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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19

Whether 1t be the blatant clarion loud. Or tender, trembling tone of violin. Or changing cymbal of the noisy crowd, Or whispered wailings of the flute
 within.
 Each has its place amid the mighty se .hrong 5hi The great Musician has assembled there, And each must play his piece or sing his
 song,
 And ne whose notes shall ring untrue,
 beware.
 % Kind words, kind deeds, strong, noble
 thoughts and all That man both needs and gives of sym
 pathy; Or heroes blood. who in fierce battles fall, That weaker hearts may win a victory, And every note the world has ever
 known
 Of rapturous joys or languorous sighs. Of unsned tears each heart has called
 it's own,
 Of prayers unspolen, breath'd to un-
 seen skies.
 ! Of hopes resplendent, slifting up the soul Unto the everlasting, shining hills, UT dll fUe SWttltSl thOu5HNS oui iiNoi e'
 control,
 Of all the glory that our visioa fils. Yes, every tone of every phase of life Shall ring within that harmony sublime. And notes of victory from every strife Shall echo from the mystic halls of
 time.
 And ever swelling though tn uMending
 years
 The souls discordant bonds forever
 rivn-
 With grand accomp' niment or trembling
 spheres,
 Earth's music ring-The Sympnony of
 Heaven.
 Grayson. Doubleday, Page & Co.,. New York s1.50.
 Adventures in Friendship" is a pro- test against many social customs, rrac- tices and habits, and an appeal for pro gress in the social art of life, One must not expect from the title of the- book to follow the course of another Damon and Pythias fellowship. The au- thor rather essays, in intimate kindly fashion, to show us our ignorance of our selves-!gnorance of the nature God has given us, and of the fellow men among whom he has placed us; ignorance of the conditions of their life in this world and of the good in which alone theii human souls can find satisfaction, these are the chains. he points out, that keer men in perpetual slavery. The author urges a persistent truthful ness with ourselves, to keep ourselves open to all the teachings of experience and so, only, are We prepared to meei the occasion of life: Ut is the pri1He se cret of the open road that you are tt pass nothing, reflect nothing, despist nothing upon this earth So one is not surprised to find in ''Ths Story of Anna of which story these are the opening words-a protest agains the treatment usually accorded the Mag
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
the broadest caricatures of

may view in the broadest caricatures of the daily press.
 It seems. that the good women are by fate decreed, to be painted in the milk and water, washed out timts ,t aaa depict an Amelia" and "Harrlet Woodman." Authors. however weih meaning, will put all the dash Of crim- son lake and touch of, chrome yellow upon the Becky Sharpes' and 'Nans of their creation. Little wonder wl,n such treatment at the hands of their makers that those milk and water mafdens are handicapped in the-book- long struggle to complete conquest over their so highly adorned rivals. In this battle of the faiie"Nan" waves the victorious palm over the heart or 'Jlm' even unto the end. It is only In the epigram that "Iarriet" comes to her kingdom-and to rule the little home built for "Nan"--but all that time the roses planted for Man" have been growing until they completely embower "Harriets" window-sol nature works for the good while laggard love lin- gers. 4 'trse
 The main thread upon which MT. Dixon hangs all his story is his con viction that when man or wamon se- cures his or her own consent to barter love for lucre at that moment Of choice is killed for that one the capacity for experiencing thereafter any great emo- ton. Never again TOT Sucn an one tue ardency of love. the buoyancy of true happiness, the winged, dear joyance in all that makes life worth living. That one deliberate choice has set going process that makes for ossifying and fossilizing heart and soul structure. The powers of ardency along any ave- nues of emotion are atrophied. MT. Dixon does not permit his hero to share in this conviction till the last baieful tragedy unveils eyes long blinded by love and Jim" declares. Nan. you will not do this thing for love" Mr. Dixon leans overmuch to the doctrine of free will: Mans" heart justification was due probably to the promptings of a nature already cold and calculating rather than to delber- ate hoice;. we choose only that which we are fitted to choose. also heredity might tako part of the onus of selec- tion from Mans" shoulders, mercen- ary mother might be credited with good part of the daughters callous- ness.
 Though "The Root of Evil'' is a dis- tint. advance over "The One Woman 1t is not up to the best mark of Mr. Dixon's work He is more at home tearing pen "mightier than the sword' through southern problems.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19

II seems almost impossible to even inn zine that small, delicate, weakly wom- an, weighing only 1c7 pounds, could pos sibly live with a monster life-sapping par asite of this mammoth size constantly sapping the very life blood from that poor, little. frail, weak woman's body. But this has been the condition in whicn Mrs. P H. Meehl. who resides at her home with her husband and three small l.obies, the youngest being nearly l2 months old. The husband, MT. P. H. Meehl, of 2o03 Tribly avenue, North High lands, Pratt City, was employed for some yeau as master mechanic for the Ala hama Consolidated Coal and Iron com pany. when his wife, some four years ago.. weighed 1H pounds. commenced to com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19

been reading about inc great number or people who had been cured by the use of the Quaker Extract and oil of Balm. called on him and am glad did, for he told me that the Quaker Herb Remedies would cure where all others had failed He said: T don't claim the Quaker ,Reme- dies to be cure-als. but was here. to prove that they will cure all I claim for them-catarrh in any form, rheumatism, kidney, liver. stomach and blood trouble, ard will expell any worm or germs from man, women or child got one bottle of the Quaker Extract, and I am thank ful I did. T. commenced to take 1t just as soon as I got 1t, and to think it's only the third day. and have expelled this horrid tapeworm that has caused me all these long months of suffering. Il most sincerely hope that any. person suffering as have done will try at least one bottle of what consider the most wonderful medicine in the world"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
FREETO THE RUPTURE
\ New Home Cure That Anyone Can Use Without Operation, Pain.
 Danger or Loss of Tin

I want you to it at my expense. l am not trying to sell you Truss but offer you cure that stays cured and ends all truss-wearing and danger of strangulaton forever.
 No matter whether you have oingle, double ,cr navel rupture or one following an operation, my Method is an absolute cure. No matter what your age nor how hard your work, my Method will certainly you. l especially want to send it free to those apparently hopeless cases where all forms of trusses, treatments and opera tions have failed 1 want to show everyone at my expense. that my Method will end all rupture suffering and truss-wearing for all time.
 This means better health, increased physical ability and longer life. My free offer is too important to neglect single day. Write now and begin your cure. at once. Send no money. Simply mail coupon below. Do it to-day. -s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19

The remarkable new treatment, called the Obbac Treatment, is purely vegetable. contain Ing positively no mineral poison whatever. no produced remarkable changes in only 30 days. Treat yourself privately at home. and become as free from taint as Q new born child.
 The wonderful Wasserman Test, the only blood poison test known to scientists, has proven that B man has been completely purified by the Obbac Treatment.
 Don't spend months and years of your precious ife and destroy your health forever by taking mercury and potash which doctors commonly prescribe. Write today. Send your name and address and complete description of your case to the Obbao Go, 12S1 Obbac Bldg, Chicago, and they will send you at once n an absolutely plain firmly sealed package, 6 full So-day treatmen nhsoluteiV frae.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19

and smother it for several
 years. Then when you think you are cured, pitiful mercury symptoms often break out, and you find that your bones have been rotting all the while. Your teeth may begin to loosen and your tissues, glands, brain and vital organs show the terrible destructive power of the mer- cury and potash. Locomotor Ataxia, Paralysis, Imbecility and Premature Death are then almost inevitable. Medical au- thoritles admit that this Is 30.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
Common and Proper Nouns

From Judge.
 what is the difference" said the teacher, "between a proper noun and common noun"
 The answer was not devoid of logic. but rather unexpected.
 "A proper noun Is noun used prop erIy and a common noun is noun used conmOnly"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
Pullman broiler parlor car on Seaboard 38 to Atlanta.
LOOSE COTTON SEED
 HULLS

We offer for immediate shipment in car load lots loose hulls at $9.00 per ton. Prime c. s, meal for sale also.
 BUCKEYE COTTON OIL co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
 GERMANS SWINDLED OF THEIR FAIR SHARE

Berlin, February s.-(Special )-A,il- lions of Germans have just had their eyes opened to the painful fact that for years past they have been swindlediout of their share of beer.
 In Munich restaurant proprietor and eight wallers were charged wIlh systematically giving false measure. The prosecution alleged that the brew cry which stood behind the restaurant made s52,50O year extra profit by giv- ing false measure.
 The case resulted in a conviction, but the defendant brought a score of wit nesses to prove that in Berlin Munich, Leipzig, and other German cities, and also in Vienna. short measure was always given. No German in his life," said one witness, has drunk an honest jug of beer"
 Needless to say this last revelation has made a painful impression. A Munich statistician estimates that Ger mans last year were sWindled out of SIP, ,500.000 worth of beer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
The Bible

lHe DlDlC
 Three hundred years ago next Aplli parlxer5 the kings printer in London nuhlished a book which had great vogue.
 It Is still "the best seller
 The book had it's beginnings back in the mists of the worlds infancy ana it's latest sentences were penned zooo years ago. os
 Ii has been conned by the wise or earth. discussed for centuries, and DOT tions of it's text have been memorized bv millions. It has been purchased Tn numberless editions. and yet
 Its sales are growing.
 It's present popularity is attested oy the fact that the Bible societies or this coutnry and of Great Britaln-to say nothing of those in other countries and of hundreds of private publishers print and publish each year between nine and ten million copies.
 Moreover
 Since the era of printing literally billions of copies of the book nave been printed circulated and read.
 To us of the English speaking world the translation of 300 years ago by 4Y leading scholars of King James reign is the most interesting.
 Revised and rewritten again and again. 1t remains today substantially the same. Men have fought for the DOCK ana died for 1t.
 It has been carried by the most daring heroism to earth's remotest bounds.
 It has informed childhood. comforted age and afforded inspiration for every forward movement of the race.
 Now
 Is is not significant that today 1t should be the best seller" of all print ed books?
 And
 Putting aside the reasons which make it for millions the most precious book extant, how may its popularity be accounted for by those who are dis posed to measure the value of things by commercial standards?
 Must not its material success be accounted for by its value to human ity?
 How else will you explain the phe- nomenon of the Bible as the best sell ing book in any language?
 How else2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
Your Sore Toe
t nurse your grievance.

NO not nurse your grievance If some one has sighted or 0 wounded you. do not nourish your grievance and torture your family or friends by putting the groueh on public exhibition.
 Do not show your sore toe.
 Half the sights you nurture are ian oied sights Half the injuries for which YOU put yourself into a sort of self mar tyrdom were never intended for you.
 You fed them until they were ripe,
 Some persons put themselves in the at titude of looking for evidences of neglect or injury. They find what they are look ing for. And then they make themselves and their friends miserable by chewing the cud of their resentment.
 How shall you treat your grievance?
 Forget t.
 The more you think of thing of that sort the bigger 1t gets. The more you drag it through your mind the deeper you cut the channel untR. by and by 1t be- comes a well worn rut in which your thought must travel whether or no
 Get out of the rut.
 Force yourself to think of something else. Make new channels for your thought Change the subject.
 Get so busy trying to make others nap DIV and thus making>yo happy that Ion have no time to bother with griev- 
 ances.
 That is one way.
 Another way which has high sanction, is to heap coals of fire on the head or one who has injured you.
 Sneak some pleasant word or do some gracious thing to the one who has tried to hurt you. and if he is really guilty 1t will make him sorry, and thus you will have overcome evil with good.
 You sec
 Instead of the other person getting you into his mower. being able to make you miserable, you will have evaded his smart and turned his malice back upon hlinsen.
 In any event forget.
 Do not permit your mind to rup slight wound into a fostering sore. Llle is Zoo sbort for such abnormal cultures. Promptly treat the hurt surface with an antiseptic and forget 1t. And above all- ,,,.
 Do not exhibit your sore spot in public
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
Geo. c. Oliver, G. A. Natl Surety Go.
 Phones 334
HORSE CLIPPING

HORSE CLIPPING
 Now is the time to have your horse clipped. Send or phone to Hubbard's horseshoeing shop, 211 N. 18th St. Peoples phone 2060.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
He Had No Choice

From the Philadelphia Record.
 "You say you were in the saloon at the time the alleged assault took place?'
 "Yes. I was,' the witness admitted.
 "H'm," the lawyer pursued. That is interesting And did you take cogni- zance of the barkeeper at the time"
 "I don't know what he callad it, sir" came the reply with perfect ease, but I took what the rest did"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
Blood Poison 30-Day reatmeni
 FREE
Remarkable Results Produced By New Vegetable Treatment Without Use
 Of Mercury or Potash.

The terrible results of mercury and potash m blood poison are well known. The most these drugs can do is to drive, the blood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
OnnOrtunitY

OppOIbuHlty
 This is a plain story about opportunity and onions and
 A man.
 The man is Louis Mauenhaus, a Hol- lander. who came to Chicago a few years ago.
 Maulenhaus does not accept the ancient adage about opportunity having fore lock which you must grasp once for all, and probably he never read Ingalls, poem which says opportunity knocks but once and comes back no more.
 He lives on the west side with his wife and young son in little cottage with a back yard a little larger than horse blanket.
 He is fond of pickled onions.
 Two years ago that he might have the sort of pickled onions they have in the old country he planted his back lot to an onion patch.
 The crop was good and of fine flavor, and when the neighbors had sampled it they insisted upon buying all he would sell them.
 Which set Maulenhaus thinking.
 Last year he rented for a small sum couple of vacant blocks not far from his cottage and planted the entire plot with the little white pickle onions.
 And during the summer Mir. Mauen- DauS ana ms Vile ana Soh put III ds much odd time as they could spare in tending the onions.
 About the first of September the onions were harvested, and the Maulenhaus family realized from those choice pickle onions the sum of 5000 Which was a fine object lesson In fin tensive farming" about which so much is being said. Also a fine object lesson in grasping opportunity. While some of the Maulenhaus' neigh bors were spending their money in the corner saloon and dcploring the fact that "a man has no chance in this country | the Maulenhaus family was hoeine onions. | There was oxKer unoccupied ground in the neighborhood. but it grew up to weeds for the weed gang 10 cut down. Here was opportunity. And onion seed is cheap. Opportunity and onions, and the only lack was l The man Louis Maulenhaus sagely observes that | Sl0o0 is a fine poultice for the backache Her Recipe Mrs Benjamin Whitaker of New Yorl, | citv has discovered a great secret, which | in brief, is- How to pc nappy tnOusn rlcn. | She feeds 260 pale-faced. hungry little children every day of the year with q bowl Of thick, nourishing soup and tive generous slices of bread | All for 3 cents.
 Mrs. Whitaker loses from F to 1 cent on each of the lunches, which does not disturb her whatever, as our Irish friends l would say. | Public school No. 21 is on Mott street 1 in the heart of the Italian quarter. And some of these children have scarcely any food save the lunch. | In this district the parents mostly art away from home during the day making | the living. and many of the little ones come to school only half nourished.
 Mrs. Whitaker puts her automobile into good uses shopping for meat and vegetables. Her noon hour is spent ovel the hot kettles of soup.
 She does not need to do this.
 The Whittakers are wsalthy, and sht has fine home and ally the luxuries ol I life.
 ! If she chose she might parade her fns
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19

ChlCken Salad
 Remove from cold broiled fowl all skin fat and and bones. Put meat board and cut in long strips and these into cebes. Put in bowl, mosten with French Dressing and put in refrigerator for several hours. For each quart of chicken prepare 1 pint of celery in pieces inch thick Keep celery in refrigerator till ready to mix Make mayonnaise and allow to each quart of mixed celery and chicken Arrange in flat dish and garnish with whe celery leaves. Allow fowl cool In water in which 1t boiled.
 For other salads. cold roast pork. cold roast boiled veal, mutton lamb, may used In the way.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-28
Hamlet

Mrs. Myron Stockberger and t"d
sons returned home Sunday aftec a
two weeks visit with relatives a1d
friends in Indiana.
John Lentz spent Thursday of last
week at the bay.
Misses Lille and Bessie Marsh were
shopping in Rock Island Friday.
Mrs. John Reaber, Mrs. Harvey
Ramsey. Mrs. Frank Peters and Misses
Minnie and Lula Cooper spent Tuesday
in an outing at the Mississippi river
Robert Sproston visited with a. c
Bivens at a hospital in Davenport
Sunday.
Thomas Hartman and family of Ale
do visited at the home of Mrs. Bar
bara Hartman Sunday.
Mrs Wylie and children of Minonk
are visiting at Rev. Cooper's.
Rev. TidbaI and family of MinonK
visited Tuesday at the home of vii
liam Whisman and other friends.
Nose Downey of Milfersburg was n
fortunate in getting his leg broken
when his automobile turned turtle
while going around the corner at Tom
my Johnson's. one mile south of Ray.
holds Wednesday, Mr.. Downey was
taken to a hospital in Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-28
Foster

F. ]. Kleist and sisters, Sadie and
Kathryn, entertained the following
at their home Saturday night and and
Sunday: Dora Gorham of Rural Bluff,
Ill, and the Misses Agnes Stewart,
and Della Bowser.
Mrs. Robert Bryars and daughters
Helen and Roberta of st. Louis, arriy-
ed Thursday to visit at the Thomas
Watson home.
Cozetta and Frank BOney of Buffalo
Prairie, Ill, are visiting with their
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Gil
lett
Miss SADIE Kleist departed Monday
for Muscat.ne, Iowa
Miss Lillian Workman spent few
last week with her brother, John, a2G
family at Millersburg, Ill.
Mrs. N. Stewart and daughter Virpa
spent Wednesday with their son Gale
Stewart and family of Copperas Greek
Rev. J. r. Spiller and family arri1-
ed Wednesday evening 10 spend a few
days at the d. A Kleist home before
moving TO their new home near Des
Moines, Iowa.
Miss Agnes Stewart is spending a
few days with friends at Mus 1atlne.
Iowa
A merry crowd of young folks from
this vicinity enjoyed a straw l.de to
Musca-ine Saturday evening.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-28
SherrarQ

Robert Dawson and wife and son
Ivan were visiting with their daughter
and sisters, Mrs Frank Lundquist of
Moline and Mrs. William Essex OF
Canton, Ill, for a week. They return
ed home Tuesday.
Mrs. Fred Hoesli of East Moline re,
turned to her home last Thursday after
a few days visit with her mother. Mrs.
Cragan, who accompanied her home,
and now is visiting relatives in Iowa.
Mrs. Vance Sherrard returned
home Monday after visiting Mrs. Frank
Ryan of East Moline.
Rev. Sawyer shipped mis- furniture
to Wisconsin Thursday. He left Thurs
leaves for his new passionate. His wife
and son. accompanied by Mrs. Saw
yer's mother, left last Friday to make \
visit at Chicago before they leave for
their new home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Haddick and
children of Des MOines were called to
Cable on account of the serious illness
of Mr. Haddick's mother Mrs John
Haddick.
Mrs. Griffith. who has been a suffer
er a number of years, died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Vanhock. Satur-
day evening at II o'clock. The re
mains were shipped Monday morning
for burial near Carbon Cliff.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-28
A1edO

Mrs. J. r. Ramsey of Tulsa, Okla,
came to visit her father, William
Winders and family.
Mrs. Nellie Johnston and daugh-
ter, Miss Hazel, and her mother,
Mrs. Starkey of Fulton, are the
guests of relatives in Aledo.
Miss Irene Sandberg has returned
from an extended visit with rela-
tives in ST. Louis and at Winchester,
III.
Mrs. ]. H. Olson and Miss Flor
ence Samuelson of Mathersville came
Saturday for a visit with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Peterson of
Omaha were recent visitors at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Carl
son.
Mrs. H. B. Garrett and daughter,
Dorothy, of Carnegie, Okla, left for
Clinton, Ill, to visit at the home of
DR.. and Mrs. c. w. Carter.
MT. and Mrs. John Murphy and
son went TO Peoria for a visit with
friends.
Miss Hilma LundbIad went to Ke-
vance to spend a week visiting with
friends.
Misses Hetue and Rutn McCrelght
returned from Villisca, Iowa, where
they have spent a week with Mrs.
J. W. Kimel.
Among those who went to Rock
Island Monday were Mr.. and Mrs. z.
L. Summers and daughter. Mrs. Ber-
tina Nesbitt, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Nor
rison and daughter. Marie, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. R Spence, Mr.. and Mrs. E.
d. Spence and Mrs. J. II. Odell.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Brown and
daughter, Bessie, and Mr. and Mrs.
David Brown spent Monday with
friends in Davenport.
Mrs. G. W. Whitman went to Cor
dova Monday to spend a few days
with relatives.
George Rush went TO Moline for
q short visit
Air. and Mrs. Bentley, who have
been here visiting Mr.. and Mrs. y.