The age-herald., 1901-12-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Passing of eoId-Headed Cane.

'.The goid-headed cane is rapidly going out of existence except as token or es- teem.' said jeweler of St. Paul Minn'' yesterday. q have been in my present line of business about thirty-five years, and where I used to sell twenty gold headed canes I don't sell one now. me only time 1 ever have a request TOT one is when some secret benevolent society wants to present something to re retir- ing supreme exalted grand potentate. Then they come around and buy a gold headed cane. I am sure l don't Know why, because I havn't seen gold-headed cane carried in the streets of a city for five years I frequently see one in front hall hatracks. In fact, almost every lam fly has it's gold-headed cane that used to be grandfatherss but as an article of everyday use 1t Is a thing of the past.
 q have recently returned from pleas ure trip to Porto Rico" continued the jeweler, "and want to tell you the peo pie down there make no idle boast when they raise the greatest coffee in the world. I didn't get great deal of 1t to drink while there, because, like the sea shore being bad place to get good fish, Porto Rico is rot much of place for coffee. I was given a card to a. firm in New York, however, which handled Porto Rico coffee exclusively, and there l drank 1t in the complete form, and it was fine. The cyclone of couple of years ago did considerable havoc 10 the coffee industry there, but the people gre beginning to re- cover Last year the coffee crop was about 60 per cent of the previous crops, and this year it will be about 90 per cent"
 The Aee-Herad Brought Him Here.
 It is occasionally pardonable for pa mendatfon for any one course it is pur- suing. The Age-Herald is not given to printing many of these, but yesterday one was received that spoke as much of the prosperity of Birmingham as any thing else, and 1t is given as follows:
 Tt used to be said that the Atlanta Constitution and the Kimball House gave Atlanta its reputation and did more to build up the city than any half dozen other agencies. It can be as truthfully said that the Age-Herald and the several good hotels here are doing more now for Birmingham than dozen other good enterprises.
 "The Age Herald has gotten to be one of the most readible papers in the South, and it never fails to put in a good lick for Birmingham. The Sunday issues are unusually interesting.
 'I do not know how your subscription list is here. but every man in this city and surrounding country should take the raper of they are able, for in help ing tb build 1t up they are assisting in the rpbuilding of this section and state. Nothing helps a city like good daily newspaper l travel a good deal. Am on the jump so much that it Is impossible to subscribe for or get the Age-Herald regulirly, but when I reach city, the first thing I do is to see if I can buy a copy.
 q was travelling out in Missouri recent ly and at St. Louis I had succeeded in getting a copy of a Sunday Age-Herald. After reading it, fellow traveller on the sleepsr asked me to let him look at 1t. Upon returning 1t he said:
 Birmingham must be a live, progress sive tity to have such a wide awake pa- per The merchants must be progressive also. for they appear to believe in print ers' ink. I see, too, they have the largest store south of the Ohio. This is the best papei I have seen outside of the very large cities, and Is better than many of them I am now looking for location to settle, and this paper has decided me to gt to Birmingham and look over the f1eld
 "Yes, sir, you are now getting out fine paper and your people nere should stand up to you. They certainly would do So if they mad any idea how much you are doing for the upbuilding of their city"