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The daily sentinel., 1907-03-15
PROGRAM
Part /.
The Jolly Student

Swing Song OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Lohr
Both Glee Clubs
Carmena ............. Mildenberg
Girls Glee Club
Sympathy ....... Kendis and Paley
Mandolin Club
Soldiers Chorus Gounod's Faust
Boys Glee Club
Hearts Heaven ..........B Blanke
Mandolin lCub
Spring Song ................. We'll
Violin obligato, Mr.. Weiser
Part II.
Tell Me Pretty Maiden .........
.............O Opera "Florodora"
SeXtette
Spinning Chorus" ...........
.Wsgner's Flying Dutchman"
Girls Glee Club
"Jessamins" ..... ........ Gumble
Mandolin Club
"Serenades" co.. ......... Selected
Serenaders
lola ................. johnson
Mandolin Club
(c) Greetings to Spring ......
......... Richard Strauss
(b) Lullaby ............ Brahms
Both Glee Clubs
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THE WEATHER

J The maximum temperature
! yesterday was As degrees. The
! minimum this morning was 29
! degrees. Fair tonight and Sat
! urday is the forecast for West
! ern Colorado. Very little
! change in temperature is ex-
! pected
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-01

currency may be retired in a single
month. Instead of $40 gold certificates
as a minimum issue it provides that
all small denominations, including dol
lar bills, may be issued.
These changes will all prove bene-
fetal. The national banks are encour-
aged to take out all possible circulation
when money is tight, for it may be re-
deemed rapidly when money is abund-
ant. Small gold certificates will be
welcomed The measure is good so far
as it goes, but it by no means offers US
an elastic currency system. That is
still in the future, and the republican
party seems to be unwilling to grapple
with it. The Aldrich bill may be
counted step in the right direction
very short step, but still step, and
that is something.
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t)WentOn COLLEGE

Under the leadership of President
Mccoy Owenton can become the chief
educational institution of the Method
lists of Alabama and west Florida, abb
sorbing the college at Greensboro, and
becoming a rival Of Vanderbilt uni
yersity at Nashville. To do this more
and better buildings are required, and
to put UP these buildings the sum OF
100000 is needed. One subscription
of $4,000 leads to the hope that Ala
bama and west Florida will subscribe
to the entire sum, and that too,
speedily.
Birmingham Is deeply interested in
this work, for its colleges should be
built up and expanded and strength
ened as it grows in wealth and popula-
ton. Our colleges and our wealth
should keep STEP and this is one rea-
son why the Owenton movement ap-
peals to all of our people, and not to
the Methodists alone. The Methodlsts
are numerous and equipped, and
they can put Owenton on the road to
strength and usefulness, but they
should have the assistance of every
patriotic man with full pockets in
Jones valley. They should have such
aid because the new Owenton will be-
come an essential and helpful part of
our new and Greater Birmingham.
The two should become indissolubly
joined. We should take pride in Owen
toms growth and Owenton will surely
look down with rejoicing on an eX.
panding city in the valley.
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Ijuuor in Alabama

Alabama has twenty one prohibition,
seventeen dispensary, and twenty
saloon counties, and in nine counties
saloons and dispensaries are intermin-
gled. 1t will thus be seen that there
are to be hot times in the old state
when the local option bills so into eff
feet. Under the Lovelady bill any
county can hold an election between
wet" and dry" and under the Moody
bill any wet county can say whether 1t
will scatter wet goods in saloons or in
dispensaries.
There are two things plainly in sight,
namely, every voter will have an op-
rortunity to say what he wants in this
difficult problem Of regulating the
liquor traffic. and, secondly, there will
be warm campaigns in each and every
county before the question in it is set
tied. Hot campaigns over the liquor
issue may not be altogether desirable,
but the legislature is about to make
them inevitable, and we will, therefore,
be compelled to accept the situation as
it has been formulated by the legisla-
ture Let us hope common sense AMI
plain experience will have due weight
in the coming contests in this state.
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Police Commission

When Mayor Ward first sought leg
islation that would abolish the police
commission his purpose was to have
the police department transferred to
the jurisdiction of the Mayor and AL
dermen; but he has wisely agreed to a
compromise measure which, if passed,
will do away with the existing COM
mission and create new body, con-
sisting of the Mayor as ex-officio chair
man and two commissioners appointed
by the Governor.
Under the law as it stands now the
commission, composed of seven men,
with chairman elected by that body,
is absolutely independent of the Mayor.
Had the act creating the commission
provided that the Mayor should be its
chairman, no one probably would have
started movement to change the sys-
TEN. As it is now, the Mayor is held
responsible for the enforcement of the
city ordinances and the discipline Of
t..o police forge, when, in fact, he has
no authority over the department
whatsoever. This condition seemed
anomalous and legislation that would
give him control of the police was de-
manded The personnel Of the present
commission is not criticised, and the
men who constitute that body naturally
have friends who oppose legislation
which would abolish the commission.
But a large majority of the electors,
including hundreds of prominent citi-
zens, who voted for Mayor Ward at
the recent primary, took reasonable
view of the situation and heartily
backed him up in his effort to have the
law changed.
The pending bill is satisfactory to
the friends of the administration and
should commend itself to the public in
general Ward has made good fight
at Montgomery, and he is almost sure
to win
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DEFINITIONS.

From the New York World
Mollycoddle--Any adult male either
whose chest doesn't measure Az inches
Gentleman--Man who takes a bath In
cold water every morning. Warm water
don't do. If cold water kills him he
can Idle like a gentleman.
weakling- of delicate constitution
who needs to take care of himself. Ex-
amples: Emerson, Carlyle, Scott, Mon
tague.
Coward-Man who counts the walters
before he rough houses the all-night
restaurant.
Doubling Thomas-Anybody who reads
the constitution of the United States
Old-fashioned American.
Muscular Christian-Man with muscle
Nobody will question the rest
Sport That Makes Men-Knocking out
the other fellows teeth at football.
Brutality-Other fellow knocking out
your teeth at football.
Model Cltizen-In philoprogenitiveness
the rabbit; in pugnacity, the bulldog; in
speed. the greyhound; in strength, the
grizzly
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FOLLY OF AN AGE LIMIT.

From Leslies Weekly.
President McCrea of the Pennsylvania
railroad has acted wisely and commend
ably in raising the age limit at which
men may enter the employ of his company
from So to 10 years. There was never a
more senseess notion than that which
would limit the age of efficient service to
60 or even Co. Many of the strongest men
In public and business life are over 60,
and some of them are beyond 70. Faragut
was GO at the beginning of the civil war,
and Oyama was over 63 at the outbreak OF
The war between Japan and Russia.
Hayden wrote his oratoro of 1.-The Crea-
ton after ne was 81, Goethe finished his
Faust" at Sc, and Humboldt his Cos
mos at &C. Among grand old men in the
annals of American craftsmanship 1t is
sufficient to mention the names of George
L. Hoar, John Quincy Adams and Thad-
deus stevens Henry Ward Beecher never
preached better than in the last year of
his life. j. Pierpont Morgan and II. II.
Rogers, both over 90, do not yet begin to
show signs of senility, and Mark Twain is
still cutting up" though past 20.
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Sheriff Higdon's BIoodhounds

The sheriff of Jefferson county may
need bloodhounds, but all things con-
sisered including the twentieth cen
fury and public sentiment outside Of
Russia, it surely is not necessary 10
say very much about them-to keep
them, in other words, out of the lime
light. Nations like Germany and France
and Japan do not hunt down human
beings, however Grant they may be,
by means of dogs.
And this is not to say that Sheriff
Higdon should sell his bloodhounds and
close his kennels, which are rapidly
becoming famous. No, 1t Is not to say
that; it is simply to suggest that It
would be better to do the bloodhound
act sub rosa, so to speak
Additions to the shrievalty kennels
and shrievalty experimental runs need
not be reported. Go along quietly, Mr..
Sheriff, in the bloodhound department,
making that branch of the Office secret.
This is but suggestion, but it is one
that will no doubt commend itself to
the sheriff's sense of the fitness of
things.
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Our Court House Problem

Three new judges are to be appointed
to serve in Jefferson county, and yet
Its court house has no unoccupied court
rooms. We have outgrown the court
house that much, unless indeed the
offices in that beautiful building be re-
moved, and the court house become
solely and singly a place in which
courts are held. Judge Dan A. Greene
thinks the better solution of the prob
lem consists in the erection on the
court house lot of an Office building,
to be used as Jail in its upper stories
and as an office building below, thus
leaving the court house for use by the
courts only. Judge Greene says the
present court house is sufficiently large
to answer as a court house, and moth
ing else.
This seems to be very practical
solution of a pressing problem. 1t does
not call for the absorption of any of
the city's limited breathing places. it
leaves Capitol park untouched. 1t does
not call for even a purchase Of a jail
lot. 1t does not put the prisoners out
of reach, although it may put them out
of sound.
The erection of an Office building on
the Jail site seems to be an excellent
solution of problem that population
has forced upon our court house. All
feel that the present court house should
not be torn down, because it is both
artistic and centrally located, and no
doubt Judge Greene offers plan that
would be satisfactory, especially if 1t
could speedily assume the concrete and
crystalline into the steel and brick of
modest skyscraper.
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Court House Question.

MY idea about the matter of room for
the courts is that the county should sell
the present property and buy larger
space somewhere else" said Judge A. A.
Coleman yesterday afternoon just before
leaving for Montgomery to visit his son.
1.-The present court house would make
an admirable building for a public school
or for a convent for the Catholic church,
and 1t could be sold for a large amount
of money, probably 100000 or 100000,
which would be sufficient to buy piece
of property elsewhere and build a court
house ample to meet the demands. Be-
sides the site of the court house there is
the corner of Fourth avenue and
Twenty-f1rst street, which is occupied
by the county jail which could be sold
for a good sum. The amount realized
from the sale of these two pieces of
property and the court house building
would be ample to buy more property
and almost pay for a spacious court
house and Jail.
II don't know what we will do when
the other courts are created. We do not
have room enough for the present
courts, and with these others to come
we will have to have some relief. Why,
even in my court | do not have enough
room.
II cannot say exactly what should
be done, but l know that action will
have to be taken right away. There Is
no question about the county getting all
the money that 1t needs for the erection
of a court house, so that matter does
not stand in the way at ALL
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Senator Aldrich's Currency Bill

While the House was pushing the
ship subsidy bill along to be talked to
death in the Senate, the Senate took
up the Aldrich currency bill and sent
1t by a strong vote to the House, where
Speaker Cannon and the rules COM
mittee are expected to shove 1t through
unamended. The scheme is feasible,
and very likely the Aldrich bill will be-
come law. The strongest possible po-
litical and Wall street influences are
behind it, and Its passage is. therefore
both possible and probable.
The bill will bull stocks if II become
law, because it authorizes the Secre
tary OF the Treasury to deposit the
customs receipts, about 100000 a
year, in the banks upon proper secur-
lty. Heretofore this money has been
placed in the sub-treasuries, and the
Secretary of the treasury could deposit
IN the DankS tne eihai revenue re-
ceipts only. This scheme would fill
the banks in the east with government
money, and would perhaps lift the
pressure from Wall street.
The Aldrich bill is not an elastic
currency bill. 1t does not give general
relief. although it does provide that
- much as 50 200, 900 of national bank
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The STRANGER,

Charles Barton of the Rice & Barton
Gaiety company, the attraction at the
Gayety theatre next week, spends the
summer months at his home at Centre
Port on Long Island. 1t Is a beautiful
place, facing the Sound and quite popu-
lar with fishermen of all kinds and sum-
mer visitors as well. Speaking of the
place recently, he told an amusing story
of his meeting distinguished man un-
der peculiar circumstances.
"On hot summer day two years ago,
when I got home one afternoon my
housekeeper told me there was a big
man out on the Sound who had been
rowing for hours and hours up and
down In front of my place, trying to
catch some fish. She knew he was
tagged out and said 1t was pity that
someone could not do something for him.
II took the hint. l went down to the
little pier, took up a megaphone and
shouted to the man. l didn't know who
he was, and asked him to come in and
take a drink. He said he would and the
way that man of his had to row was
wonderful. When he arrived | said: My
name is Barton, Charles Barton
I've heard of you, he said. You are
reported to be something of a joker. [
hope this is not joke. My name is
Grover Cleveland
Now what could I do? OF course
every man has two kinds. / had to have
the bottles changed In hurry and he got
the best
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THE SHOPPERS DICTIONARY.

From the Chicago Post.
FLOORWALKER-A person who is not
sufficiently acquainted with the store to
be permitted to take any more active
part In its operation than TO tell you
where he thinks you want to go. 1t ia
said that after years or practice some
fioorwalkers become so proficient that
they can guess correctly three times out
of five.
MISUNDERSTANDING that you are sure
dozen other women want to buy. Any
thing your husband will want to know
why the dickens you bought it. Any
thing like anything that stuck-up thing
on the next street purchased at higher
price.
SALEsLADY-Any person with a POM
padour and marcele wave and a colt
fure and retouched eyebrows and a
naughty stare. who, some way or other,
manages to make you think she does
not believe you can afford expensive
things, and who listlessly scorns you If
you want something cheap.
CASH GIRLr-A child who never comes
back with the change until you have
missed your train.-
MODEL-A combination Oh Iieopatid'
Venus de Milo. Queen Gwnevere and
Joan of Arc, who puts on garment
and convinces you that you will resent
BILE her If you wear it. person who
your husband will say Is not handsome
or is handsome: in the first contingency
YOU will suspect him of deceiving you,
in the second of being fit for suspicion.
LUNCH--If alone, a pickle sandwich,
a plate of ice cream and box OF choco-
late creams. If your husband is with
YOU. anything running the check up to
e TX
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the last few days. has been both sur
prise and a humiliation TO those who had
thought well of him. We mean no at
tack or criticism of his private character
or of his personal habits, but of his Of
fetal course lately 1t is legitimate to
speak. He seems to have lost sight of
the fact that he is prosecuting Thaw, and
is using all his powers to prosecute Mrs.
Thaw He, has apparently forgotten that
it is his duty to convict the man, and
is only intent on humilating the woman
His persecution of her has been brutal re-
voting, devilish, and his manner has in
jured him in the estimation of people who
believe in fairness and decency, even in
criminal prosecution.
1t matters not what Mrs. Thaw may
have been or what her life may have
been before her marriage. Whether she
fell by the wiles of a past master In
debauchery or went down of her own ac-
cord is not the question. If as the evil
dence seems to show, She has endeavored
to lead proper life since her marriage
she deserves to be encouraged not insult
ed and Inundated by learned attorney
who is doing his best to discourage her
anda drag her down to the lowest depths
of degradation in the eyes of the world.
If Stanford White was a human degen-
crate, Jerome is human tiger who ap-
parently seeks only to disgrace woman
and wife.
That Harry Thaw killed White Is q
fact beyond question. That White de-
served nothing better is admitted.
Whether Thaw was justified in his act ID
for the jury to decide, not for outsiders,
but the great jury of public opinion will
render its verdict on Jerome and the YER
dict will be that he is not justified in his
conduct towards Mrs. Thaw
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cent of them were ever mentioned before
the legislature assembled. This is keep
ing the people in the dark to the limit.
BY and by along comes judge who says
ignorance of the law is no excuse.
NO bill should become law until the
people have voted on the question. In
fact the best way to provide for the pub
lie interest would be to have the legisla-
ture enact only general laws and let each
county have its local law makers who
would represent the county in county
council just as the city council repre-
sents the city. To allow men from the
border counties to say what shall be
observed in city like Birmingham is the
very height of absurdity.
when we have elections in this city
or county, issues as rule are overlooked
and no one can tell what is going to
happen"
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IoNGfELLoW's EARLY HOMES.

There are three homesteads in Maine
today intimately associated with the poet
Longfelow's memory-the house which
was his birthplace but is now in the
tenement quarter of Portland; the Long
fellow mansion on one of the main
streets of Portland. kept open for the
public today by the Maine Historical So
cety, and Wadsworth hall. the grand
fathers farm of the poets boyish days.
Those early homes of Lonsfellow, rich in
historic interest form the subject of the
leading article in the March Century,
from the pen of stephen Cammett, with
reproductions of a number of drawings
by Harry Fem
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Future Political Timber.

an a political way. Birmingham Is
unique said a close observer yesterday
afternoon. There is always some one
running for office. For instance, there
Is G. II. Estes, who has received the
nomination for alderman from the Ninth
ward. lie made campaign of four
years.
1.-THE mayoralty garden is always in
bloom. B. H. Cooper John w. O'Neill.
Walter Moore, John Forney, John L..
Parker and possibly other members of
the City Council are already heralded as
entries for the next mayoralty. c. c.
Heidi can be counted on, too, for 1t Is
understood that he is printing his guns
for that encounter.
lover in the Ninth ward, again, the
candidates for aldermen are filling the
woods s. Q. Simpson will probably run.
Jack Adams is being discussed. Coffee
Jackson and Bob Murphy have an
nounced. Joe Weferich will run again,
and II. A. Stoekmar, the present incum-
bent, may be safely counted. There is
always a political campaign In Birming-
ham, 1t seems"
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ATTITUDE OF MR.. JEROME

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
1.-TWO Of the figures prominently as
(CD ISOLATED in the public mind In
connection with the Thaw trial
appear In a most unfavorable light In
the eyes of discriminating public. They
are Stamford White and William Tray-
ers Jerome. We recognize the full force
of the old Latin aphorism: Do mortuis
nil nis bonum "of the dead be nothing
said but what is good" and Stanford
White is dead and gone to his reward,
whatever that reward may be. Under Or
binary circumstances we might well let
the evil that he did rest in the grave with
him, but the result of Thaws shot has
made this impossible.
OF Stanford White it seems difficult to
say anything that is good, and speak the
truth. There may be living men who are
as despicable as he is proven to have
been, but for the good name of our cQTn-
mon humanity let us hope that they are
few. There have been heartless lbertines
and lecherous beasts in human shape be-
sides him, and doubtless there will always
be as long as human nature remains as
it is. That he was human vulture, prey
ing upon the weak and unprotected Is put
ting it mildly. Neither maidenly purity
nor wifely honor was safe from his evil
designs The ruin of the one and the
destruction of the other were among his
favorite pastimes. In his eyes no woman
was chaste and no girl was safe from his
devilish wiles II he could accomplish her
ruin. The world is much the worse for
men of this kind.
But enough of Stanford White, and Of
his evil deeds. Enough of the dead, but
something of the living. Jerome's atti-
tude in this trial, and especially during
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Atlanta Composer,

ut always affords me great pleasure to
and [ was more than pleased last night
when I found that Sllvio Helm wrote all
the music for Marrying Mary which
was presented at the Jefferson" said an
old Albanian. II knew Helm well several
years ago when he was leader of the
orchestra in one of the vaudeville thea
tres in Atlanta, and he was a most popu-
lar musician.
Since he went to New York he has
written no end of song successes, and
now he is writing all the music for Miss
Cahill and some other actors and ac-
tresses of equal fame. He has made a
big hit with music. 1t is catchy and is
gaining popular favor everywhere"
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ACCENT THAT is PASSING.
\ the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
f. H. Hall, vice president of the Amer
lean Telephone ana Telegraph company,
says the southern accent is rapidly dis"
appearing. There are many causes, he
says. The southerner travels more and
uses the language of commerce today,
whereas twenty years ago he used the
language of literature. But above all
looms the fact that the telephone is used
so much more generally and so frequent
~. The use of the telephone, little as
the casual onlooker may think of it, is
conducive to brevity of speech. 1t also is
bringing ALL normal voices to sameness
of pitch and ENGRAVING a similarity in
enunciation. In fact, the telephone is
gradually changing the voices of the ma