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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-06-03
A Valley Song.

God OF the heights where men walk
free.
Above Hfe's lure, beyond deaths
sting
Lord of all souls that rise to thee
White with supreme self-offering,
Thou who hast crowned the hearts
that dare,
Thou who hast nerved the hands
that do,
God of the heightsi give US to share
Thy kingdom In the valleys too.
Our eyes look up to those who stand
Vicegerents of thy stainless sway,
Heroes and saints at thy right hand,
Thy priests and kings Of glory
they.
Not ours to tread the path they trod,
Splendid and sharp, still stretch
ing higher;
Not ours to lay before our God
The crowns they snatched from
food and fire.
Yet through the daily dazing toll,
The crowding tasks of hand and
brain,
Keep pure our lips, Lord Christ,
from soil,
Keep pure our lives from sordid
gain.
Come to the level of our days,
The 1owly hours of dust and din,
And in the valley-lands upraise
Thy kingdom over self and sin.
Not ours the dawn-lit heights: ant
yet
Up to the hills where men wall
free
We lift our eyes, lest faith forget
The light which lighted them II
thee.
God of all heroes, ours and thine,
God of all toilersi keep us true,
Till loves eternal glory shine
In sunrise on the valleys too.
Mabel Earle in Sunday Schoc
Times.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-06-03
Women Who Are Enyied.

Those attractive women who are
lovely in face, form and temper, are
the envy of many, who might be like
them. A weak, sickly woman will
be nervous and irritable. Constipa-
ton or Kidney poisons show in pim-
pies, blotches, skin eruptions and a
Wretched complexion. For all such
Electric Bitters work wonders. They
regulate Stomach, Liver and Kid
neys, purify the blood; give strong
nerves, bright eyes, pure breath,
smooth velvety skin, lovely complex
ion. Many charming women owe
their health and beauty to them. SOC,
at all Druggists
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-06-03
The Difference Between Confidence
and "Cheek."

Confidence isn't cheek and cheek
isn't confidence, any more than fool
hardness is bravery or bravery fool
hardness. No, there's a genuineness
to confidence. You saw it in the
great eager eyes of Bruno this morn
ing, as you took from the deserted
breakfast table a bit of meat, and,
holding it high above his nose, made
him jump for it. He had confidence
in his own ability to make the leap,
and confidence that he would get the
tidbit, as the reward for his effort.
Confidence in ones self, confidence
in others, confidence that inspires tC
effort, is what the world wants.
If Bruno had allowed his appetite
to get the better of his judgment and
had lifted his great paws on to the
table linen, and snatched that bit OF
meat from the plate, he would sim.
ply have shown Cheek" not conf
dence, and he would have been SHOW
ed out the side door, instead of being
allowed to take his morning nap in
front of the fireplace.-Howard w
Tilton, in Lay Sermons.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-06-03

She was bright little woman. and
when some one apologized for an oc-
currence at which she might have
taken offense, she laughingly dis
claimed any such thought. II am
honest, you know, and so I never
pick up things that don't delong TO
me-not even sights" she said mer-
rfbly. IT don't like them, anyway.
and | have to be quite certain that
one Is intended for my use before
appropriate it."
SO many people spend vearisome
days and nights In nursing grievances
that they have only picked up" and
In brooding over sights which were
never designed for them. that this
sort of honesty Is heartily to be com.
mended.-Selected.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-06-03
The Secret.
Times.

"a consecrated young lady was re-
quested to teach a class of girls in a
certain Sunday-school. She accepted
the invitation and engaged in the
work. She was seen to be very earn
est, faithful and affectionate with her
youthful charges. In a little while
one scholar after another became
thoughtful, serious and anxious, until
every member of her class was con-
verted. She was then requested to
take another class, and had not been
long in 1t before similar effects were
produced, and ultimately every mem
Der Of this class also believed In Je-
sus. She was finally induced to give
up this class and take another one of
children, in which again she had not
labored long when the same results
followed as before, every pupil having
been brought into the Shepherd s
fold. Her work was done. She fell
asleep in Jesus. After her death he1
friends, on examining her journal
found the following resolutions:
Resolved, That I will pray once
each day for each member of my class
by name
ION looking further into this faith.
full teachers journal, they found the
same resolutions, rewritten and re.
adopted, with a slight addition, as
follows:
Resolved, That 1 will pray once
each day for each member of my
class by name and agonize in prayer.
ION looking further into the jour
nal, the same resolution is found, re
written and re-adopted, with another
slight additions, as follows:
Resolved, That will pray once
each day for each member of m!
class by name, and agonize in prayer
and expect a blessing
mo comment Is needed upon THU
illustration of Christ-like devotion
it carries it's own lesson in bold re
lief. Through the telephone We reach
our friends by way of the central sta
tion.-Exchange
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-06-03
A Thrilling Rescue.

How Bert r. Lean, of Cheny,
Wash, was saved from a frightful
death is a story to thrill the world.
"A hard cold" he writes, brought
on a desperate lung trouble that
baffied an expert doctor here. Then
l paid $40 to SIS visit to a lung
specialist in Spokane, who did not
help me. Then / went to California
but without benefit. At last l USED
DR.. Kings New Discovery, which
completely cured me and now I an
as we'll as ever" For Lung Trouble
Bronchitis, Colds, Asthma, Croul
and Whooping Cough it is supreme
soc. and $1.0O. Trial bottle free
Guaranteed by Druggists.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-06-03
The Sermon Was Too Convincing.

1t is hard for a preacher to deter
mine the effect of a sermon. It gen.
orally has an effect, but, as in the
following case, it may be quite oppo-
site to the one intended.
The Vicar of Heaton, in England,
had a parishioner who was a miser.
For this mans benefit he preached
one Sunday what he believed to be a
strong sermon on the necessity of
charity and philanthropy. He pre-
scented the duty and joy of giving in
vivid colors, and thought the miser,
at whom he looked often, seemed i'm
pressed.
The next day he met the man in
the street.
We'll, john" said the vicar, what
did you think of yesterdays ser.
mon?"
ct moved me deeply SIR" John re.
piled. cit has brought home to me
SO strongly the necessity of giving
aims, that honestly, sir, I've grea
mind to turn beggar."
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-06-03
AS the lark that scars the b;pba.

AS the lark that scars the highest
builds her nest the lowest; the night
ingale that sings so sweetly, sings in
the shade when all things rest; the
branches that are most laden with
ripe fruit bend lowest; the valleys
are fruitful in their lowliness; and
the ship most laden sinks deepest in
the water-so the hottest Christians
are the humbIest.-Mason
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-10
The Senators

The chairman of the amendment
campaign says in an interview in yes
terdays Ledger: "Of course all of us
who know the senator (Johnston)
well, realized all the while that he is
an ti-prohibitionist. If he had come
out on our side we would have regard
ed it as distinct gain from the ranks
of those who have all along been OPP
posed to prohibition"
The Ledger in the same issue says,
editorially; while the Birmingham
Ledger supports the proposed amend
ment and the senators oppose it, they
have its profound respect. The led
ger knows that both senators are pro-
nibitionists, both are sober men from
their youth I'D and neither was ever
drunk, though both were subjected to
the temptations of soldiers life and
both had to make that awful struggle
ami tested their manhood. Those
things The Ledger knows and it yields
every consideration to their wisdom
and judgment"
Senator Johnston himself said in
his statement in The Age-Herald of
Sunday: The issue is not open
saloons or prohibition. If that were
the issue, should choose the present
law instead of the old although the
democratic party has always opposed
sumptuary laws and laws of that
nature, and stood, in war and peace,
for local self-government."
Certain it Is that Senator Johnston
knows where he stands.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Looked Like Round Robin.

Soon after the amendment campaign
opened man well known in northern
Alabama told me that he was going
to vote for constitutional prohibition
but that he thought it would be de-
feated" said a prominent citizen.
"The gentleman referred to is not a
professional politician and he is not a
member of the executive council of the
prohibition party; but he Is noted as
reliable forecaster of elections in Ala
bama He gave as the reason he was
supporting the amendment the fact
that 1t was a prohibition measure. He
said that it was mistake, however, to
have sprung it on the public at this
time. He said furthermore that some
of the leaders thought 1t mistake. but
that they would now have to do their
best to get votes for It.
'As to who was responsible for the
amendment submission bill being in
troduced in the Legislature and pushed
through was in considerable doubt, so
far as the public knew. 1t seemed to
have been something like a round
robin business. But l see now that the
Anti-Saloon league claims the respon-
sibiiity. Well. from a prohibition point
of view itswas egregious blunder. The
amendment win be badly beat"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-10
LIFE OF MORMON WOMAN

king street stream and l pointed to a
long narrow house with two front doors
almost hidden in jungle of chrysanthe-
NUNS and fig and mulberry boughs.
Tell me- l said, what was the daily
routine of life in those old plurality
houses?"
We'll, 1t was different, acoordin to the
likes of the individuals" she explained.
Mostly such house was divided off.
an equal part for each family and an out
side door for each. But in most houses
there was one room where all the fami-
lies met for prayers and us D-'s was
so happy together that we had our meals
together, too. The way we done. we each
cooked week at a time, turn and turn
about, and we divided up the rest O. the
work. One of us made the beds and an
other done the chores, and like that.
Oh, 1t works fine If you take it the right
way, and it's grand thing for a. woman.
cause it teaches her self-reliance and that
she amt the only one."
The second wife I never met, but 7
came to know Hannah, the third, and she
gave much the same report. I'VE all love
each other and everybody knows how
happy we was together" she said. There
was a family reunion a while ago and
there was rs there"
The next time I caught sight of polyg-
amy from the other side of the curtain
it had a different aspect
IL makes my blood boil now to think
of it, though my mothers been dead for
years." said one who was born a polyg-
amous child.
Mother was the second of three wives
and the third was the youngest, and she
didn't take long to establish herself as
the favorite. The partially grew con-
stantly. and the picture that remains
clearest in my memory now is of father
taking the third and starting off for
church with her in his fine new buggy
while my mother and the first wife
plodded along behind in the mud
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-10
Senator CulIOm'S Negro Policy

The aged senator of Illinois favors
negro Acknowledgement in the south
and negro acknowledgment in Illinois
and other northern states. He draws
the line at numbers. Where the negro
is not numerous he should be per-
mitted to vote. Where he outnumbers
the whites, or Is even numerous, he
should be eliminated from politics. SO
saws Senator Cullom, who is a ma
chine politician with no reform blood
in his veins.
His policy is wholly political. He
wants southern electoral votes, and he
saws the south would go over bag and
baggage to the republican party were
the negro eliminated from politics. He
does not hesitate to advocate absolute
and unequivocal white supremacy for
that reason.
Senator Cullom is at liberty to ex-
plot his theory freely, but When ne
furns to states that have eliminated
the negro vote he will not gather
much encouragement. Mississippi has
enjoyed white supremacy fully twenty
years, and yet II is still a one-party
state, and it is not possible to point to
any accessions to the republican party
because Of the elimination of the
negro. And yet he says, "if it were
not for this colored ballot in the south
the Mason and Dixon line would be
wiped out of existence as far as poll
tics is concerned" This is highly
academic and highly interesting, but
there is, also, no supporting evidence.
Nor does Senator Cullom intimate how
he proposes to put his policy into eff.
feet He seems to be up in the air,
and a-dreaming at that.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-10
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ABOUT SERVANTS OF OLD.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Many manners and customs curiously
close to those of the present day come
to light as the Babylonian cuneiform
tablets are translated in the Archaeology
ical Museum of the University of Penn
sylvania The existence of trade unions
and knowledge of the principle of the
keystone arch and the laws of geometri-
cal and arithmetical progression have re-
Gently been demonstrated beyond perad-
venture of a doubt. Some facts of less
scientific interest, but nevertheless inter-
esting. have turned up in the translations
now being made For instance, in the
Susa temple (Mesopotamia), household
servants were paid in figs dates and
measures of grain, owing to the paucity
of silver and gold coins There are nu-
merous cases on record of bookings for
lateness, one servant excusing on the
ground that princes procession delayed
him. Another explained his lateness on
the ground that the mules upon which
he had been wont to ride from the river
gate up to the palace kitchen were load
ed, and he had to walA Another servant
excuses his INSTRUMENTATION on the ground
that he knew the superior who gave the
orders was about to be removed, any
way. and thought it did not matter. The
most Enthusiastically feminine situation
was the boycott organized by the royal
boudoir girls against the chief lady hair
dresser because she insisted on locking
up the queens jeweled hair clasps and
would not let the girls wear them when
the queen was not using them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-10

bills IL 1t can muster the needful vote.
Called together to replenish the
treasury it would consider ratifica
ton of the amendment a mandate to
apply the police power until all
liquors were driven from all places
in the state. This has been declared
to be the purpose of the amendment
over and over again in the present
campaign.
Gov. Conner is in other words disin-
genuous when he says Section would
not invade the home and would not
increase the power of the search war
rant. All true enough technically
speaking but all untrue when legis-
lature begins to apply it through an
exercise of the police power. Few
constitutional provisions enforce them
selves. They need supporting
statutes, and Section invites such
statutes, and it further invites an ex-
ercise of the police power-"a power
given says a lawbook of merit and
acceptance, ito that inherent soy
ereignty which it is the right and duty
of the government or its agents TO ex
ercise whenever public policy in
broad sense demands, for the benefit
Of society at large. regulations to
guard its morals, safety, health, order
or to insure in any respect such
economic conditions as an advancing
civilization of a highly complex char
acter requires.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-10
Al CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Governor Conner yesterday issued a
campaign document from his office in
which he undertakes to bolster the
amendment but 1t comes too late, because
the amendment Is beaten.
It is perfectly apparent that the Gov
ernor now understands the temple of
the people of Alabama but he cannot d.
vorce himself and his political acts from
the issue which was conceived in his
office and foisted on the people for his
own ends.
Reading the document issued by the
Governor one Is reminded of the story
told by Private" John Allen of Mis-
sissippi After he had made a speech
in one of his campaigns he asked one
of his negro servants, an old man, to
express an opinion of the speech.
1T war a fine speech, Marse john
answered the old man in great glee. ut
war a fine speech en- you sho do recon-
men yourself nightly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-10

be in demand in the markets of the
world. Water transportation being
cheaper than by rail we will have an
advantage in cheap freight and COM
paratiye nearness to the oriental
nations whose eyes are just being
opened to the civilization of the west.
1t behooves us as people to rouse our
selves and be prepared to meet the
emergency that will soon be upon us.
All this is true, and it is further
true that the general government IS
opening the Tennessee as well as the
Warrior, but all this will be of no avail
unless we have the business acuteness
and foresight to take advantage of it.
The producers and shippers in this
district should get ready to use an
Open Warrior, and the like is true of
producers and shippers in the valley
of the Tennessee.
This district at any rate cannot be-
come great unless it fully utilizes an
Open Warrior The heavy products of
this district cannot be carried to tide
water at railroad rates without adding
to the price of those products so that
competing products would have advan-
tages in the markets even of the Gulf
coast, certainly at Colon.
This district should wake up, and so
should the people of the Tennessee
Valley for that matter. Water trans
portation to tidewater is the best
hope and basis of both districts. Prox-
imately to the sea and government
construction will prove valueless I'M
less we begin to appreciate water
transportation and begin to get ready
TO use it for all it is worth. We can
not get water rates by simply sitting
still and waiting for the railroads to
come round, hat in hand, offering re-
duced rates. Reduced rates follow the
use of water transportation. They
are not apt to precede it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-10
He Was Opposed.

The Ledger in an editorial says: The
prophets are evidently assuming that DR..
Cunningham is opposed to the amend
ment because it was proposed by the
present state administration, remarked
a we'll known citizen
Il have not talked politics with DR..
Cunningham since Monday, September 10,
but on that day he told me that he was
against the amendment. He had in his
hand a manuscript article in the shape OF
a statement or interview In which he
told me he had set forth his reasons
why prohibition should not be written
in the constitution, although he, himself,
was prohibitionist. The interview was
never published so far as | know; and
it may be that DR.. Cunningham changed
his mind and decided to-support the
amendment. But a mutual friend told me
about ten days ago that he understood
that DR.. Cunningham was still against
the amendment. But, as l say, he might
have changed his mind. I would not
refer to this matter but for the fact that
the Ledger seems to assume that DR..
Cunningham has all along been an advo-
cate of the amendment"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-10
THE WICKED cADDIE.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat
Among Mr. Carnegie's innumerable
Scotch stories is one about a caddie of
st. Andrews.
This caddie's wife-so Mr.. Carnegie s
story runs-was much troubled by her
husbands loose way of life. He could
never have q good day on the links but
he must end it with a wet night at the
tavern So, to cure him. the woman lay
in wait on the road one evening, dressed
in white sheet.
When her husband appeared. she rose
from behind a hedge. an awful white
figure, with outspread arms.
I'm Aud MCKEE" said the figure, in n
hollow voice.
"Gie's a shake O. yer hand, them" said
the tipsy caddie. I'm married tae a sis
ter o. yours. She'll be waitin' for us
up at the hoose, an dhae doot she'll max
We welcome"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-10
Baseball Reorganization

The Southern League has been eX-
tended ten years, and the old circle Of
teams remains unbroken. Geographi-
cal objections to the retention of Lit
tie Rock were presented but they were
voted down. and the Arkansas city
will continue 10 strive for the pennant
The renewal of the league agreement
gives feeling of permanency to base
ball in the south, and the eight teams
of old will continue to be the leaders
of the national sport in this section
of the country.
President Baugh will come home,
however, to find that ruthless rail-
road Is assailing the old camp ground
tonight and all nights and that the
selection of new grounds and the cree
ton of new bleachers, If not a new
grand stand, is live issue. There is
business to be done, but then there are
intervening months to do it in, and
when April 70 arrives no doubt the
fans will have occasion to rejoice over
an improved situation in all directions,
for while the directorate is engaged
IN finding a new home for the sport
the manager will be engaged in cor.
rolling players who will keep the
team in the first division from start to
ars,1,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-10
In Old VIRGINIA..

'I am not in touch with the liquor in
terests, but every business man l met
in Virginia expressed the hope that that
state would be delivered from a. prohib-
ton agitation said r. N. Thesis of
Philadelphia.
II spent two days in Richmond and two
days in Norfolk week before last and
found in those cities a great deal of
interest in Alabama's constitutional pro-
hibition campaign. Virginia has the local
option law and those persons who dis
cussed the business situation from an
anti-prohibition point of view did not
seem to be advocates of saloons so much
as they were believers in keeping the
wholesale liquor interests intact. They
pointed out the loss that Virginia would
sustain In a business way If millions of
dollars were sent out of the state every
year for liquor.
IT was told in Richmond that the sa-
looms there were strictly regulated and
that there was comparatively little oppo-
sition to them. Richmond. 1t is said, has
always been noted for its large volume
of saloon trade, and it is likewise noted
for its good order and small criminal
record
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-10
Florida and GEORGIA.

II was in Jacksonville. Fla, last week"
said H. B. MADISON, proprietor of the
Metropolitan hotel, land was glad to
see that city going ahead in a substan-
tial way. 1t is growing very fast and the
improvements are on q magnificent scale.
Jacksonville is a saloon town, but some
of the business men / met expressed
the fear that Florida might some day
have statutory prohibition; the general
impression seemed to be, however, that
the big towns enjoying profitable tourist
business would be exempt from its oper-
alton.
"On my way home 1 stopped in Geor-
gia. 1 spent day in Savannah, where
saloons are wide open, Notwithstanding
the fact that Georgia is prohibition
state. The legislature made the sale of
near beer lawful by taxing it, and near
beer means now regular beer. Atlanta
has an immense beer traffic. The state
and the cities reap a large revenue from
the beer tax. On the whole, then, 1t is
ridiculous to include Georgia in the list
of prohibition states, although statutory
prohibition has never been repealed"