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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-07
"A kind heart he hath.
Merry Wives of Wlndsor'
Church and State

Sneaker Carmichael is believed to be
nursing a gubernatorial ambition. AT
INV rate he recently declared in
debate in the house of representa-
tives that the church people of Ala
hama should manage the affairs OF the
state
The trend throughout the world Is
toward the separation Of church and
sfate. leaving each Independent ana
disassociated altogether the one from
the other. Mr.. Carmichael, however,
proposes to hand over to the church
the affairs of the state, thus putting
himself at cross purposes, so to speak,
with the world and the rest of man.
kind
Mr. Carmichael does not descend to
narticulars. He has not elaborated
his plan for putting the church IN
control of the state. When he takes
I'm details he will find that the
church" is, in fact, a dozen or more
bodies that harmonic none too well.
He will find no one church in Alabama
that Is broadly representative, and he
will not find the members of even one
congregation agreed over any pubic
question. When the members OF one
CONGREGATION cannot be trusted 10
aeree over a state question how can
Mr. Carmichael expect to bring into
working harmony dozen or more
very distinct churches? The churches
of Alabama are markedly distinct, and
not one of them is unit when al
fairs of state are taken up.
Mr.. Carmichael has not presented a
workable proposition. He is out OF
4oint with the times He should take
his new policy in out Of the weather.
It needs repairs and alterations, but
perhaps the best way to handle 1t is
to push it into q pigeon hole in order
to get back to the methods Of the
constitution and the principles OF the
Declaration of Independence.
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terests, especially in New York. The
people of the south will never know
the nature of the opposition that he
had aroused by trying to prevent
gambling in cotton futures-all that
We know Is that Mr.. Cannon is quick
to help special interests and he has
taken Mr.. Helm from the agricultural
committee. The member from the Fifth
district will be sure to keep up his
warfare on the cotton gamblers.
The other Alabama members had
not incurred the displeasure of the
yindictive speaker, and they Jared well.
Mr.. Underwood Is retained on the
great committee of the House, that Of
ways and means, place that offers
ample scope for his fitness and skill
in handling complicated questions. Mr.
Taylor remains on the rivers and har-
bors committee. This committee Is to
be presided over in the present con-
gress by Mr.. Alexander of northern
New York. The other old Alabama
members were re-appointed, and the
new member, Mr.. Dent of Montgom-
cry, goes on the military committee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-07
Uplift In a New Form

Chairman Pettiford and his co-worl1-
ers among the negro people have or
ganized an institute in which they ex-
pect to promote the welfare of every
negro laborer in the district, and,
therefore, of every industry and plant
in it. Briefly speaking they have gath
cred so negro preachers of the various
denominations, and they have secured
competent teachers to teach these
preachers sanitation of the home,
proper care of the health, the saving
and expenditure of money and habits
of industry
After the 80 preachers have been
duly instructed in these subjects they
are expected to disseminate their new
ly-gained information among their re-
spective parishioners. This would put
the preachers on practical lines and
would make them helpers where help
and good instruction are painfully
needed. This is undoubtedly the most
direct way in which the negro laborer
can be reached and upiifted, and IL
operators in this district will come
to Chairman Pettiford's assistance he
feels sure the work of the institute
can be maintained and even extended
until contented and trustworthy class
of laborers can be evolved in this dis
trict.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-07
preceut and Practice

While the President was laboriously
endeavoring to explain to the people
that while the Payne tariff is not,
"strictly interpreted" complete COM
pliance with his campaign promises,
yet he asks the people to consider 1t
ga good enough Morgan" so to speak,
until after next years election.
And while he was ponderously ex-
planning its alleged decreases in rates
what was occurring in and near the
mort of New York? Nearly 20 trans
Atlantic steamships were consuming
coal to beat the band in order to
reach the custom house before the
PAYNE law should go into effect They
were loaded with goods. II the Payne
hill were a bill of decreases, why
should these boats have been con-
Stunning coal in order to anticipate its
operation? There is hitch, in other
words. between what the President
put In a statement and what the mer-
chants were doing, or attempting to
do, in New York. The one or the
other was laboring under a mistake,
and the President seems to have been
the man who was in error.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-07
Speaker Cannon'S Committees

Speaker Cannon perhaps feels that
the appointment Of committees is to
pass in a short time from his hands
to those of Champ Clark, and just
before the final adjournment of the
special session he proceeded to make
hay while the sun shines. He dis
placed from desirable assignments all
who had a drop Of insurgent or in
dependent blood in their veins. Three
insurgents held chairmanships in the
last congress, and all lost their com.
mittees. Mr.. Fowler was displaced
by Mr.. vreeland, rural banker of
New York, although the former had
served many years at the head of the
banking and currency committee
Messrs. Rodenburg of Illinois and
Cooper of Wisconsin were also dis.
placed. All had fought the Cannon
rules, and the speaker, therefore, took
away their chairmanships.
Perhaps the displacement Of NJ
Helm from the agricultural commit
tee Ia even more significant. He had
fought openly gambling in cotton and
IN this way he had angered strong IN
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BULLS TURN BEARS
IN COTTON MARKET

New York, August 6.-Cotton prices, af-
ter running up to 1880 for January on
the worst August government report on
record, have latterly slumped under
heavy long liquidation and bear pounding.
Prices are &c to &c higher than they were
a year ago and nearly 4c higher than
last fall and some prominent people
have been acting on the assumption that
such an advance discounts everything
bulish in the situation. Also they lay
stress on the fact that Europe is having
a poor trade; that Liverpool has a big
stock, and that good deal of American
cotton, something like 1,5O0 900 bales, will
be carried over into the next season. The
more radical bears point to the fact that
even when Texas has had partial crop
failure, as in 1904-05. the total yield has
reached 13,50O000. The spinners buy with
evident reluctance or not at all. They
seem disposed to await the movement of
the new crop which will soon begin.
OF course the bulls have suffered a
loss of prestige. On the advance from
Size last fall to nearly the 18c mark tie
bulls side was popular, but the slump
of 120 points was like a cold douche
down the back of many a weak bull. A
good many of them were wiped out. And,
1t is supposed, that 1t will take some
time to bring in another big public fol-
lowing, even should prices show an I'M
mistakable upward tendency In Liver
pool 1t is insisted that the government
condition of 71.9 per cent is too low. Bears
here and abroad think tAat the south
will be glad to sell cotton at lie or
below. even at lie or 10c, and they have
sold the market with vigor. On the
other hand large spot interests have
bought, and well-known people in Chi
cago, New Orleans and Memphis have
also been buying on the breaks. They
think rally is due after a decline of
about 80 points. They think that too lit
tie attention is paid to the bad conditions
day after day in Texas where maximum
temperatures have been 100 to 106 degrees.
They also call attention to the torrid
heat In Oklahoma. Bears themselves
concede that conditions are bad in Texas,
but they claim that elsewhere the con-
dition is sufficiently favorable to offset
these adverse factors. Trade is improving
but only slowly.
On the whole, sentiment here has be-
come bearish, or mixed. Accordingly
there is less aggressiveness in buying for
a rise, and powerful interests, once the
bull leaders, have thrown their weight
to the bear side. The immediate course
of prices will turn, it is believed, large
ly on the weather in Texas. the volume
of new cotton coming into the market
during August and September, and the
attitude of the spinners. Some here who
have abandoned the bull side for the
time being think that after the burden
of the big rush of new cotton is relieved
prices must go higher than at any time
for years past. That was the case In the
Sully year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-07
More Furnaces In Blast

In July there were 259 stacks Ia
blast In this country as against 240
in June, and the output in July was
at the rate of 100000 tons per an
mum. Over 1000 900 tons were pro-
duced in July, and yet No. 2 iron is
firmly held In this district at s13, with
a tendency on the part of operators
furnaces are now operated at trifle
over 80 per cent of their maximum
capacity. These facts show how free
ly orders are coming in for iron and
steel and finished products. They
show, too, how rapidly prosperity is
becoming general as we'll as normal.
In July in this district three more
stacks were blown in, bringing the dis
trict's total number up to 81. These
furnaces produced In July 104,775 tons
as against 99,353 tons in June. August
promises to produce better figures still,
and before the end of the year a
monthly production of 100000 tons
will be reached, possibly exceeded. in
this district
Iron Is regarded as a barometer of
general business, and the prosperity
Of the great industry in this country
Is widely considered forerunner of an
unusually prosperous year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-07
THE BUGL e.

By Alfred Tennyson.
The splendor falls on castle walls
And the snowy submits, old in story,
The long light shakes, across the lakes,
And the wild cataract leaps in. glory.
Blow bugle, blow, set the wild echoes
flying,
Answer echoes-dying, dying, dying:
o bark! o hear! How thin and clear,
And thinner. clearer, farther going!
o sweet and far, from cliff and scar
The horns of Elhand family blowing!--
Blow let us hear the purple glens reply
ing;
Blow. bugle. Answer echoes-dying, dy-
ing, dying.
o love- they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill and field and river;
Our echoes roll from soul to soul
And grow forever and forever!
Blow. bugle. blow, set the wild echoes
flying.
Answer echoes dying. dying. dying.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-07
GOVERN MENT LAND
SUITS DISMISSED

Muskogee, Okla, August 6.-FederaI
Judge Ralph E. Campbell this after
noon sustained the demurrers of de-
PENDANTS in 10000 Indian land aliena-
ton suits brought by the government.
The actions by the government were
ordered dismissed The court held that
the titles obtained from the Indians
before the act removing restrictions
went into effect are good
The alienation suits were brought by
the government in the interest of the
members of the five civilized tribes.
1t Is estimated that about 10000 900
acres of land was involved in the suits
which had been pending for more than
year against grantees in conveyances
involving restricted lands in the old
Indian Territory section of Oklah oma
The defendants in the suits. who
claimed title to the land by reason OF
purchase from the Indians, are scat
tered throughout the United States and
some reside in Scotland and Mexico.
United States Senator Robert L.
owen was defendant in $50 cases and
Chief Justice Williams of the supreme
court of this state was also a defend
ant.
Judge Campbell, in his decision, In
sisted that the act of Congress confer
ring statehood on Oklahoma, including
other Indian territory, conferred citl-
zenshfp, both state and national, upon
all members of the civilized tribes
The court held that the contention
of the government that the Indians still
occupy the position of wards under the
government and that the latter have
the right to sue for their protection
presents an anomaly. According to the
decision, the government relinquished
guardianship when Congress passed
the act comforting statehood.
Judge Campbell granted the requisite
time for the government attorneys to
complete the record forean appeal from
his decision to the United States cir
cult court at st. Louis.
The distinctive difference between
these suits and the Muskogee town lot
cases is that the lands in the present
controversy had been allotted to the
Indians in severalty, subject to the re-
moval of restrictions and were pur-
chased by the defendants before such
removal. In the town lot cases the
lots belonged to the Creek Indians and
had never been allotted to individuals.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-07
A LESSON.

weary toiler in the ranks
Threw down the task In hand
And sighed as If his heart would break.
And could not understand
HOW twas he suffered so much rue
Alas and woe is me!
If life is worth the sacrifice,
lis more than l can see"
And then he wandered out and trod
The crowded city ways,
And lodged the flying auto cars
And trolley cars ana drays
SO much of wretchedness he saw
1t filled him with surprise:
He quite forgot his own sad lot
The tears came to his eyes.
The sick, the MANNED, the halt. the blind
Along the pavements crept.
In dens of filth and alley ways
Misfortune's children slept
1t seemed he'd never met before
So many hapless wights,
Pale creatures who were only born
To feel unnumbered Sights
Ashamed to own he'd ever thought
Life's burdens hard to bear,
He hastily retraced his steps,
With something of an air
Which seemed to say, 1.-THE Lord be
thanked
For what my station isl''
So many people had he found
Whose lot was worse than his.
PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-07
Women and Music.

Music lovers have remarked a lack of
good music in Birmingham during the
long summer months, said a citizen.
The time will soon come, hope. when
the city will be able to pay for daily
band concerts during June, July and Au-
gust band of 20 or 30 first-class play
ers costs money, of course, but no city
is worthy the name nowadays that does
not treat the public to open air con-
certs.
TT has been suggested that the ladies
organize and lead movement for open
air concerts next summer. The work
should be started early in the spring in
order that a contract might be made In
time to secure fine band. Apropos, is
this extract from the last issue of the
Musical Courier:
Every intelligent man interested in the
musical life Of the world cannot help being
impressed by woman's activity In promot-
ing musical art In this country and Eng
land. She raises funds for this that and
the other course, and there is no rest for
the community in which she lives until her
aims have been accomplished. While the
National Federation of Musical clubs Is
working in one direction, many women in
dependently of clubland are laboring with
even greater zeal than their federated
sisters. All women are not "clubable," and
those ladies active in schemes OF their
own. for the betterment of musical con-
dtions, will end by astonishing citizens of
both sexes by the success OF their ven
lures. Mark our words: New York city
will never have high class music In the
public parks, recreation piers and on ex-
cursion boats until women take hand
in controlling the matter.
LAS moral and executive force wom-
en- have become power in music. AS In
terpreters In the artistic field. they have
taken the highest rank. AS composers
they are forging ahead in a manner that
ought TO frighten the men. There Is hard
v a song recital given now without the
names OF women composers appearing on
the programme Lyrically, compositions
nv women compare favorably with those
produced by men in the same style OF
works few of the fair music writer's
are getting rich, too. and that is some
thing more that will surprise the men.
The American. Mrs. Beach Amy Marcy
| Cheney Beach). the French Cecile Chami-
made and the English Liza Lehman, have
attained universal popularity and, more
| than that this trio OF women composers
have won universal esteem on tnelI
merits. and bank accounts that would
| make some men weep II they knew the
J figures!
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The Iron Market.

The week closes with pig iron prices as
firm as ever. No iron in tonnage worth
mentioning is offering for less than $13. 90
for No. 2, and while the market may not
harden at that figure for several days
yet, it is believed by many that the sched-
ue will be on a basis of $l4 for NO. De-
fore the end of the month. There Is very
active inquiry for 1910 delivery. Matthew
Addy & Co.'S Cincinnati report says In
part:
THE pig iron market seems to grow
stronger each day. Inquiries are LOT
varied deliveres-some prompt some for
the balance of this year and some Tor
the first half of 1910-but they are all bona
fide Inquiries and not merely feelers. sales
are not confined to any particular class OF
iron, but foundry, basic and Bessemer
have each come in for its share. Req-
uisitions for finished material of all de-
scriptions continue to come In freely ana
it looks like general resumption OF ac-
tivjty. While a number of furnaces long
idle have just blown In, it is generally
conceded that at the present time pro-
duction and consumption are not far apart
and stocks on hand are being noticeably
decreased.
The number of demands for immediate
shipment on old orders and inquiries FOR
spot iron in some territories indicate
that foundries and mills are very busy
and actual statistics show a considerable
increase over last weeks consumption OF
iron. In the Pittsburg district basic and
Bessemer are both strong at the advanced
prices and foundry grades are selling lib
orally. Alabama and Tennessee irons
are moving freely and in the south OPP
tmism reigns supreme
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-07
A DIAGNOSIS.

When inspiration fiekers and you seem
to'ye lost your grip,
And you face the days misfortunes with
a slowly blanching lip
And your heart Is, OH so weary and you
wish that you could slip
Far away from all the toiling, all the
heartache and the pain
And wander wander, wander through
the sunshine and the rain
And never in your travels tread the old
en- paths again
By the river
That is ceaselessly a-howing,
Ever going, ever going
On its journey to the sea,
Friend of mine, it we'll may be
That a girl has made you think
All the wide worlds on the blink,
Or perhaps you're troubled with slug
gish liver.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-07
His Vacation over.

John L. Raul has returned home after
an absence Of five weeks. He spent the
greater part of the time in the east and
in Canada His family is in Canada and
will remain a few weeks longer.
II had thought of taking western
trip this summer, but decided not to do
so owing to the great crowds attracted
by the low fares granted by the rail-
roads on account of the Seattle exposi-
tion," said Mr.. Kaul. II intend to spent
my vacation next summer in travelling
through the west But there is still a
great deal to be seen In Pennsylvania,
New York and New England.
Mr.. kaul is looking remarkably well
and says he is glad to be back in Biz
mingham
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-07

Mann, the Virginia prohibitionist,
seems to have been nominated for
governor on the democratic ticket,
but the machine which backed him
has promised that there shall be no
statewide legislation. Tucker, who
ran in the primary as Mann's oppon-
ent, is an ardent local optionist and
so, too, is Kent, the republican can
didate for governor Thus it is seen
that the anti-prohibitionists in old Vir-
ginia are safe a-going and a-coming.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

A girl is so clever at making love that
it seems even to her the man is doing It,.
The part of a mans life that is not
spent in doing foolish things is spent in
recovering from them.
The woman who laments that she has
to darn her husbands stockings seems to
forget that he has to wear them.
The difference between woman's tenn
per and a mans Is merely that she can
urn hers loose without swearing
A,yoi,s woman can't help thinking she
III never row old, because, lolg before
the time comes for that, there will be q
change in the laws of nature.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-07
Delegates Elected.

Greenville. August Especial AT a
meeting of Honor lodge, No. 81, knights
of Pythias, held last night, the following
delegates and proxiss were elected to at
tend the regular semi-annual convention
of the Pythian association to be held with
Calanthe lodge, No. 49, at Eufaula, Sep
TENDER Q: J. H. Wilson, c. C. Stewart,
A. E. Gamble, F. T. Herlong and =. w.
Peagler. Proxies III. T. Walden, p w.
Hodges w. ]. Beeland, ]. B. Stanley
and e. H. Smith,
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A GOOD FRONT.

When the world Is dark around you
And old Troubles spies confound you
And the loads of life seem doubly hard
to bear,
That's the time to push your labors
And impress your friends and neighbors
With the brightness of the smile you
daily wear.
!
Now, Dame Fortunes ever tickle
And there's nothing seems to tickle
Her and make her think she's frowned
most long enough
Than to see some fellow making,
Though his poor heart may be breaking.
What is called monumental kind of
bluff
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Prosperous Planter.

B. B. Rudolph of Lowndes county, one
of the largest and most successful plant
ers in the south, was in Birmingham yes
terday and was a guest of his brother, u.
T. Rudolph, at luncheon at the Southern
club Mr.. Rudolph was one OF the Few
men who held his 1908 cotton until June
Of this year. He sold 400 bales and got
u1a cents for 1t.
THE crop just now is very uneven"
said Mr. Rudolph. In Lowndes some OF
the cotton is looking all right. and some
is in poor condition. But I am inclined
to think that a short crop this year will
bring about as much money in the total
as a normal crop at lower prices"
Mr.. Rudolph, on being asked II farming
was profitable, replied in the affirmative.
and remarked that he did not know of
any commercial business in Birming-
ham that he would swap for his agri-
cultural business In the black belt. He
owns 10000 acres. A large part of his
land he farms himself, but lets out sew
eral thousand acres on shares.
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

eaverns of the lucky mans soul echo
with Glory HalleluJahl' It beats bridge
1t lays euchre in the shade, It makes the
job In thu shop look like 30 cents. The
girl who can cook is a divinity She is
the delight of mans soul and a glory
In the sight of God And we have such
girls in Texas, but the need Of million
or two more is pressing"
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HAD IT'S DISADVANTAGES.

A Connecticut man had a spider painted
on his bald head to keep the flies off,
his little scheme works like a charm,
out II must be tiresome for people who
cont know about it to keep running
over to him and saying, Pardon me, but
there is spider on your head