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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

Woodrow Wilson wanted Maritime to be United States senator, and he didn't want Smith. He said so in plain words, and he is having his way. And yet there were some who thought when the demo- crats of New Jersey nominated the Princeton president for governor that he would be like child In practical poli-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

A St. Louis preacher is said to be antic- ipating an unhappy time in heaven be- cause he expects to meet there so many undesrables whom he despises. The trouble with that preacher is that his Christianity isn't on straight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26
MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE.

MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE.
 sad-eyed editor of a country paper. with fringes on his brooches legs and patches on the bosom of his pants with the wind signing mournfuly through broken window pane and his whiskers (the editor's), sat thinking. thinking. Presently a shadow fell across the room and a coarse voice asked: ''Is this the editor?" "Yes, sir,' said he with a look of alarm. The owner of the voice mopped up the floor with the editor and went away. Thank goodness" said his nibs, the editor. after he had gotten himself to- gether, q was afraid he was going to stop his paper r''-Collinsville Courier.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

John Barleycorn will come in for some hard knocks 'twixt now and the time the Alabama legislature acts on the temperance committees bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

It will be big day for the moving picture men when England's new King is crowned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

Dr. s. H. Durgin says there are no harmful properties in a bad egg. That being the case will he please explain how 1t ever got such a bad name?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

Louisville couldn't stand for poses in the nude. That city wisely decided that there is a lot of difference between a marble woman and one made of flesh and blood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

The winter is fast slipping away, but It will not be safe to predict that its backbone is broken until the grounding has been consulted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

A man flashed a roll of $500 bills in New in the papers, Somebody has probably found a better use fo- his wad by this tiine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

While lemon may be good for the com plexion, as the woman's page declares. the process of being handed a lemon is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

Wizard Edison has lately been making some predictions which have put him in the class of millennium prophets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

A play that is branded Not good for the young person" always draws packed houses at a matinee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

Sunny Jim's" retirement to private life will be like a dewdrop slipping into the shining sea-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

Jasper, the capital of Walker county, has at last had Its census told The pop ulation stood in April at 25O9. goed showing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

Maude Adams won another triumph as .ChantIcler' That young woman doesn't know the meaning of failure, it seems.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

It would be hard to say whether Mr. Jeffries MT. Roosevelt is the quieter person just now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

Senator Lorimer hangs out" at the Y. M. C. A., but there is no evidence to show that he plays his politics there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

It is now charged that Rufus Choate and Elihu Root of New York wrote the Fuller bill. Is the father ashamed of his child?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

A "husbandette" Is apt to be found washing the dishes in a "kitchenette.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

Handbooks as to who vii Tor will not be the next Mrs. Nat Goodwin are now being made
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

party he belabored to the music of tl
 mutitude's applause, and led to defea,
 mixing with the platitudes of the accom- plished pulpteer the tactics of the bull
 ring, serves notice that he is not re- garded as desirable leader, now or in 1912.
 | To assume virtue if you have it not l is sometimes virtuous. But to assume
 that you alone have virtue, and set up ] as dictator, passing the claim to the :, l right of dictatorship upon the ground
 of unquestionable moral superiority, is to
 invite discussion. It invites disaster if
 that moral superiority is not, indeed, un-
 questionable. To condemn all manner of
 evil from Khartum to Kansas is not suf- fcient if those who rise to inquire | whether you treated amicably with the powers of darkness from 1904 to 1908 are rewarded with information of an affirm ative nature. To proclaim a monopoly of l inaccessible virtue provokes an attitude
 Of antagonism and disposition to in- quisitiveness extremely dangerous to any, one not wholly impeccable, and there are | so few of us, even among the best of us, who cannot be found peccabe when scru- tinized by the rest of us.
 Had Colonel Roosevelt been, in truth, | a great reformer, and not a great politi- clan, with tendency to be practical in
 matters of detail, while proelaimng an
 uncompromising hatred of all practical politicians, he might never have accom- plished as much for himself as he has accomplished Virtue, as a cynic has said, is it's own reward in plays and
 novels But defeated, discombobborated,
 dsmembered, he would have then been a tactic and heroic figure, drawing attention l to the depravity of mankind as manifest ed by the wickedness of the United
 States. As matters stand discomftted boss, rather than a foully-slain hero, lies
 in mid-stage. Tragedy turns to comedy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26
ALL IN THE FAMILY.

'Wedsome tells me that he got up this morning with an awful grouch.'
 q thought Wedsome was an optimist." He is. His wife had the grouch.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26
LONG AGO.

Although a lot in life he's missed,
 Don't pity him, for maybe, A host of pretty girlies kissed
 Him when he was a baby.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26
CRUEL REMINDER

Battleships so to the scrap heap almost as fast as pugilsts do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26
OPEN TO DouBT.

T see where two dog thieves in Phila- delphia have been painting dogs and selling them back to their original own ers."
 And yet, we say Philadelphia is slow
 Nobody believes these rascals are na- tive Philadelphians" fa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26
THE DISTURBERS.

There's nothing worse than noise, When one would fain be still; That's why six little boys
 Can almost make me i'll.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26
SH E.

SHE. Her curling locks were fair She was blonde from birth. She had a wealth of hair, Say twenty dollars worth.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Her hazel eyes had each An apple, so 'tis said; And though she was a peach, Her lips were cherry red.
 Chicago Tribune. I was her prince of men, But when she turned me down Her temper seemed cayenne, Her hair a ginger brown.
 Cleveland Plain Dealer. She had an olive skin, And that is hard to beat, But we just had to grin At her Chicago feet.
 Houston Post
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26
Muddy Street Crossings

held at New Orleans, would in effect be the same.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26
ROASTING.

'He takes great pride in his savoir- faire.'
 ''Ill bet my roadster can beat 1t city block
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26
BUMP

He led a life
 Quite free from pain, Until he tried
 To aeroplane.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE LIRE OF SONG.

TIE LURE OF SUNG. He sang the hills and fruitful plains, He sang the songs of streams, And birds that warb1ed glad refrains Were often in his dreams. We'll pleased to tune his simple Tyre, With cheerful thoughts upspringing, He sang, as seemed would never tire, For inborn love of singing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-26

Baltimore stock company to play any part assigned to him at the enticng sal ary of s6 per week. Small as that pay was, Edwin Booth later on, in the far west, experienced deprivation that would have been immeasureably relieved by aD even smaller income.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1911-11-18
HAULING LIQUOR OVERLAND
FAILS.
Bootlegger on Way to the Muskoaes
Fair Is Captured BY Officers.

Muskogee, Okla.-Out on the prairie
between Muskogce and Keefton, dep
uty sheriffs at midnight Sunday cap
tured a bootlegger with 432 quarts Of
whisky which he was hauling over.
land from Keefton to Muskogee.
A short time ago the Muskogee Off.
GERS stationed n policeman at every
freight depot In town With instruc-
tons to arrest any baggage or trans
fer man wEo attempted to take liquor
out Of the railroad warehouses. This
effectually blocked the delivery Of lia-
uor and the railroads commenced to
ship the liquor back, after holding 1t
a certain length Of time.
The Muskogee fair is on this week
and the bootleggers were at their wits
end to envolve q plan whereby they
could get liquor into town, as there
will be tremendous demand for it
during the fair, and at any price asked.
Henry Ward decided he would get
his liquor overland. SO he had thirty
six cases shipped to Keefton, q small
station ten miles out of Muskogee.
Saturday night he decided to bring it
in. The officers got a tip and went out
six miles to point on the Keefton
road they knew Ward would have to
pass and waited. About midnight the
liquor-laden wagon showed VI. Ward
was arrested and with his cargo of
liquor brought into Muskogee.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1911-11-18
CONSUMPTION INCREASES.
Prohibition Laws Fail to Keep Down
Sale of Liquors.

Washington, D. C.-In the last
twelve months the consumption of
liquors broke all records and the
people of the United States consumed
over 100000 gallons more Of whisky
and over 113,00o,000 gallons Of beer In
the fiscal year ending June 20, 1911,
than they did in the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1910, according to the official
figures of r. E. Cabell, United States
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1911-11-18

raDid opponents. Here, then, is typi.
cal local campaign in a statewide pro.
hibition state, in which an incumbent
mayor is using fer his principal polit.
ical platform the ignoring OF the stat
ute laws of the state. Here is a cam
paign in which a mayor places himself
as an executive above the governor.
openly challenging the bigger officer
to enforce the laws he is pledged by
oath of office to enforce If he possibly
can. Here then Is the strongest indict
ment or the state wide prohibition
laws they are considered in most of
the cities in the Southern statewide
prohibition zone. Is it wonder. then.
that law-abiding. long-suffering citi.
zens IN these cites say, What's the
use?" when asked concerning the
working &C III" prohibition laws.
Enforcing Laws.
In justice to many of the small
towns and small cities of the South. 1t
must be said that the prohibition laws
are pretty we'll enforced, when the cit.
liens OF those small towns and small
cities demand strict enforcement Of
their local officers Take bustling,
hustling, progressive little city like
Athens, Ga. Under local option this
city derived enough income to give it.
self excellent sewers, costly paved
streets and other improvements. IN
der statewide prohibition, selling Of
beers and liquors goes on in Athens,
but the city gets no rich revenues to
continue paving streets and building
sewers. The beer men and whisky
men are the gamers.
Local Option Next.
There are states which have profit
cd by the mistakes of these five state
VIDE prohibition commemorative.
Florida and Missouri have refused to
enact statewide prohibitory laws
They prefer to stick to local option
Statewide prohibition never could be
enforced in such cities as ST. Louis,
Mo-, or Jacksonville, Fla. Public opin-
Ion would be so strongly against pro-
hlbltlon IN those cities as to make q
Joke OF the state laws. There are
many small cities in the statewide
prohibitory states such as Athens,
Ca, which regulated liquor traffic well
under local option, keeping good order,
strictly enforcing the laws, and getting
much revenue for public improve
mems. These cities to-day are at q
standStill IS far as public improve
ments are concerned, the prohibition
lists Objecting strongly against in
creased taxes on their property to pay
Tor the building Of good sewers, paved
streets, and sanitary school houses.
From my observation and from the
opinions l gathered from men Of au-
thorlty In three Of the five statewide
prohibition commemorative, it will be
but matter Of a few years before
these states go back to the local op-
ton system again. North Carolina
may hold out longer, but Georgia, Ten
nessee and Mississippi will try again
the local option system.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1911-11-18
PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY
COMPOUNDED,

In our prescription work We use
the bestquality Of drugs and chemi-
Gals that we can obtain, taking great,
care to $50 that every one is Of stan
dard strength.
We use every possible precautions,
to insure exactness and efficiency In
compromising each prescription.
Our prescription department 10,
we'll equipped with modern facilities
for doing the most thorough high
quality prescription work.
Our prices for putting up preseEip-.
lions and household recipes will al
ways be moderate.
GILBERT's PHARMACY
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1911-11-18

With dry counties changing back
to wet every few days the indications
are that the long drouth is about to
become history.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1911-11-18
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Harry S. Thompson
INSURANCE AND BONDING
AGENCY.
NOTARY PUBLIC.

Among my specialties are FIRE, life
and accident insurance; sale and
entail of real estate; collections of
unpaid billie, &c, &c. Assuring the
public thsv any business LETT in my
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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-10-19
GOOD Price FOR
Land IN FAMOUS
GOLDEN VALLEY

Beach Advance: Two important
real estate transfers were made re-
Gently which goes further to prove
the worth of Golden Valley dirt and
show that people have unlimited
faith in the country hereabouts re-
CARELESS of the unfavorable year.
Frank Clark, who has farmed
homestead for five or six years west
of town and who had added to his
original government piece, sold the
half section last week to Ed. Huff
man, one of his neighbors, for $3.50
per acre. The deal has been closed
and Mr. Clark is preparing to move
to Mildred, Mont, town southwest
of here on the Milwaukee, where he
purchased a section. The deal did
not include Mr. Clark's machinery
and horses and he will hold an auc-
ton sale.
Mr.. Clark has a wide acquaintance
in Beach and throughout the valley;
has been one of our very best farm
ars and all who know him regret to
see him pull up stakes in the good
old Golden valley, but hope he will
prosper as we'll in his new location.
Another sale was consummated this
week when A. B. K'ellog, the daddy
of Beach, who now lives at Channey,
Wash, sold his homestead near Sem.
tinel Butte to L. F. Crawford of the
Sentinel Butte bank for $685. per
acre. This piece Of land was sold
by Mr. Kellogg at public auction, as
he was anxious to close up his hold
ings at Sentinel Butte. This Is the
piece of land that Mr.. Kellogg re-
ceived from Uncle Sam about 13
years ago and was one of his first
Billings county holdings. where he
made his home until he moved to
Beach and became real estate
broker so to speak. He still has
some very desirable business and
reidence property in the city and
will be at Beach once a year at least
HI. expects to return to Chenney in
about month.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-10-19
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
"PUSSYF00T" JOHNSON
PLACED Under ARREST

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Oct. 49,
Former Chief Special Indian Agent
w. E. Johnson has been arrested in
Santa Fe, N. NJ, according to dis
patch received by the State Central
Prohibition committee. The charge.
according to the dispatch, concerns
accusations by Johnson against E. J.
Crandall former Indian agent for the
district of New Mexico. Johnson
first was released on $500 bail, ac-
cording to the report, but this was
later raised to $4,000. In a signed
statement in the Northwestern Pa
triot, a prohibition publication, John
son gave as his chief reason for re-
signing from the o.rvice the trouble
he had had 18th Crandall. He said
Crandall was part owner of drug
company that sold liquor illegally to
the Indians and said further that
Crandall and his political friends pre-
vented him from doing his work.
Minneapolis friends of Johnson be-
lieve it was for this statement or a
similar one made in New Mexico that
Johnson was arrested.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-10-19
BANKERS interested
IN north DAKOTA

Minneapolis Journal: Bradford
Knapp of Washington, who repre-
sents the department of agriculture
and will be a speaker at the con-
ference of committees on agriculture
and education of western bankers
associations, in Minneapolis this
week, reached Minneapolis today and
will attend the conference late to-
day at the Commercial club of the
business men interested in the agri-
tural development of Minnesota and
North Dakota. Bankers from North
Dakota headed by former Governor
T Y. Sarles of Hill boro, arrived here
early and were luncheon guests of
A. R. Rogers at the Minneapolis club
In the party were E. J. Weiser,
Fargo; c. B. Mcmillan. Hanna; R.
c. Kittel, Casselton; A. J. Regain,
Fessenden; Fred Cathrow, Bottineau;
J. Zimmerman, Mandan, and o. Nier-
ling, Jamestown. These men are
identified with the movement for the
establishment CT 500 demonstration
farms in North Dakota and with the
ideas that were expressed in the re-
cent formation of the One Hundred
Dollars an Acre club in North Da.
kota
P. L. Howe and E. J. Stilwell, who
called the meeting for today. ar.
ranged to have Mr.. Knapp come over
and address the gathering, although
Mr.. Knapp came to Minneapolis pri-
marily for the bankers association
meeting.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-10-19
man
SHOOTS BOY

BOWDON, Oct 19.-The 13-year-old
son of Daniel Freund, living five miles
southeast of here, was shot in the foot
by some person unknown.
1t appears that the young lad was
driving some cattle to the pasture
when some stranger driving by in a
buggy shot at him with ~ caliber
rifle. the bullet entering his foot The
parents of the boy brought him into
town yesterday for medical treatment
and DR.. Clay found the lad in critical
condition due to the fact that blood
poisoning had set in,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-10-19
CENTRAL Counties
FORMED A League

DARLINGTON, N. D., Oct. 49,
Representatives from Wells. Eddy,
Foster, Griggs, Barnes and Stutsman
counties met here Wednesday for the
purpose of organizing the Central
North Dakota Farmers association.
The main purpose of the organization
is to exhibit the products of this
section at the St. Paul and Chicago
land shows. Counties in this asso-
citation won both first and second
prizes for variety and quality of ex-
hibits at the industrial exposition at
Bismarck.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-10-19
SUPPOSED DEAD
man IS alive

MOORHEAD, Mimi. Oct. 19.-There
are more complications in the mat
ter of the Identification of Louis p
Finn, who was drowned month ago
in a reservoir near Dilworth. That
two men of the same name We're
working near Mapleton, N. D., about
the same time is now certain. After
the accident an account book was
found in the dead mans effects in
which were names OF persons in New
York city, and a note in the book
requested that they be notified I'm
case of accident They were mott
fled by the local authorities but last
night a special delivery letter from!
New York was received saying that
friends there had heard from their
relative who was alive and we'll at
Fort Buford, N. D.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-10-19

Blind piggers and bootleggers are
being kept on the run by officers of
the law.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-10-19

An Anamoose farmer raised $40
bushels of potatoes on patch of land
comprising less than two acres.