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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Charles N. Lure

to look upon, and the wrinkles accentu- ate its fineness.
 But to the photographer the wrinkles were a blemish. so he retouched his plate until nothing was left but the tudges face as 1t might have looked if he had not passed through so many hard campaigns The wrinkles were all ironed out
 See. MT. Justice" said the photogra- pher as he submitted the proof, i've re- move all the lines from the face" Remove all those linesl" said the fine old gentleman. Remove all my wrinklesi Young man. it has taken me more than 10 years to acquire those lines. If you | remove one you may keep the picture" ]" l They are honorable scars. Take them | away and on the face is left only the blank record of what might have been. If you are wounded in the battle of | life
 Think as little as you may about the wound. Try to forecast in your mind | the scar that will remain when the wound is healed by time, the greatest 1 physician of all Will it be an honorable scar, which you may show proudly to the l world, or will it relate a tale of something dishonest. something mean, unclean, some thing that had best be hidden from l sight? f l Choose now which sort of scar you Will show Some sort of scar is inevitable | if you continue in life. The dead show none. for they are hidden away under ground. The living must bear them until the grave closes over them. But they may choose the sort they will bear. 1 Gashed with honorable scars,
 Low in Glory's lap they lie. 1 Though they fell. they fell like stars. | Streaming splendor through the sky.
 T am tired" writes a man to the Bishop of London, "of writing checks. Give me something I may do myselff'
 And to the bishop, mindful of the mass of fostering misery which is in- ciuued in his diocese, greater perhaps than any other congeries of disease ana poverty in the whole world. sent this man down into the depths to find and rescue if possible brother man or sister woman
 It Is service that Is wanted there more than money.
 on, yes. money Is acceptable and gladly takenl It can buy food for the pody and clothing and shelter. It can supply the prime necessities. It can often save from despair human be- ing, who, gazing at the slow, silent, magnetic flowing of the muddy river under the London bridges, feels tempt ed to cast himself, as so many others have done, into the mud and slime.
 But it cannot feed the soul l That is why this rich man, tired of Writing checks" sought something he might do himself. He wanted to feel the weight of the cross his master bore. He wanted to go out into the highways and byways, as did the great Exemplar, healing the sick, not with money, but with the laying on of lhands
 Only thus arc the sick in body and soul cured Tie surgeons instruments are made Of steel. not gold The ponl- 1 tices contBin healing herbs, not bank ibil.s
 l Sign subscription list for a worthy carse by all means! Give of your sub 'I stance to the LOOT, even If your can not take literally the advice, Sell what thou hast and give to the poor
 But above e1i. gtve yourselk It ts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

n ERHAPS the most unique contribu-
 ton ever made to American lit A erature is that of the Chinook die tionary, which originated with the Flu Fopean fur traders on the Pacific coast in the days of the Hudson's Bay com pany. There is no more romantic chap ter in the history of the western conti- nent than that of the comprehensive fur trade which extended from the organ fzation of the Hudsons Bay company, in 1870, to the close of the first quarter of the nineteenth century.
 In the extreme cold region of the far northwest country there were numerous animals, of various kinds. the fur of (which was exceedingly valuable both as a source of warmth and as an object of esthetic dress. For these valuable furs the French sought as aroently as did the Spaniards for gold in the south. The European nations that were most devoted 10 the fur trade were the French, Eng fish and Russians. These rare furs com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Y-A NOVEL DICTIONARY By B. F. Riley, D

It Is remarkable how words of two letters would sometimes have to be elongated In order to have common term for universal use in this mongrei horde of polyglots. while again a long word in our tongue would become short one in the Chinook patois. Whis- ky was lum. the word up. was sahhaiee, and ugly was make-take-tee. wife was nothing more than a klooch-man yahka. and a man was . memaloose. Our word. bits. as applied to money, came to be used for money. as 12is-cent piece was the unit. and it was called first. bit. in that region. Two bits. as applied to our quarter. was adopted in the states further east. because il was just double the bit of the Chinook. Only such terms were thus arbitrarily used as were necessary for the purposes of the trap hing business. The difficulty of the arbitrary vocabulary is suggested by that which has here been presented.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

Chinooks and the Chahalis, used dialects as different from each other as the Eng fish is from German. To give a few ex- amples-the English pronoun I was. in Chinook nika. and in Chahalis ants. The pronoun he in Chinook was yahka, while in Chahalis it was tsnitsah. The word knife in Chinook was opitsah. while in Chahalis, 1t was chano. These are given to show how difficult were the condi- tions of ntercommunication. When 1t would come to using French and Rus sians terms, under conditions like these, 1t was Jargon. sure enough.
 If business was to be transacted, the problem must be solved. The forests streams and bays swarmed with ami mals bearing furs of immense value The natives were indispensable to the capture or killing of these animals, but in order to be able to do anything, men must understand each other through the vehicle of speech. Hence the expedient of a distionary with n new and arbitrary language, patois, to be made up of terms equally pronouncable
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

son rode anywhere, he went on horse back: but it was not too far to walk wherever one wanted to go and there was little freight to be transported
 Then. very suddenly. there came a se- ries of events that were dramatic in their cumulative effect upon the city. The engirdIing walls were taken down. and the city could expand. At the same mo- ment there was a development of manu- facturing and building of railroads that brought into the cities q rush of popula- ton, that forced expansion and choked their streets with freight
 The cities had to expand, and the more area they covered the gerater, of course, became the use of vehicular transporta- ton, necessitating new street adjust ments The city boundaries were pushed further and further outward and as fast as they went the means of transportation improved. The slow and numbering old stage, or bus, was followed by the horse car. drawn more swiftly and smoothly upon rails. Then came the cable ear, and then the trolley. A point fori miles from the center of town became as near by street car as point only one mile out had been. As the streets were extended mile upon mile, they created a need for parks and open spaces. and these in their turn, absorbing city land, hast ened the towns expansion. Now the tel- ephone and automobile have been devel- oped, and are facilitating the outward march of the town. It has been well said that there has been more change in urban conditions in the last 50 years than in tthe 2O00 years preceding.
 What wonder that such new and strange demands have swamped the ia cilties of cities built on the old plan what wonder that the new and now se- riously studied science of city planning is suddenly finding broad field of useful ness: what wonder that cities everywhere are calling for readjustmef1t. and calling the more loudly as they are the more progressive? It is proof of virility. moi of weakness. when community takes uT town planning. Tn Massachusetts, indeed the legislature has enacted . law requir'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

And, again. in another place of the "Meditations:
 'T have often wondered how It should come to pass that every man loving himself best should more regard other mems opinions concerning him
 self than his own, for if any god or
 grave master standing by should com
 mand any of us to think nothing by
 himself but what he should presently
 speak out no man were able to endure
 it, though but for one day" 1 Probably until the end of time men
 and women will continue to dispute the l question:
 Is 1t better to do ones work far from 1 the crowd where no one can disturb
 ones thoughts, or in the midst of throngs
 where Is said to be found the only true l solitude?
 | Probably the answer depends upon temperament. Some persons find it im-
 possible to concentrate their thoughts in
 the chatter and clang of busy life; others are distracted by the stiffness of the woods.
 But to all the main thing is concentra- ton, centering the energies upon the task | at hand. Only hy aiming at the bullseye of one's purpose and keeping the hand steady and true can the mark be hit. l There died the other day man who believed that he could do ms best work 1 far from the nadding crowds ignoble
 s ife" He was Charles Santiago San ! ders Peirce, often called Professor Peirce. l although he held no chair in university .r college. For : years he lived In seclu- l sion in a little cabin in the mountains l near Milford. Pa. pursuing his studies and frequently giving to the world in writing and lectures the results of his 1 investigations and reflections. He was good example of what Is a rarity in l America but is comparatively common ! fin Germany and some other countries--a | man devoted to abstruse, theoretical l studies which have only an indirect bear I Ing on the acute problems of life. He bore his part we'll He was one of Americas leading students of chenA- istry, engineering. metaphysics and many other matters of interest and importance, and especially of logic. which was his 1 favorite subject. To teach men to think clearly and well was his object, and his work was held in the highest esteem by other men of science.
 He withdrew himself from the accus- toned faunts of men, His only com panion was his wife and he wished for no other communication with mankind save when ha left his walks on the moun- tain paths to tell the world of what he had been studying.
 He surrounded himself with books and l left in his cabin what Is thought to be one of the most complete private refer ence libraries in the world on logic, his | favorite subject.
 I Perhaps his example is not to be fol- lowed. Most of us must bear the heat and burden of the day in close contact with toiling, sweating humanity, for man l is a gregarious animal and cannot bear | to be left alone long.
 l Let scholars seek the solitude of the 1 woods. The rest of us must work among I our fellow men and women.
 l You are going away on vacation trip, let us say. You close your house care 1 fully. You put everything to rights. The l curtains must be drawn just SO. tho rugs l must be straishtened, the furniture set | in place 50 that when you return you
 VIII find all h ordeR
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

INVERg thriving and successful man. ufsctory has it's scrap heap - bn it are piled the masses of use less. diicarded machinery and wornout material of which no further use can be made. Occasionally the junk pile contains matter of value. No matter! It is fit only for scrapping, to be work ed over by junkmen. Something else has taken its place. It has served its odignal purpose. No longer may it take up valuable space to hamper the efforts of the worker.
 Of course
 It is often true that properly con ducted factory with a manager keen1y alive to the development of his busi- ness, hes a scrap heap of negligible size. He does not permit the waste material to accumulate on his premises Away with it as fast as possiblel But he is the exception. You can not do away with junk. sometimes, as fast as it accumulates. And again
 Perhaps the size of the junk pile is | in direct proportion to the progressive ness of the business. The more busi- ness the more junk. As soon as a ma chine is superseded by another out il goes certain material is found to be better than another for a purpose. All right, Stack up with the new stuff and cart the old away.
 Now, the mind is a factory of ideas To it are brought the raw materials of . knowledge and impressions. The mind takes them up, works them over, elab- crates them, creates new combinations | It is a marvellous factory, greater In it's ' ingenuity and might.
 We'll
 As the factory scraps old machin-
 cry and material, do you scrap your . old ideas. That is what has made our
 America so great. Columbus dumped | into the discard of the world the old
 notions of the flatness of the earth. -f.e
 made the earth, in the minds of man. X the globe which it is.
 Our revolutionary forefathcrs scrap
 ped'' the idea of monarchy being neces-
 sary to the happiness of a people, all
 though they were not the first to have
 the idea. But they put it into effectual
 operation.
 Let the history of the nation be re-
 peated in the story of the individual
 Cast about in your mind. How about
 old ideas? Scrap them. Never mind il
 cnce they had their use. Are they out
 WCru now! Dump them ana let tneif
 places be taken with new.
 New lamps for old?" Yes new lamps
 of learning and advancement. The in-
 candescent light for the torch. the o
 lamp and the gas flame.
 War veterans do not hide their scars
 they show them with. pride. This
 got at Antietam in the second year oi
 the war" says one. but went back kand fought to the finish"
 Visible scars are these to be seen oi
 k1l men-honorable badges of service YOther scars there are that are not ap-
 parent to the eve, but they exist in the
 mind and in the soul. They are the
 cicatrices of wounds received in thai
 constant. never ending warfare which Is
 life.
 There was a judge of high state
 court who went not long ago to pho
 tographer's. His family wanted his DOT.
 trait. He Is an old man and his face is
 lined with the marks of years and of deer
 study h tho law. II b fine fae& Goot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

the foreign traders and the Indians. Not only was that so, but the Europeans were not able always to communicate among themselves. In order to trade, men must talk Two courses were open to the traders and the Indians, one Of which was for all to learn one of the Euro pean languages, and the other was to constitute language. sort of Volapuk, which all might arbitrarily adopt as sort of sign language. without etymologi- cal significance. It was agreed to adopt the latter course, ana that was accord ingly done.
 This became the more necessary be- cause 1t was ascertained that the diff ferent Indian tribes each had its peculiar dialect, and that among themselves the Indians, though living in contiguous ter ritory had no common language of inter- communication The dialects of the IS different tribes were almost as numerous as the tribes themselves, and the only means of communication that they had ever had was by signs, rather than by words. Two of the leading tribes. the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Good Food on Ocean Liners

From Iseslles Weekly.
 A good traveller always has good app petite. and as the majority of travellers have fairly good digestion. the railroads and steamship lines have been quick to recognize the advertising value of good table. It will undoubtedly surprise many readers to know that tho table of tha second and third class passengers in these days receives quite as much attention aa the menu served for the first cabin.
 As a rule, on the largest steamers thera are different kitchens for different classes of passengers. but for each class tho service is always clean and wholesome and the food is plentiful, The excellence of the table service for second and third class passengers. as 1t has become moro widely known. has added not c littlo to the list of those of moderate meant who now nnd trip abroad c lumufS and enjoyment that they can afIor4 V1th> out drawing toe much on thetr Holo0gooA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

h AvING written that title. I am smitten with doubt whether it . ought not to be reversed and ! styled, Health as an Asset of Re- '3igion." In any event, there is a suf- ficiently close intersection of health and religion as to justify either the one title or the other. propose, with all diffidence, to call attention to the remarkable change in the point of view alike of the church and of the citizen since both have come to recognize how intimate is the rela- tionship between religion and health.
 l. Not so many years ago the city of Glasgow was threatened with cholera. The city fathers and the ministers of re- ligion united in a decision that a day of fasting and prayer should be appointed that Heaven might be made propitious and the impending plague averted. But it was reckoned most mpious when cer- tain physicians and ministers urged the city government to insist on a cleanup campaign and a careful purification of the water supply as a better way than even the time honored methods of re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

You are going away on vacation trip, let us say. You close your house care fully. You put everything to rights. The curtains must be drawn just SO, tho rugs must be etraightened. the furniture eet in place 50 that when you return you VIII find sll h ordsn
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-12-04

tee is Col. Fred Gardner of st. Louis
Secretary, A. c. Einstein, Twelfth ant
Locust, st. Louis; Treasurer. Benja
min Altheimer, st. Louis.
Those present at the meeting, in ad
dition to the officers, were Ex-Gov
D. K. Francis, Julius S. Walsh, Arch
bishop John j. Glennon, Rabbi Har
rison, A. c. Stewart, Col. Nose
Schoenberg, d. c. Nugent, Z. W
Stephens, and w. K. Painter. Kan.
sas City is represented by w. S. Dick.
ey and st. Joseph by 0. NJ. Spencer
The Committee will proceed to or.
Ganize the state along the above lines
and asks for help from all the people
1t is well worth while to assist in this
great charity, to aid our friends across
the water in this time of great need.
Yours very truly,
A c. EINSTEIN, Secretary.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-12-04
THE FIRST KISS.

The greatest surprise in the world
to a girl who is kissed for the first
time is that there is no taste to it."
Exchange
No taste to it! Well, by the hen
feathers on Cupid's dart, but the
editor of that paper must be color
blind and deaf and dumb in his palette.
They tell us, those who have tried it,
that it tastes like the double distilled
essence Of honey spread thick on a
large fat slice of pumpkin pie; that
its taste resembles sip of nectar,
brewed by the gods and served in
dcw-covered honey-suckle blossom.
Way back in the dim and hazy past,
long before We had misplaced all our
teeth and when we had n cinch on the
beauty prize, the prettest girl in the
world told us with her own rosebud
lips that our first kiss felt like Il
flock Of Paradise birds nuttering out
each ear and ended with a sensation
like covcy of winged angels pouring
molasscs down her spine.
No taste to the first kiss! Great
guns! 1t would make a wooden
Indians hair curl up into f!uttery
marcel wave and his toc-nais culver
in ecstatic bliss.
No taste to the first kiss! Why it
astes like the ambrosia of cherry bios
SONS just at the time when the whirr
Of the humming birds wings come to
one as siren-song.
No taste to the first kiss!
The man who invented that phrase
must be an ice-box.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-12-04
BISMARCK

W. T. Scott and family moved 70
Leadwood this week.
o. S. Ramesy and family of St.
Louis and E. E. Evans and family of
this place attended family reunion
at the home of DR.. w. r. Goodykoontz.
1t was the golden wedding anniver-
sary OF Mr.. and Mrs. p. T. Ramsey.
Fifteen automobiles loaded with X.
of p. members arrived here Monday
evening to attend X. of P. Meeting,
which was accompanied by refresh
ments that were enjoyed by all.
Born, to the wife of Henry Oehler.
Dec. End, girl.
Smiley Meyer captured the prize
turkey at the shooting match Saturday
evening.
Since the rain the pleasant fea-
lures of the good road is noticeable,
and Emmett Belknap is being highly
complimented upon the economic, as
well rs the masterful, way of con-
struction that so distinguishes his
work in this line.
Mrs. Laws is recovering from an
attack of fever.
Since the Iron Mountain road is
completed, Mr.. Smollinger has his
horses logged over the road, and our
citizens and transient visitors can al
most daily feast their eyes on St.
RouX, the $4,000 colt of angola.
This young horse is conceded to be
the best known animal in America.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-12-04
ODD BITS OF NEWS.

Lexington, Ky.-Senator Ollie NJ
James, has offered through the Ken
lucky llliteracy Commission, a pri2t
of $50. to the teacher who teaches the
best moonlight school this year. The
best school is to be selected by com.
pairing general results; number en-.
rolled; average attendance; illiterates
taught and general interest.
Orange, N. J.-Edison has new
invention, the telescribe, which records
both sides of telephone conversation
The telephone is equipped with two
receivers and two transmitters. One
is used by the talker and the others
are connected with photographic
records which take down every sound
made on the wire.
Washington, d. C.--The Postmaster
Generals advocatig new plan to put
the entire rural mail service into the
contract class, MS has been the policy
with the so-called Star routes. BY
doing this the government would save
twenty million dollars a year.
Cleveland, O.-At recent meeting
of the Legislative Comittee Of the Ohio
State Automobile association it was
decided to introduce bills at the next
session Of the Legislature for the fol
lowing purposes: Requiring all We
hiclcs TO carry lights at night; requir-
ing auto tail lights to be green instead
of red; reducing the dealers license
to so and requiring the elimination Of
headlight glares.
Atlanta, Ga.-Mrs. G. B. Lindsay,
corresponding secretary Of the Civic
League of America, startled her
audience at the woman's meeting of
the Southern Citizenship Congress
recently with the declaration that there
is an alarming increase in the number
of young society women who drink
nightly in the Atlanta Clubs. This
statement is all the more startling in
view Of the fact that Georgia is one of
the prohibition states.
Monmouth, Iowa Mrs. Sarah
Pitzenbargcr, so and Cornelious Biaz,
30, were married in Maquokcta, la.
recently. The bride speaks no Span
ish and Diaz speaks no English, being
a MeXican. An interpreter acted as
best man Mt the ceremony.
kittanning, Pa.--A cripple wedding
.ook place here recently when John
Vasbiader, 10, minus his lower limbs,
Mrs. Mary Croyle, CT, with
1ut one arm Justice of the Peace j.
Z. Crast who performed the ceremony
las but one leg.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-12-04
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