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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27
Amending the Sherman Act

The Stanley committee is about to
introduce number of amendments to
the Sherman act. They will be
brought in so late in the session it is
not reasonable to conclude that they
will be finally acted on this summer.
They will no doubt go over to the
short session.
One of these amendments throws
the burden of proof of reasonableness
on the defendant whenever in a suit
it shall appear that combination has
been entered into in restraint of
trade.
Another amendment provides that
any combination in restraint of trade
"shall be considered unreasonable
and in violation of the Sherman act
This too would render the course of a
trust in court more thorny, for it
creates statutory presumption of
guilt.
A third amendment provides that
any combination in restraint of trade
shall be considered unreasonable if it
controls more than 80 per cent of the
quantity sold in the United States of
any product.
These are radical amendments and
do not commend themselves to conser-
vative interests. They will soon be laid
before Congress and an effort may
be made to pass them in the House
and to place the responsibility upon a
Senate that is variously controlled
Senate that is not at any rate under
the control of the democratic party.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27
NEXT SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
ny c. e. STEWART

Washington. July 26.-fspeciai.)-If
son ething doesn't slip, Champ Clark will
probably be the next speaker of the
House of Representatives. That is, pro-
vided the democrats control the next
House, and it is pretty generally conceded
that they will.
This does not mean. however, that
champ Will walk off with the bacon with
out contest. He will have to put up a
fight for it, but the chances favor him.
Representative Bob Henry of Texas.
chairman of the rules committee. is gem
orally looked on as an aspirant for the
speakership. He is vigorous and able, a
strong progressive. and a Bryan man.
and also an original Wilson man. 1t may
happen before the time rolls round to or
ganize the next House that the Texas
member will have a powerful boom
started for the speakership.
However, Champs prospects are look
ing much better now than they did in
those doleful and distressing days for the
houn' dawg' over in Baltimore when
the husky gentleman from Nebraska and
divers other energetic persons were kick
ing that interesting animal around.
When Champ went down with his pres
dental aspirations crushed in heap at
the democratic convention, 1t was pretty
freely predicted that he would not re-
cover his political breath; that he would
loso the speakership along with the NOM
ination for President.
Recent developments, it is quite clear,
have not borne out these gloomy fore
casts. His friends In Congress have not
quit him. Quite the contrary-on the
other hand many of them sympathze
with him over the manner in which he
lost the nomination and are prepared to
fight for him for the speakership Then,
too, Mr.. clark's course since the nomina-
ton of Wilson and his ready acceptance
of the situation has won for him de-
served praise from his colleagues
When Oscar Underwood, leader of the
House. allowed his name to be removed
at Baltimore and made the nomination
of Wilson possible it gave rise to much
talk that Underwood would be the next
speaker. 1t cannot be questioned that
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27
THE SOUR MILK FALLACy
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Since Metchnikon published his re-
markable researches on the germicidal
properties of the Bulgarian Tactic acid
bacterium, and startled the world with
the theory that old age may be deferred
by destroying the putrefactive micro-or-
ganisms Astounding in the intestinal ca
nal. and to which he ascribed properties
hitherto unknown and undreamed of,
many enterprising individuals have
striven to utilize the discovery" for the
benefit of mankind, chiefly themselves.
A number of preparations of sour milk,
wet and dry, have been exploited, and the
usual gullibility of the public has made
them financially successful. Fortunately
little IL any harm has been done; per-
haps many have been benefited by re-
newing acquaintance with the tactical fluid
which gave them the first start in life,
and others have diminished the quantity
of alcohol to which their stomachs have
been accustomed by assuaging their thirst
with buttermilk to prevent hardening
of the arteries" 1t would seem therefore
an ungrateful task to destroy the happy
illusion that sour milk contains the Tactic
acid bacilli which kill intestinal putre-
faction and prolong life. The Sun must
tell the truth, however.
DR.. ]. C. Clark read a paper before the
American Medical association, which is
published in the last number OF its Jour-
nal, In which he demonstrates practically
what the experiments of White and
Avery showed three years ago, that the
true Bulgarian Tactic bacillus is the
only Tactic acid bacillus that destroys in
festival pntrefactive bacteria.
In the treatment of intestinal diseases
of children, summer complaints, he failed
to neutralize putrefaction with several
acid bearing bacteria preparations OBJ
tanned from Wanted sources, but when
he procured the true bacterium, lactis
Bulgaricus. from Johns. Hopkins hospital,
which had imported 1t from the Pasteur'
institute, he failed not in a single in
instance. DIR. Clark reports that without
change of diet the most severe types of
intestinal disease which had resisted the
action of other highly valued remedies,
including a favorable environment, yield
ed at once to the true Bulgarian bacillus.
He concludes that the negative results
previously obtained with the various
other dry cultures were unquestionably
due to the small numbers of the true Bull
garian bacterium In the tablets which
contained chiefly paralactic acid bacilli."
The latter would In common parlance
be called near tactic acid bacilli''
The lesson from this unbiased investl-
cation would be TO avoid taking the
Wanted preparations and to depend on
a physicians prescription and a reliable
druggist for filling it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27

BY Samuel Lover
The hour was sad left the maid,
A lingering farewell taking.
Her signs and tears my steps delayed,
I thought her heart was breaking;
In hurried words her name / blessed,
1 breathed the VOWS that bind me,
And to my heart in anguish pressed
The girl l left behind me.
Then to the east we bore away,
To win name in story.
And there. where dawns the sun of day.
There dawned our sun of glory:
Both blazed in noon on Alma's height,
Where. in the post assigned me.
shared the glory of that fight.
Sweet girl / left behind me.
Full many name our banners bore, I
OF former deeds of daring,
But they were of the days of yore,
In which we had no sharing;
But now, our laurels freshly won.
With the old ones shall entwined be,
Still worthy of our sires each son,
Sweet girl ! left behind me-
The hope of final victory,
Within my bosom burning, a
Is mingling with sweet thoughts OF thee,
And sof my fond returning;
But should ne'er return again.
Still worth thy love thou'lt find me.
pishonor's breath shall never stain
The name I'll leave behind me.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27
DEVOTION OF cOsIMA WAGNER

I'm the Track of a Cod in the August
Metropolitan.
For 80 years Cosima Wagner has de-
voted her life to the memory of her hus-
band in unfolding the festival perform
ances of his music dramas at Bayreuth
After this season "Parsifal," their sole
exclusive glory, will be wrested from
the theatre of wagner's own planning
and become the property of all the world.
AS yet only one institution. the Prinz
Regenten theatre at Munich, has agreed
not to take advantage of the expiring
copyright in 1918 and present the work.
Richard Wagner, man and composer,
has had written of him much that might
have been suppressed to advantage. But
this tremendous epilogue of a woman 5
love and its achievement has remained
unchronicled, and for these reasons: For
so years Madame Wagner has toiled self
effacingly, firmly refusing any personal
information for written mention; in not
a single one of the festival programmes
which she has brought to successful
close has her name appeared as its d.
rector: for 30 years she has not know
ingly allowed her photograph to be made
Its sale in Germany is legally forbid
den: the official history OF Bayreuth con-
tans not one alusion to her With every
energy concentrated OH heightening the
halo about her husbands memory. she
has been content to rest without in shad-
CIV History contains no more beautiful
instance of supreme wifely love.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27
THE BRONCO

Gilbert Parker in.-the August Metropoli-
tan.
When the Arizona bronco wishes TO ba
safe for you and for himself, he is the
safest thing in the world and when he
wishes to be unsafe, life is merry
chance. I went up and down trails in
Arizona which were almost perpendicu-
lar, and rough and stone-strewn. too:
but there was little danger for the bron-
co has, not the 'ten pound" but the
thousand pound" look! His nose is to
the ground, his eyes fastened on the
trail, his footstep the most beautifully
careful thing the mind can conceive.
One foot, placed before another eases.
preserves the balance, adjusts the weight
for another; and all this wonderful ma
chinery of equipoise, stability, and safe
ty you feel working under you like a DEL
icate machine. Yet this sage pioneer of
the trail, with his meticuous care of you
and himself, was just wild range pony.
hunted down by the range rider. driven,
coaxed, or duped into corral, broken,
saddled, bridled, and ridden all in one
hour; wrenched out of his wildness. hay
ing his heart broken and made into
slave while you would eat your break
fast. He is not beauty. he is just
mongrel; but his legs and his feet are
made of iron and steel, and the work he
does over awful trails, in rough and
ragged country, strewn with stones and
fiints and boulders and lava and scrub,
week after week. month after month and
year after year. would spoil the legs of
thoroughbred in three days.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27
CAMPAIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS

From the New York Sun
II is good news, and not for Governor
Wilson and the democrats only, that
small subscriptions for campaign ex-
penses are flowing into Seagrt multi
tudnously.
Those expenses, even IL cut down to
the narrowest necessity, take lot of
money Laws and a chastened public
sentiment. and possibly also their own
reluctance, WEAKNESS or groutiness,
prevent the old accustomed milking of
the corporations and the plutocrats.
1t is well If the peoples hand Is to
take the place of the capitalists hith-
erto perennially pulled leg" IL the
ancient blackmail Is no more; II, to put
the best face on an ugly habit, party
can go into and through canvass with
no angelic aid, with no suspicion of i'm
piled or possible obligation to anybody
but the mass of its members.
or course the Roosevelt or moosis
party is a privileged exception and
keeps herd of unusual good mike rs'
and great yielders. Not for nothing
does Its totem. the four legged moosis,
wear bag or pouch at his throat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27
Senator LaFolIette's Wool Bill

The standpat senators were unex-
spectedly defeated when the Senate by
a vote of 80 to 81 substituted the La
Toilette wool bill for the Underwood
bill. The. victory was achieved by a
union of republican progressives and
democrats. The progressives who
Joined the democrats were Messrs
Borah, Bristow, Clapp, Crawford
Cummins, Gronna, Kenyon, LaFol-
]ette, Poindexter and Works-10 in
ALL
The LaFollette bill provides for 9
duty of 80 per cent on raw wool, as
against a duty of 20 per cent in the
Underwood bill. The present duties
run from 10 cents to 33 cents pound
The LaFollette bill is the bill that
Rresident Taft vetoed in 1911, and the
hope is that it will be sent back to
him in 1912. The republicans have
stood in the way of cheaper clothing
ling time, preferring to levy 9
heavy tax on purchasers of wooler
clothing for the benefit Of the w
trust and the ring of ranch owners
in the far west.
If the LaFollette bill be sent back
to the President, the line between pro
lection of manufacturers profits anc
reasonable protection will be plainly
drawn. The President should be giver
q second chance to veto the moderate
\and wholly reasonable bill presented
" the Wisconsin senator. A second
Ito would place the President along
|de Penrose and the forces of re-
ction and tariff robbery. 1t would
kgain place him on his Winona plat
form.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27

! the withdrawal of Underwood's name
when it was withdrawn has been to
| strengthen Underwood in the House. But
there Is every reason why he is not likely
to be the next speaker. and the principal
one is that he does not want to be. Mr..
| Underwood prefers to remain chairman
/ of the ways and means committee and
| House leader
| This is but natural, and besides the
| Craftsmanship of the ways and means 10
position of more power than the speak,
ership, with the speakership shorn Of
its power to name committees. AS head
OF the ways and means, head of the
committee on committees. and the leader
OF the democrats. Mr.. Underwood is easi-
ly the most powerful figure in the House.
This is true now with a republican
President. and If Wilson is elected it
would be more true 1t is understood that
Mr. Underwood will have no opposition
10 his present place. He seems to have
the undisputed right to the leadership in
Congress.
naturally representatives of the demo-
cratic faith expect Wilson to be elected
President. They say that If Wilson is
elected the tariff will become of utmost
Importance and doubtless special ses-
sion will be called soon after inaugura-
ton next March to look after tariff leg
islation.
In such situation, It needs no blue
print to show that Underwood. as head
of the ways and means would be in q
position of great prestige and authority.
The speaker would be little more than a
figurehead beside him.
The House, therefore, will probably
proceed on the theory that Mr.. Clark
ought to have two terms as speaker, AMI
that he is entitled to Endorsement and
give it to him.
II is not believed that Henry will make
serious fight for the speakership, or go
so far as TO try to stir up the animosity
of Bryan or Wilson. against the speaker
to overthrow him and it is most likely
that the House organization will be along
the same line at present, SO far as the
personnel of the principal committees are
concerned.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27

sufficient labor even in spite of the recent
advances. Large orders have been placed
during the fast week for locomotives and
cars and shipments are way behind on
steel rails.
"All of this is having a stiffening ef-
feet on pig iron. In the east buying has
been more general and several large or
ders for malleable iron have been placed.
Contracts have also been closed by east
ern pipe manufacturers for big ton
mage of low grade iron from Virginia
furnaces. In the Virginia field things
are unusually strong. There the largest
pig iron producer is sold up solidly
through the third quarter of the year and
has only limited tonnage to offer for
the fourth -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27
A CLOCK STOPPED BY DEATH
From Harper's Weekly.

Il ioii harper , w eehiAs
The clock at Hampton Court Palace
derived its unpleasant title by reason
of a superstition that whenever any,
one long resident in the palace dies the
clock Immediately stops. 1t is of
record that when Anne of Denmark,
the Queen of James T. died the old time
piece was striking and that 1t stopped
almost before the last stroke sounded.
Since that time it is said to have re-
peated this grisly proceeding each time
a royal parsonage within its iurisdic-
ton died.
At any rate. the clock has an inter-
esting history quite aside from this. 1t
was the first astronomical timepiece
made in England, being constructed In
1910 for Henry VIII. Thirty-two years
ago it was brought out of a shed
wherein 1t had lain neglected for near
ly half century; and by order of the
then secretary of the office of works
it was re-erected in the courtyard OPP
posite the entrance to the state apart
ments. There is historical evidence to
the effect that it was built by one
Nicholas Crater. a German astronomer
who came to England at the invitation
of Cardinal Woolsey.
This old timepiece tells the hour, the
month. the day of the month, the posi-
ton OF the sun. and the number OF
days since the beginning of the year,
the phases of the moon and its age.the
hour at which 1t crosses the meridian,
and the time of high water at London
Bridge. The time required to wind II
is half an hour every week. The
weights have descent of more than
60 feet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27
MUSIC AND DEPRAVITY

1t is on par with that silly and Alto
gether mistaken belief that the sons Of
clergymen are always scamps. If the sons
of preachers are always bad, and IL mu-
.sicians are always moral wrecks. it will
not help our defense of musicians to say
that some musicians are the sons of cler-
gymen We shall make bold to affirm
however, that sons of sea captains should
never become aviators on any account
we are aware, of course that the above
statement means nothing. 1t will serve.
nevertheless, as our awful revenge on hu-
mainly. We cannot sit tamely by and
hear the world exclaim. with shaking
lot!''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27
Big Crops and Tame Campaign

August is near at hand and barring
Nscorching winds in that month it is
reasonably certain that the three
great crops will be ample-wheat,
corn and cotton.
A total wheat crop of $4,000, 900
bushels is now anticipated, and in
two weeks more it may have become
- certainty. A corn crop up to 3,O0o,-
poo, 900 bushels is also considered
probable, and Texas and Oklahoma
promise to make good any deficiencies
in other states in the cotton crop.
Upon the three great crops depends
he general prosperity of the coun-
", and at this time no one can see
locations of shortage in any one
the three.
The presidential campaign, too, has
ONE quiet, and no one anticipates
revival of interest in it before the
iddle of September. The business
terests are not disturbed over a
choice between Governor Wilson and
Mr.. Taft, and the wings of Theodore
\ Roosevelt have been clipped, He can
IT disturb the business situation, no
hat his programme and his
may be. A tame campaign
Re than probable, and the bust
Ness interests will not be alarmed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
Buried hopes require deep graves.
It's up to many reformers to reform
their theories
Many mans best friends are those
who know him least
Probably more men would kiss their
wives II it was forbidden.
Anyway. the man who builds castles In
the air is his own landlord.
Even perfectly cold cash will burn a
hole in the pocket of spendthrift.
"A cheerful spender never outlives his
popularity--if his money holds out
There is something wrong with the SER
mon that doesn't last over seven days.
A man may get the short end of it
because he imagines he is smarter than
the other fellow.
Don't try to learn everything worth
while Leave the world few unsolved
problems when YOU depart.
A burglar seldom gets low enough 10
rob widows and orphans-but the same
thing cannot always be said of fren-
Slei financier.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27
GOV. WILSON'S APPLE TREE

Washington Correspondence New York
Times.
The famous old apple tree near APP
pomattox Courthouse, Va, under which
Lee surrendered to Grant, long since
carried away piece by piece by souvenir
hunters, Is to be replaced by a tree
planted by Gov. Woodrow Wilson.
Col. George A. Ames, U. S. A, owner
of the Appomattox farm, has returned
to this city from visit to Governor
Wilson at Seagirt with the news that
the democratic presidential nominee
has accepted an invitation to visit the
historical place to plant the new tree
within the next few weeks.
1t Is expected that the trip to Vir-
ginia will be made with party in
GLIDING a number of senators and rep
resentatives and that visit will be
paid to Monticello. Jeffersons home.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27
The iron Market

The Birmingham pig iron market is
now firm at Sl2 on No. , basis There
is steady selling and the outlook for bust
ness is very bright. Matthew ,Addy &
Co.'s Cincinnati report just received says
in part:
Scarcity of labor, hot weather and un-
certainty of shipment. are all giving prices
an upward tendency. This week the
sentiment extends in every direction. The
principal interest has again centered in
the steel trade, where large advances
are being asked for prompt shipment of
plates, shapes and bars. Many of the
large steel companies find themselves
heavily oversold and, while they are put
ting forth every effort TO fill contracts
as promptly as possible. they find that
they have great difficulties to contend
with. 1t is hard for them 10 get hold Of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-27

"1f the democrats do not win this year
they might as well quit trying" said
Charles V. Andrews of Syracuse, N. Y.
II do not pretend to he political
prophet and my political experience has
been only that of voter, but it seems
to me that 1t will be hardly possible for
Wilson and Marshall to be defeated.
I'm 1892, when l was a young voter,
was for Hill as against Cleveland, but
after Mr.. Cleveland was nominated a
man did not have ITO be prophet to
see that he was going to sweep the coun-
try. Democratic victory was in the air.
Well, l think victory is mtre clearly in
the air now than 1t was even In 1892.
believe that New York will give the DEM
ocratic ticket big plurality. Friends OF
mine in Massachusetts tell me that state
will go democratic. | was in West Vir-
ginia recently and there seemed to be no
doubt among the democrats that that
state would return to the democratic
column.
Marshall is a very strong man. and he
can be counted upon to carry Indiana for
the ticket. l was inclined to think that
Underwood would have made the best
democratic standard bearer. but Wilson
has turned out to be one of the most
popular democrats we have ever had in
this country.