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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

replied That is too big question for me- l don't know how to answer it..
 Truly. machinery is applied to a won derful extent in our days. Even the brood hen has been superseded, and her eggs are matched by maehinei
 see no reason to believe that we shall ever learn to eat or to digest by machin- cry, but l am looking for the time when the family kitchen will vanish from the homes in our large cities and the house. keepers within q certaian district will send in their orders for the ready-cooSed family dinner. just as we now order our beef steak by the telephone.
 But there are some things which none of our multitudinous mechanical con trivances will do for us, and one of these things is teaching, and another is learn ing. All your teachers magazines and your advanced quarterlies' will never put the living teacher out of date. Learn is an active verb, and you can not learn without mental activity It is true that some school boys do sometimes employ great ingenuity in reducing this mental activity to a minimum.
 A very able man who had class of boys in a Sunday school gave me the fol- lowing modern instance: The boys in his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

Who did 1t? Cleveland. Carlisle. Mills. the Breckinridges, Turner, Wilson, and that set A race came on for speaker. Had the house been convened in March, 1891, not ten votes would have been east against Roger Q. Mills in the democratic caucus. Morrison had been put out of Congress by Pittsburg tariff poodle. Car lsle had been sent to fill Beck's shoes in the Senate The inevitable the logical, the one possible speaker was Roger Q. Mills, who stood for the idea.
 Benton McMillin had about as much chance for speaker as I had to be Pope of Rome. Yet combinations began to form in 1891, with a single obiect-to beat for the nomination the only democrat who could be elected President of the United States. and it would have succeeded if Q similar combination had not been tri- umphant in 1SS0 Crisp was the favorite of the combination that was explained by Tammany Hall, David B. Hill, and Ar thur P. German. MeMillin, all of whose eggs were in the Mills basket, was in duced to run, under the persuasion that he would be heir to Crisp. There was not a chairmanship that was not put up to ransom including ways and means and appropriations Had Mills given a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
BY SEWELL HAGGARD.

a money-getter is by no means over. The reprint publisher then steps in. He often agrees to guarantee sale of at least
 50,000 copies. The author, of course, gets
 a lower royalty for the reprint of his
 work, as the new publisher usually sells
 each copy for 50 cents, one-third of the former price. But let us say that the
 author gets from cents to 10 cents a. copy for It. That means S2500 or s500J more
 l Then comes the second serial rights. I It is frequent thing for newspapers | 10 tako over successful books and run l them as serials few years after their l initial Successes
 l And last but by no means least, coms the dramatic rights Little Lord Faun- tleroy' brought it's author S25,o0o as a book; dramatized it yielded her Sl25,Gg Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Is credited with having made five times more from ths play of Sherlock Holmes" than he did
 from the book. And David Harum,'
 not content with wheedling it's price oue
 Of nearly 100000 book purchasers. has
 earned q fortune as a play for the heirs Of the author.
 But one must take into consideration that not more than half the novels pub llshed every year fail to reach the 50o0 mark in sales. And many who have
 great literary regulations make only
 meagre incomes. Take the case of Henry
 James, the idol of tho high-browed. It is said on good authority that his in-
 come from his novels is not higher than
 sl5O0 year.
 In like case, more or less, is George Meredith. considered by many the fore- most novelist using the English language.
 For a time his income from writing was
 not sufficient to support him.
 Not long ago a magazine published picture representing a group of English whose according to the number of their books sold It was gratifying to note that Dickens and Thackeray lowered head and shoulders above others. dead and living.
 Tn this picture James and Meredith were dwarfs. What is true of Meredith is also true of men like William Dean Howells, whose lofty position has been undisputed for years. but whose income from his books formerly was lament ably small Nowadays it may be esti- mated to be in the vicinity of s50o0 \
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
BY SAVOYARD.

nod or a wink he would have been speaker McMillin was used until hs was a sucked orange. Crisp was elected and the most precious cause the demo- cratic party has had In 40 years frittered away.
 No wonder it was that the first whack the democracy got at McMillin he Mas struck between wind and water His use- fulness was gone. Bailey beat him out of sight for leader and then he left Cnn- gross to be governor. He was governor, hoping to be Senator. He may be senator yet, for my knowledge of American pol itcs teaches me that everything impos- sible can happen-in the state of Ten- nessee.
 In late years l do not recall a man who left Congress to be governor who did not lose by the exchange. IL is all because under republican policies. the nation Is become everything and the state nothing, unless New York be an excep- ton.
 l would rather see Ed Carmack in the national House of Representatives than governor of Tennessee. Let him come to the Sixtyfirst Congress. He might be speaker.
 Copyright, 1907. by F. ". Newman)
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reads the printed answers. Now, l sub init that no real teaching goes on in such d class and yet Just this is going on in Sunday schools all over the land, and it is called teaehing
 You can not trust the expositors' to tell you what is in the Bible. l can speak by the book here; for l am one of them. The intelligent expositor must take 1t for granted that the reader knows something about the text. Alas! how often the preacher is cramped, be- cause he knows that the people do not know enough to follow him in his best work. Paul felt this, and he complained that he felt obliged to keep back some grand truths because the people were not prepared to receive them
 I knew a Sunday school superintend- ent. a brilliant man and an eloquent speaker, who, in explaining" the Pass over, told the children that the feast was instituted to celebrate the crossing of the River Jordan by the children of Israel under the command of Joshual I was teaching an adult male Bible class in one of our southern Sunday schools, and member of the class, deacon of the church, criticised my method of instruction. He said: You
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Nay, rather than give up Greensboro with such inducements-and if Greens boro Is to be a training school. let 1t be for such an institution as Owenton and Greensboro and Auburn, and others if they will, all combined with the UniVer- sity of Alabama, could make at Tusca- loosa And this Is not so much of a wild cat scheme as it at first appears. 1t IS not a union of church and state, so con- trary to American institutions. Such union is where taxes go into church cof- fers, and subsidies are granted to church institutions; but where the church sub sidizes the state and co-operates with state institutions, we have totally diff ferent situation. We cannot go into de- tails, but the State University could cas- fly arrange things so that without any trouble we might cooperate with her by granting private organizations, under certain limitations, the privilege Of mann taining dormitories at the State Univer- sity, and allowing lectureshps to be held under such auspices, in, for example, Bi- ble study, church history, and philoso- phy or religion-these. courses under cer- tain stipulated conditions to count as electives equivalent to the same amount of work for the A. B. course. And some thing like this system is already in good working order. The Congregationalists of England have placed their Theological school, Mansfield college, at Oxford, where the students can get the double advantages of her own and of the Dnl- versity faculty, and where Congregations allst students and others can attend the courses offered by Mansfield. The Uni tarians have done the same thing with their college, Manchester. l quote from a letter from Rev. James E. McCuilocn with regard to the Leys school Of the Wesleyan Methodists of England:
 ",rhe school is located at Cambridge and occupies a similar relation to the University that the Mansfield House oc- cupies at Oxford The primary object of the Wesleyans in establishing the Leys school was to afford a first class school under Wesleyan management, but within the atmosphere of Cambridge, where so many of the best men of the church were educated It was found that many or the very best Wesleyan students were led into the Anglican church by the con- stant influence of the Anglican college at
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l could wish that if the buildings can he arranged to suit, the Insane Hospital and the Alabama Polytechnic institute might exchange property, and that we should then begin the building of the Greater University of Alabama as planned by some of our greater dreamers.
 But Birmingham is not the place for a college-whether 1t be the right place for a university or not, I shall not say. They talk of the value of their land. But If Greensboro is as good a place for col lege as is Birmingham, its land is worth as much for college purposes as Birming- hams land; and this economic valuation is false. In other words not the economic ic valuation but it's usefulness for the purpose in hand is the real value of piece of property that cannot be put upon the market which Is the case with these grounds if they are to be used for col lege purposes. Now I make bold to af- firm that Greensboro is a better place for college than Birmingham. on the basis of arguments familiar to us al and that therefore her grounds are as valua- ble for college purposes as Brmingham's. Of course this applies only to that part of the Owenton property which Is to De used for college purposes; any other, 1T any is a question purely of investment and endowment, which must be weighed against Southern university endowment, not against Southern university college grounds.
 Furthermore, present movements with regard to Birmingham college are petty. To call for $100000 seems rather pit tance as an inducement to the Alabama conference to give up her interests at Greensboro, and turn loose other collec- tors to ravage our borders for the en- dowment of the schools at Birmingham and Montgomery after the tolls and cam naigns of recent years The idea of mak- ing Athens and Greensboro training schools for institutions of such calibre is absurd. The old Baptist school at Ma rion well becomes a training school for the Universities of Pennsylvania and Vir- ginia and Tulane, where It's graduates go for further work, but not training school for Howard college. If Greens boro is to be training school let it not be for such college as the Methodists of single state can for many years equip and maintain at Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
BY F. |. MONKS.

business" said the other. But the artist had added to the worlds wealth the sum mentioned while the man of business had simply accumulated a like amount. The artist had not alone enjoyed the labor in which he Ias engaged but knew that he had inscribed ms name on a scroll which would perpetuate his glory when the money had flowed back into other channels and the name of its once owner was lost beyond recall
 Nothing great is ever done by him who seeks his reward in present monetary payment If scientists were governed solely by such motives we would not have had a Pasteur spending his life in seeking 0 cure for hydrophobia nor the discovery of radium by Cure. The man who passes the night watching the stars, and he who passes his days searching after the germs of disease. which bring sorrow and death into happy homes, are not actuated by the hopes of monetary reward; their names may not be on the tongues of curbstone gossips nor their pictures in current magazines, but the future. to which they look for the glory they now ignore, will do them justice and be glad that such men lived; not having lived in vain.
 Happily, the artist .or the author who has the StrenBeh 10 decilne lnt huuce- ments which modern demands make. finds in the contemplation of noble work sufficient reward to compensate for neg lect which is often his lot. The Lament of Tasso" was not over his fmprison- ment, but over the completion of his "Geruselam Liberata, his souls child.' which was about to leave him. By the time the artist or author has finished a great work he has grown to love 1t, just as a mother loves q beautiful daugh- ter The artist knows the time will come when the child of his soul must go forth from his studio Just as the bride leaves her mothers bosom. each Is q present to the world by which the world is made richer
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al commission last year. And when they give us this injunction now, we might we'll open our eyes-not shut them. To regard things as settled is often the greatest enemy of progress. Nothing is really settled until fair presentation of an opposite or converse side, after con tinued repetition, awakes no response and sometimes not even then.
 On the other hand, let us admit the ad- vantage of unity. That part of the re- port of the commission which simply rec commended union of interests met with very little opposition at conference. Men felt that union in the abstract is a good thing and a good thing as applied to our educational interests in Alabama. In the years gone by advocates of Greensboro have condemned Owenton and it's sup porters on the ground that Alabama Methodism ought not to undertake the support of two male colleges. Such was the fight made by prominent leaders on the floors of the North Alabama confer ence years ago, and such has been the opinion of most since then Then let Us be wary how we change our attitude when Birmingham rather than Greens boro seems the probable place of union. We talk rather in the air about the small college, anyway. We join our northern fellows in it's advocacy, when what they are fighting for is for example, Van derbilt or Brown as against a Harvard or Yale. We, for Greensboro, or an Emory against Vanderbilt We ought not to take over their arguments bodily. The small college of any other than the Vanderbilt size is a swiftly passing phe- nomenon; and our southern small col leges are going to be of the Brown Van derbilt size with the growth of our pop ulation just as surely as Brown and the rest have grown with the population of their territory. Trinity, Emory and Georgetown are already far on that road. Again, when we compare q Vanderbilt or Brown with a Yale, think we shall see that many of our arguments will not do service for our northern friends, espe- cially when the larger universities adopt some such plan as Woodrow Wilson Is now working out at Princeton-as has been successful in oxford for years.
 l was glad to note some days since In one of our papers an argument in favor of the union of Auburn and Tuscaloosa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

TAMES E. WATSON is a leader in
 Congress, a fine public speaker, and 0 an excellent organizer, the republic an whip" and the personal representa- tive of the Republican speaker on the floor of the house, where a good deal of dirty work has to be done, and all must admit that the Hon. Watson does it with fairly clean hands, especially when the job is as filthy as that ship subsidy steal Jim Watson may be said to be from the "Old Burnt" district, next to the Ash land district, the most famous in the Ohio valley He beat the Great Objeetor" for Congress in 1894, and was beaten by him two years later. Holman was the first man who served 30 years in the house, and he was a great man, mainly because at the country crossroad he could make the average citizen think that William s. Holman was just littles better friend to the man who works with his hands and struggles for living than anybody else Jim Watson beat him for Con gress in 1894 because that was the year the democratic party retired from poli tics and sent the pops to do their stunt in the political arena.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
FROM CONGRESSMAN TO GOVERNOR

country gentleman that thinks not. knows not and cannot understand guile. Is it not written:
 ''Very, l say unto you: Whatsoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter there in"
 That is the way the democratic party receives everything. It has the same mouth for crow as for chicken, the same palate for gall as for nectar. That is what makes it immortal, and that is what makes it the rudder and the anchor of this mighty republic. Be ye of good cheer, it will escape the wilderness where 1t was informed in the struggle of 1S96
 Well, Benton McN1illin had a heap to do with 1t. In 1890 the American people were contrite for their defeat of Grover Cleveland in 1888, and they were out ragged because of the enormities of the first Tom Reed Congress. They gave voice to their penitence and their disgust in the completest victory for the demoo- racy in the entire history of our republic, before or since. If the south had been silent in the F'ifty-second Congress the democrats had a majority of the northern members and the south was solid, with possible minority not exceeding three.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

class ranged themselves in the same or der every Sunday. The lesson was taught from a book which had printed questions and printed answers to them. The boys were smart enough 10 learn only the an- swers to the questions which would come to each of them in the order in which they sat. The lesson was the beautiful story of "The Wall, to Emmans,' and the first question was, Where was Elm mans?" The answer to this question was "Seven and a half miles northwest of Jerusalem" It so happened. however. that on that Sunday one of the boys was absent, and the teacher asked Where is Tom Jones?" And the boy who sat first on the bench promptly replied: Seven and a half miles northwest of Jerusa- lem
 You may pick up scraps of information in slipshod way without much study, but if you are to learn to much purpose you must exercise your mind.
 Here is an adult Bible class engaged on the international lesson. The so-called teacher has an Advanced Quarterly open before him and from this he reads the questions which happen to be printed there Each member of the class has this same Advanced Quarterly" and he
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Tom, Dick and Harry. But there are some real and serious objections to be urged against the mechanical spirit of our age. Printing is a great invention, but it keeps Il great many people in ig- noranee of things that they ought to know. A man will seldom take the trouble to carry things in his head when he knows that he can turn to them in his dictionary, or in his cyolopedia, whenever he wants them.
 Stump speaking was great power in Virginia when I was a boy. It is fading away now. Who would spend three hours in listening to a stump speech when he knows that The Age Herald will have it all boiled down into an editorial which he can read in five minutes the next morning?
 was once preaching in a protracted meeting in a country district of South Carolina. An old "IIardshell Baptist brother, who had done me the honor to hear me. was standing with me near the railroad track as the train was ap preaching, and, in q low voice he said T want to ask you one question" and, pointing to the train. he asked: Does them things do more harm or more good in the world2" With perfect sincerity I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

~ REAT is modern invention It has found q way to make new 0 wine old, 1t has found a way to teach children to read without learning the alphabet. II has found short cuts and cross cuts to every point which for merly were attainable only by time and perseverance; 1t has established upon a firm foundation the new doctrine of "suf- ficent for today is the good thereof" :" This is the age of immediate results, the do 1t now and if it does for now that is enough.
 Art for arts sake produced the great masterpieces that immortaize the artist. The desire to live after death, to leave behind an imperishable monument that would survive the shock of ages, was the great ambition of the author and the artist, and in pursuit of that desire they practically died to the world. The cell and the gairet were the graves of those whose spirits animate the world today, and whose ashes exercise more influence over the minds of men now than does the living presence of emperors. The oak that takes d hundred years to reach ma- turity lasts thousand years in the beam or post on which the edifice is built; the labor of life survives the laborer ten fold the time of his mortal existence
 Four thousand years after his death the name of Homer is better known than that of the man who wrote last season 5 best seller Four centuries have passed and the wreath is still green on Milton's brow. Nearly 500 years have elapsed since Dante first illumined the world and the brightness of his light remains un- dinmed, and Shakespeare, after nearly five centuries is the scholars friend. These men did not -,ite for immediate results they did moi trim their sails to catch the wind of popularity they did not count the words in their manuscript and add them up at so many cents per line. They were artists for arts sake,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
7he Debt of tbe 7wenheth Ceutu,y

and the deity dpon whose shrine they offered up their lives gave them the re- ward for which they labored
 Times that make millionares do not make great men. Twenty years from now who will know or care anything about the men whose names are identi- fled with nothing but the money which they are said to possess. Their meteoric careers across the financial Armament may dazzle for the moment but to them death is an extinction as complete as if they had never been. Thus passes the glory of the world with the man whose glory was to base his greatness on wealth alone; but the poet, the author. the artist whose life has been one of obscurity and perhaps, poverty, leaves a living solar ray in the light and wamth of which untold generations will find joy and comfort.
 Not 10 have lived in vain Is the great consolation that soothes the dying mo- ments of him who leaves something be- hind by which the world is enriched The gifts of Athens to mankind far exceed in value the treasures dug from the earth in the mines of Ormuz or Golconda. The erations of Demosthenes and Cicero have enriched the world more than gold or silver; the philosophy of Aristotle, Plato and Socrates was worth more to the world than the wealth of Crassus; the calculations of copernlcus served the world better than expert financing.
 Of all pursuits in the world, the plir- suit of wealth is the least profitable. The person who pursues pleasure may gain something for his pains, but the mere desire to possess money which is the most unsuitable of all desires, not only robs the world of the victims services, but the victim robs himself of all that makes life worth living. It is related that rto a nd a pelpbratqd a artiQf were walking through the Louvre There is picture,' said the artist for which sl00000 was paid. How long would 1t take you to paint such picture" lust about the same length Of time as IL would take the artist to make S100.090 in