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Evening star., 1920-05-08
NEW STEAMER LINE FORMED.
Ships Between Baltimore and Japan
to Be Operated.

BALTIMORE. Md. May s.-Anothel
steamship line is to be added to the
lines sailing from this port. The
Transoceanic Company, it Is an
Baltimore and Kobe and Yokohama,
JAPAN
Evening star., 1920-05-08
MRS. MARY E. RoDRICK.

Mrs. Mary E. Rodrick died Wednes-
day. at her residence, 101 5th street
northeast. She was eighty-seven years
Funeral services were held yester-
day afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Mrs. Rodrick was the widow OF John
8 H. Rodrick, formerly editor OF the
Banner Of Liberty. paper published
in Frederick county, Md.
Surviving here are Ada NJ. carrie
E.. and A. Carly and Roland X. ROD
rick, all of this city.
Evening star., 1920-05-08

The copper produced in the United
States last year was valued at $243.-
600, 600, as compared with $471 900, 900
for 1918. There was also decline
ir. the amount of lead and zinc pro-
duced
Evening star., 1920-05-08

Mr.. and Mrs. John Elvans Mayfleld
left on Thursday for California, with
a party of friends. to be gone until
July l.
Evening star., 1920-05-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Edelin, recently
sold their home on Park road. and are
located at the Biltmore apartments.
Evening star., 1920-05-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Aaron Summers have
left for New York to spend two weeks
in visiting friends.
Evening star., 1920-05-08

dance OF the War Department
Get Togethers" was held at 1407
Massachusetts avenue by the per-
sonnet of the allotment section, of the
office of the director Of finance We'd
nesday night. The delightful. infor-
mality of the affair was enhanced by
the award of prizes in a number
dance. each fifth couple receiving a
souvenir of the occasion.
Evening star., 1920-05-08

Mrs. Thomas w. Hungerford is en-
tertaining her mother. Mrs. B. c.
Rouzie. and her sister-in-law. Mrs.
Beale Rouzie, of Essex county, Va.
Evening star., 1920-05-08

Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood will be
Evening star., 1920-05-08

Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery Blair. At
Silver Spring. Md. and Mrs. Flynn
will be the guest Of her parents foI
Mrs. futile is in Utica. n. r, visit
ing her mother. and Is expected to re-
turn here shortly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15

You remember, of course, the man al the Breakfast Table whom Oliver Wendell Holmes called the 'Scarabee2''
 You remember ne sat absorbed and silent over his meals nothing that was said reached the remotest corners of his being until suddenly one day somebody mentioned "beetles,' and then, to the amazement of everybody, he awoke to the world around him; the key that un? locked his prison had been found and he came out into the daylight In this quaint figure Dr. Holmes satirnized the specialist-the man who, in his selfish pursuit of one microscopic phase of being, becomes divorced from the splendid pageant of life who sees , only one phase of one theme of life 1 when it is the full light of the sud not the broken fragments of the spec | troscope-that I've want.
 Someone has wisely said:
 "Pigeon-holes are all right; but we should use them, not live in them.'
 It is to do "his oit'' to bring the world out of it's dusty old pigeon holes and it's great selfishness that is the governing fact about Dr. William States Jacobs, i who comes among US like crusader of old, with his masterful learning, his, astonishing enthusiasms his clustering eloquence, and what someone designated the other day as his "elfish fantasy"
 To meet Dr. Jacobs for the first time is an intellectual red letter day; it. has all the fascination of an adventure; 1t is like stepping over a style into new country road; it is like coming out of a tunnel into the broad sweep of the beau- teous landscape.
 The most bromidic compliment tha. can be paid either to man or woman is to say that he or she is good con- versatonalist;" yet one must say this O. Dr. Jacobs, because his talk envelopes you like an atmosphere your mind be- comes all windows-windows into the past, and windows into the future; you see things in an entirely different way somehow -somewhere-and the man is so human and so kind gentle withal thai although intellectually your superior in every way, he never makes you feel that way; he doesn't build a wall around himself, neither does he stand aloof; you do not fear him couldn't If yod tried with both hands, as they say in the immortal Alice.
 The first emotion that you experience is that of having found a friend--a very human friend--with Gods Gift of Cn- derstanding'-t Mir Temple Thurston so often talks about in his fantastic book The City of Beautiful Non sense.'
 Big of mind, big of body, big of heart, big of intellect big religiously, Dr. Ja- cobs adds to this arresting personality Ia big voice of rare range and flexibility with a quality of sympathy that never passes into maudn sentiment the one hand. nor yet into hysterical success on the other
 It has very low register with the sonority and thrilling power that seems to make a vast auditorium resonant with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
"PI Af.L< SIEEpi PIACKSHEEP,"

BLACK SHEEP, BLACKSHEEP.'
 By Meredith Nicholson. illustrations by Leslie l.. Benson. Charles Schrib- ner's Sons. publishers, New York City,
 one day he was a wealthy, respected gentleman clubman-and the next well if he found himself member of a gang of the biggest crooks in the country it was because of woman. Even she could not guess the amazing tangle she was getting their lives into --that is the strange. bafflng story that keeps you entertained and guess ing so in "BlacksheepI Blacksheep"
 Here's an American story of mystery and adventure that takes you to Wash : ington. D. C., Bailey Harbor. Maine, Cornford. Vermont. New York, t'eve- land, Ohio Chicago. Huddleston, lich.. and holds you breathless with ~s en- tertaining plot every mile of the way, If you enjoy losing yourself in an en- tertaining story where you can't guess what's coming, read it.
 STAFFORD'S ISLAND"
 By Florence Olmstead. Charles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
By DOLLY DALRYMP

Did anyone suggest that Where is a-se- cret?
 If so. it is spelled in one single short word of five letters. but all capitals
 HEART.
 It is the influence of heart of pur- ity of motive and of unyielding inds- pendence of thought; of his just being one of ourselves; a pal" in other words, for he doesn't fill you with the sense of the awful responsibility of religion" but rather with its good fellowship; and so he warns the hearts of men when others often turn them to snow and ice.
 In short pr. Jacops Is just an ordi- nary man in very extraordinary de- gree; neither genius nor idealist; what he has done, he declares has been done with weapons within the reach of us all.
 There is nothing spectacular nor puro- ministry but each is governed by hu- man principles effectively applied to religion; fervent belief in humanity and it's ultimate acceptance of the Kingdom of God to which there are no gates of creed or race-but a welcome hand held out to every soul that truly seeks.
 I am told that back in his home town, Houston, Texas, where he is greatly be- loved by his tremendous congregation of over two thousand members-he oft en gets away from homiletics and the ology and talks about just every day ordinary things; popular books. for in stance; books that everyday people read; The Eyes of the World;p The
 Inside of the Cup" The Four aorse-
 men of the Apocalypse;" again. he will choose music as his theme; and yet again Cities and Their Meaning;;" in other words, nice human things that people can understand great preacher and a great man, pr. Jacobs is, who will never be entire I ly happy until he has done his bitr in
 clearing up this muddled old world with it's confusions and its temptations, and | has set it spinning along neat and | clean and orderly, on its big path | through space-to bring it out of its dusty old pigeon hoies Into the light oi the perfect day.
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the workings of the mystrious Chinese organization. Peter Moore a young and daring American wireless operator, be- comes involved with it's leaders, and the tale of his exploits is thrilling and ab- sorblng. while refreshing flavor of fine humor and romance relieve the ten sion His actions proved he was no seeker after wealth, but possessed that rare thing-a virginal spirit of adventure. and in the brief periods when adven- ture seemed to be attending elsewhere Peter sought out the Tickle goddess and plunged himself into more excitement
 Scenes incidental to the daily life of wireless operator add to the interest of the book. and the pages are colorful with Chinese characters of all descrip- tions-officials, secret agents, coolies and mandarians. While of girls Peter is fairly overwhelmed by them and alter nately fascinated by their charms and bewildered by the number who see him an object for hero-worship.
 The story of his passage through many dangerous scenes. how he lives up to
 the true ideal of American courage rescuing lovely girls, defying the leaders of the mysterious organization and. by evading their traps, narrowly escaping death many times by the sheer force of his wit and bravery is productive of an amazing and thrilling tale which the reader follows with breathless interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15

Scribners Sons, publishers. New York City.
 'Stafford's Island is off the coast of Georgia. Here Miss Olmstead unfolds the romantic love story of Clarissa Stafford. Back into the memories of the past she reaches to the girls grand mother. who ran away from her hus- band with another man. The dramatic incident and it's consequences are woven with telling effectiveness into the destiny of young lovers. Miss Olmstead has given a fascinating touch to her book by a suggestion of the occult and she has frightened the lonely, wild atmosphere which she so successfully creates with the delicate humor that is so characteristic of her books. By the skill with which she presents her story she has built it to a climax that few novels have surpassed.
 STORMS OF YOUTH" By Viola Roseboro. Charles Scrbners $
 Sons, publishers. New York City.
 In this powerful and moving story Miss ioseboro' returns to the field of fiction
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15

music, and whether the utterance be slow or rapid, the cadence is always won derfuly preserved, the articulation so
 clear and penetrating that nothing is lost either to the car or to the mind.
 It is the perfect instrument of tenn
 perament boths sensitive and reflective, and it is this combination of feeling and thought in just balance which is largely responsible for the unique position Dr. Jacobs occupies in the religious world today.
 That big voice of his he will tell you formed the basso profundo of a ''quar- tet" when he was at college up wonder in South Carolina, his home state; he will also tell you of the boyish pranks that he played with that same big voice at a concert one evening when he held one of those long sustained" notes,
 which reached down to the very tips of lis boots, while the audience applauded vocferously, giving him chance to breathe again without anyone suspectng ! it, while he still astonished the audience I by his phenomenal breath control'-the
 despair of notwithstanding on to that
 note; and yet again during the deafening
 applause to catch another breath and i finally leaving the platform still holding
 the basso profundo note of Rocked in I the Cradle of the Deep"
 ] The next morning the local newspaper remarked that
 1 Tt was bully good solo, 1 Somebody said in speaking of Dr. Ja- !, cobs the other day, that he possessed three very likable virtues-freedom from 1 jealousy, free from egotism and freedom 1 from vanity.
 ! the sun" to all who can do the work i that needs to be done, and envies no man the plaudits of the crowds. Indeed his freedom from all paltry personal mo- l tixes has made him a very perfect ln-
 strument for the great work that he has
 been called to do.
 Somewhere recently I have confessed l to committing a certain summer sim
 which interpreted means, sin that l
 wouldn't commit in the winterEand l that is leaving my own church ana 1 my own beloved pastor to go to an
 other this time to hear pr. Jacobs 1 during the only too few sun 1 days that he has been the guest min-
 ister at the Independent Presbyterian Church.
 During the time I have had ample i opportunity to study him as d minis | ter, and on the many delightful occa7
 sions that l have been fortunate | enough to be included in social cour- l tesies extended to him, l have had the chance to study him man, and [ truly 1 can say, that if the world de-
 mands "originals' and not "copies." pr. Jacobs answers to the call In both
 cases.
 may as we'll confess at the be- l ginning that l am greatly prejudiced 1 in Dr. Jacobs favor and always have
 been. so if | seem aver-extravagant,
 overfacetious in my impressions of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
The Explanation Took

From the Los Angeles Times.
 Long Beach school teacher relates the following dialogue which took place during a recent examination:
 Teacher: Johnny, spell and define bewitching."
 Johnny: Be wftch-ing. fascinating"
 Teacher: Correct. Now what does fascinating mean? Who can tel1?"
 Silence for the space of half a min ute, then up comes hand shaking with impatence to give the desired infor- nation.
 Teacher: Well. Michael tell us what your idea of fascination is"
 Michael (drawling, but shouting with the utmost assurance):~ Its what yer put in yer arm to keep off smallpox"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
DR. WILLIAM STATES JACOBS: IMPRESSIONS

more intimate influence that she had over the lovely girl who is pr. Jacobs wife.
 And now, suppose you step inside the edifice with me for moment, say last Sabbath morn, when the subject of Dr Jacobs sermon was Service" and get an Impression" of his exotic per sonajty.
 If you are sensitive to atmosphere Gas I amp when you enter the church when pr. Jacobs is to deliver the mes sage, you will somehow feel certaih dynamic note of expectancy the inn pression grows as the service advances; :; there is breath on the face of the waters-a subtle breath of personality
 At once you realize that it is the and prayer and lesson, and peeps out in the sermon cite" he breaches to the children, The Parable of the Diamond Ring" maybe; later it is fully revealed in the message.
 sermon by Dr. Jacobs delights you by US mental power.
 Tennyson said of Swinburne that The is a tube thro' which all things blow into music.''
 Dr. Jacobs words are the music of ''wreathed horn."
 A sermon by Dr. Jacobs delights you by it's heart power.
 His whole message is challenge to you; you personally; you alone; it is you to whom the moment of the sovereignty of God has come; of sacrificial love; of service-and you must decide between,--
 "The bloom and the blight
 The choice goes by forever.
 'Twixt that darkness and that light"
 You shall make your choice here and now; you shall not escape; he will not let you go until you have chosen, either for the goats upon the left hand, or the sheep upon the right hand" Overmastering urgency; swift change fulness. spiritual impressionist'' he is; he sees the truth by flashes of light ming, where others arrive at it by slow OpSIatlOnS Ol inlSAlcCtr Ic uoco hot di s oC he proclaims tempestously. loudly. vo- ciferously
 | He hears the noisy chatter of the motor I cars outside the restless wheels of the street cars he hears the world thunder | ing on to destruction and his emotions are aroused and torn with agony; his deep-toned voice is shaken by the tumult i of his feelings; picture after picture he | paints; experience after experience he relates; the moment is very tense; surely i the bow must break: and then he stops short; suddenly
 | It is all done, and the troubled sea sinks down into the color of hymn: | Somebody did golden deed. 1 Was that Somebody-YOU?" | And then the peace of the Benediction Outside, beyond the glimmering nuances of the stained glass windows and the | gilded pipes of the mighty organ-somt one touches you on the shoulder with z light greeting.
 It is like the breaking of a-spells
 And the secret of pr. Jacobs power
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
nTHE POINTING MANn

(A BURMESE MYSTERY By Marjorie
 Dohie. E., P. Dutton X Co. Publishers,
 New York City.
 Saturated in the atmosphere of the Orient. this curious and brilliantly origi- nal mystery sto.. deals with the feud of revene between Mtoon Pah, eht Bur man. and l.eh Shin, the Chinaman, and tha tracing out of the devious circum- stances of the crime by the white man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15

tainly the most 4mportant work yet given us by Miss Kaye Smith.
 "RED TERROR AND GREEN
 (The Sim Fein -Bolshevist Movemento
 E. P Dutton X Co, publishers, New
 York City.
 Sim Fein what it was and what it is How, in the course of few years a small society of intellectuals for the revival of the Gaelic language and tra- ditions has become, through it's capture by the anarchist labor element. large and wealthy international revolution ary organization and the western wing of Leninism.
 This is a story of unparalleled in . terest at the present time to Americans, who are being asked to subscribe funds to aid the Sim Fein program of the break-up of the British empire. and who are kept in the dark as to the real meaning and aims of the Sim Fein- bolshevik alliance.
 FAIRFAX AND HIS BRIDE" By Marie Van Worst. Small Maynard and Company Publishers, Boston When Antony Fairfax, southerner first came to New York in the winter of 1880, he was possessed of youth, , health. ambition, great talent for sculpture, s25 in cash and his pride Also he had an aunt who had married a very rich and influential man. and he confidently expected that they would show him the sort of hospitality to which he was accustomed. But all [ they did was to recommend him to a good boarding house. Nor was this his only disappointment. He had an inn mense admiration for the famous
 sculptor Gunner Cedersholm. and wa! 1 overwhelmed with joy when Ceder
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
PETER THE BRAzEN.

By George F. Worts. J. B. Lippincott
 Co.,, Publishers, Philadelphia.
 A remarkable and picturesque story of China and the most villianous activities of a mysterious organization of power ful Chinese, whose influence, exerted in the silent and subtle Oriental way. is felt in commerce and politics throughout the world.
 The author lived for a considerable time in China, spending about two years on the river and coastwise steamers of the Yangtzekiang and West rivers. Peter the Brazen is really the outgrowth of stories which he gathered from mer- chants, sailors and rivermen relating to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
Easy Enough

From the Boston Transcript.
 You can easily quit worrying if you try. Now the rising price of gasoline doesn't bother me at all as it used to-
 Strength of will suppose?'
 ''No, sold my car.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
JEAN RIvAUDp


 Cornhill Company, publishers. Boston.
 Jean Rvaud' by Joseph Edward Lanouette. has for its dedication the fol- lowing significant sentiment; ITO all fathers whose sons served in the worlds greatest war;"
 The beautiful poem begins with the lines:
 For days there were many when they
 ate not nor slept As their ne'er ceasng vfgils they untir-
 ingly kept. Jean now prayed to his God as he'd not prayed before That the Spectre of Death might be kept from his door. Though the night endless seems, comes the bright dawn at last. l'And the sun shines again, for the crisis is passed, As the thin wasted form gainst her bosom did rest, By the dear mothers hand again fondly caressed, No queen silken-clad was more happy than she, Who. cotton -gowned, crooned low lui- laby,
 The overful heart sent glad tears to her eye, For her arm held that which queen s gold could not buy When as day followed day. and week ! after week. The pink overspread the once thin pailid | cheek. l The little limp arm had become plump | and round. Where his mother, perchance, some new dimple found,
 Can by no facile pen be words written, l that could
 Describe the pure joy of her young motherhood, As his small baby hands wandered over her face, And his curly head nestled in it's love hallowed place.
 The finale deals very pathetically with this:
 Just slip of a lad The Great Battle Jean, Philir and the Devil The duel between Philip and 'the Devil I Death of Jean .TAMARISK TOWN By sheila Kaye Smith. E. P. Dutton & Co. publishers New York City. 1 In the ffties of the nineteenth cen tury town springs into being on the cliff bound shores of Sussex among the tamarisk trees. It is the work ofhone mans strength and vision. but later another great passion comes into the | mans life-the one woman in the world. who is jealous of the town anc grows to hate it.
 "Tamarisk Town" is the story of th' struggle between these two conflie g forces. told with the mastefiy simr ' ity and quie. strength which have n; Miss Kaye smiths work notable
 Superb as a character study and Vi ? in it's intense humanity, Hhis is ger,
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sholm agreed to take him into his studio. But all Cedersholm did was to work him half to death, steal his de- signs and turn him out of doors So altogether Fairfax and His Pride" had a very bad time of it indeed.
 And this bad time lasted for long while for years. in fact, though he made some very good friends. Four women played important parts in his lfie-his Aunt Caroline, Molly shan non, the ignorant but loving Irish waitress whom he chivalrously mar ried. Mrs Faversham, the rich and beautiful great lady who loved him but refused his modest request that she renounce her fortune and share his poverty, and Bella Carew, his little cousin, whom he first met as a child, never dreaming that the author had all ready selected her to be his mate. The scene shifts from New York to Albany and then to Paris, where Fairfax wins his great success, returning at last to New York
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Albert Rose, who has just retired after fifty y-six years of service in the Chatham, England, backyard. was never late ana never lost an hour
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
1.-THE VANISHING MEN"

By Richard Washburn Child. F. P. Dut-
 ton & CO, publishers, New York City.
 A beautiful woman and three men who want to marry her and who mysterously vanish one after the other This is the bafflinG enigma which MT. Child, in. his rapid-fire tale of intrigue crime, sus- pense and eXpiation unfolds for us in the strange story of Brena Selcoss whose life was shadowed by this inexplicable horror.
 This is book that. once you take it up. you will not put down till you have finished it.
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in which she has already won distin- guished laurels but which she has Of late years neglected. Storms of Youth,
 however is a tale tbat must itself have insisted on being written. It is a story of love and politics, the scene laid in a smal town in the border country be- twixt north and south, where the local mixes varied American shades of char acter and manners. With vivid reality Miss Roseboro' has presented the tense drama of group of young people on
 whom the storms of youth descend.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15

The annual dust fall in Glasgow is 13D tons to the square mile.
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girl who as his helpmate during the years of his ministry has been such wonderful inspira tion to him and such d tremendous factor in his success.
 Over in Mississippi-when l knew responsible for the keeping of law and order in the sleeping Burmese city.
 It is strange tale of strange people and stange things, strangely told, which will refresh the reader in search of some thing different from the conventional detective story.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15

and loved sweet Laura Harris-we went to the same school-had the same teacher, her grandmother, Mrs. Laura B. Eager whose beautiful influence in my own life is only exceeded by the
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him, t must be attributed to the heart as well as the head, for long ago in my girlhood days, l knew and loved the sweet girl who was his sweetheart, and later the bride of his youth-7the lovely ;