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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
WORLDS cLEANEsT CAPITAL.

While Berlin is far from being the
greatest metropolis, 1t bears the better
distinction of being the cleanest very
large city In the world. In the current
number of Leslie's Weekly Eleanor Frank
lin writes appreciatively of the German
capitals cleanliness and beauty. and pre-
sents photographs that give ocular proof
of the famous town s attractiveness. The
noteworthy pictorial features of this issue
include photographs relating to the coro-
nation of the King and Queen of Norway;
a drawing by Joseph Becker showing the
new ship channel which Is being made
from New York City TO the sea; semi
humorous scene on the front indicating
the opening of the fishing season In the
Adihondacks; the photo-size contests;
glimpses of the terrible railway disaster
at Salisbury. England; a picture of the
society which won the $4,000 trophy. given
by Emperor William. at the recent Ma
tional saengerfest at Newark, N. j.. and
portraits of the leading educators who
have been pensioned by Andrew Carnegie.
illustrated articles that arrest attention
are C. II. Leichliter's story of the down.
fall of Dowieism; Arthur Wallace Dunn's
sketch of the new republican congress
sional campaign committee; Mrs. c. r.
Millers description of the opening of the
Crow reservation in Montana to settle
ment; and Harriet Quimby's account of
delicious summer refreshments in Cuba.
Horace Fort contributes a collection of
humorous stories concerning prominent
men. and Join Hughes tells of the heap
ing up of fortunes In copper. Jasper"
dwells on the critical nature of the situ-
alton in Wall street and wisely advises In
vestors and spectators who feel the al
lurement of the stock market
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
JUSTICE BREWER TALKS
ON RECENT TENDENCIES

the neglect of the states to impose and
enforce proper regulations the fact that
the impotency of local laws was due in
great part to the ENJOYMENT by federal
courts of the states police powers was
conveniently ignored.
Only few weeks before the introduce
ton Of the meat inspection bill in the
senate federal court in Wisconsin re-
strained the execution of a new gram
inspection law of the latter state. The
purpose of the Wisconsin law was to
supersede the Minnesota system of In
spection, which, In the written opinion
of the court, was admitted to be fraud
ulent, and to have given rise to gross
discrimination in favor of elevator men
and other abuses.
But the fraudulent system has become
established by the custom of trade; the
new Wisconsin law stood In the pathway
of interstate commerce; it was. there
fore, declared unconstitutional 1t is I'M
possible to frame an inspection law that
Will not at some point of transit permit
or require the inspection of commodities
that are or that may become articles of
Interstate trade. Decisions like one
quoted place practically all local in
spection laws under the ban of uncon-
stitutionality.
There has been too great readiness to
interpret the constitution to fit supposed
necessities. The tendency is toward the
merger of the authority of the town
in that of the county, the absorption of
the power of the county in that of the
state and the subordinaton of the state
and he delegation of Its duties to tho
national government 1.-The federal
government" says Justice Brewer. 'is
Efficient; but there are things greater
and more important than mere efficiency,
namely, the preservation and upbuilding
of the sense of individual responsibility
too greatly centralized government,
and the RELOCATION to it of duties which
local communities should perform for
themselves, breed habits of dependencies
and destroy initiative. The need of the
time is to return to our old moorings:
the idea that our nation is a federation
of Independent, though interdependent
and firmly united. communities needs to
be accumulated, and paternalism and i'm
perialiem put under the taboo.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
ARE MINISTER'S SONS BAp7

From Leslie's Weekly.
The bishop marked the names of those
whom he deemed worthy of remem-
brance for some service performed in
religion or politics or literature or. SCI
ence or art Of commerce or philanthropy
or warfare, or some other aspects OF
the various life of the nation" OF such
names he found 1910 who were the chill
dren of clergymen or ministers, taking
10 account of those who were grandchil-
dren sof clergymen or more remote de-
scendants- OF the children of lawyers,
there were $40, and of doctors $780, The
sons OF clergymen who became themselves
clergymen were $50. He further asserts
that the superiority which the clergy
enjoy, In respect to their children, to
the other professions lies beyond dis
pute The superiority has been
not of numbers only. but of degree.
From clerical homes have sprung more
distinguished sons than from the homes
of any secular profession
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
THAW VERSUS WHITE.
Much Unfair Comment to- the Muir
dered Mans Memory.

From Harpers Weekly.
The talk about the murder of Stanford
White continues enormous in volume. but
average talker has relieved his mind OF
everything he can think of at one time
on the prevailing topic, he goes on to
admit that there Is still as much as ever
to be said. Talk inevitably turns upon
Whites moral character The old saw
says: Give a dog a bad name and hang
him." In Mr.. Whites case the process
has been reversed, and the killing being
already done. the adjustment Of his repu-
tation to that fact has proceeded with
immense industry. If It could be estab-
lished that White was a moral monster
and absolutely unfit to live. 1t would not
excuse Thaw in the eye Of the law for
shooting him, defenseless. unwarned and
in cold blood, but doubtless 1t would nit
igate Thaw's offense in the eyes OF
jury. So far as has yet appeared. Ihaw s
only claim upon jury's sympathy viii
be this claim that White was a monster
and an outlaw How such a claim can
be eStaplsneu III d tiiai IA ""-'
not White. is the accused, does not ap-
pear, but the work of establishing 1t IN
the newspapers is comparatively easy and
is going on fast
OF course. this process of post-mortem
reclamation is exceedingly unjust to
Whites memory That his reputation was
very vulnerable everybody knows, but.
such as 1t was, it is not having a fair
chance. The man was very complex
person. If judgment must be passed on
him. 1t should be passed on the whole
of him and based on facts, and all the
facts, and not on rumor ana hearsay.
What was good should be known and
any such consideration can be given him
or any Just and rounded estimate of his
character reached seems very unlikely.
But this much. at least every fair-minded
spectator may do. He may remember that
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
Artillery Encampment.

]. Quincy Smith, captain of Battery
D, Brandon Light Artillery left Birmiug-
ham for Montgomery yesterday after
noon. While in Montgomery Captain
Smith will see about obtaining some
necessary equipment for his command
preparatory to the eneampment at Mo-
bile, which begins next week
THE battery will be represented at the
encampment," said Captain Smith, "by
some thirty or forty members. The boys
are in good spirits. and [ am certain
that pleasant and profitable week will
be spent There is no place more advan-
tageous for battery encampment than
Mobile. The place is admirably suited,
and when last we went into camp there.
everything turned out excellently. I am
anticipating one of the most successful
encampments in the battery's history"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
In Police Circles.

at may be a coincidence, but if so 1t is
a very striking one.'' said policeman last
night II have noticed it work out half
dozen times. Every time the regular
patrol wagon gets out of commission and
the open surry is put into service we do
a land office business
Monday night, for instance, the wagon
was broken up. Tonight we are using the
surry. In the past thirty minutes by the
watch we have made seven arrests. That's
the way l like to see things pick up. Il
looks like prosperity. pretty one-sided,
though. at that. But l believe some of
these old FOUNDERS like to ride in that
open vehicle. 1t gives them chance to
look around and see how much of the
town their booze makes them think they
own. Some of them when they come
sailing up in it, think they are in an au-
tomobile. Any way you may figure it out
the surry is more popular than the
wagon"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

the prevailing dampness which Is as
extensive as the cotton belt itself must.
II longer continued. produce untoward
results. Fields will become grassy. in
sects busy, and shedding will follow
when the suns become hot. Growths
will become excessive, and stems too
long. Thus far, perhaps, the rains
have worked no harm. There ars
fears. however, that they will last too
long. Heat and showers are, however,
normal in July.
A corn crop of fine proportions is
assured in the south. It will be as
ample as the limited acreage will per
NIT. If that acreage had been
doubled the south would have made
its own corn this year, and that is
just what 1t should have DONE
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
WONDERFUL RECORDS OUR
FEATHERED FRIENDS HOLD

ner of any creature. The top speed of q
horse Is about thirty-fve miles an hour
An ostrich, it is estimated, can run for
the first half mile at about forty-seven
miles an hour.
The speed of birds in the air is mir
acle which man rarely takes the trouble
to consider. A swallow which had a nest
in the gable of the railway station at
Antwerp was taken thence and sent to
compiegne, in France, distance of 1toh
miles, and then released. 1t was home
again within one hour and eight minutes.
It's speed. therefore. was 12S1s miles an
hour.
More than equally marvellous is the way
IN which migrating birds of all kinds find
their way in sunshine and darkness
through uneounted miles of the high at
niosphere, arriving year by year with
most absolute accuracy at their distant
destinations. Young euckoos leave Eng
land after their parents and find their
way unaided to Africa How do they
do It?
Birds are weatherwise beyond other
creatures. Swans and other water birds
seem to have some sixth sense which
tells them when wet season is COM
ing Before such a time they build their
nests higher than usual above the wa
ter line. so that If flood comes the nest
and eggs will not be washed away. The
peacock knows overnight what the wealth.
er will be- His harsh scream before he
goes to roost is certain sign of rain
before morning
Some migrating birds have the curious
faculty of avoiding places infected by
pestilence Swallows, for instance. will
never build where plague, cholera or yell
low fever is raging. St Augustine long
ago noticed this, and exhorted his fol-
lowers to "shun wickedness as swallows
shun pestilent places"
We speak of dainty persons having mo
more appetite than bird No less ap-
propriate phrase could be used. The bird
tribe have, one and ALL enormous ap-
petites A heron weighing four pounds
has when shot disgorged two trout-one
of two pounds. one of one and half
pounds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
Greedy and Grasplnu.

'All that Birmingham wants of the
democratic party" says the Mobile
Herald, rs everything In sight" and
1t proceeds to pronounce this city a
greedy, grasping giant 1t wants every
thing that is not nailed to the floor,
adds the Herald, from a place in Mr..
Bryan's cabinet to a place in nearly
every part of the historic old capitol
at Montgomery.
What the Herald means is that GER
tain citizens living in this valley have
become filled with desire to serve the
state. 1t cannot mean that Birming-
ham stands behind all aspirants that
live in Jefferson county, for in some
cases that would be impossible, and
in all cases it is a mere piece of i'm
agination. birmingham as whole
will support Samuel D. Weakley for
chief justice, but it will not support
unitedly the long list that the Herald
presents.
There Is no more office greed In this
city than there is in Mobile. A larger
population produces a few more as
pirants, and the Herald's error con-
sists in charging birmingham with
greed because a few individual as
pirants, living ip this county, are en-
deavoring to get into office by the prl-
mary route, which is open to all.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
EQUALITY.
BY McLandburgh Wilson.

BY McLandburgh Wilson.
Just take a peep in Babyland
And then you will be shown
The only true democracy
That earth has ever known.
They start their lives with naught at all,
In socialistic wise,
Nor may one drink champagne the while
For bread his brother cries.
One does not ride while other walk
To cause a jealous frown,
But all of them in carriages
Roll proudly up and down,
And, final democratic touch,
To make the case more clear,
One common language do they use
A boiler and tear
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
clean CIV.

TT seems that the dement's have de-
'rmined to assist the city in it's street
Gaming campaign" said man yester-
fay. THE downpour Keeps up until the
Belgian blocks and TIE macadam are
washed perfectly clean and all foreign
substance has been Hooded away into
the cutters and from thence into the
storm sewers and the creek and the river
and the sea. If the lew places have been
filled in before the rain and the standing
of stagnant ponds thus made impossi-
BILE we ought to have clean city in
deed.
THE stirring of the elements has fresh
ened the air We breathe, too, and coun-
less molecules of smoke and dust have
joined the stream of impurities that is
flowing to the great purifying plant of
the world In their place there is a little
more of ozone, and the pavilion of
heaven, with never d STAIN shows a
vaulted dome of a deeper and a brighter
bluen
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
From the Plttsburg Posi-


UsTIcE BREWER, of the United
(OU States supreme court, fully coin
- cides with the view of Alton b.
Parker, former chief justice of the New
York court of appeals, that the ex-
tension Of the police and other powers of
the fedral government has reached a
point &c which 1t might be wise to make
hal. in order to get our bearings In
his ADDRESS to the Arkansas Texas Bar
association at Little Rock, says the Phil
adelphia Record" Justice Brewer took
as his theme TWO Periods In the History
of the Supreme Court"
The first period was that reaching down
to the threshold of the civil war when
the constitution and its Interpretation by
Chief Justice Marshall were saoredly
revered. the rights of the state jealous
ly guarded and the federal government
held to the exercise of It's delegated
powers. 1t was enevitable that with
revolutionary changes in the facilities of
communications there should arise need
for federal regulations of a commerce
which had become preponderalngly in
terstate In the stress of great conflict
limitations was at times inlpracticable;
but the habits of thought formed under
exceptional conditions have doubtless been
injurious.
Justice Brewer pointed out some of
the consequences of the activity of the
liberal interpreter" and the "construc-
tive 1urist'-a variety unknown in the
earlier period. The supremacy of the
federal government In all things has
become presumptive; our colonial policy
has become identical with that against
which the Declaration of Independence
was protest; the federal government
has become a great dspensatory and
Washington has become the great lobby
camp of the world. More legislation has
been throust upon congress than 1t can
attend to- and constructive judges are
clamored for, who will stretch and en-
large the meaning of the Constitution.
The very restriction put by these con
structive' judges on the freedom of ac-
ton of the states have been made the
excuse for more constructive federal
legislation. Among the reasons for the
meat inspection, one of the strongest, was
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
Advancing Value.

81 bought small piece of unimproved
real estate In Birmingham four years ago.
paying something like $1,000 for it," said
J. r. Rankin of Georgia.
Il made the purchase at a venture but
today | am offered $1,000 for the lot.
had not visited Birmingham since 1 ac-
quired the property in question until this
week l remark the city's progress and
the offer for my real estate here will
not tempt me to sell. Birmingham is
undoubtedly the coming city Of the south
and my hot will bring $4,000 a few years
hence"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
From Answers.
VA E despise the struggling. nut-
WV terins, quarrelsome sparrow as
w a good-for-nothing street arab:

A@ despise the struggling, fut-
WV tering, quarrelsome sparrow as
w a good-for-nothing street arab:
yet the sparrow is In many respects mans
superior. Its blood temperature is con-
siderably higher than that of man, or
of any other mammal; it is far more ac-
tive, capable of much greater exertion.
1t can do with less sleep, can live where
man would starve. Its plumage is so
beautifully adapted to all acquisitions that
it acts warm blanket in winter, a dust
coat In summer. and in wet weather, ow-
ing to the oil glands at the bases of the
feathers. as a macintosh.
The same and more is true of birds as
class. In some ways they are the highest
of all vertebrate creatures? They have of
course, the inestimable gift of flight,
which not only enables them to escape
most of the dangers to which earth
crawling creatures are subject. but also
to speed at will over the whole earth.
AS architects birds far surpass all other
wild creatures. A few animals and a num-
Der of insects and fish, build dwellings for
themselves and their young. but what can
compare with the dainty. bottle-shaped
nest of the long-tailed tit, the swinging
home of the gold-crested wren, or the
carefully plastered mud dwelling of the
swallow?
The Indian tailor bird goes further still.
1t does what man cannot dot sews
without needle or hands, Using its bealx.
it sews together leaves of trees with liv-
ing fibres of other plants forming cone,
which It lines with very soft material.
Birds are possessed of enormous mus
cular power, far exceeding in some cases
that of any other warm-blooded crea-
ture There is an instance on record of
an eagle, Weighing no more than fourteen
pounds, lifting and carrying off a young
pig which weighed no less than forty-two
pounds. How many men could even stag
ger along the ground carrying three times
their own weight in their hands,
The kick of an ostrich is fearsome
thing. 1t will break a mans thigh or
even the leg of horse. The ostrich, too,
is for short distance, the swiftest nun
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

White-a man perfectly careless of his
reputation-was one about whom all man.
ner of gossip naturally clustered, and for
one sin that he did he doubtless was
credited with a dozen, and all of them
olaeker than their original. That is why,
when the sophisticated moralist says to
himself that Stanford White got what
was coming to him." he goes on to say.
But that is not nearly all of the story"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
AT THE BALL.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Miss Passays hair is all mussed, isn't
it?'
Eyes, just as If she could deceive any
one.
Deceive any one?"
Yes, she mussed it purposely just to
give the impression that some one had
been dancing with her.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
Dlscnrd in iowa.

Aside from the personal contest in
Hearst to become governor of New
York, no more interesting politics can
be found than Iowa republicans pre-
sent. The strife between the tariff re-
vision republicans and the standpat-
tiers is becoming so bitter that the
Des Moines Capital, the leading repub-
lican paper of Iowa. does not hesitate
to predict that two republican tickets
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

Lawyers sit in one room and traffic
men in another wAen attempts are
msae by railroads to conform to the
new rate law. 1t is already In effect,
technically speaking.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
No Mosquitoes.

Birmingham is comparatively free-from
this summer" said an. Apotn-
ecary. Indeed, I do not recall simmer
Ehen mosquitoes were so regnarked for
(eir absence. This time .dast year the
stiferous insect was pitch in evidence
d our anti-skeeteyf PREPARATION was in
nand. Very little of the mixture has
cen sod this summer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

Canned meats are going onto bar
gain counters, and they do not find
buyers even there.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

The novel writer's are creeping into
politics. except Joel Chandler Harris
and Brer Rabbit. and both have too
much sense to do anything Of the
kind.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

Harry Thaw seems inclined to prove
himself a sane murderer, and the task
may be difficult.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

Uncle Sam builds drydocks and de-
livers them at the spot where they
are to be anchored.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

The bon weevils are moving toward
Alabama with their eyes fixed ON
Lowndes county.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

Grover Cleveland mas gone on his
vacation. He is beyond the telephone
belt, and even the picture postal card
stores.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

Mrs. Bryan doubtless knows what
changes are needed in the interior of
lie White House.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

Alfred Belt, the British Rockefeller,
is dead. He made his money in pro-
noting gold mining in the Rand.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

Mr.. Bryan's clothes may not fit him,
but there is no one who can fill them
out as he does.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

The art of whistling is dying out
but it never was an art, and all will
be glad when the abomination disap-
pears altogether.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

The steel trust thought that third
of loaf was better than none In the
armor contract matter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

The Texas cotton crop will be a
record-breaker. If present conditions
are maintained.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

From the silver issue to the trust
issue is not a long ways. They are
at least cousins.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

Pullman sleepers are to be intro
duced into Japan. and the Mikado
may wake up to find he has rival
in the porter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

Dreyfus mad to seek his vindication,
and fortunately he had the money to
seek 1t with.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

Expert witnesses in murder trials
chiefly apply their experiences to the
extraction of money from the pockets
of clients.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

Roosevelt who will not run for Presi-
dent in 1908.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18

Instead of giving wine suppers,
Harry Thaw is buying legal advice,
and he finds the one as expensive as
the other.