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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

study of the lives of successful men
will show that success comes to most
men after rather than before forty
Is 1t financial success? Whoever made
a great FORTUNE before he was forty years
old?
Or politics? Few men get started in
politics before forty. The man who goes
to the United States Senate at fifty is
rated as young member
Or merchandise, or literature, or art,
or the professions?
Most men at forty are just ready for
successful endeavor. They have made
mistakes and have learned by experience.
They have found their real place and dis
covered their limitations. Years have
taught Judgment and self control, and the
brain stands guard over the passions.
1t is not necessary to give examples.
Life and literature are full of men who
have distinguished themselves at forty
fifty. sixty, seventy and even at ninety
seldom before forty.
Fortunate indeed is that man who is
well on his way toward success at forty
Fully as fortunate he, though unsuccess-
full, who at forty has learned the world
and himself-and has not lost courage.
Courage-thats the main thing,
You cannot keep brave man down, no
matter what his age. He may fail and
fall But he will rise And some day
when he has worked his will he will have
his charmed circle where none burst
walk but he
| Are you forty or more?
Then YOU are fairly fitted for real liv-
| ing No young man can buy your per-
sonal experience at any price,
At sforty years you have learned to
| know things as they are. You have no
| illusions You know your fellow-man.
You know yourself.
! And So
| From 1.-THE fullness of that knowledge
you are nightly equipped to organize
victory out of defeat.
Having overcome yourself, you are able
| to overcome the world. because 'he that
rueth his own spirit IS greater than he
| that taketh a city"
Courage. The spirit OF the conqueror
comes only through conquest of self.
Ever read white Fang" Jack London )
! companion story to 1.-THE Cali of the
! Wild9"
| The latter story. you remember. shows
| how dog gently reared, stolen for
the Klondyke sledge trade and most cruel
| ~ treated. escaped 10 the wolves an
I. swering the call Of the wild. whit
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

WIVES w you ro indulge as. !" tnn Illustrations s1e
W. known to you there is serious
danger of making yourself ridiculous in
the eyes OF those who are experts in
such arts. 1.-The Baptist Union gives the
following sentence as Selected" Speak
ing without thinking is shooting without
taking aim" Now, I happen to know a
sportsman who killed eight cartridges,
on the wing, at six shots; and he did not
once take aim. Some Of the very best
wing shots never take aim The same
thing is largely true of expert pistol
shots Dickinson, who was killed by
Andrew Jackson in a duel, could hit
10-cent piece at 10 PAGES; and be did not
take aim. The illustration selected by
the Baptist Union" would tend to estab
lish the conclusion that the most skillful
speakers never need to think,
by thy words thou shalt be justified
and by thy words thou shalt be con-
demne1," are the solemn words of the
Master, as Recorded in the 18th chapter
and 9th verse of the Gospel of Matthew
These words lay a tremendous emphasis
upon the dignity of human speech. Words
are the current coin-the medium OF
exchange-in our Intellectual and spiritual
commerce. A government exercises the
function of sovereignty when it stamps
q piece OF metal, and makes 1t current
coin in the realm of business transac-
tons IL you debase that coin you COM
NIT serious crime for which you msy
be sent to the penitentiary. Don't you
know that a Sovereign God will hold you
Responsible for debasing the power of
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The ExaggerRtOr.


From the Washington Post.
George Nicholson, Kansas City man
ufscirrer. was discussing the $5,ooo.oc
life insurance policy that has attracted
so much attention to him in the insurs
ance world.
You see." said Mr.. Nicholson. with
smile, I'VE don't live as long here in Mis-
souri, as they do in Montana SO insur-
ance ia very necessary.
"A Montana man was talking in the
smoking room OF Kansas City hotel
about longevity.
Now, he said. our Montana air 10
whether you want to or not. Why, my
Uncle George'n be 81 next spring. but
you'd never think 1t to see him hoppin
on and OF his biplane when he's starting
out to see his old folks. My Aunt Lizzie
is so, and she's the junior golf champion
of Big Fork [ tell you. she's a peach Ut
O. player for a junior. When she gste Q
few more years over her head, she'll
make the older players set up, there amt
no doubt about that My relations are
strung all around Big Fork. Butte. and
Miles City, but l cant call TO mind any
of them ever passing IN their checks
under the century mark
IT seems to me I've read somewhere,
though said quiet man. that ole 81
your relations died very suddenly while
still young
"'Oh, said the Montanan, you're
thinking about Unole Peleg. He got dam
ages from the Big Fork Palladium for
publishing a false account of his death
That's all there is to that
your Uncle Peleg, and II wasn't IN the
Big Fork Palladium. 1t was in the Acrs
OF the Apostles, and 1t concer1el Your
Uncle Ananias. -
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night with a paramour. A few years ago
this man was prosperous and highly re-
spected.
How did he fall?
Take Long sheet of paper and figure.
In the first place, the man lost his char
acter before he lost his reputation, did
he not?
Another sheet of paper, please.
The body and the mind are Siamese
other Now. ii is Nof record this man
abused his body by excuses. shattered
his nerves by dissipation and poisoned his
blood by liquors.
Then conscience. that chaplain of the
soul, no longer preached his message.
Brain cells We're broken down; moral
consciousness was blunted. Finally the
king of the mind the will, Was muddled
on his throne.
Still another sheet, please.
There yet was something left of the
man. He was not all in Outside the pro-
cess was slow Inside was a bundle OF
diseased flesh. erratic impulses and a
tigerish appetite.
a few more figures.
The man was not born a derelict. He
made himself, manufactured himself, into
wreck
Might have turned himself out diff
ferent product? Certainly.
One more sheet.
Was the man responsible for his foul
deed of murder? Fully so legally
into bestiality. He had wooed himself
into a species of insanity. He had DELHI
erately immersed his soul in the depths
of hades.
Now, let us foot up.
What do your figures shove The arith-
metic that estimates moral and mental
decline is just as accurate. mind you. as
any law-of physics. Here is my footing
up:
First free moral agent may incarnate
himself into devil If he chooses. VI
Second, he can do this with open eyes,
knowing, even fearing. the certain end.
Third we may learn a lesson of warn
ing from
But you have the data. Make your own
deductions
Here are three stories from real life
about women. One is from Germany, one
from France and one from Spain.
The story from Germany.
A German singer goes TO Paris as a
military SOY. She Is a very attractive
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06
HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Ed1uin A. Nye

| Said a friend of the writer, man who
has led an unusually useful life, though
in the lowly walks of the world
II have done so little for humanity"
He really believed so.
And yet | happened to know that sew
eral young persons had been inspired to
great success by that mans humble ca
| reer.
When we do our best we do much.
When we fill to the full the obligation
of fatherhood or motherhood, Of citizen
ship, of neishborliness, we fill an impor-
tant place In the scheme OF things as they
are
Listen to this story:
Once upon a time a certain king went
into his flower garden and found the
plants and trees withered and languish-
ing. He asked an oak what was the mat
ter, and the oak replied that 1t was tired
of growing so slowly. 1t wanted to be
tall, like the pine.
He asked the pine what troubled it, and
the pine replied that 1t was discouraged
because It could not grow grapes like the
vine.
Upon being Intercepted the vine COM
planned because 1t could not hold up it's
top among the trees. And SO on.
The king came to the heartsease and no.
ticed that it held up its head and smiled
well, heartsease," said the king. how
is It that you are the one brave little
plant that f1ourishes and blooms in the
midst of the encouragement and failure
all about you?'
why. your majesty" said the hearts,
ease, II know | am small and of little
moment. but ! made up my mind when
you planted me you wanted a heartsease.
| that's all. You didn't want an oak or a
pine"
! Do you see?
| Many of us want to be an oak or a
pine In the kings garden and are not con-
tented to be Just n heartsease
/ One says. III, only We're rich would
do great things for the world" another.
! IF only I had authority L would lead the
| people In right paths" etc
! ", Did you ever stop TO think that you
may be fitted for "a small circle rather
than larger one
And that II you M to the full meas
ure the smaller circle you have done as
well as II you had filled larger sphere?
! In fact. II you have met your oblIga-
lions I'm the little circle you have done
more than II you had only partially file
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woman and in the cafes where she sings
makes the acquaintance of young French
army officers.
One by one these officers fall in love
with the handsome spy. She demands
money lof her victims When their
money gives out she suggests to them
that an easy way to her further favors
would be to sell military secrets.
~>And this one from France:
The burning of the converts in Bar
celona. Spain, during the riots there LAST
summer came near to causing the DOWN
fall Of the King. A Trenchwoman in
work of arson as a protest of the trades
unions against the undertaking of the
nuns in embroidery and needlework
And this from Spain:
For severak weeks before he was ar
rested and executed Dy the government
Ferrer, the popular champion of tie
Spanish people, was in hiding. Ne was
dug a, cave behind her house, sheltered
the fugitive and gave him food and
lodging when it meant death to do so.
Here are. three women. One is a
spy, one an agitator,> >one a savior.
With such material our modern now
elists should not complain of a. lack
of the necessary Isoul~stuff for stirring
tales
Three women
One sells herself body and soul for the
sake of her country.
One risks her life to help her strug-
Cling sisters - the trades union.
One challenges death to protect from
harm popular leader.
Characterize these women as you will,
differ from their viewpoints as you may,
it is worth while to look behind what
they did for the motive of their CO.
ing.
Behing the deed is the self Sacrifice
ing motive And behind the self sac
rihce is the GROWING feature of wom-
anhood-
Trace back to its original source and
fountain the action of any woman and
you will find 1t in her desire to sacrifice
herself for another or for cause.
These three stories from overseas sim
ply serve to Illustrate again the way
of woman.
1t is commonly accepted saying that
unless a man succeeds in life by the time
he IS forty years of age he viii never
succeed.
y The statement Is untrue. ~
VT Is too broau sass-s ssss 3.
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Fang shows the opposite, the power oil
kindness and good surroundings
Briefly this is the story:
( White Fang is part wolf and fights
for the mere love of fighting. He is
savagely cruel Failing into the hands of
Weeden Scott, the latter's kindness seems
thrown away on the vicious brute. But
Scott persists in his steady gentleness
and finally finds the one tender spot un-
der the hide of the little beast
The climax of the good masters ef-
forts comes when he leaves the dog for
few days. White Fang pines and re-
fuses to eat and, what is more signifi-
cant, refuses to fight When Scott re-
turns the dog meets him trembling, and,
miracle of miracles
THE WOLF IS WAGGING HIS TAIL,
Which means that White Fang was con-
quered, civilized saved. Redeemed by
the force of kindness. the tail wagging
signifies everlasting friefdshpsand devo-
ton.s
A lesson for parents:
II a wolf dog, hardened by mistreat-
ment, can be changed-converted-by per-
sistent Kindness how much easier to
change rebellous child and melt and
transform 1t by continued kindness
Cannot a father and mother be as
patient toward a child as was Weeden
Scott toward q hybrid beast? Is not
your child worth as much as dog?
And teacher:
You ought never to forget that divine
power that is in You to mold and fashion
with tenderness the lives of the little
ones, some of whom come from wolfish
homes
You are doing-we say, it reverently-
what the Almighty poyer would do If ii
could.
And so of our laundering day. We
prate of increasing prosperity, thrift, In
vention. Organization of industry. as II
to pile up money were the great problem
of government
No! The problem OF government to-
day is to lift up and help the lives OF
the poor the wofishly reared and neg
lected Money.making will take care OF
itself
When this world shall have been made
as good a place for all men and women
and children to live in as for some I'M
fortunate dogs. then, and not until then
shall we have made real progress In
civilization,
! II you have never read White Fang,
do So It will-set you to thinking
| Or. what is better, it will set you te
FEELING
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

a CORRESPONDENT who read our
"a little article on "Intimations of
4 \ Immortality" says Until science
proves Immortality I am an agnostic.'
Why. my dear friend. science is having
: lot of trouble nowadays to prove any
thing, even the division of force and
matter or the old doctrine of the con
oervation of energy.
Besides, even should science prove i'm
mortality would the fact sink into your
npul as an entity or become a moral
corce in your life?
Life itself is the best proof of future
Me. How can a soul that knows its
avn potency doubt that it will live?
Says the Nazarene, HE that wills to
10 his will shall know of the doctrine, y
The soul that is rich in spiritual expert
ence shall know-not guess, but KNOW.
Are you a Mason?
II so, or an Odd Fellow. you have a
knowledge of the sublime significance
- certain teachings and symbols that
The outsider does not know.
30 of the great souls-the Emersons
and Brownings and Tennysons-soulst that
nave been initiated fully into the spiritual
Me. 10 these souls has the mystery of
Immortality been largely revealed.
Another thing. Suppose you were given
- know your Immortality and have not
the desire to fufll the purposes of fu-
nnrity. What would be the use?
TO ft one for Immortality the soul
aust already be in tune with truth and
nAIrity and righteousness, else you would
y as much out of place in the future
Me as a red~handed robber beside the
ammunition table.
Don't you see?
u your soul thus properly attuned! The
anal proof must be there.
Moreover, the larger the soul the great
- its capacity the better 1t is attuned,
ohe greater its testimony to an eternal
aucome.
That is to say. the soul that is on its
xptoes to learn will KNOW.
Permit me to substitute one word in
Jtctor Hugo's phrase: "There is phil
leophy which denies the existence OF
Immortality. There is also a philosophy
yhich denies the existence of the sun
This philosophy is called BLINDNESS
Fipoor you! You have SO long perhaps
neglected your spiritual sight the sense
r. 1t has become atrophied.
pull up your chairs TO the library table
sharpen your pencils and let's figure.
: Here Is the story or a man who DELHI
watsly shot his wife in her bed and ther
hired his little son, TO the bedside and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

ciplne of Tammany Hall IS a piece Of po
iitlcal action never equaled in this coun-
try except by his administration of the
office of governor CT New York. One of
the greatest pol7aieal ealamities is the
fact that he was not naugurated Presi-
dent after he was elected to that Office.
Asa doctr,naire lie was scarce second TO
jefferson AID as political adminstra-
tor this country never produced his
match.
When the republican party came into
power i'm 1861 IL was nothing but a critic.
made up OF old wings. ant-slavery dem
ocrats and abolitionists. II was agreed
on nothing but hostility To slavery and
il was divided even on that question The
tariff plank of the platform on which
Lincoln ran in 1869 was milk and water
declaration
lBut stirring times were just ahead,
and the republican party had to act, or
90 ont al the political business. Ut did
not net Wisely: but there is no denying
that It acted tremendously. II was ter
ribly in earnest and shed blood and ex-
pended treasure at an appalling rate. It's
hnaneial policy might have been invented
nv a Legislature OF unatlcs. II was eN-
travarant and it was corrupt. Il taxed
the people more for private aggrandize-
ment than for public purposes. Its recon
struciion policy was mingled lnfamy
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Just the Thlna.

From JNdge.
Emperor do not care TO hear your
proposition, sir Everything that is sub.
mltted must nrst be put through the
prime minister"
Subtect-'Nothing would please me bet.
ter. l wanted 10 show you the new bay.
onet which l have invented for army
use"
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Done Him Wrong.

From yerybody's Masasins.
The stranger laid down four aces ana
scooped in the pot.
This game ain't on the level" pro.
tested Sagebrush Sam. at the same time
producing a gun to lend force TO his 40.
cusation. That amt the hand I deaN
yer
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

a circumference of greater responsibility.
Do your best In your place.
Angels can do no more.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

1t is a commonly accepted saying that
unless man succeeds in life by the time
he IS forty years of age he will never
succeed.
The statement Is untrue. ~
VT is too broad .s4l Isl,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

Pull UP your chairs TO the library table,
sharpen your pencils and let's figure.
: Here Is the story OF a man who deib-
lately shot his wife in her bed and then
hfod his little son. TO the bedside. and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

Here are three stories from real life
about women. One is from Germany, one
from France and one from Spain.
The story from Germany.
A German singer goes TO Paris as
military SPY. She Is very attractive
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-04-21

If every one that is interested at
tends the State Good Roads Conven-
ton at Fargo, June 22nd and 23rd, the
prediction that this will be the most
largely attended convention ever held
in the state, will be amply fulfilled.
The national reputation of the speak
ers, the unique exhibit of road models,
the stereoptican lectures and the gen
eral good road enthusiasm that are
promised for this occasion, should
certainly prove attraction enough to
induce all interested to make a pill
grimage to Fargo on those dates.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-04-21

The rural routes were estab-
lished for the benefit of rural
homes, or in other words the
farmers. They have proven a
greater benefit and blessing to
the farmers than was anticipated
by the most sanguine. A farmer
who has once enjoyed the advan-
tages of the rural mail service
would hardly know how to live
without it. 1t did not come to
the farmer, however, until he had
many times earned it. The farm
ers are our heaviest taxpayers.
What property they have is in
plain sight andi is taxed, while the
city gent, at least many of them,
who deals in notes and bonds is
enabled to hide his wealth from
the assessor. For a quarter of a
century the mail has been car
ried to the city, not once, but
many times each day. Finally
the big heart Of Uncle Sam has
reached out to the men who feed
the world.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-04-21
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES.

Sunday, April Oath, has been
set apart universally as HEALTH
SUNDAY. In the morning DR..
Hedding will give an address on
Tuberculosis, It's Cause, Pre-
vention and Cure. After the
address he will answer any cues
tions relative to the disease.
DR.. J. G. Moore, our District
Superintendent, will preach in
the evening of April "a.
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SUBSCRIPTION FREE.

We will give a six months sub
scription FREE for each copy of
the Hope Pioneer of Sept. 23rd
and Both 1909 sent to this office.
We desire copies of these is
sues to complete our files and
need two copies of each issue.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-04-21

Locals -
Don't forget the Free Band
Concert April 29th.
Old papers at the Pioneer Office
5 and 10 cents per bundle.
New Edison Records at
Wambergs Drug Store.
Atty. E. s. johnson spent Sun
day at Fargo.
B. M. Bemis visited here a few
days last week.
A lunch that can't be beat at
Noes Lunch Counter.
Try Wamberg's Toilet Cream
for the hands and face.
Residence and Store for sale.
See III. II. Fulmer.
Neal Wasem was a business
visitor in the city Tuesday.
s. Moe has installed a lunch
counter in his hotel.
Wall paper samples at
Wambergs Drug Store.
LOST. - An orange colored
Parker Fountain pen. Return to
Pioneer office for reward.
Ladies please bring baskets
with supper for two to the Free
Band Concert April goth.
C. G.. Warner and wife spent
several days in Fargo the first OF
the week.
B.. @. Shaw, of Sioux Falls, S..
Oak, was transacting business in
this city Tuesday.
Owing to the snowstorm Sun
day No. 3 did not go thru and we
did not get the usual mail.
The Robins we're chirping
.cheerily Tuesday in spite of the
snow on the ground.
Up-to-date wall paper samples
at Wamberg's. He pays the
Express.
DR.. Stem Hanson of Fargo,
Osteopathic Physician, at the
Club Hotel Mondays.
Don't neglect to get your For.
maldehyde at
Mallory's Drug Store,
How about an Edison Phono'
graph? Let us sell you one.
Come in and hear one play.
J. J.. Wamberg.
FOR SALE
AS I have decided to move tC
Montana, I will sell my residence
and store on Steele Ave.
H. H. Fulmer
1 have my Spring and Summer
styles and samples of Charles A
Stevens & Co., and invite the la
dies to call and see them.
Mrs. j. A. Officer.
We will have wall paper for yol
in two days after you leave thu
order. We pay the express. SCI
our samples.
Mallory's Drug Store.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-04-21
IT'S A BOY.

Adam Major came down town
at an unusual early hour Tues
day morning, his face aglow with
that smile that won't come off,.
He was inquiring for the census
taker, stating that the population
of our city had been increased
and he desired to have it show
Immediately upon the census re,
port. Adam says it is a most
promising eight pound boy. The
mother and son are doing nicely
and the attending physician gives
the encouraging report, that with
proper care Wax will speedily
recover from his "son-stroke".
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LOST!

1 red heifer, 2 yrs. old, strayed
away from Sec. 80, 146, S., about
March IA. Finder will please
notify
Herman Steinke,
r. F. D. No. 3, Hope, N. D.