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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-29

" DUNG man, what are you worth?
 If you should die, how much X would the world lose by your death?
 Of course, if you should die the com munity would deplore the death or d promising young man." ''the hope or his friends" etc. I do not mean this sort of loss.
 How much is your life worth in cash? Experts have figured it all out. Accord ing to statistics, the life of laboring man who earns an average wage of $1 50 per day at the age of 30-that Is. when a laborer is most valuable-is worth the sum of $3,217.03.
 That is to say, when laboring man dies at the age of 30 years society loses $3,217. .O3 of it's economic capital.
 The professional man or the specialist, however, is most useful at the age of 40 years
 When a man who is equipped to serve the world in these lines dies at the age of 40 the loss to society is greater. Ac- cording to the estimate, there is an eco- homie loss of $13,207. .4S
 Besides
 The value to the world of the -laboring man grows less after he reaches the age of 30 years The value of the professional man or specialist, on the other hand, re- mains about the same until he is 50 years of age. After 50 his value grows less. To illustrate
 Take the laboring man at the age or 65 His value to society is small From being worth s. ,217. .03 at 30 his value has decreased until he Is worth only $594.W. But the specialist is still quite valuable at 65. He is worth almost half as much as he was at 40 or to give the figures, $13,207.4S.
 Of course, you understand, these fig ures are of averages, and do not govern individual cases.
 But they are startlingly blunt
 They show from a new angle how edu- cation in a speciality increases the value of young mans life-20 times!
 You are worth in hard cash at the age pf 4O from your shoulders down $500, put you are worth from your shoulders up h3000. When I speak of special education I do mi necessarily mean college education. The speciality may be that of breeder or an inventor as well as that of doctor or lawyer.
 Therefore ,.. The way to make yourself more vaiu- able to the world, to your 1rienos' 10 yourself. Is to educate yourself to oo something better than the average man can do 1t.
 For the world of today is asking not 70 much
 What do you know?
 It is asking more than all else
 What can you DO?
 4 correspondent tells . pitiful story
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-29

these two stories-the animal and the in tellectual. But there is another story which Is the best of all, the second story the spiritual Men furnish and refurnish their basement and their first story. but let the top story go, as if it were an abandoned attic.''
 Let us live some part of our days in the top story.
 Let us open the doors to the divinest part of us.
 Else, after time, what is best will make no appeal.
 Byron said
 Of all the horrid, hfdeous notes of woe. Sadder than owl songs or the midnight
 blast,
 Is that portentous phrase
 q told you so!''
 But there is one sadder, more hideous and, in its effect. more, portentious. It is the ever recurrent, wrong. suggestive phrase of the dog days
 "Is 1t hot enough for you?r
 You start out in the morning with the fixed idea that the day will be warm Will 1t be hotter than yesterday? The mere suggestion makes you warm. And before you get fairly going with the day doings some friend piously inquires:
 "Is 1t hot enough for you?'
 Surely. It is very hot It is hotter than yesterday. You actually begin tc suffer from the heat After a time, when you might have contented yourself, the same interrogatory Is put up to you by another, who mopping his brow, ex- claims:
 'Is it hot enough for your"
 Whew! Yes. The heat is unbearably oppressive. You are writhing in discom- fort. Body, mind and soul, you are al most at the point of fusion. Certainly never before have you been so near tho melting temperature You are hot inside and out. head and heels.
 Of course. And 1t Is quite natural
 The old Scriptures say, 'As a man thinketh in his heart so is he" If he thinks so he is so. If he thinks he is hot he Is hot. His mental attitude affects his feelings Thoughts are things" By auto suggestion one can persuade him. self into settled belief. So when one thinks of heat up goes his mental ther' mometer.
 To prove this we'll established effect tr. suggestion in this way:
 Start out the day by enjoying the fresh morning air. Don't bother about the heat that may come later on. Sufficient unto the hour is the evil thereof
 Keep your mind cool.
 Suggest to yourself when the heat comes on, Its always warm In sum- mer." If some one asks you if it is "hot enough" etc., change the subject Realize that wish ing cannot change the weather and that, after all, you are tolerably comforta b1e.
 Smile at the married, hot. Hurried
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-29
T is often urged as an obiection to [

I is often urged as an objection to
 Christianity that it has obstructed @ the progress of science Galilea's case Is triumphantly cited as a prominent and pertinent example of the tendency of Christianity to repress investigation and to cripple the efforts of philosophers in their search after new light. The ap- parent conflict between geology and the current theology gave rise to protract- ed and not always good-humored contro- versy some 60 years ago, and certain bio- logical and ethnologcal problems now coming to the front and exercising many thoughtful minds bid fair to furnish an- other battlefield for the contending hosts of progressive philosophers on the one side and conservative theologians on the other.
 Now, if it were charged that theolo- gians have frequently opposed 'pro- gressive" ideas in science then the facts of history would give considerable weight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-29

of an aged mother who reared l2 cnll- dren. all of whom are prosperous. The mother is now very poor, and none of the children will take her to his home
 Stories of this kind are too frequent.
 The writer knows a sad case of an old mother who was permitted by prosperous sons to go to the poorhouse because their families were ashamed of the poor old lady!
 Ingratitude to parents is a crying evil
 We say the civilization of the Chinese is inferior, and we send missionaries to them, but the respect and veneration paid to parents by the Chinese put to shame our neglect and ingratitude.
 The debt owed by child to its par ents is the most sacred of all human obligations.
 Think how the father tolls increasingly and the mother sacrifices ungrudgingly that the child may be and grow and prosperi If in the family life there are short dinners to be eaten that the chill dren may prosper, father and mother eat the scraps; If there are shabby clothes to be worn that the children may have good garments, father and mother wear them; if there are debts to be paid that the children may be educated, father and mother scrimp to pay them.
 Who watches with unceasing devotion when the children are sick? Who rejoices in the children's success and comforts them in their defeats and sorrows? Who coins lifeblood for the children's sake Who but father and mother?
 How, then, can a child desert it's mother in her old age?
 If her form is stopped from tn e graceful figure of her daughters, it was stopped In the service of her chll- dren. If her kindly old face is scanned, the care of the children put the wrin- kles there. If her hands are knotted and worn. 1t Is because she used them for the children's sake.
 Desert her?
 All the curses of the God who com manded Honor thy father and thy mother" will surely rest upon the uh. holy ingrates who are too proud to take mother into their homes and care for her tenderly and lovingly.
 Why, my friend, if you loaded your mother with the treasures of earth and heaped upon her all the honors of a queen you could not begin to pay her for what she has done for you, because the debt is immeasurable. But you should
 Begin to pay part of the debt-now!
 Because soon will come day when mother can no longer acknowledge payment Soon the tired hands that ministered will be folded across the patient breast that nurtured you
 And when mother Is dead you will keenly feel that. whatever you may
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-29
HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

creature trying to make himself-and everybody-hotter. Though every pore perspires, do not give way mentally. You have discounted the effect of the high temperature by keeping your brain cool. His brain Is hot. Smile!
 And through it all you will be sur
 prised to note how your discomfort is
 lessened.
 If you want to superheat yourself,
 worry.
 If you want to bear up. keep mental
 control.
 What shal lit profit girl if she buys
 prince for a husband and loses her
 life's happiness? If you pay million dollars for a
 much do you lose? Miss Anita Stewart of New York is
 facing these two problems in agree ing to marry Prince Miguel Braganza. the son of the pretender to the throne
 of Portugal. Prince Miguel is no saint. He has a
 long record of escapades. Is deeply in
 debt. has been busted from his clubs and dishonorably discharged from the army.
 To be the mate of this scapegrace and to bear the title of princess Miss Stewart will settle on Miguel the sum
 of $1,00o,0o0. Or to put it precisely, the girls foolish mothe CT will pay the money. The mother inherited millions from the late eccentric silent" Smith. And this is brief history of the family into which the silly Miss Stew , art will enter: The. Braganza family was founded by Don Miguel, who usurped the throne in
 1928. He was appointed regent during the babyhood of his niece, who was to be queen7-that is to say, he stole the crown from a baby! Revolutionists backed by the powers busted him. It was shown that he had no claim whatever, having
 been born three years after his mother. Queen Carlotta, had been separated from her husband. King John. A pretty heritage indeed! Since the time of the founder the family has loafed around Europe, exploit ing its so-called claims and looking for rich girls to marry its sons. And for this empty title and this pseudo prince an American mother will consign her daughter to the embraces of a notori- ous rake and give him s1 100000 with which to ruin himself Could folly further go? Why should any woman in this coun- try of ours. where every woman may be queen and have for consort a royal king of men-why should any woman American horn and bred stoop from
 her high position to take up with titled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-29

debauches or scrofulous degenerates of ignoble sires simply for title?
 Not for happiness certainly.
 Even when an American girl marries a nobleman of the highest type she takes tremendous risk of happiness. Their ways are not our ways.
 But
 To throw oneself away on titled roue and gave him s1 1,o0o.oO0 to boot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-29

\ eorrssDondent tells : pitiful story
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-11
MilIer-Ditto Wedding,

At the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Ditto, in this city last Tuesday
evening occurred the wedding
between Miss Laura Ditto and
Mr.. Clarence Miller of Topeka,
/ Kansas, Rev. Groves of the Pres
| byterian church of this city of
ticiating. There were number
of the relatives and close person
al friends of the contracting par
ties present. The house was
beautifully and tastefully decor
ated for the occasion and the
ceremony, while being solemn
was of an impressive type.
After the ceremony refresh
ments were served and the even
ing was spent in pleasant enter
tainment.
While Miss Ditto has not lived
in this city as long as many of
our young ladies, still among
those who had formed her ac-
quaintence there could be no one
who had more friends and these
friends are unanimous in hearty
good wishes for the young cou-
pie.
Mr.. Miller is assistant cashier
of one of the most prominent
banks in his home town and,
while the people of this city have
not had much chance to become
acquainted with him, he has fav-
orably impressed those who
know him.
After about a weeks stay in
this city the young married
folks will leave for Topeka where
they will make their future
home.
Quite a number of people from
other places including the father
and mother of the groom were
here to attend the ceremony.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-11
Happy Happenings.

Otis Malcolm has been at Tulif
and Plainview this week.
Il. G. Oldham of Canyon spent
Thursday in Happy on business
Born;-To Mr.. and Mrs c. F.
Lungreen. June ,, a girl.
Ben Carson spent Friday in
Tulia.
Mr.. Ballard of Canyon was at
tending to business here last
week.
G. \. Isenberg returned tc
Emerson Tuesday.
Uncle Jimmie Wesley and wife
left Tuesday morning for Waco
and other points in southern
Texas for visit of a few weeks.
Will and Henry Jensen left
Tuesday morning for Emerson,
Neb,, for few weeks visit.
Frank Morrison left last week
with his household goods for
southern Kansas.
Vim. Stuart loaded his car of
household goods last Monday for
Carrolton, Iowa; his family leav-
ing the next morning.
Grady Pipkin of Canyon is
spending the week here as the
guest of the Happy Hardware
Company.
K. II. H. Woods and wife re.
turned home last week from a
months visit in Kansas City.
VIM. Brown and wife from
Kansas have moved to Happy to
live. Mr.. Brown has accepted a
position with the Woods Mercan.
tile Co.
J. E. Nunn's team became I'M
manageable Wednesday morning
and ran into the porch of the
butcher shop, tearing it loose
from the building and badly
one of his horses.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-11

them for We are already plan
ming for another big time. After
the program the auctioneer,
Tom Lester took charge of the
boxes which were quickly sold
at good prices and could have
sold many more. The amount
raised from the sale of boxes.
lemonade stand and fish pond
was $1,000 The moon having
been so kind as to be shining
brightly by the time the boxes
We're sold. many couples and
parties of four or more were
soon enjoying the delicious
lunches out on the lawn and the
happy faces and gay laughter
made Us believe that the evening
was being delightfully."- spent.
MIRAGE.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-11
PROGRESS AT NINA.
Little New Town Starts With Rush and Various
Business Enterprises are Building.

AS stated in a recent number
of this paper there is something
going on down Nina way with {
rush. Several lines of business
not mentioned in our previous
article. are to be established anO
a general building boom is on.
a petition has been signed and
forwarded to the Post Office De,
partment asking for the eStab-
lishment of a post office at that
place, AS the list had more than
the required number of signerS
it goes without saying that the
petition will be granted.
Messrs. Binkley and Robert
son who are putting in a general
store there were in the city
Wednesday and to the News
reporter stated that they thought
their outlook for bushes was
good as as they had received
much encouragement from the
entire community. They have
already purchased their stock
and expect to be in line for bust
ness by Saturday of this week.
Yates and Roles are preparing
to put in a blacksmith shop, the
material and tools having been
already bought. G.. n. Yates is
to put in a feed store and wagon
yard just as soon as the build
ings can be erected. The Full
ton Lumber Company are un-
loading a number of cars of lum-
Der and will erect Office and
sheds as soon as practicable.
1t is thought that a church
and school building would be
located at Nina in a short time,
steps for which have already
been taken. Altogether, Nina
is going to be a trading point in
this county that will have to be
reckoned with by the merchants
of this city.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-11

French dry cleaning is the
best way to clean clothes of any
kind. South side square.
According to reports the Nina
baseball team will cross bats
with the Umbarger boys on Sat,
urday of this week. Both teams
have been practicing hard for the
game and if so, there will be
some demonstration of baseball
ability that day.
Edward Locket of Fort Worth
is in this city the guest of Robert
Harrell.
Suits, fancy vests, ties and
ladies skirts cleaned by the
French dry cleaning method,
Phone 2l6.
After a visit with their daugh-
ter, Mrs w. b. Campbell near
this city, Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ.
Houser left Wednesday for their
home at Kress.
Mrs. w. f. Groendyke expects
to leave tomorrow for a trip to
her old home near Washington,
Iowa. She will be gone about
two months.
In a letter to this office this
week, one of our foreign adver-
tisers, by which we mean an adj
vertiser who lives out of the
county, says the following rela-
tive to advertising in our paper:
Please discontinue our adver-
tisement as the season is over.
The results have been VERY
satisfactory"
Special bargains in Turkish
bath towels at 10, 20, %, 30 and
80 cents per pair The Leader.
Mrs. Louis Maloney is in
Memphis, Texas, where she is
listing her relatives.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-11
EDUCATIONAL RALLY At WAYSlDe.
Regular Monthly Meeting Of Club to be Held
Saturday-Kind Of Building 10 Erect.

That Wayside Educational club
seems to be after doing some
thing for their neighborhoOd for
their meetings are always large
ly attended and matters of gen.
eral interest are discussed.
Next Saturday afternoon their
club is to meet at , o'clock PM,
and discuss various pertinent
matters, among which will be the
kind and value Of the new school
building which they will erect
this year. A report from some
experts is expected relative to the
rock which is accessible near
that place, as building material.
If it is found that it is as cheap
or cheaper than brick then the
community will erect a rock
school building.
a petition has been sent to the
commissioners court asking for
an election to issue 100000 of
bonds for their school building
and as practically every voter in
the precinct has signed the petit
ton it goes without saying that
the issue will carry.
After that meeting the town
site company, which has been or
ganized and which consists of
nearly every man in the com
munity, is to have a meeting at
which final arrangements for the
plating of the townsite will be
discussed and completed.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-11

French dry cleaning at the
Canyon Cleaning and Pressing
Shop. Phone PIC.
DR.. J. NJ. Black was in Here
ford Tuesday looking after some
Of his business interests there.
Miss Pearl Humphrey Of To
peka, Kansas, has been in this
city this week in attendance up
on the Miller-Ditto wedding.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. O'Keefe
returned Wednesday from Fort
Worth where they have been Wis
iting their daughter, Miss May
O'Keefe. Miss O'Keefe left last
Thursday for Chicago, New York
and Boston from which place she
will sail today for a three months
trip to Italy, Germany and other
Continental points on a pleasure
trip.
Everett Peeler has returned
from his winters work in the
school and will spend the vaca-
ton in this city with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. X. NJ. Peeler.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-11
Nina Items.

Rain is much needed in our parts.
Rev. Yonto preached an interesting
sermon to the Nina people last Sun.
day.
Binkley Il Robertson have just re.
turned from Amarillo where they have
been to purchase their stock of goods
for Nina and say they will be ready
to do business by next Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Roles were in
Amarillo this week Mr.. Roles went
there to buy his shop equipment and
will have his blacksmith shop ready
for business by the last of next week.
VIII Anderson. Amos Uphold and
VIII Roles We're in Canyon last Sat
urday night. They must have been
out rather late Judging from the way
they looked Sunday.
The hardware man for Nina will be
down to begin his store room next
week.
Sunday school meets promptly at
10 O'Clock. If YOU can't get there on
time stay at home. GUESS WHO.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-11
Wayside News.

Rev. Laney delivered a gooo
sermon at Beulah Sunday. Sub
ject: Temptation He is ex.
pected TO preach for Us again a,
Beulah next Saturday night in.
stead of Sunday evening.
Mrs. S. J. McGehee and six OF
her children, with their families,
met at the home of ". D. Niece.
hee last Sunday. Henrietta,
Sybil. Ind Raymond Fisher were
there also
Mrs. l. c. Jenkins and boys
are visiting her mother, Mrs. 5.
J. McGehee.
Don't forget the townsite meet
ing at Beulah Saturday the 18th,
at I O'Clock. The Educational
Rally at , o'clock at the same
place.
After so long a time the people
about Wayside have settled down
to business. After meeting some
3 or 4 times for the purpose of
considering a townsite, organic
ing a town company. etc, which
each time terminated in dissatis-
faction.
Finally. last Tuesday evening.
June l, 1909, several wide-awake
enthusiastic men of that locality,
met at the home Of Adams and
McCrery and with W, H. Painton
in the chair soon accomplished
the binding together of a few
who chose a com mittee to draft
a constitution and bylaws to re-
port at the next meeting. The
company then adjourned to meet
June 9TH, which they did and ac-
cepted the bylaw and constitu-
ton offered by the committee.
Mrs. Anna Painton has been
quite sick for several days the
past week, but glad to report an
Mrs. Chapman Of Canyon City
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. H.
H. Saul.
Grandma Sluder received a
painful wound in the palm of her
left hand, caused by a nail, last
evening.
The time on the mail line from
Happy TO Wayside has been
Instead of leaving
in the morning as it has
been doing heretofore, it leaves
Happy in the forenoon.
Ira Painton left last Saturday
or Plainview, where he will at
end the summer normal school.
TEDDIE.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-11

William f. Miller of Happy came
up to Canyon City last Wednesday
and was pleasant caller at this Office.
FOR RENT:-Half section of land
four and a half miles north of Canyon
Address, b. Frank Ogle, Cerro Gordo,
Illinois. II 4tp
Hester II. Gillian of Wayside came
up to Canyon last Tuesday.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-11

J. NJ. Burkhalter went to
Memphis, Tenn. last Sunday, to
look at the ex-Confederates and
the multitude which will gather
in that city this week.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-11
MIRAGE.

Special bargains in Turkish
bath towels at Is, 20, %. 80 and
80 cents per pair. The Leader.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-11

Special bargains in Turkish
bath towels at -, 20. %, 30 and
30 cents per pair. The Leader.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-11

w. ID. McGehee, the Wayside
merchant. was in town Wednes-
day