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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-23
THOUSANDS VIEW GEN. BOOTHS BODY Will Lie in State Today and
 Tomorrow NEW HEADS MESSAGE Miss Eva Booth Sails From New York in an Attempt to Reach
 England in Time for
 the Funeral
NEW HEADS MESSAGE

London. August 22.-Genefal Booths body was removed tonight from the evan gelist's late residence at Hadley Wood to Congress Hall. Clapton, where 1t will
 lie in state Friday and Saturday. Plans for the lying in state are the same as those carried out when the body of his wife, the ''army's mother lay in state.
 The coffin rests in the same NspcL ( Son a catafalaue. over which huge canopy hangs At the side of the coiain an oil portrait Of his wife is displayed. Flags of all nations adorn the walls of tho hall. representative ot the yast extent of the Salvation Army's operations
 Throughout the day a stream of call CTS passed into the late generals modest residence at Hadley Wood. Nothing about the exterior of the two-story villa indicated the presence of death. The blinds were drawn down only in the windows of the small bedroom contain ing single brass bedstead on which lay the generals body clad in full dress uniform of black. with the familiar red jersey
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-23
House Furnishings Taxed

"1'he house is made of brick taxed 2J per cent and lumber taxed per cent with paint taxed 32 per cent. Their wall paper was taxed % per cent and plain furniture taxed 35 per cent He hangs his pail on steel pin taxed 45 per cent, using soap taxed 20 per cent His looking glass was taxed 45 per cent and he combs his hair with a rubber comb taxed 8 per cent,
 He proceeds to eat his supper which was cooked on a stove taxed 45 per cent, for which his wife used pots and kettles taxed 45 per cent On their table is com mon crockery taxed 55 per cent and cheap glass tumblers taxed 45 per cent.
 "The sugar he puts in his tea is taxed 54 per cent, which he strs with a spoon taxed 45 per cent. His meal is frugal one because the cost of living is high He uses a knife and fork taxed 5l per cent in eating salt fish taxed 10 per cent, bread 20 per cent, potatoes 2 per cent, salt potatoes 3l per cent, butter 2; per cent and rice p per cent. He reads a ! ook taxed $ per cent and at the close oi the workday reclines in an iron frame bed taxed 45 per cent with a mattress taxed 20 per cent, sheets taxed 45 per cent, wooden blankets taxed I5 per cent and a cotton spread taxed 45 per cent He Is taken ill and the doctor prescribes medicine taxed 25 per cent, which being ineffective he passes from this active sphere of life and his remains are depos- tied in coffin taxed 35 per cent, which is conveyed to a cemetery in a wagon taxed B per cent. deposited In it's resting place in mother earth and the grave filled in by use of spade taxed i5 per cent, while over his grave is raised monu- ment taxed 49 per cent"
 Representative Underwood at consider able length reviewed the Legislation en- acted by the democratic House and con demned the republican policy as disclosed in the session now closing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-23
CONGRES ESS MAKES 1. GOOD PROGRESSO FOUR SUPPLY BILLS Confidently Look Forward to Final Adjournment
 Tomorrow
NO RIDERS TO ARMY
 APPROPRIATION BILL.
Favorable Report on Resolution to Erect Drinking Fountain to the Memory of Major Archie
 Butt a. fancis Mitlet
rnls IN CONGRESS.


 senaterSa ened at 10 a. m.
 senaty aeon discussed Niearaguan situatS nd urged consideration of his S 4tton calling for an investi-
 70 .al deficiency bill carrying s11,- 51S. reported.
 Conferees on army appropriation bill reached agreement.
 Senator Penrose renewed talk on IG w Perkins underwrote ss0oo.o0o tc nominate Colonel Roosevelt for the presidency.
 Adjourned at 7;45 D. m. until noor today.
 House convened at II a. m.
 Passed Coosa river dam bill
 Adjourned at 7:1o D. m. until 11:0o a m. today.
 Washington. August 22.-With a ce- lerity that hitherto has not marked tho session, Congress today rushed toward completion four great supply bills ana tonight looks forward confidently tC adjournment Saturday.
 Conferees on the sundry civil, In. dian, army and postoffice appropria. tion measures reached agreements or these bills today. The legislative, In dian and sundry civil measures were passed by the Senate and the genera deficiency bill. the last of the big sup ply measures to be taken up, was re ported in the Senate and the ways greased for its consideration The House took no action on appro. priat Legislation further than tC order all conference reports printed 1T the record so that prompt action could be had tomorrow. Unlike the Senate's quick work by which the three bills were rushed through in less than 1l minutes. the House Is expected to de velop sharp clashes on both the. sun dry civil and the Indian bills.
 Leaders on both sides, however, dic not regard these defects tVneht as be- ing unreconcilable and before adjourn ment tomorrow night it is believed tht 1 Legislative decks will be comparative lly clear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-23
Flags Draped About Head

Above the bed dropped the army nag
 and at the head hung the flag the general
 carried on his visit to Cavalry when
 he toured Palestine in 1905. In the other rooms of the house the business of
 the army was being carried on as usual. | In connection with the funeral there
 is under consideration a suggestion that
 the coffin be conveyed to Abney park
 cemetery on a gun carriage, as symbol
 izing the militant character of the evan gelist's work.
 | Queen Mother Alexandra today tele-
 graphed to Bramwell Booth, the son and
 successor of General Booth, the follow | ing message:
 T beg you and all your family 10 ac- | cept my deepest and most heartfelt 1 sympathy in the irreparable JOSS you and | the nation have suffered in the death of your great, good and never-to-be for | gotten father. It is loss which will be felt throughout the whole civilized world, but thank God, his work will live forever. "ALEXANDRA.' Messages of condolence also have been received from General Louis Booth, pre-
 mier of the Union of South Africa; Lord Isington. governor of New Zealand Lord Roseberry, and many other prom inent persons throughout the world. New Head Sends Message | In message to the Salyationists
 throughout the world, published in the | Daily Chronicle today General Bramwell | Booth, the new commander-in-ch.efo of the Salvation Army indicates the direction Of the armys coming activities. He | speaks confidently of it's future. After a 1 tender and beautiful tribute to his father
 the new general says:
 ''The armys reorganization and achieve
 mcnts are the outcome of Gods spirit ! That spirit cannot die. 1t still vivifies us. Yet, though the spirit does not change [ the forms and methods in which it is
 clothed must change. New methods must
 be employed and new channels of activ- | ity opened to keep pace with human ad- vanccment
 '1t was the late generals great jov that
 he had created body into which he had
 LreatlIed living soul. The outward body
 might alter but the spirit is enshrined in | the spirit of charity, compassion and self sacrifice and cannot be extin nyuished. l "It is my ambition to preserve and fos- ter that spirit. Despite the materalism | yearning for more ideal ard spiritual | life which is acting as a recruiting agency | fer the Salvation Army
 | Asked whether the army still would be
 gove rned on military fires the general re- | Tiled that no doubt it would because mili- l tary discipline gives a tremendous CO., [ hesion of simplicity and power to the orr | ganization and how run the organi-
 zation of similar kind to that displayed | by tie Roman Catholic church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-23
Charges Against Knox

Panania. August 22-The Nicaraguan minister to Panama. Manuel Naesauez, has received an official cahlegran from San Juan dei Sur dated today reading:
 '.'rhe revolutionary movement at Leon has been suppressed and communication with Managua has been restored.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-23

San Diego. cal, August 22.-The supply slip Glacier and the collier Prometheus weighed anchor late today and steamed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-23

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The evening world., 1912-03-22
STERLING
SILVER
TOILET WARE
Pspui,s
Easter
Gifts

'"'W 's"''sV 49,
Shoe Horn. .We
Cuticle Knife. &c
Cream Jar.....@ e
Taleuin JAR. Sl.W
Tooth h Hc
Tooth Brush
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The evening world., 1912-03-22

MODEL DUST COATS 4Onew Spring models in tan linene, dark gray mohair,
khaki covert, fancy. mohair effects. pongees. gray silks. Majority are
double.breasted models. Prices range from 81. 90 for a single breasted
tan linene model. up to S29 ~ for a fine quality pongee silk.
GLOVES Both styles. Short strap-WriSt stlc. in black ortan at 81 80. Gaunt-
let style, in black or tan. at $i.96, So. ~, $500.
GOGGLES We carry as large an assortment, both imported and domestic.
as can be found in any other store N New York. Price range from lc
for rubber goggles up TO 81. SO for mask goggles. Other kinds are collap-
sble; with plain Or ehenllIe edge at s9c and SOC.
CHAUFFEURS' BLACK MACINTOSH RAINCOAIS in the popular buton-to-neck
model. The usual price for these coats elsewhere is SITS. AtMaeys
SH.74.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06

These four persons were about going
forward upon a singularly desperate
and unusual enterprise. From now on
they were no longer to fence with one
another, to shift from this topic to
that, with the indirect maneuvers of
a house-cat intent upon the quest of
the Friday mackerel. The woman's
face was alive with eagerness the
Oldest man looked from one to the
other with earnest calculation; Wal
lace no longer hid his cupidity;
Ryannes immobility of countenance
was in itself a tacit admission to the
burning of all his bridges that he
might become part of this conclave.
Smuggling" said the major, with
prudent lowering of voice, evidently
continuing some previous debate,
smuggling is a fine art, keen sport
ing proposition; and the consequences
of discovery are never serious. What's
a fine of a thousand dollars against
the profits of many successful eXcur-
sions into the port of New York?
Nothing, comparatively. For several
years. now, we have carried on this
business with the utmost adroitness.
Never have we drawn serious atten-
ton. We have made two or three
blunders, but the suspicious of the Sc
cret-service were put to sleep upon
each occasion. We have prospered.
Here is a gem, let us say, worth on
this side a thousand; over there we
sell it for enough to give US clean
profit of three or four hundred. Forty
per cent. upon our investment. That
ought to be enough for any reasonable
person. Am / right?"
Mrs. Chedsoye alone was unrespon-
sive to this appeal.
II continue, then. We are making
enough to lay by something for our
old age. And that's the only goal
which never loses its luster. But
this affair.""
Talk, talk" said Mrs. Chedsoye i'm
patiently.
my dear Kate, allow me to relieve
my mind"
"You have done so till the topic is
threadbare. 1t is rather late In the
day to go over the ground again.
Time is everything just now"
Admitted But this affair, Kate, is
big; big with dangers, big with pit
falls; there is a hidden menace in ev-
cry step of it. Mayhap death; who
knows? The older I grow, the more
cling to material comforts, to enter
prises of small dangers. However, as
you infer, there's no going back now"
NO." assented Ryanne, his mouth
hard; mot if have to proceed alone"
She smiled at him. you talk Of
danger" speaking to the major. What
danger can there be?"
The unforeseen danger, the danger
of which we know nothing, and there
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06

gale at sea shreds a canvas. lie felt
bit pan5cky. He had always planned
a cOurtsh1p of year or so, meetings,
separations, and remeetings, pleasur-
able expectations, little junkets to the
aters and country places; in brief, to
witness the rose grow and unfold.
Somewhere he had read or heard that
courtship was the plummet which
sounded the depths of compatibility.
He knew nothing of Fortune Ched-
soye, save that she was beautiful to
his eyes, and that she was as different
from the ordinary run of girls as yon-
der moon was from the stars.
Again she stopped, leaning over the
parapet and staring down at the wa
ter swtrling past the stone embank-
ment. He did likewise, resting upon
his folded arms. Suddenly his tongue
became alive; and quietly, without
hesitancy or embarrassment, he began
to tell her OF his school life, his life
at home. And the manner in which
he spoke Of his mother warmed her;
and she was strangely and wonder
ingly attracted.
"Of course, the mother meant the
best in the world when she gave me
Percival Algernon; and because she
meant the best, l have rarely tried to
hide them. What was good enough for
her to give was good enough for me
to keep 1t is simply that have been
foolish about it, supersensitive.
should have laughed and accepted the
thing as a joke instead, l made the
fatal move of trying to run away and
hide. But, taking the name in FULL"
lightly, "it hounds as homogeneous as
playing Traumerei on a steam-piano."
He expected her to laugh, but her
heart was too full of the old ache
This young man, kindly, gentle, intel
ligent, If shy was a love-child And
she? An offspring, the loneliest of
the lonely, the child that wasn't want
ed Many a time she had thought of
f1inging all to the winds, of running
away and hiding where they never
should find her, of working with her
own hands for her bread and butter
Little they'd have cared. But always
the rebel spirit died within her as she
stepped outside the villa gates. To
leave behind for unknown privations
certain assured comforts, things of
which she was fond, things to which
she was used, she couldn't do it, she
just couldn't. Morally and physically
she was a little coward
Let us go in," she said sharply.
Another moment, and she would have
been in tears.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06
"YOn don't believe

You don't believe ?"
My friend, I believe in all things
that haven't been proved impossible.
You've been knocking about here long
enough to know something of the
tenacity of the Arab and the East In
dian Given a just cause, an idols
eye or a holy carpet, and they'll fol-
low you round the world ten times, If
need be. l never worry needlessly.
but I lay out before me all the points
Of the game There is one man in Bag
dad who will never cease to think of
me. This fellow is an Arab Mahomed-
El-Gebel by name, the real article,
proud and savage, into whose keeping
the Holy Yhiordes was given; Ma
homed-El-Gebel, the Pasha's right
hand, a sheik in his own right"
But you haven't got the rug now"
mo, Mr.. Jones, haven't; but on
the other hand, you have. So, here
we are together. When he gets
through with me, your turn"
George laughed Ryanne grew
thoughtful over this sign. Percival
Algernon did not seem exactly wor-
ried.
Aren't you a little afraid?"
az? Why should I be?" inquired
George innocently. Certainly, what
ever your Arab friends arguments
may be, moral or physical, I'm going
to keep that Yhiordes."
Was he blufflng? Ryanne wondered.
Did he really have nerve? Well,
within forty-eight hours there would
come a test.
Say, do you know, l rather wish
you'd been with me on that trip-that
is, if you like rough game" Ryanne
said this in all sincerity.
'T have never been in rough game,
as you call it; but I've often had
strong desire to be, just to find out for
myself what sort Of a duffer 1 am"
Ryanne had met this sort Of man be-
fore; the fellow who wanted to know
what stuff he was made of, and was
ready to risk his hide to find out. His
experience had taught him to expect
nothing of the man who knew just
what he was going to do in crisis.
Did you ever know, Mr.. JONES'"
said Ryanne, his eyes humorous, that
there is an organization in this world
Of ours, a company that offers a try
out to men of your kidney?"
Whats that? What do you mean?"
What I say. There is an established
concern which will, upon application
for a liberal purchase Of stock, ar
range any kind of adventure you
wish"
WHAT" George drew in his legs
and sat up. What sort of jolly is
th1s?"
You put your finger upon the one
great obstacle No one will believe
that such a concern exists. Yet it is
a fact. And why not?"
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ritely. But I have already told
them"
The devil you have!" Ryanne drop
per his cigarette into the ash-tray. If
l remember rightly, you asked me to
say nothing"
81 know" said George, visibly en-
barrassed. Il forgot"
We'll, the fat is in the fire. l dare
say that I can get round it. 1t was
risky Women like to talk. 1 expect
every hour to hear Of some one ar
irving from Bagdad."
There's no boat from that direction
I'll next week" informed George, who
was a stIckler on timetables.
There are other ways of getting
into Egyft Know anything about
EsajzE-cas. sls?'
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06
CHAPTER W.-fcontlnuedA

Some one was sitting down beside
him, 1t was Ryanne, in evening
clothes immaculate, blase, pink
checked There are some men so hap
PLY framed that they can don ready
made suits without calling your atten-
ton to the fact. George saw at once
that the adventurer was one Of these
fortunate individuals.
Makes a rather good picture to
look at; eh?" began Ryanne, rolling
q fake-tobacco cigarette. Dancer"
mo. Wish I could You've done
quick work." with admiring inspection
Not flaw anywhere. How do you
90 it?"
Thanks. Thanks to you, I might
soy. l did some tall hustling, though
Strange, how we love these funeral
tOggeries. We follow the dance and
we follow the dead, with never a
variation in color. The man who In
snted the modern evening clothes
ust have done good business during
the day as chief-mourner."
why don't you send for your lug
eage?"
Ryanne caressed his shin. my
luggage is, believe, in the hands of
The enemy. It is of no great import
e7ce. never carry anything of value,
ave my skin. I'm not like the villain
Ia the melodrama; no discriminating
documents, no lost wills, no directions
fer digging up pirates gold"
q suppose you'll soon be off for
American" George asked indifferently.
q suppose so. By the way, saw
you at the game today"
Not Where were your"
Top row. 1 am going to ask a
favor of you. 1t may sound rather odd
% your ears, but I know those two
ladies rather we'll. I kept out of the
way till could find some clothes
The favor I ask is that you will not
tell them anything regarding the cir
cumstances of our meeting. l am
known to them as a globe-trotter and
a colle2.nT."
That's TOP bad" said George con-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06

Because it wouldn't be real; it
would be going to the moon a la
Coney Island"
Wrong, absolutely wrong. If l
told you that 1 am a stakeholder in
this company, and that the adventure
of the Yhiordes rug was arranged for
my special benefit, what would you
say?"
"Say?" George turned serious
countenance toward the adventurer.
why, the whole thing is absurd on
the face of it. AS joke, it might go;
but as a genuine affair, utterly impos-
sible"
NO" quietly. 81 admit that it
sounds absurd. yes; but ten years ago
they'd have locked up, as insane, a
Icar who said that he could fly. But
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06

officers and directors in the United
Romance and Adventure Company,
Ltd. sat in the majors room, round
the boudoir-stand which had tempo
rarily been given the dignity of a
table. The scene would not have been
without interest either to the specula-
tive physiognomist or to the dramat-
ist. To each it would have represent
ed one of those astonishing moments
when the soul of a person comes out
into the open, as one might express 1t,
incautiously, to be revealed in the ex-
pressions of the eyes and the mouth.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06
SYNOPSIS.

George PercivaI Algernon Jones, vice
president of the Metropolitan Oriental
Rug company of New York, thirsting for
romance, is in Cairo on a business trip.
Horace Ryanne arrives at the hotel IN
Cairo with q carefully guarded bundle.
i,yanne sells Jones the famous holy Yhi-
rides rug which he admits having stolen
from pasha at Bagdad. Jones meets
Major Callahan and later is introduced to
Fortune ChedsOye by q woman to whom
lie had loaned 80 pounds at Monte Carlo
some months previously, and who turns
uut to be Fortunes mother. Jones takes
Mrs, Chedsoye and Fortune to a polo
game. Fortune returns to Jones the
money borrowed by her mother. Mrs.
Chedsoye appears to be engaged In some
mysterious enterprise unknown to the
csughter
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06

fore are unable to prepare for it. You
do, not see it, my dear, but it is there,
nevertheless"
Wallace nodded approvingly. Ry
anne shrugged.
Failure is practically impossible.
And 1 want excitement; l crave it as
you men crave your tobacco"
And there we are, Kate. 1t really
isn't the gold; it's the excitement Of
getting it and coming away unscathed.
# | could only get you to look at all
sides Of the affair! It's the Rubicon."
CTo BE CONTINUED
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06
CHAPTER VII.

Ryanne Tables His Cards.
During this time Mrs. Chedsoye, the
major, Messrs Ryanne and Wallace
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-01-15

people to everything that Mayor Arm
strong undertook for the benefit OF the
city. 1t was a general understanding
between the political and personal
opponents of the mayor, to punctuate
it with defeat, no matter whether the
proposition be right or wrong.
AS a result, the old wooden court
house was enlarged and rebuilt and the
city paid nearly half the cost. Now
comes the other chapter in the en-
largement and rebuilding of the city
hall and all the expense to be borne
by the city, and the two buildings not
being so well adapted for the city and
county business as would have been
a modern new building, that would al
so add materially to the beaut1flcation
of the city, and at considerable more
expense than if the Mayor Armstrong
plan had prevailed.
It is more than passing strange that
some Of the citizens who were the
most pronounced opponents Of Mayor
Armstrong; efforts to improve the
general conditions of the city, in order
to belittle his administration, inlrhedi-
ately became active boomers when the
business mayor retired from Office
and have been enthusiastic supporters
of Mayor Mahan's progressiveness.
Perhaps, in the sweet bye-and bye 1t
will be fully realized that BENJAMIN
L. Armstrong; administration was not
as bad as some of his opponents have
painted Somebody, evidently posted
in the habitsEof poultry, said long ago
something about chickens coming
home to roost.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-01-15

no member Of such an organization
could become a member of the party.
The convention voted to hold state
picnic in New Haven this summer, the
date to be selected later.
French army authorities are disturb
ed over the great decrease in the num-
Der Of horses in Paris.