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Smyrna times., 1912-05-29
ADJOINING STORES ROBBED

Transom Gave Entrance to One
Broken Window to Pawnshop.
Somebody climbed through the
transom over the street door of N.
B. Danforth's drug store at Second
and Market streets, Wilmington,
demolished two cash registers and
secured about S5 Thursday night.
The show window in Isaac Miller's s
pawnshop in the adjoining building
was then broken and about 500
articles of various kinds stolen from
the window. Proprietors of both
stores discovered the robbery when
they opened the next morning.
Smyrna times., 1912-05-29
For Sale

FARM of II acres, 9 room house,
right at railroad Depot.
FARM of 6 acres, 6 room house,
stable and other buildin IS in
good condition, Il mile of town.
FARM of 40 acres, 4 room house,
stable and other buildings, nicely
located.
These properties I am offering at
a price that anyone who desires to
secure fine home can do so. I
have also several large farms,
ranging from $50 to 800 acres that
L can sell at such prices as would
be Gilt Edge investments. Call,
get my prices, and let me talk over
the matter with you.
I can Insure your property with
the very best Insurance Company,
also have applicant waiting for
properties to rent.
II. 6. JONES
Representing Ford & Refs, Inc.
SMYRNA, DEL
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BIRMINGHAM IN POSSE-By George Eaves D. D.

would dream that the London of such vile
slums as Dickens sometimes describes
could also be the London giving homes
lectua1 souls, could house at the same
time Bill Sykes or Fagin and the Cherry
hle Brothers? Yet what hosts of London
ers pass through the doors of that great
novelist's Imagination. all somehow fitting
In with the scheme OF London Yes, and
of the London that Dickens knew from
boyhood. the London of a bitter taste
that stayed With the lad through the high.
ardous days, till he fell asleep at Cad S
Hill. The mind of Dickens is In a real
way the mirror of the streets of London.
sordid and sublime, foul and fantastic,
and fierce and flaming with splendid spir-
itual fires.
SO our Birmingham is both inward and
outward. and in each aspect the city is full
of contradiction and mutual reputation
and denial. There is in any old city the
trace of its mediaevalIsm, its raw and
semi-civilized past: there are relics of
those periods in which the people knew no
better than to be content with reek
and dust and stencil and misery.
Therefore, as the new age grows II
thrusts up beside the Nab old degradation
OF Tom All Alones, Peoples Palace a
Polytechnic scnool. lofty tower OF in
dustry of commerce. The old city bears
the age-marks of its evolution. SO in
modern London you see everywhere the
ancient city. But our young city has no
need to foster wrinkles on its brow. II
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worked out steadfastly one step at a
time
Where to begin? That is the question.
Well now. IL man Ia to eat his dinner he
must have not only vlands. but teeth and
stomach, especially stomach, weli-directed,
wel-toned stomach. I think we need an
which proposals may be laid in orderly
fashion, and where they may be made tina
blood-food. the nourishment of the COM
organ of digestion In Birmingham, into
ing days. How shall we frame up
good stomach. with necessary digestivs
fluids for our city? Tt Will amaze mankind
to see how fast things can be done II ths
doing is systematized Mr. weatherly as
sures US that the first requisite Is that the
money we raise by taxation be MAIDS
available for local uses. This is a real
attempt to supply us with mouth and gul.
let for a sufficient stomach. But how
shall we be persuaded to Nv all our atten-
ton for the time being on this one thina
and settle wisely whether TVS is the hrst
necessity? What a parliament of man
and woman---it might be. that should
thresh out this prime question, not by ths
fall of their prejudices and interests, bet
by "a sharp threshing instrument havins
teeth'--the teeth OF facts and experience.
But certainly We are spenceran in our
orthodoxy when we insist that the stom.
aoh antedates the brain; and we are
Pauline when we say: ''F rst that which
is natural; afterwards that which is spir-
itual" Meantime IT will do no harm II
he that hath dream tell his dream.
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built of steel and hollow tiles and con-
crete. for which the souls of the false and
true Birmingham contend.
What we need is less OF haphazard and
the mpusive, more of the considered. the
prudent. the necessary, IN our programme
The good soul of Birmingham has not
emerged from the region of boylsh and
girlish impulse.
go to now" she Tor he) says, let us
start somethinxi Lot us get an expert on
city building here and go out TO hear him
talk
Behold us going We go to the number
torium of the High school and listen to
the words Of the wise. which are as goads
Only the fellow whose goadlug would
help is not there TO be goaded. And we
go home.
Again We say, let us have Fairgrounds,
a library, an auditorium. a zoo" And the
breath is hardly out Of our lips when we
are urged TO own our local street railway,
our light our water system, and to vote
for bonds to build a new hospital and
Jail and get a new expert here TO show
us how to make n system of parks, to
build new High school and TO raise our
taxation level and to inaugurate Bull
Moose party. There Is more than one en-
thusiast for each of these projects, and
personally each project seems to mo most
excellent
II is as though man sat down to din
ner and each particle Of his dat camored
to be eaten hrst. The salad slaps itself on
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may boast new buildings, broad streets
and convenient alleys. where dust and
flies are daily defeated. And yet, as I was
about to say, even our modern Birming-
ham has a face pock-marlSed with contra
dictions and slaring Inconsistencies. Con-
fronting the excellent order and beauty
of Norwood is the disorder and dust of
East Birmingham. Firss avenue and
Tween ty-eightn street Is the eye-piece
through which you must behold the grace
of new East Lake. or Woodlawn. And
what an eyeglassi South Highlands looks
cut on Avondale! The people that sit in
light; but It is a sad glare, not the light
of the sun. And yet not sad. except as 1t
implies that someone has to live in all
that murk and grit and endless dust; not
merely to work in IT, for so many hours.
but to breathe 1t at night, to eat 1t and
drink it--that is where the sadness haunts
those fiery signs OF Birminghams indus
club. and on wet days pick my way
through shine and smear to that hospita-
BILE gate md the alley to the city lock-
up quite decentiy paved. And then. most
curiouslyy. find garbage dumped be-
hind the city hall, while that at the Boys
club is decently cribbed in a can But
that Is temporary accident.
What comparison is there between the
lots abutting on Highland avenue and
those adjoining lower Nineteenth street?
Someone laugho contemptuously: What
can there be? The one place
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everything and everything about SONS
things However men differed from
him, he was so luminous and CHEEKY,
that he became the center of group
of ready listeners in any circle In
which he appeared.
In debate he was one of the great
est of stratesists. with quick and in
cisive discrimination he could detect
the weak points of his opponent and
would marshal his forces on these so
as to lead one TO forget any points OF
strength. IL interrupted. his repartee
was usually so crushing that he stayed
In dumbness any disposition to inter-
fere, no matter how unfair his oppon-
emit might have at the time thought
him to be. These repartees were rare
ly ever offensive, hut on the other
hand, they were so couehed In ironicaI
politeness and assumed suavity as to
make them tenfold stronger. 1t was his
delight to be interrupted. While his
career was not devoid of much of the
slgzag. yet his life was one of long
usefulness to the commonwealth.
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From the New York sun
Every nation has Its own peculiar
mode of salutation. In the UnitedStates
the characteristic salutation Is "Hello!'
The telephone is accused of having
fastened this upon Americans, but in
truth the telephone only adopted
word already familiar to everybody.
The Arabs say on meeting, "A fine
morning to youlP
The Turk says, with dignifed srav-
ity, God grant you His blessingsr
The Persian greeting Is familiar TO
all the world by reason of Its quaint
ness, May your shadow never grow
! lessr
The Egyptian is a practical man. hfe
has to earn his taxes by toll under
burning sun and accordingly when he
meets his fellow. he asks, How do you
perspire?" 1t is obvious that In low
ATTITUDES all is well with a laborer so
long as he perspires freely.
The good Chinese loves his dinner
How are you digesting?" he kindly in
aulres on meeting n friend.
The Greeks, who are keen men of
business and close bargainers. ask one
another, How are you getting on?"
The national salutation of Naples
was formerly, Grow In graceW At
present in most parts OF Italy phrase
equivalent to How are you?" is used.
The spaniards say 4, How are you
passing it?'
The French. How do you carry your
sclf?"
The Germans. How goes it?''
The Dutch, How do you travel?'
The Swedes. How can your mean
ing Are you In good vigor?'
The Russians, BE we'll
The English nations. in addition 10 the
telephone 'Bello!" say How are you?'
and How do you do?"
Caucaslans take OFF the hat. shake
hands. embrace bow and kiss, as In 9TH
err parts of the world people rub noses,
touch foreheads and take off the shoes.
The American in France and In Italy
Is sometimes surprised To see men en-
brace and kiss one another The ltal-
ians and the French, In turn. look upon
the Anglo-Saxon bow and handclasp as
cold.
The touching Of the tips Of gloyed fin
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is for the residence of the well-to-do. the
other for railroad crossings, 'dagoes, mig
gers. trash And out of his own mouth
the eontemptuous man is judged as plate.
before whose bar the Son of Man stood,
jew before Roman. subject before domi-
nant race!
1t is this enlergence of spiritual mean
ings, spiritual data. amid the mere oondi-
tions of physical Birmingham, that gives
the student pause. Thousands are stu
dents now. and are conscious OF the fact
that the city we see is only The outward
and visible form of an inward and spir-
ituai'-what7 May we say "grace7" That
is the word os the old formula. But the
word on our pen falters. The ink refuses
TO flow. The data are not uniform. There
is city OF dupllcity, because the soul OF
the city is both good and bad.
Reading this morning Mr.. Locke's nesv
psychic drama. in which Becky" and
Dorothy contend for possession of the
body of Dorothy" and the psyoho-ther
apist is dealing with his legitimate busi-
ness as hypnotist. to heal the division and
discord, and restore Dorothy by send
ing the Becky" consciousness into OBJ
livion. recognized the parable of the
modern city. Birmingham has two souls
contendlng fer her body. SO did Michael
contend with the devil for the body OF
Moses. But we make a vast mistake II
we suppose that 1t was a corpse for which
those famed antagonists fought Neither
is 1t a dead Birmingham, a mere bricks
and-mortar Birmingham, a Birmingham
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MINORITY won't be led, Mr.. Mann
takes it Filosophically, and quickly in
Inmates to sed MINORITY that they
can chase themselves so far as he
inconserned.
Mr.. Mann's prinsipal avvocasion is
"Reservving the rite to object When
ever an espirring Statesman on the
side of the majority, and there air
menny, wants sum pet measure put
through the House, and it is neces-
sary to ask unannymous consent, Mr..
Mann is always rite johnny on the Spot
with his "Reservving the rite to OBJ
ject. This reservvasion gives Mr..
Mann an opportunity to make a few
Observations in general and ask few
foolish questions about the measure
of sed espirring Statesman, and if
the answers air not satisfactory to
Mr.. Mann, he will forthwith object.
An objection in the House of Repre-
sintatives anonymously puts a
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feat in congressional races. General
Mcconnell defeated him In ls45, Mr.. Bow
den in AZ. Alexander White in 81 and
Hilary A. Herbert in rs. But he was
never soured by defeat, and always ac-
cepted 1t in jocular wayI No one en-
ioyed joke more at his own expense
than Judge Rice. This was illustrated
by the good nature with which he learned
that an old rustic in the COW country
of southeast Alabama declined to sup
port him at one time. because, as he
said: Rice ain't got no stubbillty."
Removing to Montgomery in 1889, Mr.
Flee became partner IN the law firm of
Belser & Rice. but two years later he
was elected one of the justices of the
supreme court of the state, He was on
the bench in that exalted tribunal for
four years. during the last three Of which
he was chief justice. IN the early part
of 1859 he resigned from the supreme
bench and was chosen to represent Mont
gemery county In the legislature. Dur
ing the following four years, he served
as senator from Montgomery and Au-
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The Ancestor of the Dog

From Harpers Weekly.
1t seems to be generally accepted ~
naturalsts and the world al large that the
domestic dog is IN some sense collateral
descendant OF the wolf or jackal.
professor In the Natural History mu-
scum IN Parts has communicated results
~ his study Of various eani,ie skulls TO
the Academy OF Sciences. He appears To
have hitherto escaped biologists. He states
that the skull of almost every wolf or
jackal differs from the skull of the shep-
herd dog to an extent that = Is impossible
that this dog should belong IN the same
classification. The skull OF the Indian
wolf, on the contrary. shows some points
OF resemblance. This indeed, is the only
savage canine the top Of whose head pro-
tects like that OF our dog,
There are. moreover. other Characters
ties which the Indian wolf has in common
with the dog and which the ordinary
wolf does not share with them. although
his origin and that of the dog have Ions
been supposed to be a common one.
The conclusion of this scientist is that
the Indian wolf Is the progenitor of the
shepherd dog and the bloodhound. There
were two primitive races OF dogs and an
alogous to these were first demonstrated
IN Central Asia. whence they passed 10
Europe. and there seems to be no reason
to doubt that the bloodhound OF today
IS the direct descendant Of the dog spoken
OF by the ancients as the dog OF the ass
Of bronze"
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THE TALE OF THE HANDY BILLY-By McLane Triton, r.

to the mast again. and ordered to locate
the handy billy. This | proceeded to do
! found it downstairs. below the water
line. 1t was large pump. weighing some
800 pounds. with long hose nozzle stick
ing out of one side and a pair of handles
fore and aft Further inquiry developed
the interesting information that | was
expected, all By my lonesome during fire
drill to bring this machinery UP three
flights of stairs, narrow ones Mt that.
drop the hose over the side into the
water and, with several others who were
then to appear first upon the scene, work
The handles and thus start a stream of
water. This was q cinch for me and the
next night fire quarters again sounded.
indeed we had a fire drill every night,
usually during the watch when was be-
Tow tryin gto sleep.
ITS no affair OF mine. I'm no fire
man The look of sadness that came in
that old salts face / will never forget
nor the kick which followed promptly
behind It, Man the handy billy" he or
dered. And step lively about It." Now [
had heard this name mentioned in the
HlOInIUEt DQI Dthlue l0lS DdTe ItltltDte
the handy billy was something with which
had not the remotest acquaintance in
the world nor could see good reason
to establish ore. But observing that fur
Their alteration was useless with this
uneducated rerson l just walked away
from there in as dlgnified a manner as
POSSIBLE.
VA ahOut the
ship. Nobody knew what to do and very
few cared. / saw no evidences of fire and
being a good swimmer decided that If we
were going 10 burn up, or, more cor
rectly. down, ! would slide out of my
clothes and strike out for the Hotel Cham
berlain and decent bed | know where |
could borrow some citizens buds in the
morning and thus be presentale for
breakfast. and had lots of friends ashore
| wanted to see again. SO ! took things
coolly and hoped the old ship would burn.
About this time was surprised and graft
fled to hear my name called out. ] had
always liked TO see It In the paper and
to hear It mentioned so prominently and
persistentiy was quite compliment /
responded politely and was told to go to
the mast and here for the first time
ran counter to the captain of our craft
lie declined to take my hand when / ex-
tended it and did not appear glad to see
me again ana this In spite Of the fact that
the captain was my uncle. | did not
understand his lack of desire 20 talk over
old times. but was given no time to solve
the mystery. Damn you. what's the mat
ter with the handy billy he said. Not
damn thing so far as know" 1 an
swered, pray why do you expect me to
be familiar with its conditions
This time. thoroughly conversant
with my important duties, | went to
the handy billy and stayed there. In
about FIVE minutes my name was once
more vigorously called and repeated
between decks, but / never deserted my
post l remembered what had hap
pened before and did not like bread
and water anyhow. ! leaned grace
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the dish, squealng to be gobhled. The
soup surges and swamps the spoon In its
zeal to be supped Fried chicken pecks
pie out OF the way and Toe cream buffets
the roast lamb. Finally. the frantic diner
hastily swallows half pint OF hot coffee.
grabs a cigar and goes Off to suffer 'ner-
vous dyspepsia"
Alas, we lack system and therefore we
lack leisure to profit by all the good things
the gods have provided for us What
could be more pitiful than the fate OF the
High school proposition? The board of
education IS supported by the conviction
of every citizen who takes the pleasure
OF visiting our fine crowded building on
Twenty-fourth street and Seventh avenue.
The city commission knows and admits
the force OF the appeal. splendid and
logical site for this next unit in Blrming-
hams High school system is suggested.
the preliminaries carefully digested. the
answers ready for every question. But
the time is not propitious." says the men
who veto things why? Because they are
aware that this proposal, so Immediately
necessary to TO of the best things In Bir-
mingham-the minds and souls and bodies
of her future citizens-is crowded out of
the way by pressure from score OF other
claimant necessities.
Now Bits dream OF the city OF God in
Jefferson county Alabama. NAV be better
and truer than Jacks. But It seems wise
TO compare the two and to get vision of
Birmingham I'm posse that shall COM
mand the approval Of all and may be
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hand the Majority gets in bad and
gums up the cards and muses. up
lsggislasion, then the intelligent and
abull mynorrity lets loose a boiler
that can be herd frum the Crate
Lakes and Points north to the Equa-
tur, about the totel inability, inn
besillity, ivoryhededness and so forth
of the Majority" Mr.. Mann smiled
as she continued-"You see we Termed
that frum the Democrats. They air
the finest ever on that stunt. They
can out deplore the very old scratch
when they air in the MINORITY"
Take Mr.. Mann all the way through
and there air menny peepul that air
a hole lot worse than himself. ex-
pect that he has got the Peepul OF
his district fooled into believing that
he is sumthing close to the hole
works on the Republican side in Con-
gress, and If he has about all we
have to say is that they air not so
far rong about it. Yours trooly,
BILL VINES.
Washington, d. c.
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yesterday" Being told there was, he
simply remarked:
well, the court will remit that fine
today"
This wns done in the most imper-
turbable manner and then he proceeded
with the case In hand. The incident
produced sudden burst of laughter,
which was hardly suppressed when.
with stern dignity. he commanded
"The sheriff will preserve order In
court"
After he becams a republican he was
frequently joked by those who had
known him in the days of his most ar
dent democracy. but he was never
without jolly parry to every thrust
made and always In the most felici-
tous way. Talking to one who had
long known him. he was asked at one
time what his political principles then
were with playful banter he said: Fl
am a republican with democratic var
iations" His reason for becoming re-
publican was assigned by himself as a
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there are also other divisions for the
engineering crew and mess attendants.
The watches are two, starboard and
mort. one or the other of which is al
ways on duty except when at anchor.
Then the crew is picked out in rota-
ton. about one dozen at time, TO
stand the anchor watch. | was advised
that my number was 1912 which 1t APP
peared made me No. II, in the first d.
| vision. port watch | was further in
strncted that in case OF fe / was ex-
pected to man the Handy Billy.
rhis conveyed about as much informa-
tion to me as the calculation of prob
lem in the fourth dimension. Indeed /
conla see no reason for fire drill never
having heard of a battleship catching
fire and even to this day doubt II II Is
possible TO do so. But there was time
in the history of the navy when ships
were built of wood. That is when fire
drills started and were necessary and
custom once established in the service Is
never abandoned even II the need Tor IL
has long ago disappeared. II for no other
reason fire drills may be useful much In
|
good for a dog. Fleas keep a dog from
constantly brooding over his unfortunate
status In life. 1t is the same with fire
drills and the sailor.
Well, on this morning we had been
working day and night since the preeed-
ing Monday so on Friday evening all
stores being safely below decks | climbed
into my nifty little hammock and thanked
God for the prospect of a real good eight
hour snooze. TO swing hammock prop
erly is an art. | never learned 1t, pre-
ferring-to separate myself from 30 cents
and get jolly old salt TO fix me up re-
CARELESS. So I climbed into my ham
mock. with my face just "A inches from
the steel deck above. My eyes we're. bare
~ closed when / was rudely awakened
By a sailor pounding on a big brass gong
lust at my head and a marine sounding
a bugle call that was nothing like any
of the rags | had recently learned to
whistle. Naturally / was indignant and
demanded to know the reason for this
unseemly behavior. told those chaps to
get away from there. The blue Jacket ap-
peared serious about something. At any
rate, he got his shoulders under my ham
mock gave mighty hoist and out landed
on deck. Fire, fire." he yelled. Get to
your station Here was a pretty how to
do. ! replied with some warmth, "Wel.
why don't you call out the fire depart
ment?"
I will not attempt TO record the re-
mainder Of The conversation. The captain
did all the talking. l tried to get a word
in now and then, between his pauses for
breath, but was unable to do So Suffice
1t TO say the language was lurid enough
to be barred from the malls and then
some ! grieved to learn that my uncle
was so profsne and I grteved again when
he concluded his discourse by sentencing
me to two days, bread and water, solitary
confinement. ! had never been in jail
before and was happy to realize that the
disgrace might be kept from my fond
parents. At last I was liberated, called