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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF TIL OMAS BLOOD

" HE attempt of Thomas Blood, who
/ was generally called Colonel
i Blood, to steal the crown jewels
of England has led to a considerable
amount of controversy in an effort to
show that King Charles II had some
Merry Monarch" and was frequently in
need of money, and in order to replen-
ish his treasury it has been supposed
by some that he fell in with the scheme
advanced by Colonel Blood to seize
the Jewels and divide with the King the
proceeds of their sale abroad.
The fact that Blood, though caught
was pardoned by Charles and rewarded
common thief his head gives color to
the theory of the Kings conivance in
the attempt But Blood was well suited
to such an undertaking and his trial
created no end of interest throughout
the kingdom.
| Blood was a soldier of fortune, and
| had spent a rather adventurous life
| up to the time of the Jewels episode.
He was now AZ years of age, and he and
his desperate companions were badly in
need of money. He proposed to these
fellows the theft of the crown jewels
and they readily accepted the proposal.
Blood devised the scheme of putting
himself into the habit of a doctor of
divinity. Thus clad, and with woman
he called his wife. he went to see the
-f. st
were viewing the regalia the supposed
Mrs. Blood was suddenly taken ill and
Blood requested Mr.. Edwards, the
keeper of the regalia, to assist her
with some refreshments. Edwards COM
piled with her request and the pair
took their leave with many express
sions of gratitude.
A few days after Blood returned and
presented Mrs. Edwards, the keepers
wife. with four pairs of white gloves
in return for her kindness. This
brought on an acquaintance and Blood
was ready to carry out his scheme. AL
though the tower had many guards
Edwards was the only one in charge
OF the jewel room. Blood soon came
again with some friends. to whom he
"iSheu 10 SHOW the Jewels. Under his
slergyman's dress he carried arms. His
acquaintances Were also armed. They
seized the old man when his back was
turned, and, throwing a cloak over his
head, they gagged and bound him. On
his resisting they stabbed him.
They then seized the crown, the Jew
eled orb representing the world and
the scepter This was so long they
were obliged to file it, to break it
into two parts before concealing it.
The work took SO long they were in
terrupted by the old mans son, who
was returning from journey, and was
accompanied by a friend
The thieves dashed out of the tower:
fired at guard at the gate, and made
their way to the street, where horses
were waiting for them. Young Ed
wards and his friend gave chase, caught
Blood, and after fight, threw him
down, the crown falling from under
his gown and rolling in the ditch.
Bloods companions were also taken.
A ruby from the scepter was found
in the pocket of one. Little harm had
hsen done except to the old keeper,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
A COMPLIMENTARY ARTICLE

From the Blocton Enterprise.
A highly complimentary piece by Flora
Miner Harrison appears in The Age-Her-
aid of Sunday in regards to the public
schools of Blocton and West Blocton. The
perfect description which Miss Harrison
gives of the different schools is highly
gratifying, and we would like to say that
a great deal of the success of these
schools is due to the school improve
ment societies, which With their constant
efforts and cooperation with the prin-
cipals and teachers buoys them up and
spurs them on toward greater efforts. The
schools have good principals in Professors
Harmon and 'Lovejoy and an excellent
corps of teachers, who with the Cooper
alton of the patrons will and are doing
good work for the Blocton and West Bloc
ten schools. The Catholic school also
comes In for a well merted share of
praise in Miss Harrisou's article. Those
who have not read it should procure a
copy and read it. as we have not space
to reproduce it in our columns. and it is
a true record of what our schools are
doing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER
GOOD NIGHT.

You said last night you'd learned to
know
More than you ever dreamed,
And that your bosom. whose warm
glow
Once with fond passion teemed,
Had lost its beauty, warmth and light
You never told me why,
Yet when you bade me, dear good
night,
You meant to say goodbye.
Good night; it wf!3 a little word,
Yet all the sullen deeps
or my poor, aching heart it stirred
Where memory never sleeps.
Good night to fancies fond and loved
Good night my poor hears cry
Good night you said and smiles un-
moved
The echo said good-by.
Now. out upon the starless night,
Across the sullen sea.
Alone I speed in weary flight
Away from love and thee.
Beyond the main. across the sand,
To distance realms / fly,
Yet still I hear in every land
Good night that means good-by.
HIGHER MATHEMATICS.
Sonny: "Pa, what is hyperbolc
ourve?'
Pa: "The egg mark et.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11

MORE LIKELY

From the New Orleans States
"Gaby Deslys," said a Chicago modiste,
'is the most extravagantly dressed
woman in the world. Her chinchilla and
sable mantles alone are worth a fortune
mantles wherein the most priceless furs
are draped and folded like soft silk re-
gardless of the number of skins used.
But when Gaby Deslys comes to Amer
lea even her most expensive robes are
duplicated here. For American women
spend more money on clothes today than
they have ever spent-and very much
more than they should spend in many
cases.
"A $500 dress worn by the wife of a man
whose income is, say, 500 a week, looks
unbecoming and extravagant."
Smiling, the modiste continued:
"One of my customers, wearing for
the first time the other day an imported
duvetine robe trimmed with skunk, said
to her husband, with whom she was
walking:
How people stare at my new dress
I suppose they wonder if I've been shop
ping in Paris
More likely her husband replied
sourly. they wonder IL I've been em-
bezzling.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
Safeguarding the Potato

Uncle Sam, with his usual paternal
solicitude, is looking after the inter
ests of the farmer, the bone and sinew
of the nation, and his best colleague
in this work is the Secretary of Agri-
culture.
Two important orders have just
been issued from the latter's depart
ment relative to the admission of
foreign potatoes into this country. One
of these provides for the entrance Tree
of potatoes from uninfected districts
under proper regulation and inspec-
ton. The other order, to protect
American potatoes from the powdery
scab and other diseases temporarily
extends the quarantine which has been
effective since September 20, 1912,
against the importation of potatoes
from Newfoundland; the islands of
7St. Pierre and Martinique, Great
DIlLdlii, bclildiy dud ftuSlfld- I1u1l-
gary and the Dominion of Canada.
This quarantine is made retroactive
since December "a, 1913, except inso-
far as shipments covered by consular
invoice issued on or prior to that date
are concerned, and such shipments will
be admitted to January Is, 1914.
This quarantine will be lifted just
as soon as any country or district can
be shown to be absolutely free from
potato disease, after which the tubers
will be admitted subject to the regu-
lations and inspection provided for in
the first named order of the depart
ment.
1t is thought that certain European
districts and Canada will be enabled
sufficiently to show absence of any
disease so as to admit the later move
ment of the present years crop under
the standing regulation provisions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11

labor in America, owing to the steadily
increasing emigration from other Eu-
ropean countries.
Emigration authorities at Genoa
and Naples have been instructed to
dissuade, wherever possible, all those
Italians contemplating coming to
America unless they can satisfactorily
demonstrate that employment here is
awaiting them.
Of the 100000 Italians who left
their country last year, 100000 of
them came to the United States.
The Italian government is apprehen-
sive that unless this great tide is
abated the United States will adopt
drastic measures and compel the i'm
migrats to return home. As most all
of them dispose of their belongings to
purchase steamship transportation,
they arrive in America without funds
and to return them in that impover-
ished condition would work disaster to
the Italian government.
The problem of providing for the
unemployed is at present sufficiently
acute in Italy and it is feared that an
augmentation of destitute subjects
may provoke a most serious industrial
crisis in that country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11

From the London Globe
Old boots and shoes which, when quite
past wearing by anyone. find their way
into our dustbins are extremely valuable,
and find their way again into our houses
in most artistic form. They are soaked
in water to remove the dirt, all the nails
and threads are picked out, and the
leather reduced to a thick pulp, from
which wallpapers, screens, etc, are made.
The finer the original quality of leather
the better it takes the bronze and old
gold of the designs which make these
hangings things of beauty. Bookbinders
and framemakers also know the value of
this pulp, and carriage builders press it
into sheets, which are invaluable for the
roofs of the most luxurious vehicles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11

who had been wounded beyond recov-
cry
King Charles affected to consider the
affair as a joke. He sent to the tower
for Blood, who had been locked up, and
not only pardoned him. but rewarded
him with money and give him q PEN
sion equal to $25oo year. None of his
accomplices were punished, and Blood
became one of the most asiduous cour-
tiers of King Charles court to the
great disgust of honest men.
But later he was to have justice
meted out to him. 1t seems there were
certain people who had fixed and impu-
tation of a most scandalous nature
upon the Duke of Buckingham.
Whether this was conducted by Blood,
or whether a plot was set on foot to
trap Blood, has never been ascertained
His grace, it was generally supposed,
who was a patron of the colonel,
thought to clear himself by contribut-
ing to the latter's ruin.
The notion Blood induced the world
to entertain of this affair, may be
discovered from the case which he
caused to be printed of it; but it fell
out that the court of Kings bench
viewed the affair in so different a
hight that he was convicted, upon
criminal information, for the conspi-
raey, and committed to the Kings
bench prison; and while in custody
there, he was charged with an action
of 'scandalum magnatume," at the suit
of the Duke of Buckingham, in which
the damages were laid at e10,oO0 Not
withstanding this, Colonel Blood found
bail, and was discharged from prison.
His Imprisonment and other troubles
brought on an illness which resulted
in his death on August "a, 1880 Such
was the notion entertained by the Eng
lish people of this mans subtlety and
restless spirit that they could neither
be persuaded that he would be quiet
In his grave, nor would they permit
him to remain so. for they compelled
the authorities to take up his body to
make sure he was really dead, for
many believed that it was another trick
of the versatile fellow to throw the
public off his track.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11

new almanac New York stands first
and London second. The change in
position is not as significant, how
ever, as might appear on the face of
it. The World Almanac's table is
made up of the latest official CEN
suses-not guesswork censuses. In
1910 New York's population was
4,766,883. London's census was taken
in 1911, and its population of regis
tration,' whatever that may mean,
was 4,552,96 But in a foot note it
is stated that it's metropolitan and city
police districts contain a population
of 7,252,963, and it has been long
understood that in stating London's
population the area known as the
metropolitan district was included.
The World Almanac table is per-
fectly fair, of course, as it gives the
figures for different areas and en-
virons. For example, the population
of Greater New York and its West
chester and New Jersey suburbs in
1910 was 6,501,17S. In rearranging
the table as to first and second place
the almanac editor has valid reason,
DOUBTLESS, for putting New York at
the top of the list. At the same time,
London in general way is the larg-
est city of the earth. New York is
proba bly, growing at faster rate
and some day it will outstrip the great
English metropolis. In the mean
time, the Encouragement of the al
table will create disere~;on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
THE LETTER TO YOUR MOTHER

BY William F. Kirk.
You may write a thousand letters to the
maiden you adore,
And declare in every letter that you love
her more and more.
You may praise her grace and beauty in
a thousand glowing lines,
And compare her eyes of azure with the
brightest star that shines,
II you had the pen of Byron you would
use it every day
In composing written worship to your
sweetheart far away,
But the letter far more welcome to an
Older gentler breast
Is the letter to your mother from the boy
she loves the best.
Youthful blood is fierce and flaming and
when writing to your love
You will rave about your passion. swear
ing by the stars above;
Vowing by the moons white splendor that
the grille you adore
Is the one you'll ever cherish as no maid
was loved before.
You will pen full many a promise on
those pages white and dumb
That you can never live up to in the mar
ried years to come.
But much more precious letter, bringing
more and deeper bliss.
Is the letter to your mother from the boy
she cannot kiss.
She will read it very often when the lights
are soft and low,
Sitting in the same old corner where she
held you long ago,
And regardless of its fiction or it's spelling
or its style,
And although its composition would pro-
woke critics smile,
In her old and trembling fingers it be-
comes a work of art.
Stained by tears of joy and sadness as she
hugs it to her heart
Yes, the letter of all letters, look where
ever you may roam,
Is the letter to your mother from her boy
away from home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
Earth's Largest City

The New York Wolrd Almanac is
an accepted authority on statistics and
information of all sorts. Among the
striking statements in the 1914 edi-
ton just out is that under the head
of Largest Cities of the Earth"
For centuries past London has en-
joyed the reputation of being the
largest city in the world, but in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
Alabama Crops

"If Alabama has many such crop years
as 1913 1t will be before many years
noted for its vast wealth. said w. F.
Arnold of Chicago
81 am told that Alabama's crop money
for the season just past was double that
of 1907 The crops in this state six years
ago brought, in round numbers, $780,
100000, and the 1913 crops will total
about 5000, ,OO0,O 900. Agriculture in the
south is attracting wide attention, but
so far as l can observe, Alabama, rela-
lively speaking, is getting well in the
lead"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
NONSENSIANA.

l saw two jockeys on the course
At a big county fair;
One of them rode a large clothes
horse,
The other a nightmare.
The horse chestnut and mare o'gold
Ran in a mill race soon;
A Welsh rarebit the steeds controlled
And made them both raccoon.
The horse chestnut, with canter lope,
Gave the night maratIme,
And neck by neck they passed the
rope,
("Wire" wouldn't make it rhyme).
Thus neck by neck the Jockeys sped
Each had a necll-ed pate,
But one horse tumbled on his head
And made the chocolate Jockey
1ate).
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
HaniIsnme Annenrnnce

Along with its rapid growth in popu-
lation, Birmingham has improved won
derfully in appearance in the past four
or five years." said L. L. Scannel OF ST.
Louis
-Four years ago when ] was here
Birmingham was forging ahead, but
there baye been so many handsome I'M
provements since then that 1 scarcely
recognized the business district rms
city is noted throughout the country
for its beautiful residence sections and
taken altogether it is the greatest city
of its youthful age in the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
DIG THEIR OWN GRAVES, TOO

From the Andalusia Star.
In Russia no one is allowed to speak at
the grave of of a friend, unless they
have a permit signed by the police. It's
different here in Alabama. We open the
political cemetery and allow em to preach
their own funeral sermons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
Emigration Alarms Italy

Dispatches from Rome are reflect
ing the alarm entertained by the Ital-
ian government as to the enormous
emigration of its subjects to the
United States, and warning has been
issued by that government advising
that no demand exists for unskilled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
DIPLOMATIC.

Leader of a Village Band 1--WE are
delighted to have you with us, profess
sor, and we thought we'd give you a
little serenade. Now. tell us, honestly,
what do you think of our band?"
Prominent Professor of Music (em-
barrassed): "WeH, really boys. your
music isn't half so bad as it sounds"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
THE WHY OF THE d. c.

From Lippincotts.
Little Rastus came home from school
one day and asked: II say, Paw, why
does dey allus put d. c. after Washing
ton?"
"Why, chile" replied the old colored
man, IT'S surprised at Yer iginance.
Doan' yer know dat d. c. means dat
Washington wuz de daddy OBJ his coun-
try?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11

Mrs. Emma Kip Edwards of the New
says that the tango may be all right for
those who have rheumatism and need to
be limbered up. We may now expect to
hear of physicians prescribing tango tea
among their remedies for the ailments of
the aged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11

General Mancilla says he did not de-
sert the federal army. However, he
will more than likely get his deserts
If he Is caught again within the lines
of Huerta and they will not be of that
nature which follows seven course
dinner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
GOING TOO FAR

From the Detroit Free Press.
II don't mind your being earnest and
sincere in your desire for equality with
men, but you are carrying the suffraget
thing too far
whats the trouble?"
You've addressed this Christmas pack
age to Mrs. and Mr. Brown
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11

A Clarksville, Tenn. man. by cross
ing an Irish with a sweet potato, has
doubled his yield. If he can produce
the same results by crossing a hen
with an oyster he will soon be paying
more income tax than his present truck
profits yield him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
NOT so CLEVER

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"I feel like a perfect ignoramus in your
presence, Mr.. Crichton' said the young
woman who possessed the art of 1attery.
you play, you sing, you are an accom-
plished linguist,N you draw-really you
have all the accomplishments that | lack"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
Expects n Good Year

Business in my line was first rate
last year, and l expect it TO be even
better this year. said d. j. Ryan, who
represents a roofing company.
Il look after trade in Alabama ami
Florida. Alabama made abundant crops
in 1913 and got fine prices, and through
out the agricultural section prosperity
abounds.
'I spent the holidays in Chicago, and
nv friends there were looking cheerful
when contemplating the new year Busi-
ness conditions seem to have improved
wonderfully throughout the country. AS
for the south, it was never more pros
porous than now. I think 1914 is going
to be a great year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11

Action is to be taken by the federal
government against unscrupulous ship
rers of poultry who fatten their fowls by
stuffing them with sand. Sand upon the
all wrong for poultry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11

DR.. Carolyn Geisel of Shorter college
Rome, Ga, declared. in an address be-
fore the National Conference of Race
Betterment, at Battle Greek. Mich, that
bachelors often remain bachelors be-
cause women are spendthiifts and many
women are spendthrifts because women's
colleges fail almost completely in train
ing their students for the problems of
life" She also says Graduates come
out of women's schools physical wrecks
with valueless flood of information and
a penchant for fashions which leaves
them as nearly nude as the law will al
low. The average bill of fare alone at
girls schools is enough to drive the stu
dents to bonbons and rarebits" In such
a condition women have little inducement
to become spendthrifts. Bonbons are not
much higher in price than eggs and the
NEARLY nude" does not require much
of an expenditure for clothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
Advantages of southern Climate

This latitude is especially favored in
the matter of climate" said S. G. Pros
ser of New York city.
81 have been in the south five winters
IN succession, and have spent at least
a month at time hereabouts. l have
always found the winter climate attrac-
tive. Freezing weather is wholesome,
no doubt but I like the south because
freezing temperature seldom materalizes,
am told that the only real winter wealth.
er here this season was in November,
when the thermometer indicated several
degrees below freezing. This mild win
ter climate enables construction work to
go on the same as in the summer. 1t
seldom happens that way in the far
Forth.
Another noteworthy fact about the
southern climate is the delightful sum
mer temperature that is the rule. | am
told that no such thing as heat prostra
tion is known in Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11

That wonder book, as it is well
called-the "World Almanac and En-
cyelopedia made its appearance
for 1914. 1t is complete from the new
tariff. the income tax and the currency
bill to the final baseball score and
from the parcel post to the state of the
woman suffrage movement. The World
Almanac gets better and better every
year and the new one has certainly
struck high water mark
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11

The Anglo-Saxon, Percy Clark editor
and publisher, has made its appearance. 1t
is to be published weekly in Birmingham.
Volume /, No. 1 contains eight pages,
and its cover page is artistic. having as
Mr.. Underwood. Its editorials are full of
vigor and snap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
A SMALL VOLUME.

Bibbs: 81 say. the American .diplo-
matte roster is quite a meagre affair.""
Gibbs: "How so?'
Bibbs: "It only has two Pages in it,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT POLITICAL
PIRACY AND LOUD LOBBYING in ALABAr1A

know any better subject to write
about than the piracy of politics.
Alabama is great big state. of mag
niicent industries and of splendid people.
1t is a state which has progressed more
in the past ten years in an industrial and
a constructive way than any other state
in the union. Tt has builded, and it has
builded firmly. It's railroads and its
manufacturing industries have kept apaee
with the best development of the world
It's men, of the real making heads of
these concerns, have reason to be proud
of what they have done; and Alabama,
as a state, is proud of them.
But. there is a political element in Ala
bama of the old school raising, when tie
negro vote counted in Alabama, and when
from in election returns. 1t is useless to
discuss the past; but such conditions do
not exist in Alabama any more
Lobbies are not necessities now. Tie
feshy politician with a bottle of whiskey
under one arm, roll of bank notes in
his pocket and a loud voice. is nc longer
the controlling factor. He can always
gather crowd around him to participate
in the distribution of his refreshments,
but he controls no votes.
y 4 y
The quicker the real big manufactur-
ing, productive and carrying cor porations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11

Girl with puncture in her heart
helps mother with housework, reads
headline Bona fide injury of love
affair?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
Ae.b3roeQ
MOURNFUL RIVALRY.
'sssssssssssssssssssssssssss...

First Widow: MY husband is en-
tombed at Elmwood."
Second Widow: MY husband is en-
graved at Oak Hill"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11

The mine. the railroad and the ocean
have recently been potential factors in
the reaping of deaths harvest