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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-17

People ask. will Quaker Herb Extract
build up and strengthen the blood!
Yes. nothing better. VIII Quaker Herb
Extract cure rheumatism. Yes, with the
assistance of the Oil of Balm, VIII
Quaker Herb Extract cure catArrh? Yes
Il is blood germ disease of the mucous
lining of the inner system, and through
the use of Quaker Herb Extract 1t can
be cured, because 1t cleanses the slime
and poisonous mucous from the lining
heals 1t and expels 1t through the action
of the bowels.
Will Quaker Herb Extract cure In
digestion? Yes, 1t will cure. because In
digestion is generally caused from the
gas arising from the lower bowels, the
digestive forces are not sufficient to cause
the digestive organs to act properly. and
Quaker Herb Extract will strengthen
and build them up. VIII Quaker Herb
Extract cure constipation, dyspepsia and
biliousness? Yes. for the same reason 1t
cures indigestion.
Will Quaker Herb Extract cure liver
and kidney troubles? Yes. for 1t reno
Yates the liver and kidneys. taking the
liver out Of that torpid condition. taking
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due thought about the machinery that is
to animate 1t by no means implies lack
of appreciation of the head artihcer's
philanthropic purpose. The charter would
be subject to repeal at any time, and
that. of course, would be a check on the
trustees of the fund. The DIRECTORS seem
to lose sight of that. But the problem is
to make a charter that will not have
to be revoked. Mr.. Rockefeller wants
a charter that will endure. The last
thing he is likely to wish is to have his
foundation exempted from ultimate gov
ernmental control All property must al
ways be subject to control by the gov
eminent. Ideas are not, and need not be,
subject to such control, and that is where
persons who bequeath ideas to posterity
have one advantage over persons who
hand down accumulated property.
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IMPORTANT QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY GRAY
Spring. Summer nc i he World

the Inflammation out of the kidneys and
bladder and putting those organs to work
that expel the uric acid from the eys-
tenn. VIII Quaker Heb Extract cure
malaria. chills and fever? Yes for it
builds up the blood and expels all fever
germs from the system.
Will Quaker Herb Extract expel
worms? Yes. It matters not what kind
they be. for there Is a vermifuge in
Quaker Herb Extract that will expel all
worm germs from the system.
Will Quaker Herb Extract build up
weak, rundown men or women? Yes,
It builds up the blood and every organ,
nerve and muscle in the body depends
on the condition OF the blood. VIII
Quaker Herb Extract cure that belch-
ing. bloating. palpitation of the heart,
shortness of breath, dizziness and head
ache? Yes. for 1t cleanses that slime
and mucous from the intestines, stom-
ach, and expels 1t through the regular
action of the bowels.
OF course, everybody knows that every
one should take some kind of blood
purifier. at least In the spring of the
year. Why not take one that Is COM
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posed of Natures own remedies? II has
been handed down from our forefathers.
and the friends of the Quakers, who are
noted for their long life and good health.
and when you take the Quaker Herb
Extract and use the Oil of Balm YOU are
using the same compound that those peo-
pie did one hundred years ago, and 1t
has been proven beyond a doubt there
never was a more healthy, robust class
of people on earth than the Indians, and
the Quakers. and history v Ill bear us out
In this assertion. and all they ever knew
was to go out In the woods and gather
roots, herbs. banks. berries, leaves and
blossoms, and from these they obtained
the extract of which they used generously
for their ills. and were made we'll. Now.
this Is the kind of medicine Gray. the
Quaker Health Teacher is introducing
at Gums Pharmacy, firmerly Gum
Gamble Drug Co.. corner Third avenue
and Nineteenth street. Are you sur
prised at the thousands of people that
are being cured? Have talk with Gray.
1t costs you nothing. He Is at the drug
store from Q a. m. to p. m. daily. Gray
proves what he says
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-17
Winter Resorts
Stafford Springs
Hotel
VOS0RTTRC MISS
VOSSBURG. MISS.

fantastic paraphernalia, invented to hood
wink the hay seeds and draw the prim-
ing of the socialists, and generally to be-
fog the situation and confuse its issues.
The trick. though as old as time, served
Its purpose; it put the fat man In the
White House and sent the lion tanner on
his way rejoicing; and whilst everybody
sees 1t plain enough now, 1t is not so
clear when the people will grow so tired
of ways the less puissant OF the two.
The critics leg and kick the stuffng out
of show and showmen.
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Heart To Heart Talks
By EDWIN 4. NYE
Copxrisht. 1000. NJ American Press Association
Plea for Old Things

Plea for Old Things
~ E not too swift to be off with the
n old and on with the new things
There is craze in our day for some
new thing. not because the new is based
In reason or founded on conviction. but
because 1t Is new. Unrest is not prog
ress.
When the disputing philosophers came
to Diogenes asking a definition of prog
ress" he got out of his tub. rolled 1t down
a street of Athens. and then back again,
got into 1t and opened his mouths for the
first time. He said:
That Is what you call progress
And much of what some call progress
today is mere tub-rolling-keeping some
thing going on, making the wheels go
! round.
People crave the new. That is why the
fashion mongers are able to set the most
ridiculous styles and make fashions fol-
lowers dance attendance upon their fear
some freaks.
And not only in fashion, but in other
things-in amusements, In business. In lit
erature, in politics, even In relgion-peo-
pie are quick to follow fads and fancies.
Speaking of new things in religion, do
man who had devised a new religion
and wanted to know how to make II go?
Cruelty yourself and rise from the dead
on the third day. answered Talleyrand.
Do not give up the old until you know
more about the new. A thing is not neces-
sarily true because Ii Is old. But 1t is
apt to be old because II is true Be
very sure the new is the better.
We are In a transition period. In the
changes that will come about a lot of
superficial isms are put forth.
Tub-rolling Is not advancement. In the
turmoil and hurry Of the new, the nasty
the novel, there Is room as well as
place for the things that abide.
For instance, every now and then
new book that will make an epoch Is
announced 1t may be good, but you
know the old books are good. Enjoy
the good and walt
And so of new theories In science, great
discoveries. and all that.
And old friends
The friends thou hast. and their adoption
tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of
steel,
But do not dull thy palm with entansle-
ment
OF each new Matched, unf1edged comrade.
Be not carried away with every wind
Of doctrine. Hold fast the things that
are worth while. Enjoy the stable things.
Take time for comfort and contempla-
t,on and the sense of security, the COM
fort of old ways, the JOY of familiar
things
Do not trade these treasures for some
hOdV's fad.
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The BRIGHTEST men
ARE THE SUFFERERS

to capab ctuaI
a fl
w old allow complex onede
o. protes
a the
but them.
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On His own

From Judge
while Twas engaged to her she made
me give up drinking, smoking and golf.
Last of all. 1 gave up something on my
own account
What was that?'
The girl"
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At the Cobalt-Blustoria

From Lie.
Clerk-A room and bath with small
parlor will be one thousand dollars per
week. In advance.
How much without the parior?"
Seven hundred" e
How much without the room?"
Two hundred"
well, 1 guess we'll take the bath"
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man might sometimes stoop to please
a boy; in our day philanthropy pushes
aside the elders to make It's way to
the forlorn little ones.
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The Extra Effort

The Extra Effort
There is great deal of competition In
the world. The things you are trying to
do lot of other persons are trying to do.
And here is the secret:
| The way to succeed is to do more than
the average person is willing to do.
"What?' you say. Not me!
Il do full days work for fair days
pay And l do not get any too much
pay, either. When ii is time to quit
I quit
Yes, l know; you are faithful during
the work hours. And your pay is modest.
And you are tired when the clock strikes.
But
Here Is one by your side who says to
himself: The others have quit. Here Is
a chance for me to do little more.
will take a step In advance"
He keeps on a while and gains a lap
over you. ,
He figures that If he works a little
harder than the others he will succeed a
little better, If he works a great deal
harder he will succeed a great deal bet
ter. And he figures rightly.
Hard lines" you say.
Surely all achievement is difficult. But
think Of all those who work hard and
yet accomplish nothlngi Success makes
the extra effort worth while If success
were easy one could take no pride in It,
Read Jack Londons book, Martin
Eden" supposed to be in some sense a
history of London's struggle to get a
foothold in literature
The book is heartbreaking in intensity.
And the way the manuscripts came back
was disconcerting. But the hero kept.
saying to himself, Here's where l begin
where the others quit"
Genius?
Great men say that genius is only an
other name for hard work. The genius Is
able to do more labor than the average.
The extra effort'-that's it.
Most persons are afraid of that extra.
They fail because Of the lack of surplus
exertion. They sink in the very sight of
land. They fall just outside the breast
works. All because they do no more than
the others
There is no other way to succeed than
by hard work-persevering, seif-denying
work
If you do not care for success. IL you are
content with what you have, watch the
clock, but If you want to get somewhere
ask yourself the question:
What do ye more than others?'
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leaders, and sheep-like the people follow
and buy.
DO not be sheep
Do your own thinking.
II you follow leader be sure you know
where he leads.
Do not jump into a canyon because some
one else has jumped--mayhap to his de-
struction.
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Like sheep

Out in Wyoming a big flock of sheep
was grazing on a mountain side near a
deep canyon The herder was taking a
nap.
Tempted by the grass below, a venture
some wether jumped down to ledge
on the side of the canyon. The ledge
would not hold more than a half dozen
sheep.
Sheeplike, another made the jump and
then another.
And sheeplike, those in the rear crowd
ed those In 'front.' and those In front
jumped because the others jumped.
In a fewsninutes almost the entire flock
had gone over. There was a bruised,
bloody mass at the bottom of the canyon.
That is the way of sheep.
And there is a sheep quality in human
nature which tends to a like following
OF leadership, impulsively and without
question.
You can see 1t in operation in politics,
in religion, In business, in society The
politician Is especially expert in using the
sheep disposition. He has way of get
ting the representative men of the COM
n.unity 'the 'bellwethers." and the crowd
obediently troops behind its leaders.
In a certain neighborhood in Iowa there
has been a hegira of farmers to Canada
because certain influential men of the
community led the way.
A man Is accused of a crime. A crowd
surrounds him. Some one cries out
Lynch hint" Innocent or guilty, the man
is In imminent danger because the moi
spirit has been evoked.
Did you ever read THE Crowdg
The book is study of the sheep DISPOSE
ton Of humans-the psychology of the
public mind
Shrcwd advertisers. says the author
take advantage of us by means of af
fiImation and repetition-that is to say
they publish a thing over and over agar
until we believe 1t.
The village gossip uses a like method
in an evil manner. She starts a rumol
or enlaraes ore. In its journey 1t grow,
into SANDER hy affirmation and repeti
ton.
In the outcome some ones reputation Ii
ruined.
The miillners ana tailors of Paris ant
New York know how to use the sheep
like disposition OF the human mind To-
profit. They get the styles. start out thu
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sor-ov,. Crown of Sorrows

"I am an old woman poor in every
thing that makes woman rich. MY
ewes no longer turn to the future. l
live only in my youth There Is noth-
ing for me but to wait. Ny dreary
winter is nearly over.
These are the first words that for
many a year have come to the world
from the Empress Eugene, now rad
ed woman of 81 years and one of the
most pathetic figures of history now
living.
What a history was hers!
BY sheer charm she raised herself to
a throne. Her destinations won Ma
poleon III, and forever linked her desti-
nv TO his and with the rise and fall of
an empire.
When Napoleon landed at Boulogne
with his tame eagle and proclaimed
his rights his countrymen were IN
clined to laugh at him, but the fevered
dream of a republic was over. and Ma
poIeon took up the reins of govern
ment
He made good.
And the world knows now that much
of the success was owing to Eugene.
In beauty and grace she was the first
woman of Europe. Bismarck once said
she was always one of the most
charming of women"
But
AS this gracious woman was respon-
sible for much of the brilliant reign OF
the last Napoleon, she was also the
cause of many of Its failures.
Eugene more than any other was
the author of the Ill fated attempt by
Macmillan to plant an empire on the
North American continent in Mexico.
She was the moving spirit in the
fatal war with Germany. While his bet
ter Judgment told Napoleon that
France was no match for the Prus-
SLAMS. Eugene urged him on.
And what woes were brought upon
France, eliminating IN the siege of
Sedan, Won Moltke's soldiers crushed
her lilies under their iron heels, and
Eugene fed to England with her hus-
band and child.
There was sorrow when Napoleon
died in exile, but fate reserved the
worst blow for Eugene in 1s79-the
death of her son. The bright boy was
all that was left to her.
And now this pitiful old woman sits
in the ashes of her deselation, where
for forty years she has mourned her
past.
Her only crown is sorrows crown OF
sorrows-remembe happier things
True, much of her sorrow she brought
upon herself, which links her with sc
many of US. We are all so prone tc
put our clumsy fingers into the weav-
| Ing of destiny.
| Meantime the world only remembers
| of Eugene in her mantle of sorrow
that she is a forlorn woman-and was
mother.
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LITERARY LIGHTS
AND SHADOWS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2o.)

action and speech, rather than by de-
scription, pages of which we are fed
upon by the average American author.
in his attempts to depict this or that,
which the English man or woman will
compel his characters to exhibit them
selves. A great literary knack that, too.
The u chapters are Il capsules of whole
some fun, to be taken one right after the
other. with results guaranteed by this
reviewer.
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II am an old woman. poor In every
thing that makes woman rich. Ny
ewes no longer turn to the future l
live only in my youth. There Is moth
ing for me but to wait. My dreary
winter is nearly over.
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n FItH TOT UIu IhInBs
- E not too swift to be off with the
old and on with the new things
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-23
RAPID MARKET FOR POULTRY
Quicker Bird Can Be Brought to Mar
ketabIe Size. Greater Profit and
Fewer Losses.

! always push my young stock along
as rapidly as possible until marketed
or until brought to maturity, says a
writer In the Baltimore American.
This 1t pays to do, even when must
buy feed and at high price. fhe
quicker a bird can be brought to mar
ketable size or to the productive stage
the greater the profit, to say nothing
of quicker returns and shortened FISK.
Rapid growth is always cheapest and
quick returns most satisfactory. There
are always fewer losses in a flock kept
growing vigorously than In one al
lowed to drag. and shorter period In
which chicks are possible prey to
hawks, rats and other enemies.
My young stock is never stinted.
After 1t is removed from the brooder
continue to feed regularly and as
generously as before. Feed for con-
siderable time consists largely OF
coarsely ground grains or fresh. sweet
milk For this | like corn and wheat
principally at first. Later | add other
grains, often omitting the wheat or
feeding 1t whole by itself. Rye, al
though chicks will not eat 1t whole,
is excellent cracked with other grains.
Barley, also peas In small quantities,
is good. AS chicks become larger
whole grains are gradually substituted
for cracked. Rye. II fed whole, Is
cooked. In this shape chicks are
greedy for it, and 1t furnishes excel
lent food. All summer like to feed q
little soft food now and then. either
ground feed. shorts or bran, wet with
milk or warm water. Grit keep con-
stantly before my flock, also pare
water.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-23
Zoo Bear Trades Laughs for Peanuts

At least that was what it looked like.
He was standing up on his launches,
waving his right front paw over his
head as boy does when he means
you to throw ball high. The lady
threw the peanut high and Old Ben
got it-caught 1t In his mouth, at
distance of 20 feet, while the other
bears in the cage ragged over missing
it. The woman threw more, and kept
throwing the peanuts till they were
all gone, and every one she threw over
the heads of the other bears, just to
see Old Ben stand on his hind legs
and motion for more.
Ben learned this trick years ago, the
keepers say, when he was dancing
bear. When he finally was put in
the ZOO he astonished the keepers by
making signs to them to throw the
best food over the heads of the other
greedy animals to him. He always
takes up his position In the back
ground, motioning the keepers and let
ting the other bears fight at the iron
bars. The result is that he gets the
biggest part of the dinner because 1t
Is so funny to watch his secret sig
nails to the feeders.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-23
Good Fly Remedy.

The following is recommended as a
good homemade, fly remedy: Resin,
1h pounds; laundry soap, two cakes;
fish oil, half pint; enough water to
make three gallons. Dissolve the
resin in a solution of soap and water
by heating, add the fish oil and the
rest Of the water. Apply with brush.
If to be used as a spray, add a half
pint of kerosene. This mixture will
cost seven to eight cents per gallon
and may be used on cows or calves.
One-half pint Of this mixture is con-
sidered enough for one application for
COW; calf, Of course, would re-
quire considerably less. Two or three
applications week will be sufficient
until the outer ends of the hair be
come coated with resin After that
retouch those parts where resin has
rubbed of.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-23
PROBE BAD LANDS TITLES.

A report recently made to congress
by commission appointed to examine
land titles in the District of Columbia
disclosed that many lots of land occu-
pied by modern business houses and
residences In the national capital are
still owned by the government, not
withstanding the present tenants be-
lieve they have clear title to the
property. For example, the Washington
Gaslight company occupies whole
square on Twenty-eighth street, which
is claimed by the government. A
paving company occupies large tract
of land near Rock creek to which the
government lays claim. a trlangu-
lar piece of land, now occupied by
many residences, is according to the
report, the property of the govern
ment
This question of land titles in the
national capital is not new one. Two
years ago congress created a commits
sion to study it. The commission con-
sisted of the attorney general, the sec
retary of war, Senator Scott of West
Virginia; Representative Bartholdt of
Missouri, and one of the district
commissioners. The report reveals
horrible land tangle, which the courts
will probably never be able to straight
en- out. The tangle is the outcome OF
the wild speculation In real estate that
took place for a good many years aft
er the capital was laid out.
The story, according to the lawyers
who have conducted the investigation,
is one of romance and disaster. James
Greenleaf of Massachusetts, from
whose family the poet Whittier took
his middle name, was according to the
story, laid before congress, the first
and greatest of the three land opera
tors whose names figure most in the
early deeds. Greenleaf made the first
contract to buy of the commissioners
who distributed the parcels of land in
possession of the United States. He
was Joined later by Robert Morris,
the financier of the revolution, and
by John Nicholson. All three before
their death were in jail for debts grow
ing out of their ventures in Wash
ington land What Morris made
through his financial transactions dur
ing the dark days of the revolution he
lost In Washington lands.
Private lands were acquired in
Washington in the early days by a
very simple process. The territory
mot exceeding" ten miles square was
ceded to the United States govern
ment by Maryland and Virginia and
placed under the authority of three
commissioners, appointed by the pres
ident. They or any two OF them were
required. under the direction of the
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-23

THICAGO.-"The mystery of the
~ Missing Tooth" novel exposition
of how seven and three (sometimes)
make eleven, was staged for large
and appreciative, not to say quizzical.
audience recently in Municipal Judge
Torrisons court.
Plot theme: Can dentist recover
damages for swallowed tooth?"
Leading characters: DR.. James L.
Blount, Oak Park, praying monetary
revenge, and Mrs. Alice Andrews,
heroine in the tragedy of "The Miss
ing Molar.'
DR.. Blount demanded his fee for II
teeth, false If you please, while the
heroine pleaded but ten-seven in
hand and three hidden by rosy lips.
"The teeth not only were false in
material, but they were false to
their trust and fell out" said Mrs. An
drews.
"One at time they began falling
out. The first one went on round
steak which cost 25 cents pound.
thought 1t merely coincidence. But
when No. 2 fell into the soup one noon
knew there was something wrong
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-23
SYMBOLISM DID NOT APPEAL
Belinda Rejects Proposal Of Charlie
to Be Joined Together Like I
Hands OF Clock.

"Charlie," sorrowfully sighed the
young lady in the parlor Of the COM
crete house, on Washington avenue,
1t is nearly IL o'clock"
Yes. Belinda" was the breathing
response of her poetical companion.
who was sitting on the sofa beside
her, ''the minute hand is drawing
closer and closer to the hour hand.
and when the time of midnight Is
chimed the two hands will be even as
one. Oh, darling Belinda" he con-
tinued, as he literally simulated the
action Of the minute hand, may not
the coming together of those two
hands be symbolical of us?'
She broke away and stood firmly on
her feet. mo, Charles Henry Smith, -
she retorted. angrily. those two hands
will remain as one but single SEQ
ond, and then the minute hand will d.
vorce itself and go on It's way alone.
No, Mr.. Smith, a minute hand that
doesn't stick isn't the kind OF symbol
ism want!"