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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02
At the Courthouse Today

At Il o'clock this porning in the courthouse Wilson Marshall meeting will be held, and the special message from the national standard bearer will be read by Chairman Bell of the demo- cratic executive committee of Jeffer- son county. Similar meetings will be held in every other precinct in this county as well as in every other coun- ty in this great and broad country.
 The attendance at these final meet ings will indicate how fully the vote of the state is to be brought out. The precinct meetings of today may de- termine whether Woodrow Wilson is to be majority or a plurality Presi- dent. Way back in 1876 the democ- racy elected Samuel J. Tilden Presi- dent by clear and honest majority vote of 150,037. The total poll was 8,419,7 ,733. Samuel J. Tilden received 4,284, 1885 votes. Thirty-six years have elapsed and the vote of the country is expected to reach 15,000,000, and in order to give Woodrow Wilson a ma iority vote the united democracy aided by various favoring elements will have to cast fully 7,500,000 votes.
 Surely the Alabama democracy will see that 75,00O of these votes are cast here at home, and Jefferson county expects every qualified voter to go to the polls.
 At the meeting this morning in the courthouse Vice Chairman Jackson should also read his address to the voters of Alabama. He asks each and every voter to vote for the constitu- tional proposition which would relieve this county of the blighting effects of the fee system upon it's moral and ma terial development.
 The two addresses do not conflict. Both call for the upbuilding of city, county and state. Both are sound and progressive, and both make for better government and happier people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02
YEARS OF THE MODERN

By Walt Whitman. Years of the modernl years of the unper-
 formed.
 Your horizon rises. see it parting away
 for more august dramas. I see not America only, not only Liberty's
 nation but other nations preparing. see that force advancing with irresistf-
 ble power on the worlds stage QHave the old forces. the old wars, played
 their parts? are the acts suitable to -. them closed) see Freedom. completely armed and v.S-
 torious and very naughty, with Law stupendous trio all issuing forth
 against the idea of. caste; What historic denouemefts are these we
 so rapidly approach? see men marching and countermarch- ing by swift millions, see the frontiers and boundaries of the
 old aristocracies broken. I see the landmarks of European kings
 removed. I see this day the People beginning their
 landmarks Gall others give way). Never were such sharp questions asked
 as this day, Never was average man, his soul more
 energetic. more like god, Lo! how he urges and urges, leaving the
 masses no rest! His daring foot is on land and sea, every
 where. he colonizes the Pacific, the
 achipelagoes. With the steamship, the electric tele-
 graph, the newspaper, the wholesale ssse engines of 9Fars <-1 z .fAs With these and the world-spreadng fac
 tories he interlinks all lands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02
HE KIND TO YOUR STOMACH

E. s. Martin in the Atlantic Monthly. I beg you to be kind to your stomach.
 It needs no alcohol at your time of life if ever-and the less you find occasion to feed into 1t the more prosperous both your physical and mental conditions are likely
 to be. I do not aspire to make tee
 totaler of you, and am aware that life,
 and college life in particular, has it's con vivial intervals, but you might as well
 understand (and I have been remiss. or
 wasted time if you do not understand il
 already that alcohol is one of the chief mantraps, abounding in mischiefs if you
 play with it too hard.
 l Be wary, always wary, with it, my son, and especially with hard liquor.
 There is some fun to be had with the stimulating beverages and there is some- i thing useful to be learned about the hand ling of them that can hardly be learned altogether by observation. If you are open eyed and absteminous, you can have | the fun without paying too dear for it, but never forget that alcohol is a risky | plaything; test; on occasion a lawful joy. but never for the young a safe prop
 or salutary habitual refreshment. Drink light, my son, drink light.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Would Make Able Secretary of stat,

would make Able secretary or sthar
 Many democrats are busy making up cabinet states for Woodrow Wilson, said an old citizen. Three portfolios will be of especial importance in the new administration-stat treasury and justice.
 MT. Underwood is fully equipped for any cabinet position He would make a good Secretary of State. He would make an ideal Secretary of the Treas ury or an ideal Attorney General But 1t goes without saying that he will be so much needed as House leader that he would decline any cabinet position,
 My guess is that Senator Isadore Rayner of Maryland will be MT. Will sons Secretary of State. He fs the only member of the Senate committee on foreign relations who measures up to the high position referred to- He Is man of broad culture and high ideals and as a member of the foreign relations committee, he is familiar with all treaties and all the ramifications of international politics I doubt if there is another available man who would give greater satisfaction than Ray ner"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02
Publicity in Memphis

The Age-Herald acknowledges. the receipt of handsome magazine en- titled "Memphis Commission Govern ment," or "'The Gateway to the Gold en West" The title page presents the new skyline of the gateway together with views of it's city hall and central police station. The number at hand is No. of volume 1 and the publica- tion is to be issued monthly by the city of Memphis. It contains many illustrations including two page pie ture of Memphis great "white way"
 This well printed magazine of 16 pages is edited by Mayor Crump and his four associate commissioners, and there is not line in it that is not creditable to the city that publishes it. In its pages will appear all city reports, thus avoiding the expense of special volumes devoted to this or that branch of the civic work in its city.
 It presents beautiful picture of the Rayburn boulevard subway, which to- gether with the Mississippi boulevard subway, stand complete. Two more are in course of construction. This brings small comfort to Birmingham readers, for no subway or viaduct has been begun in this city where more of them are needed than in any other city in the south.
 The Memphis commission acted wisely when it decided to present each month an illustrated magazine show ing what it had accomplished and what it hopes to accomplish in the near future. Publicity is the watchword to- day, and the Memphis commission is living fully up to it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02
LONELY LIFE IN THE JUNGLE

lepers, and sleeping siclnss had laid hold on many of the villages. In one village the local chief had given orders that all suffering from the sickness were to be taken out into the bush and left there, but the people had carried out so many of their relations that they refused to take any more. A few days later the medicine man of the tribe diagnosed that the chief himself had the disease, and im- mediately the ruler annulled his law so that he could be kept in his own hut. The carriers had to be changed almost every month; they refused to go farther than a months march, as they did not know the country very well, and few of them were as brave as they had boasted when being engaged. While they had no fear of elephants and the large animals, they simply went into shivers at the thought of a leopard or lion getting hold of them and at night the guards who were supposed to watch over the encamp- ment often fled when they thought one of these beasts was in the vicinity. As the party lay in their tents at night they could hear the cries of the night birds, believing of hippopotami, and sometimes
 
 native woke the whole camn screaming at the top of his voice that leopard had attacked him, but when the explorers turned out they saw no sign of the ani- nal. Two nights afterward the same na- tive woke them up with similar cry, and again they turned out with guns, but again they were disappointed. Nearly a week later they were wakened by screams. and when they came out of the tent with guns at the cock not native guard was in sight. By the light of the fire they saw carrier lying on the ground mc lning. He was the same man who had given the, alarm previously, and he had been badly mauled by leopard. It was nearly fortnight before he was on his feet again. and then he told them that the beast had followed him every night, so that it could bounce on him when he fell asleep.
 Mir. Stuart is now busy planning a book of his travels and adventures. q have had three years of strenuous excitement" he says, and it will last me my lifs- time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02
Modern Composers

"Riehard Strauss Is usually ranked as the greatest of contemporaneous compos- CTS, and some critics go so far as to place him on a pinnacle above all the masters; but time will show that with all his greatness Strauss limitations are marked said one of Birmingham musical set.
 When 1t comes to .moderns Wagner will always tower above Strauss. l heard Mir Memoli say the other day that while in Europe he attended performance or 'Salome conducted by the composer hln- self. He spoke of it as a wonderful pro duction, but he thought there was too much striving after unattainable effects. Wagner, according to MT. Memoli, was a radical reformer, but he did not violate what may now be accepted as canons oi musical taste On the other hand, Strauss does violate them, and the effect of some of his bold striving after originality does not sound good.
 Tn a recent number of the Western Musical Herald, Chicago, subscriber asks whether or not Salome' would be given in America this year. The editor answer was as follows:
 "'Untll public opinion undergoes a con- siderable change. "Salome' is not likely to be given again in this country. The objection to it is based upon it's position in sacred history. The story of John the Baptist is so closely associated with Christian faith that many people are shocked at having it taken from its biblical setting, reduced to the spec tacular and surrounded with gross sen sualty.
 The orchestration of Saiome is great music. The vocal parts are unsing- able, hence worthless The action of the principal character, Salome, is exactly the opposite of what is wholesome, moral and religious. MT. Strauss delights in things of this kind and he has many followers, but if there be such a thing as purity Of thought and action in the economy of creation, then grand opera of this type is sadly in need of Moses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02
Iron and General Trade

No year ever approached it's close
 With business conditions in this district
 more buoyant than they are now. Busi-
 ness activity has been the rule re-
 gently from one end of the country to
 the other. The bumper crops and the
 great demand for iron and steel have ssmade this a year of wonderful pros sperity.
 l Presidential campaigns mean usual Fly dull or unsettled business, but the scampaign this year has caused no dis 's:e,sfbing effect whatever. On the other shahd boom started in the midst of tthe present campaign and it has Been ~growing larger and larger. No matter ewho is elected President business will sgo on, it is thought, just the same. The sNew York financial interests that have sfor a long time been allied chiefly with -the republican party have discounted s.any. effect that democratic victory smight cause.
 z The iron market, which has been ;uncommonly active for five or six months past, remains strong. Prices [ are said to be somewhat irregular but sthe tendency is upward and the pig Emetal will probably be selling for $15 ( on No. 2 basis before the holidays { But it may be that as the holidays are 6 nearly upon us the next big buying z movement wilisbe deferred until Janu-
 ary. An iron market circular from Gin
 einnati says: From all districts come
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02

reports of the growing volume of bus mess. The travelling men tell us that everywhere they go they find consum- CTS full of work and plenty more in sight. Half dozen large Ohio con- cerns have told us that never before in their history have they had as many orders on hand as at present, and we are having frequent requests to ship iron at once that was bought for ship ment in 1913"
 There is no question but that pros perity will continue through 1913 and with good crops again next year we will have nationwide thrift indefi nitely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02

difficult to see how the Turks can now reasonably hope to regain much of their lost ground.
 The army Of Turkey Is no longer dashing or fanatical. The old Turkish officers had been replaced by young men, and non -Mohammedans have been enlisted in large numbers. The latter certainly will not fight holy war oh all occasions, and it is reported that they have surrendered in large numbers.
 What will be done to end the war :? This is indeed hard question to an- swer. If the powers would keep out of the struggle the problem of European Turkey would be settled permanently because it would be settled right. The Turk would be driven out of Europe as he has been out of Africa, and he would be left to suffer dry rot in Asia Minor. The chances, however, are that Austria Hungary will again muddle the situation, aided more or less by Russia and Germany Interven- tion is more to be dreaded by the civil ized world than is the Turk, who has practically been vanquished in two weeks of determined fighting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02
Progress of the War

In four-days battle General Savoff at the head of the Bulgarian army has won a great and possibly conclusive victory. The Turkish army, said to be 100000 strong, was defeated, and is retreating toward, if not to, Con- stantinople The battles was fought about midway between Adrianople and Constantinople, or about 50 miles from the latter city. The heaviest fighting was at Luleburgas in Thrace, where the left wing of the army commanded by Maxim Pacha was crushed, and no doubt what was left of it retreated to Tohatalja, the last fortified position protecting Constantinople and about 25 miles from it.
 Adrianople holds out, but the oper- ations of the two armies south of il has deprived the force shut up in its walls of chief importance.
 War was declared by Turkey two weeks ago. and every hour since that time has been marked by the activity of the allies and by the inefficiency and unpreparedness of the Turks. The Servians have overrun Noribazs, stne
  Montenegrins are beseigipS Scutari, and the Greeks are marching on Sa- loniki. The allies were ready for ac- tion and the Turks were not, and it is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Just perore sunrise the head proor- reader on the Daily Bread, wearied by a night of toll, fell into deep sleep.
 Presently he felt somebody shaking him rudely by the shoulder, and a loud, harsh voice was believing in his ear:
 Get up, old man! You're wanted at the office! A piece of important news has come in and they're going to get out an extra"
 Cursing his luck, he arose. dressed himself. and went down to the office. The first thing that caught his eye as he entered the proofroom was a. large card. hanging from the ceiling and in- scribedfas follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02
NOVEL PEARL FARM

From the New York Telegram
 One progressive sen of Japsn-Mr. Miki- noto-clainas to have worked out an effi- cient way of producing .'euture pearls" at a profit His pearl oyster farm is off the island of Tatokuyia, in the Bay of Ago.
 With the aid of scientists of the I'm perial university MT. Mikinoto spent sev- he developed his adaptation of an old idea. Then he secured government pat ents on his method and has just now placed the farm on commercial basis.
 This unusual farmer makes a bed for his crop. first in the shadows of the bay where the larvae of the pearl oyster abound during the months of July and August. He merely deposits large num- Der of small stones to which the oyster spat naturally attach themselves.
 Then his diving women transplant the young oysters to deeper waters to protect them from the cold Here they lie on carefully prepared beds until in their third year they become full grown and have firmly attached themselves to the stones by means of "necks, which they secrete.
 At this time the diving women bring the moluscs to the surface and they un- dergo an operation. small seed pearl is introducedcnto the centre of the shell. Then the oysters are replanted in the bed and left alone for four years. When they are again brought to the furface it is found that the seed pearl nucleus has been covered with many layers of "naore" a secretion of the. mollusc, and the large brilliant translucent pearl of commerce has been formed.
 But the process is not as simple as it appears. During the seven years that the farmer must wait for his crop to mature a large percentage of the oysters die. The oyster beds are raided by such enc mics as theoctopus and the starfish. Oc- casionally the ''red current sweeps over them and in day destroys the entire his oyster bed free from 'miruno,' a sea- weed. which will smother the crop.
 Women divers, trained from girlhood to long immersons in the sea, are engaged at 20 cents day to care for the farm. In this work they wear nothing save a head cloth, a white shirt and diving gos- gles. At each dive they can gather sever al oysters and return to the surface. A dive occupies about one minute, and a days work is from four to six hours. An expert can readily gather 800 oysters a day in a depth of water ranging from two to six fathoms. To keep at the work for day they must frequently come up and warm themselves at fire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02
Gov. Wilson and Tariff Reform

The republicans sometimes say that Evernor Wilson is free trader, vary ing it with regrets that he does not de- fine his position on the tariff question. As a matter of fact no one has made plainer his position on that question than Governor Wilson, and at the risk of straining the patience of the reader The Age-Herald presents in the fol lowing passages the views of the dem -peratic candidate on the great issue;
 Tt is obvious that the country de- mands and will sooner or later obtain q thoroughly consiedred revision of the tariff, and the serious practical question snow is when and how shall it be brought about? It is practically out of the question that the republicans should control the majority of the next House of Representatives. It is evil dent that those who stand pat on the tariff will not control the next Senate. The force of reform will be dominant in both houses To be held at stand still in such circumstances by Presi- dent entirely out of sympathy with Congress will be 10 generate greater and greater uneasiness, greater and greater restlessness, deeper and deeper discontent and so to mass the forces which may ultimately make change when 1t comes too rapid and too radi- cal
 Tn spite of all the obstacles of the existing tariff system, in spite of all the endorsements of an inelastic cur tency in spite of the uncertainties of politics, the commercial and industrial interests of the country are moving for ward in an irresistible stream. The argument is put forth, therfore, to let well enough alone" The argument would be very impressive if we really thought that the present conditions ore well enough, but we know that they are not. that they constantly involve the influences of monopoly, of manipu- lation, of private control, and even even if they were well enough, it is not leaving them alone to elect MT. Taft iPresident, to hold a restless nation at a standstill for four years and exas- perate the very forces which may now if properly guided and wisely moder- ated, remove every obstacle to free en- terprise and unlimited business expan- sion.
 There are more possibilities of panic ensuing upon aboundng prosperity un- der the present system than there could beAunder any other, and every dictate of prudence, every instinct of states 1nanship, ought to point to those early reforms which can be accomplished in good temper by common counsel and in moderate form. We cannot stand still Hast of all when the opportunity of un- bounded prosperity beckons us on. To vfetain our present endorsements would be to miss our chance"
 This is practical, reasonable and sound, and if Woodrow Wilson is per mitted to carry out the policy of re- form in patient and cautious manner this country will be placed where panics will become next to impossible and prosperity will abide with us right along.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02
ALAS, ALACK
From the Pittsburg Post.

From the Pittsburg Post.
 There will be no marriage nor giving in marriage in heaven" said Mrs. Hen peck.
 Mir Henpeck drew a long, deep. sad sigh.
 Why do you look so sad about it, H6nry? she asked.
 "We haven't any such assurance about conditions in the other place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02
THE ANGEL CHILD
From the Woman's Home Companion
 Albert was a solemn-eyed spirtual-look

From the Woman's Home Companion
 Albert was solemn-eyed spirtual-loolx- ing child.
 Nurse he said one day, leaving his blocks and laying his hand on her knee nurse. is this Gods day?'' ''No, dear,' said the nurse this is not Sunday; it is Thursday "I'm So sorry" he said. sadly. and went back to his blocks. The next day and the next. in his se- rious manner. he asked the same ques- tion and the nurse tearssdl.., said to the cook: That child is too good for this world. On Sunday the question was repeated snd the nurse. with q sob in her voice said: Yes Lambie. this is Gods day." Then where is the funny paper?'' he
 demanded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02
Meridian Male College

Tt has been known for some time that one of the most profitable crops in the south is the sweet potato crop. and in many parts of the states the same soil that will produce 30 bushels of corn per acre will yield from 100 to 25O bushels of sweet potatoes, said M. A. Beeson, pres- ident of the Meridian Male college. "The problem has always been how to cure and store them so they could beNkept the year round and marketed to an advan- tage
 Several years ago the Meridian Male college began to experiment with stor- ing and keeping sweet potatoes That in- stitution built a model drying and stor- ing house in order to determine the best plan of drying and storing sweet potatoes, and has successfully kiln dried and kept the sweet potato in it's model drying and storage house. In this way'it has been demonstrated that sweet potatoes can be kept for the spring market and sold at high prices.
 Many who have heard of the Meridian Male college storage house have either written for plans or gone to see the plant in crder to build a house for their own use. Recently representative from the Agricultural and Mechanical college, and the assistant horticulturist, H. c. Thomas of Washington, D. C., came down to study the Meridian plan and storage house. Further experimental work is planned in the matter of gathering and storing potatoes. It is hoped to gather potatoes between the 1st and 18th of No vember and the public Is invited, especial ly all farmers. MT. Thomas is expected to be there at that time. The depart ment at Washington is to furnish spe- cial thermograph and have it in the storage house during the test, to deter mine the temperature and humidity.
 With this problem solved the sweet potato will become a valuable staple and money making crop to the southern farmer. More money can be made per acre on sweet potatoes than can be made on cotton and with much less work.
 'The construction of the potato house is simple and inexpensive and the method of operation is such that any farmer would be able to look after the details from start to finish. The Meridian Male college would be glad Ito furnish speci- fications of a storage house to anyone writing, or welcome anyone to come and study out the plan."