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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05
THE ALABAMA CONSTITUTION

with petty Jurisdiction should in the aggregate constitute one court, or a
 branch of the great court, but this
 branch of the court should have nu-
 merous local offices where papers may
 be filed and as many places for hearing causes in each county as the exigencies of business may require.
 The second branch would be a su-
 perior court of first instance with a general original jurisdiction at law, in equity, in probate and administration in guardianship and kindred matters and in divorce. It should also have gen.
 eral criminal jurisdiction. It should have mum erous local offices where pa pers may be filed. and at least one
 regular place of trial i'll each county.
 Some one high official of the
 court should be charged with super
 vision of the judicial business of the
 whole court, and he should be respon- sible for failure to utilize the judicial
 power of the commonwealth effec-
 lively. And the third great
 branch of the court would be single court of appeal to which causes must go directly for review upon the law
 from the county courts or from any division of the superior court All the Judges of the commonwealth should be Judges of the whole court
 The plan, then, proposed Is simple. is neither academic, experimental or revolutionary. It has been in success full operation in England since 1873 and In the unified municipal courts of Chicago, whose business organization secured the utmost economy, efficiency
 and impartiality in the administration of law in the second largest city in the country This plan for the unifica- tion of the judicial system was in dorsed by the special committee of the American Bar association in its re- port in 1909, the committee being en- titled "A special committee to suggest remedies and formulate proposed laws to prevent delay and unnecessary cost in litigation
 The committee says:
 The first principle which the commit tee desires to submit is that of unifica- ton of the judicial system. The whole judicial power of each state, at least for civil causes, should be vested in one great court, of which all tribunals should be branches departments or divisions.
 The business as well as the Judicial ad- ministration of this court should be thor oughly organized so as to prevent not
 merely waste of judicial power, but all
 needless clerical work, duplication of pa-
 pers and records and the like, thus ob-
 viating expense to litigants and cost to
 the public.
 In speaking of this plan. the commit
 tee says that while the whole judicial
 power should be concentrated in one
 court, the court should be constructed
 in three branches: 1. County courts, in-
 cluding municipal courts, having exelu-
 sive Jurisdiction of all petty causes, all
 of them to constitute one branch with
 numerous local offices where papers may
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(which you don't MT. Caudle, old as you are), you'd know what nice dia- mond earrings will sometimes do. But then. of course. you don't notice these things and your opposition to ear rings comes from that little Tattletale mink not wearing them. I heard her say once that she didn't think a girl should wear anything near her face that would detract from the brilliancy of her eyes and of course everybody knows that diamonds do detract be- cause they are brilliant
 Do let you go to sleep now? Not until we've decided the question of a country home, Mr. Caudle. Not until you give me permission to get the real estate men to find us home so that you will soon be a we'll man. Are you grooming or snoring, MT. Cau- dle? Eh. which? Wake up, Mir. Cau- dle This question must be decided before this night passes. I may do so if I like? You couldn't be any more bored In country home than you are in a city home and there might be chance occasionally of getting a wink of sleep? Well. of all the mean ungrateful. disagreeable creatures I've ever known it Is yourself. MT. Cau- dle."
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What's that? I'd be tired of it in a month Indeed I wouldn't. Mir. Cau- d1e; I tell you I was made for the country; but you've kept me in the city-this filthy, dirty, grimy, horrid city! Much you care for your wife and such a wife as I've been to you and your family to keep 'em here to be all smoked up like bacon when they could be breathing the fresh, wholesome air of the pure country This city life with its turmoil and worry is undermining the childrens growth. They'll be dwarfs before you know 1t. MT. Caudle. and they'll have their father to thank for 1t, too. If you had the heart of a parent you couldn't look into little Willies white, pinched face without crying. Dear lit scarcely touches his breakfast Whats that? He ate six batter cakes this morning? A pretty father you are to count what your own child eats for breakfast But that's nothing to what the child could do if he only had a chance, poor dear.
 Just think MT. Caudle, how com fortable we'd be if we had a country place! The children could have a sleep ing porch of their own and you and I could have ours. and you'd wake up each morning refreshed and rejuyen- ated to start to business and what pleasure 1t would be for me to pin a Sweet William or a pink in your buttonhole just as I may say, to tick ct you from the country. Don't talk
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 that bores a woman to death it is whining. complaining, puny man hanging around the house all day, to say nothing of the terrible nights. What's that? You are not sick? Isn't that just like man-headstrong vim dictfve, contradictory? You may say as much as you please, MT. Caudle, that nothing ails you. but know perfectly well that no human being could be as disagreeable as you unless there was something radically wrong with him. There ain't no sich anirnal!'
 What's that? You hate to keep on contradicting me, but you must tell me once and for all you are not a sick man? All right, MT. Caudle; you may tell me so until you are black in the face, but you are a sick man just the same; l know; what are the eyes of wife for, MT. Caudle-and such a wife as I've been to you-if they can't see when husbands sick or well? You've been turning like tallow for more than a month now; ever since the Tattle-tale's party, when you drank so much; I told you then you'd have to pay for it. Whats that? You know did? Certain ly; I'm glad you at least remember one thing I've told you. Moreover, MT. Caudle. you've eaten nothing for a month now except little dainties that I have had to go in the kitchen and prepare myself, and if there's anything
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such foolishness, you say? Ahi ha! MT. Caudle. that proves that you are sick man; such tenderness and thoughtfulness would appeal to a well man, but then I don't know; you never were like other men; its the fashion this back to- the-f farm movement all over the country. but you-you-wel you cant leave your club and your golf links and your poker games. That's 1t; you'd be obliged to be at
 home some evenings If you lived in the
 country like any other decent man,
 but that wouldn't appeal to you, sir. No, indeed-y. Whereas, you might en-
 joy yourself under the shade trees and on the greensward of your own country place, you chose to remain in stuffy, hot, unhealthy town house all summer long.
 What's that? You suppose I will be ransacking the country tomorrow for a place? Not tomorrow MT Cau
 dle. for I'm going to have little El
 lies ears bored tomorrow. Whats that? You don't wish it? You con- slider it a barbarous custom? Well, it shall be done just the same, for what chance does a girl stand to be mar ried unless she wears earrings and how can she wear earrings unless her ears are bored? My ears were bored
 grandmother's on my mothers side, and little Ellie shall not be neSlsct- ed, for I expect to do everything to make her attractive so that she may do we'll when it comes to matrimony If you knew anything of the world
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court has but little control. It is im- portant that the legislature should not undertake the formulation of detail rules for the business administration of the courts, but only to lay down general principles and leave 1t to the court to regulate details and to alter and inn prove the rules as the problems are met and the best solutions for them ascer- taned.
 There is another consideration of con- tr olling importance in favor of a uni fled and thoroughly organized system of courts with a simplified practice, and that is the decrease in the number of judges and the expenses of the judicial department The committee of the American Bar association summed up the advantages of such an organization of the courts, of judicial business and the clerical and administrative work of the court as follows:
 '1. That it would make real judicial department The several states, they say, have courts, but they do not have any true judicial department
 '2. It would do away with the waste of judicial power involved in our pres ent system of separate courts with hard and fast personnel Where judges are chosen for and their competency is re- stricted to rigid districts or circuits or courts, it is a familiar consequence that business may be congested in one court while judges in another are idle The judicial department should be so organ ized that it's whole force may be ap- piled to the work in hand for the time being, according to the exigencies of that work
 "3. That 1t would do away with the bad practice of throwing causes out of court to be begun over again in cases where they are brought or begun in the wrong place. They may be transferred simply and summarily to the proper branch or division or rules may pro- vide that the cause be assigned at the outset to the place and division to which it belongs and no question of jurisdic- tion will stand in the way
 A. It would do away with the great and unnecessary expense involved in the transfer of causes, obviating ali necessity of transcripts, bills of ex- captions. certificates of evidence and
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the like, and permitting original files, papers and documents to be used since each tribunal as a branch or divl- sion of the whole court. may take judicial notice of all files, papers and documents belonging to the court.
 '5. It would obviate all technical ities. intricacies and pitfalls of appel : late procedure. An appeal would be merely motion for new trial or for modification or vacation of the judg- ment before another branch of the same great court. It would require no greater formality of procedure than any other motion.
 "6. It would do away with the un- fortunate innovation upon the com | mon law by which venue is place where an action must be begun, rath- CT than a place where it is to be tried, so that mistake therein may defeat an action entirely instead of resulting merely in a change of place of hear ing. This innovation is especially un- fortunate when it is applied to equity causes where originally there was no venue. If all tribunals are parts of one court there need be nothing be- yond transfer of the cause. All pro- ceedings up to the date thereof may
 be saved.
 e. It would obviate conflicts be-
  ton, such as unhappily obtain too often in many localities under a con- pletely decentralized system, which depends wholly on the good taste and sense of propriety of individual judges or on the slow process of appeals to prevent such occurrences. AS most of our courts are organized at present there is nothing to prevent any judge from trying any cause pend i,,er ira ha ,rf h al fnr eign to the work he and his col i leagues have agreed he shall attend | to.
 IS. It would allow judges to become l specialists in the disposition of par l ticular classes of litigation. The pre- vailing system of rotation Is unfor- l tunate. Usually where there are a number of judges they take up in TO- l tation civil trials with juries equity | causes and criminal cases. By keeping a judge continuously occupied in one class of cases he becomes thoroughly familiar herewith, and this speciali- zation was the real advantage of the separate courts of law and equity. | Instead of separation between law and equity in procedure the desirable thing is separation in administration. The way to obtain this is to organize the court in such way that the judges may De dSslS leu permanently 70 the work in which they prove most fit. "9. It would bring about better su- pervision and control of the admin istrative offices connected with judi cial administration and make 1t pos sible to introduce improved and more business-like methods of the making of Judicial records and clerical work of the courts"
 All thess plans for the unification and simplification of the organization of our courts could only be put il, operation by amendments to the pres ent cons titution.
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machinery to enforce his recommenda- tions.
 The delay as well as the expense inci- dent to the trial of civil and criminal cases, due largely to unscientific tyne of court organization and to rigid rules of practice and procedure formulated bv the Legislature, instead of by the courts. the thousands of petty, frivolous and un- founded prosecutions in misdemeanor cases, inspired by the fee system, which clog the dockets of our criminal courts. nave all become growing evil and chal- lenges the consideration of the bar and or all who are interested in giving the state more economical and speedy ad ministration of our civil and crininay laws
 REFORMING JURISDICTION
 The remedy then for these conditions IS the reform of the Jurisdiction and organization of our courts The Eng fish court reform act of 1873 is a model of modernized courts. It Is, therefore. unnecessary for us to attempt to se- cure reform of our courts by the intro auction of legislation of an experi- mental nature. As Hon. Henry Upson Sims states in his admirable essay on Reforming Judicial Administration. :, the new system of courts created by the English judicature act of 1873 not AoAAiy Slltl WOIkS SdtlSIdCCOr1lY in Eng land, but has been accepted as a mod ell by students of reform and critics of common institutions all over America as we'll"
 The limits of his address will not permit an adequate summary of the English judicature act and will there fore content myself with quoting the conclusions of modern critic, Prof. Roscoe Pound of Harvard. applied as his general recommendations for Amer ican adoption, as found in the article mentioned by Mir Sims. Professor Pound. says:
 "The whole judicial power of each state should be vested in one great court, of which all tribunals should be branches. departments or divisions. This court should be constituted in three chief branches: CD county courts or municipal courts: CD superior court of first instance. fs) and single ultimate court of ap- peal The first should have exclusive Jurisdiction of all petty causes. There should not be separate judge for each locality. Instead, all the courts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05
EVEN CROSS, SICK CHILDREN LOVE SYRUP 0F FIGS If feverish, bilious, constipated, give fruit laxative
 at once

Don't scold your fretful. peevish child. See if tongue is coated; this is sure sign its little stomach, liver and bowels are clogged with sour waste
 When listless, pale. feverish, full of cold. breath bad. throat sore, doesn't eat, sleep or act naturally, has stomach ache. indigestion, diarrhoea, give a tea spoonful of California Syrup of Figs" and in a few hours all the foul waste, the sour bile and fermenting food passes out of the bowels and you have a well and playful child again. Chil- dren love this harmless fruit laxative" and mothers can rest easy after giving 1t, because 1t never fails to make their little insides" clean and sweet
 Keep 1t handy. Motheri A little given today saves sick child tomorrow, but get the genuine. Ask your druggist for 50-cent bottle of California Syrup of Figs which has directions for babies. children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on the bottle Remember there are commercials sold here. so surely look and see that yours is made by the "California Fig Syrup Company" Hand back with contempt any other ng syrup.--Adv.
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if 1t doesn't straighten you right ,1p want you to go back to the store and get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying the sale of calomel because etable, therefore, it can not salivate Or make you sick.
 guarantee that one spoonful of Dod- liver to work and clean your bowels Of that sour bile and constipated waste which Is clogging your system and that bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire family feeling fine for months. Give it to your children. if is harmless; doesn't gripe and they like it's pleasant taste.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05
Ca|ome| Users! Listen To Me!
 Guarantee Dodson's Liver Tone Your druggist gives back your money if it doesn't iven your liver and bowels and straighten
 you up without making you sick.

Ugh! Calome1 makes you sick It's horrible! Take a dose of the dangerous drug tonight and tomorrow you may lose days work.
 Calomel is mercury or quicksilver Calomel, when it comes into contact with sour bile, crashes into it, breaking it up. This is when you feel that awful nausea and cramping. If you are slug gish and "all knocked out" if your liver is torpid and bowels constipated or you have headache, dizziness, coated tongue, if breath Is bad or stomach sour, just try spoonful of harmless Dodsons Liver Tone tonight.
 Here's my guarantee-Go to any drug store and get 50 cent bottle of Dod- sons Liver Tone. Take spoonful and
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A Feather for Our Cap

Sydney Brooks in Everybody's.
 The last two years have splendidly demonstrated to the world the vigorous enterprise and daring of American man. ufacturers and the astonishing intelligence and adaptability of American labor in connecting with munitions making. They have been severely tested; they have borne the test with success that must have surprised themselves: they have raised the reputation of American indus trialism abroad to a level 1t had never reached before. And what they have &C., complished for the allies is, of course, as nothing by the side of what they can and will accomplish for their own coun- try.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05

and onions and radishes and our own beans and beets. They are ten times as sweet as those you buy out of the mar ket. And ten times as dear? There you go, MT. Caudle; anything that l fancy you always bring up the ex- penses"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05

Plans for the construction of tun- mel under the English channel and the linking up of the east and west coast of scotland by ship canal have been engaging considerable attention lately. More recently the proposal to bore a tunnel beneath the Irish sea has been revived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05

That Italian prodigy of learning. Ig natius de Dosal, made the boast that if any one could repeat a line from any of the four great poets of Italy, he would followed it by reciting 100 lines following in due order of succession. an on a trial being made he actually accomplished the feat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-05

from March 31 to October 31, 1916, 1o5 motor cars were landed at the port Of Bangkok and 616 cycles, including mo- torcycles.
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Up to March 31, 1916, licenses had been issued in Bangkok for S75 motor cars, 2S1 motorcycles and 109 motor boats and during the seven months
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Ole Miss, de WOLF has been known ter cum to de Door disguised as-OPPOR- Yassum.
The midland journal., 1917-07-27
BETHEL.

Mr.. and Mrs. U. G. Demond enter
tanned Baltimore visitors on Sunday
last.
Mrs. Walter r. Dennison and two
children, Mrs. Millard Preston and
son Woodrow, Mrs. David Anderson
and daughter Pearl, of Wilmington,
Del, spent Friday with Mrs. w. A.
Dennison.
Miss Sarah Phillips is spending
some time with her sister, Mrs
Myrtle Reynolds, of Wilmington.
There is quite an excitement pre-
vailing in this vicinity on account of
the War Draft, there being a num-
ber of our young men called.
Mr. and Mrs. George Oliver and
Mr.. Frank Boulden, of Wilmington,
were Sunday guests of their sister,
Mrs. James B. Russell.
Master Clifford Lynch, of Elkton,
is visiting his grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. d. Phillips, of near North
East.
Mr.. Kelly has removed his cream,
cry from Belvidere to Leslie and will
soon be ready for operation.
The B. & O. Railroad Company
is having two bungalows and com
missary erected on their property at
Leslie to accommodate 100 men.
The midland journal., 1917-07-27
Master Walter Mccall of Philada.

Master Walter Mccall of Philada.,
is visiting his grandmother, Mrs.
Emma Poist
Mr.. Milton Jenness, of Conowingo,
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Clinton L. Thompson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Brown and
Master Wilmer, motored to the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Mahan, of Church
vile, Sunday for the day.
Mrs. Mary Palmer, of Overlook
Pa, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Gather.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson, of Baltic,
spent several days this week with
the latter's brother, Mr. James
Archibald.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. SINNERS, of
Rising Sun, spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. ]. D. SINNERS.
The midland journal., 1917-07-27
WEST NOTTINGHAM.

Rev. Henry Faulconer and family,
of Baltimore, are occupying the
manse. Mr.. Faulconer will shortly
begin series of evangelistic meet
ings at West Nottingham church.
Mrs. Rose Woodrow entertained
her sister, Nan, and friend over Sun
day.
Miss Ella Orr returned last week
from a delightful visit to her aunt
in Chester.
Mrs. Louisa Jenness and Mrs. VIM.
T. Jenness were among the callers
on Mrs. George H. Thompson during
her illness last week.
G.. G. Sill, of Baltimore, spent
Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Mary
Sill.
Rev. F. H. Huffman, pastor of
West Nottingham church, enjoyed a
visit from his brother, Prof. G. l..
Huffman, recently. Prof. Huffman
is Superintendent of schools at Mil
dred, Montana.
Harry Dinsmore lost a valuable
horse last week. The animal fell
and broke it's leg, and had to be
killed.
The manse has undergone i'm
provement by interior painting.
Burton Wiley and bride are spend
ing some time at the home of his
parents here.
Our heart goes out to the boys in
this neighborhood who have been
drafted by Uncle Sam for war
service.
Mr.. G. w. Bryan, who is stopping
with Mrs. Geo. H. Thompson, was at
his home in Baltimore for more than
a week, being detained by illness.
Harry B. Weldon, who has been
employed for some time in a silk
mill in Chester, became suddenly
deranged last week at his boarding
house in that city. He has since
been committed to an institution
near Baltimore.
: Rev. and Mrs. John A. Nesbitt, his
mother, Mrs. Jennie NesDitt, and
sister, Miss Belle Nesbftt, Cations
Vile, Md, will spend months va
cation at the Dormitory, West Not
tingham.
J. C. Naudain lost his faithful old
family horse this week. The animal
had to be killed because of its help
lessness. 1t was 33 years old.
The midland journal., 1917-07-27
BASE BALL.

Perryvine dropped another game
to Rising san On Sasardsa afternoon
by a score of 10 to 2. The game
was played on the home grounds,
and was a batting matinee for the
local boys. Kirk led with a home
run and two-bagger; Taylor had two
two-baggers to his credit, while
White got a three-bagger. Perry
vile could do little with the pitching
of Jack Reynolds, who was on the
slab for Rising Sun. Devon, a
popular player on the local team of
former times, got into the game
again, after an absence of several
years, and caught in his old time
form, lined out a pretty single and
instilled confidence and hustle in the
younger members of the team. The
score: