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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20
Mans Deadly Enemy

The simulium has been definitely
classified as one of mankind's most
deadly enemies, and science is prepar.
ing to wage relentless war against
him. DIR. Louis w. Sambon of the Lon.
don School of Tropical Medicine, has
published facts which lead his fellow
physicians to the conclusion that the
simulium is the real bearer of the
germs of pellagra, and that this dreac
disease in no way is connected with
the consumption of Indian corn.
The simulium is a fly of which
about 70 species are known, about IL
being found in the United States
They are called ''black flies" "bitine
flies" or "sand flies," and are es.
pecially plentiful in the late spring
and early summer. To eliminate pei.
lagra it is necessary that it's carrier
be destroyed. Hence, renewed vigi.
lance should be exercised in the swat.
ting of the fly.
American men of medicine have
agreed that pellagra is new to thil
country, and not long overlooked, a.
once thought. It's rapid spread in tn,
last few years is believed to be due fol
the greatest part to immigration from
south Europe. It's foci are now scat
tered over the country, and new one
are constantly being recognized.
In certain sections the ravages O.
pellagra are becoming most serious
The vital statistics Of the Spartan
burg, S. c., board Of health show tina
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20
LUKE M,LuKE SAYS
e Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
You can always give vice a good start
by passing laws forbidding it.
Amy man who has failed can prove to
you that success is merely a matter of
luck.
When a gossip wants to pry into your
affairs she uses her tongue as a crow
bar.
1t is mighty good thing Nobel didn't
offer prize for the man who told
nothing but the truth every day in the
year. Nobody would live long enough
to claim the prize.
A woman may lack sense of humor.
but she wants to be humored all the
time.
The bold-faced type of woman can be
read as easily as book.
About this time of year father does a
buy mother a new coffee pot or a cedar
mop for a Christmas present.
What has become of the old fashionel i
pug dog that used to sleep on a cushion
in the front room?
Once in while you will meet man
who always realizes what an awful
thing the drink habit is, when 1t gets
round to his turn to treat.
The reason woman knows she has
perfect figure Is because she knows
she paid SO for her corset.
Every time we smell perfume on a
man we figure that he must be kind of
doubtful about himself.
A woman believes everything her
husband tells her until she has been
married two weeks
A girl will let you select a husband
for her, but she will insist on selecting
the wedding dress herself.
Youth and beauty amt the whole
thing. Hetty Green is rs years old, but
she could get married tomorrow if she
wanted to.
Some day we are going to write a
melodrama based on Fact. And it will
wind up wit hthe villain marrying the
girl and the hero getting job as the
villains chauffeur.
This may be free country. But
every time you want to do anything
you discover that a society has been
organized to prevent you from do
ing it.
When they are engaged he won't let
her take step without holding on to
her, and he is so careful of her that
she can't even breathe without his as
sistance. But few years after mar
riage a street car could run over her
and he would never know the differ
ence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20
THE INFINITE LOVE

BY Rabindranath. Winner of Nobel Peace
Prize.
/ have ever loved thee in a hundred
forms and times.
Age after age, In birth following birth.
The chain of songs that my fond heart did
weave
Thou graciously didst take around thy
neck,
Age after age. in birth following birth.
When I listen to the tales of the prim-
tive past,
The love pangs of the far distant times.
The meetings and partinss of the ancient
ages
I see thy form gathering light
Through the dark dimness of eternity
And appearing as q star ever hxed in
the memory Of the AL
We two have come floating by the twin
currents of love es
That we'll up from the inmost heart of the
beginningless. sfesf
We two have played in the lives OF
myriad lovers ~
In fearful solitude of sorrow,
In tremulous shyness of sweet union.
In old, old love ever removing its life,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20

Paris has baboon addicted to the CO.
caine habit. 1t is interesting the alienists.
The baboon is a native of Japan and is
called Tobie. 1t is now a patient in St.
Anne asylum, according to a cabegram
the hospital at the same time as his own
er, who is a noted actress on the Paris
stage and is also a victim of the drug
habit She begged to be allowed to keep
her pet at the hospital with her and the
request was granted When the actress
that Tobie had also been a victim of the
habit for the previous five months. He
formed the habit solely by imitation,
neither his mistress nor any of her friends
having induced him to use the drug. The
taboon had become very expert in search
ing pockets and handbags for cocaine.
He never absorbs more than enough to
give him joyful feelings. He shows similar
effects from the drug as human beings.
and is receiving the same treatment in the
hospital as his mistress got. The treat
n:ent has now reached the stage where a
oaine and this satisfies him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20
THE CRIMINAL PROBLEM

Er. Harold w. Wright in the Journal OF
the American Medical Association
STNCE Lombroso enunciated his views
as to the physiognomy of criminals
~ he has gained many adherents with
views modified and extended. There has
developed, naturally enough. an opposing
army of thinkers who may be divided into
those who place the blame for criminal Of
fenses entirely on the social environment
Of the offender, and those who regard him
as wilfully vicious. even though morally
defective, and therefore responsible for
his actions. More and more champions
of the Lombrosian idea, that the criminal
is Inherently abnormal, have come to the
front with evidence more or less worthy
and criminology at the present time is
fast becoming a medical science rather
than legal one. But this phase of the
subject is not on a footing sure enough
to convince either the public or the legal
profession of the justification for it's point
of view. nor has 1t received that respect
full hearing in the courts which would pre-
vent injustice being done not only to the
prisoner, but also to society. Nevertheless,
complete Justice to both offender and So
ciety Is slowly on the way, and even those
who oppose or take no thought of the
newer doctrines are unconsciously falling
In line with them by their attempts to
ameliorate the condition of the convict,
by agitating for prison reform, indeter-
inmate sentences. the parole system, and
the changing of the prison into an insti-
fIff fAr
than punishment. True enough, more of
sentiment than of science is back of these
methods, and therefore in many individual
instances harmful injustice to society and
ultimate harm to the offender against So
ciety is wrought. This Is inevitable In any
period of transition from an erroneous to
a more correct method of dealing with So
cial problems. AS more harmony of opin-
ion comes to exist among those who have
been forced to take up the problem be-
cause of a contact gradually growing more
intimate, justice to all will come nearer.
And it is the psyehiatrist, with his col
laborator, the psychologist on whom the
responsibility must rest most heavily II
the newer ideas of the nature of crime as
a disease, of the criminal as a sick man,
are to prevail.
There is no longer any credited opposi-
ton to the view that criminal offenses.
petty or otherwise, are the products of
individual and social disease. While the
influence of environment, for those most
charitably inclined, excuses the offender
from responsibility for his condition, 1t
does not excuse him from responsibility
for his acts. But IL every offender is a
diseased person. In the ho-physiologic
sense, his responsibility must come into
question before the bar of justice.
Many a medicolegal battle has been
fought over this question. The issue has
been confused usually because the legal
mind has ever thought of consciousness as
synonymous with sanity. Because a man
knew what he was doing the lawyer has
eld him responsible. But a mans mental
makeup is very complex thing 1t is
bundle of psychic forces and habits which
may be summed up in three divisions-in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20
IN STRANGE PLACE

From the Houston Chronicle.
Speaking of the youngsters" smilinglN
remarked Congressman Maurice Connolly
of Iowa, reminds me of little 5-year-old
Bessie who recently spent the night with
a woman friend of her parents.
Everything was sweet and beautiful
until bedtime came. when little Bessie
dropped to her chubby knees and clasped
her hands, fully expecting the prompting
that she usually got at home.
But there was no prompting from the
hostess, and long was the silence. Finally
Bessie realized that it was up to her.
Please Lord she softly said, you will
have to scuse me tonight I can't remem-
ber my prayers, and I'm staying with a
lady that don't know any,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News
And many man is sold without getting
his price.
Some self made men evidently did the
job in the dark.
It's easier to talk than it is to acquire
the wood saving habit.
Don't do any worrying today that you
can put off till tomorrow.
Most of your friends will stand by you
as long as you have dollar.
II man and his wife are one, how
many was Solomon and his outfit.
A FOOLS idea of a good joke is one
he Is able to put over on the other fell
low.
| When the warship hits rock the naval
appropriation goes into the sinking fund
1t isn't always love that enables a mar
ried couple to get along. Sometimes il
Ia common sense.
Every mother thinks she has the dear
est baby In the world. So does the father
when the bills come In.
Give people what they think they want
instead of what they really need and
they'll go on their way rejoicing.
There would be no more tariff squabbles
II 1t were possible to tax every man in this
country according to his own personal
valuation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20
From Tit-Bits.

From Tit-Bits.
TIME question raised by the late Dean
Hole is to the ideal length of a
i sermon is one on which different
people. according perhaps to their relig-
ious procvlvities, have diverse opinions;
but if the preference of royalty may be
taken as a standard, the favorte time
appears to be in the region of 20 min
utes.
Queen Victoria's objection to long SER
mons may be understood by the fact that
in 1867 she presented a pulpit glass to
the Chapel Royal, Savoy, and 1t was
timed for exactly IS minutes. The preach
er who wished to find favor with her
majesty, therefore, always took the hint
and watched the glass carefully.
King Edward declared for even greater
brevity In the arrangements for his
coronation the sermon by the Bishop Of
London was allotted five minutes.
Napoleon III strictly limited preachers
before him to quarter of an hour, and
IL they exceeded it an officer of the inn
perial household stepped to the pulpit and
stopped the discourse.
Charles II apparently enjoyed long SER
mons, and on one occasion slept so sound
ly under the ministratons of Ken that,
on awakening greatly refreshed, he ex-
claimed: Splendid, splendid! This man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20

dependence as a separate kingdom with
constitution of her own, though united
by dynastio ties with Sweden until 1906. Il
is proposed to signalize the national re-
joicings in honor Of the occasion by the
adoption in due process of law of new
tongue as the official and national Ian
guage OF Norway, as explained in the
January Popular Mechanics Magazine.
About so years ago Ivar Aasen, philolo-
gist, patriot and scholar, of Norway,
constructed a language which he named
"Landsmsal," and embodied In his new
speech much OF the old Morse and an
cient Sagas, as we'll as the idioms and
dialects of the remoter regions of the
Kingdom, where the peasantry have clung
through four centuries of Danish DON'T
nation to the tongue spoken by their fore
bears in the days of the Vikings EN-
ploying these and other materials and
adapting them to modern requirements,
Aasen succeeded in evolving so melodious
and poetic a language that the vast ma
Jority of his countrymen, commencing
with the rural population, have accepted
1t for their songs, for their plays, for
their sermons and for their vernacular.
Landsmaal is phonetic. and is not so
radically different from the printed Dam
ish language that an educated Dane can
not make it out. Something of the sort
has been accomplished in Finland, save
that now an educated Finlander must
learn three languages Finnish. Swedish
and Russian, in order to keep abreast ~
the times in his own land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20
Progress in Science of Optics

The science of optics has made great
progress in the last half century," said
James H. Tinder, the optician, and the
benefits to humanity have been manifold.
THE art of lense grinding Is one of the
very highest and ranks next to diamond
cutting. The crystal glass THAI is used
in the finer adjustments comes from
France, and is remelted in this country
and sent to the opticians who do their own
manufacturing-grind and adjusting-in
either crystal blocks or in rough, thick
shapes.
''The popular invisible bifocals come in
crude shapes coneave, with die or but
top inset into the larger lense. We take
the necessary optometric measurements
and then grind these lenses to the proper
mechanical and mathematical adjustment.
The toric glass is one less concave than
the kryptoc. which last is an arc of about
six millimeters.
1.-The optometrist who understands his
business can do much to not only aid
the vision of those suffering from eye de-
fects, but he can relieve some OF the ner-
yous strains, sometimes neuralgia and
headache. by proper adjustment of eye
glasses"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20
AN OTHERWISE

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
In the Colonial lobby Tuesday night one
overheard a conversation between the fat
man and the thin man.
What sort of fellow is Jones to set
along with?" asked the fat one.
Hes an Otherwise" said the thin one,
sourly.
What do you mean, an Otherwise?"
"I'll tell you. When he's talking to \
democrat, he's a republican. When he's
talking to republican, he's a democrat.
When he's talking to a capitalist, he's a
socialist And when he's talking to me,
he's just darned fool!''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20
A LEADER DESPITE HIS CLOTHES

From the New York Sun.
A correspondent of the Sun who once
CHANGED to travel in train with Gen.
'Pancho" villa. his newly welded bride.
and some of his rough and savage fol-
lowers, writes an enlightening description
of the man who is just now at least d.
viding attention with his nominal chief'
General Carranza, as a possible ruler or
distracted Mexico.
or Villa this observer says: II have
never seen a more disgusting beast in hu-
man form.' To justify this harsh char
acterization. however, he only adds that
the ex-bandit has "a bullet head, black.
shifty and beady eyes, and burly per-
son which was clad in filthy gaucho cos
tune" Change the word ''shifty" to
quick" as another judge might. and the
picture is about what would be expected
of leader engaged in such war as
this. Villas critic goes on to admit that
the man showed remarkable ability in
controlling his rough soldiers, many OF
whom had been made obstreperous by too
free indulgence in aguardiente. He took
away and threw out of the car windows
the bottles of the noisiest. and they sub
mitted without protest to this cruel de-
privation. That the bride was peasant
with her hair hanging down her back
hardly counts for as much as does the
fact that villa treated her with affection
ate respect, and it is not fair to be
soueamish about the condition of guer-
rilla warriors costume.
What the man will become remains TO
be seen, but he is evidently well adjusted
to his present time and place. He has
shown caution as well as courage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20
PIANO IN BALLOON FLIGHT PLAYED

Indianapolis viewed a novel flight last
fall, when coal-gas balloon of s0Ge
cubit feet capacity carried a player pi-
ano, young society woman of that city
as performer, and licensed aeronaut to
height of 1000 feet, and landed seven
miles from the starting point. The piano.
platform, six bags of ballast and thu
two passengers weighed nearly 1850
pounds. At the height of 1900 feet the bal
loon struck a current of cold air which
caused rapid descent. but after suffi-
cient ballast had~been discarded. the bal
loon again rose and attained the eleva-
ton of 5000 feet. No difference in the
tone of the piano was noted. except that
when the highest point was reached the
base notes. when struck, vibrated until
theswhole bag shook.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20
GLLOBBIES
mas In the south


timore is a southern city
zeaAa6 in feeling-lt is like a
a=Hh ,lty In some of Its customs. .
a ard r. Taylor OF the Mary
la. ,tropols
1 All told that In Richmond and all
ether cities south of the Potomac and
the Ohio Christmas eve has been cele-
GRATED In very noisy fashion. In
Baltimore one hears very little noise or
noisterous play on the streets either
the day before Christmas or on the
great religious festival itself. I expect
to spend this Christmas In Birming
ham. 1t will be the first time 1 have
been away from Baltimore during the
holidays, but l am SO pleased with
this city that I will find plenty of en-
jcyment here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20
New cuutoms,
Unions and the Law

In the Danbury hatters' case the
United States court of appeals has de
cided definitely that the antitrust
law is applicable "to such combina-
tions as are alleged in the complaint,
and that the act makes no distinction
between classes of combinations or in
dividuals.
A sundry civil bill vetoed by Presi-
dent Taft but signed by President
Wilson provided that no part OF the
appropriation carried in it for the en-
forcement of the Sherman law should
be used for the prosecutions OF work
ing men or farmers. The provision at
the time was condemned as class leg
islation, but it was explained that 9TH
err funds were available for such
purpose should violations of the law
come to light.
Judge Coxe's decision is not defeat
for unionism. 1t is merely notice that
combinations of labor have no more
rights and privileges than combina-
tions of capital. AS expressed by the
court: mo one disputes the PROPOSE
ton that labor unions are lawful. All
must admit that they are not only
lawful but highly beneficial when
legally and fairly conducted, but, like
{ all other combinations, irrespective OF
their objects and purposes, they must
obey the law"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20

for the year pellagra caused more
deaths in that city than any other dis
ease. For the three preceding years it
had been second to tuberculosis, but
this year it takes first place, having
caused 81 out of $40 deaths. More
than six hundred cases have been
found in the county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20

Christmas Decorations

Nothing tends more to promote the
Christmas, spirit in metropolitan center
such as Birmingham than tastefully
decorated shops and eating places said
b. e. Eldred of this city.
1.-The downtown district assumes A
gala appearance in preparation for the
coming holidays. There Is note of an
ticipation in the air. Shop windows have
been beautifully ornamented and goods
temptingly arranged. In many places
the walls and overhead are being
wreathed with emblems of the season.
The shopowner, or manager, becomes
more bland and solicitous in manner
each day. The clerks are putting more
ginger into their movements, and the
crowds of Christmas shoppers become
more brisk and optimistic as the great
day approaches.
THE people of Birmingham feel that
the approaching festal day will be one
of the happiest that has thus far been
the lot of the city, and are beginning
to throw themselves into the Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year move
ment with true holiday zest.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20
Extending Arbitration

There's not going to be any war be-
tween the United States and the lit
tie nation over which Wilhelmina
rules so graciously. The Netherlands
has signed one of Mr.. Bryan's peace
pacts, and all danger of hostilities has
been removed for some years to come.
The signing of treaty by Secre-
tary Bryan and Chevalier Van Rap
hard may be small thing in itself,
yet it is big with portent. 1t is the
first of its kind to be negotiated with
a European nation. Half a dozen of
the little independencies of America
have entered into Mr.. Bryan's peace
plan, the substance Of which is that
any question arising between them
and the United States which cannot
be settled by diplomacy shall be sub
mitted to an international commission
of five members for investigation. The
treaties run five years, and thereafter
are to remain in force until IL months
after one of the high contracting par
ties give notice of intention to ter
inmate it.
Mr.. Bryan's scheme is loftily con-
ceived Friends of civilization will
wish its rapid furtherance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20
CONTROL OF SOUNDING BALLOONS
From Popular Mechanics.

The exploration of the upper air Is be-
ing materially advanced by the aid OF
wireless apparatus. Heretofore the
sounding balloons. carrying recording
instruments and used for this purpose,
have been left to ascend until they ex-
ploded, the explosion being caused by the
pressure of the gas within the balloon
after 1t had reached great height where
the pressure of the atmosphere on the bal
loon was small. small parachute at
tached to the frame was depended on to
keep the instruments from being dashed
to pieces by the resulting fall Expert
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20
The Iron Trade

1.-THE pig iron market offers an inter-
esting study according to Matthew
Addy & Cos report just issued. Its
prices have for some months been fol-
lowing the law of gravity but even the
force of gravity that pulls things down
ward finds dead center at last, and We
certainly seem to have found it. At lea st
that is the opinion of many astute buy
ers, for recently there has been some
heavy sporadic buying AS yet there is
no general purchasing movement but the
buying is here and there, as one con-
sumer after another figures out that
prices are so low that no matter what
happens pig iron is cheap enough to be
attractive. 1t is so cheap that it is a
difficult matter for furnaces to figure
out a new dollar for an old one The
trouble seems general. In Great Britain
last week they put out eight furnaces
in Germany they are curtailing, and here
production is being sharply reduced OF
course this means that we are getting
in shape for better things No surplus
pig iron is being piled up. When demand
on a large scale comes again the fur
naces will be in a position to take ad-
vantage of it.
But the main fact of interest is that
the week has seen larger inquiry than
for some time past, some considerable
buying and apparently feeling that the
only way the market can turn now
things being as bad as they can be-is for
the better
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20

Now, il those Indianapolis fellows who
have succeeded in manufacturing milk
that stands all the tests will turn their
attention to the creation of an artificia,
egg they will be deserving Of their coun-
try's gratitude.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20

A West Virginia girl has been arrested
on charge of robbing the parcel post, 1t
being alleged that she abstracted many
articles of feminine wearing apparel. 1t
was the general impression that most IF
the articles worn by women these day
could be transmitted In an ordinary en-
velone,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-20

According to Miss Lind-ap- Hagehy. the
welch anti-vivisection lecturer, the only
thing you can catch from kissing is love.
By kissing the wrong woman. some peo-
pie have been known to catch hi.