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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
SERMONS STONES"-First Paper-By Dr. w. Evans
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present a bluish silver appearance like the light of the moon. The opafIusafd to be bad luck stone, and the owned by King Alphonso XII of Spani and it's terrific association with mis- rortune. and death, tended to increase. this notion. But 1t is, of course, only g. notion.
 It is supposed by some people that each month Is under the influence of some particular stone therefore I give list of the stone that are associated with the several months of the year
 January-Garnet, which stands for constancy.
 February-Amethyst sincerity. q March-Bloodstone. courage.
 April-Diamond. innocence.
 May-Emerald. success in love-
 June--Agate, health.
 July-Cornelian, contentment.
 August-Sardonyx fidelity in mar riage.
 September-Chrysolite proof against madness
 October-Opal, hope.
 November-Topaz. truthfulness.
 December-Turquoise prosperity in your dearest hopes )
 Now, if the reader has the time he may test tEe influence of stones upon persons born in certain months by talk ing down from his bookshelf a bio- graphical cyclopeadia and, I think, he will reach the conclusion that there is nothing in, the poetic idea. Some of the most untruthful people in the world were born in November; while many a lovelorn lad and lass, born In May. failed absolutely in love matters. Many a coward was born in March. and many 1 fA1 tx. fluence of the turquoise has dreamed dreams of dearest hopes and at last has gone down into the darkness of death, disa ppointed.
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we pray and praise. Each heart instinc- lively turns to Mary as the typical moth- CT. And the picture that needs no artist speaks to every race and creed. The Man is hanging by torn hands, standing on bleeding feet, rejected by the earth. Almost touching him, perhaps furtively caressing the anguished limbs, her head bowed, her heart volcano-crater of blt- terness and love, is the Mother. On the one side of her and on the other Is woman who sympathizes, her sister, and that other Mary. once demented, de- graded dangerous. morally and socially disshelved, the Magdalen, out of whom went, some months before, seven demons" These stand as silent, inteli- gent, chosen witnesses and friends. But the central figure of the group Is the Mother
 And reckon that this etching, so accu- rately done by one of the other witnesses, is really a most significant piece of natural, inevitable, symbolic art. Had we eyes to see, should we not read all the progress of mankind there symbolized- Eve weeping over the body of Abel, Lamech's wives lamenting over a lad
  ing at his failure and his death, and the long succession of mothers waiting for the boys killed at the ford:"
 Somebody's darling, so young and so brave
 | Bearing yet on his pale, sad face
 Lingering traces of boyhoods graceY' Mary is the historic emblem and fact of motherhood, anguished because her Son is dying, her hope extinguished. but yet looking past the death to a life not to be quenched
 Were to preach a sermon on this di- vinely historic symbol, so real and so mystical, like love and death, I should emphasize the outstanding fact that our l mothers are recipients and depositaries of
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Was eyeblue sapphire, sown with gold
 bright stars And clustering cancellations; the wide
 floor
 All emerald, earthlike, veined with sil-
 yer and gold, Marble and mineral of every hue And marvellous quality, the meanest
 thing, Where ali things were magnificent, was
 gold.
 The high altar there was shaped Out of one ruby, heartlike."
 Upon the fall of man, this wondrous temple was crushed into utter ruin. Long lay its fragments in scattered heaps-but hear the poet;
 And that bright fane fell first. No
 death doomed eye Gazed on its glory. Earthquakes gulped
 1t down.
 The temple of the angels, vast enough To hold all nations worshipping at once. Lay in it's grave; the chsrubs' flaming
 swords
 The sole sad torches of Its funeral Till at the flood, when the worlds giant Burst like shell, 1t scattered east and
 west
 And far and wide, amid less noble ruins, The fragments of that angel-buided fane. Which was in Eden, and of which all
 stones
 That now are precious. were"
 In thinking of diamonds one is apt to remember the celebrated diamond-neck- lace scandal associated with the names of Marie Antoinette, Madam Dubarry, Madame Lamotte and Cardinal De Rohan. It caused a trial in the courts that lasted nine months, the scandal lasting many years. The necklace was valued at $780, 900. but the scandal was above price to the court gossips.
 The most valuable of nature-colored stones is the ruby, but perfect ruby Is rarely seen. Garnet is often passed off upon the uninitiated as a ruby. A dark garnet may appear to be a ruby. but tho difference lies in the texture of the two The ruby is crystalized earth. col ored by iron. The emerald Is next in value to the ruby. Pliny thought this
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and the hardest thing in the world; and for the blackness that it had, obtains in exchange the power of refiecting all the rays of the sun at once in the vividest blaze that any solid thing can shoot. We call it then diamond.
 Last of all. the water purifies or unites itself; contented enough if it only reach the form of dew drop; but if we in- sist on it's proceeding to a more perfect conscience, 1t crystalizes into the shape of star. And for the ounce of slime competition, we have, by political econ omy of cooperation a sapphire, an opal and diamond set in the midst of star of snow"
 Now, the reader knows how to make some of the most precious gems In the whole world of mineralogy. It seems sim pie enough, does 1t not? But who, in the activities of a hurried city like Birming- ham, could wait for the inclusions and exclusions of the process of crystal-mak- ing? o, the wide sweep of the ages as the process advances. The diamond upon your lady's finger. I fancy, began to become diamond millions of years ago.
 Philip J. Bailey. in that marvellous poem, "Festus," accounts for the dia- monds and other precious stones scat tered over the earth, otherwise than Rus kin would At the dawn of creation Game down a white winged host; and
 in the east,
 Where sEden's Pleasance Was first furled
 their wings,
 Alighting like to snowflakes. There they
 built
 Out of the richest of the soil around, house to God. There were the ruby
 rocks,
 And there, in blocks, the quarried dia- monds lay;
 Opal and emerald mountain, amethyst, Sapphire and chrysoprase. and jacinth stood
 With the still action of star, all light Like sea-based icebergs. binding. Tower and roof and pinnacle, without Were solid diamond Within. the dome
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the common school. and Saturdays of au- spicious season. he was on the streamlet's brim, an eager and oftimes a fortunate angler. He did chores about the farm house. led his companions in the sports on the green, hunted the varmlnt by night. or the bird by day, spoiled the or chard of fruit and frolicked with neighbor boys and girls at Christmastide.
 At Is this boy, robust of health broad shouldered. lithe-limbed, strong-muscled, deep-chested. with great big handsome black eyes that might gaze an eagle blind'' for opinions sake, wrote his first communication for a newspaper. No doubt after he had finished 1t he was possessed of a mental lassitude that made even his fine physique weary. Exhaustion had succeeded effort. doubt had supplant- ed confidence. and fear had taken the place of hope. He stood aghast at his own temerity when he had sought to ad- venture among the gods of High Olym- pus.
 The long wished for and dreaded day came that brought the newspaper, and lol 1t contained his letter. Here was ec- stacy, delirious joy. for this farm lad. Just at the age, 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech and speech is
 truth.
 How often he read his production he never knew, but from the moment he saw himself in print he was journalist and became one of the front rank of the elite of the noblest of the profession.
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<GVU7HO has once been a news iA k/ paper man will ever be one.
 ~ W vVhaavar has tasted

&&AN f f1O has once been neWs- .s4 Nk/ paper man will ever be one. , W . Whoever has tasted of that feverish life. bustling yet com paratively idle and independent, whoever has exercised that sovereignty which eritfcizes intellect. art, genius, glory, vir- f6et Absurdity and even truth itself; who- .,aver has ascended the tribune erected by his 6Hn hands, fulfilled only for one short hoiix xhe functions of that censorship to which he is self-appointed-that proxy Of public opinion-when he has been rele- gated to private life, regards himself as royalty exiled to Cherbourg. ."-Balzao.
 Every newspaper man half fit for his dob must be struck with the truth and the force of the foregoing passage from the greatest man of letters since Shakes peare. It is the highest office in profane life-editor of an honest newspaper of a large circulation, and to again quote that same Ba1zac, as there is not virtue but has q vice to hatch it, so there is no office so degrading as that of editor of a news paper the sole mission of which is to pile up dollars, dirty or clean. for its pub fisher, and if yellow journalism" came saw and conquered. it was because the descent journal was false to it's mission, or lax in the prosecution of it.
 Scott c. Bone, now in the prime of life mental and physical, was born in Shelby county, Indiana, the son of a farmer, and grew up a farmers boy. He followed the blow he delved with the hoe, he helped to plant and to reap. He attended
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so degrs ding be discovered as a hu- man mother content to be inhuman, a merely animal mother? Most of us can, like Theodore Parker, count back to One who really made us feel Gods pres ence and authority, the meanings of His law. What future is there for the child nourished by a thoroughly animal mother? And what has universal suffrage to add to this natural dignity of womanhood that she should be the priestess of the child? What better thing can be taught to the new gener- ation of girls than that they represent the divine love-element whereby man Is more than animal, sane, sacrificiai, awe-smitten? Through such ennobled womanhood the child evolves, conscious of his spiritual purpose. sound, strong sane. None but motherhood can guard him from the darkness and disease that seek to become his souls inheritance Only in the delicate regions of the mothers love can his perils be meas ured or his life guarded.
 And so I should try to prove the func- tion of human motherhood to be no less than the training of the sons and daughters of God.
 recognize the distortion of this holy function, the loss of the theogony But even the mother of Mencius caught her responsibility and gave to China it's splendid prophet of the Ideal Better stir the boy to do his best, though he diel Tom Combers mother gave three sons willingly to the subjugation of Congo land to the gospel. They died of the fever there one by one. Had she a hun dred sons she would not have bidden one hold back, If called. Knightly chiv- airy was bred in the bleeding hearts of mothers, and women's hands have been pliant with bandages. their arms and knees unshaking, when their hearts were sick in many a military hospital.
 The loss of the theogony comes when ambition goes astray. The boy must win
 Win what? A throne? fame? Win the power to send man to the cross while he himself strides masterfully across the
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battle with a cat, teasing and turing him, lest he should stalk their fedgling in the peach tree beyond the fence. But that is parable. What about the meaning. the human significance of heroic nature? I catch it in this story of Theodore Parker's childhood.
 As a little child of years, Theodore Parker was once carried to the field by his father, and he watched awhile as the field work was being done. Then. re- turning to the house alone, he passed a pond where a moving turtle arrested his attention The child took a stick and drew the creature to the bank, and raised the stick as though to smash the sprawl ing thing. Then suddenly, his face ablaze, throwing away the stick. he ran home and hurried to his mother.
 70. mother!' he cried, T found a turtle in the pond. and was going to kin it. but something inside me said, Don't do that!' Who was it spoke to me, mother?''
 She turned, wiping her hands on her kitchen apron, drew the boy to her, and said with a trembling tenderness
 Some people would say 1t was your conscience l say 1t was God spoke to you. He will always speak to you if you obey Ills voice. But if you disobey the voice presently it will cease or you will cease to hear it." And the boy never forgot that day through all the years of manhood, nor the words of the prayer his mother prayed, folding him to her heart and begging that he might always obey and always hear the voice.
 Such is the human mother. As the tigress battles for her cubs, so the hu- man mother for her children's souls. Hers Is the struggle for the child's life. but that life Is the voice of God, vital quantity spiritual health and poise and energy Human motherhood Is the theogony, the genesis of divine offspring who hear their Father speak ing.
 But can anything so degenerate or
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For nearly four-score years the journal ism of the national capital was distinctive ly polemic, and such 1t remained long
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The long wished for and dreaded day came that brought the newspaper, and lo 1t contained his letter. Here was ec- stacy, delirious joy, for this farm lad.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-18

Department is still in complete ignor-
ance as to how those prints were OBJ.
tanned.
No U. S. Warships for Turkey
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3O.-It is un.
equivocally denied by officials of the
Navy Department that the United
States contemplates selling any of it's
warships to Turkey.
Such action, it is pointed out, would
not be likely without the consent of
Congress. Especially is this true in
connection with the cruisers Olympia,
Raleigh, Brooklyn (now in the Phila-
delphia navy yard) and Saratoga, his
torical relics of the Spanish-American
war, which, the Berlin Tageblatt yes
torday reported, the Turkish govern
ment proposed buying. The Olympia
was Admiral Deweys flagship during
the battle of Manila Bay, the Raleigh
also participated in that engagement;
the Brooklyn was Rear Admiral
Schleys flagship at Santiago, and the
Saratoga, formerly the New York, was
THE flagship of Rear Admiral Sampson.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-18
ENDURING QUALITIES, OF
GOOD HARDTACK

The decision of the Navy Depart
ment to discontinue the use of hard
tack in the Navy and introduce in it's
stead bread containing butter and
sugar was perhaps read by nobody
with greater interest than by Jona-
than T. Buttrick, the eighty-year-old
bareback baker of New Bedford, Mas
sachusetts, who supplied half a century
ago the whaling fleet with the staff of
life.
The most essential thing in baking
bareback, according to an interview
with Mr.. Buttrick in the Boston Globe,
is to drive every particle of moisture
from it. This, he thinks, was only
possible in the old wood-heated ovens,
and he has therefore, scarcely more
regard for the hard bread of today
than for the new navy recipe.
1t is Mr.. Buttrick's opinion that
bread baked in the modern coal-heated
rotary ovens is a delusion. and a snare.
If there is any moisture in the hard
bread it will grow moldy. The bread
baked by Mr.. Buttrick in the old days,
he maintains, was almost indestructi-
BILE. Time could not wither or stale It
il properly barreled.
81 once baked some bread that was
put in casks and was aboard a vessel
for eight years. After the ship came
home l gave a piece of hard bread to
Edward Mott Robinson, the father of
Hetty Green, and could not convince
him it was not fresh baked" he said.
And that is not the best story l can
tell. l baked some bread that went
out on the bark Desdemona. When
the vessel returned she was laid up in
the dock at the foot of North street.
A cask of bread was left in the hold.
The bark nodded at the dock for many
years and was eventually sold.
Fifteen years after that bread was
baked the cask was opened. The breai
was perfectly good and was placed
aboard a whaler bound for Hudson's
bay, where it was finally eaten. The
flour of those days was particularly
good, but it was the oven that was
responsible for the quality of the
bread. The modern oven cannot pro-
duce it,"
A half-century ago the baking Of
hard bread for the ships was a leading
industry of New Bedford. Now there
is only one bakery in that town that
bakes some hard bread for the whai-
ing fleet and some of it is baked else
where.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-18
PANIC OF 1907
Continued from page nine.)

cision was reached to wreck the
Heinze and Morse banks we do not
know. But it now is history that
those banks were wrecked, the first
victim being the Knickerbocker Trust
Company, subsequently proved thor
oughly solvent.
Of course, it must be borne in mind
that Heinze and Morse had been con
Quoting their fight on illegitimate
banking lines, although it is believed
they differed little from the general
methods of other Wall street pro-
moter-bankers.
1t was not until it was found neces-
sary to wreck banks, by Withholding
from them clearinghouse sanction,
that the scheme of the steel trust to
pillage the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company became known.
Tennessee Coal and Iron long had
been the Naboth's vineyard coveted
by the steel trust It's property, devel-
oped and undeveloped, was well nigh
equal in value to that of the steel cor
poration itself. 1t was better equipped
than it's more powerful rival with the
a wealth of high-grade ore, almost at
the doors of it's furnaces, needing no
such long shipments as from the
northern lakes to Pittsburg or Gary.
Right at hand was abundance of cox
ing coal. Labor was plentiful and
conditions of living in the mild eli
mate cheap. And there was competi-
ton in transportation. 1t was a poten-
TALLY formidable competitor of Nor
gan's pet "billion-dollar trust"
Therefore in the most revered pc
Rod of the 1907 panic it happened
that the powerful New York banks re-
fused suddenly and utterly to con-
tinue loans unless United States Steel
bonds were substituted for Tennessee
Coal and Iron securities as collateral.
1t was believed that the trust com
pany of America was a heavy holder
of the stock as collateral, and was
really the strong financial power
which which had enabled a Tennessee
Coal and Iron syndicate to withstand
so long the subtle attacks made
upon it,
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perity was being wrecked in cold
blood for the exclusive gain of two
Wall street groups.
We retel history today simply to
cite the latest proofs of a crime that
resulted in disaster to life, character
and honest property-proof provided
in the sworn testimony of John w.
Gates of the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company; Oakleigh Thorne, president
of the Trust Company of America, and
Justice Gerard of the supreme court
of New York, former director of the
Knickerbocker Trust.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-18
ARMY AND NAVY
Continued from page nine.)

was found to be a foreign officer in
disguise, while an American ambassa-
dor in a foreign country notified the
State Department a few months ago
that a certain captain of a foreign
army had been detailed to spend three
years in the United States, making
secret studies of our defeuses,
The most alarming instance was
when an Englishman picked up a
small package on the streets of Cal
cutta, and discovered that it contained
, blueprints showing every detail of the
Notifications at CorregidoE No clue
was ever found to the identity of the
man who bad lost them, and the War
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-18
NOTICE.

On ana after October 2, 1911, aAu
until further notice, the BERNICE P.
BISHOP MUSEUM will be open the
public from 10 a. m. to p. NJ. daily
except Sundays, Wednesdays and the
four yearly holidays, Decoration Day
Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day
and Christmas Day. No permits tc
visit the museum will be issued tC
passengers on through steamers OIL
Wednesdays as formerly.
BY ORDER u I.iE TRUSTEES.
September /, 1911.
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Not until the trust company was
forced to ask for mercy, after a wreck
ing run which the president now tes-
titles was started by a statement of
George W. Perkins, then a partner of
Morgan, and after it disclosed its as
sets, which included less than $780,
600 worth Of Tennessee Coal and Iron
stock, behind loans otherwise amply
protected, did other banks dare to
come to it's assistance.
But the panic was forced harder and
harder until the really vulnerable spot
was reached. And what followed is
told by John w. Gates, who, like
Thomas Lawson, has done a public
service, just once in his life by turn
ing states evidence against one-time
accomplices who plucked them Gates
testifes that the result was "a forced
sale, in which the purchasers got all
the best of the bargain"
Not a dollar changed hanGs In the
transaction, the absorbed company be-
ing paid for by securities issued by
the Steel Trust, and not a dollar was
added to the funds of the New York
banks to check the progress of the
panic. 1t was all but so much manip-
ulation for the direct profit of the
financial combination headed by J.
Pierpont Morgan, and the losses were
all borne by the general public, includ-
ing the legitimate business men of
America, who are still paying the
price.
Meanwhile, in the most acute days
of the panic, Theodore Roosevelt had
been deluded into making the worst
mistake of his career with the best
possible intentions. He trusted Nor
CAMS subservient tool, George B. Cor
telyou. And through that stenographic
taker of Wall street dictation he was
persuaded to listen to the tales of woe
of Prick and Gary, of the Steel Trust,
and sanction that iniquitous merger,
to prevent a predicted crash of credit
and values that he was warned would
wreck or cripple every legitimate en-
terprise in the land
Once Tennessee Coal and Iron had
fallen into the grasp of the panic-mak-
ers, following the crushing of Heinze
and Morse, it was to their interest to
stop the panic. By that time all the
money in Wall street had been alb
sorbed by Morgan and Standard OIL
Morgan sent for his handy man,
George B. Cortelyou, unhappily for the
country, secretary of the treasury,
and Cortelyou promptly dumped into
Wall street $25,OOO,OOO of the govern
Gnent's money.
Morgan appeared in Wall street
with his and the treasury's millions,
stopped the PAM cand was acclaimed
Historically by tories and fools as
savior and a benefactor.
All these truths the North American
told from each dark day to day during
all the deviltry of that needless dis
tress to every honest American bust
ness man. Earnest as was our sup
port Of Roosevelt's policies and pa
triotic achievements, our readers must
recall that our criticism of him at that
time was unsparing in our declara-
tons that with the purest purposes he
was being "gold-brlcked" and deluded
to his own and the country's hurt by
INSCRIPTIONS conspirators.
We believe that the North Ameri-
can was virtually alone in showing
with daily persistence mat it was an
artificial panic and that national pros-l
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-18
NEW RICI Mill

The K, Yamamoto Rice Mill is the
largest as well as the finest in the
Islands. All machinery is of the very
latest pattern. The famous Tengu
Rice is cleaned at this mill. With the
large cleaning capacity they are able
to handle considerable outside partic,
liar work which they guarantee.