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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
Cruelty to Horses.

"Of all the stupid and cruel practices l know of," said a Morris avinue mer- chant, that of tying a horseI head up with a check rein Is the wors, l never allow my driver to use such hn instru- ment of torture and I think tiere should be a city ordinance imposing [ fine upon a person who hitches a horse Without first releasing the check rein.
 'I was passing along Se9nd avenue about noon today and outsidSof store saw a poor old horse alnpst gasping under the heat of the blazing sun, the flies buzzing around his ees and nos trils and his head refined upes if he were looking to heaven for relief At the risk of having trouble on my hnds I pulled out my pocket knife and et the reins.
 ''The check rein has lonaago been dis carded among owners o9 9horses in all northern cities but downfouth here the custom still prevails, andfll venture 70 say upon no other grand than that grandpa always used \ check rein on old Dobbyn.
 II am strong advocaf of the Humane society, but that socletj will never be 9
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
WOULD CALL IT TEDDYVILLE.
Alabama People Want New Name For
 Their Wonderful Town.

Town Creek (Ala) Dispatch to New York
 Times.
 Presidents have come and Presidents have gone, but the great question that has the uppermost in Town Creek for generations has not been solved. There is hope now, however, that it will be, and some citizens are already practicing writing Teddyville as their home ad- dress Long ago some pioneer who had no imagination fixed upon Town Creek as the name of the future metropolitan city of Lawrence county, Alabama. No body changed 1t in time, and 1t sticks. Hence an air of scorn that has been as stunned by the citizens of Tuscumbia, who have always said proudly that nobody could mistake whether they were talking of town or stream when the name of their home was mentioned. This spirit has spread also to Yocom, Mehama, Igo- burg Oplee, Basham, Pebble, Tavern, Notes, Step, Brick and Arctic while the attitude of the Progress people has been unbearable.
 Lots of time there habe been proposi- tions ot change the name. Leading citi- zens have pointed out that a town that has a school house, two churches and a railroad running through 1t should not be looked down upon. Everybody agreed as to that, but nobody was able to rally sufficient following for his particular name. Last week some of the good housewives of the town gave an inspira- tion to the leading citizens that is likely to solve the whole problem. Five sets of twins and three sets of triplets were born in that time. Now campaign Is under way to have the town called after the President, the enemy of race suicide. Limestone county had got in ahead with the name Roosevelt, but what is the mat ter with Teddyvine? A petition calling for it's adoption is being largely signed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
Just a Line of comment.

"Cotton will be worth 15 to IS cents thts fall with q 10,500,00O to Il 100000 bale crop, which is the present prospect said Dal- las Boyd, travelling representative of a New Orleans cotton firm.
 q see the boil weeyil has yielded to tur- pentine and accepts the prohibition fight gracefully" said A R. Dearborn.
 "The labor question in cafes is getting to be a very serious one, and the public has no idea of the trouble we are having with our help" said Victor Hobart of Paul's cafe.
 "If the present legislature would pass an act applying to cities of 5O000 the cen sor plan, much of the trouble of over crowded jails would be relieved. As long as justices of the peace are allowed to is sue warrants on a mere pretex for the 75 cents fee there will be full jail" said Judge Weaver.
 T see that Talladega applies her clos ing law not only to saloons but to pool rooms as well. It would not be bad Idea to put that law in force here. on the negro pool rooms especially" said council man.
 q like the idea of a house of detention Birmingham need not be then doubly ad- vertised as having the largest jail and the highest salaried peace officer in tho south," said judge of one of the courts
 Boss, what's that I read in the papers about selling no more whisky after the 1st of January? Don't they know there is already trouble enough getting labor, said a negro workman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
Birmingham's Progress.

Birmingham gives unmistakabld evil denee of steady growth" said II. Il Sin nige of St. Louis, but formerly a tromi- nent citizen of Birmingham. q an here about every six months. and on each visit I am struck with the Improvement The crowds on the streets indica e that the Birmingham district has a verF large population, and while I may nto hive to see it, there are young men heie who will witness Birmingham with popula- ton of million.
 AS for beautiful residence sections. simply marvel at Highland ave5ue. De- troit is one of the few cities in this country with anything in the way of scenery and boulevard effects approach ing the South Highlands
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
THE COST OF VICTORY.

the c2I ortunity to press Japan to re- lease the iron grip she has taken on southern Manchuria.
 The resources of the United States would enable 1t to carry on the struggle for a long time, even if 1t should suffer initial defeat. The only way in which Japan could force peace would be to oc- cupy port on the American continent, Say San Francisco, and hold 1t against American assault. With command of the sea, chances are strong that the capture of San Francisco, could be effected, but there is no foreign attache here who believes 1t could be held for any length of time. American officers say the cap ture of the city would be impossible.
 There has been great deal of misun- derstapding about the Japanese losses in the war with Russia. Every one has be- lieyed the Japanese achieved marvels in the way of preserving the health of their troops. Information just received here shows this to be erroneous. During the entire period of war-nineteen months the hospitals fo Russia received 333, 411 or 224..5 per 1000 soldiers; those of Japan SS4,072 or 2205 per 1000. The slightly greatoc liability of disease of the Rus sian amy is accounted for by the fact that it operated in climate with which 1t was unfamiliar. The Japanese found themselves under precisely the same con dtions that existed in their own coun- try. The Russian loss in killed and wounded was 17i,600; Japanese, 220 TO- For every 100 men who were killed CT died of wounds thirty-seven died of disease.
 Ther Is not the slightest question in the minds of the medical officers that a huge American army such as would have to be organized would be subject to ty- phoid and other diseases, even if it were retained in the United States, and loss from disease would be greater elswhere. Of cours, the Japanese would suffer equally as much. On sea, the probabil- ity is that one fleet would be wiped out It is extremely doubtful that an Ameri- can or Japanese battleship would sur render as did the Russians. Therefore, it may be expected that a defeated com thousands on board either killed or drowned.
 Altogether, Washington is united in hoping that the jingoes will not be suc- cessful in forcing war between the Unit ed States and Japan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19

Although their elders were occupied with grave affairs, the young people were bent on enjoying the holiday, however Dur ing the afternoon the waters of the Hud- son and East rivers were dotted with row. boats for there were no ferries adequate to the satisfactory accommodation of a holiday crowd. The nearest sea bathing was at New Utretch and Rockaway Beach, Coney Island thef being terra incognita,, and it was a pleasant drive through the country from Brooklyn to either of those places. Another popular drive was out to Kingsbridge, through the village of Harlem. Other outdoor resorts, not so far away, where the wayfarer might obtain refreshment, were Raneleigh, better known as Mount Pitt, on the road now known as Grand street, near Cor lear's Hook which, according to the ad- vertisements, afforded a fine view of the city; Strawberry Hill on the Blooming- dale road near what is today the juno tion of Broadway and Thirty-fourth street, and the Indian Queen and Tyler's in Greenwich street Passaic Falls. fin New Jersey, was also a favorite resort lol 4NVW 1oiheTS Wnltner many had gone for the day.
 Towards evening the ladies and gentle men of polite society began to appear on Wall street, the fashionable promenade. Elderly men of fashion still favored the styles of the revolutionary period and wore small clothes and cooked hats, with their hair done up in queues, while their sons took sartorial advice from London.
 As the theatre presented performances only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri days, Fourth of July evening saw the beauty and fashion of New York at Vaux- hall Gardens, which occupied that space bounded today by Great Jones street, Broadway, Astor place and the Bowery. The special feature of the entertainment. however was a moving stage picture rep resenting the English soldiery sailing out through the Narrows, on the occasion of the military evacuation of the city, which aroused great patriotic ardor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
X HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
frank Marshall in Harper's Weekly.

Frank Marshall in Harpers Weekly.
 N FTER dinner, which was a midday
 PO feast in New York, at that stage
 of our civilization the leading citizens attended Mayor Marinus Willett's reception at the city hall in Wall street. Were the Leopold outrage was almost the sole topic of conversation. There were other welghty matters to occupy the pub lie mind just then, for 1907 was a momen- tous year not only for the United States but for the world at large. Napoleon Bon aparte was at the height of his mlschiev- ous career and the latest news from Eu rope that day was that the French and Russians had been in a general engage ment from the latter part of April until May 1O and that the former were vlcto- rious and the latter retreatng.
 At home there was important news. Aaron Burr had just pleaded not guilty to the crime of high treason at Rich mond. and Chief Justice Marshall had refused to allow him liberty in $1O0o 600 bail. A story was going the rounds that the imperturbabe prisoner had ironically invited hostile crowd that had, sur rounded his carriage on his way to jail to come and see him, assuring them that they would always find him at home. However, Bonaparte and Burr were of little interest in New York that day by comparison with the portentious occur renee off Cape Henry. It was not the only, although it was the most serious, outrage of the kind, for American vessels had been subjected to unwarranted de- tention and search by British men-of- war for months, and it seemed to the patriots that England was trying to goad the United States into another war. The necessity for great navy and for addi- tional harbor defences was the subject of discussion all the afternoon at the coffee houses-the Tontne and the Phoenix in Wall street, the Albany in Greenwich and the Seventh Ward in Cherry-and at the leading hotels, such as the City in Broad way, the Merchants in Wall street and the New York in Broad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
ROMULUS AND HIS WOLF.

From the London Globe.
 At last there Is some faint light on the origin of the legend of Romulus and Re- mus and their wolf. The story comes from Crete, where the people were always liars But 1t had roundabout trip before set ting at Rome Professor Ducati of Bo- logna has Just read a paper before the National Historical association on an old Etruscan stele now in the Bologna mus cum, on which there is rudely but cleai- ly carved a she wolf sucking a child As this stee belongs to a period an- terior to that to which the birth of Rom1- Jus Is referred, 1t seems clear that the legend of the wolf reached Latium from Etruria, and 1t seems certain that the Etruscans learned 1t from the ancient city of Miletus, which was founded by MletuA, the son of Apollo and of a daughter of Minos, King of Crete. The Cretan fable was that the child was abandoned and sucltled by a she wolf, and afterward fled to Asia Minor to escape from the de- signs of Mnos.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
WHERE SHALL WE BEGIN?

From the New York World. Note.-Presldent Wilson of Princeton says that 1t would do more goodfto put one real responsible head of a trust in the penitentiary than to fine a thousand corporations for violating the laws. True, true; too true;
 An old, old truth,
 Quite obvious to age and youth All over this broad land,
 Where everybody all the time Is quick to understand.
 We know we ought to pick out one And soak it to him hard,
 To bring about in all the rest The proper high regard
 For law in all its majesty But say, before it's done.
 Will Dr. Wilson designate
 Which one?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
President WinchelI's Policy

The Rock Island railroad has through a new policy outlined by Pres ident Winchell decided to go out of politics, state or national, for once and for all The hope is that President Winchell's wise course will be adopted by other railroads until railroad poli- tics and railroad Hobbies cease to ex- ist. No more promising or hopeful announcement than that of President Winchel has been made in a long time.
 Not only was the maintenance of Hobbies at Washington and at state capitols a heavy tax, but they became nt length source of irritation to the masses of the people. They provoked i'll will which eliminated at last in hostile legislation. The Rock Island has. therefore, decided that 1t will not hereafter move a hand or spend dol lar to control or influence legislation, When all the other railroads do like wise the hostility of the people against railroads will abate, and it will not until they do. The divorce of railroads and state is demanded by public senti- ment. and President Winchell has at any rate seen the handwriting on the wall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19

Cannon. Fairchilds is the real first choice of the reactionaries, and his only hope lies in the working of the favorite-son business to a limit. The new Cortelyou boom has been taken from the hands of First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock and re- stored to the experienced hands of James s. Clarkson, surveyor of GUS toms of New York, and puryeyor gen. eral of patronage at large.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
The Republican Hive.

"Yes, there were quite a number of republicans here today" said one of the anti-pie eaters yesterday, but there was no practical work done, only just informal chats.
 "The Thompson Scott combine said in public print that they would call a committee meeting some weeks ago, but they have not done so. It was the opinion of those I've talked with to- day that after counting noses it was deemed wise to delay this call
 "The office holding wing of the party in the state are getting into disfavor with the rank and file of the party, many of whom are men of wealth and influence in the state"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
'om the New York Pres

FTUTH tNt NtW OTk Iress.
 When you can see through a woman's clothes they are worth all the money they cost.
 We can get enjoyment out of most any thing unless we think it's good for our health.
 Some women are so immodest it makes them blush to buy sleeping car ticket from a man.
 When a man carries around a lot of money with him either it is somebody elses or 1t Is going 70 be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
OLD ROMANS,
From tn

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 The committee of the Roman senate found Cincinnatus blowing with a team of flea-bitten mules.
 "Cincy." the chairman remarked, 'wo have been sent by the senate to tell you that you have been chosen dicta{or.%
 The old man chuckled
 Boys he said, "the distance interven- ing between tater digger and a dictator isn't so great after all"
 Well pleased with his witticism he tied the mules to the fence and went back to town with the committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
The Jail Question.

"We don't need any more jail room" said county officer. What we heed is a stop to the overworking of the fee system
 Every time a justice of the peace and a constable or deputy sheriff takes a man to jail on some flimsy chtrge it costs the county not less than S25 to $30 in each case where there $ no conviction. If there Is not some stop put to 1t the labor question will be- come more serious here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
GOVERNOR JOHNSTON.

From the Montgomery Journal
 We do not know that former Governor Johnston will ever get to the federal Senate but we are inclined to think if he does achieve this ambition he will make the state most creditable representative in the upper house of Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
How to Excel.

Said well known eltlzen Golfers Weekly quotes H. G. Wells as writing: The nation that produces in the near fu- ture the largest proportional development of educated and intelligent engineers and agrlculturists, of doctors. schoolmasters, professional soldiers and Intellectually ac- tive people of all sorts "s must excel at arms The city he might have added, that produces the largest propor- tion of educated and intelligent artisans and professional and business men will excell at all efforts.
 ''The cities of our country whose people have grasped the truth of the above ak ioms have provided for adult education through free public libraries.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19

The Missouri river people want $40. 000,000 with which to open the river to navigation to Sioux City. The War rior people would be glad to get s5000,000 to open Van Hoose's canal to Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
TEE HARTMAN HUNT.

w. J. Hampton, in the New York World
 What is President Roosevelt going to do about it?-World editorial Pray, do not crowd the mourners;
 Give Theodore a chance To even up with Edward
 And he will use his lance. He owes him one for writing
 The letter that he wrote, And Hartman will get it
 Where Willie got the goat. The President has told us,
 In language which he said, He'd bang the evl-doers
 The least of whom aint Ed. He'll bring them all to justice,
 The high mucks and the low, And when he's finished with them
 The pure will have a show. The interstate commission
 Twas hoped would do some good By pointing out to Edward
 Exactly where he stood Perhaps 1t did-however,
 It looks more like wreck, With Edward standing firmly
 Upon its helpless neck But Theodore is diff'rent-
 He tells us with vim That Hartman and Hades
 Don't cut no ice with him. Just now he's on vacation
 And making hay and tan, But some time In September
 He'll take up Hartman. He'll butt into the fracas
 In his impulsive style, And when the scrap is over There won't be any smile On Edwards face, and wildly
 That bold, piratic cuss Will in amaze be asking
 What hit the octopus. Our Theodore has said 1t,
 Has said it with the vim We all admire so greatly,
 And now it's up to himi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19

success until we have a city ordinance de- fning what constitutes cruelty and en- powers the police to arrest people who violate the ordinance. Day after day I see women carrying chickens by the feet, the poor things trying to raise their heads to prevent suffocation. I have seen sheep and goats piled into wagons just as if they were logs of wood; have seen mules merclessly lashed upon parts of their body that must have caused the poor brutes torture, and yet we talk of civiliza- ton and humanity.
 "The golden rule is just as applicable to the poorest and lowest of Gods creat- ures as it is to human beings but 1t seems that in this city the iron rule is the one most observed, especially towards dumb animals"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19

F. H. Hartman may be a bigger man than Uncle Sam, but the people will never believe it until there has been a test wrestling match between them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19

4iarry Orchard may wake up some did not commit those twenty-nine mur- ders. He may have kept tab inaccur- atelV
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19

J. J. Hill is out of the focal North. ern Securities fire, and E. H. Harri- man is in it in two places, at Alton and on the Pacific coast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19

An English officer attributes all wars to the fact that soldiers wear uniforms. There is a deal of human nature in this theory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19

Styles in battleships change almost as frequently as they do in women's hats, and there is often no more req sons for the one than for the other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19

Thaw may elect to postpone his sec ond trial until he knows the wave of unwritten law has reached New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
ALABAMA PRESS


 Gadsden Journal: Another battleship explosion. It seems that our big war ships are really only over-sized toys. Yet Captain Hobson wants us to spend d billion dollars of Uncle Sans money on collection of these uncertainties.
 Anniston Evening Star: An Alabama legislator threatens to introduce a bill prohibiting automobiles from running on any country roads. Why not amend it by requiring owners of autos to change tn em into flying machines and then pro- hibit them from flying.
 Huntsville Baner: A bill has been in- troduced in the Alabama legislature by a member from one of the rural dis tricts hoping to pass a law prohibit ing automobiles from running on the roads Automobillsts from all over the state are wondering if he wants wings put on the machines.
 Gadsden Journal Judge Jones has put a few large spikes into the Conner pro- gramme. The regulation of railroad rates does not seem so simple a proposition as the governor s antl-election utterances led many to believe. Both the state and national constitutions are cited by the judge as prohibiting the enforcement of the law declaring forfeiture in case legal rights are sought by railroad cor porations in federal courts It really seems strange that the legal advisers of the governor should have allowed the ad- mnistration to commit such a humiliat- inS blunder.
 Gadsden Times-News: The Associated Press dispatches today tell of occur renee right here in the enlightened state of Alabama that is almost inconceiv able. Nearly a quarter of a century ago a woman was sentenced to serve twen- ty months in the penitentiary. By piece of awful carelessness the clerk in making out the commitment papers wrote twenty years' instead of twenty months" And the woman served the clerks sentence. That is she served till death set her ire few months before the twenty years were up It Is a strange story for modern times and stranger still when we learn that the woman had a mother living-who is still living-and no effort was ever made to learn the fate of Rhena Rivers. It is a strange and shocking story.
 Alabama Courier: An effort was made to get bill through the legislature stop ping all Sunday freight trains from run nlng in Alabama. The committe on com merce and common carriers in the legis- lature, adversed the bill, so the rail- roads will escape one effort to dig them. This would have resulted in much loss to the people and the roads. To stop the freight trains from running in Ala bama on Sunday would have meant a general tic up of freight from one end of the road to the other and heavy dam age to shippers would have resulted. There is too much of the Goddess piety in the country. The idea of stopping freight trains and allowing all other lines of business conducted that Is usually conducted on Sunday. If the lid is to be put on railroads, put the lid on every other form of business. the baker, the butcher, the druggist, the merchant, the liveryman, everything on earth that brings in a penny or looks like work. Do not take a shot at one enterprise because it happens to be a corporation, and allow the other 999 to escape.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19

The government says benzoic acid snail no longer be put in homemade" pies manufactured in factories.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19

King Edward works strenuously by keeping still. At present he is out doing Senator Bill Stone of Missouri as gumshoer.