The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-17

4 HE affrighted boil weevil must be
w shaking IN his shoes since that
convention held at Shreveport.
Fearsome schemes were there coneocted
for his destruction; narrowing resolutions
were adopted; foul poisons and engines
of dire poTtent were mentioned II was
enough to terrorize the stoutest heart
that beats in the breast of the most
valiant boil weevil that ever put a Qua
temaIan ant to flight. The cotton experts
OF the south assembled at Shreveport to
do or die There was murder In their
hearts and on each impassiye face was
stamped a bloody resolve. The boil
weevil must go. He must be suppressed
and we are here to do II. Ere our dele
gates pass out from this hall in search
Of drinks the doom of the cotton boil
weevil will be sealed and the fair south
land will be delivered forever from the
threatened invasion. Let us be up and
doing while there is yet time. We face a
crisis. Former conventions have talked
and gone away. We must act. To the
woods with the man who has naught but
ideasl What we want is results" Then
they began to ''resolute.' 1t was an i'm
pressive scene at that body of determined
men planned the humiliation of the boil
weevil Great minds were there at work
and the flow of orarory was a flood
Now they have gone home. Has the boil
weevil been driven into the sea? Are We
any nearer the solution now than we
were before? Is the boil weevil losing
any sleep? The wild waves answer,
"Nawr
Truly an admirable thing is genius No
matter what a man may be-whether
but little removed from the gods, or fit
to consort with the hogs-if he has genius
he is admirable. The divine spark the
heaven-sent gift of inspiration, the touch
of an unseen hand greater than we that
moulds the clay-whatever we may choose
to call this quality-its radiance so en-
velopes a man that his faults are out
shone, his weaknesses are overlooked and
his vices are condoned by less favored
humanity which cannot but worship his
priceless legacy. And genius is too fire.
quently accompanied by the faults that
drag men of less finer mould to the mire
hut cannot extinguish the Olympian fame.
1t matters not In what mishapen form
and soiled vestments genius parades be-
fore our eyes. 1t is all in all and the
world will do homage to genius as long
as humanity lives and works according
to the number of its talents.
The board of county commissioners OF
Shawnee county. Kansas, has decided to
offer q premium of an advance OF 20 a
month in the salary of every clerk in
the courthouse into whose home a baby
is born Twins will command $40, triplets
will add just SIS and so on up the scale.
However, no provisions have been made
for anything higher than triplets This
move on the part of the Solomonesque
board of county commissioners Is intend
ed of course, to discountenance race sui
eide and encourage the clerks to rear
large families. With such schemes afoot
there is no reason why President Roose-
Welt should feel any further anxiety on
account of the threatened scarcity of
children.
Pension Commissioner Ware says that
he is going back to Kansas and the cy-
clones to get a rest He Graves the
simple life once more and feels that