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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18
PICTURES BY ALBERT LEvERING

The Graduate of the Lecture Bureau may be found in swagger Club any evening with a Bourbon H. B. at his Right, stack of Student Lamps at his Left and Two Small Pair pressed closely against his Bosom.
 MORAL-The modern ambition seems to be to vary the Program.
 The New Fable of the Dancing Man
 Who Wore Out His Pumps and His Rating
 Once there was Porch Rat, who was also a Parlor Snake and a Ham, mock Hound. He worked the popular Free Lunch Routes for thirty years before deciding to hook up and begin paying for his own Food and Drink
 When he started fitting from Bud to Debutante to Ingenue to Pawn to Broiler to Kiddykadee back in 1880 he was famous Beau with skin-tipht Trousers, white Puff Tie run through Gold Ring and Hat lined with White. Satin, the same as Child's Coffin. -
 In 1890 he was parting his Hair in the Middle, in imitation of a good Bird Dog, and had been promoted to the Veteran Corps of the iron-legged Dan cing Men and the Unsuitable Diners Out. He would eat on his Friends about six Nights in each Week and. repay them every Christmas by send ing Card showing a Frozen Stream. in the Foreground and Evergreen Trees beyond. .
 In 1900 he was beginning to sit out some of the Numbers. Also, when he got into his Evening Togs, his general Contour suggested that possibly he had just swallowed full-sized Water melon without slicing it up. But he was still ohnny-answer-the-b when it came to Dinner Parties.
 In 1910 he carried little Balloon under each Eye and walked as if he had Gravel in his Shoes. He was still trying to be Game, although he had different kind of Digestive Tablet in each Pocket and would rather tackle Bridge than the Barn Dance.
 The Path was becoming Lonely and the whispering Trees seemed tall and forbidding. He decided to whistle for Companion. The Dear Girls had been dogging him for three Decades and he
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MORPHINE AND
 WHISkEY HABITS
Cured Without Pain Or Re- straint at Cedarcroft Sani- tarium, Lebanon,
 Tenn.

Indorsed by Governors, Congressmen, Legislators. Bankers Physicians. Min isters, College Professors, and by hun- dreds of former patients as high grade institution for the successful and humane treatment of
 DRUG. ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO
 PROJECTIONS
 Yhe institution is licensed under a special law of Tennessse .s;s S which requires he under the direct management and control of a reputable physician. who must reside in the Sanitarfum and give the patients his personal attention The physician in charge must also make oath that he has had over five years actual experience in the, the treatment ire oi least 90 per cent of cures.
 This puts Cedarcroft in class by itself. as it is the only Sanitarium in this section of the country With pny- seap in charge who of cah ths few fse United States.
 The sanitarium is equipped with every modern convenience including the latest electro-therapeu equip ment, baths. etc.
 The treatment involves no suffering ana no restraint. Each patient is treat ed privately in his or her own room and special pains are taken to protect them from publicity or unpleasant aSSO- ciations No insane or objectionable patients are taken at any price.
 NO FEE OR DEPOSIT IS ASKED OR EXPECTED UNTIL CURE IS EFFECTED TO THE ENTIRE SATIS- FACTION OF THE PATIENT.
 Those who cannot visit the Sani- tarium can be successfully treated at home. Write for booklet and refer ;asl sn1es nsrsetar IF @ csdsrcroff S sanitariam sa Box S7e. Lebanon. Tenn.
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 For Weak Men.
Send Name and Address To. day-You Can Have It Free and Be Strong and
 Vigorous

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 natural drans or follies of youth. that has cured .o many worn and men right in their own bomes-without any additional help or medicine th.t think every who wishes to regain his -.nly power and virty, ouicki, and quietly should n.,e A cop,. 50 1 have dsierinined 10 send a copy - inc D, escription of charge. in plain. ord. s..ry seaIed envelope sns man who will snts uus tor it ,.,
 LA special study of men and am convinced ii II, .- s,,resf actlng combination for the oi desI s s.s.. manhood and sisor failure ever toetber
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A Waif With Sa200

From the London Evening Standard.
 A peasant who WAS passed by mo- tor car near Lyons saw the car stop for a momsnt few hundred yards fur ther on. When he reached the place where 1t had stopped ne found a 12- months-old baby boy lying in the mid dle of the road. He took the child to his cottage.
 His wife undressed the baby to make sure that he had not been hurt and in his clothes found f640 in bank notes and a piece of paper on which was written: "To look after and educate the child"
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dainty Badge, which showed that she was Judge. You will be expected to wear Gray Gloves with Morning fCoat and put Gardenia in your Lapel. AS the Voters arrive you will softly inquire their Names and lead them along the Receiving Line and make sure that each is given either a Macaroon or an Olive.'
 That evening when they sorted the Votes and decided to throw out all that were Soiled or folded Improperly he was over in a corner making out list of Guests for the waiting Reporters.
 MORAL---Equal Suffrage will have a demoralizing Effect on one of the principal Sexes.
 The New Fable of the Young Fellow
 Who Had No Father to Guide Him
 Once there was boy who had been told twice a Day ever since he could remember that if he started to go into one of those Doggeries with swinging Doors in front and Mirrors along the Side, Blue Flame would shoot out and burn him to Cinder.
 Also he had been warned that every Playing Card in the Whole Deck was a Complimentary Ticket admitting one to a Hot Griddle in the Main Par quette of the Fiery Furnace.
 And every little Paper Cigar was another Spike in the Burial Casket.
 With seven or eight Guardians trail ing him Day and Night to keep him away from the Lures of the Wicked World it looked like Pipe that he would grow up to be the Dean of a Theological Seminary.
 Across the street lived poor unfor- tunate Lad whose Father was making the futile Endeavor to take it away faster than the Revenue Officers could put Stamps on it. He was the original Blotter. When they were trying to pry him away from it he would take a chance on anything from Arnica to Extract of Vanilla.
 According to all the Laws of Hered- ity the only Son was cast for the Part of Joe Morgan.
 He is now the Head of a Mail-O Order House. When he sees Corkscrew he pulls his Hat firmly over his Ears and runs a Mile.
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sets. Any investment should be pre- ceded by a systematic and thorough Investigation
 Having delivered himself of this Signed Editorial he dismissed the Bond Salesman and went back to his Morning Mail.
 The next Caller wore broad Som brero, leather Leggings and Bill Cody Goatee-also the Hair down over the Collar He looked as if he had just escaped from Medicine Show. After lowering the Curtains he pro- duced from Leather Pouch glisten- ing Nugget which he had found in a lonely Gulch near Death Valley.
 The careful Business Guy began to quiver like an Aspen and bought 10,- 900 shares at $2 Share on Personal Guarantee that it would go to Par before Sept. 1st.
 MORAL-It all depends on the Bait. The New Fable of the Morning on
 Which He should Have Overslept
 One Morning A Precinct Parasite owing Allegiance to Political Party of Progressive Principles went around to the dingy office of Fuel Supply Go. to pull off the customary Fake Primary.
 He was met at the Door by broad faced Lady of benevolent Mien and black Ribbons on her Nose Glasses, who told him to use the Mat and not track up the Place.
 What is the Idea?" asked the alco- holic Henchman looking vainly about for Bottle Nosed Curley, Mike the Pike, and Smitty the Dip, who always had been his Associates in the sacred Task of registering the Will of the People.
 Instead of the old familiar strong arm Phalanx he saw Bevy of plump loans who were hanging Chintz Cur tains, arranging a neat design of Sweet Peas around the Ballot Box and getting ready to fire up a Samovar. When he glanced into the Polling Booth and saw that it was draped with Doilies he nearly had Hemorr- haze.
 aThis is the Glad Day you have heard so much about" replied Laura Chivington Cadbury, displaying her
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A METHODIST 95 YEARS
During Most of That Time Pennsyl.
 yania Woman Smoked Pipe

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 Altoona, Pa.-Mrs. Elizabeth Bryan, the oldest woman in this section of the state and member of a pioneer family of wealth. died at the age of los years She was probably a member of the Methodist church longer than any other person in the United States. having been commu- nicant for 95 years.
 As was the custom of the women of her day. she was fond aos smoking pipe. which she continued until within q short time of her death She eavee thrcr T. dren, s1 grandchildren, 24 great grand children and one great great sranucihsd.
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The New Fable of the Man

some gilt-edged Municipal Bonds that would net shade under 5 per cent.
 'I'll have to look into the Proposi- tion very carefully" said the Investor, as he tilted himself back in his jointed Chair. -''I must have the History of all previous Bond Issues under the same Auspices. Also the Report of an Ex- pert as to possible Shrinkage of As
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they've never bested me. I saw man at beast show once-years ago. He made a great leopardess do tricks. She curled and coiled and snared and showed a set of teeth at him like a man trap. She thrust toward him; she came as near as she dared But his whip was in his hand and his eyes were on the creature: and the beast jumped through a hoop of fire for him, and other fools tricks. But by God, there was no love lost "A great lesson that, thought Iris the way to treat men and women-especially women. Never take your eye off. talked to the tanner after and looked at his whip. The handle was lead, the lash was leather and steel He could have cut to the bone with it if need be. And the leopardess knowed that from experience"
 True. "The Beacon Is realism, and real ism of the brightest sort, being the story of the love of two men for one woman-- and the ultimate winning by the weak ling of her, and her finally falling ir love with the stronger of the two who sits calmly down and waits.
 MT. Phillpotts has handled the subject with masterful hand.
 TIE COMES UP SMILING"
 By Charles sherman. Illustrated by Ar
 thur William Brown. The Bobbs- Merrill
 Company, Indianapolis.
 Bringing with it the fragrant breath of June. with entrancing glimpses of open sky and open road, one of the first of the early spring books has arrived. It if called 'He Comes Up Shilling and this title has been happily chosen. In three words it depicts the character of the hero and also describes the happy frame ol mind the reader will be in once he has read this charming story.
 Scintilating with humor that is refresh ing, filled with quaint aphorisms that arr anything but trite, this book occupies g field all by itself. One instinctively ex' pects to find In every new book some re semblance. to a previous work. Not SC with .'He Comes Up Shilling Hack neyed situations seem to be unknown tf Charles sherman, whose name Is on th' title page, or at least he steers SO clea' of them that one is surprised at his uttel lack of imitation He proves that ther' must be something new in the world aftel all
 In the first place the hero, Jeroboan Martin sometimes known as Jerry, bu whom his cronies call ''Watermelon,' Il a striking figure. He is different iron other men in everything he says and does and would stand alone even though ther should be no love element behind him t' draw him into the heart of the reader Most authors with such a hero in min' would have fallen into the conventions literary trap by making him a wealth. young dilettante or a striving young gen ius with ideals. Mir. sherman has strucl a noriginal note. "Watermelon" is oni. n. tramp. a. knight of the road. who il
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GEORGE AIDES NEW FABLES IN SLANG (1012 Models)
 Man

decided to let one of them have her Wish at last.
 He hunted up one aged "A and broke |the Glad News to her and she told him not to rattle his Crutches over the Mosaic Floor as he went out the Front Way.
 He is now living at a Club organized
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as Home for Men who have Gone Wrong. [
 When he pushes the Button the Bell- Hops match to see who will be Stuck.
 MORAL-There is an Age Limit, even for Men.
 Copyrighted, 1912, by George Ade.)
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N NCE there was a prosperous Manufacturer who had made
 his Stake by handling an every day Commodity at a small Mar gin of Profit.
 One Morning the Representative of a large Concern dealing in guaran- teed Securities came in to sell him
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A NEW PORTRAIT OF BYRON
A Philadelphia Writer Unearthed the
 Picture in an Old Chateau
Prom the New York American.

Prom the New York American.
 Paris-Dr. c. W. MacFarlane of Phila- delphia. a writer on international econom- ics. has just made what he considers arl important find in unearthng a hitherto unknown portrait of Lord Byron
 It Is in oil and about life size and shows the poet as a man of much greater phys,-
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'RECoLLECTIoNs GRAVE AND GAY By Mrs. Burton Harrison. Charles Scrib ner's Sons, New York.

l 'RECOLLECTIONs GRAVE AND GAY.'' | By Mrs. Burton Harrison. Charles Scrib- l ner's Sons. New York.
 ] In 1876 Mrs. Burton Harrison published | her first literary work. entitled "A Little Centennial Lady" which met with such 1 favor that she continued her writings. 1 with what success the reading public all ! ready knows.
 | Tn Mrs. Harrison's latest contribution, ''Recollections Grave and Gay" which Is charmingly written book Of reminis. .
 cences, personal experiences, incidents, | impressions and adventures, she score, again.
 l Mrs Harrison's father was Cary of | Virginia. whose grand uncle was Thomas
 Jefferson.
 l Her father. MT. Archibald Cary was a
 newspaper man, publishing southern newspaper in Virginia. which probably l accounts to some degree for Mrs. liar | rison's literary talent: | "Recollectons Grave and Gay" Is large 1 ly taken up with Mrs. Harrison's girlhood | during the civil war--at least the early l part of the book is--and she tells some very interesting incidents of those days. | Living in a little country village for several years. which the railroad ran ! through. Mrs. Harrison. then a girl tells ! of how the sick and the maimed and the disabled soldiers were brought home, and how she often passed among them ad- ministerins food and drink and care to the l injured men.
 There are many side lights thrown upon
 those days and times by the author things that were entirely personal and l would never have been known except for l her autobiography
 1 A pathetic incident which the author re- | lates, is concerning a young soldier | wtom she says married in the little | country church. and just one week later Inc was buried from the same church. the | soldier bridegroom having been killed in | the thick of battle and brought home to his bride a corpse.
 ] Shifting the scenes after the civil war | we find Mrs Harrison livingin New York | and her charming manner of describins the metropolis of the early Ss-Fifth av- I enue and its haunts. and the fashionable residences and eminent personages ct those days--is delightful mad entirely new | and original
 l One can hardly in ones most vivid iir- | agination turn the modernity of the present Broadway into such a surround ing that lash cans were seen on the fror' l steps and vehicles stabled in the streets for want of better shelter"-and vet Mrs Harrison graphically pictures such con | ditions.
 Mrs. Hdrr1son ls very hdpl'y III ner re | cital of society and its amusements at | that time--the lions" of various occa- 1 sions and their followers.
 She gives a charming touch to theatri- calls. her recolleetions of the great opera singers of those days being particularly l interesting
 There is scarcely a book of the pres 1 ent day which gives so much genuine pleasure In the reading as Mrs. Harrison s "Recollections Grave and Cay both to young and old--our elders reveling in
 stories of their own times of the long
 ago. while the younger generation delights
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tion of Byrons portraits, that there are very strong reasons for believing that
 the most faithful portrait that we have oi the wayward poet is the one that rested SO long unknown in the chateau of Gex.'
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THE POWER OF TOLERANCE AND OTHER SPEECHES" By George liar very. Harper Brothers. New York.
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"CONfMIsrON GOVERNMENT IN AMERICAN CITIES.' By Ernest S. Bradford, Ph. D. The Macmillan Com pany. New York.
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in comparing the manners and. customs of its ancestors with those of the present day ttt
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OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. (RE-
 VIEWS LATER.) SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN L.-AD- ERS.'' By Henry Alexander White. D. D. The Neale Publishing Company, New York.
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older times might have been a troubador, but today is only hobo. But what a low able hobo he is. His nails may be url- manicured. his speech the vernacular of | the streets; he may hate work and not be | above petty theving. but "Watermelon" is, withal, a gentleman.
 | He comes from a good, though poor, family. his father having been a country narson. Watermelon has early de-
 veloped the wanderlust, and we find him
 on a drowsy Sunday morning encainped
 under tree on the outskirts of summer
 resort village. in company with two others of his ilk-real tramps, but lacking in llis
 better parts.
 A desire to engage in a beauty contest | with his companions sends watermelon l forth in quest of shave and fresh raj
 ment He gets the former by playing a
 trick on barber. enriches himself to the
 extent of s3.1o in addition. and then steals, | or rather "borrows,'' the tailored clothes | of man who Is In swimming.
 | Shortly afterward he meets a delight | ful old gentleman. is mistaken for the owner of the clothes, who Is a rising young financier and Is carried away to dine with plutocrat of Wall street ansl | his charming daughter ''Billy" The plu- tocrat has lost heavily through the oper-
 ations of the man ''watermelon'' is sup posed to be. and in the hope of turning 1 willy trick arranges an automobile trip | with 'Watermelon' as the guest of honor. | By thus keeping his financial enemy away ! from the street for a week the plutocrar
 expects to retrieve the money he has lost. l ''Watermelon'' gets wise to the plan, and | just to have a little fun accepts the invi- | tation. l Of course he falls in love with the
 daughter as she does with him, and the | struggle he undergoes aWakens all of his | latent gentlemanly instincts. Water melon" wins In the end, though not with | out many unusual things happening. and although he is still a. vagabond at heart,
 just as picturesque as he was in the be-
 ginning. we know that ever after hls | trapping will be called travel, and Billy | will be the companion of his wanderings.
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RODNEY THE RANGER: YAH DANIEL MORGAN ON TRAIL AND BATTLEFIELD" By John V. Lane. H. lustrated by John Goss. L. C. Page X Company. Boston.
 THE FUSING FORGE: AN IDAHO IDYL." By Katherine Hopkins Chap man. Illustrated by w. Herbert Dunton. A. C. McClurg & Company, Chicago.
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1 nervous tension brought about by fear
 widens the transparent spot in the hlmy screen separating the regions of the heredity and the variative principles al-
 lowing the mind to seize and utilize the
 most useful clements of each. Thus the author says one of the wisest sayings of the Hebrew kings was "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-25

paratus coming up every day that
one wonders how the contractors can
send even q fraction OF Il down tho
Fraser river before navigation closes.
The lighter supplies viii go down In
soows. which are bgilt az the head OF
steel and abandoned after conveying
the cargo 10 the canyon 100 miles be-
low Stuthard Four experienced men
vain 2O-foot sweeps az bow and stern
are necessary 10 navigate one Of these
lcoWs
Loading a steam shovel and trans
porting II down swift river is ,ob
that would give even seasoned sail
or some unonsincss Tho shovel is
run over a temporary track TO an
open scow, forty feet In length and
twenty feet IN width, lowered into the
bottom and lashed 10 the nose Of the
Conveyor When the craft swings
into the current and heads down
stream, the workmen hold their
breath and the owners begin 10 figure
the probable loss. Two shovels have
been taken down that way-Just
turned loose and allowed TO drift so
far without mishap The Fraser rlV-
ar however, has already claimed iif-
teen human lives, mostly by acct
dents with rude RATS. handled by in
experienced workmen There are
numerous swirling eddies In tho
stream, against which even the
strongest swimmer has little or no
chance.
At intervals along the route be-
tween Edmonton and the head OF steel
are vacant storehouses ana other
buildings or log walls and tent roofs
which were once occupied by builders
ana grading gangs broken shovels'
romans of worn-out machinery, dis
carded clothing and footwear and
heaps of tin cans are rusting and de-
caylng In the varied changes Of elm
ate. and here and there a lettered
stone tells that the work OF railroad
construction, which draws its matert-
ais from the whole civilized world
must also take IT'S toll OF human l.fe.
Thirty-two large and small bridges
win be constructed between Resplen-
dant ana Fort George. After leaving
Tete Juan Cache the road will cross
the Fraser river four times before
reaching the fort The first of these
bridges Is forty seven miles below tho
present rail head. At the canyon,
slxty-nye miles farther west, the sur
vcy crosses the rlrver twice within
few miles recrossing II at the canyon.
There Is also bridge at Resplendant.
making hve spans over the Fraser
river. A long bridge will cross tho
Shuswap river and one must be built
over the Ghost river before trains are
run into Fort George,
steel head arecmfwpetaocmfwyppppy
The principal contractors below
steel head are: Carlton e. CO., 20
miles, with seven shovels; Griffin &
Co, 25 miles, with four shovels on
the ground, Burns n Jordan, 4S miles,
with a battery OF dlggers; Spend &c
CO., 25 miles, with flve machines;
and Simmons e. Co, the last 80 miles
Of the grade TO Fort George. This
outfit has six Of the largest shovels
In western Canada.