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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

On Saturday morning last Montgomery
was treated to a light snowfall. Bir-
mingham continues to be a winter resort
regardless of occurrences in the Capital
City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Busiues. and pI.,.ure

Sol caheen left yesterday for New York
and viii be absent about two weeks.
viii be busy every day buying
GOODS said Mr.. caheen just before leav-
lng' but expect to spend most of my
evenings at the garnd opera. New York
Is the greatest amusement city of the
world, and while there will be many at
fractions at the theatres grand opera
comes first with me-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

A s65,oooooo steel merger has just been
formed in Pittsburg. 1t consists of the
I.abelle Iron works and the McKeesport
Tin Plate company, both independents
1t is considered the biggest merger since
the formation of the Steel corporation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

No British rulers were ever more closely
guarded than King George and Queen
Mary are today. The British people are
beginning to think that they need a good
sleeD.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

Two young daughters of Martin Thomp-
son, keeper of Sandy Point lighthouse,
on an extremity of Providence Island, in
Lower Narragansett bay, had thrilling
experience in escaping from an angry wal
rus, the first of its kind, so far as known.
ever to be seen in those waters. Thomp-
son, from the lighthouse, spied what he
thought to be a seal several hundred
yards off shore. His daughters. Nellie
and Bessie. set out in rowboat to inves-
tigate. On nearing the creature they
found it to be much larger than seal and
to have tusks more than two feet long.
Suddenly the animal started for them.
The girls speedily made for shore, which
was reached only a few yards ahead of
the walrus. which, seeing that the race
was lost, headed back for the open water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

The hope is expressed that the prevail
ing suffragette marches will operate to
abolish the French heel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

The East Side residents in New York
who are objecting to horse cars have no
appreciation of the antique
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

contribution box that rings up fares
ike cash register has been invented.
1t operates to increase collections.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

John Bull is pretty thoroughly cowed at
last, if the expression will be pardoned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

Pauline Wayne retires without even a
kick, leaving the succession intact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

Artificial ice begins to see that it will
have a competitor in natural ice next
summer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

The natural ice crop in the ice belt is
by no means failure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

The standpat congressman with pro-
constituency is kept in hot water
al, the time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

Some think that the latest reports of
Meneliks death are greatly exaggerated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

The hand picked imrnortais viii now
proceed to transmit and consolidate their
power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

The income tax will soon hang over the
yarns of baseball salaries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10
EOR A CHANGE

The grounding never consults any ones
comfort but his own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

George W. Wingate, speaking at a
meeting of the Public Athletic league,
said: THE cost of food has increased
only from three to skiold in 1000 years,
while wages are now z to 20 times what
they were in time Of Caesar. Caesar paid
s3i5 cents for a bushel of wheat and 45
cents for a bushel of beans, which now
costs $3.50. Beef and mutton cost him
to cents a pound. instead of II or 10
cents as now. But laborer received
10 2-5 cents a day instead of 81, while a
mechanic earned q s-5 cents instead Of
81. Women's wages we're much lower,
for child's nurse got q cents month
for each child and a teacher S21a cents.
Cicero himself. for presenting a case, got
sl.09 But despite the greatly increased
amount of money the workingman of to-
day may spend, his children are brought
up under vastly poorer conditions than
were those Of the ancient Romans whose
parents received 20 cents day wages. The
state did more for them. Athletics are
doing much to bring back to the childhood
of today those halcyon days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

DR.. Austin B. Held of Pittsburg has
arrived home from trip TO Berlin, where
he went to procure the friedman turtle
cure for tuberculosis. DIR. Held brought
back enough of the serum to innoculate
40 persons. While in reality the discovery
of DR.. Friedman. the serum In the form
If emulsion, which DR.. Held brought with
him, he says, is the only cure for tuber-
cular affections, after it has been scien-
tifically prepared, and will not cause abb
scesses to form as in DR.. Friedmann's S
culture. DR.. Held obtained his culture
from DR.. Piorkowsld. one of the fore
most bacteriologists in Europe, who, he
says. prepared it for DR.. friedman at
the latters request nearly 10 years ago,
but kept some of the cultures made just
before DIR. Friedr1ann first announced to
the Berlin Medical society that he had
found a cure for consumption.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10
THE PRoDIGAL son SPEAK $

By Rudyard Kipling.
Here come 1 to my own again.
Fed forgiven and known again.
Claimed By bone OF my bone again
And cheered by flesh of my flesh.
The fatted calf Is dressed for me,
But the husks have greater zest for me,
think my pigs will be best for me,
So I'm off to the yards afresh.
II never was very refined. you see,
(And it weighs on my brothers mind,
you see)
But there's no reproach among swine.
dyou see.
For being a bit of a swine.
So I'm off with wallet and stan to eat
The bread that is three parts shaft to
wheat,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

But glory bethel
Which isn't the case
My father glooms AMI
Ny brother sulks ant
And mother catechise'
Till 1 want to go ou
And, in spite of the
I know that the serv
Am a monster OF md
And I'm damned If l |
So back / go to my ]
Not so easy to rob a
Or quite ready TO SO
On any neck that's q
I'm leaving. Pater. q
God bless you, Matel
Il wouldn't be impoli
But. brother. you ar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

when we are born, we cry, that we are
come
sro tb,. great stage of fools.
king Lear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10

- 11gh to IL,
= vity.
10 you.
te to you
Evening star., 1913-12-07
Barney Spring.

THE Order of Washington. one OF the
patriotc-an cestral organizations. has
under advisement plan for erecting IN
appropriate marker at Barney spring.
This point of interest is within the Dis.
trict line by few yards. II YOU are trsr.
cling the Rladensburg ROAD YOU will. after
passing the National Industrial School
on the high ridge to the right notice as
YOU near the Maryland District line
bricked-up spring few feet OF the right
side OF the road. II s opposite the flns
old home and grounds Of Col Wright
Rives. L. s. A.. retired. He Il also the
owner or the land on which the spring
flows. and il was he who many years
ago walled ii up as a measure of presrr.
vation
The historic significance OF this spring
is that il was directly IN the rear OF tho
line stubborny. held by Barney ana his
command in thc battle OF Bladcnsburg
August -. 1914. Ut this point the road
began a steep descent 10 the valley OF the
little branch. along the north side %
which was the bloody jungle which came
10 he known as the dueling ground cf
Bladensburg The road Is not SO steep
now as IL was because instead OF passing
through the stream or on 4 small wooden
bridge which succeeded TO the ford now
crosses on high cuiN.ft and the grade
of the road has been considerably re-
duced. The American Inc. or the second
position taken up by the Americans IN
this engagement extended from the north
end OF the long hill on which the indus
trial school stands and on which Fort
Lincoln WAS constructed during TIE civil
Evening star., 1913-12-07

and John. boarded with family at the
Stone House, only returning to their
home, Warwick, on the navy yard, for
week ends. In the same square with the
ship lofts was the plant in which ship
timbers were steamed, and later on this
lot were built an ice house and the black
smith shop where sheet iron buoys for
the government were constructed.
With doors opening into the shipyard
and others on the towpath of the canal,
between the bridge and the point was the
engine house, and at this place ire
drills were frequently held
1t was within the limits of Hamburg
where, in 1873. Capt. Easily built his
lime kilns. Hamburg was originally a
village of some pretensions, at least on
paper. 1t was laid out at the instance OF
Jacob Funk into squares and streets and
in the center was a large plot for a
town house. 1t extended NORTH from the
river and included III street. L'Enfant
in one of his letters, calls the village
Funkstown. and it was commonly ana
variously called Hamburg and Funks-
town. Mrs. Easby-Smith told the Ram
bier that Funk was gunmaker in
Georgetown during the American reyolu-
ton and that ii seems that quite
colony of Hamburgers settled there
abouts early in the eighteenth century.
After the completion of the canal. !.
continued Capt. Easby's daughter. 1.-The
towpath from Rock creek to ID street was
on its east side Here, crossing the
bridge, it formed the boundary of the
shipyard. Turning eastward near the
point II ran on the south side of the
canal TO 18th street, where the Goose
creek basin was located. Upon this tow
path travelled the mules that drew the
barges and in my childhood there We're
not many hours in the day that laden
boats might not be seen on their way
to the Eastern branch.
1T is more than three-quarters of a
century since / first opened my eyes at
Evening star., 1913-12-07

on 18th street below F, but later buiit
fine house on g street near Goth. where
he died not long after moving into 1t.
Alcanah Denham was the manager at
years. He moved into the house on 18th
street vacated by Mr.. Hanley and died
there in 1881.
There were gala days at the point
when ship was launched. As these
We're generally built for the government
the guests usually included cabinet ofn-
GERS. of1cia's of high rank and frequent
ly members Of the diplomatic corps. The
daughter Of Capt Easily. telling the
Rambler OF these events, said:
Every detail for a launching must be
carefully prepared that no hitch OF
blunder may occur and the workmen
waited with baited breath for the sue
cess of the launching. for these, in those
their work and became really attached
to their construction as it grew into
graceful proportions. 1t was beautiful
and exciting scene to watch the large
to the strokes OF the hammers that
loosed the wedges, to see her slowly
Gathering impetus as she g'ided grace-
fully down into the water unon whose
bosom she was to spend her life and be-
meath which sooner or later she would
find her grave. Then, collation. soread
In one of the shin lofts was enjoyed by
guests and er,no'ves.
II well remember the launching Of the
revenue cutters Forward. in 1s42 or 1843
and the Laurence in 1R4S The Laurence
was in commission for more than q
quarter OF century and NAV still be in
existence NV brother, DR.. James
Thomson Overstreet, whose father a
congressman from South Carolina was
my mothers first husband was appoint
ed SURGEON of the Laurence which sailed
around the Cape to California. Dr. Over
street was accidentally killed in Los
Angeles in 1853
Evening star., 1913-12-07

Tapajos, or perhaps by the Pilcomayo.
into the Madeira. | have Travelled some
what in tile interior OF the Amazon basin
and think it is quite as interesting as
the highlands of Central Africa. through
which region l went "A year or SO before
ex-Presideft Roosevelt and his expedition
landed at Mombasa. ] visited the same
region in that country through Wnicn
he travelled: but l did not have the great
retinue, With mosauito-proof tents and
doctors ant. scientists and comforts ga
lore
This expedition is to be scientific one,
and it will probably add greatly to our
knowledge of the wilds OF South Amer1-
ca, and to tie collection of the American
Museum Of Natural History. to which
the beasts. birds and reptiles captured
are to be given. He will have a chance
to shoot tauir all the way from Para
quay to Brazil and will probably bring
back many specimens of the collared
peccary which is found almost every
where in South America. The peccary IS
a kind of wild hog. which when grown
As about three feet In length It is OF
dark gray color and the collared variety
Evening star., 1913-12-07

Tapajos river. another tributary OF the
Amazon which is about 300 miles long.
] passed the mouth of the Tapajos when
travelled up the Amazon in 1898. IL is
about 600 miles from Para and about an
equal distance from Manaos and the
mouth of the Rio Negro.
IL has not been reported as yet which
OF these courses cx-Presdent Roosevelt
will take in making his way from the
Parana system TO that of the Amazon.
lie might go up the Parana and Para
quay and enter the Pilcomayo, but il
is more probable that he will travel
up the Paraguay river 10 its source and
thence trek across country and go into
Tapajos and float down that stream for
loo miles into the mighty Mother of
Waters. He can go almost TO the source
of the Tapajos by the Parana system.
and can reach Cuyaba. Brazil, which is
not far from there, by steam. That town
is just about as high above sea level as
is the surface of Lake Superior, and
there are comfortable steamers which go
Evening star., 1913-12-07

cared for our horses and COW. The skiff
was padded over every evening to bring
back load OF the sweet meadow grass
which We were privileged to cut.
-
Il we'll remember George Washington
Parke Custis and his family. Mrs. Lee
was quite artist, which aroused my in
terest in her. She made fine copy of a
Turner my father owned, privilege he
allowed no one else,
Gen. Lee often crossed to our land
ing on his way to the department or the
city. The interchange OF boats was Gus
tomary if they CHANGED To- have been left
al either of our respective landings.
Lately l visited the old home of my
childhood. but the place was well nigh
unrecognizable. The dwelling house,
large for those days. is transformed into
"a blacksmith shop and the upper rooms
into a depository for junk. The old gar
den. which occupied half the square ex-
cept the corner lot. where dwelt the
Ferguson family, has disappeared. The
luscious fruit. figs, grapes. apples. pears
and prunes, and the rare flowers that
attracted many visitors, have long since
perished. This part of the property Is
now covered by buildings. The bridge
which spanned the canal is gone. for the
has been transformed into an establish
ment for asphalt work. Not vestige
of the old rock cabin remains. Beyond
it's site Littlefield's wharf has been con-
structed. Ere long all these will have
been wiped off the earth and effaced from
the maps. the whirr and honk of the
automobile and the hoofbeats of blooded
steeds will replace the sound of the
hammers and steam. whistles of busy
industries and Potomac Park will be the
new name for Easbys point.
In the old rock cabin on the point lived
Dyson Moran, who had charge of all the
Evening star., 1913-12-07

of which Mr.. Roosevelt may bring
back many original photographs. The
Gran Chaco. which lies on the west
ern side of the River Paraguay. is
inhabited almost altogether by savages,
some OF whom are practically unknown
to ethnology. l was told that the In
dians there often go naked from one
years end to the other. and that those
of some tribes pull out all the hair
their bodies except that on the head
Indeed, II is said that there is one
tribe which has done this for so many
ages that il has become naturally hair
less. It's people can grow hair upon
their heads only. l doubt this. An
other tribe is the TOBIAS who wear
no clothes except when they come in
the presence of white people. At home.
they often have a blanket about the
waist, but they also go about as the
sculrtors say of their models-in the
altogether
A recent report from the Brazilian
rubber region states that some of the
Indians there are cannibals, and there
are branches of the Amazon upon which
the famous head hunters live. The lat
ter Indians are not at all like the
head hunters of Formosa and Borneo
Evening star., 1913-12-07

Brazil. and SO many alligators that |
often mistook them for logs lying on the
banks of the stream.
After entering the Paraguay you pass
frequent orange groves, and at the towns
there are piles Of oranges lying on the
ground near the wharves waiting TO be
loaded upon the steamers which will take
them down to Buenos Aires In Paraguay
the oranges grow wild in the WOODS.
though the trees are probably from seeds
which have been dropped by birds.
Ex-President Roosevelt will undoubted-
ly stop at Asuncion. the capital of Para.
quay. This is most interesting city or
about $4,000. lying right on the bank OF
the river. 1t is there that he will change
to the smaller steamer which will carry
him northward into Matto Crosse, ana
go on into the wilds His trip as Tar as
Cuyaba will be over the route Travelled
by Capt. Thomas Page of our navy. he
was the first man to take steam launch
into that region. and it is now more tnan
fifty years since he made his way from
the Atlantic ocean for 2. .70O miles up the
Parana and Paraguay system. There are
now little mail steamers leaving Asun-
cion twice q month for cuyaba. and II 10
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one for 500 Mexican during my travels
in South America in 1898.
There are other Indians in Brazil who
wear plugs as big around as the bot
tom OF tumbler in the lobes of the
ears and in the skin of the lower lip.
which are gradually stretched for that
purpose. Only a small hole is made
at first and a stem of grass or wood is
inserted. Larger pieces of wood are
put in from time to time until the
skin and the holes grow into these hor-
rible deformities. This tribe is known
as the Botacudo.
The Indians of eastern South Ameri.
ca are altogether different from those
of the Andes. Their civilization at the
time America was discovered compared
with that of the Incas as the civiliza-
tion of darkest Africa compares with
that of the United States now. The
Incas. after centuries of oppression
and practical slavery. have degenerated
into hewers of wood and drawers OF
water The Indians of the Amazon
and the paraEa have remained station
airy, and the most of the tribes are
not much more advanced in this year 1872
than they were in 1898. when the South
American continent was discovered.
Evening star., 1913-12-07

greatest countries of our sister con-
tinent, and will have delivered addresses
IN Argentina, Chile and Brazil. He VIII
have Travelled over the vast coffee plan
rations about Sac Paulo. will have rid
len with the gauchos or cowboys over
the pampas OF Argentina. and VIII nave
hunted the wild American ostrfches In
the desert OF Patagonia He VIII have
climbed the Andes. have crossed over
INTO the progressive bull moose country
OF Chile, and have made his way Dy ran
north and south through that shoe string
republic. He viii, In short. have seen
the best in modern progress that South
America has TO offer. and will be ready
for that part of the cont .nent which to-
day is practically as wild as II was when
Juan de Soils first made his way up the
Rio de la Plata. and when Pinzon dis
covered the mouth of the Amazon
South America has the greatest river
basins on earth. and il Is in the basins
Of the tmo argest of them that Mr.
Roosevelt is TO travel. The whole east
ern and central half of the continent is
composed of enormous river valleys and
plains and plateaus The Orinoco river.
from New York TO Omaha. II flows
north and its head waters are In Brazil
SO near those of the Rio Negro that you
can carry a canoe across from one stream
TO the other. and starting in at the
Caribbean sea, cross Venezuela and
Brazil and come out into the Atlantic
ocean. The Rio Negro enters the ANA
son thousand miles from its mouth. IL
flows in just below the city of Manaos,
and H., black waters may there be seen
moving along side by side with The
yellow waters of the Amazon. They
flow together for some miles be-
fore they mix and then the black dis
appears II IS now fifteen years snce
went a thousand miles up the Amazon
and entered the mouth of the Rio Negro
The latter is an immense stream and at
its mouth il seems as large as the ANA
zon itself.
There are high bluffs lining the banks
and a little farther up the stream is
succession OF lakes. some of which are
from twenty to thirty miles wide. The
waters of the Rio Negro are as black as
ycur hat while those of the Amazon are
as yellow as those of the muddy Mis-
soun. / remember that our steamer cut
the joining OF the waters. so that you
could look down over one side OF the
vessel into stream of pitch and on the
other into one of pale gold
II is not far from the mouth of the
Rio Negro that the Madeira flows into
the Amazon. and one can go up that
river during the rainy season about as
far as from New Orleans TO st. Louis.
This Ia to the falls of San Antonio. BY
taking boat around the falls he could
Evening star., 1913-12-07

Baltimore, accumulated large fortune
and died In that city The plant estab-
lished by Fardy belongs now to the
Woodall family. who are relatives of
Capt. Easby's descendants
South of the Easily blacksmith shop
lived Ignatius Lucas and his wife. In
those days there were no trained nurses.
Neighbors visited and helped to care for
the sick as part of neighborly duty. and
chief among these was Mrs. Lucas, who
was friend, counselor and comforter to
the whole settlement. Mr. Lucas for
the War or the Navy Department.
The Cumberiands lived on the next
lot and their nets and their huge duck
ing guns were curiosities to the chill
dren roundabout John Cumberland 5
third wife was a remarkable woman.
She was the mistress of the house in
dren. and they all lived together in
peace and happiness.
The brewery on the northwest corner of
Potomac. Park now covers the lot on
which the Cumberlands and the Lucases
lived and also the site where John Boyle
had his residence. John Boyle was a
conspicuous citizen and SO closely re-
sembled Gen. Zachary Taylor that each
was often mistaken for the other.
On the square east OF the lime kiln
a glass factory was established in 1924.
1t was abandoned not many years after,
but the building remained long standing.
Much of the time it was untenanted and
fe into decay. No sign Of it remained
when the speedway was first projected.
Edward Hanley was Capt Easily S
partner in the ime kilns until the cap
tains death, when Hanley bought the
whole interest. Mr. Hanley at first lived
Evening star., 1913-12-07
sAyAGEs OF THE TAPAJO>.

il will probably be at that place that the
Roosevelt party viii cross 10 the head
n,aters OF the Tapajos
The Tapajos has a branch, called the
Arimos, which rises near there. Roosevelt
and his party will go down the Arinos
into the Alto-Tapajos and will have to
carry their boats around the rapids and
cataracts at Maranhao Grande. after
which they can get large vessels which
will take them down the broad and deep
stream which leads from there into the
Amazon at the town OF Santarem.
The valley OF the Tapajos is very pic
turesque 1t has high bluffs along the
lower river. but they disappear within ia
few miles of the Amazon, and one comes
out as it were, into a great flowing Ia
land sea which extends from there to the
ocean few miles above Santarein
is the narrowest part Of the lower
Amazon. This is at the town of Obidos
remember when / went up the
great river that We We're often out of
sight of land until We reached Obidos. and
that the channel there narrowed to about
mile. The waters below were peaceful
and smooth flowing. At Obidos the great