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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14
Southern Colleges

The advertisements of schools and colleges in the south seem more ana more attractive each year, and the best of 1t is that the fathers of the south are better able now to send their boys to college than they were few years ago. Institutions of learning in every mart of the country are fast in- creasing their endowments. In Ala hama and other southern states the scope of college work was for long time restricted, owing to lack of finan- cial aid; but within the past three or four years there has been notable gain in southern colleges in point ol material resources. This means a broadening of the curricula and a need ed expansion in the matter of college appliances, outfit and accommodations generally.
 At this time of the year our college presidents are canvassing the south for students and the prospects for in- creased enrolment are bright. Can vassing for denominational schools is being pushed, indeed, with especial en- ergy, and as all the well-known reli- gious bodies are strong in Alabama, their respective colleges should be de- prosperous in the scholastic year 1909-10.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14
THE WATERSHED.

From Golfers Weekly. Black mountains pricked with pointed pine A melancholy sky. Outdistanced was the German vine;
 The sterile fields lay high. Through swarthy Alps I 1ourneyed forth Aloft; 1t was the North. the North;
 Bound for the Noon was I. seemed to breast the streets that day; I met. opposed, withstood Tho Northward rivers on their way,
 My heart against the food My heart that strove to rise and reach, And felt the love of altering speech.
 Of frontiers, in its blood.
 Of summer! Oh to see Of all the Southward brooks the first!
 The traveling heart went free With endless streams; that strife wal
 stopped. And down thou4and vales dropped.
 flowed to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14
Petroleum Butter

The Standard Oil furnishes by-prod- ucts from axle grease to SDhday school advice, and there Is really no reason why 1t should not furnish the country with butter also. Petroleum Is purer than slaughter house fats, and no ani- nal diseases enter into it. If benzoate of soda, boracic acid and alum are kept out of the new Rockefeller butter, there is no reason in the world why consumers should not consume it. AS a matter of fact they will have no choice in the matter, for whatever the Standard Oil puts out is sure to find a market
 At first the farmers and the meat trust will object, but the oleomarger- fine of the latter and much of the but ter made by the former are already under suspicion, and the new petro- leum butter has an ample field and an assured sale. These are changeful times, and what seemed improbable a year ago may become wildly popular in the course of another year. year ago no one expected to spread petro- lumb on his slices of mothers bread, but times change and people change with them, and so, it seems, does our butter. Make room, then, for the coming of Rockefeller butter. It is the latest development of twentieth century civilization and greed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

underestimate his resourcefulness. Skilled commanders have contended that a coun- ter attack is sometimes the best means of defense. The suffragettes have been waging vigorous campaign in Chicago Some of the spinsters, copying the fash ion set in New York, have pledged them selves to marry none but "suffragette men'' who will work and vote for the cause. It was high time for diversion in behalf of the beleaguered males. And so the university man, with nice sense of dramatic values and laudable liking for warm weather publicity, springs to the rescue with a proposition which places the militant sisters upon the de- fenslve. From asking questions they are called to turn and answer a few in their turn. Are they as good and as wise and as fit as their great-great-grandmo Have they retrograded, and if so, have they lost the opportunity to exercise the suffrage which knocked at their door in 993 B. c. and departed to return no more? There are mighty few men, even among the faculty of the university to which Professor Willett is attached who would dare to propound on defend these their very unexpectedness may halt and confuse the militant ssterhood for a time. Whether they have lost their opportunity to vote or not, one thing seems clear some of the professors of a well known western university are losing none to break into the news.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14
"DAVE" RICH AT THE FAIR.

From the Boston Shoe Retailer.
 Among the visitors at the shoe and leather fair on Wednesday of this week was Dave" Rich of D. & A. Rich of Bir- mingham, Ala MT Rich spent the most of his time while at the fair as a guest of the stetson Shoe company at that com papys exhibit and was pressed into serv- ice as one of the reception committee. MT. Rich is fine entertainer and great conversationalist and he proved valu- able acquisition to the Stetson salesforce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14
ALASKAN MooNsHINE.

From the Ketchikan (Alaska) Miner.
 Up here in Alaska the moon rises in the south and sets in the north. Its beams are liquid and they enamel the landscape with a porcelain loveliness. It casts a spell more potent than e'er did the ma gicians of the east. Under its wizardry the rocks turn to silver and the brown old mountains are conjured into giant pearls True wealth exists in the mind, and whoever beholds an Alaskan moonlight is thrice hundred times a millionaire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the New York Press.
 Ask for bread and you may be given the stony stare. Small talk is responsible for the use of many big words.
 No, AIonzo; polecat isn't the only cat that can climb a pole.
 Every time a man has his fortune told he gets rid of a small portion of it.
 An old grouch is as good as a new one if you are merely looking for trouble.
 The market price of airships would in- dicate that only the rich caa pose as high dyarA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14
WHERE THE MONEY GOES.
From Golfers Weekly.

rfoiH Couierb B WoohAy'
 In 1899 the number of riders on Pullman cars in this country was 60o0.oo0. and they paid s1o,o00.o0o as the price. In 1908. a year of hard times, there were IS, 100000 riders at a cost of sao.oooooo. A good deal of what is called increased cost of living in this country is really increased demand for luxuries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

been working nights to keep up with the demands for permits to run automobiles through the state over the highways. There was never time when the people went so fast, so far and so easy. and the troubles of the practice are decreas- ing as men come to better underestimate ing of what the motor wagons are good for,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

The late Edward Everett Hale receiv- ed salary of 5000 year for serving as chaplain of the United State Sen ate, and when the Senate gave his family one-half of his salary for year 1t did not do big thing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

The Connecticut and Georgia legis- latures are in session, and the repub- lican magnates are demanding that the former turn down the income tax. That legislature needs watching.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14
UNIFORMITY OF STATE LAWS.

From the Boston AdVert1Ser
 While complete uniformity of state legis- lation may be impossible, even if 1t is certainly, desirable. there can be no Quss- ton of the desirability of . closer ap- proach to that condition. Nor can there be any question of the possibility Of ef- fecting considerable reform in that di- rection, If sufficient force is put behind the present movement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

The Iowa supreme court says that because a man swears is no excuse for taking out his telephone. Cuss words are sometimes, in fact, the only 70. O. D." that central will recognize.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

The housefy and the mosquito disre- gard the decision to go. They are as careless about it as are the trusts. The three-housefiies, trusts and mosqui- toes-are the plagues of the republic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

The ultimate consumer has not had an inning in many years, and he will get none at the hands of the Aldrich- Cannon conference committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

On cattle ships students who desire to ride free seek, of course, the steer age. (This Is pretty bad, but it will have to stand)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

John D. Rockefeller was 70 years old before he discovered how to make but ter for the plain people out of crude petroleum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

The Presidents itinerary includes Birmingham, and October is the month he has selected to make it In.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

The care-free hobo Is enjoying the increase in moving freight cars. He is happiest when the summer-travel season is over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

A conference committee headed by Aldrieh and Dalzell can be trusted to ignore the hapless consumer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

No insurgent republican was granted even a mention for a place on the con- ference committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

There are a million more women than men in England, and the latter do not want to be outvoted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

Millionaires become poverty stricken when property is to be returned for taxation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

Curfew tolls the closing hour of sa- looms in Nebraska, and Council Bluffs becomes at once busy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

The Wrights refuse to become joy riders even to make a congressional holiday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

Harry Thaw escaped the electric chair to dodge from asylum to jail and back again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

The holding companies are the su- preme plague of the republic, and yet they decline to be taxed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

Even arsenic has been taken from the free list by the heartless Aldrich
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

The House did not know it's tariff bill when it was returned from the Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

Cuba prefers game chickens to bull locks and lotteries to honest indus tries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14
GEORGIA ECONOMY.
From the Atlanta Constitution.

From the Atlanta Constitution
 "Oh, Sue!
 What. mammyf"
 "It's sich a fine spring day know thar must be a rattlesnake or two a-sunnin' of hissSf. Run out like a good gal an kill one. an sit rattle fer the baby!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14

Petroleum butter comes next Tho Standard oil needs another by.pfoduct
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14
About Persons.

President J. c. Maben of the sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company left yesterday morning for New York. He will be joined by his family. now in the east, and they will sail Satur- day for Naples. MT. Maben expects to return in September.
 The Rev. Father Coyle leaves for turn next week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14
Signs of Prosperity.

Not the least of the signs of re- turning prosperity in Birmingham is the demand for rooms in the better class of boarding houses" said a young business man who rents room. "The house where I lodge has 8 num- Der of rooms set apart for boarders and every one of them is occupied and has been for a month past.
 Moreover, I am told that houses on the Highlands for rent are very scarce. It Is said that many men who have recently come here to live and who can afford to pay big rent have left their families behind because desira- ble houses are not vacant at this tims."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-14
HomeIy Truths.

"The New York Sun in an article en- tiled The Taxpayer or the Tiger?' which appeared in The Age-Herald of today CTuesday) contained many homely truths touching the liquor question: said a temperance man who is opposed to state wide prohibition. There is not an in- telligent police official, who is familiar with large cities, commercial traveller or other person who sees something of the world but will say, if he be frank, that prohibition does not prohibit in large cities where 1t has been tried. There Is scarcely city of considerable size that has dry majority. But even if only good-sized minority favored the sale of liquor the sentiment against pro- hibition would be too strong to be kept down, no matter how large or how hon. est and alert the constabulary.
 Leading prohibitionists. whether they be professional or academic. lose sight of the willfulness, and, one might say, the cussedness. of whole lot of people who, failing to see any harm in taking a drink of beer. persist in regaling them- selves. The Sun in the article referred to is discussing the approaching election in Charleston when the question of wet or dry is to be decided. And here is some of the Suns insight into human nature and familiarity with bibulous con- ditions in cities:
 It will be a momentous occasion in the history of the town. AS a corpora tion Charleston is very poor, for 1t main tains more charities than any city twice its size that we know of. No one doubts that the usual amount of liquor will be consumed there whichever way the elec- ton goes. There is no power to keep 1t out or to prevent It's consumption when it gets there. Moreover, all laws fail where public sentiment holds them in contempt and execration. To very great extent the finances of Charleston are at stake, to say nothing of it's morality. and next months balloting will mean more for the corporation than can be told in brief review, or understood. if told, by the average outsider.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28
Letter from Gov. Ide.
He Ably Defends His Position as a Low
VermOnter

he ABLY DEFENDS His Position as q LOyal
VermOnter.
The following letter to the Burlington
Free Press appeared in that paper OF
April 21:
| have noticed in newspapers of nv
state some discussion as to whether INV
appointment as minister to Spain ought
to be credited or charged, as the case
may be, TO Vermont. | think | know
where now live and where | have al
ways lived. Some2iew York papers pub
lished my name as 'of New York, prob
ably because my three last predecessors
IN that mission were from New York and
they assumed that that state would
claim and receive this appointment. |
know OF no other reason for the state
ment. l have no more claims upon New
YORK than | have upon Russia, and New
York has no more claims upon me than
has Russia, was nominated by Pres;-
dent Taft as "of Vermont" and was
confined by the Senate as "of Vermont"
was born in our State, fitted for col
lege there, worked on a farm and
taught school there to aid in getting nv
college education, studied law there, and
from 1877 to 1891 had the rough and
tumble OF an active practice of nv pro.
lession' winning and losing nv fair
snare OF cases IN our state and federal
courts taking part in all political cam.
palgns, local, state and national, serving
as states attorney, State senator, presi.
dent OF the state convention and dele
gate to the national convention. In
1891, through the watchful aid of Sena.
tor Proctor | was sent TO Samoa as
United States commissioner, leaving NV
family at home and my law business in
the hands OF my partner. At the end of
the year resigned and was succeeded Inv
a Vermonter | Immediately resumed
the active practice of my profession and
so continued until the end of 1893. when
Germany indicated that would be an
acceptable chief justice of Samoa. and
England and the United States concurred
Grover Cleveland being President, as he
was during my whole term of office
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28

During the writer's enfored stay a
Montpelier last week he had the oppor
tunity to thoroughly inspect the new
system Of bookkeeping in the state
auditors office and the state is to be
congratulated upon the possession oil
such a perfect system of accounting.
The auditors office has been somewhat
severely criticised in the past for its
methods Of bookkeeping, but the new
system has thoroughly disarmed its
critics and we doubt if any state in the
Union has better system or more
efficient office force than Mr.. Graham
has at the present time Double entry
bookkeeping often seems complicated to
the average man, but the system in use
in this office is SO simple that any man
can understand its workings, and the
result speaks for itself.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28
PRESS COMMENT.
A May Meeting at St. Johnsbury

Last August a number of small-town
ministers and teachers met at the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural college and found
ed a new society; the New England
Country Church association was the
name they chose for it, Last January
they met again in the fremont Temple,
Boston. Last February, upon their in.
itiative, delegates from the New England
theological seminaries assembled at Har-
ward university for consultation. At
this meeting it was agreed that some.
thing ought to be done, on the "univer-
sity extension plan, for the benefit of
the country ministers. This decision, as
Professor owen Gates of Andover hasex.
planned, was the result of growing feel
ing in the semnaries that at present
their fine educational resources are not
adequately employed" and that 1.-THE
divinity school must have a message ap.
propriate for the pastor of today if it is
to be trusted with the training of the
pastor OF tomorrow" The holding of
institutes-at points remote from any
theological seminary-for the pastors Of
today was recommended by the Hart
ford conference, and in acceptance of a
hospitable invitation such an institute
will be held in the North Congregational
church of St. Johnsbury, Vt, the first
week in May. The Protestant country
ministers in northeastern Vermont and
northwestern New Hampshire-Bap
Congregatlonalist, Methodist, Universe,
list, Episcopalian-wiIl be invited; the
meetings will be open to the laity also.
The visiting professors will be glad to
answer questions publicly or privately;
and they hope for free discussions. 1T
is desired i" the prospectus says, that
each meeting shall partake of the nature
OF seminary, with the lecturer as lead
er." The announced lecturers are lin
this order) Dean Hodges of Cambridge.
President Butterfeld of the Massachu.
sets Agricultural college, Dean Fem of
Cambridge, Prof Knight of Tufts Prof
BOVINE Of Boston University, President
William Douglas Mackenzie (wh1 will
speak Wednesday evening, May 5, on
The Ministry and the Intellectual Lien
Professor Horr of Newton and Professor
Bacon of the Yale divinity school
Country ministers attending the insti.
tute will not do so at their own
charges" unless they 50 elect; the St.
Johnsbury pastors and churches stand
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28
vermont's Judge Lindsey.

1t is gratifying to note that Vermont
has at the head of one of its reformatory
institutions man whose name can be
closely linked with that of Judge Lindsey
OF Denver the eminently successful ex-
ponent of reformatory work among
boys. We refer to Superintendent Barss
OF the State Industrial School at Yer
gennes, of whose methods in handling
the boys there Judge Lindsey speaks in
the most complimentary way. Superin-
tendent Barss chooses to ignore "dsci-
pline, in the sternest and most repres-
sive meaning of that term, and appeals
in large measure to the individual bows
sense of honor hence the success he is
achieving in building up among the in
mates of the Vergennes school the
qualities OF good citizenship Ludlow
Tribune.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28
Maple Sugar and WhiSkey.

A Washington dispatch of April II
says:
Sickly and sad visaged senators may
be numerous when the senate reconvene'
on Monday. because of the fact that
Senator Page of Vermont and Senator
Bradley of Kentucky were stirred sim.
ultaneously yesterday By generous
impulse.
Mr. Page ordered something close to
ton of real maple sugar from the Yer
mont groves, and divided it into big
packages, which he sent to senatorial
offices. All over the senate Office build
ing the munching of senatorial jaws was
plainly audible to any one who walked
down the corridors.
The messengers who staggered under
the loads of sugar, however, were fol-
lowed closely by still other messengers
bearing with great care numerous sus-
picious packages. These were the gifts of
Senator Bradley and when unwrapped
each recipient found quart bottle of the
choicest whiskey that ever left a Ken
lucky still. Almost at the same instant
the sound of munching ceased to rever-
berate in the corridors. 1t would be
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28
The Hills of Dreamland.

On all the golden hills of dreamland,
Cooled with dew and rainbow kissed;
There twines and curls silver stream,
Through valleys hung with mist.
Down through the woods and swamps OF
youth.
Down past the cot, the mansion and the
mill:
Down where our fathers once did hook
The speckled beauties from the brook.
The highway of life there would paint.
Such lovely pictures, grand and fair;
With secret stairways to tempt the bold
Where caves of Pirate gold are found.
Years roll on, the days of youth are past,
Those golden hills have lost their charm;
The streams no more with trout abound
The youth of long ago have gone.
My thoughts run back to days Of youth,
/ climb those hills of long ago;
But up those staTways once so grand
My faltering limbs refuse to GO
pause and wonder at the change
That three score years and ten have
wrought;
My mind is clear my vision bright
But whisper tells melt is night"
JoHN n. GALE.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28
Esteemed In all Counties.

Judge Hall of the Superior Court, was
presented with a handsome travelling
bag by the members of the Franklin
county bar last Monday. The gift was
in recognition of the good feeling which
that bar has for the Judge who for many
years has been a member thereof. Judge
Halls not only highly esteemed by those
who have been associated with him
many years, but in all the counties where
he has been called to preside as Superior
Judge he has made many friends, who,
like his home county, have the highest
regard for him. Morrisville Messenger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28

The 1909 edition of Summer Homes in
the green hills of Vermont has Just been
issued by the Central Vermont Railway.
This is known as the Champlain tercen-
tenary number, and contains a large
number OF new half tone illustrations of
scenery and other attractions in this
locality, also information in regard to
the tercentenary celebration, and fares
from the principal cities in the United
States and Canada, east of the Detroit
River, and from Washington north. AS
ever the book is most attractive and
will aid in calling attention to the
Champlain valley and the tercentenary
celebration.