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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

advocate the amendment before the leg islature of his state, and that legisla- ture eannat deeently ignore a measure passed by a republican Congress and urged by republican President. It is, however, a maehne-controlled legisla- ture. but it Is very much alarmed over the situation and the state of public senti- ment in the state. and 1t may ratify the amendment even though the magnates de- mand it's rejection.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04
From the Boston Evening Transcript. <<IS an income of $2439 enough tc
 marry on?" The query is not ours

From the Boston Evening Transcript
 <<YS an income of $2439 enough to
 marry on?' The query is not ours.
 \ It is propounded by Good House. keeping. which. for it's March number, has interviewed 800 bachelors, purposing to learn the cause of their deplorable con- dition The answers and explanations raise two main issues. Many young men seem to doubt whether they have the price," which is fairly expressed by the sum named, this being the average of the amount that different correspondents mention as requisite. A few young mey affect to believe that the girls of the present day are not adequately trained for the duties and responsibilities of wifehood, though of course we are expected to ad- init that the young msn who declare themselves so frankly are qualified to make model husbands.
 Other considera tions, suggested by cer- tain of the bachelors, seem fairly entitled to be weighed. One is that the purchas- ing power of an income is determined by the locality in which it is used-that a few hundred dollars in country town might be equivalent to several thousand in New York Another obvious fact is that the quality of the wife counts for as much as the size of the salary. and that the ''so- ciety butterfies'' whom some bachelors reprobate frequently show more than a mans capacity for adapting themselves to hard facts and unforeseen misfortunes. There is great wisdom in the philosophy distilled by two of the unmarried youths a city newspaper man who utters the opinion that -s1oo a month should support a home, and adds: T would hate to force a girl from a life of luxury into this kind of home, but if she would come I would not try to stop herr" and Philadelphia, who. though he does not believe his fem mine acquaintances have been properly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04
EXCUSES BACHELORS MAKE

trained,'' perceives the truth that most girls make good when the love is real"
 College women,, a Baltimorean tells the editor, are better prepared for the sacrifices of married life" than are some others, the explanation being that they have a standard of values based on some- thing else than fashion and society. OneS hesitates to disapprove the view, yet one becomes impatient at the intimation that all the sacrifices are for the wife to make a note that is continually sounded in these interviews. Apparently many of the bachelors hold that the only social gifts and graces a woman has a right to cher ish are those that enhance her husbands comfort. Such circumstance prompts the reader to question whether it is wholly consideration for woman that leads the 800 young bachelors with limited incomes to avoid matrmony. It may rather be that they have failed to find women who measured up to their ideal of heroic unselfishness.
 In a simpler age of the world Henry Ward Beecher once affirmed that a man could live, love, laugh and be happy on n a day. Thunderous protests andi shrieks of indignation arose. Labor leads CTS affected to believe that MT. Beecher and others were conspiring to have the average man make the experiment. Yet, if that fate were forced upon him, he would undoubtedly find> woman who was bravely willing to share the dollar, pro- vided she felt satisfied that she was get- ting a dollars worth of man. Much im- portance attaches to that proviso and it may remind us that, in any inquiry like that conducted by our contemporary, the womans point of view should be stated first. Almost any attractive girl could account for one or more bachelors. It does not necessarily follow that, because she decided to leave them as she found them. she showed herself hard-hearted or unwise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04


 in the estimation of the people of Ala bama. Both possess the character and qualifications required in chief execu- tive. The campaign should be fought out on the merits of the candidates and on issues of government which are always fair subjects of discussion and diversion of sentiment. The question of oonstitu- tional or state prohibition should have nc place in the contest. Either of the candl. dates. if elected, may be depended on to carry out the laws as they now sta1A. Each may be depended on to suggsst such changes or modihcations as time and s1- pertence may demand. and each may bo expected to approve or disapprovs legis- lative actiop as his judgment dictator. The election of MT. Mallory, however. will not settle the issue. His election will be taken as desire for again bring ing up the amendment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04
TT IS NOT DEAD

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 Plainly ''the wish is father to the
 thought with many of the opponents of
 O'Neal when they refer to the constitu-
 tional amendment question. The newspa-
 pers and the speakers who are straining
 their powers in the effort to o>convince
 themselves and their followers that the
 amendment is Ia dead issue." may fool
 some people. but they are not deceiving
 those who keep themselves informed re- rarding current events and conditions.
 We freely admit that the issue ought to
 be dead. It should never have been
 alive. for that matter, and but for MT. Mallory in all probability would not have been. but after the burial the people of
 Alabama rave 1t in November 1t should
 have been dead beyond all possibility of fesuscitation. It should be so dead that no human power could ever again bring 1t forward to vex and divide the people of the state
 And 1t would remain in it's quiet tomb were 1t not that those who advocated It's adoption, and who are now lined up in support of MT. Mallory will take his cleo ton as governor to be an endorsement of their action. The most ardent sup porters of the measure are almost to a man in the Mallory ranks. They talk loudly and freely about the amendment being dead issue while by their actions they do all in their power to keep t alive and force 1t into the present cam paixn n one of the articles of their faith and practice.
 There is no valid or tenable reason for
 keeping alive the bitterness and acrl- mony of lest years campaign Tho amendment was unwise, iil-tinned and In. defensible at the time. and the voters oi Alabama showed by their action that | they had no patience with the movement and that should have settled It for good
 and ail, and would have settled 1t If its l friends were not continually showing
 that they wish to make t a live issue. l There ought not to De any vital or dis turblns issues in this campaign. Both ! tho capdidatts for governor stanU higl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04
SONNET

By William Wordsworth. O Friend! know not which way must
 look
 For comfort, being, as am opprest, To think that now our life Is only drsst For show; mean handywork pf crafts-
 man, cook, Or grOom!--We must run glitkoFinR liko
 brook .s- "A In the open sunshine, or we are unhlest: The wealthiest man among us b the beDt: No grandeur now In nature or .in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice. exDense, This Is idolatry; and these we t4ore; Plain living and high .thinkih6 arc no
 more: A The homely beauty of the good olA cau9v Is gone; our peace. our fearful innocence And pure reljgion breathing housshnId lawa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04
REFLEcTIoNs or A BACHELOR

From the New York Press. The acts of the coldest people can make the rest of us the hottest. when a man says he respects the law what he means is he's afraid of it. People don't get nearly 50 top-heavy from having brains as from thinking they have them. woman can even stop curling her hair to hear how near | neiGhbor's fam |uy is to being broken up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

Senator Gordon has certainly added to the English tongue the adjective and also noun, "blabmouth. They are the fel- lows. says the ex-Senator. who always want to make a fuss, but who are not even worth cIssing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

The expense account of the beefy gem tlemen in defending themselves against the New Jersey indictments will simply be footed up and collected from the ulti- mate consumers who did not join the boycott
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04
Dimcnltie. of on Mnn

III MdIcukO nds kept ne d-tflnhih6
 Difficulties of OH Mnn s. $. crittenden, a prominent busi- ness man of Montgomery. is in Bir- mingham comforting with the Birming ham officers and directors of the Spring Creek Oil company, among whom arc R. H. Baugh, J. K. Warren and Ed ward Warren. Jr.
 The lay mind does not grasp the enormous demand and the great ex- pense of furnishing oils in this sday,' said MT. Crittenden. "The growth oi the automobile business and the im- proyement of the gasoline engine has made the dem and for gasoline almost impossible to meet. The opening of a new oil field is always a matter of deep concern to the public.
 ''The company in which I am inter- ested has recently acquired more than i2oo acres in Overton and Putnam counties, Tennessee. which are old and tried oil fields but until recently have not been close enough to the railroads to be valuable. This project is being handled and financed entirely by Mont gomery and Birmin gham people and it is expected to begin actual work the latter part of this month."
 Wells Forecast
 Few things in politics interest me more than election forecasts when made by competent and successful political statlsti- cians,' said T man from Biount coun- ty. "I read, of course, MT. Wells first formal predictions on the gubernatorial with MT. Well, but he has usually hit 1t right; always, so far as can recall, when forecasting Alabama elections.
 'He predicts that o'Neal will carry 50 counties and the very fact that he knows what he is talking about makes me will ing to bet that oNeal and the liberal and sane policies he represents will win by landslide majority on May 2''
 Lecture By Professor Monaehsn
 Prof. James Charles Monaghan of washington, D. C., will be in Birmingham on Monday evening, next. and will de- liver a lecture under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus.
 "The lecture will be not only for mem bers of the order said M. E. Linnehan, |, but will be for their friends and ac- .quaintances, and the public generally. Professor Monaghan is magnificent ora ter of as high a class probably as any speaker in the United States. and all who attend his lecture will have most enjoyable and intellectual evening. He is the national lecturer of the Knights of Columbus, and brings to the service of that order, and of the people, a life de- voted to art and literature.
 "The Knights of Columbus as is well known. is a fraternaI insurance order, organised along the lines of high-class fraternal insurance, and is composed of practical members of the Catholic church. They have had a phenomenal growth in the United States, and now number more than 3coo00. They are organized along broad lines, and have been sue cessfu in the building up of true Amer lean citizenship in every community where tbev have been rIa nte6'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04
KEEPING HIM IN THE AIR.
BASEBAI
cnMMI1NIcATEp.

Birmingham, Ala, March 1, 1910. Dear MT. Cook:
 Some few weeks ago you wrote a lit- tie poem upon The Organ-Grinder's Tune which was very sweet and ap- pealed to me greatly.
 'Jn fact, the verses so attracted me that I could not resist the temptation to remold them after my own fashionlng in the Spice Box copy of which There with inclose. My composition fails in the merit which your effort portrayed and my object in writing is to acknowledge the inspiration.
  q am yours to command,
 'CHASKELL.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

Colonel Roosevelt will be flooded with invitations to take the stump to save the standpatters from defeat, but he may spend day or two in asserting them, separating the sheep from the goats.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

Former Mayor George B. Ward candi- date for sheriff, is also opposed to the fee system. and long has been He thinks the fee brigade has fattened long enough by making small and weak offenders serve long terms on account of costs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

Governor Mann of Virginia, said to be the original prohibitionist in the south. takes notice of the anti-statewide senti- ment in his state and firmly refuses to ask the legislature to adopt the Anti-Sa-
 lon leagues bill. When he started out in advocacy of prohibition about 30 years ago the term meant prohibition under local option law. Governor Mann ad- heres doubtless to his early views of tenn perance. Under local option Virginia Is almost a dry state. only d few towns and cities being wet. And that being so favoring statutory prohibition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04
so SWEET TO ME.

SD SWEET TU ME. The organ-grinder's plaintive tune Is very sweet to me. 1t takes me back to olden times And sunny Italy. Santa Lucai's song and dance, And sunshine-f1ooded quay; A little heart that loved me once In dear old Napoli.
 ssa The laughing ripples of the bay And purple-robed Capri; The organ-grinders plaintive tune Brings all these back to me. An. sweeter than a Hitting harp Or mothers gentle croon Are these soft dreams whene'er I hear The organ grinders tune.
 -Chaskell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

The suffragettes of Colorado have been asked to explain the whyness of Senator Guggenheim.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04
NOT AFRAID OF SLIPPING

From Lippincott's.
 Michael Dugan, a journeyman plumber. was sent by his employer to the Hightov- CT mansion to repair gas leak in tho rawing room. When the butler admitted him. he said to Dugan:
 You are requested to be careful of the floors. They have just been polished."
 'They's no danger v me slippin' on thim." replied Dugan. T hoy spikes in me shoes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

Even ox-tail soup is now beyond the means of ultimate consumers. This was their last hope.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

Chairman Fingy Connors told the New York democracy he could not neglect his business any longer. and then he hur- ried away to Palm Beach to do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

The Chinese said the dalai lama was "an ungratefLl. irrellgious. obstreperous profligate." and they proceeded to bounce him out of Lhasa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

The Tibetans have been told to call a primary to elect new dalai lama in the place of the one driven over the noun tains into India.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

General Grants foreign tour was nota- ble in the history of ovatons but Colonel Roosevelt will probably make a new high poration os London having a gold caslsot made in which to present the ex-President the freedom of the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

It has been two or three years since we had luscious peaches in this part of the country. The orchard outlook is all right now and let us pray that we may have bumper crop of the Elberta va riety
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

When the 4th of March brings ideal spring weather like this, the bill now before Congress for changing tie date of presidential inauguarations is apt to be forgot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

Castro, abdul. Dock Cook and the dalai lama should get together and organize a getaway club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

The beef trust is on the fire, and it will he well cooked if the supply of popular fuel holds out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

William Howard has not had perfectly corking time in his first years tenancy of the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

Cincinnati wants new union station pefore railroads are superseded by flying lfnachines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

constitutio nal amendment that will change the February appearance of the groundhog has been proposed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

The anti-beef- eating crusade Is still pro- gressing. and it's sum total Is felt in de- creased consumption.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

paper this morning about the wickedness of washing 'Confound those printers!'' cried the editor, leaping from his chair. "I wrote that headline The Wickedness of Wash ington. "
 KEEPING HIM IN THE AIR. He is ambitious to rise" His wife seems anxious to help How is that?" She's always blowing him up.''
 BASEBALL. Excuse me- please,
 I thought I heard Somebody shout,
 ''He's out on third!"
 Birmingham Age-Herald [ You are excused, sir,
 By fan whose thirst Yearns for hit or An "Out on first"
 A. P, Ensley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

The meat boycotters are thinning their blood on the present Lentep season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

Senator Leroy Percy of Mississippi is an exceptional man and so is the sena- tor he succeeds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

The ticket speculators do not block the street In front of MT. Frohman's ocean theatre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04
IN HOTEL HOBBIES.
Texas and olxInhoma

Henry P. Chenoweth of Birmingham, who travels in the southwest as the rep | resentative of large hardware concern, has returned from trip of several weeks
 T found business exceptionally good in most of my territory said MT. Cheno- weth. q am just from Texas, and that state is prospering as never before. The boll-weevil scare has had at least one excellent effect. It has caused the far mers in Texas to diversity their crops, and now they find that everything grows there and that allethe crops which thrive
 in other parts of the country can be raised in their state profitably. Texas Is indeed great state.
 Oklahoma is another state where every body>seems to be prosperous. The pop ulation of Oklahoma Is increasing rap idly and Oklahoma City is simply won der. Notwithstanding Oklahoma City's youth. 1t Is handsomely built up and pre- sents a fine metropolitan appearance There are several prominent business streets, and all of them are crowded. Oklahoma City was not large enough to get into the last census table of cities of not less than 5000 people; but it will make a big showing in the forthcoming census It's population is supposed to be between 75.o00 and 100000. and newcomers are pill ing in every day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

Congress has rejected the policy which would have the government buy of flcial residences in foreign capitals for the ambassadors. After all, raise" in salary would make the average diplo- matc representative feel more comfort- able than a stately mansion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04
WHY HE STAYED.

''I was talking with a man yesterday who has lived for ? years in boarding house.
 ''Terrible! terriblel Did he never make an effort to escape?"
 ''No; his wife runs it.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

In Philadelphia. street car passengers now receive transfers instead of brick bats.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04
THE BATTLE.

THE BATTLE. Courage lifts tattered banner, Hope ignores the frowns of fate: When the trumpet sounds for duty, Who is there would hesitate? Up and onwardl ever onward, Undismayed. in battle linel Some to sleep in pits of darkness Where no fires of glory shine; Some to die in thick of onset,- Crushed to earth. they'll rise no more; Some to win fames dizzy ramparts. Ere the din of battles o'er. Yet. for every brow anointed-- Crowned where victory's standards wave, Thousands. all as true, as valiant, Shall be housed in failures grave!
 MORE THAN A FOOT T hate to hear people refer to a foot as 'Trilby A foot's foot" Not always. Jack Johnson's foot is IA inches long,
 OBSESSED. Mary Garden says she's a slave" Sure; and I know what she's a slave to-.
 "What?r
 .The idea that Mary must keep her name in the papers, even if she has to marry to do itl'
 DROP TWO SYLLABLES. Eva Tanguay is accused of 'cussing a stage hand and sticking him with a hat pin"
 Poor dear. She's just boiling over with temperament.
 IN THE LIMELIGHT. Great men who seem { Just now to star
 Plugs "Jeff' and Jack
 And Teddy R.
 Birmingham Age Herald. But soon we will
 Take off our hat To him who yields
 A home-run bat.
 St. Louis Times.
 REPARTEE. .HuhI I'm the big smoke in this town"
 That ain't nothin'. I'm the original smoke-consumer.
 WELL WORTH WHILE. The sertlc art of cooking things Fills all the world with gadness: And nothing, when 'tis poorly done, Can bring about more sadness.
 OUCH! 'The long hatpin is no joke" says the Chicago Record Herald. That's right. Particularly when you see the point.
 VERY ANNOYING. There's a delegation of reformers out side yelling for your scalp" said the office boy Whats the trouble?" asked the editor. ..TheY say you had an editorial in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

VExATIOUS.
 ''He seems very fond or his little joke.'' ''Ah. yes. But if his little joke turns out to be a boomerang, it makes him very tired" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04
SEND THE PROOFS TO DENMARk From the Washington Post.

SEND THE PROOFS TO DENMARK
 From the washington Post.
 What is the heresy in asking that MT.
 Peary submit his records of alleged polar
 discoveries to the University of Copen-
 hagen? Why should he not send his
 proofs to the same authorities that passed
 on the claims of pr. Cook. another Amer
 ican?
 If the north pole has been discovered,
 it is a matter that concerns the whole
 world, and not the United States alone.
 The declaration by three Americans. two of them partisans, that they have pri-
 vatsly examined Pearys records and found that he discovered the pole has not been accepted by the world as conclusive And there is no reason why such dec laration should be accepted. It is not au- thoritative.
 The Danes accepted without hesitation the declaration of an American that he had found the pole. Examination of his "records' by the Copenhagen authoritiel revealed the fact that they had been in1- posed upon, and painful impression wal left on the minds of the Danes and other Europeans as 10 the reiiapahty or Amer ] ican explorers. If Mr. Peary would send his proofs to Copenhagen. two benefcia rosults would hs accomplished: First, al
 doubt as to his discovery of the polt would be removed by the finding of an i'm | partial tribunal -Ibsumlns, of course, tha' tho proofs are adequats; and, second, thu Danes would be complinented by thiI | act <F confldanca. thereby rent0rinw roof will and placing the reputation of Amer Aican explorers on the high plane 1t for merly occupied. Thus Mr. Psary woull l aid American science, as well as remov | ing forever dll doubt, at home and abroad | d to his own achievement.
 | The Judgment of the Danish authoritieI 1 in Coolx's case vas instantly accepted al over the world. It would be accepted will squal promy<nses in Peasy's case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

Not even American heiresses can save the lords now from being reformed.