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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
Fire In North Carolina.

Asheville, N. C., March 27.-A special to the Citizen from Statesville, says that a disastrous fire which is believed to have originated in a photograph gallery above Wallace's store on Broad street, broke out about o'clock tonight. de- stroying four brick buildings an entail- ing a loss estimated at from s4o.ooO to s5O.OO0, half covered by insurance. For time the fire threatened the entire business section of the city, and the Salisbury fire department was called to assist the local force. but the flames were under control before the Salisbury department arrived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
Lost Opportunlty.

.I was just thinking how fast and apparently easy great things happen and what opportunities men miss by not being able to see them in advance said Col. Dick Adams of Decatur, as he stood in front of the Metropolitan.
 You see before you this great hustling, bustling city, throbbng with energy and spirit. with it's scores of wealth-circulat- ing industries, its thousands of happy, prosperous and busy people and it's mil- lions of commerce! We'll fifty years ago I rode on horseback all the way from Montgomery and hunted deer and wild cat over every acre of it's area. But no more could l imagine 1t then as it is today than l can see 1t now when it will be one of the greatest manufacturing and industrial cities in the world, with more than a million names in the city directory; but that day will come and it's coming fast.
 But I was a boy then and was not thinking about investments, but my real opportunity came later and unfortunately was not taken advantage of. I came here when the Morris hotel was being built and bid s1S.0OO for the plumbing contract, but some enterprising gentleman beat me to it.
 After considering the advisability of staying here and investing what l had, l finally decided to go back to Mont gomery and play politics and buy and sell cotton. That was the mistake of my life.
 Then the Linn building was about the best business block here while today the whole center of the city is covered with great towering structures whose walls hold within them each day people enough to make d small sized city.
 If men could only see ahead-but then Decatur is mighty smart little city itself "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
DYED FOXES.
Many Would-Be Purchasers of Silver
 Grays Fooled by Maine Indian.

Old Town, Me.-"It is a mistake to sup pose that the noble red man of the Maine reservation is without guile," said Darius Hunt, agent for a New Jersey game as- SC ciation "The new Indian may be less savage than his ancestors, but modern education has helped him a whole lot. l am in Maine now for the purpose of learning if I can collect money damages from an Indian, and unless l can secure scme financial recompense l am contem- plating assessing damages from his per son.
 T spent a good part of last fall trying to buy a pair of silver gray foxes to be placed in the park of our association and letting them become fruitful and replenish the woods with animals wearing s3O0 overcoats. After talking with two or three breeders of foxes and learning 1 could buy nothing l wanted for less than $500 or SlvV0 l met this Indian at a sport Ing camp and was informed by him that he had two silver grays at home, a male and a female, which he had dug from hole last spring.
 AS his price was $500 for the pair I bought three young and healthy foxes two grays and one red, all from the same litter. The two gray foxes were put in a special yard in the middle of our park and given every attention.
 They soon became tame, so they would come up and take mice and fish from the hands of the attendants. I was con- graduating myself upon the good bar gain I had made and was thinking of offering the Indian $100 as conscience money, when a great rain came on and the next time I looked at my gray foxes they were of a dirty yellow color A week later they had changed to red, which is their natural hue.
 Instead of paying more money to the Indian I came down here to investigate, and have learned that he has been in the business of dyeing young foxes to resemble silver grays for years and then selling them for breeding purposes to owners of preserves and parks. His method is to buy from a dozen to twenty red pups every summer paying about $1.50 apiece for them, and then to wash them in strong decoctions of hemlock and white maple barks. rubbing the dye into the fur and setting the color by rinsng in copperas water.
 For the first two weeks the colorng bleaches the red from the fur, leaving the animals a yellowish-gray, but after repeated applications the yellow dsap- pears and the gray becomes more pro- nounced, so at the end of two months the foxes pass for silver grays, though the red returns once more as soon as the fur Is wetted.
 "I have the names of more than twenty men who have been fooled in this way and propose to take the cases into court and learn if can gain any redress. Of course, 1t Is out of the question to col lect any money from an Indian, but hope the criminal courts will find it legal to send the rascal to jail long enough to give him time to think over his sins"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
SENATOR PETTus AND OLD AGE.

From the Boston Globe.
 Senator Pettuss in what others are pleased to call his old age, speaks to time in a tone of youthful defiance. He says substantially that the mere stand ard of years cannot prove old age. He has been through every kind of peril and privation and still enjoys life and hard luck. He rode from Alabama to Cali fornia on horseback in '49 and led a bri- gade of reckless Texans in the Confed- crate service in the civil war.
 He never took thought of his health, but boasts that he hasn't an ache or a pain He chews tobacco, drinks liquor moderately, enjoys a poker game and in the intervals of work reads his Bible--a combination in which he sees no contra dction. He Is poor man. and while he has fought hard, has never worried.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
COLONEL FALkNER.
From the Huntsville Tribune.

From the Huntsville Tribune.
 The reeuperation of the health of Col. J. M. Falkner has not only sent a thrill of pleasure throughout the state but Is bringing into action one of Alabama's most potent batteries of progress and good. Colonel Falkner is the one man to whose purity of character all men of all parties in Alabama in one accord bow with respect and confidence. He is great as he is good, and as men are great &C., cording to the standard of their good- ness, he is justly entitled to wear the silver belt of Alabama's ohamnionshin
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
About Persons.

The following Alabama visitors are at the Metropolitan: Thomas H. Smith of Noble, c. A. Christian of Anniston, w. A. Cobb of Selma, E. B. Franklin of Montgomery, Eugene A. Smith of Uni- versity. and J. H. North of Riverside.
 
 L. W. Clordy and w. R. Brannon of Talledga are at the Hillman. G. A. Wilson of Montgomery is stop ping at the Birmingham.
 J. NJ Thornton of Talladega is regis tered at the St. Nicholas
 The register of the Colonial shows the names of the following: R. c. Wetson of Anniston and A. C. Wood of Jasper. O. J. Semmes of Mobile is at the Hill man.
 Dave Kahn of Montgomery is register ed at the St. Nicholas.
 W. F. Hart of Decatur is at the Morris A. G. Forbes of Montgomery is at the Hillman.
 Thomas W. Nohoon of Montgomery is stopping at the Morris.
 Thomas J. Armonds, one of the most prominent figures in both the financial
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
LOAN SHARKS.

From the Chattanooga Times.
 The federal grand jury at Birmingham indulged a very severe arraignment of the loan shark evil as practiced in the city or Birmingham, charging up many of the bankruptcy cases to that cause This is matter in which federal author- fty Is not indicated, but for which local public sentiment is entirely responsible Every community in which the shark" does business may stop the evil if its peo- pie want 1t stopped. The state laws are adequate to reach such cases as this fed eral grand jury cited and state authorities ought to be forced to reach them and put a stop this perennial call for federal intervention in purely local affairs,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
FUMlGATING BOOKS.
From the Selma Journal.

From the Selma Journal
 Patrons of the Louisville, Ky, Free library frequently get a touch of fumiga- tion free along with the books. The librarian Is instructed to keep up with the contagious disease reported in the city, and wherever a book is in a family where such disease appears 1t must be fumigated and aired we'll before being placed on the shelves. The germs are having hard time finding a hiding place from the wide-awal1e doctors of this day and time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
w hlstles a Fad.

"The character of it's mill whistles must be fad with Birmingham" re- marked a man at the St. Nicholas last night
 q was standing on the street thinking that this city has the fiercest blowing lot of steam whistles in the world when here came a big automobile with a steam boat whistle. That was the first of the steamboat automobile whistles that I have heard in the south but they will not allow any other kind in Chicago"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Church Music.


 T was especially impressed with the chanting of the litany by the clergy at St. Paurs church during the pontifieal services today said music lover last night.
 .I have witnessed many great eeremo= nials in the Catholic church in this county and Europe, but l do not recall any occasion when the priests taking part had such fine deep voices or who sang better in choir than the ministers assisting Bishop Allen There were only six voices heard in the responses but each voice was musical and the intonatlon was perfect. After all there is nothing so grand, uplifting and churehly as the Gregorian chant"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
From the Washington Post.

"
 @ HAT large. important, and pa (O triotic body, the whisky drink
 CTS of America, will be greatefuI to the department of agriculture in gen eral and to Chief Chemist Wiley in par ticular. At least. they ought to be. Pro- lessor Wiley has at last completed his known, respectively, as "Scotch' and Irish" whisky, and the whole country now knows. what The Post has long sus- pected and frequently intimated that most of them are frauds and humbugs both.
 Not to put too fine a point upon 1t, we may briefly say that 90 per cent of the so-called Scotch Is distilled from the inferior brand of corn produced abroad, and that only a small fraction namely. the remaining tenth is really Scotch whisky. Just why they should put in that much we do not undertake to say. since the smell of rotten straw, and the neat smoke could be obtained much more cheaply and with quite. as whole some results. They do it, however, and as the ranks of the suckers increase in this country. according to Hungry Jo' at the rate of one every minute, the indus trv is doubtless profitable ando the de- mand practically unlimited. It's English trv Is doubtless profitable and the de- stuff on this side.
 recent decision in the North London no,ice court has had the effect of de- nouncing these fraudulent connections and of punishing their purveyors This may help the cause in the United States since the court has ordered that the alleged Scotch and Irish whiskies export ed from the tight little Island must here- after be labeled with a true statement of their ingredients. Again, 1t may not heln at all. for nothing is easier than to efface the labels at the American port of entry and so continue the good work of humbugging the American sucker. The question with us 1t not so much whether A. thing is really English as whether we can be made to believe it Is.
 Meanwhile, as we are not profoundly interested in the propag gation-or the pro- pagators--of British institutions in this country, 1t occurs to us to offer sug- gestion to the level-headed majority who. so to speak, don't care a continental where any given thing comes from, so long as it strikes them favorably. We suggest, therefore, that since nine-tenths of this so-called Scotch whisky Is the dis tiled product of inferior European corn, and the only exotic features thereof are n bad smell and a rancid taste, 1t may be inst as we'll if not better, to have our scotch, made at home of straight Amer ican corn juice and the dead-cat effect added by the employment of domestic material In this way we could monopo- lize-so far, at least, as the home mar ket is concerned-the entire output of "Scotch Whisky" That would be bus- ness for our manufacturers and it would not mitigate the happiness of the Willie boys unless some one went and told them.
 We strongly recommend this arrange ment Under It's operation, the two classes of "Scotch whisky drinkers could be gratifed according to their taste and wis dom. The enlightened would get better quality of corn juice. colored with dried apples or something of that kind. while the imitation English who insist upon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
A SER ENADE.

,y Richard Henry Stoddard. The moon is muffied in a cloud, That folds the lovers star, But still beneath the balcony I touch my soft guitar. If thou art waking, lady dear, The fairest in the land, Unbar thy wreathed lattice now. And wave thy snowy hand. She hears me mother spirit lies In transces mute and deep; But Music turns the golden key Within the gate of Sleep. Then let her sleep; and if I fail To set her spirit free, My song shall mingle in her dream And she will dream of mel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

and social life of Charleston, was at the Birmingham yesterday.
  H. o. sexias of New York. a director in the sloss- Sheffield company, is at the Hillman.
 Richard H. Edwards. editor of the Balti- more Manufactures Record, arrived last night and is at the Hillman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
HORRID MAN.
HORRID M IAN. On rainy days
 When clouds hang low You'll notice that The skirts aren't so.

Frank L. Mayes of Pensacola, editor of the Pensacola Journal, who was in Birmingham yesterday, says that there was once a unique character in his town who had an attack of yellow fever The patient was so greatly alarmed about his condition that he exerted himself to fol- low out the directions of his physician in every detail. One day the doctor bent over him and asked, Do you feel ner- vous, Sam?" No" answered that worthy "but I can if you want mo to-"
 Carnegie is a drone," says Comrade Patterson, the socialist. Yet no mil lionare of today works interviewers so hard and keeps more printing presses busy turning out his views on every thing from literature to golf.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
SOME REASONABLE WORDS
 ANENT SCOTCH WHISKY

the smoky effect could suit themselves with an infusion of almost any variety or barnyard refuse. We believe in making everybody happy. We aim to please.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

The Standard Oil witnesses have re- tentiye memories when questions come up that tend to lift John D. Rockefeller out of his New Jersey cave, but their mental machinery gives out whenever the truth about the Missouri situation is sought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
HE depravity of certain Chatta- noogians is almost beyond com prehension Mob violence seems

\Op noogians is almost beyond com
 prehension. Mob violence seems prevalent in that wicked town and riot ous citizens numerous. Every one recalls the recent lynching in Chattanooga and the resultant disorders, but the climax was reached Monday when man made faces at two Chattanooga policemen. It matters not whether he was in his cups or not, or whether, being in a dance hall it had imparted to him festivic spirits that could not be curbed. The sum total of the matter is that he grimaced at two members of the "fooroe" and was straightway elapped Into jail. Mobs may come and mobs may go, leaving behind a trail of pendant colored citizens, but the dignity of Chattanooga policemen must be maintained. The offender in this case under discussion was fined lightly and made to promise that he would never, never again make faces at the Chatta- nooga "coppers."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

Standard Oil Archbold says his com pany is not monopoly, although it handles with or without rebates 70 per cent of the national product.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

John D. Archbold says that the Standard Oil company has no master mind. but cant deny the fact that it does pretty well without one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

The Rockefeller baby is rich beyond the dreams of avarice. When Aldrich and Rockefeller bloods are merged the product must needs be extraordinary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

The rain storm of Tuesday saved the Highlanders from the first defeat of the season, but they may get what is coming to them tomorrow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
CALLED DOWN.

Fro mthe Houston Post
 The Memphis News-Simpleton calls Senator Bailey "a shallow pretender."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

Andrew Carnegie says he finds lots of good stuff in poetry. He is still, it seems, out for the stuff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

District Attorney Jerome left no call. He is sleeping yet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

Let it be said to the credit of John D. Rockefeller III that he has not thus far shown any inclination to become a subpoena dodger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

Secretary Bonaparte says that it takes a man in his place year to learn his job. It must be confessed that he had lot to learn when he took the portfolio.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

A person can be attacked by any thing from cold feet to pneumonia and highwaymen in that dreadful Chicago
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

A preacher says that Louisville pays $2OOO0O year to support the liquor business. Money nobly spent, say the cnlnnels
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

Rockefeller can't attend church for fear of the process server. This is going too far.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

The German population increases handsomely at home despite immigra- tion and lese majeste.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

While John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is faying wealth his poor old dad con tinues to hide from process servers. This is a queer world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
A MODERN FAMILY.

Mother lounges at the club,
 Willie motors-reckless cub. Teachers work on Polly's voice, Art for Mary-that's her choice. Susie thinks she'll write a book. Wears soulful, haunted look. Gussie thinks that she will play A piano some sweet day.
 Baby has a nurse or two, Must be French. or they won't do. This Is all the family 'cept Father dear, and he Is kept On the jump to get the scads Needed for the others fads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

Chattanooga considers it cold night when a mob does not form to raid the county jail It should send for Joe. Smith.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

The Shonts salary paid by the Clover Leaf is but $12,000 which is far below the Chauncey Depew level.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

Birmingham should and doubtless will become the cement center of the south This is another reason why we need an Open Warrior
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

Andy Hamilton has not come to face the music, but to stir up the animals who indulge in footing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

Galveston considers quarantine a purely commercial matter. Lives are cheap in it's estimation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

The airship, the automobile and the wireless will soon, each in it's own way, besiege the north pole.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

Algeciras did not even nod to the drydock Dewey as it hurried by. It is too fast to suit the salaried diplo- mats
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

General Leonard Woods skull hit chandelier in his palace at Havana, and the collision has since cost the government a pretty penny.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

Commissioner Garfield Is in danger of becoming the administration scape- goat. for 1t begins to need one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

Alas, poor Jerome! he has sue cumbed to the campaign contribution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
A DEFENSE.

From the New York American.
 'Yellow:" Any one with an opinion of his own. \.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

It Is surprising how little H. H. Rog- CTS knows about what is going on at 26 Broadway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

An investigation summer is coming, and tickets to Europe are in demand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

Great day yesterday to lose um- brellas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

The McCurdys are getting it, not in the neck, but in their fat and tainted purses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

David B. Hill is said to be broken, physically and mentally. His race Is almost run.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE TIMES

lge except on that memorable oecasi len he looked toward the White Hou en she kicked him.
 A POET 8 REVENGE. Approach, sweet muse, And whisper to 4 bard who finds It hard to do A bit of verse
 That fits the time A line or two
 With sense and rhyme Assist us now
 And we will pay You back, old girl. Some other day. Inspire us to
 A playful quip Or help us to
 A cheering sip From that deep fount Where poesy springs And drinking there, The minstrel sings. Come, give a hand A boost, a lift. ID Ifulns We lack The proper gift. Ye gods Whats this? You say won't? You dare refuse? Well, drat you, don't I've talked to you So far, cold maid, And rhymed along Without your aid. So I will stop
 To let you see That you can't have The laugh on me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

Hadley seems to have scored at last
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

Yesterday was the day set by a negro prophecies for the destruction of Mem- rhis. Many colored folk left town. but a souvenir post card received late last night states that Memphis is still where 1t was.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

"It is human to err remarked Colonel Riff on his return to town, "but the aver age typo seems to abuse the privilege
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
CHANGE FOR PERFORMERS.

While ways and means of great reform Are talked to beat the band We wish we could devise a way
 To cross the sea on land, So there would be no nal de mer
 To make a fellow spill The breakfast that he'd like to keep
 But can't, because he's i'll.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

While Judge Parker was enjoying him self in Dixieland he was enriched by big railway deals made by his law firm. For tune never was notlceably cold to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

law has been passed in Iowa requir- ing that the standard weight of an egg shall be two ounces. What penalty shall be imposed on Dame Partlet when she works the short-weight racket Is not stated. PATTI, COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

When all other attempts to break the cheerful spirit of a man fail pour him into a tight-dtting dress suit and watch him grow pessimistic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28

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John D. Rockefeller has imported . Swiss dairy maid to milk the Jersey COW on his New Jersey estate. The muse has just tapped us on the shoulder. We responded thus:
 SHE HAD A BROGUE. "Where are you going, my pretty maid?' "To John D. Rockefeller's, sir" she said, "Methinks. my pretty maid, you are
 Swiss?"
 And smiling sweetly, she said, T iss."
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judge except on that memorable occasion when he looked toward the White House. Then she kicked him.