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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-08

HHE following rigorous, if not very
 vigorous bit of criticism is from 4 the Marion Standard, a copy of which recently land accidentally fell into my hands.
 DICKINSON IN POLITICS.
 ''The name of Dr. Dickinson, pastor of the First Baptist church of Birming ham. has been mentioned as a probable candidate for county superintendent of education of Jefferson county. Dr. Dick inson is one of 1the ablest ministers of the Baptist denomination in the south and Is pastor of one of the strongest churches. He admits that he has the matter of his candidacy under considera- tion, and that he could fill the office without conflicting with his church work We regret that Dr. Dickinson is even inclined to enter politics to the extent of office seeking. The mention of his name in connection with political office was a little grating on the nerves of some of his admirers. and tho admission that he is Considering the matter is calling forth some adverse criticism. The fact that Dr. Dickinson was a leader in the state prohibition contest does not augur that even the success of this moral issue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-08

and men trained for two or three years in a good denomnational training school. and sent to a State university where that denomination has firmly planted it. self can be trusted to stand by what they have learned and loved
 There have been many difficulties. The fear of being overshadowed was suggested, especially in the Dakota case. But it was urged that overshadowing does not depend on distance. An insti- tuition aiming to do a definite and unique work. and doing it effectively. Is much more apt to be felt than one trying to do the same kind of work as another, and doing 1t not quite so well. The greatest difficulty has been tho breaking down the battements of tradi- tion and custom, but new era is usher
 ing in a more practical and empirical attitude towards all problems.
 Such movements in so widely separated quarters of the globe, under conditions so different, are significant. Our con- dtions may not be exactly like any of them nor even compound of several or all, but there is some similarity, and we are facing the same problem. Noth- ing would be more foolish than for us to adopt such a plan because others have, except to refuse to adopt it for lne same reason. l am not now saying what we would do today or tomorrow but might we consider all the various possibil tiles, and if this one be the best, lay our plans for its ultimate realization,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-08
PREACHERS IN POLTICS-By J. C. Hiden D. D.

be politicians Robert Hall was one, Baxter was one. John Howe was one. Sturgeon was one.
 Even after the close of our colonial period in America, when the question Of the ratification of the constitution of the United States was under discussion. nearly every thoughtful dissenting preach CT was a politician. The question was Does the proposed constitution provide sufficiently for religious freedom?' and 1t Is a blessed thing for us today that there were dissenting preachers with brains and character enough to make a profound im- presson upon Jefferson, Madison and Franklin. If Jefferson had been a bgot Franklin a zealot, and Madison a sectary we may well tremble to think where re- ligious freedom would be today. Even John Adams, loose as were his religious views, feared to trust the people with the support of their own religion; but held that they must be taxed to support it.
 After what is called the complete sep aration of church and state''-a thing that has never yet really come to pass people came gradually to think of preach- CTS as interlopers, if they took any very prominent part in politics of a partisan character; and this popular feeling was greatly strengthened in our part of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-08

r ONDON, March S.-A charming
 little story is told about the - Queen of Portugal, of her capac- ity for nursing. When walking in a wood with one of her ladies in waiting, she heard cry, and found that a wood cutter had been injured by the falling of branch.
 The Queen immediately herself at tended to him, and then assisted him to his cabin. Later she called to see her patient, who said T shall never be able to repay you. but when l am better will bring you a basket of fresh eggs and butter, in order to thank you"
 The Queen visited England but a few months ago, and the King in. 1904 as the guest of King Edward. Doin Carlos was one of the happiest men, one of the merriest. and one who took his life from the most joyful stand point.
 Standing whilst shooting one snowy morning at Wood Norton in Worces- tershire, he said to friend: When am in England I am happy. Every one Is so kind they make you feel as if you were the special guest of each one.
 Every time I come I am more at home" and tn en, pointing to the snow and the bleak landscape, he said T love it." He seemed like a merry school boy who was enjoying his holidays Staying at Chatsworth with the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. he bonn barded his ambassador with snowbaEs-
 Tho Marquis de Several was saunter-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-08

, Snanisb Place on Saturday has had no precedent for some centuries and 1t was good that for the first time the universal
 sorrow which effaces differences of ma tionality should also efface the difference of creed.
 solemn service was also held in St.
 Paurs cathedral, at which the names of the King of Portugal and the Crown
 Prince were mentioned in prayer Such
 testimonies to the respect and affection in which the King was held in this country by King Edward and Queen Alexandra were no mere ceremonial.
 Anyone who remembers the kindly
 pleasantries that passed between them on the occasion of their meeting at the Due dOrleans' house in Worcestershire, the jokes and banter when the royal
 group was photographed and all the many little touches which show the com
 radeship and kindliness which existed between them will realize that 1t was a personal friend of whom they were bereft
 But in all this, almost the most path etic figure is the Boy King who has succeeded to the difficult task of maintaining peace in this troublous kingdom.
 When the boy who is now King re- ceiyed the new premier, the old Admiral de Ferreira de Amaral, and other min isters whom he had summoned to his assistance, the boy threw himself into the old admiral's arms, and said, My dear friend, I have no knowiedge of kinrcraft. I know nothing of anything except school books and my studies. q want you to take over the man 9 gement of the Kingdom and l want you to try and Make everybody hap py." Should tbese words be prophetic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-08

of singer. The first step of the totter- ing feet, the first attempt to come into outstretched arms, the lack of confi- dence to cover the vast intervening dis tance, the effort, the fall, the blue, bruised spots, perhaps a fall through some open doorway. the kisses that healed the wounded parts and hushed the cry of pain-eventful indeed is the life of the child.
 The boisterous lad of four or five. or the coy, timid maiden with hair dat refuses to curl despite the anxious solicitations of the mother, how numer- ous and how varied are the funny things children of that age can do. How many "cutep things" can you recall said and done by yotr own children when tiny little fellowsl Just a few days ago a little fellow at Sunday school asked his teacher for three lesson pa pers ''I wants one" he said, for me, one for Brudder Tunts, tause he's sick an tan't tome. and one for Jim, who tan't tome 'tause he's black" The race problem was solved by that little fell low in a moments thought, just as it will be settled upon after years of the thoughts of the wise men. There are thousands of incidents, each unlike the rest born in the brains of children generation after generation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-08

TN an address on the anniversary oc-
 casion of the Clariosophic Literary ! societv of the Southern University suggestion as to possible future TOT higher education in Alabama was made. The address afterwards appeared in namnhIet form. That wide acceptance of the plan proposed would follow was not thought of; but the scheme has met with far more favor than was to be expected at the first. It contemplates the final combination of the higher educational interests of Alabama without sacrificing the individuality of any.
 Perhaps the meaning may be best rep resented by giving concrete instances. The example at Cambridge, England, was mentioned in the address referred, to above. The University of Cambridge ranks with the great universities of the, world. The Wesleyans of Great Brit ain found it impossible of course to car ry on all their great work of evangeli- zation, and at the same time compete with so great an institution. Bright broad-viewed young men naturally sought the broadest best education, and felt that Cambridge offered the best opportunity. The influence of the Angli- can church was of course paramount there, and there was a tendency for Wesleyan boys to forsake the church of their fathers. The Wesleyans therefore built the Leys School at Cambridge, where Wesleyan boys could be under the Wesleyan influence, and yet have all the ,1ntvo In, oin this they were only falling in line with what the Congregationalists and Unita- rians have done at Oxford.
 Let us take another exemple. The people of Australia in the midst of the progress which that continent of the Southern seas has been making in re- cent years, had to face the problem of higher education. The churches were not ready to turn the matter entirely over to the State. Competition by a number of small institutions~ on the oth- CT hand, with meagre equipment may be the life of trade, but it is death to the broadest, best education. Each church could not establish weli-endowed in- stitution, and at the same time do its work of evangelization and pastoral care, and if they could what use could there be in multiplying agencies when the State duplicating rich gifts was ready to do that very. work? Their solu- tion was as follows: At Sidney and Mel burne. different denominations-the Presbyterians Anglicans, Methodists. and Catholics uhink of the combine tion)-have established colleges" on the university grounds. These colleges are for residential students. and in them the students, are under the direct influence of the religious denomination by whom the college was. founded. The university | has no other relation with religious hodies, but in these colleges systematic religious instruction and supervision are | given, (David Starr Jordan in <Novem- Der Appletons)
 The Noorth Dakota churches faced a similar situation, as indeed do the reli- eious bodies in most of our states. ' Gome of the leaders felt that those who found tho State university and those vhe found the church colleges are one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-08

the too frequent resort to the knife. II has demonstrated that many cases for merly considered surgical can be cured by its own peculiar methods.
 The growth and popularity of osteopathy can be appreciated when 1t is known that it has been taught only for IA years. For more than 15 years prior to that time there was only one osteopath, Dr. A T. Still. the founder of the science. Now there are between 40O0 and 5000 practition- CTS located in the United States. Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Hawaiian Islands, Japan, India, Germany, England. Ireland and Scotland. There is a national association with nearly POGO members and numerous state and district associations. There are nine osteopathic colleges. In these the course of study consists of three terms of nine months each, and is as comprehen- sive and thorough as that given in the best medical schools. The chief difference in the course of study is that the ostec- pathc colleges especially emphasize the importance of anatomy and pysiology and substitute the principles and practice of osteopathy for the practice of medicine and materia medica.
 Having accomplished all this in short decade and half who will dare to set limitations to it's future success and use fitness?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-08

disease and a new treatment in accord with this theory. To this treatment IS added all those reliable natural methods which have accumulated since the birth of the healing art. While its curative measures are chiefly scientific manipula- tions it is not dependent upon these alone, for it appreciates and makes use of all those natural means of cure that have been proven to be of undoubted value Not only does 1t include the me chancal correction of all deranged tis- sues bone, muscle, ligament, nerve, blood vessels, etc, but it also enjoins the cor rect application of all dietetic and hy- gienic laws, in fact, all principles that are in accord with the natural laws of the human body.
 Osteopathy differs from the prevail ing methods of treatment most radical ly in it's theory of the cause of dis ease. It empha asizes the importance of malpositions of any of the tissues of the body. From the osteopathic view point, any displacement, however min ute, In the position of any tissue, must sooner or later result in an abnormal or diseased condition. Each part of the body is designed to fit perfectly the space it occupies and the slightest de- vation from it's normal position re- suits in pressure. Such pressure may occur in any part of the body and it's effects may be either direct, and felt near the point of impingement, or re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-08
IS HUGHES EQUIPPED?
Country Taking Ills Measure to Sec Whether He Is of Presidential Size.

Erman J. Ridgway, in the March Every
 body's.
 Hughes is clean. able. likeable. public
 serving, God-fearing man. His standards
 are high and he goes about his serious
 work with some austerity. Until he be-
 gan to be talked about as a presidential
 possibility, the approval of his acts and
 measures were almost unanimous. For
 obvious reasons critics are beginning to
 bob up, which is as it should be. The
 other condition, a public man without
 critics, is positively unhealthy. Next to
 the man who never does anything right.
 the man who always does everything
 right is the least attractive.
 All over this country today the eyes Of
 the people are looking into the very souls of the men who are being consid-
 cred in the search for successor to Roosevelt They are looking at Hughes. They do not ask, do not care, whether he is tall or short, whether his eyes are blue or black. whether his shoes are sixes or elevens. how he lives and what he loves these things may be interesting, but they are not vital. The vital question they want answered is 'ls he big? Big in grasp? Big in patience? Big in endur- ance? Big in bedrock honesty?" The strain at the Wmte house Wouu iIa1Aio the nerves of an average man In thirty days, even in ordinary times. 1t Is no ordinary presidents task that awaits the successor to Theodore Roosevelt. Better the man had never been born who essays 1t uneouipped. Is Hughes equipped? Has he the tact required for the mutual give and take between Congress and the ex- ecutive? He has shown himself equal to the big problems of the state, Is he equipped for the weightier problems of
 tue nation2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-08

K MANKIND has always lavished MI upon it's children an affection 4 A that often has amounted to idolatry. The philosopher tells us that it is instinct-we discard the terms of philosophy and call 1t love. The baby, with its dimpled cheeks and reddish weazen little face, it's tiny, kicking feet, and it's jerky, chubby arms, it's growing and cooing, yea, even with all its colics and teethings, the baby con- strols the hand that rocks the cradle and rules the world
 This love knows no degree nor sta- tion. The royal babe in a bejeweled cradle, with silver and gold for it's trimmings, receives no warmer smile of affection from his queen mother than does the little stranger in the humblest peasants home.
 This love makes the worlds sweet est pleasures cluster around it's chil- dren. What wondrous sounds are ut tered in the strange language of the baby-world! There's something sacred about the fact that the first words lisped by babyish tongues are man. ma" and papa" To the parent ear no sweeter note ever fell from the lips
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-08
Even bad ones, pears to me $ jes' as good as they kin be-"

Even Dau OHeSi pears lO
 $ jes' as good as they kin be-"
 In our own communities in our own countries, in our own state all of these sorts of children are to be found They carry with them sunshine and happi- ness, purity and innocence, joy and love into thousands of hearts and homes. But not alone these things. The train ing of the future adds to love possbil- ity, and to the sunshine of their pres ence, responsibility.
 In the larger sense of human broth erhood that responsibility is not only for your own but for other mems chill dren as well. The child of the hills, wh ose training needs only the contact with schools and books, the child of the factory, who needs health and air and sunshine, the Arab of the street who needs a fathers care and a mother 8 love-all tn csc, the children of the state call for nurture and for life. Tomorrow soon will. come when they shall have mems duties and women's responsibil- tiles.
 See to it that your own children do not go without proper care and with out opportunities to fit themselves in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-08

SIEOPAl11 IS fd cOiupiete anu iii-
 dependent system of treating >> diseases by scientific manipula- t' ,ns, the purpose and intent of each manipulation being either to correct some derangement in the position of the tis- sues, or to increase or decrease the ac- tivity of some organ. It is not rem edy or method applicable to some par ticular disease or group of symptoms, but is co-extensive with the art and science of healing and successfully treats all curable non-surgical, acute and chron- ic diseases Its field not only includes all those diseases treated by medicines, but also a great many in which medi- cines are admitted to be useless.
 The first curative measures of which we have record were manipulative in character Osteopathy is the natural de- yelopment of all that was scientific and physiological in such measures from the remotest times until the present day. It's basic principles are the common prop erty of the medical profession. It has never proclaimed new anatomy, in- vented a new physiology or announced a new pathology. It has taken for its fundamental principles the demonstrated truths of these sciences and has promul- gated a new theory of the cause. of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-08

STEOPATHY is "a complete and in- dependent system of treating
 diseases by scientific manipula-
The Washington times., 1908-04-20
GIRL FLEET STOWAHAY
DISCREDITED BY NAVY

Elmer E. Dey. the marine engineer OF
Boston. who told a story IN Pittsburg
yesterday OF a beautiful Creole girl,
who, as a stowaway. had made the
cruise around South America with the
battleship feet, has been unanimously
voted seat in the AIanias Club by
the officers of the navy on duty ct
the department. Assistant Secretary
Eewberry declared that Il was too
good a yarn TO be spoiled, and he would
say nothing.
II Is not necessary to say that the
department has had no report on the
subject, neither has It heard Of the
yarn except through the enterprising
Pittsburg journalist. Secretary New
lerry said that it was a dandy galley
yarn"
1t is conceded that the story would
have been a better one had the teller
hidden the beautiful lassie in the cap
tain's cabin, and thus had the joke on
him Officers at the department, who
have performed mG"y hours of weari-
some inspection duty snort in disgust.
According 10 them, every crack and
every armor rivet is Inspected at least
three times a day, and II would be i'm
possible 70 hide a safety pin, Tch less
a woman. These men. who lave had
TO crawl down between the double bot
toms in the bilge water for inspection
purposes, ought to know
The Washington times., 1908-04-20
OPPOSES DR.. TINDALL
AS BUILDING HEAD

Engineer Commissioner Morrow does
not approve Of the Senate amendment
to the District appropriation bill, which
provides for the appointment OF Dr.
William TindaII. secretary 70 the Board
OF Commissioners. as superintendent OF
,he new Municipal building.
AS the amendment provides. DR.. Tin
dali viii assume the duties OF the su-
periutendent IN addition 10 his work as
secretary, at. a salary OF $500. an in-
crease Of $3.50 per annum. While heartily
IN sympathy with the recommendation
that Dr. TindaIl be given an increase,
Major Morrow says that the supsrin-
tendent must be a mechanical engineer.
one who is thoroughly familiar with
every detail which viii arise IN the su-
pervision OF the electrical work, eleva-
tor service. etc. in the new building
The Engineer Commissioner is OF the
opinion that the positions Of secretary
20 the board and superintendent OF the
new building cannot be successfully
combined for this reason.
The House bill provides that the
duties OF the superintendent be divided
between Assistant Engineer Commission
erS Kelly and MARKHAM. At an increased
salary Of $500 each Major Morrow ap-
proves of this, as the officials named
are trained engineers The bill as IL
now stands abOlisheS the office Of janf-
tor OF the District building. now held
by col Perry Carson. leader among
the colored politicians Of the city II
is probable however that the colonel
will be provided with a position equally
as good
The Washington times., 1908-04-20
BRYAN CONCERNED
ABOUT NEW YORK
Declines to Discuss Situa-
ton on Arrival in
Metropolis.

NEW YORK, April 2o.-Momentous in
the extreme win be the visit 10 this
city Of William Jennings Bryan. who
reached here from Utica this morning
Today he is conferring with leaders
OF his party as to the present status Of
the state organization.
Before his train reached here. Nor
man z. Mack. OF Buffalo. national COM
mitteeman: Charles +. Ratigan and
several lieutenants Of Patrick II Nc
Carren. of Brooklyn. were waiting TO
greet him. AS the day wore on the
crowd increased and long before noon
every faction in the party was repre-
sented. all waiting
Bryan went 10 the Manhattan Club
where he was the guest at breakfast
Of Col Henry Watterson. Of Louis
Vile. This afternoon he will take lunch
con with Judge Augustus Van Wyck
at the Hamilton Club, IN Brooklyn
Colouel Bryan was plainly nettled st
the mix-up In the State Democratic
situation, and showed that he 5consid-
ers some one has made a mistake. IN
fact when pressed to declare whether
ne favored tho proposition OF sending
a contesting delegation 70 Denver, he
declined 10 talk at all.
he admitted meeting Samuel A.
Beardsley and Judge O'Connor, but 80 d
the recent State convention was not
discussed. Told that Il was rumored
he had pledged support TO contesting
delegation, he fairly shouted:
''Oh yes; I know very we'll there are
always interviews and pictures IN a
case Ike this. but they are seldom
true
Continuing Bryan said:
I am not in a position to discuss
the recent State convention OF the
party. as I am unfamiliar with cOndi-
tiOns at present. have not discussed
the proposition to abrogate the two
third rule al the Denver convention.
and all statements TO that effect are
untrue. I did not discuss that matter
with anybody"
Bryan then declined to talk about
Murphy, Connors. or McCarren.