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The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-28
APPOINTING THE DAY OF THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION FROM THE WHITE HOUSE IS ONE OF THE MOST SERIOUS DUTIES THAT DEVOLVE
 UPON THE PRESIDENT

The only piece of really pure litera- ture ever officially issued from the White house is the proclamation ap- pointing a day of thanksgiving. All other papers written by the president are business documents, the phraseol- ogy of which is technical; but this an- nual message to the people is always a painstakingly worded and grateful composition. A fairly illustrative ex- ample will be found in MT. Roosevelt's proclamation setting aside the last Thursday of the present month for the Thanksgiving of 1906.
 It is the duty of MT. Loeb (who runs the machinery Of the presidents busi- ness, arranging all his engagements for him) to call MT. Roosevelt's atten- tion 10 the fact that Thanksgiving ap- breaches, and to remind him that a proclamation must be written. Of course, it requires considerable time to do this, and so busy man as the chief executive of the nation might be excusable if he handed over the task to some subordinate, contenting him. self with affixing his signature. But custom demands that the work shall be performed by the president himself.
 Accordingly. when the proclamation has to be prepared, the president de- votes some time to thinking out new shape in which to put the more or less stereotyped ideas which are to be ex- pressed, and, as he does so, jots down a few memoranda in pencil on a paper pad. Then, touching buzz-button, he summons one of the dozen stenograph- CTS who are always in attendance, and dictates to him carefully the wording of the document. It is short-not more than 400 or 500 words-but daintily and tersely phrased. This, however, is only a rough draft. It is copied in typescript by the stenographer, with lines twice the ordinary distance apart, so as to be convenient for corrections and interlineations, and in this shape is handed back to Mir. Roosevelt.
 At the department of state the proc lamation is beautifully engrossed on a great sheet of fine parchment by clerk highly skilled in this kind of pen manship It is considerable task, and occupies some days. at the end of which the document is sent back to the white House to receive the presi- cents signature, and is thereupon re- turned to the department to be signed by the secretary of state and sealed with the great seal of the United States.
 This seal, by the way, is a sort of federal fetich It is the most sacred of all things that belongs to the gov ernment; and no print of it is ever all lowed to be given away or sold though, of course. it is attached to all military and naval commissions, and to various other executive documents. It was made by New York jeweler at cost of $10,000. and is kept in beautiful rosewood box at the state department In order that it may be used for stamping the Thanksgiving proclamation, printed order to that effect must be signed by MT. Roose- welt.
 The department or state is the per nanent depository of executive procla- |
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-28
A Delicate Tack,

"The newspapers" said u Iator solemnly, "do not tell the trlfcA.
 Perhaps not" answered the editor, regretfully. We do our best. But you know there Is nothing more dimcult than to tell the truth in a way that won't put 1t up to some one to chal- lenge your veracity."
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-28
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
 that Contain Mercury,

e mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering 1t through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on pfescrip- will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly dc rive from them. Halls CetaYrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney 6 Co.,, Toledo, o. contains no mor. cury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon tho blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine It Is taken internally and made in Toledo Ohio, by F. J. Cheney Co. Testimoniais free.
 Sold by Druggists. Price, 75c. per bottle.
 Take Halls Family Pflls for constipatton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
Our New Game Law

1t is customary to speak lightly, not
TO say loosely, of our new game law,
but that law will, in the hands of State
Game Commissioner John II. Wallace,
Jr., become no laughing matter. Mr..
Wallace is very much in earnest in his
desire to preserve and increase the
game in this state, and when he has
secured the service OF sixty-seven
wardens in the sixty-seven counties of
the state. he will have an efficient
staff.
Hereafter the man who hunts off his
own lands must have hunting license
which will cost him all the way from
one dollar a year UP to fifteen dollars
a year, the latter being the sum that
non Alabamians will be required to
pay. This will put a horde of negro
hunters out of the game-destroying
business, and Alabama will be the
gamer in more respects than one.
Not only should quail be guarded
and protected, but the slaughter of mi
gratory robins should be stopped. The
robins appearance is welcomed in all
parts of the country, and they are be-
coming scarce simply because the pot
hunters slaughter them as they stop
to get something to eat in their fight
from south to north. The killing of
the robins is brutal and Commissioner
Wallace should apply to it all the pen
alties of the new law.
Commissioner Wallace has cham.
pioned valuable measure, and the
people Of the state should line UP be-
hind him in his efforts to enforce it.
The pot hunters must go. We have
endured them much too long already.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
MANY PROBLEM PLAYS.

From The Players in the March
EVerybody's.
With plays revolving about the prob
lens of the Capitalization of wealth, the
divorce question, political corruption, la
Dor and capital, and other subjects much
in the public mind, it would seem that in
this year of grace the stage of New York
Is bent upon becoming a reformatory in
stitution. OF course the real purpose of
these plays is TO make money, and not
all of them solve even that important
problem. AS for the other problems--thev
get nowhere at all. They may start out
with a fine show OF earnest intention to
achieve something, but they end up either
by merely affording a pleasant evening S
entertainment or by boring audiences eX-
tremely. So they accomplish exactly the
same result as other plays that make no
pretensions OF purpose, whether ethical
economic. or sociological
There are those who really believe. in
a simple. honest way, that the latter
day drama is serious and to some degree
uplifting. They do not realize that the
first business of dramatist is to produce
good play; that If he doesn't do that
he fails. no matter how profound are his
ideas or how high his ideals. II. in addi-
ton to writing really good play he can
offer solution of a problem that is of
real concern to society. or even present
a problem in a new light. then his play
has that much additional value. But the
play. not the problem. is of first I'M
portance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
Foundation of Good Morals

Those who heard DR. Josiah Strong S
stimulating lecture, delivered in Bir-
mingham Thursday night, must have
en- impressed with the plain and
holesome truths the speaker set
nth, for they had direct bearing on
the social and moral life of every
American community. The general
theme was church and state, but many
other topics were also discussed. While
DR.. Strong held up our American sys-
soul. and belief in mems accounta-
separate, as a model, he insisted that
It was never intended by the founders
of the government to separate religion
from the state. He maintained that
every child should be taught certain
fundamental beliefs. held by Jews.
Catholics and Protestants alike, and
these fundamentals were three-belief
In God, belief in the immortality of the
TEN, in which church and state are
bility; for without this fundamental
religion there could be no sound pub
lie morals. and without public morals
there could be no sound. enduring re-
public.
The speaker pointed out with EN-
phasis some of our national defects,
chief of which was our lack of respect
for law. No nation can attain lofty
position until the majority Of its peo-
pie reverence the law. The English
man is taught 10 obey the law, while
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
TEXAS WELCOMES LILLIAN.

From the Houston Post.
Miss Lillian Russell has no doubt OBJ
served on the occasion of her first visit
She comes from the frozen north during
winters worst month to behold our broad
green fields, the blooming roses and
blushing strawberries. She feels upon her
brow the sofest and sweetest zephyrs of
sprngtime. She has looked upon the
majestic sweep of Texas beautiful beach
upon which break the pillows of our semi
tropical sea. That she has permitted
the glitter of Broadway to hold her for
so many winters when she might have
enjoyed a respite in Texas will hereafter
be one of her greatest regrets. But Miss
Russell must not permit any notion to
run away with her that she comes among
strangers. Tens of thousands of Texans
weary of waiting for this most charming
daughter of Iowa to visit their state,
have gone to New York to join the metro
politan rush to see her. 1t may be pleas
ure for her to know that she captured them
as completely as she captured the less
wary denizens of the Tenderloin and 1t
may please her to know that in all OF her
Texas audiences will sit scores of people
who are not only familiar with her fame,
but with the charm of her genius as we'll.
These old friends will be Joined by hum
dreds of others in extending to Miss Rus
sell a hospitable welcome to our beautiful
state and all of us will hope that she
may come again and again.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
STATUS OF RAILROAD PASSES.
Vaaares of Lawmaking in Some OF the
States.

From the Railway Age.
Passes are not absolutely extinct, al
though they are rare birds now-not
counting employees transportation which
is a proper part of the business. But
state legislators are not yet reduced to
the alternative of walking or paying fare
except in the very few states, like WIS
copsin Iowa and Missouri. where pass
giving and pass using have been mace
criminal In some states annual or sea-
son passes to legislators and state OIL
GERS have been sent and accepted as usual
A few roads have been so cautious as
TO notify these favored classes that while
passes will not be volunteered they can
he had for the asking, thus relieving the
railway managers from the liability OF
having their feelings hurt by the return
of a pass or two with an indignant re-
buke of bribery. Another more deneale
way of extending the usual courtesy OF
legislative transportation is to leave 1t in
the hotel boxes, as press dispatch says
is being done at the capital OF MISSOURI,
the proof of this charge being the ex-
centionalIy large exodus of legislators
~ tha week end" But the evidence is not
conclusive.
In one OF more Of the thrifty New
England states bills are pending which
propose to swap the members mileage
money with the railways in exchange for
continuous passes, which will give more
rides than the money would buy. If the
railways are willing 10 trade, nobody
need object. In few states, Oregon for
example. legislators are thinking, to save
their farces and their passes too by en-
acting a law to hold up railway COM
panies and compel them Ia hand over the
coveted tickets.
This is a good scheme. Why not eX-
tend II to puIveyors of other things that
members of legislatures want. such as
hoard and clothing?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
A PARAB L e.

From the Detroit Free Press
Once Upon a Time there was a Fair
Young Girl with soft, white hands and
a Swans Neck. She was born to be a
Princes Bride, but unfortunately there
were no Princes near where she lived.
Also her Parents were poor. This Sweet
Young Thing liked fine clothes, but
didn't like work. So when a Young Man
of Common Blood offered her his hand
in marriage she cried him yea. She
thought she was going to live on Easy
Street, with nothing to do but kiss her
husband good-by in the morning and
watch for his return at night. Five
years later she had two children TO
take care of: her soft, white hands were
red, her sylph-like form was bulky. She
worked eighteen hours a day, washing,
ironing and sewing, with no relief in
sight.
By that time she began 10 wish that
she had learned stenography and re-
manned single.
Moral: People who don't like work
shouldn't marry for home.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
Objectionable Clause

If Senator Blackmon automobile
bill is enacted in its present shape
every auto-car that spins along a high
way in Alabama must come to a stop
when meeting a horse. A law such as
this would put an end to the auto
mobile in this state. Think of it! An
auto-machine that now runs a mile
through a city in nine or ten minutes
would be an hour or more in covering
the same distance. The proposed law
would mean that the auto, used for
pleasure or for commercial purposes,
would have 10 be abandoned.
Moreover, such law is entirely I'M
necessary The horse soon got used TO
the locomotive and the trolley car, and
just as naturally he becomes familiar
with the auto. The horse that passes
street car without shying takes no
fright at an automobile in motion.
There are as many auto-cars in serv-
ice in Birmingham as in all the rest Of
Alabama, and yet there has been but
one accident from shying horse here.
About 100000 is invested in auto
machines in this city and about $780,
900 in the state. There are fifty autos
in Birmingham used for commercial
business alone, and the horseless car
riage in cities is only in its infancy.
Shall a needless blow be struck at
trade, TO say nothing of a blow al in
nocent pleasure?
1t is all right 20 limit by law the
speed of autos, just as a limit is fixed
TO the speed of trolleys and vehicles
drawn by horses. But let the objec-
tionable clause in Senator Blacllmon's
law be amended or stricken out. The
horseless carriage is far too useful to-
day to be put out of commission by
drastic legislation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
Late Car for Gate City.

Il do not understand why cars are run
ON various lines out of the city after
midnight and not ON the Gate City line"
said a suburbanite.
"The last ear leaves on the Gate City
line at II o'clock, and the last car leaves
on the East Lake line at 1890. There are
numerous cars that leaye the city after
midnight.
II am a frequent rider on the Gate City
line and am convinced that this line is
well patronized and | sincerely believe
the patrons should be shown some con-
sideration as well as patrons on other
lines when it comes to having late cars.
Il cannot say what excuse they give
for running the last car at IL, but l can
say there are a number of people who
reside along this line whose business re-
quires them to be out as late as Il
O'Clock, and you can imagine how they
have to move to catch that last car"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
DELMAS AT ST. LOUIS
From the Atlanta Georgian.

From the Atlanta Georgian.
6HIS California lawyer, Dolphin N.
w Delm's' directing the Thaw de.
opportunity to become a great man at
the st. Louis convention of 1901, and he
came very near to utilizing It,
But not quite.
1t will be remembered that at the demo-
cratic convention of 1904, little over half
of the small section of the great hall in
which the convention was held was
pledged and iron-bound in its performed
loyalty to Alton B. Parker. Two-fifths of
the convention and the whole vast audi
ence of 1900 people that circled about
and engulfed the convention were riotous-
~ and rampantly for Bryan or Cockrell
or Hearst or anybody save Parker.
The reading public will remember how
by the records Bryan utterly eclipsed
everybody else in the convention-how
his oratory swept floor and gallery when
ever he spoke, and how the great audi
ence whose clamor drowned everybody
else sank to silence at his lightest whis-
per.
strong, had chosen Dolphin n Delmas of
California to make the nominating speech
for their candidate. A dozen dull and
comparatively embarrassing speeches had
been flung off into the chaos of sound
and inattention. Champ Clark, indeed
had made an electric and thrilling presen-
tation of Cocl<rell of Missouri, who had
never had a chance or a following. but
with that exception not ripple of real
interest or enthusiasm had stirred the
great hall.
Then, finally, amid the hush and expec-
tation aroused by the picturesque sur
roundings of the candidate of definite
democracy, Dolphin n. Delmas of Cali
fornia, rose to nomiate Hearst The fame
of him, indefinite and vague, had crept
out into the convention and had some
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
A TENOR CALL FOR MORE.

From the New York World.
Signor Enrico Caruso is said to have
notified Herr Conred that his terms for
season after next, when he must have
"A new contract, will be $1,000 for each
appearance, with fifty appearances guar
antoed. The Signor believes that q tenor
should come as high as he sings when
he is q Caruso tenor His proposed rates
are double those with which he is now
ill-content.
Jean de Reszkc received $500 for each
of thirty performances on his last visit
to New York Tomagno's price here was
$500. Campanini got as high as $4,000 a
month. In Paris and in his prime Tam
berlick refused an offer of s2s, 200 for n
years singing at the Grand Opera. Du-
PREF, who retired from the French opera
in 1s49. got $4,000 season at his best.
Campanlni would have died rich but
for his personal recnlessness. Jean de
Reszke made much of his fortune in
Amortization he is rich even if he has
gone to teaching music, Tamagne created
no furore in New York, but saved cash
with true Italian thrift
Among stage sopranos Patti has re-
ceived in America $4,000 per night Melba
is credited with getting more than $1,000
and. Sembrich who now has Sl750 for each
appearance, got $4,000 from Abbey &s
Grau on the first visit she ever made to
this country.
Gifted stars of the dramatic stage find
their pay in proportion to that of tho
singers. Modieska at one time received
$3.50 per week. Mary Andersons returns
rose to $4,000 per week and the players are
legion whose talents have won them po-
tential fortunes.
On the whole, America pays its enter
tanners on a far more liberal scale than
it adopts for ITS statesmen. its judges or
its generals. Its teachers are near the
foot of the pay rolls. Only in high
finance and the combines indeed, are the
wages of stage favorites conspicuously
well matched by official salaries
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

the American, or at least many Amer
leans, think it is sign of "smartness"
to eYade it. In the United States hom
icides are common, and the murderer
often goes free. In England murder is
rare, but when the murderer is caught
and convicted he pays the penalty.
Reform, according to DIR. Strong,
cannot come about by an occasional
effort to educate the public on moral
lines. What is needed is "precept
upon precept.' Respect for law will
come eventually II the youth of the
land is grounded in good morals, which
in turn must be based on religion. And
without healthy public opinion no
progress along this line will be re-
corded
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
The Automobile Bill.

"A strong effort will be made to defeat
the clause in Senator Blackmons bill
regulating automobiles, which would re-
quire every moving auto car to come to
a stop when approaching a horse" said
Alderman Ben +. Barbour. Horses are
not more given to shying at autos than
at locomotives or electric cars, in fact
not as much. Every right minded man
running an automobile stops his machine
voluntarily when he sees that a horse he
is approaching is heightened, and that
is more than an electric motorman does or
is expected to do. With all the automobiles
in service in Birmingham only one acct
dent has occurred on account of a horse
shying, and then the machine had been1
stopped, I believe.
1.-THE committee reported adversely on
the bill, but Senator Blackmon will, L
learn call it up next Monday and try
to pass it over the report. Members OF
the Birmingham Automobile club will go
to Montgomery Monday and do all in their
power to have the Objectionable clause
stricken out.
Autos are just coming into general
use. Many are being employed in Bir-
mlngham for business purposes, and un-
less the legislature passes drastic meas
ure the number will increase rapidly. A
movement Is now on foot to build and
operate a plant here for the manufacture
Of automobiles, but, of course, such an
enterprise would have to be abandoned If
thes auto car is to be driven out of the
state, which the enactment of the bill in
question would mean.
ut was understood Friday night when
the Auto club met that Blackmon's bill
would be considered on Tuesday, but
since it is to come up Monday a delega-
ton will proceed to the capital Monday
morning. 1t is hoped that every autoist
will endeavor to join the delegation"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
PRESS POINTS

Washington Herald: Some people are
beginning to think that T. r. means
Third Round.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: The national
House is passing bills as rapidly as if it
thought Governor Conner Of Alabama was
behind it.
Dallas News: Down in Alabama they
feel sure that the war with Japan is
not far away. Hohson has talked to them
down there.
New York Herald: Many hard things
have been said about Jersey, but the
hardest blow comes from one Of her sons
who chose term in Jail in Ohio rather
than promise to so home.
Chicago Rccord-Herald; An Oakland,
Cal, Chinaman raised an IS check to
$1,000, cashed it and sailed away to China.
1t will not be necessary to waste any
time in trying to convince him that there
are advantages in our system of eiyiliza-
ton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

how touched the floors and the galleries.
and upon the strength of it the great
audience, wonderful to relate, gave him
profound and hushed attention.
And as he stepped to the floor with his
impressive and Napoleonic face, calm and
magnetic, he had the opportunity of his
life. He began beautifully.
Lifting his finger and pointing as he
spoke until it seemed as If he almost
touched the other end of the horizon, he
said in deep and thrilling tones:
California, California he said thrice
California, for the first time in her his
tory, presents native son for the pres
idency of the United States"
The sentence in its brevity, comprehen-
siveness and magnetism swept the audi
ence like west wind and the orator had
caught them with his opening word. He
went on for five minutes in a strain of
impressive eloquence that rivalled
Bryan's, and If he could have sustained
it he would have stood shoulder to
shoulder with the famous Nebraskan as
the hero of the convention, and could
have carried home a national and endur-
ing fame.
But suddenly, somewhere and without
warning or explanation, the magnetism
died from the speakers manner, the tone
left his voice. the pulse of his oratory fell
from exalted heights to mediocrity, and
he spoke for ten minutes longer on the
dead level of the tedious speeches that
had gone before. And from the most
superb beginning which any orator had
made in that great assembly. and from
the most highly raised expectation that
had come to the conventions life, the
California orator, whose power was put
into his opening word, dropped from the
heights to the level plain and became a.
grounding like the rest From his great
exordium he drifted into a tame perora-
ton and sank to silence and oblivion ST.
simultaneously.