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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

and universal brotherhood. The white
man has had a chance to remake g
world and he has failed in such an
lignominious manner that Mr.. Quick
has written a book about it. Only in
lucky, valorous Japan" in the Arab
ian and African deserts and in the
mountain Businesses of Nepal and
/ Abyssinia, he declares, are found free
nations of brown, black and yellow
people.
And what has the white man, with
such vast power for good in his hands,
done for the betterment of humanity? ?
| He has betrayed his trust, accepted
christianity and made mockery of
it. He has Impoverished, enslaved and
extirpated empires for money" He
has used his power and his learning
only for ACKNOWLEDGMENT until he
has come to be feared and hated all
over the world. Our very physiognomy
is repulsive to people of other races;
we are the Great White Beasts of HUI
manity."
But all hope is not lost. The white
race has not fulfilled its destiny, but
there is yet time. 1t is not too late for
this same white peril" to become all
that Mr. Quick desires. 1t is true that
we have lost the confidence of other
passengers on board the good ship
Earth, most of them steerage passen-
gers, it seems, yet we can win that
confidence back. The "vision of de-
mocracyn is being revealed to the
white race. If our governments are
and if we live down our past there is
yet hope for the world. If the white
race will be true to Christianity "as
revealed in democracy" there is a
chance for its redemption. 1t is "up to"
the white race to prove that it is a
true brother to the yellow man, the
black man and the brown man, and
not a universal grabber of other peo-
pies property.
Mr.. Quick is severe, yet he is not
entirely pessimistic. There is doubt
less a great deal of truth in what he
says, but how is the white race to set
tie down and work for humanity when
its various components have not yet
reached the point where they can get
along without big guns to protect
themselves from each other?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25
TOMoRROw-TRIAL L OF HERR MOST
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
PREVENTING FLOODS IN CHINA

From the Albany Journal.
China is going to spend $20,00o,o00 upon
flood prevention work in the Hwai val
ley, the great central depression in the
Chinese empire, which has been the scene
of the most devastating floods in that
country.
The money will have to be borrowed.
Negotiations for the loan are said to have
been completed. The work will be done
by an international engineering company
of London and New York.
The Hwai valley presumably bears to
China the same geographical relation
that the Mississippi valley bears to the
United States
Twenty millions seems a small sum to
meet the cost of work tnat must be nee
essary to produce desired effect. but it is
to be remembered that each dollar goes
a great deal further in country where
labor is compensated with a few cents
day.
The problem of flood prevention is one
about which the government of the United
States has been rather dilatory. The Chi
nese government, too, probably would not
have done anything about it if 1t hadn't
been urged by the American Red Cross
which made an investigation of the dis
tress which attended flood in the Hwai
valley and brought its findings to the at
tention of the government.
Money t--for such purpose is not
only well spent, because it is for a hu-
manitarian purpose, but also it is good
investment, since it served to avert reg
ularly recurring losses which soon be-
come many times the equivalent of the
expenditure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

I
man, who was known as "the lib
- orator." was man above all men
who spent his life in trying to further
the interests of his country, and gain a
broad freedom for his countrymen. O'Con-
nell was sprung from a race the heads
of which had been Celtic chiefs, and he
inherited the richest of fighting Irish
blood, and in q great measure it was his
energy and efforts that have brought to
| Ireland what few liberal laws they now
enjoy.
The crisis in the life of the "liberator''
came only few years before his death,
when he made an attempt to have the
| tory regime in his country overthrown.
In 1871 he left England for Ireland and
began organizing the young Ireland
| party. A succession of monster meetings
We're held all over the country, the far
famed one on Tara Hill being, as is cred
IDLY asserted, attended by no less than a
quarter of million of people.
Over this vast multitude O'Connel's s
brilliant oratory swept triumphantly. The
critical moment occurred on October s.
1913. The previous day a notice was sent
on the Sth and the government issued a
proclamation forbdding it. Many of the
lpen We're already on their way, and only
O'Connel1s own rapid and vigorous meas
ures in sending out in all directions to in
tercept them hindered the actual shedding
of blood.
! The next thing that England did was
to arrest O'Connell, as well as his son.
John, and his chief colleagues. on a
charge of conspiring to create discomfort
and dissatisfaction among the liege sub
| jects of the Queen, and with contriving
by means of intimidation and the demon-
stration of great physical forces to pro-
cure and effect changes TO be made in
the government laws, and constitution of
this realm''
II o'Connell was indicted. The charge
against him covered 81 feet of parchment
This was sent to the grand jury, and after
six days of deliberation true bill was
rendered against the accused.
! O'Connell pleaded on November q, and
January 10, 1874, was fixed as the day for
trial to begin. The day of the opening
of the trial, business was practically sus-
pended in Dublin. The attorney generals s
announcement that he had discovered a
conspiracy had raised public expectation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25
Race In Limestone County

oscar Underwood will carry Lime
stone county by a two to one major
ity," said Capt. w NJ. Richardson, a
prominent planter of that county, who
for many years has taken an active part
in politics. "m my opinion Hobson is
losing ground every day and il would
not surprise me to see even a bigger
majority for Underwood than l have
predicted.
THE grandstand play of his oppon
ent, his absence from his post of duty
now and before the campaign, his mon
pmental ego and the many msstate :
ments made in his behalf have set the
people thinking and many people who
were favorably inclined to the captain
have been convinced that it is per
sonal ambition that has led him to
bring false issues into the campaign,
rather than zeal for the cause he so
loudly proclaims. Despite all the cam
paign thunder used by Hobson and his
adherents the deadly parallel OF devo-
ton to duty against absenteeism con-
| +inues to impress the voters of the state
and it is my candid opinion that I'm
derwood is gaining every day and will
sweep the state on April g."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25
THE MEDICINE THAT HELPS


From the Washington Star.
Imagination must always be reckoned
with in medicine-sometimes as a friend.
sometimes as foe. A certain doctor
treated an old woman for typhoid fever.
On each visit he took her temperature by
putting thermometer under her tongue
One day, when she was nearly well. the
doctor did not bother to take her tenn
perature. He had hardly got 100 yards
from the house when her son called him
back.
Mother is worse" said the man. "Come
back at once
The doctor returned. AS he came into
the sick room the old woman looked ur
at him with angry and reproachful eyes
Doctor" she said. why didn't you
give me the jIgger under me tongue to-
day? That always did me more good
than all the rest Of your trash"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25
SAVING THE CARGO

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Two Scotchmen had been having a good
time on the heather doons of a leerle
island, and were rowing back home
across the firth, says Dean Mortimer
Cooley of the University of Michigan,
when the boat capsized. Dean Cooley
told the story to the Engineers club a
few days ago.
Angus had clung to the boat, an,l
Jock, who had clung to the bottle, was
fioundering bravely in the deep. AL
though poor swimmer. he struck out for
the skiff. holding the bottle in one hand.
After a few strokes he became exhausted.
Angus, he cried, II dinna thenk 1 can
MAX it,
well. if ye Gamma MAX 1t, Jock,
throw it, called back Angus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25
Meat Consumption Rapidly Dwindlin,


1t is extremely fortunate for the
United States that the new tarif rem
ders it profitable for the Argentine
Republic to ship her beef cattle to
this country, as the bulletin just
issued by the department Of agricul-
ture shows that the falling off of our
meat supply is becoming a grave ma
tional problem.
From the department statistics it is
learned that the per capita consump-
ton of meat, including what are
known as extra edible parts or parts
not included in dressed weight has de
cIned from 213 pounds in 1900 to 100
pounds at the present time.
Concurrent with these figures is
the statement that total production
per capita decline is from 245 pounds
to 1863 pounds, or in round numbers a
drop from 1868, 100000 pounds to
-s.675, 100000 pounds.
figures are of vital impor-
and reveal the situation with
learness than do the statistics
the existing number of meat
$, and they appeal especially TO
economy, for while meat ex-
have fo llo,, off in, tha lnet 1 A
years within fraction of 65 per cent
and consumption has been reduced to
the extent just enumerated our popu-
lation in the same period has in
creased almost 80 per cent.
But the department goes a consid-
cradle step further and maintains
that the result of its Investigations
demonstrates that beef raising for the
market is not profitable inasmuch as
the major portion of the increment
from the trade goes to the middleman.
The last statement is not matter
of news but the conclusion of the de-
partment corrects an error of opinion
that high prices for meats are due to
the manipuations of the packers,
when in truth they are the result of
a scarcity of supply.
Argentina is able to ship her cat
tie at profit owing to the small cost
involved in their raising as a result
ant of her extended areas of pasture
land, condition which formerly OBJ
tanned in the United States but which
has practically disappeared
Still, if the farmer of this country
is not able to raise beef for the mar
ket at profit it is highly commend
able that he produce it for home CON
sumption. Such policy will enable
him to live independently, comfortably
and economically until the govern
ment has discovered a medium for the
cheaper marketing, transportation and
distribution of our meat supply.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25
HIS FRENCH.


Visitor: Il wonder how you manage to
get along, Mr.. Ambassador, considering
that you do not speak the language of the
country"
American Ambassador: "oh, l use my
French. answering knock at door entire
nous.'
CAREFUL OF HIS REPUTATION.
American Officer: why did you leave
Mexico?'
Mexican Refugee: Il didn't want to be
yillahed."
A CHARACTER STUDY.
When on the plains of Texas
a herd of cattle l see
lt } g q 6 :
0
Is the way they look to me.
VERSATILE.
He is man of many parts
Who parts his hair in the middle;
And he's high-strung fellow, too,
Who performs upon the fiddle.
He is man of many parts
Who writes his name with a hyphen,
And he's man who has pipe dreams
When called to fashion a siphon.
BLASTED HOPES.
Just as u was ready
My Spring poem to indte.
/ find that my inkstand
Is frozen over tight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25
THE MODERN Girl

From the Peoria Journal.
We knock and criticize her,
We scold, apostrophize her,
We wish that she were wiser,
More capable and kind.
Her path we're always stalking
To criticize her talking,
Her clothes, her ways of walking,
Her manners and her mind.
We say, "Oh, highly tightly,
She's Frivolous and flighty.
And all her ways are mighty
Undignsfied to see;
She dances and she chatters,
Our golden rule she skaters
And laughs at serious matters
With unabated glee!" as
We chide and we correct her,
We shadow and detect her,
We study and dissect her,
With all her smile sand tears
And find. on looking DER her,
(And learning to adore herr,
She's just like girls before her.
For twenty thousend xsarsi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF DANIEL O'CONNELL

/ to the highest point. At the Four Courts
the crush was so great as to render it
necessary to barricade the entrance to the
/ Queens bench
| On the bench sat Chief Justice Penne-
father and Justices Champion. Perrin and
Burton. The flower of the Irish bar was
retained, either for the prosecution or for
the defense. But of more interest to the
public than either was the jury. Every art,
every trick, had been practiced to secure
a jury subservient enough to register the
decree of, government. From first to last
the trial was bitter satire on the ad-
ministration of justice in Ireland.
| The opening speech of the attorney gen.
eral lasted two days. 1t contained no rev.
elations, nothing, indeed, but what all the
world had read in the newspapers. The
interest so intense at the beginning of
the trial, speedily evaporated Judge, jury
and audience all fell asleep.
| O'Connell himself, who conducted his
own defense, spoke listlessly and with
less effect than perhaps ever in his whole
life. He foresaw not only that he would
be condemned, but that the sentence
would be a heavy one
On February 12 the jury, after a little
decent delay, returned verdict of guilty
of unlawful and seditious conspiracy Sem
| tence was postponed until the beginning
| of the next term. In the interval O'Con-
nell, after once more appealing to the
people not to allow themselves to be
| tempted to break the peace, but to act
peacefully, quietly and legally proceeded
| to London.
| Judgment was finally delivered ON May
80 He was sentenced to be imprisoned
Tor u months. to pay fine of $4,000 and
to find security for his good behavior dur
ing the next seven years. The next day
he and his fellow "conspirators" were re-
moved TO Richmond Bridewell, where COM
| Portable quarters were assigned them.
After three months imprisonment
| O'Connell was released but this period
proved the death knel of his power. The
spell by which he held the people seemed
to have vanished, his health had suffered
much from his short confinement he was
verging upon his SEVENTEEN year, and he
was alarmed and panied by the growth
of party in the repeal ranks who scoffed
at his views Then came the Irish fam
inc, and this tragedy, though he did not
live to see the whole of it, O'Connell felt
acutey. He retired from public life and
decided on a pilgrimage to Rome. but be-
| fore he reached that city he died on May
10, 1s47, in Genoa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25
TELEPHONE POSTAL CARD

From Popular Mechanics.
The Postmaster General is considering
the adoption of new form of post card,
which, will show not only the ordinary
street address of the recipient, but his
telephone number also Upon its arrival
at destination, a clerk would Immediately
call up the telephone number and ask for
the person to whom the card is addressed
and read the message after which the
card would be delivered in the usual
way, The card would bear special
stamp, costing cents and would have
preference over other first-class mail mat
ter in the same manner the special deliv-
cry letters do now. A reply postal card
would be 10 cents. The number of words
might be limited, and no liability as
sumed by the postal authorities other
than that now borne in the special tlcliv-
cry letter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25
INADEQUATE
From Life.

fTOfn LlIc.
First Charity Visitor: How did you
find poor Mrs Holcomb?"
Second Charity Visitor: Nearly froz-
en-"
First Charity Visitor: Nearly frozen? :?
thought St. Andrews Helping Hand
society sent her a lot of clothes?'
Second Charity Visitor: 1T did; and
she had them all on--seven peekaboo
waists and four slit skirts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

A cabaret show was given at one of the
Palm Beach hotels recently. Ragtime
was played by two well known ragtime
were exhibited by eight young persons. -
and the "refeshments> consisted of sau-
sage, pancakes, fried onions and beer. Ii
there were any esthetes on the premises
they must have suffered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25
SEWING MACHINE PATENTS
From the Chicago Journal.

From the Chicago journal.
On the average 500 or 600 applications
for patents to sewing machines are filed
away every year in the United States pat
ent office OF that number about 400 are
granted, nearly all of them dealing with
improvements in machines already man
ufactured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25
PENALTY OF DISTINCTION

From the Washington Star.
Il represent the dignity of labor said
the man in his shirt sleeves.
Yes" replied Mr. Dustin Stax, "and
you can work in your shirt sleeves and
speak your mind, and quit work when
your regular hours are through. I've
got to wear a high hat and guard every
word | speak, and keep busy 16 hours q
day. | represent the labor of dignity s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

BEGINNING THE DAY. pray
Thee q Lord TO heIp me make this
the best day i have ever lived. MnN
fashion II high shining pattern
out of II. In its building may
reject every thought that IN M"
and sincere, every act that IL not
courageous and kind. For jesus
sake. Amen-H. VI. Il.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

Says Arn6ld DAILY: If you take an idea
into the theatre II is treated with the
same eoldness as when you tell barber
how to cut your hair" Not if the idea
invoices new way of swelling the box
office receipts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

A Connecticut man put a rooster in
his house 10 wake up the family. Sir
Chanticleer might have been on the job
yet If he hadn't walked up the neigh
bOrs, too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

Dean C. Worcester says the rilpno war
dances are outdone by the modern dance
steps seen in America Why not? lgnor-
ant saysses are not supposed to be cap
able of putting on finished performance
of the tango or the maxixe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER
ON THE RIGHT TRACK.

VN 11iE RIGHT IkACk.
Ny boy may yet be President,
For he is winning fame
At golf, which we all know to be
The presidential game.
And he is very truthful, too
Like little George of yore
When he plays golf he never tries
TO fib about his score.
-Courier-Journal.
Ny boy may yet be President,
For when his ultimatum
Won't work out he tries another way
In which he may get at EN-
So when he a-1ishing goes,
And they won't touch his bait,
He wears a smile just like Woodrows
And says I'll watch and wait.
FEB. 22D.
have a little chick at home;
It's difficult to match it,
Its mother looks at me and clucks
L did it with my hatch it,"
SEASONABLE.
Whithers: IT had typical grounding
breakfast this morning"
Smithers: Never heard of such a meal.p
Whithers: "Time to learn 1 had saus-
age
MUSIC HATH CHARMS.
Mrs. Simms: How did you enjoy the
opera last night?'
Mrs. Quimms: 1T was just grand. The
last autopsy performed by the orchestra
was the sweetest ever listened to-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25
Erank J. semple Here Ycster,I.x

Frank j. Semple, vice president Of the
Simmons Hardware company. was In
town yesterday en- route to st. Louis. He
has been engaged on business trip in
this section.
II find the business situation very
good" said Mr.. Semple. 1.-The people seem
to be in good shape, and the indications
are that the business men are In reach
of very prosperous season. l think
business will be better during the year
than great many expected.
Il am glad to see Birmingham prosper
ing and making strides toward greater
achievements. few recent developments
here indicate that Birmingham Is growing
rapidly and that institutions are being
built up that will cause the citizens of this
city to become more proud OF the city
and it's attractions from time to time.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25
PLEASANT Affair nj Y. NJ. G. A.

THE members of the five senior Bible
classes of the Young Mems Christian as
sociation of this city certainly enjoyed a
most pleasant evening at recent dinner
given in their honor at the central as
ISOLATION building" said H. r. Howell,
one of those present.
Everyone seemed to be in the mood for
good time, and there was fun In abund-
ance. General Secretary Stallings as
toastmaster presided in a very happy man.
ner. Each class pulled off a special
stunt for the occasion, and some of then,
were most laughable, while others were
highly instructive. DIR. J. w. Johnson,
pastor of the First Methodist church. told
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

a New York man has been sentenced to
ride the water wagon for seven and a
half years. That's hard enough, but the
worst sentence that can be imposed on
a New Yorker is to Danish him from
Broadway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

Train robbers operating down south
have no reason to complain of hard times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

Belize she minds to play the Anna
ron. 3 Henry vi.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

George Deval years old. a great great
grandnephew of John Paul Jones. died
recently at Pau Some members of the
American colony in Paris subscribed
enough money TO rthe childs mother. who
Is poverty-stricken, to attend the funeral
at Pau. The boy had been adopted by
an American woman and was being edu-
Gated as an American. A great many
Americans living abroad had taken an in
terest in the child and it was planned to
send him to Annapolis to be fitted for a
naval career, if he showed any inclina-
tion for the sea. 1t was through the ef-
forts of the boys grandmother. Mrs. Ma
rion Stewart Gombault, who died in
Paris in 1912, that the body of John Paul
Jones was found some years ago and
brought to the United States. Mrs Com
bault died in such poverty that her body
was only saved from the common burying
ground by the generosity of an American
residing in Paris
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

Maxine Castillo says he has never killed
single man except in self-defense. " e
hope we may be pardoned for taking his
statement with a grain of salt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

New Jersey chef who threatened to
kill President Wilson and destroy the
national capital must have sampled some
thing that came out of a chafing dish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

The King of Grave Robbers" has been
arrested in indianapolis for running a
blind tiger. The law seems disinclined to
let him make a living
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

American books were sold cheaply at
a sale in London recently concluded. A
first edition of Whittier's poems brought
only s2.75. while a first edition of Oliver
Wendell Holmes "Autocrat of the Break
fast Table" sold for % cents 'arhe Pro-
fessor at the Breakfast Table" sold for
2.75. a revised edition of Ralph Wal
do Emerson's Nature Jared better and
was sold for 500. This authors Con
duct of Life" brought the sanfe price. A
first edition of Hawthorne's THE Scarlet
Letter was sold for $3.50. first edi-
tion of THE Marble Faun' brought a
final bid of % cents. A first edition of
Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka" was bid in
for Al5o. Walt Whitmans Leaves OF
Grass a first edition. went for SO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

Mr.. Taft proposes to take the platform
against votes for women. A few enc
mics more or less won't make much diff
ference to Mr.. Taft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

George Washington may have had his
the George Washington birthday party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

While literally some distance from the
public pulse of this country, Colonel
Roosevelt still contrives to feel it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

stand why the English government
doesn't pumpfeed her Mrs. Pank should
remember that the novelty of that sort
of thing has worn off for the English
government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

'Uncle Joe" Canron will run for Con-
-
eress again and The Joe Cannon cigar
may soon return to public life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

July l is a good day on which to open
the Panama canal July would not be
half bad, either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-25

ANIEL O'Connell, the Irish states
man, who was known as "the lib
orator." was q man above all men