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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
THE LOSS OF THE SIEGE TRAIN

By the Rev. Joseph Duffy. He did his Master more service by that enterprise than all the other Irish or French generals did him in the course of the ar"-William J. Onahan, author of Eminent Irishmen in Foreign Ser vice.
 The wearied sun lies down to rest Upon the oceans heaving breast, And paler grows the crimson west
 Each hour. Think you that wonder copses still. Which mantle close the rugged hill. Poor Innisfails last hope and will
 Embower? Iris truei for Sarsheld and his men Left Limerick. and thro' stream and fen Have travelled to that lonely glen
 To wait. Kind night be calm! brook check thy leap,
 Which robs the wearied of his sleep. Lest thou yon foeman restless keep
 Till late. Here Saxons sleep to wake no more: The dew that gems their carpet floor Shall reckoning run with purple gore
 Ere morn. Harl! hear that fast and measured tramp, See gleam those bikes meath guiding lamp. Oh God will none the sleeping camp
 F'orewarn? Though weariness may lock their eyes, The soldiers heart will watch surprise And instinct too, will prompt to rise
 In dangers Thus wakes the Saxon from his sleep. Keen swords from out their scabbards leap
 And check awhile the onward sweep
 Of strangers. In vains They're widely flung in flight Or dashed to earth. the dust to bite. More serred line such Irish might
 Could reel Now Limerick sees the lirid glare That, flashing, lights for leagues the air Give back. ye sounding hills of Clare.
 That peal. Thou shannon, wandering deep and free, Go tell unto the booming sea The crash thou heard'st fill vale and lea Was roar of wrecked artillery. tNear Orphanage East Lake. February. s00.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT BIRMINGHAM AND
 THE REMARKABLE IMPROVEMENTS THEREIN

get in the running for the senatorial succession
 At the present time only Knox and Johnston and Oates and Clarke and Fitts are conspicuous before the footlights as announced candidates. There are sev- eral others. however, who seem to be costuming themselves for an early appear ance.
 The candidates are a jolly good set. All of them are well supplied with wis dom and learning and each one of them has the wherewith to make good in Wash ington. So whoever may be selected to succeed when Senators Morgan and Pet tus shall have passed to the great be- yond, Alabama will continue to be well represented in the Senate of the United States.
 Much more interest is apparently excit- ed in the senatorial contest than in that for governor. although it may be that when warm weather comes upon us Conner and Cunningham may become more ac- tive and get up some issues which might add interest to the campaign.
 Norman Hapgood. the editor of Col Hers Weekly, enthused over the win ming of his suit with Colonel Mann of Town Topics. is displaying himself on lecture platforms and elsewhere. abus- ing the daily newspapers of the coun- try for printing patent medicine adver- tisements, and abusing business men and corporations for continuing to advertise in Town Topics. In other words, Mr. Hapgood has seen fit to set himself up as a press censor and abuse newspapers for printing legitimate advertising. Of course in doing so he is giving the patent medicine people the greatest sort of ad- vertlslng and perhaps the sale of Peruna and other medicines of like character are increasing in proportion.
 Of advertising, Birmingham is getting more of it today than almost any other place in the world. I was told the other day in New York by MT. John W. Gates
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A man gets old awful fast after his children begin to give him advice
 The comfortable thing about women brains is they hardly ever show.
 No woman ever considers herself Tat as long as there is another one fatter.
 man ought to be fair enough to trust his wife if he needs trusting himself.
 The trouble with the gout is you can't make people believe 1t is only rheuma- tsm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
DANGEROUS COMBINATION.

From the Houston Post.
 That Bernhardt- Mansfield combination suggests the possibility of some strenuous disputation. The divine Sarah has a temper of her own, and Mansfield Is just the sort of person to provoke the old lady to talk at the rate of 800 words a minute.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

Tennessee of the republican party. Three days afterward the republican eXeeu- tive committee of MT Brownlows own county met and adopted resolutions urg- ing General Evans to enter the guberna- torial campaign.
 Politics have been interesting enough already with General Patterson of Mem phis. member of Congress, Governor Cox and Judge Barnes of KnoxVille, all seeking the office of governor, and with the announcement of General Evans, an interesting to say the least of 1t, po- litical battle Is promised.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Portrait of Father o,ReIIIy.

life-like and artistically executed full length portrait of Father 0'Reilly has been presented 10 St. Nlh- cents hospital in the name of St. Vincent's hospital in the name of st. Bernard college. It has been placed in the parlor at the hospital. where it is being seen and admired by many devoted friends of the late priest
 The portrait was painted by the Rev Father Placidus, O. s. B., the art teacher at St. Bernard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
TALLADEeANs FOR ANNA.

From the Talladega Reporter.
 Helen Gould was rght-an old maid Is better than a French countess every time. Age Herald.-And, there is no real neces- sity of her being an old maid. For in- stance, she might take Col. A. M. Gar Der. the handsome next attorney general, or if she preferred, might take the amia- ble Marion H. Sims, the "Cupid' of tho circuit court office. She has our eonsent to either of them, as the Talladega girls seems to be getting on without them, anyWayi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
Concerning Smoke Nuisance.

Tt is an i'll wind that does not do some one good, Is a true saying said Louis Arnstein of New York city yesterday. "There are a number of people kicking like fury at the soft coal smoke that is permeating the atmosphere of Bir- mngham. That nuisance Is something that can hardly be abated. As long as you have large manufacturing industries in a city, soft coal is bound to be used and the natural result is, coal smoke and soot flying over the city. Delicate fabrics, light. dainty goods and in fact anything white is bound to suffer. Who gets the benefit of this? Why the dry cleaning establishments, laundries and other concerns of similar nature.
 ''The trouble is apparent in Cincinnati, Cleveland Chicago and many other cities and I want to say that Birmingham, although alone in many proud respects must fall in line with dozens of other cities in this particular matter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
WHEN IT RAINS.

WHEN IT RAINS. When the rain Is falling down
 On the town,
 Drear and brown: When the clouds are drifting low
 And they go
 As they blow, What joy to sit and smoke
 And to joke
 Till we choke! What a pleasure just to think
 And to wink
 And to blink Or to help the minutes pass
 With glass
 And a lassi Just to live your life again
 While teh rain
 Beats the pane When the world is dripping wet
 To forget, John D. Rockefeller is said to have grown fat laughing over the accounts of his recent travels. More beneficial re- suits from the absent treatment. telephone girl with a MUSICAL VOICE has married the president of the company. There it Is again. When an affair is wrapped in mystery it is a sign that it will not be unwrap- ped by the keen-nosed detectives.
 RACE SUICIDE. ''The more we have. the more we want" These words you often hear; But not if they are like us and Come one or two a year Some people have to toll out in the ,..a,.bar vhila other peonle sit under trees and lead a strawberry shortcake life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
GREAT scHEM E.

From the Richmond News-Leader.
 "A pastor at Cleveland has devised a plan of loaning money, under terms of strictest secrecy, to members of his con gregation" Large additions to his flock may be confidently looked for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
About Persons.

Joseph R. Curtis, formerly of Birming- ham, but now on the editorial stan Of the Chattanooga Times, spent yesterday in the city.
 R, F. Walsh, a prominent business man of Chattanooga, was in Birmingham yes terday.
 L. Breck Musgrove Is at the Hillman.
  Edgar L. Clarlson, political secretary to Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson, Is in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
T TRADE.
From Puck.

From PUCK. When the floods came and swept away the food of 100000 people, a man stood by and chucllled and rubbed his hands gleefully.
 Was he, then a ghoul in human form?
 By no means. He was a Christian gen tleman. on the bull side of the market.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
NEW EXPLANATION.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
 Besides, It may be the new financial agent of the University of Chicago in stead of the process server whom MT. Rockefeller is trying to side-step.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE TIMES

renovator carried along some trained bed bugs which he dropped into the pillows of housewives while inspecting them and then pointed out the bugs. Of course he always got the job of renovating the feathers, until his despicable deceit was discovered. He thought he had a chinch. WHAT WILL DRIVE CARE AWAY. There's no use to fret and worry
 When the old world goes dead wrong. Get your photograph to working
 Let the alarmed thing sing a song.
 PAUL. COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

The dudes are beginning to shave their heads in order to be like our Nick, who refuses to buy a duplicate of John D.'s wig
 The Longworths decided that there is more enjoyment to the acre in New Or leans than in Havana. and they will, therefore join the Mardi Gras throng
  The Harvard professor who discovered way to photograph germs was formerly famous baseball pitcher. but he outlived his past.
 Putnam Bradlee Strong is reported to be under arrest in Shanghai and it is to be hoped that he will stay there indefinitely.
  The New York subway is steadily gain ing business. and it stands so to speak today a successful hole in the ground.
 
 The rivers and harbors committee has declined to stop anywhere in Alabama except at Mobile.
  The President and the Senate demo- crats have gone into partnership to put the Hepburn rate bill through.
  Now We are confronted with a farmers strike. The American Society of Equity will do the striking if necessary.
  Hoch has been hanged, but Patrick has not been, nor is he likely to be while his money holds out.
  Some think government by magazines is almost as offensive as government by injunction.
 The insurance magnates think as rule the Armstrong committee let them off easier than they had expected.
  The Huntsville Herald says that lynch ing increases crime, and never said truer thing in it's life. Pat Grove declines to be held respon- sible for the action or methods of that Omaha jury. Count Bonl begins to think marriage is failure as a financial proposition.
  Now that he is dead, Charles H. Turner. the grafter, will return to St. Louis.
  At last Lieutenant Scharrer and Miss Busch are to be married. sehr goot!
  Senator Tillman is now the administra- tion leader in the Senate.
  The egg trust was smashed by the open winter, but the eggs remain intact. The Coreans are being grossly oppress- ed by those paragons the Japs.
  The Hepburn rate bill Is the rival of the Hepburn pure food bill. The ex-Mrs. Yerkes is losing her mil lions and her husbands. Only married women can smell booze a hlock off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

Mime. Bernhardt uses on the stage the French tongue only, and she often injects lively comments on men and things. If the day be raw when she plays in tent in Birmingham she may express in the course of the play her opinion of the theatrical trust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

A bin has been introduced in the Missis- parting their hair in the middle Gentle men who are bald will probably be ex- nrn1Iat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

They are making maple sugar in Yer mont, but none of it is to be shipped away from that state unadulterated. Pass the pure food bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

The French president and his predeces- sor were presidents of the Senate and this fact renders Fairbanks hopeful but not overloaded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

The Jasper Mountain Eagle tells It's readers to reform from splitting while they are in Birmingham for the price in that city is now S25O a spit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

After a cloud bumps into New York's new skyscraper coming south it will meet no other obstacle until It reaches our new skyscraper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

George Ade says that conversation water is the American college slang for champagne. In that case talk is not cheap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

The Longworths decided that there is more enjoyment to the acre in New Dr. leans than in Havana. and they will therefore, join the Mardi Gras throng.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

New York's new Singer skyscraper is to be a remodelled building, but Birming- hams new one on the Linn corner will be built from the ground up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

The dry dock Dewey Is not trying to make speed record. It is simply en- deavorlng against wind and tide to get to the spot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

The Harvard professor who discovered a way to photograph germs was formerly a famous baseball pitcher. but he outlived his past.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

The dudes are beginning to shave their heads in order to be like our Nick, who refuses to buy a duplicate of John D.'s wig.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

RoErs are now straining their eyes O looking for harbingers of spring They scan the heavens daily, they stand upon the hills and search the valleys, they heave and pant and sus- pire but the cold calendarical facts are not to be subverted. It is not yet spring What tho the founts of poesy well in poets breasts; what tho they long to sing and to fling themselves down through lilt- ing stanzas, there is nothing doing. Spring is not yet here Practical folk do not long to wrest the season ere tis time but poets-the poets. egad. are the limit! !. If everybody played and nobody work ed some people would be crazy to work Ella Wheeler Wilcox sings on "The Heights" The work does not Maudie dear. treat of desirable residential prop erty. It is realistic but not real. estate.
 BOILED.
 He married for money,
 His haste was hot.
 A run for his money
 Was all he got.
 It is announced that the demand for American eagles is waning. butt the kind that come on dollars are still much sought after
 A Tennessee farmer named Jasper N. Pigg was kicked by a mule. wife and six little Piggs survive.
 Alas" sighed the Woodawn man as he handed over his watch to thief in the night, this is what I call passing my time away
 TO AN OLD WOMAN. Your life is failing fast, but it's memories
 are sweet,
 And Love itself remains-that never
 dies
 The wrinkles on your face in your heart
 can have no place,
 For the light of other days is in your
 eyes.
 A St. Louis waiter sniffed at 8 tip offered him by a gentleman from Texas When quiet was restored the waiter knew that he had mistaken his man. Texans are still delightfully."- unconven-l tional.
 Every dog has his day-and every cat his night.
 Communication from Constantine and Maud" of Selma to hand. In reply would say that we don't know Constantine and Maud, but have a deep-rooted suspicion that they are jokers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

Putnam Bradlee Strong is reported to be under arrest in Shanghai and it is to be hoped that he will stay there indefinitely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

N IRMINGHAM Is to be eongratu- H14 lated on the fact that 1t has H finally become a model town. The work of paving is progressing rapid ly and the streets are cleaner than they have been within its history.
 New schools are going up in every direction, new churches are being builded better order is being maintained, and 1t seems that the lid has finally been closed down tight on the scores of cheap gambling houses which have been con ducted in the city for so many years. The police department has made it so hot for the crap game players that they are leaving town, and it is beginning to appear that Birmingham is really a safe place for young men to be reared and educated in.
 In this connection, Mayor Ward has more than filled the expectations of his friends. He has given his whole time to the duties of his office and Is making perhaps. the best Mayor Birmingham has ever had. He has both the ability and the courage to do the right at the right time If George keeps up his present pace he may be Governor some day, or perhaps even a Senator.
 Speaking of Senators, Morgan and Pet tus have bluffed the boisterous boys out and have things their own way for their natural lives. They like 1t; but the young fellows who have worked their way up after strenuous fights in the congress sional districts, year after year, and have served well in the lower house of Congress, are bit miffed that they cannot hold on to their present jobs and at the same time get in line of promotion to a senatorshp. But they have been ruled out. As matter of fact the as- pirants at home put up a job on the congressional set as well as the would-be appointive set It was well done put nobody can be accused of doing 1t. It was as clever as the genuine Japanese diplomacy: and only the men at home who are now without political jobs can
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

The New York subway is steadily gain today successful hole in the ground.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

The rivers and harbors committee has declined to stop anywhere in Alabama except at Mobile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

The President and the Senate demo- erats have gone into partnership to put the Hepburn rate bill through.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

Now We are confronted with farmers strike. The American Society of Equity will do the striking if necessary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

Some think government by magazines is almost offensive as government by injunction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

Hoch has been hanged. but Patrick has not been. nor is he likely to be while his money holds out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

The insurance magnates think as rule the Armstrong committee let them off easier than they had expected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

A gentleman in ohio who is feather
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

Alas" sighed the Woodlawn man as he handed over his watch to thief in the night, this is what I call passing my time away"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, post office as second-class matter under act of Congress March 3, 1879
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

The Huntsville Herald says that lynch ing increases crime, and never said a truer thing in it's life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

Pat Grove declines to be held respon- sible for the action or methods of that Omaha jury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
TO AN OLD WOMAN.

A St. Louis waiter sniffed at tip offered him by gentleman from Texas. When quiet was restored the waiter knew that he had mistaken his man. Texans are still delightfully."- unconyen- tional.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

It is announced that the demand for American eagles is waning. butt the kind that come on dollars are still much sought after.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

Communication from Constantine and Maud" of Selma to hand. In reply would say that we don't know Constantine and Maud, but have a deep-rooted suspicion that they are jokers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

A Tennessee farmer named Jasper N. Pigg was kicked by a mule. wife and six little Piggs survive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

Some people have to toll out in the weather, while other people sit under trees and lead a strawberry shortcake life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

The Coreans are being grossly oppress- ed by those paragons the Japs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

No communication will be published without its authors name. Rejected man. uscripts will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

Washington Bureau Age-rIerald 14A G street. N. w.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

At last Lieutenant Scharrer and Miss Busch are to be married sehr goot!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

The Hepburn rate bill Is the rival of the Hepburn pure food bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

Now that he is dead Charles II. Turner the grafter, will return to St. Louis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

The egg trust was smashed by the open winter, but the eggs remain intact.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-04-28

or Deepwater Railway il Completed
With 5000 Men nj Work.

An official of the Tidewater rail
way company states that about 40
miles of rails have been laid on the
eastern end OF his road i'm Virginia
while on the Deepwater- TIdewater
project % miles of track is compile
ted. The gap between the two com
pleted sections is fully covered by
construction forces. which are push
ing the work with all possible cN
petition. AS TO the remaining that
no change will be made in the nom
enclature ~ present. but later on the
entire line will he consolidated un-
der one name
Between four aud Ave thousand
men are at work between Princeton
and Roanoke, under about thirty diff
ferent contractors.
Possibly some idea of the proper
tions OF the work can he CLEANED from
the fact that more than seventy-six
car loads OF dynamite and powder
and five hundred thousand feet of
fuse have thus far been used In pillow
ing way for the road and several
times that amount will be used he
fore il is completed
The tunnel near Christiansburg.
known ms the Allegheny tunnel
which will be over mile I'm length.
is perhaps the most conspicuous por-
ts NN h.
pressor plant has been completed and
put i'm operation and an electric light
plant which will light the tunnel ex-
cavating and operate the compressor
plant. will soon he completed at n
cost OF $1,000
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-04-28
G. & o. TO THE LAKES.
Deal Reported Under Way For the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton.

A press dispatch from Cincinnati
SAYS II is semi-offcially reported that
the Chesapeake and Ohio railway is
about to close deal for the pur-
chase of the Cincinnati. Hamilton *
Dayton railway. the object being TO
use the latter for route to the
Great Lakes in connection with the
Big Sandy division for the develop
ment of coal lands In Eastern Krr
lucky.
Should such plan be carried out
the Chesapeake and Ohio. in conuec
ton with the South & Western raj.
way. which will Join it at or near
Elkhorn City. Ky. would have d,
route from Toledo. Detroit. Chicago
and other lake points through To tho
Atlantic coast.