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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
A Missouri Deer Farm

From Farm and Fireslde.
 Tn half developed hill country a few agricultural side lines may mean the difference between farming at a less or at a profit Chalmer Roseberry of Stella. Mo. has half dozen of these side lines, and the most unusual of them, deer farming, has in recent years proved the most remunerative.
 There was no demand at all for deer in the ozark hills when little over twenty years ago as boy of sixteen Roseberry penned off one and half acres for a fawn which neighbor gave him for pet. The first lawns that the young deer farmer sold few years la ter brought s20 d pair, and grown deer s30 a pair.
 The demand for the animals for parks md circuses and country places recent- " has got far ahead'ot the supply, sand hoseberry's common or Virginia White tails are fetching $50 to S60 for pair of lawns and s75 to ss5 for pair of adults
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
LITTLE JOURNEYS THROUGH
 ALABAMA'S ALFALFA BELT
By DAVID HOLT

weighed 600 pounds. They were brought up on an alfalfa diet.
 Joseph b. Wing of Ohio, an alfalfa expert with a national reputation, was in Geiger Friday and Saturday, at tending the fair. He came by invita- tion of J. H. Pinson and ". L. Waller of the Pinson- Geiger Land corporation and addressed the farmers on alfalfa culture. He said in the course of his remarks today that he owns land in Ohio that is planted in alfalfa and that he and his brother would not take s20O an acre for it. that 1t is not any better for alfalfa than is the best of the prairie land about the town Of Geiger. He advised the planters against grazing cattle, horses or hogs on the alfalfa lands in the fall and winter and urged the advisability of under-tile drainage for alfalfa lands.
 The alfalfa expert showed how that plant improves and enriches the soil and declared that lime is the mother Of alfalfa. Land, he said, could be lined, if it iA deficient in this ingre- dient. so that 1t will grow the great forage plant. but the Houston clays about Geiger have every element nee essary and all that they need to mak 2 them perfect alfalfa land is proper drainage, which Is easily accomplished.
 The Pinson-Geiger Land corporation has tile-drained something more than 100 acres of the company's demonstra- ton alfalfa farm and is going ahead with the work, using a traction ditch CT. which will dig 1900 feet of ditch four feet deep for ti1ing in a day. The ditcher was demonstrated at the fair and attracted great deal of at tention. It is operated with gasoline and will run either straight line of tlitching or in almost abrupt curves.
 The alfalfa hay shown at the Geiger fair was as fine as the experts vis- iting this place have seen anywhere, and it Is selling for about s21 per ton. Charles H. Winston has LOGO bales of az fine hay as was ever shipped into this state from the west and he has received offers of fancy prices for the whole crop. There were several cars being loaded for Birmingham at the alfalfa and cotton warehouse today and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
Hernism of an Indian

From South America,'' by James Bryce.
 few years ago in northern Mexico a truck carrying load of dynamite Tor use at 9 mine was suddenly discovered to be on fire at village station. The rikk was imminent. so the driver of To- comotive engine picked the truck up and ran it away into the country at all the speed he could put on. He bade the brake man jump off and save himself, adding, T go to odeath." When he had got mile away the dynamite exploded. Every win dow in the village was broken and he was blown to atoms, but the inhabitants were saved. He was pure-blooded In dian
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
English Misfits

From the Boston Transcript A traveller was detained at little country railroad station in England for half an hour and was chatting with the station master when the bell rang sharply half a dozen times. Instantly the three employes-station master, ticket agent and porter-ranged up in il line on the platform and stood at at tention.
 A moment later a locomotive with a sIrgle saloon car slowed up. The soli- tary occupant of the car regarded the men sharply from the window, made hurried notes and quickly retired.
 "Who was that?" the traveller asked the station master after the train had gene. Some prominent official Of the line?"
 "Oh, no,' was the reply. That was the railroad company's tailor measur- l ing us for new suits"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
Does Enough for Her

From Ilpplncott S.
 During a discussion of the fitness of things in general, someone asked: Jf young man takes his best girl to the grand opera, spends sS on supper after the performance. and then takes her home in a taxicab. should he kiss her goodnight?"
 An old bachelor who was present growled: T don't think she ought to expect it. Seems to me he has done enough for her"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
Reafinr fhe Law

. From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 You are charged with going forty miles an hour said the rural justice, ''and you are fined $40"
 Judge" said the motorist, T have only $2."
 Well, you've got a nerve going forty miles an hour on reserve of $2. Hand me the money"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10

No defense was offered in the di- vorce court to the petition of Thomas Herbert White, of Eastles, Cumbrau, a wealthy Welsh gentleman farmet'
 for the dissolution of his marriage by roason of the misconduct of his wifc NithA the correspondent. John Goodwin of ''U. S. A." The marriage took place at the parish church of Steynton, Pembroke, and there were three chil- dren The respondent contracted hab- it's of intemperance and neglected the children, and threatened to drown her band and wife separated, he making her an allowance. In 1904 she wrote to him stating that she was going to America to stay with an uncle and aunt. Subsequently he received letter from her uncle stating that he could not put up with the respondent and that she had gone to live in Ohio. At later date the correspondence wrote to him stating that he had met the respondent, who claimed to be his le- gal wife, and that he was desirous of knowing whether this was true and inouiring about her conduct when liv- inS in Wales, and set out that if the answer was satisfactory he would mar ry her in the event of a divorce be- ing granted. The petitioner replied that the lady was still his wife. but that he had no means to divorce her. Afterwards he learned from her aunt that she was living with the core spondent in Pennsylvania. A decree nisi for the dissolution of the marriage was granted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10

South Wales coal mining industry. This time, however, it is not the miners who are up in arms, but the miners wives. Their rebellion" Is against the pay. ment of wages weekly, a new condition of things in South Wales resulting from the mines act. The women claim that their husbands, who. under the olo pay arrangement, used to deduc. their pocket money once fortnight, now deduct the same amount once a week, this appreciably reducing the housewives resources. There Is deep-seated spirit of dlscontent among the wives, and it is seriously proposed that an appeal should be made to the government to delete the weekly pay clause from the act
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
EQUAL DIVORCE
 FORR|CH ANDPOOR Conan Doyle Leading Di-
 vorce Law Reform
LIFE GETTING LONGER
National Debt Office Makes Conclu- sion From Government Life An nuitants-Miners' Wives Re-
 volt in South Wales
By PAUL LAMBETH

London, November g. .-(Special.)
 We demand equality of the sexes in the matter of divorce" says Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. president of the Divorce Law Reform union. And we want one law for the rich and poor alike. The cost of divorce in England creates Q close borough in conjugal emancipa- tion."
 It is expected that the divorce conn mission will present it's report some day during the coming week. There is much interest in the promise of re- form; but 1t Is feared that opposition to any concessions which might in- crease the number of decrees will be so strong in parliament and throughout the country that the bill will not be of fered for another session at least.
 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle resented the imputation that the Reform union seeks to impose "free love" upon Eng land. 'We are not social anarchists but the enemies of social anarchy" he says. We seek to bridge the wide chasm of dual unreason by the girders of common sense.
 "We want lunacy, where 1t Is incur able, to be a ground of divorce; penal servitude; and cruelty physical and mental, where it Is serious. Then there should be no such thing as separation. We should substitute divorce for sep aration in all cases"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10


 Modern man lives on an average a little under a third of year longer than his predecessors of the 'hrst three quarters of last century, and modern woman lives at least half year longer than her sex did during the earlier period named.
 This is the conclusion arrived at by the national debt office after an in- vestigation into the mortality of gov ernment annuitants.
 Six months ago, owing to these an- nuitants living longer than used to be the case, a new and increased scale of purchase was brought into operation. Official figures now published show that the expectation of7life of a woman of fifty Is more than a year greater than 1t was in 1875, and that of a man of the same age is about three months greater
 The average increase in the cost of annuities consequent on this increased longevity is 2.2 per cent for male lives and 45 per cent for female lives at the ages at which annuities are usual ly urchased-viz, 50 to 75 years.
 The report offers the following ex- planation of longer living: "The con- dition of life in this country are now somewhat different from what they were in the earlier years of the nineteenth century. A knowledge of hygiene is more general. considerable Improvements in sanitary matters have been effected by legislation, and great advances have been made in medical and surgical skill: all causes which favor an increase of vitality"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-03
Women's Sense Of Humor.

In an article on women writers as
humorists in the Woman's Home Com
panion Jeanette L. Glider says:
Some foolish person has said at
some time or other that women have
no sense Of humor. OF course it was
a man who said this, for men don't
know women, though they think they
do. Women know women better, and
they know that the sense Of humor is
very keenly developed in their own
sex. If it were not for this saving
sense women could not stand great
many of the burdens that are put on
their shoulders. l have in mind wo-
man whose life was one tragedy after
another, but whose sense Of humor
saved her from despair. She would
probably have gone mad If she had not
been able to see the humorous side of
situations that in themselves were
anything but humorous. So wide
spread has this idea beccme-that wo-
men lack the sense of humor-that a
great many people come to regard it
as a truth. but l can soon prove. as
far as women writer's are concerned at
least, that some Of the most humorous
books published today are written by
women"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-03

Scores Of men the most prominent po-
litically in the nation will go to the
Democratic national convention to be
held in Baltimore June %, enthusiast
t:cally supporting the candidacy of
Champ Clark for the nomination for
president of the United States, but no
one of these men will be so enthusiast
tic or cast his vote with such deep
feeling as Mrs Annie Hamilton Pitzer
Of Colorado Springs, sister-in-law of
the speaker and national delegate from
the Second congressional district Of
Colorado.
Mrs. Pitzer, whose maiden name was
Anne Hamilton Bennett, is a native of
Missouri and lived in Columbia. Boone
county, for many years. Her husband
was a prominent lawyer in the state.
and after his death. about twenty years
ago, she and her daughter removed to
Colorado Springs, where they have
lived ever since.
While Mrs. Pitzer desired to go to the
Democratic national convention to vote
for her brother-in-law for presidential
"a very strong desire to show the other
delegates from all parts Of the country
that women who vote and believe il
woman suffrage are neither masculine
nor monsters. And one need only look
at Mrs. Pitzer to know that she is nei-
Their Of these.
IF there is one thing 1 wish to do
more than anything else" says Mrs.
PitZer. lit is to show to men who are
prominent in national politics what
woman suffrage really is. I am true
suffragette in every sense Of the word.
and, am just as all the other suffra-
gettes want to be, although owing to
interference they cannot always be So
Universal suffrage Is coming sooner
or later" concluded Mrs. Pitzer, land.
while l may not live to see it, 1 am
going to do my share toward securing
it, and 1 consider whatever l may be
able to do i'll Baltimore as one step
toward accomplishing what / have set
out to do
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-03

July 4, 1912, will be red letter day
in sport. Three worlds championship
bouts are scheduled for tomorrow and
fight fans all over the world are agog
with interest. At Las Vegas, N NJ
Jack Johnson will defend his title of
champion heavyweight boxer against
Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman, at Yer
non, Cal, Joe Rivers, the Mexican
fighter, will attempt to wrest the
championship of the lightweight divis-
ion from AID Wolgast, the Michigan
wonder and in Chicago the world S
greatest wrestler, Frank Gotch, will
meet Joe Smajkal, the Bohemian
strongman, in the politically embattled
Coliseum.
While the Wolgast- Rivers match is
expected to provide the closest con-
test, the big event will be the battle
of the heavy weights, because Flynn
will be the first man after Jeffries to
fight in a bonafide worlds champion
ship heavyweight match.
The country will await the news
from Las Vegas tomorrow with fever
ish interest, despite the fact that gen
eral opinion sees no rhyme or reason
for the contest from a financial senti-
mental or pugilistic standpoint. The
concensus of opinion is that Flynn has
not one chance in hundred of defeat
ing Johnson at any stage of the forty
five orunds.
However, there is at least one thing
about the struggle that is worthy of
close attention. 1t will serve to deter
mine whether Johnson's two years of
easy living have undermined his fight
ing powers. Should the black knight
find much trouble in subduing his OPP
ponent tomorrow, much of the fear he
now inspires will quickly be wiped out.
In that case he may find other matches
on his hands that will be taken great
deal more seriously than the present
one.
Luther Mccarthy, AL Palzer and
Bombardier Wells are rated better
than Flynn, although the latter will
be introduced tomorrow as the cham
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-03
CANALS IN HOLLAND.
S mpIe Scheme That Keeps Children
From Falling Into Them.

npIe Scheme That Keeps Children
From Falling Into Them.
The Dutch peasant lives with canals
all about him and reaches his cottage
l,y way of a drawbridge. Perhaps 1t
is in the blood of the Dutch child. says
Il writer in London NJ. A. P. not to fall
into a canal. At all events the Dutch
mother never appears to anticipate
such possibility.
One can imagine the average Eng
fish or American mother trying to
bring up a family in house surround
ed by canals. She would never have
a moments peace until the children
were in bed. But then the mere sight
of a canal to the English child sug-
gests the delights of a sudden and un-
expected bath.
An Englishman inquired of Dutch.
woman. Does Dutch child ever by
any chance fall into a canal?'
Yes" she replied, leases have been
known"
Don't you do anything for it?" con-
tinued the questioner.
"Oh, yes" she answered. I'VE haul
them out again
But what 1 mean it," explained the
Englishman. don't you do anything
to prevent their falling into save
them from falling in again:"
Yes" she answered; I'VE spank
them"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-03
A MADE OVER STATUE.
Designed to Pose as . King, It Now
Represents a Saint.

SeStSuCo 10 VOS0 dS u Ming, IL NOW
Represents a Saint.
The most made over statue in the
world is in a quaint little church at
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. 1t was orig
fnally designed for that of Louis XIV.
OF France and was the work of a Ro-
man sculptor who started for France
with the statue. but was captured on
the way by an English warship.
France and England were then at war.
and the box containing the statue was
taken on board the English vessel with
other spoils.
When Sir Richard Holmes. the Eng
lish commander, examined it and found
the head was unfinished he ordered the
sculptor to complete it in his own
likeness, and so the heroic figure that
was intended to represent a Frenc h
the English navy.
When Sir Richard was made COVER
nor of the Isle of Wight in 1861 he
presented the statue Of himself to the
Yarmouth church. Half a century
after his death a statue of St John
was desired for a certain niche in the
church. and an English sculptor was
called in to chisel out the face and
naval hat of Sir Richard and make
them over into the benign features and
flowing locks Of the saint.
The tncongruiry of court clothes and
a jeweled chain on the figure of one
of the apostles did not seem to strike
the worshipers as anything unusual.
and St John still occupies his place by
the altar attired in the fnery Of a
French king.-New York Press.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-03
A Moroccan Solomon.

Mulai Hafid's grandfather. we learn
from a Paris contemporary, left this
world with the renown of just man.
His legal enactments are still remem-
bered, for he had way of impressing
upon his subjects the distinction Of
.meum" and 'tuum." One law dating
from 1870 was to the effect that any
one who should touch the goods Of an
other should be beheaded. One of his
subjects presented himself before the
sultan. saying: Your majesty is al
ways obeyed. A traveller at my inn de-
parted leaving behind him a sack of
nuts, and no one has dared to approach
them" How do you know" demand
ed Mohammed. that the sack contain
ed nuts?" Your majesty" replied the
subject, II just touched the sack with
my foot" "Ah," replied the just ma n
among the just, the Solomon of his
age, "be it so. In view of your inten-
ton will spare your life" Then, turn
ing to the grand vizier, he said. "Only
take off one of his feet"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-03
All In the NJ anne.

Funny thing about Names" says
Noah Count Of Chiggerbite. Now,
there was my old friend Yule B. Sick.
He started In the drug business and
plastered all over town: Take Our
Drugs, Yule B. Sick. The Busy Cor
ner' Well. he didn't have any more
trade than a rabbit So one day he
takes a squint at that sign and sees
what's the matter. Had a sudden in
SEPARATION and ran for a sign painter.
The next day all over town was Take
Our Drugs. Y. B. Sick. The Busy Cor
ner.' And now he's the richest man
In this here town"-Kansas City Star.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-03
CITY ADVERTISEMENT
Department Of Public Works.
Office Of the Board.

Richmond. Ind, July 3rd, 1912.
To Whom 1t May Concern:
Notice is hereby given by the Board
of Public Works of the City OF Rich
mond, Indiana, that on the End day OF
July. 1912, they approved an assess
ment roll showing the prima facie as
sessments for the following described
public improvement, as authorized by
the Improvement Resolution named:
Improvement Resolution No. 2Ss-fef1.
For the improvement OF West First
by macadamiZing the roadway and
constructing cement sidewalk on
west side and cement curb and gutter
on both sides. Also curb and gutter
on both sides of said First Street from
Kinsey to Howard Street, sidewalk on
west side from Main to Howard Street
and on east side from kinsey to Main
Street
Improvement Resolution No. 31o-fs12
For the improvement of South 10th
Street, by constructing cement side
walk feet in width on the east side
thereof, from South e" to South F.
Street
Persons interested in or affected by
said described public Improvement
are hereby notified that the Board of
Public Works of said city has fixed
Thursday, July IS, 1912, 8 o'clock a.
m, as a date upon which remonstranc-
es will be received, or heard. against
the amount assessed against each
piece of property described in said
roll and will determine the question
as to whether such lots or tracts OF
land have been or will be benefited in
the amounts named on said roll, or in
a greater or less sum than that named
on said roll.
Said assessment roll showing said
prima facie assessments, with the
names of owners and descriptions OF
property subject TO be assessed. is on
file and NAV be seen at the office OF
the Board Of Public Works of said
city.
Fl. NJ. Hammond,
Fred R Charles,
". w Zimmerman,
Board Of Public Works.
July Some wk
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-03
Via Wireless.

When the ship the President Lin
coin left New York recently two girls
on board decided to send a message to
their home by wireless. This is what
reached the puzzled family of the girls:
West Ill eat GRACE AND JULIA
1t looked formidable. There certain
" was the word ILL.," and the rest of
the message looked as though the ILL.,
ness must be too serious for sane talk
The wireless man was just about
ready to get busy with a frautic re-
turn message for particulars of the
illness" when a newspaper man in
the family solved the puzzle.
I've read proof before this. and l
think this copy needs a bit of correct.
ing" he said as be drew line straight
down the middle of west" and joined
its last two letters to ''ill"
The relieved family read then. I'VE
still eat" and knew that the girls had
merely intended to give reinsurance
that seasickness had not interfered
with their happiness to date.
If the Titanic messages were as
bad as that l don't see how wireless
helped much" commented the man.