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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
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vYY1 HEN you have boiled down all Nx/ the advice of all the books w and articles respecting the guiding of fortune you have this one great fact:
 Spend less than you earn.
 There is no other way-no royal road. To get on financially you must save.
 Add to this fact the other fact that 'snothing on earth beats interest on money and you have the combination which--if you will work twill make your fortune.
 But you say, the per cent which the savings banks pay is not much.
 Figure little. Do you know that 10 cents deposited daily at compound interest as per cent amounts in 10 years to the tidy aggregate of $450?
 Whereat you hasten to start a saw ings account on 10 cents daily deposit. But hold. Can you or will you Keep up that deposit 3e50 times That's diff ferent, eh?
 Take another example:
 Suppose you have a good job, good health and determination and you are able to save $5 per week. How much do you suppose that will produce at 4 per cent in 20 years?
 $7S55!
 Whereupon you ask yourself why do not more persons begin bank ar- count and make sure thing of &C., cumulating a. fortune?
 Because of the strain.
 They will not keep everlastingly at it. A man Is not a machine He re- bels at the monotony of regularity. + goes against the grain. He will not form the habit of saving
 Perhaps you have tried
 You begin with enthusiasm. This week and the next 1t is easy to spare the sum you have decided upon. But week after next you see something you Ao not absolutely need, but which you very much want. You miss a week get behind on your schedule, become intermittent Finally you grow tired of the self denial and quit. saying:
 Whats the use?'
 You have not formed the habit.
 You do not see that If you will per sfst in your saving regularly you will finally get the habit and. once formed
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I day she falls on the rent and the land- 1 lord orders her out What happens? Some society or the policeman hales her into court, and the children are sent to different institutions where she may never see them again. The home is broken and the mother heartbroken. It is an infamous system. Every child has the right to the love and care of it's mother, If the mother ts
 worthy, and the memory of the mother
 companionship and affection Is the child's $ dearest heritage.
 In a thousand places a thousand trag- edies are enacted because of this system. Mothers walk lonely streets and like Rachael call for their children, and thou ! sands of children cry out their hearts
 weeping for their mothers And-think of 1t, Henry Nei1l, father of the new law. says the cost Of the mother plan Is only half as much as the expensive institution plan.
 Why not everywhere pension Mrs. Sques instead of employing a policeman | to do her work? | This is true tale with moral. Will and Jean lived in small town
 Though neither rich nor poor, they were
 comfortable and content. They own
 ed a neat cottage and had d fair busi-
 ness. Jean sung at her work 1 Will employed one clerk. When Itrade was slack there were picnic and
 neighborly good times. A new gown I a year sufficed Jean. Will never bought more than two suits yearly They had a little savings account that grew.
 | One day city friends came. They told Will he was burying his talents
 the same ability and effort would bring l10 times the return.
 The women filled Jeans ears with tales of the city's pleasures. Why not | live to the full?
 The leayen worked.
 After much hesitancy Will sold his | business and the cottage. They went to the city. where he engaged in his | line of business. They rented fiat which cost five times the sum Will paid for the little village store. The peigh- bors employed a maid--some two.
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will eternally advance: that the school master in politics has been, is, and for ever must continue to be, a failure.
 And the statement may be partly true, for that matter Men combining culture with large mental calbre are not only rare. but when they do exist have not often been attracted to a political career, Such men know that the political career, unless backed mp by a great popular movement. must be a series of compro- mises-must go lamely-must often pros titute itself in order to forward itself In fact. politics for the past twenty years cannot have appealed to the larger mind- ed men. among whom we may class so- cial economists and among these social economists we may perhaps find here and there certain schoolmasters If brain
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Remember how your feet hung from
 the church pews halfway to the foorf
 You sec in those days there was no pri-
 mary department with separate room and
 low chairs and tables and group teachers. ! Remember the superintendent He
 looked so different in his Sunday clothes
 from week day Win Smith. He smiled so much more, for one thing How snap
 oily he banged his desk bell for orderi
 And there you are. dressed in your Sun
 day best and you hold the hand of your little sister, and the other hand grips the big red penny for the poor heathen
 children over the sea. How solemnly grand the little cabinet
 organ on the platforml
 Now, children smilingly shouts the
 superintendent, let us stand up and sias No. 23."
 And No. 23? Why, that was Gus Fischer's song, which we all knew and all could sing: | I love to tell the story. | Twill be my theme in glory To tell the old. old story Of Jesus and his love. | You did not know what the theme in
 glory might he, but your childish treble | rang out strongly and helped to swell the chorus.
 | Don't you remember? Now, there's nothing classic about Gus Fischer's production, and 1t has no great
 melody. It never lent itself to the vil-
 lage band like the smooth melody of ''Safe in the Arms of Jesus" but | It Is safe to predict that so long as | there are children to sing It so long will that song be used. I rtsfiT srft ye tt
 profane to fancy that whatever may bel
 his theme in glory" he must sometime pause and listen to hear the children sinlI his song of the old, old story? n
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practice, where he was easily at the head of the local profession. wider sphere opened to him in 1872 in Mont gomery, whence he removed and en- tered into copartnership with MT. Nir- gil Murphy and later was associated with Messrs. Clopton and Chambers with whom he was engaged till 1S71 when he was elected to Congress his intention being to gratify an ambition by remaining in his seat but one ses- sion of two years.
 But an event occurred which changed the current of Colonel Herbert's ca reer Samuel J. Randall of Pennsyl- vania had become speaker of the House and there appeared on the scene Col. Tom Scott of the same state, with a colossal scheme to procure subsidy of s40,000,0o0 with which to build the Texas Pacific railroad with branches extending to the most importau south ern points. It was gigantic venture and wore a rosy front for the south. which region was seeking to get again afoot On the delegation from the south pressure was brought, because 1t was so plausibly promising and 1t
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WOODROW WILSoN AN APPRECIATIoN-By A. B. BeaIe

of 107s men. politicians for the most part, to do this unconventional thing was a bit problematic on the face of it.
 But 1t is even now beginning to dawn on democracy that it's unconventional action in nominating sehoolman was caused by something infinitely bigger than Mir. Bryan's dynamic resolution about Ryan. Belmont, ct al. It is being realized that however arbitrary and disa- rreeahe the gentleman from Nebraska can be on occasions, on other occasions he Is a veritabe servant in democracy's S house None doubts this. The resolution served him well. for though Bryan was the most cordially hated man in the hall. no fair minded man in the convention doubted his political honesty.
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you will find as much pleasure in saw ing money as in spending It.
 Get the habit.
 There's every incentive, Get the habit and keep 1t.
 Humans are souls-struggling, more or less. to express themselves.
 Some souls live behind thicker walls and sit in greater darkness than others and struggle harder to get to the light and express themselves. The stronger the soul the greater the effort
 There's the soul of Helen Keller
 She became deaf and dumb and blind in infancy. The walls about her sou seemed so thick as to be impenetrable and her dwelling place so dark as tc doom her to perpetual isolation and si- lence.
 She was a prisoner of hope
 Struggling to be free. her soul found way by which she could speak to the world. Following a tiny ray she broke through to the light.
 Helen Keller was educated in the bes, sense-heart. brain and body. Learnine to read, she was guided to the best ir literature. Thinking along the higher lines, her sympathes were broadened
 mute. she gained the power of per. feet speech-with what painful striving we may never know.
 Blind. she saw many things more clear. ly than we who have perfect eyes.
 Dear. she has heard the peadings o the unfortunate better than we who have perfect ears.
 And now this wonderful soul astounds the savants of the world by singing diff ficult music and by making an address in English French and German. mas terly in its plea for the unfortunate souls in prison. Soul of man or woman If this woman. so hampered. could dc so much, what cannot you do who have every perfect sense? Your soul Is a prisoner of hope. Ant if 1t be strong enough to break through to the light no walls can prove a bar rier. There are no limits 1t cannot sci aside. no darkness 1t cannot escape. Though blind. 1t can learn to see. Though mute. it can break forth into song.
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~ LEARLY we have to reshape our . opinions of this man-this leoder O who has put new vim and go in democracy's life. which until a little while ago seemed on it's last legs. And curiously. in our new estimate of the democratic candidate we have to use an entirely different yardsticlx from that with which we have been accustomed to measure political candidates The old political yardstick is scarcely big enough to get the right dimensions of Woodrow Wilson.
 Whoever has closely watched the pres idential campaign cannot have failed to note the curious strength he gathers as the months wear through to election time.
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But Bryan did not nominate pr. Wilson. He merely helped ripen the hour for democracy to take an aggressive for ward step The laity back there-the great silent mass of men-was intent, breathless, wishing that convention well from the very start. Bryan was one Of the servants helping 10 bring that wish true.
 For the life of me. I cannot see how else Woodrow Wilson got the nomifla- tion save on the hypothesis that men in their widest alterations do really sensible things at times; that at the core of mans group consciousness there is really a germ of wisdom, however he may attempt to hide 1t; that in the last analysis men are wiser than they know.
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W CTS family from Laurensville, s. C., to Alabama, and settled at Green vile. Butler county, where the lad grew to distinguished manhood. Ills advanced studies were prosecuted at the Universities of Alabama and Vir- ginia at both of which schools he es
 tablished a reputation for aptness and rigid accuracy. Admitted to the bar
 Colonel Herbert had scarcely begun his career as a lawyer when the civil war began. He had leisurely pursued his scholastic course and was about 27 years old when the call to arms came.
 Entering the army as captain, he was attached to the Eighth Alabama infantry which regiment was sent to Virginia He was with Magruder at Yorktown, was in the peninsula cam pagn, during which time he was pro- noted to the rank of major, and at Fair Oaks he fell into the hands of the enemy. He was soon exchanged, and on rejoining his command was made lieutenant colonel. His regiment was
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Mir. Pickwick inquiringly observed to the 1aborer his justifiable attachment to the remains of this venerable monument in front of his cottage door; in the same breath inquiring of the laborer whether he would sell it. "Ah but who'd buy it?' inquired the laborer. 'I'll give you 10 shill- ings for 1t If you would take it up for me- said MT Pickwick No sooner said than dQne, and MT. Pickwick marches off to his inn with his treasure, as tickled as bullet upon the laying of an egg. Readers of Dickens have communed with MT Pickwick in his joys which rose to the heights of joys experienced by the woman in Scripture who swept up the
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|" o Apuleius we are indebted for the
 most ingenious and beautiful ac-
 X count of the relations between Cupid and Psyche, out of which story, pursuant to my previous undertaking, it is proposed to distill something of the practical. To the learned, however, we are indebted for some most laborious, heavy, stale flat and unprofitable inter- pretations of the myth. wherein we are reminded of MT. Pickwicks marvellous antiquarian discovery, to which on this occasion we shall play the part of the heartless MT. Blotton. in exploding the jncomprehensble mysteries supposed to be embodied in the story. Espying the ap- parently mutilated inscription on that stone In front of the laborer's cottage at Gotham:
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His Catch

From the Kansas City Star.
 A man with a fishing pole sat on the river bank near the Atchison waterworks intake. How many have you caught?" come one asked him. When I get an. other I'll have one. he replied.
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Work in well-doing is the souls re-
 frain Which this sad motley echoes. but ir
 vain"
The Jasper news., 1912-07-11
BIRDS PECULIAR ABOUT EGGS
Can Tell at Glance II Meddled With
and viii Almost invariably De-
sert Their Nests.

II you have lived in the country and
know something about chickens you
will not need to be told that a her
turns over the eggs In her nest every
day while they are Matching Until
this secret was discovered the incu-
bator was not a success.
BY what instinct hen, or any 9TH
er bird, can tell whether an egg has
been turned over or not It is impos-
sible to say: but it is well estab-
lished that If bird finds its nest has
been disturbed, especially If one or
more Of the eggs have been turned
over, that bird will most likely desert
the nest at once and never return to
II. II seems TO know that something
Is wrong and that it's plans for hatch
ing out those eggs, taught It by ma
ture, have been interfered with, and
1t is useless TO bother about the eggs
any more
Whether or not # is the sense OF
sight or of smell that enables the
bird to recognize the fact that the
nest has been disturbed is not known
But every time a boy NEEDLES with
the eggs In a nest no matter how care
fully he touches them, he should re-
member that he will probably be the
cause Of the mother leaving the half
hatched little ones TO perish.
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uses a Cornell hopper with six di.
visions in which are placed wheat,
wheat bran. meat meal, sunflower, oys-
ter shells and grit Corn is fed on
the ear. In addition to the above the
flock recei7es the table scraps and
fresh water is supplied twice daily.
With the above system Of feeding
ten White Wyandotte pullets produced
1884 eggs from March l, 1911, TO Feb
ruary 29, 1912. The house &C by 1O)
door is left open during the day and
one OF the two window openings is
covered with burlap. The cockerers
wattles were slightly frozen on the
night that the thermometer registered
80 degrees below zero. 1t viii be noted
from the above that the birds averaged
nearly 100 eggs each per year with a
minimum amount of labor In their
care.
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A variety OF feed will stimulate the
hen to her greatest egg production.
Most chicken coops are too small
and close and too inconvenient to
clean.
Don't crowd the chickens in warm
weather, and don't put those of differ
ent ages together.
Contrary TO what we are often led
to believe, turkey raising is not a bus
iness to take care of Itself.
The houses must be kept clean and
the hens must be free from lice II the
best results are to be obtained.
Lack Of moisture in the incubator is
one OF the common causes of chicks
failing to break out of the shell.
Great size of an abdominal pouch
In a goose indicates great age, a fact
that is useful in purchasing breeding
stock.
The beginner in poultry business US
ually has his hopes and expectations
too high. This accounts for most OF
the failures.
The smaller the quarters the great.
or the care. Crowded fowls are much
more liable to become affected with
yermin and disease.
1t is claimed that In laying an egg.
the pullet parts with about one Goth
part, by weight. of the total solid nu.
triment Of its own body.
Tne correct mating is eight to M.
teen hens for each cockerel. The
smaller the breed the more hens may
be allowed TO each rooster.
A broiler should be short in head.
broad, deep and full In breast; small
In comb trose or peal; and a pound
and a half TO two pounds in weight.
Before the breeding season begins
the chickens should be carefully
eulled and graded, Only the strong.
est and most desirable should be
saved.
For the benefit OF the egg-suekinR
dog try soaking some eggs In a solu.
uon OF lye strong enough 80 grains
WIN form on the shell. Then Leave
them in Fdos way.
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Bile Compound has done more for me than
all the doctors. feel it my duty to tell
you these facts. My heart is full of
gratitude TO Lydia f. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound for my health. Mrs.
HARRIET E. WAMPLER, 624 S. Ransom
Street, 0ttumwa, Iowa
Consider Well This Advice.
No woman suffering from any form
Of female troubles should lose hope un-
ill she has given Lydia f. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound fair trial
This famous remedy, the medicinal in
gradients Of which are derived from
native roots and herbs, has for nearly
forty years proved to be a most valua-
bic tonic and invigorator of the fe-
male organism. Women everywhere
bear willing testimony TO the wonderful
virtue Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound.
If you want special advice write to
Lydia L. Plnkham Medicine Co. (cOnfi-
dentlaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by a
woman and held in strict confidence
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NOT HARD TO RAISE TURKEYS
Poults Not Especially Difficult 10 Rear
II From Vigorous Stock and Prop
erly Cared For.
tBy MRS, c. r.. JoNEsJ

Turkey poults are not especially
hard 20 raise il they are from vigor-
Gus stock and are properly taken care
Of Above all things else. don't over
feed them, see that they are kept free
from lice, keep them from getting wet
when small, and make them rustic"
for their living. To rid them of lice.
should they become lousy, paint the
bottom OF a deep box with liquid lice
killer and put the poults iRo it. Cover
the top Of the bsx with a cloth. but
be very careful not TO smother the
birds. 1t is well TO leave a part OF the
top uncovered, as the fumes OF the
lice killer are pretty strong. After
they have been in the box for a short
time, take them out and dust with
some good lice powder. Eternal Wig
ilsnce is the price Of success in turkey
culture.
The Jasper news., 1912-07-11
PROTECTION FOR THE SHOES
Leather Guard Keeps Motorists Foot
gear From Being Rubbed and
Worn by Pedals.

Those OF us who are fortunate
enough to own automobiles know how
hard they are on shoe leather. This
sounds paradoXical, but It is true
where a man drives his car himself.
In using the pedals and various other
foot mechanism a mans shoe gets
badly scuffed along the sides and on
the heel. A California man has de-
signed shoe protector to prevent
this. A leather Zap with broad stud
ded ends fits under the ball of the
foot and comes up on both sides, a
narrow end crossing over the top Of
The Jasper news., 1912-07-11
KEEPING BABIES IN HEALTH
Success Of Tent Scheme Last sum.
ner So Pronounced That Il
viii Be Repeated.

Mothers Of little babies that suffered
much from the intense heat in the
early part Of July last summer will be
interested in the success Of the baby
tent scheme adopted In some Of the
big cities.
The tents are placed on fiat roofs of
tall buildings and In open lots. with
eight little cradles or cots in each
tent When all was ready mothers
OF babies under two years were invited
to leave them at the nearest available
tent over night so that the young
sters, in addition to enjoying the privi-
lege OF sleeping out of doors, could
also receive the attention OF trained
nurses and doctors free.
Some Of the tents have a perforated
iron pipe extending along the ridge
pole and connected with the city wafer
supply. On very hot nights the water
was turned on and allowed TO stream
down over the canvas BY evapora-
tion It greatly reduced the tempera-
ture inside the tents. Some OF the
tents We're also kept cool by the use
Of large blocks of ice in tubs before
the entrance. Electric fans blew the
cold air from the ice into the tents
sufficiently to keep the babies comfort
ably cool
This Is the way some Of the poor
babies are being cared for, but the
Ideas could be utilized by any one who
had the welfare OF the baby at heart
The Jasper news., 1912-07-11
British Possessions In South Africa.

The British possessions in South Az.
rica comprise Cape Colony, Natal. the
Grange River Colony, the Transvaal.
and the protectorates OF Bechuanaland
and Basutoland. with an aggregate
area Of about S65OOO square miles.
and a population OF about five and
one-half millions. To the north Rhode
sia extends into the heart Of the CON
tinent; but South RhOdesia. bounded
on the north by Zambesi, may be IN
cluded in South, Africa The only ter
ritory in the United States proper is
the District Of Columbia. Arizona and
New Mexico having been admitted to
statehood.
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DIDN'T Know VIVA, It Was.

Senator Duncan U. Fletcher was
condemning at dinner in Jackson
vile an orange grower who had failed.
The man failed" he said. through
ignorance. He lays the blame on other
things, but his ignorance alone Is at
fault. He is as ignorant of orange
farming as the tramp was OF industry.
You've heard Of that tramp, per-
haps? He wore on his face a sneer OF
derislon and scorn.
Work. he said Work? What is
it--an herb?'"
The Jasper news., 1912-07-11

Lady Duff-Gordon, at a luncheon st
Sherry's in New York, told an anec-
dote apropos Of the divorce evil.
Two girls" she said, were chat
ting over a cocktail and cigarette.
Marriages are made In heaven,
said the first girl. and she blew a
cloud Of smoke into the air and re
garded It with dreamy eyes.
The second girl with a light laugh
replied:
Yes, that is true; but, thank
goodness, to unmake them We have
to go only as far as Reno"
The Jasper news., 1912-07-11
Natural Query.

Gen. F. d. Grant, when discussing
military neatness, used often to tell a
story about his father.
MY father was talking to General
Sherman in his tent one day" he
would begin, when a third general
entered, a brigadier notorious for his
sloyenliness. After the brigadier left
my father blew forth a cloud Of smoke
and said: sherman. wonder whom
that man gets to wear his shirts the
first week2'"
The Jasper news., 1912-07-11
kIttens Saved Bow M

Two kittens. that followed him
wherever he went, were responsible.
for saving the life Of little two-year.
old child living in Rising Sun. Md.
Missing her son. the mother made a
search and across the fields saw tho.
kittens walking to and fro on the
banks of a pond. She fastened 10 the
scene. and noticing a bubble on the.
surface Of the water, Jumped 10, tho
depth being almost 20 her neck. ana
found the boy. Restoratiyes were ap-
piled, several hours elapsing bafors
respiration became normal.
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Punctuation.

Father" asked elght-year-old Alice,
returning home from school. ARE you
good at punctuation?"
Yes" replied the father.
We'll. tell me, please. how would
you punctuate, The wind blew a 1--WE
dollar bill around the eornerT"
Why, daughter. | would simply put
a period at the end Of the sentence"
4 wouldn't said Alice mischiev-
ously, Il would make q dash after tho
hyedollar bin"