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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

Six years later he had been nromoted and was chief assistant in the pig grain company. His thirst for money was intensified by his love for a beautiful girl.
 Two years later having been made manager of the concern. he married. Satisfied?
 He should have been. He owned . beautiful home was respected. trastedl and was on the way to riches. But bis. restless ambition was unassuaged Like the man who drinks salt water. the iiore he drank the more he wanted. i He would be multmillonaire. 1 Petit speculated heavily on his own account and lost. He determined to cor- ner the oats market. The market went gainst him. He sank all his own money and borrowed heavily from the banks At this point his integrity broke lown. He wanted to get rich quick by coup that would acclaim him the most victori- ous broker of his time. The grain com pany had assets of millions. The paper lof the firm good anywhere in the northwest 1,
 Petit borrowed money. signing the notes of the company president. and dumped hundreds of thousands Of dollars into the market to uphold his deal.
 An audit of the books was ordered ly the directors.
 Petit knew that audit spelled ruin for him The lines of suffering showed on his face and he grew haggard, but otherwise he gave no sign.
 A day or two before the bookkaererS began to audit the books Pettit's lifeless body was found near the shore of the lake and 1t was soon discovered that nc had stolen millions.
 Moral?
 The man who will gamble with his own money Is usually ready to fisk the money Of others.
 Said the late David Graham Phillips. "The wheat pit of Chicago is ony a few feet across, but it is deep as hell"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
WILLIAM PITT FRYE-By Sauoyard

for such demi-gods of statecraft; but when the declaration was made 1t came from man who could not make speech at all, though he was far, an immense distance, from mediocrity. Your 'medioc- rity in Congress Is beast of burden and there is a heap of truth in that cock and bull story of the foot race between the hare and the tortoise
 For the 70 years 1s29-1Ss9 with an inter- regnum of two years, 1S39-41, Maine was represented by 8 commanding figure in the national legislature at this capital and much of the time by two George Evans. the greatest man of the lot, was not off the carpet when William Pitt Fessenden came on, and James G. Blaine appeared before Fessenden died. Thomas B. Reed was a gigantic national figure when Blaine was yet a senator. All four of these waged relentless war against the democratic party. although Maine was a democratic state from her admission to the union in 1920 until she cast her elec- toral vote for Fremont In 1856
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

Commercial and educational systems were organized by the incorporation of banks and schools. and the first location of the seat of government of the new state provided for by the selection Of site at the Junction Of the Cawhaba and Alabama rivers, which new town was called Cahawba. Governor Bibb was charged with the work of laying out the plans of the town and for providing for the erection of a capitol building. Mean while the seat of government was re- moved to Huntsville in order to await the completion of the capitol at Caha wba
 His term having expired as territorial governor and Alabama having now be- come a state. Governor Bibb offered for election as the first governor of the new state and was opposed by Marmaduke Williams of Tuscaloosa. Bibb was elect ed but died soon after Two counties. one in Alabama and the other in Georgia, were named in honor of Gov. William Wyatt Bibb.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

which he had been appointed by Pres ident Monroe Bibb was amply equipped for his difficult position alike naturally and by experience.
 A graduate from William and Mary college, he chose medicine as pro fession and was actively engaged in his profession when he was chosen to represent Georgia in the legislature, where, though still quite young man, he won distinction. When scarcely 25 years old he was sent to Congress from Georgia Later he became one of the senators from the state, and later still was appointed by president Monroe. the territorial governor of Alabama. His was an arduous task. The terri tory was dotted oyer with struggling set dement's of colonsts who came from Virginia the Carolinas and Georgia and settled here and there. but the two chief settlements were in the opposite ends of the territory at St. Stephens and Hunts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

and full of zeal. He was in love with his job and did his utmost to serve his country. There was much of af- fectation in his walk and that made 1t exceedingly appropriate to choose him president pro tempore of the Senate, a dignity he held four 4 years, the long est tenure of the office in the history of the body.
 We may class Frye as an orator, though his oratory was Reclamation and little else. He had a rich, a musi- cal and a comma nding voice. l first heard him in the Forty sixth Congress. of which both James A. Mckenzie of Kentucky, and Frank Hurd, of Ohio. were members. and either a greater orator than Frye. In 1880 MT. Blaine
 made the mistake of choosing James F Joy, a poor public speaker to pre- sent his name to the national conyen- tion, as a candidate for the nomination for President. Conkling presented Grants and Garfield Sherman's. Joy s speech fell flat in contrast with such
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

TT was a busy Saturday afternoon in
 large department store. It was \ warm day and not enough clerks Commissioned to buy some buttons. was directed to the proper place. After waiting some time a floorwalk CT spied me. He yelled harshly:
 Here, No. 4.'
 No. 4 shambled around the counter with a distinct frown on her face. Lstlessly she showed me what I want ed
 While l waited for my little package and the change-an interval which seems long to the masculine shopper other customers appeared. No. wait ed upon them mechanically. Indeed, once she was little snappy in her answer to a question.
 What was the matter?
 The girl no doubt was tired and worn. It had been a hard day, but Supposing the floorwalker instead of bawling out Here No 4v' had ap- proached the girl and said gently, "A customer at the button counter, Miss Smith,"
 Might not the girl have been less ~fti'e1lA-nay, cherry or even enthusias- tic?
 She was treated as If she were a mere machine
 I1er lHulNluudiity was iSu
 That hurts.
 Why should not machine respond mechanically? Why should a flesh and blood woman whose personality is trampled upon make womanly eff forts to please?
 Why?
 Commentator in that store was de- feating it's owr purposes by refusing to recognize that No. 4 was an indi- vidual to be called by name and not convict to be summoned by hate full number
 Every soul Is from God
 And each soul is unlike another That constitutes individuality. That Is the stamp of the divine. And God differ entiates. He treats with separate souls '',iividually. He recognizes personali- ty
 On the other hand
 Man herds humans as if they were cattle and numbers them as If they were sheep.
 Poor No. 4! | She is only one of the many whose & self respect is trampled upon because ythey are in somebody's pay
 In Benton county, Ark. last year a 15-year-old boy raised 50 bushels of corn on an acre of dry finty hill- side
 sie did not belong to corn club The hoy plowed the ground with a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

brilliant eloquence. Four years earlier Bob Ingersoll nearly swept the nation al convention off it's feet by the thrill- ing speech in which he dubbed the man from Maine "the plumed knight" and then and there Blaine would have been nominated if omebody had hot turned off the gas. In 1884 Frye presented Blaines name to the convention and he did it capitally with the result that Blaine was nominated.
 Fryes oratory was of the whirlwind type. something like William Elden Smiths, but he did not make the dob bins stick" Nobody ever recalled d point he made. Generaly he was wrong. as in his argument upon re- funding bill some thirty years ago. It was his single success in the game of statecraft, and it cost the country mil lions, for his plea was for rate of interest one-half per cent above that for which the bonds could have been sold at par. But he was sincere, and many other honest men of both parties
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

the senate of Alabama. He was president. clerk and the senate-all in one. He met considered the measures of the lower house, adjourned and convened with ludi- crous formallty. In the lower house there were about q dozen members.
 The initial message of the first governor showed a ready grasp of the raw condi- tions and an ability to grapple with for midabe difficulties. A wilderness had to be shaped and nodded into com monwealth by the creation of the neces- sary adjuncts, all of which the young governor recommended in his first mes sage. The promotion of education. the establishment of highways, the eonstruc- ton of bridges and ferries. the definition of the boundaries of counties and the creation of new ones. in order to fuse the dispersed population into oneness
 were among his recommendations
 Perhaps the most notable service rem dered by Governor Bibb was that of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Ed,vin A. Wye

small blow which he made himself from iron that he found in discard ed scrap heap at a country black smith shop
 Incidentally The motive power of his blow was goat.
 When the astonished farmers who used up to date implements, asked the boy the secret of his success, he replied that he had continually worked his corn frem the. time it peeped through the ground.
 The boy had stumbled on to scientific truth.
 Only of late years has if been ais covered that constant cultivation of plants is necessary to their thrifty growth Employed at first in the semi arid regions for the conservation of the moisture. the so-called dry farm ing' methods are proved best not ,onIy in dry years. but every year When the state commissioner Of az riculture heard of the Arkansas boys accomplishment he offered to furnish a horse and mule, which offer was de- clined. The hoy, however, did accept some seed corn He is very independ- ent youngster. This year the boy and the goat will try to make 100 bushels to the acre If the goat holds out. All of which--the boy and his goat and his homemade blow and harnesses are object lessons, teaching
 First: N5 N The farmer of today tries to cover too much ground. If he would select one-half or even one-fourth as much extent of land and carefully cultivate the smaller acreage he would make better profits
 The soil is barely scratched.
 Nowadays it requires more than merely to tickle the ground with a hoe' in order to make 1t laugh at the harvest"
 Second:
 Energy and persistence. in small or larger enterprises, will accomplish wonders.
 The boy stuck to the job. Learn to labor and to wait. It is easier to labor than to wait Ia bor is the natural expression of ener- gy. Patience is poise of mind ,nat must be acquired. Usually the young are impatient.
 They cannot wait for things to grow
 There are seedtime and harvest time You may labor at the one, but you must wait for the other, and it will only spoil the reaping to dig up the seed to find out if 1t Is sprouting.
 Wait,
 It may seem slow. But wait. Plant and plan. push-but wait
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

| the sight of the currency: the crowd
 some agape, some applauding and all more or less athirst-these are the settings
 of the stage the brief curtain goes | down on the drama of "A Fool and His Money.
 "she money belonged to the man. If he chose to blow it. whose business but
 his own?'
 But was the money his? Legally. yes. Some mysterious .dispen- | sation of providence gave over into his temporary keeping more money than he
 reeded or could use to advantage and aI-
 lowed him. for some wise purpose of it.
 orn to show how easily fool and his
 Btones are parted. But
 In rlghtful view Long did not own thai Lundle of bills That money was part of a world. That money was part of the aecumu- ted assets of a world of labor It cost
 somebody's sweat and ache and blood II represented deprivation and slow say ings and short dinners. Ethically man
 has no right to that which he cannot properly use. Long was squandering what was not his. ard did you note where the money came from?
 Pittsburg, Pittsburg. where naked bodies lOil lu ITOnC or tue IiltS pI ilulltii iitliS, where men sell their shortened lives be- hind iron closed doors where half the slaves toll to feed tine leaping flames, ~bile the other half groan in sweaty sleep. It was in Pttsburg this man got | hi- pills.
 | Think of the hungry children that bun de of lives and hfties would feef' pf
 the cheer it would bring. of the homes it would furnish,
 And the man behind the bills? Him? Why, the bills he flung away will soon or late. come into decent hands and i'll their purpose in the world. some five. same fifty fold. But as for him
 Him,
 the Chicago grain broker who committed suicide recently. is the story If an over weening ambition.
 'rhere was nothing spectacular in Pet tits life, no effective material for dra- maiic episodes. IL is the story of he inside history of a man. such tale of hidden motive would appeal to the genius of an 1hsen.
 Out of the heart proceed the iss,ies of life.
 Eighteen years ago James Petit st just out of college began life as clerk in a grain office He determined in his heart to he rich man. l'nder a calm exterior was a spirit fired with fierce desire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

refined society existing there. Some of the foundation masonry of the little cap ital building and of the tiny treasury, an occasional column of stone or brick, beaten and battered, rows of trees stin growing in regular order as they, wore planted nearly A century ago and a eeme- tery with its stained and blackened mar ble remain to indicate that this was once a spot inhabited by refined community.
 Here, as far back as 1874, Thomas Eas- ton, the first public printer of the Alabama territory issued his little paper with it's scant news of flat boat tidings from Mo bile, the Improvements in the little town, the exploits of hunters of turkeys, deer
 wolves and bears, with a slight sprinkling of personalities. St. Stephens had been a town of some pretension for years be- fore the first territorial governor, Hon
 William Wyatt Bibb of Georgia, came across the country from the Chattahoo- chee to assume the executive functions to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

NN the extreme eastern boundary of
 Washington county, on bluff O overlooking the Tombigbee river from the west is the site of old St. Steph- ems. the original, or territorial, capital of Alabama. At one time it had a population of perhaps 3ooo, composed largely of inn migrants from Virginia. At the time of it's selection as the seat of territorial gov ernment 1t was about the only place in the territory fitted to become capital, though Huntsville, on the extreme north, was also a town of considerable pretenson
 As early as 1877 St. Stephens was A bustling little center of culture and wealth. In their insulation the people were prono of their little capital. Their touch with the outside world was by means of slug gish fiat boats which were operated to and from Mobile. The original site is now scene of desolation few ruins and relics remain to tell the story of the once
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

Frequently when in council General Lees generals would urge an imme- diate movement The great Lee would close the debate by saying, We will wait"
 Wait until you see the whites of their eyes, then fire" said Putnam at Bunker Hill.
 The wise man awaits the right mo- ment. He has learned the subtle se- cret that time Is of the essence of things accomplished, and he calmly awaits the outcome He labors But he waits.
 Wait.
 The vessel cannot be launched until the ways to the sea are made ready. Harm will come to the great hull If the bulkheads and stays are knock ed out prematurely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

Watt.
 Your enterprise grows slowly? We'll bor, but wait.
 Patience is power.
 Wait.
 Indianapolls.--A Long of Pittshurg stood In the Hotel English bar drying hls face with $50 bill. He threw the bill to tho floor and then produced from bundle under his arm handful of lives and 1fties Throwing them on the bar he said "Bartender give me a drink quick. or will buy this hotel and have you fred.
 What picture In few lines,
 VisI alize It. The spender, leaning on he bar of the high-toned saloon, the sub servient tender, whose eyes glisten at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
Aeroplanes in War
| the New York Herald.

From The NeW OK HefdTU. | With characteristic frankness and terse-
 ness Admiral Togo puts himself squarely on record as to the war value of aero- planes. He comedies their importance iu some instances during naval operatiouH.
 mainly as scouts, hut he does not believe -and here the body of naval opinion 10 with hinl--that any air machine or oir- ships as vet devised can destroy or he leven a menace 10 battleships. This is Of particular interest at moment when olp Atlantic fleet Is to carry out some fUeli.1-
 mary tests in this direction and wheA
 the public mind Is wandering so far cnsld.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

toms" Nothing more unconstitutional ever fell from the lips of American states nan, not even from Thadeus Stevens. By the way. the republican national plat form of 1888 had this: we arraign the democratic administration of Grover Cleveland for it's hostility to silver." That was writ and read by William Mckinley. the chairman of the committee on resolu- lions. and eight years later he was the gold bug candidate for President There is heap of humbug and hypocrisy about OFT politics.
 But Frye was 2 very useful public ser want He was never a self seeker He loved his country. and he thought his course calculated to make ours a great. prosperous. and happy people Now. f IToke Smith will leave the miserable littlo crumbs of state patronage and come crr
 here and lay about the job to which ne, was appointed, we may be able to pass
 the free list bill over Tafts veto whcn | the new democratic senator from Mains l arrives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

VU/ASHINGToN, August 2s-(spe-
 NA/ cial.)-He was not of the first
 W rank, nor was he of the second rank, of the statesmen of his day. He was among the mediocrities and we may call him an arch mediocrity. James B. McCreary of Kentucky is one of 'em. Gull lom of Illinois is another 0, their name is legion. They are in an overwhelm- ing majority And we couldn't get along without 'em. commons house of the British parliament made of Burkes, Foxes and Pitts would be a thoroughly worth less legislature. An American Congress composed entirely of Calhouns, Clays and Websters would botch the job of solonism
 When the first Continental Congress met Richard Henry Lee, a greater orator of the academy" than Edward Everett, and Patrick Henry, the greatest orator of nature since Demosthenes, were the de- spair of the delegates from other colo nies some of whom proposed to go home, alleging that they were not fit associates
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-02-16
CALIFORNIA ROAD.
Fine Stretch Between EI Monte and
Pomona.

Pomona.
Without doubt as fine stretch of
country road as can be found in the
United States is that now nearing COM
pletion between Ell Monte and Pomona
under one of the contracts of the good
roads project. In fact. 1t probably ex
GELS any rural road in any other part
of the country. as it is built by proc
ess that has only recently been per
fected and tried in Germany
After the roadway is graded and all
depressions filled the earth is packed
hard with a steam roller. and then a
layer of crushed rock is laid on it. the
pieces averaging several inches square
On this is spread layer of consider
ably finer rock. and then comes third
and last layer of very fine rock
These are pressed firmly together
with heavy steam roller and then
thoroughly saturated with crude petro-
leum. Lastly. the roadbed is covered
with layer of rock dust as fine as
powder and then smoothed and pack ed
many times again with the steam roll
er. The result is road as smooth
and firm as any asphalt paved city
street and one that with little care
is practically indestructible.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-02-16
Life Saved at Deaths Door

81 never felt so near my grave"
writes w. r. Patterson, of Welling-
ton. Tex, as when a frightful cough
and lung trouble pulled me down to
100 pounds,in spite of docter's treat
ment for two years. My father,
mother and two sisters died of con-
sumption, and that am alive today
is due solely to DR.. Kings New Dis
covery, which completely cured me.
Now / weigh 1877 pounds and have
been well and stnong for years. {"
Quick, safe, sure, its the best reme-
DIV nsearth for coughs, colds, la
grippe, asthma, Group, and all throat
and lung troubles. SOC and S1.OO.
Trial bottle free. guaranteed by H.
j. Pier.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-02-16
ROADS MADE OF STRAW.

One Hundred and Forty Miles Bedded
Down Around WaIla WaIIa.
One hundred and forty eight miles of
straw roads have been made within q
year around Walla Walla. Wash
Straw holds down the dust and pre-.
vents the wheels from sinking too
deeply into the mud in the wet sea
sons.
Straw is favorite road building ma.
terial and Is good while it lasts. Sage
brush Is also used in some places. This
latter IL tougher than straw and
shreds into threadlike nlaments with
little travel
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-02-16
Why Women Prefer 1t

When the newsboy comes through
the train with the Chicago papers,
watch the married couple across the
aisle. II the man is well-regulated
husband he will ask his wife which
paper she prefers, and then you
may lay odds that the one chosen
will be The Record Herald. There
is no mystery about it. The man
knows that he will find all the news
in The Record Herald, to be sure,
but the woman knows it is the only
paper that also gives adequate at
ention to the things in which wo-
men are specially interested. In
every daily issue she can find a bill
of fare for the days three meals,
reliable society news. good book re-
views, bright verses and jokes with
out vulgarity, cartoon that any,
body can enjoy and fair share Of
the news of the day relating to wo.
men. Evero Monday ,heae is Mar
tha's Management" a very helpful
column of culinary topics. In the
Sunday edition a whole section is
devoted to women, including Mar
ion Harland's famous page, Jean
nette Hopes fashions direct from
Paris, Dame Curtsey's Novelties in
Entertainment" and many special
articles of timely interests. Then
there is the Sunday Magazine of The
Record-Herald, real magazine, full
of good love stories and beautiful
pictures. Do you wonder that wo-
men prefer The Record-Herald?
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-02-16
DULL EDGE DRAG.
A King split log road drag
with . dull edge will make
road impervious to watsr II
used in wet weather.
Women to Help Beauty Roads.
Observation-Disclosures $3.50. I

The Iowa Federation of Women's
Clubs has decided to Join in the good
roads movement in that state.
While the men are agitating the ad
visibility Of making drag roads or es
tabishng cross state highways the
women will make plea for the abol
ishment of landscape disfsuring sign
boards and that trees be planted along
the cross state routes that the roads
might be made shady and more beau
tiful.