davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington herald., 1913-02-01
NORFOLK G. WESTERN RWY
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT OCT. y. 1872

SCHEDULE IN EFFECT OCT. n. lsl2
Leave Washington New Union Station
SO A. m. Daily-An points on Norfolk & Western
1910 n m. Daily-Roanoke. Bristol. Winston
salem. Knoxville. Chattanooga. Nashville. New Or
lca1s Through sleeper. Dining cars.
iio a. m.-For Bristol Knoxville. Chattanooga.
Nashville. and Memphis Washington Memphis
slecrers at 10 p m.
For Norfolk-Leare daily 4 - a. and l. oi noon.
Arrive Norfolk In a m. and $50 p. m Parior
cars.
$50 n. n DaiIy-Berryville Luray. Shenandoah.
Trains from the Southwest arrive 6:i5 a. m. D:io
D. n and I2:l5 a. m daily.
All information 1919 New York Avenue. opposite
B0nd Building.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-01
NON-MEDICAL HEALING.


S, HenmnE nnat 'onquers Disease
Of the BLOOD and NERVO-N1TAL FLUIDS Of
the BODY THAT CURES the DESPERATE. HOPE
LksS and 1NCURARLE tsn-calledl DISEASES
that have passed BEYOND the reach nf NEDI-
CiNE and the skill Of YOUR PHYSICIAN. and
CEDURE
THE SERIOUS CHRONIC AILMENTS THAT
YOUR PHYSICIANS-no matter who thev are or
what school their rIactice-DON'T or CAN'T CURE
are the cases we want. BOOKLET and CONSUL
TATlON FREE. LADY ASSISTANT.
Hours: 10 a m. TO n. m. Sunday II TO L
PROF. II. \. u. PARE Err l0s2 9th ST. y. W.
II. G. MILLER, NJ. D.. Consultant.
Come and see me- II will do you good
The Washington herald., 1913-02-01

CHESAPEAKE & OHIO LINES.
5l5 y. m dafy-slccpers to Louisville. Cincinnati.
indianapolis. and st. Louis
$50 p. n. daiy-Pullman to Cincinnati ,nd
Ckicago.
II:IO r dailv-slecrsrs to Virginia Hot srr1ngs.
Cincinnati. and Louisville.
Offices. SIS Ia. Ave. 1850 y ST.. and Union Station
The Washington herald., 1913-02-01
LOAN SOCIETY.
LOANS.

MONEY FOR SALARIED PEOPLE
and others upon their own names:
cheap rates. easy payments. confidential
d. II. TOLMAN. Room 500. 50 18th St svs
The Washington herald., 1913-02-01
PLUMBING AND REPAIRS.

EXPERT PLUMBING. HEATING. AND
Timing. HENRY L. STREB & SON.
42I r st. NV. NJ 5oe4.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-01
MONEY WANTED G. TO LOAN

LOANS ON INDO r sED NOTES,
stocks, all kinds collateral. I buy
notes. Second trusts on real estate. No
red tape. Can accommodate same cay
that apply. r. r. BENNETT. $40 Met
Bank Bldg. Tel Main 6see
MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL. ESTATE
in small AMI large sums. All traneac-
tions conducted with economical cousid-
DERS & CO.. Southern Bldg. SCI 18th St.
MONEY TO LOAN on approved city real
estate at lowest current rates; special
privileses with respect to prior payments.
Tyler 4 Rutherford. Inc. 73n 18th st,
The Washington herald., 1913-02-01
FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE.

FOR SALE-A BIG BARGAIN; NEAR
ly new modern corner store. Situated
near 9TH and X SITS. ne. Contains large
store on 1st floor: fine cellar: fiat Of 4
rooms and bath on I'd floor; furnace
heat; neighborhood improving all the
time. This is fine business Opportu-
nifty. See US at once. II. z. HOWEN-
STEIN CO, 1911 F ST. NV. or 7th and
II SITS. ne.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-01

MOVING, PACKING. & STORING.
BEFORE STORING FURNITURE CALL \ i5I5
for estimates. 9 separate rooms SMITHS
TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO. sls s. St
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CALL ". Isl. UNION
Station Baggage and Moving Exrrrss Co: prompt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28
PASSING OF THE BooTJAcK
High Tide of Once Popular Household1
Article Reached in 1880

In 1880 there were at least 100000 boot
jacks in this country. BY 1S40 the number
had increased to 100000 In 1869 il had
grown to 100000. Taking into account
that 100000 boot wearers had left their
honors in the meantime to lead life in
which one boot was usually worked Off
by application of the toe of the other,
thus Diminishing the bootjack demand. it
is quite probable that the ratio of in
crease was not maintained through the :
decade ending in 1870. But IL we assume
100000 families to have settled back to a
normal state of experience by this time.
and allow one bootjack TO the family, it
will be seen that little more than 40 years
ago there must have been something like
100000 bootjacks In the United States,
says the Christian Science Monitor.
The bootjack had then reached its high
water mark. 1t was the beginning of tho
period of the making OF the West, when
Women and girls. as we'll as boys and men.
wore boots occasionally or exclusively,
over large area of the national territory.
Yet change had begun to set in. Little
by little the bootleg began to shorten, and
as it shortened, the bootjaclx became less
Indispensable. Yet. making every allow
ance, there must have been an aceumula-
tion of not less than 100000 bootjacks in
the country in 1850, when they began to
fall rapidly in desuetude. What has be-
come of them?
There was a time when the bootjacls
held prominent and honored. place in
every American household 1t was even
more necessary to the equipment of the
well-regulated home than the hat rack,
more necessary than the closet hook. be-
cause while the male members Of this
family could throw their hats and outer
coats off anywhere. the removal of a pair
of boots by hand was proceeding front
which the great majority of brothers,
husbands, and fathers instinctively
shrank. while attempts to work off tight
and damp boots ON the rounds and chairs
of tables, or between the door ana tho
jam, was discouraged by all good house,
keepers. That the bootjack might be
more attractive than the men, they were
frequently covered with Brussels carpet
to match the floor or adorned with tho
initials of the user in brass-headed. tacks.
and now and then when they took the
form of bridal presents, they were hand
painted. [
But where are they? What has become
of the 100000? You search for them in
vain through the museums. Occasionally x
you come across one in the antique
shops, but it does not look real Appar-
emily, the millions of bootjacks, like the
millions of long-legged boots that did
noble service for the men of the country
through the three-fourths of the last CEN
tury, have gone to join the wigs, knee
trousers and buckled shoes of an earlier
time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28
PLACE MORE BOOKS
BY RALPH r.. SILVER

Judgment OF the things they read; for, al
though reading of books is urged it must
in the next breath be added that by no
means must everything that is read be
believed That's where the Judgment of
the individual reader enters into the prop
ositlon and that's why one person will
get more out of reading than another.
who reads incessantly," says John Mil
ton. and to his reading brings not
spirit and Judgment equal or superior (and
what he brings what needs he elsewhere
seek?) uncertain and unsettled still re-
mains. deep versed in books and shallow
in himself, crude or intoxicate, collecting
toys and trifies for choice matters, worth
sponge as children gathering pebbles On
the Shore In the parenthesis it win
be noticed that Milton insinuates that no
benefit can be secured from reading dnless
the reader knows as much about the sub
ject as the author. and that therefore, II
he does. there is no use in reading at all.
However, Milton uses the words just quot
ed a speech by the Son of God who Is
chiding Satan for setting up mortal phil
osophers and their beliefs above the teach
ings of Christianity and therefore tho
meaning of the passage might really be
that reading without the spirit of God
in the heart of the reader will be fruit
less. Which is true; but the object in
quoting the passage was to illustrate the
right and the wrong way to read a book.
The great philosopher. Francis Bacon,
IL few words and simple sentences has
told posterity how to read:
Read not to contradict and confute,"
he saysi nor to, believe and take for
granted; nor to find talk and discourse,
but to weigh and consider. Some books are
to be tasted, others to be swallowed and
some few to be chewed and digested; that
is. some books are to be read but not
curiously, and some few to be read wholly
and with diligence and attention"
The Library Board
Having thus presented some arguments
as to the necessity of reading, there fol-
lows the subject matter for which this
story in reality has been written-the men
and women who are trying to give the
boys and girls and the men and women
of Birmingham the opportunity to read
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28

the men and women who compose the
Birmingham public library board, recent
ly established and organized by the city
commission.
This story would suffer from ambiguity
to take up each one of the nine members
of this board and endeavor to state their
aims and ambitions their hopes and
their plans; for they all are working to-
gether with the same spirit and with the
same methods in order to get the same
things. Therefore it is not with the in
tentfon of lauding the spirit of one mem
ber more than others, but rather with
the intention of showing at glance the
spirit of the entire body, when the follow
ing statement is quoted from DR.. r. d.
Parke. the original promoter of the libra
ry board idea and a member of the pres
ent board:
Birmingham has given me my oppor-
tunity. I want to give something back
The members of the library board are
serving the city and the people Of Bir-
mingham gratis. they receive not penny
for their labors, and this statement was
made by Dr. Parke. practicing physician
and one of the busiest men in Birming-
ham. when he was asked why he had con-
sented to serve on the board. And Dr.
Parke was only stating in a dozen words
the reason why all the nine members were
serving on the board; for they all are
men and women of affairs and have plenty
of other things to attend to were they SO
inclined
The library board is composed of J. w.
Donnelly, president; Mrs. John NJ Hank
ms, Miss Lilly Lykes, Mrs. r. D. Thomp-
son. David M. Lewis. Prof. r.. e. Smith,
Dr. T. u. Parke, Mrs. T.. l.. smith. ana
DR.. w. C. Gewin. Up until a few months
ago the management of the public library
system of Birmingham had been in the
hands of the board of education. but fol-
lowing an agitation for a special library
board on the grounds that more efficient
and better library system could he
worked out by body Of rien and women
whose sole official duties concerned the
~ y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28

library, the ordinance creating the board
was adopted and the board appointed.
What System Consists OF
The Birmingham library system, com
posed Of the Central library at the city
hall and four branch libraries in the su.
burbs, constitutes the largest library in
the south. The Ensley, Avondale and
West End branches are Carnegie build.
ings and the Central and the woodlawr
libraries are houses in the respective city
halls.
In these libraries there are at the pres
ent time 27,Ss1 volumes.
The membership of the entire library
system totals about 5000.
The number of books circulated the fis-
cal year ending last July were 10000.
Fines for books over due in the same
year amounted to s105o6s and the dupli-
cate rent collection totaled s7s7S4. the two
constituting practically the only source
of revenue of the entire system for pur-
poses other than administration.
The attendance in the reading rooms
during the year totalled 1896 and $3.50
persons We're served with reference work
The exceedingly hampered growth of the
system in securing additional books is
shown in that during the year there were
but 1886 new books bought.
Total Salaries
The total salaries OF the librarian and
her assistants, the janitors and all at
tendants for the five libraries amounts to
1915 per annun. During the fiscal year
III books were donated to the institution.
but within the last few days a large dona-
ton of 600 very valuable books has been
made by b. NJ. Reeves of North Birming-
ham. Among this donation are some OF
the oldest and most valuable editions ever
seen in Birmingham. They include a Bible
published in 1850 in four languages, Latina
1eiildil, IeDTeW ana 1Teeh. MANY Otner
valuable works are there in editions pub
lished in the fifteenth and sixteenth CEN
turtles. About the oldest volume in the
collection is book by zwingli, one of the
early reformers, published in 1927
The library board feels that something
is needed especially for the boys and
girls of Birmingham who are past school
age and those who ought to be In school,
but from usually obvious reasons cannot
be. The members intend to make especial
efforts to secure books for youths of this
age and of these circumstances Their
ambition in short is to place books in the
libraries of the city city which will meet
the needs of everybody-a task much
easier undertaken than accomplished
They have evolved plan by which nom
residents and transients are especially
provided for. Non-residents must deposit
81 when they are given card emitting
them to take out books and transient
people are required to deposit 81 when
they take out card This money is kept
intact and when the card is released by
the transient the money is refunded in
toto; in the case of the non-resdents, If
after certain length of time it is seen
that they are trustworthy and competent
to take proper care OF the books, their
81 will be refunded and they can keep
their membership cards. The idea which
the board is thus attempting to develop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28

generations before him have had and by
which he has profited at the beginning
of his career.
There is but one pitfan for the man who
reads books and that is there is wrong
way to read them. Contrary to the belief
of many. it is here contended that
though there are wrong ways to read
books there are no wrong books to be
read. There are certain books which
should not be read by children and young
people at certain ages, but after maturi-
ty is reached there has never been a book
written. no matter how vicious or corrupt,
but what good can be obtained from it IL
read in the proper spirit and with judg-
ment. The secret of every persons sue
cess in reading depends on their own
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28
An Endorsement

From the Washington Star.
What do you think of the college
your boy is attending?''
Well replied Farmer Corntossel. II
don't pretend to say much about how X
teaches Greek or trigonometry. But be-
in as Josh has been there a couple Of
years, want to give it my compi-
ments as one OF the most patient an
forbearin colleges on earth.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28

Reading maketh a full man."-Bacon.
- NCE upon time there was a little
00y-a poor little 00y-who lonsed
to acquire greatness. And he
thought the way to acquire greatness was
4 to become learned and the way to be-
come learned was to see and talk to and
associate with great men. He was right.
Now one day there came to the little
town near where this boy lived great
man. In fact he was president of the
United States. The little boy thought this
was to be an epoch making event in his
life, and long before the actual day ar
mother to allow him to go ito town" and
see the President. Her promise was con-
ditional, however, and because the prom
ise was such, It actually turned out that
the occasion marked an epoch in this
boys life.
A Conspicuous Reason
The truth is that there were two very
conspicuous patches on the neither ex-
trenity of this young Americans trousers
and his mother promised he could go to
see the President in case his father was
able to buy him new pair of britches be-
fore the day arrived. The new trousers
failed to materialize and broken-hearted
the little boy realized on the morning of
the eventful day that he would have to
remain at home.
As sometimes boys will, he cried con-
siderably, according to the story now
told of the affair, and his mother cried.
too, but after the first pangs of disap-
pointment were passed she went into the
house and soon returned with a rusty lit
tie book in her hand.
''Here son. she said, 'is a far better
way to know great men and brilliant
minds than by seeing them; If you are to
be great man it is this way you will
have to do it,"
Lessons From the Book
The book was one OF the few in the
boys home and about the only one OF
those few which he had never read: for
1t had no pictures and looked so uninter-
esting. But The had arrived at that age
where the fact that there were no pic
lures In book did not matter SO much;
he took the book. dried his tears, went
out into the old apple orchard and began
10 read.
1t was John Ruskin's FIRST lecture on
Sesame and Lilies" the one called "Se-
same: OF Kings Treasures" AT first he
did not see much in it, but he read slow
ly and soon began to think that Ruslxin
must have been talking about him. for it
seemed SO closely to fit his case He
drank in those eloquent words telling Of
the kings and statesmen lingering pa
tiently. not to grant audience, but to gain
fit-fn those plainly furnished -and mar
row anterooms, our bookcase shelvesv'
He realized the truth of Rusldn's state
ment that I'VE spend our years, and pas
sions and powers in pursuit. of great men
and great women merely to catch a
glimpse Of them or at most to talk 10
minutes with them; while meantime,
there is society continually open to us
of people who will talk to us as long as
we like, whatever our rank or occupa-
tion-talk to us in the best words they
can choose, and of the things nearest
their hearts,
Wonderful Dreams for Future
All of which is an exceedingly round
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28
Quarters Already Inadequate

Quarters Already Inadequate
The quarters of the central library at
the city hall have already become mad
equate, state the members of the board
and the library officials. As soon as pos
sible steps will be taken to secure more
room and it is now believed that the large
balcony of the armory, adjoining and on
the same floor as the library will be asked
for. This balcony would furnish immense
shelf room, probably as much as is now
used in the present quarters.
The expansion of the system is also
being developed along the line of estab-
fishing sub-stations The first request on
this proposition has come from the South
ern Bell Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany which is now getting 50 books a
month and using them to equip a sub-sta-
tion at their office building. The respon-
sibility for the care and return of books
in cases of this kind rests entirely with
the company concerned. AT the meeting
last week similar request was granted
to the Alabama Interstate Power com
pany, which wants so books every two
weeks the books to be taken to the
works of the company at Ocampo. The
large per cent of the men who are sta
toned at Ocampo, 1t is said, are Bir-
mingham men, and on account of their al
world the books will mean very much to
them
East Lake will probably be the next
place to establish branch library. The
people of East Lake are already greatly
interested and at a recent book shower,
they donated over 400 books as a starter.
The library branch here will be opened in
the East Lake city hall
To Select Library Director
The next important step to be taken by
the library board. however. will probably
be the election of a library director. The
board has been considering the choice of
a man for this position for some time and
II is stated has now eliminated all appli-
cants but two. Both these are men from
outside cities and are said to have ex-
ceptional qualifications for the position.
A choice will probably be made by the
board during the coming week and at
most within the very near future.
This director will be the only saiaried
man connected with the library board He
VIII be an expert. He will hold much the
same relations to the library board as the
superintendent of schools holds to the
public school system of the city He will
be the executive head of the system. the
library board being then a sort of board
of directors. The library system will then
be under a. management practically iden-
tical with that of the present public
school system and it is believed that the
plan will prove very efficient and salts
factory.
1t would be hard to find body of men
and women as open-minded, unselfish and
with such spirit of cooperation as the
library board. They are enthusiastic in.
their work and have hopes and plans for
the future that are exceedingly ambitious.
Nevertheless, they are nothing but public
servants and unless they have the CO.
operation of the public and of the other
city officials they never Will be able to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28

where the preceding generation left off IL
there is to be any Advancement.
There was time when experience was
counted the better teacher and she is
not to be ignored now by any means But,
the whirlwind age of the twentieth CEN
tury has made 1t impossible for any one
man or set of men to acquire enough ex-
perience to do them any good; things are
moving too fast and the man who de-
pends on experience alone. or even more
than upon the knowledge gained from
books, can not keep pace with the man
who places his greatest dependence upon
books, gains knowledge from the men
and women who have already had expe-
rience and then starts his own life upon
this knowledge as foundation. He must
have experience, too, but his contact with
life is in the next relay of the race and is
new and different from those which the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28

about way of beginning story about
Birmingham's public library system and
the recently organized library board
which has taken over the management of
this system of libraries and which has
wonderful dreams and hopes for tho fu-
ture hopes of which few people know
about and what is sadder, but Just as
true, few people seem to care much
about
self-made men and women are very nu-
merous in this great American country,
but the very term "self-made," is in itself
very ambiguous. AS matter of fact, 1t
is doubtful If 1t could ever be proven
that any man has ever actually been self
made Genius counts for a whole lot,
and character; but In the present highly
civilized state of humanity any man who
absolutely depended upon himself to make
himself would soon lose out in the great
world drama of the survival of the fittest.
no matter what was his natural degree
of talent and genius.
The so called self-made men and women
Of this or any other country, If the final
facts are all accounted for, are the men
and women who started out as the little
boy with the patches on his breeches
and needed the advice of John Ruskin.
the master of English prose, in his lee
ture on the value of books and reading.
They are men and women who have made
themselves by profiting by the experiences
other wise men and women have had be-
fore them.
For any boy or girl to succeed in life.
get the most out of it from the intellect
ual, physical, moral. sentimental, spirit
ual and every other standpoint, he or
she must have one thing which is called
by two names and which is secured in
two ways. If you get it one way 1t is
called experience and If you get it the
other way it is called knowledge: If you
acquire it from actual contact with life 1t
is experience If you acquire it from the
written experiences of other men, or
DoohS, II Is knoWieuge.
But the first named in this day and age
is impossible. BY actual contact with life
and nature some men. particularly gifted.
will in time secure enough experience to
be of benefit to them. but by that time
their lives will have been nearly spent
and what little knowledge they have
oil la IN fl,ar
good. There only remains the second
method. then, to the boy or girl who
would get out of life all that their Maker
intended-it is knowledge gained through
books.
What Great Men Have Left
How could it be termed anything but
foolish for any person to start out in life
contact with life, when hundreds of great
men and women who have lived before
and are still living have already done. so
and left their experiences in writing for
the benefit of posterity7 Why ignore the
oportunity Of starting your nfe almost
where these men and women left off and
of climbing still higher than they? Why
choose to DO over for yourself what hun
dreds of other people have already done
for you? Civilization is relay race that
has been going on from the time of
Adams creation in the Garden of Eden
each succeeding generation must start