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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
IN HOTEL LORBIES
The Doctors.

The Medical Association of Alabama is holding its annual meeting in Birming- ham and every member in attendance is accorded a right cordial reception. Np booy in this state is more thoroughly rep resentative of Alabama's best manhood than the medical association, and eer- tain it is no body includes talent and edu- cation of a higher order.
 The physicians and surgeons are not only men of scientific attachments but they are proverbial for their humane in- stinets and good comradeship. Judging from the associations order of business and the technical discussions that are in evidence this week, the the doctors will have little time for play, but notwith- standing stress and strain of the proceed ings many a witticism will slip out and the jokes will be racy and plentiful Every citizen of Birmingham bids the doctors welcome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

fl do wish.' said Spring. in a vexed
 tone, that the poets would let me do my work in peace I have just been out to look over the violet crop and everywhere I went there stood d crowd of chaps with soulful faces who hailed me till my head aehed I felt as if were in monograph store and all the machines were believing at me In one long chorus I have been so distracted lately that I completely forgot to SOW some buttercups and was on the point of leaving behind my choicest pansy seed when I happened to think of them. The poets are always too early or too late; they usher in the flowers before I have produced a single bloom and sing absurd little songs apostrophizing the rose before roses begin to bloom The gush of spring poetry is becoming an affliction and is making me eross," con- tinued Spring. as she arranged her tresses. .I believe everybody writes verse nowadays. Easter Sunday also tries my nerves exceedingly. As rule, I arrange to have the day rather cool, or else rainy, in order that vanity may not run riot An, the sun Is calling me. I must leave you. The trees are putting on their green suits and this Is my busy day"
 A TRAGEDY OF THE STREAM. A little fish went out to play
 Adown limpid brook
 And swan along quite cheerfully
 Until he spied a hook.
 Tn sooth," said he. 'l Il see what Is
 This queerly formed device" Then tried to carry off the hook
 Which caught him in triee. His mamma waited long for him
 And soon began to cry.
 She had premonition that
 Her son was due to fry
 And so he was-he passed away,
 He saw the brook no more
 While Mamma Fish lay weeping heath
 stone close to the shore.
 Now listen children, don't be like
 The little fish that died
 Because he would investigate
 The hook that he espled.
 Old curiosity will bring
 You trouble every time
 And that's the reason why I wrote
 This f1shy little rhyme.
 The<coal miners have had more than three strikes, but they are still at the bat.
 Look for Maxim Gorky's batting aver age in our sporting edition tomorrow morning.
 RULE. Come, wear smile and speak kind words It's not so hard to do. If you will love the dear old world The old world will love you Once there was humorist who strove nightly but could never start laugh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
Shops of the Southern.

The rumor that the Southern rail- way has decided to build a three-mil- lion-dollar locomotive plant, for the purpose of building it's own locomo- lives, or motors, has set all the town promoters along the lines of the South ern at work. Every town wants It. quite regardless of the fitness of things. Each town sees it's own needs, and not one of them seems to consider the question of location from the South ern's own economic viewpoint. Presi- dent Samuel Spencer, Vice President Ackert and General Manager H. B.. Spencer will, however, attend to the latter feature of the business.
 Atlanta, of course. claims the loco motive plant, chiefly because 1t makes no iron and mines no coal Other towns that would not know coal mine or blast furnace or steel mill if they met one in the middle of the road are also clamoringr for recognition as suitable locations for the proposed plant
 The Southern is not in the field with It's hand extended for subscriptions or gifts. It's managers know thing or two about advantages and disadvant- ages. and the plant, if established at all, will be put where locomotives or motors can be turned out at mini. rnun cosf nrice
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
 SIR EDWARD ELGAR'S MUSIC.
Will Conduct Some of His Own Com.
 positions at Cincinnati.

From the New York Sun
 Sir Edward and Lady Elgar of London. arrived here Sunday on the Celtic on their way to Cincinnati, where Sir Ed ward goes to conduct his own music at the seventeenth biennial musical festival.
 Sir Edward is Britains best known com poser His coronation odes written for to royal favor, and since then he has found favor not only in the British Isles but has conducted oratorios in the lower Rhine section of Germany where his was the first English music to be accepted.
 His best known compositions are "The Dream of Gerontus,'' Cardinal Newman s poem set to music, and "The Apostles"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
EVENING SONG.

By Sidney Lanier. Look off. dear love. across the shallow
 sands, And mark yon meeting of the sun and
 sea, How long they kissed in sight of all the
 lands, An, longer, longer, we. Now in the seas red vintage ,melts the
 sun, As Egypt's <pearl dissolved, in. rosy
 wine. And Cleopatra night drinks all. Iris
 done. Love, lay thine hand in mine. Come forth. sweet stars, and comfort
 heavens heart: Glimmer ye waves, round else un- lighted sands. o. night divorce our sun and sky
 apart. Never our lips. our hAnds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
From the New York Sun.

@ HE so-called Muck Rake speech @ delivered yesterday by nr.
 Roosevelt as the principal feat ure of a festive and architectural occa- sion, deserves a prominent place among the Occasional Sermons of a President. There is time for preaching, and this is the time for preaching on the subject Of muck ralkers, and this preaching is Jona- than- Edwardsian in it's directness, yigor and orthodoxy.
 But that is not all. Having said what he had to say in restraint of the pro- mlscuous and illegitimate activities of the muck rakers, the President suddenly and without crcumlocution presented his pro- granmc. of further enterprise in the way of Federal control of great fortunes and of the business of corporations other than common carriers "rhere is mighty little good" he said, in mere spasm ot re- form. The reform that counts is that which comes through steady, continuous growth: violent emotionalism tends to ex- haustion.n Then the President went on as follows.
 "As a matter of personal conviction, and without pretending to discuss the detalis or formulate the system, l feel that we shall ultimately have to consider the adoption of some such scheme as that or a progressive tax on all fortunes. beyond q certain amount, either given in nfe or devised or bequeathed upon death to any tndividual-a tax so framed as to put IL out of the power of the owner Of one or these enormous fortunes to hand over more than a certain amount to any one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press. You don't have to wear good clothes fl you can afford to-
 A girl never likes you to kiss her unless she says she doesn't.
 There would be a lot more fun in re- ligion if people tried to discourage you from it.
 The woman talks the kind of stuff she does to baby SO the baby won't be sorry he can't talk it back
 Generally when man is great help around the house ne isn't very much at snnnartins the family outxida
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
Railway Officials.

of the Southern railway, spent yesterday in Birmingham. Fourth Vice President C. H. Ackert and General Manager H. B. Spencer will arrive this morning. The of fieials will proceed to Mobile on a tour of inspection. J. S. B. Thompson, general agent of the Southern, who is now here, will be included in the party bound for AInhile
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
About Persons.

Dr. Elliot of Savannah, who is is attend ing the annual meeting of the State Med icai association. is the guest of Dr. Dab ney. pr. Elliot will leave Birmingham for his home tonight
 T. J. Simpson of Tuscaloosa is stopping a the Metropolitan.
 c. H. Beale of Montgomery Is at the Morris.
 J. A. Goodwin and A. NJ. stovall of Jas per are registered at the Hillman.
 c. G. Milton of Anniston is at the st.. Nicholas.
 E. NJ. Prince of coicanor is stopping at the Colonial
 T. D. Marshall of Montgomery is regis tered at the Birmingham.
 J. H. Blue and N. R. Brassell of Mont gomery are at the Hillman.
 ", c. Naples and T. F. callen of seotts- boro are registered at the St. Nicholas.
 F. II. win<ler Of Greenvine Is stopping a. the Morris.
 T. II. Henry of Tuscumbia is at the Metropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
NOT THAT KIND OF SUITS.
Dm the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 dilapidated person rang a West Phia- delphia door bell and asked the lady of the house, lawyers wife, whether she had any old suits.
 "Go to see my husband at his office, she answered His are mostly old. Hes had one of them l know for more than twenty years. The tramp looked dis couraged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

 Mediterranean Sea, the city has a splen- did winter climate, much like that of Palm Beach or Los Angeles Rent of the house cost me $5 a month. Each servant received 50 cents week. Excellent mutton was to be had in mar ket for cents pound, and egs cost cents dozen
 For chickens paid cents apiece, and the price of fish was one-ffth of a cent a pound.
 The finest of fresh fruits and vegetables were so abundant that such articles were not sold in quantity.
 For so much week you got all you wanted. Twenty-Five cents week kept my household supplied.
 An American resident of the city in-. formed me that he and his family lived there comfortably on s175 a year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
CHEAPEST PLACE TO LIVE.

From the Columbus Dispatch.
 Antioch" said a traveller, lis the cheapest place in the world in which to live At one time I passed a winter there.
 Although I leased fine house and kept three servants. my expenses ran only to q a week.
 "situated upon the Asia shore of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
OUT IN KANSAS.

From the Gadsden Times News.
 The editor of a Kansas newspaper is making war on the gum chewers in his state. He says gum chewing in Kansas is almost universal and that 1t is as bad as the tobacco habit. Kansas is deter mined to maintain it's reputation as a pro- Jucer of freaks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
MOBILE BOOMING.

From the Mobile Register.
 In immediate prospect. "A new theatre, d new hotel, a new cotton compress new street railway, a new synagogue. a new church, a new union railway station. u new office building, d new lot of street paving-Mobile seems determined to mako a record this year. .al
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE TIMES

 One day he bought. in highball store, several of them and gave them to his friends, whereupon they laughed uproar- iously every time he opened his mouth. A word to the wise is sufficient A naked man who ran about the public square in Cleveland was probably hunt ing the sole swimmin' hole.s'
 BE LENIENT. Now don't be angry with bard Who grinds out rhymes and labors hard. He doesn't hope so much for grace, But merely seeks to fill up space. The Cunard line steamship, Campania, sailed from Havre the other day with nearly twelve tons of gold on board. Why are there no pirates now? It is cruel for a contemporary to speak of Mark Twain as "easy Mark" just because he got mixed up with Gorky
 SWAY OF THE DOLLAR. Nobody will talk
 Unless he is paid, Nobody will sing
 Till somthing is said
 UT what will result
 In way of fee.
 The color of coin
 An artist must see.
 The preachers all preach
 then pass round the hat To pay for short talks
 Insipid and flat
 No person will raise
 lone hand to do
 A favor for me,
 Another for you
 Unless we display
 sizeable roll
 A dollar marks writ
 On flames shining scroll M stands for Man, who will stand for anything.-our Own Primer; Vol. l. Page 105
 Most automobilists are monomaniacs," says an insurance compnay Why not leave off the "monoe? The best man in. the world will look guilty when he gets out on the street with his first straw hat. Let the eagle screamr' shouted an orator. Eagle? Ratsl It's the storx,
 BOUND TO SING. Away down here in Dixie where The sweet magnolia grows The moeking birds are singing and The whisp'ring gulf wind blows, A fellow feels so happy that He can't resist a song. So here goes for a starter let The tune be right or wrong. al saying that the state of Rhode Island is not for sale the president os Brown university probably means that it has already been sold
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
MoRsEL OF COMFORT.

From the Washington Post.
 The gratifying intelligence is heralded from Arkansas that his name is not "Jeff' but "Jeffresy Davis, That ought to be a bit consoling to southern pride.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
SPEECHES READY.

From the Selma Journal
 Many speeches on the rate bill are waiting for delivery, and it begins to look like there is some truth in the Age Herald's cartoon of some days ago, which represented It being buried, talked to death.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
ENOUGH TO SCARE THEM,

From the Mobile Herald.
 No wonder the congressman in the re publican cloak room stampeded when carbov of mineral water exploded. must have made a noise like Uncle Joe Cannon sneezing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
ONE our.

From the Richmond Times Dispatch.
 A St. Louis man, who stood the Folk in- vestigation and the exposition, died from excitement the other day at game of baseball. There is life in old game yet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
LEST SHE FORGET.

If Mrs. Bellamy Storer feels that she has a grievance or cause of complaint against the President she will do we'll to present 1t by letter oS by proxy. Mrs. Morris had grievance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Says Edward Everett Hale, Speak every day to some one who you know is your superior" This is all right; but 1t condemns the winning pitcher of the day to silence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
PROSPECTUS REVEALED
 IN PRESIDENTS SERMON

1 individual; the tax, of course, to be im- posed by the national and not the state government. Such taxation should, of course, be aimed merely at the in- heritance or transmission in their entirety of those fortunes swollen beyond all healthy limits,'
 Again the national government must in some form exercise supervision over corporations engaged in interstate busi- ness-and all large corporations are en- gagged in interstate business-whether by license or otherwise so as to permit us to deal with the far-reaching evils of ver-capitalization. This year. we are making a beginning in the direction of serious effort to settle some of these eco- homie problems by the railway rate Legislation
 This is possibly the most momentous unofficial utterance that has proceeded from the Presidents lips since his speech in Minneapolis nearly five years ago, when he declared that new conditions ne cessitated "a change from the old atti- tude of the state and the nation toward property"
 The present programme is quite con- sistent with that earlier declaration. Making the beginning in the direction of railway rate legislation is indeed requir- ing serious effort. We assume that in outlining the larger programme the abso- lute need of preliminary amendments of the constitution is clearly recognized by the President. If anything could over shadow the interest of the discussion of muck raking, it is these tremendous projects of reform simultaneously pro- posed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Dowie is up against arbitration, and the umpire, too, is to be chosen by the Voliva crowd. The old impostor be- gins to see that Lincoln was right when he said no one could fool all the people all the time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Vulcan comes up again tonight in the city council. He comes Up often academically speaking, but never phys ieally. It is well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Camp Hardee and Post Custer hold memories of a great war, and they are able to talk about it as becomes brave and sensible men forty years after wards
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

The renomination of Senator Black mon in Calhoun county shows that the gubernatorial race is still contest It is still live wire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
DOWN WITH THE MOSQUITO.
.., tho Knnxuilla sentineI

From the KnoXVille Sentinel.
 The war on the mosquito is fairly under way from New Jersey to Florida and Louisiana. Old stegomyia faseata had better skip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

The slagpile team is the Ben Adhem of the percentage list-it leads all the rest. Skill and courage will tell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
FOR AMERICAN ENGAGEMENTS

From the Houston Post.
 It seems that Madame Andreieva i merely Madame Gorky's understudy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

When the Boosters met our MT. Vaughan they soon became hisn. His trap is always set.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

The President calls for an imple- ment about half way between a muck rake and whitewash brush. Here is 8 chance for inventors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

{ Oven Mark Twain is farewelling. He is bidding goodbye to the lecture stage. to which he has long been ad dicted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

All the discomforts of ocean life have been eliminated now except sea sickness, and that will have to go sooner or later.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
LAWLESS VOLCANO.

From the Florida Times-Union.
 vesuvius cannot be made to give bond to keep the peace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

The domestic troubles of Maxim Gorky are thought to relate after all to the sale of his books. He employs a press agent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Hen" luncheon parties are quite the thing in London. The "hens' are women. and they smoke cigarettes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

your factory products inside of two years
 Virginia Is working on this idea and so is Georgia and Mississippi and notwith= standing your natural supremacy. Bir- mfngham must follow suit or take what more progressive cities leave in the wake. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

A battleship in times of peace is be- coming more dangerous than one in war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Andy believes in helping those who help themselves, excepting, of course kissing bugs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Birmingham winning streak i' much better than yellow one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Governor Folk still believes in the efficacy and public value of the muck rake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

The balloon fad is on. It is taking up society, which had taken 1t up Both will soon kafiummux together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Governor Folk proposes to let one hundred of the Springfield lynchers cool off in the county jail. He has their names.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Gorky was quick to discover that Chicago is the best place for man who has more than one wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Bathhouse John came out alive and on top in the M. o. campaign. A good man and poet at that cannot be kept down even in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

When Colonel Bryan gets back he may find public sentiment pretty well crystalized.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

The Montgomeryites who propose to repeal the Underwood bill may wake up to find that they had tackled the wrong tomcat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Mrs. Depew has come back and proved to the aworld at large that she is still standing by Chauncey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Dowie's enemies now say that they will eliminate" him. The use of that word indicates that he is already as good as whipped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Dowie says he will not abdicate Once a prophet. always a prophet, he says.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Princess Ena will become a June bride in the first evening of that month of roses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

From the chariestdh News and Courier.
 Everybody favors railway rate debate regulation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

The Presidents graduated inherit ancs tax has obscured the muck rake
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

The big stick has also become social istic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

The doctors are in town in great force. and now is the time to have ap- pendicitis if you intend to indulge in this fashionable complaint at all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Lord Curzan says Anglo-saxons were born to rule. It seems that the noble lord is exceptional. for his rule in India was cut short by celt from Ireland.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

The duty at hand is to elect dem ocratic House of Representatives that will send to the Senate tariff revision bill. Give Boss Aldrich something to chew on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
CUT IT SHORT.

Pleasant weather for campaigning
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Washington Bureau Ase-Herald 142i G street. N. ".
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
BE LENIENT.

BE LENIENT. Now don't be angry with a bard Who grinds out rhymes and labors hard. He doesn't hope so much for grace, But merely seeks to fill up space.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

A naked man who ran about the public square in Cleveland was probably hunt Ing the ''ole swimmin' holes,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

One day he bought. in highball store. several of them and gave them to his friends, whereupon they laughed uproar- iously every time he opened his mouth. A word to the wise is sufficient.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala, post office as seeond-class matter under act of Congress March 8. 1873.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

The Cunard line steamship, Campania, sailed from Havre the other day with nearly twelve tons of gold on board. Why are there no pirates now?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.
 -Macbeh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Let the eagle seream!' shouted an o11tor Eagle? Rats! It's the storl1,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

The best man in. the world will look guilty when he gets out on the street with his first straw hat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

It is cruel for contemporary to speak of Mark Twain as "easy Mark" just because he got mixed up with Gorky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

M stands for Man, who will stand for anything.-our Own Primer; Vol. I, Page 1O5
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Most automobilists are monomaniacs, ,, says an insurance eompnay. Why not leave off the mono?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Once there was a humorist who strove nightly but could never start laugh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

Had l power should Pour the sweet milk of concor into
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