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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20
HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

1 to do retired farmer of Flint, Mich, sold at his public sale, when he gave up the farm, a team of sleek old work horses that he had brought up from l colts
 | Howe had an affection for the faith ful beasts and he wanted the team to fall into good hands. The horses had seen their best days and brought only | s100 at the sale
 But he required the purchaser to make written agreement compelling the owner to take good care of the old horses They were to be kept in as good condition as when sold and 1 In the event the agreemnt was not kept Howe reserved the right to buy the old team back for $100.
 Several months passed. and one day Mir Howe learned that the purchaser had violated his agreement. The horses had been overworked. They were get /, ting poor and gaunt and had sores on their shoulders where i'll fitting collars had chafed them.
 | Howe demanded the team.
 He offered the sloo for them, but the man refused to keep his agreement. He said he needed the team and would work the horses until they dropped if he so desired.
 MT Howe was compelled to go into court to get the old team back. And when he got possession tine poor old animals scarcely were able to walk. He took the team home, where by good care and kind attention he hoped to save the | lives of the horses.
 | It was too late And, as lingering meant only pain and distress for the poor creatures, he paid a man s5 to shoot the animals and bury them. l Is it not an uncommon tale? l One hundred of MT. Howe's backache dollars went to save his old team from | further ache of toll and suffering.
 Could aching dollars better go? It is written that the merciful man is mercifu to his beast, but seldom will a man spend s100 for a sentiment thin face high brow. long beard. tousled head. shrewd. kindly eyes-that's s Brother Dutton.
 For twenty-eight years he has toled in | the leper colony of Molokai. Molokai, called by Stephenson a bracket in the wall, is lonely island of the Pacific buddled at the foot of a bleak precipice sheer 200O feet high.
 Brother Dutton was the assistant to Father Damien. going about caring for the sick. tending, teaching, comforting, during the life of the heroic priest. and when the latter died succeeded him.
 For more than q quarter of cen tury this remarkable man has worked at his task. and now comes the news l that he has at last become infected with the loathsome, deadly leprosy and must seal his devotion by slow and lingering living death.
 Dutton served through the civil war. enlisting at Janesville, Wis, and made a gallant record. He won distinction and was promoted to the rank of major. Like his master, he saved others-nim- self he cannot save.
 Shortly following the war be suddenly entered a monastery, where he remained for two years. Disappointment in . love
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oe the millions of wealth wrested each week from Jones valley. He has at times earnestly wished to own tools so that he too might buy muscle and be an added factor in the forwarding of pros perity. Then he too might join the swelling chorus of preachers of pros- perity and responsibility.
 Yet even here a certain danger would obtrude; for praise of prosperity in the large necessitates forgetfulness of oth- CT aspects of the social state-indeed requires a sort of limited vision. It is as if one with all the tender and warm joys of home life-possessing wife and children-praised all life. calling it sweet and fine and wholesome. in the hearing of one who was possessed of neither the wife nor the child nor the home joys of any sort.
 Praise of our great republic Is sweet as the touchings of silver bells to him who has shared in our splendid growth of industries-who has known the thrill of getting on;" but to the chap who has felt the whips and scorns, minus the benefits-what to him has 1t meant? What Is the outlook of the underman on this world of prosperity? For until we have got his attitude of life as 1t Is,
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i" HE intensely patriotic,-or I may say the foolishly patriotic--per- ! sons who find no fault with the republic, and are continually prating of our unattackable greatness on land and sea, may be the real enemies of society and not as some suppose. the progres- sivists, socialists. syndicalists, ct cet era. It may presently be seen that the Conservative, i.e.. the man with tra- dition-the man to whom landmarks are more important than breathing bodies of men-is the real menace to the gov ernment, and not the agitatoreven though he be a professional agitator.
 Along with conservatism usually goes snug living and responsibility. and at times even worthiness-but invariably the first two named. These are gener- ally held to be the pillars of society. These the pillars of society. It is from the lips of these that the good word comes of prosperity. and we can not doubt that prosperity does exist of a sort-for them.
 The poor scribe, nowise great or fair" who from week to week helps pad out this page has even been thrilled with sense of actual wealth in reading
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BACK TO SAYAGERY
Modern Men and Women Lack
 Virility

Paris Correspondence of the New York
 Sun.
 new war cry for women and a new leader has just appeared in the person of Mile. Valentine de Point. grand daughter of the poet Lamartine and her self poet and novelist of first rank. She is the first widely known woman to identify herself with the futurist move ment. and she has just issued manifesto addressed to all women, urging them to join in the complete revolt from past tra- litions, which futurism implies.
 What is most lacking in modern wom- en. as well as in men. is virllity.
 '1t is the brute which we must take for our model.'
 These are the two declaratins of Mile. 5aint-Polnt which have aroused storm of discussion, even among the feminists themselves. In fact. the young woman does not approve of feminism.
 What changes would you make in the condition of woman?" Mile. Saint-Peter was asked
 .'She must change herself" was the re- ply. gro give back something of manli-
 
 we must train them in manlness, even to the point of brutality Every woman ought to possess not only feminine vir- tues, but manly qualities, without which she is a weakling.
 Enough of women who perpetuate the qualities of weakness and old agei Enough ,of women who rear children for their own selfish pleasure, keeping them from all adventure. that is, from all joy; who deny their daughters to love and their sons to war.
 ',The real women are the Furies. the Amazons. the Joan of Arcs, the Judiths, the Cleopatras and the Messalinas. They are the warriors who fight more fiercely than men, the sirens who inflame. the destroyers who, beating down the weak est aid in the selection of the fittest.
 Woman has always known how to re- ward the strongest, the conqueror, he who triumprs by reason of his muscles and his courage. She cannot escape that
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"HEREs is the flavor of the romantic
 in the life and career of General
 \ Philip Dale Roddy. That he should have become the conspicuous figure that he was in the Confederate struggle, was due solely to inherent merit. Born in the town of Moulton, Lawrence county, in conditions humble, if not obscure he was an ordinary tailor in that country town, growing to manhood without an education, and enjoying none save as he was able to pick up the scraps of ad- vantage afforded in a community noted for it's intelligence and educational fa- cilities. There was that about him, how ever. which won him friends. and when he was 26 years old he was elected the sheriff of Lawrence county. Later. he was engaged in steamboating on the
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affair is said to have been the reason for his withdrawal from the world.
 While in the monastery he heard of and thereupon dedicated his life to service for the colony.
 With that purpose in view he started as an emigrant for San Francisco. From there he shipped for Honolulu, being reg istered on board ship as a servant ' He says that was the only occupation he could state"
 And appropriately.
 His Is life of service.
 Brother Dutton is a different type from Father Damien, who was pre-eminently a spiritual leader.
 Dutton is a man of affairs, hearty, wholesome, genial and gifted as an ex- ecutive, and has been of great assistance to the butt ends of humanity who compose the leper settlement.
 In 1908 he succeeded in getting the Atlantic fleet. in it's trip around the world, to pass close to the leper island and maneuver as spectacle for the ravished eyes of the unfortunates.
 That was a gracious act of our govern ment, which granted Dutton's petition.
 And now the brave. helpful brother of the outcasts. beyond the pale with his lepers, is called upon to make the final sacrifice and die the death of a martyr. He is to give the last full measure of devotion to the unclean.
 Seldom in the annals of heroic renuncia- ton is there to be found history of self-sacrifice that will match the minis try of the hero of Molokai.
 Nothing is ever lost
 When you burn a piece of coal in your it. You do not destroy it-not particle of it.
 The coal is changed into flame and smoke, into gases and ashes, but noth- ing that was in the coal Is lost by the process of combustion In all exists in one form or another. Nothing is lost.
 It must be so, else by our activities and enterprises we would soon burn up the world on which we live.
 In so far as science can determine all matter is immortal. Nothing new is created, and nothing Is destroyed. Man has the power to change and use matter. but he can neither create nor demolish, not even so much as a grain of dust
 You can boil water and change it into steam or you may condense steam and change 1t into water. but you cannot annihilate either water or steam.
 Nothing in the physical world is ever lost, and nothing in the spiritual world is ever lost.
 A deed O. kindness cannot be destroyed It persists. A work of love once begun never dies. An act of sacrifice cannot be annihilated. Devotion is indestructi- ble.
 But you say. The child I loved and lost-that is loss, and only loss.''
 No,
 The beauty and the power of that childs life are not lost. It lives in you and in others. And the love you had for the child persists in another form lin sympathy and kindness and devo- tion to other children.
 Things spiritual cannot be killed.
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yyYyIILE wandering through a vil- A/ lage cemetery not long ago I w stopped, at the graveside of a woman whom had known. On her tomb stone were graven the words
 While wandering through village cemetery not long ago I stopped at the sraveside of woman whom had known. On her tombstone were graven the words; At Rest"
 Verify, I said to myself, it is high time and hope it is so with her.
 For nearly fifty years this woman had cooked and sewed and scrubbed and patched for a big family. Occasionally when there were thrashers or during corn gathering she would have some help but mostly not
 The family was prosperous.
 Her husband owned one of the largest and best farms of the neighborhood. He was a pusher of work and very success ful as a farmer and stock breeder. And yet
 For a quarter of century, to my per- sonal knowledge. the woman and her daughters carried the water for domestic purposes from pump more than 100 feet away from the kitchen.
 They were rich.
 The soil of the farm was fertile and well nourished by good farming meth ods and the crops were bumper crops. Every year there were no conveniences provided for the woman of the house. hold. There was no sink in the kitchen, and. as for a bathroom or furnace or a lighting system, there was no thought Of spending money for such luxuries.
 They were rich, but
 The woman did not have the common est necessities of modern life. The money went to buy more land, to raise more corn, to feed more hogs, to get more money to buy more land.
 At Rest
 Faith, she had earned it. For years she lived the life of hard labor, want and deprivation so that her husband, when she died, rIght have 1000 acres.
 Did she sometimes hunger for the bet ter things of life? Did she sometimes sigh for the little pleasures and cour- tesies and kindnesses denied her? Or was her woman's soul calloused by greed? subordinating the best that was in her, she labored on like some slave until lean, cadaverous and wrinkled. she dropped into her grave
 On tomb over the body of a soldier at Padua is graven the legend:
 Here he. who never rested rests
 The same legend might have been put upon the gravestone of the rich old woman of the farm.
 This is a common, everyday story.
 But uncommon.
 It is said there is no other person so "close' in money matters as the aver age retired farmer.
 Emerson has said the farmers dollar is the hardest earned collar in the world because it is made entirely of backaches without alloy. Which may be a good reason why the retired farmer is not so easily pried loose from his dollar. It costs him bachaches.
 The story?
 About . year ago J. E. Howe, . well
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ALABAMA-PHILIP D. RODDY-By B. F. Riley

commander, as was shown on more than one occasion.
 For two years Roddy had so stubbornly resisted the movements of the enemy in the effort to broaden the basis of his oc- cupancy in North Alabama, that the skill full commander had restricted him to the two points of Huntsville on the north, and Corinth on the south. But Roddy was needed ~s Dalton for a season, in connection with the general movements of the army. and thence with his com mand he was ordered, This left the Ten nessee valley open to the enemy, and he entered 1t, and strongly fortified himself at Decatur. When later General Roddy returned to the former scene of his opera tons he was unable to dislodge the fed erals from Decatur, but the rest of the territory he steadfastly held. When Gen eral Hood succeeded General Johnston in command of the western army, one of his chief reliances was Roddy to keep open his communications
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ing our laws into a fitness that will en- tirely deserve this praise. Let us have our nation shot through and through with prosperity and not merely outer and over-crusted with sort of metallic va- neer
 One thing we have to do; we have to combat snobbishness and purse pride as we would the very Devil if we mean for this republic to last as it's founders meant it should last.
 I catch myself talking with you as if we were hand In hand on the threshold of q new time into which but a step or so were all that were needed to carry us.
 To overpass those few steps between us and the new time may involve her eulean efforts, much as the football eleven, on the last line of play. must put forth to get the play over. So much we have been handicapped by riches and poverty that there Is scarce any going strength left us.
 But there's an all-world gonfalon awaiting some political party that is brave enough and big enough to carry men past this weddings field of fool ish play where there Is hardly a voice big enough to umpire the game.
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MEN WHO HAVE MADE

with dexterity he would fall on the ene- my here and there, harassing him at every point, and checking and foiling his movements. In the latter part of the sec ond year of the war Colonel Roddy suc- eeeeed in swelling his small command into brigade of horse, with which he met an invasion from Corinth under Gen. eral Sweeney. He met the enemy at Little Bear Creek, outwltted Sweeney and forced him back to Corinth.
 Alert to the movements of the federals. who were intent on gaining a solid foot ing in north Alabama. Roddy eneoun- tered still another raid at Bartons, and a second time saved that quarter of the state from invasion. The enemy was forced back. Roddy capturing a part of his artillery and inflicting on him severe loss in killed and wounded.
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on the way to Damascus and who fell among thieves who stripped and wounded him7
 If you remember a Levte and priest looked a the wounded man and passed by on the other side.
 Then q certain Samaritan came that way. And when he saw him he had compassion on him" He got down of his beast and bound Up the wounds of the poor fellow and poured oil and wine upon them.
 And he set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn. And, moreover. he paid the bill and said If that was not enough he would be coming that way soon and would pay what was lack ing.
 The story was told to answer the ques- ton, Who is my neighbour" And at his conclusion the Master said. (Which now of these thinkest thou was neigh bor to him that fell among thleves?" It was easy to answer. As easy as to answer the query | Which of these twain thnkest thou was neighbor to the young man who fell from | his motorcycle?"
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ous undertaking, and splendidly equipped, and while he was being pursued by Gen eral Forrest with a force much inferior, the federal General Dodge entered the valley to cover the movements of General Sertight. Acting in conjunction with For rest, who was in hot pursuit of Streight and whose command he eventually cap tured. Roddy with an inferior force, checked Dodge, and contested every inch of advance through Colbert county, thus enabling Forrest to overtake and bag Streight. By this indirect agency Gen eral Roddy was a sharer in the brilliant victory of Forrest.
 The splendid qualities of General Roddy now attracted the attention of the Con federate government, and though the theatre of his exploits were contracted he was thought of in connection with John IT. Morgan and Mosby. General Forrest had great confidence in his ability as a
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superiority which imposes itself brutally Let woman regain her cruelty, her vio- ence. which cause her to trample on, to mutilate the conquered, just because they are conquered. Let woman become sublimely unjust. like all the forces of nature.
 Let woman be the fierce and jealous mother, having all rights over her chill dren. performing all the duties owed to them, so long as they are in physical need of her protection. Let woman be the proudest of trophies for her race And let man. freed from the cares of a. family. lead a life of daring and conquest up to tho limit of his physical strength. and in spite of his being q son and father
 The woman who, by tears and senti- mentality, brings n man to her feet is inferior to her who urges her over into the battle of life Instead of making him a slave. woman should inspire her hus- band or her son to surpass himself A woman owes heroes to tho world.-~
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Later in the war Roddy came into more Intimate and vital touch with Forrest, who was very fond of him, and CO., operated with the great commander in many of his movements. and shared with him in some of his most brilliant vie- tories. A brief sketch like this affords but an inkling of the power of gen. eralship developed by General Roddy. He was military genius. He was born to command. He was ever alert and active, and had a fondness for the dash of the field. He loved hard service, and rarely failed in an enterprise, for, with all his dash and daring, he was invariably cauti- ous.
 No commander In the Confederate army enjoyed more completely the coniidebee and devotion of his men. After the close of the war he removed 10 New York, efite parked in the commission business. and there died.
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neighboring Tennessee. in which employ ment the conflict of 1861 found him.
 Raising a company of cavalry for the Confederate service, Roddy became it's captain, and was assigned to duty in connection with the western army. He rapidly developed into an excellent scout in Tennessee, was daring, shrewd and tactical. and in the battle of Shiloh his company was made the escort of ueneral Bragg. His soldierly qualities and gen uine military leadership and gallantry were so displayed at the battle of Shi- loh, that he received special mention for his bravery. With honors still fresh on him, he returned to North Alabama, and easily raised regiment of horse in pros pect of the threatened invasion of that quarter
 He had a theatre of operation all his own in the valley of the Tennessee, and
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He was now master of the Tennessee valley and as opportunity would afford he would cross the river in a rapid raid make valuable captures and replenish his stores. At one time he dashed into the federal camp at Athens, taking the enemy completely by surprise, burnt a quan- tity of stores and was off again the en- emy knew not where. Still later Roddy fell suddenly on Gorinth and secured as trophy of victory 600 horses and mules, and when pursued by Colonel Cornyn to Iuka, he turned on the enemy and forced him back,
 General Roddy because "the swamp fox" of the Tennessee valley and from uncon- jectured quarters would bounce on the enemy, infict severe blows and reap trophies. When Colonel Streight entered on his daring raid through north Ala bama, with force picked for that peril
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-05
Sister Against
Sister i'm Court

A dispute as to the custody of a
sewing machine brought two sisters In
to the East Orange Police Court today
as opposing litigants and the father OF
the pair was called upon by Recorder
Mott to state who should have the
ownership of the machine. This he did
with tears In his eyes and insisting to
the court he did not want to be the
cause of trouble in the family.
Miss Frances Bukoskl. who lives at
rs Amherst street, East Orange, Sc
cured a notice for the appearance of
her sister. Mrs. George Clark, Of 182
Morris avenue. this city. before Re-
corder Mott. Their father, Frank Blu
koskt, OF 81 Rhode Island venue car
ried the receipt for the machine to
prove ownership. When her mother
died the single daughter claims she
received the sewing machine, and at
the time her married sister wanted to
use 1t she consented to loan 1t, but
was unable to get 1t again when she
sent an expressman to the house. To
day, after the father said the machine
was to go to the single daughter Mrs.
Clark promised to turn it over to her.