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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-17
TO ADVERTISE BUSINESS.
Practice of Drummers To Be Stopped
 By Hotel Men.

New York-Managers of prominent ho- | tels in Broadway and in Fifth avenue are trying to find diplomatic but effec- 1 tive means of putting an end to a novel | scheme of self advertising employed by many persons at the expense of the ho- tels. The scheme, in a word, is what the managers regard as an abuse of the paging" system.
 As every frequenter of hotels is aware, E when a person calls to see friend and he is not in his room a brass -buttoned boy will make the rounds of the estab- lishment crying aloud the name of the person sought. The obvious advantages of this plan have been seized upon by commercial travellers. and even local bus mess men. as a means of exploiting them- selves. and 1t has lately developed into carefully prepared system.
 For example. MT. Jones of Chicago, or Hohokus, or any other place, comes to New York to get orders for the firm he represents. His chief aim is to impress the men with whom he hopes to transact profitable business Of his importance. The paging" system in the hotels makes this easy. MT. Jones makes appolntmentS with his prospective customers, one or more, to take lunch with him at such and such a hotel.
 Meantime he has sent many telegrams to himself, and from time to time, either in person or through friends who arc accessories to the conspiracy, has filled his hotel letter box with cards purporting to be those of persons who have called to see him. Of course, he has casually informed the clerks that he will not be in until luncheon time, and that if any one wishes to see him they had better page him.
 As a consequence Jones and his friends are at the table when. at intervals of & few minutes half a dozen pages follow one another calling his name aloud, de- livering teegrams and messages of vari- ous kinds, informing him that he Is want ed at the telephone, and so on. His un- enlightened companion is naturally im- pressed with the fact that Jones is . busy and much sought person. and that perhaps he had better do business with him, and Jones easily enhances his ac- ton by telling the boys. in a careless way, to return word that he's too busy to see any one just then-"Call me laterr'
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of the great Thurlow, who got for him silk gown and procured him a seat in the house of commons, where he soon reached the post of solicitor general, de- spite the ridicule Sheridan covered him with. Theneeforth he had primrose path to eminence-attorney general peerage, and finally lord chancellor, a station he held for more than 20 years. during most of which period he was the ruler of the British empire.
 Lord Eldon was thoroughly honest man, great lawyer. and narrow statesman. He had the Kings ear as no other man had it. and George III reigned at time when prerogative was a potent factor in England. The King, Lord North, and Wedderburn had lost the IS Americ- an colonies, despite Chatham and Burke, and by the aid of Eldon the King was now to postpone Catholic emancipation. The chancellor was man of ceaseless in- dustry and infinite patience. He used to read every act of parliament to his majesty without the omission of word for the Kings approval though the crown had not exercised the veto in more than 100 years. This flattered old George, who one day said to him: That is not Thur lows way when he was chancellor. He used to come in with an act of scores of sections, read a sentence or two and ex- claim, Oh, hell, you can't understand it; sign your name here!'" but Eldon pre- served all the etiquette of the remote reigns when archbishops of Canterbury were lord chancellors and Kings of Eng land absolute monarchs.
 Perhaps it was that which gave Eldon his dominion over the King and his con-
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leave me two months after. He way out in the country I don't believ, him work ing. He never work for me; just eat bread all the time.
 "One day-he bad all the time and get sent to Lansing-my girl she go away too, and Hensow he ran away to Ohio and I work and work and never go ahead and then my back breaks. Oh, 1t hurts terriblei'
 Freslau. an almost helpless German wom- an, tell her Had of woes at St. Mary S hospital at Detroit.
 Several years ago she left the father land, happy in her young motherhood and eager for the future of her young brood in the new land of plenty.
 Indeed, the poor German mater found bitter hardships, intending toll, sickness, sorrow, failure and heartache.
 Her husband died. She toiled at the washtub in tense and tragic struggle for bread. Six of the Il children died. She married again, and the worthless husband deserted her. Her health en- tirely failed and she was sent to the hospital.
 This is a picture from real life-almost hideously real.
 The tints are all somber. and the back ground Is dark. There is no blue sky, no gleam of sunshine, no horizon.
 Pictures of this kind make the lover of his kind grow sick at heart
 As one thinks of the hopeless little German mother sitting with lusterless face and dazed eyes, looking backward on the utter waste of the years, one begins to know the real meaning of misery and despair
 And it also makes one ashamed of his
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science, but he was also trusted by old Georges scamp of a son, George ", who had very little, if any, conscience to take in ward. William ", too, leaned on the chancellor, and nearly brought revolution by playing fast and loose with parlia- mentary reform. The old chancellor lived to great age, and his married life was one grand, sweet song until Bessie surtees died about four years before he left the scenes of men.
 It Is your Lord Eldons who mar free government-your virtuous men, who cannot see with all the eyes of Argus or feel with all the arms of Brlareus. They are friends of their kind and would advance civilization and promote happi- ness; but they have neither insight nor foresight, and without one of these gifts and rare as the phenix is the Crichton who has them both--a man would better be a blacksmith than a statesman.
 Eldon was a great lawyer, and of 100 great lawyers 99 will prove to be con- servatives Your great lawyer believes in things established. His trade is study of precedents as well as an eluei- dation of principles. Sir Edward Coke, a greater lawyer than Eldon, declared that, "The wisdom of all the wise men in the world, if they had all met together at one time, could not have equaled the British constitution" That is what every lawyer, fit for his job. thinks of the prin- ciples of the law he attempts to expound in the courts And that is why liberty, as the word Is understood in England and in America. is a chip that falls from the ax of the lawyer, whereas despotism i- nlrrn,,- fa Shinned hv the ambitious sOl-
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gar's Christmas is romantic; team ster's Is not even that" May 6-I came near ending 1t all this morning. The old drudgery, the daily round of sickening humdrum, is almost too much. Why did I not drive off that bridge when it was open? The poor old horsel I would have been cruel to him. Who would care for old Toby-or for old Selmers, for that matter?"
 November 29-My day of rest again. It Is on Sunday that I can feel how my life has been a failure. I am going to end 1t soon. I feel it. Nothing to live for. nothing to die for. either. but I will take the chance. It cannot be far off.
 "Goodby, little book for today. You are the only friend have, and, after all, you are only myself"
 And then the window to the soul of Julius Selmers, teamster, was closed down forever.
 What revelationl
 The poor old man had a fine love of nature. of humanity and of old Toby a mute, inglorious poet and dreamer.
 We all dream dreams.
 But some of us see some of our dreams come true.
 This old man. with the soul of a poet. dreamed for half century, and not one dream was realized.
 You see. there must be a heaven, just as there must be a hell, else God is un- just and life Is meaningless.
 ''Where can go? No place to work, no more home, no one to work for. Chris tian, my husband. he died two years ago. Then my kids-six of them die croup-of cold. marry Anil Jelke. He
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How far your eyes may pierce, cannot
 tell;
 Striving to better, oft we mar what's
 well.
 A NToNIO LOMBARDI, who came "A from a land that has made more \ history than any other, and that was classic when the wise men of the east sought the manager under the guid- ance of the Star of Bethlehem, Is a res- ident of the town, the capital of the free. and conduct a barber shop in Pennsyl- vania avenue in the southeast quarter. He is of that race that had Belisarius and Narses for heroes, and has In his veins a strain of that blood that escaped the swords of Atilla and Alaric. The Goths and Vandals, the Visigoths and Huns, could not annihilate the stock that had with stood Hannibal and survived the bloody despotisms of a hundred Caesars, Not even the feudallsm of the medieval ages could destroy this hardy people that in the Christian era gave Dante to let ters, Angelo to art. Farnese to the army, and Doria to the navy. In that most desperate and hazardous of all the games participated In by mankind the survival of the fittest, these be mighty players, these children of sunny Italy.
 But there are left the skies
 And purple sunsets of her prouder
 years.
 This barber. Lombardi, has a family of seven children dependent on him for support-one a son of IA, who In the busy hours aids his father in the shop and learns the trade of a prime minister of one of the most remarkable men who
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

I complaining at petty things. In the allotment of human life this woman has somehow been cheated out of her rightful share of the good things.
 With questioning almost anger, In your heart you turn to fate and question 1t: | If the law of compensation holds as we have so often heard-if each soul born of woman must get his portion of the | good Where will broken hearted Caroline | Greslau get what is owing her? Almost every day the cables tell of some new atrocity in the Jewish provinces of Russia.
 It would seem that Russia does not want the world to forget the slaughter houses of Bessarabia and the massacres of Kishinev, at which the world revolted. Ignorance, race hatred and religious prejudice are responsible for the age long cruelties inflicted upon the Hebrew race in Russia.
 Scratch a Russian and find Tar tar" seems a true saying. The scratch ed Russians, transformed into Tartars, are still going back 20OO years to pun ish the Jews for the crucifixion of Christi
 No man of letters has deeper voiced the challenge of civilization to Russia because of it's persecution. of the Jew than Joaquin Miller, "the poet of the Serras."
 Recently l ran across his poem en- titled Russia" These are really great lines and worthy of preservation: Who tanned your lawless Tartar blood What David bearded in her den
 The Russian bear in ages when You strode your black, unbridled stud, A skin clad savage of your steppes?
 Why. one who now walls out to you The Jew, the Jew, the homeless Jew Who girt the thews of your young prime And bound your fierce, divided force?
 Why, who but Moses shaped your
 course,
 United, down the grooves of time?
 Your mighty millions all today
 The hated homeless Jew obey. Who taught all poetry to you? The Jew, the Jew the hated Jew. Who taught you tender Bible tales
 Of honey lands, of milk and wine,
 Of happy peaceful Palestine, Of Jordans holy harvest wales?
 Who gave the patient Christ? I say, Who gave your Christian creed? Yea,
 yea
 Who gave your very God to you? Your Jew, your Jew, your hated Jew.
 And this reproof from an American
 
 sonate plea of Skylock:
 Hath not Jew eyes? Hath not Jew hands, organs, dimensions. senses, affec- tions, possessions, fed with the same food, hurt by the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and sum mer, as the Christian is?
 The blood of the slaughtered Jew cries aloud from Russian ground.
 When George Ade was in Detroit, last January, he called at the Detroit Free Press to see his old friend, Henry N. Cary the publisher of that paper.
 They were soon engaged in a discussion of Cary's favorite hobby-the collection of curios and antiques. Half an hour later an uplifting of reporters heads in- dicated that the guest was leaving. ac- companied by the "Old Man. who was engaged in an enthusiastic description of a certain mahogany shaving mil
 Together they 1ourneyed out to the Cheapside of Detroit-Michigan avenue to the store of a dealer in secondhand
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(Cipyright, 1909 by Edwin A. Nye) X/OUNG man, do not gamble. Or if
 Y you must and will gamble, go into ! the gambling business-become 8 gambler.
 Do not bet on another mans game
 If you do you will lose your money. You may not think so, but you will lose your money just the same.
 This is what Richard A. Garfield, the big New York gambler, said about gam bling a few years ago:
 If you play with a gambler long enough he is bound to win your money. He can't help but get it.
 "When you play with me in round num- bers you put up s1OO, and against that put up 800. Now figure how long you can keep doing this. You may win my money now and then, you may break me temporarily, but as long as you play . against me at the odds of 100 to 90 I'll have your money"
 Garfield knew.
 In the days of his prosperity he Is re- puted to have made $5,OOO,OOO in the gam bling business.
 It is said that for 20 years when he was in the business he did not personally touch card or manipulate device.
 He relied upon certain profits mathe- matically figured.
 Garfield put it plainly: If you go into the gamblers game he has a 100 chances to your 90-10 chances to your g. If you stay in the game, as nearly all players do, he will get your pile.
 The gambler knows the end from the beginning.
 It is just here the man who gambles makes his mistake He fancies his skill and good luck will beat the laws of is more than TO-
 The gamblers game is not a game of chance" There is no chance in 1t. It is a game of deliberate robbery scien- tifcally carried out Canfield's warning will fail to keep the man who has the gambling fever away from the tables. The poor fool Is in- fatuated with his system" He is all ways going to break the bank
 But you
 If you have an idea in the back of your head that you are an exception to the rule, ask yourself which Is the great CT, nine, or ten.
 I say nothing of the immortality of the game. But I do say If you expect to gamble without losing your money Don't!
 Poor Owen Kildare of New York, 'the Bowery Kipling, as his friends call him, has been sent to a sanitarium a ner- vous wreck
 Kildare's career reads like fiction.
 At 30 years of age he could not read the simplest sentences. Eight years later he was a successful newspaper man and author.
 The immediate cause of Kildares break down was the failure of his play, 'SThe Regeneration.'' This play was dramatized from Kildare's book, My Mamie Rose," which told the story of his life and re- generation.
 Arnold Daly. the manager, made many changes in adapting the play to the stage against the serious protests of Kildare, who predicted the failure.
 And> now the author and playwright is on the verge. of insanity.
 Born in typical east side tenement of an Irish father and a French moth- CT. the boy was orphaned at his birth. His mother died when he was born and his father had died three months pre- viously.
 The child fell into bad hands and
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was dDuSed ana nearly Kllleu 9y u utulk- ard guardian. Driven to the streets. he abandoned his home at the age of five | years, living the life of a waif. At 14 |. years, being of heavy build physically | he became the champion of the Park row | "newsies."
 l Kildare developed into a boxer and finally into a prizeflghter and saloon "bouncer." As previously stated, he could neither read nor write when he was 30 years old. He was about the last man in the world one might have se- lected for reformation. But one day he met his fate-hfs Mamie Rose" She was settlement worker of great charm and tact and a woman of supe- love with her. She taught him the rudiments of education. Dying shortly after his "conversion," the memory of her kindness kept him in the right way.
 Thousands of admirers of Owen Kill dare will pray that he may recover his health. His fight for manhood was a gallant one.
 
 No mans estate, however low 1t may appear, is entirely hopeless. If Owen Kildare could make himself a man, who shall despair of his life?
 Drummond was right when he de- clared love is the greatest thing in the world.
 Here is a man!
 His fortune gone. he is brave-and happy. Forced to give up mansion, he will move into a cottage.
 Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland is the man. Having lost his wealth, he must give up his palace on Euclid ave- nue, his automobiles, and go into smaller house.
 Is he soured or grabbed or morose7
 Not Tom Johnsonl {. He might have saved his fortune if he had resigned as mayor. given up his fight for Scent street car fares for the people and take up his private affairs. But listen:
 T declare I could not do that I en- tered the fight with certain ideals. I wanted to fight privilege and special interest. I had already decided to give up working for dollars.
 why did choose this course7
 "I'll tell you. wanted happiness. And I've been happy in it."
 Mind you, Johnson is not posing for effect nor seeking the bubble reputa- tion. Listen further:
  warded by the gratitude of the people. One cannot count on that. It's the pleasure in doing the work"
 My friend, that goes deepi
 Tom Johnson knows what mere money crats do not know-that money cannot buy happiness.
 "Why?
 Because money belongs to the material world. happiness to the spiritual world. And that is just where so many money makers miss the meaning of life.
 Once in while a rich man begins to see this Carnegie says in his Problems of Today" Beyond competence for old age. which will not need to be great. wealth lessens rather than increases hu- man happiness" Rockefeller in his mag azine stories says the same thing in other words. And there is the adage:
 "Millionaires who laugh are rare"
 Tom Johnson cannot be happier in the big house on the avenue than in the little house on a side street because his happi- ness Is the fruit of his spirit, which does not depend on externals.
 Happiness comes from a consciousness
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Happy Tom Johnsonl Foolish moneycrats!

"Julius Selmers, teamster." That is the way they wrote 1t in the records of the Chicago city morgue. Julius Selmers sampled life for 65 years and at the end of the period made up his mind life held nothing for him. l. This old man kept diary.
 Reading the entries one gets look, as through window, into the soul of a man who Is friendless and despond- ent, but who nevertheless dreams his dreams.
 Note some of the entries:
 June N-What a bright, sunshiny day 1t isl The air Is full of sweet sounds and odors. How lovely 1t would be to spend an hour in the green fields, but the iron wagon summons me, and na- lures fragrance must come to me through the chinks of the foul freight houses"
 December 25-What memories the day brings to my old heart! But they are memories of some 60-odd Christmases that I have spent in poverty and rags.
 "The boss gave me a dollar for gift I dare not refuse 1t, but I gave it to the first newsboy I met. I hope he will have merry Christmas. beg
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1 fabric trade That horoscope is infaIli- ble
 Man for man. and woman for woman, there Is as much intelligence as much charity, as much philanthrophy. as much patriotism among the white people of South Carolina as there is among the white people of Massachusetts and there are more people per thousand of inhabi- tants dependent on charity in Massachu- setts than in South Carolina and that, too, after South Carolina has paid trib- ute for threescore years and ten to the mills and factories of New England, to say nothing of the vandalism to which South Carolina was subject in 1885 and the spollation of which she was the vio- tim for ten years thereafter.
 The south can take care of her own children and movements are on foot in the south to regulate cl1fld labor by state legislation. If the children of the south are subject to harsh treatment the south Is the sufferer. The south is no fool and no mlscreant and the south can be de- pended on to rear and nourish her own little ones.
 But what would emphasize is that your pure man without wisdom is a worse lawgiver than you bad man with wis., dom. It is become a truism that intel
 igent selfishness is the parent of nearly all that is excellent in government. and 1t is equally true that misdirected oirtue has been the cause of most that is vicious in government.
 John Wilkes, the scamp. did the English people Infinitely less damage than did l Lord Eldon, the pure man.
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of duty done, and Tom Johnson has done his duty. Happiness comes from helpful ness and charity and kindly service-these made fiesh-and Tom Johnson is the incar- nation of these things.
 And so, whether fortunes go up or down, this courageous, loyal, hearty, hopeful spirit-the real Tom Johnson holds up its chin and rejoices to be a man.
 Happy Tom Johnsonl
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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-10-08
JIMMIE LEE PACKS MAJESTIC ID
 CAPACITY
Opening of Popular Com pany Delights Large and
 We'll Pleased Throng

The Majestic was packed to the doors last night, when Jimmy Lee and his star company made their first appear ance for this season. This company filled an engagement of several months here last season and became very popu- lar. Since then changes have been made in the company which have greatly strengthened it.
 They appeared last night in the great western drama, entitled ''The Old Judge.' The play is full of action from start to finish. The scene is laid in mining camp and the characters are as varied as is usual in such places. The play opens in the Blue Light saloon, where the villain tries to secure pos session of certain papers and defraud young Nat Weber out of valuable min ing claims. He takes the bar maid into his confidence, but she fears foul play and hides the papers. They are obtain ed by Triss, the little heroine, and re- turned to her lover, Nat.
 Later the villain takes the bar maid s life and causes the arrest of Nat on cir cumstantial evidence.
 The scene in the court room is wild ly exciting but finally the prisoner is acquitted and the real criminal sen fenced to instant death.
 Triss, who was the adopted child of Hank Jordan, miner, is discovered by her mother, who has not seen her since Triss was baby, and is taken away to boarding school. Here she receives her friends and finally everything is happily arranged to the satisfaction Of everyone.
 Will Peters as Judge Lovetoday was the life of the performance. He was the old frontier judge and made it his business to see that the "statoots were obeyed.
 Jimmie Lee, as "Hallelujah Billy, "I was the same old Jimmie and needs no introduction to the Globe public.
 Ethel Thornton was at her best as Triss, the little favorite of the camp.
 Horace Lintz looked and acted the villain s part to perfection.
 Burt Russell ,won the audience byI his splendid acting in the part of Nat, Triss' lover.
 Marie Barbier (Mrs. James Lee) took the part of Zenie Grimes, the bar maid and did it up to her well known stand ard.
 In fact, all the parts were exceeding ly well taken and the show is full of interest from start to finish.
 Music between the acts and an over ture preceding the drama was played by the Majestic orchestra.