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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

By KARL KAFFER

And the poet promised he would and
accordingly sent. into the editorial de-
partment in due time. the following
result, entitled:
THE TWO PATRICIAS
Patricia sat dreaming. He'd surely ar
rive, as he'd promised last night very
promptly at five. Cozy flames blue and
gold danced about the gas log, while
outside, the world shivered chill in it's
fog.
Her satin shod feet graced the fend-
er, (size four) showing round. silken
ankles-and quite a bit more. And a
gay founce of petticoat peeped with a
iirt through the flap of very au-
dacious split skirt
Patricia sat dreaming. High up over
head hung another Patricia, although
1t was said that she was called Patty
seven decades ago, when she, like Pat
ricia, awaited some beau With hair
much be-puffed, and in velvet resplen-
dent, she gazed from her. frame on this
giddy descendant What a contrast,
Her skirt (ten yards round, i recalD
TO Patricia's. which seemed nearly no
skirt at ALL
Patricia's grandmother? Dear me- no
indeed Patricia's grandmother was
having her maid curl her hair that iden-
Iva iioHient, lof Sne was expecting
q number of callers for tea Twas her
grandmother's mother, that furbelowed
dame, critical and aloof in her lofty
gilt frame.-Now, strange to relate,
while Patricia sat dreaming, and watch
ing the blue flames paling and gleam-
lng,-her eyes misty grown, with
thoughts trav'ling afar,--right down
from the frame stepped her great
grandmana! And established herself
with a stately air. and with questing
eyes, IN great armchair. Then glane-
Ing askance at Patricia's silk hose.
said My dear, are you sure you've got
on all your clothes? Just think how
you'd feel"--lier voice dropping low
~ Fred should come in--and you look
ing so'''
YOU don't call that a slsiit. That
thing foot wide. not even sewed up
all the way down each slde In my day,
my dear Id have thought shame to
wear such an object as that. 'Twould
have made people stare. And believe me,
my child, YOU might search near and far
anu not find such a sport as your great
grandpapa. and yet If he'd seen me
displaying Just hair as much as you're
showing right now of your calf, ana
wearing froc1S so indelicate-my' l
can see how the scorn would haze
flashed ir his eye, and how. win
politest contempt he'd have said fare
wcil'--aiid gone seeking Z more MOD
est maid And now. just word my
grandch1ld. ere go: the beauty ina
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
The City of the Kings

Miraculous Candlestieln ass 1t is called.
was dropped by st James when he came
to Peru.
Here also are to be seen hundreds of
fishermen in catamarans a decidedly
primitive and rather dangerous species of
fishing craft. They are nothing but flat
RATS fitted with sail and as the water
is continually rolling over the vessel the
angler has his trousers rolled up to his
hips or wears no trousers at ALL They
are daring men and in their efforts TO
make livelihood they often venture 60
miles out to sea.
1t was my delight to wander far into
the country when in Peru and in addi-
tion to drinking in the glories of her
scenic grandeur, observe the old modes
and methods of transportation. Many of
the streams are spanned by bull-hide
bridges consisting of cables of twisted
rawhide stretched from bank to bank and
crossing the river in a single span.
Poles of wood are placed upon the
cables transversely and covered with
branches over which is laid earth and
stones TO form flooring. Two other
cables placed a little above the main
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Built of OYSTER Shells

From the New York sun.
What win be. ii Is believed the only
building in the world constructed chiefly
OF oyster shells is nearing completion at
Galveston, Tex II will be five stories
high and occupies a ground space 40
by 40 feet. In its walls there will have
been used shells that formerly covered
approximately 5,5o0oOo oysters.
These shells form the basis Of the
concrete material of which the building
of four parts of oyster shell. two parts
of sharp sand and one part of cement.
While oyster shells have come into
use as a building material extensively in
the last few years this Is the first time
they have served as the chief COM
ponent OF conscrete in a building of this
size. They have been used heretofore
chiefly for concrete walks, walls and va
rious other small pieces OF constructions.
This oyster shell building is owned bS
Nicholas Bohn and q, Tietze Mr.. Bohn
has made study of oyster shell and it's
possible uses for many years. He began
using IL in concrete work in 1882, when
he built sidewalk curbing and founda-
tlon three feet high and s36 feet long.
This piece of work is in as good condi-
ton today as it was when first put up.
He also used the shells as mixture
with cement in sand. thus forming a
concrete material for constructing CTS
terms, fire pots and other articles.
1t is claimed that oyster shell concrete
is much cheaper than the ordinary ms
ture Of that material and that it is faiis
p per cent cheaper than brick II is
said to he specially adapted to the moist
climate of the gulf coast region, a.
humidity has no apparent effect upon
the material.
The oyster shell industry has become
important in the Galveston territory dur
ing the last few years. Near the city
banks of these shells have been piled
up by the waves in enormous quantl-
ties. Some Of the deposits contain many
thousands of tons which are almost en-
tirely free of sand and other foreign sub.
stance. SO great has the industry Of
utilizing the shells for commercial pur-
poses become that there is said TO be
more thau Sl.5oo.9o0 inv ested in boats and
equipment by men who are engascd IN
the business at Galveston.
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administration may turn down my ap-
pllcasion for "sumthing soft. and not
reward me for my efforts last fall which
resulted in a glorious victory. but they
cannot sweerve me frum my duty or
seperate me frum my meel ticket. l have
a friend here who represents a DENNY
cratic paper in Georgia and republicon
paper in Michigan. It keeps him on tho
jump. He has to point with pride in
Georsier, and "Veew with Alarm in
Michigan. When he goes around tho
White House or emmy of the Departments
or sees emmy Of the feeders in Congress
he has to take his Georgier paper. Whom
he eonfurs with the ''abull and patryottic
MINORITY he takes his Michigan paper.
lie lives in eonstint dreed of getting his
drinks mixed and cumming things up by
eether send the Georgier paper Michi-
two he is getting so "nutty' that EVERY
time he passes through LaFayitt park
the squirrels run aftur him.
In the meen time this is going to be u
CRATE administration. Ii may not have
started of just to the liking of a few
peepul who air anxious to retire frum
active work, and up to this time there
may have happened few things that
Senatur Baeun of Ga, would have had
utherwise-to saw nuthfue of Uncle Hoke
but as hole Mr. Bryen is nleesed with
It, and freely admits if the President
will listen to him. that lie can struggle
through four yeeers very suecessfuIy
He believes, however, that 1t would he
foolish to try to proong it ovver that
time. If he can pull Woodrow through
four yeers without pannick he is will
ing then that Woodrow should retire aud
get all that's cumming to an ex-pressi-
dent In tile way OF anuther college job.
or running a maggazeen. Woodrow,
however ducks that subject with com
mendibull Regularity, We will have to
wait and see what we shall see
For in this country the umblest citizen
may aspire TO the Pressdensy-it WON'T
hurt him. The Presidency is open to
emmy citizen in emmy walk of life-ennv
tfew born American. exsept Thomus For.
tune Ryen. Yours trooly.
BILL VINES
Washington d. c.
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he was not pleesed with President Will
SUMS Cabinet. Whats the mattur with
hiin?" [ asked. He is corrupt and ir-
responsive to the publiek interest" he
seys. 81 voted for him three times and
have here sertifyed statemints that my
eskutchyon has newer been smeered by
holding a publick offise," he seys. II
am unnanimusly endorsed by my wife's
relaslons and uther peepul who have
known me cents my boyhood and to
whom 1 owe mummy air urging me for a
furrain post-the furrainer the better.
he was a cannydate he was Very frend-
ly and soshall and spoke ellerquintly of
the rongs of the peepul Now he's re-
surved as organized charity and about
as friendly as a Mixican. This admin
nistrasion is going to the DEVIL. I should
worry
So the peepul will pleese note how
things air drifting. EVERY thing is not
as lovely as 1t is cracked up to be. And
the wurst lecture about It is that it will
encourage crime. Peepul who have new
ner committed emmy crimes or newer
been In the penitensiary may fall frum
erase IL the administration expects
them to earn there living by hard work.
There air peepul today in Washington
who have abstained frnm holding pub
lick offise all there lives, at the request
of large numbers of citizens, who air
beginning to feel bitter and soar toward
the administration. They will go out
and cripple it in evvery way they possi-
bully can unless snmthing is dun to allay
there displeesure. As an allayer of dis
pleasure the President is not cumming
up to advertizmint
1t is not my purpose to take fling at
the administrator Far be it frum me
TO do so. So far as I am conserned eN-
pect to support the administration
say this in order that the adminnistra-
sion may be relieved and not worry emmy
ovver my attitude. The administration
may go rite ahed Knowing that its pol
lisies, whatever they air-meet my ap-
proval. As a newspaper man | represent
nuthins but demmycratic papers and in
the abcents of sumthine else ] shall re-
main faithful to my weekly sallery. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

their Eve, were Children of the snn
another Egyptian analogue though like
venus OF Cyprus they arose from IL,
water
In making a mere passage of tim
Andes one now goes by rail but when
/ knew these mountains no such facil-
flies were available and even TODAY II
one wishes to visit the most interest
ing and historic localities he must SO
on foot, mule back or man-back In
the last mentioned process the traveller
occupies crude bamboo chair known
as n silla. The man is called a silleros
and the chair is fastened to his per
son by three belts, two of which cross
his chest and one his forehead. They
are swift and surefotted, trotting fotn.
miles an hour for half day upon
level roads and seldom stumbling while
mountain climbing but 1t requires time
and prolonged experience to become
accustomed to the human mount
one unacellmated should in thus
travelling take three or four days in
making the ascent of the Andes and
he Is liable to contract the distressin.s
and dangerous disease known as sir
roche. caused by sudden change from
low to high attitudes where physical
eXertion is required. Its symptoms ar.
numbness of the limbs, dizziness and
nausea followed by the cracking of the
lips and blood gushing from nose aud
ears. faintness makes il impossible
to stand and there is no relief but abs
solnte quiet or return TO lower alti-
tudes 1t is said that when the rail
road was being constructed over tho
Andes 1000 men died from sirroche
Even the dumb animals are victims OF
the disease. the llama being the only
beast which Is exempt
Like the Himalayas the Andes have
become to me delicious dream, fit
ting setting to my reyeries of Tho
mysterious land of the Incas my retro
spection of happy golden days spent in
the City of the Kings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
BY c.. F. MARKELL

ones are interviewer with the latter by
means of limbs of trees and afforded
protection in crossing. being sort of
balustrade I saw several bridges con-
sisting of a single bull hide cable from
which was suspended a wicker basket in
which the traveller is drawn across by
ropes.
Then would meet long trains of lamas
coming down from the upper Andes where
it is the only beast of burden, heavily
laden with loads of furs and ores. These
animals can carry a hundred pounds
which they do willingly, but if the load
greatly exceeds that weight the animal
will lie down and refuse positively to get
up until the excess is removed.
In it's natural state the llama is woody
but those used for carrying burdens are
heldom sheared 1t is docile beast ur-
less angered by teasing when it resorts
to an odd and dangerous means of de-
fense and revenge They will turn and
face their tormentors and squirt a pint
of saliva over him though he be six
feet away This saliva is poisonous when
II touches human flesh raw from abrasion
and It's victim often dies from toxemia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

NNcE upon time there was a
man with fatal proelivity Tor
poetry. He talked in rhyme,
walked in rhyme. and there are those
who go so far as to say he said ms
prayers in ryhme. Certain it is ne ate
in rhyme, for when he had potatoes, ne
wanted tomatoes, because they sounoeu
well together. When he had beans, ne
wanted greens. When he had peas, he
turned on the fan to make a breeze, ior
he was bound to get a rhyme soneWay.
When he had rice, he wanted-Greae
Scott what did he want? All the think
able words rhyming with rice souno 100
atrocious for any self-respecting man
to want on his table.
Mice for instance.
I'm sure il wasn't mice. Perhaps 1t
was Ice. though ice and rice really do
not go well together, from gustatory
point of view. Anyway, he hved ana
moved and had his being in swirl OF
rhyming words and poetic ideas.
Needless to say, this man wrote for
various papers and magazines, and the
editors took his stuff, because 1t was
really very good stuff indeed, and they
didn't Ike to turn down perfectly good
.filler ;, even if it was done in poetry.
But they didn't want poetry. In the
first place the typesetters kicked about
it, 1t involved too much thought ana
attention. 1t was bad enough, they ar
gued to have to set type, without hay
ing 10 think. too. Besides that, poetry
took up as much space as PLAIN prose,
and then didn't fill that space
Bad policy. Readers would feel mey
were not getting their money S worth.
When one commits the extravaganza or
having as much as five cents Tor only
ca or 70 pages of reading matter, one
wants those pages filed up, without any
of the perfectly useless little spaces ac-
corded to mere poetry.
So one of the editors tackled the man
addicted to verse writing as fotiows'
"My good fellow, we like your ideas;
thev are sound: they are perfectly all
right. But give them to US in prose.
That's what the people liiSe-plain
prose-
"But my dear man. argued the verse
writer, "if an idea is poetic lt should
be expressed in poetic form II should
be richly clothed in verse.
"Thats all right" said the editor,
..but undress those ideas little the
next time. Send US one in check
rineham garb of prose seven OF eight
s,orde ia the line Now here's a plain
practical idea; take the present STYLES
in vouen's clothes Compare them with
tLo STYLES of two or three generations
ago That's subject interesting .to
women and there's nothing in it 60
be leading you astray into poetry. Try
it old man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

Z xIsTUR EDDITUR; In spite of all
MI the Glowing things which the
demmycratie payers air saying
about woodrow, and the manner in
which he has taken rite hold of the af-
fares Of the Guvvermint. and acting just
as fami1ier around the White House as
ii he had been on a regguler job there
all his life. Newer asking emmy boldly
a question and doing exactly what Mr..
Bryen tells him to do. In spite of all
this the peepul do not know the full
truth. EVERY thing has not leelSed out
and been aired in the Press. The Harm
money EVERY boldly seys prevales in
the party is not sloshing ovver SO you
can wade round in it-not SO as you can
tell 1t.
Demrnycratic harmony is a mitey
good thing to have round the House, and
its plum lovely to talk about and listens
good in the newspapers, but 1t won't sat
tisfy the hunger of a trusty warryor of
the line. or quinch the thurst of patry-
OF. 1t has not the retaining warmth of
. union suit. and is not negosiabull at the
hotels and boarding houses in Washing
been regguler defnmycrats for sevverel
munths, and who have saccifsed sum Of
there deerest trends in the support of
woodrow wilsun. Men who have per-
formed miracles for the demmoerasy
and the Aain peepul, who air beginning
to complain little bit and shake there
beds ovver the situation.
Up to this time these CRATE patryots
have got nuthing but harmmony They
have had harmmony for breakfast, dinner
and supper. They go to bed with harm
nony EVERY mite and get up of mawn-
ing and rap there systems up with harm
mony They have har1nmoniously and
unnanimusly called at the White House
EVERY day and politely called attension
to the fact that they air still in line with
the grand old demmycratic party, and
for an opportunity to surve the coun-
try, at good sallery.
Yet the administration has not risen
10 the occasion and rewarded these faith
ful ones. 1t has refrained frum nommi-
hating tfy for emmy thing whatsoever
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stblood poisoning). I have seen several
men who had been, blinded for life by
the saliva of the enraged llama.
A few of the furs brought down from
the upper Andes are the pelts of the
vicuna, an animal once quite plentiful in
Peru, but now rare and difficult of ac-
quiring It's coat is exceptionally soft
and resembles changeable silk i'll hue.
Robes are made of triangular pieces
taken from the throat of the animal and
as large robe requires a good many
animals to supply the throat patches they
are correspondingly expensive. In the
days of the Incas when the vicunas were
plentiful their skin was the royal errnine
of the Inca kings and none but the i'm
perial family were permitted to DOR IT
Tradition made the animal sacred so that
it was never used as food. 1t is said
that the sight of the Spaniards eating
the vicuna and receiving no punishment
from the gods for the sacrilege cause
many of the Incas to lose faith in their
religion Now that the vicuna is so rare
its pelt is replaced by the skin of the
Guanaco supposed to be a cross between
the former animal and the llama. As It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

veiled, and not always on show is
rated far higher by men, south or
north, than this barring of ankles, and
arms. and-so FORTH
Patricia sat up, just about to reply
but the old dame was gone in the
wink of an eye. High up in her frame
with face free from guile, she gazed
with her old time, wise little smile. The
gas log was glowing, the room warm
and hushed; Patricia looked down ut
her ankles, and blushed Then she
jumped from her chair with quick
little spring, as she heard from the
door-bell vigorous ring. Up the stair
way she sped, calling down to the maid.
Just tell him he may have to wait,
I'm afraid. But I'm sure to be down
pretty quick-in a minute"
Then she ran to her room and locked
herself in 1t.
Soon Patricia emerged looking sweet
as rose in a ruffly hounced frocll
coming down to her toes 1t was Just a
bit rumpled, If truth must be told What
could one expect when twas four years
old?
She beamed on her lover, and then she
was moved very nearly to wrath, for he
--disapproyed!
why, dearest" he questioned. whats 3
that you've got. on? Say, why are you
wearing a masquerade gown?'
Il was told,| said Patricia. most mod
est you'd deem dress such as this [
was told in a dream. Now, do you pre-
fer the new styles? Tell me true
Quick answered her lover, II certain
ly do. l like the short skirts. they look
trim and neat. And why should a girl
be ashamed of her feet?" With long
drawn relief, Patricia sighed "Aht" and
then-made face at her great-grand-
mama. In the Forties and F'ifties dear
grandmama mine, no doubt you were
modest and wise In your line of beha-
vior Bnt listen, oh grandmama-queen,
you don't know thing about Nineteen
thirteen"
Gee whizW gasped the editor. Is
that what he calls prose?' He didn' [
like it one bit, the editor didn't But
after he read il again and thought about
it, he liked II better, and he decided that
he'd use it anyway, because very likely
there would be lots of people Who
wouldn't know the difference.
And loi That prose-verse piece made a
hitl
Along came Berton Braley. who has
been running a string of il ever since.
And along came Foley. who's doing Just
the same thing. Likewise whole bunch
of poets, until the prose-verse is the
thing. Well, IL II gets By the editor. and
fools the typesettcrs. and the verse-pre-
judiced element OF The reading public.
what's the difference?
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with CRATE forttitude and also with crate
Regularity. All it hands out is harm
mony. Harmmony is all rite. but as
reguler dyet it does not appeal to the av-
liver. They air beginning to get peeved
and restless. Sum of them air now
veewing with alarm the deporrabull sit
uasion and the tendency of the admins
trasion to hand out offises to peepul just
because they happen to be compitint to
I'LL them, and without regard to the pur-
rity of there polyticks. 1t is indeed tufr.
If the administration don't look out
there will be sumthing sed about it.
There is going to be dissatisfaction ex-
pressed by man that [ know about,
who also has a friend who will too be
rude and say sum very plain things that
may pain the administration if there
is not change in the way things air
going. I was talking to this man the
uther day and he feels hurt. So far he
aus ASAi dihcu liuiii cflticiSiIlS inc duiuin-
nistrasion. He has in fact been highly
complimentary to Woodrow wilsun-the
man, the HISTORIAN and the statesman.
He was amung the first men in the dem
mycratic party to recognize the Sterling
wurth of the Pressidint, and to call the
attension of sevverel peepul to 1t. He be-
longs to the same church the Pressidint
belongs to. and swears in the same we'll
moddulated Presbyterian sort of way.
He passed through Rome Georgier once,
where Pressidint Wilsun was marryed,
and met man there whose cuzzen on
one occasion, purely in nayborly spir-
rit and uther considerations plowed up
the Garden for Mrs Woodrow's muther
in the spring, so she could plant her turn
nips, and he refers to these facts with
moddesty and points to them with pride.
He has been up to the White House
three times day now for weeks ex-
pecting to go in and have little frend-
ly chat with the President and relate
the pleasing little insidents to him and
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-11-15
WILL SETTLE
GRIEVANCES

NEW YORK. Nov. IL The board
~ mediation and arbitration charged
with settling the dispute between tho
eastern railroads and their locomo
i've hrcmen and enrinemen arising
our ~ the Interpretation Of fre
awards made 90 the employees bv tho
board last April. to-day heard tho
mems grievance and adjourned unul
tomorrow. when decision is q.
poctof
Briefs were filed with tho board hv
". :. Carter. president Of tho HrofH.
eihood ~ Locomotive Fircmon ana
EnFin'men. and hy Elisha Leo. chair
man OF Tho conference committee for
Do" railroads
The members ~ fho board nra yyu
lam I.'" Chamber. chairman. who a.
iho government representative. ~
w Atferburv vice president ~ the
f"nrfy IvnnIa Railroad and Albert
Ihi.lipe. vice president OF Tho uroft.-
hood NJ Locomotive Firomvr and rr
gin"mcn. The three wero tho ar5.fr9
Tors in the ORIGINAL coufro.sr.r f.
cIdod by last Aprils award differ
'uces iu rvr1rf 20 the interpretation
" which are nov being 'hreahed or.