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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-08
The Music of Nature

From Country Life in America.
 A carefully trained ear and mind are indispensable to enable one to de- tect and discriminate readily from the general insect medley any particular species of musician
 As with birds and their songs. much of the charm and pleasure ro ne gotren from insect music depends on the emotional coloring associated with It. We are enraptured with the notes of the pewee in the spring, or the earliest piping of the frogs. not because the sounds in themselves possess any ia- trinsic sweetness, but because they re- call endearing memories of many hap py. hopeful springtimes. They are d. ways the harbingers of another verdant ason. Their plaintive notes add to our minds an emotional warmth a1d sunshine. They awaken for us an i1- ner, subjective springtime.
 In a similar way the crickets and katydids gladden. and inspire us with their music in proportion as their notes have become associated in ovr minds with the emotional coloring of past memories.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-08
Proof Positive

FTOlfr Juu8G- - n |
 Crawford-Do you think he's hsn- pecked?''
 Crabshaw-He never mentioned 1t. n1t I've noticed that the portraits over pis mantelpiece are-those o6 his wife's 11c1A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-08
FOR RENT.

Seven room apartment, best part of South Highlands, beautiful view of city steam heat, water and janitT service furnished, just the thing for the winter, only $40 per month.
 LOUIE REESE REALTY CO, 2. 2125 Third Ave. Main 933.
 10-S-4t- tu- th- fr-su
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ONE CENT WORDON CENT W0RDE CENT WRDOM CENT WORD ONE CENT WORD

RATES--One cent . word s day, no ad. taken for less than 2Bc for first inseF-
 tiOn. Cash muat accompany order.
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RATES-One cent . word . dayg no ad. taken for less than 25c for first inaer- tton. Cash must accompany order.
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WANTED-HELP
 WANTED-SALESMEN

NsNTED-ReHable salesman to invest $500 and manage office for manufac- turer; you handle own money; should make 5000 first year; investigation in- vited. See T. l.. Richardson, Hotel Hill man. Room S4 l0-6-3t XANTED--Capable piano salesmen for road work; must be producers and have good record give references first let fer; correspondence confidential. o. K Houck Piano Co.,, one price. no com mission. Little Rock, Ark. 1o-3-5ot WANTED-City salesman for established line high grade pains: state age, ex- perience and salary expected Dozier = Gay Paint Co, Jacksonville. Fla.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-08
FOR SALE

WE nave moSed fo -lss5;SSll lss5;.SsS ln1srlcsn TT, q Bldg. Call us at Main 2S5, and let us show you the most modern, story house on South Highlands; it is beauti- fully located with fine view of city has large living room with pressed brick mante. beautiful dining room with beamed ceilings, panelled walls and bult-in china closets and buffet. tile conservatory with French doors library and kitchen, 3 large bedrooms with mir rored doors, large sleeping porch, tile bath with linen closet, hardwood floors Peck Williamson furnace and is beauti- fully decorated throughout: takes only $500 cash, balance s40 per month. Den ton Williams Realty Co.,, 507-S-9 Ameri- can Trust Bldg Main 2S5.
 1063t-su-tu-th thu THE greatest line of mems shoes ever shown in this city at s395 pair, worth $5.00.
 GUARANTEE SHOE CO,
 1905 Third Ave. FOR SALE-National cash register; five drawer, total adder, latest improved. Call Main 30s. 10-s-7t WE buy and sell, high class securities. stocks and bonds; outright or on com mission; finance propositions of merit, and negotiate mortgage and collateral loans.
 MEYER. GOLDMAN Sc
 TERRY
 2l09 First Ave.
 3-3-su-tu-th-tf FOR SALE-At our new quarters, 507-S-9 American Trust Bldg, the most modern and complete bungalow in the city; has beautiful living room and dining room decorated in imported leather paper; 3 large bedrooms, tile bath, also shower bath; large back porch and kitchen; hardwood floors. beautiful electrical fix lures; $500 cash, balance $4O per month. Denton Williams Realty Co., 507-8-9 American Trust Bldg. Main 2S5
 10-6-3t-su-tu-thu THE greatest line of mems shoes ever shown in this city at s3.95 a pair, worth $5
 GUARANTEE SHOE CO,
 1905 Third Ave. FOR SALE-$7O00 stock of shoes. This is a clean stock and in a town of 2000 people. Apply T-S7, care Age-Her-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-08
FARM LANDS
FOUND

FOUND-One hand grip on Avenue c loop car; owrfer can getit bs uescrip- ing contents and paying for advertising. 1911 Avenue F. Ensley.
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cent . word . dayJ no ad. taken for less than 25c for first inser- ton. Cash must accompany order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-08

BUY your piano or player piano of Seals Piano and Organ Co, Alabama's oldest piano house. 2017 1st avenna, Dirming- ham. Bell Bldg. Montgomery. 4-6-tf GROWING girls high cut button boots, sSregular s3.5 values, for S2. 45 a pair,
 GUARANTEED SHOE CO,
 A,rc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-08

BARGAINs-TcR SALE. If you looking for a home, any size, in any part of the city, any kind of terms we can suit you: please let us show you. Call or phone
 HAGGARD REALTY CO, Sol American Trust Bldg Phone TEA Main.
 10-2-tf
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RATES-One cent . word dayy no ad- taken for less than 25c for first inser. ton. Cask must accompany order.
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CAN'T we give you an estimate on your old piano and replace it with one of oar player pianos; easy payments if desired. Phone 206. Seals Piano Co.,, 017 1st ave- nue. 5-16tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-08

Real Estate bought, sold, exchanged. INGRAM REALTY COMPANY, Empire building. Bell 1lU
 7-23-tf
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FOR RENT

tion. Casb must accompany order.
 FOR RENT
 1z0s 11th avenue, north. new bungalow, stone wall, faces south. New cottage. West End. Dr. V. V. Florence, Main 4312, West End 333 3-15-tf CHOICE six room cottage, bath and electricity, good repair. 23s0 4th ave- nue, s30. Also good room cottage. 115 N. 6Sth street block of East Lake cars, s15. H. D. Smith, 206 Hood Bldg. 10-S-2t FOR RENT-Eight acres good land with one good room house, room ser wants house, barn and poultry houses; good water; 5 blocks of South Bessemer ear line. Address R. B. Mims. Birming- ham, R. F. D. No. 1, Box 259-A.
 FOR RENT-Large room with private bath, furnace heat, convenient to cars and Five Points. Phone b5S4-J.
 10-S-3t
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WANTED-To buy, 1000 calves. Southern
 Market Co. Both phones 62S. We pay the best prices. 2-l-u
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-08
FOR SALE

TALK WITH ALAN JEMISON.
 Bell 10o, Peoples 61. c4-tr
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cent . word . day; no d. taken for less than 25c for first inser. ton. Cash must accompany order.
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| BUY, sell and exchange real estate.
 J. M. Gibson, 4Oe Empire Bldg. 12-24-u
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-01-31
a Hero In a Lighthouse.

For years J S. Donahue, So. Haven,
Mich, a civil war captain, az light
house keeper, averted awful wrecks,
bu, queer tact is, he might have
been wreck. himself, if EItctric Biz
ters had not prevented. "They cur-d
me OF kidney trouble and chills," he
writes, ''after had taken other So
called cures for years, wlthou1sbene-
Fl md they also improved my sight.
Now, at seventy, l am feeling fine" :"
F ,r dyspep-ia, Indigestion, all stom-
.achs iver:and kidney,vroubles, they re
without.eoual. Try them. Only soc
at all druggists. -.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-01-31
A Girls Wild Midnight Ride

To warn peopl OF fearful t'reSt
fir in the "a skill i young g'rl roie
horseback at ulidnigh and >av d many
lives. tier de.d WAS Curious but lives
are often saw 4 BY DR.. Kings NV
Discovery in curl s lung tro lole,
cnus b. and colds. "hich miphr have
ended in crrsunl ton or p, enmorla.
''Ir cur me of dTea1 al cough and
lung di-e ase," wrir-~ W R. Patterson,
yelling on, T x. latter tour in our
family Tad did Wirh Consumption,
and I gained 81 pounds Nothing ~
.ure aud SAT. for all throat AID lung
troubles Price SOC ann }. TRIAL
b,ttle tree. Guaranteed b, I'll drug
gists.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-01-31
- 2.
Tired of Going to School
Boys Fire Building.

Orangeburg, Jan. 25.-rwo boys OF
Holly Hill, Ransom Moorer and Barn
we'll Gross, have been arrested on the
serious charge OF houseburning. These
two boys, one II years and the otner
10 years of age, we're students of the
Holly Hill school, and, it is charged,
growing tired or school, burned the
large. two-story frame school build
ius. The burbi. g Of the Holly Hill
school house: " Is a great loss to the
community, but it was thought that
tile fire was accidental, and arrange
ments were being perfected for the re-
banding OF the school, the old build
i * to be supplanted by brick build
ing.
In the meantime the town hall was
temporarily used for several OF the
grades OF the school, being the grades
Of the boys arr. st.d in the matter. A
short time aiterW aids the town hall
W IS foand to be afre and, by prompt
fire igh. Ing, the building was saved
With little loss. At once suspicion
WIS aroused that tirebug was III the
,wn. 1t was easily detected that tie
town hall had been set atire.
Inspector Wharton OF the insurance
comn,is ,iou.r .mce, went to Huuy
Hill % investigate matters. After o..
i g ~ Holly Hill a tow days the i'll
sp :ctor suspected Ra.som Moorer and
B .rnwell Gross and had the boys held
aud examined. AT first The boys de-
med any knowledge Of the origin Of
the fires, but later confessed d Young
G oss stated that he was present when
the fire vas started, but had nothing
to do with i5. Young Moorer states
that Gross did help.
The affair IS regretahle one, as the
boys are prom lnentiy connected and
stsnd we'll in the community. They
gaze as their excuse for burning the
building that they were tired of going
10 school and didn't like one of the
lady teachers. The boys were released
upon bond and will stand trial al the
February term Of the court of gener-
al Sessions for Orang burg county.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-01-31
Mr.. Lowe Was Here.

Mr. W. R. Low, OF NV Br"okland.
spent several days in Lexington last
W. ek in the interest of the Re>cue Or
.phanage, located, at Columbia. He
wilF canvass the whole of Lexington
County for the next four or fl, weeks
in collecting and soliciting contribu
tiors, and also securing direoturs from
Lexington County for the Orphanage.
Any help given him will be nignly ap-
precidted by the Orph mage.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-01-31
500 Per; Plate

waa paid at banquet to Henry Clay,
in New Orleans in 1912. Mighty costly
for those with stomach trouble or indi-
g.stion. To-Day people everywhere us
DR.. Kings New Life. Pills for these
troubles as we'll as liver, kidney and
bowel disorders. Easy. safe, sure.
Only 25 cents at all druggists.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-01-31

Josh Perry, colored, who was in che
Saluda Jail for cow-stealing, escaped
on Monday night of last week, but re-
turned on Wednesday,. after "attend-
ing to little business" he said.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-01-31

A meeting OF tne probate judges of
s ,uth Carolina was he'd in Columbia
on Wednesday for the purpose Of dis
cussing phases Of the law pertaining
10 their office.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-01-31

If you are troubled with chronic
constipation, the mild and gentle ef-
feet of Chamberlsin's Tablets makes
them especially suited to your case.
For sale by All Dealers.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-01-31

Londou's debt il now $751;, 600, 900, Of
which g.. .10c, 600 was added during the
last year.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-01-31

Over $1,450,000 was deposited in
nava savings banks of England during
1919.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-01-24
WHY PEOPLE BECOME PANlcKY

Brave men sometimes become pam
icky from a sudden impulse of fear,
and the panic is the greater when the
cause is imaginary. Those who served
in the great war between the states
in the early sixties can recall in
stances that came under their per-
sonal observation. One notable case
was that of Gen. John c. Vaughn of
Tennessee (who had proven his cour-
age on many well fought field) while
out accommodating with his staff being
stampeded by an ambulance rafting
over a rugged mountain road. This
occurred in the summer of 1864,
among the mountains of southwestern
Virginia. Had it taken place earlier
it would have ruined Vaughn's reputa-
ton as a soldier. AS it was, it served
only as a good joke on the general
Speaking of the meningitis scare,
the Tyler Courier-Times says:
1T is but a proof that fear is con-
tagious and also extremely hurtful;
and that it often takes a deep hold
upon the people when the cause is
At present the magma
ton is infamed and wild rumors are
flying thick. especially among ignor-
ant people. Where people are ex-
citable or ignorant they cling to ru-
mors and refuse to accept authenti-
Gated figures or facts"
The difference between the brave
and the cowardly is that when the
former have time to think they see
how foolish it is to be panicky, while
the latter continue to suffer the de-
grading thralldom of fear.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-01-24
Meningitis Not Contagious.

From the Dallas News is taken an
item concerning meningitis in that
city, as follows:
Attention is called by the health
officer to the fact that the records do
not show case developed upon any
doctor practicing medicine, any nurse
trained for handling sickness, any I'M
dertaker or employee of an undertaken
handling any body of a person de-
ceased Of meningitis, any digger OF a
grave, any policeman or fireman and
hut a single case of a telephone OPP
erative, which developed early in De-
cember ard fully recovered.
There appears to be no infection
nor contagion in the country cases,
nor is there anything to indicate that
they are to be traced in any sort Of
lire to the city. Cold, damp, foggy
weather seems to foster the develop
ment of the germ producing the Gie.
ease. AS soon as the weather moder-
ates | believe the disease viii lie SUI
dued."
Assuming that the Dallas expert
ence, where over two hundred cases
are involved, represents the true ma
ture OF the disease, there is to bo
drawn one Of two conclusions:
/. Either meningitis is not com
municable by contact with an afflicted
person, or,
2. The precautions taken by those
who have come into contact with SO
many cases have been effectually pre-
ventiye.
The precautions" popular in Dallas,
where Or. Sophian has been in consul.a
tation with the physicians, consist in
nose and throat spraying and taking
of internal medicines, such as have
been recommended in Temple.
There are plenty of students of the
disease who claim that the immunity
is on account Of meningitis not being
contagious.-Temple Telegram
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-01-24

other, perhaps, but there has so far
been nothing in the present visitation
of meningitis to authorize the bottling
up of towns or communities. The
cases have occurred in country as well
as in towns, and in probably as great
frequency, the villages being consid-
cred as rural territory. In very few
instances has it been shown that there
had been previous contact of a pa
tient with any other person so dis
eased, and of the known contacts, the
record is almost clear of contractions.
Quarantine not only interferes with
business and with the earning of sup
port by daily labor, but it frightens
the people and brings about one of the
conditions most to be dreaded in the
fight for prevention. Quarantine of
person, or of home where there is a
known case, is indicated, but the quar-
antining against city is surrender
to panic.
In the effort to use reasonable meth
DDS of preventive treatment, and in
the resolution to not be pushed into
unreasonable rulings, the health Off
Ger should have the cordial support of
the people.-Temple Telegram.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-01-24
STEP TOWARD THE SINGLE TAX.

When you render your property for
taxes this year just put about rs per
cent more value to the land and de-
duct it from the improvements. The
total being the same there can be no
complaint from the board of equaliza-
ton and in all probability the board
will be glad to see the change. BY
rendering the land at high value the
owners @ improved property can set
the example for increasing the value
OF The vacant property and thereby
eventually bring about reduction in
the tax required of improved property.
Enterprise.
Why not go all the way and put all
the valuation on the land? A tax on
is a tax on labor. This
important economic truth is gaining
ground and will ultimately be recog.
nized.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-01-24

commission, but after experience Of
its workings they found it often their
friend, for, while it restraints them
from depressing the consumer, it pro-
tects them against unreasonable de-
mands, and by opening a safety-valve
for the wrath Of the private citizen
heads off drastic legislation.
There is at the present time in the
laws of Texas nothing that shields the
ordinary man from the unfair treat
ment of telephone company, ice,
electric light, water or other utility
concern. He can, of course, go to law,
at great expense, and fight thee
poration, and II successful obtain
trivial damages, but no lawyer would
encourage a friend to enter upon such
a suit.
Relying on their immunity, local
corporations charge whatever the
traffic will bear, give such service as
suits their convenience, treat COM
plants with Indifference and con-
tempt, let their plants run down and
become inadequate, exasperate, over
charge, humiliate and discourage ev-
cry householder who is compelled to
do business with them. They used to
do this in New York, but now the
hlsmblest citizen may go to the state
commission and lay his wrongs be-
fore them, and without further trouble
or expense to him the commission
takes the matter in hand as his cham
pion and obtains summary correction
of the abuse. 1t has never been found
that these state commissions overstep
their power, and If one were estab-
lished in Texas it would undoubtedly
make as high a record for moderation
and fair dealing as has our railroad
commission.
The Eagle believes that municipal
ownership of the class of corporations
that the proposed commission would
have to deal with is the best solution
of the question. 1t has proven so in
Bryan with the water and light and
sewer systems, and the telephone sys-
tenn will be acquired or new one
will be put in if the service continues
to be unsatisfactory.
Later, a municipal ice plant is
strong possibility AS far as tried,
municipal ownership of the public
utilities has given practically univer-
sal satisfaction, yielding good in
come to the city treasury instead of
being heavy expense, as the private
corporations were
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-01-24
Prehistoric Men.

Recent investigations of some pre-
historic copper mines in Spain have
revealed some interesting facts. These
mines have not been worked since the
Stone Age. Sixteen skeletons were
found and it is evident that the miners
must have been extremely muscular,
for though they were very short in
body they used stone hammers which
a man now could not WELD Numer'
Gus prints of the miners hands in the
clay were found to be as fresh as If
made yesterday. They show that the
miners had thumbs nearly twice as
long and strong as the human thumb
today, resembling those of the biggest
misrepresentation Commonwealth.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-01-24
A PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

The Port Arthur board of trade has
addressed a circular letter to the
newspapers of Texas with the object
of enlisting them in campaign for
the establishment of a state public
service commission. The letter says.
"A state public service commission
is something like state railroad COM
mission, except that instead of having
authority over railroads it regulates
electric light companies, water COM
panies, street car companies, gas COM
panies, telephone companies and
sewer companies. There are excellent
state public service commissions in
Wisconsin, New York, California, Mas
sachusetts, New Jersey and Maryland,
and when the citizens there are ag-
grieved by the treatment of local COM
panies they 60 to the commission and
obtain redress without expense In
states where no such commissions ex-
list there is no relief except by suit
at law, costly, tedious, unsatisfactory
and SO far beyond the resources of the
plain citizen that he usually prefers
to swallow his wrongs and do nothing.
1T will be noticed that the various
kinds of concerns mentioned-water,
gas, electricity, etc.-are local. They
are not regional or national, like rail;
roads. 1t might be asked why local
companies can not be restrained by
local authorities. There are two good
reasons. One is that they have so
much political influence as to be in
vulnerable; the other is that, even
when the city government happens to
be against them, their legal position
is very strong and they can usually
not be brought to terms. The law does
everything to protect them, and very
little to protect the consumer; it is to
correct this condition that public serv-
ice commissions have sprung into be-
ing, and they have been blessing
wherever instituted.
I'm Wisconsin the corporations at
first bitterly opposed public service
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-01-24

At the Yoakum banquet in Houston
Col. r. M. Johnston Is reported as
saying: Il am going to take off some
of my politics and am going to de-
vote more time to the advancement
and upbuilding of prosperity in this
section" Colonel Johnston has been
deep in politics for third of cen
tury and if an old sinner like him can
reform there certainly is hope for us
kids.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-01-24

A report comes from China that the
American missionaries are divided
among themselves, some supporting
the old government and others being
active partisans of the revolution. 1t
seems that even the scouts and skirm-
ishers OF the "armies advancing to
the kingdom Of sin" can't
keep from meddling in politics, con-
trary to the express teaching of the
Master whom they profess to serve.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-01-24
PROTECT YOURSELF.

To be immune or even in measure
protected from a disease as fatal as
meningitis is indeed comforting. Dr.
Abraham Sophian, the meningitis ex-
pert, advises the use o. HeXamethylene
Tetramine internally daily as q Pre-
ventive against this disease. Parties
interested can obtain the drug in
tablets (best and most convenient to
take) and be further advised as 10 its
administration at Read & Stewards.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-01-24

There is some complaint of boys
with airguns shooting recklessly,
breaking windows and doing other
damage. 1t is also said that some of
them shoot at and sometimes kill
small birds protected by law. If they
don't quit violating the law they are
sure to get into trouble sooner or
later, and then their parents will have
to suffer for neglect of duty.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-01-24

Bryan ought to have an official
scayenger. AS it is, a householder
often has much trouble getting some
one to do scavengering and recently
it has been impossible for some to
induce the negroes, who have been ae-
customed to do it, to clean their clos