Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-15

Commercial club. MT. Bultung has in vited the club to dine off the first car cass, and the mayor of Birmingham will welcome them in one of his beautiful speeches under a bong tree. A theater will be built and a troupe hired to run it all the winter. MT. Bultung proposes to spend his summers abroad and get more in touch with the aristocracy of the world. That he has hit upon an Fl Do rado no one can doubt who will see the prongs and hear him amplify.
 The poets are already contributing to our Random Column. In my mail of yes- terday I received the following:
 Back Again in the Gloaming.
 Written for the Random Column of the State Herald
 GA return to the Pope House." at Good water. Ala, after an absence of several months prospecting in the mountains.)
 A feeling of rest comes OCT me,
 sense of ease from pain
 For I'm free from things that bore me,
 And back 'mong friends again.
 There were smiles that gave me greeting
 That were smiles to me divine
 Twas a warm-like, home-lke meeting,
 From some old time friends of mine.
 Some smiles that the world may give you
 Are as ripples lead astray-
 For the mirage waves deceive you,
 Soon vanish and then betray.
 Out in the wide, wide world, lonely
 Like ruddcrless bark at sea;
 A friend that is true can only
 Be rudder in storm for me.
 Warm hearts of true friends will blindly
 Beat in rythm thro' all the years;
 And when storms break OCT them, kindly,
 They will dry each others tears
 Then back again in the gloaming
 By the freside's warmth and light,
 From the mountains, valleys roaming,
 I'll dream of the stars tonight
 Iris place where the lamp lights burning
 Gi,d the shadows everywhere
 Burn the brighter when returning,
 There's welcome that's sincere;
 Goodwater. Dec. Il, 1885
 The coming cat show will be very re- freshing after the chrysanthemum shows. baby shows, etc. There are many fine grimalkins in Birmingham and they do honor to their race. The cat is the culmination of fine traits in the animal world--he is the custodian of music and the conservator of the public peace. He is the finest examplar of the domestic vir- tues. He has pent up In him enough strange sounds to drive people crazy. yet he only emits them on moonlight nights. Thus he exemplifes the virtues of self-control. He holds within each each foot chain lightning and buzz-saws,  der rare provocation. Thus he is the personification of patience. He has nine lives. yet he sometimes lies down and dies. Thus he is the embodiment of self sacrifice. He has the form and move ment of the tiger, yet ne is gentle almost to insipidity. Thus he shows self-pos- session. He loves a canary bird above all else, yet he rarely eats one when the cage is out of reach. Thus he displays his abstemniousness.
 In an energetic. moving community like Birmingham the speed with which the city directory is compiled and print ed forms a valuable feature. In several former directories it has required some six months to get them out. It took three months to compile the directory and three months to print it. The re- suit was that there were many changes in the interim and the value of the book was considerably lessened. It is gratify- ing to note that no such complaint can be brought this year. The directory for 1896 will be compiled during the present month and will be printed during Jan uary. The directory will be issued from the publishing house of Roberts &s Son, near neighbors to the State Herald, and the work on it will be pushed with great rapidity. The extensive facilities of the printing establishment of Roberts & Son