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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger 66 HERE is photograph, with
 which most of us are no doubt
 < familiar of Mark Twain at work in bed-holding his writing paq on his knee, and having the things he needed for his labor disposed about on tables on either side. But the idea of working in bed was not orfglnal with Mark. Many eminent men before him did the same thing. Indeed, no small part of the worlds literata-y treasures has been produced between the sheets by physically indolent al u. ough mentally active men of genus
 One of the best known lines in Eng fish poetry came into it's authors head when he was actually asleep. While visiting at Minto, Thomas Campbell one evening went to bed early, with his mind full of a new poem. About ? o'clock in the morning he suddenly vakened repeating, "Events to come cast their shadows before" Ringing the bell sharply, he summoned a serv- ant. The man found Campbell with one foot in bed and one on the floor"
 Are you i'll. sir?" he asked.
 T was never better in~my life said the poet. Leave the candle and bring me>a cup of tea
 SeiZng his pen he put down the happy thought, changing "events to come" into coming events" and over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

The 0. f. man who used to take his vacation at Atlantic City so he could see the sights on the beach now has son who stays al home because he can see more on the streets of his home town.
 She may get lot of waiting on during the honeymoon. But she'll get up first and wait on him before they are married long.
 A whole lot of men use the street cars because they are too short winded to crank a flivver and too poor to buy a real automobile.
 Another wall-eyed liar is the man who says he isn't superstitious. Every man is superstitious about something
 Another queer thing is that the more worthless the man the better the woman he marries.
 After all, it isn't so much the cost of living as the incidentaPexpeAses.
 There is room for everybody in this world. The trouble is that we all want front room.
 Any man can tell you that if it wasn t for his running expenses he could win in walk.
 A woman can make a guess and back it against her husbands good judgment and be right nine times out of ten.
 What has become of the old-fashiones, Frenchman who used to fight duel every week or two?
 There would not be any credit business done if it were as hard to get into debt as it is to get out.
 Women are queer. A girl of 20 tries to act like widow of 40, and a widow of 40 tries to act like girl of 20.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
BENEDICT ARNOLD

with the traitor, they despised him. When his commission expired at the conclusion of peace they refused to renew it. His repeated applications for new command, even when the outbreak of the French revolutionary wars would have made his well known military talents of great value to England, fell upon deaf ears. On all sides he was snubbed and scorned. Grad ually the consciousness of the contempt with which he was regarded both in America and Great Britain produced d state of melanchola aggravated by a ner- vous disease, and he died in 1901 a victim at last of his own treachery and guilt.
 Had Arnold been captured with Corn wallis in the Yorktown trap, or had the British exchanged him for Andre, he suredly would have been hanged, but tdere was never any question of assassin ating him. That is not the American way. And had it been, duty would have made it encumbent upon the British to give him protection. America. now that she finds herself in a position not unlike that which confronted the British cen tury and half ago, must afford the men whom fate has put in her care full and ample protection must carry out to the letter her bargain with them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12

From the New York Evening Sun.
 7GJHE strange case of two German of
 ficers who revealed vitally impor-
 tant secrets to the American army in the campaigns of 1918 and are now brought to this country for protection against the vengeance of their fellow comrades, inevitably recalls the case of Benedict Arnold. The British cannot be blamed for accepting the services of Ar mold. Not to have done so would have been folly. The possession of West Point meant the control of the Hudson, the iso- laton of New England and perhaps a speedy suppression of the revolution. So they made their bargain with the traitor.
 Although their plans went awry the British carried out to the full their part of the bargain. Arnold was commissioned as brigadier general in their army for the dura tion of the war and received the sum of e6315; his family was pensioned by the government. Moreover full protec- tion was afforded him from the revenge which his betrayed countrymen longed to take upon him. The offers of Washing ton to give the unfortunate Andre in ex- change for him were firmly rejected, and safe asylum was given him in England.
 But though the British kept strict faith
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
.Alabama's Drastic
 Prohibition Law

M PROPOSAL has been made in SS the state legislature to amend the Weakley bone-dry prohibition law of Alabama which provides for the confiscation of mans property which has been used, with or without his knowledge, in making, selling or trans porting whisky
 Under a strict interpretation of this law, the owner of a residence, store room, farm, wagon, automobile or oth- CT conveyance where liquor is found may lose his property, although he may prove that he had no knowledge that the law was being violated. A a case in point was the discovery of a large "still" on farm in Alabama owned by pr. P. A. Baker, superin- tendent of the Anti Saloon league of America. Instances have been num- erous where rented houses and stolen automobiles were utilized in the con traband liquor. traffic.
 The law, as it now staYds, is con- trary to the fundamental idictum that the accused is presumed Innocent until proven guilty. In Alaba1ha, so far as liquor violations are co9cerned, he is guilty until proved innocent. The in- justice of such a law is manifest. A man may commit murder, but his property is not confiscated and his family turned out into the street. Yet, a person who makes gallon of liquor on his premises can be deprived of his property. If the house belongs to someone else, the innocent owner must suffer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
kilby's Revenue Plan
 a Bitter Pill to Swallow

THE AGE-HERALD confesses that
 1 it is grievously disappointed in the temper and tone displayed by Governor Kilby in his intemperate statement directed against those who criticize the administration revenue bill. It bears no earmarks of a states man who is making an honest effort to be fair to all interests in every statement of facts and in the conclu- sions reached; but gives evidence of having been issued under the heat of political passion, thereby losing much of it's weight.
 If it had been made on the stump under the provocation of an antagon- ist it might have been pardoned; but it's heated language used in care fully prepared paper and given to the press will arouse in the minds of some of his friends a suspicion that he has dropped the role of an executive and has become a special pleader and con- sequently injured his case in the eyes of right-thinking men.
 If it be true, as the late lamented Tom Reed, the master of repartee, said, Politics is mostly pill-taking, J we beg the governor, who went into office as business man, not to give the iron and coal interests such a drastic dose, for it may prove to be g knockout droD.' and in any event
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
TWENTY YEARS AGO
 IN THE AGE-HERALD Events Recorded August t2 1899

The military cast of France is furi-
 in the Dreyfus trial The judges al Rennes are reported to be strongly prej-
 udiced against the exile and French
 officers desert the Dreyfusards as il
 they were lepers.
 The Cunningham guberna torial boom
 was practically launched yesterday
 when Staje Senator Cunningham ana Congressman Jesse Stallings spoke al the annual barbecue given by the peo,
 pie of Lawrence county near Moul, ton. Two thousand people heard the
 orators.
 Ponce. in Porto Rico, is a scene ol
 death and ruin as a result of the re cent hurricane. Two hundred bodies
 have been recovered so far.
 An Admiral Schley Day" is one ol
 the possibilities of the state fair to bt held in Birmingham next November. A
 Birmingham gentleman wrote to Col A K. Mcclure. editor of the Philadelphia Times, close friend of the admiral inviting Colonel Mcclure to visit tho south and asking if 1t were possible for him to induce Admiral Schley tc accompany him. NColonel Mcclure re piled that he could not come himself but thought Admiral Schley intended tt make a tour of the south in the au- tumn and believed he would accept ar invitation to Birmingham. Horace Sessions, president of tn, Sessions Land company, and a real es tate promoter of great ability died las night at the Hiilman hospital of ap pendicitis.
 The Friel murder mystery has no yet been solved. although the coroner and the Birmingham police are working hard on the case.
 Ped Hickman. Birmingham's cham pion amateur bicyclist last Monday a the Berkley Oval in New York, rode i mile behind one of the new tanden l motor pacing machines in the astonish ! ing time of one minute and 4s seconds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
pr. billiard Kept Busy

T had the pleasure of hearing Dr. B. F. Riley, our great Baptist historian, preach an interesting, informing and in- spring sermon at the Southside Sap tist ch1rch on Sunday morning., said A. L, Smith. He was filling the pull pit in the absence of our pastor, pr. James E. billiard, who was called to New York on an important mission con- nected with the endowment of the Jud- son. pr. Riley told us that with the denomination making such demands upon pr. billiard, that we might as well reconcile ourselves to the fact and take it as a compliment and~not complain on account of his abserse from his pulpit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
MT. Harding's Suggestion
 to Reduce Cost of Living

TN replying to George P. Mclean,
 0 chairman of the committee on
 banking and currency of the United States Senate, who had addressed an inquiry to the federal reserve board Iasking if legislation should be passed to contract currency as a means to fight the high cost of living, Gov 'ernor W. P. G. Harding shows that this is not the remedy. MT. Harding's advice is "to work and save"
 Until the governments war obliga-
 tions now carried by the banks are absorbed by the savings of the peo- pie postwar conditions in the nations finances will continue, says Mir Hard ling. The increase in the volume of
 notes in circulation is the effect and mot the cause of high wages and high prices. A greater production and dis tribution of commodities is essential to meet the demand for necessities and thereby reduce prices, while ex-
 travagance and indulgence in Iuxuries
 should be discouraged.
 As matter of fact, the per capita
 circulation of the country decreased from $49.13, December 1, 1918, to IS45.16 on the first of this month. The total circulation was $5,129, 1885 ,000
 in December of last year, compared to la present circulation of $4,796, ,S90,- 1000. The increase in currency has been due to larger pay rolls, higher
 wages, more money carried by indi- viduals or kept out of banks by highly Ipaid workmen unfamiliar with bank ling methods, money carried back to Europe by aliens and prosperity in countries such as the Philippines, Cuba, Hawaii and~ Central America, where American money circulates freely
 MT. Harding makes frank and ex- plicite summary of the present fi-
 nancial situation, which is instructive
 and should be of interest not only to
 bankers, but to all classes of people His advice "to work and to save' is timely and offers the speediest as
 we'll as the most practical method tc lreduce the cost of living.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12

will leave a bad taste in the mouth of some of his best friends who want him to make good.
 The weight of taxation falls heavily on this district. Governor Kilby, in his statement given to the press, pointed out the need for larger reve- Inue if Alabama was to be sent for ward on progressive lines.
 The Age-Herald stands for wise progress, but in these days when the government is preaching thrift the state should not weight down any in- dustry with taxes too heavy to pear under the plea that the money is to be raised for good purposes.
 National as we'll as state economy lis fast becoming lost art. The 'spenders are in the saddle while the savers are afoot In former times a statesman could win popular approval by restraint in taxation and frugality in expenditure, but now there seems to be glamor over big budgets.
 Thrift and economy are needed in the running of Alabama, for they lie not merely at the basis of prosperity, but even its life depends upon the two. There is danger that the state will tax the substance out of property in it's effort to find money for it's ex- |pensive budget. We beg to call the governors and the legislatures atten- tion to the fact that industry falls for lack of capital and there is nothing to support labor. Great enterprises have been destroyed from the weight Iof taxation. Be careful, or iron and |coal development will be hindered to the extent that they will be unable to bear profit and mines and factories will have to be abandoned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
Tribute to Judge Sharpe

No matter who is named to com plete the term of Judge Sharpe, it will require d very close searching to find a man that will be as good in his place as Judge Sharpe said Rufe Bivens. His experience on the su- preme court bench and his other ex- perience as jurist and lawyer fitted him admirably for the place that he occupied. His judgment was proven by the repeated sustaining of his dec!
 sions by the supreme court. There are very few judges in the state who have such a small percentage of de- cisions reversed by the higher court"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
Soldiers Crowded on ships

T was mighty glad to learn that my brother, Lieut.. Robert Leary. after long service overseas, had reached this coun try, and is now with father and mother in the east" said William Leary. He did not voice his complaints, but l saw a newspaper clipping written by Baltimore newspaper correspondent telling of the hard trip the men had undergone on the ship which brought a large consignment of the men home. It appears the soldiers and many offi- ing and the poor quality of the food served"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
PRIMED

Your client made a good showing when asked on the witness stand who Napoleon was"
 "So he did," replied the attorney for self-made millionaire. He enjoyed his after court adjourned that while he was coming to the trial in his private car he happened to pick up one of the late magazines that contained an article about the mighty Corsican."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
Posterity and the Bond Issue

Ut behooves every citizen of Birming- ham who really has the interest of his city at heart to vote for the proposed S,- 500000 bond issues," said Sidney Bowie yesterday.
 Some will say that we are placing a burden of taxation upon posterity, which we should not do without their voice in the matter, It is for the benefit of our children that we are doing this, and let us hope that they will do as well by their children as we propose to do by ours.
 These are not new projects we are putting before the people, l hope tAat they will uphold their former decisions in this respect"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
Carnegie As Industrial
 Captain and Renefactor

|MF the many examples which this " country has presented of men starting in poverty and accumulating wealth and rising to eminence in the business and social world, Andrew Carnegie, who died yesterday at the age of eighty-four, was by far the most conspicuous.
 The story of his life reads like a romance. It stirs the imagination and excites wonder. As one of his biog- raphers remarked, None of the mighty makers of their own fortunes began closer to absolute zero; cer- ltainly none who have owed success not to fortunate speculations, but to steady labor, sagacity and self-cul- ture, the natural working of the high est powers on opportunities open to all ani less to him than to most" Born in Scotland he emigrated, with his father, to America when a boy of ten, and obtained employment at twenty cents day in textile mill. He had pluck and aspiration and early displayed aptitude for clerical work. While still a small boy he entered the service of telegraph company as a messenger, at Pittsburg. Out of his slender wages he supported his mother
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
OUT OF THE QUESTION.

OUT OF THE QUESTION. You could be happy with me if you tried
 Don't pursue the matter further, AL gernon,' responded the languid beauty. T quite exhausted myself going through finishing school and acquiring the various accom- mplishments a young woman must have nowadays to move in smart society The remainder of my life, must effort"
 PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
BRIEF COMMENT

Los Angeles Times: Senator Moses of the bullrushes of opposition to the cove
 nant of nations; but there will be no Pharoah's daughter to rescue him. Columbus Dispatch: A distinguished centenary speaker held with some snow
 of truth that the Garden of Eden was al Wichita. Kan.-in fact is there yet-out when he contends that Adam was an Ar ra pahoe Indian we can no longer fol- lew him.
 New York Herald:E It is tough on Con- , grass, MT. Wilson can take a vacation of six months. but Congress cannot get
 out of school for three weeks. Teacher says No.
 Columbia Record: Al Jennings. former bandit, says he would rather be train robber than food profiteer. It's not so remunerative a profession, perhaps. but far more respectable. Kansas City Times: It is true that Sec retary Lansing doesn't appear to know much about what was done at Paris, bur /, probably it is explained by the fact that
 he hasn't been home long enough to find out.
 l Houston Post; The statesmen in Wash 1 inston' who expect to stop profteering without doing something that will jar | the jaw teeth of the price-fxers are cool
 ing their stone-bruised soles upon the frosty trail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12

BEGINNING THE DAY-How shall I get the strength to do what l ought to dof If than from God. was there not enough power in the im- petus, that started me on my indi- vidual orbit, to keep me on it until I rest again at home: Is Gods power so poor that it should die in me, little shuttle, before get back again HI. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
PURE AND UNDEFILED

What do you mean by saying your town has a basement ball team?" ask ed the English visitor.
 Why" said the fan, impatiently. T mean it's in the cellar. it's tail-ender. bunch of butter fingered, wind-slan1- ming mutts. Cant you understand your mother tongue?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
THE LOwLAND SEA

By c. Fox Smith. "Oh. sailed you by the Goodwins, Oh came you by the Sound? And saw you theresmy true love, That was homeward bound?" "Oh, never will he anchor
 Again in English ground: A-sailing by the Lowlands
 Your sailorman is drowned They gave his ship her death blow AS she was sailing bN And every soul aboard her/
 An. they left them all to die. They were not common pirates
 Nor rovers of Sallee But gentlemen of high estate
 Come out of Germaniei Tt was no worthy gentleman.
 Though he were crowned king: It was no honest seaman
 That wroght so vile thing But the foulest of all pirates
 That ever sailed the sea And they should swing as pirates swing Upon the gallows tree, A-ssiling by the Lowlands
 That took my lad from mel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
ENDOWED MOVIE

From the New York EveninG Sun
 An endowed moving picture house, or rather an endowed school of music and moving pictures. has been pre- sented to the University of Rochester by a photographic manufacturers Up again comes the question whether the movie has in it anything to uplift its votarieS.
 No one endows schools of cookery yet cookery is an art, however much lost one. No one endows schools for the writing of best seller fiction: Jet what an art is there, though scarce an exalting one. Shall the movie rank With these, or with sculpture. arcni- lecture. which inhabits temples as we'll as builds them. with painting which makes the thought flesh, with music which makes the heart vocal?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12

How, in one house Should many people, under two com mands, Hold amity: Iris hard, almost impos- sible.
 king Lear.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
memher of the Associated Pres.

The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birming gham carrying the Associated Press dis patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication or all news dispatches credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein.
 All rights of republication of special dispa tches herein are also reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
DESCRIBED BY ELoYsE
mn the Kansas City Star.

| From the Kansas City Star. 1 Eloise of the rapid fire restaurant re- gently described a stuttering customer
 as The long necked guy that talks iazz.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
EVER SEE oNE7

Heres an extraordinary photograph. What is it?'
 "A tennis champion in repose.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12

Washington bureau, 2o7 Hibbs build ing.
 European bureau, 10 King street Covent Garden, London, W. c. ?.
 Eastern business office, World buiIa- ing. New York city; western business office, Tribune building, Chicago. The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency. agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12

TELEPHONE Bell (priyate exchange connecting all departments) Main 1900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12
ADRlFT WITH THE TIMES
THE GROCER

THE GROCER With cold unsympathetic eye He lightly passed the matter by, Nor deigned a word to utter To one who stood in rags arrayed And showing righteous wrath, in- Against the price of butter
 THE LANDLORD A woman came to him in tears And brought along six little dears- A widow, yes, you've guessed it. You've raised the rent, alas until l cannot pay Then others will, Was how the brute expressed it.
 THE SHOE DEALER A poor man said. ''I need some shoes, l have to walk in morning dews And daily dig and delve, sir The merchant gan to look alive, Got out a pair that cost him five, And said The price is twelve. sir"
 THE CLoTHIER I'm out at elbows and the knees, I'd like to see some clothing, please; I hope for peace in heaven" And then and there the poor galoot Was sold an eighteen-dollar suit That cost him forty-seven.
 UP FROM THE RANKS This actors strike is serious" Not for the chorus girls and the un- derstudes."
 What position do they take?' 'The obvious one. Neglected genius is at last getting an opportunity to shine"
 
 THE WORM TURNS What is this at the bottom of the menu card?"
 The walters tip will be 10 per cent of the bill
 And { 6a&e to pay that, whether get good service or not?" Certainly"
 Well, there's one consolation. There's no law yet on the statute books compelling me to patronize this place again"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-12

In May, 1919, a mental survey of Ala bamas four industrial schools made by pr. w. D. Partley and pr. Thomas H. tIaines, they found H feeble minded out of 309 at the Alabama Boys Industrial school; Ii out of A at the state training school for girls; out of 30 Mercy Home industrial school for girls; 70 out of N0 Alabama Reform School for juvenile ne- gro law breakers. Certainly this is a de- plorable state of affairs and needs to be remedied.