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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

methods may have involved them in an
outburst of criticism, their objects are
the same as those pursued by all other
men In gainful employment. They have
large amounts of stocks to sell, and the
probabilities Of finding a profitable mar
ket are beyond their most hopeful dreams.
There is nothing unusual. therefore, in
their pulling together for this purpose.
Just now their principal argument is that
of increased dividends, such talk being
stimulated by the large earnings Of both
railroads and industrials. When this line
of argument is exhausted, others, such as
new deals, etc. will follow Success In
the present bull movement depends entire
~ upon the extent to which the public
joins. Hitherto the latter has been ex-
ceedingly apathetic, partly because very
skeptical at the present high prices and
partly because they have frequently found
better employment for money elsewhere.
1.-The Intoxicating effect of the Union
and Southern Pacific dividends was highly
contagious. Such advances and activity
as occurred in these stocks were simply
irresistible, and market leaders were
quick to take the lesson and apply SINH
lar tactics to other shares. Apparently
the big men have the market under full
control. Their purpose appears to be to
give prices substantial rise and then
allow them to recede moderately, avoiding
any disturbance Of confidence and stimu-
lating buying by various encouraging ru-
mors. Thus far they have been unexpect-
eddy successful, very considerable amounts
of stocks having already passed from
stronger into weaker hands.
1.-THE chief obstacle to the present vlgor-
GUS bull market is the monetary situation
Local bank reserves are very low and in
no shape for carrying on a big continuous
bull campaign at this level Of prices"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

FATHER TOOK SONS WHIPPING.

From the New York Press.
The boy had misbehaved. as he often
did, and his father called him to account
Son" said the father, IT hate TO lick
you, but some one must get a whipping
for what you've done"
The boy whimpered little.
Suppose" said the father. that 1 take
the whipping for you'll
The boy laughed at the idea, but the
father took down a dog whip. called a
friend who was visiting at the house. ex-
planned the situation to him. and then re-
quested the visitor to use the whip on
him.
The father wore long tailed coat and
the visitor hit the tails of that coat in
great style.
At the first crack of that whip the boy
was wild-eyed. At the second he was
clawing, biting and kicking the man with
the whip.
Don't whip my papa! Don't whip him.
he cried. Whip mel Oh, whip met
That was a year ago. Since then that
boy has never done anything seriously
wrong.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27
phenomenal run of Mr.. Roosevelt in 1904
THESE districts are Situated thus.

According to the Evening Post, this is
10 be year of political Innovations It
says in an editorial:
The public having become much STIR
red over some Of the practices formerly
lnoulsed In on the largest seale-such as
the soncltation of money from great cor
poratlons-the resulting wave of reform
Is sweeping away also many of the merely
incidental features of campaigning If Is
time of cleaning-up and the innocent
petty wiles are to be demolished along
with the scandals Historians may some
day regard 1906 as a transition point. like
the year when king Caucus'' was over
thrown and the national convention was
invented
1T is the opportunity of a lifetime for
the political inventor Already. three
months before election, before any party
has held its state convention, we of this
city are being gladdened by the sight
of Mr.. Hearst's great 'rubbernecls wagons,
trunding through East and West Sida
with band and thirty or forty shouters
setting off Roman candles as they go.
This Is a feature both novel and exciting.
1t makes starers If not voters.
1T is time for some one to write a
book, or at least an article on THE
Telephone in Politics." The telephone
alone has made it possible for one man
to manage campaign over an entire CITY.
In Jerome's campaign last year one of the
first steps was the installation of tele-
phone instruments by which every dis
trict In the county could be reached in
stantly from headquarters.
Schemes for saving money very natur-
ally grow out Of the comparative empti-
ness of campaign chests. The St. Paul
Pioneer Press calls attention to some of
the economies which have been effected
at the same time: Great gatherings of
the people, which were a main expense
in the Harrison Log Cabin and the LIN
coin campaigns, have been abandoned as
profltless, and the uniformed companies,
like the 'Wide-Awakes' of 1860 as a mere
luxury A large part of the cost of
national convention is now usually borne
by the convention city. The printing of
the ballots held to be a heavy burden is
done by the state, while much of the cam
paign literature is circulated under the
franks of congressman =
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L'ENvoi.
BY Rndyard Kipling.

BY Rudyard Kipling.
When Earths picture is painted, and the
tubes are twisted and dried,
When the oldest colors have faded, and
the Youngest critic has died,
We shall rest and. faith, we shall need
title down for an aeon or two
Till the Master of All Good Workmen
shall set us to work anew!
And those that were good shall be happy;
they shall sit in a golden chair;
They shall splash at a ten-league canvas
with brushes of comets hair;
They shall find real saints to draw from
Magdalene. Peter and Paul;
They shall work for an age at a sitting
and never be tired at all,
And only the Master shall praise u.s. and
only the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money, and no
one shall work for fame;
But each for the joy Of the working, and
each, in his separate star.
Shall draw the Thing as he sees 1t for the
God of Things AS They Are!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press.
There is money in most any occupation
except the one you are in.
One of the surest ways not to argue
with your wife Is to have her away
for the summer.
Babies have very strong constitutions
nor to have spasms over every new
language the women folk discover to talk
to them.
A girl seems to have an awful easy time
making a man think he wants to marry
her when she is the one that Is doing
the wanting.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27
Campaign Expenses.

1.-THE talk about buying votes is all clap
trap said an old timer. There was a
period in the seventies and eighties when
votes could be bought ana delivered, but
not now
1.-THE primary plan of today is admir-
able The ballot is secret and no pur-
chased votes are deliverable. Neverthe-
less, the primary election in the way of
legitimate expenses costs candidates a
good round sum. Postage stamps alone
cost money
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Telephone Exchange.

Everybody must know from his or her
experience with Central that the tele-
phone girls lot Is not an easy one" said
man. She Is the most 'cussed out
little creature in the world.
There is no doubt but that from the 9TH
er end of the line she seems to deserve
a little censure. For instance. II you know
positively that such and such place has
phone-perhaps you nave talked with
the very parties you want that very day
and when you ask Central for the con-
nection she tells you, after seconds
pause that the phone has just been taken
out, then you are hardly to be blamed
for making the air blue with unlovely
sputterings. There Is no wonder that
you made vicious pulls at the receiver
rack, and wish to heavens that 1t was
'Centrars ear Or, what could be more
tantalizing than to be In a big hurry, call
for a number, get the wrong one, and
then not able to get loose from 1t. Every
time you call again you find that you are
stuck fast to the number you don't want,
and for the life of you, you can't raise
Central She seems to have gone dead
ice. And your righteous wrath Is not al
layed any when Miss Central finally, in
a soft, uneoneerned and condeseendlng
voice. finally asks, What NUMBER
That's when you forget that Miss
Central is woman-that you are a man
You forget everything but that you are
in the deuce of a hurry, and that you
have been kept dangling at the end of
the wire by some frizzly-headed little tele-
phone girl while she spoons with some
sweetheart, as he thinks, of hers, or else
gratifies a strangely perverted sense of
humor or streak of meanness that right
~ belongs only to the original Maud
but the real picture Is different from
that The little lady at the central office
has her own point of View She would
have 1t at any rate. if she had time to
have one. There are no sweethearts on
the wires-that is, of her own. There
may be many of such ilk cumming up
forty lines with sweetness like unto
molasses while they waste against the
wall vapid smiles that fortunately can't
be transmitted.
'She has her sleeves rolled up, and the
chances are is working like mad in the
front of thousand numbers. the shutters
of which are falling like autumn leaves.
And this is for eight long hours on
stretch, to say nothing of the thousand
telephones who want connection all the
same time, and are continuously grum-
bling because they can't get them"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

st. Louis Globe Democrat: In his Let
tiers to a Chinese Official Colonel Bryan
not only raises the curtain on what is
going on in China, but deftly lifts the
hide from the benighted individual who
boasts that eastern civilization is superior
to that of the west.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27
To Greet Bryan.

After voting today hundred or more
Alabama democrats will head for New
York to join the throng gathered to wei
come William Jennings Bryan.
John w. Tomlinson of Birmingham, a
member of the general committee. Is al
ready In New York. John L. Parker will
lead the local delegation. The Alabama
contingent will be registered at the Hoff-
man house.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

Prince Stolypin knows now what 1t
is to be under fire in Russia. He
knows now that he cannot go on i'm
prisoning and panishing his opponents
without mourning the penalty in Rus
STA.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

If girls would sleep in their bathing
suits instead of bathing in them along
a crowded beach, the spectacle pre-.
scented would not be so shocking.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

The steamer is bearing Mr.. Bryan
every day nearer to the warmest well
come ever accorded an American or
any other man.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

The polls will be opened at s o'clock
this morning. and they will stay open
until o'clock this evening. Visit
them, either comm or goin'.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

Mr.. Hartman has collected from
Wall street all the money he paid to
the San Francisco sufferers. and mil
lions beside.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

Standard Oil Rogers was. of course,
In that Hartman levy. 1t was de-
gree worse than anything Standard
Oil ever did, even If we let Ida Tarbell
tell the story.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

The Castro scare has subsidized.
There was nothing in it. Castro is as
much a member of the home team as
Matthews is.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

Now that the campaign is over, citi-
zens of Fulton county, Georgia, think
they just can't get along without re-
ylying the Ku-Klux Khan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

The Cannon boom is growing right
alongside the Bryan boom, and both
are beginning to overshadow the land
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

The connecting link between the
San Francisco quake and the Chilean
tremor is difficult of detection. Scien-
lists say it is but a coincidence.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

Louisville Courer-Journal: How great
is the power of a smile" signs Kansas
poet. For instance. there's the twenty
eight Roosevelt smile.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

President Palma Of Cuba is com
PEELED to put himself on the Russian
level by taking precautions against as
sassination.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27
RELIEF IN GEORGIA.

From the Rome Tribune.
Everybody is glad the blame thing is
over, anyhow.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

Paul Stensland could speak six diff
ferent languages, but it is believed he
could steal money in twice as many.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

The grim spectre of death is draw.
ing nearer to Gear Nicholas every day.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

No one has yet placed the prune of
commerce under suspicion. 1t is not
picked in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

The great heart Of Birmingham is
stirred profoundly by the sight of pen
nantless cities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27
PRESS POINTS

Florida Times-Union: That man who
left twenty-seven conflicting wills must
have been a woman.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

The march of the terrorist in Russia
leaves a wake of mangled victims.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

Houston Post: The Houston ball team
appears to be Withholding from the hod
carrier industry some very ablebodied ma
teral
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

The Krupp works are making 200
cannon to be used, perhaps, in an all
European war.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

The scarcity of small bills Is said TO
be due to dollar subscriptions to cam
paign funds
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

they just cant get along Without re-
YiYing the Ku-Klux Khan.
The steamer is bearing Mr.. Bryan
every day nearer to the warmest well
come ever accorded an American or
any other man.
Mr. Hartman has collected from
Wall street all the money he paid to
the San Francisco sufferers, and mil
lions beside.
The Castro scare has subsidized.
There was nothing in it. Castro is as
much a member of the home team as
Matthews is.
President Palma Of Cuba is com
PEELED to put himself on the Russian
level by taking precautions against as
sassination.
Paul Stensland could speak six diff
ferent languages, but it is believed he
could steal money in twice as many.
No one has yet placed the prune of
commerce under suspicion. 1t is not
picked in Chicago.
-s-----
The great heart of Birmingham is
stirred profoundly by the sight of pen
nantless cities.
The Krupp works are making 27oO
cannon to be used, perhaps, in an all
European war.
The scarcity of small bills is said TO
be due to dollar subscriptions to cam
paign funds.
Getting a denomination for Congress
has become a habit with Uncle Joe
Cannon.
Do not forget Oscar w. Underwood
and an Open Wsrrior on the day of
ballots.
King Edward in the Hartman deal
is, the most picturesque event of the
season.
When the bank director blames the
bank examiner and vice versa both are
right.
The divorce statistics are not to be
gathered to be published In detail.
The Bryan welcome will be a regular
Fourth of July affair.
The earthquake microbe thus far es-
capes detection.
The girl who hasn't tan now is
not up to date.
The earthquake belt is extremely
busy this year.
Next Saturday will Issue in the first
R month
Pick your favorites before you go to
the polls.
Mr.. Bryan, alas, rides in automo-
biles.
Every candidate thinks he's going to
win.
Just about four months to Christmas.
They're off!
POPULARITY.
From Puck.
The only man at a summer resort gets
as much attention from women as a con-
yicted murderer
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

Getting a denomination for Congress
has become a habit with Uncle Joe
Cannon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

King Edward in the Hartman deal
is, the most picturesque event of the
season.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

Do not forget Oscar w. Underwood
and an Open Warrior on the day of
ballots
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

When the bank director blames the
bank examiner and vice versa both are
right.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27
POPULARITY.

FTOm PUCK,
The only man at summer resort gets
as much attention from women as con-
Yicted murderer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

The divorce statistics are not to be
gathered to be published In detail.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

The Bryan welcome will be regular
Fourth of July affair.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

News fitted to the night:
Black, fearful, comfortIess, and hor-
rlble. king John.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

The earthquake microbe thus far es-
capes detection.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala. post
office as second-class matter under act
OF Congress March 3, 1879
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

Pick your fayorites before you go to
the polls.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

Iust about four months to Christmas.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

Every candidate thinks he's going to
win.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

Mr.. Bryan, alas, rides In automo-
biles.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

The girl who hasn't tan now is
not up to date
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washington Bureau Age-Herald 1421 G.
street, N. w.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

Next Saturday will Issue in the first
R month
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

The earthquake belt is extremely
busy this year.
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HARD TIMES FOR THE BOSS
BY sEwELL HAeeARD.

IN Ew YORK. August 2s.-(special)-
III The only thing that seems reas-
onablv certain today in New
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

/ day, reaching there Tuesday morning and
addressing Chicago democrats in the
evening The western reception promises
| to be almost as notable as that planned
in New York. From Chicago he will go
| to st. Louis, then to Louisville and on
| to Kansas City. from which place he
will go to his home city. Lincoln, Neb.
Receptions innumerable have been planned
to mark his railroad journeys between
cities, and greatest of all. in point OF
real enthusiasm, 1T is said, will be held
when he reaches Lincoln.
The republicans are disturbed over their
Congressional campaign. Recently Repre-
sentative James serman, chairman of the
campaign committee. has told the Presi-
| dent and others that the republicans stood
to lose forty seats they now hold in the
House. This would mean drop from the
majority of liz elected in November, 1904
to a majority of only 80 in the Sixthieth
| Congress.
| 1t Is frankly admitted that no living
man who feels there will be a loss of
forty Congress districts to his party can
safely make the prediction that the loss
will not be fifty or perhaps more. and
a loss of fifty-six districts would tie the
| House. This is due entirely to almost I'M
paralleled conditions which prevail in the
republican party organizations in dozen
states and to agitation along socialistic
lines for the destruction of parties which
is now sweeping along like a prairie fire.
| The districts that Mr.. Serman expects to
| lose evidently are those which were car
ried by the democrats in 1902 and We're
] swept into the republican column by the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
BIG TIM SEEKS
COAST CIRCUIT

Prospecting the Pacific Coast touch
ing its possibilities for his particular
brand OF theatricals, Big Tim" Sulli-
van, king of the Bowery, politician,
amusement magnate and philanthropist
visited San Francisco yesterday and
expressed his amaZement at the rapid
progress of the work of rehabilitation.
Timothy D. Sullivan is one of the
most unique of the many oddities New
York City has sent to Congress,
whence he resigned because the House
of Representatives was too slow. A
Bowery boy to the manner born, Sulli-
van, by unusual political and business
thrift, has steadily worked his way
up to a fortune, the proportions of
which are as purely problematical as
they are prolific of public curiosity.
The big Tammany boss owns saloons,
but does not use alcohol or tobacco,
and the former bootblack employs a
clerk whose duty it is to handle the
phiIanthropies of the boss" among the
people from whom he came and who
are his adoring subjects. Sullivan is
a member Of the Sullivan-Considine
theatrical combination. He is on the
coast as the guest of James B. Duffey
of the Santa Fe Railway, and, while
he declined to admit it, It is whispered
his tour is for the purpose of organic
ing a coast circuit for their burlesque
attractions. Sullivan went to Los An
geles last night.
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DANGEROUS WALLS
BEING REMOVED
Large Force of Men, Under
Direction of Duffey, at
Work on Suffer Street
CLEANING SIDEWALKS

President Duffey of the Board OF
Works set a large force OF men at work
yesterday morning tearing down dan
gerous walls on Suffer street and
clearing away the distractions on the
sidewalks of that thoroughfare. The
men started their work on Van Ness
avenue and worked their way toward
Market street. AS soon as Suffer street
is put into a suitable condition, work
will be begun on some other street not
settled upon.
The first dangerous ruin was found
between Leavenworth and Hyde streets
and by the aid of hook and ladder
company the tall mass of brick was
soon leveled to the sidewalk A larger
ruin farther down the street. between
Leavenworth and Jones, received like
treatment Then the attention Of a large
number of the men was directed to
cleaning away debris from the side
walks.
In most cases the walls are being
pulled down by hand. Ladders from
the Fire Department ara used in get
ting ropes fastened around the tops OF
the dangerous walls and then a force
OF men on the opposite side OF the
street tugs on the rope until the wall
gives way.
Since the cars resumed service on
Suffer street, business and traffic along
the thoroughfare has been constantly
increasing. and this prompted the
Board OF Public Works to turn its at
tention to cleaning the street and max
ing It safe for pedestrians There are
many other places where dangerous
walls still exist. and II VIII be some
time before the work of removing
them can be completed.