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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
DIR. Stages ARREST.
From the Admission Star.

From the Admission Star.
The good citizens Of this city are unit
III their condemnation of the outrage per-
petrated in this city Saturday night by
the arrest of DR.. John w. Stage, presi-
dent of the Presbyterian college. There
is not law-abidng citizen In the city
who does not feel that Anniston's reputa-
ton and fair name have been trailed in
the ashes of humiliation by the action of a
man employed to maintain order and pre-
serve the dignity of the municipality, who,
for some unaccountable reason, which
may or may not become known in the fu-
ture, acted in manner which was a
brutal insult to one of the most distin-
guised and beloved ministers of the Pres
byterian denomination, Christian gen.
tleman of unspotted reputation, splen-
did citizen and the head of an institu-
ton In which all the people of this city
have pardonable pride. Not only Is this
true, but the action of this police officer
was a thrust at the institution of which
DR.. Stagg is the president, and 1t was an
insult offered to the good citizens OF this
city and every friend and patron of the
Presbyterian college. In addition to all
this, it was blow at the reputation of
Admission and one calculated to do this
CITY great injury in the estimation of the
outside world.
By.prompt and decisive action the fore
most citizens of the city, by the course
taken at the mass meeting held Monday
morning, endeavored in so far as was
within their power to right the wrong
done DR.. Stage and the Presbyterian col
lege. and they emphatically placed the
seal of their everlasting condemnation
upon the guilty parties and demanded that
Admission should be restored to something
like her former standing among the mu-
inequalities of the state by decisive action
on the part of the city council in removing
from official station the men who are re-
sponslble for bringing this unparalleled
humiliation and disgrace upon this city.
Having taken these steps the citizens of
the city can make no further move until
the council acts in regard to the removal
of these officers. The matter is up to the
council and there should be prompt and
decisive action. This is no time nor place
for temporizing. lodging or delay. The
people will not tolerate 1t. They demand
an investigation of this affair that will
investigate In reality, the clearing up Of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
A DRINK IN ooTHENBuRo.
4 the Chicago News.

Firm the Chicago News.
From Gothenburg, Sweden, a CORE
spondent writes: THE difficulties under
which wine and spirit merchants labor
nowadays here may be Judged from the
following incident. When I went to buy
a bottle of whisky the other day I was
told: We are not allowed to sell wine or
spirits over the counter What in the
world do you mean? I asked. No, it
must be ordered In advance But I want
the whisky at once:'
1.-THE assistant meditated and then said:
IT you go across the street and telephone
to us from the cigar shop we can supply
you telephoned and five minutes later
I had the whisky. / went for another
bottle the next day and found that reg
ulations had become more stringent AL
though I had ordered 1t by telephone,
was not allowed to take 1t home my
self!
IT expostuiated and the wine merchant
said: But II your son here with you will
accept sixpence for delivering the bottle
at your house could let you have the
whisky at once Ny son had no objec-
tion.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
An Empty State Treasury

NO man." says the Dothan Eagle,
should let his personal dislike for
Conner cut any figure in casting a
ballot to see whether prohibition con-
tinues in Alabama or not Prohibition
in some reasonable form will remain
whether the amendment is voted down
or up, but if the amendment be ratified
even the Eagle must admit that the
Conner machine would gain prestige
and Comerism would be fastened upon
the state.
Does the state want four more years
of Comerism? The Montgomery Jour
nal says tax values in Alabama this
year show most gratifying increase"
1t should have added that despite the
increase in tax values the bottom of
the treasury is exposed to view as the
net result of three years of Conner
State Auditor Brandon in his report
covering the fiscal year ended Sep
TENDER 80 last says the treasury
deficit on October 1 was $1,455, 226.36i
These are official figures. These are
not campaign figures. Governor Jelks
left about million dollars in the
treasury and in three years Governor
Conner has turned that handsome sur
plus into a deficit aggregating, says
General Brandon, $1,455. 226.36! We
add the odd cents of the deficit in or
der to be as exact as General Bran
don is in his official report.
The Eagle says the voters should
disregard their dislike of Conner In
the coming election. In other words,
they should vote to increase the
deficit. The taxpayers of Alabama do
not desire to see the deficit increased,
for any more years of Comerism would
mean an increase in the bonded debt
and possibly a loss of credit in the
great money markets of the country.
THE dislike for Conner" to use the
Eagles phrase, will enter into this
campaign and the conservative voters
alike on the farms and in the towns
will be pretty sure to say that four
years Is altogether enough of Conner
ism and endless agitation and extra
sessions and huge treasury deficits.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
Needs of the PowderIy Line.

more cars should be placed on the
Powderly line or the South Bessemer
cars should be required to stop at every
station said Dan H. Smith, purchasing
agent for the Continental Gin company
and one of Elytons aldermen. "The
traffic on this line is exceptionally heavy
especially from Cleveland to Birming-
ham, and the number of cars for hand
ling 1t entirely too small.
''It Ia not unusual for regular patron
who makes as many as four trips a
day to go as long as a week without
once having the opportunity of securing
seat in the cars, while the time be-
tween cars Is too long. The company
should show come consideration for us
people in the western part of Greater Biz
mingham and relieve this condition. More
cars, a shortening of the running time be-
tween Powderly and Birmingham with
trailers put on during the rush hours are
exactly the things needed on the Pow
Derby line"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
Moore,s Poems to Music.

Did you ever stop to think OF the
number of Thomas Moore's famous poems
that have been set to music?" l asked
man who loves tho cid songs. i fer
call four just now that I have heard
from childhood and they are among the
finest things in the English language.
Everyone knows The Last Rose of
Summer with its beautiful, appealing,
autumnal sentiment. And what a pa
thetic touch in both the music and the
words of 'Tara's Halls And how my
soul has been stirred by the heroic The
Minstrel I have herad 50 male voices
sing The Minstrel SO that it made every
drop of blood in my body tingle. But
quite the most beautiful old song in the
English language to my mind is Believe
Me If All Those Endearlng Young
Charms The words contain striking
figurative Language and the air is one
of those simple soothing melodies that
appeal to everyone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
From the Washington Post.

KN osr people are inclined to think
E\Vh that the elevator. is a mechan-
ical device of quite recent in
venton evolved to meet the require
ments of the monster modern hotel and
sky-scraping office building. Even among
those who are well informed on such
matters the hoist was supposed to date
back no further than the sixteenth CEN
fury, and to have been developed from
the primitive chair with CONFERENCE.-The
made for one of the Popes.
But our age, with its searches into the
records of the remote past, its dragging
into light of manuscripts a thousand
years old, its delving into the soil to find
the site and remains of lost cities, seems
determined to prove the truth of the wise
mans dictim that there is nothing new
under the sun.
However that may be. the modernity
of the elevator, at all events, has been
knocked on the head. 1t appears that
the celebrated Italian archaeologist, Com
mendatore Boni, has been making extern
sive excavations among the foundations
of the ancient Roman forum, and that
ne mas uneaftned many WONDERS. Among
his discoveries were a series of superposed
niches forming approaches to an ele-
vator, and a number of stone cubes to
serve as CONFERENCE.-The for the ascend
ing and descending machine. The con-
clusion arrived at by the commentators
is that, at the time when the Roman
games were held in the rorum--that Is,
about the period of Julius Caesars dom
NANCY of the Roman world-this ancient
elevator was used to convey gladiators
and wild beasts from the underground
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
STUDYING MUSIC IN PARIS.
Grafters Take Advantage of Gulleless
Young Woman.

Beau Broadway, In the New York Tele-
graph.
The difficulties of studying singing
In Paris are well illustrated by pecu-
liar and instructive story told mo by
one whose trustworthiness there Is no
reason to doubt. 1t should serve as
warning to girls. alike Of talent, some
latent and not latent, who entrust
tn emseives to singing teaching harpies
of Paris.
1 shall mention no names Tor the
young lady is now happily married, and
the teacher in question has not many
years of usefulness left Miss X. hao
been studying with the singing teacher
for three years, when she received
note from her father, saying tnat ne
was in serious financial trouble anu
could send no more money
Miss x had perhaps thousand DOL
lars left. She explained her circum-
stances to her teacher. begging that sne
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

"I am delighted with Birmingham and
consider it the best laid off town in the
SOUTH" said Charles Finley, a million
aire banker of New York, who spent sew
eral days in Birmingham. This town
cannot help but grow, because it is full
of live, progressive men, and you are
doing things on a large scale.
II am particularly impressed with
Shades valley, which is undoubtedly sure
to become your city's most beautiful res
idence section. No other city has such
a great reserve upon which to spread its
incoming population and give room for
expansion. This is a proposition I'M
equaled anywhere In the south.
your city is laid off wonderfully well.
The wide streets, deep lots and beautiful
lawns belle your reputation as manu-
featuring center, ugly and smoky. Biz
mingham is destined to be the metropolis
of the south within very few years"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
cnnnestion at. Courthouse.

Qualified electors of Jefferson county
who several months ago gave the pro-
posed $500. 600 bond issue for courthouse
and Jail purposes the cold shoulder. and
who have been summoned to court this
term are probably regretting that they
cast their votes against the proposition
for the erection of a new courthouse"
said an attache of the criminal court yes
terday.
Conditions this term have emphasized
more strongly than ever the total mad
equacy of the present courthouse and the
absolute need of a new structure This is
especially true about the criminal court
divisions The lower and most objection
able class of people are not usually in
terested in civil cases, but the criminal
courtrooms have become something of
hang-out for idlers and conditions about
these rooms are simply awful.
MANY negroes who have nothing else to
dc. assemble in the criminal courts to hear
cases tried. To begin with they crowd
into court in such fiocks and jam the
corridors so completely that with the poor
ventilation which we have conditions are
almost unbearable.
"A few days ago, on account of disorder
among negroes in the court, Judge Fort
ordered the room cleared of all persons
save witnesses and jurors. There were
possibly 200 negroes who scrambled out
into the lobby and there they stuck. The
lobby became impossible and the old cam
paign for a new courthouse was recalled.
TT appears that there is little hope OF
finding a remedy at an early date, but
with the increasing volume of business
in the courts unless something Is done
the clerks may be forced to get out on
the roof to do their work.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
AN OLD SONG.

BY William Butler Yeats
Down by the salley gardens my love and
did meet,
She passed the salley gardens with her
little snow-White feet;
She babe me take life easy as the leaves
grow on the tree;
But 1, being young and foolish with her
could not agree.
In field by the river my love and I did
stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her
snow-white hand.
She bade me take life easy as the Grass
grows on the weirs-
But | was young and foolish, who now am
full Of tears.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

the whole matter and the publishing to
the world of the facts in the case. Some
ugly rumors have been going the rounds
since the occurrences of Saturday night,
and 1t is due to people of this city and is
but simple justice to men in official sta
ton in Admission that the whole truth be
laid bare to the world. The Star gives
credence to no rumors, publishes none,
but this newspaper stands with the law
abiding and decent citizens of this city
in demanding that this matter be probed
to the bottom and the public be informed
of the facts and incidents leading up to
this unwarranted and unjustifable out
rage and the reason for the arrest of DR..
John w. Stage and the treatment to
which he was afterward subjected. The
people of Admission will be satisfied with
nothing less than this adjustment of this
matter
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

Indiana mothers are going to solve the
servant question. Surely not in book?
Gabrilowitch is reported to be resting
well after his operation. Referring to an
operation he had performed for Appendix
citis, not to his recent marriage.
An Atlanta preacher says the only trout
BILE with Rockefeller's tainted" coin ID
that Tain't" enough. Glib enough. Mr..
Rockefeller will please see how much he
can spare the Atlanta divine.
A newspaper man who died the other
day in Utah said he was tired of paying
rent and wanted his body cremated. Poor
soul! He won't have to pay any rent
for the mansion reserved for him in
heaven.
A POLITICAL POINTER.
You often hear reformers cry,
We'll bust the old machinen'
A kind far easier to smash
Is run by gasoline.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
WHY SHE wEPT.
s'more about the Appletons:

S'more about the Appletons:
As stated in the Globe, Lysander John
Appleton is sick in bed, and the neigh
bors were greatly surprised yesterday
to see a furniture van unload lot of
new furniture at the house. "Only a
new parlor carpet. two new chairs, q
library table and reading lamp" ex-
planned Mrs. Appleton to a neighbor.
as she went in with hot soup. IT
thought 1t would be such a pleasant sur
prise for my husband to see all the new
things when he is able to come down.
stairs. OF course. If he should die, as
| fear the worst. 1t would be some con-
ISOLATION in the dark hour of our bereaye-
ment to know that the house looks nice
for the funeral Here Mrs. Lysander
John cried SO hard into the soup that
1t had to be thrown away, being saltier
than Lysander John likes.-Atchison
Globe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

DR.. Cook is willing that anyone who
doubts his word should go to the top
of Mount Mckinley where he left
brass tube and a varied assortment
of records. Thus far no one seems
to be anxious to seek those records.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
BASEBALL FATALITIES.

From Success.
A baseball enthusiast took his wife to
the ball game. That night the fan" was
awakened from his slumber by his better
half shouting in her dreams: xiii the
umpire! Kill the umpire" Half asleep
he sprang out of bed, and in doing SO he
knocked over the washstand. The crash
awoke Mrs. Fan" did you kill the
umpire, John?" she inquired
NO. replied John angrily. But I
smashed the pitcher"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

Finance is doing 1t with other peo-
pies money.
The men who talk business the most
seem to do it the least.
When the average man pays back a
loan he acts as If pickpocket had
gone through his clothes.
There Is no use going into political
campaign with any reputation, because
you won't have any when you come
out
The grsndest time man has Is de-
scribing to his wife exactly how an
election Is coming out. and the busiest
Axplaininx why 1t didn't
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
IN DEEP MATER.

IN DEHT W = I LIN.
You never will get anywhere,
Unless you make leap;
So grit your teeth and try your strength
Out where the waters deep.
In shallow pools along the shore
Is where the failures keep;
The dangers greater SOS the gain
Out where the waters deep.
The smaller fry in timid shoals
Meath messy hedges creep;
The fish worth while are always found
Out where the waters deep.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
ELEVATOR is NOT NEW

pits to the surface of the ampitheatre.
II this view be correct there must have
been a different method in operation from
that which nowadays prevails. The slave
who worked the device cannot have stood
in the same compartment with his living
freight, for we cannot imagine lion
such as Jugurtha wished to import from
the woods of Numida waiting until he
reached the upper air to prove his rend-
ing powers, when he had good human
flesh with easy striking distance beside
him. Perhaps, however, the king of
beasts was elevated cage and all, to
the arena.
So far as is yet known the elevator
was not used in the imperial palace or in
the luxurious homes of the old Roman
nobility. Two explanations of this are
forthcoming. First, the houses were not
very high by comparison with modern
ones. and, second, free-born Roman
would not be likely to intrust his person
to a contraption devoted to the service
of barbarian gladiators or the beasts of
the forest, especially as he had slaves in
plenty to carry him up and down in a
comfortable litter
1t is pity. in way, that the eleva-
tor did not come into more general use.
Literature has suffered from the fact.
With what vtriolic satire would Juvenal
have denounced the corrupting luxury of
an age which encouraged such devices!
Or with what airy grace, with what deli
cate f1attery, with what sly humor withal
would Horace have described in an ode
the perilous adventure of Caesar Angus
tus in being conveyed from the solid
earth to an upper chamber in an eleva-
tori
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

"Diggs hasn't had his automobile long,
Only few weeks, believe
Il thought SO. When he rides around
IN it, instead of looking bored to death,
he actually looks pleasedlp
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
THE LIT o. LIFE.

With ripple of laughter. the CLEAN of a
smile,
Heigh-ho. and the stave of a song,
And the hope In your heart that makes
living worth while,
Is the best way to travel along!
Who walks with despair in the valley
of gloom,
Disconsolate day after day,
Shall never be cheered by a bird or =
bloom,
Or the sight of wee children at play.
His heart beats afar from the warmth of
the sun
Pale winter holds carnival there;
And he never will learn, as the poorest
have done,
That life is so sweet and so fair
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

Edison says airships will carry the
mails within ten years and then the
boxes of the rural free delivery will
have to have tunnels or, at any rate,
open tops
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
THE PRosAIc SIDE.

Full many Maud who in the chorus trips
And faseinates the king upon his throne.
In real life gets tagged from toting grips
And has two little kidlets of her own.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

China took 5000 years in acquiring
representative government, but she
is electing provincial assemblies and
the original plan of Psi An is to be
carried out by the regent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

And it is only five weeks to cleo
ton day and ten weeks to Christmas.
Vote right against the amendment II
you want to be happy on the latter
holiday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

The privileges Of the aristocracy in
England are again assailed-this time
in an effort to make divorce as con-
venient for the poor as for the rich.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
YOUTHFUL AMBITION.

Johnny, what are you going to do when
you grow up?"
I'm goin' ter run away an be a pi-
rate"
Like Captain Kidd?"
''shucks, nawl I'm goin' ter playswit'
Pittsburg.''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

AS a last resort King Edward may
permit Premier Asquith to name
enough liberal peers to pass the bud
get in the house of lords.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

The Eskimo boys will wish they had
never left their igloos if they come
here and become involved in the Cook
Peary rumpus.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

There will be roar in the jungle
when "T. r." gets by mail copy
of Judge Anderson's decision in the
Panama libel case.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

Mount Mckinley still stands up in
the Alaskan sky, but whether Cook
put anything on top of it remains a
mooted question.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
A WoNDERFUL ENL1vENER

A WONDERFUL ENLIvENER.
"Dibbs, the undertaken. has a cheerful
disposition"
Indeed he has. When Dibbs takes
charge of funeral he soon has all the
mourners feeling as if they were going
out to see a baseball game where the
home team WINS
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

The fliers of today need weather
made to order but the fiiers of the
future will face the weather cie-i.'s
worst assortment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

Private Citizen Crane is now in
position to unbosom himself on any
and all subjects including the Secre-
tary of State.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

The new Turks want worlds fair
and are taking steps to get one. They
are full of industrial and commercial
ambition.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
ADRIFT WITH THE TINES
A NOVICE.

really liked 'possum meat. Mr.. Taft is
diplomat"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

There is an open door in Manchuria
but in order to go through it and do
business one needs the Japanese pass
word
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

Mrs Pankhurst is about due and all
the country awaits the plans of her
American campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

Mr. Crane is now enjoying the free
dom of verbal expression on all con-
ceivable topics.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
SCRATCHES.

SCRATCHES
There is always something going on
said Mr. Humper.
And it's usually something disagree
able" said Mr.. Crouch. Just now it's
winter underwear"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21

How many elephants does Mr..
Roosevelt propose to kill anyway?