The age-herald., 1901-09-03
Some Men Shrink, Others Swell.

Some Men Shrink, Others Swell.
 There was a story in this place the other day about a colored woman cook (for private family at Shelby Springs having one time given to Hon. Wilson R. Brown of Birmingham a dose of baking powder In mistake for bicarbonate of soda, with startling and permanent physi- cal results MT. Brown admits the truth of the statement as quoted from an old and loving friend.
 Somebody else comes along now and says that this brightest of wits and erst- while (erstwhile is good) sweetest of sing ers In grave alarm at the rising" effect of that dose of baking powder, leant yearningly toward a fair gentlewoman who was at the house party at that pri- said pleadingly:
 Wont you rub poor Wilsies aching head?"
 She fled.
 Speaking of the rotundity of persons In general. and having fin affectionate re- gard the Hon. Wilson R. Brown, who is one of the most gifted and most lovable of all Alabama's two millions of people, I am reminded of an incident that came to pass in Greenville, Ala, many years ago." said a man last night.
 John Bigtower and James Jay were highly respected citizens of that beautiful county town of Butler. MT. Bigtower weighed 300 pounds and was feet tall. MT. Jay weighed 13O pounds and was 5 4 mt ha1n @A tba teer fire department of the town. One night MT. Bigtower and Mir. Jay attended a lodge meeting together. Gen. James Berney Stanley. Col. Albert Steinhart, Maj. James J. McMullan, afterwards Mayor, Capt. Joe Lichten and others, who were likewise at the lodge meeting, were likewise members of the volunteer fire departn ent.
 MT. Bigtower went home with MT Jay to 'spens the night They went to sleep in The same bed.
 They had been sleeping three good hours when the Methodist church bell the fire alarm bell of the town-was set to changing wildly, a store being on fire It walked everybody in Greenvilla Mir Jay leaped nimbly out of bed in great ex- Clt6fntHI. olBtUWet SlOWly TOlleQ ms 300 pounds to his feet. MT. Bigtower had placed his giants trousers on top of Mir. Jays pigmy trousers on a chair. MT. Jay leaped into MT. Bigtower's trousers, Mir Bigtower into MT. Jays. MT. Big towers trousers reached to MT Jays | armpits. MT. Jay was appalled,. He thought something had happened to him physically. Rushing madly into the hall | way that extended through his house he called to his wife:
 Mary, Mary! Come here-come here come here! If I've swunk like this in three hours I'm a dead man-by gum! | Send for pr. Broughton
 "'And if I've swelled like this in three hours I'm a dead man-send for Dr.. Webb! cried MT. Bigtower. struggling to get into MT. Jays trousers"
 Traffic Manager T. C., 1. 6 R. R. Go. George s. Tyler of New York. who has been appointed to the new position of | traffic manager of the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad Company, has arrived in Birmingham to assume the duties or his office He is at the Morris. MT. Tyler was formerly assistant gen. eral freight agent of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, and more recently traf- fic manager of the Central Foundry Com pany. with head office in New York Thus, as 1t will be seen. MT. Tyler Is a man of wide and highly important experience. In the discretion of Chairman Don IT. Bacon the new office of traffic manager h.. haap rreafed and Mir Tyler ia s,,y,,