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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
As To Living 15o Years.

How long do you nope to llVeF
 The answer largely will depend upon your age.
 Just now much is being said about the art of long living Longevity is the great theme of the physicist.
 Says a recent writer: "There is no good reason why a man should not live to be 150 years old"
 Beg pardon!
 There are some reasons to the contrary. even should man be able to keep body and soul together that long The reasons are inside the man-in the wool and web of his spirit.
 The man who reaches, say, 90 years may have the desire to live longer. He may not be appalled, at the future stretch ing out before him for another SO years, but he is simply unable in spirit to ac- complish 1t.
 He Is built that way. In spite of his primal love of living he simply gets tired of mortal life. He has Suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune'' until in the very knot and center of his being he is weary-weary as tired child at eventide.
 Why?
 The aged man is necessarily a lonely man. He has far outlived his generation. He is out of touch with the world His dear ones have gone before-the play mates of his youth. the friends of his early manhood, the companions of his middle age-all gone. And in the very nature of things he cannot make new friends like the old ones. Youth must consort with youth age with age, And, lacking the stimulus of normal and nat ural associations, his spirit droops. It must be so.
 And again:
 The aged man has lost the fine flush to enthusiasm and the fine edge to endeavor that go with his early years. His spirit is dulled.
 The aged man is disilusoned. Once he built beautifi/ castles in Spain He has seen them toppled to earth. Once the mirages of life enticed him. but he has seen them rise and dissipate themselves The rivers of early hopes and aspirations have lost their runnels in the sands of life's desert places His spirit is disap- pointed.
 Tired. lonely. dulled. disallusloned-that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12

Stupendous stock of high grade merchandise. Every item bought for this season. Assort- ment the best. SELLING OUT AT COST. FORCED TO SELL TO ADJUST JOHNSON ES- TATE. Entire Johnson & Nc Coy Co. stock must go. JOHN SON H A R R I S CLOTHING CO.,, 221 N. 20th St.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
NoRWOOD HOMES.

If you are looking for home in Nor wood, see me early Monday l can show you a beauty. It has every imaginable convenience. It is built out of the best material money will buy and the arrange ment is beautiful. The price is low.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
POWderly

Listen to this, you city dwellers: We have one of the prettiest homes in Powderly, cottage on large lot 1OOx120; all kinds of fruit trees, peaches, pears, plums. figs, grapes and apples; beautiful flower beds; one-half block from car line, we will sell you for $1600 and make terms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12

We do not claim to have the bargain market cornered in Birmingham, but we do claim we can show you more genuine bargains than any firm in town. It costs you nothing to prove this and we are al- ways pleased to show you, and we don't want you to buy until you are suited. We think we can suit you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
LISTEN.

I can sell you a South Highland home without any cash payment. Don't think for one minute that it is not a beauty be- cause I don't require any cash. Has eight rooms, hardwood floors, fine cabinet man- tles furnace heated, servants room, good shady lot. It Is absolutely first class in every way. The price is low-$6,SOO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
TWO APARTMENTS

on South Highlands renting TOT $So per month. new and modern in every respect; lovely neighborhood; good lot Price SlO,- GOO: terms easy. This is good as home or investment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
''The Placid Place"

have been time within the past eighteen months and they emphasize two facts which should have the at tention of every who interested in Birmingham
 Frst-These sales to people of means They buy build home Some of them have been residents of Br mngham for years others but all of them touch ess with authentic of information what for Birmingham Their action at this time shows that their confidence the future of the city is absolute and that they hastenng take advantage of the comparatively low prices which now prevail
 Second-Ths buying sustains the declaration which have made heretofore that people who not hampered by lack of money yinsnctivey, may say-locate short distances from the of business culture and diversion
 The conclusion from these premises is that residence property within the truly urban portion of Brmng ghanhe limits of the city originally laid down. close proximity always have the first call and be in the steady demand holdings include lots in all the desirable sections of this territory and advise their purchase by the home builder and the investor The which offer reduce burden of carrying such lots tothe minimum ing it almost napprecable when contrased with the great suits o returns that are assured
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12

Don't delay! Bargains now going rapidly, come while the selection is still good and save money. A S20 suit for S13.35, get one. Varley & Bauman Clothing Co.,, 1910 3d Ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
SYCAMORE STREET.

south of Highland avenue; lot 75 feet front. See me about this I can make 1t intensely interesting to you. One of the most select neighborhoods in the High lands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
snIIrH. .HIGHIANDS.

Handsome two-story home; has recep- ton hall, parlor, dining room. library, kitchen and bathroom first floor; five bed rooms and bath upstairs. Corner lot, 75X 16O, located in Sycamore street, near Highland avenue Price S1o,5o0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
South Highlands
South Highlands

A very pretty cottage, six rooms, bath. lights, best loca ton, beautiful lot. This house Is practically a new house. We can sell 1t to you for $250o $500 cash and s2O month. Just consider this for a Southside home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
Why? Why? Why7

Why does a baseball pitcher receive S1O0O0 a year for his work and settle ment worker only $500 a year for his?
 Why is the president of life insur- ance company paid $10O,0O0 in salary and perquisites while the hard worked head of a school draws a meager wager
 Why do we pay the highest price to the man who saves our dollars and the lowest price to the man who saves our souls?
 Why does the world offer fortunes to the man who shows us how to make money and starvation wages to the man who shows us how to make beautiful lives?
 Why does the woman who shines Tn so- eiety get recognition and the woman who paints a picture get press notices and medals, while neither recognition nor medals come to the woman who keeps a model household and rears noble chil- dren?
 Why do we accord highest place to money-mongers and lowest place to teachers of ideals?
 Why do we point to big factories and high buildings as indices of a real pros perty?
 Why do men fuse body and soul, brain and conscience, into frenzied money madness?
 Why all this?
 Simply because the fullness of time has not yet come for a people to discard false standards of civilization. because our people have not held the right es- inmates of human life. We have stum- bled over the definition of the supreme good. Here and there noble men have pointed us to higher ideals, but we have not needed.
 But
 Thank goodness, a change is coming over the spirit of American dreams. We are beginning to raise right standards
 It Is this way:
 Heretofore only the material things have concerned us We must master a continent. We must girdle the globe with our commerce. In this accomplish ment we have grasped the occult forces of nature and solved, as no other people have solved, the problem of the produc- tion of wealth.
 Now we must stop!
 We are up against greater problem the equitable distribution of wealth.
 An, that Is different! When you start to study that problem you run against all sorts of moral laws-humanitarian- ism, Justice righteousness. You begin to see how false Is the standard that pays the most to him who ministers to the lowest and the least to him who min isters to the highest.
 And SO
 We are beginning to see that men, and not money, are the supreme good; that the greatest wealth is character; that the only real things worth producing are manhood and womanhood.
 The time of our strabismus, when We say things awry, is slowly passing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
sS5oo FOR A

few days only. This is the only lot on Third avenue between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets for the above price, and I am here to tell you that it is money maker
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
North Highlands

Fourteenth avenue, north, near school, church, and one block from car fine six-room cottage, all improved; $250 cash, S20 a month. Why will you continue paying rent after seeing this?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
CLOSE IN ON

Nineteenth street, lot 5Ox15o. two houses fronting two streets and renting for $50 per month Price s1O5OO. Terms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
BEECH STREET.

One lot 1O0x1S0 it's cheap at S6O per foot One lot s5x1sO, s75 per foot. One lot 7ox11o, $7O per foot. Let me show you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
HEART TO HEART TALKS
By EDWIN A. ME. Copyright, 1908. by Edwin A. Nye.

is why men die when they die of old age
 Their souls no less than their bodies are worn and weary.
 It is well for one to live as long as he can-usefuly and happily. But better, in finitely better, than a mere stretch of years is the life that worthily spends it's threescore and ten and when the shadows lengthen lies down to pleasant dreams.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12

Wanted-C Competent and ex- perienced glove salesla dy. Please do not apply unless you are experienced. Apply to manager ladies department, Louis Saks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
GetYOur Bearings
 From This Chart.

We note very free buying of lots in the choice residence sections, such as the South Highlands and Norwood Our sales of this class of property are larger now than they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
NEW RESIDENCE NEAR

Eleventh avenue. south. Has ten rooms beautifully finished and arranged. lovely mantels, double 1oored, storm sheeted. Price $7O00 on terms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
HIGHLAND AVENUE

lot 100 feet wide, fronting two streets, with an eight-room house on same, for s1S,0OO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12

FOR QUICK AND satisfactory results, list your property with me. I will show you how quick it can be done. hustle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
R ENTS FOR S5n

Corner lot. store and dwelling on same. in good location. Never vacant. Price s5e00.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
S9000 WILL RUY

you a new five-room cottage, located well on Southsde The terms are dead easy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
West End

New f1ve-room cottage on lot 50x190 for $1450; $500 cash, $15 a Lnonth. You can not build the house for this price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12

You will save time and money by telling me what you want. I only advertise a few.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
FOURTEENTH AVENUE. SOUTH.

Lovely two-story eight-room home, equipped with every modern improvement; fine corner lot, 55x15O. It's cheap at s5.750 Attractive terms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
West End

New seven-ro/n cottage on lot 50x150 two blocks from car line; fine location; $50 cash, $20 month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
THIS IS ABSOLUTELN
BIC BARGAIN.

Corner lot between Twentieth street and the new Terminal size 100x10o. The price is from B to s1o0OO cheaper than any other the same size in this location.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
STORE IN LESS

than two blocks of Twentieth street, 25x 100. I want an offer Located on Third avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
LOOK THIS LIST

of lots over and you will find the place to build your home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12

NOTHING BUT HANDSOME homes being erected in this neighborhood Here is the place to build yours. Lot 1OOx 740. Price S5000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
CuEApECT TOT

in Norwood. Size 60x190 on a corner. Price S24OO, including street improvements.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
LEGAL NOTICES
Notice To Contractors.


 Sealed proposals will be received by the undersigned until 12 o'clock noon July 19. 1908, for paving Water street with brick and curbing same with granite, and for having Broad street with asphalt and brick and curbing same with artificial combined curb and gutter.
 Specifications may be obtained and plans examined at this office.
 The right is reserved to reject any and all proposals. JULIEN SMITH, 6-2S-3t-sun City Engineer Selma, Ala.
 Notice of Sale.
 will. in accordance with the law on Monday. July 20, 1908, sell to the highest bidder for cash one gasoline engine and narts: same was received at Birmingham over the Louisville and Nashville railroad and consigned to White Blakeslee Manu- featuring company from Lowndesboro, Ala, August 26, 1907.
 This sale will be made in order to sat isfy the transportation charges and stor- age. The sale will take place at IF o'clock. noon. July 20, 190-, at freight office of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, cor ner of Twentieth street and Railroad ave- nue, Birmingham, Ala
 c. w. TOLIVER, Assistant Agent, Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co., Birmingham, Ala. 7-o-St-su
 Bids Wanted.
 Notice is hereby given that bids will be received up to 12 o'clock, noon, July 20. 1908 in the office of the Board of Reve- nue of Jefferson county, Alabama, Tor slagging and cherting the Blue creek road from Valley creek bridge to Adger in Pre- cinct g. Specifications can be seen in the office of the county engineer. The right to reject any and all bids IS reserved by the Board of Revenue.
 JOHN T. REED, President Board of Revenue Jenerson county. Alabama July Il, 1908, s-1-z'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
DOGS!
DOGSl DOGS!
 FOR, SALE

My entire Kennel o1 SetterS. All ages. Bred in the Purple, Registered Stock and either by a Field Trial Winner or a Champion.
 HUGH SEALS
 2O9 North 18th Street
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12

Ads illustrated with good cuts arc trade winners-The GawK makes good cuts
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-04
WAR ON JACK RABBITS.
Southern California Farmers Planning
Big Drive.

Southern California Farmers Planning
Big Drive.
A great rabbit drive on Oct. is
being arranged by the farmers and
ranches of Delano, CAL, in Kern coun-
ty, and it is expected that anywhere
from $4,000 to 100000 of the long
cared pests will be slain.
The drive will be made big holiday
occasion. There will be barbecue,
with all sorts of merrymaking. A
great Enclosure will be prepared, and
the hunters will spread out SO as to
form a line across the country for
ten miles or more, and the animals
will be forced to head into the trap,
where they will be slaughtered. They
will then be skinned and shipped to
San Francisco and Los Angeles mar
kets, where they bring a few cents
apiece.
There are hundreds of thousands of
jack rabbits in Kern county, and crops
have suffered heavily from them. Eff
forts to establish vineyards this year
failed because of their depredations.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-04


The trouble for them. The wings ara
all right until wind comes up. A
bird will make its wings smaller, offer
ing less resistance in a high wind. The
wings on the airships cannot be re-
duced that way.
''Most of the machines with which
we are familiar do best when there is
little or no air. A heavy wind will not
bother us at all. We can always go
up when the others would not dare to.
All the models with which we have
experimental have behaved beautifully,
and l have no doubt the machine will
do the same. I think we have solved
the problem and that we will be able
to construct machines at reasonable
cost that will carry two and three pas
sengers."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-04
SCOTS
Emulsion

of Cod Liver Oil with Hypo-
phosphites should always be
kept in the house for the
following reasons:
First Because, if any member
of the family has a hard cold,
it will cure it.
Second Because, if the chill
dren are delicate and Sickly, if
will make them strong andwell.
Third Because, if the father
or mother is losing flesh and
becoming thin and emaciated,
it will build them up and give
them flesh and strength.
Fourth Because it is the
standard remedy in all throat
and lung affections.
No household should be with
out it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-04
ORIGIN of Cemeteries.

In ancient times burials were always
outside the walls of a city or town.
Indeed, before the time of Christianity
it was not lawful to bury the dead
within the limits About the end of
the sixth century st. Augustine obtain
ed of King Ethelbert temple of idols
used by the king before his CONVEX
sion-and made a burying place of it,,
and st. Cuthbert afterward obtained
leave of the pope "a. D. 752) to have
yards made to the churches suitable
for the burial of the dead.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-04
In Africa.


A shadow clouds the endless sky
In Africa.
The jungle echoes with a sigh -
In Africa.
The poor, benighted Hottentot
No longer roams the sandy plot,
But lurketh in his bamboo cot
In Africa.
The lion skulks with trembling tread
In Africa.
The tiger wishes he were dead
In Africa,
And, chattering. with grinning faces,
From bough to bough in each oasis,
The monks no longer run the bases
In Africa.
Loud walls the hippopotamus
IN Africa,
''Oh, why did they discover us
In Africa ?"
The pallid boa constructor skips
Unto the gum trees tallest tips
And Kisses through his whitened lips
In Africa.
Within the deep depths of the Nile
In Africa
A pang assails the crocodile
In Africa.
No more he sunneth on the sand.
Unterrif1ed, blase and bland,
A-snapping flies to beat the band
In Africa.
What means, you ask. this boding hush
In Africa?
This ducking to the uncut bush
In Africa?
Quite soon upon that blighted shore,
Toting his faithful ''forty-four,''
lambeth the good King Theodore
In Africa.
L..
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-04
A Fine Dodqer.

Carols grandfather had served in
the war, and Carol liked to hear of the
many battles in which he had fought.
One day after listening to the vivid re-
cital of many heroic deeds Carol said:
"Grandfather, you went through all
those battles"
Eyes"
"And the shot and shell fell all
around your
eyes"
"And soldiers were falling and dying
everywhere"
Eyes"
"Well, grandfather. what fine
dodger you must have been!-Delinea-
tor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-04
Sharpening q Pocketknife.

Cutters have certain rules for sharp
ening razors, pocketknives, etc. "A
razor" said one of the craft, "must
be laid fat on the hone, because it is
hollow ground and requires a fine
edge. But pOcketknife requires a
stiff edge. and the moment you lay il
fiat on stone, so as to touch the pol
ished side, you injure the edge. II
must be held at an angle of twenty to
twenty-five degrees and have an edge
similar to q chisel"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-04
TO TEACH POSTAL WISDOM.
School Children to Learn How TO Mail
Letters and Study Postal Laws.

School Children to Learn How TO Mail
Letters and Study Postal Laws.
Postmaster General Meyer issued an
order the other day directing all post
masters to unite with their local school
authorities with the view of adopting
the most effective method of instruct
ing school children as to the organiza-
ton and operations of the postal serv-
Ice, particularly the proper address
ing of letters and the Importance Of
placing return cards on envelopes.
Postmasters are also directed to ar
range if possible to deliver personal
talks to the pupils and give teachers
access to the Postal Guide and the
postal laws and render them every as
sistance in securing necessary infor-
nation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-04
LEGAL NOTICES
Summons.
Circuit Court, Grant county.
Nellie Smith. Plaintiff,

Circuit Court, Grant county
Nellie Smith. Plaintiff.
VS..
Gilbert Smith, Defendant
THE STATE OF WISCONSIN: To the said
defendant:
You are hereby summoned to appear With
in twenty days after service OF this sum-
mons, exclusive of the day of service. and
defend the above entitled action in the court
aforesaid: and in case of your failure so to
do, Judgment will be rendered against you
according to the demand of the complaint.
Geo. B. Clementson. plaintiffs attorney.
2. O. Lancaster, Grant county. Wis. 79w6
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-04
The Little Ones

1t was bright and very original lit
tie boy named Barber, who, upon hear
ing his father speak of 'their neighbor,
Mr.. Wood and his children, the little
splinters," and of another neigkbor,
''Mr. Stone and the little pebbles" re-
marked: Il suppose if they met papa
they would say: Good morning, Mr..
Barber. How are all the little shaw
erS go
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-04
Quite Likely.

ct didn't see you at our euchre the
other night" said the bachelor.
''No," replied the young Benedict, "as
far as euchre goes with me now, con-
slider home the right bower"
'"That's all right while hearts are
trump, but l suppose if clubs should
turn up it would be the left bower."-
Philadelphia Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-04
Anticipation Worse Than Realization

Men are so unanimously eager in the
pursuit of things which, far from hav-
ing any inherent real good, are var
nished over with specious and de-
ceitful gloss, and contain nothing an
swerable to their appearances. Hence,
it proceeds, on the other hand, that
in those things which are called evils
there is nothing SO hard and terrible
as the general cry of the world threat
ens.-Lord Bolingbroke.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-04
Forestry In China.

Chinas first school of forestry will
soon be opened at Mukden. The Chi
nese empire has been pointed out as
the worst example among modern ma
lions of forest destruction.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-04
UNION OF BALL PLAYERS.
Samuel Gompers Sees No Objection te
Their Organizing. 49,;

Samuel Gompers Sees No Objection te
Their Organizing. ti
Ball players of he future may: form
a part of the American Federation Of
Labor. President Samuel Gompers APP.
proves it, seeing no reason why, like
other labor, it should not organize and
tote union cards and work on a union
schedule. go
President GOmpers saw the Browns
wallop the Tigers at st. Louis the
other afternoon. While he has new
er gained particular note as an en-
thusiastic fan, he is interested in the
national game. After returning from
the game Gompers was asked as to the
possibility of organizing baseball play
erS into a union.
81 can see no reason why they
should not organize if they wish to-"
he said. Baseball playing has be-
come skilled profession, and the
thousands who assembled to see the
game in which the Browns won the
victory prove it has become a utility.
AS skill is required to play the game,
see no objection to those of the craft
joining for mutual advantage.
If the ball players decide to form a
union the fans may be furnished the
delightful spectacle of strike" diff
ferent from those common in baseball
parks; also there may be "walkouts"
when some south paw shows up for
work without a card. The question Of
the future for applicants on major
league teams may be ''Do you belong
to the union?" rather than "What is
your batting averageY
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-04
His ADVANTAGE.

''You can't spell long words like hip
popotamus and parallelogram," said
the little boy who wore spectacles and
a sailor suit.
''Well." answered the boy who was
leading dog by piece of rope, "dar's
where I'm lucky. | don't have to-"