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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22

and good man, but some of the men he sent to Mesa county were rather sad specimens. The young editor had ms own idea of civil service and of town government. He had the courage 10 ex- press his convictions. Some of the things he wrote for the Grand Junction News offended the county officials, and aroused the resentment of the gamblers and the plug-uglies of Grand Junction. They looked upon him as a tenderfoot from the east, and 1t was not long before he was in a peck of trouble.
 Men went armed in Grand Junction, in those days. and settled their difficult ties with the gun. The tenderfoot fcoru Vermont become a marked man. The gamblers. the dance ball people and the saloon keepers wanted to get rid of him. He annoyed them. But he won the admiration of the sturdy. earnest clean living men of all that country.
 At last things came to such a pass that the life of the editor hung by a thread. For three weeks an armed guard protected him from the men who would take his life. When he went out in the street he had a pistol in his coat pocket, and his finger was on the trig- ger, ready for instant use. To add to the intensity of feeling, an election was approaching. The gang wanted to TO- main in office. Kingsley wanted 70 onst them. That election was fought hit- terly. When the votes were counted. the cause of decency had won. The men whom Kingsley supported were elected. That was the first regular election in the county of Mesa He had fought for de- cency, for honesty and for right. and Grand Junction and Colorado were bet ter for his coming.
 The little town came to have q pride in the young man from Vermont, and
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here, how this man rose. Essentially he is no different today from what he was when he edited that little newspaper in and is more studious, perhaps. but he has the same ideals, the same earnestness of character, the same keenness of percep- ton and the same courage today that he had fin 1883. He has grown and prospered but so has the little city in which he played his part in making. Today Grand Junction is the center of what is known as ''The Little Empire of the Western Slope" The gamblers, the gunmen and the f1oatsam and jetsam of western hu- manity have passed to other fields.
 The valleys of the Grand and the Cum nison are rich with agricultural wealth. Irrigation has transformed the land In few places of the world does the soil yield more bountifully. Tens of thousands Of tons of fruit are shipped from Grand Junction every year Fine, big stores and brick structures stand where the saloons the dance halls, the faro banks were housed in shaclSs in S3 There are banks. and libraries, and churches and handsome dwellings in the beautiful city. It is a land transformed, 1t is a land of peace and plenty. All Is changed but natures work. The Grand and the Gunnson still pour their waters down the valleys, the picturesque Book Cliffs still stand guard at the north, to the southeast rises the San Miguel peaks. to the northeast the snow capped Grand Mesa, and to the south of the glorious Uncompraghre ranges The seagulls come from the far distant Pacific as did the seagulls of countless ages ago.
 The Indians are only memory, almost as distant a memory as the faro banks and the dance halls. Occasionally a prospector wanders in from the hills, but
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the following year he was elected
 delegate to the national republican con-
 vention, the one that nominated James
 G. Blaine for president of the United States. few years later he was held
 in such high regard that when the state
 convention was held he was nominated
 by the republicans for state auditor and
 superintendent of insurance. He was
 elected and for two years administered
 the affairs of those offices. Colorado
 never had better auditor or better su- perintendent of insurance.
 Kingsley had great liking for inslif-
 ance, as well he might. inasmuch as that $1000 insurance policy had been
 the means of giving him an education He studied insurance in all It's phases
 and the more he studied, the more 1t ap-
 pealed to him. When his term of office
 had expired he had many opportunities to engage in business, for offers of posi-
 tions were showered upon lBm. or all
 the offers that came to him. one, from
 an insurance company. proved most at tractive He took it. He loved the
 work and entered into it with all his heart He did so well that the company
 sent him to Boston to take charge of
 it's office there. Boston proved rich field for him. He did magnihcent!y He inspired his men with some of his own energy and enthusiasm. made friends and
 did tremendous amount of business. He was in Boston for about three years and then the company called him to New l York, to become superintendent of all | its agencies. He was as good superln- | tendent as he had been canvasser or | branch manager. Next he was made third vice president of the company. and then
 vice president. and, five years ago. he was
 made president.
 If seems very simple. as it is printed
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] OF A LIFE INSURANCE PRESIDENT-By

Ierty and had experienced hardship He had worked on a farm, and farm work in Vermont is very hard. IL had been difficult for him to get an education. He was so earnest, so hard working, so eager for an education that he had won the good opinion of all who knew him. He had longed to go to a university but he did not have the money. A kind ly farmer had offered to supply the wherewithal.
 "f know" said the farmer. that you will pay the money back if you live. Now, If you will give me security, so that in case you die I will be repaid, l will furnish the money"
 The farm boy thought moment and saw a way. He took out life insur- ance policy for 5000 in favor of the farmer, and he went to the University of Vermont He did what he could to work his way through college, and all the actual money he spent in his first year at the university was s165 After getting his bachelors degree in 1881 he went west to Denver, and there for a year he taught school. Then he moved further west, to Grand Junction. That raw, boisterous little town, at the 1unc- tion of the Grand and Gunnison must have been shock to the young man from Vermont. It had plenty of dance halls. lots of gambling houses and many saloons. He wanted work. What could a farm boy or 8 teacher do in Grand Junction at that time? There were no children to teach; theNtown was composed of adults. He looked for work, but there was no work for which he was fitted. He could not deal faro if he would, and he would not work in barroom if he could. There was lit tie farming, for at that time irriga- ton had not been developed in Cobra
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do. The beauty of tue land appealed to him strongly. The ruggedness of No Thoroughfare canon is enough to stir the imagination of any man. Monument canon is one of natures wonder works. and Little Book cliffs and Mount Gar held are enough to inspire rhapsody. The whole valley was a picture. once upon a time in prehistoric age. this great bowl of the mountains was an inland sea, and the gulls of the Pacific sun come to visit there A naturalist finds the land neyer-ending joy, but a young man who must make a living has sterner things to think about.
 Kingsley had to do something or re- turn to the east. He was not one to acknowledge defeat. He studied the situation thoroughly and he saw only one way in which he could get job. There was printer in Grand Junction who Ilad lew fonts or type, and an apology Tor press The mans name was Price. He got out little newspaper which he called the Grand Junction News. Price liked the printing business. but he did not care much for the newspapar end Kingsley talked with him. and Price ex. pressed willingness to sell a half in- terest in the business. if Kingsley would rustic up the money to pay for it.
 Kingsley did not have the necessary capital, but he had friend in Wiscon- sin and this friend loaned the money to nm at per cent. and when it was paid over to Price. Kingsley became edi- tor of the Grand Junction News
 new county had been formed in western Colorado, and Governor Grant had appointed officers to conduct The county's affairs pending a regular election. The county was named Mesa and Grand Junction was made the county seat. Governor Grant was n worthy
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not often. Edwin Price, who had that little printing shop In that wild, turbu- lent town and was proud of his few fonts of type and his apology for a press, is there still. For Is years he has been postmaster. He is the last of the old guard. He was in at the birth of Grand Junction and he will remain there as long as he lives.
 In his magnificent office on Broadway. or up in the University club of the Union Paclnc club, or in his handsome home at Rlverdale, Kingsley may dream at times of those days when an armed guard protected him at Grand Junction. and when he carried pistol in his coat pocket and had his finger on tho trigger for in- stant use when he went abroad. He does not look much like the man supposed to be the type to defy the western bad man. But quiet, earnest men are the ones with moral courage.
 New York knows Kingsley, and knows nm well, but 1t Is not prouder of him than is Grand Junction, when they point 10 the early files of the Grand Junction News, for the Grand Junction News is still printed, and show you the editorials and the other articles that Darwin F Kingsley wrote, and when you read the time yellowed columns they will tell vol, that the man who wrote them Is president of one of the greatest life insurance com- panies in the world and. trustee of many hundreds of millions of dollars. And they will tell you that before he went to Colo rado he was farm boy in Vermont, and that he worked early and late to get an education and that he knew hardship and toll as farm boys are likely to know.
 And all they tell you about this mans career is true
 Copyright. 1912. by the Mcclure News
 paper Syndfcate).
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plicated by the interlacing vote of the state. that no one could venture a pre- dction of the result. But Judge Martin led his opponent by at least 5oo votes. This was the first defeat ever sustained by a nominated democrat in the state. for a state office, and as usual under similar conditions, there were dire pre- dictions of the utter demolition of the democratic party in the state of Ala bama
 Be it said to the perpetual credit of Judge Martin that he bore himself with singular equanimity throughout tho prevalence of the strenuous campaign. His was an atmosphere high above the chatter Of the demagogue. and 1t was understood that the place was undesired by him unless 1t should come purely in recognition of his merit and fitness. In observing this principle in politics, Gov ernor Martin was never defeated for a public office.
 Governor Martin was by birth Ten nessean. Denied an advanced education,
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This was a signal for a storm. Many present were dissatisfied. and those who arrived later swelled the roar of the tem- pest which sprang up at once. Murmur- ings of dissatisfaction were heard on al hands, much to the qualification of the whigs who had so often sustained sore defeat at the hands of the much boasts l united democracy. The whigs not only chuckled at the domestic quarrel of the democrats. but did what they could to widen the breach between the two fac tions. The dissatisfaction at last found vent in the naming of another demo
 cratic candidate for the governorship in the person of Chancellor Joshua Laner Martin of Tuskaloosa. He was an ardent democrat, was widely and favorably known. had served with great aceeptanca In a number of positions. such as legis- lstor, solicitor, circuit judge and con gressman. and as voice had been de- nied many in the convention, they pro- posed to resent 1t by seeking to elect another democrat rather than the one
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of God stopping to the level of our god lessness "beseeching'' us to let in the River and be made obedient to it's ma jestic power.
 Even on Scrooge, even on the most hopelessly ingrained money grubbers the spirit of love Is pressing. Even to Scrooge He stoops Who stopped to the Manager and the Cross. Even Scrooge begins to guess that he has been miss ing the aim and meaning Of life: that, after all love is worth more than gold, is mightier than all the Bank of Eng land and all the hoarded wealth of all the money lenders of London,
 The other side of Tins petition is but another way or stating tho first side, since all truth is T continuous circle or sphere. IL .s this; None Is blest alone. The prayer of our children Is plural prononn, and s prophecy of the newest social reform "Our Fa- ther." not My Father" Essentially the Christian faith Is socially genetic revolutionary, newly creative. It turns
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this world who are most alive and alert to the worlds material needs, albeit their speech may jangle out of tune with your elastic vocabulary. They work with their hands and brains too. They are building the New City in a vitaller sense, perhaps than you and I who perhapswho perhaps do nothing more than buy and sell commodities. or win our bread in the mere business of word making.
 Not for these do we restore to society somewhat of gold or silver or copper in the form of Charity. That gold and silver is for the lost men-the hurt men -those whom life has hurt--those who find no sweetness in world that should be lovable and llvable for all.
 Two sorts of houses there are, and will continue in our city until we come into the Great State: the houses of Have and Have Not. For long time mere giving must ohtain--which indeed is but restitution, after alrs said, no matter by what name 1t is called--a restitution to society of part of what that society has allowed us to wrest from it. No matter if 1t has come to Us through lawful and most honor able channels of trade, 1t has still been taken out of the common reach. For q long while yet what the Man said to him who came to Him by night, "Give all thou hast must seem like words of madman to a world of men that have won their way to this new state mostly through blows, warnings and embodiment. For cur charity has been compromise with God--or rather. a compromise with that curious utterance of the Man Jesus who taught unselfish- ness For what are our charities, after all but an acknowledgment that even the mean and the despised are entitled to some share in the joys of life? How ever unfit they have shown themselves in the fine art of growing and becom- ing, so far as they could they have con- tributed their share to society.
 We are considering now the ground plans of the New City. If we go about the preliminaries fairly and honestly I presume the later turrets and gables that shall appear win be lofty and stately enough for a people that must forever be pressing forward toward the best, whatever that shall be.
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And this summarized to me the real greatness of the historic Jesus He loved muchl His are the wide stretched, well coming arms. the world embracing arms. And His coming is the supreme event of history. imparting to the nations the priv ilege of being fellow heirs" as Paul puts 1t, with all those who have access to the heart of God. Till He does away With our fictitious, formal and conven- tioral ways we cannot think 1t possible Tor God to bless us everyone" Some where we have the sense of people whom we think, no God can bless. And when we plan our Christmas gifts these cer- tainly have no representation, since there is no gift for those for whom we can not pray When we take a survey of Birmingham with Christmas needs in view, hardly the best of US includes all ot Birmingham's people. But the Mas ter includes them all For in these mat ters of sentiment Dickens was wonder fuily near to the spirit of the Nazarene, the broad. generous unsectarian, untribal, catholic heart of Jesus
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Some Cloth Wonders

From the Bu1alo Enquirer
 Clothes without shearing the sheep or piucking the cotton plant are ready for us whenever we get ready for them
 Stone, iron, glass and paper supply the materials, soft and pliabie as woolens. cottons and silks. some of them washable by putting them in tho fire. some of them unwearoutable and others so cheap they may be thrown away when solled.
 Glass makes beautiful dress goods, col ors to please and sheen and sparkle all their own. The Russians arc manufac- turing fabric of "a flamentous stone from the Siberian mines" flexible as any product of the mills. practically inde- structible, for which the furnace is the laundry. Iron cloth is in common use. that horsehair looking material used in steffning coat collars. "Limestone WOOL Is made in the electric furnace Clothes of thls material cannot be damaged by fire or grease and are as flexible as cloth ing made of sheep's wool An English manufacturer is making a fabric of oId ropes. Japanese troops during the war with Russia proved that paper clothes are seryioeable and warmer than those of cloth. English. French and German manufacturers are turning out paper dressing gowns and bathrobes. Even gloves, which may be cleaned many times. are made of paper.
 A writer in the Inventive Age, Wash inston. tells all about these wonders Whether revolutions in wearing apparel creating revolutions In industry will oc- cur remains to be seen. But the raw nia- terial of such revolutions is on the hooks
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Woman a Lawyer at S1

From the Boston Post.
 The claim is made for Beiva Ann Lock- wood of Washington. who now celebrates her Slst birthday. that she Is the oldest practicing lawyer in the world. There may be obscure instances in which this. record is surpassed; indeed. if the ter anthology were liberally construed. 1t is likely that a good many others retired from the active profession may be found occasionally "practiclng" quietly in spite of their years.
 In surpassing the age of the Psalmist, however. and still actively engaged in her chosen work, this remarkable woman makes a mark in contemporaneous his tory. 1t Is not so long ago as to be for gotten by the present generation that Belva Lockwood stood as candidate upon. the suffrage ticket for president of the United states. and got quite a consldera- ble handful of votes
 Her place as veteran of the cause Of woman suffrage cannot be disputed. And she has survived. in the enjoyment of health and full intellectual powers, to sec that cause advanced conspicuously in tho late election.
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

It Is the bank of progress. No bank in the world is safer or better
 managed. No deposit was ever lost or
 paid promptly. Deposits may be made at any time
 either in a lump sum or in small install- ments.
 The deposits7
 They are such valuable things as
 thoughts. resolutions, ideas. effort. self
 denial, ambition. These constitute cap-
 ital. They are taken over the counter
 at the bank of progress at par. For instance: You have an idea that is worth while.
 You deposit that investment in bank. It l begins to grow. The interest is added to
 the principal and both continue to grow.
 You may draw out the interest from
 time to time and still have on deposit a
 big idea, Or Looking about you discover that many
 persons fail from lack of concentration.
 You invest in the bank efficient single
 ness of purpose. Your efficiency increases by compound
 interest. By painstaking effort you mul-
 tiply yourself. Your scope and capac-
 ity grow until in few years you have a
 fortune in yourself Or
 You deposit in this bank a resolution Say fl concerns the use of tobacco. If you keep your resolution on deposit you
 will draw added strength of nerve and Lola 1taIf s.gI I,.txf will have fortified your resolution by compound interest. It pays big! There are more valuable things than
 money; there are better banks than the
 First National; there is a higher rate of interest than that paid semi-annually. The bank is open. Start an account today. When Theodore Roosevelt stood uo
 with bullet in his breast and made his speech the world was thrilled by inc
 spectacle of high courage. It was big first page story. But If on that cay you turned to the inside pages of your newspaper you read a story fully as stirring, though on a lesser stage. Old James Flannery 6S. was a crossing fagman in Syracuse, N. Y. on that du.
 he was struck by runaway taxicab.
 Holding 10 the machine he was dragged
 along by it, bruised to hands and back and arms. and almost killed A crowd gathered, and they started to take the old man to the hospital Just then flannefy heard the whistle of an approaching train. IL was like ths clarion call of bugle 10 the soldier. He broke throush the crowd and. tf1uai alnost faintins, wiswagged his trahl
 across. ADd again. William Rugh of Gary gave up his leg and life to the surgeons in order that the life ot a girl whom he had never seen might be saved and died with a smile.
 sewing. T am glad l did it."
 He we'll deserved the tears of an ad- hiring people.
 But on the day he died dozen persons in Mason City. la. voluntarily gave grea. patches of their skin for a similar opera ton. | In short | Scarcely may you name heroic deed done with altrusistie passion but that il
 nay be matched by others full q. | glorious. During the past few weeks. on ihs l faraway plains of Thrace. in the bloody
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"GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE"-By George Eaves D. D

day if we from the heart pray. God Bless us Everyone"
 Years ago, as I once sat in a Japanese theatre listening to an address by a Japanese preacher. and cogitating or what my own address should be, to follow his, had a waking vision of the Master of Men, with wide stretched, all entbrae- ing arms, albeit pinned back to the cross lest men should fail to come for that embrace, but leave Him to do all the seek ing. In contrast with that generous Cath olicity of love. those wide stretched arms of pathetic welcome. I saw Ruddha. the Oriental mystic, sitting contemplative and patient and sadly smiling. but with out any outgrowing look. without any evidence that his thought concerned any but himself. Again l looked and saw Mohammed, fierce and intolerant and sensual, a sword in his hand. Beyond these three I saw one writing a splendid face bending over the page but Chinese, and only Chinese in every feature. It was, of course, Confucius.
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sundered by divergent sentiment, and men wrangled in anger as though the fate of the continent were seriously involved Reasons and counter reasons flew like bullets in battle. and the stock arsu- ments of the campaign became those of every one, and he would use them with all the fever and friction of sudden ori- ginalty. In view of the unauestioned democracy of Judge Martin, his reputa- tion. official and private, his personal popularity. and the precipitate action taken in the nomination of his opponent. it was clear that MT. Terry was breast
 ing odds from the outset of the cam paign.
 Besides all this. the whigs, anxious to give as great a stagger as possible to ''the regular nominee" of the democratic party, lent support to Judge Martin Thus the champagne became suddenly stormy. Excitement ran high, passion superseded reason, and clamor filed the air. Up to the closing of the polls on election day, the question was so com