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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-08-04
IN ASYLUM
HE COULD WED AGAIN
= - Special.-Willis Coun-
fierc6er and clubman, was SEN
erve three months in the
olOI for suppressing facts In

IICl CtA5E anu cIuDman, was SEN
- Gl erve- three months in the
OnOI for suppressing facts In
cbfAA--.sg b divorce from his insane
wife Lulu Counselman.
The sentence was pronounced BY
Judge Chetlain. in whose court Coun-
Eelman obtained the divorce which en-
NDled him 10 marry Clara French. Tho
divorce WAS set aside on the ground
kh&t q fraud was perpetrated on the
court anu the marriage was declared
void. COunselman swore his wife had
Saeerted him, and he did not know
where she was. He had placed her in
an asylum.
Milton l.. Thackaberry, the attorney
who represented Counselman in the
fraUduIent divorce action, now faces
utsbarncnt proceedings. the inquiry
GaEing been postponed only because OF
his Serloue Illness. The Chicago Bar
.AksociotIon is prosecuting the case
a&asnet him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14
Many Visitors and the Fair

The citys streets are full of fair vis-
 tors and good roads delegates. and Jovians. and seaboard surgeons, and Woodmen of the World, and locomotive engineers. who as delegates are attending southeastern section of the country-all affording a fine exhibit from America s best citizenship. The best of weather has thus far aided our visiting friends in enjoying the city and the fair while conducting the business which brought them at this great meeting point. Let us hope the weather clerk will continue to be kind and considerate to the end of the week
 The home people should turn out in the two closing days of the week, for many of our visitors will today leave the city in order to return to their homes before Sunday morning comes again The fair has many unusual attractions. Three alone make 1t eminent-the Wright airship in the skillful hands of Aviator Parmelee, the delightful Navassar band, and the spectacular Fall of Pompeii." which occurs nightly. No one can afford to miss seeing these attractions and no patriotic citizen can afford to refuse to add by his presence and gate fee to the success of the fair. The annual fair is an established Birmingham institution and every adult of the 1s2. .es5 inhabitants of this city should lend a helping hand. Go out to the fair today. If not today, then tomorrow. Better still, go if pos sble both days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14

velt's skill as a politician appears at once on the surface. He went to Sara toga to gain control of the New York state committee, and through it possible control of delegates to the republican national convention of 1912. Not that he is now an avowed candidate for President in 1912, but he fought the great battle of Saratoga in order to keep the conven- ton from committing the republicans of New York to Mr Taft in 1912 and to keep open all possibilities that "the pub lie interest should demand when that time comes" This and this only is what he went to Saratoga to accomplish, and he got all he went there to get. In inner circles it is believed Mr. Taft had made a bargain with the old machine for the New York delegates in 1912, and 1t was this bargain that MT Roosevelt destroyed. He was willing to f1atter MT. Taft and to let his wicked partners in dorse the unpopular Aldrich tariff, pro- vided all was left open and free to him In 1912 in case he decided to become a candidate for President.
 The real battle of Saratoga related to 1912 rather than to 1910, and whoever omits the former from the reckoning will get no sane idea of the rumpus kicked up by the colonel on General Burgoynes old battle-ground
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14
PROHIBITION IN ALABAMA

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
 The Houston Post, presenting to it's Texas readers an illustration of the eff ficiency of a statewide prohibition law as a statewide prohibiter of the sale of intoxicating beverages says that in Mo- bile the illicit sale of intoxicants at soda fountains has been such a continued an- noyance to the authorities that tax of $50 a month has been put upon "soft drink establishments with the purpose of driving dives out of business. Charges have been preferred against numerous alleged violators of the law, but con- victions have been few.
 The Post continues:
 But the new ordinance has developed a peculiar situation. It is said that many of the saloon keepers prefer the status quo of a statewide prohibition of the liquor traffic, because under the state wide plan they are relieved of taxes, which they regard as entirely preferable to the $50 a month license plan.
 Tt is pretty well known that state wide has converted many liquor dealers to the prohibition idea because they are free from the heavy taxation that regu- lation imposes, as well as the restric- tions which tend to reduce sales and profits. In communities where public sentiment is against statewide prohibit ton, the dealers have been making enor- nous profits. whereas under license and regulation the average profits of a dealer are quite moderate.
 Thus we have a practical illustration of the futility of statewide. Mobiles experience has not been a whit different from that of the Tennessee and Georgia cities The whisky men are more than satisfied with a system that in reality does not estop them, but which hoes re- lieve them of heavy taxation and re- strictions which tend to curtail busi- ness"
 Alabama which repudiated by an i'm pressive vote the insanity of the aboli- tlon of the state constitution in the in terest of abortive prohibition, will doubt less return to local option as the lesser of evils. In the meantime the raising of the tax upon harmless traffic in non- intoxicating beverages, in an effort to get at dealers in liquors, is an example of injustice done in the name of reform.
  Mobile that are conducted legally and sell nothing but ''soft drinks" It is certainly unjust and unwarrantable to increase taxation where no violation of the law has occurred merely to drive the wrongly conducted soft drink es- establishments out of business. Incident ally, the plan does not bankrupt the places that are harvesting large profits by selling whisky, but does affect those that are conducting an innocent trade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14
Some Cupid kills with arrows some with traps.
 -Nueh Ado About Nothing.
0ne-Cent Postage Now Possible

.Refore the close of another fiscal year the federal postal establishment ! says Postmaster General Hitchcock, will be- .or,e seif-sustaining. This will be accom- nlshed without eurtailing in the slightest ,be service rendered or lessening in any respect its efficiency"
 Two years ago the postal dehet was n7OOo,OOO and in the last fiscal year It was about one-half that amount. The deficit will be still further reduced in the present fiscal year, and in the year beginning July next it will be altogether overcome.
 This has been due to a large extent +o the reoreanizatton of the postoffice de- partment at Washington and to the intro Auction of labor-saving devices. These methods of reorganization will be applied to the entire service. This together with The growth of the country, is bringing postal receipts up to postal disburse- ments.
 Mir. Hitchcock does not hesitate to say that this means 1-cent postage in the future. England won great glory by the Introduction of penny postage, but penny postage will stand utterly eclipsed when America adopts 1-cent postage. MT. Hitchcock says he is almost prepared to assert that 1-cent postage lis now in sight as a practical business proposi- tion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14
Farmer Estimates That What His Fam
 fly Eats Would Cost $50 Day

From the Metropolitan Magazine.
 Not long since l lunched at a New York restaurant It was not the most expensive place-but rather above the average in price. The menu card inter- ested me as new schedule of rates would hold a railroad president As a farmer l produced food similar to that offered for sale, and I knew what I was paid for it. A man likes to see what is tackled on to the thing which leaves his hand. Strawberries and cream were of fered at 9 cents. I figured that quart of our berries would make about four dishes Two eggs served in various ways cost 20 cents. You paid 80 cents for a half chicken. Now, my big family would feel poorly used if we served less than keep good natured on four whole chickens.
 For berries and chickens alone, there fore at these restaurant prices, we spend $10.40 at a single meal. If we charge the prices printed on this card for the salads and vegetables and other things which make our meal, we should have a cost of s15, or more than s30 a day Of course. my family is large one, and all are blessed with good appetites. I can buy food cheaper at other city places, but if I take the prices paid by at least 150 900 people in New York, the daily bread for our family represents $50 or more
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14
Long StanIe Cotton

Charles A. McKinnon, a well-known cotton buyer of Selma, is in the city on business and taking in the fair. Speak, ing of cotton staple he said:
 q make speciality of long staple cot ton, but not sea island I have cotton that I have carried for some time that cost me IS cents. for which I refused an offer of 2l cents per pound. I want 2S cents. and I'll get it. Of course, there is limited amount of this cotton. Down in the black belt some is grown from fancy seed. The shortest stapled cotton is grown in Florida, and down in the extreme southern portion of this state, in Baldwin county for instance.
 Sea island cotton is not put through the ordinary cotton gin, but 'comber' is used. There is one in use now in the black belt for long staple cotton"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14
THRILLING ESCAPE
Tent of sing Sing Convict Rivals Inn
 aginary Adventures of Fiction
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 One would have to look in the very best of the novels of adventure to find an escape from prison more satisfactory from an artistic point of view than the one just added to the annals of Sing Sing. Of course. the romancers. working with free hand, or rather with free Imagination, have added interest to their tales by painting in higher lights than nature is wont to use the character of those whom they create for the heroes of well planned evasions but for once nature did rather well, and in the gigan- tie Green supplied a man whom Charles Reade or Robert Louis Stevenson might have used with little emendaton.
 He is not Baron Trenk a Monte Cristo, or a Casanova, and even as a criminal he has no very lurid glow, but, mere village ruffian as his record shows him, he made fine, upstanding and out standing figure of primordial man as he fought and conquered the two keepers, one after another. sawed the steel bar, crushed his huge frame through the mar row opening and then led the few other convicts who had a trace of his courage and determination off to freedom through the cold darkness of a wild autumnal storm. For Green so obviously did 1t all!
 There was head to be rapped and he rapped 1t; there was a neck to be choked and he choked it. there was a window to be opened and he opened it; most diff cult of all, there were 1sO other convicts, any one of whom might have won re- lease, or at least mitigation of sentence, by opposing the flight and he cowed and sileneed them all. Just how he accom- lished that hardest task Is a psychologi- cal mystery, but somehow the spacious villain utilized the combination of their instinctive sympathy with an attempt at escape and the personal fear which he was able to inspire. And they covered dormitory, without either initiating or betrayng the fugitives, until at last one of their number, negro. ventured to make known to the prison authorities what had happened.
 Bad man and bad citizen as Green doubtless is, one would have to be ex tremely, perhaps excessively, civilized and refined not to feel a thrill of admiration for his exploit-not to be glad, no matter how reluctantly, that such things can happen, even in these prosaic days. That thrill may need apology, but if with inno- cence we get it from books, as we all do, else would not novels abound with just such adventures. one need not be too much ashamed when confessing to a cer- tain joy in Greens achievement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14
Birmingbam i'm Boston Paper

One of the best written stories of Bir- that has appeared recently Is found in The Christian Science Monitor of Boston of Tuesday last. It is from the pen of g. former newspaper man of this city. It Is free of hot air and Is all the bet ter for that for the facts about Birming ham speak for themselves. The story is well illustrated, a three-column cut of the Tennessee eompany's steel plant at Ensley being exceptionally striking This picture is really one of the finest that has appeared anywhere. A citizen who had looked over the issue of The Chris tian Science Monitor referred to, said last night:
 "The Birmingham article was prepared before our census figures had been pub lished but the man who wrote it esti- mated the population at 130,O0O and there fore didn't miss it much. The Christian Science Monitor has a large circulation. not only in Birmingham but throughout the country, and such 'write-ups' will certainly do Birmingham good.
 Birmingham census population, 1S2,- eS5. seems to have made an impression on the whole country. That 245.4 per cent increase over 1900 is phenomenal and no other city has approached it. This large gain and the fact that the United States Steel corporation is expending millions ihere on new construction concerns to in- terest capital in this district as never he fore -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14
Good Roads In Alabama

The addresses of Senators Bankhead and Johnston before the good roads convention show plainly that they will individually and unitedly strive to in- duce the federal government to join Ala bama in building better roads in this state. Senator Bankhead said the cry must first be "On to Montgomery" and Senator Johnston said to the dele gates: "You must lead the way by starting the work in Alabama, and we will not be tardy"
 Governor to-be O'Nears address at the afternoon session of the conven- ton is a promise that Alabama will not be backward. He urged co-opera ton, the general government doing part. and the state a part Fully 90 per cent of the internal commerce of the country is moved over its high ways, its post roads, and the huge task of transforming the dirt roads into modern highways Is one that calls for cooperation. We have Colonel ONears word that he will do his best to induce the state to do it's part When I enter" he said, 'upon the dis charge of the important duties of the office to which I expect 10 be elected 1 in November it will be my ambition to have my administration mark the greatest advance ever yet made in Ala bama in the construction of good roads I and highways. All the influence and power and prestige of my office shall be used to encourage and stimulate the building of good roads, and the inauguration of a system which will give every county in Alabama roads equal to the most progressive and advanced states of the union. Notwith- standing our climate and soil and our unequaled resources, we should not forget that unless we have the patriot
 ism to secure an adequate system of public roads Alabama will never reach the highest development or take her proper rank in the sisterhood of states. If during my administration I can se- cure a wiser and better system of pub lie roads in Alabama. the development, the prosperity and the progress which
 will necessarily follow will entitle me
 to the gratitude and thanks of gener-
 ations yet unborn. It will justify the
 ardent hopes of my friends and secure
 even from my political enemies words
 of commendation."
 These words from Colonel O'Neal are full of promise to the good people of Alabama who have borne with patience the losses and annoyances of dirt roads
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14

The yield of coin, oats and wheat, taken together, is double that of 1890, and that year was one of exceptional productive ness. The present year exceeds all other years in it's grand total of food crops. Such a corn crop was never before grown, and the yield of oats is also ex- ceptionaIly large. The corn crop crosses this year for the first time the three billion-bushel line The crop of 1906 had been the record crop, but the crop Of this year exceeds it by 1SO.OOO,0oo bushels. This years crop exceeds last years by 2s5,OO0,OOo bushels.
 These big yields must be felt in all branches of business very soon. This is unavoidable, and all the adverse Roose- veltian politics cannot overcome the good effects of big crops. The cotton crop will not be very large but what it lacks ip quantity will be made good in prices, and the value of the crop will be very large.
 There is good cheer in the crops as q whole for the entire country, and already general business begins to feel the impulse. A year of good crops is a good business year, and the present crop year will confirm the rule
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14
The sontt.s Prosperitx

"The south is to be congratulated on its material progress during the past 10 years and especially in the progress made in agricultural pursuits" said Frank D. Tetherow of Washington, D. c. Every southern state, l believe, will show a sub stantial gain in population Most of the cities all the way from Virginia to Texas, show large growth, Birmingham leading in the matter of percentage. Richmond, Norfolk and Atlanta, respectively, have made fine records, but Birmingham seems to be occupying the center of the stage.
 q met a Chicago man on the train a day or two ago who said he was just from Birmingham, and remarked that Birmingham reminded him in certain respects of Chicago in the latter part of the Cos He was an elderly gentleman and was a merchant in Chicago as far back as 1868. He said that in the year named a wonderful tide of population had headed for Chicago. and he predicted that Birmingham was now attracting peo- pie just as Chicago did. and still does.
 Not only will Birmingham continue to grow rapidly, but Alabama is going to be one of the greatest agricultural states in the union. The whole south is certainly coming to its own"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
Today's Jolllacation Meeting

The Chamber of Commerce will hold it's first meeting since Birminghams cen sus figures were announced this after noon at 1 o'clock. and as a matter of course large and enthusiastic assem- blaze will be expected.
 "Our splendid showing in the census is attracting wide attention" said Frank Nelson. Jr. Tt Is one of the greatest advertisements Birmingham has ever had and we should get together in Fridays jolifcation meeting at the Chamber of Commerce and give expression to our en- thusasm. These hurrah occasions do real good. They evidence the get-together spirit and arouse civic pride among all classes of our people.
 No city of considerable size can make anything like the phenomenal showing in per centage of increase that Birming- ham makes, and we should stress this fact for all it is .worth. I hope to see the Chamber of Commerce auditorium crowded Friday afternoon"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14
TROUBLES OF AIRMEN

From the Smart Set.
 In it's present state the aeroplane about as useful for practical work a basket of cheese sticks would be building bridges. An ordinary tramp ing on his back and snoring, dist, the equilibrium of the air to such extent that the aeroplane passing at him gives a few tremulous fiutters turns upside down, spilling its cont. and breaking itself in S4 import places. If lady happens to wave fam toward the aero field the aeropl dares not rise until the hurricane subsided. If everything is in the possible state as to air, the daring man rises grandly, circles three ti around the half-mile track, and alif with a. bump that jars his lungs dt into his abdomen and puts the motor the machine shop for three weeks. only luggage 1t Is safe to carry on of these spectacular air voyages 1. brick-a vftrified brick4wrapped in ton batting.
 The steerable gas bag does not s, to me to possess any advantage over flyable awning type of air vessel. world Is too full of mountains and ot warts against which the air bag cs and always does-explode itself w the day comes that the gas bag can built of reinforced concrete enclosed coating of bullet proof steel, tl German and French air gconquerers I last week or so without slapping tn selves to pieces against cruel raspbe bushes.- At. present a wayward mosq can bump against one of these trium of man and utterly ruin 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14
What MT. Roosevelt Won At Saratoga

The convention at Saratoga not only indorsed MT. Taft but it went on to indorse in extravagant and specific terms the Aldrich tariff. When MT. Roosevelt was asked in Atlanta how he reconciled the tariff plank at Saratoga with his western tariff speeches. he said. 'T do not reconcile them. On that part of the platform l must refuse to be judged by what the platform said. but must be judged by what I myself have said" He went on to say that he had wicked partners at Saratoga.
 The colonel finds himself involved in q pretty tangle indeed. He talks about honest citizenship and yet he stands com mitted to tariff made by grafters for grafters.
 When all the truth is told, MT. Roose-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14
SHE WAS THE ROLLER


From Norman E. Mack's National
 Monthly.
 Littleman made up his mind that he was not going to be ruled any longer by his wife. So when he went home at noon he called out imperiously, Mrs Littleman!"
 Mrs. Littleman came out of the kitchen with a dish cloth tied around her head and a rolling pin in her hand.
 Well, sir she said. What will you have?"
 Littleman staggered. but braced up Jane. I want you to understand he tapped his breast dramatically-"l am the engineer of this establishment q
 "Oh, you are, are you? Well, Will liam, I want you to understand that I, and she looked dangerous, q am the boiler that will blow up and throw the engineer over into the next county Dc you hear the steam escaping, William? 2
 William heard it and he meekly in. quired if there was any assistance ht could render in the housework.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14
IF THERE IS ROOM

From the National Monthly.
 A travelling salesman died very sudden
 ly in Kalamazoo, Mich Ills relatives
 telegraphed the florist to make wreath
 ordered that the ribbon should be- extra
 wide. with the inscription, Rest in Peace," on both sides, and if there is room, "We Shall Meet in Heaven" The florist was out of town and his new assistant handled the job It was a startling floral piece which turned up at the funeral The ribbon was extra wide, and bore the inscription, Rest in Peace on Both Sides. and If There is Room We Shall Meet in Heaven"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-14
Madame Homer

Musical circles and cultured society in general look forward with great inter- est to the appearance of Louise Homer, the famous prima donna, who comes to Birmingham this month under the aus pices of the Music Study club. The New York Sun of Wednesday says:
 Mime. Louise Homer, who went to Paris last spring to sing at the Chatelet theatre during the season given there by the Metropolitan Opera company, re- turned yesterday to New York in the Kronprinzessin Cecilie. After singing Tn Paris she went with her children to Dvonne and spent the months of vaca- ton there. With her was Sidney Homer, her husband, the famous Homer twins, which are only 21z years old. but are cas- fly recognizable as a soprano and con tralto when they sing, and two other children, Louise and Sidney, Jr.
 Mine Homer. who Is going to sing ir concert before the opening of the opera season, will start immediately for the west"