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in the air.
Then Tabor struck a vein of silver
! big enough TO sink a battleship, and
/ his troubles began. Selling out for
a million, he began - wild career OF
speculation, and found he just
couldn't lose. Ten years later he
was mayor of Leadville and worth
100000 He gave Leadville a
$500. 600 opera house-which has
since burned down, I believeDand
scattered his dough in every direc-
ton, finally becoming lieutenant gov
ernor OF Colorado. In February or
'S5 he got the appointment Of L. 3.
senator, which he held for a month,
till the regularly elected II, NJ. Teller
got on the job.
81 900 for Nighties.
Being senator seemed too much
for Tabor. II is said he spent $1,000
for flock OF wonderful nightgowns.
Anyhow. he lost all his money faster
than he made IT, and died broke in
80, while his widow, her mind
clouded. Is a hopeless invalid, de-
pendent upon public charity
They don't all go up so fast or
come down 80 suddenly as Senator"
Tabor. but the early story OF mining
regions is pretty much the samoa
little group of big-hearted, free
spending. ostentatious multi-million-
aires and a vast horde OF folks
dreaming of a rich strike.
No kind of precious metal mining
tends to make homes upon the soil,
and II Colorado had possessed no
asset but gold. silver, lead and cop
per. she would today be another
even II more beautiful-"Mother
Lode" OF Nevada. a region OF tin
cans and buried hopes.
But Colorado has something else
far grea Ter than all her mines. al
though they produce 100000, 900 an
nually in precious and semi-precious
metals. She has something far less
romantic than a frontier gold camp
or even a vein OF silver and lead
but something infinitely greater and
more valuable-the Platte river.
You wouldn't think much OF the
Platte II You first saw 1t merely as
4 stream of water, for as Horace
ireeiy said Of some newspapers
which have great circulation and
night little influence. the Platte is
mile wide and a foot deep.
rhe Glorious Platte.
But water in a semi-arid land |
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see far. renew his youth and lie
down at night under the pines
Born in that romantic decade i'm
mediately following the discovery of
California gold, when every pros
pector's pan and pick were carried
by-a potential millionaire, and whore
wealth untold might lie just under
meath the roadside rock. Denver be-
came the Mecca in those days OF
ther60's and 70's for Adventures Of
every kind and sort without regard
to sex creed. color or apparel.
Those were the days when any
thing seemed possible and almost
anything likely.
Up and Down.
Ti'liona res OF today were the
penn. ess laborers or adventures OF
yesterday, but many who went up
like rookie came down like sticks.
Among the spectacular early Den
verites. the name Of Horace Austin
Warner Tabor looms large.
Tabor was Vermont Yankee,
stpaecutter hy trade a wanderer on
-i-a face OF the earth by choice. He
came to Denver when he was 20
and Denver was one year old, viz,
in $50. but soon after hiked to Lead
Vile. another mile nearer the sky
where he prospected and played
seven-up. and generally enjoyed
himself in the well-earned obscurity
of a Wild mining camp 1900 feet
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JUST A MOMENT
DAILY STRENGTH AND
CHEER
Compiled by John G. Quinius,
(The Sunshine Mani

Lord, l know not what 1 ought to
ask Of Thee; Thou only knowest
what l need; Thou lowest me better
than l know how to love myself. o
Father! give to Thy child that which
he himself knows not how to ask.
/ dare not ask either for cross or
consultations; l simply. present my
self before Thee; l open my heart
to Thee. Behold my needs which l
know not myself; see, and do ac-
cording 10 Thy tender mercy. Smite,
or heal; depress me. or raise me up;
l adore all Thy purposes without
knowing them; l am silent; / offer
myself in sacrifice; | yield myself to
Thee; l would have no other desire
than to accomplish Thy will. Teach
me TO pray; pray Thyself in me-
Francois de la Monthe Fenelon.
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Washington excepting as Phippis di-
reefs.
How do they do it2 Yes. l should
think it would be real nice for the
people Of Colorado TO have a senator
or two. Maybe they will some day.
And Denver needs a frst-class
hotel-one large enough and fine
enough and up-to-date enough to at
tract the free-spending tourist, who,
after all, is, next to sugar beets. her
chief crop In Denver you can find
a couple of hotels. with the very
highest prices. but neither can hon
estly make claim to being in the
class that Denver attractions de-
serve. should say a city-wide cam
paign for splendid hotel ought to
prove popular.
Then there is the transportation
monopoly in the wonderful Rocky
Mountain National Park.
Under the arrangement sanction
ed by National. Park Superintendent
Mather. one concern has the abso-
lutte control Of transportation in the
most beautiful natural park in the
world, days trip by auto from
Denver
Pretty Soft for Them.
The prices are agreed upon by
Mather and the company, in return
for which no leased car, no hired
car, no rival company. however
small nor any other arrangement
by which money is paid for riding
through any part of the park can be
made. excepting with the monopoly.
A privately owned car can get in
side, but, according to reliable re-
ports, II must give the right Of way
to the stage monopoly when re-
quested to do so.
But there are many other splendid
roads on which folks may travel
clear UP to the 10 ,00O-foot snow line,
in perfect safety and with keenest
delight.
Taking it all in all, would earn
estly recommend a fortnight in and
around Denver as about the most
delightful vacation / know anything
about.
Undoubtedly, the most interesting |
citizen of Denver is Judge Ben Lind
sey.
Tomorrow we proceed via the d.
& r. G. over the mountains to
Colorado Springs
Copyright, 1922. NEA Service)
(Tomorrow-"Pike's Peak and
Bust.")
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CHESTER. Pa. Aug. 1O.-Al-
though he fell seventy feet, Robert
White. fifty years old, $40 West Elev-
enth street. is able to be about. He
is merely nursing a bruised head
White, "A carpenter. was working
on an addition to the Viscose plant
Marcus Hook. and fell while climb
ing over joists. Fellow workmen
rushed to his assistance, but White
was able to walk. He was taken to
the Chester Hospital. where the
surgeons dismissed him after stitch
ing lacenations on his head.
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such as eastern colorado is a stream
of purest gold. which means homes
Of comfort and even luxury for the
people, schools and churches and
clubs and baseball parks and uplift
societies and pool halls and Fords
at every crossroads.
Left in its original bed, the Platte
would never have added much to the
landscape other than Frightening
the lives OF a few hybrid willows.
Taken bout by diverring dams and
conduits, ii produces annually $780,
100000 worth OF bost sugar and al
falfa, all OF which stays right on
the land in one form or another,
! feeding, clothing and educating thou
sands upon thousands Of people and
making them good citizens; and
/ that's more than all the gold mines
from Golconda TO Cripple Creek
have ever donel
And so / say that the greatest
thing. after all. is the South Platte
river, which flows right through the
center of the city to remind the
people that the days OF gambling are
over and the days of home-making
are here.
Denver is beautiful. spacious.
clean. well-built and splendidly laid
out city, with a civic center which
might be the envy of any municipal
ity in America. . beautiful state
capitol, the second finest natural
history museum in the country,
with several mounted groups OF
bison, bears, deer and antelope, said
to be the peer of anything of the
kind ever done.
Joyous Air.
Denver has parks. splendid
schools. beautiful mountain roads.
set of privately owned public utility
concerns, which make the people
pay tribute whenever they turn on
The gas. electric juice or take
street-car ride.
I have seen three feet of snow
on the streets of Denver. but that.
as we say in Southern California. "is
very unusual" I have also seen the
mercury mount well into the SOS
of summer day, but that also is
unusual"
The usual thing is the air through
which you can catch glimpses OF
mountain peaks so or 100 miles
away. and In which It is a joy to
live and play and work and sleep.
Colorado, however, needs a few
things; for example. couple of
senator's who purport to represent |
the folks of Colorado. OF course, |
this State has no monopoly on big |
business representatives in Con- |
gress. but she really ought to have |
one senator, don't you think? |
Phipps. the steel magnate and own |
er OF vast mining and power inter- |
ests lives in Washington and pays |
as astonishingly low tax on his mag |
nificont estate in the District of Co |
iumbia. In two days in Denver, I |
failed to find anyone who knew
Senator Phlpps.
Maybe They VIII.
Senator Nicholson. a rich miner.
doesn't seem to represent anyone In
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Commerce on the basis of figures Of
consumption supplied by the Bureau
of Mines.
The average vehicle consumes
about $50 gallons on lowest estimates
of the bureau. Some run as high as
$50. But the average is around $50
and figured on, this basis the in
dividual saving on two cent cut
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CUT in GAS PRICES
SAVED OWNERS 81
BY PAUL II. MALLON.

Omitted Press staff Cofrespondent).
WASHINGTON. Aug. 10. Omitted
Press) The owner of each indlvid-
ual automobile in the United states
saved $500 a year as a result Of a
two cent cut in gas prices.
This is the deduction made by the
National Automobile Chamber of
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a. AlAAAN Il w n ~
more than 1900
miles d Is { a n I
from the nearest
sea. one of the
great mountain
metropolis OF all
time.
Beautiful for
situation" { h Q
sn o W c apped
Rockies at her
back and a thou
sand miles OF fer
tile plain stretch
ing G a I W "a r d
from her feet,
Denver is rightly
the goal of him
who Ion & 3 to
LL--
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would run 800 to the individual.
Collectively. the American motor
ing pubic made u saving of S73, 800
600 on two cent cut. There are
more than ten million persons en-
joying the pleasure of automobiles
now, according to the bure@u.
The farmers feel the greatest
benefit of cut, since they own no
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By W. II. PORTERFTELD.

on the western periphery OF that
great circle which frames the mighty
valley of the Mississippi shs Den
yer. queen City of the Plains
"A mile above and
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Put your Want AID in at once and
get rid of the idle fiat for the sum-
mer months-rent 1t at profit
through the Wants.-Adv.
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only one third of the motor cars IN
the nation. but also operate 2,0o0,.
600 gasoline consuming stationar,
engines.
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FALLs 70 EEEr- IrNHrRr.

(Tomorrow-"Pike's Peak and
Bust.")
The Ocala banner., 1922-05-12

Advertising benefits the man who
buys as well as the man who sells.
1t is part of the Golden Rule of
Business and 1t works both ways.
Don't miss the advertisements i'm
this newspaper. Many of them
are interesting just because of
their news and educational value.
But more than that:---Advertise-
ments take the chase out of pur-
chase and make every penny do
its full duty.
This last statement is one partic-
ularly to be remembered when
cOmmOn-sense economy is not on
ly a national duty, out an individ-
ual necessity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-16

ond left right shows directors of the r. A. and standing the club house the Saturday July Next below gives glimpse of speaker stand opening address of welcome He president of the M To his
 left Mrs R. M. To right the club house. where It delightfully."- the H. J. w. barbecue those in Pogue, w L. White Johnston, sibley Wnsow
 Thomas A. A. and
 B. Clark R. A. Montgomery and Mrs R. S. Munger (boh
 w. M Cosby Dr. and Mrs M Broadly, J. Jackson
 Mrs w. E. Dickson, C. c9on. secretary of the Be:semer Al Battle Bea associate editor of the Birmingham H. Gs;9n M;. Taylor; Mr and Mrs snead and children Irene Self ken1e,h Grain H. Maxim Mr. and Mrs. c H. crsn MT and William and chairman L.
 S. J. Clark, E.. Mrs T. C. Self Walter Weir B M Parks Morton, Jerome Tucker; ham r. M C. A. Mrs. Candy L. Ben C. Morgan; Ed Moore chairman committee; A. Mr. and Mrs w. sokham and by Baird Age Herald staff photograp -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-16
1hrongs Of People Make Merry the B NeuD Y M A. Clubhouse
 And Pool Just Recently Opened Up For Campers OUes Lake
By aIIGNoN HALL.

Nothing la quite so delightful fin the good old summertime as to travel miles and miles away from hot and Ftuffy offices, scorehing bituIithic pavements, and make a getaway to big woods, a swimming hole and lots of QuIetude.
 These happy recrentions the Y. M. O. A. hns made possible to its nem- bers the past two weeks. and to the right are pictures of the clubhouse md pool vivid enough to start you in their direction next weekend.
 The big clubhouse will naturally be open to men only. But not so the pool The women rela tives. friends. or sweethearts of the members will be allowed all the delights of the water. 50 lockers having already been built for them.
 There are 200 for the men.
 Fine Property.
 W NJ. Cosby, who for eight years has been the beloved and Inspiring president of the '. M. C. A.. took me over the grounds of the new property of the association, and l could not help but think of the words of Rev. Dr. J. M. Broadly. who had spoken at the dedication exercises a few min utes earlier:
 "A man here can think Gods thoughts after himi'
 The minister had declared that most great things had been produced in the silences-and that in the new ". M" camp men could find the in- spfration that nature always gives.
 He had spoken of how Christ had retired into the solitude of the will derness, and that those who sought blessings and great thoughts could find them in these Alabama hills whore God has wrought 50 magnifi- oently.
 The accompanying pictures give an idea of the good things the members and their friends enjoyed at the club house dedication and barbecue July l, great crowds having motored up to be present.
 It meant ths realization of dream long cherished. and such a clubhouse and attendant recreations register a stop ahead for the big south. For
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SEVEN

Many thousands of mine workers are paid on a Piece-work basis and will make up their strike losses by pro- ducing more coal at steady employ
 ment when mining Is resumed. It Is possible. labor department offi- cials say, for some of the miners to earn as much in 1922 as they did in 1921. were work to be resumed at once, as work was intermittent last year and whole producing tlelas worked but two or three days week, on the average. during the year.
 Loss of wages in the textile and the shopmen's strike, however. is re- garded as pretty nearly total and in- capable of recovery later. Such also Is the situation In the case of l5O, 00o to 175.000 anthracite mine em- ployes. work in the anthracite ln- dustry being fairly stabilized.
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packages (one-half and one-fourth pound which could have no other conceivable use than brewing on home scale was about 50,0O0 in 1921. IT at means 10,000.o00 barrels of law less beer. In addition to this, the sale of hops to the breweries fndi- cates the production of nine to ten million barrels therefrom, theorecti- cally becoming innocent near-beer through extraction of the alcohol by the usual process. How much of this goes forth as authentic beer Is a matter of conjecture; probably not more than million barrels. perhaps as little as half million. Reckoning on the maximum which makes a to- ta, 100000 barrels of genuine beer, the reduction from the pre-prohibi- ton quantity is tremendous since, in the peak year of the brewing indus try the production was 60,000, ,0O0 barrels Furthermore, 1t Is obvious that near-beer has not, as some opti- mists forecast. been enthusiastically accepted as a substitute for the old- time drink.
 But the 10,000.o00 barrels out of the total of the Illegal beer, which have come in to take the place of the 60.000.0 .000 are of very different caliber from the old. The lager beer of commerce required expensive ap- paratus of manufacture and preser- vation to make and keep it down to 3 or 33 per cent alcohol. the type
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-16

Now Is the Time to Get Rid of
 These Ugly Spots

There's no longer the slightest need of feeling ashamed of your freekles. as othine-double strength-is guaranteed to remove these homely spots.
 Simply get an ounce of othine-doubls strength--from any druggist and apply little of it at night and morning and you Ahould see that even the worst freckles have begun to disappear. while the lighter ones have vanished entirely. It is seldom that more than an ounce Is need ed to completely clear the skin and gain q beautiful clear complexion.
 Be sure to ask for the double strength 0thine as this Is sold under guarantee of money back if 1t fails to remove freeklss. Adv
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some Instances, at the wages named in the Landis award. They claim that Judge Landis exceeded his au- -thority in making his award. Tho labor department is advised that this difficulty has been fairly gen orally adjusted at the present time. however, and that most of the men are back at work.
 situation Unparalleled
 Labor department officials do not recall a parallel to the present sit uation. The nearest approach to 1t occurred in the latter part of 1919 when approximately 100000 bltumi- nous coal miners were on strike. They remained out six weekS@-the present strike of coal miners is about to enter it's sixteenth week-and brought the total number Of men on strike throughout the country up to about 50o,000. There were no other major strikes in progress at that time.
 In the case of the miners, 1t is pointed out, the loss in daily wages Is not a permanent loss altogether.
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THE HOME BREWo FLOOD Samuel Hopkins Adams, in Leslie's
 Weekly.
 Beer is 100 per cent illegal. It may not under the law, be manu- factured. transported, sold, given away. or consumed. Whether or not It is, in comparison with the permit ted wines. as alcehplically potent or physiologically harmful. has no bear ing. The hop is not fruit; hence It's juices lack the immunity granted to- the life-blood of grape. apple, or berry. At one time the authorities started campaign against the sale of hops on the ground that their only use was in the illegal concoc- tion of beers and ales, but the courts refused to uphold the contention and ordered the seized consignment re- leased. This practically legalized all material for home brewing; and so, by another of the laws aboulding nbsurdities, all the requisites for beer making, together with full di- rections. are yended in thousands of drug stores, groceries, and "dryleg- geries" without the slightest pre- tense of concealment.
 The amount of home brewed beer can be pretty accurately arrived at through figures furnished by the hop growers. bale of hops contains about 200 pounds. Each pound fla vors a barrel of beer. The total number of bales cut up into small
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which met the taste of the American consumer for light. sparkling brew. Fully 9S per cent of all the beer sold
 in the wet era was of this kind. Home brewing has none of the mech anism essential to holding down the alcohol content. It permits fermen- tation to be completed. resulting in a beverage which runs from to per cent alcohol and Is in reality a heavy ale rather than true beer.
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The daily wages of these men,
 if all were working, Is cOnser-
 vatively estimated at $5,0OO,OOO
 Their weekly envelopes would
 contain at least S3O.0OO,0OO. Not
 all of this sum Is actual waste,
 but much of 1t is 70 regarded.
 Probably twO-thirds of the total
 or $2o.OOO,OOO represents n dead
 loss to the strikers and the
 country nt large.
 While reports detailing the great extent of the losses due to strikes are being received by one bureau of the labor department, another bureau Is receiving reports from a different group of field workers telling of growing shortages. of labor in build ing trades, the automotiye indus tries, factories, and on the farms.
 Three Groups Out
 The legion of strikers Is divided irto three main camps. Those in the railroad shopmens camp are estimated at from 350,Q00 to 400, 900. Mine workers in the anthracite and bituminous fields are placed at from 550.000 to 600.o00 men. In the tex tile industries of New England ap- proximately S0.00o workers are idle In resistance to wage cuts dating back to the first of the year. About 20,000 more are on strike in scat- tered localities and various indus- tries, few here and a few there.
 As the total number of workers in the country Is estimated at about 100000, one worker out of every lb in tho United States Is on strike at present time, and 1922 will go down in history as the greatest strike year ever experienced in America. The army of strikers, if assembled in one gathering, would be half the size of the army of doughboys sent across the sea during the war.
 Resist Wage Cuts
 Except for a negligible percentage, the entire number of strikers Is idle in resistance to wage cuts. The S0,- 900 textile workers are out because of cut of about 20 per cent in wages proposed by certain New Eng land mills. Coal strikers technically arc out because they have no wage agreements with the operators. In tho anthracite field the miners have proposed an increase and the op- orators cut. In the bitumlnous fields operators have posted wage scales ranging from 25 to 35 per cent below the 1921 levels and the shop mon are out in protest against reduce tions in wages by the railroad la bor board.
 Scattering strikes. Involving from h0 to 100 men, occasionally more. occurring mostly in the building trades. are virtually directed against wage reductions, although In some instances men are reported on strike for higher wages Much of the strike idleness in the building trades recently has occurred In Chicago, where the men refused to work, In
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Birmingham Is in the vanguard of the work.
 There are about 200 acres in the camp site.
 Boys' Work.
 The Y. M. C. A. is not only using the property for a mans weekend and vacation stamping ground. but has, as well. delightful boys camp. This is located on top of the ridge facing the clubhouse, and already this season q large number of little chaps have enjoyed it. A new boys camp, by the way. is just beginning, under the Jurisdiction of P. L. liar rup. camp director.
 Before the present reereational center was established the local "Y NJ" sent its Birmingham campers to Mentone. Now things will be addi- tionally delightful because the lads will not be far from home.
 The hope was expressed the day of the barbecue that:
 Many men and boys will be blessed and inspired to give their hearts and
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service to God through the instru- mentality and associations of the camp. Y. M. c. A. work seeks to de- velop the spiritual. mental and physi- cak sides of men,"
 The camp is located about a 45- minute automobile run from Birming-
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daily advantage of the baths. and volleyball. basketball and handbail was enjoyed.
 pr. Broadly congratulated the board of directors on their splendid fore sight and thoughtfulnsss in acquir- ing the big new club.
 Swimming Knees
 The festivities of the day closed with swimming and water races staged under the direction of W. w. Abell physical director.
 W. s. Stallings. secretary of the Y. M. c. A., said yesterday that a large number of men had already taken advantage of the new play ground. He has worked very hard to get the camp going for this season, and the showing for the short length of time the place has been owned by the "" Is so creditable as to be amazing. The building work has seemed to go up over night, and yet Is extremely sub stantial.
 He announces that those wishing 10 take advantage of the camp make their reservations at once, so that they will not be disappointed for lack of room when their vacations arrive or they have planned to go out.