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None That l Love
More Than Myself.

Appropriately enough, these badges
were of a yellow. color. The sentiment
is an expression Of raw selfishness It
Is a worse selfishness than that of the
legendary old party who prayed:
o Lord, bless me and my wife,
My son John and his wife
Us four and no more.
Who loves no one better than HIM
self loves mighty selfish individual and
lives in very small circle. s'Single bles-
sedness' affords but a narrow range.
The confirmed bachelor lives an alb
normal life.
Marriage is more than natures plan
for the propagation of the species. 1t
affords a wider growth, wider expert
ences. wider happiness.
The obstinate bachelor says:
Look at the divorce courts. Marriage
is a failure" Or, Marriage is a lot
terry. I cannot afford to take the risk"
Marriage is not a failure and he who
says so might as well point to the hos
pitfalls and declare human life failure
as to point to the divorce courts for
proof of his assertion.
Nor is marriage a lottery If entered
into with discretion. Hasty marriages
may lead to bad mating. Such marriages
are mere experiments. The failure of
such mating is the exception to the rule
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27
"Enterino journalism

A Young man asks the writer to state
what is necessary by way of preparation
to center daily Journalism.
Everything is necessary.
Daily newspaper work, on the editorial
side, Is the most exacting business on
earth.
First, the beginner must have strong
body He should have a reservoir OF
vitality to withstand the killing strain OF
intense labors concentrated into short
compass of time.
Next he must have that sixth sense
known as the nose for news. 1t is
difficult to describe the faculty, usually
born in the bone. 1t is the ability
which sees "a story where others
would stumble over 1t.
TIL se are fundamentals. Add the
scent and bulldog tenacity to follow a
lead, accurate judgment, ability to
make and hold friends, patience, pofse,
initiative, industry, loyalty to orders
What? you say. How about the abil-
ity to write? Any school graduate can
write. OF course 1t Is necessary to be
able to write strong, clear, simple Eng
fish.
Mind you, all this will simply put
your foot on the lowest rung of the
ladder as a "cub reporter" You can
only climb through experience and
trials under daily difficulties.
That is why veteran, warns the un-
knowing.
Young man, don't ENTER journalism
unless
You were predestined from all eter-
nifty to be a newspaper man, or
Unless you know you will never be
happy outside a newspaper office, or
Unless the stern duties are like
bugle call Of challenge to your best
endeavor.
daily newspaper-if you would climb
can stand. And the pay is not in pro-
portion. The discipline is almost as
severe as that of the military service.
And there is no mercy for those who
fail.
But
If the odor of pinter's ink is incense
to your nostrils, If you feel it is in
your power to make good, If the strong
soul of you rises to the call, why,
then
In the name of Benjamin Franklin
pitch in.
You will get your chance, never fear.
pull cannot promote some less able fell
low above you. You stand on your own
bottom Merit will win. The business
is looking for you. 1t is up to you. And
you can compel the fates to give you
your inning.
And there are compensations and salts
factions. The fascination of the business
is beyond that of any other.
But, by the price of your eternal sal
walton, do not misunderstood the require
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The Power of the VIII.

Orison SWEET Marden, in Success Mag
azine
A person who shrinks from the prick
of pin, and who, under ordinary cir
cumstances, cannot endure without an
anesth etic the extraction of a tooth
or the cutting of flesh even at a trivial
operation can. when mangled in an ac-
cident. far from civilization, stand tho
amputation of a limb without as much
fear and terror as he might suffer at
home from the lancing of fleon.
| have seen a dozen strong men go
to their death in a fire without the
slightest sign of fear. There is some
thing in the Great Within of us that
braces us up in a catastrophe and
makes us equal to an emergency
whatever 1t is. This something is the
God in us. These brave firemen did
not shrink even when they saw every
means of escape cut off The last rope
had been thrown to them, the last lad
der had burned and they were still in
a tower 100 feet owe a blazing roof
Yet they showed no sign of fear OF
cowardice when the tower sank into
the seething caldron of flame.
When in Deadwood, In the Black
Hills of Dakota the author was told
that in the early days there, before
telephone railroad or telegraph com
munication had been established the
people were obliged to send a hundred
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27
Anthony Comstock.

A strange man, strong man, a man OF
heroic mold, is Anthony Comstock of
New York.
Whatever may be said of his methods,
the sincerity of the man and his fidelity
to his mission cannot be contradicted.
At tremendous personal cost he has de-
voted his life to the suppression of VIC
ious literature.
Comstock began his career in 1873. The
business of painting and distributing OBJ
scene books and pictures at that time
was highly organized and flourishing. In
a single campaign in New York he seized
and destroyed the plates of 1863 vile books
and pictures
The vendors of moral cancer then began
their work of Misrepresentation and
Islander of Comstock They have persist
ed ever since in their abuse and ridicule.
They resorted to personal violence.
But Comstock has never fiinched.
Once he got a score of the sellers of
filthy stuff in Ludlow Street jail. Inf1uen-
tial friends offered brides. Failing in this
they caused smallpox scabs to be sent
through the mails to his home. AT this
time he narrowly escaped being blown up
by an Internal machine.
One night at Newark man whom he
had in custody drew a knife at the Jail
door and severed five arteries in Com
stocks face.
AT one time he was assaulted and beat
en- into insensibility. On several occasions
hired assassins have tried to kill him on
the street or at his office.
For years this stanch cleanser of So
cety's sewage has refused to speak of
himself or his work. Not long ago he
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which is proved by millions of happy
homes.
To be sure the bachelor may have real
excuses.
Possibly the right party has not yet
appeared on the horizon of his hopes,
though she may live only next door. Or
he may have dependent relatives and
cannot afford matrimony. Or there may
be a lack of health.
But
The healthy, foot loose celibate goes
too far when he glories in his bachelor
hood and confesses that he loves him
self too well to marry He puts him.
self down as no account member of
the human race.
None that 1 love more than myself"
Isn't that the limit?
That sort of bachelor is a bad COM
bination of gross selfishness and Grass
cowardice.
Selah
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27
HEART TO HEART TALKS
BY EDWIN A. NYE
Copyright 1908, by Edwin A. Nye.

frugality as sacrifice. 1t is rated as a
joy
Compare the f1lial solicitude of these
strong -muscled, deep-chested, rosy-faced
girls of the kitchen with the ungrateful,
even heartless, conduct of some native
born girls.
Sometimes one almost is tempted to
suspect there is something about demo-
cratic institutions that breeds Instruction
under the rooftree
Certain 1t is that the tendency of the
times as to the family is changing. The
old-time discipline, the respect for pa
rental authority, the old-time reverence
and ready obedience of children are giving
way.
Possibly it is logical reaction.
Possibly the stern custom of a former
generation was too severe. Possibly.
Certainly there is a deplorable loosening
of discipline, a disposition to push the pa
rents into a corner, to disregard author
ity-even to sheer at parental advice and
direction.
Is it not so?
Who that reads the newspapers Is not
often shocked at the recital of many cases
of base ingratitude on the part of chill
dren, and worse-instances of abandon
ment and abuse of parents?
In fact, the easy way in which family
Ties are ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ulNOrce-l8
quite appalling.
This is not vapid pessimism.
1t is Gods truth
And 1t Is serious, because whatever
strikes at the family strikes at the very
vitals of our society.
Katy and Hilda and Lena-bless their
tender hearts-who come over the ocean to
serve prosperous people, do not cease
to love and obey the old folks at home.
en-almost any of them-are competent to
teach the first principles of f1lial devotion
to Muriel and Agatha and Genevieve of
the front parlor.
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miles for a physician. For this reason
the services of a physician were be-
yond the reach of those of moderate
means. The result was that people
learned to depend upon themselves to
such an extent that 1t was only on ex-
tremely rare occasions, usually in case
of severe accident or some emergency
that physician was sent for. Some
of the largest families of children in
the place had been reared without a
physician ever coming into the house.
When / asked some of these people il
they were ever sick they replied. No
we are never sick, simply because we
are obliged to keep well. We cannot
afford to have physician; and even If
we could it would take so long to get
him here that the sick one might be
dead before he arrived"
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Stephen Rossga to Marcinna Rossga,
consideration 81, love and affection, prop
erty 422 West Superior street.
Behind the foregoing real estate trans
fer, printed in a Chicago newspaper, is
fine story of frugality.
Before he died Stephen Rossga decided
the fiat building which he owned to his
wife. The children, who are of the right
sort, indorsed the fathers transfer. One
of them said
Mother worked hard to help father
earn the property, to raise the children
and send us to school, and she deserves
the property as long as she lives
This is the story:
Twenty-Five years ago Rossga and wife
came to Chicago from the old country.
They wanted to bring up their children
10 were born to them-and earn home
in a free land. Rossga began working
on railroad at $1.75 per day. but did
not get steady work. Never in his life
did the man make over SIS per month,
and that only for a short time.
But the couple saved money.
Inside of five years time they bought
a lot which cost $110O, making payment
down. In another five years they had paid
for the lot and were able to start the
building. 1t required 10 years to pay for
the fiat, a three-story brick building, with
six suits of four rooms each, costing
$1,000.
OF course when the building was COM
pleted the thrifty people had a home of
their own, and the rentals brought in an
income enabling them to pay out. And
that was fortunate, for shortly after tie
Rossgas moved into their property the
husband was badly injured in the leg
and was unable to work until he died.
A commonplace story of sordid details
1t is not commonplace, because it Is
made beautiful by courage and faithful
ness and sacrifice.
Mind you, every foundation stone, every
stick of timber, every brick, every hod
of mortar, stands for the frugal living
and the weary toll and the high devo-
ton of these struggling foreigners.
Why retel the homely tale?
Because this generation needs the
lesson.
Most Americans with family of 10
children and the wages of a day laborer
would scott at the prospect of owning a
$4,000 building, even at the end of So
years.
But it can be, has been, done.
What has been done may be done again.
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gave his first interview. Speaking of
the desperate encounters of his career,
Mr. Comstock said:
"Shed blood, broken bones, assaults,
ridicule, obloquy and libel have been
my portion. l am content. In
"a years | have made more than 1851 ar
rests and seized more than SO tons of vile
literature and pictures"
Which reminds me of st. Paul's recital
Of his life's perils and the triumphant
utterance over his past career
Anthony Comstock may have made
mistakes. At times he many have been
ir'ir@eeot or finical His conscience is
the Puritan conscience. He cannot abide
even the appearance of evil. And his
zeal is apostolic.
But
One cannot read the history OF his
grim persistence in well doing, his pa
tient, almost pathetic bravery, and with
hold respect for the man and his accom-
plishments.
He has risked his life hundred times
to protect society and especially the
young from the corruption of vile print
and picture. - |
He is the stuff of which martyrs are
made.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27
The Red Blood of Compassion.


The wanted columns of the Chicago
Tribune few days ago contained this
advertisement:
Unless some kind hearted person comes
to my rescue with $500, which I will re-
pay in five dollar weekly installments, l
will kill myself.
Here was a tragic plight-death versus
$500.
Who in the hour Of such extremity
would think to send an appeal to the
callous public?
Who could hope to find friendly hand
grasp out of the darkness that shrouds an
obscure tragedy?
But the man was hard driven by fate.
And this is his story:
2 He Is an Italian CRY salesman. Like
the man who went down to Jericho,
he fell among thieves. Some one stole
1888 belonging to his firm from his pocket
He was afraid to report the loss less
he might lose his job He borrowed the
money of loan sharks and paid robher
rates for interest until the sum grew
to be $500
The poor salesman had family of
eight children-in graduated sizes from
one year up-and he was desperate.
Had his pathetic plea failed
But scarcely had the ad. appeared
so gracious is our humanIty-when two
Chicago business men called up the news
paper and offered to loan the money. The
employer also read the ad., which was
anonymous and suspected the mans iden-
tity. He called up the newspaper Of
flee
Thereupon meeting was held, the
salesman, his employer and the Two
business men being present. The en-
ployer praised the man as thoroughly
nj nd 1,
would gladly continue his services. The
Italian tearfully and joyfu1ly signed
the notes agreeing to pay back the loan
from the business men in weekly in
stallments.
There was joy in the Italian house
hold when the father returned "Savedl
Saved! I am savedl" shouted the man.
coming into the crowded little apart
ment. II will not be sent to prison.
Tomorrow I will go to work"
Saved!
Whether is it better to save man
than to drive him to suicide or to pris-
on to save a whole family from
ruin than to destroy it?
The daily newspapers contain many
wretched details of things sordid and
unlovely 1t is worth while to print
deed like this one, which so shines
in naughty world
1t proves that the heart of humanity
is still soft to the cry of distress-the
red blood of compassion yet curses in
the veins of men.
Kitchen to the Parlor.
Katy and Hilda and Lena work in
your kitchen and In the kitchens of
your neighbors
Inquire of the postmaster of your
town how much money these girls and
other housemaids send in the course of
year to their relatives across the
water.
1t will be a large amount.
1t goes by registered letter to the old
country to bring father or mother or
sister or brother to this country TO
pay doctor or burial bills or buy COM
forts for the folks over there.
The girls save this money religiously.
And they do not regard their enforced
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27
The Bad Bachelor,

Some bachelors appear anxious to offer
excuses for their bleak and barren ex-
istenee. They deplore their lost estate.
Others. it seems, glory on their bach
elorhood. They are bachelors by NAL
ice prepense
OF this latter are those who partici-
pated in bachelors parade recently
in Chicago. They wore badges thus:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27
.IcoRpIS VITAL
III RESTORATIVE

Restores Mems vitality.
Price 81. At all druggists. Always ON
hand at Collier Drug Co., 100 North
20th street. Mall orders solicited
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27
The Winnings of FruqaIity.

ments. Being an editor is no matter
of capricious selection.
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Kitchen to the ParIor.


and other drug habits are positively. cured by
HABITINA For hypodermic internal use.
sample sent to any drug habitue by Froo
mall Regular price S2.oo per bottle at -
bette Oh . mical Coz St. Louis ma
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27

Consign your horses and
mules to Fies & Sons big auc-
ton sale, Tuesday, Sept. Goth.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-22
WEARS BOYS CLOTHES;
PRETTY VIOLA CHAMPION
WOULD BE AN ACTRESS
Fourteen-Year-Old Girl Is Arrested
While MasqueradIna In Male
Attire-Has Yearning
for Footlights

Pretty little Viola Champion, Ia
years of age, who was arrested
Wednesday night while dressed in
boys clothing, wants to be an actress.
Viola lived at 524 West Eighth street.
but is now in the detention home.
awaiting word from her mother or
relatives.
The girl, who is said to have an
intense yearning for the footlights,
evidently thought that If really and
truly actresses could don boys clothes
and parade before an audience she
could do the same in a vacant lot,
but instead of applause the little COM
edy was turned into a tragedy and in
walked big policeman and seeing the
girlish boy with openwork black hose
| frollicking about decided it was time
for him to make an arrest. And so
| the curtain was rung down on the
| second scene of the comedy that has
turned into a tragedy and the heroine
now languishes in detention home.
Peculiar circumstances appear to be
connected with the life of Viola.
The neighbors say that the girl is
| bright and intelligent. They say the
apparel worn by the girl when ar
rested was only in accord with her
theatrical aspirations.
The neighbors say the child was left
alone with three men in the fiat and
| that she was allowed to run on the
streets. 1t is said the mother went to
| San Francisco a week ago.
The neighbors also say that the girl
| has an excellent voice for a child of
her age and is pretty and progresses
| ing
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-22

months subscriptions, ten counting for
a club, the same as five for one year.
Nothing under a six months subscrip-
tion will count on this offer.
The Herald has slips which are for
the direct purpose of turning in. these
clubs. and any contestant who has not
already received one may have one
or more by notifying the contest man.
ager at The Herald office.
This offer is made only on new sub
scriptions, and old subscribers must not
be put upon the list for the clubs of
10000 votes.
If there is any contestant who has
not as yet received receipt books, we
would only be too glad to forward
same to them by return mail. These
blanks are of great assistance to the
contest workers and their friends, who
are helping them, and may be had for
the asking.
The votes are counted each evening
at o'clock, so if your votes are put
in the ballot box after that time do
not expect them to appear in the fol-
lowing mornings paper. They will not
appear until the morning after
A Coupon in Each Issue
Besides the votes allowed on sub
scriptions. there is coupon published
in each issue of The Herald, which.
When cut our, the HdHle Hlleu III anu
brought in or mailed to the contest
department of The Herald, will count
for as many votes for the contestant
as the coupon calls for.
These coupons must be polled before
the expiration of the date printed on
each ballot, and may be used for plac-
ing candidates in nomination in this
contest.
Mrs. Lilly Mcclellan, the popular
school teacher at Sawtelle, has made 4
most excellent showing for the length
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-22
NEW INTERPRETATIONS

Orange Home Improvement associa-
ton. Capital stock 100000. Amount
subscribed $500. Directors, five: S. w
Champion. Alhambra; Archie Smith
San Gabriel; w. H. Wallace. Alham-
bra; II. S. White, San Gabriel, and w
M. Northrup. Alhambra.
American Dye works. Capital stock
$4,000 Five directors: j. c. Palen
Los Angeles; o. F. Hershey, Los An
geles; H. e. Betz, Los Angeles; A. E
Norris, Los Angeles; e. F. Nair, Los
Angeles
Amended Art Of Incorporation of the
Development company of Los Angeles
Capital stock $4,000. Subscribed $500
Five directors. They are Fred Bar
man. Los Angeles; John A. Pirtle, Los
Angeles; Max Goldschmidt, Los An
geles; Warren Gillelen, Los Angeles
s. M Newmarx. Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-22
FEDERAL JUDGE SUSTAINS
COMMISSIONERS ORDER

Judge Olin Wellborn of the federal
court yesterday sustained the order of
United States Commissioner William
Van Dyke for the deportation Of Quong
Woy. The attorney for Quong had APP
pealed the case. Although Judge John
J. Gray of the superior court at Oro-
vile, where Quong claims he was born,
and numerous other white merchants
of that place testified on his behalf, the
evidence was unsatisfactory. 1t ap-
peared from the testimony the woman
whom Quong claimed as his mother
must have been IL years old when he
was born.
Quong's bond was raised from $500
to $500. His case may be appealed to
q higher court.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-22
GET INTO THE LEAD

zone of The Herads special
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these, it might have been"
Thus spake the poet in days gone by;
He meant, make hay while the sun is high"
In contest times when the game grows warm,
The ones whose fate cannot meet with harm
Are those who strike while the iron is hot,
The ones who fail are those who do not.
THIS is the time when the game is hot
This is the time to hit the high spot,
This is the time of the greatest need,
Make up some clubs and get in the lead
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of time that she has been a participant
in the contest. Although entering the
contest some time after the start, she
has improved her opportunity and gives
every evidence of occupying a place of
honor before the final day. We are
sure that her scholars and friends airs
interested and will see that she is a
sure winner.
In The Herald's $4,000 contest three
popular contestants are presented, Mrs.
Lilly Mcclellan of Sawtelle, Miss Cleo
Brown, resident of Ingelwood, and
Miss Mabel Cane of Santa Monica.
Miss Cleo Brown of Inglewood has
demonstrated the fact that the ladies
in the smaller towns have as much
chance of winning the contest as those
in the large places. Though a very
hard student at school, she has man
aged to find sufficient time to interest
her friends in her success. She now
occupies third place in her district,
nd is bending every energy to be a
fder by June 20.
s-iss Mabel Cane, whose picture APP
Is in today's paper, is making re-
liable progress in the contest She
pnd in her district today, having
&fgEl from the ranks" to that post
EW Mss Mabel is the daughter of
~ II g, the well known pastor of
re nen,.idan church. Her host of
lars In the proven their interest In
3guarantee Thy their hearty co-opera-
allowed on all subscrip-