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The Detroit times., 1912-12-13
L KNOW GOD
SPOKE TO WORLD
THROUGH ME
-roI sToI
Il Have Had Moments When l
Felt Myself To BE the Medium
of the Divine VIII
HIS UNPUBLISHED DIARY
Is Barred TO WORLD
Court Asked That All Refrain
From Saying Good of Him AT
ter Death-Barred Flowers

PAIRS Dec. 1S-One or the most
striking sentences In the diary OF
Count Leo Tolstoi (Which Is printed
this evening In the Journal des De
hats ss his hitherto unpublished tesla
mani and which was replaced by
hrIef formal will dated July n, 1910.
NV which ne left all his literary prop
erty To his daughter, Alexandria
read: -. a.
read INV writings, let them dwell upon
those passages where | know the
Divine Power has spoken throlgh me
and let them profit throughout their
lives"
The diary is printed on the author
Nv OF Count Sergius Tolstoi. II was
written by his father under date oil
March q, 1896. ,,. -. ,,..;, 2
Count Leo Tolstoi asked that all re-
frain from saying good OF him after
his death.
Regrets Personal Passions.
After referring TO himself as the IN
terpreter OF Divine power, he said:
Il have had moments when felt
myself TO be the medium for the ex-
pression of the Divine will. l have
sometimes been so impure and SO sub
feet to personal passions that the light
of this truth has been obscured by my
own obscurity, but despite all, ! hay
seryed At times as the Intermediary
Tor this truth, and those have been the
happiest moments OF my life. May
God will that, passing through me-
these truths have not been sullied anC
NAV mankind find In them Its pas
ture. II is only IN that that my writ
ings have importance"
Count Leo Tolstoi begins by saying
that II he does not make another, this
win be his testament. He then re-
quests to be buried where he dies-if
IN q city. In the least expensive CONN
and IN the least expensive cemetery,
cas- the poor are buried" He con-
tinues:
LET there be no flowers, no
wreaths, no discourse and II possible
let the funeral take place without
priests and without liturgy.
Wants Useful Books Printed.
Referring to his -anpublished-writ
ings he prescribes that only those DC
printed which will BE useful TO man
kind" He asks his heirs TO abandon
10 the public the right to publish bis
former works-that is, TO renounct
the authors rights.
After giving instruction relative K
the classification of his papers By his
wife and daughters, he orders hi:
diaries TO be destroyed when what il
worth preserving has been extracted
from them This applies particularly
10 the journals he kept when q
bachelor, when, he says, he led the
usual miserable life OF young mer
without principle Then he adds
after all let my diaries remain
as they are 1t may be seen from
them that despite the platitude and
misery Of my youth God did not
abandon me-"
The Detroit times., 1912-12-13

WiIlys-overland Co. Toledo, has re-
duced capital stock from ilS,uOV,Voo 10
Sl0.o0e.0o0
The Detroit times., 1912-12-13

1t means a Dollar saved for
every one you spend.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-27
OF SMALL CONCERN TO HIM
Why Uncie Eph Refused Information
hs Felt to Be Altogether su-
perfiuous-

When Robert H. Davis was young
and loose in the feet he once wan
dered into a little Mississippi town.
It was a bright day in the early spring
and he walked down one street. By
and by he came to the county jail
q twostoried affair. standing flush
with the sidewalk. There was ne
gro pressing his face against the
barred window on the second door."
said Mr.. Davis. holding on to the
bars and yawning. By and by an old
negro came limping along the street
toting a whitewash bucket.
Hello. Uncle Eph'm.' says the one
In the window.
"'Howdy,' says Ephraim. umpins
on.
wait a minute. uncle says this
lonesome negro in the window. What
time Is 1t. uncle?
Uncle Ephraim limped right on.
He hardly looked up.
what diffunce does It make to
you, niggeh? he asked. You amt
goin' nowhere New York Letter to
the Cincinnati Times-Star.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-27

continued its use until was made we'll.
Mrs. HENRY LEIsEBERG, TAB Adams st.
Kearneysville, w. Va.-"I feel it my
duty to write and say what Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
done for me. I suffered from female
weakness and at times felt so miserable
I could hardly endure being on my feet
"After taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and following your
special directions, my trouble is gone.
Words fail to express my thankfulness.
/ recommend your medicine to all my
friends. Mrs. G. B. WHITTINGToN.
The above are only two of the thou
sands of grateful letters which are con-
stantly being received by the Pinkham
Medicine Company of Lynn, Mass which
show clearly what great things Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound does
for those who suffer from woman's ills.
If you want special advice write to
Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine Co. (cOnfl-
dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by .
woman and held In strict confidence.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-27
WASHINGTON.

Harry A Wheeler OF Chicago was
elected president of the National
Chamber of Commerce OF the United
States.
A bill to provide medals of honor
for Captain A. H'Rostron and officers
of the Carpathia has been introduced
in the House.
Resolutions authorizing $4,000 ap-
preparations for the families OF each Of
the three United States postal clerks
who lost their lives on the Titanic.
were introduced in the House by Rep
resentative Reilly of Connecticut.
Senate and House committees OF
Congress are now hard at work on the
Smoot pension bill. an amended form
of the Sherwood bill, which passed the
House and was in every feature ac-
ceptable to the old soldiers of the
country. The Smoot measure was
substituted in the Senate for the Sher-
wood bill
The seriousness of the inquiry by
the Senate Investigating committee in
to the Titanic disaster was disclosed
chairman, at first flatly refused to let
any of the officers and the two hun
dred-odd members of the crew of the
sunken steamship get beyond the juris-
diction of the United States govern
ment. The men were all to have sailed
on the steamer Lapland. Later it was
settled that the greater part of the
ho IN
this steamer. but that the twelve men
and four officers among the survivors
now under subpoena, together with
Mr. Ismay, would not be allowed to
depart.
The Senate passed bills previously
passed by the House, extending the
time within which to make proof on
desert land entries for three years in
cases where through unavoidable d.
lay in the construction of irrigation
works, the entryman, without fault of
his own. is unable to get water on his
land within five years; extending TIL.
provisions of the surface entry law to
coal lands within state selection. and
providing that an entryman under a
government reclamation project shall
not forfeit his entry on account of alb
sence prior to the date the govern,
ment furnishes water for It's irrigation.
The Senate also passed Senator Gug-
genheim's bill approprating $4,000
for establishment of a fish cultural sta
tion in Colorado, the site to be select
ed by the Department OF Commerce
and Labor
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-27
LAS VEGAS GETS FIGH?
Johnson-Fiynn Match viii be STAGED
in New Mexico.

Chicago, April 19.-Announcement
has been made here by Jack Curley.
promoter of the proposed Johnson
Flynn fight. that the bout would be
staged in Las Vegas, N. NJ, on the
afternoon of July A. FL Paso. Juarez.
Salt Lake City. several Nevada towns.
one or two Canadian hamlets and
Paris were trying to land the match.
but Promoter Curley favored the New
Mexico city. Johnson will receive
$4,000 for his share OF the proceeds.
win, lose or draw. OF the amount ST.
100 will be paid over to him on NAV
as training expenses. while Flynn will
ngnt for percentage OF the remain
ing receipts. and has agreed to pay al,
own training expenseS
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-27
SPORT.
LEAGUE STANDING.

Ad Wolgast and Joe Rivers have
signed an agreement to box twenty
rounds for the lightweight champion
ship of the world at vernon arena, Los
Angeles, July 4.
Every team in the Western circuit
began it's 1912 season Friday, April 10,
and in three bames out of four. the
home mines won. Omaha defeated Sioux
City; ST. Joseph beat Des Mcines. Den
yer beat Lincoln and Wichita was the
exception to the general rule, defeat
ing Topeka on the latter's grounds.
Pat McIntire of Cleveland has oil
fered Kilbane $4,000 for a twelve
round battle with White. kilbane
says he will take the money providing
some other opponent is picked, Nc
Intire says White is the man. kilbane
says nix. And there is where me
thing stands now.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-27
= BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DolNGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Bishop McGovern OF Omaha has
been formally installed as bishop of
the Wyoming diocese at Cheyenne.
Three trainmen were instantly killed
when the boiler of a locomotive on
the Western Pacific railroad blew up
near Elko. New.
In ten Kansas counties which held
primaries or conventions Roosevelt
forces won in nine and one will send
split delegation.
Robert Cameron Rogers, poet. lover
of nature, journalist, true friend. is
dead. He died at his beautiful home
in Mission canon. Santa Barbara,
Cal
Corrected tabulations of the Ne
braska presidential vote give: Roose-
welt, 31,242: Taft. 1882 La Toilette.
1929; Clark, 14.031; Harmon. 11.241;
Wilson. $3.50.
Forty-seven passengers, all but one
citizens OF the United States, who ar
rived in e Galveston from Vera Cruz,
Mexico, en- the steamer Texas, tell OF
alleged torture and assassination Of
Americans in Mexico.
Because the foot of his horse exactly
matched a plaster of paris cast OF the
footprint of the horse driven to the
spot near Nowata, Okla. where Mrs.
Irene Cohen was murdered recently,
H. o. Jeffries, editor of the Nowata
Advertiser, has been arrested charged
with killing the woman.
80 ba
Allen gang from Carroll county, Vir-
ginia, were headed for southern Cal
ifornia, if not already there, has CIe-
ated much activity in the sheriffs' of
fices of the Los Angeles section OF
the state Los Angeles police belic?e
tney have arrived.
Work will be begun May l by the
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound
railway on the construction of three
mile tunnel through the Cascade
mountains near Seattle. The work
will cost nearly s5.000,000. The tun-
mel will shorten the line seven miles
and will eliminate the heavy grade at
athe summit.
Declaring that unless the trouble Of
the railway carmen, who have been on
strike on a western railroad for sew
eral months was mediated, strike of
more than 100000 shopmen and ma
chinists employed on all western rail
roads would be called, the officers Of
the Federation of Federations sent a
telegram to President Taft advising
him of their intentions. The message
was signed by the presidents of twelve
unions.
A movement has been started in the
Baptist churches of Denver to est. D.
lish free tuberculosis sanatoriums in
various parts of the United States
with headquarters in Denver. Funds
for establishing the institutions are to
be raised by the unique plan of assess
ing the 100000 Baptists of the Unit
ed States 10 cents each annually. Ar
ticles of incorporation have been filed
in the office of the secretary OF state
of Colorado for the American Baptist
tuberculosis Association. A campaign
for funds will be launched immediate
ly. 1t is planned to have research
station connected with each institution
for the study OF the causes and pre-
vention of the disease
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-27
GEN ERAL.

With dramatic suddenness the Sem
ate investigation of the Titanic dis
aster came to an end SO far as the
New York hearing was concerned 1t
has been resumed in Washington.
Insurance men estimate that the to-
tai losses to be paid by the various
life, accident and marine companies
as result of the sinking of the I'll
tanic will reach approximately $751;
000,00o. Some companies have been
hard hit.
The directors of the Denver G. Rio
Grande railroad, at a meeting in New
York, authorized the execution OF a
$25,000,000 mortgage on the property
of the railroad to secure the recent
bond issue. The stockholders will oe
called on to ratify the execution of the
mortgage at meeting in Denver.
The tender of the friendly offic 5
of representatives of the federal gov.
ernment has called a temporary halt
10 strike of railroad engineers in the
territory east of Chicago and north OF
the Potomac river, in which it is es-
traffic of the entire country is han,
died.
The king of beggars" is in New
York and under lock and key. In pos
session of fortune-aS some fortunes
go-he was picked up on charges of
intoxication and disorderly conduct
He calls himself the king of beggars"
and had no objection to telling the po
lice of his career. In Cleveland re-
Gently he gathered up $4,000 from
sympathetic auditors and the Probate
Court of that city appointed a guar
dian to look after his money.
News from the flooded area of the
Mississippi valley in Arkansas, Missis
sippi and Louisiana continues increas-
ingly grave. Thousands of those who
were compelled to flee to higher
places when the flood invaded their
homes have been cared for, but there
are many more in need of aid. 1t is
estimated that fifty towns and vii
lagos have left the effects of the flood
Some places are under two to fifteen
feet of water. In all 200 lives have
been lost.
From the scene OF the wreck of the
Titanic comes the news by wireless
that sixty-four bodies of victims have
been recovered and are now on board
the cable ship Mackay-Bennett, which
is searching the entire region where
the catastrophe occurred. Dispatches
We're meagre, but it was indicated that
the siXty-four bodies are possible OF
Identification Others, the messages
say were found impossible of identifi-
cation and were buried at sea. How
many OF these there were is not even
limited at.
Five persons were robbed of money,
or valuables, or both, by three masked
men who went through the sleeper
Nottingham of the Rock Islands west
bound Golden State Limited, at Shelf
field, H., forty miles east of Moline.
One passenger was robbed of 81 200.
Thirty-two persons are known to be
dead, half a score are SO severely in
jured they may die, and hundred
and fifty others were hurt in two tor
nadoes which swept over southern
Illinois in one instance. and across
northern Illinois into Indiana in the
other
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-27

Beauty specialists encounter many
hard lines
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-27
CHEER SIGHT OF REscuER.

and round we swung the boat and
headed for her. The steersman
shouted Now. boys. sing and for
the first time the boat broke into
song with Row for the Shore, Boys,
and for the first time tears came tc
the eyes Of us all as we realized that
safety was at hand. The song was
sung, but 1t was a very poor imita.
tion of the real thing for quavering
voices make poor songs A cheer was
given next. and that was bet1r--7csu
keep in tune for a cheer"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-27
FOREIGN.

In future women will not be engaged
in the Canadian civil service save as
stenographers and typewriters, accord
ing to recent ruling.
The relief funds being raised in
London for the assistance of the suf-
ferers by the Titanic disaster now
amount to upwards of 100000.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-27
SEA CALM As A POND.

1T was now about 1 q. m; a beau
tiful starlight night, with no moon
and SO not very light. The sea was
AZ calm as a pond, just gentle
heave as the boat dipped up and
down In the swell: an ideal night ex-
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-27
SUFFERED
EVERYTHING
For Fourteen Years. Restored
To Health by Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.
Elgin, Ill.-"After fourteen years Of
suffering everything from female COM

plants, l am at last
restored to health.
4 employed the
b e st doctors and
even went to the
hospital for treat
ment and was told
there was no help for
me. But while TAX
ing Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound I began
to improve and I
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-27

The first thing a kindness deserves
IL acceptance, the next transmission.
George Macdonald.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-27

For torpid, Inactive or disordered liver,
take Garfield Tea. All druggists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15

say, that at the present rate at which agencies are coming here this will be the leading general agency city south of the Ohio river
 In this time of prosperity Birming- ham should expand very appreciably in the matter of small industries. No small manufacturing plant that was ever started here has failed to be profitable. Atlanta has no large iron industries but it has great number of small plants. It is the boast of Atalnta that nearly everything con- sumed there is manufactured there. There is room in Birmingham for fur niture factories, shoe factories and clothing factories.
 If in 1919 we have Alabama's cen tennial exposition Birmingham should be able to show wide variety of the finished products from our rich raw material, and special effort should be put forward now to that end.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
------os----------------- A "TOPSY-TURNY, ROOM

From the Argonaut
 A bachelor who lives near Paris man. aged to secure much amusement out of a "topsy-turvy room which he had built in his house. A gentleman, who was one of the stag party that visited him from Saturday to Monday says:
 When we woke up about o'clock on Sunday morning, after a jolly evening, one of our number, sound asleep on the couch in the billiard room, was carried out like a log by couple of servants. My best gave me a solemn. wink, and told mo that if sudden summons came was to rush from my bedroom, or else I might miss a sight worth seeing. l wanted nothing but sleep-and was re- lieved when the summons came to find that it was broad daylight Yawning, followed the valet, and found myself with four others, silently peeping through little holes in the wall The scene was absurd, ridiculous. dazed man, slowly waking to full consciousness, was lying on plasteled floor, looking up in horror at carpeted ceiling. Two heavy couches. an easy chair, chairs and tables, securely fastened, stared down at him from above The mans eyes at last rested on a flower pot directly over his head. from which a flaring rose-apparently real was blooming. He gave a cry, and, roll ing over, grasped with frenzied hands the stem of the chandelier which came up through the floor, The host burst into the room with a loud laugh. "They all do it. he cried, they fear they will fall up to the ceiling"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
PolItic. and Campaign Money

"The democrats are setting a good example of how great presidential campaign may be conducted without ar enormous campaign fund.- said an old democrat Tt looks now as if the national finance committee would spend less than s500.O0O in eectin,s Wilson and Marshall. More money could be used without any degree of eytravagance but if we get through with n comparatively small fund so much the better.
 Tn 1876 when I was a young voter several millions were spent in the in- terest of MT Tilden. the democratic nominee. Mir. Tilden was a wealthy man and most of the money used was out of his barrel In subsequent dem ooratc campaigns millions were ex- pended but the democrats were never able to raise such sinews of war as the republicans raised. 1 estimate that the republican slush money expended in presidential campaigns since 1876 would total $30,o00.000. The present campaign will witness forever. per haps, the passing of the slush fund. Publicity has done it's perfect work, l believe"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
Strength of the Iron Market

With the approach of the holiday season business activity is more than ever accentuated. General trade has been active all the fall and in the industrial field new high records are being made right along. The pig iron market, which is one of the good business barometers, has nearly reached the $l5 level for No. ? foun- dry, Birmingham. The price hardened last week at S14 and a good many sales were reported to have been made, both spot and first quarter de- livery, at Sl4.50.
 , Within year the iron market has advanced $5 ton. Last fall when the quotations called for $10. iron there was considerable tonnage contracted for at S9.50 for No. ?. In Marcl, the market, for the first time after a long period of dullness, began to show decided improvement. In April the pig metal was selling at $10.5C and the price has been moving ur steadily ever since. When it reaches Sl5 it would be well, perhaps, for it if it could stand at that price foi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
HOW TO READ DICKENS

Prof Wilbur l.. Cross in the Yale Review.
 Of course, Dickens must never be read literally. He did not proceed with the care of a Fielding, who called himself an historian of contemporary society. Dickens pereeptiye powers were extraor- dinary. Nothing seems to have ever es- capped his eye in his walks about London and in his travels in America or else where. But his materials, though taken from direct observauon, were selected and focused, with suppressions and ex- aggerations, for the effect which he wished to produce-and that effect was all most always caricature, whether he was dealing with individuals or with institu- tions. Beyond this artistic ordering of his materials, he gives no evidence of possessing intellect pr understanding.
 Outside of his art, he never weighs. considers and concludes. He was an in- tuitionist, or sentimentalist. He felt strongly, but he did not reason. His character was developed early through i'll health, pain, suffering; and. I dare say. his nerves received from these hard experiences a shock from which they never recovered. Rising by heroic efforts from the lower middle class which was everywhere sinking into the proletariat, he say, he felt there was no call to req son about iD the worst consequences of cool, calculating, utilitarianism. The truth of feeling as he directly experienced it, he set dead against economists and philosophers. For 30 years he led the emotional reaction against Bentham, James Mill and Malthus, occasionally by direct attack, but mainly by depict ing the devastation In society.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
The Place for the Zoo

Avondale park, with its 40 acres of ground, is the place for the zoo Certainly no smaller acreage would be suitable. This park is easily ac- cessible by street car lines to the masses and if the question of loca. tion were left to the people the place named would be selected by an over. whelming majority.
 In these days every city of con siderable size has a zoo. It is wei nigh indispensable. Children enjoy few things so much as rare animals and geological display is educationa from every point of view.
 Birmingham will soon have a mod. ern collection. It may start small but in year or two this city should have very complete zoo. Let us have the zoo at Avondale park by all means.