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The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1912-05-01
Full Measure.

Growers of strawberries and like fruits
are interested in the outcome of an order
issued by the pure food department of
the State Board of Health that boxes
must contain the full measure represent
ed by the size of them. According TO
the order, quart must be a quart, or
sold according to the quantity under
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1912-05-01

cessful ''catch of grass"
By such treatment, weak wheat will
be greatly benefited and materially as
sisted towards a profitable yield of
superior quality of grain.-Henry G.
Bell. Agronomist.
q. Deatherage will buy your wool and
will pay the highest cash prices. If
An amateur gardener has furnished us
with the following information, which
may come in handy this time of year.
He says in putting in potatoes, it is best
to plant onions alongside, as the latter
will bring tears to the eyes of the pota-
toes and there will be no need of irriga-
ton. He also suggests eggplant and
milk-weed as a good garden combina-
ton. Result, custard pie.-Hartford
Herald.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1912-05-01

E. Deatherage will buy your wool and
will pay the highest cash prices. If
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-01-19
EAGER TO See.

II have a poem here entitled alone
with Nature" said the sallow young
man with the long hair and the frayed
trousers. 1T is a personal impress
sion"
rs it," replied the editor of the
Chicago Record-Herald, as he hastily
glanced at the opening lines. Have
you ever been alone with nature?"
II have, and, oh, it is glorious-glo
~rious." .
Here's a dime. Get on a trolley
car and ride as far as you can. &C
back to nature and spend another hour
or two alone with her. You say you
plucked the hazel blossoms by the
stream. If you are able to 1nd any
place where you ear do hat let me
know. l want to watch you while you
do It,"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-01-19
Walking for Nerves,

The nerves suffer from want Of pure
oxygen. They run like a network all
through the skin and when they are
overweight the skin is apt to be dry
and colorless. Walking is an excellent
tonic for the nerves. 1t gives them
strength to control themselves.
If n has means or leisure, there
are plenty of other more enjoyable *
ercises. But few forms are so bene-
fetal as the regular daily jaunt of foul
or five miles for obtaining q good
complexion.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-01-19
Welcome.

1t was 3 O'Clock on a cold and frosty
morning, and the weary cyclist had
still many miles to go.
Passing through a lonely village he
saw a lighted window. Perhaps, he
thought, he might be able to get some.
thing to eat and drink. So he knock.
ed.
who's there" came a gruff voice
from within.
"A traveller" the cyclist replied In
clear tones.
Back like a shot came the answer:
Then travel!"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-01-19
Mistaken There,

The phrenologist was examining the
bumps on Sambo's head.
Curiosity and acQuisitiveness ab'
normally large"
Sambo rolled his eyeballs and
showed two rows of white ivory.
"Imitativeness, casualty and consci
entiousness small; which with your
weak mouth indicates"
Don yu be so shu bout me hab'
bin a weak mouf. l kin crack nuts
in ma teef."
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-01-19

You will notice that the man who 10
always talking about how hard he
had to work when he was young is
usually behind with his work now.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-01-19
His Exact Sort.

His Exact Sort.
What kind of a glass of fashion
did Ophelia consider Hamlet?" LAS
long as she called him Lord Hamlet,
l suppose she considered him a peer
glass"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-01-19
A HOld-Up
An Oppressive Trust.

Before the Coffee Roasters' Association, in ses.
sion at Chicago on Thursday, Thomas J. Webb,
Of Chicago, charged that there is in existence q
coffee combine which Is ''the most monstrous i'm
position in the history of human commerce."
There is very slight exaggeration about this
statement. 1t comes very close to being literally
true. There is a coffee combine in Brazil, from
which country comes the bulk of the coffee used
In the United States, which is backed by the gov
eminent of Brazil and financed by it, which COM.
pels American consumers, as Mr.. Webb said, Ito
pay famine prices for coffee when no famine
exists"
The worst thing about this is that the consum.
ers of the United States have been compelled to
put up the money through which this combine,
to further cinch them, has been made effective.
There were formerly revenue duties imposed upon
all coffee entering the United States. Those taxes
were denounced as an imposition upon the people;
as taxing the poor mans breakfast table, and the
like. The taxes were removed. Immediately
thereafter Brazil imposed an export duty uponl
coffee up to the full amount of the former customs
taxes in this country. The revenue which for
merly went into the treasury of the United States
was diverted to the treasury of Brazil. The poor
mans breakfast coffee continued to cost him the
same old price.
But this was only the commencement. The
''valorization" plan was evolved in Brazil.
Through this plan the government, using the rev.
enues derived from the export duties for the pur-
poses, takes all Of the surplus crop in q season Of
large yields and holds it off the market, thus
keeping the supply down to the demands of the
market and permitting the planters to receive q
much higher price than they would otherwise
have done.
The United States consumes more Brazilian cof-
fee than does the rest Of the world. We are the
best customers of Brazil, and Brazil buys little
from us. Now Brazil is promoting, financing and
maintaining a trust designed, and working effect
lively for the purpose, to compel American con-
sumers to pay an exorbitant price for the coffee
they use. What is the remedy?-Seattls Postln-
teusgencer-Nor. ~, 1911.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-01-19

De Jaw-No, we never have roast
pork at our house any more.
De Paw-Why, I thought you were
very fond Of it?
De Jaw-So I am, but my wife's
pet dog won't eat any Of 1t at all.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-01-19

the coming in OF the report. such offices
as may be found useless and can be abol-
ished will be SO treated by executive or
r3a~
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-01-19

Standard statistics of the coffee trade
chow q falling of in sales during the last
two years of over two hundred million
pounds. Authenticated reports from tho
Postum factories in this city show .
tremendous increase in the sale of Postum
in q like period of time.
While the sales of Postum invariably
show marked increase year over year, tho
extraordinary demand for that we'll
known breakfast beverage during 1911 10
very likely due to q public awakening to
the oppression of the coffee trust.
Such an awakening naturally disposes
the multitude who suffer from the III
effects of coffee drinking to be more re-
ceptive to knowledge Of harm which 90
often comes as q result of the use Of
the drug-beverage, coffee.-Battls Creek
Ecentng NepS-Dec. 10. 1911.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-23
pirmin.lsam Iron Ore

Many interesting and instructive ar tic les have been written recently by well known engineers and mineralogists on the diamond drill results in the red ore fields in Shades valley, and MT. Dyer of this city contributes a thoughtful and suggestive pap.r to the last issue of the
 Manufacturers Record on this subject
 said a man in close touch with the in- dGstrial world.
 "Mr. Dyer. after referring to the prop erty owned by the McDonoughs, shannon,
 Porter and others, says: These discus sions have all been very interesting to
 follow and much concern has been felt in the matter by the observing public, but the vital question to the Birmingham
 district lies in the fact that as there is assurance of the presence of such a body
 of high grade ore, what is going to be
 Gone with it? Is it to be opened and de- ,eloped for immediate advantage to the
 district by strong independent mer chant ore company, or is it to lie dor mant for years as a reserve supply? In the beginning, people in general in the district were prone to look upon the prop cs.tion purely as a speculative one. How ever, the gentlemen fostering the en.er- prise, being men of long and varied ex- perience in iron making and ore mining in the Birmingham district, were not easily led to relinauish their holdings for comparatively small consideration to parties who might seek the ore tract for holding investment, or possibly some large furnace company for an indefinite ore reserve. AS an asset to the district it is believed that this body of ore would
 best serve the peoples interest by being opened up and operated as free lane - that is, mined and put on the market as commercial ore to assist and proong tue active life of furnace plants that need |outside ore.
 "yhe owners uf this ore property re
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-23
SERVED HIM RIGHT

From Tit-Bits.
 The following story of an English noble- man, now deceased, was recently told in a West End club.
 'The duke was once in church when collection was announced for some charit- able object The plate began to go round, and the duke carefully put his hand into his pocket and took out fiorin, which he laid on the pew before him ready to be transferred to the plate.
 Beside him sat a little snob. who, rio- tieing his action, initiated it by osten- tatiously laying a sovereign alongside the ducal forin This was too much for his grace, who dipped his hand into his pocket again and pulled out andJher florin, which he laid by the side of the first. The lit- tie snob followed suit by laying another sovereign beside the first. His grace quietly added a third florin, which was capped by a third sovereign on the part of the little snob. Out came a fourth forln to swell the dukes donation, and then the little snob triumphantly laid three sovereigns at once upon the board. The duke, not to be beaten, produced three fiorns.
 Just at this moment the plate arrived. The little snob took up his handful of sov- ereigns, ostentatiously rattled them into the plate. and then turned defiantly to- ward his rival, as if he would say. I think that takes the rise out of you.
 Fancy his chagrin when the duke, with a grim smile put one horin into the plate, and quietly swept the remaining six back into his poeketi'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-23
HARD TIMES FOR LOAN SHARKS

New York has removed another stout prop from under the loan sharks struc- ture of chicanery and extortion. On No- vember the appellate division of the su- preme court handed down a decision which rules that usurious loans are void as to both principal and interest, and if usury has actually been paid the borrow CT may recover twice the excess paid in all transactions within period of two years.'
 '"rhe case" says The Survey, grew out of a loan made to one Alexander Duns- comb by lending concern which called itself the Royal company. and whose di- rectois were Mark and Philip Sugarman and Frank c. Strait.
 'Dunscomb had borrowed $4I.50 and had paid the company s2.5o a month for 20 pay ments He used to go to the office each month, siNe them his salary of $50. and receive back S47.50 of it-making him a new loan, they called 1t. Finally Duns- comb refused to pay more and the Royal company sued. Dunscomb brought a counter suit to recover double the amount of usury he had paid. The municipal court allowed him double the amount of the last payment he had made. His coun- sel appealed on the ground that this in- adeouate relief. and the result was -he reversal by the appellate division, grant ing recovery of double the sum of all pay Oents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-23
States and Their Electors

Alabama is neither large nor a small state in any sense of the word This state is of aevrage size and average population, and soon will be of average wealth. Senator Lodges pleas, therefore, in behalf of the smaller states does not greatly con- cern this state. But he does talk to Alabama plainly when he says: q favor presidential primaries by states. The choice of the voters of the state among candidates for the party nomi- nation should be determined blythe party voters of the state. The vote of the state, apart from that which comes to it simply as state, should be based on the party votes cast at the last previous presidential election"
 This plan would cut down Ala bama's electoral representation at least one-half, and men like Senator Lodge can be trusted to favor a scheme that would reduce southern representation in the electoral college. Alabama's s vote is reduced by illiteracy and the poll tax condition to low fig ures, and Senator Lodge sees chance to make point
 None of the propositions concern ing change in the electoral system are finding much support in either House of Congress, and the electoral system with it's antiquated methods bids fair to remain law an indefinite period of years. No one can devise an acceptable substitute-at any rate no one has done so, and it is reasonable to presume that no one soon will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-23
THE NAMELEss GRAVE By DIR. W. E. EVANS

 At time that rays Of setting sun were thrown Der neighboring field and wood and ocean wave, I stood beside an old and crumbling stone, That long had marked a lone. neglect sd grave: Mid creeping vine and dropping fern l knelt and sought the name to learn
 II. But beating storms for long, long years had blown Their wasting blasts against each word inwrought. And moss was thick upon the sacred Till not line or word, tho long I sought Could be upon it's surface traced The name-the date-were all erased. And none now seek this old and lonely place, With sorrow $ broken heart and noise less tread: The wintry winds that weirdly moan in space. Are all that mourn above the namelsss dead o. emblem sad of human lot. To live--to die-to be forgot. Birmingham, December, 1SlA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-23
ANSWERS TO GREAT QUESTIONS
BY BILL VINES

tEc land. If people remain longer in ig- norance on this vital question, it is their own fault.
 The reason why men drink alcohol, it is declared, is not as many people sus- pected. to enable them to become Tit UT, but because of the great struggle 10 secure relief and attain some sort of psychic consciousness"
 This perhaps is satisfactory explana- tion, but we fear to the common herd will not be Illuminating. It is little difficult to remember. When a fellow comes home with sideboards up under d full load of relief and with psychic consciousness" pouring from every seam, he will probably endure some awkward moments while he is trying to remember the sentence quoted above from the learned doctor and should he be so for tunate as to do so, il is more than likely his wife will not be posted in such mat ters, and will look upon his scientific ex- planation with a good deal of cold and whitening scorn. It is particularly un- fortunate that the answer to this inter esting proposition is-if we may be per- mitted to say so--so elouded in terms as make it difficult to grasp by the lay mind.
 There are a great many men 'strus- glng to obtain some relief and attain some sort of psychic consciousness tnet don't know it. If you were to tell them that that is what they are doing, they would probably resent it. It will take @ long time to educate the people up to it that's the chief trouble. If you should wander into a Washington barroom snd tell the genial man behind the bar to put the psychic consciousness to you, he would probably throw you out or call policeman.
 If you were to start out and ask hun dred men who drink alcohol, why they do so, you would probably receive hun dred different answers, and a pair of black eyes, but none of them would tell you it was to obtain some sort of psychic consciousness" This is very clear dcm- onstration of the lamentable ignorance of the average man who drinks and thei e is no stronger argument for temperance than this. His wits are dulled and he cannot give the correct answer.
 Now. if they will tell the drinking man how to obtain this psychic consciousness fr some other way, and persuade him to do it, they will confer a great boon upon society, and will receive an embossed suffering wife in the land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-23
 THE VANISHING LADY TRICK

David DeTant in the January Strand.
 Being a very ambitious conjurer. resolved-long before l had sufficient ex- perience for the work-to present the vanishing lady illusion. 1 devised my own version of, it, and employed two ladies exactly alike. They gave me a lot of trouble, because sometimes an anony nous admirer would leave a box of choc- plates at the stage door for the van ishing lady, and then the two ladies would call me in. eand they would both ask at the same time: Aren't these choc- plates meant for me?" But that little difficulty was nothing to the one they caused during a certain performance. must explain that it was the duty of one lady to vanish mysteriously from the stage. In reply to my agonized inquiry: Where are you? Where are you?n the other vanishing lady" would pop up her head in the gallery and reply: Here am. in the gallery,' On the fateful night to which l refer the first lady did not vanish but the second lady not knowing that there had been little accident to my apparatus, appeared in the gallery, and, to the surprise of the whole house. including the conjurer, exclaimed: Here am, in the galleryv'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-23
Brooke's Report on Insane

It is unnecessary to state that the recommendations of Col. Harry Y. Brooke in reference to the treatment of the mentally diseased in Alabama will never receive the serious atten- tion of the governor or of the mem bers of the legislature.
 The query, How to prevent insan- ity?" will, as long as people indulge in those frivolous pastimes to which flesh is heir, take rank and station with those which endeavor to estab- fish the age of Ann, the color of the wintry blast or the odor of a germ. In all probability, Colonel Brooke, just before making that entirely orig inal report to Governor O'Neal in which, among other legislation, he recommended bill providing death for the hopelessly insane, had re- viewed the history of ancient Sparta and the laws of Lycurgus. The his- tory of Sparta would be inspiring | even unto the present moment but for the fact that in 500 B. c. it's chief business was that of warfare, the ad- ditional fact that in spite of its con- tinual preparation, it was conquered and ruled by tyrants, and the still further fact that it has now djsap- peared from the face of the earth.
 And terrible blow to modern dis ciples of the ancient doctrines of the Spartans is that Lycurgus, the giver of marvellous laws, is now by many scholars of all nations considered a mythical character, important only in the fact that concerning him intere s.- ing stories might be related in the off seasons.
 Colonel Brooke is one of the most original and interesting characters in Alabama, and student far advanced in latter day ideas. Despite that fact, however, it is very probably true that the state will better fare in the eyes of the world at large if the treatment of the unfortunate in Alabama is left entirely in the hands of pr. Searcy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-23
southern Man as Composer

"John Powell of Richmond Va. Is steadily rising to distinction as a pianist ard a composer. said a local musician
 ''Efrem Zimbalist the young Russian violinist who gave a recital in Birming- ham a few Sundays ago, played Powells concerto in New York last week, accom- panied by Nahan Franko's orchestra. Musical America, in an extended ertti- oism, says among other things:
 American violin concertos are few, and John Powelrs is as good as any Of them. Possibly 1t may displease lovers of violin playing, pure and simple. We are fortunate, however, in arriving at time when music for a solo instrument must say something as well as music for the orchestra. The day is past when eff fective though n1usically meaningls sss massage work for an instrument can win favor. This concerto is music of today. 1t is full fledsed modern music, vet it's themes are clearly defined. Its form IS not cryptic nor are it's harmonies unusual. Barring the strong lSinship of~the main subject of the first movement, with the opening pharses of Brahms B fiat piano concerto. the similarity of it's negro themes to a theme in Dvoraks New World" symphony and the instrumenta- tion of several passages which resemble pleces in isz,s and Strauss orchestral writing, it is fairly original music.
 Into it Mir. Zimbalist put every bit of his magnificent art, every possible quality of tone at his command. Its technical ob stacles, which are considerable, were readily overcome, and MT Zimbalist h, ought the work to a thrilling close. The audience liked it and applauded in a manner quite unusual for new work. The violinist deserves the thanks of every American music lover for having so au- s,iciously launched this work, which has q splendid chance of being taken up by other vioinists.
 John Powell is about 30 years of age. lie Is a son If the late J. H. Powell, vel known educator of Richmond. Young Powell was known in Richmond aaa a prodigy. He composed serious music be- fore he was 12 years of age He studied in his home town until he was old enough to go to Europe. He made his first public appearance in Berlin several years ago and has played with brilliant success in all the capitals of Europe. He Is a favor- ite in London and always draws large audiences there whenever he is announced Cor a performance. I understand that he will make an American tour next ssa- son
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Predictions for Next Year

"Tt is generally felt, I believe. that 1915 will be a year of great business activity, said c. W. Hartley of Chicago.
 This year has been ore of marked prosperity; the last half has been most prosperous. We have had. in fact, a splendid half year. There was some talk of a slowing up of prosperity owing to Il Wall street hurries growing out of the United States supreme courts de- cision in the Hartman merger, but tho general business of the country has not been affected and it will not be retarded by further enforcement of the sherman antitrust law.
 Business men in the north used to diead a democratic administration, but it is not so now. MT. Wilson will certain ly not be any more of trust buster than Taft has been.- He will doubtless have good business advisers and While did not vote for him I have faith Tn him. l believe he is going to make a good President. Business will go right along, and if next year brings us pig crops we will see new high records in ev- cry dlrection.''