The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-31
THE ALABAMA PRESS.

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 As Bibles are now in the trust. the Brewton Standard Guage thinks the sin ners have fine excuse for not reading l them.
 The Demopolis Express sagely re- marks that Payne always accompanies trouble, even in the postofflce depart ment."
 The Montgomery Advertiser and the Selma Times are busily engaged in dis cussing the relative merits of Hearst and Cleveland.
 The Mobile Register is of the opinion that Roosevelt Is entirely too strenuous a political boss, not counting his "stren- uosities" In other lines.
 The Montgomery Advertiser thinks "despicable politics is accountable for the alleged system of peonage now being un arthed in Alabama.
 l The ladies of the Methodist church In Sheffield took charge of the Reaper one day last week, and got out a twelve-page edition that netted them a handsome profit.
 1 According to the Eufaula Times the 1 Cotton spectators are booming things, but 1t don't boom worth cent among the farmers who raise the staple-as it has all 1 gone from their hands,
 The Anniston Star thinks that if Horace Greedy were now alive he would slightly modify his advice to young men to the following: Young man, if you have money. put 1t into a factory in Anniston."
 Editor Riley of the Hartford Times at- tended the press convention at Anniston. He announces that he will not take the trip to Canada, as he Is short the s29, ''and 1t is too duced fir to walk this hot weather"
 The Ozark Tribune Is out in the tenn perance field now and Is scoring certain residents of that town for the quantities of good corn liquor consumed. And Ozark has dispensary, too!
 l The Eufaula Times speaks thus: "A bright inventor has now given us the wireless telegraph. When an inventor comes along with the snoreless sleep and the biteless mosquito we will believe the millennium has arrived"
 The Montgomery Advertiser seems to have very little confidence in pr. Perc's new method of curing rheumatism by bee stings. Most people would prefer the old familiar twinge to enduring 7o00 bee stings for a cure.
 The Mobile Register is now adorned by a new head. That is. the type; for the same wise head that has heretofore been guiding the dear old paper" observes the 1 Demopolis Express. lis still at the helm and there could be no improvement on him..
 The Eutaw Whig and Observer has the | following: The horse show which opened in Birmingham on the 26th has proven a success and is a step in the right direc- ton, it has aroused an interest In fine horsenesh that has never existed in Bir- mingham before.'
 1 The Anniston Hot Blast is advocating 1 the organization of an industrial asso- cia ion which shall combine the duties of commercial club. bureau of information and industrial association in one body. It is proposed to establish a permanens exhibit of the resources of the district in a suitable building and begin an active campaign for booming Anniston. The Eufaula Times remarks: "'Oh,' some fellow will say. when we speak of a magnificent hotel and Eufaula as a summer resort why. man, you are build ing castles in the air No. we aint. we are trying to have them erected on the ground, and here in Elufaula, too.'' The Brewton Standard Guage announces that 1t is ready to enter the movement to organize the weekly papers of the | state into an association for mutual bene- fit, as has been suggested by the Pine Belt News and the Evergreen Courant. The Guage now has on hand s5 of the funds of the defunct South Alabama Press asso- citation which 1t is willing to donate as nest egg.
 l The following fable from an exchange will be interesting to the struggling Ala bama editors who are scrapping around | at this season for grocery funds: | An editor who died of starvation was be- | ing escorted to heaven by an angel, says the Findiay, C.. Courier. May I look at | the other place before ascend to eternal