The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-29

can talk more languages fuently than the average SIS newspaper reporter can write English.
 They are not farming because they have to, but because it is more respect able, more healthful and more profitable. The surplus money they have in the bank is just as good as the consumptive bunch the town salaried man divides out among his insstent creditors to encourage them and keep the sheriff from mailing up nis cottage doors and mussing up the furni- ture. It may not get so much exercise, but it is just as good when it is called into action.
 The man most responsible for the great transformation around Foley is John B. Foley. proprietor of well-known cough. remedy that bears his name. MT. Foley Is said to be worth several millions Of dollars and spends most of his time in Switzerland, though he says Baldwin is the greatest country in the world, all things being considered He was inter ested in Baldwin county when it pro- duced Pine Tar and Honey He was a natural philosopher and in looking be- heath the spreading long leaf yellow pine tangles that few years ago overhung this county like a cloud he conceived the idea that the soil might be produc- tive.
 Productive or not he knew that skilled farmers from the west could make it so. He made some experiments and then bought up many thousands of acres around the present site of Foley and at Magnolia Springs, near Mobile bay.
 His next move was to bring the north ern and western farmer down to settle and improve the lands. He did not sit down and talk or print page advertise ments in the newspapers and depend en- tirely on those means of bringing the people.
 He employed men who know how to go after the people. These agents did not sit down in padded offices and sub init to daily interviews and formulate legislation to stimulate immigration. I ney put some sample turnips, oranges, pota- toes and other garden truck in their rockets and went to see the prospective immigrant They did some talking. but punctuated it all with the evidence
 Talk is mighty good sometimes, but when a man is being pried away from his happy home into a country that is strange to him he has funny habit Of wanting to be shown
 Captain Foley knew this Che has per haps hawked medicine from an impro- vised stage on vacant lots to the tune of a rasping negro band in the face or
  he used part of his cough drop money in getting men that could not only talk, but were physically able to carry cart loads of prize turnips along with them
 This practical method brought the peo- ple A few came at first and made test of the new country. They round IL good and settled down to business. They sent word back to their neighbors ana told them they had better hurry. They did more than this. They sent crates of stiff they had grown. They had caught the habit They had been shown and they knew what 1t would take to bring the other fellow.
 That one idea Is the secret of Bald win county's wonderful development-its success in getting choice immigration. The shiftless fellow without prospects at home may come without being shown, but the man you want insists on seeing something. If you have brought 1t along in the tail pocket of your claw hammer coat you are ready for him at the psycho- logical moment. If you neglected to bring the goods the game is lost.
 These Baldwin county people all wear claw hammer coats and the pockets in them are as big as car lenders. Question statement about the size of Baldwin county cabbage and my advice to you is to dodge or renig
 I made the mistake down in Baldwin county last week of boasting that knew what beans are when I see them. One of Dr. Foley's lieutenants led me around behind the house and handed me bean pod that is big enough to maui mule. On the way I bumped my hat off against a heavy bunch of bananas growing In the yard and stubbed my toe on an orange that had fallen from another tree, throwing me head-on into camphor tree growing against the wall.
 The skeptic who goes into Baldwin county comes out as a full believer or either so cold that hot bricks will do him no good
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