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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25

 Henry Watterson, has removed the last
 = of the three great editors of this country since the days of the Civil war.
 Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun, Henry W. Grady of the Atlanta Constitution, and Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Courier Journal, were trio of the greatest newspaper men the worlds history knows. Under the first two this writer served in the harness of the reporter and the Washington correspondent. With "Marse Henry" he often played in vaca- tion periods and revelled in his good stories and sound newspaper advice.
 When Watterson went for vacation and rest, no man enjoyed himself more. He was like unto boy in the olden days at Saratoga where he went for enjoyment and to benefit of the waters.
 The races in the afternoons and the famous Canfeld's in the evenings were his delight No dinners have ever been so good, no wines of rarer vintage and no service so expensive as the olden day meals at Canfield's. But what cared the bon vivant? When the walters would present check the men of each party would, with great expressions of optimism, leave the ladies at the table, return to the roulette room, with it's dozen tables, and place the amount of the dinner check on the red or black, making the dinner cost double or nothing.
 After delicious dinner one evening some 25 years ago, Colonel Watterson, Colonel Steaey, the Courier-Journals Washington cor respondent, and the writer were discussing sys- tems by which the roulette wheel could be suc- cessfully played
 q have it worked out" exclaimed Colonel Watterson with great display of enthusiasm. "Give me ten dollars, Ed. I will put up ten and we shall start in with a stack"
 The Colonel played his system by placing dollar chip the single at each successive turn of the wheel. The o paid 35 for 1. But the never came during the life of the stack. He called upon me each time to pay my half of each new stack until had furnished my half of six stacks. In all that period the single o had been called but once.
 It was lots of fun but too expensive, and I disappeared from the table.
 When he had lost the last chip of the last stack he sought me to join him in one more stack He was superstitious about playing alone.
 As he, Steay and the writer were arguing Col Jack Chinn the Kentucky racing man and gambler joined us, overhearing our tale of hard 2 luck.
 "what do you newspaper people know about gambling You are babies at it. These gam
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
ExHAUsTINC WORK

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 The Age-Herald estimates that the present qualified voting strength of Jefferson county is 50000. The candidate who shakes the hands and kisses the babies of that crowd would be too we'll used up to take the office after election.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
THE SAFER COURSE

Senator Snortsworthy,' said a close friend of that eminent statesman, "Pve been told that you would rather make speech than eat.'
 That's quite true, sir" replied the senator, gravely. "Tm a careful man in the choice of words and any speech might make would have far less disastrous affect on me than fancy fare would have on a digestion that is not what it used to be-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
A FAVORABLE IMPRESSION

You say the judge sent the fair plaintiff from the court room because she revealed too much hosiery the witness stand?"
 That's the story got from the bailiff."
 q dare say her lawyer was indignant"
 "Yes, but glance at the jury showed him he'd already won his case.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
ADRIFT WITH THE
 TIMES
HANDS FULL

With dsvellers of the distant stars
 have but small concern; care not if they've banished bars,
 Or what each day they earn. Though earth's mere pinpoint in space For other worlds to see, To keep tab on the human race
 Is hard enough for me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT COL. HENRY
 l PATTERSON AND HIS CHARACTERESTICS
HEENR Y

blers will get all your money. If you want to gamble let me do it for you"
 With these remarks and a few additional phrases of pyrotechnical profanity Chinn assessed $25 each, adding like amount himself to make up $1OO stack of chips.
 He then notified us he intended to play the faro bank, but not chip if we watched him or came to the table while he was playing.
 "Go into the cafe, order bottle of cham pagne, talk it over among yourselves and when beat that big mustached gambler dealing faro will join you and we will split the winnings"
 We sat about the cafe table half hour or more, when Chinn joined us, emitting the most choice explosives of high powered profanity known in those days.~ The dealer was all sorts of every kind of every detestabe thing, ending with the "blank fellow whipsawed me on the last bet when I stood to win $2,0o0."
 We naturally thought we had lost, when Chinn threw roll of bills on the table with the remark, That's all got him for'
 In the division each of the four of us se- cured S385.
 "Jack, I believe you are right. Get the gamblers to gamble for you" chuckled Colonel Watterson as he pocketed his share.
 And then the Colonel talked of good news paper stories and how many of them could be dug up by the Washington correspondents He 1rouId 5uyal1 ,1po,, +bo nooo,e;+,, of A pendent never violating the confidence of a man in public life, or any other man.
 No man could ever more effectively exploit the virtues of in public life than Waiter son. No man could write with such ring nor with melody of words
 On the other hand if he discovered crook posing in public life none could more artistic ally excoriate him. He loved above all things honesty and honor in the public man, and he loved to tell of it. He was great maker of men, and loved, the work.
 In the newspaper world today are many sue cessful men who served under him and with him.
 The late James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, many times offered him fabu- lous salary to join the Herald staff, but Waiter son always responded that he loved the boys of the Courier-Journal, and never disassociated himself from that newspaper, although age, several years ago, caused him to retire from the actual routine of the daily desk.
 The newspapermen of this country loved "Marse Henry" and for many years to come will write of him and talk of him, and his scin- tillating wit, always with love and affection
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
CRUEL AND INHUMAN

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 Tera cotta manufacturers in New York who pleaded guilty to violating the Sherman anti trust law have been fined $3,ooo. The society for the prevention of cruelty to profiteers ought to protest against this inhuman punish ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
SEEKING INFORMATION

"Can be of any assistance?" asked the sym pathetic motorist of an inebriated brother who was gazing with puzzled air at his demol- ished car.
 ''Yes," said the inebriated one. "Is this the wreck of an automobile airplane?"
 "Why, an automobile"
 Thanks. Then it couldn't have been tail spin"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
THE CRIME OF YOUTH
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 .So much has been said about womens dress" remarked the Rev. J. J. McGlynn at meeting of the Society of Catholic Women, land so much advice has been given them as to how they ought to dress that I am surprised that they know how to dress themselves at all." They don't. Whats more, they never did. Womens dress is an immemorial source of anguish, despair, wrath and indignation. Yet the pilloried flapper of the moment may find some comfort in reflecting that along in 1860 she will occupy pedestal; she will be revered consolate censors who will be heckling her granddaughters as their progenitors are up braiding her.
 Pleasing the gloomsters is task to which the bewitching, adorable female of the species has never been equal. Flagg's merry limerick, con taning as it does an immortal truth, is per ennially competent:
 Said the Reverend Jabez McCotton,
 "The waltz of the devils begotten."
 Said Jones to Miss Bei
 Don't mind that old guy,
 To the pure almost everything's rotten.''
 Conforming the rising generation to what ever perditon they happen personally to approve has always been the favorite pastme of the moral dyspeptics to whom youth is crime and "beauty the far-off echo of ancestral lusts" It doesn't hurt youth, and, praise be, it doesn'the]- +he croakers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
TURNED DOWN

"You made short work of that patient?" 'Yes," said the throat specialist. What was the matter with his throat?" "Dusty"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25

highest plane when, with all proper deference for the thoughts and aspirations which certain days bring out, the responsibility of citizenship is continuous obligation and one not to be set aside on any day.
 Pardons and paroles do not belong to chief executive to be handed out as one would coin to a beggar, but as judicious measures inserted in the penal code to help the reclamation of men who seem capable of being reclaimed.
 
 magazine writer warns the Japanese not to absorb culture too rapidly. It's too late to call back the silk hat and the access sories that go with it.
 By royal grant the Duke of Atholl is per mitted to maintain private army of 300 men. It is not quite large enough to menace the peace of the world.
 The Sam Gompers of India" has an un- prounonceable name That's where our Samuel has great advantage for publicity purposes. Since Russia has discovered that communism won't work, a considerable number of prop agandists may soon be out of job
 With two Germanys to watch--a good and a bad one-is it any wonder that France occa- sionaly has an attack of "nerves?"
 There is some doubt about the present loca- ton of Columbus bones. It doesn't matter particularly. His fame is secure.
 Christmas crimes don't harmonize with Christmas chimes, but human nature ever was more or less depraved.
 
 Among others, Eugene V. Debs is right merry withal, being able after some years 70 sniff the air of freedom.
 At any rate the arms conference has re- ceived the unqualified indorsement of Warren c. Harding
 British critics are said to be unkind to Amer ican books. There are times when we can't blame them.
 While the submarine is to be retained, we venture to predict that U-boats will never menace Atlantic ports.
 Even the people who write their own verses on Christmas cards are not to be despised at this time O year.
 As long as Ford and Weeks figure in the headlines, headline writers won't have to stop to count the letters.
 The submarine question is a vexatious one, but the submarine itself is vexatious, not to say, pestiferous.
 Killing ratlesnakes with poison gas is in- finitely more humane than using it to kill men. 
 NConan Doyle says he will have his books in heaven. Will pipes be permitted we wonder? A community Christmas tree is one way to show that a city has soul.
 Christmas checks drawn on the Bank of Happiness" may be hard to cash.
 Cops who have to wear 'dress suits' to catch liquor violators entitled to raise in pay
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
AS IT WERE

"Now, this little story I've just told you is a typical English joke"
 But don't see the point"
 That makes it typical"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25

O heavenl were men But constant, he were perfeeti that one error Fills him with faults.
 Two Gentlemen of Verona.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25

magazine writer warns the Japanese not to absorb our culture too rapidly. It's too late to call back the silk hat and the access sories that go with it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
A MORNING PRAYER

thank thee, Lord, for the gift of SaviouE let me give myself to the world that thy gift to me may not have been in vaini Amen.-M s. B.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-12-30
Attacks Election Campaign Methods

Washington. Declaring the money
spent in Senator Newberry's campaign
for election 10 the senate from Mlchl-
gan shows the "entlre election to be
tainted" Senator Kenyon CRY, Iowa,
asserted In speech In the senate on
the Ford-Newberry election contest
that II that body voted to seat the
Michigan senator II would be under
mining the foundations of this govern
ment."
''The rule Of the people Is gone"
Senator Kenyon said, II the senate
"iustifies the expenditure of hundreds
OF thousands os dollars to secure a
seat here"
While the federal act limiting cam
paign expenditures has been declared
unconstitutional by the supreme court
since the Newherry campaign, the SEN
ator declared. II was In effect ut that
time, and so he added. 1--WE find the
common laws. the federal statute. and
the state statutes MI violated. the lat
ter openly VIGOROUSLY So"
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-12-30
NEW SILVER DOLLAR WILL
COMMEMORATE CONFERENCE

Washington.-The arms conference
will be reflected In new ser
les Of silver dollars, minting of which
will be started Immediately.
The design of the new dollars has
been approved by President Harding
on Its submission by Raymond r..
Baker. director Of the mint, following
approval by the fine arts commission.
Director Baker said about 100000 of
the new dollars would be coined before
January I.
The new dollars. which were de-
signed by Antony de Francisi of New
York, will have the usual head of Lib
erty on the diverse side, while the
reverse will have a large figure of an
eagle perched on broken sword and
clutchlng an olive branch bearing the
word peace" Further depicting the
dawn OF new era, the background
will show rays of rising sun. The
usual "E Pluribus Unum" and "In
God We Trust" will also be on the
coin. This Is the first time since 1878,
Mr. Baker said, that new design has
been adopted for the silver dollar I'm.
der the existing law the director OF
the mint Is authorized to make a
change in design, with the approval of
the fine arts committee, every 20 years
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-12-30
CHINA APPOINTS LANG
SHl.Yl AS NEW PREMIER
Fall Of Old Cabinet Due TO Peculations
and Sale Of offices
10 Charge.

Pekin.--Liang Shi-Yi has been
named as premier Of the Chinese cabi-
net to succeed Chin Yun-Peng, who,
with all his ministers, resigned on
Sunday. The fall of the cabinet fol-
lowed the arrival here of Gen. Chang
Tsao-Lin. governor Of Manchuria, who
Is now engaged In forming coalition
government In which all the reaction
airy parties are participating. 1t Is
charged that Chin Yun-Peng was
guilty of populations and the sale OF
offices.
The new premier Is credited with
having inspired the attempt by Yuan
Sh-kai To create himself emperor In
1915. Among those In General Changes
following are Wang Chan-Yuen. form
or military governor of Human pro-
vince at the time of the murder of the
Rev. w. A. Reimert. an American mis-
slonary. In June 1920 The American
legation demanded that he he held re-
sponslble for the crime. The legation
Is said TO be preparing n protest
against his presence In Pekin at the
present time.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-12-30
Fined For Violating Act

Washington.-Stea lines which
have immigrants in excess of national
quotas under the three per cent limi-
tation law to the United States, face
imposition of fines aggregating 81 .050..
600, II Attorney General Daughtery
sustalns the contention of the depart
ment OF labor In their liability under
existing statutes, Secretary Davis said
II was indicated that consideration of
the question of whether there is feder-
nj authority to impose the fines already
has been taken up.
=. A. s. Franklin. president of the
International Mercantile Marine, has
declared before the house immigration
committee that great expense was suf-
fered by the companies under present
conditions, because of the requirement
that rejected immigrants be transport
ed free to the point OF emharkation.
The main difficulty. he said. was to
determine the country of origin Of i'm.
migrants. since they were free to EN-.
bark at any one of number Of ports,
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-12-30
Stock Exchange Begins Reforms

New York.--OfYicials of the New
York stock exchange have launched a
countrywide reform movement after
formal announcement was made that
the stock tickets and other wire con
nections of number of non-member
out -of.town houses had been with
drawn because of alleged "irregulari-
ties"
The names OF the Offenders and the
specific reasons which led TO this dras-
tic action were not disclosed, In gen
eral. however. they were charged with
having reported transactions To Gus
toners Eat prices different from the
actual prices at which such transac-
lions took place. To their own profit
and to the injury of their customers, "
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-12-30
SHERIFF AND STRIKER
ARE KILLED IN BATTLE

Sioux City, Iowa.-Deputy Sheriff
Lewis II. Jones, aged %, son of Sheriff
w. ii. Jones, and Hessen Kaleb, a
strike sympathlzer, both were fatally
wounded In gun fight which took
place early Monday. Both died in the
hospital.
The fight followed an alteration be-
tween Kaleb and Deputy Sheriff Ed
Batman. Batman, who Is one of more
than so deputy sheriffs stationed at
Leech avenue and Chambers street,
with orders to stop and search all ped
estrians for firearms, halted Kaleb.
When questioned by Batman, Kaleb
drew blackjack from his pocket and
struck Batman, 1t Is said. Batman
grasped Kaleb as he started to run,
and succeeded In pulling him to the
ground. Kaleb drew a gun and started
to fire. Young Jones gave chase when
Kaleb started to run. and was directly
behind the pair when Kaleb started to
fire. Several bullets struck Jones, and
In the excitement Kaleb regained his
feet and started to run again.
Sheriff Jones and Deputy Frank
Jipp. who were following close in pur-
suit. soon overlook KaleB. Jipp grasp
ed him around the body and. according
to the story told by Deputy Sheriff
Batman. Kaleb began firing from un-
derneath his arm. Sheriff Jones then
opened fire and Kaleb fell with several
bullets In his body.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-12-30

London.-The allied supreme coun-
Gil at It's coming meeting In Cannes
win be asked 10 invite the interested
powers to appoint commission TO elab-
crate comprehensive scheme for the
rehabilitation Of central Europe and
Russia. This conclusion was arrived az
In the conferences ~ the French and
British premiers just ended here The
United States would be invited To have
membership In this commission. Ger.
many also would Ice represented.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-12-30
Japs Launch Dreadnauoht

Tokio.-The dreadnaught Tosa was
launched Tuesday at the Mitsubishi
shipyards at Nagasaki. Like her sis
ter ship, the Kaga, launched a month
ago, the Tosa is slated to be scrapped
under the limitation plan agreed to at
the Washington conference. An i'm
mense crowd attended the launching,
the last in Japan prior to the naval
holiday"
Vice Admiral Prince Hiroyasu Fu-
shima officiated, acting as proxy for
the regent.
The Tosa and Kaga were estimated
to cost upwards of 100000 ven each
TO complete. Each is 200 feet long. has
normal displacement of 10000 tons.
and was to be equipped with special
anti-torpedo protection and armed
with main battery of 16-inch guns.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-12-30
SEARCH FOR WOMAN TO
CLEAR MURDER MYSTERY

Seattle Wnsh.--A coastwide search
was being conducted Thursday at the
request OF Seattle police for
Miss Clara Il. Skarln, former telephone
exchange operator here, In the hope
that she might be able 10 throw light
on the staying OF Ferdinand Hoch-
brunn. wealthy retired real ,estate
dealer, whose body was found In n
room of his home here Wednesday. He
had been shot through the head aud
had been dead two months. In the
opinion OF officers. Hochbrunn was
found on the floor of an alcove near
the bedroom that had been occupied
by Miss Skarln, who resided In the
Hochbrunn home for several months,
according 10 other tenants of the
building. They said she had repeated
~ visited her apartment In the last
two months, disappearing finally about
December o. She told them, they said
that Hochbrunn had gone TO Portland
on business.
The only clue TO the mystery, nc
cording 10 police, was n series OF let
tiers and kilograms purporting to have
been sent by Hochhrunn 10 Edward
Won Tobel. the latter's attorney here,
asking that rentals from property
owned by the real estate man be sent
10 him nj Portland, Ore and Oakland
and San Rernardino, Cal They had
all been written after Hochbrunn was
slain, the county coroner declared.
Miss Skarin. police recalled. was
slightly Injured here three years ago
when Cleo Winborn, wife Of Robert n
Winborn. barber. attacked MiN
skarin with pistol, shot and killed
her mother. Mrs. Emma Skarln, and
then committed suicide.
Officers said they afterward learned
that Miss Skarin went to Detroit.
Mich. TO visit winborn when he was
H.
Letters and kilograms addressed 10
Miss Skarin and to "Clara Wlnborn''
and signed by Robert Winborn" were
found in trunk In Miss Skarin's room.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-12-30
!. w. w. Action to be lnve.,Ioa,.d

Phoenix. Ariz.--ln connection with an
explosion In a small frame structure
near the new state highway building
here. local authorities are lnvestigat.
ing a report that Industrial Workers
OF the World have shipped two and
one-half cases OF high explosives and
u alarm clocks. equipped to set or the
explosive, into this district from Call.
fornia. The explosion Itself did only
about $1,000 worth OF damage. but au
thorities are investigating on the ,heo
~ that 1t was intended 10 destroy IN,
highway department building.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-12-30
Bomb Explosion Damages Building

New York.-Damage estimated at
5000 was done by the explosion early
Tuesday OF bomb which had been
thrown or placed In the hallway Of u
building ON Grand street The scene
Of the explosion was only one block
from police headquarters and the con-
cusslon gave officers there scare, as
some of them believed for few min
utes that threats IL bomb Wall street.
had been carried out.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-12-30
MANY CASUALTIES IN
PORTUGAL REVOLUTION
Followers of New Ministry
Forced to Retreat; Fate of
Premier is Unknown.

London.--A revolution has broken
out In Portugal according to dis
patch to the Daily Chronicle from
Paris.
II began with cannonadlng along the
Tagus river and severe casualties
have resulted on both sides In the con-
troversy.
The hospitals are crowded with
wounded and dying. The dispatch
adds that Cunha Leal who formed a
temporary ministry last week, was at
tackled In the Carlos barracks and he
and his followers were compelled to
beat a retreat. The fate Of the pre-
mier IL not known.
Recent dispatches have Indicated
considerable unrest in Portugal. In
October there was an outbreak in LIS
bon In which Antio Granjo, the pre-
mier and minister Of the Interior, and
Jose Carlos Maia, former minister OF
marine, were assassinated. Portuguese
royalists are declared to have been the
fomenters of the strife which has pre-.
vailed for several months past.
Late In November dispatches from
the Portuguese frontier reported that
another revolution was brewing inside
the republic and that the troops in
Lisbon had been confined to barracks
In the general unrest there were re
ports of n strong under current of radi
callsm.
Since the assination of Premier
Granjo three new cabinets have beer
formed.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-12-30
California Rail Service oemorslIred

Los Angeles.-Traffic on all railway
lines entering Los Angeles was demon
allied somewhat Wednesday by the
storm which for four days has pre-
vailed In southern California, South
ern Pacific offices reported n washout
near lndio, Gal. Union Pacific and
Santa Fe trains westbound were held
at Barstow while landslide on a
joint line east OF San Bernardino was
being cleared.
At Mount Wilson, near Los Ange.
les. precipitation for the storm has
reached 21.5S inches.