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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20

route at the principal points in those
states. The purpose of his trip is to put
the plan of the association into effect in
the Southern country, and with this OBJ
ject in view auxiliary associations will
be organized, with headquarters probably
at Atlanta, New Orleans and Memphis,
at which places conferences of repre-
sentatives have been arranged for.
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ing offers from eastern theatrical man
ayers and from local capitalists who have
attempted to organize troupes with Smith
as the leading character, but he preferf
the quiet of the farm and his own hap
py fireside. He was married 10 years
ago and to the union three children were
born. and all of them are the image
of their father. All three were able tc
walk upon their hands before they could
their feet Their legs are wiggly and
''sawed-off" while their arms are abb
normally developed. The youngest, son
named in honor of his sire, never walked
step on his feet until his fourth year,
although he had been skipping about on
his hands IA months earlier. Smith owns
little house and lot in the vicinity OF
Mannsvile and earns his daily bread by
working for the farmers of the sur
rounding territory.
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Xngrauf Strands

From the Louisville CONVERSATIONAL.
Il think his love for the landlady s
daughter must be genuine. He has col
lected a lock of her hair.
collected it? What do you mean?"
Saved it out of the butter"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20

For Rent-Good Groom, q
story dwelling, modern coh
veniences; lib S. 18th street
See Messer Real Estate and In.
surance Company.
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j. 7. Austin, secretary of the American
Speciality Manufacturers association, has
left for a trip through North and South
Carolina. Georgia, Florida, Alabama.
Louisiana and Tennessee, stopping en-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-31

Official whose chief recreation bounding
good citizens for the sake Of revenge or glory
and adding that 1t was not unusual for him 10
put the said citizens in Jail or in box cars,
declaring further that he sometimes h1tcned
them to posts with chains and that he was
menace to legitimate settlement and society
in general.
Mcdonald looked over some of these docu-
ments and grinned.
That's so, Jim," he said, II do put 'em
in box cars when there amt jail; the way
used to do back in Mineola-you recollect,
when the jail was full-and l lariat 'em out
with chain and a post when there amt a
box car handy; but don't reckon they're in
nocent none"
Hogg nodded.
"Those Endorsements are good enough for
me-" he said. "They carry the flavor Of con-
viction. l appoint you Ranger captain on the
strength Of them"
Mcdonald returned to Quanah with his ap-
pointment as captain of Company B, Frontier
battalion" The headquarters of the company
were then at Amarillo, in the southern part OF
Potter county, near the Randall county line.
This was almost the exact center Of the Pan
handle and in a locality sparsey settled. I'M
tanned and lawless.
Since the early days of Ranging" there
had not been much change in Ranger regula-
lions and equipment The character Of the
work. however, had changed and the force
had been reduced in numbers Company B
now consisted of only eight members all told.
These were supposed to range over all that
vast section known as the Panhandle and were
subject to orders that might take them to any
other portion of the state where their assist
ance was needed.
It was in January, 1891, that Bill Mcdonald
received his appointment as Ranger captain
and his first official service was not long de-
layed He arrived at Amarillo about midnight
and was received with congratulations, for the
news had Travelled ahead of him. He was tired,
however, and the hour was late, so he pres
emily slipped away to bed. He had hardly
fallen asleep when he was rudely awakened
and handed telegram which stated that the
Indians had made a raid across the border
and were killing and robbing in Hall county.
near Salisbury.
Capt. Mcdonald read the telegram and
laughed. There had been no Indian troubles
in Texas for number of years. White rene
gades there were in plenty, but Indian out
breaks had long since ceased.
81 guess the boys are trying to have some
fun with me on my first night" he said, ana
turned in once more to sleep. But few min
utes later another telegram came; and an
other: this time from the superintendent OF
the railroad company-a Mr.. Good whom Nc
Donald knew as man not given to practical
Joking.
The Ranger captain dressed himself hur-
ried over to the telegraph Office and got the
operator there to talk over the wire to the
operator where the scare had originated. He
learned that it seemed to be genuine and that
everybody was leaving the neighborhood.
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tenders but sometimes with the very people
whom they were hoping to protect. This made
the work hard and discouragng, as work al
ways is hard and dscouraging when it is done
amid enemies who the guise of friends.
For this kind of service Capt Bill Melon
aid was eminently qualified. Already he had
been appointed special Ranger in Company
b, commanded by Capt. S. A. McMurray, but
his duties as u. S. deputy marshal in NoMan's
Land and in the Cherokee strip had been his
chief work. Nevertheless he had on occasion,
engaged in bandit hunting in his own state,
during this period, either alone or in company
with other officials, usually with good results.
Events of this sort kept Bill McDonald's
name fresh in the Texans minds and made
him seem peculiarly eligible for regular SER
vice. The resignation of Capt S. A. McMur-
ray, who had long and bravely commanded
Company B, became his opportunity and he
hurried to Austin to try for that command.
His old friend James Hogg, was now gov
ernor of the state Since the settlement of
their differences so long before there had been
no discord of any kind and each had admired
the others career, proud to remember the
friendship. Arriving at the capital now, Nc
Donald was shown in to the governors room.
Greeting him, he said:
well, hardly know what to call you, since
you got to be governor. 1 don't know whether
to call you Jim or Mister I'll have to call
you Governor / guess. as I want to get
place"
They shook hands cordially Gov. Hogg
said:
what is 1t, Bill? What can I do for your"
why" said Mcdonald, 81 came down to
get to be Ranger captain-to take McMurray's
place in Company B."
Hogg looked at him reprovingly
why didn't you let me know sooner?" he
said. There are two other applications for
the place, both from good men, with long Pc
titions and fine Endorsements"
The applicant for position forgot his old
friends title.
why, Jam, 1 never thought of 1t until day
or two ago. didn't have time to get indorse-
ments but can get EN-, If you want them. l
have been working mostly in No-Man's Land
and the Territory lately, but have done work
in Texas too, and can get about any kind Of
Endorsement you want"
Hogg laughed. He had a robust sense of
humor.
That's all right, Bill" he said; you have
already got the best Endorsement ever saw"
Mcdonald looked puzzled
81 don't understand" he aaid, SCI didn't
know anybody knew wantea gne place."
"All the same you have got the indorse-
ments," insisted Hogg
He turned to his desk and got out bundle
of letters.
Look over these" he said. "You probably
know some of the writer's
Mcdonald took the letters and read them
one after another They were from well-known
criminals, their lawyers, their friends and their
associates. They had been received by Hogg
while he was attorney general and each was a
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endowed. Had he been less PAM
pered, he would have been very diff
ferent man In every way. Perhaps 1t
was a good thing for him and for the
world that his circumstances were as
I have described them; but, on the
other hand he lacked that hard ex-
perience which makes men really
strong. Even physically, this may per-
haps have injured him.
To the world at large he seemed a
radical reformer, attacking the whole
commercial system of modern life,
and hurting epithets that famed like
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balef1res over social questions. But at
home-and he lived with his father
and mother during the whole forma.
tive period Of his life-he seemed
more of child than grown man.
He submitted to the dictation of his
parents in everything domestic. When
he was 40 years Of age, he used to
cover up all his cherished paintings
on Sunday, because his mother did not
approve of anything that would please
the fesNly eye and distract the mind
from spiritual Observation-Disclosures
Orr, In Mu3sey's.
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over immaterial questions without
ever. having to think about the ques-
ton Of an income.
Even after his parents died, and
when Ruskin, after middle life, had
practically thrown away the fortune
which had been left him, he still re-
ceived an income of some $4,000 q
year from his copyrights, so that new
er once did he know the meaning of
poverty, or what 1t is to toll for
money.
All this gave his genius full play.
His eccentricities, so to speak. were
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KnelU Nothing of Worry

battle for living. Her fathers large
fortune was always at his command !;
and as his father was convinced that
the boy was an extraordinary genius,
he never stinted him or denied him
anything. Therefore young Ruskin was
free from ordinary cares. He could
crafty his taste for art, buy pictures,
endow museums, acts as his own pub
Usher; or, If he liked, he could fight
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John RuskIn Always Shielded from
Care by Virtue of His Finan-
ciaI Situation.

Ruskin was an only son; and from
the very first, the firm character of
his parents in a certain sense over
Swallowed him. In all material things
his life was sheltered one-what the
French call capitonne. He was never
forced to go out into the world and
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OLner waste. w 0aK
kidneys do not fill
ter off all the bad
matter. This is the
cause of rheumatic
pair is, backache and
urinary disorders.
Doan's Kidney Pills
cur weak kidneys.
Rev. A b r a m
Weaver, Georg e :
tow n, Tex, former
editor Baptist Her
aid, says: cat a
Baptist conference
at jackson, Tex, l
fell from q platform
and hurt my back.
| was soon over the
inju ry, but the kid
nnnc wnrn hadlv dis
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Dlstemper

In all its forms, among all ages Of horses
and dogs, cured and others in the same
stable prevented from having the disease
with Spohn's Distemper Cure. Every bot
tie guaranteed. Over 100000 bottles sold
last year. $50 and $l.00. Good druggists,
or send to manufacturers. Agents wanted.
Write for free book. Spohn Med. Co.,
Spec. Conta gious Diseases, Goshen, Ind.
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An UnuentIemanIv Reply.

"Once you called me the light of
your existence"
eyes, know it. That was before
had any idea you were going to be-
come the dead weight of it,
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A man reaps what he sows-and
rips what his wife sews.
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Pettit's Eye Salve First Sold in 1907
100 years ago. sales increase yearly, wonder
full remedy; cured millions weak eyes. All
druggists or Howard Bros. Buffalo, N. Y.
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IRE Feminine Bias.

"Why doesn't our canary sing,
papa?"
Hes getting a new coat"
why, surely, that should make him
sing Well!"-Fliegende Blaetter.
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ordered, passages painful and often
bloody. Doan's Kidney Pills cured
this trouble completely"
Remember the name-Doan's. Sold
by all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y. SO cents a box.
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Lots of people will accept favor
who wouldn't take a joke.
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Passing the Speculative.
"I am going to have Jagsby for my
best man."
ooh, l know better man."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-31

ONLY ONE "BROMO OUININE."
That is la XATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for
the signature of &c. w. GROVE. Used the World
over to Cure a Cold In one Day zoe.
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Mrs. WinsIow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething SoftenS the gums reduces In
Hammation alays pain cures wind collie 2jc bottle.
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When an aeroplane chauffeur drops
it's all up with him.
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PILES CURED IN g 10 Ia DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT S guaranteed to cure any case
of Itching, Blind Bleeding Protruding Piles in
6to IA DAYS money refunded. 5Oc.
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DON'T NEGLECT THAT COUGH
Il certainly racks your system and may run into
something serious Aliens Lung Balsdnl will check
it quickly and permanently For sale all druggists
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Give truth a square deal and it will
not be crushed to earth.
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WELL KIDNEYS KEEP THE BODY
WELL.

When the kidneys do their duty, the
blood is filtered clear of uric acid and
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The best people on earth are your
wife's folks-so she thinks.
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Philosophy and Religion.
The idea of philosophy is truth; the
idea of religion is life.-Bayne.
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WE PAY HIGH PRICE FOR HIDES
and Furs, and sell guns and traps cheap.
n. w. Hide e, Fur Co., Minneapolis, MINI.
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A brother is a young man who
flatters his grown-up sister.
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protest and a
c o m p ! a i n t
a G a i n S t Nc
D o n a Id, de-
claring him to
be a ruthless
and tyrannical
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warfare OF the frontier;
work full of new dangers
and what was still worse, 1t
was work which, instead of
inviting the encouragement
and enthusiasm of q COM
munity, was Of a sort to in
cur it's displeasure, for the
desperadoes of a neighbor-
hood were either the heroes
or the terrors of it and in
either case to modest them
was likely to prove unpopu-
lar. So it was. during this
new order Of things, that the
Ranger service had to con-
tend not only with the Of
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OF CAPTAIN 6[[2E|I]lQ ]gDONAuD9 OF
T[72zAGo By ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
= % NoPYRLCHr, ~ REHRS0N Rua. Co

iaz.zzzzHzzzz2 HE early history of Texas was
| hzwzp& { written in blood and fire. Her
/ "a counties preserve the names of
| RA 4 her martyrs. Parker, Coleman,
/ ed4s Crockett, Fannin, Travis, Bowie
~ SaTT CO. and a hundred others have the
- Va map for their monument their
lm EdA names are given daily utterance
zz - % by those for whom their deeds
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For 80 years Lydia f.. Pinlxham's Vegetable
Compound has been the standard remedy for
female ills. No sick woman does justice to
herself who will not try this famous medicine.
Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and
has thousands of cures to it's credit.
MST&%p Mrs. PinIham invites all sick women
ER&sg to write her for advice. She has
guided thousands to health free of charge.
Address Mrs. Pinlxham, Lynn, Mass
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before the advance of progress; again she
protests against the nand of the vandal which
runs up a pretentious hotel for the tripper
where but yesterday stood some Tudor inn for
the leisurely traveller, a delight of darkened
waInscoting, old furniture, brasses pottery and
sporting prints. The English city and suburb
at their vulgarest and Ioudest are conquering
the English countryside at its best Progress"
has its cost as well as its rewards The book
must be ranked with the best work its author
has yet done
The peasantry of THE Glory and the Abyss"
still keep in their proper stations, although
they no longer pray God to bless the squire and
his relations, because their hereditary squire
has left them, his manor having been bought
by parvenu. This mans son is the villain of
the book, very much after the manner of
"Tess's' young Smith UrbervilIe, who. how
ever, looks almost like a gentleman beside him
The hero is a peasant, humble and patient
whose dumb, ignorant mind gropes vaguely to
the heights of soul and character of dignity and
the service Of humanity; whose eyes see diny
the beauty of the world, whose ears have heard
a faint, distant call of the voice of the modern
spirit. He is the mainstay of his famy-his
father a drunIlard his mother a weak discour-
aged creature, broken by the physical burden of
fourteen children, borne in abject poverty. One
of his brothers is a thief; of his sisters has
left the village in disgrace, and completed her
ruin in London. Another sister is threatened
with the same fate. Dumbly, humbly patiently
the man does his duty he sees it with his
limited vision which yet is so large, high,
so noble and he achieves it-al that be
achieved in his IoWly condition in almost
feudal environment He achieves it in defiance
of the son Of the who has usurped the
squire's place Paying the highest price that
man pay, he reaches from the abyss to
glory.
The sincerity, the aspiration and the dignity
of this character study make the book a nota-
bic The family grouped around it is well
sketched and some of the minor personages
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more completely to rest than for time did
your cup my two friends"
THE G4LLEYS OF NEMI.
10 BE Raised from the Bottom of the
Lake.
From The Pail Mall Gazette

From The Pail Mall Gazette
II Is announced from Rome that the Minister
OF education has promised to contribute "a 900
TOT the raising of the imperial gallevs at the
pottofn OF Lake Neni, if it be possible And the
oAuer secretary has started to investigate ac-
tChlt'dflied by several Deputies and a driver The
news IS interesting not only to antiquaries but
also 10 lovers of historical romance: but how
often they have been disappointed! Two yea RS
ago the Italian government named a commits
SION TO report upon the feasibility of drawing off
me water to such depth at least as to make
IQCure operations easy. The experts reported
that II might be done. but they asked whether
SCIENCE could preserve timberS suddenly EXPOSED
after an immersion Of nearly two thousand
years. 1t may be assumed that this question
mas been answered satisfactorily since the at
tempt Is 10 be made-if possible.
me larger of the galleys measures 24q feet
IN length the smaller 209; both are SO feet in
breadth Their derth has still to be ascer-
tanned, for they are flied with mud
Who launched such enormous craft on n Ike
surrounded by hiiIs-a crater, in fact? Natu-
rally one recalls the description of Caligula's
pleasure galleyS by SuetOnius-built of cedar. the
decks faced with precious marbles. the sails
painted. There We're baths, COlOnnadeS and
spacious rooms vines and fruit trees Of every
sort to give shade. On these vessels the EN-
peror Coasted along the Campanian shores
feasting and drinking. with throng OF dancers
and musicians about him. The examples at
Nemi were equally magnificent, perhaps, when
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are cleverly draWn-the curates wife, for IN
stance, who is the wears daughter and the real
ruler of the parish, and her uncle, a great
scientist and agnostic of the Huxley type, who
alone recognizes the grandeur of the soul of his
IowIy human brother, the peasant hero. This
is Mr.. Vincent Browns second novel. His first,
THE Screen" was a rather ineffective effort to
utilize once more TrOIIope's material-the clergy
of the Church of England. The advance in this
second book of his is amazing. 1t should suffice
to fix the attention of lovers of fiction upon him.
He may go far.
The unconscious humor of The Song of the
Wolf is so strong and all-pervading that
suspects at times that its author really intended
the book a satire On the cowboy romance in
all its widest extravaganza, and ultimately
failed in a most difficult undertaking. Every
thing in this story-its hero and the characters
surrounding him. his derring-do and the VIII
famous proceedings of his enemies, its senti-
ment, and the language in which all this is ex-
pressed-is raised 20 the sUperlative degree
Here is the heros past that has driven him to
the pure simplicity Of the cowboys life. Note
the capitals:
From the pinnacle a great faith in his kind he
had been hurled headong TO the depths OF unhelief
and suspicion. He had seen Loyalty Knocked and
betrayed; starved Innocence bought with price
by crI!ne-opuIent ISncrance naked Virtue croucned
shvering in the shadow of exalted, ermined Vice
He had witnessed the sacrifice of every
civic virtue 10 the MolOch OF Greed and Graft the
abasemert Of all human motives to the idol CT Self
Mr. Frank Mayer, whom this book proves to
be beginner, has pretty gift Of story telling,
which needs pruning, not cutivating, it's
purely technical side. He do better than
lift the dime novel to the doubtful position OF
near Iitera ture."
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TRrSPASS BY Mrs. Henry Dudeney. 12Tno, PIP.
5S4 Boston: Small Maynard & Co.
THE GLORY AND THE ABYSS. BY Vincent
Brown limo, PIP. 303. Z. 2. Dutton & Co
THE SONG OF THE WOLF. BY Frank Mayer.
limo, PIP 81. NIofat, Yard & Co
Mrs Dudeney is of the company of contem-
porary nove1sts whose work one has learned
to take up with confident anticipation. She
does not disapPoint Us in her latest book, Tres
pass, with its curious study OF the influence
Of the wave of materialism Of the last quarter
Of the nineteenth century, and its accompany
ing confusing spread Of culture" upon the
mind and character of a rural English inn
keeper The man is a gentleman at heart, but
his aspiration is TO Be ''genteel." He "meanly
admires mean things" yet, in the climax, life,
having twisted his marriage into the familiar
triangle, forces him up to the height Of a ro-
mantle chivalry. even though he expresses it in
the stiIted "bookish" language of the half
educated. His enemy, an artist, while acknowl-
edging himself defeated, regrets all through the
decisive interview that such sterling nobility is
couched in such pathetic speech.
The story is worth reading for the sake Of
plot and character. but Mrs. Dudeney always
gives US background of significance. Again
she places before the dignity, the artistic
delight Of the rural England that is vanishing