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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
Graduate School of Medicine


That was an important announce
fnent made in the news columns OF Inc
IA Herald few days ago-the com
ing of DIR. Thomas P. Sprunt from
Dohns Hopkins, Baltimore, to the
xr, d,ate school of medicine of the
university of Alabama.
The Birmingham Medical college
has been doing good work for several
wears past but it will be in posi-
Mon to do far broader work after DC
tober 1, when it becomes depart
nnent in the states great university.
when the matter was under discussion
as to whether the trustees OF the uni
.yersity should accept the terms Of
fered by the trustees of the Medical
college looking to working alliance
there was some opposition to the pro-
posal. Of course, there was no rea-
sonable ground for opposition but Mo
bile had a Medical college as part
of the university and the people OF the
Gulf City feared that Birmingham
would become in the medical life OF
the state what it had always been IN
the industrial life. They feared that
Mobile would be entirely over
shadowed. Their suspicious were ma
tural, perhaps, but there was no good
reason why there should be an antag-
onistic attitude, for the Birmingham
branch of the university is to be, as
its name implies, for graduates rath-
er than undergraduates.
1t is believed that the people of the
state at large are more than satisfied
that the university made no mistake
in making of the Birmingham Medi-
cal college an adjunct of our great
central institution of learning. The ad-
vantages of having graduate school
of medicine here are so obvious as
scarcely to need mention. In this in
dustrial field with its mining and
manufacturing with its blast furnaces
and its steel furnaces accidents are
.many and unavoidable. There are no
such varied clinical opportunities any
Iwhere in the south as there are in this
llistrict. The graduate school of medi-
cine and the free Hillman hospital are
close allies. Not only are the cases
in Jefferson county's great hospital
numerous today but with the rapid
jcrowth of Birmingham the number
of clinics will greatly increase within
the next two or three years.
DIR. Sprunt, who is to become fac
tor in the graduate school, ranks very
high as a pathologist. There are in
deed few men, it is said, who equal
him in this profession. At Johns Hop
kins DIR. Sprunt was under DR.. WEIGH,
lprobably the greatest pathologist in
'America. Certain it is that there will
he no pathologist in the south in Dr.
IEprunt's class. This eminent physician
And scientist will bring able assistants
with him and it is safe to predict that
within IL months after the Birming-
ham institution is in full swing as a
part of the university, young doctors
will come here not by scores, but by
hundreds from all parts of the south.
Birmingham is to be congratulated
ON the merging of the Medical college
into the university and the university
is to be congratulated upon having
greatly strengthened its already
strong position by the taking over of
the Medical college. The arrangement
which was entered into will unques-
tionably prove to be a great benefit to
the whole state of Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
Discusses Change of Church Name

The leading topic of discussion in
Protestant Episcopal circles at this time
touches, / believe. the proposition to
change the name to the American Cath
olic church. said an old layman not of
the Episcopal fold. but one who has al
ways had a particularly friendly feeling
for the Episcopal communion.
II remember many years ago when
similar proposition was voted down over
whemingly. Most of my friends of the
Episcopal church are what we generally
call low church., but it seems that those
who insist on changing the name of the
Episcopal body have increased rapidly
in recent years. Some of the leaders of
the Episcopal church in New York, where
the next geenral convention, which meets
triennially, will be held in October, speak
of a split that is coming. I do not
believe there will be any split in the near
future but the low church clergymen and
laymen have become aroused and are or
ganizing to oppose the rtualists and those
who call themselves Anglo Catholics.
1.-THE Rev. DIR. II. E. Cumming, rector Of
Christ's church, Poughleepsie, is one of
the prominent ministers who is denounc-
ing the change. His vestry has adopted
resolutions in favor of sticking to the
original name and these resolutions are
being sent, I understand, to all the pas
tors in this country. DR.. Cumming ac-
companies his vestrys action by the fol-
lowing comment:
That then Catholics within the
Protestant Episcopal church have a defi-
mite and well articulated plan carrying
with it the purpose of erasing the prot
estant character and teachings of TINS
church seems apparent. Does not the
Catholic" element dominate the General
Theological Seminary (Chelsea Square,
this city, st. Stephens College tAnnan-
dale on the Hudson and counted a New
York diocesan institution and Trinity
school (West Nnety-first street, founded
by Trinity PARISH? The "Catholic influ-
cnce upon the church press is discernible
to all who read our churdh papers,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
AT CHURCH.


The organ gan to rumble,
The choir stood up to sing.
wistful boy was looking
Outside TO where the spring
Shone fair through opened windows
And all the skies were blue,
And lifting streams We're calling
And woods were calling, too.
Ere long the preacher started
An eloquent address,
In hopes upon the sinner
A lesson to impress,
But still that boy in fancy
Was roaming far away,
To wales where feathered songsters
Made music all the day,
And fern-fringed pools were cleaning
And minnows raced below,
And sunbeams lightly glancing y
Made every ripple glow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

a correspondent tells of the havoc
wrought by elephants on construction
work of the Cape-to- Cairo railway in
Africa 1t is related that giant bull
butted a locomotive off the track. 1t is
practically impossible to dispatch trains
by telegraph in regions where the ele-
phant abounds because they pull up all
the telegraph poles by the roots.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

baby weighing two pounds is being
cared for by a trained nurse at the home
of its parents, Mr.. and Mrs Daniel Hills,
No. 106 Chestnut avenue. Long Beach,
being a drop of milk administered each
hour. The baby is so small that the at
tending physicians finger ring can be
slipped over its arm to the elboye
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

The new regulations in regard to the
length of trunks will not apply, of course,
to those worn by diving Venuses. The
latter will continue, as heretofore, to be
quite skinny.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
SPRING FEVER.

These mornings when
| yawn and yawn,
I'm very glad
/ have no lawn.
For il I owned
A lawn, alas,
| might be forced
To NOW the grass.
The very thought
Doth weary me,
Already tired
As tired can be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

"A bird in the majors is worth two in
the bush" declares the Boston Trans
script and sometimes he holds out un-
Ger the impression that he is worth more
than that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
THEY HATE TO THINK.

'If a man will only keep his wits about
him. he can avoid many unpleasant ex-
periences."
perhaps so. but keeping their wits
about them is in itself very unpleasant
experience for some people,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

The vice president of the Milwaukee
Street Car company objects to hobbe
skirts because they are dangerous when
worn by women who ride in trolley cars,
but at the hour of going to press fashion
was still supreme in Milwaukee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

New Hampshire newspaper printed
three column poem the other day and put
new life into all the spring poets of that
community.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

Los Angeles has two lady "coppers
and it is said to be quite a sensation to
be pinched by one of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

The youthful heir of a baking powder
king who passed away recently has gone
into the chicken business, but not the
cabaret kind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

A Massachusetts man, 81 years old, split
and piled two cords of wood in one
day His name is Young and he lives
right up to it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

There are people who still assert that
they can see the handle of the hatchet
Clark and Bryan buried sticking out of
the ground.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

What's become of the old fashioned
woman who used to coerce her husband
with rolling pin?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

Although it is often talked about, a
great many people still have rather
hazy idea of what the tango really is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
Ahnuf Persons

Frederick N. Waterman, an esteemed
voice Instructor of Boston, is in Birming-
ham. He has been Miss Elizabeth Gun
ningham's teacher for the past two years.
Kline [. Roberts, manager OF the Gin
cinnati Symphony orchestra, is registered
at the Hilman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
BEHIND THE TIMES.

That cousin of yours seems to be rath-
er unsophisticated.
II must confess that he appears SO.
Still, it's not to be wondered at. lie
comes from a town where stereoscopes
are still in daily use
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

Ella Wheeler Wilcox asks, 'What is a
good neighbour" Nowadays it is one who
takes you out in his motor car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
MIsTREATING THE HELPLESS.

MISTREAT1NG THE HELPLESS.
81 see by the papers that woman says
her husband spanked her every time She
got drunk
what do you think of a man who
would do that?''
'I think he took an unfair advantage
He might at least have waited until she
got SOBER
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

The supreme court says bay rum is
"booze.' Might have gone further and
stated whether or not it is good for bald
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
HARD TO DO.

The average vice commission would Gre
ate more favorable impression IL it
could convince anybody that it was alto
gether free from curiosity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
SMALL DONATION.

Mrs o. H. p. Belmont contributed So
to the British suffragettes the other day.
Her heart may be with the militant
danes, but it is quite plain that her
pocketbook is not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

The finger bowl is catching it fore and
aft, so to speak.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
ZE GAME IN PAREE

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
We are told that the French have taken
up baseball seriously. If so, it will be
amusing to American players to watch
the animated proceedings. Imagine this
sort of thing:
The umpire (high hat and buttonhole
bouquet: "Str-r-ike"
The Batter Pardon. M'sieur re ball
miss re plate by re half mile
The Umpire politely: IN sieur is re
victim of re gross meestake. Ze ball cut
&c cornaire.'
The Batter: 'sWiz de utmost Difference
to Mseurs eminent intelligence, it iss
M'sieur who iss wrong"
The fans in chorus: ooh, lala. play re
BALI"
The captain of the side at bat, coming
up: IN sieur-ze- Umpire, salute you.
The umpire. lifting his highk hat: "Ac-
cept my compliments, captain"
The Captain: MY card. M sieur."
The Umpire: And mine. M'sieur."
The Captain: my. friends. ze pitchaire
and re stopshort will honor zereselfs by
calling upon you zis evening at by re
clock. If it is agreeable to Msieur ze
meeting will TAX place at seek by re
morning clock. behind re Grande 'otel.
Au revoir.'
"Au revoir.''
The Fans, fiercely: ooh. lala, play ze
ball"
1t must take a large expenditure of time
to play full nine inning game in France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
GETTING THE SCADS.

GETTING THE SCADS.
Full many a bard who plans to scale
The lofty peaks of song,
Because he stands in need of "kale,'
Writes biscuit ads ere long.
And though 1t doth revolt his soul
Like this to earn his bread,
There's something soothing in roll,
When all is done and said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
ANIMALS PLAY GAMES

From the Kansas City Star.
Ernest Thompson Seton, Americas chief
scout speaking at the "At Home" of the
American circle of the Lyceum club in
London on Human and Animal Paral-
els'' said that some time or other all an
imals developed the social instincts. 1t
had been noted that the higher civilized
animals had all invented games. He had
seen this trait in badgers playing king
of the Castle" for hours on end in much
the same manner as played by children.
Offers were especially addicted to tobog-
gaming and sliding down deep slope into
a river-in other words, shooting the
chute" Elephants were known to have
special spots to which they resorted for
dancing, and prairie hens also were very
| fond of dancing in the early hours of the
morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

JUST FANCY.
Oh to think
That Cleopat
Never wore a
Modern hat.
Jacksonville Times Union.
oh, to think
That Raleigh's kind
Never wore the
Bow behind
Nashville Banner
Oh, to think
No queen of France
Ever did the
Tango prance.
Savannah Press
Oh. to think
That Cicero
Never saw
"Girly' show.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
BUT WATT.

So far the Panama hat has proved far
more serviceable than the Panama canal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
FAR REMOVED

"Dubkin is descended from great ances-
tors
Let me look at him again. Umphp'
'Well?"
He seems to have descended a consid,
cradle distance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
A LA MODE.

A LA MODE.
Now, here's a fact you can't refute-
The modern maids are few
Who don't possess at least one suit
OF Copenhagen blue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
PATRIOTIC

PATRIOTIC.
DillSs is a noble citizen.
And here's the reason why.
H stops his labofs-low and then
To- swat the pesky fly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
HAPPY DAYS.

Yes. we're a Cubist. We take all our
strawberry shortcake that way.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06
TELEPHONE
Bell (private exchange
AN depar TIM entsD. NO. >

I like not fair terms, and Villain =
S.tra Merchant of Venice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

Harriman's tastes run along the line
of law, and he has taken some courses
while at Yale that naturally lead to
law practice, but he has never had
|other aim than to manage the great
fortune left by his father, and his wish
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-14

needed help. He started south, aim
ing to get some assistance from the
Danish whaleships in North Star Bay.
With boat and sled he fought an al
most unhuman battle and reached
North Star, but too late. The last
ship had gone, there would not be an
other for another year. He appealed
to those ever kindly wild people.
They nursed him as best they could
and aided him to get back north,
aiming to get him back to my camp
at Annoatok. They did get him back
as far as Etah, only 25 miles south of
my .camp, but here FRANKIE was un-
able to go another step. He was
sick; he had not had morsel of
civilized food in two months. He lay
down on the rocks and expected to
die.
"While he was lying on those
rocks, two big ships came into that
harbor flying the American flag.
FRANKIE was glad; he was happy. He
pulled himself together and went out
and boarded the ship Roosevelt.
He went up to the galley and asked
for a cup of coffee. That coffee was
refused, but that wasn't the worst, he
was forcibly put off that ship in the
presence of dozen other men. Here
was sick, hungry, dying man re-
fused cup of coffee from an Ameri-
can ship. fitted out at public expense!
"Franke went back to his rocks
and prayed that he might die, to be
relieved of his misery. Those two
ships stayed there two days. Then
Mr.. Peary changed heart. In the
meantime he had learned from the
Eskimos that after all FRANKIE was
not beggar. He had no money, but
he did have in his possession furs and
ivory worth ten thousand dollars. He
had under his direction my camp
north Of there, which camp was out
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-14

Accused being most colossal liar in history
lies have been told about than about
anyone born have been guilty of many mistakes
Most really true themselves admit that My claim to
the North Pole always be questioned. Yet when
gard the lies great small attached filled al
most with indifference
GAS popular illustration of the sort of yarns that
told, the foolish fake of the gum drop.
Someone started the story that expected to reach the Pole
by bbng the Ekmos with drops; perhaps the idea
that lure them from point to point with regularly
issued rations of these confections
"Wherever my lecture after my
the United States much to my irritation Cook gum
drops consicuousy displayed in confectionery windows
Hundreds of pounds of drops to hotel with
the compliments Of the facture On all sides heard
the gumdrop story and in almost paper read the
erated tale of leading the EskmOs the Pole by dangling
drop string before them I denied this,
denied any of the fakes printed about The
fact is that heard the gumdrop yarn until
to New York. We took gum drops with Polar
trip and, to my knowledge, Eskimo ate gum drop while
with me."-Dr. Frederick A. Cook.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-14
Dr. Cook Says He Colossal and Attacks

of his reach, but was worth twenty
five thousand dollars. Here was
thirty-five thousand dollars to gain
and Mr.. Peary changed heart. He
called FRANKIE aboard the ship, offered
him cup of coffee and a square
meal and gave him two big goblets
of whiskey. He then called FRANKIE
to his private cabin and there the
following conversation took place:
Mr.. Peary said to FRANKIE, you are
a very sick man. If you stay here
you will die. If you go home you
may live FRANKIE knew that. you
may 90 home on one of these ships,
but before you do so you must turn
over everything that belongs to your
self, and everything that belongs to
DR.. Cook. You will not be allowed
to take any records home. There
was no alternative, the man did it,.
But what law of what land would
grant it?
'Here is, first, dastardly under
handed trick to steal thirtyfive thou
sand dollars, but that ism It the worst.
1t was deliberate attempt at mur-
der. For in taking my camp, all of
my food supplies, he was attempting
to starve me out, to prevent my re-
turn to civilization. Here Mr.. Peary
did thing for which he would be
hanged, and rightly so, in a mining
camp, but he next did worse. Twen-
ty-five miles south of Etah, in a
region of bleak rocks and glaciers,
in region of death-dealing storms,
Mr.. Peary deserted two innocent,
helpless children. Two little boys,
his own flesh and blood, his own
children, were left there to starve
and freeze in that cheerless world.
Those poor little ones are there to-
day, crying for bread and milk and
father. The meanest thief in all
the world would not do that. Mr..
Peary dit it. Can that man be honest
in anythinga That is the kind of
man who tried to stir heaven and
earth and the other place, mostly the
other place, to overthrow my claim.
Gone of those ships went south,
carrying Fnlnke with it. The other
went north, stayed for year, came
back on the following year to this
same place at Etah, and there, from
my Eskimos, Mr.. Peary learned for
the first time that I had reached the
Pole a year ahead of him. He gath
cred all the information he could and
then put on full speed and rushed to
the wireless station at Labrador. Here
he sent through brief message say
ing that he also had reached the Pole.
I had gotten to Copenhagen about a
week previous to this, and had
promptly given to the world my COM
plete report. That report was public
property, as all of my material al
ways has been. That report was at
that wireless station in Labrador. Mr..
Peary took it from the operator, went
behind the rocks and stayed for a
week, digested that report and then
came forth and issued his report.
Every Arctic explorer at once said
the Peary report was a scientific du.
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Have Been Denounced as Fraudulent by His Enemie

plicate of mine; that, because of the
parallel material which it contained
that it either proved my position at
the Pole, or it proved that he had
borrowed from the previously pub
lished report. You are then asked to
take this mans report as the truth,
and to take mine as lie. Whyf
Why was it necessary to put this
leprous spot upon the fabric of clean
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-14

came forward, posing as experts to
pass upon both cases, Mr.. Peary's and
mine, to settle for all times and all
peoples the question of distribution
of Polar honors. But whence their
authority7 Who are its members9
For two dollars per, any man, woman
or child in this audience becomes a
geographer in that society, for the
same money the man who sweeps the
streets becomes with equal facility a
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-14

stand that unless you understand this
man, and l want you to understand
him.
"We next go down to Washington,
the home of the "Steam Roller. I"
Here we have the so-called National
Geographical Society, an organization
which is no more national than the
National Cash Register. but they
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-14

geographer in that society. Now, as
an organization of political shrimps,
that is all right, but as a scientific
body it is colossal humbug, and
those of my readers who are mem
bers of that soceity are party to
that humbug. Twothirds of the news
paper editors of this country are two
Continued on page three)
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-16
DOUBLE e LYNCHING
NARROWLY AVERTED

bands life for five thousand dollars
and are investigating.
Mrs. Stroud formerly lived at Fort
Smith, Arkansas, where her father, a
preacher, still resides.
Monday when | was out riding
with Ed and saw Stroud the brute, in
the road, knew i would be forced
to kill him." Mrs. Stroud said today.
.He told me that if would get off
my horse he would kill Ed and me.
When | dismounted | did so for no
other purpose tnan to Kill the fiend
and | did it and | am not sorry. And
there's not chance Of my being con-
victed. When go to trial | will prove
Stroud tied me to a bed and kept me
prisoner in :. room for week. |
still have welts on my body where he
heat me. He used to kick me on the
shins." she added, displaying a still
unhealed wound.
An oil man, one OF the wealthiest
in the oil city, telephoned today tha.
he would furnish a twenty thousand
cash bond for Mrs. Stroud. but the
district attorney has not ye. decided
whether or not he will release her