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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-02
HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

friend of the late Golden Rule Jones,
mayor of Toledo, and tries to run his
court as Jones ran the city government
upon the divine rule, Whatsoever We
would that mon should do unto you do
ye even so to them
So the merciful judge puts himself in
the prisoners place.
Well. it was queer banquet Men and
women, black and white, all victims of
misfortune. were the guests.
Gee, Gull, we're goin' to be mugged."
remarked Piggy" Mulley when photog-
rapher entered to take a flash picture of
the motley crowd of 60 people
There was much laughter at this BAN
quet. and some tears.
And the toasts!
There was Mrs. Fred Becker, the wife
of a paroled prisoner, who in a faltering
voice told how her desolate home had
been made happy by the judge, who had
reformed her husband. Life now held a
promise, and she was, oh, SO happy!
Then Mrs. Becker had a good cry.
A girl of 15 timidly arose. She had been
set adrift on the streets at years of age.
For three days and nights she went hun
CRY and slept in vacant house. Then a
woman told her II she would go to a
house where a red light burned over the
door she would be taken in.
The girl probationer could scarcely tell
the rest of her tale for sobbing.
She said the woman who opened the
door gave her the first smile she had seen
In weeks. In that house man taught
her to steal Judge Austin was good to
her, suspended her sentence and got her
job. That was over a year ago. Now
she was good girl and would be al
ways.
OF such were the annals of this good
Samaritan.
Grizzled old men told how they were
leading a new life, helped by the good
Judge. Young mon stood up and talked
about how the judge had helped them to
"cut out the booze" and get good jobs.
Surely If there is joy among the angels
over one sinner that repenteth there was
jubilee In heaven over that feast in
Tony Miller's chophouse, over by the po-
lice station.
And the good judgeP
He was happier than an archangel-be-
cause 1t is not given to archangels to have
the souls of sinful men.
IF / were only half as smart as my
little daughter thinks she is or as my
wife thinks l am" unused the benedict.
I'D be pretty conceited individual Now.
last evening l played game of checkers
with my little girl, and, of course, l let
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TIME Filipino will eat anything.
of 1901, was stationed at Binyan,
L of 1901, was stationed at Bimjan,
province of Lagoona, in the continental
island of Luzon. Binyan is a city of
about 10000 inhabitants, situated on La
goona de Bay. about 40 miles north OF
Manila.
Being member of the medical depart
ment, 1 was always ready at a moments
notice to report at any post to which
might be ordered, and serve with any
branch OF the service. This fact gave me
an opportunity to see great deal of the
different native tribes and observe their
manner of living. What interested me
most was their diet. A few days after
my arrival in Blnyan, B troop of the
Sixth cavalry who were at that time oc-
cupying the post, lost a pack mule, which
died of CHAMBERS. This was the first death
occurring in the veterinary department.
The mule was Immediately buried, as in
that hot, moist, tropical climate car
cass rapidly decomposed. The detail of
soldiers finished their task about shutdown.
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MIRACLE-By j. c.. Hiden, D. D.

The records of the evangelists and espe-
cially the Fourth Gospel show that, IN
some respects, Jesus of Nazareth was one
of the most perplexing preachers that
ever lived. And what is true of many of
his sayings is equally true of many of his
acts-they were and are inscrutable to
man. True, 1t is possible to take one of
the discourses of Jesus and expand 1t, and
modernize it, until it will seem to become
quite Ineligible. This is just what Geikle
does in his life of Christ" but after it
is DONE the thing that the reader really
understands is Geikies discourse-not
Christ's. Some of Christ's discourses, as
recorded by John, may be so modernized
and Explained as to destroy all their
peculiarities, and reduce them to the
deadest and dullest commonplace. To
such explanations as these, we greatly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-02

HNHERE is no longer pretense that the
foreigner pays the tariff recent
l. revelations are to the conclusion
that our tariff is for the advantage of the
foreigner. as is argued by the following
taken from the American Magazine:
Frank manufacturers like Mr.. Sehwab
have said, of course we sell cheaper to
foreigners. We must. Not only that,
but we sell materials to our fellow manu-
facturers cheaper when they are to he
turned into goods for foreigners than we
do when they are to be turned into goods
for our own people. Two years ago BY
ron w. Holt made up from catalogs of
American manufacturers a table of prices
for home and foreign markets. 1t is a
beautiful study in gratitude. Mr.. Holt
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PATIENCE, AND SHUFFLE THE CARDS-By Savoyard

names over $50 different articles on which
at that date discounts of from 10 to 66 per
cent lower were quoted to foreign than
to home buyers. An American dealer
paid $50 for potato Hoes which a for
elgner could buy for $40 All farm tools
indeed were sold abroad far lower than at
home, thanks to the farm tools trust. We
paid SIG dozen for wooden wheelbar-
rows for which the foreigner paid s145O.
He paid $40 for the incubator which the
dealer over the border was quoted at SIS.
He paid $S0.24 gross for soap which the
foreign dealer bought for s204s and so
one might so OH with scores of articles
of daily use in farming, in housekeeping,
in all sorts of trades"
OF the half billion of manufactured
products" we export annually 80 per cent
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How many millions of their mites these
poor slaves Of monopoly have paid in
tribute to the Scotch trust will never be
known; but thanks to the American tariff
the American sewing woman is more out
rageously oppressed than her miserable
sister in England of whom Tom Hood
wrote the foregoing.
A Mr.. Miles, manufacturer of farm
machinery, deposed before the ways and
means committee that the steel trust was
the result Of high tariff on that product,
and Andrew Carnegie testified that the
steel trust no longer needed tariff that
1t was making $40 a ton on its entire
product-all velvet. Mr.. Miles. a republic
can, closed with this declaration:
"Give me raw material as cheaply as
raw material produced in America is sold
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far as the record goes. not the least rea-
son for believing that John knew amy
more about the process than we know.
There is not a trace of speculation in his
whole account He confines himself very
strictly to a statement of the facts, the
circumstances and the results. The wine,
provided for the marriage feast, ran short.
Jesus supplied the lack by turning many
gallons of water into good wine; and by
this beginning of Miracles he mani
tested forth his glory and his disciples
believed on him. This is the substance
of the story. Beyond this the evangelist
does not attempt to enlighten us. How
the miracle was wrought, he does not
say; nor do we see the least ground for
believing that is not at all peculiar. 1t is
common-nay universal-in the Scripture
records of miracles.
And is there not lesson for us here
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prefer the original mystery.
We are, of course, to assume that Jesus
had real flial reverence for His excel
lent and thoughtful mother. And when
we find Him speaking to her such words
as John quotes in the fourth verse of the
second chapter of his Gospel. We natural
ly wonder at the fact. Still, 1t is not
sound exposition-it is arrant imposition
to explain away the language. and trans
form it into some vague generality that
has neither point nor purpose. To con-
tinue in your perplexity may be uncoua-
Portable, but to pervert the Scriptures IL
a sin. Better to wait and wonder all
your life, seeing through a glass darlzly--
than to get rid of a difficulty by torturing
the word of God. And better still to say
with John Foster: Never mind; I'll find
1t out in eternity"
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mated, compared with the results of the
average mans life Edison Is 1000 or even
10000 years old. He has produced that
much more than most men.
Energy Is the dynamo that drives men.
1t is sort of Safeguarding dynamo.
Energy is will power in action. The man 8
will says, II will do this thing and the
latent energy in the man Is coupled up
with his will, and the result is activity.
When the human machine is thus put
into motion its velocity and momentum
keeps it going for time. When it Stacks
up the will power, generator, gives out a
new impulse, and the machine is kept
going.
Only
To be effective the activity thus gener-
ated must be properly employed.
A mans generator and dynamo may be
all right. and the latter may revolve 10. :
900 times a minute, the shafting and belts
may be turning, and yet the machine may
wear itself out doing nothing.
Many men spend energy enough doing
nothing when they might do great tasks
If only they were properly coupled up.
1t is the rare man like Edison who
knows how to adjust the machinery of
HIS ill6 DIS W Apply cNcly ounCc VI his
mental and physical energy to doing
things.
Measured by what he has done, Edison
is older than Methuselah
How old are you, measured by that
standard?
Are you really 20. 80 or 40, or 50, or 60
years old?
Perhaps you have put in enough work.
say, at so to be really 100 years old-and
failed.
Well, a man is measured no less by
what he has really tried to do than by
what he has done.
Philip James Bailey has put the whole
matter so admirably 1t cannot be bet
tered:
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts,
not breaths
In feelings, not figures on dial
We should not count time by heart throbs
He most lives
Who thinks most feels the noblest, acts
the best
Measured by the poets standard how
long have you lived?
Along the line of life are many junction
points and two roads lead out from each
1unction-the Right road and the Wrong
road
From the folder of the Right road You
may learn that
The road is single track and in some
places narrow gauge. 1t Is mostly up
grade several feet to the mile There
are sharp curves that 20 around big
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only one of the four evengeists who mem
tons this miracle. Neither Matthew,
Mark nor Luke makes the slightest alu-
sion to 1t. So far as | know this singular
circumstance has never been satisfac-
torily accounted for. That ii was IAN ac-
cdent'' we cannot for moment believe
There must have been a reason for it.
But we SCI no ground for believing that
anybody knows. or can find out what that
reason was.
John distinctly says that the turning of
the water into wine at the marriage feast
in Cana of Galilee was a miracle, and
with equal distinctness he calls it the first
miracle that Jesus ever wrought How
far the evangelist himself understood"
the miracle is question of some interest
but it is a question which we have no
means of solving There is, however so
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-02

And certainly there is such a thing as a
wise agnosticism in the treatment of mir
acles, and even in the treatment Of some
of the mysterious doctrines of the Bible.
The man who knows all about the Fed
eral Headship of Adam; the extent
of the atonement''; the grounds, or the
lack of grounds, for election" the Gov
enanted" and the "uneovenanted" mer-
cies OF God, and the way In which the
atonement is made efficacious in the sal
walton of infants-is the man whom it is
not safe to follow
The notion that the teachings of Christ
were, or are, easy to be understood, is
very prevalent, very false and very mis-
chievous. Jesus frequently, and of set
purpose said what He knew would be
misunderstood; and He distinctly said
that He had a design in SO speaking.
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in the very silence of the Biblical writer's?
Is it possible for us to know anything
about the miracles beyond what the sacred
writer's tell us? If this last question must,
as we decidedly believe 1t must, be an
swered in the negative. then it follows
that many modern treaties and even some
modern sermons on the miracles are
made ground" upon which it is not at
all safe to build.
A hard-headed deacon Of the First Bap-
fist church of Wilmington, n. c., once
paid his pastor high compliment in an
unique way. The pastor was noted for
his great caution in making up and in
expressing his views matters which
he thought were beyond human ken. One
Sunday, after the sermon, the deacon
said: "One reason why l like our preach
er so much is that he knows so little"
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and reap the rich harvest our tariff gives
them in our markets and carry the pillage
across the water to enjoy It IN the Land
o. Cakes.
Don't you remember what a row was
made when the monopoly advanced the
price of spool cotton after the passage
of the Dingley tariff, the cotton schedule
of which is practically unchanged in the
Payne bill?
With fingers weary and worn,
With eyellds heavy and red,
A woman sat in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread
Stitch! stitch! stitchl
In poverty, hunger and dirt,
And still, with voice of dolorous pitch,
She sang the Song of the Shirt"
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rocks and along deep declines. But
On account of the altitude the air is fine.
and when you get up the scenery is I'M
surpassed. And it is safe.
The features of the Wrong road are
The roadbed Is well ballasted, the line
is double tracked all the way, and the
equipment is luxurious. 1t is easy riding
no steep up grades 1t is down hill from
junction to terminal. But
While the coaches are sumptuous and
for few stations the scenery is fascinat-
ing, by and by the train runs through
desert places and gloomy canyons
If you should find yourself a passenger
on this route, look out for the semaphores
whereon is written the red warming
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-02
NRESIDENT TAFT made big hit |
- when he put his tariff message into
u 800 words.

DREsIDBNr TAFT made IA a big hit
L 800 words.
The article you are now reading is COM
posed of 500 words, SO you can readily
understand the brevity of the Taft docu-
ment.
The newspapers have come to dread the
appearance of the average message that
fills so much space, to the exclusion Of
the news.
Besides
1t is an open question whether one per-
son in a thousand really reads the volum-
nous executive deliverances.
Ex-President Roosevelts favorite pic-
ture-the one over the mantel in the ex-
ecutives private office-was the one in
which the old farmer Is shown as sitting
up after the family has gone to bed. burn
ing the midnight oil and porting over each
sentence of the presidents message.
The picture is rather fanciful.
Nowadays the farmer is about as busy
as the business man. He Is on rural
route, gets his daily paper and skins over
the headlines after taking a look at the
markets just as the man In town does.
But 1t Is safe to say the farmer and
everybody else read every word of the
tariff message.
Inc art OF CONDENSATION ID a rare ac-
complishment-
II brevity is the soul of wit, 1t Is also
the soul of eloquence.
Study the masterpieces of modern elo-
uuence. Note the short, incisive sentences
and the epigrams that come like lightning
from the orators brain.
Few speakers understand this art of
condensation. They use words, words,
words and they muss over an idea until
thew tire their audiences. The same is true
Of many writer's
The story of creation in Genesis is short
er than many editorials.
The Lords Prayer is put into go words.
Lincoln's immortal address at Gettys-
burg is shorter than many newspaper par
agraphs.
The most thrilling utterance of one hui
man to another requires but three short
words
II love your
The most eloquent marriage ritual is
the briefest as is the most impressive
burial service.
The language of sincerity, the language
Of the heart, is brief speech
When you have something worth while
to say, make 1t short and sweet
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, esu-
mates that he is 120 years DID,
That Is to say. he estimates the length
Of his life by the amount of energy he has
put into his lifes work.
II the results Of q life are to be estt-
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abroad, and you may remove the tariff
on my product and III make more agri-
cultural implements than ever before. sell
them at a materially reduced price to the
consumer, employ more men and pay bet
ter wages, and in the course of time the
American agricultural implement manu-
facturers will supply the world"
Now. that is what highly protected
manufacturer demanded of Dalzell. Can
non & Co., and they refused It. Against
his will he must continue to sell abroad
cheaper than he does at home because of
the tribute he has to pay other favored
Industries. He is thus bound to gouge the
American farmer, who has to buy Of him
or go without.
There is the biggest lobby In this town
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-02

VV/HEN the Southern Baptist Theo-
M logical Seminary was abiding in
Greenville, S. c., Prof. w. II.
Whitsitt had charge of a male Bible class
of something like 100 members. To this
class he lectured every Sunday morning
in the Baptist church. One Sunday he
said to the pastor: 1T am about to be-
gin series of lectures on the Book of
Revelations" The pastor replied: well,
IL I should attempt to lecture on that
book the lectures would consist mainly in
telling what I don't know about it,"
Yes" rejoined the scholarly professor,
that is just what I expect to tell"
Upon the whole, l rather think this is
the safest plan to pursue in discussing
miracles generally. At all events, this
will be my plan in this article.
1t is a singular fact that John is the
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There is the biggest lobby in this town
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17
Politics w arms Up
at High School
Only One Regular Ticket in Field
But Independent Aspirants
Plentiful.

Senior class politics at the Omaha High
school Is reaching the interesting stage
as all who intend to entci their names Tor
an office nave already done so and the
active campaigning has begun. Only one
ticket has been made out for this election,
the other candidates preferring to run In
~depende9tly.
The two candidates running for president
are Chandler Trimble and Warren Howar l.
the latter being the independent. Both
boys are prominent in the school life,
Trimble being captain Of Company b and
Howard being captain and adjutant of the
regiment.
The other candidates on Trimble's trickot
are vice president, Helen Buck; secretary,
Ruth Sheldon; treasurer, Hugh Mills
sergeant-at-arms, Alfred Kennedy and
Henrietta Gilmore. The remaining indie
pendents are vice president, Nancy Haze
and Crystal Edgington; secretary, Erna
Hadra, Florence Mason and Alice Gideon
sergeant-at-arms, Lsrren Scott and Sara
Ayres.
The election will be held in the near
future.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17
ASPHALT ON FOURTEENTH
BRICK ON HOWARD
CoupciI COmmittee of the whole Thus
Decides on Paving Petitions
Submitted.

Taking up the matter of paving petitions
at it's meeting Monday afternoon. The
council committee of the whole decided on
the material for two streets. Fourteenth,
from Howard to Davenport, will be paved
with asphalt, with six-foot brick cutters,
against the protest OF Councilman Brucker.
Howard street, from Ninth to Sixteenth.
will be paved with burlington brick block
The Berka ordinance TO levy a tax on
bwa and alley viaducts was laid over
one week, as was the ordinance to confine
all householders and builders to the lot
limits for areaway and steps, and also
the matter Of naming some authority to
O. X. appraisers bills.
DR.. Connelrs ordinance to create the
office Of assistant city veterinarian and
slaughter house inspector was postponed
until January. II 1t is put through then
II will be to create the office and have the
salary OF SIPS a month from the general
fund, instead Of having the inspector
collect fees from slaughter house owners.
The vote on a motion to recommend for
passage was a tie, 6 to g..
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17
BRIEF CITY NEWS

Uave Root Print II.
a. r. swoboda-Certified Accountant.
RinShart, photographer, 18th & Farnam.
lighting Fixtures, Burgess Granden Co.
EOyn, photo, removed to 10th G. Howard.
Diamonds-FRENZER-15th and Dodge.
]. A. Gentleman Co., Undsrtakers. New
location 1914 Chicago st. Both phones.
Equitable Lifs-PoIicies sight drafts at
maturity. H.. d, Nicely. manager. Omaha.
Hosea the Prophet Of LovO--"Hosea, the
Prophet of Love-" will be DR.. COINS sub
Ject at Temple Israel Bible class this even
ing,
Hear DR.. HIcBrids Tonight at Calvary
Baptist church, Twenty-fifth and Hamil-
ton; subject, "The Marvellous Love of
God"
There are Several ways OF Baving-The
Nebraska Savings and Loan association
way. and others. Our way pays 6 per cent
per annum. 1O6 Board Of Trade building,
chicago Auto Man Comes Hers. d.
Richardson OF Chicago has arrived to es-
tabllsh an automobile agency in Omaha.
He has taken temporary headquarters
with "A, Il. Fredrickson until such time as
he gets a location for a salesroom.
10 Celebrate Fifty-fourth Anniversary
Omaha lodge. No 2 1. o. o. F., will cele-
brate the Fifty-fourth anniversary Of the
granting Of It's charter next Friday even
ing. This is the oldest charter OF a fra
ternal lodge in the state OF Nebraska. q.
Louis sostwiok ON the Job-Louis H
Bostwick was the first witness for the
state In the prosecution of Jessie Smith
for the Killing OF James Rawlins in the
Dlvis saloon Bostwick took photographs
of the scene OF the crime and these were
offered as evidence by the county attorney
rawlsss ana walpo Deny Chargss-Ton
Lawless, ex-convict and alleged house
breaker. was arraigned I'm police court
charged with burglary. He pleaded moi
guilty and his examination was set fol
Friday morning. Harry Walpo, charged
with aiding and abetting a delinquent
child, also pleaded not guilty and hts ex-
animation was fixed for Friday. Walpo
is charged with having placed a Council
Bluffs girl Myrtle Johnson, in az immoral
house.
Escapes from Chain Gang-John Lange
who has been doing time in the city iai
and who has been a member OF the city
chain gang. made his escape & day or tive