The age-herald., 1897-10-28
GOSSIP OF THE STREET
 AND HOTEL LOBBIES

''A few days ago in Nashville I went
 to see a young lady who was all in a
 furry about some kind of an entertain
 ment she had just attended. As soon as went in she began to tell about it. She
 began:
 r''0h. I went to one of Mrs --'s
 teas and 1t was aH%Elly crowded. There
 were at least five hunda.d there.
 "'Flive hundredl Why, child, those
 little parlors of hers can't hold more than
 fifty
 "'Oh. we'll. fifty, then There's very
 little difference. Fifty means just as
 much to me as 800; it's ere cipher less.
 that's all. I can't see why you drum
 mcrs aJe so particular about figurss; they
 mean absolutely nothing to me. I'm just
 as much impressed if a person tells me
 he owrs thirty acres as if hs had zaid he owned 5000. Besides, accuracy in such ma tters is so-so unpicturesque and commercial
 "'Of comse,' said T; Its much more essential to be picturesque than truthful -at least that's the feminine aht5tude.'
 Well, we have wo:thy followers she retorted. All the newspapers exagger- ate, or, at lealst, most of them, and the drumnrsrs, loo. You told me yourself
 that the papers, in writing up an acci- dent, always threw in few dead men extra; and that where the persons con- cerned didn't have the courteousness to die they loilf.d them off anyway, or else forced them to be fatally injured. I know
 1t was reported in the papers that an en-
 tire town had been wiped out by fire.
 and when tine truth came out only few pap=ls of fence had been destroyed. How can urpen have the assurance to jeer at women for congregations when news papers and drummers are the worst of aH?'
 "In admit said I, that the papers
 are somewh at proEe to exaggeration and
 duummers as we'll, but they are inspired
 from entirely different motives. They
 are inspired by an intense susceptibility to the value of figures, not by unsuscept-
 ibility, as yours is.'''
 ''The sales of pig iron have not been
 as good this month as they were last,"
 said President Nat Baxter, of the Ten-
 nessee Coal. From and Railway company.
 who was at the Morris yes ,erday.
 ''ro me the prospect Is resssuring,
 and some big changes may occur be- tween now ahd Jan. 1. I am confident that the sales will be more brisk in tho near future. I was in New York while the armor pIaje committee was being re- ceived here. Of course Birmingham will receive some benefit from the visit, and I am glad the board was so well enter- tained.'
 J. J. Willette, of Anniston, was at the Morris yes erday MT. Willette is the att torney for the United States Car com- rany. which has extensive plants in sev- eral states.
 This company has had hard time pulling through" said he. But I be- | lieve l. is in a fair way to run it's plant at Anniston continuously now. The plant there is magnificent one, and when in full operation employees about 1,2OO mlen. Several big orders have besn | received, among them one for refrigera- tor cars, which will keep things going for some months. This is the biggest thing i'm Anniston, and when running is a big help to the city"
 "Quarantine officers have their trou- bles," said Frank V. Evans Jr., who Is employed in that capacity by 'lhe state. Some time ago I got on the Alabama Great Southern train at Meridian coming toward Birmingham. I had sworn near ly all the passengers when came across | a pre'yty girl who said she was en route l not come here. She only smiled and re- | marked that I would let her through. I tried to impress the necessity of her getting off at intermediate stations sev- eral times, but to no avail. It was not long before we reached the state line, and there I told her she must comply with the regulations. The train was stopped and it was some distance to where amy one lived. Of course we couldn't leave the poor girl stand ng alone in the woods. The condmctor held the train for thir.y minutes until the porter could go to the nearest farm ] house and get some ore to come after her"
 'It is strange wha,g queer things men will do just at the wrong time." said an old rounder yesterday.
 q know of an incident where a young man came to this city to par. .icipate in the wedding of "a good friend. He ar- rived the day before and that night somo of the boys took him out to show him the town. He got an awful jag, and ab- solutely didn't know what he was doing. The next morning he appeared with IL ~a