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ther provision Is undoubtedly necessary. Only by such provision can it be demon strated that tuberculosis. when it occurs in the negro race, will yield to early treat ment. Certainly there can be no two opinions about the necessity of the purest possible air and the most cheerful sur roundings in curable cases. Because of the exceeding difficulty of always know ing before hand whether a given case is curable or not, perhaps the most just and appropriate thing is to erect all sana- toria outside the city. What I wish to impress upon my readers is the urgent necessity at this time, with the least possible delay, of providing at public ex- pense places of residence for advanced cases, both white and negro. The asso- cation up to the present has been re- ceiving for some time a grant from the county board of revenue intended to cover the cost of caring for 16 indigent persons. Because of the need of protecting the we'll it has been impossible for these always to be chosen from among the curable cases presented and the association has done very much more than caring for 16. At the present time there are 25 on the list as having been treated during the month of August without charge. Very cheering results have been achieved in the incipient cases. II would perhaps be pos sible for the association for an indefinite time to carry on work dealing with in- cpients, but 1t is not possible, with the very small accommodations provided at the present site of the camp, for the as sociaton to helpfully do battle with the advanced cases. They are altogether too numerous.
 w ehave then the following condition First, the association, anxious 10 enlarge it's provisions so as to cover incipient cases whether indigent or not. These per sons will be carefully tended and apund- antly fed under the best possible hygienic conditions, and 1t is safe to say, on the basis of past experience. that 75 per cent of them can be made well here fin Ala bsm say that this is proven by last
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connection with gubernatorial honors. This was notably true in the two con Nentions for the nomination of a gov ernor in the years 1870 and 1872,
 In 1870 he represented Henry coun- tS in the state legislature where he became a distinguished leader His service as a legislator brought him still more prominently before the pub lie. He was a member of the consti- tutional convention in 1875 and from 1881 to 1894 he served his district, the Third Alabama, in the national Con sress. His long and useful career in Congress gave him an influence second 10 that of none other of the Alabama delegation. He was serving In Con gress when he was chosen governor of the state in 1895.
 Shortly after this came the mono tary slogan of the free coinage of sil yer at the Is to 1 ratio. of which William Jennings Bryan was the apostle, and Governor Oates was with
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the minority or eminent Alabamians who resisted the doctrine. in conse- quence of which he paid the penalty of defeat at the polls for the national senatorship in a subsequent election.
 When the Spanish American war be- gan in 1898 Governor oates was com missioned a brigader general and served throughout the 9S days of that sharp and decisive contest.
 He was again chosen a member of the convention which revised the state con stitution, in which body his services were of immense value to Alabama His clos ing years were spent in the city of Mont gomery, where he continued to practice law till compelled by failure of vison to surrender 1t. He died at an advanced age.
 Reviewing a sketch SO brief and im- perfect and one altogether unworthy ot his long career of usefulness. we are en- abled to glean sufficient to learn that
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corner in the city. telling his wife he tended buying some clothes over the way"
 For the first five minutes Mrs. Hopkins sat counting the stories of the tall build ings thereabout. She was startled by voices near. Bringing her gaze down. she was as- founded by the sight that greeted her at least POO persons gazing at the out fit and yelling:
 "Whered you come from" and "Where'd you get it?'
 Policemen failed to disperse the crowds and autos lined mp. Mrs. Hopkins was frightened and began crying and calling for Joel. When Mr. Hopkins appeared he was in dignant and cried out; What's the matter, honey? What are l they don' to ye?' He started after the nearest torment ors, who fled before tn sturdy farmer. Chasing the onlookers. he jumped into the buggy and kissing his wife. start ed to drive away. Says the Tribune: When the Hopkinses finally got sep arated from the crowd and drove on down State street the yelling continued The crowd followed them for blocks until policemen interfered" It Is not pretty picture. But characteristic of the city Normally the spirit of the city is that of the uncaring. Like nature, 1t is care ful of the type. but careless of the in dividual. But Stir the spirit of the city by some face into a laugh or a sneer-the laugh Iof the callous, the sheer of superiority The city regards the rural people as narrow. whereas the spirit of the city lis not only provincial but inhospitable
 And more:
 At bottom the mockery of this Chi Icago mob was mixed with unwho1e- some scorn of honest poverty and worthy thrift
 Which is a dangerous tendenicy. 
 
 of the prisoner of the Bastille, who did not want to leave his prison.
 He had lived in his eel, for many years, and when the people of Paris stormed and tore down the hateful ramparts the poor, trembling prisoner begged to be permitted to remain and was only removed by force.
 It was his home
 He knew no other, and though it was cramped and dark and noisome. he had grown used to 1t. and through long asso- citation it's walls had grown dear to him.
 Some such feeling must have possessed Joseph H. Edmondson, who has been for some time voluntary prisoner in the Ne braska penitentiary.
 Although at liberty to return to the world under an unconditional pardon. he
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study of the disease requires that we grade the cases, though the method of grading will perhaps never be perfectly trustworthy. Moderately advanced cases have been greatly benefited and even cured, using that word with necessary caution But those suffering from the incipient stages should be placed where they can be encouraged to get well, but not where they will be discouraged by contact with persons in an advanced con- dtion Much more should the advanced cases be placed where they cannot infect the healthy.
 Now let us consider the fact of the wide distribution of the disease by means of the very large number of the advanced cases all through this district. There is no day in the week in which I do not learn of some one or two more of these hopeless cases, exposing to infection their wives, children, husbands, brothers and sisters, or else living in boarding houses where other persons are exposed. Moth ing short of a masterly survey of the whole district will enable us to make a perfect map of the disease in Jefferson county But 1t is safe to say that there are many hundreds, both white and ne gro, for whom we have no help. and the great outstanding problem is what to do with these advanced cases.
 When the camp on Red mountain was
 initiated we entered that work purely for the purpose of educating the community, particularly by relieving the incipients, but we have constantly ,been compelled, by the necessity of preventing indlgent persons, or the semi-indigent from spreading the disease, to accept advanced cases, knowing that there was no future for them but succumbing to the disease. At no time in the history of the camp have we been able to free ourselves of the advanced and hopeless cases. On the other hand the few advanced that we have been able to deal with bear no re- lation at all to the vast numbers who ought to be in a sanatorium.
 Every community that has been awak-
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what Judge Lindsay calls the Jungle end the Beast. Innocent sufferers have been made to suffer more because they were pawns on chessboard whose players
 were somewhere out of sight. Alabama
 seeks a future where this will be impos- sible, and the unborn win pleas us of to- day if we can so wisely foresee the meth ods of safety as to establish houses ot mercy unassailable by critic or muck raker or political schooner.
 3, It must be borne In mind that the fight for health requires the co-operation
 of the moderately we'll ofY, as weIl as tho
 indigent-of families well as tndivld.
 uals. We shall succeed only in propor-
 ton as we obtain the confidence of suffer-
 CTS and their families, enable them to pay
 the whole or part of the expense involved.
 and in general sustain tho fabric of a deii-
 cate self-respect and pride of courage | The disease Is of the mind as well as of
 the body, and the mind must be treated , by atmosphere.
 1. Separate provision. as already men-
 tioned. for incpients and others is of ths first importance, and with this such pro- vision for the negro as will bring him with confidence out of his shack into the place of wholesome air and healing, whero the wings of hope may shelter him. This
 negro problem is not going 10 be met by
 any rough and ready method of compul-
 sion. But that is another story.
 D. The programme, which I here call conservative. will therefore be costly one. If the board of revenue Is daring to undertake it at this time they should be
 sustained by the plaudits of the people, and the cost should be compared with the greater cost of not undertaking 1t. h. deed, very great daring is required to go
 on as we are, mourning the indignation
 of eternal love and justice by our stu plditY and our tardiness and our neglect, Only against that indignation we can
 raise the simple plea that we have been suddenly confronted with the problems of vast population before we vera equipped with either the experience ot l the means for solving them.
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for a full half century Governor Oates was engaged in contributing to ths growth and development Of the state. The stations filled by him with ability 50 signal and extending through TO mary years attest hls usefulness as valuable citizen of Alarama. As a lawyer of dis tinetion, a soldier AS courageous as any son of Alabama, a delegate in moiding the fundamental law Of the common. wealth, a statesman whose qualities wers signally demonstrated in the halls of Con gress and in the gubernatorial chair. there is due him the worthiest praise. Solid, rather than brilliant. rugged rather than polished. useful rather than ornate, ard substantial without the alloy of artificial ity. there were embodied In Governor Oates elements of genuine greatness. fin nothing mediocre he rendered a permanent service to Alabama and won't to his gave as one of the states most distinguished public servants
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TN what write today I am going to
 frankly discuss the facts that face J our community in it's tremendous struggle against tuberculosis. I am not going to talk officially, and do not wish to make others responsible for my views, but these facts have been gathered by careful study of the whole campaign, especially careful in ascertaining the local facts l have all along been willing to learn by experience and am persuaded that in no essential particular will other students challenge my conclusions. Per haps a word should be said, however. by way of apology, for once more bringing this matter before The Age-Herald read CTS on a Sunday morning. The only ex- cuse is the greatness of the work and It's education improves
 This fact may be put down as of first class signihcance A very large propor ton of all tuberculosis affects the workers and those who dwell in small houses, generally overcrowded The overcrowded house is one in which the bedroom in- vades the living room, and in which cook ing and eating are done in the same at mosphere as sleeping. Another prime fact is that chronic or advanced cases are those from which the greatest danger proceeds. For while It Is true that the incipient case Is dangerous, 1t is evil dent that the more aggravated the dis ease, so much more the risk there is that 1t will infect others. Taking these two principles into consideration. it becomes perfectly clear that the community should protect the well and the most curable cases from the cases that are already be- yond remedy. These unfortunate persons ought to be surrounded with neutral zone across which their infection can not travel. Because they are in hope less condition, their continued sickness and certain death ought not to be brought into touch with the incipient cases, which may be cured. I mean by this that the
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4 TOGETHER worthy of enrolment
 A among the great men of Alabama 4 x is the name of Gov. William C. Oates His service to the state for many years was varied and loyal He was crowned with honors by his countrymen and was altogether worthy. Reared to manhood with only ordinary educational advantages, he was for many years rec ognized as one of the foremost citizens of the state. He was man or solid qualities without the glint of the pie turesuue or the foil of the superficial. Honesty was his purpose in life. and in view of this quality his faults were as transparent as were his merits. In no cause or issue was there a misappre- hension of his position If in some re- spects he was rugged, it was due to the fact that he did not propose to pose for that which he was not. He had his enc
 mics. but they were no more cordial in
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MEN WHO HAVE MADE Al

eating in the rural village of Abbevile the seat of justice of Henry county. he rose to be the leading lawyer of south east Alabama, and gradually came to be recognized as one of the best lawyers ot the state. His matter-of-fact manner and sturdy honesty won him wide cir cle of confidence. and men would ride on horseback long distances to engage his professional service.
 The rural press was not so abundant at that early day as 1t has since be- come, and because of a lack of repre- sentation in that then inaccessible re- gion he edited at newspaper at Abbe- vile He was engaged in the combined functions of editing country journal and practicing law when the storm of war broke over the land in 1861. Raising a company of volunteers. he became the captain, and was attached to the Eff teenth Alabama regiment of infantry. He led his command into q battles and be- came conspicuous for his courage on the
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PROSTITUTION-By A. B. BeaIIe

that is making for brotherhood. has won to this point without political prostitution. The party has been con slstent in its championing of the op- pressed tho wage winners. the creators of wealth. It's personnel has not been one whit angelic. democracy cannot be charged with that. We are all earth-men, clayey. grimed at heart republican, democrat socialist-pretty much the same under the skin. We are grimed at heart. selfish, I may say. with mania for putting our best foot forward. even If in the process We push aside or crush our neighbours foot. This has been the habit Of the respectable overmen-those who have arrived and those who would push not only thelr neighbor aside In the scramble for
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thedral. The horses kicked away much of the painting.
 The story of Da Vnci's model of Jesus and Judas is an old one and Illustrates a spiritual truth that k always new.
 After painting the II apostles each rep- resenting a type, he found mooel for the face of Jesus in a young singer of the choir.
 One face remained 10 be painted d-that of Judas.
 Da Vincl made search Of many months for model that would express the de- pravity of the betrayer He haunted the Jails and hunted the slums fo- face that vas mean and base enough.
 Finally in prison cell he found his model. The face was of d man, sun young. but marred by vice and st3mpe1 with crafty cunning.
 Now
 Here is the point of the story: When the picture was completed the artls, learned that the man who had posed aa Judas and the one used the model for the Christ were the same man.
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field He received his commission as colonel in 1863, and received a wound al Browns Ferry. on the Tennessee river near the close of that year, At Fussells s Mills. near Petersburg. Va, he sustained the loss of his right arm, but after re- covering from the wound he resumed the comand of his regiment, which command he retained until the close of the war.
 Returning to Abbeville after his capit ulation, Col. oates again took up his practice and came to be esteemed one of the leading citizens of the state In all important movements in the state he was connected and his prae- tice meanwhile became immense. so that Colonel Oates came to be regard ed not only as one of the most sue cessful and leading lawyers of the s te, but one of the most prosperous. e many ways his name was promi- nently known throughout the state, and number of times mentioned In
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1 preferred to keep his cell and receive nc favors.
 | Edmondson was prominent man at one time, a member of the legislature and also county attorney. He was tried for em- | Lezzlement and sent to state prison. | Influential friends, who claimed Edmond
 son was a victim of circumstances. set
 out to get him pardon. The pardon
 board unanimously urged the governor tc grant a fun pardon, which he did.
 The warden carried the news to Ed
 mondson. expecting to witness the evi-
 dence of great joy. To his surprise the
 prisoner showed no desire to go away.
 This place is not so bad he said | e1'n just stay awhile ' The warden offered him the privilege
 of coming and going as he desired and special sleeping accommodations, but he declined
 My cell is all right; I'll stay there, T | he replied
 | Edmondson explained that the prison life had given him new point of view of many matters and he would stay in his cell until he had a chance to think things out.
 Queer?
 IL would seem so. And yet one can understand the prisoners desire. He had learned a lesson and did not care to learn it over He wanted to be sure of him | self.
 | Besides. whatever disgrace attached to l his convict life had already been suffered
 lie wanted the benefit of chance to think how he should reform his life and
 rehablitate himself among his fellows. | It Is undoubtedly much better to do
 ones thinking in the first place outside
 the pententiary. but it Is better to do 1t 1 there rather than not at all.
 "A pound Of pluck is worth ton of luck" runs the adage. | I have just read the story of a plucky woman, widow, the mother of four years of age.
 | By saving her meager wages earned in cotton mill. supplemented by the wages of the two eldest boys. she was able to buy eighty acres of good farming land in Cumberland county, North Carolina. She could do better she believed, by taking her brood of boys to the country. The sequel?
 She has undergone hardship and has l worked cruelty hard. but she and the boys have had excellent health. plenty to eat and the promise of success. Last fall with no other help than the boys and an old mule. she picked twen- ty-two bales of cotton, each weighing 800 pounds.
 Perhaps you do not realize how much hard. back breaking labor is required to plant. cultivate and harvest twenty-seven acres of cotton.
 You do know. perhaps. that twenty two bales of cotton are worth in the neigh borhood of s1ooo. Besides the cash realized from the cot ton. which money will buy many com
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did not believe in the power of
 right thinking minority to
 change wrong thinking majority to it's own mind. I might hold with Nietzsche that mankind Is an ass. and not god. If l thought that democracy was not perfectly able to take care of itself al the polls this autumn and make signal step toward political hygienics. I would seriously contem- plate shipping on an early tle-boat or tramp steamer for Europe (Surely in Britain or the Kaiser's country there is considerable social stir, and the wrl- ter would find friends thereo l would not bedevil you from Sunday to sunday if 1 did not think you were better than you thought I would not at-
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tempt to prod you into wakefulness If I did not believe that. fully awakened, you will sense your possibllities-sense your power to enjoy the good days that lie ahead for the republic, tPerhaps you get the certain drift of this. l hardly know what I mean myself1
 But 1t is clear that We are gradually discovering that the suffrage of man Cor the suffrage of woman, for that matter. in the liberal states where the girls are reckoned as civilians IS well as bearers of children) is really a thing to be desired. It is clear, too. that while your vote may still be purchased with pledges of splendid social service is still given gladly and childishly for love of the mere honeyed words of a leader, 1t is more thoughtfully cast than
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forts, she raised 800 bushels of corn. vege- tables for winter use and sufficient for age for two mules and two cows for one year
 This besides an excellent garden.
 Not much, you say. should you hap pen to own a big western farm where you count your corn by the number of thousands of bushels. but to this family the success of their first year represents much.
 It represents the difference between a hand to mouth existence In q factory town and the vitating influences that of- sweet country air. wholesome surround ings and prosperity on the other. Under the tutelage of this wise moth CT her boys are likely to grow into sturdy men and good citizens and if they are the right sort they will always hold their brave mother in the highest honor. Back to the Iand''
 There is no more heartening cry. Thousands of boys growing up in half idleness because of the lack of oppor- tunity In the towns and whose charac- ters deteriorate because or this lack need to go to the farm.
 There are room and health for the boys and hope for the nation in the wide spaces of the fields.
 Which are vou-an optimist, pessimist or a meliofist?
 The optimist. believes in the ultimate outcome of good Which is reason able and satisfying belief. But
 Many optimists go further and try to make themselves and their fellows be- lieve that all is right with the world. This sort of optimist asks you to smile because there is nothing anywhere to be miserable about.
 Which is mere soothing syrup.
 And the pesslmist? The pessimist sees only the seamy side He refuses to smile at all He is like the old woman who al- ways felt bad when she felt good for everything is going 10 the eternal bow VOWS.
 Now
 There is sort of honest pessimism that is more or less worthy of praise. It Is the pessimism that is deeply con- cerned about the real evil that is in the world and cries out against 1t. He who notes the wrong conditions and tries to wake up his fellows to realization of these conditions is-if I may use the term-a good kind of pessimist.
 However,
 As between the optimist who bids you smile and smile, regardless of what may be- and the pessimist who scowls and scolds because all things are bad, what view shall we take?
 Why not be a meliorist?
 The meliorist says to the optrnist. All things are not good He says to the pessimist "All things are not bad
 Says the meliorist: Things are good bad and indifferent. Let us not deceive ourselves Let us face things AS they