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The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-04-09

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The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-04-09

A gentleman once said 20 3 barrlster,
'srhat was q very good sermon of your
fathers today" To which be replieds
'YeB. He must have eribbed e from
some one" But the father overheard
this remark and reminded him that TIE
Bible says, "The OK knoweth bis owner
and the ass bis masters crib" This
cauBtic reply silenced the barrister.--
London Telegraph.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-04-09

The evidences Of Gives genius said
Lord CuFsOn, were ineontestabie. "a
nine years he had risen from being q
poor and unknown CLERK % Be one of
the most famous captains % Me oWn
o. any other age.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-04-09

'"Teu me about your early stru1Biea,
grandpa"
"Oh, ] never had Ne early struggles,
JOhnny. I slus took things jest a.
they eoms." - Louisville CouFisf-J ctr
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The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-04-09

5ack-What 10 the true inwardnsns
Of this suffrage movement
Bill-Just en- advance notice 70 men
10 set OF the eaTth.
Jack-But Whers win we got
Dll-WhereYoE they cell us TO-
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-04-09

He seOlds best that can Aurt tAs
Ioast.-Dunish PF0voFb.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14
Paid Excess Freight.
from Everybody's Magazine

From EVerybodys s Magazine.
 Anybody could see that the little fat lady was in a hurry. The Nord Ex I,ess was waiting outside, and they had told her she might go to the station early in order to have her trunk weighed She had trunk modest yellow trunk, one of those fiber affairs they sell you with the tale that it Is so light that you will save lot of money in baggage charges. But the porter who brought it made as much fuss over it as if 1t had been full of bricks.
 That was acting, and the fat little lady paid no attention to 1t.
 Put 1t there," she ordered, pointing to the scale where an amiable brgand was waiting, fanked by a boy with the labels and paste pot, and surrounded by ad- hiring constituents who expressed great astonishment at the expert way he read the figures on the indicator. The little fat lady was in a hurry, but she did not intend to be cheated, so she stepped close to the amiable brlgand and peered at the scale. The amiable brigand weighed her in with the trunk and gave her the slip, indicating, with a fine. expressive wave of his hand the window to which she was to take it. The boy pasted the green label on, another porter seized the trunk and took 1t away, and the little fat lady pushed her slip through the window, where a distin- guished old man peered at it for min ute and wrote on 1t "Sixty-six francs"
 "What?" gasped the little fat lady.
 "'Sixty-six francs, madame,'
 She wrinked her forehead into many corrugations and figured it out.
 Why, you old scoundrel," she piped, that is S13.20."
 "SixtysiX francs, madame, insisted the man behind the window.
 For one little. tiny bit of trunk It's some mistake. I will not be robbed in this fashion. Weigh 1t again"
 The trunk was gone. The little fat lady appealed wildly to everybody in sight, but from behind the window came mo- notonously: "Sixty-six francs.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14
You Shall Not Marry!

q do not intend to permit a marriage that will breed more criminals. I will suspend sentence on the grand larceny charge, but if I hear of your marriage I will send you to jail"
 Thus said Judge Foster of New York city to Albert E. Johnson. prisoner at the bar.
 Johnson was out on suspension of sen- tence and had done something to violate his parole. girl who claimed to be his fiancee interceded for him.
 Whereat the judge pronounced his nasty and heartless decision.
 With what wisdom beyond his deserts has this judge been blessed? How should he know much that is unknow- able? And how is he able to predict that the marriage of Johnson and his sweet heart will breed criminal children?
 Does he know, pray. of such a thing as hereditary larceny?
 Because ones father or grandfather or earlier forbear happened to be a thief, does that necessarily make one a criminal? If you go back far enough in any mans genealogy you can find a thief.
 Hereditary will account for some things, chiefly physical. Environment accounts for more. Is Albert Johnson apter to live a criminal life with rather than without wife? Do the responsibilities of home and family tend to make a man wayward? Is the thought of prospective children so- bering or otherwise?
 This Johnson is not bad man, else the judge certainly would not turn him loose
 He cannot be so very bad if a respect
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14
Your Boys Properly.

If vou give your boy a pig when 1t IS
 small and it becomes fathers hog when
 if grows big. a little lamb that grows into
 fathers sheep. small calf that grows in-
 to fathers COW, why. you are confusing
 your boys sense of property rights, and
 you make a criminal of him.
 Is the statement strong?
 value involved in ownership and its effect
 on your boy?
 Fiehtv per cent of all criminals are
 nropertyless people who have never been
 taught to do things skllfully!
 Here, then, Is place to begin m max ing good citizens, because when you heip
 the boy to own things and to make his own living he has respect for the property of others and is willing to let them make their own living
 Our very civilization rests on the basis of property rights. Break down these rights and you have anarchy. l It is a long road by which humans nave | come to the knowledge Of the dlnerehce | between mine and thine. Our stone age parents came to treasure | a carved bone or a crude tool, club or knife or hammer or what not, and thus develop the sense of property You can see the beginning of that in your baby boy.
  high chair and note the primeval howl or the property ownerl Let another child try to capture your baby's toys. There Is social conflict at once.
 Now this sense of ownership4Rnd re- spect for property are strong in your boy, and if he grows up right they must be deyeloped in him-not for his sake alone, but societys Let the child have something or his own-his own chicken, his own spot in the garden, his own tree. It will develop in him not only pride and care of ownership, but will teach him to respect the property of other people. And the latter respect Is vitally necessary in the moral development of the boy, be- cause
 A mere desire for property may easily land a man in the penitentiary! Who is the boy that slashes tree or ruins lawn?
 It is the boy who has no lawn or tree of his own. = Who is the boy that loots a garden of it's fruits and tramples down the vines or flowers?
 It is the boy that has no garden, who never grew any fruit or flowers. Therefore the importance of making the
 boy-or girl, for that matter-the owner of something, however small Ownership is
 magic wand for opening the moral side of man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14
The Secret,

Does the world owe man a living?
 Yes-and no.
 1t owes him a chance to earn a living, and, having given him the chance, he owes the world the service necessary to earn his living.
 It was said in the beginning that man must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, not by the sweat of some other mans brow.
 But some raen eat bread for which no sweat has been expended.
 And that is not the worst of it.
 There are those who steal another mans opportunity to earn bread and by so doing steal tho bread out of that mans mouth
 The monopolist for instance, does that very thing. And when a man Is thus crowded out of his chance, and can find no other chance, then the world does owe him living
 But, thank goodness, few men en- tirely denied the chance to sweat for their bread. What pinches most of us is this
 We are crowded out of our opportunity to do what We would like to do. We are forced to take up an uncongenial task. 1 We are willing to work, but we want to select the job.
 Well, it Is rather pitiful, but
 We cannot all of us be awarded the task we prefer. We may theorize anu declalm on what society ought to be and ought to do, but after all our theories we must face things as they are and make the best of them.
 Some philosophers say the secret of hu- man happiness Is only to be found In the doing of the work one most desires to do. That Is to be doubted Happiness may be found that way, other things being equal, for it is undeniable there is a certain joy in a chosen task. But there Is another way in which hap piness may be found-comparative happi- ness, for all happiness is comparative and 1t is a deeper happiness than the mere joy of congenial labors. That way is to do what thy hand find eth to do-do it cheerfully and heartily and be herewith content. ] An, my friend, if you are bravely doing the task that Is next to you, denying yourself, sacrificing yourself, and if you are well satisfied to do that task man. fully, ungrudgingly, until you can do bet 1 ter, you have got close to the secret. | It Is mighty poor philosophy that com- forts only the man who gets everything | he wishes for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14
Anna Morqan.

The preachers and moralists are al- ways saying to the people of our day: l Money will not satisfy" l Insist these ethical teachers: You in
 your commercialism shall be like that
 desert traveller who,. thirsting to his l death. eagerly grasped a bag. which he | then threw away in despair, saying, Oh. I It's only goldv'
 And the moralists are not without their | witnesses and converts, as note the ca l reer of Miss Anna Morgan, youngest daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan, the rich l flnancier
 Miss Morgan is beautiful. talented, ed- l ucated, rich. She has tried every phase | of social pleasure. travelled widely, hunt ed, dressed. sslpated-everything that | goes with great wealth. In vain Social triumphs failed to sat- | isfy this woman of heart and brains She looked about her to see if there was not something really worth a woman's | while in the world She found a world of wretchedness and of opportunity. What thoughts came to herl Did she or did Helen Gould before her, think of how her great opportunity had been brought about? However that may be- Helen Gould gave up society to do a womans work in the world. She discovered within two stones throw of her palatial home worn and weary women who stopped. thn-shoulders and
 wan faces, over grimy cigar benches
 making cigars at unseemly hours, under
 unsanitary surroundings and for paltry
 wages. Here was a deeper appeal to an inn
 mortal soul than hunting horses or fancy
 lapdogs.
 In extending her investigations Miss Morgan discovered the dock laborers at the Brooklyn navy yard, 700 of them. These men work at exhaustive labor for long hours. Their hard conditions stirred the pity of Miss Morgan. Now she has completed a large res
 taurant, where the laborers get substan-
 tial meals properly cooked, well served, at cost.
 Miss Morgan's theory is that "a man
 well fed is already @ halfway moral
 man." She has learned to look below
 the rough exterior of the laborers She
 talks with them, visits in their poor
 homes, and woe betide the boss who
 abuses one of the men.
 This fine woman laughs at the call of
 society. She says she is much happier
 in her ministry. Like Helen Gould she
 does not intend to marry, but continue
 in her work.
 Welk does not this rather prove again
 the saying of the moralists about the
 supremacy of the soul over material
 things?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14
USE OF THE FILTHY WEED.
Tobacco Stories Told of the Chancel-
 Tor of Georgia University.

From the Atlanta Georgian.
 Several years ago when Chancellor Nell of the State university was presid ing over one of the Baptist conventions, a speaker who was addressing the body in the interest of some cause launched into an impassioned arraignment of the tobacco habit. He came very near de- feating his object. But Dr. Nell adroitly parried the effect by some good-natured remark; and he afterward declared that while the man was making his attack upon the weed he was himself almost dying for a smoke.
 On another occasion one of the fair pensioners of Dr. W. ". Landrum, for merly pastor of the First Baptist church o fthis city, saw him with a lighted cigar in his mouth and expressed her disap- proyal in mortified terms.
 But the ever-ready clergyman was not in the least disconcerted. Madam" said he, springing an argument which the de- vout lady could not resist, 'I am doing what the Scripture enjons-I am burn ing an idol"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14
Copyright, 1909. by American Press Asso-
 ninfinaa
Mrs. Walter Rrinkerhoff.
e heroine of Molokai is dead.

Mrs. Walter Rrinkerhoft.
 The heroine of Molokai is dead
 For three years Mrs. Walter Brlnker- hof was ministering angel to the wretched lepers of the Hawaiian death colony For three years she stood by the side of her heroic husband. Dr. Brink erhof supporting him in his loathsome task in that most pitiful corner of all the world.
 As the beautiful and wealthy niece of John Long, former secretary of the navy, of Boston she had every advantage of high social standing and seemed destined to a brilliant career in the higher circles.
 Then she fell in love with Walter Brnkerhoff.
 That changed her whole view point of life. Brinkerhoff was an enthusiastic pathologst with a big heart.
 Against the protest of her relatives and friends she married the man she loved and went direct to the most awful place on Gods footstool-the open sore Of the world.
 And there they two, self expatriated from the world forever. fronted living death.
 And now the heroine of Molokai is dead
 Did we say dead? No. Such life can never die. While the annals of human heroism remain this story shall be told throughout the world for a memorial of her And she will always live In hearts made softer by her sacrifice. But
 What reprof in such life to those women of society who are of no use either to themselves or others, who in the midst of selfish pleasures die daily of ennuil And if by some miracle of love they could see some vision of high service like this delicate woman faced they would not need to hasten to the leper precincts of MoolSai.
 city and town.
 Down in the slums where the red lights flare where women sell their souls for siIver ana men buy disease and damna- tion down where the passion of lust burr men and women into the sembiance ol social earrion-there is your Molokai. And there Is a leprosy not or the hesh but as deadly. ,- There's always enough to do In SIT ridden world, and the woman who mas lnt leisure to do it and the disposition 70 oo | it need never cross the corporate hihlts o' | her own community. l.. Along every byway are lepers to pc healed. The do not cry "unciean! ou' they are lepers just the same. l. Men and women and little chlloren IT | every place daily face a. future tnat i' | as hideous and as pitiful as the llVlne death of the leper lazars. ,., And there are few angels or mercy WILT | the unselfsfi devotion shown by the sWee' l heroine of Molokai.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14

able young woman loves him, pleads for him and wants to marry him.
 Who is Judge oster that he should step between two people who love each other? There is higher court than his. It is the supreme court of love where Gu pid presides.
 It cannot be denied that mistaken mar riages have caused much woe. but that is no indictment of marriage. There Is as much danger in undermarrage as in over marriage.
 Men everywhere plead their inability to afford a wife and family. Meantime i'm morality increasesi
 A judge of all persons should wherever possible foster the marriage relation.
 Many a young man who has gone wrong in his earlier years has been made over into a good citizen by his wife. How does Judge Foster know 1t will be a failure in Johnson's case?
 Marriage makes or mars men and wo- men, but 1t Is true that 1t is the most ef- fectiye known means for the uplift Of society
 If that girl loves Albert Johnson and he loves her the smartest thing Judge Foster can do Is to let them marry Else what is to become of them?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14

in their direction is apt to prove dsas- trous, especially if it lands in a nest of eggs.
 If your apple blossoms do not ma terialize by the end of May it is a sign that they are backward. and a compara- lively inexpensive method of improving the appearance of the trees is to drape them with artificial flowers which may be bought in festoons for BIO a rod
 Watch your hired man at this season of the year with unusual care lest those tired feelings indigenous to his kind at this time strike In and become chronic materially impairing his muscular aetioIi. Do not feed him too much pie--not more than 15 or 20 slices per day-since super abundance of pastry breeds incidence. A sure method of getting him up in the morning Is a stick of dynamite exploded under his bed al , a. m., only you must exercise great care that it does not get him up so high that he never comes down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14
What a Mere Man Did.

History repeats itself.
 There Is the old story of Darby and Joan. Husband and wife, each dissatis- fled exchanged their labors for a day, with salutary effect.
 In St. Louis William O'Day and wife made a permanent exchange. MT. O'Day, plain and fancy cook, dry starcher house. keeper etc, did the work in the home, while Mrs O'Day fared forth as the fam fly breadwinner.
 O'Day's daily schedule, as told to the police judge was as follows:
 a. m.-Arises and prepares breakfast, making biscuits and pancakes, frying eggs. meats, etc.
 5:so a. m.-Wakes wife, gives her break fast
 ; 7:3O a. m-Wakes his three sons and after giving them breakfast sends them to school; eats his own breakfast.
 7:30 to II a.. m.-Cleans house, sweep ing, dusting. washing windows
 Ii a. m.-Goes marketing, buys for the whole day and breakfast next morning. 12 noon.-Prepares dinner for children and self and puts things in order. 1 to D. m.-Mends children's torn stockings and clothes, makes trousers for sons. makes pies and cakes for evening meal.
 7:3o D. m.-Finshes with supper dishes and after reading and talking goes to bed at 9 p. m.
 There nowi
 In William ODay's strenuous program
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14
HEART TO HEART TALKS
By EDWIN A. ME Copyright 1909, By American Press Association

woman works from sun to sun. but mans work is never done"
 William got the worst of the swap.
 However. there's a sequel.
 William had been doing this work-for how long? Eighteen mohthsl He got tired Who wouldn't get friedman or woman?
 Be 1t said there was a boarder at the house, besides the home folks.
 We'll William got so very tired of his tin pans and dusters that one day he got drunk and chased the boarder-a wo- man-out of the house with his butcher knife.
 That was why William was in police court.
 He told the judge how he volunteered, being out of work, to become the family housekeeper while Mrs. O'Day assumed the wage earning position. And for year and a half he patiently cooked. mended, did the family washing-including the boarder' s-starched, ironed, swept-and finally grew weary. And this court fined William O'Dayi Why, a man who could so resolve the problems of the domestic hearth-even to making bread like his mother used to make-deserved medal rather than a fine.
 Poor William O'Day!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14
Almanac for May.

From Harper's Weekly.
 The weather bureau reports milder weather than in February and March, with light showers followed by a rising and falling barometer during the third week of May, and clearing weather and slightly warmer temperature, especially in lower California, Venezuela and Flor ida.
 An excellent things to keep the crows from eating up your corn crop is to sub stitute oats for corn and to SOW each oat in dramatically sealed tin can covered with olive oil, so that the crow cannot get a purchase omit with his bill
 Patent leather pumps are of no value in relieving a l0-acre lot of flood of sur face water and any attempt to shoo chickens away from the strawberry patch by means of horseshoe propelled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14
Notice. No. 9525.

In the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the North ern District of Alabama. In Bankruptcy. In the matter of w. L. Tarrapt Plumb ing Co.,. Bankrupt.
 To the Creditors of Said Bankrupt Mo- tce is hereby given that June II, 1909, the said w. l.. Tarrant Plumbing Go. was duly adjudicated bankrupt; and that the first meeting of its creditors will be held at my office in Birmingham, on June 20. 1909, at o'clock. at which time the said creditors may attend, prove their claims. appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupt and transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting.
 ALEX c. BIRCH, Referee,
 Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14
schools. ana girl is an old maid at IS

schools, ana a girl is an old maid at IS or 20.
 Among the queer wedding customs is the glring the brides eyes shut, so that she can see nothing. and keeping them so for two or three days. Another is that the bride will not speak to the groom for at least week after the wedding, and a third that fight takes place between her friends and his on the way to the cere- mony, and the one represented by the party defeated is considered unlucky. Neither bride nor groom sees each other until they are married. After that the girl is practically the slave of her husband and his parents, who may treat her as they please. As she grows older or when her husband Is tired of her, he brings one or more secondary wives into the house and she has to submit. Divorces are easy on the part of the husband, but they are considered disreputable. and do- nestle troubles usually result in adding a concutine or so to the establishment rather than showing the old wife out into the cold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14
LEGAL NOTICES
Notice to Contractors.

Sealed proposals will be received by the undersigned until II o'clock a. m. Wednesday. June 16, 1909, for certain street paving. Specifications may be obtained and plans examined at this office. The right Is reserved to reject any or'all proposals.
 (Signed) MAURY NICHOLSON, 6-8-9t City Engineer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14

The Good Roads Machinery company has recently sold the second Monarch lotion roller to the Board of Revenue of this county Their representative in this state is the Davis Advertising and Sales Co.,, 1910 Brown Mark building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
 or pTpATNcUhM ALA
OF BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

Ladies who have ewery precious stones slverware secu ties and other vauabes particularly invited to call and examine safe deposit vau which the largest and strongest in the South
 Safe deposit boxes rented as low $500 year.