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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-11-19

Dogs Trained Not to Bark.
The dingo. or wild dog of Australia,
neith0' barks nor growls IN it's Wild
state, but learns to do both when
tanned and placed among domestic
dogs. The Australian kelpies. the most
priced of cattle dogs, which contain
a strain of dingo blood, are trained
never to bark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20

drug and the poison were kept in bottles of the same shape and that he "never expected to find poison on the shelf" An enlightened jury. after a deliberation which must have been similar to the inquests described in Bleak Houses," as well as other works of the great English novelist, returned a verdict of death by mis- adventure"
 As for the victims, they are prob ably better off dead than alive, but a doctor who sends his patients into eternity by such carelessness, even though they may be pauper patients, is guilty of something more than "misadventure." The proper term to use would be criminal careless ness," or perhaps manslaughter.
 If there are many physicians like Dr. O'Flaerty on the staffs of Great Britain's eleemosynary institutions they will never be overcrowded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
Horse and Rahhit

Judge Dan A. Greene likened the failure of members of the Chamber of Commerce to fully cooperate with the management to the 5o-50 story of the sausage vender. He said: "A cer- tain butcher advertised rabbit saul sage, but the health authorities mo- ticed that very few rabbits entered his establishment dead or alive, hence they could not account for u e amount of rabbit sausage turned out
 The butcher was questioned. He admitted that he also used horse meat in the making of the rabbit sausage. but in defense claimed that he made an equal division of horse and rabbit, the quota being one horse to one rabbit.
 we members of the chamber who pay our dues and stop at that stand for just about the same proportion of chamber activities as rabbit meat did in the butchers sausage. We do not back. up our chamber officials as we should by personal interest and activity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Datn About pirm,,rh,m

T expect we have had applications from as many as 200 teachers for data about Birmingham said Charles F. Yarn, assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. They wish this data for the years curri - culum in the public schools, it being intended to teach the children of Birmingham something about their city.
 Tn order to accomplish the end aimed at the more economically and easily we have turned over to the principals of the schools copies of all our booklets about Birmingham, and the teachers will be able to get the data from them.
 The chamber booklets have been carefully prepared. and they contain all sorts of information about Bir- mingham The child familiar with what is in these books will know ks city fairly we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
GUAvA JELLY
From the Tampa Tribune.

From the Tampa Tribune
 The Birmingham Age Herald says: "The guava jelly of Florida became famous because it was regularly made. standardized. advertised and placed On the market as staple product"
 It became known through those in . strumentalities; but it became ia . nous and in demand because of it's inherent qualities of goodness and deliehtsomeness. There is no daint- fer sweet than Florida guava jelly properly made, and from the proper varieties of guavas. It's facinatins color, it's delicate scent. its tang of "something" undescribable but seduc- tive, and it's keeping and shipping qualities. have made 1t the jelly par excellence of the country. What tho grand old current jell" was to ol = northern grandmothers. Florida guava jelly Is becoming to the en- tire country. It is it's fine qualities that made it worth ''standardizing. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
v v v Valuable Exhibit of Southern Resources

TIT is understood that prospects are l bright for the location of sev- eral important industries in the south, following the Southern rail ways exhibit of its mineral and chemical resources held at the sev- enth National Exposition of Chemi- cal Industries in New York city recently.
 The total attendance at the expo sition was more than 100000, made up almost entirely of chemical ex- perts and manufacturers interested in the development of new industries and looking for favorable locations The south's booth was crowded with tlese capable and far-seeing visi- tors
 ~" VII Soou Has CoihS HUH eiiiS dh- nual exposition and the south is in- dssasi to the Southern railway for having collected and placed the ex- hioiss. The displays were gathered hy inen who knew what they were Sbons and were cognizant of the needs of the great manufacturing interests.
 Much has been done for it's indus tries by the railroads of the south and we are not forgetful of the part they have played and are playing in it's advancement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20

6r1EIE Pickens County Farm bu- II reau, With a membership of 100, has been organized Dairymen, cattle growers and fruit and vegeta- ble shippers of Pickens have been CO., operating during the past few years marketing their products and have met with considerable success.
 The farm bureau comes to Ala bama with record of service and efficiency. It is divorced from politics and devoted exclusively to the business of the farmers. It reaches from the precinct to the counsy and from the county to the state
 Alahama farmers have made re- nsafs ole progress in the develop men of the cattle industry, dairy inG f'uit and vegetable culture and ccs4ss walton. All they need to learn is the proper way to dispose of their crops.
 For instance, Alabama raises good hay, but it does not get to market in a tenth of the quantity that it should, because it is not uni form when shipped. It is for such objects as standardizing Alabama hay and other farm products that the farm bureaus are being organ ized.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
THE BAGDAD BAZAAR

From of Duty in Bagdad." by Ro-
 land Gorbold, in Asia Magazine for
 October.
 l have always collected shoes in the shops of the east and in Bagdad spent much time in the shoemake, s quarter, talking with the cobblers and bargaining for the red shoes that the Arab wears in the city, the san dals that he uses in the desert, and ether specimens of the footwear of Asia. But l found almost as much pleasure in watching the shuttles fly back and forth on an old-fashioned hand silk loom or standing by while a coppersmith hammered out for me a true Arab coffee pot, or wood worker turned delicate pipe stem on the most primitive lathe in the world.
 l generally visited the bazars at the beginning or the end of the day, but the Bagdadis spend long hours in them. They are a welcome refuge IT Oiii tnC iltOlCIdDly not SlTeclS, anu so all day men and women surge through these miles of narrow lanes and share with trains of pack ani- mals the protection afforded by the low -domed brick or wooden roofs. At the high. shrill cry of "Balac !' -"Mind your k!"-uttered by a man who sits we'll astern on one of a long line of donkeys laden with
 building materials, the crowd falls apart and everybody flattens himself against the wall or retreats into a tiny shop. Then the scattered folk flock together again and jostle one
 another along the way until they are sent scurrying once more by
 the "Clonk, Clonk!" of bells and the the ::Clonk! Clonk" of bells and the advance of a solemn caravan of cam els, tied together. nose to tail, and
 swinging along with disdainful heads lifted high. The shops are mere shallow depressions in the walls, but they have wide doors. which are shut at night and fastened with formid- able padlocks. Everywhere there is blaze of color and half barbaric splendof; piles of bright silks. in gorgeous patterns interwoven with threads of silver and gold; gaudy 1 prints from the west and delicate, hand printed Shiraz cottons in quaint designs and subtle harmony of
 shades; bowls and pots and trays of burnished copper; shining tin ves- sells made of army petrol cans: and l jcwelry--heavy finger rings. earrings, noserings. bracelets and anklets--
 rather bold and showy ornaments. 1! Everywhere there is noise; the whir of looms; the clang of hammers; the shouts of those who have goods to sell; the countershouts of those who pretend they do not wish to buy; the wall of the professional mourner; l the beggars cry of Aims, for the | love of Allah." Everywhere there Is
 odor; rank exhalations from the re- fuse under foot; fetid air; the reek of
 hot, unwnshed bodies; rich spices; heavy perfumes of the east. One is
 glad to enter bazar and glad to llcave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
roNrooN BRIDGE OF SHIPS


 From Popular Mechanics Magazine. What to do with the 2S5 useles: wooden ships built by the emergenc, fleet corporation during the war ha. been for a long time a much dis cussed question. The utilization Of at least 40 of them will be q well come first step in the solution of the problem, and would, besides, be of immense service in one of the most densely populated parts of New York, if proposal to build a pontoon bridge across the Hudson river al Yonkers materializes. The ships to be used as pontoons are of the type known as the Ferris, of which the shipping board mas 1S0 available The hulls are 268 feet long. the beam is 45 feet, the depth 26 feet inches. and the weight about 1000 tons.
 At the point of the river where it is proposed ot build this pontoon bridge, from Yonkers on one side to Alpine on the other, the water Is 40 feet deep, and it has a tidal rise of from { feet to 6 feet and a current of from three to four miles an hour. ; The ships that will form pontoons for the bridge are to be spaced l6O feet from center to center. and they will be anchored with cables to screw piles The bridge spans will be in the form of steel trusses having a headway clearance of not less than s5 feet, sufficient for most of the Iriver craft. For larger vessels there will be provided, by the erection of steel towers on the two boats at about the center of the bridge; means for lifting one span to Il height that will give 110 feet clearance. It is intended to build three roadways, each 10 feet wide, and in connec tion with them two platforms for pc destrians. If it is found that this is insufficient for the traffic. other roadways will be added
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
pr. Stunrt Returns Soon

T am certainly glad to know that Dr. George Stuart, after resting up at Junaluska, our great Methodist en- campment in North Carolina, will be back to resume his work at the First Methodist church on the second Sunday in October" said Frank Dom mick.
 T am especially delighted, as we have been closely identified during the past five years for 1 was elected su- perintendent of the Sunday school when he came as pastor. It will be mighty good to have him on the sec ond Sunday, as the beautiful and commodious Sunday school annex will be used for the first time. I am in hope that great attendance will be present to make it a memorable occasion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20

N NURING the present municipal gV campaign, there has been no more constructive suggestion than that of William L. Harrison pub lished over his signature Sunday.
 Mir. Harrison has pointed uner- ringly to Birmingham's greatest civic weakness-the lack of co-opera- ton, coordination and harmony. He cites definite, specific examples of the good that can ge done by co-ordi- hated effort on the part of Birmiag- ham citizens. The Junior Chamber of Commerce paved South Twentieth street because of the united, public spirited effort of its members The Business and Professional Women 5 club maintains an organized body qualified and ready to take instant action on any matter vitally affect ing the welfare of the community.
 With dozens of organized social, business and professional bodies all ready in Birmingham, MT. Harrison emphasizes the incalculable good they could do were their efforts CO., ordinated and harmonized in such way as to exert their full power and authority over movements for the city's advancement.
 It is the thing Birmingham needs. There is too much selfishness, too much jealousy of the motives of others, too much attention to per sonal advantage and too little vision of the larger needs of the city. United effort will be to the ad- vantage of all. It would create an invincible force for the accomplish ment of worthwhile things for Bir- mingham.
 Nothing better could happen for this city than for every citizen to take personally to heart and adopt for his civic motto: "Co-operation, coordination and harmony"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
AN EMPERoR,s FAvORITE


 From "The Loveliest Lady of China"
 by L. Adams Beck, in Asia Nigga
 zine for October
 In A. D. TIP, the Emperor Ming Huang ascended the throne of China. He had many faults. but, at the least, he was a great lover.
 He was patron of all that was best in the art and literature of his time. In his magnificent and unfor- gotten capital, Ch'ang-an. triple- walled and lowered, stood no less than seven royal palaces with their spreading gardens, drum towers and bell towers, and the mighty Yen tower looking down upon all. To these palaces and gardens he well comed every man of genius that China could produce, and surrounded himself with a court so brilliant that all over the earth ran the fame of the glories and the splendor of the celestial Ming Emperor.
 Here he held the famous gather ings of beauties" The loveliest ladies of China wandered among the flow CTS. Ming Huang was an artist, but fate had set him, like Nero, too high. Deep melancholy seized him. weari- ness of all the splendor. a sick dis taste for life.
 Three thousand of the beauties of Ct,;ra opd of the surrouudinp kinu. doms dwelt in the imperial palaces, but neither all nor one could please him nor stir his dulled senses, and though all that the world could of- fer was his. happiness escaped him. And then came the miracle. A girl was brought into the palace that levied tribute on all the youth of his vast empire--a girl so beautiful that the poets hailed her frail beauty AS that of a goddess. This girl was named Kwei-fei. and she brought two gifts to her Emperor--love and joy. That was the miracle. Life was re- created for him, and 1t brimmed with forgotten, unknown delight. A sparkling stream of pleasure ran day and night through the royal palaces, and it pleased him well. For Kwei- -fci's service were the perfect por- celains, thin as the shell of the hum- ming birds egg. For her the worries of India journeying for years across the pitiless Gobi desert. For her the ermines and sables of the north ern barbarians. The world had little to offer that was not laid at her feet. Every caprice of hers was law divine to the Emperor. and her ca prices ran wild.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

 From>the Chicago News.
 Sometimes the dentist can quiet ms wifes jaw
 A lazy man and comfortble bed are not easily divorced.
 Why do people who pick auarieis always. select such ugly ones?
 It is far more honorable to black shoes than it Is to black characters.
 When his satanic majesty exhibits sympathy for piety it's time to stand from under.
 When a man repeats the smart say inrs of his children he naturally ex- poets you to .understand that he is re- sponsibie.
 Beware of the friendly chap who pats you on the back. The chances are he's trying to jingle the coins in your pocket.
 It knocks about 90 per cent of the conceit out of girl when she shows a young man photograph of herself and he fails to ask her for 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
All War Veterans
 Are Not Mistreated

6T7HERE has been so much criti-
 U cism of the treatment given wounded war veterans that it is gratifying to hear the other side stated. K. J. Vaughan, an inmate of the United States Public Health Service hospital, which is main- tained by the government in St. Louis, writes a letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to deny charges that soldiers in that institution are not being given proper care and at- tention.
 He says, "The disciplinary meas ures used here are quite mild and should not be objected to by any reasonable patient. The sanitary conditions are as good as possible. We have always had clean bed linen, and plenty of clean towels, pajamas and other necessary articles for bed patients. The buildings are old and a few bugs creep into the wards at night. The rooms, however, are re- paired and painted nicely and give a neat and clean appearance. and, in general, we fare as well as the patient in any hospital that ranks with or above the average. As to the food, why, yes, the cook pulled bone and sent us some eggs one day last week which were supposed to be boiled, but were almost raw. This was corrected by the head sur geon and the act has not been re- peated. I am on light diet. Today was Sunday and for dinner I had soup, chicken, potatoes, peas, toast and butter, ice cream and milk. con- stituting what call a pretty faii meal. On days during the week we have good meals consisting of the best that can be bought, and almost always meals are prepared in sat isfactory way"
 There is doubtless room for criti- cism in some of the hospitals where government has spent millions of dollars to restore them to health and the St. Louis hospital may be taken
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
Need of Courthouse

The Birmingham postoffice and federal building is one of the most beautiful in the south," said k. b. Skates, "and visit to this new building impresses one more forcibly of the need of a modern and adequate courthouse.
 The present courthouse is entirely too small in which to handle the af- ment is crowded while there are no witness rooms at all The county has just outgrown the present build- ing. and it is to be hoped that a new building will be erected in the near future"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
JUDGMENT

From the New York Tribune. Take me OCT the trail I've trod. When the last black tide is in; And upon the hands of God
 Lie my virtue and my sin. Let there be no empty tears;
 Let no mourners go before me When travel through the years Backward to the land that bore me. Where a steeple reaches high
 Through the elrAs where rohins
 sing; When against the summer sky.
 You can watch the gilt vane swing. Take me. Up the narrow aisle Bear my body to it's place. Leave 1t there a little while;
 Let it rest an hours space. They will come ta meet me ther4. From the yeIss of 'ong ago: Ere Is said the final pruyer
 They will come. thouzh none viii
 know They will look their lasS oa me
 They will judgment pass, sinseca. One. the boy used to be;
 One. the man l might have been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
cAp4EUuMdAausfI
THE CASUAL MOTHER

From the Sydney Bulletin.
 How is this for the casual mother? The other day friend of the family met her and remarked: T hear. your daughter is married. What is her new name?" "I can't tell you" replied mother with shrug. Il was so annoyed when she told me she was married. I didn't even ask who the man was.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
coNsoL1NG THOUGHT.

CONSOLlNG THOUGHT. You told me Good Night was sure to win"
 Boss" said the tout, "a race don't turn out like dat once in a thousand years"
 T have one consolation. anyhow" Well. boss?"
 T won't be around here to bet when the next race turns out like that"
 HE'LL BEAR WATCHING. Observe the philanthropic man Who has a complicated plan To feed the poor, But never hands a sandwich out To derelicts who turk about His drowning door.
 HEARD IN THE LIVING ROOM. That was fine selection" said the music lover
 Quite so, quite so," murmured the low -browed listener. Something classic, wasn't it?"
 "Yes"
 Would you mind putting on jazz record as sort of 'chaser'?"
 DEFLATION. "Yes, we have an opening here. What salary do you want?" During the war I was getting s1o,000 year."
 "The line for ss.ooo a year men forms at the left"
 PERILS OF PACIFISM. The innocent bystahder
 Should be theme for tears; Iris terrible the knocks he gets, The uncouth words he hears. When missiles start to flying And angry foes advance, 'Tis he, though not belligerent, Who needs an ambulance PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
From the Field.

From the Field.
 N0 HE have received copy of W\T little periodical, the Egyptian Journal, which is
 devoted to political questions that do
 not concern the Field, but also con- tains a descriptive article on the fel- laheen by Abus Elfotouh Pasha, who is a prominent landowner in Egypt
 and a member of the financial com
 official delegation now in this coun- try. It is a short article, but throws good deal of illumination on agri- cultural conditions in Egypt
 In Egypt, it is pointed out, the word fellaheen means not only farm laborers, to whom it is exclusively
 applied by English writers, but all classes of agriculturalists-lan CTS and tenant farmers as well as peasants. At the present time land-
 owners who farm their estates on
 their own account are far from hap py economically. Their position im- proved greatly in 1917-19, when cot
 ton was booming, but the great re-
 auction in the price of cotton last year affected them seriously. The reduction was much in excess of the decline in their expenses, and their difficulties have been further in- creased by the government tax of 35pt.-about Is on each kantar-99 pounds of cotton. This tax was fixed when the price of cotton, was s155, but when the time camef to collect
 it the price had dropped to $25. In some parts, where the quality of the cotton was not good, the price was
 found to be insufficient to pay for ginning and transport charges.
 Farmers were only able to bear the heavy losses because of the profits
 they had made during previous years. Should the price of cotton continue to fall 1t is probable, says Abu El-
 fotouh Pasha. that Egyptian farm CTS will turn their attention to oth-
 CT forms of cultivation.
 The second class of the farming
 community are the tenants. Those
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
How to Keep Hospitals
 From Being Over-Crowded

7 F Charles Dickens were still alive II he might be able to weave a story around an incident reported in dispatch from London which states that British medical circles were astounded today when Dr. Alexander O'Flacrty, tcstifying al an inquest on~ three inmates of the Worcester insane asylum, confessed that he gave them overdoscs of bel ladonna in mistake for mild medi- cine, and that the poison so admin istered had caused their deaths"
 The physician said the harmless
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
BACK TO THE FARM

From the Pennsylvania Farmer.
 A year ago the problem of unten- anted farms in Pennsylvania was a serious one. In June, 1920, there were 6.429 farms in the state which were cultivated only in small way. if at all. because the former occupants had gone elsewhere to work. At the same time there were more than S0.- coo farms that were handicapped ba- cause the owners were unable to SC ' cure sufficient help.
 Since the beginning of the business depression last fall the trend has changed and this year the 'back-to- the-land" movement has been very pronounced By June of this year 2.s59 of the Pennsylvania farms that were idle a year ago were tenanted and being titled. We be- licve that the day is not far off when farming will be profitable enough an occupation that it will pay to make use vf much of the land that now lies idle,