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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-16
WITH THOSE WHO LABOR
IN THE LORDS VINEYARD
BY ID. ". FRANCIS

ordination of candidates for the ministry
whose views were not sound
1t apparently failed and indications are
not lacking that an ugly fight Is facing
the Presbyterian church
Those who were in a position to know
affirm that the Presbyterian laity is al
most solidly against the admission to the
ministry of men who do not accept the
Westminster confession and will take
steps to impress their views on the gen.
eral assembly.
One prominent layman said to me re-
Gently: ut is action like this which gives
weight to the charge of the Jesuit Father
Vaughan that Professionalism Is reprogress-
ing. I'm afraid that there is more truth
in the charge in SO far as 1t Is applied to
city churches than we care to admit.
What the church needs is an old-fash-
Toned revival among the ministers. How
can these men teach the fundamental
truths of Christianity when they do not
believe them?
where the preachers themselves do
not admit the divinity of Christ and his
resurrection from the dead, how can the
church hope to maintain its spirituality?'
One hundred and forty laymen Of the
Episcopal churches of Manhattan, Brook
lyn and the Bronx and Richmond bor-
oughs of this city have part in an i'm
portant development of work for Chris
tian missions. These laymen are law
yers. bank clerks and professional and
business men who give some part of their
SPARE time on week nights and Sundays
to personal work for the advance of
Christianity
They are putting up no opposition to
bishops or other clergy, but are working
Ioxo,i,, for tmnrovements especiallv in
the matter of methods. The develop
ment of the new work covers about ten
years, although it's chief advance has
been during the last five.
The work attempted is not that of the
Brotherhood of st. Andrew, the old or
ganization of Episcopal laymen, but Is
more on the material side. The principal
part of their work has been the demon
stration of new methods. These men de-
clare that If we fly and telegraph with
cut wires, we must also make advances
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in missionary work. Wholly In sympathy
with the church clubs, and often Coop
Grating with them, the newer organiza-
tions touch neither local nor general
work done by them. Bishop Greer, Bish-
op Burgess and other Episcopal leaders
have written In commendation of what
has been accomplished.
The work which these Christian laymen
do, always without salaries, is quite
new. 1t is Goth century advance along
lines not we'll beyond suburbs of their
cities, and here and there buying eligi-
BILE plots of land, three to five acres,
sometimes ten acres, and paying for them
In FULL In amount exactly equal to that
paid for a particular plot mortgage on
downtown real estate is purchased. and
the. plot made the beneficiary. Interest
from the mortgage pays taxes on the
plot, and the principal will by and by
pay assessments for improvements, where
any. or accumulate fund for the
church that is some day to be. Under
this plan there is no danger Of becoming
land poor. Had such plan been becoming
1t might have been put Into operation 30
years ago; the history of Christian
churches in American cities would be
vastly different from what 1t Is.
Closely related to this plan are the
volunteer lay readers and speakers who
go into the suburbs of cities and into
the country districts and there form Sum
day schools and hold religious services
Most of these men have had the train
ing that ministers have had, and are the
same as ministers in all save ordination
Giving their services on Sundays, they
make possible new schools and churches,
the congregations Of which can devote
their entire energies to the buying Of
land and the erection of buildings. When
these things are done they can sub
scribe enough to support a minister.
Having support for the ordained man
they call one. and the volunteer retires.
his work completed. The value to the
new church is tremendous. In Pitts
burg, Buffalo, Baltimore, Louisville. and
New York this work has been developed
into existence within the last ten years
is to 25 new churches In growing suburbs
The money accumulation in some Of the
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frightens the family, agitates the patient
to the utmost and prescribes extraordi-
nary diets. perturbing the life and ex-
hausting the strength of the sick person.
Finally the surgeon is called in.
DO not try to count the number Of
arms cut off, of muscles of the neck in
cised for cricks, of bones broken for
mere cramps, of bellies cut open for
phantom tumors, and especially of women
made barren for pretended ovarian tu-
mors. Humanity ought indeed to do
homage to Charcot for having prevented
a greater depopulation.
These things no doubt, have de-
creased, but they are still being done
every day"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-16
Unnecessary surgical Operations

Scientists are demonstrating that nearly
so per cent of our bodily ills are caused
by mental worries and hysteria II. Ad-
dington Bruce writes most interestingly
about the remarkable cures that eminent
psychopaths are effecting without the aid
of surgery or medicine in the October
American Magazine. He claims that
large number of operations are entirely
unnecessary. He says:
"Dr. Pierre Janet, the worlds fore
most authority on hysteria, in an adj
dress delivered by him to the students of
the Harvard Medical school, made this
statement:
Hysterical affections are uncommon
ly similar to all kinds of medical or sur
gical affections for which they are easily
mistaken. Coptractures paralyses, an
esthesias, various pains. especially when
they are seated in the viscera, may simu-
late anything, and then you have the
legion OF false tuberculosis of the lungs,
of false tumors of the stomach, of false
Intestinal distractions. and, above all, of
false uterine and ovarian tumors.
"'What happens as to the viscera also
exists as to the limbs and the organs of
the senses. Some hysterical disturbances
are mistaken for LESSONS of the bones, of
the rachis, for muscular or tendinous
LESSONS. Then the physician interferes,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-16

Trap shooting. past and present. is dis
cussed by c. Q. Peters in the october
Outing. His advice is admirable Tor IN
stance:
Aim your gun a little above the shed
protecting the traps: give the call pull
do not get ratified get your bird as 1t is
going up, or at It's maximum height, and
then FIRE, aiming about six or eight inches
ahead and a trifie below it. The ten
dency is always to shoot too high. not
allowing for the speed OF the descent.
Above all things fire. even If you know
you are going to miss There is nothing
so disconcerting or fatal to the poise as
to allow a fairly thrown target to get
altogether away without shooting at 1t
at ell.
when calling pull put some ginger
into 1T: bark It, an old trap shot used
TO say: don't falter 1t. as though apollo
sizing for being alive; 1t hurts your con-
ndence and rattles the trap pullers. If
YOU stand with your gun ready and num-
BILE pull three or four times before the
target is thrown the chances are over
whelming that you will miss"
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New York, October 15.-(Special.)-The
New York presbytery is again torn up
over the admission of q young man to
the ministry who is not at all sure on
some points which have been regarded
as fundamentals by the Presbyterian
church. among them the virgin birth and
bodily resurrection of Christ. In spite of
a vigorous protest by considerable MI
nority the presbytery decided to ordain
the young man.
An appeal will be taken to and sent
then to the general assembly. This same
question was brought before the last
general assembly and steps were taken
which 1t was thought would prevent the
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their church. It Is the first school of the
kind ever established in America, and SO
far as can be ascertained, 1t is the first
in the world. 1t has been in existence
for three years. Its sessions are week
nights and Sundays and it's students pro
fessional and business laymen, all OF
whom give their work without salaries.
Audiences are provided for students TO
give their addresses to. Men are taught
to pray without being tied down TO
prayer book. Methods are discussed ana
the history of religious effort is taught
Men are trained for work in Sunday
schools. for social and missionary work,
and as lay readers.
Rev. W. A. Kerr, the newly appointed
minister of the Harlesden congregational
church, in England. collected during MS
missionary at Nottingham 5000 new iaid
eggs for the sick and poor of the parish.
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A LIAR, A BALDHEAD
AND A YELLOW DOG

where germs thrive, kills them prompt
ly and furnishes natures nourishment
to the weak and ailing hair roots.
Partisan Sage is guaranteed to eradi-
cate dandruff, stop falling and splitting
hair and itching scalp. or money back.
1t nourishes the hair root and causes
hair to grow thick and luxuriant. 1t
puts life and luster into the hair
Besides being a hair grower and dan
druff cure, Partisan Sage is most de-
lightful hair dressing. 1t has dainty
refined odor, and Is not in the least
sticky or greasy.
Women who desire lustrous and fasci-
mating hair should use Partisan Sage
regularly. large bottle costs but SO
cents at Norton's drug store and drug
gists everywhere. The girl with the
Auburn hair is on every PACKAGE.
Mail orders filed, charges prepaid, by
Giroux Mfg. Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-16
N 0 R PHI In E,
Whisky and Tobacco
Additions

Can be cured within TEN DAYS by the
Original and Absolutely Painless Methods
Employed. at CEDARCRAFT SANTA
RUM, Box TAI, Lebanon, Tenn.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-16

The man who tells you that he has
preparation that will grow hair on any
bald head is as clumsy a liar as the
man who claims to be able to resurect
the dead.
A yellow dog blown to the four cor
ners of a 10-acre lot by the explosion of
key of dynamite has as much chance
of being restored to life as the hair
root that has been killed by dandruff
germs.
Dear reader, look out for dandruff.
If you have 1t the cause is dandruff
germs, and dandruff germs are respon-
sble for itching scalp, falling hair. thin
hair and finally badness.
That's why any preparation for pre-
serving and identifying the hair must
first OF all have power to destroy the
dandruff, germs.
PARTISAN SAGE soaks into the
scalp; penetrates into the hair root
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-16
tiles named reachesessoo.ooo in the last

cities named reache13soo'ooo in the last
decade. W
Whether for good or i'll, American cities
are draining rural communities of their
young people. Boys in country towns
grow up in the churches, either actually
Join the churches or get ready to do so,
when a business position Is offered them
In the city and they leave, never to re-
turn. These Christian laymsn regard
the boy question, before the boy really
leaves the job or the rural town and after
he arrives in the big city, as vital one.
and so they are providing experts who,
in given region, look after boys In the
churches, and especially show minister
and local laymen how to attack and solve
the problem of holding boys.
There are boy Scouts, Brotherhoods,
Knighthoods and half dozen other Or
ganizations, each pushing its own plans.
thing that suits one community and
one situation may not suit another at
all. A field Of operations SO he can know
each local situation and advise intelli-
gently concerning the organization to in
troduce, provided any should be. These
men support the experts for work among
boys, and they get boys themselves to
contribute to such support.
There are nearly 100 missionary soci-
cites In America. home and foreign work,
40 alone doing foreign work. Each goes
out into it's own religious body, so that in
particular city It may be that half
of the whole number labor for financial
support. Their difficulties include the
fact that everything centers at their
headquarters. The moment they stop
work everybody else stops, and their cost
for collecting the money they spend is
often excessive. Duplication of effort ex-
lists everywhere. A new rlAH that is being
adopted successfully is % have in each
city, each pricipal city at any rate, a
missionary society that looks after GER
tain interests that are common to all
general societies. These city organiza-
lions undertake to do all missionary
work In their cities, and take the burden
off the general one. The gain is tremen-
dous.
In about 20 principal cities there are
now annual missionary councils where
laymen, their clergy cooperating, como
together. hear what was accomplished
during the twelvemonth, and make plans
for the new year. Too often In the past
whole cities have only worked without
knowing what other cities were doing,
what succeeds and what falls but have
worked without any particular goal.
They aimed at nothing and hit It,
In Christ church, New York. there ID
= school to train laymen to work for
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-16
What a Woman Knows

From Judge.
Here is bit of conversation that is az
clear-sighted as it Is witty.
80 Erma is engaged said Eleanor,
with curl of her lip. We'll. I'm sorry
for the man. that's all. She doesn't know
the first thing about keeping house."
''Oh, yes, she does, though was Fan
MES assuring reply.
We'll, I'd like to know what 1t is"
was the doubling response.
THE very first thing. which is to get
a man to keep house for"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-16

This old established institution is ideal
ly situated and completely equipped with
the latest ro-Therapeutical appara-
tus baths and other conveniences.
Our propositions: No deposit or fee ex-
pected or accepted until a satisfactory
cure is complete.
All patients under personal care OF Dr..
Power Gribble, who originated the cure.
Patients also cured at home.
We refer by permission to all Lebanon
physicians and ministers
Booklet free.
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Hope He Made n Sale

From the Chicago News
Excuse me- said the canvasser, but
I have a work here In three volumes"
mo use." interrupted the head of the
house. II can't read"
But you have children, of course, y
the canvasser said.
NO" answered the other, triumphant
ly, nothing but a cat"
Very WE'LL" persisted the canvasser
you will have something to throw al
the cat"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-16
100 Linen Tailored
Waists $3.50

Just for Monday Flyer! Tailored
Waists of pure linen-and some
pretty models in white linenes. EN-
broidered and pleated. Finest kind
of $3.50 and $198 values. All sizes
Monday onlyl
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-16
MODERN EYEGLASSES

BY the hands of an expert are fitted
to the wearer as II they grew on his
face and had become part of him.
Jas. H. finder is such an expert, and
will supply you with the most COM
Portable and dressy glasses made. sos
N Nineteenth street
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CaraCal Coats Shining
as Sealskins - Finest
$500 -$17.OO

Magnificent Coats, 54-in. long
new semi-fitted models and have all
the looks of $4,000 to $4,000 garments.
Really are fine $500 values.
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every Suit Imported woolens)

High-class Suits tailored in the new
est models and from great variety of
imported fabrics. All of the coats are
guaranteed satin lined. Save $1,000.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-08-02
What The Tariff Cost Us

Every cent added to the price OF
meat and poultry Is a hardship. Yet
the tariff puts one and one-half cents
per pound on fresh beef. veal, mutton
lamb, pork and venison and other
game, except birds. On prepared and
preserved meals 1t puts q tax OF "a
per cent Of their value. On bacon
and hams II puts four cents a pound
On lard 1T puts one and one-half cents
a pound. On live poultry 1t puts 1--WE
cents a pound.
To these taxes the importer must
add profit, so that the tarih costs
our consumers the duty Plus the pront
on the money paid as duty.
Much Canadian and Mexican poultry
and some OF their meats would come
into this country to make cheaper food
but for these taxes; and meats on the
hoof. in cold storage and preserved,
would come from South America and
Australia. We put these taxes on this
foreign food not to benefit ourselves
but TO protect" our Meat Trust.
Our Meat Trust built up It's mon
opoly out OF transportation favors
from the railroads. II obtained the
privilege of sending lines of livestock
and refrigerator cars over the main
railroad lines to the disadvantage and
at times to the practical exclusion OF
competing livestock and refrigerator
cars. This puts the cattle-raisers OF
the great cattle-raising region Of the
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-08-02

United States--the west--at the
trusts mercy. And since the trust
thus commanded the source OF supply
IL had the retail butchers all over the
country at its mercy.
In this way II could force down the
price OF cattle when 1t was buying and
put up the price of meat when II was
selling.
II any city butcher should undertakes
TO get his meat from an independent
wholesaler he would find himself a.
tackled in variety OF ways and driven
out OF the business by the Meat Trust.
II country butcher should buy an
occasional calf or pig from neixll.
boring farmer he would find the trust
refusing to sell him anything what
ever.
And so any temporary bringing IN
OF and paying the duty on poultry or
meats from abroad when the Meat
Trusts prices are extraordinarily hfah.
must be fraught with peril to any re-
tail butcher or poultry-desler handlinw
them. as the Meat Trust must most
certainly visit its disploasure upon'
him by refusing supplies when normal
prices are re-established and II n I'M
possible to import foreign meats ana
poultry.
So that II must be plain to the dun
est what the Meat Trust. sheltered b.
the tariff, costs us.
HENRY GEORGE. JR.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-08-02
NO MORE BIRTHMARKSl

Should the cure just discovered
prove to be successful--and London
physicians have faith In it--repulsive
birthmarks so often seen on other
wise handsome faces will be things OF
the past. Il is being used In Lon
don hospital and the experiments thus
far made lead the physicians to hope
for the best.
The cure Is carbonic acid gas In
the form of snow 100 degrees below
zero. The snow is gathered on green
baize from cylinder OF gas. liquified
under pressure. Scraped of II Is de-
posted I'm q small hard rubber cylin-
der. where II Is pressed down until II
forms a hard button OF Ice.
Application of this button to the dis
figured part for half minute a day
leaves n white patch Of frozen tissue.
The intense cold leads to local infiam.
nation, causing finally the breaking
down OF the abnormal tissues. When
this heals. the physicians say, II leave
the skin normal.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-08-02
OUR AGENTS IN WASHINGTON
Are They Working for Those Who Elect Them for Some Other
Interests Check Them Up

tions, whose activities, rates, charges,
and services underlie our very civiliza-
ton. And the railways are in poll
tics, they seek to control congress,
the courts, and the agencies of public
opinion. In order that they may do as
they will with this power.
They have had delegates" In con-
gress ever since the civil war-and
faithful ones, too But did your dele
gate" represent you in the votes on
the amendments To the Wickersham
railway bill? Despite it's many short
comings, the bill Is step forward. IL
your congressman is up for re-elec-
ton, ask him II he voted to shelve
the clauses providing for a PHYSICAL
valuation of roads, and the superyis-
ion of stock and bond Issues. III a
new man is up, ask him how he would
have voted on these points. This rail-
road issue, like the poor. is with us
always. The express companies, para
sites OF the railways and often own
ed by the men who control the rail-
ways, are among the easiest money
makers in the country. The express
companies do not believe In the par
GELS post; and because OF their Inn
ence with your hired men In congress,
you are denied 1t.
All these evils | have enumerated
all these expressions that the Priv
legged interests lay upon us-are part
of the cost OF delegated" government,
of which Senator Bourne spoke. HIS
remedy is direct government. But
that IL not~what we have. The ques-
ton for us is: Can our delegated
government be converted into "popai-
lar" government? I think 1t can. A
start has been made In the sixty-nrSt
congress But much remains TO De
done, and the voters must do 1t.
There are nearly 20,O00,o00 voters
I'm America. They do all the voting.
For privilege does not go to the polls.
This vote Is what the scientist calls
potential force" Some day IL VIII
become "kinetic." Then 1t will be SOW
ereign; the sovereignty OF the whole
people. c. Howe, In tho
August Everybouy's Magazine.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-08-02
OUR PRESIDENTS

drew and all the others bore different
names.
Four presidents were born In March.
four In October and four In Novem-
Der. February was the birth month q
three. Two were born In January.
two In December, and one each a
July, August and September. May
and June can claim none.
President William Henry Harrison
had ten children. six sons ana four
daughters.
July has been a death month for
presidents. Seven have died In that
month. three on Independence day.
Five have died In June, two each In
January, March, April and Septem'
Der: one each In February, October.
November and December. and mona
in May and August.
No president has been born or has
died In May.
The Episcopalians can claim eight
presidents. the Presbyterians six, the
Methodists four. the Unitarians. Con
g#eeatieHals- and Reformed Dutch TWO
each. the Disciples one, and one was
q Liberal.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-08-02

Twenty-six different men have been
elected to the presidency OF the
United States.
Nineteen of the 26 presidents were
lawyers when elected, two were farm
ers. two were soldiers. two were
statesmen and one was in public Of
fee.
The paternal ancestry OF is OF our
presidents was English, that OF five
was Scotch-Irish. OF three Scotch. OF
two Dutch and Of one Welsh.
Nine presidents have borne the
same given names as their fathers.
Nine presidents. over one-third, re-
ceived no college education. or the
college educated. both Harvard and
Williams and Mary can claim three
each and Yale, Princeton, West Point
Union, Bowdoin, Dickinson. Kenyon
Williams, Miami. Hampden and sgd
ney. and the University of North Car
DINA one each
James predominates among the frs,
names OF the presidenfs--E ipa-hars
horne that name, three were named
John. three named William. two An
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-08-02

Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver, senator
from Iowa, has been mixing it hot
and heavy with the interests in the
senate during the past few years, and
twice during the last year leaped into
the limelight and loomed up, great
big political figure.
The first of these occasions was
when he introduced into the senate
Clifford Pinchot's letter In which the
forester defined his position In the Bal.
linger affair-a letter which subse-
quently cost Pinchot his job.
The second was when he got up In
the senate June IA and outlined his
own position, frankly said what he
thought about President Taft--which
wasn't entirely favorable-and paid
his compliments to the regulars who
had been trying to read him out OF
the Republican party
The chances are that he will be a
bigger figure yet in the next congress