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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-03
PICTURES BY ALBERT LEvERING

of them. He is a prize Bunk, two- handed Crater, a Short-Change Art ist and Broadway Wolf. Slip him the Limit"
 You've got me wrong, Steve" said the Prisoner, softly. q used to be Depraved Character, but now am the Big Hero. Under the revised Code of Morals a Handy Boy who goes out and trims Boob for everything in his Kick becomes recognized as Comedy Hit and every seat on the Lower Floor goes for two Bones. h. stead of doing Lock-Step to and from the Broom Factory I work up to a Dress Suit Finish and marry the Swell Dame. And the Mob is with me. If it came to Straw Vote be- tween me and Lyman Abbott I would win by a City Block"
 "The Gentleman speaks the Truth" said the Court. "In this Fair Land we forgive Man anything if his Work is Classy. Instead of committing you to the Pen I shall arrange to spend the Evening With you"
 The next was tall snaky Female with black Beads all over her Person and she was smoking Cigarette, half closing her Eyes as she blew Rings toward the Ceiling.
 Judge, she is some Brazen Hussy, believe me" said the Prosecutor. After turning Flip-Flops around the Ten Commandments for fifteen years she married Good Man and put him on the Fritz. Her regular Job is to loll on Divan and turn the Coaxing Eye on some poor Geezer who is wander ing from Drawing Room to Drawing Room, trying to Have His Life Wreck ed. Pease send her up. She is a Men ace to Respectable Society,""
 The Prisoner looked at him in naughty Disdain.
 T am not Low Woman" she said, proudly. "I am a Matinee Favorite. The Best People in our City hang their Chins over the Seats in front and cry softly whenever I get into
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-03
 Valuable Find of Manuscript

From the Nottingham Guardian.
 A very interesting and remarkable ds- covery of illuminated manuscripts and early printed books, ranging as far back as 14sO, has just been made in the library at Oxton Hall.
 It came about in this way. The vicar of the parish, the Rev. w, Laycock, ob- tained permission to go through the books in the library at his leisure. While so doing his curiosity was aroused by locked and forgotten cupboard therein. which he proceeded to investigate. It's contents proved to be between 4D and 50 volumes, which confirmed the impression conveyed by the antiquity of their ap- pearance that they belonged to the very earliest stage of the art of printing. which was introduced into this country in 147t.
 The majority of them are folio volumes, and with one exception they are all tn their original bindings. The covers arc carefully planed boards of solid oak, and the books are bound with stout leather laces, the backing and lining being frag- ments of illuminated manuscripts of much earlier date, cut up as waste with a ruthless indifference.
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1 If you start her on a Conversation about Griddle Cakes she will wind up by giving a Diagnosis of Soul Hunger. She is Candidate for Padded Cell No. 1 in the big Foolish House. If she continues at Large she may acciden- tally marry some poor misguided Clar- ence and then, if there are any Chil- dren, the Neighbors will have to take care of them."
 "Do you not recognize mel" asked the Prisoner in Low Musical Tones, fixing passionate Gaze on the Court. q am the Heroine of Best Seller. If did not have these large Porcelain Orbs and the Bosom heaving in Rag Time and the Hair swirling in Glorious Profusion, do you suppose that a Mem Der of the Upsilon Pajama Sorority would sit up until A. M. with Me and Bottle of Queen Olives and Box of Chocs? If I made up like an ordinary Sadie and talked Straight Stuff, do you think could last through Ten Editions? I may not be Human, but I can raise the Tempera- ture of every Flathead from Bangor to San Antone."
 You are dead right" said the Court. We couldn't keep house with out you"
 So she proceeded to Exit, sneering- ly, her Garments rustling and faint Aroma of Vioets lingering in her Wake, just as it does in the Red Book that sells for $1.50.
 The next prisoner was big hand some Buck with his Clothes recently pressed and many Gloves.
 q want Life Sentence for this Guy" said the learned Prosecutor. "He is so crooked that Straight Edge would cut him in thousand paces. He would bite an Barking off of Debutante or blow open Family Vault to unscrew the Handles from the casket containing Father. He pro- notes phoney Corporations and sells Florida Orange Groves that have Crocodiles swimming around on top
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through it. 3 car lengths and hand 1t to the fireman; and I heard him say: Put that damn thing in the fire box before some poor night "switcher" gets his "hooksn on one of those nails
 "I saw a switch foreman stop his engine until he walked down 10 car lengths and met one of shis helpers that he had seen standing in the mid dle of the track, step on brake beam of flat car, grab the brake staff and swing up on the car while it was in motion, and told him that he could not work with him if he continued to catch cars in that manner.
 "I saw brakeman leave the front end of his engine at Pratt City and run ahead of the engine in the middle of the track. The engineer stopped his engine and train immediately. I then heard him say: Don't you ever do that trick again. I haven't hurt man. wom- an or child in 23 years of service and I don't care to do so now in the face of efforts we are all making to help the safety committee along"
 That's the spirit that counts and which will earn the safety fight for the great Frisco lines.
 Stastistics show that in adjusting couples at the time the cars are moved 12 trainmen and switchmen were killed n 1910 while 72 were injured. That is now being avoided by trainmen at every stage of the game through open ing knuckles when trains are near each other. Twenty trainmen were killed and 's4 injured in 1910. That is now pos itive1y prohibited.
 It is well known fact that most trainmen in hurry oftentimes adjust their couplers with their foot. Over 259 accidents happened from that universal railroad practice in 1910, and it is now cb ri hxr n time trainmen.
 The station baggage truck has been taken into consideration in the safety work. Frequently passengers and trafn- men are injured by stumbling Over truck tongues lying on the ground and being pitched onto moving train. Now all Frisco station agents know the peril that confronts them if an officer ob- serves such a careless manner of look ing after the truck. All tongues are hitched up high by a hook for that purpose. These are only few of hund-
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reds of small dangerous prop which have been eliminated.
 Figures Show Results

reds of small dangerous proposition which have been eliminated.
 Figures Show Results
 The initial safety movement and its first service Is summed up in "a re- cent issue of the Frisco Man. as fol- lows
 "In August, 1911, there was a mass meeting Of the employees of the Frisco railroad al Springfield, Mo-, e discuss plans for accident prevention on the Frisco. An organization of commit tees on safety, consisting of employees and officers for each operating division of the road and for the larger terminals was arranged to watch out for and remove all dangers to life and limb encountered in the course of their work within their power to remove and to stimulate and educate all other em- ployes with whom they come in contact to do likewise These committees to meet once each month and make a re- port of all things done by them and other employees for accident prevention to a central safety committee, together with defects or conditions found by them not within their power to remedy with their recommendation for consid- eration and action by the central safety committee.
 These committees of safety commenced their work about September 1, 1911, and up to December 31 1911, had made over 90o0 reports of causes liable to produce accidents of which they had permanent y corrected 27O0. the remainder being either temporarily corrected or referred to the central safety committee for ac tion
 That the immediate correction as soon as found of so large a number of causes of injury and the incidental inspiring of greater care on the part of employees in doing their work. was productive of
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How Thackeray Got Names

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
 A delightful Thackeray anecdote (which, so far as one remembers, is new) has turned up at the dinner of the Col quhoun club. The guests included Phillip Newman, who recounted that his wife when 6 girl happened to go to the same school as the novelist's daughters and afterwards kept up an intimacy with the family.
 One day when she was out for walk with Miss Thaekeray, the latter men tioned that her father had started a new story but was at loss to decide upon the hero's name. The future Mrs New man. with her fiance in her thoughts. suggested that his name, Phillip might serve the purpose
 At that moment who should come up unobserved behind the two girls but known by laying a hand on a shoulder of each of the young people, he asked why they were so deep in conversation. There- upon Miss Thaclieray, turning around, re- vealed the subject under discussion and told him her friends suggestion as to the heros name.
 Admirable" was Thackerays verdict. And now, my dear," he went on, what is your own name?'' Charlotte" "Well, that's very nice name too, was the response. and Thackeray wore a look of satisfaction.
 The result was the tale called "The Ads ventures of Phillip" in which the prin- cipal woman character figures as Char lotte"
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1 Imp with wide Mouth, large Freckles and Tapping Ears.
 It was proven that he stuck Pins into his Grandmother and blew up Elderly Gentlemen with Cannon Crackers and set fire to Houses and was a hard Nut in general. The Prosecutor suggested Dungeon with Bread and Water.
 Up spoke the Prisoner as follows: "Idefy you to lay Hand on me. am the Standby of the Comic Artist and the Star Attraction of the Colored Supplement. When 1 pull the Step Ladder from under some Honest Workingman, causing him to break his Leg, or hit Stout Lady in the Eye with a Brick, please remember that I am bringing Sunshine into thou sands of Homes. As I go on my way, committing Arson, Mayhem and As- sault With Intent to Kill, am greet ed by Peals of Childish Laughter. When you put me out of Business, you VIII Ue DdHulHB oiiO Oii eit eA0Ai an awful Wallop. 1 am not Grim inal; I am an Institution"
 q remember you very well" said the Judge. "You are my Excuse for buying the Paper. While the Kids are busy with you I look up Packey Me Farland and One-Round Hogan"
 Just as the Celebrated Juvenile hit the Fresh Air the second Defendant came into the Dock, taking long sneaky Strides and undulating like a Roller Coaster. She was tall Gal and very Pale, with Belladonna Op- tics and her Hair shook out and a fine rhythmical Bellows Movement above the Belt Line.
 "She is raving Beetle" explained the Prosecutor. "She wants to go out doors every Night and count the Moon and pull some of that shine Magazine Poetry. Every time she sees anybody named Eric or Godfrey she does Swoon, accompanied by the customary Low Cry, and later on, in her own Boudoir, which is Richly Furnished she bursts into Torrent of Weeping
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-03
Wear Slippers in the House

From the Home Progress.
 In England it is the custom not only for grown persons but also for children to wear slippers in the house. English children, as well as English grownups, wear shoes, as we in America wear rub bers. only out of doors.
 This is not only a more comfortable custom with regard to footwear than ours but it is also more healthful The streets and sidewalks, and even the yards, are dusty This dust, full of germs as it is, should not be tracked all over the house.
 We would do well in the interests of preventive medicine to provide slippers for our children and to insist upon the wearing of them in the house. It is less trouble to change from shoes to slippers, even three or four times day than it is to cure an Illness. the germ of which may have been brought into the nursery on the soles of the children's shoes.
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No movement or new departure from old standards in recent years has grlpped the employees of the Frisco lines any thing like the safety campaign that has been started during the last few months The desire of the management and 'em- ployes to have safety the paramount fea- ture of the line, even to the detriment of operations. time schedule and money, which has been placed upon the em- poyes as a personal proposition has swept like prairie fire overlapping every line consideration. In Birmingham, where there is maintained a safety com mittee headed by J. II. Jackson. super intendent of the southeastern division no campaign has been fraught with such Interest as the safety measures adopted.
 The Frisco has set a pace that has placed the company in the foremost ranks of American railroads in that single par ticular, if no other, and it is considered anrassured fact that the other companies w411 have to come up to the pace.
 Committees on All Divisions
 The Frisco desires to protect it's pas eengers and it's trainmen above all other things. In order to accomplish that com mittees have been organized on every division to take up the work. The com mittees are composed of men from Pres ident B. l.. Winchell down to fremen These committees usually have the divi- sion superintendent as member and they meet regularly. The committee takes day or two every week and makes il trip over the yards and the division. They remove every possible danger. Each division committee every month exchanges with the other committees a copy of whatever suggestions have been received for the elimination of danger and in that
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one which while on duty is alert for the greatest accomplishments. and one which is continually watching for and guarding against the things which may go wrong. The necessary mental condition can only accompany general good health; so that as a foundation for all, good habits. both mental and physical, are an absolute ne- cessty in the campaign for prevention of trouble and disaster"
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Sheriff to feed him few Defendants.
 "We have rounded up tough bunch of Ginks," said the Attorney for the Commonwealth. q shall ask your Honor to Soak them good and proper"
 The first to be led in was a grinning
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-03
GEORGE ADES NEW FABLES IN SLANG (1912 Model9
 O Prosecute Popular Idols

two years behind the Procession. Hereafter arrest only Business Men who have been Successful"
 MORAL-Criminality is merely a Side-Issue.
 Copyrighted 1912 by George Ade)
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Prosecutor and the Popular Idols

Trouble. Don't lock me up or they will be lonesome" ..
 GO, woman, and keep on Shining" |" said the Court, in a kind Voice.
 Then, turning to the Defender of the General Good, he said: You are
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vention as is above detailed and to un- derstand that each one of them is an in- tegral and necessary unit in the success full working of such a system. The casualty figures for the month of De- cember, 1911. compared with the figures for the same month of the preceding year-printed beow-show that the em- ployes of the Frisco did, within a time
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as short as could be expected, learn the part they were to take in accident reduction work, and heartily and viz orously took it. the reductions shown on the first six months statement were the result of tho initial safety first work:
 CASUALTIES.
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NE morning a great Judge,
 who had been promoted to the
 Bench because he could not connect as a Lawyer, climbed up on his Perch and directed the Lord High
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''It must be remembered that the com mittees of safety were at work but four months of the period covered by the 1911 figures
 ''The Frisco has in in its employ from 1s,ooo to 2O,0Oo persons. It takes time for so many people to become fa- miliar with such plan of accident pre-
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beneficial results, the following state ment comparing the casualties that oc- cured during the six months ending December 3l, 1911, with similar period ending December 31. 1910. will show:
 DISABILITIES
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way the other committees find dozens of ways to avoid dangerous places and ccn- ditions.
 The committee of the Southeastern di- vision is composed of: J. C. Pentecost general foreman B. & B. Amory, Miss; II. Honaker, master mechanic BirminG- ham; J. II. Jackson, Superintendent, Bir- mingham; T. F. Gaines, conductor, Amory Miss; J. E. Ryan, engineer Birmingham Victor Smith, section foreman, New All bany, Miss: II. oldham, terminal train master Birmingham; J. T. Wade flag man, Amory, Miss; C. F. I<irchner trav- cling agent, Memphis, Tenn; w. N. Lotz, car man. Amory, Miss; R. G. Cary, agent Jasper, Ala; w. H. Graham, fireman, city
 These committees are organized on every division. on every terminal and at every important place on the entire Frisco sys- tenn and the accomplishments of the com mittees have been something that mas caused an awakening among railroad operatives not only here but all over the country.
 Trainmaster Cites Incidents
 H. oldham, terminal trainmaster here, tells about his observation as follows:
 'I found switchman on the front end of his engine at noon hour, using ham, mer cutting a wire in parts about five inches long asked him what he was doing, and he said he left these short pieces of wire some place on the engine, so he could find them to repair broken lift chains. This was on the 2Sth day of September. Together with the general yardmaster, check of such occurrences was made and we can give the numbers of 27 cars on which repairs of this kind have been made by switchmen alone in the month of october.
 q saw a switchman carry board that had half dozen nails protruding
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-31
BATTLE IN CYPRESS SWAMP
What Happened in Flooded Louisiana
Region When Gunboats Fought
Is Told by chicaaoan.

Theodore II. Esschen, who lives at
t74S ST. Michael's court, Chicago took
part in engagements between union
and confederate naval forces in the
latter years Of the war He accom-.
panied the expedition made by Gen.
Nathaniel p. Banks into the network
of swamps and bayous of Louisiana
and known as the Red river campaign.
An incident on the journey was the
blowing up of the confederate ram
Queen of the West, of which Mr.. Es-
schen tells.
"The st. Mary was the boat l was
on" said Mr.. Esschen. She was
transport and was one of the fastest
steamers we had. She was one Of
number of gunboats and unprotected
river boats that made their way into
Grand lake to land troops in General
Banks red river campaign.
"The lake was mudhole, formed
by overflow from the Mississippi. In
low water 1t was a cypress swamp,
and timber had been cut from large
area. In high water the stumps of the
great trees, standing perhaps eight
feet above the ground, were covered
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-31
BABY'S ECZEMA AND BOlLS

"My son was about three weeks old
when l noticed a breaking-out on his
cheeks, from which a watery sub
stance oozed. A short time after, his
arms, shoulders and breast broke out
also, and in few days became a solid
scab l became alarmed, and called
our family physician who at once pro-
nounced the disease eczema. The lit
tie fellow was under treatment for
about three months. BY the end of
that time he seemed no better. l be-
came discouraged. dropped the doc
tors treatment, and commenced the
use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment,
and in few days noticed marked
change. The eruption on his cheeks
was almost healed, and his shoulders,
arms and breast were decidedly bet
ter. When he was about seven months
old, all trace of the eczema was gone.
During his teething period, his
head and face were broken out In
boils which l cured with Cuticura
Soap and Ointment. Surely he must
have been great sufferer During
the time of teething and from the time
dropped the doctors treatment, I
used the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment, nothing else, and when two
years old he was the picture Of health.
His complexion was soft and beauti-
full, and his head mass of silky curls.
l had been afraid that he would never
be we'll, and 1 feel that 1 owe a great
deal to the Cuticura Remedies"
(Signed) Mrs. Mary w. Ramsey, 224
e. Jackson ST., Colorado Springs, Col,
Sept. "a, 1910. Although Cuticura
Soap and Ointment are sold by drug
gists and dealers everywhere, sam
pie of each, with 92-page book, will be
mailed free on application to "Cuti-
cura," Dept. L, Boston.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-31

splash of color made by the apron and with the
cap, which Is as dainty and fragile as flower.
The Volendammers placid people, with
only one strong prejudice-against the neighbor-
ing island of Marken. The denounce it COM
munity of beggars whose only excuse is their de-
fcient mental capacity, due to the fact that no
one on the mainland will marry with them. The
guide-books put down this animosity to a differ
ence of religion; but feels that there is some
thing in the Volendammer's contention when one
finds that the Markener standpoint only be
ascertained by the application of hard cash. On
that mainlanddespised but touristbeloved isle
conversation is chargeable. The children
Shrek plaintive and inopportune goodbyes in ex
change for shower Of copper, and the most cas-
ual photographer has wiy-nilly to pay a fee to
every unmnnnerly urchin who chooses to dispose
herself in front Of his
Really, the costume of the Markeners is not to
be taken seriously. To begin with, the women's
dress is largely made up of printed stuffs, kind
of shoddy substitute for embroidery which has
surely not been very long in the world The
dress itself is dark enough. but over it is an
overall of the most gaudy and Haunting hues; the
cap is chiefly print, and the fair hair is worn in
long ringets with straight, bushy fringe across
the forehead Mr.. g. v. Lucas in his 'Wanderer
in Holland" calls these worthy danes fine up.
standing creatures" One would like them better
If they were less coniding and attentive. AS 1t