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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-23
UNION REALTY CO,
FOR SALE.

21s1a North 2Oth Street, Birmingham, Ala,
 Bell Phone GAP.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1908-02-20
NothInn 70 speak OF.

A siclly looking man came into the
office of village physician and said
that he wasn't feeling very smart and
wanted something to Kinder straight
en- him out" After he had described
his symptoms, which did not indicate
anything at all serious, the physician
asked him If he had been taking any
thing for his troubles.
We'll, no; at least, none TO speak
Of was the reply Il heard that the
extract of dandeline was good for
troubles like mine, so l took three
pints OF that, but It didn't seem to do
much good. Then got. me two ,bot1
ties of Smiths Healing Compound and
a box OF Green's Sure Cure pills and
took EN-, and i kinder think they
helped me some.i
did you take anything else?' asked
the physician.
eyes, my wife fixed me up mess
Of pokeberry and calamus and mullen
and rue and boneset and tansy, and a
few other YARDS, and / took that for
a while, until one Of my nelghbors sent
me over something he'd bought the
receipt of from a gypsy woman. Then
/ didn't feel 50 well SO changed on
to some stun bought Of a peddlar, and
a little Quinine twice a day 4 amt
taking anything now but a little Of
the elixir Of a hundred roofs and some
bitters. 1 amt gaining very FAST, 50 !
thought I'd come IN apd see if YOU
thought I needed anything else
Jhdge.s Llbrary , 80
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1908-02-20
Not Reassurlnp.

A farmer on a frosty autumn after
noon, went out intoa his turnip field
and began to gather turnips. The
early, sun sank IN the west and as the
blush dusk came on the farmer per-
ceived at the other end OF the field
two men. who, laying down On a bag,
began to dig With frantic haste
The farmer watched the pair in
some perplexity. What could they be
doing? And he was just putting his
hand to his cheek 70 shout and ask
them their business when one Of them
rose up and yelled loudly and reassur-
lngly.
Don't let us disturb you; we are
only prikging few ourselves. =
washington Star.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1908-02-20
Transferring Alfalfa SOIL.

1.-THE latest wrinkle in Kansas real
estate transfers" said Representa-
tive William Reeder, of the Sixth
District of Kansas. is the purchase
Of top soil from alfalfa fields in North
Central Kansas to be shipped by
the carload to farms along the Mis-
souri, River, where it is dificult to
get this excellent forage plant start
ed. Like all leguminous plants, al
falfa fertilizes the soil, and In the
Kaw Valley an old alfalfa field is ex-
pected to yield seventy bushels Of
corn to the acre. Bailey Wagner. a
lawyer OF Atchison, recently shipped
a carload of top soil from Cloud
Comfy 70 his farm in Atehison Coun-
ty. Washington Post
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1908-02-20
Proof Of NIartian Lie.

That life is there Gin Mars) is
founded on no assumption, but on
massed evidence that Is conclusive,
and the reader should realize that
opposition to the idea that we now
have proof OF life on Mars is not
based on reason, but on emotion,
however, speciously clnaked. All
scientific objections have been met
and shown untenable as to temporal
ture. snow, etc. but human prejudice.
as with the Copernican system OF the
origin Of species, time alone can dis
pel.-From Professor Lowelfs New
Photographs Of Mars in the Gem
fury.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1908-02-20

They were crossiexaminihg, in a
Chicago court recently, a bookmaker
VINO had been caught In the tolls Tor
playing some other game than his
own. The third sab-assistant district
attorney was intent upon conviction,
however, and was doing his best. nome
too successfully, to shake the testi-
mony OF the defendant
You're sure OF that2'' he yelled, as
the bookmaker stuck to an assertion
that did not suit the case Of the
state.
sure, am certain" came the an
swer
you remember that you are under
oatng7
II do that
eAnd you'd swear TO TINS statement
OF yoursy'
swear to H.? Why MT. Lawyer and
Judge, your honor I'D bet hundred
op Il any day. Saturday Evening
Post
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1908-02-20
cnlIlnr the KettIe mo-.

A rustic was sitting on the bank
Of a stream when the parsons dangh-
ter came that way. Punch gives the
conversation;
well, miss, ! be fair mazed VIZ
the way o that ere fisherman. that
bol" said the loafer.
"Why IS that, carverg' asked the
young lady.
The ovid fool has been siiiin
there fur the last six hours and
hasn't caught nothin,"
HOW do you know thatn
i've been a-Watchin o be tho
whole time!H
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1908-02-20
Oh FARMER IM AFRlcA
A German Pioneer Tells Of Chances
North Of the Zambesl.


North Of the zambesl.
A German farmer named H. G.
Koch has been filling the soil for
four years about 100 miles north Of
the zambesi River in central Africa.
No other farmer lives within fifty
miles Of him.
There are not twenty European far
mers In the whole OF Northwest Rho
desia, a country four times as large
as the state Of New York. Koch is
pioneer
He likes the soil and the climate
and is there to stay. His farm is as
near the equator as the north part of
Central America, but It stands 1000
feet above the sea and the heat Is
less oppressive than in many more
southern regions.
A few weeks ago Koch talked to
: convention Of farmers in Southern
Rhodesia They were interested In
his story, for he Is the first man com.
petent to give valuable testimony on
the farming conditions beyond the
zambesi.
He told them he had settled on the
surveyed land Of the Cape to Cairo
Railroad for he knew he could sell
bis produce when the railroad reach.
ed him. Taking in a wagon and
few head of live stock he roamed
northward, following the stakes of the
surveyors, till he reached a region
that exactly suited him. There he
built little shack, and ebgan to use
the plough and other farming nipple
ments, he had brought in his wagon.
Koch says that the best plough land
in the colony is a rich, deep black
loan, found in the valleys and In
patches of from 100 to 1000 acres all
through the country. 1t grows the
finest corn he ever saw.
Then a gray sandy loan is well
adapted for the cultivation of tobacco,
cotton and potatoes. All crops with
proper cultivation grow splendidly.
Garden truck can be raised the year
round, and he is raising wheat In
winter with success.
A third kind Of soil is suitable only
for pasture. Grass grows in album
dance, cattle keep in good condition
the year round, and the climate at
that high altitude is mild and pleas
ant.
Koch's faith has been justified
The Cape to Cairo Railroad has been
built 100 miles beyond his door. The
little station Of Kalomo has sprung up
near his farm. He has a market for
all he can raise.
He pays native laborers from SLIPS
to $3.50 a month, and thinks his men
compare favorably with black labor
in Cape Colony. He has no doubt
now that the railroad has been com
pleted to the Broden Hill copper
mines, that more farmers will come
into the region.-New York Sun.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1908-02-20
noe.n.l Know the Lanauaas.

Mrs. Fiatbush- The girl Margaret We
used to nave and who got married
seems disappointed.
Mr. FIaibush--What has disappoint'
"a herr
well her husDand talks IN his sleep
bit She can never understand him. she
says
.Of course not. Her husbands car
conductor. -Yonkors Statesman.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1908-02-20
ooal TransportatIon Proats.

According to a contemporary the
coal trade alone supplies our rail-
ways, as a whole, with tra1ic to the
extent Of over 6.oOO.Ooo tons per
week, and mineral traiic, az a whole,
supplies the railways OF the United
Kingdom with revenue to the extent
Of considerably over half q million
sterling a week.--Engineer.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1908-02-20

The great cathedral at Cologne. al
though completed but a few years
ago, has SO deterioratod from factory
smoke that the body of the church
will have 70 be renovated through
out
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-30
NOTES.

An engineer by the name of Grell has
patented an invention by means OF which,
he says, he can transmit biograph pic
lures by an ordinary telegraph apparatus.
Springfield, Ill, is up and a-coming
over its celebration Of the Lincoln CEN
tennary. Ambassador Bryce and Ambas-
sador Jusserand are to speak for Europe
and Mr.. Bryan and Senator Dolliver tor
America This is a bill" that will draw.
Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, a erand-
nephew Of the famous poet. is named as
a second Edison for his discoveries in
wireless telegraphy. He lives in Ames-
bury, Mass, and since 1902 has received
thirty-one foreign and domestic patents,
and has twenty-eight others pending.
One of the leading Pennsylvania sena-
torial candidates for Mr.. Knox's place is
George 4. oliver of Pittsburg, a million
aire steel manufactures and for some
years past the owner of a P|ittsburg
newspaper. He has never held any ex-
ecutiye or legislative office and IL elected
would enter the senate past the age Of so.
Judson Harmon. democratic governor
elect Of Ohio, will appear on horseback
in the inaugural parade at Columbus jan
uary I6. "Why should 1 not ride horse
back in the paradeP' Judge Harmon
asked. my staff will mounted and
there is no good reason why 1 should be
toted along in a carriage when the rest
Of the boys are mounted"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-30
EBB AND FLOW OF ALIENS.

A statement issued by the Depart
that in the twelve months ending Sep
80 the number of aliens land
ing in this country was 724,112,
while the number returning to other
countries from America was 717,S14,
leaving a net gain in alien population
for the year of only 6,29S, the small
est in many years. Secretary Straus
explains, however, the tide of immi-
grafton has turned toward America
very strongly, and that the arrivals
for the last three months of the cal
endar year will probably be $4,000 or
10000 in excess of departures.
Even at the most liberal estimate,
the country's gain in alien population
for the year will be remarkably small,
compared even with the fiscal year
ending last June, when the increase Of
arrivals oyer departing aliens was
209, 900, and this was a low water
mark compared with 1906, when fully
100000 foreigners came to this
country and few went back home, The
secretary finds u for Amer
lean ~laboring men in the record of the
ebb and flow of aliens in the last year.
In the old days it was argued that the
constant influx of aliens would result
in injury to American workmen, but
the facilities for communication and
transportation have been so improved
that immigration and emigration re-
spond quickly to economic conditions
and furnish a mobile labor market
much demanded by the trades and in
dustries.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-30

through the rate reduction bills. and
more particularly the freight rate re-
duction bills, the democratic organs
kept insisting that more radical cuts
be made and that the republicans we're
favoring the railroads. But now we
are told that the republican trade re-
duction bills answer all requirements
and should stand Just as they are.
What more is needed to expose the
insincerity Of democratic criticism of
republican legislation in Nebraska?
What more is needed to prove that
democratic TRADES against the rail-
roads are mere p%retense? What
further testimony can be demanded to
establish the charge that the consid-
Grafton for the railroad support for
the democrats in the last campaign
was a guaranty of legislative i'm
munity?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-30
work or sEoRnrARY WI son a..
Twelve Years Labor IN the Depart-
ment Of Agriculture.

Wv ShAANtNH NNW AtANH
Seldom does a abine minister remain
In a particular office long enough to pre-
sent a twelfth annual report Yet this Is
the achievement of Secretary Wilson OF
the Department OF Agriculture. lie Is the
sole survivor of the Mckinley cabinet. our
agricultural production for the year 1908 is
above the average, the production Of hay,
sugar and rice being the largest on record.
The total value OF the years farm prod
ducts has risen TO s~7.77S,O00OOO. 4 per cent
above last years. and four times the value
OF our mining products. Farm products
comprise crops and animal products. In
computing the first we find that corn rep
resents one-third OF the total; cotton. hay
and wheat one-third, and the rest one
third; that corn is now followed by cot
ton, not by hay, which has long held sec
ond place; that the other cereals In order
are wheat, oats. barley, rye, rice and buck
wheat. The year 1905 leads all former
years In the value of all the cereals. OF
potatoes, sugar and tobacco. Three-eighths
of the value Of farm products is repre-
sented by animals, sold and slaughtered,
and by animal products at the farm. We
hardly realize that eggs and poultry are
worth as much as the cotton crop itself.
This certainly represents a great change
ANU AAI lWNAN0 NEdIHs HOl 50 HluNH III
these special products, as in the methods
Of d~airying and Of meat inspection, due to
the departments diligence. There has also
been a change during these years from
low TO profitable crop prices-a dozen
years ago corn was selling at p cents per
bUshel! Again, there has been a great
change I'm the varieties of crops, this also
due to the departments agents, who have
been constantly traversing foreign lands in
search Of promising seeds and plants for
possible introduction here; for instance,
some years ago durum wheat was brought
from Russia and Africa; now its crop in
America Is worth more than $50, 10000 to
the farmers; furthermore, so great has be-
come the production Of alfalfa, an intro
duced hay plant, hat its crop this year
n cans $lOO,OO,OO0. The department has also
increased the farmers profits by millions
because of its warfare against the pests
which have hitherto destroyed crops. An
even greater gain has been the depart
ment's placing the American farm on a
sounder scientific basis. Numerous long
time experiments on farms controlled by
tho department are under way to de-
termine crop rotation and other methods
of management which will be most profit
able and best adapted to family and other
available labor. Thus, in information, in
~telligence and industry the farmers have
been UNNECESSARILY fortified. The fact that
the Department of Agriculture is only
twenty years old and yet that It is regarded
by the country as one of the indispensable
instruments of the governments construc-
tive activity is the strongest testimonial
to the efficiency of Secretary Wilson, who
has directed the department for more than
half its existence.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-30
IMMUNITY FOR THE -RAILRoADs


While attempting to rebuke The
Bee for emphasizing the expectation
of the railroads to be let alone by the
coming democratic legislature, the
World-Herald ~corroborates The Bees
assertion that the railroads helped
elect the democratic lawmakers I'M
der assurance of legislative immunity
and for hat reason the usual railroad
lobby may not be needed.
The World-Herald tries to pave the
way for legislative inactivity by saying
that there is no occasion for further
radical legislation Affecting railroad
interests at this time; that passenger
and freight rates are as low as they
should be and that the laws governing
railway taxation are eminently salts
factory, the correction of any abuses
or inequalities being fully within the
power of the assessing boards If the
railroads will only let the democratic
legislature do It's work in peace" the
railroads may rest confident that moth
ing will be done to which they would
object.
soft words may butter no pars-
nips," but even a belRted geqnfession
may be good for the soul. The. demo-
cratic World-Herald here practically
admits that the republicans have given
the people of Nebraska all the relief
from former railroad extortion and OPP
preston that they have a right to de-
mand. The som~ersaulting of the
democrats, however, is both interest
ing and amusing. While the repub-
licans were enacting this reform legis-
lation they got little aid or comfort
from the democrats or democratic or
gans, like the World-Herald
When the revenue law was enacted
the democratic house leader. under
whip and spur of democratic medicine
mixers, brought in an amendment
vitality changing the method of assess
ing railroad property and actually,
along with the other members of the
democratic minority, voted against the
bill which be himself had helped to
frame. The republican revenue law
was denounced at the time and for a
long time afterwards by the World
Herald as an Ubiquitous measure, par
ticularly in its railway assessment
features, but now we are told that II
is all right and Calls for no change.
When the republicans were putting
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-30
MR.. rAFrS PANAMA MISSION.

People protesting against Mr.. Taft's
ground that as president-elect he
should not take the risks of the trip,
fail to appreciate Mr.. Taft's concep-
ton Of his duty or his determination
to perform his duty without thought
of self. While there is naturally the
greatest desire that the president-elect
should not expose himself unneces-
sarily at this time, or at any other
time, his determination to equip him
self with hrst-hand information of con-
ditions and prospects at Panama will
be generally commended.
1t is now certain hat the Panama
canal will be much In evidence in con-
gress during Mr.. Taft's term as presi-
dent. 1t is admitted, too, that the
critical point has been reached in the
canal construction and that a decision
must be reached promptly whether the
canal shall be continued as a lock
canal, as now planned, or changed to
the sea-level pattern. The work done
thus far would have been necessary in
either event, so that nothing has been
lost, with perhaps the exception of the
foundation work on the Gatun dam,
should the sea-level plan be adopted.
The recent attack on the lock system
by NJ. Bunau-Varilla, the French engi-
neer. has started a wide discussion
- A. n =
purposes to make an inquiry for him
self. He will be accompanied to Pan
anna by six engineering experts, of his
own selection. and will spend a week
inspecting the work already done and
figuring on the work yet to be accom-
plished.
The country at large will be content
to await Mr.. Taft's decision and have
every confidence in his final finding
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-30
ARE YOU READY,
Baltimore American.

Baltimore American.
Friends, Fe~llow-Citizens and Countrymen:
Lend me your ears.
Have you thought given TO the coming
time.
And to the foremost duty OF the day
Which all men recognize as vital part
And parcel of the young and glad New
Year?
Say, have you made with full trust in
yourself
The same old resolution made a year ago?
The resolution to he good and brave and
true,
And honest, amiable. and patient quite
To keep. your temper, never say cross
words
Make everybody love you, treat all men
AS friends and brothers. shun all idleness,
Eschew all gossip OF your neighbors'
And deal severely with your own pet sins?
OF course, you will not keep them; do
not let
The fear OF that be worry to your soul,
Twill be exactly as II was last year,
But still your little pile of bricks must go
To help the paving of the broad. smooth
which leads to-hem, Wen change the
subject now. n9-HTT
Pray, have you bought a diary? Not so?
Then get one right away. Don't pay too
You'll use It for a week and them
The resolutions and the diary both
Will go the old accustomed way for good
And be as naught again till 1910.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-30

Lincoln is preparing to make a play
for an appropriation for a new wing to
the capitol to house the supreme court
and state library. Lincoln would have
done better to have acted on the sug-
gestion of The Bee a year ago for the
abandonment of the proposed separate
building for the State Historical library
and the erection in its place of a com
bination building or wing for the two
state libraries and the supreme court.
Irrespective of the need, the state is
not in position to provide money for
so many new buildings at one and the
same time.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-30
PEN PICTURES OF MURDER TRIALS.

PEN PICTURES OF MURDER
The New York newspapers have not
complied with the petitions sent to
them recently asking that they refrain
from going into details in the publ
cation of the testimony in the Hams
murder trial. The petitions were
signed by many ministers, church or
CARNATIONS and prominent citizens,
and set forth the Thaw trial as an
illustration of the evil of too much
publicity in such cases. 1t was urged
that the newspapers confine the re-
ports Of the trial to recording the es-
sential features of the testimony. with
all the narrowing details, the pictures
of the witnesses and the sidelights
eliminated. The newspapers did not
reply that they would quit printing
the details of the trial when the good
men and women of New York quit at
tending it, talking about it and Gag
erly buying the papers containing the
complctest accounts of 1t. The edi-
tors just went ahead, treating the case
in their own way, and here is II Of
the results, taken from a leading New
York daily:
Yesterday its four great windows let in
enough of the dripping. doleful day to rust
the spirits of the most sanguine of those
present. Each Gothic frame held the same
picture of desolate countryside, and through
the panes, bleared by raindrops, Thornton
Jenkin Hams looked out upon a weeping
world. But even inaspite of the depressing
atmosphere the accused man smiled.
1t would not do to limit the work
of the special writer's assigned to re-
port the murder trials in New York.
Such action would deprive literature
of the productions of the sob squad
and the country would not stand for
that. When Thornton Jenkins Hams
looks out through panes bleared by
raindrops and smiles on a doleful
world the country has a right to know
about it.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-30

An lows Idea DesiEned 60 Make JaIl
Life Attractive.
New York Tribun,

New York Tribune
The warden OF the penitentiary at Fort
Madison. Ia, II he has been correctly re-
ported, thinks that the interests OF hu.
mainly would be better served by greater
lberality I'm the treatment Of prisoners
and for his own institution recommends,
among other things, abolition Of the prison
uniform. This may do very well so Ions
as the prisoner remains in the prison, but
il he is disposed to escape. and succeeds.
he will find the gsrb of the outside world
highly convenient. with humanity consti-
tuted as Il is. It Is desirable. while con.
Quoting prisons, reformatories and poor
houses on a humane basis, not TO make
them so comfortable as TO appeal to a
large class of people who nave no inclina-
ton 10 do honest work for an honest Nv
ing. A prison as luxurious as is a certain
home for paupers provided by one Of the
cities of England, whose inmates have
better accommodations than most well-to-
do outsiders, appeals rather strongly to an
element in human nature which can be
cultivated only at the expense OF society
in general. ~