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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15
Thirteel-Cent Cotton

Spot middling Is worth 121a cents in New Orleans, and March options are worth even more. At times in the last week options have sold up to IS cents, and any adverse crop news puts prices of options up readily to that sum.
 The statistical position, the govern ment percentages of condition and the general belief that the world will de- mand more and more cotton are each and all pushing the price of cotton higher Possibly the Farmers union and its warehouse system are begin ming to have some weight, but after all prices will continue to be determined by the old rule of demand and supply.
 The high prices that cotton is held at will induce the farmers to rid the fields of weeds and to cultivate in the best possible manner all cotton that has survived storms and floods. In Texas reverse conditions have largely prevailed, and 1t is still too early to say what the crop will be. One man s guess is nearly as good as the next mans. Not until September comes will we know whether the crop is to be under or over 12,000,O00 bales. A twleve-milhon-bale crop would mean that thirteen-cent cotton had come tc efay
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15
Prices of Clothing Hereafter

To those who are compelled to buy moderate-priced clothing the Aldrich scheme of duties brings these results namely a suit of clothes which cost s1O last spring will cost s12.50 next spring. The cost of the SIG suit will ! be advanced to SIS. The cost of the SIS suit will be advanced to s22. The cost of the s20 suit will be advanced to s25. These increased sums will not go into the treasury, but they will go in part to the sheep growers in the far west, but chiefly they will go to swell the profits of the woolen trust. There is no bigger job in the Aldrich bill than this. The average man will pay a higher price for clothes that are lower in quality The tax thus un- justly levied on the many will aggre- gate, it is estimated, s200,Oo0. 900, very little of which will go into the treasury.
 All the woolen trust asked was standpat rates. These are prohibitive, and under them the American Woolen company has already advanced the prices of woolens to the manufacturers of clothing, and the manufacturers will pass the advance along to the ulti- mate consumer. The actual operation of the Aldrich tariff is thus described by an expert:
 | The cheap manufacturer who bought | his cloth for a dollar a yard last spring | sold a suit of clothes to the retailer for sS5O, and the retailer sold it to the uiti- ' mate consumer for s10. There was only a margin of profit of s1.5O for the retailer, which shrinks into insignifcance when ! compared with the harvest of gold reap ed by the woolen trust at the expense of the consumer. The same manufacturer of cheap goods will have to buy the same quality of cloth for his next springs out put at s1 25 when he deals with the wool en trust now.( He will not stand for the difference, so, instead of selling a suit to the retailer at $S.5o. he makes his price l s1O, the price at which the ultimate con- sumner got the clothes last spring. The , retailer, in turn, will not stand the differ ence in cost, and so he retails the suit at s12.50.
 ,,fo rryhn dealer in mediums" will buy the same piece of cloth for s1.25. He puts little l better workmanship into the suit. Last year he sold it to the retailer for $12 and the retailer sold it for $15. This year the retailer will get 1t for s15 and sell 1t i for SIS.
 The manufacturer of "good'' suits also purchases a block of cloth for H.25-the same piece of cloth as that used by the
 "cheap" manufacturer. He goes a step l further than the medium" manufac- turer in the process of manufacture and the suit he "jobbed" last spring for s12
 will be sold to the retailer next spring for SIS and the retail price will be $22
 The fine" manufacturer, dealing with
 the same piece of goods that he sold last spring for s16, will now, because of the
 increased price of the cloth, sell 1t for s2O and the retailer will ask his GUS
 toner s25 for 1t.
 All agree that labor will get but small benefit from this standpat sched- ule of the Aldrich tariff The wool trust will get the lions share of this outrageous taxation of the masses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15
FRANCES GREAT HOLIDAY

every street corner may be dance hall. At the more popular squares and places 1t is sure to be and as the American girls every woman is at heart girl when she visits a new land full of possible romance and adventure-drove by merry singing, dancing groups, they were gayly importuned by ardent youths to descend and join the merrymakers. One impetuous supphant threw himself prostrate on the pavement as he passionately pleaded for the bon of a dance, while laughter and sallies greeted his extravagant gesticula- tions. Everywhere the carnival spirit ruled.
 And it was heightened by thrill which gave these good democratic Americans, all of whom worked hard in most unartisto- cratic fashion for their days livelihood and fun, delightful sense of being of the hated aristocracy, of the old nobility In the famous market, four buxom fish wives, like those who in an earlier cen- tury shouted hatred at the queen, laid detaining hands on the carriage wheels as they demanded substantial expression of sympathy in the form of larsess. This
 
 on to see the public buildings outlined in vivid light, then up to the hill where the Red Mill embodied the mysterious evil and frivolity of Paris so freely exploited and advertised in song and story, but not for American girls save on the printed page. Then back to the Latin quarter. where the gay and reckless bohemian ism is supposed to rule and where in reality many such hard-working, clear eyed American girls study and pursue their quiet ways.
 France. or Paris at least, for Paris is still in a sense which is not true of any other capital the nation, is not wholly or even passively republican as Is America, As the English cavaliers worked for the restoration of the Stuarts after Cromwell and his roundheads had conquered, 50 roy alists of the French people plan and plot an overthrow of the present government and return to the old regime More than that, organized workmen murmur loudly enough to be heard, that in their horny hands should be the reins of government. Shrewd and cynical observers say that 8 hearty observation of this fourteenth day of July strengthens the regard held by the majority for the republic and that its establishment as national holiday Q years ago was bit of political strategy which Is working we'll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15
A PHASE OF PROHIBITION. From the Washington Post.

The press of New England is discussing with more or less humor the latest at tempt of Maine to enforce it's vexatious prohibition law. Ever since the original enactment of the states prohibition law.
 half century ago, it has been honored
 more in the breach than in the observ- ance, and it has been the subject of con- stant and continual tinkering at the hands of successive legislatures, and always with the same vain result. The latest
 patchwork legislation in this direction
 was the Sturgiss act of 1905, which might
 properly be entitled "a law to enforce a
 law" After years of effort which had
 resulted only in the spread and prosperity
 legislature, apparently hopeless of enforc.
 ing the law through the regularly elected
 officers of the state in cities, towns, and
 counties, created the anomaly of an "en-
 forcement commission" This remarkable
 body of inquisitors is given the power to
 see that the law Is obeyed in places where
 the popular sentiment is against the en- forcement of prohibition, or where the sheriffs and policemen are lax in the execution of their duties
 Naturally this double -barreled device of making state virtuous against its will has been a farce. For the six months past it has cost the state almost $16,00O to attempt to enforce tho law in districts where public opinion did not want 1t en- forced, and the successful prosecutions brought in only S575 in fines. and this all tho logical step will be the establishment of another commission to force the pres- ent enforcement commission to make the sheriffs and police execute the laws they were elected to uphold. It Is all very simple when you have time to figure 1t out | to the nth power. The New York Conl- mercial admirably describes the situation | in saying:
 What consummate farce is a law | that requires the enactment of a. supple | mentary law to make a bluff at the en- | forcement fo the original aot! o prohibi-
 tionl What absurdities and hollow mock l cries are committed in thy name!'
 Similar situations exist in every state l that has adopted a prohibition law. Kan-
 gas has been forced to ridiculous extremi- I ties in the vain endeavor to legislate 1 virtue into thirsty men. Nevertheless, fl | is safe to say that there were fewer l drunken and disordefly persons on the | streets of Washington on the Fourth Of | July than could be found on the streets l of Portland or Bangor, or in any city of considerable size in any so-oalled pro- hibition state.> It is the inevitable con- l trast of wise and strict regulation com pared with impossible prohibition in the l present state of pubic opinion And il ] is a conatra st that carries a timely lesson
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15
Mininq Men To Meet.

The meeting to be held at East Lake Saturday under the auspices of the Ala bama Coal Operators association will be of great interest to everyone connected with the mining industry and will be largely attended by operators, mining engineers. mine superintendents and mine foremen. The causes of accidents and how to prevent them and the best way of caring for the injured will be among the topics discussed.
 A feature of the programme will be lecture and demonstration by Dr. Shields of the United States army hos pital corps, who has had wide ex- perience in the anthracite region, and who is an authority on First Aid to the Injured" Another feature of the day will be an old-time southern barbe- cue"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15
THE FIRST ICE CREAM.
Dolly Madison Made It at the White
 House.

Washington Cor. New York Telegram.
 Apropos of some recent gossip about the social tendencies of the White House, in- teresting suggestions have been made about the changes in a generation or two The truth Is that the White House be- comes, year by year and decade by de- cade, a more democratic institution. The women of the White House have done much to accomplish this, and the very necessities of the social situation in Wash ington have done more. But 1t is prob able that the press has done most of all.
 It Is simply impossible to mako the
 White House a formal, stately, secluded
 establishment so long as the President
 has his official residence there as well
 as his home.
 Some people who don't believe in so
 much informality have had an idea that
 there ought to be a residential palace
 for the President, with a separate estab-
 lishment for his workshop. The idea, how ever, has never secured much following. The more democratic and simple the White House is the better 1t suits most of the men who have been President in the memory of men still in public life. The Taft household did something en- tirely new when a dinner was served OH the White House roof on an especially hot | summer evening. This has recalled the | great difference between the dinners of to. | day, which can be concluded in an hour and half or whereabouts, and those oi | two generations ago, which were ter. 1 rifically formal, occupied three or foul 1 hours, and left everybody unfit for work | the next day.
 l To the White House, according to tradi 1 ton, which seems well authenticated, thu | American nation owes one of its charac | teristic delicacies. That is ice cream | which Dolly Madison is said to have made 1 first, when she lived in the White House
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15
WHAT THEY ALL TELL YOU.

From the Chicago News. Here's the phrase that's fates postillioni
 Do it nowl If you want to make @ million,
 Do 1t nowl Doubtless you will find 1t easy By the time you're old and wheezy If you'll start out with a breezy
 Do 1t now! You must always be aggressive
 Do it now! With activity excessive,
 Do it now! Make things hum; they must be going If you want to make a showing Don't forget to do some blowing;
 Do 1t now! If you don't believe this teaching, Do it now! Then you, too, will soon be- tpreaching,
 Do 1t now! Join the ever-swelling chorus; Help to make the noise uproar'ous, Though the sound sometimes may horo
 Do 1t uowl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
rom the New York Press

lNeW TUT T
 The reason girls fools her mother is her mother thinks she doesn't
 The more of a vacation a man takes the more comfortable he could be at home.
 Except for children, rent, the household bills and where it Is best for the family to live. marriage is not such a great failure.
 Even when man trades for a horse he has to send to the glue factory he can take pride in how near he came to mak- ing a good bargain.
 There's never any use of a man learn ing a fine speech to make to a girl when he proposes to her, because she accepts him before he can get 1t OF
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

try without the intervention of a con vention, and each state is expected to ratify it or the reverse. The Denver platform calls for its ratification, and the real democrats in the legislature should congratulate themselves that they can assist in putting these two great propositions into the federal con stitution. Both are valuable, both i'm portant, both far reaching.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15
THE ORDINARY MAN.
rom the Clinton Courant.

From the Clinton Courant
 Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells of the state board of education urged the women members of the class of 1909, normal art school, not to be in a hurry to marry, suggesting that if it came to them a choice between a brilliant man and an or dinary man, to marry the ordinary suitor. This is the heaviest boom the poor or dinaries ever enjoyed and is very perti- nent advice to any young lady so for tunate and happy as to have choice be- tween two candidates for matrimony. M
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

on a No. basis was the highest price quoted but several sales have been made this week at s12.75 and better;
 Few of the large companies are in the market. but those that are selling at booking contracts for good, big tonnage. The Sheffield is said to have sold 5000 tons yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15
The Motor Club.

'The reorganization of the Motor club will have good, practical results" said CT Brazelton last night after the ad- journment of an enthusiastic meeting of members of the old club. By enlarg- ing the scope of the club so as to make all the automobilists of Jefferson county eligible to membership We can have one of the largest and most influential clubs in the south. The Atlanta club has done excellent work. It has promoted the good roads movement and in Its 'pathfnding' enterprise has aroused throughout the state of Georgia and indeed throughout the south, a general interest in automo- bile touring.
 "Our club can do much to advertise Bir- mnigham and the Birmingham district. to say nothing of more important achieve ments in having laws passed to regulate chauffeurs and prevent accidents. It is hoped that every owner of an auto ma chine will join the club and take part in the meetings"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

The Duke of the Abruzzi. disappoint- ed in West Virginia, has clambered up Mount Everest 29,000 feet above sea level. There is no accounting for dis appointed love.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15
ONLY HOPE.

From the New York Mail.
 Rev. Frank Sandford of Bangor, Me, has prophesied that the world positive il will come to an end on Wednesday, September 15. Pittsburg may not get that-pennant, after all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

Zeppelin and Wellman are rivals, but their rivalry induces neither to make dash to the North Pole, except on paper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

The Smithsonian institution will cover all the ground south of the Ave nue If 1t is to hold all the animals that Theodore and Kermit have killed and photographed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

The meat supply of the country is controlled by one-half of a dozen of men. This is worse than the oil or sugar trust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

Messina is still unsteady at the base. It is not a good place for one who loves rest and quiet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

Boss Aldrieh will scarcely attempt to read out of the republican party all who dislike his tariff bill for the benefit of special interests. He would become lonesome if he did.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

A Chicago judge has ruled that when a man is called a gratfer he is not en- titled to recover damages. This, mind you, is in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

Abdul Hamid also had opened &C., counts in American banks, and the Young Turks are trying to make~him fork over the peoples money that he had appropriated. But then he has a large and interesting family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

The Shah of Persia reverses his de- cisions every other day, and there is a popular demand in that country for a return to the methods of the Medes and Persians and liberal constitution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

A straw vote should be taken in the Illinois supreme court before the fourth primary bill is drawn up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

The word tariff very properly comes from Tarifa, a Spanish coast city. off which the pirates robbed mer- chantmen and no doubt, ultimate con- curparc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

The Wright brothers will soon get away from the oppressive air of a small parade ground.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

Herbert Latham on the English channel is waiting for good weather. As soon as it comes he will proceed at once to invade England. He will lead on to a second William the ConQueror
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

A Washington judge has decided that piano playing at midnight is a misdemeanor. Most excellent judge!
 He has an ear that is full of humanity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

The Wrights are going up. including Luke Wright, who seems to be booked for the United States supreme court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

The suffragettes at Seattle buried the hatpin instead of the hatchet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

Catnip gum Is the latest, and the gum trust does not monopolize it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

Bernard Shaw continues to make the British censor his best advertising agent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

The suffragettes use a hurdy-gurdy when they go about collecting funds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15
A Moderate Prohibltionist.

When I voted the dry ticket in the local option election held here in 1907 I was not one of those who though that prohibition would prohibit en- tirely," said a retired business man, but l was opposed to saloons and was willing to try anything that might minimize the liquor traffic. Nor was I one of those who wanted to see men who could drink in moderation deprived of beer and wine in their homes or in their social clubs.
 T will always oppose saloons, but having observed Birmingham under ate-wide prohibition for a year and a half I have reached the conclusion that a dispensary would be the best thing for this community. One objection sometimes urged against the dispen- sary system is that it affords a great opportunity for graft; well, but if some well known citizen of irreproachable character were placed in charge of a dispensary there would be strict regu- lation of the liquor traffic and square dealing.
 Two things should be borne in mind: Congress cannot pass any anti-ship- ping law that would stand the con. stitutional test, and as long as liquor is manufactured there will always be a demand for it. Had the proposition on which this county voted in the fall of 1907 been dispensary or anti-dispen- sary instead of anti-saloon, I should have voted wet
 Some day the legislature will amend the prohibition law so as to allow the counties like Jefferson, 1ont- | gomery and Mobile to have dispen- | saries and licensed locker dubs. I am | certain that. in every city a majority | of the voters would be found now in
 favor of dispensary. As was pointed out in lobby interview a few days I ago, the dispensary system in Bir | mingham could be made to produce
 $300,oO0 to $400,o00 a year in revenue
 as to the money being needed. Men | who drink whisky never stand back because the price is high. I am told
 that bootlegged whisky. whatever that l Is, costs the vendor only at the rate
 of about s1.b0 a gallon and that he de- livers 1t to customers at 40 cents a
 half pint. Thus it is seen how easy it
 is for legalized liquor traffic to carry
 almost an unlimited burden in the way | of taxation,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

Senator Aldrich's daughter-in-law is content with a divorce without ali mOny.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15

Ex-mayors of New York sink back into the deepest quietude.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15
The Iron Market.

The pig iron market is gradually reach ing a higher price level. A week ago }l2.6o
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-15

| a century ago and being Immediately
| recognized by them. In company with
Senator Carter he called on Represen-
tative Mccall of Massachusetts and
Brigadier General Elliott, comman-
dant of the marine corps, whom he
had not seen for As and 80 years re-
snectively "Hello Clint" said both,
before Carter made the introductions.
Mr.. Moore will also visit his old Mas
sachusetts home, which he has not
seen for the last so years.
The pension office has granted a
$12 a month pension to Samuel Des-
jondins of Billings.
Mrs. Senator Garter will leave
Washington on June 18th with her
two sons to spend the summer at her
Helena home, and will be Joined by
Senator Carter upon the adjournment
of Congress. They had contemplated
a motor tour of the Berkshire Hills
during the summer, but deferred it
until another time, preferring to spend
the summer in Montana.
The following civil service examina-
lions are announced for Mssoula:
June 30-Laborer in poultry division
department agriculture, $3.50 to $720 a
year July s and 9-Penitentiary
guard, SS40 q year; assistant clt,asi-
fier, geological survey, $3.50 to $500.
year; postal clerk translator, $1,000 a
wear
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-15
TO UNITE A CHURCH.

In New York, today, will be held
the first session of the international
convention of the Presbyterian
church. The delegates number more
than three hundred, and they repre-.
sent among them ninety separate
denominations and S50oO,ooO members.
Included among those present are
some of the most distinguished theo-
logians and ecclesiastics in the
world. The presiding officer is DR..
Oswald Dykes of Cambridge, England
Other noted delegates from abroad
are Sir Alexander Simpson, late dean
of the faculty of the medical college
of the University of Edinburgh; DIR
Campbell Gibson, moderator of the
Presbyterian church of England: the
Rev. DIR. James Orr, a leading theo-
logan of Glasgow; Professor MeAllis-
ter, Of the University Of Cambridge;
DIR. J. I'll. Stevenson of Edinburgh, a
nephew of Robert Louis Stevenson:
Rev. DIR. Laws, moderator of the
ii United Free church of Scotland; Sir
Samuel Chisholm, former lord mayor
!. of 5lsjaSgQW: Rev Charles Merle