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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
PERPETUAL PROHIBITION.

From the New York World.
Having secured statewide prohibition
by act of the legislature, the temperance
forces In Alabama are not in complete
accord on the question of constitutional
amendment prohibiting all liquor selling
There is no immediate prospect of the
Sprohibition law being repealed. but many
persons who favor 1t believe that IL
should be optionalN with the people TO
repeal the law If they see At.
The experience of Maine will be of In
terest to Alabama. In Maine, Fhere
prohibition is prescribed by the consti-
tuition. the issue of resubmission has
been raised in successive elections. The
republicans, who control the state, nave
been divided on the question at their con-
yentions. but the extreme temperance
wing has prevented the party from In
dorsing resubmission.
In Alabama, where for all practical
purposes there is only one political party,
the difficulty of repeating prohibition
amendment, once 1t was adopted, would
be greater than in Maine. A majority
of the voters can adopt the amendment,
but as a preliminary to repeating 1t
three-ffths of the legislature must vote
for It's removal before the question can
be submitted at a popular election.
If prohibition amendment is carried In
Alabama next month, a. minority of
temperance extremists may succeed in re-
tanning it in nominal force as long as the
Maine constitution has been guarded
against change.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
LINE ON CONFER.

From the Gadsden Times-News.
The amenders could not prevent Cover
nor Conner from going on the stump and
defending the amendment and my adj
ministration" at the same time. They
did not want the governor to be mixed up
in this campaign, but he refused to be
muzzled And who has better right to
defend that hayward child of the Ala
bama legislature than its foster father?
Who called the legislature together and
made all things possible? And who sees
his hopes of further political preferment
in a fair way to be relegated to the limbo
of things that might have been? with
the cry of "Oncs more unto the breach,
dear friends, once more!' the governor
has thrown himself bodily into the
chasm. But it Will in all likelihood prove
to large for even his colossal egotism to
fill.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01

great masters of literature are still the
best Sellers" that works published in
Athens and Rome before the Christian
era, or in Weimar or Florence centuries
ago, are today in lively demand, is an
agreeable tribute to the quality and COR
rectness of modern popular taste in lit
erature.
Included in this library of cheap re-
prints are Shakespeare. of whose, works
in this form $4,000 copies have been
sold; Greek and Latin classics in trans
lation; twelve volumes of Ruslkin; his
tory, biography, science, religion, eco
nomics, travel and exploration; essays
and fiction. The announced intention Of
the publisher of visiting America ito
consult with the American professors and
heads of schools as to future additions
and probably as to an enlargement of the
scope of the library" points to a recogni-
ton of the part the American readfng
public has taken in making the library
success. In contributing to that result
1t has given evidence of a taste that
remains unvitiated and indeed has i'm
proved in spite of the debasing influences
brought to bear upon it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01

so SHE SMOKED.
Washington Herald.

From the washington Herald.
THE late Theodore Tilton," said Fred
S. Armstrong of New York at the Coch-
ran last night, who never had pipe,
cigar or cigarette In his mouth, used to
declare that the most inveterate smoker
he ever knew was Sojourner Truth the
famous free woman reformer and lee
turer. He was wont to tell how one
day, when the venerable dame, then about
80 years old was on visit to his
house. she sat smoking her pipe by the
chimney corner, when George w. Bun
gay, the author of several eloquent anti
tobacco tracts, called to see her.
".Aunt Sojourner,' he said, L revere
your character, but deplore your smok-
ing, for it will keep you forever out of
heaven
"'LawlSes, honey, how SOP she asked.
because, aunty,' he rejoined, you
know that, according to the good book.
nothing entereth that deflleth." Now
how do you expect to get into heaven
with your breath defiled by tobacco?'
Lawkes, honey answered the old ne
gro, when ] go to heaven l 'spect to
leave my breath benin me-.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
-AIPs Well That Ends Well, ills.
WOmen'S Work Defined

There is never any lack of defini-
ton of womens work by men. The
irrepressible Kaiser Wilhelm is the
latest one to speak, and he says the
three ks" should be their motto
kinder, kuche, kirche; that is. chill
dren. cooking and church. He soon
ascertained that he had women sub
jects who rejected his programme.
None of his home critics regard his
programme as comprehensive or at
all satisfactory. And yet it is bet
ter than that of Lord Byron who in
a letter he wrote. to Thomas Moore,
said:
Thought of the state of woman under
the ancient Greeks-convenient enough.
Present state, a remnant of the bar
barism, of the chivalry of the feudal
ages-artificial and unnatural. They
ought to mind home, and be well fed and
clothed, but not mixed in society. Well
tOVf
neither poetry nor politics-nothing but
books of cookery. Music. drawing, dane
ing, also a little gardening and pow-
ing now and then. | have seen them
mending the roads in Epirus with good
success. Why not as well as haymakng
and milking?
The suffragettes would never accept
Lord Byron's views, and the German
women do not seem to be unanimous
over the Kaiser's programme.
But these two men do not stand
alone, for here comes DR.. Wiley of
pure food fame who says: "The coun
ty clerk should refuse a license tc
wed to any girl who does not know
how to cook, and should only gram
it freely when she takes a solemn oatt
to practise what she knows"
1t is plain all men desire women
to be good cooks for obvious reasons
but when all vote will men be per
mitted to map out the lines that WON
en- are to follow? Women may then
have a word or two to say on that
subject themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
Grounds of Opposition.

II do not keep liquor on my sideboard
and only keep a little whisky at my home
for medicinal purposes" said lawyer.
LAS for tipping, have not taken drink
at public bar for 10'years or more
II voted against the saloon two years
ago and 1 think ! shall always be OPP
posed to saloons-certainly the way they
were formerly conducted. But | am de-
cidedly opposed to the proposed amend
ment on principle. And l am also OPP
posed to it on neighborly or brotnerly
grounds. | have no idea, just because
do not drink liquor to say that my neigh
Dor shall not. | have long been>opeervant
and can say that more men of my ac-
quaintance have drunk in moderat ior
than have abused spirituous beverage,
IF the amendment is adopted there WIN
be hardly the shadow of doubt but thai
the prohibition party will fix it so no one
can keep a drop of whisky or beer al
home.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
RERNHARpT,s LAST TOUR.

F'rom-the New York Morning Telegraph.
Tt has been practically settled that Mme
Sarah Bernhard will pay visit to New
York during the season of 19l0-19l1. In
the nature of things this must be her last
visit. She will come under the manage
ment of W. F. Conner, Who was her man
ager four years ago. No definite arrange
ments have as yet been formulated
Conner has always maintained that
theatrical generation has five years dura-
ton. A new generation who know not
Sarah will have arisen before next au-
tumn The question naturally arises
as to what is the condition of Madame
Sarah as her friends love to call her.
Are the old vigor, the old bewitchment
still there? The vivid and capacious intel
leet as energetic and as dominant? Those
who saw her playing last spring to
crowded houses at the Theatre Sarah
Bernhardt can, answer truthfuly, yes.
She suffers slightly from lapeness, but
an actress of her resource and expert
ence can conceal such an impeachment.
No one noticed it in the performapce Of
"BAiglon" at which the writer was
present last May. One did notice, how.
ever. the rush and exuberance of her
golden fdiction. the romance apd glamour
of that extraordinary personality, EXERT
ing, as it has for many years, its control
over large and varied audience.
The question arises as to, what plays
Madame Bernhard will be seen in when
she comes here next November 'L'Aig-
lon," certainly. Les Bouffons," that per
feet idyll of Miguel Zamacois. will also
be seen. There will be novelty, TOO
That novelty will be THE French Revo-
luton" a drama dealing with period
the dramatic possibilities of which have
only Just been touched on, even though
more than 100 years have elapsed since
the happenings of that terrible epoch.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
Excellent Appointment

The governor made an excellent Sc
lection when he appointed Judge A. A.
Evans of Barbour county to the SUI
preme bench to fiIfche vacancy caused
by the resignation of Associate JUS
lice benson. The new associate HAS
qualified by taking the oath and will
enter upon his duties on Monday next.
Judge Evans is AZ years of age and
is graduate of the law school of the
State university. After practicing law
with marked success for several years
he was elected circuit judges He has
had an experience Of II years on the
bench and no circuit judge in Ais
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
POPULAR TASTE IN READING.

From the New York World.
1t is now less than four years since the
issue by a London publisher of the first
volume in a series of reprints of the
works of standard authors. which marked
an interesting experiment in providing
: the public with the worlds best literature
In handy and inexpensive form. The
books were clearly printed and tastefully
bound and sold for a shilling, On the
recent addition of the four hundredth
volume to the list tfs announcement was
made that more than 5,O00,0O0' separate
copies had been disposed of.
That is fully five times the humber of
books in the Library of Congress, more
than double the number of volumes In
the Bibliotheque Rationale of Paris, teS
worlds largest library-books all of a
substantial character-have been alb
sorbed within this BRIEF time by reading
public, whose intelligence is too often
measured by the sales of popular fic-
ton. The proof given that the world >
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
TIE APRIL CHILD.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
There is a baby cross tn way
That came on rainy April day,
lA cause it is a April child
Its crying drives TIL neighbors wild;
That's what my mother says to me-
1t makes her nervous as can. be!
There goes that child she used to sayi
Il wish its folks would move away.
but pretty soon there came day
When 1t was quiet cross tn way.
1t seemed so very nice, you know,
Cause we had all been bothered SO;
Eut when | looked AT ma an SAID, 81
my, Aain't it still'' she turned her head,
And / could see her blue eyes MI;
"The child" she said, is very III.
Then all at once l wished that l
Gould hear again thu baby cry;
But though ] stood an stood around,
/ couldn't ketch tn leastest sound.
An then we heard squeaky cry.
An ma Rugged mel ny?
And when the baby raised a yell
We both cried out, Shes gettin well!'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
NEW USE FOR r. s. v. p

From the New York Press.
Young women of Riverside have devised
a new sign of distress, and 1t is in active
operation. While aot so portentous, dra-
matte and tragic as c @. d, yet IT Is po-
tent.il, although 1t Socks and sounds
familiar. The signal is composed of the
letters r. S. V. p.
When a girl speaks this warning in a
stage whisper in the hearing of another
girl the latter person at once clutches
Her hair and begins to rearrange it
speedily and deftly, for it should be
known that in such a case r. S. V. p.
has only one significance: RAT shows
very plainly"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01

some three or four volumes of nemor-
able poems he made much less from all
OF them than Robert Chambers can make
today from novel of high society. Flo
was married and one child blessed the
union; but she died in childhood and
ever afterwards her voice called to him
from whence she waited, "Dadsy, how
iongt how longr' Even in that bereave-
ment he still was sure of returning joy.
II was his part to discover" many
new men for the literature and news
paper work of London. Some of them
aiWays remembered his unselfsh love:
some OF them smote him with the base
ness of ingratitude: but he turned to IRE
sun another man little higher ND and
afeW from life all the joy that life holds
Tor SPIRITS such as ifs. He is dead now.
ne died poor in the worlds goods: but
dying he could well look back on the
neios ne mad trayersed. seeing that they
were still fruitful under the sun And
he has left for the encouragement OF
men those songs of fearless living that
have lifted many a breaking heart TO
fresh endeavor y
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
THAT NOISE.
Dothan Editor Doesn't Like Ways of
Gasoline Engine.

From the Dothan Eagle.
Ever since this paper became product
of modern skill. operating its machinery
by electric power, 1t has been stoeing
gasoline engine, and trying to sell 1t
to every peddler of junk that hit the
town. We haven't had an offer on it and
since the oil mill has installed an engine
that makes noise like the one we own,
we have decided to give ours away to
the first person who can load it on
wagon without asking questions. The
new engine the oil mill has installed to
run the night shift, runs like a mogul
with drivers needing sand. Then 1t
changes and makes noise like a 10
horsepower sawmill engine, till the gov,
ernors fail to work, when it explodes,
sending out q report like a gun in mill
itary target practice Residents of the
north side of town have gone back to
the stove room after supper every night,
thinking they smet something burning,
but later decided that it was India rub
Der burning across the way, or old shoes,
when as a matter of fact, it is the after
effect from the explosions of that en-
6iAot 90 IL pouiuo away vi It's du-HiSDt
journey. The tracks of an automobile
smell like a x-for-a-quarter toilet soap,
compared to the disagreeable effluvium
that oozes up ones nostrils the livelong
night from that gas engine. There is no
longer need of night Waterman at the
oil mill or the Coast Line compress for
a burglar couldn't get within 300 yards
of the property without mufflers, and
diving bell tubes for his noses sake.
Those who might sleep within the sound
of the engine get sick to their tum-
my" from smelling the gas. and those
who don't mind the gas spend restless
nights listening to the exhaust and say
they had rather hear a dog bark at
the moon all night, any day in the year.
For our part, we say give us back
the old coal burner that hummed away
with steady, lulling hum, that brought
sleep like little drops of rain on the
roof
We would not shacl<le industry, we
would not stand out for old methods,
useless money operating a system that
was more expensive, but we would like
to be given the privilege of heading a
petition, praying that the old noise be
restored and this new one run in and
fined as a public nuisance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
Family Deficits Here and Elsewhere

A state deficit or a national deficit
is not a pleasant thing, but worse than
either are widespread family deficits
of living. The family deficits OF Ger
many recently became a subject OF
government inquiry and many inter-
esting particulars were disclosed. A
teacher and his wife, the man receiv-
ing a daily wage of little less than
81 a day, managed to save $50 during
the year. Another teacher with SIM
liar income incurred debt of $3.50,
the difference in expense being largely
for food, which item was $125 more
than in the former case. A cabinet
maker, with wife and child, earned
but $500 year and yei was able to
save $50. his daily cost of living for
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
Choice Melons and Peaches.

ut seems out of season to talk about
such things but had today the most
delieately delicious caHtaloupe I've tasted
this year" said an epcure. 1T was
of the dark green netted variety with
yellow and pinkish tinse color on the in
side. The meat was firm, sugary and SO
cooling to the thirst
There are some very good California
peaches on tile market They have even
a better flavor than the watery fruit
of the summer and II eaten where grown
would doubtless be perfect fruit. As 1t
is those shipped are pulled in an I'M
mature state and shipped in refrigerated
cars. Even ina warm atmosphere they
do not ripen to the delicious perfection
and rich flavor one finds in Septem-
Der in Maryland where verS choice late
peaches are grown. Many of these md a
market in Washington"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
THE OLD GUARD.
From the Gadsden Times-News.

From the Gadsden Times News.
The Old Guard is composed of veterans
who fought the battles of Alabama both
in war and peace. They were considered
Alabama's most distinguished sons before
the present campaign was inaugurated,,
and all delighted to do thepl honor. But
when that thin gray line forms once
more to fight for the constitutional in
tegrity of their state, the veterans are
maligned and vilified by every ranting
politician and half-baked near-states-
men. This latter class is in the precise
attitude of the dog who thought to gain
a reputation by barking at. an old lion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
"Das Stille Land.

''DaS Stflle Land
''Das stille land a poet sang
In far off Germany;
A realm of rest for weary hearts.
Where storms can never be.
And the shadow shapes will come no
more,
A ghostly, haunting band;
Nor fearful dreams perplex the wights
Who've found "das stllle land"
''Das sti1le land a twilight land.
A land Of slumber deep,
Beyond the valley of despair,
Where mortals toll and weep:
Beyond life's battle plain wherein
We fight with futile hand
Beyond the utmost bounds of fate,
There lies 'das stille land
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
1T MEANS POLITICS.

From the Hartselle Enterprise.
However much the advocates of the pro-
hibition amendment try to divorce that
issue from politics, it will be a failure.
1t was conceived in a hot-bed of political
ambition by politicians who either held
a job depending on the>successful carry
ing out of the issue or else were bending
>their energies with the hope of riding safe
into port on the issue. carrying with
them their cherished ambitions. 1t won't
separate any more than water and oil
will mix
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
Mobile Sentiment.

IF the amendment isn't defeated I'm
willing to go without my coat and hat
for week during the coolest weather
this winter" said Cahrlie Miller a car
penter, who has just returned to Birming-
ham after completing Job at Mobile.
Mobile is going to poll large vote
against it, This can be told very easily
there, as it is almost an impossibility TO
find man who will state he is for it. ]
also worked in two or three of the small
towns close to Mobile and in those places
| found the same condition. I might add,
by way of parenthesis that | was pro-
'hibtionist at the last election, but now
that's the last thing in the world shat
/ would be-"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
MERELN SUGGESTED.

From the Boston Globe.
Thousands are in favor of-prohbition in
some reasonable form, but few Alaba-
mians who stop to think or who have
civic pride are in favor of this
state putting on the 'castoff garments
of New England. Birmingham Age
Herald.
Well, then, why not borrow the pat
tern of New England's podern dress?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
The Iran Market,

The pig iron market continues strong
with an upward tendency in price. The
Birmingham quotings are S14.50 and SIS.
Rogers. Brown & CO.'S Cincinnati report
says:
''In both east and SOUTH as well as this
territory, prices have advanced during
the week. Some of the furnaces which
have been out of the market for the first
half of the year are taking on a little
business but there are others still refus-
ing to quote and there is absolutely moth
ing doing for period beyond July 1, next.
Current orders for spot shipment con-
tinue in good volume and the business
for 1910 keeps up with unfailing buoy
aney
ut is assured that September will
show one of the highest marks for month
1y production that we have seen in a
long time and it is well to note that this
increased production, large as 1t has
been, has been but the means to an end
for furnishing consumers who. in little
more than two months have seen their
business improve from practically moth
ing to full output
THE increase in consumption during
the past two years has, more than kept
up with the producing activity, many
foundrymen and others taking the time
of low prices for labor and material to
inaugurate changes, increase plants and
productive capacity which they would not
have attempted under other conditions.
The result is there is now facing us an
amount Of melting capacity to be filled
which has never before been equaled.
Coke is still on the move, and after
being dormant for so long, even after the
start of the iron trade, it is now making
up for lost time. Prices are advanced
over week ago and sales Of large ton
mage during the week are reported. Some
plants are operating~with an inadequate
labor supply, thus not getting full output,
and this shortage is hurting production
everywhere There has been slight In
crease in production over our previous
report, but not as much as is demanded"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
OBJECTS TO BROOKS.
the. Gadsden Times-News. A.,

From lne' 1dusuen 1 liieS-4>eWs.N
Poor Brooks Lawrence! The guide of
the destines of a great state the para
the destinies of great state; the para
churches of Alabama! the pluperfect col
lection taker the supreme type of the
political parson, with a decided leaning
to the political half. Brookse is all right
of his kind, but we don't like his kind.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01

A writer in the Montgomery Adyer-
tiser in inveighing. against liquor of
the present day tells of the good corn
whisky made before the war. There
was no tax on ii and il could be
bought in some parts of Alabama for
) cents a gallon. Fifteen cents a gal
ion was. however, the usual price.
Think of it, you high-livers who now
pay at the rate of So or more for
the whisky you drink
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01
SPEAKING OF WINTER.

Old winters rule is close at hand.
Ere long Jack Frost will grip the land
And freezing winds rage to and fro,
And summer'n seem so long ago,
Well wonder If twas really we
Who said we'd dearly like to see
The last of Augustus torrid days.
The choking dust and sheat that hays.
1t won't take long to get enough
OF winters buster. blow and bluff
And, OH we'll bend with eyes tear-wet
To greet the springs first violet,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-01

A young woman iii New Jersey
broke a young mans collar bone by
knocking him down when he tried to
wash her face with a watermelon rind.
Something handsome should be done
for that young woman.