The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-24
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9 "Alabamah" have furnished the
 only spark of humor in that dull, dead and chilling assemblage of alleged trust busters" in Chicago ycleped the republican national convention. The col ored brother from this state has fur nished pregnant ideas to the cartoenists and has given newspaper men chance to weave some anecdotes that are very acceptable in lieu of more interesting news. His picture has been reproduced sufficiently exaggerated, in several of the eastern papers. and in fact the Alabama colored contingent has cut quite a figure in the proceedings. The story that Hamil- ton Fish consigned his dress suit case to one of these important personages under the impression that he was hotel porter bears the ear-marks of an imaginative correspondent, but 1t may be true, after all.
 facetious citizen of Memphis advo- cates a census of all the dogs in town, as he Is under the impression that there are more canines than people in the Ten nessee metropolis. Now Memphis is wont
 
 ham on all occasions, and this time she Is certainly entitled to the palm. Bir- mingham has criminals, perhaps and other undesirable persons but Is 'shy on" dogs. The dog chorus does not dis turb the slumbers of Birmingham peo- rle when they can be prevailed upon to quit making money long enough to snatch a brief rest. Cats are also in the minority. While there is some question as to whether this pleasant state of af- fairs Is due entirely to the excellence of the police force there is no doubt that the city administration can point with pride 10 the small cat and dog popula- ton as compared with people and base hall cranlSs.
 The suburban man who was the laugh ing stock of his friends all through the winter Is now having his innings. In- stead of sweltering in a hot city all night he takes Q trolley car and departs to the cooling shades of some Lonesomehurst where he spends his hours of rest in peace and plenty. He gazes out over his titled lands, about the size of a pocket handkerchief in area, and reflects with satisfaction that he is monarch of all Ee surveys co long as he does not look over the fence; his children grovel in the dirt and get next to nature he brings from town every evening an armful of supplies that should have been grown on his estate and above all has a good time telling his erstwhile scoffing friends what perfectly delightful time he Is having in the suburbs. The average su- turbanite Is a deluded individual who thinks he is having good time whether he is or not and perhaps after all he is happy in the summer time. In winter his plight Is a theme for humorists
 As the days go by the doings of MT. and Mrs. Bowser, perhaps the most com ical creations of a newspaper man g brain that have ever entertained readers of the press, continue to grow in popu- larity. MT. Bowser is always new and always entertaining. Slang artists rise to fame and then fall into obscurity, day, humorists of high and low degree bas.s in the sunshine of popularity for a while. but MT. and Mrs. Bowser flourish perennally. The secret lies in the fact that "M. Quad' who is c. B. Lewis, that clever caricaturist of human nature as it really is and not as it ought to be, has succeeded in depicting two persons