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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14
Serious Cutting Affray

Anniston, January 13.-(Special.)-
Charles Tolbert an employe of the Ade-
lade cotton mills. had his throat Sc
riously cut by Hays Morgan, a boss
spinner at the plant, Monday morning
in a dispute over a remark said to have
been addressed by Morgan to Mrs. Tol-
bert, but he returned to work shortly
afterward. Morgan left the mill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14
SIX MULES KILLED
|BY PASSENGER TRAIN

Admission, January 1s.-(Special)-
While unloading a shipment of mules
and horses received from Tennessee
few nights ago, C. w. Matthews, well
known dealer in this city, was con-
siderably bruised up and six of his
mules were killed by Southern pas
senger train when they became fright
ened and stampeded. One of the mules,
Mr. Matthews says, was carried over
mile by the train.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14
Mad Dog Near School

Admission, January 13.--(Special)-A mad
dog prowllng around near the Quintard
avenue public school created consider
able excitement Friday morning. The
dog was shot with revolver and a
shotgun, but it required several blows
with a rake to kill the animal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14
ALARAMA CoNsIsronY

ALABAMA CoNSISTORy
WILL HOLD ITS ANNUAL MEETING
IN THE MASONIC TEMPLE WEDNES-
DAY, JANUARY 10, AT Il. VI. ELEC-
TION AND INSTALLATION OF OFF,
GERS w. w. RANSOM,
MASTER OF I<ADOSH.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
JOHANNA WOULD DN'T
WEAR RED PANTS
Being a Lady She Wanted
a Slashed Skirt and
Trouble Ensued

Johanna wouldn't wear trousers. That
was the only trouble with the $4,000
lady chimpanzee's sixth birthday party
recently at the Geological gardens. To
be sure, the trousers were a most ad-
mirable red, but they didn't attract
Miss Johanna in the least. Being a
lady, she insisted on skirts. She
clutched at the slit skirt of one of her
human admirers and there was a fuss.
The human lady screamed. Johanna
grinned Keeper McCrosson, who Is the
monkeys particular friend, assured
both that there wasn't anything the
matter. So Johanna, still grinning at
the slit skirt, presented paw and
shook hands in very dignified manner.
The human lady gave her just one
finger. It had a ring upon it. Johanna
wanted the ring. She clutched for 1t.
More screams; and then her particular
friend led Johanna away, says the Pub
lie Ledger.
Johanna did put on the red trousers.
She kept them on for about three min
utes, during which time she scrutinized
herself in small hand mirror which
McCrosson gave her for a birthday
present. Evidently sne was d1SpleaSed
with the result She discarded male at
tire.
Miss Johannes birthday celebration
included visits to her numerous simian
friends in the gardens. Grinning to
her hearts content, occasionally
scratching her ear and rolling about In
the grass, she shook hands very SOL
emnly with the monkeys OF her ac-
quaintance. If she<hadn't been a mon
key, anybody would have thought she
was a bashful, blushing debutante at
her coming out tea.
Even the elephants were happy to
learn that Miss Johanna was six; for
she fed them with peanuts provided by
McCrosson for the occasion. The pea
nuts were really meant for johannes
own digestive delight, but she wasn't
bit stingy. She stuck whole handfuls
into the trunks of her big friends She
had oranges all for herself; ice cream
In a dish and ate 1t with a spoon; she
drew pictures In the Futurist manner
on real paper with an honest-to- good
ness pencil; she had her picture taken
and looked natural during the ordeal;
and she turned 21 somersaults Just to
show McCrosson how happy monkey
can be who's all of years old.
1t was a big day for Johanna and for
the gardens They were crowded
throughout Johanna's party
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
Summer Spoiled Skin
Ren1oUed BY Absorption
(Fron Home Queen.)

AS undue summer exposure usually
leaves an undesirable surface of tan,
dust or grease, often freckles, too. it
would seem more sensible to remove
such surface than to hide it with cos
metics There's nothing better for
this than ordinary mercolized wax,
which actually absorbs an unwhole-
some complexion. The thin layer OF
surface skin is itself absorbed, gently
and gradually, so there's no inconveni-
ence and no detention indoors. Just
spread the wax lightly over the entire
face at bedtime and take 1t on In the
morning with warm water. II you
will get one ounce of mercolized wax
at the drug store and use for week
or so, you may expect marked inn
provement daily. When the underlying
skin Is wholly in view your complexion
will be a marvel OF spotless purity and
beautiful whiteness.
Don't let those summer wrinkles
worry you; worry will breed more
wrinkles. Better to Danish them by
bathing the face In solution OF pow
dered saxoIite, 1 o.. dissolved in 1H
pt. witch hazel. Used daily for awhile
this will be found wonderfully ef-
fective
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
THE HAND OF
BOHEMIA

In Carmel by -the-Sea the picturesque
is still cherished by the elect, although
they are nightly suspicious of Frank
Power and all his works and pomps. IN
even higher degree the Bohemian red
wood grove, reserved and conserved
from the forests of Sonoma, is the full
fillment of a poetic Inspiration curiously
mixed and compounded after our char
acteristic habits of compromise. They
tell me that this year some of the
campers brought their own French
cooks and Wallets. and moving picture
outfit was on hand to perpetuate the
high doings. l don't know, for I was
not among those present, but do know
that the horse editor was on hand. for
read in the account of an esteemed
contemporary that enthusiasm over
the new vistas seen and the faiFylike
hooks and ferneries discovered sent the
evening meal away with a bully start"
So we may understand that the horse
editor heeds the injunction of another
poet like himself, who wrote:
Ginnyus, ginnyus.
Take care of your carkuss.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17

San Francisco viii do well to heed If In
the making OF our civic center we are
to escape the cemetery effect due tc
making our public places shrine foi
tailormade statues. A shrine is not al
ways a cause of reverence, even II mis-
taken for such by confusion of piety
Samuel Butler. writing OF such mental
confusions. relates how foreigners in
England coming from the continent
miss the accustomed shrines that illus
trate their native roadways, and he
says
The people like them. and miss
them when they come TO England.
They sometimes do what the lower
animals do in confinement when
precluded from habits they are ac-
eustomed to, and put up with
strange makeshifts by way Of sub
stitute. once saw poor Ticinese
woman kneeling In prayer before a
dentists showcase in the Hamp-
stead road; she doubtless mistook
the teeth for the relics of some
saint l am afraid she was a little
like a hen setting upon a chalk
egg. but she seemed quite content
ed. Which of us, indeed, does not
sit contentedly enough upon chalk
eggs at times?
1t is time for California to stop hatch
ing chalk eggs.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
DECAY OF THE
PICTURESQUE

The picturesque decays, overwhelmed
by the conditions of a utilitarian ano
Material civilization in trousers. pur-
suing three square meals day and
satisfied with that Its all we get out
of life-what we eat" says the aver
age philosopher, and all that remains
of his taste for the picturesque is sup
piled for a nickel by the movies" the
last refuge of the Indian the buffalo
and the cowboy. So it has been writ
ten:
When Joaquin Miller died it was
said in parrotlike repetition that
a singer had crossed the divide"
This was meant to be poetical and
to imply that none crossed the
divide until death. But it is not so.
Individuals, families, clans-whole
races of people-cross the divide
long before they pass through the
valley of the shadow. Miller had.
in inspiration, mounted the heights,
and, palm over eyes, had looked
over that barrier which divides
those Of grosser soul from those
who see the land beyond and who
understand the events in the af-
fairs of men and nations which go
to make a tragedy when at length
the old order changeth." 1t was
said that Bret Harte wrote of a
California that never existed. But
they are blind who criticise and are
of duller vision than the few
who reach the great divide. When
Harte was young Roaring Camp
was; when Miller was young rough
boots and rugged lines trudged to-
gether. But now the picturesque
is disappearing. It's remnant hangs
to sight seeing Indian and a
bison chewing the hay of civiliza-
ton Yet the great divide" still
exists, and he who has the ability
should set himself to the task of
finding it.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
MOCCAS|N SHOWS
FIGHT TO F|REMEN
Member Of Engine Company
Bitten by Visitor Out
of Hose Length

A damp subway trip of more than 100
miles from the Catskills to New York
by way of the water mains is the ex-
planation which members OF engine
company 3 offer for the appearance in
their station house in West Seventeenth
street of a four foot water moccasin,
says the New York Tribune. The rep
tile was killed only after battle with
two dogs and the company cat, and be-
fore 1T died sent one fireman to the
Pasteur Institute with bite on the
hand.
fire In West Thirteenth street loft
building engaged the attention Of No 8,
and when the men got back to quarters
they hung up the lengths of high pres
sure hose to dry.
1t was an afternoon "off' for the men
and the smoke vacation was still in
progress when Fireman Louis Abbott.
sitting in group near the station
house door, looked up and SAVIOR
thought he saw-severa1 feet of snake
slowly emerging from one Of the hose
lengths.
Abbott,s shout of Shaker brought
the men to their feet Bess and Prince,
the company's dogs. came running, but
one look at the ugly visitor was enough
to cool their curiosity. They ran for
their quarters. As more and more of
Tile uTeIltu IuStlCo uO WilStdlIS TO see
the curiosity. Smoke, the company cat,
appeared and instantly gave battle.
Coiled fiat on the floor, the snake
watched the cat without motion of its
head or lfdless eyes. Several times, as
the cat prepared to spring. there was a
lightning like ripple In the scales of the
reptiles neck, and each time the cat
leaped-in the other direction.
The courageous Smoke each time re-
newed the battle until Fireman Charles
Bowen, fearing that the cat would ven-
ture once too often. reached to pull the
pet outside the snakes range OF action.
The next instant there was a swish as
the snake struck and Bowen leaped
back with a blood mark on his left
hand where the fangs had cut the skin.
Armed with axes and poles the men
then turned to and killed the snake. 1t
measured little more than four feet in
length and some three inches in diam
eter. It was then placed on exhibition
In the engine house.
Captain Thomas Dunn called physi-
clan and then ordered Bowen to the
Pasteur Institute. tt is believed that
the snake got into the water mains In
the Catskills, came through to New
York and was sucked into the hose dur
ing the hghting Of the loft fire. After
several hours in the station house,
where the lengths of canvas were dry
ing, the snake started on its last jour
ney through the hose and crawIed out
to a brief freedom.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
FOR
CONCEALMENT

Modern clothing for men or women
is simply impossible for the purposes
of statuary. Our clothes are designed
chiefly for purposes of concealment Of
the human form divine. If an artist
were asked to design a statue of mod
ern woman he would insist on the slit
skirt, but when a young person appears
on the street in that fashion she almost
causes riot The naughty policeman
on the corner would say to her with a
wave of his hand, Young lady, go
home and put on some more clothes"
If you ask for more proof. look at the
astonishing statue of the late Mrs.
Stanford that stands in the center of
the quadrangle of the university that
she founded. Her distinguished virtues
deserved more fitting memorial. and,
of course, the great university is her
real and undyinR monument.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
THE CANDID FRIEND


EFT us resume for a brief spell
our discourse on sculpture for
the people I observe that Mr.
Haig Patigian of this city has
been awarded the contract for
designing a $4,000 monument
for the late Chester Rowell OF Fresno.
DIR. Rowell in his lifetime was the first
citizen OF Fresno and did eminent
service for the commonw wealth in many
fields of endeavor. IT is therefore fit-
ting that his life work should have
some appropriate memorial conspicu
ously placed among his people. Mr.
Patigian Is young man OF genius and
artistic accomplishment and his selec-
tion for the job IS well made 1t is
permissible, therefore. to speculate
what he will do with this difficult un-
dertaking.
It is difficult because If the sculptor
is required by the committee in charge
10 design something in the nature of
the statue of commerce he is up
against foregone failure II proof of
this statement is requested 1t is only
necessary to quote Sir Christopher
wren's pithy saying: IF you ask for
q monument look about YOU" Con-
slider for a moment the flood of tailor
made statues that disfgure our public
streets There is, for example the
clothes horse statue of Stephen M
White in Los Angeles. shapeless
monster. scarcely human in aspect.
There is the Mckinley statue in San
Jose. which shows the martyred presi-
dent holding in his hand the image of
his stovepipe hat done in pot metal.
The apology made in the utmost sim
plicity and good faith for this artistic
-oneAse is that the president. when he
addressed his fellow citizens on the
occasion of his visit to San Jose, held
his hat in his hand in just that fashion.
or course, realism is no excuse for bad
art. The difficulty in this field arises
from the fact that the eminent and dis
tinglrshed virtues of our honored dead
rarely lend themselves to the purposes
of sculpture. Virtues, indeed, seldom
do. fulfll those conditions. A pictur-
esque blackguard like Francois villon
makes g better subject than any of
your. stained glass saints.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
NOT BY BREAD
ALONE q

Man does not live by bread alone
and Dallas Lore Sharp. writing Of 9
reservation for sea lions created by
the government at Three Arch rocks
off the coast of Oregon. says:
Cold slaw and sauerkraut and
canned salmon let us have; but
let us also have the inspiration Of
the virgin heath, and the occa-
siona1 restoration to our primi-
tive, elemental. animal selves, in
returning now and then to the
clangor and confusion of wild life
on Three Arch rocks. The body
feeds on cabbage. The spirit is
sustained by heather Denmark
has $1,000 square miles devoted to
iler body. and has saved 800 acres
for her soul. What have we saved? 7
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
A BIT OF
SAN FRANCISCO

The frontier vanishes before the ad-
vance of civilization in trousers, and
yet we are still close to nature here In
San Francisco. The best bit of land
scape gardening in this city is Buena
Vista park, where a remnant of the
primevaI chapparal native to the soil
has been preserved by pious hands and
supplemented with related shrubbery.
The heights are planted with the noble
sequoia Of the California coast range
and the brown and sunburned scarps
that used to skirt the park have been
carpeted with grass. 1t is altogether a
poetic idea we'll worked out within
half a block of the corner grocery,
where Mr.. Dooley doubtless is ex-
pounding his agreeable but vulgar and
inaterialist philosophy. more generally
known as common sense, the prime
equipment of the "hardheaded business
man.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
THE SEAL
CHARMER

Nevertheless and in spite of all ma
terialism there fingers hankering for
the picturesque. San Francisco, for
example, has always had warm place
in her heart for the seals that make
obstreperous noises from their fortress
rocks at the Cliff. They are treated
with respect and affection notwith-
standing the fact that the fishermen
complain that these voracious beasts
is a seal a beast?-consume great guam
titles of marketable fish, enough to
keep a cannery in full work. To be
sure it was our habit to justify this ex-
travagant and wasteful tenderness by
the plea that the seals were a notable
attraction to beguile the reluctant dol
lars OF the tourist and bring to his ho-
tel gates all the pleasures of the men,
agerie. The first day I saw San Fran
cisco many years ago I was invited to
visit the Cliff house with party of
friends and there standing on the ball
cony overlooking the Seal rocks one OF
my hosts pointed out a servitor of the
hotel.
THAT fellow" he remarked, "1as
got soft job
What's his work. inquired. with
some interest
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
END GAME DEPARTMENT

Appended is a most ingenious studys
The conditions are: White to play. and
without moving king or pawns, being
all the pieces, back to their original
squares. with black to play, whereupon
the knight mates. OF course, were the
black king to move in the original po-
sition, the knight would mate on the
move. 1t can be accomplished In 27I
moves. We are indebted to Mr.. w.
McCracken for this curiosity. He in
forms US that, after working on the
problem for some time 1t was finally
solved by w E. Strohmeier of the
Graney. "Stroh' was so elated that he
reused McCracken out of bed at 2
a. m. to show him the solution.
Now if any of our readers think they
can do the trick, we wish them luck.
However, we will print the solution.
which the ambitious can simply cut
out and put away without reading, IL
they wish to work on 1t.
RIack-1 Piece
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17

address AL Communications, Solutions. Etc,
Much interest is being manifested at
the Mechanics Institute Chess club in
the Prize Winners Tourney now In
progress. The games prove to be mag
nets in their power to attract specta-
tators. Indeed. during the Ryder
Fink game when the former, with two
pawns down in a rook ending, was
vaIiantly fighting for q draw (Which
he just missed), the table was so closely
surrounded, that several enthusiasts,
mounted chairs as q coign of vantage,
so as to be in at the death.
Following Is the standing OF the
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
Correspondence

Correspondence
c. o. r.. Jr., Presidio-In your solu-
tion to prize end game by Rinck printed
in this column August 3, after P
Kt4. Gn your second variation) you did
not make the strongest move for black.
BY playing ~ K-B, black should
draw. However, you were correct in
your statement that Kt-Q5 is neces-
sary for white key move 1t Is very
fine end game and should have received
more attention than it apparently did
receive.
N. o. Baker. Oakland-Glad to hear
from you In the end game by Geiger
published last week, you give k
OBJ and wins. But black draws by
PLAYING K-K2, followed by K-K3 and
K-Q4, if white advances bishops pawn.
See correct solution in end game de-
partment.
II. J. c., Belmont-Do you care to
play a couple of games by correspond
ence? Have an opponent for you.
w. s.. City-Thanks for kind letter.
Have reason to believe that you are
one OF several hundred who look for
ward for the Chess Section every Sum
day"
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
NATURE WILL
COME BACK

You may repel nature with a pitch
fork. but she will come back where
least expected. The other day, on the
big coyote affrighted the town from Its
propriety and ran amuck among the
burghers. Constable Tom Carroll, who
used to be the champion hammer
thrower of the world, promptly and
with great generalship organized a
posse of his fellow citizens, supple
mented by pack of dogs. to pursue
and eliminate the impudent invader.
1t was gallant chase, of which we are
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17

F.. L

why" my friend explained. "he gets
IS day to play the horn to make the
seals bark"
Thus one may understand that soft
jobs sometimes attend on the pictur-
esque and serve to make its apology
and justification in the eyes Of the utiI-
itarian and the materialist.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
THE VILLAGE CUT-rJp

Twenty-Five young people, all dolled
up in their glad rags, were highly en-
tertained at the Mallett home Satur-
day evening. Both indoor and outdoor
games were played. When they had
played most all the games they knew.
Henry raised a little excitement by
pouring lemonade on two OF the girls
DE Kalb (Ill.) Tribune.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
A LAUNDERING
PTETY.

The sculptor. of course. knows all
this but he has TO contend with the
laundering piety and enthusiasm Of
well meaning people who. having sup
piled the necessary fund, want to die
tate the form that the monument shall
take. San Francisco is full of exam
pies of this mistaken piety that de-
feats its own amiable purpose by max
ing. the subject ridiculous.
Realism is not art. If it were we
should be involved in an inextinguish-
able debate whether the statues trous-
ers should bag at the knees or be
ground to a fine and acute crease. If
you insist on realism. there is the wax
figure in the shop window tricked out
in his best and ticketed, Take me home
for $3.50"
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
A||'IIll||III|||I(l| T|||''
THE VANISHED
STREET FAKIR

Among other forms of the pictur-
esque we seem to have lost the street
corner faker. Where is now the King
of Pain whose flowing locks and fiaring
gasoline torch were wont to illuminate
cranks corner in Market street in the
old days-an accomplished and inspir-
ing spieler he as he paraded the streets
in his four in hand coach? One recalls
that ingenious rascal Soapy Smith. who
would conceal IS piece in a cake of
soap and sell you the cake for 10 cents
1 have in my possession a gold nugget
that Soapy Smith gave me in Skagway
during the Klondike boom, where he
was engaged in spelling the way
farers to the diggings. month later
Soapy died with his boots on, a con-
summation that perhaps he had in
vited. 1t is hard to be picturesque
and comfortable at the same time.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17

What shall we do then to signalize
the virtues Of the eminent dead and
keep their memory green? That Is for
the Artists themselves to determine, but
I might suggest that the Sather memo
rial gates at the University Of califor-
mia embody "a pious idea that lends
itself to the best artistic purpose and
imports no suggestion OF the ridiculous
or the grotesque. 1t Is lesson that
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
THE CITIZEN
IN BRASS

!. Now, what can the sculptor do with
your prominent citizen?' You can
not put the honored defunct in the
costume of contemporary athlete. for
that would be scarcely decent The
local committee. composed probably of
the butcher, the baker and the cam
diestick maker. insists on reproducing
the subject in his habit as he lived,
wearing on his blameless legs pair of
metal cylinders OF the most uncom-
ironed in the best style of the tailors'
art. Then they set him on pedestal
to be a uiockery of men like the Nc
Kinley statue in San Jose or the White
statue in Los Angeles. The result is
an urf appy caricature.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
PARpoNABLE pRIDE

Another reason why a man feels
proud OF himself when he has cleaned
his last summers straw hat until 1t
locks almost like new il because he
money and his wife needs that.--Gal-
weston News.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17

NOTES
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