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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-06-28
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The Inspiring Environment of the
Conference.-The. POteat Talks On
1.-The Plan OF Life-prOgrcSs'' of she

Montreal. n. c.. June 21.-To make
real to college men the fundamental
facts of Christian experience, to dis
cover, if possible, the best method of
getting the facts before college men,
and to train Christian men for the
leadership in the Christian activities Of
the individual college are the purposes
of the Southern Students Conference
now in session at Montreal. In this
conference it is sought to bring these
leaders in the college in personal touch
with some Of the greatest religious
the Christian forces OF the whole
Southern college field and work out
unitedly plans for advancements- Thus
the outlook and experience Of Zach
leader is b~roadened by bringing him
in close personal contact with the
anI Zach man is helped to find his
place Of largest usefulness by putting
before him the facts Of need and op-
p%ortunitJ in the varit LIS life callirgs,
Here high up among the rugged
peaks of the Blue Ridge, at thu foot
Of beautiful Greybeard, with the crag-
gies, and Mitchell looking down upon
them, the our hundred delegates from
all over the South are earnestly at
work preparing themselves for better
service in their college, and In life.
The eminent men who are here ON
Quoting the various classes say that
this is a good conference, that the
spirit of serious earnestness is in each
mar and that good work is being done.
The features Of each day are the
platform addresses delivered twice
each day, in. the morning and evening.
Monday DR.. w. l. Poteat, president
OF Wake Forest College, was the
speaker, and for an hour and a halt
he held the undivided attention of his
big audience with a splendid address.
Taking as the theme Of his talk the
general principles upon which the
plan Of life should be chosen, he said
in part:
We all have a chance to do that
which we may wish. In some coun-
born into his station and into his life
work. What his father has been be-
fore him, that he must be, and from
that particular place in life to which
he is born there IS no change possible,
but IN this country it is different. !
America is anonymous with oppor-
tunity. There is IN equality Of con
ditions insofar as chances go. The
lowliest may rise to the highest point
has as much chance as the highest
born, and 1t is because of this that
this country will endure. The strength
of our country lies il the deep original
instincts and unperverted impulses Of
the great mass Of common people.
The application Of science to the
activities of man has enhanced his
.capabllIty from ten to sixty times, and
has greatly b~roadened the field of his
labors. Roughly. the many plans of
life may be divided into two classes
the business and the professions, tax
ing the latter to mean tina work in
which there is required more mental
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-06-28
On Newspaper Mission.

MT. ". c. Lyon, Of the staff Of the
Charlotte Observer, was in Raleigh
! yesterday on his way to Warrenton,
where the trial of E. E. Powell ST..
for the Murder of Chief of Police
Dunn, Of Scotland Neck, begins to-
day.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-06-28
THE Students CONFER
ENCE.

1t Has Been a Busy Day at Conference
Every Day-Saturday Opening Day
The Best Initial Day on record
Strong Class Leaders This Year
The Address OF Dr.. POteat, on the
Important Things in Life, Depicting
All Great Lives As Having Been
~PurpOsefui Lives, With Aptitude
and Perseverance. Was Fine-NOtes
OF the Conference.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1910-07-23

mUuoIu uOube a. IVA 1WouIy-uluIu
street. Mrs. Boyd.
FOR RDNr-Furnished rooms q
s121 Arapahoe street
Phone Olive 1855. N1s. L. p.
Holmes.
FOR RENT-Furnished rooms at
2214 Arapahoe street. Phone Main
t003.
FOR RENT-Furnishe rooms for
gentlemen, very handy and close IN.
1872 Logan avenue.
FOR RENT-3 furnished rooms at
reasonable price. 253s Glenarm Pl
]. Holly.
FOR RRTLTWo large froat rooms.
elegantly furnished in modern house.
Phone purple 17gs. Arsh Callis How.
ard, 141S Champa street.
FOR RENT-Furnished rooms, very
convenient. John Nelson. 2148 Curtis
Phone Main 1904.
FOR RENT-Furnished rooms at
2l10 Champa street in modern house
with extension phones. Mrs. R n.
Blakey. Phone Main 5632.
FOR RENT-Nice large front room
suitable for man and wife; two small
er rooms for working ladies or single
men. Phone Purple 1913, 429 24th st.
FOR RENT-4-room Upper Flat.
strictly private. 1918 Marion st. See
The Colored American Loan & Realty
Co., 913 21st st.
FOR RENT1Two furnished rooms
fer light housekeeping. 1868 Frank
lin street. Phone Nam 1910.
Furnished rooms in quiet residence,
modern house, 2515 Curtis street.
Phone Olive 1472.
FOR RENT-Furnished room In
modern house at 2436 Emerson street.
Phone White 1853.
FOR RENT iicely furnished rooms,
strictly modern, at 2508 fremont
Place. Phone Purple 1870.
FOR RUNT-Furnished rooms in
modern house at 1853 Clarkson street.
Phone White 1873.
FOR RENT-Furnished rooms in
modern house at 1850 fremont Place.
Mrs. =. II. Jones.
FOR RDNT-Furnished rooms at
ss7 Twsntysscond street in = modern
house Phone Main 3325.
FOR RENT = Nicely furnished
rooms in q modern house; very con-
venisnt, at 1857 Welton street. Phone
Olive 10.
ron nRyT-A nve-room cottage
~ Naraoa street. for lls. Enquire
e oeoeHe keO1lloagh. Of Nj Hum
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1910-07-23
HOUSES
AND ROOMS

FOR RNNT-FurniShed rooms n
modern house at 2218 Clarkson street.
Mrs. Nelson, phone York 1850.
FOR RENT-Modern accommoda-
tions; men preferred. Phone Olive
1853, 1852 Welton street.
FOR RENT-Nicely furnished rooms
in modern house, meals If desired.
Phone Main 65S7. 629 Twenty-second
street. Mrs. NJ. Sanford.
FOR RENT-Furnished rooms in a
wodern house at 2s3S Welton street,
downstairs. Mrs. Holland.
FOR RENT-Furnished room for
gentlemen at TIC 29th street. Phone
Olive 102.
FOR RENT-F1rnished rooms in 4
modern house at 1921 'Vrain street.
Phone Gallup S76.
FOR RENT-Furnished rooms at
291S Welton street Mrs. Dora Rolley.
FOR RENT-Two furnished front
rooms, modern house, well ventilated
at 2208 Downing street.
FOR RENT-Furnished rooms in a
modern house at 2431 Court Place.
One or two gentlemen. Mrs. johnson.
FOR SALE At A BARGAIN.
The furniture Of an eight-room
lodging house can be secured very
cheap from Mrs. Ewing Of 2126 Arap-
ahoe street. Phone Main 7012.
FOR RENT-Furnished rooms Tor
gentlemen only at 260S Glenarm
Place. Two rooms In modern house
FOR SALE-A six-room house, with
reception hall, good furnace, barn for
three horses, cemented garage, for
$500; $1,000 down, at 1923 Williams St.
All improvements paid. This house
must be seen to be appreciated.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1910-07-23

FOR RENT-Nice large front room
suitable for man and wife; two small
er rooms for working ladies or single
men. Phone Purple 1873, 429 24th st.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1910-07-23

FOR RENT-Furnished rooms at
2410 Champa street in modern house
with extension phones. Mrs. r. n.
Blakey. Phone Main 5632.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1910-07-23

FOR RNNT-Furnished rooms, verJ
convenient. John Nelson. 214S Curtii
Phone Main S034.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1910-07-23

FOR RENT-4-room Upper
strictly private. 1918 Marion s
The Colored American Loan &
Co., 913 21st st.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
To Be hn Object Lesson

The success of a whirlwind canvass in a good cause, such as the Birming ham movement to raise $200.000 for Young Mems Christian Association building, never fails to set new pace for all large enterprises that mny be undertaken for the advancement of the city.
 It has often happened that a worthy cause dragged. A few years ago a s200,000 Young Mems Christian Asso- citation building in Birmingham would have seemed out of the question. It was so in other cities larger than Bir- mingham. But these are days of team work-team work in almost every de- partment of human endeavor; and the entire business community should feel debt of obligation to the Young Mems Christian Association managers for this object lesson in 'how to do it."
 The $200,000 will be raised inside of the allotted time; and after the fund is completed almost any money-raising movement here will succeed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
National League of HOusehOIders

The people may always take their medicine at the hands of the trusts; and then again they may not. The Ma tional League of Householders which Is being organized does not propose to boycott either firm or trusts, but 1t does propose after due investigation to boycott goods sold at two &igh rate.
 It Is proposed to carry this league to 100000 members, and 100000 house holders can make themselves felt in this country. The proposed league is the first practical and direct effort to lessen the cost of living. All believe the cost of living Is too high and if the League of Householders be wise- ly conducted much can be accom- plished and still more demonstrated.
 This is really a movement in behalf of the wage-earner, and the wage earners constitute the major part of the population in this country. All are getting rich except the wage-earner, and 1t Is he who is expected to join the league in great numbers. The proposed league is the most interesting experiment that has been put before the people in long time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
LITTLE JAPANESE GIRLS.

From the Correspondence of Lafcadio
 Hearn in the January Atlantic
 The other night we had a singular festival next door. A teacher of danc- ing-an old woman of our neighbor- hood-died last year, and on the anni- versary of her death, her inai were placed on a platform erected for the before it. Then all the little girls she had taught-from years up, were brought to dance before the inai to please her spirit. The dainty little fairy dar1- ingsl I went behind the scenes and saw all the dressing. The children were all faultless till the dance was over but then being tired they would cry little and their mothers would carry them home-looking like wonderful dolls in their tiny gorgeous Kagum dresses. Sure ly a Japanese baby girl is the sweet est thing in al this world.
 Beyond the other side of the garden I hear and see something much less pleasing-the training of a little geisha The child is very young; but she is ob- lged to sing nearly seven hours every day. I can tell what time it is by the tone of weariness in her voice. Some times she breaks down and cries to be let alone in vain. They do not beat her but she must sing Some day she will revenge herself on the world for this and "sarye 1t right"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16

Latin-American countries, and we were in good position to secure more trade in those countries and more good will. The stupid efforts of Mir Knox in Nicaragua have largely changed all this. for every Latin American county now sees that 1t too on occasion may be bullied.
 We permit Great Britain, Germany Italy, France and even Japan to out class us in the development and trade of the Latin-American countries. The far-reaching policy of MT. Root looked to a change in this respect, and 1t becomes question whether the blundering Knox has not made 1t necessary to begin anew the task Of inducing South America to prefer Americans to overseas foreigners. The building of the Panama canal renders the Knox rumpus all the more regret table.
 All in all the Taft administration has committed many blunders within a years time It has scarcely any thing but blundeFs behind 1.-the All drich tariff, the Pinchot-Ballinger scandal. and the Knox outburst in Nicaragua. It is also toting MT. Joe Cannon and the standpatters in general.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
Impressions on First Visit.

J. H. Marshall of Kansas City, who is visiting Birmingham for the first time is financially interested In the rolling mill and horseshe industry which is be- ing established on Gordon Heights, on the South Bessemer car line.
 T am agreeably surprised in Birming- ham," said MT. Marshall Tt Is much larger city and much handsomer city than l had expected to find. It Is very beautiful city
 Kansas City, where I live. is noted for its splendid boulevards and Its ele- gant homes, and I am impressed with similar features in Birmingham's make up. The residence sections here are ex- ceptionally attractive. The boulevards are fine, as far as they go, and as this is a progressive city, 1t should not be long. one might say, before the drive ways are as numerous and as fine as those found in Kansas City or any other large and rich town.
 Birmingham's business district is be- ing substantially built and altogether l would call this a phenomenal city, age considered. In view of Birminghams great future the visitor naturally won- ders why there are not more hotels here. Every city of large size and large pre- tentions should have at least one hotel of the $1,oO00o0 or $1,50O,oOO class. Another thing Birmingham needs, certainly from a visitors point of view, is a modifica- tion of the drastic prohibition law which is in effect in Alabama. I have not taken a drink of spirituous or malt liquors in 12 years, but yet I am not a believer in prohibition for large cities.
 'The business outlook for 1910 Is bright indeed and this city should make new high record in growth within the next E months.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
Plans for the New Year

With the greater city of Birmingham comes greater duties-higher ambi- tions, larger schemes of usefulness. The greater city must be made better, brighter and more beautiful. This Is why the 1910 programme of the en- larged city is liberal and broad, but all will say it is none too much so when they see what Is to be supplied this year. The years programme calls for
 1. A s200. .000 Y. M c. A. building.
 2 The completion to the limit of the 500 club.
 8. A free public library.
 In IA days the hope Is that the sub scriptions for the Y. M. c. A building will be completed, and if the spirit of cooperation continues to prevail among our people no doubt these plans will be carried out.
 There is no reason why the 300 club, which seeks to aid in bringing new industries here should not be speedily filled up, for 1t offers dividends direct and indirectly still larger dividends. The business sense of the city will surely attend to this important matter.
 No less important is the building of a free public library, and if the city and county will maintain it a s150,OO0 public library building can be secured without cost One writer says that free education and free books in a free democracy are the system of an enduring social structure. Our greater city will stand abashed before the other cities of the land until 1t secures an ample free public library, and pub lie sentiment is ragidly rising to sus- tain the needf,i. annual appropriation for an institution in which can be car ried on the work of education after the elementary steps have been taken in the public schools.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
promoters hope will be the largest and handsomest in all the south.

promoters hope will be the largest and handsomest in all the south.
 was glad indeed to read in yester- days News that the lamented General Rhodes had provided in his will that that newspaper should be continued to be conducted by his estate.
 It means that those men who conduct ed it under him in health and in sickness will continue 1t and keep it up to the high standard it has maintained. It will keep up it's optimistic and upbuilding policy for Birmingham.
 We'll 1t is that neither the politician nor speculator can buy 1t
 The State Mine Inspectors report shows that 130 violent deaths have oc- cured in the mines of this state with in the past 12 months.
 Unfortunate indeed has 1t been.
 This great loss of life is said to have been caused largely by the careiessness of the miners themselves, and because of this am told several of the com panies are not only spending much money to surround their miners with every safe guard. but that some of them have de- eided to employ regular instructors to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
And seek for sorrow with thy spec
 tacles III King Henry VI.
TJps and DOyDs of the Cotton Market

The manner in which cotton con tracts have been manipulated is no worse perhaps this year than 1t has been in previous years, the only differ ence being that the manipulation was begun in the last cotton year and tho farmer was benefited this year instead of the spinner or speculator. Our farmers have sold their cotton at good prices, and the spectators are at lib erty to fight each other to the bitter end. No one In the south cares much which side wins out The farmer has little or no cotton, and he is in posi- ton to watch the antics of the bulls and bears in an unconcerned manner.
 But all Lne gambling will have small effect on :he confident holder Of spot cotton. The crop is approximately $500 900 bales less than that of last year, and there is not enough cotton to go round in the mills of the world. The holders of actual cotton are prob- ably calm and serene, while dealers fin contracts are disturbed by the wild fluctuations. Whether actual cotton has been advanced beyond it's true value in view of supply and demand Is question yet to be settled, and the owners of the balance of the present crop should simply sit steady in the boat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
A DAuNTLEss SPIRIT.

From the New York World
 Seldom has there been seen a more in- spring example of indomitable energy triumphing over fate than that which the engraver Florian is now giving to the world
 Six years ago, while at work upon the designs for the new French bank notes. he was suddenly stricken by paralysis. Ills right side became as if dead; he was bereft of speech: the hand whose skill had made him famous was useless forever Did he complain? Did he re- sign himself to the inevitable? Did he sit down in despair and allow his young wife and daughters to support him? Not for moment. He let the women work. 1t Is true. but only while he learned to engrave with his left hand.
 Hour after hour day after day. month after month he passed. struggling with that awkward, untrained left hand, draw Ing at first crudely like a little child, then with ever-increasing precision. Grad ually he educated the refractory member to obey his will Drawing, water-color painting, designing for typographers sue ceeded one another, until today he has again attained absolute mastery over the graver's tools. Arsene Alexandre, the famous art critic, saw him at work a few weeks ago, his wooden block screwed to a table, his left hand plying the tools with all the defines his now dead right hand formerly possessed, his speeches. lips smiling. and his face radiant with happiness.
 To a man like Florian fate has no ter TOTS. Such men cannot be conquered And If ever labor should erect its Pan- theon, F7orian is worthy of high niche among the heroes of work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
HAMLEr's soLILoouy.

By ShakespeASA
 UIamlet, Act III, Scene 2) To be or not to be-that is the question; whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous for Or te take arms against . sea of troubles. And. by opposing, end them? To die. to
 sleep, No more, and, by sleep, to say we end The heartache. and the thousand natural That flesh is heir to-'tis . consumma-
 ton psvoutiy to hs wished. To die, to slesp; To slsept Psrchancs to dream; ay. there's
 tho rubi For In that slssp of death what dreams
 may come. when we have shufrled on this mortal
 coll Must give us pause; there's the respect That makes calamity of 10 long life: For who would bear the. whips and scorns of time The oppressor's wrong, the proud mans
 contumely, The panss of despiSd love. the laws
 delay, The insolsncs of ofrics and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy lfakes. Witl. a bare bodkin7 Who would far To xrunt and sweat under . weary lifez But that the dread of something afterI
 death The undiscovered country. from vii
 bourne ~ No traveller returns, puzzles the will: N And makes us rather bear tho Ills vel
 have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience doth make towards of
 us all
 And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied OCT with the pale cast of
 thought And enterprises of great pith and mo-
 ment,
 With this regard. their currents turn
 nwry
 And lose the nams = astien.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
CARLYLE AT cRAIoENPuTrock.

!. F. Rhodes in 'Historical Essays"
 One of the most striking examples of self-education in literature is Carlyle's seven years, from the age of g to 8. passed at Craigenputtock. where his na- tive inclination was enforced by his phy- sical surroundings. Craigenputtock, wrote B'roude, is ''the dreariest spot in all the British dominions. The nearest cottage is more than mile from it. the elevation, TOO feet above the sea, stunts the trees and limits the garden produce to the hard= fest vegetables. The house Is gaunt and hunsry-looking.' The place realized Ten nyson's words.s 70, the dreary, dreary meoY1and." Here Carlyle read books. gave himself over to silent meditation and wrote for his bread. although a man who possessed an adequate income could not have been more independent in thought than he was. or moro averse to writing to the order of editors of reviews and magazines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT BIRMINGHAM
 AND THAT WHICH IS BEING DONE HERE

lecture weekly to the different camps and educate the uneducated in how to mine coal with safety to themselves and their associates.
 The Tennessee company people have spent volume of money in the past few months in improving and putting safe ty appliances in their mines, and in providing hospitals and relief squads for each mine. But above all they are mak- ing their mines safe with all modern appliances and teaching the men the safest and best methods
 look for great improvements in all the mines this year, and but few fatalities.
 As the mining companies of Birming- ham are improving, so is everything else.
 Look how the merchants are improv- ing their stores and show windows; how new streets and sidewalks are being paved and old ones repaved. Look at the new residences and stores and buildings of every kind going up. There is indeed much doing in Birmingham and that 1t will continue and increase is the be- lief of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
Failure of "The New Theatre"

The theatre of the multi-millionaires in New York may be exclusive, but that is all the success it can boast of. It's acoustics are wretched, and it's au- diences small. It's light operas, it's new plays, and its performances of old plays have none of them met expecta- tions.
 Dramatic art is something that long purses cannot buy to order. It is a growth and development, and all the plans of The New Theatre have been based on immediate effects instead of growth and development.
 When the season is ended The New Theatre will have to start anew. It is said that the plans for next year have been made on a different basis. It Is to be hoped that the star system will be eliminated and the dependence will be on a large stock company in which all aspirants can gain a try-out But art Is of slow growth, and years will probably elapse before a stock com. pany of the highest standard can be gotten together. In the meanwhile the money of the multi-millionaires will be needed. That money cannot buy art out of hand, but 1t can maintain The New Theatre until the drama can be produced in 1t in a manner that will expose the unsoundness of contempo rannoua efforts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
A POETS INlTIALa

From the St Louis Times.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald has beautiful picture on it's front page en- titled "Peace on Earth" with the letf ters .sP. O. and E." prominently em- bellished This would have been pecu- liarly appropriate for the Richmond pa pers.-Eavannah Press.
 Then put ''B." in front of them and boost the circulation by getting all the Elks to subscribe.