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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21
The Boy who Pushed


" GORGE NJ. PosEY of Indianap-
oils. Ind. is a young man who
~ got up in the world by push
ing.
A few years ago George, aged is,
was almost without education, being
barely able to read and write. He
drove a butchers wagon and thus sup
ported himself and his aged grand
mother.
An Indianapolis minister saw in the
boy a diamond in the rough
Through the minister he got a vision
of better things.
That is the only way We humans are
ever led-by our dreams of what ought
to be.
The minister advised George to edu-
cate himself.
The boy hesitated, but after a time,
led by his vision glorious, lie entered
sch DOL. Almost a man in size, he sat
In the classes with the smaller chill
dren, a humiliation not easy to under
go.
To earn a living young Posey sold
newspapers. Before long he organized
system of newspaper delivery, en-
ploying smaller boys. He was success
full in this.
In three years. at Il, Posey had
prepared himself to enter college. In
the meantime his grandmother, whom
he had tenderly cared for died.
Then the young man sold his news
paper routes for a good price and en-
tered college. paying his way by out
side work. At last reports he was pre-
pairing for law.
George Posey will succeed.
He has succeeded.
Asked how he had accomplished so
much in so little time and under such
handicap, he replied:
by pushing all the time"
That's It'll
Did you ever try to get UP to the
platform through a dense crowd of
people? At first the feat seems impos-
sible. But you push, and you continue
to push. Using your body as a wedge,
you steadily keep forcing your way.
Little by little people in front of you
give way. Holding the vantage ground,
you keep on pushing and by and by
you get through.
Just so does the world get out of
the way of the boy or man who pushes.
The world is so intent upon its own
amusement or its busy nothings that
when a determined individual shout
ders his way into it 1T gives way and
let's him go through.
Push, young mani
For verify of the Pusher is the King
dom of Success.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21
Taking No Chances
From the Houston Post.


From the Houston Post.
"Johnnev'
"Yes'm?'
"Why are you sitting on that boys
face?"
"Why. L"
Ibid I not tell you to always count a
hundred before you gave way to passion
and struck another boy?'
'Yes'm, and I'm dom it; I'm just sittin'
on his face so he'll be here when I'm done
countin the hundred
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21
Hero Worship

We dIC I'LL llOIO WoTSnip6TS.
We admire our hero because there is
something in us like that which we
admire in him.
The boys early hero is the police
man or the fireman or the soldier, be-
cause there is something in his Zero
that is like something in him.
And so of the race.
My cave man ancestor made his hero
Of the man who could crush the most
skulls with his club. And there is
something of my stone age ancestor
in me- his heir.
Therefore the worship of the war
rior while the hero of the gentler arts
goes unsung.
But the time will come when we
shall build our monuments to the
heroes of peace, to the men and wom
en- who serve the race and sacrifice
for the race, rather than to the war
riors who roll garments in blood.
Some day we shall cease to admire
a Charlemagne, who made his special
ty that of killing men, and celebrate
the virtues of a Pasteuf, who by his
patient laboratory discoveries saves
men from such horrid deaths as that
of hydrophobia.
Some day an Edison will rank above
a Caesar.
Some day we shall understand that
one David Livingstone, on his knees in
Africa, praying lOT the open bOIe ol
the world" is worth hundred Charles
Martels, who hammered the Moham-
medans; that the perils of a Paul and
his labors are incomparably greater
greater in sacrifice and patience and
heroism-than that of all your blood
letting generals
We shall see clearly, some day
That the Thirty Years war was a
mere skirmish compared with the age
long campaign great and good men
have made against Ignorance and SUI
perstition and brutality and poverty
and the evils of political and social
life.
Some day
The race of man will pull down the
statue Of the mere military hero pos
ing on his bronze steed and set up a
memorial to that great Austrian. DR..
Lorenz, who teaches the young physi-
clans of the world how to cure the dread
ed 'hip disease" in children.
Hasten that day!
The sooner we cease to worship the
military butcher who makes business
of killing men and begin to sing the
praises Of the evangel who saves men
the sooner will real civilization appear.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21

add, gallant again, but every artist has
ambitions, just as every actor, down in
his heart, has aspirations to play Hamlet.
There Is pecuniary advantage in pleasing
people, and I'm pleased II I satisfy peo-
pie; but I'm hoping next year to begin
carrying out some ideas have for mural
decorations"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21
Babies
From Judges Library.

Babies want the moon, but after they
grow up they are content with wishing
for the earth with a fence around 1t.
Babies can grow in almost anything,
but thrive best in hot and dusty rail-
road coach five minutes past the time
that you had seriously considered a lit
tie nap. The fact that there is a crying
need of more babies will never be brought
home in a passenger coach.
The baby has often been called the
Prince of Walls.
A baby is subject to many diseases.
One of the most serious of theve is called
boohoohooritis, which is the result of the
unfortunate combination of a misplace
pin and a fool nurse.
Babies are very cunning, particularly
at the age when they bite off the wood
work and lick off the wall paper.
In nautical terms, the babys squat
might be called a spanking breeze.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21


Charles Driver, a street car motorpan
OF washington died to save his passen-
gers.
More than 1000 volts of electricity
charged through his body when he hero
ically dragged live wire away from
passengers who were threatened.
1t happened In this way:
Drivers car had been stopped where
overhead repairs on a bridge were in
progress. The passengers had left the
cars and were walking about. A couple
of young women approached too near the
sputtering wire.
Driver saw the danger. He leaped for
ward, brushed the girls aside and with
newspaper in his hands seized the wire
The current hurled him backward against
his car and his clothing burst into
flames.
The scores OF people were Mortified
al the spectacle. Some one sprang for
ward and put out the flames with a
coat. Driver was borne to the Poto-
mac river near by, where water was
thrown upon him. Being removed to
hospital he died after a night of In
tense agony.
And the reporter says he left a wife
and three-weeks-old baby.
He died to save Others
NHch is the subllmest height of hero
ism known to men or angels.
What I ask you to note in connection
with the heroism of this motorman and
his sacriflcial death is this:
Such incindents are happening daily.
One might gather from similar stories
recorded in the newspapers during a.
single year material for a great vol
ume.
The heroism of everyday life and of
the average man is sufficient to make
one who contemplates 1t a lover of his
kind. Along with It's meanness and It's
cruelty there is so much in our COM
mon life that Is Christlike.
The farther back you go in history
the less heroism and self sacrifice you
find
The dyiI.g Sidney pushed the cup of
water from his lips and, pointing to a
soldier, said: Give 1t to him. His
need Is greater than NINE" But the In
cident was rare in Sidney's day, and
history makes Lnuch of it.
But
Today men and women are always do
ing deeds as heroic as that of Sidney.
Especially is this true of the men who
operate our lines of transportation.
The railroads and the electric cars
have not merely one Sidney, but a thous-
and and one!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21
This Is the Golden Age

This Is the Golden Age
My neighbor says the world is grow
ing worse.
My neighbor is a pessimist and is
much like the old woman who always
felt bad when she felt good, for fear
she might fell badl
Why" he says
Look at the rottenness in politics
and at the outlawry of predatory
wealth, and the abuses and tnjustices
of our time.
do you know" he continues, there
is big graft in business? Why, a sales
man can't sell purchasing agent 500
worth of goods without the latter ask
ing. What is there in it for me?'
There is some truth in what my
neighbor says.
And pity It's. It's true.
But 1t is not the whole truth.
On the contrary. corruption Is the
exception of which honesty is the rule
Rascals are really scarce. And all men
are not money mad.
The exposure of evil is evidence of
soundness rather than degeneracy. The
national conscience is keener than 1t
WAS 20 years ago. The standards have
been raised, that's all.
You know some of us are like the
old prophets servant who thought all
decent people were dead-except the
prophet and himself We need to have
our eyes opened to see the mighty
host of those who have not bowed the
knee to Baal. i...f4,-
Who are they?
The teachers. who, for a neager
dole sacrifice their vitality to educate
the race.
The preachers. thousands of whom
live on a pittance that they NAV HELM
men up spiritually.
The workers in the laboratories who
watch while others sleep and make
discoveries that lessen pain, or save
child, or prolong a life
Artisans and artists, humanftarians
and philanthropists who, in every
place, care more for men than they
do for money.
Why, time and space would fail me
to tell of the hospitals and homes for
the friendless and free libraries and
associated charities and free clinics
and Fairgrounds for tenement chill
dren, and the countless, gracious aeen-
cfes of this humane age Never before
IN all history was SO much being done
for our race
And, best of all
me mass of our people are sound
In head and heart. They arc no less
honest or brave or true or helpful than
their fathers, but in some respects more
SO.
And 80 1 say to my neighbor-
Cheer up. This is the best age the
world has seen-and getting better"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21

For then our heroes shall be like us
-ronly greater, nobler better
And we shall be like them, but less
great and noble and good.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21
MAY IRWIN QUITS
Com dienne Finds Summer Tavern
Losing Proposition

From the New York Morning Telegraph
May Irwin, innkeeper is no more. May
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21
Heart To Heart Talks
BY EDWIN A. NYE

ship with his satanic majesty. How is
pitchfork, he may "ketch'' you
If
you
don't
watch
out.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21

Nerve
She with an idea of choking him
off)-There are only two men in the world
could love. He-Indeed! And who is
the other one?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-31
STREET IMPROVEMENTS

Editor Herald: In your LETTER BOX
of October 26 l find an article against
street improvement laws. In the first
place, the case should be looked into.
If a piece of improved property on
Mission street will not bring $1,000 or
more after a main thoroughfare like
that is improved, there must be some
thing wrong with the property, or the
people who own 1t. If the case is as
the widow represents it, it is sad.
But now, as to the other side. There
are two, which might be beautiful lit
tie streets, about six blocks west of
the Third street tunnel. 1 refer to
Emerald and Sapphire streets. From
the latter most complete view of the
mountains, etc, can be had. For five
years the majority of the property
owners have tried to get these streets
graded so as to make them accessible
to themselves and strangers, In winter
time it being almost impossible to
climb the slippery soil. 1t seems
that one can can hold up the grading
under the old law, and it will take
about two years to enforce the new
Harmon act, we are told at the city
engineers office. OF course, as long
as the streets are not graded, we have
neither sewerage. gas nor electric
lights, and this about ten blocks west
of the city hall, in otherwise pretty
surroundings. l cannot blame the city
officials in not making exceptions to
the rule when they have so much to
contend with. but one property owner
on street should not be able to hold
up such improvement, which is or
benefit to the majority.
]. r. MOELLER.
Los Angeles, Cal.
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THE KING WILL FORGERY

Editor Herald: I see both Earl Rog-
ers and lie Compile Davis say GRIM
inal case could not have been made
out of the forging of the will of MI
chael King 1 admit with all the evil
dence had that was true, but suppose
the district attorney had really been
seeking conviction, instead of recoV-
cry under the will in a civil action,
would he not have quietly bided his
time till Lucy King was placed upon
the stand or her witnesses to the will
in the probate of the same, and then
ascertained who wrote the forged WILL
and if written by Lucy King, whether
or not she was duly authorized to do
so? Then a case would have been
made out that could have been used
in criminal prosecution. The desire
to get the money, rather than to dis
charge official duty, seems to have
prevented the forthcoming of the evil
dence that would have doubtless re-
suited in conviction. The second will
was either signed by Michael King
himself or some one authorized by him
or forged, and the probate proceed
ings would have shown which. This
was prevented by the compromise of.
a civil suit When he settled the civil
suit he sawed off the limb his Grim
inal case rested on. The proceedings
in the case by any attorney other
than the responsible prosecutor dis
covers to me nothing censurable.
The question OF whether or not the
controversy between these two men
cannot be very largely accounted for
by natural temperament is not clear
to me. The real question, however is
whether the present condition of af-
fairs in the county does not require
a more rigorous administration of the
affairs of the office. AS to this, there
is not in my mind matter of serious
doubt The cities are cursed and have
been for years by men who have been
grating, it being conjectured that
even the school funds are not always
honestly handled Do we not then
need a change in the administration
of county affairs?
NJ. G. McCASLIN.
Whittier, Cal.
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EYES ON CALIFORNIA

| DAYS an editorial in Golfers Week
"a ly for Oct 30:
~ California should congratulate
itself upon the fact that it will have
the opportunity this fall to vote for
William P. Lawlor for justice of its
supreme court. Lawlor was the
judge before whom Abe Ruef was
being tried when Francis J. Heney
was shot down. He has been the
target for the bitterest hatred on
the part of criminal and powerful
interests. He has emerged from it
all with unimpaired judicial vision,
serene and unperturbed.
AS the country watched California
to see what it would do in the recent
primary election, so it is now looking
to see what will be done with this
faithful judicial servant. Running
against Judge Lawlor is Supreme Court
Justice Harry Melvin, who seeks re-
election. Justice Melvin is described
by some of his intimates as "a good
fellow" He is political intimate of
William F. Herrin Of the Southern Pa
cific, and Herrin desires his election.
In a case wherein the rights of the
people at large ran afoul of the de-
sires of the Southern Pacific or any
other big, grasping corporation, who
would be more apt to see that absolute
and impartial justice were done-Mel-
vim, Herrin's friend, or Lawlor, who
has earned the hatred of the crooks
and the bribing corporations of San
Francisco?
There has been in the past a woefuI
lack of men of Judge Lawlor's kind on
the supreme bench of California. If
there hadn't, Ruef and Schmitz, con-
victed corruptionists of international
fame, would not have escaped the laws
retribution on ridiculous technicalities.
No more important duty is before the
people for Nov. than to see that
Justice Melvin is retired and Judge
Lawlor put in his place.
What is true of Judge LaWlor is also
true of Judge Benjamin F Bledsoe, an
ideal jurist of long experience and
proven honesty. Both have been in
dorsed by the Good Government league.
Although they are nominally Demo-
Gratis. thousands of Republicans, be-
lieving that politics should be totally
divorced from the judiciary, are go
ing to vote for them.
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SELF-CONVICTED

~ ISTRICT ATTORNEY FREDFR-
ICKS is still going up and down
~ the county defending himself by
saying that he did not know who the
forgers of the King will were, and had
no criminal case to prosecute. Let Mr..
Fredericks be his own REUTER- In the
sworn affidavit of John Gales the fol-
lowing appears:
Odd you, or did you not, re-
quest Fredericks to prosecute the
person guilty of the forgery?
Ayes.
Odd you make this request
more than once?
Ayes.
Odd Mrs. Volkmor or Mrs.
Gales ever suggest that he prose-
cute the forgers of the will?
Ayes.
On your presence?
Ayes, he said: "Well, WE CAN
SEND HER TO THE PEN, BUT
WHAT GOOD WILL 1T DO?"
Q.-To whom did Fredericks refer
when he said he could send her to
the penitentiaTy?
A.-To Lucy King.
Fredericks did have a case, and SO
declared. What he wanted, however,
as he told Gales, was the mon," as a
private attorney, not vindication for
the majesty of the law, as a sworn
guardian of the law.
One other aspect of this odious case
deserves attention here. Fredericks has
explained" that he could not in fair
ness use his knowledge as district at
torney as a club to force The defen-
dants into a civil settlement Ignoring
for the moment the gravity of this
statement as a confession of his
neglect as district attorney, what are
the facts concerning the fine ethics
thus expounded? They are these:
Mrs. King and Lucy King knew that
Fredericks was in possession Of knowl-
edge that might, if used as district at
torney, send one of them to "the pen"
What would you do gentle reader in
like circumstances? You would settle
up on any terms you could get rather
than go to the pen, wouldn't you? 1t
wouldn't be necessary for the civil at
torney to say in so many words as
criminal attorney that you had better
be good would you?
We don't see how any unprejudiced
person, looking for the truth as to this
shameful $4,000 transaction, can fail
to see in these two incidents conclu-
sive evidence of Fredericks' duplicity
both then when he was after the
mon" and now when he is trying to
explain the discreditable thing away
to get votes.
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man manifested, for the internal fire
Will cause a sweat or dew to arise
which WI nourish vegetation from be-
meath, destroying all insect life inim-
ical to the welfare of man. There will
then be no waste places. Even the
present deserts will then blossom as
the rose. There will be no corruption
then as we know it, the fire" having
consumed it. No decay, no complain
ing in our streets.
Children will then be a heritage from
the Lord. No race suicide, but the
wife will be as a fruitful vine and the
offspring like olive plants. There will
be giants again in the coming age,
both in stature and intellect. No "sin
unto DEATH" The new creation will
increase and multiply and replenish
the earth (the animate earth, the
body and subdue it (the evil thereof,
consequently there will be a vaster
population than the present in the
golden age dawning upon us.
What glorious expectation and one
that will not perish forever!
J. r. KITS.
Los Angeles, Cal.
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AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW

Editor Herald: Recently very eX-
cellent paper was read before med
zeal association by well known physi-
clan of this city, the subject being
1.-THE Destiny of Man." from scien-
tiic standpoint wherein he wisely rea-
soned his belief in future life, as
everything in nature indicated that
this earth and all it's products, vege-
table and mineral were prepared eX-
pressly for the use of man.
one of the eternal truths is that
God himself formed the earth and he
made it and established it. He formed
it to be inhabited eternallv by per
fected mankind, and to that end mar
yelous changes are imminent in the
natural world.
1t is written that the waters are
compassed within bounds, until the
end of light with darkness, and while
this in its spiritual sense refers to the
nations and their bounds of habitation,
in the natural sense it refers to the
return of the major portion of the wa
ters (the ocean, to the bowels of the
earth
And herein-as in all the works of
Gods his great wisdom and love to
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FORTUNES NEW FIELD

Thomas Fortune Ryan has entered TN
'ield of aviation by offering a $4,000 prlz
or a specified flight.
Another fine transporting line
VIII soon be running, sirs'
But not as part of any chart
OF land geographers.
For many laps on starry maps
It's vehicles will shoot.
Hey, human horde! Now, all aboard
For Ryan's Rising Route.
One terminal. the Street of WALL
The others? Everywhere!
And running thus, this octopus
Will have no five-cent fare.
Untaxed he'll fly across the SKY
And never share the loot
He need not buy franchise hlgh
For Ryan's Rising Route
Let Curtiss straight amalgamate
with this new flying star;
Let all the Wrights' commercial Inghts
Be made for 4. f. R.
Let Hamilton go sailing on
But he must ever scoot
or soar or dart, as one mere part
OF Ryan's Rising Route
AM Thomas still Is versatile
And gets the lions share.
I'm sure the man has formed plan
For watering the air!
And, soaring free, I'll bet That we
win hear the Move up!' boot
Ana All we chaps must cling to straps
ON Ryan's Rising Route.
John O'Keefe in New York World
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DIR. cRlPPEN,s TRIAL

Editor Herald: l agree with The
Herald. but l also sympathize with
your critic, Mr.. McCaslin. [ believe,
however. that if he will analyze his
views on the matter he will discover
his real quarrel to be with capital
punishment. I, too, am earnestly OPP
posed to it; there lies the disgrace
to Great Britain and America alike.
But the death penalty once granted,
then the more expeditions and straight
forward methods of the old country
are, | think all to the good. With
some knowledge of both methods
British and United States, I would far
rather be tried in England than here.
There. procedure is expeditions and IN
exorable; but it is consistent and fair.
[ speak relatively, of course; for all
penal law, or its administration, is
.weighted" against the victim. But
British legal procedure is more dispas-
sionate-cold, if you like. The prose-
cution is not so feVerishly eager, so
dead set on conviction by hook or by
crook as here, where the accused bears
not alone the brunt of the charge
against him, but must also incidentally
fight the odds of a prosecuting attor-
news political ambition for conviction
records. If the British courts are
speedy at conviction they are also
speedy at acquittal. There is no tricky
detention after acqulttal while new
charges are invented.
When Mr. McCaslin speaks of the
"painstaking" methods here, am
bound to record my conviction that
With all it's expedition British proce-
dure is, on the whole, more painstak-
ing for justice (even handedD though
the Ameriman may be more painstak-
ing for conviction. British courts are
far less 'bloodthirsty," much more in
different to results, provided the case,
whether for conviction or acquittal, be
duly established. VAL SIONE'
Tos Angeles Cal