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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10

c. w. Carey OF the wire plant has
been called to Michigan on account
of the serious illness of his father.
H. w. Oliver, formerly with the
Adams Drug store in Birmingham.
has been engaged by Halls Pharmacy
of Fairfield. He is a brother of w,
]. oliver, general manager of the
Fairfield Land company.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Robins are in
Catherine, Ala, to attend the we'd
ding of relative.
Miss Blanche Thompson has re-
turned to her home in Chicago after
teaching in Fairfield during the win
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. E. Batson have ar
rived in Fairfield to make their
future home.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
ALLEGED LOOKOUTS HELD

Three Bound Over Until Fall Term
OF Federal Court by Charlton
C. O. Findley, W. NJ Hodggins and
T. F. Farrell of near Simsville,
Shelby county. Ala, were bound over
until the fall term of the federal court
under 5000 bond, following a prelim-
mary hearing Saturday afternoon be-
fore United States Commissioner
Kenneth c. Charlton.
The men were arrested June on a
complaint sworn out by Federal Pro
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
RECEIVER Appointed

NASHVILLE, Tenn, June Q. -
Wynne F. Cluse. former congress
man. was named receiver of the old
Tennessee Central railroad. to sue
coed the late Judge w. X McAIister,
by C>Seral Judges Gore and Hicks.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
ma FOsTER BACK HOME

DR.. ]. NJ. Foster, 6l2 TUSCALOOSA
avenue, returned Saturday from a
visit to relatives in Mississippi He
was gone for about week.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10

hibition Agent r. A. Smith and held
under 81 1000 bonds charging them with
conspiracy to oppose federal officers
in the discharge of their duties, 1t
being alleged that Findley, Hodggins
and Farrell gave warning to sinners
that the officers were on their trail.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10

In order to provide hours of rec
reation for their employees during
the summer mercantile establish
ments in Fairfield will close dur
ing the months of June, July and
August at noon on Thursdays. Aside
from the grocery stores which en-
gagged in this thoughtfulness last
summer it is announced that all of
the leading merchants have agreed
to this step for this season. The
drug stores will not be included.
The merchants of Fairfield, alive to
the best interest of their employees,
have taken this step voluntarily and
patrons are requested to provide for
their necessities before noon on
Thursdays.
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FAIRFIELD SCHOOLS
OPEN MONDAY FOR
SUMMER SESSION
Merchants OF City Again
Adopt Thursday Closing
FAIRFIELD BUREAU
THE AGE-HERALD
EairfiaId Ala Luna q

Summer school work will be opened
at the Fairfield High school Monday
morning. Permission has been given
by the board of education and it is
expected that quite a few boys and
girls will take advantage of the
opportunity. The school will last
six weeks and will be for those boys
and girls delinquent in their past
work The high school class for
1924 will be large and it will be
practically impossible for the in
structors to take care of backward
students. For this reason any boy
or girl suspecting that the work next
year will tax them unduly, would
do well to engage in the summer
work and thus insure themselves
against any unforeseen obstacles
when the regular course convenes.
There will be made a small
charge for the summer school which
may be paid to Charles j. Donald
president of the board of education.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14


 ES the soul continue its edu- cation. growth and develop rnent after deathi One man at least believes that our ed- ucation goes on and that the method can be discovered. This is M. Pierre Emile Cor miller, whose astounding story of psychic development has lately been published here by E. P. Dutton $ Co. under the title "The Sur viyal of the Soul and Its Evolution After Death.
 Stranger than any TO- manne. it seems to be a sober
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In Trance She Sees as From the Beyond

shape. They held mo up just by surrounding me- more and more of them-more and more closely. And saw Paris-the houses, the streets, the crowA of peope-eyerything! Oh-but 1t a astonishing oh if every one could know 1t! -. First of all everybody-eyery one you understand-has double All the people who<are moving about, walking talk ing among themselves, coming and going, al surrounded by followed by their double Usually it comes out only little, and all around them. Some times but net often, it is quite half outside, and stands above them. It is this double which is the thought, the consciousness. No, it is not the consciouness it contains the consciousness &c.n d FTyHE second excusion marked great advance, She
 ! went out voluntarily this time, and by the win-
 dow
 "She did better this time. And at given moment VeteIini said to her: 'Reine try to go alone now without help He spoke severely and with authority She was frghtened-frghtened to death, feeling that she not strong enough to go alone. When ask what would have been the consequence of this fear and lack of strength had she been alone she phes Oh, would have straight back to my body and wakened But, you know it's something fearful :. . And I'm not coward, either But just imagine being carried of like that by all those people who have only their heads, and sometimes even hardly that! They are really only kind of shining smoke" -.
 These bodiless journeys were the first of long series; in fact excursion another house Paris to another city, to another country, became routine part of the seance end in this Reine visited many places; at last. in the grand, final seance-the 107th-making spirit journey the ocean, and right across the United States to the Pacific Coast Meantime the medium was also making journeys into the upper air. where in accordance with both Christian and pagan belief, the nobler spirits dwell. As her powers developed she ventured further from the earth until she able to report visits the vast and dis tant interstear spaces These travels of eourse took little or no time.
 Such flights into the empyrean, though they quire no time to speak of demand motive power Now, about this power and the of applying it there IS something mysterious It appears that to
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10 hlgh attitudes calls Tor good deal more power than to make journeys over the sur face. So, also, all kinds of manifestations, even such trivial pleasantyies as tipping an artists glasses off his nose, or blowing down visitors neck, take power in con siderable quantities and leave the medium exhausted. What is the nature cf this power! And whence s t derived? It s evidently somewhat Ike the electric eur rent; it is constantly referred to as fluid, :. reminding one of the slang use of "juice.. for electric power. It is supplied appar- ently by means of the mesmerixing passes by the hypnotist who, it appears, n often left quite exhausted after the, ,mesmerizins stops.
 Does all this: The spirit journeys over land and sea, the excursions into the upper air, the passage through walk and elosed doors, the conversations with the dead, ths continued relations with spirit teachess- does it all sound incredible. impossible, fraudulent? Incredible it i, but many things incredible have proved to be true. ImposlbA? Who can say? It can hardly have been fraudulent, for N. CosniIlier a reputable man of high character. i,
 There remains still the more marvel sos part cf the stoSy-is revelation credible or not-d tie spirit world; of its government, its social arrangements. its kncvledge. with extraordinary limitations
 and much that n utterly in- K sexp,icable, which will appear
 in another article. ws
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body which she described "a smokehke form, coming out from her body and much more herself than the body sleeping in the chair" Freed of the weight and encumbrance of the physical body, she may move freely wherever she will but she has to learn step by step how to take wing" The author describes the first excursion: lkyIYHEN she seems almost asleep. speak to her
 w with authority, ordering her to disengage
 hessek, to remember all that she sees or hears, and to tell me about it on waking. Then leave her.
 About quarter of an hour later. hearing rest lea movement go back to observe her and, much to my dsmay, find her face terrible expression of fear and anguish She looks all around her, first then down below and with sort of terrified aston ishment exclaims But it s Parsl It is all Paris Oh, ohl She svays Ettie from right to left. making slow sestsnes and finally leans back in her chair-mor tionlea
 T leave her alone again for ten or fifteen minutes, when suddenly she strzishtens up and calls, M. Cor miller nten-' Her hands reach outsto find me I must teH you all about it They want me to tell you at once-bexoe am avake-evaything that have seen. as it E better that should remember nothing when waken' And with anxious yoIubity che explains that. little by little. she has dsengaged herself her spirit vent out of hr body her deep has been profound ths time. and ahe wss able to rise easily quite distance
 Without knowing how t happened. she found besh above the hose where she sayA she was seized with mortal fear-she sure she vas lost! But the Spirts who were all around her, helped her. held her up led ber on hixher-vefy high-and carried her oysr Paris-over all ParHi-teIhng her to look, to observe but not speak It s too soon for me to ask questions haven't force enough yet have to use all my strength just to get out of my body and rise will learn to fly in this way If it had not been for the Spirits and their aid I should have been obliged to come back at once
 Then fonows long description of these Spirits who surrounded her: They have no body. Fnst saw siimmering lights coming and going then these lights this sort of luminous smoke sicwiy took
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narrative cf artzraI experenre Yet it k 50 mar- veI singular, intense m itx appeal to the mind, thzt no cue who hss eyrr had te slightest interest in psychic phenomena help listening to the story In this book, sntstxntial volume d 474 pagez, the szuho, who n . reputable artist of Paris, sets forth the drama of untrained mind being taught and drilled m the lme d the next world and the laws the <xztruu md the conditions which obtain in that mys txrifxn -bunne rum which no traveller returns" The moving narrative consists of the record of sexxr than lnkEed and seven sances, or hypnotic trHncx4s AI by the xue pgscn-a young. uneducated sutIsas rpda xho n called Rene-and all held under the cmtrn x duert51n of the author. usually in the rressncs of hz wife another friend
 The semnz urE ouf Of chance, because of the mndsFr un1uual and spontaneous intsssu in crystal glnbe which zie czme upon in M- Cnrniher's studio and whirh. ahhrnxA zhe had paeviotn knowledge m exper<nn v1A lUrnutim spuitualizn- psychic phe1unnem. dew hzr uitA strange attraction.
 CmmHr had knx been T student of the occult and, thinking tn models exceptional interest might mdazae ryeAr pOwn. began to bypnotize her. The fx4 rnsnaz - h. cnxdeasss, trivial and he wm shum fp Tia ID tk expaiments when, as he says:
 ~1 II oDCe. Il th lxth seance something hap pened . n T tER q marked authority. was ir5m1nsd by tAe f<rre. vhaEevu t wzA which pro dnred tfe phennmEna. thzt consented to crnSrn to the instructions given me Superior EymiI would ccme md take direction q the seance and ws mrsnled remarkable rosultz But wUEd thzt pn1iGnce VII essential. mWt hypnotize Reize hy cthz netho<h (which would be indicated to mel md aIlCv hr to sleep neither questioning her. nor deznzntmx my manifestations fos . certain num- ber d ssncz -Sririts' would thus be able to take advauaGe of hx A1p to develop her mediumstic facul ties s Consumed with curiosity l promptly acrsptsd ag1ped to follow exactly the instructions given me cThese instructions it should be noted, weze given in the eaxer stags by the familiar table tapFinx-) M
 Tn the tenth seance," continues M. Cornilier, .-the medium received the order to explain to me during h1 sIeep vhat she was doing and seeing. And regularly from that time on, assisted, my wife and ], at truly prodzious phenomenon, the development of medium by forces clearly exterior to herself and her education by indsputably intelligent entities, whom for ccnvenience and clearnes will henceforth can Sprit. thu according them- the quality which they claim for tAemseIves-that of spirits who ha Eyed or earth n human form and who continu their evolution after
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By William Belmont.

eoorst,on bv K. |. Forkuna.
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death.-
 From this point n the hook Ny Cornlher describes the succelve stages of Reine's educa- cation blythe Spirits, and more especially by one who k called Veteihni, or 1.-The Master" and her extraordinary disclosures about the customs, man nerz, purposes and ac- tivities of the spirit world. But first she had to be initiated into the ways and be taught the use of the powers necessary to enter into the society of the Be yond. At the outset she must learn how to leave her body and move freely in S. ace.
 Aided by Cornillier's
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-24
KANSAS QUINTET
 DEFEATS ATLANTA

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 23.-The Kan- sas City Athletic club five repeated Saturday night for second victory over the Atlanta Athletic club team. S2 to IS, with driving style of play the Atlanta basketeers were unable to stop.
 The teamwork of the Kansas City team was noteworthy and their short passing game took the ball through Atlanta's defense with little effort. The game tonight was replete with fouls. Kansas City made eight out fo ten tries
 In game last night, Kansas City, won 39 to 21.
 William and A. Browning for Kan sas City, excelled in Clever work for the Kansas Citians while Reeves rolled up the high score with Ia points. Singleton proved the hardest Atlantan to stop, breaking through the Kansas City defense for six points.
 The lineup:
 Kansas City-Reeves, 1S, right for ward; A. Browning, 9, left forwardi Williams, 6, centre; G. Browning, right guard: Sanders l. left guard.
 Atlanta Athletic Club-Whatley, 2, right forward; Singleton, G. left for ward; Bass 1, centre; Hartney, right guard; Slate, ?, left guard.
 Substitutes scoring: Kansas City Storms, 3, for Sanders.
 Atlanta-Jenks, 1, for Singleton; Cooper, 1, for Bass; Morrow, 2, for out of 10 tries; Atlanta 6 out of F I tria
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-24
Famous Payer Giue Empires Credit For Trying 70 Do Rgh
HANS WAGNER GIVES FANS INSIGHT ON UMPIRE'S LIFE
GEORGIA GRIDIRON SCHEDULE FOR "A

ATHENS. Ga. Dec. 29.-Ten games, six of them with Southern conference opponents are the listed 1924 football schedule for the University of Georgia, made public here today. The Bulldogs will play Yale at New Haven, October II, in an intersec- tional contest.
 The schedule: September 27, Mer- cer at Athens. October 4, South Carolina at Athens. October II, Yale at New Haven. October IS, Furman at Augusta (probably). October %, Vanderbilt at Nashville, Tenn. No vember ], Tennessee at Athens. Mo- vember s, Virginia at Charlottesville. November IS, Auburn at Columbus. November P, Alabama at Birming- ham. November 29. Center at Dan vile KV
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-24
BROKEN HAND CAUSES CRIOUI TO ABANDON BOXING CAREER
Also Has Badly Broken Heart Over His Failure To Defeat Johnny Dundee


 PARIS, Dec. 2S.-Eugene Criquis pugilistic career is ended. The aban- donment of his titles of feather weight champion of France and Eu- rope, owing to the injuries he re- ceived in his bout for charity against Hebrans on october eG, is. eX- pected to be permanent.
 Criqui's hands, which he smashed on the Belgian champions head, are not so badly broken as his heart over his faillre to defeat Johnny Dundee in New York. Through his victory over Kilbane the Frenchman achieved an ambition of 12 long years divided between the ring and the battle front For 50 days his name was blazoned on the billboards as featherweight champion of the world, but Dundee ended all this
 The sledgehammer blows Criqui re- ceved from Dundee at the Polo Grounds broke down some of his in domitable spirit The jeers of the bleacher fans did the rest.
 "I was unconscious on the floor until these shouts reached my ears: So you're a champion" Criqui told the correspondent recently. T de- cided to show them how a champion went down and never would have quit if I had been killed I stayed 15 rounds. I don't know how it was that Johnny didn't lay me out for keeps when I came up for the sec ond round. Don't ever talk boxing to me again, except for another chance at Dundee"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-24
WILL SEEK TRIBE IF WHITE INDIANS
Expedition Will Leave For Unexplored Lands Of
 Panama In January

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Dec. 23.-The University of Rochester will send Dr. Herman L. Fairchild, emeritus professor of geology and a recognized authority in his field, as its repre- sentative on the expedition that will sail the first week in January to seek the home of the tribe of white Indians in the uneXplored lands of Panama, it has been announced.
 Richard o. Marsh of Brockport, leader of the expedition, is the dis coverer of the mysterious tribe, hay ing glimpsed some of its members on a former journey, alone, into the Panama wilds, according to pr. Fair child.
 The former geology professor. who is 73 years old, said today that he plans to confine his attention largely to the geological structure of the district, said to be the abode of the blonde aborigines Airplanes, furnished by the United States army, may be the means used to penetrate the Darien district, bombing planes being pressed into use for transport ing the explorers from the Canal zone to the mouth of the Chucuma- que river.
 MT. Marsh has told me that he will go up the Chucumaque river as far as possible by boat" Dr. Fair child said Prom the headwaters exploration of nearby territory will be made. Then a small party headed by Mir Marsh will penetrate the un- known region to find the blond In- dians, and if possible, establish friendly relations with them. When that is accomplished the larger party may move in to take up the work of studying this strange people and their territory.
 Tt is barely possible that ancient ruins may be found there. If these blond Indians are the descendants Of some race that antedated the dark Indians, there may be relics of their former civilization. A suggestion of this comes from the old and highly decorated ruins in Yucatan, Central America and Peru"
 A motion picture camera man will go on the expedition and Prof. G. L. Baer, representing the Smithsonian institute and the National Museum at Washington, and Prof. Breeder of the American Museum of Natural History, will be members of the party.
 MT Marsh said today that the ex- petition had planned to sail early in December, but has been delayed be- cause of the winter maneuvers of the American fleet around Panama which has kept busy the airmen who may be assigned to carry the explorers from the zone to the base of ex- plorations. A large variety of gifts will be taken along, he said, to aid in winning the favor of the bar barous and warlike tribes that wilt be met. A bow and set of arrows. the best that could be obtained, will be taken as a gift to the chief of the blond Indians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-24

York infield was looking for 1t. No one seemed to know what had be- come of it. About 10 feet from home the ball dropped on the base line. McGraw Puts one over.
 Now here's where McGraw got in his fine work. He rushed up to Um- pire Byron, who had run down to third base to make the decision and told him l had carried the ball to the bench in my hand.
 If you don't believe it, go to the bench and make them give 1t to you," he urged Byron.
 About this time McGraws attention was called to the ball lying in the base path. Up to that time his back had been turned.
 That proves it," he said to By ron. See! Wagner just rolled it out"
 Byron knew that something un- usual had happened. He scratched his head, not knowing what to do.
 You're outw he finally called out to me, flor carrying the ball to the bench in your hand"
 We'll you can imagine the new row that started! We milled all over the place. But Byron stuck to his decision.
 The game went into extra innings and we lost.
 Plttsburg protested the game but the president of the league decided against us on Byron's written state ment that I had carried the ball to the bench in my hand and rolled it our again.
 never did get over that decision. it was so unfair. The umpire, you see, never did ask me where the ball had come from. He simply took Me Graw's word for it because he didn't know what else do. McCraw started the argument as bluff and went through with it. He always thought 1t good joke. That's where he won by out-talking me.
 Tomorrow: "An All-American Se- lection of Empires"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-24
FELL FOR DIR. COOK
"Limits of Human Credtlity Never
 PIumbed,o Editor Reflects

Any study of the psychology of pr. Cooks rascality would in no wise be complete without a study of the psychology of those who, con trary to all evidence. still maintain (and perhaps some still do maintain) the belief that this adventurer reached the pole.
 Certainly the promoters of fraudu- lent oil stock who saw value in the name of pr. Cook as an advertise ment of their projects must have placed a cynical reliance upon the power of human mind to ignore reality: To pick as the head of a fraudulent project man whose name was a byword and hissing, and to find that this selection was justified by its power to draw money from credulous investors, must have made them feel that the limits of human credulity had never been plumbed.
 Ireland's forgery of a play of Shakespeare's George Psalmanazar' S description of the Island of For mosa, which he had never visited. and the Count de Rougemonts vivid lies about the Great Barrier Reef of Australia were minor items in the book of human roguery when com pared with the fabrications of Dr. Cook
 Among the great knaves of his- tory. if that is any comfort to him, Dr. Cook has won front place. His story will not soon be forgotten.- Outlook
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-24
SMUGGLERS USING CARRIER PIGEONS
Birds Transport Dope From Across Mexican Border,
 According To Officials

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23-Federal narcotic agents are going hunting these days as the result of the dis covery of a novel scheme to sumggle narcotics into the United States from Mexico by means of carrier pigeons.
 The unusual drop in the price of a bundle of morphine from $2 to S1 and even 75 cents caused agents to wonder what was going on, although it has been known here for some time that the border traffic was heavy.
 The scheme, according to federal agents. is one of the most noye1 and successful in criminal history. Hun dreds of pigeons are employed in the illicit business, and agents have diff ficulty in discovering the offenders because the birds report back to perhaps a dozen different and widely separated places.
 An agent looking for an airplane which was to cross the border dis covered the new plan. One of the pigeons, wounded by hunter. was picked up and the morphine found concealed in a packet underneath its wing.
 A thorough investigation of all possible landing places for the pig cons is being made by government officials in an effort to apprehend the drug ring