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Casco Bay breeze., 1912-07-25
The johnson.

This popular house is running at it's
full capacity now with over thirty
guests enjoying Mrs. Johnson's hospi-
tality. The time is passing gayly for
all who are staying here. and motor.
boat trips, picnics and similar parties
serve to pass the time in most enjoy
able fashion. Last week a party Of
twenty guests from here took a motor
boat trip to Peaks Island and saw
the performance Of Miss Fixit" at
the Gem Theatre. which was greatly
enjoyed by all in the party.
One Of the most enjoyable features
OF the summer so far has been the
concerts which are given every Sun
day night by the Misses Edith, Alyce
and Marjorie Soden, who are spend
ing the summer here. They are all
talented musicians and always come
in for much applause from the audi
ence. Miss Edith. the 'cellist, was a
pupil OF Miss Charlotte White. a men,
Der Of the well-known Carolyn Belcher
stringed quartet, and Miss Marjorie
Is pupil of Miss Carolyn Belcher, the
violinist. and leader of the same quar-
tet. Miss Alyce is studying under
MI. Richard Platt, the pianist, OF
Boston.
Among the arrivals of the past
week is Mrs. Annie Barr of Pittsburg.
Pa, who was a guest here last sum-
mer. She expects to remain for the
greater part Of the season.
Casco Bay breeze., 1912-07-25
The Seaside.

Ihis charming hostelry Is at present
enjoying its full need OF popularity
from visitors to Casco Bay and Bailey
Island and this summer bids fair to
be the most successful in its history.
The many special features Of the
house never fail to attract large
number of guests and the hearty
table and the unbounded hospitality
accorded the visitor are as fully in
evidence this year as ever before.
The house offers especial advantages
to the transient travellers who come
In such great numbers to Bailey's,
and 1t Is rapidly becoming a wide
spread custom through the bay to
make trip to Bailey's. admire the
wonderful scenery and enjoy one of
Mrs. Grams delicious meals before
coming away from the island.
Mrs. Fred e. Hanson of New York
city registered here last week for
what she hopes to be an extended
sojourn. Mrs. Hanson Is a cornetist
OF well-known ability and 1t is hoped
that she will delight the guests OF the
house with a concert before she re-
turns.
Mr.. Emory Winslow of Portland,
who has been spending several weeks
here, returned to his home city last
week. after having passed a most de-
lightful stay here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-18
Compulsory Education in New York

The federation of churches in New York city has taken census of the children. between the ages of and IA and it finds that 10 per cent do not go to school, although compulsory school attendance has long been con sidered an enforced and settled policy in that city. The census reveals the fact that 72,072 boys and girls are not, however, sent to school. The dis tricts on the lower Eastside and some districts on the Westside of Manhat- tan borough are full of children that are not attending school. The city was divided into 708 districts by the church federation, and the final fig ures are declared to be approximately correct.
 Superintendent Maxwell of the pub lie school system does not believe there are 10000 children in New York
 
 who do not go to school. The subject is a warm one in New York and the federated churches are standing by their figures.
 The number of children in New York between the ages of 6 and 14 is reported to be 770,037, and it is in deed big task to make. that number go to school. Compulsory attendance at school will in the long run be ex- tended over the entire country, and then the problem that New York pre- sents will be presented on smaller scale in every other city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-18

xVrr rASHINGTON, November IT,
 N/ Special. )-The tariff question.
 w while the most important, is not the only question or the only issue In the last campaign, and on which the deiiio- crats have got to deliver the calos. There is the trust" question That is a classy little issue. It is going to taAs some pretty strong work, and in the right direction, to satisfy the .peepul' on thls trust business. It is also very delicate question It must be handled with gloves. The business of this country Is very timid and reserved to be so hefty. Any little thing frightens it. and when bust ness gets frightened and erawls back in the cave and bankers get to talking hard times" and restriction of loans. and things like that, confidence takes slump in the market and goes down to about k cents a gross ton. and everybody sets around and looks about as cheerful as a protested note.
 The last administration made a mess of trust busting and that's all there is to it. We mean by the last administration the Taft administration, of course. At tornev General Wickersham is more Sham than Wicker, when it comes right down to seven up.n His intentions may be all right, but his 'modus operandf' has slipped a cog somewhere and is working on one cylinder. He failed to ring the gong at any period of the fretful and scat tering attack upon the trusts; about all he did was to make them peevish and sore. A sore and peevish trust Is bad thing to have in the community; 1t al- ways tighens up and scatters gloom and high prices among the masses and makes things generally uncomfortable and an moving.
 What President-elect Wilson wants to do is to look carefully over the field or candidates fer "trust-buster," and then select one who can tell the difference off hand between a real sure enough trust and the Apostles Creed. A man who has the greatest respect for the Legitimate business of the country, and would do nothing to disturb it's tranquility, but who would make the grinding and pehuri- ous trusts squirm a few first class squirms and relinquish their tenacious hold on the throat of competition. of course, one cannot be too polite when one goes after a trust" Politeness IS a mighty nice asset when you are talking to a suffragette or seeking loan at the First National bank. It does very well and answers all purposes when turning down an office seeker or hinting to your mother-in-law that it would probably be better to postpone her visit till next spring. But it has no effect on a trust. If you go up to a trust and pat IL on the head. with the view of winning us confidence, the first thing you know It VIII have your shirt and your union suit. There is absolutely no use in asking trust politely to refrain from killing ofL competition and to reduce prices so thai a common salaried man can pay his gro cery bill without selling the piano, pe- cause they are used to that kind of talk and usually answer it with coarse ribald laughter. We don't know what ribald laughter is, but it listens good
 So, as we were going to say, Governor wilson ought to look over the field or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-18
Tearing up the streets.

T have lived in Birmingham good many years said a Twentieth street merchant yesterday. but I believe I have never seen the streets so badly torn up in so many different directions as at the present time.
 'I realize that as usual thing the tearing up of streets means progress, means payrolls and means that the city is to have something better than 1t mad before. But it seems to me that the pres ent situation is not being properly han ded. l refer especially to South Twen- tieth street, between Thirteenth and Eff teenth avenues. If lawsuit had to be instituted in connection with this york it would have been so much better to have taken earlier action or to have reached some sort of an agreement so that the street would not have had to be left in it's present condition. The pave ment is torn up for two blocks, and ap- parently not single step can be taken either toward restoring it to it's former condition or finishing up the contemplated improvements"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-18
Anti-Typhoid Vaccination

The typhoid poison cannot inlec' onless it be swallowed, and yet that may occur at any moment in any sea son. It is also true that typhoid vac c;nation does not protect one more than two years and half. Vacelnatioh against smallpox holds good much lonper. The truth is, no spe IS pre- nared to prove that the immunizlng nrocess against typhoid does not last rnch longer than it has credit for.
 All armies and all nurses are now rendered typhoid proof by vaccination and the procedure rarely produces dis- comfort and pain, and still more rare lv febrile reaction. Its efficiency IS we'll established.
 And the wonder is that more people do not seek immunity from typhoid Tn the walks of private life. There IS no disease more dreaded than typhoid ex- cept tuberculosis. Smallpox IS a trifle in comparison. When complete immu- nity against typhoid infection can be secured there are many, It would seem, who can i'll afford to do without it. The proof is abundant that armies and nurses are saved from the dis ease by it and lay people can also be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-18
Music for the PnhIic

"All the large cities have free band con- certs in the parks. and now there is talk in several cities of free orchestral con- certs on Sunday afternoon to be paid for out of the municipal treasury" said an old citizen who takes an interest in musical affairs.
 T can remember when New York en- gagged one big band for Sunday concerts during the summer. and that was all. For one or more seasons Gilmore's band was The Sunday attraction in Central park for the masses and later on two fine bands were employed. Last summer there were several Sunday afternoon band concerts in New York, and in addition to the brass orchestra every Sunday. An orchestra in the open air was a novelty. The first Sunday 1t played there was no sounding board, and the thousands who attended could not hear the finer passages. Sounding boards were then constructed and the acoustic results were quite satis- factory. It will not be long before New York. Boston, Chicago and other cities will have Sunday afternoon symphony concerts through the winter season and the bills will be paid by the respective city Governments. Music has come to be looked upon as not only humanizing and educative, but as the most refining and popular of all the arts.
 Here in Birmingham the fact that the people like music was evidenced by the large crowds that gathered in Capitol park Sunday afternoons to hear Nappis band. The programmes were not trashy by any means. On the contrary a great deal of artistic music was played, and there was little or no demand for mediocre stuff. But the greatest test I have seen re- gently of public interest in good music was the immense crowds at the fair grounds the first Sunday that Liberatti was here. The grandstand was packed and admission was not free. The second Sunday that Liberatti was. here there was a steady rain all the afternoon, and yet 12O0 or 1500 persons braved the clements and sat through the open air concert. the musicians playing in dripping gar ments.
 About the only artistic music that is announced for Birmingham this winter Is that which the concert committee has arranged for Sunday afternoons-four at fractions. This city may not be yet able to maintain a symphony orchestra, but I learn that MT. Memoli will soon organize concert band of 35 pieces and present an occasional bill of choice music on Sun day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-18
Public Meetings in Public Schools

Political meetings are being held ir public school buildings in Chicago, and that city hopes that this is the beginning of wide and extending use of the school houses by the people. No other place of meeting is so con venient and comfortable, as rule, Tn a city. No other place is of equal pres tige. These advantages will, 1t is hoped in Chicago, bring the school house into general use when public ! meetings, and especially public dis cussions of home interest, are to be held.
 These school houses can thus be made to take the place of the town meetings in New England, if public spirited citizens will see that meet ings are held in them in which open debates are participated in by all sides. This means an education for the adults in the evening while the chll- dren get one in the daytime.
 This use of the schools of the peo- pie will certainly be extended until the school houses become both social and political centers. Why this has not been the case heretofore no one can explain. These buildings stand at present unusued at night. They belong to the people and were paid for by them. Why should they not use them at night when the pupils are at home and perhaps asleep?
 Birmingham will doubtless catch up with the procession in this matter, and the Clen or women who give the peo- pie a chance to discuss or to hear dis cussions on public questions or strict ly home questions will certainly do a great deal toward adding new edu- cational force to the community. Al any rate notice should be given by the board of education that the peoples school houses are at the peoples dis posal for civic purposes on every nipnt of the week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-18
pin Res,orcd ro owncr.

T was unconsciously enabled to make someone very happy this afternoon" said man about town While walking along Highland avenue I picked up beautiful pearl and amethyst pin. Walking on down to Five Points to catch my car l asked several ladies if they had lost anything, and was just on the point Of boarding a car to the city when I saw young lady frantically coming down Highland avenue looking along both sides of the sidewalk. ] suspected in a minute what she was looking for.
 'As she approached me I said: Have you lost something?' She replied in great agitation. T have just lost the oretticst amethyst and pearl pin you ever saw, and it is the only thing the burglars left me when they visited our house. ~s this it?' I asked, holding it out toward her. Apparently all she could say was; oh. you darling manr
 q consider myself very fortunate to have been able to give anyone such real pleasure"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-18
Mr. Taft's Appeal to ReactiOnaries.

Mir. Taft's Appeal to Reactionaries.
 President Taft's recent statement in the New York World shows very plainly that he will stay in politics and that he will seek friends and CO., workers among the reactionaries only He will look to men in the Smoot- Penrose class and never to such men as Governor Hadley and Senators Cummins, Bristow and Borah.
 He is now free to speak plainly, and he is making the fact very plain that he is at heart protectionist and on other subjects a reactionary. The Winona speech did in fact express his heart convictions. He signed the All drich-Payne bill because he wanted the friendship of the reactionaries in Congress, and now he appeals to them without hesitation or concealment of any kind.
 The meaning of all this is plain. Governor Hadley and Senator Cum mins will not accept the Taft plan for recognizing the republican party, and MT. Taft will not accept their plan. Torn by faction the grand old party promises to suffer in that way to the end.
 The republican party was suddenly organized in 1856 and it's disruption promises to be equally sudden. After promoting trusts, monopolies, graft and robber tariffs 30 years it seems to be going out unhonored, unwept and unsung.
 MT. Taft and his associate work CTS cannot hope to find recruits in the rank and file of the country, and if the democrats in the coming adminis tration fulfill all pledges wisely and well, the country will wake'up to the fact that it has seen the last real cam paign of the party that sprang from the civil war and that has had no honest mission since.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-18
The stock Market

Henry Clew's in his Saturday review says in part
 stocks appear to be awaiting the fur ther outcome of current events before making any decided movement in either direction. This weeks fluctuations were largely the result of strong local manipu- lation and net changes were unimportant. In intrinsic conditions there were prac- tically no changes. The country is still feeling the stimulus of tremendous crops, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, as from Canada to the Cuff of Mexico, come encouraging reports of domestic trade ex- pansion.
 ''The European situation, which has long been vital factor in this market, shows decided Improvement. The Bafkan war appears to be practically ended, and diplomacy may safely be depended upon to work out it's results without serious dif- faculties between the great powers. Tenn porary friction may ensue. but 1t is very evident that England, Germany. Russia and France are all strenuousiy opposed to war Calm consideration of the prob lems to be solved plainly shows made quate occasion for any such calamity and it should not be forgotten that all the great industrial nations of Europe are so preoccupied with industrial ac- tivity and national development that war is altogether too serious an Interruption to receive serious consideration The great bankers of Europe are in no way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-18
TIBETANs FRAY WITH MACHINES

Shaoching H. Chuan in the National Geo.
 graphic Magazine.
 As to all Christians. prayer is to the Tibetans also the most vital factor of their religious life. Fearing that the tongue and the mind may fail to offer sufficient prayer. additional praying is done by means of prayer wheel.
 A prayer wheel consists of holo1wed box or cylinder within which is q roll of prayers, with an axis running through the center, revolved by the centrifugal force. Attached to the outside is a short string or chain with small weight at the end. The wheel is made to revolve by the centrifugal force of the weight caused by a twirling motion of the hand. Thus the roll of prayer is turned within while the wheel revolves and the prayer is done. Meanwhile the holder of the wheel also makes oral and silent prayers. from sin can be obtained by walking over the road which surrounds the city several times day and praying in the above manner.
 Another way of offering prayer is by arranging prayer wheels in such way that they will be turned by the wind. There is still third way, in which the stream. Prayer pennants are seen every where throughout the country. Some say that these ridiculous ways of praying originated from the extraordinary lazi- ness of the Tibetans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-18

disposed to finance a ruinous european war, and they are likely to control the situation, for upon them depends the rais- ing of the sinews of war.
 'As result of more peaceful tendencies conditions have improved in the inter- national money markets. There IS less fear of financial disaster and the sltua- ton has been materially strengthened py the liquidation of unwholesome speeula- tion."
 It was thought that all Wall street houses were decidedly opposed to an extra session. But Henry clews takes the popular side. At the time he wrote hls review the President-elect had not an nounced his determination regarding the extra session. MT. Clews says:
 Nothing so embarrasses merchants anu manufacturers as uncertainty. Tariff re- vision is a certainty hence manufacturer and merchant alike desire to know when and how far revision will go. If MT. Wii- sons wishes are obeyed revision Will De moderate and of a character least dls- turbing to established industry. If this be the case, the sooner the change the DGLIef. IHctC to d StAA0AhA
 merchandise throughout the country. which the restraint upon production and importation imposed by uncertainty Will simply aggravate When our manutae- turers know what to expect they VIII De free to go forward with plans for en- Engagements and new enterprises. Until that decision is reached all important opera tions extending into the future will be largely suspended. While it is natural that those enpoying exceptional advantages from the tariff should prefer to have re- vision postponed as long as possible still all practical reasons are against unreas- enable postponement of the inevitable. No great changes are anticipated in the steel and cotton schedules. The wooden indus try may suffer somewhat by the inevit- able cut in extreme rates. but the effects of this are already being discounted, and it Is believed that no destructive changes can be carried through.
 Conditions at the moment favor con- tlnued fluctuations in securities, but no very positive advance in view of the above circumstances. The decision of the arbitration board regarding the wages Of railroad engineers will be shortly an- nounced This may have an important bearing. If important concessions are made without permitting the railroads to recoup themselves by better rates the ef- feet would be detrimental to railroad shares A few of the industrials will also be certainly affected by tariff revision Our steel trade continues abnormally ac- tive. Many mills are choked with orders for months to come, and are securing handsome premiums for prompt deliveries which will materially swell their profits. The present activity in steel cannot be expected to continue indefinitely. Never theless the present boom in this industry is world wide, and is shared by Great Britain and Germany as well as the United States. It is part of a world Wide development, which it Is to be hoped VIII add to it's stability and duration
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-18
PRECEDENT FOR YOUNG HUSBANDS From the Cleveland Plain Dealer

From the 1ieNtldiiu HUH Dtdiet.
 An anxious correspondent has asked the Chicago Tribune somewhat momentous question, a question which might seem to have a humorous side were it not so se- rious It is gratifying to know that the Tribune's law department has answered the query in an emphatic and gratifying gratifying, at least, for one of the parties.
 The correspondent states his case in this fashion:
 Lady who had her teeth fixed d year ago this summer was married this year. Can dentist sue husband? Whom can he hold for the bill?"
 The Tribune promptly replies that the wife is liable, and the new husband isn't. And no doubt this is both law and equity. At the same time, if the lady had her teeth fixed up as a means to making her self matrm onially attractive, there would seem to be another side to the problem. Shouldn't a proud and happy husband be willing to pay for the ammunition that brought him down?
 As for the dentist? But, of course, a dentist isn't popularly supposed to ex- pect any sympathy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-18

Bass will lead to fuller study of malaria and possibly to some remedy that will lessen the disease in, if it does not drive it out of, the south, for the south suffers more from malaria than any other section of the country. The Southern Medical association is working on the problem, and pr. Bass is a member of the commission en- gagged in special study of it. Could the south be relieved of malaria and the hookworm it would be incalcula- bly benefited, and it is possible that in the next 10 years both tasks will to a great extent be accomplished.