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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1912-11-01
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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1912-11-01

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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1912-11-01
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24
No Longer Cranky
About His Meals
Has perfect digestion from the
use of a well-known remedy
that all can obtain

The temper of the family and the
good cheer around the table, depend
50 much on the good digestion of
each individual present that the ex-
periences of some former dyspeptics
who overcame their troubles should be
of interest TO those now suffering in
this way.
The best advice one can give--but
ii is advice that is seldom heeded--is to
eat slowly and masticate each mouth
full carefully. However, If slow eating
and ca reful mastication fail the next
aid Is one close to nature. DIR. Caldwells
syrup Pepsin. This remedy is an ex-
cellent digestant, and in addition to
helping in the digestion of the food acts
gently on the liver and bowels. Kidding
them of the accumulation of waste that
should long ago have been passed Off.
1t is safe, reliable. pleasant tasting,
and results are guaranteed.
In the opinion of such people as Mr..
8. p. Watkins, Bethel, Tenn, and Mr..
Il. Roberts. Boynton. Fla. it is the
ideal remedy for Indigestion. no mat
ter how severe. constipation no matter
how chronic. biliousness. headaches, gas
ON the stomach drowslness after eat
ing and similar annoyances, You can
obtain a bottle at any drug store for
fifty cents or one dollar. the latter size
being bought by heads of families al
ready familiar with its merits.
When you use Syrup Pepsin you will
see the fallacy of chewing minis and
tablets or of taking cathartics, salts,
pills and similar drastic medicines. I'm
like these Syrup Pepsin does not lose its
good effect, and by automatically train
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that he soon got rio of her, and he
concluded his hasty note with the
words, My sweet darling, goodbye
yours forever. Willie"
Lidderdale had already made Will
in favor of his hancee. The next news
of him was an obituary notice in
London newspaper February 10, 1877,
that Mr.. Lidderdale died january 80
on Miss B. A. H Winnings yacht Fore
sight, the result of an accident jan
uary in alighting from a carriage in
motion"
After the obituary announcement
Miss Chapman received a registered
letter, addressed in handwriting I'M
known by her, inclosing $4,000 in bank
notes, a Christmas card, a marked
Jubilee six-pence, and some visiting
cards bearing Miss Winnings name and
no address. on one of the cards were
the words in Mr.. Undertakes writing:
Was true to you
Rewards have been offered, but have
brought no solution of the romantic
affair.
Two insurance companies, in each of
which Mr.. Lidderdale was insured for
$4,000, have been successfully opposing
all the applications to presume Mr..
Undertakes death, this legal presump-
ton being necessary for probate pur-
poses.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24
DECIMAL SYSTEM is WRONG
A Chicagoan Says So" Is Rational
Division for Counting

From the Washington Times.
Henry Wagner of Chicago has come to
town with most unique proposition
which, he says, he will make every effort
to have adopted by the government,
through the bureau of weights and stand
ards.
THE decimal system is wrong he
says. THE rational, natural system is
eight. Nature played joke on man
when she put on his fingers and said;
See, here are ten And forthwith man
adopted ten as his basis. because he had
ten fingers and naturally started to count
with them as his first counters
Mature played joke, | say, continued
Mr.. Wagner. for she did not really give
a man ten fingers. but eight. thereby
pointing out to him, If he would but see,
the rational system. Eight is the natural
basic number which I shall try to have
introduced. Why? Because the basic
number should be capable of subdivision
down to the unit. If you divide ten you
get five, then, when you divide five you
get two and half which is "A fractional
number. But with eight. when you divide
that you get four: when you divide that
YOU get two. and then you divide again,
you get one, the unit. That is the reason
that eight should be adopted by this
present civilization. We should have 81
instead of 100 as the common number
representing a number of things, because
you can divide 64 down to one; hundred
you can only divide.to two and half
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24

Absolute ignorance of the rudimen-
tary principles of ventilation and san
itation is evidenced in the building of
these old jals and in most cases the
bulk of the money expended was placed
In a commodious residence for the
sheriff. with one to four small rooms
in a wing of the building for the jail
in which rooms, placed in the center,
are the cells, usually so per cent solid
metal with 20 per cent openings. The
elementary principles of sanitation
were totally ignored, and so-ealled dis
infectants were used in lieu of the
scrubbing brush and soap Black was
the favorite color used in painting the
interior of the iails, resulting in a
dungeon-lilSe darkness which was al
most invariably contributed to by dirty
windows obstructing the entrance of
light.
Schools of Crime
Isolation and segregation of prison
ers have been totally ignored. The
hardened criminal first offender, and
the juvenile prisoners have been con-
lined in the same cells thus converting
our jails into yeritable schools of crime
and the constant contamination by as
ISOLATION must have been incalculable.
Another deplorable fact, and one which
am ashamed TO say, still obtains. Is
that there are no matrons in any Of
the iails of the state of Alabama. Fe
male prisoners, regardless of color or
the crime of which they are accused,
are cared for by male deputies.
In view of the fact that there is no
law requiring matrons in the jails, l
shall use every effort to have the next
legislature of Alabama remedy this
evil
The fee system, that far reaching, de-
plorable, pernicious and unwittingly
criminal method of compromising sher-
IFS and other officers obtains today
in Alabama. The result of This sYs-
tenn nearly beggars description; 1t in
culcates into our jails the almighty
dollar; prisoners are arrested because
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out: Shower baths are being installed
in the male apartments. and bathtubs
! in the female and hospital apartments.
| The cells are being placed against the
walls Call walls being lined with steeD
with a window in each cell. The floors
| are of concrete on metal beams and
arc laid on an incline TO a drain pipe.
In each central corridor is installed a
concrete bench, likewise a sanitary
drinking fountain. The dirty, vermin
infested, insanitary mattress has been
discarded and replaced by the swing
ing canvas hammock.
| It is unlawful to conf1ne in the same
/ room or apartment white and negro
prisoners; and men and women, except
husband and wife, must not be kept
| in the same room or apartment. This
necessitates a minimum number of four
apartments in each jail. to which we
are adding, when possible, hospital and
| Juvenile apartments. Other require
ments of this law are as follows: Hot
and cold water for bathing purposes;
soap and towels; clean clothes when
the prisoners are unable to provide
them; compulsory bathing upon en-
trance and once week thereafter;
semi-annual fumigation followed by
two coats of white paint on all of
the interior including all cells and
metal work: fumigation of jaily fol-
lowing removal of prisoners affected
with infectious, contagious or COM
municable diseases; adequate janitor
service a night watchman kitchens to
be adequately screened against flies;
duty of the sheriff to keep the jail
in a clearly and sanitary condition, and
to prevent splitting on the floors and
walls; and the sheriffs are required to
render monthly report to the in
spector not later than the 10th of each
month, for the previous month, giving
the number of prisoners, their races
and sex. their physical condition, and
such other detailed Information as may
be required.
Wants Prison Library
While no provision Is made in our
present law for other than the phys
ical welIbeing Of our prisoners, trust
that ultimately some will be made
whereby they may be mentally adj
vanced, or at least occupied. Modern
criminology recognizes that crime is
the product of some abnormality and
this lies as often in an unoccupied, as
in a diseased, mind. A few magazines
a few well selected books, might well
drop a seed or commence a mental
habit that would redeem criminal and
restore to society citizen. I am aware
that the suggestion of prison library
may be met in some quarters with rid
lcule, OF laDof uHueF lie chot &c VI :"
maudlin sentimentality, but / console
myself with the thought that no re-
form was ever commenced, no work for
the betterment of mankind ever en-
gagged in that did not struggle under
such discourageme from the I'M
thinking public. 1t will be a happy day
for society when some of it's members
may look upon a Jail as a place where
health was not lost but regained and
where habits and mental attitudes were
fixed whose tendencies were not down
ward to evil but upward to better
things.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24
LISTENING IN"
One Hundred Thousand Boys in Uni
ted States Wireless Operators
From Francis A. Collins 'The Wireless

From Francis A Collins THE wireless
Man"
Copyright. 1912. The Century Coz
A great audience of nearly 100000 boys
all over the United States may be adj
dressed almost every evening by wireless
telegraph. Beyond doubt this is the larg-
est audience in the world. No football or
baseball crowd, no convention or confer
ence, compares with it in size. nor gives
closer attention to the business in hand.
The skylines of every city in the coun-
try are festooned with the delicate an
tennae of the amateur wireless operators
They will be found skillfully adjusted to
thousands of barns or haystacks in the
most remote parts of the country. Let
a message be flashed from some high
powered station anywhere between the
two oceans and it will be skillfully picked
up and read by thousands. The great
station at Panama has been read stimuli
taneously by boys at New York In the
middle west and in California. On every
fair night after dinner time and when,
let us hope the lessons for the next day
have been prepared, the entire country
becomes a vast whispering gallery.
Not all of the amateur wireless opera
tors. less than half in fact, are able to
reply to the wireless messages which
they pick up. 1t is safe to estimate, talk
ing the entire country, that about 40 per
cent of all amateur stations are equipped
both with receiving and sending appa-
ratus The rest merely listen in at
thousands of wireless messages flashing
above their heads. The average amateur
station can send only over a short ra-
dlus of about five miles. which is quite
far enough for neghborhood work. The
more complete amateur stations send for
about 100 miles. The same stations can
receive from stations for 1000 miles or even
farther.
over and over again it has happened
that an exciting piece OF news has been
read by this great audience OF wireless
boys, long before the papers. The news
of the loss of the Titanic was picked up
nv many boys along the Atlantic coast
hours fsfore the newspapers arrived.
In several cases important G. q. d. calls,
telling that the lives of hundreds depend
ed upon quick relief. have been missed
by the great receiving stations to be
caught up by some alert amateur and
sent to the office of the ship companies,
thus saving many minutes of priceless
time.
This great audience of boys, particular
~ those scattered along our seacoasts,
help to make safe the lives of those at
sea. Through some accident or oversight
the regular commercial receiving sta
tions may fail to catch distress signal.
There are often scores of messages fash
ing through the air at the same time. and
the great stations may be attuned to
certain ship and busily receiving when
the more important signal passes. But the
thousands of amateur wireless attennae
sft out the messages of the air most
thoroughly. 1t is extremely unlikely that
single call will pass over all these
thousands of stations without being in
tercepted by many alert boys.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24
STRANGE TALE OF LOST LOVE
English Courts Study the Mystery of
a Bankers Disappearance
From the London Mail.

From the London Mail.
The Lidderdale romance and mystery
which has remained unsolved for 20
years, has been brought up again in the
probate division for the sixth time, on
a reserved motion, to presume the
death of William Robertson Lidderdale.
Lidderdale was manager of the Ilmin-
ster branch of Stuckey's bank and
was engaged to be married to Miss
Elizabeth Chapman. January 8, 1892,
a few days before the date appointed
for the wedding. Lidderdale came to
London. having previously withdrawn
from his private banking account
$500, which was paid in banknotes. He
was seen in London after his arrival at
the Great Western Hotel. Paddington.
From that moment all knowledge of
his movements was lost. The mystery
has been heightened by a letter re-
ceived from him the day after he left
minister by Miss Chapman. telling her
that the first person he met on. reach
ing London was Miss Vining," but
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of the dollar and, shame to say. are
frequently kept in captivity in these
steel cages for months awaiting trial
on account of the almighty dollar, SO
that certain officers may profit by
feeding them for a less amount by far
than the state allows for their feed
ing.
Food of Prisoners
In the Alabama Bryce Insane hos
pital, located at Tuscaloosa, the per
diem expense for feeding is 1914 cents
per capita. The fact that the inmates
of this institution raise their own veg
etables and corn must be considered.
but even taking this into considera ton
1t shows how cheaply the inmates of
a well organized and perfectly system
atized institution are amply fed on q
sufficient variety of wholesome and
nutritious food. well cooked and well
served.
Prisoners in the jails of Alabama
are fed by the sheriffs without super
vision of any kind whatsoever The
food usually consists of a small piece
of salt side meat, about three table
spoonfuls of beans or peas and a
hunk" of poorly made cornbread. said
bread usually being made of meal and
water without grease. The sheriffs are
reeompensed by the state for feeding
the prisoners as follows From one to
10 prisoners, for each prisoner, 60 cents
per day; for more than 10 and not ex-
ceeding 20 prisoners, so cents per day
for more than 20 and not exceeding 40
prisoners. 40 cents per day; for more
than 40 prisoners, so cents per day. In
most of the jails only two meals are
served daily.
| estimate and base my figures on
frequent inspections and close obser-
= 49, a
reports received that in one Jail in
our state the profit to the sheriff is
no less than $1,000 a month on his feed
bill alone This is woefuI waste OF
the states funds and should be rem
edied by some legislative enactment
First Inspector Named
Approaching in part the above de-
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Dueling

From London Answers.
He had just returned from his summer
holiday and was telling friend of his all
about It.
Yes, he was saying airily. i've been
over to France. had fine time. and-I
must tell you'll saw a duel"
'Ohl' said his friend scornfully. "One
of those French duels, Ell? don't suppose
anybody was hurt. Those French duels
are stupid affairs"
You're quite wrong.' replied the other
"One of the combatants was seriously in
jured He had a rib broken
RIB brokenl What, with one of those
little toy rapiers?'
"Rapiers?" asked the man who had
come from France. who said rapiers?
The brave mans rib was broken In the
embrace with his opponent when the duel
was over."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24
Prison Inspector Writes for Age Herald Concerning Ja AS
They Existed Heretofore and at Present Time-Terms
Them Schools for Crime-Wants Matrons and Prison
Libraries-Thirty New Prisons Completed

~ spirit arust has field of needed
form, manifested itself plainly than prison reform Nor
field which reform orey needed
discussing hadhps of sailors life Dr. Samuel Johnson
that he could conceive of who had
little intelligence be sailor he sufficient ingenuity
get the inspected the surroundings of
s1any prisons this he would think have adopted
other illustration
those who confined ails there simply for
and awaiting trial. and therefore presumpvey innocent
rule housed uncean i'll ventilated foul smelling
structures
incentive cleanliness and exposed peril of fire
and disease
ill prepared ill every
auxiliary with which modern science fortes the physical constitution
the nrod of disease has abesce Nor
has the deness of mind
which fertile breeding ground
Conditions in Alabama
Alabama, the described regime existed
Everything the and improved with the
single exception of the M No additions improvements have been
made quite number of the ja throughout the they
originally built
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ing the stomach and bowel muscles to
do their work. soon restores these
organs to normal.
If no member of your family has ever
used Syrup Pepsin and you would like
to make personal trial of it before
buying 1t in the regular way of drug
gist, send your address--a postal will
do-to DR.. w. p. Caldwell, Ala Wash
ington St, Monticello. ILL.,. and a free
sample bottle will be mailed you. Re-
suits are always guaranteed or money
will be refunded.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24
Some Breeze

From the Baltimore American.
why have the children so suddenly
decided they don't want to go with us
on the sailing party?"
Il think it was because they heard
their father say there would be
spanking breeze"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24
sTRAyED on STOLEN

TWO LARGE DARK DAY MULES,
WEIGHT 1000 POUNDS OR MORE;
HEIGNT ABOUT IL HANDS, STRAYED
OR STOLEN FROM Our COAL YARD,
AVENUE & AND SIXTEENTH
STREET. REWARD WILL BE PAID
FOR THEIR RETURN. PHONE ..
EOWLI&s>A = NXAZY 80.