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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
OFFICIALLY DIED TO REFORM.
Hungry Joe" Pursued Only Course
 Open to Him-Respectable Now.

New York letter to the Cincinnati Times
 Star.
 I'm not the only man who is officially dead said Hungry Joe the other day. He was once about as famous a conh- dence man as Broadway ever produced In 1902 he was reported to the police az dead and his photograph and descrip- ton was removed from the rogues gal lery. He was recognized on Broadway the other day by his habit of walking along the edge of the cub. Gold couldn't tempt him to walk close to the wall. or to pass the mouth of an alley without detouring into the street. Just a trick of caution inherited from the old days.
 T have reformed" said the man who is said to have once been known as Hun gry Joe" But reformation doesn't go with the average calf-headed imbecile on the police force. A crooks a crook to the end of the chapter with him. So when made up my mind to live straight, went to the then head of the depaft- | ment. l convinced him that 1 meant business. Call off your men, I begged. Tell them to let me alone. I'm a crim- nal, I admit; but I'm tired of it, and I want to be man again
 "The chief said 1t wasn't possible I might tell the men You were reformed, , said he, but they wouldn't believe. They would pick you up all the quicker be- cause they would think that you were trying to shelter yourself In this way. The only way out Is for you to die.' And die I did-on the records. For six years the cops have thought I have been under the daisies all the time. Now they have forgotten about me; my photo has been taken out of the records and I think am safe. I work steadily. My record is good, and not half a dozen people in the world know that the one-time Hun gry Joe is respectable cigar salesman. But l had to die to do it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
A Good Reason.

From Everybody's Magazine.
 The wagons of the greatest show on earth passed up the avenue at daybreak Their ineessant rumbling soon awakened 10-year-old Billie and his 5-year-old brother Robert. Their mother feigned sleep as the two white-robed figures crept past her bed into the hall, on the way to investigate. Robert struggled manfully with the unaccustomed task of putting on his clothes. Wait for me- Billie," his mother heard him beg. You'll get ahead of me-"
 Get mother to help you counseled Billie, who was having troubles of his own.
 Mother started to the rescue. and then paused as she heard the voice of her younger, guarded but anxious and in- sistent:
 You ask her, Billie. You've known her longer than I have"
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 seems leagued; to have helped her, to have spoken words of hope and sympa- thy.
 But instead
 He sent her weeping and wringing her hands to prison. Instead of helping her he fined her five times the usual sum of blood money. And when her tears are dried
 When she thinks of the hard words of the unjust judge, her heart will harden and she may follow his advice and go over the verge. more sinned against than shining.
 Man, whoever you are
 Be careful lest you help to thrust some weak and suffering sister down into the depths where there is no hope or rescue.
 And as for this naughty judge, so is enternal justice that
 In the day of the great assize it may be more tolerable for the poor Chicago woman than for him who cruelty con- demned her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
Birmingham Proof.

Daniel Pardue. 44l5 So. Second avenue, Birmingham, Ala, says: "I have just as much faith in Doan's Kidney Pills today as when I recommended them over a year ago They are a most reliable kid ney remedy in fact. the only one know of that is a sure cure for kidney disease
 1 suffered from this complaint, the first symptom being q pain in my back and loins Having Doans Kidney Pills brought to my attention I procured box at E. B. Norton's drug store. and had only taken them a short time when | could see that l was being helped By the time that had used the contents of two boxes I was free of kidney trouble and felt better than I had before In years Doan's Kidney Pills proved of benefit to me after all other remedies tried had failed and for that reason l will never tire of praising them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
Your Husband. Mada m,

Says writer who has travelled much:
 t'The American husband is the best husband in the world"
 Which Is true, as every one who Is well informed knows.
 There are exceptions, of course. But, all in all, your husband is type of the best husband extant.
 As breadwinner protector generous in motive and stanch in character, the American husband is to his wife and family "as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.'
 Is he fully appreciated?
 Advice to husbands is common enough. And the plaint of "unappreciated wives is exploited by many writers. What of unapprecia ted husbands?
 Some wives are so wholly swallowed up by their own grievances they can find no sympathy for a husband. They sigh over their 'humdrum lot"
 And some wives do not know, do not realize It would be well if every girl before she marries could earn her bread. There would fewer complaining women. Where the wife knows what it costs to get living she will better appreciate the man who gets it for her
 Dear Mrs. -.
 I am not unmindful of your traits as mother and housekeeper. But
 If your husband is honest, industrious clean minded. if he does his best, you have the greatest gift the gods can give.
 The good husband gives himself with out stint-and freely. When the family bills are paid he has little to spend for himself. If the wife and kids are grateful and kind he does not mind the labor or the sacrifice.
 But
 When he has done his utmost, If he goes without appreciation, if there is in- gratitude-if worse than all, there Is the reproachful hint that he might have done better-then God pity that husband.
 Your man, my dear woman, has the same soul stuff in him that is in you. He may bigger, stronger physically, but his feelings are just as keen as yours
 Now
 He finds it an easy task to do and dare for those he loves-as you do. But if he misses their appreciation-like you he misses all that life holds for him.
 Madam M
 If you have in your husband a pure and manly spirit who makes himself a shield against 'the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" bend your soul in thankfulness to God-and your hus- band
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
Like Father, Like Son.

Young Beach Hargis of Kentucky a few months ago shot and instantly killed his father.
 Monstrous!
 But wait
 Behind the bald facts of the shooting are some things that throw different light on the dark shadows of the pitiful tragedy.
 The plans for the defense in the trial of the young man show some hideous disclosures in the early years of Har- gis' life.
 When he was but a child his father often made him drunk with whisky. He did so for his diversion, laughing at the maudlin antics of the boy Not content to be entertained alone by his child 8 debauchery, he invited in the neighbors to enjoy the vaudeville.
 Is it any wonder the boy grew up a drunkard?
 Or that, seduced by his father from decency, he should be without natural affection?
 At the early age of IA Beach Hargis was besotted young savage. His prime ambition was to shoot some enemy from behind. a hedge or engage in the feud wars of the countryside
 From infancy Hargis taught his son the expert use of firearms. thus pointing a gun at his own breast
 Later says the boy his father devel- oped strong hatred toward him. Time and again, without excuse, he beat the boy into insensibility
 Put yourself in the place of the son, with his rearing and surroundings.
 He was little more than young ani- nal, without conscience or mercy or regard for human life. Debauched and coarsened by drink, he had no feeling of filial affection. His father seemed his worst enemy. There was a drunken quarrel. Hargis swore he would kill the boy this time. What more natural than that the ruffianly youth should shoot to kill?
 The. father had fashioned the tool of his own destruction.
 And the boy was what his father made him.
 The teaching of this tale O. horror is plain
 You will reap what you SOW. and more than you SOW The law of compensation holds Suffering necessarily follows sin.
 And your boy will be what you make him.
 Now he is putty in your hands Soft putty takes impressions You can mold your boy into good or evil shape. By and by the putty will harden. It Is then too late to mold it.
 If you SOW in that boyish heart evil thoughts, hatred, recklessness, disre- gard of your fatherhood. why
 Your boy will kill you.
 Oh no: not with a gun perhaps. but there is more than one way to kill a father. It may be by a slower process, less -merciful than gunshot but he will kill you just the same.
 Are you bringing up a parricide?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
Who Can Foretell?
? Bohemian Magazine.

From the Bohemian Magazine.
 And who can foretell what fashions for women are yet to come? At present the tendency is toward as few garments as possible (although this does not in any way diminish the cost of woman's CO.'S tumes) The lingerie waist has become a mere cobweb; skirts grow more abbre- viated every day. There is said to be a new silk underskirt which will admit of being drawn through finger ring. Hos iery Is thinnest lace, and ladies shoes are pumps of such narrow margin as to scarce conceal their rosy toes. The old est inhabitants do say the climate is changing. and that we never have such cold winters as We used to--50 years ago. Are these things to be taken in conjunc- ton, and are women gradually evolving toward that form of dress which ob- talned in pristine Eden?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
Captain eridley,s Mother.


 You may fire when ready Gridley,'
 The laeonic command of Admiral Dew ey to Captain Gridley of the flagship Olympia in Manila harbor will long live in the annals of the American navy. rich as 1t is in historic utterance
 Gridley gave the word to the gun crews that sank the Spanish flagship and made junk of the fleet of Spain A month afterward the brave Gridley paid the forfeit of that days work with his life.
 Every schoolboy knows about Gridley and the one-sided battle of Manila bay
 Few of us have known about the mother of the Olympia's commander no less an American heroine than was her son hero
 At the age of S3 Mrs. Ana Gridley serves her government, earning her bread by putting the red seal on all official let ters that go out of her department Some days she will affix as many as 400 seals. Hers has been a career mingled with sorrow and heroism.
 Fifty years ago she lived in a Mchi- gan town. Her eldest son-the future captain-wanted to go 10 Annapolis. The mother was loath to see him go. With her it was the terrible struggle 'twixt love and duty" She was patriotic and lent her boy to the country. Three years after the civil war broke out.
 The call came for army nurses.
 At home Mrs Grdley had an invalid husband and two small children. Again came the struggle between love and duty She went to the front as nurse. Thousands of wounded soldiers-Con- federate as well Federal-learned to love this woman with the motherly face who gave them cheer and hope
 While she was in the field an epidemic took away her husband and two children leaving to her only the son.
 Again the clouds of war broke The battle of Manila was fought. There Was no prouder woman than Mrs Gridley. few weeks later her only son was buried with honors
 And now the old mother recolleets that. though her boy was i'll that fateful day of the battle, he stuck to his post And so she sticks no less bravely to her task. having nothing now but her memo ries and her daily task. "People feel sorry for me, she said recently. 'beeause | still work for a lV- ing. but I love to work Smiling, she said: When l asked the chiet TOT my vacation. he said: Mother Gridley doh | stay long It takes four people to oV your work when you are gone ana they get things mixed up.
 How much less than brave man eould Caufain Gridley have been with such a mother2
 In Europe the mother of such noted captain would be given pension TOT life
 Gridley's mother asks no pension. she asks only the chance to work for the gov ernment to which she has given her all a chance to work at s.
 The formula seldom fails:
 Behind the man look for the mother
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
"coffn Nails"

Cigarettes-erime.
 The one is the accomplice of the other. saws Inspector McCafferty of New YorK headauarters detective bureau
 s'Fullv S5 per cent of the people we arrest.' he says, "are cigarette nehos' I've noticed this for years It Is so no" that we expect to find nicotine slalhs upon the fingers of every one we arrest There is a pretty close connectlon oe tween crime and cigarettes.
 Carbohydrates
 Harry Thaw the degenerate who sho' Stanford White, is a confirmed cigarette smoker
 Thaw sat at a table Madison Square Garden just before the murder, breeding and smoking cigarette after cigarette. His first request behind the prison bars was for cigarettes.
 His nervous system is wrecked by the papers.
 Captain Hains who shot Annis few weeks ago, has for years been slave to cigarette smoking. In describing the man. following his arrest, a reporter says:
 His complexion is yellow, his eyes amber-hued and sunken, his lips puned and cracked and his fingers blotched with the nicotine stains that betray the mend SmOR6r. f1t lS cAliShiciS NSA 'oN-~ and irritable"
 Now
 The statements of the close connection between cigarettes and crime are not taken from any tract of an anti-tooaceo society. They are not the statements or a crank reformer.
 The testimony is from police officers physicians, newspaper reporters-men who know.
 Therefore. young man. the advice comes seriously: Gut out the cigar ettes!"
 The habit may not lead you directly to commit a crime. But it will put you in frame of mind to do it. You VIII lose control of your nerves. When you can no longer bride that part of you you are liable to do desperate things should occasion arise.
 Cut out the cigarettes.
 The insidous feature of the habit is that it grows by what it feeds upon. You can quit the habit But if you Keep it up it will grow and grow and grow. IL will become monster of demands.
 If you must smoke. use pipe or cigar.
 You would be much better off without tobacco but if you are determined to smoke do not use cigarettes.
 Young man
 Already the slight tremor of your. hand shows that the network of delicate nerves by which your feet and hands are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
Anticipated Cause for Sorrow.

From the November Delineator.
 Ina came in from the country on her fifth birthday to visit her cousin May. At night they were put to bed early. An hour passed. when heart-breaking sobs were heard from the childrens bedroom.
 What is the matter, children?" asked Mays mother, entering the dark room
 From under the bedclothes Ina sobbed out:
 May won't give me any of her pea nuts"
 But May has no peanuts" replied her aunt.
 T know that replied Ina: but she said if she did have peanuts she wouldn t give me any
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wired to your brain Is shattered and tangled.
 Throw away the coffin nailse
 Repair the telegraph lines.
 What Does Your Child Readf
 Pennsylvania youth. having fed his imagination on dime novels, had turned hod-up man.
 The ear bandits" mere lads of Chi cago, who shot policemen and made a reign of terror. ending their career at the gallows, confessed they got their cue for outlawry from yellow backed novels
 Note the law of assimilation
 The law is this: One is assimilated- changed. transformed-1nto the likeness of that which he loves and admires.
 If the boy admires the desperado he will want to be like him. Therefore the danger in the hook that makes a hero of a bad man. The boy will be warped into the likeness of a bad man.
 There is plenty of this literature, more the pity, which puts a Jesse James or a Frank Tracy up on a pedestal of success for the boys hero worship.
 Watch the books your boy reads.
 And by the same token Look into the books read by your girl. The heroine of your girls book will influence her imagination. Her ideals, like the ideals of the boy. will transform her.
 Many Of the current novels read by girls and catalogued as harmless are not only trashy. but dangerous. Be cause they are not true to life. They give distorted views of the real world. The girl gets false ideas. Her fancy is filled with diseased imagnings. She is thus mentally unhtted. She Is laying up for herself dseontent and unhappiness, be- cause her life will not come up to her ideals.
 Good fiction has its place.
 But where there is so much of the right kind, masterpieces-novel that picture life in it's right colors, novels that teach by example and uplift by ideals. novels that compel admiration for what is good-there is no excuse for reading rubbish
 Watch over the chid's ideals.
 Do you remember Hawthorne's story of ''The Great Stone Face?' Legend says Some day great and good man would come and stand by the noble stone face in the mountain. and his face would be like the stone face A boy looked every day for years on the stone face. He admired the face. He learned to love it. One day, grown to ! manhood, he stood by the stone face. and, 10. every one saw that his face had 1 been changed into the likeness of the stone. His face had been transformed l into the close resemblance of the face that he admired.
 Which is true fable of the power of an ideal. But Suppose the stone face had been an evil face, hideous and a cruel face.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
Warned By Night Riders.

Spartanburg, s. C.. October 10-Night riders have appeared in various sections of the state. The Cherokee ginnery, seven miles from here. was posted Tuesday night The proprietors were warned not to gin or to buy any more cotton until there is an improvement in the market. Other ginneries in other parts of the coun- ty have been posted. The cotton house of William Wood, 20 miles from Spartan burg, was set on fire several nights ago and a number bales of cotton burned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
Shi:, In a Hurricane,

San Juan, P. R., October 10.-The Red D Line steamship Philadelphia, from New York, October l. for this port, came in late last night. She ran into hurri- cane on Monday. The wind rose to 100 miles an hour, and the Philadelphia was hlown off her course in the direction of Bermuda. Captain Perry was thrown down and had two ribs broken and the chief engineer also was hurt, but not seriously. The passengers are all we'll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
His Wish Fulfilled.

From Everybody's Magazine.
 A German peddler rapped timidly at the kitchen entrance. Mrs. Kelly, angry at being interrupted in her washing him.
 Did yez wish to see me?' she de- manded in a threatening tone.
 The peddler backed off a few steps.
 Well, if I did," he assured her with an apologetic grin, T got my wish; thank you"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
Death on a Train.

Monterey, Mex, October 1o.-Benjamin H. Ridgely, United States consul general to Mexico City, died suddenly about mid night last night in the Mexico City Pullman while waiting for the Mexico City train. Consul General Ridgely ar rived here on the local train from Laredo and stopped over to take the Pullman for the capital. He was accompanied by his wife and mother
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
WHEN THE KIDNEYS GIVE OUT

action is restored through curing the kidneys, the dangerous uric acid is once more expelled from the blood and dan ger of gravel, stone, dropsy, heart trou- ble. diabetes and Bright's disease re- moved
 Doan's Kidney Pills are for sick kid neys in old or young. There is not a particle of narcotic or poisonous drugs in this remedy. It is recommended pub lioIv by thOtlsan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
From Experience.

From the Boston Post.
 Ostend-Pa, what kind of ships are courtships?
 Pa-Soft ships, my son.
 Ostend-And what kind of ships sail the sea of matrimony?
 Pa-Hardships. my son.
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Why.

From Harper's Weekly.
 Among the oldest personals ever in serted in the society column was one that prepared in a paper published in an Iowa town. It read as follows:
 Mrs. Coulter being confined to her bed by illness, will not be at home next Thursday as usual"
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jump into the lake And all of your kind had better follow your example Judge Gongs of Chicago to Mrs. Der tha Lazee, Fallen Woman.
 Instinctively one turns to the account in the New Testament of "the woman taken in adultery" tie man, as usual escaping arrest.
 The Master looked at the men who had taken the woman and said, "Let him that is without sin cast the first stone" One by one these men siunk away from his presence Docs no man condemn thee? Neither do l." There was no harsh word, only pity; no censure, only great sympathy in his kind tones when he said, "Go and sin no more.
 How hateful sin must have appeared to that Judean woman after she had heard that voice.
 Now
 Of course this Chicago woman was a sinner There can be no excuse for her had life. And yet-who knows? It may be some respectable" citizen who walks inc streets of Chicago who gave her the first impulse toward the broad road to ruin.
 If does not lie in the hand of Judge Gongs or any man to cast stone at any errng woman.
 Moreover
 Would it shock you were l to say This woman was Judge Going's sister?
 Yes he is her brother.
 Kipling tells us that Julia O'Grady and the coloners lady are sisters under their skin. And it is SO Humanity is kin. And men and women are brothers and sisters. It would better have be- hooyed this unjust judge to have. de- fended this woman, against whom society
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
Crazy With the Heat.

From Everybody's Magazine
 ''Can you tell me what steam is?" asked the examiner.
 "Why, sure, sir" replied Patrick con- fdenty. Steam is-why-er-it's wather thot's gone crazy wid the heat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11

Hats cleaned and blocked and renovated in latest styles. The Danbury Hat Factory, 221 N. 18th St. Milton Silverfield, proprietor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11

Come and see our display of high grade pianos at the wom- ans exhibit hall, and be sure to visit our warerooms, 2017 First avenue.
 SEALS PIANO & ORGAN co.
 J. B. Chamberlain, V. P.
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ATTENTION, MERCHANTS.
 I will sell, Monday, October 12. the entire stock of china ware, tinware, toys, novelties and store fixtures of Leo Broda, 1915 Avenue E, Ensley, Ala.
 w. T. PARKER, Auctioneer.
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The best merchant tailors in America are constantly replen- ishing our stock with high grade uncalled-for suits, over coats and trousers. Yours $10 to $15 less than original price. Fit guaranteed. MISFIT, 1911 First Avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
The Judge and the Woman.

Woman, there is no help for you. If you can't do better, you would better jump into the lake And all of your kind had better follow your example Judge Gongs of Chicago to Mrs. Ber- tha Lazee, Fallen Woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
Be Beautiful
RoBINNAIRE's ROSE COLD CREAM

For these fall days, when the wind is apt to blow little keenly and is laden with dust and coal smoke which dries and roughens the skin and chaps lips and hands, Robinnaire's Rose Cold Cream becomes an indispensable toilet table ar ticle. It is not greasy It can be ap- piled to the face and hands without the slightest danger of soiling veil or gloves. It is fine, sweet scented soft, smooth cream, put up in attractive packages. Two sizes-25c and soc.
 Jacobs Carnation Cream ........ 18c
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HEART TO HEART TALKS
By EDWIN \. ME Copyright, 1908. by Edwin A. Nye.

wired to your brain is shattered and tangled.
 Throw away the coffin nais.n
 Repair the telegraph lines.