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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
Regarding Campaign BIuffine.

q wish newspapers in this part of the county would get out of the habit of claiming victory for the side they happen to be advocating in political campaign" said a citizen who always votes but who seldom talks politics.
 "I have remarked The Age-Heralds s fair course in this bitter contest over the proposed amendment and have been par ticularly struck with it's freedom from brag and buster. In its news columns it publishes the claims of the opponents of the amendment, to be sure, but I have yet to find single claim for an anti amendment victory made by the paper in its editorial columns. With great power it's influence is felt through wide terri tory; but 1t has been careful to avoid buffing. On the other hand the amender papers are making themselves ridiculous by their claims. If one were to believe half they said about the majorities that would be rolled up in favor of the amend ment one should be set down as an un- sophisticated person.
 ''I can allow for certain amount of exaggeration because politics are very un- certain as a general proposition, and the best of us are liable to be fooled some- times.
 But this amendment is not only beat hst bot ''v l" decisive majority and the a.at-nfg s'i paeJasfs ! the day of cleo fan f51Ide= afs srild not have been aliins sT s,st sputation on sucf g F1.eiQn afrg ,but within the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
ShiD Subsidy SCheme

President Taft is advocating ship subsidy scheme and presumably he favors the bill of the last Congress. That bill provided for the granting of mail subsidies to steamship lines on routes 4000 miles or more in length.
 In other words, the country is to be taxed to build up New York and per haps a couple of Pacific ports. Even if New Orleans attempted to establish d line of steamers to Rio de Janeiro it would get no subsidy. A line to Colon and Venezuelan ports would fare no better. Nor would a line from Balti- more to Colon be benefited. The scheme is extremely selfish and sec tional, for as drawn it would tax a broad country to enrich New York and the Pacific ports.
 MT. Taft's subsidy programme needs amendment, for no bill that legislates in favor of one Atlantic port to the exclusion of all the rest from Portland, Maine, to Corpus Christi can be passed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
MT. Taft on River Improvement

At Corpus Christi President Taft de- fined his river improvement policy. He deprecated the piecemeal system, or as he picturesquely termed it "a process sion by jerks" Every man." he went on to say, "who looks at it from busi- ness standpoint-and business stand point is a patriotic standpoint-knows that what ought to be done is for us to agree on the great projects that are necessary to better our conditions to have those projects surveyed; to have the experts determine whether the proposal is practicable; to have it de- termined by Congress that 1t will work sor the improvement hoped for, and then, having made up our mind to do Eff to issue the bonds to pay for the construction"
 No doubt the Presidents plan is economical and correct. rao doubt, too, it will soon or late be adopted, and when it is Alabama should be thoroughly organized and 5 ready to present her claims. The Mis-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
MARTlAN DISASTER.
From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston f1eralu
 Martian speculation develops new phase. gloomy yellow veil now shrouds the planet, the markings on it's surface supposed to be gigantic system of ca nals-have disappeared, and those indi- cations of habitation which have inspired hope of ultimate communication with the planet have been obliterated. Has some Martian Pelee been belching de- struction and filling the atmosphere with its dust and smoke, or has there been some more frightful cataclysm which has wiped out all life? Can it be that with all their advance in science the Martians had not mastered the mysteries of the earthquake and had not learned to pro- tect themselves against the rebelious ele- ments of the interior of their planet? Evl- dently we must go farther than Mars to find the goal where man holds Nature in complete subjection to his will. Even the giant Martians are but pygmies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
DOVER BEACH.

By Matthew Arnold
 The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;-on the French coast
 the light Cleans and is gone; the cliffs of Eng
 land stand, Glimmering and vast. out in the tranquil
 bay. Come to the window sweet is the night Only. from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon blanche d
 land, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back
 and fling. At their return, up the high strand, Begin and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. ASophocles long ago Heard 1t on the Aegean, and 1t brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The Sea of Faith Was once too. at the full, and round
 earth's shore Lay like the folds of bright girdle
 fur'Pd. But now I only hear It's melancholy. long. withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges
 drear And naked shingles of the world. An! love, let us be true To one another, for the world. which
 seems To lie before us like land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new Hath really neither joy. nor love. nor
 light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for
 paint And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle
 and flight Where ignorant armies clash hv ~s-hs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
CHARACTER TESTS.

From the New York Tribune.
 Play cards with a man for an hour and you know him better than if you had met him in the drawing room every evening for year." says a German writer But Sonia" in recent number of Figaro suggests another character barometer. never-failing test Is the hotel room. The way man arranges his room in a hotel shows whether he has been well reared. what his ideas of propriety are, whether his bump of order has been developed. whether he is me- thodical or slovenly, and one may even know by the way wearing apparel, orna- ments, and baggage are disposed of in a room which the occupant knows he will remain in only a few days, whether he is thoroughly or superhcially educated. "If I had a daughter for whom young man sued" says "Sonia," ''I would have him go to a summer resort where I could surprise him in his hotel room. In less than 15 minutes my. verdict would be rem dered on the basis of the rooms appear snce'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
SEARCHING THE HOMES.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 The leaders for the amendment know full we'll that if the state through a change in its organic law surrenders its opposition to grant of power to a legislature to enter and search homes that the federal constitution cannot be successfully appealed to- That instrument would prevent 80 far as any attempts in that direction might be made. by fed eral officials. but would not avail if a people deliberately surrender their own right under the state constitution. It has come to pretty pass when the advo- cates of the amendment seek to alay the fears of the people by telling them that the constitution of the United States would prevent the enactment of laws which are possible under section of the proposed amendment. If the second sec tion is repugnant to the constitution why not vote it down at the polls?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
i, ot merry; but l do beguile ? ing am, by seeming otherwise.
 -OthelIo.
Money In Farming

len the world is demanding year
 ear more American cotton-when
 plain any land in the south can
 made to produce corn-it is seen 1ere is no safer or better business in
 Int today Farming has not been
 nuneratjve in the past simply be-
 use our farmers persisted in raising etton only, disregarding food crops.
 The intelligent farmer who grows his own corn and makes his own meat, leaving his cotton bales to he almost net profits, will certainly succeed. For tunately two intensive plans for grow ing corn are before the southern farm- CTS. and it does not much matter whether the government plan or the Williamson plan be adopted, for either >'ll end in fine results. Eighty bushels
 acre is possible on almost any land
 Alabama under either plan, and 
 when such a product is within reach no excuse for sending away cotton money to buy western corn remains. Let the rivalry between the demon stration farms that the government .supervises and the Williamson plan go on. Both are excellent, and the more we have of either the quicker will we get rid of the slovenly methods which had well-nigh put an end to corn grow | ing in this state.
 Farming will pay wien diversified Irops are raised on some intensive plan. It will not pay when shallow ploughing and slovenly methods of cul- tivation and fertilization prevail. Put aside the methods of the past and ac- cept without hesitation intensive farming and diversified crops, for these are the hope of Alabama farms and of Alabama as whole. The trou- ble is not with the land or the climate or the rainfall. The trouble here is edovenly farming. It is going out and the state is for that reason coming up higher in productiveness, wealth and contentment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

past few days I have seen enough to assure me. It will be landslide ma jority. The farmers are unquestonapiy against the amendment. Many or them who were leaning to it say that as law vers of ahilitv disagreed over the mean ing or effect of both sections, they will take no chances and vote against It.
 T, myself, was inclined to vote for the amendment but didn't like it's wording and didn't like the political company It was in. If we ever get prohibition laws that the people will accept and obey, then I would urge constitutional prohibi- tion; but certain 1t is that 1909 is not the year to put 1t through"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
IN HOTM- LOBBIES
Retail Trade Picking Up.

There has been a very notceapie iih- erovement in the tone of the retail mar ket in all lines in eastern Alabama and believe that after the election on No- vember 2s everything will become settleo again and we may all expect fine times said F. R. Collins. well-knoWn travel ing man, yesterday
 All merchants with whom have come in contact during the past month report that trade is all that could be expected, everything considered, and they are very optimistic regarding the outlook for traoe during the coming winter months.
 Birmingham merchants tell me that they had more people in their stores Saturday than they have had in a long time. Of course this fact means more shoppers and more goods sold. fhlhss look mighty good locally.
 '.1t was to be noted, too, tnat the streets of Birmingham were more crowd ed Saturday afternoon and night than IS usually the case now on Saturdays. All these things, I believe, are indicatVe of the fact that trade in all lines IS coming back to it's own
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

sissippi is not the only river in the country. The Tennessee is a branch of it and our Tennessee valley would
 be benefited by the opening of the
 Mississippi, provided the Ohio and the Tennessee rivers are also deepened, as they should be-
 Alabama wants, too, deeper water in the Coosa, the Chattahooche, the Tom bigbee and the Alabama, to say noth- ing of the Warrior. which is coming along pretty well anyway under con- tinuing appropriations. The opening of all these rivers is of national inn portance. No one objects to the open ing of deep waterway from the Lakes to the Gulf. but that project should not operate to postpone other river improvements of undoubted value and importance
 This country is about to line up with European countries in the utiliza- tion of rivers, and Alabama should get ready to demand and secure her pro portion of the coming improvements. No state has nobler rivers, and the time is fast coming when every one of our rivers will be opened to traffic from headwaters to the sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
SAW BOOTH IN "oTHELLo."
Said "The Nigoer Did About as We'll
 as Any of 'Em."

From the New York Morning Telegraph.
 Dr. John Girdner tells this Edwin Booth story as MT. Booth told it to him:
 We opened an engagement in Atlanta with 'Othelo' (said MT. Booth), and played Othello. After the performance my friend, MT Malone, and went to the hotel for some refreshments The long bar was crowded and we had to 90 to the end of it to fnd 2 place. While we were waiting to be served couldn't help ovArhearins conversation, between two fine old boys, splendid old fellows in soft hats, flowing mustaches. black string ttss and ali the rest of it.
 "'I didn't see you at the theatre this evenin' cunnel said one.
 'No.' drawled the other. I didn't go, for seats until this a-mawniu' and the best l could find were pix in the ba1- cony. l suppose you were theref
 t'Yes, cunnel, I was there. Madame and the girls were with me. and we all agreed that we never attended . mo thrillin' play The company was good, too-e excellent company! And, do you know. cunnel. in my opinion that niGgss did about q well e any ,as 'Aa>r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
Men Are Needed.

Greenvil1e Living Trutf& If ever there was a time in the history of Alabama when the state really needed men true to the principles of libefty and civic righteousness it is the present.
 sophistry stands on thA corner, plead ing for men to surrendkr their rights and privileges and makiRg promises which can never be realized
 Politicians frame laws which they ask the peor to pass ana declare to them that white the laws 4s written say that they will forbid cert3in rights and cur tail certain libertiesy that the laws do not mean what they Gstate.
 Voters are told thAt the amendment is offered to make theI prohibition laws of the state stronger al in the next breath
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
Not EasIIy Deceived,

Walker County News: The free people of commonwealth are slow to vote for a change of their organic law; and they view with suspicion any movement look ing to alterations or amendnlents There must be reason and righte0usness and an absence of the appearance of political ambition and chicanery to draw them into such patchwork as Is now proposed by the office-seekers of Alabama. The peo- pie of this state are not 10 easily de- ceived as some men seem 40 think.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
Who Is Trusted?

Luverne Journal: The amenders say that those who oppose the amendment are not willing to trust the people. Let's see who 1t Is that says that the voters are not to be trusted. The governor and his legislature were elected on the party plat form which declared for local option. The governor and his legislature directed by Parson Brooks Lawrence passed the most drastic statewide prohibition laws that could be framed. Did they consult you, MT. Voter? They would not have consulted you on the amendment, could they have avoided 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
The Political Demaaooue.

Cherokee Harmonizer: The political demagogue is delighted. The people of Alabama are hopelessy split up over the amendment proposition, one of the very objects for which the trick was gotten up. AS this paper has before stated. an agitated people is the delight of the po- litical demagogue. It will take years to heal the wounds and repair the dam age this agitation is causing. Will the people stand the antics of the political demagogues forever? We think not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
The Point at Issue

Columbiana Peoples Advocate: 'Whis- ky or no whisky is not tho issue in this campaign, and when the advocates of the amendment tell you that Is the ques- tion they are misrepresentinr the facts and they know it. The issue Is amend ment or no amendment" It is for you to decide whether you want this amendment in the constitution of Alabama or not. The question of whisky or no whisky has already been settled in this state, and if these real good people will let good enough alone we'll be all right
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

All bona f1de Conner men and all partisans of Judge Weakley for gover- nor will vote for the amendment, but how about many of the loyal friends of Senator Bankhead, and the devoted supporters of Colonel Mallory, who, like Judge Weakley, is a candidate for governor? Not since the war has a state campaign been quite so full of interesting politics as this.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
Drunk With Power.

Andalusia Star: Henry Clay, the great statesman, said: "It is the doctrine of thrones that man is too ignorant to gov ern himself" Surely the amenders of Alabama are drunk with power They are trampiing under foot the most sacred principles of American government. In section of the proposed constitutional amendment they strike at the very heart or our government-the home. Don't vote for the proposed amendment unless you desire to substitute throne for this greatest of republics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
Hobson's Way.

Huntsville MercuryBanner: The amend CTS will have to take Hobson off the stump He is so much larger than the subject, as they wish to see it treated, that he is knocking down all their flimsy arguments and theories as he passes along.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
People Know.

Dothan Journal: It's disparaging to the amendment advocates that the people just won't see this thing like they put 1t, and they are continually harpng on the people being so confused. Again. it is to laugh The people are wiser than you might suppose They know that the constitution is all right like it is. and un- less a satisfactory reason can be given for changing it, whats the use?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

The amenders started out on the de- fensive and they are still on the de- fensive; more so now than ever. As Senator Reese. Captain Hobson and others committed 10 constitutional prohibition have intimated, the word ing of the proposed amendment is un- fortunate from the amender point of view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
AGAINST THE AMENDMENT

they say that the legislature will never act on the letter of the law. God give us men,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

Caruso, Thomas F. Ryan and Orville Wright are coming over on steam ship together, and the greatest of the three is Oryille.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

Womankind is the bulwark, says Bishop Spaulding, of polygamy in Utah at present. This charge should be re- ferred to Mrs. Pankhurst for consider ation and discussion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

Hope is very reckless speculation.
 People who go into debt want to get out only so as to be able to go in again. Running for office is the best way to learn what people really think of you.
 Flying machines don't cost enough to run ever to be as much fun as auto
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

The Conner freight rates have not re- duced the prices of necessaries to the ultimate consumer in this state, and the people are beginning to ask, who has been benefited?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

Some say it is whisky or no whis- ky" while others say the issue Is "Comer or no Conner" There are dreadful possibilities shut up in either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

,Allhallow Even or Nutcrack night may be celebrated again tonight, and the witches in it will be real boys and girls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
Whre Is the Majority.

Pine Belt News: It is a fact southern and middle and northern Alabama are against the amendment. Then where is that big majority we hear the amenders talking about to come from? Eh?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

A thousand men went down the Mississippi on moonlight nights, and not a woman was on board! It was waste of moonlight at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

When hundred of millions for water ways and not bit of pork in it are expended the millennium will have fully arrived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

Cotton was higher six years ago and may be higher six months hence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

The waterways movement is to be kept out of politics and sectionalism. Politicians will not bother it if the pork barrel is really to be eliminated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

Dr. Cook got the cream of the north pole incident, and he is willing Peary should have a chance at the nlain milk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

President Taft is a convert to the policy which says that the true way to control freight rates is to open rivers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

Franciso Ferrer, although dead, was powerful enough to drive a Spanish cabinet out of office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
Won't Carry Ten Counties.

Headland Post: The amenders won't carry ten counties in the entire state of Alabama, and it's doubtful if they carry that many.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

The Lakes-to-the-Gulf proposition outranl1s the Panama canal, now that the latter is assured
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

When the hookworm is eradicated John D. can still give a million to root out the doodlebug
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

The farmers boy gets away from the farm. but his love for the farm remains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

Like the stormy petrel Richard Croker comes back just as the storm of ballots is to take place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

Limburger cheese may cure cancer. but what. pray. will wash the man clean who is cured by it?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

A tu1 .el to Newark is the latest un- dergrousse development near New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

The boats gathered to make up the presidential fleet rendered the rest of the river remarkably quiet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

Nordica is also a suffragette. The fashion is spreading on the stage at any rate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

Uncle Joe Cannon is said to have a poor opinion of a porkless waterway movement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

Billy Loeb knows he will hear an voice from the jungle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

The suffragettes, however flanziee never throw bOmbar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01

Wash ,ngten Bureau Age Herald. itai sFprt. N. ".
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-12
AN Ordinance

An Ordinance Defining and Creating Paving
Ditrict No 1. OF Spanish Fork City, Utah.
Be It Ordained by the City Council OF Spanish
Fork City. Utah
Section THAT Paving District No of
created and defined as follows. to-wit:
Beginning ut the intersection OF Main Street
and First South Street, and Tunntr g thence
east on the north side OF First South Street, a
distance OF blocks to Eighth East Street. and
extending on the north side OF First South
Street to the distance OF nifty feet
The blocks lots, parts. plots, parcels. and
pieces of land included within the said Paving
District No. 4 are:
All the frontage abuttiug First South Street
on the south side Of blocks 30 to 30 inclusive
and extending for the distance OF fifty feet north
from the property line, All Of said blocks be
ing in Plat Spanish Fork City Survey OF
building lots.
Section 2 This ordinance shall go into enec,
immediately on its hrst publication.
Passed by the City Council of Spanish Fork
City, Utah County. Utah. this 18th day of Aug
A. d. 1909. +. NJ. SMELL Mayor,
l. w. NIELSEN, Recorder
State OF Utah, County OF Utah, Spanish Fork
City.-ss.
l. l.. w. Nielsen, Recorder in and for Spanish
Fork City. County of Utah. State OF Utah.
hereby certify that the above and foregoing
Is u true, full and correct copy OF an ordinance
entitled, IAN Ordinance defining and creating
Paving district No. T. Of Spanish Fork City.
Passed by the City Council Of Spanish Fork
City. Utah County Utah. this 4th day OF Aug
A. d. 1909. L. W. NIELSEN. Recorder,