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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-08
Big Crop Products Desired
Sheriff Of st.

The duty of appointing successes
to the late Sheriff Crow of st. Clair II
now up to the governor. A great man,
applicants are on the lists and 1t will
likely take several days to get selec
ton made. Governor Conner has al
ready made somewhat of an investiga
tion.
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VIII not be opened until the judgment day
A nttle farther on. at the corner of the
temple. is st. Stephens gate. which some
suppose was the place where ST Stephen
was stoned. Another legend is that the
place Of the Stoning was near the Croft o
or jeremiah, in SOlCmon's quarrieS fart her
along around the walls. The tradition is
that Stephen was here brought to the
brow of the hill and thrown over "A
precipIce His hands were tied and after
falling. heavy blocks of stone were rolled
down upon him from the brow of the hill
The walls near the temple are among
the first that were built They are i'm
fne condition today parts of them having
been recently repaired. The stones are
OF bright yellow limestone laid in white
mortar. Those at the bottom. which
We're laid up by Solomon. are of enormous
size. one being about fifty feet long and
about fifteen feet high and evidently cut
from the bed rock upon which the wall
stands.
Right at the temple the walls rise al
most precipitouSly from the Valley of
Jehosophat. and | judge they are loo feet
high. The walls are i'm excellent condi-
ton throughout The towers are almost
perfect, and. although the vegetation is
growing in the cracks. the most of the
wall looks comparatively new
curious feature of the walls of Ieru-
salem is stone block as big around as
a flour barrel which extends out from
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that part above which The Temple -ta-ds
10 distance of perhaps fifteen fect
rms block or pillar hangs right over the
rocky Valley OF Jehosophat with inc
Mount of Olives rising w is opposite
side According to the belief of the No
hammedanS. il will he upon this pillar
mat Mahomet viii sit at the day Of iuag-
ment, and Christ viii have His seat on to
opposite side Of the valley There viii h.,
i1ne wire stretched from the pillar
across to the mountain. and upon this
Wire all. mankind must walk on it's way
To eternity. As the people of the various
relislonS go those who believe in Mo-
hammedanism will he upheld 10y tho
angels and will reach safely the opposite
side. whence they viii ascend into
Heaven. The others will drop down INTO
the valley and perish
There are cemeteries for both the Jews
and MohammedanS not far from the tenn
pie outside the walls. The Mohamme-iau
cemetery hugs the walls above the
temple II is just opposite the Garden Of
Gethsemane and il includes also tho Plsra
of the Skull where Gen. Gordon has To-
Gated the site of Calvary. This site is
now surrounded by a wall and fence, and
Christians are not permitted to enter IT,
Within II is the grntto where 1ererifah
Is said to have written his lament afsors,
and not far away. near the Damascus
gate, are Soiomon's quarres,
FRANK @. CARPENTER
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as we look at the gardens on the slopes
OF kedron or Jehosoplat observe that
the land is still rich. There are COWS
away down in the valley and the bees
are buzZinS on the cacti and wild flow
ers on the slopes. The Holy Land is
still one of milk and honey. The villages
near Jerusalem have diaries which sup
ply excellent butter. and the honey.
which is largely made of orange bios
SONS, is delicious. 1t is served every
day at all the hotels. and is usually in
the liquid form rather than the comb
The slopes of the Valley of Jehosophat
are now spotted with red. Thousands Of
peoples and anemones grow upon the
ridges between the gardens and the
peasants are working the crops They
use plenty of fertilizer and. strange to saw
the most of that which comes from the
city is taken out through the Dung gate
1t may be from this that it had its name
1t is great square hole in the wall lust
large enough for men and beasts to mass
in and out. 1t is not far from the temple
platform and within a stones throw of
the Jews waiting place
The southeastern corner of the walls of
Jerusalem. and, indeed. a large portion
of the eastern walls, are part of the
plateau upon which Solomon's Temple
once stood In almost the middle Of the
eastern side of the temple is what is
known as the Golden gate It has been
wallcdSup and the Mohammedans saw il
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spective fathers, received much wider
powers.
What was the explanation? asked the
newspapers. Not that the crown prince
disliked public work. On the contrary,
i'll one of the "Hochberg Letters" pub
lished in New York, the crown prince
had expressed satisfaction at his father
talking to him on public affairs. and the
wording Of the letter showed plainly that
he disliked being forced to play at life
Friedrich Wilhelm. too. is capable enough.
He showed that during his military
studies. and later at the home office the
ministry of finance and the admiralty.
Yet he has been forced to remain blank
page to his future subjects: and never
once has he opened his mouth to show
what manner of ruler they are to expect.
True. when invested last August as rec
tor Observation-Disclosures of Koenigsberg
University he made short speech prais-
ing German nationalsm as opposed to
cosmopolitan sentiment. But no one be-
lieves that that was the real Friedrich
Wilhelm for all know we'll that this
profession of nationalism is a favorite
sentiment of his imperial papa.
X X
The fact is deduced that Kaiser Will
helm does not want his son to develop
into rival personality, and thus distract
the public eye even for a moment from
his own dazzling glare He is ONLY fol-
lowing Hohenzolern tradition The
Prussian kings of the past acted almost
as did the old Turkish sultans. who lock-
ed up their heirs in gilded jails These
RUSSIAN kings tried to keep their heirs
IN the background because under each of
them there Sprang UP ''KronprinZen-
partel "a crown princes party-which
formed a rival court. Every one out of
1avor and out of Office gathered round
the crown prince and eagerly awaited the
SoVerelgns death. The crown princes
gained further support by posing as pro-
gressives; but usualIy-with the excention
OF Kaiser Friedrich-this was a fraud eX-
posed when the throne was reached The
ruilhg sovereiGnS retorted by snubbing
thelr sons and keeping them out of poli-
ucS This fact has even occupied his
torians. Immediately after the death of
r friedrich, Treitschke published his study
Two kaisers, in which, referring TO
Wilhelm I. he said:
Kaiser Wilhelm held very RIGID nrincY
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size and it has now between eighty and
one hundred thousand people. In 1855 the
most of the inhabitants were crowded to-
gether inside the walls. They are so
crowded still. but to the north. south and
west large Jewish settlements have
sprung up and among and beyond them
have been built great hospices, hospitals
converts cathedrals and hotels. so that
the city outside the walls almost equals
The population of that within. The new
buildings have extended to the Mount of
Olives. and they are working their way
toward the east along the road TO Jaffa.
The quotation / have given relates TO
the Jerusalem within the walls. II is as
compact today as ii was when David
lived, and even in those later times when
IL is said to have had million and more
population. | doubt the estimates, al
though history states the fact. We can
get some idea of the real Situation by
This is built on the hig..est part of Mount
Zion, which overlooks Jerusalem. We are
now far above the city, and We can see
the country on all sides The town lies in
n nest in the mountains on the edge of a
plateau, which falls off into the valley of
kedron and the valley of Hinnom, and
beyond which rises the Mount of Olives.
The walls run right along the edges of
these valleys, climbing up hill and down,
and then making their way about the ir-
stands until they end again here at the
Jaffa gate. Jerusalem is rolling 1t is made
up of hill and hollow and was probably
chosen as the site of the capital of Judea
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pies about restricting the heir He knew
1nat the hrst subject of the empire must
not ne asked for advice, otherwise he
would want to govern also Like all the
great mOnarchs Of history like all the
Hohenzollerns. with the exception of
Friedrich Wilhelm II, he kept his son
at great distance from public affairs -
Desplte this fact guaranteed by Trelt-
Schke the former PruSsian soveregns
iailed utterly to prevent the formation
0L crown princes party" Kaiser
"llhelm alone has succeeded, and sue
ceeded brilliantly. There is no crown
princess party today. So little is known
of the princes real character and opin-
IONS that no class in the empire has any
thlng to hope or fear from his ascension
OF the throne. What is known goes on
the whole to justify the kaisers appre-
hensions. Friedrich Wilhelm is a man
or more modern spirit than Wilhelm IL
The root of parental jealousy is, there
lore mat the son may display, if not
In politics. then in religion, art or litera-
ture, liking for those modern tenden-
cles which Kaiser Wilhelm regards as
the work of the evil one. If the heir
were allowed to show liberalism in any
form he would gain a popularity among
the masses which the kaiser cannot boast
Of
In the theater. literature ard art Fried
rich Wilhelm seems secretly to rebel
against his fathers domination. Kaiser
Wilhelm abhors problem plays. secession
lst paintings and modern" furniture. He
likes Italian music and German folk
songs, and considers Richard strauss a
crazy noiSemonger. But the crown prince
goes to the kammerspiele Theater to see
the most modern" sex and problem
plays, which attack principles regarded
by his father as sacred. He disikes the
classical and the romantic, and even
caused scandal by going to sleep dur
ing performance of 'SardanapaluS
that somniferous ballet constructed by
his father and the Assyriologist, DelitZsch
ana all this seems to annoy Kaiser
Wilhelm, awakens diStrust in the sound
ness of his heirs Judgment and helps
10 explain why he regards with appre-
henslon the day when Friedrich Wilhelm
VIII reveal his personality to the German
people. ''"'
What accentuates this undoubted Iack
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way down the calf Their heads are COW
cred with handkerchiefs and their faces
are bronzed by the sun Each has a
stan In her hand and a bag on her back.
four miles an hour. They are dusty and
dirty, and they look weary and worn.
Those are peasant women from Russia.
who have come here as pilgrims, and who
are making their way from shrine to
SHRINE. They have tramped this morning
out to Bethlehem. and tomorrow will like
ly be on their way to the Jordan,
Let us start here at the Jaffa gate and
make trip around the walls of Jerusa-
lem. l have tramped about them on foot
and have ridden round upon donkeys.
Some of the walls which still stand We're
laid up by Solomon, others were erected
ny Herod the Great, who built David's
tower. and others by Agrippa only few
years after Christ's death.
We walk across the road leadip, IN
Bethlehem, down which the wise men of
the east rode on their way to tho birth
pace or the Savior and picking our stems
through caravan of camels lying there
climb road which leads up the slope of
Mount zion. There is moat at the foot
OF the tower which is 100 feet wide and
10 feet deep, and the wall rises per
maps loo feet above this. There are olive
trees between the road and the walls
and as We go We see ragged donkeys
feeding among them Now we have nassed
the moat and come close to the wall IT.
lower portions are about 1000 wears old
out the stones are as firm as when they
were laid. The upper layers are of SQUARE
and oblong blocks. They were repaired
centuries since, and are laid in white
Go20G onward we pass tower after tower
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in the morning until in the Afternoon
The student is even taught to make a
miniature gun that he may be absolutely
familiar with the construction of the
big fellows.
Before he is detailed to ship the ap-
prentice is given three months instruc-
ton In the handling of high explosives.
He is taught the workings of the sub
marine mine. and by the time he has
graduated from the school he can do
about everything except shoot.
Then he is turned over to a battle
ship, where he is given the position OF
gun pointer in charge of an instructor
who knows the business from top to bot
tom, and at this gun he sticks until his
superiors think him eminently trust
worthy. when he is allowed to partici-
pate in maneuvers. Finally he handles a
gun in real war.
There is probably not a happier man
in the navy today than Lieut. John Tim
mons. son-in-law of former Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks and chief ordnance of
ficer on the Idaho. He is supremely sat
isfied with the wonderful work accom-
pliShed by his crew, which already holds
the record for mine planting made at
ProVincetown last summer
To the Idaho has been given the red
pennant which marks her as carrying the
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best gunners. This is by no means a re-
Election on the crews of the other ships
that took part in the craftsmanship trials
Every battleship, il is reported Al Wash
inSton, distinguished itself. The Vermont
and Minnesota We're so close in results TO
the Idaho that il was several DAYS befo p
a decision was announced faVorng ne
latter vessel \ year or two ago the
record made by the Idaho would have
been an impOssibility. For example when
the crew of the Indiana hit "A mark four
feet square four times cousecutivelN at
a distance of 1,G0o yards the naVies OF
the world were astounded. Yet the Idaho
has hit mark nearly ten times as lar
away.
In 1904 the Wisconsin made a worlds
record that was thought equally aston
fishing when at 5000 yards She hit a
mark nine times out of ten efforts.
During the same year Yankee sailors,
gunners on the kearsarge. hit a bull -
eye. Loco feet distant, ten times in i've
minutes with an eight-inch gun while
moving at the rate of ten miles an hour.
and a few months after a crew tie
Texas made new worlds record by scuI-
ing eleven hits in ten minutes with twelNe-
inch guns.
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running fifteen or twenty feet out from the
wall and rising five six feet above it
Inc walls are thick. and the towers were
PROBABLY used for the archerS and watch
men stationed there on the outlook for
the enemy
A little beyond David's tower. almnst
hugglng the walls. is a great church be-
longing to the Germans 1t is still in
process of construction and when com
pieted 1T will command a view over the
whole of Jerusalem The site was given
TO the Kaiser of Germany by the sultan
and he holds the deed to it. A part of
the churchyard is the American ceme-
terry, which was sold by our consul. 1t
Is now filled with barrels of building ma
terlais and lime and mortar cover the
excavations where American Christians
once lay. The selling of the cemetery
caused great excitement among the
Americans at Jerusalem. and the Amer
lean colony here protested against the re-
moVa1 of their dead. which they say was
done after dark. The bodies were taken
UP and carried to the English cemetery
Continuing the ride on our donkevS
we hug the wall looking down into the
Valley of Hinnom until we come to Zion
gate, below which in the Valley of Je-
Christ cured the blind man by APPLYING
moist clay to his eyes. A the Zion gate
group of lepers are begging. They are
ragged and filthy and they hold out the
Stu:nps of their hands asking for aims
1t was on the inside Of this gate that the
house CT Caiphas stood. where Peter
three times denied that he was one of
the disciples of Christ, whereupcn the
cock CrOWed.
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up for mysterious Asia, and will start in
November. y cartOonist depicts him
whispering TO the deposed emperor ~
Korea: w ny don't you GO and help
papa i'm Berlin" Certain it is thar
Kaiser Wilhelm does not want the heip
OF Friedrich Wilhelm; and f. only to-
pleased that he is taking his horses. -
hockey sticks. his skates and his Ell
earth.
Copyright i'm the United states and Groat Britain
hy Curtis Brown. All rights strictly reScrvedD
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This photograph of Friedrich Will
helm. the German Crown Prince. IL n
faVorfte with the BerIinerS, who like
the young man as much they fear
and respect the kaiser.
dle. and suddenly plunge Friedrich Will
helm, fresh from the race course and
card table into all the woes of kingship
Friedrich Wilhelm has been kept in the
political background even more jealousy
than was Albert Edward; and Germans
were discussing this busily when came
the announcement of the voyage to Asia
So that to many minds this voyage to
Asia confirmed the theory that the young
crown prince is not wanted in his native
land.
The matter was brought to head last
May, when the kaiser, worried by a boil
on his arm, issued a decree authorizing
his heir to sign documents Experts COM
mented on the narrowness of the author
ity- The prince was allowed the physical
act or signing on his fathers instruc-
tons. but his authority ceased there
Rusty precedent seekers looked up rec
ords and found that never I'm Prussian
history had royal power of attorney
given so little freedom: and il was shown
that the late Kaiser Friedrich and Will
helm ii, during the illness of their re-
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Jects. And this. too. helps to explain why
Friedrich Wilhelm is kept in the nursery
ana why all the speechmaking and iol-
llHlhs Is the province of his august papa
But there is another reason: ana tr,rn
must out. Friedrich Wilhelm is more
popular than Wilhelm ii. Wilhelm. MANY
say, is truly great man. But he is not
liked lie has trodden on too many toes
lie mas trodden on socialists. on secta-
Iians, on Poles, on Alsatians. on problen-
play writer's, on new women. on modern
musicians, on people with small families,
on peSsimistS. And all these people and
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many more, have been hurt and dislike
their ruler But Friedrich Wilhelm is
popular, if only for the good reason that
being forbidden 10 speak at all. he has
hurt no ones feelings. Therefore. though
there is no kronprinzenpartei' there
would quickly be one We're only the heir
allowed to show his hand So Wilhelm
ii quite naturally keeps his son i'm the
nursery; for did he not once declare To
the citizens of Frankfurt: There is
only one ruler in this country. and that
is l.
And now Friedrich Wilhelm is packing
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"A of the battleship Idaho in the
4 y recent big gun target shooting
held off Cape Henry. This an
nouncement has still further strengthen
ed the position long held by American
sailors among the navies of the world as
the hnest markSmen in existence
Inc new marks set by the twelve and
seven inch guns of the 1O.0sa-ton sea-
hshter, which by the side of some of the
recently built dreadnoughts of Germany
ana england is a mere pygmy are lust
now the talk of naval circles everywhere
In England and Germany. in Russia and
Japan the same question is being asked.
why is it that the Yankees are able to
shoot Stralshter than we CAM"
me answer to the question may he
given IN very few words The Aneri-
can gunner has made these records DOS
slble. The American sailors infinite pa-
uehce ana stlck-to-itiveness have made him
CHAMPION The American sailor practices
until he canot miss. The EuroDean sail
or practices until he is tired and then
quits.
The United States does not snend 60
nluch Tor new battleships as other coun-
tries, but ii lays more emphasis on marks
nahshlp than does any other nation in
the world. More time and ammunition
are exhausted III the American navy i'm
Zen times the sum spent for this purpose
IN England is spent by America
bullng the practice in which she won
her championship the sailors of the Idaho
shattered targets at 10000 yards distance.
x
Had the little vessel been in battle she
would have shattered in five minutes a
battleship at a distance of five miles had
She shot with the same accuracy
The gunner on the modern warship
must be man of educat ton. For this
reason. able instructors are paid by the
nted States to teach members of the
crew, who wish to learn lessons in en-
mechanics and mathematics
The gunner must be advanced in these .
branches as well as i'm craftsmanship.
Disasters to the Russian fleet during their ,
var with Japan might be used as ex- ,
impies to show how necessary il is for
he marine gunner to serve long APP
premiership He must not only be able I
o shoot. but must be able to prevent &
himself being sunk.
The student begins In the ordnance i
hops at Washington. where he is in r
tructed in the rudiments of the art t
lie is shown the difference between GER
ain sizes of guns, etc. and kept at his
tudies six days a week from s. O'Clock q
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A MONG the Cave Dwell
( \ ers - Strange Scenes
About the Jaffa Gate-A
Trip Around the Walls-The
American Cemetery Gobbled
by Germans-The Gardens of
Jehoshaphat - The Founda-
ton of Solomon's Temple
The Pillar of Judgment and
the Tight Rope on Which
All Mankind Must Walk to
Heaven or He'll.
'CcEvsight. 1910. ~ Frank G. Carpenter
Special Correspondence OF The Star
JERUSALEM
Jerusalem citv
'ompsctly built together:
nto that place the tribes go I'D:
The tribes OF God go thither''
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any of the thousand subjects on which
his imperial father has lectured his sub
Jects by the hour. Like the late Edward
VII during the long lifetime of Victoria,
the kaiser's heir is apparently expected
to play games for thirty years to come.
at the end of which Kaiser Wilhelm will
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HESE words from
one of the Psalms
were written of the
Jerusalem of David
They fifty describe
the Jerusalem of
today. The Holy
City of 1910 covers
twice as much
space as ii did
when | was here
twenty years ago.
1t has doubled in
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h-ff isfitt.
WILHELM
III is sending his
son TO immemoriaI
Asia. Friedrich
W i ] h elm is to
s t u dy politics.
Thereby Germany
loses temporarily
a good horse
man, a tolerabie
hockey-player, an
Indifferent per-
former on skates
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dered DR.. Won Falkenhayn to give him a
series of lessons on the internal govern
ment of Prussia. Friedrich WilheIm's
easy, somewhat happy go-lucky nature
revoted against the wooden pedagogue:
and the story-probably untrue but char
acteristic-is told that when Won Falken-
hayn asked him to write an essay on the
career of the average Prussian citizen he
indited the following irreverent pasquil:
First the registrar gives him birth certificate
Then the haptizcs him.
Then the doctor yaccnates him.
Then the schoolmaster puts spectacles on his
nose.
Then the state him into uniform.
Then the government gives him
l. An office
2. \ title.
). 4 character.
Then his majesty gives him "A decoration
Then when he dies a pair of
wings onto his epauettes and turns him
loose decent little Prussan angel
The impish spirit which inspires such
outbreaks is strong in merry Friedrich
Wilhelm. But it does not please his apos-
tolic parent, VINO resents fitting at those
divinities who are his best friends and
allies So Wilhelm III naturally fears the
influence of this free-thinking, somewhat
frivolous young man on his faithful SUBJ