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rail just below Jenny. "winsome Bluebird lived here last year. Why don't you like 1t, my dear? It is bet ter than no house at all"
 Tut. tut. tut. tut. tutr cried Jenny sharply. Tut, tut, tut, tuti It isn' better than no house at ali. It won't do. If you had any sense at all you would know 1t won't do.''
 Very well, my dear. Very we'll. If you say it won't do, 1t won't do. But I don't see why" replied MT. Wren meekly.
 Jenny whirled around to face MT. Wren and her tongue fairly flew. With each word she jerked her tall as if that had something to do with getting the words out. You don { don't your" she snapped. What are your eyes for, Mir. wren?N What are your eyes for? Didn't you see Chatterer the Red Squirrel running along this fence this morning? Didn't you see him poke his head in this hole?"
 Mir. Wren nodded. but before he could say a word Jenny's tongue be- gan again. "Oh, you did?" she snapped linen what Is the matter with your wits? What chance woul.i we have of raising a family in there with that red robber about? You know as we'll as I do that there is nothing would please him better than q meal of young wrens."
 But winsome and Mrs. Bluebird raised family here all right last year" protested MT, Wren.
 That was their good luck snapped Jenny. "Chatterer was prob- ably too busy somewhere else to come over here while their family was growing. You notice they arc not nesting here this year."
 MT. Wren had no answer for this. so he began to sing. He had besn aching to sing all morning. In spite of their trouble he wanted to sing.
 ''Stop that" commanded Mrs. Wren sharply There isn't anything 10 sing about. It will be time enough to sing when we have found home. Mir. Wren stopped singing.
 "It looks to me as if we will have to go off somewhere else. and don't want to- continued Jenny. Come with me and we will ses if there is any place around Farmer Browns house. If there isn't guess we will have to go somewhere
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ANDREW AND IMOGENE
By ROE FULKERsoN

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 How is your knee?" asked Andrew after he had carved the roast.
 70, it is well again." said Imogene doubtfully.
 You seem rather disappointed about it," smiled Andrew
 T don't know just what to think of the whole thing" said Imogenc. "Either am kind of silly, pr. Littic- page is poor doctor or something IS wrong."
 "Tell me about It," said Andrew with interest.
 Well" said Imogene, you know i sprained by knee getting out of the car. It worried me little at tho time but I supposed would get over it all right. and then as it got no better decided I had better go over and see the doctor about it,
 "He listened to me and then said he, did not believe the sprain had anything to do with 1t and feared I had touch of rheumatism. He gave me list of things not to eat and a prescription to the druggist.
 At the time I thought he in- tended me to take the stuff for he said something about night and morning, but paid little attention. for knew the drug store man would put the directions on the bottle and so I drove past the druggists and left the prescription, telling him to send the stuff over.
 Tt came in big half-pint bottle and I was dumbfounded when I saw 1t for I knew 1t would take me . month to take 1t all and then tore off the wrapper and 1t said on the label. For external application, and that explained why there was 70 much of 1t.
 You know we decided that I would not start that diet until we came back from our trip, so 1 rubbed my knee with the stuff night and morn ing for several days and I was get ting better all the time 50 I called so much better I would not como over this morning as I had prom iscd. Then he asked me If was talk ing the medicine and said was and he asked me how I liked the taste of it! I explained that was not taking 1t but was rubbing it on my knee and he told me I was looney, that must take a teaspoon full night and morning. I said al- right and hung up for did not talk. the prescription where he told me.
 Then called up Mir. Linton. the druggist. and he looked up the pre- scription and told me not to dare % take that internally and I did not know what to do! decided to take the bottle and go over to the doc- tors office and SO wrapped 1t un and started to put it in my handbag, and there in the little pocket found the prescription with the doctors name on it!
 Then all at once it dawned on me what had happened. About a month ago just before we went to the beach, the doctor and his wife were oyer here playing bridge and told him how badly sunburned at the beach and he wrote me a prescrip- tion for something to cure sunburn and l never had the prescription filled. and 1t had been in my bag all the time and when I stopped at the drug store I gave the man the wrong one.
 Now for days I have been rub bing that sunburn remedy on q knee with rheumatism, and I have not dieted. and still 1t has cured me! Now what l want ro know is, who Is the fool? Am I or is the doctor or who?"
 "simplest thing on earth." said Andrew Keep using this remedy for rheumatism and have the other prescription filled and take 1t inter-
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else. I couldn,t be happy anywher

else. I couldn't be happy anywhere else" she added mournfully.
 Jenny led the way toward Farmer Browns home and Mir. Wren meekly followed They hunted all about the house and the shed and the barn, but not a place that Jenny would even consider did they find. They. were just about to give up when Jenny made a discovery and at once flew over to look 1t over. What was it? Why, it was an old coat hanging from a hook in Farmer Browns dooryard.
 Copyright, 1921. by T. W. Burgess)
 The next story Jenny and Mir. Wren Argue"
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ARABIAN NIGHTS SHOEMAkERs From Shoes of Asia, by Roland cor
 hold. in Asia Magazine.

ARABIAN NIGHTS SHOEMAkENs From Shoes of Asia, by Roland cor bold, in Asia Magazine.
 Far to the north, in the Mesopo- tamian capital, Bagdad. the once glorious city of the Caliphs, l have Fingered in the bazars until l have been bewitched into not disliking their smells and not seeing tneir | fifth and not being jarred by their din. One breathes in them still the |atmosphere of romance. They are long, winding brick corridors, built | lin between the houses, so narrow that a carriage can scarcely pass down them, though they are used las a main thoroughfare for all kinds of traffic. They are roofed by series of low, irregular domes con taining openings to let a little hgnr land air into these dim, malodorous |retreats from the intolerable warmth and brightness outside. They are | lined with shops, which are mel e shallow recesses in the walls but |have front doors that can be fass- Iened at night with fearful and won- derful padlocks The different l trades congregate together. There 's Ithe gorgeous-hued silk bazar, the cotton bazaar, gay with prints. the |copper bazaar, not quite so ciangor- IOus, perhaps, as naval snlpyaru' l the silver and goldsmiths' bazar, with it's miniature anvils and its fur |naces blown with primitive skin bel lows. and the native shoe bazar.
 The shoemaker takes pride in his craftsmanship, and re1oices Tn the work of his hands; for most Of the | time he Is making handsome canoe shaped shoes, with scarlet outside Iand yellow lining. which Arab men |wear in the city, and which harmon |ize admirably with their SIX and gold abas If he is an enterprising cobbler and likes to keep ahead or ! the game, he may festoon the cell ' ing of his little shop with dozens | of pairs of uppers ready for the soles to be sewed on. To be sure.
 as he sits comfortably beating the | finishedWshoe into shape with his
 wooden mallet, he is not at all dis .turbed by the fact that the pairs are none too exactly matched as to | length and width. The prospective customer will have the amusement of trying on the shoes that he thinks
 wili fit him and, if he please. Of .harraining for them until the cool . of inc evening. What more should } one ask? But if one does ask more, inc shoemaker is prepared to grant . ii for during the war he picked up
 mnnv | new idea and learned to
 mako shoes after the western pat tern. So eager is he for foreign
 patronage that. if he receives !!
 western shoe as a model. ne copies
 1t faithfully, even to patcn on the
 vsmp, and perhaps he goes so iar as |to make up shoes for stock ana to
 send out his son--who speaks 1ar.
 ron of mixed Arabic, Hindustani ant
 Enrlish of a type not exactly appro-
 priate for drawing rooms--to naii T
 pa assing Englishman with the cry,
 "I.ovely shoes. sahibl" or Enshsh
 shoes. good sahib."
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EXPEDITION AT LA PAz Hw Asannlafed Preaa

New York, July 4.-The Mulford biological expedition which sailed from New York June 1, to explore the headwaters of the Amazon and search for new drugs, has arrived at La Pss, Bolivia This word was re- ceived today by Columbia university. The expedition, headed by pr. Henry H. Rusby, will commence descending the eastern slope of the Andes to- morrow, with the Bohi river as the chief objective.
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NEW TRIAL SOUGHT

Bristol. Va Tenn, July 4.--Afflda- wits charging that five officers in charge of the jury hearing the re- cent trial of Carl Murrell, 19, found guilty of second degree murder for the killing of his father, whispered frequently with the jurymen during the trial were presented today when motion for a new trial was made In the circuit court at Blountsville.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
BURGESS
 Bedtime Stories By THORNTON w. BURGESS
Jenny Wren Makes Discovery
There's little gained by being meek, Nor will he find who will not seek.

AHcIe uIIlc Sdlleu Dy Delng meek, Nor will he find who will not seek.
 Jenny Wren.
 Jenny Wren sat on top of an old fence post on the edge of the Oid Orchard. jerking her tail and scold- ing as only Jenny can scold. It didn't seem as if there could be so much temper in such small per- son, though when you come to think about it. it often appears that the smaller the person the more temper they have. The post was hollow. the very one in which Winsome an1 Mrs. Bluebird had made their home the year before.
 This is the only empty house there Is, and I don't like it,'' splut. tered Jenny.
 Tt seems to me like a very goot house." said Mir. Wren idly. as he fidgeted about uneasily on the top
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nally for sunburn next time you go to the beach.
 T always said you were contrary and this proves"
 Pass me the potatoes and shut up" interrupted Imogene rudely.
 Yes, ma'am." replied Andrew meekly. Looks Nike rain, doesn't it7"
 Tt is stormy all right" replied Imogene. looking at him steadily.
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DEATH TOLL TWELVE. A-1-<~sl pRAGA

Chicago, July 4-rweive persons died and a score or more were in- |turAd as the result of the three-day Fourth of July h,.6ay. Two were shct to ceath. three- |year old boy died in a three-story fall. five persons drowned and four
 were Killed in auromchi.e accidents.
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ordinance consists of certain grad ing, sidewalks and brick alley paw ing.
 The streets, avenues. alleys or other highways or portions thereof along which said improvements have been constructed and the terminal points of said Improvements are as follows to-wit; On avenue Y. Ensley. formerly 25th avenue. Ensley. from 20th Place. Ensley, to 18th street, Ensley.
 H. g. RYALL. City Clerk.
 Age-Herald, July s, 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
More Truth Than Poetry
THE SAFEST WAY OUT
By JAMES !. MONTAGUE

Dedicated to to a '1,h Distinguished Naval Officer That King canute had said That he could stand beside the strand The e1s Ensll s5IR the ss Ss's %ss ss'a and Scotch Across rest the Ua country ntc .ssa swarmed ne ..n And when he didn't even check The onrush of the tide, His fs5ns iooh as sqs'ss'i if ss ied si'e bS hs'k And yet canute the. the while biIn they goasd "esa conspred Sphsa1s with saa the "S devil sdi 10 Net ee staiety sIs' on S1 tSe ausRssd leSe n'' And asked them roundly why They loved to gouge and cheat and steal, Ana as as doabtisss iGgisal yos gssSis SsS. read The lightning like a asst catapui putt Came struck them dead. say: Eve s we're not quoted aDoss sasa ssashsi a We've learned a lot since those days; ut1s When g great eat men .s;.y.t say things now "hSs Rss tSnnasr Sn tnst of Pselsst0n' rs~: raise Which on their publication When over.freey " flowing wing words, At dinner tables loosed, Like curses and domestic birds The man who says them squrms And never bats But in aggreved and peevsh terms "Im fearfuly abused" walls he, "The papers have misquoted mew
 HIS FUTURE SECURE We'll Admiral Sims retire. but he'll offer That monkey in Newport attention Nothing short of wild cat the old time interest the GETTING DOWN TO CASES "'A csps iss S ss s s syndicate Incl
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05

Conventional art still shows light ing of ziz-zag shape, but such lighting does not occur in nature. The flashes meander and branch, but do not make sharp angles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
OIL FIRE KILLS FIVE Dy Asaocfnfod Pfesg

sChicago, July 5.-Ffve men wery burned to death and 27 were injured when fire started today in three bae- |teriee of high pressure stills in the Standard Oil company's refinery at
 Whit1Ng. Ind. An explosion followed |fhe flre. The property loss was said
The Nome nugget., 1921-11-05
THE RETIRING JUDGE

It is to be regretted that Judge Robert w. Jennings. retiring district court judge in the First Judicial Di- vision. lowered the dignity of his court by personally abusing two ter ritoriai officials who had invoked the wrath of the court by taking legal steps necessary to protect the funds of the territorial treasury.
 Judge Jennings has, during his tenor of office as district judge. been a persistent political partisan. His mind has been constantly directed OH political matters. most important of which was the infamous Sulzer-Wick- ersham election contest opinion. which was repudiated by demo- cratic committee of the House of Representatives. There was never an election in the north but what Judge Jennings was an active parti- san.
 Although directed by Governor Riggs, Territorial Treasurer Smith. on the advise of Attorney-Genera Rustgard refused to pay certain warrant drawn on territorial funds. Action in court was started. and tha territorial treasurer filed an affidavit charging Judge Jennings with pre- judice. In turn. both Smith and Rustgard were cited and placed un- der arrest charged with contempt of court. After spending two hours heaping abuse on these officials. Judge Jennings dismissed the pro- ceedings. declaring they were not in contempt:
 The action of Judge Jennings is to be regretted No man should be clother with such misplaced author i,y nor allowed to punish rlen in such manner. Happily. Judge Jen- nings is snGrt!y tc retire from the Alaska district ,ou-t benc". His retirement was no doubt hastened by his unwise action in Ketobikan.--- Alaska Usp!tG',
The Nome nugget., 1921-11-05

Nine hundred and fifty thousand cases of salmon is the estimated pack this season in the region known as the Bristol Bay district. The sea- sons pack is estimated to be at least 100000 cases more than lats year and also larger pack than that of
 1919. The season was a shrt ne at that and none of the canneries operated to full capicity. The above resume is given by R. B. Mays. rep resenting the National Gamers As sociation. "The past season, although exceedingly short, was splendid one for the 22 canneries operating in the Bristal Bay region.' said MT. Mays.
 "None Of the canneries operated to full capacity. owing to the salmon market. which several months ago was overstocked. and the short but heavy run of fish. There were 22
The Nome nugget., 1921-11-05
OF DEFUNCT
 SEATTLE BANK IN SIGHT

Seattle Nov. 3-The Bank of Washington and the Lumbermen S Bank of Washington, have organized for the purpose of handling its affairs has submitted bill for the purchase of the entire assets of the defunct Scandinavian-Amer Bank of Se attle, which if accepted by the State Supervisor of Banking, provides q sum sufficient to pay all deposito"s sixty per cent of their claims and to pay in full all claims of preferred creditors, as they may arise.
The Nome nugget., 1921-11-05
ADMINISTRATION WORRIED BY
 CONFERENCE CRITICISM

Washington. Nov. 3-The Admin istration is perturbed at the increas- ing criticism voiced in Congress and in the press against the secrecy as pect of the Disarmament Conference. There will be some open sessions but just how many is uncertain
 The State Department, in response to queries. has replied that the mat ter is one for the whole conference to decide.
The Nome nugget., 1921-11-05

The Seattle Chamber of Commerce announces that Secretary of the In- terior Fall has unofiicially pledged to the Chamber that he would return within sixty days and make visit to Alaska. The Chamber has been working since Secretary Fall entered the cabinet to have him go to Alaska and get first hand information on the territory. Secretary Fall explained his failure to include Alaska in his present trip by promising to go to the Territory this fall, it was said at the Chamber.
The Nome nugget., 1921-11-05

Bristol Bays canned salmon pack will total about 1.076.00 cases, two- thirds of normal pack, according to advices brought by the full rigged ship Benjamin F. Packard of the Northwestern Fisheries Company. which is discharging at the Bell Street pier of the Port Commission The pack of the plants at Nushagak, Koggiung. Naknek. Igignk and Ugas- hil will total about 950,O00 cases. Port Moller produced S0.O0O cases and Herendeen Bay 46,000 or total of 26 900 cases, which is the largest pack in six years for that part of the North, according to advices received in Seattle.
The Nome nugget., 1921-11-05

Puget Sound is a recognized base for Arctic explorations. Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Canadian explorer, will head a party to leave Seattle on an exploration of the Arctic regions which will take them from two to five years. The party, under Allan Crawford of Toronto, plans to spend the winter on one of the Canadian Islands in the Arctic, and Dr. Ste fansson will join them later. Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole will leave here in the spring for another polar jaunt.
The Nome nugget., 1921-11-05
FAIRBANKS WANTS
 FORT GIBBON POST

It is reported that there is move .ment on foot by the Fairbanks Com mercial club to have the army post at Fort Gibbon removed to Fair banks. It is said the war depart ment has no intention Of abandon ing the post at Gibbon and that prep erations are being made for the in stallation of an electric light plant Cor use during the coming winter.
The Nome nugget., 1921-11-05
TEXT OF NEW ASSESSMENT LAW

Following is the full text of the new annual assessment work law passed recently by the present Con gress.
 (Public-No. 64-G.th Congress)
 (H. R. 4S13D
 An Act changing the period for do- ing annual assessment work on un- patented mineral claims from the calendar year to the fiscal year be- ginning July 1 each year.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That sections ? of "An Act to amend sections 2324 and 2325 of the Revised Statutes of the United States concerning mineral lands," ap- proved January 22., 1880. be, and tho same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
 SEC. 2 That section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by adding the following words Provided. That the period within which the work required be done annually on all unpatented min eral claims located since May 10, 1872. including such claims in the Territory of Alaska, shall commence at 12 o'clock meridian on the 1st day of July succeeding the date of location of such claim: Provided further. That on all such valid exist ing claims the annual period ending December 31, 1921, shall continue to 12 o'clock meridian July 1, 1922"
 Approved, August "A, 1921.
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GEORGE UNABLE ATTEND
 OPENING OF CONFERENCE

London, Nov. 3-Lloyd George will be unable to attend the opening session of the Washington Disarma- ment Conference, according to pres ent indications.
 The premier indicated this after noon that he will be unable to sail for the United States next Saturday but hopes to participate in the con- ference later.
The Nome nugget., 1921-11-05

Seattle-"Unshac Alaska from bureaucratic control and speed up re- clamation of arid lands" These are the major objects of President Hard ing and his administration. said Sec retary of the Interior Albert E, Fall
 The distinguished visitor here on his first Seattle visit, deplored the linn ited time allotted to him here. and declared that he wanted to come here again in two months ito sit down and talk with Seattle about Alaska and other matters before making a trip to the Northern territory next summer President Harding will undoubtedly accompany him on his 1922 Alaska trip. he announced.
 There are three measures now under consideration to relieve Alas ka of the burden of bureaucratic control, one of these is to give the president power to allocate control. and another provides for a commits sion form of territorial government. I have revoked a rule of my prede- cessor relating to the leasing of AL askan oil lands. the rule of the for mer administration allowing per son to take up a single claim of 2,5O0 acres. while present regulations all low as many as five claims. or nearly 5000 acres per person. The more liberal regulation may assist in de- veloping Alaskas oil fields.
 Little can be done with the Northern territory until all Alaska departments and all authority to deal with Alaska is vested in single branch of the government. Fifty seven varieties of bureaus cant func- tion in the best interests of the ter ritory," was Secretary Falls sum mary of the situation as it exists at present. The laws pertaining to the national domain do not fit Alaska. The problems in that section of the country are peculiar to that section alone. Capital is what is needed. If it is available to open up the country to the miner he will see to it that he gets transportation for his ores
 Moreover the laws relating to the territory must be liberalized if Alas ka is to be developed. Capital must he assisted by legislation. If the speculative element is too strong it will be difficult to get capital to go in. It is my present plan to hav, practical railroad man make sur vey of the Alaska railroad situation and render full report on it.
 "I am interested in the territory $ development" was the secretary's word to Alaskans, and shall do all in my power to help it forward !"
The Nome nugget., 1921-11-05

Judge Lomen. confirmed as judge of the Second Judicial District has gone to New York to enlist additional capital for the Lomen Reindeer Com pany. He will return to Seattle in time to sail on the Victoria on its next trip to Nome. He expects to secure needed capital and will place the reindeer company in the hands of competent manager.
The Nome nugget., 1921-11-05
FRIDAY
 (TELEGRAPHlCl
LAPS STlL I.SHY OF AR
 EASTERN DISCUSSIONS

Washington, Nov. 3-An indica- tion by the Japanese delegation to the Disarmament Conference that they desired to discuss the limita- tion of armaments prior 10 Far East ern and Pacific questions. was brought forward today by the dele gation leaders.
 The Japanese attitude indicates an expectation that difficulties might develop with respect to the latter questions.
The Nome nugget., 1921-11-05
SENATE ENDORSES EXTENSION
 OF EMERGENCY TARIFF

Washington, Nov. S-The Senate Finance Committee, on resuming it's hearings today on tariff questions. ordered a favorable report on the re- cent resolution extending the Emer- gency Tariff law to February 1. or until such time as permanent tariff schedules are enacted into law.
The Nome nugget., 1921-11-05

The Alaska-Dano Mining Company at Funta Bay. Admiralty Island, has struck one of its ore bodies in tun- mel on which work has been under way for nearly year. It is now planned to extend this tunnel to crss cut other ore bodies.