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In the Probate Court of Shawnee County,
Kansas.
| In the Matter of the Estate of Curtis S.
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State of Kansas. Shawnee County.
In the Matter of the Estate of Nan'
William Peel, late of Shawnee County, Kan
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BONDS.

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Topeka, Kansas, Dec is, 1916.
(FirsU published in The Topeka State
Journal. Wednesday, Dec 20, 1916)
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In the Probate Court of Shawnee County,
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(First published in The Topeka State
Journal, Wednesday, Dec. II, 1861
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-25
CHARLES BECKER. LEGEND

In retirement SO well guarded that even
his death a week ago has but now be-
come generally known, man whose
criminal career won international fame
passed his declining days. lesson and
already legend.
The Bankers association is not likely
to advertise the fact, if it is a fact and
not romantic assertion, that it pensioned
Charles Becker on condition that he
should forbear using his skill as a coun-
terfeiter. That he was employed by a
detective agency after his reform is a
proved tribute to his former professional
standing Another is the tale that after
his sentence to the Kings county peniten-
tiary, delegation waited on the warden
begging him not to set Becker at rough
work that might impair his "delcacy
of touch" and jeopardize his future liveli-
hood.
Becker was an artist His work ap-
preached perfection so dangerously close
that it was sought for big, bold jobs.
France, England, Turkey, as we'll as
Baltimore and New York had reason
for anxiety as to his prowess
Yet what Becker had to show in the
end for skill so uncanny and success so
unusual was the means of the most mod
est livelihood under the cloud of evil rep
utation. What he left to posterity was a
saying that long before him had passed
into a proverb: Crime never pays"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-25
INDIANS WANT LAKE FRONT

From the Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.
1t is reported that the Pottawatomie
Indians either have already started pro-
ceedings. or are about to do SO, to gain
possession of the entire lake front of Chi
cago from Michigan avenue to the edge
OF Lake Michigan. An attorney Of the
Windy City is said to have assured them
that their claim is legal, and they have
instructed him to take such action as
may be necessary to secure title to it.
Possibly there is a substantial legal basis
to the claim in this case, and if so it
may be that the city and its citizens will
be subjected to annoyance, and perhaps
be compelled to pay considerable sum
of money to settle the case. However.
without knowledge Of the intricacies of
the affair, and speaking on general prin-
ciples, it would seem that good advice
to the Pottawatomies would be to go
slow in paying out real money in this
venture until they get the assurance Of
more than one attorney that they have
valid claim.
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Fritz Arno Wagner, in Leslie's.

frltz Arno wagner, in Leslie's.
MS(R HEN witnessing the most fero-
wy cious and unparalleled battle in
this war, the battle round Yer
dun, which at this writing has ragged
125 days, and when listening to
the most monstrous bombardment
the world has ever heard Of, one
must remember the words ascribed to
General Sherman: WAR is hell" 1 find
this definition not drastic enough for
the fighting in the Verdun sector On
both sides the struggles goes on with
such doggedness and ferocity and the eff
fects of the heavy artillery are so tre-
mendous that the whole is far beyond
anything man can imagine.
1 shall try TO give an idea of how te-
nacious the fights are, but there seems
to me no pen and no tongue to describe
them. I present no sensational fiction,
but the truthful chronicle of German
regiment during two weeks after Easter.
The same tragedies that you will read
of here find daily their repetition in the
fighting of the many other German and
French regiments at the Verdun front.
On one of those celvet smooth green
fields, in northern France, the - regi-
ment passed in review before the COM
manding general of the army CORPS.
The colonel had addressed the men, ex-
pressing his satisfaction and washing
them a happy 10 days, while he took a
leave of absence. A week later the order
came: Ready for transport" I'VE go
to Verdun," was the united opinion of
the men. Before the outgoing mail was
stopped there was a feyerish writing of
letters in all houses where the men were
located. Three days passed. The COM
panies went every morning for regular
Grill. The population watched and greete q
some of the men; their relations had
been good.
On a Thursday in April, the companies
hardly had gained their quarters when
orders came that at II 80 a. m. the Sec
ond battalion must be ready to march
to the nearest railroad station
After a nights railroad trip the regi-
ment walked north of the Argonnes and
a two-day march brought it to a great
chateau with farms where the companies
found quarters. From bottom to top the
buildings were packed with field-greys.
Now there began a severe drill. Exer-
else trenches were constructed and sham
fights with another regiment started day
and night; gas attacks, night attacks
with with mines, hand grenade battles,
just as if the regiments were on the fir
ing line. officers and men were kept
busy day and night.
During the morning the Seventh com
pany was leading the Second battalion,
marching along railroad line in con-
struction. That line went to the Ar
gonnes. Officers and men were in best
of spirits. Nothing officially was known,
but the men guessed that they were
bound for the Verdun front.
The village of S. came in sight and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-25

From the Louisville Courier-Journa.
S7T is proverbially true that good swim
II mers in circumstances calculated 10
x cause excitement drown trying 10
cover distances which are well WITHIN the
limits of the endurance of nearly ANYONE
who can swim and is not alarmed Tor ms
safety. The record made in Delaware
river by Charles B. Durborow, S61s miles
in IL hours. without rest or nourishment
shows what an athlete may DO IN 1resh
water.
That this expert swimmer possesses ex-
ceptional physical fitness for endurance
tests need not be said. That he under-
stands how to minimize the resistance Oh
the water and conserve his strength may
be admitted. He entered the water IN
pood training. The conditions, his own
and the weather and water conditions,
vera right. But the man was not IL
times tas physically fit, u times as long
of "wind,'' as many an ordinarily good
swimmer who, facing an emergency SWIM
of three miles without pilot in boat
along side would have little hope of COW
ering the distance, and would lose cour-
age. overexert himself, lose his breath,
swallow water and drown.
Nearly anyone who Is in fair physical
condition and knows enough about swim
ming to know how to rest without land
ing, can swim for several hours and
cover several miles by taking his time,
and under conditions insuring his safety
in the event of his needing assistance.
But if 100 men capable under such con-
ditions of swimming several miles were
precipitated in the middle of river
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-25
THE NEXT WORLD

From "a Circuit Riders Window" by
Cora Harris. in the Saturday Evening
Post
I never worry over what I'll do or how
shall feel in the next world. 1t is writ
ten that the Lord tempers the wind to
the shorn lamb. If He Is SO mindful of
a sheep He will surely know how to take
care of an old woman who has just lost
her body and her mortal bearings. How
ever, we never have death in this town
that the bereaved ones do not begin to
question the providence of God to find
out why He took this particular son or
husband or father. And they never do
find out / do not admire Job. He must
have been the Thomas Carlyle of the Old
Testament, with remarkable literary
gifts, but so cantankerous and mean that
I've always wondered what his boosted
integrity could have been. But he did
know how to behave with dignity when
his sons and daughters persisted. 1.-THE
Lord gave and the Lord hath taken
away; blessed be the name of the Lord
That is as good way as any Of dispos-
ing Of the whole matter, though it places
more responsibility upon him than the
facts warrant sometimes when the de-
ceased has outraged every law of health,
as the living usually do before they die.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-25
HOTEL LOBBIES
ELECTION TO HAVE Renrinr

The outcome of the November cleo
ton will have a distinct bearing upon
birmingham's hopes in one way" said
D. ii. Doughty, who was a member of
the committee that the Chamber of Com
merce sent to Washington to present the
claims of the Magic City for the govern
ment armor plant. 1T is generally re-
garded that democratic victory would
hasten the action OF the government IN
reaching decision as to the site of the
proposed plant.
But should the republicans gain the
decision in the national election the an
nouncement will not be forthcoming soon.
Ihis would be due to the natural policy
OF delay and procrastination that follows
In the wake of a change in administra-
ton.
Birmingham's claims should be serious
~ considered. The argument advanced
by some critics that Birmingham is ma
terially handicapped by not being on
large riverway was estopped quite capa-
bly, by Morris Bush, when the committee
appeared before the board. He pointed
out foreibly that freight rates to the gulf
ports are so low as to make this def
cheney immaterial.
Birmingham has many strong points"
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WHY SWIMMERS DROWN

mile wide as result of a midnight ac-I
cident to steamer not half of them
would reach the Shore The majority
would lose their heads, and when mani
loses his head in the water the loss of his
life is the next event. He threshes the
water as If he had but three minutes in|
which to make a landing, loses his
wind" let's his mouth fly open, gasps|
for breath and takes in water and in
less time than is required to tell 1t la|
swimmer who could cross and recross tho
stream piloted by man in a boat ID
drowned, victim of fear.
Any amount of advice may be giverj
as to how to maintain a cool head and
an even and slow stroke: how to take
time about it instead of sacrificing mus
cular strength and wind in a mad dash
for shore. But the man unexpectedly
called upon to swim for his life find3
it difficult to concentrate his mind upon
excellent advice, and thus exclude li9-=rt
from the fear of deep water. Swimmer4
who are overheard in streams, or in sigh
of land in broader water do not drown
as a rule, because the distance to shore !
too great for their physical strength, bu
at tne plncn Ihe HAL VIM hds eiNeH III
best advice on dry land browns by max
ing the worst use of his physical pow
ers.
If an exceptionally powerful swimme
can swim S61z miles without rest or nour
ishment, and show no i'll effect from tn
exertion any able-bodied individual VIII
knows how to swim should be able t
cover a mile or two. But what prop4r
ton of persons who regard themselves "a
proficient in aquatic sports would fee
confident of their ability to get ashor
from a boat sinking mile or two from
shore?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-25

From the Atlanta Constitution.
II 11IGH school music teachers in New
IL York are reported to have "disap-
Il proved" of negro dialect in songs
published in public school textbooks"
and to have appointed a committee to
ask music publishers to eliminate it."
Dr. Frank r. Rix, the musical director
of those schools, said, according to the
news dispatches, that 1--WE want our chill
dren to learn pure English, not dialect.
I think a change ought to be
made throughout the country"
From this is would appear that the
music teachers of the metropolis have
been cropping for IAN issue" and have
hit upon about the poorest excuse for
one that could be found Hughes couldn't
have done worse.
Upon what meat hath these New York
music teachers fed that they have grown
so great, or fine-haired, or hypercritical
that they would put Dixie" "Suwanee
Rubber" and MY Old Kentucky Home
under the ban? That they would place
is not perfect English"-upon "OP Vir-
ginny?' Or cruclfy vi BLACK JOG uPoii
the cross of rhetoric?
What has Uncle Ned" done that the
blithesome melody should be deleted from
Gotham's song books? Rather, what
have Gotham's youngsters done that
they should be thus penalized and their
enjoyment thus curtailed?
It is al nonsense! Expurgate from our
American songbooks our good old south
ern melodies and you rob them of their
best real, warm FLOODED sentimentality.
America would not stand for" it; and
surely New York is no Better than Amer
lea? Nor are New Workers more choice
Of their English than are the rest of
Americans
AS a matter of fact. the charge has
been made-and admittedly with some
foundation-that the United States stands
almost alone among the nations of the
earth in it's paucity of folklore and folk
songs; andsss admittedly, too. the so-called
negro dialect" songs supply practically
our only proof to offer in refutation OF
the charge.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-25
FINDS SOUTH PROSPEROUS
From the BroolkIyn Citizen.

From the Brooklyn Citizen.
Carroll Felter, head of the firm that
bears his name with main offices at
No IA Broadway, Manhattan, and branch
offices at Boston, Philadelphia. Whining
ton and Baltimore, returned Monday
pleasure trip through the south. Mr. Eel
ter stopped in Savannah, Atlanta, Bir-
mingham and Louisville and Cincinnati
He states his belief that while people
are complaining of poor business in the
south, general and underlying conditions
are good and that present high prices of
all farm products and raw material are
going to result in period of several
years of prosperity throughout this Sec
ton of the United States.
The principal gratifying fact that came
to his attention while talking with the
leading business men of the south Is
that at last the south is realizing the
two prime factors responsible for the
slow development of the southern states.
First the lack of credit by the southern
companies in the northern money mar
ket, causing them to pay extremely high
money rates. Secondly, the hostile at
titude OF the state legislatures toward
northern capital.
There is no section of the country
richer in undeveloped resources than the
southern states, but northern capital has
always hesitated in investing money due
to a policy of unfairness, which is now
being realized by the better class of bust
ness men.
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from the bank and repay SO every
month. That s75 was the first thing I
paid on receiving my salary. The re-
matnder had to last the whole month.
December found me sole owner of the
bend. never speculated-I can't read
the stock exchange tape inteligently
even now"
This recalls James J. Hills word of
admonition. If you want to know if you
are going to be a success, said that wise
man, find out if you can save money.
If you can't, you will fail. You may not
think so, but you will surely fail. for
the seed of success is not in you.
Delay, indecision, and the unwilling
ness to take the bull by the horns and
make a start in the right direction are
responsible for nine-tenths of all the
failures. Wake up, young man!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-25
PRESERVE NEGRO DIALECT

True, our southern melodies may not
be dramatically perfect as to English
but they know mo north, no south, nc
east no vest in their popularity. They
are sung by the girls and boys in the
schoolhouses out in Oregon; sung around
the campfire out in the heart of the'
Rockies; by the timber folk of New Eng
land; by prima donnas in the metropolis
and everywhere enjoyed with the same
true, downright American spirit.
go to Sleep, My Little Pickaninny"
has lulled as many little babes of the
Great Lakes states into the Land of Nod,
comparatively, as in the cotton belt. 1t
is known and sung and loved everywhere
on the continent Some consider Yankee
Doodle'-because of the wording of it
sectional: Dixie Is universal Yet
those precise New York teacher folk pro-
pose, in Dixie" to change the words
de and nebber' to the and 'never."
Good English? Who ever claimed those
good old southern songs-or any of the
old favorites, for that matter-are pure
English? OF course, they're not They
wouldn't be characteristic; they wouldn't
NC lie1il 81 SWCCt iidll ~ PoPoAe"A, -
they were.
Neither is annie Laurie" good Eng
fish, nor Bonnie DOOM" nor lillian
Mary" Yet we like them, not for their
rhetoric, but for their sentiment, their
melody and themselves.
Let the school children of the land
vote on what selections should remain
uninterfered with in their songbooks,
and 1t is safe. to say that the negro
dialect songs would be among the very
last to CO.
At the Fulton County High school COM
mencement exercises in Taft hall last
June, the sweetest and most literally APP
plauded number on the whole programme
was Frank Stanton's Mighty LAX
Rose" sung by one of the young girl
graduates The audence-seven-e ighths
of it school chldren-compelled her to
"sing it over again.
No, the youngsters get enough gram
mar, English, correct composition drill
during class periods. Let them ct back
to earth betimes and indulge in BIT
of real sentiment, real Americanism,
when it comes time to sing.
And don't censor the plantation melo-
dies from the songbooks; for when you
do you spoil them.
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GERMAN SOLDIERS STORY

/ the men gave more attention to the
numbering of the cannon which became
louder and louder. When night fell. mum
berless star shells made wonderful
spectacle and showed. from time to time
the road, and all that was left of the
villages. the latter showing in the light
! Of the star shells as if projected on
screen. The road became very bad. the
artillery fire having left nothing but
craters. debris and ruins.
The files stopped and coffee and bread
were distributed.
The first shells of heavy calibre ex-,
ploded close to the Seventh company.
During the whole night the companie9
continued advancing and the next morn
ing reached the sectors where the regi-
ment was to take the place of another
one. Those who were now happy to re-
turn warned the men: BE careful! Aw.
full artillery firer' That was in the
third defense line.
The men of the Seventh company ex-
pected that they would enjoy a peace
full trench life, for the third line is not
dangerous, but were mistaken! When the
sun disappeared the order came to adj
vance through communication trenches
to the firing line
The communication trenches were
about three metres deep and the rain had
filled half metre with mud and water.
Often boot stuck in the mud and the
wearer had ito dig it out Up to the
knees they sank in the clay and always
the.order was Move on quicklyt' When
the second line was reached, the men
found themselves in a. wood, wher,,
nearly all the trees had been cut down
by shells. 1t was the Forest de Cor
heaux. as the lieutenant explained, to
the northeast of the Mort homme.
After having passed the second line,
about 50 yards of open field had to be
crossed. Hands, uniforms, sacks were
all muddy and the men wet to the bone,
as it was still raining. Although the
French artillery was constantly firing,
the companies had not yet suffered any
losses.
When the Seventh company reached the
end of the space, the French outposts
must have remarked the movements of
the silent figures, for they started fir
ing. Down in the trenches Complete
covert were the orders given when the
first French bullet passed.
The second battalion occupied the first
line, including an advanced sector, while
the llfSI ana IHlTQ SldySu III reserve III
the second line.
The mems eyes were accustomed to
darkness and could easily distinguish in
what kind of trenches they were. They
were not what they had expected and
were the cause of much disappointment.
These are first line trenches?' asked
the men, They were half broken down,
the trenches were shot by heavy artil-
lery to debris, and yet we were expected
to withstand any attack! Fine trenches
we had left in northern France, with
parquets, sleeping rooms, electric light,
first class safety shelters The worst
was that the barbed wire was completely
destroyed. ''Well, we have got in a bad
corner" said the men, but we will make
the best of it, Don't complaint cried
young lieutenant. I'VE are on the
quietest spot on the Verdun 'front.'