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Arizona republican., 1916-01-03

lord blair, and besides. he has not heard
flom Blake. the Richmond detective.
81 long in my soul" muses. the eccentric.
lawyer. to have his grace arrested in thu
very doorway of the abbey and dragged to
Newgate in letters! Though that would
make the dead and gone earIs of Stanley
turn in their stately graves!"
As if in answer to his wishes a funlzAy
taps at his chamber door and announces
that the postman is below with a registered
package for him; and. taking his hat. with
out which he never stirs outdoors Srnvthe
descends to the portals OF Stanley house
Called to my lady's boudoir as he passes
in the corridor, the laclley informs his
questioning grace of the registered mail
package for Smythe. Fearful of some ~
ter disappointment, fearful of his criminal
past in America. Blair. carl OF Stanley.
leaving the laclSey to do some service FOR
the Countess Vivian at her tiriu'-. hurries
down the great Gothic staiI-y.a,. '1 inter
cept any i'll omened message rnr ~ have
come from America to Smythe
On his breast there CLEANS ..r.a..d
from the sky that the Americas .,f would
wear into his earldom. as thu ancestral
finder had dCcrccd. The nunkc.s usually
lettering in the hall have been drawn by
curiosity to follow the family lawyer out
to the mailman waiting with recent book
and the registered package.
As Blair. ninth earl of STANLEY. reaches
the last landing of the Gothic stairway the
armor Of Sir Godfrey Stanley of Agincourt
is behind him. Then the mailed arm is 81
lently upIifted and then it desccnds. bring
ing the battle mace it holds down with
crushing force upon the yet uncoroneted
head Of the American earl. Down the
stricken man falls headloug. The clatter-
ing figure in armor trcads down the steps
and bends over the crumpled, bleeding fig
ur" in the robes Of an earl and from the
ern!ned breast of the PROSTATE Blair a
mailed hand draws away the diamond from
the Sky!
ITO BE CONTINUED
Arizona republican., 1916-01-03

monkey has a wedding favor and wears a
garland and is made to beat the triangle;
though. in sooth, Clarence is cynically in
different. being bachelor by instinct.
And the NIaypole ribbons are twined
and so the wedding dance goes on and so
at sunset the royal pair. King Arthur and
Queen Esther. jump over the gypsy broom
stick held by Quabba-and so they are mar
ried. But because Esther is a Stanley of
the blood a minister is brought from Rich
mond te marry them in the conventional
manner also. And the minister comes and
goes and wonders.
Then the happy, dancing gypsies light
them to the royal van with flambeaux and
return to dance and drink and sing beneath
the moonlight by the Maypole But the
royal pair steal away unseen and Chamber
up the sheer hillside. and from a great rock
pinnacle they sit embraced and watch the
moon, like shield OF silver on the wall of
heaven, hang over the dim vale below.
On such night the dapper Count de
NauX, once llnave OF clubs OF the diamond
pack" sits in his bachelor chambers in Lon
don and reads again the coronation story
that tells that on the morrow George V.
and Queen Mary shall be crowned with
pomp in Westminster abbey. He reads that
Blair, earl of Stanley, and his countess who
was Vivian Marston, will be among the
privileged high born present.
The American earl, so says the Lon
don newspaper. win the famous
Virginia jewel. the diamond from the sky
which. according to family tradition, was
found in a fallen meteor by colonial an
cestor. The earl and countess Of Stanley
are residing in London at Stanley house,
Mayfair" concludes the article.
And the dapper De VauX LAYS aside lne
paper and goes out. He takes a cab and
rides to the neighhorhood of Stanley house
Mayfair- 1t fronts Regents park and is a
detached old edifce of Tudor architecture.
Diminishing the cab, De NauX watches and
loiters till late He sees against a win
Arizona republican., 1916-01-03

ton to the house Of lords and at sittngs
Of parliament are neither graceful nor be
coming. II was the first bitterness to Wv
fan, who had imagined an occasion OF great
splendor. Blair wore an ordinary morning
suit under his robes-for it was the custom,
Smythe had assured them, and when one IS
q peer enc must do everything according to
custom.
Then when Vivian and Blair we've to be
presented at court. which meant something
more satsfyinC in costume and ceremony,
King Edward y. 6icd and King George Y.
reigned in his stead. There was the usual
pc Rod of morning and no royal drawing
room until after the coronation.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-03
SPECIAL NOTICE.

dow shade OF my lady stau.-y's c.f-
Der the silhouetted reflection rc his s5le
grace, the earl. clasping the diamond rom
the sky around the shapely throa. OF he
countess of Stanley,
The next day the earl and his lad IRE
up early, attiring themselves in th-.- = 20
nation robes. for the crush VIII t- = at
and they must be in their state coach 70
the abbey in due time.
Lawyer Smythe in his Gothic c-a1-b-- n
the old house is not happy He has G.
ceived his e9nge from the noh-e c2-'. my
Arizona republican., 1916-01-03

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Arizona republican., 1916-01-03

ries Queen Esther. and Eypsios from all
over the land have gathered for the event.
There is Maypole; and there is music; and
there are Earlauds- The vans are gar
landed: the little children strew flowers and
the elder gypsies bear branches Of blossoms
to form hower archway for the rOvaI
young couple The goats and horses srs
garlanded Qusbba wears a garland and
bi z bridal favor and leads the gypsy must
clans. who play an the while the merry
pomany wedding strains. Clarence. the
Arizona republican., 1916-01-03
Copyright: 1915: By Roy l. McCarden.l
CHAPTER xxx.
A DEAL WITH DESTINY.

- Pc all deal with destiny. Willingly
A or not. He who had been Arthur
wv Stanley and John Powell, alike
wastre1 and prohigate and yet
l. 4 l. Il L.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
SELLING BRASS FOR SOLID GOLD

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 The man who sells cut glass for dia- monds is a swinder. True, he has not always been regarded as such nor pun ished for his offense. But the game of the dishonest jeweler is growing harder and harder to play. President Sickles of the National Wholesale Jewellers as- sociation told the delegates of the na- tional convention in Atlantic City that there is vigorous cooperation of manu- facturer, wholesaler and retailer flor the suppression of misleading advertis- ing and the punishment of the adver- tiser, the suppression of dishonest mer- chandising and the punishment of the merchant That is a wholesome cam paign for all concerned except the dis honest and rascally dealers. Peddling solid gold'' watch charms for 50 cents should send the vender to jail as quickly as would the stealing of 50-cent chicken. Passing counterfeit money is really no wore than passing counterfeit jewelry. and yet wagon loads of such trash are sold annually for what it is not. Honest merchants and manufac- turers have the remedy in their own hands. and President Sickles has pointed to the remedy. Punish the advertiser of bogus wares Make a diamond carry it's own label and make crystal stand upon its own feet. If a man sells a gem as a pigeon blood ruby when it is only a cheap imitation, he deserves the pun ishment meted to him who hands you a counterfeit bank note
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
IS LUCK A MYTH.

From the New York World.
 Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arab proverb, and he comes up with a fish in his mouth. Send him to the allied bazaar, and where most others come with a $100O0 pearl necklace won in a lottery, and that too on a ticket bought for him by another man. It is this little freakish turn of chance in giving Andrew Niand, naval machinist, the rare prize which his friend missed by hair that shows the elusive nature of luck.
 What is a plain sailorman to do with sweetheart in every port? The obvious course is to turn it into cash, as the win ner intends to do, but not so usual is his determination to stick to the navy. Many men in the circumstances would seek to capitalize their luck and try to increase the return in other speculative ventures.
 But the general effect of Nilands eX- traordinary stroke of fortune will be to popularize belief in luck. Those who all ready have faith in it will have all the more, and even the slSpetical will be per- suaded. Every gambler, whether in cards or stocks or grain, will be con- firmed in his confidence, and if the law tolerated lotteries they might expect an access of new business. As it is, the one concrete example of sheer luck dispels any amount of demonstration that it is an
 illusion and confutes lot of mathemat- ical calculation in proof of the existence of a law of chances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08

Mrs. Hetty Green bequeathed $500 to her son-in-iaw to show her appreciation of his having made pre-nuptial agreement to relinquish all calims on his wife S property. There's only one word appli- cable to this case and that's "stungY
 
 A captured German officer is reported to have said What we have to do now is to save men for the coming victorious war which Germany will wage four years hence" Are the hapless Belgians due to get another drubbing?
 Torrential rains of the past few days have vindicated miladys Thigh water' skirt
 We are rather late in getting the full de- tails of the Jutland battle, but thanks to the delay, the Britons have been able to figure out a smashing victory
 Cold water bathing is said to account in large measure for German efficiency Try the matutinal shower and be sure of place in the sun.
 A word to the city's health department There are garbage cans on the South side that have not been emptied in more than week.
 Texas has a company of engineers styled "The Devils Own" Still, a mere name isn't going to strike terror into the Mexicans If those pestiferous U-boats begin to prowl around under the North sea again tional crisis.
 A four-ring circus is being planned for next year. Drat the luck! We can't see everything that goes on in a three-ring circus.
 If General Carranza was simply play ing politics for the benefit of the home folks, we'll have to let bygones be by- zones.
 Movie receipts for last year are said to have been $S5, O,OOO-enough to take care of Charley Chaplin's salary, at any rate.
 Whats the matter with the dancing masters? Are they going to let another week go by without inventing a new step?
 If MT. Lansing feels that he can af ford to take vacation every jingo in the country ought to feel the same way Good wine needs no bush,'' but during a typhoid fever scare ice cream has to be highly recommended.
 The gallant troops at Montgomery will not permit little rain to dampen their patriotic ardor
 Thrilling details of how MT. Taft lost 75 pounds are now accessible to the public
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
GIRL HE LEAVES BEHIND HIM

From the Kansas City Times.
 A bronze statue of Molly Pitcher was unveiled this week in Carlisle, Pa Her husband was an artillerst in the revolu- tionary war, and when he was shot she took his place at the gun.
 There were many heroines in the revo- lutionary war, in the war of 1872, in the Mexican war, and. if we go to war again, there will be many heroines then. In every war there are as many self-sacri- ficing women as men, but we don't hear so much about them.
 The heroism of the wives and mothers who stay at home is just as noble, just as devoted in its patriotism as the hero- ism of the soldier; and often it is more so, but it is not so spectacular; it does not get into the war reports and the newspapers to thrill us. Mostly the he roism of the women who stay at home and toll patiently and suffer silently is unhonored and unsung; the man who in the excitement of battle leads charge against heavy odds, who captures the flag of the enemy, who is first over the breastworks, gets medal and maybe a statue but the wife or mother who gave him to the service of her country, who bravely bade him go, who watched him march off down the road, waved a last good-by to him as he turned the bend, and then went to her room to weep her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
GREASY AFTER SIXTY YEARS

From the New York World Publication of a fresh edition of Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy's Fifteen De- cisive Battles of the World' reminds us that the sum total of human loss in the conflicts therein described was but a pallid horror compared to the now con- tinuing frightfulness of Verdun, alone. Marathon, the first battle on the Greasy
 list, caused to the Persians an estimated loss of 6400-a statement believed to be exaggerated-and to the Athenians a loss only of 1a2. At Waterloo Napoleon lost 9o,0O0 in killed and wounded. At Blen- helm, more than century earlier, the casualties to the army of Louis XIV came to 10000.
 Creasy's book was first issued in 1S51 The early editions were published, as the author wrote afterward, while we were blessed with peace which existed for nearly 40 years, and which most of us fondly hoped to behold unbroken for many more years to come" The first edition type was hardly cold when the Crimean war broke out. yet in a preface to his seventh edition, in 1856, Greasy wrote: At the present moment, hopes, apparently well grounded, are cherished by us all that the sound of man de- stroyed by man has been permanently slenced."
 What Sir Edwards feelings might be, could he stand miraculously in the face of today's awful war, we may only inn agine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
THE HIGH COST OF LEARNING

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 When one is told it costs more to get an education than formerly, one Is likely to agree without question or investiga ton. Living is higher, and the pupil must live while being educated. But when it is further adduced that the &C., tual cost of tuition is advancing, a sub- ject for inquiry is offered
 The Carnegie foundation for the ad- vancemen tof teaching explains it in it's annual report It appears that in the last 10 years representatives colleges and universities of this country have ln- creased the tuition charge by about one- fifth At Harvard, the tuition fee has been $50 since 1869; next year it will be increased to s2OO Last year the Prince ton fee was increased from $160 to $175 Columbia and Yale have both raised their tuition fees recently.
 Tt may be said,' concludes the re- port, that the representative or medium fee of our representative institutions has increased during the decade from about $50 to about $1OO year. and that the tendency to advance fees is increas- ing" It is further stated that the last four years represent more than half the advance during the decade.
 So much for the facts. It would have been of interest if the report had endeav- ored to explain the causes. Lacking any such explanation, one is driven to theo- rizing. Is it that the cost of living has advanced thus making it necessary to pay professors and instructors higher salaries? And if all these theories are true, why are they not offset by the immense increase in endowment of our institutions of higher learning?
 Whatever the cause, the cost of learn ing is keeping pace with the cost of mere living. And if it can be proved that college trained men are getting higher salaries than before the higher cost of tuition need cause us no alarm. It is suspected that this is actually the case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
MADE AN EARLY CALL

New York Correspondence Pittsburg
 Dispatch.
 The early bird in this town catches something else beside the worm. Ask Howard B. Swearer of the Railway Sup- ply company what he caught when he aroused New Yorker out of the hay at the unheard hour of o'clock in the morning to transact business. But the Pittsburger has an alib. He thought he was in the Steel City, Where everybody is on the. job when ths whistle blows. MT. Swearer phoned the man of affairs at the hour stated. Briefly this is what the New Yorker said: "-." And when the wire stopped sizzling and the indignant man at the other end caught his breath he asked: Who in the h. is this calling at this unearthly hour?" MT Swearer timidly explained it was he, and that it was his custom to get on the job early. The New Yorker, who evil dently had been "out" the night before, of course, apologized profusely. Then the Steel City man thought it was up to him to extend his sympathy, so he did. Incidentally, he asked: How do you feel?" Feel" repeated the New Yorker with sarcasm. q feel just like the Ken lucky colonel did when he was asked the same question. His reply was: How do you expect a gentleman to feel in the morning? I feel like h.. Nobody but niggers and mules feel good in the morning."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
Will Now Cash In

Although Bozeman Pepperman was sorry to see it rain for so many hours as it ruined so many streets, he as- serted that it brought him some busi- ness for his fire engine in pumping out the cellars of homes that had become flooded
 of course this heavy rainstorm Is to be regretted" said MT. Pepperman, "as the damage to the city streets and homes is quite heavy from the first estimates. Still while it injured others it aided me. as it gave work for a discarded fire engine pump that have on my hands.
 When I sold several new motor trucks and pumps to the city Of Bir- mingham a few months ago, I was forced to take back an old pump which nobody seemed to desire. The pump is about the only one in the city that can pump out cellar full of water in jig time, and it proved very ser viceable in cleaning out the basement of the Temple Emanu-El, which be- came flooded in the morning. Now I am being kept busy pumping out flood ed cellars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
REALLY WORTH WHILE.

The wireless telegraph is fine, Let all the poets harp 1t;
 But wouldn't 1t be just divine To have beatless carpet
 Youngstown Telegram. A beatless carpet would be great, In fact you've made a dandy wish, But wouldn't it be just divine, To really find a boneless fish.
 Geneva Free Press-Times.i No doubt these blessings would be fine And greatly swell the nations bliss,i But scientists of late opine
 That what we needs a germless kiss.
 Birmingham Age-Herald.t Thet germless kiss, the boneless fish, The beatless carpet, all were fine; But listen to this soulful wish: A songless cabaret for mine!
 Springfield Union.' And dared the waves at Galveston, We almost know there's a demand For something like burnless sun
 Houston Post. All these 'Iess'' things are good, They almost raise a laugh; But what we want to see would Be noiseless photograph.
 Savannah Press.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
To Encourage Small Industries

I have been keenly interested in the
 controversy under way in Birmingham regarding the troubles of this city and district" said Judge J. J. Banks yester- day This discussion has brought to my
 mnd the condition which existed in Los Angeles, Cal, generally admitted to be
 one of the most progressive and one of the most enterprising cities in America.
 In Los Angeles there was a feeling on the
 part of practically every citizen that each new enterprise and new industry must
 receive the unanimous support of the people, since it's failure would be con- 1 strued as a reflection on the city as whole.
 It seems to me that that would be fine idea for Birmingham. The history of the so-called smaller industries in Bir-
 mingham has not been one to reflect any particular credit upon the city or the dis trict Of course, they have been handi capped by the fact that the surrounding country was not so rich and so advan- tageous from a business standpoint as
 some of the other industrial districts but the fact remains that many of the small industries have lacked the cooperation
 of the people of the city and the dis trict
 While other cities have given their hearty aid and assistance to every en- terprise which started up, no matter how small, there have been times when Bir- mingham has been inclined to look with disfavor upon any enterprise which might compete with any existing company. The broader viewpoint and the wider vision would doubtless have resulted in the loca- tion of many more small industries in our city and our district"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
I AM AN AMERICAN

Elias Lieberman. in Everybody's M azine. I am an American. My father belongs to the Sons of
 Revolution; My mother to the Colonial Danes. One of my ancestors pitched tea ov
 board in Boston harbor; Another stood his ground with Warrer Another hungered with Washington
 Valley Forge. My forefathers were America in
 making; They spoke in her council halls; They died on her battlefields; They commanded her ships; They cleared her forests. Dawns reddened and paled, Stanch hearts of mine beat fast at ei
 new star In the Nations flag. Keen eyes of mine foresaw her grea
 glory; t< The sweep of her seas. The plenty of her plains. The man hives in her billion wired cit Every drop of blood in me holds a hl
 tage of patriotism. am proud of my past. I am an American.
  am an American. My father was an atom of dust, My mother a straw in the wind, To his serene majesty, One of my ancestors died in the minei|
 Siberia; Another was crippled for life by 20 bllI
 of the knut; Another was killed defending his hdl
 i,,U ho The history of my ancestors is a traii To the palace gates of the great WI
 Czar. But then the dream came The dream of America. Tn the light of the Liberty torch The atom of dust became a man And the straw in the wind becamIH
 woman For the first time. ''See,'' said my father, pointing to '
 flag that fluttered near, That flag of Stars and Stripes is vol It is the emblem of the promised lanS It means, my son, the hope of human; Live for it ** die for it!'' Under the open sky of my new coulD I swore to do so; And every drop of blood in me will ll8 that VOW. am proud of my future. l am an American.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
PLEA FOR oBsEoUIAL DEcoRUM

From the Wisconsin State Journal
 The horse drawn hearse and carriage is the old reliable way of transportat tion for funerals and will be for all time They are the sure and safe way and more in keeping with this solemn occasion. This is the expression of all soul feeling people of the hour This hurry up ma- chine with it's huff and puff has not come or will it become the desire of the people They are only for people that are in a hurry to get rid of their dead as quickly as possible. For a nice funeral outfit, ask your undertaken to hire the fashion livery.