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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
BooTLEGGER's wILEs
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 "Bootlegging is a misdemeanor that will go unpunished, I presume, so long as statewide prohibition or local option prevails in any of the states" re- marked S. l.. Williams of Memphis, Tenn, at the Shoreham.
 "A story recently told me illustrates the subterfuges of some of these boot ,eggers. stranger visiting a small town, and who wanted drink, hailed I darky and asked where he could got a drink. The darky replied that he didn't know. The stranger insisted. " Come. now said the visitor, here's a dollar; go get me bottle.'
 "Deed, I clare 1 don't know where you can get anything in this yere town, but if you will hold this pack age for time I'll see if I can't find something for you
 'The stranger took the package and alter waiting for half hour or more concluded that he had been bunk oed. Then it occurred to him to look into he package that had been left with him and there he found 8 pint of whisky. You see, there is no way to en- force a prohibition law. There was no way to prosecute a man who sold liquor under the circumstances.
 When President Taft visited Mem phis, I went into one of the pronli- nent hotels and wandered into what was once the bar. Across the wal was lying a banner on which was painted in flaming letters: No liquor sold or given away in this hotel.' Yet there was a crowd of men several feet deep who were imbibing whatever they wanted in the way of beer or whisky. 1t wasn't sold or given away, osten- sibly. The men standing at the bar simply took it, perhaps. There are more ways of catching a fish than by dngling for it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
"ELEKTR A"

From the New York World.
 The long-heralded performance of 'Elektra" is over and the $9,OO0 audience which paid double prices to hear murder and lust set to musical ,iiscord has had time to digest it's impressions. T
 Was it worth while? If the measure of an operas interest is the amount of morbid action provided for the delectation of the spectators, those at the Manhattan no doubt received their moneys worth. They supped full of sensations, and it was something besides to see a prina donna fall in faint from overwrought nerves. Regarding which there is the fine professional tribute of the emo tional acress. herself a competent judge, who said.
 T do not know when I have been so moved. Tine play without the music is tearing on ones herves, and with the singing it must be tremendous. It is the most trying role ever written"
 Could praise further go? Some Peterkin who goes to the opera as to the play to be entertained or perhaps to hear music may ask, What good came of it?" That We cannot say, except that TOT those who like that sort of thing, who like to have their feelings narrowed to the sound of the tuba ana trombone, Flick tra" is the best example to date of the kind of thing they like. Not be- fore has there been an opera combin- ing decadence with dissonance in so mas terly manner. 'Salome" has been out Salomed, and the audience which left that earlier and inferior orgy of modern music wearied but not satiated has a new whet to the appetite in the Strauss work. As for those who demand melody in opera, have they not a full repertory ot Verdi and Rossini at their dispossal al each opera house and a rational allow ance of Wagner? The philosophic view of "Elektra" should be one of gratitude that they can still enjoy the old music and are not condemned to hear the new
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

Provision Is made, too. for the appoint ment of a receiver when corporation holding federal charter becomes in- solvent.
 The need of federal charters for great industrial enterprises engaged in industrial enterprises engaged in inter- state trade has long been felt and the pending bill will no doubt be con- sidered without reference to party lines. Some democrats may say it points 10 eentralization. but more will no doubt consider the subject broadly, taking things as they are. The proposed new law is an important measure and it may easily become the beginning of a new and important departure in na ton al policy.
 It is unnecessary to say that all real and personal property of corporation possessing a federal charter will still be subject to state. county and munich pal taxes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
MAKING POETS TO ORDER.
New York World

From the New York World.
 The establishment of a school for poets at the University of Missouri may or may not be due to desire to challenge Indianas literary supremacy. The sig nihcant thing is that a college, in an age when the demand for practical" education echoes over every campus, should hold out inducements to ambitious youth to mount Pegasus when their in- clination Is to try aeroplanes. To others may be left the task of discussing the moral responsibility of an educational institution which deliberately encourages a poetical career at a time when the cost of living was never so high. and when it requires something more than a sonnet to pay grocer's bill
 But is the natural law no longer in force that poets are born and not made ? If there is anything in eugenics, a sys- tenn of intermarriage among poets might be expected to produce a poetic progeny. But poets cannot be matched in college incubators. The mechanics of verse may be taught in classrooms and the student trained to the knack of turning out alcaics and hexameters. But the result is usual ly the sacrifice of substance to form. A university poet produced by such fore ing processes would be interesting as an intellectual curiosity; but what chance would he have against some Bobby Burns from an Edna farmhouse?
 Missouri has a. cave famous as the haunt of the states greatest living au- thor If 1t could provide a real Pierian spring or well at which the poetic af- fiatus could be imD.ued. the pilgrimages to Lourdes would be outdone. But tie rest of the world will have to be shown" that poets can be made In college course.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
Prominent southern Cities.

Frank T. Norman, the well known landscape architect of Ohio, is stopping at the Hillman. He has travelled exten- siyely and has done work in his line in a number of southern cities.
 Birmingham is great city, consider ing it's youthful age," said Mir. Norman. There Is so much here to make a big city, and 1t can be only question of time when Birmingham will rank very high in the population table. It is not only busy, prosperous town from a commercial and industrial point of view but it is one of the most beautiful cities in the country. And it will be made still more beautiful when the municipal gov ernment is able to buy extensive prop erty for public parks Every pretentious city is now looking after the beautiful and is establishing a chain of parks and improving them by landscape treatment.
 Memphis is now spending a great deal of money on it's park system. That city, by the way, is in my opinion, going to outstrip every city in the South. I predict that by 1920 1t will be even larger than New Orleans, and New Orleans is gaining in population quite fast.
 ITO me, Atlanta Is a puzzle. It is a splendid city and Is success in every way, and yet it has no natural resources. The country within a radius of 75 miles of Atlanta is poor. There is no mineral wealth nearby, but it is a strong town commercially.
 "Reverting to the subject of Birming- ham. however, the people here have every reason to feel proud of the city. It is one of the most remarkable cities of United States and It's rate of growth will be accelerated year by year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
MT, UnderWood'S Ship Subsidy Plan

The House committee on merchant ma rine and fisheries has ordered a favora ble report on the bill presented by MT. Hump rey of the state of Washington. The vote in committee was 10 to '. and two republicans voted against favorable re- port of the bill.
 The principal provisions of the bill are that payments for ocean mail serving under the act of March g. 1891, shall be made to vessels of the second class at the rate now applicable to vessels of the first class; that ships shall not benefit which are owned, controlled, or favored by any railroad; that the tonnage tax be increased to 12 cents; that registry except steel steamers of 25OO gross tons or more, and that foreign-bult vessels, when registered, shall not be entitled to mail compensation under the act of 1891. The new mail subsidy will amount to about s1.5oeooO.
 MT. Clark, the minority leader, and MT. Underwood and the democrats in general, say the proposed subsidy is too small to : 10 any good. and they are preparing d suhstit1ita 1,a sad o,, 5iSar;n,;no.o~.. .....e duties. Their substitute will propose a reduction of per cent of duties on all goods imported in American ships owned by American citizens. "The reduction of duty says MT. Underwood, would not affect the tariff as the American shipown- tent of the reduction of duty, that it was intended that he should receive his ad- ditional compensation as premium to promote the development of our shipping industry. The amount of revenue col lected from customs would amount to lioHi $5UVVuU,uV0 to |j0VOoV,VN a year; that 5 per cent of this amount would amount to from sl5,0eo.ooo to $17.oOeoOo; that with thfs advantage the American ship would he able to shortly control all transporta- tion of American commerce to the ports Of the word.'
 The Clark Underwood substitute will be presented when the Humphrey bill l. taken up, and it stands a good chance of adoption by the House, for many republic ans are opposed to the Humphrey bill. The substitute is the only plan that offers any inducements for a wide extension of American shipping. The Humphrey bill would benefit few rich lines, but the democratic substitute would benefit all American ships that bring goods to this country. It will be strange indeed if it House, although the interests summed up in the Aldrich tariff may oppose it. They consider the Aldrich tariff sacred, and even the mild discrimination of the Clark Underwood substitute would arouse per- s haps their antagonism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
A WAKEFUL POLICEMAN

From the WaSHlnBtOn FOSt.
 The sometimes ingenious inventors of
 news in New Jersey, which they assidu-
 ously feed to the devouring presses of
 the metropolis, have discovered a police
 man who never sleeps. This strange guardian of the suburban peace of Hack
 ensack is not, however, voluntarily wig liant. He and Morpheus are strangers.
 but not of his own will. During the hours
 when he Is off duty he woos slumber in valn Nor can he sleep. 1t Is alleged, when on his post No chair for him in the warm corner of the friendly groggery,
 with an allied scout outside to give warn- | ing of the approach of the intrusive pa- trolman. Ceaselessly he tramps his beat, not through devotion, but of necessity. l When he is relieved he works fn a gar- den; but not in cultivation Of the poppies of somnolence. Once he had the substan- | tial weight of 2s0 pounds; now he has | fallen off to 200--still too much avoirdu- pois for sprinting. He is 8 model alarm
 clock. He calls persons without fail who
 must catch early trains. He wakes mem- bers of his family at whatever hour they
 would arise. He rouses private watch men who weakly succumb to drowsiness. | No explanation accompanies the report | of this phenomenon. It appears that even physicians are in vain. He is a terror to noctural evildoers, for his vigilance may | be at the price of their liberty. This wakeful officer cannot be popular among others of his calling. He sets an example
 which they are naturally and traditional Fly loath to initiate. But his case is one | for the curious study of enthusiasts in
 the various civic problems that beset the
 altruists of local devotion to public veal.
 Truly, this policeman's lot is not a happy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
PROVED HE WAS Boss-

From the Kansas City Star.
 Mrs. Rose Pastor Phelps Stokes. dts uussing social questions, said of au- thority: Authority is dangerous weapon, especially when 1t is new. A new boss is sometimes apt. in his use of authority. to remind us of the lit- lle boy with the new knife who cuts his initials on plano, sideboard, every where. I know young and beautiful iady who once visited plant that had q new foreman. Who Is the boss here?' the beautiful lady asked, approaching the foreman. I am the boss, Mrs. he replied. oh, are your said she. He thought he detected amazement in her voice and drawing himself up, he am swered coldly: Yes. am, and I'll prove Tt, Higainson! An old fellew lookeo up from his work. 'Higginson. go get youl envelope. You're fired.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
NOT A SIN

From Lippincotts.
 To Pore Monsabre, the distinguished French preacher, there came one Sab bath, after mass. lady who insisted that she must see him on an affair of great importance. It was matter of conscience, and she explained that she was most seriously disturbed. In fact, she was Sadly given to vanity. That very. morning; she confessed. she had looked in the glass and had yielded to the temptation of thinking herself pretty.
 Pere Monsabre looked at her, '4s that all, my daughter"
 ''That is all.''
 "Then so in peace, for to make mis- take is not a sim.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
RETLECTIONs OE A BACHELOR. From the New York Press

When man Is engaged to girl her whole family act as if 1t was to them.
 A man inherits his religion and, poli- ties; he invents his theories about rais- ing children.
 when one of them doesn't happen to be a tyrant the other always is When you borrow book and lend it to somebody else, it makes your con science easy that 1t wasn't your fault it never got back to It's owner. The first thing a young woman wants when she. goes. to housekeepjpE Is an I account book, so as to write original recipes in it out of the cook book.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
A RUDE JOLT.

He talked to her of books and art And music's subtitle charm, Most ably played "high-browe part, In fervor waking warm The maiden listened languidly-
 At last, when he grew still, She sighed, I'd dearly like to see The Jeffries-J ohnson mill.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
THE QUIET DEAD.

By Emily Dickinson. Safe in their alabaster chambers, Untouched by morning and untouched
 by noon, .k Sleep the meek members of the resur-
 roction, Rafter of satin, and roof of stons. Light laughs the breeze in her castle si
 sunohine; Babbles the bee in stolid ear; Pipe the sweet birds in ignorant ca-
 dence- An, what sagacity perished here! Grand go the years in the crescent
 above them; Worlds scoop their arcs, ana nrm0e
 ments row, Diadems drop and Doges surrender, Soundless as dots on disl< of s4oWs
 ,-milx Dickinoons
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
IN CONCLUSION.

When life is old and foHy's fled
 And there's an end of dreaming, And erstwhile youth, with hoary head, Mods where the fire is gleamins, Twill be enough if each can say,
 Whate'er his fame or chattels "Along the way, from day to day,
 I've fought some fearless battles"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
FUTILE SEARCH.

Here is an interesting story in the pa- per, headed. Noted Explorer Stumped.' J What stumped the noted explorer?'' "IIe tried to find a niclxle in his trou- sers after his wife had gone through them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
ROASTING.

My father has brand-new automo- bile said little Tommy Tidbits.
 That ain't nothin', said little Robbie Brittle; I've have eggs three times a day at our house,'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
OFT REACH.

There is something cheerful about the jingle of money
 ''So there is; but I don't get much satis- faction out of hearing it jingle in some other fellows pocket
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

There was hush as if the Great Mo-. ment had arrived when the wise man was going to speak. He did speak. He simply said, 'Them's me- It was a sad break of an owl-lilSe silence, and it fixed the man."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
THE INNOCENT VICTIM

From the Washington Evening Star.
 q believe" said the blunt individ- .;al, fin speaking my mind and calling . spade spade
 "Yess," replied Miss Cayenne. Many are that way. The tendency is what corrupts the vocabularies of so many parrots"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
WISE MANS FAD BREAK

WISE MANS FAD BREAK.
 According to the Vineland Vine, Bill Sincaller says
 The wisest man I ever knew knew nothing. He had a wise look. and the only sense he had was the sense of keep ing his mouth shut. His wise look in- creased with age, and he came to be an oracle without having oracled anything. For quarter of a century he held his peace, but dish at a dinner was his undoing. At dinner the wise man sat in all the mystery or his solemn silence. There happened to be shrimps, and as that was mentioned his face lighted up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
MAKING A BAD MA1rrER WORSE

From the Chicago Record-Herald,>
 "Why do you write your rhymes without dividing the lines-that is, why do you run the stuff all together as if it were prose?"
 q do that for the purpose of piquins the readers curiosity"
 Gee whiz! Isn't, 1t bad enough 10 get fellow to read a poem without adding insult to injury by piquing his cur!osity?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

This is a day of big ideas and big en- terprise in Birmingham and a S50,0o0 an- nex to the county courthouse would prove not only inadequate, but expensive. In order to afford needed relief afi-additional courthouse building of large proportions as well as handsome design should be erected-a structure costing something like s2O0,OOo or s250.ooo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

Theodore Roosevelt may time his re- turn to America to agree with Halley's comet. He Is a grandstand player from the head of Grandstand creek
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

The Cunninghams paid a campaign com mittee for their Alaska coal lands, and they are not willing to pay the govern ment also.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

A fund of s1,00o.OO0 is to be raised to convert the 90o,0OO churchless residents in Philadelphia. This puts the cost of a soul at $l.1o a-piece--in Philadelphia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
ENOUGH SAID.

From the Washington Post Judge s, D. Weakley has "fcrDaliy
 withdrawn his candidacy for goveSAof of Alabama. His honor Is the sentls- man who recently got hold of the hos end of the Alabama prohibition row.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

The stage will soon have to be set fol the appearance of Halley's comet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

Some are thinking of eating beef in the fourth dimension for rariety's sake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

Eggs would be plentiful if cold storage places were abolished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

The best way to get your picture in the papers is to be mentioned before the Ballinger investigation committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
A MODERN DIoGENEs.

i've hunted far and near," he sighed, with all my heart and soul, But never have as yet espied An honest load of coal"
 Birmingham Age-Herald.
 :, "1've hunted far and near" he sighed, q thought my heart would break, But never yet have l espied The price of d tender steak"
 st. Louis Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

Congress has been in session two months, and 1t has no laws to show for it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

Senator Beveridge has been given to understand by his constituents that it will pay him 10 insurge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

A vogue for all things Russian has reached Washington, Joe Cannon repre- sents the Russian grand dukes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

Butcher shops now have sidedoor ar engagements for those who cannot resist an appetite for steaks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

The silence that surrounds pr. Cook is ever denser than that about David Ben- nett Hill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
NOT AFRAID.

Are you superstitious ?'
 Not at all. If I had lot of money I wouldn't mind endowing a poorhouse."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

Jim Hill seems to think the modern housekeepers are not the kind that moth- CTS used to make.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

The Alabama coal seams stretch, it seems, into the pockets of every grafter on the Pacific coast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
A Great Library.

q hope some day to see here in Bir- mingham a great public library housed in a handsome building,' said a self educated man.
 sJ know the value of good and in- structive books to those of limited means and time to study It would materially aid the advancement of the whole coun- ty to have a well organized circulating library as an adjunct; the circulating libraries to be furnished to schools, but to be used by those in reach of the school house.
 And wouldn't the present courthouse make an ideal library building for all the purposes, local, for reference and study and enter, -linment and the circu- latins libraries also? I suggest that the present structure be set over for thai purpose; thatth property now occupied by the jail, including the alley, be sold and that the county purchase another site for a modern courthouse and jail. The ground occupied by the jail, including the alley, would bring enough to buy the needed ground for a 12-story structure with the jail at the top. in another DOT ton of the city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
Coal Mining as a Barometer.

"The coal mining industry is fair in- dex of the business barometer and the rising tide of prosperity" said a business man.
 few small mines not yet reporting) bring the total output within 3oo,0OO tons of the high-wat mark of 14.00o. GOO tons produc- ton in 1907. Of the total for 1909 Jeffer- son county produced 55 per cent, with Il other counties mining coal. Next in or der come Walker, Blob and Tuscaloosa.
 ''It is highly probable that the showing for 1910 will pass well beyond the high water mark with steady and increasing demand and many new mines and others extending their operations with new open ings."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

Congress should not start so many in vestigations they will get in each others s way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
PROTECTING THE EYES

High water marks as well as beef prices must come down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

The insurgents in Maine long for a Roosevelt who would go out and upset the ancient Hale.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
DON'T ASK QUESTIONS.

I've heard she has a dimple- The kind you can not see; l don't know where that dimple is,
 So please don't bother me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

The hookworin has been detected in New York, and MT. Roclxefeller's atten- tion is respectfully called to this.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

Alaska is no longer called Seward s Folly It is now the prize package of the nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08

The new Shoshone dam Is higher than any other unless it be one of the Joe Cannon kind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-08
THE TuRBAN.

The turban, the new headpiece the women are wearing, Is like Charity: It covers up everything. woman can do her own hair in a little wad as small and tight as a doorlsnob, then cover it over with a turban, and she looks as if she had so much hair she is real care less about it. Tho turbans sell at the 1O-cent stores for 10 cents, but the woman who is hard pushed for a dime can cover an old wire hustle with her switch, and she will have one on her head as good as anybody's without cent of expense. -Atchison Globe.