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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

not more than 15 cents day for each one of my boarders. And, what is more they would be fed on the best in the land"
 What would it cost an average me- chanic, with a family, to live, on your systemY' he was asked.
 If he were to spend 20 cents day for each member of his family" was the reply, "he could live well, do his work more efficiently and never have any doctors bills
 q eat no breakfast and generally my midday meal is the only meal of the day. But sometimes when out walk ing in the evening l pass a baker s shop and suddenly crave cake, 8 biscuit or a piece of butter-scotch. To such q craving 1 always yield, for know that my body needs just that very thing.
 This is the principle upon which all men should eat. If they were 10 do so they would grow stronger as they grow older, instead of wearing out their bodies by overlooking them with unneeded foods and thus making their digestive apparatus work far harder than is necessary"
 We frequently read absurd stories about the earning of authors. The most absurd of all was sent out by the press agent of a book publisher, who declared that the income of the successful writer of today was as great as that of steel magnate. For the sake of the thousands who are likely to take mp pencil and paper at once and join the race to be literary magnates this silly statement should be corrected. There is not an author in this country making anything like the average income of the steel magnate. Hall Caine is perhaps real literary magnate. The press agent for his publishers have figured out that in d real rosy year MT. Caine might make $500,O00 without any great strain. It IS safe to cut this sum half in two and it iss doubtful, very doubtful. if MT Caine has ever made as much $250Oo0 in q one year.
 The opportunity is open to earn good income--a comfortable income--in litera- ture Good writers sell their serial rights to their stories for from 5000 to s10,Oc1. After novel has run in some magazine as d serial it is issued between covers, at sl.5O. from it's sale in this form the author gets anywhere from 15 cents to 90 cents a copy. sometimes a bit more. as in the case of Mrs. Humphry Ward. and 4 small number of other sure sellers. Hence, 1t will be seen that a sale of 900 copies ought to net the fortunate author from s9,G00 to 5000
 After the book has run it's course in it's elegant s1.O garb. its usefulness us
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A FAMOUS British critic has said "A that I've are living in a mechan- \ ical age" This remark was made more than 50 years ago, and it is even more emphatically true now than it was then. It is marvellous to think how much of what we call our work is now done by machinery Even walking is fast be- coming a lost art among us. for the cleo tric car is employed to do the duty which our legs used to do. Eighty years ago 1t required some time and some skill to make fire: now the biggest fool in Bir- mingham can make one in a minuteA
 Nor need we complain that we do not understand the mechanical appliances which we are so freely employing. True. the motorman on the trolley car is not an electrician; but he knows as much of the nature of the force he uses as the negro driver of the four horse wagon knows of the anatomy and of the mus eular action of his horses.
 An old fogy once complained that the lightning of heaven was captured. har- messed, bridled, saddled and ridden by
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Brown all failed, as did W. O. Bradley on the other side of the political hedge. It is true that Governor Beckham is nomi- mated for senator in a primary fearfully and wonderfully conceived and conducted, but Governor Beckham is not yet sena- tor.
 Benton McMillin's is a case in point. He came to Congress in 1879 and was made a pet by the set headed by William R. Morrison and that had for it's mem- bership Carlisle, Mills. Hurd and Tucker, later reinforced by Turner, the Brecken- ridges, Wilson and men like those. He got d knowledge of the tariff by absorp- ton, and became a member of ways and means. They used to send for him to go north and instruct them on political economy and as long as he confined himself to the tariff he did very well in- deed.
 The democratic party, God bless 1t, is a composite of Philip Sidney, Roger de Cavereley, Baron Bradwardine, Wilkins Micawber and Tam O Shanter. Now it Is the Tenth Legion that saved great Caesar, and now it is the squad obese Falstaff re- fused to go through Coventry with It is entirely human. It has the simplicity and the abiding confidence of the honest
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MT. Watson is a candidate for gover- nor of Indiana. What he wants with it l cannot imagine. Only one governor of that state was a colossal figure while
 in office, and circumstance made the opportunity for him. As governor, Wat son would take the dry rot and never be heard of again. The thing of going from Congress to the governors mansion is come to operate in our country like the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds in England. an honorable road out of politics. It is no longer the way to the Senate. Doubtless J. Frank Hanly knows that.
 There was a time when to be governor of a sovereign state of this union was a much bigger office than to be a member of Congress, but that was when the fed eral power was great deal modester than it is now. Henry Clay left the United States Senate to take a seat in the Kentucky legislature. l believe some thing like that happened to Caleb Cush- ing, though he retired from the national house to go to the Massachusetts 1egis- lature. De Witt Clinton was senator in Congress and mayor of New York at the same time and he regarded the office of mayor as the more important.
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so much more money than he need spend that a Thigh price" rumor brings him panic.
 q could start d boarding house,
 continued MT. Fletcher, and, if every one In it would practice what l teach' their food would not cost me more than 15 cents day---of course. eX- elusive of the cost of serving, cooking, rent. etc. l mean I sh ould have to pay the grocer, the butcher and the baker
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you are hungry in chewing what you eat until there is nothing left to chew, enjoying the taste of every morsel, eat ing only what tastes good and ceasing to eat when the appetite is satisfied.
 The average man, according to MT. Fletcher swallows but does not eat. Because he does this he eats vastly moro than he needs, has less enjoy ment, has more sickness, is less strong and energetic as q worker-and spends
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ing, at the age of 55, all the husky youths who tried their strength. He says he was able to do it because he eats properly. And, Just as calm ly, he remarks that if people did their eating according to right principles the increase in the price of food need not be serious matter.
 His eating philosophy is called "Fletcherism." Is is q simple philoso- phy. It consists in eating only when
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

I"HE attorney general of an eastern state said the other day that at
 x last justice had come to be sonie- thing more than a symbol; that it was actually administered in the court houses and no longer existed only in the graven images that adorned the exteriors of the buildings. He thought it a healthy sign that the states were trying to curb the corporations that gouge the public to earn dividends on watered stocks he reviewed at length the record of the federal courts in the campaign against perncous cor porations and declared that never was there a more stern defense of the square deal," the preservation or which mas made the republic what it is.
 A review of the 20-years struggle to curb the trusts bears out the assertion Of the enthusiastic attorney general The original interstate commerce act, prohib- itDg discrimination among shippers bv common carriers, was passed in 1887 and in 1903 it was amended by the ElNins act, which weakened 1t by abolishing the prison penalty and strengthened it by making the giver and receiver of rebates equally liable to punishment by fines. In 1890 was passed the Sherman antitrust act, which declared illegal every contract. combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade among the states. That this legis- latlOn was ample 10 curD the tfuslS anu the railroads has been proved by numer- ous court decisions.
 The three decisions forming the ground work for most of the later actions brought under the Sherman antitrust act were in the cases of the Trans Missouri Freight association, the Joint Traffic as- sociation, in which it was decided that combination among competing railways to regulate rates and fares was Illegal, and the Addyston Pipe company, which was restrained from maintaining com bination to control the prices of cast iron pipe.
 Here are some of the cases won under the sherman act:
 In 1904 the supreme court held to be un- lawful and dissolved the Northern Securi- ties company.
 Tn 1905 it enjoined the combination form ing the beef trust from suppressing com- netition and maintaining a monopoly in fine purchase of live stock and sale of dressed meats After the indictment of the hackers they escaped prosecution on the pIea of immunity because they had furnished information to the department of commerce and labor. but the indict- ments against the corporations were sus- tained.
 In close order there followed the con
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viction in California of the Federal Salt company and of the Elevator trust. In Alaska the Nome Retail Grocers' trust was dissolved.
 In 1906 the supreme court affirmed the judgments of federal courts in Wisconsin ! and Minnesota against the General Paper company, which had been proceeded
 against as q trust, and the combination was finally dissolved after more than l two years of litigation.
 | Last year proceedings were begun in New York against the licorice trust, | branch of the Tobacco trust, and fines of 1 $10, 900 and SS000 were inflicted upon two | of the defendant companies Indictments | have also been found against S1 corpor- | ations and 21 individuals engaged in the l Fertilizer trust operations in the south, | and after prolonged delays they are now awaiting trial. A number of minor anti !, trust cases have been prosecuted or are | pending.
 Hundreds of cases have been disposed oi under the interstate commerce laws. 1 In summary presented to Congress the Attorney General reported that under the | Sherman antitrust act up to June t. ] 1905, there had been
 l During President Harrisons admins
 tration three injunctions granted and
 three indictments.
 During President Cleveand's admins 1 tration three injunctions granted and two | indictments.
 During President McKinley's admins | tration two injunctions granted. | During President Roosevelts adminis- ] tration six njunctions granted and six 1 pending. and thirteen indictments. i During President Harrisons adminls- i tration there were five convictions under i the interstate commerce law during ! President Clevelands second administra- 1 tion six convictions; during President l McKinleys administration iivs convic- 1 tions: during President Roosevelts from l the passage of the EIkins act to June l l. 1906 IS indictments and 20 convictions,
 and 49 indictments were pending at the time of the report. since when many 1 new ones have been found
 I No one should worry about the in- i creased cost of food. according to Hor- ace Fletcher. Of course. Mr. Fletcher | need not worry for he is millionaire l But that is not the real reason of Mr. l Fletcher's indifference: he does not be- | lieve in eating much. Tn fact Mir. !! Fletcher is food expert-some folks | call him a crank-and that there is l something in his doctrine was demon strated by him in the Yale gymnasium l the other day when he broke the
 records for physical endurance. defeat
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Sauelched.

From Harper's Weekly.
 Impecune.: "Fm poor. sir but loss your daughter"
 Old Rocksey: Tut, tut, young man; you can't make money as quick that in this worif
The oasis., 1907-03-09

HALF a million dollars sent to develop Arizona mines blown in across gambling tables in Nogales within ten years" is the estimate made by well known citizen whose position was such that he had full opportunity for knowing. Every town of any consequence in Arizona can repeat the story. And in every instance the man who "blew in" the money will aver with the solemnity of an owl that the district is no good" whenever speaking of the locality where are the properties he was supposed to be working, when the hardest work he did was at a faro table in the nearest town. An understanding of these facts will account for some of the pessimistic tales going the rounds against some we'll known mining regions in Arizona.
The oasis., 1907-03-09
STATE OF TEXAS

STATE OF TEXAS,
 COUNTY OF CHILDREss 9S'
 On this 2ith day of January in the year 1907. before me, J. II. Hankins a Notary Public in and for the state and county aforesaid residing therein duly commissioned and sworn personal ly appeared A. ]. Fires, Jno. H. r. Jones, W. D. Cope, :. r. Buster, Chas. C. Badgett. D. $. Car raway, B. E. Bates, NJ. A. Hooker, F. c. Adams J. J. Taylor, J. $. Lane, J. IT, Mowrey, ]. H. son, II. J. King known to me to be the persons described in, whose names are subscribed to. and who executed the annexed instrument, and they acknowledged to me that they ex- ecuted the same for the purposes and consider ations therein expressed
 In witness whereof, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal, at my office, in the said State and County, the day and year last above written. J. II. HAWKINS. [SEALl Notary Public.
 My commission expires May 3lst, 1907
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STATE OF TEXAS, ! m
 CnrNTY DE DAIIAs ss.

STATE OF TEXAS,
 COUNTY OF DALLAS ss
 On this 26th day of January, A. D. 1907, be- fore me, J. O. Prewitt, Notary Public in and for the State and County aforesaid residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, per sonally appeared J. H. Gristler, known to me to be the person described in. whose name is subscribed to. and who executed the annexed instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the purposes and con alterations and in the capacity therein ex- pressed.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal. at my office, i'll the said State and County, the day and year last above written.
 J. 0. PREwTTT. [SEALl. Notary Public. My Commission expires May 31st, 1907.
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sysiem oi stfikiog at tbe countfy's industries, wandering aitr In search of employment that was not to be had, and where the trains stopped scattering through the towns to beg for bread.
 That was the condition the coun- try suffered in those days. Re- collecting all this what sane man is there who would not admit that the car shortage of 1906 is far pre- ferable to the plethora of cars with which the United States was afflict- ed in 1893 and the two succeeding years?
 With the election of Mckinley in 1898, all was changed in the twinkling of an eye. Confidence was returned, and business began to revive. The people had elected to return the government to the party which stands for American industry, rather than for looking to advantage by giving preference to foreign industries. Th9 system productive of SO much benefit may have points that seem incongruous and inconvenient at times. But what system devised by finite man Is or can be perfect? And the sys- tenn that has been of benefit so great and far reaching in results is so complicate ted and interdepen- dent that it is no wonder that its greatest opponents dread any at tempt to remodel it and urge the advisability of standing pat"
 But this article has wandered from its subject, which is the car shortage, the causes thereof, and the efforts of the railways to reme- dy the same, as presented in the statement upon the first page, which Is a clear and logical illum- ination of very perplexing prob lem; one which the best talent in the railway world is bending every energy toward solving. And as shown in that presentation the real and underlying difficulty is in the marvellous prosperity that has been the result of ten years appli- cation of the policies of the Re- U,,k1ioa,, mo rf
The oasis., 1907-03-09

MIssIssTPPI's supreme court, in a regularly rendered decision, has declared that "a small boy has a right to climb a tree" Very likely all those judges recollect when they were small boys them selves.
The oasis., 1907-03-09
(CoPY) (Form No. -Consularl FORM FOR AUTHENTICATION OF SIGNATURE.
AMERICAN CONSULAR SERVICE.

NFfTsINAsN NfIFNI LAX .EF.N ItFs
 IIERMosILLo, Mexico, Jan. 30. 1e07.- |, Louis H0stetter Consul Of the United States of America at Hermosillo, Mexico, do hereby certify that the signature of J. T. Manders at the foot of the papeI hereto an nexed, is his true and genuine signature, made and acknowledged in my presence, and that the said J. T MandeFs is personally known tO me.
 In witness whereof l have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal at my office at Her mOsillo, Mexico, this 30th day of January, 1gO7 and cf the Independence of the United States the l3lst.
 MEXICAN REVENUE Lotus HOSTETTER, STAMP $ll Consulof the United
 States of America.
The oasis., 1907-03-09
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA.

COUNTY OF SANTA CRuZ. ss' l, Phil Herold, County Recorder in and for certify that I have compared the foregoing copy with the original articles of incorpora. ton of the TECORIPA COLD MINING, MILL ING X DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, filed and recorded in my office on the 18th day of Febru ary, 1907, in Book of Miscellaneous Records at page - ct seq and that the same is q full true and correct copy of such original and of the whole thereof.
 Witness my hand and seal of office this 18th day of February, A. D. 1907.
 PHIL HERoID
 County Recorder March 2-April 6.
The oasis., 1907-03-09
THE CAR SHORTAGE.

du tldDoidVO oldtVlllOIl BiNlhS thO railroad view of the congestion in traffic which has caused so great difficulty all over the country and even hardship in many localities. The statement is we'll worth close attention and careful considera- ton by all, as a broad resume of the many contributing causes that have been controlling factors in the traffic congestion that has proved so inconvenient to all clas- ses. It shows conclusively that while the railroads have greatly in- creased their facilities for hand ling traffic, by purchase of addi- tional motive power and rolling stock and construction of addition al trackage, yet that increase has been inadequate to meet the great ly increased demand for transport ation created by the marvellous expansion of the business of the country that has resulted during the five years last past. Even with the great increase in facilities there would have been greater in- crease could locomotive factories and car works met all the orders given. But they could not get the materials to assemble Tn more of their product, or the men to do the assembling, so great has been the demand for materials of all sorts, and for labor to employ in the work of utilization. And the rail- ways themselves have been una ble to secure sufficient forces of com peteDt men to keep in repair all the rolling stock and motive pow CT they own, with the result that thousands of useless cars are lying idle on lazy tracks, when with re- pair they could be kept turning their wheels and relieving the mar vellous congestion.
 
 But a few weeks ago THE OASIS touched upon this same question, viz: the congestion in railway traffic; and called attention t9 the fact that however inconvenient the present situation is far superior to that which preceded the return to power of the Republican party on the fourth of March 1897. Four years before the Democratic party had succeeded in wrestling control of both branches of Congress and the Executive, for the first time since 1893, and immediately the entire country was seized with an industrial paralysis that was ap- palling. There was no congestion in traffic then. Instead there were thousands of locomotives idle in round houses, and hundreds of thousands of sound cars in good repair in lazy tracks all over the country, while the men who had run them were idle, without em- ployment; and the trains that were run were crowded with tramps,
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The oasis., 1907-03-09

A. J. ffREs. lsEAL1 JtO. II r. JONEs, sEAL1. W. D COPE, tSEAL1. S r BUSTER, tsEALl. CHAs. C. BADGETT. fSEALl. J J. TAYLOR, fSEAL1. E. C. ADAMS, tSEAL[ JAS. T. MANDERs, [sEALl. II. J.. KING, lSEAL1. HARRY k. BUcHAN, [SEAL1. J. II. MowREY, [SEALl. R. H. NORRIS, [SEALl. D. s. CARRAwAY. [SEAL[. B. B BATES, [SEALl. NJ. o. HOOKER, [SEAL[. J. $. LANE, tSEAL1. J. II. CRIsTLER, [SEAL[. l. N. DAVIDSON, lSEALl. A. J. BRoYLEs. [SEALl. J. H. OWENS, ISEALl.
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tnefeinfyi H r t1ncs. ffeasnfefi n Hufhan 1ud Vifo President and AudfiIf
 Sfxtn TIe highest amount 0f indebfedn. Uf iiabllliy dlfeet uf contingent. tu which fl.t tufnnf1tlOn is at UuH lime subject shah M -iN Hundred and HiNtFaiN Th0usand DuIiaf. fftG uu OOj. which amount does nnt exon0f twu.tlIlfds the amount of capital stock
 StvENfu The private pfcpeftY of thp af1rt. holders Of this Corporation shall be oXemnf from corporate dcbts 0f any kind Whatsuevrf
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF We have hereunto set our hands and seals ths twenty fourth day of January. lpUI.
The oasis., 1907-03-09

March 2-April 6.
Arizona republican., 1907-02-25
THE FEW DRAWBACKS.

To the Editor Of The Republican. Sir:
We think Phoenix is a fine place-we
forget that this is February, these
beautiful balmy days.
The people too. are the best this
earth affords. However. there are some
drawbacks that We wish to mention, in
your paper.
We hope those who celebrated George
Washington's birthday, by attending
the cowboy tournament" and seeing
those poor old decrepid steers, jerked
all over space. their horns broken, and
otherwise hurt, had a good time" and
feel that they honored the father OF
his country"
/ am sure, Washington, II lie could
look back, and see the twentieth CEN
fury American attending a steer tying
contest. in his homer would feel that We
had no right to criticize Spanish bull
fights.
Another thing too. that needs correct
ing is the cruelty to horses. Some Of
the milk wagon drivers seem TO think
they must go at a break-neck speed, all
along the route-one driver especially.
for the Eureka Dairy" l would like
to tell you his name but l have not
learned It, not only drives unmerci-
fully. but he beats and jerks his horses.
When he goes into q house to take the
milk, IL the horses move an inch, he
kicks and beats them when he comes
out, and l think he does whether they
move or not. on the principle that had
they dared. they would have moved.
Why don't men stop this cruelty?
Are they like a man in this city who
said to me not long since. you women
ought to vote, its a duty; than you
can have an influence for the better
He just wanted women 10 vote so they
would do the things men are afraid to
do.
Doctors often tell US that one meal
day is a sure cure for corpulency.
think a great many Of our horses are
taking the cure.
Public sentiment has great weight;
let each person use his influence
against useless practices-whatever
they are. Be kindly, but be right and
firm in your convictions.
A SUBSCRIBER.