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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
Paddy the Beaver.

but man. l guess that's all
 Peter Rabbit drew a long breath. What a dreadful lot of work just for house" he exclaimed. Do you work all the tme?"
 Paddy chuckled. "No, Peter said he. q like to play just as much as you do when it is time for play. In the spring and summer I like to play and go exploring up and down the Laughing Brook. There are not many of it's secrets I have not found out. But when it is time to work I work every minute. l be- lieve in working with all my might, just as I believe in playing with all my might. Ii you only look for it you will lind just as much fun in honest work as in play.
 Old Mother Nature nodded in approval. "Quite right" said she. quite right It IS a pity so few people have found that out. Now are there any more questions?'
 Do you eat nothing but bark?' It was Happy Jack Squirrel who spoke.
 No, indeed replied Paddy. Tn sum- mer I eat berries, mushrooms, grass and the leaves and stems of a. number of plants In winter l vary my fare With lily roots and the roots of alder and
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When Paddy the Beaver called atten- tion to his house everybody turned to look at it. That is they looked at all they could see of it. which was that part standing high out of water a little way from the dam. Tell us how you built that" said Old Mother Nature.
 'Oh, that was simple enough. We just made big platform of sticks and mud out there where it is deep enough for us to be sure that the water cannot freeze clear to the bottom even in the coldest weather" replied Paddy in a matter of-fact tone We built it up until IL was above water. Then we built the walls and roof of sticks and mud just as you see them Inside is a big room With a fine bed of shredded wood. There are two openings in the floor with long passage or hall slanting down from eaen through the foundation and opening at the bottom of the pond. Of course, these halls are filled with water. Some houses have but one hall, but Mrs. Paddy ana prefer two. These are the only entrances to our house. No one can get into U oh. by diving to the bottom of the pond anu entering by one of. those halls.
 Every autumn we repair the walls ana roof adding sticks and turf and mud Now they are very thick. Late III the fall we sometimes plaster the outslde with mud This freezes hard ana no enemy who may reach the house on the ice can tear it open. mean no enemy
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(Copyright. 1920, by T. w. Bursess,. The next story. "An Old Friend Who IS a Worker
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
OVERSEAS END ID
 CARUSO ROBBERY IS POSSIBILITY
Detectives Learn of Confer ence Between Maid and Man Who Is Now on
 Way to Europe
By Associated Press

East Hampton, N. Y.. June n.-Plans to turn Enrico Caruso's Long Island villa into a temporary courthouse for an in- ouiry into the mysterious theft of $5Oo,oOo worth of jewels from Mrs. Carusos bou- dor were suddenly held up today as the result of discovery of possible solu- ltion of the mystery.
 District Attorney Young, Sheriff Kelly, a stenographer and various other offi- cials came to the house prepared to con- duct a John Doe inquiry, put everybody testimony.
 The district attorney talked informally with employees and detectives, then sald he was sure 1t had been an inside job. Certain matters have been developed by detectives that warrant postpone ment." he added The ends of justice might be defeated if an inquiry was held | today"
 l Corroborating the belief of detectives that the Carusos were robbed by an ein- ploye. 1t was discovered today that screen had been cut from the inside, the prasumption being that the thief tired to indicate to the investigators that the
 robbers gained entrance to the villa in 1 this manner.
 Mrs. Caruso expressed the belief thai 1 the jewels were hidden on the grounds. | having been buried hurriedly before the | thief deliberately set off the burglar alarm in her boudoir, thereby leading 10 1 the discovery of the theft. Detectives say lthey have learned that some attaches oi tbe household were familiar with the working of the alarm, having expert mented with the jewel chest to determine how jewels could be removed without setting off the gong.
 The possibility of an overseas end 10 the Investigation developed when defec- lives found that one of the maids ern-
 p,oyed by Mrs. Caruso had dinner Ill New York city with man last Friday night and that this man sailed for Italy iiast Tuesday. the day the theft was dis covered by the ringing of burglar alarm. which District Attorney Young said was staged"
 caruso today wired from Havana tna. Inc would return as quickly as possible nrobably the first week in July.
 l Mrs. Caruso wired him suggesting that Ia reward of $25.0 600 be offered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
Andrew and Imogene
Little Life Condolences in the Experience a of Couple, Philosophic, Though Married
 By ROE FULkERSON

Isn't science wonderful?" calculated lmogene. looking up from her paper.
 You bet it is,' agreed Andrew. He was scanning the grocer's bills. "The punch doesn't count unless you can land it. You've got to have footwork and know how to sling your maulies if you expect to bring home the bacon.
 T am not talking about baseball, said Imogene. He smiled. T was just read ing here that scientists say electricity Is tc be the food of the future. Just think how dandy it would be to simply turn on the button and get box of caramels, and then switch around the indicator and get a pineapple sundae."
 Fine businessl" said Andrew. "One could go down to breakfast and reach up over the table and turn the switch and get nine amperes of buckwheat cakes and sausage and couple of kilowats of coffee, and then go out and hop on an- other animated breakfast in the shape of trolley, and go down to business, When lunch time come if one were busy one could take out jack knife and vhittle the insulation off an electric wire
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and simply lap up an oyster stew while
 one read ones mail.
 And, oh, you electric dinnerl All we
 would have to do would be to stick the end of an electric wire between our teeth like the stem of a narghes. and take on
 few amperes of soup, a few volts or electric eel, a dozen flashes of planked steak and a few sparks of succotash, and
 all would be well.
 And at supper an electrified lobster could be absorbed like a fountain pen
 laid down with the point touching a blot ter. Like natives chewing betel nut, the average man would stroll through life ith a short length of electric wire stick ing out of the corner of his mouth But it would have it's drawbacks, too. With all the exposed wires scattered
 around city no one would have to work. | The gay and festive hobo would abandon l his tomato can and go through life with i a coil of wire around his midriff If | he wanted a square meal all he would have to do would be to tie a brick to | the end of his coil and throw it over the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
I ecOvery of Perkins
 Expected by Doctors

New York, June 1.-The early im- provement and ultimate recovery of George w. Perkins, New York finan- cier. who has been suffering from serious nervous breakdown since his return from France number of months ago, may reasonably be expect ed, his doctors announced in a bulletin issued at his office hero tonight.
 MT. Perkins breakdown came from overwork the bulletin stated, and complete rest and seclusion are re- quired for successful treatment of his condition. He Is now at a sanitarium at Stamford, Conn, 1t was stated. The bulletin was signed by Doctors Henry Moffatt and Charles Sumner Fisher.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
LETTERS TO EDITOR

Tn the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Will you please again allow me space to remind the friends of tho Anti-Tu- herculosis Association who bought and .o,d rhristmas seals and have not yet made returns that we are still getting
 Every few days someone drops In to change a debit 10 credit Only yesterday Mir. J. l.. Arnold. principal ~ the Bsltona School. at Beltona. came In with his itemized report of seals sold by his pupils to tho amount of e1S.zs. rho same is true of Miss Louise Deassy ana Miss Susie Bradford. who reported for tho Bayvisw School es,eo. and tho ahsdns Valley School. l3.5o. respec- lively.
 Who will be ths next7
 Thanking you for making this re- hinder as public as possible. am.
 Cordially yours. GEORGE EAvEB. Secretary,
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-.-l,1orr Rnt hark is my principal 1ooo.

willow Rut bark is my principal rooo. couldn't get along without It.
 What will you do when the poplars and aspens and alders and willows arc gone?" asked Chatterer the heo 0quii Tel. , ,,,aa
 Mrs. Paddy and I will move, rephea Paddy. We will find place where mere is nlenty of the right food and there we will make another pond.
 And do all this work over asaihs claimed Peter Rabbit.
 ..Of course" replied Paddy, quite as if that were nothing at all.
 Old Mother Nature waited rev nun. utes. but as there were no more queseioiis she added a few words Now l hope you all understand why l am so proud ol Paddy the Beaver and why told you ne 's ie . limbermar. builder and engineer, said she. For the next lesson we VII take up the Rat family. That Is all TOT today.
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Wins Fame Ouer Night
 PeIagra Remedy Found BeneflciQ

suffered from pellagra for pefl94s varying from four months tq t3Na years, In most instances the disease had been diagnosed and Urea ted na reputable doctors.
 However, one teaspoonful af sai Ferro-Sol taken three times day had cleared each sufferer fl n at. symptoms.
 -Ferro-Sol is also highly sepn- mended for Tetter, Eczema an- csaer blood troubles. Booklet giving details mailed on re- quest Liberal bottles one dollar (s for $5), at all drug stores or post paid upon receipt of price. The Sul- Ferro-Sol Co.,, Desk A, Montgomery, Aia-Adv.
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Bur ges s sfaries sfatl@s
By THORNTON w. BURGESS
PADDY'S WOND ERFUL HOUSE
First know exactly
what you want

First know exactly what you want
 And then make su re your plans right You cannot fail the n of success
 If you but work with all your might;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12

Think of Birmingham then you will remember us when you have any, thing to be dry cleaned. Named after the city. Try Main 5199.
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Virtues Proven in U. s. Court

At a recent investigation held by the government as to the virtues Of Sul-Ferro-Sol, 12 people who had had Pellagra were questioned and cross que stioned.
 It was revealed that every single one of these people were then entirely free from all symptoms of this dis ease.
 t was also revealed that they had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
Think Bergdoll In Texas

Dennison, fex.. June i1.-Warnins to bsson the outlook for Grover cieve- land Bergdoll. millionaire draft ovader from Philadelphia, has been flashed to officers all over north Texas today by federal officers hsFs after they had received a report that a man answering Bcrsdolrs description passed Dsnnison last night,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
More Truth Than Poetry
By JAMES 7. MONTAGUE
THE PLUMBER AND THE LITTLE MAID

A a little maid with pale compieXlon and drakes she daily played With his uncouth, but fond affeclon She loved him notshe loved instead assistant to grocer nd whe he asked would she wed, She gggle, No, Slr! a word replied, But bowed his head mute submlsson said it hurt his pr1de And in lis ampluoh harder a his trade
 He soon white coliars And in year IT
 Eleventh ndredth No more he blue overals,
 His England were imported, And week he made SIX calls the maid he had courteo. Again he asked would she Wed,, nd dwhe he coyly answered, "Oh ST. fcourse, will" he coldly said, Not me wont-youl take that grocer oh plumber had no pty' By means he began To hound her husband from the clty' Ambi
 nhando But tspite, we shown above. Wifi just as often
 WONDER u u,ou1a,,+ he paten forever ..or, p,IppANK What the needs just now an agrcu'ui's way ~ cross a cosoh l'aA ~ FAME IS FLEETlNG - ~ ouo, a;, or soroa of ot us are ever who the devil Nlcky Arnsen Was oeei"inAe " fCopvrigh by the Bell Syndicate mel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12

Firm in her belief that the era mas passed when men were lookeu upon a, snnerior to women in regard to hard work Mrs Pearl c. Stone of Holllston, Mass. has applied for stationary fireman's license. the first woman in Massachusetts to ask for such per IL
The New York herald., 1920-01-27
GOVERNMENT SALARIES.

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
1t is, to say the least. encouraging to
see that some publicity is being given to
the scant salaries under which immgra-
ton employees are working.
What NEEDY" had to say in your coll
umns on the 21s., although true. is putting
it too mildly. The employees are certainly
in deporable condition because Of poor
pay, and the morale is correspondingly
low. I happen to be the wife of one OF
those employees. and ! am practically
threadbare and unable to leave the house
or go anywhere for want of decent clothes
to put on. have children, and what lit
tie / can scrape together must be re-
served for their care and protection AS
for going anywhere. even if l had the
clothes. the matter of the theatre or other
place of amusement is out of the question.
Since the beginning Of the war my hus-
band and I have not been able to go 10
the theatre once, and at the most not more
than six times to the moving pictures
The treatment as to salaries accorded our
husbands and others in the government
service is not fair and should be REM
edied. INTERESTED.
New York City, Jan. "a, 1890
The New York herald., 1920-01-27
Today in New York.

Meeting. American Society Of Heating and Ven.
tilatlne Engineers. Engineering Societies Building,
Meeting. National Child Welfare Association.
residence Mrs. Adoph Jewisohn, No SS1 Fifth
avenue half-past eight =. NJ.
Meeting, Iowa Society Of New York. address,
Nicholas Murray Butler. "Americanism and Amer
lean Problems" Hotel Commodore. half past eight
Address. Major General Leonard Wood, Fratcr.
nifty Post. No. 6i2 American Legion. Herkimer
street and Nostrand avenue, Brooklyn. evening.
Ball and concert. auspices New York Assembly
OF the Daughters Of Isabella Sixty-Nlnth Rcgi-
ment Armory, evening.
Dinner, Pan-Amcrican Society. honoring foreign
delegates TO the second Pan.Americnn Financial
Conference, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, evening.
Lecture and demonstration. William Guy Rug
giles, ''rhe tundamcntal Flying Lacnty,', ~, Aero
nautical Society Of America, No. - West Thirty
ninth street. eight II. NJ
Lecture, dorado Taft. .'The Cstbedrals ot
France and Their Builders" American Museum
Of Natural History. Scventy-seventh street and
s Meeiug Trsffic Cub. s'f'p Nsnes sf II. sisson to
spcnk. Wadorf-Astora Hotel. evening.
Address, City Court Justice Louis wendell. Jr.,
annual ladlcs night dinner OF the Lutheran So
cicty. Hotel Astor evening.
Meeting, auspices National Motion Picture
League. Broadwny tabernacle. evening
Dinner. speakers Club. No. a East Twenty
Address, Ivy 4. fec. "Trc Railroad Problem. "
auspices Peoples Institute. Cooper Union Hall
Address, Joshua w. Alexander. Secretary. o
Commerce. opening rrw display rrctrr, ALLIED
Machinery ccnicr," Centre and Walker streets
half-pnst twelve l.. NJ.
The New York herald., 1920-01-27
AROUSED BY RADICALS.

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD -
Having read the splendid description IN
the newspapers of Mr.. Hoovers produce
ton, Starvation" and feeling that it was
a class of picture that would appeal to
every American, went TO the Manhattan
Opera House to view it.
To my great astonishment and surprise.
the various parts of the production deal
ing with Russian Bolshevism. their in
famous spy system and spreading OF
propaganda met with hearty, spontsne-
Gus and sincere applause. Also. at the
rendition of the American national an
them by the orchestra surprising per-
centagc OF the audience showed Their
utter contempt for it py remaining
seated.
AS an American, a member of the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
whose ancestors have fought in the wars
of this country to make 1t safe for
democracy" l appeal to you to print this
letter in the columns Of your wholly
American paper. and would call 1t to the
attention Of the American Legion.
EDNA ROBERGE DOLAN.
New York city, Jan. 20, 1920.
The New York herald., 1920-01-27
Lions on Fifth Avenue.

II is hardly possible to imagine any
thing that could give a new thrill to Fifth
avenue. Ever since we went into the war
New York's principal thoroughfare has
had a very remarkable succession Of ex-
periences in the matter of 'lions," royal,
princely, ecclesiastical, diplomatic, politi-
cal, military, naval, literary and scicn-
tific. AS far as famous persons are con-
cerned, America is a habit at present, and
everybody who comes here is to be seen,
sometime or other, between Thirty-fourth
street and the northern confines of the
region of fashion.
If Du Maurier's Mrs. Leo Hunter were
alive and in this city she would never be
surprised at spying anybody of distinc-
ton from the motor car in which she
would be taking the air in the afternoon,
having discarded her carriage and pair
long ago.
But it appears that the street in ques-
tion is threatened not by a further inva-
sion of famous personages, but by lions
of the common or garden sort. 1t is
stated, as detail of the condition of
dilapidation into which Central Park has
fallen, that even the menagerie is in bad
repair and that the wild beasts of the
jungle could get out of their cages and
roam down town If they had mind to- or
if they should discover that they are not
prisoners in the real sense of the word
However, there is no reason why the
nursemaids should be anxious about their
little charges, or why the shoppers or
members of the clubs should be nervous.
They say that the king of beasts is a
humbug and coward as long as he is
well fed. But the Park Commission might
as wen, just as precaution. increase the
daily bill of fare little and give it more
variety until the proper repairs are made
in the cages behind the Arsenal.
The New York herald., 1920-01-27
One Way to XIII Personal Effort.

One Way to XIII Personal Effort.
Mr.. William Jennings Bryan wants the
government to establish 4 newspaper
edited and distributed as IAN official paper
for the benefit and education of the
people" Mr.. Bryan says that in his opin
ion the newspapers of the country do not
print the news and that they are partisan
and unfair and colored.
That such publication would be farce
as a newspaper must be manifest to al
persons giving the proposal any thought
1t would be edited according to the politics
of the party in power. If edited and
printed under the jurisdiction of any gov
ernment department it would partake in
cvitably of the political thought and lean
ings of the administration. Every head
of a department or public official would
seek to have the news colored to suit him
Such paper could not possibly be a news
paper. If its purpose would be to print
long speeches and communications to Con
grcssmen, is not the enterprising Congress
sional Record sufficient to satisfy the
needs of ambitious statesmen?
Mr.. Bryan would kill all personal ef-
fort-all ambition and initiative. He
wants the government-city, State or ma
tomato own and operate every sort OF
business which "savors of monopoly.
To use his own words, he believes that
where natural monopoly exists public
ownership should be substituted" Mr.
Bryan should know that there is no such
thing as a complete monopoly except in
the case of a trademark copyrighted
and that is limited in time. Some public
utilities arc successfully and profitably
owned and run by the people. Such public
ownership and operation If successful is
confined to small territory and to limited
functions.
A municipality is primarily business
affair. There public ownership and opera
tion under certain conditions may operate
successfully. The State and federal gov
ernments have no business to undertake
ventures outside of the political and gov
ernmcntal functions for which they were
created.
Many States had sad experiences in
public ownership between 1920 and 1S40
The federal governments experience with
the railroads from December, 1917, to now
should warn all public ownership enthusi-
asts against further venture in that line.
Governments are created for political
purposes and no other. Entrance by gov
eminent into avenues Of business not only
kills individual initiative and causes sloth-
fulness and economic waste, but increases
tie army Of public officials and makes a
political machine Of every business ven
ture. This is one weakness Of all Social
ist and Communist plans for ownership in
common.
The New York herald., 1920-01-27
JAKSI OF THE
GREEN BUSH.
Bx sTEUARr MI. EMERY,

There is music in the Green Bush as
the winter shadows fall
And the CHEEKY candles chase the dark
away,
AS a wild and tingling czarda with its
mystic, Old World thrall
Sets the blood of youth to pulsing at
its sway.
There's a call to fun and frolic, to the
tantalizing spin
OF foxtrot on the level. Turing
floor
For it's Jaksi, gray old Jaksi. with his
battered violin
Who is summoning to revelry once
more.
On a dais in the corner. purple COW
cred like kings.
With a throne broken bottomed
kitchen chair,
Gray old Jaksi mods a moment. then his
soul is on the strings,
And the world at once is something
very fair.
Haunting strains of vanished music,
strains that ripple. Tilt and purl
Leap and quicken in a mirth mad,
nimble flow,
And the sprites that dance by moon
light he's evoked to rule the whirl
By the magic that he musters with
his bow.
There is joy and there Is laughter and
smile to win for prize
While old Jaksi's lightsome measures
skelter fast;
But there isn't any laughter in old
Jaksi's brooding eyes
That are piercing through the revels
to the past.
To a torn, war shattered hillside, a
December long since flown.
And a home black ashes in the wan
ing light,
And white waste coldly silent to one
calling for his own
"Isn't Jaksi at his merriest to-
night"
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makeup. As he grew older he was given
more liberties in prison, nevertheless was
watched carefully. Decidedly he was a
dangerous character if at large.
That Pomeroy is perfectly sane and
approaching genius is evidenced by the
recent announcement that he has com.
pleted book of poems to be distributed
among his friends. MY years in prison.
says Pomeroy, 'have given me the soli-
tude that is conducive to speculation.
owe my inspiration to the prison chap
lain" Some of Pomeroy's writings
especially his philosophy of Life"-con.
tain real merit and straight reasoning.
Pomeroy presents a rare study in psy-
chology. In degree he furnishes
proof of the old saying that genius is q
form of insanity" Be that true or not,
Pomeroy clearly demonstrates that
genius and mania can exist side by side
in the same brain. Some say that the
twist in the mental structure of Pomcroy
was due to some mysterious prenatal in
fluence. Some say that Pomeroy's mania
is due to arrested Development
is, failure on the part of nature to per-
feet some of his brain cells, or the fail
ure of Pomeroy to rise above his en-
vironment. Nevertheless, this poetic and
philosophical prisoner furnishes an un-
usually fine subject for study and for
investigation.
As in the case Of Pomeroy, 30 in the
case of many others in his unfortunate
position; it Is great pity that genius
cannot be divorced from mania and given
its full force and power for good.