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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-13
Co-Education at Tuscaloosa

Some think that President George H. Denny is not althogether friendly to co-education at the university, but he has not so expressed himself. His real views on that subject are not known further than that he will allow the system to have thorough trial.
 It is to be hoped that the oppor- tunities for the education of young women will not be less than they are at Harvard or Columbia and scores of colleges elsewhere throughout the country. The young women of to- day-some of them at any rate-need higher education than can be ob- tained in seminaries or public schools, and if the advantages of Tuscaloosa were taken form them many of them would have to be content with a poor preparation for work of self sustaining nature.
 Alabama should keep step with other states in this matter. What Harvard does-under a different name, it is true-the university can surely afford to do, and Dr. Denny thinks that the state should build a commodious hall for the accommoda- ton of the young women who attend the university. This certainly means that he accepts the situation, for a commodious hall means an indefinite continuance of the system of co-edu- cation at Tuscaloosa. This, it is plain, is a need of the state, and all's well that ends well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-13

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Chinese suzerainty over distant coun- tries amounts, usually, to the collection of small tribute and no interference with that countrys affairs. For a long time Korea was subject to China and every year the King of Korea set out afoot from Seoul and walked to the Chinese capital to assure the Emperor of the al- legiance of the Lord of the Ten Thou- sand Islands" and deliver the stipulated tribute. Save that Chinese regiments were sometimes sent to Korea to quell disturb ances of one sort or another. China ex- ercised little authority in the Hermit kingdom. The Chinese suzerainty over Tibet has been almost as shadowy and unsubstantial. But now that Great Brit ain has warned China not to exercise any actual sovereignty over Tibet it is plain that the shadow of authority is to give place to real authority exercised in Lon don
 The extinguishment of Tibet by Great Britain is looked upon by some of the English newspapers very unfavorably and regarded by critics of the programme as
 
 ritory of China. Great Britain will help herself to Tibet, a country bordering the frontier of India for 1000 miles or SO, and therefore of strategic importance. That there exists gentlemen's agreement between Great Britain, Russia and Japan seems to be the general impression in Flu rope, and the question is what will the other parties to the agreement take? Of course. China in her present condition cannot protect herself by armed resist ance. Perhaps the permission of Russia and Great Britain to annex Manehuria to the province that was formerly Korea will satisfy Japan. Mongolia seems to be the slice of Chinese territory wanted by Rus sa.
 The loss of these sparsely settled terrl- tories by China will be felt more keenly a generation from this time than now. China, if the republic stands, will then be in a position to give some attention to the matter of finding an outlet for her emi- grants
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-13
It Takes Money

However sure victory looks for the democratic party in November, it can not be achieved without fight. A fight cannot be made without the money to conduct it.
 The democratic party is making it's fight for the people with the single purpose of bringing the people back into control of their government, and taking from their shoulders an un- necessary and burdensome tax levied by law to enrich the monopolies fa- vored by the prohibitive tariff wall The monopolies will furnish the money to the party that has protected them and will aid that party in its efforts to continue to hold the power of tax ation. If the people are sincere in their desire to free themselves from this power, they must show lively in- terest in their own salvation by con- tributing literally real money, as well as words.
 Overconfidence and tight grip on the purse strings will endanger the chances of success, not only by handi- capping the party for the lack of funds, but by encouraging the opposi- ton to greater efforts. A tightwad policy on the part of the people is out of place when they are making an investment that promises the divi- dends that will certainly follow dem ocratic victory in November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Muuy Children


 "There are more babies in West End,
 I believe" said a man yesterday who
 lives in that thriving section of Birming-
 ham, than any other residential com
 munity of the city. West End compared
 with South Highlands by merely passing
 through the streets of the two sections will reveal some interesting facts not
 only to social workers, humanitarians and
 students of race, but to any observing
 man or woman.
 There is no need to refer to statistlcs or enter into any systematic canvass oi the homes of the two sections ana tue methods of life followed in each, to estap- fish the fact that race propagation, speak,
 ing generally, operates in adverse propor- tfon, to the wealth, in dollars and ceh's'
 of any community. Choose either or Oio
 two communities late in the afternoon ah"
 merely pass along the street. In the ultra fashionable part of South Highianos au1 tomobiles, electric limousines, gayly mar messed horses and expensive house dogs will predominate with sprlnkilhs heie and there of well dressed children ana
 an occasional baby carriage attended by nurse. In West End the baby carriages
 will predomlnate and they will be large ly attended by older brothers and sisters or the mother herself. Along Ill the evening tlfe sidewalks and streets seem literally alive with small children Of all ages and somewhere near, probably on
 the porch, can be seen the mother watch-
 ing that all goes right
 "Extremes either way result Tn eVlI'
 and such conditions exist in the larger
 northern cities, but l do not believe they
 are present in Birmingham to any ap-
 preciabie extent. Both South Highlands
 and West End and all the other suburbs are rearing set of young Americans who 90 years from now will be the bone
 and sinew of great Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-13
Judge Lane and Commission Govern
 ment

The quo warranto bill seeking to oust Judge A. O. Lane from the office of commissioner of the city of Bir- mingham, filed few days ago, is very naturally of most absorbing interest.
 When Governor O'Neal appointed Judge Lane, able lawyers considered the question of eligibility, and it was held in his case that in leaving the bench for the commission the constitu- tion would be in no wise violated. Bir- mingham's commission is divided into three parts for administrative pur- poses, and Judge Lane is at the head of the department of justice. But the question of his eligibility is soon to be tested by the court, and it would be out of order for anyone to sug- gest to the court any line of reason ing. The judge who will hear the argument is impartial and one of the ablest men on the bench, but the pub lie will be greatly concerned until the custer proceedings against Judge Lane have been finally determined.
 The commission form of govern ment is now on trial. Judge Lane has made an exceptionally good commis- sioner He is the type of man that was needed and always will be need ed. For clear-headedness, fairness and probity he stands unsurpassed. And certain it is that no high official ever had public sentiment more strongly behind him than Commissioner Lane.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-13
HIS GLORY WAIVED

Walt Mason, in the Kansas City Times.
 Did you ever hear of Elkanah Settle? He was a dramatist and poet in the time of John Dryden and for many years was generally considered the latters superior by many kilometers. Dryden of course had temporary popularity; that much was admitted by the proletariat: but when it comes to candidates for immortality, Settle was at the head of the procession all covered with bunting and laurel wreaths This opinion was held, not only by the swinish multitude, but by the high brows of the period. Fifty years later El- Eanah's reputation was as dead as !. Caesars off steer, and Dryden was ac- cepted as one of the brightest stars in Englands literary crown. There have been scores of similar instances, all tend ing to show how valueless is the contem- porary judgment on the matter of immor- tallty. Nowadays. as men have done in all ages. we sit in judgment on living authors, and wisely separate the sheep from the goats and a few years later the sheep will prove to be goats and the goats will turn out to be sheep A hundred years hence the Sweet Singer of Mich igan may be classed with Sappho.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-13
EoURTH OF JULY IN 1912

From inc Journal of the American Med-
 ical Association.
 Probably in no previous year in the los+ half ar three quarters of century has the celebration of the Fourth or Jplv been so quiet, so orderly or so u,orthv of the dignity of great na- .,o, os if was in this year of our Lord. 1912. Irresponsible hoodiuihs with their giant firecrackers' their blank cartridge pistols and their recN- loco sbooting of firearms instead or De- ,,r tolerated. in our large cities were rromntlv arrested and fined In most instances This year, instead oi ."o usual pandemonium of ear-spli''i"s and nerve-wrecking noise, there was order. with quiet, genuine ehJosineii'
 ,.,,roation. Instead of the former toatbanish methods of celebrauoh' tbere were flag drills, band coheei '9' x,,,ics children's parades, pageah's III
 ,-,,,,h bistoric events were represented
 pr;gbt innocent children, instead oe hoinp tortured, blinded, mutliateu and burned to death as in former year D were this year preserved TOT 'heir Ca ni,ies and the world, save In Ie"
 ,v.t,nces Instead of 5623 persons ,,s,oa the number reported by the Iournal of the American Medlcal Asso- ciotion only few years ago-there wave only sss; and instead of 3oo aaotbs including 406 who were sup- tactea to the agonizing tortures Of loclsiaw. as reported by the Journal III eo3. there were only Al killed, lncluu- inc six tetanus victims. Instead or nav inc a continuous struggle of from z4 10 70 hours against disastrous fires caused hv the discharge of fireworks this year tbe fire departments of our large cities, with few exceptions, were practfcal- ly idle.
 The Journals statistics have so thor oughly aroused public sentiment that the prohibition of fireworks and noise and the adoption of safe and sane methods of celebrating the Fourth Of July are being generally demanded. A new era in our national life has begun wherein it is recognized that there must be that happy medium or law land regulation which will place check on individual selfshness and avarice in the interests of the people as a whole. There is still much to De done, in connection with the celeora- tion of our Independence Day. total of Al killed. including six little children who died by lockjaw, the most agoniz- ling death known to modern times, ana 947 were blinded, bereft of arms, legs or hands or otherwise mutilated, many for life, still presents too serious pie ture to permit cessation of activity. Even though the totals are smaller than in previous years, the picture or 41 bright, active, sweet-faced children who have lost their lives and who but sor the criminal negligence of city au-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-13

dim Gothic chapel of the oratory there l was but one person, a young woinan' kneeling alone. Presently other womeh' apparently four domestics, entered. The most eloquent learned Catholic in the Anglo-saxon world had for his audience that morning five believers, one member of the English church, and TWO iree- thinkers The altar at which ne ofielated was in corner. and he came siowiy down a stairway behind it. There was only one candle. that being it to en- able him to read
 'The fact is that well read Protestants as well as Catholics, learned and other wise know mass is said always with al least two candles lighted. MT. Conway must have seen two candles, but in wflt-
 ing his autobiography some years latef' he did not remember and spoke of only one candle. The lights on the altar are not to enable the ceebrant to read, but are there because they are spiritually symbolical The rubric calls for two ean- dles and every priest in every part or the world has two candles lighted when he stands at the altar to say low mass. MT. Conway showed his ignorance of Catholic practice again which is rather surprising in man of his general culture and man of his large reading, when he spoke as 1T the aged ecclesiastic might have ie1t the celebration to a subordinate In the oratory at Birmingham were many priests, and each of them said mass every day, the first one probably beginning at or o'clock in the morning. Saying mass is the greatest privilege that any ecclesiastic has, whether It be parish priest, bishop, cardinal or Pope.
 "Conway's slips recall a criticism that he made of George Eliot some 30 or 4O years ago in one of his letters to the Cincinnati Commercial. He pointed out how surprising 1t was that great wom- an like George Eliot was not more care ful with her facts. He instanced her description in Adam Bede of the making of a door. She spoke of the panels De. ing put on after the door Was made' and Conway said, in substance, or mace it appear, that any school boy knew bet ter; that the panel was a part of the door, and was therefore in the making of a door, Now, I happen to remember
 in my boyhood talking with old carpen- ters and joiners who told how doors used to be made. They were plain and without any ornamentation when. pul together, and afterwards the panels were put on them. So George Eliot was right and MT. Conway wrong
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-13
Sims Made by Prominent Men

We are sometimes struck with the err
 TOTS made by prominent men in descrio- ing something of particular interest, and
 | noticed a slip of this kind in reading chapter in the late Moncure D. Con-
 ways autobiography, in which the dis
 tingushed man of letters tells of his at- tendance at mass in the oratory chapel at Birmingham, England' said a travelled layman.
 Conway was of a prominent Virginia family and was born in Stafford county,
 b miles from Falmouth. He was brought
 up Methodist Being precocious in his classical studies, he was barely l5 yeas
 of age when ae found himself in the soph- omore class at Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa He graduated and became Meth odist preacher before he was 20. Dick inson college had an able facdlty and Conway had better educational oppor- tunities than Methodist boys of his time usually enjoyed. When still quite young he went to Harvard and finished a seminary course there. He studied the
 ology under Unitarian instructors. Be-
 fore he was 9 he was a Unitarian min
 ister. He was pastor of Unitarian church in Cincinnati four or live years, and then went to London and settled,
 where he lived the greater part of his long life He developed into q radical free thinker and in London was at the head of free thinking congregation which he had brought together. AL though he rather prided himself on being a heretic he was on friendly terms vita representative men of all religious creeds. He usually spoke in friendly way of his former Methodist associates: was on l friendly terms with Anglican clersymen and while he often spoke of dogma. he 1 showed personal fondness for many men | who held firmly to Christian orthodoxy. 1 Few men in London were in closer touch with literary stars than Conway. l men, l tion these facts to show how men Of the
 world are sometimes ignorant about mat | ters with which the general public is | familiar.
 "on page iie of volume 1 of Conway < | autobiography we read: Being on visit
 in Birmingham, I went two 9liles before 1 : on A morning of sleet and rain to attend mass, through a desire to lock
 upon the face of Father Newman My
 wife and another lady went with me, though we exnected that the aged father might. on such bitter morning, leave
 1he celebration to a subordinate. In t4e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-13
GOOD-BY

By Ralph Waldo Emerson. Goodby, proud world. I'm going home;
 Thou art not my friend, and I'm not
 thine.
 Long through thy weary crowds roam;
 A river ark on the ocean brine, Long I've been toss'd like the driven
 foam,
 But now, proud world, I'm going home. Goodby to fiatterys fawning face, To grandeur, with his wise grimace, To upstart wealth's averted eye, To supple office, low and high, To crowded halls. to court and street, To frozen hearts and hasting feet, To those who go and those who come Goodby, proud world, I'm going home. I am going to my own hearthstone, Bosom'd in yon green hills alone A secret nook in a pleasant land. Whose groves the frolic fairies plann Where arches green, the liveong day I Echo the blackbird's roundelay, And vulgar feet have never trod-- G spot that is sacred to thought and
 God.
 Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home, tread on the pride of Greece and Rome, And when 1 am stretch'd beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan; For what are they all. in their high con, ceit, Fl When man in the bush with God may
 meet? s...
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-13

From the Washington Post.
 KF future experiments confirm the suc-
 cess achieved on Monday at the A Brooklyn Navy hospital when hve patients were put under the influence ol ether by an improved process, there VIII be every reason to say that one of the ,,ost notable discoveries has been made since ether was first administered by Crawford w. Long more than do years ago.
 The veriest Iayman is familiar with the fact that the nauseating action Of ether as at nresent administered is one of its most serious disadvantages, and that Ill many cases the difficulty of anesthetizing the natient is the most serious feature or an onoration For four months pr. J. T. cwathnev. in company with Dr. w. c. v7o1sev both of New York. has been al work on the principle that the odor of the essence of orange Is 10 times stronger than that of ether, by actual test by the use of an apparatus invented by Dr. cwathney the olfactory cavities or the na+ient are thoroughly filled with Yapor- ized essence of orange, which IS graduahy r,ixed with ether until unconsciousness results. Practically during the entire time the predominating odor IS that or orange and not of ether. The patient a,.r,ovs none of those tendencies to strug- ole against the stupefying fumes whlch
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-13
"SPARkING"
rom the Joliet Herald,

From the Joliet Herald. Among the complaints of a Cleveland man who has sued for divorce is stated
 the grievance that his stepdauehters per sisted in having young men stay late al night. Remonstrances proving of nc avail, he punished them; whereupon his wife. who approved their conduct, bun- dled up her belongings and, taking her
 daughters left him forlorn. Served him right! The man who sets himself counter to such thoroughly established institution as ..sparking" puts himself in the atti- tude of the bull that planted itself before
 the locomotive, and he must expect pain full results.
 For "sparking' is here to stay. But for it, life would become at a cer- tain age not worth living and race suicide would become indeed matter of serious apprehension.
 How foolish in us ever to forget!
 What weakness in us ever to let the
 n,ists of age obscure our memories of ex- neriences so sweet and sacred! Into every nedilny 'iAN NHtN rerience must come as the dearest delight of existence, and the most fruitful oi good. not to the individual alone, but to civilization.
 The man whose life was never mellowed bv a midnight kiss stolen from not too unwilling lips can not ripen at the core. The throbbing thing where his heart ore,ht to he is only a pump.
 His mind and his emotions are soured and shrunken; as is a shaded melon that rever knew the quickenng thrill of the sunshine
 We who have grown old and heart
 hardened may sheer at it now and think that these young hearts should be cal loused as old ones are; but time was with us when we looked forward through the seven days to Sunday night as the golden time of the week.
 And our fathers did it. And our grand
 fathers. And our great grandfathers.
 If is an ancient human custom that did not originate with our own youth, nor
 fade with it.
 Our children do it in spite of our frowns' And our grandchildren will. And oui great grandchildren. Generations come and go, but spark ing remains
 The delicious nights when the 1ire burned low, and the lamp. too, hold hal lowed place in the memory of every IT, pened heart.
 The low fire and low light cast a sweet
 softened glow that lasts all the way to the grave-yes. lights up beyond It.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-13
A PROsPERO OF THE AIR

From the New York World.
 Tn an age of electrical and chemical wonders there are few more far-reaching in importance than that so graphically described by Dr. Samuel Eyde of Chris ,iania. Norway, in his lecture before the International Congress of Applied Chem- istrv in the American Museum of Nat ural History. The story he told IS one that a quarter of a century ago would have been ranked among those of the Thousand and One Nights.
 It was not by the waving of a magician's s wand that this Prospero of the ar sum moned the clements to aid him in the cre- ation of mighty industry in the horos of rugged Norway. Neither was it merely bv application of well known facts Tn chemistry and electrical engineering uiat be was able to create an industry whose four factories have capacity or zo'ovo horse power and send out yearly so'No tons of nitrate of lime for use as 1erti- ,zers. 10000 tons of nitrate of ammonia for explosives, 1O,0 tons of nitrate of soda, ord many thousands of tons of other com- hounds. He made use, indeed, of known facts. but he never paid attention to what the great authorities said. It was not experience but the lack of experience which created the industry"
 Like every inventor and thinker. Dr. Evde and his assistants followed the clues from the known to tine unknown and fol- lowed them fearlessly. He surrounded himself with young men who had the conviction to go ahead in spite of every obstacle" and their success has added a new industry to the world. For not only are the Norwegian factories now supply ing fertilizers upon which grain crops in part depend, but the ingredients Tor ex- nlosives for the armies of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-13
MAKING ANTIQUES FOR TOURISTS

From the New Orleans Picayune.
 The relic hunter is still abroad in the land, and his desire for the unique is fully met by several factories in this and other countries whose business is to supp ply the demand of those who will not be satisfied until they get it.' Toma- hawks by the thousands are sent to In- dian reservations in the west, where they are sold to tourists, especially to foreign tourists.
 The manufactured article is said to look more archaic than the tomahawk made by hand. There is relic factory at Valley Forge that runs night and day at this season turning out in a continuous stream broken swords and rusty gum stocks. pepperbox pistols, corroded bui- let's, blood stained knee brooches, shot riddled haversacks and other relics dear to the tourists heart.