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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
MAKING OVER JERUSALEM

From the New York Sun.
 The latest indication of the progress going on in Jerusalem was the arrival a short time ago of massive American motor road roller and the decision to equip the city with an efficient tramway system The walls enclose 209 acres, of
 which thirty-five acres are occupied by the Temple enclosure. But owing to the impossibility of housing the thousands of Jewish immigrants who still continue to arrive building has been proceeding out side the walls to very considerable ex- tent.
 The consequence of the presence of this extramural population is that first one and then another of the gates was left open by night, until today they are all perpetually open. Indeed, says the Amer ican Hebrew, two of the gateways have no gates at all. Meanwhile the Moham- medan population is not by any means keeping pace with the Jewish and the Holy City seems in fair way to become once more in fact as well as in name the capital city of the Hebrew race. Jerusalem is soon to have it's own
 tramway service as a concession for the
 purpose has already been granted to a
 French company. which will start laying the tram lines in the course of this sum-
 mer. An English company has applied
 for a concession to illuminate the city with electric light and German syndi- cate wishes to provide the city with wa ter by the construction of large reser- voiis near wells situated at distance of about sixteen miles from Jerusalem. The municipality is also considering proposals for paving the streets and con structing sewage works. A modern fire extinguishing apparatus and telephone | installation are also to be provided. l The project of constructing harbor | ia Jaffa, swhich has been discussed for the last thirty years is likely to be real ized at last A French-B Belgian company. l with the cooperation of the Jaffa- -Perusa-
 lem Railway company, Is said to have ap- piled for a concession to carry out the project, for which it has raised a capital
 of nearly one million pounds sterling. | The government Is reported to have come
 to an agreement with the company about the conditions of the concession and only
 the consent of parliament is now neces- | sary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

strangers must certainly wait There is likely 10 be little time for reading them in the theatre; they are gathered up nastily in those tired last moments when the lights are out and carried to the hotel
 When they are read and answered ds- bends on many things. some of which should like to have the public know. When you think of those multtudlnols dressings and undressngs. of the strain of playing a big part. of necessary cop ferences during the progress of the per- forrance with business s.<manager and stage manager and some members of the company, of the interviewers waiting to talk to ler while she dresses between the acts and other things of like sort you will see that a star has hardly a min ute she can call her own.
 After the rlay there is nearly always some one waiting to see her, and it is not always some one who considerately remembers how tired she is and that would like to go home. She may look ever her mail while she eats her cream stew; but she is more likely to use that time to chat with friend or professional. associate.
 If she gets to sleep by 1 o'clock she is fortunate star. If she is a wise star she tries to stay abed until 10. By tho time she has bathed and had light breakfast and looked at the papers, and writes home. and signed some cheeks, and attended to the variety of persons who try to catch her between Il and 12 o'clock it is time for matinee on two days @ week. or for rehearsal or she may be going out to luncehon, or there may be more interviewers, or authors with plays, or what not
 If she is an earnest worker, conserving her energies for her public, she is always | in her hotel by and rests quietly until l l. except for the time she sits kimono clad at her sparing dinner. Then to ths theatre-and so on. Is it great wonder if her letters accumulate?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
New Orleans Infected Rat

One plague-ridden rat has been found in New Orleans, and now Health Officer O'Rielly and Dr. White of the marine hospital service are at work to rid the city of New Orleans of all rats. It is believed the rats of New Orleans can be eradicated in 30 days, and there are some old and adroit rats in that town.
 Dr. White says rat plague has ex- isted in England two years, and it is believed it existed in Chinatown, San Francisco, three years before 1t led to human cases of the plague.
 New Orleans is not alarmed Its rats are doomed whether they are or are not plague carriers. All are to be destroyed, and then New Orleans will feel secure against an outbreak of the dread disease. The board of health has indorsed the plans of Drs O'Reifly and White and they have been given full authority to act. New Or leans will soon be ratless city and all suburban rats will, if they are wise, cease to visit that city.
 Mobile, too, is killing rats, and Pensacola will no doubt follow suit A gulf coast without rats will be a novelty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

the Rev. MT. Mcqueen, who is es ezsss old and just ordained.
 MT. and Mrs. Washburn. who re ssa5 tne city yesterday afternoon after a sesp 10 New York, were married las ase.- day They, too, had been drawn sf- CT by common desire to work s.r the heather for the church. and
 serted stanchly they could make M complete success Of matrimonv ,n inudhouse on the banks of the Upper congo as at home. Mrs. Washburn, a years old. is dark and small with laugh-l ing eyes and a determined chin. ] Here are few of the difficulties they will have to face: Their nearest post office will be 800 miles away; Belgian boats bring mail only once in three weeks, and it is three months old then; orders for provisions must be sent to England at least six months in advance; the Lapsley can only run in the Upper Congo in rainy season; they must live in nuts of mud braced with tough vines without nails; hordes of white ants de- stroy clothing and books; there is only one doctor to attend 10000 souls
 hittle Mrs. Allen laughed at the hard, ships before her.
 what better honeymoon could any s'rl want than one that will take her where tne bravest soldiers of the church are nghtfng under overwhelming odds?, she said. Think of the good a woman can do there. And then we shall he to- | setner-my husband and I. That Is what counts most, after all, isn't it? I think We women who are going to Africa will De happier there than if we stayed at nome and spent time hunting for some thing to amuse us"
 The other brides who were stand,ns near Mrs. Allen as she spoke. nodded va hemently.
 We are going to make home out there added Mrs. Mcqueen, but what counts for more. we are going to work for God in the place where He most needs workers"
 The post which is to be the destination of the 13 zealots is the one which first sent out to the world true accounts of the atrocities of the rubber plantations that paid King Leopold their blood mon ey. Two missionaries were arrested by Belgian soldiers, charged with islander at that time, and they were not released until President Roosevelt sent a terse demand to the aged despot. When their release finally came, their captors were on the point of turning them adrift to make their way the best they could through hundreds of miles of jungle to the next mission post
 King Kappa Kappa monarch of the Balubas of the Kassai river district. is not very friendly toward the mission- aries, either, because they object to his harem, though his own people. at coun- ell five years ago, limited the number of his wives to an even thousand
 All of those who sail this morning are volunteers. who came forward and offered their services at the big laynlans mis- sion convention held at Chattanooga this spring, though the brides were not cer- tain of going until their marriages were decided upon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
TO DRY OAK BOARDS

From Handicraft. "
 Oak is the most difficult wood to dry properly. When it and other hardwoods are rapidly dried without sufficient sur rounding moisture the wood cease har- dens," that is, the outer part dries and shrinks before the interior has had a chance to do the same, and this forms shell or case of shrunken and often checked wood around the interior, which also checks later. This interior checking is called honeycombing.
 The best method of drying is that which gradually raises the temperature of both the wood and of the water which 1t con tajns to the point at which the drying is to take place. Care is therefore taken rot to let the surface become entirely cry before the internal moisture is heat cd. This is done by retaining the mois- ture first vaporized about the wood by means of wet steam. When the surface is made permeable to moisture drying may take place rapidly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

Such forecasts of the Stanley report as have been made simply expressd what MT. Stanley had frequently stated. in Congress and elsewhere, before he had heard single word of evidence. He knows well enough that his committee was formed to confirm his previous dec larations, and if the evidence failed to do so, so much the worse for the evidence. MT. Stanley was not even seeking for unpalatable truths. He was after cam paign material, such as his district would appreciate or misunderstood, as to him seemed most convenient; and looking all through to self-advertisement, or for any thing, in fact. which would perpetuate an accidental notoriety. regardless of the dis covery of truth or the dissemination of falsenood.
 This is why each pronouncement by this tribune of the people has been in- creasingly violent-where his own party leaders have not compelled him to repudi- ate his more inconvenient utterances' When a politician of this type starts shouting. he startles the public mind at first. But as the public mind grows accustomed to the noise the only thing for him to do is to shout louder. The re- port of the Stanley committee only means that MT. Stanley is shouting louder.
 "He may desire the bankruptcy of the United States Steel corporation, at the expense of 150,oOo security holders and the enforced likeness of 250,0O0 employees without conferring the slightest benets upon anybody except the foreign com petitor This is merely MT. stanley loudest shout, and after a few lean years the people of the United States will do with him as they have done with others of the ind-unceremoniously suppress him. like other public nuisances'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
No Case Against Woodrow Wilson

The St. Louis Globe Democrat and Congressman Rodenberg of Illinois, both Taft adherents, are searching the books written by Woodrow Wilson to find material for use in the present campaign. MT. Rodenberg is especial ly vicious. l
 The New York Sun pronounces all this talk in the Globe Democrat and by the Illinois congressman, stuff, y and the Sun supports Mr. Taft in this campaign. Tt is," added the Sun, with the Woodrow Wilson of today and not of any other time that the country has to deal. Everybody wants to know what he says, what he writes in his great representative capacity as the chosen chief and spokesman of the democracy. Nobody cares a frarfked speech what he has said or written or is to be gulled by any ma licious midgemadge of extracts and quotations. MT. Rodenbcrg is'wasting his wind"
 The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says in reply to the Globe-Demoerat, "If the case is no worse than that the man has a growing mind and judgment, we presume that the people of the United States will go right ahead and elect him President"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
AFFECTS WHITE FLANNEL

From the New York Times.
 Henry Watterson has the right to wear any sort of clothes he wants to wear, and if Louisville is as hot all the time as it can be on occasions he is fully justified in putting on white flannel. although we should say that white linen would be cooler and would look just as well. The main thing, however, is to keep MT. Wat terson cool this very hot political wealth CT. He imagines that he is always ''as cool as a cucumber but he is not, and even his habiliments will not deceive those who know him for what he is. a hard fighter and generally . very just man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
For Coiored Passengers

l do not see why the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company does not seat it's colored passengers in the rear of the car instead of In the front of it." said a bank official.
 Tn all the southern cities that I have visited the negroes sit in the rear seats. It should be so here. Att tent1on was called to this matter in The Age-Herald by a Mobile visitor a week or so ago.
 As it will cost the company nothing to make the change I hope the street railway management will soon comply with the wishes of the public"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
THE LAW OF THE ROAD

From Case and Comment
 It is stated that the French are pro- posing to adopt the English law of the road for automobiles, that is, to turn to the left. It is singular that we in America should have changed from the English habit established from time im- memorial.
 The driver of a buggy or horse ve- hicle of any kind sits to the right and can see both his own wheel and the ap- preaching one and thus gauge his dis tlnce from it. This he cannot do well when driving to the right. The law of the road If yCr'll listen while
 will give in the words of a song For when you go left, It is then you go right,
 And when you go right you go wrong.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
Prosperous Virginia City

Robert A. Buckner, superintendent of the Southern Express company, with headquarters at Roanoke. Va, spent yes terday in Birmingham. He reports to General Superintendent Macfarfane, whose headquarters are in this city.
 Birmingham is a gerat town" said MT. Buckner-after Roanoke, the best town in the south. Seriously speaking, Roanoke is one of the most progressive and prosperous of younger cities. It is sit uated in rich section of Virginia and is growing fast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
nErLECTIoNs Or \ nACHELoR

From the New York Press. t
 Everybody can see through liars lies except the liar.
 A man has fair chance to swim his stream unless his friends drag him un- der.
 There are all kinds of fools on this earth, but none to equal the fool in poli- tics.
 Women are mighty lucky, but don t know it, not to be able to run for public office.
 A girl has very sweet disposition mot to hate her brother any more than she does.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
THE sUPERFooL

Minna Irving in New York Sun. We know the man who cannot swim A stroke. but loves to float Upon the summer sea, and thinks
 It smart to rock the boat Though over his untimely grave.
 Beneath the pillows cool. We drop the tribute of a tear
 We class him as a fool. But now that we have learned at last
 The trick of how to fly, And soar above the fleecy clouds
 And navigate the sky, When far below us spreads the sweep
 Of valley. hill and plain, What shall we call the passenger
 Who rocks the aeroplane5
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
NEWLYWEDS TO TEACH
From the Philadelphia American.

From the Philadelphia American.
 "HREE newly welded pairs will sal this morning from this city with a
 A party of 1S young missionaries of the Presbyterian church, who are bound for the Belgian Congo 1900 miles into the heart of darkest Africa. For three years the young pioneers of Christianity will labor in fever-infested Matadi, where King Leopolds atroeious cruelty on the rubber plantations and where the natives still offer human sacrifices to the sun god.
 The brides are under 9 years old and all have been married less than 10 days. They will live in mud huts in a country so dangerous that no white man can live more than four years, surrounded by thousands of fierce Balubas, subjects of King Kappa Kappa, latter-day Solo mon, who owns thousand wives. They will hear from home once in three months and they will be the only white women in an area of 5000 square miles.
 Last night was spent by the entire mar ty at the home of William T Ellis at Swarthmore. When the American liner Merton draws away from its slip at the foot of Washington avenue at 10 o'clock this morning more than 100 missionaries and churchmen. most of whom have served the church in out-of-the-way cor ners of the world will be on the dock to say farewell to the intrepid 1S
 The youngest of the newlyweds are Mir. and Mrs. J. w. Allen. They were mar ried Tuesday afternoon last at the home of the bride, who was Miss Mildred Mont gonery. of Pleasant Hill, Mo, a few miles from St. Louis. Mrs. Allen is a winsome. blue-eyed woman of barely 20; the social pet of small town, who looks as if she would be more at home in a oozy cottage for two or munching sweets at matinee than in the never-never land half way around the world.
 To see the party as they sat slipping soft drinks on the shady lawn of MT. Ellis home, 1t took a far stretch of the imagination to picture them in a pesti- lential African village. where the chill dren go naked. every man has dozen heipmates and warrior impales the head of his enemy on his gatepost. The brides chatted and bubbled with laugh ter. just as if they were on an ordinary honeymoon. The men talked lightly about church work and casually of far mission neids- If one of the three women looked bit wistful for a moment, there was aiways somebody at her elbow with a cheerful word and a laugh.
 Besides the Aliens, MT. and Mrs. J. c. Mcqueen, of New Orleans, and MT. and Mrs. H. M. Washburn, of Louisville, Ky, will make wedding tour of the mission Journey. The McQueens were married at New Orleans last Thursday. The we'd ding was the continuation of a school love affair, and both had determined years ago that they would go for at least one term of service in the mission field. Mrs. Mcqueen, who is 22 years old and pret- ty, left her parents and brothers and sis- ters in Dixie to follow the fortunes of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

The Tidewater line should replace Its large, clumsy wooden trolley poles on Fifth avenue by ornamental iron posts This avenue is beautiful thoroughfare and it would be pity to see it marred by unsightly trolley poles. The Tidewater tracks seem to be the highest class of railroad construction and everything else should be in keeping.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL

From Fliegende Blatter.
 When a man loves girl he would like to promise her the stars from heuven.'
 Yes; it comes cheaper, too"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

Mayor Gaynor may become New York's s next governor. He is in receptive con dition and his candidacy would promote inc national cause,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

If Film becomes committed to an inde- pendent third ticket Penrose will come back with a full republican ticket in Pennsylyania.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

Mir Felivinsky of Kansas advertises that he will cure your rheumatism or buy your junk. He is an eminently accomo- dating scientist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

President Taft will know on Thursday that he was renominated but the notifi- cation committee may not explain to hhn how 1t was accomplished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

Some close observers say that Taft has been eliminated, and that that race will be between Wilson and Roosevelt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
MEN ARE so STUPID

From the Boston Transcript.
 Hub. Aren't you almost ready, dear
 Wife with irritation). Why do vol keep asking me that question? Haven't I been telling you for the last half hour that I'd be ready in a minute?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

The split in the republican party IS even verse than the split infinitive that Senator Root indnlgcs in from time to time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

Illinois Is the most political of all the states this year, and none knows how it's vote will be cast in November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

Senator Penrose is posing as a tariff revisionist. The stand he takes is how ever strictly spectacular.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

Gov Hadley of Missouri and Senator Borah are to take the st,onp for Taft in Vermont in August.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

pr. Charles ". Eliot comes back declaring that the Japanese are not bit warlike
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

Keynoter Beveridge is known among his friends as the Eternal Sophomore
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

Gov. Blease should borrow Senator Tillman's pitchfork for use in this cam paign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

Gov. Wilson's secretary is MT Tumulty, and at times he feels like living up to his name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

"Thou shalt not steal.'' does not apply, it is claimed at oyster Bay, to the six Roosevelt states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

The Chicago home folks stand by Lori mer as the Bath Me, folks did by Char lie Morse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

Government by injunction will be duly attended to in the bull moose conven- ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

The bull moose's running mate is still a matter of free conjecture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

The beef trust dissolution Is like all the rest of them, delusion and hum- bug.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

It is claimed that old man Sidna Allen is bull moosing in the white way in New York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

Alas, the woodrow Wilson babies can not vote this fall!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

The lobster and the buli moose are fast becoming extinct. The next generation will see neither.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

z F. Morgan and ". c. Wharton are the-only authorized travelling represen- fatives of The Age-Herald in Its circu- lation department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

No communication will be published without it's authors name. Rejected manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala. postoffice as second class matter uhoer act of Congress March 3. 1873.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1912-02-17
Father MOrin'S Installation.

Wedntsla morning at ten
o'clock the ceremony OF the In
s,allation of Father j. b. NORM
AZ permanent Rector of ST. Mar
tin Church took place.
A large delegation OF knights
OF Columbus and tho people met
at the Presbytery where a process
sion WAS formed to proceed to tho
church.
AT the door Of the church Fa-
ther j. Nj. Langlois, read to fa-
Their MORN his life appointment
in Latin and French.
In the procession were the
Knights of Columbus, Children of
Mary and other Catholic societies,
the childrens Of the schools, sew
eral visiting priests and Bishop
Lavalle.
After the program of installa-
ton, was carried out, which was
brilliant aud imposing. Mgr.
Iavalle made a sermon that went
deep in the hearts Of our people, as
he reviewed the past Catholic his
tory of this parish and touched
upon many past events that are
still dear to our people, he spoke
sloquentIy and with feeling of Fa.
Their Jan, Father Langlois and
Father Thebault who proceeded
Father NORM in our grand old
Church, and paid a high tribute
to the Catholics of the parish.
After the sermon of Mgr. La
vale, Father NORM who has al.
ready won the love, esteem anC
respect of our people, spoke feel
ingly of the responsibility PLACED
upon him in his life appointment
in q parish as largo as this one
but the Rev. Father feels that hi,
association with our people dur
ing his administration Of the at
fairs of the church during he pas
two years, assures him that hl'