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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
SYSTEM FOR DRUNKARDs.

From the New York Sun.
 Distillers of potable spirits, with an eye toward the preservation Of the standards of their brands, have devoted their at tention to the production of a bottle that may not be refilled when once emptied. Under such stimulus inventive genius has been at work on the problem, as yet with no positive success. The same idea as ap- piled to the human containers of drinks Is in process of development in Honolulu, it being prohibited by law to fill known tanks"
 The territorial legislature in its last session enacted that all persons convicted for the second time of drunkenness shall be entered on the booze ban. This list of those who must stay sober Is filed in every saloon, and if a thirst assuager dispenses even the mildest of his wares to a man upon the list he renders him. self liable to forfeiture of his license, to- gether with other pains and penalties which may include hard labor and short commons Ion the Reef" to use the Homo lulu euphemism for the penitentiary. In its present stage of development the blacklist of those who are forced off the red stuff contains six names
 But the publicans are not content with the mere list They fear that some error of Identification may imperil their free dom and their business prosperity They demand that the high sheriff furnish pho- tographs to guide them in enforcing so- briety.
 That may help a little, but a photo- graph is vain thing for the preserva- ton of likenesses. If the pictures were taken for the blacklist when the man was sober, how could a barkeeper be sure of identifying the original if he had a bun on? Or if the original were taken when in the height of the second offense which put him on the list, might he not present a far different guise when in pos session of fresh thirst? The photograp ph will hardly succeed better than it has done in the rogues' gallery of the police Something might be done by Cations system of finger prints. To be a com plete success we can see no future for the Hawaiian sobriety law unless 1t adopts the complete Bertillon system. So far as the records of the French practi- tioners are available we must conclude that the length of the ear remains un- changed through a plentitude of cock tails; straight goods only metaphorically swell the head. for It's measurements rc-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
SUCCESS AS VIEWED BY
 A FAMOUS HUMORIST

not born great Some of them only weighed six pounds to start with. But they have rustled. They have peeled their coats and made Rome howl. You can do the same. You can win some laurels. too, if you will brace up and secure them when they are ripe. Daniel Webster and President Garfield and Dr. Tanner and George Eliot were all, at once time, poor boys They had to start at the foot of the ladder and toll upward. They strug- gled against poverty and public opinion bravely on till they won a name in the annals of history, and secured to their loved ones palatial homes, with lightning rods and mortgages on them.
 So may you, if you will make the eff fort. All these things are within your reach Live temperately on $9 per month. That's the way we got our start. Burn the midnight oil if necessary Get some true, noble-minded young lady of your acquaintance to assist you. Tell her of your troubles and she will tell you what to do. She will gladly advise you Then you can marry her, and she will advise you some more. After that she will lay aside her work any time to advise you. You needn't he out of advise at all un- 1 less you want to. She too, will tell you when you have made mistake. She will come to you frankly and acknowledge that you have made jackass of yourself.
 As she gets more and more acquainted with you, she will be more and more candid with you, and, in her unstudied, girlish way, she will point out your errors. and gradually convince you, with an old chair-leg and other arguments, that you were wrong, and after she has choked you little while, your past life will come up before you like a panorama, and you will tell her so, and she wil let you up again. Life is indeed mighty struggle.
 It is business. We can't all be editors, and lounge around all the time, and wear good clothes, and have our names in the papers, and draw princely salary. Some one must do the work and drudgery of ! life, or it won't be done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
sinoinq for the President.

Jack Thomas. postmaster of Pratt City. and leader of the chorus that will well come President Roosevelt Tuesday after noon, called on Joseph O. Thompson at the government building Saturday after noon and gave him a sample of the songs that will be sung for the Presidents bene- fit.
 Mr. Thomas explained with considerable care the manner in which the songs would be rendered. He fully acquainted MT. Thompson with the details of the programme and wound up by singing the songs that have been arranged for the occasion.
 Mir. Thomas is one of the sweetest sing CTS in the state. and when he lets him. self out with the anthems that are to be sung for the President, quite a com motion was created in the government building. His clear, strong notes pene- trated every part of the building, and all work was temporarily suspened by the government officials.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
Younu Men for War.

Admiral Dewey was 60 years old when he sailed into Manila harbor on May day about seven years ago. and no one has ever said there was any lack of vigor, any want of aggressive. ness, on his part, not even when he stopped the battle to go to breakfast
 He now says from the viewpoint of the retired list and abundant laurels that "the nation will assuredly meet with disaster in naval war unless younger men are given command oi the ships of our navy" George Dewey certainly knows whereof he speaks
 He is sn expert witness of the highest rank. He has. too. been a close ob
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
From the Columbia State.

From the Columbia State.
 6 HE other day the electors of the 9 New York University Hall of highest name in American literature on the panels of the remarkable edfice; and day or two later the electors voted to inscribe the name of an authoress upon it's wall Immediately there went up nasty and unreasoned protests from many newspapers. Poe, greatest of American poets, neglected, and an au- thoress whose name was probably un- familiar to the majority of the news papers that commented fiercely upon the miscarriage of fame" preferred before him! Editors sat up till stardials hinted of morn, til stardials pointed to morn to write scathing denunciatons of the cleo tors and of this travesty of true renown.
 Several of the papers were led into the error of inferring that there was, in some way, some sort of competition between Poe and the lady-the Lady or the Tiger, as it were, and that the lady had won. Among these papers that went so far astray, were the Louisville Courier Journal and the Baltimore Sun. They held up to the scorn of a just world the reeking iniquity of the verdict of these fame-conferrng judges. But Poe could stand it, they assured their read CTS. It was the judges, who would suf- fer
 It is a pity that a mere error should have started so much vituperative elo- quence. Had Poe been here in the flesh, and entered d contest with a lady au- thor for the award of these Rhadaman- thuses, he would very probably have yielded the prize to her, because of that one woman whose eyes had taken him nome to the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome." But the advocates of his post-humous honor feel that they cannot be so magnanimous. They should have known, however, that there was no such Competition as they imagined. Had Poe been elected, as the lady was, their names would have been strung upon different bead-rolls of Tame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
PAPERS MADE AN ERROR
 IN THE POE CONTROVERSY

According to the conditions of the gift World Almanac, there is to be a Hall of Fame for women with sixty panels, for which twelve names will be chosen in 1905, two to be foreignborn." It was in accordance with this provision, there- fore, that the lady was chosen. There was no rivalry as between her and Poe and there could not possibly be. save in the minds of some of those who think that a good person is therefore great person, and a good person who scribbles is greater than a naughty person who is tremendous genius.
 And we should not begrudge this small fame. They have been too few. from the day of Sappho to ais day. Think how few feminine names could justly be inscribed any Hall of Fame worthy of the namel These judges would balk at the name of Sappho and George Sand perhaps at that of George Eliot. Madame dc Stael, that "whirlwind in petticoats,' would perhaps have some difficulty in finding a niche She, with so many of her famous sisters are so naughty. But there are the goody good women--Han- nah Moore, Mrs. Browning, Mrs. Hemans, the Carys, and others; and perhaps enough names of the pure and good could be found to rig out the feminine Hall of Fame without including the name of any woman from whom the other wom- en would not instinctively shrink
 But is not the day of the famous wom- an dawning? The women now make up the bulk of contributors to periodical literature: they write our fiction, they chop out our present-day verse, they paint our pictures. May we not, there fore, expect that from this vast army of feminine writers, students, artists, will come many of the great names of the fu- ture-names that must some day be in- scribed on the walls of a true and a greater Hall of Fame? If the angels are masculine, the authors and artists are certainly becoming femiitine. And did not Goethe say that genius itself is fem mine?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
ADVERTISING A REVIVAL.
Kansas City Journal

From the Kansas City Journal.
 Two revivals at Neodosha have about reached the limit with a half page ad. of their meetings in a local paper, which reads:
 Ho! Ye People! Special Sale! We arc here with the goods. The bread of life. The water of life. Our price. Come ye and buy without money and without price We propose to tell the mean peo- pie of Neodosha how to get good and the good people how to get better.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
THE HUskERS.

By Whittier. Bent low, by autumn's wind and rain,
 through husks that, dry and sere. Unfolded from their ripened charge, shone
 out the yellow ear; Beneath. the turnip lay concealed, in
 many verdant fold, And glistened In the slanting light the
 pumpkins sphere of gold. There wrought the busy harvesters, and
 many a creaking vain Bore slowly to the long barn floor it's load
 of husk and grain; Till broad and red. as when he rose, the
 sun sank down at last.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

main unaltered under the calipers; and generous potations of the strictly native okolehao, which has a record of having jagged ships fgurehead, may produce strabismus, but it cannot alter the pig ment of the eye. There alone lies the only hope of enforcement of the new law. Let every man on the tank list be reduced to the Bertillon system and have his card filed behind every Honolulu bar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
Cotton Advance.

"Cotton is moving up,' said s. F.. Teague today, and it may be that the Hoadley bull pool Is getting in it's work. MT. Hoadley recently said his syndicate had all the money 1t needed and it pur- chased 130,O00 bales to be delivered this month.
 If Harvie Jordan can induce the farm CTS to hold their cotton for Il cents, ex- cepting of course those in exceptional need, he will have done greater work for the south than any financier or states man in it. His labors would then add many millions to the countrys income. He would thus serve the entire country.
 MT. Hoadley and MT. Jordan are pull ing together towards the 11-cent mark. and it may be that victory will crown their efforts. Still cotton Is coming in pretty freely, and no one can tells what the outcome of the big struggle will be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

From the Rome Tribune.
 A certain effusive orator once said; The good Lord put smile upon the lips ol Chauncey M. Depew when he came into this world, and he wears it we'll Y-a-ass. but it refuses to stay put.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Georgia's fair was money maker, Alabama fair successful, for a success ful fair means more good fairs in the years to come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
President Roosevelt.

q have been very much interested in President Roosevelt's southern trip said an old Confederate veteran yesterday Beginning with his speech at Richmond in which he paid a glowing tribute to the south and the battle-scared men who fought for her cause forty years ago, l have not let an utterance from his lips escape me- Every succeeding speech has been fraught with expressions of wisdom and good will and every utterance has had the stamp of sincerity on it.
 'One of the striking things about our President of late is his knack of saying the right thing at the right time. l have only to refer to his introduction to the widow of Stonewall Jackson at Charlotte.
 But the visit to his old home at Ros- well has been, to me, the most interesting event of his trip so far. It thrilled every nerve in my body to read about his genuine heart-to heart talk with the old landmarks of the little Georgia town who knew his mother in her young wom- anhood There Is hardly man living who has not had the experience Of going back to the old home for a few hours, and what solemn moments those must
 
 have been when Roosevelt stood gazing at the birthplace of his mother, the church where she taught Sunday school and the room in which she was married Lives there a man who would not have done as Roosevelt did when he met Nom Grace his mothers nurse, as she ex- pressed it, and Daddy William who open ed de do,' at her wedding
 ''There Is much to say about his ova- ton at Atlanta. During every speech he never failed to place compliment in the room of sentiment, and his tribute to Joel Chandler Harris, John Temple Graves, Senator Steve Clay and others was not unexpected. It is like the man to always be thinking of others l certainly await with delight his coming to Birmingham, and certainly hope the city will do her. self proud in his reception"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press. A woman pretends that she likes to go off on trips and man that he doesn't. It is a sight easier to have splitting headache than to have to go and call on your wife's family
 If a man could invent way to have a lot of children without supporting them there would hardly be any use for money. The better the yarn a man thinks up to tell his wife about what kept him from coming home the more suspicious it makes her
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Castro never considers his days worK we'll done unless he has defied in some way both France and the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Florence Times It is said there is noth-
 ing in a name, but Memphis has police
 man named Camferdam.
 Columbia Breeze: Before the Russians can be a really great people, they will have to get a hair cut and shave.
 Andalusia News: Alabama has had a frost. but her crop of candidates seems to have escaped its blghting influences.
 Greenville Living Truth: That extra
 session doesn't seem to be a thing that the people could not possibly do without.
 Fort Payne Journal; Alabama was q long time building monument to the gallant Pelham, but better late than i never.
 Monroe Journal: When crusty man of science pronounces kissing an 'unpleas- ant custom it is only right that he should tell how he knows
 Dothan Siftings: John D. Rockefeller
 says there is more In life than money
 getting. Of course there is, or our life
 would be flat failure. 
 Selma Journal: 'Simmon beer and ging-
 CT breadl Have we only dreamed of such
 things or did we really taste them along about this time O the year in days gone by?
 Moulton Advertiser: The Grand Army
 of the Republic lost nearly 15,OO0 members
 last year, and yet there are 30o,o00 left
 with pension roll that runs up into the
 millions
 Ozark Southern Star: If the govern
 ment can Knock out such an epidemic as the yellow fever was at New Orleans
 surely 1t can put stop to the epidemic | of rottenness in the insurance companies | Cullman Democrat The south has had
 several years of fine crops and good
 prices; if the southern farmer Is not ir 1 good financial condition 1t Is his own
 fault. God Almighty has done His part l Franklin Times: The opening of the | State Fair In Birmingham promises to be 1 the greatest in the history of the state | It Is to be regretted that Franklin coun- | ty will not have a creditable exhibit at | the fair.
 | Marshall Banner: More graft is being
 unearthed in the Quaker City. Phiadel- | phia is not so slow as some people inti.
 mate she is. In the grating line the | town is fully abreast of the times and easily holds first place. l Columbiana Sentinel: The Columbiana correspondent of the Age-Herald says Shelby countys new court house Is to have a solid marble front. The farmers of Shelby county are more interested in | having passabe roads than they are in 1 marble court houses. l Anniston Hot Blast: The writers of current history tell us that MT. Rockefel-
 Ter did not begin to accumulate money
 until he was thirty-hve. When it is considered how little of it he has left for | the rest of us, we can all congratulate
 ourselves that he didn't get an earlier start.
 Washington County News The county commissioners of Choctaw county have let the contract for new court house | to be completed within twelve months | from the time the contract Is signed | Work on the building will begin at once This will leave Washington the only coun- | ty with an old ante-bellum court house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Secretary Taft in Ohio is also a rate regulator. The administration is solid on that question, although Corporation Lawyer noot has not yet spoken on the subject.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Civilization is having an inning in Sweden and Norway, where peaceable separation is progressing. The world do move.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Baron Komura was not received in Japan with funeral rites. The yellow correspondent is not in touch with the yellow peril.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

On November ' elections will be held in ten states, but those in Mary land. Ohio and Pennsylvania are in the center of the stage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

There are six million holders of life insurance policies in this country, and this great army is standing behind Lawyer Hughes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Castro's violence Is due to the fact that he has never seen our secretary of War. One view would quiet him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Professor Behring's has named his new consumption cure "T K. A cure by any name would be acceptable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Charity begins, it seems, at the home of the McCurdys-charlty or the life insurance sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

We have penny postage, but the az itators want one-cent postage. They should call things by the right names.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

When consumption gets up against "T X" it may wish it had not been so insidious and deadly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

The heated trolley car will soon be wanted as much as the open car was a short time ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Some people begin to wonder if enc of the thrilled niches in the Hall of Fame is reserved for Harry Lehr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Rockefellers popularity has sizzled out again, because he is making war on dogs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

The attempt to dehorn the game of football is of doubtful feasibility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Snow in Nebraska, and below zero in Wyoming. A light frost is certainly due us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Judge" Andrew Hamilton is one who never arrives. He is like the proverbial letter in the mails.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

The womens clubs have boycotted Reed Shoot and Grover Cleveland.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Edgar Allan Poe is too big to go into the New York Hall of Fame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Hard jobs in the administration bus mess are reserved for MT. Taft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

The Carnegie heroes are almost as scarce as the availables for the Hall of Fame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Russia is mounting rapid-fire guns on motor cars to fight Russians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Secretary Taft will leave Washing ton today for Panama. Uncle sam pays the freight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Horses are high this year, thanks to the blood shed by the automobiles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

This is fine open weather. and the open car is still enjoyaf vS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Halls of Fame should not be sec tional. It mars their beauty and repu- tation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Cunliffe did not possess Pat Groves cunning in the direction of getting away
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
ceorelan's impression of City.

Birmingham is undoubtedly the indus trial center of the south" said Guss All len, well known business man of west Point, Ga., who is attending the State fair.
 We people over In Georgia have been reading with much interest of the won derful growth that this remarkable dis trict has made during the past few days But seeing the real conditions with ones eyes shows that you indeed have the greatest section in the country.
 "Of course all Georgians are little puffed up about Atlanta, and we are inclined to think that that is the only city of the land; still we must admit that the de- velopment of the Birmingham district Is the marvel of the age"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

frost, but her crop of candidates seems to have escaped it's blighting influences.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Fort Payne Journal: Alabama was q long time building monument to the gallant Pelham, but better late than never.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Greenville Living Truth: That extra session doesn't seem to be thing that the people could not possibly do without.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

There is a package in the express office at Vinton, Ia., for John D. Rocke- feller,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

all other signs point to continued fair weather? Simply this: that the demand for capital has outrun the supply; re- serves are depleted, and 1t is at last evident that new important requirements can only be met at the expense Of those less urgent The world has been turning floating capital into fixed form too rap idly, and the only course open Is 10 wait for suitable readjustment, either until it flows back into its actual reser- voirs-the banks-or else through the un- welcome process of liquidation. Of course the chief reason for this state of strin- gency Is the unparalleled and univer- sal business activity, which. while most conspicuous in the United States extends also to Great Britain, France, Germany and other great commercial nations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

The devil always finds mischief for royal hands to do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Monroe Journal: When a crusty man Of science pronounces kissing an "unpleas- ant custom it is only right that he should tell how he knows
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

John w. Gates money is certainly in our midst, and his hand may follow suit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

Civil service is not at the mercy of cabinet officers.