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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Weights and Measures.

''The only thing that has survived the modern system of curtaillng is the dol lar" said citizen. Tt still takes 100 cents to make a dollar, no more and no less.
 "As an illustration of what I mean, l will mention a few articles Of food and drink which are sold at certain quoted prices for certain quoted amounts but the only thing certain about them is the price; the quantity is often matter of conjecture. Take butter for instance. The quoted price may be 30 cents a pound; the arithmetic says 16 ounces make one pound, but some grocers who sells the butter have improved on the book and often makes P ounces one pound. It may be that the butter is weighed by troy in stead of the avoirdupols table, it being, with some people, a very precious article
 Then again you have the quart and the full quart. I always thought quart meant a quart, but not so with some merchants who see a way to beat the public by selling short measure and call ing 1t by name that will deceive. Pure gold Is another sham when 1t contains nine parts of gold to fifteen parts cop per. Selling eggs by the dozen and pota- toes by the peck is simply guessing at things.
 There's only one way to do justice between seller and buyer, and that is to use the scales for all solid substances and standard measures for liquids. Let 1t be known that IS ounces make one pound and two pints one quart, and then people will know what they pay for an article when they buy it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22
Business Before ConQress,

Congress will sit again about six weeks hence, and the indications ara that its last three months of life wi be full of propositions, and even in
 cpirations to great measures. If the President pushes upon it an income and inheritance tax bill it will certainly have an opportunity to do historic work. The President has, it is said
 other antitrust plans up his sleeve, not t, mention a bill for the promotion oi International arbitration through Tht Hague conference. MT. Roosevelt drove three great measures through tue long session, and he may strive t'
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lnquisitive People.


 If there Is any one thing more than another indicative of low breeding, it is the asking of impertinent questions" said a physician.
 "A few days ago I was introduced to a man on the street who started out by asking me what business I was in, how much money I made where I lived, whether or not I was married, and in fact he wanted to know all about me. l began to wonder what his purpose might be, and was surprised to learn 1t was nothing more than impertinent curiosity
 Another type of man will meet you and begin. Where are you going, what are you going to do there and a lot mora to the same purpose. I mentioned the matter to friend and asked him if he ever met any of these inquisitive peo- pie. and what he thought of them Meet them,' said he, why, the town is full of them. I put the whole thing down to ig- norance, ignorant gall, that's what it is'
 Then there's the man who wants to know what your hat cost, what you pay for board, who is the lady he saw you talking to and such like until ones pa tience becomes taxes almost beyond measure. I often feel like telling these people my thoughts. but as I'm not a prizef1ghter. l let them pass."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22
PISTOL AND THE SWORD

From the Charleston News and Courier. 1 HE recent death in Massachusetts 9 of Daniel B wessOn, the Il1 manu-
 facturer of revolvers, leaving a fortune of $3O,000,0O0, has caused a deal of comment on the revolver, It's uses and abuses. That man could have amassed so much money in the manufacture of this weapon gives pause to those who are interested in human progress.
 No one censures the dead Captain of Industry" that he engaged in supplying the demand for pistols; he and his asso- ciates have been responsible for no crime done with the implements they made and sold but his monstrous wealth illustrates with uscanny emphasis the popularity of a thing put to evil employment a thous- and times to one time that it does worthy service.
 The pistol is essentially the weapon of personal, individual malice. No one uses it for the purposes of sport. In war its use is so slight that the absence of it would scarcely affect the casualty list Its form, its "handiness," and, more than all, the ease with which it adapts itself to the treachery and cowardice of most of those who bear it, account for the dis graceful vogue that it has among men, It is carried with good excuse by one only when 1t is carried without excuse by some other person, in whose heart felony is fermenting, and generally the excuse Of the first is rather imaginary than real
 Formerly the baneful institution of duelling regulated to a degree the evil of the pistol. When men shot at each other by punctilious rules, the pistol served to eliminate differences in physical power, and in those cases it placed com batants upon the same plane-at least 1t removed the factors of brown, muscle and sheer weight. Since duelling has been outlawed, the pistol no longer materially aids fair play when men are bent on murder, for cunning and quickness in getting the drop" are chiefly decisive of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

i, that state. His parents migrated from Virginia to Kentucky. where he was born, and the Mississippi establishment was of very modern origin and perhaps of very limited extent. As for Beauvoir, the so- called ancestral home" of the Davises, that property belonged to very different family, the Dorseys, and was occupied by them until the later '70s say 1875. Mrs. Dorsey was a most charming and aeeom- plished lady She had many literary gifts and wrote verses of no ordinary quality. She admired MT. Davis and frequently had him as her guest in the days of his poverty. She and Mrs. Davis were warm and loyal friends. All the relations be- tween the two families were pure and beautiful. When Mrs. Dorsey died and bequeathed Beauvolr to Jefferson Davis 1t was generally accepted as a ful1lment of public expectation. The place was not valuable. The house was anything but princely. As a matter of fact, the whole property could not have been sold at that time for $1O000 There was a typical summer seaside retreat, such as one sees along the Louisville and Nashville railway from the Rigolets to the Alabama line, and the "estate' involved amounted to A few acres of sand and "piney woods" The truth is that Jefferson Davis was "a self-made man" in the strictest and most practical meaning of the term. He went from Kentucky to Mississippi with no prestige of family influence or illus trious ancestry. He was man of brains, address, self-confdence and indomltabe courage. He rose from obscurity to fame and power by his own unaided genius. His memory needs no promition at the hands of romance and hysteria.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22
AULD LANG SYN E.

By Robert Burns. Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min? Should auld acquaintance be forgot And days O lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear,
 For auld lang syne, wen talk a cup O kindness yet,
 For auld lang syne! We twa hae run about the braes. And put the gowans fine; But we've wandered mony a weary foot Sin auld lang syne For aud lang syne, my dear,
 For auld lang syne, We'll talk cup O kindness yet
 For auld lang syne And here's hand. my trusty fer, And gie's a hand O thine. And we'll talk right guid willie waught, For auld lang syne. For auld lang syne, my dear,
 For auld lang syne, We'll talk cup O kindness yet,
 For auld lang synel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22
Out of Town Merchants.

''Hhe State Fair this year has brought a host of strangers to Birmingham, and has done a great deal of good" said Murry Brown of Goodall, Brown Co.,, yesterday. Last Thursday there were more out-of-town merchants in our place than have ever been there in any one day since we went into business
 Despite bad weather and number of drawbacks, I think that the fair was a success from practically every viewpoint, and it certainly served to get the people to the city. I don't know how we'll they were pleased, but heard a number say
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22
ABOUT JEFFERSON DAVIS
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 A HE death of. Mrs. Jefferson Davis Q has revived a great number of
 stories, chiefly works of imagina- ton, which we have reason to believe af- flcted the venerable lady during her later years, and which must still be a source of deep annoyance to her bereaved de- scendants.
 Most conspicuous among these, and per- haps the most irritating and embarrassing of all to the entire Davis family and connection is the persistent gabble about "the Davis estates" and the ancestral Davis home," at Beauvoir, on the Missis- sippi gulf coast, some fifty or sixty miles east of New Orleans on the Louisville and Nashville road. We are told of the far flung acres of the river plantations and the old time splendors of the seaside man. sion of Beauvoir. We have visions of princely domains, of innumerable slaves, of all the state and luxury in the ancient family home beside the Gulf of Mexico. The whole Davis history is immersed in a cloud of fiction so preposterous that it cannot fail to pain and to afflict all the survivors and their friends.
 We shall not go into absurd details-the extravagant price offered to Mrs. Davis for Beauvoir. and her subsequent decision under great pressure to sell it to the state of Mississippi at one-ninth of the money, for a Confederate home. It is not necessary, and 1t must needs be offensive to such as are concerned in and ac- quainted with the facts. The truth is that Jefferson Davis never had any "great estate" in Mississippi as things were counted by the big proprietors in ante bellum days. He was not a native of
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the issue and the treacherous fighter has every advantage
 The pistol is not even ornamental In the old days, when every gentleman car ried his sword by his side, 1t was grace full thing and it bred grace. Fencing was a necessary art and fencing developed muscle, brought alertness to mind and eye and hand, and, we fancy, the race of gentlemen was refined and improved by reason of it. We are in the habit of laughing at the French duel" but, after all, may it not be a useful institution? True, it seldom results In cruel murder, mems bodies are not deeply mangled or perforated as a rule, but, for all that, 1t is quite possible that a high measure of genuine courage is required to bear one with gallantry through a hard fought contest with small swords, though the peril of death be remote Very likely, if the combatants were not usually cool, brave and trained men, the fatalities woul be more numerous At any rate, We are sure that the gentlemen of France are none the worse for their knowledge of handling swords, and the spectacle they present in fighting with them is not so disgusting as when our ruffians shoot, and shoot to kill, in the dives and in the streets, or pommel each other with their bare fists
 What we have said is perhaps to no practical purpose The pistol is here to stay, we suppose, and the factory that the late MT. Wesson built to splendid proper tions. and In which he perfected the weapon that turks in secret places, and which is so facile in producing murders, self-murders included, will continue through the years to turn it's wheels and provide wages to some thousands of honest workingmen. Nevertheless, the reflection cannot be put away that it's in- vention supplanted a weapon less bar barrie, and more honorable and civillzing, and that it's retention marks the difficulty with which men get away from their savage instincts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22
Morbid Curiosity.

Human nature has many paradoxes." :" said a man last night Kindly sentiment is scarcely ever wanting. and commonly the more brutal instincts, the relics of savagery, are not brought to the surface, except in moments of anger. But the morbid curiosity which prompts people to view dead bodies, the more gruesome the spectacle the keener the curiosity. is one of the inexplicable traits of our na- ture. When a mangled corpse is to be seen at the undertakers peaple by the hundreds crowd to get glimpse of it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press

From the New York Press
 A man has to have a heap of sense to show any when he is in love.
 Either girl pretends she loves a man when she doesn't or she doesn't when she does.
 It's queer how the moralists have noth- ing to say about the way you get swindled at church fairs.
 Some men are so self-satisfied they take pride in not having gray hair when they are bald-headed.
 This would be very comfortable world, in spite of our relatives, If nobody ever gave anybody advice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22
OUT.
From Puck.

From Puck Mrs Madison Squeer-I suppose in your Grace's family there are a number of his- toric jewels.
 His Grace-Yes, indeed. I must get them out some day and show them to you, by love.
 Mrs. Madison Squeer-Ah. then you still have the tickets?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22
UP TO DATE.

From the Chicago Daily News.
 Dolly Dimples-So Reggy Bonds pro- posed to you the other day? Was he very nervous?
 Sally Smiles-I should say so. Why, he was up in the air.
 Dolly Dimples-You don't mean it. And were you calm, dear?
 Sally Smiles-No, I was up in the air, too You sec he proposed to me when he took me up in his new balloon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22
THE BETTING PRoPoslTloN.r
Mistake in a Word Changed Idea In
 tended.

To the Editor of the Age-Herald In the article headed "The Betting Proposition" by some mistake the word "bolters' was printed "voters," in the sentence: We are not going to con- duct this campaign on the low plane of how many petty wagers were made. no matter how much the bolters may howl about such matters"
 This is another instance where an un- fortunate slip in one word changed the idea intended to be conveyed.
 ROBERT N. BELL,
 Chairman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22
TAFT IN ROUTE.
the Macon Telegraph.

From the Macon Telegraph.
 The Charleston Post says Secretary Taft is passing up the coast on three battleships. Perhaps that is the reason he could not stop to partake of Charles tons hospitality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22
Gadsden Is Growing.

"Gadsden is one of the most enterpris- ing and promising cities In Alabama" said a citizen of that place yesterday.
 'Gadsden has many advantages not en- joyed by other ambitious cities in the south, and the people are rapidly awaken ing to them and improving upon them.
 Besides the mineral wealth in easy reach of the city we have an abundance of water which Is an important item to manufacturers Gadsden has a number of valuable manufacturing plants in op- eratlon and others are expected to be located in the near future. The steel plant of the Southern Steel company located near Gadsden is one of the most valuable industries in Alabama, and has added materially to Gadsden as an indus trial center
 '"rhe population of Gadsden Is increas- ing very rapidly and building is very ac- tive in all sections of the city The de- mand for houses and business property is very strong.
 "Gadsden is also important as a trad ing point, being surrounded by one of the finest agricultural sections in the state"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

Edinburgh university had an eye to business when 1t made Andrew Car negie a doctor of laws. He may doc tor the laws, but he cannot doctor the language of William Shakespeare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

The three new English cruisers are to be called the mflexible, the Invinc,. ble ad the Indomitable. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat thinks the next three American cruisers should be a Never. miss, Bullseye and Deadshot.
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straight He says 1t will make them bet ter citizens and tend to the better pre- servation of our American institutions. The Bankers association might do well to consider the advisability of establish ing night school of shooting for bank better guardians of the funds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

MT. Grosvenor has counted the re- representatives but he has not been able to count himself back into his old seat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

Secretary Root reports the republics that he inspected in frst-class condi- ton. His junket took the cake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

An inscription BPS feet long has been discovered in Egypt. It. describes the marriage of Rameses II. The brides dress must have been elaborate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

Bridegroom von Bohlen and Hal. back has dropped his resounding name and he is now plain MT. Krupp. His wife appears to be the whole thing.
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The Wall street magnates are not buying elections at present. For d while at least they have dropped tha- branch of business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

Restori, a genius, died poor. His, trionic genius rarely possesses the grabbing propensity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

Tom Lawson Is now real literary and he is selling his race horses, fancy dogs and the like.
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The late Sam Jones used epithets safely because he knew human nature, and his courage was equal to his knowledge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

The measurement of Holsters is an issue way down east. The fellows who handle short ones are sent to jail.
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that they thought the fair this year was better in many ways than any we have ever had. It was certainly fair to please the farmer. visitor and out-of-town mer- chant"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

Richard Croker forced an English magazine to apologize, but he couldn' do that in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

Secretary Taft is recuperating. He hopes there will not be another out break anywhere this month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

A contemporary wants to know why MT. Hearst poses as the poor mans friend. It is because that is the way of least resistence to office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

The police in Russia find plenty of revolutionists, but no friends and SUD- porters of cZardom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

William Jennings Bryan is attending strictly to Missouri, which is about to step back to the democratic column.
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There are no fire-proof buildings in this country. Some, however, are less inflamable than others.
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Hughes and Hearst are both warm ing up, as is perfectly natural under the circumstances.
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Out west the frost was on the pump kin, but not on the corn, which was in the shock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

It is said that most of the students at Harvard are there for the purpose of study, but the assertion is debat- able.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

Dothan Siftings: Hobson says the Japs could take the Philippines if they wanted to do so. Well, let them take 'em, who cares?
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The Governor Magoon may not like bis job; he surely likes his salary.
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Dothan Eagle: A woman shot and killed a Kentucky doctor the other day be- cause she claimed that he had given her the wrong medicine. This Is a rather se- were method of reform along that line.
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Hartselle Enquirer: Work or move on'' is the war cry now in a number of the large cities. The same thing would work to advantage in the small towns.
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Farewells to peek-a-boos continue to appear Seems as if people cant for get them.
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Florence Times: Nude and suggestive pictures should be ruthlessly destroyed in every dive in the land, whether kept by white men or black. They are usually found in barrooms. but not always They should go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

Andalusia News: Atlanta is short of ministers. and those already on the scene are overworked.
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The Wall street magnates are not buying elections at present. For d while at least they have dropped tha- branch of business.
 The late Sam Jones used epithets safely because he knew human nature, and his courage was equal to his knowledge.
 If is said that most of the students at Harvard are there for the purpose of study, but the assertion is debat- able.
 Farewells to peek-a-boos continue to appear. Seems as if people cant for get them.
 Tom Watson is back in Georgia. where he can go as far as he likes in literature.
 Automobile speeding has put the fast driving out of business comparatively speaking.
 Cities now measure their prosperity by the number of their skyscrapers going up.
 The Utes are also trying to start a race war. They desire to get into the swim.
 
 If has been a year of disasters, and Birmingham has had it's share. Ex-Senator Burton will occupy the jail parlor in county jail in Missouri. President Palma has nothing on his mind now but his hat.
 Home coming week was a success and so was the Fair.
 Simpliied spelling reform has flick cred.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

Tom Watson Is back in Georgia. where he can go as far as he likes in literature.
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President Palma has nothing on his mind now but his hat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22
ALABAMA PRESS

Gurley Herald: President Palma Is any way saved the trouble of working for a third term.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

Ex-Senator Burton will occupy the jail parlor in county jail in Missouri.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

Automobile speeding has put the fast driving out of business comparatively sDeaking
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

Huntsville Tribune: The great hue and cry about damaged cotton and ruined corn seems to be passing gently away. The world seems to glide along just as smoothly as a moonbeam on wave as though nothing unusual had happened to disturb its rest
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It has been a year of disasters, and Birmingham has had it's share.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

Cities now measure their prosperity by the number of their skyscrapers going up.
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The Utes are also trying to start a race war They desire to get into the swim,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22
Chicken Started Panic.

Birmingham. October 21, 1906.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22

Home coming week was a success and so was the Fair
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Simplifed spelling reform has flicl cred.
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Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, post office as second class matter under act of Congress March B. 1879.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1906-12-10

zrzadziiy szbode ma poitora mi
Iona dolarow, co gorsza, dw1e
osoby utraciiy zycie kilkanas-
Gle odnioslo uszkodzenia.
Ma rogu ulic Market i Van Bu-
rem onegdaj wieczorem spalA sic
gmach 8 pietrowy w ktorym ro-
zne firlny utrzyrnywa}y swe ma
gazyny i towary. Wartose grrna-
chu spalonego wynosila SI5o,ooo
ale wIasnoSc firm w MIN nagro-
madzona tax byla znaczna, re ra-
zem szloda zrzadzona wynosi
tam okoio miliona dolardw. Kie-
dy sikawki i wozy stray ognio-
wei pedzify kilku stron do ga
szenia ognia, ma Market str.
tramwaj uderzyl 0 jeden z wo-
z6w drabiniastych; strazacy po-
wypadali ma bruk, wszyscy lei
,lub ciezej sic potaukay, . Por.