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The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1914-01-31
RESIDENCE BURN ED.

On Tuesday afternoon, on SteT
ling Plantation, south of this city
the residence OF Mr.. Ernest Ian
dry was completely destroyed by
tire, at about 8 o'clock. His
losses will aggregate about 5000.
No insurance. His field imple-
ments and pair of mnles will as
sist him in relieving his losses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-06
MUCH CONCERN FELT FOR SAFETY OF SHIP SOU FERN CROSS Has Not Been Heard From Since Last
 Tuesday
NEWFOUNDLAND GETS TO PORT WITH Y DEAD
Pitiful Scenes Enacted When Rela- lives of Victims Come to Morgue Seeking Their Dead-Suryi-
 vors Maimed for Life

St. Johns N. F, April b.--Anxiety deepened tonight for the 173 men on the sealing steamer Southern Cross, which has been missing since Tuesdays blizzard. She was not reported either by incoming vessels of the sealing fleet or by the steamer Kyle. sent out by the government to search for her. If she is not heard from by sunset to- morrow she will be officially posted as lost with all on board. Disaster to her following so closely by the loss of r men of the sealer Newfoundland would bring on the colony the greatest trag edy in its history, depriving whole set dement's of their bread winners and with full catches. were dubious re- pendent on charity.
 As the public learned today from the Newfoundland's survivors, who were landed yesterday. details of the two days blizzard and the condition in which it caught the Southern Cross, the first hopes. based on the stoutness of The ship, faded. Capt. Daniel Martin of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-06
Brains Supplied Here"

Is it possible to provide the feeble
 minded with more brain until they are
 normal? Wild though the possibility
 may seem to the lay mind, it has, nevertheless, been seriously discussed lat tile Congress of Medicine in Paris,
 says Tit Bits. Furthermore, experiments
 in the science which is known as "or-
 sanotherapy" have already been at tempted.
 This science really consists of treat i ing diseased organs with medicines
 made from similar organs. It is pointed
 out by medical experts that the build ing up or doctoring of one organ with extracts from a similar one was prac- tised 2000 year ago, although, of course, in a very crude fashion. It is on rec ord that patients suffering from an af- lection of any particular part of their system were given the same part os an animal, to eat, with the idea of re- pairing the local waste and damage Thus consumptiyes were ordered to eat sheep lungs while for dyspeptics was prescribed a diet in which the stomach
 of calves ranked as the chief item
 In an address on the subject deliv-
 doctor, pr. Iscovesco, he remarked that special importance is attached to the treatment of anaemia by this method The old treatment with iron,' he de- clares, was never absolutely satisfac- tory, while if lipoid extract of blood corpuscles is administered to patients
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-06
BeSsen1er News

Bessemer, April 5-(Special.) )-Deteetives E. Houston, Bob Childress. Maddox and F.. Ross raided three blind tigers this aft ernoon and IS negroes were arrested charged with violating the Sunday law selling whisky without license, and dis orderly conduct.
 Fred Steele a negro. is being held in the city jail on a charge of murder. It appears that Steele, with a crowd of negroes, were shooting craps at the Martin sawmill at Greenwood last night, when Steel and negro, whose name is not known, engaged in a quarrel, result ing in the unknown negro being killed.
 Deputy Sheriff J. N. Smithson arrested Steele and brought him to Bessemer while the dead man was taken to Jacobs undertaking establishment, where he has not yet been identified.
 A. F. Frazier and J. W. Elliot. two students of the University of Alabama walked from Tuscaloosa to Bessemer as the result of a wager The boys madc the trip in E hours, which is a distance of 60 miles. They left the university
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-06
Sublimely Ridiculous

From Pearson's s Weekly.
 Dr. J. M. Buckley, who is at present engaged on his autobiography, tells an amusing story of the first time he saw Tennyson.
 He recognized the great poet with two ladies and two children in the South Ken sington museum, and he kept as near the party as possible, hoping to hear some of Tennysons profound comments on the wonders around him. For whole hour Dr. Buckley kept this up, but during that time Tennyson said not a single word.
 At last just as he was about to give if up in despair. pr fsuckley detected some signs that the poet was about to speak. He drew closer, and heard these ever-to-be-forgotten words addressed to the ladies:
 You keep the children, while l get a glass of beeri''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-06
ILLINOIS MAN PAYS
 TAXES AFTER DEATH

Illinois champion tax dodger has been
 discovered in the person of Alfred w.
 Barber, millionaire who died in Crystal
 Lake in 1912 says a Bloomington I'll. spe-
 cial to the New York World. No one sus-
 pected his wealth, and the assessors who
 annually called upon him could only find
 taxable property to the amount of S2o,00o
 While some assessors were inclined to be-
 lieve that he possessed other property,
 none was able to unearth any in addition
 to that which he scheduled and year
 after year he was able to get by with the
 payment of a few hundred dollars to help
 pay the expenses of the city, county and
 state.
 The sensation came when his will was
 admitted to probate. It developed that
 Barber was a bondholder in many cor
 porations and the aggregate of his hold
 ings as disclosed in the will, was S000.OOO instead of the paltry $20000.
 The various taxing bodies of the coun- ty immediately got busy and took steps to recover the back taxes. Barber Jeff the major portion of his estate to relatives of his wife. and they engaged lawyers to make a vigorous fight against the collec- tion of back taxes.
 William Desmond. representing the board of review of McHenry county,
 made a report in which he estimated the
 aggregate of the unpaid taxes to be S2ol,- 000 Charles W. Kellog. the executor, whose wife was a niece of Mrs. Barber, flatly declined to pay any of this back tax. F. D. Shurtleff, the former speaker 1 of the Illinois house. was engaged by the l county to sue for the unpaid taxes He procured an injunction. restraining the executor from distributing any of the as- 1 sets until the tax dispute was adiudi- l cated. This week the contesting parties | get together for a compromise Rather 1 than litigate interminably it was agreed 1 to pay SS2,000 Of this sum the Crystal 1 Lake school district will get $41Ooo. I A new schoolhouse will probably be | erected as a result of this financial wind | fall. It is more money than the district | has drawn for many years combined.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-06
at il o'clock Friday morning and arrived in Bessemer at 1 o'clock Saturday.

at Il o'clock Friday morning and arrived in Bessemer at 1 o'clock Saturday.
 Much interest is being manifested in the ball game to be played Wednesday afternoon at Underwood field between the Bessemer High school and Birming- ham High school. These two teams have always been rivals in atheltics and q heated contest is expected The Besse- mer lineup is as follows: First base. Hughes; second base. Fitzpatrick; short stop, Keadl; third base. c. Hughes; left field, C. Scott; center field, r. Randle: right field, B. Cowan; catcher. Brown, and Ross, pitcher.
 Miss Lucy Huey and Miss Jessie Huey entertained, the members of the Forty two club and a number of guests Satur- day afternoon at the home of Mrs. Rose Huey, on Sixth avenue. The reception rooms were very attractive in their dec orations of ferns and violets. Seven tahies were used for the games, score being kept by Miss Jessie Iluey. The club prize, embroidered lingerie, was won by Mrs. Peyton Mims. The, consolation, station cry, fell to Miss Sarah Howard, while the guests prize. embroidered lingerie. was captured by Miss Lizzie Herbert. At the conclusion of the games a plate lunch con was served by the hostesses, assisted by Mrs. Rose Huey.
 Miss Geraldine .Cargile entertained the members of the Sunbeam society at her home yesterday afternoon. After the transaction of the business games and music were enjoyed. Tempting refresh- ments were served Those present were Miss Hazelle Harkins, Miss Dollie Mi lam, Miss Ruth Milan, Miss Thelma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-06
Brothers, Eh?

From PearSOnS $ Weekly.
 A certain curate was of a painfully nervous temperament, and in conse- quence was constantly making awk- ward remarks-intended as compli- ments-to the bishop and others.
 Having distinguished himself in an unusual degree during a gathering of clergy at an afternoon tea a short while ago in the bishops palace, he was taken to task for his failings by C senior curate. who was one of his com panions on the way home.
 Look here" said Simmons, the senio
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-06

the corpuscles rapidly multiply and the anaemia disappears"
 Probably the most startling sugges-
 tion made by the doctor was that of curing the feeble minded by this method This physician held that so long as organotherapy worked so well along other lines, it stood within req son that it would work well with tho feeble minded. By giving them a lipoid extract of grey matter, an extract If the brain, it ought to increase their mental faculties and in time give to them normal brain.
 | Of course, if this is possible, it vii. | be one of the greatest wonders and
 most valuable things in modern or an cient medicine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-06

decidedly, you are donkey. Why can't you keep quiet instead of making your asinine remarks? I am speaking to you now as brothef"
 Loud laughter Interrupted him at this point. and for the moment he did not see the joke
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-06
' oters

Will please bear in mind that John Mcqueen is not in the contest for county solicitorship with Heflin, Black, McArthur and Rudulph. John Mcqueen is running for the office of so- licitor of the 10th judicial cir quit. Vote for John Mcqueen for circuit solicitor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-06

the sealer Erik and Capt. William Bart lett of the Terra Nova, which arrived with full catches, weer dubious re- garding the safety of the missing ship. Neither had seen her within a week.
 Last Seen Thursday
 Captain Martin said he parted com pany from her a week ago Thursday, when the Southern Cross turned home ward with 17,0oo seals She was so deeply laden that all her provisions and part of her bunker coal were stored on deck.
 Captain Bartlett of the Terra Nova said the last he saw of the Southern Cross was a week ago Friday when she was wallowing slowly down the coast. Other ships of the fleet sighted the steamer driving before the gale last Tuesday morning. She has not been reported since and the shippers or the fleet who came through that gale and the week say every chance was against a vessel so deep in the water as the Southern Cross.
 In every church today the disaster which overlook the Newfoundland's men on the ice was the theme of the sermon. Messages of sympathy from the King and from tie Canadian premier were read. By noon all but five of the 69 bodies of the Newfoundland's brought in yesterday by the Bellaventure. had been identified. These Were shipped tonight to Bonavsta, where most of the victims lived.
 
 Pathetic Scenes Enacted
 Attendants at the Grenfell institute. which was turned into a morgue, said that scenes accompanying the identifi- cation of the bodies were almost be- yond endurance. One woman found two bodies clasped so tightly in death that they could not be separated. They were her husband and son. The lad was in his fathers arms as if the man had been trying to shield him from the pitiless cold The hand of another dead man was One of the survivors who had | lain helpless near the body for near l y AS hours said that his comrade. un- able to stand the agony of frost bite, l had sliced off the hand with his sea- mans knife. A gray haired mother, supported by l
 
 ong rows looking for her sons. Atten- ion was suddenly drawn to them when l he women fell to the floor in a faint | They had found not only the four sons l md brothers, but two cousins among | he dead. Of the 30 survivors in the hospital | lone is expected to die, but the ma | ority never will be fit for active serv- | ce again. Three lost both hands and |! both feet. Eight others lost a foot and l I will lose hand or fingers. The | 'thers will bear scars for life. Some of the survivors said they ought shelter from the arctic gale be- | lind the bodies of dead shipmates, but | n all the delirium of the two days and | lights of exposure the bodies of the | lead were left inviolate Each man of l he 150 endured his lot with grim pa | fence and each one. the dead as we'll | IS the living. was found with his full | equipment of clothing, boots and seal | ng gear intact. Special memorial services will be held ] Tuesday. By that time. also, relief | measures can be considered. If the | southern Cross fails to appear the fam | lies of her 173 men must be provided, l or as well as those of the Newfound- | ands dead and crippled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-06
Not His Fault

From the Pele Mele.
 Poet-Good gracious, Here is your servant asleep.
 Hostess--Silly fool He must have been eavesdropping while you were reading your new poem to me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-06

Cargile, Miss Mary Belle Huey, Durham Harkins, Marvin Cargile, Ernest Cargile and Miss Annie Durham.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-10
If BACkACHE OR
KIDNEYS HURT
EAT LESS MEAT AND TAKE A
GLASS OF SALTS TO FLUSH
OUT KlDNEYs-DRlNk PLENTY
WATER

Uric acid in meat i,excites the kid
neys, they become overworked; get
sluggish, ache, and feel like Jumps OF
lead. The urine becomes cloudy; the
bladder is irritated, and 0 may be
obliged to seek relief two or three
times during the night. When the kid
neys clog you must help them flush off
the body's urjnols waste or you'll be a
real sick, person shortly. At first you
feel a dull misery in the kidney region,
you suffer from backache, sick head
ache, dizziness, stomach gets sour,
tongue coated and you feel rheumatic
twinges when the weather is had.
Eat less meat, drink lots OF water:
also get from. any pharmacist four
ounces Of Jad salts; take a table
spoonful in a glass OF water before
breakfast for a few days and your kid
neys will then act fine. This famous
salts is made from the acid Of grapes
and lemon Juice, combined with lithia,
and has been used for generations to
clean clogged kidneys and stimulate
them to normal activity, also to neu-
tralize the acids In urine. SO it no
longer 10 a source Of irritation, thus
ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is Inexpensive. cannot I'm
Jure: makes al delightful e~fRefvescent
Whitewater drink which everyone
should take now and then To keep the
Kidneys clean and active. Druggists
here say they sell lots ole Iad Salts ID
folks who believe In overcoming kid
Ysey trouble while IL iE only trouble
Asdvt.S
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-10

that they did not rule too much.
What has happened? The house of
lords got itself in the way of progress
once too often, and now it has been
shorn Of it's veto power. All it can do
now is delay things a little. For all
practical purposes. it is about as use
full and effective as the king is, who
survives for uses purely ornamental.
When the commons passes a bill
now. the lords can get their hatred
of it out of their systems, and vote
against it. But If the bill is really de-
manded by the people, the commons
will pass it again, and it becomes a
law, lords or no lords. All the upper
branch can do is be indignant about
1t Inc haVo their SONS n brothers
and cousins in the army resign rather
than make it effective.
So really there would be no revolu-
ton about it if the house Of lords were
has already come to pass. .
While Britain has been doing this,
something like it has happened in this
country, which copied the British BIZ
cameral system almost verbatim. The
American system was a happy COM
promise between those who wanted
the people to rule and those who were
sure the people were not fitted to rule.
When the split seened 'irreconcilable,
1T was celnented by the proposition of
a house of representatives to vote as
the people. wished, and a senate to
vote Is property wished.
To make the plan effective, the peo-
pie were not permitted to select sena-
tors. That function was left to the
legislatures. The purpose was to keep
the senate as far out Of the reach of
the people as possible.
Now, however, the senate, like the
house. is elected by and directly re-
sponsible to the people. The abolition
of the United States senate wouldn't
be half SO great q revolution as the
popular election of senators was. :
In the states senators were elected
by popular vote, but for longer, terms.
The state house of lords never was
more than a pale imitation of the or
iginal. and now it vies with the low
err" house in eager and aIacritous re-
Spouse to public opinion.
The real revolution already has hap
pened. The bicameral system may or
may not be abandoned; but it wouldn't
be one-tenth as important an event il
1T Were as 1t was when senates began
to compete with the lower branches in
the hunt for popularity.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-10
Daddy Bedtime
O. Brenda's Annual
JIOYV ~~r.-.--~ Easter Visit to the
Children Ward,
Asked If She Could
Ge inside.

AADDy had seen q little girl that day, a little DAUGHTER of a great friend
d OF his, and he had had quite q chat with her. he wanted, Of COURSE
- to tell Jack and Evelyn all about it. "
what is her name?" was Eveyns first question.
"Her nane liz Brenda, and I'm sure when I've told you about her You
children will both want to meet her and know her.
"She told me that every year at Easter time she went to the head nurse
OF the big hospital and found out the names Of all the children. Then shs
went shopping and it took her a long time to pick out things for Ntle sick
children. she picked out for each child a big round chocolate egg which rat
tied, for inside it there were little sugar candies; also a chocolate chicken and
too. Around the egg she tied a big red ribbon, around the chocolate chickens
bright purple ribbon. Then she put them in q little box and wrote on the
box the childs name
Last year Brenda went to the hospital the day before Easter. 1t was far
from being a pleasant day. There was a cold wind In the air and no sun.
She arrived at the hospital just as all the little children had had their
wounds dressed. They we're lying in their little white cots trying to keep
back the tears that wanted to come.
Brenda asked the nurse il she could go inside with the gifts
ayes, indeed! said the nurse. The children would love that The childs
name in the first cot continued the nurse vey softly, is Elsa. She has hurt
her back, and no n knows how long she will have to lie there
ELSA said Brenda, happy Easter. A little chocolate bunny a little
chocolate chicken and a big chocolate egg all said they wanted to wish you q
happy Easter
Elsa opened her half shut eyes and cMched the box. She opened 1t
eagerly. There they all were! And the chocolate bunny md have the funniest
expression! He would have made any one laugh, and his purple ribbon bow
was sticking way up on nj side with such a saucy expression. Elisa burst
out laughing. Afterward the nurse told Brenda it was the first time she'd
Elsa laugh since she'd been brought to the hospital
"Then Brenda took the rest of her boxes around to all the other little sick
children. And such happiness as there ws in the wardW
ooh, I wish we could go with Brenda this Easter" said Evelyn.
"T knew you would want to help her" said daddy. $50 I have already ar
ranged it, and you shall meet her tomorrow"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-10
WHY A SENATE?

Duluth Herald: Oregon. they say,
is going to vote this year on the ques-
ton Of doing away with its double
barreled legislative body and substi-
tuting for it a legislature composed OF
q single chamber. 1890
The proposal m up through the
growingly familiar process of the ini-
~tiatiVe. and it has gone far enough to
make IT certain that the people Of Ore
gon will vote on the question whether
they wan a single-chamber legisla-
ture or g. tWo-chamber legislature.
r. Though a very startling proposal to
some-mainly to those who are always
shocked by proposals to make things
different from what they are used to-
on Hx1mination it seems much less
That is because, to all practical pur-
poses, the really revolutionary part OF
the change has already come about.
In the beginning, the two-chamber-
ed or bicameral lawmaking body was
devised SO that while one branch rep
resented the people, the other didn't,
and SO served as a check upon the
popular will.
But mostly, these days, the social
ed upper branch" of lawmaking bod
les no longer is effective that way.
The mother of senates, of course, is
the British house Of lords. The house
of commons was created to let the
people think they were ruling, but the
house Of lords was kept to see to it
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-10
THE EUGENlCS LAW.

The decrease in the number of mar
Iiage licenses issued in Fargo as
iagainst the same number in former
years is most marked. The reduced
number is due to the ~eugcnics law pre-
Viding for a physical examination OF
the seekers of license and an accom-
.panying certificate of the moral recti-
.tude of the couple.
Just across the river in Minnesota
where there is no such law, the num-
sber OF licenses has increased in even
greater proportion than they decreas-
ed on this side. Not only do man.
sCass county and Fargo couples get
married in Moorhead. but many from
finland counties OF the state go to
'Moorhead for that purpose to avoid
the unpleasant physical examination.
The North Dakota law is very SINH
lar to that of Wisconsin and the re-
suits appear quite similar.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-10
MY Chill DHOOD.

AS l rummag'd thro, the attic,
List'ning to the falling rain,
AS it patter'd on the shingles
And against the window pane;
Peeping, over chests and boxes,
Which with dust were thicklS
spread
Saw l in the farthest corner
What was once my trundle bed.
So | drew it from the recess.
Where it had remained so long,
Hearing all the while the music
OF my mothers voice in song:
AS she sung in sweetest accents,
What l since have often read
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber
Holy angels guard thy bed"
AS I listen'd. recollections
That I thought had been forgot,
Came with all the gush Of mem-ry
Rushing, t~hronging to the spot;
And l WANDERED back to childhood,
To those merry days Of yore,
When I kneIt beside my mother.
BY this bed upon the floor.
Then it was with hands so gently
Placed upon my infant head,
That she taught my lips to utter
carefully the words she said;
Never car they be forgotten.
Deep"are they in mem'ry riven-
"Hallowed be Thy name, Q. Father!
Father! Thou who art in heaven
This she taught me, then she told me
or its imports, great and deep
After which I learned to utter
Now / lay me down to Sleep"
Then it was with hands uplifted.
And in accents soft and mild.
That my mother asked, "Our Father.
Father do Thou bless my child! :"
Years have pass'd, and that deal
mother
Long has moldered meath the sod
And I trust her sainted spirit
ReVels in the home of God;
But that scene at summer twilight
Never has from mem'ry fled.
And it comes in all it's freshness
When I see my trundle bed.
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