of her allowauce-probably had
done without a whole lot Of things she
wanted Well. he was glad be hadn't
been cheap skate and cut down her
Christmas list anyhow.
Meanwhile Mrs. Tuppef was standing
off enjoying Tupper's delight over his new
coat
Were YOU surprised" she asked him
You know / was so afraid the tailor
might let the cat out OF the bag by send
ing m bill. because ordered it fully a
month ago. But he was real nice about IL
said he wouldn't send the bin to you IN
I'll after Christmas. Wasn't that accom-
mOdating of him %
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-25
The Eternal Feminine.

The eternally feminine characteristics OF
love Of hncry has been. We s,lppo~e
since the beginning Of the world. The
excavators al work in the ruins Of the
ancient city of Pompeii the other dav
came upon The body Of a young Girl.
strangely preserved through al these
wears, under the crusts Of lava. From
the position in which the body was
found. it was plain that death had over
taken her as she was trying TO make
her Nay 10 the street. She had fallen
near the threshold OF a door. and in
skeleton fingers. which crumbled into
dust as they were brought into the omen
air, this Pompeiian maiden cutched a
Pitiful handful of iewelry 1t was plain.
say the eXcavatng experts, that in all
the terror Of that frightfuI eruption of
Mount Vesuvius, the eternal feminine love
Of fnery had dominated this poor girl.
and perhaps, in waiting TO gather up her
few trinkets, she lost her only chance
TO escape.
Much Of the history OF the Inflated
cts Of Pompeii is being told after all
these centuries, by the thoroughness with
which the excavations are being carried
on. Hardly a discovery is made that
does not stimulate the Imagination
and help US to reconstruct something
OF the lives Of the dwellers in Pompeii.
The other day they came upon the body
Of a sentry, arms still in his hand, a
man Who had evidently died at his post.
faithful 10 his duty. They found, too,
the skeleton Of dog covering the skel-
eton Of his master The two friends had
died together. Around the dogs neck
Was a brass collar bearing an inserip-
lion in the ancient language, showing
that the dog had on two occasions saved
the life Of his master-onee from ship
wreck and once from the hands Of brig
ands.
But OF all the appealing discoveries
that have been made. We think. perhaps
the body OF the poor girl who died to
save her few trinkets comes to us with
the greatest force and degree Of pathos