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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23
PASSING OF A GRETNA GREEN

From the Columbus Dispatch.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.-Youngstown Gret-
ma Green has passed into history. This
city, scene of nearly $4,000 runaway mar
riages. chiefly of Pennsylvania young
people, in the last Is years. no longer Is
to be the terminal Of the personally
conducted" marriage parties. Youngstown
cabmen advertised in the Pittsburg news
PAPERS. Seven would-be brides and seven
young men who aspired to make the
young women brides recently were re-
fused marriage licenses. The law, the
court informed the probate office, pro-
vides that the brides residence within
the county in which the license Is is
sued is the first requirement for legal
marriage license.
So the IA young people who sought the
probate judge yesterday turned about, I'M
wed returning to their Pennsylvania
homes. Youngstown "cabbies," pastors
and justices of the peace heaved united
sigh of resignation and babe the old
order goodby. For to the "cabbies,
the ministers and the justices of the
peace the making of Youngstown Gret-
ma Green second to none in the United
states has been a source of revenue far
surprising other lines of activity. Mar
rying, though a side line to pastors and
justices, proved for 10 years the source
of fees imposing in their total. To the
YOUNGSTOWN eabmen the conducting of
runaway young people from the railway
stations to the probate court and thence
x~rf nd f1a 3ttc
tees has been side line.
The IS bill for which they tutored the
young people on the means of evading
embarrassing questions of the probate
Judge, the 81 more the would-be hus-
band paid in cab fare before the parson
or squire was reached and the quietly
slipped share of the fee paid the JUS
tice was sufficient to make any "cabby'
neglect what might be called Legitimate
cabbyng' for the personal conducting
of marriage parties. Indeed many cab
bies'' advertised in the Pittsburg news
papers, offering to meet the runaway
young people and to pilot them safely
beyond the tying of the matrimonial
knot.
With the inauguration Of this adver-
Using campaign rivalry became so fierce
that police almost daily interfered in hs-
tic battles of "cabbies' for the privilege
of playing Dan Cupid to some pair of
Pennsylvanians.
These battles brought on an investiga-
ton OF the "cabbies' and their prac-
tees, involving accusations against JUS
tees who were suspected of Slipping
the cab drivers part of the fees for driv-
ing the young people to their offices,
rather than to some rivals.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23
What Doubles the Number of COpyicts

The Alabama Conference of Charities
and Corrections is made up of men who
are not politicians-who would not in fact
touch professional politics with a 40-foot
pole. 1t was in this conference on Mon
day that DIR. James q. Seay and DIR w
"A. Burns. both state physician inspec-
tors of convcts, spoke Both denounced
before the conference the states fee sys-
tenn, and Dr. Burns charged the fee svs-
tenn with the responsibility of unnecesari
ly and unjustly doubling the number of
state and county convicts. And he did
not point to Jefferson county when he did
It. He declared that st. Clair and Shelby
counties were the worst" counties in the
sfate-that in them the fee system pro-
duced proportionately the worst results.
The Age-Herald has at all times claimed
that the evil is statewide. No two men
in this state have had equal opportunities
with Drs. Seay and Burns to study the
effects of the fee system. They know
1uSt what its effects are. They know,
too, that it is a statewide evil. Every
county suffers from it.
The conscience of the entire state
should be awakened on this subject. "A
system that crowds 30 per cent additional
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23
Birmineham'S New Baseball GrandStand
is to be electe

The construction by the baseball asso-
cation of a modern grandstand consisting
in good part of structural steel and ce-
ment, patterned after the grandstand
erected last year at Forbes Field, Pitts
burg, and seating with the accompanying
bleachers 500 spectators, is further evil
dence of the confidence that investors
have in the prosperity and growth of
this city.
If the stockholders of the baseball as
sociation had any doubts about the pros
perity of the greater city they would not
put SIS 900 in new grandstand. They
would not invest one-tenth of that sum
if they had any such doubts. They have
none and that is why the best grand
stand in the south is about to be erected
in this city.
This grandstand will promote the game
of baseball, which is certainly the best
outdoor amusement that has been devised
for use in the warm months of the year.
The game is steadily gaining In populari-
ty in all parts of the country, and If the
team of the coming season stays in the
front division the new grandstand will
be none too large to accommodate those
who desire to take recreation In that
form.
At this point it would be well to re-
mind all patrons of the game that their
cooperation is factor in the outcome.
Until the home team drops into the Sec
ond division no home patriot has the
shadow of an excuse for unjust criticism.
Get behind the home team and stay
there while 1t stays in the first division.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23
GERMAN STAGE SLAVES

From the New York World
In parliamentary session at Berlin the
actresses of Germany have resolved that
they are slaves. They ask paternal
government to set them free by means oil
laws directed at the managers.
Griefs peculiar perhaps to German play.
ers are that actresses must furnish theiII
own costumes, sometimes at cost exceed
ing their income and that they are disl
charged If they marry. Being less likely
to attract titles and estates than are tho
music hall maids of Britain, and having
no resources, as have fair American perl
formers, in Pittsburg millionaires of thu
second generation, the second of tbesd
later events in his checkered but never
commonplace or monotonous career.
Young Perrin paid desperate attentions I'd
more than one Baltimore belle, and ther|
Baltimore society was startled to read OF
his sensational elopement from Philadel-|
phia with the beautiful Jane Gordon SarI
toris, who was a sister of the then MrsI
d. Murray Bohlen Mrs. Bohlen afterwar<
procured divorce from her husband
and following the decree freeing Mmei
Emma Games from her artist husband
Julian Story, Mrs. Bohlen became MrpI
Story.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23
Political Effect Of the Battle

Leader Champ Clark said, 1.-The repuo-
lieans are on the toboggan slide, and IL
democrats outside of Congress will get
together as the democrats in the House
have gotten together, our victories this
year and in 1912 will be as sweeping as
those of 1890 and 1892" This is the whole
case, the whole political effect, of the
revolution in the House.
II the insurgents had rid the country of
cannonism they might have aided the re-
puhlicans in the elections of next fall,
but that Is exactly what they have not
done. The caucus of the House repub-
licans will probably not be held until Sat-
urday night, and then it is reasonably
certain that no one but straightout Can
nonites will be put on guard. Cannon
himself is full of bile, and he has no in
tention of resigning or Withdrawing from
the race for speaker in the next Con-
gress. This means that the issues alike
of Cannonism in the House and Aldrich-
ism in the Senate will go to the people
to be decided at the polls. Cannonism
can be ended next November, but Aid
riehism cannot be abolished until 1912.
Cannonism has not been wholly de-
in the House. The new rules
committee promises to be a magnified
copy of the triumvirate minus Cannon.
He will not mind this when the other two
members of the old dynasty, Dalzell and
Iowa Smith. become members of the
new committee. The battle in other words
is but half won, and if the people desire
to see czarism abolished In this country,
they will have to do the rest next No
vember.
Centralized personal conlIoi, DC IL Ndh-
nonism in the House or Aldrichism in the
Senate, means that ''the interests rather
than the people are to be served. 1t
was devised for that purpose, and Joseph
Quincy Cannon and Nelson Wilmarth
Aldrich have carried the scheme to
Fortunately. the parties are in state
of fux. No one is tied to any party in
the old sense of the world All are ready
to vote for the good of the many. 1t
is fortunate that party ties no longer bind
men to follow leaders blindly. Men are
acting for themselves nowadays. and the
opponents of Cannonism have no reason
to distrust popular action next Noyem-
Der when a new House Of Representatives
is TO be elected
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23
THE REWARD OF FORGERY

From the New York World.
There are three or four times as many
Corots in existence as the French painter
produced in his lifetime. He lived to be
nearly so, but at Monmartre his posthu-
nous eanvases are still being turned out
to meet the demands of the market. The
old masters never die. They are still
working overtime in the back rooms of
Florence and Rome At Cologne the
manufacture of genuine medieval metal
work and antique carvings is a thriving
industry.
These foreign forgers may be scamps
but their tireless energy also testifies to
the reverence in which posterity holds
the great names of bygone periods If
they are not so highly priced, what in
ducements would there be for anybody
to waste time, paint and muscle In cre-
ating fraudulent copies and limitations
and passing them off under false pre-
lenses? Our millionaire collectors are
not constantly exposed to the risk of
buying high-priced forgeries where the
originals have no value.
1t is a fashion with the American
brotherhood of the brush to bemoan the
fact that American artists get little recog-
milton at home. There may have been fair
grounds for their grievance. But If spu-
rious works of Homer Martin and George
Inness are coming into the market, why
does 1t not mean that American art is
looking up? Has It not acquired new
dignity?
Why may not the struggling young
painter uptown whom Academy juries
have turned away year after year look
forward hopefully to the day when some
cunning forger will select him for vic
time and place upon his early and un-
finished sketches the stamp of assured
commercial appreciation?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23
JOYS OF wOMANHOOD
the Chicago Journal.

From the Chicago Journa1.
you women" exclaimed the Disguised
brother, simply have a glorious time
doing nothing! My word, I envy you
your indleness.'
"1dleness!" shrieked his pretty sister.
Yes, idleness. Oh, why-why-why
wasn't born woman?'
"Oh, yes; you'd like to be woman"
retorted the pretty sister. Just try It for
a day. Fasten a blanket and a counter
pane round your legs, buckle a strap
around your waist so tight you can't
draw a full breath or eat a hearty meal,
have your hair all loose and fluffy SO
that it keeps tickling your ears and get
ting into your eyes, wear high-heeled
shoes and gloves size too small for
you, cover your face with a veil full
Of spots that make you squint, fix a
huge hat on with pins, so that every
time the wind blows it pulls your hair
out by the roots. and then, without any
pockets and with short sleeves and OPEN
work stockings go for a walk on whit
er's day and enjoy yourself. Oh, yes,
my word. you would like it!'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23
More is thy due than more than all can
pay. -macDeth'
ROOSeVell'S Ranch In Mexico
pay.

A Galveston special announces that
the La Maroma ranch in Mexico of
more than 10000 acres has been sold
by Col. Anthony Marshall. retired
British army officer, to Cevil Lyon of
Texas and associates. Colonel Roose-
Welt is one of the associates, as well
as William Kennedy of Colorado and
Albert Dodd of Georgia, friend of the
ex-President.
All kinds of wild game, from bears
and deer to squirrels, have been pro-
tected on the Maroma plantation for
nearly 60 years. 1t lies in a mountain
Gus country, except for level stretch
of 5000 acres. There are several streams
Astounding with fish. 1t is located in
the state of Coahuila, about rs miles
west of the Rio Grande.
This shows that the faunsl naturalist
has no intention of being content with
his Jungle experience. He proposes to
enjoy life to the utmost even after he
has settled down to literary work at
s1.5e a word at Oyster Bay.
The world does not hold another
Roosevelt. The Kaiser would perhaps
like to fill the role. but he has his
limitations and he must be content to
play second fiddle to our Theodore on
popularity and renown.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23
WIEN A GENTLEMAN GETS pRUNK

From the New York Word.
Surrogate Noble of Queens county is
credited with the judicial determination
that three times year is not too much
for gentleman to get drunk"
There are gentlemen who avoid the
question of being drunk too often by
falling only once annually from the wa
ter wagon, the continuance of the lapse
ranging from $50 days upward. This
should bring them well within the rule.
There are others who find it difficult and
expensive to get drunk at all. Such was
the man who, when asked Surely you
never drank five bottles of port without
assistancee' replied, mo. had the help
of bottle of claret."
An old phrase describes a man of a
certain capacity as carrying his liquor
like gentleman" In the south, where
we have lately been advised by Mr.
Hopklnson Smith that there is almost a
monopoly of gentlemanliness, 1t is diff
cult to carry liquor at all except in the
original package owing to the devastating
drouth of the dry laws. In such re-
gions the boast 1T was drunk In 1908"
may lpf generation u coifle soucli IoI
gentility. Thrice year would be coun-
sci of perfection.
Careful examination of Surrogate No
ble's phrase discloses that 1t was uttered
in defense of the thrice-inebriated per-
sons capacity to make legal will. AL
most any one. drunk or sober, can die
and leave his money to some one else
n Snppd SOhpr q a
rule. but drunken ones leave 1t more
quickly. From an heirs point of view
there is something to be said for both.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23

Had the amendment won last fall Ala
bama would, in my opinion, have received
O serious blow, from which 1t would have
taken years to recover. And those who
opposed the amendment should vote for
o'Neal and I feel that the rank and file
will vote.
This editorial in the Montgomery Ad-
vertiser of Monday contains much in lit
tie space:
Senator Spragins brief speech in in
Producing Hon. Emmett O'Neal at Hunts
Vile was what was to be expected from
man of his well known courage and de-
votion TO the best principles of govern
ment The amendment may be dead, so
Senator Spragins said, but the spirit
which sought to tyranncally force 1t upon
the people is still alive. And any man
who knows anything about Alabama af-
fairs knows that this is true. The spirit
is alive and unless it is banished for four
years by the result of the democratic pri-
mary ON May 2. it will appear in various
forms and shape to confound, harrass
and divide the people of the state
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23
Alabama Good Roads Association

1--WE expect to make the annual
meeting of the Alabama Good Roads
association which meets in Birming-
ham next October the greatest OF It's
kind ever held in the south" said Johh
Craft president of the Alabama Good
Roads association.
I'VE passed strong resolutions invit-.
ing good roads machinery and good
roads material men to come to Biz
mingham and make exhibits and show
us the most improved machinery and
material so as to educate the people
en- the best and cheapest way to build
good roads. This will be the first
good roads exhibit ever held in the
south and this of itself will draw large
and enthusiast site crowds. We also eX-
pect to invite leading good roads ex-
nerts and advocates from all parts of
the United States to come, talk and
demonstrate road building. We hope
to have the next meeting a real prac-
ticaI school for the roadmakers."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23
GOODBYE. BENSON.

loI11NOONs
"Renson was good friend of mine
and I hated to lose him. He arways wore
a cheerful smile and seemed in the best
OF spirits. 1t will be hard to find an
other fellow SO genial. so full of the joy
of life"
whats the matter? Has Benson left
town for good?''
mo"
Surely he isn't dead ?"
mo. He borrowed IS from me this
morning"
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FOREVER AND A DAY.

By T. B. Aldrich.
little know or care
II the blackbird on the bough
Is filling all the air
With his soft crescendo now:
For she is gone away,
And when she went she took
The springtime in her look,
The peachblow on her chsek,
The laughter from the brook
The blue from out the May
And what she calls a week
Is forever and day.
It's little that I mind
How the blossoms, pink or Whit
At every touch of wind
Fall a-trembling with delight; m
For in the leafy lane. Va
Beneath the garden boughs,
And through the silent house
One thing alone | seek,
Until she come again
The May is not the May,
And what she calls a week
I Il. forever and q dayi
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES


A PRELUDE.
Life is most beautiful
When you are dutiful.
When yoa are CHEEKY and strong;
Life is worth living IL
Faith you are giving, il
Trouble Is met with a song!
Life is worth knowing when E
Blue skies are showing, when
All the wide world is in tune,
Blissfully whirling while
Blooms are unfurling, while
Loves eyes are turning toward Junei
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Cities of Rapid Gro.vtoh

San Antonio is not only the largest
| city in Texas but it is growing just now
at faster rate, perhaps, than any other
city in the United States said c. d..
Gillian, for several years engaged in the
real estate business in Birmingham, but
now general manager of the Southwest
Texas Land company. Several cities in
the west and south have attracted tour
lists and large capital for development
but San Antonio certainly has the lead
now. The census will find it with pop
ulation of considerably over 100000. 1t has
two hotels each of which cost upwards
of Sl,0O0,000 and quite a number OF less
costly but very good hotels.
Texas is in a highly flourshing con-
dition. Its population is increasing rap
idly every year.
THE ultra prohibitionists are agitating
for statewide legislation, but they will
never get it, The anti-prohibtonists will
win in the state election this fall There
are two prohibition candidates for gov
ernor and only one -prohibitionst.
which will make it easy for the latter to
win. But the fanatical wave that got
start in the south has spent itself. state
wide prohibition has just been defeated
by the Legislature of Virginia and by the
legislature of Maryland and from all
hear statewide prohibition will be de-
feated by the people of Florida next No
vember A year ago the statewide move
ment was apparently strong, but the
crushing defeat of constitutional prohibi-
ton in Alabama last November turned
the tide in favor of conservatism. The
effect of Alabama's action was felt for
good throughout the SOUTH
Mr.. Gillian said that Birmingham was
known everywhere as one of the rapidly
growing cities of the country. This city
has a splendid future" he remarked, land
hardly anything can happen TO retard
IT'S nroeress''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23

William H. Crane, the distinguished
comedian who appears at the Jeffer-
son theatre tonight and tomorrow
night, is a connecting link between the
old days and the present. He belongs
to a school of acting graced by Joe
Jefferson and since the death of Mr..
| Jefferson has occupied the foremost
place in the affections of those who
go to the theatre to be entertained by
refined comedy. Said a man who had
known him for 20 years:
Crane was born at Leicester, Mass,
April 80, 1S45. His family soon moved
to Boston and there, at the old Brim-
mer school, which overlooks the en-
trance to the Hollis Street theatre, the
boy was educated.
''From the first he showed a fond
ness and decided skill in mimicing his
fellow pupils and his teacher and he
did not apply himself to his books
with any great ardor. During one of
his vacation periods he obtained
position as clerk in a music publishing
house and it is recorded that his CO.
workers idled away SO much time
watching his antics that he was finally
dismissed
His education was interrupted VIII en-
he was apprentieed to Mrs. Harriet
Holman, who had formed a little COM
pany Of her own and was touring the
country in a repertoire of plays farces,
pantomimes and operettas. In this
company were three of Mrs. Holman's
own children. also Perugini William
= II al,
who afterward became famous on the
stage.
Mr.. Crane made his first bow to an
audience at Mechanics hall, Utica, N.
y, on July IS, 1863, as the notary
in 1.-The Daughter of the Regiment"
For eight years he continued with the
Holman players and surely it was eight
years of hard work, for the bill would
usually include a short farce, a pam
tomime, one-act operetta and few
specialties.
| Between seasons with the company
Mr.. Crane went to Boston and he was
the first of many comedians to appear
as lie Blanc in 'Evangeline.' After
serving as low comedian in the old
Hooley Stock company in Chicago and
San Francisco Mr.. Crane assumed
role in play called Our Boarding
House." produced at the Park theatre,
New York. In the company Mr.. Crane
met Mr.. Robson, and at the end of
the season the two decided to star
together. This was the beginning of
an important connection. For IL years
they continued to appear together and
staged number of classic plays
among them The Comedy of Errors
and The Merry Wives of Windsor At
that time the best theatres in the
country hesitated to ask more than II
for any seat but Crane and Robson de-
cided they should have more when they
produced The Comedy of Errors and
they advanced the prices to $1.25 One
of their best remembered successes
was The Henrietta The two actors
remained together until 1889, when they
dissolved the partnership. Since that
time Mr.. Crane has devoted himself for
the most part to producing American
plays by American auth ors."
| His Yrfraf Visit
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Peary and Rockefeller are expected to
furnish records concerning their exploits,
past and contemplated. Congress wants
Peary to explain and the courts are ask
ing Rockefeller to do likewise
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Women make truces with one another;
seldom real friendships.
The more money man can steal the
less It seems like a crime.
Falling In love, like going in debt,
means a hard score to settle afterward.
The riskiest thing about a mans pro-
posal to girl is how sure she Is to ac-
cept him.
mans idea of wife with good
head for money matters is where she will
save her allowance tn he Burrows il, and
then not expect him to pay II Back again.