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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-18
Pistol Totera Numerous

Huntsville, April 17.-tSpecial 1.-The oft
ell asserted claim that the pistol carry
ing habit is dying out in this locality is
not borne out by the records of the sher-
IFS office Saturday. Four men were
arrested during the afternoon and three
concealed pistols were found.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-18
NilIiams Tenn Defeated

Huntsville. Aprii 17.-tspecial,)-The
Williams baseball team suffered defeat
at the hands of the Massey school team
Saturday by score of II to l. The bat
teries were: Nelson and Pate for Mas
sey; Brakefield and Street for Williams.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-18
Maximum Pleasure
Minimum Cost

The Seaboards personally conducted va
cation trip to the east Booklet giving
full information furnished on application.
Jack w. Johnson. d. p. A., Birmingham,
Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-18
You Get Value Received

The idea paying dollars for business suit rather
prng to gentleman accustomed regard custom tailoring the
only exalted value to be found in Clothes
But Ely Meyer c. Simon have set beacon the
clothing industry Their garments are the marvel OF the most dis
corning critics. and being less impressive
Illuminating achievement Men who like men who do things are
bound to enjoy the facts of this s5lss
You can see this for yourself at The Shop of Quality = =
Suits $40 to $40
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-18

There Is marked improvement in
dairy conditions all over the state. The
grade Of cattle is being improved, herds
are being increased. and sanitary condi-
tfons are much better few more
years will see wonderful improve
ment and the entire state with all In
terests are to be benefited. Good cattle
men better lands and greater prosperity
in every way on the farm.
''The dairy interests of the gtate are
all important and should not be neg
lected."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
A Wet Spot in a Dry Land.

The attention of Prof Moore, chief of
The weather bureau. is respectfully in
vited to what is probably the most acute
has ever afforded. Scientific study of this
phenomenon is demanded in the interests
OF meteorology, to give perhaps a larger
degree of public confidence in the occa-
sional predictions of the weather bureau
that promise merely neighborhood mois-
A better public understanding of what is
meant by the weather bureau when it
forecasts precipitation for particular
part of the country would doubtless lead
to a more general appreciation of the
difficulties under which the weather man
reported solemnly and with every evil
dence of sincerity from Helm. Ala. by
way OF Admission OF that state. The
sender of the dispatch does not personally
affirm the truth of the statement, which,
he says. comes Nom Hefiin indirectly.
According to this report an incessant rain
has been falling for week a plot OF
ground seven feet square, while every
where around the atmosphere has been
perfectly dry. II these We're the old days
when mundane affairs were more or less
under tho influence of Jupiter and his
associated divinities Of Mount Olympus.
this phenomenon would probably be ac-
counted for in a perfectly plausible man.
ner. Doubtless it would he explained
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Very Confusing.

In New York state the issue to be de-
cided on election day becomes every mo-
ment clearer 1t is Roosevelt. The can
didates have been submerged, the tariff
and other question have gone by the
board, and the voters are lining up on the
one proposition of for or against the
colonel.
Senator Roots very able speech has
not changed this situation. The part of
his address that creates the widest in
terest is his discussion otsthe effect of the
election on the political fortunes of Mr..
Roosevelt Without mincing words Sen
ator Root warns the opponents of Col.
Roosevelt that a republican disaster il
the state at this election might so dis
credit the Taft administration that i'm
1912 Col Roosevelt might be forced into
the character of a Moses to again lead
the party to the land of grapes and
honey In other words, those who are
opposed to Mr.. Roosevelt are warned to
vote for him now i'm order to avoid the
possibility of having him elected President
in 1912. But is this not double-edSed
argument and does it not contain an
equally strong appeal to the friends OF
Mr.. Roosevelt to vote against him now in
order that in 1872 they may vote for him
for President II is al very confusing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30

that the rain god had contrived funnel
to discharge the clouds. But it is to be
feared that the skeptical mind of the
modern will be inclined to regard the
tale from Hef1in as a fgurative express
sion of not altogether peculiar local
condition. Note that all the surrounding
atmosphere is dry. Note the dimensions
of the Overirrigated plot of ground. Re-
member that all through the south there
are arid places created by legislation
Who can say that this tale of a seven
foot wet spot at Henin is not a shrewd
advertisement to the thirsty of Cleburn
county? 1t may be that this bit Of in
formation coming through Admission ap-
peals as strongly to the commissioner of
the internal revenue as to the chief Of
the weather bureau. They do say that
throughout the parched south there are
spots. comparatively no larger than
mans hand where liquids flow freely, in
sharp contrast to the drought that pre-
walls all around.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
A STRIKE AMONG THE POETS.

[Corspicuous among the few British induStrie
lat have not come out" recently are the balla
lakers But there signs Of trouble eve
here.
In his chamber. weak and dying.
While the Norman Baron lay.
Loud. without. his men were crying.
Shorter hours and better pay.
Know you why tho ploughman. fretting,
Hon,eward plods his weary way
Ere his time: He's after getting
Shorter hours and better pay
See. the Hcsperus is swinging
Idle in the wintry bay,
And the shippers daughters singing.
Shorter hours and better pay
Where's the minstrel boy: I've found him
Joining in the labor fray
With his paeards slung around him.
shorter hours and better pay.
Oh. young Iochinvar is coming:
Though his hair is getting gray.
Yet m glad to hear him humnIing.
shorter hours and better pay
Fen the boy upon the burning
Deck has got word 10 say.
Something fither cross concerning
Shorter hours and better pay.
Lives of great men all remind us
WI. can make muci rney.
Work no mere until they md
Shorter hours ana better pay.
Hal; TO thee bIithc spirit tShelley)
Wilt thou be blackleg? Nay.
Soaring. sing above the melee.
shorter hours and better pay
Punch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Emperor
San.iar
WILL HE APOLOGIZE?

.oIn the Syracuse Herald.
Candidate Dix demands an apology from
Mr.. Roosevelt for something the latter
has said about him. Tense and quivering
with excitement, the people of the state
aren't waiting for it.
From the Buffalo Commercial.
Mr.. Roosevelt will neither apologize to
Mr.. Dix nor retract his misrepresentation
about an alleged decision of Judge BALD
win. What would become of his infalli-
bility if he admitted that he could be
mistaken about anything?
From the Newark Evening News.
No doubt the colonel will apologize to
Mr.. Dix the very minute the former
convinces him that telling the simple
truth demands such a course.
From the New YORK Evening sun.
According To the New Morality the
right thing to do is nail your lie to the
mast and sit tight.
From the BrooklyI1Easlc
Dix is hard man to initiate into the
mysteries of the Ananias Club His come
back reaches the point of the jaw
From the Boston Globe
onel, answering the demand of Mr.. Dix
that he should take back what he said.
Then he says it again. louder. Saying q
thing louder, though, doesn't always
make it true.
From the Syracuse Post-Standard.
We violate no confidence in assuring
Judge Baldwin and Mr. DIX that T. II.
isn't going to apologize as requested.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
THE SKYMEN At BELMONT PARK.

From the New York Evening Mail.
Doubtless there is something more
graceful than ar aeroplare doing a glide
OF d thousand feet. but offhand we can
rot summon it 20 mind.
From the Richmond Virglniau.
The aviators at Belmont Pa.k have
theories by definitely dis :overing the
twilight zone
From the Providence Evening Eui.etn.
One day is about enough for any one
American to hold the national record for
nigh flying. Men and things In this coun-
try have a rude way OF tlcadinG upon
enc another's heels,
From the Concord Moni;ns
AS If everything were not up in the air
enough in New ork anyway, tIey have
got big aviation meet In PROGRESS Gu.
there.
From the Wilmington News.
There is no doubt whatever that the
pastime Of flying i'm the air has taken the
popular fancy. One advantage OF such
exhibitions as these at Belmont Park
this week is that the innocent spectators
ere not in much danger of being run
down.
From the Newark Star.
- The cost of living was barred from the
eaily contests for altitude at Belmont
Park that the flights might not lose all
interest.
From the Boston Herald
The use OF the pyiOn on aviation
grounds is not clearly defined in the pub
lie mind, but one thing is sure: 1t is
not meant to light on.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Common Sense Card Prizes.

| Chicago is nothing if not practical.
Right down at the bottom there is very
little nonsense about the Windy city. 1t
sees the edge of every proposition that
is put up to it and usually knows how to
take advantage of every condition it
meets. The Chicago people are prone to the
giving of card parties. Like all other urban
jewellers. they relax with euchre and whist
and bridge, and heretofore they exchanged
vast amount of cut glass and silverware
and what some old-fashiOned people call
dOOdaddles. things of no earthly use and
but little ornament. dust collectors and
objects of hatred on the part of parlor
maids. Some day perhaps social statis-
tician Will make an estimate OF the
amount of wealth annually squandered in
near-art objects by the sivers OF gifts
and the donors of prizes. Maybe he will
ascertain what percentage of these trim
kets are kept in circulation, being passed
from winner to winner with the bland
ness of original buyers. But this is be-
side the mark. The point of immediate
interest is the fact that Chicago card
players have come to the conclusion that
life is too short to spend prize money on
chinaware and celluloid and gun metal
and almost-siver There are more de-
sirable things in the world than porcelain
shepherdesses and tickless clocks and Will
likens. Living they do in the near
neighborhood OF Packingtown and hear
ing as they must more or less of the
talk of the meat trade. they naturally
when seeking for more profitable ways
of spending their money remember that
the cost of living is going up even while
they are trumping tricks. So now it has
become the fashion in Chicago for the
hostess at card party to offer for the
first prize prime tenderloin steak, and
perhaps for the second prize a bunch of
sausages. This system has a dual ad-
vantage. 1t enables the woman who has
spent an afternoon at the card table to
go home with the wherewithal for the
family dinner. instead of Juggling a gro
tesque vase-pronounced .vawhsze"-for
which she has no earthly use. Further
more. she is fairly well assured that she
is getting All original package. 1t would
indeed be enterprising but hardly ap-
propriate for q hostess to pass on a
secondhand steak to her prize winning
guest The assumption is strong that
prize of this character has never been
won before Then, too. the matter of
value is factor TO commend this sys-
tenn. Every one. especially in Chicago,
knows the prevailing prices of meats.
There is no bluf1ing a prize winner in the
matter of what the trophy cost. With d
pair of family scales and the daily mar
ket report the fortunate ganester can
assure herself accurately on this score.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30

The bachelor candidate for Governor of
Wisconsin promises to take a wife il
elected. strong bid for votes in a
contest where every vote will count. In
innate friends of the late David Il. Hill
used to tell. him jOkingly that he lost
the presidential nomination in 1892 be-
cause of. his bachelorhOod. He was re-
minded of Mr.. Buchanan. who reached
the White House, but wrecked his party.
but how about Cleveland" replied Mr..
Hill. And the reply to that was that
Mr.. Cleveland's real popularity did not
begin until his marriage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Turkish
Finances.
SPEEDY BRITISH JUSTICE.

From tho indianapolis Star.
Americas criminal lawyers should op-
serve the Crippen trial and then REFORM
From fine Council Bluffs Nonpareil
If the Crippen case had been purposeiy
MANNED as a lesson to America in dear
ing with criminals il could not nave
served tine purpose better.
From the Portland Press.
II took even less time for the Britisn
court to acouit Ethel Leneve than 1t dld
10 convict Crippen, and in ooth cases
there seems to be no doubt put justice
was done. They would hardly have got
ten a jury for Crippen in this country.
From the Baltimore Star.
The British jury seems to be thorough,
If not analytical.
From the Providence Evening Tribune.
In the matter OF criminal procedure
London may be expeditions, but 1T IS
evident that she doesn't know how to
nurse along sensation
From the Topeka State Journal
From the expeditions manner in which
the Crippen case was disposed OF In the
courts of England it would appear that
Jersey justice" has worthy rival.
From the Rochester Herald.
No one seems to be Directing to the
CELEBRITY OF British justice i'm the case OF
DIR. Crippen. Everybody is satisfied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Disfguring Signs.

1t would be an advantage TO all cOh'
cerned to the owners of property and 10
the agent in whose hands the properly
Is placed for disposition. and particularly
10 the city at large. if the zeal estate
dealers of Washington were TO get TO-
gether and agree upon a system OF sell
proclamation less disfiguring 10 the land
scape than that now in vogue. Wherever
one turns in those parts of the city That
are not solidIy built the spectacle presents
itself of vacant lots crowded with large
and small signs OF real estate dea ierS-
These boards are painted in all colors,
some of them in striking designs to catch
the eve 1t is not uncommon to see Il
single lot bearing the business announce
ments of half a dozen different firms.
The result is that the property itself is
rendered less attractive.
Would-be purchasers are surely not
persuaded of the value or desirability of
a building site by these bristling boards
Un the contrary, IL may be that these
ciamorous announcements deter a pro-
spectivc investor in real estate. The
urgency with which they press them
selves upon the attention of the passer
suggests that there has possibly been
conducive To trade would be the expendi-
ture of the money spent in signs in cart
ing away debris. IN cutting weeds and in
q little lawnmaking. A well trimmed
neat vacant lot is more likely to appeal
TO a man looking for a place to build a
home than Uttered. unsightly space at
the front of which ugly. tilted. weather
beaten boardings turn their unpleasing
faces TO the street.
In one of the northern cities progress
has been made in the direction of a
more artistic and effective proclamation
of real estate wares. In that city sew
eral of the leading firms dealing in this
commodity have adopted the practice of
keeping all their vacant properties in
parklike condition, with their business
announcements carried by small, ar
tisticaly lettered vanished boards placed
on the building line. These agents real
ize that the man who is looking for
property does not buy il on the strength
of the signs. He takes it because IL is
what he wants and he can get il for what
he can afford to pay for it. Desiring it,
he easily find the owner or the
agent, and a mere business card tackled
on tree box, if that were permitted,
indicating the person responsible for the
vacant property there in evidence would
serve his purpose and that of the owner
or agent just a. well six-foot board
sign On the other side. the agent with
d piece of property for sale has better
means of bringing The customer and the
lot together than the crude board sign
which he plants on the property. If all
dealers in real estate were to get down
10 one scale and recognize the rights OF
the citizens at large and the necessities
OF the community and its claims as an
attractive place of residence, this con-
dition, that now causes unfavorable COM
lnent on the part of observant visitors
would very quickly be changed for the
better.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30

One of the most interesting men of the
day Is Charles F. Murphy, leader Of
'rammany Hall. He has made good-or
bad. as you please-in a place where his
superiors in point of education and stand
ing failed. Lewis Nixon. a graduate of
Annapolis and successful in business.
tried HIS hand as TaTnmanys leader, at
Richard Cookers instance and with Mr..
Cookers assistance. but could not sustain
himself. John G. Sheahan, another man
of education and ability. tried his hand
and failed. Mr.. Murphy has succeeded.
He has two mayors to his credit-Mr.
Mcclellan and Mr.. Seynor-and for sew
erai years, until last January, he was
the master of New York city.
II is explained that he is the sort OF
man for the job. He understands the
rank and file of Tammany better than
q man of higher grade could hope to do.
He is close 10 the boys" He can mar
shall them in better form for election pur-
poses and get more out Of Them ON cleo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Pretension.

He summed the smile which, like the
sunny CLEAN
That sparkles even on Vfle deepest sea-
Strives DER each human countenance to
beam.
Stern was his Judgment: final his de-
cree.
He scorned the tears. this man of mental
might.
Which. like the passing rains that soft
~ flow
Upon the steadfast mountains Hottest
height,
Come mid the shadows that each heart
must know.
Aloof he stood where simple friends were
few.
Men journeyed far and at his feet would
To learn. Yet deep within himself he
knew
That they were wise and he hypocrite.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
BOURKE COCHRAN.

| From the Wilmington (Dell Every Evening.
/ Mr.. w. Bourke Cochran. the eminent
| orator of Tammany Hall for many years.
| has come out publicly in favor Of Roose-
velt's man Stimson for Governor of New
York. This move is not surprising. Dix,
the democratic nominee, is built on Cleve-
land lines, and il is well known history
how Cochran did not love Mr.. Cleveland.
From the Milwaukee Journal.
Bourke Cochran needs twenty-three
speeds back and ahead to make the po-
litical fops at the proper burst of inn
pulse.
From the Columbia State
Some one has declared that Bourke
Cochran is republican. but hastened TO
add-''this year" Bourke seems to have
found the Stimson crowd unsteady ard
shifting enCuSl TO suit his OWN habits.
From the Springfield Union.
In welcoming Bourke Cochran into the
republican fold we wish to serve notice
on other repentant democrats that the
latch string will be out until 1 o'clock in
the afternoon of November :. at which
hour double padlocks will be put on. and
the unredeemed left to their fate
From The Houston Post.
BOurke Cochran has embraced the new
nationalism. No theory, however wild.
woolly rambunctious, ever futters
around this country very long before
Bourke'e arms are around il.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
A Familiar New York Act.

Every time there is a shake-up in the
police department in New York the new
men who take the higher jobs at head
quarters go through about the same
process. One OF their invariable stunts is
to stroll into police station and begin
to ask impertinent questions. New York
is big town and police sergeant or
lieutenant can hardly be expected to
know everybody in his own precinct, let
alone the entire metropolitan district, as
does his rural prototype. the "constabule.' -
who knows every man, woman and child
for miles around. Now, when q bland
young person in civilian clothes strolls
into a station house and asks the man
at the desk how long he has been on the
force, and whether he is married or
single. how much property he owns, what
church he attends, what ticket he votes.
and all that sort of thing, it is natural
that the brass-buttoned functionary should
get peeved. That is the special function
of the police themselves, to ask inquisi-
tive, intrusive questions. And this being
so, when the newly named commissioner
or deputy reaches this stage in his pussy
footed Investigations into the real con-
dition of the police organization he is apt
to he met with swift reminder that
some people have made large fortunes by
attending to their own affairs. Then, of
course, comes the disclosure of identity.
the shocked surprise and swift apologies
of the police officer and the stern assump-
ton OF official prerogative by the new
chief. This has happened in probably
every station house in New York every
time that volcanic city passes through
the throes of police change. And every
time this tale is told unctuously in print
as evidence of the manner In which the
new police authorities are getting TO the
heart of things. As matter Of fact, this
is only getting to about the first layer of
fat. Real trouble in New York in the
police line cannot be reached and solved
by the newly appointed commissioner or
deputy commissioner doing the Harun-al
Rashid act
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30

ton day than IL he stood high above
them. His orders reach the spot, and are
obeyed
But Mr. Murphy is showing more ca
pacity than that for railying and working
tough men in politics. At Rochester he
dealt with men of the first grade. intel
lectually ard socially. and controlled
them. He bent them to his will. 1t was
not less than amazing 10 see Edward NJ.
Shepard. william F. Sheehan, Judge Her.
rick. John A. Dixon. Alton B. Parker
and others of that quality fetching and
carrying for this man. and afterward
indorsing with enthusiasm what had been
done under his direction. Neither Fer
nando Wood nor John Kelly was ever
so powerful in state politics as MIR. Muir
ply is today.
Suppose he wins at the polls. suppose
the democrats sweep the state, and for
tune throws in the legislature for good
measure. What will be Mr.. Murphys re-
ward? What will be his desire for him
self. He has a hearty appetite for fayors
He is rich. but probably wants more.
Most rich men do. And there will be coll-
tracts going. But how about Office?
Mr. Murphy would not appear to ad
vantage in the Senate. and probably has
no aspirations in that direction. But II
he carries the state he may aspire to
national influence, ana later ask for
something of an appointivc character.
Suppose lie heads the New York delega-
ton tn the next democratic national con-
vention. as he is likely to do II his pres
ent program is successful. and Mr.. Dix.
or another through his activity is nOmi-
mated and elected President. Would there
he a more influential man out of office in
the country: And if he wanted an Office
would he not ic likely to get one? But
what office?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Shively.

Senator Shively has lost none of his in
terest in the Indiana contest because of
disablement. From his bed he sends
words of cheer and confidence to his party
friends, and predicts victory Victory
means Mr. Kern for the Senate, and Kern
and Shively as colleagues in that body
should bring the two men together after
a period of bitter separation. 1t was Mr..
Kern who charged that the money OF
brewers had Influenced the legislature in
Mr.. Shively's election; but it has been i'm
possible to induce him to repeat the
charge in this campaign.