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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-23
New Orleans Cotton Futures.
Omen High. Inv Clase

New Orleans. November 22.-Spot cot
ton quiet and firm. Low ordinary. 10 13-l6c
nominal; ordinary 11Ssc nominal; good
ordinary, 10 Lice; strict good ordinary,
1S1kc; low middling, 10 15-l6c; Strict low
middling, l4i4c; middling, 1412c; strict
middling 14ssc; good middlng, 14s4c; strict
good midding, IA 15-16c; middling fair
Is Lice; middling fair to fair 10 7-16c;
fair. 10 13-16c, nominal Receipts 6412,
stock, 1770S9.
Liverpool Cotton Market.
Liverpool, November 22.-Spot cotton
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-23
Cotton Seed Oil.

New York, November 22-The cotton
seed oil market was quiet with small
price changes closing net unchanged to 4
points decline with sales of 5000 barrels.
There was moderate selling of long oil.
but offerings were well absorbed and the
undertone was steady in sympathy with
strength of cotton. November. $685.. 7Sc !;
Januarq, 6.S9@6 .90c March, 6.99@7c; May.
7 .06d17. 07c prime crude, 5.S06c; prime
summer yellow, 6.6sa6. soc; prime winter
yellow. 7d7 soc; prime summer white.
Z. 1907. Soc.
New Orleans, November 22.-Cotton seed
oil: Prime refined In barrels, per pound,
6.S0c.
EIqin Butter Market
Elgin ILL., November 22.-Butter, Size !.
firm; sales for the week 64s,600 pounds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-23
RESOURCES.

Loans and discounts. S 6,519 ,487 IS
Oyerdrafts .. % 81
u. S. bonds and premi-
ums ....... 1,122,O0 90
State of Alabama bonds. 179,550 90
Other stocks and bonds. 10000 90
Cash
In vault IS 926,040 80
With bks. 2,312,112 04
With U. s.
Treas'r. $4,000 90
s S,296,152 81
S11 303.219 80
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-23
UNION STATION
Effective September u. 1aoa

VtIdnta, Birmingham and AtIantjc,
Arrive from IDepart to-
Brunswick Has lm Brunswick 4.1o nm
Trains marked thus 60 run daily except
Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-23

Total the day, 1,s0O,6oO shares
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-23
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Of Birmingham. Ala.
STATEMENT TO COMPTROLLER
Tuesday. November lS, 1909
LIABILITIES.

surnIus and profits. 49,. sO9,971 Is
Circulation ........A.... l,O0o,ooo w
Deposits
Individual Sc. 934,239 "a
Bank go. 1,459,006 So
u. S. 80. 100000 00\
sS,49s,24S 16
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
TAKE 1T IN TIME.
Just as Scores of Augusta People
Have,

Waiting doesn't pay.
If you neglect the aching back,
Urinary troubles, diabetes, surely
follow.
Doans Kidney Pills relieve back
ache,
Cure every kidney i'll.
Augusta citizens endorse them.
Mrs. Charles E. Graham, ~ Page ST.,
Augusta, Me-, says: For several
years l had kidney complaint and
suffered from severe pains in the small
of my back. At first the trouble came
and went at intervals but later it
chung to me almost all the time. In
the morning I was so lame that I
could hardly stoop and l was unfit to
begin my days work. There was a
difficulty with the kidney secretions
and knowing that my kidneys needed
attention, 1 began trying one. remedy
after another without receiving any
lasting benefit, however Finally
read about Doan's Kidney Pills and
procured box at Willis r. Partridge's
drug store. 1 was surprised and
gratified at the quick way in which
this remedy acted upon my kidneys.
In short time I was entirely cured
and my condition had improved
greatly. Some time later when my
child was feeling poorly,s Doan's Kid
ney Pills were used and they made a
great improvement. / publicly recon-
mended Doan's Kidney Pills four years
ago and as have had no symptoms of
kidney complaint since, / gladly speak
| in their praise again."
For sale by all dealers Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the>United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no other.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
Our Peat Deposits.

The United States Geological Sur
vey has issued a bulletin dealing with
the peat industry which is of more
than passing interest to Maine be-
best peat which are found in several
parts of the State. Men who own
these peat tracts are anxious to know
to what use they can be put in order to
Immediately realize something on the
investment. To this end machines for
making briquettes and other forms of
fuel have been invented and are at
work at the bogs Up to this time the
fuel has not obtained very firm hold
on the market, however 1t is esti-
mated that there is in this country.
exclusive of Alaska, about 10000 .OOO.-
600 tons of air dry fuel, situated al
most entirely outside the territories
where coal is found.
Commenting on the more important
uses Of peat, the report says
The most important use of peat is
for fuel. 1t is particularly suited fol-
use as domestic fuel, as when properly
prepared and managed, it makes a hot
ana durable fire. Its theoretical heat
ing value is about five-eights of tha
OF the best bituminous coal, but owing
10 the small waste in ash. etc, it's rea
Vaiue is doubtless nearly if not quit,
as great as that Of some Goals that ar,
used for domestic purposes.
The most recent fuel use of peat il
as source Of producer gas The ga
producer shows so great a fue
economy that it can proftably utiliz
grades of fuel that could not he nsa.
for steam generation, and in Europ,
peat is finding a growing use for tn,
purpose. Well-prepared peat give
from 10000 to $4,000 cubic feet of pro
Queer gas per ton Of dry matter, witt
calorific value no less than that O
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
Harvest Time.

Oh! the subtle scent of autumn in the air,
And the leaves like birds are fiuttering
everywhere,
The creaking barns are full as they can
hold
And autumn's lap o'erflows with red and
gold.
The rising mist hides all the changing
trees
The trailing vines run riot as they please,
And forest giants are fiecked with wood
bine bright, = Z
While sumac leaves are at their beauty's
hight.
The sunsets change their dress, and royal
clad
In purple and in crimson colors glad;
And round the cheerful hearth the fire.
light plays.
The marshaled forces of the soldier corn
Are grouped in wigwams now, or tents
fororn;
And rolling pumpkins wait between the
To give the joys that every schoolboy
The earth has given her all. and soon
must rest .=e
SO. when the scent of autumn's in the air
Let us welcome it, and all its glories
share.
Let's scuff our feet once more in piles of
leaves,
And help the workers gather in the
OH let's forget we're grown-up women
and men,
And in the fields be boys and girls again!
Nellie Woodwork Hale in Springfield
Republican. lpet
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
Turkey Waking.

Those of US who have been ac-
| with Turkey to contributing to the
missionary and relief funds, will be
surprised to learn that Turkey has
reached the point where business can
expand and where capitalists can lend
money in that country with some
chance of getting it back. 1t looks as
though poor benighted and misruled
Turkey had caught the pace set by the
Western nations and is ready to take
her place among the nations of the
earth.
Turkey has turned to the United
States for the cash with which to
install the telephone, telegraph and
railroad lines, the electric light and
power stations and the manufacturing
plants which are to make for solid and
profitable business growth. This is
not strange for the United States has
ever been the Land of the Free for
the young Turk who has seen sufficient
light to want to live under better
conditions than exist in his native
land. What more natural then, that as
soon as the young Turks secured con-
troll of the F'atherland they turn to the
land where they learned what freedom
means, for aid in carrying freedom to
their own land Telephones, telegraph
instruments, electric lights and motors
have as much to do with striking the
shackles from a down trodden race rs
literature and the granting of a con-
stitution.
The Washington Post, commenting
on the situation says
1t is not strange that the new i'm
pulses should be directed toward the
United States. The Young Turks
want liberty, not only within their own
borders, but freedom from foreign
control as well. The Turkish states
men need no reminder that capital
borrowed in the United States will be
accompanied by no sinister political
design. American bankers want their
ment has no wish to follow their trail
in the hope of extending American
political influence into fields where too
much international quarreling already
has occurred
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
Show Me.

In Missouri you cannot publish
4 scandal in a newspaper. even though
| it is a matter of court record; you
cannot carry, sell or expose for sale
revolvers, brass knuckles, dirk or other
knives and you cannot publish any
thing which is likely to lead to
divorce. The new game law forblos
the sale of game of any kind. If you
go cunning and succeed in landing
something, you can eat it yourself or
give it away, but you cannot sell it. II
you go to a hotel you will be tucked
| into nine foot sheets. If you use drugs
| to excess the State can put you under
guardianship. These are only few
of Missouris new laws.
Some of them are all right. Some
of them cannot be enforced. Some of
them were never intended to be en-
forced. 1t simply proves that Iegisla-
tive bodies will enact some queer
statutes if given free rein. Suppose
live wire reporter happened to dis
cover that John Jones was in Seekonk
and the fact was duly published in his
paper. Jones wife thought he was in
Kansas City. She investigates and
promptly applies for divorce. Can
Jones sue the paper and have the
whole outfit from the printers devil to
the chief trouble maker incarcerated in
the up-to-date Missouri jails?
What under the sun will some OF
those Missouri yellow terrors do for
copy if the court records are barred?
What sort of a place will Missouri be
to hunt in if a man can't buy a deer
on the way home in order to satisfy
his wife that he didn't play seven up
all the time he was in camp?
Missouri ought to have postponed
the enactment of some of those laws
until after the census enumerators had
been around. There will be such an
exodus from the Show Me" state that
there will be nothing left but ground
hogs and grass widows.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
SEEM Things.

l amt afeard NV snakes, or toads, or
bugs or worms. or mice,
An things at girls are skeered Nv
think are awful nice!
I'm pretty brave, l guess; an yet l hate
to go to bed
For when I'm tucked up warm an snug,
an when my prayers are said,
Mother tells me Happy Dreams!" and
takes away the light,
An leaves me lynn all alone an SEEM
things at night!
Sometimes they're in the corner, some
times they're by the door,
Sometimes they're all a-standin in the
middle Of the floor;
Sometimes they're a-sittin' down, some
times they're walkin' round
So softly an so creepylike they never
make a sound!
Sometimes they're as black as ink. an
other times they're white
But the color amt no difference when
you see things at night!
Once when 1 licked a Teller at had just
moved on our street,
An father sent me up to bed without
bite to eat,
1 woke up in the dark and saw things
standin' in a row,
A'lookin' at me cross-eyed an p'intin' at
me-SO! * eaS
o, my! wuz so skeered that time I never
step mite .os
It's almost alluz when I'm bad see
things at night!
Luck thing l amt girl, or I'd be skeered
to death! :.
Bein' I'm boy, duck my head an hoid
my breath; Id.
An l am, o! so sorry I'm naughty boy
an then
promise to be better an I say my pray
ers again! !.
Gran'ma tells me that's the only way TO
make it right
When Teller has been wicked an sees
things at night.
An so, when other naughty boys woua
coax me into sin, >.
try to skwush the tempter's voice ~
urges me within; -.
An when they's pie for supper, or cake'
ats big an nice, -,
want to-but do not pass my piate
them things twice! ,s,,,v
No, ruther let starvation wipe me SLOW"
out o. sight, .,,,
Than should keep a Twin on an seem
things at night! ,,,.,a
BY Eugene Field
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

gas made from coal. Some progress
has been made in the recovery of
valuable by products in the generation
of gas from peat.
! Peat is of value for numerous other
uses, such as bedding for stock. pack
ing material, deodorizing material, anu
fertilizer filler. Dry peat powder is
used to absorb the refuse .molasses oil
sugar factories, the mixture being sold
as stock food. A peat-moss litter and
| null plant is operated at Garrett, Ind
and factories for making peat fertilizer
| filler have been established in New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York. Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, and Florida some of
these have not been carried beyond the
experimental stage. FibrouS peat has
been mixed with certain mineral and
cementing substances and then sub
jected to hydraulic pressure, the re-
sulting material being tough and hard
and capable of use as a structural
material or for paving blocks. This
industry is inconsiderable as yet.
The production of peat fertilizer
filler in 1908 was $4,000 tons, valued at
about 1921, 900. The peat fuel made
during the year was all machine peat,
the total output being 900 tons and the
selling price from IS to $3.50 a ton.
Peat moss litter is sold in bales Of
225 pounds; the production for 1908
was 5000 bales valued at 100000 The
imports of peat during the year con-
sisted of STOP tons of fuel moss, valued
at $45,414, and a few tons of peat fiber.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Just as we had made up our minds
that the Japs were little short of an
gelic, David Starr Jordan skaters our
dream with the assertion that the laps
are seal poachers. Poor Japs! They
are a hopeless lot. They ought to
know that poaching is heinOus
crime unless committed by an -Ameri
can, Englishman, Russian or Dutch
man
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Manager Jefferson of the Metropo "s
theater, Glasgow, proposes to estaon IN
night creches for the use of visitors A.
babies attending his entertainments a
Jefferson caters almost entirely y
workingAclass disSrict. Night nurs., q
will be attached to the theater, wiz
staff of nurses, and equipped with oo =
toys and baby food. ~ pminal fparss "a
four or six cents eaFH kiF u ade' . snd
food will be supplied at cost price. ~ -
provided by the parents will be gwen
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
thought even for the woman Pasqua
who was his beloved
The Truth.

When the sun comes out,
An the clouds go way,
An the little children
Come out to play, ft@
An the grass looks green,
An the catnaps, curled
On the gate post. amt it
A good old world?
When the hooking bird
Sings a lifting tune,
And the air is liker
The first o. June
Than midwinter air,
Amt your griefs all furled,
An, honest, amt 1t
A good old world?
When sorrow comes,
And your head droops low,
An you've come to know
All chap can know
OF grief, and your hopes
Are in darkness hurled.
An q friend comes, amt it
A good old world. .
It's a good old world,
It's good world, yes,
For the hope and love 4.t
An the tenderness.
That comes when a chap
By rough fate is hurled
In a hopeless heap;
It's a good old world
For the little babies
That laugh and run,
For the cat a-nappin'
Out in the sun
On the high gate post
In a soft heap curled,
For the singin' bird,
It's a good old world!
Houston Post
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
Every desirable emigrant who goe

Every desirable emigrant who goes
loss to the United States, but careful
reconsideration of the facts leads us to
believe that the man who is forever
following the virgin land movement, is
not srch benefit to his country as APP
sspears at first blush. He has Slapped
- land IN half a dozen states and has
y not given The lana an equivalent for
that which he took from it,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
A Bit Djscouraoino.

A young man in Pratt said to the
divine object of his alteration: do you
think your father would object to me
marrying you?'
She replied. 81 don't know. If he's
anything like me he would. kansas
City Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

BY changing the routing of trains
New York has been brought two hours
and thirty-seven miles nearer Chicago
1t is diff 'ult to understand why Chica-
60 permits anything like that unless it
Is TO enable Chicago residents to get to
Moline more quickly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
The first hunting accident of the
season is reported from Woodland.

Portland Press: The friends OF
Cyrus T. Wardwell of Oxford, a
veteran of the 18th Maine regiment.
who this year holds the office of junior
vice department commander of the
Maine G. A. R., are urging him to be-
come a candidate for the Office of de-
partment commander Mr. Wardweil
has always been an active member Of
the department, but has always until
within few years declined to hold
office, and even this year he was
forced to take the office he now holds
against his own inclinations. Mr..
Wardwell has said that he could not
consider the matter of becoming a
candidate for department commander,
but his many friends throughout the
State are urging him to allow the use
of his name. From present indications
it looks as though Col. Thomas G..
Libby of Vinalhaven, Col A. S. Bangs
of Augusta and Thomas J. O'Neil Of
this city and Mr. Wardwell would be
the men most prominently urged by
their friends as candidates for the
highest honors within the gift of the
department.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

How peaceful that Canal zone has
been lately. Isn't it about time
somebody with nothing on his mind
but q mission worked off a little sur
plus energy at the expense of the arti-
fetal creek acroas the Isthmus?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

: Snip subsidies have been gaining
term. The people want their goods to
have a fair chance in foreign markets
and this they cannot have as long as
the goohs are shipped, transhipoed or
delayed, as best suits the ends of the
foreign TRANSFORMATION company.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
Saws the Manchester Union:

Double, poohpooh for the Montgom-
cry Advertiser, which says: There is
again talk of annexing Canada, but
what do we want with it? Wee can't
keep New England straight yet"
If we weren't SO busy getting ready
to celebrate Peary's ability to call
Cock names (and know what he's talk
ing about we'd laugh right out loud
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
Easy.

Homer: 'Say, is it true that they eat
horse meat in PARISH
Trotter: yes"
Homer: "And how is it served?
Trotter: "a la cart, of course
Chicago News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
Charles Reade's Mistake,

ut was Charles Reade, wasn't it, who
wrote. Nothing is so terrible as a
fooP?"
Eyes. but he was wrong. I live next
door to newly married couple. If
Charles could see them he would at
once admit that two. fools are even
more terrible. Chicago Record Her
add
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
The Face of Fate.

The destiny that shapes our ends
gave hollow laugh.
whats the use of my being on the
job with the present coiffures?" it
snorted.
Herewith it realized it's helplessness.
New York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

A Pennsylvania pastor gives box
young men to Sunday school. That
pastors salary is due for terrible
wrench FIJI
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
The Reason Why,

Ibid you see where the Department
of Agriculture insists on eggs being
sold in the original package-the
natural one?"
81 suppose that it is to prevent the
consumers from getting the bad end
of shell game.''-Baltimore Ameri-
can.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Prosperity will reduce the ranks of
the. regular army. though it is difficult
to see any good reason therefor. The
army is always on the job
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
An Offhand Opinion.

do you think anybody ought to read
that book"
Judge from the immense interest it
appears to have created" answered
Miss Cayenne, 81 should say not
Washington Star
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

! The summer visitor wonders where
on earth we get living when they are
not here and we wonder where on
earth they get the money to lie idle all
summer. The fact is that both have
to hustle during the winter time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
Glad Iidinds.

"Jane," floated down voice, eff that
is Mrs. Soandso I'm not i'm
''It is Mrs. Soandso," fioated upward
a voice, land she's glad to hear it,
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Uncle Sans corn crop is going to be
the biggest in the history of the coun-
try, and the farmer is going to get a
fair price for it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
A Steady Job.

Caller: "Snip &. Co, have employed
to collect the bill you owe them
Owens: "You are to be congratulated,
sir, on securing a permanent position
Boston Transcript.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
But Il Didn't Ston Him,

Nell overheard Fred and his bride
quarreling behind this rock just now
she was weeping.
Jack-Ah, the moaning Of the tied.
so to speak.-London Illustration.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

"A water power in Maine rnay not be
at work, but you can rest assured that
it is increasing in value. If capital
can be Interested in it. it will increase
in value the faster. that is all.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
Defined,

What is the difference between valor
and discretion?''
well, to go through Europe with
out tipping would be valor."
81 see.'
"And to come back by different
route would be discretion" Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

The automobile driver who rushes
away after an accident is worse than
a coward, if such degree of depravity
exists
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
Different Now.

The captain was receiving the new
MILDLY. "Well, boy. the old story,
suppose--fool of the family sent to
sea?"
ooh no. sir" piped the boy. that's
all alerted since your day."-Purple
Cow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

What on earth has happened to
Wellman? He hasn't let zip out~of
him since Cook came tumbling down
from the ice packs
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

If the English House of Lords de-
clincs to accept the proposition of the
Commons az regards land taxes, there
are likely to be some interesting de-
Velopments.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

The man who talks good roads and
then tears the binder off a splendid
piece of macadaln by driving his au-
tomobile so miles an hour, ought to be
suppressed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
ESTABLISHED 1s2s

No notice whatever will b taken Of
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held response
BILE for the preservation or return OF
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH & FLYNT, Publish
ers, Augusta, Maine.