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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
ORIGIN OF "CHAUFFEUR."

From the Paris Figaro.
 There were chauffeurs long before auto mobiles. History tells us that about the year 1705 men strangely accoutred, their faces covered with soot and their eyes care snlly disguised, entered by night farms and lonely habitations and com mtted all sorts of depredations They garrotted their victims, dragged them be- fore great fire. where they burned the soles of their feet. and demanded infor- nation as to the whereabouts of their money and jewels. Hence they were call ed "chauffeurs,' Q name which fright ened so much our good grandmothers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
Confederate Reunion.

New Orleans will welcome this week the veterans of the Confectionery, and their sons and daughters, and it will do this in the handsomest manner. The central point of the reunion will be in the Hotel Royal, where all state head quarters will be located; where, too. three thousand veterans will find beds. and where two thousand can be fed at i one time. The hotel has been refitted and decorated, and it will be full of life and thousand memories this week.
 Every year renders the veterans of the war dearer They are beginning to be held in friendly esteem even in the north, for all begin to see that the war was an honest difference of opinion over the reserved rights of the states. Each side fought bravely and honestly to uphold its opinion, and in the end ! the union won and the states lost. But that loss but renders the veterans of the gray dearer still, and while they live there will be no lack of interest in the annual reunions.
 No recent incident has done more 10 wipe out the bitterness of the war than the return of the Confederate ba,- tlefags to the south. This incident will be deeply felt in New Orleans, and 1t will operate to clear away sec,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
NEW TYPE OF STEAMBOAT.
Mississippi Steamer to Do Away With
 Negro Roustabouts.

From the St Louis Globe-Democrat.
 A steamboat which is designed to dis pense with the services of the eolored roustabout is being built at Pittsburg. Pa, for the Memphis and Arkansas River Packet company to be operated in the Memphis and Vicksburg trade. It is stern wheel steel-hull boat apparently Of the ordinary type of Mississippi river craft, but it is to be much finer than such vessels.
 Along each side of the lower deck is & conveyor to carry freight "aft' when the boat is being loaded and fore when it Is being unloaded. The conveyors are to run by electric power. The stage, which is sixty-fve feet in length, by which freight may be received and delivered on high banks, is also equipped with con veyor, which works in the same manner as & rolling stairway. The conveyor on the stage is to be operated by an electric motor in the middle of the stage, the pow CT being obtained from dynamos on the steamer through wires attached to the stage.
 One of the most serious drawbacks to the steamboat traffic in recent years has been the propensity of the roustabout Q jump the boat at any time that he did not feel disposed to work and to refuse to go out on the boats even when high wages were offered. For the past three years if has been an ordinary occurrence for boats to be delayed from twelve to twenty-four hours after they were loaded because the colored men declined to accept positions, and the wages on some of the southern boats have been run up as high as sl2o month on vessels that were obliged to go at certain times. During the busy sea sons the ordinary wages of the roust- abouts have ranged from s75 to sso month.
 These conditions have induced boat builders to devise appurtenances that will do most of the work of the rouster. The arrangements of the new steamer s. s. Brown are designed to obviate the neces- sity of employing ronsters, and to require only few laborers to move the freight on and off the conveyors.
 The boat is also designedeto have the fuel stored in the hull. to be elevated to the furnaces by means of steam elevators. Each stateroom Is to be supplied with hot and cold water. and the after portion is to be partltioned off for colored pas sengers. The steamer Is to. be finished about July 1, and the cost will be about S125,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
sIush Campaiun Funds.

When the interest in the republican national campaign funds began to be threatened about two months ago the inside Cortelyou crowd put out through the Washington Post statement showing that the Roosevelt fund of 1904 was but s1 ,9OO,00O, while the Par ker fund was equally. as large. The Parker fund was increased from $900,- 900 to $1 100000, and the Roosevelt fund was cut down to meet it. The semi-official statement, however, de- ceived only the poorly-informed. The New York Times, which is not bit yellow, publishes list of national campaign expenses, derived from a source which it editorially pronounces more circumstantial and at least as trustworthy as that published in the Post" We give the Times statement in full, as follows:
 DEMOCRATIC FUNDS. 1S96-Silver interests. ..... $500,00
 Popular contributions 200.000-$ 100000 1900-Silver interests ..... 100000
 Popular contributions S00.000
 Financial leaders,. 200,000$ 600O00 19oi-Popular contributions 5o0.0oo
 Financial leaders. ..... 400,000-$ 900 GOO 190S-i-Hearst pre-campaign ex-
 penses .. .....,.............sl .sl 200. GOO
 REPUBLICAN FUNDS. 1892 ....................... 3,O0o,OOo Protected interests. .S3000,000
 Financial leaders,. s.000, ,0O0-$ 6,0o0,0I0 190O- Protected interests. 100000
 Financial leaders 5000, ,000-$ 6,000,000 1a0i-Protected interests. 4000.o00
 Financial leaders .. 7O00,O00-$l1, 900, 000
 The one thing certain is, the stand patters of Congress become stiller than mice when the subject of publicity of recent campaign subscriptions is brought up. They stand doubly con victed by their silence. The evidence in the insurance investigation was but a scratching of rotten surface, and no effort will be spared from the Pres ident down to cover up the campaign subscriptions. particularly of 1904.
 These subscriptions are as a whole the most dangerous thing in the entire history of the republic, and although they deeply concern the welfare of the people, they are to be kept proofund secret! The matter goes over to 1908, when the people will conduct their own investigation and bring in their own verdict.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
Treble CIef Club.

The Treble clef club, which will give a concert at the Jefferson theatre next Thursday night for the benefit of the San Francisco sufferers is recognized as the finest chorus organization in Bir mngham.
 The Treble Clef was organized several years ago and has always been compos- ed of good material but it is in better form this season than ever before" said a musician. Music lovers who hear the club at the Jefferson theatre Thursday night will have a genuine treat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 It is easy not to do a thing to excess if you don't like 1t.
 No matter how much a boy hates castor oil 1t is over a good deal quicker than school.
 When boy wakes up sick in the morn ing it is a sign that it Is not holiday from school.
 It's terribly exciting 10 try to kiss a girl you would miss unless her lips got in your way while you were missing it. ; woman likes to believe her husband is a good man just as she is bound to think .he wonidn't be if it weren't for her. inhuenss..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
SAN FRANCISCO.

From the Poems of Bret Harte Serene. indifferent to Fate.
 Thou sittest at the Western Gate; Upon thy heights so lately won Still slant the banners of the sun; Thou sect the white seas strike their tents, Warder of two Continentsl And scornful of the peace that flies Thy angry winds and sulien skies, Thou drawest all things, small or great, To thee, beside the Western Gate. lions whelp. that hidest fast In jungle growth of spire and mast. know thy cunning and thy greed, Thy hard high lust and willful deed, And all thy glory loves to tell Of -specious gifts material.
 Drop down, O feecy Fog, and hide Her skeptic sneer and all her pride Wrap her. O Fog. in gown and hood Of her Franciscan Brotherhood. Hide me her faults her sin and blame; With thy gray mantle cloak her shamei So shall she. cowed. sit and pray Till morning bears her sins away, Then rise. fieecy Fog. and raise The glory of her coming days; Be as the cloud that fecks the seas Above her smoky argosies.
 When forms familiar shall give place To stranger speech and newer face; When all her throes and anxious fears Lie hushed in the repose of years; When Art shall raise and Culture lift The sensual joys and meaner thrift, And all fulfilled the vision, we Who watch and wait shall never see Who. in the morning of her race. Toiled fair or meanly in our place Fut. yielding to the common lot. Lie unrecordcd and forgot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
HE best angle worms this sea- son do not compare with those
 of Iasf ,.an, :, nnaa .AIinao,.

NY son do not compare with those
 of last year" said Mister Fish, as he gingerly swallowed a fisher mans bait and avoided the hook with knowing smile. T hear people along the bank say that the angle worm crop is short Well, that is hard on us espedial- ly me, since like nothing better than a juicy angle worm. However, I suppose that the deficiency will be supplied with the usual reaches, grasshoppers and bugs. though I must confess that grasshoppers never did appeal to me on account of their racy flavor. For game, I much prefer cockroaeh, not too old. Were it not for the fisherman and his bait can. fish folk would have hard time living through the spring. I understand that artificial bait will be used by many anglers this year Of course, an experi- enced fish can detect the fraud half way across river but lot of hot-headed and greedy fools are caught by it every year. What kind of fisherman do I like best? We'll, that is a question not an- swered in two words, but I have no ae- quatic use for man who sits down on the bank and drinks whisky until he is stupid. After I have cleaned off his hook one time he does not notice that it needs another worm, and I wait for hours while he dozes above. l have known men to throw in a baited hook, let the worm be taken off and then fall sound asleep. It makes a fish feel foolish to hang around all day and get only one worm. Excuse me, I see the shadow of cork"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
The Peach crop.

While the peach crop will be short in quantity it will be all right in quality" said Col. E. l.. Higdon.
 ''In many orchards the yield will be only about one-thlrd of a normal crop, but the fruit will be large and well favor cd. The orchard area in Alabama is be- ing increased from year to year. Peach growing pays even if the crop fails every year or two"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.

From La Revue de Paris.
 Antony and Cleopatra, who. according to Shakespeare expended kingdoms in kisses, were married like two good bour- geois. NJ. Letronne has had the merit of throwing light by the aid of coins on a point which the writers have left obscure. At the beginning of the year S6, Antony. by his marriage with the queen became King of Egypt. He ap- parently needed the riches of Cleopatra to carry on his Persian campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
The Rev. Father o,Grady.

"One of the ablest preachers I have heard in years is the Rev. Father o'Grady, recently appointed pastor of St. Catherine's church at Pratt City" said a Birmingham Catholic recently. Father O'Grady Is also exceedingly popular per sonally. He is drawing large crowds. An entertainment will be given at the town hall in Pratt City Tuesday night, April 24 for the benefit of his church, and quite a large number of Catholics will go from Birmingham to Ensley to help swell the attendance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
About Persons.

E. Hollis of Columbus, Ga, is stopping al the Tillman.
 W. NJ. Pullen of Tuscumbia is at the Metropolitan.
 Robert Marshall of Gurnee is registered at the Birmingham.
 E. O. Saver of Jasper is at the Metro politan. ping at the Hillman.
 F. E. Daniel of New Decatur is reg istered at the Metropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
AMERICAN CAVALRY HAS
 THE BEST HORSEMEN

dian country. and the men were told to make the best time possible without kill ing their horses.
 The troopers were on their mettle. They made the distance-14O miles, twenty miles of the way being through loose sand-in twenty-two hours, the actual marching time being eighteen hours and thirty minutes. At Fort Warner they rested one day, and then returned to Fort Harney on the same horses at the uniform rate Of sixty miles q day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
ALABAMA STRAWBERRIES.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 The shipment of strawberries from south Alabama has begun, and fine crop is reported. Two young farmers in Coneeuh county have seventy-fve acres from which they expect to realize $500 per acre. making s22, 800 Don't that beat ten or even fifteen-cent cotton? And the same can be done in Madison county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

From the Mobile Herald.
 Senator Tillman may be relied upon to run that railroad rate special he has charge of in spite of the danger signals the republican senators are flashing on the track
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
NOT EVEN A HAMMER.

From the Mobile Register.
 The man with the hoe. the man with the ax, the man with the pick, the man with the muck rake--but the knocker needs no tools, and is merely the knocker who knocks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

Germany withholds help for the Ve. suyius sufferers because Italy did not support the Kaiser at Algeciras. There is politics for you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

Count Keller, commander of gar rison in Russian Poland. caught a bomb in his hands. He should come over. here and sign with one of the major league teams,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

The Pacific coast tipped up and tum- bled about, mad perhaps at the capers on the Atlantic coast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

The earthquake had no respect for the saints-for San Francisco, San Jose. Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz were all hard hit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

The geologists know just as much about earthquakes as the plain people do. and no more. Neither know any thing at all about them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

The ear of every millionaire should be turned Frisco-wards, and it should not be a deaf ear either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

The other two Springfields are holi- ing their breath from fear that som.,- thing may occur there in.this unhappy period Of the name. ES
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

Even father works in San Francisco, by order of General Funston, who works also, and never swims.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

General Funston is never long out of the limelight He seems to drift into 1t naturally.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

The "cabbies" of San Francisco kept cool enough to rob fugitives by charg- ing them exorbitant fares
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

San Francisco may have been wicked, but there are other bad towns in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

Ellis Island has to work day and night in order to let in the rush of new American citizens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

Chicago is outranked at last by Frisco in the way of municipal disas- ter. Chicago held the record over thirty years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

There are few people in this country wearing trousers who do not under. stand baseball
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

Alan Dale says actors are getting too cIesty. That is a complaint some of them make against Dale.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

Suffering is being relieved rapidly in Frisco, and order will soon be restored, and individual plans are coming on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

When the water supply is restored and sewers are unkinked Frisco will again be a city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
ANOTHER VICTIM.

Poor Banks is dead, the people mourn And sing q little tune He always tried to live alright, But took them off too soon. Mrs. Corey says that she does not want a divorce in Nevada. Perhaps she can find something just as good in South Dakota
 There Is a woman in Birmingham who never smiles when she passes another woman wearing queer-looking hat. She is blind.
 Cupid stands by as hammocks are being swung up in retired hooks of verandas where girls live.
 THOSE ACCIDENTS.
 Quite often when a fellow starts
 Out motoring, bgee,
 Instead of stopping at an nm,
 He runs into a tree.
 That man Fiske, who says that he has passed through the Johnstown flood, the Galveston storm and the San Francisco disaster, may congratulate himself on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

The postofiee, the mint, and the court house records were saved, and San Francisco has something to build from.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

Poultney Bigelow rises up to remark that the rake should not be abolished at Panama, for there is plenty of muck there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

Frisco is city without bank, a theatre or hotel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

the earthquake, but not the alldevour- ing flames.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

and in Frisco who are homeless and in
 Wan1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
APRIL TRAGEDY.

The rain falls down upon the hat I bought for sixty cents. Iris made of straw, there is no law To yield me reeompense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

Agents are already wanted for T book about the San Francisco earthquake. The moving picture people probably made some films.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

The shades of ancient Athens attend the Olympian games.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS-OF THE TIMES

having as many lives as a cat. Achilles could not have done better.
 TO ONE ACROSS THE TABLE. In the merry. merry spring,
 Annabelle, Have you noticed how we sing,
 Annabelle.
 Of the ripping of the brook, Of the fish line and the hook, Of the pipe and poesy book,
 Annabelle? There's the waiter-oh, I say,
 Annabelle. Have you ever marked the way,
 Annabelle. All the flowers sweetly nod. Up and down the vernal sod Broken out from bud and pod,
 Annabelle? When you have the spring complaint,
 Annabelle, Till you're feeling sick and faint,
 Annabelle. Did you ever stop to think Therel I see you do-you wink That mint julep is the drink,
 Annabelle? man of inventive turn has devised a contrivance, to be operated by gasoline, which will rock tho baby, wash the dishes, scrub the clothes, separate the cream, operate a sewing machine and do several other things. After a while peo- pie will let machines do all their work and life will be an idle dream. 
 APRIL TRAGEDY. The rain falls down upon the hat I bought for sixty cents. Iris made of straw, there is no law To yield me recompense. Agents are already wanted for q book about the San Francisco earthquake. The moving picture people probably made some films.
 WAY OF THE WORLD. Sometimes we have a tiresome wait Before the world will call us great, But people will, we hate to say, Proclaim Us fools without delay A medico asserts that lying is a disease. If so. it is an epidemic. General Funston expanded his chest and remarked: Its an i'll wind that blows no body good. The earthquake was hard on San Francisco but I am in the limelight again. The hero of the Bag-Bag is to the fore"
 = Many speak, but few are quoted.
 TURNED DOWN. He rode on passes till he died But when he went above. He couldn't shove the pasteboard there For money or for love.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

Alexander Dowie is boss who pro- poses to go down with his flag flying
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

Even in Minnesota the lawn. mower
 is supplanting the snow shovel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

The Coal Barons have made a good start, anyway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

King Alfonso is nearing the end of his experience as bachelor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

Take to the woods for half day and refresh yourself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

Mother Earth became very tipsy on the Pacific coast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

WAY OF THE WORLD. Sometimes we have a tiresome wait Before the world will call us great, But people will we hate to say, Proclaim Us fools without delay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
TlLLMAN ArrHE THROTTLE.

The straw hat is still but a bluff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

A medico asserts that lying is disease. If so, it is an epidemic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

| is politics for you.
  The earthquake had no respect for the saints-for San Francisco, San Jose. Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz were all hard hit.
 Chicago Is outranked at last by Frisco in the way of municipal disas- ter. Chicago held the record over thirty years
 Poultney Bigelow rises up to remark that the rake should not be abolished at Panama. for there is plenty of muck there.
 The postoffiee, the mint, and the court house records were saved, and San Francisco has something to build from.
 Suffering is being relieved rapidly in Frisco and order will soon be restored, and individual plans are coming on. Even father works in San Francisco, by order of General Funston, who works also, and never swims.
 -----.-.------- The "oabbies' of San Francisco kept cool enough to rob fugitives by charg- ing them exorbitant fares. The ear of every millionaire should be turned Frisco-wards, and it should not be deaf ear, either
  Alan Dale says actors are getting too cAesty. That is a complaint some of them make against Dale.
 ---s---A Ellis Island has to work day and night in order to let in the rush of new American citizens. The Pacific coast tipped up and tum- bled about, mad perhaps at the capers on the Atlantic coast
 -------- General Funston is never long out of the limelight He seems to drift into 1t naturally.
 When the water supply is restored and sewers are unkinked Frisco will again be city.
 San Francisco may have been wicked, but there are other bad towns in this country
 There are few people in this country wearing trousers who do not under stand baseball
 The steel-frame buildings withstood the earthquake, but not the alldevour- ing flames.
 Remember the three hundred thous- and in Frisco who are homeless and in wan1.
 Alexander Dowie is a boss who pro poses to go down with his flag flying.
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 Even in Minnesota the lawn. mower is supplanting the snow shovel. King Alfonso is nearing the end of his experience as a bachelor
 
 Take to the woods for half a day and refresh yourself.
 
 The shades of ancient Athens attend the Olympian games.
 ---------------- Frisco is city without a bank, a theatre or a hotel.
 Mother Earth became very tipsy on the Pacific coast.
 The Coal Barons have made a good start, anyway.