The age-herald., 1897-08-14

He knew there was no earthly spot
 Which wasn't every bit as hot.
 Baldwin Times.
 According to the Fort Payne Journal the party is safe in DeKalb
 "The Age-Herald seems to think this is a good time to harmonize. All right. We are already pretty well harmonized up here"
 The Standard News has little hope for the editor who would try to please every body:
 "The editor who begins by trying to please evrybody will end by pleasing Eo- body-rot even himsef."-
 The Montgomery Journal wants some of that good old time prosperity the Lord gives, and not the Mckinley brand:
 What Alabama wants is good substan- tial prosperity, not prosperity of the Me Kinleyite or Palmerita kind. God has given the people good crops and there are rich promises of bountiful harvest.
 The Baldwin Timss has discovered that the freckled-face boy has become extinct:
 What has become of the old-fashioned boy whose face was mass Of fr5eklss! The boys of today don't use lotions, gut the boy whose face was so covered with frecleles that they ran into each other and hung ovsr the edges, is missing. He was the smartest boy on earth"
 According to the Galasden Tirnes-News MT. Howard is not to be "shouydered" in- to making the racs fer governor:
 "Thoae who are trying to push Con gressman Howard into the guberna torial fight, hoping thereby to take his place in congress, have shouldered a consid rable task. Howard is on to the racket and 1t 1.iI1 lao. bo, 41 fo tob i'm ping"
 A rural exchange predicts that the farm and the farmer will soon foe as fashionable as a summer girl:
 "I own and live on a farm,' used to be a very familiar answer to the question: What are you engaged in?' But of late years it has almost dropped into innocu- ous desuetude.' However conditions have takeI, very properly, another turn, and those old stardbys Cf honest prosper ity, the farmer and the farm, will soon be as fashionable almost as a summer girl." '"
 Some years ago Tallapoosa county made an unenviabIe reputation on the handling of convicts on her convict farms and if the following from the Tala > D. SD New Era proves true version of the present situation that reputation may be revived notwithstanding it has been
 
 thought that the county had outlived it:
 "We are informed that four negroes escaped from the Cosby farm Saturday night-7two of them coming here and go- ing to jail, anld two going to the Tuskegee jail. They tell the usual tale of harsh and i1human treatmsnt at the farm. It does seem that in this enlightened day and generation some remedy could be found for such evils"
 The Demopolis Press gives the follow ing peculiar railroad freak:
 "A peculiar illustration of the effect of heat was given last week between Fauns- dale and Gallion on the Southern railway. The westbound freight, heavily loaded and carrying two flats fl lled with gravel in rear of the caboose, was rum ng along at a good speed on straight level track when suddenly the passengers in the caboose felt it jump and begin bounc- ing as though it were off the track. This kept up for about half minute, frighten- ing the conductor and passengers nearly out of their wits. The train then went along as smoothly as before. On looking back the track was seen to be twisted into an S,' and it was a. marvel that the caboose ever got over it. The train was stopped and run back to the scene The engineer said the track was perfectly straight wher' he went over 1t and that It must have twisted when tie l1eavy cars struck it. On examination this WIS proven to be true. The intense heat h ad expanded the rails, and the weight of the cars had caused them to assume the shape they did. A message was sent to the work train and the new rails wsre laid in time for the passenger that might"