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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-07

The work of Alabama women to be
placed on exhibit at the fair in October
will be all new and modern. That this
feature of displaying only new work has
been received with interest is indicative
of the spirit of industry that pervades
among the home makers and demon
strates their recognition of progressive
ness. The usual exhibit calls for some
thing old, something new" anything to
fill up space. The management of this
department of the Alabama State Fair
has made a distinct discrimination as re-
CARDS placing on exhibit the same old
things year in and year out That needle
work is an art has been known since
women began to stitch, that the drudgery
Of sewing is being modified is fact, and
the woman who makes her plain clothes
at home is so welded to her job that she
has always "a pick up work. handy for
an evening on the porch. The magazines
are prolific with suggestions, so the wom-
an who lives on the rural route has almost
equal facilities with the one who lives
near the shops The fancy work sent in
Tor exhibition halls from an sections OF
Alabama, and denotes the variety OF
stitches that are being accepted as pat
ternsl for copy. Like all styles. as the'
change some FAD" is ADOPTED. 1t Is seer
ok the embroidery counters. is demon
skrated in the fashioA sheets, and be
domeG ! craze among embroidery circles
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-07
Chamber of Commerce Gives
Prizes Amounting to $500 to
Jefferson County Hon1en1aRers
AT the Alabama State Fair
BY MRS. j. II. REID

This year a tedius but SNOWY stitch Is
In ..Punchwork Embroidery" While it is
effective, one who sees the mode of exc
cution almost exclaims with the small
boy. why punch a hole just to fill 1t in
again. And after you have done 1t the
question is answered; the effect is SO
pleasing that one is glad to know how.
Then the varieties OF crochet In cotton
and zephyr, the favorite articles now are
hand bags. They are made elaborate ana
simple. Some have beautiful rosettes,
others are artistic conventional designs.
These patterns give valuable suggestions
for original ideas. 1t IL very easy to fol-
low in. the footsteps of some one else-to
work with the pattern before you; but the
Individual who can create an original de-
sign that is accepted as good. soon gains
confidence in self and reads the way for
more extensive effort and more fruitful
results. Every success has been the re-
suit of trying-one never knows their
full strength until It mas been given
service This has been thoroughly shown
among the booth makers in the wom-
ans exhibit When the suggestion was
/, first made to give a certain number oil
| women space for an Individual exhibit OF
! ner own industry. she at once RETAINED
| feeling she had done nothing worth while
| but when told the best efforts of a WON
ans life was in the fulfilling of home
missions. making for its health and com
! fort. that her cooking. dairy products. hel
vegetables, canned and otherwise. flower,
and fruits displayed with her needle
| work, arranged with good taste. woult
! heir somebody else to make home. a.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-07
EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN
Presbyterian Benevolences Unite to
Form Educational System

Acting under direction of the last gen.
eral assembly, all boards of Presby
terians north have just met and formed
anew department of missionary educa-
ton. There have heretofore been edu-
cational systems for the home and for
eign boards, while for the most part
other boards. like the college, freedmen
and Sunday school, have gone without.
The systems of the two boards named
have been worked quite separately.
sometimes with overlapping results, in
other cases of overlooking fields.
Working together, 1t Is the plan of
the new department to serve mems and
women's organizations. Sunday schools,
young people and children's clubs, and
to do so as representative of all Pres
byterian interests Of all kinds. 1t is
stated that much preliminary study
will be needed to coordinate existing
methods. There will be lectureships,
with a bureau to direct speakers. com
mon summer schools, and education In
the of duplex envelopes and the send
ing in of money collected. without hold
ing it in treasurers' hands. The move
ment came originally from the boards
themselves, having been ordered by the
assembly at the suggestion OF the par
ties at interest. 1t is the first time
in the history of Presbyterian mission
arv EFFORT that common plans on this
scale have been attempted.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-07
THE GREATEST OF
CITY UPHEAvALS
Churches to Value of $4,-
100000 for Sale on Man
haitian Island

With the approval by the court of last
resort of the state of New York of the
terms of the subway contractors with
New York city there has come the final
blow to church conditions on Manhattan
Island. especially Protestant church con-
ditions. Immediately $i5oo009 worth of
Protestant church property is offered for
sale, and it is known that many more
millions will be offered Indeed. churches
to the value of sae,OooOoo at least will be
forced upon the market within the next
year. These churches are not downtown.
Some of the largest of them are in Har-
lem. and almost the only part of Man.
hatten that is little affected is Washing
ton Heights.
Building new supways will be begun
in earnest in the early fall. and a system
such as the world never saw before, both
in length of miles and cost in money.
will result. The affect is. as all agree to
change Manhattan Island from New
Yark's local use. and to turn it over
wholly to the use of the world. Such
change means complete change in popu-
lation, and with that change comes. il
seems, the necessity for the wholesals
removal Of churches from the island. or
else. as is possible in comparatively few
instances. liberal endowments that will
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-07
FIFTY CITIES WILL
Be ATTACKED
Series Of Big Mission Cot
ventions Beginning
Next Fall IL

Fifty principal cities. east, middle w9
and coast, will be asked to hold missile
airy conventions between Octobe ana
April next. The request is to come tn
the laymen's missionary movement. These
conventions viii be like those held r.
the same cities two or three years al
and the series will form another mi1-
sionary campaign. This time. howevys.
the campaign will be for home as we'll -
foreign missions, and the speakers vill
be of wider range.
Preliminary to- the campaign the nova
ment plans two conferences this sumnaGr.
one at Lake Geneva. July % to 81. and the
other at Mt. Gretna. August % to Sept n-
Der 8. The movement is cooperating with
the missionary education movement. since
1t is. as matter of fact. such movement
itself Discussion of consolidation OF TIP
two movements is being had. The SAND
men are managing both. and the worI(
IL the same. A new plan is a Systemat
Givers league and it is to be inaugura
in as many cities as conventions are h
In. 1t aims, to enroll men who givs
tenth OF their annual incomes to bene
lence.
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insure permanency in present locations
Churches offered for. sale include two
Methodist, one of them large and pros
porous ten years ago; the Orthodox
Friend in Gramercy park; three Baptist'
only one of which will be build in Man
haitian; one Reform. and 1t among the
largest of all; one Lutheran that happens
TO suffer more than others because IN the
theatre district, and one Unitarian, that
one made famous by the ministry or
Henry w. Bellows and the organization
within its walls of one Of the great sanl-
tary commissions of the civil war period
Churches that will soon be forced upon
the market include also PRESBYTERIAN ana
Episcopal. although in the case Of the
latter strong efforts will be made toward
endowment yet to be raised.
There are under construction on Man
haitian island at the moment new
churches, halls and buildings erected for
religious purposes. all under Protestant
control to the value of S6,500,000 and
other projects are talked of that will
be much more. There are chiefly Pres
byterian and Episcopal. The condition
is not that Professionalism is going to the
wall, hut that there has begun the most
stupendous readjustment that any city
in the world ever entered upon Final
decision of legal points affecting sub
way contracts has brought the movement
to head In short order. and these early
announcements of sales are the result.
Leaders in all Protestant bodies are
individually sending out to the country
statements explanatory of these New
York changes Early in the approaching
autumn they will send out united state
ment. giving further particulars. and pre-
dieting further changes. Their course is
to break the force of the news, on its
face disastrous, and to inform leaders in
lall bodies precisely what 1t is that is
taking place. Parts of Manhattan most
lseriously affected at the moment are III
| the vicinity of Union square. a northern
advance above Fourteenth street; the
west side of Central park, where valuable
properties are facing for the first time
so-called downtown conditions. and Har-
| lem. where prosperous negroes are going
and in occupying brown stone mansions.
The Fifth avenue region seems affected
least Of all.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-07

once she could see her own usefulness,
and thus round dozen booths were
buided the first year, and since then
there are more and more women display
ing in booths their art of home making.
AS the work of women has, grown, so
have the purposes of this factor of the ex-
hibition. To build and grow bigger and
better any plant needs the fertilizer, thus
it is with any institution to broaden its
purposes and give better results the coin
is wanted. for more material is needed
With this in view the request was made
to Mr.. j. W. Sibley, president of the
Chamber of Commerce. for the co-opera-
ton of the Farm Movement COMMITTEES"
in bringing out especially the home in
dustries of jefferson county. The follow
ing letter explains itself
Mrs. j. b. Reid, Manager Woman's De-
partment, Alabama State Fair. City
Dear Mrs. Reid: The farm movement
committee of the Chaniper of Commerce
has accepted your proposition to make a
practical demonstration in the Woman S
Department of the fair OF 1912, of the re-
sources of the homes of Jefferson county,
including the rural and city localities,
and will pay premiums 20 the. amount OF
$500 to the Jefferson County Individual
Rooth" contest to be offered as desig-
mated by you in your fair catalogue.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) JOSEPH b. BABB.
Secretary
At once the women of Jefferson county
began to feel their importance to the COM
munity, and the money has been Offered
in the following prizes:
First. 500: second, s7s; third, S55; fourth
$50; fifth. s45: sixth. SIS; seventh $50
eighth. SOS: ninth. s2o; tenth, s25 eleventh
$50: twelfth, $50.
| Besides the money prizes the merchants
have offered valuable special prizes in the
same contest
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-07
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Bryan, in accordance with the pro-
gramme which he and his henchmen,
after careful consideration, had
mapped, nominated Senator Kern.
1t was Kern's time to deal the cards
in the little game. The former candi-
date for the vice presidency, after
kneeling before the shrine of Bryan,
his patron saint, declined the nomina-
ton. Next he suggested that Parker
be magnanimous, and "for the sake
of harmony agree on compromise
candidate" When no movement was
made by the gentlemen from New
York, Kern, turning in the direction
of the placid Bryan, declared that no
man was so worthy to bear the stand
ard as 'he who for sixteen long,
weary, toilsome years, had fought the
battle of democracy without reward"
Bryan, in further obedience to the
we'll laid scheme, accepted the nom
ination, and the balloting was begun.
And at that moment, away fitted
the opportunity of Champ Clark. He
did not support the Nebraskan. Had
he done so, he and not Wilson would,
in all probability, be now the nominee
of the democratic party. Bryan was
beaten.
If the "Commoner" had ever nur-
tured hope of securing the nomina-
ton, following his defeat for the
craftsmanship, that hope vanished.
When Parker was seated, the Nebras-
kan knew that although still the
power was his to sway the conven-
ton for principle, however scant OF
merit that principle might be, that
he lacked the sufficient strength to
force the delegates into a phalanx for
his own aggrandizement.
| Bryan was in defeat.
But in the moment of their triumph,
his enemies did not possess the moral
or physical courage to render him per-
manently helpless. Those who OPP
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-07

posed, declared that they hesitated to
strike down the Nebraskan for fear of
disturbing "harmony"-although when
Bryan first moved, it was apparent
to the most unsophisticated that char
mony' would never again prevail.
Therefore, instead of to the victor,
it was to the vanquished that went
the spoils. Bryan's successful enc
mics ran abroad in an effort to
placate. They knelt even as had done
the senator from Indiana. They Of
fered Bryan the Craftsmanship of the
platform committee, and when he de-
clined with meagre thanks, per-
mitted him to name Kern-his good
man Friday And they permitted him
to name Ollie James permanent chair
man. And in other ways, they flat
tened themselves for the touth of his
foot.
Had they fought, Bryan would have
been even as the humblest delegate
Dul Wilci Will eCiiSiitJ VIZ
proceeded in their efforts to appease
he grasped in trice the situation en-
tire. Thereafter, he was boss
more powerful over a majority of the
convention than Mr.. Murphy over 9
pitiable handful of "heartless" Tam
NANTES.
Bryan proceeded to WELD his whip
On Thursday night, he played his
trump card-a predicate on which hi
subsequently deserted Clark-ane
precipitated the most dramatic Incl
dent of the entire convention.
No sooner had the pax vobiscum'
of the divine in charge died away
than the Nebraskan, amid cheers
mingled with groans and Kisses, forcet
his way to the platform. He Offered
resolution in substance as follows
that the convention nominate no maj
on whom there was reason to believ'
Wall street had any claim whatsoever
and that Ryan, Belmont, Murphy AM
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-07

From the Pittsburg Sui.
Grandma
you know just believe whole lot in
prayer"
..why. I'm glad to near 1t. That's a
good little girl"
yes. prayed the other day that auntie
wouldn't be cross with me for breaking
her little hand mirror
And was she"'
mo. She thought It was Uncle John
who broke It, and didn't tell her any
hetter.''
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two brilliant Thouehts

From the June Womans Home Com
panion.
What a handsome lot of people there
would be IL we all looked like our pictures.
A goat that has chewed up newspaper
might well he said to possess INSIDE In
formation"
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others representing predatory"
wealth, be thrown headlong from the
conventicl.
The storm broke. In the face of the
fury, the Nebraskan backed. The
armory seethed in Kisses and groans
and cries of disgust. Bryan sat
down--and the debate was under way.
Mr.. Corkle of West Virginia argued
of the right of the state to send whom
soever the state pleased. And Bryan
saw an opportunity. He agreed. in
case majority of the Virginia dele
gates voted in favor of retaining
Thomas Fortune Ryan, and if ma
jority of the delegates of New York
voted in favor of retaining Perry Bel
mont, that he would withdraw the
second section of his resolution. New
York was silent. But from Virginia
forged to the front Hal Flood.
In voice that rang clear, as the
tone of bell, Flood exclaimed: "In
the name of the sovereign state of
Virginia, we accept the insolent chal-
lenge of the only man who is deter
mined to wreck the democratic party"
Bryan's face was as pale as death.
He was stunned. Under the storm of
applause, from which Kisses licked
out as the tongues of maddened SER
penis, the Nebraskan wiltered. But
he was determined to play his cards to
| the end.
1t required courage to play that
next card.
Bryan faced the convention, the
delegates of which were still enraged.
He spoke:
"Inasmuch as gentleman from
Virginia has come to me with protest
against the last section of the resolu-
ton, / withdraw it,"
But he had recokened without his
host.
No sooner had the significance of
Bryan's remarks pierced home than
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-07

Bryan was in defeat.
But in the moment of their triumph,
his enemies did not possess the moral
or physical courage to render him per-
manently helpless. Those who OPP
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-02-06
Mt. CLARE
Residents Are Busy with
Their Affairs and Com
ing and Going.

MT. cnNRE. Feb. emory
Brand was at Lost Greek on bust
ness recently.
Mr.. Smith, superintendent of the
West, Fork mine, was at Harrisburg
Saturday. ; Eu
lab Hulderban and Amos Hannah
were Harrisburg visitors recently.
C.. s. Holden, Of Buckhannon,
was a recent. business visitor here.
Wesley Dawson. of bridgeport,
was calling on friends here satur.
day.
David Morgan and Mrs. Clinton
'Hardman attended the funeral of
Mrs. Snyder at Rockford last week.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-02-06

G. Porter recently.
Guy sommeryille visited his slste-.
Mrs, Martin L. Williams, 81 Grass
run recently.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-02-06
Tribute to Col. Jackson.

The Parkersburg Sentinel pays the
following well deserved tribute to
Col. T. Moore Jackson:
The untimely death of Col. T..
Moore Jackson removes from the
state one Of its most energetic up
builders. Though not an old man,
Col. jackson was pioneer in the
development Of the state. The Har.
fison and Marion coal regions
got their first real impetus from the
building Of the Short Line railroad
and it was he who built it. This
railroad was the foundation Of a
great scheme, the completion Of
which would have set West Virginia
ten years ahead of her present de-
yelopment, and which surely would
have been completed had it not been
for one of those mysterious deals for
which high finance is noted. The
interests got together and Col. Jack
. sound found himself surrounded and
z frustrated BY hostile eastern cap
italists whose only concern appar-
emily was to give the Baltimore and
Ohio absolute control in West Vir-
gipia. EIe was, genius nevertheless,
and an indefatigable worker. and
he has left an impress upon the
state.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-02-06

With Prohibitionists and anti-sa.
loon league officials busy circulating
petitions for the enactment of fed
eralsle iysfibittug interstate LIQUOR
-traflc lis- an open confession that the
prob 6itions amendment to the con-
stltutioh ofsWest Virginia will not
prohibit, especially in view of the
fact that the supreme court Of the
United States recently held that
LIQUORS can be shipped anywhere in
the country SO long as they come
under the interstate class of ship
ments. It is evident that the recent
federal supreme court decision has
given the amendment cause in this
state d very sblack eye.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-02-06
A Helper Still.

At the luncheon meeting Of the
board of trade ways and means
committee yesterday noon at the
Waldo hotel, the newspapers of the
city came in for special thanks for
cooperating with the board. 1t was
stated that they have always been
ready to give prominent space to
board of trade matters and have
done excellent work in connection
with the recent membership cam
paign."
In this connection, the Telegram
,begs leave to state that it will con-
tinue to cooperate with the board
in all movements in which the well
fare Of the city and its progress are
concerned, as gladly and willingly
as 1t has in the past. Indeed, the
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-02-06
Hits Right.

The Parkersburg Dispatch-News
hits the nail squarely on the head
in the following editorial paragra-
graph:
Z The Republican party in West
Virginia can not be defeated when
it is united and harmonious. 1t is
that now. and getting more so as
the series Of lovefeasts proceeds. In
this state, at least, the party is con-
/ fident sand assured Of. winning q
sweeping victory. +T )
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PETITION
s Circulated al MI. Clare on
Question of Interstate
Liquor Traffic.

MT. CLARE, Feb. ga petition to
the Congress at Warrington. praying
for the passage Of the Kenyon-shep-
pard liquor bill. is being circulated
here. The petitioners request that
immediate action be taken on the
measure which is intended to prohibit
the shipments Of liquor into territory
where the people have voted dry
Advocates Of the proposed law
claim that It will invalidate the stat
ute recently upheld by the supreme
court which gives liquor dealers the
right 10 do business anywhere, re-
gardless Of the sentiment Of the peo7
pie.
The document is being signed by
many persons among the temperance
element, as they claim, that without
such law, the passage of the pro-
Inhibition amendment next fall would
prove Of no avail against the liquor
traffic.
Postmaster W. P. Weekly spent two
days at Deanville, near Weston. look
ing after his interests in a gas well
on the r. Jordan property at that
place. The drillers discovered a pc
culiar formation in the wen. which
Isl puszlin experienced gas men.
Large Quantities Of gas were fund in
both the Ipjpn and Gordon sands,
which is said, to be very unusual
Occurrences, Drilling was continued to
the fifth sand and the we'll promised
to be good for production of three
million feet. The owners have ready
market for the gas, and naturally
they are highly pleased with the re-
suit Of their venture.
Miss Hazel Toothman. of shinnston
is visiting Mrs. j. A. Macmasters a.
Interstate,
H. W. Maxwell and j. G. Maxwell
have returned from a visit to
friends at Fairmont.
Henry. Basel, student in the State
Normal school at Fairmonts spent
Sunday with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs,
Jefferson D. Bassel at Interstate. Il,
Samuel Bowman, well known
drilling contractor of clarksburg,
transacted bushes shere Monday,
James supler, of Clarksburg, was
here Monday enroute to Buckhannor
in the interest of the Byron Oil and
Gas Company.
A. H. Booth has returned from 6
business trip to Point Pleasant. A.
Miss Dee Ross, Of Bridgeport, at
tended the musical at the Methodist
Episcopal church here Saturday even
ing.
G. L. Norman was business Wis
itor in Clarksburg Monday.
Miss Katherine Picket, who re-
Gently spent three weeks with frienda
in Clarksburg, has returned home.
Mrs. Joseph Dixon visited relatives
at Pennsboro recently.
Relief Agent Curry of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, was looking after
company business here Monday.