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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-03-02
HIS ONE WEAK SPOT.
Prominent Minnesota Merchant Cured 10
Stay Cured by Doan's Kidney Pills.

0. C Hayden, of o. C. Hayden & Co..
dry goods merchants, Of Albert Lea,
MINI, says: II was 50 lame that i
could hardly walk. There was an IN
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-03-02

T-a term argtr zas'rl,E was lu~snret
o. chat pays1ars would 10: - asaams5
e. ra.fae I've d.-ars i0s tTsaisHs stomach
ache
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-03-02
EASiLY-MADE SAW CLAMP.
Something Every Farmer Feeds
When Putting Hcw Edge
on His Saws.

The simple saw clamp here illustrated
Is made as follows Take TWO one inch
boards and dress each down on one side
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-03-02

Tber, - room at the top fol the man
who ,su push the other fellow Of Chi
cag0 Dali News
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-03-02
To curs a Cold in One Day

Take LAztTTvE BEoNo QGiuiue Tablets.
Druggists refund money II It fails % cure,
It's no fun 20 ~ right the fun is 90
prove the other selOW wr0ng,-N !.
Press
LsuIs Single Binder straight g cigar De-
good quality al the time You dealer "
LewlS Factor. Peoria, ID.
He who finds No cause for gratitude
probiUIy cau.es none.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-03-02
British Bacon.

Bacon to the value of over $50 ,oOo, 900
Eas imported by Great Britain In 1904
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-03-02

| WANT ooe rcepoosibis AID inn1cctzai
| "fAlNl Agent svery tosn 70 setl heya1a
| Minins Claims Nj euoA FHEA
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-03-02

Honesty doesn't really amount TO met
until d. has been tined out
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-03-02

the wire into the position in the socket
and lOgu
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-10
Covered With paper"

'When person goes home to dinner
on Saturday night they see all of the
available space in Birmingham for the
atrical advertising covered with one kind
of paper to use the theatrical term,
and when that same person comes down
town on Sunday morning the city is COW
cred with entirely new paper said a
man about town.
Between s O'Clock and midnight Sat
urday night all the bill posters connected
with the four theatres are out at work,
and there is a complete change of paper
before midnight. The city ordinances will
not permit Sunday work on the billboards,
and SO the boys have to work about four
or five hours Saturday night.
1.-THE lithographing man covers a great
deal of territory on Saturday night, some
times going mile from the center of the
city and sniping' everything on either
side of the street, The paper that is
placed in store windows has to be placed
Saturday morning, when the propretors
can be found AS a general thing. the
theatres recognize each others territory
and do not infringe"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-10
Discordant Sounds.

mo ordinance introduced in the City
Council in the last year has given more
satisfaction than the one suppressing the
phonograph nuisance" said a business
man.
Zone of these denominations was near
my place of business, In fact nearly OPP
posite, and it made my life miserable
The live long day 1t kept going, screech-
ing and screaming out Its discordant
sounds. My neighbors proposed that W.
take the law into our own hands and
go over and smash the machine, but we
thought the cure would be worse than the
disease.
Birmingham surpasses all the cities
have ever known for running thing in
the ground. / have nothing to say against
moving picture theatres as long as they
keep within bounds. but these mechanical
pianos and horns and other jumpy-jerky'
musical instruments are simply intolera-
BILE. Machine music violates the taste for
good music as nothing else could.
while speaking of discordant noises
I would like to mention one that puts all
others in the shade. A few days ago
saw man filing a saw outside a meat
market. l had occasion to pass along the
street and to this moment 1t makes my
flesh creep as l think of that awful rasp-
Ing sound made by that man and his
saw-fling. Such people ought to go away
out in the country to do ther work"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-10
Tn TO November,
too

Up to November l the census bu-
reau finds that $685. 97 bales had
been ginned, as against 6457,595 in
the corresponding period of last year.
The gain had been 435, 002 bales. Last
years crop was 11,345,0OO bales, and
the increase this year points to a
twelye-million-bale crop. The report
of the census bureau was considered
by the market bullish. The trouble
with present. prices is, they are based
on a production of thirteen million
bales, and all know October was one
of the finest months for picking, gin
ming and marketing cotton that the
south has ever experienced Fine
weather is hurrying the crop to mar
ket, and the market therefore judged
rightly when it said the figures pre-
sented do not indicate a thirteen-mll-
lion-bale crop.
In this state 6S2,S10 bales had been
ginned up to November 1. This sum
certainly does not lead any one to ex-
pect a crop equal to that of last year,
which was 1,3S9,00O bales. The gin
ming does not afford basis for an
estimate of the Alabama crop much
beyond a million bales. =
The gins of the entire cotton belt
are being worked as they never have
been before. They are turning out
daily about 10000 bales, an output
not equalled in the big crop year, 1904.
How long this pace can be maintained
depends in part on the weather and in
part on the crop. The ginners' report
due on December Is will disclose the
real situation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-10
MUSIC WE LIKE THE MOST

so-called popular songs or selections
from grand opera would evoke the great
er applause resulted in the utter rout of
rag-time.
There are few greater fallacies than the
assumption that the public does not ap-
preciate good music. 1t applauds rag
time as it thrills over summer novels, but
it never for a moment loses sight of the
superior claims of the great masters of
melody.
Witness the enthusiasm which greets
familiar operate music played between
the acts at theatres, the success of Eng
fish opera ventures, and the throngs at
symphony concerts.
Given standard music with moderate adj
mission charges the popular response is
immediate and generous. To balk at Wag-
ner at, prohibitive prices is not indicative
of &y lack In the multitude for a love of
trueN elody. The lack is more often to
be lodked for higher in the social scale.
Tastes must be cultivated for an ap-
probation of high-class music. just as
they must be for high-class literature. But
1t is p mistake to suppose that the best
in either Is only for the few On the
contrary. the best in both is most liked
by all who care much for either.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-10
Hurrah for Oklahoma.

The brightest democratic spot on
the map is Oklahoma, which now, or
soon will, include the Indian Terri
tory. Both went democratic, over
whelmingly democratic, and democrats
will now proceed to frame a state con.
stitution for them. The constitutional
convention is to meet November 20,
and in the glad springtime the two
territories will become a new state,
and two democrats will be sent to the
Senate and five democrats TO the
House, for all parts of the two terri
tories are democratic TO the core.
The result is, however, unpromising
to New Mexico and Arizona upon both
of which the political verdict will be
visited. Both are really democratic,
and the standpatters will let them rot
before they will admit them as states
The result in Oklahoma estops them
liOlu bttOhlllo hwy hihp' ~
main territories simply because their
people do not like TO be bled at every
turn to fatten robber manufacturers
In Vermont or Pennsylvania.
The standpat crowd, led by Speaker
Cannon can keep Arizona and New
Mexico out of the union, but next
spring Oklahoma will select seven
good democrats who will go UP to
Washington when Congress meets TO
take a hand in the movement 10
smash Dingleyism.
Not only has joint statehood been
voted down in Arizona, but the latest
returns indicate that Bull Andrews, a
republican who left Pennsylvania for
Pennsylvania good has been de.
feated as a candidate for delegate TO
Congress from New Mexico. This seals
the fate of both Arizona and New
Mexico Neither will be admitted
while the standpat ring rules the
country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-10
From the Richmond Journal.


~ RAM Koeher. leader of the Pitts
:" burg orchestra, feels affronted
because at recent concert he
received, between classical numbers, a
note in ladys handwriting. asking him
to have his band play waltz Me Around
Again. WILLIE and waiting at the
Church"
What further aggrieves the musical di-
rector Is the common assumption that
because one woman in a big audience
asked for these pieces they must be more
popular than classical music.
Hundreds had paid their money to hear
high-class music. Only one asked for the
other. This, Director Koehler argues, is
real proof as to which is the more popu-
lar. And he seems to have the best OF
the argument
1t is no new question. And the common
popular fancy Director Koehler combats
is deep seated. Judged by certain sorts
of effectiveness. rag-time jig-tlme, and
the rough and-tumble melodies have class
ical music beaten. but every musician
knows that the public appreciation that
puts up money is on the other side.
The experiment not long ago of two
singers in St. Louis, to determine whether
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-10
KNOCKOUT BOUQUETS
Used by Fake Prince to Secure Jew
elry From Women.

From the New York Sun.
Under the hlgh-sounding name of
Prince Tschilindro of Montenegro, an i'm
presslve and elegant person has made a
distinct impression in the outskirts OF Pa
risian society. Well dressed. handsome
and agreeable, he was successful with the
women. and especially with wealthy Eng
lsh and American women, whose ac-
quaintance he specially cultivated.
One of the princes delicate attentions
was the frequent presentation of beautiful
bouquets to women upon whom he called
or whom he met in social gatherings, and
after a while it came to be noticed that
usually after the presentation of one OF
these bouquets the recipient was seized
with a faintng fit or a sinking spell. Nat
urally the prince was the first to offer his
services and assist the stricken lady to a
private room.
1t also happened that after such seiz-
ures the victim was apt to find herself
short on jewelry. One lost bracelet an
other necklace, another brooch. Search
of the locality OF the fainting spell never
resulted in the recovery of the lost article,
but no suspicion seems ever to have at
taclred to the Montenegro noble.
At last one evening about two weeks
ago Prince Tschilindro was a guest at q
musicale given in the assembly room of a
Partisan apartment hotel. A lady to
whom he had been paying marked atten-
ton was one of the performers.
At the conclusion of her piano solo the
prince stepped forward to offer congratu-
lations on her skill and he did so he
presented a beautiful bouquet of Alpine
violets. The usual result followed. The
lady smelled the flowers, and Immediately
showed signs OF collapse
She stood up lettering to get out of the
crowded room, whereupon the prince at
once sprang to her side and supported her
as she withdrew. Unfortunately the
hostess followed, and caught the prince
outside the door In the very act of olsen
gaging the lady's diamond bracelet from
her arm. He was arrested on the spot,
and the effects OF his bouquets were ex-
planned by the discovery that they were
all impregnated with n powerful narcotic.
Police Investigations the Gaulois re-
ports, revealed the fact that the prince
was gypsy of international notoriety
named Bunskies
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-10
ALABAMA PRESS

Grecnvllle Living Truth: It's great
day when all politicians reach office and
defaulting cashiers reach jail.
Marion Standard When things set a
bit dun in Birmingham they get after
the gamblers. This gives the city cineh
on keeping busy.
Troy Messenger: The republican party
did great stunt in Alabama in the pri-
mary. 1t ran with the democratic ticket
like a dog chases a mail train
Lamar Democrat: Guess they won't
try to prevent the poor newspaper man
from exchanging advertising space for
transportation on flying machines, auto
mobiles and merry go-rounds.
Demopolis Times: The uprising of the
Utes has been glorious thing for the
young boy. He can, revel in Indian fights
provided he let's his imagination take its
flight for in reality the scrmmage was
little more than a roundup of cattle.
Centrevllle Press: The elections will now
be a thing of the past for couple of
years. Here in Bib we were all of one
political mind, the primary settled the
election, and there was no pickering or
strike among democrats on Tuesday We
hope it will always be thus.
Montgomery Advertiser. We are told
that Castellane is trying hard to effect a
reconciliation with his wife. 1t is not at
all surprising When such q disreputable
cad as Boni has shown himself secs the
Gould millions slipping away from him
he may be expected to get busy.
Gadsden Journal: Birmingham Is all
agog over the coming OF John L. Sullivan,
the ex-pugilist. or course Johns fame
is only notoriety. his morals are wholly
bad, and his acting worse. but then he
is widely known and in n cosmopolitan
city like Birmingham viii draw u crowd.
Ozark Southern Star: Some newspaper
is trying to figure out that there are
more Indians on this continent today
than there were when De Soto came
through in 1888 to 1912. That editor may
persuade himself that he is right, but
he can never make Psychologists and real
historians believe It.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-10
MILLION MOLES
Marched Into a Maine Town and
Started a Panic.

Patten Maine) Cor. New York World.
If million blind mice. or noles, didn't
invade the sparsely settled district to the
north of here last week the farmers dc.
clare that the number reached so close to
the million mark that the round figure
gives a pretty fair idea of what they have
had to suffer. Accent is placed upon the
word suffer"
For couple of days the folks were so
busy trying to get rid of the invaders that
they didn't have chance to find out
whence they came. When they did iaves-
tigate. 1t was discovered that forest fires
were responsible. Moles can smell smoke
further than a deer, and when some camp
ers set blaze going the moes headed for
the windward. spreading the alarm as
they proceeded and picking up scores Of
colonies Of every variety. There were
star-nosed. peeked -nosed, silver-nosed and
plow-nosed members of the talpine fam
lily. and when they struck civilization
they hadn't the slightest notion of how
to appear in polite society
They invaded barns butteries, cellars,
corn cribs and outbuildings, and dug, bur-
rowed. wormed sneaked and butted into
all kinds of places. where they made
themselves u7welcome. obnoxious disa-
greeable. intolerable and impossible.s
alarmed housewives. harassed hired girls
until they threw up their jobs. made men
swear and frightened horses, cows and
sheep by getting into their fodder, and
sometimes into their noses 1t was dis
tressing. aggravating. maddening dis
gushing and demoralizing.
When the moles arrived the mice fed
they couldn't seem to stand the society
of the woodland brethren-and the house
cats fell to feeding heavily Moles are
easier to catch than mice, and soon the
cats got full fat heavy-belied and stupid
The farmers despaired. They kicked
cuffed and beat the cats, but this had no
effect. SO they got after the invaders with
brooms, hoes. rakes, pepper, mustard. hot
water. traps and rat poison. All these lit
tie devices had no more effect than a
summers breeze.
Finally one farmer hitched up to a COW
cred hay rick and set off to collect n
fresh supply of hungry cats.
II want 5000 cats to kill moles," he
told the first man he met
THAT number will kill all the moles in
the world" said the astonshed man.
IT know it," swore the other. ''But
we've got 'em all over our way
The new cats took one looB,at the job,
at sun-up. Now they are chasing over
the country trying to get back home
Some are said to have gone crazy from
the experience.
What would Gave happened to the COM
munity IL the moles hadn't gone off of
their own volition con only be guessed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-10
BIRMINGHAM PAPERS.

From the Moulton Advertiser
We hardly think The Huntsville Tribune
is competent critic on what constitutes
high class editorial ability. Without in
any way rejecting upon the superior abil-
ity of other great daily papers, we re-
gard our Birmingham exchanges among
The best published on this continent
strong, argumentative and convincing. As
purveyors of public information and
9oulders of opinion The Birmingham Age
Herald, the Ledger and the News have
stood among the very best, with no su-
periors and but few equals. We never
see one without becoming enthused. and
Editor Lane must have been tangled up
with the negro problem at the time he
turned his artillery on the sagacious
graphite pushers of the Magic City.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-10
FAMOUS FOREIGN Conductor.

"a good deal of curiosity has been ex
pressed as to DR.. Karl Muck's opnnon OF
the Boston Symphony orchestra, which
he is conducting this season, all the more
since he has been conductor of the Vienna
Philharmonic orchestra, admittedly the
finest in Europe" remarked local must
clan. DIR. Muck does not talk much and
never deals in comparisons. but in cor
versation with a visitor from New YorS
a short time ago, he said: OF course
knew 1 was coming to a splendid orches-
ira, but 1 really had no 'dea what the
Boston Symphony really is. Its wine
choirs are the most beautiful and the
strings-I have never heard such strings
in all my life"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-10
BIBLE READING IN MISSOURI

From the Kansas City Star.
Col John Cosgrove. afterward congress
man from the Boonville district, was es-
pecially distinguished as an advocate be-
fore jury. Defending a client accused
of some crime. Colonel Cosgrove. In an
eloquent climax, shouted:
what does the states attorney ex-
pect? Does he expect my client, like Dan
lei, to command the sun to stand still,
and have IL obey?"
Judge James w. Draffen. lawyer for the
opposition, interrupted:
May 1t please your honor" he said,
addressing Judge James E. Hazel, who
was on the bench, Il object to Colonel
Ccsgroves misquoting scripture"
II beg pardon" blandly replied Colonel
Cosgrove. II forgot for the moment that
it was not Daniel, but Solomon, who COM
manded, the sun to stand STILL
And that statement went unchallenged.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-10
A Few Plain Facts.

The candidates on the democratic
Observation-Disclosures ticket, other than
Mr.. Hearst, were elected. Mr.. Hearst
was defeated by a plurality of about
$4,000, and this of course is utilized by
the magnates of Wall street and their
newspapers as the basis for new at
tacks against him.
They do not care to ascertain OF to
state the facts in the case. Mr. Hearst
was as popular as any of his colleagues
on the ticket, but he had all sorts of
enemies to fight, and II he had not
been strong and alert he would have
been overwhelmed beyond all hope.
For example, Boss McCarren of Brook.
Ign fought him. McCarren is demo-
crat who represents several large cor
porations at Albany each winter Mr..
Hearst did carry the county that
Brooklyn is in by a plurality of 4563,
but the other democratic nominees
had a plurality in that county of about
$4,000. McCarren cut down Mr..
Hearst's vote in Kings county, in
other words, just about 10000. The
Croker influence in Manhattan and
Bronx did perhaps the rest.
These and similar facts explain Mr..
Hearst's defeat, but all these facts are
concealed by the champions of what
Mr.. Hughes and his followers are
pleased to call decent government"
In the last analysis decent" govern
ment is government by Wall street,
aided by the stolid farmer vote of the
! upstate counties. Government Of the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-10
Election Managers Prompt.

every one but seven of the men ap-
pointed as managers of the general cleo
ton held last Tuesday in Jefferson county
responded to the order of the appoint
ing board" said Circuit Clerk Walter X.
McAdory last night.
'There were 19S managers appointed for
the SC voting precincts in the county. and
1871 responded. Two of those who did not
act were not qualified voters and declined
to act, two were reported sick and one
was a doctor, and was excused. Only
two are not accounted for.
This is the best record ever made in
Jefferson county in this respect, and is
regarded as remarkable. There is a PEN
atty of 800 for failure to act as election
manager, but it is usually the case that
a number of those appointed find legal
excuses or fail to attend
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-10
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

~ ONT ask yourself if you have
VJ1 time, but steal away some after
l. noon and spend a few hours in
the autumn woods. The trees are gorgeous
in scarlet and gold now and the scent OF
the pine will set your fancy free. The
spell of Indian summer is on the hills.
In the little valleys and rock-bonnd
ravines broods that singular stiffness
which is characteristic of the woods at
this season and seems, as it were, the
awe-strucl silence of nature, waiting the
advance of winter. There is rest and in
spiratlon In the woods. A brief moment
away from town brushes the cobwebs
from ones mind, enlivens his spirits and
refreshes his soul. Even poor man
could afford to lose money for a half
holiday in the glorious autumn sunshine.
IN AN ELEVATOR.
So many queer people you'll find going up,
So many queer people going down.
For some of them smile and merrily jest
And some of them grumble and frown.
There is the fellow you know who is alb
sent of mind
And let's himself go by his floor
And fuses because of his foolish mis-
take
And wakes cross-tempered and sore.
There's the woman who gets on the car
In a stew
And doesn't know where she would go,
And when the top story is reached must
return
With every appearance Of woe.
There are people who talk of their pri-
Vate affairs
So every one round them can hear
Who hammer their neighbors in whitening
style
with no thought of tale bearers near.
There are topers who can not conceal in
the least
The fact that they've just had a nip,
And laundering persons who tread on
your corns-
You'll meet them on most every trip.
And then there's the fellow who doesn't
know why
He ought to take off his own hat,
When women are there. and stand with
head bare,
Since other men never do that.
A lot of strange people are met, you will
grant,
But here is where all will agree.
II only one passenger could ride at
time
The world would be fuller of glee.
NOTIONS.
Time never flies for the disconnected
man.
Love is a beacon on the road of adj
versity.
1t takes talk to get you into trouble
and talk to get you out of 1t.
1t is unfortunate that good humor is
too often the partner of lazness.
The only successful way to be a phil
osopher about women is to have lot