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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
-----------s8s---- ZEB HORNS FUNERAL Q

From Caroline Abbot Stanleys "Ine Mas
 ter of the Oaks.'
 He tramped his way into this country and finally into this neighborhood. You know his history since he has been here. He has never been able to keep place and. so far as I can learn, has never had a complaint made against him. l have heard many of you talk about him in the last "A hours, and this is what you make him out: a faithful, capable workman; industrious, honest, reliable in all things gentle to women and little children, kind to dumb animals. untiring in self sacrifice for the sick and helpless. In addition, I know him to have been a God fearing. repentant man.
 Tt was not much he asked of this com- rnunity-only the right to live by honest hard work, and a little-a very little human companionshp. We denied him bothl We saw a struggling soul go down in dumb agony and we did not lift a hand to save him. A friendly greeting hearty handshake, a word of neighborly interest would have been to this man as cold water in a thirsty land. But we did not give them He asked us for bread and We gave him a stone.
 q asked if he was afraid to die. Mo- he said, he did not believe God would be as hard on him as his fellow men had been. I think he was right He said If there had only been somebody that l could have told it would have been diff ferent, but there wasn't anybody It was the pitiful cry 2OOO years old-I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me; refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul Oh, brethren, brethren, may God forgive usl"
 The old minister had been speaking in an impassioned tone. He stopped sud- denly. Then, there being nothing mora to say, he raised his hands in Denedction, repeating with gentle emphasis which might have passed for irony, prob ably was only force of habit:
 And now may the peace of God, that passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen
 Ma Liza had been playing beside the grave, sticking her alder bush into the soft mold and pulling it out again to ma a Detter place. AS sne lelt the tug of her mothers hand she stuck it in firmly and said, her sweet, childish treble smiting the stiffness: T give my flowers to Zebbie!"
 Mrs Freno caught her to her breast with sob, and laid her branch beside it. The act was infectious. As by one rn- pulse the women came and cast their flowers upon the mound with gentle hands and falling tears. And when the process sion moved from the cemetery Zeb Horns grave was mass of snowy, fragrant blos- sons.
 But the man was dead!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
Prominent Young Lawyer

Albert Untermyer of the New York bar the son of Samuel Untermyer the famous New York lawyer spent yesterday in Birmingham as a representative of im- portant interests in the Southern Iron and Steel company's reorganization move ment. Young Untermyer had been to Bir- mingham before and had made a number of friends who greeted him most cordial ly on his present visit.
 Birmingham is evidently growing rap- idly" said MT. Untermyer There is a great deal of prosperity talk throughout the country and Birmingham will natur- ally share in any great industrial activity.
 'Yes, I think Woodrow Wilson will be the next President. While many busi- ness men of the east will stick to the re- publican party, some of the best known among them will vote the democratic ticket this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
A QUEENLY' WOMAN
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 A beautiful story comes from Messina. During the narrowing afterward of the earthouake a poor devil of victim was dying, calling loudly as he lay in the ruins, for a priest. To every passerby he appealed for a priest. He wanted absolu- ton.
 There came by his deathbed of bricks and mortar and debris a lady. It was Queen Helena. She leaned over the dying man. She touched his brow with the ten derness of an angel. And she said to him:
 q. your queen, give you absolution. Peace be with your
 And then the man smiled, turned on his side and died happy. He was in Par adise.
 Raise all the theological question you please, or doubt the story if you like-it' s beautiful just the same. If there is Par adse in absolution, that mans faith car ried him right smack through the pearly gates. In the humblest hut the touch Of a hand the smile of a human being, the flashing of crucifx, has done as much. And that mans queen was more than oueen-she was in a glorious moment q woman
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
Y0SHIHITO
From Current Literature.

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 In the mere yellowness of Yoshihito, who proceeds shortly to the shrine of 1se to report to the first of his ances- tors his accession to the throne of Japan, one writer in the German press sees the direst of warnings. Yoshihito, this observer would have us know, is the yellow peril incarnate. The spirit of his reign will be "Bushido," or the war of warriors. Yoshihito, if the im- pressions of the French be accurate, feels that his realm has now little to learn from the western world Japan can build her own battleships and equip her own armies. She must westernize less and Nipponize more. This, ob- serves well informed authority in the Paris Temps, is the explanation of that word enlightenment" which, in it's Japanese equivalent, designates the era ushered in when Yoshihito assumed the sovereignty. He is summed up by ob- servers in Tokio whose impressions en- liven the European press as subtle, Oriental, inscrutable. At the age of 33, he manifests piety of the an cestor worshipping kind and defer ence to Europeans which. we read, can not deceive the diplomatic corps. The new reign is seemingly to be reaction from the forces that made Mutshito welcome the civilization of Europe. It is not that Japan will revert to her past Yoshihito is too profound for suck a display of folly. But those who have studied his career as crown prince L. 111 fo things European. Japan, having learned all the west can teach, will dismiss her preceptor and apply the lessons in most unexpected ways. Yoshihito is to see to that
 Generosity is the personal attribute which all members of the court circle most delight in referring to as the new Japanese sovereign's salient trait. The characteristic of generosity is regard ed, it would seem from what the Lon don Post says as the highest that a lord of the thousand isles can possess, If we recall the titles posthumously bestowed on many of Nippon's most revered monarchs. There were in the early days for example, Sui-Jin, O-Jin and others whose fame as beneficent rulers will never fade, the word jin in all these titles being but the Chinese equivalent of the Japanese word hito signifying generous, large be- nevolent. The same affix Is seen in the names of many of the sovereign's rel atives, as in Prince Hakehito and in Mutsuhito, the late ruler of the land Yoshi, the first syllables of the fm- perial name, signifies many glorious personal attributes too and the sov- ereign evinces all these-enlightenmen wisdom of the spiritual and earthly sort and all mortal graces. As the in- carnation of Yamato Damashee defies human power to interpret it-being it. self the blush of the morning peak at sunrise-so the name of Yoshi cannot be understood It is too beautiful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
Clean Up Needed

T am of the opinion that the police department should take some steps to clean away the element that loafs on Third avenue between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets, where thousands of ladies pass daily going 70 and from the theatres" said patron of the play houses. There are saloons in this block which should be regulated more strictly, especially that one which caters to ne- groes, and there are several negro stores along the avenue around which negroes loiter all the time.
 "The negroes scuffle on the sidewalk, talk loud and use language that is far from pleasant. Then the block contains a place or two from which offensive oodrs emanate all the time, and this is another disagreeable feature. A little po- lice supervision of the block would be g. great benefit to the public, and I think that Chief Bodeker or Commissioner Lane should give the matter attention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
Election day is just two months away,
RENAISSANCE OF TOY THEATRE

From Current Literature.
 The best theatre in London is Pol locks toy theatre, so we learn from no less an authority than the Mask, pub lished in Florence by George Craig and his uncompromsing disciples. The toy theatre has a proscenum opening three feet eight inches wide and one foot ten inches high. 1t can be bought for a few shillings, and whole repertoire of delightful plays and cardboard actors 'penny plain and tuppence colored" are sold along with 1t. Jock Butler Yeats, says Current Literature, is the leading spirit in the renaissance of this dra- matic plaything, which resembles the Skelt theatre, that awakened the spirit of romance and art in many English boys a generation or two ago. Yeats has already published three of his plays written for the miniature stage-"The Treasure of the Garden" "The Scourge of the Gulf" and James Flaunty, or the Terror of the Western Sea-" Ernest critic, has published a study on the
 uranlduc ana plctOrai art or JACK D. Yeats
 Yeats toy theatre is the most natural one Europe possesses, asserts Allen Carrie The stage Is made like a box with the front Gin two pieces), top, and sides in the form of doors." An audience sitting five or six abreast can get very good view of the stage without being able to see through the wings to the hands of those who manipulate the figures. "The whole end of the room was curtained off, Yeats explains land once the audience took their seats, they had nothing be- fore them by my cardboard actors and cardboard scenes The figures were about nine inches high, fastened firmly to laths of the same tone as the stage, and by these laths the figures slid along They could not move their limbs, so the plays were written to suit the stiffness of the actors"
 Edward Edwardovitch' urges every lover of the theatre to provide himself with a miniature theatre. The fascina- tion, he declares enthusiastically Is too great to be put into words. 'R. l.. Stevenson attempted and failed to do the thing justice. Walter Pater even would not have succeeded. Perhaps Alexandre Dumas might have tri- umphed But then Dumas did triumph, for his novels and this theatre are part and parcel of one another"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
VIA MIR. CHALONER

From the Chicago Tribune.
 MT. John Armstrong Chaloner disarms the skeptical who would pooh-pooh his revelation of hell. Some one called the world over his wires and said Satan looked like Napoleon Bonaparte, that his residence was of marble, rubies and dia- monds Chis reads like a description of the Clark house in New York, and that the place would be a relief to any man who had been trying to maintain a social position in New York without money.
 That's the message that came via MT. John Armstrong Chaloner. As a medium he is neither skeptical nor credulous. A genuine medium is merely a cosmic tele- phone wire. Mir. Chaloner does not guar antee the good faith of the person on the Jefferson Miller, but 1t may have been Artemus Ward, or Mark Twain, or Will liam James, who said he would send back a message if there were any way of do- ing it.
 That hell would have no terrors for a man who had been broke in New York has been uspected-confdently declared in some instances-and if MT. Chaloner's message is confirmation of the idea It will cause no particular sensation. The most interesting part of the revelation is that Satan looks like Napoleon That ex- plains the notion prevailing in Europe that the head devil was absent from his domain about 1769 to 1891.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
Constitutional Amendments in Ohio

A constitutional convention con- trolled by democrats in Ohio sub mitted on Tuesday 42 reform amend ments to Ohio's somewhat antiquated constitution. The present constitu- ton is over fifty years old, and it sadly needed amendment.
 The more important of these pro- posed amendments were, as follows: Abolition of capital punishment, initi- ative and referendum, workmen's compensation, changes in the judicial system, woman's suffrage, taxation. Most of these and many more to the number of 42 were apparently carried, the only exception being the one granting suffrage to women. The re- call of judges was not submitted, al- though an amendment was carried that gives the legislature pretty full power to pass an act authorizing the removal of any official including judges, for any cause.
 The wisdom of submitting numbered amendments instead of an entire con stitution was shown in the Ohio cleo tion. The people accepted all of them, it appears, except the one providing for suffrage for women, which was heavily defeated.
 When the Alabama constitution is reformed it would be well to keep in mind the Ohio amendment plan. The Alabama constitution may not need 42 amendments, but it certainly calls for a goodly number, and some of them can be secured in a constitu- tional convention only when the time has fully come to call one. Taxation and the suffrage are complex prob lems and no legislature will submit amendments fully covering them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
WHY OLLIE WAS WORRIED

From the Baltimore Sun
 Ollie James, permanent chairman of the democratic conveh:.on at Baltimore, was seen in the lobby of the Belvedere hotel in that city one day right in the middle of the tremendous struggle over the nomination. He stopped his huge bulk in the middle of the floor, threw up his hands in a gesture of despair and boomed: By George, I almost for got it!
 A dozen reporters were trailing him. What had he forgotten? Certainly it must be something of transcendent importance and the situation was tremendously criti- cal.
 James pushed his way through the crowd He was in a hurry. It evidently was important dozen reporters ar rived with him.
 Gee" said James again, ''it would have been terrible if I had forgotten it.'
 What is it?' yelled the excited repor- ters.
 Son. said James to the news stand boy, gimme a quarters worth of chew ing gum"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
Presidential Forecast

"Babsons Weekly Barometer Letter and Composite Plot of September contains some interesting political figures said an old voter. Under the head of the 'Presi- dential Outlook Babson calls attention to his barometer letter of July S in which he said that from the standpoint of so- cial and business conditions the people are ready for democratic administra- tion.' According to Babsons forecast the advent of Mir. Roosevelt win the third party, however, answering in part to the popular demand for radicalism has thrown the whole political situation into a three cornered contest and may divide the vote in such manner that the elec- toral college will make mo choice for President
 'The total electoral vote is 53l and Q majority 266, is necessary to choice. Bab- son gives Roosevelt the following states: California 13, Idaho f. Kansas 10. Maine G., Minnesota F, Montana 4, Nevada 5, Okla homa 10, Oregon 5, Washington T. Wyom- ing 8; total of 77.
 "Babson gives Taft 2l9 and his electoral vote includes 3S from Pennsylvania, 29 from Illinois, IS from Massachusetts and
 
 45 from New York Now. according to the way most political statisticans fore cast, New York will go for Wilson. If it should go for Taft as Babson suggests then Taft is very apt to be the next Presi- dent. In the Wilson column appears West Virginia, which some democrats think will go republican. Babson does not put forth his table as a real forecast, but merely suggests that If the vote were taken today the result would be as he points out. The upshot of his 'Presi- dential Outlook is that the House of Rep resentatives will seek to elect the Presi- dent from the three highest candidates. Tn readinfi M. Well X Brothers big ad- vertisement in The Age-Herald, I was thinking it was about time that Marcus, the head of the firm. was giving us his forecast. He has been remarkably sue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
Condition of Cotton on August p

The department of agriculture at Washington puts the condition of the cotton crop on August 25 at 74.S as against 73.2 last year, and a ten-year average of 73.7. This report led to a contest between the bulls and the bears. The condition one month ago was officially put at 76.5, and the loss of nearly two points was used to show that hot dry weather is injuring the crop. Prices were advanced over those of last Friday about $2 bale and a good share of this increase in price is still maintained.
 The truth is, August generally does bring to sight depreciations, and the reported change is not greater than normal. Present prices are certainly low enough, and if the spinners think that it is, II cents will become the ruling price of the new crop. ,
 It is still too early to say what the crop will be, but the opinion still pre- walls that it will hover around 13,- <O00, ,0O0 bales, going neither 500,000 bales higher or lower, as against the crop of last year, which was 2,000,000 ha1aS 1arper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
DIDN'T CONCERN HIM

From Judge.
 of tree and did away with a sandwich handed to him by the latest farmerwife he had favored with a call She had wrapped the sandwich in a section of newspaper, which the tramp scanned with the eye of carelessness character istic of his kind.
 My idea of nothin to git nutty about" he remarked to himself after glancing at a market report, lis the advance of two dollars a ton in the price of car wheels
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
Democratic ampaiRn Fund

Former Governor Jelks, national com- mitteeman for Alabama, should be able to raise $20,000 to s25,0o0 for the national democratic campaign fund.- said mem- Der of the Birmingham Wilson and Mar shall club.
 'Of the large body of democratic voters in this state at least 10,000 of them should contribute $l each, and there should be at least 2O00 who have not yet contributed anything should be glad to give S5 to help along the good cause"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
Going Abroad to study Music

Mrs. c. J. Severin who has been solo soprano at St. Paurs for a number of years, will shortly go abroad to spend a year in study. and a new soprano will have to be engaged for the church," said the Rev Father Coyle
 Mrs. Severin is very fine singer, ac- cording to some critics familiar with the local musical situation. the best colora- ture soprano who has ever lived here She will certainly be missed although her stay abroad is to be limited to only a year
 Mrs Severin is a native of Holland, and received her musical education in the Conservatory of Amsterdam She has been very successful as a voice teacher in Birmingham, but like all persons of the intellectual world who wish to keep up with the latest thought and methods she is going to apply herself to study so as to be the better prepared for her professional work when she reopens her studio. :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
TWO-LINE TICKLERS

TWO-LINE TICKLERS
 Second thoughts may be best, but they are not always on time.
 The fireman is sure of a warm recep- tion when he goes to work
 You rarely find girl with teeth like pearls dumb as an oyster.
 Even if money is called hard cash it's nice thing to fall back on.
 Get busy and attend to business-but be sure it is your own business.
 It would be poor business policy Tor a fruit dealer to keep all his dates. A man and his wife may be one, but 1t is necessary to provide for two.
 The easiest way for an ambitious young doctor to make his mark is to vaccinate someone.-Boston Transcript
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
RErLECrIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 There's always chance to learn, .ex- cept in college.
 A man has to sleep nine hours every night to admit it was six.
 A man isn't half as ashamed of him self to be in politics as his friends are of him.
 A headache is lot more important to anybody than the sanctity of the consti- tution.
 If a girl will walk right up to a man and kiss him it doesn't mean as much to her as ca.i0G fudge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
Why Meat Is Cheap in London

Edward A. Cudahy says that prac- tically no American beef is now sold in London. He is right. Argentine beef has driven the trust-held beef of America out of the English market, and it would do likewise here if the tariff did not protect the beef trust. Beef would then be as cheap in this country as it now is in London.
 When the Senate turned down the free list bill it simply served the tariff barons and dealt a heavy blow to consumers. The republican party stood both in the White House and in the Senate against tariff reduc- tions that would lessen the cost of living, and it will be strange indeed if the consumers do not speak plainly in November. The price of beef is good test of tariff rates. The average family has to face an ad valorem tax on beef, veal, mutton and hog products, and only cents of that tax goes into the tresury, and S4.23 goes to the protected trusts. It is the ad valorem duty that keeps out Argentine beef, and the house. holder foots whatever bills the pro- tected meat trust sees fit to present. And in the meanwhile England is get ting the advantage of cheaper meat from Argentina.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
A New Orleans Visitor

Frank s. Drolla of New Orleans is spending this week in Birmingham. He represents the Morning Star, one of the best weekly papers published in the Cres- cent City The Star has many subscribers here, but Mir Drolla hopes to increase the list very materially.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05
STEERS CONFESSION

 A YOUNGSTERS CONFESSION.
 Contributed When I have horrld creams, l wake as skeered as I can be An I wish I had some big folks in the bed asleep with me. I do get so awful lonesome-why, I don't quite understand, But I think 'twould be some comfort could I hold somebody's hand. get so skeered cry bit, so some one else will come, An dad comes to the door an says, "Ol man, you feeln' bump An then he pats my cheek an pulls the covers round about An wishes me some pleasant dreams" an then-an' then goes out, An sometimes nursie hears me an comes running to my side; She scolds me an she asks me please to tell her why I cried. An just can't answer nothn' an I turns my head away, An when she goes gin to sob an cries till almost day. An sometimes granma tips to me an says, Now, hush, my dear Don't you know the little angels are a. hoverin' always near? The dear good God has sent them for to watch the lvelong night She kisses me an disappears, but-still there aint no light, I've learned by now that when they leave I'm skeered 8 l was before; think sometimes I'll fight it out an won't cry any more. But sometimes it is different an it's then I'm glad I cried It's the nights my mother comes<the nights she kneels down by my side. She don't ask no mannsh questions, she don't scold me good and hard, She don't take the time to tell me bout the angels sent by God: She just puts her arms around me-kind of holds me close, you know, An she whispers tween her kisses, Lit tie son, I love you so.' She don't run away the minute that she's said her little say, She just pats me an she says, Now, sleep. for mothers come to stay" An she quiets me in a way that's really hard to understand. But I think it's Cause she loves me an just lets me hold her hand.
 A G. Mooring.
 PEOPLE WILL LISTEN. The man who speaks like an oracle when he speaks is always sure to get a hearing, even If he never comes within a mile of the truth. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05

Only the slaves to fashion are throwing away their straw hats. Send them to the cleaner, for this summer may last until Christmas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-05

Senators Perkins, Warren and Penrose are wanted outside of the Senate cham ber and the other reactionaries in the Senate will soon follow them out.