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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-17

pick with every generation. Population
| is thickening, natural free opportunities
are diminishing, special and privileged in
! terests directed by adroit and none too
scrupulous men who can work to selfish
advantage best in intricate conditions are
accelerating in equalities of opportunity
| in a country founded on the principle OF
equality of opportunity.
ITO meet this, men of utter and un-
selfish patriotism are needed, but also
are need men as intelligent and as high
" trained as the men who are subtly
undermining Americanism. Only very
able men devoted to the righteous task
of preserving what is essentially Amer
lean can cope with the very able men
who are committed to the unrighteous
task of destroying what is essentially
American. Great natural ability is not
enough for this task. Only great trained
ability can deal with it. 1t is the task
of simplification; it Is the task of find
ing the eternal principle in the compleXi-
ties of old and new; it is the task of cut
ting through all the accretons of dis
ease and getting down to the sound tis-
sues; only highly trained national sur
geons can do this.
II do not say that the college is the
only place where this training can be
had. But l do say that in modern con-
dtions the college is the more natural
place to get it. The careers of Lincoln
and Cleveland are sufficient evidence
that men can be trained outside of the
college, for these wher trained men,,
trained by many forces and their own
wills and purposes to tasks of great diff
ficulty. But today the college offers the
straightest and the surest road to that
training.
THE past of America belonged in part
to Thomas jefferson, the present of
America belongs In part to Woodrow
Wilson, the future of America belongs
In part to you. Had woodrow Wilson
spent his entire time admiring Jefferson
and doing nothing himself to get Jeffer-
sonlan principles applied to change con-
ditions, he would not be directing a ma
tion's destinies today From the fathers
he got an impulse and Inspiration; in
himself he found the energies and ca
pacities to carry on what they had begun.
And this message to- you is that you also
must labor must accept the grave re-
sponsibilities, must carry on what he
and others are now doing. As he is to-
day perpetuating the spirit of the fathers
by methods that belong to today, SO you
must perpetuate his spirit and the spirit
of the fathers by carrying on what they
began and he is promoting by the meth
DDS of your future day. He has said it to
you in his own words, and here on your
window is stands for an admonition and
an inspirations:
America is securely great, not because
she has great men, now, but only as
she can make sure of having great men
in the next generation
'It is an invitation and a challenge.
and it is addressed to you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-17
THE LITTLE
TROUBLES GET BY
Humanity takes little heed of little

humanity takes little heed of little
things.
That is largely why life is short.
We guard against the danger of in
Section when it has developed into
something we fear, like Small Pox or
Diphtheria; but the insignificant mi
orobe. which is primarily responsible
Sor nearly every form of malignant
disease, gets by.
It enters our system most frequent
" through the mouth and while the
most ordinary precaution would end
its pernicious activity, it is too often
Allowed to continue on it's errand of
misery.
Get in the habit of using an anti
septic mouth wash and gargle night
and morning. 1t Will exterminate
YOUR health and prevent disease than
any other precautionary measure
Your doctor will tell you this is
true.
The best antiseptic to use is LIS
TOGEN. 1t goes farther than PeroX-
ide OF Hydrogen by uniting with that
most efficient germ destroyer, the re-
medal and antiseptic properties of
Thymol Menthol and Eucalyptol, which
take up the work where Peroxide of
hydrogen leaves off and not only de-
stroy the germ, but in some degree re-
pair the damage that has been done.
IS Ask your druggist for LISTOGEN. 1t
is a most valuable preparation. 25
scerts. so cents and 81 bottle at
Eugene Jacobs Drug Store. 1904 Sec
Dud avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-17
is HE ALIVE?

One of the NEST novel and attractive
show window performances that has been
seer in Birmingham in a long time is in
operation this week in the big show win
dows of the new Shelby Burton
Piano company on Second avenue near
the postoffice. 1t is a gentleman attred
in colonial costume, who plays a player
piano every afternoon to the great interest
OF large crowds on the sidewalk. A
guessing contest is on as to whether or
not the figure is a dummy.
There are many opinions both ways.
The figure not only operates the piano,
but changes display cards about showing
what he is doing and advertising the
piano he is playing, all of which is ac
cumpanied. with various and sundry know
iIs mods of mis- head. The longer he is
watched the more confused becomes the
rnlnd as to whether or not the figure is
live man. When he leaves or ap
proaches the instrument his movements
are veiled by curtain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-17

If interested seeing the which will offer for sale
Monday and particularly wish purchase of these
nificent building lots in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-17
PROF STOCKTON AVS,

Marion, May 16.-(Special Senior
class day at Marion institute included
the usual exercises in the morning and
the presentation speech made in the
afternoon by Prof. Stockton Axson on
the occasion of the unveiling of the
stained glass windows dedicated to
Woodrow Wilson and to Princeton uni
versity. The windows are from Phil
adelphia and the work of Nicola
D'Ascenzo whose mura1s have attracted
so much attention in this country.
Following the address, "Old Nassau"
was sung and a public reception given
in which hundreds of persons had an
opportunity to meet Mr.. Arson.
Prof Stockton Axson of Princeton
university presented the Woodrow Will
son and Princeton stained glass win
dows to the Marion institute in the col
lege chapel this afternoon in an elo-
quent and inspiring address to large
and appreciative audience. These win
dows are in series of stained glass
windows in the Marion chapel to dis
tinguished educators and statesmen and
great universities The series to edu-
Gators and statesmen includes Wash
ington, Jefferson, Franklin, Lee, Ar
istotle, Thomas Arnold and Woodrow
Wilson. The university series includes
Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, the
University of Virginia, the University
of Pennsylvania and the University of
Alabama. The Woodrow Wilson win
dow was placed in the Marion chapel
by gifts of alumni, friends, students
and faculty of the institute. The
Princeton window is the gift of Prince
ton alumni to Marion institute
Inscriptions
The Woodrow Wilson window bears
the following inscription, written by
President Wilson himself especially for
this Marion window:
america is securely great, not be-
cause she has great men in her now,
but only as she can make sure of hav-
ing great men in the next generation
WOODROW WILSON,
president of the United States"
nineteen hundred thirteen"
The Princeton window bears the fol-
lowing inscription sallen from Presi-
dent Wilson's address before the coun-
Gil and commons of the Marion insti-
tute:
"There is no permanent place in
democratic leadership except for him
who hath clean hand and pure heart"
woodrow Wilson, Phi. D., Lift. d.,
Government Day orator, Marion Insti-
tute.
AxsOn's Address
The theme of Professor AXson's elo-
uuent address was taken from these in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-17
WILSON AND PRINCETON
WINDOW S PRESENTED
TO MARION INSTITUTE

Presentation Made Brilliant Address BY Professor Stockton
Axson of Princeton University College Chapel at Marion
Yesterday Afternoon Windows Work of Nicola
D'Ascenzo, Whose Murals Have Attracted Atten-
tion Throughout the Country-Hundreds Have
Opportunity of Meeting Arson After Re
ception Following Presentation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-17
WOMAN LANDS THE
WETUMPKA OFFICE
Mrs. J. J. Cain Succeeds S.
J. McMOrris as Post
master

Wetumpka, May Special. Mrs.
j. ]. Cain is being congratulated on
her appointment to the postoffice at
this place. She was appointed post
mistress by President Wilson, the ap-
pointment going to the Senate on May
10, The present incumbent, s. ]. Nc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-17

An interesting programme has been
prepared for the commencement exer-
cises of the Fifth District school, The
exercises begin today with a class day
reception given by Dr. A. S. Ford. Tho
baccaulaureate address will be deliv-
cred by DR.. T. D. Losey of the uni
versity. This years class of graduates
numbers IA.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-17

Mrs. A. Hohenberg, popular We
tumpka matron, has fallen heir to a
substantial legacy from an uncle-in-
law in Germany
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-17

r. L. Johnson. who. left last week
for Annapolis, after having passed the
mental examination in Alabama, today
passed the physical examination and
will enter the academy on May 16.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-17

Morris, became postmaster on March,
1903; prior to that time he was as
sistant, having practically been in
charge of the office since 1898.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-17
Wilson's Policies

'In pursuing his policies Woodrow VIII
son advocated some things that would
nave seened uninteiligible to Thomas JEFF
ferson, public utilities commissions, city
government by commission. Wol1lingmen's
compensation acts. But this circumstance
implies neither lack of intelligence in
Thomas Jefferson nor outrageous rad
icalism in Woodrow Wilson. Since JEFF
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-17
MNER HEIGHTS
Coolest Place in birmingham

Today the last business day before the property SALE
and the final opportunity that will have for seeing Miner
Heights making selection of before the first
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-03-13
The Hundred Years
War
Otto Mobile
Otto Mobile

Pager Read Before the ChaM ",ta Circle
While my subject is second only
to the Great Sahara, or the virtue
of N. D. for dryness like those
two it has it's occasional oasis where
the weary traveller may stop his
caravan, his automobile or his train,
(of thoughts) and seek refuge from
the monotonous glare and same
ness.
The hundred years war between
England and France really lasted
more than a century, dating from
1923 to 1882. tt is not known
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-03-13

The Roycrofters devoted whole
volume to their American Bible"
Someday the true American Bible"
will be published. 1t will contain
but one page and on that page,
printed in letters of gold, will be
MONEY.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-03-13
TERMs:1 6 NJ onths Fifty cts.


large ones. England would dig
up the hatchet' about the time
civil war was imminent, and the
soldiers would go back to the
battlefield.
Another thing France suffered
severely from was the Black
plague, which swept over the coun-
try, carrying off half the popula-
tion in places. There were other
reapers, however, besides Death.
A great many lords and mobiles,
when opportunity permitted, en-
larged heir already capacious
strong houses, and filled them with
the best of the country. The split
ting of the people into two parties
was bound to come, and it did;
bringing with it more victories for
the English. This brings us up to
the one point of the war that made
history and is to stay with us for
ever; namely, the appearance of
Joan of Arc.
Born in village of France near
the borders of Burgundy, Of a fam
lily of well-to-do farmers, Joan had
passed her childhood where she
saw much of the strife brought on
by the civil conflicts. which was
the "curse of France" She was
made to realize by the constant
scenes of bloodshed, pillage, and
devastations of the sufferings
of the entire country. She, like
our late Mary Baker Eddy, was of
a deeply religious nature and came
to imagine that it was Gods will
that she should be the one to bring
these sufferings to an end. She
had a vivid Imagination and an inn
pressible mind and she no doubt
heard the voices calling her to her
duty. 1t was with great difficulty
that she made others believe in her,
and her mission, but her strond
will and personality, coupled with
the perilous and centered condi-
tions of the country, swept away
every obstacle, and even convinced
the dauphin of her supernatural
knowledge and power. It was this
that France was waiting for-lead-
ership; something that they had so
sorrowfully lacked in the past.
The feeling, rising in their breasts,
and confidence in their leader,
(which will win every battle) they
rose en- masse and were ready to
strike for deliverence. It was the
beginning ofa truly national feeling;
: of the consciousness that France
was one, and that they must in one
body tear themselves forever from
foreign dominion.
) We all know the victories Joan
: of Arc won. 1t was not her mill
, tary genius or ability, but the pow
t er of thought of her followers, that
. freed France herself. The sad tale
+ of Joan's capture by the Burgun-
! dians and her being sold to the
: English to be executed in public,
ends the battle of one of the strong
e est spirits the world has ever
$ known, and, in all probabilities.
: France would to day belong to
e England instead of being that
t powerful country that she is, if il
s had not been for that simple, relig-
s ious-minded girl.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-03-13
Vol. XXVI.-No. 80
An Epic of Peace
A.. M.

Paper read before the Cha,.tauqua Circle: !
In our school days we were wont
to hear the tales of Aeneas from the
writings of Virgil-A Arms and the
man I sing" His was the song of
bloodshed and war. Such were the
times. But in the course of the
ages a peace song was sung and
great teacher changed the ideals by
which men were measured by affirm
ing Blessed are b Peacemak-
ers." Then came those whose tale
began Fools and the Man l Sing"
A new people have arisen who are
forgetting the days of war; yet peace
has it's problem and difficulties.
The fighting spirit is bound up with
our human nature. The energies of
former times were misdirected.
Today, man is conquering nature,
ignorance and evils of every kind;
and this is very apparent i'll the story
am about to tell Of the growing OF
the worlds prize wheat in the last
Great West"
The hero of our epic will be
Seager Wheeler of Rossthern, Sa-
skatchwan. He appeared suddenly
in the public eye, when he was
awarded first pr,ze for the best
wheat grown in the Americas-and
that means the world-at the Amer
lean land and irrigation Exposition
in New York, on Nov. 4, little ov-
er year ago. The prize was 81 900
donated by Sir Thomas Shaugh-
messy, the Canadian Pacific railway
cheif. His object was to encour-
age good farming and thus make the
farm a more attractive place to live
on in these days when the towns
seem to be drawing the best blood
and brains of the country. But the
honor of winning meant vastly
more, there is a significance that il
will be we'll for us to observe.
Who is Seager Wheeler? How
did he come to grow such wheat
What will this mean for whea
growers? What does it mean to tn
world? These are the questions thai
men have been asking from al
parts of the wheat growing worl'
and the interest is not waning, it i
growing. The fall of Troy had les
significance to the world than ha
the success of this Saskatchwa
farmer with his Marquis" wheat
Mr.. Wheeler is native OF tn
Isle of Wight and left his home TO
Western Canada in 1885 when b
was but fifteen. He worked as
laborer in Moose Jaw for fe,
years, then he and his brother deter
mind to homestead and they trekke
across country one hundred an
eighty miles to Clark's Crossing
They lived there for several yea
and made scanty living; crops an
markets were both bad. 1t was
1896 that he secured his presel
holding, one hundred and ninet
acres, purchased from the g. 2.
at $500 per acre. 1t took sever
years. however, to get square at e
en- that price, but he began expel
menting along the lines that appea
ed to him would give the best I
suits. And in addition to the 9th
heavy work he gave valuable tin
to ornamentation; up to the prese
he has kept to his original one hu
dred and ninety acres, efficiency b
ing his motto. He has had discou
agements and setbacks, and succe
has come, not through luck. but
the qualities of industry, intelligen
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-03-13

children In that ne arose up early.
He was close observer, took coun-
sci of authorizes. attended fairs, join
ed the Seed Growers association.
This was not to exhibit his products
but as lover of farming. Genius
is modest, it was only with difficulty
that he could be induced to exhib-
it, and then only when it was point
ed out that be might be the means
of beniiting others.
From all [ have read about Mr..
Wheeler, much of it written by
some of the worlds most famous
journalists, nothing has given me
better impression of the man than
some words of his written for
western farm journal. I give his
own words: Il am a book farmer
and indoor farmer as we'll. We Of
ten hear uncomplimentry remarks
passed about such men, but show me
the farmer who does not read and l
will show you poor farmer. Prob
lens are worked out as well by the
fire as by observation during the
day outside. / take one daily, three
weekly and five farm papers, beside
other good reading materials" One
journalist remarked bout him:
HE is the man who farms with his
brains"
The story of Marquis wheat is
interesting. Mr.. Wheeler obtain
ed the seed from DR.. Saunders, the
Dominion cerealist. This man be-
longs to family noted for the as.
sistance they have given scientific
farming in Canada. For a b u
twenty years experiments were car.
ried on, the aim being to get type
both rich and hearty. BY selection
hand selection it is called-of ker
neis of a certain type and SOWING
them, a new type can be established
after awhile. Marquis" is a eros
between red fyfe (Maneboli's Cham
pion and No. 2 Calcutta Red. From
one it derives its quality, from tn
other its early maturity. The mil
ling and baking test have provet
very successful.
II Mr. Wheeler could have sold hi
!, entire crop at almost any figure h
. had cared to ask, but set price O
$500 in order that other farmer
g might be able to buy and profit b
, his success. Part of the virtue Q
this new wheat is that it ripen
o ten days earlier than any othe
brand now known, but they are nc
o satisfied yet, they believe that b
q continuing their experiments the
= can get an even earlier variety an
;. still hold the necessary hardness.
a What is the significance Of a
4 this? 1t must have a great deal, fo
, no sooner was the award mad
- known than experts from all owe
4 the world began to flock to his hom
n and messages by the score arrive
# from all parts of the earth. At
banquet given him at Rorsther
; representatives from all over Anne
a, lea who could not be there SCI
y messages. At Calgary, where tt
;; prize was formally presented
r. him, he received princly ovation
q This looks significant of somethin
or does it not? 1t is part of the epoch
ne All this will be seen by some a
Mt parently fantastic figures, but tn
n are offered us by that cool head
e. professor of agriculture, who b
r. been employed by the Great Mort
ss ern tc give guidance and instru,
Dy lon to the farming communiti
ce along their line of railway. And
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-03-13

is not likely to exaggerate anything
that happens to the north of the
line. If one extra kernel were ad-
ded to each head of oats, barley,
wheat or ear of corn, we should have
of oats twenty million bushels extra,
barley fifteen million, wheat fifteen
million, corn five million. This
would not be for one year but for
all time" Now, Mr.. Wheeler is
one that has added kernel; his best
plot averaged eighty and two-thirds
bushels to the acre and weighed
sixty-six pounds to the bushel. If
all the wheat that was grown 10
western Canada last year had been
of the Marquis" variety, it is estl-
mated it would have added S15 900,
900 to the farmers pocket book, and
that in poor year. Then further,
if wheat can be ripened ten days
earlier, and is less effected by frost
it means the enlarging of the wheat
area to about one hundred and fifty
miles further north, or to put it in
other words, that between the Great
Lakes and the Rocky Mountains it
will add approximately eighty five
million acres to our wheat land. 1t
means earlier markets and bigger
shipments before navigation closes.
Many who had become tired of
farming under the old methods. are
trying again, inspired by the sue
cess of Mr.. Wheeler. 1t has proved
that the rich western soil gives its
best results under the magic touch
Of sterling manhood. The prize
was won in one of the most unfav.
orable seasons. 1t is men of this
stamp who teach us all a lesson
about overcoming fatalism, thai
power of darkness that too otter
overcomes us. Not only farmers bu1
men in every walk of life get thrown
down sometime; some rise supinely
with the whine just my luck" fail
ure overcomes them and they say
1t can't be helped" Men of the
Wheeler and Burbank breed say
III believe it can be helped" anC
they give us roses without thorns
cactus without spikes, oranges with
out seeds and raise the best whea
, in the world under the western SUI
, and the glowing light of the borealls
Men of the Christian faith ant
, hope where are you? Do you be
7 lieve that evil can be conqured
{ Let this "bloodless epic'' of whea
8 growth from the face of stern nature
r teach you lesson of courage, faitl
t and hope, and stir you to lay hold o
7 your appointed task, with stronger
' steadier grasp. A "bloodless epoch
! do / say? This is only in appear
ance. Without sacrifice and unre
i hitting toll and self-denial, thes
r victories are not won.