Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-15
ECHOES.

Well, well, old pen, you have had long
vacation. You look just as you did when
last l laid you aside. How often nave
you brought the blush of happiness to
the cheek of the fair one and so often
have you aided in your feeble way to
bring sunshine across the pathway OF
struggling humanity. You have told or
the victories won by statesmen, and the
happy captivity of lovely brides by noble
men.
You have pictured the quiet and COM
Portable surroundings of a contented
and happy home, while you have also
plead for the poor and destitute in their
novels of despair. You have told of the
rejoicing of the coming home of loved
ones and you have placed kiss upon the
brow of the departed as they We're swepc
into eternity. You have rejoiced with
the happy and mourned with the SORROW
ing in the words you have penned You
have been true to your friends and char
liable to all mankind and it is with pleas
ure that / once more take you back into
my service for you know 1t is hard to
lay away such friend as you have ever
been and in the future we will try to fight
lfe's battles together, assuring every one
that nothing but kindness and encourage
ment shall drop from your point.
For the first time in the history of Ala
bama, when our fellow townsman, Capt.
Jos. +. Johnston takes the oath of office,
we will have business man for our Gov
ernor. Remarkable it is, but such is
a fact. Alabama, no doubt fully appre-
ciates the services of the many able and
illustrious men who have filled this po-
sition in the past and without intimating
in the smallest degree, anything to the
detriment of those honored men, we feel
called upon to extend our congratula-
lions to the sovereign people of Alabama
for having elected this time a business
man for the chief executive, because
many will be the complicated questions
of business affecting the states interests
for immediate action which will require
a level head and a steady hand" cog
infant of the fact that he is acting in the
interest of all the people. Capt. John
ston is man who Is thoroughly posted
on all that maintains to the welfare oil
his state and we shall expect from him
a conservative, progressive and prosper
Gus administration.
What a relief it must be to one and
all, that we have the welcome prospect
of bidding farewell to hard times "
Those two words, hard times" have be-
come as familiar as an old friend dur
ing the bast three years. and even the
little ones have come to realize that they
constitute the stock in trade of Santa
Claus Many a strong corporation dur
ing these times has fallen by the finan-
cial way-side-heads of financial insti-
tutiOnS have sacrificed themselves upon
the altar of self-destruction rather than
face a cold and critical world, because
of their failure, 1t required years OF
labor and toll to build up these corpora
tions and these financial institutions
which have passed out of the commercial
world in the twinlSling of an eye. 1t rs
hard to see the fruits of our labor dis
appear SO suddenly and there is no in
fallible rule by which this result car
be always avoided. There are two
thoughts which suggest themselves to my
mind which, IL observed, would go 6
long way toward preventing such dsas
trous results. First be sure you know
your own money, from that belonging
to someone else. A want of knowledge
of this thought has wrecked the life Of
many man and brought sorrow and
heart-ache on countless thousands. Sec
ond never allow your expenditures tC
exceed your income for If you do you
can never claim success as yours. Sc
here's to prosperity, plenty of money and
the greatness of Birmingham.
The North Alabama conference con-
yenes in Tuscaloosa this week. In what
q rush and hurry the preachers havs been