The age-herald., 1898-01-26
Things Heard s Seen


 a lady when about to enter saloon, will
 walk a few paces further until she gets
 out of sight and then retrace him steps.
 No" nonchalantly replied the gentle-
 man who takes, when he desires it,
 drink at any old time and at any old
 place.
 | "I have come to the conclusion that
 drinking should be more respectable.' said | the first speaker. Now, when I meet a
 lady at the door of a saloon I pace by | and then come back again. At home I | would sit down and take a glass of wine
 with this same lady and think nothing of | it. There is a way to make drinking more respectable. If my wife wants a drink I | believe she should be- allowed to walk | right in a saloon with me and get it. To
 be sure there is law against it, but | society would ostracize such a woman"
 "You and your wife would come in con-
 tact with such rough characters" said the man who addressed.
 With the frequent entrance of ladies | into saloons this would all be changed.
 Better quarters would be had It is
 nothing more than is now the custom in
 foreign countries. When the preachers get
 so they preach against labor on the Sab- :, bath and not recreation they will be doing | better business. I don't believe the sa- | looms ought to be closed at all. With this, | and ladies going with their husbands to | saloons there would not be half so much | drunkenness. Men don't care to have | their wives them drunk and they would drink with moderation. l | don't want my wife to see me intoxicated. | There is only one thing we ever have l dispute about and we have been married | seven years. One night I stayed out | little late with the boys, and that was one 1 night I drank too much. I went home | and my wife was asleep Not long after 1 retired that peculiar nauseous feeling | crept over and I got up and went to | the bath room. I got rid of a various l assortment of wine, whisky and beer, and l took good care to remove every trace by | which she could possibly tell what was l the matter. I don't know what it was but | something made me sit down in large
 rocking chair. Along towards daylight | she awoke and saw the light burning in | the bath room and went in to see what was the matter. I was slumbering peace l fully. but I told her I was only thinking | about something and I have never ad- | mitted to her that I was drunk" | Now, isn't-f it rather funny the insignifi-
 cant claims that corporations will allow | to go into counts? A striking example or | this came up the other day in the second | division of the city court in suit insti- | tuted by R. l.. Cooney, an insurance man | againct the Pullman Palace Car company | for recovery of the value of grip alleged | to have been lost between Mobile and | Birmingham. It appears that the gentle l man boarded the train at Mobile, gave the | porter his grip and never saw it any more. | In it was a pistol a number of articles | of wearing apparel and a tonsorial outfit. | There was only one redeeming feature | about the trial and that was the mirth | provoked by the examination of witnesses. | Conductor Ambrose of the sleeper occupied | by MT. Cooney was put on the stand The attorney of the Pullman company attempt | ted to prove by MT. Ambrose that second- | hand articles were insignifcantly valued in | the market The fun came when MT. l Cooney's lawyer did the cross-examining. Did you say that second hand articles were worth about one-third of their origi- | nal value?'
 "Yes"
 pistol?'
 "No."
 "Then, how do you judge?" By second hand clothing" Did you ever run second hand clothing storer
 "No.'
 q thought you said awhile ago that you did?"
 "No, I have sold my own clothes." q would think" said the attorney, 'tthat one-third value was rather high for clothes had worn.''
 Then there was testimony by the defense to prove that it was something unusual for traveiing men ito be armed, and the case went to the judge. The value of the lost articles would not aggregate more than $50 and the cost to the Pullman people in letting the case go to court was more
 than this.
 Not a city in the United States of like
 population has more Cuban sympa thizers
 than Birmingham. All during the recent excitement the bulletin boards around the newspaper offices had held the attention of enormous crowds and every line printed about the alleged assassination of General Lee has been largely sought.
 T great admirer of the consul" said one man, 'but his assassination would
 be the best thing that ever happened to Cuba. The United States would then in- terfere and settle the bloody conflict. Some thing so gross that the money power con-
 trolling the administration must happen to cause this government to inerfere."