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Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-04-17
SUBSCRIBERS TO THE bulletin WHO
MISS their THIS Week WILL CONFER
v BY PHONING THE APPEAL Bis. THE
PAPER WILL BE SENT AT ONCE BY MESSEN-
GER.

A FEW PAPERS in Nevada are giving good deal OF space, edi-
torial and other, to promoting. Nevada in a general way. This is
and refreshing Nevada today is going ahead so fast that old timers
The machinery houses that supply the mining industry are swamped
with orders Two new camps that bid fart rival Goldfed N Tono-
ph are Pioneer and Lucky Boy where booms are o in progress.
Agriculture is receiving as much attention a mining the cattle
and sheep business never a more prosperous.
produced than at any time in the last quarter of Il century.
Nevada is ali right and all now required is that the press of the
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-04-17

Job work done at The Appeal.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-04-17
rnE REFLECTIONS OF A nARRlED

TIE KEFLE( ITONS OF a
AMA WO1AN-are not pleasant:
n2&HA if she is delicate, rundown,
,~ or over worked. She feels
N"H played out" Her smile
and her good spirits have
N taken flight. 1t worries
ASkN> her husband as we'll as
~~N herself.
'',r This is the time
~M to build up her
IN H. strength and
NM ~ cure hos
NTI or ailments
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25

then in exile, had a throne without a
realm at st. Germaine and was on his
deathbed. In a fit of sympathy and chiv-
airy Louis promised his cousin, the dying
James, that he would recognize his
son, later the pretender as King of Eng
land. Up to that time not even William
of Orange. then king, could induce the
English to resume the war with France;
but when Louis chose a king for them
they flew to arms
Fortunately, William of Orange died
before the fire of the first gun, and that
made way for Marlborough to command
not only the English, but all the allies.
Every battle he fought was a victory,
every city he besieged capitulated, and
had not his "termagant duchess" quar-
relied with Queen Anne, it is quite likely
he would have besieged and taken Paris
The party of Bolingbroke, however
brought about peace, saved France, and
left Bourbon on the Spanish throne. 1t
would be curious. indeed, if the England
of two centuries later, in league with
France, should go to war with Germany
over the succession to the Spanish
throne
1t is inconceivahIe
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
Proposed Prohibition Amendment

The conference of the opponents of
constitutional prohibition. to be held
at Montgomery on September Is, is
looked forward to with intense inter
est and great hopefulness by all who
desire to see this state keep out of
Names position. In that New England
state prohibition has been part of
the state constitution 46 years, and
yet the arrests for drunkenness in
Portland and other Maine cities are
fully as numerous, proportionately, as
they are in cities that are not under
constitutional prohibition. Constitution
al prohibition no more prohibits, in
other words, than does a statute or
municipal ordinance.
The conference at Montgomery
should take broad grounds. 1t should
appeal to the common sense of the
state. While the problem of regulat-
ing the sale of strong drinks is in
keep its laws on that subject fluid and
elastic, subject to any change that ex-
perience may suggest. In Alabama
the people elect their representatives
in the legislature by direct popular
vote and surely they can trust them
selves when they go to the polls.
Because Governor Conner and pro-
fessional prohibitionists demand con-
stitutional prohibition is not sufficient
reason for tying the hands Of the state
by rendering its laws inelastic. The
conference at Montgomery will pre-
sent the matter in a plain, business
like manner. Is it better to go along
perfecting our laws relating to liquor
from time to time, or is it better to
fasten one fixed policy on the state
and to nail 1t down SO that 1T can
not be readily changed, no matter how
unwise or Intellectual it may prove to
be? A large attendance at the COM
ing conference is assured and that a
strong and telling appeal will be made
to the intelligence and conservatism
and tolerance of the patriotic men Of
this state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
NEW RULE IN DRAW POKER.

From the American Magazine.
A game of poker Gather a stiff one)
had been going on for about a fortnight
in the Red Light saloon. The same group
of men, five or six old friends, made UP
the game every day. All had varying
success but one, who lost every day. And,
come to think of it, his luck varied, too,
for some days he lost more than others.
While he did not say much about his los
not improving.
This sort of thing went on for Is days.
The thirteenth day the loser happened to
come in a little late, after the game was
started 1t also happened that on this
particular day one of the players had
brought in a friend a stranger in the
town, to join the game. When the loser
came in therefore, he was introduced to
the stranger and sat down. A hand was
dealt him. He started to play it, stopped
raped on the table for attention and
said:
Boys, I want to make a personal ex-
PLANTATION to this yere stranger. Stranger,
this we're game is sure tight wad for a
smoothbore. I'm loser in 1t, an a id
heavy one, for exactly 10 days, and those
a gun l find I can beat, I'm going to
take a six-shooter an make him play with
me a week. Now II you have no OBJ
jections to my rules, you can draw
cards
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
HEIGHT OE HUMILITY.

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Patrick F. Murphy, at an American
Society banquet in Paris, recently told
his famous humility" story.
LAS we Americans" he said, com
pare our country with foreign lands and
compare ourselves with the foreigners
We have no cause for humility. No cause
to emulate the local preacher.
"A poor local preacher was once in
vited to a luncheon given by his bishop
to all the pastors of the diocese. These
pastors were for the most part eloquent,
learned and successful men. The local
preacher felt very humble among them.
"A few minutes after the beginning of
the luncheon the bishop noticed, at the
foot of the long table, subdued commo-
ton. Then a strange and horrible odor
floated to him.
Dear me- he exclaimed, wrinkling
up his nose. there's a very odd smell in
the room, I think.
"A profound and awkward silence en-
sued. Then, in the midst of this silence.
the local preacher said calmly and mod
estly:
It's only my egg. bishop
1.-THE bishop turned to one of the serv-
ants.
Take the gentleman's egg away he
said It's a bad one.'
q" oh, no, bishop, said the local preach
er, continuing to eat on. DO not trouble,
sir. 1t is quite good enough for me- ="
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
WESTON, GRAND OLD MAN.
His Grit an Example to Men No
Longer Young.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It is impossible to contemplate Weston
and his achievements without satisfac-
ton. Here is a man, II years old, who
in 100 days has walked about 1000 miles,
an average of 40 miles a day. What Wes-
ton has done should give hope to every
one. If one man is young and strong at
threescore and ten, why not the rest Of
us? If not as a walker, yet in other
ways may a man be as good as ever after
he has passed the scriptural limit of
years. Walking is Westons profession,
to be sure but confidence and a refusal
to acknowledge the mastery of relentless
father time have made possible his ac-
complishments. Senator Aldrich is verg-
ing on 20, yet he struggled through the
fearful Washington heat and domineered
the American Senate without giving sign
of physical or mental fatigue. Stateeraft
is Aldrchs business, as walking is Wes-
tons, but 1t is the unconquerable spirit
of perseverance and self-confidence that
counts even more than the practice that
tends to make perfect
Weston is a grand old man of America.
He deserves well for the example he has
set, for his service is showing the Amer
lean youth the value of grit, and for in
dicating to this same American youth
that efficiency does not disappear with
the coming of gray hairs
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
BASEBALL In IOWA.

From the Manchester Qowa) Press.
In the third and fourth our swatters
leaped upon Mr.. Johnsing and rent him.
after which they sublet him. By the time
the dead had been removed from the field
the enemy had yielded up four runs, due
largely to Mr.. Johnsings mistaking the
NJ. and o. roundhouse for the plate. But
he was not the only one whose brain was
80 per cent added. The nimble Mr.. Rog-
ers, who played all day like sunstruck
goat, and the agile Mr. Brink, who ca
vorted around in center field Hike an ossi-
fed octogenarian gave Mr.. Johnsing the
dazzling support of a Ferris waist on a
fat lady. At the end of the fourth Mr..
Johnsng removed himself from the foot
lights, by request, and twirled sad
thumbs on the bench.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
THE SPANISH CROWN.

From the Washington Post.
There is a more or less curious sug-
gestion in a European letter that Don
Jaime is to marry princess of the house
of Hohenzollern, and it Is surmised that
the Kaiser will support the Carlist claim
to the Spanish purple The present queen
of Spain is an English princess, niece
of King Edward VII, and thus Great
Britain and Germany might go to war
over a Spanish succession.
There was a tremendous struggle over
the question whether an Austrian or a
Bourbon prince should sit on the spanish
throne 200 years ago. When 1t began,
Louis XIV was the most powerful mon
arch in Europe and his reign the most
illustrious France had ever known. Ills
armies had been invincible and he had
extended the domain of France very con-
siderably by conquest or by diplomacy.
If the quarrel had been left to strus-
gle between the house of Bourbon and It's
continental rivals and enemies, the con-
fict would have been short and the VIC
tory never in doubt. But as fate would
have 1t, the head of the house of Stuart
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
Therefore was created with a stub
born outside, with an aspect of iron.
king HENRY V.
Work of the Session

Governor Conner called the legisla-
ture together to put before the peo-
pie a biennial sessions amendment
and a new county amendment, and it
did neither. He summoned it to ap-
pear in the state house to pass a COM
pulsory education bill, a forestry bill
and the long pistol bill and all were
lost in the shuttle. The railroad laws
that were passed, about 10 in number.
repealed as a rule some unwise and
drastic provisions of the wild raid of
1907 upon the railroads Even the
bill which sought to make mileage cou-
pons receivable on the trains and to
abolish the railroad rule that a ticket
must be used on the day of its pur-
chase we're defeated. The anti-rail-
road sentiment of the state has, it is
plain, largely subsidized, as such spasms
generally do.
The state administration got from
the legislature during the special ses-
sion now ended a series of prohibition
bills of an extremely radical nature,
and it proposes to cap these radical
untried bills with constitutional prohi-
bition. The radical railroad laws
mould IN tbic NOV he oufdopa for
no attempt was made to imbed those
enactments in the fundamental law
But the Comer-Lawrence prohibition
scheme can not be carried that far
except with the consent Of the peo-
pie, and 1t is scarcely conceivable that
the people will say statewide prohi-
bition bill buttressed by all sorts of
devices is insufficient and that it must
be capped with a constitutional pro-
vision which could be changed by
years of agitation only. The state
should not, in other words, be put in
an embarrassing tied-up position. 1t
has statewide prohibition and surely
any reasonable prohibitionist should
be content with that.
Very little wise legislation has come
from the special session, and all will
breathe deeper and freer now that it
has adjourned never, it is hoped. to
meet again. The governor may, how
ever, call it together again next sum-
mer II he thinks his biennial sessions
amendment should be laid before the
people. The cost of an extra session
would not come out of his own pocket
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
"FULLERLICKER" BILL

Speaker Carmichael, Representative Hoff-
man of Mobile succeeded in having his
personal protest against the Fuller prohi-
bition bill spread on the journal of the
house The protest of Mr.. Hoffman is
also made against the paid lobbyists who
have filed this capitol in support OF the
prohibition measures. Incidentally, Mr..
Hoffman in his protest quoted Governor
Corners message to the legislature when
he was inaugurated. In this message the
governor recommended that lobbying
should be prohibited by law and urged
that the name of every paid lobbyist and
the amount he received should be reg
istered'
Why was the miserable Hoffman al
lowed to smear the archives of Alabama
with his invidious observations upon the
bill, and the methods by which 1t was
passed? Why was he allowed to smudge
the annals of the "grandoldstate" with a
to-be-printed account of how one of the
unregenerate bucked against the newt
able, upon the very edge Of the epoch
of sinlessness? Why was not debate
or the capital appendage Of the kicker
cut off before a proud commonwealth was
Inundated by the exposure of the dis
graceful fact that there was a Hoffman
within her borders?
The Rev. Samuel A. Peters, whose tory
ism necesstated his flight to England at
the beginning of the American Revolu-
ton, wrote in his General History of
Connecticut an account of the blue laws
of New Haven colony, notable for spite
full exaggeration. 1t contained nothing
more ridiculous than the Alabama law,
enacted in this day of enlightenment, in
frenzied effort to force one segment
of society to adopt rules of personal con-
duct promulgated by another segment.
promulgated his blue laws more than a
half century later than the tory minister
wrote his history of Connecticut, acted
under the influence of well-meaning mis-
sionaries whose ideas were puritanical and
whose ancestors WERE in part, Puritans.
He hardly went as far the Twentieth
century Alabama lawmakers go in looping
off the rights of citizens for the benefit
of their stomachs and souls.
The "Fulerlicker' bill would be an
alarming invasion of individual rights If
there were the slightest prospect of its
surviving a test in court and being en-
forced. But because there Is no posi-
bility of it's enforcement 1t is amusing,
II ones sense of humor Is greater than
his interest in the sanity of our deliberate
bodies, and somewhat discouraging If
the reverse is true.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
Regarding Small Industries.

Birmingham needs more small indus
tries said a prominent business man.
land how to get them is a question that
should receive the thoughtful and earnest
attention of our citizens.
Several manufacturing concerns have
been established here within the past u
months but there should be many times
more than we have. Chattanooga is a
model manufacturing city, FOR any man
who goes there with a good manufacture
ing project and $4,000 in money can raise
among the citizens $4,000 or $4,000 or
even $4,000 with which to supplement his
own capital. All man has to do is to
show the people of Chattanooga that he
is willing to risk his own money and he
can get anything he wants within reason
in the way of associate capital.
Chattanooga has been built up largely
by its small industries and these small
industries are there as the result of pub
lie spirit and cooperation on the part
of the public"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
MECHANICS OF cABMEN.

From the London Chronicle.
One wonders If the spruce taxicab
drivers will ever riot in such a wealth of
ncknames as the old-time horsed cab
men. Before us lies the list of the newly
elected annuitants of the Cab Drivers
Benevolent association, an admirable in
stitution, which is under the kindly pat
ronage of the king. And the picturesque
namesake crops up. Trust in Provi-
dence," one notes, has secured the high
est vote-his real name is huston. Mick
ey" chow do you coin it out of Albert
AlexanderD; Jack Fry of Chalk Farm"
Teddy Dempster. Langham Rank" !;
"Old CHARLIE such like names are most
ly of an obvious origin. But one Is
curious to know how Thomas Reeves
earned his distinctive title of Tommy
the Pigeon Flyer
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25

So Birmingham has decided that she
just must have one hundred and fifty
thousand inhabitants from somewhere.
The legislature rather peremptorily re-
fused to move the capitol over there. Is
Birmingham to come back by anueXlng
Montgomery to her own corporate linn
it's? We are reliably informed, however,
that Mobile will not be included, and
it is possible that Huntsville will es-
cape"
There is one thing that did escape,
and that was an adjoining county In
seeking a pitiably small additional pop
ulation Atlanta did not hesitate to in
wade an adjoining county and to an
mex even its county seat. DeKalb
county has emerged from Atlanta's
grasping raid sadly marred and distig-
ured DeKalb and Fulton counties have
been jumbled together in a manner
that almost prevents their best friends
from recognizing either Birmingham
is to be confined to pent-up Jones val
ley. all lying in one county. When At
lanta acts as reasonably and justly as
Birmingham has done 1t will have a
better right to wax sarcastic.
But after all the proof of the pud-
ding is in the counting, and Birming-
ham respectfully refers the Journal to
the enumerators of next April, who
will allot Atlanta its true standing,
and what they do not do their sue
cessors in 1920 will do, and that will
be a-plenty.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
Atlanta Is DiSpleased

In commenting on the news that
there Is to be a Greater Birmingham
the Atlanta Journal graciously and
nobly says:
1.-THE city Of Birmingham had decided
TO enlarge it's boundaries. Already, on
one or two occasions recently, 1t has
inhaled deep breath and succeeded in
expanding its proportions somewhat after
the manner CT the frog in the fable
But as it casts its eyes abroad-per-
haps beyond the Chattahoochee-it real
ises that when the census man comes
along next year he may write. Meme.
name. takeI. upharsin. instead of one
hundred and nifty thousand inhabitants.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
Commission TO Select Jurors

The legislature utterly refused to lift
from the state the stain and inhu-
manity of the fee system, but it did
take from the fee brigade the work of
drawing grand and petit juries For
this service the thanks of the people
are due
Heretofore jurors have been selected
by county officers; hereafter commits
sioners appointed by the governor in
each county will place every name of
a qualified man between the ages of
81 and 65 in the jury box and the
Judge himself will draw from that box
any jury he may need in his court.
Some discretion is vested in the COM
mission In determining who are quail
lied to sit as jurors and who are no..
But the new bill aims to secure equal
fly of service by providing that when
ever name is drawn from the box it
Is not to be put back until it has
been exhausted and refilled But if
9. man whose name is drawn is ex-
cused for any cause except disqualifi-
cation then his name is to be put back
in the box.
This law does not go into effect
until January next and the prediction
is freely made that it will prove the
one good and wholly satisfactory gen.
eral law of the extra session.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
CAMPAIGNING IN KENTUCKY.


1t Is a strenuous experience to run for
office in Kentucky. A contemporary of
Marse Henry's state tells what happened
to a candidate who seems to have over
looked no point in the fine art of cam
paigning, although he was not elected.
He made 13 stump speeches-told 126
lies-betrayed four friends-nursed "
babes-lost II lead pencils-broke two
fountain pens-ate 5S4 eggs-sparked and
kissed q girls and six old maids-had one
mare crippled-swapped saddles once
thanked one man for some 'possum OIL
spent S643. SO for expenses-had ga lies
told to him-broke out one window pane
while escaping from an angry old maid
prayed three prayers-gave thanks AZ
times-slept with one brother-was lost
once on Abner's ridge-went to mill seven
times-canvassed in three counties and
three states-bought 25 cents worth of
cigars and tobacco-laid down 166 fence
gaps-saw two wild turkeys-had seven
dreams, one was that he was walking on
Howard and Bailey logs on April 3, but he
soon found out that it was only passway
over to the Bull Hole-traveled $3.50 miles
received 40 congratulations, saying "Old
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
No Check Of Prosperity In Sight

The alleged breakdown of E. H.
Harriman's health may not have
wholly caused the steep drop in the
prices of securities in Wall street last
week. That great market had for fully
three months been discounting pros
perity. until an advance of from 20
to so points had been established in
active stocks. In other words, Wall
street had overdone the discounting
OF general prosperity. A recession
naturally occurred, accelerated, no
doubt, by the reports concerning Mr..
Harriman's health.
But when farm products are in sight
worth over $4,000, 100000, as against
a record of Sits, 900 900 last year, no
mans health or illness or even death
can change the course of general trade
The crops are here or soon will be,
and so will a car shortage be. The
merchandise imports have rarely been
heavier, and the iron and steel mills
of the country are running to 80 per
cent of their capacity. All the bases
of prosperity are here, and the illness
of no one man can check the bust
ness movement that rests alike on ag-
ricuture and industries, both unsur-
passed elsewhere
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY.

By w. E. Henley.
When forlorn sunsets flare and fade
On desolate sea and lonely sand,
Out of the silence and the shade
What is the voice of strange command
Calling you still, as friend calls friend
With love that cannot brook delay,
To rise and follow the ways that wend
Over the hills and far away?
Hank in the city, street on street.
A roaring reach of death and life,
Of.vortices that clash and fleet
And ruin in appointed strife,
Hank to it calling, calling clear,
Calling until you cannot stay
From dearer things than your own most
dear
Over the hills and far away.
Out of the sound of ebb and flow,
Out of the sight of lamp and star,
1t calls you where the good winds blow
And the unchanging meadows are:
From faded hopes and hopes agleam,
1t calls you, calls you night and day
Beyond the dark into the dream
Over the hills and far away.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press

Pleasure is largely brainless activity.
No matter how quick girl can fall
in love she can do 1t oftener.
It's always a comfort to a woman to
know how good her husband would be to
her If he appreciated her.
There's hardly anything more danger
Gus to man than for a girl to get en-
gagged to him with the intention of marry
ing him.
One Of the disappointing things about
raising son is he will have to have the
same bad luck going through the same
thing with hia-