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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-08
Resolution For Constitutional Amendment

When the Alabama legislature meets
on July 81 it will be face to face with
this resolution, fresh from the hands
of Congress:
Resolved, by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled two
thirds of each house concurring therein)'
That the following article is proposed as
an amendment to the constitution OF the
United States which when ratified by the
legislatures of three-fourths of the several
states shall be valid to all intents and
purposes as a part of the constitution:
article 16. The Congress shall have
power to lay and collect taxes on incomes
from whatever source derived without APP
portionment among the several states and
without regard to any census or ennmer-
alton"
1t may not be able to outrun the
Georgia legislature in ratifying this
proposition to amend the constitution
of the United States, but it can at any
rate become a good second.
Unless the proposed amendment is
included in the Governors call two
thirds vote in each body would be
needed. If it is included in the call
majority of quorum would be suff1-
cient in either house to put Alabama
before the country as a ratifying state.
The sentiment of Alabama concern
ing this proposition is not a matter of
doubt. The people of this state believe
the federal government should possess
the power to levy an individual income
tax, and when the subject Is brought
before the Legislature there will prob
ably not be a single vote cast against
it. There was not a vote cast against
it in the United States Senate. 1t will
go through with bells on until it
reaches the states without primaries
in the effete east.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-08
Typhoid Mary

The germ theory has developed the
fact that vigorous person can harbor
disease germs without being upset by
them personally. This is the case of
Typhoid Mary" an honest, sturdy and
efficient domestic servant who has for
about two years been segregated by
the authorities of New York city. So
long has this infraction Of her liberty
and personal rights gone on she has at
length applied for release through
writ of habeas corpus. Her applica-
ton is pending in the courts of New
York, and the result of 1t will be
watched with interest.
1t seems to be established beyond
reasonable doubt that before she was
taken in charge by the health officials
of New York Typhoid Mary never
failed to create a typhoid outbreak
wherever she worked, and she was en-
ployed in widely separated places. She
refuses to submit, however, to bacte-
biological examinations The evil
dence Is considered conclusive that she
is charged with active typhoid germs.
They do not give her any trouble, but
they do cause outbreaks of typhoid
fever in others. The doctors are con-
vinced she is still possessed Of germs
! in abundance, however hearty and
wholesome she herself may be.
Typhoid Mary's case may prove an
attack upon the right of liberty in 9th
ers, for no one can be sure that he
will not himself become source of
infection, and he, too, may be segre-
gated two years as Typhoid Mary has
been. The doctors are we'll aware that
she is not the only one possessed Of
germs in this world, and the problem
as to the disposition of the others may
soon become warm and difficult.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-08
They say you are a melancholy fellow.
As You Like 1t.
Maximum and Minimum

OF all the Nillainies contained in the
Aldrich tariff not one exceeds in rapac'
ity the maximum and minimum provi-
sion that was put through an obedient
Senate last Saturday
The maximum tariff is a horizontal
advance of % per cent in rates, and 1t
goes automatically into effect March
81, 1910, unless the President express
ly authorizes the minimum rate. In
other words, Aldrichism has built our
Chinese wall as high as he dares on
account of public opinion, and then he
adds a provision for 25 per cent more
that the trusts and monopolies will au-
tomatically secure unless a foreign
government goes out of its way to
show it is studying our interests in
stead of its own.
1t is idle to say that this provision
is harmless and inefficient. 1t is auto
matte, and the protected interests
can be trusted to discover "discrimina-
tom where they need it in their bust
ness.
The Senate long ago killed all reci-
procity treaties, and now we are to
have automatic maximum rates that
will be used as a club against other
nations. The provision will invite tar
if wars, and it will be used to give
protection another boost, and every
boost of that nature means higher
prices at home to the consumer and
an enhanced cost Of living.
In a year and four months the con-
sumers will choose new Congress
and then a verdict will be rendered
on Aldrichism that no one will mis-.
interpret.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-08
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
In Favor of plspensarv.

1T may be that the prohibition law
Will remain on the statute books of Ala
bama for some years to come" said a
large property owner but when the law
is modified, as it is sure to be in the
course of time, 1 hope it will be in
tavor of dispensary system.
L used TO be an advocate of saloons
with high license and strict regulation,
but I am now of the opinion that the dis
pensary would be the best solution of
the liquor question, and / have talked
with many business men this week who
take the same view of the matter.
"Of course, l am assuming that a large
percentage of our respectable citizens
buy liquor in states, where 1t is legally
sold and have 1t shipped to them by ex-
press. 1t is pretty safe too. to assume
that under prohibition laws blind. tigers
Will always be In evidence here and in
other large towns of the state.
"A half dozen dispensaries in Birming-
ham could be made to yield an annual
revenue for the city of $4,000 to 100000.
Birmingham. needs this money. With it
Birmingham would be able to have all
the schoolhouses that are demanded, more
paved streets and more parks and band
concerts free to the public, and every
thing in the line of the city beautiful. So
long as SO many people will drink, it will
be shame if the city derives no bene-
fit. As 1t is now a vast sum of money
goes from Birmingham to northern cities
to pay for whisky, wine and beer. This
money could be kept in circulation here
II we had a dlspensary law"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-08
BRYAN AND PROHIBITION.

From Leslie's Weekly.
Bryan now announces his intention to
make war on the liquor interests in or
der to keep the democratic party from
being controlled by them. This sudden
change of attitude, novel for a north
ern democrat, has not greatly surprised
the American people. Reading the signs
OF the times. Mr.. Bryan recognizes the
fact that the great leaders of his party,
who have followed him thrice to defeat,
are not eager to place their standard in
his hand again. Mr.. Bryan being moth
ing If not resourceful, his stand for vir-
tual prohibition can have but one mean
ing He realizes the absurdity of an
nouncng that he will take nomination
from the democratic party for the fourth
time and lead 1t once more to disaster.
But as he feels that he must have an
other try for the presidency, he is cast
ing about to get the nomination from
the rapidly growing prohibition party.
NThose who may doubt that Mr.. Bryan
is willing to tie up with the prohibition
lists should remember that 1t is not hope
of the presidency that attracts him and
keeps him active In political affairs so
much as the profitable publicity which
he enjoys from posing as candidate.
1t was his remarkable gift Of gaining pub
liciy which lifted Mr.. Bryan from pow
erty and obscurity into national promi-
hence and made him one of the weaIthest
men in his state. His capacity for Sc
curing FREQ advertising drives the ablest
press agent to despair. By means of it
Mr. Bryan is enabled to derive from his
speeches, his lectures and his contribu-
tions to the press an income of about $780,
600 per year-much more than the salary
of the President of the United States. 1t
would doubtless be to his financial in
terest to accept the nomination for the
presidency from the prohibitionists, and
his candidacy under the new banner
would at least add to the gayety of ma
TONS
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-08
POkING FUN AT WOMAN.
From the Washington Post

From the washington Post.
Find out what makes her look so
funny, and then approve" was the adj
vice OF a seasoned husband, who hoped
to give his younger friend a useful chart
of the placider currents of matrimonial
seas. Man Is prone to disregard such
counsel, sage though 1t may be- One
might as we'll follow It, for women will
wear queer things and expect mere man
to say they are becoming. Besides, after
the first shock, they usually are.
The outcry of the whole ~ * of artists,
doctors, and family critics of the oppo-
site sex shall not dissuade lovely woman
from ridiculous fashions. She knows that
the thing which makes the commonly I'M
observant male take notice is the thing
she must shop for. and she puts it on
Besides, she is hardened to the ways
of the "josher." The Tanagra figurines,
or a good many of them, show that the
keen Greek-Asian artists in the round
of another age poked fun gently at the
styles of their day. which did not differ
so greatly from those of our own. The
same sort of humorous protest has been
continuous down to this year.
Listen to Theophile Gautier, critic
and expert in the beautiful. rapping at
the knuckles of Partisan danes over the
shoulders of the ladies of Madrid in the
year of grace, 1s4o<
wearing a mantila, a woman would
have to be as ugly as the three theological
virtues to fall short of prettiness. I'm
luckily, that is the only part of the Span
ish costume that she has retained The
rest is after the French fashion. The
last folds of the mantlla float over a
shawl, an odious shawl. and the robe goes
with robe Of some sort of stuff I can
not help being astonished that women
ordinarily clairvoyant in what concerns
their beauty. fall to see that their SUI
preme efforts at elegance accomplish nc
more than to make them look like some
overdressed. provincial"
Gauter might lament, but he could
not check the inroads of Paris styles
upon national costume, nor can any man
at this day persuade his feminine entour-
age that there is no beauty in "hipless
effects" in monstrous hats. or in angular
lines. The lady always knows better
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-08
ReelfOOt Lake Night Rider Cases

In a three-by-two opinion the SUI
preme court of Tennessee has reversed
the decisions of the trial court in the
night rider cases, and they must be
tried again before any one Of them
can be punished. This applies to
those sentenced to hanging as we'll as
to those sentenced to Imprisonment
The opinion Of the court was written
by Judge Craft of Memphis and it re-
'lates more to the manner in which a
grand jury was summoned by the spe-
cial trial court than to anything else.
Attorney General Caldwell has Wig
orously criticised the reversal in these
cases, and no doubt the action Of Ten
nessees highest court in these cases
will lead to legislation. "In looking
around" says the Nashville Tennes-
sean, ito see what is the best that can
be made of bad condition Of things,
we can only urge study of our system
of practice and procedure in criminal
trials, with view to effective reforms
by the next legislature, and urge a
constitutional amendment SO as TO re.
move all doubt from the Governor
authority to call out the militia in such
emergencies as demanded their pres
euce at Reelfoot lake."
The issue has been settled IN one
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-08
NO MORE CARS FOR WOMEN.

From the Chicago Evening Post
The New York subway cars for the ex-
elusive use of women have been discon-
tfnued. Thus ends an experiment of
which the outcome was wrapped in doubt
when it was started some months ago
Logically, from the purely masculine
standpoint, it was just the thing to give
women cars for themselves. It seemed to
protect them from too close contact with
the rough discomforts of the rush hours,
as well as to give them a elf-chaperoned
safety. But 1t is notable that the pro-
gressive suffragist leaders in New York
opposed the scheme from It's inception
They said that the woman workers of the
city did not need or wish to be ''babied"
in this fashion, and declared the plan to
be out Of keeping with an enlightened
view Of womanhood. 1t seems now that
the suffragists knew considerably more
about the case than their opponents
and, as President McAdoo has declined
to explain why his plan failed, we should
be very much obliged If they would tell
us just why it all happened as it did.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-08

| had to dress him from head to foot. while
he thought deeply of other things. In the
morning, after taking cup of tea in bed.
he would at once jump into his bath and
stay there while his secretary read dis
patches and newspapers. The Emperor
had no regular hour for going to bed;
sometimes he retired at 10, and then
again 2 or 3 in the morning. Winter and
summer his bed had to be warmed with h
pan. He was naturally cold booded, and
1t was only on very hot days that he did
not require a fire in his room.
Constant tells of touching scene
which shows Josephine's solicitude for
Napoleon. The Emperor had the habit of
eating very fast, and oftentimes suffered
from stomach troubles. One day the valet
was summoned to the Emperor's room.
lie had a violent attack of Indigestion.
Il found him lying on the floor with his
head in Josephine's lap. now grooming,
now swearing, for he could not stand the
least pain. although Injured to all sorts
of hardships while in camp. Josephine
was trying to console him, and would
willingly have stood the pain for him, If
such had been possible. 1 made some
tea for him and he drank three cups.
While Josephine was stroking his head
he fell asleep. When he awoke she asked
him If he felt better and II he did not
want to lie in bed and have quiet sleep.
Was not this tenderness touching, be-
tween an Emperor and an Empress? l
was often witness of such simple family
scenes"
Constant tells of the sadness at the last
meal before the reputation.
THAT day dead silence reigned. The
Empress had wept all day. At dinner
she wore aNhat which hid her pale face
and bloodshot eyes. The Emperor kept
his eye cast down, and now and then his
face would twitch; and If he happened to
look up 1t was to cast a side glance At
Josephine. Neither the Emperor nor the
Empress ate of any dish that was served.
cording to habit page presented the
waiter to the Empress for her to pour
out a cup for the Emperor, but the En-
peror told the servant to bring 1t to him
drank 1t, while Josephine looked at him
with expression of great surprise
When the page left the room heard
moaning and signing, and on going into
the room found the Empress lying fiat
on the floor. weeping to break anyone's
heart and exclaiming, No you will not
do that, you will not break my heart g"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-08
President Guthrie Here.

T. w. Guthrie of Pittsburg, president
of the Republic Iron and Steel company,
arrived in Birmingham yesterday and will
remain until Saturday. He Is the guest
of F. H. Crockard.
When asked about the iron market Mr..
Guthrie said: 1T looks good. 1t is in
a healthy condition, and the tendency
of prices is upward. Our company docs
not care to sell for future delivery for
the reason that higher prices are expect
ed and we want to have iron to sell at
the advance
The local iron market has been compar-
atively quiet this week. The Tennessee
company has been out of the market for
two or three weeks and the Republic COM
pany has been practically out for some
time The Sheffield, the Woodward
and the Alabama Consolidated are selling
at s12 and over for No. 2. The market
hardened a week ago at s12, and the
sloss company has been quoting $3.50
for several days past. 1t is believed that
the market will reach $13 level before
the end of the month.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-08
TRAVELLING COOKING SCHOOLS.
Germany Reaches the Rural Districts
in Most Effective Way.

From the Journal of Home Economics.
The teaching Of cooking in Germany in
carried on with German thoroughness
Not content with establishing rural
schools where farmers daughters might
learn the domestic arts, Germany has
now instituted travelling schools. 1t was
found that the rural schools did not meet
the needs of the whole rural population
The bulk of this population is made up
of small farmers, and in such homes the
help of the daughters is needed so con-
stantly that they cannot be rent away
from home to school. Neither can the
money be provided for their expenses. and
many farmers are afraid, too, that after
their daughters had been away to school
they would not be willing to return to the
simple conditions of the farm.
Since the people will not go to the
schools, therefore, the schools are being
sent to the people. Baden took the lead
in the establishment of travelling schools
of cooking and sewing, and the idea is
spreading. Hesse, Nassau. F'ranconla, the
Palatinate, all have their travelling cook
ing schools or have begun to establish
them. The Bavarian Farmers assoca-
ton has established two such schools and
selected two nuns as teachers The as
ISOLATION pays the teachers, and most Of
the other expenses SO that the cost to the
pupils is very small. In some cases the
township or village pays all or part of the
expense of the pupils who could not other
wise afford to attend the school.
1t has been found that the travelling
school has many advantages in addition
to its accessibility. The teaching can
be adapted to local conditions, and the
pupils can at once put into practice what
they have learned. Furthermore, the
teacher can visit the homes of the pupils
and see that they really understand what
, has been taught.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-08

sense. for Tennessee has purchased
Reelfoot lake and has thrown it open
to all fishermen. This renders all fu-
ture contests in that neighborhood I'M
probable, but it by no means Furnishes
the men who hanged Captain Rankin
and tried to kill Colonel Taylor. A
second trial will have to be awaited,
and the difficulty of securing juries
that will agree in second trials must
be faced.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-08
King C0tton'S Carnival

At the annual convention of the
southern commercial secretaries, held
in Atlanta, the call has gone out to
the. south summoning 1t to hold each
year, first in one city and then in an
other, an exhibition in which will be
presented the products of cotton, in
GLIDING all articles and by-products in
which fiber or plant has part.
The proposition Is an excellent one,
and 1t should be carried into execution
on broad plan and with all possible
preparation. Surely if any crop de-
serves an exhibition cotton does. 1t
is our great export crop, and It's total
value in a raw state is fully $780,.
100000.
Montgomery, located in Alabama's
black belt and in the chief cotton coun.
ty, of this state. Is striving to secure
the first exhibition. 1t is certainly en-.
titled to the first chance, for the idea
was originated in that city, and it will
, spare no effort to make the first exhi
bition a great success.
Let us have by all means a cottor
carnival each year. The details of il
remain to be worked out. but the com
mercial secretaries can be trusted tt
take good care of that branch of the
business.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-08
HATS AND Badness.
From the New York Times.

fTOul tQe {NtW IOIk 4Ahucs
Surgeon J. o. Conn of the United States
public health and marine hospital serv-
ice, IL of the opinion that badness Is
not congenital, excepting, possibly, In
cases where the son inherits his father :
lofty brow; that 1t Ia not due to dandruf,
to parasites. or to any skin disease. and
that the hair follicles, once atrophied,
cannot be restored. The sole cause of
badness lie the constructing bands of hats.
Men whose heads are Of domelike con-
formation are most subject to the pres
sure of their hats, and. above the zone
of the hatband, are most afflicted with
cavities. In the New York Medical Jour-
nal Dr. Cobb says:
IF mans head is very wide. or II he
is very prominent fore and aft, that mau
will become bald in time. because such a
person, to make his hot fit snugly, in
variably pulls it down tight The man
with low brow and thick, heavy hair
rarely is bald. If one wears the hair
long and thick 1t acts as cushion and
prevents in a largo measure the constric-
ton caused by the hatband.""
The ringletted cavaliers. we imagine,
were not subjected to this affection, and
the close-cropped roundheads who over
threw them were really responsible for
the modern fashion of badness. DR.. Conn
suggests that. in this age Of contrivances
in shoes, suspenders. and braces. some
body ought to be. ingenious enough to
make a hat that will stay on In a breeze
without impeding the circulation in the
scalp. Invention that takes the perverse
forms of hair tonics. restorers. and ap-
paratus for electric massage would thus
be forestalled. At present only low
browsd gentlemen can wear hats and
keep their hair.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-08
REGARDING Musical Taste.

TT is certainly not satisfying to note f"
said a Birmingham music teacher, "the
growth of the so-called rag-tine music
upon the American public. Ten or fifteen
years ago trashy music in the United
States was in Its infancy. In the early
days, perhaps one maudlin song gained
a hold upon the public in the course of
season, while the present public is
regaled each year with countless worth
less pieces.
ut has been claimed that the people of
Birmingham are lovers of good music
the patronage given such musical organ
izations as the Damrosch orchestra being
advanced as proof. But the average cit
izen patronizes real music in much the
same spirit as the Shakespearean drama
is received The chief motive is a vain
desire TO be able to talk inteligently
of the classics On the other hand, II
the classics are enjoyed, why will the
public insist upon fostering the rag-time
germ? As a famous divine said recently:
Rag-time music in the home will bring
forth time children in the home
Trashy music is the bane of all art in
the musical line. The popular lyrics of
today are no better than the trashy love
novels that are so easily procured for
10 cents at the corner bookstore.
Such degeneration may be noticed in
the drama and In literature. The public
of today seems to seek amusement mere
ly with almost a total lack of considera-
ton for art. 1t Is true that the primary
object OF art is to please, but to please
is not necessarily to amuse. The pleasure
derived from art is Intellectual pleas
ure, and not bare satisfaction to the
senses, such as the sight and the hearing.
If the public continues to seek diversion
from the rush of business life in the
insipid drama, literature and music of
the nresent day. art is doomed"