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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-11-02
A Significant PrayC

May the Lord help you max" Buck
lens Arnica Salve known to all"
writes J. G.. Jenkins, of Chapel Hill,
N. c. 1t quickly took the pain out of
a felon for me and cured it in won
derfully short time" Best on earth
for sores, burns and wounds. 25c at
Eldridge Drug Co. DIV
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-11-02
Holiness Convention.

LOUISVILLE, KY, November l.
(SpeciaD The National Holiness I'm
ion convention, which has been in
session her since Tuesday, will close
Sunday. Ministers and laymen from
various parts of the country, espec-
tally the South, are in attendance.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-11-02
Appendicitis

is due in large measure to abuse of
the bowels, by employing drastic pur-
gatives. To avoid all danger, use
only Dr. Kings New Life Pills, the
safe, gentle cleansers and invigora-
tors Guaranteed to cure headache,
biliousness, malaria and jaundice, at
Eldridge Drug Co. d-w
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-11-02

From Chicago comes the story of
prisoner there who chose to go to
prison rather than return to st.
Louis. AS that will also keep him
out of Chicago for a while, he seems
to have made a good choice.-Wash-
ington Post.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-22
Good Effect

The marked Improvement in trans
portation facilities In the Birmingham
district is having quickening effect
on the coal and iron trade. For year
past the cry of car shortage had been
heard in nearly every part of the coun-
try and the failure of the railroad
companies to provide cars for hauling
coal and iron, was especially hurtful
to operators In Alabama. The demand
for coal was never so active as during
the past six months. While the open
winter may have affected the trade in
domestic coal, the industrial develop
ment throughout the south has created
a greatly increased demand for steam
fuel. 1t was particularly hard on the
coal shippers, therefore, when they
could not supply the demand on &C.
count Of the inability of the railroad
companies to furnish cars. Iron makers
likewise suffered. They had sold iron
at high prices and had it on the yards
but could not deliver it evea when
customers were clamoring for It, This
condition was naturally irritating, not
to say discouraging, to those charged
with the responsibility of operating
mines and furnaces.
The Improvement began to be felt
few weeks ago, and today the cry
of car shortage seems to have died
away entirely. The accumulated stocks
of pig metal have been delivered and
the coal operators as we'll as the iron
makers look cheerful once more. As
general trade in the Birmingham dis
trict is directly benefited by the pros
perity of the iron and coal interests,
the spring and summer of 1907 will
witness great activity in all branches
of mercantile business.
The railroads are still without ade-
quate equipment, but to make up for
this their officials have become more
resourceful and strenuous and have
proved that tonnage can be handled,
regardless of material handicaps. May
the present strenuosity Of transporta-
ton managers know no Tagging.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-22
EYES THAT MOVED,
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press
He was at that point where he thought
bracer was necessary to steady his
nerves and drive away the pink ele-
phants, so he dropped into place in the
West Seventies for cocktail
The man behind the bar went about
his task with the elegant deliberation of
a barkeeper in the residential district and
the other leaned against the counter and
regarded the figure of a brownie that
formed break in the pyramid of glass
ware.
suddenly the man at the bar Jumped
and with an unsteady Never mind!"
started for the door. The mixer set down
the glass with a smile.
Come back a second" he cried. The
customer turned irresolutely. did you
see those eyes move?" he <sked '"rhey
work by clockwork It's all right"
The man came back to the bar and
raised the cocktail glass with trembling
hand. How did you guess it, he de-
manded.
That's where It's easy to be Sherlock
Holmes" he confided. 1T happens every
day. I've asked the boss time and again
to take the fool thing out of here, but
some one gave 1t to him when he opened,
and he thinks it's a mascot"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-22
IN ABYSSINIA.


From the Washington Post.
I'm Abyssinia the natives kill white
men in order to please their sweethearts, +"
declared Frank Mowrer. formerly consul
general to Leghorn. at the Raleigh last
night.
1T is never dangerous for white man
to travel in Abyssinia provided he is ac-
companied by native escort because
those who compose such an escort are
always trustworthy; but a man takes
his life in his hands IL he stalks abroad
alone. Not that the natives are ferocious,
but that he could not be sure that one Of
them had not made a pact with his
sweetheart to kill man of white skin
in order to win her for his bride. The
native who wins such a distinction always
wears white feather in the back of his
hair.
Among all the 1000, 900 of population,
and in the entire area, equal to New
York Pennsylvania Virginia and New
England, there are but two white women
in Abyssinia. They are the wives of
two consular officers. Strange to say,
the national game is hockey, but Cau-
casions cannot play ii very much because
of the climate. The natives work but
little and eat raw meat. They kill an
elk, peel off the skin like you would peel
a banana, drain off the blood and proceed
with the feast. Every Abyssinian is a
good butcher.
ITO the lover of nature Ahyssinia is
a paradise. In my journey through the
land 1 saw thousands upon thousands Of
different species of birds that were beau
tiful in their plumage and sweet in their
songs. Occasionally 1 heard the far
away roar of lions, those mighty beasts
that promenade the forests and seldom
modest human beings unless they are at
tackled. The Abyssinians never use any
light at night, no matter where they
are, and sit in the dark and converse.
Therefore, they have good eyes And
they have wonderfully white and even
teeth, made so by cleaning them with
the spreaded end of a small stick
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-22

the owners of apartments to rent don't
want my children. SO I am at my rows
end.
7 am prepared to admit that the peo-
pie who refuse to take children into their
houses are not always to blame, because
some children know Of would pull down
the pyramids of Egypt IL they got half
chance. A few evenings ago 1 was at
a friends house for supper. A boy about
years old threw the whole party into
continual scene of confusion by insisting
that he get everything on the table, and
all at once. His mother every now and
again reproved him by saying, % Willie,
for shame, you naughty boy and SO on
to which Willie paid no regrad whatever.
These are the specimens of humanity
that cause the doors of houses to be shut
in the face of parents who go looking for
apartments. There were eight of us
children and neither father nor mother
ever had occasion to whip one Of us. We
were taught to obey; even look was
sufficient. Misconduct at the table during
meal meant for us the loss of that
meal"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-22
FALL OF A SPENDTHRIFT

age. Then I had to shell out a11,s50 to
settle with my creditors. I was a fine
specimen of an aristocratic ass in those
days. You will hardly credit 1t, but 1t
is fact the suspicion never entered my
head that the jolly chaps who stuck so
close to me and had such prodigious luck
always in winning my money were sharp
ers. week or two after came of age
went with them and some other friends
had picked up to pigeon shoot at Bod
lam, in Sussex. There lost s3000 in one
day, betting. My friends suggested that
try my luck at dice. L had never
tackled dice before, but they told me a
novice always had luck. I have thought
since that the dice were loaded. Anyhow.
when 1 woke up next morning I found
that l had lost my last 91000 and my
friends had all vanished.
'I managed to keep going for a time by
the aid of the pawnbrokers. and tried to
hunt up my friends but couldn't find
them. There was a reVersion of 10000
coming to me on my mothers death. I
sold that. Then my friends turned up
again. Strange wasn't it,? But still L
didn't tumble. We went to a race meet
ing. There had little luck. But that
same night 1 lost e2SOO playing baccarat.
Then my friends reminded me of my
luck at the race track; told me that rae
ing was evidently the proper game for
me. 1 was induced to buy four or five
horses, which were sold to me as race
horses. I never won anything with them,
of course. Then I came to the end of my
tether I had gone the pace for eleven
months, and 1t had cost me just $4,000.
MY friends again all mysteriously dis
appeared. I ran across one of them a
few days later and asked for loan.
I've no money to spare he said, but I'll
give you a bit of good advice. Try to
find as big a fool as yourself and then
do him as you've been done I haven't
found him yet.
IT tried to find work, but my expensive
education had taught me nothing of any
use in earning a living I could only
pick up an odd job here and there.
"Often walked the streets nights. Some
of my relatives raised enough to take me
to South Africa. But South Africa had
no use for man like me. The best job
struck there was that of a billiard
marker at Johannesburg, but 1t didn't
last long. l worked my way back to
England after a couple of years there.
England had no use for me either. My
folks shipped me to New York. I struck
job there as a waiter In a Bowery res
turant. Held 1t just one week. The pro-
prietor said l was too dead slow for the
billet That was the trouble. Every job
I tackled 1t was always easy to find some
fellow who could do It better. l drifted
all across the continent as far as San
Francisco. Even as a tramp I wasn't
a success. And here l am back in old
England up against the same old game
MY mother married vicar in Nottin-
hamshre after my disgrace. She sends
me small sums of money occasionally
all she can afford-and good advice. But
what's the use of good advice to fellow
like merlin a failure and my worst
failure is that l didn't peg out years
ago."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-22
LONG DISTANCE TROUBLE.

From the New York Globe.
The most sympathetic person l know"
said the city salesman, lis the man who
always reads the weather reports of his
native town. He was brought up in some
little village not far from Cincinnati.
Every day he reads up on the weather
conditions of that city and If it is very
cold or stormy he worries himself sick
Gee he says, they are having an awful
storm down there today. I'll bet nv
folks will find it almost impossible to
wade through the drifts down to the COW
house. When the thermometer registrars
fifteen degrees or thereabouts he begins
to fret because the cistern is sure to
freeze over. When summer comes no
doubt he will be uneasy all the time on
account of possible sun strokes in south
ern Ohio. It's queer. Zero weather, mud
slush or torrents of rain In New York
affect him not at all, but atmospheric
conditions In Cincinnati upset him for the
whole day"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-22
CRIMINALS ARE PRosAIc.

From the Kansas City Journal.
Policemen, in spite of their trouble In
solving what appear to be more or less
simple problems, are fond of asserting
that the ordinary criminal betrays an
amazing lack of originality. In support
of this they point out that when a GRIM
inal is arrested after doing one Stretch"
the second charge made against him is
generally for the same sort of crime.
They explain this by saying that each
failure or each loss shows the "crook"
some point of which he has been ignor-
ant, and 1t is easy for him to convince
himself that next time he will avoid that
mistake and be successful. When he falls
and is arrested, the law shows him just
where he bungled, and the gamblers love
of taking chance urges him to try his
luck at the old game once more. Then
there Is, also, always to be considered
the unconscious and gritty determine
ton to make a success Of the thing, any
how
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-22
LIFE BEHIND THE MASK

From Harper's Weekly.
is a depressing thing to watch the
faces that hurry past one on the
street. To jostle ones kind on the
thoroughfares and IN the shops is to see
humanity at its lowest ebb The faces
are overeager, strained anxiety-ridden,
or drab. futile, lack lustre and weary,
and one Involuntary asks: why do they
go on living? What object makes this
duh driving worth while?" Outwardly,
specifically, there is but little sign of
the love of life, the joy of being, the ex-
ultation of existence. 1t is a dull piano.
rama, this endless stream of tired peo-
pie, mostly ugly and dis1gured by the
exlgencies of their tasks. They seem all
to have worn off the bloom of life bv the
unhalting struggle. They bear the marks
of living In yesterday or tomorrow, and
this moment is but dull thud of time
to be endured while they press on to an
other moment no better than this one. It
is In the far away behind us or In the
great to be that joy is hidden, and one
by one the moments drip by unheeded,
ungrasped and untreasured.
There would seem to be too many of
us, too, in this great undifferentiated
mass of people, all unsmiling, silent, Civ
ing out nothing, but each one hurrying
along, eager to attain some goal. and
pushing toward 1t as II hurried by an in
visible throng.
What an experience 1t would be. what
an enlivening and enriching experience
1t would be, to peer behind the ugly mask
and see what lay back of the stupid
haste and seemingly useless activity If
one were free to call halt to any one
and demand that he deliver up for our
enlightment the heart of his motive and
his deep hidden desire, what significance
would be added to the scene If for a
moment one might but play the part of
the fairy in the old tales and grant each
man a single wish, what a strange in
sight one would gain into the life bo-
meath the dull appearance! What one
thing will you have to make you happy?"
1t would be money, doubtless, often, or
health, or a Jewel, or the power to stay
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-22
PASSING of the Xmas

The current campaign against e. H.
Harriman-the campaign conducted by
the general public against the indlvid.
ual Harriman-seems to mean that the
railroad kings have outlived their USE
fulness, and that directors are wanted
who will direct.
This country has been afflicted with
about half a dozen railroad kings who
have dominated every part of its trans
portation system, which in turn con-
trolls or at least affects all trade and
all business. The rule of these kings
has not been satisfactory, and their
deposition plainly underlies the cur
rent movement directed more particu-
larly against e. H. Hartman.
The Hartman case Is one Of the
worst that has been developed. Aside
from his stock watering schemes, it
has just been made plain how he buys
railroads. When, for example, he de-
sired to purchase control of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad he purchased
the shares of that company held by
the Pennsylvania railroad, worth in
the neighborhood of forty millions Of
dollars. Did he hand over that amount
in cash? No, he did not He did not
hand over a dollar. He simply handed
to the Pennsylvania company notes
given by the Oregon Short Line COM
pany for the amount. Those notes must
soon be paid, and the oregon Short
Line has no money available for that
purpose, and it will no doubt issue
that amount of bonds at the dictation
of King Hartman to purchase control
of railroad thousands of miles from
Oregon. 1t will do this because Har-
riman is the whole company. 1t is a
case of one-man power, an extreme
case of Wall-streetism and financial
legerdemain in the public thorough
fares of the country. 1t is regrettable
state of things, one that must be ended
before public confidence can be fully
regained.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-22

the lands railroads are expending in
extensions and improvements millions
upon millions. The country itself is
about to expend ss5,ooO,ooo upon It's
waterways and harbors. Chicago is
agitating 14-foot channel to st. Louis
to cost about sS1 100000. and the peo-
pie along the Ohio want nine feet of
water the year round at cost Of per-
haps S3O,000,O0o.
It is estimated that the big projects
in hand call for fully a billion Of dol
lars, and all are based on the prosper
fly and greatness of the country pres
ent and prospective, and 1t is believed
that every one will be justified by the
growth of the country in the course Of
a single generation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-22
Great EnuineerInu Plans

The world is full Of colossal en-
gineering schemes. Aside from the
Panama canal and the government 8
irrigation works, this country is full
of great money-absorbing projects. In
or near the city of New York three
bridges are being erected over great
tidal streams, and the cost of the
three bridges will be about $4,000, 900
each. Sixteen tunnels are also being
dug, six under the Hudson or North
river, eight under the East river, and
two under the Harlem. Nor are the
great projects confined to one city. The
state of New York is deepening Its
canals so that they will have twelve
feet on the meter stills. The cost Of
the enlargement will exceed 100000
900. Washington Is building a $4,000
900 union railway station. and all over
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-22
SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY.

From the Atchison, Kan, Globe.
1t is hard to tell II you have pleased
girl by the way she smiles at you.
When a very homely woman has a
pretty baby. how she worships 1t and ex-
hibits It.
II you are not pugilist or a soldier.
about all reputation as a fighter will
set you Is trouble.
An old-fashioned woman is convinced
that cooking is one thing that can't be
learned properly in school.
The serpent probably acquired his repu-
tation for wisdom by getting here before
there were any widows.
Trace it down, and it will be found that
a bald-headed man is the one who is al
ways finding fault with other mems
hair.
While more furniture is required to
start housekeeping than used to be, the
family Bible Is more apt to be left off
the list.
With some men little office is consid-
erably more dangerous and effective in
making them worthless than a little learn
Ing
1t doesn't make father nearly as mad
TO be bothered with a question while
reading the evening paper II 1t is one he
can answer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-22
Land Frauds in the West

The trial of Binger Hermann, once
commissioner of the general land Of
fee, has been going on in Washington
nine weeks, and the case is far from
being ready to submit to the jury. Her
mann is charged with the destruction
of public records, and the government
is covering in the testimony it offers
the whole vast story of land frauds in
the west. He caused the destruction of
thirty-five letter-press copy books full
of discriminating evidence. If he should
escape in Washington, where he served
sixteen years in Congress, he would
have to go to Oregon to be tried for
participation In land frauds.
Senator Borah of Idaho has also
been indicted by federal grand jury
for participation in land frauds, and
h may follow in the footsteps of SEN
ator Mitchell of Oregon so far as the
verdict of a jury is concerned. The
northwest is permeated with land
frauds, and scarcely an official stands
untouched by this shameful chapter Of
our public life. Secretary Hitchcock
worked untiringly to uncover the land
frauds, and Secretary Straus and At
torney General Bonaparte are prose
cutting the work with vigor and deter
mination.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-22
HYMN

BY Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(Sung at the completion of the Concord
Monument, April 10, 1885,
By the rude bridge that arched the food
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the
world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seward
creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream.
We set today votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit. that made those heroes dare
To die, or leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-22
Americans in Manila

The bureau Of insular affairs in
Washington has discovered 351 Amer
lean "sqawmen" in the city of Manila
These modern squawmen do not marry
Indian women as their predecessors
did in the wild but not woody west,
but they marry Filipino women. The
"querida" practice as it is called in
Manila is leading to no little comment
in the Manila papers. and a good share
of the comment is not creditable to
Americans.
The complete figures for Manila
show that 565 Americans live in Amer
lean homes, 627 in messes, St3 room
with Filipino families, 203 live in
hotels, S62 are soldiers, and 81 are in
Bilibed prison. The last named are
certainly secure against temptation,
especially on the part of the little
brown girls in our province in the
Far East.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-22

the approach of DEATH or to annihilat
space and overcome separation. Ho'
many would know those things that b,
long to peace?
Very often we wonder why omnipotenc
should have ordered growth instead
uttering the fiat which would hay
brought forth immediate perfectin. Tt
only answer that comes is that thins
being as they are, our sole JOY is in II
struggle, never in achievement. To stri'
hopefully, not to attain, is life stsppir
upward, not the plane upon which
stand, gives elation.
Behind the mask the vision of life Is
not unexhllarating. However the outside
of life be spattered with clay or pow
dered with dust, at the heart of things
we find each man tanning some wav-
ering flame of tenderness, cherishing
some dim hope of a higher virtue yet
to be, clinging to some unforgotten ideal
or performing pious rites before a glori-
fed instant In the past. Following into
the silent places, we find each SEEM
ingly dull atom of humanity has its own
instants when 1t sees, perhaps afar Off,
bonds of self and steps out into the
freedom of love and offers a jealous SER
vice to soaring ideal.
Can 1t be all Illusion, too, that, as the
ages pass, more and more intelligence is
applied to life. It seems at times as IL
the dark area were shrinking slowly, and
flowers were growing out of the ashes,
and the sunshine were turning the notes
of dust to iridescent Jewels. More peo-
pie today than ever before seem to have
laid letters on their destiny. More peo-
pie today seem to understand that the
best happiness is to have suffered be-
yond their deserts. For. surely. in some
strange and unsearchable way 1t adds
TO the general glory of existence to see
a man whom we know to be better than
his fate. More people today understand
that with the withdrawal of the half
gods the true gods come. and by the
body's dying the spirit beats its way into
consciousness, winning ita life from the
bursting clay.