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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-02

~ ONE nights back I met friend on
 the street who referred to an un- 0 usual English word said, Shake speare puts it upon the lips of Henry V A S the King prays just before the battle of Agincourt My friend and l finally went our ways. In thinking over the subject that had engaged our minds, I concluded that the Prayers in the Plays would be an interesting topic for these columns.
 Shakespeare was devout believer in nraver. There are in the plays hundreds of references to this duty and privilege. Men pray for themselves and for others in stress of circumstances and in perils. Before committing themselves to the help Jessness of sleep many. by act, do what King Lear said should be his course;
 .Tn pray, and then I'll sleep"
 Even the rough and rugged Othello would not send the gentle Desdemona into the mysterious realm of the long, long sleep until she had prayed. Com ing into her chamber to do his deed of unspeakable horror, he asks Have you prayed tonight Desdemona?' She an- swers, "Ay, my lord" He then warns her:
 "If you bethink yourself of any crime, Unreconcied as yet to heaven and grace Solicit for it straight.
 But not only when addressing them selves to sleep do we see men at tneir prayers in the plays; and not only when
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miller, who must reduce that solid and substantial grain of divinity to wholesome food. It must be ground up, returned again to its primitive elements by way of the coarse and vulgar process of di- gestion, praised of Pecksnif and despised of the idealist.
 Orthodoxy then is only good to be crushed and made into food, vitalized by the common general stomach of humani- ty. It Is the glory of our time, not that it has substituted more intelligent for a less intelligent faith, but that it Is talk ing the old faith and making it vital restating 1t in terms of the market and the street, putting even it's Bible Into vulgar idiom, and making its preachers servants of the body as we'll as of the soul Pragmatism sits supreme in the theological chair The late Dr. Clarke, an eminent Baptist professor. wrote the ology minus it's shell. He threshed the wheat. and a new generation of Baptist preachers, who have read Clarke, are mixing 1t into more or less innocuous batter for the feeding or their flocks
 2 The limitation which has most dire fully beset orthodoxy Is that feeling of fnality which it fixes One of my critics, for instance, writes me that the Sabbath, as observed in Birmingham, is according to the will of God" Another asserts that
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to the bar. He settled first in Coosa county, and later removed to Syllacauga and later still to the town of Talladega where he entered into co-partnership with the Hon. W. P. Chiffon. It was in the office of this firm that Senator John T.
 Morgan was fitted for the bar. The first official position held by MT. Stone was that of circuit judge to which position he was appointed by Governor Fitzpatrick in the place of Judge Shortridge on the oc- casion of the death of the latter. The ser- vice of Judge Stone on the bench was so satisfactory that he was subsequently, elected over formidable candidates for the same position for a period of six years.
 He declined to offer for reelection after the expiration of his term, and removed to Hayneville. Lowndes county, where he engaged fin the practice of the law for a period of years. In 1S49 his name was
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God, alone. outside his tent, in the shad- ows of night
 I had the rare privilege of seeing Ringold the Australian, in this scene. It was in Edwin Booths theatre, in New York. The actor was the perfection of manly beauty As King Lear said of him. self. so this actor was Every inch a King" There was no ranting in the play, and no mouthing of the prayer. It was lofty and solemn. I 1 said that the King Gin the play) re- moved his helmet before the prayer Those of my readers who have visited Westminster Abbey may remember that a helmet is suspended over King Henry's tomb. and that near by hang a shield and saddle. It is said that these were used by the King at the battle of Agln- court.
 Tn the third scene of the third act of "Hamlet" the Prince finds Claudius on his knees In prayer, and says:
 Now might I do 1t pat, now he Is pray
 ing;
 And now I'll do it. and so he goes to
 heaven,
 And so am I revenged
 We do not know what words the King employed in his prayers; but we may be certain of the spirit with which he ap- preached his devotions by reading the preceding reasoning. Rosencrantz, Guild enstern and Polonius have disappeared. The guilty King Is alone, alone with his flashing conscience; alone with God.
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news of his discovery was opposed the will of the Burgomaster and the leading property owners of that city, who melted the masses of townsfolk to believe that the Doctor was their enemy rather than their friend Else why would he be try ing to make a mountain of a mole-hill? |? Why would he destroy the one hope of the city for financial betterment? Ger tainly, they advised, such a revelation would be inexpedient =. and so forth.
 This public repudiatlon by his own people, (for he was publicly branded an "enemy to the people" and his house was stoned) almost caused the Doctor to hate that blindness and greed which seem ed to him clearly typified in that compact majority which could see no farther than the tip of it's foolish nose. His quarrel was not so much with the 1eaders-those whose purses were directly affected but of that failure of mankind as evi- denced here to accept truths for their
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and was on the way to my Beanery, "Willyum, you air Brite Boy, after you have been in Washington 150 yeers you will get wise to which end of Pennsylvanier Avenue the Capital is-in the meen time Willyum watch out for the Puff Waggins when you cross the streets, and look not upon the Chorus Gurls when they cho."
 Wont you spend the Mite with mel" I asked him with my fingers famillierly twisting the top button of his open fased vest. He pawsed momint and seys, Have you enny extry Pajammers ?"
 "No,v seys I, q newer smoked enny of that kind, but I have anuther Creemo.'
 We'll" he seys, "I guess I can't stay, Good nite Bill, and don't Blow out the Class, will see you anon"
 He sertainly was pleasant feller. Yours trooly, BILL VINES.
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

You have two eyes and two hands, and yet you whine because you have no chance? Doesn't the dauntless spirit of N c. Hanks make you ashamed?
 And if you have been unfortunate doesn't the spectacle of Hanks going about. keeping sweet and serene. hearten you some?
 It is 8.80 a. m. The street cars are lined ID for a block The clerks had come down earlier. These cars are filled with the bosses, heads of departments profes- slonal men. Restless and fuming a brok- CT cries out: Whats the matter ahead?''
 Goal wagon down.
 "A coal wagonl Can't the company keep these people off the track? Must a man miss an important engagement be- cause of these drivers?'
 The coal hauler, in order to relieve his rather weak team. had turned into the car tracks. Warned by the changing bell he started off. The strain broke an axle and the wheel smashed down. Traffic was delayed 10 minutes.
 That was all except that the driver would lose two days work and s.
 bagatelle? Let's sec.
 The loss of the company, incorporated at S5.000 GOO. is few nickels. But the drivers loss?
 Capitalize his entire outfit at $50. Wagon. horses and harness are old. How much has he lost?
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own sake, without palavering over ex- pediencies.
 Though this is not the strongest of 1b- sens dramas. 1t is a companion to that other gripping social play of his, Pillars of Society,"" and for once we see the sweeter ideals of the Norwegian. For once we have got out of the terrible tolls of "The Wild Duck and Ghosts" those blind dramas of heredity that have about them all the cheer and laughter that is met with in dead houses.
 In sort of Carlylean fashion the right ly incensed Stockmann hurled some thunder at the foolish folk that dis owned hin-that people who treated him much as Browning's patriot was treated -one for whom once "the church-spires famed, such flags they had!' and yet a people which, once displeased, gladly attended his crucifixion.
 Stockmann said, among other things:
 "The masses are nothing but the raw
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EN NOR many years Judge George ". Stone was familiar figure in the 4 public circles of Alabama. He was among the distinguished self-made men of the state His early scholastic advantages were limited. extending not beyond the |conf1nes of village school, yet he came Ito take high rank as a Jurist. being re- Earded in the height of his power as one |of the really great lawyers of the state. (IIe was favored in being able to prosecute |his studies privately and the Judgment exercised by him in his self-selected |course of reading gave evidence of that |solidity of character and acuteness of dis |crimination which distinguished him throughout his professional and public |career.
 Before removing from his native state, Tennessee, to Alabama, he was admitted
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the Panama Canal and it is much better polyticks."
 Do you meen to say" seys I, that the suit against the Standered Oil and the Beef Trust is simply play act ing?"
 That's the answer Willyum,' seys he, simply play acting; why my Deer Sur," he seys, "when it cums to being the Candy Kid before the footlites Booth and Mansfield newer had a thing on Teddy-Teddy will go down in history as being the Gratest Evver, but Taft ant so good-Taft is bad actor"
 Well" seys I, "when the Demmer- crats gets in I guess they'll grab the Hook and put all these Violators of the law in the Bastile, and had the anxious Publick a good cleen admin nistrasion.
 "Willyum," seys he, affectsionately laying his hand on my shoulder, and by that time we had got our tonnage
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material that must be fashioned into a People
 But that's always the way-so long as the commences fingers in your sys- tenn and you haven't worked your way up to spiritual distinction The sort of common people I am speaking of are not found among the lower classes alone. they crawl and swarm all around us up to the very summits of society-" and so forth.
 William Archer, the translator of "An Enemy of the People, would bias you, if he could, into conclusion that at heart Ibsen was an intellectual patri- clan; but I know better. l cannot be of the Archer school when hear Stockmann saying this to that sea of upturned, angry faces:
 Its stupidity. poverty, the ugliness Of life that do the devifs work for yonl In a house that isn't aired and swept every day-my wife maintains the floors
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appeals and Revises and Remanders and Postponemints and Change of Venuews, and ex-partee reverses and Back Pedals, till it makes Jawndice & Jawndice lok like a Piker for the long winded Record and the costs run up so high that J. Piert would have to ovverdraw to pay 'em, that we could not put nice helthy crimp in most enny old Trust under the Anty- Trust law-not at all. This law is a per fectly legal and Bony Fidy law ac- cording to the Constitusion and is as simple and plain and unassuming as a plank fence. There is no reesun," he seys, "of enny boddy getting tangled up on it, it can be understood by enny justice of the Peece that evver sat on Miss Demeener, but you understand that we have Lawyers in this country that can mix up the English Alfibet into a Cross between Assault and Battery and Boarding House Hash, so that Professer Wood
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desecrators of the temple, but those lashes furthered somewhat the dream of the kingdom of God.
 And we of the compact majority-shall we find it in our foolish hearts to throw stones at those who speak to us from the higher levels?
 What we call the brotherhood of man is unattackable, for that Is of the most certain practicalty - what the hungry world-heart clamors for and what few noble-men here and there have practiced. The brotherhood of man. how ever which is practical Christian, Is not a thing to be named synonymous ly with social equality, or any other sort of spiritual or mental equality.
 Whoever understands human nature ever so little knows the eternal inequal- ity of men-lxnows too that llberating truths do not appear in the group-mind all at once. For truths arc winged things at birth, comrade. Indeed. in some groups
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scared into seperating themselves frum Reel Mummy with this Anty- Trust law do you? No one would let that Gag be put ovver on them surely, don't hand me that; I know that I am frum the Rural Districts, and look confiding, but I reed the Pikeville Bugle, and have quit eating with my nife cents 1 have been in Washington, don't Teeze me my Deer Sur, don't teeze me-"
 "Mr. Vines," seys the congressman, placing his fat forefinger rite against my Chest protector, "you must learn that there air menny curius and funny Stunts in polyticks. You air little dense in the Bean and don't seem to Grab, if you expect to do enny thing else but warm a bench in this Leege, you must pick up little in your bat ting average. It does not follow" he continued, "that because we inissiate a suit against one of the Big Trusts and it strings out with Breefs, and
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RAIDERS of these weekly essayettes
 |T will not lightly accuse the writer A \ of being a dangerous radical. On |the other hand he is one of the great
 Fhost who have broken away from the
 |old dead, traditional and unimaginative )school, if indeed he ever belonged to it.
 |There is, therefore, nothing particularly
 revolutionary or new in his views. The |goal adopted is merely to make it little
 |easier to live at once a spiritual, an in-
 |telligent, an intellectually honest and a
 |socially useful life. To be able to belong Ito the church and to use that relationship flor the service of mankind, Is the practi-
 |cal aim of modern Christians. To be able
 Ito say. "I believe" and yet to know all
 |that can be said or at least all that has
 |been said, to make such belief impossible, lis the task of honest Christians always. |To put life into the csucible of the age,
 land to find it emerge, not cinder, but
 |soul is the triumph that vanquishes the world And this aim, task, triumph, evil
 |dently belongs alike to all believers In all
 denominations and in none.
 Perhaps the most perfectly useful thing flor modern ministers to do is to regain Ito the chuch the multitudes who have Host touch with it because it's traditional
 latitude seems to them snare and vex-
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they may not even bo hammered in. as Stockmann discovered. One doesn't have to be social, spiritual or intellectual patrician to discover that all truths are spoken from the higher levels. Only, we must know what really are higher levels. A truth may haply be uttered in tfe run ming talk of men engaged In ditch-dig- ging as we'll as graciously Gx1nounced from the highest altars of the world. Where the truth is found. there is the high level-it makes no difference where
 This we do surely know: That a supc- rior breed of man bazes the way for tho masses. And though we of the humdrum type have no torch to bear-no sweet and fine message with which to compel the dawns coming, we may at least be not Of those who hinder the torch bearers.
 Indeed. mankind will have got far along toward the dawn when 1t learns to tol- crate it's orch-bearers-even, I may say, to know a torch when it sees 1t.
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&tH1IE Lord do so to me and more
 also if aught but death part Il thee and me-

|&<ENIE Lord do so to me and more also if aught but death part
 | thee and me-
 If it is difficult to choose between a Thousand stories of heroism in that night
 when the Titanic went down, one story
 stands out graphic and luminous, the
 story of the great love of the wife of
 Isidor Straus, the New York philantro- | |pist
 She refused to save her life, preferring
 l to die with the husband of her youth. She was urged to go. Almost they com pelled her to go. Her husband, who had chosen a manly death for himself and
 who spurned all offers of safety so long
 as women and children remained, added
 his pleadings. begging Mrs. Straus in the
 name of their children and grandchildren to go to the boats. She clung to her husband. Had they not come down the years to- gether sharing each others sorrows and Joys? And she loved him now no less than in the days of their plighted troth. She was bound to him by tender ties that even death could not loosen. He was her lover. Together they come thus far; together they would go. And she refused all aid.
 Think what this woman did. If she would leave her husband to his certain fate, ahead of her stretched out years of ease and comfort in her old age. Ahead
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which he was quite fond. Ills literary taste was the highest. and occasionally he would give rein to his Pegasus and dash off bit of fugitive poetry. This was done by way of diversion, as he never sought publication for such productions. His concentration was remarkable, and he could husband his resources with great readiness. ease and skill.
 The devotion of Judge Stone to his ii- hrary prevented his attention to social intercourse, and, like most students he was somewhat austere in his bearing. The glitter and chatter of the social cir cle had no charms for the man whose thoughts moved on serious and solid lines. His companionship was largely his books of which he had a choice selection.
 Tn life, he was prized as an attorney for his rigid attention to cases entrusted
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votion to the cause of religion. He was a devout Presbyterian of the old school. and never suffered his religious convic- tions to be trenehed on by the plausible pretexts of worldly maxim. In this he was as firm and stern as he was in all other relations in life. No juggling of politics for temporary advantage, no sug- gestion from the high plane of right could defect him from course of rigid scruple. His standard was honor. not applause; in- tegrity, not gain; uprightness in all things. not momentary success.
 This was the life lived by this eminent jurist. and this bequest given as an ex- ample to those who should come after him. The passing of man like this was the occasion of profound sorrow through out the state that he had so long served with distinction.
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true, till he had satisfied himself from the authorities. This gave a critical cast to his mind which, in turn, resolved itself into the utmost exactness with respect to each minute particular in any subject which would absorb his attention. With painstaking exactness he would con over A minute point for hours. in order to bring it into exact adjustment. His ar guments were perfectly mortised, no mat ter how much time was necessary 10 eff feet this end. His labors in his office were assiduous, and a case entrusted to his care never suffered the slightest neg ligence or inattention. Others might find time for the chase or on the stream, but Judge Stone was usually found in his office, at his desk, hammering out his cases. His studies were varied, as he would now and then unbend from his law books to delve into choice literature of
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Tx 1IsTUR EDDITUR-I met one |M of our Southern Congressmen
 1 '4 on Pennsylvanier Avenue the |uther day, and taking him carefully |aside where we could converse with but being spyed upon by the minyons |of the Iniquitus Republican Party, |and after lifting our Creemos, and surrounding ouselves with fragrint smoke, and telling the waiter to Put |the Studs to us, asked him his Frank |and Candied opinion of this Anty- Trust law that we heer so much about |all ovver the Country. told him of |course, 1 was a newspaper man and |was representing The Age-Herald, but that I would not use his name and that he could unbosum himself Freely. After tapping up three of four Stines |of Beer, he proved himself sum un- |bosumer. He sed, that he "liked the members of the press verry much, |and had freequintly loaned them
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prominently mentioned in connection with the governorship of the state In 1856 Judge Stone was again summoned from his private practice by being elected to the tion he continued to hold throughout the period of the civil war In 1865 the legis- lature engaged his services jointly with those of John w. Sheppard, Esq. to pre- pare revised penal code of Alabama, one adapted to the conditions .occasioned by the war.
 The habits of study acquired by Judge Stone in his boyhood days in meeting the demands occasoned by the deficiency of his education were never abandoned He was doggedly persistent in mastering every detail of a subject, and seems to have acquired a passion for routine fractional work. He took nothing for granted, never assuming that it was
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to his care; as a judge, for the accuracy and minuteness of his opinions, as well as for his unquestioned fairness. and as private citizen, for his solid and suhstan4 tial worth. No condition could swerve him from a course of conscientious judg- ment, and no temptation was sufficient to betray him into a course the lease doubt full Behind all this was manly courage and conviction to sustain the serenity Of his judgment.
 Thus lived and died this distinguished Alabamian as much admired for his pri- vate virtues as for his official service. In most respects. a model man and citizen, he was a typical official of the other days when men loved honor more than gan, and prized integrity above the price of rubies.
 To all this was added Judge Stone's de-
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|TNHIS volley was fired by a righteous social-physician at a mass meeting \ of his own towns folk "a mass
 meeting that had publicly disowned him
 when he asked that 1t make sacrifice flor the commonweal. Certain baths
 which were believed to possess healthful
 and medicinal properties. and which only |awaited public opening to the invalids of north Europe, were discovered at the eleventh hour by Stockmann to be liter |ally teeming with malignant disease |germs.
 l Against the Doctors righteous determi-
 |nation to at once publish broadcast the
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"This is the great discovery that made yesterday: The most dangerous foe Ito truth and freedom in our midst is the |compact majority. Yes. it's the confound- led, compact, liberal majority-that, and nothing elsei'-Dr. Stockmann, in An
 Enemy to the People"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
UNDERWOOD
AND THE PAPERS

The careful reader of the newspapers
is surprised at one notable feature of
the papers from practically every sec"
ton of the country. This feature is the
general notice and attention paid to Con-
gresham Oscar Underwood as a candi-
date for the Democratic presidential
nomination, and the uniform praise
which invariably accompanies the men
ton of him and his candidacy. This is
all the more surprising because Mr.. I'm
derwood maintains no press bureau. On
the other hand, prominent candidates
for the Democratic nomination like Gov
ernor Harmon of Ohio, Governor Will
son of New Jersey and Speaker Clark
of Missouri, maintain large and active
bureaus, which are continually sending
out campaign literature to the papers
of the country,
Notwithstanding this, at the present
time Mr.. Underwood is receiving more
attention than any other, we might say
any other two, presidential candidates
combined. The attitude of the voter.
towards Mr.. Underwood may be doubted
until that attitude is made cleo
election, +
(his re