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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-13
Reareumelt of the Trust Cases

Securities were marked up in Wall street
because the tobacco and oil cases in the
supreme court are to be reargued, and
this may not take place until next win
ter. Wall street seems to think that the
they are organized contrary to the Sher-
man antitrust law which was passed to
restore competition and put down mo-
nopoly. A breathing spell of perhaps a
year is appreciated in Wall street, and
prices have been marked up accordingly.
The general belief is that the supreme
court desires to have the concurrence of
five judges in these great cases, and this
was impossible when Justice Moody be-
came ill and Justice Brewer fell dead
Unless Justice Moody RECEIVERS his health
or resigns the cases will be heard by
eight judges. and the concurrence of five
VIII tnen become all-llnpoftanl.
The situation is not exactly acceptable
TO the country. There should be a full
bench when the tobacco and oil cases are
reargued, and in all probability this will
not be the case unless Justice Moody is
placed on the retired list by Congress be-
fore it adjourns next summer. The best
information seems to be that he is hope
lessly i'll on account of nervous troubles
The situation will be closely canvassed. no
doubt, in Washington, and action NAV
be taken TO improve it before Congress
adjourns,
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NEWS OF HARTsELLE
Fertilizer business Growing One-stu-
dents Prepare Play

Hartselle, April Especial -some-
thing can be gained of the magnitude Of
the commercial fertilizer business in this
section of country when it is considered
that there will be considerably over 5000
tons handled at this place, representing
in dollars a cost to the farming interests
of this particular section of country of
something over s6O,00o.
The students of the Morgan county high
ties existence, are preparing a play, to-
gether with other exercises, which will
be given ar the close of the term, May
s. The school has had a most prosperous
term, and the outlook for another year
is that the enrolment will be nearly
doubled The public school here, which
is also in a fiourishing condition, acts as
4 feeder to the high school.
Since the establishment of pike roads in
this section of country land values have
almost doubled il value along the route
of these macadam roads. The minority
opposition that was exhibited toward the
Issuing of bonds with which to get the
money to build the roads is fast van
shing. and the people are beginning TO
realize what they mean In the way OF
Advancement to section of country. In
fact, 1t is quite a job to find any land
for sale along the pixies that have al
ready been built When the road is COM
pleted to the Lawrence county line, west
of here, this section of country will have
something like % miles of fine macadam
roads, 10 miles on the east of railroad,
and nearly 10 miles on the west.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-13
READING A NOVEL A DAY

From the New York Mail
The president of provincial library
in England writes to the London Ath-
euaeum that 1t is no uncommon thing
in his library for subscriber to de-
mand a new novel every day. American
librarians could probably tell of plenty
of similar cases. The person who can
read novel "all through" in the leisure
hours of a single day is not the prod
uct of any particular nation. Proba-
bly, we all know that person.
But what is the effect of novel a
day on the human mind? Can any per-
son read, say, 500 novels a year and re-
main sane? Evidently the novel "a day
person--the novel-a-day woman, one
may safely say, since both the ability to
read so swiftly as that and the time
for the reading must be feminine pos
sessions interested in all these ro-
mances, or else she would not go to the
library every day to get a new book.
II she is interested, her mind and soul
must be plunged every "a hours into a
different world. She lives, in a sense,
800 different lives in year. What be-
comes of her personality-of the re-
fiectng kernel of her-after living in
rapid succession SO many hundred diff
ferent lives?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-13
A TIME SAVER

From the Boston Globe.
The telephone is a. time saver. How
much time it saves busy men and women
is revealed in the latest report of the
Bell company The wire mileage of this
company has been increased to 100000
miles. the traffic has increased to nearly
100000 connections day, amounting to
G, 500 900, 600 connections year.
These figures show how necessary the
telephone has become. The 6,5OO,W00oO
connections during a year represent an
enormous saving of time. Before the days
of this rapid service there was a ire
mendous loss of time owing to the slow
methods of message delivery. Sometimes
telephone users are impatient if there is
a slight delay in securing the number
they are calling, but IL they were obliged
to return to the former methods of COM
munication after their experience with
these convenient instruments how great
would be their annoyance.
Considering all the circumstances sur
rounding it, the telephone service is
simply wonderful. 1t is a necessity in
stead of a luxury, and the instruments
are being improved constantly to meet
the demands of the public.
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an idler She who rocks the cradle rules
the world. and she is no idler even if
there are no cradles nowadays to be
rocked. The protest of the club women
of Kentucky is all right in every re-
speet except it comes too late to meet
the requirements of the thirteenth cen
sus 1t is plain the women who are
housewives will have to stand classified
as "idlers' until the fourteenth census
is taken in 1920 The blanks of that year
should be corrected in the offending par
ticular, even if Mrs. Carrie Nation has
to be sent to Washington armed with
one of her hatchets to secure justice to
all housewives.
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He will keep that good name still.
king Henry '.
Lord Kitchener

Returning from Australia, the Motke
of England, Lord Kitchener, landed last
week in San Francisco, and his trip
across the country will assuredly arouse
popular interest, and no doubt he will be-
come the recipient of no small amount of
personal attention.
England has perhaps never had a
greater soldier. 1t was he who avenged
the death of Gordon and rescued Eastern
soudan from the fanatics, and it was he
who completed the war against the Beers
by which Great Britain retained her gold
and diamond fields and her South Afri-
can empire. He has, in fact, reorgan-
lied armies in Egypt, in South Africa, in
India and in Australia.
He is now returning from Australia,
where he organized a regular army, on
peace footing, of $1,000 men, although the
total population does not greatly exceed
four million. He may yet be sent to do
a similar work in Canada, thus putting
ali the great possessions of the British
crown in position to defend themselves
If England herself be attacked, for ex-
ample, by Germany.
Lord Kitchener never courts publicity
when he travels, but he will certainly
rot escape a good deal of it before he
leaves New York, for this country holds
thousands of men who admire his genius
for war. He has had no Napoleon to
contend with. but he has met stubborn
fees, and his career has been a long
series of triumphs over all obstacles that
he encountered
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Mr.. Williams on the Fee System

The open letter of r. L. Williams, adj
dressed to the democrats of Jefferson
county is from pen that does not deal
in invective or write at random. Mr.. Will
liams knows the law as a good lawyer
should, and he fits the law to the case
that the people of this county have in
hand to be dealt with in concrete form
in the primary of May 2.
Concisely speaking Mr.. Williams shows
that the general law of the state in re-
lation to the proceeds of county con-
victs and solicitors fees has been altered
so far as Jefferson county is concerned.
These local laws adopted by the legis-
lature operate to turn the money derived
from the hire of the countys convicts
and from solicitors fees into the pockets
OF county officials This is the result of
local laws, and the evil does not pre-
sumably extend beyond jefferson coun-
ty. In the other counties the money goes
first to pay the states Witnesses in JEFF
ferson county by reason of local laws it
goes to pay first the fees of county Off
GERS, and the more arrests the more fees
they will charge up and the more money
they will receive.
If the good people of jefferson coun-
ty desire to see jefferson county put under
the general law they will nominate men
on May who will pledge themselves to
repeal obnoxious and discriminating local
laws-laws that lead to numberless minor
arrests-and to put all county officers on
reasonable salaries.
The letter of Mr. Williams should be
printed in circular form and placed in
the hands of every democratic voter in
the county, for it is as full of informa-
ton and instruction as an egg is of meat
No constitutional amendment is needed
in order to do away with the greater
part of the evils of Jefferson county, al
though one may be needed before the
reform can be fully perfected. The re-
sponsibnity is upon the primary voter,
and if he desires change in the fee
system of Jefferson county he should
know how every one he votes to send
to the legislature stands on the subject.
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LIVING IN THE SOUTH

From the Boston Globe.
Travelling employees of the department
If agriculture have recently made spe-
cial report on their hotel expenses in the
south. which they said ranged from 81
TO 81 so per day, for good accommodate
tons. Their fiures are secuted by a
commercial traveller, who insists that the
minimum rate of country hotel in the
south is 81 per day. and $3.50 where there
is no competition The food at such no.
tells and the other accommodations, he
says, cannot begin 10 compare in quality
with what is furnished by the average
New England country hotel for q a day.
In the frst-class southern hotels s. day
will not procure as much comfort and
luxury as the same amount will buy in
Boston hotel, wnere one can live better
for the same money than in Atlanta or
Birmingham. Housekeeping is less expen-
sive in the outskirts of Boston, New
York or Philadelphia than in the suburbs
of a Large southern city. On the other
hand. says the traveller, Baltimore is the
cheapest city in the country for fam
lily.
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Uncle I0A'S Automobile

By vote of III TO 1872 the insurgents
and the democrats voted down the item
in the legislative bill for the maintenance
of the speakers automobile. This pro-
vision was inserted by the Senate, and
the allies in the House would not stand
for it," They cheerfully united to reject
it. The speaker, however. announced that
he would continue to come to and go
from the capitol until March 4 next, but
he did not say whether he would come
and go afoot, or would utilize horse
drawn, out-of-date vehicle or would ride
in the street cars, which are after all
electric taxicabs to- all intents and pur-
poses.
Uncle Joe took the floor to hurl de-
nance at his foes and to defend the best
tariff" that the republican party has ever
devised. and to insult the great body of
newspaper men whom he placed in the
class OF common everyday liars. He de-
clared. that 1.-THE facts would yet be told.
He should begin by telling all he knows
about the wooden schedule and how it
affects the average man-how it was
placed in the aggregation of plundering
items-how it is filling the pockets of
favored individuals faster than it is filling
the treasury
But aside from all this Mr.. Cannon finds
he represents peculiar majorty-one
that goes to pieces on slight provocation-
one that is ever looking for chance to
get in a swipe at anything he favors and
desires. The remainder of this Congress
is to be a series of contentious, and the
speaker is man who has lost his backing
and his former control over legislation
He is a back number who is overstaying
his days of prosperity and power.
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Director DuraDd'S Dilemma

The club women of central Kentucky
have asked Director Durand of the census
bureau to amend his blanks so that the
busy housewife will not be classed as an
idler,- or, to put the situation in the best
Hight, as a person having no occupa-
ton" They desire the word housewife
substituted in the blanks upon which the
national count is being made.
The contention of the Kentucky club
women is sound and correct They have
however, spoken late in the day. The
blanks have been printed and distributed
and day after tomorrow is the day set
for beginning the enumeration Either
the thirteenth census will have to be
postponed, or else the blanks in hand
will have 10 be used, Objectionable and
unjust as they are to all housewives.
Director Durand can at any rate apollo
gize He can no doubt plead precedent,
and he will certainly be able to say he
will not offend the women in like man
ser again.
! The housewife is the very opposite Of
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DINING IN GOTHAM

From the New York Sun.
The fact that men patrons of high
priced restaurants do not wear evening
dress is given as the cause of failure of
a new and conspicuously ornate restaur-.
ant which announced rule requiring
evening dress for men patrons after
o clock in the evening. Nonsense. Men
patrons of New York restaurants of the
class here considered are visitors to the
city who long for evening as the weary
long for rest, that they may don their
full dress toys. They may have other
reasons for visiting New York, but none
SO compelling as the desire to take their
spiketails out Of eamphor to make love-
ly themselves and Lobster Square. New
Workers who habtually dress for dinner
habitually dine at their own or their
friends tables. The restaurant failed
probably because its window curtains
concealed the glory Of diners from patrons
of rubberneck cars.
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WHISPERS
!" HIshEHS
From the Providence Journal,

From the Providence Journal.
Nothing in human eccentricity is nj
amazing than the obtuse persistency v
which the average devotee of whisA
clings TO his exhibit or face fringeI
spite of all esthetic and hygienic ar
ments for elimination Nhiskers Sd
TO be a most peculiar obsession "
those who wear EN-. The predilecI
for this form of hirsute outbreak con
tutes a fanaticism such as has been RI
ly equaled in the annals of the hun
race. The malignant manner in which
takes hold of its victims is unapproaq'
by any other form of mental error, n
the possible exception of that remarkl
hallucination that infuses occasional
dividuals with strange passion for
game of croquet. The great trouble n
whisker wearers is apt to be that I,
come to regard whiskers as a mattel
principle instead of allowing them
hold their proper status in the schef
of natural phenomena as mere faciar
cidents, to be developed or supprsr
according to the actual demands of I
health and happiness or the exigel
OF time, place and circumstances.
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From the Boston Globe.
The love of bell music is SO deeply in
grained in SO many of us that we are
astonished when we read that a resident
of one of the most attractive summer
and autumn villages in Massachusetts
asked the citizenship town meeting as
sembled" to silence during the summer
months the chimes which the late David
Dudley Field gave to them for the de-
light of their ears and the ears of their
children and their children's children.
The petition was not granted.
Stoekbridge people probably are as
fond of bell music as was a famous man
of whom Emerson wrote:
The sexton, tolling his bell at noon,
Deems not that great Napoleon
Stops his horse, and lists with delight
Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine
hight.
The author of 1.-THE Pirates of Pen
zance" assures us that
When the enterprising burglar isn't burg
ling,
And the cutthroat isn't occupied with
crime,
They love to hear the little brooklet gurg-
ling,
And listen to the merry village chime.
Can all the poets have been mistaken
Is not the love of bell music universal?
In his Canadian Boat Song and Those
Evening Bells Tom Moore has left us
his impressions OF chimes. To his little
room in a French college once came to
Francis Mahony memory echoes of
The bells of Shandon
That sound so grand on
The pleasant waters of the river Lee.
Poe's Bells are still Ginning, and
Longfellows Bells of Lynn are not yet
silenced. Resonant and clear the wild
bells of Tennyson still
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic SANDER and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
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Washington, April 12.-The memory Of
the North American Indian is to be per-
petuated by statue memorial in New
York harbor, il bill ordered favorably
reported to the House today by the IL
bill would authorized the erection with
out expense to the federal government of
memorial on site to be selected by
the Secretaries OF War and Navy. The
bill would create a commission to select
suitable design and contract for the
construction of the memorial.
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some Far-Fetched Reasons

ut was good for Birmingham that
large majority of the voters Who
went to the polls on Monday cast their
| was surprised that there were as
many as GIT against the proposition
said a business man. And l was su--
prised, too, at the various reasons
which opponents of the bond issue gave
for their attitude. Several we'll known
business men told me that they were
In favor of a commission form of gov
eminent and that they thought sure
way to get it would be to bankrupt
the city That would bring matters
to a head one of them remarked Mot
day, and it would make it easy then
to get commission bill through the
legislature. Another man said he yote9
against the bond issue because he wa
in favor of saloons and defeat of
the bond measure would so cripple the
city financially that the people would
be forced to see that saloon licenses
were necessary to produce needed rev.
enue Other men gave other far
fetched reasons for their negative
votes.
THE bond issue was SO manifestly
urgent and as it was the only honor
able and business-like way out of the
city's difficulty it seemed almost
unthinkable any considerable number
OF intelligent men would take The
wrong view. 1t is but natural that peo-
pie differ on political and ethical ques
ticns, but when 1t comes to a plain
pr oposition like the bond issue, there
was only one right way to look at II.
L. is disheartening sometimes TO find
men here in Birmingham actuated by
petty or selfish motives in regard to
CITY affairs. A commission form of
| government might be good thing.
On the other hand the present form
OF government might be- best. All these
| things are matters for discussion. But
u have brought these ii estions u
bear on the bond issue matter was ike
Trying 10 swap horses while crossing
stream. AZ majority for the bonds
was decisive however Birmingham
v ears a healthy smile on the pi incip e
trat ans well that ends well
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Commission Tor City

4 was very much impressed said
one of the managers in Mondays bond
election, with the expressions of the
voters regarding a good commission
form of government for Birmingham
instead of the present aldermanic sys-
tenn.
They nearly all seem to want it, and
| believe II they are ever given an OPP
portunity to vote on the question, the
new form of government will be adopt
ed overwhelmingly
The noisiest DIRECTORS to the pres
ent aldermanic system are those who
cry graft against all public officials,
good or bad. But the most serious OBJ
lection comes from the thoughtful
voter who thinks that the present form,
with its numerous aldermen, is I'M
wieldy, and not likely to get good eco
nomie results like a smaller highly
specialized commission would do
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Shades Valley Farmers

Il believe we Shades valley farmers
said Turner Weakley yesterday, ARE
the best fixed people in Greater Bir-
mingham.
In the first place, we are going to
raise all the truck and garden stuff
which our families will eat this summer,
and, besides, have a good deal left to
sell to the Morris avenue merchants.
They'll take all the Irish potatoes,
sweet potatoes, corn, fruit or any other
truck we raise. Barring bad weather,
I am almost certain to make over 10
per cent of the cost of my place the
first year, to say nothing of the truck
my family will consume.
Then again, my farm is almost equal
to summer resort, as it is on Pine
Ridge, the highest point of the valley,
and we have an ideal breeze, to say
nothing of the view, all the summer.
My place is only 20 minute drive with
horse and buggy into town. which is
great convenience for a business man.
Mr.. Ford is on the right line when
he argues for more five and ten-acre
country places around Birmingham. l
know of no more wholesome and prof.
table recreation for a city man to in
duge in than going back to the farm
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will come out ahead instead ofrhaYlnsr1ol
meet a deficit. The Atlanta people are
famed for their public spirit. Every
body in the Georgia metropolis is not
only a booster but there Is a hearty re-
sponse to all appeals to make festivals
pay out
Now, while an opera festival is an
attractive thing from an amusement point
of view, a music festival such as Will be
held in Birmingham next week under the
direction of Walter Damrosch is not only
delightful, but it is educative-far more
educative than an opera festival. SIN
cerey hope to see every one of the fes-
teal concerts well attended. Citizens had
to guarantee this music festival and II
there is the right sort of public spirit
here no deficit will be in evidence
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Old Soldiers Hospital

I'VE are getting on slowly with our
subscription for the new hospital for
the old soldiers at Mountain Creek, =
said Hill Ferguson of Camp Morgan
Pettus yesterday. "and we hope to get
the $1,000 all subscribed before the Mo-
bile reunion the end of this month.
Gen. Louis v Clark has given 5000
to this cause and DR.. John Wyeth of
New York, who. by the way is one of
the greatest men Alabama has pro-
duced, has just sent 500. We have had
numerous other subscriptions varying
from s25 down to So. and have about
half the money in sight. No subscrip-
tions are barred, of course but we are
asking for them particularly from sons
of Confederate veterans, whether they
belong to any organized camp or not
ANY subscriptions which may be sent
to Treasurer John d. Elliot at the Com
mercial bank will be greatly appre-
ciated by the soliciting committees.
There is no question about the new
hospital being needed. The old one,
with its beds. is crowded to its ca
pacity all the time. and many of the
old men have to be kept in the cottages
even when they are in need of hospital
attention.
''If our love of the Confederate cause
amounts to anything, we ought to sup
ply this necessity for these old SOL
diers."
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1t was promptly voted. She them
manded that the Venetian ambassador
London inform her husband and K
James the First that there had beer
grave mistake, and that she was an
nocent woman who had been dee
which information one nj
fancy the earl looking up from thefstll
of his art treasures to receive, vi
outward thanks for the care for the rel
tation of his wife and the inward
Election that at least Foscarini was v
killed