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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-05-21
A Contrast Of Destiny.

Was Teller, name % Sam.
Honest sort o duffer; ~
TougheAt luck you ever see
Couldn't be no tougher.
Loved girl in Arkansaw.
Weddin' set for Monday:
Lost her cause he thought II wrong
To spoon her on n Sunday,
aiet u widder-'lcven kids,
Mother energetic:
Corralled. cause in pity he
Did the sympathetic.
Got to sowing LOFTY thoughts:
World was kind o stony:
Lost his job then--non-support
Divorce and alimony
Couldn't pay, was sent to jug:
Furnished gossip ample:
l'led In jail a-DrayinG hard
Horrible example!'
That was Sam.
Mother Teller. name o Bill,
Lucky sort o sinner;
Any kind o. hand he drew
Sure to be winner.
Lots O. cheek and nary cent:
Stole his boss daughter;
Spent her cnin a-hoating schemes
Mostly made O. water. .........
Made "A fortin', built "a church,
Owned a yacht and horses:
Wrote book ON Cares o. wealth.
And "Ensoulin' Losses"
interviewed on Where We Are
Marriage" and 'To-morrer."
Died one day a-swearing hard
Universal sorrer.
Notices column long
Printed in the papers;
Useful citizen and sich.
Pattern for his neighpors."
That was Bill.
Amt a-kicking-I don't care
But kind o seems 1t weren't square.
-EYomet.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-05-21

An Passport, Me-. man was standing
near the door Of = clothing store. lost
in meditation. when . woman walked
up and began to stare at him. He
never moved = muscle. but when ne
again turned he thought he had
caught her eye for 4 sure enough
mash and he smiled and winked the
other eye. Imagine his feelings when
she exclaimed In . stsytled voice,
Heavens! thought yos were . cletA.
sns dummy"
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-05-21

Beloved n the garden of my heart
There fell one night a solitary seed;
/ knew not whence it came nor what Its
part,
Nor OF what nourishment it might have
need
wearied with wandering through thu
ether wide,
1t slept. and when Its wear aeus was
Said Fin this pleasure spot will .ibide.
And with the fairest claim comparison"
Startel l watched with keen and con
slant eyes
The growth to bud and blossom of my
guest.
Like one to whom Ills very Paradise
70 see her infant drain her ample
breast:
And lo! found. one happy evening
hour,
Ny heart was harboring Loves i'm
mortal flower.
James Whitehead. in Blackwoods.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-05-21
Great Statesman sIep. Little.

NJ. Theirs, the great French states.
man Of a generation ago. prided him
self on never being found in bed after
o'clock in the morning; and more
often than not he was drinking his
early cup Of coffee and eating his roll
shortly after Z. preparatory to begin
ming eight hours Of unbroken work.
which ended with the de;euner proper
At nooA.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-05-21

years standing. David Meekison.
DIR. Hartman, ono of the best known
physicians and surgeons in the United
States, was tho first man to formulate
Peruna. 1t was through his genius and
perseverance that it was introduced to the
medical profession Of this country.
If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna.
write at once to DIR. Hartman. giving .
full statement of your case and he will be
pleased to give you his valuable advice
gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman. President of The
Hartman Sanitarium. Columbus. o.
,nn<
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-05-21

Gentlemen: II
have used several
bottles of Peruna
and feel greatly
benefited there
by from my ca
tarrh of the head.
and feel encour-
aged to believe
at its con-
tinued use will
fully eradicate a
disease of thirty
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-05-21
Five Toed Potato.

A potato modelled rather closely
after the design of the human foot has
been exhibited recently at Western
fair. The potato was labeled potato
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-05-21

foot because OF its five fairly well
formed toes The natural markings
also bear a remarkable resemblance
to the wrinkles on the human foot
New York Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
IS POPULAR CHOICE.
Stedman Chosen to Compose the
 Worlds Fair Hymn.

i The selection of the veteran poet, Ed mund Clarence Stedman, to write the worlds fair hymn, seems to have been popular choice. When the question was asked who should be invited to undertake a work of such moment, the name of MT. Stedman was suggested from many quar- ters.
 The poem has now been completed and set to music by John k. Paine of Har- yard university. Permission to hear this notable composition is withheld from the public until the opening day of the expo sition but that an unusual treat is in store for them is assured.
 Poems by MT. Stedman have been used. for musical settings of several of the most distinguished American composers and he is especially gifted In lyric compo- sition. The song for the worlds fair is considered his best effort.
 MT. Stedman was born al Hartford, Conn, in 1883, and was graduated from Yale in the class of 1858. He became edi- tor of the Norwich, Conn, Tribune and the Winsted, Conn.,, Herald, and in 1S59 joined the staff of the New York Tribune. He was war correspondent of the New York World from 1861 to 1863. After the war he purchased a seat in the New York stock exchange and while devotng his life to literary work has also carried on a successful business. He has pub lished many volumes of his own poems and Is the editor of several collections and libraries of poetry and literature.
 He delivered the initial course of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Idaho, $2,06700O; Montana, S4,154,367; New ada, $3567219; Oregon, $l,9Gi3H Utah, $5,- 064 GOO; South Dakota, $2.8S9,000; Washing ton. s434,o GOO; New Mexico, 1872, 000-about s1 1,50oOO0 more than the Rockefeller in- come.
 It will doubtless be a shock to the advo- cates of a silver standard to realize that the entire output of all our silver mines Is less than would be required to pay one mans yearly income if he should ever be in position to dictate how it should be paid.
 It is equally astounding to consider that the Golden State of California is turning out in a year less than one half enough gold to cash Mir Rockefellers income check If it should be presented, while the Centennial state of Colorado falls $13,000, coo short of the same requirement..
 Perhaps there might be found in these and other comparisons herewith fruitful topics for campaign discussion, but the sole object of this compilation is to illus trate by comparisons how fabulously wealthy is Mir. John D. Rockefeller and how fortunate it is that the United States as a government does not have to pay him his yearly income.
 Should the nations of the world be call
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

ed upon to pay MT Rockefeller's income in gold, it would require the entire united twelve-month production of Russia, Co., req, China, Brazil, Great Britain, Tuskey, Spain, Italy Sweden, Germany Austria Hungary and Mexico, with the total sil- yer production of Japan thrown in.
 And if he could demand new coins in every instance, it would take the com- bned 1901 gold coinage of Austria, Japan, Mexico, Persia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and France 10 meet the bill.
 The yearly government revenues from all sources of these countries: Bolivia, S3- 431 GOO; Colombia, $7.031. GOO; Costa Riea, ss,513,oo0; Ecuador, s3564.0o0; Guatemala, g. 7S7. GOO; Honduras s1.114ooO Peru. s5- 914O00. Venezuela. s6.4520 000-would fail by 5000, 900 to equal MT. Rockefeller's in- come.
 If Mr. Roekefeller's yearly income were paid in dollar bills laid end to end it would make greenback ribbon three inches wide and nearly 3400 miles long. It would extend as one continuous green back roll from Washington to New York, New York to Southampton, and thence to London.
 If it were unrolled at Vladivostok it could be carried down the Sea of Japan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Rail- road Company-"The New Way"

The undeveloped resources along the Mobile. Jackson and Kansas City rail- road are perhaps superior to those of any othar railroad in the south; the timber is practically inexhaustible, consisting of iho highest grades of long yellow leaf pine short leaf pine and variety of hardwoods The line also traverses one of the finest farming and agricultural sec tions to be found in the south. Cores nondence is solicited from those eontem- plating the location of any kind of man. ufacturing enterprise or who may be nrosnecting for a superior field for the nurpose of filling the soil. In addition to inc merits of this section for the products of the soil which are staple, We would coll especial attention to the peculiar ad- ,,an+apas which obtain in favor of fruit and vegetable raising. splendid transpor tation facilities to the best markets at reasonable cost. Information cheerfully eiven on request to l.. B. Sullivan, Gen sral Freight and Passenger Agent, Mo hile Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
Tolstoi's Outdoor Life.
From outing

From Outing.
 Still vigorous at the age of 70 years, Count Leo Tolstoi nearly every day either takes a ride on his favorite horse. goes for walk under the linden trees with his daughter Alexandra or. in company with his great wolf-hound' tramps over the broad acres of the famous estate of Ysna- va Polyana. Tolstoi has long been an ar dent out-of-doors man; in carly life hur- dle rider of no mean accomplishments 2 hunter and an athlete; in later years q nedestrian to whom twelve miles day was an average walk and to whom a day in the saddle was as nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
Woodby Booths Story.
From the Washington Times.
 Hired, Tired''-"Fired." :"

From the Washington Times.
 Hired Hired" d"-"Fired"
 These three simple words tell the story of a would-be actors brief connection with the stage. He chose Washington as the place where he would first give the world an opportunity to behold him be- hind the footlights. He left a young wife in a far away city who was anxiously awaiting news of his success. After per- suading a kind-hearted and unsuspecting manager that he possessed wealth of undeveloped talent, the would-be actor was promised 'try-out." When he re- ceives this assurance from the manager he telegraphed his wife just one word
 Hired"
 After a rehearsal for a matinee per- formance, without waiting to hear the judgment of the manager, he again tele- graphed his anxious wife. It was again a single word:
 Tired
 The following day the manager sent for him and informed him that there was nothing doing for him. Determined to tell the whole truth to his wife, the would-be actor sent her the concluding chapter of the story, again in one word.
 Fired
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
ARE VERY BUSY PEOPLE Taking Care of Their Money
 is Hard Work ARE ALWAYS AZ TER MORE Idea That Men of Wealth Do Not Know What to Do With Themselves
 Is Delusion and
 Myth.
ARE ALWAYS AFTER MO3t
From the New York Sun.

rum the New York Sun.
 A lady of Connecticut sent us an edi- torial article clipped from California paper, the Sunday Times of Los Angeles which, in her opinion, 1t would be good Tor the millionaires to see;" for the ar tlcle suggested to "millonaires who have more money than they know what 10 do with that they devote portion of lhelr surplus to seeking out and encour- aging artistic and professional workers who are doing really good service to their generation, while not enriching themselves"
 NOW, in the first place, there are no such millionaires No millionaire has
 more money than he knows what to do with and the proof of this is that millionaires generally are trying hard to get more money. Undoubtedly the man. agement of great estate is always a very difficult matter. The more money a man has the more vexatious becomes the problem of it's safe investment If he puts 1t into real estate he loades him self with many cares in the maintenance or ms property and the collection of his rents, and he kicks against his taxes II he puts it in stock and bonds he must acqualnt himself with the character of the securities-know all about them and the selection of them out of the great mass on the market Is difficult task.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
Incomprehensible.

SF'S''SFITSs
 It Is not easy to grasp the abstract proposition that there can be in the Unit ed States one man with a yearly income so large a twelvemonths' output of silver of all the mines in the country would not meet The man exists in John D. Rock efeler.
 Last years production of silver from all the mines throughout the United States aggregated s30520, ess. or over s4- 000000 less than the Rockefeller income It would take, as an illustration. the en- tire silver production of Montana, Colo rado. Nevada. Idaho, and Arizona to equal the Rockefeller income from one property alone, the Standard oil com panv.
 Excluding Alaska and Colorado. 19oS's production of the United States was. California, SIG 535. COO Arizona, s4, 7s4,000,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
The Good They Do.

Millionaires, however, are compelled by their selfish interests to help along the artistic and professional workers who are doing really good service to their generation. It is from them, very largely that comes the money made by artist and men of science. With their capital they employ, and must employ, architects, engineers and other profess ional men. Their costly tastes. their very luxuries, create the bulk of the demand for artistic work. Already their capital, aggregated in great corporations, gives an incentive to scientific discovery and mechanical invention, so far as money can give 1t. and the multiplicity of their demands stimulates industries and pro notes the establishment of new indus tries to satisfy them.
 Undoubtedly out-and-out gifts from rich men for the foundation of endow- ments to support special lines of investi- ation like those of which our Los Ange- les contemporary speaks may serve a good purpose but, after all, what great. contribution to science has been made under such an institutional stimulation?
 The problem with millionaires who want to give money for the benefit of their felows-and there are many of them Is to find a way to give that Will actually accomplish the result intended. The uplifting of society has not come, and it will not come, from any million aires .generoslty," as our Los Angeles contemnorary calls 1t, but from tha struggle of men to get up by their own unaided labor-and from ideas and ideals far outside the scramble Tor materldl wealth and far above fl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

to Fusan, around through the Yellow Sea to Fort Arthur, up the railway to Harbn and thence back to Vladiyostok, con- pletely encireling with it's magic green roll the scene of hostiites in the far east
 And if the wealthiest man in this repub- lie should hire an able-bodied man to wind up the green roll thus extended, it would require him 330 days, walking ten miles a day. to complete the task Mean time another roll over 5000 miles long would have accumulated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Trunbull Chair of Poetry at Johns Hop Mns university of Pennsylvania. He suc- ceeded James Russell Lowell as president of the American copyright league in 1891. He resides at Lawrence Park, Bronxvile, N. r.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
Nal De Mer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Seth Low, who is in Rome, narrated re- gently to an American a good instance of the vicisstudes of sea travel in rough winter weather.
 .'When you cross the ocean in Decem- Der or January" said MT. Low you are apt to be awakened in the middle Of the night by the plantive voice of a child in the next stateroom crying;
 :" Mamma, Mamma. My dinner won't stay swallowed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
cheasapeake and Ohio Railway.

The best route to New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia via Washington. Quick time and superior service Scenery unsur- passed Dining ear service unequaled. w. A Wilgus s. P, A. Hopkinsvile. Ky, will give special information.
 3-s3-9t-wed- -fri-su
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

We have just re- ceived our Spring stock of Manhattan and Monarch Shirts.
 A beautiful selec- tion of Neckwear and Hosiery.
 Also Collars and Cuffs, Etc. A com plete line of Fancy Vests.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
Milllonaires Kept Busy.

Mllllonaires, therefore, are usually kept busy Tn the simple management of their money. All the same, the experience or mankind shows that they are ready ever eager, to increase their money burdens by adding to their fortunes. They have not more money than they know what to do with" even if their for tunes are great enough to make the in- terest on their aecumulatlons already made far more than Is required for their living expenses-eyen if, as in many cases the very Interest on the income their capital yields Is more and far more than they spend. Instead of Tightening their load of money and diminishing the con- sequent embarrassment in finding safe investments for it, we discover from ob- seryation that they are hard at work to increase the capital. The more money they have. too, the more extended and various are the enterprises and under takings into which its investment leads them, necessarily. MT. Rockefeller, for example, is forced by his fortune to la borious service in many institutions, financial and other. He is a hard worked man; yet, like men generally he finds enjoyment in doing the work at which he is so prominently successful. Why does not an artist stop painting pictures when he is rich enough to need no more money? The fame which has brought him his fortune is only a new stimulus to him to continue the use of his powers. What man of science who has made his rame ilustrious by one discovery is con tent to Stop there?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

If you want something real fine in liquors at reasonable prices see w. R. McVay, 2l2O 2d Ave.
The broad ax., 1904-10-08
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The broad ax., 1904-10-08


--zt g said that Senator FAIRBANKS
aeyer makes speech without referring
% 3 cemetery. The senator Is always
thinking about the fnaI outcome Of his
eics- presidential aspsra:ions.-Ths
Commoner.
-Thoss Enormous gazing in Fer-
ment simmer down to q couple q hun
dred more republican plurality than
hey had In 1900. Really. Mr. Corsel-
yoa, was the money Of the trusts pru-
dently Invested. after all?-Albany On.
p Argus
Henry c. Frick, multl-mfIlion-
|aire associate Of = P. Morgan, also de-
Iclares for Roosevelt for president
|Ffiek 4 against letting the democrats
fool with the tariff. and for good cause.
he q 81 the top Of the steel trust
Nashville American.
Republfcan assurance Is Given
that -under no circumstances WIN Presi-
ldsnt Roosevelt seek q third term No,
he VIII follow the precedent Of dropping
out of sight after serving part Of Q term
lohtAlned through accident-Los An
l8ele9 (C4Ll Herald
Tom Taggart e not running the
democratic campaign 70 suit the rspub-
Leans. This Is too bad.-Msmphls Com
mercial-Appeal
That Carl schurz Is to make q
number Of speeches In Illinois Is good
news Mr. sehurz has intaliect. elo-
qusncs, sincerity, character. He h q
leader Of the vanishing old type.-N. 7.
world
TIE only caes who this year are
asking: @Hsve you heard from Maine?s
|are democrats Somehow the repub-
|licans have lost interest In the Maine
election very suddenly-Utiea Oh
'srv&
The broad ax., 1904-10-08

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The broad ax., 1904-10-08
Extraordinary Announcement.

From until the close of the great Presidential contest from
i've to ten thousands copies of The Broad AK win printed each
week which win be broadcast among the colored voters of
this city, county and state
The articles which appearing in it each week onThe Lily
White Republicans and The Negro other phases of the
Race Problem and kindred subjects cannot be nor surpassed
Now the time to wreups in advertise in It and to
subscribe for it For The Broad AK is the fearless champion of the
rights OF man and IS the best and the leading published
the interest the race IN the middle west
Remember it mushroom campaign paper but Il has
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appearance regularly each thousands of readers all
sections of the country.
The broad ax., 1904-10-08
CANNOT Trust ROOSEVELT
Why Conservative Hen Of Anairs Pre-
fer Judge Parker to the Re
publican Candidate.

That Spencer Trask, head Of the
great New York banking house Of
Spencer Trask & Co, has decided 10
support Alton B. Parker for president,
Is one Of the many announcements in
dicating strong drift among business
men toward the democratic candidate.
Mr.. Trask's reasons for deciding upon
the course indicated are not less inter-
esting than the fact itself In explain
alton OF his attitude, he says;
while President Roosevelt has been
much more subdued and very quiet for
the last two months, there is no telling
when he viii break out again, particu-
larry II he should be elected for q full
term Of four years. In my opinion this
Is not the time to take chances. The
personalities Of the two candidates are
before us, and we must judge them by
the past. do not think there can
be any question that Judge Parker d
much safer man than President
Roosevelt. Judge Parker has at all
times shown q disposition to be calm
and deliberative, TO observe the law and
the constitution, instead Of his own
personal desires President Roosevelt'a
course. on the other hand, has always
shown q tendency toward reeklessness
and q disregard Of law"
Mr.. Trask was q Blaine republican
In 1854, being q great personal ad-
mirer as wei as political supporter of
the splumed knight" In 1888 and
1892. he supported Cleveland, and In
1885 and f9oo. Mckinley. he il an in
dependent republican, but in common
with hundreds Of other business men
he realizes and remembers that Rooss-
welt under restraint, during the cam
paign, and Roosevelt, elected to the
presideney, are two very different men
In other words. Mr.. Trask feels Just
Ike that Indiana man. with q little
money invested, who said, the other
day: Il wish ] could be sure, when I
60 to bed ct night, what Roosevelt win
do IN the morning"