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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-02
'MOONSH|N|NG" IS
 PAYING BUSINESS But Illicit OistiIerS Run Big
 Risks OF BEING CAPTURED But the Profits Are Enormous ana Many Are Daring Enough To Fol- low Trade Which Increases
 Under Prohibition.
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 The possibility of converting $16 worth of raw material into $120 worth of liquor is making a powerful appeal to the moon- sinners in the south. and a great revival is being witnessed in their once almost extinct industry.
 To quote Knox Booth, one of the most widely known internal revenue officers in the southern states, the Illicit manufac- ture of liquors in Alabama has increased fully 50 per cent since the prohibition law went into effect, and like condition is said to exist in Georgia, Tennessee and other states where the legitimate sale of intoxicants is prohibited by law.
 Under the old conditions, with saloons running on all sides and many groceries In the rural sections handling liquors, there was comparatively little profit in the manufacture of moonshine whisky.
 At that time the stuff was sold as low as $1 and s1.50 per gallon. This price was not sufficient to encourage the industry in the face of vigorous work on the part of Uncle Sam's revenue scouts, and the moonshiners became few and far be- tween.
 Now, however, the rewards of success fully evading the law are much greater and the old-timers are taking bigger risks than they did under former conditions.
 MI. IooOtu quOtcS Oilt lldu dS say HE that bushels of meal and 30 pounds of sugar gave him 30 gallons of whisky, which he could readily sell at $4 per gal lon. A small still can turn out 30 gal Ions per day easily, affording the enter prising shiner a profit of $100 for the days work-and the days risk.
 The bait held out to the moonshiner is more tempting than at any time since the war, and it looks as If the internal rev. enue agents will have to do the work of almost generation over again.
 In the old days, when the moonshiner f1ourished all over the south, it was des- perate conflict that waged between the revenue agents and the moonshiners, and many an unmarked grave bears witness to the terrors of the struggle. But the rev enue agents, backed by a powerful gov ernment, finally won.
 In those days, when the mist and mys- tery of the mountains filled the tmid with terror, the moonshiner fought for prin- ciple as well as for the profit found in the perilous business He cherished the con- viction that when he raised grain and fruits upon his little farm he had an in- herent right to convert them into any product he saw fit, and he looked upon the revenue officer as one who sought not only to rob him of a livelihood, but to take from him alright. a liberty, that was as dear to him as life itself.
 It was this spirit that made every path leading to an illicit still one fraught with deadly peril to any stranger; it was this spirit that led to many deadly battle in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-02
TOWN RUN BY ONE MAN. City Methods Introduced - Results
 Awaited With Interest.
From the Baltimore Star.

From the Baltimore Star.
 w. J. Pill1ington of Des Moines. editor of the Merchants Trade Journal, has taken absolute charge of every business house in Dexter, Ia., a town of 800 in- hahitants, for seven months for the pur- pose of proving that city methods will bring prosperity to the merchants in a country town. MT Pilkington has placed the town in the hands of Guy Pogus, who is personally conducting every business, from the bank to the lumber yard.
 At the end of seven months, he declares, the profits will be doubled, trade will be attracted to Dexter from other points, and the city will be metropolitan. As all the members of the city council are merchants, who have placed their busi- ness in Pilkingtons hands, the latter is also controlling the municipal govern ment, and has cleaned the streets and adopted many new ordinances.
 Mir. Pilkington believes in advertising, with the result that the Dexter paper has more advertising than the editor ever had before. The remarkable experiment is attracting the att~p' Ion of business men all over the mitdle west
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-02
Exaggerating TrifIes.

Orison Swett Warden In Success Maga-
 zine.
 You can always take a mans measure by the way in which little annoyances and petty vexations affect him. If he ex- aGgerates them, spends valuable time fussing over them you know that he is not a big-souled man.
 Ihe hablt Of making fuss over a little thing, of exaggerating the importance of what, to great characters, would be but trihing annoyance, is not only indica- tive of smallness and narrowness of ma ture, but Is also demoralizing and weak ening.
 The really large man will not allow himself to be troubled by trifes If he wants to go anywhere, he does not make great ado because it rains, is hot. Is muddy, or because he ''does not feel like it." This would be too small, too pica- yune for the broad large-minded char acter.
 Some people are upset by the least ob- struction thrown In their path They ''go all to pieces" over somebody's blum der-over a stenographer's mistake or a clerks error. Large natures rise above such tri1es
 Some men do splendidly when they have the encouragement of good business the tonic of good times; but when business is dull and goods remain on the shelves unsold. or they have any little discord in their homes, they are all upset. They are like children; they need to be en- couraged all the time. for they can not work under Encouragement.
 q have seen men lose their temper and waste energy swearing at a knot in a shoestring, or something else just as insignificant The foolish or ill-tempered have no range in their scale Small, ir- ritatng things come to and tag us all: but the only way to conquer them is sim ply to smile and pass them up'"
 Everyone owes it to himself to live q real life, whether he is rich or poor; to be. and not to seem He owes 1t to him. self at least to be genuine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-02
In a Tropical Forest.

From Youths Companion.
 Chief Engineer Burgess of the Hon. duras National railway, giving advice to engineers working in the tropics, says emphatically, Don't get lost" He adds that man should no more think of going into tropical forest without a compass than of going alone to sea without one Without a compass one has no way of getting his direction. In few minutes he is turned round. The sun can only be seen, if at all, when directly overhead. There Is no moss on the trees to serve for a guide. Distant elevations, or noun tains. if any exist, cannot be seen, on ac- count of the density of the forest Even on the treeless lands of South America. where the mountains are too distant to be seen, the compass is the only guide. One can tell the direction of east and west at sunrise and sunset, but in the middle of the day the sun Is useless as q guide, because 1t Is almost directly overhead, and often one may stand in the shadow of his own hat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-02

the mountains of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, as well as in other states where the moonshiner made his home.
 The moonshiner gradually learned that there was somewhere In the distance" a government that had to be supported and that the tax upon whisky had behind it something more than desire to intrude upon the liberties of mankind. He also learned that this government maintained an alarming number of penitentiaries and had an inexhaustible supply of men who were apparently ready and willing to kill or be killed in the effort to fill these in- stitutions with moonshiners. Then, too, saloons became more and more numerous, and there wasn't the profit in the business that characterized 1t in the good old days. So the moonshiner, in a large measure. passed on to other and less perilous call ings.
 The moonshiner of today does not cher ish any delusions about individual lib- erty. He is not in the business to vindi- cate principle. He simply sees in the thipg chance to turn a goodly sum at the risk of temporarily losing his liberty, and he is willing to assume this risk for the money there is in it. As a rule he does not go armed to kill, as did his forefathers, and he relies upon his heels rather than upon the accuracy of his fire when the revenue men put in their appearance. The peril of the revenue agent is nothing like 1t YVES a generation ago, and it is rare indeed that one Is either killed or wounded.
 Speaking of the revival of moonshning at this time, Revenue Agent Booth said :
 AS rule, the moonshiners pick out the most inaccessible places to be found and they are always on the lookout for the approach of the revenue men. The appearance of an officer is the signal for flight and the men frequently get away Tor the time being. We rarely shoot. be- cause We know that We will get them later and are willing to take our time rather than shed blood"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-02

From the New York Times Report of 8
 Sermon Delivered Last Sunday in St.
 Bartholomew's, by the Right Rev.
 Charles D. Williams, Bishop of Michi-
 gan.
 what are our national ideals? I some times doubt if we have any-at least. any clearly conceived and deliberately chosen. lndividualism is so rampant among us as people, our rule is so commonly "every one for himself, the devil take the hind most" that we seem incapable of any common consciousness, and so of forming any national ideal. We are afflicted with a curious kind of state blindness and so- cial unconsciousnes, if I may so put 1t. Government, law, all expressions of the common will and life, exist merely for the purpose of backing up the individual in his private enterprise, securing for him his alleged rights and privileges. That is apparently all that Congress thinks of in it's tariff legislation
 We are blind to any further end of the common good or the public welfare. We do not discern the body'' polite or so- cial. We have not developed a sense of solidarity. And when we contemplate the commonly crass and crude materialism of our individual lives, we are tempted to doubt whether, if we should develop In
 
 ness, we should conceive a very high ideal for our national life.
 We are reckoned by the civilized world as dishonest people. A clever trick or fraud is commonly characterized in Eu- rope by the adjective Yankee" and we must admit that there is some truth in the accusation. We are often more inclined to smile at-even admire-the shrewdness nf n ulaossf kt-- indignant at its dishonesty or blush over it's shame. The herculean efforts of the last administration to bring our ''big busi- ness" to something like common honesty the necessity of a pure food law to keep our people from being poisoned by what they must eat, the rank scandals of our municipalities, legislative bodies, all these and many other like phenomena in our commercial and political life, go to bear out the statement that we are dishonest people.
 We boast that we are a free people Our fathers fought for political liberty and secured the forms thereof-our democrat 1c institutions and our constitution. But with the gradual concentration of our wealth. the monopolization of our re- sources, and the centralizing of our great industries in fewer and fewer hands, we are passing into a state of limited eco- HoiiiiS Sohtio VI anu pldcllcdl SlaVery which Will make those forms of political free dom an empty mockery. It is idle to claim any sort of political liberty in the face of those who control the means of our existence, and who are too big to be regulated by our government Political freedom is an empty boast in state of economic tyranny and servitude These are some of our characteristic national sins. They are so obvious and salient that we cannot denv them, except as we shut our eyes to them.
 This may seem to some of you a strange Fourth of July sermon, pessimistic, un- patriotic, but the truest patriotism is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-02
When Do Birds Wake Up?
From Leslie's Weekly.

rToIn LeSlle S Neekly.
 An elderly person afflicted with insomnia and forced to lie awake all night has sent to the London Spectator some obser- vations which he made of the habits of birds. He found that the blackbird was the last of the feathered kind to go to bed, while the robin was the first to awaken in the morning. The latter's song was heard at 2:30 a. m., while at 2:45 trush flew up to bare branch and, after stretching and brushing himself also be- gan to sing. By o'clock all the trees were alive with the songs of many and various birds, the medley of voices form ing general harmony. At a. m. there was an intermission in the musical pro- gramme,J the birds seeking their break lasts In the shape of early worms At $40 cuckoo alighted on leafiess branch and sang with great vigor for a short time. The observer then felt disposed to sleep, but young sparrow in the ivy near his window awoke and chirruped so loudly that he became as wakeful as ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-02
The Helpful BelIboy.

FTOm SUCCESS Magazlne
 For four consecutive nights the hotel man had watched his fair, timid guest fill her pitcher at the water-cooler.
 Madam" he said on the fifth night If you would ring, this would be done for you"
 But where is my bell?' asked the lady.
 '"rhe bell is beside your bed," replied the proprietor.
 That the bell" she exclaimed Why the boy told me that was the fire alarm. and that l wasnt to touch it on any ac- count"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-02
No ApprehensIon.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 'I made a garden this year, but my next-door neighbor went in for fowls.''
 'Therell be trouble between you.'
 Guess not My garden ain't coming up and his chickens are too feeble to scratch"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-02
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-02

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-02

"When the Pifflers finished the first half of the fourth the score stood to against us, and I decided 1t was time for the Creepers to begin
 "Our first man swatted the ball over to third in proper fashion. saw the Hindu make a convulsive motion. but l didn't pay much attention, and gayly marked hit on the score card.
 'Outv
 '"The umpire yelled it loudly, and I jerked my eyes over to first. Sure enough the first baseman had the ball. with the runner still yards away. I looked at the bench full of Creepers, but they were tongue-tied, paralyzed, and anything else you can think of that means the same
 'I was watching with both eyes when the next Creeper batted, and he whaled the ball terriically toward third.
 Say, that Hindue was football player swiped from a circus. In Hindu football. you know the players must not handle the pill They catch 1t and throw 1t with a crook of the ankle.
 That fellow was 0 wonder. It wasn't a bit hard for him to pick up that 100- horse power grounder with one foot and twitch it over his shoulder to the short stop. who nailed the runner at first
 ''Our third batter got the same kind of a deal. He uncorked a silk-lined Diff, but the Hindu showed his prehensible ankle in front of the ball and the runner was ausgespielt
 '4The Pifflers were bloated with gloat and chortled tauntingly. l threw few earnest sayings into the Creepers
 Line 1t out! Line 1t out!'A told them Hand the Hindue some hot ones where he can't clamp his feet on them. or you get return tickets for the old po- tato patch!'
 "The Creepers frightened their belts. and when they had their next turn with the willow they opened with white-hot liner straight at the dunkel braun won- der from across the seas.
 "Would you believe 1t, the Hindu stood squarely in front of that sizzling swat. It pasted him in the region of the gig gard with a thud like Stanley Ketchel licking a man twice his size.
 q opened my mouth to yell for the first-aid- kit, when the Hindu coolly smiled, wrapped one foot around the ball and tossed 1t to the eager shortstop.
 You see, in his home town this east ern person was training for some religious championship. When Hindue Is doing that it's just pleasant exercise for him to hurl himself on the pavement and let his trainer jump up and down on him. After a rubdown with a o'-nine-tails and short nap on a cot of scrap Iron and nails the aspirant is quite fit.
 "The next batted ball caught the Hindu terrific swat on the right lung. thought he was killed; but he only smiled and figured he was notch nearer the Brahma league leaders and was making good with his gods.
 "The Piffers spread it all over us,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-02

There was another team in the league travelling pretty well called the Pilfer- Ing Pifflers. We always trimmed this bunch, but I noticed the last time we threw the harpoon into them they suf- fered from an acute rankle. I figured that when our next scheduled clash came they would have something de luxe in the way of an effort.
 ''They had 1t. It was a Hindu third baseman. He was a slim, shaky-look ing beggar, with grayish brown skin and dreamy eyes. Of course, we might have put up some real talk about the color line. But we were winning too often to be popular, anyway and the oriental didn't look as if he had much of the Class stuff on him.
 When the game started I told the Creepers to behave. To make 1t look like a real contest; we generally let the other fellows get few runs before we put the game in our private safe de- posit vault.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-02

"The next batted ball caught the Hindu a terrific swat on the right lung. I thought he was killed; but he only smiled and figured he was notch nearer the Brahma league leaders and was making good with his gods.
 "The Pifhers spread it all over us,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-02
HE PLAYED BALL
 WITH HIS FEET Veteran Manager Feeds Fans
 on Great Dope ABOUT GREATEST GAME Exciting Contest Between the Pilfer- ing PiffIers and the Virginia creepers-clever Work of
 the Foreign Hindu.
ABOUT GREATEST GAME

From the Boston Herald.
 The veteran manager was talking about the greatest game in the world and a group of fans were drinking In his words like girl graduates listen ing when somebody with part of the alphabet trailing his name is reciting on the Greater Love.
 Baseball always has man guess ing" said the veteran There isn't any limit to the queer developments 1t will spring on you And generally it's just when you think you know the game backward with your eyes shut that you get a double -barrelled sur prise.
 "Still I've always been able to hold my own pretty well as long as the game was played by Americans. But when foreign blood Is introduced to baseball I step aside until all danger is past and the dust sett1es.'
 That's right" somebody said, Hook at Merkle and Covelesky"--
 "Phwat do yez mean by foreign7" demanded an aggressive red haired lit tie man.
 Tt was a Hindu that made me the enemy of foreign labor on the dia- mond," resumed the veteran. T was playing ball in the south and doing the thinking part for a team called the virginia Creepers.
 "The Creepers had won just as many games as they had played. We were 1S-carat champions just through bat ting system I had devised.
 "1 collected a bunch of husky right handed young farmers and disciplined tn em a bit. Then I taught them how to swing around on the ball and bang 1t toward third base with tremendous force.
 II drilled them until they were finished experts. When one of the Creepers fell against the ball 1t was burning furrows in left field almost before the third baseman heard the crack of the bat. There wasn't an infielder in the league who could get his hands into action fast enough to squeeze one of the Creepers' high velocity swipes.
 By mid-season every man of the Vir ginia Creepers knew that when he want ed to he could shoot the ball where the enemy's fielders weren't and then amble down to first, stopping now and then to look for four leaf clovers. To keep up appearances I put a 25-hit limit on each game.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-02

ting rich quick. These prospectuses of
the Ubero company asserted the com
pany proposed to develop and Guilt
vate lands in Mexico and market the
products of the land.
AS an inducement to men to travel
the road to great and certain and
quick wealth stock was placed on the
monthly payment basis. The prospec
fuses stated that "a small mopthly in
vestments in Ubero plantation insures
an income for life"
1t was further represented that the
company owned 1000 acres of land in
Mexico for which 1t had received a
deed from the Mexican government.
These representations" said the gov
eminent fraud order. ARE all fraudu-
lent, as the company did not own its
plantation there, nor does 1t own now"
The company entered into a con-
tract with a so-called La Puerta COM
pany," by which 1t agreed to buy for
$500 a tract of land Three hundred
dollars an acre was to have been paid.
William D. owen signed the contract
for the La Puerta company and the de-
partment said that its Investigations
revleade that this company was large
~ Owen and Borges. The Ubero com
pany, according TO the government re-
port, had paid the La Puerta company
$50, 900, but had not received a deed Of
any land.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-02

road was to be built and this would
place the land within reach and owen
told of a scheme to make money out
of It.
The Origin of the Companies.
After owen became secretary OK state
of Indiana he took Nat u Hill, who
was later treasurer of state; U. T. Wi
ley, A. c. Daily and W. I. Overstreet,
the last named of Terre Haute, down
to view the land A number Of people
were down there who explained the
fortune that could be made in the Guilt
walton of coffee, rubber, pineapples and
other tropical crops. When the party
returned to Indiana the Mexican COT
fee and Rubber company was organ
lied with owen as president. Numer-
Gus other corporations OF various names
and entangled relationships grew out
of this original enterprise. including
the various Ubero concerns, prominent
among those being an Indiana com
pany and Nero companies with head
quarters at Boston.
The first crash came through a Bos-
ton company. when stockholders at
tached the funds in the elaborate Office
of that company, at SO State street, on
April l. 1895 owen had already com
planned of failing health and was in
Europe at the time. A few days pre-
viously to the attachment, Arthur Stead
man. a Boston millionaire. and Frederic
G. Hood. another millionaire. who was
vice president, had suddenly resigned
and had gone to Europe. Things be-