The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-15

 interest in the study of prevention and can suggest plans of work and thus lend their influence in arousing a public sentiment which will recognize the dan gers that confront the community and the means by which these dangers may be averted.
 'The health of a community is the mutual care of the men and women of that community. and only by an intelli- gent and willing cooperation of all forces can the best sanitary conditions be secured for the entire citizenship in- volved.'
 The eleventh annual commencement of the Birmingham seminary will begin to- night, and the first of the series of enter tainments will be concert by the music pupils of the junior grades. The public Is invited to hear the following programme Hebrides overture, Miller, Grove, Smith, Eborn, Eborn; Polacco Brillante Miss Oline Broome; the Movement Rheumatic Cure, Miss Marianne Gravlee; La Chase aux Gazelles. Misses Howard and Archi- bald; Mnuet rAntique, Miss Alvice My att; Light Cavalry. Misses Lewis, Lamb, Norwood, Marler; Summer Rain, Miss Elizabeth Pruitt; Kuyawiak. Miss An nle Mai Cole; Serenade Misses Alline Glass and Rosalee Broomall; The New Breakfast Food Miss Gweneth Bratton; Postillion d d'Armour, Misses Warrington, Akin, Marlborough, Westbrook; The Night ingale, Miss Mae Pettyjohn; Impromptu a la Hongroise, Misses Kay, Eborn, South : all Bryan: Valse, up. 64, No. 2, Miss Elsie Martin; Arion Vocal Waltz, Misses Beaird, Pettyjohn, Pruitt, Dickinson.
 Mrs. J. D. Steele, Jr., of Eutaw is the guest of Mrs w. A. Abercrombie at 1923 North Twenty-eighth street.
 The friends of MT. and Mrs A. D. Brown, Jr., will regret to know of the serious illness of their little son, A. D. | Brown, third,
 Miss Mary Kirkpatrick of Montgomery, who responded for the division to the address of welcome, made one of the most eloquent addresses of the convention. She said:
 50 long as the Alabama division num- bers on the roll women who really knew the Confectionery, who suffered it's priva- tions and endured it's hardships, 1 almost feel that I have no right to speak to you; and were l a real stranger in the Magic City I should not even attempt to respond to such greetings. However, my very cer- .1,, us a royal welcome, and desire to ex- press my appreciation to Birmingham pub licly for what I have long enjoyed per sonally makes me try to thank you in be- half of the Alabama division, for your very cordial welcome.
 Pelham hapter-Birmingham What q wonderful combination of names Pel- ham, the noble, the chivalric, the gallant Pelham, who ere twenty-four years had lent their hardening to his frame, fell at Kellys Ford, shouting: On to victory and to glory!' And scarce more than five and twenty had been the years of this young giant Birmingham. as it stands this morn, tip-toe upon the mountain top, shriel1ing aloud with thousand blasts and whis ties: On to victory and to glory.'
 "Pelham's was the artillery that flashed and famed from cannons mouth and made rivers run red with blood. Birming- hams is the artillery that flashes and flames from furnace mouth and fills tine land with the yellow gold. Pelhams the artillery that rids the field of foe; Bir- mingham's the artillery that rids the field of competition. Pelham, idol Of the old South; Birmingham, pride of the new.
 But to this young scion of an older day there came at Kelly's Ford, when he sang his swan song, and kissed the stars, while with Birmingham it is but the dew of the day; the lark song still throbs in its throat; the battle is but be- gun. Pelham has gone before, and his memory is enshrined in our loving hearts, while Birmingham, as 1t flashes it's smoky banners and rings its anvlls heard round the world, proclaims to all that Pelham died for the fairest land God ever smiled upon.
 "So, although Pelham is dead. his daunt- less spirit still lives in the breasts of ten thousand sons of Birmingham, who see- ing the changed condition of things in Alabama, realized that cotton must be dethroned and Vulcan reign in his stead They dug and they delved till natures arcanum yielded up her boundless stores into their outstretched hands. Like Moses of old, Birmingham led the South out of a wilderness of despair, and again, like Moses, had its trouble about getting good