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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-25

If in the scheme of economies it is fair and clean thing for a half dozen bears to pool the price of wheat, then indeed could the captains and kings be justified in consigning to the very devil all this clamor for cheaper bread.
 For some sixteen years we have fol- lowed the trail of backworlds party a party that has stood for nothing touch- ing the common welfare of the republic. The republican party has mothered no sweet and fine dogma that we might build upon It Is not enough to announce an uncensored press, free speech, free ballot-not enough 10 announce that Washington is on comradely terms with Europe, and maintains calm and beauti- full neutrality where she might get In no end of a mess if our Secretary Philander Knox had a mind to. I submit that there will be no end to the internal havoc unless me give thought to the problems close at home, more partieu- larly to our civic relations.
 Men are becoming too sophisticated for blind trust in words and symbols, 4 said President Edwin Alderman at Phils adelphia on Thursday evening. He too, senses a struggle ahead, but unlike that other schoolman. President Schurman he does not despair Continuing, he said. "The supreme end of e nations life Is,
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n FER, with the vulgar, might ex- pect to be so described. As you A~ ascend the social stairs, whose golden balusters get more and more massive toward the top, you find on each floor increasing numbers with whom various sorts of wine are in vogue as the supremely delectable stim- ulant. It is said by those who have climbed to the attic, cockloft, or top most story, where the balusterS are fairly blistered with diamonds and the stairs themselves are golden, that the Inhabitants develop a species of ex- pertness in the discovery of delights, which pail at last by their very pro- fuseness. Just as that Roman Elm peror who fed his guests on the tongues of nightingales must surely have faced world blase and quite beyond the power of further appetite. so the waste full and egregious rich of our afore- said topmost floor have lost the capa- bility of stimulation.
 A growing number of average man. kind are undoubtedly upon the water wagon accepting nothing more nerve compelling than a cup of coffee, or tea cigar, or a little -or that sad drink which is said to have adorned Atlanta with it's best skyscraper But there are still too many who, like snipes, liev by suction, and have not nearly the intelligence of those birds concerning the fluids good to suck. And yet the
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villainous connection and split their poor numskull brains meanwhile with the de- tonations of my wrath
 Softly, good sir,' I make bold to !n- terject on this Niagara; may it please your choleric sweetness that usually this Survey saith not thing of Birmingham. Fifty-two times every year you may drink it in and hardly ever be reminded that once 1t caught water from our local wells, which you say was not good for us. The other 50 times we can afford to believe the product is good. I bear tes- tmiony to the belief that 52 times every year it is excellent"
 And now 10 drop opr indrection, and to speak in apostolic usage "as a man." I have learned that there are less than 100 readers of the Survey in all .his state of Alabama. Among cities Toledo, O., takes first rank in study of this great new age publication, relative, I suppose, to size of population. l am strongly in clined to the view that social intelligence will soon be measured by the prop ,rtlon of readers who take and study the Sur vey.
 That seems hard saying. but 1t Is not without reason.
 In the first place. social intelligence con- sists in an understanding of the things that go to make real social unity and fNe utmost social welfare. Time was when the ballot and the gospel were reckoned sufficient for all things in time and
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buy the truth you will drink it and thank the gods who gave such gifts to men. Most sermons, by the way, lose vastly through the large percentage of the audience which did not even con tribute cream for the preachers coffee, ink for his notes or electric current for his midnight lamp.
 So with this -stimulant of which I write. and whose marked name may no longer hesitate to declare-I refer, I ad- vert with eager but undertaking finger, I point to the Survey!
 Good heavens." ejaculates the sad re- aotionist, haven't we even yet got away from the Survey?"
 My dear sir I answer, "you have taken but one sip. Take another. Get the habit It is superior to anything in MT. Agee's basket of things that ought to be excsed, according to the ineffable wisdom of the now happily immortal. though deceased. session of Alabama's S chosen wsest."
 He retorts: "F'augh. Haven't we been sickened with the stuff, the bottled sew age. bearing that brand. with the legend. Made in Birmingham blasphemously ad- hesive to it's face? Were we not right eously indignant to be advertised as in any way identified with anything so di- aboically pungent? Take another drink, indeed! No, sir! would imprison the whole manufacturing force! I would split their noses. cut off their ears, ram down their vile Puritan throats hogsheads of their
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workers strike at Lawrence, Mass; also department of social agencies. showing how New York tabulates in- formation concerning the children of the city and how the Jewish women of America care for dependent Jewesses.
 Here are facts scientifically gathered, and intended to enable men and women of good will to bring In the age to come. the age of peace. Not because I want to make a thousand people un- settled and notional and agitators of useless debates, but because I would like to see Alabama and Birmingh gham beat Ohio and Toledo in the race for social intelligence and wisdom, which
 s practical religion, I would rejoice to know that there were a thousand additional students of the Survey en- rolled in this city. It were a boon quite unspeakable a brotherhood and sister hood created by understanding, vast motive force amid the impending changes, self directed by the only un- errlng spirit. Unsectarian, unsectional. unbiased. commercial, deeply Christian in the only real sense, this lit- tie magazine Is refreshing. but above all stimulating; it nohly impels man in some degree to love his neighbor because he respects himself It costs a fellow a couple of dollars a year. His boy gets to reading it, or perhaps his girl, and behold a twentieth century Christian is bornl Would the linotypist | here print Hallelujah?
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etc. Then follow careful editorial notes on the rural child; the new problems of badly born humanity in New England hill farms: the selecting of probation officers in New York by a civil service examna- tion; the growing problem of girl morality and how to meet 1t; the work done by a state bureau Of mediation in an industrial strike. Seattle's decision to vote on adding to the functions of city government de- partment of charities and correctiovN ; Sootland's national provision for conserv- ing childhood.
 Then comes a signed essay on the need of better distribution of our na- tfonal play days; another on pro- posed immigration law codifylng. 1ni- flying. revising the existing laws and providing for the study of the ships on which people travel. by steerage, to this land; another on the wisdom of abolishing home manufacture of clothing for commercial purposes; an other on the survey of Brooklyn for social study; and another on the es- tablishment for New York of mu- nicipal needs committee.
 Then a group of notes on city i'm proyement plans shows how gas tanks, for instance, can be made objects of beauty. and how Knoxville cleared the while city of tin can plague. Follows again department of health, depart ment of industry, where you can get facts, for example, from the wool
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WHAT HAS FLUSHED MEMS SINGING?-By A. B. Beale

fingers out of the flame afterNits little fist has been burned. Societys meanest outcasts are the powerful preachers. Would you be preached to? Go where the scarlet women are, or where the vicious are serving time In your state prisons. If you are not sweet and fine in the making, you will grow so then, think, at sight of the worst soied, the worst hurt members of the big family.
 What stopped the singing of these men and women2 In part, we may assume, the clamor of ancestors without vision and the crippled minds that brought them into being. One thing unborn children are denied. and that Is the selec- ton of their parents. If this selection were possible, l suppose the princes of this world would not be the childless ones, nor would the ghettos and slums be the popular spawning places for the nations.
 We have to talk today of bitter fact indeed of several bitter facts:
 We have to record the fact that gay hearted folk are the exception, and not the rule. and inquire into some of the causes of this thing.
 We have to record the fact that the future fathers and mothers of this re- public are not coming into what may
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upon the mind that while Dickens would be true to the canons of his art, even art must be subservient to Him whom he lovingly calls "Our Savior"
 Said MT. Chester to the poor witless Barnaby. "Barnaby, hope you say some prayers at night before you fall aslep." Recall tbe pathetic prayer of Mrs. Rudge as~she kneels before God and prays for her poor boy. who's body. is now that of a mans, while his mind is still that of a childs. How many weary mothers have said the like things out of their great disappointment before their Father
 70, Thou who has taught me such deep love for this one remnant of the promise of a happy life. out of whose afflictlon even, perhaps, the comfort springs. that he is ever a relying and loving child to me, never growing old or cold at heart but needing my care and duty fin his man ly strength as in his cradle time, helping him in his darkened walk through this sad world. or he Is lost and my heart is broken"
 How prayer and peaceful benediction in the tranquil scenes in which Oliver Twist is permitted to recover from his wound and terrible experiences of the night of the robbery at MT. Brownlow's.
 Who can forget the last hours on earth of poor Joe, in Bleak House? Allen Wood
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principles of the law From the beginning he was a most diligent student. skillful pleader. and a successful advocate. Ii,s first appearance in public life was on she occasion of the Alabama convention which chose delegates to the famous Charleston convention in 1860 The state convention of that particular date was composed of the giants of the state. Morgan was then just 36 years old, and his ability was un- known save in the local courts in which he practiced.
 Sent as a delegate from Dallas county to the convention already named, he had just entered the hall, when he heard his name called by the secretary as the chair man of the committe on credentials. He had heard much In the corridors of -he hotels where the air was vibrant with the discussion of contestng delegations, in which discussions many of the most prom inent men of the state shared. Devoted to his profession, he had never taken any share in public questions, but was inter- ested in the informal discussions
 On hearing the announcement of his name on entering the hall he mounted a chair, addressed the presiding officer and was about to decline the honor of the chairmanship when Judge George
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trudged for hours In the black Lond on night Dickens says, "She said 1t very softly. but perhaps she may have been as audible above-who knows-as whole cathedral choir"
 The great sympathetic soul of the author dwelt and wrought among the lowly. The great and prosperous needed him not. The humble. the sorrowing and poor, the outcasts and homeless did need him, and into their clouded lives he ever sought to bring the sunshine: for. as he said, God Is good: and hearts may count as high as heads in heaYen;"' and again he said Virtues shine as well in rags as in silks and purple" And while he makes sin a catastrophe of horror, as may be seen in Quilps tragic end. and in the merciless conscience of Jonas Chuzzlewit. and in the death of Bill Sykes, yet, to the poor soul seeking aid from God, he says, Pray; you are Gods child"
 l beg to close with one more quotation. It is from Dombey x Son. "The eyes of Alice had all this time been fixed on Harriet. whose hand she never released. She said. Will you read to me d little more% Harriet was withdrawing her hand to open the book, when Alice de- tained 1t for a moment. You will not forget my mother? I forgive her. if I have any cause. I know that she for gives me, and is sorry in her heart. You
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he won't cum back soon, for I am not in the most pleasant frame of mind in the world, and I would hate to do him violense.
 In the first phase a Terkish bath cums high. A man ought reely to go into training for one, or else he will cum out fissical reck, besides being sum poorer. You air first asked to seperate yourself rum one large round Copeck. Think of One dollar for bathl Then you air invited into the Cooling Room This cooling room is a farce, a delusion and a snare. There is nuthing cool about it, I defy enny man to keep cool in one with the thermometer hanging round 147 in the shade. In the cool ing room you air divested of all your warning apparel, in order that you
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

They had gone from New Orleans. rid ing in box car. This was Joes story:
 T don't care so much about myself, but I want to see Sam go ahead. I came to Chicago to work. will do anything from peeling potatoes to scrupblng floors Tor Sam's sake. I will get ahead. too!'
 Joe's eyes flashed.
 As he told of the death of their parents in New Orleans and of their struggles Joe's arm. stole around Sans neck. Joe sold papers, but he got sick, and they had but s4 left. With this sum they left for the big city in the north, of which they had heard so much.
 But Joe tells the story better than can.
 T helped Sammy on a freight train. got on, and we rode to Memphis. I was so afraid something might happen to Sam could hardly sleep.
 "One night 1t got cold and put my coat over Sam to keep him warm. A tramp was in the box car. and was so sleepy
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have. achieved greatness in so many ways as the sturdy Germans.
 And England.
 Statesmen may stand up in parliament to champion a budget that will build more ships to guard her shores and save her possessions. but the real bulwark or the empire is the bulwark of English homes and mothers.
 If the Anglo-saxon dominates the world 1t is because of the purity of Anglo-saxon mothers.
 And America?
 The sons of the republic march in the forefront of the worlds progress as ar biters of righteousness and the proclaim CTS of peace because of the mothers be- hind them.
 You. mothers
 Yours Is power greater than that of queens on a throne. Your great province. like that of God. is the mothering of souls. You, almost alone, are able to put into plastic souls the divine yeast of earth's
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A MONG the many distinguished sons
 "A of Alabama none is held in higher 4 A or more deserving esteem than tue late Senator John T. Morgan. He was a man eminent of gifts, of the highest cul- ture, and of reigning ability Patriot, statesman, jurist, orator, he was all of these in a pre-eminent sense, the recog- milton of which was shown in many in- stances and through a long succession of years. The record of no man produced by 2 the state is more interwoven into Ala bama history than is that of this distin- guished citizen. Nor is his fame based on other than superior merit.
 Not less distinguished is he in the annals of the nation. For long period of years MT. Morgan was retained in the national Senate. a tower of strength, the acknowl- edged leader of southern statesmanship, the equal of any in the country. A great constitutional lawyer, he stood the chief exponent and champion of the constitution in the Senate of the United States.
 An arduous and industrious worker, his labors in behalf of Alabama were unremit- ting during a long term of years. The sturdy Welsh blood in his veins gave to him a steadfastness of boise with an irn-
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court was at the boys side as he lay dy- ing. and asked:
 Joe, did you ever know prayer?'
 Never knowed nothink, sir"
 'kot so much as one short prayer?" No, sir; nothink at all.'
 Joe. my poor fellow"
 T hear you. sir, fin the dark, but I'm n'-agropin'-let me hold your hand"
 Joe. can you say what I say?"
 "I'l say anythink you say, sir, for l know it's good.''
 "Our Father"
 "Our Father-yes. that's werry good, sir
 'Who art in heaven"
 'Who art in heaven, is the light acomin', sir?'
 'Its close at hand; Hallowed be Thy name"
 'Hallowed> be-Thy--"
 'The light hSs come upon the dark, benlghted way. .cead. Dead, your ma jesty, dead, my N,rds and gentlemen. Dead, right reverends and wrong rever- ends of every order Dead, men and wom- en, born with heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day"
 Of Little Dorrit's prayer at the door of her humble home, she having wearly
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into boiler of cold water you would get up steam in 3 seconds. Finnally in desperation you summons the glad -diator who is the Cheef Torturer and tell him to ship your remains to your folks in quart cup, and he desides you have had enuff and removes you to the next stasion. Here you air laid out and laundred by large stout in- dividuel who seems to have grouch about sumthing and is seeking re- venge on you.
 So far as I am concerned I can get along without enny moor Terkish baths. l have lived to a respectabul middle age and newer had but one, and do not crave anuther. l am not at all surprised that Terkey has maid no grogress, and is benited Nasion. If they use this style of bathing ovver
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when they get him good and hot and peevish. I will then also introduse him to my frend, and tell him on the quiet that he is responsible for tor ture, and let matters take there own course.
 If Terkish Baths air imported, I am for protectsion. I favor high tariff on such commodities, and I shall rite my congressman to look into this mat ter and also to ascertain who is re- sponsibul for them being introduced into the American markets. Sum fel-- low let these things slip in as bid for the forrain vote, and evvery day we can see the evil results of playing polyticks. I wish we could give the hole republican party Terkish bath; they need it. Yours trooly, BILL VINES.
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couldn't watch him. When woke up in the morning he had stolen my coat and $3 which had in my pocket
 They put us off at Centralia, H., and we had to wait all day before a freight train stopped. I begged a little something for Sammy to eat. I didn't want much"
 Getting up on his sturdy legs, Joe spoke out bravely:
 "I am strong and healthy. and am going to work to keep Sam. You know Sam is pretty smart, and I will soon make enough money to put him through school Oh, if get job then we will get along fine."
 Match Joe Leonard. big brother. if you can.
 In true feeling. in brotherly self abnega- ton, in high resolve, Joe Leonard is all ready man.
 The city of Chicago will be unworthy of the manly spirit of Joe's brave and tender heart If 1t falls to give him that chance.
 Read the little story again. It has many fine touches of pathos and heroism.
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promotion in the Army of Northern Vir- ginia and returned. He was again made brigadier general and toward the close of the war was in the command of a division In the Tennessee army.
 During the period of the reconstruction General Morgan became the most sturdy and famous champion of the people of Alabama. and greatly endeared himself to them by his incessant labor in resist ing the encroachments on their rights When, at last, the power of reoonstruc- ton was broken. he was, in 1876. elected to the National Senate to succeed the notorious George k. Spencer. From that time till his death he was the political idol of the democratic party in the state of Alabama. For full 30 years he served with distinguished ability in the Senate and died in the harness of a statesman.
 One of the chief characteristics of Sem ator Morgan was his ability to think with unerring accuracy on his feet. His ability to husband rapidly his resources were remarkable. Nor in presenting these resources was there ever a lack of classic dietion. His ehaste elegance commanded the attention of every listener, especially since it's was voiced in musical tones His power of application and his tenacity
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may perspire freely and fluently with out damage to your clothing. It is verry intertaining. After spending a few hours in this room and all the time you keep getting cooler back wards, you air ushered into the Hot Room," and for the first time you get the idear just why they call the uther one cool. You immagined that it was hot, but this Hot Room in a sudden and convinsing manner gives you the Hunch that the uther room was a re- friggeratur in comparyson, and you
 begin to long for return engagement to your first stop, but there is nuth- ing doing. There's one thing about this Terkish bathing, you air helpless, you air in the hands of the enemy, and he consists of large stern raw boned persun who is deaf to all plead
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Growth of British Trade

From Consular and Trade Reports.
 The aggregate foreign trade of the United Kingdom during 1911. according to preliminary figures, surpassed all previous records. The total imports amounted to s3.s11.941,22s. a gain of s41.203.419 over 1910 and s270.571,78l over 1909. The exports of British prod. ucts were valued at s,210.765,5S2. au increase of S111.29s.100 over 1910 and sS69.372,o26 over 1909. The exports oe foreign and colonial products amounted to s4s9. 9.s9o.7ss. a loss of s5.os2.s57 com. pared with 1910. but gain of S55.2tot. 1s2 over the year 1909,
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ings; you have paid for Terkish
 bath and they air unwilling for you to go away without all that's cunning to you, and you get it. In this hot room you can neether stand up or set down.
 You can only pase about like a cat on hot stove and pray for cold wave. If you set down you accumu- late large blister, and if you stand up your feet remind you of burning rubber. You look around in vain for a weapon of offense, you feel like you must do sumthing to escape, but there is nuthing in view but your own clas- sick and evaperating self, which you air privviliged to gaze upon in large mirrow. Your butiful alabaster com plexion is all aglow like an ingot when 1t first cums frum the soking pits, and if it was possibul to stick yourself
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". Stone pulled his coat and begged him not 10 finish his sentence as he had begun it. but to change it and call his committee together. Yielding to the judgment of his senior friend he did as he was bidden.
 The work of the committee was both laborious and irksome and many deli cate and sensitive features were in- volved in the task committed to MT. Morgan. There was no avoidance of a storm on its presentation. The storm followed it's submission. The young ad- vocate. all unknown to the body. min gled in the forensic fray in a manly defense of his report and so ably was 1t sustained by his power of presenta- tion of the reasons for its adoption and so tactfully did he parry the blows of the gaints who came against him in the contest that the question was heard all around-"Who is Morgan?' The brilliancy of his oratory and the skill which he exhibited in debate caught the attention of the public on that occasion and he never again sank from view till his remains were de- posted in the tomb
 His ability established on that oc- casion led to his becoming an elector in the approaching presidential con-