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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

"EN years ago the Cassie Chadwick
swindles was unearthed, and the
4 name of this queen of female
crooks was circulated from one end of
the country to the other. Possibly no
other woman in history, unaided and
alone, save the notorious Madame Hum
bert, of France. was able so thoroughly
to hoodwnlx financiers as to be able to
borrow the large sum of more than ST.
600, 600 with no visible security.
At the time Mrs. Chadwick was so
years old. without physical charm or in
tellectual attainment, and yet she Sc
cured from bank presidents and hard
headed men of affairs, hundreds of thou
sands of dollars with only the whis-
pered confidence" that she was the il
legitimate daughter of prominent
American millionaire as security.
The "frenzed fnanciering" of Cassie
was the means of bringing one man to
an untimely death, landed another in
prison, and dealt ruin to hundreds who
had deposited their money in the Cit
izen's National bank of Oberlin, o. The
story of her career reads like a tale
from the Arabian Nights
Mrs. Chadwick claimed that she had
holdings of millions in securities, and
on the strength of her statement she
was able to borrow hundreds of thousands
with ease. To lend strength to her rela-
tonshlp claim with a steel king, Mrs.
Chadwick said she had $4,000. 900 in steel
stocks, built up from original for
tune of s50O.0e0 by him.
The Chadwicks lived in great style on
Euclid avenue, Cleveland and Cassie
bestowed gifts everybody she came
in contact with. One day she went to
the most prominent piano rooms in the
city and ordered eight pianos which she
sent around to the houses of her friends
as a delicate compliment. On one oc-
casion she took dozen girls on trip
to Europe and paid all the expenses, and
in Paris she had miniatures painted of
each member of the party.
There was not tradesmna in Cleveland
who was not delighted when Mrs. Chad
wick came into his store. She dressed her
cook in sealskin, and when she would
go driving she would call for three or
four carriages and take the one that
most pleased her fastidious taste on that
occa sion.
For several years previous to her aris-
tocratic life in Cleveland the woman had
been living at various places under the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
sPONDYLOTHERAPY

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Spondylotherapy is the gospel of seeing
red. 1t has been invented and promul-
gated by San Francisco physician, and
already numbers it's little squad Of de-
votees.
The spondylotherapists declare that red
is the greatest human energizer A man
or woman who is an habitual victim OF
weariness may be stirred to ambition and
activity by wearing red shirt red stock
ings or red necktie. A room -papered
or painted garng red is the ideal
workshop. Reaness tends to bring out
the maximum of human efficiency. There
is no case of laziness so serious that
1t cannot be cured by persistent spon-
dylotherapic treatment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Birmingham the Ideal City

Ihis is, to my mind, the ideal city,
said b. Steiner of New York and Biz
mingham, who with his good wife came
up from New Orleans yesterday, where
they had been to visit their son.
Il have been in New York long enough
to feel at home there. Business interests
keep me in the great financial center of
the country, but the more [ think of it
the more l am impressed with the advan-
tases of Birmingham for the average
man who has to work for "a living. To
begin with, climatic conditions are as
near ideal here as one could imagine.
Birmingham has so little real winter that
people who have to economist get
along with very small coal bills. One
finds here an excellent market Birming-
ham is near enough to the gulf to get
fresh oysters and fish cheap This is a
f1ne trucking section. and vegetables are
grown hereabouts in great abundance.
AS Tor vegetables, nearly every Birming-
nam householder has enoug hback yard
room to raise all the garden products for
the family IL he half tries.
Another thing that strikes me about
Birmingham in its favor is the compara-
tiVeiy few very poor people here. One
may walk around this town day after day
ana not be approached by a beggar In
New York there is a vast army of uncm-
ployed, and the appeals of the hungry in
that great metropolis are most distress
ing.
birmingham was a fast growing city
When spent all of my time here some
years ago. was always an ardent
prophet of this city's future, but can see
now that Birmingham is going to be
much bigger city in the next few years
than even / had been dreaming Of
Never have l been so enthusiastic about
birmingham as l am today"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF CASSIE CHADWICK

alias of Madame De We're and Mrs.
Hoover. Under the former name she
was arrested on charge of forgery and
served a term in prison.
After a period in which her move
ments were not easily followed she met
and married DR.. Leroy S. Chadwick Just
how much her husband knew of her past
life did not appear. The person who
started the exposure of Mrs. Chadwick
was Boston capitalist, Herbert N. New
ton, from whom she and her husband had
borrowed a large sum of money and failed
to repay it. He sued her for the recovery.
Almost simultaneous with this suit came
the collapse of the Oberlin bank under
the weight of the Chadwick paper in its
vaults. The notes the bank had indorsed
for her aggregated 81, ,250,000.
When Mrs. Chadwick found that ex-
posure was forthcoming she left Cleve-
land and detectives were placed on her
track and she was arrested in New York
city in her apartments at the Hotel Bres-
lin on December %, 1904. The charge
was conspiracy with the president and
cashier of the Citizens National banl
of Oberlin to defraud that institution.
She was arraigned the following morning
and bail was fixed at $4,000. Unable ia
secure bail, she was taken to the Tombs.
On December ~ she was twice indicted by
the grand jury for forgery, and the fol-
lowing day she was taken from New
York to Cleveland, where she was landed
in jail.
Mrs. Chadwick's trial began in Cleve-
land on March 6, 1905, with Andrew Car
negie present, whom she had claimed as
her father in order to secure money. The
trial continued until March Il. The first
day the accused collapsed and on the
final day, when she was being led away
to her cell she tried to break away from
the officers, crying: Let me go; I'm not
guilty" The jury found her guilty on
seven counts, each one of which carried
with it a penalty of two years imprison-
ment and fine of $4,000.
Mrs. Chadwick was sentenced on March
q to 10 years in the Ohio State penlten-
tiary by Judge Robert V. Taylor. The
two years and half of her sentence
when she died in the woman's ward of the
Ohio penitentiary on October TO- 1907 1t
was the closing page in the life of wom-
an who had had one of the most remark
able careers of any woman that the
criminal world had thus far to contend
with.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER
PASSING IT ON.

Our granddads make a lot of noise
of how they won prosperity;
But there amt no use talking boys,
Things amt quite what they used to be
Salt Lake Herald.
Our granddads make lot of noise
While travelling on nimble legs;
But not one of those old, old boys
Fer saw such prices paid for eggs.
Los Angeles Express.
Our granddads make lot of noise
Concerning how they got their dough;
Cash registers, when they were boys,
Had not yet been installed, you know.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Our granddads make a lot of noise
or how they saved and made their piles;
But grandma didn't ask, my boys,
For tango teas and Paris styles.
Portland Oregonion.
Our granddads make lot of noise
About their days, while guzzling soup;
ct in those times the dear old boys
Ne'er saw Beachy loop the loop.
Exchange.
Our granddads make a lot of noise
As to their pastimes they revert;
But not one of those bald head boys
In their youth rubbered a slit skirt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
PSYCHOLOGY OF NECkTIEs

From the New York SUM-
The man was trying to tie his necktie
In satisfactory manner and was sue
ceeding only to the extent of much pro-
family and many extra trials. The man
who was waiting for him was taking it
almost as seriously as he was.
II guess" he said sympathetically, 1--WE
all have necktie troubles more or less.
I know l do. But now that / have dis
covered what is. the matter with a re-
fractory tie I simply throw it away or
transfer my trouble elsewhere by CIV
ing it to any man who laughs at me be-
cause / can't tie IT,
The other man ceased his efforts long
enough to ask what the trouble was.
1T is purely psychologist" the visitor
explained. You see. the tie was made
by some woman or other who was either
cranky or had a disposition you couldn't
get along with to save your life. She be-
ing of much temper or temperament, put
her character in her work. and though
it looks all right and, would easily pass
the dealer, 1t won't work at all with the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
There is a saving clause in every mis-
er's creed.
It's sometimes easier to bear it than 1t
is to grin.
Don't worry-unless you can draw a
salary for so doing.
Occasionally it is cheaper to move than
to try to live it down.
Most fire escapes are patterned after
the straight and narrow way.
woman doesn't necessarily fib about
her age; she may refuse to tell it,
The beauty doctors handsome income
is derived from customers who are not.
There's nothing more tiresome than a
gossip who Is unable to start anything.
Among other things that it isn't safe
to fool with are toy pistols and platonic
love.
If it is a woman and the shoe fits.
she takes it back and exchanges 1t for
a size smaller
Along the road that leads to failure
we see a lot of pikers sitting on the fence
waiting for something to turn up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
FAMOUS WINTERS IN PARIS

From the Petit Journal.
which Europe has been favored of late
has led to much writing on the subject
of famous winters. The fifteenth century
might justly be called the cold century.
In 140S the registrars of the Parliament
of Paris reported that it was impossible
to issue any of its resolutions, because
the ink froze in the ink bottles of the
Clerks every three words they had to
thaw their pens, and this with a fire roar
ing in their room. Every river in France
was frozen and not mill could work.
Twelve years later in 1920. there was a
repetition of this winter. Foodstuffs gave
out and poor people died by tens of thou
sands.
In 1422 in les sthan three days the wine
and the vinegar froze in the cellars;
cocks and hens had their combs frozen;
the streets were full of people who
danced jumped, wrestled and ran races,
anything to keep off frostbite.$
In 1870 it froze for more than two and
half months and the snow fell for 4o
days without stopping. All the birds MD
den in the trunks of trees died.
In the year of the great winter, as
1908 was called. hundreds of persons died
from cold; everything was frozen hard,
even the bread served at the table OF
Henry Nv. In 1903 all the wheat was
destroyed and new sowing had to be
made in the spring. Button relates that
no bread was to be had, even Nine. de
Maintenon had to go without it.
In 1776 sentinels were found frozen
to death outside Versailles, and the Kirn
put a stop to their service. In Paris
great bonfires were lit in the streets.
Bells were shivered into pieces as they
rung; clocks stopped and in the cellars
wine turned into ice. Hares and part
ridges came into the towns and hid them
serves in the hooks and corners of houses
where they were subsequently found as
hard as a board and quite inedible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
Washington,s Birthdny

"As Washington's birthday anniversary
falls this year on Sunday, it will be
observed as legal holiday on Monday"
said clubman.
I'VE have more legal holidays now than
% or 80 years ago, when 1 was just
starting in business, but 1 do not think
there are too many. 1t seems to me that
February % should be celebrated with a
military parade. When l was boy Wash
ington's birthday was always looked for
ward to with something like reverence.
In my town the militia turned out and in
the schools appropriate exercises were
always provided"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
HOW k1PL1Nc GOT HIS NAME

From the New York Sun.
The new Seven Seas edition of Rudyard
Kipling has brought UP great deal of in
teresting and little known gossip about
the famous Englishman. For instance.
how many Kipling lovers know that he
was christened Joseph Rudyard Kipling?
Like George Bernard Shaw and Thomas
Woodrow Wilson, Mr.. Kipling has shown
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

While attending a banquetof the Au-
thors' league in New York, Mr.. BRYAN
without noticing what it was picked up
glass of champagne and raised II IN
his lips. Mrs. Bryan caught the Secre-
tary's arm just in time and he hastily
substituted water. If Sathanus were Iurk-
ing about, how he must have gnashed his
teeth,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
BEGINNING THE DAY-Gracious

BEGINNING THE DAY-GraciOus
Father, give me brotherIy sympn-
thy with the weaker travellers In
this pilgrimage of life. Teach me
TO encourage, not to criticize. Make
me to know that l I'm my own way
nm, also fun OF faults and TINT I'm
their circumstances / might be far
worse than they. For Christ's sake.
Amcn.-H. NJ. T..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

A New York man will erect a house of
porcelain. He is himself in the porcelain
business and has been experimenting 40
years to perfect a material suitable for
building purposes. The tile about an
inch thick, will be built around a skeleton
steel frame like that of si;yscraper.
The porcelain house, in addition to its
strength and wearing qualities, will be
waterproof and steamproof and will be
the most perfect house from a sanitary
point of view ever erected. The walls
floors, ceilings, stairways and, in fact,
every part of the house but its steel frame
will be porcelain. There will be no
chance for a germ to exist in such a
house and it could be washed with a hose
every day If necessary. While ordinarily
brittle, porcelain has been made strong
by secret process which promises to
revolutionize the construction of homes
and office buildings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

his sense Of the value of words by looping
off the uninterseting prenomen.
The origin of his better known name
is interesting. Lake Rudyard is beauti-
ful sheet of water in North Seaffogdshirs.
1t was at picnic at Lake Rudyard that
young Lockwood Kipling first met Miss
Macdonald, his future wife. They COM
memorated that happy occasion by giving
their son the name of Rudyard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Pupil in Philosophy-"Is it true that
cigarettes affect the brain?''
Instructor-"No those who have brains
do not smoke cigarettes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
Dick LucIsett Broken in Health

Richard w. Lucllett has resigned as
terminal station ticket agent, and his
friends will be panied to learn that he
is now i'll with pneumonia. Mr.. Luckett
is yet young man, but after a service
of % years as clerk and as agent in the
ticket office, his health is broken.
Mr. Luckett-Dick, as his friends know
him-has been one of the most faithful
and hardworlling ticket men | have ever
known" said an old citizen. He was
very ill about two years ago. and after
he was able to resume his duties in the
ticket office at the Terminal station he
has been in frail condition. His physi-
clan thinks that he will recover from his
attack of pneumonia. He will probably
go to Kentucky to visit relatives while
recuperating. Those of us who know Mr..
LuclSett well are praying for his entire
recovery. In all my circle of acquain-
tance l have never known a more affa-
BILE or conscientious gentleman"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
FAvORITE WINTER SPORTS

From the Denver Times.
Deporting Mother Jones,
Watching Waiting.
Unscrambling Eggs.
Unlocking Interlocking Directorates.
Trading Joe Tinker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

a Kentucky girl wrote her name on a
bank note and she's married now. Why
not? The fact that girl wrote her name
on bank note leads to the supposition
that there are more bank notes whore
the autographed one came from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

The swindler who used to sell the Flat
iron building to unwary visitors from the
country has counterpart in the fellow
who sold Birmingham people enormous
tracts of land in Mexico for the price of
a tailor made suit of clothes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
DESERT VISION

From the Smart Set.
l rode the desert spaces
That billowed vast and wide,
And immemorial faces
Came down the twilight tide.
I crouched the blue vault under,
The planet-sown abyss.
Held by the haunaing wonder
OF great Semiramis.
All others failed and faded,
But she shone as of old.
Her purple hair Thick lso
With dull Assyrian g,
Her robes had woven
Diaphanous but brigl
Her red lips told the 9 ss
OF manifold delight.
Her deep eyes kept
Runes where of love e;
Her round arms RI trea
To ecstasies of dref
Then burst the moor sg !,
The vision slipped R
But had, for an h
Been King in Nine ca
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

A Massachusetts woman dipped so low
while doing the tango that she struck
the floor with her knee and broke her
kneecap. She's probably the sort of
woman who dances as if her life de-
pended on 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

Jules Vedrines in France and Orville
Wright in America both agree that a
transatlantic flight at the present time
is impossible And both seem to know
what they are talking about.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

About 600 members of the Ragged Edge
club, 1t was announced, would attend the
funeral of Mrs. Zoe Anderson Norris
an author While not familiar with the
rules and bylaws of the Ragged EDGE
club, we judge from its name that it's
members are accustomed to look on the
seamy side of life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

The bichoride of mercury tablet com
tinues to get in it's deadly work among
misguided individuals who don't know
that there are any number of ways to
shuttle off this mortal coil less painful
than the bichloride of mercury route.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

An explorer of buried cities says hunt
ing for lions Is not half so exciting as
hunting for mummies The chief advan-
tage of hunting for mummes is that they
don't wait for dark night and hunt you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

Yale student is a champion wrest-
Ter and a champion female impersona-
tor. Two talents so unlike are seldom
found in the same person.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

The Postmaster General has forbidden
the transportation of babies through the
mails Hereafter they will have to come
by the regular stork route
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
A VEGETARIAN.

Mr. wiggles: 'It has rained every day
since Parson Brown was buried. I really
fear that If the downpour continues the
old gentleman will sprout'
Mrs Wiggles: 'If he should sprout in
what form do you suppose he will ap-
pear?''
Mr.. Wiggles: "As parson-up''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

1t Is said that Mr.. Murphy of the Cubs
has not succeeded in pleasing every
body. The same thing might be said of
Mr.. Murphy of Tammany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

Striking telephone girls at Canton, o.,
threw eggs at the company manager.
Such affluence is seldom met with among
telephone girls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

A sardine cannery will be established
on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. That
doesn't seem half so incongruous as troll
ley cars invading Jerusalem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

The man who gets salary of $12 week
likes to sit around and talk about what
he would do if he had private yacht.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

A Kentucky suffragette advises her sis.
ters to storm the male political trust. -
Softly, most militant dame! Smiles will
accomplish more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

According to a dispatch from Kiev. the
murder of boy at Fastoff which was
done, it is alleged, for rtualistic pur-
poses. is attracting great deal of at
tention and bids fair to become as Inn
Portant as the Beiliss case. The Black
Hundred and the Union of Russian Peo-
pie are again showing their hatred for the
Jews in an active way. The leaders of
the Black Hundred at first asserted that
the boy was Christian, but subsequently
declared that he was a Jew and mur-
dered by Jews in connection with the
Beiliss case to disprove the allegation of
ritual murder by demonstrating that n
Jewish boy, as well as Christian, might
be slain. A Jewish tailor named Pash-
koff, a relative of Beiliss, has been ar
rested as being implicated in the crime
The two opposing lawyers in the famous
Beiliss trial, the Black Hundred coun-
sci, G. Zamislovsky, and the defender of
Beiliss, NJ. Zaurdny, have arrived at Kiev
and many newspaper correspondents are
Fastening to Fastch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
A GOOD UNDERSTANDING.

Mrs. swoops; Dear. would you object
| il I wore a slit skirt"
Mr.. Swoops: mo indeed; I'm proud of
| EN-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
DIR. Hugh Blacks Lecture

Birmingham's more intelligent people
will have "a feast of fat things fun of
marrow next week." said DIR. George
Eaves.
am, of course deeply inter-
ested in the visit of the Stratford players
Monday and Tuesday, for was in Strat
ford when the Memorial theatre was
opened a good many years ago. 1t is A
matter of qualification that these fine
artists are standing for all that is noble
and wholesome and clean in their pro-
fession, and that they refused 10 include
New York in their itinerary on the
ground that New York is a sort of the
strical cesspoo
FRIENDS of artistic work VIII flock 10
see and hear these men and women in
Shakespearean drama. l wonder whether
1t viii prove true of Birmingham that she
cannot provide an audience for the hest
work. Must we always face the artists
who come among us with a whispered
apology for our numbers?
1t should not be true of the Stratfor
players at the jefferson, and still less OF
the lecture by Dir. Hugh Black at the
High school on Tuesday next Dr. BlacS
is one of those spiritual giants who know
how to be simply human. No man better
understands the age in which we live.
l remember when he was called from
Paisley to be assistant of that prince of
the pulpit, DR.. Alexander Whyte, at Free
st. Georges, Edinburgh. He spent 10
fun years in that exacting service and
then came to America as president OF
Union Theological seminary. He sue
ceeded DR.. Amory Bradford to the pastor
ate of the First Church at Montclair, and
is reckoned among the competent men IN
the English speaking ministry. / heartily
congratulate the people of this city on
being able to hear Hugh Black"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
CHOIR INVISIBLE.

CHOIR INVISIBLE.
The sweetest music ever heard
Is the duet, some acclaim,
Between the horn of plenty
And the trumpet of fame
But often the fanfare so sweet
Is ruined by the tone
OF the closeted skeleton
Playing the trombone.
PLAQUES.
There amt no irritation
Like this here one to plague;
Feeding a hen all winter
When she never lays an aig
Peoria Journal.
There amt no irritation +
That so sets one awry
AS to try to write a sermon
And have wife swat fly.
BRIGHT FATE.
Stranger: Your euphonious spelling
'Nu' barbershop, is ridiculous. Nu is the
French for naked"
Barber: That's all right, most of my
patrons are bald-headed."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
= BURBANK oUTDoNE.

Sonny; PA, what is an ultimatum
Pa: 1T is a harmless hybrid between
Mexican ulmus and a Woodrow to-
mato" :
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

We don't know what Chistabel Pank-
Down with a little of everythingr'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20
WHY THEY ESCAPE

Lacy's indictments are becoming as
plentiful as lHuerta's ultimatums
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-20

:. Wiggles: "As a parson-up."