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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

Il your sweetheart were thousand miles
away and you didn't sec any possibility
Of his coming to you for some time and
yet you did want to marry him right
away--well, If you were in Holland you couli
be married anyway in spite Of the distance,
for the Dutch law marries people when they
are separated the same as when they are
" side by each in the church.
The glove ceremony is used. and while
the contracting parties may not be quite as
overjoyed at the affair as if their proximity
were closer, they are just as truly married.
Not ng ago a man in South Africa who
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16
Phone Calls Under the Sea;
Great Commercial Value.

posed basic laws of electricity. The one which
claims that any bare wire conductor in con-
tact With water would be short circuited the
minute a current Of electricity passed through
it, and the other which claims that it is not
possible to have an electrical charge on a
metallic conductor without that conductors
above things, however, were accomplished.
The commercial value of the invention may
be judged from the fact that whereas it will
cost the United States 100000 to lay a new
cable TO Alaska, according to present condi-
tions, the new invention would enable work
to be done for $4,000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16
If Your Autos ALI Rum Down
Find Why with StethOsCOpe.

stethoscope has been invented to enable him
to locate the trouble with certain accuracy,
and as the instrument is difficult to manipu-
late there is business opening up for the
trained man. The instrument contains an
ordinary microphone and highly sensitive
telephone receiver.
The mcrophone and the battery supplying
current are housed in a cylinder and are at
tached to the telephone receiver by flexible
cord. 1t has head piece like that of an
ordinary telephone operator and the hands
are left free. The microphone is equipped
with a metal rod, which is pressed against
the motor while it is running, and from the
vibrations the rod receives and transmits to
the microphone the point where the motor Is
running unevenly can be invariably detected
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16
Here's S a Practical Uplift;
Tea Drinking Aid to Morals.

~ I'D you know that tea drinking is a
splendid aid to ones morals? At least
- that is the opinion of an English scien-
fist who not long ago compiled a learned
treatise to show the beneficial effects of tea
drinking from spiritual, physical, and moral
standpoint.
meal in the morning, he says, with tea
as the beverage will enable a man TO pur-
sue his days work with faculties unelouded,
temper unruffled, and a generally amiable
state of nerves. Besides that, it makes the
body active, it clears the sight it strengthens
the appetite and the digestion, and is par
tcularly wholesome for men Of corpulent bod
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16
Talking Too Much Peril;
War on VerbOmania Urged.

vT~ HIS isn't new disease. in fact it IS
ancient, but its terrible dangers 10 so
ciety are just beginning to be realized.
says NJ Ossip Lourie, Russian writer,
startling article ranking excessive talk.
~ IS dangerous disease and menace 10
gi,izanoa.<
Civilization is responible for It. IN his opin-
Oh and nothing out strenuous regime to
easorces temporary silences on those afflicted
can stop its dreaded rayages. And he urges
humanity to inaugurate campaign against
yerbosity just as it wages war against tuber-
culosis and against excessive alcoholism.
Progress is decidedly hindered. he goes on
TO say, by this prevalent vice, and he urges
the immediate attention of the teacher and
the minister and the doctor. According TO
his theory, human language developed from
signs into articulats speech and then was
fixed By writing. Then people, like the plan
lists who can render difficult compositions
without thinking about them, acquired the
power to talk without thinking about what
they were saying. So words become possible
without ideas in the mind Of the speaker.
II 1t were impossible to speak without
part of mankind would grow dumb In few
years. E'or, far from being creatures that
think, men are nothing but animated talking
machines" They carry within themselves a
principle of verbal movement which Is de-
termined BY power over which they have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

~ HE machinery employed snd the remote
sources of the origin of their materials
make the construction of shoes little
short of marvellous. Here are a few
of the different .,arts of the world which CON
tribute to their making, according to an ex-
pert
The vamp of mans high grade shoe is
made of horse hide brought from Russia and
tanned in New jersey with bichromate of
potash. The top is probably made of the skin
of goat that roamed the plains of South
America, imported into this country and
tanned in Philadelphia with gambler, which,
in turn, was produced il the East Indies.'
The wool oil from Michigan makes it soft and
pliabe. The brilliance of the patent leather
is obtained by polishing with composition
containing lampblack and turpentine, the lat
ter coming from North Carolina, damer from
wood naphtha from Michigan, benzoin from
Sumatra amber from the shores of the Baltic
sea, sandarae from Africa, mastic from. the
isles of Greece. femi from Asia, and lac from
Cuba.
The outer sole is furnished from the back
OF Texas steer and bark from Tennessee
tans it in Kentucky. The inner sole is made
of the hide of California cattle. The lifts for
the heel are from the skin of buffalo that
inhabts East India. The dextrine which
holds them together comes from the corn fields
of Illinois. The sole of heavy oak is stitched
to the welt with linen thread spun in Scot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

IF you are ever suddenly stranded, up
against it for " eats " and place to sleep,
here are some of the queer means you
might try to earn meals and lodging for
yourself. They may seem strange, but they are
affording livelihood to a number of people in
different parts of the country.
In Pittsburgh elderly woman managed to
exc out an existence by removing cinders from
peoples eyes. She stationed herself in one of
the downtown sections and was able to pick up
as much as dollar day. Another woman in
New York did the same thing. "Cinder Ella +"
they called her there.
Several men at different periods have sue
ceeded in keeping themselves out of the free
lodging houses of this city by running after
mems hats The Masonic Temple corner in
Chicago is an excellent spot for such an un-
dertaking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

When the words become divorced from
the idea talking becomes pathological, dis
case, for a mans intelligence IS not meas
ured by the number of words he speaks but
according TO his power of comprehension.
Idiots frequently express themselves with great
facility, while men Of eenias are often able
to talk in only the most poverty stricken
terms.
Yerbomania, he insists, affects numbers of
people who are in other respects quite normal
and whose malady does not prevent them,
unfortunately, from taking part in the regu-
lar business of everyday life. Among its
victims he counts leaders of sects and of
political parties and also habitual gossps,
whom he places in the same class as dipso-
maniacs Thexe verbomaniacs become moral
weaklings and their disease becomes associat-
ed with all kinds of vanity, sauder, calumny,
and perjury. It is more frequently found
among women than men and it spreads more
rapidly among the southern races.
Mr.. Lourie urges preventive remedies sor
family, school, and general social use. Don't
let child pronounce word until he knows
its meaning, don't let him talk rapidly and
force him to remain alone for at least one
hour day. And for professional and In
durable takers he recommends long treat
ments Of silence. There is an absolute need
for places where gossips and social wrecks
Of various descriptions can pick themselves
up. Otherwise there Is infinite future woe
and disaster which will be world wide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

ONG distance telephone calls and con-
versation between continents is claimed
L. for the near future, as the result Of
the submarine telephone, invented by an
Eurlisb engineer named Williams.
The first demonstration test was made re-
Gently from the Pacific mainland to an island
eleven miles away. bare iron wire being
stretched the distance and lying in naked con-
tact with the salt waters. Then over the
hare wire went the sound of human voices
and distant conversation vas kept up for sew
eral hours.
This invention is said to overthrow two sup
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

les and great meat eaters.
1t vanishes dreams, increases the memory,
and prevents sleeplessness. 1t has been OBJ
served that it has contributed more to the
sobrety of the Chinese than the severest laws,
the most eloquent harangues, and the best
treatise on morality.
But in addition to all this, he claims for
tea strengthening effect morality. A
man who is stimulated by generous cup of
ten, moderately strong, will be able to with
stand more successfully the manifold tempta-
tions that assail him in the business and social
world into which he is plunged than the man
who is not sustained by the same beverage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16
They Had Elegant Kitchens
When Rome Was in Her Prime.

once, and pastry molds shaped Ike shells, and
an infinite assortment of gridirons, frying
pans. cheese graters, and tart dishes.
The toilet tables Of the Roman women
were well supplied In the same lavish fash
ion. Ivory combs, perfumes, cosmetics, hair
pins even an elaborate haT net of gold, has
been recently uneartheR Safety pins, too,
strictly modern invention, could be found on
their tables. But they had no brushes nor
any glass mirror, the kind they used being Of
silver or other white metas.e
The ancient world was rich also in sur
gicsl instruments, and those recently found
at Pompeii deprive modern science Of the
credit OF more than one invention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16
Aladdin Out Ala d din d;
Electric Lamp That Speaks.

the current serviceable for telephone pur-
poses, and to their great surprise what was
whispered into the receiver could be distinctly
heard when the ear was brought near to the
lamp
As the bulb of the lamp is vacuum, it
could not be ordinary sound waves produced
through temperature variations and SO the
scientists attempt to explain the phenomenon
by ASSUMING that the vibrations of the fla
ments were transmitted to the thin glass walls
of the bulb and that these, in their turn, pro-
duced the sound waves perceived by the ear
Already the scientists are at work enlarg-
ing on the possibilities of this lamp, and much
is expected to result from their efforts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

g. THILE the housewife today prides
AAI herself and with reason. on the
Wv equipment and conveniences Of her
esta blishment, she need not think
that centuries ago other women in ether lands
were not equally well provided. Indeed, the
kitchens of Roman women were much more
luxuriously fitted out than are most kitchens
Of today.
Now, in the days when the Roman empirs
was at its height, if you went into the culi-
nary department Of an elegant establishment
YOU would find saucepans lined with silver
and pals Of various description richly inlaid
with arabesques in silver and shovels that
we're handsomely and intricately carved. Egg
frames. too. that would cook twenty eggs at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

"a SURPRISING, and to the ordinary
IL person, miraculous discovery has re-
\ Gently been made and promptly turned
into an invention by two German phys
icists. 1t was quite an accidental discovery,
as are so many conquests of science, but it
opens up extremely interesting possibilities.
1t is nothing less than the transmission of
sound through the medium of metallic film
electric lamp.
In the course of some other experiments
the scientists had, for an entirely foreign pur-
pose, connected very sensitive microphone
receiver in circuit with the lamp together
with other electrical apparatus which made
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

do not seem to mind the fact that the rivers
freeze TO the bottom and that small trees
have been known to snap and split from the
biting force. of the cold.
Still many Russians even seem to prefer
it to warmer posts. Its atmosphere is al
ways clear and the air still, and there are no
billiards or snowstorms. Then the Siberian
dress adds considerably to the enjoyment of
this arctic city. It consists Of two suits Il
fur. an outer and an inner. and huge hood
to pull over the face SO that there is just
enough space to see and breathe through.
The summer is hotter than might be rea-
sonably expected, the average temperature
being 80 above zero in July. The earth is
green and vegetation thrives. but the sur
face of the ground is scarcely thawed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

r. GYPTIANS apparently did not care
- about losing their hair any more than
l. do our men of the present day, and,
furthermore, made strenuous efforts to
keen II with them, if we can believe the most
ancient medical prescription which hee been
deciphered by foreign authority, taken from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

fastened In by gold wires.
In the museum at Corneto, the ancient cap
ital of the Etruscan federation, are to be
seen several specimens of bridge work done
by riveted bands Of metal. One OF these
bands supports three artificial teeth and
another two artificial teeth, the latter being
made from a single OK tooth grooyed 20
initiate the tooth of human being.
Under the laws Of the twelve tables writ
ten in Rome 450 b. c., while it was ex-
pressly forbidden TO bury gold ornaments
with the dead, special exception was made
of gold with which the teeth were held to-
gether. Martial, one Of the satiric poets y
Rome, once referred to the teeth of one woman
as dark and the other as white and explained
that one Of them had bought her teeth VIE
the other had her own
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

- = ERKHOYANSEK, good sized city
" in northeastern Siberia, boasts the
distinction of being the coolest in
habited city on the globe. 1t is in
north latitude 67 degrees on the arctic plane
and scarcely more than hundred and fifty
feet above the sea level.
Its annual temperature is above zero and
in winter the maximum is S5 below zero. The
Russian government owns the town and Is
Interested in having an administrative cen
ter where clever and Industrious Yokuts,
fur traders Jews of Siberia, carry on their
operations.
All the inhabitants of verkhoyansek. with
the exception of few officials and Russian
traders are Yokuts. The Yokuts are such
ambitious and aggressive people that they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

the claim made BY dentists That mod
ern dentistry is modern. For the achieve
ments of unknown dentists OF ancient Egypt
and Rome prove the contrary.
lust who the dentists were the historians
do not appear able to tell us, but the results
Of their work have proved beyond doubt
that bridge work, ON which moderns specially
pride themselves, and the most skilled kind,
too was done thousand years before
Christ!
In the tomb OF Sidon were found four in
clsors and two canine teeth in the jaw Of
woman that were held together by gold wire
two of the former being transplanted teeth,
which might be called crowns in this day,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16
DOGS Paws Mixed with Dates
an Eiyptian Hair Remedy.

a papyrus found in an Egyptian tomb. The
prescription reads:
Dogs paws (calloused portion). .........I ! part
Dates .... .'Ft...st = psft
Deukeys' hOofs. -. - psil
BodI the whole in oil and rub scalp actively
with mixture.
Nothing has been found to certify whether
or not this remedy proved efiicaeious.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

~T-s HE Oldest fire in the world, and one
which has been burning now for over
500 years, is claimed to be in a Budd-
hist temple near Baykoh, in Siam. 1t
is a religious practice, and the priests guard
the sacred fame more carefully than their
own life, for woe to the man who would
chance to let the embers burn out. new
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-01-17
MyL|US IS BARRED
FROM THIS COUNTRY
Secretary of Commerce and
Labor Nagel Says Crime In
wolves Moral Turpitude,

WASHINGTON. Jan. I6.-Edward +.
Myths. journalist. convicted in London
OF locl.ng King George. was turned back
from the gates Of the United states to-
day by Secretary OF Commerce and La
Dor Nagel who held that Myllus's Of
Tense was a crime Involving moral turpt-
tude. which barred him from admission.
Secretary NaGe denied that the onensc
was q purely political one
"I cannot assume" said Mr.. NaSc in
his decision, that al law which excludes
anarchists. and those who advocate the
overthrow OF government or the assas-
sination of public officials. was intended
to admit the publication OF a false
charge OF bigamy, simply because the
charge was directed against a king, or
because the courts before which the trial
was held regarded the political aspect Of
the case as an aggravation OF the Of
fense.
Friends OF Mylius held that he had
been convicted Of seditious lbel-a po-
litical offense-that his trial had been
farce. and that In attacking the honor OF
the King of England he was aiming a
blow at monarchial government I'm the
interests of repubicaDiSm.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-01-17
HARSH CRITICISM OF
THE ARMY OFFICERS

WASHINGTON. Jan. l6-Criucism OF
the army officers of this country and the
army in general by Representative Helm
of Kentucky marked the consideration
OF the army bill in the house today Mr..
Helm charged that officers of the army
were inefficient and incapable of per-
forming the duties expected OF them
II doubt very much If there Is an Of
fccr In the army today who IN the line
OF battle could direct the fire from that
line" he declared
The measure had progressed as far as
provision for the pay OF officers when
Helm opened fire. He said that the Of
ncers were Jealous. touchy and had TO
be handled with care and charged that
they had entered into a contest to see
which one could get the most out Of the
a rmy appropriation bill.
Representative Hay OF Virginia. chair
man of the committee. resented these
statements and declared that there never
had been a test on the army which it
had not been able to stand. Represen-
tative MondeIl of Wyoming also upheld
the efficiency OF the officers.
An amendment offered by Representa-
tive Hay creating the office OF personal
aide TO the president. went out on IL
point OF order The measure was still
under consideration when the house ad-
journed.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-01-17
GOVERNMENT TAKES
INTEREST IN COMBINE

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16,-Tbe gov.
ernmcnt is taking an interest in the eff
fort Of the Pacific Telephone and Tele~
graph company to acquire the North
western Long Distance Telephone com
pany Of Oregon and Washington under
foreclosure proceedings recently com
menced in Portland.
Attorney Jay Bowerman, representing q
the receiver for the northwestern con.
ccrn, is in this city today taking the
dispositions of officials of the Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph company and
Assistant Attorney Of the United
States Harrington is here.
When the foreclosure suit was
brought complaint was made through
the United States district attorney at
Portland to the Washington officials
that the Pacific company was seeking
a monopoly of the telephone business
in California. Oregon mud Washin eton.
1t was shown that the Home Telephone
company Of Tacoma and Bcllingham
and the Independent Telephone COM
pany Of Seattle already had been &C
uuired. The government now is seek.
ing to ascertain whether there is evi.
dence Of restraint Of trade in these
combinations,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-01-17
LOEB CONFERS WITH
TREASURY CHIEFS
Customs Service to Be Reor-
ganized in Accordance With
Plan of MacVeagh.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Customs
Collector Loeb OF New York today con-
ferred with the treasury officials about
the reorgs nization of the customs scrv-
ice. a plan for which viii soon be sub
mitted TO President Taf; by Secretary
MacNeash for enforcement on July /, by
authorization Of congress. Senator Pom
crime oi OHIO and Representative Car
ncr OF Texas also discussed the re-
arrangement. They are understood not
10 have protested against the changes
proposed in their states.
With the exception of Texas. Virginia.
West Virginia, Maine and New Hamp-
shire the treasurer's tentative plan of
reorganization has been completed. In
Texas there will be two or more districts
There is a strong fight TO make Port
Arthur. Tex. the headquarters of Il COL
lcctor OF customs instead OF a deputy
collector. II is claimed that the 81 900, =
900 canal there was turned over to the
federal government in consideration of
the federal government making Port Ar
thur a customs port. The treasury de-
partment answers the contention with
the statement that there will be sub
stantiallY no change and Port Arthur
in charge of n deputy collector, accord
Ing TO tentative plans, and incorporated
in a customs district with headquarters
elsewhere
Collector Loeb denied report that he
might resign before March 4
''T stuck through one administration
and | expect 10 stick through another.
he said. my resignation VIII be in
President Wilson's hands March 4"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-01-17
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