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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07
New Movenent in Library.

Il am greatly interested" said a fire.
quent visitor to the public library, "in
the campaign that has been inaugurated
library suited to the needs and tastes
OF the children of Birmingham.
"As has been stated through the news
papers. it is the purpose of those con-
neoted with the library to stimulate in
terest among the children by making the
proposed department as attractive as pos
sible. A special room will be provided,
in which the youngsters will be allowed
privileges that are denied them in the gen.
erai reading rooms. For instance, they
can be allowed to discuss among them
selves the various books and topics in
which they may become interested with
out annoyance to the older patrons of the
library. Children by nature do not like
to be quiet and when the proverbial IL
brary silence is done away with new
interest must needs be added to the Ii
brary work
Further than this the children will
be aided In their school work. it being the
professed purpose of the librarian, Miss
chapman, ana nef assistants 10 teacn
them how to use the reference books.
When the children of the city are made
to feel that they are specially invited to
partak of the numerous benefits of a
public library decided step will have
been taken toward awakening the public
interest that such an enterprise deserves
1T must always be borne in mind that
interest awakened In the child mind will
be of priceless value in influencing the
spread of culture in the future, for these
children are our future men and women"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07
Is HE GAR OF ALABAMA?

7 erty. He would make liquor absolutely
! contraband and its ownership an evidence
| of criminal intent.
1t is very clear that Mr.. Lawrence Is
very mad, and many of his friends even
! will readily admit that he is talking fool
! ishly. There is no sort of decency in
! his arraigning the supreme court as part
| and parcel of an alleged pimp domination
| in this state. Nor is there any con-
| sistency in his criticising the supreme
court for protecting the liquor anarchist,
when he himself is arraigning our highest
| judicial body in terms no less disrespect-
full than the Chicago anarchists did the
| illinois state and federal courts some
| years ago. Mr.. Lawrence cannot be con-
] demned too severely for his ignorant, I'M
| just and Incorporate attack on the SUI
| preme court
j But there is something more important
| in his utterance than its vanity, its in
temperance and its injustice. Those fea-
| lures concern him alone as an Individual.
| The serious thing is his implied boast that
/ he has a machine in his control that can
+! change courts and constitutions, that 1t
| is stronger than ever before. Has his
Anti-Saloon league swallowed the demo-
! cratic party in Alabama? Has he built
up an organization throughout the state
| to which democrats are consciously or I'M
| consciously rendering first obedience?
These questions are vital and fundamen-
| tai.
| For our part, we don't credit his boast.
! We don't believe that the majority of
| Alabama democrats have turned over
! their intelligences and consciences into
! his keeping. And If any large number
! of them have unconsciously done so, we
! expect to see them shake off his domina-
| ton when they see to what extremes
! this new political boss proposes to go.
| The people of the south in 1861 had the
| spirit of independence sufficiently to
rebel against the abolitionists who pro-
| posed on a moral issue to defy the courts
| and laws, and to rewrite the constitution.
| We don't believe that their children have
| SO changed as voluntarily and deliberately
| to permit any self-constituted political
leader, on another moral issue. to lord It
| over them.
| Plainly the question before the people
| of Alabama is not so much liquor and It's
| great evils, or prohibition laws the real
| question is whether Mr.. Brooks Law
| renee is the political car of the state.
with the power to make and unmake Of
ficials, courts and constitutions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07
NATURE TALES FROM MAINE.

From the A6nhepcc JourHoi'
Mrs william Holbrook of Tarpswell,
an ardent nature student. was much
amused at fight between her cat and
some robins. The cat came rushing into
the house pursued by two robins scream
ing with rage. He ran through the house,
intending to escape by the front door, but
was met on the porch by four more
robins, very much ruffled In plumage and
temper. Jim Blaine fed up the front
stairs. and was not seen for hours. Upon
investigation some young robins were
found on the ground in the orchard.
where they had fallen from their nest,
and the parents had evidently called In
tlreIr neighbors to repel the enemy. on
THE other hand, Mrs. Tom Welsh, of the
same town, has a cat that allows some
deserted chickens to nestle In her fur
to keen warm.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07
Some Gold Facts.

ut is generally conceded by anti-pro-
hibitionists that prohibition does prohibit
in most of the small towns" said a man
who voted the dry ticket in the election
of 1907, but 1t is commended that it
has never prohibited in cities of consid-
cradle size and that it never will.
am opposed TO the liquor traffic and will
always do what / can to abolish 1t. But
I must confess that when was asked
by an advocate of saloons to point out
a single case where an individual of
my acquaintance who had been in the
habit of getting drunk quit drinking
liquor on account of the prohibition law
I had to give up. | know ten or twelve
men who have abused liquor for many
years past. They got on sprees before
prohibition was ever thought of In this
part of the country and since the prohi-
bition law has been In effect they have
INDUCED in their sprees just the same.
As long as whisky is manufactured. !
suppose, these men will succeed In get
ting 1t,
Those of us who advocated prohibition
felt sure that If the law accomplished no
other good it would minimize drunken
ness among the negroes, But I was mis-
taken on this point so far as relates to
conditions in the cities of Alabama. l
feel sure now that there has never been
day since the prohibition law became
operative that negro who wanted liquor
did not get it,
I'm spite of the cold facts l still call
myself prohibitionist but l am begin
ming to think that so long as whisky
is consumed in large quantities in Bir-
mingham and other cities it should be
made to produce local revenue. I am no
lawyer but doubtless some common
sense business way can be worked out
that will result in lockers helping to in
crease city finances"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07
From the Montromery Advertiser.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
n MOTHER autocrat has arisen In
W Alabama. Governor Conner hay
ing failed to fill the position ade-
quately Rev. Mr.. Brooks Lawrence Is
trying to edge the governor aside and
to outherod Herod
The Rev. Mr.. Lawrence is exceedingly
stirred up by some of the supreme COURT
recent decisions, and he Is breathing
threatening and slaughter against that
body He assumes that he is better
lawyer than the majority of the court
and he has been lecturing them for invad-
ing the realm of legislation" But he
does not stop there; he proposes to make
the court over. Listen at him;
THE decent citizenship of Alabama
is aroused and has been wedding out
from public office the men who favor
the liquor traffic, and they Will con-
tinue to do this until every liquor judge,
solicitor sheriff and police officer In our
state has been laid out under beauti-
full political tombstone of ballots. l know
whereof speak. for the sentiment OF
Alabama is stronger today against the
liquor traffic than it was In 1907
I'VE have only begun out fight and
we will keep 1t up until we have JUS
tice II we cannot get it In the courts,
we will see to 1t that the courts are
constituted of men who will not work
overtime in their efforts to protect the
LIQUOR outlaws of Alabama. The people
of this state propose to have this law
fully tested by its friends and not ac-
cept verdict of success or failure at
the hands of it's enemies" s1 .lrr
The big T. is very prominent in that
declaration. He is the autocrat, the car.
and "I' the superintendent of the Anti
Saloon league) intend to reconstitute the
court. He implies that his league is
stronger than ever, and that with that
machine he can accomplish his purpose.
But in his bold assumption of au-
tocracy Car Lawrence does not stop with
the county officers and the supreme court.
Hear him further:
"If court decisions against us are ever
well founded on constitutional inhibitions,
then the people OF Alabama will change
the constitution of the state to meet the
situation. The day of saloonkeeper.
gambler, harlot and pimp domination in
government Is drawing to a close in Ala
bama."
He Is going to rewrite the constitution.
He is going to change the laws of prop
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
A girl whose parents think she can sing
Is awful smart not to-
An old man with a young wife makes
her appear like dancing on crutches
What makes 1t easy for man to wake
M early Is II he has nothing to do and
could Just as we'll stay in bed late.
We are all 30 susceptible to nattery
that we like 1t even when we are
ashamed to know we are being made
fools of by it.
woman will cheerfully pay SO month
more rent for house in the country that
has a name which looks nice on her writ
ing paper.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07
NOVEL BALLOON REGULATIONS.

From the Washington Herald,
The Chicago Liquor Dealers associa-
ton has promulgated series of rules
of conduct that will be of interest to
all students of the social side of the sa-
loon problem. The rules are these:
ITO obey all ordinances.
"To cease serving drinks to women at
public bars.
ITO stop all forms Of gambling what
ever on saloon premises.
ITO exclude all indecent pictures or
advertisements from saloons.
"ro drive away all disorderly persons
and loafers.
ITO refuse to sell drinks to intoxicated
rarsons or to known inebriates or to
minors"
Now, II these rules should actually be
enforced by tho saloon keepers OF Chi
caro-. or of any city, the men IN that
business would soon cease to complain
about what they deem unreasonable leg
,slation. If no one violated ordinances
there would be no excuse for police in
terfsrence, and the retail liquor business
would be rid of at least some stigma.
put the practical difficulty lies with
the one saloon keeper in ten who will
violate the rules for the sake OF tenn
porary advantage. Such Is the tendency
of competition The weii-meahlhs' 10
keep their trade. would have to break
the rules also. Hence, If this apparently
attractive plan is to succeed. the organ
lied dealers will have to assume the
task of protecting the law observers
AGAINST the lawbreakers. If appeal and
example will not avail, they will have
to proceed to legal action. That will
test the sincerity and earnestness of
those who propose this attempt at bet
taryuant
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

not hear much of the order now. The
Catholic Total Abstinence society is about
the only temperance organization that
maintains an active fight against liquor;
but its methods are along the old lines of
moral suasion. When the national con-
vention of the Catholic Total Abstinence
society meets In Chicago in August 1t is
expected that 10000 delegates will parade.
Another good work that tho Catholic
church is doing for temperance is in hav-
ing boys on the day of their first COM
munion take a total abstinence pledge to
hold good until they reach the age of 81"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

At@IERW affD.
When darkness steals over life's battle
swept plain
And death is the lord of the scene,
And the wind it signs ever doleful
refrain
And the moon with her silvery sheen
Illumnes the pale broWs of thousands
who fell.
Their faces upturned to the sky
The thralls of misfortune who struggled
so well,
As If to prove how they could die
plying eye must look down from
somewhere
And a heavenly chorus recite
The crowning of those who were born
to despair
And were destined to Use in the fight.
DOESN'T SUIT HER,
He is a self-made man, I am told"
Quite true, but his mother-in-law in
ssts on making some alterations"
HUMAN NATUnE.
The chap who tells you what you ought
Can make you lose your temper in a
trice.
But time will often prove his words were
true
And that you should have taken his
advice.
And when you see him ever afteN that,
Although you much disliked his ways
before,
And chafed because his reasons were so
pat,
You'll find that now you hate him even
more.
A HARD STRUGGLE.
'Who's that yelling down the road?"
That's old man Whooper gttln' re-
lgion."
religion?"
Nav, but the devils holdin' on to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07
Women Stockholders.

THE stock of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel
and Iron company is held chiefly In small
lots" said President ]. C. Maben. land in
looking over a list of our stockholders the
other day Twas struck with the large
number of women who had invested in
sloss. OF the holders of preferred stock 10
ner cent are women and of the holders
of common about rs per cent
The preferred stock pays per cent and
ranks almost equal to a bond. Very little
is offered for sale, but recent quotation
In New York was 1151s The common pays
s per cent and is selling up In the
eighties The dividend rate will possibly
be increased next year to per cent
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

1t has been suggested to Emperor
William to place his double in the
place held by Won Buelow, when he re-
turns from the jungle. He would not
hesitate to tackle the Reichstag, or
ANYTHING else.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

The sun has taken the contract to
remove the Salton sea by 1925, al
though it is 40 miles long and in places
100 feet deep. Old Sol is working at
it persistently nowadays
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

Senator Aldrich has been advised to
keep away from consumers in the mid
die west They are high tempered and
hot under the collar at present.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

Five police rulers in New York have
gone out of office millionaires in the
last 10 r@9rs. Mayor McClellan's vic
tim was rot one of the five.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07
Great Street Car Record.

THE Birmingham Railway, Light and
Power company hauled 174.1l people Mon
day-the Fourth of July holiday"-said
a man in close touch with the street
car company. And had there been base
ball in the city 1t is probable that 90
900 more would have been added to this
number.
''The East Lake line was naturally the
heaviest, with $1,000 fares and transfers
both ways, which would Indicate that
the company hauled about 1900 or 5000
people to East Lake Monday. Add this
to the 5000 or 5000 people that went to the
park without riding on the cars and 1t
gives total of about 5000 or 21.oo0 people
at the lake.
when it is remembered that all these
people, or fully 80 per cent of them. were
handled after o'clock in the day 1t
will be seen that the traffic was quite a
record breaker. There was less morn
ing travel than usual on the street cars.
SO that the afternoon and night travel
was indeed enormous.
This was the greatest Fourth of July
travel in the history of the company and
the officers and employees deserve great
deal of credit for the manner In which
they handled it. The motormen and con-
ductors were on duty long hours and they
had to answer countless questions, and
I did not hear of a single instance where
any of them failed to be courteous. There
was great record made also in the mat
ter of freedom from accidents. as Only
one was reported in the papers"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

Mrs Gould says she will hereafter
wear fewer dresses. If she goes back
to the stage she will wear shorter
ones also. All this reduces expenses.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

The death of a patent medicine man.
ufaoturer was sad blow to the cure
all properties of his mixture.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

The Foster controversy over lit
eral hades is much too hot for the sea-
son of the year. A motion to adjourn
1t until January is in order.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

The Harmon presidential boom is
being assiduously nursed against the
strain and privations of 1912.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

Zeppelin and Walter Wellman are
North Pole discoveries off one piece.
Neither will get beyond the hot-air
stage of the journey.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

The merits of a thermometer that
stays in the bulb are fully appreciated
in Montgomery at present.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

The mountain moonshiners and an
Injunction have postponed the drouth
in Tennessee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

1t is still President Eliot despite his
paid-for book shelf. A president eme-
ritus is a president still.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

When both poles are discovered will
life be really worth living?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

The Wright brothers may be hoo
dooed by medals.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

The corporate lawyer will be kept
busy hereafter organizing corporations
away from the federal two-per-cent tax.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

The suffragette desires first Of all to
get her halo on straight.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

There are too many suffragettes in
Jail to enable all to win glory AID be.
come heroines.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

Chicago hopes It's bomb thrower will
yet monkey with a short fuse.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

Carrie Nations special train was
wrecked when she was rehearsing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

Abe Hummel has decided to stay
away from this country for it's good.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

The corporations may not like the
new federal tax. but they will never
theless pay it. 1t has come to stay.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07


old man to DEATH"
SIZZLING.
Sing song of summer time,
Lots of ice to buy;
Though we thought it warm in June.
Just look at Julyi
so IT IS.
PA, what is a matrimonial bureau7"
"A sort of misft parlor. SON"
HOW?
Poets in the summer weather
Find it rather hard to rhyme
Asking If s the heat or whether
Ills that they aren't feeling prime.
AS for what's called inspiration,
That's a scayce commodity.
Where's the Muse? She's on vacation,
Prob'by tripping by the sea.
Gone the mood erstwhiie SO dreamy,
Poesy's become a curse.
When a bard's so hot and steamy
How can he write cheer-up verse?
NOTHING IN IT.
lot of stuff that the press puts out
Comes under the head of "torrid air.,
The "cold expression of the Boston girl
Is just delusion and a snare.
Boston Herald.
OF course you will have to take UP for
her
And argue her cause in a rhymed device,
But In spite of her poet were bound
to infer
That the Boston girl is chunk of Ice.
QUITE COMFORTABLE.
I dreamed 1 dwelt in marble halls,
Untroubed and content;
An aerogram from Carnegie
Said he would pay the rent
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07
About Persons.

J. D. Haggard, general sales agent, and
G. M. Bullard, secretary of the Billiard
Car Door Equipment company, left last
night for Springfield. Mo-, and st. Louis
in the interest of the company.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
SIZZLING,

him SO tight he's about to choke the
old man to DEATH"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07
REGARDING Temperance Movements.

DTOuSuI Oul ny a 4fCW AoAh ASeeSi pan eCN
in The Age-Herald of Monday was that
showing how prohibition waves have come
and gone" said an old citizen.
Those who failed to read the cor
respondence referred to will be interested
In these paragraphs:
more than so years ago an even great
er proportion of the people of the United
States had adopted prohibition, apparent
ly as a definite policy. That was during
the Temperance wave of 1906. when
all the New England states except Mes
sachusetts and New York. Delaware,
Michigan, Indiana and Iowa went dry"
At that time, II will be observed, the
movement was strongest, roughly speak
Ing, in the states where it is weakest now
1t persisted for varying periods in these
different states. but ultimately all Of them
except Maine went back to the system of
regulating the sale of liquor by law
There are some noteworthy differences
between the movement that attained such
proportions In the early fifties and that
OF the present day. The earlier crusade
was primarily a temperance campaign.
seOS
the use of drink and was accompanied
by the formation of many temperance So
cieties and the signing of the pledge by
tens of thousands Of persons. The adop-
ton of prohibition laws followed as a re-
suit of the change that took place, tenn
porarily at least, in the convictions of a
large proportion of the population. In the
txvv,f - t. cf1 v
opposite. Effort Ia concentrated on the
enactment of prohibitory laws on the the
DRY that If the sale If liquor can be
stopped by law the individual will be
forced to practice abstention. The sue
cess of this theory depends ultimately
upon the question whether prohibition is
or can be fully enforced. The experiment
abundant evidence that the laws are wide
ly evaded, as is indicated by the official
revenue figures, which show the displace-
ment of beer and the lighter beverages in
these states by whisky and similar liquors
that can be transported and concealed
easily
II have always commended that the only
stinence movements. The old order, known
as the Sons of Temperance, accomplished
a great deal of good, but unfortunately
the society has become inactive. The
same seems to be true of the total alb
stinence order known as the Good Temp
Lars When / Joined the Good Templars,
about 40 years ago. the order had menu
bsrship of about 100000 in the United
States. Lodges are still kept I'D but do
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

Sing a song of summer time,
Lots of ice to buy;
Though we thought it warm in June.
Just look at Julyi
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DOESN'T SUIT HER.
He is a self-made man, I am told"
quite true, but his mother-in-law in
sists on making some alterations"
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so IT IS.

PA, what is a matrimonial bureau7'
"A sort of misfit parlor. SON"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07

TITS a lucky day, boy, and we'll do
good deeds on t.
lla Winters Tale.