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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
PROFITS IN CELERY BUSINESS

In the current issue or Farm ana Preside appears an article entitled Celery on 5000 Land" an extract from which follows:
 Somewhere In this broad land of ours there may be acres richer and with greater productive possibilities than those that form the Sanford celery delta along the St. Johns river in mid dle Florida. but if there are such, they have yet to be discovered and made useful Nowhere else have the results of intensive and intelligent cultivation of responsive acres been more satis- factory, from the dollars and cents viewpoint, and nowhere have they been more uniformly remunerative year aft Ter year.
 "The soil here is 8 dark sandy loam, mellow and easily worked. By capillary attraction 1t carries moisture in uni form distribution, like sponge, avail able for plant growth. From two to four feet below the surface is an im- pervious substratum of clay that holds water like rubber blanket The cli- mate is tempered by the St. Johns river and by numerous little lakes and streams. which control the temperature. winter and summer. within surprising ly small limits. This combination of natural conditions--a rich soil and the possibility of controlling at all sea- sons the amount of contained moisture, together with generally favorable climate-gives this section advantages that energetic men have seized upon and improved, and within the last doz- en years they have made Sanford one of the richest cities per capita in the entire, country.
 "Something more than 10000 acres here are underlaid by this artesian wa ter supply Less than one-half this has been put under cultivation, but the cultivated area is being ex- tended rapidly. The raw land Is held from s125 to s200 an acre, and it is sold readily at these prices with the guar anty that flowing water may be had through driven wells.
 Land ready and proved up Is held and sold at 5000 an acre and more. It is at least supposable that the buyers, being experienced planters, knew the worth of what they bought.
 The total freight shipments of let tuce and celery for the season of 1911 were 1576 car loads, and the gross re- turns averaged s720 an acre. These shipments were in addition to those forwarded by express. As a rule, celery is the more profitable crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
CHILDREN SOLD INTO SLAVERY

From Tit-Bits.
 Did you know that the selling of chill dren into actual slavery still exists as recognized institution in a civilized community?
 The slavery referred to is practice at Friedrichshafen, on the Lake of Con- stance, where there is an annual market for children. They are sold outright by their parents to peasant farmers rom Wurtemberg, Baden and Bavaria, for a seasons work on the farms. Here are seen boys and girls from II years of age to 16--children, for the most part. Of Ty- rolese woodsmen who are driven sby sheer Restitution to send their offspring to work for the farmers and receive the money for them.
 The children are gathered together un- der the care of a priest and taken to the market, where they are put up at auction and inspected by prospective purchasers like so many cattle. This year 125 boys and 20 girls were sold. Owing to the de- mand the market was strong: a sturdy lad of 16, able to swing the scythe all day, brought as high as f15. Some of the older girls netted their parents SIP. while some of the tinier went for e3.
 The sale is tragedy with a high flavor of the dramatic, for 1t is we'll known by the parents that fmany of the children will not come back in the winter, when they are supposed to return home. They will have succumbed to overwork and un- derfeeding and abusive treatment and home sickness Every year many die off The priests try to control the danger by black list against farmers in whose hands slaves have died, but each year more die.
 The practice is the survival of an an- cient custom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
Col. Roosevel,'s Campaign Failure

News comes from almost every quarter of the country that the bull moose's strength is weakening, and instead of gaining ground the party of Roosevelt is losing and losing fast.
 For while the two human dyna- mos, Roosevelt and Johnson,- injected enthusiasm enough into their follow ing for it to be contagious and it seemed to spread rapidly among oth- CTS. But it is conceded that the per sonal campaign waged by the colonel and his unreasonable abuse of all
 others who have not agreed with him is causing a reaction and the think ing people are beginning to think; and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
Democratic Campnign Fund.

Wilson will be elected but from all accounts the national committee will be very much hampered for the want of funds said an old democrat. The con- tributions up to now have amounted 10 only about s30O0G0 and nearly every dollar of this has been expended. Something like s15O,000 more will be needed and not dollar will be used for anything hut legitimate expenses.
 National Committeeman W. D. Jell.s has made urgent appeals to the demo- crats of Alabama. but thus far. only d little more than $5003 has been contributed. think we ought certainly to be ab.c te swell the amount to at least s1o. al and the convention of democratic clubs which will meet in Birmingham Friday. should be an occasion for passing around the hat. Every democrat should be only too glad to contribute something, if orly a dollar. 1 believe that the Wilson an1 Marshall club men will respond."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
THE ANGEL AT THE FORD

By Frances Isabel Parnell. sought to hold her. but within her eyes I read new strange meaning; faint
 they prayed, < "Oh, let me pass and taste the great
 surprise; Behold me not reluctant nor afraid!'' May. I will strive with God for thisv'
 cried,
 ''As man with man. like Jacob at ihe
 brook. Only be thou, dear heart, upon my side.'' Be still.' she answered, very still.
 and look" And straightway discerned with inward
 dread
 The multitudinous passing of white
 souls Who paused. each one with sad avsrlrd head, .fsis e7s 2. za'5s2 '4 And flashing of indignant aurselea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
HINDU's PENANcE ON SPIKES -rap, tho T.opdop Sta pdard

LOfuOn StdnudTU.
 An extraordinary scene was witnesnD1 in Calcutta recently tsays the Central News) when a small trolley. studded with rows of iron spikes. on which Hindu was lying at full length, was being pulled through the streets. A large crowd was following. Inquiries eIicited the inforTna- tion that the man was doing penance and was on his way to the temple of the God dess Kali at Kalighat. 4f
 The Hindu had been several days on the journey and was in a terrible condition The spikes. which numbered about NO. were quite sharp, and the man wore only a loin cloth. He must have been suf- fering acute pain from the fact that lis body was bruised and lacerated all over as result of lying on the sharp naile Neither the police nor the passerby made any attempt to stop the self imposed tcr- ture
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
YOU'VE MET HIM.

 Of men who pun and peddle wit There's one hate no little bit, He tells what Swift makes sausage from Then laughs: '"The wurst is yet to come.'
 Buffalo News. There's still another chap I hate, He rifles me early, rifles me late; He buys a wienerwurst. he does, And wonders just whose pup it was.
 -Johnstown Democrat. And then another one turns up. Who puns about the wurst and pup. He says cen though the pun is lame "To make such wurst is doggone shame"
 Allentown Democrat. But much worse is the guy who buys His wienerwurst and softly sighs, And says to set them all agog, Another case of dog -eat-dog"
 aAltoona Times. He's worse. though, who when his wife buys
 Tamalas, sits and rolls his eyes And barks and howls and growls and Such a mans wife has got hard lines.
 Houston Post. Also we hate the man who says. Each time the sausage he surveys And on his fork a piece impales, "I almost hear this poor dogs walls"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
czARusA OF RUSSIA A MUSICIAN

The Czarina of Russia is said to be gifted with a fine alto voice which she has cultivated under the best teachers. Brahams and Wagner are her favoritc composers. The czarina- mother. Maria, is also talented unsteady and had she been distined to more humble station in life 1t is said she would have made a great career as a pianist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
pREsIpENTs rHEx AND Now

From the Railroad Mans Magazine.
 When Thomas Nickerson. who was president of the Santa Fe before 1t struck oil. wanted to take atride he carried his lunch and took 2 berth with the way freight. That isn't the way of all Amer ican railway presidents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
oBscuRITY.

Alas. the knell of human fate,
 How oft it sounds for you and me, Who plod along in lowly state,
 Quite other than we fain would be. In dreams we scale the starry skies,
 Our name is writ on glory's page; We wake to sad realities
 And toll to win a modest wage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Mu,,c.l In-truments Like Men

John Phillip Sousa, who is usually asso- ciated in the public mind with the lead ership of brass and reed band. and as the composer of popular marches and popular operas started out as q violinist,, and at the age of 24 he was the conductor of a theatre orchestra of IS piecess in Philadelphia. No matter what be Sousa's rank as a composer he is a great bandmaster, and more, he IS a thorough musician. Sousa also is sue cessful man in literature. His novel, "The Fifth String" has had a large sale His ssPipetown Sandy reminiscent of Washington, D. C., is a delightful book, and Through the World With Sousa" is dnother popular publication.
 IT. the Northward-Hol magazine Sousa writes interestingly of the peculiarity or instruments. They are duplicated, he says. "by the characteristics of human kind" He continues: "The queen of the musical family is the violin. sensitive under all conditions, capable Of the most minute gradations of sound and pitch; now sentimental. now brilliant now CO., quettish, now breathing notes of passion ate love Look about you and you will find the violin's double among some you know: high strung. diffident, capable of all the emotions, beautiful in the crystal ized harmonies of affection and sympa- thy. Another affinity is the heavy going. stolid, slow thinking, one-idea man whose life is taken lip with punctuating time with breakfast luncheon, dinner. sleep; breakfast, luncheon, dinner, sleep. ad infintum He may be likened to the bass drum with it's thump, thump. thump, thump,' and again thump. thump, thump, thump; the thump, like the meals and sleep of the man, may be great or small. but it is always 'thump, thump, thump. thumpi
 'Then, again, we have the man in life like the instrument in the orchestra, des- tined never to arise above second posi- ton. A third alto horn man may envy a sole alto man. but he remains a third alto man forever A second trombone may cast jealous eyes at his brother in the first chair, but it ayaileth him not. Fourth comets and second fiddles, eighth clarinets and sixth trumpets may deride the captains of industry of the instrument tai group, but they eyer remain in ob- sourity If instruments were born equal all would be sovereigns, and if men were bern equal all would be soloists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
HIS END.

Poor Dubbsl He drowned last week in shallow water
 We'll Welll I'm not surprised. Dubbs always was shallow man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

Woodrow Wilson will be ready to move into the White House on March 4, for he has been presented with COW every bit as good as Pauline.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

Me and Hi and Perk and Suspender Jack will soon be concentrated in the ef- fete east to make the closing efforts of the campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
Great Fishing sport

T have had great sport fishing in Flor ida this past summer said Alonzo At kins. general agent of the American Lift and Security company, who is at home for a short stay.
 'I never realized before what unlimited sport in the fishing line meant. Why, there are numbers of pools. mere over flows, that give up plenty of fish upon the dropping of a hook. I caught more fish in few hours than I could use or dispose of. One afternoon I caught q IA pound trout in the Ochlanaha river, d stream that drains Lake Eustace and two other lakes. The record by the way for this section, is a 22 pound trout. Flor ida is surely the tisherman's paradise and the sport is free and the fish plentiful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

The German people can, if prices of food continue to go up. fall back on Ger man carp, and all the rest of the world will assent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
THE POLITICIAN.

HE POLITICIAN. The politician nowadays
 Is forced to drain bitter cup And hardly ever writes a line, But what he'd like to tear 1t up. Although he wears a look of cheer And seems the master of his fate, He lives always in deadly fear That someone may investigate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

The occupants of Chicago apartment houses have ceased to shiver. for steam was turned on at the opening of this month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
THE SLEEPER OF OKUO

Some three or four times did the in- valid leave for moment her bed, on which all the rest of the time she lay in crouching posture, with the bedclothes drawn up over her head. It is said that her whole nourishment consisted of two cups of milk day. When her mother died Caroline must have been conscious to some extent of the fact, for she burst into tears, though otherwise no change wns noticeable in her condition. After the mothers death a brother undertook the charge of the sleeping girl and her food. but after two years he was drowned. and this sad event occasioned second violent fit of weeping.
 The care of her then devolved upon housekeeper. and Caroline seems to have shown more intelligence and sharpness in noticing her presence. It began to he noticed that her hair was always kept tidy, and that her nails did not exceed the usual length As the result of an experiment in leaving her alone for some hours of the day, suspicion arose that her trance could not have been so com plete and unbroken as formerly. At last there was no doubt about it. food disap- peared mysteriously.
 A few days later Caroline suddenly asked for her mother. and when her brothers hurried to her side she waved them away, saying, You aren't my brothers; they were quite small" From that moment she was a different being The trance had ceased. and left her quite we'll and hearty. The most careful exam ination failed to reveal to the doctor the defect She remembered every detail Of her early life, but showed a great relue- tance to speak about her illness. The orly hint of an explanation that Dr. Froderstrom can supply is that the tima of life from 14 to 46 spent by her in this trance corresponds exactly amongst wonI- en of the North German race with the period of possible motherhood.
 
 neither the Eskimo woman nor her hus- band will listen to the advances of any other man. even though the steady man" remains away for several years. Az long as his supplies appear. he is certain of fidelity. se
 I met an old Eskimo who, through sn interpreter. told me little of the days when three fishhooks bought wife of him. At that time the fshhook was abou. the most wonderful thing that had come into the lives of the Eskimo. and even today d sale or a rental of n wife or daughter Is very seldom made without a certain percentage of payment in fishhooks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

"Suspender Jack McGee never goes on the street unless he wears the bandanna. He is a bull moose from the head of the Creek
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
r,suHooks puv ESKIMO WOMEN

James Oliver CurWoOu Tn Leslie s'
 White men must be held accountable
 for the degradation and passing or the
 rsL;,ro even to a greater degree than in
 ,he case of the Indian. When the first
 u,ha,ers went into the Arctic, the Eskimo
 was q meat eater. and nature made him
 thrive on the diet. His garden was the
 ,,,a, sca and the great ice fields; his only
 cod the polar bear, the whale, the seal
 and fish. But the white mans, ships
 quickly changed this. They brought nm
 eo,o sugar. dried fruits, canned stuffs,
 tobacco and liquors, and the Eskimos
 dietetic system underwent change. so
 that in the course of generation these
 things became necessities to him. As the
 polar bear and the whale disappeared
 they became still greater necessities. un- til at last the failure of a whaler to win ter near a village meant starvation. For a time the Eskimo paid for these things scarce, and whalers more and more mum, erous, he had to find other ways of pay ment. His basic idea of morality was almost ri 90 it was not difficult to in- fuence him to part with his women.
 Tn the village east of Victoria Island I found that nearly every adult woman and many of the young girls had at one time or another been white mems prop erty number of the women had been taken repeatedly for years back by the same sailors, as is the case in nearly every Eskimo village It is curious fact that while the women do not have to be urged to leave their native hus- bands for an alien partner. they are strangely faithful to their white purchas- ers after they have once become their l-prorerty. Tae highest honor an Eskimo N oman CT girl can achieve is to become
 ''steady wife, that is. sailor takes hes
 with the. understanding that he is to have hsr year after year, or as often as his sh,r cones near her village. the same p-ice being paid each year to her hus- band or fether If 1t should happen that he mssts q season, he must, In order to koId his purs!,are. send in the stipulated
 price by soms other ship. In this event
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

The colonel forgot in the course of his southern tour to declare that. If elected, he would deport all the hookworms in the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

Twenty French flying machines belong ing to the French army set off at one time to reach the German frontier, and no accident occurred to one of them!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

A Missouri judge granted a woman s application for divorce because her hus- iudpef
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

The registration lists are falling off, and the stay-at-home voter promises to be unusually numerous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

The wife of Brooklyn man has Is rocking chairs. and the husband puts on shinguards when he enters his home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
BAD ENOUGH NOW

'Women's dresses to be tighter Though we hate to talk, Still we can not help but wonder
 How the deuce they'll walk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
The states Financial Condition

Public finances-national, state and municipal-are not easily understood by the average person, and when it comes to Uncle Sam's finances the figures are SO large and the problems connected with the treasury department so complex as 10 be little short of bewildering to any but students of government or experts in fiscal statistics" said a professional man.
 'I SEW 1t published recently that Ala bama's deficit on october would be up- wards of $lO00,000; but such a deficit is only apparent-not real. The taxes arc due October 1, but few people pay before January. because there Is no discount to those who pay before the first of the year. I am told by those who have made study of the states finances and who under stand the situation thoroughly, that the real deficit on October I was less than 500, 900. and moreover, that the state is in far better condition financially than T was year ago. In fact, Alabama g parativeiy easy to make all the tempoT- ary loans needed to tide over until the eax money begins to pour in. R
 Tt has been stated frequently during the past three or four months that Gov ernor O'Neal had decided to call an extra session. I cannot see why he would call it. A states financial par condition is sometimes made the ground for calling an extra session of the legislature. but as there is no bother in Alabama about the public funds, I win expect an extra session when the governor issues his call and not before
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
eoncerning Southern Industries

The smith-Briscoe Shoe company of Lynchburg, in writing to The Age Herald to express it's appreciation of notice of its attractive folder showing bird'e eye view of the old Virginia city. says in part:
 "If aiof the newspaper men and news papers would boost the south's manu- facturers that we now have, and wake up the native to realize that the south can manufacture the best of everything, and patronize the south, the manufac u- rers would increase fast, and it would not be long before Lynchburg would be the size of Birmingham. and Birming- ham the size of New York. As nothing increases population faster than man ufacturing industries. which employ skilled labor which gives more busineas to the retailers. it Is to their own interest to patronize home industries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
i. sr.tematic Relief Fund

f"The August reports of the relief de- partments of the Pennsylvania railroad system, issued recently, show that dur ing the month $l15727S2 were paid 'n benefits to employees of the company or their famiies.'' said local philanthrp- pist. Since these departments for hoth the lines east and west of Pittsburg were established the amount paid out in ber- efits has reached a total of $s3,aa0, ,305 sI.
 "On the lines east of Pittsburg and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

This overeoat weather in the early morning hours touches even those Who have no oyercoat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

No reduced rates are offered to those W ho desire to stand at Armageddon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

Jack Frost will soon come to remind us to do our Christmas shopping early
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

Job Hedges has agreed to bar Epictetus from his campaign for governor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
CRAMPEp F1NANcIAIJy,

Why don't you keep car. PillSin7''
 Well, for one thing. I'd hate to beg my gasoline from door to door"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

The frost is on the pumpkin and James whtcomb Riley will proceed to celebra te his birthday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

The dinner pails may be full, but il costs altogether too much to fill them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
THEATRE OF THE FUTURE

It is not necessary to register in order to cast a straw vote.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

The electoral college outranks even Yale, Harvard, Princeton and the Atlanta Tech
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

Colonel Bryan considers Colonel Roose- velt an eleventh-hour reformer by large majority.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

Young Vincent Astor says he is too busy to love. He should advertise. That's