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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16
HEART TO HEART TALKS-By James A. Edgerton

| And saw within the moonlight in his
room,
Making IL rich and like a lily in bloom,
An angel writing in a book of gold
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem
bold,
And to the presence in the room he said,
What wrtest thou?" The vision raised
its head
And, with a look made Of all sweet ac-
cord
Answered "The names OF those who love
the Lord"
"And is mine one?" said Abou. NAY,
not so,'
Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low
But cheerily still. and said II pray thee
Write me as one that loves his fellow
men,"
The angel wrote and vanished. The next
night
1t came again, with great Weakening
tight,
And showed the names whom love of God
had blessed
And. 10. Ben Adhem's name led all the
rest! Leigh Hunt.
have found one of the tribe of Abou
ben Adhem. He is a farmer In western
Kansas. His name is Peter Schoheld.
IHl5 Nlillti SlOtk DidEut idBth III
Peters neighhorhood. 1t was said to be
the worst disaster In that part of the
state since the grasshopper scourge. Some
of the farmers lost all their horses and
were too poor to buy others.
One morning was found tackled on the
door Of the schoolhouse near Peter Seho-
fields home this notice signed by his
name:
"The Lord has spared my stock. My
horses have gone through the epidemic
without loss, and ] have 20 head to loan
to my less fortunate nelghbors without
charge for plowing. Those who need are
welcome to them"
A simple thing, you say. Yes, that is
the beauty Of IT, Just simple act OF
Kindness, but the Kingdom or heaven Is
made up of such.
If Peter Schofield has been of the same
kidney as some OF the modern trusts he
would have taken advantage of his mo-
nopoly on horses and have charged about
three prices in hiring them out to his
neighbors.
III he had been Of the breed of those
who play to the grandstand and hire a
press agent TO exploit their virtues he
would have sent the notice to all tine
newspapers. accompanied by his picture
and a sketch of his life.
He did neither. 1t was quite by accident
that the newspapers learned of the incl
dent.
The Lord has been good TO him. and
Peter had gratitude. lie could not repay
the Lord so passed the kindness on to his
needy neighbors.
Remember this when you make UP your
list of those who love the Lord, and do
not forget that of Peter Schoheld.
But write him down. like Abou ben Ad-
hem. as one who loved his fellow men.
Paint and powder act like so much
dlrt-Dr S. J. crumbine, dean OF School
of Medicine. University of Kansas.
The only way to improve on nature is
TO stimulate nature TO improve on her
self.
Luther Burbank has learned this secret,
as has every successful gardener, hortt-
euitdfist breeder and farmer. =
The same laws apply to the human
world.
The way to be beautiful OF face and
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is always lowering on the verge of sue
cess. When women doctors and teach
ers demand a right 10 vote for the
Skuptchina, they were backed by many
eminent men, including Prime Minister
Pashitch. They lost by only six votes
Servian social democrats support IL
theory womens suffrage, but they do
not support it in practice on the ground
that the suffrage organization is un-
friendly to them. For practical WORK
the suffragists have to rely on NJ. yul-
witsch, chief of the young social party
and now minister of education. Vul-
witsch works hard for the cause, and
he has promised to open several new
fields for women's activity in teaching
The present minister of the interior
also backs womens rights. Other min
listers are unfriendly. The, former war
Minister Pavlowitsch proposed TO em-
ploy women sopyist clerks in the war
office. HIS project caused an open re-
volt among the men.
real backer Of the Servian suffra-
gists Is Prince Arsene Karageorge-
Witch. brother of King Peter. Frivolous
brave. hardup Arsene has dearly loved
many women in his day. and he shows
them his gratitude by wishing them
which is seldom--he gives small sums
to the suffragist organization. He Is
a close friend of one o the most prom
nent suffragist leaders, Madame Marie
Gruyitsch. the half French widow of an
agriculturist of Nisch Madame Gruy-
itscll is a remarkably handsome woman
When her husband died in 1906, she
gave half his property TO the woman's
suffrage league. She is now busy or
ganizing a national demand for votes
which is to be based on what women
have done and suffered during the
war Forty-two Servian women, she
says, have taken part as soldiers. and
two were killed.
Thus do Bulgaria and Servia progress.
From Montenegro and Albania come no
echo of this emancipation movement
But il is expected that the brave Mon
tenegrin will show his thanl<fulness
for his wife's services during the war
by not whacking her so hard as is now
the custom, and that the Albanian will
yoke his wife less roughly to the plow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16
SUFFRAGE IN SERVlA-By Xavier Holden

q oFIA. February 15.-(Special)---
Fresh war is threatened in the
~ untranquil Balkans. Not be-
cause peace negotiations are unsatis-
factory. because Ferdinand has not
got enough; because Servia is not to
keep Albania or because some pea4fe
are sore about Salonica. The cause OF
trouble is the resnrgent suffra gefte.
The resurgent suffragette has not yet
got 10 the stage of selling the coat
tails Of King Ferdinand or stoning
King Peters konak, as have her sisters
in other lands But she is active and
irritated; and the Terrible Turk him
self has aroused no worse political pas
sion than her ultimatum. we women
must have votes"
This passion has overtaken Bulgaria,
and also progressive Servia. where
women are already farther ahead in the
professions than they are in Germany
or France. The war has given women
their chance and they are not neglect
ing it. For the past few weeks Madame
Vasilisa Petroff. wife of a PhillippappO-
MS lawyer has been running a very
strong suffragette agitation. The agita-
ton feeds mainly on the great services
rendered during the war by Womeii
nurses. uniform makers and even SOL
diers. But the greatest thing we are
DOING she says, sis becoming widows.
Every Bulgarian woman who has sent
her husband TO die on the battlefield is a
fresh argument why women should
have votes"
Woman's suffrage Is an old cause In
Bulgaria. Before the war the Women's
Emancipation union had 100 members
and it lately became affiliated to the
International suffrage movement. The
war brought 400 fresh members. The
Bulgarian man regards the movement
with suspicion. OF the political parties
the only sympathizers are the radicals
and the democrats, neither of which
counts for much. During the 3 years
fighting the women have gained only
one victory. That is the right to vote
for the elections of the schools manage
ment committees. The right to sit as
members of the committees has been
refused.
Madame Petroff is preparing a petit
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What the Trouble Was

From the New York Sun.
when started in at my desk this
morning" said a man who writes things
for a living, II found right away that
the work was dragging. | had job all
marked out In my mind and ready to
begin ON, but my ideas didn't flow: realty
they only tclxled, and at that haltingly,
and over that / wondered mildly.
II had enjoyed my breakfast as usual.
and had looked over the paper, smoking
the while my usual stogie. and ought to
be lit and ready, but somehow I wasn't:
and so / sat back for a moment and won
dered
"And then II struck me that there was
something wrong IN the room. somehow It
seemed oppressive and quiet, still, very
STILL There was something wrong here.
surely. and then all of sudden 1t struck
me; and when / looked up, sure enough
the clock had stopped
1T Is curious about people and clocks
Some people can't work with a clock i'll
the room; | couldn't work without one
And II is just the same about clocks In
sleeping rooms; some folks can't bear
them there; | couldn't go 10 sleep without
one
'And I must have a clock in the room
in which ] work. IL is a friendly thing TO
me, and | have an idea that it vitalizes
the air, gives il life. When | am at work
/ never hear it strike and mover hear
it ticking; but II the clock should stopv'
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ton to Queen Eleonora. The petition
begins By reciting words used by King
Ferdinand to members of the English
Red Cross Mission. MY wife, said
the incautious Ferdinand, rs worth
10000 soldiers" II one woman is
worth 10000 soldiers. argues the Iogi-
cal petition. then one woman might
have at least the same political power
as one soldier has. The petition asks
Queen Eleonora to use her influence
in pushing the women's emancipation
movement thereby Showing the world
that both halves OF the Bulgarian ma
ton are worthy Of freedom
BY the occupation Of the male popu-
lation in the war the women found
themselves promoted into necessary be-
ings. Some cleaned tho streets, others
drove cabs and a few even applied to
be enrolled as patrolmen Three were
enrolled and their drill begun. But the
three soon discovered that they were
not wanted. With all the men fighting
their country's battles, there was no
one to get drunk, to give black eyes
on TO steal pocket bandkerchiefs and
the patrolman's occupation was gone.
So the three were discharged. NJ
Gueshoff, son of the prime minister
wv HtAd P+fH SclNifiB III the foreign
ministry and Was drawn as a reserve
officer, perfected a plan for employing
women in the ministry to replace men
gone TO the front. Twenty were en-
trusted with the copying of confidential
dispatches and they kept the secret
Seryia's women's emancipation move-
ment Is booming better than Bulgaria. s.
1t is older and Servia has hundreds of
women doctors. teachers and even some
women engineers. Servia led almost
all Europe in giving women a show Of
political power. In 1878. the year in
which Servia finally threw off Turkish
suzerainty, women were given the right
to vote in municipal elections. ONLY
II per cent of adult women could then
read and write. The right IF municipal
voting has never been exercised The
courts when asked TO decidefon the
matter, said wisely: f'Women have u
legal right to vote, but 1t cannot be
recognized as it is against the custom
of Servia." The Servian Women's
Suffrage League is seven years old II
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

On the retirement of the Confederates
before Sherman, into the Carolinas, the
task was assigned to General Harrison
of covering the retreat of Hardee Gem
eral Harrison shared in the closing scenes
of the drama in the Carolnas. was twice
wounded, and once had a horse killed
under him. He had just passed his
twenty-fourth birthday when his COM
mand surrendered at Greensboro, n. c.
While In camp, General Harrison APP
piled himself to the study of the law,
as his prospective profession, to the prac-
tiee of which he was admitted soon after
the close of hostilties. Removing to Ala
bama, he located first at Auburn, and
later removed to Opelika, where has since
resided, Elected commandant at the
Alabama university. he accepted. after
first declining the position, after retiring
from which, he was made commandant at
the State Agricultural college, as 1t was
then called, at Auburn. After a year of
service there, he abandoned all else and
devoted himself TO his practice.
His service for the public was soon In
demand, and in 1876. he was chosen a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16
A-GEORGE P HARRlSON-By B. F. Riley {

During a period of 1854 Colonel Harri-
son was i'm command at Florence, S. c.,
where he built stockade for 25.00o fed
eral prisoners, who were so humanely
cared for by the young commander as
to excite the attention of General Sher-
man, who, when he captured Savannah,
ascertained where the Harrison home
was, as the family was now residing in
that city and issued a general order to
his troops respecting its special protec-
ton.
In 1864 the brigade which Colonel Har-
rison commanded was sent together with
that of General coluuitt's, TO turn back
the invasion of the federal General Sey-
mour. IN Florida, the object of Seymour
being to isolate Florida from the rest
of the Confederacy. Colonel Harrison
shared in the honors won by General Col
quit in the decisive battle at Olustee.
and was at once commissioned a briga-
der, being, it is said, the youngest gem
eral In the army. He was not quite %
years old when he received his commits
sion as a brigadier general. His brigade
became u part of Walthalis division.
Sfewart's corps.
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tract of workmen with lead fumes,
and their consequent poisoning. But
it would be a mistake TO suppose that
there is therefore no need TO protect
the worker from this peril because we
produce no lead. 1t Is reported that
nearly 150 trades employ lead in some
essential form and that thousands of
workmen are exposed to its deadly
perils. All the bullets ever made of
lead have probably killed fewer peo-
PIE than those who have fallen vic
tins of what Pliny long ago called the
slaves disease" because carbonate of
lead for paint was made by slaves,
since the task was no Job for free
men. The killing began long ago and
still continues,
Here again Europe leads the way and
we must follow. Drastic laws have
been enacted in England and on the
continent. France viii shortly even
prohibit the use of harmful lead salts
within her borders. But the protection
of people from this form Of danger
Is no difficult 1t would seem that ABB
sodlute cleanliness and sanitary eff
cheney in shops and workers does ELI
inmate the danger from lead salts, to
which painters, for instance, are eX-
posed. II would also seem that sys-
TEN of ventilating hoods, where lead
fumes are made. renders them harm
less. Strange indeed that laws should
be necessary in cases of this sortl But
seeing they are necessary, is 1t not
better and easier to anticipate the
evil than to wait till II is established
and entrenehed among financial inter-
ests? | trust that Alabama will come
into line with this general programme
81 Industrial legislation and so lock the
stable door before the horse is stolen.
3. The same consideration applies TO
the reporting OF diseases and accidents.
Why a law should be necessary to re-
quire such reporting it is hard To see;
for in our simplicity we might sup
pose that all employers are gentlemen
,,,bo WALL In the liehf and have nothin g
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tion. an unknown people In the midst
of busy careless nation.
The poorer among them live for the
most part in small and sparsely scat
tered log cabins. Families number usu-
ally 10 10 10. members. all OF whom
eat, sleep and live together in the one
room of the cabin The common WASH
basin outside the door is often a large
stone with hollow in its surface, diff
ficult to empty or clean. To this each
user contributes his share of germs.
Hanging next to it is the large fam
lily towel. which is on duty for DAYS
In succession.
Cabins have no windows at all or
small ones at best and all openings
are serupulous1y closed at night in the
winter time. Ventilation is Of the poor
est at any time. Close intermarriage,
lack of even rudimentary sanitation
and monotonous i'll suited diet predis-
pose children to many ills including &
tuberculosis and other infectious dis
cases. Ringworm of the scalp, uneor-
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good, that are pure and high and unsel-
fish. This record will go to make up the
song of the ages.
The name of Joseph Dube is written in
that book
Somewhere and somehow is being reared
temple of God in the city of man. The
deed of Joseph Dube is one of the stones
in that temple.
Somewhere and somehow is being
brilded royal highway through the
ages, leading to the era of heaven on
earth. Joseph Dube's sacrifice is a mile
stone in that highway
He saved more than one life. Human
ity is bound together in 1000 unseen ways.
and he who rescues another in some sense
rescues all men.
l. want you TO engrave the name OF
humble Joseph DUDE on your heart, and
some day, all unconscious to yourself,
perhaps, it win help you to save a life,
to help a friend or to be a little bit more
unselfsh. honest and true.
No. no. 1 cannot talk painting No one
does who is real painter. It is dis
cussed in omnibuses, in cafes, i'm drawing
rooms, but not here.-Hlaire German
Degas, greatest living French painter.
There Is no harm perhaps in talking
art il one knows anything about st.
There may even be no positive harm in
talking it if he knows little or nothing.
IN time he may learn Yet is there any
thing under the sun more stale. fiat and
urproiitable'' than the chatter about art
by near artists and people with smat-
tering of the subject?
Yes; there is one thing worse, and that
Is SO called artistic temperament"
What Is art2 Is il not art to do ones
work well in whatever field he occupies ?
l. he knows his subject, loves his work
and makes a finished product is not
that art? What need is there to develop
iildiosyncrasles and ..temperament'' in
conscientious, inspired and worth while
work?
II we confine art to the narrower defini-
ton of painting. sculpture, music, drama.
poetry and the like. wherein is there
81 eater need here than elsewhere for all
that twaddle about temperament
The big winner in these fields, as in
any other, is the man who learns ali
about his subject. is a master of detail,
sinks himself in his art and works. works,
works. That word work Is really the
key word of the whole proposition Sue
cess cannot be won without it. IT is not
Temperament" that is needed half 80
much as ordinary old fashioned dig into
~ INDUSTRY.
The greatest artists whether In paint
irg. music. the drama or elsewhere, work
as hard and as honestly as winners in
any other field, and in most cases they
have no more temperament than a sue
eessful lawyer. teacher or business man.
Indeed, most of the temperament twad-
die comes from slnatterers and half
baked people. who know next to nothing
of what they are talking.
The thing misnamed artistic tempera-
ment seems to have little place other
than as a veil for affinities, poses, vani-
ties, bad temper bordering on boorishness
and other forms of pifflel and self in
dulgence.
Art Is a high term. and 1t Is infinitely
hopeful that taere is artiEtic awak-
ening in America. but there is no more
relation between artistic temperament
and the real thing than there is between
a auack and a scientist or between a fakir
aud an avatar.
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too free and too indifferent souls. We
are in danger of going to the extreme
of war on the investor in our newborn
zeal for the protection of the worker
So at least the shy promoter thinks, be-
cause he is fearful and most sensitive
when anything happens that even re-
motely affects the money market or the
price of stocks.
There is indeed a new contrition and a
new conscience in industrial America. The
truth has come to the governing intelli-
gence of the land, alike in offices of great
employing concerns and in offices of gov
ernors, congressman, senators, representa-
tives, that the care of the peoples health
and welfare is the first and most neces-
sary investment in the world. And so we
may expect that new laws will be made
and new Interpretation given to old laws
for safeguarding of human life, for the
protection of the wage-earner, for the re-
straint of pernicious greed, shortsighted
even In its own interest.
That great international association for
labor legislation, which has succeeded so
we'll in care of the working folk of Eu-
rope, has for its counterpart in this land
the American association of the same
nsme Patriotic and perfervid orators of
the spread eagle variety should study the
Review" published by this American as
ISOLATION. 1t would give them pause In
their most daring flights of eloquence and
might even induce a little wholesome
Christening of the soul. Our vast national
bulk, with industrialism only at its dawn
in many sections. the need of separate ac-
tior in each Of 46 free and self governing
eommonwealths, our fear lest laws TO pro-
tect the poor and dependent should fright
en- capital and drive it to some less con-
scientious competitor, all help to explain
the hesitancy OF America in this field OF
labor legislation. Last year the great
triumph of the association was the law
taxing poisonous phosphorus matches in
order to protect the workers, of whom a
majority were women and girls. It's new
programme involves seven or eight dis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

Georgia politics. serving many ses-
sions in the legislature of that state,
from Chatham county and during the
late war between the states, command
ing a brigade of state troops. After
the war the elder Harrison was chosen
a member of the constitutional con-
vention of Georgia. aiding materially
in framing a constitution adjusted TO
the new order incident TO the close OF
the war.
Our present distinguished citizen,
Gen. George p. Harrison, was class
icaIly trained in the famous academies
for which Savannah was noted before
the period of hostilities, the chief OF
which schools were the Monteith and
Effingham academies. From those ad
vaneed studies in his native city he
went to the Georgia Military institute
at Marietta, from which he was grad
uated in 1861. with the degrees of
A. B., and c. g., as the first honor
man of his class. He was scarcely 20
at the outbreak of the war and in Jan
uary, 1861, she shared in the seizure
by the state of Georgia of Fort Pu-
laslSi, which WAS taken possession of
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our position may be that of a brace
in the social edihce,
It thus becomes essential to all that
we do our work we'll.
II IL Is important to society as a whole,
however, il Is infinitely more important
to us as individuals. 1t means the diff
ference between success and failure, be-
tween prosperity and poverty, between
honor and dshonor, between comfort and
misery
II means, If we do not live up to our
part, that we are losing a life.
Let us each reduce his mountain range,
pierce through his isthmus of difficulty
overcome disease. organize his forces, and
wed the ocean of desires and dreams to
that of accomplishment. IT Is only thus
that our ships will come in bearing their
richly laden eargoes to bless our own and
others lives.
Abou ben Adhem-may his tribe increased
Awoke one night from deep dream OF
peace
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16
MENACE-By Alfred c. Reed

Visiting nurses and social workers are
needed to preach the gospel of santa
ton in the individual home. Other So
eial agencies must be organized to IN
clude the entire affected territory Es-
pecially among school children cases OF
trachoma should be isolated. Schools
must be properly lighted and ventn-
ated.
Actual care and cure of existing
cases offers the greater problem. Pub
lie clinics ought to be established sim
liar to the one now conducted by DIR.
j. A. Stucky, under the auspices of the
W. c. T. L. settlement school at Hind
man, Ky Movable field hospitals in
Connection with these clinics could af-
ford surgical treatment to cases re-
quiring it. The same cases and ter
ritory should be covered periodically by
district visiting nurses Great patience
and long continued effort as we'll as
much money will be needed to eradi-
cate trachoma from these mountains
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mountain range had to be removed and a
fever laden cline had TO be transformed
to one Of health. All of these things have
been accomplished with speed and ef-
fciency and without much noise. Not only
so, but the work is being completed short
Of the date originally promised.
Peace hath her victories no less renowned
than war.
You and ], reader are part of the ma
ton that performed this great work.
Cennot we as individuals be equally ef-
ncient?
We do not have to dig canals perhaps
or do any other gigantic act attracting
the attention of the world, yet our task
is as important relatively speaking. as
that of piercing the isthmus and wedding
two oceans.
building is made up of many parts
If one brace is missing the structure
Is not complete or safe.