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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
Sectional Bitterness Has Gone

1t is extremely gratifying to note
with what accord the press of the en-
tire country, north and south, united
in praise of Abraham Lincoln upon the
occasion of the observance of his birth
day, which was celebrated on the 18th
of this month. Mr.. Lincoln was
friend of the south, but had he not
been the time has passed when bitter
ness of feeling would prohibit that
section of the country which once
constituted the Confederate States of
America from recognizing the worth
and paying tribute to the greatness
of the martyred President.
Lincoln in rising from obscurity to
the highest gift at the hands of the
people, his success in overcoming his
lack of educational opportunities and
social advantages to such an extent
that he became the peer of the great
statesmen and diplomatists of the
world, is an inspiration for the youth
of the land and an exploitation of the
possibilities of democracy.
Lincoln was statesman of the
highest type and had not his career
been cut short the south would not
have been forced to endure the horrors
of the reconstruction period. His Get
tysburg speech has become a classic
and the war filled his cup with bitter
ness from the dregs to the brim.
He declared: "If l could save the
union without freeing any slave |
would do it," and again, "If | could
save it by freeing all the slaves |
would do it," showing that he was ac-
tuated by no hatred of the south but
impulsed in his policy by his love for
the union. Andrew Jackson, the pillar
of democracy, gave utterance to prac-
tically the same sentiments when he
declared that the union must be pre-
served at any cost, and he is one at
mention of whose name every loyal
tongue gives praise and every loyal
head is bowed
Hate and prejudice have disappeared
as the fitful fires of fatal bogs and
stripped of all sectional enmity an
united country bends the knee in de-
votion in honoring the memory of
Lincoln.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
AGRICULTURE Is SUPREME

From the Breeders Gazette.
1t so happens that all the things in the
world worth while are associated with
the out-of-doors, the forests and the
fields, the fiocks and herds and the deeper
mysteries connected with life itself, her
edity, the germ plasm, the creation of
new life. To spend the force or thought
and effort in making fruitful and beau-
tiful part of the great out-of-doors is
as worthy an object as one can have.
When there is a great body of men and
women whose culture" IS agriculture,
striving each to translate human aspira-
tions, into the quiet joy of the fruitful
fields, then will this land be a really Won
derful place in which to dve. Perhaps
then this old epitaph may be repeated
in memory of some cultured graduate of
an agricultural college:
He took a portion of earth for his and
loved it. He covered a barren hillside
with grass and his fiocks fed thereon.
From his own rich inward stores he
brought forth and spread upon the land
until it was made rich, beautiful and
fruitful. Because of him many did enjoy
the fruits of the earth and were sed'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
MORE THAN EVER

From the National Monthly.
A certain lady suspected her husband
was in the habit of kissing the cook, a
pretty German girl, and resolved to de-
teet him in the act. After watching four
days, she heard him come IN one evening
and gently pass through into the kitchen
Now, Katie was out that evening and
the kitchen was dark. Burning with jeal-
ousy, the wife took some matches. and,
hastily placing her shaw. on her head, as
Katie often did, she entered the kitchen
by the back door and was almost i'm
mediately seized and embraced and kissed
in the most ardent manner. With her
heart bursting with rage the injured wife
prepared to administer terrible rebuke
to her spouse. Tearing herself from his
embrace, she struck a match and stood
face to face with Katie's beau, one of the
factory boys Her husband says his wife
has never treated him so well since the
first month they were married as she
has fer the past week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14

cipient to pursue a course in techno-
logical studies. He furthermore ex-
pressed the desire that preference be
given in awarding the scholarships to
the sons of such persons as shall have
been for at least two years creditably
connected in some manner with rail-
way companies with which he himself
had been a financial factor. Lord
Strathcona bequeathed large sums to
hospitals in Great Britain and Canada,
and in nearly all his gifts sentiment
was pronounced.
The example of recent benefactors
can but have a wholesome effect on
society at large. While immense for
tunes may have been accumulated
through combinations of capital-and
trusts of questionable methods-there
is far less sordiness today than ever
before. The very rich have given
proportionately larger sums than in
former times, and while Andrew Car
negie's well known dictum that it will
be a disgrace for man to die rich is
not accepted literally, it has had far
reaching effect for good on the multi
millionaire class.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
Cattle Raising

The Alabama Live Stock associa-
ton will hold its meeting at Talladega
February 1919 and the event will be
one of considerable interest to the
farmers throughout the entire state
There is at present no branch of in
dustry that appeals more strongly to
the agriculturist that that of cattle
raising, an especially attractive finan-
cial undertaking while beef is holding
to its existing values.
Just few days ago the wires in
formed us that Sophia XIX, the pride
of the Hood farm near Lowell, Mass,
and the greatest producing cow
on record, has yielded in five years
64,253 pounds of milk and 1923 pounds
of butter, or an annual average of
within fraction of 900 pounds of but
ter. 1t is not every farmer that can
expect to equal this among the cows
that he may own, but it shows the pos
sibilities that lie in cattle raising and
insures nice profit whether the ami
mails are raised for dairy purposes
or as beef cattle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14

No progress can be made free from
sacrifce, and in 10 years of experimenting
with the submarine in England, France.
Russia, Italy, Germany and Japan, 200
officers have met death. The submarine
fotillas of the world comprise 175 vessels,
manned by $500 officers and subalterns.
Among the aviators there are some 5000
licensed bird men and their death list is
twice as large as that of the submarine
roster. Still, while navigation beneath
the surface is not so hazardous as aerial
navigation the latter has shown much
more progress than that of tee subma-
rine. 1t has as yet been undemonstrated
that the latter will be of any appreciable
service in warfare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
THE GOLDEN SIDE

BY Mrs. NJ. A. Kidder
ihefe is many rest in the road of life
III. we only would stop to make it. X
Ana many tone from the better land
II the querulous heart would take it -
10 the sunny soul, that is full of hope,
And whose beautiful trust ne'er faiIeth.
The grass is green and the flowers are
bright
Though the wintry storm prevalent.
Better to hope, though the clouds hang
low,
And to keep the eyes still lifted,
FOR the sweet blue sky will soon peep
through
There was never night without day,
Or an evening without a morning;
And the darkest hour, as the proverb
goes,
Is the hour before the dawning.
There is many gem in the path of life
Which we pass in our idle pleasure
That is richer far than the jeweled crown
Or the misers boarded treasure;
1t may be the love OF little child,
Or a mothers prayers to Heaven,
Or only a beggar's grateful thanks
For a cup of water given.
Better to weave in the web of life
A bright and golden filling,
And to do Gods will with a ready heart
And hands that are swift and willing
Than to snap the delicate, minute threads
OF our curious lives asunder.
And then blame Heaven for the tangled
ends,
And sit and grieve and wonder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER
THE CURSE OF DRINK

The Prollibitionist with me,
With pain his breakfast viewed;
81 cannot stay here, sir" said he,
For all these prunes are stewed.'
Cincinnati Enquirer.
AT luncheon I was very sure
His palate would be tickled;
Said he: "Such sights 1 can't endure;
These wretched beets are pickled'
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
When dinner came / felt at ease;
With good things we were housed,
But he refused some nice head cheese
Because the stuff was soused.
Indianapolis Star.
I took him to a night cafe
To make him drink a cup
OF coffee, but he ran away
The place was all lit up.
st. Louis Post-Dispateh.
l took him home to dine one night
He left us ON the run
EXclaiming What a dreadful sight;
The buffers on a bun"
Detroit Free Press.
He entered in restaurant
But from it quickly shrank,
Explaining to the waiter: "Sir,
Your coffee urn's tank.
kansas City Star.
I introduced him to a maid;
He truly loved the girl,
But Tilted her because, he said.
She wore a corkscrew curl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
ToMoRRow-TRIAL OF THE HUMBERTs
A DELICATE PROBLEM FOR WILSON

From the Atlantic Monthly.
The negro question has projected itself
into the consideration of civil service mat
passed, but the crucial test bids fair to
come during the present administration
The last democratic President mad teen
trained his life long in notions of the
civic equality of the races. The new
President has southern antecedents and
a southern environment and hence knows
the race issue from a side unknown to
Mr.. Cleveland. As fair-minded man be
will feel bound to look at 1t 'n the
round" as it were, and, however we may
deplore the failure, all the laws we have
put upon our statute books to protect the
civil rights of Americans of African de-
scent have not been able to lay the spec
tire of instructive blood prejudice.
With reason or without, white male
clerks object to taking orders from col
ored chiefs: white women shrink from
contact with colored fellow clerks IN q
crowded office, from isolated stations in
the Indian and the forestry ane the re-
clamation fields where small groups OF
employes are unavoidably thrown INTO
close companionship, come constant pro-
tests against such compulsory minsln3
of races. The railway mail service, in
which clerks and messengers have often
to share sleeping quarters, is the latest %
make it's voice heard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
HIS INSTRUMENT

From the Houston Chronicle.
u see you complain of a sore throat
said the regimental doctor, looking at his
report as the last member of the sick
parade stepped up.
Yes, sir, terribly sore,'' answered the
bandsman huslSily.
The doctor examined him carefully.
Yes, it is rather infiamed" said he.
You had better not strain it in the
band. | shall strike you off duty for
a week: come to me again at the end oil
that time and in the interval gargle
with salt and water
At the end of the week back came the
bandsman quite recovered. That's good.
said the doctor. You're fit for duty
again now so you can return to youi
work today. BY the way, what is your
Instrument"
The snare drum, sir answered Tom
my without the flicker of an eyelid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
GET TOGETHER
, Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Cannot some honorable means be
found to reunite the democrats of Penn
sylvania? Is it not possible to stop the
futile internecine warfare which fur
ther threatens the success of the party
in Pennsylvania? While it is too much
to hope that the coming primary con-
test will be conducted as dispassion-
ately as spelling bee, we may at least
strongly urge the rival candidates and
their respective supporters to bear in
mind that they are working toward a
common goal in the advancement of the
best interests of the democratic party,
and to go into the skirmish predeter-
mined to abide by the decision of the
voters, with an eye single to the cleo
tion of the ticket a majority of the
democrats of the state shall select
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
Rich Mems Gifts

The benefactions of the rich have
increased rapidly within the past few
years. In this country the gifts of
multimillionaires to humane, educa-
tional and religious institutions
amounted last year to about $3.50, ,000,-
600. This is believed to be double the
amount of benefactions ten years
ago.
In Europe men of wealth have made
large gifts for the promotion of art
and education and for various forms
of benevolence. Karl Jacobsen, the
Copenhagen brewer who died recently,
left $40, 0,000,000 to be expended by
trustees on art He had number of
children, but each possessed large
means, and the multimillionaire gave
practically his entire fortune for the
promotion of art with the consent of
his sons and daughters.
Lord Strathcona, the British states
man whofilled with conspicuous ability
the important position of high COM
missioner for Canada, was a man of
vast wealth and made many large be-
quests, notable among them being
$500,00 to Yale university. His lord
ship made his fortune chiefly in rail
road investments in the United
States, and being man of fine senti-
ment, he said in his will:
Whereas. I have greatly prospered in
and by reason of investments made by
me within the United States of America
and especially by reason of my connec-
ton with the ST. Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba Railway company and the Great
Northern Railway company, corporations
organized under the laws of the late terri
tory and present state of Minnesota. and
it is my desire TO signify IN some proper
way my. appreciation of the benefits whicl
have gained from such investments anC
my connection with the said companies
Therefore | leave and bequeath ant
direct my trustees to pay to the presi
Gent ana relloWS or Yale university the
sum of 100000 for the promotion of the
modern sciences and for instruction il
the practical questions arising from tn,
application of scientific knowledge to tn,
industrial. social and economical prob
lens of the time, it being my special de
sire to have the said sum expended Sc
far as in the opinion of my trustees may
be deemed advisable for instruction il
civil and mechanical engineering, witt
special reference to the construction
equipment and operation OF transporta
ton of passengers ard freight whether by
land or water and the financial and legis
lative questions involved
Lord Strathcona was broadly edu-
Gated, and he took especial interest ir
the education of young men who re-
vealed aptitude for engineering anc
other professional work. He expressed
the wish that one or more scholar
ships be founded, the income of which
should be sufficient to enable the re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF THE HAYMARKET RIOTERS

THE spring of 1886 saw an unusual
amount of agitation among labor
4 organizations looking to higher
rate of wages and a schedule of shorter
working hours. The revolt was mostly
in the west. Chicago was a sort of storm
center. In May 10000 workmen struck in
Chicago to enforce the demand for an
eight-hour labor day. During the early
part of the month several workmen had
been shot by police and by Pinkerton de-
tectives.
On the evening of May was an
nounced a public indignation meeting for
the following day in Haymarket square,
at which good speakers" would be in
attendance. About 1900 workmen assem-
bled on May 4. Most of the addresses
were comparatively mild in tone, but
about 10 o'clock, after the mayor had
gone and part of the audience had dis
persed Samuel Fielden gave utterance to
vehement incendiary remarks, referring
with derision to such men as Washing
ton, Jefferson and Patrick Henry, and
concluded: The law is your enemy. We
are rebels against it, You have been
robbed and will be starved into a worse
condition.
At this point a body of about 1S0 police
men marched up. Captain Ward adj
dressed the crowd 81 command you, in
the name of the people of the state of
Illinois to Immediately dispense" They
arrested Fielden. As the police were car
rying him off deafening explosion oc-
CURED and third of the policemen fell
wounded the result of a bomb.
The officers still on their feet dashed
against the mob, of whom over so fell,
the rest fleeing. A storm of wrath fell
upon the anarchists, who had thus for
the first time tried their methods in
America. The actual thrower of the bomb
was probably Rudolph Schaubelt; but
by shaving off his beard Immediately he
avoided Identification, though twice ar
rested, and finally escaped to parts un-
known.
Efforts were made to bring the heads
of the Chicago conspirators to justice.
The bomb used was probably the produc-
tion of Louis Lingg, who all the after
noon before the riot had with his as
sistants, been filing bombs similar to
the one thrown.
Lingg was arrested as wen as seven
other men connected with the anarchist
newspapers conducted by Albert R. Par
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14

suspensive power. It may reject a
bill and temporarily suspend its opera
tions, but if the Commons pass the
same bill three times and an interval
of two years has elapsed between its
first and third passage it automati-
cally becomes the law of the land.
Thus the eyes of the world are at
present centered upon the two most
democratic governments upon the face
OF the globe and that world is watch
ing with intense interest the manner
in which these two democratic govern
ments will effect to solution of the
vital problems with which they are
now confronted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
DemOcracy's Two Great Problems

King George of England has just
made his speech from the throne be-
fore the assembled ''lords and gentle
men, and President Wilson has de-
livered a message to Congress which
he read in person. In restoring the
practice of our early days the Presi-
dent is invoking but a survival OF the
English custom which King George
observed when he made his address at
the opening of Parliament. The one,
however, was the voice Of statesman
the echoes of which will reach the
farthest corners of our domain and
command careful consideration; the
other was but the utterapce Of pup
pet which would probably be forgot
ten in fortnight were it not for the
expressed royal wish to see the ami
cable settlement of question which,
is now vexing and has for several gen.
erations greatly disturbed the British
nation, namely that Of home rule for
Ireland.
Our internal troubles, the tariff,
the currency reform and the income
tax problem, have all been most
felicitously disposed of and the issues
with which we remain perpiexed per-
tain to outside matters, the Mexican
situation and the Panama canal eX-
emption of taxation for coastwise
American vessels. England's o'er-
weaving problem is the Ulster situa-
ton and constitutes most serious in
ternal disturbance.
! For sometime the men of Ulster
have been drilling daily in the streets
of the cities, towns and villages and
the government has been warned that
hundred thousand subjects stand
ready to give up their lives. in the
resistance of home rule.
| However, it seems absolutely GER
tain that the home rule bill will pass
| the House of Commons and as it will
constitute its third passage by that
body it will become law irrespective
of the action of the House of Lords,
which will in all probability veto the
measure.
But the veto power Of the upper
branch OF Parliament is no longer op-
erative. That body now merely has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
EXCEPTIONS

From the Christian Register.
Foote, the comedian, dined one day at
a country inn and the landlord asked how
he liked his fare.
Il have dined as well as any man in
England" said Foote.
Except the mayor cried the land
lord.
Il except nobody, said he.
But you must screamed the host.
Il don't
You mustn'
At length a petty magistrate took
Foote before the mayor, who observed
that it had been customary in that town
for a number of years always to ''ex-
cept the mayor" and accordingly fined
him shilling for not conforming to an
cient custom. Upon this decision Foote
paid the shilling, at the same time OBJ
serving that he thought the landlord the
greatest fool in Christendom-eXcept the
mayor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
WHY NOT CIGARETTE POCKET.

From the London Chronicle,
Why does not some ingenious tailor in
vent cigarette pocket? There was never
Yet case big enough to hold day
supply of cigarettes for the inveterate
smoker of them, and there are few cigar
ettists who bother about a case at all.
The original packet is thrust into a
pocket and the cigarettes work them
selves out to be mixed with ana crushed
by letters, a box, of matches and other
accumulated oddments Now, a pocket OF
convenient size and position for cigar
ettes only would be boon to those
who always leave the case at home. !
make gift of the idea to the sartorial
profession as an innovation for our new
spring suits
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Farm Lands In Demand

There is a great demand for small
farms In Alabama; and as I am per-
sonally interested in Cullman lands, /
can testify to the large number of sales
made in that county within the past L
months" said Leo K. Steiner.
Our sales were far greater in 1918 than
in 1912. The high price of cotton has
naturally stimulated the demand for farm
acreage. Many farmers who have bought
land in Cullman have recently increased
their holdings Cullman, as everyone
knows, is one of the best agricultural
counties in Alabama. While trucking has
proved highly successful, large crops are
also raised there with fine profit. We are
getting SIS per acre for our Cullman land,
but it will not be long before the price
levels are much higher"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
A ONE-CROP COUNTRY
,o, Farm and Fireside.

From Farm and F1reSlde.
Probably there are very few of us who
do not know what a legune is, but many
of us might be at a loss to tell whether
or not some particular plant falls under
that head. Here is a list of the important
legumes, as given by the United States
Department of Agriculture:
Red clover, alfalfa. cowpeas, alsike
clover, crimson clover, white clover soy
beans, peanuts, Canada peas, hairy vetch
common vetch, velvet beans, Japan clover,
sweet clover, tlr clover and beggar
weed"
This list of 16 leaves out some which
are not very important as field crops
The department publishes this statement,
which is North while for all of us to men,
orize:
Among various causes which have led
to the abandonment of lands once cul-
tivated. there is no doubt that the great
est single cause is the failure to utilize
legume crops"
This failure is almost certain to take
place in one-crop country. A .one-crop
country is one-generation country.