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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-16
HOMESPUN

There is nobility about a great sor- row that is sustaining-it seems to lift us above petty considerations and gives us strength to go on; but there is no such stimulus in the vexationS and small troubles that confront us day by day. We lost heart and self-control we scold and fret, and when we stop to think we are ashamed of ourselves. To face the difficulties which daily beset us with cheerful, good tempered forbearance, re- quires more than ordinary heroism, be- cause it is not recognized.
 Get all the pleasure you can out of your work. Of course, we do not (many of us) work for pleasure; but isn't it pleasure just the same? Don't you en- joy seeing the vegetables and flowers that you have planted, grow? Doesn't 1t thrill you to see the shelves filled with the canned fruits, jellies and jams made by your own hands? Don't you even take honest pride in a neatly mended pair of overalls? If you get no pleas- ure out of these things you must be a queer person. Work would seem dull to me if it were not for the pleasure I get out of it.
 good things we have heard said of them, and yet will tell them Cor others) if we hear anything uncomplimentary Just make it a special point to forget all the harsh things you hear, but if good thing is said tell it to every one. It is a habit worth cultivating.
 It is a virtue to be neighborly and friendly with every one; but the man who stops his team in a busy time to talk will not be much richer when he gamers his crops in the fall than he was in the spring. His family is apt to suf- fer for some of life's necessities. for food clothing. shelter and education come high, and must be paid for in labor and hard cash.
 If we would live up to our own ideals instead of attempting to find out what the other fellows ideals are. we would miss lots of trying experiences, for you are in your small corner and I in mine. You cannot wear my coat nor I yours; we are separate individuals and must live our lives in our own way, not in the other fellows way.
 Faith of the right sort consists in all ways looking for the best whether we are old or young, rich or poor. We have right to think each day the best day yet, and to try to make it so by living a little better than we ever did on any other day
 We have right to take pleasure in < our own development. It should be en- couragins to watch our powers develop; to know that we are able to do some thing today which we could not do yes terday, should give us happiness.
 Contentment is virtue as long it is not overdone; but there are people who overdo it. They sit down content edly. letting their fence corners fill up with bushes and brers, their buildings and their debts remain unpaid just be- cause they are content to let things be so. When one does one's very best it is well to be contented with what one has; but contentment that means ndo- lence is a bad statu.-Farm Journal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-16
Purebred Beef Bulls

Carl G. Filler. specialist in beef pro- ducton, representing the Alabama ex- tension service, and the United States department of agriculture, has returned to Alabama from a trip to northwest Missouri where he selected carload or pure bred beef bulls for farmers In Bullock county. These bulls ranged In age from six months to three yearss most of them being old enough for service. The average cost per head. including transportation, was s15S.25. which was considered very reasonable price for bulls of that quality.
 The calves from ordinary cows, bred to these pure bred beef bulls. will much more closely resemble their ;sires than their dams. due to the fact that the sire comes of long line of breeding for good qualities, and therefore has greater power to transmit his likeness to his offspring This is the reason why onry pure bred bulls should be used
 Mir. Filler says hs expects at least two more carloads of pure pred beef cattle to be brought to this state next November or December.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-16
YOUR OWN SALOON

If any of you are addicted to the drink habit to such an extent that you feel you must have liquor, why not take to Eeart the advice of the General Electric company. big corporation that knows how to practice economy in its business. It suggests economy to the boozer as fol- lows in bulletin No. 82:
 For the married man who thinks he cannot get along without drink the fol- lowing is suggested as a means of freedom from bondage to the saloon:
 start a saloon in your own home. Be the only customer. (You'll have no license to pay) Give your wife g extra to buy a gallon of whisky. and remember there are 60 drinks in gallon. Buy your drinks from no one but your wife and by the time the first gallon is gone, she will have s4.50 to put in the bank, and g to start business again. She can throw in some drinks on the house. Should you live 10 years and then die with snakes in your boots, she will have enough money to bury you decently and educate your children, buy house and lot. marry a decent man. and quit thinking about you entirely"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-16
WOODEN FAILS
By MRS. IT. L. MILLER


 Every farm woman knows howe handy and at the same time how clumsy and heavy are the larger sizes or stone jars. Several years ago I fo.ind a substitute that is cheaper by far and lieht in weieht and just as satisfactory. Have a number of them in use all the time. l refer to the large. covered wooden pails that grocers get filled with candy, salted pea nuts, etc. Most stores sell them at ? cents each.
 Give them a thorough cleaning inside and out. but do not let them soak. hiit dry as quickly as possible.
 When dry, put in warm place (the oven door is gooD and thoroughly warm the wood. Now melt sc..1e paraffine and while hot, paint the inside of the pail an | cover. Be sure that no .2ots of woolare left uncovered and keep <-,e pail as warm as possible, so it will absorb the wax You will have pail In which ans'fh~ ' cold can be packed. They are ideal for packing eggs in water glass solution. for pickles in vinegar brine, for kraut or for putting down a small quantity of meat in brine.
 A pail heated in this manner cnh De used to pack dry eggs is. as no moisture can reach them.
 These pails can be used Tor v'a.e~ hY'''- cts, where the woman of the house does not have to carry the water
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-16
Try One and See

It only costs ton to reach subscribers Thursday morning each week Can choose a cheaper the
 Real better medium Surely the medium that homes
 And city chickens direct only looking for market
 to centaord ad of 25 vertisng Main 4s0O the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-16

The office of extension work in the south, United States department of agri- culture, urges that the matters discussed below have immediate attention.
 The situation in the south at the pres net time is one of extremes. In the northern and especially the northeast ern part of the southern territory the farmers are troubled with excessive rains, while in the southern and south western portions they have had con- onuous and severe drouht. Farmers should plan their work to meet these conditions.
 Cultivation should be continued as late as possible for two purposes:
 First: To kill weeds and grass. This applies more particularly to the northern and northeastern section of the south ern state.
 Second: Tho conserve moisture, and in cotton to minimize the bolweevil dam age. This applies to the southern and southwestern sections.
 Late cultivation should be shallow to avoid cutting the roots. In the extreme western and southwestern sections drought is severe and ample dirt mulch should be maintained to conserve mois- ture.
 PLANT A FALL FOOD ACRE
 Do not forget the fall food acre Secure from your county agent the plan for planting crops on one acre for food for the family and feed for the livestock.
 In dry territory where hot winds have prevented corn production. cut and re- move the stalks from the field in August and prepare the land for small grain and cover crops
 Clean up pastures and meadows by cut ting the brush and weeds. This will inn prove the grazing this season and de- stroy harmful seeds maturing to cause trouble next season.
 August is a good time to put tools and machinery in shaps for next season. They should be well housed, painted, and oiled to prevent damage.
 In August begin the preparation for fall and winter crops. Select the loca- tions best suited to the different crops to be planted. Get your seed and fertil- izer on hand ready to be used
 If you have live stock to feed ana your land is suitable, do no forget that the fall is the proper time for seeding alfalfa. In procuring the seed for this crop accept only guaranteed western grown seed and do not be per- suaded to use foreign grown seed.
 In time of peace and with normal prices the department would recom- mend the seeding of bur and crimson
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-16
LOOKING GFORWARDINF FARMING

clover but at the present time no farmer should plan to use bur or crim son clover unless he can obtain good seed at a reasonable price. The seed of crimson clover is especially scarce and high priced. The use of these crops is good agricultural practice in nor nal times. but in this time of emer- gency the land would probably best be put in rye. wheat or winter oats.
 If you have oats that you have grown yourself. sell only for seed and be sure to retain enough seed for your own land
 Rye will prove very beneficial crop. The yield compares favorably with wheat and the price bids fair to be good in proportion. The allies in Europe will accept rye almost equally with wheat as a bread grain. Among other considerations should be men, toned the fact that rye stands the winters well, doing even better than wheat or oats. In the coastal plain section be sure to see that you get q variety well adapted to that section. Consult your county agent and con- slider rye for part of your land for the winter crop.
 Place your orders for fertilizers and for lime and seed as early as pos sible on account of the problem Of transportation in full carload lots anu have them on hand in ample time Tor use Remember that in this time Of emergency things are apt to be de- layed.
 GET READY FOR THE RUSH
 August is generally a season of lull during which the farmer may attend to a great many things and get ready for the busy season in the fall. Look up the question of storage for the corn, hay and sweet potatoes. If you have an increased acreage in corn do not let the season of harvest come or without some provision for taking care of the product, properly drying it, preparing the surplus for market, and storing the reserve supply so that it will not be wasted and you can use it during the fall. winter and spring. Where are you going to get your sur plus corn shelled for market, and are good, clean. new sacks available for sacking it? If not. you should make in quiries and find out.
 If your hay, is stacked in the field examine the stacks from time to time and see that the hay is not spoiling. Make sure that the stack is properly rounded out so as to shed water and prevent spelling of the hay, which comes from irregular and poor stacks.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
How Efficiency Works.

The manager of large eastern fac
tory has been quoted as saying,
"The benefits from scientific manage
ment derived by our employees in the
making Of paper and paper boxes-and
we have been working under it only
two and one-half years-are: Average
increase in wages, 10 per cent; reduc-
ton in working hours, 10 per cent; a
feeling of greater confidence in that
the tasks set by means of a scientific
study of the work are known by the
employee to be accurate.
"A recent test on machines produc.
ing IS per cent of our boxes shows the
difference between the time allowed
for two thousand hours Of work and
the time actually taken was less than
three-fourths of an hour.
ut has been aaid by opponents that
individuality is Iessened or taken away
Our experience has been exactly the
reverse"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
Spending Ninety Years.

Justice Louis D. Gibbs of the Grim.
inal branch Of the Bronx supreme
court, who Is feared by all offenders
because of the heavy sentences that
he imposes, tells a story of a recent
occurrence which has caused consider.
able amusement in the northern
borough.
A detective who was taking q
burglar to court was asked by his pris-
oner as to the name of the Judge be.
fore whom he would be arraigned.
"You will go before Justice Gibbs
replied the detective.
"Then it's all over over with me-"
remarked the burglar. Gibbs goes to
court every morning with about nine.
ty years In his pocket, and he don't
care how he spends them."-Nsw York
Times.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
Laugh When People
Step On Your Feet
Try this yourself then pass
II along to others,
II Worksl

Ouch = | This kind of rough
talk will be heard less here in town if
people troubled with corns will follow
the simple advice of this Cincinnati
authority, who claims that few drops
of a drug called freezone when applied
to tender, aching corn or hardened cal
lus stops soreness at once, and soon the
corn or callus dries up and lifts right
off without pain.
He says freezone dries Immediately
and never infames or even irritates the
surrounding skin. A small bottle of
freezone will cost very little at any
drug store, but will positively remove
every hard or soft corn or callus from
one s feet. Millions of American women
will welcome this announcement since
the Inauguration of the high heels. If
your druggist doesn I have freezone tell
him to order small bottle for you.-
Adv.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
PATENT ATTORNEYS
PATENTS that protect are secured through
Saving and Loan Building, Stockton California.
Aluminium in Dutch Guiana.

In the past there has been consider
able excitement in Dutch Guiana, due
to the discovery Of large deposits of
bauxite on the Surinam river, some
four hours journey from Paramaribo.
1t is from this clay-like aluminium fer
ric hydroxid that aluminium is made.
and the discovery of the rich fields of
clay has stirred up many prospectors.
j. One company has taken possession
of the hill deposits, but engineers hold
that the clay is probably located at
various depths. 1t can be easily trans
ported, as several broad naYigable
rivers run near this district, which
will probably be developed rapidly.
The government is very careful In is
suing authorizations to prospect, and
these rights are reserved for Neither
landers, Surinamers or companies es-
tablished in the Netherlands or in Su-
rinam.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
Profit in Hiuh WAGES.

Wherever rubber grows, there in
lquity flourishes. Tropical fruits are
made cheap because human life where
they grow is cheap. The spirit of hui
manity Is just beginning to creep into
the relations between those who have
much and those who have little. But
a rare discovery has been made.
Strange as 1t may seem, it has been
proved by experiment that it pays to
be reckless of expense when service
is sought and rendered. That which
has come to pass in the higher ranges
of employment, where salaries have
been increased tenfold and even more,
is happening all along the line where
labor and capital meet. Five dollars
paid In wages TO one competent man
brings larger return than So paid to
five incompetent men and women; and
the larger wage brings the greater fit
ness for the work. Better wages stir
ambition and cause the horizon to ex-
pand.-Christian Register.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
END STOMACH TROUBLE.
GASES OR DYSPEPSIA
'Pape's Diapepsin" makes Sick, Sour,
Classy Stomach surely feel fine
In FIVE minutes.

If what you just ate is souring on
your stomach or lies like lump of
lead, refusing to digest, or you belch
gas, and eructate sour, undigested
food, or have feeling Of dizziness,
heartburn, fullness, nausea, bad taste
in mouth and stomach headache, you
can get blessed relief in five minutes
Put an end to stomach trouble forever
by getting large ffty-cent case OF
Pape's Diapepsin from any drug store
You realize in five minutes how need.
less it is to suffer from indigestion,
dyspepsia or any stomach disorder.
It's the quickest, surest stomach doctor
in the world. IT'S wonderful.-Adv.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
AS TO THEORY OF GENIUS
Authorities Have Greatly Differed Con.
corning What Constitutes lllusory
Power of the Mind.

In an article contributed by DR.. A. Q.
Jacobson of Brooklyn to the New York
Medical Journal there are given what
he calls some possible clues to the ma
ture of genius" His theory, whether
true or not, Mt least does not long beg
the whole question in despair, as does
the commonly accepted definition of
genius as zap infinite capacity for TAX
ing pains" and of course 1t gains
plausibility from the fact that it is SOL
idly based on Freudian psychology.
Doctor Jacobson offers as his "clues"
the observed similarities between the
conditions in which geniuses and the
so-called trance mediums manifest; In
the latter case the content of an in
ferior and irresponsible subconscious-
ness, and in the former that of one su-
perior In quality and possessing ere
alive power. In both instances, accord
ing to him, the phenomena are, or may
be, those of dissertation, of a sec
ondary personality, and in neither is
there any need to assume, or any ex-
cuse for deducing, the concept of a su-
pernatural or suprarational inspiration.
This is a distinctly startling sug-
gestion, but its shock is not permanent,
for 1t is almost common knowledge
that there is something trancelike in
the abstraction of attention from out
side objects and influence that marks
the genius as he performs his seeming
miracles; and the possibility that sec
ondary and subconscious ego, but one
primary and conscious, Is then in ac-
ton fits in well enough with what Will
liam James wrote of reserve powers.
BY Doctor Jacobson's theory, then,
the genius differs from common NOR
tails chiefly in that he has a special IA
cility for removing, in one way or an
other, the inhibitions that prevent the
emergence and functioning of a SUBJ
consciousness that happens to be Of
high quality. It will deeply grieve the
teetotalers to learn that the doctor
gives long list of great names, some
of the dead and some of the living,
whose owners owed or owe to alcohol
the breaking down of the ordinary in
hibitions that prevent the majority Of
us from being either trance mediums
or geniuses. 1t is list in part provo
cative of incredulity, and by no means
to be repeated here. Another list pre-
scented by him Of geniuses whom the
toxins Of tuberculosis served as ill.,
orator Of the creative ego could be
more safely rehearsed, but it is enough,
perhaps, to second Doctor Jacobson's
suggestion that societies for physical
research would be better employed In
the investigation Of genius than In that
OF their very poor relations, the pre-
tended purveyors of Communications"
from the dead.-New York Times.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
CALOME[ SELDOM
SOLD HERE NOW
Nasty drug salivates, makes you
sick and you lose
days work.

Every druggist In town-your drug
gist and everybody's druggist has no.
ticed a great falling-off in the sale of
calomel. They all give the same reason.
Dodson S Liver Tone is taking its place.
"Calomel is dangerous and people
know it, while Dodson s Liver Tone is
perfectly safe and gives better results, -
said a prominent local druggist. bod
sons Liver Tone is personally guar
anteed by every druggist who sells it.
A large bottle costs so cents, and if it
fails to give easy relief in every case
of liver sluggishness and constipation,
you have only to ask for your money
back.
Dodson IS Liver Tone is a pleasant,
tasting, purely vegetable remedy, harm
less to both children and adults Take
a spoonful at night and wake up feeling
fine; no biliousness, sick headache, acid
stomach or constipated bowels. 1t
doesn It grippe or cause inconvenience all
the next day like violent calomel. Take
dose of calomel today and tomorrow
you will feel weak, sick and nauseated.
Don t lose days work! Take bod
son g Liver Tone instead and feel fine,
full of vigor and ambition.-Adv.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
CUSTOMS IN WEST INDIES
Theodore Roosevelt Writes Entertain
lngly of Life "Where the Steady
Trade-Winds Blow"

When the ship was coaled the work.
ers were sometimes men, sometimes
strapplng women as strong as the men,
who chattered and sang as they toiled,
while their white teeth flashed in their
dark faces. Queer fishing craft. some.
times with russell sails, danced over
the foaming combers which broke the
azure of the deep. Rows of tall, slen-
der-stemmed palms stood back of the
shining beaches, their fronded tops
threshing endlessly in the trade-wind
On the edge of the blue ocean, at the
foot of brilliant green mountains, hall
hidden in the tropic vegetation, stood
little towns, clusters of low white or
red houses. After nightfall the town
gallantS sat at small tables on the side
walks outside the taverns or under the
trees in the open squares. Powerful
finely built black women and 1.-THE.
comedy brown women strobe along the
paths and highroads, erect and supple,
all their burdens, great or small, poised
on their heads. Sometimes these bur-
dens were extraordinary because Of
their bulk or weight at other times
they were comic because it seemed in
credible that such small or peculiar OBJ
Jects should not be carried In the
hand: once, for instance, we saw a
woman carrying on her head a soil
tary white shoe, and another time, of
all things, a single egg.
In all the islands legal and political
determinations based on color have
been done away. In some the social
determinations are giving way. In
others sharp social lines are drawn
not only between white and colored-
as all shades of cross-blood are called
but between colored and black. The
whites everywhere composed most OF
the upper class, although 1t also in
Guided many of the colored; the col
ored folk made up most of the middle
class, and just as they extended into
the class above them so their class
was entered by the blacks below them :
and the bulk Of the laborers, in the
towns and especially in the country,
We're blacks, although many were
browns.-From "Where the Steady
Trade-Winds Blow" by Theodore
Roosevelt, in the February Scribner.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
Enqland's MYSTERIOUS bitches.

The discovery of covered way"
across Wilmington hill, near Easthorne,
has recently been made by II. S. Toms
of Brighton. A covered way' con-
sists of a ditch with a bank on either
side which runs across exposed brows
of the downs, generally connecting the
head of one valley with that on the
other side of the hill
1t is thought that these "ways" were
used in ancient times to enable persons
to cross over the downland ridges with
out being seen. They were formerly
taken to be defensive lines, but against
this theory is the fact that the ditch
is banked on both sides. 1t has been
proved that the covered ways" of the
South Downs are decidedly older than
the Roman ccupation.-London Times.