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too and these little noisy episodes of
course. call for a system OF police and
judges. It may be better to call these
judges referees.
In the zoo the human family can get
some fine pointers on obedience to author
ity. The good neghbors in the zoo town
also furnish an example for the high bred
arimals who pedal on two legs
The report points to the splendid exam
pie set by the megallanic penguins. re-
cent arrivals from the southern coasts of
South America. The penguins make their
quarters with the sea lions and thers
/ hasn't been single disturbance--a single
ripple-since these two vastly distinct spe-
cies. became regular neighbors
Jhe penguins get along with the sea
hons by ninding their own business, and
the geological experts are forced to the
decision that all neighborS. human or
otherwise, would experience the same
the visitors from the south.
happy results by initiating the methods Of
To get back TO the hospital department
of the Fairmont Park zoo the report
or the doctors on the various ailments
(which annoy the animals is most remark
able in that the diseases are as num-
erous and varied those with which
battle
Looking through the exhaustive report
! on 473 animals treated during the year
you come upon such familiar terms as
| peritonltis bronchial pneumonia, gas
| tritis, fatty degeneration of the heart.
| There's spiGy list of old fashioned dis
| eases. while columns are DEVOTED to the.
| unpronounceabe kind. of which special
| mention is due the multiple thrombosis
| of the intestines. said affliction being
credited to the person of one lazy pos
sum-
Monkeys, In the unscientihc long ago,
were easy victims to tubercuar germs.
resulting from their indoor confinement
during the winter months. Following in
the advanced footsteps OF the modern
scientists, however. the zoos hospital
corps adopted the fresh air systems for
| monkeys last winter. regardless OF the
state of the weather. with the result. so
the report gleefully announces that there
was not single tubercular fatality
among the monkey forces.
There We're some lamentable demises
however. the funeral record showing
iaguar. sable antelope. two Persian wi,
asses, red river hog, a Bactrian cam y
and South African ostrich, as hav
taken the final count. q
The South African ostrich broke
legs while attempting to regain her
after laying an esg. Surely .
tragedy.
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the Indians are now coming on rapidly
and every one is needed to keep them
back. If the narrow passage of the gate
limits the entrance of the savages 1t
also hampers the defense of the garrison.
A solid mass of savages, half naked and
with the glitter of fury in the eyes of
each, jam In closeness to force the pas
sage. The defenders in desperation
shoot them down, or stab them, one by
one with their bayonets. There is no time
for order, and confusion is complete. AT
the gate 1t Is a hand to hand fight. as Of
feers give orders and the Indians yell like
demons and press with might to force the
entrance. Within the fort women are
shriehing and children crying in wild
confusion. Only the advance of the In
dams has as yet appeared, the others ap-
preaching in order ON the run, under the
leadership of Weatherford. Piles of dead
bodies, Indians and white, already fill the
gateway.
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ling for the man who has mastered Sc
much of life's philosophy
Note that he says. Courtesy is sun
shine" That is neat rhetorical expression
of a great fact, isn't 1t?
| No matter how hard you try to bs
| cheerful there are gloomy days. The sur
of life is obscured by the clouds o.
gets nothing but hate. The world is Z
dark. dismal plt.ce.
Taht's the time when courtesy from
others counts. That's the time when the
soft spoken words turn away not onl,
| wrath, but gloom and weariness. L
brings the ray of sunshine that woule
otherwise be missing
Courtesy Is more.
1t is the oil that smoothes the running
or the business machine. Between mar
and wife it is the little thing that make.
easy the bearing of domestic troubles
great and small. Through every case
| fnent in the house of life there's a place
for the sunshine Of courtesy to enter.
"A sullen face gets nothing but hate
The world is looking glass. If yot
smile at it 1t smiles back"
No need to comment on that. Ever,
one knows it, every one who has reached
| admult age or has even approached i
has had that lesson taught to him many
times, not only by precept. but by ex
perience.
But how about? you are cheatin YOU,
employer when you are not courteous t.
his customers?" Did that ever occur tt
you?
II you think your employer is entitled
to your time alone you are mistaken HI
bnys the best that is In you while yor
are in his employ. And courtesy toward
his customers is part of your best
Courtesy pays in satisfaction and Il
pays in money. Other things, such a.
ability and patience and knowledge, bsine
equal, the courteous man will win ever,
tir1e.
If 1t is ever your good fortune to sal
up the James river in Virginia, from its
mouth to Richmond, or II you have al.
| ready enjoyed that beautiful trip. yor
will learn or you already know sometime
about the Dutch Gap canal.
Near Richmond the canal has been cut
to shorten the sailing distance. Thu
canal is only 600 feet long. but 1t cuts on
seven miles of navigation along tn,
winding channel of the river
KS you sail up and down the river yot
travel 500 feet to save seven miles. Sever
miles amount to $500 feet. SO you SET
there Is great saving In time and dis
tance and money.
General Butler began the Dutch Gar
canal in the civil war days. Later it wa.
| completed, and it Is now in daily use
The Dutch Gap canal, with its small
amount OF work that saved and Is saw
Ing an enormous deal Of travelling. sue.
gests lesson applicable to our dali,
lives.
Are thers not short outs that ~ cas
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Many OF Mans Characteristics
And Ailments Possessed By Monkey

The International dictionary tells you
that man and monkey are the first order
of animals, and according to the recent
report of the Geological society, the die
tionary is right in more ways than one,
says the Philadelphia American
The monkey Is like man in many things,
an old bit OF information, to be sure, and
fact long ago we'll proved by many men,
who showed just how easy it Is for a man
to make monkey of himself.
1t is In the line of fashionable diseases,
however. that the monkey shows that he
is travelling apace with his more enlight-
ened brother. In fact. all the animals are
shown by this report to suffer from prac-
tically all the ills to which human flesh is
heir.
There has been a firm belief on the part
Of most people that cirrhosis of the liver
is a malady which the persistent imbibers
of highly charged champag gne have held
practically in monopolstic grasp. But
1t Is not so.
Here, listen to this. The monkeys, wild
cats, skunks, foxes and a score of other
prominent members of the animal king
dom have been tossing about with this
dread and inconvenient disorder for years,
years and some moro years.
People go out to the Zoo and look
healthy representatives of the jungle, lit
tie realizing that their hosts may be two
years gone with bum lung: may be ham
pered with a floating kidney or may he
doing his level best to fight down a bad
case of indigestion.
The society's report shows a population
OF 211S for the Fairmount Park Zoo and
with this large number of Inhabitants the
animal community takes on the proper
tons of a well regulated village of the
first class.
There is always something doing at the
zoo, and the things that are doing run
along in just about the same sort of n
routine that characterizes the life of any
community of intelligent men and women.
heretofore referred to as animals of the
first order, which they are no more and
no less.
The zoo city has its share OF Joy and
eladness IT has It's births and its deaths.
Just like the human community. OF course.
II has its nuptial features. otherwise there
could be no births. That's an argument
as plain es the nose on your face.
The report also indicates that the zoo
members. like the human family. have felt
the pinch of the well known bugaboo.
generally known as old high cost OF living.
for the feed bill ran very high during the
nscal year which ended IN February.
There ars family auarrels in the zoe.
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the firing is continued. The advantage Is
now on the side of the savages. Blow on
blow finally brings down portion of the
walls. and like an overhowing flood the
yelling demons rush within. Outside the
dry walls and pickets are set on fire by
the savages, the roofs are soon afame,
while the work of destruction goes speed
lily on. sOn their knees women plead for
life. while they clasp their children close
to them. but they are slain and scalped
on the spot. Neither age nor sex is
spared. or the $50 within the fort, only a
few negroes and half breeds are per-
mitted to live.
In a corner of the fort is seen an In
dian holding at bay his companions who
are seeking to reach a group of half
breeds huddled together a mother and
her children. The Indian defender
strikes down any who attempt to reach
them. The explanation of this strange
scene viii appear in the next article. Be
sides these thus rescued, only nine out of
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a great, iubberfy fellow oversrown, fat
faced, good tempered, with very little
talent, and first tolerated as man by
those who were ashamed to confess that
they were deceived in thinking him a di-
vinity when he was boy
In the Autobiography of an Actor
we read of Betty. "In his boyhood he had
won fame and money. His youth and
personal beauty, and the intelligent man
ner in which he recited, following an anx-
ious mothers instructions. caused him to
be much patronized. As he advanced in
life, however, he realized the ordinarily
fatal results of precocity. His style and
his face became heavy, and his speech
lacked music; he had neither genius nor
inspirations
In his autobiography, referring to Mr..
Betty, Leigh Hunt says, His position
that seemed so brilliant at first, had a
remarkable cruelty in it. Most men be-
gin life with struggles. and have their
vanity sufficiently knocked about the
head and shoulders to make their kinder
fortunes the more welcome. Mr. Betty
had his sugar first, and his physic after
wards. I am told that he acquiesces in
his fate, and agrees that the town was
mistaken"
Think of It'll The very time that a man
should have his ideals stirring within
him, and awakening his best efforts, Mr..
Betty retired from the stage, conscious
that he was q failure. 1t is the history Of
nearly all phenomena Of precociousness.
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Major Beasley. the commander, who is en-
gagged In a game of cards with other Off
GERS, orders the black to be strung up and
whipped for giving a false alarm. The
gate still stands wide open with Its OBJ
struction Of sand banked against it. and
the serenity within the fort remains the
same.
Suddenly the calmness is broken by the
firing of muskets without, attended by
the hideous yells of savages. They are
near the entrance. and sure of making
good their way into the fort, they make
a demonstration of JOY. CONSERVATION
seizes the inmates. The rushing tramp of
the approaching assailants is now heard,
and as a squad rushes to take its place in
the gateway the Indians are in full view,
only few yards away. Before Beasley
could rally his men a few have rushed
through the gate. The advance of the IN
dams is shot down, and the voice of Beas-
ley is heard calling to his men to rally
at the gate. They seek to close 1t, but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
HEART TO HEART TALKS-By James A. Edgerton

man would walk IL he were to go on all
fours, but with the backs of the hands
touching the ground.
An awkward mode of progression. Yet
some human folks go through life with
their hands theoretically touching the
ground. They do not rise erect to front
with undaunted brow the facts of life
They shamble along as does the chimpan-
zee.
When your walk in life leads you en-
tirely through the morass of selfish in
terests-
You walk like the chimpanzee.
When you cannot turn aside in your
business of money getting to consider
other interests
You have the backs of your hands to
the ground.
When you forget that there are Others
on earth besides yourself with claims on
your thoughts and your sympathies--
You are bent over like the ape.
IL the chimpanzee ages ago could have
raised himself erect, could have taken
his hands from the ,ground-above all. If
he could have developed his thumb into
strength which the human thumb is
He would no longer be chimpanzee,
an ape. He would be a man.
While you initiate the chimpanzee and
bend over, absorbed in the things of
earth, with no power to raise your arms
and walk mentally and spiritually erect
You are in danger of degenerating into
a mental chimpanzee
Raise yourself! Get up! Extend your
mental horizon!
The chimpanzee looks like a man. He
funny way, some of the things that
men do.
But SO long as he sticks to his habit of
bending over to the earth he will remain
chimpanzee as you should be, learn to
ihtnk, to raise yourself from the earth.
So long as the world exists the man
shall rule and the chimpanzee shall be
subject to his power.
Trying to instill the employees of an
eastern railroad with the right spirit. to-
ward travellers the passenger traffic
manager has hit upon a good idea. He
says:
A"Soine people don't attach enough inn
portance to sunshine. but without it life
in this world would cease. The same
with courtesy
Courtesy is sunshine. A silllen face
gets nothing btu hate. The world is a
looking glass. If you smile at it it smiles
back. If YOU frown you will see one.
You are cheating your employer when
you are not courteous to his customers.
Lend willing hand to old ladies with
bundles and younger ones with babies
and thy to make them feel that they are
not unwelcUme.'
o Solomon of the railroad world.
He won't remain passenger traffic man-
agor long. There are higher places watt
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Major Beasiey stands at the head of his
men, faces the savages, and lights like a
demon. He cheers his men, while he
bravely leads. He is courage to the core,
and every man is doing his utmost. In
spired by the pluck of the men. the
women rush to the rescue. Beasley falls,
shot through his body. Lying PROSTATE
in the passage, his life ebbing rapidly
away, but as he sinks in death. he appeals
to his men. A brave lieutenant takes his
place, is soon covered with blood from
his own wounds. but fights on. and from
sheer loss of strength reels and falls.
Two brave women rush UP. drag his body
from the pile of dead, bear II back, give
him water, and suddenly he rises, staggers
to the gate and renews the fight. After
a half hours fighting, the gate is closed
lust as Weatherford appears with 500
fresh warriors Excluded from the gate
the Indians, under Weatherford begin to
cut down the pickets about the fort, and
as holes are made through the pickets
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his proposed gentleness at Fort Minis,
but It is utterly without foundation.
The horror Of the dreadful scene was
added to by the devouring flames. The
roofs and the walls falling In on the
dead, they were scorched or burned in one
common heap and weatherford. though he
afterward became good citizen in the
same region, gloated over the murderous
desolation thus wrought. His delight was
fendsh. his gut of revenge was omnibus.
This was Weatherford on August Il, 1872.
The news of the horrible massacrs
spread dismay everywhere. 1t sounded
the note of extinction of one or the other
of the Indian or white races. Dismay
gave place to revenge. and >everywhere
men flew to arms. From that time forth
the battle cry of the whites was 'Remem-
ber Fort Minis" From the north marched
Jackson from Tennessee, and from the
west came Claiborne with his Mississippi
militia. weatherford had raised a storm
which he would never be able to quell.
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You may not know when you are neal
the undertow of sin and recklessness.
You may not know that you are going
out too far.
Therefore it is we'll to snh ties' So. now
and then to try to touch bottom.
There can be no safety without solid
footing. If you cannot feel under you the
solid ground of reputation and character
and honest dealing and the appdoval of
conscience
There is danger that the undertow will
carry you out and that your name will
be added to the long list of the drowned
in the ocean of life.
1t is we'll to beware of the undertow.
Who is the poor man?
Is it he who has nothing of the world 3
goods-who must stand by the side of the
road of life and be powdered by the dust
of his neighbors automobile or spattered
with its mud?
No. He can move aside from the path
way and let the rush go past him, or
he can mingle in the strife and win auto
mobiles for himself.
Neither is it the man who has little
and is desrous of having more To him
the same course is open, especially In this
land of opportunity.
The really poor man or woman is the
one who has nothing to love.
1t need not be husband or wife or child
or sweetheart. 1t may be parent or
brother or sister or friend. 1t may be an
adopted child. 1t may be all mankind,
for f11afa ,Io Scr -,
who can find 1T In themselves to extend
their love to all created things.
In lieu of somebody or something better
It may be a cat or dog or a bird or a
pet animal of some other sort. 1t may
even be plant.
Something to love every one must have
il the soul is to be kept alive.
The thought was suggested by news
paper poem printed few days ago 1t
read in part:
It's not the bein' old and sick and Iosin'
all you've had.
Nor the comm to the poor'us at the
end,
But the thing that goes the hardest and
the thing that hurts so bad
Is the havin' nothing left for you to
tend.
Oh, it's not the bed you sleep on nor the
clothes you get to wear,
Nor the food to eat when all is said
and done:
It's the havin' somethin look to you and
glad when you come near
And the steps a-runnin out to meet
your own
In the rest NJ the poem the skillfui
writer-a woman. by the way--tel1s in
simple language story Of woman who
tended her brothers and sisters until they
went out into the world; then she nursed
other children until they. too In their
turn grew W.
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| take that will save us labor? Not alone
IN the physical aspects of life, but In oui
| daily mental and moral dealings?
For instance, there is your new neigh
Dor. He is stranger IN your community
| and he may need help.
| AS the daily windings of your life and
his approach, can you not dig a cana
through the intervening heights of ignor.
ance Of him and his family without
waiting for the formal introduction Of
pastor or physician or business interme-
! diary?
He may be right good fellow Dig q
| canal to him.
If you find him unworthy later it will
be an easy thing to block up the canal.
Or you may have had misunderstand-
ing with another neighbor or with your
brother or sister or relative.
As the rivers of your lives meet, cut
| through the land which blocks the way
and straighten the channel
| Perhaps-who knows-you may find him
| shovel in hand at the other end, digging
| his way through to you.
| Then when the waters of reconciliation
when the Dutch Gap canal was ou
through.
| Almost every day in the summer we
read the newspaper items something
| like this:
while bathing at the beach yesterday
John Jones, a young man, ventured out
too far and was caught in the undertow
When last seen he was struggling to get
back to shore. Assistance was sent, but
| before the life savers could reach him he
sank and was drowned. The body has
not been recovered"
| Beware of the undertow!
There is joy in breasting the pillows
| in swimming on the crest of the waves
The water is refreshing. the sunshine is
aluring
But when the underwater current moves
out and the bather is caught in its ir-
resistibe ebb not even the strongest
swimmer may Withstand the suction.
1t draws one out--out into the treacher-
Gus waters where tho feet can gain nc
fhold when the arms are exhausted. and
the waters closes forever over ones head
'Drowned-Caught by the Undertow.
reads the headlines.
| In the ocean of life there Is an under
| tow.
1t Is pleasant to swim strongly in the
breakers of the joy OF life. 1t is good to
feel oneself able to bear up when the
| tide comes in, to be able to say Il will
venture out as far as any one else dares
go,"
But under the surface is the undertow
| II the joy Of living leads you to extend
your strength too far. to forget your linn
itations, to enter upon strange waters
where the billows will be too strong fol
your powers of Resistance
Beware! There u peril Of drowning.
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HHE fatal morning of August 30
dawned on Fort Minis. The wealth.
- er was hot, and slowly from sleep
the Inmates of the fort awolxe Break
fast over the day began the usual routine
of indifference to conditions, the little
children beginning their play about the
block houses, men gathering in small
groups about the enclosure, chatting,
smoking, laughing or playing cards, while
later fiddle was brought into reqnisition
for an old time reel by body of young
sters, and the elderly women sat in quiet
groups sewing, talking and knitting. The
matter OF attack, so much feared at first,
was now a subject of jocular comment,
men Joking as to what they would do
should the Indians appear.
Amidst the scenes Of merriment a negro
appears fresh from the woods, and in
excitement tells of having seen body
of Indians rapidly approaching the fort.
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NTANDS your house of life firmly
founded on a rock, or is it builded
~ on the shifting sands of fortune?
Have you butttressed it with truth and
honor with the love of family and of
friends, strengthened the walls where
they need Reinforcement with the doing
of kindly offices that are so often forgot
ten?
Is your house of life firm?
When Henry winstanley, famous En-
glish engineer, brought to completion
Eddystone lighthouse, he stood aside and
rejoiced in the labor of his brains.
1T Is a worthy, structure" he said
aloud 'It will stand for ages. oh, how
I should like to be here in the fiercest
storm that ever blew and see how the
wind and sea should beat in vain against
my work.
The fierce storm came. Winstantley
stood in his house of pride and watched
the strife outside.
.'It holds fast! 1t holds fast!' he cried.
But the winds and the rain and the
storm proved too much for the Eddystons
lighthouse, and in its wreck 1t bore down
to death the man who built it.
We. build ourselves lighthouses of pride
and power. We rear them in wealth and
honor They will last for the ages. we
believe. How we pride ourselves on our
position, our riches. our standing in our
communities!
But we fail to found our lighthouses
on the eternal verities of truth and honor
and love. And the storm comes-the
"fercest storm that ever blew''-to all
of.us, and down with them, often to death
and ruin.
Other builders of other lighthouses fol-
low us.
Their structures rear themselves against
the heavens and totter and fall. Finally
comes one man with the secret Of laying
a proper foundation.
The Eddystone lighthouse-not winstan-
ley's-still lights the coast of England
for the mariner. Its powerful warning
light tells Of concealed rocks and shoals.
By its beacon the sailor steers his vessel
Alright
But no material warning It carries
across the waters is stronger than the
moral lesson it teaches of Winstanley,
the builder who longed for "the fiercest
storm that ever blew" that he might see
how we'll his lighthouse should with
stand it.
Next time you visit the city zoo or a
circus notice the champanzee. Watch
him when he walks.
The chimpanzee is the most intelligent,
most manlike of the apes. He is our
nearest cousin in the animal world. When
ne Walks he stands erect. or nearly 30.
But he walks with his hands to the
sround-not with the palms Of his hands
e. the fingers touching the earth. ~ :