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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

, looking six feet reused to action. The copper -colored hair of Rose gleamed in the lamplight, her black eyes were as mysterious as night, her round arms were capable of much work.
 All that winter she spurned him, with laughter. He made no progress and when May came to the noun tains, with apple blossoms and the tender green of young leaves, Patch Tupper strengthened up to the stat ure of the man he really was. He resolved to take what he wanted, re- gardless.
 He lay in wait for her one day on a lonely stretch of road and when she came In sight as fresh and grace full as the young white birches them selves, he knocked out his pipe and prepared for action.
 Rose" he said, huskily T want you and, by crimus, I'm going to have you"
 Scarlet famed in her checks. Her mouth suddenly lost it's curves and little lights played In her black eyes. Patch stepped forward and swung her up over his shoulder.
 With a double armful of wildcats he would have had Q comparatively peaceful trip over the shoulder of the mountain. She left red furroughs down his cheeks before he got her wrists under control; then she bit his ear and he had to shift her under one arm, like a bundle of old clothes. Before he got her fairly settled she had blackened an eye.
 At last Patch set her down care fully in his own kitchen, and jumped back out of range. He set his back against the dCor and took out his watch.
 eve got five minutes left before the Reverened Simmons gets here" he said. Hes coming to marry you and me. Maybe you want to fix up a little. No use argering, Rose, for l made uR my mind"
 The fight lasted three of the five minutes. It ended when Patch got with a hearty hand. To his sur prise, when that was over, her arms wont around his neck; she hid her face against his shoulder.
 Patchl" Rhe whispered T thought you never would show any spunk"
 The rest of that day was filled with joy for Patch Tupper. The gold ring upon the hand of his wife gleamed like a beacon of happiness. She cooked the best supper he had ever eaten in his life.
 It was In the cold hours just be- fore dawn that the first rift ap- peared. Pedro, the hound, came as had been his privilege from puppy hood to share his masters bed when the kitchen grew chilly. A yelp and thump awakened Patch. He eX- plained Pedro's habits.
 That dog can have a blanket and a feather pillow and a ribbon around his neck. If you want him to-" said Rose. but I never slept with a dog yet and I shan't begin this spring!"
 My dog can sleep wherever he wants top Patch told her, indig- nantly.
 Just how it happened he never knew, but before he could gather himself for defense his head was being bumped against the floor. Sec
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tions of taO scalp seemed about tC leave him.
 "Dog!" panted Rose. "IIitchen"
 "All right" yelled Patch. Its too late to arger tonightr
 The next day Patch Tupper real ized that he had made a mistake in not taking a firm stand. He had to clean the kitchen stove pipe. And the day after that Rose told him he was gCing to get a steady job through having. He and Pedro were all taken care of for the first time in their lives, but there was an irk- some formality about existence. Patch found that unless he wanted to do battle three times a day he must wash his face and hands before every meal
 Patch Tubper was not of the stuff that yields without fighting, but he got tired. Rose was never tired. However, when Saturday of that first week came she went toe far.
 Patch" she said, giving him a cake Of yellow soap and a towel. Ego down to the creek and take your bath"
 "EIy bath" he cried. 1T ain't got any particular bath"'
 You're going to have one" she told him, "Every Saturday, sum mer and winter, the year 'round!
 With a yell of defiance Patch Tup- per flung down the soap and leaped through the doorway. 'They's some things man won't stand," he shouted, from the safety of the Steps, and then he bolted for the woods.
 Patch nursed his wrongs upon a rocky ledge. Hours passed and with the placid stiffness of the May night an idea came to him. He had got his wife by main strength and daring; by boldness and main strength he would take her back to her fathers house and leave her there to think 1t over for while.
 With the stealth of a panther he approached his house and got a coll of half-inch rope from the woodshed. Except for the ticking of the clock all was still In the kitchen. He stepped over the threshold of the bedroom.
 A thousand streaks of fire shot be- fore his eyes. He melted down, sliding against the wall, with his head rolling foolishly. A light flared up and he saw Rose with her un- bound hair like a burst of flame about her head. She certainly was good looking woman. She carried a stick of stovewCod handily and she came and stood over him.
 What was you fixing to do with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
ANT MEN THE wow?
By MAVERICK AND R. MARSHALL
 TERRELL

Sure, men are a wow" Miss Leila Leone confessed to Miss Claudia Duke, her best professional friend, "dearie, you said whole converse tion then. I remember a gag that one wise John put over on me that shines out of my past like a mono loguist's ice ring across the orches- tra. But you ain't in no fit mood for the confession batter, Claudia"
 "shoot!" said Miss Duke, hitching herself up op Miss Leone's profess sional trunk in her friends twoby- Kelly's Fortyfourth street boarding house one sultry night; resting round New York this way, dearie aint had a laugh In my system for a month of Sundays"
 Leila was in a reminiscent humor. one of those I-dare-you-to-s stop m e sort. She needed no urging.
 This was years back" Leila start ed, putting an extra pillow back of her head and making herself as com fortable as possible on the wreck of a sofa. "Bertie Kestler was mas saging the tall weeds out of Chi with a number three company of Baby Blue Eyes"
 Say, I remember that layout" in terrupted enthusiastically Claudia, thereby showing her rapt attention. You had Myrtle Percy and Teddy Roach--'
 AS leads, yeh. Some frame-up that company I'll tell the rube world that we shook down Anyway 1t was busy as Coney Island in January. Well, Claudia, we opened in Pickle Minn.. that's about as far as Bertie could take us on the money he dug up In Chi"
 Pickle. Minn." This last from Claudia with squeal of delight That's the nick town with the hotel with two baths-cold and colder; ] remember"
 'Yeh, some baby burg-for a cock roach, tell me" snorted Leila. And other animals! Well, Claudia, in the show l was playing Gwendolyn Kale and Berite had wished one big lemon went to the mat with an alleged son entitled: You Stop Making Those Dating Eyes at Me-"
 Honest?"
 T wouldn't go that far but 1t was the rottenest song I ever had heard in all my young life. It had no me lody, the words were cuckoo and 1t begun where 1t should have left off"
 "Outside of that it was a riot, sympathetized Claudia. "Of course you queered it and had it shelved."
 T tried but I couldn't" Leila sighed. "Bertie made 1t plain to me my meal ticket was a twin to that goshawful song. If 1t didn't go, I did. So I sang my little heart out In it and everywhere we played, Pop ping Creek. South Dakota, Echo, Kansas, Green Top, Iowa. all over the jay circuit, was graveyard riot"
 "Lelita, one night stands is the limit. Those Swedes don't know"
 Tn the case of this cheese of a song dearie, they did. A baby luna tic would have asked for his money back after having heard Mary Gar den sing it!"
 What's that got to do with some wise John putting"
 I'm serving that now" interrupted Leila. Somehow the show held on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
CANDELILLA PLANT IS PAYING BIG REVENUE

ALPINE, Texas, July 7.-(By As sociated Press )-The candelilla plant little known away from the Mexican border, and growing wild, Is being made the source of large money returns. The business of ex- traoting wax from the plant Is ex- banding and now large shipments are made to England and other foreign countries.
 The plant, a shrub about four feet high resembles a weed, and has never been cultivated to any extent. The stem Is round and waxy, and it is estimated five tons of the plant grow to an acre. The yield of wax Is from to 31a per cent, and sells for about 27 cents pound.
 Factories for refining the wax have large vats of boiling water. The plant Is dumped into the vats, sulphuric acid is added, and in time the wax frees itself, rises to the top of the liquid and is skinned off. Wax ready for market is flinty, and is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
Its Trouble Is Ignorance, The Result
 Of Mental Laziness

The basic trouble with the much criticised younger generation" is, fancy, that 1t is so ignorant. It's ignorance is by-product of this mental laziness which we have all lowed to invade the national soul. We are always looking for the cheap and easy way; and if Coue or some one else tells us that by taking thought we can add a cubit to our stature, we are only too ready to believe.
 If the younger generation" has cast away all standards, it Is because the preservation of the creation of standards is hard work. We do not, fancy, write free verse, originally, be- cause we believe in free verse: we write 1t because it is easier than metrical formss Then because we are determined to be not only clever but good. not only good but clever, We invent poetic theories to fit our productions.
 The younger generation finds it easier to Ignore everything produced before 1900 than to learn something aoout art and letters as they were developed before that shining date 1, therefore, it says that no art worth the name existed before the tWenti- eth century.
 The ignorance would not so much matter if it called itself ignorance when it. maSquerades as knowledge, 1t becomes a menace. Baziness itself does not matter so much until vanity insists on giving it fine names. But the younger generation" would never have been able to hypnotize the pub lie if the public had not forgotten how to think for itself.
 The public, in matters artistic or in tellectual, has developed the pathetic habit of having to be told" by some one else. We have lost the habit of dealing with intellectual facts be- cause we have lost the habit of men tai effort.-Katherine Fullerton Ge- rould in Harper's Magazine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
THE PATCH TUPPER
By WILLIAM MERRIAM ROUSE

When folks on Coon Mountain said that Patch Tupper was shiftless it was because they did not under stand his soul. That he was content to live in two-roCm shack with his hound dog, Pedro, was because he had never seen any other condition or life that promised adventure enough in the getting of 1t.
 Tain't lively enough" was Patch's reply to every offer of a job.
 That was his feeling about matri- mCny until he met Rose Garvey at a kitchen dance on Solomon's Flats. Then his lean and muscular and good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
SUI PHUR IS BEST TO CLEAR UP UGLY.
 BROKENOUT SKIN

Any breaking out or skin irritation on face, neck or body is overcome quickest by applying Mentho-S Sui phur, says noted skin specialist. Because of it's germ destroying prop critics, nothing has ever been found to take the place of this sulphur preparation that instantly brings ease from the itching, burning and irritation.
 Sulphur heals eczema right up, leaving the skin clear and smooth. It seldom fails to relieve the torment or disfigurement. A lit tie jar of Rowles Mentho- Sulphur may be obtained at any drug store. It Is used like cold cream.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
DRINKING LESS WINE
Wine Growers And Sellers Of Austria
 Complaining

VIENNA, July 7.-(By Associated Press.-Wine growers and wine sen- CTS in Austria are alarmed at re- cent notable reduction in the con- sumption of their wares. They are loud in their complaints, and they in undate parliament with proposals for help.
 The principal causes of the falling off in the consumption of wine would seem to be. first, the eXorbitant prices asked by both producer and inn-keeper, and second the condi- tions and unemployment and half time employment still reigning in his country. These have converted the wine lover perforce into a water drinker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
V O V Letter To MT. Ball. D. c. Ball, President, Board of Revenue,
"Y0UNGER GENERATION"

CHaTIeS Q. DaVIS, PTeSldent Birmingham, Ala, July 6, 1923.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

broken Into small pieces and ship ped in sacks. It Is used as a base for varnish, filters, floor polishes, talk ing machine records and waterproof materials
 When all the wax has been ex- tracted the fiber remaining Is pitched from the vats with large forks, al- lowed to dry and then burned as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

and in Cross Cut, Nebraska. I think 1t was. I noticed him first out there ir front. He showed up like a five dollar gold piece in a handful of pen nles and then all of a sudden, like and idea gets through your bean. remembered having seen him some where out In the rube audience in every hound of town we had played that wheezy show In since Pickle Minn-
 This John had been following you-the show; gwan"
 foure no more astonished than l was, Caludia, and in Cross Cut where we played three nights 1T order to scrape up enough to get out every Jane in our company got wise to MT. Lamp -the-show."
 Register him with me, Leila; good looking?"
 Claudia, with half of the hicks in the Wild West for a backdrop and a contrast, that duck looked like a message from Broadway to us poor homesck hams. He was kind a young and kind good looking-not suspici- ously anything. And he was dressed up to the last split second"
 What on earth was a human be- Ing doing out there with the wild and woollies?" Course you met him song or no song, dating eyes or nc eyes, huh?
 That's the kick to my story Claudia. Nobody in Baby Blue Eyes ever saw that bird anywhere except out in front at night"
 Tn little towns like them? With one hotel? Gwanw
 "As mystery, Claudia, he was a wowl The Bat wasn't In with this John. Every night, out there piping us off, In every town all the way out L.. every town, among those missing that's the truth, no trimmings"
 Gee, Leila, he musta got every body's goat? A kinda hoodoo?"
 No, Claudia. because pretty soon after Cross Cut he shows plain enough that the big hand he's giving us each night is for me and that dating nightmare I was trying tc sing"
 "oh, I'm beginning to get wise
 Well! In Bevo Springs, Cali fornia, he met mo the night the show and the season closed and took me out to the best cafeteria in town Before the banquet. he slipped me two brand new one hundred dollar bills"
 "shucks, he was a song plugger from Tinpan Alley and he was whooptng up that punk song of yours all over the Woolworth Circuit"
 Guess again, Claudia"
 Hugh? Then he was rubber shoe for the anger in Chi that was backing Bertie and the show"
 No"
 "One plot left! Somebody left the back door of bug factory open anC their best nut escaped"
 I'll remember his words to my last line on earth" Miss Leone chuckled. Miss Leila he says, anC he blushed like lobster put in the pot. I hope you'll forgive me but couldn't help 1t. I own a livery stable in Lively, Indiana, and I ain never had nor more education than { mule but when I wrote the music anC words of that lovely song I knew had composed the greatest lyri since-"
 You dent mean"
 T mean that poor spare nut wrot' that hamstrung thing I'd been ren dering all season and he published i himself and couldn't get anybody tt sing 1t but me, thanks to a littl money each week In Bertie Kestler' educated mitt. The poor crutch i out In Hollywood now, I understand He's the guy that wrote Beautifu Snow In the films"
 T believe it," said Claudia, gettins up. "The hound Men do beat tn, devil fifty-seven ways, you know it Leila"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

fuel under the factory boilers.
 As the plant grows wild, requiring no cultivation, the cost of the shrub Is small Mexican laborers usually gather 1t. The factories operate the year round, and the demand for wax Is said to be greater than the supply. Its manufacture is coming to be one of the recognized border industries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
PRESIDENT BALL JOINS AUTO CLUB
Expresses Appreciation Of Work And Services In Road
 Improvement

Many expressions of appreciation for services and of work being done toward the improvement of motoring conditions in general are constantly coming into the club office. Some time ago the board of directors elect ed our Jefferson county board of revenue to honorary membership in the club and to demonstrate the kindly feeling that the president of the board of revenue, D. c. Ball, has toward the Birmingham Automobile club, we reproduce herewith his let ter and copy of acknowledgment of same by MT. Davis, president of the club.
 It is strongly hoped and looked forward to that the day will arrive when everybody who drives car will be appreciative of the great benefits to be derived by belonging to and assist In the support of an .au- tomobile club.
 MT. Balls Letter.
 Chas. G.. Davis, President,
 Birmingham Automobile Club,
 Birmingham, Ala.
 Dear Sir: I received your letter enclosing membership card in the club. l have just been putting off from time to time joining and be- lieve anything worth belonging to is worth paying for. l am, therefore, enclosing check for SIG to pay my membership fee.
 Please express to those responsible for my election my deep appreciation for the honorary card, but would prefer to pay my fee.
 With best wishes for the clubs success, I am, respectfully,
 D. c. BALL Birmingham, Ala, July 2, 1923.
 O O O
 Letter To MT. Ball.
 D. c. Ball. President,
 Board of Revenue,
 Birmingham, Ala.
 Dear MT. Ball: This will acknowl- edge receipt of your favor of the second and we are highly gratified at the sentiments expressed ~therein, especially bearing upon the fact that you feel that the club Is doing good work and should be maintained. All our enthusiastic members real 1ze that every car owner should be member of the Birmingham Auto mobile club for it Is continually working for the Improvement of con- ditions for the motorists generally. Very truly yours,
 Birmingham Automobile Club,
 Charles G. Davis, President. Birmingham, Ala, July 6, 1923.
New Britain herald., 1923-11-17
COURT CLOSES UP
 BROKERAGE HOUSE
Scott, Norris & Co. Said to Have
 Conducted Bucket Shop

New York, Nov. l7.---Attorney Gen. eral sherman today announced he had obtained an order from Supreme Court Justice Mullan, enioining con- tinuance in business as cotton brok- CTS Of Scott. Norris Co.,, described by Mir sherman as a company which has f been doing an enormous business in cotton and cotton futures in odd lots, and alleged by him to have conduct cd a bucketshop.4
 Mir, sherman alleged the cotton Lrokers had made no bona tide pur- chases or sales of the cotton futures on behalf of their many customers The order against the company which was handed down under the provisions Of the Martin act, or anti bucketing law. IS returnable next Wednesday.
 Deputy Attorney General Chambers, iG charge of the proceedings asserted that the firm had been doing q lucra- tive business with many customers in the south, particularly ill Alabama. A number of customers he said, bought and sold cotton futures in October and November and made considerable profit on the transactions, but, he as serted, the brokerage firm, through various technicalities. refused 10 pay the profits to the customers
New Britain herald., 1923-11-17
T.W. HART WINNER
 IN MUSIC CONTEST
Awarded First Prize for Con- position flashes of Roses"

Theron Wolcott Hart. noted com poser and piano teacher of this city, has been awarded first prize for his song Ashes of Roses which he en- tered in the contest in original musi- Cal composition conducted by the Chicago Daily News" Mr. Hart's composition will he distributed to the broad"astine stations throughout the country.
 The Daily News" prints the fol- lowing concerning the contest: ''rhc judges faced seemingly impossible task in selecting the best composition nom fhe hundreds of excellent com positions submitted for the first work in the Vocal Period.' After many hours of careful judging the first prize was awarded 10 Theron Wolcott Hart of New Britain. Connecticut. whose Ashes of Roses was regarded as the most beautiful of the many charming selections"
 The judges are men who arc known throughout the country for their ability both as judges Of musical contests and as musicians. They were Frederick A. Stock. noted com poser and conductor of the Chica 20 Symphony orchestra: Eric he Lamar ter, orEs uiSt and assistant conductor of the Chicago symphony orchestra; Arthur Olaf Anderson. prominent Chicago composer and Maurice Ros- enfield music critic of the Chicago Daily News"
New Britain herald., 1923-11-17
Revenge Probable Motive
 For Graves Dissertation

Torrngton, NoN. IT, Revenge js the motive ascrh"d by the polico to tho act of yandal in diSpDacinE l7 monuments in St. Francis R. =. come tery here. The desecration, which evidently occurred several days ago, was not discovered until Thursday The vandal dislodged the monuments from their positions al the graves. Knocking over several Of them. The crucifN on one was broken in the fall, The monuments involved were all made and put in place by Mariana de pominieis. The police are con vinced that the vandal is one Of de Dominicis former employees who was recently discharged. The suspect is under surveillance and an early ar. rest is expected. Dc Dominicis has offered to reset the monuments with. out charge,
New Britain herald., 1923-11-17
Nor Nc JIDEa CONVENTION

The iith annual convention of the Young Judca association of Cnnuecti- cut win be held af -esp Haven Conn. on sunday. November 25th All day sessions will b. held. both at tho Hebrew Institute and at the Y. NJ, F. A. rooms on Crown street.
 Young Judca association of Con. nrcticut is an organization Of the American Jewish Youth. and mum. bers i,o00 members in 50 clubs in the state
New Britain herald., 1923-11-17
CENSOR TESTIMONY AT FORBES HEARING
Irrelevant and SCandalOuS''
 Statements to Be Ruled Out

l Washington, Nov. 1.-The veterans committee placed ban today on what Chairman Reed characterized as such Irrelevant and scandalous" testimony as that offered yesterday on behalf of Charles E. Forbes in an effort to i'm peach Elias H. Mortimer. his prin- cipal accuser.
 Declaring the committee is very much disturbed" by such testimony, Senator Reed said it had been decid- ed that no witnesses on the matter of the impeachment of Mortimer's testi- mony would be heard until the com mittee had received an outline of the testimony and decided whether it was relevant.
 The irrelevancy of testimony was
 particularly bad" the chairman de- cared, in the case of S, D. Timber lake of Staunton, Va, counsel for Mrs Mortimer in her divorce proceedings, who testified yesterday. He added that Timberlake, as a lawyer, knew it was irrelevant.
 The testimony probably has gotten far afield." Senator Reed continued, "because the committee has allowed Colonel Forbes to denounce witnesses in unmeasurcd terms. But in his case the committee took into account his physical condition and the fact that he was accused of grave offenses."
 Chairman Reed also announced that love letter written by Mortimer to his wife last October and produced yesterday by counsel for the commit tee would he omitted from the print cd ecord of the hearing.
 "The record will merely refer to this" he said. "as a letter in terms of affection dealing with the domestic affairs of Mir. and Mrs. Mortimer"