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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24
A Gyroscope Motor Car

From the London Globe
 At las a two-wheeled motor car, kept in the upright position by the use of a will be most interesting to see if it can be made available in practice for ordi- nary use It is only necessary to compare the bicycle with the tricycle. to realize the advantages of two wheels over three or more; for everybody knows the bicycle can be propelled with less power and at greater speed. What is true of the ma chimes which depend on human muscles is equally true of those that depend on an engine.
 The single-track machine seems to offer all sorts of delightful possibilities to mo- torists. It could go over paths altogether barred to the ordinary motor, and in new countries, where broad highroads as yet are not. it would be simply invaluable. would have all the advantages in the way of speed and expense of running which the motorcycle now possesses over the moter car, and so far as we can see, none of the disadvantages.
 It is claimed it does away almost en- tirely with the danger of taking curve at a high rate of speed. srrce the only thing you cannot do with gyroscope is to upset it. Possibly practical objections may be discovered to the idea, but at any rate the experiment when if is put into practice is bound to be of the great est interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24
Fire Hose Checks Loving Couple

From the New York World.
 Columbus, O-Postmaster John M Davis has hard and fast rule against fhrting or spooning in the corridor of the postoffice
 woman and man entered the cor- rioor rom opposite doors. and when .hey met there were exclamations of oeiight, and much hugging, kissing. | caressing and loving speeches for a few minutes, much to the amusement of | the other patrons sof the office and to
 the disgust and annoyance of the post ! master, who. after reasonable walt
 Tor the pair to break away, ordered. out
 the fire squad of the postoffice, who played four-inch stream of water | from the fire. hose on them 1 Thoroughly drenched and greatly en- ragged they hastened from the building 1 When they had gone Postmaster Da
 wis learned that they were a couple
 who had been estranged, but who. on
 meeting in the corridor by chance. evi-
 dently mutually decided to kiss and
 make up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24
Li Mistus Done Et All De Charlotte Often De R1sses

At a certain dinner. party in this little burg not many moons ago as the affair was moving slowly but surely on toward the salad course' something very funny happened.
 Of course, the really clever person never takes anything seriously at a dinner party after the fish" but in this case it was the hostess who was visibly affected and this is what caused her perturbation.
 Just as she was about to tell one of her choicest stories she felt a gen. tie touch upon her arm and old "Ju- piter," the butler. who was more than butler-he was more like a member of the family than anything else whispered in her ear:
 Miss May oh. MissMa'y."
 What is ft?' she said in an aside apologizing to her guests.
 Jupiters dusky face was almost ashy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24
THE PRICE OF A PENCIL
Fly c. M. GOETHE tEXclusive Service the Survey Press Bureau)

Could a reporters pencil write a story of it's own? 1t has one that ought to be told.
 Running through the southern states is a belt of cedar. From these trees were split the rails which last nearly a century. The rail fences are as much characteristic of the south as are the log cabins, the beautiful colonial homes of the young days of the republic the famous singing of the plantation ne- groes and their banjo music But the rail fence is passing. It Is being made into high grade lead pencils. This con version from fences to lead pencils un- fortunately includes story of ex- plotted people-recreation hungry and easily imposed upon.
 There are perhaps a dozen pencil mills in the south. The owners buy the fences, paying part cash and part in a wire fence. The product is shipped abroad to Austria, Germany, Belgium. wheer the graphite is pressed into the cedar strips and the finished pencils are made. Recently Japan has become competitor of Europe and a customer of the southern mills
 Upon an upper floor of pencil mill
 
 the jigsaw men work. The air is as ruddy as if rusty snow were falling. "A generation ago We. never had a death from consumption in our coun- ty. Recently We have recorded sixty odd deaths. We do not know the cause" said a betterment worker in one of the pencil mill sections.
 The men are employed under the piece work system. They have na la 2 bor unions. They work much longer than the eight hour day some of us believe is ideal. But they also work under conditions which seem danger ous. The cedar rails are reduced to pencil lengths. Then the jig sawyers cut them into slabs the width of a-lead pencil. With unprotected circular saws this means holding fingers uncomfort- ably close. In answer to the question how many men were cut came: About one every other day"
 The strips drop from the circular saws to a lower floor Here girls sort and classify them. Some of these girls wear dresses only to their knees. They look as if they ought to be at school or playground. The atmosphere is lit tie. if any, less dusty than at the iie saw floor. The workers are red with fine sawdust. new conner can hard ly breathe in it. The hands are "speeded up' so that one is forcibly reminded of Jurgis in the Jungle One sees them in all stages-from tn, plump. rosy checked beginning just 1T from the farm to the gaunt. steer shouldered, hollow chested woman, pale faced nervous wreck.
 Going into the mill one stumble over cases of bottles of certain "sof drink" stimulant, manufactured in tn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24

land every feature indicated that some dire calamity was impending.
 What's the matter, Jupiter?' Mrs Hostess insisted soto voce Please, Miss May" he confided in Ia stage whisper, -"please um, lil' mistus done clum thru de winder, inter. de pantry, an she don ct all de charlotte often de russes. Now, what Us gwine ter do for dessert?'
 The little episode set me athinking When the world gets really advanced and people see things as they are and not as they look from the grown up, upstairs window, no civilized family will have a dinner party without let ting the children eat all they want before the affair is open for the grown ups"
 It is mark of savagery for people who take adult doses of anything to make poor little hungry children go to bed on bread and milk or any of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24

gled-toothed, red-headed youngster that a magazine illustrator has drawn, with the same eyes cooked upward at a pantry shelf, where sweet meats were stored.
 Before he begins the attack he sapient- ly says:
 'T will have to get spanking. but oh you jam'
 Why should people try to kill in a child the enthusiasm for food, especially for those weird desserts and things not practical to serve every day to ones fam ily. whose health must be the first con- sideration?
 But
 After all, maybe it's just as we'll!
 A dream realized loses it's beautiful gilt edge!
 A meal eaten. even if it is digested, loses the fine flavor of a fairy-tale feast, that was tasted only by imagination of the young food fiend.
 Then
 Those of us who hold in keen recollec- ton the tragedies of our childhood are forced. if we are honest. to confess that things eaten to satiety never were much of joy.
 "Lil' Mistus," who sneaked in through the window to the pantry and ate all the charlottes off the "russes," perhaps didn't enjoy the foamy loot, so much as she did her own daring in burglarizing her own mothers pantry and snatching before the very eyes of the enemy, a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24

south. Evidently much is consumed. It is carried up and down the rows of workers. A short conversation with a young fellow of the type known as "the cadet" waiting at the mill door near the closing hour brought out this bit of philosophy. "Everybodys got their own peculiar graft in this yere world stranger. I've got mine and I reckon you've got your'n. The foreman here's got the graft naming the above "soft drink'D. His nephew totes the stuff to the girls and the men. They sign cards just like at your swell city clubs. He never loses pie ayune-he takes 1t outer their pay. He says it's healthy and it makes them work better, but I reckon all he wor- ries about is the health of his bank account"
 One of the floor bosses, when ask ed about labor unions, said: You bet we ain't got any here. We've got labor W. can handle We won't hire anybody raised in town. We get 'em from the ,arihs-pack In the mountains-the Kind wot's hungry for a good time. That kind will stand for pretty near anything.' 1t was the old story of re- creation hunger
 But the saddest of all was to come. Jane Addams once advised going to Where the days work was ending if one wanted to understand where the real trial came to the underpaid and oYercrowded woman worker The week s work was almost over at the pencil mill, At the time clock shed door stood several young fellows of the parasitica type, As the girls streamed out one of these vultures stepped up and took the arm of pret- ty brown eyed, rosy checked girl They Nefe starting off together when an- other mill girl said to the fellow: Bill, you amt got no right to go off this way with Belle. You've got a wife and baby" Oh hell,"H was "Bill's" an swer, T don't care if you do tell her. Belle here looks pretty good to me.
 Another chap stepped up to wan looking, coughing girl, who exclaimed With startled look: What. you here again. Aain't I got enough to rack me with the work in that mill all week without you coming to hound me when m al tired out? Please go away and leave me alone.' There was a low con- versation for moment They went off together
 And this, because of our way of do- Ing things, Is the price of a lead pencill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24

other nourishlng foods prescribed by
 mean spirited and unsympathetic phy-
 sicians.
 Who is the English doctor who has
 come boldly forth to proclaim that
 anything we would like to have to eat.
 which we for the moment want, is the very article of diet which our system
 needs for its most perfect develop ment?
 First thing we know some other
 physician will be trying to prove that
 he is little boy .'quacl<" doctor l question very much if food ever really
 means anything to us after we attain our majority
 But tragedies of childhood-those re- membered days when we would have sold our souls and bodies and thrown our hearts and brains and curls, and even a cherished doll or beloved necklace, for more pink ice cream. for another slice of
 ndigestible cake to eat, until the grown ones were privileged to eat until they killed themselves on it, if they pleased.
 those are the things that turn the heart of a childas one sfnaIi girl expressed it. into something as tough an old baked | hen chicken gizzard."
 1 When Stevenson said: | Nothing really matters after we are 12''
 and children, whose little souls are killed dead within them, for the moment, because they are deprived of the gustatory joys
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24
Mistaken Impression

T IOlU t1It W 6tAf.
 When we sent you to Congress you said you were going to make some speeches that would wake 'em up." said the constituent
 Everybody there went to Congress with the same intention replied the new member. 'I couldn't find anybody auleep'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24

sweet, they neither deserved, or perhaps sadder still, really cared about eating aft CT all.
 Life is full 6 just such over-sweetened and unappreciated mockeries
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24

When Tennyson sang the impassioned lover, who was willing to waste his whole life for only this-to place one kiss upon her perfect lips-hs hero must have been one of those grown children who earlier in life would gladly have bartered his grandfathers legacy to be collected some distant day, for another helping of "lemon pie, with wiggy merngue on top of it.
 The man in the poem was no more dar- ing-no more of a dead game sport, ? willing to take his chance and pay the penalty, than the little round-eyed. snag-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24
'FRECKLES
Now h the Time to Get Rid of These
 Ugly Spots

Ugly Spots
 There's no longer the slightest need of feeling ashamed of your freckles, as the prescription othine-double strength-is Guaranteed to remove these homely upots-
 Simply get an ounce of othine--double Htrength-from any druggist and apply you should soon see that even the worst freckles have begun to disappear, while the lighter ones have. vanished en- tire1y. It is seldom that more than an ounce is needed to completely clear the skin and gain a beautiful clear com plexion.
 Be sure to ask for hedouble strength othine as this is sold under guarantee of money back if 1t falls to remove
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24

stairs, a hungry little child. maybe crammed full of bread and milk, and the stewed prunes prescribed for nourishing nursery supper, hearing and seeing and smelling the food below. guzzled up by un- epprecative. dyspeptic grown-ups.
 I love the story of the little girl who peeped through the keyhole while the dinner party was going on, just dying to get in and get some of the Thanksgiving turkey and cranberry sauce
 Her mother kept sending word for her to leave the door. if she didn't shed switch her good.
 Finally the little girl couldn't stand 1t any longer so she poked her saucy little face inside the door and said:
 q don't care if don't get none of the turkey. 'Twasn't nothing but an old sick turkey nohow."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24

of life. say until college days or debu- tante existence opens all food gates to them.
 The Tragedies of Childhood" in real life hold nothing more poignantly heart breaking than when we sat on the upper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24
IDCLrfSr1Arnrr.s1
 IPHlLOSOPf1I|

Uv course, Ole Miss, hits all right ter "Tell de Truth an Shame de Devil,' but who wants ter Embarrass dey Friends? Yassum!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24

And this. because of our way of do- ing things, Is the price of a lead benefit
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

10 overcome their hand1capS by en-
plOying the special devices construct
ed to help them.
Their work is naturally slow. but
the finished product is equal to that
turned out by normal workmen.
Men with weak or missing legs but
strong arms and hands rapidly be-
come experts at reedwork. In this
class orders are taken for repair work
outside of the school.
The directors of this school realize
that besides teaching these unfortu-
mates trade it is essential to inspire
them with hope. Held back by their
physical limitations-hopeless because
helpless-it is natural that the cripple
should drift into an abnormal mental
condition unless constantly encour-
aged. The growth of cheerfulness
among the students at this school Is
one OF the most gratifying and prom
Using achievements of the institution.
The intention is to give willing,
healthy young men who are handi-
capped by some deformity an oppor-
tunity to learn trade, and to give
this in assistance and not as a char
thy. For this reason, pupils are for
hidden to receive any aid from visi-
tors. They are trained to become
seif-supporting, self-respecting men,
berS of society.
The product of the pupils is Of
fered for sale from time to time.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

metal beating, engraving, drawing,
basket and wicker furniture making
and loaded glasswork.
Because of the infirmities OF the
workers, special tools and machines
have been devised to enable them to
turn out a product equal to that OF
their more fortunate competitors.
In one of the pictures on this page
men who have lost an arm are shown
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

The result Is that these unfortunates
frequently become objects of public
charity. although possessing both the
capacity and the desire to earn their
livelihoods by their own efforts.
To remedy this situation is one OF
the objects of the unique institution
known as the Trade School of the
Hospital of Hope. which first teaches
crippled and disabled men Il trade and
then uses its influence to secure work
for them
The institution occupies an oId-time
twcnty-roum house in Franz Sigel
Park, at Mott avenue and One Hun
dred and Fifty-ninth street, just be-
low the opening of the Concourse,
New York City. and, what is perhaps
as unusual in institutions of this kind
as thc work itself, is the fact that
this one is soliciting students and
not funds. The latter are supplied by
Mr.. Artcmus Ward, who founded the
school, and the former are recruited
from the hospitals.
The old-dmo parlor of this building
Is full of strange machines which
look ike instruments of torture but
are, in fact gentle mechanical con-
trivances TO straighten or strengthen
the hands arms or legs, where in
iuries are still capable of moditica-
tion,
These machines are known as me.
,hano-therapy machines" explained
Or. Charles II. Jaegar, late OF
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
1CIVL|ZED-And Still Beheadn8 Women!
The Barbarous and Shocking Death by
the Axe, Which Recalls the Darkest Days
of MediaeuaI Torture, and Which
Has Just Been Suffered by Two
Women in Modern Germany

1t made them think Of the execution of Henry VIII e
beautiful young Queen Anne Boeyn, dragged to the
block the command of the jealous and tickle husband
They thought what must have meant to that neck
said to be the beautiful in England, that neck
filled with the feblood of the most seductive beauty Of
the court, severed by the executoners axe.
They thought of the venerable Countess of Salisbury
upward Of eighty years DID, who fought with the
toners assistants until they forced her head on the
block and the head5man hacked Off They thought of
poor Lady Grey beheaded in her sixteenth year. of
Mary Queen of Scots condemned to the block by her
cousin and fellow Queen.
They thought OF Joan Of Arc of the Marquse de Brin
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

the German Hospital, director of
the work. For each arm, leg or
trunk movement there is an appara-
tus, which by means of its adjustment,
adapted to the anatomical conditions,
allows Of the active exercise of Il GER
tain group Of muscles.
"rhe resistance to be overcome is
accurately known and can be in
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

creased or diminished as occasion re-
Quires. In all these machines the
part to be exercised is so adjusted
that the moving joint is in exact line
with the axle of the machine This
is important, as it insures the correct
physiological action of the muscles"
Among the trades which the Grip
pies are taught are cabinet-making.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

~ BCAUSE a man has only one leg is no
X reason why he may not work with his
hands as well as mem whose lower
limbs are intact
But legless men have difficulty in finding
employment, no matter how expert they may
be with their hands Employers are averse
tn having crinnles about their shoDs
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
Teaching the Armless and Legless to Earn Living

working ON glass mosaic work. Whereas
fully equipped workman would hold piece
of glass in one hand and break it with the
other, special clamps operated by foot are
used by these cripples to take the place OF
their missing arms.
Some of them still have their arms, but the
use of them is restricted through paralysis or
other defects These students are TAUGHT how
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

An Ancient Saxon Drawing, Showing the Execu
ton of an Erring Woman by the Sword
Around Are the Mutilated Remains of Human Be-
ings and Instruments of Torture Used by
"Justice" in 0lden Days.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

The Death by the Axe Still Pracsed in Modern
Germany. A Drawing of an Old Print, Showing a
Woman's Execution in RabOr, Germany in 1892. The
Scene Was Recently Repeated Just Shown Here When
Two Murderesses Were Beheaded in the Same Old Prison.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
Death by the
Wheel.

Medieval Draw
ing, Showing
This Cruel
P unis hment,
with the Exc
cutiOners De-
picted as De-
mons.
The Washington times., 1914-12-17
STORMY FIGHT FOR
SEAMEN'S MEASURE
Strenuous Efforts To Be Made
for La Toilette Bill Pending
Before Senate Committee.

Strong efforts will be made to obtain
the enactment Of the La FcAetce sea-
mons bill, now that the London safe
at-sea convention has been ratified with
reservations which leave the way open
for this country TO enact laws such as
proposed by the seamen's bill. The bill
is pending in the Commerce Committee
Of the Senate. where "A subcommittee
has decided to report It favorably to
the man committee.
Intense opposition is shown by ship
ping interests. In some quarters. il Is
predicted that European powers. or part
of them. will withdraw from the con-
vention. because OF me reservations
made by this country. However, with
"A great war on, the convention is not
in force and will not be until the con-
flict is crIded.
Ratification OF the safcty-at-sea con-
vcntion Wednesday afternoon. with tho
Williams resolution attached to Il. was
4 victory for the friends Of the Sca-
mems bill in the Senate. Opponents OF
the scamen's bill. aided by the Admins
tration. tried to force the convention
through without qualification. This
would have killed the seamen's bill.
Senators La Toilette, Cummins. Wn-
fight to have such reservations made as
would enable this country to enact
legislation of its own as to seamen.
safety-at-sea, and tho like recurring
higher standards than those Of the
London agreement.
The Washington times., 1914-12-17
TO RUSH WORK ON
TWO HIGH SCHOOLS
Commissioners Promise Board
of Education There viii Be
No Delay in Building.

The work OF construction upon Doth
the Western High School and the East
ern High School buildings viii be
rushed to completion with all possible
expedition The District Commissioner
have so promised Henry P. Blair. presi
dent of the Board OF Education, &C
cording to a report submitted at the
meeting Of the board yesterday in the
Franklin building.
Communications asking that repairs
be made to the Mott, Hamilton and
Smallwood schools were referred to tn
committee on buildings and grounds
Although declared unsafe the Mott and
Hamilton schools are still in use. It Is
proposed to make alterations to the
Smallwood School to permit its use as
a manual training school for that sec
ton.
a letter protesting against the con-
tinued use OF the Gales School build
ing was ignored because It was IN
signed.
Miss NJ. r. Ossire was designated as
principal of the Wisconsin Avenue Man
ual Training School The usual resig-
nations. appointments, transfers and
tendent Thurston. was approved by the
board. as war also the awards in the
Gait prize contest OF $50 cash each to
Jacob Goldberg and Leopold V. Freud
berg. and $50 each to R. +. Joyce. r.,
and Miss Leona g. Kremkau.
Supt. Ernest l. Thurston was instruct
ed by resolution to convey to the teach
ing staff OF the schools and to other Of
ticials. the Christmas greetings OF the
board.