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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-13
At the Theatres

At the Theatres
Jefferson-"Stop Thief S15 o'clock
Lyrc--keith's vaudeville 2:3O and $3.50
o'clock p. IN.
Bijou-"St. Elmo" $50 o'clock p. m.
Orpheum-Vaudeville. 2:3O, 1880 and 8
o'clock p. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-13

E. C. HORTON. Local Forecaster,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-13

The revival services are attracting
large audiences, the music is conducted
by w II. MAXI Of Livingston The bus
mess houses of town are closing dur
ing the hour of day service
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-13

Homestead settlers upon unsurveyed
pubic lands would get five months an
nual leave such as enjoyed by entry
men of record under a bill passed today
by the Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-13

The House committee on ipsular af-
fairs will be called together within q
week with Q view to possible presenta-
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11

Your Christmas present will be sure to please if 1t is from Clay sons 12-9-13t.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11
LOCAL BRIEFS

The City of seattle is due at mid night.
 L. F.. Buell., Alaskan representa- tive of Armour & Co.,, is making the rounds of his Skagway customers.
 Mayor Dan McDonald of Bennett returned to his home at the head of the inland waterway this morn ing. .
 ". F. Frost, who went to the hospital yesterday suffering from an attack of h grippe is better to- day, and will soon be out again attending to hiJ duties.
 J. c. Black, northern representa- tive of the wholcsale house of Blumaucr & Frank, Portland, Or, is doing business with the merchants Of Skagway but expects to leave on the City of Seattle in the morning to spend the Christmas holidays with his family.
 The EIks' lodge at it's regular meeting last night initiated John Huntley and Fred story into it's mysteries. The music incident to the ceremonies was furnished by splendid band composed wholly Of Elks, and under the able leader ship Of Prof. Wilbur story.
 A card was received in Skagway yesterday from Chas. T. Lyons, formerly local agent Of the Alaska g. s. Co.,, here, who is now located in New York city, and getting along prosperously. Mrs. Lyons, who at the time of her departure from this place, was suffering from what was supposed to be an incurable malady is, we understand, almost complete ly recovered, which will be gratify- ing news indeed to the many Skag- way friends of the family.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11
P.P.P. WILL NOT
 OPEN TONIGHT

Manager George Mowl of the Popular Picture Palace, one Of the sourest of sourdoughs, under the hypnotic spell and allurement of the days Of '97 as they will be portrayed at the Elks' carnival to- night, has concluded to close the doors cf his popular resort for this evening in order that he may take part in the observance of the event.
 For a Christmas offering to the children of the public school MT. MowI has extended an invitation for the teachers and pupils to attend a special performance at the Popular Picture Palace on the night of the day 0u which the school closes for the Christmas holidays
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11
1915 CALENDAR PADS

Several sizes and styles of cal endar pads just received at Keller Bros. 12-11-tf.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11

Don't fail to visit Clayson's when doing your Christmas shopping.
 12-9-13t
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11

You are invited to inspect Clay sons Christmas goods. 12-9-13t.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11

finitely settled by President Wilson that the terminus of the road shoul
 be located at or near Seward. Ac- cOrding to informaiion in the pos session of the Daily Alaskan, how ever, Of the reliability of which there can be nc question, neither the route of the Alaska railroad nor the location of it's terminal will be announced for several weeks yet.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11
FAMOUS TARIFF
 MAKER DEAD

Was h:rgton, D. C., Dec. 11-Rep- resens sative Serauo Elisha Payne, Of Auburn, New York, passed away here suddenly today from an at tack of heart failure.
 MT. Payne was active in framing the Mckinley and Dingley tariff laws, and was the author of the Payne tariff bill of 1909. He was d member of the high joint con- mission to negotiate the treaty be- tween the United States and Can ada in 1908. He was Il years Of age at the time of his death.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11

FOUND-Gentleman's stick pin. Call at this office. 12-y-3t.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11
A fine line Of Christmas goods now on display at Clayson's.
 12-9-12t.
NOTICE

A stated communication of White Pass Masonic Lodge No. 11S, will be held tonight at s o'clock at the Masonic hall, 525 Fourth avenue.
 There will be q special meeting Of the members of tn Skagway vol unteer fire company at the Fourth avenue hose house at o'clock to- night.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11
EXCURSIONISTS
 ON TRAIN TO-DAY

The following excursionists are on board the southbound train today enroute to Skagway to attend the Elks' Carnival and dance tonight:
 Whitehorse-Nrs. Claude Deck, A. Christopher, o Dickson, c. Greime, Mrs. Nj. G. Watson, E. J. Hamacher, Mrs. Ross, E. ]. White, MS. F. J. White ". L. Phelps, R. c. Miller, E. w. Gibson.
 Carc-oss-L. E. Simmons, Gladys Simmons.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11
GEN. FUNSTON
 IN COMMAND

Washington, D. C., Dec. H. Brigadjer General Funston will sue ceed to the command of Fort Bliss when his two months leave of ab- sence from the Mexican border shall have expired.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11

<. :: l. < ss * I. I. 4 .. !. :. !. !. l. x. * Some Xmas Calendars, Pho .' 4 tOs in Booklets, Window Trans
 < parencies, etc, for sale by 4 ." Pedersen Brothers, Broadway, F' < 5 to 9 p. m. Thursday, Fri 4 < day, Saturday this week only. <
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11
CHRISTMAS AT
 WHITE HOUSE

Washington, D. e, Dec. 11-Presl dent Wilson will have all the mem bers of his family at. hcme to spend Christmas.
 The ctork is said to be lowering over the home of his daughter, Mrs Francis Sayre.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11
LOCATION NOT
 YET ANNOUNCED

The Puget Sound papers recent Y published what purported to be an interview with Lieut.. Edes of the Alaska railroad commission, in which the commissioner was quoted as saying it had already been de-
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11
JAPANESE
 ARE ARRESTED

ConstantinOple, Dec. 11-Eight Japanese were placed under arrest here yesterday by the authorities, and will be tried upon a charge of being spies,
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-11
NUGGET MOVIES
Broadway, between 2nd and Gad Open Etv CIV \ lght

Dishmg Dicks Dishwasher,-A Pathe comedy.
 A Dach for Liberty.-TEe Lubin company presents this splendid two reel feature.
 His Tired Uncle.-In waieh John Bunny does not want the widow for himself nor for his nephew They catch uncle mapping and the nephew gladly takes her.
 Commences at s D. ID
The Irish standard., 1914-01-17
New Industry In M,ssl.slpnl.


The advent of the Mexican cotton
boil weevil has caused at least one
new industry to spring up in Pike
county, namely, the gathering, drying,
grinding and shipping leaves of the
sassafras tree to be used as an article
OF commerce. The product is known
as "fle," and seven barrels of it, ag.
gregating ESQ pounds, were shipped
TO New Orleans from here recently by
F. w. Allen. a progressive farmer, re-
siding seven miles east of Magnolia
Mr.. Allen has mill made specially
for grinding "f1le." and he shipped a
small quantity Of 1t last year. While
the article is used extensively in the
preparation of "gumbo file," the de.
licious soup which has made French
cooking famous, the demand for It
Is very limited. The leaves are gath
cred in July and August. and are thor.
oughly dried in the shade before being
carried to the mill. 1t requires about
three hundred pounds Of green leaves
to make one hundred pounds Of meal.
Magnolia News.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-17
COLONY HAD ITS DARK bA7s
Prosperous Sierra le)ne Gave Little
Promise Of Being Success When
Il Was Started.

The first settlement in Sierra Leona
the prosperous British colony on the
west coast of Africa, was made in
1856. At that period London swarmed
with free negroes living in poverty
and on the verge of starvation, and Dr.
Smeathman's scheme for sending them
to Africa to found colony was &C.
cepted as the best solution of the diff.
Guilty. The first ship1oad of colonists
consisted of 400 negroes and sixty
whites, the latter principally women
of bao character. Although land for the
colony had been purchased from the
native king. the Africans were not
friendly. and a hostile attack, together
with the shiftlessness of the colonists.
almost brought the venture to ruin.
In 1891 the survivors were removed to
new settlement, and in 1898 the pop.
ulation Of the colony was increased by
the introduction of 1900 negroes from
Nova Scotia and the Bahamas. In
1894 the settlement was again trans.
ferred to Freetown. now the capital of
the colony and the greatest seaport
on the west coast of Africa. In the
early days the government of the idle
blacks was no sinecure, and Sydney
Smith remarked. not without truth,
that Sierra Leone always had two
governors-one just arriving and the
other just le:. >'ihs. The soil of Sierra
Leone is exceedingly fertile, but few
white inch are able to live there.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-17
Using the Monuments.

I have often remarked in England
spirit can only call the reverse of
the monumental, the one which makes
the British museum look like draw.
ing school or an office with its waiting
rooms, instead of a palace, writes Bev.
non Lee in Scribner's Magazine.
Here, even in this palace of Hampton
court, there is the same; there is,
alongside of the daintiness and mag.
nificence, the profuse expenditure, for
example, on flowers and garden keep
ing. a funny practical Il cannot call
1t shabbiness. for all is in excellent
order). but initial meaness. The pas.
sages. even the yard cloisters Of the
William and Mary palace, are mean.
Dark places suggestive, with their dull
gray stonework, of railway stations;
the inner staircase and corridors are
bare, graceless. dull; none of that
magnif1cence of grace which on the
continent we see constantly among
decay and filth.
1t is this practical spirit which has
saved SO much that is beautiful in
England, putting It to decent, pro-
sale uses. Abroad this palace would
have stood vacant, been allowed to
crumble. become a tragic hulk plas-
tered all over, with perhaps a sordid
barracks or office in one corner. Here
its historic splendors are cut up for
the housing of old ladies!
The Irish standard., 1914-01-17
Making tho Best Of q Pest.

A farmer in the parish of Maitland,
Nova Scotia, recently came across a
skunk's nest that had three tiny young
ones in it. The little skunks were
only a day or two old. and instead of
ruthlessly destroying them, the farmer
picked them up and carried them
home.
The family cat had been raising lit.
ter of four kittens, three of whom the
farmer had drowned, and after a few
suspicious sniffs. she consented to
adopt the little skunks in place of the
lost kittens. The skunks did not suck
le In quite the same way as the kit.
ten. and 1t was interesting to watch
Tabby push and box them into posi-
tion. She soon got them in excellent
order, and pussy and her quaint fam.
lily afford lots of amusement for the
children Of the neighborhood. The far.
mer intends to make his find the nu,
cleus of skunk farm, and when the
success of the fox farms of the mari
time provinces is considered, 1t ap
pears possible at least that he will fnd
the venture PORTABLE. Skunk is at
present among the most valuable OF
furs.-Youth's Companion.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-17
Night BLOOMING cereu..

The Night-Blooming Cereus buds are
especially susceptible to sudden Jars,
or to a handling Of the buds. We
have known them to drop just be.
cause curious fower.lover took hold
Of the soft, cottony mass, lovingly, she
thought. but the buds dropped.
II possible. before 1t is time for the
buds to start, place the plant in
it's position for the summer, where It
will get an abundance of sunshine.
Water with lukewarm water in
plenty, and do not allow anyone to
handle the plant. Some liquid plant
food should be given at this time
az freely as to geraniums; liquid
COW manure. diluted. 10 one Of the
best plant foods.
Watch that the green aphis do not
get . footing. for they will hide in the
hairy bud covering, and induce blast.
ing. Fight them OF with tobacco
water.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-17
UNDERSTOOD ALL THE REST
On Only Ono Comparatively Unlmposs
tant Point Was the Juror
at Fault.

It quite often happens that in ad.
dressing a jury, the lawyers will de.
liver their appeals to the one member
who seems to them the most intelli.
gent. They consider that by so doing
they can impress him and his influ.
ence upon the other members will bo
valuable. I'll
In a recent case, all the testimony
had been taken, the lawyers had
summed up and the Judge had charged
the jury, when the Juror who ap.
peared the most intelligent, and to
whom both counsel had made their
lmpassioned appeal, arose, and stated
that he wished the court to give him
some information. &
Il have been bothered great DEAL
be said, about two words the Law.
vers have been using all the time"
What are they?" asked the court.
expecting to be called upon to a.
pain the meaning Of some words
ike Tres inter alios acta." G5
"Why, the words that don't know
he meaning Of" said the Juror. -aro
PLAINTIFF and defendant
change. II
The Irish standard., 1914-01-17
Old Weir Utilized.

An ancient stone weir on the river
Dee, constructed by Hugh Lupus. earl
Of Chester, between 1910 and 1101 is
being utilized to supply the city Of
Chester with electricity, relates Lon.
don Answers. The weir was original
ly erected to drive cornmills, and the
milling industry continued up to 1908.
In 1910, however, Chester corporation,
who had purchased the property, dis.
mantled the mills. Mr.. 8. e. Britton,
the city electrical engineer, then de-
vised scheme for converting the wa
ter power into electrical energy, and
It is believed that the annual saving
thus effected will repay the capital ex.
penditure in five years. It is estimated
that the installation will yield 1885,.
900 units per annum at cost of less
than 0.3d per unit, inclusive of capital
charges.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-17
Couldn,t Ra Better.

Sir Walter Scott was sitting in his
library one day when a tall High
lander, who had been erecting an inn
nearby, entered and said:
MAY it please you, Sir Walter,
am going to call my place The Flod-
len Inn,' and as ye've written a poem
on Flodden Field 1t struck me and
the guide wife that you might gle US
line for motto"
Have you read the poem?" Sir
Walter asked.
mo, sir; I'm nae q reader"
"Well, should advise you to read
The poem and take a line from it."
"And what'll it be?"
Sir Walter, without a smile, replied,
Drink, weary traveller; drink and
pray"
But" cried the Highlander, aghast,
my inns no a kirk; and the more
prayin' there is the less drinkin'
:herell be, and I dinna want that"
"Oh." laughed the poet, II think I
:an alter the line. Drink, weary trav.
sler, drink and pay"
"The vera thing!" shouted the
other in delight.-Sunday Magazine Of
the Chicago Record-Herald.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-17
Evil Of Gossip.

Every man and woman will be en-.
titled to think better OF themselves
and will have a stronger claim to the
regard Of others, IL they cease to be
on the lookout for something to find
fault with, to treasure up and repeat
and magnify every scandal, little and
big. and to retail and spread every
small item of tea table gossip, which
carries with 1t ridicule or censure for
some one. Suppose all that were drop
ped, and really it is unworthy of In.
telligent. well meaning people, and
the habit formed Of only speaking we'll
Of others. Would 1t. after all. be as
st"n'd as some seem to think?-Cin.
cinnati ENQUIRE:
The Irish standard., 1914-01-17
Good Medicine.

While shouting corruption charges
at one another till they we're hoarse.
the various candidates paused occa-
sionally and. to rest their raw, Strain
ed throats, told q story In easy. con.
versational tones. Thus q leader said
one evening:
"A political contract could no more
be free from graft than Old Hoss Tar
tar's sulphur medicine was free from
alcohol.
"Old Hoss Tartar walked into the
druggists one morning with an i'm.
mense black bottle that he wanted
filled with sulphur and whisky.
This is the way alters have It
fxed.' said Old Hoss to the druggist.
I have sulphur up to thar
HE put his finger about half IN
inch from the bottom Of the bottle.
":And the rest have all whisky.
And this here's the way I use It
When I want . dose Of sulphur. why,
! jes' shake her up afors drink, and
when don't want no sulphur. why.
I don't. shake hen. Seer"
The Irish standard., 1914-01-17
The Inspector,s Disguise.

Some days ago. about five O'Clock
In the afternoon the principal police
inspector Of the Second district was
called to an affair as delicate as it
was urgent.
He quickly made up his disguise
For his bourgeois melon hat, he sub.
stituted a cap. the classic cap of the
Apache. FIe then jumped into an
auto.
He was not recognizable, or rather
he would not have been II the hon.
orable inspector had not retained
upon his breast the red ribbon of the
legion Of honor, a ribbon that he had
heroically won at Shoisy-le-Roi, under
tragic circumstances that no one has
forgotten.
And the malefactors in the midst of
whom this disguised officer insinuated
himself could not refrain from laugh.
Ing and are laughing yet at this man
clothed like one Of them and decorat-
ed with the legion of honor!-Le Cri
de Paris.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-17
SOME "Du1IEs" ON THE SIDE
Village Postmaster Had Other Affair,
to Attend To Besides Those Of
His Uncle Sam.

A conversation, printed in the Buf
falo News, seems to indicate that in
some communities the most burden.
some duties of the postmaster are not
always those that the government reg
ulations prescribe.
Joe Henderson stamped into the
postof1ce.
"Mornin', Mr.. Morely."
Morning. joel"
HAS Tom Warden been in fer hie
mail yet?"
NO"
"Will you be here when he comes ?"
"Yes."
well, when he comes, will you tell
him that on his way from the cheese
factory I wish he'd stop and get that
7hoat of Herman Langer's and take it
down to Fred Wilkins, and tell Fred
| said he could have it fer that single
harness even up, If he'll fix up that
bride and throw in them russet lines
stead of the old black ones; and il
he won't swap, tell Tom to bring the
shoat down to my place, and put it in
the extra pen, and be sure and shut
that door to the hen house, or all the
chickens'll get out. Sure there amt
no mail? Mornin', Mr.. Morely!"
Morning, Joe!"-Youth's Compap
ion. &
The Irish standard., 1914-01-17
Ahslnthe.

During the Algerian war of 1844-47
the French soldiers were induced to
mix absinthe with their wine as a
febrifuge. On their return they
brought with them the habit of drink
Ing, which is now so widely dissem.
mated in French society. The symp.
toms in the case Of absinthe tip
pier commence in the muscular quiv-
erings and decrease of strength; the
hair begins to fall out; the face as
sumes detected look, and the VIC
tim becomes emaciated, wrinkled and
sallow. Lesion of the brain follows,
horrible dreams and delusions haunt
the tippler, and gradually paralysis
takes him to the grave.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-17
"Either Way"

A certain colored family of Atlanta
was greatly cast down by the long
continued illness Of the head thereof;
but they were unable to extract much
information in the matter from the
quaint old family physician, whose
vagaries they had put up with for
years.
One day the mother made a. last
attempt to get some definite announce
ment from the doctor. do you really
think he will recover?" he was asked.
WELL" said the doctor, clearing his
throat and assuming most solemn
air, II know how you feel with the
winter coming on and all; but it's too
soon yet to tell. He may get well,
and then again he may not; cart
encourage you yat either way"
The Irish standard., 1914-01-17
Forcible FEEDING,

There are many earnest and clever
women in the ranks of the militants,
but they have been carried away by
the new feeling of sex cohesion, of
class solidarity and by their unreason-
Ing loyalty" to the imperious house
Of Pankhurst, asserts a writer in the
Forum. A very dangerous and regret
able mob spirit threatens to sweep
them into excesses which will bring
even greater odium upon the title suf.
fragette than the word already con-
notes. The real suffragists are going
quietly and effectively about their
work, with the approval and support
Of most reasonable men; but few
can view without regret the antics of
the excitement-maddened women who
are trying to associate the cause of
sex equality with vulgarity, hysteria
and the most pitiful lack of reason.
ing power. They cannot even see-or
they have not the honesty to acknowl-
edge-that forcible feeding is not a
real issue at all in the campaign;
1t is merely taken up as a convenient
hysteria-provoking weapon. The act
ual question is not whether women
who have been sent to prison for
some criminal offense with political
motives) should be permitted to COM
NIT suicide; but whether they should
be sent to prison at all. If it is right
for them to 60, it is necessary that
they should be taken care of, however
much he may regret that their own
deliberately adopted self-torturing
methods may make some form of CO.
ercion inevitable.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-17
TOO LIBERAL WITH ADVICE
Bank Cashier Meant Well, But Sac
Experience Taught Him Great
and Lasting Lesson.

The story sifted down from st. Paul
the other day that "Jim" Hill engi.
neered shakeup in bank there be-
cause he found an ink spot on his
monthly statement, which recalled to
bank official of this town the reason
why one cashier ceased to be little
ray Of sunshine. Persons who can
coax more than q conversational bit
out Of him nowadays are indeed
skilled. "He was q conservative guy
and good" said the banker. He
was the sort Of q man who would
leave light turned on in the hall
at night so that burglars might think
that some member Of the family had
not returned home. He was espe-
cially strong on temperance. Strong
drink had never scared his pure lips.
edge Of the town. One day Hunky
blew in with an active hangover. II
he'd had any more liquor in him he
wouldn't have been legal without a
revenue stamp. He said he wanted
the $50 he had on deposit The
cashier stepped to the rear limits Of
his cage and refused to pay until he
came around sober. Your signature
said the cashier, looks like dog-bite
when you're in this condition. will
not accept it, So the Hunky went
hooting up and down town announc.
ing that the savings bank had refused
to pay his money. BY alarm-clock
time next morning the streets were
full of yammering Hunkies, waving
out and the depositors were chased
away. Then the bank officials investi.
gated and the cashier confessed. He's
stopped giving good advice.
York Globe