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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-17

From the Christian Science Monitor.
 A COPY of the New York Mirror of
 A August s, 1885, recently fell into
 < the hands of the Kansas Clty Star. and contained references to many Star. and proved to be interest ing for other reasons than that it contained references to many period particularly because 1t contained an anecdote about John Howard Payne author of Home, Sweet Home" concern ing whom anecdotes are few. Payne was a man of greater versatility than is gen erally supposed At the age of 13, his biographers tell us, he began to edit the Thespian Mirror, weekly newspaper Two years later, we are told, he pup lished 25 numbers of a periodical called the Pastime, and while engaged in this work made a successful debut at the Park theater, New York, his native city, in the character of Norval. Following his successful entree into the dramatic profession, he appeared in Boston and in other cities, going to England and ap- bearing in 1S12-13, in London, where he produced many new dramas adapted from the French. In the matter of adapting plays he was apparently quite as proficient, if not quite so prolific, as Dion Bouccault of lter day. For one of these plays, called "Clari, or the Maid of Milan,'' he wrote the ballad that made him famous. Of the whole volume of other poems not one is remembered, and his plays, the most successful of which were "Virginius" and Charles H." have passed out of the recollection of all save collectors.
 He was. however. much sought by the writers and wits of his time, and was on terms of close intimacy with Cole ridge and Charles Lamb. It was after he had edited a paper called The Opera Glass in London, that he returned to the United States and received his ap- pointment as consul to Tunis.
 The anecdote has to do with the time, probably, when he was engaged in edi- torial work One of his friends of those days was William Elliston who man. aged theatres in Manchester and Bir- mingham. He was of the old school. and was one of the best known and most forceful characters in the cities where he ruled as a Thespian leader. It was his custom to have his own way about most things, or about most things in his line He happened to be in London looking
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-17
SALT AS A HEALER

From the New York World.
 The preservative, the cleansing and the soothing effects of salt have been known for ages. To this extent, and with some recognition of existing practices, the use of saline solutions in British military hospitals, noted in a cable dispatch to the are in the evolution of salt to the posi- ton of sole healing agent. and in the method of application by a constant stream which. in a single flowing, washes the wound. guards it from infec- ton and contributes healing power.
 An ancient and common household ar ticle thus supplants, after the initial dis injecting, the highly scientific, antisep- tic appliances of the day.
 This elaboration of an old remedy re- calls to mind the medical stir which fol- lowed in 1901 the publication from the University of Chicago. by pr. Jacques Loeb and Prof D. J. Lingle, of the theory that a solution of common salt in the blood. neutralized oy calcium and possibly potassium salt solutions was the cause of the rhythmic beating of the heart. All doctors had known of saline injections to stimulate the heart. Those who hesitated over the new proposition admitted the physiolog- ical importance of salt and its ability, after a hemorrhage, to supply the defic- iency in circulation until new blood is made.
 Inland people of old esteemed saline springs as gifts of the gods. Chips of salt were anciently used as money, and the mineral stood. as many passa yes in the Bible testify, for high religious sym bolisms. The sharing of salt represented irl other days sacred pledge of friend ship. A precious and essential quantity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-17

put the damage to the railroad docks { $30, ,000.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald zoe farther than the Advertiser and take the word of an irresponsible newspape man, who fixed the loss at $S,000000. I'll Age-Herald recently boiled over in i
 imagination at a report circulated tha a law enacted by the legislature ha ruined Birmingham. It should be just a jealous of the reputation of a sister cit in it's own state, to say nothing of il own reputation for printing a truthf, newspaper.
 The Advertiser story was written b a man whose family lives in Mobile, wh himself has worked on the Mobile news papers and who is under many obliga tions to the people of Mobile. Too bal that his concern for his home cit should be so small.
 "The total number of white person killed in the storm now reaches 13,' say the Advertiser report. No location, arI number not accurate. There was not death in Mobile and this corresponde1 knew that when he wrote his story.
 Tt will take sometime to get the watd front back to it's normal condition, an the expenditure of upward of $3,000,Ol in the way of new docks and repairs what remain of old ones." says the Ad vertiser report. No dock. except tw old sheds, was materially damaged.
 Much destruction is admitted, but d yet no relief committees have been oI ganized with view to taking care q those who are in the direst need" say the Advertiser report This can be chaj acterized only by a word that self-respecI ing men do not like to use. The daiq papers here were open to the inspectio| of this correspondent of the Advertise and he could have learned from thei that there is no destitution in the strid sense existing in Mobile; and people wH need aid temporarily to get in shari again are looked after, and have bed looked after, since the day after tn story by a volunteer relief committe| On Saturday the Chamber of Commerd regularly took over this work; and there are any persons fin direst needI they have their wants attended to.
 There has been no secret about it. I'll facts have been printed in the Mobi| papers. Correspondents here have hd this correct information if they had card to use it. What we ask for our contenI poraries is that they examine mol closely into the qualification of their rel resentatives and exercise a generous sd pervision over their news columns to tlI end that their neighbor city may be pri tected from false and injurious publ cations concocIed with no nobler purpof than to create sensation and start| the readers of the newspapers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-17
STORM EXAGGERATION
From the Mobile Register.

From the Mobile Register.
 est but it's own reflect injuriously A~ upon itself as a profession. If, in order to sell it's product, a journal sac rifices truth to it's special need, the pub lie is justified in characterizing it as yellow and sensational and not to be trusted to tell the truth.
 Even some of our best though-of news papers in Alabama are touched with this evil. They may not intend to be sensa- tie sense of responsibility, and they do not take sufficient pains to obtain trust worthy service.
 It. is astonishing to note the apparent eagerness with which some of the papers of this state have published sensational news about the recent storm In Mobile and right in the face of carefully writ ten and correct reports that were sent out by the Associated Press. Nearly a week after the correct information must have been at hand, the Birmingham News prints pictures on its front page of river boats and bay boats blown ashore,
  gives for it's headline. Pictures of the frightful havoc wrought by the recent hurricane at Mobile!" The Anniston Star, on Sunday, July g. four days after the storm, extends it's sympathy and asks that aid for Mobile because "the wharves were damaged considerably, and some of them were completely destroyed. a fact that makes the catastrophe loss to the whole state as well as to Mobile, as that city is Alabama's only port
 The intention is good in this instance, rious to this city. The Mobile and Ohio and the Southern railway together own most of the improved wharf front of Mobile and Vice President Taylor of the Mobile and Ohio puts the property dam age of the two companies at about ESQ., 900. The New Orleans manager of the Associated Press who was sent here at the suggestion that disaster had oc- cured, finds the water front damage in all is about ,000; and the whole loss to Mobile estimated at a million and a quarter.
 Nevertheless, our contemporary, the Montgomery Advertiser, one w4ek after the storm, when it is no longer news, prints a screaming headline saying that Storm Loss in Mobile Four Millions The correspondent who figured out this loss says that "two-thirds of the dam- age is on the water front" which would make the river front damage over $3,- 6Oo,c0 AS said above, the Associated Press manager gives that damage, after interviewing many people on the water front, at 1885, ,0oO, and MT. R. V. Taylor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-17
WAR WITHOUT BANJos

From the London Globe.
 What has become of the banjo? It W a barrack craze once. The mouth org; seems a decadent thing compared wi the 'Pilly-willy- -winky ,popp'' of t banjo on the march or in the camp.
 Once it was the war drug of the whi man round the world" It seems tn there is room for enterprise in this ( rection, and perhaps we shall yet he the banjo twanging From Delos up Limerick and Back,'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-17
YOUNG LOVE

By Shakespeare. Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head . How begot, how nourished?
 Reply. reply. It is engender'd in the eyes; With gazing fed; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies: Let us all ring fancy's knell; I'll begin it-ding. dong. bell
 Ding, dang. bell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-17
UNDER GERMAN INSTRUCTION

From the Kansas City Star.
 'These Swedes will~teach how to be Russia when the "Madman of t North,'' with 5000 men, cut to pieces army of 6O,0OO at Narva. At Pultow seven years later, his prediction car true, and the miraculous dash of Charl XII ended in disaster and annihilati before the Russians arms. Possibly V, Hindenburg has proved to be as good instructor of the Russians as was t Swedish soldier two centuries ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-17

BEGINNING THE DAY-Grant, o Lord. that I shall this day with all confidence expect the heavenly vision. Teach me that my eyes and my ears and my spirit were given me to discern God. May I not look for fuIl-orbed day at once, but help me to follow the dawn until l find the noon. Give me obedience to the first faint light, that after awhile | may know the fitness of the per feet day. In Christ's name. Amen. H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-17
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n EFORE the war England spent ID $4O,O00,000 a year for imported eggs. The authorities are now consid- ering a scheme for throwing open the parks of London for poultry breeding.
 The eggs will be London Parks con u m by as Poultry Farms wounded soldiers,
 and prizes will be offered to create competition among the hens.
 The scheme at first glance may ap- pear fantastic, but is in line with other war economies suggested by persons who feel called on to help the British government solve it's problems. How ever, for esthetic reasons, park should be a park and nothing more. Once it serves a utilitarian purpose it ceases to be a park and loses about nine-tenths of it's charm.
 Apparently there is nothing easier to go daffy over than raising chickens. Tc is-the one absolutely infallible way to get rich quick and mitigate most of the ills that flesh is heir to.
 But the wounded soldiers in London will derive more profit from the parks as places strictly for rest and recrea- ton than they would if the parks were converted into poultry farms. Be- sides, Great Britain can still afford to spend 40,0O0,O00 year for eggs and never miss the money.
 A PHILANTHROPIST with dis "A cernment has given a check to the Red Cross society for providing soldiers along the Mexican border with goggles. The check is large enough to
 supply tn u : Goggles for Troops sands of goggles Along the Border and may be the
 means of saving the eyes of many soldiers from perma- nent injury.
 The binding glare of the plains where most of the troops are stationed is severe strain on the eyes, and as there are thousands of young guards men recently incorporated into the regular army who are unused to such conditions as they will find along the border, goggles are of prime impor- tance.
 A body of soldiers thus equipped may present a rather ludicrous ap- pearance, but not more so than the European soldiers with their gro- tesque gas masks and other protective devices.
 MYTH Colonel Roosevelt support w ing MT. Hughes the republi- cans thought victory for their ticket was practically assured. Although the standard bearer was not lacking in political experience he was easily
 misled by promises No Chance of of reunited party. Reunited Party He had a right to
 feel that with a con- plete fusion of the old guard organi- zation and the bolters of 1912 his pros poets for election were roseate. Even allowing for some defection in the progressive ranks he was still con- fident that he would win.
 But anything like republican solid arity as it was known in other years was only dream. In spite of the fact that many prominent progressives are pledged to Hughes thousands have indicated their intention of voting for President Wilson, and more thousands have determined to keep the "third party" alive if possible and fight it out on that line.
 John M. Parker, progressive nomi- nee for vice president, and for a time one of the colonels most devoted fol lowers, was disappointed and angered when the bull moose surrendered, anc declined to accept the progressive nomination for President. In the eyes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-17

in our daily livrng, though but casual regarded on the grocers bill for supplie salt may yet be revealed in a more int mate relation to life itself than dari1 scientists have guessed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-17

'T1s the soldiers life
 To have their balmy slumbers wak'o with strife. -otnelo'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-17

The Deutschland is going to take back to Germany a cargo of nickel and rubber. The demand for condensed milk in Ger many must not be as great as reported. oil industry in the United States and there will soon be as many movie mill lionares as there are oil millonaires.
 Going forward is a new sensation for Tommy Atkins" along the western front. He has been sitting on his launches for more than year.
 The efforts of certain doctors to belit- tie the infantile paralysis epidemic in New York are having no effect whatever on panic stricken mothers.
 Having married the daughter of a mil have to enter the movies in order to make both ends meet
 Some of the new troops along the Mex can border are complaining about their food, but you never hear complaint from the regulars.
 Now that the Orpet trial is ended. Chi cago's sob squad" will rest on its lau- rels until a new sensation develops.
 The naval experts have decided that the dreadnaught is here to stay. Its 2 pod for about 10 years, anyhow. | "Pancho' Villa songs along the porde' are not dead yet. And for that matter neither is "Pancho' Villa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-17

TELEPHONE Bell (prfvate exchange connecting all aepartments) Main 49OO.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-07
A Spirit THAT
Builds Cities

The new spirit drawing Tacoma together into a
team working community that is going to get some
where exempfies itself in the army post project
Allen & Lamborn, printing firm, has informed
Mayor Fawcett that it will print the ballots for the
Jan. bond election free of charge.
A considerable number of other enthusiastic citi-
zens have volunteered to give their services as cleo
ton officials.
These people feel, they told the mayor, that they
want to do at least that much toward helping along
the common good.
A committee of public spirited business men had
subscribed $500 to meet the costs of the election.
But the volunteer workers take the position they
do not want their neighbors' money pay for adj
vancing enterprise that is going to do them as
much good it will the donors of the fund In Short
they want to show their public spirit, too.
1t is this sort of feeling that makes communities
go forward.
campaign that is waged between Thanksgiving
and Christmas on the Year of Promise certainly is
suspicious
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-07
RAID $500
CACHE OF
LIQUORS

In an unoccupied two-story
frame. house at 1924 Market st.,
the police Wednesday afternoon
raided the biggest booze cache
which has been rounded up i'll this
city since the first of the year.
They believe they have unearth-
ed the distributing center for
bootlegging operations in Tacoma.
When, led b yCapt. Cornish, the
police pounced down on The old
house, they found it entirely IN
inhabited. The only furniture
consisted of table and four
chairs.
The Illicit booze was discovered
piled up in the kitchen. The po-
lice found five gunnysacks con-
tanning 100 quart bottles of whis-
ky, two five-gallon and two az
gallon demijohns filled with
whisky, and IL quarts of beer.
The value is estimated at 5000.
No trace of the persons running
the place could be obtained.
The police have started an in
vestigation which they think may
lead to the capture of the king
pins in the Tacoma boOtlegging
industry.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-07
WOULD DOUBLE ACREAGE
OF ISLAND PEMITEMTIARY

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. Z.
With q comment declaring 1t to
relate to the activities of aliens
and foreign sympathizing citi-
zens," L. s.. Attorney General i,
w. Gregory in his annual report
issued today recommends a law
making It O crime to interfere
with or prevent the expectation or
articles from the United States TO
foreign countries,
Others among a long list OF
laws recommended, affecting the
neutrality and foreign relations
of the United States, are:
Making it crime TO set fire to
a vessel engaged in foreign com
merce, or to her cargo, or TO tam
per with her machinery or instru-
ments, or to place bombs aboard
her, etc.
Authorizing detention of YES
sells believed to be carrying am
munition, men, supplies or infor-
nation to belligerent vessels.
Throwing additional safeguards
around passports; making false
statements therein perjury; MAX
ing alteration, forgery or fraudu-
lent obtaining, transfer or use OF
passports a criminal offense.
Making it crime to mint or
print coin or paper money for in
surgents within country with
which the United States is at
peace.
Making 1t a crime to conspire
within the United States to injure
or destroy property within a for
eign country.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-07
BEDSIDE TRIAL
Ethel Waldron Faints for
Fourth Time and Finishes
Testimony Lying In Bed
at Court House.

Judge Cards court was in SEES
sion Thursday morning at the
bedside of Ethel Waldron to hear
her final testimony in her $780,
600 breach of promise case against
Glenn Orr of Steilacoom.
Completely exhausted after
two days of grilling cross-exam-
ination, she was unable to con-
tinue on the witness stand. AT
the opening of the morning ses-
sion she made an attempt to
complete her case before the jury,
but collapsed for the fourth time
since the trial began.
Stays i'm Courthouse.
The girl has slept in the court
house for the last two nights, not
having been able to go to her
home.
Her attorney, Ralph Woods.
openly charged defense attorneys
of prolonging the ordeal of cross
examination in an attempt to kill
her case.
Lying in bed, Ethel answered
the final questions put to her by
the defense concerning her most
personal relations with Orr dur
ing the time he was alleged to
have been engaged to her.
VIII BE Read to Jury.
The questions with her answers
were taken down by a court stem
ographer and later read to the
Jury in the courtroom.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-07

trace a railroad that runs
north into the foothills from
Vancouver, WASH, to its ter
minus, there, serene and UNI
disturbed, they will discover
the village.
This week, I discover, there
has been much travelling to
and from the town.
r. A. Mullenger, of Taco
ma, for instance, has been
there on /. o. o. F. affairs.
Richard Pyron and A. F.
Forcia were seeing the sights
and lodging autos in Port
land a couple Of days last
week." we read.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-07
THIS HAS BEEN A WEEK OF BUSTLE FOR YACOLT

reverend gentlemen have
had a glimpse of Yacolt and
have met its people. Yacolt
bids them God speed and ex-
tends hearty invitation to
them to come this way
again." commented the edi-
tor.
But let us not forget va
colts neighboring towns.
Chelatchie, for instance,
sends this news:
IN. s. Allen sold 40 nice
fat turkeys to Frost Bros.
last Friday. He received 2ac
per pound"
"Mr. Chef Moore, OF Lewis
vile, was on Chelatchie Prai-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-07

More important, however,
1t is recorded that:
"R. F. Baatz, of Oregon
City, moved his family here
last week and expects to re-
main here permanently. Mr..
Baatz has rented the Case
blacksmith shop. He is a good
workman and will endeavor
to turn out first class work
and take care Of all the black
smith trade formerly ham
died by Mr.. Case"
And still more important,
the IL M. e. ministers OF the
county paid Yacolt a visit.
I'VE are glad that these
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-07
FAIRCHILD OUT
FOR ARMY POST

State Senator Wilburn Fairchild
announced Thursday that he ID
strongly favoring the U. S. army
division post for Tacoma.
Il want to go on record al
heartily endorsing the plan," he
said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-07
Talk O the Times

Washington hasn't one case
on record of where pet dogfish
left its bowl to go out and dig
holes in the yard?
TO MISS JEANETTE RANKIN
Congresswoman from Montana
tSocial service worker, tool.
Far be 1t from me to pan a
Girl like you.
No. voice my appreciation:
Favored female delegate,
You're tribute to the nation
And your state.
You're a proof of our improve.
ment
From the time when people
spoke
OF the Woman Suffrage Movement
AS Joke.
Making men and women equal
In the ruling of the land
Ought to have a splendid sequel.
Lady and
Your election might have meant
the
Rise OF faith and hope in me.
IL you didn't represent the
@. o. p. X
-Gulliver, in N. Y. Tribune.
At last IL II disclosed t1la9
the ID. In ID. Bunkerss nanno
stands for D0dipheg.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-07
By r. D. P.

Last week I told Times
readers of the happy, smooth
flowing life OF Yacolt, as dis
closed by a copy of its week.
ly News.
A half dozen persons had
the nerve to accuse me of be-
ing a faker. They dared to
say that there is no such
town, and that l made 1t all
up.
Well, they're another,
that's all I've got to say. II
they'll get out their state
railroad commission map and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-07

With her case completed, the
defense Immediately moved for q
dismissal on the ground that IL
had not been shown anywhere
conclusively that Orr had made
promise to marry her.
The motion was based on her
letter to him in 1912, which she
sent to him with a package con-
tanning the garments she had
made for their wedding, and In
which she expressed a willing
ness to give him up IL he no
longer cared for her.
The motion was denied.
Stipulation introduced.
The defense contended that
this letter abrogated all previ-
Gus contracts or promises to
marry which had been made pre-.
viously.
The girls testimony was that
after he received the package OF
wedding clothes. he Immediately
returned them to her, renewing
his promises of marriage.
a stipulation between the cou.
pie, signed In December, 1915,
when she consented to withdraw
her first breach of promise suit
against Orr, also was introduced.
The girl explained she had sign
ed it with the understanding
that it would be necessary in or.
der to permit the marriage.