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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-27
WRIGHT CLAIM UPHELD
German Supreme Court Sets
Aside Unfavorable Decision.

l.-ipsic Feb. . The Imperial 81
irene Cour, TO-DAY partially set aside q .
decision Of the German Patent once Of
FeDruary lei- which was unfayora5le
10 the Wrig., patents IN Germany.
Tie court made substantial changes IN
Wr.sAts favor. OrVille Wright VA pres
eut in court.
The German Patent Oaice IN Berlin 10y
H. decision. invaiidated the basil feature
OF the German Wright patents on aero
planes with regard 10 the simultaneous
action Of the rudder and wing heXing.
The suit which was In progress FOR a
long time. was brought by Ave German
ms. The court upheld two specific
forms Of patents combining tie steering
and rexing. but disallowed the general
claim. From this AN appeal was made
10 the Imperial Supreme Court
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Pans. Feb. 2o.-The memoly and at
tainrncuts Of the late Wilbur Wright. the
American flying man, were honored TO-
dav by message from President Taft
and by speeches delivered by many dis
tinguished Frenchmen at . luncheon al
which Nlyron 7. Herrick, the American
Ambassador to France. had as his
guests the committee of Frenchmen n
charge OF the arrangements for the cree
ton Of a memorial 70 the aeroplane III
,er,or on the Plain OF Auvours. near
lie Mans. where he made some OF MS
nrst public fights.
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GENERAL BUTT IMPROVING.

The condition o. General McCoskry
bun. who is . patient at 81. Luke's Hos
p''sl suffering from douh.- pneumonia
q improving, according 10 a bulletin
'ssasd last night ut 30 hospital
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CEMETERIES.
CEMETERIES.
THE WOODLANDS CEMETERY.
a.sd y By Harlem Train and by Trolley
Office 20 East 23d ST.. y. Z.
UNDERTAKES.

MOTOR HEAKSES pierce Arrow FOR
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my ts-,ancs--Groenw calvary. Woodlawn
erc Almost horse rate Pierce Arrow closec
cars Safe refined. Frank +. Campbell. :3e
ST. Tel. 1924 Chelsea.
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MARRIED..

THOMAS s. JOIiN-Fred Gstes T.
o. Lillian - John ar the Church o; the
Messi3h. bV RE Bcy. John Hayes Holm 20
on February -. 1918.
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OFFICES.

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Notices Of marriages and deaths must be
accompanied b, full name and address.
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JOHN @. THOMPSON.

ROYAL Arcanum lie leaves wife, three
daughters and a son Harold y Burnham
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JAMES A. MOeFsTT.

Palm Bcach. Fla. Fec. .. flames A.
Moffott. yice-president OF the standard
oil COMPANY Of New Jerse, died this
mormn. after brief Illness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-13
BY c.. F. MARKELL

high, built in the form of pyramid
and was spoken of as the "temple of
the seven spheres of heaven and earth.
Tradition has it the tower was erect
ed by Ninrud, the mighty hunter and
first King of Shinar. The old Testa-
ment says but little of this strange
man but the Talmud and the Targums
re full of his exploits. 1t is a great
pity that the reading public is not fa-
miliar with these books as they are
store of information and source oil
inexhaustible pleasure. From them We
learn that Nmrud was sun worship
per and as he felt aggrieyed at his god
he built this tower in order to reach
thereby the offending deity But as
the tower was not high enough he re-
sorted to another eXpediency on the
top of the tower he built a platform
in the center of which he erected a
high pole Upon the top of the pole
he tied a living sheep. To the four cor
ners of the platform he fastened four
eagles which he had caught and pre-
viously half starved.
Nimrud and his vizer took their places
upon the platform which was lifted up
by the eagles in their efforts to reach
the bleating sheep on the top of the pole.
The higher the birds flew, the higher the
sheep ascended until Ninlrud thought
that he was near enough the sun to shoot
an arrow in its face. The rabbis say
that he was shooting in spate, thinking
that he would kill the God of Abraham
The arrows fell back from the sky COW
cred with blood and Nimrud believed that
he had succeeded. Three arrows were
stained and instead OF doubling the story
the wise men of old speculated as to
the source of the blood. Some said that
Nimrud shot eagles flying higher than
those fastened TO his platform and others
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-13

contended that his arrows pierced some
fish which had been carried aloft by high
winds. The eagles finally upset the plat
form and Nimrud was precipitated upon
mountain which he cracked in his fall
but was himself not much hurt. God
however. punished him. He sent a wind
which overturned the tower and COM
missioned a gnat to annoy Nmrud. This
gnat had a lame leg and blind eye
so that being tired and not able to see
we'll 1t alighted upon Nimrud's knee as
the monarch sat upon his throne. The
tyrant struck at it when the insect flew
up his nostril and entered his brain, which
he began TO devour. Nimrod lived a
thousand years before he felt the tor
ment of the knat and when the first pang
struck him the only relief he found was
by beating his head. Consequently he
kept someone always near him, engaged
In the service of striking the royal head
Blacksmlth's hammers We're brought into
the throne room and used for this pur-
pose The more violent the blow the great
er the relief he experienced and for 500
years the gnat gnawed away at the brain
with relays of men pounding day and
night with their sledge hammer upon the
royal skull. The Jewish rabbis tell the
same story concerning the Roman En-
peror Titus.
There IS. however, another tradition
that the gnat so fattened upon the brain
that he grew so large as to become as
big as a pigeon and finally burst open the
skull Of Nimrud, flying away.
While all of this eXtravagant imagery
is the height of the absurd, there are
lessons to be drawn from it and eX-
plantations to be obtained of much that
would otherwise remain occult and OBJ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-13

recent excavation is the vast palace Of
Nebuchadnezzar, a building 1900 feet
long and 1900 feet wide. 1 passed
through the state banquet hall whose
walls once shone with those strange
words that so alarmed the King at his
feast and 1 saw many skulls of those
who lived in four-story houses and
traversed magnificent avenues 1000
years ago. 1 have not the space to
speak of all the superb sculpture and
carvings that met my eye so l can
only speak of the monster stone dragon
with the horses head, the tigers body,
the eagles talons and the scorpions s
tail; the mammoth bull which always
is found in company with this beast
and a goose of onyx was used as
a measure of standard weight. Then
there were toys of terra Gotta for
the children, coffins shaped like cups
and written stones" as the Arabs
call them. But had seen all of these
in the museum at Constantinople. The
masonry is most marvellous and curl
Gus and it's builders used asphaltum
in the place of mortar.
| was closely watched by the guards
for the Arabs declare that an ark of
gold Is buried In the ruins the find
ing of which is the sole object of the
visits OF strangers.
But | was once more interested In
Birs Nimrud, the Tower of Babel which
lies little way northeast Of the site
of Babylon. In fact, l had come all
this distance for this express pur-
pose. Again and again had I hung
in delight over Herodotus description
OF the Ezida, the Eternal House, sthe
glory of Borsippa, and now l was rest
ing beneath it's very shadow. Its con-
temptation at sunset is especially inn
pressive. This tower was seven stories
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-13

School Piek-Nick, that he could raise
aloft his long steel plated tail and hike
across tile state of Wyomming Ike
Number 3 four hours late, and Was in
deed a grand site. The Dinosaur. how
ever. was of such peevish disposition
that his crate fissieai strength could
never be subjected to eommersial use.
Instinees are sed to be on record whero
sevverel attempts weer maid BY well
meaning and enterprislng citizens to utll-
,ize the wunderful powers Of the Dinosaur
and make them servisabull to mankind,
but they weer unsuccessful. The wild
dows of these citizens testified that there
husbands could do nuthing with the
Dinosaur. evven by KIND treatment. They
warned foolhardy folks not to go out
and try to tame a Dinosaur by patting
1t on the he'd with out first bidding
fond adew to there lowed ones, and pay
ing up the premyums of there life in
surenee. There husbands tried this stunt,
they sed, and they only surved to satisfy
the Dinosaurs appitite for Luncheon.
The Dnosaur mite be in our midst to-
day insteed of being burryed in denser
oblivviun than the Republican party If
he had been moor gentle OF nature and
amendabull to kind treatment He was,
however, Of a very low order of intell-
gense He would hardly rank, in this
respeckt with a fourth-class postmaster
His he'd was very small, according to the
emmnint syentsts. who Is exhibiting his
remains in Washington. and in spite OF
his hugh bulk which would compare
favurabully with a furniture car, he
evidently didn't have as much branes
as the ordinary Diplomat.
The Dinosaurs tail is about ten feet
long and covered with Harveyized ar
mour plate With one blow of this tail
he could smash six-syllender towering
car, dine on the Shouffer drink up the
Gassoleen, hang the license tag on one
of his fins and continew merryly on his
wav without much feer from the authori-
ties. It was this characteristics of the
Dirosaur that constrained Noah to over
look him when he making his valu-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-13

abull eolectsion of animals In the Ark
to hand down TO posterrity For this
thoughtful act posterrity ought to pass 4
suitabull set Of ressolusions of thanks
to Noah, and in negIecung to do so till
this late date, 1t seems to me shows
base ingrattltude on the part of sed
posterrity.
No living man who has carefully abb
stained from strong drink has ever seen
a Dinosaur. Our limmted nolledge of
this Interesting beest IS dew TO the
syenasts-if it wasn't for the syentists
we mite have contnewded rite on in ig-
nerenee-and it is to them that we air
indebted for this CRATE boon.
Anuther CRATE syentists has startled
sivvilzasion by stateng that aftur menny
yeers of careful reseercn. and investiga-
sion and the expenditure of vast sums ot
mummy, he is reddy to announce to
trembling and aggonized publick that lefI
HaHued peepul air not good ofraLuiS.
This Is indeed a CRATE releef For long
time We have yeerned to know why 1t
is that left handed peepul cannot get
rite up and burst fourth in ellerquince
just like Kyle B. Prise. or willyum J.
Bryan, and now we have the answer.
This is a sad blow to hand the South
paws, but facts air facts and you can't
dispute syence. This syentists says that
a left handed persuns brane develops
on the rong side and when he trys to
crate he is inclined TO run around in
sircle and pick things out of the air.
have notised this perculiarity In sum OF
our Congressmen. There must be lot
of south-paws in Congress.
When we begin to cast up and sss
how much we owe to syence for all this
Useless informasion we air indeed ovver-
whelmed with the magnitude of the debt
This is indeed wunderful age. IL sum
hyhrow will now tell us who put tns
asuffer" in sufferagett, he will please
us under further obligasions to syencs
and solve anuther interesting problem'
Yours trooly. Bill VINES
washington, D. c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-13

((rr all depends on the way you look
at a thing said the poet, in an
4 argument with the editor in re-
gard TO the popularity of poetry. The
editor conterded that the public didn't
like its reading matter done up In verse.
You're wrong, there" argued the poet
"It isn't the rhyming they object to- it's
the idea. Most of the poets seize upon
lofty themes and write in mental at
mosphere so rareied as to be entirely
beyond the average intellect.
Nov, Gray for instance, wrote ex-
clusively for highbrows.
'.Can storied urn or animated bust back
to its mansion call the feeting breath? o.
etc, is Greek to the--well. we won't t
call them lowbrows, We'll just say to
those who are not highbrows But, sup
pose Gray should have said:
" Can storied yarn or any money'd trust
Back to your pocket call the fleetng
When you have bought gold brick made
of dust,
Not even worth the price of one small
drink
.eThey'd have understood that all right
land offered no objection to the rhyme.
Same thing with Tennyson,' contia-
ued the poet
Now, If he had said
!" Sunset and evening star
And one highball for me,
And may there be no
Grumbling at the bar,
ii / should call for thee?
tIf he had said that, why man alive'
Tennyson would be more widely read
The editor was shocked into speec1lcss-
ness at this vandalism of classics, so the
poet continued and ruthlessly drew upon
old Omar himself for Illustration.
IF that Persian poet had been living
today, he probably would have selected
some subject of universal understanding
say automobiles instead of doubtful and
abstrlse doctrines. Perhaps he would
have said in his beautiful, rhythmic
verse,
The moving monster lights, and having
lit
Moves on: nor all our piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to regulate its speed.
Nor all our tears wash out the smell Of
it..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-13

word or two pass right on to the next
thing. even if it were an advertisement
of dandruff cure
Certainly, said the editor, and they d
likewise pass on if that hackneyed theme
were embellished with all the glolies OF
Miltonic verse.
The editor thought that would end the
matter but the next day brought the
poets usual long envelope, and this IL
what it contained:
VIEWPOINTS.
Mistress And Maid
Mistress: I'm not certain about Martha,
the new maid, though she looks to be
respectable and staid. There is some
thing in her eye showing she'd be pert
and sly If she had just half a chance.
| am afraid. ! don't dare 10 leave the
silver out at night-these servants have
SO little sense of right-and she's very
far from neat-biings in mud upon her
feet And her hair! Sometimes she Is a
perfect fright.
I'm not sure that her bena vior is too
good I've been watching that police
man Patrick Wood And / know shell
tell a lie In the winking of an eye;-and
she doesn't bathe as often as she should.
still. she very evidently seems to be
devoted to the children. and TO me. And
she likes her place so we'll, maids are
scarce, too truth to telD | just hate to
send her off-so, we will see.
Maid: | amt certain that I like her
none too well. I have stayed with folks
that was a sight more swell If l went
round in curl papers like che do, good
lord the capers she'd cut up, they simply
amt no words to tell,
When she hired me She never said a
word bout comp ny and late suppers.
She's a bird. A-havin' gemp-raan friends
ladies too, for the Weekend; and such
cuttin up-the likes I never heard, A.
playin' bridge all night, then callin' me
To make 'em sanwitches and serve hot
tea, ! got doubts. believe me true (my
friend Pats got his'n too, that they
amt no better than they ought to BET
But the family seems to take to me so
well. even If they aint so awful rich and
swell that | guess I'll let things be
dong 5 she don't get fresh with me.) and
I'll stay awhile and try 1t for a spell
The editor was UP a tree az to whether
he liked 1t or not
lie scratched his head, and never said
a word
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-13

rISTUR EDDITUR:-If 1 had my
MI school days to go ovver again. I
would lern job lot of big words
and be a syentist. With absolutely 10
desire to cast emmy asparagus on a pro-
fession for which l have the gratest
respekt and dmirasion-admirasio for
the mannur in which they pull off things
and get away with them-it seems to me
1t takes less reel wurk and far below
the average amount of greece in ones
bean box to be syentist than enny
uther trade or calling I know of.
If syentists cams along and solIem-
iy declares that he has just completed
an exhaustive examminasion which prove
that the world is nine hundred millvuns
Of yeers, and thTty-two secunds old.
and was originally maid frum drippines
Of axle greece frum the hubs of the nlan-
net Juppitur, and during its furst pe-
ryod of tranisision it was inhabited by
= rass Of Ammyzuns, who weer fnellv
destroyed in a contest for Votes for
Men," who is going to raise up and NOM
inmate him for a life membership in the
Annynias clubf Nobody. He gets away
with It.
He then proseeds to go all ovver the
United States and gives his famus 1eo-
turs on Our pre-HistorricIr Ansessturs.
or why wurry and Get R1nkie," and
he is hailed as hybrow, and dexerrated
with enuff gold Medals to make a Rush
tan general bow-legged. All he has to
do is to throw in few big words, which
nobody can possibility understand In
his lecture and evvery redneck rum
Portland, Maine, to Helurbust, Arizona.
II quoting him and coffing up three bucks
aor his book with a full page picture Of
the authtir and his autograft.
In addison to this one or two misgujd-
I'd miIlymairs. who weer born poor but
dishonest. and whs want to go down In
histery as Crate Ffllanthorpists and con-
tributrrs to syenoe endow a syentiffic
institusion of sum kind for reseerch and
Investigation of the anty-seedents of the
Boarding House Bed Bug, and make him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-13
BY KARL KAFFER

''And people would have read that and
understood it; people who never heard OF
Omar as it is, and who wouldn't recog-
nize copy of the Rubaiyat if they met
it face to face
BY this time the scandalized editor had
recovered his voice.
Good heavens. mani Weave those sa-
cred relics alone and illustrate your point
in everyday terms. Now take that plain
old-time poem. John Anderson. my 10. "
II is fun of feeling. full of human.
homely pathos, and yet because it's in
verse it doesn't interest one reader in
hundred
But it's not the verse that makes It
unpopular, insisted the poet and can
prove II. suppose We put John Anderson,
NY 10, up h this version:
= 'John Anderson, My 10 John when we
Were first acquent,
A five pound box of Huylers every week
to me, you sent
But now you're growing mean, John
from out some grocery store
You buy for me 10 cent bag, John An
derson, Ny 10.
" John Anderson MY Jo John. we started
out together
But many cat and dog day we've had
with one another
You've been too gay and sporty, john;
I'll travel to Reno:
And then Wen go our different ways,
John Anderson, MY Jo'''
me editor grinned broadly. and though
not thoroughly convinced, he admitted
that very probably more than one person
ont of hundred might read that version
of John Anderson.
The poet then declared he could prove
the matter further.
Speaking of Viewpoints. he said
take the time-worn servant problem
the question of mistress and maid. Every
body knows the mistress thinks she is
doing a great kindness to the raw ignor-
ant seryant-girl, by keeping her at all;
but the maid doesn't think so; she is Of
the pronounced opinion that the favor Is
an on her own part. Each secretly dis
approves OF the other. Put those facts in
baid terms Of prose. and there are few
readers who wouldn't. after reading
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-13
New Device to Cure seasickness

New DeNICt W 1uIt
From the Brooklyn Eagle,
A determined effort to fight seasickness
is to be made In the two new turbins
steamers which are being built in Lon
don by the Societe CoclSerell for the Bel
gian state railways Ostend to Dover
service, Each vessel Is to contain an In
stallation OF an anti-rolllng tank, de-
vice invented by Herr Frahm, naval
architect of repute. As its name implies,
it is utilized to minimize the rolling OF
the vessel, and wonderful smoothness OF
steaming in some of the biggest gales
has been secured already by its use on
board the Hamburg American liner
Ypiranga.
The tank is OF U form, the legs or
side-basins of which are as far apart
as possible 1t contains water. entirely
iilling the horizontal portion and half
filling the two side basins. It is so de-
signed that the water will oscillate In
it with the same period as that of the
ship itself, but, following the law OF
synchronism. the flow of the water lags
a quarter of phase behind the roll OF
the ship, and similarly the ship ags
quarter of a phase behind the wave.
Hence the water In the tank is half a
phase behind the wave and is thus al
ways on the side of the vessel about to
receive a fresh impulse from the waves
and oppose their lifting or heeling action.
The tank is situated in tho hold or on
the upper structures of the vessel, and
is usually placed as near amidships as
possible, in order to obtain the greatest
breadth The water In the tank is con-
trolled and can be brought to rest by
means of an air valve arranged in an air
conduit adjoining the two side basins.
In the case of the Dover-Ostend steam
ers the tank is placed on the boat deck
at the forward end of the deckhouse.
The weight of water used is 5s tons, ths
length of the tank is 90 feet. the breadth
OF the side basins Is seven feet three
inches. and their height is nine feet.
1t may be recalled that submarines ars
trimmed and also depressed or raised
mainly by the skilled use of water tanks
placed at intervals along the sides OF
the vessel, intereommunicated by the
means of "main line as II is called,
and each capable OF being emptied, o.
blown out" at will. The result Is to
place effective weight Just where 1t is
required I'm q minimum OF time, the all
surrounding water being ever at the dis
posal of the controlling officer on board.
The inventor hopes in time that his
anti-roing tank will be fitted to all
modern battleships. The naval gunner Is
at present greatly handicapped in his
aim by the rolling of the ship, and the
securing of a steady firing platform Is
OF immeasurable assistance to him. II Is
also necessary to prevent warship from
rolling TO an angle which will expose the
unarmored part of her hun to the enc
my = Are Recent experiments on large
scale have proved that ship fitted with
this tank has roll OF only from 2 de-
grees to 3 degrees as compared with the
old motion of anything between 10 de-
grees and 90 degrees.