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The Florida agriculturist., 1906-07-04
Jacksonville and DeLand Fla Wednesday, July T. 1906

registered and you have made a per
manent Improvement, which will last
as long the law prevails, and will
never call for betterments or repairs.
(2). You are then given a certi-
ficate of title, which guarantees to
all the world that you have such
title as is set forth therein to the
lands therein described exam
pie, life estate, or a feee simple. in
whole or in part, free from encum-
brances Or subject to such encum-
| tffIcate.
(3). You can deal with this GER
/ tificate of title almost as freely as
with a certificate of stock. because
everybody can see from the certificate
exactly what your title is.
This will put your real estate on a
footing with your personality, and
will add millions to the business cap
ital of Virginia.
The Torrens Act will help the farm
ers and everybody who. OWNS real
estate in the country, as we'll as in
the city.
1t will kill the business of the land
grabber in Virginia.
1t will enable the state to collect
her taxes promptly, and no mans
land, when registered, can be sold
for delinquent taxes without his
knowledge.
1t will help everybody who deals
in real estate
1T will lessen the cost of transac-
tiOns in real estate, stimulate and
enlarge the market, and thus in
crease values; and when a poor man
buys a home he will get a good title
to it and no one can take it away
from him.
1t will promote development of the
whole state by settling titles And
it will incite immigration, because
strangers will not hesitate to buy,
such guaranteed titles.
The TOrrens System is no expert
ment
1t has been tested in South Aus
tralia since 1858. and soon spread to
Queensland, Victoria, New South
Wales, and West Australia. 1t has
long been in operation in Tasmania,
New Zealand, Vancouver, and British
Columbia; also in Manitoba, Ontario,
and the Northwest Territory of Can
ada, comprising the four provinces
of Athabasca, Alberta, AssinibOia,
and Saskatchewan. Even conserva-
tive England has been testing it'll
since 1862. and in 1900 Parliament
S1.325.0OO- for Land
Registry Office in LincOln's+Inn-
Fields. Registra ton of pOssessory
titles has been compulsory in London
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-07-04

since May 1, 1901. Nova Scotia has
recently adopted the system; and a
similar system of title registration
has been in operation in Prussia since
1872. 1t has been proven to be suit
ed to old as well as new countries to
stitutiOns, to large and complicated
holdings, to extensive estates and
wild lands, as well as to small tracts
and city lots.
The TOrrens System found tom
genial soil in the United States in
Illinois, California, Massachusetts.
Minnesota, Oregon. and Colorado
and the Federal Government has es-
tablished it in Hawaii and the Philip
pine Islands. In addition to this.
Arkansas. the District of Columbia,
Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maine, Montana, Nebraska. New
York, North Dakota. Pennsylvania.
Porto Rico, Rhode Island. Tennessee.
Texas. Utah, Washington. West Vir-
ginia, and Wisconsin have taken steps
more or less pronounced for its adop-
ton. The question is:
Shall Virginia keep up with the
procession, or, halting, lag behind? :?
If Virginia wishes to preserve an
honorable place in the march of
progress she must do justice to her
landowners. The spirit of our land
laws is the spirit of mediaeval OPP
preston and restriction We are liv-
ing under superannuate ted system.
originated by Norman lawyers under
William the COnquerOr, and venera-
bic only as relic of an antique
age. F'udal methods are not suited
to this age. Laws made when lands
were held under royal grants and
sold for ten cents an acre are not
suited to the business methods and
commercial requirements of this day
and generation.
See that your representatives in
the House and Senate favor the Tor
rens Bill in the next General Assem-
bly,.
1t is entirely voluntary, not COM
pulsory. 1t simply gives you an op-
pOrtunity to register your lands if
you should see fit to do So 1t i'm
poses no liability on the Common
wealth. 1t will more than pay for
itself.
In all of the above, where the writer
uses the name Virginia, substitute that
of Florida and see if it is not lust as
applicable. The following is the
editorial from the Progressive Farm
er:
Give Us the TOrrens SyStem-One
thing which we hope the readers of
The Progressive Farmer will demand
Of all their candidates for the Legis-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-05

paign, not to defend the boundaries of school districts in California, but for the assertion of American rights and interests in the Pacific ocean,"
 Involved in this issue which the re- publican party is trying to raise in or der to lift the pressure from the rail roads and trusts in particular and from plutocracy in general is the Phil ippine problem-the retention, in other words, of the islands that Ad- miral Dewey threw into our lap on a morning in May. The re- pubicans are prepared to declare that we must hold the Philippines in order to strengthen our grip on the Pacific and our chance to make the Panama canal good investment.
 This is why the San Francisco incl dent is to be magnified. This is why everything is distorted and the imag- ination drawn upon to make Japan our foe. As a matter of fact, she is noth- ing of the sort. She is not an intrigu- ing nation, and never has been. She hopes to become an industrial and com mercial nation, and the greater her de- gree of success in those directions the more she shall buy from us. She aims to become a second England-the Eng land of the East, and it is our inter- est to promte her plans, not to check or threaten them,
 The republican party has, however, been caught in a plutocratic hole, and it's interruptions managers would not hesitate to bring on a war with Japan if thereby they could perpetuate their power and opportunity for graft. It is altogether possible that war with Ja- pan will be the result of the present studied effort, but it will be a war with out a bit of justice or justification in it. It will simply be war to lift the republican party out of the hole it has fallen into.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-05
BOOST FOR WOODROW WILSON
Said to Have Been Picked to Beat
 Bryan and Hearst.

New Haven, (Conn.) Disatch in New York
 Sun.
 The New Haven Union of which Alex ander Troup is editor and proprietor. publishes an article purporting to give the details of secret meeting recently held in New York city by number of leading democrats of the country called together for the purpose of sidetracking any plans William J. Bryan or William K. Hearst may have for gaining the presidency in 1908 and putting in nomina- ton for President Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton university.
 Mir Troup has just returned from a western trip, during which he spent a week at the home of Mir. Bryan in Lin- coin, Neb. The article says
 Bryan and Hearst are both out of the game,' said Ex-Mayor Hopkins. "Dr. Will son will be the democratic nominee The conservative forces of the democratic part will get to work immediately to bring about his nomination. The south will not touch Bryan on account of his views regarding government ownership of railroads. Wilson is strong in the south and with New York and New Jersey and New England working together he can be nominated just as Judge Parker was. in spite of MT. Bryan and his friends.
 New Jersey came very near returning to the democratic fold, and it would be particularly appropriate to take the dem- ocratic candidate from the state. Wilson and Folk would make a strong ticket.''
 The first effort to be made, accord ing to this scheme, is to prevent the Kentucky state convention, which will be the first to meet next year from endors- ing MT. Bryan. If MT. Bryan is not en- dorsed National Committeeman Sullivan of Illinois and the Parker-S -Sheehan- Bel mont coterie will announce that this Is a repudation by the south of Bryan.
 The men who are backing Dr. Wilson seem to think that Senator Blackburn's political enemies are against Bryan.
 It is well known that ever since the national campaign of 1904 MT. Belmont has maintained regular inside confiden- tial organization. A majority of the bu- reau chiefs employed by the national committee during the campaign of 1904 have been, and now are, on the payroll of corporations controlled by MT. Bel mont
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-05
The ledalist.

"How beautiful these winter days are with their soft breezes and sunshine" said an enthusiastic worshiper Of the true and the good.
 q strolled into flower booth filled with the most exquisite blooms, blushing carnations, royal roses, grand chrysanthe- nuns and towering plants of begonia and I said to myself this is the climax of natures offerings at the shrine of the beautiful. Leaving there I met a lovely woman proud of a rosebud on her breast. but prouder still of motherhood and beau- tiful babes, and I said this is the most beautiful thing in nature. Through the sunshine l made my way to my hotel, where visions of loveliness met my gaze A lovely little Miss perfect in form and features, with golden parted locks and attired in a blue dress, was seated at the writing table. To my question she said she was witing Q letter to Santa Claus Now. this was the most beautiful of all the pictures l came across on a lovely winter day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-05
Horse Feed Hiah.

"The livery stables have been forced by the steady rise in feed to raise the price on boarding horses again. said livery man.
 "Feed is high and not always easy to get. The weather affected the hay crop in quality, particularly Johnson grass much of which comes from the black belt Then, too, the price of cotton the past few years has caused many farmers to put some of their grass lands back into cotton The shortage of cars is se- riously affecting the supply, and in some measure the local price of feed. The mat ter of labor of reliable kind Is quite a serious one at the stables. As to lead boys who take out teams and bring them in, that is about the most uncertain qnes- ton of all, today you have them. to- morrow not if they get into mischief, but they will show up for nickel due them pay night. You know the ghost walks Monday night at the stables, and it is one spook the nlgger looks for and runs to meet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-05

invite. even to demand, the next dem ocratic national convention.
 Why not? The Atlanta Georgian says it is a practical and hopeful prop osition, and one cannot see why it is not. The Solid South is faithful to the democratic party. It has been faithful over forty years, and not a convention has been held in it since the one that met in 1860 in Charleston when Breck- enridge was placed in nomination. That was forty-six years ago. It will soon be forty.eight years ago. Forty-eight years between conventions is a good while, and the Solid South has a right to speak out.
 AS the Georgian says, it will be a step towards the nomination of a south ern man for President in 1912 or soon afterwards. It would promote the ob- liberation of sectionalism, and it may lead to the nomination of a southern man for President, not in 1908, but In the near future. By all means let At lanta push the campaign for the con yention. Birmingham and Alabama will second the effort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-05

in comfort and deeency. If they are paid fair wage for their work where is the necessity of the tip unless it be that the person who gives the tip ex- poets and receives better service or value than the person n'ho does not? If these people who work in restaurants are not paid a living wage and are obliged to depend upon the gratitudes of the patrons. then the condition of such service is in way that needs amending.
 'If I pay 9 or % cents for a business lunch and give the waiter a quarter for attendance 1t appears to me I'm paying too much for my lunch and to give smaller gratuity is worse than nothing at all Tn fact the whole system is a uown- wright nuisance, 1t is degrading to the recipient and decidedly objectionable to the giver When things come to stage that person cannot earn enough by their labor without picking up the nick els and dimes that come to a man in the way of change, it is time labor unions took up the matter'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-05
Greater Birmingham.

'1f you want to get good idea ot the future of Birmingham,' said a tray cling man at the Morris, just take team and drive down to Bessemer, going out by Glen Springs, turning towards the Grasselli plant, thence to Bessemer away from the street car tracks. On the return come back the north road away from the car line Then the next trip go by ve- hicIe out Fifth avenue to AVondale' Woodlawn and East Lake, swing pacK py Underwood avenue on back to the city, and after that you will understand that the thousands who throng the streets or Birmingham come from countless small homes not only near the car lines, but blocks away from them. This is Tor twenty miles straight as the crow hies' Now look the other way north ana south, and it may be readily seen that Birmingham could easily have half million population in ten years. And Greater Birmingham will.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-05
One-Horse Towns.

CT have just returned from a trip through the state." said business man. "and have come to the conclusion that the one horse town IS the great defect in the body politic''
 q won't make any invidious distinctions by mentioning any particular city, but l have in my mind a certain town With a population of about 25o. It is on a line of railroad, has postoffce, couple of stores. A wagon repair shop and three saloons. From sunrise to sunset there Is a certain amount of the population that divides it's time between meeting the trains, sitting around the stores whittling shingles, or chewing tobacco and swapping stories in the saloons.
 ..Tbe whole air and appearance of tho place is indicative of apathy and lazlness. When farmer comes in with few bushels of potatoes or corn he is bound to spend the day in town dawdling arouhu' and perhaps spends the little money he gets for his produce. These towns have a demoralizing effect on the young peo- ple in the surrounding country, especially inc boys. who come in these and loter around when they should be at work.
 "A visit to d big city has an inspiring and elevating effect. The visitor sees men busy and energetic in their manner; he sees fine buildings and well dressed people. He is given to understand that slouching and lettering are not tolerated and that he must either get in the rush or get out If he has the right material in him he will stay, but if not he soon drops back to little sleepy hollow" where he passes his life in idleness and lgnor- ance."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-05
VIRGINIA TRIBUTE TO WILSON.
Notable Recognition of the Genius of
 the Great Jurist.

From the Norfolk (Va.) Pilot.
 The body of James Wilson, soldier of the revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the conven- ton that framed the constitution of the United States has lain for more than a century in an obscure grave in Edenton, N. C., where he died on visit to Judge Iredell in 179s. The foremost citizen of Pennsylvania in his day, saving Benja- min Franklin alone, a devoted patriot, ripe scholar, a jurist of luminous mind and unrvalled learning, his talents and services were extolled by all the great men of that era of giants. and his speeches in the convention and decisions on the bench inaugurated the federal theories of the government which Mar shall afterwards expounded and Webster defended. In the famous debate of the latter with Hayne of South Carolina, the whole basis of his reasoning was bor- rowed from Wilson's earlier interpreta- tions of the constitution, and not Hamil- ton himself was so influential in giving the tinge of federalism to our infant in stitutions. But for Wilson. Pennsylvania would have refused to become a menl- Der of the union by ratifying the consti- tution and of his oratory in the state convention Livingstone wrote to Jefferson that "it combined information. logic and eloquence with resistless effect"
 Yet he passed away and was buried in strange land, and his name and fame seemed to pass entirely from the memory of the people of the state on which he had reflected such honor. century elapsed and except to close students Of political and legal history he and his work of life were unknown. In the quiet Carolina town, his resting place was shown to strangers and some echoes Of his distinction suryived but in Pennsyl- vania he was forgotten while lesser men Of later generations were glorified by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-05
From the Van Norden Magazine.

From the Van Norden Magazine.
 lou imagine, sweet-faeed reader, (G that the Wall street broker is O a devil of fellow. You think of him as seated at his diamond-studded desk, cutting coupons with his right hand, pulling ticker tape with his left, telephon- ing to Secretary Shaw, while his toes are busily at work manipulating the stock market. If you want to foster this de- fusion you are welcome to your dream.
 As I find the average stock exchange member he is an ambitious young per- son, more or less estranged from his alma mater. He would like to make you think that he is playing on the stock market much as Paderewski hypnotizes a Stein way grand. Uncle Pierpont and Uncle John D. and Uncle Henry Rogers can perform this musical novelty; but they seldom show off before company. The average prentice boy broker has about as much influence on the financial air. ship as a lovers sigh would have on the Flatiron building.
 Why are there so many young things on the floor of the exchange? Because 
 turn their sons into office boys. If were father and could borrow s90,o00 do you think that I would turn my child out into the bleak world to be a district messenger boy? No! I would buy him a stock exchange seat and pay off his losses at the end of the year-if I could l, too, come of proud race
 The average broker is like the doctor who advertises to cure all the diseases in the dictionary of medcne-then, when patient comes in with a corn on his toe and another with a cancer on his brain, the good physician sneaks around the corner and consults specialists.
 A magnate once said to me: If you want to see something really, seriously funny, go sit in the visitors gallery of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-05

monuments and memorial tablets. Just a few weeks ago MT. Roosevelt in an ad- dress delivered at Harrisburg, took oc- casion to re-enforce an apepal in favor of nationalism by quotations from Wil- son, and to laud his character and ex- amples as worthy of perpetuation . There was need of authority on which to base innovations to which the words of Jefferson could not be stretched. and lo! slraightWay a movement was sf a> fneI to rehabilitate with the mold ' recognition the ashes and the LictI III the illustrious publicist so long ignols III Today his body goes with CSC, / | ceremony on man-of-war to finu resting place in Pennsylvania. A T. shaft will record his genius and wha1 fs wrought, and from the shades of a cen tury's oblivion James Wilson will emerge, the prophet of a new dispensation. tribute was due to one so singularly endowed and so devoted to his adopted land, but it is marred not alone by tardi- ness but by the selfish motive which prompted the late payment of the debt Now watch for a republican, resurrection of Wisonism in papers, magazines and public speeches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-05
TOUGH JOB.
From The Mobile Register:

From The Mobile Register:
 The Countess of Warwick sees a glor- ious vision of love-welded world, to be created by the triumph of socialism. If the lady will look about her and see what are the clements to be welded she will have her doubts. When she speaks of a world she cannot mean simply England, nor yet Europe. The world holds all sorts of people. We would like to see her be- gin welding the races in India. After success in little job like that she would be competent to tackle the world we admit Tho trouble with the vision seers is that they Imagine a world peo- pied with angels as soon as n new rule of political economy is adopted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-05
Everythina Prosperous.

fs'Birmingham is getting ready for the greatest Christmas ever known in Jones valley" said a merchant. Many per sons are acting on the timely suggestion Of The Age-Herald to prepare for the Christmas rush by buying early. Then, too, everybody seems to be doing We'll Although there have been several fall- ures. already in the black belt, there are none so far hereabouts. All the indus tries are crowded with orders. only scar city of labor with some and cars with the others are handicapping them. Ihe general merchandise business is In me condition, and is enjoying good patron age. All the amusement places, small and great, are doing good business. The hotels are full up. The cafes and restau- rants feed crowds day and night. The street cars are crowded. Everybody seems cheerful The weather is lovely, and God pity the man who isn't prosperous ana happy in this busy, hustling town
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-05
WALL STREET IN REALITY.

the exchange and see the witty, roguish brokers at play. They are the original, spontaneous village cut-ups the gay dogs, the caper-lSickers! Beside them Marcel line looks like Chauncey M. Depew, and Lou Fields seems at the distant chanting of requiem. The droll thnigsr
 So l went down to the Broad Street Biological gardens expecting to be seized with violent spasms of jocularity. I had previously ordered my tailor to re-enforce all the buttons of my waistcoat, so as to withstand the violent quaking of my sides. But from all that seething, bawl- ing, believing mass my ear was never violated with the cracking of joke True, there were many desperate att tempts, but they fell flat as Russian bonds on a war year.
 Take the broker when he is solemn The average successful goldbug in the street takes the attitude of "I am Nero. Any one who wants to talk to me has got to be a Christian martyr" His telephone girls are the sassiest, his office boys the chinniest procurable. To know your broker first study his office boy. If the child has the air of just having lunched with John w. Gates, you may conclude that his master has been able to dam the golden flood and is now taking swim in il.
 The stock exchange is as full of "con. servative investors as hades with health ems. But there are not so many of the | safe and sane financiers who won't pl i, your hard-earned investment on an Q lash margin. They all speculate. v the big banker who has enough benind him to make his turns at the wheel d rather harmless dssipation-even he must take his chances, and big ones, often. And yet the Wall street congress of subsidized saints turns in about twice year and damns the "speculatorsr If every man were without sin there would be no bricks cast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-05
The Tippinq Practice.

q quite fail to understand why per son who hands me my dinner in res taurant is more entitled to tip than is the person who sells me a shirt or a posed to the tipping practice.
 T suppose the people who work in stores and restaurants are paid certain weekly or monthly wage, and in justice to the employees it should be such as will enable them to support themselves
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Rubber Tires.

Rubber tires have become such eom- mon thing on light vehicles that one mo- tiees the absence quickly" said an ob- servant man. "I noticed delivery wagon passing along Twentieth street today and the noise was positively nerve-wrecking. It attracted my attention because the street was crowded with buggies and wagons at this time.
 .1t may have had an advertising feature by attracting attention, but to my mind it was not favorable to house claim ing to sell only the very best of stuff.