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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03
E TUBWOMAN-By B. F. Riley, D. D.

are familiar with English history know that il was rendered ilustrious by some of the most distinguished names in the annals or Britain. alike In lsstars ant in science. Yet the grandmother of this Queen of illustrious reign was at one time an ordinary tubwoman in connection with London brewery The line Of royalty that sprang from that English country girl was Indebted to the force of character possessed by this maternal an- eestor. In the humble position into which she was forced she compromised not her womanhood, was loyal to duty, and her gifts and traits gradually won her a place of distinction.
 In the life and In the lineai descend- ants of the noble wife of the Earl of Clarendon Is distinct tinge of romance which seems to have escaped the atten- ton of most writers or English history.
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tfence works out the problem along with keen intelligence? We may talk of party loyalty and the old shibbo- leths if we will, but Christian states men are needed 'I will give unto thee the keys"
 8. There is a key of authority that is the accompaniment of the first two The authority of dogma may go, but the authority of knowledge and pa |tience will abide. Knowledge of dis ease, of the laws of welfare, welfare physical. economic and psychic, pa tiently won and patiently exercised, always spells power. Put men under obligation to your leadership and they will not cease to follow
 1. And there is the master key of enthusiasm, the sense of true divine afflatus, which is unselfsh love- What vigor of helpfulness Is in that fact let the ages bear witness
 I do not say that the keys are a prerogatfve or monopoly of the church, unless we define the church very broadly. But l do say that through the church these keys of the coming
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interest In music, the international lan- guage, will help to remove the misunder- standings which bring about war? The musicians are the messengers of peace and good will. Far more than of tobacco Is 1t true of music that it soothes the evil passions Of men. Byron wrote of tobacco as the widespread solace of mankind. Jet us substitute the one word music for tobacco In the English poets verse and read 1t thus:
 Sublime music, which form east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman' s rest
 When the sweet strains of peaceful music replace the trumpet's call and the roll of the drum, with the following thunder of the cannon, men shall be at peace.
 And in the meantime 1t Is encouraging to note that fin the United States, as well as in other countries. the amount of money spent yearly for music far exceeds that laid out for war preparations
 Frequently foreigners--or those Of them who are not preJudiced against us Americans--say that the quality they admire most in Uncle Sams nephews and nieces is our willingness to tackle" anything under the sun
 We feel ourselves competent to any task, they say and will undertake any thing without the weighing of the chances of success or failure which marks so many women and men of other nationalities. Only in some of the other new countries and colonies of the world Is this quality as marked as ft Is In America.
 So 1t Is rare to find an American ad-. hitting that he is not qualified for anything.
 But here's an example:
 The warden of one of the largest of the penitentiaries in the eastern states resigned recently. Asked for his req sons, since no official fault had been found with his administration, he said:
 "The reason? We'll, the principal one is that I have been unable, through ignorance of the work, to accomplish what l set out to do. I believe the warden of great prison should be compelled to undergo an examination to prove his fitness for the place. He shouiu pc selected from among the Keepers or others who have had q large amount of experience. There is nothing more ridiculous than the selection of man like myself. who has had no such experience. I have not been asked for my resignation. and do not believe that anyone has suggested that I be removed"
 How refreshing 1t is to find a man In high post confessing thus his un- fitness for post to which he had been appointed! Most men placed in his position would have held on to the salary and perquisites of the office, hoping they might 'muddle through and in time acquire enough knowl- edge to make a fair showing.
 But this warden Is too honest a man for that He want sto earn his sal ary. He Is not satisfied with sitting in the seat of power and good pay. taking money and honors which he feels are not rightly his.
 But the main point is this:
 He is not ashamed to confess his feelings of unfitness He is willing to step down and out to make room for man better qualified He may not h . man lsarnsd h Latin anA
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destroy the home or property of a man, but destroys the man himself. The prob lem then becomes enc of the proper care of the widow and her children. In the case of flood, the waters may not sub side for a considerable period, and the problem then becomes one of providing temporary shelter In the case of cy- clone or fire, destruction is quickly ac- compished, and the work of clearing away and rebuilding can begin within a few hours. A disaster which not alone destroys mans home, but also takes away his employment Is doubly serious and brings into the work of relief com mittee many difficulties and complica- tions.
 Every disaster brings It's own peculiar problems. An unusual problem occurred following the great storm in Key West. Fla, in 1909. Many or the sufferers were fishermen, whose loss consisted in the de- struction of their boats. This loss en- tirely deprived them of a means of liveli- hood. The Red Cross solved the prob- lem by employing them to rebuild their own boats. They were paid daily wages and were thus enabled to provide for themselves and families. As soon as the boats were completed. the daily wages ceased and the fishermen resumed their usual occupation. The principle involved in this instance Is capable of wider ap- plication in emergency relief operations
 Because of steadily increasing demands upon the Red Cross, the national direc- tor Is now to have four assistants in charge of the Atlantic. Central. Mountain and Pacific divisions. into which the coun- try has been divided for administrative purposes.
 The directors of divisions will ordinarily devote themselves to the organization of chapters of the Red cross in the more important cities and towns. and to the promotion of continuing educational work. which is intended. through instruction in first aid. elementary hygiene. home care of the sick and nursing in country ana town, to reduce the number Of accidents in industry and commerce. to minimize their disabling effect. and to improve standards of health. hygiene and sanita- ton among those to whom these subjects have not been presented in an eIective manner. On the occasion of great disas- ters. the directors of divisions will repre- sent the Red Cross In the organination and direction of selief oDeFatioaa.
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Some folks think the United States spends too much money on It's army and navy. They see. CT think they see, na- tfonal ruin in the great and constantly growing expenditures for monster battle ships, tremendous coast artillery and the pay of officers and men.
 Instruments of murder" they call these men and things.
 No doubt the sum expended is too high. and 1t would be well if an inter- national agreement could be made to limit the sum appropriated by all nations for war purposes.
 But
 It should not be forgotten that the war chest of the United States contains, after all only a small amount compared to the other items of our national expendi- ture
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Greek, but he feels the force of the ancient saying, Know thyself," which Juvenal. the satirist, says came from heaven.
 It Is good enough, one thinlkn to have come from there. even if 1t bo not of celestial origin.
 He that hath so many causes of joy and great is very much in love with sorrow and peevishness who loses all these pleasures and choose to sit down upon his little handful of thorns."
 So wrote Jeremy Taylor. the famous English divine, who was the greatest English preacher of his time. the seven teenth century.
 In his day. as in all the dusty cen- turies before him In the three which have followed him. there were persons who 'hugged their sorrows"
 As he put 1t. they "sat down on their little handful of thorns''
 There are thorns in the lives of all of us. since 1t is not given to humans to know perfectly happy existences,
 But we need not sit down on them. We need not let them pierce into our souls, however much they lacerate our flesh. We cannot avoid their points in passing through the fields and woods of life. but we need not wllfully press upon their stem ends to make the points and barbs hurt us the more
 How much longer ana sharper and stronger the thorns seem when we look closely at them! Is 1t not better to try to ignore themh, to salve the wounds caused by them with the strong anodyno of cheerfulness and usefulness? Coddling the wounds won't make them heal tho more speedily. It Is more likely to set up an inflammation, which aggravates the original injury.
 After all the really strong, sharp, .ong thorns of life are few fin number.
 Most of them are just little brambly affairs. like those of the blackberry. which guard the sweet fruit of the bush- es and are by no means strong enough to deter the berry gatherer. And when you get the luscious clusters are they not sufficient reward for braving the little "stickers?" And the fruit is sweet- CT for the obstacles overcome.
 And so 1t is fin life.
 But suppose when gathering berries you were to stop and try to rest by sit- ting down on the thorns. How long do you think you would remain there, and how many berries do you think you would gather?
 Better to face the thorns bravely and gather your berries while you are stand ing erect. You get more of them In that way. and they are larger and swestsr.
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HEART TO HEART. TALKS-By Charles N Lure

our best beloved. so that they cry out
 and die!"
 | So the writer warns us of the terri
 ble revenge which the neglected
 things will take upon us collectively.
 Happily however, in this one instance,
 there can be doubt that society Is
 taking note of what was formerly a neglected thing, and is fighting tuber- culosis vigorously, constantly and to good effect
 But there are other neglected things
 which are important | And
 | Many of us have in our own individ-
 ual lives the neglected things which
 are to us personally what tuberculosis
 and other infectious diseases and un-
 employment and drunkenness and gam .
 bling and immortality of all sorts are to the great body of the public. And they take their revenge of us, just as those other things make the people pay.
 Time which might be utilized and is not, opportunities that are not seized, warnings of illness. physical or mental, inattention to the real demands of
 business or profession or to the proper requirements of ones household. if one is a woman.
 All of these things are the neglected affairs which will have their revenge. Be not deceived. God is not mock ed, for whatsoever man soweth that shall he also reap" And part of the harvest and of the r nj n O vuiI1 ho-co mot fai to ha revenge of neglected things" The back may bend beneath the bur- den, but 1t acquires strength in the bend- ing. With the bearing of the load comes endurance for its further carriage. So is also the case with moral respon- sibility.
 In the states in which women have re- ceived the right to vote it has been found in many instances that they have meas ured up'' to their new responsibilities It has been made incumbent upon them to
 study the issues of the day and familiarize
 themselves with them. The mind is re- ceiving its exercise and is growing and
 broadening with the load. Said a recent
 suffragist speaker:
 "A wealthy and powerful Californian, an antispSragfst. made 8 remark which
 said: 'Hawe ,au noticed how different
 women are frs2lf' sbat they used to beg
 Why used to Kaat6a. dinner party. The
 women babbled. Ht,. bred me horribly.
 Nowadays they convefse. Its remark
 able how they talk of interesting mat
 ters.'
 This man didn't know why this was,
 but only that 1t was. He failed to real
 jze that women have grown mentally alert
 through study of the world around them.
 its political needs, It's social needs, it's
 moral needs. Nothing rouses the mind
 like responsibility
 Now
 You may believe in woman suffrage or not. You may be numbered among those who hold that sthe proper sphere of women is the home'' and who believe that the right to vote should be con- fined to man, the natural protector of womankind, or you may hold that the difference of sex should be no bar to political equality and that women. having As large and important interests in the community as men. should have voices in the running of the community. But if you are intelligent | You must admit that the awakening
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TIT used to be supposed that the
 kingdom of heaven was only an-
 other name for the blessed life be- yond the grave. But nothing is more sure than that here is the destined site and now the potential time for that divine fact. It is not to be conceived as far off, though Tennyson's au- thority echoes the old tradition; but 1t is imminent, impending-all it's glor- ious possibilities held for awhile in suspense, awaiting the touch that shall crystalline them into palpable fact or beatific splendor. The dream of the seer the theory of the philosopher
 the longing of the saint, the antici- patton of the social idealist all meet at one point. the promise of the Father And so from age to age the disciples have prayed, Thy kingdom come,
 sometimes thinking of it adequately as the unutterably and supremely broad, humane, sufficient, satisfying
 healing fact; sometimes narrowing it down to a selfishly pious heaven. ob- scure and almost childish. They are
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their daughter Anne to James brought the original tubwoman into close royal connection. and she became the mother of Queen and the grandmother Of two Of the English Queens.
 One of the sons of this country girl Henry succeeded his father as Earl Of Clarendon, and became lord lieutenant of Ireland, while another son. Laurence. Eearl of Rochester. was raised to the post of lord treasurer of Great Britain. Mary II. as she is known in English history. the granddaughter of Edward Hyde, became the wife of William, Prince of Orange. and Is the Queen whose name Is associated with the royal college built in Virginia, William and Mary college, which still stands. at which college Thom- as Jefferson and other eminent Virgin ians were educated.
 Of the reign of Queen Anne all who
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Hyde was greatly impressed by her mod esty. gentle bearing. and remarkable wis dom. and finally married her.
 Years went by. Cromwell came and went, and Charles II ascended the throne. Through the influence of his uncle, royal attention was turned to Edward Hyde as the choice of the throne as chief coun- sellor. In the passage of fervid core spondence between Charles II and Parlia- ment. Charles needed not only caution of phraseology, but the most dignihed ex- pression with a loftiness of thought to correspond. While these state papers bore the signature of the King, they were the product of Edward Hyde. and as they appear in the public records of the realm today. they have never been surpassed either in highness of tone or in force of thought. Vigorous and elegant. they re-
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WHEN DISASTER COMES-By Ernest P. Bcknell

(Exclusive Service The Survey Press
 Bureau.)
 n ECALL only a few of the disasters TX of recent years-the Galveston A \ flood, the San Francisco earth quake and fire, the Messina earth quake, the Monogan, Cherry, Dawson and other mine disasters, the wrecks of the Titanic and the yolturno. the Washington Place fire, the Baltimore fire, the Michigan and Minnesota forest fires, the Mississippi river flood of 1912. the flood in the Ohio and Mississippi riv- CTS. in 1913, the Omaha tornado--with their destruction of thousands of lives. their direct injury to the person or property of more than 100000 men. women and children, and their annihilation of prop erty worth more than thousand million dollars.
 And though the disasters mentioned are among the greatest. scores of others have called for the sympathy and help of the people of the United States. Since Janu- ary l. 1905 the American Red Cross has provided assistance for victims of 60 dis asters and in so doing has expended. in money and supplies. over $12.ooo,0oo.
 No community is likely to suffer from more than one or two great disasters in n lifetime, and when these have occurred, all hands have turned out to form . tenn porary relief organization and get the task over as quickly as possible, with minimum of attention to the principles involved or to the comparative value of this method or that, in the restoration of normal conditions and the rehabilita- ton of individuals The method of pro- cedure was somewhat analogous to the old system of rough-and-ready surgery or dentistry.
 It was not until the American Red Cross. after its reorganization in 1905, be- gan systematically to study and direct disaster relief operations that principles ana methods applicable to relief work of tnis character received serious attention. one of the earlier steps was an arrange ment by which charity organization so- cieties in the larger cities agreed to lend trained social workers to the Red Cross for service in disaster relief.
 No general statement concerning disas- ter relief 10 complete which omits refer ence to the vital part performed by the people of the communities suffering from disaster. Not alone the 1rst work of re- lief following . disester. but . great part
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ENCLOSING a part of the city of Can
 ton. China, is wall whereon ar 1 artist commissioned by the city painted dragon a long time ago. II is very well painted dragon. realistic beast with fearsome eye and jaws that look as though they could swallow a whole Chinese. queue and all.
 But the glory of the dragon is depart ed (So has the queue)
 No longer does the dragon lord it over the wall. He is a tanned dragon. IT, reverent modern Chinese, filled with the spirit of the new" China, looked upon the dragon when the Chinese republic was proclaimed and decided that he nc longer represented their country.
 So they removed the representations of the fabulous beast from their flag and their buildings and their walls. In Can ton which is an especially enterprising, up-to-date city for China, these modern ists took buckets of whitewash and brushes and painted over the dragon so that he no longer excites fear in the minds of the Chinese passersby.
 American cities have their dragons, too
 But we ought not merely to whitewash them over as has the city of Canton. We ought to scrape them off. so that they may never return (Perhaps in China if some of the reactionary forces now at work there get into power again they will bring back tLe dragon.) Mere dragons In fact, we have had too much whtewash in the past
 Our dragons are not painted on the walls of our cities; they are within. They stand with open, ravening jaws at our slums. They mow at us from the doors of the resorts of evil, which eat up our manhood and womanhood. They mock at and jeer at us as we pass. for they have often proved too mighty in the past for the forces of rerorm.
 Whoever will may be a dragon hun ter. With heart and hand with voice and pen and vote, we may enlist in the army which is forming to fight the dragons of ignorance and evil with the weapons of courage and zeal and education and enlightenment.
 The Chinese dragon was only an 'ab- straction, a visible symbol of the ignor- ant peoples belief in witchcraft and all manner of dark forces.
 But the American dragons are real. mighty forces. We d. not paint our dragons on our walls. but we permit them to keep on doing their wicked work behind the walls.
 Help to hunt the dragons!
 Writing in the Survey. an intelligent and sympathetic observer of conditions among the poor speaks of 'the revenge Of neglected things"
 His text is the disasters brought among those of us who are not poor | by the diseases which have their great est field of operations among the pow erty stricken. He says eloquently, for Example, of tuberculosis. the ''white death:"
 ''The white death is not abashed by any grandeur or stopped by any bar. He comes straight from the filthy hoy : sel to our homes and peers in upon us through the windows. while we fesst and laugh. He pushes open the door and strides in. and ssitting down at our very fireside, looks into the facos of ts -3-
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main unrivalled among the royal papers of England. Later the King made Hyde the high chancellor of England. and he became the chancellor of the University of Oxford. Later still. he was created baron, and in turn became viscount Com burg and Earl of Clarendon.
 The daughter of the Earl of Clarendon. Anne Hyde. was married to the Duke of York. who afterwards became James II, who was the father of Anne and Mary, both of whom became Queens of England. Had Edward Hyde not married the beau- tiful original tubwoman while he was a private gentleman. there would have been serious barriers in his way later. when he became one of the nobolity, but being elevated from the private walks of life to the nobility, his beautiful country wife of course shared in the rising tide of his rapid promotion. The marriage of
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HHE reign of Charles I was one of
 the most tumultuous in the history
 < of the English ,ealm. The King was arbitrary, defied the will of the peo- pie. occasioned universal disorder, and finally in the popular uprising under Cromwell, went to the block and was beheaded in front of Whitehall. As re- suit of the turbulence of the times, the prosperity of the nation was impaired. and the poor greatly suffered.
 During that stormy period, beautiful young girl from the rural regions of Eng land found her way to London in search of employment. In vain, for sometime she sought work in that great city, was many times sorely tempted, but preserved her genuine womanhood intact. and was finally forced, much against her taste
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For instance
 Nearly $6OO,OoO.0Oo is spent annually by Americans on music. three times the amount spent on the army and navy Surely this Is an encouraging sign of the advancement of the nation In civili- zation and refinement And surely the spirit which urges the men and women of America to spend so vast a sum on music will find a way in the end to do away entirely with the laying out of vast sums for the means of killing our fellow men. It was an American poet, Lowell, who wrote:
 Ez fer war, I call 1t murder
 There you hev it plain an flat.
 l don't want to go no furder
 Than my Testyment fer that. May 1t not be that the worlds growing
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His Princely Salary

From the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph
 MT. K, lawyer. was much addicted to the habit of lecturing his clerks. tho office boy coming in for an unusual share for 1t, and sometimes when 1t did not. That his words were appreciated were made quite evident to MT. K one day when a conservation between his and an other office boy on the same floor. wae repeated to him.
 ..whatcher wages,- asked the other boy.
 q get sio.oOo year" said Mir x-'s lad
 'I don't think" calculated the otAeR boy. derisively.
 Honest. do," said Tommy. 'l1ye dollars week in cash and the rect h leGnl adyica"