The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04


 It was not so hard for Miss Cornelia after the underwriters gave their ao- proved the compound but used it. And persuade men when they s1earned the big electrical company not only ap- proved the compound but used 1t" And it was not so hard, either, to get ati- diences And New York was not SO bleak and inhospita ble a place after Miss Cornelia got to know Mrs. Ryan
 and all the little red-headed Ryan imps Miss Cornelia was no less earnest, no less resolute than in the other days even if she was beginning to see the dawning of the day when she would have to enlarge the factory and extend the business generally. She still hunt ed big game She was beginning to like it. One day she managed to ob- tain a hearing from the big man of the great urban transportation system, the operating lord of the elevated and the surface lines. He was polite, suave and evasive He had heard many argu- ments about many things and it bored him to listen to this one about chem- ical compound, even if the person who was speaking was so evidently a gen. tlewoman.
 "The gentleman whom many compe- tent critics believe to be the greatest electric expert living" said Miss Cor nelia in closing, told me every pas- senger car in America on roads oper- ated by electricity should be equipped with this compound"
 And who, pray, is the great ex- pert?' asked the official with some suggestion of scoffing.
 MT. James Ryan" was the reply The official looked as if he doubted
 what his visitor had said.
 T believe" added Miss Cornelia, MT. Ryan will tell you so. Will you permit
 me to use your phone a minute?'' The official passed the phone across
 the desk and within a short time Miss Cornelia had the proper connection. She had but told little of her story when she stopped, listened moment, said Yes; he's right here," and then she passed the phone to the official And then she heard one end of converse tion. ''Yesl Yes, MT. Ryan," sha- heard. Yes ' Is that so7 . We'll We'll Welll Certainly. Pm much obliged to you. Goodby, MT. Ryan"
 And then the official, after hanging up the earpiece of the phone, turned to Miss Cornelia.
 Madame he said. .usualiy we pay s1oO to MT. Ryan to answer yes or no to a question about electricity. and $5O0 to give written opinion or report, yet I never knew him to be so pronouncedly in favor of anything as he was in regard to your compound. If the price is all right, madam, we shall be glad to have 1t in all our cars, stations, power houses, barns and offices
 And the price was right.
 Copyright, 1910, by Richard Spillane)
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 When Hubby Raises Her Battle Cry
 Despite the cats softness, laziness, huffiness and purring amiabiIity, her piercing war cry in the night startles and exasperates us beyond all bearing not by it's loudness. but by a certain vl- cious, weird, half terrifying. half-infuri- sting note in it that makes us spring to arms with the bootjack or other substi- tute for the boomerang, as the war whoop of our tribal enemies did a cen- tury or centuries ago, says Dr. Woods Hutchinson, in an article on the dread of cats, snakes and mice in Success Mag azine. ,3 j. fs ss4- ae One of Mark Twains wise old from tiersmen had caught this note when he explained to the tenderfoot that animal speech had rules of composition and grammar, just like human speech. and that the reason a cat rifles ye so amt on account of the noise she makes, but on account of the sickenin' bad grammar she uses" And he was right, for the grammar of scalp lifting and the whole alphabet of battle, murder and sudden death tingles and screams in the raspina cry Nothing makes man quite so fu- riously angry and ready to throw things as to find himself frightened without reason. f l