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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
POOR BOYS WHO
 BECAME FAMOUS Rv Frederick Houk Law
Sir Josinh Mason

That key ring makes He think" said a man one day. as he looked meditatively at' round key ring that he held in his hand. "What about?" his companion asked. "Oh, about little fellows out on the streets, about steel pens and orphans" Come on' Sherlock" the friend laughed tell me the mystery. How do you hitch up key rings and steer pens and orphans?" Its all Tn the story of a man I read about the other day-Josiah Mason" an- swered the man. Here 1t IS:
 rAbout a hundred years ago people didn't use fountain pens the way we do; they didn't even have steel pens. They wrote with quills made from goose featners' Then, in 1929, along comes young man about thirty-four years old, who sets to work making steel pens. Was he a success! Well, should say so! He couldn't make steel pens fast enough. He made more pens Tn a year than the world had ever made quills in a century. In fact, he made enough to buy all the geese in England, if he had wished to buy them/ Josiah Mason was one of those miserable little chaps ont on the streets. He had no good home, few friends and little comfort. The only school he had was the street and the shoemak- CTS shop. He grew up and did anything he could. He became sort of mechanic, and finally found way to make key rings like this round one here. It was handy thing-that round key ring-and he made money. With that money he set up the pen fac tory-for he saw how much good pens were needed. Then, when he was as rich as old Croessus he built a home for orphans-spent million and a half dollars for 1t- for he said: I don't want other boys to starve on the streets the way I did Then he took an- other million dollars and built great college, for he said: I never had a chance to learn anything; l want other boys to have the chance.' He did so much good that he was made. 8 knight. Ff- nally, in 1881, at the age of eighty six, the good old pen-maker died. I tell you-there's a novel for you; the street boy selling his things to eat; the millionaire building orphanges and colleges. I saya Bully for Josiah Mason! He triAd his best to help himself and others. That's why l look at the key ring"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
VOLUME oF USELESS LAWS

The volume of law-making in the United States continues to provide subject matter for comment ranging from the sombre to the ludicrous. A prominent lawyer of Iowa recently stated that there are more than two million laws and ordinances in this country. Thousands of these are founded on absurdities. For example, a few weeks ago a Michigan town passed law prohibiting men and wo- men from looking into each others eyes when dancing in public. A South western state cluttered up the statute book with a law prohibiting the use of face powder and rouge. Oklahoma enacted measure making it felony to teach evolution in the schools. Illinois passed law declaring that the language used in this country is not the English, but the American, Ian guage, and providing that it must be so termed.
 Why go further? Law-making is one of the worst national habits. In this country laws have been enacted to aim at every possible situation, con dition or eventuality which anybody could think of and maHy that nobody could. The situation has become worse than a joke because of the tendency of multiplicity of useless laws causing people to regard law lightly. The majority of the American people are unaware of the existence of ninety per cent. of the laws. Naturally, ob- servance of most of these laws need not be expected under such circu1n- stances. An Illinois legislator re- gently offered in jest a suggestion which carried deal of common sense that he would sponsor motion to devote the whole session of the legis- lature to repeating existing laws. When one compares the number of laws in America with the country's condition of lawlessness, one is tempt ed to sympathize with an old gentle man who emerged from some land litigation with the expressed opinion that all law-books should be burned so we could have justice.
 America, known the world over as the Hand of liberty" is the most law ridden country in the world. That is one reason why America is so derelict in law observance and law enforce ment, considering it's progress and de- velopment in other fields of endeavor. Rather than discard and forget the existence of large percentage of our laws, we might; as a contemporary suggests, "better and more honestly include in every new enacting clause provision that the law in question shall automatically cease to be effec- tlve>> after not more than twenty. five years. Then, as lapses came about through passage of time, we could re- enact the good laws and be rid of the foolish ones." Of the multiplication of laws there~is no end.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
SHOT LION BY FAGCoTs

(Orville news in Sacramento Bee)
 J. c. Bruce, lion hunter for the state fish and game commission. who has been hunting lions in the mountains east of Orville, bagged the biggest one that he has shor since becoming connected with the state fish and game commission. The bis cat weighed 160 pounds and measured seven feet from tin to tip. The lion was treed after darkness had set in and was shot with the aid of burning faggots.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
No Reason For Losses
(Wireerass Farmer)

(Wiregrass FarmerJ
 At thirty cents there seems to be little reason why a good com fortable profit cannot be made out of an average crop under ordinary boil weevil conditions. If such a price can be maintained by the best methods of marketing, 1t will mean comfort and prosperity to the farmer and his family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

obligation which it is sought to evade would furnish very insecure basis for future relations depending on good faith and contractural fidelity. With out going so far in condemnatory lan- guage as MT. Lloyd George, one may agree with him that the British foreign policy has been far from wise, almost as unwise, in fact, as the foreign policy of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

A contemporary expresses the view that moving the three-mile limit nine miles further will not reduce the rum running evil. Perhaps this is based on the theory that the harder it is to get thing the more the average man will work for it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

The New York Tribune says that Tammany makes g business of po:i- tics. There is widespread impression that Tammany leaders have long found politics a profitable investment. >
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

An exchange says that the next congress will probably warm up the people. That will be no new experi- ence to the consumer whose goose has been cooked so long that he has be- come accustomed to it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
JniI sentences Needed
fCadsden Times-News

(GadSdeH IIMts-NSWb
 Experience has taught those charged with enforcement of the law that fine will not serve the purpose of deterring those who want to sell whisky, and those of ficials who are really desirous Of enforcing the law can do nothing other than to impose jail and la- bor sentences.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

The phraseology of a certain we'll known song has worked it's way into the dignified precincts of the legal court. The foreman of the Stokes jury, when asked if his colleagues had agreed on verdict, replied: "Yes, we voted no on all of them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

One trouble with Europe is that so much of it's time is wasted in con spiracies and coups that there is not enough left for constructive industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

The youth who goes to school with the idea that an education will enable him to get out of hard work is vast ing his time and that of his teacher as well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
i THE ALABAMA PRESS
A Bit of Advice
(OnaIjlxa Newel

Fight boil weevils all next year if you want to do so, durn ye! We done told you to pull your cotton stalks this fall and thus prevent many daddy and nanny weevils from wintering over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
Stick to Their Speciality

tCIeVeIand PTdIn DedIeTJ
 After a careful observation of Americans extending over pe- riod of one entire week, German woman doctor announces thatswe have no souls. Doctors should stick to their speciality, which is bodies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

The trouble is that large percent age of those who think that the gov ernment should do so much for them never do anything for the govern
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
Hills Full of Wealth (Appistou Ctarl

The hills of Alabama arc filled with mineral wealth which needs only the wand of capital and en- ergy to convert into wealth and add population and prestige to this already rich and favored state. Alabamians scarcely realize the extent of their own hidden riches in minerals. Much has been taken from the Alabama hills in coal and iron deposits, but the stored mineral wealth of the state prob ably has not yet been touched ex- cept in a superficial way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

It is not thought that reparations barley would be much more lively than the controversy over whether or not there is to be one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

A Nashville newspaper remarks "ln enumerating the large packing concerns of the country, one should not overlook the street car companies" /" This is respectfully referred to the large number of habitual strap-hang- CTS in each of the American cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
You Lose

Dear Torch Bearer: Note two ref erences to chess in your column lately. I'll bet you have taken up the kings game, and if so you will appreciate my pet peeve-to be caught in state mate.-The Queens Knight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
pusiness and Politics

Detroit Free Press)
 A banker estimates that the United States Will be able to pay it's debts in full by 1852, but this was a business estimate. Nobody can tell where politics will set the date.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

A New York contemporary says that more students are going to college in the United States than ever before. This is easy to realize if one attends a big Thanksgiving football game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
The Wrong Plea

est. Louis Globe -Democrat)
 A plea frequently heard. that matrimony should leave those who enter it free" is, when analysed, simply plea for selfishness. True love is selfs sacrifice for both.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

President Coolidge may have out walked Mir. Wrigley in their carly morning jaunt; but it is safe to say that MT. Wrigley out-talked him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
"Better Get Busy"
Profits in Poultry


 Anda1usia farmers marketed this season ninety thousand dol lars worth of poultry and eggs. This amount should be increased within the next two years to at least a Half million. If farmers will give attention to the proper culling of poultry, taking out of the flock the non-laying hens. they will be surprised at how much profit few hens of the, proper egg producing variety will yield in the run of a year. Cov- ington county farmers lost over a half million dollars in cotton this year because of the rain and the weevil. They lost another half million this year because they failed to stock their barnyards with the g-producing chickens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

That might be good country for those who have nothing to do but enumerate the things that are the matter with the government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
THE PARAGRAPHERS
They Handed Him

(KnoxVilIe SentineD And they turned Ludendorff, loose as harmless. "This was the most unkindest cut of all."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
"U. S. Fears Eggs Ten Million Year
Conservatism

A mere ten million fleeting years
 An egg lay in a quiet vale, And now wise inspector fears
 It may be stale.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
Little Does He Suspect

Oh, somewhere in this favored land A turkey struts Tn state. He doesn't know Thanksgiving Day
 Will find him on a plate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
Prejudiced

1NLt hITt, PdTISJ Don't you think that young man is nice, mamma
 X. do not, my dear. He looks too much like your father when he was a young man."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

The average youth who is very much in love is not apt to do any too much on his other job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
SMILES
Why He Abdicated
(Boston Transcript


 I'm the best salesman in the world" confidently asserted the applicant for the job of commer- cial traveller. "Give me months trial and I'll show you what sales manship means"
 Impressed by the young fel- lows assurance the manager hired him and in a few days he was sent out on the road. A week passed without any orders being received from this paragon. An other week went by and still no word. The manager wrote: y"Where are the orders? You told me you were. the best salesman in the world" Back came the reply: "I find that exaggerated. The best salesman in the world is the fel- low who sold you this stuff I'm trying to sell."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

The International Fixed Calendar League proposes to divide the year into thirteen months-just as if the first of the month does not come often enough. There is reason to suspect that the I. F. c. L. is com posed of landlords. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

The wholesomest kind of bread is that which the eater earns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

Our new ambassador to the court of St. James refuses to wear a Little Lord Fauntleroy costume. "Loag pants follow the flag" is his motto.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

I sorrow for the rich mans child
 When winter chills the air. Although the winds are harsh and wild
 His little knees are bare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
These Foolish Days

''This song about bananas makes me sick" said the foolish old gen. tleman. "In my day we had songs like '"Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ya' and Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-Wow,' that had sense to. 'em."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

Says Israel Zangwill: "Your Sum- day newspapers weigh four pounds" That is due largely to the weighty thoughts written by European propa- gandists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

It is said that in Servia two-thirds of the days of the year are holidays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

It has been decided to enforce the law requiring honest weight on scales used for weighing commodities. This is very novel movement and we hope the authorities give the plan a fair trial before discarding it. Remem- Der, the law to be enforced this week is the scales law. Next weeks law has not yet been announced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
satsumas FiourishinE


 The Satsuma oranges, a few trees here and there in this sec- tion, are of fine variety, well favored and the cold has done little or no damage to them since the trees were put out, some as much as eleven years old. There is nd doubt but that this country will in a few years be producing many carloads of Satsuma oranges. All of the section down the bay line will be developed as quickly as it can be, and hundreds of acres will be put out in Houston county, for they will do well here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
HoofoloaY

College professor has instituted a course of instruction for students who have not learned to walk properly.) In days of old the students learned 8
 lot of foreign talk; They studied musty books about the
 dodo and the auk,
 They used to labor, week by week, To soak up Latin, Math and Greek,
 But now they burn
 With zeal to learn The proper way to walk. A college course in walking seemed a
 wanton waste to me Until I saw a student who was draped
 around tree.
 He seemed to think the asphalt pave Was rolling like an ocean wave.
 Twas thus that I
 Discovered why They teach hoofology.
 There is at least one college sport above suspicion. Have you ever heard cheer leader accused of profession alism?
 "U. s. Fears Eggs Ten Million Years Old Are Stale."
 While it might be an injustice to call them stale, it may be said without fear of successful contradiction that they are not strictly fresh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
Mathematics
Oregon Lemon Punch)

F Love-Two equals nothing. kiss-Nothing divided by two, Marriage-One plus one equals one.
 Divorce-One from one leaves two.
 Kiss-Take any given number from one, which leaves any other given number.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

When the no-left-turn ordinance is adopted, some motorists will have so carry bag of pebbles to use in throw ing so as to determine which is right and which left.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
Tka5ss@GORCE, .@BEARER.

The governor IS still planning an inquiry into the convict camps. We wonder if the cleanup is still go- ing on?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
Poorly Paid Preachers

(Gadsden Journal)
 It is human nature for each man to think that he has more trouble in his calling, and that he receives less in the way of salary or wages than the man of any other calling. But nearly all men will agree that the preacher is about the poorest paid of all the pro- fessions, vacations and callings. in consideration of the important position which he holds. Many ministers receive smaller salaries for their services than the wages of common laborers in, their con- gregation. And those same min isters are doing a work more inn portant than any member of their congregation.
 "Better Get Busy"
 (Florence. Daily News)
 This is the time for the poul- tryman to begin pressing the pull lets for their product. If the birds are to be truly profitable, it is high time for them to get into action. Soon the adverse condi- tions of winter will make it diff ffcuit to get them started. and if you carry them over until spring before getting them into their lay it will take them all the spring season to repay the winters loss. Proper housing, feed and care will get results now if your birds are bred and grown right, and any delay will endanger your success. Better get busy!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

It is said that 10000 autoists face arrest in Birmingham for failure to take out licenses. Seems to be ma jority.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

But the fallacy in the philoso- phy would be apparent were the Mellon policy carried to it's nat ural sequence. Were there no tax ation on the rich, business would be so good as to contain an eIe- ment of danger, and the treasury would overflow with revenue!
 But Mellon is hardy enough to defend his position. And no one contends that he is a demagogue or primarily a politician.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17
THE AGE-HERALD

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, post office as second-olass matter under act of Com gress, March 6, 1878.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

And the late Senator Watson of Georgia found a clause in the constitution which he thought made 1t impossible for Mellon to serve in the cabinet. The thought was based on the general pre- sumption that Melon's Interest in the world of business had been so extensive that he could not have freed himself from all of them within the life of an ordinary in- dividual.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

It is obvious that if the poor man was relieved entirely and the rich man made to bear it all, the rich would so circumscribe his business and his investments that the poor man would starve to death. That was the basis of Mellon's philosophy Simply, he knew that the big business inter- ests could make near-panic whenever they desired.
The Holly chieftain., 1923-06-14
BY j. ALLAN DUNN
a BENCH WARRANT
l.sss~@ZN~sH HI Nass,.sas
oopynsht. I'm. sy }. AIlaa Dsna

gYNoPsIS.-To the Three-Bar
ranch, Arizona, owned Jointly By
candy Bourke, MORMON Peters
and ''Soda-Watar Sam" Manning,
. fins collie makes its way, in the
last stages Of exhaustion. Inscrip-
ton on Its collar says Its name 10
Grit. property of p. Casey"
Seeming desert tragedy. Bourke
and Sam mount and let the dog
lead them. Tho two fnd q dying
man. Patrick Casey. pinned under
an overturned wagon. Kneeling
beside he wagon u his young
daughter Molly. fifteen. They ex-
tricats the old prospsctor. who dies
repeating 'Molly-mines!" ''I'n
look out for that, pardner," says
Sandy. II is agreed that Molly
stays az mascot Of the ranch. she
and the Three Musketeers" be-
coming partners in the mines.
Sandy insists upon AN education
for Molly. Jim Plimsoll. gambler.
visiting the ranch. insults Molly.
He claims he grubstaked Casey,
which made him tho old mans
partner. Mormon drives him on.
Starting with gold eagle, Molly's
luck piece. Sandy, with Sam, plays
faro at PlimsolPs place. winning
10000. It Is arranged that Molly
shall go East to be dedicated.
A neighhor. Miranda Bailey. warns
the ranchers that Jim Plimsoll. asf
Patrick CAsey's partner" claims
guardianship Of Molly. and the au-
thorities stand In with him. Sandy
determines to take the girl to New
Mexico. to an old friend, Barbara
Redding. for advice.
The Holly chieftain., 1923-06-14
SUPPLY DRY cow GOOD FEED
Many Men Make Big Mistake In Neg
leeting Animal During Her
Resting Period.

The question Of feeding a dry cow
is one of the many important factors
In successful dairying. Many men
make the mistake Of paying little or no
attention to the cow while she is dry,
the idea being that so long az she Is
not producing, 1t is waste Of money
to keep on feeding her nearly as well
az when she Is producing. While a
cow should not be given as heavy
grain ration when dry as when she is
producing. at the same time during the
six or eight weeks while she Is resting
from her heavy work of production,
she needs to keep her body In vigorous
condition. She should, In fact, always
gain In weight during that period and
should be fed such feeds as will en-
able her to produce a well-developed
calf.
The Holly chieftain., 1923-06-14
DENVER LIVE STOCK MARKET
Cattle.

Receipts. s26. One ssO-pound COW
sold at top price Of 81. and the same
buyer took another at i6.s5 weighing
offered. selling down to IS for fresh
beef use. Cutters sold at SO to $3.50
and Gamers at 81 and $3.50. Calves
to the market; One weighing $50
sold at sl1 and s1O.5o, while small lots
and singles went to city butchers at
trades trades We're We're at IS and 81 With half a
carload selling at s6.25. Spectators
picked up some at 81 and $3.50. Heifers
were offered in limited volume. four
7s7-pounders suitable for baby beef
commanding $3.50. One sold at IS and
all other sales were below IS. Mixed
cattle did fairly well. s2 head average
~ pao etshng Eas q S. Three ead car
loads of steers sold at s9.75. weights
running. from 1880 up to l,22o. Odd
lots. sold at 80 to $3.50 for the packer
few at 81 down to $40. the latter
price taking five 632-pound steers
-Four bulls sold at IS. weights running
to o0i 1850 sold 81 at at ,4.75 down to s2s5.
Hogs.
Receipts. 1882. The top price Of
$685. took two carloads and piece in
the hog market. weights running
better than 200 pounds. Seven carloads
SOlU at SO.OU, One Dtlub lOE lHe
coast and the remainder going to Dem
yer packers. who also took carload
at $3.50. The price of $3.50 was the big
outlet, is carloads finding a market at
that level, Q of them going to an order
buyer for California packers. A car
load and two pitces sold at $6.40.
Packer sows went at $.25, about 80 head
of these being for the California mar
ket. Stays and rough cutout sows sold
at $4.25. A large packer took 1S lS7,,
pound small porkers at Sc. others sold
at $5.75 and 1863. while "a pigs, aver
aging l12 pounds. and some small lots
sold to packers at $3.50. Stock pigs
sold at $5.25.
Sheep.
Receipts, 80. There were 80 head
of good quality. averaging so pounds.
and they were taken by q large packer
at $13.75 flat. There is good Inquiry
for choice spring lambs at this time.
the stock from feed lots being nearly
exhausted and the range lambs not yet
beginning to come In from grass.