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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
RY-ODDTTIES OF NAPOLEON-B F. Riley, D.

fried onions, and no dinner was complete with him without dish of eschallottes These he would eat ravenously. In his later years. while confined on the Island of St. Helena, he ate excessively of this particular vegetable. He died of cancer of the stomach, and physicians of that time attributed his trouble largely to the quantities of fried onions that he ate. For dainty dishes he cared but little. and often his dinner was composed of huge dish of onions
 Another peculiarity of the great Em- peror was his fondness for cologne. He turned up his note at all other extracts, however delicate. and craved cologne for his handkerchif and for his person. When he would bathe, he would have his valet scrub him down with vigor with cologne, and would often say, Curry me down rub me down like an ass" On his cam paigns he,invariably kept large quantity of cologne with him, would pour 1t into his hand, take a long whiff, and give evil
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decide every question quickly and be right half the time. And get somebody who can do the work. That's all there is to executive campaign"
 You get the inference, of course that If you are right half the time the world will forget the times that you are wrong.
 But MT. Johnson was not altogether right in that for the world has not so short a memory. The principle is not wrong, however, for the world for gives much, even if 1t does not forget to man whose successes are made to stand out before men.
 In the other part of the proposition decide every question quickly, he is al- together right. Shillyshallying "never got anybody anything" Right or wrong, the quick decision Is the thing that is demanded. for it Is a time saver and time is the surf of which life is
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1 By being good to them you will be good to yourself
 Wouldn't you like to initiate Balie P Waggener. wealthy Kansas railroad man and lawyer, who gives a picnic each year to as many children as he can get together?
 1 Last July MT. Waggener collected 10000 children and acted as their host expenses and used his influence to induce Uncle Sam to help along the picnic. So the commander of the troops at Fort Leavenworth sent A company of soldiers to parade and amuse the children. and Governor Hodges of Kansas. attended the picnic and helped the children to have d good time and everything went along beautifully. Think of it-a picnic for 10000 kids. all given by one manl He must be fond of children.
 We can't all get together 10000 youngsters, of all sizes and ages and course. Most of us haven't means And if we had, we wouldn't know how to go about making the picnic the grand success that the Waggener out ings are. It tage organization to run a thing like that and MT. Waggener is one of the best organizers of pie nics and other affairs that the middle west knows.
 But why can't we all, each one of us, get together dozen or half dozen children and take them out into the
 
 and play and pick wild flowers, and give them something good to eat and drink? (Of coure a picnic isn't much good without the refreshments.)
 This man Waggener has won success by his own efforts among men. He is a busy man and a big one. so big that he has been asked to run for the United States Senate. But he finds time each year to give up whole day of his time to his children-his 10000 children.
 It's a large family, but not too large for the heart of any man or woman who has a real true interest in the welfare of the little ones.
 Perhaps as good way as any to ''size up" person is to find out those whose opinion he values. If he desires to stand well with persons whose praises are worth having, judged by the common standards of the world. he is very apt to try to be- come like them.
 And as his standards degenerate so is his downward trend.
 Some folks desire to gain and hold the favorable opinions of their business asso- ciates; others seek the plaudits of society.
 But most folks want their children's
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If I had courage to have gone without it?"
 8. And then comes the seeking of ways to cover up the debt: eager. hysterical desires to escape the specter of self-eon- tempt and other specters that will pres- ently become flesh and blood annoyances. This young woman must do something to increase her income. This young man must earn more. But how? Will they write stories for the magazines, photo plays, songs? These are in the adver- tisements. Or are there nearer and more natural ways of escape? Into that whirl- ing dust storm of the desert we may cast a hurried glance. and see on Its edge the places where honor has been sold, white souls hopelessly stained. and the speeter of self-contempt stands, gibbering ghost, wearing it's hands in the hair of what was once a beautiful girl, herself now dead
 find college girls. as well as college boys, beset with the arguments in favor of getting into debt. Especially the daughters of rich men, or those supposed to be rich. may run a long account And the atmosphere is always the lying at mosphere of the desert, the promise of delights close at hand, the atmosphere
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fHHE visit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the United States puts me in
 mind to write about something l have never seen discussed in print-The White Company clubs. Perhaps you have never heard of them. or it may be that you are an ardent member of one of the tenuous organizations. It seems to me that they must exist everywhere, for l have run across them everywhere I have ever tarried for any little length of time. l have found them in the north and the south, the east and the west.
 There is nothing formal about the White Company clubs. Their meetings are al- ways spontaneous. The freemasonry is ultra. An apothegm of Aylward's quoted by stranger in the smoking compart- ment of railway train, or almost any other place. an allusion to Sir Nigel Lor- ings readiness to "go further into the J natter" a reference to the appetite of A AButteshorn, the bravery of du Cues &lin. or the sinews of Hordle John, or the gentle chivalry of Alleyne, or the pet tness of Pedro, or to one of thousand things, may eonvoke an assembage. And when the current of praise and esteem for Doyle's splendid story is once started it is hard to stop.
 One nigA. five persons sat at a table in the 'vinyard" of one of the south's most luxurious and most popular hotels. All were of the same craft. and, as Is usual when newspaper men foregather, the talk turned to the things written by others. The average newspaper man does not imagine. contrary to general belief, that he could produce 'literature'' If he had the time" But the average reporter or editor usually is person of some reading and some understanding, and he has firmly fixed ideas as to what is good, bad or indifferent in the works of those who, in this age and others, have pleased the publishers.
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Charles N Lure

But when they searched Schmid s clothing
 | They found s3,3S0 in bills and bank books showing deposits of s1S,o00. The man. torn and dirty and reeking with the odor of the cheap street in which he existed, carried with him a small fortune and had enough money to live in comfort for many years more than he could reasonably expect to remain on earth
 He chose rather to dwell in the street of low liquor saloons and second hand stores and vile amusements Folks wondered how a man of his looks could afford to give up even 15 cents each night for bunk with degraded men. many of whom sunk below the level of possible redemption.
 When Schmidt lived in the lodging house no one knew him. Now that the story of his death and wealth has been published numerous claimants for his money have appeared.
 Why did he live thus? No conjecture may be made save that he was akin in spirit to the notable misers of whom curious books have been written.
 But many persons live as Schmidt did
 Not physically, but mentally. Sur rounded by the stores of educational riches of the world offered to them freely-for every town has nowadays it's library-they choose rather to cling to their mental rags. When they might move out of their sordid intellectual lodging houses into the free. wide open spaces of the better. cleaner though they prefer to remain cooped up. They may free themselves if they will by using the powers with which they have been endowed, but they prNfer to remaoin forever prisoners to them selves.
 We despise the Schmidts. The others need the leading and teaching which are being offered to them in ever in- creasing abundance.
 Whatsoever will may drink of the fountain of knowledge and learning and thereby become wiser and better fitted for life with himself and his fellow human beings.
 Mix sentimen with your business
 Mix sentiment with your business do not make business of sentiment or a sentiment of business.
 The latter courses might do in an ideal world inhabited by ideal people to whom safes and burglar alarms " would seem prehistoric relics.
 Mixing sentiment with business Is sometimes good thing. We sec 1t every day in the most unsuspects0
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TT has been suggested that service can
 be rendered in this valuable space of = the Sunday morning paper by frankly inviting at least younger men and women to consider the disasters incurred when 6ebt is incurred. For the matter of debt occasions generally young souls non chalance and an old mans misery and despair Between these two points lie all the experiences of disillusion and hu- initiation under which, as beneath an avenue of red-hot spears, men and wom- en. especially young women, pass to the burning plains of an unInapped spiritual Sahara desert. There they wander, where 5ackals prowl and where are no clear springs of water. till the parched soul dies within them, and the path that lies behind is marked only by the treasures | they have thrown away.
 It is a fact most deplorable that in fhese days many forces lure or drive people into a life of unpaid accounts. There is the ever present temptation to live beyond ones means. Then there is the precedent or example established by the great mass of society And when all the facts are gathered, the only ground
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feet and would seem to wrestle with his inner self. His force had really been spent. and his overweening ambition was now elogged by intellectual inertia He had lived a life of extreme tension and his stock of vitality was rapidly on the decline. Even then he was in the in- eipient stages Of the malady that car- ried him to his grave. As courier after courier would report to him at Water loo. and sit on horseback awaiting his orders. always before go promptly given on the field, he would drop his head as if in doubtful perplexity and after the lapse of an unusual time, slowly fs- sue orders He was no longer the Na- poleon that he had long been in the stress and storm of life. The boundary line of limitation was reached and his sun was already setting. Ten years be- fore and Wellington would have been . toy in his hands. but now all was over and Wellington rose to glory and 10 fame.
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us. There are many beautiful passages For instance may be cited the predictions of the Lady Tiphaine when the "blessed hour of sight" has come to Sir Bertrand's spouse in the castle of vilefranche. She has foretold that France will win back all the lands which have been wrested from her by the English invader, and Sir Nigel asks: What of my own poor country2 fear. lady, that what you have said bodes small good for her"
 The lady sat with parted lips, and her breath came quick and fast. My God she cried what Is this that is shown me? Whence come they, these peoples these lordly nations these mighty countries which rise up before me? [ look beyond, and others rise and yet others far and further to tho shores of the ultimate waters. They crowd! They swarml The world Is given to them. and 1t resounds with the clanr of their hammers and the ringing of their church bells. They call them many names, and they rule them this way or that, but they are all English. for I can hear the voices of the people. 0A-I go, and onward over seas where man hath never yet sailed. and I see a rreat f land under new stars and n stranger sky, and still the land Is England Where have her children not goneY What have they not done? Her banner is planted on ice. Her banner Is scorched in the sun. She lies athwart the lands and her shadow Is over the seas. Bertrand, Der trandl we are undone for the buds of her bud are even as our choicest flower Her voice rose to wild cry and, throw Ing up her arms she sank back white and nerveless In the deep oalen chair"
 True, Sir Arthur has the advantage of predicting backwards" true. also that many of us may object to being bodily appropriated for England Never 'theless. the eloquence of the passage can- not be disputed
 The White companies are growing fast and constantly The waiting list Is made up of those who have never read tho book
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dence of it's inspiring effect with a long drawn sigh. One of the principal depriva- tions from which he suffered on St. Helena was his cherished cologne. His complaints were frequent that he could not get all the cologne water he wished.
 In dress he desired nothing so much as white trousers of thick, heavy duck which he wore on all occasions and during all seasons. On his campaigns his white pantaloons were long and were always worn stuffed in his boots, while in the palace his trousers came only to the knee. where they were adjusted with buckles. He could not wear pair longer than a day in the palace for as he would write he would wipe his pen on his white trousers. and by nightfall they had served their end, and were never to be worn by him again. Every morn ing found him with a fresh. new pair of his cherished trousers, which were destined to be abandoned at bedtime
 While Napoleon slept but little, rarely
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places. Take, for example. sthe rfveters who have so important part in the erection of steel skyscrapers. They are seemingly a rough, hardy set of men with no thought beyond the catch Ing of the red-hot bolts and the put ting them into place to hold together the steel structures. They work high In the air, often in very perilous places. A slip means death.
 When one of them falls and is killed or injured seriously the other '1snock off work for that day. It is not through fear, for they do not know the feeling. It is a tribute of respect to the mate who is gone
 In the world of business sometimes a man gets into deep water. He can not meet his obligations without as- slstance It looks as though the only way out for him and his creditors, if the latter are to recover anything from the wreck, Is to take the man into the bankruptcy court and get whatever is possible by forced sale of his stock.
 But that would mean possibly the permanent enforced retirement of the man from business and the submer l - t--Ao AcPC6 III LIie QlSRTace O1 having "failed.' So the creditors get together and give him another chance IT he be worthy and if his business shows even a faint possibility of achieving success. They extend his credit, and he goes on from a new start
 Sometimes he succeeds in his second attempt That is mixing sentiment with business.
 As to mixing business with senti- ment-
 | That's another matter, of course. It means keeping the impulses of the heart under the firm control of the reason. It is sometimes called mot letting the heart run away with the head''
 1 When beggar stretches out his hand the natural impulse Is to give. Here is need immediate. pressing. the heart says, and the mental impulse sends the hand to the pocket But the mind recovers its supremacy and says: Perhaps this case is not worthy. Let us investigate before giving away our lsubstance"
 That is mixing business with senti- ment.
 Now Is the time of growing things. The out of doors calls in the song of birds. the breeze in the trees. the ripple of the brook. Get away from your business. if you can, and listen to the voices.
 Go out alone if you must Better still. take child with you. Best of 1 all. take . lot ef 'kids" from the city.
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1 approval There is the real test of worth mess
 | The youngsters, when they reach the ages to form their opinions, are fine l Judges of father and mother. Happy the man. who is 'the best father in the world" And the mother who is to her children the epitome of all that is good and unselfish and considerate in the world all mothers are not so, despite the pious horror which greets any assertion to he contrary-is blessed. There is ho surer chart to good con- duct than the desire to win and hold the esteem of ones children. That is why the jails and penitentiaries contain larger proportion of the unmarried than of the married. The love of youngsters keeps ''straight'' many man who would other wise yield to the temptation to stray into devious paths May every father be a hero to his chil- dren and every mother white, velvet'' heroinel
 Why white velvet?" Because there s a little fellow in the big city whose idea of a grand. beautiful lady is a tall, stately woman dressed in white velvet and wear ing long, shining rope of pearls. The lad is the son af a wealthy family and he has nurse to take care of him and put him to bed at sleepy time But just before he closes his eyes he sees bending over him vision, real or imagined. of a lady all clothed in white velvet She bends over him and kisses him, and he falls asleep smiling.
 That's his mother, fin white velvet. She's his heroine She doesn't always wear that material, of course, but she did wear it at least once when she went upstairs to kiss him good night before she went to the opera.
 It will be gracious influence in his life-that vision of the beautiful woman in the shinging garments bending over him.
 We hear much nowadays about "ex- +ecutive ability" the power to achieve results. It is interesting. therefore. to get the definition of it by a man who illustrated it frequently in his life and |conduct.
 The definition Is contained in a re- cent book by Brand Whftlock, now minister to Belgium and formerly mayor of Toledo. O. It is credited to the late Tom L. Johnson. who was mayor of Cleveland. o. MT Whitlock says:3
 Executive ability! I had. and still have, great admiration for that
 "But Tom Johnson leaned over that afternoon. as we sat there in the com mlttee room of the house at Columbus and laughed and whispered:
 "'It's the simples thing in the world:
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and time Is the staff of which life is forgiven. but for the frittering away of time there Is no pardon. Now come we to the third part of MT. Johnson's advice-"get somebody who can do the work" He passed over that lightly but It Is in reality the greatest fraction of executive ability The power to recognize the proper per- son to carry out orders and suggestions Is two-thirds of the battle in business ana m government, as well as in other fields of life.
 IT you do this you can get your work done. You are spared the help less. hopeless struggling with subordi- hates who must be led every step of the way.
 Of course. soon you lose the efficient subordinate, for he becomes an execu tive himself. But that is part of the price. you must pay for having your own wrok done well.
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H VERY thing that Napoleon did out n of the ordinary is matter of in - terest No man in modern ages has excited more interest, and has been more broadly discussed than Napoleon He has undergone long ago the test of ginuine greatness, since he grows larger the further he stands back against the background of the past. The more the world comes to know of this wonderful man. the more it wishes to know. No man in these later ages has been more written about, no one has been more thor oughly dissected in his remarkable ca reer. He is ranked from the demgod to the demon. from the tenderest of men to the most tyranical Many have been the volumes written of him, yet there is a demand for more.
 Napoleon was as extraordinary in his peculiarities, as he was in the council and on the field. His habits were often
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FE' to the poorhouse went the old
 veteran, his wife and their set of antique furniture, and two more

N FF to the poorhouse went the oo
 veteran. his wife and their set oi
 antique furniture, and two more life stories ended in tragedy.
 Even in the very abyss of poverty and distress the woman refused to part with the furniture which was all that was left of her anchient grandeur. The man said the furniture had kept him poor for 50 years
 Every cent I have made in half cen tury has gone to moving van companies and railroads for Juggling that antique furniture around the country he said. My wife is S3 and it would kill her to part with it. What am to do? We have had chances to sell it for what would be a fortune to us now, but my wife wouldn't listen to it. Now cannot pay the rent v Foolish woman?
 Of course, yet how many more of us are lugging around antique furniture if not exactly in moving vans and railroad cars. vet in our lives! We hold on to the rubbish until it becomes to us what the chain was to the prisoner in the old lengthening chain. It is the anchor that holds us back.
 It is the antique mental furniture that clutters up our lives more than the old set of chairs and tables hampered the ronagenarian veteran and his wife. We cling oour old, worm eaten ideas as she did to her furniture until it sends us to the mental poorhouse as it finally brought her Ion the county"
 Away with it.
 This woman had chances to sell her old truck We cannot sell our mental an tioues for the world is too well supplied with such stuff. But we can burn it in the fire of advancing intelligence, of progress with the worlds ideas.
 As the poor old mans substance was eaten up in transporting here and there the antique furniture which his wife would not let him get rid of, so are, our minds worn out in carrying the burden of effect ideas Included in such are prejudices and notions inherited from our forefathers, false brides and disinclina- ton to adopt tn enew.
 Refurnish your mental house. cit in the sunshine Clear out the antiques.
 They are worthless lumber They took Carl Schmidt out of the Bowery lodging house which had been his home" for fourteen years He was IS years old. Two days later he died in a charity hospital of lobar pneumon- ia. When he. was taken to the hospital his clothes were ragged and dirty, his shoes were full of holes, and the New York hospital surgeon who examined him though. Here's another bum from the Bowery."
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ment steel, erecting steel work ahead, similar to the movement of a traveller. Tn this way liability of accident to the cross lot bracing was reduced. and the expense of building dents for supporting the der ricks was eliminated.
 The total steel to be used in the build- ing aggregates 32,o0o tons. It Is shoppel to Greenvile. N. J.. lightered over to New York in the vicinity of the Battery and trucked to the job. Each derrick han dles the steel from the street for It's par tlcular section of the building.