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The gallant monarch la In nrma.
—King John.
BEGINNING THE HAY—I rejoice,
0 God, my Father, at the mauner
In which Thy nervlce entlaflea the
aonl. What wealth cornea even In
my poverty, what Teat even In the
millet of lahora, when I am walking
In the way with Thee! Gracious
Lord, Thou makeat me to feel that
1 am fulfilling my dcatln.v^Ameu.—
H. M. B.
Music and Music
There is as great a range in the
variety and quality of music as there
is in letters. Thus in nearly all kinds of
music one may find, as a rule, an
analogy in books. Absolute music is
closely related to metaphysics, roman
tic music to poetry, popular music of
the better class to the bright ephe
meral story, and trivial or mediocre
musi« to the banal in literature.
A taste for music of artistic merit
may be easily acquired, even by per
sons without musical education, by
frequent hearing. Every music lover
soon learns to discriminate if he has
the opportunity of listening to the
best; and the progress -which musical
art has made in this country in recent
years is due chiefly to the fact that in
the smaller communities as well as in
-*•- —-jater cities music of a high or
ly be heard at comparatively
ost. Artist recitals, symphony
,S, and music festivals are
the attractions of many cities
than 10,000 population, and
itertainments quickly develop a
genuine musical atmosphere.
Within the last five years Birming
ham has made a marked advance in a
musical way. Many great artists visit
this city every season and the time
will soon come when Birmingham will
have its own concert orchestra. There
is much good orchestral material here
now', and with substantial financial
encouragement a local organization
might be formed this fall. The few
players needed to balance and com
plete an orchestra could be induced to
come and live here, provided they were
guaranteed “steady work.”
In grand opera we have a very high
form of art; some will say the highest
in music. But the symphony orches
tra has done a larger educational work
perhaps than any other factor of the
musical world. Every city should have
an opportunity of hearing grand op
era, even if half the people who at
tend are there mostly for “show.” But
•head of opera, from a purely musical
point of view, must always stand the
symphony.
The fact that Atlanta has made so
much of its annual opera festival to
the neglect of music for music’s sake,
is causing comment. Atlanta used to
be a musical town, but not so now. No
distinguished virtuoso has appeared
Jhere within the last two or three
years and no symphony orchestra
finds it worth while to visit that once
musically ambitious city. The Age
Herald reproduces from the Musical
Courier an editorial on “Atlanta’s
Backsliding.” Three years ago the
Georgia city kept up an orchestra that
would have been a credit to any com
munity of approximately its size; but
judging from the Courier’s account of
conditions Atlanta’s musical standard
has fallen so low as to result virtually
in the elimination of the orchestra as
one of its whilom assets.
As soon as Birmingham has its big
auditorium grand opera on a festival
scale will become an institution here;
but it is hoped that opera will never
be allowed to crowd concert music off
the stage.
A Prophet of Yesterday
The recent sale of a palatial home
built by John Alexander Dowie in the
days of his prosperity recalls to mind
the unique career of a prophet who
won fame as well as shekels and en
joyed prestige both at home and
■broad. In fact, Dowie was probably
the most successful founder of a re
ligious cult who has ever established
■ following in this country, with the
exception of the first head of the Mor
jnon church. That sect continues to
•
I grow and to prosper in amazing fash
; ion, but Dowieism is dead.
Dowie was a Scotchman and there
! is every reason to believe that he was
j the canny kind. After having led a
somewhat checkered life, he sprang
' into notoriety about twenty years ago
as the leader of a new religious sect.
He began to operate as a healer and
! to preach in Chicago about the time
I of the World’s fair in 1893. Dowie was
alleged to have wrought many re
markable cures and he soon acquired
a large following. With the founding
of Zion, an industrial city near Chica
go, with a population of more than
10,000, practically all followers of
Dowie, the fame of the prophet spread
over the world. He became immensely
wealthy and lived in the utmost lux
ury. Plenty of people can remember
when pictures of Dowie, showing his
patriarchal beard to the best advant
age, were appearing in all the news
papers and the chronicle of his ex
ploits read like a fairy tale.
That Dowie inspired great faith
among his followers and was shrewd
enough to retain their adoration until
he died is indubitable. Whether or not
he was sincere or a charlatan is still
open to question. That he was a ca
pable organizer and had plenty of
practical sense is proved by the city
he founded and the large sunjs of
money he made.
So long as Dowie was at the head
of affairs Zion apparently enjoyed
great prosperity, but dissention de
veloped after he died and and Over
seer Voliva took charge. Dowiesm it
selft seems to have joined the numer
ous other modern cults that have
flourished for a time and have been
forgotten by a busy world.
Japan and Germany
The ultimatum of Japan delivered
yesterday to Germany demanding her
withdrawal from the Orient and the
evacuation of Kiau-Chau adds further
confusion to a situation which has no
parallel in history.
It is a development which the
United States can view only with the
gravest concern, involving as it does
the integrity of phina, and the con
tinuance of that policy which the
United States has guaranteed to main
tain.
With a wholesome respect for this
government, Japan has given Wash
ington assurances which Mr. Bryan
states are satisfactory that all inter
ests of the United States will be safe
guarded and that any territory which
might be taken from Germany will be
“eventually” restored to China.
There are a number of phases of
this latest development which are in
teresting. Gemany is fighting now
with her back to the wall. Defeat
would meun annihilation commercially
if not politically. And Japan’s action
will vastly increase her difficulties.
That Japanese soldiers will tread
battlefields in Europe is doubtful, al
though judgi.ig by the past few weeks
nothing seems impossible. If France
brings over her black soldiers from
Algiers, it is not too great a tax upon
the imagination to see the yellow race
also join in the death grapple with
the Teuton. But where Japan will
most aid the allies is by permitting
Great Britain to concentrate her fleet
in home waters for whatever need
arises.
Another view of Japan’s action is
of concern to Americans. In all the
announcements from Tokio there has
been much talk of “our ally” and many
“we’s.” Smarting from the rebuff in
the United States, Japan has seized
the opportunity both for territorial ag
grandizement and the assertion before
Europe of the equality of the Mongo
lian with the Caucasian race.
Another great power has been
drawn into the maelstrom. Which will
be next?
Success of Good Road Days
F'riday and Saturday were good
road days in Alabama, and there is
every reason to believe that a fai
larger number of men contributed
their services than was the case last
year, when the turn out was by no
means small. Reports from several
counties have been received, and each
of them indicates that the farmers and
others who labored with pick and
shovel not only improved the highways
but aroused enthusiasm that will have
far-reaching effect for good.
It is safe to assume that the work
done in the two days designated will
be worth millions of dollars to the
state as a whole, and be of incalculable
benefit to every community. The ob
servance of good road days was very
general. There was not a county prob
ably in which 1000 or more men were
not doing their best to better road
conditions.
Within the last five years road
building on a scientific basis has been
in progress in every state in the union.
In the south fine headway has been
made within the past two years. This
iB especially so in Alabama. Within
the last 12 months many Alabama
counties have issued good road bonds,
and it is*"hoped and believed that be
fore the next spring every county will
appreciate the economy of spending
money on its highways and see its
way clear to issue bonds. As The
Age-Herald has frequently pointed
out, county road bonds are in great
. demand. The bond market is particu
| larly active now, and road bonds are
j not sold at par, but command a pre
| mium.
It is estimated that farm values in
J this state have enhanced in value from
j 25 to 50 per cent within the last few
, years, and this is due in a larpe mea.s
I lire to the improvement of the high
| ways. Within five years from now
i Alabama should have almost as much
macadam road as any state in the
union in proportion to area in square
miles.
Prof. Richard L. Garner, the famous an- |
thropologist, who was stranded in Rotter
dam as a result of the war in Europe,1
was on his way home to America after
having spent more than two years in the
heart of tlie African jungle. Professor
Garner lived in a hut with two native ser
vants and chimpanzees and gorillas for
companions. He went to Africa for the
purpose of studying the monkey "lan
guage ' and is bringing back two line
speciments of "talking" gorillas. For 20
years he has studied ti\e habits of
monkeys and probably knows more about
these creatures than any other scientist
in tlie world. Dr. Garner left this coun
try for Africa in the latter part of 1911.
lie had made four previous trips to the
jungle in search of scientific data. He
bfnded at Cape Lopez and made his way
to the French Congo, where he thinks the
best opportunities are offered for study
ing simian habits. While in the jungle
Dr. Garner was exposed to great danger
from wild animals and savage tribes, some
of whom were cannibals. He made fre
quent trips alone, leaving his two ser
vants to guard the hut, and traveled many
miles through the jungle armed with two
rifles and a revolver. The last time Dr.
Garner returned from Africa he brought
with him a gorilla he named Susie. This
animal was given a great deal of publicity
in the newspapers and attracted wide
spread attention among scientists by her
human-like tricks. v.
By using the close formation in battle
German generals manage to feed a great
many more of their men to the guns than
there is any necessity for.
According to all reports King Albert is
about as popular among the Belgians as
"Christy” Mat hew son is in this country.
In the general excitement there is no
reason why Montenegro shouldn't he able
to get in a few licks somewhere.
No matter what else may be going
wrong, the press censorships in Europe
seem to be working smoothly.
Seeing Europe” has ceased to be a
pleasant prospect since Europe bids fair
to become a shambles.
Ex-Senator Bailey of Texas seems to
think he can “come back" on an anti
prohibition platform.
Two weeks from tomorrow will come a
month with an “r” in it, and then oysters
will be in order.
The news from Paris and Berlin doesn’t
always agree, but then what could you ex
pect?
This business of "sweeping the seas”
is merely a figure of speech.
Few institutions in Alabama are more
popular than good road days.
President Carbajal left for Vera Cruz
when the going was good, y
ATLANTA’S BACKSLIDING
From the Musical Courier.
At a recent meeting of the Atlanta Musi
cal association board of directors, it trans
pired that the organization had not been
successful in raising a fund sufficient to
induce Mortimer Wilson, the orchestral
leader, to i •consider his resignation. It
developed that there were no further
funds in sight, and that the association
would continue upon a curtailed basis, em
ploy a local man as conductor, and cut
down the strings and otherwise reduce
the number of players. Furthermore, it j
was decided to limit the character of the j
programmes to a lighter vein and to feat- j
ure a prominent soloist at each concert,
with piano aeeompanimemnt (while the or- j
i chestra sit with instruments in their laps,
one presumes).
It is difficult to believe that a cultured
city like Atlanta is donlent to let such
musical conditions prevail. What with
the example set by a score of other cities
and the general advancement made by At
lanta in other lines, it seems that after
listening fo rtwo and a half years to the
best that could be done with the material
on hand, the community ought to have
some pride in sustaining a standard.
An Atlanta music lover reports that it
was due to Mr. Wilson’s being asked re
peatedly by the board to place on his pro-'
grammes (which were already as light as
dignity would permit) such dessert pieces
as "Pinaforehand works by Suppe, etc., |
that the conductor decided their ideals
and his to be in disharmony, and "seeing
no reason for prolonging the agony, sang
his swan song.”
Mortimer Wilson, however, has done the
Atlanta association and the musical com
munity there a valuable service, and he j
• an take satisfaction in knowing that at
some future time Ids work will bear ar
tistic fruit. During his southern so
journ he has been able between pro-1
grammes to write two violin and piano so
natas. a symphony and some smaller
I works, so his time was well spent..
MIKE M’l.UKE SAYS *
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
There have been n whole lot of deflnl
‘ tlnns of the word "gentleman." Well,
here's another: A gentleman is a man who
minds his own business.
Probably the most hopeless case is that
ot the man who goes through life waiting
for a chance to Bet even with some other
man. •
Some men are so filled with their own
importance that if they happened to bo
struck by lightning they would think they
did it.
In the magazines the little man always
bluffs the big bully who wants to fight.
But in real life the big man gets away
with all the bluffs when fight talk Is be
ing spilled.
Tile trouble with tile doctrines advo
cated by the dry people is that they In
sist upon holding your nose and making
you take it whether you like it or not.
Maybe the reason why George Washing
ton never told a lie was because he mar
ried a widow7 and be knew she was wise
to all the excuses and he had to fess up
and tell the truth when he came home
late.
This Is a queer world. The derelict who
manages to live to he 110 years old gets
more boosting than the brilliant man who
works himself to death before he is 60.
All the fools do not drink whisky. And
there are as many jags acquired by eating
too much as there are by drinking too
much, ;
•
IN HOTEL LABBIES
The MerchnuN' Convention
“The Chamber of Commerce commit
tee on the Alabama Merchants’ con
vention, of which Murray Brown is
chairman, has arranged a most attrac
tive programme,’’ said a public spirited
oil izen.
“I^ast year's convention was a great
success, and the second annual meet
ing of the merchants will lie much more
largely attended. Thetv will probably
be fully 1200 visiting merchants, and
many of them will bring their families.
all the state bodies that have Bir
mingham for their annual convention
cit\k this composed of merchants is the
most important. The visitors are cer
tain to meet with a cordial welcome.”
County's Cine Sewerage .System
“We are bringing the* county sewerage
system to perfection.” said L» H. Salter,
county sanitary engineer.
"We recently completed the Boyles sec
tion of three miles of main sewers, run
ning from 24 Inches down to 15 inches at
the source.
"The county has a disposal plant at
Hnsley that cost $60,000 with an affluent
capacity of 4,000.000 gallons, and another
at Bessemer, tapping 13 miles of piping in
sizes from 36 inches down to 18 incheg^
This plant cost $80,000, and disposes of j
8.000.000 gallons.
"The main city of Birmingham sower is
some 15 miles in length with a pipe line of
5 feet 3 inches in size down to 3 feet.
”1 am kept busy inspecting new work
and looking after breaks or defects in the
established lines and seeing that they
are kept^ppen and the flow is steady.”
Dove o$ Peace bn MesNenger
“I was much touched by the news para
graph that carrier pigeons were being
used as bearers of messages to the Bel
gium forts,” said a lover of birds and
^nimal life.
“Verily, the ddVe of peace lias become
the handmaid of the dogs of war. And it
is highly probable that these passengers
of the air, like the flying machines already
destroyed by deadly aim, will some of
them pay the price with their blood to the
aim of the skilled marksmen of the Ger
man army. To what strange offices na
ture's provisions for peace and joy may
sometimes be put.”
Tlie PIiiygroiiuriM Meet
“The great playground meet at the fail
grounds Tuesday will likely draw a large
crowd.” said the head of a family, and
much good, I believe, will result there
from in arousing Increasing interest in
this practical work for the social uplift.
“I suggest that there be placed tw'o or
three free-will offering contribution boxes
where a penny from a child, or a dollar
or less, of coin, may be deposited by those
who would contribute gladly to the work.
It would fetch a neat sum for the pur
base of much needed playground equip
ment. Many children would gladly give
pennies and nickels I feel sure.”
Caiine nml Responsibility
“We neutral Americans,” said Sterling
A. Wood, yesterday, “ought to go slow
with our fixed opinions and views as to
the causes of the great war and tlie re
sponsibility for it and the effects of it.
“All have noted the many diverse opin
ions expressed in interviews from day to
day. But as the jury is now out, so to
speak, a verdict is going to be brought
in ultimately; soon, we hope, hut none too
soon.
“Each nation says it was right; A us-,
trla that the cause was local; Germany
that Russia and France had no right to
interfere, etc.
“But out of all the confusion we have
the fact that William, the Kaiser, the 40
year war lord, was just about to be
awarded the Nobel peace prize for 1914.
Perhaps he deserved it, and even this con
tradicts those who think he alone is
war mad. It does seem that almost all
Europe is war mad. Each ruler says that
he insists on peace and is fighting for it.
“Meanwhile, Americans are neutral, up
holding the hand of the President.”
In the HiiMlm>MN World
Henry Clews, in his Saturday review,
says in part:
“The country is rapidly settling down
to a war basis. The initial shock to
business has been safely passed without i
grave disaster on this side, and as a
people we are now gradually resuming
such activities as can and must be car
ried on in spite of the wfar. The strong
efforts to steady the general situation
emanating from leaders In the business
world are having their beneficent ef
fect. Courage, consideration and co
operation are working wonders in re
storing or readjusting trade movements.
The most important relief thus far ob
tained is the annuoncement that Great
Britain has been able to reopen trans
atlantic communication, with the pros
pect that other avenues of sea trans
port may soon be reasonably safe for
commerce. We will shortly be able to
ship our surplus w’heat and cotton, for
which we need the proceeds quite as
much as Europe will need the products.
There has also been considerable relief
in the foreign exchange situation, al
though that branch of commerc is still
badly demoralized. The establishment
of the moratorium abroad leaves in
ternational transactions in a state of
deplorable confusion; but these are the
exigencies of war and must be faced
aB best they can for sometime to come.
Financial London has partially recov
ered its equilibrium, and the reduction
of the Bank of England rate is de
cidedly reassuring.
“The present is a particularly favor
able 'opportunity for intending inves
tors. The United States is the only great
country with great possibilities that is
free of the curse and demoralization of
war. There are, especially now, no se
curities as a class safer and more
promising than American; and those
who buy outright In these times of
present lowr prices for permanent in
vestment, and hold on without regard
to shocks or setbacks will in due sea
son reap handfeome profits.”
HOW TO MANAGE A MAN
From an English Vicar’s Advice to Young
Persons.
When you marry him, love him. After
you marry him, study him. If he is hon
est, honor him. if he is generous, appre
ciate him. When he is sad, cheer him.
When he is cross, amuse him. When he
is talkative, listen to him. When he is
quarrelsome, ignore him. If he is confi
dential. enc(*urage him. If he Is secretive,
trust him. If he is jealous, cure him. If
he cares naught for pleasure, coax him.
If he favors society, accompany him.
When he deserves it, kiss him. Let him
think how well you understand him, but
never let him know that you “manage”
him.
WHAT IT IS
From the Baltimore Manufacturers' Rec
ord.
What shall we call this war?—Many
anxious contemporaries.
For short, call it hell, In the immortal
language of Tecumseh Sherman.
I
I Baltimore Manufacturers'*Record: Earth
has no prophet with vision so clear that
he can foretell the outcome of the strug
gle of the ages In which Europe is now
engulfed. The newsboy on the street cor
l ner can give just as good a guess as the
foremost financier or the greatest states
man in this or any other land as to the
length of the struggle and what changes
! it will bring about throughout the world.
! We may give free rein to our imagina
I tion. but it cannot paint a scene of horror
i so great as that which covers all of Eu
rope. Millions of homes will be darkened
i by death and by poverty; billions of
wealth. Accumulated through the ages by
work and frugality, will be swept away as
though It never existed. Civilization will
shudder at the ruthless disregard of hu
man life and at the measures adopted to
kill and maim men and destroy cities.
There are many lessons to be learned by
the people of our own land from this con
dition, and we need to learn them quick
ly, and put them into immediate effect.
One of these lessons of supreme import
ance is that throftgh modern development
of rail and steamer and telegraph and
the telephone and wireless communiea-i
tion for the transportation of things and
thoughts, through the closeness of busi
ness relations and the community interest
throughout the world, no nation can live
unto itself any more than the Individual
man can live unto himself. Nations touch
nations in all the wide ramifications of
business, of kinship, of humanity. Many
of our politicians have boasted that
around this nation we might build a Chi
nese wail and live in peace and pros- j
perity. Limitless as are our resources, !
their very extent has proven the lolly j
and the falsity of such statements. Be- j
cause we cannot ship our grain and cotton j
our business is halted and for the mo- j
ment trade has been staggered. Many i
men have foreseen this condition because
they have foreseen that whenever the j
great maritime nations of the world were j
arrayed In battle against each other it
would be impossible for us to export our
surplus products unless we had a mer
chant marine under our own flag. The im
practicable plan for shipping abroad our
wheat and cotton and coal in the few
colliers owned by the Vnavy only serves
to show the strait to which our people
have been brought and the apparent help
lessness of the government by reason of
the need of a merchant marine.
If we would safeguard the future as well
as help the present, if we would prepare
to meet the possibilities of a European
war which may run as many years as
most people have counted weeks or
months, we ought without a moment's de
lay, putting aside all the preconceived no
tions and political squabbles of the past,
so legislate that every American ship
yard would within the next few months
be teeming with workmen crowding to
their limit the building of merchant ships.
The fullest upbuilding of our own ship
yards is essential, for without their fur
ther development the future might find us
as helpless in many respects as at present
it finds our commerce helpless by reason
of lack of merchant ships built and owned
and operated by our own people. This is
no time to quibble over opposition to so
called subsidies This is no time for poli
ticians to strive to be consistent with their
records in the past on this subject. Con
sistency, it has been said, is the resort
of small minds. This is no \tme to do
other than to recognize that we are face
to face with situation so vital that all
political hostilities should be swept away,
and that the people of all parties and all
sections should unite in passing legisla
tion which for a long term of years would
give a fair measure of guarantee that
American built and owned ships could be
run to profit.
If we now had a merchant marine equal
to our needs (and which we could have if
our lawmakers had been more disposed in
the past to admit the seriousness of the
situation and to/egislate to meet it), we
would have been saved from the stagna
tion in the grain and cotton trade and the
influence which this has had upon every
business interest in the country. Our lack
of a merchant marine has already cost us
vastly more than it would have cost us
to develop by subsidies a merchant ma
rine matching that even of Great Britain.
Will we longer hesitate in the face of
the dangers which confront us?
“Resolved, That the Southern Cotton
Spinners’ association recommend to Con
gress the enacting of legislation carrying
such compensation as will stimulate the
development of American shipping inter
ests under the American flag to an extent
necessary to handle American commerce
on the high seas in time of peace, and
which will provide at the same time such
tiansports and auxiliary service as may
be needed in time of war.”
This resolution was unanimously and en
thusiastically adopted in May. 1900, at one
of the most largely attended meetings
ever held by the Southern Cotton Spin
ners’ association at Charlotte.
Kansas City Star: The war cor
respondent who used to report tho
progress of the engagement hour by
hour and who could give the command
ers advice on strategy and tactics has
had his day. His last opportunities were
in the Spanish war in this country and
the Philippines and the Boer war in
South Africa. Since then he has been
effectively bottled up.
Wheit Russia and Japan clashed in
Manchuria, a fine corps of able corre
spondents hastened to the scene of ac
tion.. They were received cordially, espe
cially by the Japanese, and invited fre
quently to teas given by high function
aries. But they were politely told that
it would be useless for them to get too
close to the, fighting, since they could
not be permitted to send accounts back
home. Some of them, as a special favor,
were permitted to sit on a hill and
watch the battle of the Yalu river in
the distance. They were allowed to tell
all about it—after they got home.
In the more recent Balkan wars the
world merely knew what the censors
at the various capitals permitted to be
sent out. After the wars were over tho
correspondents came homo and wrote
books about them. But that was about
all tl£ writing they did.
The Empress Eugenie, made regent
during ti»e absence of the Emperor on
the Alsatian frontier, is seriously ill
from nervous prostration.
The French armies in the cast are
130.000 at Metz under Marshal Bazatne;
50.000 at St. Averne under McMahon;
50,000 at Nancy under Canrobert.
Official reports from Berlin of the
battle at Woerth on August 9, set
French losses at 5000. with 6000 taken
prisoners by the Prussians. The Prus
sian loss was 3500. The report vigor
ously denied in Paris.
Strassburg is surrounded by 60,000
south Germans.
(All Berlin and London reports un
favorable to French are noted as "bo
gus dispatches from lying London Jour
nals/' in the headlines of the Time*)
TAX ON PROHIBITIONISTS
■ y in.L VINES
WASHINGTON. August 16.—(Spe
cial.)—The dean of the news
paper corps in Washington, and
all the honors attendant upon such a dis
tinction goes without doubt to John
Boyle, the veteran representative of the
Wall Street Journal. There arc many
stories told of John declared to be au
thentic, and one of them is the solemn
statement that he reported the inaugura
tion of President Jackson.
John’s ancestors, as it may be surmised,
came to this country from Ireland, in
order that they might have “liberty," and
John is a worthy descendant of said an
cestors in that he believes firmly in lib
erty with the loud pedal on. 9
Now' the EilTopean war. among other
things, has put a crimp in Uncle Sam’s
money box which Oscar Underwood and
other providers of the ‘‘needful" view with
considerable alarm, and are devising ways
and means for replenishing same. Seeing
their plight and feeling called upon to j
suggest something, John Boyle communi
cated with Mr. Underwood as 'allows:
"Tax prohibitionists $5 per head per an
num and you will have $150,000,000. revenue
sufficient to meet the falling off of cus
toms receipts incident to the European
war. It should be done. This is on the
estimate that the prohibitionists number
one-third of the population of 99,166.000 in
habitants. They claim more."
Mr. Boyle then at length points out that
"us drinkers" are the props of the gov
ernment. The folks who take a nip ac
cording to figures carefully compiled by
Mr. Boyle pay into the treasury $906,000,000
in internal revenue tax per annum, or
about $5 each. The prohibitionists, who,
declares Mr. Boyle, "of course pay no
whisky or beer tax." go scott free, and
"in practical effect, then, the whisky and
beer drinkers are now the only financial
props under our government that enables
it to pay running expenses."
Mr. Boyle resents this system of un
equal taxation. He deeply resents it, and
he calls the attention of the chairman of
the ways and means committee to this
violation of the cardinal principles of the
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[ democratic party. He points out that asv
far as possible taxes should be levied
«Jt< all alike. "Equal rights to all, special
privileges to none." demands Mr. Hoyle
of our lawmakers.
Now it may occur to the casual reader
H at Mr., Boyle has transmitted these
views to Mr. I'nderwood In a spirit of lev
it.\ , as a joke, so to speak, in order for
the nonce to create a laugh. Far be
tom. Anj person whomsoever who looks
upon this outburst from tbs aforesaid Mr.
Boyle in any but .the most serious light
is not acquainted with John Boyle. He
Is firm in his conviction that the prohibi
tionists who absolutely refuse to contrib
ute, through the drinking route, to the
support of the government, should be
taxed arbitrarily.
There are. however, some difficulties in
the way of such a plan, however laudable.
It would llkeiy work an even greater in
justice in the way of unequal taxation
than the present system of which Mr.
Boyle complains. We know quite u few
prohibitionists who are outspoken for the
cause whom we have every reason t*b be
lieve are paying with great regularity
their full and generous proportion of the
internal revenue tax. To put an arbitrary
tax of $5 on these cheerful contributors,
simply because they arc prohibitionists,
would indeed be tough. High rank and
great prominence in the counsels and a«
tivities of the Anti-Saloon league Is not
always absolute and incontrovertible evi
dence of total abstinence.
Mr. Boyle in his patriotic ammbitlon to
equalize taxation, we fear, has commit
ted a serious ami an egregious error; pro
hibition and total abstinence are not in
any sense synonymous terms. If the pro
hibitionists In this country were to sud
dently quit drinking the government would
get a blow in its exchequer that would
make its financial department wobble like
some of the European dynasties now’ tot- \
tering on their thrones. Also the price
of strong drinks Nvould go* down to a
point where an earnest and faithful
drunkard could drink himself Into an early
grave without such a financial strain on
his wife and relatives.
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF FRANK ALMY
ON May 16, 1893, the curtain wall
rung down on a crime w hich hail |
startled the country from one
end to the other for close to two
years. It was the execution at Con
cord, New Hampshire, of Frank Almy,
who had murdered Christy Warden.
Murders of a similar character occur
almost every day in some part of the
I'nited States, but this was of such
an exceptionally revolting nature that
its story reads more like fiction thani
fact.
George H. Abbott, from a boy, was
a ne’eer do-well. He had served a 15
year’s sentence in prison and had come
out, apparently resolved to load a new
life. In order to do this he had adopted
the name of Frank Almy. He left his
Massachusetts home and went to New
Hampshire in 1887 where he engaged
himself to a farmer named Warden, who
lived near Hanover. This farmer had two
pretty daughters, Christy and Fanny. Al
my at once began paying addresses to
the pretty Christy. She did not appear
to look favorably upon his advances.
This enraged his naturally jealous dispo
sition, and his attentions were such that
the farmer was compelled to discharge
him.
He returned to Massachusetts and
worked for a time in various places,
but soon he found his way back to
Hanover again with revenge in bis
heart. One day, July 18. 1891, as Mrs.
Warden and her daughters were re
turning to their home after dark, as
they were passing along a wooded strip,
they were surprised to see Almy emerge.
He accosted them and directed that the
mother and sister should proceed in
order that lie could have a few words
alone N^ith Christy. The mother and
daughter refused to go after which a
struggle ensued and Christy was shot.
Almy disappeared us mysteriously as
he came. The state and county officials
searched everywhere in vain. He was re
ported in Montreal, in Kngland. in Indi
ana and elsewhere. On August 17, ex
actly one month after Christy Warden
had gone to her death. Mrs. Warden
chanced to notice the removal of a large
stone undermining the barn.
This aroused her curiosity, tor she
believed that maybe Almy was hiding
there. Detectives were put on watch anrl
that same night about 2 o’clock they no
ticed a man emerge, secure a lot of ap
ples and return to the barn. They gave
the alarm in the village and before dawn
a cordon of men surrounded the building.
When Almy discovered that he was
trapped a number of shots were ex
changed. and for 10 hours one desperate
man was able to keep 2000 avengers at
bay. But a chance shot finally put all
his hopes for escape at an end. It had
struck him in the knee and broken his
leg. Realizing that escape was hopeless,
he called for County Solicitor Mitchell
KILVANY
By John Hay.
The gong of Kilvany. Fairest she
In all the land of Savatthe.
She had one child, as sweet and gay,
As dear to her as the light of day.
She was so young and he so fair,
The same bright eyes, and the Rarne
dark hair.
1*0 see them by the blossoming way,
They seemed two children at their play.
There came a death-dart from the sky,
Kilvany saw her darling die.
The glimmering shades his eye invades.
Out of his cheeks the red bloom fades;
His warm heart feels the icy chill,
The round limbs shudder and are still;
And yet Kilvany held him fast
Long after life's last pulse was past;
As if her kisses could restore
The smile gone out forevermore.
But when she saw her child was dead,
She scattered ashes on her head,
And seised the small corpse, pale and
Bweet,
And rushing wildly through the street,
She sobbing fell at Buddha's feet.
"Master! all helpful! help me now;
Here at thy feet I humbly bow;
Have thercy, Buddha! help me now!”
She grpveled on the marble floor,
And kissed the dead child o'er and o'er,
And suddenly upon the air,
There fell the .answer to her prayer;
''Bring me tonight a Lotus tied
With thread from a bouse where Bone
have died.”
anu promisea to give ntmseii up. if his
safety from the mob would be assured.
He was then brought forth and hurried
off to prison.
It was only after sentence had been
passed upon him tHat he could he brought fc
to admit that lie was really George H. '
Abbott. He finally confessed it and by
doing so supplied the missing link which
Was needed to connect a long chain of his
crimes.
The trial of Frank Almy was most
sensational In every character. .So lit
tle was known of the man that it whs
with great difficulty that the state was
able to identify him as George H. Ab
bott. The shooting of the little New
Hampshire girl was so deliberate that
it would have required but little time
to convict him, although the trial was
prolonged for many days and almost two
years elapsed from the time Frank Almy j
killed Christy Maiden, on July 18. 1891. {
until he was executed on May 16, 189J.
Tomorrow: Trial of Thellusson will case.
EXIT THE “CATTLE KI.\G”
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Thtv cattle ranges of the west have made
way for fenced farms and the supply of
catttle has been cut down to the point at
which America is now importing cattle
from Argentina and Australia, where
there is still plenty of range for cattle.
The cattle king has passed from the
scenes in the United Sfatos. but the im
portation of cattle lias not served to re
duce the market for animals on the hoof
to a level at which cattle raising is not j
profitable to American farmers.
Very high prices are paid nowadays for
all meat animals. Farmers were never
more in need of cattle as a fertilizing
agent than they are at present. Land tvas
never more in need of rest from grain
crops. The profits of feeding cattle are
not found wholly in the difference between
the cost of the cattle plus the feed and
their sale value. The manure value is
large, and every peientific agriculturist is
preaching soil building as the only op
portunity of the farmer in America. The
farms are growing smaller and land is
growing higher in price. It must be made j
to produce more* per acre. There is a Eu
ropean agricultural proverb which says:
"No pasture, no cattle; no cattle, no ma
nure; no manure, no crops.” For a long
time American farmers did not realize the
necessity for constantly renewing the fer
tility of the soil. The results were de
creased profits, depleted soil and. in some
Instances, abandoned farms.
The passing of the cattle ranges and
the undiminished value of cattle offer the
small farmer his opportunity. Cattle con
stitute an Important factor in profitable
farming.- Australian ranches cannot make
cattle raising profitless In America, and
American farms cannot be properly oper- 4|
ated continuously without cattle.
She rose and laughpd with thankful toy,
Sure that the god would save the boy.
She found a TjOtus by the stream;
She plucked tt from Its noonday gleam;
And then from door to door she fared.
To ask what house by death was spared.
Her heart grew cold to see fhe eyes ,
Of all dilate In slow surprise;
"Kilvany. thou hast lost thy head;
Nothing can help a child that's dead."
"There stands not by the Ganges side
A house where none have ever died.”
Thus through the long and weary day.
From every door she bore away
Within her heart, and on her arm.
A heavier load, a deeper harm.
By gates of gold and ivory.
By wattled huts of poverty,
The same refrain heard poor Kilvany.
"The living are few, the dead are
many."
and fleet,
feet,
fane
again,
bursting
mightiest!
wide—
none hath
lfj$
To
"Child, u