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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-21
PROMISE HE MADE TO "MARY'p

who had been accustomed to stimulants
all his life. had one of the great
episodes of his career, involving I'M
usual nervous tension, refused them.
The following night Thurman was
to speak in Newark, and Myers AID
the Old Romans son, Allen c., and 9TH
ers In the party suggested to Thur
man that, while it was all very well
to keep his promise to Mary, my dear"
perhaps Mary, my dear" did not quite
understand the situation and in this
advice the New York city physician
agreed. So running out to Newark in
Brfce's private car Myers gave the
noble Old Roman a pretty stiff drink
of whisky just about half an hour be-
fore he was to speak and Thurman,
when he got upon his feet in a hot
and sitting hall damned to the ceiling
made one of the tidiest democratic
speeches of his life.
On his return to Columbus Thurman
explained in his quaint and qulzzical
way to Mary, my DEAR just how he
was compelled to break his promise
to her, but even to this day many be-
lieve the story printed by that repub-
lican newspaper that Thurman was
drunk at the Madison Square Garden
meeting. l--s.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-21
Alabama'S Annual State Fair

On october els the next state
fair is to be held. Premiums have
been increased and every other eff
fort will be made to make the COM
ing fair the best of the series held
in this city.
The management of the fair fully
appreciates the responsibility that at
tends a great annual exhibition. 1.-THE
of interest and meets the wants OF the
city as well as the country workers
alike. 1t is the state on exhibition.
It is a great show window of its pro-
ducts, manufactures. crops, live stock,
machinery, minerals and all the meth
DDS and processes by which the state
has attained its position in the world.
1t is a great university, which teaches
by object lessons. 1t is the one place
where all the results of our labor may
be seem"
While the fair association is doing
its utmost to gather in October a great
exhibition, every other citizen should
do his utmost also in making the fea-
lures of tho coufnr fai r Lpouy, oo5 a.,
inducing people to come here In the
early October days. Keep the subject
before the people and pull together to
make the fair the event Of the year in
Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-21
, MASTER THIEF.
Yet Lnngdon Moore Grew up In An
Honest Environment.

From the Boston Evening Transcript
Langdon w. Moore, who has just died
at the age of so, in a quiet New Hamp.
shire community, where he was much
respected even by those who knew his
record, was one of the great master
thieves of the United States when in his
prime. He operated in the era when
few sensational bank robberies were COM
mitted by men behind the counter. In one
instance he got away with as much
money and securities as Coleman, and he
was able to compromise to avoid prose-
cution First and last before he was
lodged in the state prison, where he
served 16 years. he must have stolen hum
dreds of thousands of dollars, usually by
adroitness without violence.
At last the law caught him, as it
catches the cleverest Of rogues, but II
had long combat of wits with him, for
Moore was one of those criminals OF
whom it could be truly said that his
powers If applied to honest callings would
have gained him prominence. Ordinarily
criminals are not markedly intellectual
men, but Moore was excer tional in hav-
ing more than mere cunning In his mem
tai makeup.
His career would make an interesting
subject for the psychologist. for he was
born in a little town in New Hampshire,
one truly rural. and grew up to man
hood surrounded by plain. honest farmer
fofls
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES


You have an eminent domain here
of Industrial possibilities that is not
surpassed in the world" said Charles
Flynn, mining engineer of interna-
tional reputation of New York VINO Is
spending q few days in the city,
Il was with Cecil Rhodes for num-
Der of years in South Africa and nave
had experience In Mexico, South Amer
lea and many other countries OUTSIDE
the United States and have never seen
any section that can approach the BIT
'mingham district in it's marvellous va
riety of resources and possibilities Tor
broad development.
You have wonderful city here. IL
is backed by mineral and agricui-
tura1 section that will certainly make
of 1t one of the greatest Industrial
centers in the world. 1t cannot help
but grow. The people of Birmingham
do not seem to appreciate the vastness
of their opportunities for fortune-mak-
Ing and the pursuit of happiness
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HAVANA is the Place to Find the True
"Betting Specialist"

From the Washington Post.
IF you want to see expert bookmakers,
you should go to Havana" remarked A.
r. Geeting of Chicago, at the Raleigh.
Shortly before he had watched several
men climb In patrol wagon on the
avenue and had been told that they were
charged with making handbooks on the
races.
in Havana" he continued, they GER
tainly have their business down fine.
went to cock fight in one of the SUBJ
urbs of Havana on a Sunday. Nearly
everybody In that part of the town had
turned out.
with two friends 1 got seats close to
the pit. l had never seen a cock fight.
and 1 was interested. At the edge of the
pit several natives were standing, fac
ing the audience, and yelling and waving
their hands. l asked one of my friends
who had been in Havana a short time,
what they were doing. He said they
were taking bets Sure enough, the spec
tators were shouting back at them an
nouncing their favorites and placing their
BETS But the bookmakers were not using
even pencil. One of them. l am sure
must have taken 80 bets.
Il wanted to get in on the game. so l
decided to bet 50 on a black gamecock
that looked good to me. 1 handed over
my money. but 1 didn't get ticket l
felt sure l should never again see my
money, even If had picked the winner.
Well, the main was fought and my bird
won 7 watched the bOokmaker as he
went among the crowd, handing money
here and there When he came to me he
handed over $40. 1 was surprised, but
he didn't notice 1t. as he was too busy
cleaning up his slate. Finally, l dis
covered. through a spectator nearby, who
could speak English little. that my bird
had been a to 1 shot.
How that 'bookie' ever kept all those
bets in his mind is more than I can I'M
derstand"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-21
THE SUMMER WHOEVER.

From the Pttsburg Times.
Pathetic, indeed, is the spectacle pre-
scented by the Toledo husband who has
resorted to the courts in an endeavor to
have his wife restrained from going away
on a vacation trip and leaving him be-
hind, and every member of that melan-
will follow the proceedings with breath
less interest while hoping for the triumph
of their fellow-sufferer. The problem OF
the summer widower is getting to be a
serious one in this country. Every year,
with the arrival of 1.-The period of excess
sive caloricity,' as it is called by fair
Vassar graduate, thousands of American
homes are bereft by the departure OF
their reigning queens for mountain, lake,
and seashore. A supposedly humorous,
song, portraying the fancied jubilation OF
typical husband over the sojourn of his
matrimonial partner in rural regions, had
somewhat of a vogue last season, but il
was sung by summer widowers only In
an attempt to keep up their spirits.
If there is any individual on earth
whose general appearance resembles that
of lost dog, it is the husband who Is
trying to keep bachelors hall at home.
He it is who feels most keenly the hollow
mockery of that ''hurrah" In which the
husband of the merry ballad proclaims
his wifes departure for bucolic wilds.
The other side of the picture is not pre-
scented by the writer of the song. We are
told nothing of how the deserted husband
feels as he enters the dark and empty
house at midnight and listens instructive
ly but in vain for that old familiar snore,
or the touching inquiry respecting the
cause of his hardness. There is nobody
to ask where he has been, nobody to tell
him to put out the milk bottles, nobody
to utter the customary warning against
colliding with the inevitable chair. The
melancholy nights have come, the sad
dest of the year, whom wife and child are
out of town and nought the heart can
cheer. If the hero-medal factories ever
manage to get ahead of their orders, let
them bestow the surplus upon the SUM
mer widowers. They're qualified.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-21
hudson Bay a New Wheat Outlet

The railroad bridge across the Saskat-
cb.wan river has been completed, and the
building of a railroad to the shore of
Hudson Bay will be pushed rapidly. The
terminus on the bay is to be York. and
tbe building of warehouses and elevators
Mt that point and the chartering of steam
ers will follow speedily, and the expecta-
tons now are that next year wheat from
The vast grain field of western Canada
will go to the British market via Hud-
son Bay, rather than by the Hudson river
to New York, or by the way of Montreal
and Quebec.
The water distance from York to Lon
don is 1866 miles. From Montreal TO
Liverpool the distance is 1907 miles; from
New York to Liverpool 1896 miles. So
that by shipping wheat from York on
Hudson Bay the rail traffic halfway
across the continent may be avoided.
New York hopes to hold its wheat
trade, however, because Hudson Bay is
open only half of the year, and because
only one article will be offered at York
to steamers, and the imports will be
small indeed. All this remains to be
tested. The rail route to York will be
short and tramp steamers may be at
hand to do the rest of the transporta-
ton movement York and New York will
1t any rate become warm rivals after this
year, and down this way we can but wish
both fair field. The better of the two
will control the shipments of western
Canada
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As much good stay with thee as go
with me. King Richard IL.
Crops Here and Elsewhere

The Wall Street Journal shows that
the wheat harvest of the world will go to
$500, oOo,O bushels, and this is an
aggregate in excess VI the four-year
average. The wheat crops of all Euro
pean countries are promising. These
crops have greatly improved of late
and in some of the European countries
the crop is advanced beyond the dan
ger of damage by unfavorable wealth.
er. France alone of the great wheat
growing countries will need some
wheat, while India, Australia and Ar
gentina will be able to supply the GUS
tomary demands TO Great Britain Bel
GUM, Holland and Germany. The world
will not go hungry even if there is
to be small spring wheat crop in this
country.
This country's crops still promise
well. A large winter wheat crop is
nearly harvested and all things point
to a great corn crop in the north and
. great cotton crop in the south. If
present expectations are met III the
fall outturns this country will not only
have enough to eat but it will have
large SURPRISES to export. Uncle Sam
is a>farmer who believes in diversified
ton of crops. His spring wheat crop
may be cut down by drouthy weather,
but he has other crops. and some of
them are of great magnitude.
1t is far too early to assume that the
years output of crops will be small
A great corn crop and great cotton
crop could easily make good any def
cheney arising from a lessened supply
of spring wheat. We will have little
or no wheat to sell, but we will have
enough corn, cotton and manufactured
products to turn the balance of trade
in our favor, or rather to keep it in
our favor for exports are at present
exceeding imports and this will no
doubt continue to be the case indefinite
IL hereafter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-21
Rubber Goods at Trust Prices

Senator Bristow assailed on the stump
in Kansas the rubber trust and Speaker
Cannon just as naturally defended the
duty that the Aldrich tariff imposes on
manufactures of rubber. In order to
make the issue plain we give, below the
pith of Senator Bristow's tariff argu-
ment. as 1t has been summarized by
the st. Louis Post Dispatch:
Crude rubber is free.
"The House committee placed the duty
on manufactures of rubber at 20 per
cent ad valorem.
Senator Aldrich raised it to s5 per
cent.
1.-THE directors of the rubber trust are
E. B. Aldrich, Nelson w. Aldrich, H. B.
Baruch, Henry A. Bingham. Daniel Gug-
genheim, S. R. Guggenheim. Paul Nor
ton, Allen A. Ryan, William Sproule.
1.-THE paragraph of the tariff law in
which manufactures of rubber are pro-
vided for reads:
Manufactures of bone. chip, grass
horn, India rubber, palm leaf, straw
weeds or whalebone.
Manufactures of India rubber are list
ed in the exact center, occupying the
most innocent and inconspicuous posi-
tion."
The Post-Dispatch estimates that Sena-
tor Aldrich's per cent advance means
anything from 100000 to slO,OOO,OOO year
to the trust, for all trusts push the prices
of their products up to the tariff limit.
There is no sense in having a Chinese
wall unless 1t is worked for all it is
worth.
The Post-Dispatch neglects to mention
that member of the Penrose family in
cluulnB lne TeHnsyiNdIhd ooos Hiiiiocii'
are heavy holders of stock in the rubber
trust The trust is, therefore, represent
ed in the House of Trusts by Aldrich.
Penrose and Guggenheim. The wonder
is it did not mark up the tariff rate on
manufactures of rubber to 80 per cent.
1t is, however. marking up it's products
to the 80 per cent line, knowing that
it possesses a monopoly which can be
exercised at will. 1t plucks all who use
rubber goods. from automobile tires to
baby rattles.
Speaker Cannon's defense of the rub
Der trust is pointless. He Is full of vi
tuperation. lie says Senator Bristow
should lay his charges against Senator
Aldrich before the department of JUS
tice This is not a bit convincing The
Kansas senator will no doubt put the
matter before the people of his state,
and IL he be sustained by them he will
be pretty sure to ask the Senate next
winter to investigate the rubber trust.
1t needs it.
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Pleased With Birmingham.

II was very much surprised at the
development in this city and section
since my last visit here four years
ago." said C. L. Clevenberg Of New
York who was in Birmingham yes
terday
birmingham seems to have entirely
disregarded the financial furry that
passed over the country two years
ago and continued to build and de-
velop the wonderful resources of this
section. l am glad to hear that a
new and modern hotel is to be built.
Nothing will advertise the greatness
of a city better than an up date
hotel
The character and extent of your
hotel facilities impress the visitor more
than any other one feature about a
town and these things should be care
fully planned by the people and kept
up to the highest standard"
Mr.. Clevenberg represents the we'll
known brokerage firm of Hayden,
Stone & Co., of New York. He has
charge of the wire system through
the cotton belt.
He is making his periodic tour of
the southern section and stopped off
to look over the Birmingham district
and secure some information for his
firm In a general way. He declared
yesterday that he hoped to induce
members of his firm interested in in
dustrial developments to visit Bir-
mingham.
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Bonds For City Schools

More high schools are needed in this
eity, buts says DR.. Phillips, 1.-The first
problem confronting the Board of Educa-
tion is the immediate need of more and
better facilities for elementary schools ;,
The city has more children than 1t has
seats in it's public. schools. The stork has
been buster than the Board of Education,
although fairness compels the statement
that the problem of the Board of Educa-
ton is to some extent the result of the
consolidation of many districts and even
noe1es into a comprehensive municipality.
II the Board Of Education must give
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SHE WANTED TO BE SHOWN.

From the Circle.
Adorable inexperience was being piioted
through the stock yards by a courteous
and tactful guide, who omitted all the
Jungly' details and directed her atten-
ton to the victims as yet unexecuted
The lovely COWS were admired, the
mice, soft sheep. the cunning" calves
and the sweet little pigs. Then. turn
ing to the guide, she exclaimed abruptly,
And now you really must show me the
cute little minces'' ssA
1.-The cute little whut, mum?'' .
1.-THE minces you surely must have some
here-the sweet little creatures you make
into mince-meat, you know
But the strong man had tainted away.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-21
HAUNTED HOUSES.

=
BY Henry w. Longfellow. .e4.1
All houses wherein men have lived and
Are haunted houses. Through the open
doors
The harmless phantoms on their errands
glide
With feet that make no sounds upon
the floors.
We meet them at the doorway, on the
stair;
Along the passages they come and go,
Impalpable impressions on the air,
sense of something moving to and fro.
There are more guests at the table than
the hosts
Invited; the Illuminated hall
Is thronged with quiet, inoffensive ghosts.
AS silent as the pictures on the wall.
The stranger at my fireside can not see
I The forms | see, nor hear the sounds l
hear
He but perceives what is; while unto me
All that has been is visible and clear.
We have no title deeds to house or lands;
Owners and occupants Of earlier dates
From graves forgotten stretch their dusty
hands
And hold in mortmain still their old es-
The spirit world around this world Of
sense tH
Floats like an atmosphere. and every
where
Watts through these earthly nlists and
vapors dense
A vital breath of more ethereal air.
Our little lives are kept in equipose
BY opposite attractions and desires!
The struggle of the instinct that enjoys.
And the more noble instinct that aspires.
These perturbations, this perpetual jar
or earthly wants and aspirations high,
Gene from the influence of an unseen
star,
An undiscovered planet in our sky
And as the moon from some dark gate OF
cloud 1888
Throws DER the sea a floating bridge of
light, w
Across whose trembling plans our fancies
crowd sra-
Into the-realm of mystery and night
So from 1.-The world of spirits there de-
sends
A bridge of light, connecting 1t with this
EOer whose unsteady floor, that sways
/ and bends.
Wander. our thoughts above the dark
abyss.
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begin today a systematic canvass of the
city to procure the remainder
The hotel project should be put in the
and Y. M c. A. It is a public institution.
and Will be of benefit to every citizen
Birmingham should within the next few
days make its success as marked as
was the success of the Chamber of Com
merce and Y. M. C. A. campaigns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-21
NO wHIsKEY, NO FISH.

stanch teetotaler and an enthusiastic
fisherman had a good stretch Of the Dee
to fish in. and engaged the services sof
an experienced boatman. But night after
night he came back with empty creel and
at length departed In disgust.
When he was gone the boatman, was
approached and asked how 1t was that
fairly expert fisherman had such q
run of Ill luck.
IA weel." said the man, he had nae
whuskie. an took him where there was
nae fish,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-21

THE increase in the number Of insanity
cases from Jefferson county is not so
surprising If we take into consideration
the metropolitan character of Birming
ham and the county," said Dr. j. b..
Vines of the Board of Revenue. 1.-THE
continual hurry and hustle of business
life is the cause of most cases of in
sanity, and this county certainly has its
share of that.
Besides, Jefferson county has been
growing, and the business of the county
has been growing. 1t is only natural
that such growth should be attended by
increase In insanity.
1T believe 1t is only due to a coin
cidence that an insanity wave, as well as
wave of crime, has struck the county
during the period of unusual weather
conditions. l feel sure that crime is not
due to hot weather, and believe it will
cease If the lid Is only clapped down
tighter by the officers of the law"
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

and call you blessed. This country is a
silent but ELOQUENT REPUTATION of Bob In
gersolls theory; man here gets prema-
turely insane, melancholy and unreliable
and finally dies of lead poisoning, in his
boots, while in good old land like
Greensboro a man can die, as they do
every day, with all the benefits of the
clergy. w. S. PORTER.
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Rogers On Needs Of Roads.

c. B. Rogers, a member of the Board
of Revenue, stated yesterday that as
so many complaints were being received
about the condition of the roads, he
would try and secure additional help
at the next meeting of the board.
I'VE should patch up the roads that
have been reported in bad shape at
once" said Mr. Rogers. $50 the ruts
will not become SO large that we can
not handle them. I believe the board
should employ additional men to work
out the problem as 1t now stands and
later outline regular mode of opera
ton. With few more men at the
present time l think the road condi-
lions could be vastly improved within
few weeks. That would enable us
to get the present bad places repaired
quickly and in that manner we would
obviate the really serious trouble that
threatens us from small ruts becoming
large gullies.
"At the next meeting of the board |
will endeavor to get more help and
place augmented crews at work In an
effort to provide better highways. The
past few days of warm dry weather
have been Of great value to US in re-
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press. y
You can bet on theory; you pay on
fact.
Financiers never could be without other
peoples money.
If somebody else is the sufferer from a
mans mistakes he never thinks them
serious.
People are so cussed they can enjoy
filing their own eyes with dust while
they are doing it to others.
woman would rather admit she had
false teeth than that her shoes -pinched
her: but that doesn't mean she would ad-
init either.
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About Persons.

Bruce Bradley of Abernant, spent yes
terday in Birmingham on business. Mr..
Bradley is storekeeper for the Davis
Creek Coal company at Abernant.
R. G. Redden of Sulligent, spent yes
terday In Birmingham. Mr.. Redden re-
ports the crops in fine condition in his
section in spite of the recent continued
rains. Corn is especially promising.
H w. Crawford, well-known business
man of Jasper. spent yesterday in Bir-
mingham. He was registered at the Nor
ris hotel.
w. T. Goodwin. a promising merchant
of Searles, one OF the most progressive
mining camps in Tuscaloosa county,
spent yesterday in Birmingham on bus
mess.
]. L. Wooten of Maylene. was in Bir-
mingham yesterday. Mr.. Wooten is a
many friends in Birmingham who are
always glad to see him.
j. M. Maxwell OF BrooKWoou, spent yes
terday in Birmingham. Mr.. Maxwell
was at one time in the mercantile bus
mess at Elyton and is well known in
Birmingham and the district He is now
in business at Brookwood. He buys his
goods in Birmingham.
S. II. Williams of Brookwood, spent
yesterday in Birmingham on business
Mr. Williams is storekeeper for the Ala
bama Consolidated Coal & Iron COM
pany at Brookwood.
w. L. McCaa of Admission, was in Bir-
mingham yesterday. He was registered
at the Morris hotel Mr.. McCaa Is
prominent business man at Admission and
is also president of the city council of
Admission.