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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-04
Judge Grubb to New Orleans

Judge w l. Grubb of the federal court
will leave tonight for Now Orleans, where
he will preside in the United States court
OF appeals. He will be absent about four
weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-04

| Havre, clear ...................... %
Helepa, clear ....... ........ 90
Huron, cloudy u
Jacksonville, clear :.
Kansas City, clear
Knoxville snow
Louisville, snow
Memphis, clear
Miami, clear
Mobile, clear
Modena, clouS
Montgomery, c.
Nashville, cloudy
New Orleans, clear ......
New York, rain ................
North Platte, snow ............ o.
Oklahoma, cloudy ................ 80
Palestine, clear ........,.......... 90
Phoenix partly cloudy os
Pittsburg, snow ..........'...'.' 81
Portland rain .................... 40
Raleigh, cloudy .....,............ ~
Rapid City, snow ................
Roseburg, cloudy ................ %
Roswell. partly cloudy ......... "a
Salt Lake City, clear ....-....... %
San Antonio, clear ........... 62
San Francisco, cloudy .....-.... W =
Sault Ste. Marie, cloudy 81
Sheridan, clear .................... 81
Shreveport, clear ................ %
Spokane, cloudy .................. ~
st. Louis, cloudy ................. ~
st. Paul, cloudy .................. 70
Tampa. clear ............ 54
Toledo snow w........ 81
Nicksburg, cloudy .............. rs
Washington, cloudy .......s...... 40
Williston, cloudy ................. 70
Winnemucca, rain ..........s..... "a
/ Winnipeg, cloudy ................ 10
E. C. HORTON, Local Forecaster.
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tr,
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New York Buys $1O 900 Worth of Pearls Year-Deae
Says Bogus Gems Are Detected at Glance-Lustre
Never Permanent Where Doctoring Is Employed

of pearls, but while their present owns
ers live 1t will be practically impossible
to purchase them and place them Cd
the market"
MIR. Nissen was asked about reports
published every few years regarding tht
discovery Of diamond drifts in the West
"They have never amounted to any
thing" he replied. although wish ID
add that Of the few stones found Id
Arkansas some have been of very good
quality. But the supply of the Westeru
diamonds thus far found is so small 81
to be almost negligible.
Considerable amusement was caused
among dealers. by the way, during thu
recent tariff discussion. when one en-
thusiastic Congressman declared that Il
there should be a duty Of 35 or 10 pei
cent. on diamonds the State OF Arkan.
sas In two or three years would be sup.
plying the diamonds of the world. Evi.
IDENTIFY Congress didn't believe the gen
tleman," Mr. Nissen concluded. "And y
a matter of fact. | am decidedly OF ths
belief that Arkansas hasn't enough diA
nlouds to make 1t pay to mine them
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rubies were put on the market, and at
first were sold at the rate Of about $lOO
per carat. Furthermore, a great many
purchasers were fooled into buying
them at real ruby prices, very much IN
excess Of the figures just mentioned
They thought they were getting bar
gains, but they were not, for tb-day u
fine ruby may bring from two thousand
10 fNe thousand dollars per carat. the
reconstructed ruby looked like real
stone, but the humbus was driven no
far that to-day you can buy recon-
structed rubies at 80 cents a carat
They are the cheapest OF limitations
and do not disturb the trade IN rea'
rubies."
"Are diamonds still doctored extern
sively?" l., A..
II haven't heard OF a case In ten
wears. And In view OF what happened
to artlficiaIiy colored diamonds ana re-
constructed rubies. ] think II hish'y
DrOl,able, II not. indeed. certain, that
the doctorinE Of pearls will pass into
history az a clumsy attempt at raw
swindle."
vfIow about the cabled statement
that an old Hindu living In a suburb
of Paris has altered Inexpensive Amer
lean pearls and afterward has seen
them sold as high as $4,000 each"
Mr.. Nissen laughed.
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drop OF alcohol would Immediately un-
puzzle the experts
american pearls are rarely OF any
great value as compared with Indian
pearls, because they lack the desired
lustre, and for another important rea-
son. Pearls are used to-day principally
in necklaces For these. round pearls
are required, and America produces
very few Of them. Such pearls as
America does produce are found In
Tennessee, Wisconsin and other Middle
Western States. north and south"
The demand for pearls In said to have
grown enormously during recent years.
both In Europe and America, and the
reasons for this have been debated
many times. Mr.. Nissen thinks that it
IL based on a simple trait OF human
nature, seen In many directions.
Mankind usually wants that which
In hardest to get" he said philOsophi'
cally. "That. In my opinion. accounts
| for the increasing demand for pearls
that really are good.
"You must remember that pearls are
growing scarcer all the time. and as
| far as l can see the demand will con-
tinue to exceed the supply. unless .
new and valuable fishery IL unexpect.
| eddy discovered. And men who have
been long In the trade do not look
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"Since pearls have become so FASH
ionable. however. the individual diver
has been superseded by graphing
hooks, almost identical with dredging
machines. They are lowered into tho
beds. and scrape up everything they
come In contact with. bringing up all
sorts Of oysters, large and small; and
the men engaged in the fisheries open
every one Of them, no matter how
tiny. hoping to find therein at least
a small pearl usually called seed
pearls.
"NOw that wholesale sort Of fishing
for pearls has several results. In the
first place 1t creates u market for seed
pearls. because when hundred per-
sons are wearing pearls II thousand
or ten thousand other persons also
want some To wear. This perfectly
natural desire for seed pearls among
persons who cannot AFFORD larger ones
undoubtedly increases the price and
thereby encourages the fisheries tn
keep on dredging small oysters and
opening every one Of them But 1t
also has another, and perhaps more
important result. It insures con-
stantly increasing scarcity OF large
pearls.
"You know, Of course, that pearl
In an excrescence, the symptom Of
disease In an oyster; and the longer
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quantities OF pearls; possessed them
literally by bushels.
"As soon as Il was seen that this new
supply was available agents were sent
To the interior of India and the more
alert of them in a comparatively few
years purchased all the fine stones that
the Oriental owners were willing tn
part with. A few of the princes still
hold on to the collections formed by
themselves and their ancestors for gen.
crations and will not dispose Of them.
AT the coronation Of King George.
for example, l was introduced to n raj ah
in military dress. who had decorated
himself with at least five million dol
lars worth OF pearls. His magnificent
head dress was adorned by ropes and
groups of pearls Of almost incalculablc
value and he wore massed strings OF
ct her pearls In place Of gold braid On
his coat and cloak. For some reason
this ra jah did not seem to he especially
mindful OF the fact that he was carry
ing five million dollars worth OF pearls
around with him in plain sight. for ]
met and talked with him in o." OF the
large London hotels and he apparently
had no guards.
AS ! have said. there are . few high
personagcs In India, like this rajah.
who still possess enormous quantities
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cannot later on pick peach; you
destroy the fruit that might develop
from II.
although men by accident nova
days do occasionally come upon a big
oyster having within its shell II largely
developed pearl, yet 1t IL almost u
rarity mt present to find large, virgin
pearl. Few people outside Of the trade
have any idea Of the widespread in
tercst that IN aroused when IA really
fine pearl weighing 20 or % grains
comes into the market. 1t Is noiscd
about and II creates almost as much
Of sensation in the pearl market M
the discovery of new Rembrandt
would create In the world of art,
AS to the scarcity of pearls and the
relation Of supply and demand, Stats
tics show that from all the fisheries
Of the world combined there have been
gathered during the last five years
an average Of ten millions Of dollars
| worth Of pearls per annuN. The
quantity. by the way. keeps growing
less every year. but prices have con-
sistcntly gone higher. So the total
| amount Of money realized on a de-
| creasing production remains about
stationary
"Now. taking into account the fact
that New York alone sells more thsa
ten millions Of dollars In pearls every
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-04
EXPERTS HERE SCOFF AT PARIS STORY OF PEARL DOCTOR

forward to any such discovery--there
hasn't been one, by the way. for fifty
years.
1.-THE best fisheries continue to be in
the Indian Ocean, with some near Aus
trala, others on the coasts Of Vene-
zueia, Corea, and Lower California. But
the Indian Ocean continues to be the
principal source Of supply for new
pearls.
Formerly divers used to go down in
the water as far as necessary, stay long
enough to select large, well developed
oysters, and bring them up to the sur
face with care. OF course this was slow
work. but It resulted in bringing up
many good pearls Of large size and fev
ANAL ones.
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year II is evident that the new supply
is not equal to the demand and that Of
necessity prices must continue to go up.
Years ago. when the fisheries com.
menced to fail in producing fine pearls
in sufficient quantity, the world Of
commerce began to look for its supply
in a new quartcr-to the great aggre-
cations of pearls boarded by Orientals.
Some Of those Eastern princes had huge
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That cabled story is simply ridicu-
lous." he said. II never knew Of a
single pearl bringing $4,000 in all my
life. For "a single pearl $4,000 would
be quite an extraordinary price. I may
add that when the alleged Hindu says
his methods permit the doctoring of an
American pearl into an Indian pearl
that puzzles the experts It can he for
only few minutes, because a single
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Report That Hindu in Paris Has Method of Reconsructin
American Pearls Into Indian Gems Causes Consterna-
ton in Pearl Dealers Association of France

profits he can sell much lower than the
well known houses which carry large
Stocks Of precious stones. 1t Is only in
purchasing pearls through some such
irresponsible dealer that the purchaser
runs any risk whatever.
AS to the interesting reports cabletl
over from Paris about doctorcd pearls,
YOU may remember that a few years
ago what were termed reconstructed
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that excrescencc Is left alone the
larger It becomes. No other form Of
animal life. I may add. has the partic-
uar disease that results In the forma.
ton of the pearl. Well, 1t is easily
seen that the gathering OF seed pearls
means the prevention Of development
that would otherwise result in large
pearls, on the same principle that
where you pick a peach blossom you
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Free TaXicab Rides.

..TT will probably be news to the
people Of New York to learn
that under certain conditions ID
n Ilaasihll. La, rid. 4 ,..lt. l,., ,.... o.
Evening star., 1914-07-08

ing to get married. You haven't even
got a beau. Not hut what you might
have had There's Edward Hall. now
He'd have had you two years back and
he's good enough for any girl"
He wasn't good enough for me- mur-
INJURED Frances.
That's it. You are so highheaded you
wont take any ordinary man. No. you're
looking for somebody youl never get,
like Lee Gordon.
Mother. Please begged Frances.
"Frances,' said Mrs. Merriam emphat-
icalIy, I've let You have your own way
as long as I can. Every ryhOdyS talking
about You. They think you're failure
and you are. Just look at il! You had to
come home from college because you
couldn't pass your examinations. on
didn't know enough to teach school and
the trustees wouldn't hire you again.
And you can't get married. OF course.
your pas got money enough to take care
of you all the days of your life without
your lifting your hand, but he amt 60
ing to do it. didn't have you with the
intention that you needn't ever amount
TO anything. I want YOU to do something.
want You to start right in this after
noon writing stories. You can do it if
you will And you've got to. I've put up
with this fooling long enough"
Mrs. MerfiaL. : thin lips closed tightly
upon her resolution. As usual, she had
said ii all. There was not u word left
for Frances
At noon came Mr.. Merriam. big, fair,
calm and sunny like Frances. He had
had good time at his work that morn
ing and he had come home whistliug. with
a keen appetite for the pie which Frances
had promised to make for him. After
thirty years of living on the indifferent
food prepared by his wife Mr. Merriam
appreciated his daughters cooking.
At the table Mrs. Merriam went
beginning to end. Mr.. Merriam ate com
rOSedly the while His wife no longer
Evening star., 1914-07-08

hand and foot to this task not of her
own choosing. And Yet if the thing
could he done she was going 10 do il.
Certainly she was writing something that
seemed less and less Impossible the more
I she worked upon it.
She was sitting one night upon the
front steps waiting in the moonlight for
her parents TO return from prayer meet
ing, when she saw man coming down
the street. He turned in at their walk
and came up to the house. Then Frances
saw that he was Lee Gordon. She stood
up trembling
Good evening. Frances" Lee said
They had grown up in the same town
and gone to school together for while.
so there was nothing uncommon in his
calling her by her given name, although
they did not see each other often. Il
understand he went on, that you are
writing story
Yes. am" said Frances. and she tried
to look hravely into his face. though her
owR was white with growing humiliation.
So he had heard of it. too.
why, that's wonderful. Frances. I'm
SO glad for you. l want to congratulate
YOU He held out his hand. Il hope
you'll have great success. I've always
been deeply interested in literary work.
though 1 have no ability for II myself
beyond editing a newspaper BY the way.
l suppose you've heard? Father has
turned the Chronicle over to me I take
he hesitated-"but what if you We're not
too busy I could get you to write a
little something for the home page. Al
most anything will do"
Frances teeth chartered. She leaned
against a porch post. Tim afraid
I can't" she breathed forth.
Cant yen? I'm awfully sorry. But
I suppose your story is taking all your
time"
He half turned away. The moonligh;
fell on his dear. hoysh face. so true
so good, so kind. She had always SC
loved Lee Gordon's face, Her hear
went out to him in a deathly spasm
Lee" she said. 'if-if you'll just come
IN I'll show you that story I'm writ
Ing
He replied rather wonderingly. "Why
certainly, Frances" and followed her in
Tell me the truth about it," she said
as she placed the manuscript in his
hands. I've worked over 1t until
don't know anything more" Her breath
ended in a sob.
He took the pile of written sheets and
went close to the light with them She
saw him standing there reading. and then
she turned away and stared up at the
clock with wide. woeful eyes. Ehe little
door at the top of the clock opened and
the absurd little wooden automatic bird
popped out. Cuckoo, it said. and van
ished. 1t was $50 o'clock. And the first
of the prayer meeting goers were strag-
Cling past.
Lee laid down the story upon the
table. Slowly his eyes met hers.
It's Impossible" Frances exclaimed.
I'm afraid it is" he admitted gen
tlv, "but-why. Francis, don't you care?'
No." she said. "Oh. Lee, let me tell
you" and she told him. Mother can
understand that I'm just an ordinary
girl" she finished.
He laughed "A good thing If there
we're more ordinary girlS-like you.
Evening star., 1914-07-08

stories. I've never been able to do any
of the things she has set for me to do
never wanted 10 go to college. | hated
teaching. I'm Just an ordinary girl
father. don't you see? I love to cook
and do common things. That's all In
good for
Mr.. Merriam looked troubled. But
You better write one story. sis, just to
please her he said. If it amt any
good. why, maybe. that'll settle it. I
don't see how you're going to get out of
II, do you?"
NO, I don't" replied Frances. sadly
All that entrancing spring afternoon
Frances sat in her room writing. The
green leaves of the old apple tree laughed
in at her. the soft breeze teased her.
the sunshine besought her with golden
glanceS to come out and play. But she
would not. She was having one more
bout with the little god success.
SO many afternoons and many morn
ings were passed Mrs. Merriam was
rigid in discipline. Every day she visited
Mrs. Butler and brought home fresh
news concerning Winifred Murray. 1t was
a disappointment to her that Miss Muir
ray herself stayed severely aloof. There
was no getting acquainted with her. Mrs.
Butler explained that Miss Murray was
very busy and she had no time to make
friendships. But she gathered what she
could from observation of her boarder
and Mrs. Merriam got the benefit of it.
All this knowledge Mrs. Merriam passed
on TO FRANCES. She drove FRANCES with
every means in her employ. This story
writing idea fascinated her If she could
have properly strung ten words together
she would have sat down to the work
herself
The news that Miss Murray had sold
another story made her ambition spin
faster. She could talk and think Of moth
ing else. In consequence the rulnor
crert about that Frances. too was writ
ing story-a great story, story that
she expected to sell for hundreds of dol
lars. People began to look wonderingly
Evening star., 1914-07-08
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THEEVEN|NC STORY.
AN ORDINARY GIRL.
Copyright. 1914. by W. werner)

Frances Merriam sat in the bay WIN
dow and read a cookbook. To FRANCES
the cookbook was of an absorbing inter
est, for she had a healthy. young appe-
tite and loved to mix batters and fry
things in butter But when suddenly she
looked up and saw her mother returning
homeward she slipped the cookbook out
of sight behind the couch and opened
voIuua of Emerson The leaves fell
apart at that famous essay on success,
Frances hated Emerson. even more she
hated the subject of that essay. But she
wished TO propitiate her mother.
Mrs. Merriam was tall. narrow and
hony. with a long upper lip and outstand-
ing chin From head to foot she was
mere nervous energy. aggression and
economy Her watchword was do She
was the kind of woman who marries an
easy-goiuc. Good-natured man and finds
life one long struggle to keep him NOV
ing according TO her own ideas Having
arrived at her own door. she rubbed her
soles on the mat and entered. GREATNESS.
Frances glanced up at her and in
stantIy felt apprehension. Mrs. Merriam
had without doubt received a fresh
charge of dynamite power, and that
meant trouble.
I've been over to Mis- Butler's,' said
Mrs Merriam as she took up her sew
ing. She's got hoarder. Her names
Winifred Murray and she's going to stay
all summer. She's "A story writer.
OH said Frances vaguely.
She just got So for a story, Mis-
Butler said. She saw the cheek. She
writing all the time. Mis- Rutler'S fixed
up a room for her to write in. She
showed it to me. And while we was
talking about her she came in
How did she look?'- asked Frances.
Mrs Merriam stayed her needle to re-
ply She was just ordnary-not near
as good looking or as smart looking as
you be. And not much older. either.
was surprised. And Mis- Butler said
she told her shed never been near col
lege There's something You can do,
Frances.
Frances gasped. Why. I've no talent
for writing. mother.
'Pshaw, 1t don't need talent. nothing
but gumption and elbow grease. If that
Murray girl can write like that without
to. You've had two years o college. l
want you to see what you can do
But. mother Frances began
family
Mrs. Merriam had rested on her sewing
to talk The impetus of her ambition set
common sense scurrying to cover. She
went on resistlessly. Here YOU are
twenty-five years old and you amt set
tied down upon anything yet. You've had
a fun high school course and two years
of college and you can't even teach Il
district school. Didn't YOU try it and
ought to he earning good wages this
minute I'd be ashamed If I'd had your
education and couldn't"
II can cook" cried Frances with tears
Evening star., 1914-07-08
DROWNED WHEN BOAT UPSETS
Nephew of Capt C. c. Ward Meets
Death in Chesaneake Bay.

When the schooner Minnie and Emma
capsized in Chesapeake bay. during a
heavy northwest blow about ten days
ago. one of the crew. nephew Of Capt.
c. c. Ward. the master of the schooner,
was drowned At the time of the ac-
cident the vessel was bound down the
bay and when she turned over her
masts stuck in the mud and were
broken off close to the deck She was
raised by Baltimore wreckinE con-
Germ and taken to a shipyard at that
port to haul out for hull repairs and to
be supplied with new maStS.
While the wrecl0inG company was
working on the Minnie and Emma. in
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Evening star., 1914-07-08
Proud of American Flag.

,-t.
i''S morning Spo-Ie and Hamilton
called on Commissioner Cato Sells at the
bureau of Indian affairs where tbe,. b.4
g. lor,- ,a1l. With ,bo o,,-,,;: -"'
49, -, anu
: y 9i'i'''i -iii4'4 'Sd'! nag presented
To Sp"-Fe ne received proudly. saying
he would take the flag back home with him
and place il on the wall of hi, +.,,..
f,-,,.,1 - ,,..,. "a -, -. -
''''' 'O'N me Hs d'uh i've
III tePteS an more ne seemed lncredu-
I"-r- - ne "'" " men ne was to!d that the
p''ia-u 4pi-S ago vanished from the west
eiM plali!a
10 d Ieppfltf LOT me star Spo-Pe
plo"uis Sl"NvH a chpp!nS from The star
con G@THltliiiti- lhe hrst story published in
Nlsl'iIiStoi oi ms h1e and the efforts
IN I.'ge 10 "rinG ABOUT MS release
ne poilte1 70 the picture with which the
| s'oIy Wa Illustrated and smiled as he
S.IG Nc me Spo-Pe
iii o"~" Interpreter Hainllton he told
. OF '.ie GiISln "4 the name he bears,
{ "!4.'H penn interpreted. is the Turtle.
!-"h- ago, he said, before the Palefaces
came. To ihe country, Il band Of Black
i"pt A.nteis came upon the shores of 4
tiilie i@i1e- on the sandy banks were
i:un"i e'is of turtles, while other hundreds
i'"ttti IN the lake. one huge turtle. pa
| t1drcn Of them AL, sunEed himself on
the otach, and the chief of the party. see,