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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25
Lecks and a Sub-Treasury

In the fight for a sub-treasury," says
the Mobile Register, eve are for Bir-
mingham first, last and all the time;
but not solely because Birmingham is
in Alabama. We are glad we have Bir-
mingham and proud of her as an Ala
bana city, and we want Birmingham
TO have every good thing. No; we
would not do any appealing for Biz
mingham if it were not fact that Bir-
mingham is ideally situated, being cen
trail in the south, and about half way
between New Orleans and Cincinnati,
and between st. Louis and the Atlantic
coast. For the distribution of govern
ment money, no better locality could
be found, and we hope that Birming-
ham will be named for the sub
treasury"
The Register thus sums up the case
in few words, putting Alabama fully
and squarely behind the efforts to Sc
cure the location of a subtreasury in
this city.
The hope is that Florida and Tonnes
see will look at the matter in an equal
ly important manner. The votes of
Florida, Tennessee and Alabama would
place a sub-treasury in accordance
with the reasons cogently and COM
pactly presented by the Register.
Birmingham's growth necessarily
means the growth of Mobile, which, in
the long run, will become its seaport
and sea outlet. The opening of the
Warrior to year-round navigation
means more for both than is generally
recognized and appreciated The trend
of the age is towards waterways, and
Mobile and Birmingham are to be
linked together by a waterway that
neither ice nor drouth would affect.
There will be six feet Of water at all
times on the stills of its locks. The
government is building those locks,
and this is why it's additional sub
treasury should be located here.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25
PASSENGER Trains.

Eleven more trains are run into the
Union passenger station by the Louisville
and Nashville railroad now than were
operated by all four roads that used the
station when it was first opened in 1887"
said a railroad man.
"Station Master Meglemry. in talking
to some friends several days ago, made
that statement, and some of them could
scarcely credit 1t. so great had been the
change. The station was built with d
view to handling a score of trains, and
now there are over seventy trains In the
station every twentyfour hours.
"When the station was built there were
four railroads operating into Birming-
ham. the Louisville and Nashville, the
Alabama Great Southern, the Southern
and the Frisco. The total number of
trains operated ON those four roads was
less by eleven daily than the total of the
Louisville and Nashville alone at the
present time"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25
School Houses in Alabama.

Alabama is no longer threatened with
deficits. SURPRISES are now expected
in the Office of her treasurer. Her
strong box is well-filled, and the tide is
not ebbing, and does not promise to
ebb. Valuations are yearly rising, and
every dollar of additional taxable value
means more funds in the treasury Of
the state.
Representative Arnold of Calhoun
county thinks the time has therefore
fully come when the state should assist
its rural school districts to build de-
cent school houses. The average school
house in the back districts is now a
disgrace to the state. 1t is ordinarily
n poor and flimsy shack-oftentimes
the very poorest one in the entire dis
trict.
Mr.. Arnold proposes to ask the legis-
lature to appropriate $4,000 year for
that purpose, all to go to the rural dis
tricts, but no district is to receive more
than 5000 from the proposed building
fund. 1t might be well to base the
states gifts upon the well-known
Carnegie Rockefeller condition of an
equal or greater local contribution. No
school house that costs less than $500
is fit TO hold Alabama children. If the
state contributes 5000, the citizens in
the benefited district should be re-
CURED to give $500 more, and then a
decent school house could be built and
equipped to hold during school hours
the children of the average district.
perhaps forty or fifty in number.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25
INITIATIVE WOMAN.
tia" in London Mail.

Rita in London Mail.
Decidedly, women are an initiative
class. From her earliest age the small
girl apes the doings of her elders, and
had she her own way-would be a minia-
ture epitome of fashion. Such entertain
ments as she is permitted to witness in
her mothers drawing room she initiates,
with dolls and nurses for company, in
the nursery. In her school days she In
variably forms herself on some spe-
cial friend whom she elects as model of
feminine perfection. And at a certain
stage of their lives girls are as much
alike as peas in a pod! AS they mature
and develop they may perhaps show some
signs of individuality, but in all the main
issues of life they continue to be more
initiative than original.
Fashions, housekeeping and entertain
ing are all more or less conducted on the
same lines, and the only true sign of
friendship that is shown to the young
married woman is to beg her to order
principles. Any departure from those
principles or any symptom of individual
taste or strength of mind will sound the
first challenge of unpopularity for the
budding matron Her mother and her
mothers friend will alike desire imita-
ton of their methods as the "sincerest
form of fattery,' and every decline from
the original system will be pronounced
wrong or iniudicious
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25
PocAHoNTAs.

From the New York World.
At a time when French courts of law
are engaged in determining the liability
of titled American wives for the debts Of
their divorced husbands, there is some
thing refreshing about the honors paid to
Pocahontas by the sons of Virginia.
Hers was an international alliance of
the days before dowries, and when all is
said probably the most distinguished ever
contracted by an American girl. At the
London dinner British major general
and an admiral were proud to claim de-
scent from her. Among the banqueters
who toasted her at Delmonico's there
must have been a Murray an Elbridge,
Randolph of Roanoke, or SINE repre-
sentative of the other Virginia families
who derive their line from the first
American bride ever privileged to attend
queens drawing room.
The fact that shiploads of wives were
despatched to the jamestown colonists
from England indicates that Rolfes ex-
ample was not wholly approved Nor do
Indian maidens appear to have been re-
garded as matrimonially eligible in the
Massachusetts colony. The conspicuous
other example of this form of union in
the colonies was that of Sir William
Johnson and molly" Brant, sister of
the Mohawk chief, Joseph Brant. To them
eight children were born. It is not un-
profitable to speculate whether a more
general race fusion of the whites with
natives whom they found. endowed with
the primitive Virtues and not yet contain
mated nv civilization would mt have beep
OF benefit to the American stock
Contact of eonquerors and conquered in
the Philippines has already become re-
sponsible for relationships which may
yet develop delicate racial problems. Is
there a Tagalog or Bagobo Pocahontas in
the South Seas from whom an American
senator may some day boast his de-
scent?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25
National Production.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says
the crops of the year are worth $6,S00,-
900 900, or about $500, 100000 above last
year. It is a new record, one that may
not soon be exceeded, although the
general trend is towards higher and
still higher figures. Cotton Is still king
among exports, but in the list of total
values corn outranks it, for the 1921
416,0 bushels of corn grown this
year are worth Sligo, 626,476, or some
thing over a billion dollars. The cot
ton crop will not total beyond $780,
900 900. Its value will not at any rate
reach three-quarters of billion dol
lars.
While our agricultural productions
outrank all other classes of our ma
tional activities, thus constituting the
basis of our prosperity yet our min
eral productions are not of slight ac-
count. The figures for the present year
are not yet at hand, but those for 1905
show that our mineral production ag
gregated in value $1,623 ,ST7,127, as
against Sc, S00,000,000 in farm products
"a billion and half against six and
a half billions, in round figures. Our
mines turn out one dollars worth of
products while our farms turn out four
and half dollars.
In the list of mineral products coal
is the leader, followed in order by iron,
copper, gold, coke, coal by-products,
silver, lead and zinc. The coal and
iron products of 1905 were together
worth something over billion of dol
lars, far outranking all the mines Of
gold, silver and copper in the country.
Between our agricultural products
and the outcomes of our mines we have
an explanation of our favorable balance
of trade, our amazing wealth and ever
increasing prosperity. AT Christmas
time we can we'll afford to stop to con-
slider these basic things and to be
grateful alike to our farmers and to our
miners for what they are doing to in
crease the national wealth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25
Central Market.

I'm walking around last night" said a
resident of the city, IT paid a visit to
the central market and was very much
interested in what I saw there.
"Whle a few hundred men and boys,
and I'm sorry to say rather respectable
looking girls, were making night hidious
by horn-tooting and rowdyism, l dropped
into the Central market to see what was
doing there and l found a sight to glad
den my eyes. Meat, vegetables, fish and
fruits were there in plenty. Quick trades
were made and cash passed over the
counter.
IT asked one of the stockholders how he
found business. Never better said he,
as he wrapped up a large piece of beef
and handed it to a negro woman. This
is the busiest Christmas / have ever
known since | came to this city ten years
ago.
pursuing my way threugh the market
I saw some of the finest beef mutton
and turkeys that a person could ask for.
The sucking pigs, with lemon In their
mouth, almost made my teeth water, and
the big punches of celery caught me like
a lions grip. Barrels of oysters, plies
of fish, veal, mutton. ducks, chickens,
turkeys, everything saying Who'll eat
me- struck upon my mind as quite a
contrast with the crowd upon the streets
who thought they We're having a good
time ringing cow-bells and blowing
horns"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25
CHRISTMAS CAROL.

By the Rev. James e. Coyle.
Once more the bells of Christmas chime,
Once more to long ago
Our hearts fly to the olden time
When Christ, in manger low
Lay cold and poor; such poverty
Did God endure for you and me.
When shepherds heard the angels sing
GLORY to God on high
And peace on earth" and 10, they bring
Gifts to the stable nigh.
Their gifts they brought and offered free.
What gifts are brought by you and me ?
And Magi came from lands afar
With frankincense and gold
With fragrant myrrh. The guiding star
Rests Ger that stable old.
With wondering faith they bend the knee,
And Gentiles they, like you and me.
A wondrous place that lowly cave,
That Christmas long ago,
When Christ, the Savior, came to save
Mankind from sin and woe.
That Babe that helpless seemed to be
Almighty, saved both you and me.
Just Joseph, guardian of the Lord
Sweet Mary. mother fair,
And Jesu. child. true God adored,
BY all. in love and prayer
We lowly bend. we pray all three
To bless, protect, save you and me.
Birmingham, December "a. bos
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25
Humanity in Germany.

Germany, like Japan, is progressive,
alert and humane. If America were
not oppressed by monopolies of all
sorts, chiefly fostered by a vicious and
sneaking robber tariff, it, too, would
take rank with either Germany or
Japan in all lines of progress, but until
the battle with private monopoly is
completed we cannot give due atten-
ton to matters that spell both progress
and humanity. Our chief energies must
continue to be centered in the battle
with monopoly, for upon the outcome
all true liberty depends.
In Germany, for example, the public
schools are being supplied with doc
tors. Eighteen school physicians were
appointed last month in Munich and in
Elberfeld. In Wertemburg all high
schools have doctors, and in all parts
of Germany teachers are examined in
school hygiene. Shower baths are
being installed in school after school,
The cities are establishing schools lin
the woods" in which may be taught
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25
Theatre Tickets.

"Have you ever observed the exasperat-
ing habit the ticket sellers have at the
theatres?" said a prominent man of Ems
ley, who frequently attends the play.
At am a great lover of the stage, and
with my wife very often attend the show;
and | have for many years observed the
vexatious custom that prevails at the box
office.
well, what is it?'
ut is the habit the ticket sellers have
of holding the good seats for late corners,
much to the expense and dlspleasure of
those who go earlier with the view Of
securing the best seats on hand. Speak
ing from a personal point of view, think
a man is entitled to a god seat when he
takes it upon himself to go early in or
der to get it.
Nov, the chances are instead they
will place you away off on one side, per-
haps behind a box, and tell you that that
Is the best we have on hand. And right
III the middle of the house many good
seats go vacant for the evening. waiting
on the late Corners, who, 1t seems, never
ccme.
well, guess it is to insure the sale
of as many seats as possible before the
late hour and the tardy ones arrive, be-
lieving that if a man comes at the
eleventh hour so to speak, that he will
buy a ticket, provided a good one Is
available.
"But on the contrary, If no choice ones
are on hand. he will turn away"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25
MORRIS w. BUSH.
om Die Mobile Reglster

From the Mobile Register.
While Mr.. Joseph H. Hoadley of New
York succeeds Mr.. L. Green Bush as
president of the Alabama Consolidated
Coal and Iron company, Mr.. Morris w.
Bush is to have the management of the
company's properties in Alabama. This
is very important position, but 1t Ia
worthy of note that Morris Bush was
spoken of as available for the presidency
No young man has shown more adaptable
ity and energy than he. his intimate ac-
quaintance with the coal and iron bust
ness making him the second man in the
company, next to his father. He is now
to be at the head of affairs as far as
Alabama interests are concerned. Mr..
Bush was born in Mobile and was grad
uated at the Vanderbilt university. He is
yet under 30 years of age. He comes of
good stock and has justified all expecta-
tons by making a brilliant success in
business life. His elder brother is Mr.. AL
bert P. Bush, president of the T. G. Bush
Grocery company of Mobile.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25

children suffering from chronic dis
eases, who are not physically able to
take the regular course, but, on the
other hand, are not hospital patients
or unable to study at all. The children
are fed at the wood schools Fresh
air trips of the American sort are be-
coming frequent, and at the seashore
school sanitariums are opened in the
summer season, TO which child patients
from all parts of the empire may be
sent.
These facts are recited TO show how
much in advance of this country Ger
many is in those things that are deeply
humane and deeply progressive as well.
The piling up of dollars in this country
is offset in that country by piling up
of helps for the unfortunate and the
afflicted, and the good work in the
German schools will increase that
countrys happiness and prosperity in
the years to come.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25
NO WHITMAN VERSES FREE.
Charles G. LeIand's Story of the Good
Gray Poet.

From the Electric Magazine.
Charles Godfrey Leland told the follow
ing story of Walt Whitman:
when my book on the gypsies ap-
peared l. knowing that it would interest
Whitman, gave him copy, in which
I had written n short complimentary
poem; and mindful of the great and warm
gratitude which he had declared regard
ing my brother Henry I asked him If
he would not write for me a few original
verses, though it were only a couplet, in
the copy of Leaves of Grass which he
had sent to my brother
His reply was a refusal, at which I
should not have felt hurt had 1t been
gently worded or civilly evasive; but 1t
was to the effect that he never did any
thing of the kind except for money. His
exact words then we're:
Sometimes when fellow says to me,
''Walt, here's ten or five dolars-write me
a poem for it," I do So Then seeing a
look of disappointment or establishment
in my face, he added: But | will give you
my photograph and autograph which he
did"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25

MILLIONS OF BEES ON a FARM.
Expected to Gather All the Sweetness
Within Three Miles.

South Manchester, Gonna farm
100000 honeybees as workers is being
laid out here, and will be the largest
bee plantation in this part of New Eng
land. 1t was started with five hives,
and there are now twenty-three. AS
fast as arrangements can be made for
housing the little creatures new colo
MES will be started until when the bee
season opens next summer the farm
will have probably $50 hives, with the
jewellers therein gathering. all the
sweetness in this town.
Each hive will contain between co.
900 and 10000 bees, and these will
gather all the available honey within
a radius of three miles. When the $50
hives are in working order the proprie.
tors expect to gather between 100000
and 100000 pounds of honey-more
than enough to supply all New Eng
lands buckwheat cakes for a winter
Each hive, it 10 estimated, should yield
between so and 100 pounds of honey
for each generation of bees.
To economic time, strength and
sweetness, the plan followed is to have
the comb for the honey partly Quilt
and put into the hives, and not leave
the comb building to the bees alone.
BY this method the comb is filled more
evenly with the honey and each box
contains just one pound. In the center
of the box is placed a beeswaX parti-
tion and the bees build on either side
OF this.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25
GENESIS OF CHRISTMAS

uted money. Hence arose the custom, so
an old medieval chronicler writes, for
"the parents to give cakes, toys, boxes,
garments little wagons, apples, nuts, etc,
to their children on Christmas Eve, and
sometimes rods were added to the pres
ents in order that the children might be
the more easily ruled by fear of punish
ment."
To many people there is, perhaps MOTH
ing more simply national than the Christi
mas mince pie, unless it be pumpkin pie
on Thanksgiving Day. This gastronomic
dainty has a history as old as Christmas
in the north II not older
It's earlier known appearance was at
the winter feasts of the half-C hristianized
Britons. 1t was then, and is still in some
parts of Great Britain, made in the form
OF manger, and is supposed to repre-
sent that in which the infant Christ was
laid.
The mistletoe was held in great rever-
ence by the Drulds. 1t was believed to be
particularly and divnely healing; in fact,
Il was given this attribute for centuries.
1t had special significance as the cause
Of the death of Balder the Morse Apollo,
who WAS killed by an arrow made from
its branches and given to the blind Holder
by Loki, the god of mischief. Balder was
restored to life, the mstletoe tree was
placed under the care Of Friga, and from
that time until 1t touched the earth was
never again to be an instrument of evil.
The present custom of kissing under
the mistletoe is the outcome of an old
practice of the Druids Persons of opDo-
site sexes passed under the suspended
vine and gave each other the kiss of love
and peace in full assurance that though
it had caused Balders DEATH it had lost
all its power of doing harm since his res
toraton.
Despite the pagan origin of the ma
jority of our Christian customs, they have
been so much infused with the spirit
of peace and god will that their original
significance is completely lost, and there
is an entirely different sentiment in the
merry festival of today.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Christmas Eve Orderly.

Christmas Eve in Birmingham passed
away in an orderly manner. There was
noise on the streets, to be sure. Many
hoodlums-grown men blowing horns
were in evidence. Why men half jagged
make idiots of themselves the night be-
fore Christmas is a psychological question
perhaps But the noise did not last long.
A few minutes past midnight the noise
makers had retired and the streets of this
bustlng town were well night deserted.
By 1890 o'clock Birmingham was as quiet
as on a Sunday night.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-25
From the Montgomery Advertiser.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
]. w. DuBose left yesterday for Biz
mingham, having retired from an en-
gagement of more than five years with
the state department of archives and his
tory in writing the civil and military his
tory of Alabama since 1861
lie leaves four or five volumes in man
uscrlpt with the department., among them
a biography of the late Governor Sam
ford, the military campaigns of General
Wheeler, a history of the state, two vol
umes, from 1861 to 1901, n narrative of the
cotton plantations in the western coun-
ties and other matter.
Mr. DuBose has also contributed sew
eral articles to encyclopedias, one to
Lambs BioGrap hical Dictionary OF the
United States on William Lowndes Yam
cey and three to the late revised edition
of the Encyclopedia Americana. The
Americana articles are on the state of
Alabama" the Cruiser Alabama" and
the third on "Yancey." These topics APP
pear each with far more elaboration from
the pen of Mr.. DuBose than the encyclo-
pedias have ever before consented to treat
them. Yanceys name was never before
even mentioned by the Americana, the
leading American encyclopedia. but in the
present edition a full outline of his hief
but wonderful career is given, and a full
page portrait of him at the zenith of his
powers.
1t cannot fail TO be gratifying to Ala
bGmians to see their state and its great
leaders rising on proof of merit to en-
viable place in the highest standards OF
the literature of the English language.
Mr. DuBose will reside temporarily in
Rirminphnm.