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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
NAPoLEoN's VIEW OF WOMEN.

From the Chicago News.
Whatever influence a woman may have
attained over Napoleon personally" says
the author of a new book on the great
Frenchman. .'he never allowed her in any
lie policy. He was never weary says
Roedeger, of emphasizing the undesirable
effects which women exercised on public
affairs in France and the evil results
which their extravaganza produced in
their homes Women, he said, are at
the bottom of every intrigue. They ought
to be kept to their household duties; the
government salons should be closed to
them and they should be forbidden to
appear In public unless they wore wells
and black att e.
'At later date he said to Nine de
Remusat, hoping perhaps that she would
take the hint: Women must count for
nothing at my court They will not love
me for it, but at least shall enjoy peace
and quiet All this is analogous to his
diota at ST. Helena. We don't understand
he declared; we have ruined everything
by treating women too we'll and we have
committed the great mistake of placing
them almost on a level with ourselves.
The eastern races display far more wis
dom and sense of the fitness of things.
They have declared women to be
strictly mans property, and, as a mat
ter of fact, nature has created them to
be our slaves. 1t is only by reason of
our perverted view Of things that they
dare to lay claim to any sovereignty over
u.s. For one woman who inspires us with
worthy ideas there are a hundred who
cause us to make fools of ourselves.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
Bishop Gambler on the Rockefeller Gift

Bishop Warren A. Gambler resents
Mr.. Rockefeller's plutocratic efforts
ito take charge of both our heads
and stomachs, to purge our brains of
ignorance and our bowels of worms"
The bishop does not think the south
should be singled out for all sorts
OF reform. He says the south is able
to clear itself Of worms without Mr..
Rockefeller's million-dollar dose of
vermifuge.
1t is true, as the New Orleans Pic
ayune says, that the south has been
raided rather freely by self-appointed
philanthropists. Its cotton mills were
raided because children Of tender ago
were employed in them. Then came
pellagra, and now 1t is the hookworm.
And yet. says the Picayune, the south
ern people possessed vigor enough to
show up with able crops of statesmen
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
SEARCHED IN BIRMINGHAM.

From the Cullman Tribune.
Hon. R. E. Bowden, well known in Ma
sonic, I. o. o. F. and school and church
circles, highly respected teacher and
farmer, had his grip searched in Birm-
ingham last week in broad daylight on
Twentieth street. Mr.. Bowden was In
charge of our county exhibit at the Birm-
ingham fair, with Mr.. John Rehberg and
while there sold to a Mr.. Thompson In
Birmingham some seed he had on exhibit
ton. lie packed the seed In a grip or
suitcase, took the suitcase In his hand
and went into the city to deliver the seed
On Twentieth street Mr.. Bowden was
stopped by a policeman, who remarked to
him: you seem to be carrying a rather
suspicious grip; I'll have to see what you
have got" Mr. Bowden said: "All right,
sir; but its pretty hot right here let's get
In the shade and I'll open it up" The po-
licenlan consented-and there in the shade
of one of the big buildings on Twentieth
street in broad daylight. with a gaping
crowd looking on, this honorable, quiet,
law-abiding citizen of our county had to
open his suitcase to satisfy Birmingham
policeman that he was not an outlaw
We read this story as it appears above
to Mr.. Bowden, and asked him If 1t were
true, and he said, Yes, every word of it."
He lives at Clarkson. He did not ex-
press himself on the amendment and we
do not know how he will vote, but he is
a truthful man and will tell anyone the
story he told us and to Mr.. John Rehberg
who was in Birmingham with him.
Now. friends, you can't charge this up
as a Campaign story" 1t Is the legiti-
mate operation Of the Fuller law. We
said last week it was "tyranny'-it is
worse. Can you expect US to indorse a
law like that? Could the policeman not
| treat woman in the same way?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
Bowie's Characterization.

Il am glad Mr.. Sydney ]. Bowie had an
opportunity Monday of expressing him
self on the Dozier poem which he did
In his joint debate with Judge Weakley
at Oneonta," remarked man prominent
in church work. ''In the course of his re-
joinder to Judge WealSley, Mr.. Bowie,
after reading a stanza of the verses, said:
This obscene matter was circulated on
Sunday afternoon at the Bijou theatre
among the 5000 people who attended a po-
litical rally at that place. 1t was put into
the hands of girls of tender years-this
which is too indecent to go into the lowest
dive of the city of Birmingham. This,
Judge Weakley. was written by one Of
your leaders, was published in one of
your papers, and was circulated as cam
paign literature among the women and
young girls of Birmingham by your COM
mittee.'"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
COMER'S DIRTY sKUNKa,
From the Bessemer Weekly.


The admirers Of Governor Conner must
be proud to be Of his following to look
upon him as their political prophet and
as their ideal of a statesman leader.
Is tn ere in the annals of this coun-
try an incident comparable In vulgar
grossness. vileness and indecency to
Corners action, while the governor Of
Alabama. in stating from the musings
that those of you who would not now
support me are dirty skunks."
The thing is incredible. When we
first saw the publication we took 1t
for granted that 1t was mere fabri-
cation. vile SANDER. We could not
imagine that a governor of a great
state, raised to an exalted position OF
honor and trust by the people could
use language that would disgrace n
common loafer on the street, or DOS
sess instincts that would ever warrant
such an expression regarding his fell
low men.
But 1t seems that Governor Conner
used the expression quoted. He has
made no denial or explanation OF n
nor have any of his following. Then If
it be fact, can a person like that
have respectable, self-respectins fol-
lowing? Will" decent citizens accent
such a one as a leader? Will moral
who thus proclaims himself boor?
If a majority Of citizens of Alabama
have any standard of responsibility or
sense of decency, B. B. Conner Will
never again be elevated to any public
station of honor or trust.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
POEM sTlRs ENGLAND.
Watson,s "Woman With the serpents
Tongue" Sensation.

| o,ao,, f-orreenondence New York Times.
In william Watson's new book of
poems. lust published by John Lane, Is
| inch,ded one entitled 1.-The Woman With
the serpent,s Tongue" which has set all
1p,lond talking No name is mentioned
I'm the poem, but the name of very well
known woman is on every tongue.
| Mr.. Watson writes:
In truthful numbers be she sung.
The woman with the serpent's tongue,
Concerning whom Fame hints at things
Told but in shrugs and whisperings.
Then he proceeds to draw a portrait In
words keener than engravers acios.
Neither physically nor morally Il the sub
iect SHARED. The poetic resentment is of
kind quite unparalleled In modern lit
erature, and in many circles Mr. watson
is being condemned as having far ex-
ceeded the bounds to which 1t Is per1nls-
sible to CO.
To everybody conversant with the gossip
of what goes on behind the scenes In
London life the picture Is speaking
likeness of a woman who, perhaps more
than any other in England below royalty
has occupied the public attention from
the days before her marriage, when she
was the leader in a select coterie known
as 1.-THE Souls" to these later times
when her reported indiscretions have been
near precipitating a political crisis.
Whether Mr.. Watson's portrait Is true
to life or is only envenomed caricature is
a question hotly debated. Everybody who
knows the lady who is supposed to be
the original acknowledges that she has
sharp tongue, and it Is surmised that
the poet may have experienced its keen
ness. Another suggestion Is that Mr..
Watson may ascribe to this particular
woman's influence the fact that he has
not been the recipient of any Of those
titular honors which are occasionally
awarded by the British government to
poets of more or less merit.
Whether there is any more-or any
less-truth in these suggested explana-
lions than in the accusations which Mr..
Watson makes Is a secret which lies be-
tween the poet and his woman with the
serpent's tongue"
In any case the verses have created
maelstrom in the ordinarily quiet eddies
of London literary life and In other direc-
lions have caused no little commotion.
am told that the publisher of the poems
strongly objected to the inclusion of this
particular effusion In the volume, but that
Mr.. Watson insisted that it be retained.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
HONOR TO THE TEACHER.

From the Youths Companion.
There has recently been erected In Biz
mingham, Ala, statue by which the city
has honored both itself and one of the
great professions-the statue of Mary A
known, there are less than a dozen other
statues of women in the country-includ-
Ing those of Margaret" OF New Orleans
the Chippewa woman in Chicago, Fran
ces Willard in the capitol at Washington.
Emma Samson, Confederate war he
roine, in Alabama; Harriet Martineau in
Wellesley college, Joan of Arc In Phila-
delphia, Sacajawea. Lewis and Clark $
Indian guide, in Portland, Ore, and two
of Hannah Dustin in New England. It
is probable that Birmingham is the first
city In the world to erect statue to a
woman school teacher.
For 30 years Miss Catalan was the
principal of the Powell public school.
When she began her work there, Birming-
ham was but village; when she died
last year, 1t had become the richest city
In Alabama. During those 30 years,
the boys who were to become the lead
ing business men of the city, the girls
who were to become the wives of many of
them. all passed through her classes and
were Influenced by her personality.
Her entire life was devoted to educa-
ton In it's best and deepest signif1cancc
long before she died she was known as
woman in that section of the state, and
after her death rich and poor alike Joined
eagerly in contributing to the public SUBJ
scription for the monument to her MEM
DRY.
Not long ago there was overhead upon
a city street car a significant bit of
conversation between two women, the
chief speaker of whom was herself a
teacher of many years standing.
Whom is he going to marry7" she
asked concerning a mutual acquaintance
and when the answer was given, she ex-
claimed, THANK goodness it isn't a
school teacherl The longer I work among
them. the more hate the whole batch of
them"
There could be no finer rebuke to such
a spirit than the life of a woman like
Miss Catalan, who found in her work.
not monotony nor drudgery. but one of the
greatest opportunities offered by life any
where. 1t Is good to know that all over
the country. among the foreigners in our
great cities. in lonely country school
houses, in high schools and colleges,
are thousands of women working with
the same eagerness and devotion. Bir-
mingham has erected the first statue to
woman school teacher. but it will not be
the last
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
WHEN YOU FALTER.

Say you're heartsick, say you're weary
Say you seem to we lost your grip
And you face the days reverses
With a slowly blanching lip;
Say tits gone. the trick of hoping,
And you've ceased to wear a smile,
Say the toll which brought you comfort
Seems no longer worth your while;
Say misfortune haunts you ever
And pale sorrow hovers near,
Say no aftermath of promise
Comes your sinking heart to cheer;
Say the thorns are wearing deeper
In your flesh already SCARED,
And the troubles thick about you
Make your lot seem doubly hard;
Say all this and more, my brother,
Yet while countless seasons run,
Greater battles shall be ventured,
Higher submits shall be won
By brave hearts who'd deem but lightly
OF the greatest ills you bear
And would scorn to cry "Surrender!"
In the valley of Despair.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
President Taft on sumptuary Laws.

Il have been much interested in the
matter of prohibition and the various
steps made in this state by the legislature
and the executive" said a conservative
citizen. And as we have as our guest
the President of the United States-a
great lawyer. who combines the qualities
of an able judge with that of an astute
man-of-affairs-I desire to quote from him
as to sumptuary laws:
In 'Fountspects of Civic Duty by Hon.
William H. Taft here is what we find;
utterly at variance with sound policy
TRAN to enact a law which, by reason Of
conditions surrounding the community, is
incapable of enforcement. Such instances
are sometimes presented by sumptuary
laws, by which the sale of intoxicating
liquors is prohibited under penalties in
localities where public sentiment of the
immediate community does not and will
not sustain the enforcement of the law.
In such cases the legislation usually is the
result of agitation by people In the coun-
try districts who are determined to make
their fellow citizens in the city better.
The enactment of the law comes through
the country representatives, who form a
majority of the legislature, but the en-
forcement of the law is among the people
who are generally opposed to its enact
ment, and under such circumstances the
law is dead letter The constant
violation or neglect of any law leads to
a Generalization of all laws
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
THE ISLE OF LONG AGO.

BY Benjamin F. Taylor.
Oh. a wonderful stream is the River Time,
As 1t runs through the realm of tears.
With faultless rhythm and musical
rhyme,
And boundless sweep and a surge SUBJ
lime,
Az it blends with the Ocean of Years.
How the winters are drifting. like flakes
OF snow,
And the summers like puds between.
And the year in the sheaf; so they come
and they go,
On the rivers breast, with it's ebb and
flow,
AS it glides in the shadow and sheen.
There's magical isle up the River Time,
Where the softest of airs are playing:
There's a cloudless sky and a tropical
cline,
And the Junes with the roses are stray
ing.
And the name of that isle is the Long
Ago.
And we bury our treasures there;
There are brows of beauty and bosoms
of snow;
There are heaps of dust-but We loved
There are trinkets and tresses Of hair.
There are fragments of song that nobody
Sings
And a part OF an infants prayer;
There's lutte unswept, and a harp with
out strings;
There are broken vows and pieces of
rings,
And the garments she used to wear.
There are hands that are waved when
the fairy shore
BY the mirage is lifted in air;
And we sometimes hear through the tur-
bulent roar
Sweet voices we heard in the days gone
before,
When the wind down the river IL fair.
Oh, remembered for aye be tho blessed
isle,
All the day of our life until night:
When the evening comes with its beauti-E
full smile,
And our eyes are closing to slumber
awhile,
May that Greenwood" Of soul be in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03

spect to liquors. The latest express
sion of the will of the people stands,
and Judge Weakley knows full well
this is true. He knows the legisla-
ture would be governed by section 2
and not by section 5, article l, when
dealing with liquors in the homes of
the people.
1t is best to look at these matters
calmly, applying to them good law
and good common sense. AS Lin
coin once said, it may be possible TO
fool some of the people all of the
time. and all of them some of the
time. but it is impossible to fool all
the people all the time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Common Labor Scarce.

There is a very brisk demand for COM
mon labor In the Birmingham district"
said man who is familiar with industrial
conditions. Between 800 and 1000 addi-
tional men, white or colored, can find
employment in Jefferson county now.
Good wages would be paid and the occu-
patton would be permanent.
1T would be well for persons in COM
munication with the farming sections to
let it be known that labor is needed here.
And it might be that many men who are
here to see President Taft could be in
duced to remain in the district and get
ON the corporal ton pay-rolls.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
Needs a Park.

'"West End is one of the few municipali-
ties to be brought into Birmingham on
the first of January that is without a
public park" said resident of that Sec
.ton. ut would be good idea, l think,
for West End to buy 40 or 80 acres suit
able for pleasure grounds before the
Greater Birmingham act takes effect.
Such property can be purchased now at a
reasonable price. If the matter is put off
the high cost of large acreage might be
prohilei+f--e''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
REFORM IN ALABAMA,

From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Sheffield (Ala.) Standard thinks
1t possible, since the medical revela-
tion that abstinence from hog meat Is
necessary to rid the south of hook
worm. that Alabama may soon amend
her constitution to prohibit the eating
of pork anywhere in that state. The
work Of reforming mankind by law
seems to have reached a point In Ala
bama, where nearly anything may be
regarded as possible there.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
Nobody knows enough to know it isn't
as much as he imagines.
Having wisdom Is knowing there is
mighty little of 1t in the world.
Quoting the Scriptures is sign 1t is
much easier than to live up to them.
The man who knows how to make love
the best knows how to love the worst.
A girl wants husband for all the hap
piness she thinks there is in marriage; a
widow for all the unhappiness she knows
there Is out Of 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03

John d. Rockefeller was not trou-
bled by a hookworm while he was
engaged in crushing out competition.
He always got there at any rate, and
the other fellow was eliminated al
together
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CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS.

from judge.
'Hogan's COW bruk into the straw
berry patch this mornin', sorr. an it's
HWY damages We sh'uld git from him.
cts no use, Patrick. He'll be sure to
swear it was somebody else's cow
THE divil bit, sorr; he can't. OF
shut the haste In fur violence"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
LUNAcY IN ALABAMA.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
One way of keeping out of a lunatio
asylum IL by being larger in circum-
ference than the asylum. That ex-
plains why Alabama is at large with
the Fuller bill emblazoned on her stat
uta hooka-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
AT THE MINSTREL SHOW.

Whats the difference, Mr.. Simpson.
between golf player and an acceptance"
''Tll give 1t up, Mr.. Bones. What is
the difference between a golf player and
an aeroplane?'
"One makes puts and the other makes
put-puts."
Mr.. Simpson rises and says: Ladies
and gentlemen, our celebrated tenor, Mr..
Keenpipes. will now sing you that pa
thetio ballad, entitled Fathers Not at
Home; He's Doing Time"
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mans eye.
Sad days have come upon Bleeding
Nose, with one-half the folks on the
other half's toes, but out of the gloom
there streams light lat shines with a
rare and glorious might The combine
is broken and one of the pair will soon
journey back to his Ohio lair while the
awfullest snate that King Coco ere smots
will be paid back with interest by the
rural vote.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
Tools Of Politicians.

"All those good preachers and all those
good women and all those good children
who have been on the amendment side
have been seeing the question from
moral point Of view, but after Novem-l
Der 20 it will dawn on manyf-of the men
who voted for constitutional prohibition
that they had been simply tools OF self
seeking politicians" said Confederate
veteran.
1T has been bitter campaign, just as
might have been expected, and 1 am glad
1t is drawing to a close. The defenders
of the constitution will win by a big ma
jority. Victory is in the air. What
especially regret is the large plumber of
preachers who were enticed to assist In
political scheme which, IL successful.
would defeat Colonel Mallory, one OF the
ablest and purest of men. in his desire
to be governor. This experience should
teach church people a lesson, namely.
that partisan politics and church should
be kept apart"
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TOUGH LUCK.

"Tm afraid Bencher's new musical
comedy will be delayed for some time"
whats the matter now?"
"'Why he had half the lyrics written out
on his cuffs and, without thinking what
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WHY NOT?

WHY NOT?
The hats are now SO very large
I really think we might
Just put a motor on behind
And fly, like Wilbur Wright.
-Minna Irving. in the New York Times.
Oh, Minna, Minna, surely you
Are putting up a bluff.
Methinks the hats for women are
Already high enoughl
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
NOT SHE.

"I see where Nat Goodwin did the cook
ing while he and Edna were travelling
about in Europe In their automobile"
well, no person in his right mind
would expect that Edna would do it."
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The republican party in the south
is either afflicted with the hookworm
or else with a desire to have offices
enough to go around.
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THE INsTALLMENr WAY.

That's a fine set of books. They be-
long to you. I presume?"
well, guess I've paid enough on them
to claim volumes | and H."
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COMMENT.

There is nothing like a sense of fitness.
A Birmingham man has a red devil made
of cardboard stuck on the hood of his au-
tomobile.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03

An Indiana man ran amuck after filling
up on candidate beer" The Indiana
brand of candidate beer must be trihe
worse than candidate cigars.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03

President Taft's collection of keys
to American cities is unprecedented.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03

The Salt River Special goes out to-
day in dozen states crowded to the
doors.
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The Illinois papers are convinced
that the ways are being creased for
the painless departure of Mr.. Cannon
at the end of the present Congress
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Students will hereafter be classed
either as bookworms or hookworms.
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The thrills an auto racer gives
Are certainly immense;
We wonder II he'll make the turn,
Or just go through the fence.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03

Clyde Fitch's estate will not exceed
$4,000. Some one surely has over
stated the earnings of popular play
wrights.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03

National Committeeman Mack has
ruled Mr.. Bryan out of the running
in 1912.
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New York's moral spasm has petered
out and will soon be forgotten.
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The amendment lags and some think
it may have accumulated a lot OF
hookworms.