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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
NO NIGHT STUDY FOR CHILDREN Irrnp, the Pittshl1rp Presc


 The ancient Spartans, who made re- zion out of the cultivation of physical health and hardihood, believed children should study nothing that they cannot study standing. We go to the other ex- treme and make little old men and wom- on out of our children with much study irg. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young. superintend- ent of schools fin Chicago, makes a strong bid for popularity in proposing to do away with home work for pupils, both in the high schools and in the grammar grades. It is reported that many par onts have protested, but their reason is a sorrowful comment on prevailing con- t,itions-''they always know where the cbidren are when they are at work on thetir school books" Mrs. Young, how ever is a woman of resources; she says with regret that in this generation par ents and children have orifted apart, and ing them together and providing home entertainment for the children who are to be at leisure in the evening.
 Mrs. Young is right-perhaps not who'll ly right, but three-quarters right. And it is suggested that schooinouse social cen ters may help to solve the problem. The more the home can do, the better; but children who lack home advantages must not be allowed to drift. That the reduc- tion or abolition of home study is needed has been urged by many educators who cite foreign methods. It seems to be due, in great part. to educational red tape.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
Library for the PeOD1e

"The main aim of this whole library system" said President J. W. Donnely of the library board yesterday" is to get the books in circulation, to get peo- pie to read them and to make it as easy and pleasant for people to secure them as is consistent with reasonable safety. In other words the new term service counts as the main feature of modern effective library work.
 We want lots of books. but we don't want them for our book shelves. We want them for people to take out and read in their homes and study them and enjoy them. We have made some impor- tant changes in the library rules of late and it is much easier to get a book of any kind now than it used to be- We have general rules which we follow. but there are special cases in which we violate them for the sake of popular service. If there is what consider reasonable cause for allowing a magazine be taken out of the reading room or some such other rule violated to accommodate a member of the library we want to do it. Instead of making the public obey an abstract set of rules we want to make the rules serve the public, keeping in mind all the time, of course the one thing of reasonable safety for the books or magazines or whatever it is we let persons take home with them.
 We have many valuable volumes and it is our business to protect them prop erly, but we find we can do this and at the same time make them much more serviceable to the public than they have been in the past"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
PASS THE SALT

This salty kiss I win of you Goes through me like stab of steel; Sweet humble maid, I will be true Till life shall break me on it's wheel.
 New York Mail. A salty kiss?' Great Caesar, boy! Or, like old Homef, do you nod? A salty kiss? The maiden coy For supper, then, had eaten cod.
 -Johnstown Democrat A salty kissl A salty kiss, We have no doubt would make us finch But when we catch a salty kiss We'll find fresh girl. that's cinch
 Houston Post A salty kiss. Have we then come (And If so, whose may be the fault9 To that pass when we even take Our kisses with a grain of salt?
 Commercial Appeal salty kiss is sometimes sweet, But there are others sweeter; still, I've observed they're well preserved If done up in saltpetre. A salty kiss is sometimes sweet; The fact I cant dispute It may be sweet it must be salt If snatched from bathing suit. A salty kiss is sometimes sweet, But it can't please a fellow To press her lip and get a sip That tastes like a saltcellar
 THEN AND NOW l used to rave about her eyes Ere her to wife I took; And at them I still do rave When each one I've to hook
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
The Festival Concerts

All music lovers will be gald to know that we are to have the St Louis Sym phony orchestra here for at least two concerts in May-afternoon and night with probability of having three per- formances,' said member of the musical set
 A feature of the night concert which Is to be given under the auspices of the festival executive committee will be Dubois great oratorio, Paradise Lost The chorus which will sing this beautiful work is the best that has ever been trained in Birmingham Every member of the chorus of 170 voices is an experienced sight reader. The solo quartet will in- clude Mrs. Sundelius of Boston; soprano and Marion Green of Chicago. baritone The orchestration is especially rich, and no lover of music can afford to miss hearing the performance. The afternoon programme will be made up of popular orchestral numbers. Should there be third concert a splendid symphony pro- eramme will be rendered."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17

"A Lumbermen's School

In response to the leading lumber interests of this country the Harvard Graduate School of Business Adminis- (tration will at once establish two years course of study in lumber busi- ness in cooperation with the School of Forestry.
 There are at present some eighty five forestry schools in the United States teaching the conservation and increase of trees, but these institutions are operating after a foreign model, and while admitting the merit of the German pattern, lumbermen maintain that it does not meet the requirements of conditions in this country.
 The advance in wages, decreasing labor efficiency, higher cost of sup plies and machinery and absence of the scientific knowledge of the busi- ness of manufacturing and marketing lumber have all combined to create the necessity for the course of study just Exploited by the Harvard school. The course will be under the tutelage of John M Cries of the United States bureau of corporations, who made his famous report charging private mo- nopoly of the country's timber.
 Decided impetus has been given to the movement by the recent discovery that through ignorance large lum- Der company had fon sometime been working up 40 per cent of its logs at an absolute loss and that a scientific knowledge of the business is an es- sential. Great wastes is entailed through the change in the nationality of the workmen engaged in the mills and in the stumpage. Natives, Cana dians and men of north Europe have in the last decade been replaced by medley of south and east Europeans with Greeks, Poles and Hungarians predominating They are unreliable, wasteful and shifting and they require supervision of an experienced eye and an educated mind that they may be worked profitably.
 The entire system has developed into a problem of such proportions that its solving will require a course of at least two years study.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17

chisement was inaugurated by real statesmen; patriots who realize that the progress of a country depends greatly upon the part the women take in national life, although the liberal policy has been strenuously opposed by Turkish leaders who have visited western capitals and were alarmed at the sight of western license. How ever, woman as an actual participant in politics is not contemplated as yet; education and the fitting of the moth- CT for the rearing of the youth in schools of liberal ideas and progress sive policies alone is aimed at in the arising national policy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
As to Merger of Iron Companies

believe that merger of the va rious independent iron companies of Ala bama would be a good thing for the Bir- mingham district" said a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
 T have no pecuniary interest in any of the companies, and do not know any thing of the plans that have been talked about, but I can understand how each or the concerns mentioned in connection With the merger proposition would be strengthened by consolidation. It would mean more finished products in this dis trict and that of course is greatly to be desired
 The time must come when the bulk of the pig iron produced here will be melted at home instead of being shipped away for profit elsewhere
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
Progress of Turkish Women

An interesting account of the ad- vancement and progress of Turkish women has just been made public by Miss Grace Ellison, an English wom- an who has recently returned to Lon don after sojourn of several months duration in the household of Kiamil Pasha at Constantinople.
 A greater truth was never uttered perhaps than that expressed by Presi- dent Mckinley that it is not so much the length of the step as it is the direction that counts, and this point is stressed by Miss Ellison in assuring western women that what may seem to them trifles in the march of prog ress really signifies great deal in the advance of Turkish women.
 The first step in the period of transition was the official permission for women to appear upon the streets unveiled, which was followed by allow ing them to ascend in an aeroplane and the recent decision to open to them the doors of the university. The pecu- liar phase of the situation lies in the fact that female emancipation in Tur- key has resulted from the volition of the men entirely. Centuries of harem life have sapped the energies of the women and lulled them as it were into acquiescence in the conditions which have until quite recently obtained. As it is old customs are dying with struggle and naught save the offices of the government have assisted wom- en to their present status.
 The movement for female enfran-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17

Baltimore is making vigorous pro test against the federal reserve organ ization committees award of a regional bank to Richmond instead of to the Maryland city. As will be seen by an Associated Press dispatch a mass meet ing was held and resolutions were adopted alleging injustice and wrong" But the Baltimore protestors have fallen into an error in speaking of the organization committee as the federal organization board. The board has not yet been appointed. When it does come into being it will have the power to upset all the work of the committee. But it may be assumed that the board will make few, if any, changes at the start. It will have it's hands full of protests however, for New Orleans and several other cities continue to make loud complaint of the treatment they received.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17

Visitors to London this summer will be permitted to see the famous dungeons be- meath the Tower of Lonson. There are a large number of these dismal cells under the ancient keep, some of which are still known by the pet names given them by their old wardens. One is called Gold Harbor." Others are called Little Ease" and Little He'll" Some of the cells are mere recesses in the 20-foot foundation wall. with heavy doors that kept the prisoner in a crouchng position.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
larity in the New York negro plot v and that of the New England Salem

I"HERE is a certain amount of simi- larity in the New York negro plot
 . and that of the New England Salem witches. They were both the outcome of bigotly and prejudice and in each in- stance alergymen were among the suf- ferers.
 The negro plot was one Of the most cu- rious and interesting events in the history of society in this country during the CO., lonial period It occurred in 1741, 50 years after the witchcraft delusion. In every way the New York plot runs paral- Tel with the witchcraft trials-in the ab- surdity of the 6elusion. in the ferocity or the popular excitement. in the violencs that was done to common sense, reason and the law, and in the bloody and awful results of the proceedings
 In many ways the New York plot teaches a more important lesson than that of q half century before in New England. The latter illustrates the blind anl destructive energy of the popular pas sions, under circumstances and influences belonging to an age of comparative ignor- ance and superstition, and which can
 
 :rates the same blind and destructive en- ergy of the popular passions, under cir stances and influences belonging to all times. and which is every now and then repeated, though on much smaller scale.
 A considerable degree of ill feeling had for sometime been growing between the white and the colored people of the city of New York. The passions of the respective parties were infiamed by frequent col lisions and difficulties occurring between individuals. The whole mass of accumu- lated fear, prejudice, hatred and revenge was at last kindled, as by a spark, on the utterance of the cry Negro plot!' and the community rushed blindly into the most desperate and frenzied deluson, each individual contributing fuel to the flame.
 Accusations. confessions, executions fol- lowed in quick succession. The govern ment the judges. the entire bar, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17

A peculiar case of benzine mania was recently described to the Medical Asso- citation of Vienna by Dr. Schmeltz. The victim was the daughter of a woman who formerly kept clothes cleaning estab- ,lshment and used a great deal of ban- zine. The child was frequently noticed smelling the benzine bottles. but no par ticular attention was paid to her queer actions. When the girl was about D years old the mother save up the clean. ing establishment and no more benzne was available at home. About a year later the mother noticed that when her face was flushed, there was a peculiar tok about her eyes and she smelled strongly of benzine It was found that the child spent all her pocket money for benZine, which she poured on her hand kerchef and inhaled. She said that when under it's influence she saw beautiful visions and heard lovely voices. Medical treatment proved unavailing, but Dr. Schmeltz cured the girl in a short while by using hypnotic influence He said the case was variant of other mania, a vice that was widespread sometime ago among young girls in Austria.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF THE NEGRO PLOT

all classes were swept into the excite ment. Over 150 persons were cast into prison. Four white persons were hanged. Eleven colored persons were burned at the stake. IS were hanged and 50 were transported to West India slavery. This horrible scene was the result of an utter delusion, commencing Tn malice and folly. While the plot was at it's height there developed a still more ridiculous de- fusion, and it seems to have pervaded the whole community, and that was that re- ligion was back of the conspiracy, and it was even intimated that the Catholic church was at the bottom of it. To this
 idea an estimable clergyman named John Ury fell a victim.
 On February 2S a robbery had been committed, in the city that was traced to the house of Hughson a place where slaves had been accustomed to meet, drink, gamble and secrete their stolen goods Hughson was man of in famous character, and his indentured ser want, Mary Burton became the chief wit ness against her master and the other vic- times.
 When on March IS following a fire DloAe out In the 1Ort ana destroyed the governors house and other buildings, there seemed little doubt in the minds of the excited people that there was a cret plot on the part of the colored people to burn the city. Mary Burton gave dam aging testimony, and claimed the colored people had held meetings at Hughson's and had decided to destroy all the whites and that one Caesar, a black, was to be governor, and Hughson king.
 Her entire story a fabrication. She charged John Ury, nonjuring Episcopal clergyman, with being, concerned, in the plot. He was at once indicted, tried and executed and at the place of execution solemnly denied the charge. and called upon God to witness It's falseness. Mary Burton received the reward of e100, but her testimony was at last doubted.
 In this strange panic and reign of say age cruelty, 155 negroes were imprisoned, and after the executions the rest were pardoned and discharged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
THE LOST WORD

By Bliss Carman. The word of the wind to the aspens
 l listened all day to hear, But over the hill or down in the swale
 He vanished as I drew near. ss Now I know there will haunt me ever
 That word of the ancient tongue, Whose golden meaning, half divined.
 Was lost when the world was young l know I must seek and seek it,
 Through the wide green earth and round, Though I come in ignorance at last
 To the place of the grassy mound. Yet it may be shall find it.
 If I keep the patience mild, The pliant faith, the eager mind,
 And the heart of . little child.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER

FORGE OF EXAMPLE. sometimes my jokes are very dull; Sometimes trifle breezy. But as l see the doctors do. l try to take life easy.
 CONGRATULATIONS. Wilby; How is your wife, Bilby?" Bilby: She's holding her own Wilby: "Is it boy or a girl?p
 TIMELY ANSWER. Stranger: What time is it, please?" Native: Twelve o'clock" Stranger: T thought I, was more than that"
 Native: Tt never gets any more than that here. It always begins again with one"
 BIRDMAN'S EPITAPH.
 Here lies aviator
 Whom everybody knew;
 He came to a sudden death
 Through a defective flew MILITANT PHILOSOPHY. Silas That Rokeby Venus suffragetts is philosopheress." Jonas: How comes it?" silas: "She believes if you can't get what you want, you must ax for it.
 c. F. M.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
STANDARD FOUNDRY INCREASES

From the Anniston Evening Star
 One of Annistons newest industries. the Standard Foundry company, has found it necessary 10 largely increase it's ca raoity. and has built an extension whicn gives it one-third more tonnage than that with which it commenced business last fall
 The Standard plant established rec ord for construction when it was erected. Ninety days after the site was selected trees, leveled off, concrete foundations rct in, the floors made solid with rams extensive buildings erected and the first cast made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
DIVER AT WORK ON coosA

From the Gadsden Daily Times-N News
 A deep sea diver of New Orleans has Power company for several days
 The steel gates or lenders which guard the intake in the river became bent and the diver was sent down into the water to make the necessary re- pairs.
 There was nothing serious. however and the big steam plant on the east side has been running with perfect smoothness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
HUGE LIZARD BONES FOUND
om the Los Angeles Examiner.

Workmen digging trench yester- day in the foothills of San Pedro moun- tain. at La Alameda, uncovered the skeleton of a monster prehistoric lizard It is in an almost perfect state of presetvation.
 The finding of the skeleton has prompted Professor Thompson of the high school to begin a search for other specimens Scientists think that the beds which have yielded the only fos- sil of prehistoric man found on the continent may have a rival near here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
King Cotton

Information from the cotton states in- dieates large crop this year." said W. D. Nesbitt.
 Tn Texas planting was somewhat back ward owing to weather conditions, but in other sections the planting season has been most propitious. The south Ala bama crop was planted early, and in northern Alabama the planting is now in progress. With favorable weather from now on this state will make a great crop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
TOMORROW-TRIAL OF JOHN LINDSAY CRAWFORD
CONGRATULEs THE AGE-HERALD

From the Mobile Register.
 The Register congratulates The Bir- mingham Age-Herald upon it's success in forecasting the recent primary elec- tion. The official count has not yet been made, of course, but what is re- ported unofficially is regarded as trust worthy. The Age-Herald predicted a total vote of 137,591, and the election mate for Hobson, 53,396, returns, 53,- derwood, S4195, returns, S5,090 esti- mate for Hobson, 533,396, returns, 53,- 499 estimate for Underwood majority, sO,799. returns, S1,591 To be but 1Os votes out of the way in estimating d vote that amounted to 137,59 is noth- ing less than marvellous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
To Attend Church Services

We will have full turnout of our local organization at the services at the Hand- ley Memorial church Sunday at Il o clock" said member of the Travellers Protective association. "The travelling men will meet Sunday at 10:45 o'clock at the Chamber of Commerce and proceed in a body to the church.
 There will be meeting of the associa- ton Saturday night for the purpose of electing delegates to the state convention which assemblies in Montgomery May l and 9"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17

and specially nto needless writing much of 1t mechanical, which makes a show in the records, but Is not beneficial in pro- portion to the time expended Evening study at home is in fact apt to be of dull and dawdling sort, using up much tifke with inadequate results. The whole country will watch % see how Mrs. Y Young gets rid of it in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
Of SurpassinE Renut,y

When I first visited Birmingham eight or nine years ago I remarked the beauty of it's residence sections, but now am more than ever impressed" said Charles r. Holiday of Milwaukee
 T have been here on short visits sev- eral times within the past three years, and each time 1 have noted handsome Improvements. I do not know of many cities so attractive as Birmingham from a landscape point of view. I always re- Ter to 1t as city of surpassing beauty"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17

New members are being added to the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce every day and the total number should soon reach 2500 and by the end of the year 5000. J. D. Rosenberser is chairman of the membership committee and he his CO., workers express themselves as greatly gratified at the success of the quiet can vass that is now being made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
BEGINNING THE DAY-HeIp m

BEGINNING THE DAY-Help me to come today. Lord and Father. asking no boon but desiring simply to walk with Thee and feel myself fin Thy presence. Without Thee I nm confused by many voices, l wander among vague paths, I am dismayed. With Thee I am satisfied. Thou nrf rest and home and heaven to my soul. Amen.-H. M. F..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
Cantata Next Sunday

The sacred cantata, The Seven Last Words of Christi music by Dubois. will be given with impressive effect at the south Highland Presbyterian church next sunday afternoon, and the public is in Vited to attend said Mr Flood. the orsanist and director
 We will have chorus of 30 voices and an orchestra of F pieces. assisted by Mrs, Chalifoux on the harp"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
HEAVY PAY ROLLS AT GADsDEN

From the Gadsden Daily Times-News
 The Gulf States Steel company is dis bursting it's semi monthly pay roll and about $40,O00 in cash will find it's way into local trade channels as a result.
 The Dwight Manufacturing company will pay out $15,000 in wages Satur- day and several smaller plants will also meet their pay ruiis then
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17

The San Francisco policewoman who caught an automobile speeder by chas- ing him in an aeroplane proves the truth of the old adage that when a woman starts to get a man she usually gets him,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17
CANE THIRTY FEET LONG

From the Selma Journal
 curiosity in the shape of Japanese cane is on exhibition s- Tissier's The cane is 30 feet long and has SS joints. It was raised by Mir. Grey Sturdivant on his place in east Perry county and brought to Selma to show to his friends This is the longest and largest cane per- haps ever grown in this section of ths state, Certainly nothing like it has ever been seen in Selma.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-17

South America is such large country that Theodore Roosevelt is probably the only citizen of the United States who could go down there and still make enough noise to be heard back home