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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13

From the New York Mail.
 T HE failure of the German govern
 ment to direct emigration to the
 German colonies is not due so much to deficient prospects in life in those eouns tries as to the want of an erergizing cll- mate anywhere in the German colonial domains. A certain number of people, to be sure, always stand ready to emi- grate to a soft and luxurious cline, just because it is soft and luxurious. That ac- counts for the momentary popularity in Maine, Michigan, the Dakotas and Can ada. of Cuban eolonizing schemes. A farmer who has been laundering up to his belt in snow all winter sees a picture of man swinging between two palm trees in hammock, or laslly eating pineapple on broad veranda while a negro hauls a load of sugar cane out of his fields, and he says, ''That is the place for me; I've frozen to death here long enough"
 He answers an advertisement. and very likely is beguiled Into joining tile colony at Las Delicias or Saearina But he stays in that land of delights no more than year. if he remains so long. He finds that the ltropic zone has it's discomforts as well astthe cold temperate. Somehow he soon becomes conscious that he is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
WORLDS LAZY CLIMATES

slowly rotting; and he hies himself back to a country where he has to hustle in order not to freeze. but where, now that he has had a perspective upon 1t, the hlsstling does not look so bad after all. eT The fact is that permanent immigration seldom flows from a colder to a warmer country unless that country, like Aus tralia or California. has a fairly invigorat- ing climate. Any race instinctvely clings to it's inbred vigor, as to a precious pos session. European and northern .American emigration is even rather shy of Cali fornia and our eastern Gulf states, be- cause they are lazy climates. With all it's aversion to work, the human race wants the option of being able to work. A coun- try where in the growing and ripening season a man is forced to intermit his toll all through the middle of the day, and where there is no long summer twi- light to compensate for the noon-day heat, will never attract a large permanent im- migration.
 For the lazy climates are the climates without 8 twilight. here is a distinct relation between twilight hours and racial energy. In boyhood, long evening sum- mer hours mean vigorous play, and the ingrained fondness for exertion. The sud- den and early fall of night, after a day one-half of which is too hot for work means stagnation and decay. It takes the long summer day to breed race of work CTS and athletes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
Was Used In Courtroom to Bring
 About About Reformation.

From the Washington Post.
 A pastel portrait of Olive Logan when she was considered the best gowned woman on the lecture plat form once hung on wall of the West Side police court in Chicago. A few days ago when the papers published something about the evil days in which Olive Logan found herself, an ex-Chi- cagoan mentioned the circumstance.
 q was young lawyer in Chicago at the time," he said, "and was what they called then police court barrister. The magistrate was known all over the city as Dan Scully
 "He was fine Irish character. His police court was an interesting study. He was a kind-hearted man, and unless it was an aggravated case he always listened to the side of mercy.
 "The picture of Olive Logan seemed out of place in the court room, which was dingy and forbidding. Soon after I began my practice I learned why the picture was there
 "A woman in rags was before his honor. He talked to her in fatherly way. Then he pointed to the picture on the wall and asked the woman at the bar if she would not like to be like the subject of the picture. He told her it was possible for every woman to be 'as good as the woman in the picture as he put it, and then he told the prisoner to go and try.
 After court was over I asked Scully why he had such handsome picture in his court room. He told me he had once heard Olive Logan lecture, and that he thought she was the hand somest woman he had ever seen, and that she was the best dressed woman of her time. I think he told me she presented him with the picture.
 ''He did not at first intend to hang the picture where saw it, but the day he received it he showed it to friends who were in court He had it on his desk when the first case was called
 "The prisoner was a woman who had seen better days. When she was ar raigned she saw the picture and told the magistrate she knew the subject She promised if he would give her a chance she would reform.
 "Scully told me that he knew she did reform and that she became a good wife and mother, and she told him the picture on his desk was what prompted ner to go back to better life.
 "Scully thought then that the picture might be the means of touching other women who might be before him, and he placed it on the wall for that pur- pose. I practieed in the old West Sido police court for nearly year and a half. and in that time I heard Scully call the attention of several women arraigned in his court to the picture.
 When Scully retired he took the picture to his library, and it remained there as long as he lived. It is the only instance in my observation where a picture was used in court room to bring about reformation"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
MASCULINE FORM.
The American Type Has Not Become
 Degenerated.

A great deal of rubbish has been printed in Europe about the physical. degenera- tion of the American type" Certain Eng fish. French and Germans. Judging from specimens that reached them, have sumed that the typical American. after first becoming "desccated Englishman," moves on, at the next stage of his devel- opment, to a condition of ho1low-chested anemia which pressages the death of his race. Looking the other night at the pos itively magnificent forms of the young American regular soldiers who, at the military tournament in this city. went through certain exercises of rough cavalry riding and of infantry drill, the present writer could not help wondering what those prophets of American physical de- generacy would think if they were sudden ly admitted to the same exhibition.
 Here were four-score or of young men who were not picked from whole nation, but in one case were soldiers in the same regiment of infantry, the Fifth United States, and in the other all belong ed to a single troop of the Fifteenth regi- ment of cavalry. They were just such young men as are found in scores in every regiment in the United States army. Yet every one of them was physical perfec- tion. Greece never produced better types. The feat of agility which they performed were duIlIdDle, ana tnelf endurance most surprising. No such proportion of per- fectly formed athletes exists in any army of Europe. And the best of It is that their counterparts exist all over the United States in hundreds of thousands.
 It was interesting to observe that in some important respects the typical ath- 1etic soldier of regular army repeats the physical characteristics of the Ameri- can Indian, and as he may still be found under favorable circumstances. Benjamin Vests exclamation when he first beheld | the figure of the Apollo Belyedere at | Rome is well known: By God, d Mo hawl<i" The typical aboriginal athlete was not laborer. nor muscular spe- clalist of any kind. but nuntsman and d runner. His. limbs were light and in no way over developed Mass was not his characteristic, but well rounded propor- tions; he was slim. but admirably adapted to all round exercise. Conditions of com- parative ease of life appear to be develop ing similar type in the young white American of today Full of chest, but slim, tall clean liTnbed, showing the ef- fleets of running. riding and ball playing, he has gone above the European in de- velopment, not fallen below him. We be- Iieve that the American national game has had much to do with this improve ment, and that baseball has benefcent an effect upon the young American today as hunting foot exercised on the primi- tive Indian of the forest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13

one eye and then the other, and began to dream. In few moments, Hardsheli moved noiselessly up to the surface. winxed at his admiring companions in shells. and softly climbed upon Saw backs ridgepole without waking him. Then he, too. went to sleep.
 The gates of the park were opened and the crowd surged into the snake house. Half a dozen admiring women crowded around the tank and began laughing at the turtle on the alligators back. Saw back woke up. sleepily. and felt the old detestab1e weight on his back
 Flip, Flopl Smack! Bang, The turtle was thrown off this comfortable perch with a swish of the tail that caught him In it's rebound and banged him against the side of the trough. The little gators and turtles scurried for the bottom and Hardshell turned angrily toward his erst- while praying-mat. He opened his steel trap mouth-but Sawhack also opened hs and the stretch of the latter was three feet of circular saw teeth that gleamed In the sunshine.
 Snapi The shears came together. They had missed. and the head and legs of the turtle were drawn into the shell like q flash, only to dart out again and make a desperate nab at Sawback's left little toe.
 The big gator turned with lash of his tail that whipped the tank into foam and again tho jaws opened and closed like a flash. This time the cruel teeth came down across the shell back of the turtle, and they bit through 1t like raZors bring Ing a spurt of blood, When Sawback opened his mouth and the turtle fell away the roof of his shell was in two halves and blood dyed the water
 Apparently there wasn't much feeling In the turtles animosity. for, as the gator settled down to another sleep, the pugna- cious little fellow made an effort to climb to his back again. but finding himself too weak went to the raft.
 Some one called guard, who tenderly took the shellback to Curator Ditmar s office. where a suglcal operation was per- formed. With a gimlet fours holes were made in each side of the broken shell, and it was tightly tied together with silk thread. and the injur-' s1imal was sent to the hospital to thnf. over.
 "I'll bet when he gets lack he won use Sawbaek for a sleeping rug again, ' said a keeper,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
Smoking the Earth.

From the Minneapolis Journal.
 "The Kafir smokes.on his stomach" l" said tobacconist, using the earth for pipe.
 This benighted savage, when to- bacco hunger siezes him, selects a piece of clayey soil about foot square and puts curved twig therein so that both ends of the twig stick out. Then he builds a fire over the place and when the fire has sufficiently hardened the clay he draws out the twig and a channel, kind of pipe stem, is left
 "One end of the channel he hollows into, bowl. The other end Is his mouthpiece. He puts his tobacco in the bowl, drops live coal on top, and lying down falls to.
 "The Kaffir sucks away vigorously, and very black and strong are the fumes that enter his large mouth. He will not use an ordinary pipe He likes his own way of smoking best. He is, suppose. the only smoker whose pipe is the earth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
FOOLISH TURTLE
Slept on AlIgator's Back and Saurian
 Crushed His Shell.

From the New York World
 "Hardshell," a giant Mississippi alli- gator turtle. who has won the hatred of the half-grown alligators in the snake house at the New York Geological park. in the Bronx, had a difference of opinion with "Sawbaek," a six-foot alligator from Florida. yesterday. and the result Is that Hardshell Is in the hospital.
 Near the eastern end of the reptile house is pool where all the half-grown gators are kept. Sawback Is the biggest of the babies. Just to make the gators feel at home the keepers put into the pool q lot of large turtles of the variety called "all- gator turtles" because they live in the same pools with the gators.
 Hardshell, biggest of the turtles. is an overbearng sort of fellow. and has made a habit of crawling on the backs of the young alligators to sun himself, just be- cause it was easier than climbing out upon the raft. Most of the alligators didn't object, but Sawback did.
 Yesterday morning Sawback slid his long, ugly nose out of the water, sighed with contentment as shaft of sunlight from the roof struck it, and closed first
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
Save the Old Church.
From the Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript.
 A glass case to surround the ruins Of the old church at Jamestown, so that the visitors to the exposition may see what was once the house of worship of the first settlers in. Virginia, and that it may at the same time be preserved from further deterioration, is one of the proposals now before the Society of Colonial Danes, which is meeting in Washington this week. The old tower and part of the walls of this ancient edifice are still stand ing. liking it one of the most famous of America's few ruins While valued let ters and manuscripts are often framed with glass on both sides. it is new idea to treat buildings in this way Plymouth, which is the Jamestown of the north, has covered its historic Rock with granite canopy and surrounded it with an iron fence. But rocks keep better than archi- lecture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
NEAR MOTHER EARTH

try club is a thing of the past. They broke Up housekeeping Monday night with a big feast. Eighteen were present, and nine dozen eggs was only one item on the bill of fare No scraps were left as the country club eats everything on the bill of fare; then, 'tis said they lick the dishes and swallow the spoons" Eli Pretty eat sixteen hard-boied eggs as a starter, then the boys who were to eat at the second table raised a "holler'' for self-protecton. and Eli was promptly shut off. He wanted few more. Van Maple, who had been roughing it alone on the Buck place, broke up camp that night and Is returning to his nome in Medina county. Under the advice of physicians he has been roughing it in the country and enjoyed it very much, after his close confinement as a guard in the penitentiary for several years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
An. Thkre. pr. Oslef.

Carrolton (Ohio) Chronicle: John C.. Gantz was in town Wednesday evening with a load of potatoes. Although eighty four years old he is buster than a cat catching rats. He had worked all day in the field and drove to town in the evening. He is as straight as an Indian and probably the strongest man in Car roll county for his age. Although he has all kinds of oil, coal clay and minerals on his land, he cultivates the surface just, for exercise If any man in Carroll county between the ages of seventy-five and ninety-ive wants to shoot mark, pitch horse shoes or run a short foot race, he ought to call up Uncle John c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
Sorrows and Hopes of cIayfork.

WIZ e''N ''OfSS VI O'oJ w N Compiled by the Washington Post.
 Clayfork Cor. Fayetteville Observer: am sorry to say that Mrs. A. P Hall is still on the sick list.
 The wedding bells are yet ringing. Mir A. L. Nunnery and Miss Iza Vinson were happily married last Sunday afternoon at clock. We hope for them long and happy life.
 We are sorry to report the illness of MT James Vinson.
 MT. w. Q. Tow has bought a new or gan, so there will be more music now
 We are glad to note that MT. Yats Honrine is able to be out again.
 MT. Tom Rich and Miss Carrie Horne went up to Fayetteville last Friday. We expect to hear the wedding bells ring soon.
 Messrs. c. c. McLaurin and John Holmes took a pleasure trip Sunday to the convict camp.
 MT Jim McLaurin called at Miss Maud Murphys Sunday night. |, Look out, young boy, for mad dogs are still raging.
 l am sorry to report that MT. M. R. Vinson was badly hurt by a mule throw ing him down and jumping on him. We hope he will soon recover.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
In Thunder Swamp.

Thunder Swamp Cor. Mount Olive (N C.. Tribune; Several of our people attended church at North Creek Sunday.
 "Dshwater," the faithful horse belong ing to Mr. L. B. Dail, died last Friday
 The most important industry in these parts is picking potato bugs Some are paying as high as 20 cents per quart for them.
 As to the boys, we did not learn their whereabouts Sunday, as we had other important business.
 We know of a certain young man that started to town one day last week in a cart His load consisted of lady, three dozen eggs, and some butter. His horse became frightened at a hoisted umbrella and made dash forward, throwing the lady. eggs and butter to the ground breaking all the eggs except nine. We would advise him to hold tighter rein next time. KHO0T.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
A Bargain Seeker.

FTUfI Iflt lOIUIIIDId DISpdtVH'
 You don't seem to have any pride at all." said the kind lady, as she handed out large hunk of homegrown pie.
 Oats CT fact, lady" replied the un- laundered hobo. "Pm waitin' fer it [ show up on de bargain counter, den m lay In CT supply"
 Why, what do you mean by pride being found on bargain counter?' quered the kind lady.
 I'm sprised at yore ignorance, lady, = rejoned the hobo. "I fought de infants uv dis enlightend country knowed dat pride WIZ bound t have CT fall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
The Proposal.
I Press

From the Philadelphia Press.
 MT Sophtly called to see me last night" said Miss Passay, and before he left me there was a proposal of mar riage, and"
 ''Welll the ideal" exclaimed Miss Knox.
 What do you suppose said?"
 ''Oh, I suppose you said: will you marry meT "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
A Counter Attraction.

From the Linneus MoJ Bulletin.
 Warrensburg, which has the depot habit worse than any other town in tho state, recently let two Missouri Pacific trains go through without the attend ance of more than two-thirds of the population. An investigation of the phe- nomenon by the railroad men disclosed that the counter attraction was an im- ported team of fire horses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13

or they marry some one who wants to get in on the salary they make.
 We got lot of free advertising out ot Lizzie Mills the big-footed girl. We had an offer published of s5000 to anyone who would marry her. We never had to make good with the money, for no one would take her. If her feet were concealed she was really a nice-looking girl. She had an attack of eephantiasis, 1 guess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
Financial Point of View.

From the Washington Star.
 What makes you think that Mars is inhabited?"
 My correspondence with the editor of the magazine I wrote for" answered the professor. He says that is the only view which has any popular interest"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
Cupid subbing for the stork?

'Castlerun Cor Lebanon (Va) News: our handsome mail boy, R. Walter Gose, was not on the route on Monday and Tuesday of last week on account of cupid bringing him a nice boy. Ha, ha!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
A Hint to the Scribe.

Castlerun Cor Lebanon Va.) News. O. J. Baldwin seems to be as happy as a iaybird since he made the flying trip to Bristol. Guess this scribe had better run away, too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
ScentsibIe Frankie.

Turtle Valley (Minn.) Times: Frankie Lee will peddle perfume this summer when not hoeing corn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
Disposing of a Club.
OLIVE LoeAN's PICTURE

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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-12-27
Education In Business.

In the New Idea Woman's
Magazine for January appears
an interesting interview with a
clever woman who has worked
up a unique business for herself
in the publishing world. This
woman, Miss May Langdon
White. Is conversant with the
work of publishing from be-
ginning to end, and finds sufh
Gent occupation in giving as,
sistance of various kinds to
authors and publishers gener-
ally. Miss White predicates
tact and education as the essen
tails TO success in the publish
ing world, and indeed any line
of business. Il am inclined to
think" she is quoted as saying,
that this question of education
is very closely wrapped around
the success of women in bust.
ness, Possibly the ordinary
type of business women is only
a partial success. Possibly we
do not know how many of us
have been tried aud found
wanting in the qualities that
help men to surpass us. But
the ordinary type of business
woman is not we'll educated. /
rather believe the ability to get
an education usually carries
with it the force of character
necessary to success in business,
The woman who has sense
enough to acquire an education
may in the majority of cases be
counted upon to use the same
sense in learning how to earn
her living The highly educat.
ed are frequently said to be toe
impractical tor everyday pur.
poses. 1 think such cases are
the exception"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-12-27
When the Babies Go TO bed

"Anerican cntdren don't go
to bed early enough 1t is no
unusual eight 10 see 5-year-old
child sitting up as late as 9 or
10 O'Clock.
They should have their sup
per at 6:30. and 7:30 should find
them tucked in bed and fast
asleep
There is nothing that so stunts
a Chiid's growth as improper
food, lack of fresh air aud lack
of sleep
You will have more leisure to
talk over the days doipgs with
your husband if you get the
children in bed early. 1t is all
a matter of habit. After a week
or SO of going to bed early they
will not be able to keep awake
beyond the normal bed hour.
They may wake little earlier
in the mornings, but a toy or SO
will keep them in bed until you
are ready TO dress them
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-12-27
One Half

On he 18Th INST the DEMO.
GRAFT got out 4 double sized
paper. aud on the goth one aud
one half SIZE, therefore as this
is Curislmas we believe you
will be satisfied with Il paper
one half It's usual slze,
The 2nd issue in January will
contain the annual shipping re-
port, etc. as has been the Gu
tom of the paper for seV,ru
years. And a. the report "f
the year 1906 will be more com
plete than auy Of its predeces.
sors, we thick it will be OF un
usual interest 10 the farmers, to
the u :rchants and should be to
every man in the city who owns
a home or lot,
If the paper was gotten out
in the northwest or Texas it
would be worth untold hun
dreds Of dollars TO the editor
but this is Missouri, where real
estate men don't boom.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-12-27
When Love Dies Away

When love dies away, all seems
lost.
We have not faith to count
the gain
Faint hearts hurt and writhe
and ache and burn
While the crushed soul grows
best by pain.
When love dies away, the world
is dark,
Zen tickle hope dIsJaios she
hand.
Smiles and stars seem but a
mockery
Sorrow does solitude demand.
When Love was all the child
one had
And Love repining, slowly
dies
What else is left but tears-and
Though Love may never heed
your signs!
Ethel Fairmont Say der.
Kansas City, Mo.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-12-27
Too Late.

Several letters from our little
friends to Santa Claus arrived
TOO late for publication, but we
did the best we could, therefore
Santa will know your wants
and supply them if he can,
For instance, our little friends
Mathew and Susie Carrico of
Olds, Alberta, Canada, wrote
their letters on the 9th inst.
out they did not reach this ofhce
until the goth and then both pa
pers containing Santa Claus let
sers were out.
Never mind, try again next
year and take an early start
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-12-27
Why il Was

Two gentlemen sof old Erin
were discussing the merits of
the Bible. Mike commended that
the good book was faultless,
while Pat couldn't see it ia that
light. One day Mike says to
Pat:
"Su:e an phat fault have ye
to fond wild de Bible?"
"Well Moike," says Pat, "Oi
do be thinkin' it shows preju.
dice"
Flows that?" asks Mike.
"Begorra," says Pat, "Oi've
be radin' the New Testiment
from Genesis to Revelations,
an it's all st. Paul, st. Paul
and never a word about Mime
apolis at all,-Ex.