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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-16
The Ferd Marx Store.

business on a small scale came in per- sonal contact with every man who want ed a, loan from my bank. was a pretty good judge of human nature and could tell if the borrower intended to pay the amount of the loan when it was due if misfortune did not overtake him. l made a study of my customers and had been in business but short time before l noticed the pocketbook indicator, if it can be called such. When I gave man
 the loan he desired I watched to see if he put 1t in a purse or in his pocket. If the
 money was put in wallet I felt certain that the borrower was a man who would
 try his best to meet the obligation when it was due. If he rolled up the money and careessly showed the wad of green backs into his vest or trousers pocket I wrote the letter "D'' on the book oppo- site his name, which means doubtful" i" I don't mean that there was any doubt about the payment, because always re- quired gilt-edged security. but it was doubtful if the borrower. came to time at the expiration of the note or mortgage. The man who carefully counted the money handed him and placed it in a pocketbook taking care that the bills were in straight, was pretty sure to have the seni-annual interest and the principal when 1t fell due.
 "After forty years of daily observation ! believe that a pocketbook is necessary Eor a man to save money. Watch the hlan on the street car when he pays his t,re; if he takes the nickel or dime, or Whatever the coin may be, from a purse, lou can put him down as a saving man. \ never knew it to fail. It Is the hail lrllow well met, I might say the spend thrift. who carries his money in this pocket and that one. The man who en- ters saloon and throws a handful of change on the bar is the man who car res 1t loose in his pocket. He wants ev- erybody to drink with him, be he an &C., quaintance or a stranger. But the man who walks in and draws colin from his purse takes a quiet drink and goes about his business, would be better off physi- cally and financially, too, if he didn't drink at all, but the pocketbook habit keeps him from squanderfng his money"
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odd chores, in payment for which he receives $15 a month and his board.
 He is touring the United States and thus studying It's customs and farming methods, expecting to profit greatly in the future by the knowledge he is gaining when he returns to far Sibe- ria to resume the management of his own estates. Before he ends his tour he will come to New York. Years ago iankovsky's father bought from the Russian government 31,000 acres of good farming land, in a region then entirely undeveloped, at cost of about 50 cents an acre. The tract is on the Japan sea, where Vladivostock, which nas since become a great seaport, is located. After the Transsiberian rail- way was built to Vladivostock the Yankovsky family realized that their immense holdings of real estate, bought at such small figure, were virtually a principality. They became convinced that by adopting modern methods this property would be the source of many times larger income even than they now receive from it.
 George Yankovsky was the first to realize that to use to the best advant- age these thousands of acres his father had purchased so cheaply there was much to be learned He set about in his own way to acquire the knowledge he needed. He decided that the in- formation could best be gained in the United States, and in November of last year he came to this country Landing at San Francisco, unable to speak word of English, he went at once to Highland, H., where fellow countryman has a creamery business. With this mans assistance and by a diligent study of American text books he mastered the language in three months sufficiently to make himself understood among strangers.
 Then he went to Fort Worth, Tex, and worked for short time, next go- ing to Winfield, Kas., where he la bored in the corn and wheat fields. From there he went to St. Joseph, Mo, seeking out a well-to-do farmer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-16
BACHELORS IN POLITICS.
BY PHINEAs FLETCHER.

"A THEN, in the present political cam
 M paign in New York. Governor
 M Odell, smarting under a bitter attack impeaching his personal honor and even honesty by ex-Governor Hill, flung back the biting retort that his assailent belonged to that class of man in whose homes the tenderest and holiest ties of human nature those of wife and children, were unknown, it was another illustration of history repeating itself in the same state and under almost precisely the identical political conditions. Years ago, when Samuel J. Tilden was at the head of his party not only in the Empire state but in all it's sister commonwealths, the fact that he had led the life of celebate was one of the charges against him which his more virulent opponents never allow ed the public to forget. The impression sought to be made was, of course, that a man who had not given hostage to the state as the head of a family was not citizen in the fullest and highest accepta- tion of the term, that something was lacking in his mental makeup, that in nation where the home, the school house and the church were the three potent fac- tors of it's civilization the man, no matter how gifted or how eminent. who had not direct, vital, personal interest in all three was not and could not be an ideal leader.
 Looking back at MT. Tilden's great car eer in politics and the place he had made. for himself in history, these attacks upon him were apparently SO many blank ear tridges of political mallgnity. Despite them all he won the highest honors that the people of his state could confer, and as to the momentous presidential contest of 1876, the conviction grows stronger with the flight of years that, under the forms of law, he was deprived of the supreme office to which he was justly entitled. These splendid popular triumphs of one of the five or six greatest statesmen the democratic party has produced would seem to lead to the conclusion that the people are entirely indifferent, have no convictions or prejudices one way or the other, in these purely personal concerns of their leaders which were dragged into prominence in the case of Tilden, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-16
A LlTIie JODYney to ne
 Home Of EIbeY1 Hubbard
BY FLoY pLoYN.

Few men strike until the iron has cool ed. To take a burning idea from ones own forge, and mould 1t into the express sion that has burst forth from the soul before the idea has been forever lost in the depths of space-is an accomplish ment that satisfies the creator more even than the appreciation the world has to give.
 The unexpected thoughts of some men afford them more pleasure than real ex- perience Sometimes men are blind, and recognition is tardy, but greatness is none the less If the world does not see 1t. Many an unknown hero died at Ther- mopylae, and every victor must know defeat.
 Sometimes death knocks at the door of hope and murders aspiration and courage, but ever and anon, some soul arises, and fearlessly struggling with this frightful adversary. rallies the panic stricken forces of it's nature. and leads them back up the hills to light.
 Such souls arise stronger every time they have been forced to earth Great men cannot help being great Books do not make them. Obstacles never stop them. Thought Is not bounded by skulls, any more than infnity is by planets.
 When man expresses deathless thought he has conquered death. When he dares to lift himself to dizzy heights where he feels the lack of support and yet in those hours never hesitases to think and to do,-doubtless that man will think and do for you and for me. Light comes to many. Few can reflect 1t. The reflection of Elbert Hubbard's light has net yet been confined Noth- ing written by others can magnify him. His pen and deeds have already done this beyond the power of others. And the self erected barriers are so characteristic that other comments seem superfiuous and in- adequate.
 His personality is splendid. Ills field is new. He has done more toward acquaint- ing the average citizen with the men and women to whose homes his Little Jour neys have guided them than all their writings, deeds, melodies, and canopies have expressed. He has been the medium who has reached into the thought of the mysterious. and has explained 1t to all who will hear.
 Somehow, each Little Journey is the central truth of the life of it's subject. To express the central truth of the life of Ebert Hubbard would be to combine the central truths he has given of such characters as William Morris, Walt ard Wagner Corot. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Lord Macauley-also to include the growth in love and thought,
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every one associated with him has en- joyed.
 The more one sees in others. the more he becomes. The more we give in love, service, time, thought and honest help to others, the farther are our boundaries removed from us.
 The more one reads of TIubbard's writ ings the more he Is convinced that no matter what you and I are descended from Elbert Hubbard is not of the ape extraction.
 In all of his writings. the "man is be- hind every sentence" GreAt as a writer. he is greater as a friend. He knows that 1t is never cheap to be economical with love and confidence. No other man could control or develop the men the Roycroft shp contains. He would rather have a man who has made mistakes, because when he loves. trusts, and guides man. that man will not commit the same error again.
 He knows that soul pangs are even worse than hunger pangs SO by first cursing a mans deepest suffering, he completely wins him.
 Look at the balances and see how well balanced this man and his work are. On one side he gives progressive thought; on the other we lay our appreciation and growth. On the one side are the eagerly
 
 happy. intelligent, prosperous workmen.
 His interests are as broad as humanity. His duties will busy him for as long as he thinks his life will last. and he is try Ing to educate others to go on when he is called hence.
 There will be few positions in the next world that he is not trained to fill
 The Roycroft shop is perhaps the safest haven in America for men and women dependent on sympathy and love. for everybody there sympathizes with every body else.
 Just because man fails in one direc- ton, is no proof that he will not succeed at something else, so the Roycrofters give men trial after trial, not being sat isfied when a man does one thing we'll. He may do something else better.
 William Morris, receiving Ebert Hub bard in 1892 was Elijah casting his man tie upon Elisha. But today the mantle Is hardly large enough It should be glory enough for one man to have inspired El- bert Hubbard, for perhaps the great Roy croft university would not have been founded but for the meeting at Kelms. colt Press.
 Hearts beating in loving sympathy with Fra Elbertus, of whose existence he Is unaware and hundreds believe that his philanthropy is the sincerest of which they know.
 When he steps out into the shadow and meets the spirits he has written of. doubtless their gratitude to him for tell ing the world what they meant, will be his greatest joy in eternity.
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last month in the case of David B. Hill. This theory may be correct, but it should not be accepted as conclusive, although 1t can be buttressed by the precedents of two other bachelor presidents, James Buchanan and Grover Cleveland, to whom may be added Alexander H. Stephens vice-president of the confederacy Bu- chanan and Cleveland were the only bachelors who ever filled the presidential chair, and when the latter joined the ranks of the benedicts, it was the one act of his first administration which met with the commendation of all his coun- trymen.
 Bachelordom Is beyond all question a handicap in our political life to all men who have passed middle age and who are candidates for high honors In the gift of the electorate. In the case of the ap- pointive offices it is different, the major ity of the voters not caring much one way or the other who get them provided those selected are fit and competent. It is difficult to account for this sentiment in American political human nature. Pos sibly 1t is owing to the enormously poten- tial Influence which women have always exerted fin the higher spheres of govern ment from the very beginning of the re- public to the present time. The wife of the elder Adams was perhaps the ablest woman of her generation and the second president thought more of her opinion on any question than he did of any mem- Der of his cabinet. James Madison owed in great measuDe his second election to the popularity of the most charming mis- tress the White House ever had. while in her own day Mrs. Cleveland made for her husband friends and followers by the thousand. When John c. Freemont ran for the presidency his wife was very nearly as prominent figure in the cam paign as was the Pathfinder" himself Political songs were sung in her honor and men and women wore her picture on medals and badges as evidence of the faith that was in them. If Theodore Roosevelt was moping around the exc cutive mansion, solitary and alone. ex- cept for the office-seekers that make their forays upon him, can 1t be supposed that he would be as popular as he is? That he has made the White House typical American home, has endeared him to multitudes who otherwise would take but faint interest in him. In 1904 all par ties will do we'll to bar out bachelor can didates for the presidency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-16
ArIstocracy Rampant.

From Life.
 And you say that young Van oilpan is one of the Four Hundred? You astonr ish me. remember his old man when he ran tavern in Coal oil Johnny's time. |" And Captain Pipelion shook his head.
 "You forget, sir" said Major Cairo Sim, ''thnt our standards of aristocracy have changed; accomplishment not birth. Is the thing that commands our respect to- day. Young Van Oilpan is a remarka- ble man, sir. He is the man who wreck ed P. D. and e.; he has been divorced twict; he won $50,000 in one night in Sar- atoga, and he has an automobile record of fourteen killed and wounded. A mem- Der of society? He Is a society leader, sir"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-16
DO YOU CARRY A PURSE?
If You Do Not It Shows That You Arc
 Not Economical.

From the. Chicago Tribune.
 vDid you ever notice that man who carries money in his pocket IS usuany ,., q narson who is not of saving natureY
 The speaker was a banker, and one or c,bicago's most successful capitalists.
 "A pocketbook." he continued, "is al- most an infallible indication that the person who carries 1t is methodical and in most instances of saving d'sposi- tion. Of course there are exceptions 10 all rules, but in forty years observation have not found dozen successiui men in business who did not carry waIee nf son,a kind. The man who carries his money loosely in his pocket is invariably n careless person, and few men who are careless in money matters ever accumu- late much wealth.
 Years ago when I started In the banking
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-16
GLACIERS SCALED BY A WOMAN.
Mrs. Fanny Workman of Worcester
 Has Added to Her Laurels.

From the Boston Herald.
 Dr. William Hunter Workman and Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman of Wor- cester, during their third expedition to the higher Karakoram Himaylayas in Baltistan the past summer, explored the great Chogo Lungma glacier throughout it's whole course of thirty miles from it's end at Arando to it's origin among peaks above. 24,000 feet in height
 ss They also followed to their sources three of the large terminal tributary glaciers, exploring in all fifty-five to sixty miles of glacier. This region has never before been visited, and it's de- lineation on the maps was found to be incorrect and chiefly the product of imagination.
 The. glacier ascends over 5000 feet from it's lower to its upper end. Its surface is irregular, being at some places much depressed below and oth- CTS as much elevated above it's gen. eral level It is cleft in every direction by crevasses of different lengths and widths, split in parts into huge seracs or ice pinnacles of varied and curious shapes, bears large medial moraines 80 to 100 feet high, and it's course is interrupted in the upper portion by icefalls, through which a way is diff ficult to find.
 Four peaks and four passes were ascended, varying in height from 13,- 900 to 19,000 feet. The last pass crownede an ice wall over 1900 feet high, rising at angles of 45 to 60 de- grees, and covered with snow from a few inches to two feet deep. This furnished a climb of great difficulty. Every step had to be cut, and the ascent took from 6 a. m. till 1880 D. m, when the top was reached
 The descent was more perilous than the ascent as the broiling sun-softened the snow which>made the hold on the hard ice beneath very precarious.s
 The party was obliged to camp many days and nights on snow and ice at attitudes of 16000 to over 19,000 feet, often without wood and without heat other than that furnished by small Primus stove, over which an hour was required to melt snow and boil water in a small teakettle. The tenn perature at night sank as low as g degrees Fahrenheit.
 The weather was uncertain or stormy much of the time, and the ac- cumulation of new snow at the upper parts of the glaciers made progress slow and wearisome. The depth of the new nows encountered varied from two to three feet.
 The party was detained at one high
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-16

A staff of eminent physicians and sur geons from the British Medical Institute have. at the urgent solicitation of large number of patients under their care in this country. established permanent branch of the institute m this city at
 Cor. 22nd St. and Third Ave.
 These eminent gentlemen have decided to give their services entirely free for three months medicine excepteO to all invalids who call upon them for treat ment between now and November 30.
 These services consist not only of con- sultation, examination and advice, but also of all minor surgical operations.
 The object in pursuing this course Is to become rapidly and personally acquainted with the sick and afflicted, and under 70 conditions will any charge whatever be made for any services rendered for three months to all who call e>sore November 3o
 The doctors treat all forms of disease and deformities. and guarantee to cure in every case they undertake.
 Male and female weakness, catarrh and catarrhal deafness. also varicocele, rup- ture, goitre. cancer. the opium habit, and all disases of the rectum are positively cured by their new treatment.
 Hours, to 9. Sundays. 10 to 1.
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Bed Spreads

"The Ferd Marx Spread" very tight ly woven, pearl hemmed, Marseilles designs, SIPS quality, 59c Extra weight Spreads, pretty de- signs, double thread, $1.50 quality,
 S1.19 Light weight pique Spreads, easy to launder, $1.75 quality, sl.S9 Genuine Marseilles Spreads, satin finish, tight back, pretty designs, s2.50 quality, S1.9s
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only prlests-Not Experts.

From the Cleveland Leader.
 Archbishop Ryan, visiting a small par ish in a mining district for the purpose oi administering confirmation, asked one nervous little girl what matrimony was, and she answered that it was state of terrible torment, which those who enter it are compelled to undergo for time to prepare them for brighter and better world
 No, no,'' remonstrated the pastor; that isn't matrimony; that's the defini- .tion of purgatory."
 sIeave her alone," said the archbishopi maybe she's right. What do you or know about it?"
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Table Danask

Soft finished German Damask, 72- inch, 5 designs, Csc quality, 4eo Bleached Irish Demask. pretty de- signs, for hand service, 72-nch, soc quality, 69c Bleached Irish Damask, 72-inch, tight weave, even finish, 10 designs, $1.25 quality, S9c Bleached Satin Damask, 72inch, pure Irish linen, large open borders, $1.50 quality, 99c Full bleached German linen, 72-inch, soft finish, designs, $2.00 quality,
 $1.39 Combination Cloths, 8, BE and yards long, with continuous borders all around end, made of double-faced embossed satin damask, beautiful new designs. Priced with one dozen 3-4 Napkins to match, as follows:
 3-yard cloth and napkins, $e.98
 31s-yard cloth and napkins, $10.e8
 Award cloth and napkins, $11.9s
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Crashes

Twilled Cotton Crash, 25-yard bolt. for s6c
 Linen grass Toweling, 1S-inch, 11c quality, Sc Heavy German Crash, colored bor- ders, 15c quality, 12Iao
 Checked linen Crash. 22inch, all col ors, Too
 Irish Huck bleached, for art work. 35c quality, Zso
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Sheets and Pillow
 Cases.

Torn, ironed and hemmed-sanitarY made:.
 Pillow Case, good muslin, 42x36, So Pillow Case, good muslin, 45x36, % Pillow Case, pepperell weight, 42xS6.
 lilo Hemmed Sheets, good muslin, 81x90,
 45o Hemmed Sheets, pepperell weights 81x90, sso'
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DOnestics

Yard wide Sea Island Domestic, Sc quality, 4c Yard wide, soft finished bleached Domestic, DC Yard wide Cabot Bleached Domestic,
 7c Yard wide Lonsdale Bleached Do nestle, I/2e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-16
Our Annual Thanksgiving Sale of Table Linens.
AN EVENT OF NOTE.

AN EVENT OF NOTE Monday morning we be- gin our yearly Thanksgiving Sale of Table Linens. This is an event of much importance to every house keeper, hotel restaurant boarding house and board ing school in this vcinity-it savings to you of onequarter to one-third on Table Damasks, Nap kins, Etc. sale have prepared for, for months importing case after case from Germany and Ireland of fresh cean crisp linens By using the quantities we are enabled to give you the prices. Many of customers buy their yearly supplies during this sale. Tis paying investment Read the values carefully "a few below:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-16
A RUSSIANS STUDY OF FARMING
With Great Estate In Siberia He ls
 Learning American Methods.

Heir to rich estate in Siberia and wealthy in his own name, George M. Yankovsky of Vladivostock is now working as common laborer on a farm in Illinois. He milks COWS, picks apples, rides on the reapers and does
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-16
SEVERAL MIRACULOUS CURES.

Have Already Been Effected By the 2 British Doctors at the Cor. 22nd St. and srd Ave. They Are Giving Their Services Free for Three Months to All InvaIIds Who Call Before Novem- Der 30.
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Silence Cloth

For protection of hardwood table, very thick, 66 inches wide, yard, 6ec
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Feather Pillows

Made of good, clean feathers, best ticking, seven pounds the pair, esc
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-03-29
Why Pay Rent When the Same Mon.
ey VIII Purchase a Home.

The following property will not be
on the market long. First come
first served:
The old Fulton home, 90x206 feet,
with good two-story house. Price
$3.50, terms $500 cash, balance
monthly payments, with interest at
o per cent. Monthly payment in
Guiding interest $14.37 House corner
Richmond street and First avenue.
$1,000, terms 500 cash, $11.25 per
month, which include interest. Three
other two-story houses Immediately
east of above. Price 1920 each, $50
cash and $500 per month, which in
cludes interest Brobston, Fendig *
Co.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-03-29
Cheap Rates to South Carolina and

Cheap Rates to South Carolina and
West Indlan Exposition, via South
ern railway. April 1, to eth has been
designated as Educational week at
the Charleston exposition, and on
March 81, April l, and End the South
ern railway will sell tickets to Char
lesion and return at rate of $464 for
round trip Tickets limited to ten
days from date OF sale.
Hunter-Sale Drug Co. home toI
the sick PhCue 81.