The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-25

the council receded and made the H. cense the same as 1t was before.
 Pickens Dust Booze.
 News from Pickens county indicates that the election held there Monday the prohibitionists carried the day by overwhelming majority. As an instance of the feeling of the town of Reform, one of the best in the county, though small, voted 126 against the sale and none for t. Other reports were as fol- lows: Pickensvile, 8 for whisky A against; Alicevil1e for, S2 against; Carrollton, 16 for. 125 against. Ii will be seen that in every beat-the others are the same-the sale of whisky was hit hard and knocked out Prohibition in the county carried with q majority of about 1000.
 Garber's Position.
 While he emphatieally declined to ds- cuss the right of the governor or the attaches in his offices to withhold pub lie records at any time, Attorney General Alex M. Garber made a statement yes terday in reference to the controversy be- tween Col. Sam Will John, Solicitor Bor- den II. Burr and Judge John Pelham
 Colonel Garber said that his statement as to his application to Secretary Fort had been misunderstood, and that In jus tlce to Mir Fort he wanted to say that there was no refusal to exhibit the rec ords in this now celebrated ease. ''The board of pardon took no action in this case" said Colonel Garber. for the req son that under section 12i of the eonsti- tuition of the state of Alabama, establish ing the board of pardons, the jurisdiction of the board Is confined to cases of fel- ony. In the case of Wiley Tom Johnson the case was a statutory offense in which MT Johnson was charged with sending a threatening letter to the judge. 1 have no official connection with the case, and therefore do not care to discuss the merits of it.
 But in justice to MT Fort I would like to say that when I went to him, at the request of MT Burr. I explained what 1 wanted, and he told me that In view of the i'll feeling which had been engen dered that he would rather I wait until the governor returned. MT. Fort did not decline to exhibit the record. but asked me, as q personal request, to wait until the governor could give instructions in this matter. As soon the governor returned the paper was sent to my office I took a copy and sent it to Mir Burr"
 The Farmers Friend.
 'Tt is a violation of the laws of Ala bama to shoot bullbats" said John II. Wallace. Jr., state game and fish com missioner. "The great problem of the cause of the prevalence of plant maladies and the problem of weed control each year grows more harrassing to the far mer. The reason for this is simple. Our most beneficial birds among them-bull- bats, robins, doves and field larks-haYe been so ruthlessly destroyed that in less than a generation their numbers have decreased 80 per cent. Many reckless men and wanton boys shoot the harmless feathered sonssters merely for sport and do not appreciate the fact that they are destroying the farmers best friends, that do valuable work for him every day without compensation
 .Builbats are valuable insect deyour- | CTS. their stomachs are elastic and will l hold more than that of pigeon and it's | voracIty Is simply phenomenal yet Its l diminutive frame Is only about the size of l sparrow The part borne by the bull | bat in mosquito destruction. especially in the exterminatlon of the 'anepheles' or | malaria and yellow fever spreading spe- | ces. transcends the combined work of a | case of quinine and tank of kerosene | oil. As a fever germ abater in a mala- | rial district. a flock of bullbats il worth | a whole grove of quinine trees. There is no question but that the ravages Of the Mexican boil weevil that devastates cot ton fields like a whitening simeon, cannot ! be checked in a surer way than being ob- | liberated by our insectivorous birds. In l fact experiments conducted by the de-