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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
Lawyers and the Constitution

The Birmingham Ledger. which
came out on the amendment side few
weeks ago, says:
1.-THE majority of the lawyers are
perhaps opposed to changing the con-
stitution, and why? Ask any lawyer
and he will tell you that the first prin-
ciple expounded by the teachers of law
in that the constitution should only be
changed as last resort"
That sounds like strong doctrine.
Certain 1t is that very large ma
jority of the lawyers of Alabama, and
nearly every lawyer of recognized abil-
ity, will vote against the amendment
But the Ledger follows its statement
about the lawyers by saying:
in America the point has been
reached when the saloon evil must be
cut out by the roots and the only safe
and sure remedy lies in placing no.
saloon clause in the constitution"
Neither Maine nor Iowa has found
constitutional prohibition a sure rem
edy for the saloon evil. Maine today
is cursed with prohibition politics, al
though prohibition has been in its con-
stitution for more than a half CEN
fury. In all the large towns of Iowa
saloons are opeL and are made to pay
large public revenue through system
of fines. In Des Moines, with a pop
ulation of $4,000, there are between
100 and 10 saloons.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
Methodists In Conference.

Albany, N. Y, November 15.-The
annual conference of the general COM
mittee of foreign missions of the Meth
odist church at its closing session to-
day selected the East Baltimore sta
ton church at Baltimore, Md, as the
next place of meeting early in Novem-
Der, 1910. The conference fixed $780,
900 as the basis for the apportionment
TO be laid upon the churches to raise
the coming year for the furtherance
of the missionary work throughout the
world
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
PleSideat Tait'S Message

After running the gauntlet of $40
| feasts-banquets, luncheons, dinners
| and breakfasts-the President has re-
turned to Washington to take up the
! task of distributing offices and urging
Congress to do it's duty, including the
job of keeping the insurgents and re-
dictionaries from reaching for each 9TH
ers throat. The President may be
able to keep Cummins and Aldrich,
cannon and Bristow in one party, but
he will need all the tact he can mus
ter in order to accomplish the feat.
Congress meets two weeks from next
Monday, and the President is no doubt
kept busy at spare moments in de-
vising recommendations to be ineor-
porated in his annual message. IL
| he puts into it all the policies he
advocated in his 13,000-mile trip it
will be indeed a voluminous and ex-
acting programme. He will, it is said,
recommend:
1. Supervision of the issue of stocks
and bonds by interstate corporations.
2. Readjustment of the duties and
powers of the interstate commerce
commission.
3. Expansion of the duties of the
bureau of corporation.
4. Creation of a new bureau in the
department of justice to deal with vic.
lations of law by interstate carriers.
5. Establishment of so-called rail
road court"
6. Amendment of the Sherman anti
trust law.
7. Creation of postal savings bank.
s. Ship subsidies.
8. Amendment of the procedure re-
garding the granting of injunctions.
10. Conservation of natural re-
sources.
This list does not, by any means,
exhaust his list of propositions, for
in the course of his long trip he ad-
vocated the creation of a central bank
Of issue, controlling the treasury re-
serve and prepared to guard against
currency stringency. He also asked for
the adoption of the income tax amend
ment to be used in emergencies. In
ternal waterways improvements also
were fayorably proposed and he wants
the laws delays in federal courts over
come so that quick and cheap JUS
tice shall be obtainable. The list is
almost endless and presumably he will
put all his policies before Congress.
All that he does not thus present he
must be considered to have abandoned
at least temporarily.
times by the words, Back from Elba.'
He recently declared that "the admin
istration was elected on a platform
that proposed to carry out the policies
| of Theodore Roosevelt and we propose
| to keep that promise" The coming
message will be the test He cannot
keep that promise by lining up with
Aldrich-Cannon reactionaries, or by
standing by Secretary Ballinger in his
management of water powers and
Alaskan coal lands. However let us
await the message and then we will
the better be able to Judge to what
extent he proposes to carry out the
policies of the Man from Elba."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
Cuban To ne penorted.

Washington, November 15-Miguel Lo-
zano. Cuban. has been ordered de-
ported and Gutirez de Lara, a Mexican,
ordered released by Secretary 'Nagel OF
the department of commerce and labor.
Both men nave been under arrest at
Los Angeles for several weeks as an
archists and held for deportation under
the immigration laws. The two men were
arrested at the same time on the charge
of making anarchistic speeches.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
Dennis Case Reversed

Jackson, Miss, November 15.-(Spe-
cial supreme court has again
reversed the Dennis case. -Four years
ago Lewis Dennis shot and killed Cir
cult Clerk White at Raymond. He
was tried and sentenced to hang but
the case was reversed because jury
man had expressed an opinion before
trial. Dennis secured change of venue
to Madison county and was sent up
for 10 years. During that second trial
juryman went crazy and another was
sworn in. This reversal is for that
reason. Dennis is in Jail here but he
and his friends are rejoicing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
DR.. R. M. Cunningham, former lieu

DR.. R. M. Cunningham, former lieu
tenant governor, is an entertaining
stump speaker but his vacillation will
make against him, On September ID
he had committed to writing his rea-
sons why the proposed amendment
to the constitution should not be rati-
fed. Just how long he remained an
anti-amender is of little concern now
in view of the fact that he is to
talk in support of the amendment. But
as DR.. Cunningham was free to con-
fess that at first he thought the first
section was not proper, he will find in
all the audiences he addresses many
men who still think that section l is
not proper; also section 2, and will so
vote
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
Hamlet Toniaht.

Robert Mantell is easily the fore
most tragedian in America and he has
been drawing exceptionally large
houses during the past two or three
seasons. He had immense, audiences
in Atlanta last week and 1t might have
been expected that he would be greet
ed by a large crowd at the Jefferson
last night when he opened his engage
ment here with notable presentation
of Lear.
Mr.. Mantell plays Hamlet tonight.
Those who see him will be stirred by
his acting and will be charmed by the
reading of his lines. His voice is elo-
quence itself and few who have worn
the buslSin have been so fully at home
in Shakespeare as Mr.. Mantell.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
Arrested on Murder CHARGE.

Greensboro, N, c., November l5.-Jamss
Amick was arrested today charged with
completely in the murder of Simpson
were also issued for Henry Holt, who
was already in jail here, under indict-
ment for operating blind tiger, and his
brother, Robert Holt, charging them with
completely in the murder. The latter he's
not been apprehended. Coolies father,
Dan Coble, and brother-in-law, Ham Ell
lott, are still in jail charged with the
crime
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
Carlisle Is Not So Well.

New York, November 15-There was
change for the worse today in the
condition Of former Secretary of the
Treasury John G. Carlisle, who is under
treatment for serious intestinal dis
orders at st. Vincents hospital. The
attending physician said tonight that
his condition ''had assumed more
serious aspect" He declined to make
any further statement.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

can help the amendments cause. There
Is too much fanaticism and TOO "ucn
cant in the amendment camp TO SUIT
the average travelling man.
1.-THE defeat of the amendment Will
have a splendid effect on business con-
ditions in this state. Alabama is be-
ing ridiculed everywhere as blue
law commonwealth. And take the
word of an old traveller for 1t, this Is
tho sort of ridicule that hurts. With
the amendment rejected by a sweep
ing majority Alabama will enter at
once upon a new era of prosperity"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
preacher pies suddenly.

Memphis, November 15.-Rev. w. A.
Alexander, widely known Presby-
terrain minister and member of the
faculty of the Southwestern Presbyte-
rian university at GAINESVILLE, Tenn,
died suddenly here tonight Of an at
tack of heart disease. Mr.. Alexander
became i'll at the Union station, where
he was awaiting train, en- route from
GAINESVILLE to Kosciusko, Miss, to visit
relatives, and died within few min
1.tes
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
convention at Jackson.

Jackson, Miss, November 15.-(Spe-
cial. ALL southern commissioners of
agriculture are expected here tomor-
row to attend their annual convention
and a large number of feedstuff ex-
perts and manufacturers are due to
meet with them for three-days' ses-
sion. Commissioner Blakeslee Of Mis-
sissippi Is president.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
r,~o.~. +l,o Man, Vorlx BRASS

A man and his wife have quarrels so
she can tell everybody they never do.
The longer people live in fiat the more
they deserve to have a taste of real life
before they die.
It's awful hard to forgive anybody for
being SO nice there's nothing about him
that needs forgiving
It's funny thing how the most vir-
tuous person would rather be thought q
scoundrel than fool.
The average man is so unfair he won't
even give sermon the credit OF having
helped him to take . nap
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
New AeropIsne Built.

Berlin, November ia new aero
plane, adapted to military purposes
and built by Engineer Hoffman I'M
der the direction of the army admin
istration, has been completed. In max
ing this announcement today the Tage-
blatt says that French motor will
be used Professionally because that type
is lighter than any constructed In
Germany. No mention is made of the
official trials of the airship.<
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
Print Cloths Hiqher.

Fall River, Mass, November 15.-An
advance of one-half cent yard in the
price of American print cloth to job
bers was announced today at the Of
flee of the American printing company
in New York. The new price, 51a cents
will become effective November "a
The price puts American prints al
the highest price they have touched
since May, 1908, when they were re
duced from 6 cents to Az cents.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
National Land CONGRESS.

Chicago, November 15.-"Land for
tue people: people for the land" was
the sentiment of the many delegates
who arrived here today from the west,
northwest and southwest to attend
the first National Land congress, which
will open tomorrow and continue for
three days. Many committee meetings
were hold today and the conservation
of natural resources was one of the
main topics under discussion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
WHY NOT?

WHY NOT?
The hats are now so very large,
l really think we might
Just put a motor on behind
And fly, like Wilbur Wright
-Minna Irving, in New York Times.
Oh, Minna, Minna, surely you
Are putting up bluff;
Methinks the hats for women are
Already high enough.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Speaking of hats, we would suggest
One called the "Suffragette"-
A dainty thing for talking through
On things we'd fain forget.
Boston Traveller.
We may sit on their plea for votes
That's going it too strong
But we can't sit on ladies' hats,
Their hat pins are too long.
Houston Post.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
Heavy Losses in Jamaica.

Kingston, Jamaica, November 15.-
While it is yet impossible to give an
accurate statement of the loss of life
and damage to property as the result
of the storm, it is variously estimated
that about so persons were drowned
by the floods and that the material
damage will total not less than $780,
900. the principal loss was to the
banana plantations on the north side
of the island and few shipments will
be possible before January. The south
side of the island was uninjured and
the situation here is not serious.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
NeWspaper Man In iured.

Jackson, Miss, November 15.-(Sps-
cial.) "A. c. Walthall, local CORE
spondent of the New Orleans Picayune
and Memphis Commercial Appeal, was
struck by an Illinois Central passen-
ger trains today and badly injured
about the face and head. No bones
were broken and the surgeons say he
will recover.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
Hams win Make Motor Boats.

at. Augustine, Fla, November TO-
Thornton J. Hams, writer of sea stories
and who was defendant with his brother.
Capt. Peter Hams, In connection with the
yesterday In company with William J.
Dunn, formerly q champion oarsman.
They left for q fishing trip down the
east coast. 1t was stated that they would
become partners at some point on the
Florida coast in the manufacture of mo-
torboata.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
Railroad Man Dead.

Bristol, Va, November 15.-Adam ].
Dunn, IS years old, master mechanic
of the Virginia and Southwestern rail-
way, and for years holding that posi-
ton with the Southern at Knoxville
and the Atlanta, Knoxville and North
ern at Blue Ridge, Ga, died tonight of
chronic Brignt's disease.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

Sir Thomas Upton says it is a good
thing to be born poor, while Mr.. Car
negie says 1t is a great thing to die
poor. But the intervening time IS
different.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
NATCHITOCHES

pronounced "Nak-e-tosh.')
I'd like to dream my life away
In Natchitoches:
To win from care release for aye
In Natchitoches.
A sleepy, sleepy, sleepy town,
With rose leaves ever drifting down
And peace the golden years to crown
In Natchitoches.
Sweet sound. the soft cathedral bell
In Natchitoches;
From childish threats Gods praises
swell
In Natchitoches
Adown a sandy, sun-fieclked street
On Sabbath days the neighbors meet
And churchward wend with pious feet,
In Natchitoches.
For many swain the tryst was kept
In Natchitoches;
And all for love dark eyes have wept
In Natchitoches.
Gray Spanish moss on ancient trees,
The song of birds, the drone of bees
And quaint plantation melodies
In Natchitoches.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

The amenders are trying to unload
Comerism, but their amendment and
Comerism are inseparable They flock
together and the people will vote down
both on Monday week.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

Lake men fear that a 14-foot water
way to the gulf would leave them in
the mud. So it might until a heavy
tidal wave from the gulf came up
the new channel to restore navigation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

The 500 waterway boomers are pack
ing their grips preparatory to a trip
to Washington Let the Alabama wa
terway folks get ready also.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

The right side in this campaign is
the side that has good, plain sense,
the truth and old-fashioned conserya-
tism in its favor.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

The high price of commodities is
leading to demands of workers for
higher wages. This is especially
noticeable among railway employees
This will increase the cost of mate
rails and this in turn will reduce div
idends and profits. The adjustment
involves friction, but this is always
the case when changes take place in
this world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
About Persons,

H. w. Stanley superintendent of
transportation; w. A. Gore, superin-
tendent, and w. l.. Stanley, general
claim agent, were in Birmingham Sun
day meeting friends of their line and
looking over local conditions in the
Birmin CHAM district.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

The Warmer case in Cincinnati Is
as mysterious as the Steinheil case in
Paris.
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United Commercial Travellers.

II am sure the amenders would
have had a better chance of winning
If they had conducted their campaign
on higher plane" said member of
the United Commercial Travellers.
II have been through a good many
campaigns but never one where there
was so much mud singing as in this.
Never have I seen such dirty politics.
The amendment leaders tried to fool
the people by telling them that the
issue was only moral. They have de-
ceived them as to facts and have re-
sorted to low cunning that would
make the ring politicians Of Pennsyl-
vania or Ohio feel ashamed.
THE association to which I belong
is strongly against the amendment.
We have about 200 votes In Birnfng-
ham and more than rs per cent of our
voters will cast their ballots against
constitutional prohibition. There are
many United Commercial Travellers
who have their headquarters here but
who vote outside of Alabama. Some OF
these may pretend to be amenders, but
when it comes to those who can vote
here there will be precious few who
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

The extra-super Dreadnoughts cost
SIS, 1000 900 apiece. What the double
extra-super ones will cost is left to
conjecture.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

charmian-Good sir, give me good
fortune.
Soothsayer-l make not, but fore
see.
Charmian-Pray, then, foresee me
one. Antony and Cleopatra.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

The st. Louis brewers and whisky
dealers are mere Pigments of Brooks
Lawrence's sacred brain.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

Baltimore's latest dish is beaver tail
soup. 1t is said to have the muskrat
article beaten block
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

Governor Corners swan song vfo-
lated no rules Of grammar or rhetoric
at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

Freight transportation is outdoing
that of the near past rapidly. Trains
are longer, more numerous and faster.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

The north pole controversy has good
staying qualities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

That six-foot pie built for the Pres
ident by the New York pie bakers was
evidently intended to fit the man.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

Nearly everybody else has named a
supreme court judge and Mr.. Taft, who
is now at home, will offer an additional
one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

Senator Aldrich is trying to revise
upward his reputation in the middle
west
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
ONE OR T"oTHER.

Hard work is a guarantee of sue
cess"
''Either that or corns on your hands,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

November is still doing the April
act and no one cares If the months
that are to follow catch the complaint.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

McCooey is now name to conjurs
with in Brooklyn politics.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

The modern treasure train carries
butter and eggs instead of gold and
silver.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

John D. Rockefeller has certainly
added farme If not dignity to the hook
worm.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
The Amendment.

Section l. The manufacture, .
sale and keeping for sale of alco- I
holic and malt liquors and other 4
intoxicating beverages shall be 9
forever prohibited in this state, 4
but alcohol may be sold for medi- !
cal, scientific and mechanical pur-- :.
poses, and wine for sacramental j
purposes under such regulations z
as the legislature may have pre- :,
scribed. or may hereafter pre- !
scribe. 4
Sec. 2. Nothing in the constitu- :
ton of Alabama shall be construed y
to prevent the legislature, under !
the police power, from designating y
places where such liquors may not :,
be stored or kept. 4
8
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

The lady who went up with Will
bur Wright says Joy riding is left at
the post
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

The only snore heard round the
country Is Mr.. Joe Cannon's Pullman
effort.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

A New York cartoonist has been sent
to Jail but that city's pert paragraphers
are still free to sharpen their pencils
at will
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

Mrs. John Jacob Astor holds the all
mony record, for she actually got $10,-
100000.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

Mayor-elect Gaynor is certainly IN
the spotlight in his own town.
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so 1T DID.

"a pretty girl cried on my shoulder
yesterday"
Gee, whiz! What did you do?"
"Oh, I was so ratified I just hemmed
and hawed a bit and then said it looked
like rain"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

The lions in Africa respectfully de
cline to do their duty, after all.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16

The capital of the United States is
no longer on wheels.
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BAD CONNECTION.

Their courtship was very romantic, I'm
told"
Yes, indeed. He wooed her over the
long distance telephone and half the time
he was talking to somebody else"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
A CHEERFITI, CHAP


In all life's changeful masquerade
The blithest hummer,
Because his heart held, undismayed,
Eternal summer"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-16
Again the Cost of Living

Bradstreet's index number shows
that prices as a whole have not only
regained what was lost during the
depressed period following the panic
Of October, 1907, but that they close
ly approach the best records ever at
tained-those witnessed throughout
the first seven or eight months of
1907. Forty-three commodities were
higher on November l than they were
on October l last, forty remained I'M
changed, while only twenty-three de-
clined.
The New York Evening Post dis
cards the index number and proceeds
to gvie New York spot prices for the
commodities that enter into the ne
cessities of life, as follows: