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The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-25
PR OF ECT ED

Memphis was a great city before
the was and steamboats, used to wait
gheir turns at her leyee, like men in
4 barbershop on Saturday night
Even now ore may t'avel from
Memphis to New Orleans, Cincinnati
or St Paul by steamboat If il is alb
soluteiy necessary for him TO kill
the time, TIE Mississippi river is
forty feet deep most Of the way from
Memphis TO the gulf and some day
Mephizzers or whatever they call
themselves, viii go to Panama with
out change of statcrooms.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-25

An article that has real merit
hould in time become popular. That
uch is the case with Chamberlain s
'ough Remedy has been attested by
many dealers Here is one OF them.
/. w Hendrickson, Ohio Falls, Ind.
writes, Chamberlain Cough RENE
ly is the best for coughs, colds and
roup, and is my best seller" For
ale by all druggists.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-25

Mrs. Joe Essex who has been very
sick for some time is better at this
writing.
Mr.. John Alsup. wife and chlld"e1
Of Sikeston, Mo, are the guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs John Moore tbs week,
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-25

Memphis seeded with Tennessee
in 1861 but came back with a rush
jerk in 1852 when a naval battle
was fought off he front doors and
Confederate feet was demolished. N
is now hustling. democratic and
vociferous and is going to get third
place in Dixie back from Birmin$-
ham in 1920 even If it's Commercial
Club has to put a darkey on it's safe
~ Nalve.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-25

Il is claimed that $4,000, 600 per
2ar is taken from the banks by
'rserS-a proof that men who liya
their pens are becoming quite
'osperous these days; also that the
vs. are no longer farmers.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-25

when the attention Of The Bull
ietin is called to any misstatement
of fact or to any error concerning
any man or thing, corrections viii
cheerfully be made
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-25

England and France are banning
monoplane. Thus the biplame,
merlean type, is being indicated.
ore one more for tho Wright broth
-.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-25

The latest news from Constanti-
pie indicates shat 1t is about time
+ the powers to make the Moslem
the Turkey trot out of Europe.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-25

American named Short is to marry
countess. Must have more coin
an hls name would imply
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-25
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
Vocational Training in Public Scho

Vocational Training in Public Schools
 Little by little the value of voca- tional or industrial schools is being brought home to busy people. Such schools for those who attend the high school have long existed, but when 1t is remembered that less than 10 per cent of the pupils reach the high school at all, it is at once seen that vocational school is best applied where the greater number go. Towns are very proud as a rule of their high schools, when in fact they should give even greater praise and atten- tion to their primary schools in which over 90 per cent of their children are educated.
 The vocational school has been es- tablished in primary grades in a num- Der of states. It is doing good work among those who for various reasons cannot enter high schools, commer- cial school, or college. It is leading to lengthening of the school period of many because it does meet the needs of the great majority that must early seek a means of livlihood.
 The public school system IS in fact planned on aristocratic lines. If 1t were planned on true democratic lines the clements of some trade would be taught even to those who are learning to read and write. To plan system that looks to high school and college is to plan system for not exceeding 10 per cent, while 90 per cent go un- helped in their life work. More indus trial training is coming in our pri- mary schools. It is inevitable and the sooner it comes the better.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
GLOOM IN LIBERTY LEAGUE
BY BILL VINES

widow by Uncle Sam. He insisted that the interruptions republican undertaken be fired.
 The widow consented that Robinson hire a democratic undertaken. He went out and secured negro undertaken to whose democratic principles there could be no question, and to which he himself would certify, and returned. A couple of hours later both undertakers arrived before the widow Curtis door, and there ensued a business discussion, which soon degenerated into political argument, in which all the assembled friends of the deceased took part.
 Robinson faithfully held his ground. He declared that his departed friend could not be happy in the next world if he was buried by a republican undertaken. At this point argument ceased and actual hostilities began, and might have con tinued without arriving at a definite con- clusion had it not been for the timely arrival of capitol policeman, who took the entire crowd before Captain Megrew of the capitol force.
 | He at first thought of marching every body to the police court, but finally hit
 upon the idea of having Jerry South, democrat from Arkansas and chief clerk of the House. arbtrate the matter All parties agreed. Mir. South conducted public hearing. Robinson, the head bar sber, called in his political packer, Repre- sentative Cox of Indiana, as counsel. | MT. South listened to the arguments
 and then announced, much to the cha
 grin of the two undertakers and the
 barber:
 q find that the charges of both under takers here present are rather excessive.
 I also find that their behavior has been
 so undignified as to unfit them to take charge of this funeral'
 | MT. South then awarded the contract 1 to a white undertaken. Greatly to the consternation of the head barber, and the
 members of the Personal Liberty league, 1 it was discovered that the white under
 taker is bull mooser.
 Thus do we see the futility of a life
 of political party devotion. To be life | long democrat, and to have the silent messenger step in when victory and perquistes are within ones grasp, and
 then adding insult to injury to be buried | by bull mooser is too much. At least these are the violently expressed senti- ments of George Robinson and other
 members of the Personal Liberty league. They mourn the loss of their leader, but
 the humiliation they have received adds much to their bitter cup of woe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
Grants Early Schooling

"I have been surprised in reaSIng sketches of Gen. U. s. Grant in encyclo- pedias that no mention is made of his school days at Maysville. Ky.," said an old Kentuckian. 'The several encyclo- pedias that I have seen give about the same facts-where Grant was born, his ancestry and when he was appointed to a cadetship in the military academy at West Point
 Grant was born in a little village in Ohic on the Ohio river, about 40' miles below Maysville, which is situated on the south bank of the Ohio. My good ,friend, Prof. w. c. Richardson of TVsaloosa. was born in Maysville, and as'$sstudent there in the classical seminary of Rand & Richeson was classmate of Grant. He talks most interestingly of that period
 Professor Richardson says that 6 phrenologst visited the Grants at their home in Ohio. and after examining the bumps on young Grants head told the senior Grant that his son might some day be President of the United States. Thai set the elder Grant to thinking, and he made up his mind then, so the story goes that he would send the boy off to a gooc school where he might be properly edu cated. There was no classical school il
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
TELEPHONES Bell (privatc exchange connecting al departmeDtsD, No. feVO.
\ coward, most deyout coward; religious in II. -IWeinn Nteht'
At the Court of St. James

Thirty ministers and ambassadors all told have been sent by this coun- try to Great Britain, and the list in cludes many notable men. Six of them were from New York, six from Massa- chustts, six from Pennsylvania and eight from the south. The eight southern men were Thomas Pinckney of South Carolina, James Madison James Barbour and Andrew Steven son of Virginia, William Pinkney, Louis McLane and Reverdy Johnson of Maryland, and Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware. The south furnished eight out of 30, which was about its share.
 Five of the entire number were called on to do great work. Charles Francis Adams represented this country during the civil war His sue cessor, Reverdy Johnson, negotiated the Johnson Clarendon treaty. James Russell Lowell was in great demand as an orator on public occasions. He was considered a man of letters in England. Thomas F. Bayard was an other man of mark in England, and so was John Hay, who, however, was soon called back to become Secretary of State. His name is associated with the Hay -Paunceforte treaty, which was negotiated in Washington.
 The tendency is to make grea treaties between the two countries 1T Washington, leaving to the ambassa dor the social and personal functions of representative in London. Th' entire list represents the flower O the country. All have been men oI culture and high personal character The President elect will have som, difficulty in selecting the thirty-firs member of this remarkable succession of official representatives at or nea the court of St. James.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
LATEST DRAMA OF RTHICS''

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. .THE opening act of MT. shaw's
 Man and Superrnan" becomes
 ! tamely conventional in compari- son with the latest drama of ethics, which is produced in New York because of the attention it attracted when it was unfavorably received in London. In Man and superman' Mr. Shaw merely allows an iconoclast to air his views upon what he regards as the stupidity of a world which looks upon irregularity of conduct upon the part of a woman as damning her, socially and morally, and upon the marriage of the guilty parties as the nearest approach to way out or bad situation. After everyone has had his say, MT. Shaw discloses to his audi ence that the young woman under dis cussion has committed no indiscretion.
 In "IIindle Wakes by Stanley Tough ton, a young man who is engaged to be married has spent weekend in a Lon don suburb with a young woman who is not his fiancee. According to the New York Tribune's reviewer, the fact is dis cussed at length by the parents of each of the young persons involved, by the fiancee of the young man, by the young man himself, all of whom hold the same point of view with regard to it's being the duty of the engaged young man to marry the erring young woman.
 And here is the denouement:
 "All the relatives are gathered in the Jeffcotes breakfast room ready to sign agreements and shake hands over a bad bargain, when Alan, who has been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30

40 or 45 made up, for the most part, of theatre musicians. St. Louis, which now has one of the largest and best full-paid orchestras in the United States, only few years ago had to depend almost entirely on an orches- tra that had only two or three re- hearsals a week. Its present or chestra has daily rehearsals and con- certs every week.
 Within two or three years--possibly next year-Birmingham will be able to make beginning in the organ ization of a concert orchestra-an or chestra capable of rendering not only the standard overtures but the classic symphonies. In the meantime, music teachers and pupils and that larger class, music lovers whose only edu- cation is in hearing, have had the op- portunity of attending several con- certs this season and will have the opportunity of attending several more,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
China's Railway Plans

Instead of wasting money in use less wars the new China seems in- clined to put money into railroads. The plans of Dr. Sun Yat Sen call for line across nearly the whole of northern China together with many branches. The main line from Lau- chau to Haichau will be 900 miles long. From it's western extremity, close to the Yellow river and the "elbow" of the great wall in Kan-su, it will run eastward out of that pro- vince, cross Shan-si, encounter the Yellow river again and go along its south bank through the greater part of Ho-nan, and then, leaving the river continue almost due east, passing over the rivers old course and the Grand canal on the way, and thus reaching it's ocean terminal, which is about half way between the ports of Shang- hai and Che-fu. This road will be of great importance, running as it does i to the Yellow sea from the heart of the province that stands between Tibet and Mongolia and over the province that for thousands of years has borne the name of the Granary of the Ma tion.
 This great project is to be backed by Belgian capitalists who have agreed to take the railroad to be built as security for loan of S50,000,000 Half as much more will be forthcom- ing, it is said, from the French in terests in the six-power group.
 There is confidence in the resources of China and the stability of the re- public. On Dr. Sens lines surveys are progressing and work has actually been begun. Work has also been started on southern line extending from Human to Canton. French finan- ciers are said to be behind the latter road. The whole world-Russia alone excepted-regards the new republic as fully established, and the manifes- tation of good will is attested by the investments of foreign capital When I China is well tied together by rail roads the work of development in other lines will be wonderfully pro- noted, and by 1850 the world may be astonished by the advent of a new and greater China, one ready and capable of defending itself against all corners. Russia included.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
COLLEGE SOCIALISTS
n the New York Sun

rfOm the New. 1OIk Suii.
 q The fourth annual convention of the In- telcollegite Socialist society begins in this town today. Many major and minor institutions east and west send repre- sentatives, and even half dozen asso- citations of graduate socialists.
 Who can help wishing well to these young gentlemen whose utopian and gen. ersus passion for an old dream perpetual ly new brings them here? What will be so mean as even to think that Man. hattain in the holidays is the general capi- tai of the undergraduate world?
 But at the end of 20 or 15 or even 10 years how many of these enthusiasts will be true to the faith? How many will have fallen by the way, been disillusioned by facts, by life, by the necessity of making d living? The socialist beliefs of those fortunate or unfortunate per sons with an independent income may last longer.
 sr;We feel sort of liking for young col lege socialists. Their ardor is good to see, and then they have, or many of them have, unconsciously a spirit of revolt against things as they are and of longing for minorities and unpopularlties. If the socialist party were in power we wonder how many of these college socialists would care for it.
 Healthy and happy youth which loves to stand on its head, to question all poli- ties and conventions; which finds an in telectual superiority in being different and treading on the opinions and preju- dices of its elders. But wait till it comes to 40 year, to 5 year, to 30 year! It would be great sport making human nature over. if only it could be done
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
MOONLIGHT ON THE HUDSON

By Joseph Rodman Drake, "The Culprit 4 Fay" Tis the middle watch of a summers
 night The earth is dark. but the heavens are
 bright; Naught is seen in the vault on high But the moon, and the stars, and the
 cloudless sky, And the flood which rolls its milky hue, A river of light on the wekin blue. The moon looks down on old Crow Nest, She mellows the shades on his shaggy
 breast, And seems his huge gray form to throw Tn silver cone on the wave below; His sides are broken by spots of shade. By the walnut bough and the cedar made. And through their clustering branches
 dark Giimmers and dies the firehys spark Like starry wrinkles that momently
 break Through the rifts of the gathering temp
 est rack. The stars are on the moving stream, And fling. as it's ripples gently flow, A furnished length of wavy beam In an eel like. spiral line below: Tho winds are whist, and the owl is
 still,
 The bat in the shelvy rock is hid. And naught is heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp, and the answer
 shrill
 Of the gauge winged katydid: And the paint of the wailing whip-poor-
 will.
 Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings, Ever a note of wall and woe,
 Till morning spreads her rosy wings, And earth and sky in her Glences glow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30

V1 AsHINGToN, December E. M Special )-There is gloom, dark
 W opaque. and otherwise gloom in colored democratic circles in Washing ton.
 A few days ago everything was bright and cheerful, and no untoward event
 had then happened to cast any as- paragus over the genuine democracy of the membership individually or collect ively of the personal liberty league. The personal liberty league is a democratic organization. It is composed of colored patriots exclusively and since last Nov
 ember it has assumed great activity and added to it's membership many ardent democrats of the chocolate hue, who have been democrats all their lives,
 but have only recently found it out.
 Everything was lovely until Charles
 Curtis, a negro messenger of the House of Representatives laid down and died last Tuesday. It was very thoughtles | for Charles to do this, without making l special arrangements for his internent, | for be it known that Charles was him 1 self the single handed organizer of the personal liberty league. There has been | times when Charles stood absolutely alone and undivided in his simon pure democracy. He was practically the whole colored democratic party in the I district, but he did not falter. But in
 the hour of his triumph, and after win
 ming the almost unanimous support of 1 the rest of his race in the district who began to see the error of their way l later in the evening on the first Tues day in last November-after living to | be thus vindicated, Charles cashed in
 and is now sitting on the front steps of a land where there are no political
 bickerings.
 But he left behind him large gobs of trouble. The head barber of the House
 is a colored gentleman. who is down in the biographical record as George Robinson George is an ardent lenlo- crat, and has been ever since the demo-
 crats won the House. Promptly George
 called upon the Widow Curtis to offer whatever consolation he could as fel- l low democrat.
 1 He was mortified and greatly distressed l that the widow had arranged for a flu
 neral to be conducted by a republican
 undertaken. He insisted that no demo. crat would think of charging s1s7 fol l one funeral, even though it would be
 paid out of an allowance made to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
On Visit to Birmingham

James Hugh Conley, formerly chief clerk to Superintendent Brooks of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, now
 occupying the same position with the Superintendent of he Georgia and
 Florida railroad, with headquarters a5 Douglas, Ga, is in Birmingham for a days or two's visit to his mother ac- companied by his wife and little boy. Speaking of his present position MT. Conley said:
 You know that the Georgia and Florida is a country road compared 10 most of the others. It has about 250 miles of main line and some 100 Hines of feeders. It is the creature of the genius of John Skelton Williams, who was at one time the controlling spirit of the Seaboard Air Line sys- tenn. After he lost control of the Sea- board, MT. Williams purchased short lines and built others-many of them were lumber roads-and now he has a lpaying line from Augusta, Ga, to Mad ison, Fla. The road runs only few
 miles into Florida. When certain other roads went into the hands of receivers, the Georgia and Florida kept it's head above the water.
 ''rhe Georgia and Florida makes it's
 business in part by fostering trucking, improved farming, and the lumber bus mess. The trucking business has grown wonderfully, and the strawberry and
 canteloupe business has proven highly
 profitable to the growers and the rail- road.
 Speaking of railroading, one occa-
 pying a position such as I had here
 with Superintendent Brooks, has an
 excellent opportunity to learn certain
 special features of railroadng, but the
 work is so divided up with the several departments, that a man has not the opportunity to learn all the various details. Not so with a small road for in my present situation I have to do with many of the details of railroad | ing that would not be possible with a big system. The work gives man
 an all-round training and equips him | for the broader field of railroadinG
 more quickly. if he attends to his
 work"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30

watching F'annys face attentively sug- gests that everyone has acquiesced to the settlement excepting Fanny
 CT was just beginning to wonder where I came in on all of this,' said the girl with blighting irony.
 "Fanny's views follow. She gives them in part to the motley assembly and in part to Alan privately. The sum of them is that she regards the boy as nice enough to lark with, but not man enough to marry. The honest woman theory she plays battledore and shuttle cock with. If Alan is a bIackguard for going off with her--and both her mother and his father have called him so-why should marriage with him improve her social standing? Besides she is as inde- pendent as he and as able to stand on her own feet. While there's mill in Lancashire she can earn her 9 bob a week, and that is enough for her.''
 A play of this sort will interest a good many persons who deride the narrow ness" of persons who do not see much in it. But it's fault as a drama of ethics lies in the fact that it is not drama of ethics at all.
 It is impossible to idealize into high mortality mere Parking with nice young men," Nobody has yet argued Mhat d male rake's morals are superior. Hin dle Wakes is no more of a problem play than the exhibition of five-legged COW. It is a business enterprise. As such it should succeed, while the author laughs in his sleeve at "barren spectators who take him, his argument and themselves seriously
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
Bishop Murray,s Protected Visit

That was pleasant news in The Age Herald that the Rt. Rev. John G. Mur- ray, bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Maryland, accompanied by Mrs. Murray, would visit Birmingham in January said Iayman who is not of the Episcopal fold.
 Bishop Murray, as rector of the Church of the Advent several years ago, was greatly esteemed by members of |all denominations. He was a tireless worker in his parish and under his rectorship the church building was completed a2d the handsome rectory adjoining it Twas built. While resi- dent here he was placed in nomination more than once, I believe, for a bishophric and after leaving Birming- ham to accept the reetorship of a large church in Baltimore he declined one or two bishoprics.
 The bishop will certainly meet with a cordial welcome when he comes to his former home"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Incoming Administration

Tt seems that Mr. Bryan is to be Woodrow Wilson's prime minister re- marked J. L. Joplain of Philadelphia.
 Some of my business friends are afraid that Bryan in the cabinet wil have a disturbing influence on the busi- mes world, but l am not inclined to take that view. I have never been q democrat and did not vote for Mir. Will son, but I believe he Is going to make us good President. Of one thing l am certain, he will be his own master and the administration will be his and not Mir. Bryan's.
 We have had a good business year an exceptionally prosperous half year and I feel that prosperity will continue. have an idea that 1913 vii be a year of great activity in all branches of busi- ness