Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-29

And the squirrels are tull or Slee. | Tn ! are shaded paths where the haw l Great clusters of odorous pines, And hedges bright where the wild grapes Mid tangles of ferns and vines.
 And so in the city's noise and heat, Come longings that will not cease, For the woodland paths so cool and sweet, With their fullness of rest and peace. -"Sweetwater' In Florence Times. Under Production. Mary had a little hen, Twas feminine and queer; It laid like smoke when eggs were cheap, And quit when they were dear. -Eutaw Mirror, "'Tis an Ill Wind" Etc. "You cannot buy that diamond brooch, Nor eke that silken gown,'' Says the millionaire To his lady fair Cotton's
 The clerks all trembie in their shoes, And the merchants wear frown; And the stores, of course, Cut down their force
  And quickly sl1ps the town; For he well doth know That his goods sell low Cotton's But the slim old maid that rides wheel In her bloomers saileth around; And the town all knows, By her well stuffed hose,
  The Conecuh Records womans edition last week was up to the standard. It is a seven-column quarto, filled to the brim with good reading matter and handsome advertisements. Says the Monroe Jouranl: "The pre- vailing money stringency is nowhere more apparent than in the receipts of the revenue office. Collector Robison reports the smallest collections on his recent rounds he has ever experienced" The Huntsville Tribune thinks the Georgia legislature too much for MT. Cleveland:
 "The Georgia legislature met and the | president left on the next train. Atlanta was shrouded in gloom. Says the Tuskegee Reporter: "Tuskegee is getting to be a sure dry town, and water is nearly as hard to get as whisky. The state of affairs Is entirely satisfactory to some of our cit izens, who have quit water altogether except for washing purposes" An exchange tells of man who stopped IL fOI1 "I think people auten to spend thur muny fur papers my daddy didn't and everybody sed he wus the intelergist man in the kentry and he'd the smartest fam erly of bois that ever dug taturs." A "woman's edition has become a fad among the weekly papers, and the ten dency has been to greatly improve the get up of the papers. Almost anything is better when a woman has to do with it, from the spanking of baby to the running of a newspaper. The Talladega News-Reporter says: "It is unfortunate that the government is so completely in the hands of the money lenders that it dares not con slider an improvement of it's condition that does not at the same time provide for the demands of the ravenous mon SterS."
 The Talladega News-Reporter thinks the improvement of business is due to our indomitable energy rather than to our financial policy: "Yes, the times are improving along many lines of business. But 1t is not due l to our financial policy by any means, | but rather to the indomitable energy and recuperative ability of the American peo- ooufbipp like favorable laws | we should have been the richest and most l independent people in history" l Some of the pop and siverloon papers say that 16 to is the God-given ratio between the money metals The only mention in ancient records as to that is, 1 30 to 1 was asked and paid when Judas made the famous trade with the Jewish priesthood.-Eutaw Mirror. To take an offhand view of the case | don't old Judas in this instance gently | remind you of Wall street gold bug? l The old devil would have cornered our | Christianityrif he could. l ''The State Herald has it that sound endures to all eternity If that Is so what a volume of silverite howls will, | for ages yet, Lombard the heavenly l worlds that shine above us."-Eutaw | Mirror.
 Yes, silver is the poor mans money. and, as the Scripture says 'the poor we have with us always" the heavens will | be continually bombarded with the howls with only short intervals to listen to
 the needle-eye traveller as his lonely voice | travels across the horizon. The Celburne County New Era thinks the boomer has had his day in the | south-that he is not good citizen at any price and should receive no encour- | agement:
 "One of the serious drawbacks to the 1 developments of the south has been the | game of gouge that has been going on | ever since the smoke cleared away from | the battlefelds and men began groping among the smouldering embers to collect 1 the few remnants of their broken for r tunes. It began in the reconstruction | days when carpetbagger and scalawag I snarled like hyenas over the, skeleton of the Confederacy. In after days 1t con- I tinued under more refined form under | the manipulation of the boomer and the