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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03
Direcl Action by The PeepIe

Louisiana, Mississippi Alabama, Florida, Arkansas. Virginia and South Carolina now have legally established primaries, and there is no desire among the people of any of these states of a return to the convention system, and the Chicago Record Herald considers the alternate plan of the Alabama state executive commit tee as a further extension of the popu- lar idea.
 The primary system is by no means confined to the south, for Massachu. setts. New Jersey and Wisconsin now have primary laws. A wave of pri- mary election reform is sweeping over the country, and the legislatures of New York and Pennsylvania are con sidering the adoption of compulsory primary laws. Maryland and Ohio de, sire direct voting also, and bills will be presented in both states having tha. object in view. Legally established primaries. compulsory on all parties are the more popular, although some of the states will begin the work of re form by the use of voluntary prima- ries.
 The Massachusetts law is considered ,an excellent measure Joint primaries are held in that state. They are under lthe supervision of board of election lcommissioners. Nominations. or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03
Business Was Good.

My reports for the past year showed nice increase in business over tne pre- vious year." said F. T. Wilcox, division freight agent of the Frisco system, yes- terday.
 'The freight business at present is very satisfactory. In fact just as much busi- ness as can be handled is offered and the only trouble the railroads are hav- Ing is in taking care of what is offered.
 Large amounts of additional equip ment have been secured by all the rail roads since last year, but the business Is so large that practically all the roads are short of equipment of one kind or another"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03
IN HOTEL LoBBIES

The effects of the new union station" said s. W slaton yesterday, are be- ing felt in advance. The Thompson house on Third avenue is to be rehtted and opened as a modern hotel. and possibly the Eagle hotel on Second avenue. will yet regain its old position
 When the Eagle hotel was built it was not only considered very fine. but 1t was supposed 10 be the coming center Of the coming city. The whiligig of time Is bringing it's revenges. and the fore sight of the projectors of the Eagle may yet be wndicated.
 We have not yet appreciated the effects oi the new union station, simply because ground has not yet been broken for it. but as 1t goes up first one person and then another will see what it means in Birmingham upward career
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03
Better Plays.

Birmingham is having a much better line of attractions at the theatres now than earlier in the season. said a thea tresoer last night. "I was looking over the plays which are to come and we are scheduled to see a number of good actors and good plays
 The yellow jack prevented many of the best shows from coming south earlier in the season. but now all of those who usually come south each season are headed this way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03
THE JUVENILE SENATORS.
@ Boston Globe.

From IIlt bOsIUII NIIVTI0s
 Senators Morgan and Pettus of Alabama have both announced that they will be candidates for the Senate, to succeed themselves, although General Pettus, when his term expires in 1909 will be s7, and Senator Morgan. when his term ex- pires In 1901 will be s2. However, man Is as young as he feels. and both of the gentlemen from Alabama give daily in dications that they feel quite juvenile
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03
THE SIGNAL.

By sam Hamilton Birchell. A little, lonely, wlstful chap
 Looks out at dusk for me- The lamplght shines behind his head I see him wave to me. He smiles when I wave back to him Through evening mist and rain; I'm glad the boy I used to be
 Remembers me again
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03
been as follows:

The figures for 1905 have not yet been complied Possibly the output will be ascertained to have been 2.7OO,- GOO tons. but whether 1t goes that fig ure or not we are gravitating rapidly towards production of three million tons of coke year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03
DIGGING DID IT.

From the New York American.
 Passenger trains are now running through the Simplon tunnel, a twelve mile hole through the Alps. The work was done by digging and digging and digging, not by digging and charging graft and Investigating.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03
Japan Is already swelling up.
JOLT FOR PouLTNEY.

From the Nashville American.
 Poultney Bigelow has received another punch in the short ribs-this time from Governor Magoon. Whatever may be the conditions at Panama 1t is evident that Bigelow had no opportunity for observ- ing them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03
About Persons.

Mir. and Mrs. Robert Strong and daugh- ter of Mobile, are at the Hlman
 Walter Aphford of Montgomery. is at the Hillman.
 Louis F Fechheimer and A. N Rosen- thai of Louisville, are registered at the St Nicholas.
 James Kennedy and John B. Tuthill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

A great many people cant under stand how Charles Lockhart left a for tune of $1oO,oOO,OO0, and yet he be- longed to the Standard oil combine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

The platitudes of John D. Rockefel- Ter, Jr., are telegraphed all over the country because his dad is about to own it, bag and baggage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

Just before leaving New York Miss Alice Roosevelt picked up" a gown for $500. If it had been marked $799 she might have bought 1t sooner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03
JAMES CREELMAN ON A
 SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM

He becomes old at thirty. morally senile at forty-white hairs find him in his grave or miserable exile"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

Editor Graves blue pencil Hes idle. An injunction keeps him from exercise ing his prerogatiyes as editor of the Atlanta News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

Mrs. Palmer will take a companion to Europe who will teach her how to play bridge. It is presumed that there will be no stakes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

A steamer full of Russian soldiers returning home struck a floating mine and had a hole blown in her bottom. Wherever the Russian troops go they get into trouble
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is unfor- tunate in his figures of speech. He should have blue-penciled al refer ence to human sponges for family reasons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

It is rumored that certain women in high life do not want Colonel Mann again put on trial, and rumor is prob ably correct.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

St. Valentines day is due in less than two weeks. The years output of slushy verse is already on the market
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

It seems that Packer Swift is also afflicted with weak memory, and yet he is quite successful business man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

The Algeciras conference may con clude to set the year round 20 that 1t can meet Moroccan problems as they arise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

King Christian was man who at tended strictly to his own business, including hunt for son-in-laws.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

Chairman Shonts Is kept busy re- ceiving his two salaries and placing them where they will do him the most good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

The Standard Oil Is too much even for the New Jersey appetite, and that state threatens to unload 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

MT. Cleveland cannot live In Los Angeles and fully and promptly dis charge the duties of his s12,000 office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE TIMES
to hear him laugh is nowhere around and laughing doesn't do him much good.'

 laughing doesn't do him much good"
 THEY ALL DIE.
 Lives of rich men
 All remind us
 That we must leave
 Wealth behind us. Grown people are much like children after all. Theatregoers here are careless about reaching the theatre promptly. It is a common occurrence for late arrivals to interrupt the first act and keep the audience in confusion sometimes for twen- ty minutes after the curtain has gone up, but let the performance be delayed a few minutes after they have been seated and they wax impatient. They clap their hands and stamp on the floor and squirm in their seats. A dose of their own medi- cine is not palatable. The owner of sysonby refused s9o0Ooo for the horse. The thoroughbred need feel no alarm No automobile is worth s2OO,- ooQ- or ever will be-
 ST. VALENTINES DAY. No Lizzie, dear, your blunder is In fact without excuse. Of course the day was not named for The man who makes beef juice  An Indiana man who was divorced, mar red and arrested for desertion in one week could not be called a sluggard. even if he is wicked
 MIR. CLEVELAND. He sat upon the lid until The lid got rather warm, And then he longed to move because The job had lost it's charm. It is a poor man who won't tread on truth for the sake of his home town. A contemporary has editorial on Hogs in Winter. which reminds us that the end-seat hog will come back again next summer, along with the flies and mosquitoes. When State Senator Toney of Arkansas was arrested for boolding he must have remarked, Whats in a name?"
 ALAS. THERE IS.
 We'd feel so good
 We'd almost burst
 If there was no
 Day called the first" It is reported that John D. Rockefeller hopes for a grandson A great many young men would like to be a grandson to him. for his grandson, if he ever has one, will inherit the Standard oil millions
 DISINFECTING KISSES.
 Have your kisses
 Pasteurized,
 Then microbes can
 Be dspised.
 But if you don't
 Like that plan
 You are none the
 Less man.
 All this talk of
 Germs and things
 Doesn't keep en-
 Gagement rings
 From appearing Every day On hands in the
 Same old way. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

The new British premier is Scotch man with big fortune, and he cannot be easily driven out of office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

Samson was strong while his hair remained, but Nick Longworth is all right. hair or no hair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

In the year 1905 137,05S persons died in New York, and it is presumed that some of them went to heaven.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

becomes a merchantable tree. By good care the saplings can be made to double the life of our almost inestima- ble yellow pine harvest.
 Mr. Gaskill will also, we hope, ex- plain the value of gum trees. There is market today for the gum, and in the near future every tree of that species will be as valuable as ash, cot ton wood and oak are now. Alabama holds an immense quantity of gum trees, and not one of them should be wasted, for all of them will be needed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

As soon as Japan has asslmilated Corea she will begin to look towards the Philippines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03
LILLIAN II. CRANE. who played
 at the Jefferson theatre last
 night. is one of the most popu-

ARy at the Jefferson theatre last
 w night. is one of the most popu- lar actors on the American stage Tn fact. it is said that no other member of the profession has more friends among the famous public men of the country than he and none receives a more cordial welcome in Washington MT. Crane is lovabe. eompanonable man. fond of anecdote and reminiscence and one of the most entertaining takers imaginable. He has rich fund of stories and is man of wide information. The human qualities of Mir Crane. like those of the lamented Joseph Jefferson, have endeared him to thousands of theatregoers in the United States.
 A Mobile man fell eighty-fiye feet and then walked around He could get good salary for doing that.
 The railroads will not be permitted to el5ick" cars across the street crossings of Birmingham. That is about the only kind of kicking that the railroads have been able to do since the public has been riding on trains
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

An ex-president may become an humorist at any rate, and that IS something.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

All hope of good weather in Febru- ary and March is lost. at least in Ala bama, for the ground hog saw his shadow yesterday in every part of this unhappy state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

Congressman Longworth Is kept busy serving his district and The sun of his life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

Boston has mayor who waltzes. That is not as bad as grating.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

Chemical agents no more produce life than Tesla does feasible electrical devices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

SPOONING TIME
 At evening when the sun is low
 And nature falls to sleep
 When little children tire of play
 And sink in slumber deep.
 Iris pleasant then to take walk
 And in a city park
 Remark to her whom you would press,
 Pm glad it's getting dark" The plaintive notes of a barrel organ came floating down the street. A sturdy son of Italy was turning the crank and a monkey skipped about in pathetic eager ness to please his master People smiled at the last representative of the wan dering minstrel who was once welcomed in feudal halls and made place for him. self in literature.
 ''The man who laughs last may laugh best" remarked Colonel Biff, but 1t fre- quently happens that the person he wants
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

Ex-Premier Balfour will forget de- feat when the gol6ng season is opened,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

Nick Longworth is a fiddler. but he does not, at any rate, write spring poetry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

The daffodils and the blue birds are not so sure today that spring has come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

The Hamilton accounts should be turned over to the indignant policy holders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

Bridegroom Mizener is 29 years old, but the age of the bride is not stated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

An Indiana man who was divorced, mar ried and arrested for desertion in one week could not be called a sluggard, even if he is wicked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

stand how Charles Lockhart left for tune of $1oO,oOO,000, and yet he be- longed to the Standard oil combine. Just before leaving New York Miss Alice Roosevelt picked up" a gown for $500. If it had been marked $799 she might have bought 1t sooner.
 ---s-- The platitudes of John D. Rockefel- Ter, Jr., are telegraphed all over the country, because his dad is about to own it, bag and baggage.
  Mrs Palmer will take a companion to Europe who will teach her how to play bridge. It is presumed that there will be no stakes. Editor Graves blue pencil lies idle. An injunction keeps him from exercise ing his prerogatiyes as editor of the Atlanta News.
 It is rumored that certain women in high life do not want Colonel Mann again put on trial, and rumor is prob ably correct.
 The Algeciras conference may con clude to set the year round. 20 that 1t can meet Moroccan problems as they arise
 ---------- Chairman Shonts Is kept busy re- celving his two salaries and placing them where they will do him the most good
 St. Valentines day is due in less than two weeks The years output of slushy verse is already on the market.
  It seems that Packer Swift is also afflicted with weak memory, and yet he is quite a successful business man.
 
 MT. Cleveland cannot live In Los Angeles and fully and promptly dis charge the duties of his S12,000 office.
 --------s--------- King Christian was man who at tended strictly to his own business, including hunt for son-in-laws.
 
 In the year 1905 137,0 persons died in New York, and 1t Is presumed that some of them went to heaven.
 
 The new British premier is Scotch man with a big fortune, and he cannot be easily driven out of office.
 -s.- The Standard Oil Is too much even for the New Jersey appetite, and that state threatens to unload it. Samson was strong while his hair remained, but Nick Longworth is all right hair or no hair. As soon as Japan has asslmiated Corea she will begin to look towards the Philippines.
 An ex-president may become an humorist at any rate, and that IS something.
 Congressman Longworth Is kept busy serving his district and The sun of his life.
 --.s.- Chemical agents no more produce life than Tesla does feasible electrical devices.
 The Hamilton accounts should be turned over to the indignant policy holders.
  Nick Longworth is a fiddler. but he does not, at any rate, write spring poetry
 
 Bridegroom Mizener is 29 years old, but the age of the bride is not stated
  Ex-Premier Balfour will forget de- feat when the goling season is opened,
 
 The daffodils and the blue birds are not so sure today that spring has come
 
 Boston has a mayor who waltZes. That is not as bad as grating. Algeciras wants to know how Rais- ,,li ao.. ho ppoparlv pn1iond
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

ST. VALENTINES DAY. No, Lizzie, dear, your blunder is In fact without excuse Of course the day was not named for The man who makes beef juice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

Algeciras wants to know how Rais- uli can be properly policed.
 Before bringing libel suit be sure it is not loaded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03
THEY ALL DIE. Lives of rich men All remind us That we must leave Wealth behind us.

The owner of sysonby refused s9o0OoO for the horse. The thoroughbred need feel no alarm. No automobile is worth S9OO.- 600, or ever will be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

Andalusia News: Both of Alabamals United States senators have announced for reelection. Covington county people are generally satisfied with the services of these gentlemen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03
SUNSHINE

SUNSHINE
 Sun keeps on a-shining
 Old worlds full of iSnt;
 Sunshine in your heart, dear,
 Makes a dark day bright Christian of Denmark was a king 3 years and left only $25O,0Oo. He would have made a good insurance president. "Kid" Mccoy has invested $500.OVO in an apartment house. The era of the million aire pugilist is not far distant.
 BEWARE.
 Needles and pins,
 Needles and pins;
 When a man marries
 It may mean twins. The administration has announced that Reed Shoot can hold his seat in the Sem ate in return for voting with the White House and irate American mothers might as well turn their attention to something more profitable.
 The fTst photographs of the canals on Mars have Just been taken .,e would like to see the picture of just one real canal in Panama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

L. IT. Russ and George D. Britain are the only authorized travelling representa- 4ives of The Age-Herald in it's circulation department
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-09-28
OPPORTUNITY.

They do me wrong who say come no
When once knock and fail to find you
in;
For everyday stand outside the door,
And bid you wake, and rise to fight
and win.
Wall not for precious chances passed
away,
Weep not for golden ages on the wanel
Each night burn the records of the day;
At sunrise every soul is born again.
Laugh like boy at splendors that have
sped,
To vanished joys be blind and deaf and
dumb;
My judgments seal the dead past with
its dead;
But never bind momentyet to come.
Though deep in mire, wiring not your
hands and weep;
L lend my arm to all who say sT can %
No shamefaced outcast ever sank so deep
But yet might rise and be again man
Dost thou behold thy lost youth ali
aghast?
Dost reel from righteous retribution's s
blow?
Then turn from blotted archives of the
past
And find the futures pages white as
snow.
Art thou mourner? Rouse thee from
thy spell;
Art thou sinner? Sins may be for
given;
Each morning gives thee wings to flee
from hell,
Each night star to guide thy feet to
heaven.
Walter Malone, in Baltimore News.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-09-28

Somebody said Il isibetter to be beau
tiful than to be good. But it is cer-
tainly better. to be good than to, be
ugly. It Is better to be charming. Al
woman cannot charm because she wants
to. A man is not agreeable because he
sets out to be- 4Qnite the reverse. In
effort is failure. The proper effect
must, like repartee, be spontaneous and
unpremeditated.- It must be radiated
naturally, like light and love. Books
there are that pretend to tell how it is
done. They do so quite as competently
as grasshoppers teach entomology. The
ability to charm, to be agreeable, to
entertain perfectly, and to be perfectly
entertaining, is an art apprehensible
only through Influences generally pre-
natal but always prolonged. The mere
technique is so volatile that it must be
inhaled. Like the Mayfair intonation,
little by little, it must be absorbed.
Kings and thugs may abash the ANA.
teur in the art of pleasing but the artist
is at home withthem. He puts himself
in harmony with them. In the abilit,
to do that is the whole secret of the ar,
of pleasing. Edgar Saltus, in the Octo
ber Delineator. -
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-09-28
WHICH ROAD1

If you could go back to the forks of the
road,
Back the long miles you have carried
the load; -
Back to the place where Won had To
decide
BY this way or that through your life To
abide;
Back of the grieving and back of the
Back to the place where the future was
fair
If you were this day that decision to
make.
o, brother in sorrow! which road would
you take?
Then suppose that again to the forks
you went back,
After you ID trodden the other long track.
After you'd found that its promises fair
We're all a delusion that led toa snare
That the road you first travelled with
sighs and unrest,
Though dreary and rough, was most
graciously blest,
With balm for each bruise and a charm
for each ache
y, brother in sorrow! which road would
you take?
Nixon Waterman.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-09-28
THE RETORT DIRECT.

A U. S. sailor, who had served through
the Civil War, and despite years of drill
was bent in the shoulders and rounded
in the back, was passing along Church
Street in Liverpool one day when his
ship was lying in the Mersey. Along
came two smart young Tommy Atkins,
straight as ramrods and gorgeous in
new uniforms-who thought to have
some fun with the old Yankee man-o'-
warsfnan.
Jack, ahoy!" cried the youngest
and smartest of the two, "what are
you carrying on your back?'
Back came the answer, quick as a
shot
Bunker HILL"
And the Tommies pursued their way
with chastened spirits. September
Lippincott's.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-09-28
three hours in my room. and, then

three hours In my room, and, then
to my great relief, began to leave.
The next morning i found them
massed on the posts supporting the
roof, waiting for the INTO. warm
them before departing, which they
presently did in q most curious for
nation. A number of them appeared
to join hands, 30 to speak. the whole
length of the post, while the msin
body passed down underneath, and
In some cases over the heads of those
stationary. 1t wss not until z D. m.
Of that day that the last detach-
ment departed, watched anxiously
by myself, as / was net much in
clined to pass another night in their
company. These pests will clear
out kitchen or l4rder in no time,
and eat mp everything in the way of
meat 1t is said that it was the
favorite punishment of the Emir of
kano to place his captives taken in
war Chose he did not want as slaves),
and all male-factors upon antheaps,
bound and helpless, and to leave
them there until they were devoured.
The anita that made these mounds of
earth full Of holes are larger kind,
black In color, and have power
when touched of emitting most
unpleasant smell.-Chsmbers Jour
nal. - .-...,