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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
The Cook Takes a Hand

Finally the Auvergnat yielded and consented to live As soon as he was well enough he was taken in carriage to the house of the notary. He would not lose sight of the fellow this time.
 Romagne got well and the notarys nose got we'll. Romagne lived with the servants and won their hearts by his modesty and willingness to work. In fact, M. iAmbert had given his ser wants a servant. No one ever dreamed of paying him anything.
 For three months Romagne was hap py. And then he gave himself up to the god who destroyed Troy.
 One day, while he was shelling peas, he became aware that the cook was beautiful. The cook understood and soon brought him to book. She was u woman of prudence and experience.
 You want to marry me- she said Very we'll, my boy, what money have you?v
 'Is it money you want?' he laughed Why. as for that, how much viii vol have? Will half of M. TAmbert's fortune do? Half of 1t Is mine. He is keeping it for me-
 "Nonsense.' cried the cook.
 'I will go and get 1t, stolidly replied Romagne
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Too Much of a Good Thing

Two days later the swelling of the notary's nose had visibly gone down. In fortnight the nose was as 1t should be- II. IAmbert went into society again and the charming Irma received him with effusion
 He made the. best excuses he could for" the hiatus in hos social obligations lrma declared to everybody that M. fAm- bert had come again into society hand sorner than ever.
 This. too. was the notary's opinion. He contemplated himself in the glass with ever fresh admiration. It was pleas ure to see him face to face with him self smiling at his own nose.
 But on the return of spring, in the lat ter Fart of March, amid the regenera tion of everything else, M. rAmbert began to realize that his nose paled as an au- tumn leaf,
 The nostriis pinched and dried up, as it were. under the breath of an invisible sirocco and hung fiat to the partition be- tween them which NJ. Bernier had pro. vided.
 By all that is distressing. cried ths notary, an aristocratic appearance is .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
A Country of Good Times

1T fOiH tue Nat1Ondf MagaZlne.
 Gayety fills the streets of Buenos Ayres. From to in the afternoon the Florida Is an avenue of beauty and of Joy. Everybody seems to have plenty Of money and fine clothes and to re- joice in making this fact known. The ladies are decked out in the smartest millinery that Paris can produce and the finest jewels that money can buy. By common consent during this hour of the day wheeled vehicles seem to avoid this fashionable promenade. It is lined with shops that recall the great streets of London and Berlin Nowhere else in the world does one get a stronger expression of exuberant wealth and op- timistic extravaganza. A
 On fine afternoons in the Avenida de Mayo and other principal avenues, and as well as in Palermo Park. there is a wonderful display of carriages drawn by handsome horses and of still more costly motor cars. The motor cars go at a rate of 25 to 40 miles an hour and was told that they would kill more persons in proportion to the population than in New York city When great singer or artist visits the city, the vehicles often become so crowded together that they are unable to move for 20 minutes. The police however, regulate the traffic very well and everyone is good natured as he Is gay. The policemen are 'gauchos' half Indian cowboys from the west ern country.
 The race course is out at the Pal ermo Park. The races are held on Sun day afternoon. An immense crowd gathers and the grandstand and all the inclosures are filled. The wealth and fashion of the republic are there. The men are dressed like the gentlemen o1 London and New York, and the women are gowned from Paris. Nature has given the women of this city fine fea- lures and beautiful eyes but custom here seems to prescribe that nature shall not be left to herself Betting or the horses is the great excitement and am told that on some occasion mil lion dollars changes hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Sewed Together 39 Days

Now. doctor, could you not buy some poor devils nose and graft it on to me-?
 q could, but I won't replied tks' doctor; "to mutilate a healthy piaaT is crime, even though the nnfaaYH consents to it.'
 NJ. fAmbert 2fied and stormed and pleaded, and /finally the doctor made a compromHse. As evidently the notary would <Tot have new nose out of his arm, he would consent to having d ,rnaan hired who would.
 But the notary must stay attached sewed onto the arm of his subject for 30 days He would probably have to pay him well.
 Half of my fortune" cried rAmbert, ito the man who will give me new nose"
 Have you any man in mind?' asked the doctor
 "Yes: there is my concierge. He and his wife and children could be bought for 100 crowns. He was a starving beg gar when I took him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
IJnexpected Trouble

Three months passed, happy months M. rAmbert was the constant companion of M. Steimbourg. whose. family estates were worth $2,00O,00O.
 M. Alfred visited Bieville, where the elder Steimbourg had built himself a cas- tie. There were two daughters and M. rAmbert took a fancy to Mile. Irma and her dowry.
 After mild and pleasant autumn, win ter came down like an avalanche. M. lAmbert's nose began to bother him. After hunting party, which had been kept in high spirits by the north wind, the notary experienced an intolerable itch ing.
 When he looked in the glass he saw that the color of his proboscis indicated a chilblain in the wrong place.
 He sat before the fire. and for time his nose resumed It's former color. But the next day it was worse and the tissues swelled abominably.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
THE NOTARY'S NOSE

"Then there Is the Indian method. We cut sort of triangle out of the skin of the forehead with the apex at the bottom and the base at the top. This is the material for a new nose.
 "The entire piece is turned down ex cept the little connection at the bottom which remains adherent Then it is turned over so as to leave the epidermis outside and its edges sewed to the corresponding outlines of the wound.
 'In other words, l can make you a presentable nose at the expense of your forehead. The success A certain but your forehead will bear large white scar"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Peace Once More

Well, as matters stand. you risk noth- ing but a sew ncrcurial accidents"
 Here, Romagne. stop!" cried the mo- tary. Quit your work and come with me. Won't you ever get through. you brute? You do rot know what you are exposing me to-
 They hurried the bewfldered Auverg- nat away, and the poor fellow, raising lis eyes to heaven. wondered what they wanted of him now.
 They established Romagne ;n room hear the notary's house, where an eye could be kept upon him, and gave him the same wages for doing nothing as he had received at the glass factory He was paid every week and watched every day.
 He lived honestly and>peaceful with out any other dissipation than playing slxiliets.
 And Mile Irma Steimbourg's eyes re- posed with visible admiration upon the pink and white nose of the notary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

Six months elapsed and the notary s nose gave no intelligence of the man who had furnished it. Then M. rAm- bert's eyeglasses began to break He had them repaired and bought new ones. But all was of no avail.
 "It's that confounded Auyergnat again, I'll bet" cried NJ. Bernier. What can he be up to now?"
 The doctor and the notary drove to the looking glass factory and there found Romagne blsily and happily engaged in silvering glasses.
 "Ah," cried the doctor, there it is. They silver these glasses with film of mercury fasteied under tinfoil. That animal of yours is steeped in it up to lis elbows, nay. up to his armpits.
 You see tf1s. your nose, being por- ton of his arm, and gold having de- rlorable affinity for mercury, it will be always impossible for you to protect your glasses if you wear gold trimmed ones. You might wear steel rims"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
BY EDMOND ABOUT

Horrors and malediction He was as badly disfgured as he was before he had bought the new nose from the Au- vergnat. The doctor was sent Tor; the whole household was turned upside down.
 Useless, useless, The nose of the no tary had disappeared. Hours passed and the bride and her family waited impa- uently for the arrival of the bridegroom To sign the civil contract. The crowd began gathering at the church.
 lrma brother went to M. rAmbert.s house to see what was the cause of the oeiay- He found the notary in despair anu tears-and learned the horrible story.
 The brother hurrieu pack to his fam fly to tell the story anu take Mile. Irma' $ orders. That amiable young lady became heroic when she learned of her intend- eds misfortune
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Meeting In the GreenrOOm

Tn the little tin boxes in his office NJ. d'Ambert had the secrets of a majority of the noble houses of France under the Second Empire. Also he had inherited, q fortune-which was consoling thing. NJ. d'Ambert was a bachelor, 4 man about town, and affected the ps,,bilitv. to which he was undoubtedly Affiliated by the celebrated decision .oF the "Conseil d Etat"
 Also Ayvaz was aa.fnan about town and they used 10 pfeet in the greenroom of the Dalletr-eSf the opera. Now do not blush sfentle-or savage-reader-that was n2 Scandal.
 TLe greonroom of the ballet of thu opera was frequented by the most cele- brated savants and statesmen of tht empire It was not everybody that could get in there.
 It was a place to talk politics and finance in. It was a place where you could meet the very people you wanted to meet-great lords, like the Duke of Rietry, statesmen like the Baron de F--, millionaires like M St -, and even mo- taries like the hero of our story. They were called subscribers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
To Philippines in l7 Days

FrOm the toronto 1lopc
 Montreal interest nas been created in shipping circles by the announcement that the Canadian Pa cific will enter the Philippine trade on June II. when the steamship Empress of Russia will make Manila a port oi call
 The fastest schedule hitherto from any North American port to Mania has been 2S days. but the Canadian Pacific with it's fast sailings will cu' this down to IT days.
 The new schedule will bring consid- erable tourist trade to Manila, as tne Canadian road carries large per centage of the round the rs wo,is r,', aIar. from Europe on it's Pacific Elm
 This service has been inaugurated al the request of business men ana com merciaj interests in the United States ny .t,a philippines, and undoubtedly will bring Canada into touch with valuable ne wmarket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
I.,Ambert Not Lambert

SS&Y He had fought a duel with that fierce Turk. Avaz Bey and had had 8 portion of his nose sliced off I1e now had a new nose, and a beautiful one at that. He was handsomer than ever
 He had always been wealthy and gay men of rank. And he was to marry that beautiful heiress, Mile. Irma Steim- bourg, for whom nobles and million aires had sighed in vain.
 How handsome he was. how pros porous he was. what prospects he had : He had only to say the word and be-
 But ah, that nose-that beautiful nose which all Paris admired so much. Little did the public know of the latest possi bilities for mischief in that perfectly formed nose.
 It all happened first in this way. The rank and education of NJ. rAmbert- state as to whether he was M Lambert or M. PAmbert, which were two differ ent things-was such that nobody would suspect the estimable notary of hitting Ayvaz Bey upon the nose.
 Ayvaz Bey was secretary of legation of the Ottoman embassy at Paris which was good job and did not take too much of his time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

Romagne and NJ. Alfred lAmbert be- came thoroughly disgusted with each other before two weeks were out. One can readily imagine it.
 The last week of their forced iuafmacy was filled with a series oX tempests But, at length, the great FM Bernier came and cut apart the~rtwo enemies
 Then he shaped a .Meautiful nose for the notary out of }t,e skin which no longer belonged to S5maene.
 The notaF1 threw two 1000 franc notes to the.-water carrier
 "Begone, you slave he cried. You scoundrel, you have made me spend 5oOJ francs worth of patience. Get out. Leave me and let me never hear of you again. So drink yourself to death with this money Enjoy yourself. But never let me see you again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Learning Many Things

Now while Romagne had been bound to NJ rAmbert he had learned many things as regards the ways of the world the wicked world.
 The notary had received a good many visits in the course of his captivity and the galants who came to see him de- lighted in making sport of the AuVergnat.
 They taught him to smoke cigars and to drink wine and brandy, and the poor devil gave himself up to these pleasures with the innocence of a savage.
 The poor fellow needed education and these fine gentlemen took pleasure in giving it to him--education in ways of the world which had better never be known. Was it not something new and agreeable to ruin an Auvergnat?
 Clients came to see M. rAmbert and Romasne learned from their conversa- tion of the selfishness, the perfidy and the treachery of the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
A CL A SSlC
 IN A P A C. E
(Copyright. 1914, by Irving King.
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 This we'll known story of About s deals in a playful and yet semi serious manner with the resources of modern medical and surgical science-and the mysteries which hang about their verge. Ii was the same with About in his story of "The Man With the Broken Ear, and both these stories, in spite of thelr fantastic nature. provoked much dls- eussion among scientific men at the time of their publication.
 The story of the unfortunate notary is told in light and charming man ner. but under all runs deeper cur. rent carrying with it lessons in the duties of man to his fellow man. and sermons against selflshness and vice
 About teaches morality with Jest and excoriates seldshness and injustice with q laugh The pill Is delightfully."- lgur-coated, but il is filled with T strong and beneiicent medicine.
 About was a versatile genius He Was Journalist. dramatist, author and poll tic.an. It is to be regretted thas ne ever sold his pen, as he did. to Ma poleon III-and apparently to others who could pay high for it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Operative Surgery

When the local surgeon had stopped the bleeding and Alfred was driven back to his sumptuous lodgings in Paris, he sighed and groaned.
 Tt is all up with me- he said. ''I am as good as dead man. I shall never dare go into so~'ety again. Nor to the opera. Nor to the theatres"
 My dear fellow" replied NJ. Steim- bourg, who had been one of his seconds, don't worry l knew lieutenant of Cuirassiers who had lost an arm, a leg and an eye. And he got married
 He was not exactly a pet of the ladies-but he married well. And, as for that, what is the use of living in the present day if we cannot take advantage of it's great scientific progress
 Cooperative surgery is q great thing Your footman will run to the nearest drug store and ask for the address oi velpeau or Huguer. Then he will gc and fetch the great man.
 "I have heard that surgeons can re place & lip. an eyelid and even ear Is it more difficult to replace the til of ones noseP"
 Ah!' cried Alfred, my fortune be fongs to the man who will cure me, NJ matter what torments l undergo, wil pour out money with all my heart if : ean be cured. will no more spare suf fcring than expense
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Without Avail

After week spent in seclusion he got frightened and sent for M. Bernier The great surgeon tried everything-leeches, cold water congresses and so forth, with out avail. That beak of the respectful notary was assuming a most disreputabie appearance. One day the surgeon said
 Medicine does not embrace all nat ural phenomena My colleagues would perhaps make sport of me If l were to tell them that piece taken from d mans body can remain under the infiu- encs of its former possessor.
 Nevertheless. l am tempted to believe that that booby of an Auvergnat is not stranger to these circumstances
 M. lAmbert exclaimed loudly against any such proposition, saying that the idea that vile clown could exercise infiu- ence over the nose of government of iicial was ali impertinence. "It is worse, ' replied the surgeon, it is an absurdity Nevertheless l want to hunt up Ro- magne. Have you kept his address?
 God forbid, cried the notary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Striking a Bargain

Such, in mind and body. was the man whom NJ. Bernier selected for his experi- ment.
 When finally 1t was with some diff culty explained to Romagne what was wanted of him and the patience he would have to have. he said sn his patois: Ash to patinsh, If enough of that. One sh not an Oubergnat for nothing. But if | stay here month to do this service for this poor gentleman my time musht be paid at what it's worth
 How much do you wish?"
 "A matter of four francs a day."
 "No,' said the generous notary, fit is worth 1000 francs month."
 "No,' broke in the doctor, "it is worth a00O francs month,"
 M. i'Ambert inclined his head, though with bad grace. So Romagne arranged his affairs of the Water cart ,and the making of new nose for NJ. Alfred fAmbert began,
 Mir, Bernier sewed Romagne's left arm to tine netary's face and the two remained for a month fastened together, The Si amese twins, who used to amuse tn, world, were not more indissolubie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Too Much for Her Love

Do you think, then,'- she cri ed. that l marry mans looks? If that were the case l should have taken my cousin, Rod erigue, the clerk at the foreign office. who Is not rich, but a great deal hand somer than M PAmbert.
 have given my hand to M fAmbert because he is gentleman of high social station. good character and disposition because his horses his tailor, in fact, everything about him, delights and en- chants me.
 And, besides, am already dressed for the wedding. Let us go to him at once, I'll take him as he is'
 But, when she saw the multilated man. her resolution vanished. She burst into tears and amid her sobs was heard to say, 70, Roderigue. I have been very unjust to you
 So fAmbert remained bachelor He had nose made for him of enameled silver, gave up his law practice and so- clety and went to live in modest lit tie house in the Nnvalides.
 A few friends, good livers. frightened lis retreat. He got together a choice wine cellar and consoed himself as best he could.
 T have the advantage of other men, he would say, "I can drink all want to without getting red nose"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Healthy Stock Required

It will be seen that. badly as M. Ann bert wanted new nose, half of his for tune was a mere figure of speech when he came to business.
 A half-starved concierge was sent up. NJ. Bernier, after examining him, said that he would never do at all. His skin was good for nothing. He must graft from healthy stock, as gardeners do.
 'Woo-ther woo-ther, woo-ther," came the cry from lusty lungs under the open window of M. rAmberts house.
 That fellow does not look bad cried the surgeon. My boy" shouting from the window-"leave your water cart and come up. There's money to be made
 He called himself Romagne, the name his father bore, and had been christened Sebastian, and certainly he was healthy youth and a rugged one.
 He did not blaze with intelligence, or memory, or any other gift of intellect But he had heart enough and to spare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
X Lesson In Grammar

The notary gave the Auvergnat a les son In the grammar of high life; im- pressed upon him that there was such a thing as figure of speech-that to promise and fulfill were two different things. Finally he said.
 "I have done much for you and want to do more by sending you away from this house. A year of this lazy life would unfit you for work and you would become man out of place. I need not say that men out of place are the curse of this age.
 Put your hand upon your heart and say if you would be willing to become the curse of the age? You belong to the aristocracy of labor. Work, then-not af you used to do in poverty and uncer. tainty-but in security and in an abund. ance suited to your modest wants.'
 The notary fitted up a room for Ro- magne in an unoccupied house of his gave him 800 francs to live on while wait ing for work and soon got hip job 1T n large looking glass factory,
 Romayne forgot the cook. He yaguel1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
As Good As Dead

It was, then, in the greenroom of the opera that the dashing notary met and admired the lovely Mile. Victorine Tam pain. And Ayvaz Bey. that fat Turk, who was nicknamed ''Tranquillity,' also admired Mile. Tampain
 A purely platonic admiration. you un- derstand. But then Ayvaz Bey did not admire NJ. Alfred rAmbert nor NJ. Al fred the Turk.
 So when they found that they both admired Mile. Tampain they admired each other less and less That was how it began, and one night-in a dark pas sage of the opera-the two gentlemen, happening to run into each other--M. Al fred rAmbert hit Ayvaz Bey on the nose
 There was a duel, although the sec onds of the two men tried to make things up The Turk declared that, his nose having been chastised, nothing would do him but that he must slice off the Roman proboscis of the notary.
 So they fought, and, at the demand oi Ayvaz Bey, they fought with sharr sabers, and with the result stated in the beginning this veracious narrative.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Mutually Disguised

But they were brothers, brought up together and accustomed to put up with each other-had received the same edu- cation, Possibly if one had been a water carrier and the other notary they would rot have got along so well together.
 As it was, to make 2 long story short,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Seeing a Ghost.

AS for Romagne, he was supposed to be dead. No trace of him could be found and the doctor explained that when the Auvergnat had died the nose he had lent to M. FAmbert had died, too.
 A year or two passed. and then one evening, as M. fAmbert was saking his constitutional along the Rue Elbe he uttered cry of surprise. Was it a ghost?
 Romagne." he cried.
 Good evening, M. fAmbert" replied the man.
 You speak. You are alive You wretch, what have you done with my Eose?" shouted M. fAmbert-ard as he spoke he seized the man by the collar and shook him.
 Stop, cried Romagne, 'let me alone. l can't deefnd myself. You see, I have only one arm. When you stopped my money I got a job in machine shop and got my arm smashed between some wheels"
 The missing arm was the one from which M. rAmberts nose had been taken. M. fAmbert nearly tainted.
 Rcmagne disappeared and was never feard of again. Irma has tong been the happy bride of Roderigue-and NJ. fAmbert drinks harder than ever
 Copyright 1914, by Irving Kfng)
 Next weeks one-page classic will be, The Mystery of Qrciyal,'' py Emile Gaboriau.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
At the Expense of a Scar

Sc a great surgeon came-M. Berniep ---with . lot of titles and letters to his name.
 ''This misfortune" said the great sur eson, I've can remedy in month. Rhi- nopiastry is the art of restoring the nose for people who have been impru- dent enough to lose ft,
 "rhere are three methods. There is ths French method--which is not ap- piieable to the present case because , inc loss of substance has been too gsss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Equity in Tips

: : FrOm the F7eltere Wcft'
 Departing Guest-"Out of this sum give each of the walters 10 sous and Henri francs"
 Head Porter-"But Henri has just no~ entered our employment. He has not vel served you.
 Guest-"And therefore. he is the only none who hasn't annoyed me"