The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-14
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

N ID you know 1t? Next Wednesday VU will be the birthday anniversary
 h< of Susan B. Anthony the renown- ed champion of female rights. Being very superior woman. Miss Anthony is not averse to having her exact age known. She will be just s5 next Wednesday. The female suffrage movement was started in 1S4s and it has been causing trouble every since. However much the funny fellows may sharpen their wits at the ex- pense of the female suffragists it can not be denied that their struggle for equal rights with men, which has att tained to worldwide importance. has oc- cupied the spare time of a great many strenuous females who might have got ten into mischief otherwise.
 It is difficult to decide which is the most attractive town in Alabama. Mont gomery boasts her historic associations and her aristoeratic citizenship, her capital life and the solid charm that lin- gers about all very old towns, while Mobile plumes herself for very much the same qualities, although the latter city has also a bay and a she'll road that is source of great pride 10 Mo- hilians. Huntsville Is a pretty old town. with the latent fires of chivalry still burning, and certain prim quaintness tEat suits her admirably Anniston is embowered in a valley of much natural beauty and is encireed by a ring of blue hills that kiss the clouds in win ter time and blend with the hue of the sky in summer. But the town labors un- der one great disadvantage-it is new Decatur, Florence, Talladega, Selma, De- mopolis, Marion, Greensboro and Opelika have their claims to beauty but none of them is more literally endowed with the charm of brilliant and affable people, the fascination of an historic atmosphere and the romance of ante-bellum days than is Tuscaloosa
 The old south is very much alive in Tuscaloosa. There you will find simple but imposing mansions that were erected before the clouds of the civil war ob- seured the horizon; there dwell the relics of old families and the descendants of old families whose names are honored by the souths a former state capitol is there it's halls which echoed to the eloauence of old time orators now enlivened by the laughter of girl students who attend the Alabama Central Female college; the old governors mansion is also in Tuscaloosa and in almost any direction you turn your eye falls on home about which there cluster rare stories stories of beauty and chivalry and social gaiety in the days when beauX and beles had few cares to vex them. Some of these homes are not prosperous now, but they still retain a flavor of the past. The learning and gaiety of a college town fningle happily with the aristocratic atmosphere due to a patrieian population. One yields easily to the spell thrown about him by old Tus- caloosa It is a rare town worthy to in- spire the poet and the novelist to re- newed endeaVor. and there is certainly no spot in Alabama cherished more affection ately by those who have fallen under it's influence for a brief time.
 Thomas A. Edison did not invent the electric chair and he says he is sorry the horrible contrivance was ever oevised All will agree that the sensation If 10000 red hot needles being thrust into your flesh a pain similar to that experienced by tine