The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-18
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 - Birmingham proudly echoes, You betf Yet .Aere lives man in Buena Vista Ga, to whom the fame of the Birmingham district and the Iron Man has never yet been waited. Of what substance Is this citizen made, and what obscure haunts does he frequent that he addresses us as Burning Ham?" Ye gods The suggestion is bad enough, but the inference to be drawn from such a display of ignorance even worse. Does the esteemed Georgian, boastful of his watermelon and peach crop, at tempt to cast slur on the name of Blr- mingham by this domestic witticism? Does he poke sly innuendo at our busy smokestacks and liken their pillows of smoke to the fumes of scorched meat? Does he make a jest of the south's me- tropolis and "hive of industry or is he simply an ignoramus? For the sake of Georgia one would hesitate to believe that there lives a Buena Vistan so gross, so steeped in the mire of ignorance that he cannot spell Birmingham" Yet thus he addressed his letter, and, going as- tray, it reached The Age-Herald office. Alas for Georgia alas for Birmingham, but thrice alas for the Buena Vistan.
 A copy of the Confederate Veteran, published at Nashville, Tenn, and SUD- ported by survivors of the Lost Cause may we not capitalize the name, even when '1ower case" is the decree of the union ?''-comes as an eloquent voice from the past. striving to make itself heard in babel of noises made by "up- to-date" publications that live by sen- sationalism The Confederate Veteran is an estimable and dignified publication that deals with a dead subject in live manner Its appeal is to the past and that appeal must be strong, judging from the ready response made and the liberal patronage bestowed To read this most respectable magazine one would think that the war is not yet over and that the old veterans are stih fighting away Hike all forty" great many aged war horses do fight the civil war over every day but do not smile at their weakness. There Is more pathos than humor in the situation, 11ore heartaches than laughs. These relics of the ante bellum south so admirable in their de- clining days, cannot forget the scenes which were stamped on their memories with fiery impress. Moreover, they are old now and rapidly passing away, so 1t is not likely that they will live to fight much longer.
 A child of sunny Italy stood on street corner belaboring his barrel organ. A monkey hopped about his feet. and the air he played was-"Hot Time" What a flood of memories were called up but that historic tune And with what nonchalance that young Italian perpetrated an offense which might have subjected him to the offices of a mob had he not been in tol- erant Birmingham
 Nowadays people show such careless disregard of their appendices that they don't seem to care whether they have | them or not The case of a female doc tor who had this organ taken out prior | to a voyage to Europe so there would | not be any danger of an attack of ap- | pendicitis while she was abroad is sim ply Illuminating She not only avoided excess baggage, but took time by the | forelock in a handsome manner