The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-08
HEN newspaper readers first be-
gan to learn something about
Admiral Togo and General OYa.


ma they were elated at every fresh dis
eovery. but that is past now We have be-
come blase. In fact we have become ae-
customed to the marvellous attributes of
these two Japs, and one is not surprised
TO learn that they do all kinds of exeep-
tionally clever tricks The inventiveness
and enterprise of correspondents has been
taxed to the utmost until personalities
that were undressing at first have been
made very picturesque. According to ac-
counts, the list Of accomplishments. per-
sonal peculiarlties and earmarks of genius
carried around by these distinguished
Japs Is nothing short of stupendcus.
The news tells us that a man thought
he was an airship and jumped out of a
window. He acted the part perfectly. for
he tumbled to the ground and broke him.
self
The sanity of public opinion has been
established by the cold reception ac-
corded Nan Patterson in her theatriealven
ture. She was rendered frost" which
led her to cut short her tour and go back
home where she belongs. The fact that
"A Romance of Panama" was received
with contempt in Altoona, Pa, shows
that the Haunting statements of a yellow
press do not always mirror the thought
of the people.
Jesse James, who is a son of the dis
tinguished bandit of the same name, has
been charged In Kansas City with ex-
acting usurious interest. Thus we see
the evolution of robbing ones fellow man.
The elder James took other peoples prop
erty In a picturesque manner. which
made him heroic figure in penny dread
full literature and admired by the small
boy. Somewhere-it is to be hoped the
weather There is cool--the proud soul Of
Jesse James must be aquiver at the ig-
nominy of having son follow the sordid
calling of a money-lender
Among the new connections don't for
get the automobile" called, for short,
bubble" The automobile" or the
bubble" is a drink and one of its strong
est claims to popularity is that a great
many people can now buy an automobile
who have never been able heretofore TO
attain the true gasolene atmosphere.
1t has been generally agreed that the
Chattanooga man who was fined for snor-
ing in church was keeping everybody else
awake.
A wealthy Indiana woman will try to get
revenge on town in that state by build
ing a rival town to crush it out of ex-
istenee. If her enemy were a woman in
stead of a whole town she could talk
about the woman's clothes and not spend
any money
The first cotton bloom of the season In
that section has been brought into Mound
VILE Soon all the cotton fields will be
in bloom, and the fieecy harvest will ma
ture for the picker. The romance of cotton
Is found on the great plantations, In the
markets, in the factories and over the
seas The world pays tribute to the Cot
ton King, a tribute which means much
to the south.
James Dalrymple, the Glasgow expert
who has come over to America to inspect
Chica COS street railways and give his
opinion on municipal ownership of such
properties, has chagrinned Mayor Dunno
not little by the discouraging view he
takes of the situation. II rs not surpris-
ing to many people that Mr.. Dalrymple