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CHAPTER 4.
Tho Turn Of the Tide.

Tho Turn Of tho Tide.
From time immemorial the history
OF the popular hero has ever been the
same. To king and patriot, to the
fayorite girl at school and the small
boy who is leader OF the gang" to
politician, to preacher. to actor and
author, comes first worship then
eclipse. The great Napoleon did not
escape this common fate; and the pub.
lie idol who was kissed only yesterday
for his gallant deeds is scorned today
for having permitted the kissing Oh,
caprice OF the human heart! oh, cry
OF the race for the unaccustomed!
From that first anniversary of his
entrance into the home, Abraham felt
his popularity decrease-in fact more
than decrease. He saw the weather
vane go square about, and where he
had known for three hundred and
sixty-five days the gentle, balmy feel
of the southwest zephyr, he found him.
self standing of sudden in a cold,
bleak northeast wind. The change be.
wildered the old man, and reacted on
his disposition. AS he had blossomed
In the sunshine, SO now he began to
droop In the shade. Feeling that he
was suspected and criticized, he began
to grow suspicious and fault-findine
himself His old notion that he had
no right to take a woman's place in
the institution came back to his brain,
and he would brood over 1t for hours
at time, sitting out on the porch with
his pipe and Angy.
The old wife grieved to think that
father was growing old and beginning
to show his years. She made him some
tansy tea, but neither her persuasions
nor those Of the whole household could
induce him to take it. He had never
liked "doctoring" anyway, although he
had submitted to it more or less during
the past year in unconscious subservi-
ence to his desire to increase his popu.
larity; but now he fancied that where
once he had been served as a king BY
all these female attendants, he was
simply being "pestered" as a punish
ment for his past behavior with Blossy.
All, with its surprising ending that
had been humiliating affair; and he
felt too that he would be long in for
giving Mrs. Darby for not having con-
tided to him her actual intentions.
Now he was afraid to be decently
courteous to one of the sisters for fear
that they might accuse him of light
dalliance again; and he scarcely ever
addressed the new member who came
to take Blossys little room, for he had
been cut to the quick by her look Of
establishment when she was told that
he belonged there.
In his mental ferment the old man
began to nag at Angy. Sad though II
is to confess Of hero honestly loved.
Abraham had nagged a little all his
married life when things went wrong.
And Angellne, fretted and nervous,
herself worried almost sick over
fathers condition. was guilty once in
a while out of the depths Of her anxi.
ETY. of nagging back again SO do we
hurt those whom we love best as we
would and could hurt no other.
ITO BE CONTTNUrEDO
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dress him directly. You gave eauuo
so many good recommendations, dsaI
brother. that when the time mp
preached for his Juno visit, / folt that
l simply could not lot him miss It AZ
he did In December. Last year. on the
day you entered. he was here through
no desire OF mine. Today he IL hero
at my request. My friends" again she
included the entire home In her glance,
we'll como back little later to say
good-by. Now. we're on the way to
the minister's"
The pair. Samuel tongue-tiod and
bewildered by the Joy OF his finally
won success. moved toward the door
On the threshold OF the home Blossy
turned and waved farewell to the com.
panlons of her widowhood. while Sam
uel bowed in u dazed fashion. his face
still red es II was blissful. Then
quickly the two passed out upon the
porch. No one moved to sec them
of, Abe looked everywhere yet no
whore at all. Not word was spoken
even when the carriage WAS heard
rolling down the drive; but the sound
OF the wheels seemed TO arouse Angy
from her stupor OF amazement; and
presently Abraham became conscious
of touch-a touch sympathetic. ten
der and true-a touch all-understand-
ing-the touch of Angy's hand within
his own.
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HABlT-THE SERVANT, THE
MASTER.

~ every hand we hear the discus
sion Of eugenics, but early train
ing i'm habit forming is just as i'm
portant as to be well born
when shall I begin to train my
child?' asked a young mother of a
prominent physician
How old IS the child?" inquired the
doctor
Two years, sir
Then you have lost just two years. +"
replied he, Rravely
you must begin with the grand
mother" said oliver Wendell Holmes.
when asked q similar question
I'VE SOW an act. we reap a habit;
we SOW habit, we reap a character"
While correct habits depend largely
on self-discipline. and often on self
denial, bad habits like weeds. spring
up. unaided and unframed. to choke
tho plans of virtue, and as with Cana
da thistles, allowed TO go to seed in a
fair meadow, we may have one days
seeding. ten years wedding"
We seldom see much change in PEG
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Fighting the White Rlaaua.

Adequate hospital facilities for the
$4,000 residents OF Ohio who are SUI
fering from tuberculosis has been de-
cided upon by the prevention of tuber-
culosis and officials OF the state board
of health. 1t is proposed to create
IL hospital districts of from four to siX
counties each, wherein campaigns will
be inaugurated for the erection OF dis
trict tuberculosis hospitals 70 be main
tanned jointly by the cooperating
counties.
Through the erection OF these II
district hospitals, experimenting the
present sanatoriums anti-tuberculosis
workers believe that the $4,000 vic
TINS will be adequately cared for. and
that the people OF the state will be
so well protected through this hospi-
talization that eventually Ohio's death
rate of 1000 per year will be reduced
materially.
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Disaster Of a Century Aoo.

Several lives we're lost and much
property destroyed by an explosion OF
gunpowder. which occurred at Wool.
witch 100 years ago Woolwlch Is the
most ancient military and naval ar.
senal in England. In its dockyard men.
ofwar we're built as long ago as the
beginning OF the sixteenth century.
Tho royal arsenal contains n factory
for the making Of shells and car
tridges and q mammoth foundry for
casting armor and ordnance, in add
ton to vast magazines Of great guns.
powder and other warlike stores. The
Royal Military academy. where Off
GERS are trained for the British army
also is a part OF the institution. Dur.
ing the centuries OF its existence the
arsenal has been the scene OF many
disastrous fires and fatal explosions.
One Of the most recent Of the expIo.
sions occurred in 1903 and resulted I'm
the death or serious injury OF more
than thirty persons
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SYNOPSIS

Captain abraham Rose and Angelina.
ais vile have lost their littlo home
tShroSsh Abe: uniuoky purchase OF Tena:
ny Gold mining stock, Their household
goods sold, tho 500 auction money, all
they have lon, win place Abe In the Old
Mans home or Angy In the Old Lady's
home. Both are son-sacrifcink but Abe
decides: MY dear this Is the fust time
I've had chance TO take tho wust OF It."
The old couple bid good-by to tho little
mousse Terror OF what folks will say"
sends them along by-paths to tho gate OF
The Old Ladies' home, Miss Abigail, ma
iron OF the Old Ladies' home, hears OF
the Ill fortune OF tho old couple, She tells
the other old ladies, and Blossy. who has
paid double fee for the only double bed
chamber. voices the unanimous verdict
that Abe must be taken in with his wife.
Abe awskens next morning to find that
ne Is old Lady No, 81" Tho old ladies
give him sflch warm welcome that he
IL made 70 feel at home at once. Brother
Abe expands under the warm reception
OF theIsisters, and q reign OF peace begins
In the Old Ladies' home Abe is the CEN
ter OF the community. The semi-annual
visit OF BosSy'S aged lover, Capt Samuel
Darby, Is due Abe advises her to marry
MIN. For the firSt time the captain fails
To appear. Blossy consults Abe 80 often
regarting Darby, his old captain In the
nfe-Ssving service, that gossip begins 20
buzz At the feast In celebration OF the
anniversary OF the Roses arrival at the
nome Abe lauds Blossy In his speech.
and Angie Is sent from the room.
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At the time OF the Franco-Prussiau
war. I'm 1870, Sarah Bernhardt left
the stage and became hospital nurse.
where she did excellent work among
the wounded After this she entered
the Coincide Franchise, where, in the
character Of bona SOL in Hermann.
she was first pronounced great by
Paris. Sarah was the daughter OF a
French lawyer and a Dutch Jewess and
first saw the light Of day in 1874.
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British peerages have little Of the
permanence Of pyramids. Forty years
ago a careful calculation was made
which showed that Of 217 peerages
kreated during tho preceding 45 years
Anly 1873 remained upon the rolls. OF
be Plantagenet peerages only IA sur.
aved; OF the Tudor. IL; OF the Stuart,
During the reign OF George III
Il re than 400 peers we're created, OF
" ich in 1876, 30 had disappeared.
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pie after they get TO be twenty-five or
thirty years of age, except in going
farther in the way they have started
but it is great comfort to think that.
when one is young. IL is almost as easy
to acquire good habit as a bad one,
and that it is possible to be hardened
in goodness az well as in evil
Take good care OF the first twenty
years OF your life. and you may hope
that the last twenty will take good
care of you
How unfortunate that the science of
habit-forming is not more generally
known by parents and taught in our
schools, colleges and universities. Il
is science, compared with which
other departments of education sink
into insignificance.
Mans life work is a masterpiece or
botch. according az each little habit
has been perfectly or carelessly
formed.
1t is said that if you invite one OF
the devils children to your home the
whole family will follow So one bad
habit seems to have a relationship
with all the others. For instance. the
one habit OF negligence. slovenliness.
makes it easier to form others equally
bad, until the entire character is honey
combed by the invasion of a family OF
bad habits.
man is often shocked when he
suddenly discovers that he is consid-
cred a liar He never dreamed of
forming such a habit; but the little
misrepresentation to gain some tenn
porary end had, before he was aware
OF it, made beaten track in the nerve
and brain tissue. until lying has be-
come almost physical necessity. He
thinks he can easily overcome this
habit, but he will not. He is bound to
his habit with cords Of steel; and only
by painful, watchful and careful repeti-
ton of the exact truth, with a special
can he form counter trunk line in
the nerve and brain tissue.
Society is often shocked by the GRIM
inal act of a man who has always been
considered upright and true. But if
they could examine the habit map in
his nervous mechanism and brain,
they would find the beginnings Of
path leading directly to his deed, in
the tiny repetitions of what he regard
ed as trivial acts. All expert and tech
nical education is built upon the theory
that these trunk lines OF habit become
more and more sensitive to their ac-
customed stimuli, and respond more
and more readily.
We are apt to overlook the physical
basis of habit. Every repetition of an
act makes us more likely to perform
that act. and discovers in our wonder
full mechanism a tendency to perpetual
repetition, whose facility increases in
exact proportion to the repetition.
Finally the original act becomes vol
untary from a natural reaction.
All through our lives the brain is
constantly educating different parts of
the body to form habits which will
work automatically from reflex action
and thus is delegated to the nervous
system a large part of life's duties
This is natures wonderful economy to
release the brain from the drudgery of
individual acts, and leave it free to
command all its forces for higher serv-
ice.
Men carelessly or playfully get into
habits OF speech or act which become
so natural that they speak or act as
they do not intend, to their discom-
future.
Beware of small sins" and white
lies"
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Turninn In He GRAY.

There was clicking noise as the
bones Of Lindley Murray stirred I'M
easily in his grave.
Must my name I'm future be asso.
ciated with lawn tennis instead OF
grammar murmured the old chap
complainingly.
Realizing that ne had just made a
racquet he subsidized
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Madam, the feather in your hat is
getting in my eyel" exclaimed a man
ia a crowd.
The woman turned around, looked
him over, and then inquired, "WhF
don't you wear glasses7"
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Shame on Him

What is your friend SO elated
about?"
Seems his wife is marooned in Eu-
rope. "-Louisville Courier-JournaI.
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lta Tendency.

Wayne has a very open counte-
nance, hasn't she?"
Yes. and one that Is very hard to
shut up"
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A woman isn't necessarily industrL
GUS because she has busy tongue.
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Be happy. Use Red Cross Ball Blue,
much better than liquid blue. Delights
the laundress. All grocers. ADV.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-09-27

York, san Francisco, Los Angeles, Seat
tie and New Orleans, as well as in Lon
don, Manchester and Birmingham. 1t has
America divided up into selling districts,
just as our wholesale houses divide up
their domestic territories, and its
branches, agencies and travelling sales
men cover almost every part of Ecuador.
Peru, Bolivia and Chile. 1t has long led
in the selling of American farm machin-
cry and in the handling of kerosene and
Illuminating oils, but 1t also does a gem
eral wholesale business of importing and
exporting, selling everything from needles
to steam dredges, and from push carts
to locomotives. 1t is the South American
representative for the west coast of the
General Electric and International Har-
vester companies. 1t is noted for taking
big contracts, and its capital and business
already run high into the millions
In addition to the Graces. there are
a number of other firms pushing Amer
lean goods who are ready to jump into
the new situation and handle 1t to the
fullest extent. Among these are Wes-
sell, Duval & Co. the successors of
the old firms of Flint. Eddy Il Co. and
Beeche & Co., who have been long
noted in Chile. and also Williamson,
Belfour & Co.. and Anthony Gibbs.
These companies have offices in New
York and are already engaged in Amer
lean Importation. The same might be
said of Duncan. Fox a. Co.. which is
an English house with branches in the
United States. All of these firms sell
more or less American flour, cottons
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to be coming into it's own again as to
started the sister continent ON its way to
industrial development The first steam
ship line that piled along the west coast
was founded by a Yankee, William Wheel
wright of Newburyport Mass, and 1t
was he who built the first railroad on
the South American continent.
He introduced the first gas plant and
organized the first fire company. He was
also the first to propose a feasible plan
for a transcontinental railroad from ocean
to ocean across Argentina and Chile.
William Wheelwright organized the Pa
cifie Steam Navigation company. which
later on went into the hands of Eng
lish capitalists, and which still has the
most powerful fleet on the west coast
The first railroads up the Andes We're
built by Americans. The most wonder
full of them We're the work of Henry
Meiggs. who had made millions in Cali
fornia about the time that gold was dis
covered there. Later on he failed, and
then came to Chile, where he made mill
lions more. II was Meiggs who built the
first railroad from Valparaiso to Santa
go He constructed the first and most
difficult part of Peruvian Southern that
now goes up the Andes to Cuzco and
Lake Titicaca, and is a part of the
through line to La Paz. Bolivia. Meiggs
also built the Central railway hack of
Lima, a road that will eventually be ex
tended into the Amazon valley. United
States proposals to that effect having
been made within the past few years.
The Central railway was perhapsS. the
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import and stood my ground until the
arrival of the baggage man from the ho-
tel. was greatly worried here as to the
securing of money for l was 'ont Of
cash and | had no idea that the hotel
proprietor had ever heard of such a thing
as a Travellers cheque MY surprise next
morning may be imagined when mine host
Informed me that he would cash all tn
cheques that might care to present.
Reaching Amsterdam
Next day ieae..ea Amsterdam and
found the city in greater panic than
was Cologne. The place was filled WITH
thousands of Americans. all of whom
Mere unable to get away and many of
whom We're without cent of money
The consul was not only powerless to
render assistance but was seemingly I'M
sympathetic l had not been in COM
munication with Mrs Markell for three
weeks and was ignorant to her where
abouts or predicament, so l decided to
go TO London. ! had hoped to find trav-
cling conditions improved when [ reached
Holland, but was again doomed to dis
appointment, for the country was mobiiz-
ing its troops and it again required 80
hours to complete four hours, journey.
| arrived in Flushing at o'clock in the
morning and after seeing my people
sometime to spare before sailing.
This time l devoted to a run over to
Middleburg, one of the auaintest and most
picturesque spots in all Holland, and
which l shall describe in future paper.
but here my troubles were repeated.
l had seen the Incompatible rathause
and the superb cathedral and as the hour
was early | awaited the opening of some
of the shops that | might purchase a
few illustrated postal cards with which
to feature my newspaper story of the
place. Finally l found milk depot open
and displaying the cards in its show
window / entered, made my purchases
and was making my way to the trolley
car in triumph when a soldier nabbed
me as a German spy. He did not ask
for my passport. but had he done so |
deemed him too intelligent looking an
individual to attempt the razor guarantee
dodge upon He could speak neither Eng
lish nor German and | could not speak
Dutch. consequently after a sputtering
in all three tongues he took me to an
officers tent in the public square in front
of the rathause which had been con-
verted into temporary military head
quarters.
Here j found the same difficulty as to
the languages and things looked rather
blue for me, but my good star bobbed
again above the horizon. Owing to the
early hour not many people had gathered
around me. but some 70 or 30 had assem-
bled and apprehensions as to a fate SINH
lar to that of the American woman in
Mainz fitted through my brain, In the
crowd was man who spoke English with
tolerable accuracy and he put me through
a griddle Of interogatories. / told him
my story and attempted to flatteri his
civic pride by praising his pretty town.
Then he conferred with the officer and
comprehended enough of the conversa-
ton TO hear him say He seems TO be
telling the truth.
1t all ended in th> officer telling the
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BY G.. F. MARKELL

northbound train at station platform
filled with 1000 passengers who were
civilians and soldiers The public porters
OF Germany are known as dienstmen
but they had all gone to the war and
was compelled to resort to some boys
to carry my luggage.
Wild Rush of 1000
The train came into the station from
another platform and in the wild rush of
those 400 people l lost my baggage boys,
and as | could not abandon my luggage
l also lost the train. / was not the only
one in this predicament, for many others
also missed the train and although | had
trouble enough of my own several of the
unfortunate ones, being without money,
appealed to me for help and | took charge
of them for several days. l have always
relied upon my good star and ii did not
fail me In this instance for nv failure
to reach the train redounded in better
luck to me and taking a later one L
reached Amsterdam "a hours In advance
of those who had gone ahead of me.
But what day | experienced We
moved at a snail's pace and about every
20 minutes we passed a train of freight
cars laden with troops. The men seemed
sullen, but they were encouraged by the
inhabitants of every village and town
through which they passed. who filled the
windows Of the houses fiocked to the
stations and halted in the fields to cheer
wave kerchiefs and by other gesticula-
lions and demonstrations bid the recruits
Godspeed.
The men bad stripped huge branches
and boughs from the trees. with which
they decorated the exteriors of the cars
so that the scene took on the sembance
of a national holiday great festival
and one could not fail to share the en-
thusiasm cf the occasion. Every road
was picketed and every bridge guarded
by a dozen or score of soldiers, but as
the bridges had been dynamited all pas
sengers We're compelled to alight and
walk across them in the rear of the train,
a precaution for safety which was taken
In case the concussion of the latter should
touch off the explosive.
I enjoyed somewhat the situation for
we passed through Kaevlar, made famous
by Heinrich Heine's celebrated poem. and
Gloves, with its well-known swan tower,
so cherished by those who are familiar
with Lohengrin.
Stopped at Every Station
But my enjoyment was not unalloyed.
for the further into the rural districts
we penetrated the more suspicious and
more jealous of his authority the soldier
became. At every station the man with
the gun entered the car and yanked me
out with demand to see my schein, the
German word for passport. l had no such
paper and was in dilemma as to what
excuse l should make for it's absence.
In my effort to gain time for thought
I fumbled through my pockets, when my
fingers came in contact with a printed
guarantee OF satisfaction for u safety
razor which | had purchased in New
York before sailing. The makers name
was affixed in script type which APP
peared as though written in ink and
arose TO the occasion The soldier did not
look to me to be particularly bright and