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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-07
What the Aeroplane Lacks

When Orville Wright took Crown
Prince Frederick William of Germany
up to a height of 1900 feet and Wilbur
Wright sailed 20 miles in 33 minutes
over the Hudson river and around the
battleships, the question as to who
are the greatest fliers in the world
was settled definitely and clearly
Better filters may appear on the
worlds stage hereafter; but none ex-
ist In the world today.
The world should congratulate it.
self that the conquest of the air is
in the hands of the clear-headed and
cautious brothers from Ohio. They
appreciate the fact that the art is in
it's infancy, and that much remains
TO be ACCOMPLISHED before it will have
commercial value. Said Wilbur
Wright recently: Until motors are
perfected we shall have no perfect
.eroplane. The science of flying now
depends upon the motor. My aero
plane seems all right but my motors
are not. / hope the day will come
when we shall have a perfect motor"
This is, no doubt, the secret Of n.y.
ing at the present time, and it will,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-07
AtIanta,s Beer Trade.

Il do not say that no anti-amender
ever juggles with the truth. but L have
noticed that many of the prominent
amenders have a way of presenting sta
tstics and statements relating to prohi-
bition that are shamefully misleading
said an old voter Il have been reading
extracts from an address delivered some
time ago by Mayor Maddox of Atlanta,
and which is now distributed as CAM
paign literature in Alabama to serve as
an argument in favor of the proposed
amendment. Here are some of the things
the mayor says: I don't believe the city
of Atlanta has been damaged by prohi-
bition. The places that were formerly &C.
cupied by the whisky saloons have all
been rented at equally as good or better
prices to the near-beer dealers or other
lines of business.
The prohibition law is being enforced
in Atlanta. The blind tiger where whisky
is illegally sold is hard to find, and l be-
lieve the number of them is decreasing.
The arrest of S54 blind tigers attests the
fact that the law is being enforced.
II am one of those citizens who voted
against the saloon two years ago but who
will vote against the amendment next
month am as much opposed to whisky
dives as ever but l believe that high
license and strict regulation would be the
best solution of the liquor evil. be-
lieved that way two years ago but l
voted against the saloon because dives
were numerous in Birmingham and be-
cause the liquor men refused to respond
to a healthy public sentiment. [ never
would have voted dry however if l had
ever dreamed that such thing as the
Fuller law, the severest sumptuary meas
ure ever enacted in any state, would be
imposed upon our people. Now, the at
tempt to popularize prohibition in Ala
bama and sugar-coat the amendment so
to speak, by quoting Atlanta's mayor on
prohibition in that city, is simply absurd.
If Birmingham had licensed beer saloons
as Atlanta has and If we had the locker
clubs that Atlanta has where whisky and
all other drinks are dispensed, anti-prohi-
bitionists, as a rlrie, could not reasonably
ask for anything better The fact is that
Georgia is not what Alabama prohibition
lists, who understand the SITUATION over
there, would call prohibition state at
all. 1t was a prohibition state for few
months only. The Georgians are wise
and resourceful people. In order to keep
real prohibitionists quiet and at the same
time raise revenue and satisfy beer drink
ers, they put a tax on near-beer-which
is now understood to be only another
name for real beer. 1 am familiar with
Atlanta and when I was there a week
ago | learned that the beer trade had
almost doubled there since the last legis-
lature recognized malt liquor by taxing It,.
To call Georgia prohibition state simply
makes one smile and at the same time
it makes progressive and liberal-minded
men in the cities of Alabama envy Geor-
gia's Yankee shrewdeness."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-07
Who is Il can say, ~ am at the
worst?" king Lear.
Alabama'S Oysters

The new oyster commissioners OF
Alabama are John Craft and Daniel
Bosargar of Mobile and Benjamin
Patterson of Baldwin. These men will
receive from the oyster commission
fund small compensation indeed, but
they are patriots, and their work Will
not be measured by their compensa-
ton.
They will act as pioneers in con-
serving in Alabama waters the ol-
valve that had been exploited by van
dals who had regard to the present
only The future welfare of the coast
and of the oyster beds along 1t Will
have first consideration in the new
board of oyster commissioners.
The oyster industry Of Alabama Is
capable Of great development The
nublic reefs are to be supervised ana
reo,,Iated with that end in view. The
taking of oysters that nave not az
tanned a merchantable size is TO be
stopped, and new oyster beds along
tho coast are to be started by tax
ing oysters from crowded reels anu
planting them on reefs where there
are few or none. Water bottoms, too
will be leased to those who desire 10
start oyster beds.
The new law is regarded as an eA-
cellent measure, and State Game ana
Fish Commissioner Wallace proposes
to cooperate with the commission III
the effort to establish in Alabama a
great oyster industry. The enort de-
serves all the encouragement that the
state can give it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-07
Pallagra a Serious Problem

A national conference to consider
the cause or causes of pellagra and
the best methods of its prevention
and treatment is to be held in the
near future at Columbia, S. c. This
conference should be we'll attended
by the country's best physicians ana
scientists.
The Public Health and Marine Hos
pital Service of the United States has
record of 1000 cases, 500 of which
arose in South Carolina alone. 1t is
believed there have been since 1906
fully 1850 cases of the disease IN TINS
country. Much the larger number OF
cases in this country are charged to
the southern states.
The French scientists do not THINK
that the use of corn as food LEADS
To outbreaks of the disease, but IN
Italv where many cases annually oc'
cur the use OF a portage mace lronl
corn is still regarded as a source OF
Il. The use of other cereals in pro
ducing the disease is, however, under
consideration in southern Europe. Inc
better opinion seems to be that pool
living. mental depression and alcohol
ism are all contributory causes. q
Little is accurately known and de
termined in relation to causes, Pei
lagra leads to insanity and death IN
many instances, and it is plain thal
more exact knowledge is needed con
corning it. The sitting of the Column
bia conference should become widely
known, and all who can throw any
light on the subject should be urged
to attend it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-07
ONLY WOMAN BULL FIGHTER.

From the New York Press.
Maria Maglieseo. arrested in Naples for
pawning Jewels belonging to another, is
the only woman who ever followed the
profession of bull fighting. She was
born in Algeria. Her father was ship
owner and her mother an Arab. She ran
awav from home when 10 years old, and
after several years spent in vagabondage
she disguised herself as a man and
fought as a matador in Spain. She was
one of the most daring and skillful per-
formers in the bull ring. She went with
out an accident for four years, then in
Madrid slipped before bull and was ter
ribly gored Her sex became known and
after discharge from hospital she disap-
neared Again she passed as a man and
became a lion tanner. One of her tricks
was to put her head in lions mouth.
The lion mauled her, and she put on
Skirts and became music hall singer.
she bought picture in Nice for dollar
and it turned out to be a Giotto, which
she sold for $4,000. AS soon as she re-
ceived the money she took train for
Monte Carlo and just doubled her for
tune Then in few months she spent
the entire amount and her arrest took
place the other day.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-07
FLooDTlDE AND SHUTDOWN.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
Under the wings of the sunset the goanl-
ing water sweeps,
Wide to the weeded shadows from far
unfathomed deeps-
Welters and seethes and washes among
the shells and the wrack,
Red where the sunset touches, green and
yellow and black.
Under the wings of the sunset the clam
oring seagull flies,
Dark as he blots the westward, gold with
the glow of the skies;
And brackish air comes keenly from
the reelSing rocks and the sand.
Bearing a breath of the ocean to meet
the breath Of the land.
There is stir and throb and motion after
the ebb tides STILL
Seeking and hope and craving, the work
of mighty will,
And the old unrest goes upward to the
cliff and turfy steep,
Where is only the swish of grasses, only
the cry of sheep.
Over the wings of the sunset hovers the
bird of night,
Waiting to settle downward and quench
the lingering light.
The grasses whisper softly. the breeze
smells sweet of the turf.
And the briny air arises from the sea-,
weed and the surf.
Peace of the down and the bracken. stir
and strife of the seas
And 7 lie on the sloping grasses and
dream that am Free
Free of the thirst and the passion, the
struggle fought and willed,
After the loss and the failure, when life II
= prayer fulfilled.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-07
SANDERS FAVORS
THE AMENDMENT

Col. W. T. Sanders, formerly a MEM
Der of the railroad commission, and
considered an anti-Comey man, is in
favor of the amendment.
Yesterday, from Athens, he issued a
letter to F. M. Jackson in which he
says among other things:
II am among those who doubted the
wisdom of submitting the amendment
at this time believing that the safer
course would have been to test and
strengthen the prohibition sentiment in
the state by vigorous enforcement of
the statutes, siren gthening them VIII ere
found to be weak and ineffective, and
repeating such provisions as should
prove drastic, and unnecessary; and
had 1 been member of the Legislature,
l hardly think that 1 should have voted
for submission, and thus put to the test
and hazard just now the sentiment for
and against prohibit in the state
sBut that phase OF the case has
passed, and no longer Influences me. As
a prohibitionist I cannot see my duty
clear to pursue any other course thai
earnestly to support the amendment,
Tor Inc reason tndl It's ucleeho WILL III
my opinion, be construed as the verdict
of the people against the whole prohi-
bition moveemnt and the next legisla-
ture will undoubtedly be called upon 10
repeal the statewide statute In that
event; and the defeat of the amend
nent at the polls will be urged as the
strongest reason and warrant for re-
peal. | think 1t highly probable that
sh ould the amendment be defeated, the
. 1oc ic 1q t11 tyil
elected upon and committed to the issue
of reueal"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-07
DAYS RECORD IN
COUNTY COURTS

Two big judgments were rendered by
consent in the circuit court yesterday.
In the case of Mrs. j. D. Hayes VS..
Louisville and Nashville Railroad COM
pany consent judgment for $4,000 was
rendered. Mrs. Hayes husband, 1t will
be recalled. was killed in a wreck near
Calera some time ago, the locomotive Of
which he was engineer turning over upon
him. The case was heard during the last
session of court and the jury returned
a verdict awarding the plaintiff $1,000
damages. This Judgment was set aside
by the court, however, and the case was
to receive another hearing. However, the
consent judgment rendered yesterday ends
the litigation
In the case of Dewey P. Bookholdt pro
ami, VS.. Birmingham Railway, Light and
Power company, a judgment for $1,000
was rendered by consent. It will be re-
called that a few months ago little
Bookholdt boy was shocked to death when
he came in contact with a live wire
strung over the trolley line on one of
the Bessemer lines. The brother of the
boy who was killed was Dewey, the plain
attempting to rescue his brother Dewey
was badly shocked and burned and the
street car company gave him $1,000 as
damages for the personal injuries re-
ceived.
In the first division Of the city court,
Judge Nesmith presiding, the case of
the Republic Development company VS..
w. o. Merrill, which was taken up Tues
day, is still on trial.
The case of c. Ogletree VS.. Birmingham
Southern railroad is on trial in the seq
ond division of the city court Judge
Sem presiding. The cases of ]. c. West
brook and A. B. Bell against the Ala
bama Consolidated Coal and Iron COM
pany, both resulted in verdicts for the
defendant.
In the third division of the city court,
Judge Ferguson presiding, the jury in
the case of Mrs. Ada M. Tucker VS.. the
town of East Lake, returned a verdict
awarding the plaintiff $3.50 damages. A
consent judgment for s25 was rendered In
the case of E. A. Wright VS.. Birming-
ham Railway, Light and Power company.
In the circuit court a consent judg-
ment for $500 was rendered in the case
vile railroad. In the case of John Miles
VS.. Sayre Mining and Manufacturing
company consent judgment for $125 was
rendered
Philip Lazuza was fined $3.50 in the GRIM
inal court for an alleged violation of the
prohibition law. In the case of w. A.
Connell charged with vagrancy and de-
sertion, a fine of $3.50 and sentence of
three months hard labor was imposed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-07

no doubt. have a strong influence in
turning the attention of mechanical
engineers and builders to the great
need that exists in aviation. A motor
designed for automobiles is not ex-
actly the machine that fits an aero
plane and engineers in all parts of the
world will, no doubt, endeayor to finu.
It solution that will satisfy the VIRGIN,
brothers and other aviators.
The place of the Wright brothers in
history is secure. They have taught
the world how to fly without the lift
ing power of the gasbag. The gasbag
and man have in fact been divorced.
and the Wrights executed the decree.
They, in fact, originated the decreo,
and no one can take away from them
the signal glory of the worlds won.
Ger.
But still the flying machine, even
in their hands. lacks an efficient mo-
tor-one sufficiently light in weight
and powerful in operation. When a
motor of that nature is built the art of
flying will at once glide into its COM
mercial stage.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-07

pastries, syrups, biscuit, farmaceous
products. sugar and sugar candy, eggs,
pork, bacon, sausages, edible oils, tea,
coffee. cocoa, cider, preserved fruits,
food pastes. beer, milk. butter and 9TH
er articles OF diet that are more or
less manipulated before they reach the
consumer
Food adulteration is considered the
chief cause of the weak physique of
the poor. Even the rich are affect
ed by the subtle acids and chemicals
that are placed in canned goods and
various comPounds-by the wines that
have no squeeze of grape in them, by
the vinegar that knows no fruit, by
the honey composed of glucose and
caramel, and so on to the end of the
long list.
Commissioner Wilkinson should
sternly endeayor to bring food pro-
ducts made or sold in Alabama up
to the worlds standard He has a
big task in hand, but it is one of
deep Importance to his fellow men.
He should listen to no special inter-
ests. The text of the law and the
welfare of his fellow creatures should
be his sole guides.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-07
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
Return Of the pilot Car.

The Age-Herald pilot car which accom-
panied the pathhnding automobiles as far
as Gadsden. returned to Birmingham yes
terday afternoon about o'clock and the
report on the start of the Birmngham-to-
Atlanta trip was very favorable.
Walter Blacxman, artist for The Age
Herald. was IN the car. lie reports 4
most pleasurable trip and states that
the pathnnders were enthusiastically re-
ceived in every town along the roads
which We're traYersed.
1.-The roads as whole. said Mr.. Black
man, I'VE found to be in fair condition.
The road which our car took was in ex-
cellent shape all the way to the st. Clair
county line After we passed Springville
we went over about four miles of road
which was being worked and travelling
was hard. However. after we passed this
stretch the highway was fine until we
reached whitney. Between Whitney and
Ashville, a distance of about 10 miles, six
miles of the road was found to be in very
poor condition while the remaining four
miles afforded excellent travel.
1.-The Etowah county roads, which are
worked largely by convicts, were in good
shape From Ashville to Alfalfa and
Gadsden the highways were fine, and
across the county TO the south, from
Gadsden to Admission, the roads were
equally as good.
In Gadsden and along the route we
found an ardent spirit for better roads.
The Etowah county people, especially,
seem to be determined that they will have
good roads. while the farmers all along
the route are enthusiastic and everybody.
appears to be pulling for good roads in
Ala hama
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-07

said T. w Farrell of New Orleans, and
I would say now that 1t was destined to
be one of the largest cities of the coun-
try. In four years Birmingham has made
wonderful improvement in the matter of
office buildings and mercantile blocks.
It is a very handsome city. Business con-
ditions here. which were naturally de-
pressed by the panic of 1907, seem to be al
most, If not quite. normal again.
1T looks strange to see a city of Bir-
mingham's size and pretentions without
a place where a visitor could buy so in
nocent a thing as a glass of beer without
violating the law. / have not met a
business man here who approved of the
present drastic prohibition laws of Ala
bama, and all that l talked with were
strongly opposed to the proposed consti-
tutional amendment. Not being familiar
with Alabama politics ! do not know what
the sentiment Throughout the state is with
respect to prohibition. but | think it a
safe bet that Birmingham Will give a
large majority against putting prohibi-
ton in the constitution"
Mr.. Farrell represents George f. whar-
ton. one of the best known Aand most
highly esteemed citizens of New Or
leans, who carries on a large business in
subscription books and who handles,
among other popular works 1.-THE Amer
lean History and Encyclopedia of Music"
Mr.. Farrell says that New Orleans is
growing fast, and that it will give a good
account of itself in the next census.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-07
A Popular Man.

George w. Partt of Tuscaloosa is a
candidate for railroad commissioner and
his friends are predicting that he will
make a splendid race. Mr.. Pratt would
make an ideal railroad commissioner,
said man prominent in public affairs.
''He has the character the capacity
and the tact to serve well the people
without in any manner antagonizint
the railroads. He is a staunch demo-
crat and has long been an active work
er in the party. And as for popularity
there are few men in Alabama better
known or more popular"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-07
What Would Follow the Amendment


Eugene w. Chain, the prohibition
list candidate for president in 1908, is
still an active prohibitionist leader,
and he is a sanguine and hopeful lead
er. He recently stated publicly his be-
lief that his party will be one of the
carry the country in 1916 His state
ments are based in part on the rapid
growth of local option prohibition in
all parts of the country, but the states
to which he turns most hopefully are
those that have adopted statewide
/ prohibition. He expects to see the
latter in the van of a great national
movement, and there are good rea-
sons for believing that Chain and his
associates expect Alabama to lead all
the rest.
How closely the leaders of the
amendment people in this state are
allied with Chain and the national
movement The Age-Herald has no
means of knowing, but it does know
that the faction that is endeavoring to
utilize and to turn to individual ac-
count this movement are rending and
dividing and disorganizing the demo
cratic party of the state just at a
time when the middle west is getting
ready to drive the Aldrich machine
and the Cannon machine out of power.
The standpat crowd and all special
interests are watching the course of
7 things and of certain men in states
that have gone headlong for all sorts
of prohibition, even piling one drastic
form of it on another-a constitutional
amendment that attacks the sanctity
of the home upon the fanatical Full
Ter billiard they see chances for
dividing the once solid south, and they
will not hesitate to promote in subtle
ways all such opportunities. Their
eyes are upon Alabama.
If the amendment people and their
senseless cumulative scheme are de-
feated on November 80 the democratic
party of this state will pull itself
together again, and it will take part
in what may prove a victorious cam
paign. The revolt against Aldrich.
/ Tawney, Cannon and all that lot of
schemers is unmistakable. William
Howard Taft serves those men at
every opportunity. He is no longer
a good natured, popular idol. He turns
naturally to the special interests as
the line of least resistance. The mid
die west will speak in no uncertain
majorities next year, and the Alabama
democracy should not in this crisis
be rent into warning factions ready
I " slaughter each olhel dI every op-
portunity. Vaulting ambition is the
root of present evils of the state. The
democratic party is sadly disorgan-
lied, and if the leaders of the amend
ment crusade are permitted to sweep
the state next month no one can set
limit to their course A federal
statute against interstate deliveries of
liquors in dry territory will doubt
less be their next effort and slate
of congressional nominees and an cleo
toral ticket will for that purpose
naturally follow in this state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-07

ln-law, Charley Mitchell the pugilist
he prospered in England and in 1870
was co-manager with Croker of the
Christy minstrels at st. James, Hall ua
was also the founder of the MOORE p,,v
CESS l'lhstrels. He was an irascible chan
ae times and once while on a visit here
sot INTO a scrap with a street car con-
ouctor, whom he punched so hard-after
the conductor had struck him-that IA
ne put 1t, he made spectacle of him bv
causing his nose to bleed. He was ar
rested for this, and thought that if was
great shame to get itno court for a.
little thing like that. His son-inIaw
Mitchell, was on the car on this occasion
and was laughing at him while he was
little thing like that His son-in-law.
VINO mad objected to the way in which
moore was carrying on some conyersa-
tion and told him that he couldn't talk
there.
moore used to wear a diamond stud in
his shirt front as big as a five-cent piece.
ana TWO separate watch charms as big as
$Io gold pieces. He liked diamonds and
sometimes carried around with him stones
worth $1,000 to $500 piece. He said that
ne had received one diamond ring from
the Prince of Wales edward VIII and
that he was friend of the Prince. 1T am
the only one in London" he said here
once, who can dine with a Lord. drink
with an aristocrat, talk to mechanic and
go into a thieves den and be cordiaI1v
received by ALL How? Well, 1 never all
low any talking DIN my place on these
points-religion, nationalities or poll
tics"
Speaking of New York on the occasion
OF one of his visits here after he had
made England his residence he said: New
YORK! She's all right, only you have,
TOO many different kinds of hell here. Ia.
ta?-an observation in which he has had
quite a number of sympathizers