The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-25
ALABAMA PRESS

ALABAMA fRESS
 St Clair Herald Some countries use war as an advertisement.
 Gadsden Journal: Linevitch was not defeated and the little father should put him next to a good thing.
 Mobile Register: It is impossible for the caricaturists to do effective work with MT. Rockefeller, now that he wears a wig.
 Anniston Hot Blast: There Is but one editor in the Ohio penitentiary, and he was sent up under mitigating circum- stances. He shot a delinquent sub scriber.
 Montgomery Advertiser: MT. Michael McDonagh, writing in Temple Bar, says 1 one of the true marks of a poet is abun- dant hair. We believe that also applies t5 the football player. Florence Herald: A negro church at Indianapolis was recently torn to pieces ! by dynamite This Is a variation from the usual way of having the church torn to pieces by the choir.
 Ozark Southern Star: Captain Hobson opened his campaign for Congressman in Jasper some days ago. MT. Hobson must believe in the old adage, of at first you don't succeed, try, try again." l Cherokee Harmonizer: "The Curses of ! Civil Service Reform" is the title of a new book by G. Washington PlunlSitt. There is no doubt that civil service re- form does make it harder for dunces to 1 hold office.
 Mobile Item: After reading the testi- mony of Vice President George w. Per l1ins of the New York Life, Judge Par ker seems to be further convinced of the source from whence came the cy- clone that struck him in 1904 Scottsboro Citizen: The demand for an extra session of the legislature does not seem to come from the farmers and ] taxpayers. The main pressure evidently comes from a few lawyers and cross- roads politicians whose axes need sharp ening.
 1 Headland Post: The editor Is editing this weeks Post at rather long range. We are a mile from the office, making hay while the sun shines, and editing the Post nights after we pull off our shoes, wash our feet and ought to be in 1 bed.
 l Limestone Democrat: Editors Little | and Garner of the Tuscaloosa Times l Gazette are in a fair way to become ! fixed for their winter fuel, as we notice
 Bankhead and Hobson have begun hay l ing interviews bearing advertising tags printed in that paper. | Fort Payne Journal: For the life of
 us we can't see what ground of com-
 plaint southern> people can find against a negro band playing "We'll Hang Jeff
 Davis to a Sour Apple Tree" when the 1 tune is incorporated in the last edition.
 of the hymn book of the Southern Meth
 odist church.
 Randolph Star: From reading the pa-
 pers of the state 1t seems that the only
 real issue in the coming campaign will
 be the reduction of railway rates in l <Aidbdiiiei. IL 10 tluo lildl lulS, III our opinion, is the most important issue, but | there are other issues that should not
 be lost sight of entirely.
 Greensboro Beacon: It is hard on an editor to be too busy to put in several
 hours a day watching the work of put
 ting up the steel framework of the new l water tank for the waterworks com l pany. It Is most interesting perform
 ance and 1t would be just our size to sit in the shade and rubber" at the work
 men while they perspired and tugged
 away at it, but, alas work has caught
 us in its remorseless claws, and we must
 succumb to the inevitable. Florence Times The young men of Alabama can make no better investment
 of the funds they "blow in" to have a l good time" than by the purchase of Alabama land. Even the old fields have
 a value that is enhancing yearly, and at
 no remote period will be the basis of a l wealth that will represent an easy com
 potency for their owners Alabama lands are growing in value that at no distant day will, if not taken advantage | of by sons native to the soil, blossom under the tillage of industrious incom- CTS.