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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-21
Court cost Victims.

According to my opinion there is Sc
rious injustice in the present law or sys-
tenn of collecting court costs in erimi-
nal cases. said a we'll known Birming-
ham attorney yesterday.
ut is often the case that a man con-
victed on a technical misdemeanor is
fined a nominal sum because the court
is compelled to convict and though the
unfortunate man could pay the fine pos
sbly is unable to pay the court costs
and is sent to the penltentlary because
of this default
THE penitentiaries of this state are full
of petty criminals working out court
costs. They could have paid the fines i'm
posed
1T Is often the case that a man is
found guilty of a charge involving no
criminal intent Because the evidence
proves an act of oriminallty the court
must convict but assesses the nominal
fine of 81 or S. as the case may be. The
man convicted could pay the fine but
goes to the penitentiary because he can
not pay the court costs of sS5 or $50 that
have accumulated.
This. according to my opinion. is
bad system and the law should be
changed"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-21
Tea and the Japanese.

with u.s. says Charles Edward Rus
sell in Soldiers of the Common Good"
In the August Everybody's, Japan has
covenanted at Our earnest request that
she will not subsdize certain industries
for instance. tea export. Some years ago
she set apart an annual appropriation
for the Japanese Tea Guild Subsidy?
Not at all, said the Japanese govern
ment, nothing in the way of a subsidy.
1t was merely to advertise Japanese
teas, advertisement having been made
necessary by the serious and growing
competition of Ceylon and Assam teas. I
am told that about l per cent of the
money was actually used for ADVERTISE
ing The rest went to pay the expenses
of branch tea houses opened In New
York. Boston, Montreal Chicago, and
desired? Because for years foreign firms,
chiefly American. had possessed the tea
exporting trade at Japan and the govern
ment was determined to secure that trade
for Japanese interests. Foreign govern
ments protested at Tokyo. They wasted
their time. With that faultless polite
ness that is one of the charming traits
OF the Japanese, the government officials
gave assurance of their most distinguish
ed consideration-and renewed the appro-
priation. 1t lapsed while the war was
on, because Japan had need elsewhere
for all her funds; but now the gov
eminent has in hand an act that will
finish the work begun by the appro-
priation and effectively put the foreign
tea-houses out of business
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-21
RECORD OF THE COURTS

Judge Samuel L. Weaver heard several
deferred habeas corpus cases in the crln-
NAL court yesterday and disposed OF them
as follows:
Fannie Hines, charged with numbering
Carrie Cobbs with razor, remanoeo "
jail; bond $1,000.
G 3. Dickerson, charged with assault
with intent to ravish, released.
Arthur Hickman, charged with murder
| allowed bail at $500 by the consent OF the
solicitor.
After hearing the evidence in the case
of Son Avery, charged with grand iar-
cenv. Judge Weaver made an opinion tnae
,here was probable cause to believe the
defendant guilty. BY the consent OF the
so,,citor bond in this case was reduced
to $50.
The examinations for mine ioreiiian
were concluded In the room OF the county
snnerintendent of education on tine tniru
eoor ~ the court house yesterday AFTER
mon They had been in progress TOT az
most three days.
-Marish Holmes filed suit in the city
court yesterday against the Birmingham
| Railway, Light and Power company TOT
5000 for personal injuries alleged to nave
been received on or about July at the
corner of First avenue and twentieth
street through the negligence OF the oe-
PENDANT or the defendants servants.
REGISTER Altman was still engaged yes
| terday in holding a reference In tine case
of 1nez Jones VS.. Julia Edmundson for
the purpose of ascertaining reasonable fees
for the solicitor for the complainant and
| for the guardian ad litum.
Petitions in voluntary bankruptcy were
| filed in the federal court yesterday as fol-
lows: c. B. Lythe liabilities 1894, assets
$40 in wearing apparel and wages due;
| Alice ]. Clark. liabilities 1920, assets
none but exempt Bolton Dorsey. labil-
| tiles s2s5, assets about $50 in wages due;
| John C. White. liabilities s23s.S5. assets
s51 IS in household goods and wages due:
| ]. NJ. Shannon. liabilities sS4 90, assets
s25 in wages due; Will Wright, liabilities
$40. assets about SIS in wages due.
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From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
r HE education of the masses must
scaly head out of the jungle
and alarms the spirit of progress. Here
comes a man who, in a letter to The
Sun, expresses indignation at the behavior
of the crowd at game of baseball be-
tween the so-called Giants and the ath-
letic representatives of Boston. He OBJ
jects to the aid given by the crowd to
the local players According to him the
Boston team had the New York men
beaten, in the technical term OF the
sport, to "a pulp" Then the crowd be-
gan to shout and make other discordant
noises, which presently so affected the
nerves OF the Bostonian pitcher that he
lost control of himself and permitted. the
New York persons to hit the ball fire.
quently and heavily.
Whence came this barbarian who
knows nothing of the customs Of baseball
contests as formulated by our leading
universities? Has he never seen game
between Princeton and Yale or between
Yale and Harvard? Does he not Know
that the ignoble populace which attends
the professional games has adopted the
nnAthods of the collegians? Culture" Is
spreading among the people. Sweetness
and light are shedding their efulgent IN
fluences across the professional diamond
This Is desirable; it is lovely; 1t Is as
1t should be.
When the valiant sons of Princeton are
in the technical language OF tine game
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-21
BRYAN IN LOUISVILLE.
Big Reception for Southern States Be
ing Prepared BY Kentucky City.

Louisville, July 20-William J.
Bryan will be given a public reception
and welcome home by the democrats
of Louisville and the entire south soon
after the eastern democrats get
through welcoming him. A movement
has been on foot for some time TO
make the reception big event. John
w. Vreland. member OF the democratic
state central committee from the Fifth
district, has charge of the arrange
ments.
| is the intention to invite all the
democrats in the south. The recep-
ton is to be held in the armory, which
will seat 1900 persons. The invita-
lions will be extended to Senator ]. w.
Daniel of Virginia, Senator Carmack,
Senator Frazier, Governor Cox and
Senator-elect Bob Taylor of Tonnes
see; John Sharp Williams, Senator
Money and Governor Vardaman Of
Mississippi; Senator Morgan, Senator
fettus, Richmond P. Hobson and for
mer Governor Johnston of Alabama;
Hoke Smith. Senator Bacon, Senator
Clay, Clark Howell and Governor
Chandler of Georgia. Senator Tillman
and the Governor of South Carolina;
Senator Bailey, Senator Culberson,
former Senator Roger @. Mills and
Governor Lanham of Texas; Gov. JEFF
ferson Davis, Senator Clark and Sena-
tor Berry of Arkansas; the governors
and Senators and members of Con-
gress from North Carolina, Florida
and Maryland and other prominent
democrats.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-21
BALLooNlNG AS A PASTlME.
'om the Brooklyn Eagle

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
The French are beginning to make light
of going up in the balloons; and aero
nauts tell us that 1t is rapidly becoming
the way to travel. Oh! there no danger
at all when you know how to steer: IL
you keep about 1000 feet above the surface
of the earth the air is pure and highly
recommended to consumptives as healing
to their lungs. At that height you are
sure not to meet obstacles on the sur
face of the earth, nor any in the skies
Indeed. aeronauts and "chauffeurs" agree
that it is not nearly so dangerous as au-
tomobiling certainly not for pedestrians.
and Count de la Vaulx, who was the vic
tor in 1900 for long distance ballooning,
said: Formerly. when | was practicing
reason why Siderable balloons were Inn
practicable; there was no motor. Now
that the problem has been solved |
am ready at any time, when given suffi-
dent funds, to go anywhere in toleraby
fine weather What Keeps aerial naviga-
ton backward is the enormous cost in
the construction of balloons the silk en-
velop costs about $So0O 1t costs nearly
$1,000 to fill It, Then there is the shed to
shelter 1t; then their is the workmen.
Now, when ballooning comes down--no
play upon the word meantime danger
will not keep men from indulging in 1t.
In another ten years we will be so used
to seeing aerial transportation that 1t
will be no longer a curiosity to look at"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-21
Boil WeeviIs at Work.

DR.. w. d. Hunter entomologist Of
the department of agriculture. has
charge of the federal effort to mini
mize the raids upon cotton bolls of the
destructive insects from Mexico He
able to stay the eastward march Of
the weevils He says they have come
to stay, and that they will spread
themselves and their successors over
the length and breadth of the cotton
belt. Possibly few districts along
the northerly edge of the belt may es-
cape unhurt by the insects. but the
chances are that in the long run the
entire cotton belt will be overrun. At
present the insects seem to prefer the
latitude of Shreveport. Jackson and
Montgomery. DR.. Hunter thinks the
pest will infest Louisiana up to the
Mississippi river, and it may cross the
big stream this year. August is the
month of its chief activity and extern
sion. It reaches in that month its
maximum in numbers and voracity,
ard its migrations in that month will
be closely watched.
DR.. Hunter is proceeding on the
plan of growing enough cotton for the
spinners and for the weevils also. The
spinners take the earlier bolls, while
the later bolls on a plant so to the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-21
Vote for the Best Man.

The longer the candidacy of Nathan
L. Miller, who stands for the state
Senate, is before the county the more
strength 1t attracts. Mr.. Miller's cleo
ton is practically assured He is
widely known in Jones valley, where
all the years of his active life have
been spent
Mr. Miller has gained distinction in
the higher walks of his profession, but
he has not been content to be simply
a man of legal attachments. He has
ever taken a warm interest in public
affairs, aiding his party at every op-
portunity and serving the people
wherever and whenever he saw a
chance in which he could bring skill
and strength to bear. In the Method
list church he is the superintendent of
a Sunday school. In all places and at
all times he ever has been good
American citizen-one who believes
In government by the people for the
people.
Rarely do the voters OF a senatorial
district have a candidate of Mr.. Mil
ler's capacity standing and personal
popularity combined. This senatorial
district is by far the most populous
in this state, and Mr.. Miller will prove
an ideal senator.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-21
TELLS OF THE BURIAL OF
SIR JOHN MOORE POEM

ror IN the date might have put him on
the scent. Lally-rollendars expedition
started, not IN t1is, but In 17s7 And # the
Critic writer had consulted the second
volume of Bsntiey's Miscellany as well
as tho first. no wouid have found a close
German version of woife's Ode purportine
to relate to the death of an officer in
the time Of Gustavous Adolphus Whether
Mahoney wrote the German version also
I do not know.
THE evidence 80 far given has been in
the negative. The positive testimony that
Charles Wolfe wrote the ode in question
has been fully set forth by C. c. Dover
In Notes and Queries Ninth Series, Vol.
I page 4e1. and Ninth Series. Vol Il, page
l4s. The question Of authorship Is not a
new one by any means. but was made
the occasion for all sorts of hoaxes and
impostures until 1s4i. In that year. let
ter from Wolfe was discovered, contain
ing the lines in his own handwriting. and
implying his authorship The matter was
then settled beyond reasonable doubt
Everybody knows THE Eells of Shan
DON" which sound SO grand on the river
Lee, which Father Prout. as his pseu-
donym was also delighted in composing
PAROLES and playful translations from the
Greek, Latin, French and other languages.
He contributed to Bentley's Miscellany"
to which reference is made in the article
above
After leaving the church he was jour-
na1ist. and his work was done between 1894
until his retirement to a monastery and
his death in 1866.
There was a Count Lally-Tollendal who
held Pondicherry for ten months against
the British, but surrendered 1t In January
1861. He was executed for this act by or
der of the Parliament of Paris three days
later. with the connivanee of the East In
dia company. His son was the author of
some Memoirs" designed to rehabilitate
his father.
Sir John Moore was a British general
killed at Coruna in 1909 during the PENN
sular war. The Rev. Charles Wolfe was
born In County Kildare, Ireland. in 1871,
and died of consumption in 1923. His poem,
1.-The Burial of Sir John Moore" was
written In 1916.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-21
DOWN ON FRENCH LICK.
Ind ana Lawyer Says Violation Of Law
Is Wsnton and Willful.

Indianapolis. July 20.--Warren Big
Ter, auditor of state, has written to the
French Lick Springs company and the
West Baden Springs company that as
the result of the investigation that he
instituted there last week he finds that
the two hotel companies have been
engaged in "wanton and willful viola
ton of the criminal laws of the state
and demands that both companies
cease their unlawful practices
This is the official finding following
the examination that was made of the
papers, records and documents of each
last week, and is about the last chap
ter in the case.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-21
Sues for WAGER.

They have an interesting case in At
lanta at present" said a lover of the
wrestling game in Birmingham last even
ing. ''Oleson, you remember, wrestled
with Greek, Demetrial several days
ago, and because the official declared
the Greek used the strangle hold, gave
the decision to Oleson. The wager and
the gate receipts naturally went as the
decision. Yesterday, the Greek who claims
that he did not use the strange hold, filed
suit against the shareholders for the
amount of the wager. am watching the
case with interest.
IT imagine. too. that the match talk
ed of between this same Greek and Tom
Griffin In Birmingham will now be call
ed off. Birmingham has entertained sew
eral wrestlers during the past few years,
and never has there occurred any trouble
or contention. l believe that this will be
continued
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-21
Gold COMING This Way.

AS soon as $2,500,000 of South Afri-
can gold arrived in London It was
snapped up" by American buyers,
and it is already in transit to this
country. There is no profit in the
purchase as an exchange transaction,
but this country needs as It's crops
mature and must be moved more
money, and the bankers in New York
are using securities and whatever
else they can command to turn gold
this way.
The hope is that the shipment to
New York OF the South African bars
is the beginning of a movement that
will tide us over the trying crop-moy-
ing period. Money is already easier
In New York, and this is an indication
that more gold Is expected. A ship
ment from Australia direct to San
Francisco Is anticipated.
London is still the gold market of
the world, and it is there we have to
20 in order to procure large supplies
of the yellow metal. This country is,
however. great producer Out of n
total production of S375,000,000 in
1905 our American mines turned out
s104 900 900, or nearly one-third.
South Africa promises to do wonder
fully we'll this year. America, Aus
tralia and South Africa produce pretty
much all of the worlds gold, and all
are Engnsh-speaking countries.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Suburban Life.

we have been surfeited with pleasan-
tries anent suburbs and the villa in
Lonesomehurst' said man who rides
considerably on the suburban cars, but
the fact remains that life in the SUI
burbs has its compensatlons-and adj
vantages that the city dweller never ex-
periences. Such are the pure air, and the
peaceful stiffness. and the scenery of IN
dulating green and COWS and cabbage
patches and such other honest country
life as goes to make up the rural land
scape.
"A good example of contentment is the
business man who has finished his days
work and gone home to his suburban
cottage and his wife and babies. About
him are all of the above and the loose
leaves of the evening paper, and within
him Is such of the contents of the sheet
as he has cared to scan and the con-
seriousness that he has city water. gas.
sanitary sewerage. electric lights and
most all city advantages"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-21
Politics in New York.

The New York Sun says the next
governor of New York will be dem
ocrat and that that democrat will be
the next president of the United
States. Possibly the Sun may not
know what will take place in 1908.
Posslgbly, therefore, William jennings
Bryan of Nebraska is still in the run
ming.
The next governor of New York will
undoubtedly be democrat, and pos
sibly he may become the choice of the
national democracy. 1t is a shrewd
guess of the Sun, which must be
counted a republican paper.
At this writing Mr.. Hearst seems
a winner of the gubernatorial nomina-
ton in New York. He is carrying
county after county. He will lose
some democratic votes. but the mall
contents and the fioaters would flock
to him and he would be elected. He
was vote-getter last year, and he will
be a vote.getter this year. Mayor Nc
Clellan proposes. however, to keep
him out of the nomination by pushing
the claims of William Travers Jerome,
but the chances of nomination do not
run towards Jerome. On the other
side of the house Governor Higgins ex-
poets denomination, but he may get
out of the way to let Lawyer Hughes
of insurance prosecution fame run.
Neither, however, can be elected. Gov
ernor Higgans certainly cannot be.
and Mr.. Hughes prospects are not
much better.
But even If it be assumed that VIII.
liam Randolph Hearst will be the next
governor of New York, what then?
Mr.. Hearst says he is not candidate
for the democratic presidential nomi-
nation in 1908.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-21
ALABAMA PRESS

Northport Breeze: More home-raised
hay has been sold here this season than
ever before and yet the demand was
greater than the supply This years crop
WILL we think be larger still
Lamar Democrat: We note with much
regret the disposition of some of our
rural exchanges to deal unJustly With
the gubernatorial contest now on in this
state. Let's deal fairly between the two
candidates.
Selma Times: We should not overlook
the fact that delegates are to be elected
to a state convention in the August pri-
mary If we go to sleep on this ques-
ton another whitson may appear on the
scene with a plan TO go back to the old
convention system. Whenever that is done
there is going to be a revolution in Ala
bsma politics and we expect to be one
of the revolutlonsts.
Monroe Journal: The Montgomery Jour-
nal thinks the next legislature will be
overburdened with business. It names the
subjects that will demand treatment, as
follows:
The lengthenlng of the legislative
term
2. The relief of the overburdened courts.
g. The surplus in the treasury, the
schools and the veterans.
4. The extension of the back-tax law.
5. Protection of human life.
These are not all the subjects that
need treatment, for there are at least
five more of deep and wide Importance.
Suggests the Birmingham Age-Herald.
These are:
l. A new uniform school book con-
tract.
q Repeal of the cumulative feature of
the pool tax.
SLocal taxation for public schools.
4. The fee problem.
5. Care of county convicts.
Here are ten subjects, and the rate
question, which is always with us. is not
included. The legislature is limited to fifty
days and it Is plain that its members
must come we'll prepared to do business
rapidly if the work in sight is to be
disposed Of and the state put on a foot
ing to go four years without additional
legislation.
The question of quadrennial legislatures
is itself on trial, and the state is by
no means unit in favor Of the present
constitutional provision. Were an amend
ment submitted providing for biennial
terms 1t would doubtless be accepted at
the polls. Perhaps the best way to render
the constitution of 1901 acceptable and
even popular Is to submit amendments
freely, thus giving the people opportun-
tiles to pass upon its provisions and to
bring it up to the present needs of the
state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-21
F,rom the Pittsburg Poat.

From the Pittsburg Post.
oNrE days ago The POST printed
81 from the columns of the Critic
- an article purporting to explain
why the Rev. Charles Wolfe had never
written any poem that had attained that
general fondness and school boy familiar
ity which are associated With 1.-THE Burial
of Sir John Moore Mainly impressed
by the closeness of what was alleged to
be the French original. and without ex-
animation Of the dates. or recollection OF
the fact Of Francis Sylvester Mahoney's
marvellous facility of translation, the al
legged find of plagiarism by the contributor
to the Critic was reprinted
The item has travelled. It was not
pleasure to thus give currency to a rude
shock to the poetic "reminiscences of every
school boy on recitation day, and 1t is
a duty and an assured pleasure to re-
habilitate the Rev Charles Wolfe, and to
accept the refutation of the too astute
gentleman of the Critic" who did not
know Of Father Prouts remarkable prank
ishness in translating
This communication was written by
Charlotte Holmes Crawford of Nyack, N.
Y, to the New York Evening Post who
was an offender also In rcprinting the
Critic article:
sir: Father Prout's French rendering
of wolfe's ode on the Burial OF Sir John
Moore has excited so much comment re-
Gently that a word about his peculiar fac
ulty may not come amiss.
He was in the habit of indulging in
these harmless polyglot facetiae.' Per-
haps the best known of his linguistic
pranks was his close translation of the
Last Rose of Summer into Greek and
Latin (Rellcs, 1880, p. 400; and the publi-
cation of his own Greek and Latin verses
of the poem as the work of Anacreon and
Horace. He made a jocose attack on
Moore for borrowing from the ancients
without scruple or Acknowledgement
These translations are a degree more
impossible than his French version of
Wolfe. In his own day, no one was taken
in by these pretenses. and it is pity
that the correspondent of the Critic did
not investigate further before he pub
lished his astonishing discovery The err
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-21
Congressional Measures,

Attorney General Moody calls attention
to the fact that at the session of Con-
gress just closed more bills for the pro-
lection of the individual were passed
than ever before said a lawyer. Con
gress recognized that the big manufac-
turing combinations were encroaching on
private rights to an alarming extent The
interstate restrictions in many cases
amount almost to fortifcations around the
camps of the corporations There is no
doubt but that for this part of its work
alone the first half of the Fffty-ninth
Congress will go down in history as one
of the most useful sessions of that body"