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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

rouse in them again, and they com mence thinking that old age will be deary with nobody but club steward, or Boarding house keeper to look after them and listen to their symp- toms, or to remind them to put on their winter flannels.
 Then it is that the woman who dangles the idea of a home before them, and who knows how to make them comfy when they call, and who manifests sympathetic attitude to- ward their life peculiarities, can bring them to the proposing point if she plays her cards well, and secures to herself the privilege of nursing their gout for the balance of her life.
 But the case-hardened old bachelor who was born bachelor, is a harder proposition. The weak spot in his Achilles heel is that he becomes the slave of habit. He eats the same thing every day, he walks the same number of blocks; he arrives and departs from his office on the stroke of the clock. He keeps his brushes at exactly the same angle on his chiffonier. He visits the same friends.
 This type of man will go to see a woman for years and years without ever popping the question, without ever realizing that he enjoys her society, or is fond of her. and her only chance is to wake him up by going away. Then he finds out that she has become a habit, and he will marry her rather than break it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
INVENTORS OF FUTURE
Only Trained Men Will Develop New
 Ideas, Writer Says

Edsons are rarer than comets, and they will be still rarer Invention is becoming more and more a branch of engineering and, therefore, of applied science. To the trained physicist and chemist we must look for the star ting invention of the future rather than to the illterate Arkwright, the inspirational Cartwright, or the self taught Goodyear, and 1t will seem startling only after the lapse of gem erations, so gradually will it evolve out of older standardized contri- vances.
 Industrial problems are becoming gave us the locomotive and the fly too complex. If we are ever to util- ize the suns heat or the energy so abundantly liberated by radium, the academically trained scientist Gin the pay of some corporation) is more likely to point the way than country men and blacksmiths of the type who ing machine.--Waldema Kaempffert in the Forum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
RECORD FOR FOOTBALL
Estimate Places Attendance At He-
 cent Cannes At Five Million


 In attendance records and gate re- ceipts the past football season was the most astonishing season in the history of sport in this country. A survey reveals the fact that approXi- mately 10 million. dollars had been paid in admission fees at intercol- Iegiate football contests from Septem- Der 25 to December Ia period in which most teams played only eight games. It is estimated five million persons attended these games.
 / When it is considered that prac- tically every high and preparatory school in the United States has football team and tn eattendance records at secondary school contests also attained new high marks the figures are swelled to almost un believable size. Crowds of 10000 at high school games became rather common last fall.
 In spite of the short season, and nd in spite of the fact that every team played not more than once week intercollegiate football this year at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

tracted more spectators than did tho championship cor tests of either of the major baseball leagues, the seasons of which extended from early April to early October. intercollegiate foot ball-an amateur sport-also outdid professional baseball in financiaI records, for neither the National nor the American league saw it's 1923 receipts Unit the 10 million dollar mark.-New York Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
DOMESTIC DAYS
By ROY l.. MCARDELL

Mrs. Jarr was on the telephone. q want to speak to MT. Jarr," was her mandate. What name, please?" asked the office boy.
 "Jarr-J double r-Jarr," re- piled the lady. You know him!"
 But YOUR name, please?" said the boy.
 "Its none of your business, young man. you just tell Mir. Jarr that want to speak to him and at once" retorted Mrs. Jarr with extreme em- phasis.
 You'll have to give me your name. ma 'am," said the boy firmly.
 Look here, young man; how dare you raise your voice to me Don't you know who I am?' asked Mrs. Jarr angrily.
 "Ain't that what I've been trying to find out?" replied the boy peev- ishly. "If you don't give me your name you'll be cut off"
 You just dare to-" cried Mrs. Jarr. There's something suspicious about this whole thing. You go tell my husband want to speak to him, and if you are impertinent I'll have you discharged"
 So the boy told Mir. Jarr his wife was on the wire and wanted to speak to him.
 Hello, dear, is that you" asked MT. Jarr.
 
 you?' cried Mrs. Jarr. ''It's very strange that you have so many lady callers on the telephone that you have to post the boy to insult your wife!"
 That was because the old boy here knew your voice" said MT. Jarr. This is a fresh boy"
 "Yes, I should say he was" inter rupted Mrs. Jarr. The freshest I ever had speak to me. There must be nice females call up that office that he should dare speak to me so And if you don't discharge him at once, you never need ask me to call up your old office!" she added.
 T can't very well discharge him, said MT. Jarr. I'm sure he meant no harm. What was it you wanted to tell me, my dear?"
 Let me see, what was it?" said Mrs. Jarr. Bless me! if I haven't clean forgotten what 1t was. But it's no wonder the way I've been in suited this day by dirty-faced of flee boy" she added with a sob.
 William is a very clean boy, and not at all rude boy" was the feply.
 Never you mind always praising up other people, especially people who are rude to your wife" said Mrs. Jarr. But I forgot. those are the kind of people you think the
 What was 1t you wanted to tell me?" asked MT. Jarr again, diplo- matically ignoring all these charges.
 Will you be sure to be home to- night early?" asked Mrs. Jarr.
 "Certainly," said MT. Jarr.
 "Thats all. Geodby. Don't for get" replied Mrs. Jarr. And the in cident was closed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

Say. Willie, whatcha going to get for Christmas this year?" asked Johnny Rangle, as he waited with his little sister for the Jarr children on their way to school.
 q aint going to tell you because you'd want to get what I'm going to get" replied Master Jarr.
 ''Aw, go on! Tell me whatcha go ing to get?" repeated young MT. Ran gle.
 I'm going to get some dolls and a set of dishes and doll house'-be- gan little Emma Jarr while little Miss Rangle broke in upon her rhap-
The Kusko times., 1923-10-27
What People Get
 When They Smoke
American Medical Assn. Journal.

American Medical Assn. Journal.
 One of the substances abundantlv present in tobacco smoke is carbon monoxid, well known as the lethal agent of Illuminating gas and of the exhaust gas ,of motors, which has had so!Meny victims in recent years. Car bon monoxid is not directly poisonous, but displaees oxygen from hemoglobin
 for the red cells have 225 times as great an affinity for this gas as for oxy- gen. Baumberger has found that to- bacco smoke may have from 7.2 to 25 parts of carbon monoxid in 10000 parts of air, concentration which Hender- son found capable of causing serious symptoms if inhaled for more than an hour. But persons never take in undi- luted smoke-the heartiest cigar tiends and the most resolute pipe smokers all ways taking many breaths of fresh air between puffs. It is estimated that if a person should smoke continuously for one hour, inhaling the smoke five times minute, there might occur as high as 2 per cent saturation of the hemeglobin by carbon .monoxid, con-
The Kusko times., 1923-10-27
Notice of Forfeiture

To Leonard Dodge. F. Smith, Harvey
 Wentz, R. H. Guffe, or k. H. Grif,
 iths, and T. J. CoFey their per
 sonal representatives, heirs and as-
 signs:
 You and each of you are hereby noti- fled that the, undersigned has expended for annual labor one hundred dollars tSl00.00) per year for the years 1915, 1916. 1917, 1920, 1921, 1922, upon the following described mining, claim, in Ruby recording district, Territory of Alaska: The Sandbag Association Claim, on Greensboro creek, a tribu- tary of, Long cPeek in order to hold said claim under the provisions of law respecting annual labor upon mining clai8ls.
 And if f.within ninety (90) days after the publication of this notice you, or any of you, fail to pay your portion of the amount expended on the above claim, your interest n said claim will become forfeited to the undersigned CO owner, according 10 the provisions of Section 2324 Revised Statutes of the United States.
 DAN SUTHERLAND. Date of first publication, Sept. 2, 1923. Date of final publication, Dec. %, 1923.
The Kusko times., 1923-10-27
Probate Notice to Creditors.

In the matter of the Estate of Charles
 Bresler, deceased.
 Notice is hereby given that, on the 29th day of September, 1923, the judge of the probate court for Mt. Mckinley precinct, at McGrath, Alaska, appoint ed the undersigned administrator of the estate of Charles Bresler, de- ceased, and all persons having claims against the estate of Charles Bresier, deceased, are required to present them, with proper vouchers, within SIX months from the date of this notice, to Chris Peterson, executor of said estate, at the N. c. Co.'s store, Tokotna, Mt Mckinley precinct, Alaska. Dated at Tokotna, Alaska, this 3rd day of October, 1925.
 e.4CHRIS PETERSON,
 I, Executor.
The Kusko times., 1923-10-27
Wisconsin Officials and Girls Linked in
 Vice Orgies, Charge

Waupaca, Wis.-State Senator R. J {. Stevenson Wednesday declared he pos sessed facts, evidence and witnesses to back. up charges that state officials had locked women in offices at the state capitol and assaulted them.
 Stevenson said he would present the "facts" to Governor Blaine, who de- manded in telegram that the senator prove the charges, so the guilty otfi- cials might be removed from office and crimlnally prosecuted"
 Stevenson first made the charges in a speech before the La Toilette club Tuesday night.
 Governor Blaine at Madison wired him early Wednesday, demanding" proof. Although Stevenson has not yet received the telegram, he said he would comply with it.
 II will prove to the people of this state that these statements are founded on facts," he said.
 During the last session of the state legislature charges were made in the state house of 'sliduor bouts' between legislators and lobbyists, and rumors of .'gay parties" were whispered about. The legislature refused to vote an in- vestigation of the drinking charges.
 Madison, Wis.-GoVernor Blaine, in 8 telegram to Senator R. J. Stevenson, demanded names of state officials charged with assaulting girls in locked capitol offices. The executive declared that. .hevwould remove promptly any of icial named by Senator Stevenson.
 Senator Stevenson, in statement in reply, declared: lit is very strange that the governor now is anxious to get information concerning alleged assaults oo girls in capitol offices when he and his official family pulled every string during the legislature to defeat a move to geta full aLd complete investigation of those charges" <"
The Kusko times., 1923-10-27

bacco was consumed ip equal time, and the products of the combustion deter mined; i5 was found that although the cigarette tobacco used contained nearly twice as much nicOtin as the cigar to- bacco, the smoke of the latter was twice as toxic as the cigarette smoke. The explanation for this is that during the slow combustion of a cigar, as in ordinary smoking, immediately behind the point of combustion is an area in which the water and other d volatile substances condense; during the act Of smoking, the hot gases pass through this raoist area and volatilize the more volatile principles of the tobacco, Of which nicotin 4, one, Therefore tho smaller the moist, hot area behind the point of combustion, and the more rapid and complete the com 5ustion, the less likely is the smoke to contain volatile toZic bodies; hence 9 ,garet .or slender cigar will yield fewer of ghese products than 8 thick cigar, and many smokers can testify that thick, fiat" cigar has much more effect than long, slender cigar of similar tobacco. The unpleasant effects that the mac customed smoker experiences on re- lighting half-Gulshed clgar or pipe are explained oa she same basis.
 Blobbs-Are you doing anything these days?
 Slobbs--I'm working every day, eight. hours at a stretch.
 Blobbs-W here?
 Slobbs--In the ruober factory.
The Kusko times., 1923-10-27

centratiou sufficient to produce head ache and perhaps an oxygen shortage during activity, but this figure is un- doubLedly far above what smokers do actually accomplish. Perhaps 10 per cent is mere nearly the maximum reached in smoking, a figure that has not been found ordinarily to produce symptoms.
 Formerly the statement was current that the chief toxic material in tobacco smoke IS pyridn, derived by decompo- sition Of nicotin; but later studies agree in indicating that the .nicotin is the chief active agent, tobacco smoke eXerting much the same physiologic effects as nicotin in corresponding co a centrations. By direct analysis, Baum berger found that cigaret smoke con tains between 14 and B per cent of the nicotin present in the tobacco smoked. CigaIots weigh about ] gm. apiece, ,,and about 80 per cent of the tobacco is smoked, so that the nieotin in the puffed smoke amounts 10 about } mg. for each cigaret Of this, about 67 per cent is absorbed if the smoke is merely taken into the mouth, but 83 per cent is absorbed if the smoke is inhaled into the lungs. How much of this reaches the blood depends chiefly on how much is lost in saliva, the drooling of the no vitiate being an important protective measure, since from to mg. of nic- otin dissolved ia water, taken within half an hour, may cause severe symp- toms in ponsmokers, whereas habitual smokers can endure twice as much.
 These figures. show that an unventi- lated room ten feet square and ten feet high, occupied by ten men all smoking cigarets to the best of their ability for an hour, would come to have an air containing about two parts of carbon monoxid and enough nicotin to furnish 2.6 mg. an hour to the person compelled to breathe it. While these are not large amounts in figures, it is certain
 
 CTS. in such an environment would have headache, which is ascribable to the increased intracranial pressure that is produced by both the nicotin and the decreased oxygen in the blood. If our hardened cigaret smoker were to puff away steadily for an hour he might ab- sorb as much as 36 mg. of ncotin if he inhaled, a4I 27.5 if he only putfed. These are amounts that would und0ubt- edly produce marked effects even on the habituated, but there is at least the consolation that ta9 lethal dose is 800 mg. taken at one time. However. the smoker gets much besides carbon mo- noxid and nicotin, for the solids Of cig- arette smoke weigh about 10 per cent l of the tobacco burned, or. about 50 mg. for each cigarette, and all the things l it may contain besides the aforemen- l tioned gre not known; but the eEperiS mental evidence indicates Jh&t nicotin and carbon monoxil account for most if not all the observed effects.
 1t is to be considered that theoe ex- periments were carried out with cig- arettes, for the observations of Lee in- dicate that tobacco burned in cigarettes yields much less nicotin, and presum- ably less carbon monoxid. in the smoke than when burned in cigars or pipes. For example, a Manila. cigar and cig- arette of Virginia tobacco were so burned that the same smopnt of to
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-15
HE TALKS LIKE ONE

"Of one thing we are certa in
said the Honorable William G Nc
Adoo addressing Democratic
luncheon club in Los Angeles, We'd
nesday. California is going to be
moreAon the map in the future than
ever 1t has been in the past" state
ment. which he prefaced by saying:
Whatever the future may have in
store, California. at least is double
barrelled for this Presidential cleo
tion."
Some State. California, that can
fire both barrels. VIM. G. McAdoo
and Hiram Johnson, at once and not
suffer from the recoil. If that
doesn't start an earthquake or set
the oil wells to spouting then Cali
fornia is not what she is cracked I'D
to be. She will be put on the map,
all right. and we will be lucky if
she isn't spread all over it; but
there Is Detroit to be heard from. 1t
10 possible superstition has an abid-
ing place among Detroiters. They
may have heard of recent freezing of
the orange crop in California and
regard 1t as, an omen, against which
a double-ba explosion may not
avail. Anyhow they are saying a
Ford ticket shall be produced at the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-15
Mr.. MeAdoo's Second Thought

(N. Y. Times, Dem.)
Mr.. McAdoo's first proposal to is
sue f1fty-year bonds to pay the
soldiers bonus fell rather fiat. In
fact. it met with sharp disapproval
even from those friendly to his
Presidential candidacy. They did
not think it quite consistent with
the reputation of a great financier to
advocate paying a fixed charge Of the
Government by borrowing money in
times of peace. In his attack upon
President Coolidge yesterday in Los
Angeles, Mr.. McAdoo made it plain
that he is still for tho bonus, but
apparently he has got "A new idea of
a way to pay for it lin cash" He
severely condemns the President for
standing by the Fordney- McCumher
tariff. That law, declared Mr.. Nc
Adoo. gives favored trusts. mon
"oplies and combinations in restraint
"of trade subsidy estimated at
more than $4,000. 100000 per annum,
or twice as much as it will take
L" to pay the soldiers bonus"
The implication Is that Mr.. hlsAdoo
would take away the subsidSxfrom
the protected manufacturers and
turn it over to the eX-service men.
Ways and means of doing II he does
not specify. If the Government we're
to cut the tariff taxes in half, or
abolish them altogether. it would,
indeed. make an end of the subsidy
to the protected classes. but 1t would
certainly not let them have the sub
sidy in its own hands in the form of
cash to present to the soldiers. De-
Stroying a subsidy would not create
a surplus in the Treasury. Out of
vacuum you cannot get negotibls
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-15
Editors Table

Stella C. S. Perry. author of Come
Home is believer in sentiment,
though disbeliever in sentiment
tality. "Sentimentality," she says, sis
sentiment gone to Seed" but she is
not afraid to write story of feeling
converted into durable action"
This she has done in Come Home.
Her aim was story to help people
feel the romance and beauty of the
idea of home, and home is the heart
and spirit of the boob As Flame.
the heroine, lover of her home ana
the egrets which seek sanctuary
about it, says, "That is what lire IS
for--to keep nests safe" Mrs. Perry
chose as a setting her own old hime,
the bayou country of Southern Louis
lana. the only place in America. in her
opinion, where the Old South still
persists. The home of the story.
bravelv defended by the heroine when
financial misfortune threatens to
take it from her. is charming o..
plantation Homestead. the original of
Nermilion, not many miles from New
Orleans, in the midst of water oak,
willow and cypress trees. vine-huns,
with its rice fields about II and acres
of beautiful. mysterious swamp for
estS in which the egrets seek their
nesting places. "f'ureville" of the
story is. in the main. ,Abbeville. la.
Not only is the background Of the
story genuine. but many of the char:
acters arc studies of living models.
The people of this parish. or coun-
try. are a combination of the old
French families-the first settlers,
now called Creoles-and the descend
ants of the Acadians who came with
Evangellne - now called I'ajans
These strains are distinctly different
and in combination make a unique
people.
Ro' lance did not die in Louisiana
with the death of Evangeline and
Airs. Perry has caught and preserved
It delightfully."- in her modern story of
Come Home. 1t Is published by Fred
erick A .SfNkaS Cnnnnonu
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-15

funds. All you can get out of 1t Is
the nonsense of politicians.
Mr.. McAdoo as Secretary of the
Treasury was known as very
smart executive who made rapid de-
cisions. The question which will
trouble his friends now is whether
he has not been too smart and too
rapid in coming out against the
Presidents program, the remarkable
popularity of which has been shown
by such conclusive evidence. MIR.
COolidge's plan has to be taken as a
whole. One cannot be for parts of
it and against other parts without
really being hostile to the entire pro-
ject. Especially can one not be for
the bonus without aligning himself
against the scheme of tax reduction.
Yet that is the position which Mr..
McAdoo takes. He will be ap-
plauded for it by the bonus hunters.
But will he commend himself in this
way to sober minded citizens? In
our opinion Mr. McAdoo has made a
bad political blunder.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-15

psychological moment. What! yield
the palms of victory to Los Angeles
and the glorious climate Of Calf
NEnia? BIah!.
Once Mr.. McAdeo posed as the
wizard Of the United States
Treasury, and some of his friends,
who took him at that valuation, are
now asking themselves: How does
William get this way? That he OF
all men should recommend fifty
year bonds in time of peace, would
shut off the revenues of the tariff
and yet have money to pay the bonus
and reduce taxes. all in the same
BREATH"
To be charitable one perhaps
should consider how William did
get that way should reflect that he
hardly has had time to get acclimated
to California, has not been there long
enough for the first impressions to
wear off. Of course. like all eastern
ers, he was told that whether he
put his money into an oil we'll or a
gold-mine prospect it was sure to
come back swollen beyond recogni-
ton; that even if Oil nor gold were
found the land itself would double in
value so fast one could not keep
checked up on it. He seems to have
believed it.
Yes. it is possible Mr.. McAdoo is
not yet acclimated and the glorious
sunshine may have gone to his head,
but he talks like genuine Cali
fornian promoter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-15
Editors Letter Box
Had the Cooper Read
What the Printer Printed?
December IS. 1928.

DeCeIIlDGr 10, 1879.
To the Editor of Kennebec Journal:
In the Boston Herald of yesterday
in an editorial entitled 1.-The Forty
Ninth State name given by one
writer to Northamptonshire county,
England, reference is made TO a
quaint epitaph. adapted to his own
use by Benjamin Franklin. Franklin
wrote his epitaph in 1928 at the age
of twenty three and it was soon after
published. 1t was not in fact used
upon his gravestone:
THE Body of s. Franklin. Printer.
Cike the Cover of an old Book, it's
Lettering and Gilding) Lies here.
Food for Worms. But the Work shall
not be loct; For it will (as he be-
lievedt Appear once more In a new
and more elegant Edition, Revised
and Corrected BY the Author"
Richard. Thomas of WinslOw died
September %. 1924. lie owned and
lived on the Fort Farm. as it was
called. In his will. the executor of
which was my friend Lemuel Paine
was the request that the following
epitaph be carved upon his grave
stone. The stone of slate is now
standing in the Fort Hill Cemetery
in Winslow: and upon it are these
words:
Here lies the body of Richard Thorn
as
An inglishman by birth I'm the will
"englishmanD
\ whig of &c
by occupation a cooper
Now food for worms
Like an old rumpunchcon
marked numbered and shocked
He will he raised again
And finished by his creator
he died Sept. IS 1924 aged rs
America my adopted country
NJ best advice to you is this
take care of your liberties
An object of his trade is used by
each. In the rum trade of years ago.
the slaves of the puncheOns were
shipped in bundles shocked. marked
and numbered. and at the destination
raised" and FINISHED" as was said,
to he filled and shipped back.
FrankIin's epitaph is said to have
had many imitators. Was Thomas
one"
NORMAN r., BASSETT.