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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

"HE curiosity of visitors to West minister abbey is often excited by A a certain tomb, which, as the tab of Thomas Thyme, of Longleat, who was barbarously murdered on the 18th of February, 1882.
 Thomas Thynne-"Tom of ten thou sand" as he was nicknamde in reference
 to what in that time, was considered
 an immense income, was at the time of
 his death about 3i years old. In spite of his own wealth he seemms to have de- sired to make an advantageous marriage and through the aid of a marriage hroker.' he sued for the hand of we'll
 known heiress. Another suitor for the
 girl, or rather for the estates she would
 inherit, was a soldier of fortune, Count
 Carl John Konigsmarck. This dashing
 young man was regarded not unkindly by the girl who at the unusual age of 16 was thrice married and thrice widowed, but Lady Northumberland peremptorily rejected his pretensions and arranged and
 carried through the match with Thyme,
 despite the fact that he was distasteful to her granddaughter.
 Attached to Konigsmarcks person was
 certain Captain Vratz, bold, daring and absolutely interruptions soldier of fortune, who had accompanied him in the
 wars and obeyed him with doglike fidel- l ity. This swashbuckler was all to willing l to take the counts quarrel with Thyme
 on his shoulders, and later explained the ] latter by saving that after sending
 Thyme a challenge by post from Hol- 1 land, and failing to get satisfaction that l way, he determined to make a 'rencoun- 1 ter' of it in the street.
 l It must be remembered that in those
 times a thoroughfare as near the court
 as Pail Mall was filthy in appearance
 as well as dark and dangerous. In the afternoon of February 12 Thyme went
 to call upon Lady Northumberland, the
 grandmother and guardian of his wife. Word that he had gone to pay the visit was brought at once to Vratz, who met | his confederate at the Black Bull inn in l Holborn The three of them, Vratz, Stern and Boraski, set off to the foot of l St Alban's street, where they met the Roach of Thyme returning, a footman
 with a lighted fiambeau preceding it to
 show the way. What followed seems to
 have been but the work of minute. Vratz held up to the driver, and a pistol
 pointed at him; then Boraski pushed his
 musketoon in at the carriage window and discharged its contents full into
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17
Mir. Bryan's Voice

The friends of Secretary Bryan are reported to be greatly concerned about his voice. Those marvellous vocal chords whose full organ tones" have swayed multitudes in all parts of the and, on the stump and on the refined lecture platform, are said to be at last showing signs of wear and tear. xhis deterioration is not so noticeable in MT. Bryan's more ambitious efforts, but when he doesn't exert himself par ticularly the quality of his voice ap- pears to be much impaired
 It is hinted that the trials and trib- ulations which have beset MT. Bryan ever since he became Secretary of State, particularly the ridicule heaped upon him for continuing to deliver lectures for pay while a member of the cabinet, along with great deal of hard work necessary to the fulfill ment of his duties, is responsible fol Mir. Bryan's vocal break down. There is "pathetic note of weariness' when MT. Bryan speaks.
 It would indeed be something likt a national calamity if the Peerless One" should lose his voice. whose tones have not ceased to reverberatt since he first became national celeb rity. It has seemed a tireless instru. ment. No strain was too great for it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
A Denver Visitor

W. A. Kunkle of Denver, a well known metallurgist, who has special ized in gold milling, concentrating and cyaniding, has been spending a few days in Birmingham. He is going to look over some of the gold mine prop critics in Alabama and Georgia.
 This is my first visit to Birming ham," said MT. kuhkle yesterday. and am most favorably impressed with the cify. This place Is full of business stir. l have not had an opportunity of seeing the residence sections. but I am told they are surpassingly beautiful. I am looking forward to a day of sight seeing here before I return to the west"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17
Bu~y Auniston

T was in Anniston a few days ago and was glad to that city pushing
 ahead" said B. B. Burton, vice pres
 ident of. the Cable-shelby Burton Piano company. Tt is enjoying solid prosperity.
 In fact, l have never seen it so prosper ous as it is today.
 Within the past two weeks l have
 visited Decatur, Montgomery and other cities in Alabama and all of them seemed to be full of thrift. The state at large is prospecting now in an unusual degree"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17
Business Improving

"There was considerable activity in trade in the last half of January and the first half of February, but during the past four or five weeks business has been dull in the east,' said R, T. Morrison of Philadelphia. Last week there were signs of improvement and 1t is generally thought that steady improvement will be in evidence the last of the month. l look for great deal of activity in April.
 'The south as a section is decidedly prosperous and it is reasonable to say that it will see many new high records in 1914"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17
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SIR JOHN TENNIEL

From the New York Sun
 The successor of Doyle, the colleague of Keene and Leech, the patriarch art ist whose genius undimmed by age. was most splendid in its second gene ration and among the brilliant worthy successors of the elder race of Punch, John Tenniel poured out for 50 years in that periodical an inexhaustible se- ries of cartoons His style was bold, strong and salient he had a definite conception and idea to express; and his drawing are record of the po- litical history of England, regarded from highly respectable, ancient Whigsish Punch point of view; dog Toby growls nightly but is a good natured critter. At times, in national. and more especially and memorably in international politics, Tenniers cartoon was an event in Great Britain; he inn hour of rave will belong to the archae- : and patriotism.
 Useful and honorable and distin- guished as so much of his political work is. it is the usual lot of political satire to come to be dreary and un- intelligible. From it's nature 1t is avanescent, temporary. and only if it is fortunate enough to deal with great historical figures can it hope to slip into immortality by their side. Ten
 niels work has something of that good fortune. One of his cartoons was born classic, so to speak; others in his long gallery we'll may share that fame; but those that register fugitive mo- toriety or unimportant bigwig in his :, hour of rave will beling to the archae- ology of British politics.
 1 Of the books which he illustrated one that genial production. Blair's Grave" which William Blake would
 seem to have re-empted-perhaps the
 Sun may be pardoned for recording what
 may be a personal liking, resting on
 no impartial and austerely aesthetic ground, for two. It Is almost half a icentury ago that he bodied in endur-
 ing form the fantastic. delightful and
 best of all possible worlds, Alice in
 Wonderland" unless it be Through the
 Looking Glass" wherethrough he made
 us see three or four years after. Among
 those spritely shows those "good peo- pie" of the 'fairyland of Carrollia, some
 or many of us may like to believe that
 he will stay the longest. that sound and admirable and fertile artist whose great span of years ended yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17
pEAuTIrUL PIKE IN CALHOUN

From the Piedmont Journal. The grading on the three miles of state aid road has just about been com pleted, and the rock is now being laid on the latter half of the road, and with in four or five weeks the three miles of splendid macadem road will be com. pleted.
 The strip of state aid road, now be- ling completed. is one of the prettiesi strips of road in the county. Every ditch, every branch is bridged witt
 concrete or piped. and is perfectly level
 The road is beautifully graded, and tho
 stone is eight inches deep. Verify, it i'
 masterpiece of road construction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

Mrs. Charles w. Morse, wife of the financer, is returning to this country with her husband on board the Hamburg American liner Imperator. Mrs. Morse has a new toy which she is taking so her frame covered with glass. but is in -eai- ity section of an ant hill. with the little insects hard at work and the queen in the center Every three months the ants are fed on water and honey. Mrs. Morse believes shis toy will be the first of its kind in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17
ToMoRRow-TRIAL OF COLONEL BAYARD
OVERWHELMING ODDS

From the Saturday Evening Post
 Walter Mcqueen, a person of color. faced Justice Howard in the police court at Jackson, Tenn, the charge against him being assault and battery on the per- son of Lily Belle Hopper In addition to the battered complainant three of her friends appeared as witnesses against him.
 The clerk read the warrant, beginning: .'City of Jackson. Tenn, against Walter McQueen-" and so on. The prisoner scratched his head, meantime contemplate ing the glowering faces or the chief witt nesses for the prosecution.
 Pleas suh. read dat fust part over agin to me- he requested
 City of Jackson. Tenn, against Wal ter McQueen," obliged the clerk. Well, jedge." said Walter, ef de whole city of Jackson an desc cullid ladies is organized ag'inst one nigger. what chance has he got? Is guilty'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

stephen R. Nelson of Vancouver, B. C., tells a thrilling story of the adventures that he shared with his hunting partner, Frank R. Thacker, in the wi1ds of New foundland, where they went to hunt moose. The ammunition of the hunters gave out and they had hard fight for their lives. They were forced 10 get food by trapping and often fought off wild beasts with their hunting knives. When Thacker's leg got broken Nelson carried him on his back for half day to reach water. Nelson set the broken bone and the two men lived until Thacsker could walk in a mountain cave, where they were set upon by denizens of the wild. A band of ferocious dogs attacked the two men and could not be driven off by fires. The hunters were forced to repulse these animals with large stones. After their supply of matches was exhausted the hunters made fires by rubbing two sticks together in approved Boy Scout fashion. On their return to civilization they had long boards and tattered clothes, which made them look like Rip Van Wrinkle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17
THE POET
elley's "Prometheus Unbound"

From Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound" On d poets lips I slept
 Dreaming like a love-adept |. In the sound his breathing kept; Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blissss. But feeds on the aerial kisses Of shapes that haunt thoughts wilder. z. Tlesses.
 He will watch from dawn to eloon, The lake-reflected sun illume
 The yellow-bees in the ivy bloom, Nor heed nor see what things they be: But from these create he can Forms more real than living man. Nurslings of immortality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17
rRorrTEp BY THE SERMON

From the Chicago sNews.
 "Eh,' said Sandy to the minisia at you was a powerful deescourse on tntft ge prei ched the Sabbath"
 "Ah'm glad ye were able to profit soid the minister.
 Profit! Why, mon I would Lave pl ma saxpense into the plate pu a thought if it had not been for 'ouF pqcFl dential words. They saved re fouipAMee there and then;'' f.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17
FLOMATON VOTES BONDS
From the Pine Belt News.

The town of Flomaton held an election recently for the purpose of voting school bonds to the amount of s1O.O00 The vote was 65 for and against the issue. A great interest was taken in the slea- tior and the vote was one of the largest poiled since Flomatons incorporation. The bonds have been placel and modern two-story brick school building will be erected within 90 days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

BEGINNING THE DAY-Heip me today, 0 Most High, to he patient with Thee in Thy slow processes. May | not expect the coming of the Kingdom of God in R day. Hut may lay my life down in the auie. confidence that not one stroke or prayer or tear shall he lost. For Jesus, sake. Amep.-H. VI. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17
GEORGIA PEACH CROP SAFE

From the Attalla Herald.
 The Georgia peach crop is safe to date. according to advices received by Man. ager Henry D. Marks of the Georgia Fruit exchange of Atlanta. It is expected that the 1914 crop will be even larger than the bumper crop of 1912, which was the largest in the history of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

Spring hats for women have a 'saucy pose" and the wearer must keep her chin high. She'll keep her chin high enough if the hat she has is a little bit better than her neighbor's lid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

An eastern woman says her husband broke 54 chairs in year and smashed all the dishes in the house. man like that ought be able to find an outlet for his energy in breaking rock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

A New Jersey town decided to publish the names of its inebriates, but struck a snag while trying to determine when q man is drunk. Twas ever thus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

A poet and a playwright recently fought a duel in Paris which is said to have been the real thing" Surely they kissed when it was all over?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

pr. Luther Anderson calls the Filipinos "Our little brown brothers across the blue sea-" Very pretty, but there is noth- ing poetical about an Igorrote.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

The effects of Daniel J. Sully formerly prices much below their real value. The end of meteorc career is not always an opulent one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

A periodical which calls attention to the fac tthat money cannot replace Mrs Pankhurst is imparting comfort to Q great many people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

The inner man is changing for the bet ter, thinks the Portland Oregonian. Why not? Modern surgery can do wonders to the inner man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER

 inal lecture upon metaphysics that ! should like to deliver to the class Class Professor: Well, sir. we will be pleased to hear 1t on the fifth Sun day in February"
 POETRY OF FASHION. There's many slip 'twixt the cup and
 the lip
 When you raise the brimming glass; There's many a slit 'twixt the foot and
 the hip
 When you view a stylish iass. 
 THE POLITICAL DIAMOND. New Yorker: q wonder if that un- pire candidate in Alabama will make a home run?" Pennsylvanian: 'It all depends upon who passes tho plate" INTENSIVE GARDENING.
 Those officers of Paris Were surely impolite
 In seizing Mary Gardens trunks;
 It put her in a plight. And is Paris aping us? To ask we humbly beg;
 For was she not, in our slang, Pulling Mary's leg? WATCHFUL WAITING. First Citizen: You seem to be preJ- ty we'll acquainted with that young lady, Second Citizen: "oh. yes; I've spent many a happy half hour with her waiting for South Bessemer car"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

Suffra gettes in London may quarrel among themselves, but they don't quarrel enough to give poor old John Bull a breathing spell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

The official "drouth" of Memphis is probably not such a painful matter as paragraphers on the outside seem to think.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

Capitalists are no wplanning to dam the due about 'vandal hands
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

Villa may make a hit in the "movies.' but he will never, never be a matinee idol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17
Detroit News.
PATIENT KINE.

Mir. Simbsby: "Well, see the mill itant suffragettes have burned Bulcate in England and the brigands burned Lao-H -Ho-Kow in China"
 Mrs Simbsby: "Friday, the thirteenth. may not have been fatal to the human family, but the poor cattle surely suf- fered that day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17
SHAME.

When Mary starts to board a car, Just see how brazen bad men are; Why don't they turn hefr heads, l beg: Why should they look at Mary's hat?
 Cincinnati Enquirer. Those high-step cars are a disgrace They are entirely out of place. The distance truly should be half Then Mary's wouldn't show her ami
 mostly.
 Detroit News. When Mary starts to dance a bit, Men folks nearly have a fit; If more clothes her form did drape. Mary wouldn't show her disposition.
 Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Mary steps across the gutter Oh the mean things men do utter; Marys anger gins to rankIe- Why should they talk about her el-
 DOW?
 Fort Smith Times Record. When Mary wears that short slit skirt The men all try with her to flirt And wonder if that naughty breeze Doesn't chill her to the shoulder
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

Who are the vioIets now
 That strew the green lap of the new come sprsDgf -hichard H.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17

ACCOMMODATING SPIRIT. Aspiring Student: q have an orig
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-17
TELEPHONE

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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22
NIT. LaSSen Still
Active in Lava

The eruption of Mount Lassen in
upper California is attracting much
attention in Ashland-many people
here being familiar with the noun
tain and its surroundings. Judge
Watson has been all over that part
OF the state with PROT. Diller and
other biologists and it has been
known for years that Lassen was the
most recently active volcano on the
coast.
The most violent outbursts have
been within the past few days and
the eruptions are apparently gaining
in volume right along. Local train
men say the great natural phenome-
non creates much interest among the
travelling public and that nearly
everyone now carries binoculars or
glasses of some kind in the hope of
getting a long distance view of the
eruption, from the train windows.
w. w. Young of Ashland, who is a
brakeman on the Shasta Limited
from Ashland to Red Bluff, saw one
OF the most violent of the eruptions
OF the past few days and says it was
certainly an awe-inspiring sight. The
volume OF smoke rose two miles high
and the ashes and cinders that show
cred down created cloud around
the crater. The eruption is in view
during many miles Of travel along
the Southern Pacific before its trains
enter Shasta Canyon. The following
is recent press dispatch from Red
ding:
Redding, Cal.-Fire, smoke, steam,
volcanic ashes, rocks and deadly gases
belched, not only from the crater
which opened up near the summit of
Mount Lassen May 80, but also from
two new craters that burst open more
than a mile from the first of the new
craters, and the first known toll is
one dying, one injured and two de-
mented.
The outbreak of Mount Lassen is
extremely volcanic in nature, and the
peak becomes the newest active vol.
cano in the world.
Lance Graham was fatally hurt by
falling rocks. His head was battered
and he was found half covered by
ashes and cinders.
Rocks hurtled from the spouting vol
cano and broke the arm and gashed
the face of George Triple, a lumber
jack, and left him demented.
George Goodwin, who left Manzani-
ia Lake at 8 o'clock in the morning,
was within a half mile of the crater
when the eruption occurred, and he
also is demented as a result.
Other members of the party near
the mountain at the time, report that
the top of the mountain has been
blown off, and ashes, rock and cinders
cover territory two miles from the
peak.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22
OleSOn After
Highway Contract

n. c. Oleson is in the city lookine
for a contract on the Pacific High.
way for his company. He is vel
known in Ashland as advance agent
OF the Warren Construction Company
and about the smoothest Scandinav.
ian diplomat that ever hit the Pa.
cific Coast. The particular contract
that Oregon is after is one for con-
structing that section of Jackson
county's portion of the great high.
way that lies between Talent and
Ashland.
Most folks would have gone back
home and reported nothing doing af-
ter investigating the situation, but
Oleson is made of sterner stuff. He
goes on the theory that any darned
| fool can build a road where people
want it, but it takes a man OF genius
10 build one where they don't want
it. He is a relative of the Swede who
asked a girl fourteen times to marry
him and she refused every time.
Somebody asked him what he did
then, and got the answer: "Ay yust
so ahead and marry her"
Oleson has spent several days in
Nhp NiNg bldAlSllES OH lHb
different phases of the picturesque
difficulties incident to eliminating
the grade crossing at the north edge
OF town. He appeared before the city
council at its meeting Tuesday night
and asked it what dope it had on
the situation and was given q brief
history OF the case to date. AS the
objections of Mr.. Billings and the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
were recounted to him he smoked
his cheroot contemplatively but gave
no sign of weakening.
Incidentally at the council meeting
Tuesday night Mr. Oleson was asked
regarding sunken places in the pave
ment his company laid here several
years ago. He stated that such con-
ditions are unavoidable in many in
stances-such as those on B street
where the pavement was laid over a
new sewer ditch-and that his COM
pany made special provision for them
in a maintenance contract whereby
they collected three cents more per
square yard.
Mr.. Oleson explained that Ashland
lad decided against this contract and
had no recourse on the company in
such cases-it being manifest that
the company could not be responsible
for the settling OF sewer ditch after
its initial work had been passed upon
by the city officials etc. He stated,
however. that his company would not
stand idly by and see our pavement
go to pieces. He stated that his
company already had materials on
the ground necessary TO repair these
sunken places and would have the
work done by its men at a cost to
the city not to exceed carfare for the
men. He stated further that in case
his company got the Pacific Highway
contract and had its men down here
the repairs would be made absolutely
free OF charge to the city.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22

1t is made of velvet ribbon. but either
a straight strip of ribbon or bias strip
of material in any width can be used.
For the sixteen year size the dress
will require seven and three-eighths
yards of material twenty-seven inches
wide, with three-eighths yard twenty
seven inches wide for the collar and
cuffs.
This May Manton pattern is cut in sizes
for misses from sixteen to eighteen years
OF age and for small women. Send 10
cents 10 this office, giving number. 1907,
and it will be promptly forwarded to you
by mail. II in haste send an additional
two cent stamp for letter postage. When
ordering use coupon.
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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22
FASHION HINT
BY JUDIC CHOLLET

Lightweight wool eponge is the ma
terial of which the frock illustrated
here was built. Weaves of the sort
promise to be much worn throughout
the spring, but serge and poplin are
fashionable and serviceable materials,
and many Of the new plaids and checks
are attractive for young girls.
The wide girdle makes smart fea.
ture, but is optional. AS shown here,