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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

Fits and Copper guarding the Ballot Box, the principal Insurgent was men toned in the Public Prints as Popu- lar Society Matron and Leader in the New Movement among Women. They had to call her that or the Story of her shooting the Ink-Stand at the Re- cording Secretary would not have been worth playing up on the First Page.
 It was a proud Morning for Gordon and Ethel when they saw all the Pictures and learned that they were the immediate Descendants of the Millionaire Promoter and the Popular Society Matron.
 Gordon found himself endowed with a Social Status which enabled him, at the Age of 23, to gain admission to an exclusive Club of 5000 Members, the object of which was to serve 4O-cent Table d'Hote every Noon to as many as were willing to take Chance
 Therefore, when he was yanked out of his 2-cylinder Car and stood up before the Magistrate, charged with running over People and smearing up the Boulevard, the whole Reading Public was thrilled to hear of what had happened to Well-Known Club man whose Father was a Millionaire Promoter and whose mother was Popular Society Matron.
 By this time Ethel was merely a Relative
 She had not come across in any Particular.
 As matter of Fact, she was not pulling down any Ribbons at Beauty Shows and toed in when she walked and was beyond the reach of Massage Cream.
 However, she was not discouraged. She eloped with a Chauffeur employed in an Scar Garage and next Day she was Beautiful Heiress whose Broth CT was a Well-Known Man about Town, the Mother being very promi nent in Club Work and remembered as the Wife of the Millionaire Promo ter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
PICTURES BY ALBERT LEvERING

| City, years before, his Assets consist ed of a Paper Valise, few home laundered Garments and a small Vol ume telling how to win at Cards.
 In the refined Home where he ob- tained his Liver and Macaroni paved with Cheese, he met the Daughter of the Household. When there was a Rush she would some times put on all of her Rings and help wait on the Table, although her Star Speciality was to get the Stool at the right Ele vation and then tear the Vital Organs out of "Pansy Blossom" and White Wings"
 The young Shipping Clerk used to fly to his Kennel and get himself all Gussied up and then edge into the Parlor and turn the Music for Miss Livingstone, who looked to him like Mary Anderson and sounded like Adelina Patti When the Blue Envelope hit the Twenty Mark he saw that it would be Clear Sailing, so they began to Hold Hands and he bought Spark Dia- mond which could be seen held at a certain Angle.
 They went to Housekeeping in a stingy Flat with a Bed that could be stood on End during the Daytime and made to resemble Bookcase, also Plaster-of- Paris Lion on the Mantel.
 About the time Gordon was first tethered on the Fire-E Escape, the Pro- wider got a Taste of Soft Collateral and began to wear Gold Bracelets on his Cigars.
 When Ethel was large enough to take into the Park the Graft had de- veloped until the whole Outfit moved to an Apartment where all goods had to be delivered in the Rear. Mother began to ride in Hacks which were not numbered.
 So they went along for Years, rid ing on L Trains, calling up the Jani- tor to ask for more Heat, trying to find a good Maid and experimenting with new Cereals, all of these Ro-
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mantle Adentures combining to mak, what is known as City Life.
 | They were simply four scrambline Units in the Great Ant-Hill; four tiny Tadpoles in the great schools that wiggled up and down the main Thoroughfares. It seemed that theiI only Chance to make an Impression on the huge and callous City was to die and then hold up line of Street Cars while the Hearse and the five Carriages moved slowly in the direc- tion of Calvary
 But Destiny had them spotted. Father was very busy trying to run a Shoe String up to National Bank. He would rush into his Office and open the Desk and push Buttons and send Hurry-Up Wires and dictate Letters to trembling Myrtle with the Small Waist and Keep People waiting outside, just like the Whales who con- trol the Sugar Trust.
 He had a Front like the new Penn sylvania Station and the soft personal Attributes of Numidian Lion.
 When he was sued in the Courts by Victim who wanted final look at his Money, the Reporters came around and he was so stiff-necked and de- liant that all of them referred to him as the Millionaire Promoter.
 It was easier to be this kind of a Millionaire than stand for Search. Every Office Building is coagulated with Millionaires who never will be Caught until the Tin Box is opened in the Probate Court. Then the Widow will get ready to take boarders.
 |, As soon as Father was bawled as a Millionaire it was up to Mother to join a new kind of Club and have Handle put on her Eyeglasses. She would practice in her Room for Hours at a time, gripping the Rocking Chair with both Hands and trying to get the real Bostonian sound of "A" as in Lard.
 Her Efforts were not in Vain, for one Day when the Club Meeting broke up with the Lady President throwing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
Schooner Runs Into Sand Storm

San Diego Correspondence San Francisco
 Chronicle.
 With its decks covered with an inch or more of sand and the officers and crew looking as if they had returned from a desert trip the schooner Alvena, 27 days from Columbia river in command of Cap tain Abrahamson, arrived in San Diego this afternoon. While the vesst was coming along under fair wind b miles off shore and 125 miles north of San Diego, last Sunday, 1t became enyeloped in a cloud of fine sand. The sea smooth and the wind from the southeast. The dust seemed to drop from the sky.
 This condition prevailed for two days, according to the crew, and not until Point Loma was sighted late yesterday after noon did they get out of the dust From that time unti 1.-the schooner got into port the crew was busy sweeping the accumu- lated sand off the lumber cargo and decks and getting the fine particles of grit ou: of their eyes and hair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
Tips Buys Negro Auto
Minneapolis Telegram to the Chicae Post

Minneapolis Telegram to the Chicago
 Post.
 The benefits of the tipping system-with reference to the receiver-came to lighC in municipal court here with the testi- mony of George Smith. a negro at a local hotel. that another man, being tried on the charge of vagrancy, was an. expert mechanician and had operated his auto mobile for him.
 .'Yes, sir" said Smith, "I own a six passenger S1S00 car and I haven't been anything but waiter for the last 9 years. My salary is only s25 a month, and now and then I am tipped a dime or two, so the money for that machine came only after years and years of savin' up.'
 Smith declares that there is only one ambition left in life for him, and that is 10 take his wife, Julia, and the car, re- turn to his old home near Norfolk, Va, and, throwing open the muffler, go down the pike" at the rate of 50 miles an hour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
GEORGE ADES NEW FABLES IN SLANG 1912 Modes) The Nu o Hoy a aFanuyJm dOu o CusB Bhto he

After all this came out, Father still had between 5000 and S4000 and the whole Famils, including the Chauf- feur, sat down to Prunes every Morn ing.
 But they were very Happy, for they
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five in the afternoon, did the governor. Demarle, send for the prince. Each time Dr. Conneau replied that the pris- oner could not see anybody because he had taken medicine When at last the governor lost patience and went himself to the princes room and walked up to the bed on which the supposed invalid was lying he discovered that a very presentable dummy had taken the place of Louis Napoleon. The discovery was made too late. By that time the fugitive was over the Belgian frontier.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

TREATISE ON WORKMAN's COMPEN- SATlON." By Prentice Chase The Bull letln Publishing Company, Stamford, Conn.
 THE RATIONAL MEMORY By w H. Groves The Cosmopolitan Press New York.
 'ISRAEL'S PROPHETS" By George l.. Petrie, D. D. The Neale Publishing Con- pany, New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

Domestic Combination was a Gradu- ate at one of those Towns in which the Occidental Hotel faces the Depot and all trains are met by Popular Drayman wearing Black Sweater.
 When he elbowed his Way into the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

@ NCE there was side street \ Quartet consisting of Papa
 and Mamma and Gordon and Ethel
 The ostensible Stroke Oar of this
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DOWN OUR WAY" itio 1T,n c.,t,i, INo11 Mead

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 By Lila Hall Smith. Dodd, Mead &
 Company, New York.
 Another Mrs. Wggs' is the irst thought that occurs to the reader of Down Our Way" the clever novel from the pen of Lila Hall Smith.
 From the poorest surroundings comes Melndy Miller. from the vicinity.o of Lex ington, Ky. who in the poor white class is character all to herself, but at the same time numbering among the rich many friends.
 Melndy's life is full of trials and troubles, tribuatons and despair but somehow just at the psychological mo ment some sort of Good Fairy or Good Luck or what you will seems to intervene and everything always turns out to her advantage.
 Down Our Way" has, happily, a most pleasing ending, for Melindy receives an unexpected fortune from relative sup posedly poor and embraces the good news in the most matter of fact way and begins at once 10 do wonders with it by making everybody happy and glad they are living
 Any story dealing with a gentle, sweet, womanly character like Meindy Miller is bound to make friends among the reading public, for it is that type in real life that appeals so why not in fiction?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
'1HE PROGRESS OF MRS. CRIPPS-
 MTDDLEMORE."

By Gerald Gerard Bendall, The John
 Lance Company, New York.
 Gerard Kendall in ''The Progress of Mrs. Grips Middlemore," presents an interest ing phase of life in London, abounding with wit and effectiveness, attendant upon the rise of certain lady from rather ob- sscure depths to high and mighty posi- ton.
 The theme is pregnant with situations which undoubtedly appeal to many readers and to follow the course of such people is always an interesting thing, when they are making their way ahead in the world in which there is so much competition an,l which Mrs. Cripps- Middlemore does with great success.
 The lady is pretty and quite bright vet given the surroundings of a shopkeeper' s
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, wife one would hardly suppose that when the schance came, clever as she is, that she could succeed so admirably in living up to the exalted position of peers con sort in a most aristocratic and distin- guished environment
 The author, Mr. Bendall has trench ant wit which, with his ability to assume the attitude of the interested locker on, | stam mps him as a genuine humorist. In her progress Mrs. Cripps- -Middlemore is beset by many religious changes as well as social ones, and there is a clever bit of character painting as well as caricature in the story which makes it very readable. THE STORY OF COTTON"
 By E. C. Brooks. Rand -MacNally X Con-
 pany, Chicago.
 ''The Story of Cotton" by E. C. Brooks, is intended as supplementary reader for young folks, in which the author sets l forth the subject of cotton as it has af- fected national life and, civilization. as well as it's practicalsbearing on the world of industry.
 Much of our national history Is inter- woven by the author including the agri- cultural development of the south, the growth of the factory. Slave Labor the , origin and influence of the Civil Wars she 1 development of the small farm. scientific agriculture, are among the topics involved all of which the child should be taught early in life and which the author presents in q manner which is at once forceful and | profitable.
 The value of cotton is most impressively brought out in the discussion of the max ing of clothing from this article, the skill | in the art of converting it into wearing apparel, the development of it's use and 1 the way it Is manufactured are all told by the author, while his dissertation upon the cotton plant, of it's habits and cul- | ture the treatment of the soil in which it l grows of the methods of handling and marketing it and of it's general conner cial importance form large part of the l story.
 It is all told so simply, yet so effectively | that child could not possibly be bored
 for an instant with the recital and thC l style is so attractive that instead of look ] ing at the book as one intended to teach , the young mind something, it appears tc 1 be more like a novel than otherwise.
 Older people will also find "The Story of 1 Cotton an interesting study
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|, faithful continuance watching, working and praying until the light which has come to them through her teachings small radiate and glow into noontide glory Science and Health, D. 96l)
 Until the leaven shall have leaVened the whole lump, until men everywhere shall see in Christian Science the undi- vided garment of Christ Jesus
 THE YOUNG ALASKANS ON THE
 TRAIL
 By Emerson Hough. Harper Brothers,
 New York.
 Althoughwrtten primarily for boys there is scarcely a grown person with a taste for outdoor life who will not enjoy ''The Young AlaskanS on the Irall, py Emerson Hough.
 Ii is such a good story of camping and exploration that it cannot fail to please everybody with it's clever descriptions and adventures and it's wholesome atmos- phere and delightful ideas.
 tThe Young Alaskans On the Trall take a trip across the Rocky Mountain Divide, following the old route of the hIs' | transcontinental explorers. With them go two half breed guides-AIoise .Dupat and | Alex Mackenzie-the latter said to be a living person who was with Kitchener Tn his Nile campaigns. As for Noise Duprat, he is a mine of information, and he talks A racy patois worthy of Drummond in his Habitant verses.
 The story is one of real 'roughlng It. | The camp lore is genuine, for Mir Hough is truly of the fraternity of campers and explorers The adventures of hunting and fishing have the right sportsman's thrill and the imaginary meals give one an appetite The boys learn how to make beds of boughs as the Indians do, and sleep the sleep of the healthy upon them In the evenings around the campfire the guides tell strange stories of the old ful trading days tales of Indian tradition and mythology, the customs and social life O. the Indians in primitive state. There is hardly a more elemental and satisfying kind of adventure than following a river | in a canoe, never knowing what Is (; come around the next turn. Shooting the rapids supplies a quite sufficient spice ol danger. One great value possessed o| stories of this knd when they are proper ly written is that they impress the neces- sity and the enjoyment of doing things the right way.
 The tourney lasts two months and takes l the travellers along the trail leading from l the headwaters of the Parsnip river down ! the Peace river, through the mountains 1 and beyond the foothill country, to Peace 1 River Landing. They touch the old bogus 1 <londike trail and return to Edmontor | via Little Slave lake. Ine country IS all most virgin and it's pcturesqueness is nc small part of the glamour. rnere IS Ten 1 hunting to be had. too and the boys e' after moose caribou, bighorns and bear 1 There are plenty of good illustrations 1T 1 the book showing things as they really ] look. Mr Hough has written a story a | exciting as could be desired and one tha
 wl give a great deal of hearty and benc ficial pleasure. Besides being goos
 story teller he is unusually careful an;
 accurate about facts in The Young Alas | kans on the Trail
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LONESOME LAND"
 By D. M Bower. With illustrations py
 Stanley NJ. Wood. Little Brown & Com
 pany. Boston.
 Nalera Peyson, supercilous eastern girl, goes out to desoate Montana town to marry the lover who has preceded her three years before Unfortunately the lover has not had the moral fiber to stand the roughness and unconventionality of western life and has greatly deteriorated. However they are married and go to live on his ranch, where Naleria soon finds that her conception of the country was far from right, and that her husband IS by no means the sort of man she thought him. She bravely does her, best to make the life endura ble and in this is aided by the kindness of her husbands closest friend, a rough diamond with an honest heart. Out of this situation is unfolded a strong tale of character development and overmastering love that brings n-o play the elemental human emotions and comes to dramatic outcome in happiness for those most deserving 1t.
 There are many true to life men and women in the book that will appeal strongly to every reader. B. M. Bower is an experienced author, who is thoroughly familiar with ranch life in Montana, so that besides being a dramatic story, Lonesome Eand' is likely to be regarded as one of the truest pictures of present day western life.
 OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. (REN1EWs
 THE FAITHFUL FA1LURE.,' By Rosamond Napier. George H. Doran Company. New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
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The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-13
LYRIC THEATER.

Another big hit was scored at the popular Lyric theater when the week end bill duplicated the success of the very excellent program which preced- ed it.
 Lou Sutter is yodling himself into the good graces of an appreciative audience, and his German" lecture on generalities is one of the funniest stunts heard.
 Savage and DeCoroneau as a team are splendidly balanced, under the manipulation of Savage the piano actu- ally talks. Miss DeCoroneau is very chic, and the dainty presentation of her half of the offering was very ar tistic.
 The motion pictures by reason of their strong dramatic nature, held the audience spellbound with the power ful situations.
 Yesterday the Lotus club took took charge of the hox office and it was a source of much qualification to the members that such a liberal patronage was offered to help swell the scholarship fund to which the pro ceeds were donated.
The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-13
PartellO, the UphOlsterer

Now at S07 Pleasant St, near Rock 's- land R. R. Bridge. Phone 15S2. Up olstering. Mattresses and Cushions to O. der. Worn and Cracked Leather Fur niture. Cushions and automobiles re- dyed and enameled (Pd Mol
The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-13
NICHOLAS NIckLERY.n

The Photo-Play theater has booked another sensation in the motion pie ture world for today, afternoon and evening, in characteristic reproduc- ton of Dickens great work, "Nicho- las Nickleby."
 This story of heart interest in which is clearly depicted the life of this lovable character, @ teacher, actor and friend of Smike, life-like portrayal of one of the finest imaginary works of English literature
 There are two reels of this splendid picture which bids fair to be one of the best shown during the season
 Monday the Photo-Play will pro duce "The Indian Massacre" anoth- CT of those spectacular "1O1 Ranch pictures.
 Both these reels will appeal strong ly to all lovers of good motion pie lures, as they are the best to be had on the market.
The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-13
AmuSementS
AT THE PRINCESS.

To those who are believers in dreams and are convinced that through the medium of these mind pictures and impressions when one is sleeping is given premonitions and suggestions regarding ones early life. the headliner at the Princess the last few days of the week will be viewed with special interest, for it's principle theme is dream-and the practical conversion of a nature from a self centered, egotistic man to being of love, kindness and consideration for others is what this great act accom- plishes. It is a wonderful life's story and when one considers that one of life's greatest lessons is contained in the 30 minutes of human interest, of rare and keen comedy, one can appre- ciate what it's real worth is.
 The Little Goddess" is the title of this feature, but such men as Bob Hammond, which is delightfully."- inter- preted by John Sterling are to be found in every community. The fair charmer from Venus, Miss Mermine Shone, does some of the most capti- yating work that has been seen in any sketch at the Princess this sea son. One should see this remarkable act, which is the largest, most preten- tious and expensive that ever graced the Princess stage.
 Lynch and Zeller again won numer- ous curtain calls by their clever club swinging and juggling act. One may have witnessed ball players many times shooting them across the dia- mond. but when one considers that these two young men throw dumb bells at each other with the same rapidity and unerring aim, never miss ing, but keeping them going, one can realize how much time they must have taken to perfect this feature
 The remaining three acts are in keeping with the entire show Today is the last day to witness the best show of the season, so if you are fond of your vaudeville, don't miss this