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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09

enforce a law prohibiting the concealed
weapon until the community itself ceases
to rely on the concealed weapon. A
general disarmament is possible In Ala
bama. as IN Europe, among these indi-
viduals as among those nations. But It
would be absurd to expect France to
disarm while Germany is building en-
gines of war. We should be ashamed to
ask the ignorant to lay aside his weapon
when he does not know who may pres
emily threaten him with a broadside.
Perhaps it is true that a higher cour-
age is needed as an unarmed officer of
law In jefferson county than in most
other places. But there need be no ques-
tion about the vast superiority of moral
courage. unarmed over all possible forms
of force, menace and intimidation. II
this proves true In other places. why not
try it In Birmingham And il any mem-
ber of the police Is afraid to try il, why
not find q braver man TO fill the place
Some such Gideon test is needed if we
would secure ideal police methods. The
time win come when Birmingham will
think with amazement of these primitive
days of police protection"
(3). 1t must be allowed that cowardice
is closely akin to hate and to all the
baser passions. Needless to say, there
fore, the use of pistols and other arma-
ment is u surrender of the higher to the
lower qualities. Put q pistol in your
pocket and you have a sense of security
which, however, is a false sense. The
truth is that you are more likely to be
shot than before. But armed you will
domineer over your opponent, you will
insensibly trust in your cartridge more
than in his sense of Justice or the claims
of brotherhood. All the latent brutality
and emotionalisn of your nature come
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Spillane

lived Mrs. Dodge Half of the estate
went to Mrs. jenkins and half to Mrs
Dodge's son, Marecellus Hartley Dodge.
The Hartley fortune was made in the
manufacture of cartridges aud fire
arms. Young Mr.. Dodge was at CO.
lumbia when his grandfather died He
Is 70 years old now married and as
quiet and unassuming as If he was "A
$40 week clerk instead of a youth
Of great wealth. He occupies the office
his grandfather did. uses the same
desk, manages the business as the old
man did and attends to his duties as
faithfully as does any of his employees.
Hartley hall at Columbia university Is
a memorial to Marcellus Hartley The
ola gentleman displayed a great IN
terest in Columbia and the grandson IS
like him In that respect
John Nicholas Brown has had more
fortunes left to him than perhaps any
other school boy in America. When hc
was years old his father died ard
left S4,000,OO0 to HIM. Then various
other relatives died With each death
he came into other millions until hs,
mad SlO'OOO.0O0. When he was years
old his mother became alarmed at a
report of a scheme to kidnap the Mil
lion Dollar Kid" as he was dubbed,
and took him to France. He was not
strong and an injury he sustained
made 1t doubtful If he would live to
ENJOY his money. Pl obably no child
ever got more attention than John
Nicholas Brown. Every resource of med
zeal science was employed to restore
him TO health. Everything lie ate and
drank was sterilized. He was watched
over with care that was wonderful
As result he has developed into Il
sturdy. vigorous lad. At he was put
In the care of physical culturists ana
now he is clever boxer, a good wrest-
Ter, good runner and fair all around
athlete. lie has lived so much abroad
that he is quite a linguist He speaks
French as fluently as he does English
and is able to hold his own in Ger
man. He Is back In his native land now
attending st. Georges school i'm New
England. Fis mother has a mansion at
Newport and beautiful home at Prov
idence. 1t will be nearly 10 years be-
fore John Nicholas Brown reaches his
majority. Meanwhile his money is pill
ing up. II is estimated that when h,,
is 2l he will have 100000 900. Mean
While he is concerned more about
yachting, rowing, wrestling and boyIsh
games generally than he is about any
thing else. He can sail boat as clev-
erly as If he We're a fishermans son
instead of descendent of the man for
whom Brown university was named
Altogether the present crop of youths
OF great fortune Judging by the five
dealt with here, is a pretty good one.
The four who have reached mems es-
tate are earnest and unspoiled, ready
to take their share in the affairs of
men and fully realizing their duties
and responsibilities Their lives ars not
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Big Herd of Wood Buffalo

There are fully 500 head of wood but-
falo vest and north of Fort Smith. on
the Peace and Great Slave rivers. in the
extreme northeastern part of Alberta, at
the Goth parallel of latitude" said A. J.
Bell, who has charge of the Northern In
dian agencies. on returning to Edmonton
from the silent north. where he is guar
dian Of Indians of the Yellow Knife Dog
Rib, Chipewyan and Caribou Eater tribes
In an exchange.
Some time ago i made n proposal to
the dominion government that the buff
falo in the Fort Smith district be con-
fined by fence in the penincula between
the Peace and the Great Slave rivers.
Mr.. Bell sair "rhis would afford better
protection TO tho animals. The fence, Ia
miles in length, would cost about $4,000
The buffaio in the northern district
have every mark OF resemblance to bison
OF the plains, but constant living in the
heavy timbered country has made them
much wilder than the prairie buffalo.
They are almost unapproachable Az
these animals are protected there should
be rapid increase IN their numbers
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ROMANCE OF ALABAMA HIS

strangers, to all which Gaines replied that
he was willing to assume the RESPONSE
bility, and would do his duty.
Heated by the obstinate GOODNESS and
evident determination of the young Off
Ger. Burr began to denounce the proela-
mastion as expressions of resentment and
of malevolence. without justification, and
resumed his advice of warning to Gaines
of the hazard he was incurrihg by an un-
due interference of strangers on a public
road. With iron coolness Gaines ended
the colloquy by telling Burr that his
mind was made up and he wished to treat
him In a manner becoming his high office
as vice president of tine United States, all
of which would be duly respected SO long
as Burr conducted himself becomingly,
but that he would have to take him a
prisoner to Fort Stoddard. Burr sat and
his eyes blazed while he looked at Gaines
Without further ceremony, Gaines moved
with an order TO his men, and Burr SUBJ
mitted.
The conduct OF Sheriff Brightwell was
never explained. He had left Perkins
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their weakness, In the long run alienists
will devise a school for incipient insan-
ity, arising from neglected childhood or
other remediable causes, But in the
meantime 1t must be made law of So
cial existence that irascibility, flying off
al tangent. and similar psychic fits are
all disgraceful, shameful, stupid exhibi-
tions of impending insanity. Here again
! plead for the head against the animal
instincts. man does not become an
ieiele because he controls enthusiasm
with common Sense. Whatever praise
must be given to heroism and the grand
passion and the primal Instincts, they
are all the better for being mastered
by the spirit of wisdom and knowledge
and sound mind.
1t is a melancholy truth that the ten
dency to murder is. an index of the
mind of the whole community. We who
are law abiding and unlikely to shed our
brothers blood are measpreably RESPONSE
Bile for the spiritual defect out of which
murder grows. All the fault is not in
the other fellow. We have too much
patience with our own impatience, too
much satisfaction in brutal conclusions
about persons less fortunate than we.
have heard hundreds of men, not all of
to opinions absolutely devoid of judg-
ment. patience, sympathy. or understand
ing. Ii Is this mental attitude that goes
far to explain the murder plague, be-
cause it springs from and cultivates the
brainstorm mood-irascibility devoid of
dignity, divorced from strength.
The needed charge is city wide indi-
vidual spiriUal. Until we all repent we
are all in danger of perishing; but repen-
some considerable effect on many an in
come.
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the young man who had procured his ar
rest.
Burr was dressed in the same garb
which he wore when arrested. a round
about homespun coat, a pair of copperas
trousers. and sloughed beaver hat
once white. but now very dingy which
dropped at points, and a pair OF dainty
boots. A gaping crowd was present to
see tho departure and as Bur- mounted
his horse to ride away. he lifted bis hat
in a manner so graceful as to waken Il
rousing cheer. He rode the same horse
on which he was captured. ahd his eques-
trian appearance and qualities were SUI
perb. tent was provided Cor his COM
fort and at night while II was closely
guarded, and while the wolves howled in
the neghboring woods, he would sleep
with all the comfort that g camp could
afford. The party passed up through the
counties of Monroe. Butler. Montgomery,
thence to the Chattahoochee The two
federal soldiers rode closely oesile him.
and when entering a swamp, the party
would gather close about him.
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ately to be his sons chum. For three
years father and son were almost In
seperable. They were more like brothers
than anythoing else. Colonel Astor turned
back the hand of time 20 years, or more,
and played tennis. baseball. squash and
all sorts of games with Vincent, rowed
races with him. flshed, hunted, read boy 8
books and even did some tutoring He
practically prepared Vincent for Eton
The boy did not remain in the English
university long and did not appear any
too studious. He was brought back to
the United States and went to Harvard.
Youngsters have odd ambitions 1t was
the hope Of Vincent Astor's life to be-
come great oarsmen Unfortunately for
him, so far as this ambition was con-
cerned, he grew like weed. He was six
feet tall when he was less than 10 years
old. Boys do not get strong when they
grow SO fast. That did not daunt young
Astor. He trained assiduously in the hope
of becoming stroke of the freshman's s
crew. When he failed to make 1t, he
was much depressed.
With all his Indulgence to his son in
other ways, Colonel Astor went almost
to extremes in teaching the boy the value
of money. There were scores and scores
OF students at Harvard whose allowances
were double II not treble that of young
Astor. He had to live plainly and eco
nonically. He had no automobiles and
only q limited credit at the bank. Colonel
Astor did not mean to have his son be-
come snob or q prig.
From modest studentship at Harvard
young Astor was transplanted suddenly to
the headship of one of the greatest es-
tates in the world by the Titanic disaster
In day he was changed from a lad who
had to keep strict watch on his expendi-
lures in order to keep within his allow
ance to the recipient of an income Of
STAGGERING proportions. Ciphers in big
fortunes have been used SO much IN
print that they have lost their full sig
nifiance. To say that Vincent Astor, the
day his father was drowned. came into
a fortune that yields more to him each
year than all the Presidents OF the United
States have received In all the years since
George Washington took the oath OF Of
fce may be more striking. In other
words. he gets in one year more than the
Presidents Of tho United States have re-
ceived In 126 years and the Astor fortune
is growing faster today than at any time
in the last quarter of a century.
With all the adulation and attention
the possessor of immense wealth is sub
jected to, It takes clear minded person
to keep balance No ono has accused
Vincent Astor of being brilliant, but he
is thoroughly competent to do his own
thinking. He is far more amiable and
democratic than was his father. When
he left college just after his fathers
death and came under scrutiny as the
head Of the house Of Astor he appeared
shy, reticent and slow. There has been
. change IA the last year. He probably
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09

Bafeu. in "All's Well That Ends We'll"
act q scene /. makes allusion to a fact
that seems hardly credible. He refers the
King to "a medicine whtse simple touch
Is powerful to araise King Pepin. nay,
To give great Charlemain a pen in s
hand"
1t is well known that Charlemagne be-
came a student of grammar and rhetoric
long after he came to the throne and IL
is said that only then did he learn to
write, or to take "a pen in his hand.
He grew in knowledge and learning, how
ever, until he was finally reco gnized as
the patron of the sciences, and
the friend of scholars. See Rid
paths History of the World, and the
Encyclopedias Americana. OF course,
when Lafeu called Helena a medicine '
he was but jesting: yet the use of the
word medicine" is suggestive OF the ma
teria-medica and popular therapeutics as
they were practiced In the time that the
plays were written, and to which many
allusions are made by characters in the
plays. In Antony and Cleopatra, tho
great medicine whose tinct hath gilded
thee" alludes to the philosophers stone
and the elixir of life. The allusion in
Macbeth is TO the treatment of the
iNilS . evil StIoluld, WneTe Iuc DOCTOR
says. referring to the King:
But at his touch,
Such sanctity hath heaven given his
hand,
They presently amend"
And Malcolm adds:
strangely visited people,
All swollen and ulcerous, pitiful to the
eye.
The mere despair of surgery. he cures,
Hanging a golden stamp about their
necks.
Put on with holy prayers"
When Macbeth would counteract the
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Among the incidents OF the journey was
thai of a tavern-keeper just beyond the
ghattahoochee, who on Learning that the
party, which had stopped at his rura!
hostelry for the night had come from
the region of the Tensas, auizzed his
guests with many questions. and to the
embarrassment of all turned his loauac-
ity toward the rumor that had reached
him of the arrest Of that dangerous
scoundrel. Aaron Burr" and wished to
know If they knew anything of IT, All
present dropped their heads in confusion,
but Burr who fixed his flashing eyes on
the garrulous fellow, and when the Inn
keeper began his denunciatlon of Burr,
saying what he would like to do for nm
if he could LAY eyes on him.. Burr
Strengthened up with flashing eyes and
said. Il am Aaron Burr, now whatll you
have?" The tavern-keeper vanished in a
moment. and his lips were Theoretically
sealed till the party left while hts at
tentions were most profuse.
Burr made but one effort to escape.
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nearer to the surface with that cold
steel getting warm against your flesh.
Your individualism becomes more patent
vague as you realize how easily you can
blow Ehe blank, blank son Of gun
into smithereens."
But all this is confession of the
latent goose whose silly Kissing expresses
itself as the reiterated and wearisoms
alarm notes of so many men. II We were
not so silly We should not be so eowardly,
not nearly so afraid of things different
intruding. With outstretched necks and
angry little eyes the flock regards tho
stranger, thinking that he Is on mischief
bent, kissing and crowding together
Ono wonders how they would act IL sent
to arrest a wild goose or one of those
dark and terrible East India drakesi
Everyone can answer these questions.
with which I conclude this. sermon:
a.. Where Is the sense of poisoning
the vicious man, black or white. with
poisons that tend to make brainstorms
IN his poor, muddled head and stomachs
How dare we allow the very weakest
and most dependent of our brothers to
be tempted to drink cheap iquor9 What
is tho use of an excise board that allows
men to sell bottled murder at low
price? It is possible to stop this traffic in
bad liquor since we all know that there
Is close connection between bad liquor
and furious feasibility.
tbl. What hinders birmingham from
conflscating deadly weapons. other than
those that pay a deterrant license? why
should not a crusade NJ the churches
clean out this destroying devil2 Why
should the stores traffic In pistols?
(c). What Is the difference between
humane and anserous characteristics
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
Beavers Aid the Farmers

Just across the Phillips line TO tho
town of Salem, Me-, there is an Interest
ing work carried on by the busy beay-
crs Here. instead OF being an injury TO
the owners of land as is their custom.
the bcavers are n great beneft. The land
as IL now stands is of practically MO
value to the land owners. but after the
beavers have clearedthe land OF the al
ders and other useless wood which grows
there. il win be transformed into a fine,
fertile pasture. watered by the dam oe
the busy animals. says the Portland
Press. Here these workers of the woods
have built four dams. aooding an area or
100 acres. making the water in some
places about fge feet deeY. There must
be large colony of the animals. for
there is an immense amount Of cutting
that they hive done, although no large
trees have been cut Taking boat from
the bank of the pond that they have
formed, one is greatly impressed by the
amount of work. Besides the dams, which
are tremendous structures. many corr
of alders and poplars have been =
and cut for winter use.
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was staggered by the tragedy. stunned
a bit by the suddenness with which ne
was dragged into a place of prominence
and doubtful of what he should or could
do. He Is not shy or reticent today.
Neither is he loquacious. He is reason-
ably sure of himself. however. He has
mixed with men--men of strength and
characters good deal and has broadened
gradually.
He goes to business every week day
and is as punctual in getting to his desk
in the office of the Astor estate as is any
of his clerks. His desk is the same his
father used. Nearby are the offices OF
James Roosevelt and Nicholas Biddle,
two of the Astor estate trustees.
There is a lot for Vincent .Astor to learn
about the real estate business before he
will be competent to stand alone as di-
rector of his own affairs. There are more
than 1000 parcels of realty in the Astor
estate, all OF these parcels being In New
York. There are great hotels, great Of
flee structures, big apartment houses
fats. tenements and stretches Of vacant
land in the lot and besides there are many
Investments In various corporations. In
the hotels. office buildings, apartment
houses and such owned by Mr. Astor
probably from 5000 to 5000 persons have
rooms. As a landlord he heads the list in
America.
Apparently young Mr.. Astor considers
he had duties aside from making him.
self competent to manage the Astor
estate. He thinks along straight lines
and forms his own ideas. Then he acts
according to his best Judgment. Most
OF his associates are men much older
than himself. One OF the men he earn
estly admfres and to whom lie has
gone for advice at various times IS
Theodore Roosevelt. He looks like q
student but Is more of student Of
men than of books. He stoops a little
and is by no means robust The impress
sion person gets upon meeting him
Is OF quiet, modest, serious minded
young man. When he shakes hands
there is warmth in his grasp. When he
talks to caller he looks the visitor
In the eye. As to the matrimonial diff
ficulties OF his father he may have had
his own Ideas. but IL he did he kept
them to himself. He Is devoted to his
second Mrs. Astor.
II Vincent Astor has done nothing
more he has set good example to first
voters. He was one Of the early birds
In registering. So far as is known he
was the first of his family to march in
a political parade. Most Of the very
rich men, young or old. take the privi-
lege or responsibility of suffrage light
ly. He does not. More than the mere
act of registering or voting is the fact
that he has worked in the cause lie
thought was the right one. No one can
but respect a conscientious man.
Averell Harriman, in the natural course
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showing every possible kindness TO a
brother of the commander at the fort.
which brother was an invalid. Indeed. he
won the hearts of all by his affableness
and cheriness of disposition.
Meanwhile preparations were on foot to
convey the noted prisoner to Richmond,
Va, for trial. When the arrangements
were completed Burr was sent by boat
up the Alabama river. along the banks of
which curious crowds had gathered to
catch a glimpse of the notorious captive.
among whom were many women, who
when they saw him a helpless prisoner,
some of them burst into weeping, and
one of them was SO fascinated by his
manner and conduct. that she afterward
named a son for him.
At a point called 1.-THE Boat Yard.
Burr was consigned to the care of eight
selected men, who We're to escort him
across the country on horseback to Rich
mond for trial. Two of the guard were
of the federal cavalry. all were cool and
determined men. and the guard was placed
under the command of Nicholas Perkins,
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they were used in England, but in France
and Italy they contributed to mems pleas
ure at a much earlier time. At one time
thin plates of silver were used instead of
cardboard. Unhappily, at an early date
the passion for gambling appropriated
cards to it's use, and they were banned.
Leuben. silly German, bet that he could
In time turn up pack of cards by cut
ting them. in certain order, and signed
a contract SO to do. He cut. turned and
shuffled the cards for 10 hours day for
20 years, and after this performance 4.216.
OBS times. he at last succeeded. Card
playing as a mere recreation is a very
innocent amusement. When one is tired
of work. of studying. of talking. and of
things in general. what can be more
pleasant than an old-fashioned game of
whist? The bridge devotee who plays
all the time and Is ever in nervous state
through the strain of the game, knows
nothing of the pleasure of which / write,
I am very fond of solitaire, also. Besides
my interet in the game, / know that
shall not be called down for committing
that objectionable offense of 'trumping
my partners trick"
In act 8, scene 2, of Twelfth Night"
the rollicking Sir Toby Belch encourages
Sir Andrew Aguecheek to write a chal-
lenge, and tells Sir Andrew to write ''as
many lies as will lie in thy sheet of paper,
although the sheet were big enough for
the bed of Ware in England. set em
down; go about it." The bed of Ware is
the bed that once was kept at the Sara
Gems Head Inn, at Ware. From Ware
1t was removed to the Rye House, where
1t is now. This bed Is IL feet square, and
will accommodate IL men. 1t was made
for Warwick the King maker, so tradi-
tion says. Bulwer's Last of the Barons''
contains much of the life of the Earl
of Warwick, but I do not remember his
mentioning this extraordinary bed; yet,
he might have done SO and | not remen1-
ber it. for 1t has been a long time since
read the great story. The head board
and the four posts of this 'bed of Ware"
are most elaborateiy carved, while the