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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15

the new Paris fashions-high cultures, heels, high collars and high colorings. All these interesting hints anent height come authoritatively from the pen of a woman living in Paris with the sole ob- ject of finding out among the very first the trend of Parisian fashions Perhaps it is too much to ask a woman with her mind on gowns and hats and coats and fascinating accessories of dress to ike her attention for a minute on something else. but the attempt may be worth while.
 So then
 What about high living and high think ing? If everything else is to be high, to match the cultures and the hats and the heels and the collars and the colorings (and the cost of living), perhaps conduct and the mind could be made to conform to and agree with the general tendency toward height.
 Surely minute may be given to this natter of elevating ones thought, Get away, even if 1t be for but minute, from the daily deadly dull round of com mon things.
 Give your mind a chance to grow up- ward and expand in the pure sunlight of reason, of communion with the great thinkers of the past and the present The mind has it's fashions as we'll as the body. Some clothe it in rags and patches; others take care to adorn it. not indeed with the latest fashions of thought, for these are sometimes ugly and vain, but with the Stately robes of thought which the ages have approved as of the right modes and materials.
 Let the fashion of the mind be high as well as the fashion of the body.
 Some men are ready for the reaper at 30; others preserve far into old age "the spirit of high emprise." which bids them face forever the rising sun rather than the setting orb.
 Of the latter sclass is Thomas McNab of Weymouth, Mass
 Old Thomas-no disrespect is meant has reached the advanced age of 95. Sure ly. that is time to be old, to take in sail" Not so with brave old Thomas He sets his bark adrift boldly and joy cusiJ oiA tho Scd oA AiIe as lnOugn ne had never heard of such grisly things as coffins and shrouds and pallbearers.
 Brave old Thomasl
 At A or thereabouts he decided that life alone when one hears the century point is lonesome. He found a lady of 74 to agree with him. and they made ar- rangements to join fortunes
 But Thomas McNab is independent. q fnI i'm fhof on the ship of wedlock is high, and he is not overstocked with money. Did he at 95 sit down and bewail his lack of riches, fearing to marry his lady fair?
 Not he! He set out to prove that he could earn her living and his in spite
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15

of the giant sloth also are imposinr fin size and weight.
 The fossils being taken from the La Brea beds belong Co the Plelstocene pe- flod This extended over q period rang ing from 250,o0o 10 100000 years ago. It Is In very few places that bones could have been preserved for that length of time. and this makes the La Brea asphalt beds especially rare and valuable from a scien- tific standpoint.
 Scientific exploration Is becoming an important infant industry at the La Brea pods Ten men arc engaged in the work of excavation. Four are kept busy in the work of cleaning the bones and box Ing them for shipment to the museum. The other employees are put to work label ing and sorting them. Such specimens as are. not wanted by the museum for it's own permanent exhibition find ready market in the other museums of the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
BONES OF IMPERIAL BEASTS
 FOUND IN ASPHALT DIT,

exploring the asphalt deposits in the Rancho Le Brea fossil beds on Wiltshire boulevard, scientists working for the Los Angeles County meuseum have just dis covered and given to the world of science the bones of three rare and extinct anil mals which will be worth q small fortune when restored and set up, says d Los Angeles special to the Philadelphia Pub
 lie Ledger
 Four hundred thousand years ago these mammoth animals were roaming about a jungle where now stand the aristocratic homes of Los Angeles. An imperial ele- phant is just beginning to show up in one of the pits The skull of a mastodon was loaded on a dray and sent to the Exposition Park museum yesterday. A giant ground sloth and little sloth are being taken out in sections. Completing the remarkable collection are the bones of several sabre-tooth tigers and wolves.
 l.. 10. Wyman, in charge of the excava- tions, regards the La Brea beds as one of the most promising locations ever dis covered in the world for the production of valuable fossils. The story of how so many rare animals came to be buried in this spot, as 1t has been reconstructed by geolosists and scientists, is a thrill- ing one.
 Lakes of asphalt were formed here, be- ing driven from below by immense quan- tities of gas. This asphalt spread itself through the Jungles that then existed. The La Brea pits occupy q depression among the hills and covered the masses of sticky asphalt.
 When one of the gigantic animals once set foot in this asphalt, it became im- prisoned and slowly sank into the sticky mass. This immediately brought the carnivorate, tigers and wolves seeking their prey. They. too. became caught in the asphalt and were buried. The as- phalt shut out the air and water and preserved the bones.
 D. J. Fisher, osteologist at the Los Angeles museum. visited the pits yester- day and looked over the bones that were being taken out. To him will fall the task of reconstructing the skeletons of the various animals after their bones have been assembled and cleaned.
 One of the hopes of the scientists is to unearth pair of tusks of the imperial elephant. Ivory has proven less endur- able than tho material of which the bones are composed, and so far only sections of the immense tusks have been recov- cred. From their dimensions it has been determined that they should be at least l5 feet in length.
 The skull of the mastodon taken to the museum yesterday was so heavy that 1t required four men to lift 1t to the auto truck. A single leg bone Is all that one man can carry out of the pit. The bones
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15

NOW
 Is the Englishman right in saying that Americans are thoroughly con- vinced that work, be it merely pig killing, is the only fit occupation for man?"
 It may have been true in the past when America was roughter, cruder. less f'nished than it Is now.
 At present let the growing Ameri- can appreciation of literature and mu- sic and the other arts speak for us. All England means over the invasion of American millionaires with piles of dollars to spend for the works of art that have been preserved in English country and town homes for centuries.
 These heaps of American dollars are the product of American work.
 When man or woman has paid the full, honest price of what he or she has no one has a right to claim it.
 This is true of what is commonly known as property, real or personal, but it ap- plies no less in those greater possessions, such as peace of mind and of soul, con tentment, honor. standing in a commun- ity. respect of friends and neighbors, love of family.
 Here is the story of the cheating of one man:
 He had sinned and had paid the price exacted by the state-a term in the peni tentiary. Leaving the prison gates with the resolve to live a decent, honest life, he cast aside his old personality and be- came a new man. (Too few former con victs can do this. for the weakness of mind and body which drew them to fur ther sinning)
 This man had strong and forceful character. He went away from the scene of his crime, which had been expiated by years of suffering in prison, and ob- tained a place as writer on a news paper. For five years he worked, win hing a high place in his community, first in virtue of his humorous and other writ ings and then by his innately good quail. ties of mind and heart.
 It looked to him as though he had outlived his past, and his feet were set on the path of usefulness and honor.
 But he was not left to make his living and his new life in peace. Some one knew of his shining in the town he had left behind forever. That some one sent to him anonymous letters and tortured him by constant threats of exposure.
 Then came an occasion when this re-. formed man had to go to a nearby city to testify for his paper in a libel suit Learn ing that an attempt would be made dur ing his examination to call up his past he fled
 He left behind him note which read:
 'The law has nothing whatever on me. paid and vindicated myself with nearly seven years straight work without a break.'
 The belief in personal devil and in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
TO HEART TALKS-By Charles N Lurie

of the fact that he is 95 years young. He is a machinist by trade, and he argued that good, sound tools for the repairing of automobiles, tools we'll made by hand from honest materials, ought to com mand a market. So he bought a stock of tool steel and set himself busily to the making of tools. In this way he hopes to earn the livelihoods of himself and his prospective wife
 Those of us who at 30 or 40 or 50 or 60 Tear the future should take old Thomas example to heart.
 Though much is taken, much remains, D sings Tennyson. The hearts the thing If so be that organ, whatever it's age, feels itself able to pump encouragement. to muscle and mind-let the work go on.
 Only one man in a hundred reaches the ae of 65 according to life insurance statistics. Far fewer, of course, attain the age of 95, and of the nonagenarians only small percentage--an infinitesimai would have the pluck and nerve and gumption to start in to earn their living as old Thomas has done.
 Therefore, all honor to Thomas McNab. He's an inspiration and an example. More power to his good right toolmaking arm.
 Again we of America are called upon to consider the century old question:
 What makes an American different, anyway?'
 This time the question has been raised by the action of a great Eng fish railway which has selected an American for its general manager in default of an Englishman with the proper training and qualifications.
 Trying to explain this astonishing passing over of native talent. an Eng fish magazine says:
 "The average American Is, on the whole, more self reliant than his coun- terpart here. He has the spirit of a Pawnee brave out after scalps, if not of knight errant. He is more ambi- tious than the product of our coldly regulated society
 "The American, too. has this further advantage: He attacks his work with vinced that work be it merely pig killing, is the only fit occupation for man."
 The Englishman goes on in some- what critical strain to make deroga- tory remarks about the American's passion for work. And yet 1t was . famous Briton. Carlyle. who wrote:
 "Ali work. even cotton spinning, is noble. Work is alone noble." Bless ed is he who has found his work. Let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, life purpose. He has found it and will follow it.
 There is no greater joy than the ac- complaining of worthy results. The doing thereof is good and the work which Is the means thereunto ts like wise good. Let no man, especially no American. despise work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
ALOM THE DEMAGOGUE-By B. F. Riley D.

were on the opposite side of the truth. but then truth was a worthless com modity if Absalom could only be king.
 In order to do this. he must so ply his art as ito steal the hearts of the men of Israel
 What does he do this heartless fellow with ambition tugging at his vitals and threatening te devour him? In the sol itude of thought he devises schemes of sundry character and with a show of amazing sincerity bursts on the scene.
 Nothing could be more slllful than the vain. ambitious. false, and heartess young mans bearing toward the crowd. Affecting easy and gracious conde- scension. he courted all alike While king David in official obligation, and in com pliance with the demand of the position to which he was chosen, sat in the gate to judge all cases brought before him, weighted down with the burdens of the
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inspiration with an evil spirit has suf- fered many shocks recently at the hands of the critics of dogma and popular be- lief But it rises renvigcrated from its sickbed when one reads of such things.
 Surely the devil or some one or some- thing near akin to him inspires person who would wreck the life of man trying to live down 9 youthful error.
 Of other sinners one may say, For give them, Father, for they know not what they doi' But 1t is hard. very hard to feel charitable toward any one so lost to all sense Of humanity.
 Get down any book on the conduct of life you may possess, blow the dust off the top and turn to the chapter on economy.
 How the blessings of savings are set forth.
 How much stress is laid upon the advantages of making provisions for the future! How the advice of the Good Book about laying up treasures in heavens ignored or slurred.
 Of course
 
 no provision for the future is storing up years to come.
 But, like many other virtues, econo- my may be carried to excess. Con slider for moment the case of the Chi cago man of whom it was written re- gently:
 After admitting he refused to buy shoes for his wife and children. al- though he had $225 in bank, James Blank was called the meanest man in Chicago by a judge In the court of domestic relations. Detectives who ar rested Blank found his wife, their 15 months old baby and 3-year-old daughter without shoes. There was no coal and little food in the house Under q mat tress in his bed they discovered sz.
 Mrs. Blank testified her husband made her scrub in an office building and that she had to go to work in a pair of slippers. She gave him all her money The judge ordered Blank to spend some of the money he had saved and put him on probation
 "Oh. well' some vne says, you wouldn't call that man economical you'd call him just plain stingy."
 Right, of course but his fault was that he carried virtue to excess. He kept 1t until it turned sour.
 Oh pr. Johnson, the famous light of literature, had the right idea when he said, as is recorded in Boswell's Life of Johnson:''
 No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction." James Blank of Chicago did not think than to spend, better to warm his soul with the consciousness of money in hand than to warm the bodiss of his wife
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
BY-PATHS OF HISTORY-ABSALOM

the good of the common people. but for the sake soley of Absalom himself. who hungered for the throne. Till Absalom appeared on the scene, David was es- teemed a great and mighty king. He had long reigned with ungated success, he had furnished an improved code of law, he had fought the battles of Israel against foes, firm and formidabIe. and from the rosy days of his youth, when the dam sels hailed him a returning conqueror, saving. Saul has slain his thousands, but David his ten thousands'' up the as- cent of years. the devoted David had been true to his people
 The first inkling that the people had that David was a reactionary was when Absalom, smooth, smart, deceitful, mis- leading Absalom, without scruple, pro- claimed it in astonished ears. Not that Absalom himself believed that which he Baid, for no one knew better that they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15

seend to speak to them. man for man. and when did he ever show sympathy in the concerns of tn common people2 These furnished the staple of the stufe of the man who wanted to be king. this and this only. As those to whom Ab
 salom would talk about the wrongs in- flicted on them. the justice due withheld. would themselves go out among the masses, they would talk of the greatness of Absalom How he could talk, What enchanting condensation was hist HoN he did love the people How intense was his desire to make all men happy,
 Among other things, Absalom was a great secret organizer. lie assigned men to appointed stations throughout the land to be rallied under the talismanic name of Ahsalom On hilltop and tower they were placed with instructions 10 be ready ito leap at moments notice to tho cause of Absalom. At given signal from He
 hron, the trumpet-flour was to vihrate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15

A BSALOM was the worlds first
 great demagogue. A demagogue ~ is one who overreaches himself in his ambition to become that for which he is not fitted. His chief quality lies in his ability to fool the people. In order to do this he must assume to be that which he Is not. To eclipse all deficiencies ne must have an oily tongue, and say things which he does not mean. and promise things which can never by him be brought to pass. All this Absalom the son of Day. i'd had, all this he did
 While his old father. the monarch of israel, was at his capital absorbed in the affairs of his Kingdom, moulding pol icies and shaping and directing the in terests of the realm, Absalom was abroad and busy among the people, creating Issues which never were. but which Ab- salon wove from his fecund inamination not for the good of the kingdom, nor for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
A Safe Definition of Genius

From the PhlIadeIphia Ledger
 Prof. Harry Thurston Peck at litrary dinner in New York. discussed men of genius in his usual brilliant manner
 There are," he said. many different opinions as to the true definition of . genius. but all authorities agree that it is generally unsafe to lend the fellow mon0y."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15

ana children with proper food and rai- ment. His belief haled him to court.
 Few carry penury to such an extent But there are others, too many others
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15

who act on thte same principle and arc restrained only by fear of the law from following the road he took to it's logical end.
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1914-09-26

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TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1914-09-26

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TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1914-09-26
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TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1914-09-26
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TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1914-09-26
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