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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1910-07-26
Bright Things.
land duller ones.)

The people who think only of them
selves generally have little to think
about.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1910-07-26
Saget paa Sroet.

Dperborsermeiteren / 8oien. Or.
@ilms. er fienbt iom' en- Manb, Der
msb Gnersi interesierer fig for glmen'
anlissenber. Gn Dag inofanbt ban
fig / ct aitenielIfab bos en- rig &isb'
manb, al bpem ban pilbe ie at iaa 5000
Naart / 8ibras til 5remme al ct OHent'
list Gnlissenbe, men 8jsbmauben ipa'
rebe aipiienbe:
"9e fan liseiaa sierne itaa paa 90
pebet iom iaa Rense at mig!"
&eppe bar bisie Orb ubtalte, fsr ben
abreite Dperborsermeiter fob paa So'
peoet for be 9iltsbeuarenbs og, life
moi meb BET, ban git enbba ct
Stpffe paa Senberne. Otter benne
Sbret fob ielpislselis be 5000 Tsari
til bans &aaoisbeo.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1910-07-26
San bar norT.

Set er 9inSpeir. Suemaslerne paa
Saoene trrer meo at itprte reo. On
Spenife fonimer eaaenbe opoper en- al
SsIps tranae @doer. SlnoieIis ltprter
ct p9ISist Sneifreo ODER bam. ga leber
en- Smaasut til os grader Spenifen no
al Sneeu. gaanben tor ct Yen9eftptte
frem % flyer: "Snt for SiGIpenl Tag
bette iom SeIsrniuel"
%eu 8utten RITTER paa Sopeeet.
"Spurfor BET ba?" ipsr Sbeuifen.
~9u fan iagtens babe Brig for bet
ga. men iss siorbe bet life for 'Sens
se; ies or uorif."
ariaen brboer uo. Smaa9utten er
porcn % bnerpef. Gan latter no tno !
ben piIeeitc Samphimmel nsen at Gnle
Saren. SHe iorSi ban er nIpiielie. Wet,
bar er IpffeIis. gIuSieIis ilaaes ss9rs
BET BAN us af Saanseu. "Spersio etel1
raabes Der.
"alSrisl~ IbSer Soaret. "Se sIem'
mer iea er noritl"
Dan bIep ifiot. Gan beoe alieeoeI lps'
ieIie; ban falSt for fit 6GoeIane. bet
Iom ban bapee sIifet % Gret. bet Tom ban
bapSe ti9mrpet for belle ut Sio, % Oct
iom ban osoe for, Get bapee ban iiGn'
let belle lin siarIisheo; TIT sieumem gr'
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1910-07-26

no ODER bmn, iom bar benbes 2ips
afguo. ON ban forticnte oet9 Seq
pea bet life; ies pnifer Blot, at ben.
bes ifisnne 9rsm nlaa bare bertoes
2ip igiennem.
n 9rsm nar forbi Dem Orsn,
Der fpLbte NIT Sierte meb Siem.
lnngieI og Srpb Den Tib, ieg lepebe I
@enopa peo benbes SIDE. alorig git
ben / Spfploelie - ingen 9pinocs
9ioIe ~itreifer mig | De eamle Stler
meo De msrfe Bmeler; ingen apin'
bes bIsbe Stemme er iom Mltiif I
mine Sren - ingcn muntre 9arne.
itemner eiber @ienlpb unoer be ifpg.
genbe gomle geetrer. Sen ganIe
Serreeaarb | 9eoonibire itaar M
iom for Itben Seriferinbe.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1910-07-26

selves generally ave little to think
about.
Unfortunately Dame Fortune has an
old maid sister-in-law.
We have noticed that when an Atchi-
son girl marries and ome back to visit,
and stops Us on the street to subscribe
for a copy OF the Weekly Globe to be
sent to a friend in the town where she
lives, she says to her mother, when we
have the address; Mother, have you a
quartera-Atchison Globe.
Every morning when we are busiest
Lysander John Appleton, who has moth
ing to do, walks into the Globes office
and bothers us. So this morning we
concluded to give him both barrels. We
went out and left him. We dislike to
treat an old man ia that rude manner,
but what are we to do? We remained
an hour, and when we came back John
was asleep on the sofa. We went out
again, but when we came back at Has
he had gone to dinner.-Atchison Globe.
An intoxicated young man, very much
battered up, went into a hotel about
midnight and asked the clerk for room
q. Cant give you that one" re
piled the clerk. "It's taken" "Who's
got it," asked the intoxicated one. "a
man named Jones'" "What Jones?"
"Mr. Alb. Jones has room g." The bat
tered mp young man smiled. Eats all
right" he said. Eats me. l fell out
&c window."-Denver Post.
The Lancaster Literary society will
meet in special session tonight to dis
cuss this question: (Which is the great
err disturbance in the middle ofthe night:
Fathers snoring, or daughters talking
with some girl who is staying all night
with herr" After deciding this moment
GUS question, the society will again take
up the long mooted question: us a bat
a bug or a bird"
The most popular joke which has been
published in any language in the histo-
ry of the world is stated to be that
which appeared in an obscure corner of
the Punch Almanac for IS45. 1t read;
advice to persons about to marry -
Don'tr' 1t would be interesting to
know who was it's author. Another,
founded on a similar subject, was the
advice to persons who have fallen in
Ilove'-Fall outl" One OF the most bril-
liant things that ever appeared in our
contemporary was the brief dialogue be
tween an inquiring child and his impa-
tient parent: What is mind?" "No
matter. "What is matter?" "Never
mind."-Westminster Gazette.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1910-07-26


iprmrg bun meb ct b9mpet Sfrig
bort fra mig, ben MOB en- bsi, msrf-
badret Wano og lagoe fit Sopeo MOB
bans SfuLoer.
Sit on albrig mime 9repe2 Seq
bar isgt Dig operalt," bsrte jeg bm
fiee.
Slm iparebe life, lsfteoe life lit
Sooeo; bet bon, iom ON bun omiiber
bapbe finoet Sotle.
"0u er life alere ber9" peoblep
ban. "Spem er on iainmen me62"
Web en- efieluen iom at Smerte
retteoe bum fig op os iaa fra mig til
BAN meo bsnfalben6e @ltf oe meb
folbeoe S9noer.
SCR bum halle = for ielp mibt |
min SortpiIeIie bon min &ierIigbeS
til benoe BOG i~terfere emo alt arbct;
% iea prspebe at flame beroe for
cen apaI at ffitae iige mig, bnab ieg
aIlerebe piofte - fit ieg ioet: "Ge
bar iunSet en- plSre Sen emo ieg er,
@arsaret. lsfaI icg labe bnm fsfge
Gem ben til Sru Serefer2"
"gn 9lore 8en?" gientog bun.
ga, peb Supiter, oct ifulbe ieg Sa
mere.1
Sad tog ban fin Sat al, raffe mig
SaanSeu % sif. Seq off, men life
fsrenS ieg bapbe Jet, at ies alorig
bapoe fienot benbe, ieg elifeSe, min
t~rolopeoe 9rlrol Seq baooe fienot en-
ffisn Stotlic, life BEN Seiliee abinoe,
ser imiIenbe og sml meo gtnene for
IteSe / tilbooenbe aierligbe6 pdo
@oroon Srapers s(niist, itoo Der ioa
nIia ben foloe, rolige, fornemme
Iargaret, at ieg neppe funbe fatte,
BET bar om iunnte. Il benbes isnen.
be GuIoe, benoes tr9tte go Dor fol-
6en al ben0e, Iom en- &aabe faloer -
en- &uabe, ser bapoe ifiult bcnoeS
fuloe gnSe. benoes nirfelige 8Gien,
ben6es SipI - oft oct, leg life bao-
DC peret pproig til at eie eller lei
IogIe gar ieiere traf ieg en- 8en,
iom fjen0te @oroon Sraper og bans
&uitru tenmelig nsie. sam fienbte
life nit Gins Sfuffelie % fortalte
loft os fat ON oct unge Gar uoen
at one, booroan bpert Orb ipeo ! nit
Sierte.
"Slm er rioget al oct imuffeite,
mon Fan ie," fagoe ban, "bsi iIarf,
forrrem, og bum formelig tilbeber i'm
Iaro. sam Dor | 9ria bar on ma.
ife bort, % ser ble %fortalt, at ban
bar 900; men ban par finn baorot
iouret. Ser par en- rnSiiif Sdmilie,
iom tog fig al bam, eiter at ban bar
blepen noifrepet fra S%oipitalet, bpor
2egere bapoe opgiuet BAN, og peb
6eres 9leie % Smbu fom ban fig til
Gels; ban or rioeet ipag enoni og
trenger til mcgen Smbu. SIN Sraper
iortalte mig, at bun en- Iften ltoo
paa en- Serrasie | 8e1tooa, tror ieg,
oa Scr bsrte bum p~IuoieItg bans
Stenme. Sun mente, OF Oct bar en-
9ebreibeIie fra BEN bsbe, JON bun
bauoe iorisgt at glenme bum bar
NOT life Iangt fra at ifiile CITIES meo
Ell onoen IunD - men Sagen bar
Sen, at 8croon Srapcr oirfelig bdo.
DC orret | @enopa BEN DAG cg bar
ombcrb paa gadten, iom bun firnoe
Se larat noe paa Sopetl Set er ro'
mantiif, life iunot 0sen Gordon
taqer benoes SiIbeoclie og S~eneipen'
bco nrget fisligt, ipneS ieg. &i9r'
Iisbeoen er piit mere paa benSes emo
poa bans she, tror ieg. Seq fmi
life ~foritaa oetl"
Soritaa Set2 SO, i8 frroe. Siir
oar al Dem, Der elifer at gipe belere
eno at tage, mar De bar iunoet Den,
sc resner for oeres ct % alt. Sele
benoes geiens 9nbe % 8igoom, al
benoes SfiGrfeo. MsiIobco 90 3ier.
Iisbco site bun mco sapmilo SaanO
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1910-07-26

farinesr babe ban tilfibft. iluttet at
ajerIiebeben til SebreIanoet bar bet
eneite at icroiife Sins man furoe bepare
belle fit 2ib.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1910-07-26

Mothcr-'Just think how much bet
ter you would have felt if you had di
vided your apple with your little
brother"
Willie - SAY, ma, I'll do the right
thing now and divide up the castor oil
with him."
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1910-07-26

en- aiten iao hi iarunen paa Ger.
rasien; StiIbeSn faIot ON os iom
Ell aaabe; nm SsIgerues Sulfeu LOO
op I'll os. ll0e paa Sisen lutte De
bOiOe SeI paa en- IiOen 9aht. Rer.
mere fom Den, mi ina pi Naiterne;
itile sIeo ben ben MOB Saonen, Dem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-19
William James and SniritISm

When Prof. William James died last month he left declaration to his friends that he would, If possible, com
 municate with them from the world be- yond the grave. It does not yet appear
 that he has done so.
 , It was he who stood ready in the later
 years of his life to consider the pos
 sibility of psychic revelation, thought transference mental telepathy and all
 spiritistfc phenomena. The great prag-
 matist did not definitely commit him ] self to anything not proven, but he ever remained in receptive condition. [ He told his friends, at any rate. that he would speak. if possible, from the spirit world to the world of the living. He
 left with three friends in sealed en- 1 velopes the words which he would send through" by means of Mrs. Piper, the m edium with whom he had been asso- i. ciated many years Those words have
 not been received.
 
 Professor James was doubtful to the
 last, and the fact that he has not com
 municated with his three friends in . creases the doubts of those friends. Still there are some who will continue to study all phenomena, hoping at
 some time and in some way to prove
 Collectively the fact of survival in am I other world. We know little indeed and many would welcome as an aid to faith a widening, be it even so little, of our
 present Knowledge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-19
ChaunceY DepeE'S Successor

While pretty much all observers in
 New York stand ready to say that
 Senator Depew cannot succeed himself,
 yet no one is ready to name his suc-
 cessor. On account of the manner in
 which the state Is partitioned into
 legislative districts the republicans
 might control the legislature even it the democratic state ticket sweeps the state This, however, Is not probable. fsn a political upheaval the tail is apt l go with the hide The man at the oils who is mad strikes at every name s.ithin his reach.
 Should the democrats control the leg stature on joint ballot they would have udge Parker. Judge Herrick, Edward r. Shepard. Judge O'Brien and Thomas HI Osborne to select from. for each and I very one of them is of senatorial size Whom the republicans would select does not appear beyond the fact that they would not re-elect MT. Depew. Each side would try to find a worthy colleague of Senator Root, who stands deservedly high in the Senate. New York is a great state and it should be Represented in the Senate by men of |high ability and attainments. It is long time since New York has had two highly capable senators at the same lime
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-19
to to the Polls Today

A mayor president of the council, a police commissioner, Is new aldermen and score of other city officials are to be elected today and every citizen should go to the polls.
 Every citizen should vote. for it always does an official good to find that he has a majority of the entire citizenship be- hind him. He should vote because it is a habit that should be encouraged and promoted, and well established. All qualified electors should vote on each and every occasion.
 The indications are that the contest which has arisen over the proposition to sell the water and light plants of North Birmingham will call out pretty full vote. The proposition submitted by the City Council to the people will there fore have subserved an useful purpose whether it meet defeat or approval. All at any rate should go to the polls on the general principle that public business Is the first and most important duty of the qualified elector.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-19
Girl Plumbers In ChtOago

Mrs Ella Flagg Young is the superin- tendent of Chicago public schools. and she has decided to introduce into those schools a course in plumbing for girls. They are to be taught how to care for the they are expected to conduct.
 All this may be in the direction of do- nestle economy, but is 1t right to teach those girls the tricks of the plumbing trades? Will 1t not rob them of all faith in men and in the straightforwardness of business methods? The girls thus taught may when they become the house. wives of the future be proof against the hornswaggling of the master plumbers and of their iourneymen but the knowl- edge thus acquired may undermine their girlshness and their faith in mere man
 Trade iniquity would in their minds stand exposed, but so would human na- ture of the masculine sort. Mrs. Ella Fagg Young should hesitate before she teaches the young girls in her charge the tricks of the plumbing trade. Better far that they should remain in the depths of plumbing ignorance than that their faith in human nature should be forever destroyed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-19
AN OLD MANS BIRTHDAY

From the New York Globe.
 Seldom has a birthday been celebrated more beautifully or touchingly than was who recently became 100 years old. The morning was bright, and the old man rose to read the Psalms and say his prayer under conditions that seemed to promise still many years of happy life.
 A spray of red and gold ivy was twined around his plate at breakfast, and under the plate was a surprise such as his petrate upon the dearly loved father per haps three-quarters of a century ago. And not only were the children and the childrens children at the old mans side throughout the day, but delegations from far and near came to visit him-neigh- bors, church friends, and others. They brought flowers and bright greetings. In day cake was cut.
 William Rankin Is the last surviving member of his college class. The last surviving member? Why. he may have been that many years-perhaps a decade, perhaps almost a score of years. It may be that half a generation has elapsed since the last of those he knew in youth and early manhood passed away. And yet without contemporaries. without a single pal or friend of early years, he is loved and honored by multitude. The tribute that men pay to age Is as noble as it ever was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-19

From the Century Magazine.
 In order to deal with the brutality. cor ruption and negligence of the police, the mayor took the affairs of the police de- partment into his own hands. All com plaints came to his desk. No police man could be transferred without his knowledge and authority. Within few weeks he dismissed about 25 members from the uniformed force for assaulting citizens or shlrking duty. He made it known that he would break" every one of the 10000 policemen in New York if that should be necessary to put an end to the clubbing and insulting of citizens, New Workers rubbed their eyes. Could
 1t be possibe7 The mayor announced that he would not only dismiss police men guilty of unjustifable clubbing, but would have them prosecuted in the courts, like other criminals Scores of uniformed offenders, from inspectors and captains down to the humblest patrolmen, were summoned to the city hall. There was no escape; the mayor knew tho law, and was determined to enforce it. There was no hidden political council to which the policemen could appeal They were face to face with unshakable authority. There was nothing to do but obey, and for many months the people of New York city have been wondering why they toll erated police ruffianism so long when it was so easy to put a stop to 1t.
 When the organized saloonkeepers of the city found that he had destroyed the political channels through which they usually sought protection when they were violating the law, they went to the mayor and admitted to him that it was their practice to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars every year as secret fund to influence legislation and save their members from punishment. The mayor promised to see that they should get just treatment in the future, but insisted that they should cease collecting money for such purposes. Since the saloonkeepers' big fund has been abandoned
 Then MT. Gaynor struck a tremendous blow at the giant system of police black mail by issuing an order that as the excise law provides, the police should require all saloonkee pers to have the win dows of their harrooms uncurtained and unopstructed, so that everything within should be clearly seen from the side walk. Policemen were forbidden, on pain of dismissal, to eli CT saloons for the purpose of making excise arrests, but were instructed to take notes of what they saw from the outside, swear to their statements. and turn them over to the proper authorities for prosecution. That made it impossible for a policeman to become rich by blackmail, as before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-19
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 6HE old maxim that God Is on the side of the strongest battalions is 1 up for review among the military theorists of Germany and France, It is not surprising to find that the Kaser's strategists have an abiding faith in it, while the French opinion is that 1t has been absurdly overworked in recent ap- praisals of the fighting capacity of armies. The French dispose of 1t with a sheer; it is the craze of numbers, they say.
 Colonel Godke of the German army started the discussion. After cheery reference to the 65,0oooOO people behind the German army he makes an onslaught on the French muster roll. It Is always based, he asserts, on purely theoretical calculations. The levy should afford a certain number of men, according to law; therefore. there is that number of meI in the ranks; so he describes the French method of figuring. There are deaths, assertions, dismissals, shortage in the an- nual draft; the actual number of men with the colors never comes anywhere
 
 by the French government.
 On the other hand says Colonel Godke, the German force is actually larger at all times than the "budgetary estimate An allowance is always made of 9 per cent for the difference between the num- Der of recruits each year and the theo- retic possibility; large allowances are made for losses from the ranks through various causes, and no allowance what ever is made for the 12,50o men who. on an average, enlist voluntarily each year in the army.
 The net result Is that the German colonel scales down the effective French force with the colors at any given mo ment to not more than 544,000 men, in stead of considerably more than 6Oo,ooo as 1t is given in the statistical manuals. The German efficiency he reckons at co., oo0 men, figure which, by the way Is not in excess of the total of about 621, GOO appearing in the latest text book, which gives Germany a prima facie advantage of 6o0O0 men, or more than Il per cent, at the outset of a struggle. However im- portant this superiority may be, the colonel goes on arguing, 1t is as nothing to the numerical differences in later levies. When 1t comes to the last call to arms Germany is ready to place 2,000. GOO men more than France in the field. This. he seems to think, means neither more nor less than that Germany could eat France alive in the long run, assuming that the latter country should survive the shock of first collision.
 Now here comes that dashing soldier of France, 'Le Colonel K" who hardly thinks it worth while to question any of his adversary's figures, but who by process of reasoning all his own dem onstrates that all the indications they af- ford point to certain victory for the armies of the republic. In the first place, as he shows, a trifiing difference of 60, 900 in the troops on active service is a weakness remedied with scratch of a pen. In case of mobilization 1t simply means the ordering out at once of 5000 reserve troops. Surely nothing can be easier.
 But the number of men enrolled in the army on a peace footing is only a minor matter anyway. The moment war is de-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-19
THE CASE AGAINST cRrrPEN

From the Boston Globe.
 Evidently it Is a more difficult task to convict Dr. Crippen than most per sons have supposed The first reports led to the belief that the mutilated corpse was that of female. Now, Dr. Pepper of the London university testifies for the prosecution that he cannot determine whether the remains are that of a man or a woman. This testimony, of course, will strengthen the medical opinions produced by the defense.
 Under English law 1t is not actually necessary, as in the United States, to prove that the body was that of a woman. But the court has certain dis cretionary power. If other evidence, of strong circumstantial character, can be produced, indicating certain ac- tions by Dr. Crippen and including in eliminating admissions. conviction may ensue. This Is certainly one of the most intensely interesting crim- inal cases that have been tried.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-19
Business Barometer

With the fall of the year business ac- tivity is renewed, and Birmingham now starts upon a season that gives promise of exceptional prosperity. There are few better barometers of the business situ- ation in Birmingham than the volume of advertising matter appearing in The Age Herald.
 In yesterdays issue of 52 pages the ad- vertisements covered 4346 inches, equal to 6O,s44 agate lines. That totaled the largest volume of business ever carried in any regular edition of any paper in Alabama in the month of September. Bir- mingham is making strides and the fact that the advertising rush begins thus early in the autumn indicates progress all along the line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-19
MISS GOULD HAS CIRCUS
he New York World.

From the New York World.
 Lyndhurst, the country seat of Miss Helen M. Gould at Tarrytown, was the scene of an old-fashioned circus yesterday afternoon, the occasion be- ing the annual fete to the members of Miss Gould's sewing class.
 The circus was genuine. with side shows, red lemonade, and peanuts thrown in and no one enjoyed 1t more than Miss Gould. More than 400 children were present. all dressed in white and wearing masks of various animals. The circus performance was given by Miss Gould's Sunday school class and Miss Northrups class, hn- der the direction of Miss Northrup. "
 Miss Gould shook hands with all the children as they departed for home. She said it had been a day Of much pleasure to her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-19
East Grominr City

Jacksonville is growing very fast and to a visitor it appears to be a city of 75,o0o or 5000 population" said w. W. Friedly of Baltimore.
 T was in Jacksonville a few days ago, the first time in year. It has made great strides and it is safe to say that in the next 10 years it will increase in population 40 or 50 per cent
 "The campaign for constitutional amendment In favor of statewide prohi- bition is in progress in Florida. The peo- pie vote on the proposition next November and it is understood that the amendment side will lose. The prohibition wave is recedng. If the Florida prohibitionists had tried the amendment two or three years ago they might have won, but all drastic measures are now unpopular"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-19
BRITISH UNREST
From the Boston Globe.

From the Boston Globe.
 England is experiencing much unrest in industrial circles from strikes and lockouts. The entire cotton trade is threatened with a lockout on October l because operatives are averse to arbitra- tion. In shipyards there is continuation of lockout because the men will not agree that there shall not be further strikes. In railroad circles the results of arbitration have been disappointing.
 Trade disputes in Great Britain seem to be on the increase Various plans to settle them meet with little success. Con- sidering all the conditions, more instead of fewer strikes and lockouts will ensue.
 Great economic changes are under way in Great Britain and other parts of the world. But they are only the prelude to a more positive and more permanent prosperity.