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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16
Standard Oil Guilty

On 1853 counts of an Indictment
branch of the Standard Oil has been
found guilty under the EllIins law In
district federal court. 1t shipped oil
at 6 cents a hundred pounds when the
rate to other shippers was Is cents.
The Standard OIL pleaded that 1t did
not know the legal and public rate, but
such a plea is an insult to common in
telligence. It's business had long been
based on rebates, and 1t could not get
a rebate of the proportion proven in
Judge Lands court without knowing
the what and the why of It, Its ignor-
ance does not extend to rebates.
But the Ell1ins law provides only
fines in offenses like those the Stand
ard Oil has been caught at-fines run
ming from $1,000 to 100000 What are
fines to the Standard Oil company? By
crushing competitors either by starva-
ton or something more sudden 1t has
acquired a monopoly and the right to
tax the people on a necessary. Any
fines will therefore be collected from
the people.
What is needed is a dose of the pen
for the men who manage and control
the monopoly when they are found
guilty Of accepting rebates. This is
something they would heed. They
laugh at the Elkins law. Mere law is
nothing to them when 1t gets in their
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16
"Dementia Americana"

IF I were to be asked the meaning of
the phrase dementia Americana said
a man, 'I would say the craze to get
1t becomes the desire to be richer than
anybody else
N''It seems the whole American people
has been inoculated with sort of virus
that has set the brain afiame and that
the only means of soothing and cooling
the raging heat is money. money, money
Now, l don't intend for one moment
to join with those who condemn a man
because he is rich or because he is en-
gagged in the pursuit. of riches; but I am
merely abiding to this form of frenzy
which has seized upon the population
and has grown to be deserving of the
name 'dementia Americana
Every week, almost every day. we read
about the millionaires and the multi
millinonaires until their names have be-
come household words. Except that they
are rich they are otherwise unknown.
but their riches serve to obtain for them
a notoriety which creates a spirit of envy
and jealousy among the masses who as
pire to reach equal, If not greater, prom
inence by the same means.
"One of the remarkable things about
the most successful men today is their
absolute ignorance of everything except
what pertains to their business of earn
ing money. They may have books by
the hundreds In their libraries, they may
subscribe to magazines and papers, but
the margin of their knowledge of mat
ters outside their daily ayocation could
be put in the first reader.
THE 'dementia Americana in its largest
and worst form is not that to which Mr.
Delmas would confine It. This 'dementia'
is a fire and motion of the soul which,
being once kindled becomes inextinguish-
able and eventually consumes its pos
SCISSOR, and unfortunately not before 1t
has SET fire to everyone within the RAJ
dius of its effect"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16
THE POETS SONG.

BY Tennyson.
The rain had fallen, the poet arose,
He passed by the town and out of the
street,
A light wind blew from the gates Of the
sun,
And waves of shadow went over the
wheat.
And he sat him down in a lonely place.
And chanted a melody loud and sweet,
That made the wild swan pause in her
cloud,
And the lark drop down at his feet.
The swallow stopped as he hunted the
fly,
The snake slipped under a spray
The wild hawk stood with the down on
his back,
And stared. with his foot on the prey.
And the nightingale thought, II have
sung many songs.
But never a one so gay,
For he sings of what the world will b
When the years have died away"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16
Ministers and cabmen Combine.

Youngstown, O., April ia COM
bination among cab drivers and min
listers of the city to monopolize the
business of marrying clipping couples
who visit this city for that purpose was
revealed here today during the trial
of Edward Cramer, hackman, who is
charged with having importuned a
couple to go with him to probate court
and later to a minister's house. "The
ministers usually divide their fee with
US" said the prisoner. 1--WE are asked
to bring the couples to their homes
for marriage ceremonies, and they
split with U.S."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

recently Endorsed in a trial in Virginia.
Like lynehings the unwritten law is
easily extended to cases that no intel
ligent man would say were outrageous
enough to excuse an. abandonment of
written law applicable to them. As
the Thaw case stands unwritten law
has encountered backset and an oh.
stacle.
But the need of the times is re-
vision of all American criminal law to
the end that all trials shall be speedy,
and the finding of the jury final. A
study of the English practice is needed,
for a study of it's workings throughout
many years would speedily lead to an
adoption of its chief features in this
country. We want no more Thaw
trials.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

THAT WHICH SHOULDN'T BE.
Too much noise and too much hurry,
Too much thirsting after fame,
TOO much crookedness for money
Putting honest men to shame.
TOO much greed and skepticism,
Too much callousness and sin,
Too much envy of the fellows
Who at last contriye to win.
Too much loud and long complaining
Bitterness and discomfort,
Caused by chasing after bubbles
Till We lose the blessings sent.
Too much needless pain and worry,
Woes oppressiveness and gloom,
Everlasting life until we
Care not, tho the flowers bloom
Too much hopelessness and sorrow,
Too much darkness. stead of light,
Too much trouble that we borrow,
Too much wrong, instead of right
RIPPLES.
The average man can tell you where his
bald spot is much sooner than he can
give you the location of his weak spot
Love is not only blind to the object of
cynical world that looks on and laughs.
None but mol1ycoddle dog would wear
pink ribbon round his neck.
Among the back numbers may be men
toned those on automobiles.
If humanity were not predisposed to
wiekedness the devil would have lot
more work to do.
DISGUSTED.
Is spring here?
Nawi
Too cold and
Raw
A bright society girl remarked the other
day that certain debutante was so pop
ular every man in town was considered
her sutton until he proved an alibi.
thinker advertises "A Trip Through
He'll for % cents. Even at this great
ly reduced rate, we don't care to CO.
DO TT NOW.
Don't wait too long to speak your praise.
Some weary brother cheering,
Don't start to scatter sunshine when
The clouds are disappearing.
Don't wait until your neighbours glad
To give him sympathy,
Don't lavish money on a chap
Who dwells in luxury
Don't be too late in deeds worth while,
In words that might be said,
Don't hold your floral offerings
Unit; a man is dead.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16
PRESS POINTS

Louisville Courier-Journal School a
joy to Carnegie" says a headline. No,
little children, he is not going to it. He's
giving 1t to somebody.
Washington Post: In the midst of the
demands for a look at the campaign
books. Mr.. Cortelyou continues to make
a noise like a man sound asleep.
Pittsburgh SUM- We shall have endur-
ing peace in this war-worn world of ours
when all of us want it so bad that we
are willing to fight for it and faint
not.
Portland Telegram: We are willing to
talk peace at The Hague conference, but
we are not willing to forego the privilege
of fighting for 1t later on if occasion re-
quires.
Memphis Commercial-Appeal: The sug-
gestion that Teddy nominate Billie is an
appropriate one. After adopting most of
Billie's views, Teddy could hardly do
anything less
Dallas News At a Kentucky dance.
when some wild man winks at the fid-
dler and says Give us somethin' quick
and devilish,' you want to look alive
for stray bullets
Charleston Post: If there Is to be a
change of venue for the second trial of
harry Thaw, we move that the case be
heard at sea on a ship not equipped with
wireless apparatus
Washington Herald: 81 scorn to appeal
to any so-called unwritten law said
Mr.. Delmas; and then he went right in
and appealed to it with all his might
and main, like the good lawyer that he is
Newark News: 1.-THE whistle cure for
snoring" is the latest The whistle, how
ever. must be of great power and operated
by tho party who is listening to the snor-
ing. Perhaps, after ALL club would
be eyen more effective.
Memphis News cimitar: A man in
Trenton, N. J., has been arrested for
swearing on a street car. If such a thing
were to occur in Memphis. the police
station would have to be enlarged to the
proportion of a mammoth circus tent
Florida Times Union: With a $4,000, 900
Carnegie institute, Pittsburg begins an
art career to keep pace with her produce
ton of degenerate millionaires and pro-
gressive nabobs And the river threatens
to wash her away to save funeral ex-
peuses
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16
THE AUTHOR OF "FLoRoDoRA.v

IOin lho wow IOih WOllus
To the late James Davis better known
by his pen-name of owen Hall. the play
going public owed a debt of gratitude
for the liveliest fund of entertainment 1t
has had since Gilbert. The creator Of "A
Gaity Girl" THE Geisha," THE Silver
Slipper" and of that monumental sue
cess. ''F'lorodora," gave a new sparkle
to musical comedy.
Are the show girls of Broadway aware
of tho extent Of their own obligations
to Davis? To how many a young woman
did his pen point the way to fame and
fortune! 1t originated that mast won
derful of matrimonial bureaus, the Flor
odora' sextet. In its train. as from a
magic wand, came automobiles diamond
necklaces. Wall street winnings and mil
the stage has there been anything like
it. The historian of our times must
credit "Fiorodora. with a unique infiu-
ence on contemporary society. Has any
Shaw or Ibsen play effected as much in
material results?
1t is traditional to sheer at the quality
of British humor. In the matter of bright
lbretto-writi ting at least we must confess
ou- inferiority. What have American play
wrights to show which can compare In
a humorous Characterization with GIL
bert's gallery of serio-comic portraits or
approach In sustained clevernes, of dia-
logue and lively fancy the form of mus
ical comedy in which Davis exceledf
His success in this line of authorship
after many years of practice at the bar
will recall the parallel success Of Anthony
Hope in fiction.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16
Case Of Daniel SulIy.

Washington, April ia petition for a
writ of certorari was presented to the
supreme court of the United States today
in the case of d. H. Miller. trustee in
bankruptcy, for the New York firm of
Daniel Sully & Co.. VS.. E. o. Mccormick.
and others. involving the details of the
alleged effort to corner the cotton sup
ply of 1904" The court took the petition
under Amusement
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16
seaboard Wreck at Harmon.

New Orleans, April ia telegram from
Harmon, Ala, tonight, says that rail-
road wreck has occurred near that point.
The telegram was received by Mrs. Louis
Graham. whose husband, member of
the New Orleans Polo club, wired that
the members of the polo team were un-
hurt, but that the ponies had been in
jured by wreck. He gave no other
particulars.
1t Is understood that the ponies were
travelling by express on the same train
with the players, Harmon is in Macon
county and on the Seaboard Air Line.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
A girl is always afraid to be alone with
a man unless she says she Is.
Even when it's her own mother coming
to see her woman calls 1t a house party.
Imagination is thinking you are having
a good time when you are only spending
money
A woman wants her children to have
their fathers courage and her brains
AMI beauty.
Sometimes man can save money taxi
ing his wife on trips with him. by not
having to bring her back presents.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16
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LETTERS AND CANDIDATES.
From the Austin Statesman.

FfUH tHe AUstII StdltsIndn
Countering on the idea expressed by
the Birmingham Age Herald that Taft
will be the winner in the republican
sweepstake for the presidential nominal
ton for the reason that his figure resem-
bles an 90" the Washington Herald
thinks IL such signs amount to anything
it is more apt to be Fairbanks, whose
figure resembles an IL" In this conec-
ton we would like to know what is the
matter with Foraker, whose life, If not
figure, resembles "J''?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16
oliver to Build Road.

Chattanooga, April 15.-(Special.)-W ].
Oliver is to complete the South and West
ern. running from johnson City to Ma
rion. N. c. There are sixty-nine miles
in all. but the road has been built from
johnson City to Alto Pass. N. c.. leaving
about thirty miles for Oliver to build. 1t
is the heaviest railroad work in the United
States, through a mountainous country.
having eighteen tunnels in fourteen miles,
and involves s.. 900. 900.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

way. But law with the penitentiary
behind 1t they would heed, and they
will pay precious little attention to any
law that imposes fines only, for they
would simply turn around and impose
those fines on the people who consume
Ill
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

The Washington Herald says that
the weather has been very depressing
on the spring poetry crop, which gives
a silver lining to the clouds. AS a mat
ter of fact, poets have been working
over their winter rhymes for spring
use and taking life easy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

The Mobile Herald had no difficulty
In finding rhymes for Tegucipalpa be-
cause the Herald has a Spanish die
tionary.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Joseph B. Foraker, political mono
logue artist, has engagements on the
Ohio circuit that cover the entire
summer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Jerome and Delmas will now be sup
planted in the limelight by president
ial aspirants and baseball heroes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

A contemporary attempts to tell
what a woman can do. 1t would be
easier to name the three or four things
that she can't do.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

If stenographers and telegraph op-
orators should tell all they know, the
world would knoV much more about
it's Inducements.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16
Southern Prosperity.

IT have never known anything like the
prosperity of the south as I find it to-
day. said Thomas A Daffron of Rich
mond Va, a well known commercial
traveller, who is now stopping at the
Florence. 81 have been on the road this
trip for six weeks and in that time have
covered a large territory. Everywhere l
go merchants ~sperous and the out
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Wellman may hover over the pole,
while Fiala circles it in an automobile,
and Peary drives up to it in a dog tam
dem.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

There is no doubt about 1t now. The
peach crop and likewise the straw
berry crop has been dealt solar
plexus blow.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Judge Parker is beginning to get
back at those who unsodded his yard
at Esopus, and then voted against him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

The steel trust proposes to re-elect
Corey president regardless of his mat
rimonial eccentricities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

No one at once rich and religious
has been found to teach that justly
celebrated Bible class of John D.
Rockefeller, Jr.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

General Coxey threatens to march
on washington again, but he will have
to keep off the grass if he does.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

The two-centfare epidemic is sweep
ing over the land, and the railroad
doctors do not know how to treat 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

The foundation for the Gatun dam
held Taft up without shrinkage, and 1t
is now considered sufficient.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

A CONFESSION.
Sometimes we're full Of songs and sing
Them with the greatest ease,
About the gentle spring, forsooth,
The whisper of q breeze;
The smiles of one who smiles full we'll
Sweet flowers all in bloom,
And how the beamng Of the sun
Doth put an end to good.
Sometimes we're full Of melody
And pipe it like bird
Uplifting to the skies a song
The like you've never heard.
AT other times we can not raise,
Gosh ding. single note,
And ev'ry song we try to sing
Gets stuck down in our throat.
Where is Hartman weakest" asks 4
us another.
What would woman do with pocket
if she had one?' asks the Gadsden Jour-
nal. "She couldn't go around with her
hands in her pockets and Jingle small
change and a few punches of keys" No,
but she could store in them cooking re-
cipes, samples of lace hair pins, switches.
chewing gum, smelling salts, postage
stamps, pennies, beauty hints, memo
randum for one spool of thread to be
bought while shopping and those other
articles that a woman usually carries in
her purse when she goes to town.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Pittsburg hopes to double In the next
generation its list of twenty-eight
righteous men.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Hartman seems to be willing to quit
politics to devote all his energies to
high finance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Mayor Dunno says he was defeated
by the money power "of the whole
United States"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Mr.. Taft prescribed judicious delay
in Cuba's case. 1t is the very medicine
she needs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Baseball Of the Jack Frost sort does
not seem to fit the home team.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16
ALABAMA PRESS

Dothan Journal Every time you men,
ton presidential timber, lot of people
begin to, think about the big stick.
Admission Hot Blast: Peoria, ILL.,. excltes
ones passing wonder. A bank there
failed, but the receiver has paid depositors
in full and Will soon add the interest.
Mobile Herald: The Kansas man who
insists that he saw a rat with horns is
an instance of the imaginative qualities
packed into a quart of Kansas whisky.
Montgomery Advertiser: Now the news
gathers tell us that some German has
found the Dalai Lama. In Thibet-not
that we are interested in him. We didn't
lose him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Taft's figure makes big shadow on
the surface of the political pool, but
shadows come and go.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Andrew Carnegie's popularity In
Pittsburg has been restored and re-
juvenated
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

AS rule a rich man is "distantly''
related to all of his relatives.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Razors will soon be drawn in Ohio.
where the political season has been
opened.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

The hypothetical question was but
a feather in the jury room.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Another characteristics of mollycod-
dies is that they don't hunt the north
pole.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Hartman now claims that he dis
covered Roosevelt and developed him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

1t seems that Mr.. Hartman paid the
piper some time before he faced the
music.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Presidential straws and schemes are
multiplying rapidly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

E. H. Hartman is lying low nova
days.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

W. T. Stead has one of the most diff
ficult jobs imaginable He is trying to
mind everybody's business.
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PREPARED.
No matter what the weather does,
We shant be any GUNNER,
We've just made UP our mind to wear
Our overcoat all summer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

The hardest work candidate has ia
do is joining all the secret societies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

w. D. Lanier, c. L. Stricklin and
W. M. Sutherlin are the only author
lied travelling representatives of The
Herald in its circulation depart
ment
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

The crawl stroke is said to be popular
among college swimmers The stroke
that father uses when he take Willie to
the woodshed is the straight up and
down kind.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Daily and Sunday Herald. $500
Daily and Sunday. per month";. ~
Sunday Age Herald per annum.. zoo
Weekly Age Herald, per annum.. DO
Subscription payable in advance.
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land by a young woman in Pittsburg who
died because she longed SO much fol
Cleveland.
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Entered at the Birmingham, Ala,
postoffice as second-class matter under
act of Congress March 8, 1879.
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What is whskey?" asks contempor-
airy. To many men 1t means many things.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

No communication will be published
without it's authors name. Rejected
manuscript will not be returned unless
stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

The man who proposed to Carrie Ma
ton said he was respondent Had he
married Carrie he would have soon been
desperate.
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Portland Telegram: We are willing to
talk peace at The Hague conference, but
we are not willing to forego the privilege
of fighting for 1t later on If occasion re-
quires
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Washington Bureau Age-Herald 1921
G street, N. W.
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Pittsburgh Sun: We shall have endur-
ing peace in this war-worn world of ours
when all of us want 1t so bad that we
are willing to fight for it and faint
not
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-16

Washington Post: In the midst of the
demands for a look at the campaign
books. Mr.. Cortelyou continues to make
a noise like a man sound asleep.
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E. w. BARRETT -. Editor