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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
NAPOLEON AND FRANCE

his genius had called into being, as Edi- son. or Marconi. to those of Wall street and the Stock Exchange.
 He was not a statesman; he was a warrior. He forced his brother Louis to marry Hortense and another than Louis begat her children, the grandson of Jo- sephine, not the nephew of Napoleon, 50 years later sitting on the imperial throne which De Morny and St. Arnaud had helped him violently to usurp He was a sentimentalist He became infat- uated by Josephine and -clung to her, and put crown upon her head, after he had been fully advised of her inf delities When the separation came It was he, not she, who suffered. After the separation he could not quite tear himself away from her. His visits to Jo- sephine grew to be cause of quarrel between him and Marie Louise. When he returned from Elba, Josephine had died. Overwhelmed, he yet went out to Malmai- son. Hortense took him into the death chamber. He locked the door, remained an hour, and came out, his eyes red and wet with tears he man of five and
 
 And there are those who tell us he was man of blood and iron.
 It is recorded that twice he sought to take his own life. A truly great man, even a professional hero, would have real ized that St. Helena was the end he would have met his fate as a martyr or stoie, have given his remaining years to the composition of his own case before the courts of the hereafter, and, with folded arms, have waited the final call with the calm confidence and courage of philosopher. Instead, he walled like woman, or railed like malefactor. Within 20 years he had won all and lost all. They had to murder Caesar at 63 to get rid of him. Napoleon was done for at five and forty
 Yet he remains the most captivating figure of history. Millions of pages have been written, and will be written, about him. Myriads go over wonder to the lit- tie rotunda under the gilded dome and look down with awe upon the splendid tomb below. Once upon time it seemed to me that monster lay sleeping there; perish the thought of it. merely a man Oi ouA P"oSihS SiAtS III ihai eieb' ieSt afid many mortal infrmities, the sport and prey of fortune. far more to be pitied than blamed.
 The idealists adore his memory. He seems to have been one of themselves. The French. who know how to make that glitter which is not gold and readily to translate chagrin into exaltation, apotheoslze him; symbol of the grandeur and the glory of France. To me he seems brilliant gambler, who outplayed his hand, and outstayed his fortune, the salle de jouer a continent instead of a baize of green beneath glittering chandelier.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
AMERICAN MEN DULL.
From the Independent.


 Every woman who has lived in Europe feels the striking difference between the two types of masculinity. The American men may seem more moral and perhaps more wholesome, but undeniably more dull. The Frenchman, the Italian, the Austrian, are so much more entertain ing. and while their proposals are con- edge of the bank book, as entertainers they could make an American man open his eyes. They do not lie back and smoke and expect the woman to amuse them But they find her comfortable chair and play Chopin to her, they invite her to take tea in charming corners, they plan moonlight walks and sunset rides. teresting, and I must say that they suc- ceed in a fashion that makes the aver age American man seem like a dull. gray. awkward boy in comparison.
 Part of this foreign notion of mans place in society may be based on artifi- ciality of manners or deceptive advances or what you like. But part of 1t is the honest conviction that women are to be courted with care and attention, that the game is worth the candle and that re- luctaance or indifference( on her part means for them not collapse but battle They have too much respect for them selves to be as indifferent as the aver age American man to matters of art, society, or in fact anything but the ono profession or pursuit by which they earn their living
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
THE ALABAMA CONTEST.

From the Arkansas Democrat.
 One of the most bitter and factional po- litical campaigns ever held in the south is now on in Alabama, and will come to a close next week.
 The campaign is a contest over an amendment providing for statewide pro- hibition
 Alabama is one of the peculiar states of the south in it's attitude toward the liquor question.
 Once the widest-open state in the union, intoxicants on every hillside, fin every home and hamlet, in every town and city. Then came local option, then the dispensary system, then statewide by statutory law, and now the question of incorporating the issue in the organic law of the state by constitutional amendment
 great many of the most ardent cham pions of temperance in the state oppose the amendment, because they believe 1t Is a scheme of Governor Conner to bolster up his fast receding popularity as a leader.
 In fact, there's where the issue lies.
 If the amendment is defeated 1t means that Comer's hope of ever going to the Senate of the United States is gone.
 In other words the election is merely a test of Comer's strength.
 Whether he can name Alabama's next governor and himself for the Senate is the final issue.
 So fierce has the fight become that all the members of Congress from Alabama and the two United States senators have been forced to speak out on the question, and here's the way they line up:
 Those for the amendment-Burnett Hobson, Taylor and Hehin Against the amendment-Senators Bankhead and Pohnston and Congressmen Underwood, Richardson. Dent. Craig and Clayton.
 Bankhead was and is one of the most ardent champions of the prohibition move ment who ever resided in Alabama.
 Johnston, the other senator. favored and worked for the statewide law, and Congressman Richardson wears a medal given him by the National w. c. T. U. on his bold stand relative to the sale of revenue licenses in prohibited territory.
 All of the last named seven men are ardent advocates of temperance, but un- alterably opposed to Conner, while at least two of the four who indorse the amend ment owe their election to Conner
 Thus, 1t is seen, that this campaign in Alabama is really for Conner, or against him. and has little if anything to do with the temperance question
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
School Appropriations In Alabama

The Conner policy confines the per capita appropriation for the education of the children in the public schools to $2.61 a year. About 100000 children attend these schools.
 About 5000 of school age go to the university, to Auburn and to Monteval- To. What do they get per capita in the Conner regime from the public funds of the state?
 The increased appropriations for the university aggregate in the Conner term $500 900; for Auburn. $2s8. .000; for Montevallo, $244 ,000-total, $1 ,032 ,000, or $25S,00O a year, or $S6 per capita, not including the previous cost of maintenance, which is continued. All told, the 5000 favored ones get the ben eft of about $100 per capita year, drawn from the funds of the people, while the children of the people in the public schools get but $2.61!
 This difference is too great. This difference was greatly increased by Comerism, and the result will be that in the tables of illiteracy to be gath cred next year by the census takers Alabama will make an unfavorable showing. She may indeed drop below Louisiana and North Carolina, becom- ing the tailender of the list-the most illiterate state in the Union.
 Instead of shovelling out money to l three institutions attended by but 5000, money should be voted to the public schools of Alabama. Today those schools receive the smallest per capita appropriation voted in the en- tire number of states. Many a state appropriates s20 per capita, while Comerism has provided for the chil- dren of Alabama but $2.61 per capita per year.
 Even the old soldiers of the fourth class receive in the Conner administra- tion but about $40 per capita per year instead of $50 tbat had been promised them. This pr3mise was not kept by the Conner adn(inistration. The caDi'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
Increasing Number of Suicides

This is a busy, prosperous country, in which, despite its numerous trusts and monopolies there are opportunities for each individual, and yet recent fig ures collected in sixty-five American cities containing a population exceed ing seventeen millions show that deaths by suicide are steadily increas- ing. That is to say, the rate is in creasing In 1908 there were 21.S sui cides per 100000 of population, or about one more than occurred in the previous year.
 The rate is increasing faster than the populations, and the subject, there fore, demands special study. Statis- tics show that the list of suicides is by no means made up from those who are enduring physical suffering or who lack employment. The discouraged and the hopeless-the failures in life do contribute to the aggregate, but so do persons of wealth and those who have committed no offense against the laws or society. Nor do those appar- ently afflicted with unbalanced minds largely swell the number of suicides. Men and women who have always act ed sanely commit suicide.
 The sociologists have no theory ex- cept that it is due to diseased will, and that is just about no theory at all, for diseased will must be form of insanity, unless indeed 1t is claimed that the will is at times sound and at other times unsound. The long and short of the matter is. there is no ac- counting in the present state of science
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
THE FIGHT IN ALABAMA.

From the Nashville American.
 The wholly unnecessary fight precip- itated in Alabama by the extremists is drawing to a turbulent conclusion. It has been just such a contest as we anticipated, narrow and bitter fierce and intolerant. Both sides are claim ing they will be victorious when the re- turns from the ballot box are received. As to this, no one may safely prophecy, for he doesn't know. and one mans guess is about as good as that of an- other
 However. the Athens Courier, besides being confident of the defeat of the amendment, charges Governor Conner with losing his nerve at the crisis of the battle and proclaiming that his SUD- posed attitude has been terribly mis- taken. The Courier says:
 Tt is now only question of the size of the majority against the amendment. It Is no longer a question of whether or not the 'monstrous proposition will be defeated. Its most ardent friends have
 
 daddy, B. B. Conner. sees defeat and is now disowning his foster child by de- claring that he never favored the amend ment or statewide prohibition. If he is truthful in this statement why did he not have, like Governor Patterson of Tennes- see. the manhood and courage to veto a measure that was in direct conflict with the platform that he ran for governor on and which platform he made out of Conner ideas and built with Conner work men? Patterson had the courage of his convictions and vetoed such a measure. If B. B. had felt this way he could easily have defeated the measure and re- tained his hold on the people, but he has disregarded his platform, gone back on his campaign promises turned traitor to his party and now dsowns his political offspring. What will he do next?"
 If the governor has taken this position. it looks as if the handwriting on the wall is so plain and legible that a way faring man, running at top speed may decipher the verdict
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
And now am |, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. KING HENRY VI.
GlaYiS and Ballinger

MT. Glavis was dismissed from the government service-from the depart ment over which Mr Ballinger pre- sides, but neither MT. Ballinger nor even the President could separate him from his pen. In a recent issue of Col Hers he thus summarizes his charges against Secretary Ballinger: q as- sert that the land office ordered the Cunningham claims to patent without due investigation when Commissioner Ballinger knew they were under sus- picion; that while in office Commits sioner Ballinger urged Congress to pass law which would validate fraud ulent Alaska claims; that shortly after resigning from office he became attor- ney for the Cunningham group and other Alaska claims; that soon after he became Secretary of the Interior his office rendered decision which would have validated all fraudulent Alaska claims. A reversal of that decision on every point was obtained from Attor- ney General Wickersham. Had it not been for MT. Wickersham's decision, every fraudulent Alaska claim would have gone to patent"
 These charges are really aimed at the President, for it is he who dis missed Glavis and who is engaged, to use MT. Glavis' phrase, in the white washing of MT. Ballinger. The ap- pointment of MT. Ballinger to the Cabi- net was no doubt a mistake, however honest he may be. It was mistake because he had been counsel for the Cunningham claims. The best feature about the entire affair consists in the holding-up of all the Alaska claims until Congress can remake our land laws to suit the Alaska situation. It is too early to assert in accordance with a suggestion in Golfers that the Gug- genheims are in charge of the depart ment of the interior, but it is not early to change the laws so that the natural resources of Alaska and of the far west will be kept out of the hands of any trust
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
Bibb Against Amendment.

q read in one of the amendment papers a claim that Bibb county would give a majority for the amendment, but the ma jority will be the other way" said Rob- ert Martin yesterday.
 T have been spending two weeks with my brother at woodstock. and in that time have travelled through the county and have talked with many farmers l have never known such a one-sided polit- ical contest as this, so far as Bibb is con- cerned. Amenders are very scarce. The majority against constitutional prohibit tion in Bibb county will be overwhelm- ing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
TWILIGHT ON wINpERMERE.

By Wordsworth, An Evening Walk" Now, with religious awe, the farewell light Blends with the solemn coloring of night: Mid graves of clouds that crest the mountains brow And round the vests proud lodge their shadows throw, Like Una shining on her gloomy way .t The half-seen form of Twilight roams astray; Shedding. through play loop-holes mild and small, Cleans that upon the lakes still bosom fall; Soft oer the surface creep those lustres pale Tracking with silvering path the changeful sail. Iris restless magic all; at once the light Breaks on the shade, the shade upon the light. Fair spirits are abroad; in sportive chase Brushing with lucid wands the waters face, While music, stealing round the glimmer- ing deeps, Charms the tall circle of the enchanted steeps. As through the astonished woods the The mountain streams their rising song suspend; Below Eyes listening stars. the sheep walk stills It's drcwsy tinkling on the attentive hills The milxrnaid stops her ballad, and her pail Stays its low murmur in the unbreath- ing vale; No night duck clamors for his 'wildered mate, Awed, there below the Genii hold their state. The pomp is fed, and mute the won. drous strains, No wrack of the pageant scarce remains. So vanish those fair shadows, human joys, But Death alone their vain regret de- stroys. Unheeded night has overcome the vales. On the dark earth the baffled vision fails. If peep between the clouds a star on
 high, There turns for glad repose the weary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22

variable assets to Inducements libraries.
 He had way of keeping in the closest personal touch with the representative men in the country in the lumber indus try and the value of his work in the in- terest of this great branch of trade can hardly be estimated. As an instance of his activity he worked up the senti- ment and was a leader in the fight be- fore the last Congress for a maintenance of the lumber schedules in the tariff bills I knew him for many years and 1t has seldom been my pleasure to know a man who was so full of energy as was Mr. Defebaugh. He filled place in the lum- Der world that will be hard indeed to fill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic.

H. M Atkinson and s. F. Parrott of Atlanta, receivers of the Atlanta, Bir- mingham and Atlantic railroad; Alexan- der Bonnyman. chief engineer and gen eral manager. and S. L. Schoonmaker and John l. Waterbury of New York ar- rived in the city yesterday and will re- main here today. MT. Shoemaker and Mr. aWterbury are interested in the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic prop critics and are making a tour of inspec- tion with the officials. The party came direct from Brunswick, the Atlantic ter minus of the road. They went in an automobile yesterday afternoon to the furnace plant at Vanderbilt, owned by the Birmingham Coal and Iron company which is closely allied to the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantis interests. They will visit the Birmingham Coal and Iron companys coal mines at Mulga to- day.
 MT. Waterbury is president of the Man haitian Trust company of New York and Mr Shoonmaker is a well-known capi- talist and former steel operator. Both had visited the Birmingham district be- fore. the latter having been a director in the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company during the Bacon administra- ton.
 "On our tour of inspection we have found the Atlanta, Birmingham and Att lantic in excellent condition" said MT Atkinson. Our new construction work between Pelham via Bessemer to Mulga is completed with the exception of the Bessemer viaduct. That will be fn- ished shortly and we will be running trains to Mulga some time next month
 Grading for the main line from Bes- semer into Birmingham is under way and we will be running trains over our own line into this city not later than April next
 Mir. Atkinson said that business con- ditions in the south were improving rap idly and that it was evident the Bir- mingham district was entering upon new era of prosperity. He spoke of the American Steel and Wire company's entrance into the district as a fact of far reaching importance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
COMER AND THE LAWS.

From the Mo pile Register.
 Governor Conner and some of the cir cult judges are making spacious pleas to their hearers regarding the prohi- bition laws and the prohibition amend ment, in regard to the manufacture of intoxicants. Let the voters remember that every officer of the state, legisla- ture, executive and judicial. makes sol emn obligation to support the consti- tution of the state of Alabama, and faithfully and honestly discharge the duties of their respective offices.
 Governor Conner says he will pardon any woman who makes wine for home use. The law requires that he shall report to the legislature his reasons for pardoning in each case. What req sons can he give? Only one, the law is a bad one and should not be en- forced. If the governor has this right, why should not the grand and petit juries have the same right? And if the governor and juries have the right to say that one provision of the Car michael bill is bad law and should not be enforced, have they not the same right to say that any other provision of the law is bad and that it should not be enforced? If the executive and judicial branches of the government have the power to nulify laws, the liberties of the people depend upon these two branches of the government, without reference to the legislature, the only branch of the government that is empowered to make laws. Ono branch of the government has the con stitutional right to make laws, one to expound and administer them, and the other to sec that they are executed, and no one has the right to trespass upon the domain of the other. "a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
Alabama Should Be Interested.

q noticed in The Age-Herald the other day an account of the murder or execu- tion of two Americans in Nicaragua" said Henry A Chandler of St. Louis. "Groce and Cannon, the two young men, were both from Texas and both of their fathers were born in Alabama. MT. John Cannon. Sr., went to Galveston many years ago from some point in northeast Alabama. I have forgotten the name of the town. MT. Groce ST., went to Bren- ham, Tex, from Clay county. Alabama, and has brother now in business in Tal- ladega. If what I see about the affair is true, Alabamians and all others should resent this deliberate murder of two cit izens without triaL'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

Being good makes the average man wish 1t vas somebody else.
 There's a kind of man that feels the pnilipDine problem Is his wife's fault
 The 1evil can get so many people to do his work for him he hardly has to lift d hand himself.
 A man pays to go to public dinner So he can make his wife believe he was a guest of honor
 The way girl likes to have man kiss her ia when nobody is looking, so she can truthfully say he didn't
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22

for cases of self-destruction. We do know that the south furnishes fewer cases per 100000 of population than any other section of the country. and that is about all we definitely do know about the growing evil
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
sIRMINeHAM's FUTURE.
@ Montgomery Times

Birmingham is to get a $3,o00.o00 wire and nail plant. That is good. In the near future Birmingham will have as many inhabitants as Pittsburg now has. There is no way to keep that city back. And Montgomery is coming along in her wake as an agricultural city. We will rever be as big as Birmingham, but we will have 100000 inhabitants in a few years. Just watch us grow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22

Boss Cox of Cincinnati proposes to defeat Governor Harmon's hopes of reelection by pulling up Nick Long worth, who has never been able to stand alone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22

Thanksgiving Day should be post poned until after the election, but Gov ernor Conner is opposed to a postpone ment for reasons best known to him. self
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22

Frederick w. Seward, son of Secre- tary of State Seward, who was strick- en down on the night of Lincoln's as- sassination, still lives, hale and hearty, at the age of S0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
sooN ro RE CURED.

From the Arkansas Democrat.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald says; Alabama is afflicted with amendicitis. Another new disease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
Cotton Mill Development.

on A recent address on southern cot ton mill development. President ". w. Finley of the Southern Railway company called attention to the lines upon which the industrial revival of the south was ad- yancing," says the Wall Street Journal. .Fmphasis was laid on the fact that these developments were in harmony with per manent conditions of prosperity. They coincided with large available natural re- sources and with conditions of rapid growth. AS an instance the rate of in- crease in ths cotton mill capacity was cited. In 1880 there were 661,36o spindles in the southern states. Now there are 10. 750,o0O spindles there, the largest pro- portion of the increase being in Piedmont mills.
 .sThe growth of the cotton mill industry in the Piedmont district is an entirely natural development. It has the best industrial population found within south ern territory, the most varied kind of ag- riculture calculated to supply from local resources the needs of industrial com munities, and is favored with large sup plies of raw material in cotton fibre, all of which are factors of high promise and great potency in the growth of this par ticular industry. Mill consumption has. however passed beyond the point at which the Piedmont states grow enough cotton to supply the mills of the same region. Already the coastal region and the Mississippi valley are being drawn upon. Here is where the railroads come in, and the wisdom of their location is shown in the connection of the richer cot ton growing sections with the more highly developed mill districts"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22

Eusapia Paladino is a name to con jure with. Her strong trick is levita- tion, and she should tackle the man in the White House.