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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04
COST OF SMOKE NUISANCE
from the American Machinist.

well known European artist. who re-
Gently visited this country, has been
quoted as saying that American cities
would be more beautiful If there We're
more smoke to tone down the sharp OUT
lines of the buildings and give q soft,
pleasing gray. Evidently his observations
were not made in Chicago or Cincinnati
or Pittsburg. Smoke may appeal to the
ultra artistic. but when it has been esti-
mated that the smoke nuisance costs the
American people nearly s5O.00O,OOo every
year, there seems to be another point
from which to look at 1t. IF
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04

capt L. P. H. Whitelaw of San Fran
CISCO has located all iron chest which con-
talns s6o'oOo in gold ingots at the bottom
of the Bay of Angel Island and w;,, a+.
tempt to recover the fortune by means of
an electro-magnet. The safe was dropped
from the hold of the steamer Corcoran n.
"hich was rammed and turned turtle after
colliding with the steamer Seminole in a
dense fog four months ago. owing to
the depth of the water Captain Whitelaw
mas been unable to send diver down TO
make line fast SO the safe might be
raised. This will be the first time mag
nets have been used for this purpose here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04
MUFFLED KNOCKS
rom the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Your wife is splendid and a highly
sensible woman; how in the world did
you manage to win her?"
That speech of yours last night. old
chap, filled me with enthusiasm. Who
wrote it for your
Whenever l look at you, Mibbs, I
can't help wondering what there is about
you that makes me have a sort of liking
for you"
Il don't believe you ever got drunk in
your life, friend swigham; if you ever
Gid. though, it was at somebody else's ex-
pense."
Come In, old boy; we were just talk
ing about you-and I'm mighty glad you
didn't hear what we were saying"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04
TO BLOSSOMS.

BY Robert Herrick.
Fair pledges Of fruitful tree,
Why do you fall so fast?
Your date Is not 30 past;
But you may stay yet here awhile,
To blush and gently smile,
And go at last.
What, were ye born to be
An hour or halfs delight,
And SO to bid goodnight?
Twas pity Nature brought ye forth,
Merely to show your worth,
And lose you quite.
But you are lovely leaves, where we
May read how soon things have
Their end. though pe'er SO brave;
And after they have shown their pride,
Like you. awhile. they glide
Into the grave
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04

the scene of the labors of the Five
Rivers company.
Mr.. Silk hopes to make the company
one of the big producers In the long
run. 1t cannot be done IN day but
he hopes soon to bring success In plain
sight. His health Is excellent and he
Is full of ambition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04
EASY

That bard must be
A stupid loon
Who cannot sing
A song of June.
Fit words are found,
Without delay;
To rhyme with June"
Is simply play.
There's boon and Groom
And dune" and moon"
And moon" and rune"
And spoon" and "soon,"
And tune" and "swoon'
And others, too
Sooth, not a few,
That rhyme with June
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04
ADRIFT WITH THE TINES
VARIOUS VIEWS

VARIOUS VIEWS
What next for T. R.?
A job for the college graduatet
Bernhardt may come back She ALWAYS
does.
Do we hear the swan song of nr,uo at.
'is Inc typeWriters are clicking family.
The Jap scare having simmerea ao
will somebody please bring out the hubo,r.
plague again?
so man can dress on s25o0 year? We
hope SO. We manage to keep coveres
on less.
we've made fun of the suffraget,sv. put
we've never called them "suffs, vet.
Picnic weather. Let's go to a cabaret
SOLITUDE
BY day and night l walk the crowded
ways.
Inc human stream flows on-I feel alone
upon the surging throng l cast my gaze,
And not one face lights up to meet NV
own.
j. j. O'Connell in June Lippncott,s.
Alas. j. j., fear you are a crouch.
Else, why should all the world thus mass
you by,
And no one, your doleful lines avoucb
E'er,looks upon you with a friendly ave9
so your friend Jasper has been ilted2,,
Yes"
How does he take it?"
He says he feels as If ne had been
kicked by mule"
"Oh, I guess it isn't as bad as all that.
People sometimes die from being kicked
by a mule"
IGNORANCE DOESN'T MATTER
why don't you talk about the tariff@'
Il don't know anything about the tar
iff"
"Umph! II the average man in this
country were like you there would be a
sharp decrease in the amount of talking
DONE" PAUL, COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04
Hone for Tuberculosis Cure

Surely, with all of the indefatiga BILE
search of the pathological scientists We
shall find a serum or culture which will
check the deadly march of the ever-in-
creasing white plague said a human
itarian.
great work in that today there are two
remedies being practically tried out.
While the Friedman turtle serum has
failed in advanced cases, yet it has prob
ably checked some incipient cases, partic-
ularly in that form of tuberculosis which
attacks the muscles and limbs. An Amer
lean doctor has today announced a cul-
ture cure for tuberculosis. So, say,
there is yet hope that we shall master this
dread disease. 1t was great discovery,
when fully proven that tuberculosis is not
hereditary, but very contagious. Now. we
learn that cancer Is contagious, but taken
in its earlier stages may be destroyed
by the knife or by other heroic treatment,
such as powerful tissue destroying ONT
ments; also there are claims of cures by
the electric needle.
1.-THE humanitarians who have made
generous contributions for pathological re-
search are great friends of the human
race; and coeval with them are those
noble men of science who are bending
every faculty to the finding of the much
sought cures for deadly diseases"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04
AN HONEST DEALER.

Does this parrot use bad language?"
well, mum. that ere bird amt no
purist, cause he amt had no college ed
dication, an bein' as how he were taught
to talk by sailor, his English amt none
too good, but I've never heard him
swear"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04
SMALL AREA.

"Biffels is always blowing about his an
cestral estates"
Don't pay any attention TO Riffels Js
was born on a forty-foot suburban lot,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04

The man who rocks the bo:t is now out
classed by the man who takes a bichloride
of mercury tablet by mistake or other
WiSe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04

The New York World thinks the $50 900
awning at Newport should De matched
with a 100000 doormat The era of ex-
travagance is upon Newport.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04

Portugal hasn't recognized China vet
and yet both are republics in good stand
ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04

Mrs. Pankhurst's hunger strike is fast
becoming feature of the British govern
ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04

All regret the passing of the Astor house
it was so old and so full of reminis-
cences.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04

The sugar and wool lobbyists are keep
ing away from the capitol at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04

The lobbyists in Washington deny that
they are there. They are simply innocent
bystanders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04

AS democratic floor manager Senator J.
Ham Lewis will soon have his hands full
of business
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04

Charles w. Morse rose from the ranks
or 1nvalidism to become in one short
month steamboat king.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04
AN EARLY START.

Bobby, you ought not to spend so
much of your time playing with that lit
tie Tompkins girl"
But, ma, we are going to get married
when we grow up, and it would be terrible
If We felt like strangers them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04

The innocence Of senators who never
saw sugar or wool lobbyist is refreshing,
not to say delightful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04

The President meets the newspanar men
twice week and at once learns what pub
lie sentiment is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04

One house of six rooms In a Washing
ton alley shelters six families and rents
for $27 a month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04
FINDING THE "sUCKER,

Armaseddon and Marquette have parted
company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04
on I'm Tex.. ana Oklahoma

W. w. Silk has returned to this city
for brief stay on account OF the un-
timely death Of his wife's brother. He
will soon return to Texas. where he
Is the manager of the Five Rivers
Oil and Gas company. an Alabama cor
poration as originally formed. Mr.. SILK
Is drilling to the second sand on
40-acre tract near Electra. and the COM
pany has purchased a 16o acre tnact
amid the oil wells Of Oklahoma. The
chances are very good. it is said, that
both Texas and Oklahoma will become
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04
HOT

Not long ago, in winter time,
We feared that we might freeze,
And now We walk all over town
Just looking for q breeze.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04
CULTIVATING AN EGO,

Now Scribbles is a lucky wight
And gets a pile of pelf,
When all he's ever known to write
is something bout himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04
General Trade

"As far as / can learn. general trade
has been as good this year as 1t was dur
ing the first six months of last year"
said F. T. Warner of Chicago.
There may be hesitancy in some d.
rections on account of tariff revision. but
business conditions are sound and as big
crops come in sight prosperity will be In
full swing look for great activity In
business by midsummer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04
MISSING SOMETHING

The man who looks upon this life
AS wearisome and rather tame,
Methinks with fond emotions rife
Meier saw the home team win a game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04
TELEPHONE

Bell (private exchange connecting ="
No. 1900.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-04
Expert Says Icebergs Are Invisible by Night

apt to be indistinguishable from the
sky, and would always be so If they
stood alone out on plain or out at
sea.
IN order to test this matter, notice
first that it is the most nearly hori-
zontal top surfaces of a berg, snowy
roof or other white object that re-
ceiye the most skyllght, and conse-
cuently most nearly match It, 1t fol-
lows that with the average hilltop
shape of an iceberg it will be the
highest expanses of 1t visible from
the ships watch that are surest to be
indistinguishable These highest ex-
panses of course constitute the con-
tour that the watch would see If the
berg were visible, and when these be-
come thus effaced the berg itself is
effaced
Even when a near berg is not tall
enough to stand up against the sky
to the eyes of the watch it's top will
necessarily be looked at against the
most distant part of the sea; and
this part averages, especially in calm
weather much brighter than the
nearer water; and a sky-matching
berg top could not often he dlstin-
guished from it any better than from
the sky itself"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-04
Brokers Do Big Business in Stolen Stamps

7 INSPECTORS have learned that
1 stamps Of all classes and denomi-
nations stolen by burglars from post
offices and embezzled by employees
from great business houses and manu-
featuring establishments were pur-
chased and resold by the brokers at
prices far below their face value.l
The postal laws make it crime
punishable by Imprisonment to sell
any stamp issued by the government
for less than it's face value Investi-
cations disclosed the fact that, in ad-
dition to selling the stamps for less
than price they could have been
purchased for from the government,
the brokers in many cases knew that
the stamps we're stolen when they
purchased them.
Stamp frauds against the govern
ment and various business concerns
aggregating hundreds of thousands Of
dollars annually have been unearthed
in New York City alone, while Illegal
trafflcking in stamps in many other
cities has reached large proportions.
One stamp broker in New York
City who sells from 5000 to 81 900
worth of stamps day to merchants.
1t Is alleged, has been purchasing
some Of his supply from an employe
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-04
DREAMS HE'S ON VOLCANO
Man Uses Warmer in Bed and the
illusion Is Shattered on Ar
rival of Firemcn.

Chicago.-All his life J. 3. Grelner,
G3l Lake avenue, Wilmette, has been
troubled with cold feet Finally he
purchased an electric pad foot warm
er. One night recently was the first
time he had occasion to use 1t. Wrap
ping it carefully around his frigid
feet, Greiner drifted off into pleasant
dreams.
Warmth suffused his whole system.
He was in bathing suit, dabbling in
the tropical waters Of the gulf. He
walked barefoot on warm, white sand.
He swan in warm water far out into
the gulf to a tiny speck r. the dis
tance. 1t was an island. the peak OF
a volcano
The lava was warm and soothing
to his former chilled feet, He sat on
the edge of the crater and dabbled
his feet in the seething water within
Wont" "Oh-h-hl" "Ouch!"
A terrific Shrek arose in the night
and the echo reverberated Flash!
Just like that disappeared the warm
vision But some of 1t was real
Greiner could smell the craters
smoke
Outside a changing announced IRE
department answering a call. Scorch-
ed feet within told Grenier that heat
somewhere was real Then a half
clad volunteer fireman of the Will
mette department burst into the
room
Ten minutes later that part of the
bed and house that had caught fire
from the foot warmer had been saved
from further ruin, and Grenier sooth-
ed his burns with oil.
Cold feet again." he mused dis
consolately; Il might have known
that dream of warmth was too good
to be true"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-04

III ASHINGTON.-Ga Gatherers Of sta
W tlstics who have been compiling
facts about the new Wilson cabinet
announced with satisfaction the other
day that its members are simple,
home-loving and by example, active
'anti-race suicide propagandlsts.
or all the cabinet families, only that
of Secretary OF War Garrison is with
out children and even this is discount
ed by the fact that Mrs, Garrison, far
from being a child hater, has always
taken a deep and sympathetic interest
In small boys and girls.
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan is a
lawyer like her husband, but she has
found time amid her professional du-
ties to rear two children. Mrs. Richard
Hargreaves, Jr.. and William J. Bryan
Jr., whose wife will make her home
in Washington with the, family.
Three daughters call Mrs. Albert
Sidney Burleson, wife of the postmas-
ter general mother" One of the
daughters, Mrs. Richard VanWick
Negley, has a son about six weeks
old.
William c. Redheld, secretary of
commerce, and Mrs. Redheld have a
married daughter and a son. Hum
phrey Fuller Redheld. who is a stu
dent at Amherst college.
Franklin X. Lane. secretary of the
interior, has 16-year-old son, Frank
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-04
Beautiful Bronze SundaI Serves as a Landmark

NEARLY all strangers who travel TO
~ the beautiful close of the Cathedral
Of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, on
Mount Saint Alban, gather around the
sundial Most of them mount the
three granite steps TO stand on the
narrow granite platform about the
sundial and its rectangular pedestal
the better to read the inscription and
TO study the devices engraved on
stone and bronze. The structure is
called "the cathedral landmark and
sundial" According to the handbook
of the Washington Cathedral, "On
Ascension Day, A. D. 1906, the land
mark given by Mrs. Julian James to
commemorate the freedom of the
cathedral land from debt and the con-
sequent hallowing of the cathedral
close was presented and consecrated.
This landmark is a beautiful bronze
sundial. surmounting an open air al
tar, on which are inscribed the names
of those it commentaries. The sun
dial marks not only the hours of the
day, but the different seasons of the
Christian year by means of a device
designed by the bishop and worked
out by Rev. Prof. Bigelow."
Beginning al the northwest edge of
the altar is this inscription:
Transit umbra lax premonet From
the rising Of the sun even to the 60
Ing down Of the same, my name shall
be great among the nations, and in
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-04
IS WITHOUT A FLAW
Mystic Crystal Sphere Is Nor
gan's Gift 10 Museum.
Water.Pure Globe Venerated for Cen
turtles In the Orient Now Where
Visitors Care Into lts
Liquid Depths.

New York.-The Museum OF Natural
History recently has acquired "mys
| tic crystal sphere"-a silvermounted
globe OF quartz, watorpure and OF
wonderful symmetry. This curious
/ bauble for centuries has bene regard
ed with veneration and even fear by
people OF the far east Unknown pow
ers OF hallucination mrk within its
| lImpid depths, and this has been util'
lzed by wizard and seer with no little
profit in bygone days.
The crystal is the gift OF J. Pier
pont Morgan. Nearly five inches In
diameter, Il Is absolutely devoid OF
flaw. cloud stain or lrregularlty, and
even the most cynical disbeliever In
matters mystical cannot but admit a
fascination, a subtle sense of the oc-
cult, when looking into its clear
depths.
Where did It come from? What Is
Its history? These are questions that
must remain unanswered. About its
CLASSY surface hangs strange delusions
Of prophecy and clairvoyance-tales
Of credulity and superstition that are
not always scoffed at by the most
gcornful OF scientific writer's.
Fabulous are the weird stores told
Of its effect upon the lives Of men and
women There was the young girl OF
San Saturn, who eloped with her sis
ter's husband She took a famous
rrystal-a family heirloom with her
and the morning after the escapade
she was found lifeless on a couch with
the crystal broken in thousand
pieces on the floor.
7 'obably the most expert crystal
ia toner's were the Japanese and Chi
nese Of a thousand years ago! They
had no Iabor-saving devices. but skill,
patience and hereditary pride made
up for their lack Of mechanical tools.
The masses, at first rounded into
globular form by chipping with small
steel hammers, were subsequently
ground down to an even surface with
powdered garnet or emery. The last
transformation polish was impaired
by rubbing the surface with bamboo
and with the hand, which had pre-
viously been dipped In a rough kind
Of rouge.
The largest and most perfect sphere
known is kept in the Green Vault at
Dresden 1t weighs fifteen pounds
and is seven inches in diameter.
The great value of the large spheres
arises from the rarity of the quartz
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-04
Woman Veteran in Want
Mustered Out" of New York Munlcl
pal Service; Was Wounded
in Battle.

New York-Kady Brownell, the only
woman veteran of the civil war. has
been mustered out of the civil serv-
ice, under which she had served the
last seventeen years.
She and her husband. Robert S.
Brownell, have been living in the Ju-
mel mansion, corner of One Hundred
and SiXtieth street and Edgecomb ave.
nue., where they have been acting as
caretakers. Commissioner Stover Of
the park department tried to arrange
with the Grand Army Of the Republic
of which both Mr. and Mrs. Brownell
are members, to take care Of them in
some institution for the rest Of their
lives. The difficulty is that the organ
ization has not had to consider sim
liar case before.
Mrs. Brownells military career may
be said to have begun with her birth
on the battlefield. when her father
Colonel George Southwell was station
ed in Calfaria, South Wales. Her
mother died a few days later, but the
child was sturdy and lived to 90 home
with her father
After time he was ordered back to
Africa and the little Girl came to the
United States with another friend of
the fathers, Cameron Mckenzie,
While living in Central Falls, r. l., she
met and was married to Mr.. Brownell
she being then barely IS years old.
Three days after her marriage the war
broke out and her husband, who was
one Of the charter members of the
Mechanics Rifles of Providence, was
summoned to go to the front,
He went home and broke the news
that he was going to the war His
wife said she, too, would go to the
front and fight beside her husband
Both Mrs. Brownell and her hus-
band were wounded during the war;
the latter seriously. In 1884 congress
passed an act granting her a special
pension Since 1903 she has been en-
ployed by the New York Department
of Parks.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-04

every place incense shall be offered
unto my name"
On the eastern face of the altar is
this inscription:
This landmark is set up in the
cathedral close in memory of Ascen-
sion day, A. D. 1906, in the eleventh
year of the episcopate of the first
Bishop OF Washington.
Some of the names carved on the
altar sides are Theodoras Bailey
Myers, 1S21-1SS8; Catalina Juliana
Mason. 1S26-19O5, and Cassie Mason
Myers, Julia James, Frederick James.
Edmonia Phelps, Sidney Mason, Al
phonso Sidney Mason and Catherine
Kobb. In one Of the stone panels is
Major Myers, Thirteenth Regiment,
U. S. Infantry, married
Charlotte Bailey" with some dates
that in the Ramblers notes were so
blurred by rain that they could not be
read.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-04

Madrid adyices are positive that
King Alfonso in conference with
Azcarate, the republican leader, has
promised Immediately to establish an
old age pension system, liberalize the
educational system, reduce the ex-
penses of SPANS military program, es-
tablish religious tolerance and bring
into being many other reforms that
the republicans long have sought. At
this agreement on the part of the king.
OF whose sincerity Azcarate declares
himself assured, Spanish republicans
are much eIated 1t was firmly assert
ed long ago that there was a great
deal OF ability in Alfonso, and that he
would have the tact and intelligence
to proIong the life of the monarchy in
Spain, Notwithstanding what has hap
pened in the adjoining portion of the
lberian peninsula.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-04

OF the New York state government
at Albany. The employe confessed
to post office inspectors that he re-
mitted to the stamp broker from s25
to $50 week in stamps stolen from
the state.
The department redeems postal
cards from original purchasers at 70
per cent. Of their face value. A few
weeks ago a member of congress and
a former deputy commissioner Of po-
lice Of New York City requested the
third assistant ostmaster-general to
redeem more than a million cards for
a constituent Of the representative.
Inquiry by inspectors developed the
fact that the cards we're the property
of stamp broker, whose business is
declared by the department officials
to be clearly iIlegitimate.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-04
llEg,e uNFlNlsAsp BUSINESS.


The habit OF finishing one task ere
setting his hand to another 10 the in
grained custom OF the man who ac-
complishes great deal. without
heste and without rest" to cite the
phrase OF Goethe, II is the fate OF the
man who cannot concentrate on one
nxed Issue, one narrowly specialized
occupation, 10 muddle Intellectually IN
various employments and never 70
get through" He is always worried,
preoccupied. overwrought and yet
futile, because he has not learned the
virtues Of system and q set program
which does not signify n written
schedule by any means Indeed, the
man who consults a time table at
every turn and pulls out his watch to
announce his hurry is hardly likely 70
be any more successful than the one
whose life is desultory, whose appoint
ments are fortuitCusly kept. whose
regiment refuses to nc itself to fixed
hours and observCnces. The secret
OF success, before any other formula
or recipe, seems to be to end the work
that is begun before more is under
taken. There are many admirable
starters, comparatively few praise
worthy finishers. Almost any one can
muster the courage--it might be call
ed the elfrontery-to make a pleasing
first impression, but to continue day
after day, year in and year out, to do
valuable work, to deliver the goods,
IS quite another story.