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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22
JOINER of Atlanta.

I'm my old town" said the ex-Atlan-
tain yesterday, there is a fire chief who
has served the people in that capacity
twenty one years. He is widely known
as Cap. Joyner, although his name is
w. r. Joyner. He has served so ac-
ceptably that he has become a candidate
for mayor to succeed Mayor Woodward
on January l next He will probably be
elected almost without opposition.
1T is true, said Chief Joyner recently
that 1 am ready to announce my candi-
dacy for the mayoralty of the city of
Atlanta, subject to the primary this year.
You can make that just as emphatic as
you care to.
Practically all of my life has been
spent in the city of Atlanta. or twelve
years was connected with its old volun-
teer fire department, and later, when the
paid department was instituted, | be-
came connected with 1t, and have contin-
ued with 1t without intermisison for TWEEN
ty-one years. / have done everything in
my power to make the fire department
thorough and efficient
1T is unnecessary to state that con-
template severing my connection with the
fire department with the utmost regret.
My ambition is to close my office or
public career as chief executive of the
city of Atlanta.
"During the entire time of my citizen
ship no enterprise, great or small has
been embarked that l did not give 1t my
hearty cooperation and endeavor to do
my duty as a citizen"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22
IN HOTEL LoBBIES


i wonder how many young men VINO
acquire the cigar habit stop to calculate
just how much money they viii burn
up in twelve mouths" observed
thoughtful man yesterday. as he watched
the fine blue smoke float away from his
own weed.
There are a great number of men VINO
have smoked from their schoolboy days.
OF course they never give the matter
thought. from an economic viewpoint
at the beginning, so we won't consider
that class. Others. and a goodly number
too, never wooed Lady Nicotine until ma
turity He is the smoker you would
think might consider the niciels and
dimes Cigar money figures up in the
dollars when you count by the year. II
man smokes at all he'll generally buy
three cigars a day. That's 1908 in 800
days At 8 cents each the sum total is
S54.25, If he smokes eenters. He's pretty
apt to buy an average of four daily, which
runs the bill up to $500. Sometimes,
probably frequently, he'll smoke a 10
center and maybe he buys the better
grade altogether. If SO, that makes the
aggregate $3.50 for the fellow who smokes
three and S146 for he who uses four
Those figures don't allow for the social
side of the proposition A man is sure
to buy a good many extras for his
friends. The money that goes up in blue
smoke would go a good way on little
bank account. There are any number
OF young men around town, I venture to
assert, who spend twice as much for
cigars every year, as they save for re-
verses. If every young fellow in Birming-
ham were to get a poeketbook and slip
the price of a cigar In when tempted to
smoke, I'll wager there would be in a
year combined savings sufficient to build
a blast furnace or two"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22
LOOKING UP TO THE BRIDE.

From the Louisville Herald.
The bride divinely tall is with us. May
she long captivate the sons of men and
never grow less. That proud and glad
young Cincinnauan. Nicholas Longworth,
who has just won the heart and hand
OF Miss Roosevelt, will have to look up
to" his bride. On strict measurement he
barely reaches Miss Roosevelts height
When that winsome lady piles up her hair
in stately pompadour, Congressman Long
worth falls far short of the mark. Stand
ing together on New Years day in the
White House their shoulders were about
even, but the slenderness of Miss Roose-
welt made her look notably the taller
Thus the Ohio statesman will, on his we'd
ding day, literally "look up to" his
bride
In recent st. Louis wedding, Miss Hes
ter Laughlin stood head and shoulders
above the italian diplomat she married
The Misses Letter married last year TO
the Earl OF Suffolk and to Maj Colin
Campbell of the British army, respective
ly, are both taller than their husbands.
Among other American brides that had
to be looked up to were Miss Elizabeth
glover, now WIG OF liio Dutch ihihistcr'
Mrs. Joy of Louisville. who welded the
Norwegian minister, and Miss Ivy Lang
ham, also of Louisville, who became Wis
countess de Faranstad. The Kentucky
bride always deserves to be looked up to
for her worth and charm. More often, per-
haps, than any American bride she COM
pels by stately and symmetrical tailness
a looking up literally from the man she
loves. The American woman is physically
the finest product of creation. She lives
and profits by open air and athletic ex-
ercise She borrows strength from the oak,
sweetness from the rose. smiles from the
brook, and laughter from the stars. Hers
is the earth and all the sons OF men her
subjects, proud to look up to her resist
less beauty and ready to avenge even
look threatening her with insult,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22
NO STOMACH TO SPARE.

From the New York Press.
patients who come to hospital clinics
are in deadly fear of being operated upon
remarked a Roosevelt hospital inferno.
They are under the impression that the
doctors stand ready with the knife posted
ready to plunge 1t into them at random
and ON the slightest excuse.
"A man whose compliant was some form
of Indigestion, had been shown by one
of the doctors how to relieve his trouble
by massaging or kneading the afflicted
region. This he promised to do night and
morning.
well. do you knead your stomach?'
asked the physician. when the patient
appeared at the clinic a week later.
Sure I need my stomach the man
said quickly, as he placed both hands
over the threatened organ, and backed
toward the door. "and I'm not going to
let you cut it out, either
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22
Who rather had,
EarIy Adjournment improbable,

The republican leaders have practi-
cally decided to confirm the great con-
tested measures of the long session to
a rate regulation bill, to statehood
bill and to the Philippine tariff bill
A quarantine bill may be passed, be-
cause no one will be apt to oppose any
bill southern Senators and Representa-
tives agree upon. The Philippine bill
will be opposed by the cane and beet
sugar interests; the statehood bill will
be fought to the bitter end by Arizona,
and the regular rate bill is to be tho
last pitched battle of the season, pro
vided Speaker Cannon can force back
unwelcome issues in the House, and
the debates in the Senate are not pro-
ductive of trouble to the party in
power
This programme leaves out of the
reckoning the Santo Domingo prob
lem, and the canal proOlem, and the
tariff revision problem which will not
stay dead, and the elastic-currency
problem, and perhaps a dozen more
problems of deep and general interest.
Some of these problems will surely
come up before Congress adjourns in
order to give its members opportunl-
ties to repair their fences in the polit-
ical mid-year.
1t is scarcely probable that the ses-
sion can be ended in June. No adj
journment will be permitted by the
republican leaders until some sort OF
a rate regulation bill is passed, for
they are all afraid to go to the people
without one, and President Roosevelt
might in tat case call an extra ses-
sion. The discussion of rate bill will
consume weeks of time, and it is more
probable that adjournment will be
late in the summer rather than early
in August rather than in June.
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Mosquitoes and Fever.

DR.. James Carroll, who was associ.
ated with the lamented Read in Ha.
vana, recently read a paper on mos
quito transmission before the Scien.
lists association in New Orleans. He
began by stating that the yellow fever
parasite or germ had never been dis
covered, Not even the ultramicroscope
has detected 1t either in the blood Of
patients or in the infected mosquito.
All scientists believe that a parasite
does exist, but it is too small to be
detected They consider the disease
parasitic, because it has been shown
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22
Iapan's New NAVY.

A correspondent of the London
Times, writing from Toxic, says that
never did a nation in war take SO
many ships as Japan did in the war
with Russia. Already she has raised
warships that have total of 103,955
tons displacement. When these ships
are RENTED her navy will be doubled.
she has raised and captured six battle
ships. and she had but three battle
ships when the great battle in the Sea
of Japan was fought. The work of
raising ships is not yet ended, and at
least one more cruiser, the Novik, will
probably be added to the Japanese
fleet.
In our war with Spain we sunk
nearly everything we met, but only
one Spanish ship was added to our
navy. The name of that ship is the
Reina Mercedes, and she is now serv-
ing as a receiving ship at the Ports
mouth navy yard. However, our op'
portunities were not so good as the
Japanese were. The Russians ran
their ships right into the Japanese
traps, and scarcely one Of them got
away. One small cruiser did reach
Vladivostok, and a few sought the
shelter of neutral ports, where they
stayed until the treaty of Portsmouth
rendered the seas safe to them.
Nothing has been developed that les
sens the glory of Togo's victories, and
it is not too much to say that he
stands out today the worlds greatest
naval commander. England may not
like to admit that the mantle of Lord
Nelson has been transferred to little
brown man in the Far East, even if he
be a subject of the Mikado who is
her ally In the Orient. But whether
she admits or not 1t is fact that the
world holds today no rival OF Togo
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world of letters. He IS our only world
writer, in fact, and everybody outside Of
America knows it. Emerson. the patron
saint of long haired men and short haired
women, imported his much discussed
mysticism from Germany; Longfellow.
though a graceful poet, was after all I'M
original and effeminate Lowell was a con-
eocter of rhymed sermons. which no true
lover Of poetry can abide. but Poe has
written few things, just a few. which
rank and deserve to rank with the best
and greatest that the English language
can show. He was unfortunate. he was
bitter, he pronounced American literature
to be a vast humbug; he was not double
haloed saint of the kind so dear to the
New England conscience and to the heart
OF the Boston spinster; but he was a
man and a poet That, at any rate, is
what the facts about his life as gathered
by truthful biographers seem to indicate.
And isn't 1t the funniest thing in the
world that there are people so densely
foolish, so hopelessly silly as to lug the
alleged bad character of Poe into a con-
sideration of his genius? Surely no coun-
try but his own could have produced such
critickins as this. Do the English refuse
to recognize Byron because his morals
were shady? And how about Goethe, with
his numerous loves and mistresses7 And
Heine, and Shelley. and-and-why, list
of the poets who would not have been al
lowed to teach in Sunday school would
take in at least half of them, perhaps
two-thirds. And yet poor Poe is cast out
into the cold because he was fond OF
booze" That is good enough for Gil
bert opera.
Now in conclusion, let your correspon-
dent explain that he is not saying all this
because he is sectionally prejudiced as
Poe was. AS a matter of fact, he is of
foreign birth. But some time ago he
CHANGED to be left alone for several days
with a collected edition of the poets
works of all kinds. He read them all
through, and then formed the opinion here
recorded.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22
THEORY AS TO WHY POE
IS NOT IN HALL OF FAME

Sydney c. Haley in the New York sun.
Is curious thing that in the many
newspaper discussions of the exelu-
! sion of Poe from the Hall of Fame
the real reason has not been observed.
We are told that the committee were
asses, Is true enough; but the real animus
of their assiness has not been made to
appear. Edgar Allen Poe, incomparably
the greatest of our poets, was left out
simply because he was a southerner. Not
only this but he was a raneorous fire.
eating kind of a southerner, who delighted
in abusing abolitionism and the abolition
lists, IN season and out. His essays con-
tain some of the bitterest attacks on the
New England poets ever penned. He was
uncompromising in his hatred and con-
tempt of the elderly ladies" of the North
American, that is, the critics; he ex-
eorlated the poetasters whom they ex-
toled; and though he admired Longfel-
low he said, and what was worse proved
that the latter was a plagiarist. His criti-
cism was of the most scathing, scalding,
vitroiic nature. IF Mr.. Lord is not the
worst poet in the whole world 1t is be-
cause there could not possibly be a worse
one than Mr.. Channing"-I quote from
memory; but that is fair specimen of
his method.
Now this may have been wrong; but
that does not alter the facts. Poe was
no respecter of persons, and he hated a
Yankee; and therein lies the explanation
OF the otherwise unaccountable exclusion
OF his name from the Hall of Fame. No
wonder Mr.. MacCraclSen and the others
failed to make the matter clear. They
did not dare.
Verify, prophet is not without honor
save IN his own country Your correspon-
dent, though lover of French literature,
has never seen a reference to Lowell as
a poet in a French book, nor to Whittier,
and seldom to Longfellow; but Poe is a
classic throughout all Europe, and it Is
safe to say that he is the only writer
we have produced who has made deep
and lasting impression on the European
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22
CASEY AT THE BAT.

A Ballad of the Republic. Sung in the
Year 1888.
The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mud
vile nine that day;
The score stood four to two with but one
inning more to play.
And then when Cooney died at first and
Borrows did the same,
A sickly silence fell upon the patrons Of
the game.
A struggling few got up to go in deep
despair. The rest
Chung to that hope which springs eternal
In the human breast;
They thought If only Casey could but get
a whack at that
We'd put up even money now with Casey
at the bat.
But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also
Jimmy Blake.
And the former was lulu and the latter
was cake;
So upon that stricken multitude grim mel
ancholy sat.
For there seemed but little chance of
Casey's getting to the bat
But Flynn let drive a single, to the won
derment of all.
And when the dust had lifted, and the
men saw what had occurred,
There was Johnnie safe at second and
Flynn a-hugging third.
Then from 5000 throats and more there
rose lusty YELL
1t rumbled through the valley. It ratified
in the dell
1t knocked upon the mountain and re-
coiled upon the fat
For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing
to the bat.
There was ease in Casey's manner as he
stepped into his place;
There was pride in Casey's bearing and
smile on Casey's face.
And when, responding to the cheers, he
lightly DOTTED his hat,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt
twas Casey at the bat.
Ten thousand eyes were on him as he
rubbed his hands with dirt;
Five thousand tongues applauded when
he wiped them on his shirt.
Then while the writing pitcher ground
the ball into his hip,
Defiance CLEANED in Casey's eye, a sneer
curled Casey's lip.
And now the leather-covered sphere came
hurting through the air.
And Casey stood a-watching 1t in naughty
grandeur there.
Close by the sturdy batsman the ball UNI
THAT ant my STYLE" said Casey. Strike
ONE the umpire said.
From the benches, black with people.
there went up muffled roar
Like the beating of the storm waves on a
stern and distant shore.
xiii himl Kill the umpirei" shouted
some one on the stand;
And it's likely they'd have killed him had
not Casey raised his hand.
With a smile of Christian charity great
Casey's visage shone:
He stilled the rising tumult; he babe the
game go on;
He signaled to the pitcher and once more
the spherod flew:
But Casey still ignored II and the umpire
said: Strike two"
Fraud cried the maddened thousands.
and the echo answered fraud;
But one scornful look from Casey and the
audience was awed.
They saw his face grow stern and cold.
they saw his muscles strain,
And they knew that Casey wouldn't let
that ball go by again.
The sheer is gone from Casey's lip, his
teeth are clinched in hate;
He pounds with cruel violence his bat
upon the plate.
And now the pitcher hoidS the Dali ana
now he lets II CO.
But there is no Joy in Mudville-mighty
of Caseys blow.
Oh! somewhere in this favored land the
sun is shining bright:
The band is playing somewhere and some
where hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing ana
somewhere children shout:
But there is no 10y in Mudville-mghty
Casey has struck out.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22
UNPRECEDENTED AMBITION.

From the Chicago News.
MY hair" remarked the middle-aged
man, sadly. '1s the most ambitious thing
about me. It seems"
Whats the answer" queried his
friend.
1T is always coming out on top" ex-
planned the party of the first part.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
rrnm the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
wouldn't insurance against mothers-h-
law go like wildfire?
When you tell a girl she is pretty It is
a sign she will think she Is pretuer IMAM
she Is.
A woman has an idea tnat making
money Is something like making pop
overs and angel cake
1t makes an employee feel he has been
cheated to have relative die pe1ore the
baseball season opens.
A man with ten children brags a good
deal more about 1t than they DO wnen
they come to divide up his estate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22
NO USE TO WORRY.

From the Savannah News.
A contemporary says there is a Kan
will not be able after reaching Paradise
to get his shirt on over his wings. But
let him cease fretting. Angels do not
wear shirts; they are clothed in their in
nocence Moreover, 1t is not quite certain
that they have Kansas editors corner
in Paradise, and wings wouldn't stand the
temperature in the other place.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22
About Persons.

About Persons.
]. w. Humphreys of the Mobile and
Ohio railroad is registered at the Colonial
hotel
T. P. Rose and ". Wells Of Baltimore
are at the Birmingham.
Ed ]. Pickens of New Orleans is at the
Morris.
d. E. Pope of Montgomery is at the
st. Nicholas
Misses Jane Taylor and Alice Martin of
the Checkers company are registered
at the st. Nicholas hotel
c. W. Carr of Chattanooga is at the
Birmingham.
G. D. Williams. NJ D. Davis and ]. A.
Simmons of opelika are registered at the
st. Nicholas
B. ]. skaller of Chicago is at the Morris.
NJ. Gardner of Mobile is registered at
the Morris.
William Fowler of Chattanooga is at the
Birmingham.
G. w. Darden of oneonta is registered
at the Colonial
H. NJ Gaze of New Orleans is at the
Metropolitan.
Charles sturtevant of Pensacola is at
the Metropolitan.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Goldsmith of Mont
gomery ara at the Hulman
C. D. o'Rourke and ]. H. o'Rourke of
Memphis are at the Hillman.
o. j. Keefe and j. H. Massons of Nous
ton are at the Hillman.
]. B. Wallace of Chattanooga is regis
tered at the Hlllman.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22

The liberal tide in Great Britain
continues to rise. From the way It
looks now Campbell-Bannerman will
have a majority over unionists, Irish,
nationalists and laborites combined.
If this open winter were to continue
much longer the spring poet would
not wait for March to write his verses.
It's sunny north as well as sunny
south this time. Cincinnati was as
warm last week as New Orleans.
Mardi Gras comes this year on the
9th of February and New Orleans and
Mobile will be ready for 1t.
The merchants are getting ready to
display their spring stocks.
--e--
Senator Tillman's pitchfork is get
ting buster than ever.
President-elect Fallieres will not
WELD a big stick.
A cold wave is coming and 1t cannot
arrive too soon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22
OLD EAST SIDE TALMUD
SCHOOLS DISAPPEARING

the prayer book; then of the Pentateuch
and other portions of the Bible, and final
ly the elaborate Talmud, the end of which
he will never reach.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22

Chauncey has left washington In an
attempt to dodge requests for his
resignation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22

Governor Pennypacker is the one
man who did not join cordially in
Ben Franklins birthday celebration.
Ben was a printer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22

Chauncey is ready no doubt to as
sert that State Senator Bracket did
not get a pass this year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22

The official pronunciation of
Frances President-elect should be ca
bled over.
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Algeciras claims to be the Ports
mouth of the old world, and no one
will object provided it works for peace
instead of war.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22

Colorado bobcats will be glad to
hear that the President proposes to
hunt tigers and African lions here
after
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22

Castro bids fair to rival Abdul Ha-
mid as the recipient of naval demon
STATIONS. However, he is out of the
range of even modern guns.
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HE SKIPPED.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
Morales saved Santo Domingo from sit
ting up nights over that "What-to-do-
with-our Ex-President problem.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22

All is quiet in Wooster, Ohio, for
Mrs. Taggart has gone to Paris, and
Captain Taggart to the Philippines.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22

The African tigers and elephants
are a unit in demanding another term
for Theodore Roosevelt.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22

The pictures of Senator Depew and
Mr.. Pecksniff are almost exactly alike,
and the two do not greatly disagree
in the literary portrayals.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-22

William Waldorf Astor's new fad is
English castles. He has just bought
an additional one.