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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
Mr. Do0ley's: Philosophy

pay tn fine till ye hear firm me- Tn
 on'y wan that bows to tn decision is
 tn fellow that lost an pretty soon he sees he's made a mistake, fir wan
 day tn other coort comes out an de- clares that tn decision of tn lower eoort is another argymint in favor iv
 aDolishing night law schools.
 That's tn way lawn D. felt about
 it an he didn't settle. wondher will
 they put him away if he don't pay ivinchooly? Twill be long sentence.
 A frind iv mine wanst got full
 iv kerosene an attimpted to jug gle polisman. They thried him whin he come out iv tn emer- gency hospital an fined him a hundherd dollars. He didn't happen
 to have that amount with him at tn
 moment or at amy moment since tn
 day he was born. But tn judge was very lenient with him. He said he
 needn't pay if he cuddent. Tn coort
 wud give him a letther of inthroduc- tion to tn bridewell an he cud stay
 there fr two hundherd days. At that
 rate it'll be long time befure lawn
 D. an me meet again on the goluf- links. Hogan has 1t figured out that
 if lawn D. refuses to go back on his
 Puritan principles an separate himsilf
 firm his money he Il be wan hundherd
 and fifty-eight thousand years in cold storage. A man ought to be pretty
 good at tn lock step in hundherd
 an flfty-eight thousand years.
 Well, sir. glory be but times Has
 changed whin they land me gr-reat an god frind with fine that's about akel to three mllyon dhrunk an disorderly cases. 'Twud've been cheaper if he'd took to dhrink arly in life. I've made Il vow, Hinnissy, niver to be very rich. I'd like to be little rich, but not rich enough fir annywan to notice that me pockets bulged Time was whin dhreamed iv havin' money an lots iv ii. 'Tis thrue I begun me dhreams at
 tn wrong end. I spent tn money first in me dhreams an thin got it. I was always clear about tn way to spend Ii but uncertain about tn way to get it.. II tn Lord had intinded me to be a rich man He'd've turned me dhreams around an made me clear about mak, in tn money but very awkward an shy about gettin' rid iv it. There are two halves to ivry dollar. Wan is
 linowin' how to make it an tn other is not knowin' how to spend it comfort aably. When I hear iv man with
 gr-reat business capacity I know he's got an akel amount iv spendin' capac i ity No matther how much he knew about business he wudden't be rich If he wasn't totally ignorant iv science
 that we have developed as far as our means will allow. But now. tell ye, I don't dhream iv bein rich. I'm afraid iv it. In tn good old days tn
 polls coorts were crowded with tn poor They weren't charged With
 poverty. iv coorse, but with tn re
 suits iv poverty, dye mind. Now,
 be hivens, tn rich have invaded even
 tn coorts an tn bridewell Nanny 2
 face wearin side whiskers an goold rimmed specs peers firm tn windows ,iy tn black Maria. Whats this man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
BY F. P. DUNNE
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cnarged with?' says the coort. He was found in possession iv ten millyon dollars,' says tn polisman. An tn juuge puts on tn black cap"
 Well" said Hennessy, otis time tney got what was cominn' to thim."
 "I'll not say we're wrong," said MT. Dooley. q see tn way me frind lawn D feels about it. He thinks he's doin' lectin' all tn money in sight. It might remain in incompetent hands if he didn't get it. 'Twud be a shame to lave it where it'd be misthreated. But th' on'y throuble with lawn is that he don't see how tn other fellow feels aoout it. As tn father iv about thir- ty dollars I want to bring thin up mesilf in me own foolish way. I may not do what's right be thim may be too indulgent, with thim. Their home life may not be happy. Perhaps 'tls clear mat if they wint to tn Rocky fellar institution fir care iv money they'd be in betther surroundings, but whin lawn thries to carry thim of I raise a cry iv 'Polis.' mob iy people that niver had a dollar iv their own and niver will have wan bounce on tn misguided man. tn polls pinch him an tn government condemns tn in- stitution an lets out tn inmates am a good nanny iv thim go to tn bad"
 Dye think he'll iver sarve out his fne?" asked MT. Hennessy.
 q don't know" said MT. Dooley. 4,ut if he does, whin he comes out at the end iv hundherd an f1fty-eight thousand years he'll find great man. ny changes in mems hats an th' means iv transportation but not much in annything else. He may find flyin' machines, though it'll be arly fir thim. but he'll see a good nanny people still walking to their wurruk."
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Much of the corn is cut and laid on the banks of the canal until the people have time to husk and shell it. Then the leaves arc stripped off the fodder, and the stalks tied up and laid on the toos of the houses for fuel.
 Camels as Hay Racks.
 The chief means of carrying farm prod ucts from one place to another is on bull locks and camels. The camel is taken out into the corn fields while the harvesting is going on. As the men cut the corn they tie it up into great bundles and hang one on each side of his hump. The ordi- nary camel can carry about one-fifth as much as one horse hitched to a wagon or one-tenth as much a two-horse team. Hay. straw and green clover are often carried from the fields to the mar kets on cames. Such crops are put up in q bag-like net work which fits over the camel's hump, and makes him look like a hay or straw stack, walking off upon legs Some of the farmers. who cam not afford camels, use donkeys for such pur- poses, and these little animals may oftel be seen going along the narrow roads carrying bags of grain balanced upJn their backs.
 A Land of Wheat and Barley.
 have always looked upon Egypt as de- voted 10 sugar anu tollOU. lIlu It u ldlI of wheat and barley as well. It has also a big yield of clover and corn. The sugar and cotton fields all told cover about million and a half acres, and they take up only about onefourth of the tillable land There Is twice as much farming country devoted to grain The wheat and barley fields cover 1,750.0oo acres, and there are more than a million acres in Indian corn. There are something like 50O,000 acres in millet and sorghum. The welta raises almost al of the cotton and some of the sugar. Central and upper Egypt are grain countries and in central Egypt. Indian and kaffir corn are the chief summer crops. Kaffir corn is. to a large extent the food of the poorer fellahs and it is eaten by the Bedouins who live in the desert along the edges of the Nile valley.
 Egygpt raises a great deal of hay and 1t produces some of the very best clover The Egyptian clover is known as bersine It has rich feeding qualities and a small
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all the farms belong to the Egyptians, and there are more than a million native land owners The most of the holdings are small, and over one million acres are in tracts of from five to twenty acres each Many are even less than an acre in size. The number of propretors is in creasing every year. and the fellahs now seem crazy to possess land of their own. It used to be that the Khedve had enor- nous estates, but when the British gov ernment took possession some of the khedyial lands came to them. They have been divided and have been sold on long time and easy payments, the lands going to the fellahs. Many who then bought these lands have paid for them out of their crops and all are rich. As it is now there are only G0O0 foreigners who own real estate in the valley of the Nile.
 Among the Farmers.
 wish I could show you the farmers of Egypt as they live here in the Delta They have one of the garden spots of the globe to cultivate, and the rich mud of which their land Is composed Is from thirty to sixty feet deep. It rests on the bed rock of the desert, and has been brought down, through the ages, from the highlands of Abyssinia by the River Nile The Nile Is bringing more every year, and the land, if carefully handled, needs practically no fertilization. As it is now it Is yielding two or three crops every twelve months and is seldom idle. Under the old system of basin irrigation the farms lay fallow during the hot months of the summer, but the canals and dams which have of late been constructed en- able much of the country to have water all the year round, and as soon as one rrop is harvested another is planted.
 The Cities of the Delta.
 The whole of the Delta is one big farm dotted with farm villages and little farm cities. There are mud towns everywhere, and there are half dozen agricultural centers of considerable size outside the big cities of Alexandria and Cairo. Take, for instance, Tanta, where l am at this writing It has 57,oO0 people and is sup ported by the farmers. It is a cotton market and it has a great fair, now and then, to which the people come from all over Egypt to buy and sell A little to the east of it is Zagazig, which has more than 40000 people. and further north, upon the east branch of the Nile, Is Mansura, another cotton market, with rich farm ing district about 1t.
 Damietta and Rosetta, at the two mouths of the Nile, are also big places, and Damanhur, which lies west of the Rosetta branch of the Nile, not far from Lake Edku is also large There are q number of towns ranging in size from five to ten thousand, and the whole coun- try is peppered with mud villages. The
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OverWorked Children.

From the Pittsburg Post.
 A report made by Professor Emlenberg. an eminent German authority upon ner- vous diseases. may well engage the care full attention of all parents. It seems that there has been an epidemic of suicide among German children. and Professor Emlenberg has been Investigating the matter. He states that in the last twelve years he has traced 1152 cases of chidren's suicides, and that in more than one-half the req son for the rash act was to be found in the failure to pass school exam nations, or overwork at school. This is certainly most startlingi statement, but it is one which may well be accepted as correct. It does not take into account the vast number of children who have had their health shattered by anxiety due to these same causes but who still sur yived. School examinations are a veri- table torture to many children, especially
 where they are made the only test of the victims knowledge. Wise educators have long sought other and less trying and more satisfactory means of ascertaining what their pupils really have learned. Many parents permit and even compel their children to overwork themselves over their studies As a result many such children have died and others have be- come physical wrecks As it is well known many who have taken prizes at school have never thereafter been able to accomplish anything worth while. because the effort to secure the prizes sapped ali their bodily and mental strength.
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<<rHAT was splendid me 'ney
 soaked Jawn D. with said

<rYHAT was a splendid lihe 'hey
 soaked lawn D. with" said
 MT. Dooley
 What did they give him?' asked MT. Hennessy
 .eTwinty-nine millyon dollars" said MT. Dooley.
 "Oh. great." said Mir Hennessy' That's grand fine It's gorJous fine. 1 cant hardly believe 1t.
 Its thrue, though, said MT. Dooley. "Twinty-nine millyon dollars. DlvVle tn cent less. l cant exactly make out what tn charge was that they arrested him on. but tn gin'ral idee is that lawn D. was goin' around loaded mp to tn guards with Standard He, eX- Cee~ln' tn speed limit in acquirin' money an singin': "A charge to keep I have till tn neighbors cud stand It no longer The judge says: Ye'er an old offender an I'll have to make an example iv ye Twinty-nine millyon dollars or fifty-eight millyon days. Call tn next case, Misther Clerk.
 Did he pay the fine? He did not. Iv coorse he cud if he wanted to. He lden't have to pawn annything 10 get th' money; ye can bet on that. All he'd have to do wud be to put his hand down in his pocket, skin twinty-nine millyon dollars off iv his roll an hurl thim at tn clerk But he refused to pay as a matth- 1T iy principle. Twas not that he needed tn money. He
 care fir money in tn passionate way that you an me do, Hinnissy. Tn likes iv us are as crazy about dollar as a man is about his child whin he has on1 wan. Tn chances are we'll spoil it. But lawn D. havin' large an growth family iv dollars takes on'y a llind iv ginn'ral inthrest in thim He's issued a statement sayin' that he's custojeen iv money ap- pinted be himsilf. He looks afther his own money an tn money iv other puople. He takes it an puts it where 1t won't hurt thim an they won't spoil It. He's a kind iv society fir tn pre- vintion of croolty to money. If he finds a man misusing his money he takes it away firm him an adopts it. 1vry Saturdah night he lets tn man see it fir few hours. An he says he's surprised to find that whin, with tn purest intintions in tn wurruld, he is found thryin' to coax our little money to his home where it'll find conjanial surroundings an have other money to play with. tn people thry tc lynch Linn an tn polls arrest him f'r abduction.
 50 as a mather iv principle he ap- pealed tn case. An appeal, Hinnissy, is where ye ask wan coort to show it's contempt fir another coort Iris sthrange that all tn pathrites that wanted to hang Willum Jennings Bryan an mesilf fir not showin prop CT respect fir the joodiciary be appeal in firm their decisions. Ye'd think lawn D. wud bow his head reveren- tially in tn cwful presence iv Kene- saw Mt. Landis an sob out: Thank ye'er holor This here noble fine fills me with joy. But dye think ye give
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bundle of it is enough to satisfy a camel It is cut and carried into the cities for sale on the backs of camels and donkeys and is also graZed.
 Stock Farming in Egypt.
 Egypt is a great stock company. For it's small size it supports, 1 venture, as many animals as any other part of the world The Nile valley is peppered with camels, donkeys, buffaloes and sheep either watched by herders or tied to stakes. grazing on clover and other grasses. No animal is allowed tor un at large for there are no fences, and the cattle thief is everywhere in evidence The felahs are as shrewd as any people the world over and a strayed animal would be difficult to recover. Much of the stock is watched by children. l see buffaloes feeding in the green fields with naked brown boys sitting on their backs and whipping them this way and that If they attempt to get into the crops ad- joining. The sheep and goats are often watched by the children or by men who are too old to do hard work. The don- keys, camels and cows are usually tied to staEes and can only feed as far as their ropes will reach.
 The sheep of Egypt are fine. Many of them are of the fat-taled variety. some brown and some white. The goats and sheep feed together. and there are some goats in almost every flock of the for mer
 The donkey is the chief riding animal. It is used by men. women and children. and q common sight is the yelled wife of one of these Mohammedan farmers seated astride on little donkey with her feet high up on it's sides in the short stirrups. But few camels are used for riding except by the Bedouins out in the desert. and it is only in the cities that buggies carriages or wagons are to be seen.
 In the Country Villages.
 Suppose we go into one of the vil- lages and see how these Egyptian farm CTS live The towns are collections of mud huts with holes in the walls for windows. They are scattered along narrow roadways and the dust is thick.
 The average hut is so low that one can look over it's roof when seated on a camel. It seldom contains more than one or two rooms and usually has lit- tie yard outside. in which the cildren and chickens roll about in the dust and where the donkey is sometimes tied. Above some of tn houses are towers of mud with holes in their sides. These towers are devoted to pigeons, which are kept by the hundreds and which are sold in the markets as we sell chickens. The pigeons furnish a large part of the manure of Egypt, and this
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behind the time, and still, if he were allowed to take their places he would probably ruin the country and himsllf. Most of the Egyptian farming methods are the result of long experience. In blowing, the land is only scratched, and the farmer Is careful not to turn up the earth a foot or so below the surfa This Nile mud is full of salts, and the salt from Abysslnia Is of such a nature that the people have to be careful in or der that the salts may not be raised from below and ruin the crop. In many cases there is no blowing at all. The seed is sown on the soft mud after the water Is taken off, and pressed into it with a wooden roller or trodden In by oxen or buffaloes.
 Odd Farm Tools.
 Where blows are used they are just the same as those of 5000 years ago. I have seen carvings on the tombs of the ancient Egyptians representing the farm tools used then, and they are about the same as those l see in use today. The average blow consists of a pole about six feet long, fastened to piece of wood bent inward at an acute angle. The end piece is shod with iron. and does the blowing. The pole Is hitched to a buffalo or OK by means of yoke and the farmer walks along behind the blow, holding it's single handle, which consists of stick set aI- most upright into the pole.
 The harrow of Egypt is roller pro- Vided with iron spikes. and the chief dig ging instrument is a mattock-like hoe. Much of the land Is dug over with tn , hoe.
 The most of the grain here is cut with siclIles or pulled out by the roots Whe1t and barley are threshed by laying them inside a ring of well-pounded grot nd and driving a sledge which rests on a roller over them. The roller has sharp semi circular pieces of iron set into it, and 1t is drawn by oxen. buffaloes or camcls. Sometimes the grain is t.odden out by the feet of the animals without the use of the rollers and sometimes there are wheels of stone between the sled run ners which ail in hulling the grain. Peas and beans are also threahed in this way. The grain is winnowed '1y the wind The ears are spread out on the threshng floor and the grains pounded off with clubs o' sbelled by hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
By Frank G. Carpenter
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l Is so of both gardens and fields The
 manure is mixed with earth and scat
 tered over the soil.
 Almost every village has it's mosque i or church, and often In addition the .omo or some saint or holy man who
 mas lived there in the past. The peo- pie worship at such tombs and think .nat prayers made there avail more
 than those made cut in the fields or in their own huts.
 There are no water works in the or- dihars country village, If the locality IS close to the Nile the drinking and washing water Is brought from there to the huts on the heads of the women, and 1T not 1t comes from the village well, It Is not difficult to get water by digging down a few feet anywhere
 In the Nile valley and every town has
 It's well. The village well Is usually shaded by palm trees. It Is there that the men gather about and gossip at night, and tb ere the women come to draw water and carry 1t home upon their heads.
 How the Farmers Live. , The farmers houses have no gardens about them and no flowers or other or namental decoration. The surroundings Of the towns squalid and mean, and the peasants have no comforts in our l sense of the word. They have but lit- | tie furniture inside their houses. Many
 of them sleep on the ground or on mats and many wear the same clothing at night that they wear in the daytime Out 1 In the country shoes, stockings and un- 1 derclothes are comparatively unknown: | and it is only upon dress-up occasions | that a man or woman puts on slippers.
 The cooking and housekeeping Is done
 entirely by the woman. The chief food
 Is coarse bread made of corn or millet. 1 This is baked in thick cakes and is ] broken up and dipped into kind of i bean stew seasoned with salt, pepper
 anu onions. Almost every sort of vege-
 table grows well here and onions and
 tomatoes are raised for export. The l dinary peasant seldom has meat, and 1t 1 is only the rich who can afford mutton
 or beef. At big feast on the occasion of a wedding farming nabob sometimes l brings in a sheep which has been cooked
 whole. It is eaten without forks, and
 is torn limb from limb, pieces being
 cut out by the guests with their knives.
 Every one in Egypt who can afford it
 smokes. The men have pipes of various
 kinds, and of late many cigarettes have l been coming into use. A favorlte smoke | is with a water pipe, the vapor from the
 burning tobacco being drawn by means
 of long tube through bowl of water
 upon which the pipe sits, so that 1t comes cool into the mouth.
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ther. Manny's tn time I've bent me proud neck to decision iy coort that lasted no longer thin it took tn lawyer fir tn definse to call up an- ether judge on tn tillyphone. A judge listens to a case fir days an hears, while he's figurin' a possible goluf score on his plotting pad, tn argy- hints iv two or three lawyers that no wan wud dare to offer judgship to-
 Ginrally speaking judges are lawyers. They get to be judges because they have what Hogan calls tn joodicyal timpramint which is why anybody gets a job. Tn other kind iv people won't take job. They'd rather take
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people do not live on their farms, but in towns. They go out to work in the morn- Ing and come back home at night. They usually bring their cattle in with them, and never allow them to graze at will in the field.
 How an Egyptian Farm Looks.
 Indeed, these farms are nothing like those If the United States. We should have to change the face of our land- scape to initiate them. There are no fences, no barns and no haystaclls. The country is as bare of such things as an undeveloped prairie. The only bound aries ot the estates are little mud walls and the fields are divided into patches some of which are no bigger than q bed quilt. Each patch has it's wall and the furrows within are so made that the water from the canal can irrigate every inch.
 Irrigation.
 The whole country is cut up by canals. There are large waterways running along the branches of the Nile, and smaller ones connecting with them. to such an extent that the whole country Is bound, as it were in lacework of little streams from which the water can be let in and out
 The draining of the land is quite as important as watering, and the system of irrigation is perfect lnSomucn that u brings the Nile to every part of the country.
 The methods of raising the water from one level to another are different from ours In some places there are steam pumps which do the work; In others gray ity is employed and on some of the higher lands half-naked men labor for months at a time scooping water up in baskets and pouring it out on the hflelds above. tt,tr aAor 1Fhn lc which work in such q way that the water is caught in clay pots attached to their rims and thus raised and poured into the little canals, through which 1t flows to the fields. These wheels are moved by blindfolLed buffaloes. bullocks or eamels. There are thousands of them in the valley of the Nile.
 Queer Farming Methods.
 The American farmer would sheer at the old-fashioned way in which these Egyptian felahs cultivate the soil. He would tell them that they were 2O00 years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
MR. DooLEY ON THE BIG FINE


Ye may be ashamed iv it to-morrah. Manny's tn time I've bowed to de- cree iv coort ony to see it go up gayly to tn supreem coort, knock at tn dure an be kicked down stairs be an angry old gintleman in a black silk petticoat. A decree iv tn coort has got to be pretty vinrable befure l do more thin greet it with a pleasant smile. Me idee was whin l read about lawn D's fine that he'd settle at wanst, payi~' twinty-eight million dol lars in millyon dollar bills an tn other millyon in chcken-feed like ten
 thousand dollar bills just to annoy tn clerk. But I ought tove known bet