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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
Mayor O'BrIsn Wants More Parks

The proposition to sell the useless ends of a number of streets and alleys, and to use the money in the improve ment of the parks that the city now owns and to purchase additional park space, especially near the public school buildings, will surely commend itself to all. Legislative action must precede action on the part of the city, and Mayor O'Brien has acked the Board of Aldermen to take steps to secure the needful legislation.
 The proposition is so attractive and so free from cost it carries it's own argument It is difficult to see from what source opposition can arise, and when a public matter Is without oppo- sition it is expected to indulge in "walkover"
 The movement for more park room is becoming general, and this move ment should be promoted here, where there is no large park, and no consid- erable acreage in small parks. Never will land be cheaper here than it is at present, and Mayor O'Brien's advice should be needed. About fifty years ago New York purchased at small price Central park. Today it is worth as much as the property of some states is valued at for taxation purposes. On lesser scale Birmingham should begin to purchase park room, for pret- ty soon such room, too, will become high priced and out of the reach of the citys means Now is the time to buy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
What the Payne-AldriCh Bill Is

The House tried to fulfill to some extent the campaign pledges of the republican party, but when the Payne bill reached the Senate it was turned into the Aldrich bill, in which all cam paign promises were forgotten and only special interests were remem- bered. The President may secure some concessions from the conferees, but at the most he cannot secure enough to make the Aldrich scheme less objectionable than Dingleyism.
 Let it not be forgotten that the Payne bill was not by any means ideal, for it contained an average increase of about 2 per cent over Dingley rates. In the Senate the silk, wool and cotton schedules were heavily increased, and all women in particular and other con sumers in general will be compelled to pay higher prices on woolen cloth, gloves, laces, embroideries, hosiery, underwear, hats, velvets, artificial flow CTS, imported suitings,. coat cloth shoes, paper, toilet waters, soaps, toi- let articles, perfumery, cord, builders materials, lemons, pineapples, yarns, olives, olive oil, figs, nuts, raisins, spices.
 Aside from the wool, silk and cotton schedules, the Aldrich bill presents 129 increases over the House provisions, and these upward revisions relate as rule to articles in everyday use. All dealers can see at a glance that prices will be increased and that the cost of living has again been boosted upward by the republican party. Between this time and November, 1910, the con sumer will have become painfully
 aware of this fact
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Warm campaIan in Virginia.

T was somewhat surprised to find In certain of the dry counties in Virginia decided change in sentiment from the statewide prohibition side to local op- tion which is according to the present law" said Benjamin, E. Brady of Balti- more. T am not connected with the liquor trade but in travelling through the south I always inquire about the work of the Anti-saloon league.
 T was in Virginia last February and found the anti-saloon following very az gressive and the liquor interests despond- ent. But it is just the reverse today. It could be readily understood that the larger cities would give a decisive wet majority but I had imagined that the rural districts would be strongly in favor of statutory prohibition; but more than one voter in a dry county told that while a majority in rneIr neighborhood could be counted on to vote for con tinuance of the dry law, they were aoso- lutely opposed to the state being placed in the prohibition column. These were men who sent to Richmond for liquor and kept 1t in t1feir homes. They said that if liquor traffic became illegal in every part of the state they would have to send their money to Baltimore or Philadelphia and this idea they were averse to. In other words they seemed to have con siderable amount of state pride when 1t came to the matter of trade.
 Tn view of the reaction in favor of the licensing of the liquor business, dating especially from the big wet victory in Petersburg, it is safe bet that Tucker, the local option candidate for governor, will beat Judge Mann, the prohibition candidate The result of the election in Bristol will of course add to Fuckers chances. The Virginia campaign is pretty warm.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
KEEPING OUT OF DEBT.
1t Means seIf-Respect, self-RelIance
 and Happiness.

Leigh Mitchell Hodges in the North Amer
 ican.-
 One reason so many folk find the road of life uncomfortable is the fact that they're walking barefooted over broken promises.
 There's nothing so heavy to carry, so disheartenIDg, so weakening so nerve racking as debt.
 If it stopped with the fattening of the pocketbook, 1t would be bad enough; but it only begins there.
 It weighs on the mind It places the victim to a disadvantage in work and play. It compromises manhood and wom- anhood, ard eats away at character like canker worm. ra
 The best and blgsesevow young man can make is to keep out of debt.
 There may come times when he cannot keep this VOW and fulfill his duty to his own. Such times are not of frequent oc- curenoa however. but when they do come, the debtless man will finid 1t sasier to get credit than it would be if he had already exhausted his credit.
 To keep out of debt means self-respect and self-reliance. It means health and happiness and freedom from that worst of foes. worry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10

-oi oof,ooi iiilieS III lHe WHOle WOrlu.
 In this division the West Indies are given to South America. All except the Island of Trinidad belong, perhaps, more properly to North America, They have 2745 miles. As the figures stand, North America has 34 per cent more railway than Europe, and nearly as much as the whole of the Old World.
 Compared with the previous year, Flu rope increased it's railways by 2s17 miles Qh per cenD Asia by 1928 miles 6 per cent}; Africa by sos miles (5.7 per cent; North America by 7637 miles 6 per cent; South America by 1880 miles (4 per cent) and Australasia by 51 miles, or A of per cent Australasia, besides Australia and New Zealand, includes the Hawaiian Islands, with 90 miles of railway. Of Eu- ropean countries, Russia built most rail- 1895 miles, as it is likely to do hereaf fter, because it needs them; France was next with 431 miles, followed by Germany, with All miles, In Asia British India led with 909 miles, followed by China, 464. In Afri- ca nearly all the progress was in British South Africa, where the addition was 353 miles (aA per cenD, the French posses sons dncluding Madagascar). 461 miles G per cent, and Egypt, 1S3 miles (5A per cent. The Archv gives the increase from 1903 to 1907, which is 6.S per cent for Europe, 21.5 per cent for Asia, 244 per cent for Africa, 12.4 per cent for the two Americans, and [ per cent for Australia
 The growth in Asia and Africa is nota- ble, and the indications are that in Asia especially and in China particularly, 1t will continue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10

sas, Clapp of Minnesota, Crawford Of South Dakota, Cummins of Iowa, Dolli- yer of Iowa, LaFollette of Wisconsin and Nelson of Minnesota. Aldrich was followed by Depew, Kean, Guggen- helm, Penrose, Shoot and all the other hardshell standpatters in the Senate. The only recruit they received was McEnery of Louisiana, who stands for sugar alone regardless of the Denver platform or of the ultimate consumer in his or any other state.
 The ten insurgents who voted against the bill in the final vote are entitled to great credit They stood up to their convictions, and they also stood up to public sentiment in their respective states. They defed to the last the Aldrich whip, and the votes that will be cast next year for new House of Representatives and one third of the Senate will yindicate or refute their judgment of the situation.
 Revision downward through the re- publican party has again proven de- fusion and a snare. The Aldrich bill may be bettered in the conference committee, which will offer the Presi- dent his last opportunity to keep his campaign pledges. The conference committee has nothing to do with the rates that the two houses have agreed upon, and 1t cannot, therefore, make out of the Aldrich aggregation anything better than the Dingley bill. It cannot be made revision downward, and the ultimate consumer will continue to be robbed unmercifully by home manufac- turers until the process becomes un- endurable and another revision is be- gun. The next will not be made by the friends of protection run mad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10

tuted, the year after the founding of the Chester cup. The title of the for mer race originated from the fact that 1t was established as a sweepstake of 100 guineas each, and the subscribers num- bered 2O while the One Thousand Gui- meas had the same conditions with 10 subscribers, and was therefore called the One Thousand Guineas. One of the great est races in connection with the Two Thousand Guineas was when Donovan was considered such a certainty that odds of s5 to 20 were laid on him in g. field of nine. Tom Cannon, however, was riding bad-tempered horse named En- thusiast who could only go when he liked And he did on that day, and Cannon pulled off the race by head. Both the Cesarewitch and the Grand National were founded 70 years ago, in which year also the Cambridgeshire was established The Eclipse stakes Is race of more modern origin, being established
 in 1886. When the Sandown park race committee announced that they intended to give fortune at once in the shape of f10,000, thus eclipsing all previous
 prizes. no small sensation was created in the racing world. The distinction of riding the winner of the first a10,000 be- longs to Tom Cannon, who brought Ben- digo home in a canter. The race for the Eclipse stakes in 1892 was memorable on account of the fact that the late Duke of Westminster entered his horse Orne, who was pronounced favorlte for the Derby that year, but was reported to have been got at, so did not run. He
 ultimately won the Eclipse stakes by neck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
REV. BROOKS LAWRENCE.
Greenville Editor Discusses His Crit
 icism of Supreme Court.

From the Greenville Living Truth.
 Some late decisions of the supreme court of the state which were favorable ire of Brooks Lawrence, superintendent of the Antl-Saloon league of the state.
 MT. Lawrence, unlike most citizens of the state, is unwilling to concede to the supreme court honesty of opinion and openly charges the court with dishon- esty. The majority of the citizens of this great state have been accustomed to look upon the supreme court as com posed of men not only of the highest honor and integrity, but of deep legal learning and incorruptible characters. This charge of MT. Lawrence because the decision of the court failed to tally with his own ideas Is one we might ex- pect to hear from an ignorant man against a judge whose honest convictions were opposed to his.
 This paper believes h people keeping the law, not only the prohibition law, but every law on the statute books of the state, but 1t also believes that 1t is the province of the supreme court to define the laws and because a decision 
 rendered does not conform to MT. Law rences prejudees 1t does not vest in him the right to characterize the decision as dishonest.
 It is the duty of every citizen of the state to uphold the courts of the land and MT. Lawrence has proven by his acts that he Is not a good citizen to thus assail the supreme court by putting his prejudices against their legal learning and opinions. His threats to change the courts or the members thereof because the opinion did not suit him is also bad taste and savers very much of the lam guage of a dictator who changes judges and courts until he can get such de- cision as suits him.
 If Mir Lawrence has elected to be- come a citizen of Alabama he should like other citizens abide the decision of the highest court of the state.
 If the decision does not meet with his views he should be careful how he charges the members of court, looked upon as incorruptble, as being the crea- ture of the liquor trust. He should bear in mind that he Is not the law-giver nor the law-maker of the state and that other men may be right in opinions which differ from his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
The Iron Market.

The pig iron market continues strong and fairly active. July started out, just as June did, with light buying but the volume of business Is increasing The June tonnage, notwithstanding an ap- parently quiet inquiry, turned out to be very large; and so 1t may be with the present month, provided that those com panies which are either out of the mar ket or are indifferent as to whether or not they make sales, soon re-enter the selling race. Higher prices are expected later in the mouth and 1t may be that some of the companies will hold off until a SIS schedule is reached.
 Matthew Addy & Co.'s Cincinnati mar ket report for the current week says
 June was a month of phenomenal ton- mage. There is very little question but that every furnace in the country sold more iron than it could make in the month, and to fill the orders which have been taken during the first half of the year furnace stocks will be drawn upon and the surplus accumulations in this way will be decidedly reduced. July has opened very we'll Of course after last month boom II IS not llktly tldl tiiiS month will eclipse its tonnage, but it will be a month nevertheless of good ton mage, and there does not exist anywhere the slightest doubt but that this fall there will be further revival of the iron busi- ness that will put the trade on very firm foundation. Things are all going the right way and with good crops nothing
 inc to it's own again.
 Prices are very firm with an advanc- ing tendency. In southern iron there Is a stiffness in quotations that has not ex- isted for IS months. And shipments are constantly growing in volume. This is the best thing that could happen in the trade, for with the present production of iron consumption has to keep up very lively pace indeed to prevent its heels being trod on.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful
 -Midsummer Nights Dream.
lni0uitieS of the Fee System

A Richmond paper thus summarizes the evils of the fee system in Vir- ginia:
 l. The fee system costs the people of the state many thousands of dollars over and above what is necessary for the proper enforcement of the law.
 2. It provides for successful politi- clans sinecures, with incomes ranging as high as $15,OO0, paid by the state taxpayers and litigants.
 3. It establishes inequalities among the same classes of office holders, by making the amount of their incomes dependent upon the location of their offices.
 f. It fails to promote eff1eicieney in public service, despite it's great cost
 5. It increases the cost of minor liti- gation almost 50 per cent, and thereby keeps poor men out of court.
 G. It is undemocratie, in that it pro- vides salaries of unknown proportions for men chosen and paid by the people.
 The Virginia system of fees is weak relatively if it offers no sinecures higher than s15, ,000 It is a pigmy along side Alabama's. But the chief omis- sion of the summary relates to arrests of the weak and humble because they can thus be utilized to swell fees. The humanity objection is the chief objec- ton to the Alabama fee system, over topping even its cliquish or political corruption side.
 Virginia plainly has but mild form of the fee system. The Atlanta Geor- gian says that the abuses of the fee system are even worse in Georgia than in Virginia. Jefferson county. AL abama can give any county in Georgia or Virginia cards and spades and still beat it in the game of fees. The jail in no Georgia or Virginia county is packed with the victims of the fee sys- tenn. The courts are not clogged in those states with cases devised and conducted by the fee system. Neither state would have borne the excesses of the system as Jefferson county has done, but patience has at last ceased to be virtue, and fee reform is in the air.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
End of the Senate Debate

The bill that was reported to the House on March IS and passed by it April g did on July pass the Senate, and will soon, no doubt, go to a con. ference committee, from which it may emerge in a week, or more likely in two weeks. The Dingley bill did not stay in conference a long time. It passed the Senate July and on July 24 it was in the hands of Presiden; Mckinley.
 Public sentiment in the middle west led no fewer than ten republican sen ators to vote against the Aldrich spe cial-interests scheme. The ten were nAveridxs of Indiana. BFistow of Kan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
PAUPER'S INGENUITY.
nm the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
 How pauper obtained. wool to knit socks and mittens, which he sold to en- able him to buy tobacco, was described to the West Ham magistrates recently The pauper was Thomas Ledgett, 49 years old, an inmate of the stratford branch of the Poplar Union. and he was charged with damaging a number of blankets, the prop erty of the guardians.
 The master of the workhouse found that the wool binding the edges of blankets was being removed. and that in five days no fewer than S45 blankets were so dam aged A search failed to discover who was taking the wool. but when Ledgett was removed to the farm colony at Lain don 1t came to the knowledge of the mas ter that he had been seen knitting with pink wool Friday the master went to Laindon, and on searching the prisoner 5 bed found a bag filled with balls of pink wool, evidently stripped from the blankets. and three socks knitted with pink wool. Ledgett, who denied that he had stripped 345 blankets. was sentenced to two months hard labor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
WORRYING.

Worry, worry, worry, That's the modern way, Never have the time to go For holiday: Never think of resting while Money is to get, Though we know that such a course Only brings regret. Worry. worry, worry,
 That's the modern plan; Make friend of trouble as Often as you can; Growl at everyone you meet, Brown when you must wait Some day you'll be sorry, but Then twill be too late. Worry, worry, worry.
 That's why wrinkles come, Why so many people are Fidgety and grum; Why so much of sweetness Is Lost to toilers who Never know that flowers bloom And the sky is blue; Never hear a songbird's Tilt, On a day in June. Never smile a tender smile, Never hum a tune; Never learn how good life is. Lived just for itself, Far away from worry and Sordid schemes for pelf.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
Crops At Midsummer

The government crop report is best understood when it is stated that it in dicates a total wheat crop just about equal to that of last year. But 663.- 100000 bushels will this year put more money in the pockets of farmers. and the part exported will bring more mon- ey to this country It is not to be a bumper crop, but a crop we'll up to the ten-year average.
 The indicated yield of corn is ex- ceedingly promising. The acreage In corn is unprecedented, and if the weather be at all favorable the three- billion line will be crossed in corn pro- duction. It never has been, and only once has it been closely approximated
 One of the largest crops of oats in the history of the country is indicated "a crop within two million bushels of the largest ever made. The billion line will be approached but not crossed. All other crops are promising-pota, toes, tobacco, flax, hay and apples.
 The reported conditions point to an immense tonnage on the railroads and to a steady revival of general business The country was never in a sounder condition than 1t is at present. No boom, fortunately is in sight, but a steady upward trend is, and by Christ mas all will know and feel the effects of good crops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
A NAPOLEONIc LIBRARY.

From M. A. F.
 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once told an amusing story of an illiterate millionaire who gave a wholesale dealers an order for copy of every book in all languages treating of any aspect of Napoleon's ca reer. He thought 1t would fill case in his library.
 He was somewhat taken aback, how ever, when in few weeks he received a message from the dealer that he had got 40.000 volumes, and was awaiting instruc- tions as to whether he should send them on as an installment wait for a com plete set.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A girl wants to get engaged just the way she wants to be asked to dance
 A man could save himself lot of trou- hle by not trying to make it for other people,
 One nice thing about living in the sub- urbs is when you miss the last train out and have to stay in town.
 It takes long time for a good resolu- ton to catch up with the bad habit to which it always gives head start.
 The most successful teaching in the world is the way any woman can teach any man to think he Is teaching her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
Hioher stock Market.

"The stock market has been high and strong for months past but the activity in stocks is nothing compared with the bull movement that will be in evidence early in the fall," said financier.
 If it could keep up as 1t has with Con- gress in session and the tariff unsettled. what may not be expected after Congress adjourns? Every week brings the country nearer to fine harvests. The crops on the whole are very large and by the middle of September expect to see stocks soar ing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
Corn WiIl Beat Cotton.

Tn some of the southern counties of Alabama the cotton Is looking remark ably well," said Judge A. A. Evans of Barbour, who came to Birmingham to at tend the Bar association meeting. There had not been too much rain as in other sections of the state, but on the contrary weather conditions seemed to have been altogether favorable.
 Corn is looking splendid. I do not be- lieve we have ever had a better season for corn. Come to think of it, corn is to be Alabamas S best commercial crop in a few years to come. We have soil especially adapted to corn, and all that is needed to put us ahead of the west as corn producing state is a little more science and little more agricultural economy.
 "The boil weevil will strike us in about 10 years, and then we will have to stop raising cotton. But by that time corn will have become easily king in the farm ing districts. We will raise hogs for the market, and after setting aside enough corn to feed to stock and fatten the hogs, there will be a good surplus to sell. AL falfa is coming to be profitable crop, too, but if I am not mistaken nothing will keep up with corn.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
North America Far in the Lead of
 Other Continents.

From the Railroad Age Gazette
 Again the Archiv fur Eisenbahnwesen, published by the Prussian ministry of public works, issues its statistics of the railways of the world, covering the year 1907 and the nearest year for which sta- tistics are available for the United States and Canada, the year ended with June, 1907. It finds in the grand divisions of the world the following mileages, street railways and some other light railways moi bainer itncl11dad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
clNoALEsE FOND OF TRAVEL.

From the Brltanhla-
 The Cingalese have notorious pro- pensity for travel on eur lines. am re- minded of true story of native shop boy who stole 70 rupees and then disap- peared for several days. All search prov ing fruitless in the ordinary walks of life. the railway was thought of and there the young rascal was found spending his pelf fin travelling backward and forward be- tween Colombo and Randy.
 must not forget also that during the early days of the seaside line the vil- lagers travelled 80 much, using up all spare cash, that certain small taxes pay able by them were only with some diffi- eulty collected.