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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08
COMPLAINT Is FUTILE

COMPLAINT is FUTILE
Don ever say you're down and out,
Tho weighty cares may grieve you,
Just tell yourself your troubles, IL
You think that will relieve you
But never bother this old world
With any private sorrow
1t has its share of woe today
Twill have as much tomorrow.
Just keep your heartache to yourself
Ana when the tears are sprnging
lis best to seek sunny spot
And do little singing
You may confide in other folks
But when you stop confding
You'll find the woes you thought to
'scape
Persistently abiding.
So after all, the thing to do
Is not to worry longer
Still summing up your grievances
VIII merely make them stronger.
Dismiss the past and emulate
The chaps who don't remember,
For them the day is ever fair.
In May or In December.
Football is fierce +" says President
Eliot. Please observe the inner quotation
marks about the word fierce" 1t would
be as much as a college professors life is
worth to use slang without quotation
marks.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

The Smoot investigation cost all told
100000, and the women of the country
feel that it was not worth the money.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

The San Carlo Opera company now
has a better opinion of Ell Paso than
1t ever had before.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

The Russian parliament is on. We
say ION" advisedly. There Is no telling
when il will be off.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

AS soon as our duma quit Russia S
got busy and decidedly interesting. The
circuit of dumas must be maintained.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

The ice in some of the Massachusetts
ponds is still 80 inches thick, and the
New Englanders no longer fear the
octopus.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

The Mississippi and its tributaries
may yet save us from being fleeced
by the Harrimans and the Hills.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

The people are beginning to get onto
e. II. Harriman's curves, and they may
bat him out of the box.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

Mr.. Hartman may not speculate, but
he certainly gets the lions share of all
that is going.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

The Standard Oil has the nerve to
inva lie even Russia, Inc home Of the
biggest gushers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

Ambassador Bryce is willing to ac-
cept almost anything put before him
except simplified spelling.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

The Chinese are hurrying the Rus
SLAMS out of Manchuria, thanks to the
Japanese soldiers and sailors.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

People who can afford it are having
good time in Florida now.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

The President has got rid of Con
gress, and he will no doubt proceed to
dig the canal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

The Mary Baker G. Eddy case will
not be ready for trial until the Tnaw
case is concluded.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

If Pittsburg should ever blush no.
body could see 1t for the SCOT.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

When the Yukon country gets blue
snow it feels blue as well as cold.
There is no snow colder than a blue
one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

The Chinese in the Rand are getting
out increasing quantities of gold each
month.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

A noticeable stiffness reigns in the
country since Congress adjourned
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

Mr.. Battling" Nelson is susceptible
to colds, it seems, just as if he were an
ordinary man.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

The second duma is kicking over the
traces from the outset.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

Boss" Ruef is hiding in San Fran
cisco, where his word used to be law
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

The Christian Science brethren and
sisteren are not dwelling together in
COncOrt.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08
PRESS POINTS

Columbia State: Carmack's last act be-
fore leaving the Senate was to scuttle
the subsidy ship. Good work!
Atlanta Constitution: The billion dollar
Congress passes into history, but history
is helpless to remedy the wrong.
Joliet Herald: The travel off the rail Is
becoming nearly as common as travel on
the rail, and 1t is far more exciting.
New York Herald: Boston fisherman
caught a lobster which weighed twenty
five pounds With or without its spec
tacles?
Chattanooga Times: Marie Corelli ex'
plains it all by saying that there IS an In
visible power compelling her to write.
She doesn't say whom she suspects.
Washington Post: An Englishman is
lecturing throughout the United States on
the subject rs Life Worth Living?" 1t
is hardly likely that his lecture will make
it so.
Atlanta Georgian: Finding nobody
showing any anxiety about launching his
presidential boom, Senator Beveridge dis
plays a noble spirit of self-sacrifice In
doing it himself.
Shreveport Times: 1t Is said that the
author of won't You Come Home, Bill
Bailey?" is in Michigan jail. At last
accounts they had not succeeded In cap
turing the author of "Waltze Me Around
Aoain Willie"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

Joliet Herald: The travel off the rail Il
becoming nearly as common as travel OF
the rail, and II Is far more exciting.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

they have failed to do a lot of things
they promised to do.
Lafayette Sun: The Greater Birming-
ham bill should pass that the magic
City, may show to the world what she
has.
Mobile Register: A Cleveland woman
seeks a divorce because her husband is
continually exciaiming: ''Oh, fudge" II
she would make him some nice fudge
she'd perhaps break him Of the habit
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08
AGE-HERALD TIPS

Jackson Clarion-Ledger: THE Pres
ident has been presented with a new
typewriter" says The Birmingham Age
Herald Blonde or brunette?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

RIPPLES.
All tombstones are liars.
When people treat us coldly it makes
us pretty warm.
Happiness doesn't lie In the possession
of an automobile
Few bushes are as red as the hand
painted kind.
We never postpone something we ought
not to do. :.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08
TO POLITICIANS.

TO POLITICIANS.
You can't do all you promise,
Fer time is on the wing.
You can't do all you promise
Don't promise anything'
man who had driven water wagon
for fifteen years fell off the other day
anu was arrested for being drunk. As a
rule passengers on the water wagon
never stay on as long as that.
Maybe you didn't know it, but former
Senator Burton of Kansas has been be-
having himself and he will be released
from prison on March %.
HIS FINISH.
Soon will the costly Easter hat
Make fathers pocketbook SO fiat
That he won't have enough, forsooth,
To buy drink-and that's the truth
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08
JOAQUIN MILLER.

Bellamy Storer was also whang
doodled.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

Washington Herald: Tariff revision is
in sight" says The Birmingham Age
Herald. 1t is evident that The Age
Herald is possessed of long-range vision.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08
SPEAKER JOE.

SPEAKER JOE.
Our Uncle Joe has gone to cruise
Upon the Spanish Main,
A-smoking of his black cigar
And humming refrain.
You can't hear what the speaker sings,
Cen tho you stand behind,
The reasons plain to see. b'gee-
He's singing in his mind:
"Yo, no, I guess run the ship
The blooming ship of state,
I play some fancy rings around
This Theodore the Great.
I simply wink my eagle eye
! wink it once or twice,
And rebel solons who oppose
Me flicker in a trice.
IT'S great to be the speaker, no,
It's great to be on top,
| wouldn't care a fragile IL
My job should never stop.
Just look at me upon the sea,
Just look at me at home.
I'm like the great Augustus-he
Who was the works at Rome
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

CAN'T BE CURED.
mo gentle spring is on the wing
And little song birds trill,
Inc cold We caught a month ago
Doth llnger with us still.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

HARD UP FOR SOMETHING TO DO.
The Washington Herald says that thou
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

q small panics in Wall street have
elation to general business or TO
val public. They may prevent
>rporation from negotiat-
vt otherwise they are
lsconnected from
- trade and the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

Atlanta Constitution: The billion dollar
Congress passes into history but history
is helpless to remedy the wrong.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08
ADRIFT WITH THE TINlE1

sands of people in that town are trying
to guess the number of feathers on hen
1t must be dreadfully duh in the capital
since Congress adjourned.
strong bid for favor in the new mag
azine for the blind is that 1t will contain
no pictures of musical comedy queens or
Hebrew theatrical magnates.
TRUE.
While moneys scarce,
''ris not so rare
With certain men
AS is their hair.
DO we really care for life?" asks .
philosopher. Well we usually do when w
think we are going to die.
IN BIRMINGHAM.
In Birmingham, in Alabam
They fuss
And cuss
And fight
And bite
In Birmingham!
In Birmingham. in Alabam'
They look
The crook
And like
To pike
In Birminghami
In Birmingham, in Alaban'
They toll
And moil
And fret
And sweat
In Birmingham!
In Birmingham, IN Alabam
They ram
And jam
And cram
And slam
In Birmingham!
Dan r. Williams.
I'D like to be the President" chirps
poet. indeed And what qualifications
have you for that high office? 1t is our
private opinion that poets are no good
any way, especially in the White House.
Money which aids the needy is never
tainted" says General William Booth
AMI that is the most sensible remark Oh
the subject made in a long time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

Columbia state: Carmack's last act be-
fore leaving the Senate was to scuttle
the subsidy ship. Good work!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

Sylacauga Advance: Taken altogether
there has been a great deal of good ac-
complished by the legislature But stu
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

Alabamian-H Herald: Jerome has made
the original muck rakers" ashamed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

I'D like to be the President" chirps a
poet. Indeed! And what qualifications
have you for that high office? 1t is our
private opinion that poets are no good
any way especially in the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-08

No communication will be published
without it's authors name Rejected
manuscript will not be returned unless
stamps are enclosed for that purpose
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-10-23
CRIES OF THE SIREN.
AiIurins Promise Made in Exasserat-
ed Advertisements to Gain Trade.

Don't be robbed" Save the psofits
that your storekeeper makes" and
many like catch phrases is the princi-
pal advertising stock Of the concerns
who claim to sell at Wholesale"
prices direct to consumers. Their ar
guments appeal to women and men
who have little knowledge of CONNER
cial methods. 1t is the appeal of self
ishness that wins for the concerns
who seek business among the resi-
dents OF farming districts rather than
any merit that the arguments present
ed may have.
There can be little doubt as to the
mail-order way of doing business be-
ing a permanent fixture in the mercan-
tile world. The fact cannot be dis
puted that in certain lines of goods
which are offered as leaders lower
prices are quoted than like goods are
generally sold at in local stores. But
be lower. character and quality con-
sidered. than the same goods could be
sold at by the local merchant.
The business OF the big mail-order
concerns has been gained by extensive
advertising and continuous aggressive
work. 1t has been the apathy of the
merchants in the country towns that
has allowed these concerns to take
trade from under their very noses"
Conditions that allow the steady drain
of money from the agricultural dis.
tricts and small towns to the big cities
are to be deplored. There cannot be
doubt as to the evils of the mail-crder
systems as a factor in the concentra-
ton of wealth in the great financial
centers, and the resultant building up
Of trusts. For the past quarter of a
century the trust evil has been con-
stantly developing and keeping pace
with 1t, is the mail-order system.
Much like the leprosy, its progress Is
such that the evil has firm foothold
ere serious attention is paid to it. The
cry Of Save the dealers profits" is
synonymous with Kill the industries
of your own town: help us bind the
trust ties firmer about your own
hands, Don't be a traitor to your
home town, even though there is
promise of a small saving in cents and
dollars. Do your part to head on the
business concentration evil
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-10-23
now TO HANDLE MANURE.
II Should BE Gotten on to the Land a.
Soon ~ Possible.

II is not question of saving all the,
value of the manure. In the nature OF
things, that is impossible. The best we
can do under the circumstances is the
question: Is 1t better to let manure re-
main in the barnyard in large heaps
and haul 1t out twice a year. spring
and fall, or is 1t best to haul 1t as fast
as made? What are the advantages
of the latter system? We must re-
member that the manure il never 30
rich in fertilizing value as when hrst
made. 1t must waste some Of its
value anyway, but hauled out as fast
as made. 1t wastes less than In any
other way. II piled in large heaps
under shelter, 1t wastes, according to
recent experiments. Is per cent. II
piled up in the open air. 1t wastes all
per cent. From spring to fall We are
obliged to let the manure accumulate
in the barnyard. But to prevent as
much waste as possible. we sprinkle
over 1t twice or three times a week
ground phosphate rock. We want the
phosphate in the soil. and we want to
prevent evaporation. while there is
nothing that makes the phosphate
more available than the fermentation
of organic matter. So we accomplish
three things In this way. But from the
time the cattle are stabbed in the fall
till the ground is too soft for wagon
wheels in spring. the manure Is hauled
daily to the fields that are to be plow-
ed for corn.
The advantages of this system are:
ID The manure Is hauled and spread
when the labor will cost the least. (2)
We have clean barnyards. (3) We Sc
cure the least loss from fermentation
and evaporation.
For the summer accumulation, we
find the largest value In hauling It out
on to alfalfa or clover sod in the fall.
blowing 1t under at once. On this land
we plant either corn or potatoes the
next spring.
But the wise farmer will make gen
erous provision for the keeping up Of
fertility in his land. He will not be
afraid to buy commercial fertilizers
like ground phosphate rock. or pillow
under in the fall good stand Of clover
or alfalfa. Every dollar he spends In
this way will bring him ten In return
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-10-23
WEALTH BY BILLIONS
VALUE OF FARM PRODUCTS FOR
THE YEAR 1907.
WHAT THE EARTH PRODUCES
Aorieuituraiists Have It in Their
Power to curtail the Operation Of
Trusts and Prevent Unequal
Distribution Of Money.

Farms Of the United States In 1907
will produce more wealth than all the
gold mines OF the world have produc-
ed in 20 years. Conservative estimates
place the value of all farm products at
approximately $1,000. OOO. 900. or about
5000 100000 more than their value in
1906. The farmer is the magician. the
alchemist. that makes use OF nature to
enrich the world. The farmers corn
crops alone average a billion dollars
year. and all the other cereals an
other billion. with cotton. tobacco. hay
and max worth another billion. and the
fruits. garden truck and animals few
Allions more. Thus 1t can be seen that
the farmer. produces wealth greater
than taken from 1t by the miners for
its precious gems and minerals. There
is no other foundation for the wealth
and business of the world other than
the land. Men cannot eat gold; the
coal Is only useful to him as a means
of utilizing what the earth grows;
there IL nothing in the mineral world
that will sustain life, or anything that
IL necessary unless mortals eat. drink
and wear clothes. When there il
abundance Of agricultural productions.
there are prosperous times, and a fam
inc when the opposite occurs. The
mercial system. is dependent upon the
farmer. and his work.
One billion dollars is an amount be-
yond the comprehension of the aver
age man. The life of an individual II
not sufficiently long to count 1t cent
by cent should he work ten hours a
day. from his tenth year until death.
This is the average value Of the corn
crop alone that the farmers Of the
United States produce yearly.
One would believe that If only a
small portion of the vast wealth,
which the farmers produce could be
only retained in the agricultural COM
munities, there would be class of
rich men greater than In any CONNER
cial community. Yet statistics show
that for the amount OF wealth yearly
produced, the farmers are retainers of
only small portion of it. The tend
ency Is toward concentration OF
wealth in great financial centers. 1t is
III tHeoe piaceS' anu ny inc Sohtoi VI
this great wealth, that trusts are built
up. and the machinery put in opera
ton that systematically draws from
the agricultural sections the great
wealth produced. Farmers can. IL they
will. bring about a change by sim
pie adherence to the home trade prin-
ciple; by patronage of local business
institutions instead of the concerns In
the large cities. ID. NJ. CARR.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-10-23
sAPs LOCAL WEALTH.
Systems That Draw from Circulation
Money That Should Be Kept Home.

That city, town or community from
which the major part of the earnings
of the people are sent elsewhere is
destined to go backward and take a
place in the rear of progressive com
munities. 1t will never have the full
quota of wealth that Is due 1t. and
that it should have. 1t is the profits.
the amounts that represent the sur
plus above cost of production of prod
ucts. and the earnings of the laborer
above his expenses of living, and the
legitimate profits of the merchants and
others in business that makes a COM
munity wealthy. When these earnings
are diverted to foreign places their
local tax-paying and up-building pow
er is destroyed and the places re-
ceiving the money acquire a benefit
II you desire to see the greatest
measure of prosperity in your own
town, keep every dollar you can in
circulation at home. The bank cor
poration or individual that has its ex.
istence elsewhere and has a mortgage
on your farm or other property, en-
joys a means of making you bear a
portion of the burden of taxes of an
other section than your own. 1t mat
tiers not by what means your money
reaches outside your own bailiwick, 1t
results in the same evil. You are
helping those who pay none Of the
cost of maintaining the institution Of
your own town and county.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-10-23

1 mot at ALL" Her highness' eyes
sparkled wickedly. He will make for
the nearest frontier. He knows now
that shall not hesitate . moment to
put his affairs in the haA1s Of the
police"
He will boast OF what he has done. 81
Not till he has spent those thou.
sand crowns" She crossed the room
and knelt at tine side of Leopold. dash
ing some water Into his face. Pres
entity he opened his eyes. HE is only
stunned. Poor Leopold"
helped the old man to his feet, and
he rubbed the back of his head grim
ly. He drew a revolver from his
pocket.
II had forgotten all about it," he
said contritely. Shall follow him.
your highness?"
Betty. you were right, as you always
are. have played the part of silly
fool. would have my own way in the
matter. Well. have this worthless
paper. At least I can frighten the
duke. and that is something"
"Oh. my dear. II only you would have
listened to my advice!" the other girl
said. There was deep encouragement
In her tones. II warned you SO often
that 1t would come to this end"
Let US drop the matter entirely"
said her highness.
l gazed admiringly at her-to see
her sink suddenly into a chair and
weep abandonedly! Leopold eyed her
mournfully while the English girl
rushed to her side and flung her arms
around her sOothingly.
II am very unhappy" said the prin-
cess, lifting her head and shaking the
tears from her eyes. Il am harassed
on all sides; am not allowed any will
of my own. wish were a peas
anti Thank you, thank you! But
for you that wretch would have kissed
me- She held out her hand to me.
and l bent to one knee as l kissed 1t.
She was worthy to be the wife Of the
finest fellow in all the world. l was
very sorry for her. and thought many
uncompiimentary things of the duke.
Il shall not ask you to forget my
weakness" she said.
1T is already forgotten, your high
ness"
Under such circumstances met the
Princess Hildegarde of Barscheit; and
never betrayed her confidence until
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-10-23
lettings.

When a person can raise three to
four crops of bran-alfalfa-to the
acre, getting better than ton to
each crop. what pays better for a
dairy farmer to raise?
The first frost of the season al.
ways puts a keener edge on a cows
appetite, causing her to eat in the
stall or yard more freely than she did
even with good grass still in her pas
ture. Almost before We have time to
realize it we will be dry feeding en-.
tirely.
Milking fifteen cows may mean a
whole lot, or it may mean only as
much as some get from ten cows.
Quality instead of quantity should be
looked after more than it is. The
good mixer eats no more than the
ordinary poor mixer. which is anoth-
err point to consider.